Times staff
Saturday, October 9, 2010
DUNEDIN
Playground is a finalist to win play set
The city is in the running to win a $25,000 play set to upgrade its library playground. The playground, chosen from among 650 applicants, is one of 10 finalists competing for a portable set of giant foam blocks called an Imagination Playground in a Box. Dunedin is the only city in Florida to remain in the competition. The prize, sponsored by national nonprofit KaBOOM! and Parents magazine, will be awarded to the top three playgrounds as chosen by an online vote. As of Friday afternoon, Dunedin was trailing with only 4 percent of the vote. The library playground — a slide, walkways and stairs next to the library on Douglas Avenue — "is in desperate need of improvement," said library youth services director Phyllis Gorshe. Online voting will continue through next week at http://playspacefinder.kaboom.org/voting/elections/parents.
Dunedin
Senior Talent Show to stage auditions
Dunedin's Parks and Recreation Department will hold auditions for the Senior Talent Show from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Dunedin Community Center, 1920 Pinehurst Road. The show is scheduled for Nov. 12 and is for performers 50 and older. In the past, acts have included spoon players, banjo players, ballroom dancers, comedians, vocalists and more. For more information, visit www.DunedinGov.com or call (727) 812-4530.
Clearwater
College to discuss new wetlands plan
Clearwater Christian College will go before the Pinellas County Commission on Tuesday with its latest plan to fill in some wetlands on campus to make way for dorms, parking and a chapel. The commission will meet at 9:30 a.m. in the fifth-floor assembly room in the County Courthouse, 315 Court St. The college has scaled back its plans and is seeking to fill in fewer wetlands, but local environmentalists remain opposed, saying there should be no need to destroy any wetlands.
Oldsmar
Volunteers sought for cleanup day
Volunteers are needed to help remove litter and debris along the coast and waterways in Oldsmar. A cleanup day will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at Bicentennial Park, 423 Lafayette Blvd. Groups and individual volunteers are encouraged to call ahead. This cleanup day is sponsored by Ocean Conservancy International and Keep Pinellas Beautiful, whose goals are to promote litter removal, prevention education and recycling as a daily practice of good solid waste management, as well as to pursue the protection and improvement of our environment and community. For more information, visit www.MyOldsmar.com or call Oldsmar Leisure Services at (813) 749-1260.
Pinellas deaths
A detailed list of obituaries is published in Section B.