Sarasota, Florida --The Sarasota County Master Gardeners, a volunteer group working through Sarasota County Extension, has completed a beautification project at the Oak Park School, 7285 Proctor Road, Sarasota. Oak Park School serves more than 300 special needs students.

The newly planted landscape at the entrance and bus drop-offs now includes four large urns filled with snowbush and impatiens, a 48-foot long picket fence backed by podocarpus bushes and fronted with knockout rose bushes. Another entrance has been lined with areca palms.

Sarasota, Florida -- The rich history of Booker High School and its predecessors will be on display at an invitation-only special preview of the school’s new Historical Room at 1 p.m., Saturday, June 29, in the school’s administration building.

The event will coincide with a reunion of alumni who attended Booker schools from 1935-1970. Ernie Dubose, project manager of the Booker High rebuild, will conduct tours of the room and the campus for graduates and other special guests.     

Sarasota, Florida -- Summer camp at New College for nearly three dozen middle school and high school students from Sarasota and Manatee Counties runs from June 9 to June 22.

Students in the PUSH/SUCCESS CAMP will experiment with sea urchins and anemones, kayak on the bay to study ousters and try SCUBA diving. The students will work in the "wet lab" of the College's Pritzker Marine Biology Research Center learning how their health is affected by the health of the coastal environment.