Education Notes
Cape Coral
Lauren Parzynski
Lauren Parzynski, of Cape Coral, made the dean’s list in a recent term of study at The Thomas M. Cooley Law School. The daughter of Lawrence Parzynski and Pamela Parzynski, she is a graduate of Florida Gulf Coast University and Bishop Verot High School in Fort Myers.
Tropical Twisters
Tropical Twisters announces it has an in-gym meet Saturday at the YMCA in Venice. Tropical Twisters Gymnastics also is accepting new gymnasts starting at 18 months old. For information, call 540-9800 or visit 905 S.E. Ninth Terrace, Units A and B.
Annual School Choice Open House
Cape Coral High School will host its annual School Choice Open House from 6-8 p.m. Monday to orientate current eighth-grade students in the West Zone to the various programs CCHS has to offer. For information, call 574-6766.
Gift basket auction
The Chamber of Commerce of Cape Coral will hold a gift basket auction from 5-9 p.m. Saturday at the Comcast Holiday Festival of Lights on Cape Coral Parkway to raise funds for scholarships. Baskets not sold on the Web site will be silently auctioned off that night. The Holiday Festival of Lights runs from 4-10 p.m.
Fort Myers
FGCU events
The FGCU Department of Visual and Performing Arts will host the Eighth Annual Pottery Sale, The Empty Bowls Soup Lunch and the Finals: Senior Project Exhibitions opening reception from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday at the Arts Complex Courtyard. For information, call Patricia Fay at 590-7229 or e-mail pfay@fgcu.edu.
‘All Is Well, The Bailout in Bethlehem’
The Evangelical Christian School Fine Arts Department presents a Christmas diner theater, “All Is Well, The Bailout in Bethlehem,” at 6:30 p.m. Friday and at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Church of the Nazarene, 13545 American Colony Blvd., Fort Myers. Cost is $18.50 for adults, $9 for children 12 and under, or $140 for an eight-guest table. Tickets are on sale at Evangelical Christian School, 8237 Beacon Blvd., Fort Myers. For information, call Denise Swafford at 936-3319 or e-mail dswafford@goecs.org.
Holiday house
Michigan International Academy, 4312 E. Michigan Ave., Fort Myers, is seeking donations for its holiday house so that every chid can take home a gift to their parents and siblings this holiday season. The event takes place from 9:30-12:30 p.m. today and Friday. For information, call Manssa Zinkus at 334-8411, ext. 317.
‘Musical Tales’
The Southwest Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra presents “Musical Tales” at 7 p.m. Sunday at Cypress Lake High Auditorium, 6750 Panther Lane, Fort Myers. Cost is $7 at the door. For information, call 418-1500.
Sanibel
T-shirt design contest
The Clinic for Rehabilitation of Wildlife invites students in kindergarten through 12th grade to enter a T-shirt design contest in celebration of its upcoming 40th anniversary and the grand opening of its new Visitor Education Center and wildlife hospital.
The winning T-shirt design will make its debut at the grand opening event Jan. 25 and shirts will be for sale at CROW’s gift shop throughout 2009 to raise funds for the nonprofit organization.
Students must include a raccoon, burrowing owl and the word CROW in the design. Designs must be submitted on 8.5-by-11 white paper. Students must sign their design.
Designs must be submitted by Jan. 3 with a completed application, which are available at: www.crowclinic.org. Submit designs to CROW, Attn: Contest, P.O. Box 150, Sanibel, FL 33957.
Mount Vernon Day reunion luncheon
The biannual A.B. Davis High School/Edison Tech/Mount Vernon High School’s Mount Vernon Day reunion luncheon will be held at 11:30 a.m. March 25 at the Palm Beach Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd. West Palm Beach, Fla. For information, call Phylis Francese at 561-736-1054 or Barbara J. Ross at 561-641-0494.