Melrose Grapevine

13th Annual Santa Fe LakeFest and Clean-up

Saturday March 31^st 2012

Melrose Bay Park

Melrose, Florida

Sponsored by the Santa Fe Lake Dwellers Association

Santa Fe Lake Clean-up from 9AM to 12 – Fritzi Olson of Current Problems, originator of our LakeFest event, will again direct the Clean-up at the Trout Street Boat Ramp (Melrose Bay). Bring your lakeside harvested collections of exotics, recyclables, refuse, or evidence thereof, to the ramp by 11AM.

The 13th Annual Santa Fe LakeFest will be held at the Melrose Bay Park, just a half block west at the end of Quail Street, from 11AM to 3PM.  Our lakeside event is a fun day of hands-on activities and nature oriented displays, paddle kayaks from Brasingtons Adventure Outfitters or row with Gainesville Area Rowing on the Bay, gardening and composting advice, and free pontoon boat rides. Some of our area’s most talented singer-songwriters, including David Beede and Whitey Markle, will entertain and inspire with their original music.  As always, there will be face painting and art activities for the kids’ enjoyment. We’re pleased to have Keystone Heights Culinary Arts students cooking up burgers and hot dogs, with their luscious strawberry shortcake for dessert! All are welcome, so invite your friends and neighbors.

Last year we chose the threat of exotic plants as the theme for our LakeFest. This year we will focus on our endangered water supply, and on much needed water conservation initiatives.  Come out and talk to some of the folks who have been working to protect this most basic of our natural resources, and learn how you can stay current on the latest developments on this issue.

More info in the SFLDA Newsletter – click for link

Hope to see you there!

The print in the picture is tiny, so for all the glorious details (you don’t want to miss a thing!), visit the website at http://primaverafestival.us/.

Military veterans (with any but a dishonorable discharge) and their spouses are eligible to receive free online 2010 Microsoft Office Training and certification from Microsoft. Certification tests are subject to a small administration fee (est $15-20) by the testing facility in Jacksonville. We are one of only five areas within the US that is eligible for this training. All training must be completed within 12 months from date of voucher issuance. Veterans and spouses can be employed and must be registered in Employflorida.com ( https://www.employflorida.com ).

Veterans and spouses can receive either the Intermediate and/or Advanced training programs being offered:

Intermediate level Windows 7 and Office 2010 training:

• Windows 7
• Office 2010: Word  / Excel / Outlook  / PowerPoint

Advanced level IT Professional level training:

• Windows 7 – eLearning collection 6292/Exam 70-680
• Windows Server Networking –  eLearning collection 10268/Exam 70-642
• Windows Server Active Directory – eLearning collection 10272/Exam 70-640
• SQL Server – eLearning collection 6369 and 2778/Exam 73-432

To sign up or further information please contact Chuck Foster, the WorkSource Veteran Representative at 386-329-3724 ext 2840,

The spring Butterfly Festival is seeking a leader to organize the 2012 event. In the past, Ed Sherwood spearheaded this event, and since his sudden passing recently, there is a vacancy for someone to step forward to lead this festival. If you are interested or would like to find out more, post a comment here, or contact Jennifer Pritchett, President MBCA, at fairlead12@gmail.com.