- April 18, 2024
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Scouts get their hands dirty for marsh restoration; nominate your favorite nonprofit for big bucks; birth announcement and more.
BY THE OBSERVER STAFF
Scouts add color to a salt marsh
In helping to restore the salt water marsh along John Anderson Drive, near High Bridge Road, Boy Scouts Pack 74 Webelos Den 1 and Tiger Den 16 planted more than 300 plants earlier this month.
The scouts will help in another cleanup 6:45 p.m. Monday, April 29, at Riviera Park.
Nominate your favorite nonprofit, by May 6
Does your favorite nonprofit love NASCAR? How about free money and advertising? If so, this is the promotion for them.
The Jimmie Johnson Foundation and Wells Enterprises’ Blue Bunny Helmet of Hope contest is offering nonprofits a shot at a $10,000 grant, as well as the nonprofit’s logo printed on Johnson’s driving helmet during the Sprint Cup Race Aug 18.
A total of 12 random drawings will be held April 13 through May 26.
Nominate your favorite Ormond Beach nonprofit by Monday, May 6, at http://jimmiejohnsonfoundation.org/events/helmet-of-hope-2/.
Around town …
Chad and Stephanie Apple welcomed a seven-pound, fourteen-ounce baby boy into the world 6:38 p.m. April 10.
A memorial service for Tomoka United Methodist Church volunteer Al Bogart will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, April 27, at 1151 W. Granada Blvd.
Pilgrim’s Rest Cemetery will celebrate Confederate Memorial Day 2 p.m. Sunday, April 28, with a gun salute and cannon firing. Call 672-0463.
St. Vincent de Paul's Hand Me-Ups Thrift Shop will hold a Sidewalk Sale of bed, bath and linens 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at 1100 Ocean Shore Blvd. All proceeds will benefit mission work to feed the hungry and help the poor. Call 256-4838.
