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Individual tickets for the event are $30.

For information, call Craig McCart toll-free 1-866-999-2443 or e-mail Craig.McCart@allkids.org.

Amscot Financial has launched its sixth annual "Just A Dollar" campaign, designed to raise funds for local education foundations in 15 Central Florida counties, including Hernando.

Beginning Monday and continuing through the month, Amscot associates will ask customers to contribute a dollar to the company's local education foundation. Amscot will match the overall contributions up to $10,000.

According to Tracy Echols, director of development for Hernando County Education Foundation, Amscot presented $1,508 to Hernando County in 2010 through the Consortium of Florida Education Foundations.

Oak Hill Hospital, 11375 Cortez Blvd., Spring Hill, has chosen the architectural and contracting firms for its $50 million, 100,000-square-foot construction project.

Gould Turner Group of Nashville, has been chosen as architect; Brasfield & Gorrie of Nashville will be the general contractor.

The project is in the preconstruction phase, and subcontractors will be sought, many from the immediate area.

The Small Business Development Center at the University of South Florida has partnered with the Greater Hernando County Chamber of Commerce to provide free business consultation to local small businesses and entrepreneurs.

IHOP restaurant, 3660 Commercial Way, Spring Hill, will sponsor Friends Friday Night fundraisers on the second Friday of each month to support the Friends of Weeki Wachee Springs State Park.

The Greater Hernando County Chamber of Commerce has scheduled a ribbon cutting at Computer Corrections, 19203 Cortez Blvd., Brooksville, at noon Thursday.

Call Ross or Wynn Keith at (352) 596-2649.

Nature Coast Business Professionals, a nonexclusive networking group, will meet at 8 a.m.

Women Building Women will meet for lunch from 11:30 a.m.

The Greater Hernando County Chamber of Commerce will present the workshop "What to Do Before Calling for Tech Support" from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The Greater Hernando County Chamber of Commerce and the Small Business Development Center at the University of South Florida will present the seminar "Marketing Works" from 5:30 to 8 p.m.

The Greater Hernando County Chamber of Commerce will present a Microsoft Word and Outlook workshop from 8:30 a.m. To register, call (352) 796-0697.

The Greater Hernando County Chamber of Commerce Training Committee will offer a manager/supervisor professional development training series.

The Hernando Builders Association and Crystal Motor Car Co. will co-host the annual Summer Night Cash Bash at 6 p.m.

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EDMOND OKLAHOMA CITY The Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma Community Foundation and Oklahoma City Metro Literacy Coalition are working together to help central Oklahomans who want to improve their reading skills.

The Small Group Architects, an Edmond-based architectural firm, has created a Books Bucks account at Best of Books in Edmond in the amount of $1,000. Dedicate one day to the children of Peppers Ranch and donate a percentage of sales to the Books Bucks Fund.

The Goddard School for Early Childhood Development will launch its eighth year serving Edmond with a free concert by a kid-friendly musical duo, the Sugar Free Allstars.

The Goddard School is one of four franchise-owned Goddard schools in Oklahoma and is one of 364 Goddard schools in 38 states.

For more information about the school, call Stephanie Wilson or Keith May at 348-4442, or go to The Goddard School website, www.goddardschool.com.

After meeting at the Edmond Library for more than four years, the writing group will meet at the Edmond Downtown Community Center, 28 E. Council OKs Public Safety Center election

Downtown Edmond celebrates 58th annual Krazy Daze

This is the fifth year back-to-school shoppers in Oklahoma will be able to buy school wardrobes without paying sales tax, as Oklahoma joins 19 other states to give shoppers a break and in turn help small businesses.

97th annual Oklahoma County Free Fair set

Arnot Ogden Medical Center Receives Community Foundation Grants for Children's Services | WBNG-TV: News, Sports and Weather Binghamton, New York | Around the Tiers (WBNG Binghamton) -- The Arnot Ogden Medical Center Foundation announced Friday it has received grants from the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes, Inc.

This grant will be used to purchase physical, occupational and speech testing and therapy materials for Arnot Ogden Medical Centers Early Intervention and Preschool Therapy Program in Horseheads.

Awards will be given to projects that offer practical solutions to current community needs to people in Rock, Grant, Green, Iowa, Lafayette and Walworth Counties that do not have access to grant dollars from a CFSW Community fund. Grant requests for endowment funds and individuals will not be considered.

Non-profit organizations can access grant application forms online at www.cfsw.org, e-mail: kristen@cfsw.org, or call toll-free (800) 995-2379 or (608) 758-0883.

CFSW serves the people of Crawford, Grant, Green, Iowa, Lafayette, Rock, and Walworth counties through 15 community funds and more than 550 other funds established to match personal philanthropy with community needs.

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The Avril Lavigne Foundation and Easter Seals Announce the Avril Lavigne Rockstar... The Avril Lavigne Foundation and Easter Seals Announce the Avril Lavigne Rockstar Club

LOS ANGELES, July 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Avril Lavigne Foundation announced today the creation of the Avril Lavigne Rockstar Club at Easter Seals, an initiative to support recreational programming for children and youth with disabilities, their families, and communities. The first four Easter Seals affiliates selected to receive an Avril Lavigne Rockstar Club at Easter Seals grant are Easter Seals Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana in Ohio; Easter Seals Capper Foundation in Kansas; Easter Seals Massachusetts; and Easter Seals Southern California.

and Canada were invited to apply for an Avril Lavigne Rockstar Club at Easter Seals grant. The grants' initiative evolved from the collaboration between Easter Seals and The Avril Lavigne Foundation originally announced in September 2010 to identify and support recreational programs for kids with disabilities and their families and communities. Following a review of the top 12 applicants, award-winning singer/songwriter and philanthropist Avril Lavigne and The Avril Lavigne Foundation selected four Easter Seals grant recipients.

The unique programs supported by the grant will include a program to connect teens with disabilities with other kids in their community at Easter Seals Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana in Ohio; an art camp at Easter Seals Capper Foundation; an overnight camp at Easter Seals Massachusetts; and an afterschool music program at Easter Seals Southern California. "We also know when it comes to Easter Seals, Avril was most inspired by our recreational programming services where kids and teens with disabilities can just be kids through social events, music, theater, sports, arts, leisure time, hobbies, getting out in the community and camp. That's what The Avril Lavigne Rockstar Club at Easter Seals is all about."

Avril's work with children who are seriously ill or who have disabilities inspired her to form The Avril Lavigne Foundation in 2010.

The Avril Lavigne Foundation R.O.C.K.S.: Respect, Opportunity, Choices, Knowledge, and Strength in support of children and youth living with serious illnesses and disabilities.

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