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Bethany Hamilton visited New Smyrna Beach High School on Monday, May 20, 2013 to speak to students, with a public speech later in the day.

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West Volusia changes include:

• Routes 22, 24 and the Volusia/Orlando I-4 Express will not operate  
• Route 20 will operate every two hours beginning with the 7:32 a.m. southbound trip at Northgate Plaza  
• Northbound trips will depart Market Place every two hours from 8:35 a.m. to 4:35 p.m  
• Routes 21 and 23 will operate on a Saturday schedule     

East Volusia changes include:

• Routes 1, 3, 4, 10, 15 and 17 will operate on the Sunday schedule
• Buses will operate from the Intermodal Transfer Facility (ITF), not the Transfer Plaza  
• Routes 40 and 41 will operate every two hours
• The first Route 40 southbound trip will depart Dunlawton Avenue and U.S. Hwy 1 at 6:47 a.m.  
• Northbound trips will depart Canal Street and U.S. Hwy 1 every two hours beginning at 7:47 a.m. through 5:47 p.m.  
• There will be no buses on Swallowtail Drive for Route 40 to transfer passengers, so the Route 40 will meet the Route 4 at Dunlawton Avenue and Church Street to transfer passengers going north
• Route 40 will depart Walmart every two hours from 8:14 a.m. through 4:14 p.m.  
• The first Route 41 southbound trip will depart Canal Street and U. S. Hwy 1 at 7 a.m.  
• Regular trips depart every two hours from 8:50 a.m. through 4:50 p.m.  
• The 2:50 p.m. trip departing Canal Street and U.S. Hwy 1 will be the only trip serving Oak Hill

All other routes will not operate.

Riders are encouraged to refer to the printed and online schedules for specific route information. For more information, please call 386-761-7700 in Daytona Beach, 386-943-7033 in West Volusia or 386-424-6800 in Southeast Volusia.

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Location: 3500 S. Atlantic Avenue, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169

Office: 386-428-0975

Cell: 386-576-7722

Fax: 386-428-5605

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The deadline to register is May 23.

The clinic will be from 4:30-6 p.m. on Tuesdays August 6 – September 10 at the Hidden Lakes Golf Course, 35 Fairgreen Ave., New Smyrna Beach.

Equipment will be provided. Participants also will receive a golf shirt.

Space is limited to 20 students per clinic. The cost to participate is $85.

Registration forms are available online here or in the New Smyrna Beach Recreation Department, 1000 Live Oak Street.

For more information, please call Investigator David Adkins, New Smyrna Beach Police Department youth services director, at (386) 424-2263.

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The representative, who is part of DCF’s Access Florida Program, can help residents apply for benefits including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Medicaid and cash assistance.

Access Florida helps to promote strong and economically self-sufficient communities by providing food, cash and medical assistance to individuals and families on the road to economic recovery.

Reservations are not required. For more information, call the Department of Children and Families at 386-446-8561.

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Fifteen New Smyrna Beach High School students were rewarded for their artistic achievements during the 14th annual Visual Arts Exhibit ceremony on Sunday, May 5, 2013, in the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library, where it will be displayed throughout May.

Dr. Jane Owen, juror for the event, welcomed the students and spoke from the heart. “To be elected a recognized winner takes both merit and luck…in all areas of life. So, both award winners and others have cause for humility and unspoiled pride.”

The categories include: drawing/painting, sculpture/ ceramics and photography.

As chairperson, eight year veteran Regina Wise explained the process of choosing the finalists from the 106 entries. “Consideration was given to the assignment at hand, the depth of thought and how well the student executed it; and of course, the ultimate outcome. Each piece was viewed from the perspective of how the elements of art and the principles of good design were applied.”

As each student’s name was called and they approached the dais to receive their ribbons from Mayor Adam Barringer, they smiled while being photographed in front of the large audience of friends, family, teachers, and volunteers from the Artists’ Workshop, who supplied refreshments and prize money for the occasion.

Excited Merit Award winner Emily Sfaelos says, “I usually don’t do male faces, it’s not that easy…but, I had Einstein,” she says pointing to the ceramic head before her. To complete her titled “Great Minds Think Alike,” she needed another great mind and found one close at hand in a teacher she has known since 8th grade, Mr. Scrivano. What an honor to be sitting alongside Mr. Einstein courtesy of Ms. Sfaelos.  Or, is it vice versa?

Helena Paciga, who won Best of Show in ceramics for her “Changes” – a Greek vessel with octopus tentacles dangling down over an unsuspecting village.  “You can’t tell if the tentacles are going to hurt or help,” says Ms. Paciga. Her proud mom saying, “she’s a Greek mythology fanatic.”

Best of Show drawing winner Milena Da Cruz heard the good news as she walked into the lobby while other students were heading out. “They kept saying ‘you won, you won’”, says Milena adding, “I never thought I’d win.”  Her pen and ink self- portrait using contour line and hatching and cross hatching lines for texture and value smiles down as patrons enter the library.

Christine Colby, the ceramics teacher at NSBHS, added that “I like the work that was selected. It will give the underclassmen the motivational factor for senior year.”
With that, Chair Regina Wise reminds all attendees to sign the guest book, which helps with grants, and also pick up information and sign up for summer camp at the Artists’ Workshop to keep all that good momentum going.

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