🌱 Master Gardener: Drop In Plant Clinic and 11 more events

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Coming up on the calendar:

• Organ-ized Pipes & Pops at SCF Neel Performing Arts Center

Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high of 84 and low of 64 degrees.
• Thursday: Partly sunny and nice, temps: high: 82, low: 65.
• Friday: Partly sunny and beautiful, with a high of 84 and low of 66 degrees.

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Whitfield

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday May 2

• Organ-ized Pipes & Pops
  SCF Neel Performing Arts Center, 5840 26th St W, Bradenton
  3:00 pm

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Other local events

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday April 22

• Master Gardener: Drop In Plant Clinic
  Betty Johnson North Sarasota Library , 2801 Newtown Blvd. , Sarasota
  10:00 am
• Alzheimer Association's In-Person Caregiver Support Group.
  Key Clinical Research , 6060 26th St W , Bradenton
  10:00 am
• Drop-In Jewelry Making for Adults
  Betty Johnson North Sarasota Library , 2801 Newtown Blvd. , Sarasota
  10:30 am
• Homeschool Wednesdays at Canvas & Clay!
  Canvas & Clay Art Studio , 839 8th Ave W , Palmetto
  1:00 pm
• In-Person Writer's Circle
  Betty Johnson North Sarasota Library , 2801 Newtown Blvd. , Sarasota
  1:00 pm
• Chamber 101 Member Orientation - April 22, 2026
  Manatee Chamber's Bradenton Office , 222 10th St. W. , Bradenton
  3:00 pm
• SCF Bradenton Youth Enrichment Series - Ignite Discovery Expo
  State College of Florida - SCF Bradenton , 5840 26th St W , Bradenton
  3:00 pm
• LEGO® Explorers
  Betty Johnson North Sarasota Library , 2801 Newtown Blvd. , Sarasota
  3:45 pm
• Chamber Night
  Manatee Chamber of Commerce , 8799 Cortez Road W , Bradenton
  4:30 pm

Thursday April 23

• Coffee Club - April 23, 2026 - Cogent Bank
  Cogent Bank , 1001 3rd Ave. W., Suite 190 , Bradenton
  8:00 am
• Forever Fit
  Betty Johnson North Sarasota Library , 2801 Newtown Blvd. , Sarasota
  10:15 am
• Musical Motion
  Betty Johnson North Sarasota Library , 2801 Newtown Blvd. , Sarasota
  10:30 am

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🗞 Nearby News

Longboat Key

• What a $3.6 Billion Beach Means for Longboat Key and Sarasota's Barrier Islands (lbknews.com)
• Pedestrian safety systems being added to several Manatee County drawbridges (mysuncoast.com)
• Dismasted: Sailboat Collision Halts Traffic on Aging Longboat Pass Bridge (lbknews.com)

Sarasota

• Sarasota Bay Estuary Program releases ecosystem health report card (mysuncoast.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: By inches because they have no feet. (Thank you Gypsy S. for sending it in!)
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