5 Things: Vote For Readers' Choice Polls

1. Patch makes life ridiculously for you and your neighbors with help from you. Everyone wants to know where the best place to go is, and our faithful voters are helping us do just that. First, make sure you check each week for our bracket-style competition for Who Has The Best Customer Service? , making it down to our Sweet 16. Check out the winners here and watch for your chance this week to vote to get us down to the Elite Eight. The overall winner receives a plaque from Patch and coverage of their win.

There's also themed Readers' Choice polls each week. This week we want to know Where Is The Best Place to Take The Kids in Sarasota?and each winner 

receives a certificate. These polls start each Monday. Happy voting!

2. If you drive by 10th Street and Central Avenue you probably have noticed the Fast Life mural is still on the Tube Dude building and .

3. Get ready for some road work on Clark Road starting Sunday night. A Florida Department of Transportation project will make changes to the median between Rand Boulevard and Gant Road so you cannot make left turns off of those roads onto Clark Road.

4. We're getting closer to the 17th annual Give Hunger The Blues festival. It happens Sunday at 1930 Hillview St. in Southside Village. It's the All Faiths Food Bank's biggest single day fundraiser. This year's headliner is The Lee Boys, who hail from Miami. Admission is $5 and children under 12 are free. For more info, visit http://givinghungertheblues.org.

5. Want to mix it up in the kitchen? Check out these cooking school classes offered at the . Pre-registration is required.  We're still waiting for our piece of the Strawberry Whipped Senation.