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Updated: 09/16/2012 08:00:58AM

Positive Bounds celebrates 2 years of helping kids

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Positive Bounds co-founders Summer Manda and her husband Bill relax at a recent fundraiser at Charlotte Sports Park.

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Trent Lynn, pictured here in the dark shirt and flanked by his parents Todd and Yvonne, and his little brother, received a baseball scholarship from Positive Bounds, founded by Summer Manda, who is joined here with her sons, Eric and Jonathan.

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Shellisa Tappin of North Port received a cheerleading sponsorship from Positive Bounds and became a cheerleader for North Port High School.

By STEVEN J. SMITH

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NORTH PORT — Summer Manda, co-founder of Positive Bounds, owes her inspiration for creation of the organization to the kindness of one stranger.

“My mom was a single mom, and someone paid for me to take dance lessons,” Manda said. “I took ballet, tap and jazz, and it’s still something I enjoy today. I even teach ballet. And it’s because of the kindness of that one person I got exposed to that.”

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