An informational meeting for anyone interested in participating in a trip to Costa Rica during the summer of 2013 will be held at Dabney S. Lancaster Community College  on Friday, November 2, at 6 p.m. in Room 509, McCarthy Hall, on the Clifton Forge campus.  The nine-day “Costa Rica: Coast to Coast”, hosted by EF Tours, is scheduled to depart from Roanoke on July 8, 2013, and will include stops in San Jose, Tortuguero, Sarapique, Arenal, and Guanacaste.  For more information, contact tour leaders Chuck Bartocci at (540) 863-2892 or email cbartocci@dslcc.edu<mailto:cbartocci@dslcc.edu>; or Kathy Smestad at (540) 863-2824 or ksmestad@dslcc.edu<mailto:ksmestad@dslcc.edu>. Pictured are some visitors taking a “canopy tour”  on a zip line through a Costa Rican rain forest, one of the optional side trips available.

Submitted by Judy Clark, DSLCC