🌱 Pregnancy Center Opens In New Tampa + Elevation Coffee Expands

Good morning, Tampa! Let's get you all caught up to start this day off on an informed note. Here's everything worth knowing in Tampa today.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and humid. High: 81 Low: 71.

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Here are the top five stories in Tampa today:

1. Foundations of Life Pregnancy Center in Hillsborough County is celebrating the move to its new, more spacious and accessible location at 6845 North Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa. It offers services including free on-site pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, counseling material, referral services, and more. (Tampa Patch)

2. Several vehicles were found with bullet holes shortly after an incident at Pin Chasers on 4847 North Armenia Avenue in Tampa early Monday morning. Further information about the incident has not been released. (WFLA)

3. Elevation Coffee Roasters has opened a Tampa Heights location at Brave Haus co-working space at 1613 North Franklin Street. The first location is in Northdale and owners have also hinted that a third location could be on the way. (That's So Tampa)

4. Dang Dude is now open at Sparkman Wharf in Water Street Tampa. Menu items include pork dumplings with scallions and fried shallots alongside vegan and gluten-friendly dishes, such as chilled sesame noodles and garlic chive tempura with Malaysian chili-roasted shiitake mushrooms. (Creative Loafing Tampa)

5. 8,000 runners returned to the Sunshine Skyway Bridge on Sunday morning to compete in the fifth annual Skyway 10K to raise money for military families. The race has raised nearly $2 million for the Armed Forces Families Foundation over the past five years. (Fox 13 Tampa)

Today in Tampa:

• Gallery On The Avenue Presents: Progression By Tracey "Artist" Jones at Robert W. Saunders, Sr. at Gallery On The Avenue. (10:00 AM)
• East Tampa Community Revitalization Partnership Meeting at Ragan Park Community Center. (10:00 AM)
• Baby Time at Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative. (10:15 AM)
• School Board Meeting at Hillsborough County Schools. (4:00 PM)
• Social Media Basics: Content Creator at Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative. (6:00 PM)

From my notebook:

• Artist Nneka Jones won this year's best of show at Gasparilla Festival of the Arts. See more of Nneka's work on view now at downtown's Tampa Museum of Art in the exhibition "Verde: Poetics of Shade." (Facebook)
• Tampa Pride has announced its host and DJ for the Tampa Pride Festival 2022. On the list are "KittyWeow," Morgan Le Shade, Juno Vibranz, Rockell Blu, DJ Maestro H.B, and DJ SX. You will be able to catch them on the stage during the day and inside the Cuban Club Cantina. (Facebook)
• Historian Monical Kile is journeying around St. Petersburg to see where the city's first residents are buried. Stops include Greenwood Cemetery, where the city's first mayor and co-founder is buried. (Twitter)
• Bike to work in green with City of Tampa Mayor Jane Castor on Thursday, March 17. Meet at Centennial Park in Ybor at 7:30 a.m., ride to the Green Spine on Nuccio Parkway, and then into Tampa's downtown. (Twitter)
• Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg has responded to the Florida Department of Health saying that "healthy kids" should not get vaccinated against COVID-19. The hospital said, "the CDC and American Academy of Pediatrics recommends everyone ages 5 and older receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Johns Hopkins Medicine also encourages all families that are eligible to get the appropriate COVID-19 vaccine." (Twitter)

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— Carlos Hernandez

About me: Hello my name is Carlos Hernandez and I am a food writer with over 10 years of experience in the industry. I write the food blog Carlos Eats (http://www.carloseats.com) and also contribute to several newspapers and magazines with food-related blogs and articles.