Dick Stowers, Joe Garcia and Trudy Carey join old and new friends at the Copper Bell Cafe for a three-hour “Cooking For a Cause” lunch that raised more than $3,000 for the Boys & Girls Club of Riverview. The meal was prepped and served by Earl Lennard.
The Great American Cleanup runs nationwide March 1 through May 31. Here’s a view of the effort from one Saturday in April in Tampa.
News of the past week in an easy to use list that includes headlines, summaries and links to the full postings themselves. Links to archives included as well.
"Cooking For a Cause II” gets underway April 18 with the second leg of a charitable drive that last year earned more than $10,000 for area charities. Also on this year’s slate of six celebrity chefsis former state Senate President Tom Lee.
Brandon Regional Hospital and South Bay Hospital in Sun City Center team up to explore health issues for women over age 35 at the “Healthy Women, Healthy Community” exposition at the Brandon Community Advantage Center, now open as The Regent in Riverview.
Barbara Schwabe joins Cami Gibertini as the early candidates in the Community Roundtable race for honorary mayor of Brandon. Applications for the charity race still are being accepted. The race officially kicks off June 1 and ends July 4.
Brandon Patch caught up with Carol Todd, one of the town’s earliest bankers and most enduring promoters,at the Healthy Women, Healthy Communities Women’s Expo at The Regent on April 16.
The musical variety show features a cast of about 40 children actors raising money for a boy with cerebral palsy. Tickets are free; donations are accepted.
Megan Poole loves performing. On April 16 at St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church in Brandon, she stages a musical variety show to benefit a boy with cerebral palsy, a condition Poole herself has had to contend with since birth. Admission is free, donatio
Hillsborough County School Superintendent MarEllen Elia talks about the school budget and 2011-12 student academic calendar at the annual education update luncheon hosted by the Greater Brandon Chamber of Commerce at the Embassy Suites in Greater Brandon.
The Hillsborough School District in the 2010-11 school year had five students with perfect SAT or ACT scores and 95 students recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Frederick Erwin, 80, has been found in Georgia, where he reportedly ran out of gas and was spotted walking the roadway. He had been reported missing by his family since April 13.
Each year the Mook Gallery at Center Place exhibits in April the work of Center Place art students. The April 14 reception is hosted by the Brandon League of Fine Arts.
At their April 14 meeting, Hillsborough School Board members will recognize art educator Greg Manley of Armwood High, five students with perfect SAT or ACT scores, National Merit honorees and the Bucs "Community Quarterback" recipient.
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The Hillsborough County Parks, Recreation and Conservation Department’s Tiny Tots program has hosted the “Tiny Tots Olympics” for 28 years. Competitors, ranging in age from 3 to 5, all go home with medals.
Built with public dollars as a civic space for the Greater Brandon community, local artists want local art to make The Regent “warm and welcoming.” Artists discussed the issue at Greater Brandon Arts Council and Community Roundtable meetings April 13.
A report from the scene outside Barnacles and Walgreens in Brandon, where members of the YP Brandon networking group witnessed a deputy’s shooting of a man resisting arrest on suspicion of trespassing after warning.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is on the scene at Providence Road and Causeway Boulevard after a deputy reportedly shot a trespasser following an altercation.
These shots were captured April 12 in the early afternoon along one of Greater Brandon’s most busiest north-south corridors for commuters.
