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Rotary Club's FishHawk Crawfish Festival To Benefit Brandon Charities

A Kid's Place, the Emergency Care Help Organization and the Women's Resource Center are among the local charities to benefit from the First Annual Crawfish Festival presented by the FishHawk/Bloomingdale Rotary Club today, May 14.

A Kid's Place off Lithia Pinecrest Road, the Emergency Care Help Organization off Parsons Avenue and the Women's Resource Center of Tampa off Kingsway Road are among the Brandon charities to benefit from the First Annual Crawfish Festival at FishHawk Ranch.

Presented by the FishHawk/Bloomingdale Rotary Club, the festival gets underway today, May 14, from noon to 3 pm. at Park Square in FishHawk Ranch. Tickets cost $15.

The event, featuring live Cajun' music and crawfish feast and burgers, also has free hotdogs for the kids in exchange for a donation of non-perishable food items.

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Park Square is at 16132 Churchview Drive in Lithia.

ECHO, at 507 North Parsons Ave., is a food bank and clothes closet open for Greater Brandon residents who fall on hard times due to emergency situations. Also today, ECHO will be benefitting from the run nationwide by the   National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC).

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Founded by a group of women who overcame personal struggles, the Women's Resource Center , at 1017 Kingsway Road, provides individualized services to families, single parents, individuals, the eldery, the disabled, veterans and the homeless. Services aim to "encourage, support and assist invidiuals and families to meet their basic needs."

Opened in April 2009, A Kid’s Place is a $5 million state- of the-art center providing a temporary home for a children removed from home because of abuse, abandonment, or neglect. The 5-acre campus on Lithia Pinecrest Road was built with private funding and in-kind contributions from local businesses, philanthropists, and volunteers.

The facility provides a safe, healthy, nurturing home for children who are taken from their homes, at least temporarily, while the courts work to figure out what happened, and whether to return these children to their homes.

A Kid's Place founder, Dottie Berger MacKinnon, also a former Hillsborough County Commissioner, this month received the , in part because of her passion for  helping abused and abandoned youngsters.

Other charities to benefit from the crawfish festival include the YMCA and the FishHawk Sports Park.

 

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