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Chris Colwill, who grew up in Brandon and whose parents still live locally, qualified for the 2012 London Olympics on Sunday.
Chris Colwill is going to London. The Brandon native earned a spot in the 2012 Olympic Games on Sunday, rallying to win the men's 3-meter springboard at the U.S. Olympic diving trials in Federal Way, WA, The Associated Press reports. It's the second Olympic trip for Colwill, 27, who finished 12th in the same event at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Colwill rallied from third place entering Sunday's finals, more than 42 points behind the leader, the AP reports. "I kind of went with a no fear approach and just tried to do the best that I could and have fun with it, and it seemed to work at the right time," Colwill said in an interview with NBC Sports' Alex Flanagan that aired live after Sunday's event. "You’re going to London, dude!" the NBC …
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The local farmers market organized by Wilson Almonte of Fat Cow Markets has closed after a first event in June featuring only a smattering of promised vendors. Winthrop Town Founder John Sullivan said he is open to other market suggestions.
It's a mystery. Earlier this month, signs proclaimed the coming of Brandon's Saturday Market, a weekly market to be held at the Pole Barn at Winthrop. But after a first event June 2, the market has seemingly disappeared. Organizer Wilson Almonte, president of Fat Cow Markets, promised a market featuring fresh fruits and vegetables along with herbs, arts and crafts and other homegrown products. He said he had interest from more than 50 vendors. But after a first event featuring a smattering of the promised vendors, the market has folded, and Almonte can't be reached for comment. In addition, he's shut down the website for Brandon's Saturday Market. Winthrop developer John Sullivan said he isn't sure what happened. He hasn't heard from …
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Chris Colwill, who grew up in Brandon and whose parents live in the South Oak neighborhood, could earn a trip to the 2012 London Games this weekend.
Olympic diving hopeful and Brandon native Chris Colwill is taking aim at a trip to London. Colwill is competing in the U.S. Diving Trials, which run through Sunday in Federal Way, Wash., outside of Seattle, NBC Sports reports. He finished third in Wednesday's preliminaries for the 3-meter springboard, an event in which he competed at the 2008 Games in Beijing. The 27-year-old Colwill won the event at the 2012 FINA World Cup Trials and at the 2012 Ft. Lauderdale Grand Prix and is looking for another top finish this weekend to help him qualify for next month's London Games. Colwill, who trained at the Brandon Sports & Aquatic Center, resides in Athens, GA, though his parents, Chuck and Debbie, still reside in the South Oak neighborhood. …
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5:55 pm on Thursday, June 21, 2012
It always makes the Olympics that much more exciting if there's someone from your hometown competing! more ›
The April 30 robbery of the Seffner branch of the Railroad & Industrial Credit Union on Kingsway Road in Brandon leaves an eyewitness, the only customer in the lobby, with a moment to remember.
As detectives seek the public’s help in determining who robbed the Railroad & Industrial Federal Credit Union in Seffner on April 30, one customer is stepping up to say she had an eyewitness view of the theft unfolding. The customer, who asked not to be identified, at least not until the thief is caught, said she was the only person in the credit union lobby, other than the two tellers behind the counter — and the robber. The eyewitness said she had just finished opening a bank account for an exchange student from France when she stepped in line to make a deposit. “I was approaching the teller and he [the robber] was behind me," she said. "The teller told him, politely, that she would be right with him. He said, ‘I forgot something,’ and…
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3:51 am on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The teller did alert law enforcement, and they did arrive and interview the eyewitness. Did not hear about the car involved (if there was one). Will update when we learn of an arrest. Good questions, Pam. more ›
A parade Feb. 12 welcomed the completion of a newly scribed Torah in the Greater Brandon area, the result of an 18-month campaign to raise funds and commission a Torah for Chabad of Brandon.
More than 100 people, including rabbis from throughout the country, were on hand in Greater Brandon on Feb. 12 to witness the culmination of an 18-month campaign to raise funds for and then commission a new Torah for Chabad of Brandon. Formed in 2004, Chabad of Brandon had been using a loaned Torah for its Saturday services, according to an article written by D'Ann White, editor of the Bloomingdale-Riverview Patch. As reported, members 18 months ago began raising the money needed to purchase a Torah of their own. With the funding in hand, scribes armed with only quill pens and a specially mixed natural ink spent a year re-creating the more than 300,000 handwritten characters that make up Chabad of Brandon's new Torah scroll. Members …
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The Emergency Care Help Organization in Brandon needs its shelves restocked, and the Boy Scouts food drive is a step in that direction.
How deep is the need in Brandon? Dire is a good word for it, which is why donations for the Boy Scout Food Drive on Feb. 18 are sorely needed. Last year’s numbers are in for the Emergency Care Help Organization on Parsons Avenue, and they’re testament to the struggles so many people are facing in the Greater Brandon area during this years-long economic downturn. In 2011, ECHO helped 10,779 individuals, including 5,103 children. Indeed, children represented 47 percent of the need addressed by the emergency care organization, which provides food, clothes and small household furnishings to people facing extraordinary circumstances. A person is eligible for aid up to four times in one lifetime. Moreover, ECHO distributed 263,279 pounds of food…
This reader's report concerns the Energy Elites from TechPlayzone, with eighth-graders from Greater Brandon middle schools, advance to state competition in Melbourne, having earned top honors at a Tampa tournament.
The following report was submitted by Desh Bagley, owner of TechPlayzone in Riverview. ______________ As Florida State legislators discuss how to encourage more students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math, the STEAM Alliance of Tampa has partnered to show students how exciting science, technology, engineering, art, and math can be. The alliance recently learned about the Energy Elites, a FIRST LEGO League team of eighth-graders filled with future scientists and inventors. This group of young men demonstrate exactly what the alliance knows to be true: When students are motivated, the sky is the limit. The FIRST LEGO League competition season began with 430 teams in Florida seeking solutions to food …
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9:38 am on Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Bravo to the Greater Brandon FIRST LEGO Team. I love that something that looks like so much fun can also be so very educational. more ›
Women get selfish, enlightened about their health at the "Healthy Women, Healthy Communities” expo at Crowne Plaza East, hosted by Brandon Regional Hospital and South Bay Hospital of Sun City Center.
It was no doubt an interesting way to spend a Saturday morning. Speakers dished about heavy monthly bleeding and touted the benefits of lubricators and vibrators to help the sexless get their groove back. While the discussions were more informative than tantalizing — including the six, bulleted sex tips — no topic was taboo. Because what woman really knows how much blood they lose each month? What is considered normal and when does that amount teeter into the abnormal? And then, what’s one to do? When a woman’s period is so heavy that she has to wear a tampon and a pad and is still worried she will bleed through her clothes, it becomes inconvenient and interrupts her lifestyle. It also is time to seek medical help and there are medical …
A column about Greater Brandon past, present and future, as reviewed from a parking lot south of Brandon Boulevard.
I stood in the parking lot of a deserted eatery on the south side of Brandon Boulevard and saw in a flash the past, present and future of the town once known as New Hope. That the economy is wreaking havoc on so many souls and businesses is not lost upon this reporter, who for almost two decades has reported on the comings and goings of the Greater Brandon area and beyond. I continue to call it “Greater Brandon” because I am a firm believer that to know a town well one needs to pay homage to its past (how it got to where it is today) and to its environs, those interconnected neighborhoods and communities that feed off each other in services, worship and commerce and in educational, cultural, recreational, social and civic undertakings. …
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11:03 am on Monday, June 25, 2012
Troop 101, Brandon out in summer camp at camp LaNoche... Lots of aquatics skills at work! more ›