Sunday, April 17, 2011
"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.
Last year six community leaders “Cooking for a Cause" raised $10,414.87 for area charities and this year’s race is on to beat those numbers. The second leg of the race is April 18, at the Copper Bell Café in Brandon, where Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections and former Hillsborough County School Superintendent Earl Lennard, a 1960 graduate of Brandon High School, is set to cook up a dish of chicken and yellow rice. It marks the second year for Lennard’s participation in the celebrity cook-off instituted by Darren Denington, owner of the Copper Bell Cafe. Last year Lennard raised "$1,800 plus,” for the charity of his choice, the Boys and Girls Club of Riverview, and this year Lennard added that he hopes to raise “at least $2,000” …
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
The March 2 vote was preceded by a public hearing that drew seven speakers, all but two representing the newspaper industry.
The Hillsborough County Commissioners voted 6-1 to extend its ban on solicitation and distribution on county roads to include state roads as well. The plight of people living on the edge or in the throes of economic distress was front and center at the public hearing that preceded the March 2 vote. “I, too, have been a victim of the economy,” said Sonya Long, on the record as a King High School graduate, the holder of a bachelor’s degree and a supervisor of newspaper sellers for both the Tampa Tribune and the St. Petersburg Times. “I have a right to earn a living,” she added. “I am a single parent with three girls and I have a brain and an ability to work. I choose not to accept welfare." The vote to extend the solicitation ban, she added…
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Armwood High School's gridirons are not the only ones ruling on the field. Votes cast online on behalf of Armwood earned the school's marching band a "Spirit" check from the St. Petersburg Times. Brandon High won a same-amount check in its division.
Armwood on the home field showed a spectacular last-minute victory in the District 4A semifinals, propelling the Hawks to the state finals Dec. 18 in Orlando. But on that same field a week before the gut-wrenching Dec. 10 contest against Dwyer, it was the Armwood High School Hawk Pride Band, at the Dec. 3 faceoff against Charlotte, that took home the money thanks to its active participation in the St. Petersburg Times "Half-Time High School Spirit Contest." With more than 10,000 online votes cast on behalf of Armwood High, the highly active marching band took home the prize for Division I competition. Its cross-town rival, the Brandon Eagles High School Marching Band, had earned the award in Division II, with more than 29,000 votes cast …
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