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Students Salute Veterans At Program Today

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 8, 2008

PLANT CITY - Forget politicians. Youngsters will take the stage at the 23rd annual Veterans Day program today at Hopewell Funeral Home.

As has been a tradition for the past two decades, students from area schools will be the guest speakers, said Margie Willis of the funeral home.

"It teaches them an appreciation of what Veterans Day is all about," Willis said. Additionally, over the years, veterans at the ceremony have remarked that they have found the students' words much more moving than those of politicians and other traditional speakers, Willis said.

The 10:30 a.m. observance is in the funeral home chapel, 6005 S. State Road 39, Plant City.

George Wilkens

Ramp To Open To Veterans

TAMPA - A new exit ramp off the Courtney Campbell Parkway will take motorists to the northbound Veterans Expressway without having to stop at two traffic lights.

The one-lane exit ramp is set to open early Monday, the Department of Transportation said. The exit will be on the left side of the eastbound parkway between Rocky Point Drive and Bayport Drive. Eventually a second lane will open next year.

Rich Shopes

Govin, Neale Win Temple Terrace Seats
TEMPLE TERRACE - Following a lengthy delay after the polls closed, all of the votes in the Temple Terrace City Council race have finally been tallied.

From a slate of four candidates for the two open seats on the council - incumbent Ron Govin, Ted Grevencamp, Mary Jane Neale and Dave Penoyer - Govin and Neale were the biggest vote getters.

Govin, 68, captured 36.19 percent the total 15,432 votes cast and will serve a second four-year term. Neale, 71, who received 24.36 percent with 3,763 votes, is slated to serve her first-ever term of four years as a council member.

Joyce McKenzie

County Bus Chief Gets Big Bonus

TAMPA - Hillsborough County's transit agency this week gave a $10,300 bonus to its chief executive after the agency met ridership, cost-cutting and customer-service goals.

David Armijo, chief executive officer of Hillsborough Area Regional Transit, received the bonus after a 5-2 vote by the agency's board of directors. The bonus comes on top of a 3.5 percent pay raise in April that brought Armijo's base salary to $171,700.
Armijo oversees more than 730 employees and a $59 million budget. The one-time bonus amounted to 6 percent of his salary.

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