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Boat Ramp On Alafia River To Get $275,000 Face-Lift

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 25, 2008

TAMPA - The Williams Boat Ramp on the Alafia River will get a $275,000 face-lift beginning Dec. 8.

The ramp on U.S. 41 will remain open during construction, but the fishing pier will close for 60 days for repairs to the damaged structure. The pier will get new decking and hand rails.

Other planned improvements at the boat ramp include repaving the parking lot, new boat fender bumpers, and new water fountains and sidewalks to the picnic shelters.

Money for the project comes from the Florida Boating Improvement fund and Hillsborough County's program for repairing, renovating, and maintain aging properties.

Mike Salinero

Foreclosure Talk On Agenda Today

NEW PORT RICHEY - Pasco County has opened the door to ideas on how to spend nearly $20 million in federal aid for a foreclosure rescue plan under consideration.

The West Pasco Board of Realtors will oblige, the group's president, Greg Armstrong, said. The group hopes to fill two buses to travel to Dade City for the Pasco County Board of Commissioners meeting today.

Commissioners are scheduled to finalize the application for the federal money. The county must send its proposal by Monday to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

A few weeks ago, commissioners were told that HUD officials had indicated most of the federal aid should go toward buying foreclosed houses and fixing them up before selling them.

Armstrong insists the fastest path to recovery would be down payment assistance to put new owners into foreclosed houses. Then the new homeowners can fix up the houses with aid. The county would help many more people that way, he said.

Carl Orth

Haircuts To Help Locks Of Love

RIVERVIEW - More than a dozen people plan to shed their tresses during a visit to Kids Community College Charter School today.

They're doing it for love - Locks of Love. The nonprofit organization provides wigs to people who have lost their hair due to illness in the United States and Canada.

The event is 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Riverview school, 10530 Lake St. Charles Blvd.

Students Jackie Deaton, a fourth-grader, and Tatiana Ceballero, in fifth grade, came up with the idea after seeing a television program about Locks of Love.

If the youngsters raise at least $250, members of the school's governing board have agreed to kiss a pig.

For information, call the school at (813) 671-1440.

Yvette C. Hammett

Dodson To Chair Planning Council

PLANT CITY - City Commissioner Bill Dodson, Plant City's longtime representative on the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council, has been named chairman of the

40-member association of local governments.

Dodson is the first Plant City commissioner to serve as chairman of the council, which is based in Pinellas Park. The council reviews plans for major developments in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Manatee and Pasco counties.

Dodson, who is just completing a one-year term as vice chairman, was elected by fellow members at the council's meeting this month. His term as chairman begins Dec. 8. He has been Plant City's representative on the planning council since his 2002 election to the five-member city commission.

George Wilkens

News Director Leaving WFTS

TAMPA The news director at WFTS, Channel 28, is leaving the station to become vice president of communications for a group of companies owned by a Tampa lawyer.

Chris Jadick, who has been with Channel 28 since 2005, told his staff Tuesday morning that he is leaving in January to become vice president of communications, public relations and strategic development for Salem Enterprise Solutions. SES is the parent company for businesses and nonprofit enterprises owned by lawyer Richard Salem.

WFTS general manager Rich Pegram said Jadick had told him recently that the offer had been made.

"He is going to what sounds like a terrific job and we wish him the best," Pegram said. "We are beginning the search for a news director, and this is a terrific city and a terrific company, so I'm sure we'll have lots of wonderful candidates."

Prior to working at WFTS, Jadick was news director at WAVE TV, the NBC affiliate in Louisville, Ky., and executive producer at WTVT, the Fox affiliate in Tampa.

Walt Belcher

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