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Diner Changes Its Name, But Keeps Its Popularity

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 3, 2009

ZEPHYRHILLS - One of the area's most popular restaurateurs is packing the customers in again at his new diner: Two Minutes.

Kruth Sombutmai owned and operated the landmark Hill's Family Restaurant on State Road 54 for a decade, but he closed shop last April and sold his property to make way for a CVS drugstore. He vowed to reopen as soon as possible.

Eight months to the day, he kept his promise and reopened in the former Beantown's Best at 5709 Sixth St. He didn't advertise. He didn't need to.

Within weeks, familiar faces are crowding into the new restaurant for Sombutmai's famous burgers, fish fries and $2.99 breakfast specials.

"You can get a good meal anywhere," longtime customer Roy Smith said recently, as he polished off a fish dinner. "But you can't get his service. We come here for his personality."
Laura Kinsler
Club Seeks Photo For City Guide

TEMPLE TERRACE - The Temple Terrace Woman's Club is offering a chance for amateur photographers to see their work in print.

The club is sponsoring its annual photography contest to find the photo for the cover of its 44th edition of the Temple Terrace Guide.

The contest is open to anyone, free of charge, but the photos must be scenes of Temple Terrace and entrants must know the names of any identifiable person in the picture.

The current guide features a photo by Mary Rose Owns of the field of flags at the First United Church in Temple Terrace. The deadline is Feb. 15. For information about submitting an entry, call Sylvia D'Aloia at (813) 985-3851.
Lenora Lake
School Zones Focus Of Meeting

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School Board will get its first look today at proposed attendance boundaries for two new schools opening in August.

The board also will discuss fixing a boundary oddity from the past.

Both new schools are expected to ease crowding at existing schools. Anclote High School, under construction next to Smith Middle School in Holiday, will draw students from Mitchell High and Gulf High schools.

Watergrass Elementary, being built in the Watergrass development off Curley Road in Wesley Chapel, will draw its entire student body from Wesley Chapel Elementary.

Parents and other residents with concerns about the boundary changes will get a chance to address the board today. Boundary maps can be viewed on the school district's Web site, www.pasco.k12.fl.us.

Ronnie Blair

New Antenna May Affect TV Signals

TAMPA - Officials at WEDU, Channel 3, say viewers may experience brief periods of a loss of signal this week when the PBS affiliate upgrades the antenna and transmitter in Riverview in preparation for the mandated transition to digital television.

Because WUSF, Channel 16 and WTOG, Channel 44, share the same transmission tower, their signals may also be affected, according to WEDU spokeswoman Laura Turner.

"Subscribers to Verizon Fios and Bright House will not have interruptions of WEDU's signal," she added. "But those with Knology and Comcast cable and those that get a signal over the air will loose both digital and analog signals. DirecTV viewers will loose the analog."

The outages would likely occur today, Wednesday and Thursday, starting at about 7 a.m. and lasting for four to five hours each day.

WUSF's digital channels may face outages but the analog signal will not be affected, says WUSF spokeswoman Nicole Hawker.

Walt Belcher

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