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Hyde Park Home Tour Proceeds To Help Neighborhood VFW Post

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: March 7, 2009

Updated: 03/07/2009 12:43 am

HISTORIC HYDE PARK - The seventh annual Historic Hyde Park Home Tour is today, with some of the proceeds benefiting a Veterans of Foreign Wars post in the neighborhood.

About 25 percent of money contributed will go to Capt. Russel P. Harris/Rudy J. Santacruz VFW Post 4321's ongoing renovations from a fire in October 2007 that destroyed much of the building at 2010 W. Morrison Ave.

Construction costs alone have exceeded the post's $268,000 settlement with its insurer. This year's home tour donation will go toward landscaping at the post. Donations are still being sought for furnishings, including kitchen appliances, furniture and lighting fixtures.

The tours start at the Kate Jackson Community Center. For tickets and information, go to www.historichometours.com or www.ehydepark.org.

Jamie Pilarczyk

How To Help Injured Birds

ST. PETERSBURG - The Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary is giving a free workshop Monday on how to save birds hurt by fishing lines and hooks at area fishing piers.

The two-hour program begins at noon on the Harborside Lawn at University of South Florida St. Petersburg, 140 Seventh Ave. S.

Included in the training will be how to handle the bird, assess the injury, remove the hook and line, and transport the bird.

Those who complete the workshop can volunteer at the sanctuary.

The event is being sponsored by the Pre-Veterinary Organization at USF St. Petersburg.

For information, call the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary at (727) 391-6211.

Lindsay Peterson

Richey Elementary School Celebrates 50 Years

NEW PORT RICHEY - The faces change from year to year, about as fast as the style of the clothes the students wear.

The students and even the teachers come and go.

The curriculum evolves, as do the teaching methods.

But through it all, a school is one of those institutions that define a community.

Richey Elementary School has been part of New Port Richey for 50 years, longer if you consider classes were held there in 1957 before the building was officially opened for the start of the 1958-59 school year.

Staff members are celebrating the school's golden anniversary.

"We're still deciding exactly what we're going to do," said Kim Stratman, part of the six-member committee organizing the celebration. The plan is to have an event in May, near the end of the school year.

The committee would like to hear from anyone who attended Richey Elementary from 1958 to 1990. Organizers are looking for former students who can share stories, photos and mementos from their time at the school.

For information, call Stratman at (727) 774-3500 or e-mail kstratma@pasco.k12.fl.us.

Committee member Becky Rice can be

contacted at becky.1.rice@gmail.com.

Klint Lowry

Create Acrylic In 2 Hours

TAMPA - Artist Terry Klaaren will offer a series a workshops on how to create an acrylic painting in two hours.

They will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with each class limited to 12 participants, on the following days:

Today and May 2, Trout Creek Park, 12550 Morris Bridge Road; March 21, Morris Bridge Park; 13330 Morris Bridge Road; and April 4, Lettuce Lake Park, 6920 E. Fletcher Ave.

Each workshop costs $30. Information is available at (813) 895-9200 or www. klaarenart.com.

Lenora Lake

The home tour runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., beginning at Kate Jackson Community Center, 821 S. Rome Ave., and features nine neighborhood homes. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 the day of the tour, and include a progressive luncheon in each tour home.

For tickets and information, go to www.historichometours.com or www.ehydepark.org.

To donate or get involved with Capt. Russel P. Harris/Rudy J. Santacruz Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4321, contact Joe Dempsey at (813) 404-9627 or seabeejoe0414@hotmail.com.

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