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Manatee Festival Celebrates The Arts

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: March 14, 2009

APOLLO BEACH - Art lovers will be wowed this weekend when about 100 fine artists and crafters showcase their creations at the 17th annual Apollo Beach Manatee Festival of the Arts.

The festival is today and Sunday at the TECO South Shore Community Events Center, 302 Noonan Branch Road.

"It's a celebration of the visual, performing and culinary arts," said Joanne Gadek, executive director of the Apollo Beach Chamber of Commerce, the event's sponsor. "It's an inexpensive way for the entire family to spend a fun-filled day. We're hoping for at least 8,000" visitors.
Adult admission is $5 and includes free shuttle service. Children younger than 12 enter free.

The festival will include a culinary arts competition, in which teams of students from Riverview, East Bay and Sickles high schools will vie for cash, prizes and bragging rights in an "Iron Chef"-like contest.

Visitors can also enjoy cooking demos, food samplings, wine and beer tastings, and a children's creativity center. And visitors of all ages will have the opportunity to lend their creativity to a new, collaborative mural.

Lois Kindle

Library Event Invites You To Discover Florida's Food History

TAMPA - Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Libraries welcome "Road Scholar" Andrew Huse at 1 p.m. today at the 78th Street Community Library, 7625 Palm River Road, Tampa.

Huse will discuss how Florida's food and restaurants are as diverse as its people, and how they have changed throughout the 20th century.

He offers a culinary romp through cuisine, with a look back at union soup houses, African jook joints, shady speak-easies, drive-in stands and fish fries.

The program is co-sponsored by the development committee of the Friends of the Library of Tampa-Hillsborough County and the Florida Humanities Council.

Call (813) 273-3652 or visit www.hcplc.org.

Felix L. Martinez
Middle School Students Earn FBI Credentials

TAMPA - The FBI honored 22 students from Van Buren and Greco middle schools this week for completing the agency's Junior Special Agent Academy.

The six-week course was held weekly for about a month. FBI agents taught the students about gang violence, remaining drug free, online safety, exercise and the role of law enforcement.

The graduates received a motivational book, framed certificate, backpack and FBI Junior Special Agent credentials.

Students said they were thrilled about what they learned and their standing as the first Tampa graduates of the FBI Junior Special Agent Academy.

"It's an excellent way to get teens on track - off of drugs and gangs and peer pressure and all of that stuff," said Trey Williams, 15, an eighth-grader at Greco Middle School.

The ceremony was held at the FBI's Tampa Field Office, 5525 W. Gray St. The academy was sponsored by the FBI, Justice Department, Project Safe Neighborhoods, Gulf Coast Community Center and Hillsborough County Criminal Justice.

Jose Patino Girona

Today's Jumble Sale Helps Town 'N Country Youth Council

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - For about a month, members of the Town 'N Country Youth Council have collected gently used items for the group's Jumble Sale.

The sale, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in the parking lot of Webb Middle School, 6035 Hanley Road, will include clothing, appliances, books and CDs. Proceeds will help the council buy shirts, food for meetings and pay for reward trips.

For information, call (813) 903-2266 or (813) 554-5005.

Jessica Balanza

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