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When family members and friends were diagnosed with breast cancer, three community theater actresses decided to put their talents toward helping to find a cure for the disease.
As Debbie Scourtes' students learn the art of cooking and costume design, in the classroom next door students study acting with drama teacher Tyler Leavitt. Then, each year for the past four years, the two teachers team up to present the Hillsborough County public schools' only middle school dinner theater production.
He's already amassed an impressive array of community honors. Now, Miller Dowdy has claimed one of the Brandon community's most coveted awards. On May 19, at the annual Roundtable Community Affairs Dinner at the Winthrop Barn Theatre in Riverview, the Valrico resident accepted the Alice B. Tompkins Community Service Award for outstanding volunteerism in Brandon, an honor he said took him by surprise.
Glen Schubert and partner Shane Raburn had opportunities as young men to learn to play instruments and fuel their passion for music. That's why they have founded Instruments of Change, which puts reconditioned musical instruments into the hands of children who otherwise would miss out on the opportunity to become young musicians.
T.J. Weaver, a quiet, unassuming community activist who never sought the limelight, preferring to serve her community behind the scenes, has died at age 78.
For Ernie Jenkins, who settled in Brandon after retiring from the U.S. Navy, the most impressive part of the Stamp Out Hunger food collection drive wasn't the 100,000 pounds of beans, peanut butter and other staples that were donated.
A Brandon family is remembering its mother this Mother's Day by launching a memorial library program in her honor. Starting Sunday, the Henderson family of Valrico will begin collecting books for the Karen B. Henderson Memorial Library Program.
Nearly a year after its senior pastor died in a plane crash, the congregation of Bell Shoals Baptist Church in Brandon has appointed a new pastor.
Center's clients share emotional accounts during annual fundraiser.
LifeCare of Brandon, formerly the Brandon Care Pregnancy Center, will host its eighth annual Players Tournament on May 7.
Horizon Christian Church's Wednesday night Cabin Fever gatherings are anything but a typical church offering.
Following the state Legislature's lead, the Hillsborough County Public Art Committee will have a special meeting today to consider asking commissioners to tighten the belt on money dished out for public art.
A team of seventh-grade students from the Campo Family YMCA in Valrico is scurrying to raise $5,000 so they can compete in a national competition that challenges youngsters to use creativity to solve problems.
One year after the April 24, 2008 rape and beating of a young woman at the Bloomingdale Regional Library in Valrico, patrons and library employees alike are still nervous when they find themselves alone on the premises at night. But a library official says ongoing security improvements at county libraries in the past year should ease people's minds.
Wednesday night Cabin Fever isn't a typical church offering. Each Wednesday from 7 to 10 p.m., the log cabin behind Horizon Christian Church at 1720 St. Cloud Ave., used for Scout meetings, Bible study and fellowship gatherings, is transformed into a restaurant and coffee house featuring food from Beef O' Brady's, homemade breads, gourmet coffees, live acoustic music and song.
Each Wednesday from 7 to 10 p.m., the cabin behind the church at 1720 St. Cloud Ave., used for Scout meetings, Bible study and fellowship gatherings, is transformed into a restaurant and coffee house featuring food from Beef 'O' Brady's, homemade breads, gourmet coffees, live acoustic music and song.
Former Hillsborough schools superintendent Earl Lennard says its his rural roots that led him to a career in public service - a career he will be honored for April 15 when the Hillsborough County Commission presents him with the 2009 Ellsworth G. Simmons Good Government Award.
In the 19 years that Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful has been coordinating community cleanups, volunteers have reported finding a live hamster in a box, a pair of fuzzy dice, a pool table, a piano, a goat skull and crabs trapped inside discarded bottles. The organization is now gearing up for it's next community cleanup and seeking volunteers willing to join about 2,000 others for the Great American Cleanup on April 18 from 9 a.m. to noon.
Chuck Mulhern had been traveling to developing countries on medical missions for 14 years, where he'd seen more than his share of misery. But the 4-year-old girl in the orthopedic ward of the Hospital del Nino in Lima, Peru, left a lasting impression. He brought her to the states so she could be fitted with a prosthetic arm and lead a relatively normal life.
So you want to be a star? Now's your chance. The organizers of the ninth annual Brandon Idol fundraiser will be on the lookout for the community's most talented residents as they host an audition for contestants at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Hi-Life Bar & Grill, 1602 E. Brandon Blvd.
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