Published on 6 June 2011 by Michael Smith in Events
On May 10, students and staff at Dr. John Long Middle School were held hostage by a horde of “bloodthirsty” pirates, who were on hand to help the school become an Official BookCrossing Zone (OBCZ).
Broadway Comes To Tampa’ Gets Standing Ovation At SaddlebrookPublished on 6 June 2011 by Gary Nager in Events
Although the much-anticipated and hoped-for announcment that Hillsborough County had finalized a deal to give land located across from Hunter’s Green to the New Tampa Players (NTP) never materialized during the event, I’m betting that no one who attended the twelfth incarnation of “Broadway Comes to Tampa” went home unhappy.
Rotary’s 8th Annual Pig Fest The Biggest & Best Yet!Published on 20 May 2011 by Gary Nager in Events
“We estimate that there were more than 900 total tickets sold this year,” says New Tampa Rotary president Gary Gunter. “That would be an increase of about 50 percent over the Pig Fest record.”
Although the weather finally took an expected turn for the worst at the very end of the New Tampa & Wesley Chapel Rotary Clubs’ eighth annual Pig Fest, the sudden downpour which shortened the event’s closing announcements certainly didn’t put a damper on the event itself.
