Sorting truckloads of canned vegetables and other nonperishable foods into 100 Thanksgiving feasts sounds like it could take all day.
Try 10 minutes.
In an hour and a half, volunteers built 665 cardboard boxes, loaded them with cranberry sauce, instant mashed potatoes and other nonperishable holiday foods and stacked them in storage trailers.
TAMPA PALMS — Kidz Club, New Tampa's drop-in interactive parent/child play center, will host a Holiday Market Fair from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday.
The fair will benefit Feeding America and the Children's Cancer Center. The two-hour event will showcase local women-run businesses that sell handmade items. Each vendor will donate goods and services for raffles at each of their tables and have items for sale.
#1 Martial Arts in Tampa Palms is offering child defense classes in exchange for canned foods for hungry families on Friday.
Here are the details:
During this difficult time, children are going hungry and being exploited. These children are vulnerable to physical abuse and even abduction. As a community, we must work together to keep our children fed and safe.
TAMPA — The University of South Florida's Patel Center for Global Solutions, in collaboration with the Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission and the Dutch government, will host a second workshop in its "Dutch dialogue" on Wednesday, bringing together local and international water experts to prepare cities for the consequences of climate change.
Researchers, urban planners, municipal administrators and local government representatives will gather from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Gibbons Alumni Center at USF's Tampa campus for a series of discussions on city planning, Gulf Coast climate change adaptation, energy infrastructure and post-disaster recovery measures.
That evening, Susan Price had arrived at the Brandon Chamber of Commerce event early. Price, a marketing director, decided to make a few phone calls from her car before going inside the Southern Funeral Care home, where a networking mixer was being held.
As she pulled out her cell phone, she noticed two Marines standing outside. She felt her stomach twist into knots.
NEW TAMPA — Four years ago, during the real estate boom, road engineers said that widening part of Bruce B. Downs Boulevard could cost $72 million.
A slumping economy has changed all that.
Last week, Hillsborough County commissioners awarded the job to the lowest bidder: Kamminga & Roodvoets, a Tampa construction company that said it could do the work for $40.5 million — $31 million less than what the county had set aside for the project.
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