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Centers offer programs to enrich family life
By Times Staff Writer
Published January 25, 2008
BRANDON The Family Support and Resource Centers in Ruskin and Brandon offer several programs for parents, children and families. Offerings include story time, arts and crafts for toddlers, CPR and adult computer classes. The centers are a partnership among several social agencies, including the Children's Board of Hillsborough County, Healthy Start and St. Joseph's Children's Advocacy Center. All programs and services are free. The Ruskin center is at 201 14th Ave. The Brandon center is at 1277 Kingsway Road. Log on to familysupporthc.org for more information PALM RIVER Meeting to address sports complex plans The county parks department will discuss plans for a 120-acre sports complex in Palm River at a Monday meeting. The Progress Village Sports Complex would open in summer 2009. The Progress Village and Southeast Little Leagues would merge and practice at the new complex. Progress Village Little League president Tony Parker can't wait for the extra space, but the Southeast Little League isn't as thrilled, Little League District 13 administrator Cal Lieble said. The new complex would be farther from some players' homes, he said, and many children bike to practice. Some players would probably have to drop out because of transportation issues, he said. The meeting will be at the Progress Village Recreation Center, 8709 Progress Blvd., at 6:30 p.m. Monday. RIVERVIEW Newspaper to move to new location Feb. 1 The Brandon & South Shore Times is moving from Brandon to Riverview on Feb. 1. The Times' new office at Winthrop Town Centre will provide a convenient location for readers and advertisers in Riverview, Brandon and other communities of eastern Hillsborough County. News, advertising and marketing employees will be based in the office at 11268 Winthrop Main St., Suite A, at the southeast corner of Bloomingdale Avenue and Providence Road. All phone numbers for the Times will remain the same. RIVERVIEW Portrait Gallery named business of the year The votes are in, and the Greater Riverview Chamber of Commerce's business of the year is the Portrait Gallery run by Betty Huth and Ed Booth. Jill Andrew of Superior Residences of Brandon/Memory Care was named businessperson of the year. Riverview citizen of the year is Bill McMullen. Also during the chamber's annual dinner on Jan. 16, Billie Gordon was sworn in as the group's president. VALRICO Registration open for charity golf event The Greater Brandon Community Foundation is hosting a charity golf classic Feb. 7-11 at River Hills Country Club in Valrico. One of the weekend tournaments will be hosted by Carlos Tosca, a Florida Marlins coach. Money raised at Tosca's tournament will go to the C.J. Tosca Fund, established in memory of Tosca's son who died of cancer. The fund assists families of children with cancer. Registration for foursomes is open, and sponsorships and donations are being sought. Call Liz Brewer at 661-8683 or go to www.BrandonFoundation.org. VALRICO Run/walk on March 1 tobenefit Cancer Society The MOMS Club of Valrico/Bloomingdale is hosting a 5K run/walk March 1. The event, dubbed "Run For Your Life ... Or Someone Else's," benefits the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life. It starts at 8 a.m. on Culbreath Road between the Campo Family YMCA and the Bloomingdale Little League field. The event will include a family-friendly post-race party with entertainment, vendors and a raffle. Awards will go to the highest-finishing cancer survivor, fastest overall male and female, master male and female as well as the top three finishers in each age group. Registration is $20 per person prior to March 1 and $25 per person on race day. Online registration is available at www.active.com through Feb 28. For more information, contact Sarah Woodyer at 685-1690 or woodyer1@gmail.com LITHIA Students act as canvases for parade Newsome High School art students will wear their work during Saturday's Gasparilla Parade. With the help of the Arts Council of Hillsborough County, Bits 'N' Pieces Puppet Theatre, MarineMax and the Unsinkable Molly Brown Foundation, students will march beside their float, the Unsinkable Molly Brown, as various forms of a "mystical seascape," their chosen theme. Students will be dressed as sea horses, fish, coral, kelp and turtle, and even animated waves and squid.
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