North of Tampa: September 30, 2001
Kids shun buses for Mom's minivan
Many feel their children are safer in the car than on a school bus, but experts say that may not be the case.
Faithful Service
CARROLLWOOD -- Cari Randall watched helplessly as the ballpoint pen she was using rolled gently off the table and onto the floor next to her motorized wheelchair.
Editorial Notebook: Values revealed in school's naming
The campaign to name a school after J. Crockett Farnell is a good example of what separates old from new Tampa. There is no better illustration. The arguments pro and con show how the values that framed social and political life for generations -- loyalty, honor, where you went to high school -- are fading from the character of our immigrant city.
Commission approves medical center, plaza
County commissioners approved the following petitions last Tuesday: LUTZ: St. Joseph's Baptist Health Care won permission to add floor space to an approved medical center on 38 acres at Van Dyke Road and Calusa Trace Boulevard. The complex will include a 144,000-square-foot hospital, a 300-bed nursing home and 96,000 square feet of office space. (Petition 00-1410)
The week in review
USF TO STUDY BIOTERRORISM: The federal government Wednesday awarded the University of South Florida nearly $4-million to devise a system for protecting public health workers from a bioterrorist attack.
Prep notes: Runners are kept on the move
Three cross country meets in 10 days produce some standout performances among local runners.
Chiefs' top swimmer is a sophomore sensation
CARROLLWOOD -- All arrangements had been made with Chamberlain school officials for Grant Nelson to miss school long enough to attend the five-day USA Swimming national convention in Dearborn, Mich. While he waited for his 11:55 a.m. flight to start boarding passengers, he watched some of the news of the terrorists attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.
Developer's offer delays library choice
A developer offers three properties as sites for a new library, much to the dismay of Upper Tampa Bay Friends of the Library, which thought a decision was imminent.
Neighborhood notebook
Church leaders will consult with neighbors on building project WEST MEADOWS -- A plan to rezone land for a new church in West Meadows was postponed Thursday night to give church leaders time to review the project with neighbors.
Schools roundup
ADAMS MIDDLE: Birthday notices can be placed on the school's marquee for $10. Order forms are available at the office. Birthdays are posted on a first-come, first-posted basis. For information, call (813) 975-7665.
Elementary PTA officers meet to pool their knowledge
In what has becomes an annual event, they share their best -- and worst -- ideas.
Ben Hill student publishes poem
Christopher Childs, a seventh-grader at Ben Hill Middle School, has a poem titled Daddy Who published in the anthology A Celebration of Young Poets-Florida-Spring 2001.
Open & Shut
LUXURY PET RESORT OPENS: Pets in Paradise Inc., 2109 W Lutz-Lake Fern Road, recently opened.
