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APRIL 1, 2015
Holy Week ushers in celebrations By B.C. Manion bcmanion@lakerlutznews.com
Churches across Pasco and Hillsborough counties are gearing up for a wide array of Holy Week events and Easter celebrations. Some churches will do re-enactments of the Last Supper and Good Friday, while others will include egg hunts, pancake breakfasts, barbecue meals and other festivities. Whatever they’re doing, churches are ready to greet regulars and visitors alike, as they commemorate the last days of Jesus’ life and celebrate his resurrection. Our Lady of the Rosary Church, at 2348 Collier Parkway, expects about
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New Walk Church brings in a helicopter for an Easter egg drop to help call attention to its Easter services.
twice as many people at its Easter services as normally attend its weekend Masses, said the Rev. Ron Aubin, the church’s pastor. “A normal Sunday, it would be about 3,000 to 3,500. Easter, it will be over 7,000,” the pastor said. Aubin said the Easter message, in part, will be this:“He (God) sends his son (Jesus) as savior of the world, and that we who believe in him and die in the waters of baptism and rise with him in the waters of baptism, will also rise to the eternal life. “I have the hope of one day rising from the dead.And hope is not wishing. Hope is believing. It is something See EASTER, page 9A
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Things can get a little loud at the Dorsey house in Land O’ Lakes. With four brothers ages 6 through 11, they can fill the house up with sound. But you won’t hear a loud television blaring or children screaming over toys. Instead,
you’ll hear violins being tuned. Piano keys being played. Music stands being moved into place. And then you’ll hear elegant pieces of classical music, performed by artists who spend a lot of time honing their craft. When these boys play together, it doesn’t sound like anything you’d hear on the playground. The three oldest brothers, Daniel (piano), Nathaniel (violin) and Anthony (violin), participated in this year’s Justine Le Baron Young Artists Competition, an annual event sponsored by the Florida Orchestra Musicians Association.
Daniel took third place in the Junior Piano category, while youngest brother Aaron, at age 6, gave the piano a rest and sat this one out. Their mother, Rowena Dorsey, doesn’t mind the symphonic sounds in her house the least little bit. “It’s like a regular music school if you ask me,” she said with a laugh.“We are kind of an unusual family.” Rowena home-schools the boys, so their music practice is a scheduled part of their day. Rather than just going through the motions, the boys enjoy working on pieces of music and performing them well, after plenty of practice. After dinner with their mother and their father, Martin, they frequently repeat their latest efforts with both parents listening to See MUSIC, page 9A
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The blockades disappeared a few weeks ago, and suddenly Sunlake Boulevard was no longer a dead-end street at the construction site of Long Lake Ranch, the master-planned community south of State Road 54. Motorists slowly are beginning to realize they can travel in a mostly straight line from State Road 54 in Pasco County to North Dale Mabry Highway in Hillsborough County, with a bonus of bypassing the traffic-clogged intersection of State Road 54 and U.S. 41. Portions of the approximately 3-mile stretch provide a smooth, four-lane road for drivers, with a roundabout in the middle. The road narrows to two lanes soon after passing Long Lake’s entrance.Varying speed limits are posted along the journey toward Hillsborough County, with the slowest speed of 20 mph through the roundabout. At the southern end, Sunlake Boulevard enters Sunlake Park, a mature tree-lined neighborhood of 36 single-family homes, built in the 1960s. A series of three speed bumps and a speed limit of 25 mph keep speeders at bay. “It’s convenient to drivers,” said Melissa Greene, commenting on the Sunlake Boulevard connection. She recently was
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Motorists traveling north on Sunlake Boulevard, away from the roundabout, will see speed limits increase from 35 mph to 45 mph.
waiting in mid-afternoon at the intersection of the boulevard and Evergreen Oak Drive for a Hillsborough County school bus to drop off her son. But Greene and other parents at the school bus stop say they also worry about speeding motorists, increased traffic especially during rush hours, and confusing speed limits that change from one side of the road to the other. They would like speed bumps similar to those in Sunlake Park. “I don’t know if that would happen because there are no houses on every section
of road,” Greene said. “It would be nice. It would slow people down.” She also would like to see school buses drive into the subdivisions dotting the boulevard, but Greene said that might not happen. Still Greene said,“We see drivers fly by here.” The roundabout also is troublesome to some who worry about accidents as motorists approach and leave the traffic circle. Heading south toward the roundabout, See SUNLAKE, page 9A