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Matthew Hartsfield is pastor of Bay Hope Church, at 17030 Lakeshore Road in Lutz. The church is planning a $6 million project to enhance its children and student ministries, and is planning to create satellite campuses around Tampa Bay.
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When Van Dyke Church began in 1985, it met in the cafeteria at Claywell Elementary School in Northdale, and the church was named for its planned future location, on Van Dyke Road in Lutz. It never did build on Van Dyke Road, though, because the land was taken
through eminent domain for the Veterans Expressway project, said Matthew Hartsfield, the church’s pastor. Instead, the church was established at 17030 Lakeshore Road, where it remains today. So, in a sense, it never was accurately named. When the church felt a calling to expand its role, it also decided to change its
name to Bay Hope to reflect its new vision and mission. Bay Hope wants to be involved in reaching out to people throughout the Tampa Bay area, to offer them a church home, Hartsfield said. But, it isn’t trying to attract all of those new disciples to its Lutz location. See EXPANSION, page 11A
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Madonna Jervis Wise, a local author who writes primarily about history, has been making the rounds lately, talking about women in the work force and “East Pasco Women Who Rocked.” Her talks, which have been delivered at the Pioneer Florida Museum and Village in Dade City, at the East Pasco Networking Group’s breakfast meeting and at the Zephyrhills Public Library, have traced the evolving role of women in society. The essence of her presentation traces the progress that women have made since ancient times to the present. First, she delivers an overview of women in history and then she focuses on the contributions of seven East Pasco women. While delivering her talk at the East Pasco Networking Group, Wise said she
keeps her mother and grandmother in mind. “My mother was Depression-era woman who worked most of her life. My grandmother was equally as industrious,” she said. “As we go through the presentation, please stop and think about the women in your life. “Right now, we have 72 million women in the American workforce. That’s 30 million more than 1984, and women roughly make up about 50 percent of the workforce,” she said. Despite their large numbers in the work force, women still trail men in terms of pay, Wise noted.Women receive approximately 81 percent of what men are paid, she said. And, only 14 percent of the executive positions in Fortune 500 companies are held by women. There has been progress, however, compared to opportunities for women in the past.
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Madonna Jervis Wise has been giving talks about women’s progress at various venues during Women’s History Month.
“Women weren’t allowed to participate in any capacity, throughout most of history —in terms of speaking, political involvement, certainly not leadership,”Wise said. See PROGRESS, page 11A
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Land O’ Lakes buses to roll out in May By Kathy Steele ksteele@lakerlutznews.com
Land O’ Lakes residents can soon step aboard buses on a special circular route through the community. By May 22, Pasco County expects to begin the new route.A tentative ribbon cutting will be on May 18 at a bus stop at the Land O’ Lakes Community Center, at 5401 Land O’ Lakes Blvd. The first buses would roll a few days later. The announcement came at a March 9 board meeting of the Pasco County Metropolitan Planning Organization in Dade City. Previously, county officials had hoped to begin the route in March. “This is going to be another win for Pasco County,” said Kevin Hoyt, the county’s transportation operations manager. “We are all extremely excited.”
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A Land O’ Lakes circulator bus route is scheduled to begin by May 22.
The route will move north on U.S. 41 with bus stops that include the Central Pasco Chamber of Commerce, the Land O’ Lakes Community Center, the post office, Land O’ Lakes High School and the detention center. A loop eastward along State Road 54 will have stops at Collier Commons and the Land O’ Lakes Branch Library. There also will be a stop at the Target Super Store on North Dale Mabry Highway, where riders can transfer to buses operated
by the Hillsborough County Area Regional Transit system, known as HART. The Land O’ Lakes circulator route is one of three the county put on its 2017 list of capital improvement projects. Estimated costs for the circulator route were about $300,000 a year for operations, and a one-time purchase of a bus at a cost of about $110,000. Two other routes along State Road 54 and in the Moon Lake area of New Port Richey already are operating.