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Fresh trail features preserve By Kathy Steele
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Nature will be an up-close experience for strollers, joggers, skaters and cyclists as they navigate along the newest and most northern segment of the Upper Tampa Bay Trail. Nearly 3 miles of the more than 4-mile trail segment cuts through Brooker Creek Preserve in Hillsborough County, between Lutz Lake Fern Road and Van Dyke Road. The ribbon cutting for the $5.6 million project will be Aug. 7 at 10 a.m., at the new trailhead facility at 7020 Lutz Lake Fern Road. Funding came from Hillsborough, South West Florida Water Management District (known as Swiftmud), and a federal grant provided by the Florida Department of Transportation. âItâs going to be a beautiful trail,â said Tina
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Workers are finishing the landscape at the new trailhead facility for Upper Tampa Bay Trail. There will be restrooms, ample parking and a covered picnic pavilion.
Russo, Hillsboroughâs regional planning coordinator. âItâs really awesome. This is such a unique experience being in the preserve.â It also is a unique design for Hillsborough. The 12-foot asphalt path, with three concrete boardwalks through wetlands, is the countyâs first paved multi-use trail
through a preserve. The trail also is another link in a master plan to create a regional trail system, and a statewide system. The trailhead at Lutz Lake can be a starting point south toward Van Dyke or See TRAIL, page11A
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Campbell Middlebrooks teaches Calvin Montgomery, left, and Oliver Crawford, right, a few of the finer points of fishing.
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Kids were busy making high heels and minions in the cake-decorating class during one recent morning. Others tried their hand Hundreds of children and adults spent a at origami, or had the chance to sing a recent week at Exciting Idlewild Baptist Broadway tune. Some picked up pointers on Church in a summer camp that combines a fishing. Others helped build a theatrical set. love for the arts, with the expression of Some strummed on guitars. Christian values. The campers come from all over to the The camp began as a singing camp sev- camp in Lutz, including some from as far eral years ago and has morphed into a away as Orlando, said Susan Raabe, a camp full-scale arts camp. volunteer. There were sessions on everything from Summer Sing is run by teenagers, who etiquette, to playing percussion tubes, to are helped by adult volunteers. Sheila scrapbooking and violin. Goskie is the camp director. Singing, acting, harp lessons and choreogIn the words of 8-year-old Joshua Barnes: B.C. MANION/STAFF PHOTO raphy were a few other choices for the âItâs really fun.â Joshua Barnes tries his hand at the art of camp, designed for kids who have completTo find out more about next yearâs camp, origami at Summer Sing, a weeklong summer ed second grade through fifth grade. go to Idlewildâs website at Idlewild.org. camp at Exciting Idlewild Baptist Church.
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As a very young boy, Tim Beard would walk a mile each way to buy a newspaper at the store so he could devour stories about his beloved St. Louis Cardinals. He admired such players as Lou Brock, Joe Torre and Bob Gibson â and delighted in reading about their pursuits. He recalled that he was only 5 or 6 years old when he was making those treks to the store. Literacy and athletics were twin loves in his life, until Beard decided he would spend less energy on athletics and give his full attention to education. He grew up in poverty in the Panhandle town of St. Joe â and now he leads PascoHernando State College. Before becoming president of the college on July 1, he served as a vice president at the college for eight years. He claimed the role vacated by Katherine Johnson, who retired after a decade at the helm. Beard is clearly excited about the possibilities. As an internal candidate for the post, Beard said he had the advantage of under-
Tim Beard: ⢠Holds a bachelorâs degree, a masterâs degree and a PhD from Florida State University ⢠Has been married to his wife, Wendy, for 29 years; they have two daughters, Briana, 20 and Sierra, 17 ⢠Joined what was then Pasco-Hernando Community College in 2007 ⢠Became Pasco-Hernando State Collegeâs new president on July 1
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Tim Beard is dressed casually during a summer day at his office at Pasco-Hernando State College. But the new president of PHSC is anything but casual in his ambitions for the college.
standing the college and knowing its pulse. âI know the institution. I know the flow. I know the community,â Beard said. As PHSCâs new leader, heâs already starting to carry out his game plan. Heâs identified key focus areas. Those include increasing student retention and degree completion rates, expanding partnerships, and securing more funding to support programs. To help retain students, Beard is launching an initiative called Retention Behavioral Inventory, or RBI, for short. See PHSC, page11A