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14th Annual Indian Rocks Beach GREENFEST March 26

Get ready as Indian Rocks Beach (IRB) Church of the Isles is once again proud to present IRB Greenfest, a wonderfully eco-friendly event for families and friends of all ages, from the IRB community and beyond. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on March 26, enjoy all sorts of vendors with products and services designed to keep our footprint green, as well as representatives from nonprofit organizations; local food, beer and wine; baked goods; a children’s area and playground; arts and crafts; handmade gifts; live music and more!

IRB Greenfest helps bring community awareness to the impact of our carbon footprint and shares how to reduce it by recycling, using ecologically-friendly produce, buying local and organic and shining a spotlight on the importance of conservation efforts to sustain our environment. Based on past averages, there have been 1500 to 2000 attendees for the day with continued growth each year.

Location: 24th Ave. and 1st St., Indian Rocks Beach. For more information and for anyone interested in becoming a sponsor or vendor, check out Facebook.com/irbgreenfest and contact IRBGreenfest@gmail.com. Church office: 727-595-1038. See ad page 10. Ronni Ford has much to offer in the way of helping clients heal and progress forward on their spiritual path. An empath, clairvoyant and intuitive, she has a keen sense of detecting and following the body’s guidance with her healing hands. A session begins with grounding the client’s energy into their body and clearing any stagnant energy in the field that houses lower vibrational frequencies. She then clears each chakra by “reading” stuck stories or issues, expands this energy, and begins to remove it to more deeply connect with the soul’s imprint.

The pictures or words Ford telepathically receives in-session are clues as to where change can be brought about. She offers clients a higher perspective to understand how situations occurring in physical life are, symbolically, spiritual messages that guide.

In sessions where there is extreme stress, fear, trauma, grief or any other emotion that is overwhelming, Ford will walk through the client’s energy field and channel out some of this heaviness. Additionally, crystals are intuitively placed on the body for their beneficial and supportive powers.

Distance healings available; in-person sessions in Dunedin. Yoga as an energetically healing practice can also be incorporated into the Intuitive Crystal Healing Session.

For more information and appointments, call 340-626-9642 or email RonniFordyeh@gmail.com. See ad page 45.

Eat better. Feel better. This is the mission and motto at True Food Kitchen, the awardwinning, seasonally-inspired restaurant and craft, officially opening its first Tampa-based restaurant on February 28, at 3645 Midtown Drive, Tampa. The new location will feature a spacious dining room with 127 seats, an open kitchen designed to bring guests closer to the restaurant’s culinary craft, and a full-service bar joining the dining room and outdoor covered patio, accessible by either side.

Co-founded by integrative medicine expert Dr. Andrew Weil, True Food Kitchen’s menu closely adheres to his antiinflammatory food pyramid which focuses on eating foods that help maintain optimal health. The restaurant will offer a variety of flavor-forward dishes and beverages for lunch, dinner and weekend brunch.

True Food Kitchen will open with a variety of ordering options. In-store, guests are offered the option to order via their mobile phone, allowing them to scan, order and pay directly from their device. Additionally, True Food will offer guests the convenience of enjoying food in the comfort of their home by featuring the full menu online for pick-up or delivery.

For more information and ordering menu, visit TrueFoodKitchen.com/locations/tampa. See ad page 31. Used for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis and other autoimmune diseases, Enbrel is a large molecule drug, and when given as an injection or IV in the arm, it cannot pass the blood-brain barrier. However, research indicates that if Enbrel is injected into the vertebral vascular system, the drug goes directly into the central nervous system—i.e. the spine and brain.

Injected this way, Enbrel stops the inflammatory cascade in the central nervous system within hours—and appears to stop it permanently—thus why it is now being used for spinal stenosis, strokes (of any age), Down’s syndrome, cerebral palsy, PTSD and any neurological injury or genetic defect that causes an inflammatory response.

Dave, a 74 year old carpenter, had a stroke seven months ago which severely affected his eyesight. His left arm and leg were also affected with less mobility. He started walking with a cane and had to give up his carpentry as well. Within 20 minutes after the Enbrel injection, his eyesight improved; within 48 hours, he was moving his arm and leg better! His neurologist said he would never get back to any normalcy—never say never!

Young Foundational Health Center is located at 7241 Bryan Dairy Rd., Largo. To schedule an appointment, call 727-545-4600. Most major medical insurances accepted. For more information, visit YoungFoundationalHealth.com. See ad page 5.

Margaret Newman, RN has a 30-year history of psychiatric nursing mixed with an education in NLP, Hypnosis, Parts Work, ART (Accelerated Resolution Therapy), Core Transformation and EFT. She sees the universe as one large restaurant where we pay attention to what we fancy and drop the focus on what is not wanted. Newman suggests that words come from the subconscious and can be used to reveal beliefs, values and perceptions that can get in the way of goals. Our experience of life is mostly an inside happening, coming to us through our thoughts and feelings. This means that regardless of outer circumstances, we can choose an empowering response that frees us from the past and that which no longer serves.

All experiences provide an education. The remarkable thing is that we decide what we learn from each event or encounter. Truly, even on a planet of billions, we are each unique because of our individualized education. We are free to choose a different life experience at any time; Newman notes that change does not begin by chance, but by choice.

For more information and appointment, call 813-3903428, email mNewmanSage@gmail.com and/or visit PeacefulThoughtsWithMargaret.com. See ad below. For the third year in a row, local, family-owned natural foods grocer Nature’s Food Patch Market & Café (The Patch), Clearwater and Downtown Dunedin, has been voted Best Health Food Store by the community in the Tampa Bay Times ‘Best of the Best People’s Choice’ campaign 2019 to 2021.

The Patch placed first, second and third in other ‘Best of the Best’ categories over the course of last year and, for the first time, took the gold title for Best Produce Store/Stand in addition to bronze level Best Juice Bar.

For three consecutive years, The Patch was runner-up for Best Grocery Store, competing with one of America’s largest supermarket chains. In Creative Loafing’s annual ‘Best of the Bay’ campaign, they received three first place awards from the Tampa-based publishing company: Best Gourmet Market, Best Place to Shop Green, Best Salad Bar.

For the fourth year in a row, The Patch was voted the county’s number one Healthy/Organic Retailer by Tampa Bay Newspapers’ ‘Reader’s Choice Pinellas’.

On a national scale, the store was recognized as a Progressive Grocer’s 2021 Outstanding Independent honoree based on the essential role it has played to ease the pains of the pandemic for the consumer.

Info, NaturesFoodPatch.com.