The News of June 2014 - ISSUE #71
...an official publication of the Community Association — Named Best Newsletter in Hillsborough County 2011
Board Meeting Rollins Theater – 9 a.m. 4th of July Breakfast Community Hall – 7 a.m.-noon Board Meeting Rollins Theater – 9 a.m. Lawn Concert Bandstand - 3:30p.m. – 5:30p.m.
Community Leaders’ Meetings are not scheduled in June, July or August. The next CO-AP meeting will be held on October 27. Agendas for monthly Board Meetings will be posted on Official Bulletin Boards the Friday before and on our website (suncitycenter. org – under “Association”). They will also be sent via “What’s New in the CA” email. Every Wednesday: Orientation for new members in the Board Room at 1 p.m..
DID YOU KNOW?
Producing the Membership Directory is a year-long process. The 2014 edition was distributed in February. If you want changes to your listing for the 2015 edition, start submitting them now. You can fill out a form at the CA office or send an email to: membership@ suncitycenter.org. Note: If you have a suggestion for this feature, send it to hodgespress@ gmail.com.
July Issue delivered to your mailbox on June 28 On the Inside
Come to Community Hall to celebrate the 4th of July with your friends and neighbors.
SCC July 4 Breakfast Planning Continues
By Phyllis Hodges Let’s talk about Independence Day in Sun City Center. Although the day won’t end with fireworks here (as announced previously by the CA), you can still start the day off with a bang! The pancake breakfast on July 4 that was started a few years ago has turned into a REAL community happening. What better way to start celebrating the holiday than with friends! The number of attendees has been rising each year. Nearly 1,400 made their way to Community Hall last year, so naturally Joanne and Sam Sudman, organizers, are expecting more this year. They are planning for 1,500 and doing a phenomenal job rounding up volunteers (130 needed), buying supplies and ordering food. THEY STILL NEED WORKERS. Jobs for 18 people are still vacant, mostly for the 6 – 9 a.m. shift. Volunteers to fill the empty slots must be able to stand or move about for three hours.
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The 2013 breakfast was held at Community Hall for the first time. It will be there again this year. Doors will open at 7 a.m. and service will continue until noon. Volunteers work one of two shifts (6 – 9 and 9 – noon) cooking, serving, clearing tables, cleaning up and taking care of the many tasks to make the morning go smoothly. Contact the Sudmans at jsudman@tampabay.rr.com or 6333106 if you can help. You can specify your preference of job and shift; they will try to accommodate it.
By the way, we promised you a list of places around that will be hosting fireworks. At press time, it was still too early to get complete information. We suggest you go to TBO.com for a listing after midJune. If we have the information in time for the July issue, it will be published.
Are We Ready? By John Bowker June marks the beginning of the annual “Hurricane Season” around here. It makes no difference that, since records were started in the late 19th century, there has never been a
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City Center last year and damaged a dozen houses in town. It came with absolutely no warning. Each spring, the local CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) assembles the key players who would have an essential role in
Sheriff ’s Office, and the Hillsborough County Office of Emergency Management, management services and The Federation of Kings Point and the Community Association of Sun City Center, each of the area CERT teams, the Emergency
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Bill Barron, President, SCC CERT, led the discussions by each organization explaining their roles in the event of an emergency. sustained wind of 74 miles an hour come to Sun City Center (that is the legal definition of a “hurricane wind”). But, before we relax too much, let’s consider what a lesser wind might do to us, and even ponder what is meant by “sustained” in that definition. For instance, a category 3 tornado has much higher winds but only for a moment or two at any point on earth. We can all remember the tornado that ripped through Sun
helping get things back to normal in town in the event of an emergency. The emphasis is on predictable disasters such as heavy storms, but each participant recognizes that any well laid plans can be dislodged by the unexpected. It was therefore essential that each of the emergency managers hear about the capabilities of the others so that the right organizations can be brought to bear as needed. The meeting here on May 6 included representatives of the county
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Squad and Security Patrol, Kings Point Security office, local Amateur Radio Clubs, Samaritan Services, the Chamber of Commerce, and the National Weather Service in Ruskin. It was noted that in an emergency, the responsible authorities are the uniformed county personnel (sheriff, fire, rescue). If none of them is on scene, uniformed CERT personnel take charge. All communications between these agencies are handled by the Amateur Radio operators. See Ready on page 6.