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Local Developer Plans New Residential Carnival Featuring Flying Wallenda’s Community Near FishHawk To Raise Funds For HCSO By Officer By Tamas Mondovics Kate Quesada Hillsborough County Sheriff and DUI Task Force National Honor recipient Larry Morrell was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer and on hearing the news, friends and family stepped up and quickly arranged a carnival fundraiser to help with expenses related to his illness. “We feel so humbled and blessed by the love we are receiving from friends, family members, our church and the community,” said Hillsborough County Sheriff Larry Morrell was Morrell, who is currently on his third recently diagnosed with Stage 4 Pancreatic of at least six rounds of aggressive Cancer and friends and family are hosting a carchemotherapy at Moffitt Cancer nival to raise money for his medical expenses. Center in for us. We are so humTampa. “We bled.” are blown Advance wrist away by the bands for the event are planning and available at Wayback thought that is Burgers, located at being put into 5672 FishHawk this carnival.” Crossings Blvd., for a Rick and Rietta Wallenda will perform along with mother Carla, 80, at the 10-24 Carnival. From discounted fee of $15 Thursday, December 1 to Sunday, for one day of rides and $60 for all four December 4 the community is invited to days. The price of the bands will come together to support one of its own increase to $20 for a day at the event. with games and family fun at the “10-24 For more information, visit www.faceCarnival”, which is the Sheriff’s call sign book.com/deputymorrell1024. A for Send Assistance. The event will take GoFundMe page has also been set up in place at 949 Lithia Pinecrest Rd. next to Morrell’s name. Foundation Christian Academy on the Church of Christ future home. The carnival will feature rides from Premium In This Shows of America and performances Issue from the World Record breaking Wallenda family including Rick and sister TENNIS PLAYER ..................................PG 9 Rietta who will perform a high wire act and mother Carla, 80, who will perform SWEET POTATO LOVE ......................PG 15 her world-renowned 90 ft. sway pole perHOA HOT TOPICS .............................PG 18 formance. The family will perform at 8 p.m. every day Thurs-Sun and at 3 p.m. NEW COMMUNITY PARK.................PG 21 as well on Sat and Sun. There will also SPORTS CONNECTION...............PGS 32‐33 be food trucks, musical entertainment and a visit from Santa. ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT................PG 42 “Our hope is that people can come HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE ................PGS 45‐60 together at this event and just enjoy being with their families,” said Morrell’s READ MORE LOCAL NEWS ONLINE wife, Debbie, a third grade teacher at www.ospreyobserver.com FishHawk Creek Elementary School. “This is such an amazing community and they have come together so wonderfully
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Residents living in FishHawk Trails exceed 164 homes on the 164-acre site. responded in great numbers to a neighFishhawk Trails, adjoining the property to borhood meeting and discussion about a the west, has a land use of RP-2 or two new residential development planned for homes per acre. “To the east of the site is the area. approximately 1,934 acres that already The meeting held at the Palmetto has a Residential 1 Land Use, which Club in allows for a nice FishHawk transition,” included Fischbach said. plans, As a tradidetails and tional subdivirezoning sion, each sininformation gle-family home for the new on the property single-famiwill be on public ly, detached water and public home sewer. All access developinto the neighment, locatborhood is ed on a planned from 164-acre Lithia Pinecrest site at the Rd., and would FishHawk Trails and surrounding area residents view northwest maps of the location of the new single-family detached not be interconresidential homes development planned in Lithia. The nected to any of corner of 164-acre site is located adjacent to the FishHawk Trails the surrounding Lithiacommunity with homes in the $400-$500K price range. Pinecrest communities. A and Browning Rds. in Lithia. small property close to the development Event host, local real estate broker has been apportioned for a new elemenand property developer, Reed Fischbach tary school site. of Fischbach Land Company, was joined Fischbach, did not hesitate to by representatives of Genesis Group, a acknowledge that a main concern for services firm that provides engineering, most attending the meeting included landscape architecture, planning, surveytraffic, schools and buffering issues, ing, GIS, and urban design services to which he said are all are taken into thousands of public and private sector consideration and are being clients throughout Florida. researched. From the start, Fischbach focused Based on the current plan, the earhis comments on the importance of good liest the project could potentially break communication and transparency and ground would be sometime in the fall of emphasized that the meeting was sched2018. A second, neighborhood meeting uled prior to any filings with Hillsborough to discuss the project is now scheduled County. The development’s for Tuesday, December 13, at 6:30 p.m. Comprehensive Plan Amendment is for a at the Palmetto Club in FishHawk. Residential 1 Land Use, which means For more information, please visit that the neighborhood density cannot www.fischbachlandcompany.com
Members of the Bloomingdale High School Air Force JROTC, perform a during Hillsborough County’s 52nd Annual Veterans Day Tribute. The event was held on Friday, November 11, at Veterans Memorial Park and Rear Admiral LeRoy Collins, Jr. Museum, located at 3602 U.S. Highway 301 N. in Tampa.
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