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Hillsborough County Aging Services Honors Iva Bell’s 109th Birthday
By Tatiana Ortiz
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A parade of nearServices Program for ly 20 vehicles filled the Hillsborough County street of Brandon resiAging Services, Anika dent Iva Bell’s home Coney, shared her to celebrate her 109th thoughts about National birthday on Adult Day Services September 21. Staff Week. from the Hillsborough “This would be an County Adult Day opportunity to highlight Service Center drove our programs and servby with well-wishes ices that we provide to and signs as Bell our clients and carewaved outside her givers,” Coney said. home with her daughIn order to continue ter, Gloria Bell serving its clients and Osgood. The celebracaregivers during the tion also kicked off pandemic, the group Gloria Bell Osgood and her mother, implemented adjustNational Adult Day Iva Bell, attend Bell’s 109th birthday Services Week. ments, including staffcelebration with the Hillsborough Bell, who was offered programs three County Aging Services. born in 1911, has times a week by seen a lot of phone with healthchanges in care tips, trivia, supBrandon. She port and more. moved to the area Senior Case in the 1920s and Manager for worked at the Hav-A-Tampa cigar factory Hillsborough County George Paulose has located in Ybor City. worked with Bell for several years. He Later, Bell and her husband owned believes that Bell is a very strong-minded and operated Bell’s Grocery during the person who always thinks positively. 1940s and 1950s. The store was located Paulose also feels that Osgood is a at the corner of Lithia Pinecrest Rd. and wonderful caregiver to her mother. Bell U.S. Hwy. 60 until the highway expanded receives a variety of supplies such as into four lanes. Her husband passed Ensure, meals and much more from the away in 1984 at the age of 84. county. In 2011, Bell joined the Hillsborough “Overall, all of the staff members at County Adult Day Service Center. She is the Hillsborough County Bloomingdale currently the oldest member of the center. Adult Day Service Center are very caring Due to the current pandemic, all four of for your loved ones,” Osgood said. the county’s locations are closed, but the For more information, visit group came together to celebrate Bell www.hcflgov.net/aging. Staff are availand others in National Adult Day Services able Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.–5 Week. p.m. and the Aging Services Customer The manager of the Adult Day Care Team can be reached at 272-5250.
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Hillsborough County Fire Rescue Finds Innovative Way To Open Two New Fire Stations
By Kate Quesada
Hillsborough company, a rescue County Fire Rescue crew and a tanker (HCFR) dispatched crew. It also has four 66 new fire rescue new apparatus, personnel into the including a ladder Brandon and truck, an engine, a SouthShore areas rescue truck and a last month, along with tanker. The personnel seven additional will serve from nearby apparatus and a new fire stations until a fire inspector. temporary building What’s different can be set up on-site about this deployment early next year. is that the fire stations “Because the that will house the area is still growing, personnel and appafire rescue also is ratus are still under adding an additional construction, so the inspector to the staff,” crews will serve from said Wilkerson. nearby stations until This unique Sixty-six new fire rescue personal have construction is comapproach to adding been dispatched to local fire stations in plete. preparation for the opening of new sta- service for residents tions in Brandon & Riverview next year. is happening because The physical buildings for Stations 45 and 46 are the Hillsborough County Administration scheduled to be complete in the fourth saw the need for coverage in fast-growquarter of 2021, and the crews will have ing areas of the county, and the Board of temporary facilities on the sites in the County Commissioners approved the fornext several months. ward-thinking plan to get fire rescue staff “The additional personnel in the in the areas of need as soon as possible. Brandon and Riverview areas will help To learn more, visit www.hillsborlower response times in these fast-growoughcounty.org. ing communities,” said Hillsborough County’s Chris Wilkerson. “The county’s master plan calls for 24 more fire staIn This tions, and the two that went into operaIssue tion today are the first two of the group.” The crews work 24-hour shifts and are on rotation every third day. The new Station 45 is under construction in Brandon at 1209 Oakfield Dr. That station has 24 personnel, including a battalion chief, an engine company and an ambulance rescue crew. It also has three new apparatus, including a battalion chief vehicle, an engine and a rescue vehicle. This new station will be operating out of a temporary building around the Section 2 corner at 307 Pauls Dr. later this year. The new Station 46 is under conREAD MORE LOCAL NEWS struction in Riverview at 10751 Rhodine ONLINE Rd. That station has 42 personnel, www.ospreyobserver.com including a truck company, an engine