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Brandon/Winthrop
October 2019 Volume 14, Issue 10 Ph: 657-2418
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Take A Crack At Brandon’s New Crafty Crab Restaurant In Ben’s Spot On S.R. 60
Five Decades Filled With Festival Fun At Nativity Novemberfest, Nov 21-24
Recently, We make our several crab own seasoning to and seafood create a unique restaurants arrangement of have been flavors.” opening up in For friends the community, and family memand joining in bers who prefer the trend in something that Brandon is isn’t shellfish, Crafty Crab, Crafty Crab also which opened has fried chicken this year in tenders and February. wings, fries, Crafty coleslaw, cheese Crab’s homesticks and more For those who just can’t get enough, Crafty style, Southern that are all just as Crab in Brandon has a seafood platter that seafood comes tasty. includes snow crab, whole shrimp, crawfish, mussels, clams, corn and potatoes. in the forms of When asked freshly cooked which foods are crabs, crawfish, calamari, favorites among cuslobsters, shrimp and tomers, Crafty Crab’s more, alongside corn and manager, Stephen Beltz, potatoes. It also offers said, “The boils definitely, generous portions, makand I think the combinaing for mouthwatering tion platter that we sell meals that can easily satthe most is the headless isfy your appetite. shrimp with snow crab, After you choose a and that comes with seafood boil, you can pick from four potatoes and corn as well.” seasonings, including buttery garlic, As for what makes Crafty Crab lemon pepper, its original Crafty Cajun stand out among similar restaurants and the Boom!!!, a mixture of all three that recently opened in the area, Beltz seasonings that create an explosion of said, “Our seasonings speaks for itself, flavor. Then comes the choice of spiciour secret spices that we use that we ness, be it mild, medium, fire or dry, don’t share with anyone and I think the which is a seasoning of your preferred biggest thing is our customer service spicy level on the side. and the friendly staff that we have.” According to its website, “At Crafty Crafty Crab is located at 704 E. Crab, we know food tastes better with Brandon Blvd. and is open Sundayyour hands, so don’t be shy—dig in! Thursday from 12 Noon-10 p.m. and Our signature New Orleans-style low Friday-Saturday from 12 Noon-11 p.m. country boil is a feast for seafood Visit www.craftycrabrestaurant.com or lovers and perfect for a casual dinner. call 278-5111.
Nativity months." He jokCatholic’s ingly added, “It’s Novemberfest too bad that I was will celebrate usually late to five decades of church to find festival fun someone already when it returns parked there.” from Thursday, The fest will November 21 take place on the to Sunday, church grounds November 24. on Thursday from Following the 4-10 p.m., Friday Florida State from 4 p.m.-12 Fair and Midnight, Strawberry Saturday from 11 Festival, a.m. to 12 Midnight Novemberfest is and Sunday from the third largest 12 Noon to 10 p.m. Sharon Evans, Susan Davis and Sherry annual carnival Stewart selling advanced armbands for stu- This year’s Alumni dents outside of church garage in 1989. in Hillsborough Day will be held on County. Sunday along with Appreciation Day for More than just a time-honored trathe military, law enforcement and first dition, Novemberfest is Nativity’s largest responders. fundraiser supporting its school and Admission, parking and entertainfaith formation program. The family-fun ment are all free. Crowd favorite Soul attracts about 100,000 people each Circus Cowboy will perform Friday at year and is put on by its parish volun8:30 p.m. The country rock band’s lead teers. singer, Billy McKnight, is an alumnus of Sherry Stewart, a longtime parishNativity Catholic School. Also back this ioner of Nativity, has been helping with year is Classix, who will take ‘Center Novemberfest for 40 years. Stewart vol- Stage’ on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. unteers as the food chairman managing Continued on Page 19 the 15 different vendors in the food tent. “Years ago, my boys were going to In This school here, and I wanted to get Issue involved and contribute to my parish,” explained Stewart. “We (Nativity) used to have a festival twice a year, one in FISHHAWK TURKEY TROT ..................PG 3 the spring and one in the fall, but in the GOODY GOODY 5K.............................PG 4 mid-80s, we switched to one big festival because we wanted to make it larger CELEBRATE BIRTHDAYS ....................PG 10 scale by adding carnival rides.” GREEK FESTIVAL...............................PG 15 Richard Boot, a Brandon resident, is credited for naming Novemberfest. EYE ON BUSINESS .....................PGS 25‐26 The late Monsignor Lara, Nativity’s CHALKLINES .....................................PG 28 priest at the time, commissioned the parishioners to come up with a name HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE ................PGS 31‐34 for the festival. Boot said, "My name, READ MORE LOCAL NEWS ONLINE Novemberfest, was picked, and I got www.ospreyobserver.com free parking in front of the church for six
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