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VOLUME 11, NO. 33
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR UPCOMING PIT COUNT Each year, the county undertakes a massive effort to physically count unhoused residents. MICHELLE CACERES STAFF WRITER
The Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative (THHI) is seeking more than 600 volunteers for the annual Point-In-Time (PIT) Count, on Feb. 22, a count of the number of unhoused people across all municipalities, as mandated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment (HUD). According to HUD, each community shall make every effort to count all homeless individuals living outdoors, in shelters and in transitional housing.
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CHILIFEST BRINGS THE HEAT TO PLANT CITY 2024 CHILIFEST WINNERS MILD 1st Place BSA Troup 734 2nd Place SCL (Seaboard Cost Line) NOVELTY 1st Place Brent’s BBQ 2nd Place Scooby’s Outdoor Adventures SPICY 1st Place Scooby’s Outdoor Adventures 2nd Place Grace Manor at Hunters Creek PEOPLES’ CHOICE Spicy Scooby’s Outdoor Adventures
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When Lloyd Thomas, a member of the board of directors of the Robert W. Willaford Train Museum, asked Steven Harris, scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 734, if his troop would perform the flag ceremony at this year’s ChiliFest/Railfest, held last Saturday at the train depot. He agreed and thought that since they were going to be
there anyway, they may as well enter a chili in the cookoff as well. Each patrol cooked up a chili recipe at a weekend campout last month and the one that tasted best, judged by the scouts and leaders, was entered into the chili competition. The Redacted Patrol came out on top.
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