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Reclaiming city property The city is considering a ban on parking in certain areas. SEE PAGE 8

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Night to Shine 2019 Registration for Night to Shine 2019 is now open.

Night to Shine, sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation, is a free, unforgettable prom-night experience for people with special needs ages 14 years old and up.

The event will be held Feb. 8, 2019 at First Baptist Church Plant City from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Visit fbcpc. com/nighttoshine to register a guest or to be a volunteer.

Limited number of guest and volunteer spots available.

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Dodge enjoyed the festivities at Keel & Curley Winery, which celebrated Mastiff Rescue of Florida volunteers and their lovable rescues.

SlobberFest, which honors Mastiff Rescue of Florida volunteers, drew dozens of lovable pups to Keel & Curley Winery on Nov. 17.

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he annual SlobberFest was held Saturday at Keel & Curley Winery. More than 20 mastiffs flocked to the event with their parents and foster families to enjoy a day of games, camaraderie and all around festive fun.

A silent auction for items like a fiddle signed by Charlie Daniels

and unique artwork raised funds for the Mastiff Rescue of Florida.

The pups and their family were also invited to have photos with Santa Claus, have caricature drawings done, make custom ornaments and enjoy fun obstacle courses throughout the entire event.

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Bikes, toys and clothes are donate by the community to help local families have a magical Christmas.

Santa Sled Fest is on its way and the registration deadline is just around the corner.

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Festive cruise-in

The monthly Strawberry Classic Cruise-In came to town once again on Saturday. Historic downtown was flooded with attendees as they strolled through the depot and checked out this month’s classic cars.

Downtown is beginning to look like a winter wonderland. The city’s Christmas lights and holiday wreaths were already on display, adding a festive feel to the event.

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Members of the Human Care Ministry Team of Hope Lutheran Church filled “thank you bags” for veterans.

Hope Lutheran preps veteran care bags Hope Lutheran Church wants local veterans to feel appreciated, especially around this time of year.

Members of the Human Care Ministry Team of Hope Lutheran Church asked Hope members to donate any cards, games and other personal items to put together “thank you bags” for veterans living in local care facilities.

The ministry team put the bags together and will distribute them among the area care facilities for veterans.

Florida Strawberry Festival prize winners named The Florida Strawberry Festival hosted its annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner on Nov. 8 and three lucky attendees left with grand prize money in hand.

Blondie White won $400,

Michaele Daramus won $200 and Jan Albritton won $100.

Community service project cleans up downtown A community service project led by civil engineering firm DRMP, Inc. recently opened a Plant City office and celebrated by beautifying part of the downtown area.

Members of the firm cleaned up the section of South Evers Street between West Reynolds Street and North Collins Street cleaned up, weeded, mulched and planted small palms in the decorative planters along South Evers Street on Nov. 10.

“The DRMP volunteers did a fantastic job helping with the South Evers Street planters and we really appreciate their effort,” Recreation & Parks Director Jack Holland said. “DRMP is setting an excellent example for our community and helping keep our city a great place to work, live and play.”

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Twinkling winter wonderland Starting on Thanksgiving Day, there are several hidden gems in Plant City offering unique holiday creations.

Courtesy of Nick Rogers and Zach Glaros

ABOVE: Lights of Winter is a Disney lover’s paradise as it uses a mix of pixel and LED lights to create a one-of-akind show. RIGHT: The Jack Frost Show is held all night long at The Christmas Trail.

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hristmas is on its way and local residents are putting final preparations on twinkling wonderlands thousands of families will drive through this holiday season.

Holiday sightseeing guides shepherd locals to Lakeland, Brandon and Tampa for elaborate light displays, but Plant City has several hidden gems that are worth a visit this season.

Much like the ghosts of Christmas that guided Ebenezer Scrooge, Plant City’s array is divided into three main sections: lights of Christmas past, lights of Christmas present and lights of Christmas yet to come.

The Masters family has spent the last three years creating an homage to Christmas in their front yard. Located at 2329 Jim Johnson Road, the Masters Family Christmas Plant City display features more than 55,000 lights that are timed to three unique Christmas songs.

“This year we have two houses for the display,” Meagen Leiby, co-creator of the Masters Family Christmas, said. “We’re really close to our neighbors so this year

they decided to join us. It’s easier for the cars now too because they can enter through our driveway and exit through his.”

The Masters family is known throughout Tampa Bay by light fanatics for the giant U.S. flag made out of lights on display at the front of their driveway by Jim Johnson Road. This year the family replaced the 8-foot flag with at 16-foot display, echoing the quick growth they’ve had recently.

Opening on Thanksgiving, Leiby said they have a constant stream of cars every single night until New Years Day. Co-creator Brian Masters spends two weeks arranging the lights in a fresh, new display and getting them to flash in time with his curated playlist.

He said they have several thousand cars come through and he’ll often see cars still slowly strolling through early in the morning before the sun comes up.

The Masters Family Christmas is a stroll down memory lane.

Timed to “Holiday Flight” and “Carol of the Bells” from “Home Alone” and Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Sarajevo” it’s a display unlike any other that will tug on your sense of nostalgia.

Open all night, the Masters Family Christmas Plant City Face-

“A lot of people are making this a tradition.

Hearing these stories, it makes this worthwhile for us.”

— Zach Glaros

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There is a 25-foot tall Christmas Tree made entirely of lights at The Christmas Trail.

book page will have any updates on the display and includes sneak previews of the event.

The Christmas Trail, 2837 Frontage Road South is the perfect place to spend time connecting with family and getting the most out of every moment. Zach Glaros, co-owner of the trail, started making waves several years ago when his family created Sir Henry’s Haunted Trail.

Glaros said he always did elaborate displays at his parent's house for both Halloween and Christmas so it only made sense to expand the holiday offerings at the property to include a Christmas event.

Glaros has created a festive night of fun featuring well over 100,000 lights. For 10 select nights in December, families can experience the more than a quarter mile walking trail covered in picturesque lights. There is also a snowball corral for children, a letters to Santa worship, face painting and a variety of arts and crafts.

Guests can also enjoy the Santa Claus Experience, which will take families through Santa’s workshop where they’ll meet Santa and Mrs. Claus and the Jack Frost Ice Show.

The event is free, but parking is $5. Included in the free admission is all of the above as well as the Christmas Tree Carolers, a Christmas movie on an outdoor screen and a 25-foot tall Christmas Tree made entirely of lights.

For an additional cost, you can add a game of laser tag to the package. You can also stop in Mrs. Claus' Bake Shop for hot chocolate, cookies, candy canes and other sweet treats. If you purchase marshmallows you can roast them over the two fire pits nearby. Families will often be found laughing over a pit as they point at the “falling snow” and create lifelong memories with the ones they hold dear.

“There’s so many memories just over the last few years that have really meant a lot to me,” Glaros said. “There’s a boy, he’s probably 8 or 9, and I think he has Autism. Anyway, his parents thought he wasn’t going to like it, that it would be too much going on. But he absolutely loved it. It was the first time in his entire life he’d ever wanted to take a picture with Santa. A lot of people are making this a tradition. Hearing these stories, it makes this worthwhile for us.”

The parking lot can only fit so many so guests who wish to attend need to register online for a ticket in advance. The ticket is free, but it will give them a time-slot to come check out the experience to prevent an overflow at the event.

Visit www.thechristmastrail.com or The Christmas Trail Facebook page for more information.

One Plant City local is bringing state-of-the-art technology to his Christmas display. Lights of Winter, 3212 Bella Garden Lane, has been wowing locals for six years now.

Created by Nick Rogers, the display has more than two miles of extension cords and 40,000 lights timed to approximately a dozen songs. A second house is part of the festive activities as well.

Part of The Lights of Winter display may look vaguely familiar for attendees. The massive experience includes lights from the famous Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights, which were a staple at Disney’s Hollywood Studios for years. There are approximately a dozen hidden Mickeys throughout the show as well, which many viewers love to scavenge for. Many of those are made from the Osborne lights.

Disney runs through Rogers’ blood. The majority of the garlands used in the show are also from a variety of Disney hotels including the Contemporary and Polynesian as well as the Christmas shop in Magic Kingdom.

Rogers begins decorating in October and the display is open from Thanksgiving to New Years.

The lights are controlled via

electronics so if there is ever an issue he can control the lights with a tap of a button. He said his inspiration from came from the Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights from Disney’s Hollywood Studios and EPCOT’s former Lights of Winter.

Using high-tech and innovative design Rogers is able to shepherd hundreds of cars seamlessly though the property. He started a Halloween light show this year as well and is planning to expand to other holidays as well.

“It’s a lot of fun, there’s a lot of lights and I just really love seeing all of the smiling faces whenever they come,” Rogers said. “We just love spreading the Christmas spirit. I work at Disney so I love making people smile and happy.

Seeing other people see the lights and seeing the kids’ faces light up, it’s really really cool. There’s nothing really compared to that.”

His display is a mix of traditional lights and pixels, which adds a unique layer to the show.

Rogers said his favorite thing in the world is sitting in the living room with the lights on and gazing at the glow from a brightly lit Christmas tree. That feeling of warmth and joy is what he hopes all those who take in his display walk away with.

When you grab your hot chocolate and dash to your car to check out glittering artwork, stay local this season. Head to Walden Lake for neighborhoods full of lights.

Stroll through Christmas Lane and check out the decades worth of decorations. Better yet, just put the car in drive and seek out a hidden gem.

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Operation Paying It Forward purchased 616 pounds of turkeys for the United Food Bank of Plant City.

A new organization in Plant City is taking random acts of kindness to a whole new level.

and socializing with some regular Plant City Police Department. She attendees. She noticed a little boy also continues the random acts of in a wheelchair who rarely missed kindness. If there’s a need in the a race. His parents would push community Valdes is there within him through the thick clay toward hours to lend a helping hand. the track so he could watch the The community started to join cars compete for a finishing spot. Valdes on all of her “crazy advenOne day her car was pushed into tures” and she decided it was time BREANNE WILLIAMS the wall and when it finally came to make it official. This year she STAFF WRITER to a stop she jumped out, ready to started a 501(c) 3 non-profit called unleash her frustrations. When Operation Paying It Forward and new organization in Plant she took off her helmet she made invited some of her most dediCity is ensuring the com- direct eye contact with the young cated community partners to join munity always has a boy, whose parents had brought her on the board. champion searching for him over toward the wreck.

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actual medical bills, she said she hopes to lessen the stress that is inevitable when dealing with such a life-altering diagnosis. On Jan. 24 Valdes will shave her head while streaming live in honor of all of those affected by cancer.

The community is rallying behind Operation Paying It Forward and its reach is only continuing to grow. The group is hosting a Network for a Cause event at Wishing Well Barn on Feb. 1 to get to know the needs of the community better and to introduce people to the organization.

The organization is also hosting a massive shoe drive and it will be accepting nominations next year for future recipients of the group.

“Our goal is just to continue to help the community,” Valdes said.

“Plant City is home, it’s where we want to give back. If anybody needs help they know to call me.

They know to call our board members. We’re all heavily involved.

And I’ve seen it in the community, people are paying it forward. People are taking care of each other.”

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Santa Sled Fest approaches largest year to date up applications from either the Greater Plant City Chamber of Commerce, 106 N. Evers St., or the Planteen Recreation Center, 301 N. Dort St., by Nov. 30. It’s open for all children age 3 years old to 10 years old, but Moody said they occasionally find themselves serving children up to 12 years old. During the day of festivities, families come to register between 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. with an ID. The children need to be present during the event.

Once registered, the event kicks off at 10 a.m. with a non-stop celebration. Kids will have bounce houses to spend their time playing on and will have the opportunity to meet Santa Claus mere days before he comes to visit on Christmas Eve. A local church will be cooking hotdogs for the families and they can also enjoy a drink and snack throughout the party.

The number assigned to them at registration will then be called out and they will receive their toys and be entered into a raffle for the bicycles. Normally this is completed in a few hours, but the extra families this year may make it a slightly longer event.

When the families are ready to go home they are handed either a turkey or a ham and a bag full of groceries to help ease the burden of providing a Christmas dinner.

“Just seeing the families, how appreciative they are, that makes this all worth it,” Moody said.

“Some of these people, they don’t have the money to buy their families everything at Christmas. We give out toys, bikes, food, clothes, everything they could imagine they can get that day.”

Santa Sled Festival is an event the entire community has come to cherish. Volunteers ranging from the Key Club at Plant City High School to local community members and churches who love to lend a helping hand pitch in to pull off the elaborate event.

The annual event is expanding to serve families that participate in Christmas in the Park, which will not be hosted this year.

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Bikes, toys and clothes are donate by the community to help local families have a magical Christmas.

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uring the holidays families are often reminded that goodwill does live on in the hearts of their fellow community members.

For the 16th year, the Des’ Aimes Social Club and Plant City Black Heritage will be hosting the Santa Sled Festival on Dec. 22, ensuring local families have a stress-free and merry Christmas. The festival draws hundreds of attendees each year.

“Each year we have more than 200 families, that’s more than 300 kids, come out to the event,” Sharon Moody, event coordinator, said. “Organizations in the community come together and help us provide toys, bikes, clothes, gro-

ceries and ham or turkey for the families so the kids have something special on Christmas.”

Moody said the Christmas in the Park event, which serves more than 100 people annually, is not going to be offered this year. The event is usually held at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center, but because it is currently undergoing demolition they decided to forgo the event. Upon hearing the news, Moody reached out and now Santa Sled Festival is preparing to take on those families as well.

It’s a high demand and the group is working around the clock to ensure they will have enough goods to go around. Moody said the toys have “pretty much been situated,” but that they are still looking for donations for bicycles and canned goods.

The Plant City Black Heritage committee and the Des’ Aimes Social Club begin planning the event in September and October every year. In three months they manage to pull off one of the largest Christmas events in the city.

So far Moody said they have sponsors like the Kiwanis Club and La Red Ministries and businesses like Florida Insurance are stepping up and donating toys for the local youth.

Star Distribution is donating ham to give out at the event and have “adopted five families.”

Employees from C&S Wholesale Grocers are also “adopting five families” and the warehouse has volunteered to donate turkeys for the festivities.

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Last year they had nearly 80 bicycles donated to give away.

While Moody said they would love to be able to give a bicycle to everyone that stops by they are happy to impact as many lives as they can. All of the donated bicycles are given away via a raffle and Moody said you often see the children lucky enough to score a bike riding them all year long to school and through the streets.

“I would love for it to continue to get bigger, to grow bigger,” Moody said. “I know there’s a need in the area. The area we are in it continues to be such a need in this area.

You’ve got people, some people that don’t have food to feed their families. They may have money to pay their bills, but not enough to then go out and buy presents.

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CLEAN GETAWAY 3200 block of S. Northview Rd. Residential burglary: A home that was under construction was burglarized after someone snuck in and took a Frigidaire washer and dryer from the home. The items were valued at more than $600.

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PEDALS TO THE METAL 2600 block of James L. Redman Parkway.

Petit theft: An unknown subject walked past all the cash registers at this store with an item without paying. They were confronted by a Loss Prevention officer and they dropped the item and fled on a bicycle.

Officers searched the area and failed to locate the subject.

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ALL THAT FOR NOTHING 800 block of South Maryland Avenue.

Business burglary: Someone cut the barbed wire at the top of the perimeter fence of an air conditioning business. They then broke into the business and opened an empty cargo trailer. The suspect gave up and left the location empty-handed.

RED DEAD RESIDENTIAL 4400 block of Country Hills Boulevard.

Residential burglary: Officers came to the scene after responding to a delayed residential burglary call. Someone had broken into a home and taken a PlayStation 4, several PlayStation games and miscellaneous attachments for the gaming system.

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SILENT NIGHT 400 block of North Plant Avenue.

Burglary: When a pastor entered his church he was met with a disheartening sight.

Someone had taken the electronic keyboard and a drum set from the music area.

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The eight-year-old tinkerer recently completed her first project, repurposing a 1967 Schwinn cruiser into an eyecatching “low rider” that turns heads wherever it goes. It even won Lara a trophy nearly as tall as she is at a custom car and bike show in Plant City.

“I went to a Miami car show and all the bikes seemed pretty cool,” Lara said. “I felt like I wanted to do one. I used to make some little drawings about this bike.”

She filled up notepads with drawings of her dream bike and started to turn them into reality in May. Her parents found the 1967 Schwinn frame on eBay and had it shipped to Plant City from Chicago and they also purchased a “donor

bike” just to harvest other parts from. Her father, JP Lara, said she completed about 80% of the project by herself and got help from him, her uncle Rob Trejo and Rene Carranza of Firme Hydro Werkz.

She painted the frame at Trejo’s house, did the leafing and designs with Carranza at Firme Hydro Werkz and completed the rest of the build at home in the family’s car port.

Because of the low suspension, which has both the front fender and the pedals mere inches from scraping the ground, it’s not really what one would call a “daily rider.” But what it lacks in rideability, it more than makes up for in style points. Lara’s bicycle, nicknamed the “Itty-Bitty,” hits all the notes of classic low rider bicycles with a sparkly pink paint job (which she did herself) that pops in the sunlight and metallic purple accents everywhere from the wheels’ spokes to the headlight mount. The bike sits extremely low to the ground and has a shock to mimic the up-and-down movement of the hydraulic-powered cars and ape hanger handlebars.

With one build down, Lara doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon.

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sign is posted and any city property that has a sign on display prohibiting public parking.

The public hearing is at the next city commission meeting, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26. If commissioners approve the ordinance everyone will be given a courtesy notice and then the city will install signs throughout the area. Once the public has been given sufficient warnings, the city will begin enforcing the policy.

Once it is enforced, McDaniel will have the right to have any vehicle violating the ordinance towed at the owner or operators expense. Those violating the rule will be responsible for the towing and storage charges.

Many may have noticed the construction on Johnson Road west of Sam Astin Road as the proposed 55-lot Johnson Pointe subdivision continues its development. Johnson Pointe is near the Walden Pointe subdivision

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and its rezoning was approved back in Oct. 2017.

The routine upsizing agreement between the city and the developer caused commissioners to have to amend the annual budget on Nov. 13. The city is appropriating $122,000 from water development fees to upsize the water main on Johnson Road to prepare for the upcoming subdivision.

“They were already putting in water lines and this is typical that when we have that occurring, we come in and then do an upsizing agreement,” McDaniel said. “Let’s say they needed a 12-inch line, we want to put an 18-inch line in so we can support future development.”

In October, the city confirmed the subdivision would not have any negative effects on utilities, traffic conditions or law enforcement requirements due to it fitting in the overall Imagine 2040: Plant City Comprehensive Plan.

Much of the proposed ordinance will prohibit parking in Midtown and in other areas throughout the city.

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public hearing will be held next week to discuss a new ordinance that would prohibit people from stopping, standing or parking their cars in certain places throughout the city. The city also is continuing necessary modifications to prepare for Johnson Pointe’s development.

City Manager Bill McDaniel said the proposed parking ordinance was created to help address the growing issue of the public misusing city property in town.

“I can give you a prime example, if you go down and look at the property that we own that is our Midtown development, every semi truck and trailer in town has decided that it’s free parking and we’ve got people parking or abandoning cars on that property,” McDaniel said. “The new scrap yard adjacent to it has decided to park their inventory of scrap trailers on it. They’re impeding our ability to market that property.”

If passed, the ordinance will prohibit anyone from stopping in certain places including areas that the city uses to access water meters, spaces where a reserved

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Parker Messick signed with Florida State University.

PCHS hosts fall signing day Six Plant City High School athletes made their college plans final on Nov. 14 in the school’s auditorium.

The group, which principal Susan Sullivan said is the largest the school has ever had for a fall signing ceremony, will attend six different colleges and play four sports next fall.

Baseball Parker Messick Florida State University Cade Shissler Stetson University Basketball Justyn King Bethune-Cookman University Softball Ashley Blessin Marshall University Abbie DeWeese Hillsborough Community College Volleyball Mikayla Lovelace Brewton-Parker College

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The Plant City Dolphins Midgets won their third consecutive Superbowl on Saturday.

SUPER SATURDAY FOR DOLPHINS Two Dolphins teams played in the 2018 TCYFCC Superbowl in Lakeland on Nov. 17.

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hortly before 3 p.m. on Nov. 17, the Plant City Dolphins ended their 2018 Superbowl run with one championship win in two tries.

The Dolphins and East Bay Bucs went head-to-head in backto-back Superbowl matchups at George Jenkins High School and split the day’s series. The East Bay Pee Wees shut out the Dolphins, 19-0, and the Plant City Midgets struck gold with a 22-16 classic over the Bucs.

In the Pee Wee game, East Bay’s noticeable size advantage was

enough to keep the Dolphins in check on both sides of the ball.

Defensively, the Dolphins had trouble all morning trying to bring down East Bay’s big running backs and stop the Bucs from both controlling the clock and rumbling into the end zone.

Offensively, the Bucs were able to disrupt the Dolphins’ singlewing offense regularly and keep everyone on their toes after getting through the offensive line.

The Midgets, on the other hand, kept up the conference dominance with their 29th consecutive win. It didn’t come easy, though.

Quarterback Jeremiah Epps and the Dolphins ran all over the Bucs, with Epps scoring all of the Dolphins’ touchdowns on the ground and making double-digit gains whenever the team needed a first down. Plant City jumped out to a 14-0 lead on the strength of

Epps’ legs and the “Purple Reign” defense forcing a clutch turnover on downs in Plant City’s red zone.

East Bay then opened up the playbook to pass the ball more often and picked up some momentum by the end of the half, scoring with a 19-yard pass with 19 seconds left and making the two-point conversion to cut the PCD lead to 14-8.

The Bucs forced a turnover on downs on the Dolphins’ opening drive of the second half, but the Dolphins got the ball right back by forcing a fumble with 4:29 left in the third quarter and were able to score again in less than two minutes.

The Dolphins forced another turnover on downs in their own red zone and Epps was able to bring the Dolphins into Bucs territory as time expired and the home sideline got excited for a potential 22-8 win.

East Bay had other ideas, though, stopping the Dolphins from scoring again and airing the ball out until ending up inside Plant City’s 10-yard line and scoring on a quarterback sneak, then nailing the two-point conversion to cut the lead to 22-16.

When the Bucs forced and recovered a fumble on Plant City’s next drive with 2:11 left to play, the Dolphins’ mood got more urgent.

The moment wasn’t too big for the “Purple Reign,” though.

The PCD defense only gave up 10 yards on this East Bay drive (with five being taken away from the Bucs on a false start penalty) and ended the game with 57 seconds left when Dazariyan Jenkins intercepted the ball.

The victory gave the Midgets their third consecutive Superbowl win and first with head coach John Broome, a Superbowl veteran.

“Rhino” Mike Thomas takes next step in karate One of Plant City’s hardest-working athletes earned his black belt the morning of Nov. 19.

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“Rhino” Mike Thomas has won 35 awards in just under four years.

t took three years and 10 months of some of the hardest work of Mike Thomas’s life, but the man called “Rhino” finally achieved his childhood dream this week.

Thomas, 30, a student of the Rudy Rogers Nisei Karate Federation, was promoted from brown belt to black belt in a small cere-

mony Monday morning at Rogers’ Open Air Dojo on East Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

“It was a lot of hard work to get here,” Thomas said. “But overall, I feel good. It was a tough road to get here and I’m happy that I made it.”

The promotion came nine days after Thomas fought in the Pan American Internationals in Miami and placed third overall in sparring in the 18-34 Advanced division. He has now earned 35 awards in his three-plus years of intense training.

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Jeremiah Epps When the Plant City Dolphins Midgets team needed big plays and touchdowns in the Nov. 17 Superbowl, Jeremiah Epps answered the call. The quarterback scored all three rushing touchdowns in the Dolphins’ 22-16 win over the East Bay Bucs, which completed the team’s championship three-peat.

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Thomas’s story last made the news in November 2016, shortly after he earned his brown belt.

The Plant City man grew up dreaming about training in karate but never got the opportunity until 2015. He had developed a reputation for being a tough, inyour-face martial artist — hence the nickname Rogers gave him — but also for his willingness to provide for his family. Thomas works long hours at Walmart to help support his mother as she battles an illness, support his brother as he attends Florida A&M University and raise his young son. He competes in four to five tournaments per year and hopes to one day get weekends off work so he can compete more often.

For Thomas, earning his new rank Monday morning was further proof that good things can come to those who stay patient and work hard, no matter how long it takes.

“Never give up on something that you want in life,” Thomas said.

Thomas hopes to compete in Chicago in early 2019 and keep his success streak going. Since he often found himself fighting above rank as a brown belt, he already knows what he’s in for as a black belt. In the distant future, probably a few years from now, he hopes to both keep advancing in his own training and open his own school.

“I love working with kids,” Thomas said. “I’ll give it about a year or two, maybe three, give me

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What’s your favorite thing about playing football?

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How long have you been playing?

Since I was 4.

What made you start playing?

My mom.

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Basketball.

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“It was a lot of hard work to get here. But overall, I feel good. It was a tough road to get here and I’m happy that I made it.”

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No matter what the future may hold for Thomas, the “Rhino” will keep charging forward.

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Kenneth O’Bryan McDonald

Kenneth O’Bryan McDonald, 76, of Plant City, born on June 11, 1942, entered into eternal rest on Nov. 13, 2018.

He was a third generation Springhead pioneer family, 1959 graduate of Plant City High School, member of Plant City First Baptist Church and former member of Lone Oak Baptist Church and Westside Baptist Church where he served as a deacon and managed the church bus ministry. He had a long career in steel fabrication and was the owner of Kenneth O. McDonald Steel. He loved his family and enjoyed living

life, fishing, joking and telling stories.

He is survived by his ex-wife, Anita McDonald; children Bryan McDonald, Jr. (Mary Rose) of Moore, Oklahoma, Glenn McDonald of Plant City, Kary Andrews (Art) of Riverview, Teresa Dean (Clayton) of Plant City, and Denise Mobley (David) of Plant City; grandchildren, Heidi, Jon, Calvin, Kurtis, Tiffany, Dylan, Shane, Taylor, Austin, Mitchell, Mason, and Madison; 8 great-grandchildren; siblings, Dot Richardson, and Billy McDonald, both of Plant City; and many loving nieces, nephews, family and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Wilmer and Mabel Pollard McDonald; and siblings, Hilda Wise, and Charles, Edwin, and Terry McDonald.

A funeral service was held on Nov. 20 at Plant City First Baptist Church.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2018

THURSDAY, NOV. 22

THANKSGIVING FAMILY LUNCH OUTREACH 11 a.m. at Faith Lighthouse Church, 3409 Paul Buchman Highway. Any college students, a single person, couples or small families who don’t have a place to go are welcome to join. Contact the church office for more information at 813752-1885 or by emailing info@ mylighthouse.church.

LIGHTS OF WINTER 2018 6 p.m. at 3212 Bella Garden Lane. Lights of Winter's sixth annual Christmas light show will feature 14 songs and new display elements like characters that sing along to the music.

The show kicks off on Thanksgiving night and runs through

Jan. 2. The shows run from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

There is also a Winterland and Nativity scene.

PLANT CITY SOCIAL DANCE 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Strawberry Square, 4401 Promenade Blvd.

The dance will be $6.

MASTERS FAMILY CHRISTMAS 8 p.m. at 2329 Jim Johnson Road. This year features two homes and more than 50,000 lights. The free display is timed to music on 88.3 FM.

SATURDAY, NOV. 24

NIGHTS OF SHIMMERING LIGHTS 6 to 9 p.m. at 2302 N. Dover Road. It’s partnered with SunKissed Acres to have a series of events unique to Tampa Bay. The Shimmering Lights is a quarter-mile walking trail through lights timed to music.

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BEST BET THURSDAY, NOV. 22

FREE THANKSGIVING MORNING CLASS 9 a.m. at The Koa Yoga Studio, 2806 James L. Redman

Parkway. Join Colleen for a fun morning flow that builds heat and gets you ready for your holiday indulgence. All levels of experience are welcome. Visit thekoayoga.com for more information.

BINGO AT THE LEGION 6:30 to 10 p.m. at the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 26, 2207 W. Baker St. Every Saturday cards go on sale at 5 p.m. and bingo starts at 6:30 p.m.

THURSDAY, NOV. 29

RETRO MOVIE NIGHT: PETER PAN 6:33 to 8:33 p.m. Krazy Kup hosts its free Retro Movie Night.

This month it is featuring Peter Pan. Kick back, relax and enjoy your favorite classic movies.

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Alan Gambrell spotted this blue heron at Walden Lake while out with his camera.

“Not sure if he’s looking for food or admiring his reflection in the water,” Gambrell wrote on his Instagram post. He wins this week’s I Love Plant City photo contest.

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