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‘Completing’ the street Portion of Collins Street redesign puts Plant City on the road to safer streets. SEE PAGE 3.
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Spooky tunes and festive treats were bountiful at the food truck rally downtown. SEE PAGE 12
Chamber’s annual bowling tourney The Plant City Chamber of Commerce held its annual bowling tournament Oct. 26 at Family Bowl. There were 12 teams at the event, many of whom came in matching t-shirts, tutus and even sumo wrestling outfits. The cost was $150 per team or $40 for individual players. T Clayton Jenkins Construction Co, Inc. was the official ball return sponsor and Raulerson Castillo & Company — CPA’s and Consultants and Walden Lake Car Wash and Service Center were lane sponsors. South Florida Baptist Hospital won first place and Community Care Center won second place. Jarrett-Scott Ford won Best of the Worst and Hillsborough Title won Best Dressed Team for their sumo outfits. HCC Plant City Campus won the worst team score trophy and Jarrett-Scott Ford won Best Team Score.
Plant City wins planning and design award The Hillsborough County CityCounty Planning Commission awarded Plant City Right. Now. with the 35th annual Planning & Design Award in the investment category. The event was held Oct. 19 at TPepin’s Hospitality Centre. A news release said the judges loved the “visionary approach to economic development and the impressive progress” the group made in a short period of time.
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Irma forces MLK Center renovations Damage from the storm exacerbated existing issues, causing a closure and renovation. DANIEL FIGUEROA IV STAFF WRITER
If you could turn back time Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 5, so don’t forget to turn your clocks back one hour before going to bed Saturday night, and enjoy that extra hour of sleep. Daylight saving time will begin again March 11.
Hurricane Irma’s winds and rains may have long passed, but at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center, the powerful storm’s effects will be felt going into the new year. As far as city-owned facilities go, the MLK Center was hit the hardest. Issues with mold and water infiltration that were seen as minor and manageable in the decades-old building were heightened in the days following the storm’s strike. Four days passed before the rec center was able to get power back. Four days during
which moisture was trapped in the building, saturating ceiling tiles and acting as an incubator for mold. The city had planned to reopen the center Sept. 18, the week after the storm, when staff noticed the issue. “We were gearing up to get back going when we realized the problem and said, ‘nope,’” Recreation and Parks Director Jack Holland said. “(The storm) set up the perfect environment for this stuff.” It’s a pretty major problem, according to Assistant City Manager Bill McDaniel, but one he said the city is on top of. “Everybody makes use of that building,” McDaniel said. “We need to get it back up ASAP.” Most adult classes at the center had to be canceled, but youth programs, like the after-school program, relocated nearly 40 children to the PlanDaniel Figueroa IV
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Annual fishing derby The Plant City Recreation & Parks Department is celebrating 20 years of “keeping kids fishing” in Plant City. The semi-annual fall youth fishing derby is Nov. 4 and is open for children age 5 to 15. On-site registration runs from 7:30 to 8:15 a.m. The derby is located at Plant City Stadium’s back parking lot, off of Gordon Food Service Drive. Attendees will fish until 10:30 a.m. and prizes will be awarded for the first catfish and bass caught, as well as for the largest single fish by weight and most fish caught. Children must have their own pole, bait and a five-gallon bucket to hold the fish, and they must be accompanied by an adult.
Thursday November 9, 2017 6 PM to 9 PM Bruton Memorial Library, Community Room.
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Christmas Lane is returning Nov. 24 to the Florida Strawberry Festival grounds. Lane Wetherington created the extensive Christmas light festival in 1984 at his home in Dover. It soon outgrew his property and relocated in 2015 to the Strawberry Festival where there is room for the 40,000 guests that attend. The decorations include over 1.5 million lights and this year there will be several new displays, an extended menu at concessions as well as new carnival rides. Living Nativities will continue to be presented each Thursday and Saturday by local churches
and there will be ongoing nonperishable goods drive for the United Food Bank of Plant City. Local performers will provide live entertainment and Fritzy the One Man Circus will return with his fire eating, stilt walking and juggling. There will be photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus as well as characters like Rudolph, Frosty and the Elves. A KidZone will feature face painting, letters to Santa and ornament decorating. Tickets are $5 for age 13 and up, $3 for ages four to 12 and free for ages three and under. Special admission will be offered for active and former military, senior citizens, youth sports players, law enforcement, teachers and first responders.
Strawberry Youth Parade applications now available The Strawberry Youth Parade applications are available on the Florida Strawberry Festival’s website. The theme for the 2018 parade is “Building New Memories.” The 45th annual Youth Parade will take place 11 a.m March 3. and will tune up at the State Farmers Market on the corner of Martin Luther King Blvd. and Alexander St. The award ceremony will be at 12:30 p.m. at the Stingray Entertainment Tent at the Strawberry Festival grounds. Prizes will go for the best club/group float, the best church float, the best marching unit and the best band entry.
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Collins Street is about to get a trendy makeover. Plans to turn Collins Street and a portion of James L. Redman Parkway into a shared-use roadway, or Complete Street, have moved from concept to creation as the first portion of the two-mile project is fully funded and undergoing its final design. Like many roads constructed since the post-World War II rise of interstate systems and increased automobile usage, Collins Street is heavily catered to automobile traffic. However, recent trends in urban planning have put a focus on creating roads with equal accessibility to all, whether they be drivers, cyclists, pedestrians or straphangers. “We’ve quite often designed our streets and roads to be auto-dominate,” Wiatt Bowers, senior transportation and land use planner with Atkins, said. “Complete Street doesn’t favor one (mode of transportation) over the other.” The Complete Street concept was born in the early ‘70s, but it wasn’t until the mid-aughts and the 2005 creation of the National Complete Street Coalition that advocacy for shared-use roadways began to enter a major spotlight. The plan to “complete” Collins Street, one of Plant City’s main arterial roadways, has been in the conceptual stages since the city asked the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to create a study of the street in 2013. That study and the conceptual designs for Collins Street were completed in October of 2013. The plan calls for a major overhaul of Collins and Redman from the intersection of Alexander Street and Redman Parkway, two miles north to Collins and Reynolds Street. When completed, it will be Plant City’s first Complete Street. The first section to be complete will be a stretch of Collins from Laura Street around Alsobrook street in the midtown district. According to City Engineer Mike Schenk, the project
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The intersection of Alexander Street and James L. Redman Parkway could one day have gateway monuments signaling an entrance into the city’s urban zones.
has moved from the concept phase to being designed, with a proposal expected to reach the city commission in the next 30-to-60 days. The project’s first phase is being funded with $700,000 the Florida Department of Transportation paid to Plant City as part of the deal to swap control of Alexander Street (from city to state) and Collins (from state to city) and $750,000 secured from the Florida Legislature for the project. While the $1.45 million revamp only represents about 25% of the total project length, it’s expected to be the most labor-intensive portion of the project. Schenk said the city plans to move power lines underground, freeing up space for wider walkways, bike lanes and on-street parking. The street will also undergo a “road diet,” Bowers said, reducing the number of vehicle travel lanes in the area. In addition to enhancing the roads to accommodate all modes of travel, the design of the Complete Street brings a thematic identity to the road using specific materials and signage, gateways to mark transitions into different parts of the city and streetscaping, including the addition of medians and landscaping to separate sections of the road. Plant City’s railroad history was taken into account in the aesthetics for the project, incorporating lots of brick and steel to keep with design elements already established in midtown’s Village Green Park.
“It will be an attractive street that really compliments what’s been going on in the area,” Schenk said. The design also incorporates elements of the long-term plans to enhance Plant City’s pedestrian and bicycle facilities. It even got a nod for safety from the MPO’s Vision Zero project manager, Gena Torres. Vision Zero is an international effort to reduce road fatalities to zero. Hillsborough County is consistently ranked among the worst in the country for road safety. Plans like the Collins Street project, Torres said, can help change that. “That one in particular is a great example of a strategy that will get us towards zero fatalities on our road ways,” Torres said. “It’s a great example of the type of project that can help reduce those types of fatalities and injuries.” With the final plans nearing completion and funding secure, Schenk said construction should begin by early to mid-2018 and take nine to 12 months to complete. Other sections of Collins will continue to be updated as funding is secured. Getting that first portion of the project started within five years of concept designs, however, is remarkable, Bowers said. “I’ve worked on projects with a 20 to 30-year shelf life that have had no implementation,” he said. “A substantial portion, a strong part, could be implemented by 2018. That’s impressive.”
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Fighting for food justice BREANNE WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER
Plant City joined thousands of other towns across the country in the annual Food Day, a day dedicated to enjoying real food and pushing for improved food policies. The Plant City Commons Community Garden hosted its annual potluck Sunday in honor of the event. Guest brought non-GMO, organic food and participated in an open dialogue about fighting toward a healthier diet and food justice issues, like those
regarding farm workers, animal rights and the environment. Karen Bornstine, president of the community garden, said attendees stepped up their game this year and brought items like sweet potato and red lentil chili, blueberry cobbler, a seasonal variety of beans in the shape of a rainbow and non-GMO organic nachos. “The potluck makes people be aware of what they’re cooking, what ingredients they use and where they get them,” Bornstine said. “On that end of it, the potluck is kind of impor-
tant. We had a really nice open dialogue right after we ate about Food Day and food justice and I was pleasantly energized by the participation in that conversation.” In 2015, more than 8,000 events took place across the country with celebrations ranging from small potlucks, like here in Plant City, to panel discussions with experts on food justice. The event began as a response to the growing rate of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other diet-related health problems in the U.S. The goal is to have a day focused on learning how to affordably eat healthy food in order to jump start a year-long journey toward a revitalized diet. Bornstine said there is a common misconception that protein and meat are exclusively the same thing. She
said part of the purpose of food day was to tackle that mindset, to let people know that there are an abundance of ways one can get the nutrients they need from less conventional resources. She said they are in no way saying you have to live a vegetarian lifestyle, but to simply be more aware of what you’re eating, the quantity you’re consuming and where that food came from. “I had an encounter at a restaurant recently where I had ordered a Greek salad, which usually has some kind of cheese on it, and the server asked me if I wanted protein,” Bornstine said. “I told him ‘No thanks’ and he confusedly asked me how I would get enough protein. When I explained to him there was protein in cheese he said he had never thought of that and
he was probably in his early 30s.” The Plant City Community Garden has been working to provide food education and healthier resources for years. It dedicates the produce from multiple barrels to organizations like the United Food Bank of Plant City and local churches that feed the homeless and those in need. It also is in the process of partnering with the Lions Club so their high school chapters, the Leos, can use barrels at the garden to grow food for charity focused entities in Plant City. Bornstine said Food Day is just one of the many ways she hopes the garden can give back to the community. Next year, she said she hopes even more residents will attend so they can further the conversation on pursuing a healthy lifestyle.
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teen Recreation Center. Efforts to repair the building are quickly underway and a high priority for McDaniel. He said the repairs to the center could cost between $150,000 and $250,000. The building now needs to be analyzed by experts and bid out to contractors before a price will be finalized and a plan presented to the City Commission. McDaniel said he is pushing to have it reopened in 90 days. “I’ll probably be told we can’t do it, but we’re going to try,” he said. “It’s a pretty tall order.” It’s not for a lack of wanting the center back up, but an issue of bad timing, McDaniel said. In general, construction timelines can be quite fluid, with the addition of the coming holiday season, weeks of potential work time could be lost. In the meantime, the city has already come up with contingency plans for events scheduled at the MLK Rec Center. The annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Festival will still be held on the center’s grounds, just not inside the building, with some portions of the festival to be held at Marshall Middle School. Holland said February’s Black Heritage Festival is looking to relocate downtown. McDaniel and Holland said they’d be shocked if the rec center was still closed in 160 days, but 120 could be more realistic than the ambitious 90-day plan. Whatever the timeline, getting the doors open to the Lincoln Park community hub will be a priority, holiday season or not. “It’s an ASAP matter no matter what,” Holland said.
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Permits from CSX to work under and along the railroad have stalled the Sam Allen project, but are expected to come in before the Nov. 15 deadline.
the growing quadrant while the road is already under construction. If the city waits on the project, it could be seven years or more until FDOT would okay putting utilities under such a new road. Moving the $6 million it’s been estimated the utility work will cost into an FDOT controlled account isn’t altogether risky, McDaniel said, just not ideal. McDaniel said Buchman fought for Plant City to have shared ownership of the account with FDOT, but they wouldn’t budge. "The city attorney and I are not totally excited about handing over 6 million-plus dollars to the DOT but they are good partners. They are reliable," Interim City Manager Kim Leinbach told the city commission Oct. 23. "They may be a little slow to work with at times, but I think that's going to be the deal. Either we allow that to happen or the deal is off." Moving the money should, however, be one of the last hurdles the project faces. Plant City was first presented with the idea of widening Sam Allen Road as part of the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization’s five-year plan in 2007. It wasn’t until the last days of 2013, though, that the city was able to enter an agreement with FDOT to complete utility work concurrent with the road project. The project was then stalled for more than two years as inclusion of a since-abandoned noise wall was
debated and reactivated in 2016. Then came another stall as FDOT and Hillsborough County discussed details of the project, as the projects scope falls into county and state jurisdiction as well. After the year stall, it was activated again in March with FDOT telling the city to move ahead with obtaining permits from CSX for work needed to be completed beneath and along side CSX property. Those permits have proven to be an additional hurdle. The city is waiting for, and has been told they will receive, the necessary permits by Nov. 15. Without the permits, FDOT can remove more of the utility work from the scope of its project. However, FDOT is also waiting on CSX permits for its own work. “I’ve dealt with a lot of projects over my tenure,” Leinbach said. “This has turned out to be one of the more complicated ones.” In addition to utility work along Sam Allen as part of the FDOT project, the city is engaging in a project of its own to connect the new water treatment facility with the utilities along Sam Allen. According to the utilities department, utility extensions along Buchman Highway and Sam Allen Road will include 24 and 18-inch water mains, an 18-inch reclaimed water main and an eight-inch sewer force main. The finance department said the money should be transferred to the escrow account by mid-2018.
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There’s no negotiation. Plant City has two choices: give the Florida Department of Transportation $6 million to hold on to or wait what could be seven years before it can extend utility services along Sam Allen Road. “As it is right now, this is probably the best you’re going to get,” City Attorney Ken Buchman told the commission during its Oct. 23 meeting. While it’s not unusual to sequester a project’s full funding before it’s carried out, Plant City is usually in control of its own finances. However, the road widening project along Sam Allen Road slated to begin in 2018 is under FDOT jurisdiction and they say the money must be kept in an FDOT account. The oft-stalled Sam Allen Road widening project looks to change the road from two lanes to four between Park Road and Paul Buchman Highway, nearly completing the four-lane loop around the city commissioners have been trying to create for more than 20 years. Enhancing the road in the city’s northeast quadrant, as well as making sure utilities are connected to the quadrant, is a crucial footstep in preparing for Plant City’s growth, Assistant City Manager Bill McDaniel said. “It’s critical to the future because it allows us to sustain both the plan and some of the anticipated growth that will occur,” McDaniel said. “Anything else that gets filled in and annexed and targeted for development, this is also important to that.” The population in Plant City is expected to double in just over 20 years, with most of the growth expected in the northeast quadrant, according to the city’s Imagine 2040 comprehensive plan. By the end of 2018, a new water treatment plant is already slated to go up north of I-4 along Buchman Highway and south of Sam Allen Road, Utilities Director Lynn Spivey said. The road widening project is an opportunity for the city to enhance its connectivity to
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We asked: Who would you like to see perform at the Strawberry Festival?
“Matchbox Twenty. I love them. I follow Rob Thomas, I love Rob Thomas. They have a great band, a great personality. I’ve been to every concert and follow them everywhere.”
“Jimi Hendrix. He put on a phenomenal show. Once in a lifetime.”
“Reba McEntire. She’s my favorite.”
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“Bruno Mars. He’s cute.” — Paola Sandoval, 17
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Mosaic’s plant in Plant City can take mined phosphate like this and turn it into up to 2 million tons of fertilizer a year. The company announced Tuesday it will take the plant offline at the end of 2017 and keep it idle for at least a year.
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Mosaic to close plant at year’s end 2 million tons of fertilizer a year, the company said. “Our business performed well in the third quarter, notwithstanding the impacts of Hurricane Irma on our phosphates operations,” Mosaic president and chief executive officer Joc O’Rourke said on a conference call to announce the company’s thirdquarter earnings. “We are making the move in Florida for several reasons,” he said. “Plant City is the highest-cost facility amongst our Florida operations, and it requires a disproportionate amount of sustaining capital each year.” Idling the plant, he said, should help the company optimize capital investments and allow it to increase production at its most efficient Florida facilities to offset the tons produced at Plant City. And it also gives the company the option to re-open the Plant City plant if demand grows. “While these decisions are difficult and have impacts on our employees, today’s actions put Mosaic in a strong position to benefit as market dynamics improve,” O’Rourke said.
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Mosaic announced Tuesday it will close its Plant City fertilizer plant at the end of 2017 for at least a year to cut costs and improve profitability. The plant, on State Road 39 just south of the Hillsborough-Pasco county line, has a work force of 430. The company said it is offering 200 voluntary retirement incentive packages to its Florida employees and has created about 100 more open positions through a hiring freeze over the last several months. “The hope is to place as many of those impacted employees as possible in open positions in the company’s other facilities,” Mosaic spokeswoman Jackie Barron said. Mosaic has Florida operations in Hillsborough, Polk, Manatee and Hardee counties. Those not placed elsewhere will receive a severance package based on, among other things, their number of years with the company and pay. The Plant City facility opened in 1965 and has the capacity to produce
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WORST COMMUTE EVER East Alsobrook Street/South Morgan Street. Strong-armed robbery: Complainant stated he was riding his bicycle home from work when two men stopped and robbed him. The suspects were located, identified and arrested. WINDOW PAIN 1300 block of West Risk Street. Criminal mischief: Complainant stated unknown suspect(s) broke one of their bedroom windows. The complainant, who reported having no problems with anyone, declined to pursue charges and signed a waiver of prosecution. LOCKS WOULD HELP 1300 block of North Gordon Street. Vehicle burglary: Complainant stated unknown suspect(s) stole a power tool from their vehicle, which had been left unlocked, sometime during the day.
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WEDDING BAND BLUES 3600 block of West Baker Street. Burglary: Complainant stated unknown suspect(s) entered their home on Oct. 21 and stole $600 and a gold wedding ring.
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TARGET PRACTICE Multiple locations. Criminal mischief: A complainant at the 1320 block of East Alsobrook Street stated unknown suspect(s) appeared to have shot BB rounds into her vehicle’s windshield overnight. An officer found three holes in the windshield caused by the pellets. Another complainant, at the 1600 block of East Alsobrook Street, told officers a truck belonging to a driver she employed had 18 BB rounds fired through its windshield over the weekend. TECH JUNKIE 1800 block of Greenwood Valley Drive. Vehicle burglary: Complainant stated unknown suspect(s) stole a backpack containing a GoPro video camera, a Samsung Galaxy smart phone and a computer charger from his vehicle on Oct. 22. The backpack was stolen from the passenger’s side of the vehicle, which the suspect(s) accessed through a window left open. The items were valued together at $505.
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LAUNDRY AND LARCENY 3100 block of Apostle Road. Residential burglary: Complainant stated unknown suspect(s) had stolen a Frigidaire washer and dryer set, valued at $1,200, from a home between 6 p.m. Oct. 23 and 9 a.m. Oct. 24.
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St. Peter’s Episcopal Church is shaking up its capital fund drive with a benefit dinner and concert that will offer tunes spanning from Bach to Broadway. Dick Grant, a renowned organist and member of St. Peter’s, will meld the past to the present in “An Evening with Dick Grant” on Nov. 11. “Dick Grant has done some recitals in the past in the area years ago and is truly talented and gifted,” Craig Davidson, a junior warden at St. Peter’s, said. “He has a unique ability to both explain in detail about each piece he’s doing in a rapid and understandable way and yet he’s very entertaining.” Guests will arrive at 6:30 p.m. and receive hors d’ oeuvres, beer and wine in the Wellington Garden and enjoy music from the Sentimental Journeymen, a Barbershop Chorus. A dinner of tossed salad, a beef tenderloin roast and more will be catered by Fred Johnson and Grant will perform after the meal. The concert is the latest fundraiser in the church’s $325,000 goal capital fund drive and aims to assist in the continued renovations of the church. Father Tom Thoeni, St. Peter’s priest, said the church is at the end of its four phase renovation project and is close to reaching the initial goal. St. Peter’s, who’s congregation formed in 1890, is one of the oldest churches in Plant City. In 1908, the group built a church downtown where city hall is now located. As the members began to outgrow the church a plan was formed to move to a larger location. But the congregation refused to leave their building behind. So in 1953, members physically moved the building down the street to where it lies today, making it the oldest congregation that is still worshiping in its original building. Though it
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Above: Children play games at the Improvement League’s Fall Festival. Left:: Drew Stackhouse and pastor Scott McIntosh at City Pointe’s festival.
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Faith Assembly of God’s trunk or treat rocked on despite the rain.
Attendees at City Pointe Church’s Fall Festival took part in Jedi Training, using lightsabers to battle Jedis.
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Faith Assembly of God held a trunk-ortreat for members of the community and offered games and free food for the holidays. Children played in bounce houses, threw footballs and collected candy. The dreary weather didn’t dissuade the festivities and many in attendance simply broke out umbrellas when it began to rain and kept on playing the games.
The Improvement League of Plant City hosted its annual fall festival at the Bing Rooming House Museum on Saturday for members of the community. There were games, free food, face painting, music and more. Children showed up in costumes and joined the adults in a night of fun, despite the drizzly weather.
Children made paper plate pumpkins at the YMCA’s fall festival Saturday night.
Scott McIntosh, pastor of City Pointe Church, said he reached out to the city and asked what section of town was in need of some help. They directed him to Burchwood Park, near where McIntosh grew up. “Rather than say ‘Hey all you guys come to us’ we decided to take all the good stuff to this neighborhood,” McIntosh said. “We’re just loving on our community.” The church had a trunk-or-treat, free food, balloon animals and a pumpkin chunking contest. FALL HARVEST AT FAITH ASSEMBLY OF GOD
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Left: Once the sun set, attendees showed off their dance moves at the Mobile DJ truck. Below: T-Mobile brought a truck full of merchandise and offered free corn hole for attendees.
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Left: Photo opportunities were set up throughout downtown for the event. Right: The Phantom of the Opera made an appearance and entered the costume contest.
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All A Bloom Florist won first place in the mild chili category as well as Best Decorated Table.
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The Plant City Times and Observer took home People’s Choice and second place in the spicy category.
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CLASSROOM GALLERY ART EXHIBIT RECEPTION 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. This is the fifth exhibit for the Gallery and will feature artist Dan Lewis, a graduate of Turkey Creek High. Lewis will display his latest work featuring landscapes, waterscapes and trains. The gallery is at 1914 Plant City High School Community Center, 605 N. Collins St. The reception is open to the public and light refreshments will be served.
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MAC & CHEESE FEST 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Plant City Mac & Cheese Fest will be held at Big Dog’s Patio, 103 N. Palmer Street. Food Trucks and restaurants will be serving their best Mac & Cheese and dessert dishes as well as feature a specialty menu. There will be a pet tent and water bowls throughout the event. A rock wall, shark tank, bounce houses, face painting and more will be available. The Skylar Clark Band will perform from 2 to 5 p.m. There will also be full liquor bars on site. For more information email grilledcheesepromotions@ gmail.com
THE FLORIDA OPRY 6 to 9 p.m. The Florida Opry is held at 1914 Plant City High School Community Center, 605 N. Collins St. The Gator Creek Band and Jonathan Dais will perform some crowd favorites and Master of Ceremonies Randy Scott will bring his favorite music to open the show. Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for students.
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WILSON ELEMENTARY VETERANS DAY PROGRAM 8:15 to 9 a.m. Wilson Elementary is inviting local veterans to come and be honored by students. There will be patriotic songs, poems and writings. Parking is available at the front of the school, 702 W. English St. For more information call Principal Gina Becker at 813-757-9307 ext. 222. COMMUNITY FORUM WITH DISTRICT 58 CANDIDATES 6 to 9 p.m. A community forum is being held at the Bruton Memorial Library in the Community Room for the candidates of the State Representative Special Election for District 58. Come meet the candidates and hear them outline their platforms. The forum is sponsored by the Improvement League of Plant City. For more information, email C.L. Townsend at cltownsend1016@ gmail.com.
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DANCING WITH THE LOCALS 6:30 p.m. Dancing with the Locals is held at the Trinkle Center, 1206 Cherry Street. This is the 10th anniversary of the event and there will be a live auction.
ONGOING BINGO AT THE AMERICAN LEGION 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. every Saturday. Papers sold and kitchen opens at 5 p.m. Bingo is 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Plant City American Legion is located at 2207 W. Baker St. GRIEF SHARE CLASS 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Hope Lutheran Church is hosting a grief share class series. The course will be a seminar and a support group for those grieving the loss of someone close. Each session includes a video and group discussion. Both the morning and the evening session will be identical. To register for either or for more information contact Rev. Dean Pfeffer at 813-752-4622.
DIABETES PREVENTION CLASS 16 WEEK SERIES 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays at the United Food Bank of Plant City, 702 E Alsobrook St # H. UFB is hosting a diabetes prevention class, which will be taught by registered dietitians and health educators. The series is free to the public. Registration is required. Contact 813-3078015 Ext. 7111. PAINTING WITH BETTY FAIRBANKS AT THE CLASSROOM GALLERY Takes place from 1 to 3 p.m. Fridays at the 1914 Plant City High School Community Center, 605 N. Collins St. The cost is $20 per class. Bring own supplies and references to learn about color theory, design and
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The 49th annual Plant City Recreation and Parks Department/Optimist Youth Basketball season begins in early January and registration is now underway. To join the league, which has divisions for boys, girls and co-ed teams, youths must be between age 8 and 16 as of March 1, 2018. The divisions for 2018 are co-ed 8-9, boys 10-11, girls 10-12, boys 12-13, girls 13-15 and boys 14-16. The season runs from January through late February and games are played at the Plant City Family YMCA, Marshall and Tomlin middle schools. The 8 and 9 year olds will mostly play on Saturdays and older age groups will mostly play on weeknights. The department is also looking for coaches for the league. Registration costs $35 per person, which covers insurance, jersey and other league expenses. Birth certificates are required to provide proof of age. Register on-site or mail the form and payment to the Plant City Recreation and Parks Department administrative office, 1904 S. Park Road, by 4:30 p.m. Nov. 15. The form may be downloaded and printed from PlantCityGov.com. For more information, call 813-659-4255 or email RecInfo@plantcitygov.com.
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The annual Mother-Son Bowling Bash will get rolling Nov. 11, and registration is now open. Mothers (or mother figures) and sons age 3 and up are invited to Plant City Family Bowl, 2250 U.S. Highway 92 E., to bowl, eat pizza, take a keepsake photo and spend quality time together beginning at 11 a.m. Registration, which will be accepted through Nov. 10, costs $30 per group and $10 per person for additional guests. Only 65 spots are available, so the department says registration could close early if all spots are filled quickly. Registration may be done on-site at the Planteen Recreation Center, 301 Dort St. For more information, or to sponsor the event, contact Maggie Morona at 813-259-4256 or MMorona@plantcitygov.com.
The 4A, Region 2 swimming finals will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday at the North Shore Aquatic Center, 901 N. Shore Drive N.E., St. Petersburg. The diving finals will be held at 2 p.m. today at Northeast High School, 5500 16th St. N., St. Petersburg. These Chargers will compete in today’s and Saturday’s events: BOYS: n Zane Richardson (200 medley relay, 200 free relay, 100 free, 100 breast) n Kasen Van Fossen (200 medley relay, 200 free relay, 50 free, 100 free) n Rob Haywood (200 medley relay, 400 free relay, 200 individual medley, 100 breast) n Bryce McCool (200 medley relay, 200 free relay, 100 back) n Abdiel Rosario (200 free relay, 400 free relay n Reese Dixon (400 free relay) n J.P. Prescott (400 free relay)
Meet PCHS winter teams Plant City High School is teaming up with the Improvement League of Plant City, Raider Champions and Safe and Sound of Hillsborough for “Meet the Winter Teams Night.” From 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 11, people can visit the PCHS gymnasium to meet and greet the school’s basketball and soccer players, wrestlers and competitive cheerleaders. Coaches will speak about their programs and the teams will run some drills for the audience. The intent of the free event, according to the groups, is to “help bridge the gap between the youth sports programs and high school varsity sports as well as to cast a vision of being responsible citizens by mentoring to our younger generation.”
Celi Guzman hopes to end her high school career with a trip to states.
GIRLS: n Adrienne Flott (diving) n Celi Guzman (200 medley relay, 400 freestyle relay, 100 back, 100 fly) n Alexandra Haasser (200 medley relay, 400 free relay, 50 free, 100 breast) n Emily Scimeca (200 medley relay) n Melanie Flott (200 medley relay, 400 free relay) n Indira Alur (400 free relay)
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When the swimming and diving regular season ended Oct. 10, Celi Guzman felt she finally achieved one of her biggest goals. “I’m not leaving Crest until we have an undefeated season,” Guzman had told her coaches. Now, she said, she can “leave in peace.” Strawberry Crest pulled off a double whammy this season, the first time in school history that both the boys and girls swimming teams finished undefeated. It was also the first time the girls team, now coached by Amanda Linton, was perfect and won Western Conference. “It feels great,” Guzman, a University of Florida commit, said. “I feel like this year we had a lot more positivity on the team. Everyone was getting behind each other. Everyone was cheering each other on. It really influenced us, getting into our races and racing hard.” Twelve Crest swimmers and divers, the highest total in program history, will head into the regional tournament today and tomorrow hoping to make the cut for next week’s state championships. Getting to this point took plenty of hard work, but the swimmers have been up for it. “It’s a very high-level team and if you want to be able to swim, you have to work your butt off and make sure you’re the fastest,” senior Zane Richardson said. “If you’re not the fastest, you’ve got to make sure you keep working hard so that you can compete.” The coaches and swimmers credit some new additions to the team with being the catalysts for improvement. Linton, a second-year head coach who made her Strawberry Crest debut this season, said working with the girls was a great experience from the start. “Seeing the camaraderie amongst these kids and how quickly they enveloped me … I had swimmers coming to my door and they’re like, ‘Hey, coach Linton,’” she said. “I was like, ‘Hi, I don’t know who you are,’ and they’re like, ‘We’re your swimmers.’ I hadn’t even worked with them yet.” Linton credits boys head coach Paul Bonanno, who coached both teams in 2016, with bringing the girls up to their current level. Bonanno, who also oversees the school’s culinary program, said Linton’s smooth transition to Crest made his own coaching experience more productive. “I remember after swim season last year, I was literally dead … now I feel like I’ve finally settled in,” Bonanno said. “It’s been great. It’s been a learning process for me and a growing process for all of us.” The program also made a stronger commitment to diving in 2017. Though that part of the sport isn’t nearly as prevalent in Hillsborough County as swimming, Bonanno and Linton felt there were too many points being left on the table to not add some divers to the roster. “There’s a lot of points attached to (diving), especially in regular meets,” Bonanno said. “When you do things like Western Conference and districts and you don’t have those dive points added, it’s almost impossible to be a contender.” SEE SWIMMING PAGE 17
GAME OF THE WEEK : ARMWOOD AT DURANT
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Tonight’s game against the Hawks could make — or break — Durant’s playoff hopes. JUSTIN KLINE SPORTS/ASSOCIATE EDITOR
With a possible playoff spot on the line, the deck appears stacked against Durant this week. Last Friday’s 21-15 loss to Bloomingdale not only hurt the Cougars’ playoff chances, but it also hurt star running back Cameron Myers.
The senior, whose 1,712 rushing yards were the second-most in the state, fractured his collarbone during the game and may not be able to finish the season. What’s more, the Cougars are in a must-win situation against one of the most fearsome teams in Florida. Armwood, fighting for the top overall seed, has been playing inspired, efficient football all season. Its defense hasn’t allowed more than seven points since the season opener against Tampa Bay Tech, when it held one of the best offenses in Class 7A to 12 points. Last week, senior running back Brian Snead led the Hawks’ offense to a 28-point effort against Hillsborough, another defense with a
strong reputation. Durant does have home-field advantage this week, though that hasn’t always helped — two of the Cougars’ three losses, both coming in the last two weeks, were at the Ron Frost Athletic Complex. With Myers likely to spend this game on the sideline, Durant’s runheavy attack should feature more Kevontae Crews and Tyrhon Brooks than usual. Fullback David Tabakovic, second on the team with 594 yards and nine touchdowns heading into last week’s action, could also see an increased workload. The senior has SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 17
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averaged 6.5 yards per carry, recorded two games with over 100 yards rushing and has flashed the ability to make long runs (including a season long run of 52 yards). The loss of Myers also takes away one of quarterback Carlton Potter’s favorite targets. Potter, who had linked up with Myers for 140 of his 662 passing yards before last week, may also see a greater workload than usual against the Hawks with the team’s most consistently productive running back sidelined. The FHSAA’s playoff point standings have Durant less than one point out of eighth place with a 34.11 average. The Cougars appeared to hold
the playoff 7 seed heading into last week’s game but, with their loss and St. Petersburg’s win over South Sumter, the Green Devils were able to vault Durant in the standings and put the Cougars on the bubble. A win over Armwood would net Durant the maximum 50 points, whereas a loss would count for 30. Winning would likely hand Durant the playoff 8 seed. A loss, worth 30 points, could allow Bloomingdale — currently the 8 seed with a 34.89 average — to clinch the final spot. Going up against such a tough team, the Cougars are hoping the game plays out more like their upset win over Jesuit than the Oct. 20 loss to Tampa Bay Tech. The one thing for certain is that this game will be the greatest test yet for this Durant team in terms of overcoming adversity.
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STRAWBERRY CREST The Chargers will wrap up 2017 with a home game against a Chamberlain team in the hunt for a playoff spot. Last week, the Chargers were able to please the fans in Dover with a 9-6 win over Lennard. Jarrett Rappe and Jamar Hart connected on a fade route for Crest’s lone touchdown of the night, and a safety on Lennard helped seal the deal. Meanwhile, the Chiefs hosted Brandon and cruised to a 42-15 win. Quarterback Tyler Riddell threw for 255 yards and two touchdowns, and Yashin Wooten led the running backs with 154 rushing yards and one touchdown.
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Senior Ryan Karczewski, a fouryear swimmer, learned to dive in the offseason and nearly made the cut for regionals. Adrienne Flott, a freshman, has qualified for regionals and is set to compete at 2 p.m. today. “We have our strong foundation with swim,” Bonanno said. “Now we want to get the ‘and diving’ portion of it and really be a district and regional contender.” Expectations for the Chargers are high, especially in the individual
You played well on Friday and helped the team win at home for the first time in over four seasons. How does it feel to break another losing streak? It feels good, especially making it a homecoming game and being at the end of my senior season. It feels good. What was the reaction like around school? Every student at the game saw something they’d never seen before. They were all super excited for us and really happy that we finally did something, I guess. Their words — not mine. How did you guys feel going into the game? It kind of felt like any other game, for the most part, but I felt more of a vibe from the fans because it was homecoming. I felt like we were
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Kagan Lioy Strawberry Crest linebacker Kagan Lioy didn’t put up monster numbers on the stat sheet last Friday night, but stats don’t tell the whole story. Lioy, a senior, had one of those games where all the little things go right and add up to a bigger result: Lennard’s offense couldn’t do almost anything it wanted to do and the Chargers were able to take advantage of that. Know someone who deserves an Athlete of the Week feature? Email Justin Kline at jkline@plantcityobserver.com by the Friday before the next issue.
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“We don’t have to really push them,” Linton said. “They’re all super motivated and have the desire to be the champions that they are.”
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It looks like things are starting to turn around for Crest football. How do you feel about where things are going from here? I feel happy about our future. Everyone’s attitude’s changing towards Crest. I can see Crest moving up in the future. When did you start playing football? I played half a season when I was in fifth grade, so I don’t know how old I was then. That was a while ago. I didn’t play again until I was in eighth grade … I was living in Mississippi for my fifth grade (season), but I played with the (Antioch) Redskins in
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nly one of our three area high school football teams won its game last Friday night. If we’re talking about the big picture, not just this season, I’d say it was the team that most needed it. For the first time since they started high school, Strawberry Crest students got to see the Chargers win at home in the regular season. I said before the season I was hoping to be there for this losing streak to end, so I’m really glad I went to Dover last week. Crest’s defense played well throughout the game, holding the Longhorns to 54 passing and 82 rushing yards. Most importantly, the Chargers kept running back Corey Freeman in check, holding him to 63 yards one week after the junior tore up Gaither’s defense for nearly 200. I thought Crest running back Zane Tapper did a good job with a hefty workload. He didn’t score Crest’s touchdown but came about as close as you can get — he punched one in from three yards out following a nice drive, but it was wiped out by an offensive holding call. Jarrett Rappe threw his first touchdown pass of October, a ball floated into the left side of the end zone and hauled in with a great effort by Jamar Hart. It was clearly a confidence-booster for both players, who continued to play well down the stretch. My favorite moment of the game had nothing to do with any offensive or defensive play, though. I’d never seen an animal invade the gridiron in a high school game until that night when a southeastern pocket gopher somehow found its way into Crest’s defensive backfield. It was amusing to watch the secondary’s players jumping around the gopher and freaking out as it scampered through the grass, then Kagan Lioy calmly walks over and scoops it up like it wasn’t his first rodeo.
I had no idea what a southeastern pocket gopher was until coach Ron Hawn showed me his Google research. Seeing its long tail, I figured it was a weird-looking rat. I wish today’s teens were familiar with Caddyshack. Maybe the gopher was a good-luck charm for Crest. Not long after Lioy set it free in a patch of grass past the home bleachers, Lennard attempted what would have been the gametying field goal from Crest’s 20-yard line and missed. The Chargers were then able to eat up the clock and secure the win. Everyone involved with the program can be happy with last week’s CFC037149 effort. With at least two wins this year, plus the preseason win over Seminole, it looks like Crest is finally starting to turn things around out in Dover. I’m excited to see how things play out for this team going forward.
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