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Blastoff ! SPACEcraft Launches in Gulfport SPACEcraft – an interactive traveling art project that exists between two 40-foot cargo shipping containers – lands in Gulfport’s Clymer Park on Saturday, June 26.

The shipping containers are loaded with art and interactive activities, and function as public workshop spaces for a rotating queue of creators and teachers.

“I think a lot of people don’t consider themselves artists in the traditional sense,” said Mitzi Gordon, one of the three women who dreamed up SPACEcraft. “But creativity is part of human nature.”

Both containers, themed “Make and Play” and “Read and Grow,” travel independently through cities in Pinellas in a county-funded project brought to life by Creative Pinellas and in partnership with the Gulfport Arts Center.

Clymer Park will host Make and Play, the creation-based and performance centered theme, from June until August. The public has the chance to attend free sessions on Thursdays and Saturdays from 6 to 8 p.m.

Gordon, along with artists Car-

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A young visitor gets creative on a giant outdoor Duplo-block wall, part of the SPACEcraft traveling art project set to visit Gulfport's Clymer Park this summer.

rie Boucher and Bridget Elmer, pitched the concept to Creative Pinellas in 2019, and after a green light from the county, the project was set to begin in Oldsmar,

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An instructor-led painting activity brings visitors together to design a collaborative mural at SPACEcraft, an interactive art experience opening in Clymer Park.

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“Sometimes things just don’t get off the launch pad when you want them to,” Gordon said. “It’s just so incredible to me that we’ve gotten here.”

Steel Boxes In a nod to the consumerism of art, the mural-filled, colorful cargo containers once transported goods all over the world.

Environmentally and metaphorically, the containers are a practical

choice for the free public art program.

“There’s a surplus of these objects shipped here because it’s cheaper to keep them than send them back, and people are ultimately going to pick the cheaper option,” Gordon said. “Now there’s just this stockpile of steel boxes that I think a lot of people are trying to creatively reuse.”

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One day, visitors may participate in tarot card reading sessions, the next, they could learn the art of creating costumes.

“We’re trying to break away from just one definition of art,” Gordon said.

The Artists The faces on SPACEcraft’s front line include permanent and traveling artists, teachers, creators, musicians and storytellers who present their specific programs to visitors of all ages.

Visiting artist Britney Taft, a painter and elementary art education teacher at St. Petersburg’s Northwest Elementary School, creates community circle mural scenes with SPACEcraft visitors.

“Circle painting translates to all ages,” Taft said. “Everyone adds to the design and the idea is that we all add our own roles to the world and we all bring something different to the table.”

Her murals travel with the Make and Play container, seeing a new park every few months.

Permanent facilitators like Emily Stone, a fiber artist, revels in creating small, paper books with students on a regular basis.

“Who doesn’t love a little paper object that says, ‘I love you’?’’ Stone said.

If you’re visiting the Make and Play exhibit on one of the two operating days, chances are you’ll create one with Stone.

“I was not exposed to things like this at a young age because I’m from a small town in Southern Louisiana. As a queer woman and an artist, St. Pete quickly became home,” Stone said. “I didn’t even know I was an artist until I was 22 and was working in a gallery, and I never looked back.”

Stone’s journey has pushed her to forge a connection with the kids who visit the sites.

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At one location, she recalls a 13-year-old boy who started out in a paper-creating program with disdain, but left inspired.

“He was clearly in a very teenage state of mind, but this person did not want to put down what he was doing by the end of it,” Stone recalls. “I think about that kid and if I could have been exposed to art that young how it could have changed my whole trajectory.”

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“We provide just enough structure while creating,” Stone said. “It’s especially beautiful to see people with children be like ‘My child really responded to this open space.’”

The project will remain in Clymer Park through August, operating on Thursdays and Saturdays for two-hour increments.

ative project, Nomad Art Bus, a continuing volunteer-run program that brings pop-up artistic workshops to juvenile detention centers, foster homes, halfway houses and other places where access to creative resources can be lacking.

SPACEcraft’s approach differs from the Nomad Art Bus, but the premise of bringing artistic expression to unlikely spaces is the same.

According to Gordon, SPACEcraft’s journey to Gulfport marks a shift from other sites.

“Moving into Gulfport is significant and exciting,” Gordon said. “We’re excited to land in a community that is so

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While future landing spots are still to be announced, the shift in SPACEcraft’s flight plan could bring the project to areas that are more central to St. Petersburg.

“When we’d go to these more rural areas it really made me aware that public art should be spread everywhere,” Taft said. “With the art foundation Gulfport already has, this is going to be a really wonderful thing in a wonderful community.”

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Palmetto or Cabbage Palm?

Take your pick! In Florida, the state tree is called a palmetto. That same tree decorating the state flag of South Carolina is called a cabbage palm. According to Jono Miller, either is correct as a common name, but to botanists, both are sable palms.

In his new book, “The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm,” published by the University Press of Florida, Miller answers questions puzzling gardeners, botanists and landscapers for years.

“They’re both sabals….It’s a popular species with a wide variety of palms, including several Florida natives,” Miller said, as he explained his singular interest in all things palmetto.

Miller’s fascination began after his first glimpse of a palmetto, on his first visit to Florida as a child.

“The cabbage palm attracted me, and I loved Florida’s nature and habitat,” he said.

Miller attended New College in Sarasota, and stayed on to run the Environmental Studies program at the college, where he’s led many a field trip into the Florida wilds in search of palmetto groves to study the Southeast’s iconic tree.

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Are they a true tree? Or are they a grass, like bamboo? How long do they live? Are they worth keeping, or should we tear them out?

Palmettos are part of Florida’s pyrogenic ecosystem, surviving fires, just like the pines. They’re also a wonderful food source for wildlife, providing fruit (palm berries), shelter – the “bootjacks” (frond stubs left on the trunk) harbor all sorts of critters, and the hanging brown fronds may

house bats. And palmetto honey’s always a treat.

Fascination of Early Naturalists In his introduction, Miller explains his motives for such a book, quoting John Muir, who stressed that everything’s connected. Like many early naturalists who sang the praises of Florida’s unusual flora when experienced firsthand, Miller also fell under the palmetto’s spell.

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These Illustrations are sprinkled throughout the book, with photos showing palmettos in many settings, from swampy hammocks to the cheesecake 1959s bathing suit-clad beauty leaning against a palm. Even the landscape painter Winslow Homer featured cabbage palms in a painting of the St. John’s River.

Miller takes us on field trips from Key West to the Panhandle and up the Atlantic coast onto Virginia in search of cabbage palms. In his travels, he encounters many folks who help him answer questions and confirm his ideas.

Acknowledging he’s a bit obsessive about palms, Miller says he once drove 290 miles just to see a rare two-headed cabbage palm, one of many palm anomalies he documents in one chapter that includes variegated leaves and other oddballs of the palmetto world.

and log cabins; the Seminoles use both trunks and leaves for the traditional “chickees,” stilt platforms above the swampy forest floor of the Everglades, their traditional homes.

And of course, “swamp cabbage” was a popular food, now a delicacy known by the more gentile name, “hearts of palm.”

Despite this, there are those who think the lowly cabbage palm is a “trash tree” and yank it out of the landscape; some homeowner’s associations ban them, preferring more exotic palms. Landscapers often prune too severely, hurting the tree. But the “petticoat” does not harm the tree, so there is no real need to prune.

Currently, the main threat to these is “Lethal Bronzing,” a disease that came from Texas in the early 2000s, that causes palms to lose their green color and die.

But there’s so much information crammed into these essays it’s impossible to recount here, and Miller said there are nine chapters that didn’t make it! So read the book, and you, too, may become a palmetto promoter.

Learn more at Jono Miller’s blog, palmettobook.blog.

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By Ryan McGahan their music over 65 decibels…. What The June 1 Gulfport City Council The current noise ordinance reI’m asking for is a reasonable level meeting, the first since the cancelquires businesses to operate under that we can all operate at.” lation of Zoom participation, be65 decibels until 11 p.m., at which When the change came to a vote gan with a moment of silence for point it drops to 55 decibels. The ownat the end of the meeting, Counlocal musician Leta Woloshuk, who ers of the Taphouse, along with mucilmember Michael Fridovich also passed away May 21 from breast sicians and customers, claimed that supported the trial, but other memcancer. Council then heard from 65 decibels is bers were more hesiresidents and discussed the ongofar too low, and ”Most of the time that tant. ing noise complaints related to the can be reached I go into these places C o u n c i l m e m b e r North End Taphouse, talked new in a room of at night, I can’t bloody April Thanos, who latsummer events, and federal relief casual convervoted no, expressed hear a thing. I can’t have er money received due to the COVID-19 sation.

Local concern for how a pandemic. residents had a conversation. I gotta change in the citywide c o m p l a i n e d leave to go do it. Is that ordinance would affect Proposed Change to Noise that not only fun? No.” venues elsewhere in Ordinance Fails was noise from the city.

After two months of public disthe Taphouse exceeding normal lim “Have you talked to any of the cussion on music at the North End its, but was doing so late into the eveother bars that do their music later, Taphouse, and a month-long moranings, sometimes well past 11 p.m. about how they feel about having to torium on noise complaints, Mayor Henderson’s proposed compromise stop an hour earlier?” Thanos asked Sam Henderson proposed a 30-day was a 30-day trial run that would Henderson. “Effectively, if you go adjustment to the city’s noise ordiraise the normal decibel limit to 75, from 75 to 55, they’re going to have nance that, with a 2-3 vote, failed to but cut it down to 55 decibels at 10 to turn off their music.” pass. p.m., an hour earlier than usual.

“I have in the past when we brought this up before, long before you came, and it’s the same scenario now,” Henderson responded. “We did nothing then…. They were all interested in being able to play louder.”

“I’m still interested in seeing how the mitigating efforts are going, so I don’t think it’s a good idea for me at this time,” said Councilmember Christine Brown, voting no.

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Council Discusses Federal Covid Relief Funds With the passage of the American Recovery Act, the City of Gulfport is set to receive $5,186,383 in federal relief money, and a good portion of the June 1 meeting was dedicated to discussing how the city should best spend the incoming funds.

There are restrictions on what the funds can be used for. Broadly speaking, the money can go towards public health and COVID-mitigation efforts; workers and businesses economically impacted by the pandemic; replacing government revenue lost due to the pandemic; premium pay to essential workers; and investments in infrastructure (specifically improving access to clean water and internet).

All of the council expressed interest in using some of the funds to repair and improve the city’s sewage pipes, specifically investing in lateral lines, with each councilmember then offering their own priorities for how to use the other funds.

Thanos suggested using the money to fund a citywide climate change vulnerability study, additional installations of solar panels on city buildings, increased funding for the recreation center’s childcare program as parents return to work, and a temporary worker to help residents access CARES Act money they may be entitled to.

Brown asked if it was possible to use the funds to pay back the city’s existing loans related to past sewer improvements, and City Finance Director Cheryl Hannafin clarified that loan repayment was explicitly forbidden.

Ray suggested using funds to replace water meters throughout the city, creating a fund to help local businesses with landscaping, and improving the wage of city workers above the required minimum wage increases, to make sure the city can stay competitive in its hiring as the state minimum wage grows closer to $15 an hour each year.

Henderson suggested using the funds to repair roads and sidewalks,

Overheard at the June 1 Gulfport City Council Meeting “We lost a valuable member of our community this week; all members of our community are valuable, but this one I think touched a lot of folks. Leta Woloshuk, singer and musician with the Urban Gypsies of Florida…. she was very health-oriented, very talented, a very nice person, so our thoughts are with her family, and of course Barney, her life partner.” – Mayor Sam Henderson, before leading a moment of silence at the start of the meeting.

“I’m a little upset about the fact that there’s nothing going on here for Memorial Day... When we went to pay our respects at three o’clock, my husband played ‘Taps’ on his telephone.” – Resident Regina Buscemi “Tomorrow morning at the Trop is graduation, putting another 350 graduates out on the street that I don’t have a clue what they look like, because they’ve been behind masks all year. So I’m never going to recognize them after graduation and it’s pretty sad, but it’s a good day for them. They made it through the pandemic, and they’ll always be the class of masks.” – Councilmember Christine Brown, a high school teacher, in her closing comments.

“It’s summer, school is out, lock your car doors.” – Councilmember Michael Fridovich during closing comments.

coastal parks, setting up broadband hotspots to provide free wireless internet to the public, and possibly a bonus to all city workers to thank them for continuing to work through the pandemic.

“A lot of people had to do a lot of thinking on their feet and rapid adjustment, and working under some extremely difficult conditions that this country hasn’t seen in over 100 years,” Henderson said.

In his closing comments, Ray announced that he would host an event for public input on the issue on Wednesday, June 9.

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Council Approves Summer Events After a long year of shutdowns and canceled events, council continued working towards a return to normalcy with a flurry of events planned for the summer.

Council approved the Gulfport Kiwanis Club’s request to use the rec center parking lot for a Juneteenth event June 19, from noon to 3 p.m. Marissa Stewart-Dix, president of Gulfport Kiwanis Club, spoke before the council on the importance of the holiday, which Council continued on page 13

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Following the motto “We serve,” the Gulfport Lions Club is partnering with Feeding Tampa Bay and hosting monthly fresh food drives.

The first food drive was held in the parking lot of the Gulfport Lions Club, at 4630 Tifton Drive S. on May 27 at 4:30 p.m.

“2020 was a horrible year, and a lot of organizations like this lost a lot of members. We’re growing.

We’re growing because of people and volunteers working together for hunger relief,” Gulfport Lions Club President Howard Bush said.

“It’s all fresh produce. It’s all fresh food. It’s all perishable and it’s all donations.”

Bush hopes this event will take place monthly for the next six months.

“The process came about with two of our Lions members, the Flack brothers, bringing Feeding Tampa Bay to our attention,” Bush said.

“And then with the combined efforts of the entire club, we came up with what you see here right now.”

In addition to food, the Lions Club set up a tent exclusively for toiletries. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s debit system, EBT, allows qualified users to purchase food, however toiletries are not a part of the program.

To find a solution, Bush said the Flack brothers came up with an alternative.

This tent had baskets filled with laundry soap, paper products, shower items and cleaning products for those unable to acquire these items through EBT. “We’re more than just pancake breakfast,” Bush said. “Everything we do comes back to you. Goes back to the community.”

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Home Rule: Punching Down and Pandering to the Extremes

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While Louisiana passed bills to draw When the party in power punches down new federal funding to fix the down instead of solving real probfailing infrastructure of its schools, lems it leaves our state, our cities the Florida legislature and our resi“Nothing like a bunch of rejected the money dents weaker.

And, when it adults bullying kids who and made it harder spends more are more likely to commit for kids to get scitime on scoring suicide than graduate ence-based sex education. political points from high school.”

And we wonder why with primawe have one of the highest rates of ry voters instead of governing, the teen STDs in the country? most marginalized and vulnerable in Thank goodness Representative our communities suffer.

Chaney’s initial language was weakBoth happened this past session ened through the process so our in Florida. kids will be better informed and proWhile Arkansas, Oklahoma and tected.

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And, while Tennessee was rushing forward to fix a prison system as outdated as Florida’s, our own Senator Brandes was sidelined for speaking out against a failure of action on the part of his leadership to step up.

Each legislative session our political leaders have an amazing opportunity to do good – to do the people’s work and actually put forth the effort to leave a lasting legacy that fixes real problems and that creates a Florida that works better for all of our families and residents. This potential is bestowed upon our legislators by allocating a $101.5 billion budget and through the ability to pass policies that will impact nearly 22 million Floridians and sway the national landscape. Yet, what the political majority continues to do is squander the opportunity by punching down and pandering to the extreme right – deflecting its own incompetence by screwing up the systems that are boldly created by our cities, carefully cultivated by problem-solving schools and parents, and invested in by our small business owners and workers.

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commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union troops freed the enslaved people of Galveston, TX, officially ending legal slavery in the U.S. The Kiwanis Club’s event will be the first official Juneteenth celebration hosted in Gulfport.

Mitzi Gordon, of Creative Pinellas, and Cathy Loper, head of the Gulfport Historical Society (and publisher and co-owner of The Gabber) also spoke before council, requesting space in Clymer Park for an interactive art exhibit. The exhibit, which council approved, will stay for six weeks and have artist-led activities twice a week, then return for another six weeks later in the year. (See this week’s cover story for more).

Ray, in his closing comments, asked City Manager Jim O’Reilly if the city could host a fireworks show on the 4th of July in spite of their vote earlier in the year to cancel the event due to COVID concerns. O’Reilly replied that he’s been discussing the matter with

the city’s fireworks vendor and will likely have an answer by the June 15 council meeting.

Understanding allowing the city to participate in the class action lawsuits being leveled against prescription drug companies like Boards, Panels Purdue and Walgreens over the and Suits damage caused by the opioid cri Council unanimously approved sis. If a settlement is reached, the Mayor Henderson’s nomination city expects to receive $5,000 to of James Bullington to a two-year $9,000. Henderson, in his closterm on the loing comments, also cal Planning “A lot of people had to suggested particand Zoning ipating in, or even do a lot of thinking on Board, along launching, another with a new set their feet and rapid ad- class action lawof solar panels justment, and working suit against Mosaic to be installed under some extremely due to its role in the on the roof of difficult conditions that Piney Point fertilizer the Gulfport plant spill, and the Marina’s ship this country hasn’t seen effects that those store and office in over 100 years.” pollutants may have building.

The across Tampa Bay. panels will be installed later this “I’d like to find out if there’s a year and cost $115,500. The panway to take them to task, and if any els are expected to make back that other cities are interested…I don’t money in nine years through the want to sit around throwing our power they’ll supply to the buildmoney at this giant, but if there’s ings. other people that are feeling simi Council also unanimously votlarly I wouldn’t mind just exploring ed to support a Memorandum of the option,” Henderson said.

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A Place in the Sun

New, Recycled ‘Sun Benches’ Brighten South Pasadena

By Gabrielle Reeder

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Mayor Arthur Penny sits on a sun bench sponsored by him and his wife, Barbara. “It’s just been amazing at how many people love these benches,” Penny said.

Designed after South Pasadena’s logo and inspired by the city motto, “Our Place in the Sun,” residents now have colorful new spots to catch a bit of shade and take a load off. Mayor Arthur Penny led the city effort to install 25 “sun benches” to the town.

The mayor was inspired by the concept of “Buddy Benches” that have popped up in various places around the world, helping kids to make friends. Penny presented the idea at a commission workshop was met with a positive response.

“To my delight, everybody on the commission loved the idea,” Penny said.

To move the plan forward, City Clerk Carley Lewis contacted a company in July to design and build the benches, which are created from recycled plastic.

“The city decided to use the colors from our city’s logos – yellow, orange, red and blue – which pictures the sun setting into the bay behind a white heron,” Penny said. “Here’s an opportunity for our citizens to put their name on their place in the sun.”

Vice Mayor Tom Reid negotiated the purchase price from $500 per bench to $425 each in bulk. Citizens can sponsor their own individual benches at $400 each, and get a customized plaque for an extra $50.

“These benches are unique to South Pasadena,” said Penny. “They brighten up our streets and our parks.

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DeSantis Vetoes Gulfport Park

Funding for Gulfport’s Linear Breakwater Park Project Gets the Axe

By Abby Baker

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Funding for Gulfport’s Linear Breakwater Park project, a preservation effort to alleviate runoff pollution and flooding, as well as to beautify the area and provide habitat protection, was vetoed by Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday, June 2.

DeSantis cut $735,000 out of the state budget for the local project, but Gulfport wasn’t alone in the axing: the governor’s call killed funding for other environmental, cultural and education programs in Tampa Bay. The waterfront park project was an effort by Gulfport Mayor Sam Henderson, Gulfport City Council city coun-

cil and Florida legislators, including more recently Representative Linda Chaney, to turn the waterfront strip of land into a public park and living shoreline, complete with a boardwalk.

“If there’s a will, I’d like to get this done,” Henderson said following DeSantis’s decision. “Eventually, even if we have to scale the project back and find cheaper ways, that’s what we have to do.”

According to Henderson, he pitched the idea through the Living Shoreline Project to protect the area’s wildlife and erosion rates five years ago.

The Linear Breakwater Park proj-

ect, a peninsula of land behind the Gulfport Lions Club, had bipartisan support and the backing of Gulfport city officials.

“This is a project near to my heart; it’s just the coolest piece of public land,” Henderson said.

In Pinellas, $370,000 for the St. Pete Urban Youth Farm and $674,484 for improvements to St. Petersburg College’s midtown campus was denied. Environmental and educational programs in Hillsborough, Pasco and Hernando County were also chopped in the budget cuts.

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Black and Blue

Childs Park Invites Black Police Officers to Open Community Discussion “This is America; some people spell it with a ‘C’ and some spell it with three ‘K’s,” Brother John Muhammad, president of the Childs Park Neighborhood Association, said at Black and Blue: A Conversation with Black Police Officers, live streamed on Facebook May 25.

The open two-hour discussion, hosted by the Childs Park Neighborhood Association, allowed audience members to ask the police in attendance unflinching questions, such as what it means to be Black and a cop, how to deal with marginalization, and inequity in the workforce.

One resident said that he is determined to raise his kids to not feel threatened by the police, like he did growing up. “[Black police] presence alone, when you get there, is going to stop things. When you’re not there, you don’t see the over-agressiveness that’s taking place. You don’t see the batteries that are taking place. When you are not there, y’all don’t see when these kids are getting chased by these unmarked cars,” he said.

The origin of the police force in American also came up during conversation: An audience member mentioned that they formed to help white slave owners catch and control slaves.

After an audience member asked about qualified immunity, Police Chief Anthony Holloway said, “What

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we try to do is try to root all of that out. I think we have a good history of doing that. I’m not saying we’re the greatest department in history, what I’m saying is I think we have a lot in place to utilize. From where I started to what it is now, it’s a whole lot better.”

Several questions centered on what it means to be a Black police officer, and those in attendance spoke on being a part of the change.

In order to progress and improve, they said, you must continue to

learn from the negative.

The participating officers unanimously refuted the idea that “all cops are bad,” but advocated for accountability.

The association plans to make these community conversations a regular event. Check fb.com/MyChildsPark for updates.

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Dear Gabby: Plastic Addiction & New Journeys

By Sheree Greer

The Gabber’s semi-regular advice column, Dear Gabby, is here by reader demand. Have a question or a conundrum for Gabby? There’s no problem too small for our resident advisor.

Send your questions – they can be anonymous – to deargabby@thegabber.com.

I’m addicted to plastic! OK, not really addicted, but I’ve been trying to be more sustainable, and make better choices for the environment, but I can’t seem to cut out plastic.

It’s everywhere! Bottles, wrappers, containers. I don’t think it’s enough to just use cloth bags to shop. How can I cut out all this waste in my life?

Plastic is BIG business and the lobby to keep us plastic-dependent is powerful. In Florida, we have a front row seat to how climate change is affecting our home – increased number and power of storms, flooding, algae blooms and more! It can all feel overwhelming, particularly when we factor in climate change-related destruction in California, Texas, and other places. Dang. Now I’m freaking out, too. OK. Let’s breathe. While it’s debatable how much a single individual impacts climate change, we can take some solace in sustainability, like all things, existing on a spectrum.

Plastic ain’t going anywhere, but you can make choices that feel good to you and work for your life. Cloth bags are a great place to start, and you can slowly incorporate other choices into your quest for sustainability like buying fewer single-use products, choosing products that come in glass containers, exploring more reusable options for personal products, and trying out new products like laundry detergent sheets, shampoo and conditioner bars, and toothpaste tablets.

Get those earth-loving fingers to your nearest search engine and start exploring!

certified life coach and trauma specialist, I’ve recently added Reiki to my services as well. I’ve met resistance from many family and friends – and even some members of the Black community for collaborating with white allies – as I pursue these avenues and make positive changes in my life. I want to keep moving forward, but feel frustrated and let down. How do I stay true to myself and maintain my personal and community relationships?

It sounds like you are really leaning into your life’s calling with your business and your personal life. This can be difficult to do when people, especially family and friends who knew you to be one way, are now faced with embracing the “new” you.

Change is uncomfortable, always. It demands moving beyond our comfort zones and exploring new spaces within ourselves and our communities. That movement is always

a choice, and some people just ain’t gonna go. When I was a kid, my pops used to say this thing whenever we were about to leave on a trip or outing: “Who shall and who shain’t, who goin’ and who ain’t?” I’ve taken this into my adult life. When I’m moving forward with something in my life, a new opportunity, a new journey, a new way of living my life more authentically, I have to take a look at my friends, my family, my community, and ask that same question my father used to ask. You have to do what’s right for you, make the choices that feel honest and encouraging for the life you want to live. The folks who aren’t supportive, who would rather you stayed the same, who don’t want to take this journey with you are going to get left behind. Keep moving toward the life you want and the life you want will move toward you – as will new friends, chosen family and a community who supports who you are and the work you do.

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food Get to Know Your Chefs

Chef Olive Reinvigorates Classic Sandwiches at Salty’s Sandwich Bar

By Jen Ring

JEN RING

If you ask Olive Davis what’s the key to being a successful chef in Gulfport, she might tell you three things: use good ingredients, be consistent and don’t get too crazy.

“Our clientele in Gulfport is a little more traditional. I do specials that are a little on the crazier side, but as far as the menu goes, we’ve tried to keep it kind of traditional,” says Chef Olive Davis, the master of sandwiches at one of downtown Gulfport’s newer eateries, Salty’s Sandwich Bar. “Our biggest selling sandwich is the turkey club, and a BLT right behind it, followed by probably the fried bologna. So they’re pretty standard sandwiches. We just try to use good ingredients and make sure that we do them correctly and consistently.”

Consistency, however, doesn’t mean bland.

“I get my bread from La Segunda in Tampa and a couple other baker-

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ies,” Davis said. “We use Boar’s Head meats; I get fresh produce in every day.”

Davis gives the Reuben as an example of a sandwich that you don’t want to change too much. I was going to write a couple sentences here on the Reuben’s origins before discovering that this is actually a highly controversial subject. According to a 2016 article by Elizabeth Weil in Saveur Magazine (saveur.com/reuben-sandwich-origin-history), New York City and Omaha, Nebraska are battling it out for the coveted title of “Home of the Reuben Sandwich.”

Some say that Arnold Reuben combined ham, roast turkey, Swiss cheese and coleslaw between a couple slices of rye bread in New York City in 1914 and called it a Reuben’s Special. But this is far from our modern idea of a Reuben as corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut and

Thousand Island dressing on rye.

One thing people do agree on is that the Reuben was invented sometime around the 1920s, which would make it about 100 years old now. And why mess with a sandwich that Americans have loved for a hundred years?

Davis’ favorite Reuben of all time came from Detroit, Michigan.

“In Michigan, where I grew up, there used to be a department store called Hudson’s Department Store, and they had a Reuben,” says Davis.

“I went there for Reubens for years.

Now I’ve been all over the place, and they still have the best one.”

Davis makes her own Thousand Island dressing for Salty’s Reuben.

The homemade dressing is an example of one of the little things Davis does to upgrade classic sandwiches.

But, she says, “A Reuben is a Reu-

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ben. You can’t change it too much; otherwise it’s not a Reuben anymore.”

Davis’ Midwestern origins show up in certain menu items, like the Reuben and the fried bologna sandwich, but she’s also highly influenced by the South. Davis moved to the South in her 20s, and she still cites the region as one of the biggest influences on her cooking.

“Food is, in my opinion, so much better and abundant and fresh down here,” says Davis. “The abundance of beautiful seafood ingredients down here….I love living down here.”

When Davis does shake it up, it’s

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with her weekend specials, which allow her to incorporate seasonal ingredients like shrimp and soft-shell crab. She’s known for cooking seafood in the southern regional/Floribbean style, and these specials give her the opportunity to express that side of her cuisine.

Davis says she enjoys the combination of keeping it simple with sandwiches most days of the week and then getting creative on the weekends with specials.

When asked what she likes most about her work, Davis said, “I enjoy just being able to create and do whatever I like there…. It’s pretty wide open for creating.”

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Pulse Memorials, High Heels & Palm Trees Find links for these events — and many other things to do — online at thegabber.com/events.

All Weekend High Heel Hunt Once upon a shine, there was a missing stiletto, and a whole bunch of queens searching for it. Get festive this Pride season and go on a scavenger hunt hosted by your favorite drag performer, Matthew McGee. Once Upon A Shine: A Very Gay Mural Scavenger Hunt is a city-wide, app-led search for Cinderella’s slipper, or designer pump. Event by SHINE St. Petersburg Mural Festival and St Pete Pride. Download the free PixelStix app to play. St. Petersburg Flock to Community Theater Gulfport Community Players presents the story of two male chinstrap penguins who raised an egg. “Birds of a Feather,” a comedy by Marc Acito, brings the story of Roy and Silo from the Central Park Zoo to Gulfport. Catherine Hickman Theater, 5501 27th Ave. S. 8 p.m.

Saturday, June 12 Beyond the Beach Cleanup Keep Gulfport beautiful and litter free at this community clean up event.

Hand sanitizer, pickers, gloves and pails provided. Meet at shelter 4 on Gulfport Beach and get ready to serve Mother Nature. Gulfport Beach, Shore Boulevard between 54th and 58th St. S. 8-10 a.m.

Rare Plant Sale Explore rare and exotic indoor and outdoor plants under the oak trees of the Garden Club of St. Petersburg. Bring a wagon and cash to make off with desert roses, hibiscus, zebra grass and other patio jaw droppers. Garden Club of St. Petersburg, 500 Sunset Dr. S. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

On the Stage: Music and Paint Enjoy Elysian Sex Drive’s grooving set, mash ups, and a couple new ya-can’t-not-sing-along cov-

er tunes along with artist Cheryl Grogan’s live painting debut.

There will be a community canvas mural that band lovers are welcome to mark with the colors of their freak flag. The event honors those murdered in the Pulse shooting during the set and afterwards, with the release of 49 blooms into the bay. The Tiki Bar & Grill, 5519 Shore Blvd. S. 4-6 p.m.

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Paddle for Pulse St. Pete honors those lost with a memorial on Treasure Island Beach. Bring flotation devices and ocean-friendly flowers to honor the 49 souls killed in the 2016 mass shooting.

Treasure Island Beach, 11260 Gulf Blvd. 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Tuesday, June 15 Q & A with a Gulfport Councilmember Gulfport’s chance to get to know councilmembers, one on one. Ask questions and make comments, respectfully, every third Tuesday of the month. City of Gulfport Welcome Center, 3101 Beach Blvd S. 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

St. Pete’s Second Saturday Art Walk It’s another art-filled Saturday in some of the most colorful corners of St. Petersburg.

Studios, galleries and outdoor art spaces in the EDGE District, the Grand Central District, and the Warehouse Arts District will showcase the freshest work in St. Petersburg. Check out Art Walk’s Facebook page for a complete list venues. 5-9 p.m.

Thursday, June 17 Gab About Books Join the Gabber and Tombolo Books for an online discussion on the printed pages of “The Palmetto Book,” by Jono Miller, which explores Florida’s wonderful, ubiquitous cabbage palm in Miller’s captivating environmental piece. The book club is currently virtual. To RSVP and get a Zoom link, email bookclubs@tombolobooks.com. 6:30 p.m.

Open Mic Alert Seasoned word artists and baby rhymers alike are encouraged to step on The Factory’s stage and pour their hearts out at this open mic poetry night following St. Petersburg’s Second Saturday Art Walk. The Word Garden is the place, $5 per face. The Factory, 2622 Fairfield Ave. S. 7-9 p.m.

Sunday, June 13 Meditation Time in Gulfport Relax and revel in the benefits of a healer and teacher drumming over your body, followed by a deep guided meditation for your spirit, all in the garden of Gulfport Brewery + Eatery. Suggested Energy Exchange for this event is $20.

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the gabs What is your favorite summertime food?

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Brian Craig, St. Petersburg: “Lobster Rolls.”

Rich Plackowski, Michigan: “Ribeye steak, barbecued well done, baked potato with butter, iced tea with lemon and sugar and tossed salad with French dressing. And you have corn on the cob with butter.”

Rebecca Higman, St. Petersburg: “Outdoor barbecue, so hotdogs and hamburgers.”

Mary Blazier, Claremont: “My favorite summer food is watermelon.”

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worship Paradise Lutheran Church

on Treasure Island 10255 Paradise Blvd, Treasure Island

Unitarian Universalist United Fellowship

During the pandemic join us Sundays on Zoom.

Discussion -10:30 Program - 11:00 For Zoom directions email us at uuunited@earthlink.net

Sunday Service

10am with Holy Communion

17th St. & 29th Ave N St. Petersburg 345-7777 Friday 7PM

- Francis David, 1534

uuunited.org

‘Upscale Resale’

316 Corey Ave. St. Pete Beach 727-360-5647

Beth-El Shalom

Open five days a week: 10am-2pm Mon. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat.

Messianic Congregation

ShalomAdventure.com JewishHeritage.net Rabbi@JewishHeritage.net

“You need not think alike to love alike.”

Clothes–Collectibles–Gifts Household Goods A Ministry of St. Alban’s Episcopal Church Proceeds go back into the community.

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TRAVEL IS FUN TOURS

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727-347-1600

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Full Brochures available on all trips!

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919 Tyrone Blvd, St. Pete, FL 33710

SMOKY MOUNTAIN 4th of JULY JUL 1-6, 2021—6 DAY

Includes: 10 meals (5B, 5D), Great Smoky Mountain National Park & scenic stops at Newfound Gap, Sugarland Visitors Center & more, 3 nights in Sevierville at the Comfort Inn Apple Valley, enjoy The Lumberjack Feud Show & delicious dinner at Harpoon Harry’s, visit nearby Gatlinburg with free time in town with time for lunch on your own. Full day at Dollywood, with many great shows included and a meal voucher for your dinner. Dollywood has won for Friendliest Park & Best Shows from Amusement Today many times!

COST: $1089* per person double or $1495 single

SEMINOLE CASINO IMMOKALEE GETAWAY!

JUL 25-26, 2021—2 DAY

1 Night at the fabulous Drury Inn Ft Myers, Includes, Cocktail Party, Drury Dinner, Great Breakfast, Two 4-hr visits to the casino & more!!!

COST: $199* per person double or $249 single

FLORIDA MYSTERY TOUR!!!

AUGUST 22-24, 2021—3 DAY

Includes: 4 Meals, New never before seen features every day! Great surprises, fun sightseeing & lots of exciting adventures!

COST: $399* per person double or $499 single

BEST OF THE WEST—GRAND CANYON SEP 1-16, 2021—16 DAY

Includes: 26 Meals(15B, 2L, 9D) Full Day at the Grand Canyon with IMAX Movie and local Step-On Guide. Step on Guides in Flagstaff, Santa Fe, Oklahoma City, Dallas! See The Nat’l Cowboy Museum, Petrified Forest, Southfork Ranch (From TVs “Dallas”) & More!

COST: $2369* per person double or $3079 single More Great 2021 Multi-Day Tours

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AUG 9-12—4 DAYs—CHARLESTON ! - Harbor Cruise & more! - $619*/$789 OCT 16-22, 7 DAYS—SMOKY MOUNTAINS FALL FOLIAGE, NC—$1019*/$1317 *Price is Per Person for Double Occupancy

Plus Dozens of Great Day Trips! Here are just a few!

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JUN 12, SAT—”BEEHIVE” at the Broadway Palm, Great Music!...$105 JUN 17, THU—LUNCH BUNCH with TODD at Duff’s Buffet in Clearwater!...$45 JUN 19, SAT—YBOR COLUMBIA restaurant & Flamenco dancers!...$89 JUN 28, MON—SEMINOLE CASINO BRIGHTON, 400+ Slots & Table Games!..$54 JUN 30, WED—TAMPA BAY DOWNS Horse Racing with Buffet Lunch!...$79 JUL 3, SAT— “GREASE—The Musical” Broadway Palm Dinner Theater…$105 JUL 9, FRI—WENDY’s Stupendous Strange South Pinellas County Tour…$39

FREE TRAVEL CLUB MEETINGS! - Prizes & Excitement!!!

WEDNESDAY JUL 14th, 1:30PM at Big Apple Buf fet in Tyrone Gardens or on Youtube live!!

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announcements

From downtown to nonprofits, there’s an opportunity for everyone with a few hours to spare. Help showcase Gulfport as an ambassador at First Friday Art Walk or the Third Saturday IndieFaire Night Market. Volunteers help artists find their spot and set up, as well as answer questions and offer visitors suggestions on places to eat, things to do and where to find whatever they seek. The Welcome Center also needs volunteers to greet people with a friendly smile, even if you only have a two or three hours a month to offer. The Gulfport Historical Society and Arts Center also needs volunteers for the museum and special events, and the Gulfport Multipurpose Senior Center could use a few volunteers to man the lobby desk and the fitness center. If you have time to give to your town, email volunteer@ visitgulfportflorida.com.

Summer Reading on St. Pete Beach The newly renovated St. Pete Beach Public Library started their Summer Reading Program on June 1. Stop in to pick up your Tails and Tales Summer Reading Bingo Cards for kids and adults. The library’s also got virtual shows, fun and easy-to-follow craft videos, and virtual visits with authors.

Also join the library for Family Movie Night every Monday at 6 p.m., and Adult Movie Night every Wednesday at 6 p.m. through July. More at fb.com/ SPBLibrary or spblibrary.com.

Get Ready for Pre-K! You can now pre-register for the 2021-2022 VPK Program in Gulfport. VPK is free for children who live in Florida and who turn 4 years of age by September 1. Parents must apply with the Early Learning Coalition of Pinellas, Inc. and get a Certificate of Eligibility for their child to attend the program. For more, call 727-893-1068.

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State License #ER0007653.

The pollen has finally subsided. Make your home beautiful again. We pressure clean fences, driveways, homes, sidewalks, pavers, stepping stones, pool cages, pool area, you name it we can make it look new again.

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FREE ESTIMATES

525-0677

Computer Sales

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Handy Person HANDYMAN SEMI-RETIRED All types of repairs • small jobs welcome • Quality work at reasonable prices • Honest • Reliable • Free estimates • John, 727-410-2201 CARPENTER DEPENDABLE! Have Tools Will Travel Trustworthy. Doors, Decks/ Eaves/Rotted Wood, Etc. 30 Year Gabber Advertiser. Free Estimates, Lic. C-5754.

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Detoxify Your Life • Natural Nutritional Supplements • Non-Toxic Household Cleaners • Vegan Beauty Products

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Gulfport Computer Repair

Classes / Tutoring

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D.C. STRONG

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Lee Claxton, I.S.A. Certified Arborist

Planting • Trimming Tree & Stump Removal Cabling/Bracing • Pruning/Shaping

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TREE PRUNING & DEBRIS CLEANUP Serving South St. Petersburg • Free Estimates • 727-308-8650

EXPERT SPRINKLER REPAIR

Professional Services

For Sale

Gulfpug Printing Services

SALON PROFESSIONAL Portable Hair Dryers and Roller Caddies. New and used. Call 727-798-9006.

By Artists

For Artists

and their friends

Rich Moseley, Irrigation Contractor. 25 Years Experience. Reasonable Rates. Well & Pumps. 727-439-0792. Lic.#C8312. BBB Accredited.

Your Art or Photography Printed on Canvas, Paper, Coasters, Name Tags, Glass Cutting Boards, and Mousepads

GulfportArtStudio.com 727-504-0541

Miscellaneous Service

IRRIGATION STAIN REMOVAL

Remove ugly rust-colored irrigation stains from PVC fence, siding - stucco - wood, pavers, railings, windows and most other surfaces around your house or business including signage.

Cars too. Free estimate and demonstration.

Surprisingly low prices. Call/text 727-360-7070 Email RustStainRemoval@icloud.com Heat / Air Conditioning

THE TRASH QUEEN Overwhelmed with the mess? Clean up/clean out, inside and out, recycling and organizing, and we do mulching and weeding! Free estimate from Kathy, Trashologist, licensed/insured, with truck/ trailer. Call/text 845-866-3867. Responsible, reasonable, and ready!

ANGEL ERRANDS LLC Need Someone For Errands, Home Check-Ins, or Deliveries?

Call Joan! 727-256-4526. Angelerrandsllc. com Moving / Hauling CHARLES JUNK HAULING & DEMOLITION Junk & Trash Removal. Low, Low Prices Guaranteed, Daily Specials. Kitchen, Bath, Shed, Fencing, etc. Demolition. 727-831-0507.

Painting

“Same rates seven days a week”

PINNIX PAINTING, INC. Interior , Exterior. In Business Locally Since 1980. Free Estimates.

Commercial, Residential. References Upon Request. Lic. #C4334. 727-641-1888.

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QUALITY AT WORK

Luke Phillips

3914 6th St S St. Petersburg

Plumbing

PROFLO PLUMBING 727-902-7077

#CFC1430429 State certified, residential/ commercial service. Senior and military discount. $25 off service with ad. Locally owned and operated.

COOPER DISCOVERER 265/70R16 TIRES

Used but excellent condition w/ 23,207 miles. $350 OBO for set. Replaced with different tires for our Xterra. No rot, great condition.

Call/text 727-360-7070.

COSMIC EYE CREATIONS PANDEMIC COMEBACK MICRO STORE

I am rebuilding. Super excited to have an outdoor micro store that offers spiritual and metaphysical gifts and services. Crystal Jewelry we make, Crystals, Intuitive Tarot Readings, Energy Work. Open Thurs - Sun weekly next to Red Hot Tiki Gourmet General GULFPORT LIONS CLUB Available for parties, weddings, meetings. Great waterfront location with full facilities. Call Jean for info and dates. 727-366-6341.

THE DHARMA PRANA EARTH NOW MISSION needs students for the positive health radiation healthcare paradigm shift. If you want to be a functional part of the greatest Dharma healing for humanity’s sake, this is it. The time is now. 727-906-2465.

Health / Fitness

ROCKOUT WHILE YOU WORKOUT

Cardio Drumming classes at Gulfport Nutrition. Any fitness level. Cost $8 which includes a shake. A fun way to get your body moving!

Come join a great community! Call Marlene information 305-619-9734. 5022 Gulfport Blvd S. 6 classes a week.

Marine SOLD BOAT – EQUIPMENT FOR SALE Dock box, life preservers, and much more. All safety equipment. Excellent condition; make offer. 917-886-8276.

Yard / Garage Sale

Card of Thanks 4 EA, AA, SA Collectibles COLLECTIBLE DOLLS WITH ORIGINAL BOXES Some with certificates: Dreamcicles, Butterfly Kisses, Kevin & Kerry porcelain doll, World Gallery Doll Collection & more. $20-$75 obo.

727-541-7943

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MULTI-FAMILY MOVING SALE Friday & Saturday, June 11th. & 12th. 9:00am-2:00pm 6790 Monaco North, Pinellas Park, Vandome Village. Household goods, appliances, indoor & outdoor furniture, clothing, large tent & more.

YARD SALE! Saturday & Sunday June 19th & 20th. 5614 Newton Ave S. Gulfport. (One block north of 15th Ave S.) TREASURES FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

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Yard / Garage Sale YARD SALE 6/12 9-3 2702 45TH ST. S. Glassware, tools, ladder, books, clothes, furniture, sporting goods, bedside commode, miscellaneous household items FUNKY YARD SALE June 12th Sat 10-4 Funky Flamingo 1418 58th St S. Yard sale inside the store. Many hidden treasures.

Help Wanted COUNTER HELP WANTED Days/Nights.

Bait Shop, Daily Pay. Plus Commission. Must be over 21 and know something about fishing. Must Be Able to run Cash Register. Apply in Person. 2445 34th St. S.

Real Estate for Sale

I Gulfport!

727-418-8948

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Nelda Hamm

3037 Beach Blvd. S.

Unique Gulfport 3/2

5214 18th Ave. S. Built on Pilings • Deck Large Under House Storage $450,000 Also Available, Adjoining 50’ x 100’ Residential Lot $150,000

Bill & DeAnn Meredith

727-224-5126 727-224-5129

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Sign Up for Summer Rec

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Registration is now open for the City of Gulfport’s 2021 Summer Program for children who will complete kindergarten through age 14. Hours of registration are Monday to Friday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. The seven-week program runs June 14 to July 30, and costs $495 for residents and $619 for non-residents, which does not include field trips. Summer program hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with extended hours available until 6 p.m. for an additional charge.

There are 25 spots available at a discount rate for Gulfport residents in need of assistance. Register at the Recreation Center, 5730 Shore Blvd. S. or call 727-893-1068 for more.

Do You Need a Lift?

The Gulfport Extended Mobility Service (GEMS), run through the Multipurpose Senior Center, has resumed limited transportation services to grocery stores, medical appointments and other essential locations. Gulfport residents 55 and older or residents with a disability can take advantage of GEMS door-to-door service for a yearly membership of $70, plus $2 per ride. Call 727-893-2242 for more.

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