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The USF-Selmon Balsa Bridge Design Competition began in the 1980s as a student-run project to connect the University with area under-represented middle and high school students and provide a fun, extra-educational enrichment opportunity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) philosophies. TAMPA, FLA. (PRWEB) Tampa…
Read More Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority Sponsors USF – Selmon Balsa Bridge Design Competition
By: Staff Report Primerica, located in Tampa, Florida, is run by husband and wife, Julie and Tony Ramirez. This full service, financial services company, offers anything from debt consolidation to college savings plans. However, it’s not all business. This is personal for the Ramirez family.…
Read More Local Financial Team Turns Personal Loss, Into Gains For Others
By: Its’s a magical secret If your child wants to send a letter to Santa this Christmas season, you can now use a special mailbox set up for the occasion. The letters will be sent straight to the North Pole, and everyone will get a…
Read More Family Sets Up a “Letter to Santa” Mailbox in Apollo Beach
By Yvette C. Hammett Ruskin resident and business owner, Christian Sidney, is originally from the Caribbean island of Martinique and served in the U.S. Army after moving to the United States. When it was time for him to retire from the U.S. Army, he looked…
Read More Retired Veteran Opens SunShine AutoShield in Ruskin
By Geoff Fox APOLLO BEACH – Christopher Akel was busy analyzing data on a web site he recently created for a merchant services company in Georgia. A 42-year-old Long Island, New York, native Akel started Razor Digital last year. The company mostly builds, manages, maintains…
Read More Apollo Beach web designer offers services up and down East Coast
By PAUL CATALA Toni Armstrong has had the roughly century-old treadle sewing machine ever since she was a teenager in Bossier Parish, Louisiana. Although Armstrong, of Apollo Beach, hasn’t used the sewing machine – mounted on a veneer cherry wood table – in decades, she…
Read More A Veterans Crafty Retirement
By Geoff Fox RUSKIN – Kelly Kowall strolled onto the memorial area at My Warrior’s Place. A light breeze blew through the gazebo, jingling a display of hanging dog tags like wind chimes. The area was lined with bricks stamped with the names of U.S.…
Read More My Warrior’s Place offers serenity, aid to U.S veterans and their families
By Geoff Fox Daniel Cyral is helping make the world smoke-free – one smoker at a time. Cyral is a hypnotist, and he is aware that not everyone believes in the benefits a hypnotist can offer. “Whenever I get people who tell me they don’t…
Read More Hypnotist Daniel Cyral looks to save smokers and help U.S. veterans
By Geoff Fox RIVERVIEW – The clubhouse in the sprawling South Pointe community was full of chatter, paint, some wine, and an assortment of small ceramic Christmas trees. A group of more than 20 people, mostly women, had gathered for a Hammer & Stain workshop…
Read More Hammer & Stain offers a creative outlet for crafty locals
By Yvette C. Hammett APOLLO BEACH – As an active Navy man, Michael Ball had little time to connect with his community, get to know the people that keep the wheels turning or get involved in events that bring people together. Now that he has…
Read More Retired Veteran Goes All in for the Apollo Beach Community