A new web site, Tampa Gas Prices, lists the gas prices in Tampa. You can check the web site to see the best prices and hopefully it helps you to save.

Tomorrow is Memorial Day, a day to remember all the soldiers that have given their lives for this country. The point of tomorrow is not to boycott any wars or give our point of view on what we feel is right or wrong. It is a day for the soldiers that gave their all and the family that they have left behind.

So remember it is not a day just to have off and go to the beach. It is a day to celebrate the fact that we have those freedoms and honor the lives of those paid the ultimate price.

Thank You and God Bless You all.

New beginning multiplication sheets have been added to Tampa Bay Parent.  The sheets have graphical representation of multiplication.  Several links to the beginning multiplication sheets can be found on the Math worksheets page.  Scroll down and you should be able to find them.

Florida Blood Services blood supply is critically low and they are in need of blood donations. Of course, they need every that can donate to please donate. There is the possibility that surgeries may be cancelled if the blood supply remains too low.

Free Printable shapes worksheets are available at Tampa Bay Parent.

Florida public school parens can now check their child’s FCAT scores online.  Access to the scores requires a login and password.  The login and password information should be sent home in a letter to parents by the child’s school.

More about FCAT Parent Network 

It’s here, The hurricane tax free week is here.  Certain hurricane supplies can now be purchased between May 21st and June 1st tax free. Items must be within a certain price range to be tax exempt.  A few stores are waiving taxes on some generators that go over the price limit for the tax exemption.

Free printable multiplication worksheets are now available at Tampa Bay Parent.

Free Printable Multiplication Worksheets 

Tampa Bay Parent has free printable worksheets of kids.

The Worsheets includes the alphabet,counting, number recognition, and more.

Free Printable Worksheets

Happy Mother’s Day

I hope your kids were good to you today. My girls made me cards that were absolutely beautiful. So I enjoyed my Mother’s Day. I hope that everyone else does also.

Hurricane season is between June 1st and November 30th of each year. This is a long stretch. In the last few years it feels that Hurricane season is all year long in Florida. Neighbors trim trees more often and there are more automatic shutters on windows. Throughout the year people are preparing for Hurricanes.

Ever since Charlie, back in 2004, people have been getting prepared for that next tropical disturbance. How prepared are we actually? There are homes across the state that have blue tarps from last hurricane season. Try as they may, how prepared can those folks be for a hurricane? Roofers have actually come from other states, but that still has not been enough to repair all the damage roofs across Florida.
But the state has learned from the gas shortages that occurred after Hurricane Wilma, and are prepareing to have some gas stations run on generators. The problem with the gas shortage in South Florida after Wilma was the lack of electricity to run the gas pumps.

People, in general,have also learned a lot. Hopefully there are less peole that want to ride out the storm when told to evacuate.

Wow there was rain this week.  Can you believe it?  I am starting to see some green on my lawn, if you can call it a lawn.  Drought, drought go away.  Do not come back any day.

The Tampa City Counicl has approved Verizon Cable to provide services within th City of Tampa. Right now the only cable provider in Tampa is Brighthouse. Now with Verizon the competition will most likely help reduce cable prices.

The following is  information from TBO.com 

THE CONTRACT

Here are some things Verizon agreed to do in its cable TV agreement with Tampa:

• Pay city $1 million upfront and 65 cents per subscriber.
• Provide free cable TV service to 82 city-owned buildings and 88 school buildings.
• Provide six channels for public, education and government access programs.

Recent stories of abandoned babies found dead-(one in Lakeland and another in Tampa)- makes anyone feel sadness. The state of Florida makes it possible for anyone to drop off an unwanted newborn at a firehouse, and hospital with no questions asked.

Tampa bay’s 10 recently did a story about one 17 year-old that was abandoned as an infant and later found when a 10 year-old boy hear him crying. He is now a happy teenager with dreams of a bright future. This should let everyone know that these babies are precious and can have beautiful futures.

My advice to anyone mother who does not want her baby is to bring that baby to a firehouse or hospital. Do not have that sweet baby suffer; there is someone that is willing to care for and love him or her.

You can help the elderly by donating you old cell phones. This information was taken from the St.Petersburg Times

Donate old cell phones to senior victim program

Got an old cell phone you want to get rid of? The Area Agency on Aging of Pasco-Pinellas, Inc. and its Senior Victim Advocate Program are collecting no longer used cell phones for their 9-1-1 Senior Safety Phone Project.

The phones are collected and then distributed as 9-1-1 emergency only or “Safety Phones.” Largo has a new location at 13225 101 St. SE. Call 584-8171. For other collection and distribution site information, call (727) 570-9696, ext. 279.

This an example of bad attitude in sports. This kind of thing begins while players are still in their youth. Parents teach your children to have good attitude is sports and in everything they do in life. Most of all set a good example.

Tampa Bay Devil Raysprospect Delmon Young was suspended for 50 games without pay by the International League (IL) on Tuesday for throwing his bat at an umpire and hitting him in the chest.

Young, the first overall pick in the 2003 draft and 2005 Baseball America minor league player of the year, threw his bat at the replacement umpire after being called out during a game on April 27.

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