Residents of the city of Sarasota can participate in the city’s “Gun Buy Back” program on 
September 8, 2007 from 9am to 5 pm. Guns can be turned in to the NEWTOWN POLICE SUBSTATION 1782 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAY.
Handguns, shotguns as well as assault rifles and other illegal firearms will be bought back. Guns must be in working condition and unloaded.
More information at the city of Sarasota’s “Gun Buy Back” program
Easter Sunday is Tommorrow. Most churches across the country see an influx of church visitors during the Easter Sunday. Easter and Christmas are the two days where churches reciever the most visitors.
List of Church web sites:
Bethel Assembly of God
1510 W. Hillsborough Ave
Tampa, Fl 33604
For more information call Bethel at 813.238.2348
Services start at 10:30 with Pastor Mike Tedder
Tampa Bay’s 10 has a page of Easter Services across the Tampa Bay area
Wendi Mangold is a young vibrant wife and mother of 3 young children, ages 5, 3, and 1.
In June of 2005, just days after the birth of her daughter, she was diagnosed with the most devastating news of her life; Breast Cancer. Since her diagnosis, the cancer has metastasized and has spread through out her body.
She is now in the battle for her life!
Her family and friends have planned a Fundraising Benefit in her honor.
It will include a BIG Garage Sale, a SCRUMPTIOUS Bake Sale and our WORLD FAMOUS hotdogs for lunch.
Where: First United Methodist Church of Brandon
120 N Knights Ave.
When: March 3rd 7:00 AM - 2 PM
100% of the donations will be given to Wendi’s family to facilitate their family needs during her recovery.
We welcome Any & All donations.
Please come and join us as we honor Wendi and her amazing fight!
In addition to the garage sale benefit we are having on March 3rd, we are also selling raffle tickets for some wonderful prizes. The tickets are $1 each or 6 tickets for $5. If you are interested in purchasing tickets, please let me know and I will come by to pick up the money and have you fill out your raffle tickets. (or you can send me a check in the mail with your name and phone number and I’ll fill out your raffle tickets for you) The drawing for the raffle will be held the weekend of March 3rd. You will be contacted by phone if you win. We are still collecting prizes but some of the prizes we have so far include:
2 Box seats to a Lightning game
a Blue Tooth headset
$500 Flooring gift certificate
Gift cards to the following:
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.
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.comÂ
THE CONTRACT
Here are some things Verizon agreed to do in its cable TV agreement with Tampa:
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.