Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Meals on Wheels of Tampa, headquartered on Hillsborough Avenue, broke its own single-day record Monday by serving 669 hot meals to Bay area residents who can't feed themselves.
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Expansion to East Tampa has led Meals on Wheels of Tampa to new heights as an organization as it inches toward the 700-meals-per-day mark. On Monday, the organization's steady growth hit a new high as it served a record 669 meals that day. It took three large trucks dropping off food to 12 different drop-off sites, where volunteers pick up and deliver the food along 60 different routes each day. The kitchen at the Hillsborough Avenue hub can handle making around 1,500 meals a day, and while there is no stated goal for MOW, they are happy to see the numbers growing. "We've committed to a pretty aggressive expansion into East Tampa, but that's just part of it," said Andrea Brogen, Meals on Wheels Tampa's director of community relations. "…
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
The nonprofit located in Wellswood is seeking volunteers for the summer.
Meals on Wheels of Tampa, a nonprofit organization located on Hillsborough Avenue on the west bank of the river, is seeking volunteers for the summer season. Each weekday, about 60 volunteers deliver over 600 hot meals to the homebound and seniors who have difficulty shopping for or preparing a meal. Meals are delivered five days a week throughout Tampa. Each volunteer checks in with the recipients and delivers to an average of 10 homes per day. Weekend meals are delivered frozen on Fridays. “It’s a great way to give back to the community and help those in need,” said Andrea Brogen, director of community relations at Meals on Wheels of Tampa. There are currently 62 routes and 12 designated pick up sites throughout the city. Each route is …
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The children of Tampa's V.M. Ybor neighborhood will see a new playground built in one day thanks to donations.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Contributed More than 200 volunteers from ForestersTM, the Tampa Parks and Recreation Department, the V.M. Ybor Neighborhood Association, organizers from KaBOOM! and residents of the local community will join forces on Saturday morning to build a new playground at Cuscaden Park, 2800 N. 15th St. Work will begin at 8:30 a.m. with a kick-off celebration and wrap up with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 2:30 p.m. The children residing in the V.M. Ybor neighborhood, where Cuscaden Park is located, began planning their new playground in August when a professional playground designer from KaBoom!, a national non-profit organization whose mission is to create great play spaces, met with the children to find out what they wanted in their own play …
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Sunday, May 8, 2011
Once a month, volunteers roll up their sleeves and perform yard work on vacant homes.
Over the years, Evelyn City residents have implemented many strategies to make their collection of roughly 550 homes into a more pleasant community. These efforts have included neighborhood crime watch patrols, potluck parties and monthly street cleanups. Their latest endeavor is Evelyn City Helping Others/Ourselves (ECHO). About six months ago, Evelyn City resident Ray Reed grew tired of seeing dilapidated homes and rundown yards overtaking his neighborhood. “When a neighborhood block starts deteriorating it invites prostitution, the homeless and drug activity,” Reed said. To curb the encroachment of criminal activity he started cleaning up abandoned yards. After working alone for awhile, Reed posted a request for help on the Evelyn City…
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Take some sweet children and add some sour lemonade and you get a recipe for helping earthquake-ravaged Japan.
Seminole Heights residents use their porches for a variety of reasons. They eat on them, nap, socialize and even conduct business. But for three young residents, a Seminole Heights porch was a place where they took a stand. Gillian Bennett and Julia Spoor, both 9, as well asd Aedan Bennett, 7, set out to help earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged Japan. All three attend MacFarlane Park Magnet School for International Studies and want to send Japan a $1,000 Shelter Box, which supplies up to 10 displaced people with a tent and other essential equipment. By late Sunday afternoon, they were halfway to their goal.
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3:26 pm on Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Because the lake is a public resource, the only citizens body that is recognized by the city to do this work is the Hampton Terrace Neighborhood Association. Prior to the split, OSHNA had acquired a $6,000 to install a device to filter trash from Nebraska, kill the non-native plants, and install an appropriate number of native plants designed to help with water quality. OSHNA was able to get the… more ›