TAMPA – Here are 5 things we need to know function in Florida on Tuesday, May 13, 2014.
(1) Nehemiah Project Open House
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn will horde an open residence and plant a initial “for sale” pointer in a new Nehemiah Project on Tuesday.
The giveaway open residence is being hold during 10:00 a.m. during 8303 North 13th Street. The open is being invited to travel by several of a finished homes.
The Nehemiah Project is branch empty lots in a Sulphur Springs area into new singular family homes. The initial 11 homes will be put adult for sale as shortly as they are completed. Funding from any sale is being put towards building another home on a opposite parcel in a neighborhood.
“We need some-more good, solid homeowners that will take honour in their skill and in a neighborhood,” pronounced Mayor Buckhorn. “My wish is that a open investment will be a matter to transforming Sulphur Springs into a form of area that it can and should be.”
The Mayor has done revitalizing Sulphur Springs, one of a lowest neighborhoods in Tampa, a vital priority for his administration.
To perspective designs of a singular family homes, revisit tampagov.net.
(2) Gulfport Free Clothing Swap
The Gulfport Tuesday Fresh Market binds a subsequent Free Clothing Swap on Tuesday.
The eventuality allows participates to move adult to 5 kindly used panoply to sell for vouchers that can be used to name habit brought in by other participants.
Items might be for women, group or children. Gently used boots and habit accessories are also accepted.
Vouchers might also be purchased for $3 each. Donations of habit above a 5-garment extent are speedy and accepted.
All money collected, donated clothing, and non-selected panoply during a finish of a barter will be donated to Community Action Stops Abuse (CASA).
CASA is a internal non-profit classification providing services to survivors of abuse or violence.
The subsequent habit barter is scheduled for Tuesday, Jun 10. For some-more information, revisit freshmarket@gulfportma.com.
(3) Polk County School Board new propagandize vote
The Polk County School Board could opinion on Tuesday to go forward with a devise to build a new propagandize in a northeast partial of a county.
If approved, officials will start scouting for a plcae to build a propagandize in a Four Corners area north of Interstate 4.
The $39 million propagandize would offer grades K-8 with adequate room for 700 facile and 350 center propagandize students.
Right now, twenty developments north of Haines City are in a construction or formulation stage. A new propagandize would palliate a crowding that would differently start during other circuitously school.
The School Board assembly starts during 1:30 p.m. in Bartow.
(4) 5th Annual Senior Health and Wellness Expo
The Hillsborough County Aging Services will horde a 5th annual Senior Health and Wellness Expo on Tuesday morning.
The eventuality is giveaway and open to all Hillsborough County residents age 50 and over. Attendees can accept giveaway health screenings and information, learn about village resources and watch demonstrations that they can use to stay healthy and active.
The expo runs from 9:30 a.m. to noon during a Town ‘N Country Senior Center located during 7606 Paula Drive in Tampa.
For some-more information on other Aging Services events, call (813) 272-5250 or revisit www.HillsboroughCounty.org/Aging.
(5) Häagen-Dazs Free Cone Day
Häagen-Dazs is giving everybody a event for some giveaway ice cream on Tuesday.
May 13 is Häagen-Dazs Free Cone Day. You can accept one giveaway ice cream cone from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.
In a Tampa Bay area, participating Häagen-Dazs locations embody a Tampa stores during Citrus Park Town Center and International Plaza.
To find a store nearby you, revisit www.haagendazs.us/Shops/.