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Middleton Alumni Celebrates 30 Years
Polk County
Commissioner Accused Of Threatening Child With Gun
The George S. Middleton High School Alumni Associa- tion celebrates its 30th An- niversary with a free outdoor event Saturday, June 19, 10 a. m.to2:30p.m.onthe school’s front lawn, 4801 N. 22nd Street in Tampa.
Entertainment will be provided by popular WMNF- FM Radio Station DJ Steve “The Hit Man” Williams, who will spin Old School hits and other music. It will be a “Back in the Day Meet and Greet on the Lawn” event.
Remember Rogers Park on Sunday afternoons?
Bring your lawn chairs and your own lunch. Bottled water will be free and so will all the fun you’ll have seeing classmates and fellow Tigers! You can join the alumni asso- ciation that day and get de- tails on our upcoming golf tournament.
Luvator Nelson is pres- ident of the alumni associa- tion and Phan Boston is chairman of the 30th Anniver- sary Celebration Committee.
Last week, Polk County Sheriff's deputies arrested a Lake Wales City Commis- sioner She is accused of pointing a gun at an 11-year- old child.
According to police, on June 3, City Commissioner Kristen Fitzgerald is al- leged to have taken an 11- year-old child from his home without permission. She re- portedly drove the child to another location, where she is alleged to have asked the child if he had inappropri- ately touched another child last year. The child report- edly denied that he had com- mitted the act.
Ms. Fitzgerald is al- leged to have shown the child
KRISTEN FITZGERALD
the gun and said, “I will bury you.”
Once police were notified of the incident, Ms. Fitzger-
ald was arrested and charged with one count interference with child cus- tody and one count aggra- vated assault with a deadly weapon. She was transported to the Polk County Jail, where she was being held without bond.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said, “We don't expect this kind of behavior from anyone, but especially someone in public office. She should be held to a higher standard and should be set- ting the proper example - in- stead, she displayed what not to do as a human being. Her conduct, threatening a child with a gun, is horren- dous."
Tampa Organization Of Black Affairs Leadership Institute
The TOBA Leadership In- stitute (TLI) will host the 2021 TLI Final Project Pre- sentations. This event will begin at 10 AM ET, this Sat- urday, June 12th, and will end around 2 PM. You will be previewing a series of Community Enhancement Plans presented by the 2021 TLI cohort and will have an
opportunity to ask follow-up questions.
Please use the link below to log into the Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.u
s/j/8358549960
Meeting ID: 835 854 9960
One tap mobile: +1 929 436 2866 US (New York).
Tampa Housing Authority Board Meeting
The Regular Virtual Meet- ing of the Board of Commis- sioners of the Housing Authority of the City of Tampa is scheduled for Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 8:30 a. m.
To join the meeting: • Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:
https://meetings.ringcen- tral.com/j/1493693016?pwd =SkREaEF6TFFWWG1Ud DVDd1l1WDlpZz09 Pass- word: 423827 • Or Telephone US: +1(470) 8692200, Meet- ing ID: 148 374 4723.
All board meetings are open to the public.
NOTICE: Any person, who might wish to appeal any decision made by the Board of Commissioners, with re-
spect to any matter consid- ered at this meeting, is ad- vised that he/she will need a record of the proceedings; for such purpose, he/she may need to ensure that a verba- tim record of the proceedings be made, which will include the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be asked.
James A. Cloar, Chair- man of the Board, Jerome D. Ryans, President/CEO, Tampa Housing Authority.
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