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Boating For Fun
As an added treat for all the people who attended the Erykah Badu concert, the dock at Curtis Hixon was lined with boats for the “Boating For Fun” event. (PHOTOS BY JULIA JACKSON)
Andrea and Gator from Decatur and boat owner, Still, from Atlanta, Georgia.
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus (Taya) Tolbert aboard their boat.
Karen King is ready to get started on her tour of the bay.
Getting his boat ready is Perry Cook.
Study Says Poor Folks Are Dying Younger
In Tampa:
According to an article that appeared in the Journal of the American Medical As- sociation (JAMA), poor peo- ple who reside in expensive, well-educated cities tend to live longer than low-income people in less affluent places.
In a study published by JAMA, the poor tend to have shorter life spans than those with more money. The study also reported that among low-income people, big dis- parities exist in life ex- pectancy from place to place.
Raj Chetty, an Econom- ics Professor at Stanford University, said there are some places where the poor
are doing quite well, gaining just as much in terms of life span as the rich, but there are other places where they’re actually going in the other direction, where the poor are living shorter lives today than they did in the past.
Low income people in Birmingham, Alabama live about as long as the rich, but in Tampa the poor have actu- ally lost ground, according to Chetty.
Chetty and his co-authors also reported that there are vast gaps in life expectancy between the richest and poorest Americans. Men in the top one percent distribu-
tion level live about 15 years longer than men in the bot- tom one percent on the in- come distribution in the United States.
The study suggests that the relationship between life expectancy and income is not ironclad and changes at the local level can make a big dif- ference.
Chetty said the study has clear implications for Social Security and Medicare. The fact poor people don’t live as long means they are paying into the system without get- ting the same benefits; a fact that needs to be considered in discussions about raising the retirement age.
MacFarlane Park New Site Of Annual Islamic Charity Festival
For 18 years, Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park had been the scene for the Tampa Bay Muslim Alliance’s an- nual Islamic Charity Festival.
On Sunday, April 24th, the 19th annual event will be held at MacFarlane Park, 1700 North MacDill Avenue, due to the renovations going on at the Riverfront Park.
Event organizers said this year’s event will be the same as the previous festivals, with the exception of Brother Hakim Aquil.
Brother Aquil passed away last year after a long battle with cancer, and it was he and Dr. Husain Nagamia who first started the festival.
“Brother Aquil’s pres- ence will certainly be missed and we will acknowledge his service and contributions to this event and to Islam,” stated Dr. Nagamia.
This happy little girl is leaving with her new bicycle.
Tampa NAACP President, Bennie Small, attended last year’s festival, and volunteered as a grillmaster.
“This year Mayor Bob Buckhorn will be a speaker, and there will be a special ex- hibition called “Discover Islam.” We hope it will clear up a lot of misconceptions in the media about Muslims. It will be a great opportunity to get educated about the reli- gion.”
Everyone is invited to come out and enjoy free food, free bicycles free shoes, free children’s games, free toys for the kids, free clothes, free medical tests, and free clown shows. There will also be free American Barbecue.
The festival will be held from 11 a. m. until 5 p.m.
Thesearethefreebicyclesthatweregivenawaytolucky children and adults attending the festival.
Eric Que ties up his boat at the docks during the event.
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