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Gadson Sisters Host 3rd
Red Tide Returns To Area Beaches
Annual Event For Seniors
The term “Red Tide’ isn’t strange to Florida beachgoers and officials have announced the dreaded microorganism has returned.
Toxicity induced by inges- tion can occur in humans after eating contaminated shellfish. Individuals can suffer from the debilitating, but usually not fatal neurotoxic shellfish poi- soning. Symptoms include mouth numbness, poor coor- dination, abdominal pain and tingling of the mouth, arms and legs.
Check before traveling to a beach to make sure that there are not active blooms in the area.
The Red Tide Status Line can give you this information. Call (866) 300-9399 inside Florida, and (727) 552-2448 outside of the state.
If anyone experiences any harmful effects of symptoms associated with exposure to aquatic toxins or harmful algae, contact the Marine and Freshwater Toxins Hotline at (888) 232-8635.
The Gadson Sisters hosted their third Thanksgiving event for senior citizens last month. The event was held at the Temple Crest Community Center. (Photos by BRUNSON)
City Solid Waste Holiday Collection Schedule
The Gadson Sisters hosted their 3rd annual dinner for senior citizens. They are: Johnnie Harris, Yvonne Dou- glas, Betty Broadway and Henrietta Walton.
Alberta Jackson provided song service for the dinner.
City of Tampa offices will be closed on Christmas Day. As a result, customers sched- uled for collection service or needing access to the McKay Bay Transfer Station on Fri- day, December 25, 2015 will be affected. The revised holi- day collection schedule is as follows:
Residential & Commercial
There will be no col- lection on Friday, De- cember 25, 2015. A make-up collection for cus- tomers with service normally scheduled for Friday will occur one day later on Satur- day, December 26, 2015. Nor- mal service schedules will resume on Monday, Decem- ber 28, 2015.
McKay Bay Transfer Station and Scale House will run a modified schedule on Christmas Eve, closing at 3 p.m., Thursday, December 24th.
The facility will be closed on Christmas Day. Normal service schedule will resume on Saturday, December 26, 2015.
The City of Tampa Christ- mas tree collection service will run Monday, December 28, 2015 through Saturday, Janu- ary 2, 2016.
Residents are asked to re- move all decorations and lights, cut tree limbs to four feet lengths, bundle, and place at curbside on their regularly scheduled yard waste collec- tion day.
For additional questions or concerns, please call the City of Tampa Utilities Con- solidated Call Center at (813) 274-8811, or visit the website at www.tampagov.net/solid- waste.
New Tampa residents are encouraged to contact Hills- borough County Solid Waste Management at (813) 272- 5680 for their holiday collec- tion schedule.
Those who were hostesses were: Michelle “Vicki” Howard, Jeannie Long, Vickie Washington, Julia Frazier, Renee Brunson and Elizabeth Cole.
Gerald Campbell was a guest at the dinner.
Rev. Thomas Weeks and King were among the guests.
Diane Walker and Emma L. Burley were among those who enjoyed the dinner.
J. Walton holding Jray at the dinner.
Audrey Matthews and Ladine Munford were among the dinner guests.
City government of- fices will be closed Dec. 24-25 & Jan. 1.
Temple Terrace City Hall and other government offices will be closed Dec. 24-25 and Jan. 1 in observance of Christmas and New Year’s Day. There will be no residential trash collection on those days. Residents should put out their trash for collec- tion on their next regularly scheduled pickup day. Recy- cling bins also should be placed curbside on the next regularly scheduled recycling pickup day.
Commercial solid waste will be collected Dec. 24, but there will be no commercial collection on Dec. 25 or Jan. 1. Christmas Trees: The Tem- ple Terrace Public Works De- partment will collect Christmas trees for recycling
provided they are free of dec- orations. Trees should be placed curbside by 7 a. m. on any Wednesday (starting Dec. 30) for pickup during the reg- ular Wednesday residential yard-waste collection.
If you have any questions about Christmas tree or yard- waste pickup, or the holiday sanitation schedule, please call Public Works at (813) 506-6570.
Temple Terrace City Hall and all other government fa- cilities will be closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (Dec. 24-25) and New Year’s Day (Jan. 1).
* Additionally, the Temple Terrace Public Library will close early (5 p. m.) on Dec. 23 and Dec. 28-31.
* The Family Recreation Complex and Omar K. Light- foot Recreation Center will close early (5 p.m.) on Dec. 31.
Temple Terrace Holiday Closings & Trash Pickup Schedule
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