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College Hill Association/Crime Watch Meeting
The College Hill Association/Crime Watch Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 19, 2018, 6-7 p. m. The meeting will be held at the Lee Davis Service Center, 3402 N. 22nd St., Tampa (33605), in the Queen Miller Suite.
The guest speakers will be Gary Onzy, Safety Committee Chairman, and Bryan McNeal, Crime Prevention Task Force.
Come and get information on the scams targeting your community and how to stay safe. Cynthia Few, President, and Gary Onzy, Vice President.
Police Search For Child’s Stolen Wheelchair Worth $10,000
Verizon Customers Share Comments About Outage
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is trying to locate a child’s wheelchair that was taken early Mon- day. The wheelchair is val- ued at $10,000. It was taken from the 3800 block of Pinedale Street, in Bran- don.
According to police, the wheelchair belongs to a 6- year-old disabled child. It was left on the driveway next to the street as it has been left for the past two years. It was left there to let the bus driver know the child was going to school.
In the past, when the bus arrives, the child is carried
STOLEN WHEELCHAIR
out to the wheelchair, boards the bus and goes to school.
However, around 7:20 a.m., Monday, the child’s fa-
ther realized the wheelchair was gone. In addition to the wheelchair, the child’s glasses, book bag, and lunchbox are also missing.
The child’s father, An- drew Dennis, told police the wheelchair is customized due to the child’s disabilities. It is a TiLite child’s wheel- chair with blue aluminum pieces and a custom head- rest.
Anyone with information about the wheelchair or the person who took it is asked to contact Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay at 1-800-873- TIPS or www.crimestopper- stb.com.
JOE ROBINSON
BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor
Recently, Verizon Cell- phone users experienced a massive outage. They were out of service for several hours. Some Verizon cus- tomers shared their com- ments about the outage with the Sentinel.
Ms. Joyce Cotton said, “As a loyal VERIZON cus- tomer I was on I-75 headed home from Sarasota after working a station event for two days. I tried to contact my family to find that the call didn’t go through. What both- ered me most is that VERI- ZON didn’t not notify its customers vie text to alert us of the outage. And I had to wait to hear the problem was not just my service, but all of the region on the 11 p.m. NEWS!!
“A courtesy text would have been appreciated and certainly expected. Have we given too much control to our telecommunications compa- nies?”
Joseph Robinson said,
JAMES JOHNSON
“Yes it was disruptive” wire- less service” although we still could text messages for some reason. But it was slow. However, that is why we have a Frontier Communication hard line for when Verizon wireless goes down. Same thing happened when hurri- canes came through last year where wireless went down, but our “Old School” no bat- tery pack “Hard Line” system was still communicating and we were able to conduct busi- ness and communicate even with a loss of power!”
James Johnson said, “For Verizon's service to be interrupted and paralyze the entire Tampa Bay region as well as major cities such as New York, Washington, D.C. and Dallas is a bit scary. Imagine if all the cell phone companies service went out, then there would have been mass confusion going on. We must move past depending solely on cell phones and begin to use other means of communication like we used before the popular inception of mobile devices.”
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