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Center Presented Check For Victims Of Domestic Violence
The Spring of Tampa Bay, a center for victims of domestic vio- lence, received $575 from proceeds raised during WMU-Cooley’s an- nual Blues Jean Brunch, an event held as part of Women’s History Month in March. Pictured during the check presentation on May 8 are (left-right): Dionnie Wynter Pfunde, WMU-Cooley campus di- rector; Ana Luna, student; Mindy Murphy, CEO, the Spring; Mia Banks, student; and Regelene Sabbat, student.
Security Plan Reached For Hillsborough County Schools
BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor
Last week, law enforce- ment and the Hillsborough County School District cre- ated a plan for school secu- rity. They were responding to the recently passed law that requires all schools to have armed security.
Hillsborough County
Sheriff Chad Chronister and Jeff Eakins, Hillsbor- ough County School District Superintendent, announced that elementary schools will be protected by armed school security officers. Some ele- mentary schools already have security officers as- signed.
The agreement means that all middle and high schools will continue to have sworn police officers and deputies assigned to them.
Sheriff Chronister
said, “I’m confident the dis- trict’s security officers in our schools are ready for this re-
SHERIFF CHAD CHRONISTER
sponsibility, because they have already been handling that role very well for years. I can say, from first-hand ex- perience, these school secu- rity officers work well with our law enforcement agency. Our relationship with Hills- borough School Security is almost half a century strong. They are professionals and this is the right solution for Hillsborough County.”
Sheriff Chronister
said currently, there are not
enough school security offi- cers to be placed in all schools. In the interim, sworn police officers and deputies will fill the posi- tions.
The elementary schools will require the following: Hillsborough County Sher- iff’s Office, 61 deputies; the Tampa Police Department will provide 35 officers; Plant City Police Department, 6 of- ficers; and Temple Terrace Police Department, 5 offi- cers.
The new state law re- quires that an armed, trained, individual must be on every school campus dur- ing the school day, beginning with the 2018-2019 school year.
The law was passed after a lone gunman entered the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day and opened fire. A total of 17 people died and 14 oth- ers were injured as a result of the attack.
On Wednesday, May 8, WMU-Cooley Law School students Ana Luna, Rege- lene Sabbat, Mia Banks, and Campus Director Dion- nie Wynter Pfunde pre- sented a check for $575 to the Spring of Tampa Bay, a support center for victims of domestic violence. The dona- tion from the law school was made possible from proceeds raised during the annual
Blue Jeans Brunch, an event held as part of Women’s His- tory Month in March.
The networking event was held at Ulele Restaurant and Brewery in downtown Tampa.
The mission of the Spring of Tampa Bay is to prevent domestic violence, protect victims and promote change in lives, families and com- munities.
African Methodist Episcopal Church Day Of Sharing And
Service Of Deaconess Consecration
When the West Coast Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episco- pal Church held it “Day of Sharing” and “Service of Deaconess Consecration,” five women were conse- crated.
Among them was Sister Floreta J. Hines of St. Luke, Tampa. Others were Sisters Barbara Ann Cassaway of St. Mark, St. Petersburg; Ponell Dray- ton Collins, also of St. Mark, Gloria Magwood, St. James, Palmetto and Emma E. Swain of Bethel, St. Petersburg.
The event was held at Allen Temple AME Church, Rev. Dr. Glenn B. Dames, pastor. Bishop Adam J. Richardson, Presiding Prelate of the Eleventh Episcopal District, officiated, assisted by each candidate’s pastor.
The Presiding Elders are:
Rev. James Oscar
Members of the Deaconess Ministry of St. Luke AME Church, Tampa, are seated: Deaconess Floreta Hines and Deaconess Myrtle McCray. Standing, Bettie Bell, coordinator, Deaconesses Ella Jordan and Curtiss Wilson. Pastor Kirk R. Bogen standing in rear. Not shown: Deaconess Mary Chestnut.
Williams, Sr., Tampa Dis- trict; Rev. Joyce J. Moore, St. Petersburg Dis- trict and Rev. Jimmy James Thompson, Lake- land District.
The Order of Deaconess is a working order and is the highest vocational calling of
a lay woman in the AME Church. She is a woman se- lected by the pastor and Of- ficial Board of the local congregation, and has been set apart and consecrated by the Bishop of the Episcopal District by the solemn lay- ing on of hands.
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