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City Of Tampa Black History Committee Hosts Golf Tourney For Scholarships
FRANK WOODARD
Application deadline is April 13, 2018
The 3rd Annual City of Tampa Black History Com- mittee, Inc. Golf Tournament will take place on Saturday, April 28th at 8:30 A. M. at the historic Rogers Park Golf Course, 7910 N. 30th Street, Tampa, FL 33610.
For over two decades, the City of Tampa Black History Committee, Inc. (COTBHC) has recognized City of Tampa employees, supported local youth, and celebrated Tampa’s rich heritage.
The golf tournament sup- ports the 2018 COTBHC Scholarship Awards program in providing scholarships to outstanding high school graduates before they head off to the college, university or technical school of their choice.
For more information on the tournament, call Frank
MARK WILFALK
Woodard at (813) 274-8549 or Mark Wilfalk at (813) 348-1153.
Each year since 1989, the City of Tampa Black History Committee (COTBHC) has rewarded students for their scholastic achievements. Stu- dents are motivated to dream, achieve and grow while utilizing scholarship funds to obtain a degree from the college or university of their choice.
The City of Tampa Black History Committee encour- ages award recipients to maintain good grades and to be involved in collegiate and community leadership.
Graduating seniors are encouraged to apply at the website, http://www.cityof- tampablackhistorycommit- tee.org/post/services/educat ional-scholarships/
Celeste Gibbons-Peo- ples is President of COTBHC.
Gun Control:
Students To March On Washington; Tampa Version Set, Too
BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor
On Saturday, March 24th, students and the supporters of marchforourlives.org will gather in Washington, D. C. for a march. That march, which is slated to kick off at 10 a.m., will be mirrored at several loca- tions throughout the nation.
The march is designed to draw attention to school safety and gun violence. It stems from a mass shooting on Feb- ruary 14th, at Marjory Stone- man Douglas High School, in Parkland, FL.
At 2:30 p.m., Nikolas Cruz, a former student who had been expelled, walked into the school, pulled the fire alarm and then began shoot- ing. In its wake, 14 students and 3 teachers were killed and
17 others injured.
Cruz, 19, was arrested a
short distance away and charged with 17 counts of first- degree murder and 17 counts of attempted first-degree mur- der.
According to the march- forourlives.com website, the organizers said, “the kids and their families will take to the streets of Washington DC to demand that their lives and safety become a priority and
that we end gun violence and mass shootings in our schools today.”
The Movement is for kids and by kids.
On Wednesday, students held a National Walkout that lasted 17 minutes. However, the students in some counties in Florida were on spring break.
As the primary members of marchforourlives.org, begin their march, sister chapters throughout the country will also march.
In the Tampa Bay Area, the March will be held in Tampa at: Kiley Garden, 400 N. Ashley, Tampa, FL 33602.
It will be held simultane- ously in: Brandon, Plant City, Largo, St. Petersburg, Clear- water, Bradenton, and Wauchula.
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