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Our Military Men & Women
Trinity Native Serves With “Airwolves”
School District Launches Survey On Bell Schedule
The Hillsborough County Public School District has launched a survey to gather input from parents, students, district employees and the community. The district is seeking input on the 2018- 2019 bell schedule.
The survey will be avail- able until September 24. It offers six different bell sched- ule options that were chosen by the public.
Information gathered from the survey as well as the recent Bell Schedule Simula- tor and four upcoming public meetings will provide vital in- formation to help the School Board as it determines school
start and end times for the next school year.
The need to change the bell schedule came about be- cause thousands of students arrive late to school each day because the current arrival and dismissal schedule does not allow enough time for buses to run their routes.
Last year, 12,000 students were late to school every day. More than 1,800 responses were received from parents, teachers, and members of the community using the Bell Schedule Simulator. That survey closed on August 25th.
Families interested in voicing their opinions about
the change in the bell sched- ule can attend any one of two meetings.
All meetings will take place from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. The meetings will be held at the following loca- tions:
Thursday, September 14, at Jefferson High School and Tuesday, September 19th, at Riverview High School.
The School Board will vote on a final bell schedule at their Tuesday, October 17th regular meeting. The change will give families nearly a year to make the necessary adjustments to their sched- ules.
PETTY OFFICER 1ST CLASS BRANDON STEINER
Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Steiner is a naval air- crewman (tactical helicopter) with the “Airwolves” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 40, a Mayport, Florida based squadron. Its role is to operates the Navy’s next generation sub- marine hunter and Anti-Surface Warfare helicopter, the MH- 60R Seahawk.
Each helicopter is nearly 65 feet long, may weigh up to 23,500 lbs. (max gross) and can travel over 120 miles per hour for nearly 320 miles on a tank of gas.
Local
Florida Native
Earns Military Excellence Award
GREAT LAKES - Sea- man Recruit Edward Arpa, a New Port Richey, Florida native and recent graduate of Recruit Training Command (RTC), Division 267, earned the Military Ex- cellence Award (MEA) as top Sailor for his division.
The Navy Club of the United States Military Excel- lence Award (MEA) is the top award presented to the No. 1 recruit of their graduating training group.
The MEA is awarded to the recruit that best exempli- fies the qualities of enthusi- asm, devotion to duty, military bearing and team- work. The award placed him at the pinnacle of today’s newest Sailors; he was awarded a flag letter of com- mendation for his achieve- ments.
Seaman Arpa moved to the United States at age 7 from the Philippines and joined the Navy to follow his childhood dream of growing up to become somebody who had the ability and capability
SEAMAN RECRUIT EDWARD ARPA
to rise above others and pro- tect those around him.
Prior to joining the Navy, he was enrolled in the Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps for four years at J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, Florida. His position within NJROTC was the physical fitness offi- cer.
After graduation, Sea- man Arpa will attend Nu- clear Machinist’s Mate “A” School, followed by nuclear propulsion school and finally prototype school.
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