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All About You!
60th WEDDING CELEBRATION
Deacon Charlie C. Ball, Jr. and Deaconess Patricia A. Ball were blessed celebrating their 60th Wedding Anniver- sary on Saturday, February 26, 2022, with the family!
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DEANDREA CHELY’SE DAUGHTRY
My heartiest congrats on your achievements. It is not another ordinary day, it is something special and new. Only for you. You’ve put your spirit, your heart, your best efforts and your best self into everything you do.
DeAndrea currently has a 8.42 GPA and will graduate with her AA degree from Hillsborough Community College. She has been honored by the Athena Society, group that honors its 2021 Dr. Sylvia Richardson Young Women of Promise in the Tampa Bay Times. This past summer, she also had the opportunity to in- tern in U. S. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa’s office.
DeAndrea has many other accolades and achievements under her belt, Questbridge College Prep Scholar finalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, National Honor Society, Sunrise Scholar, National African American Recognition Program winner, and she has over 340 community service hours. She plans to ob- tain her Bachelor’s degree in Health Science in hopes of becoming a Radiologist and owning her own practice.
DeAndrea is also the baby sister of Diamonde McCollum, a 2018 graduate of Hillsborough High School with International Baccalaureate, who went on to the University of Central Florida (UCF) and graduated in the class of 2021 with honors, with a Bachelor of Science degree. She is currently attending Western Kentucky University in pursuit of her Master’s in Psychology.
I’m happier than anyone else right now. Congratulations, my dear! You have so many things to achieve. We imagined, we honed, and you WON!
Love, Mom (Tracy Smack).
A special thanks and shout out to everyone who has celebrated her and celebrated with me along the way! God-parents and fam- ily (John and Leola Green, Auntie Quay Davis and Auntie Shonda Green); grandparents (Sam and Mattie McPher- son); sister, Diamonde McCollum; longtime friends of the Smack family (Hippolitto Padilla and Gregory Marcus) and Mr. Roy Filmore (Mom’s better half).
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