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All About You! Celebration
Happy Birthday
BENNIE And SHONDA
Happy birthday to the love of my life!!
Bea, I know who’s got my back.
Love always, Captain Earl.
Ragan Park Celebrates Sizzling Seniors
Thanks to the hard work of women like Mrs. Betty Bell and Mrs. Cynthia Few, and the City of Tampa Parks and Recreation Department, Tampa’s Sizzling Seniors have a place to call home.
On behalf of the Sizzling Seniors, the staff of Ragan Park and the Ragan Park Center hosted an Au- gust birthday celebration for the Sizzling Seniors. (PHOTOS BY SYLVESTER HARRIS)
August birthday celebrants: Irene Newberry, Essie Dooley, Willie Lee Gardner, Sunday Bivens Reese, Cleo Stinyard, and Lavern Hooper.
Birthday girl, Sunday Reese, gets best wishes from Mrs. Betty Bell.
Playing checkers with grandma, Sandra Rosson, is Jacob Rosson. In the rear is Verdell Vickers.
‘Put It In There... You See It’
ANTHONY W. STATEN
Happy birthday to myself once again. Another year wiser and I’d just like to thank God for His grace and mercy.
And, for all my loved one’s... who would have thought, huh?
Praise be to God!
When I Seek Breakthrough, Deliverance Or Transformation
Lord, I know that wherever I am locked up in my life, You can set me free. I ask You to do that today. I invite Your presence in a new and powerful way right now to bring de- liverance and transformation. I know that where Your Spirit is, there is liberty (2 Corinthians 3:17).
We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death and does de- liver us; in whom we trust that he will still deliver us. 2 CORINTHIANS 1:9-10
FYI
County Neighborhood Mini Grants Available
Hillsborough County Office of Neighbor- hood Relations is currently accepting mini- grant applications through 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28, 2015 for the 2016 funding cycle.
The neighborhood associations in unincor- porated areas of the County, and the cities of Plant City, Tampa, and Temple Terrace can apply for funding up to $2,500 for fiscal year 2016 to support projects to improve their com- munities and increase civic involvement. Ap- plications for the mini-grants are available on the County’s website at HillsboroughCounty.- org/ONR.
The purpose of the neighborhood mini- grants is to support community projects in neighborhoods in unincorporated areas of the County, and the cities of Plant City, Tampa, and Temple Terrace. Previous grant-funded proj- ects include shrub and flower planting, subdi- vision entrance signs, playground equipment, neighborhood festivals, crime watch programs, disaster preparedness, websites, newsletters, and leadership education activities.
Applications will be reviewed by the Neigh- borhood Mini-Grant Evaluation Committee and approved by the Board of County Commis- sioners. Only one grant will be awarded per neighborhood association. Recipients will be notified by Nov. 1, 2015.
This is a competitive grant, application must be complete (all questions answered), online training video reviewed and required verifica- tion form submitted, no later than August 28, 2015 at 5:00 pm.
Completed applications can be faxed to (813) 276-2621, or dropped off or mailed to:
Office of Neighborhood Relations 601 E. Kennedy Blvd., 28th Floor Tampa, FL 33602
The Mini-Grant Program was established in 1988 by the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners to improve and revital- ize communities, and strengthen neighborhood associations. For more information, contact the Office of Neighborhood Relations at (813) 272- 5860.
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