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University Area CDC Presents Free Family Movie Night: Hidden Figures
New Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church Recognizes 2017 Graduates
The Educational Ministry of the New Mt. Zion Mission- ary Baptist Church, Inc., under the leadership of Rev. Larry L. Roundtree, II, recognized their 2017 high school, technical and college graduates on Sunday, June 25th during the 11 a. m. serv- ice.
The high school graduates were: twins, William R.
City Of Tampa Releases Video Highlighting Tampa’s Rich 130-Year History
SHIRLEY FOXX-KNOWLES ...Narrates video on Tampa’s 130-Year History
Monday, marked the start of Archives Awareness Week. The City of Tampa released the video, “130 Years,” high- lighting the city’s rich history leading up to the 130th birth- day of the City of Tampa on July 15th. The video can be viewed at: https://www.face- book.com/TampaGov/videos /10158950716125375/
“130 Years” was narrated by City of Tampa Clerk, Shirley Foxx-Knowles.
Bell and Willie Bell (Tampa Bay Technical), Jay’le Brown (Howard W. Blake), LaShare Cook (Spoto), Jaela Garvin (Middleton), Spencer Gon- zalez (Howard W. Blake), Antwoiniq Hendricks (Brandon), Theron James (King), Khayla Lundy (Armwood), Saibreyelle Nelson (Brooks-DeBartolo)
and Johnathan Mooney (LaVoy Exceptional).
The technical graduate was Ryan Clark (Brewster) and the college graduate was Kenza Thomas (Hillsbo- rough Community College).
The graduates received a handshake of congratula- tions from the pastor and love tokens from the mem- bership.
Magnet And School Choice Application Period Opens
University Area Commu- nity Development Corpora- tion (University Area CDC) presents Free Family Movie Night: Hidden Figures, on Friday, July 14th the doors open at 5:30 p. m., movie be- gins at 6 p. m.
The University Area CDC Community Center is located at 14013 N. 22nd St., Tampa, 33613.
The University Area Com- munity Development Corpo- ration will present a free screening of the critically ac- claimed film.
Hidden Figures tells the story of three brilliant African-American women at NASA — Katherine John- son (played by Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jack- son (Janelle Monáe) – who serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astro- naut John Glenn (played by Glen Powell) into orbit.
Drinks and popcorn will
be provided free of charge; additional food will be avail- able for purchase.
The University Area CDC Free Family Movie Night is a family-oriented event de- signed to provide a fun and safe activity for University Area residents, and at the same time inform them of the many services and program- ming from which they can benefit. Prizes will also be given away. Those under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.
This Free Family Movie Night is sponsored by Safe and Sound and the University Area CDC Community Out- reach Committee, whose mis- sion is to engage University Area residents through per- sonal outreach to increase awareness and participation in University Area CDC pro- gramming, events and serv- ices.
For more information about UACDC, a 501(c)(3) public/private partnership, visit www.uacdc.org.
The Magnet and School Choice application period for Hillsborough County Public Schools opened at noon on Tuesday, July 11 and closes on Thursday, July 20, 2017.
Families living in Hillsbo- rough County and out of county may apply during this application window. Any fami- lies with children entering kindergarten through 11th
grade who wish to apply for the 2017-2018 school year, can find the application by visiting the district website at www.sdhc.k12.fl.us and searching “Go Choice.”
New this year, all applica- tions are available online in- cluding hardship.
Families that have questions can contact the Choice Infor- mation line at 813-272-4692.
‘Voices Across The
Bay’ Scheduled For
SKD Entertainment and
Derek “The Change Man” Smith present VOICES ACROSS THE BAY (VATB), a series of compilation albums that will feature singers from all around the globe, but pre- dominately from Florida.
The purpose of the compi- lation is to expose singers who are hometown people that may have always wanted an opportunity to record, but never had the finances, re- sources, courage, or opportu- nity to make it happen. Singers will audition for SKD Entertainment and once se- lected for the project they will be given the song that will be recorded.
Smith, CEO SKD Enter- tainment, has spent the last decade producing music, preparing artists and traveling the world as full time record- ing artist, headlining events with some of his greatest idols in Gospel and R&B genre.
“I realize that in this in- dustry, there are not a lot of people that will work with people who aren’t already well-known, developed and ready to go,” he said. “Fortu- nately, this is all in my pur- pose. I have the skill set to
DEREK SMITH
assist regular people and give them support, a synergistic plan to become successful.”
Smith’s record label is ex- cited about this upcoming vo- lume of compilations.
“We are looking for every- day people, youth, seniors, rappers, pastors, spoken word artists, soloists from choirs, andmoretojoinustobea part of this historical project,” Smith said.
The first album scheduled to be released is VOICES ACROSS THE BAY - THE IN- AGURATION. The album is expected to be available in the fall of 2017. To be considered to be a participant on the album, register at vatb.eventbrite.com, or call 813-649-7977 for more infor- mation.
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