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Students Encouraged To Honor LEADers For Black History Month
Goody Goody Restaurant To Reopen In Hyde Park In 2016
Superintendent Jeff Eakins recently announced the LEAD (Learn, Empower, Advocate, Dream) student contest to celebrate Black His- tory Month. Students in grades 3 through 12 are encouraged to submit an entry expressing how they have been inspired by a local African American leader.
Students will choose to enter one of three categories: literature, performing arts, or visual arts. Each entry will be judged primarily on originality, creativity, and how well the stu- dent used his or her artistic vi- sion to portray the theme.
Nine winners will be se- lected, one per category from
each division: intermediate (grades 3 through 5), middle school (grades 6 through 8), and high school (grades 9 through 12).
Prizes for the LEAD student contest include scholarships, technology, and sports memo- rabilia. The deadline to enter is 4 p. m. on Friday, January 8, 2016. Winners will be notified in the first week of February and invited to at- tend the School Board meeting on Tuesday, February 16, 2016.
For more information about the LEAD student con- test including how to enter and contest rules, visit www.sdhc.k12.fl.us and type GO LEAD in the search box.
A couple from Oklahoma City are the founders of Goody Goody Burgers, and opened the first restaurant in 1925 in the town of Hannibal, Missouri. The founders, Ralph and Amanda Stephens, came to Tampa that same year, and on Grand Central Avenue, opened Goody Goody Barbecue. In 1927, Good Goody Burgers opened on Florida Avenue, and in 1929, William B. Stayer bought it from Stephens. He later moved and reopened at 1119 North Florida Avenue on April 3, 1930.
After becoming an icon as one of the first drive-in restaurants in the state, Goody Goody operated at that location for decades, fi- nally closing for good in 2005.
Tampa restauranteur, Richard Gonzmart, Presi- dent of the Columbia Restau- rant Group, purchased the rights to the Goody Goody name, as well as the recipe for its famous secret sauce and some furniture.
Now Gonzmart is preparing to open Goody Goody again, this time at 1601 West Swann Avenue in Hyde Park.
MacDill To Get $94M Funding Boost
This is the first Goody Goody in Hannibal, Missouri in 1926.
In 2012, three Republican senators brought the federal budget battle to Tampa as an effort to avoid what they called devastating defense cuts.
Senator Lindsay Gra- ham spoke out about MacDill Air Force Base being “toast” if the cuts took effect.
U. S. Representative C.W. Bill Young, a long- time defender of MacDill, was skeptical about the future of the base.
Joining those two in a meeting were Senators John McCain and Kelly Ayotte, and they dramatized the effect of budget cuts on na- tional security and defense-re- lated jobs.
Under a deal, those cuts, in- cluding $500 billion in de- fense spending over the next 10 years, was to take effect if Congress didn’t act to de- crease the national budget deficit.
The meeting with the sen- ators was the first in a series that were held as they tried to emphasize their goals.
Now, it’s been reported that MacDill Air Force Base is set to get $94 million for
planned construction projects. The funding was an- nounced by Representative David Jolly, who represents
District 13, Pinellas County.
A little more than a third of the money will be used to con- struct a 36,600-square-foot special operations support fa- cility. Another $55 million will be used for runway improve- ments needed for 23 new Army Reserve Black Hawk
Helicopters.
Another $10 million will
be allocated for third-party collection data on Gulf Red Snapper and other Gulf reef species for federal stock as- sessments. The new data could lead to longer Red Snap- per fishing seasons for recre- ational fishers.
The funding for MacDill and the collection data pro- gram were just part of the fed- eral government’s recently unveiled spending bill. Con- gressional leaders reached an agreement on the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill and the $650 billion tax deal, averting a government shutdown.
The House and Senate will vote on the package.
New Goody Goody on Swann Avenue.
MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE
The new restaurant is ex- pected to open in 2016 in a 100-seat space with a fast-ca- sual concept that will include table service offering break- fast, lunch and dinner.
Gonzmart, 62, is putting a lot of effort into every detail of Goody Goody. His team has sampled eight different
Goody Goody’s in 1930s.
types of hot dogs, and he wants to make sure the real estate reflects Goody Goody’s bygone era. His team is cur- rently taste-testing fried chicken recipes.
Gonzmart is also work- ing to recreate the butter- scotch pie that made Goody Goody famous.
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