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Christmas Town Returns To Busch Gardens Tampa
The Tampa Bay area’s biggest Christmas celebration returns to Busch Gardens® Tampa this holiday season.
Christmas Town"! will take place on 20 select dates, between Nov. 27 through Dec. 31. New this year, the cheer keeps going until 10 p. m. every event night. The event is included with park admission. Christmas Town creates beautiful family traditions for guests as Busch Gardens is transformed into a holiday wonderland with more than a million twinkling lights, Christmas entertainment, live music,
festive treats and holiday shopping.
The park will be filled with cheery surprises including Santa’s House presented by Coca-
Cola®, where guests can meet the big man himself as he takes a break from his busy holiday schedule to take photos with families in his private study.
Christmas Town is included with any Annual Pass, Fun Card or daily admission to Busch Gardens. For more information, visit buschgardenstampa.com.
Birthday Celebrations
MR. MAKIS And SHANNON WALTERS, SR.
Celebrating our birthdays together, 11/16 and 11/20. We’ve known each other for 26 years and are ready to make a lifetime of memories.
They say 2 Scorpios can’t be together, but obviously we’ve proven them wrong.
Loving each other for life! Happy birthday, Baby!
Happy Birthday
SOLACE JOHNSON
Love: mother, Rhonda Johnson; grandmother, Eu- nice James; sister and brother.
2016 Florida High School Competitive Cheerleading State Championships At The USF Sun Dome January 29-30
The Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) will host their 2016 Florida High School Competitive Cheerleading State Championships at the USF Sun Dome on Friday, January 29 and Sat- urday, January 30. Tickets are on sale now. Tickets are $10.00 per day.
“The FHSAA takes great pride in creating wonderful lifetime memories and successful championship events and we are excited to bring the top cheerleading squads in Florida to a venue of this caliber,” said FHSAA Executive Director Dr. Roger Dearing.
“The USF Sun Dome looks forward to hosting another successful event and working with the FHSAA to ensure all participants and patrons have a great experience in Tampa and at our venue,” said Trent Merritt, Spectra’s Regional Vice President and General Manager of the USF Sun Dome.
‘No Smoking’ In Effect At Some Tampa Housing Complexes
BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor
Earlier this week, the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), proposed to ban smoking in their residential properties. If the proposal is approved, it would prohibit smoking in nearly 700,000 public housing complexes throughout the na- tion.
The summary of the HUD proposal stated, “This pro- posed rule would require each public housing agency (PHA) administering public housing to implement a smoke-free policy. Specifically, this rule proposes that no later than 18 months from the effective date of the final rule, each PHA must implement a policy pro- hibiting lit tobacco products in all living units, indoor com- mon areas in public housing, and in PHA administrative of- fice buildings (in brief, a smoke-free policy for all public housing indoor areas).
“The smoke-free policy must also extend to all outdoor areas up to 25 feet from the housing and administrative of- fice buildings.”
The purpose of the pro- posal is to improve indoor air quality in the housing, benefit the health of public housing residents and PHA staff, re- duce the risk of catastrophic fires, and lower overall mainte-
nance costs.
HUD officials cited health
reasons, fire damage, and low- ering maintenance and clean- ing costs of the units.
Ms. Lillian Stringer,
spokesperson for the Tampa Housing Authority said, “We are already ahead of the pro- posal. We are already working in that direction. All of the buildings at Encore and Cedar Pointe are smoke free.
“In addition to the health issues, it is a cost saving meas- ure. When people move, the nicotine must be cleaned from the units.”
HUD Accepting Public Comment On Smoking Ban
Earlier this week, the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), announced a proposed that would ban smoking in all pub-
lic housing complexes. How- ever, they are encouraging in- dividuals who would like to make a public comment to do so. There are two acceptable methods to post the com- ments.
The first is to submit the comments by mail. Individuals can mail their comments to the Regulations Division, Of- fice of General Counsel, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room 10276, Washington, DC 20410-0500.
The second method of making a public comment can be accomplished electronically. Those interested can submit electronic comments through the Federal eRulemaking Por- tal at www.regulations.gov.
All comments must in- clude: Docket No. FR 5597- P-02 RIN 2577-AC97 Instituting Smoke-Free Public Housing.
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