How did your business get its start? Our business actually started from another business shutting down. My husband is a third-generation citrus dealer. We had been in the citrus business for 31 years. With the decline of orange groves in Hillsborough County, we knew we needed to find something else. Andy and Shelby Bender are friends […]
Continue ReadingApplications open for youth parade
Applications are now open for the Florida Strawberry Festival Civitan Youth Parade. The deadline for entering is at 4 p.m. Jan. 9, 2015. The theme is the same as that of the Florida Strawberry Festival: “Come Join the Party!” The parade will be Feb. 28, 2015. Award categories include best club/group float, best church float, […]
Continue ReadingFood bank kicks off Turkey Drive
The second annual United Food Bank Turkey Drive will begin Nov. 1 and run through Nov. 25. You can help by dropping off a 10- to 12-pound turkey, or several, to the food bank, 702 E. Alsobrook Street. The food bank is open on Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The United Food […]
Continue ReadingCops Corner 10.24.14
The following information was gathered from incident and arrest reports obtained from the Plant City Police Department. OCT. 10 PLASTIC PROBLEMS 1700 block of East Warren Street. Fraud. The victim stated unknown suspect(s) used his debit/credit card online at attempted to charge $114 worth of merchandise. The transaction was stopped, and the victim was refunded […]
Continue ReadingIt’s Read Everywhere: Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic
Plant City’s First Baptist Church of Plant City recently sent this group to teach (Southern) English in Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic. It was an awesome experience making friends with the young people and adults who attended. These Plant City residents were blessed by the warm reception received by the gracious and humble Czechs. Front row, from left: […]
Continue ReadingIt’s all about performance
We often have noted that elections are referenda on incumbents’ performance. If they have performed satisfactorily and competently and continue to offer a governing philosophy that aligns with our nation’s founding principles — that is, a defense of and promotion of our unalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness and freedom from the […]
Continue ReadingPlant City teen faces 106 charges in child porn case
A 16-year-old Plant City teenager was arrested on 93 counts of possession of child pornography, nine counts of promotion of a sexual performance by a child, and four counts of lewd and lascivious molestation. The investigation into the teenager started in September. Agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Tampa Bay Regional Operations Center Cyber […]
Continue ReadingCity remembers Cindy Holland
Avid volunteer, soccer lover and devoted wife and mother Cindy Holland, 65, died Oct. 3, from complications of systematic lupus erthematosus. It had started as a year of unsuccessful diagnoses — a chronic rash, fatigue, muscle weakness. In December 1998, Holland finally got her answer. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that causes the immune system […]
Continue ReadingBump in the Night
Fright night isn’t only reserved for Oct. 31 in Plant City. The town, chock full of its own ghostly history, has more than enough candy to go around, including fall festivals and trunk or treats in the weeks before Halloween. But, two main events are bound to scare your socks off this year. Sir Henry’s […]
Continue ReadingBurney student needs donations
Burney Elementary student Azaria Santos is going into her second year of doing charity work to help premature babies at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Last year, Azaria and her nana stuffed stockings and brought bears to babies and their parents for the Christmas season. This year, Azaria also wants to donate lullaby CDs, blankets, Bibles, books […]
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