By Jade’a Broome | Raider Review Staff Plant City High School students spent the first half of the semester making clay bowls for the annual Empty Bowls event in Historic Downtown Plant City. Through a joint project with the PCHS art department, students created the bowls to be auctioned off to bidders or sold to […]
Continue ReadingAround Town 11.20.15
FFA team places fifth at nationals
By Jose Lozoya | Staff Intern Clay Joyner, John Banks and Meredith Del Castillo began their FFA journey together in the sixth grade at Tomlin Middle School. Fast forward to October 2015: The three of them were now Strawberry Crest High School seniors who placed fifth at the National Agricultural Communications Career Development event in […]
Continue ReadingAround Town 11.13.15
United Food Bank to fill bowls, hearts
The United Food Bank of Plant City will be hosting the nationwide Empty Bowls Project Saturday, Nov. 14, in the Winter Strawberry Capital of the World. For the fifth year, Empty Bowls will be held at the Robert W. Willaford Railroad Museum in downtown Plant City. A $10 ticket will provide a participant with a […]
Continue ReadingAround Town 11.06.15
Dancing with the Locals returns to stage
Once a year, Plant City residents can see their friends, neighbors and co-workers twirling onstage in front of an audience of 400. This event is Dancing with the Locals, and it will be held Friday, Nov. 13, at the John R. Trinkle Center. The proceeds go to the Noon Rotary Club and the United Food […]
Continue ReadingSurvive flu season with these tips
The s eason we all know and dread has arrived once again: flu season. It lasts from October to April and has different strains every year. “The flu is a common virus that is very unique because of the various strains that it contains,” Dr. Jasmine T. Weaver, from the Plant City JSA Healthcare location, […]
Continue ReadingPlant City kidnapper sentenced to 35 years’ hard labor in Louisiana
By Anna M. Phillips | Tampa Bay Times A Plant City man who kidnapped a 16-year-old girl and took her to Louisiana pleaded guilty last week to attempted murder and was sentenced to 35 years of hard labor, according to Lafayette Parish, Louisiana’s The Advertiser. For a week in June 2014, Steven Patrick Myers, 42, was […]
Continue ReadingDWTL: Tony and Deanna Rodriguez
When Strawberry Court first maid Deanna Rodriguez was asked to participate in Dancing with the Locals, she knew there was only one possible partner: her father, Tony Rodriguez. They will be dancing in the event Friday, Nov. 13. Usually, the Strawberry Queen is the one on stage, but the 2015 queen, Samantha Sun, decided not […]
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