MARCH 2025
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What’s Up in March? How about... Spring Training for Summer Camp!
OK, it’s March. So what does this mean to you and your family? Well, it means making sure you have something clean to wear that’s green. It means making sure you have enough hot wings for the NCAA March Madness Basketball Tournament. March is also the first month of spring, so spring cleaning chores will start showing up on the dreaded Honey Do List!
March is also “Irish American Month,” “Music in Our Schools Month,” “National Craft Month” and “National Frozen Food Month.” Ironically, March is also “National Nutrition Month” (which seems to be in direct conflict with “National Frozen Food Month,” but I digress), “National Peanut Month,” “National Women’s History Month,” “Red Cross Month” and “Social Workers Month.”
March is a boy’s name of old French
origin, and the meaning of March is “borderland or frontier.” In Italy, “Le Marche” was a territory between two ancient kingdoms. In England, the Marches of western England border Wales. “March,” as in “walk,” derives from a slightly different root. The name may also be used to signify the month of birth.
March also means Get Ready For Summer Camp Month! What??? Summer Camp in March?
No, you didn’t read that wrong. Although summer seems eons away, it’s really much closer than you think. School lets out for summer on Wednesday, May 29th and if you start thinking about what to do with the kids for the summer on May 30th, you’re gonna to be WAY TOO LATE!
So, right about now there is a good chance your kids are headed to a
Spring Break Camp somewhere. If you don’t think spring break camp has anything to do with summer camp, then consider this. If you equate summer to a football season and Mom and Dad as the head coaches, then March is training camp. It’s the time to evaluate your children’s camp needs.
Just because little Johnny loved soccer camp last year doesn’t necessarily mean he wants to do it again this summer. Of course, we all know how well eight year olds communicate their thoughts to mom and dad. So, you don’t want to find out the morning you are driving to the rec center to sign him up for soccer camp that he now hates soccer and wants to go to fishing camp instead.
Spring Break Camp is your exhibition game. So watch this week’s game closely to see if your
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child really will enjoy an extended period of time with a particular activity during summer vacation. It’s best to know that Johnny finds fishing boring the second day of Spring Break Camp before signing him up for an expensive four week Summer Camp and then having to sell that top end rod and reel on Craigslist!
turns out to be a future Summer Camp winner, you can still try out a few new ideas during the off days of school in the coming months. Some facilities, like In the Breeze Horse Ranch (813-264-1919) in Westchase, offer day camps throughout the year on days when school is closed. It’s a great way to try out different camp ideas to see
Art camps at the Morean Art Center (727-822-7872) in St. Petersburg and Practically Pikasso (727822-5204) in St. Petersburg are all offering summer camps, as well as those daily programs when school is closed throughout the year.
Day-Out Camps 2025
Cost per day:
$27 W/ rec card, $30 W/O rec card
April 18, 2025 April 21, 2025
No Day-Out Camps
MLK Jr. Day, January 20, 2025
President's Day, February 17, 2025 Memorial Day, May 26, 2025
Spring Break Camp
Cost:
$135 W/ rec card, $150 W/O rec card March 17-21, 2025
School’s out, but your work isn’t? Join us for a fun filled week over Spring Break where campers get to play structured activities, enjoy arts n ’ crafts, and go on a field trip!
For more information, call (727)562-4280 or email kelsey mccray@myclearwater com
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Do you have a jockosaur in your family? A jockosaur is a child that wants to play every sport on the planet! Off days after Spring Break are great times to offer a little bit of an alternative for just a day. An art camp at the Morean might strike a creative chord in your future NFL quarterback. Hard 2 Guard Basketball in Clearwater (727-644-8779) and Morningside Recreation in Clearwater (727-5624280) will be running camps throughout the entire summer.
Humane Society (727-797-7722 ) in Clearwater has a camp where kids learn about animal care, behavior, current events and animal careers. Girls Inc (727544-6230) in Pinellas Park has Environmental Science SMART Summer Camps.
So, whether it’s sports, art, science, nature, or just general fun, there are loads of opportunities to enrich, educate and entertain your child.
So, why not try something new before the summer?
WALK FOR EPILEPSY
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Please join us for the upcoming 2025 Walk for Epilepsy Pinellas event! This event is held to increase awareness and support for children, teens, young adults with epilepsy and their families living in West Central Florida.
What happens at the Walk for Epilepsy? Participants will meet at Lake Seminole Park next to Shelter 8. Lake Seminole Park is located at 10015 Park Blvd, Seminole, FL 33777. Look for the feather banners with the Epilepsy Services Foundation logo!
Make your way to the check-in table and then proceed to pick up your official 2025 Walk for Epilepsy T-shirt. There will be vendor tables you can visit, snacks you can pick up, and don’t forget to check out the raffle prize tent! Be sure to bring extra cash if you would like to take a chance at winning any of the raffle prizes!
Our Emcee, Scott Tavlin from Magic 94.9, will be there to get the crowd pumped up and Morris the Explorasaurus from St. Pete’s Great Explorations Children’s Museum will make the event mem-
orable for everyone! They will lead the crowd in some warm ups that you just have to experience!
Then we will all head out to do a one-mile Walk for Epilepsy! The walk begins and ends at the shelter in the event area next to Shelter 8 where raffle winners will be announced, and we can all congratulate each other on completing the 2025 Walk for Epilepsy Pinellas and celebrate our Epilepsy Warriors!!
Hope to see you there!
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The Gulfcoast Youth Soccer Association (GYSA) held it’s annual Championship Cup this past February. The event was held at the Walter Fuller Soccer Complex in St. Petersburg.
In the U14 Boys Division, the West Florida Flames, playing in Bracket C, opened the tournament by dominating the Seminole Shooting Stars 6-1. Up next, they shut out the Pinellas County United team 3-zip. The Flames wrapped up pool play against a second Pinellas County United team. This United team proved to be more of a challenge as they were pushed to the limits, but held on for a 4-3 nail biting victory. With an undefeated pool play record, the Flames advanced to the semi finals.
With a spot in the championship game on the line, the Flames matched up against a tough Dunedin Stirling team. The Stirling went 2-1 in pool play. In a tough defensive struggle, the Flames edged out the Stirling 2-1 to advance to the finals and a match up with Tarpon Springs FC. Tarpon won Pool C with a solid defensive effort, allowing just three goals the entire tournament. The hype for the championship game proved not to be oversold as the two top teams in the tournament traded a pair of scores each and ended the match in
a 2-2 deadlock. Penalty kicks would determine who would take home the 2025 GYSA Cup trophy. With the crowd silenced, the Flames’ shooter deeked the goal keeper to move to his right and then uncorked a canon blast to the right side of the net, as the crowd erupted, for the winning goal and the GYSA title.
In other GYSA results, it was all Azalea in the U12 Boys Division, as both club’s entries made it to the finals with the Fisher team beating the Pusateri team 4-zip.
In the U12 Girls Division, the Northeast Raiders and Tarpon Springs FC both advanced to the title game via a tie
breaker as they posted identical 2-1 records in their respective brackets. Both teams advanced due to goal differential.
In the championship game it was all Northeast as the Raiders scored three unanswered goals en route to a 3-0 victory and the GYSA title.
It was an all Northeast final in the U14 Girls Division with team 472 beating team 471, 2-0 to earn the championship trophy.
The U17 Boys crown went to Azalea as they knocked off Tarpon FC 3-2.
The West Florida Flames U14 Boys team won the GYSA Cup title in dramatic fasihion, winning the championship game on penalty kicks.
