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Hospital Will Open In Oct., After Media & Public Preview Events In Sept.!

By Gary Nager Photos by Matt Wiley In anticipation of Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel’s opening to patients sometime during the first week in October, the hospital, in conjunction with the Greater Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce, recently opened for a tour by members of the media.

That amazing tour was followed by, as we were going to press with this issue, a huge public Grand Opening, where thousands of local residents and those interThis is no “artist’s rendering.” It’s the spectacular new Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel, which recently held its media preview and public ested in the finest imaging techGrand Opening celebration and will open to patients in early October. (Right) The hospital’s incredible new 3-Tesla MRI machine. nology of any hospital in Florida the entire nation. And, to be honest, before-seen (in our state) 3-Tesla (3T) came to enjoy a celebration of this truly photo highlights of all of the amazing technologies and advances in patient anyone who lives in or near Wesley MRI machine and 128-slice CT Scan state-of-the-art healthcare facility — care that will soon be part of the new Chapel who is looking for the best pos- machine (most CTs are only 16-slice). right in the heart of Wesley Chapel! hospital and its 400 recently hired med- sible care for themselves and their fami“Our imaging equipment, includThe $150-million, 83-bed hospily and friends, really needs to tour the ing for surgeries, is truly top-of-thetal, part of the Adventist Health System ical professionals.

Situated on a beautiful 52-acre site hospital in person to fully understand line,” Adams said. “We believe we will was unveiled to members of the media, just north of the Shops at Wiregrass just how incredible and unique a health draw patients from as far away as Herwho got to take the Grand Tour of mall — with a direct interior access care facility it is. nando County, as well as from all of Wesley Chapel’s first hospital, where Brian Adams, the president and Pasco, northern Hillsborough and even unsurpassed technology meets new lev- road to the mall, by the way — many of the technologies used in MRI and CEO of Florida Hospital Wesley further away for some of these surgical els of patient care and security.

CT imaging are the first of their kind in Chapel, led the media tour, which On our website in the weeks to See “Hospital” on page 12.

Florida and some even first or second in included stops at the hospital's nevercome, we will show you video and

Wesley Chapel’s Primary Votes Are In, But Turnout Less Than Impressive

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Fields At Wiregrass May Not Grow, USGS Comes To Wesley Chapel, High School Football Season Begins & Much More!

Habitat For Humanity Builds Homes, Multiple Dining Reviews, Another Installment Of ‘Nibbles & Bytes’ & More!

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NEWS, BUSINESS, SPORTS & EDUCATION UPDATES

Northwood/Seven Oaks precincts recorded the lowest voter turnout, both with only 4 percent of registered voters submitting ballots.

Most of the races were fairly one sided, with a clear-cut winner, such as the Pasco County Sheriff primary race.

Incumbent Sheriff Chris Nocco (R) won by a commanding majority with 85 percent of the vote and will face Democratic opponent Kim Bogart in See “Primary” on page 9.

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the county as a whole.

According to the results from the Pasco County Supervisor of Elections website, the total number of registered voters in Pasco, as of the primary election, was 301,316, but only 26,817 ballots were cast, putting the voter percentage for Pasco at 9 percent. Of the nearly 39,000 registered voters in Wesley Chapel and its immediate surrounding areas, only 2,659 voted, putting the voter turnout percentage at a dismal 6.8 percent.

Among the voting precincts in the Wesley Chapel area, the Williamsburg community again had the highest voter turnout with 15 percent, while Wesley Chapel North and the

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The biggest political event of the year in the Tampa Bay area — the Republican National Convention — is but a distant memory, but the final results of the August 14 Pasco County

Primary Election have come in.

Wesley Chapel voted, along with the rest of Pasco County, although the percentage of voters who made it to the ballot box in our distribution area’s 12 voting precincts was quite a bit lower than the voter turnout percentage for

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Editorial — ‘How Would You Feel After Kicking Cancer’s...Butt?’

An editorial by Gary Nager As many of you already are well aware, October (less than ten days away as you receive this issue) is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and of course, there are always plenty of events in our area — and across the U.S. — to commemorate the event. Professional and amateur athletes everywhere wear pink all month long in honor of those who have been afflicted with the disease — and of course, to honor the memory of those who have lost their battle with the dreaded scourge.

To be honest, because I have known so many people who have battled other malignancies, I never really understood why breast cancer was so singled out to have its own special month, especially when there are now about double the number of women who die from lung cancer (about 70,000) as from breast cancer (35,000) every year.

At least that’s how I felt until about ten months ago, when I found out that one of my closest friends, long-time New Tampa resident Pegah Stegeman (the owner of the Alteration & Tailoring Studio in the Redfern Professional Park, behind Dunkin’ Donuts on Bruce B. Downs Blvd.), was diagnosed as being in an early stage. Even though a few people I was close to had previously lost their respective battles with breast carcinomas, I suddenly had a new perspective on the importance of keeping the public educated about this particular illness.

The only thing I knew for sure was that if anyone was going to “beat” breast cancer, it would be Pegah, who has always been one of the happiest, most positive people I have ever met.

I met Pegah a year or two before she

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are still tragically thousands of women (and a few men) who don’t beat back this horrific illness, and I am aware that many of them also have similar support systems.

But, I still firmly believe that Pegah and Adam both “knowing” from Day One that they were not going to fail had a lot to do with why Pegah recently had

her final radiation treatment.

And, even though she’s not blind to the statistics about possible recurrences, when I asked Pegah how she felt, she said, “I feel amazing! How would anyone feel after kicking cancer’s...butt?” (She may have used a different word, but you get the idea).

met and married her husband Adam, who definitely matches her smile-for-smile and positive-for-positive. The Stegemans today have added two beautiful daughters, Zayda & Donya, to the mix, the younger of whom was only months old when Pegah’s cancer was diagnosed, which made the news even that much harder for them, their family and all of their friends to bear.

And yet somehow, throughout the ongoing ordeal of chemo, radiation, hair loss and surgeries, the thing that moved me to tears every time I saw Pegah was that she seemed to never even once consider the possibility of losing her battle.

I’ll never forget the first time she said, “The doctors told me I’m going to beat this and I told them I already knew it.”

Those doctors included USF Breast Care oncologist Dr. David Wright, surgeon Dr. Charles Cox and radiologist Dr. Harvey Greenberg, all of whom, Adam says, called Pegah’s optimism and gratitude “powerful” throughout her ordeal.

She attributes a lot of her ability to block out the possibility of death because of her husband. “If you’re going to write anything about this,” she warned me with a smile, “You’d better give ‘mad props’ to Adam. I don’t think as many people would lose their battles if they had someone like him keeping them positive and doing everything for them so they could focus on getting themselves better.”

For example, early on in the process, Adam gave his wife a beautiful sunflower bouquet with a card that read “You’re not sick at all, you’re just not getting enough sunshine.”

In other words, the fact is that there

Table of Contents LOCAL NEWS, BUSINESS, EDUCATION UPDATES........................................................Pages 1-24 USGS Brings Water Science Center To Wesley Chapel...........4 Fields At Wiregrass Negotiations In Jeopardy..........................5 Taste of NT To Celebrate 20th Anniversary In March............8 Wesley Chapel News Briefs ..............................................10 Suspects Sought In Parking Lot Shooting Zales Employee Steals Thousands Plot Thickens In Target Bodies Case Wesley Chapel Community Calendar..............................14

Local Business Updates...................................16-21 Quality Cleaning Keeps Homes & Businesses Clean............16 Dr. William Scheu Helps Get The Kinks Out........................20

Local Education & Sports Updates................24-25 Food Truck Rally Boosts WCH Band...................................24 High School Football Season Kicks Off In WC....................27

N eighborhood M agazine Habitat For Humanity Building Home In Wesley Chapel...27 Brass Tap Gets Ready For ‘Taptoberfest’...............................29 Koizi Endless Hibachi & Sushi Eatery..................30 Neighborhood Nibbles & Biz Bytes................................31 Ciccio’s Sizzles With New Menu...........................................32 WESLEY CHAPEL COLOR CLASSIFIEDS........34

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USGS Moves Florida Water Science Center Offices To Wesley Chapel

By Matt Wiley The world is getting warmer, but is the climate really changing? Is this possible change mankind’s fault? Do we have enough fresh water to keep using at the rate that we do? How high will sea levels reach 100 years from now?

Most people would just shrug their shoulders, but the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Florida Water Science Center is set on finding the answers to these questions, many of which can be discovered through research being done at the Center’s new headquarters in Wesley Chapel.

On August 22, USGS Florida Water Science Center director Rafael W. Rodriguez, a resident of New Tampa’s K-Bar Ranch, addressed the Greater Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Committee at American Consulting Engineers, located off S.R. 56 and Cypress Ridge Blvd. in Wesley Chapel.

Rodriguez provided the committee with an overview of what exactly the Water Science Center, as part of the USGS, does on a daily basis. He also gave talked about the type of research that is moving into the community.

Originally located just north of Busch Gardens on University Center Dr. in Tampa, Rodriguez says that the

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Water Science Center moved north to its new facility at 4450 Pet Lane in Wesley Chapel to “get closer to the field.” He explained that Wesley Chapel’s proximity to both I-75 and I275 and to several water sources, including Cypress Creek and the Hillsborough River, made it the perfect location for the new office, since the Center outgrew its former location.

The USGS’s new 21,000-sq.-ft. facility will be home to 65-70 USGS employees, including hydro technicians, geologists, chemists, mathematicians and a variety of other engineers and scientists in related fields. The Wesley Chapel office is one of five in Florida.

“Most people think we just make maps,” he said. “The USGS is actually the nation’s largest water, earth, bio-science — and mapping — agency.”

In addition, the agency collects, monitors, analyzes and provides scientific understanding about natural resource conditions and issues.

“We provide the science,” he said.

“We leave it to the local governments to make the decisions.”

Much of the research that the Water Science Center conducts is used on a national scale, although Florida’s water problems are a little different than some of the other states in the country, particularly those that have

been suffering through this summer’s blistering drought.

“Florida is blessed,” he said.

“Our state is like a sponge. Water flows back and forth.”

One of the largest programs Rafael Rodriguez (left) and the new USGS Florida Water that the Water SciScience Center, located off Pet Ln. in Wesley Chapel. ence Center conextracted from rivers and wells without ducts is the USGS Cooperative Water damaging the local ecosystem. Some of Program, which has been active since the various measurements taken include 1895. Through this ongoing program, the Center collects data that meets local a river’s stage (height), discharge, evapotranspiration (how much water evapoand regional informational needs. The rates or is absorbed by plants) and local data is then integrated into a water quality parameters (pH levels, national database, which is important temperature, dissolved oxygen). All of when considering where and how to this information is important for deterbuild developments and bridges.

Some of this data can be found on mining how a river, creek or stream fluctuates over time. the USGS’s website in a section called But, the USGS isn’t concerned “Water Watch” (WaterWatch.USGS. with small intervals of time, such as the gov). Water-measuring tools that are human lifespan. The goal is to learn placed in local water sources, such as how things change over much larger Cypress Creek and the Hillsborough spans of time.

River, transmit real-time data to a “We think in terms of millions of National Weather Service (NWS) satellite, which the NWS uses to help deter- years,” Rodriguez explained. “The earth is more than 4.5 billion years old. mine flood advisories.

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Climate Change

“Climate change is real,” he said.

“It’s not science fiction. It’s there.”

Rodriguez explained that climate change is affecting the way water is extracted, even today. Some wells that are located closer to the coast are in danger of having to be moved due to saltwater intrusion, as local water levels slowly rise, he explained. Saltwater intrusion, he said, is when salt water begins to mix with groundwater, which is where we get a large amount of our drinking water.

“Where fresh water ends and salt-

water begins is not as clear-cut under underwater,” he explained. “There is a mixing effect.”

Rodriguez showed a diagram of how a map would change if sea levels rose just half a meter. Much of the east and western coasts of Florida would be under water. He then offered the scenario of a hurricane with an additional storm surge, which is already a major concern for coastal residents throughout the state whenever a tropical storm or hurricane moves into their area.

“While people are boarding up, our job is also to get ready — to monitor the storm in the field,” he said.

For more information about the USGS, please visit USGS.gov.

‘Fields At Wiregrass’ In Jeopardy?

The grass may never be greener on either side of the fence for The Fields at Wiregrass sports complex if Pasco County and Wiregrass Ranch officials don’t soon come to an agreement over some of the numbers.

Talks between the county and representatives for the Porter family, which owns Wiregrass Ranch, have been in the works since Pasco agreed to spend $14 million in tourism funds and sales taxes to build the 200-acre project back in April. However, the exact terms of the agreement are still being negotiated.

According to reports in both the Tampa Bay Times and The Tampa Tribune, the talks have come to a standstill because of technicalities concerning who will build the park and who will receive the revenue generated by the complex. A spokesperson for the Porters says the family doesn’t want to run the park under the county’s new terms.

The published reports state that the county wants the Porters — who are donating the land and were originally going to operate and maintain the facility and keep the revenue — to pay the county seven percent of all revenues collected, even if no profits are made.

Wiregrass Ranch spokesperson J.D. Porter says that the county keeps agreeing to details in person during the four to five meetings they’ve had, but then change those same details in the written

versions of the planned agreement.

“We laid out our terms with the county when we met with them,” he says. “We met in the middle on a lot of details, but then the written version of the agreement comes back and it’s all totally opposite.”

Porter gave the example of scheduling.“We need to be in charge of scheduling (tournaments) for the facility,” he explains. “The county agreed, but the written version we received has the county in charge of scheduling.” He adds that Pasco officials haven’t responded to multiple requests for meetings. “But, we’re still ‘all-in,’” says Porter of the deal.

District 1 commissioner Ted Schrader says that the county has asked Wiregrass to put their specific issues in writing.“We want to know, specifically, what their issues are so we can address those concerns,” he says.

Negotiations will continue, but, if the deal is killed, it would mean that Pasco would have to find a new venue for the Dick’s Sporting Goods Lacrosse Tournament of Champions. A contract signed March 6 keeps the tournament in Pasco, but, if this deal falls through, Dick’s could need to find a new location.

“We’re very concerned about that,” says Schrader. “It’s crucial that we get this solved.” The new sports complex was supposed to be built in time for the 2013 Dick’s tournament. — MW

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20th Anniversary ‘Taste’ To Be Held March 24 In Tampa Palms!

Primrose School & Primrose Park, Across From Freedom High & Liberty MS, Will Host Expanded Event

By Gary Nager The New Tampa Chamber of Commerce, Tampa Palms Professional Center and Primrose School of Tampa Palms are proud to announce that the 20th annual Taste of New Tampa & Business Expo will be held Sunday, March 24, noon-6 p.m.

The Taste, New Tampa’s signature one-day event, has been held in a variety of locations from Tampa Palms to Wesley Chapel the last 19 years, but had been staged at either Freedom High or the New Tampa Community Park in Tampa Palms or at Wharton High on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. the last several years.

But, events held at schools and community parks located adjacent to schools can not serve alcohol, and to once again be able to offer beer and wine to Taste attendees was one of the priorities of the Chamber’s Board of Directors for the 20th milestone event.

“This Board and others before it also hoped to find a location that might be able to become a permanent site for the event in years to come,” says Regina Ramalheira, the new Board president. “And, we also considered the

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possibility of expanding the Taste to a two-day event featuring headline entertainment and a Battle of the Bands.”

And, the Chamber is well on its way to making most of those ideas into a reality. The Tampa Palms Professional Center and Primrose School & Park, which are self-contained on Primrose Lake Cir. off Commerce Park Blvd., offer a location that is not only large enough to handle a greatly expanded event, it’s also a location which offers the benefit of potential temporary wet zoning, as well as plenty of parking and a plaza that normally sees very little traffic on the weekends (the SpringHill Suites by Marriott hotel and St. Andrew Presbyterian Church located in the center are the only exceptions).

After discussions with Gar Urette of the professional center and Richard and Jana Radtke of the Primrose School, the Chamber Board opted to move the event to a Sunday afternoon, expand it from the usual three to six full hours, locate all of the Taste exhibitors and activities inside the park and add both a Battle of the Bands and, if possible, a true headline entertainment act to the festivities. The details about the entertainment will be

announced as they are firmed up, but if anyone who reads this has access to any headline national or even top-level local entertainers, you’re asked to call Jayne Baker at the Chamber office at 293-2464.

Reimbur$ing Restaurant$ The number of restaurants participating in the Taste has dropped over the last few years, in no small part due to the change in the local economy, which has made it more and more difficult for mom-and-pop restaurants, in particular, to afford to give away an average of 1,500 “tastes” without receiving anything in return other than, they hope, quite a few new customers.

So, when the Board invited me to be the chairman of this year’s Taste, as I had several previous years, I said that I would be less interested in re-taking control of the event if the Board was unwilling to get these restaurant owners something more than just a nice picture in our Taste follow-up issue.

To that end, the Board agreed to reduce the admission price from $15 (in advance) or $20 (day of) per adult (and kids over age 12) all the way down to just $5 per adult in advance

and $10 the day of the Taste. It also will cost $1 per Taste Ticket to sample each restaurant’s samplings or to purchase tastes of beer or wine, and the ticket proceeds will be split 50-50 with each restaurant. In other words, if a restaurant collects 1,000 tickets during the Taste, it will be reimbursed $500.

The individual restaurants/beverage suppliers will determine the number of Taste Tickets they will charge for each of their own samples, as well as the size of each sample they give away.

For information about Taste 2013 sponsorships, exhibitor and restaurant tables, call Jayne Baker at 293-2464 or visit NewTampaChamber.org or TasteofNewTampa.info.

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“Primary jump” Continued from page 1 the November election. Meanwhile, Kurt Browning ousted Pasco County superintendent of schools Heather Fiorentino in the Republican primary with 65 percent of the vote and will go on to face Write-In candidate Kathy Lambert in November, while Pasco School Board Chair Joanne Hurley secured another term with 68 percent of the vote in the non-partisan race.

The District 1 County Commissioner race was a close one, with each candidate receiving about a third of the vote, but Ted Schrader held on for reelection over Ron Oakley and Rachel

O’Connor in a Universal Primary with 37.49 percent of the vote. Republican candidate John Legg won his bid for District 17 State Representative in another Universal Primary and will be the future voice of the Wesley Chapel area in Tallahassee, following the general election in November.

A breakdown of the results of the bigger Pasco County primary races that Wesley Chapel voted for is available in the chart above.

For a more detailed list and full results from the Pasco County primary election, visit PascoVotes.org.

And, if you’re not yet registered, the last day to register to vote in the November 6 Presidential Election is Monday, October 8.

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News Briefs

Suspects Sought In Parking Lot Shooting

Zales Employee Steals Thousands

The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) is still investigating a “suspicious incident” that occurred August 31, in which shots were fired.

According to the PCSO release, details are still unclear, but PCSO received a call on August 31 about an altercation that took place in the Grand Oaks Square parking lot, located at 26254 Wesley Chapel Blvd. PCSO says that, in their preliminary investigation, they discovered that a male and female were in a Toyota pickup when two other individuals approached and entered the vehicle.

The release says that a witness heard gunshots while all four individuals were in the vehicle, after which two people that entered the vehicle got out and sped off in a Toyota Camry. The male and female drove to an area hospital so that one could be treated for a gunshot wound, but the names of the victims and hospital were not released.

PCSO has not yet released an incident report because it is still an active investigation. If anyone has any information about the suspects or the situation, they are urged to call PCSO at (727) 844-7711.

Temptation for employees and customers alike lies beneath the glass countertops at any jewelry store. Overcoming that temptation is part of the job for most jewelry store employees, but a Zales employee at the Shops at Wiregrass saw diamonds in his eyes, and pockets, that ultimately landed him in jail for theft.

According to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO), 25-year-old Emanuel Rivera has been charged with stealing more than $23,000 in jewelry during his employment at the Wiregrass Zales location.

Emanuel Rivera He also has been charged with attempting to sell the stolen jewelry to secondary dealers, or pawn shops, to which he provided false identification.

But wait, there’s more! Check out the rest of the story at WCNighborhoodNews.com!

Bodies Case

More details have emerged in the apparent murder-suicide that occurred August 9 in the Wesley Chapel SuperTarget parking lot on Bruce B. Downs Blvd. at County Line Rd. According to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO), the bodies discovered in the vehicle were those of Armando Troconis, 65, of Holiday, and his girlfriend, Elizabeth Behrens, 59, of Tampa. Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco says that both were separated from their spouses, but Behrens told Troconis that she was planning to return to her hus-

band. However, the timeframe for when she told him her decision is still unclear and detectives have not yet determined whether she told him before or after arriving in the Target parking lot.

The case is still under investigation, but PCSO detectives believe that Troconis shot Behrens in her car and then turned the gun on himself.

The PCSO report says the department received a call around 7:48 p.m. on August 9 about the bodies of a man and woman discovered dead inside a vehicle in the Target parking lot.

Be sure to keep an eye on WCNeighborhoodNews.com, as we are constantly updating our site with the most up-to-date news & information in Wesley Chapel.

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“Hospital” Continued from page 1 imaging equipment we have, especially our vascular surgery and hybrid operating rooms.”

More Than Just Imaging

Every patient room offers the patient and their families opportunities to view videos about that patient’s condition. Thanks to being the first-ever hospital with the “Get Well Network” (Above) FHWC President & CEO Brian in every patient room, whenever any Adams led the media tour, which allowed staff member appears in any room, the visitors to see the “Get Well Network” staff member’s name and photo appear (below) in every patient room in action. on the 42” flat screen TV in the room, which even monitors staff hand washing and sanitizing every time they enter.

There are soothing nature scenes on every wall, including in each of the hospital’s 18 incredible emergency room suites — where the variety of calming scenes, from cartoon to underwater and so many more, can be Mini of Wesley Chapel donated a car changed by the hospital staff. for FHWC’s lab courier, the Mary and Also part of the patient experience Bob Sierra Family Foundation paid for is a beautiful, 900-gallon Zehnder Fam- the naming rights to the CT Scan room ily Foundation aquarium provided by in the ER and Bright House Networks the Florida Aquarium, to captivate and earned the naming rights to the pedireduce the stress of the patients and atric play area in the ER waiting room. their families waiting in the Emergency There’s so much more to tell and Room (ER). In addition, Wesley we will, both on our website and in Chapel Toyota/Honda donated a truck upcoming issues of Wesley Chapel for the hospital’s security personnel, Neighborhood News!

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Community Calendar

Families Sought For Aspect Exchange Students

The Aspect Foundation, a non-profit organization that sponsors high schoolaged students from nearly 30 countries, is seeking host families for exchange students. Host families can be any shape and size as long as they are willing and able to provide room, board and a loving home environment for the student. Exchange students are 15-18 years old, speak English, have their own spending money and insurance and attend a local high school during their stay. They are selectively chosen on the basis of maturity, grades and language skills. Through sharing space and stories with each other, students and the host families learn about a different culture and see their own with new eyes, while making new friends!

For more information, call LuAnne Borak at 746-5787, or visit AspectFoundation.com.

Central Pasco Soccer League Returns

The annual Central Pasco Fall/Winter Recreational Soccer League returns and is available for all North Hillsborough and Pasco County players ages 4-18, boys & girls. This season is intended to provide players at all skill levels an opportunity to learn and play soccer in a fun, structured format.

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For more information and to register, please visit CPUSASoccer. com.

Register now as spots will fill up fast.

Chamber’s ‘Oscar Night’ Annual Awards Banquet

Saturday, September 22, 6 p.m. “Oscar Night: Rolling Out the Red Carpet” is the theme of this year’s annual awards banquet for the Greater Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce, which still had some seats available at our press time. Cocktails begin at 7 p.m. and a plated dinner will be served at 8, with dancing (entertainment by Finest Deejays), auctions, prize drawings and the installation of the Chamber’s 2012-13 officers and the announcement of this year’s Chamber award winners.

Call the Chamber office at 9948534 or visit WesleyChapelChamber. com for last-minute $75 ticket details!

New Tampa Jr. Woman’s Club

Tuesday, September 25, 7 p.m. The GFWC New Tampa Junior Woman’s Club is holding a new member recruitment party at Cantina Laredo in Wiregrass Mall. Women between the ages of 18-40 are welcome to attend. The GFWC New Tampa Junior Woman’s Club is dedicated to community improvement by enhancing the lives of others through volunteer service.

For more info, visit GFWCNew-

Wesley Chapel Rotary Club

Wednesday, September 26, 12:15 p.m. — The Rotary Club of Wesley Chapel meets every Wednesday at Pagelli’s Italian Restaurant in the Shops at Wiregrass mall (2001 Piazza Ave.).

For more information, call 8628989 or 391-3895.

Networking For Your Success

Thursday, September 27, 8 a.m.

— The Networking For Your Success group meets Thursdays at Quail Hollow Golf & Country Club, located at 6225 Old Pasco Rd. For additional information, call Shawn Clark at 888-711-2032 or visit NetworkingforYourSuccess.com.

WC Sunrise Rotary Club

Friday, September 28, 7:15 a.m.

— The Wesley Chapel Sunrise Rotary Club meets every Friday at Quail Hollow Country Club (6225 Old Pasco Rd.) *Note-The Club no longer meets at Lexington Oaks Golf Club.

For additional information, call Lynne Wilson at 695-6466.

CDS Open House

Sunday, September 30, 1 p.m. – Carrollwood Day School (CDS) will hold an open house for prospective parents and students entering sixth grade through high school at its campus located at 1515 West Bearss Ave. This program will include a short formal, break out sessions for the International Baccalaureate (IB)

Programs and different grade levels.

CDS faculty and current students will be on hand to share their experiences.

Reservations are appreciated.

Please call Michelle Cáceres at 9202288, or e-mail MCaceres@CarrollwoodDaySchool.org.

Experienced Networking Professionals (ENP)

Monday, October 1, 7:30 a.m. — This networking group meets Monday mornings at 7:30 a.m. for breakfast and at 8:00 a.m. for networking at Quail Hollow Golf & Country Club.

For info, call Cindy at 505-3065.

Free Networking Int’l

Monday, October 1, 8 a.m. — Free Networking International (FNI), a group of area business owners, meets each Monday for networking and discussion at Lexington Oaks Golf Club (26133 Lex Oaks Blvd., off S.R. 54).

For more information, call Stacy Dalton at 469-5499.

Wesley Chapel Business Forum & Networking

Monday, October 1, 8 a.m. - The Wesley Chapel Business Forum & Networking (WCBFN) is a free gathering of local business leaders in the South Central Pasco and North Hillsborough areas.

WCBFN meets Mondays at the Lexington Oaks Golf Club, located at 26133 Lexington Oaks Blvd.

For more info, call John Roth at 377-2622, send him an email at

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John.Roth@IBuilderz.com or visit the group’s Facebook page.

Wesley Chapel Toastmasters

Monday, October 1, 6:15 p.m. — The “Wesley Chapel Speaks” Toastmasters Club meets on the first and third Monday of every month, at Hyundai of Wesley Chapel (26944 Wesley Chapel Blvd.). Club meetings are open to all interested parties.

For more information, call 4065931 or visit Toastmasters84.org.

Business Networking Int’l

Tuesday, October 2, 7:30 a.m. — Business Networking International (BNI), a group of business professionals who work to support each other through qualified business referrals, meets Tuesdays at Heritage Church (1854 Oak Grove Blvd.).

For more info, email Tim at Tim@TampaHomes24-7.com

East Pasco Networking Group

Tuesday, October 2, 9 a.m. — The East Pasco Networking Group meets every Tuesday at Beef O’Brady’s (1660 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., in the Shops at New Tampa of Wesley Chapel plaza).

Call Frankie Ammons at 479-7997 or e-mail Frankie@studioglory.com.

GriefShare Support Group

Tuesday, October 2, 6:30 p.m. – GriefShare is a Bible-based, video seminar-support group for anyone who is grieving the death of a loved one. The group has begun meetings on Tuesdays

at Lake Magdalene Methodist Church, located at 2902 W. Fletcher Ave., Room 311 of the CEC building. There is a $20 charge for the 13 sessions. Find healing and hope. For information or registration, call 963-1555.

Mothers Of Preschoolers

Tuesday, October 8, 9:30 a.m. Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) is a non-profit group which meets to build friendships between mothers of infants to kindergarteners in the local community.

MOPS meets the second Tuesday of each month at Victorious Life Church, located at 6224 Old Pasco Rd. For more information, email Debbie at VLCMops@yahoo.com.

Chamber Candidates Forums

Tuesdays, October 8 & 15, 7 p.m.

- The Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce will host candidate forums on consecutive Tuesdays at East Pasco Adventist Academy (38434 Centennial Rd., across from Centennial Elem. & Middle Schools. Candidates for countywide and local offices will appear at the forums.

For more info, call 994-8534 or visit WesleyChapelChamber.com.

Florida Plant Society

Tuesday, October 9, 7 p.m. - The Nature Coast Chapter of the Florida Plant Society’s upcoming meeting will include a presentation by chapter secretary David Peterson entitled, "Native and Exotic Plant Communities and the Effect on Bird Populations." The group meets the second Tuesday of every month at

the Land O’Lakes Community Center, located at 5402 Land O’Lakes Blvd. The meetings are free, and all interested parties are invited to attend.

For more information, call Mary at (727) 849-2335, or visit PascoNativePlants.org.

Women-N-Charge

October 13, 2 p.m. – Join the Women-N-Charge group at The Groves Golf & Country Club (7924 Melogold Cir., Land O’Lakes) for a fun filled afternoon of tea, delicious food, networking, a hat contest, door prizes, vendor tables, goodie bags and so much more! Tickets are just $15 for one and $25 for two and can be purchased online at Women-NCharge.com. All proceeds go towards WNC’s annual scholarship fund for women in business.

For more information contact info@women-n-charge.com.

MOMS Club Of WC

Monday, October 15, 10 a.m. — The Moms Offering Moms Support (MOMS) Club of Wesley Chapel, a nonprofit social group for stay-at-home mothers, meets the third Monday of each month at the Lexington Oaks Golf Club clubhouse for activities, field trips and more. For more information, e-mail Heather at WCMoms@yahoo.com.

Events Extravaganza Expo

Sunday, October 21, noon - Are you planning any type of celebration or event? Need ideas or reliable vendors?

The Chamber Needs Your Input On Referendum!

The Greater Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce is considering taking an official position on the “Penny for Pasco” initiative, which will appear on the Nov. 6 General Election ballot. The penny sales tax initiative began in 2004 but will end by Jan. 2014 if voters don’t approve it again.

Please email the Chamber ASAP at Mail@wesleychapelchamber.com if you have an opinion on or need more info about the referendum. Also, visit PascoVotes.org to read the text of the proposed referendum. — GN The all-new Quail Hollow Events Center (6225 Old Pasco Rd.) is hosting an event you won’t want to miss! Information and assistance regarding weddings, bar/bah mitzvahs, corporate events, quinces, proms, recitals, renewing vows, graduations, reunions, black-tie parties, themed events, birthdays, or any special merriment you can dream of! Meet professionals and business owners who can help you arrive in style. More than 50 companies will be represented at the Expo, including Men’s Wearhouse, Finest Deejays, Love That Jazz Photography and many more.

Admission is $5 (pre-register online), or $10 at the door. The first 100 guests receive a “Hollywood Swag Bag.” Call Carmen at 838-5422 or visit Events2Perfection.comevents.

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Quality Cleaning Will Leave Your Home Or Offce Space Spotless

By Camille Gillies It’s time to start sprucing up the house for Thanksgiving and all of your other favorite houseguest-inducing holidays. Can we get a “ho, ho, ho?” Well, breathe a sigh of relief because New Tampa and Wesley Chapel are chock full of businesses to help you get a head start on this busy time of year.

One of the first things you might consider to make your life easier is hiring a housecleaning service…and the mother-daughter team of Suyanne Neves and Ingrid Hess are here to help!

A year ago, they opened Quality Cleaning & Services to serve New Tampa and Wesley Chapel, and they are off and running – er, cleaning.

Whether you need this dynamic duo for ongoing housekeeping services or just a one-time cleanup, they pledge to clean your house or office and more!

Sure, choices abound when it comes to cleaning services, but Suyanne says her willingness to be flexible and her crew’s attention to detail distinguish Quality Cleaning from its competition.

“If you want to change (appointment) days or times, or if you need us to concentrate on a specific area of your home, we are happy to do it,” she

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explains. “We do whatever our clients ask. Every cleaning does not need to be the same, and if you need extra services done, we only charge a small additional fee.”

For instance, one week you may want them to concentrate on cleaning your patio rather than on tidying the kids’ rooms. Not a problem. Or, your usual appointment happens to fall on a bad day. Fine. They’ll reschedule it to suit your plans. Need some windows washed? A minimal charge will get those sliders sparkling in no time. Quality Cleaning is not locked into a specific checklist of items that must be accomplished with every cleaning (unless that’s something a client wishes).

Suyanne says that she is able to offer a wider array of services because, unlike some other maid services, she is not restricted by a rigid routine dictated by a corporate office.

“My staff has even set up and decorated (clients’) Christmas trees,” Suyanne laughs, adding that the business also agrees to last-minute jobs. “I have had people call and ask if I can send someone over to their house with only two hours notice.”

Suyanne agrees to late-notice appointments but insists on an onsite

visit before the start of every new job.

“I meet with the homeowner and, after discussing what they are looking for and seeing the size and condition of the home, apartment or office, I provide a quote for our services.”

A home that is Ingrid Hess (left) & Suyanne Neves of Quality typically well kept will Cleaning & Services will send a team of trained prorequire less time than fessionals to clean your home. one that is messy or dirty to begin with and Quality Cleaning last year after moving our price will reflect that. Suyanne says to Tampa from Sarasota, where for 14 Quality Cleaning has a four-person staff years she has run – and continues to in New Tampa and Wesley Chapel and operate – a successful cleaning business will always send at least two people to that spans Longboat Key, Bradenton, each job.

Osprey, Sarasota and Ellenton. Her “We provide all of our own cleanhusband, Leonardo, had been commuting products and bring our own equip- ing from Sarasota to Tampa for his job ment,” Suyanne explains, stressing that in international stock settlements with the type of equipment is important.

Citibank, and they decided it was time “We have special cleaning tools we like to relocate the family. They purchased a to use because they clean so much bethome in Live Oak Preserve in New ter than what most people have in their Tampa, where they reside with their homes. I want to make sure the home children Inna, 6, and Napoleao, 3. gets as clean as possible because we are Ingrid, 29, is their eldest child and lives proud of our work.” in Wesley Chapel with her husband, Suyanne, 46, decided to open Houston, a personal banker at Bank of

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America, and new baby, Damond, who is 2 months old. Ready to begin branching out from her banking job with Citibank, Ingrid partnered with Suyanne and together they launched Quality Cleaning.

The team makes logical business sense. Ingrid, who attended Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers on a volleyball scholarship, graduated in 2006 with a degree in marketing. She has often helped with her mother’s business, even cleaning homes when needed. Meanwhile, Suyanne possesses the hands-on knowledge and years of experience in both cleaning and staffing. She began working in the cleaning industry in the ‘90s after moving to Florida from Brazil.

“I didn’t speak English and was looking for work,” she recalls in a strong Portuguese accent. “I started cleaning the lobbies of condominiums in Sarasota and Longboat Key and got to know the residents of the buildings.

They started asking me to clean their condos. To this day, my staff still cleans many of their homes.” She says many Sarasota-area residents are seasonal and they trust her to care for their homes in their absence.

Suyanne says she treats clients as she would friends.

“My clients say my crew spends

the time it takes to get the job done right,” she says. “And if they are not satisfied with something, I tell them to call and I will send someone back to their home right away to fix it.

“Four or five of my staff have been with me for more than 10 years,” she says. “They are very thorough.” She adds that the detail of her company’s work will be the biggest difference between Quality Cleaning and other local services. Evidently, that’s the opinion of Fred and Sylvia Estrada, of Seven Oaks, who Suyanne proudly states have now been her clients in three different cities.

“I cleaned their home when they lived in Sarasota, when they moved to Bradenton and now here in New Tampa,” she says.

Speaking of moves, Quality Cleaning also offers move-in and move-out cleanings, which are especially helpful to Realtors when marketing a residence, as well as to buyers and sellers weary of moving hassles.

Suyanne and Ingrid speak English, Portuguese and Spanish, so give Quality Cleaning & Services a call to discuss all of your cleaning needs at 381-1430 or 418-1217; or email them at QCStampa@gmail.com.

They are always happy to provide references.

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New Tampa Chiropractic & Injury Center: Total Wellness In WC

By Michael Murillo In places like New York, Missouri and Florida, patients have been treated by chiropractors named “Dr. Scheu” for several decades. But, many of those patients did not see William (Bill) Scheu, D.C., who sees patients at the New Tampa Chiropractic & Injury Center, located next to Marshall’s in the SuperTarget-anchored Northwood Plaza on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd.

Instead, those out-of-state patients were seen by either Dr. Scheu’s father or grandfather. In other words, bringing relief to those in pain is something of a family tradition for Dr. Scheu, who graduated with his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Life University in Marietta, GA, in 1997 and received his chiropractic license in 1998. He also previously earned his Bachelor of Science in Nutrition from the same university. Dr. Scheu says he used to help out in his father's chiropractic office, where he saw the success that the patients who came to see Dr. Edward Scheu, III, had dealing with a variety of physical ailments, and he says he was impressed with his dad’s ability to treat them successfully — in a natural way.

“Seeing people getting well with a guy using primarily his hands — without the use of medications- — was pretty significant to me,” says the thirdgeneration chiropractor. “I knew it was what I wanted to do with my life, too.”

Despite what many people believe, chiropractors are able to help people with more than just issues relating to pain in the back, neck or spine. Dr. Scheu says part of his job is to dispel the misconceptions and confusion as to what chiropractors do and how important their work is to positive patient outcomes.

One such common misconception is that chiropractors do little more than “crack backs,” which sounds both painful and detrimental to a person’s health. “We don't actually ‘crack’ anything," Dr. Scheu explains. “We’re

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actually making specific spinal adjustments to enable the body to function better on its own.”

Common treatments available at New Tampa Chiropractic include adjustments using certain chiropractic tools or by hand alone, licensed massage therapy (License #MM29709), traction tables to work on the lumbar spine and even an intersegmental therapy chair, which focuses on the thoracic (upper) and lumbar (lower) spine regions. By utilizing one or more of these techniques, patients can find relief from many types of pain and even muscle and nerve spasms.

Another misconception is the educational background of a chiropractor.

While a chiropractor is not a medical doctor and their studies are different, Dr. Scheu explains that it takes about the same number of years of postBachelor’s-degree schooling (about four years) to graduate with a Doctor of Chiropractic degree as it does to obtain a medical doctor degree. “The primary difference is that chiropractors don’t have to complete a residency or fellowship after they graduate to begin practicing,” says Dr. Scheu. “But, we truly are trained to understand and treat the source of many different types of pain.”

The significant training chiropractors receive is what allows them to become familiar with many symptoms and causes of pain, and enables them to work in concert with a patient’s Primary Care Physician to ensure that each patient receives thorough and comprehensive treatment for their problems.

Kellie Parrish, Dr. Scheu;s office manager, says that patients don’t always understand how chiropractic care can help them until they try it themselves.

“It’s not just about your back,” Parrish explains. "It’s about your neck, your back...your whole being.” She adds that those who have never seen a chiropractor before are often apprehensive at first, but feel much better once

they experience the benefits.

Scheu said that those benefits can even include relief from vertigo, dizziness, muscle weakness and digestive disorders. While those symptoms could indicate a variety of med- The friendly staff at the New Tampa Chiropractic & ical problems, people Injury Center in the SuperTarget-anchored Northare often surprised to wood Plaza wants to take away your pain, too. find that a chiropractor can help relieve problems aside from patients who come in for their health as a whole, not just for pain management back pain, and help patients improve issues,” he says. their digestion, sleeping habits and He adds that patient convenience stress management. He also says that is paramount, and his office works to it’s important that a chiropractor work with a patient’s existing team of doctors accommodate busy schedules while providing the one-on-one attention in order to get a truly comprehensive necessary to achieve positive outcomes. look at each patient’s health situation.

“We greet them with a smile and they After an initial consultation, which leave with a smile,” he says....not surincludes an exam, recording of vital prisingly...with a smile. signs and computerized spinal tests, Parrish, who worked in the same nerve scans and on-site X-rays, Dr. office before Dr. Scheu took over more Scheu sits down with his patients to than two years ago, agrees. “He really cover findings, treatment options and a knows what he's doing and he’s a very time frame for the patient’s recovery.

Thanks to his background in nutri- caring person,” she says. “It’s just tion and his ability to also provide phys- warmer and friendlier here now with Dr. Scheu being here.” ical therapy services, Dr. Scheu has the While each patient is different, ability to see and treat a diverse range Scheu says that some visit his location of physical issues. “We have many

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patient happy and healthy,” Scheu says. “It makes you feel pretty good to make a difference in someone's life.”

The New Tampa Chiropractic & Injury Center is located at 1283 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. It serves Wesley Chapel, Zephyrhills, Lutz, New Tampa and Dade City and is affiliated with the Conforti ChiroDr. William Scheu can help relieve many common practic & Wellness Centers in Trinity, Oldsmar, Carrollphysical problems by properly aligning your spine. wood & St. Petersburg. The Wesley Chapel office is open once a week or even a few times a week Monday -Thursday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., to make significant progress, especially and 9 a.m. -noon on Friday. For following traumatic injuries, such as a more information about the center’s car accident. But, once each patient’s goal is achieved, he says that a “mainte- chiropractic care, licensed massage nance plan” can help the patients retain therapy (LMT), exercise, physiotherthe progress they’ve made. These main- apy or nutritional counseling, call 994-6111 or visit ConfortiChirotenance plan patients might visit only every 4-8 weeks, which he compares to practic.com. *Most Insurance Plans accepted, visiting a gym to maintain the physical including but not limited to: Cigna, benefits gained from exercising.

Medicare, Aetna, United, BCBS. The Regardless of how far along his patients are on their path to feeling bet- patient and any other person responsible for payment has the right to ter, Dr. Scheu says he enjoys seeing his refuse pay, cancel payment or be for patients’ progress and working with any payment or any other service, them to improve their respective situaexamination, or treatment which is tions. Like his father and grandfather before him, Dr. Bill Scheu knows that a performed as a result of and within 72 hours of responding to the free, good chiropractor can impact many discounted or reduced fee, service, people’s lives in a very positive way. exam, or treatment.

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Food Truck Rally Fills Stomachs, Helps Boost WCH Band

By Matt Wiley A smorgasbord of scents fills the air, wafting in with the breeze over the parking lot oat Wesley Chapel High (WCH), where six food trucks gathered for a Mini Food Truck Rally, hoping to feed attendees of the WCH Open House and bring exposure to a phenomenon that has steadily grown in popularity locally in recent years.

The evening of September 4 was the first of what could be many food truck rallies in the Wesley Chapel area, says Shannon Sturtz, director of operations for Tasting Tampa, the organization responsible for making the event happen. Tasting Tampa has been setting up food truck rallies across the Tampa Bay area since 2011.

“For the first one in the area, there was a decent turnout,” she explains.

“We tried to get a variety of (food) trucks out there. The idea was to hit as many taste buds as possible.”

And a variety there was, with the six trucks on hand cooking up a little bit of everything — from the cloud of smoke emanating from Just Smokin’ BBQ’s flame-adorned truck to Unforgettable Cupcakes, which offered decadent, delicious desserts next door.

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fence in front of the WCH football field’s locker rooms, facing the parking lot where parents and students were arriving for the school’s 2012-13 Open House. A small tent of WCH Band Booster volunteers sold beverages to raise money for the WCH band.

“We hope this event will help introduce the community to the food trucks idea,” says Diana Davis, treasurer of the WCH Band Boosters. “When you have a student group, you always have to be thinking about the ‘F-word’ — fundraising. We wanted to have an event that reached beyond the normal circle of relatives and neighbors for fund raising and invite the whole community to participate.”

Davis, who helped organize the event, says that having the trucks at the school before and after the WCH Open House made it convenient for parents and students to grab a quick, easy dinner from a variety of trucks and cuisines they may not have tried before.

Many attendees sampled something from each truck, such as Bobby and Kristal Heskett of San Antonio, who showed up just for the food trucks. The couple had already tried the Chicago-style “Capone” hot dog from AmericanWeiner and were sharing a curry dish from 3 Suns Organic Bistro.

A line of food trucks fed WCH Open House attendees on September 4.

Beverage sales during the event supported the WCH Band Boosters.

The Hesketts own Pancho’s Villa, Wiener, has been serving up hot dogs a popular Mexican-food restaurant in across the Tampa Bay area for about a San Antonio, the tiny town located just year now. north of Wesley Chapel.

“This area is ripe for (food “We wanted to see what (food trucks),” he says. “People just aren’t trucks) are all about,” Bobby said. familiar with the idea and they aren’t Mike and Donna Waters of Wesley hearing about it. A lot of people in this (Wesley Chapel) area still aren’t Chapel came out for the same reason. ‘plugged in’ or even on Facebook.”

Their son, Weston, a Wiregrass Ranch High student, was “behind enemy Hopefully, the WCH Mini Food lines” for the evening.

Truck Rally was the first of many for “I’m surprised there aren’t more the area. people out here,” said Donna, sharing Sturtz says that Tasting Tampa will some of Mike’s chicken from 2 Asians most likely do another rally in Wesley Chapel, but may find a more visible & a Grill. “If more people knew about (the food trucks), I’m sure there would location. Regardless, the event was a have been a bigger turnout.” success, as the WCH Band Boosters The WCH Mini Food Truck Rally raised more than $200 for the WCH band and more than 300 stomachs was the Waters’ first time eating from a food truck. Donna was waiting on a were filled throughout the evening.

For more info about food truck turkey burger from Burger Culture before getting other items from the rest rallies and Tasting Tampa, including of the trucks. dates and locations of future rallies, Kevin Dunn, owner of Americanplease visit TastingTampa.com.

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WCH Pounds WRH In 2012 Football Opener For Both

By Michael Murillo At our press time, the 2012 high school football season is only two games old, but this year’s Wesley Chapel bragging rights already belong to Wesley Chapel High (WCH), following the Wildcats’ 30-6 dismantling of Wiregrass Ranch High (WRH) in the regular season football opener for both local high schools.

Against the Bulls in the opening game, WCH didn’t have a single threeand-out and ran for 238 yards on nearly 50 rushing attempts. Most of that production came from senior running back Daquan Caesar, who accounted for 178 rushing yards and two scores by himself (he also was the game’s leading receiver with 38 yards). On defense, the ‘Cats scored a touchdown and a safety, and recorded 4.5 sacks.

Junior Josias Vizcano led the team with 2.5 sacks, and chipped in two tackles and two assists as well.

The Wildcats followed up the win over WRH with a 45-0 loss to Orlando’s First Academy. This time it was the Orlando school which ran the ball at will, netting more than 300 yards on the ground (averaging more than 10 yards per carry) and limiting Wesley Chapel to just 77 yards of total offense.

The ‘Cats crossed midfield just one

time the entire game.

While there are rarely bright spots in a shutout loss, it should be noted that the team purposely scheduled a challenging non-District opponent in its second game. The First Academy Royals won a 3A District title last season and had many players returning from that successful campaign. In addition, WCH's offensive star of their first game, Caesar, didn't play in Game 2, for undisclosed disciplinary reasons.

WCH head coach Ben Alford said he feels good about what the team has shown in its first two games.

“It's going well,” Alford says. “We have a loss in there, but we played a really good team,” he said. “We can compete in the District.”

Neither of the previous contests were district games, but WCH’s Class 5A, District 6 schedule is about to begin. The ‘Cats will play all seven team in the District in a row, starting with a contest at the Zephyrhills Bulldogs the day you receive this issue.

WCH then hosts the Fivay Falcons on Sept. 28 and the Pasco Pirates on Oct. 5. Alford’s squad is looking to build on its 6-4 record from 2011.

WRH Still Winless

Meanwhile, the Wiregrass Ranch High Bulls have continued the strug-

gles that saw them finish without a win during the 2011 season. Following the loss to WCH in the season opener, the Bulls came a little closer against Land O’Lakes Sunlake High, but still dropped to 0-2 with a 17-12 loss to the Seahawks.

In Game 1, the Bulls The Wiregrass Ranch Bulls stampede onto the field. actually out-passed the Wilddefense gave up more than 350 total cats, with sophomore QB Shane yards, the unit also forced five turnovers Bucenell completing half his passes for to keep the game close.

98 yards and a score. But, WRH was WRH administrator of athletics unable to control the run game on Jimmie DuBose acknowledges the seteither side of the ball, giving up 238 backs of coach Jeremy Shobe’s charges, yards rushing while compiling just 26 but said the team’s spirit remains themselves. Seniors Jake Day (38 comstrong. Neither game affected the bined rushing and receiving yards) and team’s standing in District 7A-7.

Ryan Shea (37 total yards) paced the “That was a tough game to deal team in a difficult offensive contest. with,” DuBose said of the Sunlake loss.

In Game 2 at the Sunlake Sea“But I think the attitude of the players hawks, who were coming off an and coaches is still positive. They're impressive 44-6 victory in their own going to keep giving it 100 percent.” opener, WRH fell behind 17-0 in the WRH was set to host the Pasco first half before coming back with a pair Pirates in a third non-District game of scores, but ultimately lost 17-12. In before getting into its District 7A-7 that game, Day took over at QB for an schedule with games at the Gaither ineffective Bucenell and threw a 75Cowboys as you receive this issue and yard scoring strike to Shea. But, the at home versus the Tampa Bay Tech Bulls’ run game was even less effective Titans on Oct. 5. The Bulls are still (registering -12 yards on 15 carries) and the team completed only two pass- looking for their first win since 2010 after enduring an 0-10 season last year. es the entire contest. While the Bulls’

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Habitat For Humanity Building A Home In Wesley Chapel!

By Michael Murillo Habitat For Humanity (HFH), the non-profit Christian Housing Ministry with a local branch that has built and renovated 100 homes in places like Dade City, Crystal Springs, Zephyrhills and Land O’Lakes, has created a home ownership model for struggling families and stable, safe environments for children.

By this time next year, Wesley Chapel will be added to that list of Pasco Habitat locales.

“I am very excited about Habitat For Humanity building a home in Wesley Chapel in 2013,” says director of development and public relations for Habitat for Humanity of East & Central Pasco County Stephanie Black.

“The family that will be purchasing this Habitat home currently lives, works, and goes to school in the area.”

The 1,100-sq.-ft. house isn't designed to be fancy. But, with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, the wood-frame home, which will be constructed next to the Shops at Wiregrass mall before being transported to the Angus Valley neighborhood of Wesley Chapel by around May of next year, will be a dream come true for a needy local family.

The local office is just one of more than 1,500 HFH affiliates in the U.S. — with an additional 550 participating in other parts of the world. HFH has built and renovated more than 500,000 homes for families in need of decent, affordable housing in 3,000

communities around the world since it was founded in 1976.

Recipients are selected based on their level of need, willingness to participate in the program and ability to meet the terms of their mortgage; neither race nor religion is factored into the decision-making process.

Black estimates that as many as one in six Americans are currently in need of stable, affordable housing.

That would translate to thousands of needy residents in eastern and central Pasco County, and HFH can only make a small dent in that number: The Pasco chapter built or rehabilitated a dozen homes in its last fiscal year.

Shopping For A Cause

The local chapter’s goal is to increase that to 20 homes in the current fiscal year, but the organization also impacts thousands of residents when they shop at one of the Habitat ReStores. With locations in Zephyrhills and Dade City, more than 45,000 people each year take advantage of the local stores, which sell heavily-discounted building materials and household goods that have been donated new or slightly used. In turn, those proceeds go toward building and rehabilitating more homes in the area.

While providing a homeownership opportunity is obviously good for the family receiving it, Black explained that it also impacts the general community in a positive way.

“Owner-occupied housing has a beneficial effect on the local economy

by increasing consumer spending and providing tax revenues and fees,” she says.

“When Habitat builds or rehabs homes, it improves and raises property values in the area.”

The organization also uses local subcontractors for Habitat for Humanity is in the process of building a related jobs such home for a needy family in Wesley Chapel. as electrical, plumbing and and develop friendships, which flooring, and all building materials are improves company morale. purchased locally as well.

He explains that, like many local Much of the labor also is generat- businesses, the dealerships wanted to ed locally, as individuals, groups and be involved with helping a local charicorporations donate their time to a ty. As a person who has worked with good cause. The management team at the organization in different parts of Wesley Chapel Toyota and Wesley the country over the years, he feels Chapel Honda sends between eight there’s something special about and 10 employees to work on a HFH employees getting together to roll up project every couple of months, with their sleeves and participating in a positive results for both the people physical project. they help and the team sent to do the “We know that our hands are helping. making a direct impact on a family's “They love it,” says Eric Johnson, life,” Johnson says, adding that the the director of corporate community company’s next date with HFH is relations for the two auto dealerships. scheduled for October.

“It's one of things where when you While HFH is a popular charitaserve with Habitat, you feel better ble destination for groups and individabout yourself.” uals, Black says there is still some conAs an added benefit, Johnson says fusion about the organization and that the employees who work together exactly what it does. on HFH homes form tighter bonds See “Habitat” on page 28.

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“Habitat” Continued from page 27 “The biggest misconception is that Habitat for Humanity gives away homes” she says. “Habitat works in partnership with low-income families and individuals to help them purchase simple, decent homes.”

Selected families receive financing, training and support help, and contribute at least 400 hours of their own time to help build their homes and assist on other projects. Once their home is completed, they purchase it with a 30-year, zero-interest mortgage, and those payments are used to purchase additional houses and continue the cycle of home ownership.

Contributing to HFH often takes the form of donating time for a day or writing a check, but Black stressed that there are other ways to help during these difficult economic times, including donating new or usable pre-owned items to a Habitat ReStore, holding a fund-raising event or simply participating in a car wash, golf tournament or

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other event benefiting the organization. Businesses, churches and community groups also can allow HFH to set up a table, distribute information or have a guest speaker attend an event to discuss the organization’s mission.

However people choose to help, Black said that the end result — a stable home and ownership opportunity for a family in need — is worth the energy and effort that goes into making those dreams a reality.

“When children move into their Habitat homes, oftentimes this is a child's first time to have a room of their own,” Black says. “Sometimes, it is their first opportunity to have their own bed. The look on the children’s faces when they walk into their finished room is priceless.”

HFH offers free pickup for larger ReStore donations, such as furniture or appliances. For more information about open hours, items to donate or financial donations, or to learn more about Habitat for Humanity’s goals, call (352) 567-1444 or visit HabitatPasco.org.

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Check Out The Brass Tap In The Wiregrass Mall For ‘Taptoberfest!’

By Gary Nager If it’s been a while since you visited The Brass Tap in the Shops at Wiregrass mall, or if you’re a beer lover who somehow has never checked it out, Wesley Chapel’s favorite “biergarten” invites you to a great weekend event.

On Friday-Saturday, October 56, noon-2 a.m., The Brass Tap at Wiregrass will be hosting its 4th annual “Taptoberfest,” and best of all, it’s free to attend!

“This is the first time our Taptoberfest has ever had no cover, so we hope everyone will come and enjoy a great weekend of live music, with five live bands on the outdoor stage, festive beer, corn toss stations, contests and free prizes,” says The Brass Tap of Wiregrass’ Stephanie Coffie. “For those who love beer and have a competitive spirit, the 4th annual ‘Drink the Boot’ Competition will take place both days.”

And, The Brass Tap has more than 400 glass boots (top photo) you can keep if you buy any of its German beers on tap either day of Taptoberfest.

And of course, The Brass Tap has great specials (and Happy Hour) every day, including Hospitality Night on Mondays, Karaoke on Tuesdays, live music every Thur.-Sat., and more.

If you get hungry while hanging at The Brass Tap, the Wesley Chapel location allows you to order food from the great restaurants in the mall, all of which will deliver your food to your table at The Brass Tap. And, for a limited time, the beer bar (which also does serve a variety of fine wines) is offering great, Germanstyle soft pretzels. The pretzels go great with beer and you can come in and try two for just $4.95!

In other words, whether you visit for Taptoberfest or any afternoon or evening, you can’t go wrong at The Brass Tap! Check ‘em out and please tell them the Wesley Chapel Neighbor-

hood News sent you!

The Brass Tap of Wesley Chapel is located at 2000 Piazza Ave., Suite 110, in the Shops at Wiregrass mall. Call 991-4343.

Or, for more information, including The Brass Tap’s other current and The Brass Tap features 40 craft beers on draught and future locations, 300 more in bottles you can sample. For Taptoberfest visit BrassTapBeer (October 5-6), you can get a cool glass boot when you Bar.com. buy any German beer on tap.

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Koizi Is New Tampa’s Endless Sushi & Hibachi Grill Eatery!

By Gary Nager Based on the number of Japanese steakhouses located in New Tampa and Wesley Chapel, not to mention all of the other places that also serve sushi, a lot of our readers really enjoy chowing down on Japanese cuisine (as do I, of course). Unfortunately, for many people, a dinner at the average Japanese steak house usually has to be a “big night out” or special occasion.

Well, you may have to rethink your ideas about the cost of enjoying truly delicious sushi and teppanyaki (hibachi) fare, now that Koizi (it’s actually pronounced “Ko-ee-zee”) Endless Hibachi & Sushi Eatery has opened, just .

Located in the same Shoppes at the Pointe plaza in Tampa Palms as World of Beer and the Coffee Beanery (behind Olive Garden), a quarter-mile off of exit 270 (Bruce B. Downs Blvd.) of I-75, Koizi is a more delicious, more affordable way to enjoy all you can eat of sushi, hibachi entrées and a number of other great Japanese appetizers and dishes than any of those “Asian buffet” restaurants. Koizi lives up to its selfbilling as the “Tampa Bay area’s first & only full-service, endless sushi bar and hibachi steakhouse.”

And, once you’ve visited Koizi, you’ll realize that it is actually the polar opposite of any “buffet place.”

First of all, the restaurant itself — the décor, ambiance, etc. — is absolutely beautiful. No remnant of any previous restaurant in the same space remains. Whether for a business or casual lunch or a dressed-up dinner date, Koizi is, well...really cozy (sorry for the bad pun), even though it’s actually a pretty big place.

The menu offers ridiculously affordable opportunities to “pay one price” for lunch or dinner — $8.95 for lunch (11:30 a.m.-3 p.m.), $17.95 for dinner (4 p.m.-10 p.m.) and $14.95 any time on Sundays (noon-9 p.m.).

That one price includes all-you-can eat, made-to-order sushi (everything

from fresh snapper sashimi to unique rolls like the “Sexy Girl” roll, which is served with a lighted “diamond”), plus unlimited appetizers (like a variety of hot soups, crispy Shanghai egg rolls, pot sticker dumplings, Udon noodles and more), plus unlimited Mongolian beef, General Tsao’s chicken, shrimp At Koizi Endless Sushi & Hibachi Grill in Tampa and broccoli and a few other nonPalms, you can get unlimited (clockwise from top left) hibachi entrées. pot sticker dumplings, coconut chicken (served by Full yet? You haven’t even heard about the hibachi fare, which you can Vivian), hibachi fare like fresh squid, steak & shrimp; NY Strip, ribeye, filet & lobster tails are ‘upcharged.’ enjoy even if you choose not to sit at one of the six teppanyaki tables. The Just don’t ever con“standard” hibachi fare, which is all you fuse Koizi, where “the can eat for no additional charge over possibilities are endless,” the prices listed above, includes unlimit- with any Asian buffet ed top sirloin, shrimp, chicken or squid place or even with any (aka calamari). other Japanese steakBut, if you really want a gourmet house or sushi bar in the dining experience, you can pay to for lunch and dinner. Reservations Tampa Bay area. But, please go... and “upgrade” your steak to one full dinner are accepted but not required, but tell them yours truly sent you! portion of filet, NY strip or even ribeye Koizi also can host “Hibachi Table Koizi Endless Hibachi Grill & for only $5 more. Feel like kicking your Sushi Eatery (17012 Palm Pointe Parties” for up to 16 people. For seafood up a notch? Upgrade to a porDr., Tampa Palms) is open every day more info, call 971-1919. tion of salmon or scallops for $5 or a tender, delicious lobster tail for only $8.

General manager Mark Planeta, who also has worked at Dempsey’s Steak House at Saddlebrook Resort Tampa and at the Maritana Grille at the Don CeSar on St. Pete Beach, says that Koizi’s goal is to combine the best quality food at the best price possible.

“Value is so important for people these days,” says Planeta. “But, just offering a lot of food won’t keep people coming back. We think more people will want to come back for this kind of quality and value.”

Koizi doesn’t currently serve beer or wine, although you can get free “shots” of sake from a ketchup-style squeeze bottle during the fun (and sometimes a little loud, based on the crowd) hibachi table chefs’ shows.

And, while you can’t take out your leftovers when you order the all-you-caneat lunch or dinner at Koizi, call and ask them how you can order sushi and At Koizi’s Grand Opening earlier this month, among the offerings hibachi “to go were (clockwise from front left) delicious snapper and tuna sushi, boxes” that you can take out.

“Sexy Girl” and other uniquely delicious sushi rolls.

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The Latest & Greatest News About Dining, Shopping, Retail & More In New Tampa & Wesley Chapel!

Selmon’s To Become An Outback?

- New Tampa residents were stunned to see the closing of Lee Roy Selmon’s on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd., one of the more popular restaurants and bars in the New Tampa area.

Rumors are running rampant about what will happen with Selmon’s, but here’s the best information we have — although none of this had been confirmed by sources at either Mvp Holdings Tampa, Inc. (the company started by former Outback honchos Bob Basham, Chris Sullivan and Nicholas Reader, which owns Lee Roy Selmon’s, the new PDQ chain and Carmel Café), or by Outback Steakhouse parent company OSI Restaurant Partners LLC, which owns the land upon which the Selmon’s sits.

The initial reports and notices on the restaurant itself indicated that Selmon’s was closing temporarily for renovations and a possible name/format change, but an unnamed source with Mvp Holdings said that the bottom line was that Selmon’s lease expired and that OSI was seeking a huge increase in rent for the freestanding building which does not

have direct access to BBD. An article on NewTampaPatch.com quoted Selmon’s president Sam Tancredi as saying that our report of the Selmon’s reopening as an Outback was “untrue,” but Tancredi also left open the possibility that Selmon’s could move to another location if problems arose with the planned renovation of the building.

In other words, despite claims to the contrary, we still stand behind our story that the popular eatery will not reopen as a Selmon’s. To be continued.

54 U-Store & Trail & Assoc. Cut A Ribbon - 54 U-Store, located on S.R. 54 in Lutz, about a mile west of S.R. 56, and Trail & Associates Technologies hosted a joint Greater Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce (WCCC) Ribbon Cutting party attended by nearly 100 people who got to see the air-conditioned storage facility first-hand on September 12. With fresh burgers and hot dogs on a grill, 30 door prizes and a Time for Wine wine Tasting, the event also introduced attendees to Trail & Assoc., which provides computer/IT systems and service.

For more info, visit 54 UStore (23830 S.R. 54), call 909-0540 or visit 54UStore. com. For Trail & Assoc., call 649-8624. Please tell them we sent you!

Avalon Park West Breaks Ground On S.R. 54 - The Avalon Park Group, the same developers as the adjacent New River Township community, has broken The owners of 54 U-Store (left) and Trail & Assoc. ground on Avalon Park West Technologies at their WCCC Ribbon Cutting. (APW, located on the north side of

S.R. 54, just east of New River) at a packed Greater Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce event at the community’s new clubhouse.

Avalon Park West (APW) is approved for 4,800 single-family homes, with the first community, Cypress Village, to offer 342 homes. But, Eric Marks, the president of APW builder Avex Homes, said at the Avex Homes president Eric Marks (far left) introduces Aug. 28 groundthe new Avalon Park West community to the WCCC. breaking that the classes and literally all of the materials you number of single- and multi-family resineed to create some truly amazing quilts, dential units in APW will likely end up is gearing up for the big USF Quilting being closer to 3,500. It also is approved Show, which will be held at the USF for nearly 700,000 sq. ft. of office/retail Botanical Gardens in early November. space.

For additional information, visit At the groundbreaking, attended by SweetDarlingQuilts.com, call 994nearly 200 Avex/Avalon employees and Wesley Chapel Chamber members, Marks 2994 or stop in at 26240 Wesley Chapel Blvd. — and please tell Cathy said that Avex Homes is building “with & her crew we sent you! the lifestyle of families in mind.”

For more info, visit AvalonParkAuthentic Colombian Cuisine at West.com or AvexHomesFL.com.

La Pollera Colorada - Meanwhile, we hope you’ll check out another eatery, Sweet Darling Quilts Turns 1! located at 8904 N. 56th St. in Temple Congratulations to owner Cathleene Terrace. La Pollera Colorada, owned by (Cathy) Tokish, the owner of Sweet Dar- longtime local restaurateur Carlos Villeling Quilts, and employees Lynn and gas, is open every day for breakfast, lunch Diane, in the Grand Oaks Square plaza and dinner and offers authentic Colomon S.R. 54 (just west of Wesley Chapel) bian cuisine and Carlos says his is the best in Lutz, who recently celebrated the onehomemade sangria in town. year anniversary of the store.

For more info, call La Pollera Sweet Darling Quilts, which offers Colorada at 988-3030.

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Ciccio’s Revamped Menu Adds New Items & Brings Back Old Favorites

By Gary Nager If you’ve been reading this publication for any period of time, it’s pretty likely that no one has to tell you how much I’ve loved what originally was called Ciccio & Tony’s, but has also been called Ciccio’s Lodge and now, Ciccio’s California Cuisine.

Whatever name you choose to call it, proprietor Robert Garofano’s longtime favorite, still located in the (Publix-anchored) City Plaza at Tampa Palms shopping center, continues to adapt its format to the community that has come to love it.

I don’t know when you first fell in love with Ciccio’s, but I’ve been a fan from the beginning and Garofano knows his customers as well as any restaurant owner in the biz. He recognizes there are items from the original Ciccio & Tony’s menu that people have been clamoring for and that not every Ciccio’s Lodge menu item was as big a hit as some others.

So, welcome to the new and improved Ciccio’s, which still boasts the same sharp-looking, TV-covered, fun bar area with virtually every premium alcohol brand (including my favorite Blanton’s bourbon), plus a variety of margaritas, craft beers and wines by the

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Our editor recommends (l. to r.) the new Ahi Tuna Poki Water Bowl and plans to try the new Volcano roll at Ciccio’s California Cuisine in Tampa Palms. He also recommends the tasty burgers (with sweet potato fries) and daily entrée specials like blackened wahoo (below, right).

glass, and its variety of entertainment options and daily specials (see below).

But now, Ciccio’s also has added, for example, these amazing sushi bowls created at the affiliated Water sushi bar restaurant in South Tampa. All three of the “Water Bowls” at Ciccio’s feature fresh ahi tuna served over your choice of brown or sticky rice or, for $1 more, over Asian noodles or farro (which is a whole grain wheat that looks and tastes like a nutty rice), along with delicious sauces and dressings.

My favorite so far is the Ahi “Tuna Poki,” tossed with fresh minced ginger, cilantro, and a spicy garlic rayu ponzu sauce served over jicama and cucumber and topped with yuzu tobikko and sesame seeds. I also have sampled and enjoyed the sesame rare tuna Water

Bowl and the Hot & Crunchy bowl.

Although I haven’t tried them yet, among the new sushi rolls available are the Dino & Jimmy Tempura (shrimp, fresh Alaskan crab, avocado, cucumber, scallion and topped with sesame aioli, spicy mayo, kabayaki glaze and tempura crisps) and the Volcano roll (fresh Alaskan crab, cucumber, scallion, cream cheese and crispy onions, topped with wonton flakes, avocado and served with a warm seafood dip, kabayaki glaze, and sriracha aioli).

Still hooked on a certain Ciccio’s wrap? Many of my friends who live and work here are and some have said they’ve missed, for example, the Ybor wrap (blackened chopped chicken, white beans, tomato, jalapeno, red onions and cilantro), which has been

brought back. Among the new wrap choices are the Milano (chopped chicken breast, garlic ricotta cheese and mushroom marsala; the Gyro Wrap (choice of chicken, gyro meat or vegetarian, with feta cheese, lettuce, black olives, hummus and tomatoes; and the Diablo (chopped chicken breast, rice, avocado, provolone cheese, onions and chipotle tomato sauce.

But, best of all for me, is the return of Ciccio’s daily dinner entrée

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Speaking of specials, Ciccio’s offers an everyday “Ultimate Happy Hour,” “Margarita Monday,” “$2 Tuesdays,” “$3 Wednesdays” and The return of the Ybor wrap (above) “Ladies Night is certain to bring even more customers back to Ciccio’s bar. (Right) Thursdays.” See specials. On my first visit Ciccio’s al denté linguine with fresh the Ciccio’s ad since the new menu was clams still has that slightly spicy kick. on page 43 of adopted, I savored a fresh this issue for blackened wahoo with a details of all the specials, but needless to unique eel sauce atop scallions, fresh say, they’re all great deals on great food tomatoes and sticky rice. Yes, I love and drinks.

Ciccio’s menu — including my favorite Ciccio’s California Cuisine black-&-white-sesame-crusted tuna, (16023 Tampa Palms Blvd.) is open spicy linguine with fresh clams, delievery day for lunch (weekend lunch cious burgers (the turkey burger is my starts Sat., Sept. 15, at noon!), dinfave) and brick oven, thin-crusted pizner and late-night dining and is still zas — but having fresh fish, steak and one of New Tampa’s favorite caterother daily specials is what really keeps ers, too. For more info, call 975bringing me back.

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FURNITURE FOR SALE - Double leaf Thomasville dinning table and six chairs. $800,Matching china closet $750,Will sell as a set for $1400. Lazy Boy sleeper sofa $250, 2 Queen Anne wing chairs $250 both,Wicker chair white $50, 3 unit Thomasville book case w/ lighting $650, Thomasville writting desk. $400, Cherry coffee table $20, Wrought iron and Glass "sofa table" $100, Set of 3 nesting tables. $75. Virtual tour for viewing: http://hdshowings.com/881f CONTACT JUDI BECK 813-380-3866.

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FIND YOUR DREAM HOME FROM YOUR CELL PHONE! - Wish you could see home details while you are driving around looking at homes? NOW YOU CAN! With Team Bohannon's Mobile MLS Search application, you can search for any home in the area on your cell phone.

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