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Inside: An Exclusive Interview With Skateboarding Legend Tony Hawk!
September 10, 2011
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New Tampa Woman, 23, Killed By Neighbor’s Exhaust Fumes By Sean Bowes At our press time, charges had not been filed against Andrew Grywalski, 22, a New Tampa man who, police say, forgot to turn off the ignition in his car, which left one of his neighbors dead from what the Tampa Police Department (TPD) says was most likely a “terrible accident.” Family members and co-workers at Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) are grieving over the death of Rebecca Hawk, 23, an “always smiling” child protection investigator for HCSO who died from carbon monoxide poisoning when Grywalski left his car running overnight in the garage of his Vista Grande apartment in Tampa Palms.
According to TPD report, Grywalski pulled his gunmetal 2011 Mazda 3 hatchback into the garage around 8:30 p.m. on September 1 and failed to bring the key inside with him. With the garage door closed over night, the colorless and odorless carbon monoxide gas from the Mazda’s exhaust filled the garage and crept into Hawk’s apartment overnight at 5207 Cypress Palms Ln., which shared a wall with Grywalski’s garage. It was just after 9 a.m., more than 12 hours after the Mazda pulled into the garage, when a Vista Grande maintenance worker smelled the Mazda’s noxious exhaust fumes. The worker immediately notified Tampa Fire Rescue (TFR), and started knocking on
neighbors’ doors to evacuate tenants before firefighters had arrived. Authorities and Vista Grande management had not released the worker’s name at our press time. When TFR showed up, it was already too late for Hawk. According to TPD spokesperson Laura McElroy, the fumes also affected Hawk’s roommate, Kashaunda Joyner, 20, who also was inside the apartment, but her condition was reported as “stable” at University Community Hospital at our press time. A 62-year-old woman who lived upstairs from the roommates also was transported to the hospital because she felt light-headed, but she was later released. According to HCSO spokesperson
Larry McKinnon, the Sheriff’s Office is “mourning one of their own,” McKinnon sais. “Rebecca has been employed with HCSO for the past ten weeks and had just completed her class training. She was always smiling, she had a promising career and was just a lovely woman.”
Rebecca Hawk, 23, a child protective investigator for thge Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning.
GrillSmith Restaurants Donate Profits For Slain New Tampa Siblings
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The Dougherty Gang’s Wild Ride, A Tony Hawk Catches ‘Big Air’ in Tampa, We Crazy Week For Freedom High, A Visit to Check Out Sushi Tsu, P.J. Dolan’s Irish Pub Taylor Morrison Homes in Tampa Palms & Stacy’s Gluten-Free Bakery & More! & Much More!
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Calyx, 16, was to start her junior year in the International Baccalaureate program at King High, where she ran cross-country, and Beau, 13, would have been an incoming freshman at Freedom High (last year, he was an 8th grader at Liberty Middle School). See “Schenecker” on page 36.
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Col. Parker Schenecker (left) sits with friends during the fund raiser’s kick-off at GrillSmith.
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bisque soup and 938 orders of the spicy Thai shrimp appetizer were sold. According to Schenecker, who worked with U.S. Central Command in Tampa, GrillSmith was the siblings’ favorite restaurant. Parker Schenecker says he has dedicated his life to the Calyx and Beau Schenecker Memorial Fund, which he started last February to spotlight promising Tampa Bay teenagers with leadership, athletic and performing arts opportunities. “We were certainly humbled when Mr. Schenecker approached us to help honor Calyx and Beau’s memory and shared with us that they were such huge fans of GrillSmith,” said GrillSmith spokesperson Alisha dos Santos. “By celebrating their lives during this Back to School Week event at all GrillSmith locations, we hope to raise awareness about this memorial fund as well as shine a light on two amazing kids who were taken too soon. It is our privilege to be able to help in whatever way we can.”
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Thanks to the combined efforts of Col. Parker Schenecker and the six GrillSmith restaurant locations in the Tampa Bay area, a foundation named in honor of Schenecker’s children now has $10,500 in its coffers. The one-week event began at GrillSmith’s Wesley Chapel location at the Shops at Wiregrass, where Shenecker kicked off the event with 13 of his close family and friends. Col. Schenecker, the father of Calyx and Beau, the New Tampa siblings who were tragically killed by their
mother last January in their Tampa Palms home, recently teamed together with GrillSmith restaurants for a “Back to School Week” fundraiser that will donate the money to teens in the Tampa area, in memory of the brother and sister who were taken too soon. From August 22-28, GrillSmith donated 100-percent of sales from Calyx’s favorite GrillSmith dish, the Caribbean pumpkin crab bisque soup, and Beau’s favorite appetizer, the spicy Thai shrimp, to the Calyx and Beau Schenecker Memorial Fund. During the six-day event, 885 orders (bowls and cups) of the Caribbean pumpkin crab
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