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Area Booster Group Organizes Meal Donations For Essential Worker Delivery
Strawberry Crest Twins Graduate Top Of Class As Valedictorian and Salutatorian
“Jill was so paramount in us pulling the meals off and has spent countless hours organizing, identifying units in need, delivering most meals, sending out follow up pictures,” said Trimborn. In the first few weeks of May, Trimborn, Lansky and their contacts organized 10 meals for floors of hospital workers, totalThe Newsome High School Athletic Boosters are ing about $300 in value each. one of many groups that recently came together to Groups including the Newsome provide meals to local healthcare workers. Athletic Booster Club, the FishHawk resident Tina Trimborn has school’s girls soccer, cheerleading and made a big impact over the last few basketball teams and Trimborn’s family weeks. Trimborn, physician and providers and friends all contributed and food came relations director for Behavioral Health from Taco YOLO and Davenport’s Daily Services at HCA -Brandon Regional and Delights. Tampa Community Hospitals and “When we fed the NICU nurses at Newsome High School’s girls soccer Brandon Regional Hospital on Cinco de coach, is using her connections in the Mayo, one of the nurses told me that the community to feed local heroes while little plate of food she received drove her supporting area restaurants. to be able to finish her shift,” said “When the crisis hit, I immediately Trimborn. thought of my dad’s philosophy, that Davenport’s Daily Delight’s owner, when you are struggling, the best thing Peggy Davenport, has been donating you can do is help someone else,” said meals since the crisis started in late Trimborn. March and has set up a donation form on She quickly went to work motivating her business website so that individuals her family and soccer players to start writcan easily give towards a meal for a fronting thank-you cards and letters to emerline worker or resident in need. gency workers and seniors, but then “We can’t imagine these healthcare decided that she could use her connecheroes going to work everyday and then tions to do more. quarantining away from their families to “I realized that there are many protect others,” said Davenport. “They are heroes in tough times, not just the obviselfless and it is our pleasure to help ous ones,” she explained. “So I turned to them in a small way.” friends at hospitals and restaurants to see To learn more about Davenport’s what we could do to help.” Daily Delights or to contribute to its meal Trimborn’s first call was to Jill Lansky, donation program, visit www.davenportsphysician and providers relations director dailydelights.com. for women’s services at Brandon To sign up to help, email her at Regional Hospital, to identify the hospital christina.trimborn@hca.healthcare.com. units in most need of support.
For these such high GPAs, Nick two FishHawk explained, “We took five teens, being dual enrollment classes born twins meant and lots of AP and lots of they have spent honors classes which a lot of time helped increase our together. GPA.” The school district Matching outfits, also hosted a press consimilar interests, ference and the pair same high were interviewed by sevschool and a eral local news stations drive to be the and newspapers. best. During the quaranFor Ben and tine, the brothers have Nick Sherwin still been working on that spirit of final AP exams, cleanLeft: Nick and Ben and Right photo is togetherness fol- Ben and Nick, who are graduating high ing, working out and school as the top two students in the lowed them right spending time outside. Strawberry Crest IB program. into the Nick and Ben credit Strawberry Crest IB program where the their experiences at Bevis Elementary, brothers excelled at academics and finRandall Middle and the IB program for ished their high school years as the valehelping them achieve their goals. dictorian and salutatorian with just a differThe boys are prepared to give their ence of .001 of a point between the two. speeches in July if graduation happens or Ben is the valedictorian with an 8.51 GPA over Zoom if that becomes the delivery and Nick is close behind with the 8.50. method. “My one message to take away The pair are quick to admit that it was is that with all the challenges we are facNick’s single B in chemistry that made the ing, there are also opportunities to find difference. interests and explore them,” said Nick. The brothers will be heading up to A tip from Ben is to “push yourself University of Florida (UF) with full-ride and challenge yourself,” and Nick sugscholarships after getting accepted into ‘a gests to work hard and find classes you bunch of’ out of state schools. The brothare interested in. ers ultimately took the best financial deciAll the best at UF boys, #gogators! sion, which also happens to be mom Tracy’s alma mater, and attend UF. Their InThis parents’ careers—their mom is an regisIssue tered nurse and their dad Doug is a pharmacist—mean that the brothers both intend to follow up their undergrad degrees with ‘something in the medical AIR FORCE ACADEMY GRAD ..............PG 4 field.’ Fun fact: both mom and dad are COVID19 SURVEY INFO ......................PG 6 also twins-mom is a fraternal twin with a twin brother and dad is an identical twin. CELEBRATING LOCAL SENIORS..........PG 10 Mom and dad are certainly proud THANKING ESSENTIAL WORKERS .....PG 22 and Tracy said, “Being a good parent requires knowing when to push and when FLORIDA WILDLIFE WITH ALI ............PG 29 to back off. When to help and when to let CHALKLINES.......................................PG 32 them make mistakes and then being strong enough to let them go and soar." SPORTS CONNECTION ......................PG 35 When asked during an interview with WWW.OSPREYOBSERVER.COM MyOspreyTV during a weekly episode what made it possible for them to get
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