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May 2021
Volume 20, Issue 5
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CELEBRATING 19 YEARS OF PUBLISHING P OSITIVE COMMUNIT Y NEWS
$3 M ROUNDABOUT WILL RELIEVE WEREWOLF MOVIE TO FILM IN DORMAN & BOYETTE IN 2023 FISHHAWK, EXTRAS NEEDED By Michelle Caceres By Michelle Caceres
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case Pictures, a media and content creation company located in Tampa Bay and formed in partnership with Todd Oifer of Oifer Industries, George C. Romero (son of the late George A. Romero of Night of the Living Dead zombie series) of Romero Pictures, LLC and Ed. It also includes New York-based DIGA Studio and Massachussetts-based Heavy Metalmagazine. Oifer, Briefcase Pictures CFO and FishHawk resident, said the company is seeking Independent film The Beast Comes At Midnight will be filmed at various locations this a private-public partnership to build production studios in the Tampa area and Lexsummer, including Lithia. ington, Kentucky. It’s planning to raise $30 While FishHawk residents may be surmillion through private investors to fund the prised to hear a werewolf will be lurking facility as well as several other films. through their quiet residential neighborWell, jobs and maybe a werewolf, who hood this July, what they shouldn’t feel is has the unfortunate task of wearing a wereterrified or concerned. wolf suit in our sweltering July heat. The hairy beast is one of the main charFor more information about The Beast acters in an old-school monster movie that Comes at Midnight, visit www.thebeastwill be filming in FishHawk and several othcomesatmidnight.com or to follow it on er locations in Hillborough County, including social media. For more information about Tampa, Ybor City and Gibsonton. Briefcase Pictures, visit www.briefcasepicThe Beast Comes at Midnight is a Southtures.com. ern Gothic werewolf feature film produced by Ed McKeever, directed by Robert Masciantonio and stars actors Michael Ashley McKeever, Kylissa Katalinich and Charles Bronson-dead ringer Robert Bronzi as Andras the Hunter. The story is a modernization of the boy who cried wolf and revolves around a young podcaster (Michael) who has a penchant for investigating paranormal phenomena, serial killers and conspiracy theories. He discovers his town is under attack by a flesh-eating beast that hunts during the full moon. Nobody believes him except for a popular cheerleader (Katalinich) and a monster hunter (Bronzi). The concept was born after Ed and his son, Michael, visited the Showmen’s Museum in Gibsonton, a building that houses strange and eclectic memorabilia from the colorful carnival and circus midways of the past. “My son and I saw a display about a Wolfboy and started envisioning a monster movie set among the backdrop of this place,” said Ed. “We wanted to make a horror movie we could watch together, so we 5K FOR MELANOMA.............................PG 3 were going for a fun PG-13 vibe.” In-person and online casting calls are MEET SEN. ROUSON ..........................PG 26 planned and will be posted on social media. EYE ON BUSINESS ...................PGS 25-26 “We’ll also need a ton of extras,” said Ed. The film will be distributed by Brief- SUMMER CAMPS......................PGS 41-48
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reduce injury crashes by 75 percent at intersections where stop signs were previously used for traffic control because drivers in roundabouts tend to be travelling at slower speeds, with all vehicles travelling in the same direction. There is also no rush to speed through a changing traffic light. Maria Jeans, who moved to FishHawk last year, said she’s lived in many communities, but none had as many roundabouts as this one. “I like the In the land where the concept of the octagonal stop sign and r o u n d a bout four-way stop reigns sufor keeping preme, FishHawk residents traffic flowhave learned the art of ing, as long as navigating the roundabout, drivers know a circular intersection how to use where drivers travel counthem,” she terclockwise around a censaid. ter island. Ac c o rd i n g The community developto Florida’s ers’ master plan included D e p a rtment Plans are in the works to install a roundabout almost a dozen roundat the intersection of Boyette and Dorman Rds. of Transportaabouts to aid the flow of tion, properly traffic and plans are in the works for annavigate a roundabout by reducing speed other to be installed at one of the neighas you approach the roundabout, watch borhood’s busy intersections by 2023. Ask any resident to name some of for bicyclists and pedestrians, look left for the busiest (and most dangerous) cross oncoming traffic, yield to vehicles already streets in FishHawk and the intersection in the roundabout, wait for a gap and enof Boyette Rd. and Dorman Rd. may top ter, do not stop in the roundabout or pass the list. County transportation officials other vehicles and use your turn signal to agree, and part of the Operation and Safe- exit to the right. The project is currently in the planning ty Enhancement Program includes installphase and is expected to cost approxiing a roundabout at the intersection. mately $3 million. Construction is slated “This project will improve transportato begin in late 2022 and be completed by tion mobility and safety for vehicles,” said mid-2023. Sandra Gonzalez, design manager for the For more information about the OpCapital Programs Department in Hillsboreration and Safety Enhancement Plan ough County. visit https://www.hillsboroughcounty. According to a study by the Insurance org/en/government/county-projects/projInstitute for Highway Safety and Federal Highway Administration, roundabouts ect-list#/26292.
06/01/2021
FishHawk resident and photographer Matthew Kenney spotted this beautiful owl in one of the conservation areas in Bridgewalk recently.