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The high school stuAttendees are also dents had their day and eligible to win door this month it is time for prizes which include the senior citizens to get baskets and gift cards. their dancing shoes on. “We can’t wait to Hillsborough County is welcome our active senhosting a Senior Prom iors from all over the event at The Regent in county to this wonderful Riverview on June 22 event,” said Brea, who and 500 residents, aged believes that approxi50 and older, are expectmately 5,000 residents ed to attend. use the senior services “We try to make the event as similar to a high school prom as possible,” said Frances Duran Brea, Hillsborough County senior center manager and prom event coordinator. “There is a theme, a DJ, dancing and good food. Everything you need to make a fun party.” Members of the county’s 23 senior sites are invited to attend the event, which is free of cost to The Hillsborough County Senior Prom event will take them. place on June 22 at The Regent in Riverview. According to Brea, who has been running this event for six years, this in the county every year. month’s event has a West Indies Carnival Hillsborough County’s senior and dinJam theme and the food will be catered ing centers offer activities throughout the by Jerk Hut while the DJ will play Calypso year for residents from Black and and reggae music. Hispanic heritage celebrations to The Similar to a high school prom, the Brain and Body Challenge, where resihighlight of the event, according to Brea, dents from all centers compete for a trois the coronation of the prom king and phy, and a domino tournament to celequeen. Each senior center in the county brate National Senior Center Month in sends a representative couple, which September. makes up the prom court, and then the The event will take place from 10 king and queen are randomly chosen a.m.-1:30 p.m. on June 22 at The Regent from the members of the court. Tom which is located at 6437 Watson Rd. in Wong of the Brandon Senior Center and Riverview. Residents are asked to call Patricia Roth from the Wimauma Senior their local senior center for details on how Center were the king and queen of the to register. More information can be found 2017 senior prom. at www.hillsboroughcounty.org.
The students from Warren Hope Dawson Elementary School ended the school year on high note last month. Families, community members and school officials celebrated the Riverview school, which opened in August 2017, at its official dedication in late April. Students raised more than Hillsborough County Schools celebrated the dedication of $10,000, a quarter Dawson Hope Elementary School in Riverview last month. of which will be Dawson’s middle name, Hope, with given to returning teachers, at the first painted letters throughout the school annual PTA Dance-a-Thon. and the Moto “Building hope for our The school, named after Warren future.” Dawson, a Tampa civil rights attorney “The feeling that the people on this who worked for more than two campus, big and small, care about one decades to help desegregate another, it’s something that you can’t Hillsborough County schools, was the always describe but you know it when only new traditional school to open in you feel it and when you see it,” said the county for the 2017-18 school Wiese. “I think you see it in every year. interaction on this campus.” “It’s my honor to be here to dedicate an amazing school, but also to Continued on Page 5 honor an icon in our community,” said Hillsborough County Superintendent Jeff Eakins. “I hope everyone appreciates, students, someday you will say In This that you heard Warren Hope Dawson Issue speak.” School Principal Derrick McLaughlin and Assistant Principal Ashley Wiese also spoke at the dediSUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS...............PG 3 cation, letting attendees know how proud they are to lead a school with NEW WAWA OPENS ..........................PG 4 such a strong foundation. HOA HOT TOPICS ...............................PG 8 “My hope was that we would meet or exceed everyone’s expectation of GRCC RIBBON CUTTINGS. ................PG 10 what it was like to open a new eleNEW OUTPATIENT IMAGE CENTER..PG 13 mentary school,” said McLaughlin. “Thank you to all of our families for the NEW BELL CREEK PRINCIPAL ...........PG 18 humbling amount of trust you have in HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS............PG 20 us as faculty. With your support, we are providing hope for our future with ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT................PG 45 your child in mind.” SPORTS CONNECTION......................PG 46 The faculty has also embraced
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