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Green flag out in race to replace Raulerson Yvonne Fry and Lawrence McClure are quickly assembling crews and gearing for an abbreviated run to the GOP primary in a special election.

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The ink was hardly dry on State Rep. Dan Raulerson’s resignation letter before a then-unannounced special election to replace him had two viable

republican candidates.

Local businesswoman and civic leader Yvonne Fry was the first to announce, launching her campaign July 26, the day after Raulerson (R-Plant City) said he would be ending his term as the state representative for district 58 on Aug. 15.

Raulerson would have reached his term limit in 2020.

While Fry made her announcement official with a July 27 filing, there was speculation that another businessman with Plant City ties, Lawrence McClure, was considering a run. McClure filed his paperwork Aug. 1. That same day, Gov. Rick Scott announced that a special elec-

tion would be held Dec. 19. Fry and McClure will have barely two months to run their campaigns before facing off in the Oct. 10 primary.

“I had put a lot of thought to when Dan’s term would be done and was interested in that,” Fry said. “I was surprised at his announcement and began to prepare to enter the race. I’m excited. We have a lot of work to do and a lot of people to reach.”

District 58 covers much of east Hillsborough County, including areas of Plant City, Dover, Mango Thonotosassa and Temple Terrace. Plant City currently has a population near 38,000, while the entire district has a population of around 160,000.

Fry, who owns, the Plant-City based marketing company Fryed Egg Productions, said her company’s name isn’t just a clever pun, but a reference and reminder of her upbringing in a Plant City family who raised chickens and farmed strawberries for many generations.

Fry, 45, has a long list of civic engagement including the Greater Plant City Chamber of Commerce and the Plant City Economic Development Corporation. She has also been heavily involved in programs throughout Plant City Schools.

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The grand opening of Sport Clips was August 1.

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As Plant City continues to grow towards its proposed population of more than 70,000 by 2040, commissioners and planners are looking for ways to make the city friendly to bicyclists and pedestrians.

The City and the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization partnered to commission the study, carried out by consulting firms Alta and Atkins. The study cost about $50,000 and was paid for using planning funds from the Florida Department of Transportation.

The master plan presented to the city includes a number of infrastructure and safety enhancements to existing city facilities as well as the creation of new sidewalks and trails.

“There’s not a whole lot of bicycling and walking activity (in Plant City), but the opportunity to increase that is here,” Wiatt Bowers of Atkins said.

According to the presentation, nearly 83% of commuting in Plant

Sport Clips Haircuts of Plant City officially opened Aug. 1 at 2404 James L Redman Parkway. Over 30 people attended the ribbon cutting on Tuesday, which featured a giant inflatable referee in a Sport Clips jersey and a race car advertising for the establishment. Focus 4 Beauty brought its entire daytime class out to the event.

Local man to be inducted into FFA Hall of Fame George Oscar Lastinger Jr. is one of five chosen to be inducted into the FFA Hall of Fame.

Lastinger dedicated 47 years to teaching and mentoring students in Hillsborough County on agriscience education. He began teaching agriculture at Brandon High in 1950 after serving in the Navy and proceeded to teach at three other schools including Plant City High. The induction ceremony will take place Sept.

25 at the Florida FFA Leadership Training Center in Haines City.

Knocking out cancer

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City prepares for new wireless law Plant City is among the first jurisdictions to to issue guidelines for the law.

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Community gathers to give cancer the boot.

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Plant City is leading the way in reaction to the recently signed “Advanced Wireless Infrastructure Deployment Act,” which allows wireless companies to use existing city facilities for “small wireless facilities.”

The bill was passed by both the House and Senate and signed into

law during the past legislative section. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Mike La Rosa, R-St. Cloud, said the purpose of the bill, which was widely supported by telecommunications companies including AT&T and Verizon, is to advance the use of wireless technology throughout Florida.

“As we begin to reach capacity levels with our current 4G technology, it is time now for Florida to be forwardthinking and not allow for there to be a gap in our wireless coverage,” LaRosa said in an op-ed to the Tallahassee Democrat. “Florida is known SEE WIRELESS PAGE 3

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Michael Hamilton takes the keys from former owner Joe Grimes.

Resuscitation of Your Family Jeweler When Joe Grimes announced in April he was retiring from Your Family Jeweler, Plant City customers pled with him not to leave. Grimes said many people came into the shop asking that he remain at the store following his announcement he would soon close up shop. Soon, an unexpected answer appeared.

Dr. Michael Hamilton purchased the business and asked Grimes to stay on a few days a week to operate the repair and custom design side of the business. Grimes agreed and, though he will not be there full time, he still plans to provide his services to customers in Plant City. Hamilton officially took over the business at the beginning of August.

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Road, Thonotosassa, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be free health and dental screenings, educational resources and more. Bus stop information is available for parents that haven’t received it yet. There will also be a backpack and school supplies giveaway, as well as free snow cones and popcorn.

MILO: Meet and Greet Super WHY! at Bruton Memorial Library is offering free school supplies and books for children while supplies last. The event begins at 10 a.m. and will run until 1 p.m.

The Plant City Noon Rotary is hosting a Community Appreciation Fun Day at the Randy Larson Softball Complex from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The first 500 children in attendance will receive a free back to school bag. There will also be free food and drinks, giveaways, bounce houses and more.

AUG. 6 First Baptist Church of Midway is offering its third annual Back-to-School Bash from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Children will be separated into Elementary School and Middle/High School. One bag will be given per child. The event is free and hot dogs and water will be served. Tickets will be handed out the morning of the event. If you have any questions call (813) 752-7209.

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The Florida League of Cities initially opposed the bill as, essentially, a corporate giveaway that would place much of the burden in adding new technologies on city taxpayers.

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City is single drivers, about 1.5% is walking and less than half of a percent is biking. Towns the size of Plant City, Bowers said, are ideal for maximizing walking and cycling activity.

The planners said they took public feedback from a February open house meeting at Bruton Library into consideration when coming up with a final design. The plan currently incorporates a spine network that would connect the north, east, south and west portions of the city in historic downtown, maintaining the current character vision and development in the city.

The proposed plan creates an outline of projects that would be carried out over many years, Wade Reynolds of the MPO said. Now that a plan is in place, its up to the city to decide how it will be implemented. The MPO, he said, could then help secure funding.

Reynolds said plans like the Walk/ Bike plan requires coordination of government on the municipal, county and state levels and can often require a champion to see it through. Plant City, he said, seems to have many champions.

“It appears to have widespread support from staff and elected officials,” Reynolds said. “It seems like there’s a lot of support and that support will be maintained.”

Mayor Rick Lott said the city commission is reviewing the plan and is looking forward to working with city planners on how to implement it into current and future projects, including ongoing efforts to resurface many city streets. Brian Boucher of Alta said incorporating safety features and improvements to ongoing city infrastructure projects is a way to get the project going.

Lott said the city is looking forward to implementing the plan and instructing the planning staff to review it shows the commitment to improving Plant City’s walkability

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“It’s well in the works,” Lott said.

“It’s the first time we’ve had this kind of plan. The commission needs the opportunity to get our arms around it and work with planning staff to figure where to implement the plan.” However, he said, “it takes money to make it a really.”

Reynolds said the Plant City Walk/ Bike Plan is included in both its long and short term goals. While the plan consists of certain aspects that could potentially take decades, he said significant progress on funding “catalyst” portions of the project could be funded within five years.

Among the catalyst projects would be pedestrian safety improvements including clearer identification

wireless communications providers,” the League wrote in a statement. “The bills require a city, at its taxpayers’ expense, to develop engineering and other structural reports on the city’s own structures that a wireless company may or may not decide to use for an antenna.”

Plant City attorney Ken Buchman said the City aligned with the League in opposing the bill, but began working with Tom Cloud, a utility, land use, and environmental law attorney, as soon as it was clear the bill would pass. After its signage, Buchman said, the City only had about a week before it was enacted on July 1.

markers and enhanced crosswalks.

Establishing a minimum bike grid that could connect all four quadrants of Plant City to major destinations and the downtown core would also be a catalyst project.

Different forms of signage, reduced-speed zones and clear indication of roads used for bicycles could be part of the bike grid, Boucher said.

The specific type of safety feature would depend on the context of the area where it’s being used, he added.

Boucher also said the open house meeting proved Plant City citizens have a desire for more walking trails. Another catalyst project, he said, could be canal connector trails improving existing trails and creating a larger network of trails throughout

Cloud is helping a number of jurisdictions draft ordinances to enact the legislation. The Plant City Commission voted to adopt the ordinance during its July 24 meeting, making it among the first in the state to do so.

Cloud said the City’s priority was keeping the City’s ordinance enacting the bill as strict as possible. While the bill defines “small wireless facilities” as anything up to 28 cubic feet, Plant City’s law places the burden of proof on wireless companies to “demonstrate detailed information that they are in compliance” with the act’s provisions, Cloud said.

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the city. Benches, interpretation signage featuring Plant City history and gardening projects for area schools could be incorporated to existing trails as part of the catalyst project, he said.

Catalyst projects, Reynolds said, could see funding in the next five years, but the entire plan, with continued efforts could take 10 to 20 years. Still, he said, it would be quite the accomplishment.

“With reasonably modest investment levels, a good portion of this plan could be implemented within 10 to 20 years,” Reynolds said. “Getting a robust sidewalk grid within that time period, that’s a big accomplishment.”

lation, the companies would be able to place the wireless facilities “on, under, within, or adjacent to certain utility poles or wireless support structures within public rights of way that are under the jurisdiction and control of cities and counties in Florida,” Interim City Manager Kim Leinbach told city commissioners.

Meaning, some of the installations could impact city streets, another issue Cloud and Buchman took into account when drafting a city ordinance. In such cases, Buchman said, whatever company comes in would have to incur the costs of any work done to city property, easing the bur-

Highlighted in green is the proposed “minimum bike grid” connecting all four neighborhood quadrants of Plant City to a downtown core.

The grid could be part of a wave of catalyst projects that have the potential to receive funding within five years.

den on the tax payer.

Ultimately, Cloud said, the idea for the City’s interpretation of the state legislation was to keep it as strict and in-line with current standards utility companies would face to ease that tax payer burden, as well as maintain aesthetic value of city property, especially locations near private homes.

“We don’t want that problem in Plant City just because someone who owns a home happens to front on a right of way,” Cloud said. “Is the ordinance perfect? Far from it. We did the best we could do with the timeframe we were given by the legislature.”

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work for her leadership in the statehouse for the last decade, serving the Chamber and countless boards for our city,” Mayor Rick Lott said. “She really is the pioneer for some major projects with our high school system that have really benefitted our kids.”

Fry said education would be a main area of focus were she to be elected.

In Plant City, she has pioneered a number of organizations and events in schools, including the Future Fair, where students can link with area businesses to be prepared to enter the workforce. Preparing students to enter the workforce, she said, would be a priority in Tallahassee.

McClure, 30, also comes from a farming family with deep roots in the local area. His family goes back seven generations in Plant City and east Hillsborough agriculture, Judi Whitson, executive director of the Hillsborough County Farm Bureau Federation said.

A small business owner as well, McClure is a partner with environmental consulting firm Streamline Environmental and said he has spent a decade working closely with state legislators on legislation impacting the environment, as well as agriculture and small business communities.

He is married to Courtney Newsome, who works for Astin Farms and also has deep roots in Plant City.

McClure said his focus in Tallahassee would be removing inefficiencies from government and marketing the assets of District 58.

“I’m a business owner that is fully invested with how government operates,” McClure said. “There are duplications of process and inefficiencies of government that happen every day.

My business background and understanding of government allows for the experience to find effective solutions.”

Despite the race being in its early stages, both candidates have secured some major names. Fry has received the endorsement of Lott and the whole Plant City Commission. Whitson said McClure has her backing and is expected to be backed by the entire board of directors for the Hillsborough County Farm Bureau.

“He’s been involved in agriculture all his life,” Whitson said. “He’s also a small business owner. He’s very common-sense. We need more of that in Tallahassee. We need more people

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Yvonne Fry and long-time significant other Mark Ober.

who think like the rest of us do.”

Additionally, Fry has secured the backing of prominent area republicans Art and Mary Wood. Art was the chairman of the Hillsborough County Republicans during 2012 when the Republican National Convention was in Tampa. Mary, his wife, works for a credit union and will serve as Fry’s treasurer.

McClure has secured the services of Michael Millner, of Jensen Beach, as his treasurer. According to the Florida Department of State, Millner is linked to about one dozen active political action committees and electioneering communication organizations.

Many of those organizations have been associated with negative campaign ads targeting political opponents. McClure said he plans to run a clean campaign.

“We absolutely intend on running a clean campaign based on what we can

bring to the district,” McClure said.

“We have a message and that’s what we’re focusing on.”

Fry said she has prepared her family for whatever might come her way.

“I’m sure there will be things I have to weather that will be ugly and hard,” she said. “I’m prepared for that. I am strong in my faith and resolved in my reasons that this is worth doing.”

As the race shapes up, both candidates said they are counting on strong support from the Plant City community.

Both candidates have also secured political consultants for the race.

Tom Piccolo for McClure and Brock Mikosky for Fry. While no democrat has entered the race, Shawn Gilliam of Plant City filed to run in 2018 prior to Raulerson’s resignation.

Raulerson declined to comment on the special election.

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Raconteur Story Writing Services is preserving family legacies in Plant City.

Olivia Spallino Savoie, its owner and writer, said she made a career out of her two passions, English and history.

“As I grew up I always had a fascination with family history and the older generations and how they can share family history,” Savoie said.

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Over the past few months she has completed nine to ten tribute books.

When someone reaches out to Raconteur, Savoie will travel to wherever the client is most comfortable, usually their home, and begin an extensive process. Interviews average at four to five hours, though Savoie said she has gone up to 12 or 16 hours, which she splits over the course of several days.

“When I started practicing writing these I didn’t have an interview process,” Savoie said. “The problem became I would just sit down with someone I didn’t know and ask them to tell me about their life. It was way too complex of a question.”

Savoie asks clients questions regarding their earliest memory, what their parents were like and childhood vacations. She works methodically through childhood, marriage, young adulthood and eventually arrives at the present. On average, she asks approximately 150 questions, which Savoie said she often deviates from once she begins the conversation.

From there, Savoie spends time in the area, immersing herself in the culture and life of who she is writing on.

She’ll live in one area for two or three months and then move on to where the next client is.

After the interview, Savoie spends eight to 12 weeks writing the memoir or tribute. Clients are then presented with a hardcover book detailing their family’s story. Savoie said the goal is to present a formal biography that can become a family heirloom, something

that will last and be passed down for generations to come.

“I meet people who say ‘I would love that for my mom,’ or they will say ‘I would have given anything to have that valuable source from my mom and now it’s too late,’” Savoie said. “What I like to bring to the table is that opportunity to preserve that history.”

Savoie has worked with clients including a 103-year-old woman, a couple who have been married for 70 years and veterans of WWII, Korea and Vietnam.

“I’m providing the service because it’s my passion and because, in Plant City specifically, there’s so many stories there,” Savoie said. “There’s this quote, it’s a proverb, that says, ‘Every time an old man dies a library burns.’

It’s essential to me to preserve those libraries.”

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Photos by Daniel Figueroa IV

The Snook and Harnage families gather outside of Duke's Saturday. Kelli Harnage (pink shirt, front) is a recent breast cancer survivor.

Duke’s channels Jon Jones in annual cancer benefit

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The Plant City eatery held its second annual “Give Cancer the Boot” event Saturday, to raise money for the Tampa-based Moffitt Center, a leading cancer research and treatment center, and the STANO Foundation.

STANO, an acronym meaning Supporting Troops Area wide, Nationally and Overseas, sends care packages to troops at home and abroad every month. It’s also named for the program’s founder, Paula Stano.

This year’s event featured drink specials, raffles for cash and prizes, live music from local band Rimfire and coincided with a viewing of the much-anticipated UFC 214, helping pack the house. It was standing room only until the early hours of Sunday morning, when the pay-per-view fight came to an end.

“It’s been packed,” Paul Ostendorf, general manager of Duke’s said. “It’s definitely a bigger turnout than last year.”

Since opening in early 2015, owner Chuck Jamieson said community involvement, including frequent benefit events, has been a priority. Last year’s event raised more than $3,400.

Funds raised from the event are split between STANO and Moffitt.

According to the Florida Department of Health, Florida has the second highest cancer burden in the nation, with an average 100,000 new cancers diagnosed each year. In 2014, more than 42,000 Floridians died from cancer-related causes. Rick Miller was not one of them. He’s survived colon cancer, melanoma and basal cell carcinoma.

“I’m a three-time cancer survivor,” Miller said. “This is a great event.

There’s a great turnout and very generous people. It hits me on several levels. The generosity is one thing and people caring about others with cancer is another.”

That care and support can be the difference between life and death for many, including breast cancer survi-

vor Kelli Harnage. Harnage, 37, was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in November 2016. She thought it meant the end for her, but her doctors assured her she’d survive.

She had a double mastectomy on June 28. Just a few weeks earlier, while wearing a pink shirt with the words “I am brave and strong” her friend Brandy Snook made for her, Harnage rang the bell after her last chemotherapy treatment at Moffitt. It was a difficult road, she said, one that might not have been possible without the support of her friends and family.

“The road we have to go through, the emotion, you definitely need the support,” Harnage said. “I thought my world was going to end. I thought it was a death sentence.”

Now, with just seven weeks of radiation left, the mother of four children, aged four to 21, stood smiling outside of a packed Duke’s Saturday night, her eight-year-old daughter, Leah, dancing around her feet, knowing, at least for her, cancer got the boot.

Top: Paula Stano, Rick Miller and Paul Ostendorf. Miller’s organization, Duck Cancer, also holds fundraisers in Plant City.

Above: Brian Schmelzle and JT Whelan look on during Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino’s victory over Tonya Evinger to claim the vacant UFC women’s featherweight title.

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MILO: MEET AND GREET SUPER WHY! 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bruton Memorial Library is hosting the Children’s Summer Reading Club Grand Prize Drawing and MILO: Meet and Greet Super WHY! There will be reading circles, arts and crafts, a technology station and free books and school supplies. MILO is also offering a meet and greet with PBS Kids Super WHY! The grand prize drawing is at 11 a.m. with multiple prizes including four kid’s Kindle Fire tablets.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 6

BDF SUMMER SCHOOLING SHOW 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Black Dog Farm is hosting the Summer Schooling Show. The show will include dressage, western dressage and jumping. There will be lots of shade for the horses and spectators. Dressage judge Leslie O’Sullivan will be present at the event. For more information go to blackdogconnemaras. com.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 8

NEW TEACHER COFFEE 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. The Plant City Chamber of Commerce is hosting the annual New Teacher Coffee to welcome new teachers and principals to Plant City. The event is held at the Expo Hall at the Florida Strawberry Festival Grounds. Sponsors and volunteers are still welcome. For more information call 813-754-3707.

NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION FOR THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 4 to 6 p.m. The Greater Plant City Chamber of Commerce is hosting a new member orientation. Come

meet the staff, find ways to get involved and see what the Chamber does for the community. For more information, call 813-754-3707.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 11

COMMUNITY APPRECIATION FUN DAY 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Randy L. Larson Softball Four-Plex, 1500 S. Park Road. The Plant City Noon Rotary Club will be handing out free backpacks to the first 500 children.

There will be free food and drinks, giveaways, a K-9 demonstration, bounce houses, dunk tanks and more. The Plant City Police Department, Plant City Fire Department and the HCSO SWAT Marine Division and Aviation Division will be on site.

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The 20-minute session is free and comes with one digital image. Additional poses can be purchased after the session. Register for the event by visiting deannahurleyphotography.com. Spaces are limited and will be filled on a first come, first served basis.

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DIABETES PREVENTION CLASS 16 WEEK SERIES 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. The United Food Bank of Plant City, 702 E Alsobrook St # H, is hosting a diabetes prevention class, which will be taught by registered dietitians and health educators. The 16 week series begins on July 11 and is free to the public.

Registration is required. Contact (813) 307-8015 Ext. 7111.

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THE CLASSROOM GALLERY 1 to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays at the 1914 Plant City High School Community Center, 605 N. Collins St. Art is on display by members of the East Hillsborough Art Guild.

KRAZY KUP LIVE MUSIC 8:33 to 10:33 p.m. Saturdays, at Krazy Kup, 101 E. J. Arden Mays Blvd. (813) 752-1220.

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SPORTS Do you have a good sports scoop for us?

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PCLL team places second in North Carolina Plant City Little League’s 9-10-11 All-Stars nearly won the 2017 Tournament of State Champions in its age group, but fell just short on Wednesday afternoon.

The boys, representing Florida, made it to the tournament’s championship round against North CarolinaTar Heel Little League’s team but took a 5-2 loss. The team’s secondplace finish is its highest in three consecutive tournament appearances.

They got to the championship round with a 14-3 win over Virginia on July 29, a 15-4 win over South Carolina on July 30, a 13-4 win over Alabama on July 31 and a 9-1 win over Georgia in the Aug. 1 semifinal round.

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The guide offers an in-depth look at what makes the Durant, Plant City and Strawberry Crest football programs tick, who to watch for and how things could shake out during the season. There will also be information regarding area youth football teams, including the Plant City Colts, Plant City Dolphins, Turkey Creek Trojans, Dover Patriots and Antioch Redskins.

The guide will be inserted with the Aug. 25 Observer issue, just in time for the start of the regular season.

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The Plant City Family YMCA’s first developmental swim meet went as smoothly as a Michael Phelps butterfly run.

Seventy-two swimmers from around the Tampa Metropolitan YMCA’s network of facilities hit the pool on July 28 for Plant City’s first and last home meet of the season, which runs through November. That figure includes 14 of the 18 Plant City Y developmental team members. Not including the swimmers, 124 spectators showed up to watch the kids get a taste of what competitive swimming is like.

“I think it went really, really well,” Aquatics Director Maggie Cattell says.

Swimmers were broken up into three age groups — 8 and under, 9-10 and 11 and up — and their age factored into race lengths. For example, the 8U group would swim a 25-meter freestyle while the 11 and up group swam a 50-meter freestyle. All events, save for the 100-meter individual medley, were co-ed.

The goal for each YMCA branch, according to Cattell, is for the developmental meets to feel more like a team event rather than a true competitive meet. There are no winners or losers in each race and no team or swimmer gets a trophy — it’s designed to make everyone feel like part of one team under the YMCA banner.

“They really want it to be as cohesive as it can be,” Cattell says.

Though the Plant City swimmers still have three meets to compete in, the Plant City Y will not host another developmental swim meet until 2018.

The current schedule was designed

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Top: Older swimmers were allowed to start from the boards.

Above: Swimmers were divided into three age groups.

Left: Swimmers who finished first were all smiles.

to let each YMCA branch in the Tampa Metropolitan network host one monthly meet throughout the season.

Cattell says the Plant City Y will be ready for the next one. Though it had to add staff — two volunteers and one lifeguard — for the occasion, she says there were “just enough people” with the pool area at capacity for nothing

to go wrong.

The YMCA’s developmental meets have been held on Friday afternoons but, with school getting back in session next week, the meets will now be held on Saturdays. For more information about the swim team, call (813) 757-6677.

MEETS The Plant City Family YMCA’s swimmers will swim in three more meets in 2017, all on the road.

Saturday, Sept. 8: Campo Family YMCA, 3414 Culbreath Rd., Valrico Saturday, Oct. 21: Bob Sierra Youth and Family Center, 4029 Northdale Blvd., Tampa Saturday, Nov. 10: New Tampa Family YMCA, 16221 Compton Dr., Tampa

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Taking an ‘L’ doesn’t have to be graceful The popular opinion of Daniel Cormier’s UFC loss isn’t one kids should take to heart.

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n a good, honest competition, no athlete wants to lose. But it’s inevitable that most folks who play sports will take an ‘L’ at some point in their careers — amateur, professional or otherwise.

Of course, no one gets placed under more scrutiny than the pros.

And pros these days are placed under a bigger microscope than ever thanks to the Internet, which is always quick to make a meme (for the older crowd, that’s a funny picture shared on social media). That tends to happen following a loss or any kind of blunder and it isn’t always pretty.

Don’t get me wrong: there’s a time and a place for it. “Crying Jordan” will never not be funny. I got a kick out of “Crying LeBron” in LeBron James’s Miami Heat years, when I had far less respect for him than I do

now, and still do on occasion. But those memes arose from favorable situations. Michael Jordan, a guy known also for being an ultra-competitive, no-nonsense curmudgeon, cried during his Hall of Fame induction. LeBron cried in his early days with the Cleveland Cavaliers, with plenty of basketball left to play and plenty more NBA Finals to go to (and win, as evidenced by his last crying face). It’s lighthearted and funny depending on the situation.

I’m not laughing at “Crying Cormier,” though.

Out of context, his crying face looks amusing. I won’t be surprised if it gets used as often as “Crying LeBron” did though, as with real life, nothing will catch “Crying Jordan.”

But consider that Cormier doesn’t benefit from the situations Jordan and James had.

Consider that Cormier had just lost his rematch with Jon “Bones” Jones, who may be the greatest competitor the sport has ever seen, by TKO in a fight that probably wasn’t stopped early enough. He had clearly been concussed before the final

sequence of the match, in which Jones caught him on the ground and pummeled him until the referee called the fight. He was stumbling like a baby deer and he looked like he was only vaguely aware of where he was and what he was supposed to be doing. Cormier himself said he didn’t remember anything that happened after getting kicked in the head, and he was diagnosed with a concussion at a hospital after the fight.

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He was then forced to do an interview by Joe Rogan, who had said in the past that he would never interview a concussed, knocked out fighter again. That’s when the world was exposed to Cormier’s crying face and rushed to point and laugh.

I’m not cool with laughing at a guy who just suffered a concussion, lost a fight after being put in danger by the referee and was still forced to say something to the cameras. It’s even worse knowing that, at age 38, that fight was probably his last chance to beat Jones.

Remember that Cormier had spent several years trying to make this fight happen while Jones’s various drug problems created postponements. Jones is only 30 and has plenty of time left. Cormier doesn’t have that luxury. That was likely his last, maybe second-to-last, major fight and in-cage payday. He wanted nothing more than to say he finally beat Jon Jones and now he may never get to.

I have to give Jones credit for the way he treated Cormier after the fight, which was totally respectful.

But because I see so many people on social media ridiculing the guy because he looked funny when he cried, I want our younger readers to know that crying after losing the biggest competition of your life doesn’t make you less of a person than any of your peers.

It’s not graceful, but you can’t always keep your emotions in check for the sake of looking like the toughest person in the locker room.

I consider it worse to make phony excuses after a loss, like accusing the opposition of cheating or not playing fair simply because you were outmatched. Putting your teammates or training staff on blast for not being good enough is also almost always bad news. You don’t need to cry after every loss but, if you know you’ll never get another chance to win, no one should blame you for doing it.

Justin Kline is the Sports Editor at the Plant City Times & Observer.

Email: jkline@plantcityobserver.com.

Two years after giving volleyball a try, Elisa Landry is in love with the sport.

A libero in both Quest Volleyball Academy and Williams Magnet Middle School, Landry enjoys her time on the court as much as her time in the classroom, where she has a 4.0 GPA and is a member of the National Junior Honor Society and the National Art Society.

Know someone who deserves an Athlete of the Week feature? Email Justin Kline at jkline@plantcityobserver.com by the Friday before the next issue.

hitting line. It was going right into the corner and my teammate was going for it, but she missed, but I picked it right back up. We won gold because of that save. It was a few months ago.

What other sports do you play?

It’s just volleyball. I’m not good at anything else.

Is there a sport you’ve never tried but always wanted to?

I’ve always wanted to try tennis, but I’m busy with volleyball.

What are your favorite subjects in school?

Science, and math.

How did you first get into volleyball?

A friend got me into it.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

I want to be a microbiologist. But if that doesn’t work out, then I don’t know. I’ve still got a lot of time.

What did she tell you?

She told me that it was great, and that’s pretty much it.

Did you start at Quest?

I did not start at Quest. I went to the YMCA, and then I got told about this club called Synergy. Synergy ended, so now it’s Quest.

What’s the first thing you’d buy if you had $1 billion?

A dog. A border collie.

What advice would you give to a newcomer on your team?

I would tell them that it’s OK to be afraid sometimes, but you need to shake it off once you actually get into it. Confidence is a big thing in volleyball. You have to believe in yourself if you want to actually get out there and be good.

What did you like about volleyball that made you want to stay with it?

Just the energy and how you can’t let the ball drop at any time, and how you have to move and cover everyone.

What are some of your favorite things about playing with Quest?

My favorite thing is how there’s no drama. Everyone’s friends. The coaches, they actually care about how the players do and they want you to get better.

What’s the best advice a coach or teacher has given you?

Since I’m usually the shortest player on the team, my coaches are like, “Be the biggest person you can be on the court, even though you’re that small.”

What’s your favorite thing about playing libero?

I love getting hit at. Liberos are the ones who get hit at the most, and the hardest … it’s like a rush.

What are your goals for the next volleyball season and the school year?

For volleyball season, I want to get better at hitting and jumping … for my school year, I just want to get good grades, be the best I can be.

Is there any position you haven’t tried before?

I haven’t tried middle hitter because I am not tall enough to block any hits.

What’s the coolest thing that’s happened on a court since you’ve been playing?

I think the coolest thing that’s happened … someone was hitting outside on the other team, and they were

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Jeffrey Harris recently spotted a butterfly leaving its cocoon near his house. “Always enjoying my yard,” he said. Harris wins this week’s I Love Plant City photo contest.

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