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July 2023
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CELEBRATING 21 YEARS OF PUBLISHING P OSITIVE COMMUNIT Y NEWS
LEARN AND SERVE TAMPA GIVES BOTH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS RESOURCES TO SUCCEED
CELEBRATE 20 YEARS OF KEEL & CURLEY WINERY WITH ITS NAPA TRIP SWEEPSTAKES AND BIRTHDAY PARTY
By Ava Benedict
Keel Farms is celas well as tastings, ebrating Keel & Curtours, events and ley Winery’s 20th more. The winery also anniversary with the produces Keel Farms ‘Cheers to 20 Years’ Agrarian Ciders, a Sweepstakes from line of delicious hard now through Saturciders made using day, August 5. Florida fruits. Keel The statewide & Curley products sweepstakes consists are available online, of simply entering at Keel Farms and in to win on the Keel select grocery stores Farms website, along statewide. with runner-up prizes “Our winery has found on Keel & Curgrown tremendousley Winery bottles’ ly over the past 20 President and Vice President of Keel & peel-away stickers. years, and that’s Curley Winery Clay and Ryan Keel. One winner selectbecause of support ed at random will win from our loyal customan all-inclusive wineers,” said Keel Farms making trip for two to President Clay Keel. “This Napa Valley on a date sweepstakes is our way of their choosing. One of saying thank you. We runner-up winner will have many exciting dewin a VIP experience velopments in the works, at Keel Farms for two so we look forward to on a mutually agreed more milestones and fun upon date, which ingiveaways in the future.” cludes a winery tour, There is no purchase tasting and dinner for required to participate the winner and one in the sweepstakes. guest of their choosParticipants can enter ing. by filling out a form at Additional prizes found https://www.keelfarms. on bottles in stores incom/cheers-to-20-yearsclude either a $5 coupon sweepstakes. for a wine bottle online The Cheers to 20 Years at www.keelfarms.com Sweepstakes will conclude or a free drink in the Keel with a celebratory Keel Farms Tasting Room. & Curley Winery birthday Keel & Curley Winery party on August 5 from 10 at Keel Farms is a winery a.m.-3 p.m. at Keel Farms. dedicated to handcraftParking and admission are ing high-quality, localfree, and all are welcome. ly grown fruit wines. Founded in 1984, the family-owned and operated Keel & Curley Winery is locatPG 3 ed 17 miles east of Tampa in Plant City NEWSOME PARKING PLANS at 5202 Thonotosassa Rd. Started with MOTORING TAMPA BAY ................PG 5 just 10 gallons of blueberry wine in 2003, HIGH 5 NEW GARDEN ...................PG 11 Keel & Curley Winery now produces over EYE ON BUSINESS................PGS 25-26 500,000 bottles of wine annually and offers visitors lunch and dinner daily, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT..........PG 43
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Dr. Kristy Verdi ture Park Pavilion, created the Randall creating posters Middle School 9/11 that encourage the Memorial in 2010, use of recycling bins involving each stuthrough the NYLC dent in this massive Education in Action undertaking that enprogram, particicouraged the pracpating in the NYLC tice of service-learnProject Ignition’s ing for middle safe driver camschool students. paign and estabService-learning is lishing a community an important part garden at Burnett of education, as it Middle School. Beinstills civic responfore founding Learn sibility in students and Serve Tampa, and teaches them Dr. Verdi previously not just curriculum organized the 9/11 but also how Memorial at Ranto give back to dall Middle School their commuand led the Randall nity. Although Area Youth Service Each year, organizations across the world, including Learn and an increased Council, known as Serve Tampa, organize projects for the R.A.Y.S. pronumber of students to help their communities gram. This program teachers have on Global Youth Service Day. tried to integrate encouraged middle this approach in classrooms, very few re- school students in the community to parsources are available. This lack of resources take in more service-learning projects and is why, in March of 2020, Dr. Verdi cre- volunteer opportunities. When Dr. Verdi ated Learn and Serve Tampa, a nonprofit left Randall Middle School in 2018, she organization dedicated to providing ser- continued to pursue her passion of providvice-learning projects to K-12th grade stu- ing service-learning programs to students. dents and schools. “True service-learning should be the kids “We want to empower youth service and themselves looking around them and sayconnect it with classroom learning,” said ing, ‘Hey, we see this issue and want to do Dr. Verdi. something about it,’” said Dr. Verdi. Since its creation, the organization has Learn and Serve Tampa continues to aid participated in countless projects, includ- teachers in connecting students with sering the sponsorship of three national days vice-learning projects and nonprofits that of service: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, are in need of volunteers. Although it has reGlobal Youth Service Day and the 9/11 ceived grants from some local businesses, it Day of Service and Remembrance. This mainly operates on donations from people year, Learn and Serve Tampa has had over throughout the Tampa area. To learn more 2,000 volunteers participate in a multitude information about Learn and Serve Tampa of events. Current projects include replac- and how to get involved, visit its website at ing student artwork at the McKay Bay Na- www.learnandservetampa.org.
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