Ciao! Italian Bistro’s new pork chop entree is just one of many additions to the restaurant’s revamped menu.
By Gary Nager | September 14
Although we currently have some outstanding pizza places in New Tampa and Wesley Chapel, weâve never really had a great Italian restaurant. And, although some folks in the area seemed to enjoy Pagelliâs Italian Restaurant when it opened in the Shops at Wiregrass mall a couple of years ago, the owners decided a year or so ago to revamp the concept and change the name to Ciao! Italian Bistro.
Well, according to Justin Fleming, the new chef and co-owner of Ciao!, neither Pagelliâs (and Justin worked for two years at the original Pagelliâs in Estero, FL) nor Ciao! was good enough, so he decided to move to the Tampa Bay area to start over and re-create Ciao!âas a real, sit-down Italian restaurant that utilizes fresh ingredients and has dishes for men, and women, with family-friendly dishes and pricing.
Now located (since 2010) in the Windguard Professional Center across Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. from the new Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel (FHWC), Small World Pediatrics is a full-service pediatrics practice that cares for children from the time that they are born through their college years (usually to about age 21).
The Wharton Wildcats volleyball team has hosted & won each of the first two Harvest Tournaments.
With the changing of the seasons comes the annual Harvest Volleyball Tournament at New Tampaâs Paul R. Wharton High, along with its accompanying food drive.
For the third consecutive year, Wharton High will welcome Brandon, Clearwater, Freedom, King, Riverview, Strawberry Crest and Wiregrass Ranch high schools to its Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. campus to compete in the annual girls volleyball tournament on Friday-Saturday, September 20-21. But the battle wonât be completely on the court, as each team participating also is being challenged to collect the most donated canned and boxed food items. Wharton has won the tourney each of the first two years.
â(Wharton) started the Harvest Tournament for two reasons,â explains volleyball coach Eric Barber. âTo provide a tournament in the north Tampa area that these schools could attend, as well as provide a way for high school volleyball programs to directly impact their communities in a positive way.â
Barber says that the schools that he thinks will pose the biggest threat to Whartonâs âthree-peatâ are Wiregrass Ranch, Clearwater, and New Tampa rival Freedom. However, Barber adds that he thinks that Wharton still might have an advantage over the competition.
âWe have been fortunate to win the last two, so I think a certain level of confidence comes with that,ââBarber explains. âWe are also working on being more diverse in our offense this year.â
Anyone planning to attend the tournament who is interested in donating cans/boxes of food is encouraged to do so, as a box will be set up in front of the gym for any donations. Wharton would like to send a big “Thank You” to the event’s sponsors: Marco’s Pizza, Bagels Plus, Dunkin’ Donuts, Rent King and RPM Physical Therapy.
Roger Briggs, the chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder of Sun Laboratory Services, Inc. (which has a location in Wesley Chapel), stands by his mission to âdeliver a level of patient service other laboratories are either unwilling or unable to provide.â
Briggs says that both Sun Labsâ new diagnostic center, located across Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. from Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel (FHWC), as well as the original location in Sun City Center, offer convenience and customer-centered care that other labs often donât.
The main laboratory opened in Sun City in 2005 and grew from about 1,000 square feet to a 15,000-sq.-ft. facility.
âWe went from serving a few local clients to more than 300, in addition to the individual patients who use our two diagnostic centers daily for their prescribed lab tests,â says Briggs.
Sun Laboratory Services is a full-service clinical laboratory that partners with businesses and organizations to provide onsite phlebotomy services (phlebotomy is the act of drawing or removing blood in order to obtain a sample for analysis and diagnosis) and lab results. Sun Laboratory-trained technicians visit hundreds of assisted living and skilled nursing Continue reading
Alex Hamed (left) and Joe Dimian will help put the right phone with the right plan in your hand.
By Matt Wiley | September 14
In our current technological age, itâs easy to forget that the computers many of us carry in our hands actually are what were once referred to as âtelephones.â With the ongoing addition of more technology and services that these âSmartphonesâ are capable of offering, itâs good that there is a place in New Tampa to find the phone and the wireless service that meets your needs.
Consider Cellmasters, Inc., a new, independendtly owned T-Mobile store that opened in June of this year in the New Tampa Center shopping plaza on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. at Cross Creek/New Tampa Blvd. Inside, a myriad of the latest in phone technology and accessories line the showroom walls. It is here that owner Alex Hamed, a Cross Creek resident, and store manager Joe Dimian, who lives in West Meadows, fit customers with the plans and phones that best suit their lifestyles. Whether it is a contract plan with an expensive phone or a cheaper phone with a prepaid plan, Cellmasters has something for you and your family.
