Incoming Freedom High freshman Elaine Feaster has been named the winner of the Florida PTA Student Advocate award for her leadership, creativity & dedication after also winning Hillsborough County’s “Middle School Student of the Year.” It started out as a little box, meant to hold 175 books, to be distributed to those who needed them In just two years, however, … [Read more...]
Wharton High’s ‘Wee Wildcats’ Program Benefits Pre- & High Schoolers
Recent Wharton graduate Rebecca Larose poses with preschool students Maryam and Cohen during Halloween festivities at Wharton’s Wee Wildcats program last fall. While the halls at Wharton High are mostly filled with teenagers, there’s a brightly colored preschool-sized playground adjacent to the front parking lot that may seem a bit out of place on a high school … [Read more...]
Check Out The Little Free Library At The New Tampa Family YMCA!
Volunteers from the GFWC New Tampa Junior Woman’s Club installed and maintain a Little Free Library outside the New Tampa Family YMCA. Everyone is invited to stop by to borrow a book or share one. Getting books into the hands of those who want to read them has gotten a little easier for New Tampa residents, now that a Little Free Library has been installed and opened to the … [Read more...]
Cool Summer: A/C Work To Begin At Local Schools!
When the half-penny school sales tax referendum passed in Hillsborough County last year, the promise was that aged roofs and floors and playgrounds would be repaired, athletic tracks would be repaved and classrooms and fire evacuation systems being upgraded, just to name just a few much-needed enhancements. But, what got Wharton High's Parent Teacher Student Association … [Read more...]
Family Fuels Academic Success Of Freedom Valedictorian
When Amir Iranmanesh takes the stage at this year’s Freedom High graduation ceremony to give his valedictorian speech, he won’t be thinking about his GPA, which he says is 9.14. The 18-year-old will be remembering his late grandmother, the most influential person in his life. “Everyone says this about their grandmas, but mine was the purest, most innocent person in the … [Read more...]
