Category: News

By Sean Bowes

Ask any parent with a son and a daughter and they will likely tell you that it’s difficult to get their kids to stop fighting. New Tampa residents Christopher and Viviana Cao are no exception. However, their kids — Christopher, 14, and Viviana, 11 — are not exactly fighting in the way you might think, like, say, over the remote control. Instead, they practice sparring, breaking boards and perfecting their moves in Tae Kwon Do (TKD), the Korean martial art form.Continue reading

The Chamber’s first annual New Tampa Business Forum on September 29 at Tampa Palms Golf & Country Club was a big hit with those who attended. The Forum featured a highly informative and entertaining “Personal Branding in a Connected World” workshop presented by Bernie Borges (CEO of Find and Convert and author of Marketing 2.0) and a candid keynote address by John Harding, regional President/CEO of Adventist Health System/University Community Health about the state of health care in the U.S. The Chamber’s annual member Business Expo, cocktail hour, awards ceremony and installation of new officers completed the evening. Roughly 40 Chamber members were on hand to promote their businesses to members and guests during a lively evening of networking in the Grand Ballroom at Tampa Palms Country Club.Continue reading

By Sean Bowes

After years of meeting in hotel conference rooms, and composing services in the living rooms of each other’s homes, the Jewish community in Wesley Chapel (and northern New Tampa) now has a synagogue to call its own, one that opened just in time for the Jewish High Holy Days.Continue reading

By Gary Nager

It can’t be soon enough for Wesley Chapel residents who live or work near S.R./C.R. 54 from west of I-75 to just east of Curley Rd., but the good news from the Pasco County Project Management-Design department is that the widening of S.R./C.R. 54 is expected to be completed and open to the public by the first week in December.Continue reading