Thursday, February 21, 2013
The Community Roundtable's Community Affairs Dinner was held Feb. 20 at the Center Place Fine Arts & Civic Association in Brandon.
Close to 150 people attended the 2013 Community Affairs Dinner hosted by the Community Roundtable at the Center Place Fine Arts & Civic Association in Brandon, where this year's Alice B. Tompkins Community Service Award, Non-Profit Organization of the Year and Maureen Krzanowski Scholarship recipients were named. ______________ RELATED COVERAGE: ______________
Named at the Community Roundtable's 2013 Community Affairs Dinner were this year's Alice B. Tompkins Community Service Award, Non-Profit of the Year and Maureen Krzanowski Scholarship honorees.
The Community Roundtable held its annual dinner Feb. 20 and announced this year’s Non-Profit Organization of the Year, the Alice B. Tompkins Community Award recipient and the Maureen Krzanowski Scholarship recipient. The top non-profit award, along with a $500 check, went to the GFWC Brandon Service League, founded in 1959 by Alice B. Storms. This year’s Alice B. Tompkins Community Service Award recipient is Betty Jo Tompkins, a long-time community advocate and supporter, who has volunteered tirelessly over the years for many groups and organizations. Also at the Community Affairs Dinner, Strawberry Crest High School senior Zora Millerleile received the Maureen Krzanowski Scholarship. The award is given in memory of the Roundtable’s …
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Center Place, in collaboration with the Community Roundtable, will hosts its fifth annual Holiday Cards for Troops Event Oct. 6.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
It may seem like a small gesture. But to military service men and women stationed far from family and friends in the Middle East, something as simple as being able to send a holiday card can make a big impact. That's why, for the fifth year, Center Place, in collaboration with the Community Roundtable, will host its Holiday Cards for the Troops card-making event. On Saturday, Oct. 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Center Place, 619 Vonderburg Dr., Brandon, residents are invited to gather to create handmade holoiday cards. Residents age 16 and up will create decorated cards that are blank inside to send to deployed service members. The service members will be able to write a message to loved ones in the card. Donations to participate will be …
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Awards were given July 11 in 12 categories at the Center Place Fine Arts & Civic Association in Brandon. See who took home the Community Roundtable awards for the 2012 Greater Brandon Fourth of July Parade.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Candidates Gay Lynn Love and B. Lee Elam met at O'Brien's Irish Pub this morning to turn in the monies they received in their charity races. Collectively they raised $43,259.
There’s a new mayor in town, Gay Lynn Love, who with her opponent, B. Lee Elam, arrived at O’Brien’s Irish Pub this morning to count their receipts for the honorary mayor of Brandon charity race. Each year on the morning of the Fourth of July, hours before the start of the Greater Brandon Fourth of July Parade, the candidates submit the cash and checks they received over a month of fundraising, from June 1 through the morning of July 4. Love, a Riverview resident, is the newest honorary mayor, after raising $24,305 for her sponsoring and designated charities. In his campaign, Lee raised $18,954. Together, the candidates raised $43,259 for charity. “In this hard year of the economy, this was an amazing amount of money raised over 30 days …
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
The parade will kick off at 10 a.m. at the intersection of Lumsden Road and Parsons Avenue.
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
It's the culmination of a year of planning by members of the Community Roundtable, organizers of the annual Brandon Fourth of July Parade. And tomorrow it all comes to fruition when the parade, one of the largest in the state, kicks off at 10 a.m. at the intersection of Lumsden Road and Parsons Avenue. According to parade chairman Marie Cain of Riverview, here's what parade participants and spectators alike should know about this year's parade. See Related Content: Your Guide to Brandon's 'Pioneering Families' 4th of July Parade Road Closures for the Greater Brandon 4th of July Parade What Can You Expect at This Year's 4th of July Parade Parade Chair Readies for Brandon's 4th of July Celebration
FishHawk Ranch resident Christopher Coleman was nominated for the honor by his daughter, Christina.
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
A FishHawk Ranch dad with a commitment to the poor will be honored during this year’s Brandon Fourth of July Parade as the Father of the Year. Each year the Community Roundtable, which organizes the parade, asks school children in the community to write letters about their special dads. The winning child and dad rides in a convertible in the parade. This year nearly 300 children answered the call, nominating their dads with heart-felt essays, according to Roundtable board member Janine Nickerson. The 2012 Father of the Year is Christopher Coleman, 45, a software developer for AT&T. His 11-year-old daughter, Christina, a FishHawk Creek Elementary student, wrote about her father’s work with a national nonprofit called Remember the Poor. For …
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Applications are available online.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
News Report Veterans groups, marching bands, Scout troops and businesses have until Friday to apply to enter this year's Brandon Fourth of July Parade. According to parade chairman, Marie Cain, June 1 is the final day to enter the parade, a community tradition for more than 50 years. Organized by the Community Roundtable, an organization composed of representatives of Brandon area organizations, the Fourth of July Parade will kick off July 4 at 10 a.m. The parade will begin at the intersection of Lumsden and Parsons Avenue, proceed up Parsons Avenue to Robertson Street, cross over Oakfield Drive and end in the parking lot of the Publix on State Road 60. This year's theme is "Brandon’s Pioneering Families" and each float should represent …
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
This year's theme is "Brandon's Pioneering Families."
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
News Report The Community Roundtable welcomes returning participants as well as new entrants for the annual Brandon Fourth of July Parade. "Many are not aware that this is the largest Independence Day Parade in Florida," said parade chairwoman Marie Cain. This year's theme is "Brandon's Pioneering Families," and floats in the parade should reflect Brandon's history, said Cain. The Community Roundtable also is seeking decorated vehicles, dance troupes, bands, businesses, churches and Scout troops interested in participating in this year's parade. For safety reasons, the Community Roundtable Board requires participants to hand out souvenirs to spectators at the curbs. The approved manner for distribution is to have walkers hand out the …
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Tammy Holmberg received the Alice B. Tompkins Community Service Award at the Community Roundtable Public Affairs Dinner Feb. 21.
For the fourth time in Brandon history, the same person in one year has been named both the Key Citizen of the Year and the Alice B. Tompkins Community Service Award recipient. That honor most recently goes to FishHawk Ranch resident Tammy Holmberg, a past honorary mayor of Brandon, who has held leadership positions at the Center Place Fine Arts & Civic Association and the Rotary Club of Brandon South, among her many other civic, community and commerce associations. Holmberg, who gave her husband, Paul, credit for his role in supporting and helping her to pay back to the community, received her Alice B. Tompkins recognition at the annual Community Affairs dinners held by the Community Roundtable at Center Place on Feb. 21. It came weeks …
Jason Bartolone
8:49 am on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Kristy, the Brandon 4th of July parade kicks off at 10 a.m. It begins at the intersection of Lumsden and Parsons Avenue, proceeds up Parsons Avenue to Robertson Street, crosses over Oakfield Drive and ends in the parking lot of the Publix on State Road 60. more ›