Former Miss Rhode Island, Julianna Strout, has continued to make an impact on the community that surrounds her, even past her pageant days. As the founder and chief executive officer of the SRQ Women’s Expo, she will be back at the event, which runs from July 27 to July 28, at the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota. Strout
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Creative Sign Designs, in Westchase, has named Josh Baldwin as its new chief financial officer. Baldwin has 21 years of experience and an executive doctorate degree in business administration. Paul Wilbur, the previous CFO, will be relocating for personal reasons, a statement said, but will remain with CSD in a newly created chief administrative officer
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HCA Florida South Tampa Hospital has named Ned Hill as chief executive officer. Hill will be responsible for services at the hospital’s multiple campuses including the South Tampa Hospital, HCA Florida West Tampa Hospital, the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery and the HCA Florida Central Tampa Emergency. He has 22 years of health care experience. He
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Metropolitan Ministries has partnered with Walgreens for the Backpacks of Hope School Supplies Drive, which helps support local children as they get ready to go back to school. From now through August 1, 88 participating Walgreens stores, in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, will be collecting school essentials to benefit children in need. This year’s drive
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Dr. Myron Rolle, a former football player at Florida State University and the National Football League who later became a neurosurgeon, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming HA CONNECT National Conference on Hydrocephalus. Rolle was recently appointed as the pediatric neurosurgery fellow at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. He will be delivering the
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The Valspar Championship concluded their “Paint the Town Green” Charity Caravan by announcing the 2024 tournament generated $1.3 Million for charities, in 2024. The 2024 tournament concluded with Peter Malnati claiming the victory and more than 130,000 fans attending the week-long PGA TOUR event, on the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort, in Palm Harbor. The
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Wheelchairs 4 Kids 13th Annual Jail and Bail event will take place July 19 and will consist of community leaders, in the Tampa Bay area, being “arrested” for a good cause. The “prisoners” will be fed a white-collar lunch in the prison cafeteria, and, after lunch, they will be locked up in the fundraiser jail.
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The Tampa General Hospital Foundation has received a substantial gift from philanthropists John and Susan Sykes, to establish a new Center of Excellence in Colorectal Cancer. The Susan and John Sykes Center of Excellence in Colorectal Cancer at the TGH Cancer Institute will support patient care, education and the research mission of TGH and the
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The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay and Success 4 Kids & Families have reached an agreement to merge operations. Programs run by Success 4 Kids & Families, at the point of transition on January 1, 2025, will begin to be managed by the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay. After the transition date, Success 4 Kids
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⊲ The Luminary Development Company, in partnership with Founders Hospitality, purchased The Saint Hotel, on St. Pete Beach, at 7201 Sunset Way, for $9.984 million. (Pictured above) ⊲ MarineMax, based in Clearwater, dedicated its seventh home for Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas and West Pasco Counties. ⊲ Burger Monger, at 1325 4th Street N., St.
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► Shumaker Partner Matthew E. Maggard has been appointed to Polk County’s Saint Leo University Board of Trustees. (Pictured above) ► Pasco County commissioners have approved a large, mixed-use project, called the Interstate 75 “gateway” at State Road 52, with industrial, commercial and a mixture of residential developments, on a 785-acre property, northwest of the interchange.
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► General contractor Summit Design + Build completed the build-out of Taverna Toscana, a luxury, Tuscan-inspired steakhouse and seafood restaurant, located at 1301 6th Ave W., in Bradenton. (Pictured above) ► Matthew Peterson was named the winner of Ringling College of Art and Design’s inaugural Ringling College Film Carl Foreman Award. ► Grimes Galvano added former
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