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Color game Beach Park women's club were 'Dreamin' of a Pink Christmas." Details, Page 2 work wilh an experienced Real Estate Agent SANDY ERNST WM Bay to Bay ra 813.404.5723 gi www.SandyErnsLRealtor THE SOUTH TAMPA NEWS WEDNESDAY, December 23. 2015 An edition of The Tampa Tribune and The Tampa Times A time long ago 'The Diary of Anne Frank," comes to life in January. Details, Page 2 STUDENTS GIVING A' LENOOAUKE Sevans Car dona, 15, of New Tampa and a student at Cambridge Christian School, presents Aaliyah Davis a gift from Cambridge athletes. About 40 high school students visited Sulphur Springs kindergarten students In the Parents and Children Advance Together Family Literacy program recently. High school athletes help to lift spirits of at-risk kindergartners LENORA LAKE Yenifer Mercedes, a Sulphur Springs kindergarten student, Is held up by Cambridge Christian School cheerleaders, from left, Maddle Presson, Sydney Kralovanec and Claire Bealor when Cambridge's athletes visited and brought gifts to Sulphur School students In the Parents and Children Advance Together Family Literacy program.

BY LENORA LAKE Special Correspondent sulphur springs Forty Cambridge Christian School athletes came bringing gifts like scooters and toys such as My Own Iiiptop. On the receiving end were an equal numler of kindergartners in an after-school literacy program for at-risk students at Sulphur Springs Elementary. But (hat wasn't all the high school students had to offer. They also donated their time and attention for an hour of football and basketball tips and cheer routines for the students in the Parents and Children Advance Together Family Literacy program. "They get to interact with older students and look at these students as role models," said Chris-tene Worley, executive director of PCAT Literacy Ministries which sponsors the program.

That way, "they know people care about them as individuals." The idea for the visit began in Christmas 2014 when Cambridge parent Matt Young and his family organized a similar project with two other organizations. "Then a friend knew about this program and their needs," said Young, a Dana Shores resident. He said the money for the gifts was raised by the students, parents and the school from basketball game proceeds. Young and his wife, Wendy, bought the gifts, totaling almost $1,000, and the school's cheerleaders wrapped them. Athletes from Cambridge Christian's football, basketball and cheerleading teams distributed them as each child's name was called.

Those who got scooters also were fitted with helmets, thanks to the More Health program at Tampa General Hospital. But before the gifts, there were STUDENTS, Page 2 Retired physician finds that deli is new calling BY MARY SCOURTES GREACEN Special Correspondent liYiE PARK When retired physician David Lubin told his accountant he was buying a delicatessen, the man didn't ask when or which, but why. "You're comfortable, you have enough money, why?" Lubin recounts. His wife F.Ike was more supportive. "I told him it's going to be a lot of work," she said, adding that he jumped in with both feet and he loves it.

"When he retired two years ago, he went from happy, to DELI, Page 2 Legendary strafe Eleven's reincarnation underway j- ij 1 jmi IT ida and one of the last 1970s-era parks remaining in the world. For decades, the skatepark was host to daily skate sessions, weekend barbecues and occasional competitions. It was featured in dozens of skate videos, named as a historic location and featured in the popular video game "Tony I iawk's Pro Skater." "It was the first skate spot to be added to the National Register of Historic Places," said Shannon Bniffett, director of SKATE, Pag 2 BY SEAN BOWES Special Correspondent TAMPA When word got out that the legendary skateboard "snake run" at downtown Tampa's Perry Harvey Sr. Park was being destroyed, skaters both locally and nationally were outraged. More commonly known as the "Bro Bowl," skateboarders have visited the park since 1978 to carve around its swamp green transitions and roll over its graffiti painted bumps.

MN BOWES The builders at Team Pain used lasers to scan the original bowl and almost identically replicate the dimensions of the old "Bro Bowl." Then they used modern building techniques to make the concrete smoother, faster and hopefully longer lasting than the original bowl. all without having to wor- met rules, ry about admission fees or It was the first pub-enforced kneepad and hel- lie skatepark built in Flor CHMHESGBEAttN Wendy Tompkins works with David Lubin, new owner of Hyde Park's Swann Ave. Market A Dell, which serves breakfast and lunch, and will feature an organic garden..