Opinion

Everywhere you look, the City of Plant City and its economic development partners are on the move.  Main Street Plant City is providing the legs for the city’s latest project, our downtown development plan.  “Timing is everything,” said Mayor Rick Lott at Main Street’s last regular monthly “Topics on Tap” meeting, attended by 70 or […]

Keep your eye on Bruton Memorial Library over the next few months, because Library Director Tonda Morris is gearing up for some big things in the Plant City library’s future to make it even better.  First gear will be this year’s Mystery Dinner Theater, sponsored by the Friends of the Library. I was new in […]

Awarded a building that would become known as the John R. Trinkle Center, the Plant City Campus of Hillsborough Community College lacked just one thing:  $800,000 to furnish and equip it.   In 2004, a group of active community leaders recruited to raise the funds sat around a long table in the Campus Administration Building’s […]

I am celebrating my 35th year as a Rotarian this month. All three Rotary clubs I have been a member of, including our great Plant City Noon Rotary club, have used 50-50 drawings to raise money and enhance attendance and fun. Although I now prefer to throw my money in the pot in an option […]