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Vicente Martinez-Ybor Bicentennial Celebration

Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Vicente Martinez-Ybor, who led the way for the establishment of Tampa’s iconic cigar industry and founded Ybor City.

His great-grandson, Rafael Martinez-Ybor, The Honorable E.J. Salcines, and noted speakers will participate in a ceremony to honor Ybor’s accomplishments and contributions. Ybor City’s cultural and business organizations, including the Italian Club, Las Damas del Centro Asturiano, the Ybor City Chamber of Commerce, and the Ybor Merchant’s Association will take part in the event.

Attendees will enjoy live music by the HCC Ybor Alumni Jazz Band, light refreshments, domino games, cigar rolling demonstrations, a Bolita-Style drawing for prizes, and other activities reIpresentative of Ybor City’s cultural heritage. Admission is free and open to the public. Reservations are required and attendees must present their printed tickets at the event registration table.

To celebrate the bicentennial, the Ybor City Museum State Park will offer free admission from 1:00-5:00 pm on September 7th.

Community Partners: Italian Club, Las Damas del Centro Asturiano, Ybor City Chamber of Commerce, Ybor Manufacturers Association, Ybor City Development Corporation.

Our Sponsors: Creative Loafing, Cigar City Brewing, Crowbar, Carne Chophouse, Diana Arufe, La Segunda, Bayside Event Rentalshttps://www.facebook.com/events/368125807048807/

 

 

THE MEGA-REVITALIZATION OF TAMPA’S HISTORIC YBOR CITY IS ONE OF THE NATION’S LARGEST

https://revitalization.org/article/is-tampas-historic-ybor-city-mega-revitalization-the-countrys-largest/#.W47QIc5Kipq

Pancakes with PFLAG

Come celebrate our 1st year since we started PFLAG Wesley Chapel/Pasco! Come join us on September 29th at Applebee’s in Wesley Chapel for Pancakes with PFLAG! Tickets are $5 and you can message us to get yours!

https://www.facebook.com/events/244731076179753/?active_tab=about

 

HOTTEST TIP OF THE WEEKEND

ChallahDay Market

Every Saturday the Jamison B. Breadhouse Bakes (3615 E. 7th Ave – Ybor City) opens up to the general public. This Saturday will be a Special Challah Day Market!  Read all the details here. https://www.facebook.com/events/334148243824154/

 

 

How to Use Gender-Neutral Words.

In TeeenVOUGE Magazine this week as a good read for all of us. Here is just a sample of the article.

Folks, folx, or everybody instead of guys or ladies/gentleman

Humankind instead of mankind

People instead of man/men

Members of Congress instead of congressmen

Councilperson instead of councilman/councilwoman

First-year student instead of freshman

Machine-made, synthetic, or artificial instead of man-made

Parent or pibling instead of mother/father

Child instead of son/daughter

Kiddo instead of boy/girl

Sibling instead of sister/brother

Nibling instead of niece/nephew

Partner, significant other, or spouse instead of girlfriend/boyfriend or wife/husband

Flight attendant instead of steward/stewardess

Salesperson or sales representative instead of salesman/saleswoman

Server instead of waiter/waitress

Firefighter instead of fireman

 

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-use-gender-neutral-words

From Buckingham Palace

https://youtu.be/l98fZYiCMLM

 

Metro Wellness

From the MC Film Mail Bag

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Join us for 9/11 memorial in Ybor City

 

——– Original message ——–

From: Lori Rosso <lrosso@ybor.org>

Date: 9/4/18 10:33 AM (GMT-05:00)

To: Deb Hargreaves <DHargreaves@ybor.org>, Visitor Information Center <info@ybor.org>

Subject: Join us for 9/11 memorial in Ybor City

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

 

***For Immediate Release***

 

REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER THE 11TH IN TAMPA’S HISTORIC YBOR CITY

 

Area Business Leaders Gather to Remember With Locals Who Were There on 9/11

 

Media Contact:

 

Deborah Hargreaves, Event Coordinator

813-482-2312

dhargreaves@ybor.org

 

— Ybor City

 

The Ybor City Chamber of Commerce has organized a brief, powerful observance of 9/11 unlike any we’ve ever seen locally. They’re inviting all Tampa Bay area residents, especially those who lost loved ones or friends in the terrorist attacks on September the 11th, 2001 to join them at the 9/11 Memorial in historic Ybor City. This local memorial includes dramatic statuary featuring heroic First Responders and showcases one of the largest pieces of Ground Zero steel anywhere in the state of Florida.

 

The event Master of Ceremonies will be the Reverend Benjamin Curry of the Greater New Salem Primitive Baptist Church on nearby Nebraska Avenue. The Keynote Speaker for this solemn event will be Captain Greg Amira, US Army (Retired). Greg, who now resides in Land O’Lakes, was in the World Trade Center as terrorists piloted planes into them on that fateful morning. He now heads WoundedVets.org in support of wounded veterans in Tampa Bay.

 

The event timeline will mark the sequence of events on September 11th as attendees will observe a moment of silence when planes struck the WTC’s North Tower at 8:46 AM. Captain Amira will give brief remarks about his experiences that day, and Hillsborough County Firefighters Local Union 2294 Treasurer, Captain Christopher Boles, will toll the bell eleven times to mark the moment that a second plane struck the second [South] tower at 903 AM. First Responders from all across our community, including City & County EMS/Fire & Law Enforcement personnel are invited to attend and be recognized, especially those who were at The World Trade Center or who traveled to assist with search & rescue efforts in the wake of the attack.

 

Lori Rosso, Executive Director of the Ybor City Chamber lauded these community heroes. ” They all deserve our unwavering support and recognition,” said Rosso. She went on to say, “We’ve established a monthly Ybor Heroes Award recognizing military Veterans & First Responders, so we could think of no better way to honor these heroes than to organize an event like this! It makes it all the more special that we can honor Captain Amira who was in New York City and who also saw combat action in the military while serving in the Middle East.”

 

*Media are invited to attend and interview willing area heroes. Find the event timeline and details on this and other events at Ybor.org

 

 

 

September 11th Remembrance Ceremony – Event Timeline

 

*** 

8:30 AM 

Begin Gathering***

 

Our brief remembrance program kicks off promptly at 8:45 AM – just one minute prior to the exact moment when the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center as outlined below.

 

  • 8:46 am – Mohammed Atta and the other hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 11 crash the plane into floors 93-99 of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, killing everyone on board and hundreds inside the building.

 

Greg Amira talks for about 15 minutes regarding his experiences inside the WTC at Ground Zero on September 11th.

 

  • 8:47 am – Within seconds, NYPD and FDNY forces dispatch units to the World Trade Center, while Port Authority Police Department officers on site begin immediate evacuation of the North Tower.

 

  • 8:50 am – White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card alerts President George W. Bush that a plane has hit the World Trade Center; the president is visiting an elementary school in nearby Sarasota at the time.

 

  • 9:02 am – After initially instructing tenants of the WTC’s South Tower to remain in the building, Port Authority officials broadcast orders to evacuate both towers via the public address system; an estimated 10,000 to 14,000 people are already in the process of evacuating.

 

  • 9:03 am – Hijackers crash United Airlines Flight 175 into floors 75-85 of the WTC’s South Tower, killing everyone on board and hundreds inside the building.

 

We will toll the bell at 9:03 AM and conclude the ceremony with a bagpipe version of “Amazing Grace.”

 

 

 

EVENT TIMELINE:

 

8:30 a.m.             Gather at the 9-11 Memorial South of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Communications Center

 

8:45 a.m.             Reverend Benjamin Curry will recognize dignitaries and Opening Prayer

 

8:46 a.m.             Moment of Silence marking the First Plane Impact

 

8:48 a.m.             Reflections by Greg Amira, Ground Zero Veteran who was in the WTC [Approx. 20-25 Minutes]

 

9:03 a.m.             Firefighters toll the bell eleven times in remembrance of those lost to mark when the 2nd plane impacted WTC

 

9:05 a.m.             Concluding Prayer [Possibly conclude with “Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes]

You Just Can Not Make this Up

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There were 2 Gay guys walking thru Centennial Park in Ybor City. One homeless guy started to yell something. The gay guys just ignored him and keep on walking. Suddenly a second homeless guy from the other side charged up to the 1 homeless guy and started to yell. “You leave these Gay guys alone. They haven’t done anything wrong!”   The Gay guys thought hum…. Did the homeless guy just stand up for us when being Gay bashed? Just goes to show homeless people are people too.

Photos of the Week 8-25-18

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Photos of the Week    

 
 
Guido Maniscalco (rt),
Tampa City Council
 
  

City Side


Pirates


NY NY Pizza



Bradley’s on 7th
 
Hamburger Mary’s 
 
Steam @ The Honey Pot
 


Tea Cup
Join Tea Cup on the Balcony at Hamburger Mary’s in Ybor City every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 
 
 
Ybor Wine Bar
 
 

 
 GaYBOR-Ybor City 
 
 
 
 

  
 

 

 

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8-30-18 Dishing with Mark n Carrie. This is going to be WILD!!!

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Let the Games Begin!!!

NAGAAA GAY SOSFTBALL WOLD SERIES

4,000+ Softball Players from around the world!!! PLUS all their family, friends and fans!!!

Registration starts this Sunday Sept2-3.

The Tampa 2018 GSWS Opening Ceremony will be Monday 5PM at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park- Tampa

For more detail visit  https://www.facebook.com/tampagsws/?tn-str=k*F

 

 

Just Announced

Get your tickets NOW

https://tampapride.org/product/pride-zoo-la-ticket-or-corporate-pack/

The next Tampa PRIDE meeting will be Tuesday, Sept 4 at the Hampton Inn & Suites Ybor City. Everyone is WELCOME.

This Is Ybor City

https://youtu.be/pR0WmFtysDU

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Labor Day Weekend

 

USF Football Welcome

2nd Annual USF Pride Night  September 1,st

Congratulation Rick Claggett, owner of Watermark

Watermark Film Company premiered the first trailer to its documentary film “Greetings From Queertown: Orlando”

Read about it here. http://www.watermarkonline.com/2018/08/24/watermark-owner-creates-film-company-premieres-first-movies-trailer/

 

https://youtu.be/RH6QFR8xVOk

 

 

Vanessa Vanjie Mateo

On the COVER of GAYTIMES

The Piano Wo/Man Concert

 

 

Hosted by The Tampa bay Pride Band and Tampa bay Symphonic Winds

The Tampa Bay Symphonic Winds first concert of their fifth season is entitled “Piano Wo/Man”. This will be ​a concert focusing on the piano as not only a musical instrument for pianist but also as a tool used for musical composition by both ​men and women composers​. The program will include a wide range of style to musically​ depict the ever-expansive flexibility ​of the piano. The concert is ​Sunday, September 30 at 7:30pm at the Hillsborough Community College in Ybor mainstage.

 

The program will include: ​

Porgy and Bess by George and Ira Gershwin ​

Lady Gaga in Concert arranged by Sean O’Loughlin

The Best of Carole King arranged by Johnnie Vinson

Classical Suite for Piano and Band arranged by James Curnow ​ ​

  1. Andante from Concerto No. 21 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

​ 2. Serenade by Franz Joseph Haydn

​So In Love by Cole Porter arranged by Julie Giroux ​

Who Puts His Trust In God Most Just by Johann Sebastian Bach arr. by James Croft ​

Into the Blue by Ingrid Stolzel

Slava​!​ by Leonard Bernstein

 

PROGRAM

Porgy and Bess by George and Ira Gershwin

Lady Gaga in Concert arranged by Sean O’Loughlin

The Best of Carole King arranged by Johnnie Vinson

Classical Suite for Piano and Band arranged by James Curnow ​ ​

​ So In Love by Cole Porter arranged by Julie Giroux ​

Who Puts His Trust In God Most Just by Johann Sebastian Bach arr. by James Croft ​

Into the Blue by Ingrid Stolzel

Slava​!​ by Leonard Bernstein

https://www.facebook.com/events/286323528630432/

New in Ybor City

Honey Bee’s Day Spa

Soft Opening this Weekend

Check out all the videos at https://www.facebook.com/Honey-Bees-Day-Spa-258596031373187/videos/