Dishing with Mark & Carrie 4-10-2014

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This Friday, April 11 4-7 PM
Grand Opening
Cristino’s Coal Oven Pizza & Italian Restaurant
Corner of 8th & 17th in Ybor City
 
This Saturday, April 12th
 
This SUNDAY, April 13th
The MUST DO Event
Tickets on sale at MC Film
 
A Crazy Dream
So I have this crazy dream.  Carrie & I were out taking photos of Ybor. We wanted to take a photo from the guard lookout on top of the Homeland Security building on 7th Ave in Ybor. We walk in and ask if we can go to the roof to take photos. They ask us for our drivers licenses then say OK. They point us to the elevator. Once inside we see a button on the top that says roof. Then below the ground level button there is a basement button. We look at each other surprised. Then push the basement button. The doors close then open. There  in front of us are the tunnels of Ybor. There is a sign pointing one direction that says Orlando and in the other direction on that says MacDill Air Force Base.  Just then a transport pulls up. That’s when I wake up. WOW  was that crazy or not? Maybe, Just maybe that explains why they have a huge building on 7th Ave. Just Say n
 
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Italian Fest Ybor Style
    Again, the Annual Festa Italia Weekend in Historic Ybor City brought out another record crowd. The weather was superb with sunny skies and 80 degrees with warm breezes. The hundred of Italian restaurants & food vendors scored big with the 15,000 locals and out of town visitors. It was like being an Italian for a day even if you weren’t Italian! A combination of authentic flavors, distinct wines, cultural sounds and ambient traditions of being in Italy.
     A large tour group of Italians flew over from Italy on a charter just to attend the growing popular International Festival. Including in the attendees the winners of TV’s Italian Idol (like our American Idol TV show) and a top 5 contestant from the American Idol show.
    Movies, Italian teaching classes, fierce Bocce Ball competition, music festival, wine making and tasting and the Sunday all day food festival. Dressed in native attire, elementary school choirs singing in Italian, and dance groups provided great entertainment for the watching masses.
    Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn welcomed the large crowds sitting in chairs under tents and trees in Centennial Park.
    Seeing many of our Ybor friends restaurants including, Bernini, Carne’s, Cristino’s Coal Oven Pizza, Ybor City Wine Bar, Hamburger Mary’s, Tony’s Restaurant and Stone Soup all supporting the Italian Club event.
    Pics tell the story.

Saturday Ybor City Market

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The Ybor City Saturday Morning Market has a growing number of vendors. This is the oldest continuous open air market in Tampa Bay. The early morning crowds are enlightened to buy fresh baked bread, candies, homemade canned items, field fresh produce, independent craftsman hobbies and gifts.
    Manager Lynn Schultz has had packed weekends with a variety of events and venues including the Flan Festival, Cuban Sandwich Show, the Festa Italia  held at the historic Centennial Park in Ybor City most recently.
New BEAR Shirts at MC FILM
    A new assortment of fun wearing spring BEAR shirts have arrived at MC FILM. Sayings like BEAR WRESTLING, Advise from a BEAR, and BEAR trails. Dress for the occasion with eco friendly BEAR, witty Dog & funny CAT minded shirts from a national Eco Friendly shirt company.

You Can Not make this Up.

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A very close friend of ours was the owner of several high end fur boutiques up north. He sold them and moved to Florida. before you knew it he was back in the business again. This time working in department  store in Ft. Lauderdale.  He told us about a special customer. She was an elderly woman who would come to the department store twice a week. She would always order 1 chocolate chip cookie and have 2 cups of coffee. then she would come to the fur department and ask “What’s new?” She would always try one coat one and say “Maybe someday I will come back and buy this coat.” Everybody liked her and were very nice to her. Then one day she passed away. To the surprise of everybody she was very wealthy. She left our friend in the fur department, the servers & cosmetic department $5,000 each once a year for the rest of their lives.

From the MC Film Mail Bag

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Dear Ybor City Community Advisory Council Members:

 

On Thursday, June 5th, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. the Ybor City Campus President’s Community Advisory Council will hold its summer meeting in the Performing Arts Building’s Studio Theatre.   There will be short performances by students in our Drama and Dance programs.

 

The Council is designed to enhance open dialogue between the campus administration and the community-at-large and will focus on how the campus can support the community and how the community can support the campus. The meeting will include a tour of the Performing Arts and Visual Arts Buildings.   An agenda will follow closer to the meeting date as well as parking information.

 

For updates on HCC and Ybor City Campus events, please go to http://hccfl.edu/onlineathcc or http://hccfl.edu/yc.aspx and click on Calendars.

 

If you are planning on attending this forum, please RSVP to my assistant, Bridget Harris, by May 28, 2014. She can be reached at 813-253-7754 or bharris@hccfl.edu.

 

I hope to see you there.

 

Thanks for your support of HCC and the Ybor City Campus.

 

Shawn

 

Dr. Shawn H. Robinson

Campus President, Ybor City

Hillsborough Community College

http://hccfl.edu

http://hccfl.edu/yc.aspx

http://hccfl.edu/staff-info/robinson-shawn.aspx

srobinson@hccfl.edu

Ofc: 813-253-7755

Fax: 813-253-7610