April-May 2012

City of Tampa Sports Camp At New Tampa Rec Center

This is a camp designed for all levels . Campers will be divided up by both age and ability levels. Campers will learn

the fundamentals in a wide variety of sports from basket-ball & street hockey, to gymnastics, hip hop dance, zumba, and various Olympic sports and a lot more….

**New this year** The High Five camp - designed for five year olds only

The Parks and Recreation Department offers a traditional nine-week Summer Day Camp beginning June 10 through August 17 at the Benito Activity Center on Cross Creek. For more information call 907-2863.

For more information and even sign up on line go to http://www.tampagov.net/dept_parks_and_recreation or call 274-8615.

New Tampa YMCA On Compton Drive

Summer camps at the Y are available for “full day” adven-tures or half day specialty camps in a variety interests from Life Guard Training to Syncro Swimming to Art or Cheerleading or Flag Football.

The YMCA full day summer camp programs are offered weekly from June 13-August 19. Camp hours are 9am-4pm, and early and late supervision is available from 7-9am and 4-6pm.

A YMCA camp choices and dates brochure is available to download at http://www.tpoa.net/YMCACamps.pdf . For more information call 866.9622, or stop by the New Tampa Family YMCA.

Having trouble picking out a camp this summer? Selecting the right summer camp for your child can be a dizzying experience and starting early helps assure space in that perfect program for you and “the campers”. There are a wide selection of Tampa Palms-based camp experiences available from the City of Tampa Parks & Rec, Tampa Palms Country Club and the New Tampa YMCA.

Tampa Palms Golf and Country Club

Campers will have the opportunity to participate in tennis, golf, swimming, daily arts and crafts projects, and a varie-ty of indoor and outdoor games.

Weekly themes and specialized Tennis Camps ensure a summer filled with fun and excitement!

2012 Summer Activity Camp

For more information or to sign-up, please call the Tennis & Athletic Center at 632-1576.

Getting Ready For Getting Ready For That SummerThat Summer--Camp Fun Camp Fun

Session 1-June 11 - June 15, 2012 *Amazing Animals* Session 2-June 18 - June 22, 2012 *Performing Arts Week* Session 3-June 25 - June 29, 2012 *Sports Week* Session 4-July 2 - July 6, 2012* prorated *Everyday is a Holiday* Session 5-July 9 -July 13, 2012 *Mad Science Workshop* Session 6-July 16 - July 20, 2012 *Storybooks and Superheroes*

Session 7-July 23 - July 27, 2012 *Splish~Splash Water Fun* Session 8-July 30 - August 3, 2012 *Tampa Palms Olympic Games* Session 9-August 6 - August 10, 2012 *Around the World in 5 Days* Session 10-August 13 -August 17, 2012 *Nickelodeon Days*

Its Swimming Pool Time Again How Child-Safe Is Your Pool?

Swimming pools are a fixture in Tampa Palms, more than 94% of the homes have either a pool or a spa – many have both. Unfortunately that fact puts Tampa Palms res-idents at an increased risk for tragedy. The most common cause of death for children un-der five years in Florida is accidental drown-ing. Many more children are permanently dis-abled due to the effects of near-drowning. Tragedy can strike in a flash and in the place where one feels the safest– at home: 77% of the children who drown were seen less than 5

minutes before being missed. 65% of drowning's occur in the family pool, 22% at a

relative’s home. 69% or the drowning's occur while one or both of the

parents are present

City of Tampa Can Help Parents

Tampa Fire Rescue and the American Red Cross are going to use April Pools Day to kick off a drowning awareness and prevention program. A team of Tampa Fire Rescue paramed-ics have been trained to conduct home water safety awareness surveys. Tampa residents that have a pool in their yards are invited to call 813-242-5410 to schedule a survey. A paramedic will come to the resident’s house and help the pool owner under-stand safety precautions that should be taken to avoid child-hood drowning.

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News From the TPOANews From the TPOANews From the TPOA

A Few Pool Safety Tips No Children? … Don’t Forget Visitors

Nothing replaces the need for constant adult supervi-sion any time a child has any access to a pool or spa but there are some safeguards suggested by the City. Surround your pool with a four-sided safety

fence, at least 4 feet high, that completely isolates your pool from both house and yard. Removable panels have proven useful for this.

Make sure fence gates into the pool

area are self-closing and self-latching. The latch should be located well above a child's reach and it should be inspected frequently to make certain that it is properly working and not rusted.

Install alarms on all doors leading to pool area.

A wide variety of door alarms are available that can be temporarily turned off by an adult pass-ing through with a button or key pad which is installed out of a child's reach.

Keep a cordless phone at poolside. Often a lapse

of supervision can occur when a caregiver dashes into the house to take a call. Keep a phone by the pool, so you can answer your calls without leaving the area.

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Chiles Family Fun Night/Health & Fitness Expo

Chiles Elementary School will be hosting a Family Fun Night/Health and Fitness Expo on:

Friday May 18th 5PM to 8 PM.

There will be health and fitness vender booths, food and goodies, music to enjoy, bouncy houses, face painting … and the Chiles annual auction!

At the Health and Fitness Expo you can also register for the Lizard Tail CHIP-TIMED 5K Run & One Mile Run/Walk. This is all for two good causes, Chiles Elementary School and a healthier community.

The weather is beautiful, the location excellent and pro-tected with plenty of free parking. The walk and run “course” maps are shown below.

Registration is a breeze On Line - www.active.com (Use keyword Lizard Tail) In Person - At the Chiles Elementary Family Fun Night Health &

Fitness Expo on Friday, May 18th between 5 and 8 PM. 16541 Tampa Palms Blvd.

- Race day - at Springhill Marriott, 5396 Primrose Cir, Tampa ($5 Increase in race prices.)

Free and ample parking at the New Tampa Professional Center Primrose Lake Blvd (off Commerce Park Blvd)

Publix will provide post race food/beverage. Join us for a morning of community fun.

APRIL– MAY

What A Way To Spend Saturday Morning!

The Lizard Tail 5K Race & The Lizard Tail 5K Race & The Lizard Tail 5K Race & 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk1 Mile Fun Run/Walk1 Mile Fun Run/Walk

When: Saturday, May 19th 8 AM For 5K 9 AM For 1 Mile Run/Walk Where: Race Start and Finish Springhill Suites, 5396 Primrose Circle Race Fee: $25 for the 5K; $10 For Mile Walk Awards: 5K Top Overall Male & Female, 5K Top

Masters Male & Female, 5K Standard 10 Year Age Divisions (3 Deep), 1 Mile Medals For Top 10 Finisher’s

For more information and race routes, For more information and race routes, For more information and race routes, visit online visit online visit online http://chiles.mysdhc.orghttp://chiles.mysdhc.orghttp://chiles.mysdhc.org

Landscape and monument lighting adds to the beauty of the entrances in Tampa Palms and contributes to the ex-perience for all who run or stroll along the Tampa Palms boulevards in the evening or early mornings. Faced with four years of construction obscuring the en-

tries on BB Downs, lighting becomes even more critical as a way to say “Tampa Palms is here and open for business”. Phase I of the LED project

addressed the areas which had not been illuminated since the time of the original developers. Phase I is complete. Phase II, now in progress, replaces the exiting lighting with power stingy LED’s. Except for the new LED monument lights, the lighting used in Tampa Palms was 20 year old plus technology; it was tired and more than a little expensive to operate. The new LED fixtures are both less expensive from a hard-ware standpoint and they use a fraction of the power re-quired by the old lights as seen below.

The Area 1 & 2 entry lighting improvements are under-way and should complete by mid-April.

The Reserve and Westover entries will follow.

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There have been a number of recent news articles regard-ing increases in garbage and trash collection rates for the City of Tampa.

These increases does not apply to Tampa Palms.

For Tampa Palms all solid waste - both collection and disposal – are provided by Hillsborough Coun-ty, who in turn outsources the collection for this area to Waste Management Inc.

Tampa Palms residents pay for trash and garbage services on their tax bills. Collection Services $136.23 / year Disposal Services $ 94.94 / year

Outdoor activities and Spring garden restoration can figure in heavily in the monthly water bills, especially if there are hard to notice irrigation system leaks.

Water rates are graduated and the monthly charge for wa-ter at the highest use tier is three times more per CCF (748 gal-lons) than the lowest tier.

1st 5 CCF mthly = $2.09/CCF

Over 47 CCF mthly = 6.28/CCF

Fortunately the City is transi-tioning to monthly meter read-ing and most of Tampa Palms (areas 5 & 7 on the graphic above) is already receiving monthly readings. The final portion (Area 8) will convert by August of this year.

Monthly meter reading is an important tool for citizens to monitor water usage and more quickly address leaks or even faulty meters.

For tips on how to detect irrigation leaks and much more, go online to the City of Tampa’s Water Dept. site. http://www.tampagov.net/dept_Water/information_resources/Sprinkler_Checkup/index.asp

Tampa Palms Trash & Garbage Collections

LED Community Lighting

Time To Watch Those Water Bills

LED Annual

Costs Current Fixtures

Annual Costs Area 1 Entry $2,418 $23,859

Area 2 Entry $3,483 $29,029

Reserve Entry $3,475 $22,070

Westover Entry $1,384 $5,965

$10,760 $80,923

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21st Century Reading Comes TPE Students

Hillsborough County Schools has subscribed to myON Reader from Capstone Digital. myON is a supplemental digital library that gives each student access to over 2,000 digital books. All digital books are complete with optional reading sup-ports-highlighting and audio-and a glossary to help in-crease reading achievement. Fiction books and nonfiction titles ranging from monsters and sports to biographies are included in the myON digital library. myON is a valuable and fun re-source for students, parents, teach-ers and administrators. myON is free for grades K-8 and can be accessed anywhere using the Internet, just to www.myon.com. To get started, simply login using the following: School Name: Tampa Palms Elementary, Username: Student Number, Password: Birth Date (mmyyyy).

Computers, laptops, e-readers, and tablets are great tools to use to read digital books. Each student has an account and may start read-ing now!

The Tampa Palms goal is to improve reading achievement by providing another means to access books. If you have any questions about how to use myON ask your student’s teacher or the Media Specialist, Mrs. Hanlin or Mrs. Hopple at 975-7390.

From Ms. Keenan, Tampa Palms Principal... Dear Families, It was so nice to see so many of you at our annual Carni-val and Auction. These are the memories of school fun that will stay with your child for a lifetime! As always, we so appreciate your support of our school.

We would like to warmly invite all of our volunteers to attend the annual Volunteer Social on Wednesday, May 16th at the Media Center at 8:30am.

We hope all of our wonderful volun-teers will be able to attend.

Music Rules Congratulations to Tampa Palms stu-dents selected for the All County Chorus

More congratulations to the six Strings students named to the All County Orchestra.

A huge round of applause and thanks goes to our amaz-ing music teachers Ms. Walsh and Ms. Vincent! Thank you for all of your “above and beyond” efforts!

Special Olympians Shine

A very special congratulations to the following students for their participa-tion in the Special Olympics

Tampa Palms Elementary

Lexie Cahn Shannon Chen Jaida Johnson Emma Paschal Hannah Pascal Chloe Potts Zoe Ruszin Nyah Sandoval Vanessa Valdes

Jacob Rudes Brandon Bischof

Jesus Coats Quentin Slade

Jaylon Slade Daniel Sanders

DeQuavius Redfield

Navik Bakrania Andrew Balmaseda Elizabeth Barber Joseph Hong Eugenia Kim Monroe Parks

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Tampa Palms Women’s Club A Fashionable April

The TPWC Fashion Show is a two decade tradition of fun, fashion and fund raising for the best of causes… OASIS serving the needs of children.

This year features Janet Carr, the owner of ‘Accessories and More’ her self-proclaimed “boutique on wheels”.

The May outing is May 16th. The plan is for a fun day on the Tampa Bay Harbor Tour. This tour leaves from the aquarium and is free. Lunch to be decided. Make a note –this outing is on a Wednesday, not a Thursday. The March trip to Raymond James to view the large pri-vate art collection was great fun for all.

Community Director: Jo Ann Conrad Property Manager: Bonnie French

16101 Compton Drive M-F 9 AM - 5 PM Phone: 977-3337 Fax: 978-8067 E-Mail: tpoamail@aol.com Web Site: www.tpoa.net Board of Directors Bill Edwards, President 972-4238 Dudley Bryant, Vice-President 977-7630 Barbara Shimer, Secretary 971-8063 Jake Schoolfield, Treasurer 998-2620 Marianne Trubelhorn 977-3337 CDD 16311 TP Blvd. West Maggie Wilson, Consultant Phone: 977-3933 Fax: 977-6571 E-Mail: cdd.tampa@verizon.net CDD Board of Supervisors Gene Field 977-1162 Patty Maney 977-7129 Andy Miller 979-0225 Randy Marlowe 866-1091 Bill Shimer 971-8063 One Source (Landscaping ) Joe Laird, Project Manager 267-1756 Tampa Palms Parks Compton Park 972-0897 Hampton Park 972-5699 River Park 971-6241 Police & Fire 911 Non-Emergency Police 231-6130 Non-Emergency Fire 223-4211 Local Schools Tampa Palms Elementary 975-7390 Lawton Chiles Elementary 558-5422 Liberty Middle School 558-1180 Freedom High School 558-1185 Miscellaneous Street Repairs 622-1940 TECO 223-0800 Waste Management 621-3053 Water Department 274-8121 New Tampa Rec. 975-2794 Stormwater (Floods or Dumping) 622-1901

Tampa Palms Women’s Club Fashion Show and Luncheon

Thursday, April 19th 10:30 - Social Noon - Luncheon & Show Tampa Palms Country Club

Tickets are $24 and include fashions show, door prizes, luncheon and donation to the OASIS Network. Reserve your ticket by dropping off your check at Comp-ton Park TPWC mailbox or call Judy at 903-9034 by April 14th.

APRIL– MAY

Activity Calendar

MAY –2012 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT

1

6-9 Chess Club

2 3-5 Private Event 6-9 Fly Fishing

3 10-2 Women’s Club

4 9-12 Children Music 5-10 Private Event

5 11-4 Private Event

5-10 Private

6 9-12 Private Event 12:30-5:30 Private Event

7 9-11 Private Event 6:30-8 Scouts

8 12-4 Les Girls Art 6-9 CHESS

9 10-12 Private Event 3-5 Private Event 6 PM CDD Meeting

10 10-2 Women’s Club Bridge

11 9-12 Children Music

12 11-4 Private Event

5-10 Private Event

13 Mothers Day 9-12 Private Event 1-6 Private Event

14 9-11 Private Event. 6:30-8 Scouts

15 1-3 TPWC 12-4 Les Girls Art 5 TPOA Board Mtg

16 10-12 Private Event

3-5 Private Event

17

18 9-12 Children Music 5-9 Private Event

19

11-4 Private Event 5-10 Private Event

20 9-12 Private Event 2-7 Private Event

21

9-11 Private Event

22 12-4 Les Girls Art 6-9 Chess Club

23 10-12 Private Event 3-5 Private Event 6-9 N Tampa Arts

24 10-2 Women’s Club Bridge

25 9-12 Children Music

26 5-10 Private Event

27 9-12 Private Event 1-6 Private Event

28 9-11 Private Event 7-9 Faircrest

29 12-4 Les Girls Art

30 10-12 Private 3-5 Private Event

31

May 28th Memorial Day

APRIL 2012

1 9-11 Private Event 11:30-8 Private

2 9-11 Private Event

3 6-9 CHESS

4 10-12 Private Event 1:15-2:15 Gentle Yoga

5 10-2 Women’s Club

6 9-12 Children Music 5-10 Private Event

7 11-4 Private Event

5-10 Private Event

8 6:30-8 Private Event 2-8 Private Event

9 6:30-8 Scouts

10 12-4 Les Girls Art

6-9 CHESS

11 10-12 Private Event 3-5 Private Event 6 PM CDD Meeting

12 10-2 Women’s Club Bridge 6-9 Private Event

13

9-12 Children Music

5-10 Private Event

14 9-3 Private Event

5-10 Private Event

15 9-12 Private Event 2-8 Private Event

16 9-11 Private Event 6:30-8 Scouts

17 1-3 TPWC Board

6-9 CHESS 5 TPOA Board

18 10-12 Private Event

1:15-2:15 Gentle Yoga

19 10-4 Private Event

20 9-12 Children Music

21 9-12 Private Event 1-4 Private Event

5-10 Private Event

22 9-12 Private Event 1-6 Private Event

23

9-11 Private Event 6-9 N Tampa Arts

24

12-4 Les Girls Art

6-9 CHESS

25 10-12 Private Event 3-5 Private Event 7-9 Faircrest HOA

26 10-2 TPWC Bridge

6-9 Private Event

27 9-12 Children’s Music 5-10 Private Event

28 11-4 Private Event 5-10 Private Event

29 9-12 Private Event 1-5 Private Event

30 9-11 Private Event 6:30-8 Scouts

April 8 Easter Sunday April 19 Tampa Palms Women’s Club Fashion Show (TP Country Club)

Tampa Palms CDD Meeting Agenda

April 11, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. Compton Park Recreation Building

16101 Compton Drive, Tampa, FL 33647 1. Roll Call

2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Strategic Planning

4. Public Comments

5. Board Member Discussions

6. Project Updates

LED Landscape Lighting Phase II

BB Downs Update

Tampa Palms Ponds

7. Misc. Board Business

8. Public Comments

9. Board Member Discussions

10. Adjourn

Have You Waked “The Walk”? The River Walk - Downtown Tampa

For local “getaways” this year that both children and adults will enjoy, check out the River Walk in downtown Tampa.

Mayor Buckhorn deems the River Walk so important as a showcase for Tampa that he held his first “State of the City” along it.

With a myriad of parks, play-grounds and museums, along with places to dine and shop, the Tampa River Walk is a great place to spend time with the family.

For more information about where to go, how to park and more go on line to: http://www.tampasdowntown.com/play/outdoor-activities/riverwalk/riverwalk-map.aspx

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