The 7th Ave FREE Community Health & Wellness Fair was held at the new and beautifully restored large Metro Wellness & Community Center on 7th Ave in historic Ybor City. Sixteen companies displayed information and offered a variety of free medical testing to the many attendees including American Cancer Society, American Diabetes, Bioscrip Pharmacy, Metro Wellness, Sonia Plotnick Women’s Health Fund, FORGE, Tampa Bay Crisis Center, Russell Fox Massage, Walgreen’s Pharmacy, and the Veterans Administration. The band, Roots of our Culture, played for the event outside in the Metro Wellness patio. The event was co-sponsored by the Ybor City Development Corp. Refreshments and food was donated by Ritz Ybor, Bioscrip Pharmacy and NY, New York Pizza.
GaYBOR Days Health Fair
The 7th Ave FREE Community Health & Wellness Fair was held at the new and beautifully restored large Metro Wellness & Community Center on 7th Ave in historic Ybor City. Sixteen companies displayed information and offered a variety of free medical testing to the many attendees including American Cancer Society, American Diabetes, Bioscrip Pharmacy, Metro Wellness, Sonia Plotnick Women’s Health Fund, FORGE, Tampa Bay Crisis Center, Russell Fox Massage, Walgreen’s Pharmacy, and the Veterans Administration. The band, Roots of our Culture, played for the event outside in the Metro Wellness patio. The event was co-sponsored by the Ybor City Development Corp. Refreshments and food was donated by Ritz Ybor, Bioscrip Pharmacy and NY, New York Pizza.
New Police ‘Hallway of Heroes Memorial Mural’ For District 3
The families of slain Tampa Police Officers David Curtis and Jeff Kocab, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, former Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio, Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor and 400 fellow officers, friends and citizens shared the new memorial police walkway entrance to Tampa Police Dept. District 3 Headquarters named “Hallway of Heroes.” Several businesses, individuals and organizations, including GaYBOR District Coalition, stood up to make this project happen.
GAYBOR BAR CRAWL
The GaYBOR Bar Crawl on Sunday was nothing less than an adventure of meeting new friends and tasting some 15 new tasty concoctions at the same number of shot stops. Heading the hundreds of participating revelers was none other than Mama from the Reservoir Bar dressed with a 4th of July colored scepter and wearing a swank risque dress! All along the streets of Ybor people toasted and cheered the 4th of July celebration bar hoppers. Bands were playing at Play, Crowbar, Green Iguana, JJ’s, Centro Cantina, Gaspar’s Grotto and ended at Hamburger Mary’s with RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Alexis Demateo. “It is a sea of people having fun” said Jason Fernandez, owner of Bernini’s Restaurant.
GaYBOR District & Hampton Inn Donate Police Bicycle For Ybor City
And here’s another community effort by the GaYBOR District Coalition and Hampton Inn & Suites — Steven Nunez, manager and Carrie West, President of GaYBOR District, along with the full GaYBOR Board handed the $2,000 Hi-Tech police-equipped TREK Bicycle over to the Tampa Police Dept.and Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn. The bicycle is going to be used by our community officers Sean Mahabir and Kevin Krupa for a broad-based effort to help assist visiting tourists and for riding through residential alleys for any suspicious activity.
