Gina Barbato, a senior at the Academy of the Holy Names, recently was honored with the Anne Frank Humanitarian Award, given by the Florida Holocaust Museum. ...more

July 22, 2009

I find myself actually agreeing wholeheartedly with a letter by Gabriel Read. Read wrote to encourage your readers to fill in the void taken up by our snowbirds. His emphasis was volunteerism; something of a shock because I would have expected his answer to be more government involved. ...more

April 4, 2009

"Living the Mission" was the theme for Tampa Preparatory School's Terrapin Day on Feb. 25, as the student body participated in volunteerism and personal growth workshops. ...more

March 11, 2009

SOUTH TAMPA - "Living the Mission" was the theme for Tampa Preparatory School's Terrapin Day on Feb. 25, as the student body participated in volunteerism and personal growth workshops. The day began with an assembly featuring members of the Tampa Prep Alumni Association who spoke about their own service passions in the community. ...more

March 6, 2009

MTV is throwing an inaugural ball for President-elect Barack Obama. ...more

November 26, 2008

Florida's civic health is among the poorest in the country - ranking 47th among the states - though voters in the state do seem energized by the current presidential election, officials said Tuesday. ...more

October 21, 2008

Richard Sheridan, a neonatologist at St. Joseph's Women's Hospital, is Gov. Charlie Crist's Points of Light Award winner for August. ...more

September 10, 2008

A retired Pasco teacher, Glenn Kelm, recently earned the Points of Light Award from Gov. Charlie Crist for Kelm's service to local soup kitchens and food banks. ...more

September 6, 2008

In the race for the District 2 Pasco School Board there is no shortage of qualified candidates to fill the seat of 16-year board member Marge Whaley, who chose not to run for re-election. ...more

August 16, 2008

Blame it on the traffic. Or the number of new immigrants. Or the allure of the beach. Whatever the reason, Miami has secured the bottom spot - No. 50 among major U.S. cities - in new rankings of the percentage of adults who volunteer. ...more

July 27, 2008