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PRST STD PAID RUSKIN, FLORIDA 33570 June 27, 2013 PERMIT NO. 8 Volume 57 Number 23 THE OBSERVER NEWS www.ObserverNews.net HCC, Good Samaritan Mission, target diseases through better diet ■ BY PENNY FLETCHER [email protected] A recent partnership between the South County campus of Hillsborough Community College and the Good Samaritan Mission in Wimauma is helping area residents get healthy. In just one semester, approximately 300 pounds of fresh produce grown at the college has been donated to the mission. Good Samaritan’s Executive Director Bill Cruz said that’s helping many families ward off disease. photo BY KEVIN BRADY “I was very surprised when I Roy Lewis III, president of Riverview’s Lewis Environmental Ser- looked at the major causes of vices, designed the $4.5-million restoration project. deaths of Latinos because hunger wasn’t on it,” Cruz said in a $4.5-million wetland restoration recent interview. “Instead, we saw diseases impacted by obesity, project for Gibsonton like heart disease and diabetes.” Since most of the people he and By KEVIN BRADY his wife Theresa and their staff [email protected] vice president at Mosaic. at the mission serve are Hispanic Almost a decade in the making, Heavy rains from Hurricane farm workers, he knew there had a massive wetland restoration Frances that year broke the back to be a way they could impact program is about to get underway of the company’s dike, sending the health of that population by changing what they made PENNY FLETCHER PHOTO in Gibsonton. The $4.5-million 60,000 gallons of contaminated Dr. Allen Witt and Karen Boosinger of the South County campus of project includes restoring water into Archie Creek, which available to them to eat. Hillsborough Community College examine the vegetables that are mangroves at two plots along flows in to Tampa Bay, killing Looking at the donated food ready for picking in the school’s hydroponic garden. A new part- U.S. Highway 41 and is expected vegetation and fish. bags the mission was providing, nership between the college and the Good Samaritan Mission in to take about a year to complete. Mosaic has since spent $30 Cruz realized they were Wimauma is ensuring that hundreds of area residents are eating Work on 10 acres of mangroves million to improve water-storage u Continued on page 7 healthier food than they have in the past. restoration and new oyster reefs, capacity at the Riverview part one of the project, starts next fertilizer plant. “We can now month at Giant’s Camp, a stone’s handle up to 80 inches of rain,” throw from the Alafia River Townsend said. Bridge on U.S. Highway 41. Part One of the largest agro- two, a similar project just north of chemical companies in the world the Giant’s Camp on U.S. 41, will with mines in Central Florida and begin in the fall. North Carolina, Mosaic provides Construction manager John fertilizer to farmers in 40 Landon doesn’t foresee any countries. Most of the fertilizer problems for drivers in the area. used in the U.S. comes from “We don’t anticipate any Florida phosphate mines, much impacts on U.S. 41,” Landon of it mined by Mosaic in Polk said. “You will probably see work County. at the site from the road for a Work at Giant’s Camp starts couple of months but after that July 13 and is expected to be the dredge goes in and I don’t completed in early 2014. think you will even be able to see The project includes digging that from the road once it starts.” a 1,500-foot long, 50-foot wide Mosiac, the world’s largest channel through the mangrove phosphate company, is footing habitat, breathing new life the bill for the project as part into the mangroves, which are of a compensation package the currently cut off from any real firm agreed with the federal tidal flow. A marina, built in the government after a dike at its 1950s but since abandoned, all Riverview plant broke and but cut the mangroves from any contaminated local waters in tidal flow. 2004. Tidal flows are the lungs of “When something like that mangroves; without it the plants happens you have a responsibility grow in on each other eventually as a company to develop leading to a ‘mangrove heart environmental projects,” said attack’ where mangroves die and David Townsend, an assistant u Continued on page 6 2 • OBSERVER NEWS • SCC OBSERVER JUNE 27, 2013 TAMPATAMPA4!-0!"!9&!-),90(93)#)!.3 BAYBAY FAMILYFAMILY PHYSICIANSPHYSICIANS 3AME$AY!PPOINTMENTs%VENING(OURSs7EEKEND(OURS10:00am - 6:00pm SCC Church rocks on with 3AME$AY!PPOINTMENTs%VENING(OURSs7EEKEND(OURSRefreshments -ON 7EDAM PM 4HURSAM PM &RIAM PM 3ATAM PMOPENOPEN HOUSEHOUSE ThursdayThursday MayMay 3030 served kids for Vacation Bible School ■ By Mitch Traphagen [email protected] The laughter and dancing of and steeds. 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