Football players in the Zephyrhills Athletic League received instructions last week from members of the Zephyrhills High football team, including coach Nick Carroll. YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1911 Thursday, July 29, 2021 109th Year - No. 46 thezephyrhillsnewsonline.com 50¢ Three churches unite A Look Back ... JULY 28, 2016 Back-to-School Involvement for Bible teaching New series harkens back to Tips are provided on how days gone by. Let’s look parents can help their kids with school activities. at the above date ➤ 8 BY STEVE LEE News Reporter For our 12th Look Back, part of a summer- long series, we don’t go far back at all in checking out 2016. As is the case in any given year, that spin around the calendar provided an abundance of memorable moments. In prominent news stories, Barack Obama became the fi rst U.S. President to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge in 1928. Later that year, businessman and television personality Donald Trump became the 45th President. Weather Elsewhere, a lone gunman killed 49 As is typical for this time people and injured 53 at a gay night club in of year, we are in store for Orlando, the United Kingdom voted to leave seven days of scattered the European Union, NASA’s Juno spacecraft thunderstorms. Daytime began orbiting Jupiter and more than half of temperatures will hover the world population (four billion) was now around the low-90s with connected to the Internet. evenings in the mid-70s. In sports, the Chicago Cubs defeated the ➤ Cleveland Indians to win their fi rst World 3 Series since 1908, snapping the longest championship drought ever in American Denise Lay, pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Zzephyrhills, teaches part of the Vacation Bible School during the week-long camp hosted by sports history. American swimmer Michael First United Methodist Church on 5th Avenue. Phelps, the most decorated Olympic athlete of STEVE LEE all time, won his 20th gold medal and Alabama Suitors courted for word of God in a fun-fi lled manner for children. beat Clemson to win its fourth college football historic house First United Methodist Church As part of that collaborative eff ort, that downtown title in seven seasons. church was joined by congregation leaders and members In a sign of the times on the local front, The Jeff ries and Carriage continues to host an annual from the First Presbyterian Church of Zephyrhills and an iconic landmark served as the primary House court suitors at an Vacation Bible School with two First Church of the Nazarene in Zephyrhills. story with a prominent photo. The Suntrust open house. The newly “You have three churches working together,” Bank at 5435 Gall Blvd., the most prominent renovated historic properties others joining for this summer Denise Lay, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, said branch in the city, was the subject of a closure in the downtown corridor with a smile. announcement. That local bank had been could be utilized in several regarded as a community institution since BY STEVE LEE Amanda Hawk, who helped coordinate this year’s ways. News Reporter VBS and oversees contemporary worship at First 1949. ➤ 11 United Methodist, was just glad to be able to resume In the other front-page stories, a race the children’s activities after missing a year. widened for the Pasco County Property Following a one-year hiatus due to the coronavirus “It’s the fact that we can bring children back to Appraiser with Democrat Jon Sidney Larkin pandemic, a summer tradition continued this week Christ, so they can have that connection,” she said. “It’s set to face the Ted Schrader vs. Gary Joiner with the Vacation Bible School at First United Methodist a sign of things getting back to normal.” winner in a Republican primary; and city ZHS players help Church of Zephyrhills. Unique this year was that two “I’m glad that we’re able to get back in here and other houses of worship joined in that eff ort to teach the ®A LOOK BACK: See Page 4 run ZAL practice ®VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL: See Page 13 Zephyrhills High football players and head coach Nick Carroll help out with Zephyrhills Athletic League practice sessions at Krusen Field. Skydiving, Padel and city budget ➤ 12 Email Address headline council meeting If you would like to email The Zephyrhills News story City budget unveiling as well ideas, press releases, club news, park news, special as a pair of big-time events were events or letters to the editor, please send your information highlights at Monday’s city to our email address: council meeting thezephyrhillsnews @gmail.com. BY ANDY WARRENER News Reporter INDEX As has become almost par for the course, any time Sarah Vande Berg Tennis & Wellness Center (SVB) Community News 2 President Pascal Collard attends a city council meet- Weather 3 ing, sparks fl y. It would actually be 20-year Air Force veteran and skydiving world record holder Patrick Church Directory 5 Fortune making the sparks fl y on Monday. Obituaries 5 Fortune announced a one-of-a-kind event on Monday, an international skydiving event in memory Crossword Puzzle 6 & 7 of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Fortune Coloring Contest 10 presented a slideshow depicting Flags in the Air - a memorial event to remember, respect and honor those Crime Reports 14 who died and those who gave their lives so that others Legals 14 might live. The event aims at bringing drop zones all across the state, country and planet together to Classifieds 14 commemorate the American tragedy of 9/11. Diff erent T.V. Guide 15 types of events are planned to commence at signifi cant times during that fateful day in 2001. Skydive City Zephyrhills News in Zephyrhills is one of the primary drop zones for the event that commences at 8 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Collard, even though the event is being put on in ➤CITY COUNCIL See Page 9 Air Force Veteran and professional skydiver Patrick Fortune presented Flags in the Air to city council on Monday. ANDY WARRENER 2 Thursday, July 29, 2021 | Zephyrhills News Ramblewood Village residents attend play The play “The Music Man” was held at the Hutchinson Auditorium, Florida College in Temple Terrace on July 17. The play was performed by Broadway Comes to Camp players. The players were from five different states. They received their scripts in March and studied them individually. They checked into the college dormitory 10 38333 5th Ave. Zephyrhills, Florida 33542 days ago and rehearsed 12 hours a day for nine days, taking breaks only to eat in the college cafeteria and (813) 782-1558 sleep. The singing, dancing and acting was all performed with professional quality, keeping the audience on E-mail: [email protected] the edge of their seats. 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The club provides not only a safe environment Publisher/Editor for youth to socialize, even more importantly it assists in men- ANDY WARRENER toring students who need academic assistance to succeed in school and ultimately in life. News & Sports Reporter teachers and faculty staff at the Academy work “The Boys & Girls Clubs of Pasco County provide a ser- closely with each student: academically, social- STEVE LEE vice that is needed and appreciated by thousands of students By John DeLorenzo ly, behaviorally and spiritually, enabling these News & Sports Reporter in our local communities,” said tax collector Mike Fasano. “It young people into becoming upstanding and is an honor to feature the clubs as our Charity-of-the-Month On July 9, as it typically is on any giv- respectable adults of tomorrow. THERESA LEBLANC in August. 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