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The City of Tampa Parks and Recreation Department recently held a community celebration event for their big win of the 2021 National GOLD Medal Award for Excellence in Park & Recreation Management. Community sports partners like the Tampa Bay Lightning, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Tampa Bay Rays all joined in the fun with City staff and residents.
The City of Tampa Parks and Recreation Department recently held a community celebration event for their big win of the 2021 National GOLD Medal Award for Excellence in Park & Recreation Management. Community sports partners like the Tampa Bay Lightning, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Tampa Bay Rays all joined in the fun with City staff and residents.
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Shop Small on Small Business Saturday

Small businesses are the backbone of our community! Participate in Small Business Saturday on November 27th by holiday shopping at one of our many locally owned stores. Pro tip: visit the Ybor City Merchant Directory (https://yborcityonline.com/about/merchant-directory/) for ideas on where to go in Ybor City for the best gifts this season.

Share What You’re Thankful For Through Poetry

To celebrate the Thanksgiving season, the City’s wordsmith Gianna Russo has launched a 15 Days of Gratitude poetry campaign. Get creative and submit a poem celebrating all that you're thankful for here (https://www.tampa.gov/form/poetry-submission) .

Job of the Week

The City of Tampa's Fleet Management department will be looking to hire for the following areas for Fleet Mechanic II (https://jobapscloud.com/Tampa/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1=211004&R2=003722&R3=005) as vacancies become available: Heavy Equipment, Truck Line, and Sedan Line. This position is responsible for performing a variety of technical maintenance and major repair tasks of average difficulty on automotive, fire apparatus, emergency vehicles, construction and/or special vehicles and equipment that are gasoline, diesel and/or propane powered.
LAST WEEK'S HEADLINES (https://www.tampa.gov/mayor/news)

Workers on street digging
Grow with the Flow (https://bizj.us/1qct3p)
Tampa Bay Business Journal
The city’s water system is old, faulty and in desperate need of replacement. That’s where the Progressive Infrastructure Plan to Ensure Sustainability (PIPES) program comes in.

Steven Benson
Personnel note: Stephen Benson takes over as Planning Director in Tampa (https://floridapolitics.com/archives/474143-personnel-note-stephen-benson-takes-over-as-planning-director-in-tampa/)
Florida Politics
The city of Tampa Wednesday announced Stephen Benson will be its new Director of City Planning.

Pride Parade
Orlando, St. Pete, Tampa once again receive perfect HRC scores (https://watermarkonline.com/2021/11/18/orlando-st-pete-tampa-once-again-receive-perfect-hrc-scores/)
Watermark Online
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, the city’s first openly LGBTQ leader, also reflected on the news. “In Tampa, we celebrate Pride every day of the year by being a city that recognizes its diversity as one of our strongest assets,” she told Watermark.

Trash Can icon
Tampa Launches Tampa Trash And Recycling App (https://patch.com/florida/southtampa/city-tampa-tampa-solid-waste-department-launches-tampa-trash-recycling-app)
Patch
The City of Tampa has launched a new Trash and Recycling App in an effort to make it easier for residents to stay connected about the trash and recycling.

Computer Screen showing Shufflrr
New York slideshow tech startup is the latest to make the HQ move to Tampa Bay (https://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/news/2021/11/18/new-york-slideshow-tech-startup-shufflrr-relocates.html)
Tampa Bay Business Journal
An acceptance of his company, Shufflrr, to the Tampa Bay Wave's TechWomen Rising accelerator program was the final ticket.

Mural of Tampa Heights
Tampa to see $18M grant from USDOT for Heights Mobility Corridor improvements (https://www.wfla.com/news/local-news/tampa-to-see-18m-grant-from-usdot-for-heights-mobility-corridor-improvements/)
WFLA NewsChannel 8
A $1 billion federal fund from the United States Department of Transportation will give $18 million to Tampa for infrastructure.

Gianna Russo
Tampa’s wordsmith, Gianna Russo, stages charity ‘Writers Harvest’ this weekend (https://www.cltampa.com/arts-entertainment/words/article/21158182/tampas-wordsmith-gianna-russo-stages-charity-writers-harvest-this-weekend)
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
This week, Russo and the city are celebrating Thanksgiving by collecting poems of gratitude.

Person looking at building construction
State-wide apprenticeship program helps job seekers find a new career (https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-hillsborough/state-wide-apprenticeship-program-helps-job-seekers-find-a-new-career)
ABC Action News
“The apprentice programs invest in you as you go along. The amount of hours that they put in is amazing. When you come out of it you have training, you have skill that will serve you for a lifetime, “says Brenda McKenzie.

Tampa's Winter Village ushers in the holiday season (https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2021/11/19/tampa-s-winter-village-ushers-in-the-holiday-season)
Spectrum Bay News 9
"It really adds vibrancy to the city and gets everybody out to celebrate the holidays," said Linda Raymond, President & CEO of Tampa's Downtown Partnership.

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