Community

Last weekend the Old Seminole Heights Neighborhood Association (OSHNA) and the Old Seminole Heights Preservation Consortium (OSHPC) joined forces to raise money to improve the soccer fields at Henry & Ola Park.  The event was a huge success.  Read more about it here, on OSHNA website.

The Old Seminole Heights Neighborhood Association on conjunction with the Old Seminole Heights Preservation Consortium is presenting a free soccer clinic over at Henry and Ola park on August 28th.  If you're a soccer mom or dad, this is for you.

That got your attention, didn't it?

The SouthEast Seminole Heights Civic Association is holding their annual ice cream social and all of greater Seminole Heights is invited.  11am - 2pm at Giddens park.

Games. Ice Cream. Music.  What's not to like? 

SESHCA website is here for more information.

Hillsborough County is still moving towards energy diversity.  As we receive daily news about the risks and costs of drilling for oil, it's refreshing to see our government doing something other than avoiding the controversy. 

There's a tussle brewing between residents with alleyways and Tampa's Solid Waste department due to the recent change to only servicing the front curb.  If you have an alley, you probably have been getting your trash picked up behind your back fence, next to your garage, and out of sight (and smell).  Disguised as just a service date change, residents were treated to a bright new can and a big blue headache.

The Old Seminole Heights Neighborhood Association (OSHNA) is gearing up to fight the city on this one and is calling for help.  They are passing around a petition; you can even download your own. 

For more info on this, check out OSHNA's site: Big Blue Bombshell

We're inching up to national and local elections so it isn't surprising to see our favorite politicians taking on projects that energize their constituents.  Oil leaks in the Gulf and gasoline reaching past $3 a gallon again makes people wonder what will replace fossil fuels.  Electric vehicles have been in the news off an on the past few years with the Chevy Volt slated for release later this year--the first mass-produced electric vehicle intended for the daily commute on US highways.  All of this is great except that one nagging question: where do you fill up its "tank

If you have been keeping your ear to the ground over the past few years, you'll know that the topic of mass transit in Tampa Bay and in Florida has started to heat up.   In my role as a volunteer for the Old Seminole Heights Neighborhood Association, I have attended a few briefings on the light rail proposals for the area, including a piece that will be traveling from USF to Downtown right through Seminole Heights. 

As I have the time, I have been categorizing all of the public spaces in Seminole Heights.  As I was lucky enough to attend the grand re-opening of the Seminole Heights Garden Center, I took the opportunity to snap a few pictures.