A nonprofit organization hoping to open a soup kitchen to feed the Brandon area's homeless finally has a home for its I Am Hope Cafe. ...more

June 25, 2008

Who knew that kiddie flag football could become big business? I9 Sports, a Brandon youth sports company dreamed up by a 39-year-old sports fanatic, has grown to 115 franchises in 28 states. On Saturdays, from Florida to Hawaii, franchisees erect canopies with the i9 Sports logo on city and church sports fields. They hold flag football, soccer, cheerleading and other contests for thousands of youngsters. ...more

June 25, 2008

Things to Do is a list of some of the most interesting upcoming events. For a complete list of Tampa Bay area events, see this week's Friday Extra. ...more

June 25, 2008

The Brandon Lions Club of District 35-R was honored by the Hillsborough County School Board on May 20 for its yearlong effort to screen South Shore and greater Brandon area schoolchildren for vision and hearing impairments and scoliosis. ...more

June 18, 2008

The Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of the Eastern Airlines Silverliners International elected new officers for the 2008-09 year in May. The new president is Adrienne Love, Barbara Bukata is vice president, Barbara Reed is secretary and Trish Schwartzkopf is treasurer. ...more

June 14, 2008

During the first two weeks it was open, a new county service center on Pauls Drive logged more than 3,800 visitors, who came to pay traffic tickets, register for marriage licenses, file for homestead exemptions or conduct other business. ...more

June 14, 2008

Minna Tickner signed on as a volunteer driver for Meals On Wheels 25 years ago, when the national average price of gas was $1.20 a gallon. ...more

June 12, 2008

More Pressing Problems Regarding "Stadium Proposal Takes 1st Step Toward Ballot" (Metro, June 6): ...more

June 12, 2008