Hundreds turn out for Neighborhood Conference at HCC
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Staff photo by KEVIN BRADY
Teresa Berkulis ran the Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County booth.
Staff photo by KEVIN BRADY
The 2010 Hillsborough County Neighborhoods Conference at Hillsborough Community College's Dale Mabry Campus drew more than 400 visitors.
Staff photo by KEVIN BRADY
Al Montibello talks with Chandra M. Lee, a social media strategist who lead the workshop on Web sites and social media.
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By KEVIN BRADY TBO.com
Published: March 27, 2010
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County Office of Neighborhood Relations
They are the people who run your local homeowner's group. The neighborhood who has the sanitation department on speed dial and the folks who volunteer to serve on small committees to make sure the trees are trimmed and the streets are cleaned.
And they came by the hundreds today to the 2010 Hillsborough County Neighborhoods Conference at Hillsborough Community College's Dale Mabry Campus.
"This is for those people who are the voice of their community," said event chair Wanda Sloan. "These people are the voice for their communities."
Education was the main goal behind Build A Better Neighborhood Through Networking which featured booths from county departments as well as private vendors, Sloan said. "We want to strengthen our communities because if our communities are strong then our county and city is strong."
Jerry Frankhouser of the Bayside West Neighborhood Association has been working on his community's Web site – http://www.baysidewest.50megs.com/ - since 2006. He listened closely during the "Feed Me! The Importance of Social Networks & Websites."
"(The workshop) was very worthwhile," Frankhouser said. "I think I'll be adding a Facebook page to our site now."
"I really got a lot from the workshop on the capabilities of Facebook and social media," said Al Montibello, who helps run the Durant Trails Homeowner's Association Web site – http://trailsatdurant.com/.
Now in its seventh year and hosted by the Hillsborough County Office of Neighborhood Relations, the event offered 25 workshops drawing everyone from neighborhood association board members to individual homeowners. Workshops included: A Tree, A Flag? No It's A Cell Tower; All Together Now - Unity in Diversity; Florida-Friendly Landscaping; Code Enforcement for Houses Full of Trouble; What Can Be Recycled?; Feed Me - Web Site Updating; and Learn It, Grow It, Eat It - Community Gardens. The $15 registration fee included breakfast, workshops and the chance to meet representatives of county departments, as well as local businesses and nonprofits.
Teresa Berkulis ran the Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County booth.
"We are getting mostly general questions today, but the event is more about education and outreach today."
For more information on the county's office of Neighborhood Relations, visit http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/onr/.
TBO.com producer Kevin Brady can be reached at (813) 545-8731.
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Posted by (TOOPRETTYforprison) on 03/27/2010 at 02:21 pm.
NAZI GATHERING !!!!!!!!!!!! SPY ON YOUR NEIGHBOR. Of COURSE HCC would support this. LOL. New in Spam Iorio's era.
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Posted by (sowusay) on 03/27/2010 at 02:54 pm.
Dang...I forgot about the meeting, I wanted to show up and complain about the butt heads that come from who-knows-where, that are dying to to set deed restriction rules in my carefully selected Non-deed restricted neighborhood. If I want flowers, I'll plant flowers, otherwise, leave me alone. I sure as heck don't appreciate the two I see walking through the neighborhood with their pad and pen writing down notes about everyones homes and property. I don't want the color of my house to match everyone else's or what kind of landscape, fencing, yard ornaments or anything else I choose. If they want to put a darn flag pole up, go ahead, I don't really care, but if you can, put it in front of the huge lighted billboard that shines in my windows at night. No one ask me if I wanted that there, but I figure it's thier right to put it there...it's called freedom.
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Posted by (sowusay) on 03/27/2010 at 02:59 pm.
On another note, ever notice that anything that may cost an insurance company benefits is outlawed. So who are the special interest groups feeding this week?
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