Prostitution

I read this story in the Weekly Planet. I have added photos of people who were arrested for solication for prostitution at the same time as the persons mentioned in each episode.

Article published Oct 26, 2005

The Blotter

By Joe Bardi

The Sting: On the night of Sept. 23, a female officer from the Tampa police department was assigned to the area of Nebraska Avenue and Clifton Street in an effort to "combat prostitution." Wearing "a pink tank-top, jean shorts and pink/white flip-flops," the officer was in for a busy evening. Here's a sample:

7:52 P.M.: The officer was approached by a man in a "Toyota two-door vehicle," who rolled down his window and "immediately stated, 'What's your price?'" "What?" the officer replied, to which the man responded, "I only have $10." She asked what he wanted, he stated, "A blow," and she gave the signal to have him arrested. Very simple.

Was this?










RAMPERSAUD,KRISHNA K
DOB: 11/03/66
ADDRESS: 5906 BUTTON QUAIL CT TAMPA
Arrested at 19:53 hours for SOLICITING ANOTHER TO COMMIT PROSTITUTION
Employer: BURT SMIT CARS

8:08 P.M.: Shortly after 8 o'clock, the officer's evening took a turn toward the icky. She was summoned to the window of a pick-up truck driven by a horny white male. The officer asked what he was looking for, to which the man stated, "I want to get inside you." The officer asked, "You mean sex?" Per the report, "he stated, 'Yeah,' and he smiled while he rubbed his penis through his pants." Unfortunately for the suspect, all hopes of getting off now rest with his lawyer.

Was this?










PARENTEAU,CHARLES B
12/16/77
3419 GOLDEN EAGLE DR LAND O LAKES
Arrested at 20:08 hours SOLICITING ANOTHER TO COMMIT PROSTITUTION
Employer: CTS ENTERPRISE

8:13 P.M.: Two guys in "a red 4-door vehicle" whistled at the officer. The officer walked past them and continued up Nebraska Avenue because, as she states in the report, "I was attempting to walk to one of our undercover vehicles, as I had just made a case on an unrelated defendant." The guys followed her, pulled into a nearby parking lot and one of them again attempted to signal the officer, this time by waving and yelling. The officer told the men to go away, as "the police were right up the street," and walked away again. Absurdly unable to take a hint, the men in the pickup circled around and stopped the officer again, now in the parking lot of a hotel. The third time was the charm: The officer went through the usual haggling, gave the signal and had the men taken into custody.

Was this?










SEAGO,ROBERT JOE
DOB: 02/24/50
Address: 3011 ORIENT RD
Arrested at 20:13
UNEMPLOYED

and?










GUAGLIARDO,DOMINIC ANTHONY
DOB: 02/01/77
Address: 3011 ORIENT RD
Arrested at 20:13
UNEMPLOYED

8:40 P.M.: A nervous man in a red car pulled up and offered $20 for sex. He was quickly arrested. (He should have paid more attention to those nerves.)
Was this?










TOOMBS,DERRICK D
10/28/78
3132 LAMBRIGHT ST W 1002
Arrested at 20:40 Hours
UNEMPLOYED

9:00 P.M.: A man in a black four-door vehicle pulled up and offered $20 for sex. This man, too, was arrested.9:49 P.M.: Finally, an excited gentleman called the officer to his car, stating he had $20 before she could get to the window. Asked what he wanted, "He emphatically stated, 'Sex!'" Not tonight, sir.
Was this?










PUELLOPEREZ,LEONARDO ANTONIO
DOB: 07/28/85
Address: 6210 SHELDON RD #2315 TAMPA
Employed By:ENILROY
Arrested at: 21:00 Hours

From the files of the T.P.D.

Artists in Seminole Heights

There are a lot of artists in Seminole Heights or so I have been told. I'd like to document that. I will be placing links to artists websites along with the business links that I already list. For those artists who do not have websites of their own I offer the following. If an artists work is featured on other website(s), send me the link(s) and I will mention that artist and those links in my blog column. If you do not have your work displayed on any website, send me a couple of images and a brief blurb about your work and contact info and I will feature it on my blog.

I've already featured Jimmy Steel and Susan Banghart.

SeminoleHeights.com wrote a story about Seminole Heights and Central Tampa artists in 2002 providing many names. However it is not clear to me who is a Seminole Heights artist and who is not, and who has web pages. So I need your help. If you ae an artist or know an artist, send me the info.

Food Deliveries to Hurricane Areas

A coworker has some friends in Hollywood, Fl affected by Hurricane Wilma, that she wants to send some food to. Anyone know how that can be done?

District Two Neighborhood Watch and Civic Associations Training Session

The District Two Staff Invites District Two
Neighborhood Watch and Civic Associations
for a Training Session

Location: Comfort Inn 820 E. Busch Blvd
Date: 10-27-05
Time: 6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.

The topics to be discussed are:

TPD Dispatch and Specialty Squads
Sexual Predators
Detective Division
Personal Safety

Leaders, Please Invite your Neighbors!!!

This will also be a wonderful time to get to know the other Neighborhood Watch and Civic Association
members in District Two!

RSVP to CPP Lisa Timmer via email at Lisa.Timmer@tampagov.net or telephone: 931-6541

Special thanks goes to the Comfort Inn for providing the venue, and also to Krispy Kreme located at 8425 North Florida Ave for providing the Coffee and Donuts!

Upcoming Events

1. Feast of The Dark

Host: Peggy Chiasson
Location: Gaspar's Grotto
1805 7th Ave., Ybor, FL
When: Friday, October 28, 7:00pm
Halloween Fundraiser Party for Operation Shoebox, a care package program for our troops. Help us provide a Feast for our Troops who are deployed overseas. Live Music by "Under Construction", Belly Dancers, Fortune Teller, and great games! Costume Contest & Prizes !!! Everyone is invited !!!
Cost: $10 per person OR $5 per person with donation of items

As we start to prepare for the holidays, it is important for us to remember there will be an empty seat at many tables throughout our country. Please help us celebrate this Thanksgiving by donating these items to our troops who can't be with us:

Canned Turkey
Instant Mashed Potatoes
Stove Top Stuffing
Gravy Mixes
Canned Vegetables
Canned Fruits
Cranberry Sauce
Macaroni & Cheese or Easy Mac
Oreos (Most Popular Request)
Nuts
Canned Egg Nog

Each package contains fixings for entire platoon, including Thanksgiving tablecloth, plates, napkins, cups, & centerpeice.
Donations to cover postage is also greatly needed. The cost of mailing this dinner for a platoon of 45 is approximately $500.
Your generosity can make all the difference.
For more info, please call (813) 781-6231 or visit our website at: www.operationshoebox.us

Operation Shoebox is based in Seminole Heights


2. November 2nd party for Rose Ferlita

Hosts: Allison Beard, Andy Graham, Noel McDonell, Kelli Mitchell, Jay Singletary, Joe Stagi, Curtis Stokes, Marty Traber, Greg Truax, Dan Whitaker and Ken Walters

Please join us to meet

Rose Ferlita

Candidate for Hillsborough County Commission, District 1

Wednesday, November 2, 2005

5 until 7 p.m.

Jackson’s Riverfront Room

(upstairs from the restaurant)

601 South Harbour Island Boulevard

Tampa, Florida 33602

Cash bar

Feel free to bring a friend

Contributions gladly accepted

$500 is the maximum campaign contributions that can be made by a person or entity. This is a paid political advertisement and it is approved by Rose Ferlita, Republican. Contributions to the Rose Ferlita Campaign are not deductible as charitable contributions for Federal income tax purposes.

(soon-to-be-named) business association of Seminole Heights meeting announcement

Please let any business owners or artists know about the upcoming meeting.

Dear Business Owners & Artists of Seminole Heights:

Plan to join your fellow Seminole Heights business owners and artists as
the Steering Committee of the (soon-to-be-named) Business Association
announces the progress they've made since the Membership's Inaugural
Meeting in October. You'll also learn more information on the
organization's Name, Mission Statement, Vision and proposed Committees.

PLUS – This meeting is your opportunity to provide input into how the
Association will move forward to bring the Seminole Heights community
together to enhance and showcase our area's local businesses.

--What: General Membership Meeting
of the newly-formed Seminole Heights Business Association

--When: Nov. 3, 2005 (Thursday) – 7pm

--Where: Coffee Bean Café
4715 N. Florida Ave.
Tampa, FL 33603
(813) 237-5808


For more information on the meeting, please contact
Jay McGee at (813) 333-2845 or info@gruntmarketing.com.

Suzie Cooke makes it into USA Today

Seminole Heights resident and Seminole Heights Book Club member Suzie Cooke was featured in an article today in in the Money section of USA Today.

"Susie Cooke could live to 100, and she knows it. The 58-year-old grandmother
from Tampa took early retirement from Verizon in 2001. She lives a vibrant life
— biking, hiking, yoga, aerobics. She still wears a bikini at the beach. She got
her 82-year-old mom to take up yoga and aerobics, too. . . . . "

For the rest of the story... read the article

Treasure Hunting In Your Attic

One of my neighbors sent out the following email:

Today, I was doing work in the attic and found a treasure collection of antique bottles. I brought them down, cleaned them and googled them. They are worth quite a bit of money, I have a mason jar with a zinc and porcelain lid dated November 30, 1858. I have a 1920's vinegar bottle worth $40.

Inside 2 of the mason jars were one quarter each. Dated 1917. I went on line and they were selling for over $1000. One had recently sold for $3700. Unfortuately, the quarters are not in mint condition.

Moral of the story, clean your attics

!

I related my treasure hunt story in a prior post. Anyone else had any good finds?

SusanBanghart.com

In the last couple of weeks I have not been posting as much. Partly this is because I have been working on Susan's web page for her art.

Well, it is finally completed. Come visit SusanBanghart.com

Coffee Bean Cafe gets reviewed by the Tribune

Thanks to Torgo, I've learned that the Coffee Bean Cafe was reviewed by the Tampa Tribune. Yea!

Because the Trib's articles don't hand around very long, I've included the whole review.

The Coffee Bean Cafe
By Amanda Henry of The Tampa Tribune
Published: October 19, 2005

TAMPA Someday, supposedly, Starbucks is coming to spearhead the Hyde Park-ification of Seminole Heights. Until then, there is The Coffee Bean Cafe, a new breakfast and lunch spot that caters not so much to the future of the neighborhood as its present.

The Coffee Bean Cafe is the latest restaurant to try to make a go of it in the funky green strip mall at the corner of Florida and Osborne avenues, also home to several good antiques stores, a gift shop and a gym. Judging by weekend crowds in its first few months of business, The Coffee Bean may be on to something.

The menu offers breakfast and lunch, as well as coffee drinks and ice cream, with a retro comfort-food feel. That means things like biscuits and gravy, homemade corned beef hash, crustless cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches, an authentic Sloppy Joe and a variety of grilled sandwiches — including PB&J — and wraps. There also are some vegetarian options, including quite a few salads.

For an area that’s still a mix of working class and starving artists, this is probably a good niche. (Lovers of radicchio and truffle oil may want to stick to south Tampa; the menu here is more likely to trumpet its use of mayonnaise.)

Highlights of several recent visits include the homemade soups — the vegetable was rich enough to pass for beef stew — a classic Reuben, and the Wild Turkey sandwich (turkey, ham and blue cheese dressing). The Uncle Milty wrap is a heartier version of the latter, with added roast beef, bacon and avocado, though the sun-dried tomato tortilla was on the dry side. Sandwiches come with a bag of chips, but you might want to upgrade to the bacony delight of the country potato salad.

The cobb salad was simple, but clearly prepared to order, and therefore fresh and tasty — no wilted lettuce or slimy avocado. Even the tomato tasted like tomato, an increasingly rare quality in restaurant salads. The fruit salad also was prepared fresh, but is probably a better choice when there are more and better fruits in season (the mealy apples didn’t cut it).

A more palatable option was the caramel apple walnut pie, served warm with a side of vanilla ice cream. While not prepared on the the premises, it was clearly homemade somewhere, with a thick, authentic crust and none of that canned goop in the middle.

Another fun dessert is the Old Fashioned Soda, a blended mix of club soda, milk and ice cream, with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry on top. (Think milk shake, with fizz.) Among the other beverages, a plain cappuccino was excellent, but the Cafe Mocha was far too sweet. The selection of teas is extensive, and serving them in antique china cups is a nice touch.

There are some new-restaurant jitters at The Coffee Bean. When it gets busy, service can be slow, and everyone is still learning the menu — and the espresso machine. It would be nice to see some fresh pastries in the morning for those on the run, instead of individually wrapped danishes, and a few more pies or other desserts for the afternoon coffee/tea crowd. The homemade biscotti is a good start, though, and there are at least a dozen flavors of the delicious Working Cow ice cream.

Room for improvements notwithstanding, this is a nice neighborhood hangout. The interior is bright and cheerful, with an eclectic mix of antiques, and the friendly staff doesn’t mind if you linger over a hot beverage. With its reasonable prices and nostalgic cuisine, The Coffee Bean could be a keeper.

Tribune reviewers eat anonymously. Amanda Henry can be reached at (813) 259-7569.



BOTTOM LINE: Home cooking, plus coffee and ice cream, in a cozy, non-corporate setting

WHERE: 4715 N. Florida Ave., Tampa

HOURS: 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday

CREDIT CARDS: AE/MC/V

CHILDREN’S MENU: Can accommodate

ALCOHOL: No

WHEELCHAIR ACCESS: Yes

PRICE: Breakfast and lunch entrees range from $2.99 to $6.99

CALL: (813) 237-5808

Hurricane Information

So where is the best place to information about Hurricane Wilma?

At work we get SitReps emails from the from Hillsborough County Emergency Management Office. They are very good. They tell me where the hurricane is at and how it will affect us. Plus there is a bit of humor involved, with quotes from Yogi Berra. However this great information is not available on their web site. Well sort of. Today I looked again again at their website and found the September 21 SitRep in pdf format. September 21!!!!!. Frankly their website is worthless. With the blogging software available there is no reason they can't have the SitReps posted as soon as the generate them.

One thing I found from the SitReps is a great website:Skeetobite Weather This website shows the spagetti models and a very good maps of the strike area.

Of course I go to the source and check the National Hurricane Center.

The best 2 TV/news websites are WFLA/TBO.COM/Tampa Tribune Hurricane Center site and WFTS - ABC Action News. A lot of info available and easy to find.

WTVT's is pretty shallow. A couple of good images in the home page but otherwise not much depth. This is not surprising as the whole website is shallow. If you missed something on their broadcasts forget about seeing on their website.

WTSP's took too long to load on my dial-up computer.

As far as TV stations are concerned I don't have cable so I am limited as to what I can watch. The best is WFLA. They were first with the VIPIR type system. They do far more with their images/radars/computer graphics than the other stations.

What do you think?

Bungalowfest

Historic Kenwood Park in St. Petersburg is hosting their 7th Annual Bungalowfest. If you like going to the Old Seminole Heights and SE Seminole Heights Home Tours, then you ought to consider going to the Kenwood Park home tour.

"Bungalowfest will feature 12 homes. Complimentary trolleys will run along the brick streets allowing passengers to hop on and off at their leisure, taking in the ambiance of our truly unique neighborhood. Saturday, Nov. 5, 10am to 3pm."

The Tour starts at 2900 3rd Ave. N.

A great new addition to their tour is the

"Bungalowfest by Moonlight Wine and Cheese Tour is the most exciting addition to the event this year. Five homes selected from the Tour will open their doors to guests on Friday evening. Hors d'oeuvres will be served at the homes. Our Northern friends should especially like the magic of November at twilight. True Florida charm among the oaks and marmalade street lamps. Friday, Nov. 4, 7-10 pm."

Tickets are $10 for the Bungalowfest, $15 for the Bungalowfest by Moonlight, and $20 for combo pack.

Make Up Your Mind.

(As seen at Giddens and 17th St, next to Checkers.)

Hurricane Preparations

Iron on Resistance

Driving on Florida Avenue, Susan and I came across the following images

Iron On Resistance


Obey






These were all found at the Praise Cathedral at 5103 N. Florida Ave


Then at the old Eckerd's at MLK and Nebraska we found more images


Dirty but Sophisticated


and some different Obey images



So what's up with these?

A Google search revealed the following website http://irononresistance.com/ "An Art Product Collective for Your Proletarian Lifestyle" - Coming in November.

There is no further explanation. However there is a link to Red Labor http://www.redlabor.com/ Red Labor is the work of artists Josh Bertrand and Dave Rau. In that website and blog is this comment:

Well, how about some tshirts, purses, ipod cases, buttons and limited
edition clothing and screen prints; maybe you’re interested you say?
Iron-On Resistance

Ansley's and Bo's

Well I drove by the former Ansley's today (Central and Sligh) and saw that there is a sold sign on it. So what's going there?

Also the for sale sign is down at Bo's IceCream. Did they sell or change their mind? There is a for lease sign at the building that is part of the complex, just north of the Ice Cream building.

Dessert and Coffee Shop update

A reader pointed this out to me in yesterday's St. Pete Times City Times:

SEMINOLE HEIGHTS SWEETENING: The long anticipated dessert and coffee shop next to Forever Beautiful Salon and Day Spa, 5135 N Florida Ave., is nearing completion.

The shop has been on the drawing board since 2000 when Elizabeth Graham bought a 1908 bungalow on nearby Hillsborough Avenue and its accompanying garage apartment.
She moved the buildings to their current site, turned the house into Forever Beautiful and devised plans to convert the garage apartment into a dessert and coffee shop.

After a series of delays, construction has finally begun.

Graham won't comment yet, but if appearances count for anything, the shop might be done before Starbucks opens early next year at Hillsborough and Central avenues.
Do you know something that should be everybody's business? Call 226-3394 or e-mail mikecanning@hotmail.com

Drive by and see the progress for yourself. Florida Avenue South Of Hillsborough, near Faedo's Bakery

Events

Porch Party

Join your friends and neighbors for a gruesomely good time....

at a spooky, scary Halloween Porch Party!

Friday, October 28th at 7:00pm

At the home of Christie and Stuart Hess

1011 E. Broad Street

Please bring a ghoulish snack or beverage to share.

Costumes welcome but not required!

Halloween Decorating Contest

It's not too late to nominate your favorite Halloween decorations!

Nominations will be taken until October 25th.

Call 231-9102 or email

hharmon@seminole-heights.org

A prize will be given to the winner at the Halloween Porch Party.

Neighborhood Yard Sale - November 12th

Last call for Neighborhood Yard Sale participants!

Deadline to respond is October 25th

Call 231-9102 or email

hharmon@seminole-heights.org

to participate.

According to Hamlet, there is something fishy in Seminole Heights

Spotted on Nebraska, north of Sligh on East side. A hand painted sign indicating that Blue Sea Fish Market and Restaurant is coming soon. Is this real or is this another mirage restaurant?

Blue Cans have arrived

Well it looks like much of Seminole Heights has gotten their large Blue Trash Containers. This is a new program of the City

This year the division will introduce fully-automated refuse collection services to the City of Tampa in the spring of 2005. Fully-automated refuse collection is a new technologically advanced waste collection system designed to improve collection efficiency, enhance performance, improve customer relations and reduce both operational and workers' compensation costs.

The automated operator uses a set of hand controls to mechanically lift and return a roll-out cart to curbside. Automated collection will be introduced to 6,500 residential customers. The goal is to expand fully-automated collection services to 80% of the City and semi-automated collection services to the remaining 20% of the City within a five year period.

However those of us in SE Seminole Heights have not gotten any and it is not clear when we will be getting them. According to a solid waste person I spoke to at Martha's the other day, apparently what has to happen first is that we need to be put on a program to separate our yard waste from household waste. The new can's only carry so much weight in them and this will reduce that weight.