This weekend's Tampa Palms Arts & Crafts Show may have fewer participants than previous years, but it is has the widest variation of exhibitors ever, an organizer said. ...more

October 15, 2008

The Tampa Palms Women's Club will hold its New Member Brunch to welcome new members and give potential members a look at the club and its activities. ...more

September 10, 2008

It's entry deadline time; time to turn in those applications; time to pony up those entry fees. Here are details about made-by-hand crafts, poised pageant participants, a show of shutterbug skills and a competition for young writers. ...more

October 4, 2007

SEBRING — The recreation room at the Palms of Sebring looked more like a craftsman's workshop Monday morning, as the residents and volunteers got their hand-made blankets, towels and napkin holders together. The pictures of apples, the wooden apple models and the fall leaves overhead share a theme. Lester Kesselring and the 60-plus volunteers have until Thursday to get the recreation room ready for the 11th annual Apple Festival, and it's still too soon to cook the food. The consultant at the Palms and the chief organizer of the festival said they have been at it the past eight weeks. When the days come, some of them would churn out 90 jars of hand-made apple jelly, 90 half-pint containers of apple butter, a hundred hand-made apple pies, dozens upon dozens of apple cookies (think of an oatmeal cookie with some apple bits among the raisins) and about 75 apple cakes. ...more

September 25, 2007