Apollo Beach News

May is National Pet Month. In an effort to celebrate the impact that pets have on our lives, Bryant Martinez, the Winthrop Town Artist, has gathered artists together who will create art that demonstrates the impact that their adopted pet or pets has had on their lives.

The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners voted to approve a restoration / wave protection project that could bring the beach back to Apollo Beach during their May 15 BOCC meeting.

Concert to benefit Calvary Lutheran: Ellen Kleinschmidt delivers Miss What's Her Name , a Broadway-style benefit concert, on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in Calvary Lutheran Church, 5309 U.S. 41 N. Miss What's Her Name chronicles Kleinschmidt's journey via some of Broadway's most powerful hits.

Deb Adams may work at BMO Harris Bank in Apollo Beach but she is so active in her community many associate her with organizations and projects not connected to her job.

The Rev. Robert G. Schaefer, Venice, Fla., was elected May 4 to a six-year term as bishop of the Florida-Bahamas Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America .

You have me intrigued. The Majestic has a similar hole but I don't recall the bunkers.

Car club: The Roamin' Oldies Car Club hosts a cruise-in from 6 to 9 p.m. the first Thursday of every month in the Apollo Beach Winn-Dixie Plaza, 6180 U.S. 41 N, with a rain date the following Thursday.