Healthy St. Pete Fit City Celebration   

After 90 days of hard work, we celebrate the Healthy St. Pete Fit City movement with a 5k marathon, a one mile fun walk, and a special event with fitness demonstrations.

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Public Highlights for the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and the Sunshine City
April 15 through April 22, 2017   
Saturday, April 15, 10:00 am  St. Pete Preservation - Downtown Tour with a Literary Twist, Mirror Lake Library
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Saturday, April 15, 10:30 am  Palm Talk and Stroll, Sunken Gardens
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Saturday, April 15, 8:00 pm 
9th Anniversary Underwater Party, ARTpool Gallery
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Sunday, April 16 
Easter Sunday 
 
Monday, April 17, 5:30 pm  Proposed Community Garden Information Gathering Meeting, Enoch Davis Center
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Monday, April 17, 7:00 pm  MIRA Spring Concert, The Palladium Theater
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Tuesday, April 18, 6:00 pm  Deputy Mayor Tomalin, Chamber of Commerce CEO Reception, The Chihuly Collection

Tuesday, April 18, 7:00 pm  Mass Appeal by Bill C. Davis, St. Petersburg
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Wednesday, April 19, 9:30 am  Deputy Mayor Tomalin, Co-Host Positively Tampa Bay, ABC Action News

Wednesday, April 19, 5:30 pm  Mayor Kriseman, Dazzio Art Society Ribbon Cutting, Dazzio Art
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Wednesday, April 19, 8:00 pm  American Stage in the Park - Hairspray, Demens Landing Park
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Thursday, April 20, 10:00 am  Mayor Kriseman & Deputy Mayor Tomalin, Groundbreaking, St. Petersburg Police Headquarters

Thursday, April 20, 11:00 am  TFO Coffee Concerts: French Bonbons, Mahaffey Theater
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Thursday, April 20, 7:00 pm  Listening Room Festival 2017, Various Locations
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Friday, April 21, 7:30 am  Mayor Kriseman, First Tee Champions' Breakfast, The Vinoy

Friday, April 21, 11:00 am  Mornings with the Maestro - Opera Therapy 3: Couples Therapy, Museum of Fine Arts
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Friday, April 21, 5:00 pm  Florida Antiquarian Book Fair, The Coliseum
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Friday, April 21, 6:00 pm  Food Truck Rally - St. Pete Seafood & Sweets Festival, Port of St. Petersburg
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Friday, April 21, 6:30 pm  Deputy Mayor Tomalin, First Pitch, Tampa Bay Rays Jackie Robinson "Breaking Barriers" Day, Tropicana Field

Friday, April 21, 8:00 pm 
One Night of Queen, Mahaffey Theater
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Saturday, April 22, 9:00 am  Mayor Kriseman, 2017 Green Thumb Festival, Walter Fuller Park
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Saturday, April 22 -
Sunday, April 23 
Mainsail Art Festival, Vinoy Park
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Saturday, April 22, 10:00 am  Mayor Kriseman, St. Pete Earth Day, Williams Park
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Saturday, April 22, 5:00 pm  Concert for Earth Day/St. Pete Earth Day, Williams Park
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Saturday, April 22, 8:00 pm  Say Goodnight, Gracie, The Palladium
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In The Media
Wednesday, April 12
I Love the Burg: USA Today Names Burg One of the Top Underrated Food Cities on the East Coast  
 
The secret is out. USA Today listed the Burg as one of the  top five most underrated food cities on the east coast. For those who spend each and every day in the Burg, the commendation is unsurprising. To the rest of the world, however, the Burg is still a hidden paradise.

USA Today made sure to note Michael Mina and his wildly popular Locale Market/FarmTable Kitchen at the Sundial as one of the main fixtures and draws in the St. Pete food scene. Mina's presence and name recognition also serves as a catalyst for growth within the culinary community. 
                
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Wednesday, April 12
Tampa Bay Business Journal: If Cross Bay Ferry service continued, government investors would get their money back 
 
The Cross Bay Ferry is again refunding money to the four governments that initially funded it. Early estimates show the ferry brought in enough revenue to refund more than $57,000, split between Pinellas and Hillsborough counties and the cities of St. Petersburg and Tampa.

Each government contributed $350,000 to get the ferry service started in Tampa Bay.
               
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Wednesday, April 12
Tampa Bay Reporter: Cross-Bay Ferry Pilot Project Winds Down   
 
Folks who want to try out the Cross-Bay Ferry but haven't done so are running out of time.

The ferry will make the last run of its six-month run on April 30.

It's unclear if the ferry will return. The six-month run was a pilot project among the governments of the cities of St. Petersburg and Tampa and the counties of Pinellas and Hillsborough designed to see if there's enough ridership and interest to sustain a ferry.
               
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Wednesday, April 12
Tampa Bay Times: Column: St. Petersburg progressing well on fixing sewers  
 
The city of St. Petersburg is committed to improving our wastewater infrastructure. The discharges and spills of 2015-16 and the associated communications challenges remain at the top of our minds and list of priorities.

We have been working hard to communicate that we are, in fact, "fixing the sewers." This has been a real team effort, with everyone from Mayor Rick Kriseman and City Council members to our engineering, capital improvements, installation, maintenance and consultant teams pulling together with the shared goal of mitigating future challenges. 
                
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Thursday, April 13
Tampa Bay Times: St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman says South Florida problems shouldn't affect his city's CRA 
 
Mayor Rick Kriseman stood in front of a modest home in Midtown Thursday, saying progress fighting poverty in St. Petersburg would be reversed if state Legislature and federal government's plans to cut poverty funding and limit the power of local community renewal areas becomes law.

The mayor, running for reelection, singled out House Bill 13 and Senate Bill 1770 as threatening the city's two-year-old South St. Petersburg CRA. 
               
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Thursday, April 13
The Weekly Challenger: The Inaugural Vyrle Davis Student Achievement Awards 
 
A giant among men, Vyrle Davis was a passionate advocate for education. With his retirement from Pinellas County Schools 22 years ago and his death in 2013, his legacy continues to grow stronger and stronger with each passing year.

The love of education ran in his family. His mother taught him and other African-American students in a small, one-room schoolhouse and his grandfather started the first school in Jackson County for black children.

Just as he stood on the educational shoulders of his family members, thousands of residents in Pinellas County have him to thank for their education and careers. 
               
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Thursday, April 13
The Weekly Challenger: More than 500 families received free food  
 
The city's first FARM SHARE Free Food Distribution event was a huge success last Saturday, April 8.  Hosted at the GTE Financial Credit Union on "The Deuces," at 2190 18th Ave. S., organizers report a final count of more than 525 families who received fresh produce, bread and other food items.

Mayor Rick Kriseman and Urban Affairs Director Nikki Capehart extended their appreciation and recognized several partners and volunteers including Farm Share Florida, GTE Financial, Florida Dream Center/ Adopt A Block, St. Petersburg College students, Farm Bureau, Job Corps of Pinellas students, the Police Athletic League (PAL), Community Health Centers of Pinellas and the Bill Edwards Family Foundation. 
               
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Thursday, April 13
The Weekly Challenger: Investing in tomorrow's leaders today 
 
The Pinellas Education Foundation joined the City of St. Petersburg and Pinellas County Schools to present 125 sixth through tenth-grade public school students with the opportunity to receive a Take Stock in Children Scholarship (TSIC) once they graduate from high school.

The annual St. Pete's Promise Awards Celebration was held at St. Petersburg's historic Coliseum, 535 Fourth Ave. N, Wednesday, March 29.

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Friday, April 14
Tampa Bay Reporter: Kriseman: St. Petersburg is 'Under Siege' 
 
Saying the city is "under siege," Mayor Rick Kriseman blasted state and federal funding proposals that, he said, would eliminate efforts to help low-income residents.

Kriseman urged residents to call their representatives to oppose the measures.

"Our city is under siege by bad proposed bills and budgets," Kriseman said Thursday (April 13).
               
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Friday, April 14
WorkBoat: Successful Tampa Bay ferry trial has officials optimistic 
 
The six-month fast ferry experiment on Tampa Bay is going so well officials are exploring funding options to do it again - either on a seasonal or full-time basis.

"There's a demand for ferry service," St. Petersburg, Fla., Mayor Rick Kriseman told the Pinellas County commissioners in late March. Total passenger count for the first four months of the $1.4 million project - November 2016 through February - was 22,596. More than 6,300 were commuters. Two thirds said they might not have taken the trip if the ferry weren't available; one third said they used the ferry instead of their car to make a previously planned trip. St. Petersburg and Pinellas along with Hillsborough County and the city of Tampa each put up $350,000 for the service that runs between the two cities' downtowns through April.
                
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The City Hall Broadcast: Mayor Rick Kriseman, "Baseball Forever"  

Radio St. Pete has partnered with the City of St. Petersburg on the production of a bi-weekly podcast "The City Hall Broadcast." Join host Will Kuncz of The Homemade Broadcast, for this unique, inside and informal view of our city government.

To hear the podcast, click the image above or click here.    

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City of St. Petersburg
 
175 5th Street North 
St. Petersburg, FL 33701 
Phone: 727-893-7201