If the end of the school year is enough to send students’ spirits soaring, TECO volunteers at Metropolitan Ministries’ Patricia Sullivan Partnership School did their part to boost the excitement level into the stratosphere on May 25. And while summer break for some means saying goodbye for now to homework and books, the school is saying hello to TECO as its newest corporate sponsor. Sullivan Partnership School, on Metropolitan Ministries’…
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TECO volunteers pour their time and energy again into Paint Your Heart Out, Tampa!
Sure, Tampa’s coat weather (that day or two each “winter”) is over – unless you’re talking about new coats of paint for the homes of families in need, applied by TECO volunteers. After that, something amazing happens: smiles spontaneously appear in the community. We’re not alone in participating in Paint Your Heart Out, Tampa! (PYHOT), of course. The annual volunteer effort to paint and make basic repairs to the homes…
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TECO volunteers and Habitat for Humanity build new homes for two families in need
Achieving with a Sense of Urgency – working with lightning speed – team members descended on a pair of empty lots and left behind the beginnings of two new homes for families in need. It happened on May 15 in Winter Haven, Fla., where about 30 team members joined the effort to dig underground trenching and erect the frames of two new houses. The project, through Habitat for Humanity of…
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Blue shirts, green backdrop: TECO volunteers continue to restore Newman Branch Creek
Across hundreds of acres of Tampa Electric-owned land south of the company’s Manatee Viewing Center – an area known as Newman Branch Creek and the site of the Florida Conservation and Technology Center, currently under construction – vegetation grows in abundance without help. Unfortunately, a lot of that vegetation is highly invasive, non-native Brazilian pepper. But thanks to TECO volunteers, many in their blue Volunteer T-shirts, the area now has…
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Volunteers ready Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center for new season
For most of Florida, spring is the growing season. Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center grows each fall, with TECO team members doing the watering – and planting, mulching, sweeping … and much, much more. That was true again as multiple teams came to the environmental education facility to enjoy the camaraderie of teambuilding while handling the crucial upgrades the center needs for its annual season, from Nov. 1 to April 15.…
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