{"id":8086,"date":"2011-06-30T16:27:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8086"},"modified":"2011-06-30T16:27:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:27:55","slug":"east-tampa-leader-recognized-as-citizen-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8086","title":{"rendered":"East Tampa Leader Named Citizen Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY LEON B. CREWS<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sentinel Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When <strong>Ms. Evangeline Best <\/strong>took over as chair of the East Tampa Community Revitalization Partnership, her mission was to make East Tampa a community everyone would be proud of, and improve the quality of life for the residents.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the City of Tampa hosted a Citizen Recognition Award Program. During the program, it was announced that <strong>Ms. Best <\/strong>had been selected to be named \u201cCitizen Of The Year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Best<\/strong> said she is appreciative and humbled by the recognition.<strong>[private]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to say thanks to everyone, especially the city employees at the District III Tampa Police Headquarters for voting for me and the approval of all top officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of East Tampa residents have worked hard and have been cooperative with me and the ETCRP. No one accomplishes these awards alone. There are always many people working on committees and behind the scenes to make things happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Best <\/strong>said behind the scenes, a lot of work is done by people who never get any recognition. She also said her family has always believed in giving back to the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 24 hours in each day; 8 for sleeping. After I retired from the county in 2003, the usual 8 hours for other activities was added to me making more contacts in the East Tampa community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy hope is that my efforts in the past eight years have shown that we can work together in harmony. I believe the seeds of hope and determination planted will ensure a good life for us all very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Police Chief, <strong>Jane Castor<\/strong>, said <strong>Ms. Best\u2019s<\/strong> motto of \u201ctogether we can do much,\u201d fits right in with TPD\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer partnership with the Tampa Police Department and her leadership in the community has been an integral part in the city\u2019s 61% reduction in crime.\u201d<strong>[\/private]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer When Ms. Evangeline Best took over as chair of the East Tampa Community Revitalization Partnership, her mission was to make East Tampa a community everyone would be proud of, and improve the quality of life for the residents. Last month, the City of Tampa hosted a Citizen Recognition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}