Happy July 4th From 83 Degrees Media

Florida's beaches and entertainment spots beckon as we celebrate our nation's roots and enjoy a mid-summer break with family and friends.

By Diane Egner

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June 26, 2012

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Whether you’re neck deep in Invision Tampa, counting down the days before the RNC comes to town, in the midst of strategic planning and budgeting for next year or halfway through having the kids home for the summer, it’s time to take a break and enjoy the incredible recreational opportunities the Tampa Bay region offers visitors and residents alike.

83 Degrees Media‘s editors, writers and photographers are taking the holiday off to spend some time appreciating all that we have to celebrate with friends and family, and we hope you will be doing the same.

The website will remain live the entire time, of course. So please revisit some of the 83 Degrees features and news items you may have missed and share them in your social media circles for others to see.

While we’ll not publish a Tuesday newsletter on July 3, we’ll will be back with fresh stories on July 10.

Enjoy your holiday. Happy Fourth!

Diane Egner is publisher and managing editor of 83 Degrees Media. Comments? Contact 83 Degrees.

Author

Diane Egner is a community leader and award-winning journalist with more than four decades of experience reporting and writing about the Tampa Bay Area of Florida. She serves on the boards of the University of South Florida Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications Advisory Council, The Institute for Research in Art (Graphicstudio, the Contemporary Art Museum, and USF’s Public Art Program) Community Advisory Council, Sing Out and Read, and StageWorks Theatre Advisory Council. She also is a member of Leadership Florida and the Athena Society. A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a BA in journalism, she won the top statewide award for editorial writing from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors while at The Tampa Tribune and received special recognition by the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists for creative work as Content Director at WUSF Public Media. Past accomplishments and community service include leadership positions with Tampa Tiger Bay Club, USF Women in Leadership & Philanthropy (WLP), Alpha House of Tampa Bay, Awesome Tampa Bay, Florida Kinship Center, AIA Tampa Bay, Powerstories, Arts Council of Hillsborough County, and the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. Diane and her husband, Sandy Rief, live in Tampa.