July's weather features the temperatures that try (or should we say fry?) our souls
in West Central Florida.
Summertime heat pushes the thermometer past 90
degrees on most days. Afternoon showers, if we're lucky, bring only sticky
relief.
What to do? Where to go?
Time to slather on the sunscreen, put on a big floppy hat, head to the beach or the nearest water park, then close our eyes and
dream about 83 Degrees!
That's what we'll be doing while taking a week off around the Fourth of
July to celebrate the holiday and to spend a little mid-summer break with family and friends.
We hope
you'll do the same and that we can all return refreshed and ready to tackle what the second half of summertime will bring.
See you again on July 13. Enjoy!
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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.