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She processes the evidence that helps put accused criminals away
Alexa Burch | NNB
Because their work is sensitive, Charity Jackson and other technicians in the property and evidence unit had to pass a rigorous background check and a polygraph test.BY CAITLIN ASHWORTH
NNB Student ReporterST. PETERSBURG – On the floors above Charity Jackson’s department at the St. Petersburg police station, all is commotion and bustle as sworn officers and civilian employees move through their day.
But on the windowless bottom floor, things seem more subdued as Jackson, 40, and other property and evidence technicians process and store the bodily fluids, drugs and ominous looking instruments of mayhem that are key to numerous cases, some going back five decades.
Five technicians and a supervisor, Melvin Brathwaite, work in the property and evidence section. To be hired, they must go through the same rigorous background check, including a polygraph test, as sworn officers.
“Just Be Nice,” reads a sign over the counter that Jackson stands behind.
She handles so-called “general evidence,” such as hats and watches, and has been a civilian employee at the Police Department for 12 years.
The evidence is housed in several rooms, and Jackson walks through them, describing each one.
When she unlocks Room 3, there is a faint whiff of marijuana. Instructions posted on the wall describe how to test and handle drugs. Blue lockers lining one wall contain drug-related evidence. A small refrigerator keeps urine and blood samples fresh.
Guns have a room of their own, from assault rifles to BB guns.
General evidence is stored in gray lockers down the hall while “bulk evidence,” such as lawn mowers, sits in a garage unit awaiting pickup by a private company that buys and sells booty that was seized by police and is no longer needed in the prosecution of crimes.
“I have one more room,” says Jackson. “The homicide room.”
That is Room 8. When she unlocks the door, chilly air seeps out. This room is kept much colder than other evidence rooms to help ensure that DNA left on the evidence is preserved, Jackson says.
A collection of murder weapons sits in an organized but jumbled fashion. Amid brooms and mops lined against a wall is a black samurai sword, an icon of Japanese history that is often dramatized in movies.
This sword is not mounted on the wall in prestige and glory, however. It is just another piece of evidence, with a case number written on the brown paper wrapping.
According to the department, St. Petersburg police closed 86 percent of the city’s 2014 homicides, ending the year with three cases unresolved and evidence waiting.
The department’s property and evidence staff processes and stores more than 22,000 new items and disposes of more than 17,000 items each year, according to the department’s website.
Items that have been cleared for release by the investigating officers sometimes go back to their owners. Some items are sold to the private company that then resells them. All firearms are destroyed.
On rare occasions, evidence is lost, said police spokesman Mike Puetz. “But it is extremely rare; there are a number of checks and balances that prevent that from happening.”
In June, the department created a full-time “cold case” team of five officers and civilian investigator Brenda Stevenson to focus on 213 unsolved murder and missing person cases going back as far as 1968.
A month earlier, the department finally identified a 16-year-old runaway from Virginia who died in 1973 after she was pushed in front of a vehicle in the 800 block of 11th Avenue S.
Stevenson persuaded the Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner’s Office in 2010 to exhume the unidentified teenager and two others from their unmarked graves to get DNA samples – a staple of modern investigations that did not become widely available until the 1990s.
The DNA helped the department determine the teen’s identify and notify her younger brother in North Carolina. The brother, who had searched for his sister for years, told reporters he planned to have her remains shipped to him so “she will finally be with me.”
Information from the Tampa Tribune and Tampa Bay Times was used in this report.
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“The Deuces”: can the once-vibrant street make a comeback?
BY JAIMIE LUNA and KIM DOLEATTO
NNB Reporters
Emily Wehunt | NNB
The Manhattan Casino (left) is back, but empty lots now dominate the street, which was divided by
Interstate 275 (background) in the late 1970s.ST. PETERSBURG – For decades, they had to sit in the back of the bus.
They couldn’t eat at downtown lunch counters, couldn’t catch a movie at one of the big theaters, couldn’t sit on the famous green benches. They couldn’t even try on clothes before they bought them at downtown department stores.
Why? They were black.
During the 1920s, along a dusty trail that became 22nd Street S, blacks in St. Petersburg began creating a town within a town where they could safely live, dine, shop and attend school during an era of white supremacy, segregation and hate.
Candice Reshef | NNB
Entrepreneurs Elihu and Carolyn Brayboy, who grew up in Midtown, have spent $800,000 to buy and restore four buildings along 22nd Street.In time, their town got a nickname: “The Deuces.”
In its heyday in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Deuces was a thriving neighborhood of homes and more than a hundred businesses. There was a hospital where black doctors could treat their patients, funeral homes where the bereaved could mourn lost loved ones, a movie theater where families could be entertained, and a dance hall – called the Manhattan Casino – where famous black musicians like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington could perform.
“A black person could be born, live and die on 22nd Street,” said Jon Wilson, a former Tampa Bay Times reporter and author of three books on St. Petersburg history. “Some residents never left the neighborhood.”
But now, he said, the Deuces is “just a bare shadow of its former self.”
Most of the buildings are gone or boarded up. Most of the people who lived there have died or moved away. The roar of overhead traffic on Interstate 275, which in the late 1970s effectively cut the neighborhood in two, makes conversation difficult for the people below.
Nikki Gaskin-Capehart, the city’s director of urban affairs, said the interstate dealt a “death blow” to the Deuces. “It cut us off from each other,” said Gaskin-Capehart, 40, who grew up in the neighborhood.
By then, however, the Deuces was already in decline. When the legal and unofficial barriers of segregation began falling in the 1960s, its residents started living, shopping and attending school in once-forbidden places. The black hospital, which opened in 1923, closed in 1966. So did the theater. Two years later, the Manhattan Casino hosted its last concert.
Drug trafficking – especially crack cocaine – also staggered the Deuces. “When crack hit the neighborhood (in the 1980s), everything changed,” said Gaskin-Capehart.
Where others now see only decline and decay, however, Gaskin-Capehart sees opportunity. The St. Petersburg native, who fondly recalls what was, now stresses what could be.
As the city’s urban affairs director, she is the point person in Mayor Rick Kriseman’s campaign to put renewed economic development emphasis on Midtown – a cluster of predominantly black neighborhoods, including the Deuces, where poverty, unemployment and crime rates are high.
“We want to take it back to what it should be,” she said.
The challenges are daunting.
In June 2014, Gov. Rick Scott stunned city leaders when he vetoed $1.6 million in the state budget for St. Petersburg’s antipoverty 2020 Plan. The money would have gone to programs designed to help young job-seekers and small-business owners.
Other parts of the plan, developed by a private group and embraced by Kriseman and City Council members, aim to reduce poverty throughout the city by 30 percent. Those will continue without the state money.
Spurred in part by riots that shook the area in 1996, government and private enterprise have already spent heavily on improvements in Midtown and nearby Childs Park. Between 1999 and 2012, the city estimates, government and private interests invested $207 million in Midtown.
A post office, a credit union, a grocery store, a library and a federal Jobs Corps training facility have opened. The theater on 22nd Street has been modernized, air-conditioned and turned into a home for the Boys and Girls Club. The old hospital building has been expanded into a public health center. St. Petersburg College, which opened a Midtown campus in 2003, is expanding into a three-story, $15 million building that has four times the space, far more students and a greatly expanded agenda.
Lauren Hensley | NNB
Jake Pfeifer spent a month as artist-in-residence in the studio and gallery of Duncan McClellan, a renowned glass artist who moved his operation to Midtown in 2010.Meanwhile, the city and Pinellas County have approved a so-called tax-increment financing district for the 7.5 square miles that include the Midtown and Childs Park. Annual increases in city and county property tax revenue generated there will be spent there on improvements in housing, health care, economic opportunities and education. The financing plan is expected to generate up to $70 million over the next 30 years.
Private organizations are investing as well. A North Carolina nonprofit has bought 68 homes in Midtown and Childs Park and begun restoring them. A Naples-based investment firm has bought 40 homes for restoration. Habitat for Humanity has begun a program to help Midtown homeowners make substantial repairs, energy efficiency upgrades and landscaping improvements to their houses.
Elihu and Carolyn Brayboy, who grew up in Midtown, say they are spending $800,000 to buy and renovate four buildings along 22nd Street. Those buildings now house a Creole restaurant, a barbecue stand, an art gallery, a beauty salon and a fitness center.
On Sunday afternoons, the empty lots behind one of the Brayboys’ properties at 22nd and Ninth Avenue become the Deuces Live Open Market, which offers baked goods, produce, plants, fine crafts, home goods and live entertainment.
Meanwhile, along the northern and western flanks of Midtown, other businesses have taken root, among them several craft breweries, a couple of distilleries, a pet shelter and a monthly vintage market for secondhand goods.
More than 200 artists now work out of studios in a former freight train depot and nearby warehouses that offer ample space and low rent. Some of the artists in the Warehouse Arts District have formed a nonprofit that has bought six old buildings at 22nd and Fifth Avenue that will be turned into rent-controlled studios.
In the heyday of the Deuces, its crown jewel was the Manhattan Casino. It was the home of dances, teas, wedding receptions, fashion shows, club meetings and high school programs.
Candice Reshef | NNB
The famous Manhattan Casino, crown jewel of the Deuces in its heyday, closed in 1968. It was restored by the city and reopened in 2013.A who’s who of famous black entertainers – Armstrong, Ellington, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan – were barred from white venues in segregated St. Petersburg. But at the Manhattan, they played to packed houses that sometimes included white fans. Across the street, in the parking lot of the Sno-Peak drive-in, crowds gathered to listen to the music coming through the Manhattan’s open windows.
In 2002, the city bought the long-empty building and then spent nearly $3 million restoring it. In 2013, a branch of Harlem’s famous Sylvia’s Queen of Soul Food Restaurant opened on the ground floor. There’s a gospel brunch there every Sunday, a jazz brunch on Saturdays and other events during the week.
The ballroom on the second floor, where the greats of jazz, soul and rock once played, is again a venue for parties, wedding receptions and group meetings.
Do the return of the Manhattan and the stirrings of change elsewhere along the street portend better days for the Deuces? Some people are betting that they do.
NNB reporters Karlana June, Jennifer Nesslar and Andrew Caplan contributed to this report, which also includes information from St. Petersburg’s Historic 22nd Street South, a book published in 2006 by Rosalie Peck and Jon Wilson, and the Tampa Bay Times.
If You Go
Sylvia’s Queen of Soul Food Restaurant and the Manhattan Casino are at 642 22nd St. S. Call (727) 823-4240 or (727) 423-9825 for information and reservations.
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They stress fundamentals on the gridiron and lessons in life
Andrew Caplan | NNB
For eight years, local football standout Louis Murphy Jr. and his 1st Downs 4 Life organization have conducted a one-day camp at Lakewood High School.BY ANDREW CAPLAN
NNB Student Reporter“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”
That quotation from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one that Louis Murphy Jr. said he lives by every day.
So when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver stepped back onto Lakewood High School’s football field earlier this month, he had one mission in mind: to give back.
It’s a responsibility that was instilled in him early in life by his father, the Rev. Louis M. Murphy Sr., and mother, Filomena Murphy, who died of breast cancer in 2008.
For eight years, Murphy Jr.’s organization, 1st Downs 4 Life, has conducted a one-day football and cheerleading camp at the high school where he once starred. The wide receiver and his crew spend the day with area youths, teaching both fundamentals and life lessons.
The free camp was filled with youngsters ages 8 to 18. Their mentors were former collegiate and professional athletes like Gerard Warren, a former defensive tackle who was the NFL’s No. 3 overall draft pick in 2001; former USF safety Jerrell Young; Cornell Green, a former offensive tackle who won a Super Bowl with the Bucs in 2002; and Henry Lawrence, a former offensive lineman who has several Pro Bowl honors and three Super Bowl rings.
Andrew Caplan | NNB
Murphy’s father, the Rev. Louis M. Murphy Sr. (in orange shirt), leads some of the high school campers in prayer.“I think we should always give back and lend a helping hand,” said Murphy, 28.
He believes it’s his job as a professional athlete to be a role model for young people. And they agree.
“It lets us know that there are people out here that still care about the black community and the kids around it,” said Nyquel Alexander, a 2015 Lakewood graduate who plans to play in college. “This camp helped me become a man and make smart choices while I was in high school.”
Indian Rocks Christian running back Theo Anderson said the camp is “very important” to him, too.
“I think, honestly, this camp is about 60 percent life and 40 percent work,” he said.
Anderson, 16, said he is considering attending the University of Wisconsin after he graduates in January. He said he is following the instructions at the camp: Do well in school and dream big.
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Murphy started 1st Downs 4 Life in 2008, shortly after his mother passed away. He said he remembers her working with some of the most troubled youths in the area at a juvenile delinquent center. He once asked her why.
Her response was that the kids needed someone to encourage them and be a positive influence, Murphy said. “She had a heart for kids that were troubled.”
Now with the help of volunteers, his goal is to give youngsters the same kind of encouragement.
“We coach character and discipline,” he said. “Being a stand-up guy in the community, your classroom, on your little league football team, high school football team and being a leader. Those are the things we really preach to these kids.”
Andrew Caplan | NNB
Former collegiate and NFL linebacker Juan Long, shown coaching two campers, says Murphy Jr. has proven that “if you work hard and stay committed to your craft, anything is possible.”Volunteer coach Justin Black, a former cornerback at West Liberty University, said he has been with the camp since year one, when he was in high school. Black, 23, spent his afternoon coaching the defensive backs.
“I learned from my own experiences that putting emphasis on the little things will help you achieve great things on and off the field,” he said. “Just spending time plays a huge impact in a child’s life.”
First-time camp volunteer Juan Long, a former Mississippi State and NFL linebacker, said even though it is a football camp, the goal is to see the attendees become great citizens in the St. Petersburg area.
Although going pro is unlikely for most kids at the camp, Long said, it’s not impossible. Defensive end Dante Fowler, a 1st Downs 4 Life alum, was recently the No. 3 overall selection in the 2015 NFL draft.
“A lot of times kids see people on TV they can’t really relate to it,” Long said. “But by Louis being here, he’s showing them directly that if you work hard and stay committed to your craft, anything is possible.”
The camp ended with a few words of wisdom from those close to Murphy.
Green told the young athletes to make good life decisions. Do your education right, he said. “Invest in you.”
Warren told them to have respect for others as well as themselves.
And Murphy’s father, the senior pastor at Mt. Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church, urged them not to let others talk them into anything, but rather follow their own desires.
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Andrew Caplan | NNB
Murphy Jr., says his mother, who died in 2008, and his father (left) taught him the importance of giving back. “The success of these kids inspires me and motivates me to keep going,” he says.Unlike past years, the camp did not host its annual basketball game on the same weekend.
Murphy Jr. said he plans to have future events spread throughout the year to offer more guidance and build stronger relationships with the youngsters.
Before year’s end, he said, he plans to host a backpack giveaway, a toy drive and a charity kickball game and start a mentoring program. He wants to offer guidance to not just football players, but entire communities.
On July 25, 1st Downs 4 Life will host another football camp at Stetson University in DeLand.
“It’s a joy and a blessing to pour into these kids,” Murphy said. “The success of these kids inspires me and motivates me to keep going.”
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To counter the impact of poverty, they stress early childhood education
Bianca Soler | NNB
Many youngsters enter elementary school already lagging behind children from other neighborhoods, says Angela Merck, who is better known to her students as Ms. Peaches.BY BIANCA SOLER
NNB Student ReporterST. PETERSBURG – Shortly after the doors opened at 6:30 on a recent morning, a 5-year-old girl was playing with plastic figurines of marine wildlife – confident she may be a marine biologist one day. Two other children were trying to fix a frozen computer program. Others worked on puzzles, blocks, and art projects.
School may be out for the summer, but the 112 youngsters in the pre-kindergarten summer camp at the Children’s Center at Mt. Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church are being challenged to learn and grow.
“This might be a day care or a summer camp, but we aren’t here to babysit,” said office manager Angela Merck, better known to the children as Ms. Peaches. “We’re here to teach these kids. The younger they learn, the better.”
Experts agree that the pre-kindergarten years are crucial, especially in neighborhoods like those around Mt. Zion, the Midtown church that has the largest black congregation in St. Petersburg.
Generational poverty abounds in Midtown and Childs Park, and adults like Merck and the Rev. Louis M. Murphy Sr., Mt. Zion’s senior pastor, worry that many youngsters enter elementary school already lagging behind their peers from more affluent neighborhoods.
“We want to bring an effective change in these parts, specifically within a two-mile radius of where we are,” Murphy said. “We need to be proactive in preparing our children with alternatives other than the street, and the only way to do that is start at age 0.”
Murphy says early childhood education is at the core of what Mt. Zion is trying to do for the betterment of the community. And he isn’t alone in stressing that.
Lauren Hensley | NNB
“We all pay for the price of poverty, especially the children,” says County Commissioner Ken Welch.Other leaders in St. Petersburg, such as County Commissioner Ken Welch, also emphasize the need for early childhood education, saying the lack of education figures in the high poverty rate in the area.
“Some people don’t realize the impact that poverty has on our economy and how it affects each of us directly,” Welch said. “Poverty causes people to be sicker (and leads to) higher rates of arrest and lower education outcomes. We all pay for the price of poverty, especially the children.”
Poverty is often generational, Welch said. “If the grandparents are poor, the parents are poor and the kids are poor unless we do something to encourage these young kids to succeed.”
According to reading scores on state tests, five of the state’s worst elementary schools in 2014 were in southern St. Petersburg. Four of them were in Midtown.
The county school district and the state have made changes in the leadership and teaching staffs at those schools and put special emphasis on reading, math, student discipline and parental involvement.
At the Mt. Zion Children’s Center, those objectives were already in place. The goal there is to build a community of learners by giving youngsters an early childhood experience that encourages independence, confidence, social skills, and responsibility.
“We want children to grow up confident, and most importantly respectful not only of other people but of every creature,” Ms. Peaches said. “That’s why the children have two pet guinea pigs and a pet rabbit that they help take care of.”
During the school year, Mt. Zion offers voluntary pre-kindergarten and before- and after-care service for children in grades K-5.
Lauren Hensley | NNB
“We believe instilling the right path and morals begins at age 0, not at 2 years or 5 years,” says senior pastor Louis M. Murphy Sr.The church’s goal “is to expand the facility so that we can start bringing in infants because we believe that education should start at age 0,” Ms. Peaches said. “That’s part of why we developed the Vision 300 plan because we just don’t have the space to do that right now.”
Vision 300 is a five-year plan initiated by Murphy and church leaders. The goal is to raise $1 million to expand the church and its children’s programs.
“There are so many kids that get off track in their education and in their spiritual path,” said Murphy. “They end up on the streets. It is critical to instill good morals and values at a very early age and not wait until children enter elementary school.”
Murphy and Ms. Peaches realize that some students who attend the summer camp or voluntary pre-K program get little support at home. Some students receive no help with homework.
“We assign homework and the next day a student will come back with it incomplete,” Ms. Peaches said. “That’s not their fault. We motivate them to learn here and they’re excited about it, but that excitement needs to continue on even after they leave here and go home. That’s why we set aside time for homework assistance for those children who don’t get it at home.”
“As teachers and parents we must remember … that a positive self-image is the main ingredient to a child’s success,” said Children’s Center director Shakeyba Greene. “It is our job as parents and teachers to make this a priority.”
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University strives to be ‘beacon of hope’ for Midtown students
Lauren Hensley | NNB
Some of the youngsters at the camp, shown here with camp leader Lindsey Hosier (in blue T-shirt), have never been to the beach or to downtown St. Petersburg.BY LAUREN HENSLEY
and SHELBY BOURGEOIS
NNB Student ReportersST. PETERSBURG – From atop the new College of Business building going up at the University of South Florida, Fred Bennett says, you will be able to see some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods.
They are places where unemployment and crime are high, opportunities and ambition low. And they are home to several of the state’s most challenged elementary schools.
Many of the students in those schools “have never been outside their ZIP code,” said Bennett, a former executive for Lykes Bros. Inc. who is now an adjunct instructor and community liaison in the College of Education. “They live not 20 minutes from the beach and had no idea it was there.”
Since the summer of 2013, students and faculty at the university have had a partnership with one of those schools, Fairmount Park Elementary at 575 41st St. S. They have hosted camps on the university campus, led field trips and volunteered in the struggling school’s classrooms.
It’s been eye-opening.
They have learned, for example, that some of the school’s students had never left their neighborhood. That some had never seen downtown St. Petersburg. That driving over the Howard Frankland Bridge felt like being on a rocket ship.
“I was reading a book about being a kid for a small group and they didn’t know what a roller coaster was,” said Tiffany Lyp, a student volunteer. “It’s just hard for me to know they don’t really know anything outside of their backyards and neighborhoods.”
At the center of the USFSP-Fairmount Park partnership is Bennett, who says the university is in a special position to help Fairmount Park and other struggling schools in the Midtown and Childs Park neighborhoods just south of Central Avenue.
“I always wonder, are we shining like an ivory tower right next to these neighborhoods?” said Bennett. “Our College of Business has this big beautiful building going up, and from the top of that building you’re going to see some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in the area. What kind of irony is that?
He said he prefers to think of the university not as an ivory tower “but a beacon of hope for these students in St. Pete as well as shining the light of knowledge for them to see.”
Fairmount Park is less than 4 miles from the university campus, but it can seem much farther.
Reading scores at the school were so bad that in 2014 state education officials labeled it the second worst elementary in Florida – one of five St. Petersburg elementaries in the bottom 25. The others were Melrose, Campbell Park, Lakewood and Maximo.
In response, the Pinellas School District and the state have made changes in the leadership and teaching staffs at the schools and put new emphasis on math, reading, student discipline and parental involvement.
Nina Pollauf, the principal of Fairmount Park Elementary, said the support her school has received from the university has been a blessing.
“Our relationship with USFSP has extended so many learning and enrichment opportunities for our students,” said Pollauf.
She said the literacy coaches, guidance counselors, field trips and other resources provided by the university have complemented the work of Fairmount’s staff.
“It has truly added so much to what we do that would not be there without Fred and USFSP,” Pollauf said.
To date, the university has had more than 200 student volunteers working with Fairmount Park students and their teachers.
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Once an executive in private business, Fred Bennett now guides the university’s partnership with Fairmount Park Elementary and other struggling schools.This summer, for the third year in a row, USF is hosting a summer camp for students from Fairmount Park. Some students from Campbell Park are there as well.
In previous years, the summer camp has offered third and fourth graders the opportunity to learn how to sail a boat, kayak and swim, take field trips to Fort De Soto Park and Boyd Hill Nature Preserve, attend a Tampa Bay Rays game and participate in a variety of educational activities.
The camp was designed to operate on a budget of $30,000. That’s enough to hire four teachers from the school district and eight students from the university and pay for field trips and activities.
But only $5,000 is available this year – all of it from the Tampa Bay Rays Foundation – so Bennett says there are only 32 elementary students and four USFSP counselors and fewer activities during the camp, which began June 22 and ends July 24.
“We are going to use this summer to build a better curriculum and some better assessment tools,” he said.
In its partnership with Fairmount Park, “our goal is to engage the elementary students and get them excited about their future,” said Bennett. “We also want to inspire students from the College of Education to go out into the community and make a difference.”Pinellas County has “over 20 schools that are considered high need, the majority of them right here in St. Pete,” said Bennett. “Maybe we can’t go and fight ISIS, but this is real. This is tangible. This is something we can affect right here in our backyard.”
Want to help?
If you’re interested in volunteering at Fairmount Park or another high-need school in St. Petersburg, contact Fred Bennett at (727) 873-4949 or fjbennet@mail.usf.edu.
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For St. Petersburg College, a big new building and a challenge
NNB | Lauren Hensley
When it opens in August, the college’s new Midtown Center will have four times its current space.BY ANDREW CAPLAN
NNB Student ReporterST. PETERSBURG – When St. Petersburg College’s sparkling new Midtown Center opens in August, the three-story, $15-million building will have six regular classrooms, three computer labs, two science labs, a career center, and a bookstore.
It will also have a challenge: Convince the people of Midtown that it wants to help revitalize the area, not dominate it.
The college has been on the city’s historic 22nd Street S – called “the Deuces” since it was the main street of the black community during the days of segregation – for more than a decade. But when it moves into its new building on 13th Avenue, it will have four times the space, far more students and a greatly expanded agenda.
The man in charge is the placid, well-spoken provost of the college’s Midtown and downtown campuses, Kevin Gordon.
Gordon, a native of St. Petersburg and graduate of Gibbs High School, is aware that some Midtown residents fear the college will gradually take over the neighborhood, pushing out some of the people and businesses that have called it home for many years.
But Gordon, 51, doesn’t want people to worry. “Our only agenda is community partnership,” he said.
The college will be a place where nearby residents can pursue a traditional two-year associate degree or certification in fields that require schooling for six months to a year, he said.
“I think at the end of the day, we’re really putting our money where our mouth is, in terms of really coming in and being a partner in the community,” he said. “Being able to address the issue of poverty is really important to me.”
In his mind, he said, Midtown “is a perfect place to be because a college degree is within walking distance if you want it. The hope is to be part of the stimulus for revitalization in Midtown.”
Facing uphill battles and changing views is nothing new for Gordon.
He came to the college in November 2011 from Gibbs High School, where in two and a half years he helped bring improvements in academic performance, student conduct and parental involvement.
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The new building will complement the neighborhood’s recent resurgence, says Kevin Gordon, provost for the college’s Midtown and downtown campuses.When he returned to his alma mater, he inherited the school district’s first F-rated high school. Nearly 1,200 of the school’s 1,900 students were underachievers on the state’s Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, with proficiency scores of Level 1 or 2 out of 5, he said.
In his first year as principal, he said, the school identified and attempted to reverse the downward paths of about 400 students who were “severely off track” for graduation.
By his second year, Gordon said, the school began a “cohort model,” which allowed students to work with a guidance counselor and an assistant principal to address discipline and grade issues. Those who failed a course or needed further help were put in a credit recovery program right away, instead of waiting for their senior year, he said.
By the time he left, Gibbs’ state grade was a B, Gordon said.
“I was pretty satisfied with my performance as a principal,” he said. “But there’s always things that you wish you could’ve done that you didn’t get to.”
As a student at Gibbs years before, Gordon starred in track and basketball. He earned a bachelor’s in economics from Florida State and seemed headed for a future in computers, programming and information systems.
That changed when he volunteered at a Junior Achievement event designed to show high school students how to start a business, he said. He saw the need to help others, left his customer service job at a bank and got into teaching.
He joined the Pinellas County school system in 1987 as a teacher and became assistant principal at Clearwater High from 1996 to 2003. He was principal of John Hopkins Middle School and then High Point Elementary before moving to Gibbs in 2009.
Along the way, he received a master’s in educational leadership from Nova Southeastern University and a doctorate in educational leadership from the University of South Florida in Tampa.
St. Petersburg College has had a presence in Midtown since 2003, when it moved into a one-story, 10,000-square-foot building at 1048 22nd St. S.
In the years since then, the historic street has seen the stirrings of a comeback. A federal Job Corps training facility serving more than 200 students, a federal credit union and a shopping center have sprung up, and two long-shuttered icons of the segregation era – the Manhattan Casino and Mercy Hospital – have reopened with new entities inside.
On the northern flank of Midtown, meanwhile, an arts district has taken shape.
SPC’s new Midtown Center, on 3.7 acres at 1300 22nd St. S, would seem to complement the neighborhood’s resurgence. It is named for the late Douglas L. Jamerson Jr., a Midtown native who served as a state legislator and state commissioner of education.
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The building, which bears the name of the late Douglas L. Jamerson Jr., a Midtown native and state legislator, will have two science labs.But some have reservations about an institution that, to outsiders, can sometimes appear to be a bureaucratic behemoth.
A fiery protest erupted last year when the St. Petersburg Housing Authority invited the college to help run the African-American museum at 2240 Ninth Ave. S. The college quickly backed out.
A few months later, there were more misgivings when the college bought an empty gym building at 1201 22nd St. S.
Since then, the college has had meetings to get input from residents and community institutions. There are plans to use the gym as a community outreach center, Gordon said, and the new Midtown Center will have resources for the community on the first floor.
Registration for the fall semester opened in mid-June, and the building’s grand opening – with a ribbon cutting and tours – will be at 11 a.m. Aug. 1.
After that, Gordon said, he hopes to see hundreds of students and Midtown residents in the new building, working their way toward a brighter future.
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In a once-gritty industrial area, they create art
Courtesy of Five Deuces GalleriaStory and photos BY PHIL LAVERY
NNB Student ReporterST. PETERSBURG – Drawn by low rent and abundant space, artists have flocked to the northern flank of Midtown in recent years. In once-empty warehouses, they are painting on canvas, sculpting in copper and blowing hot glass into objets d’art.
One of the converted warehouses is called Five Deuces Galleria, a three-building complex of studios and galleries at 222 22nd St. S that is a production center for art and aspirations.
Meet four of the artists who work there.
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Melissa HaraszShe comes from a family of artists and painters and has been painting since she was 9. Now 55, Harasz swims competitively and specializes in underwater scenes.
She pays a little more than $400 for an air-conditioned studio.
She says she likes the vibe of the Warehouse Arts District and its proximity to downtown.
“My process begins with a photograph. Once I study the photo, I’ll allow my imagination to take over.”
This oil-on-canvas painting of a man swimming underwater is typical of Harasz’s work.
This scene is one of her favorites.
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Maureen McCarthyArt was just a hobby for her until her divorce a year ago.
Now she restores furniture full time and paints with oil on canvas.
After looking all over town, McCarthy, 44, decided to rent a studio at Five Deuces.
“There were studios where the rent was cheaper, but they felt cold. I looked for three weeks and settled on this place. My studio has got a warm feeling to it, which is very conducive to my creative process.”
McCarthy likes to paint landscapes, like this scene of a Florida sunset.
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Sean AltonAlton, 55, works with copper and glass sculpturing. “We get a lot of foot traffic” at Five Deuces, he says. It “has a good draw, being in the Warehouse Arts District. It’s a pretty cool place.”
“I consider myself a surrealist sculptor, incorporating people with animals in a non-sexual way. I started working with metal as a jeweler. In 1995 I left that job and began experimenting with copper sculpting, eventually adding glass to my sculptures.”
In copper sculpting, a mass of copper is melted in a kiln, usually several times. Once the cooper is removed, Alton does the enameling, which is adding class to the surface. Here is a finished copper sculpture with enamel.
In this 2-foot-long piece, an alligator is eating a person alive.
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Jim CorpHe has been a woodworker, a fisherman, a real estate developer and a business owner. Now Corp, 68, is an artist who says his work is half digital, half oil-on-canvas.
“The process of creation between digital prints and hand paintings are different, as one requires a computer and the other is by hand. How I find my inspiration, however, is pretty much the same. Even working with digital prints, coming up with an idea and then manifesting that into something tangible, is exactly the same as painting by hand.”
This is one of Corp’s digital prints. Its abstract style is a theme in most of his digital work. The printer he uses is expensive and requires a special ink toner.
This hand painting has the look of Andy Warhol. Notice the Campbell’s Soup cans at the bottom.
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Up and down the Deuces: new businesses, new hope
Story by REBEKAH DAVILA
Photos by REBEKAH DAVILA, CANDICE RESHEF,
ZACHARY GIPSON-KENDRICK and LAUREN HENSLEY
NNB Student ReportersST. PETERSBURG – When Mac Arthur was a teenager, he and his friends liked to gather at Jesse Henderson’s sundries store on 22nd Street S and Ninth Avenue.
It “used to be a soda pop shop,” he said. “It is where we used to bring our girlfriends to hang out and dance.”
Arthur, now 60, said he has lived in the Midtown area for years. “I grew up here. I attended what is now John Hopkins Middle School and Gibbs High School.”
When he turned 18, he said, he left and joined the military “because the biggest issue in Midtown was that there weren’t any opportunities for young black men at the time.”
The soda pop shop is gone now, like virtually all the old businesses. But when Arthur stopped to shop at a small grocery on 22nd Street earlier this month, he noted signs of change up and down the street, which locals still call “the Deuces.”
“There are a lot of businesses opening up around here, and hopefully it will change the area for the better,” said Arthur.
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The newest business is Deuces BBQ at 911 22nd St. S. It opened April 15 in one of four buildings that entrepreneurs Elihu and Carolyn Brayboy are restoring.
Time was when barbecue was a fixture on the Deuces. For years, John “Geech” Black served up barbecue with his special, secret sauce from a stand on 22nd Street and Eighth Avenue.
Geech’s closed in the early 1980s, however, and Deuces BBQ owners Patrick “PT” Collins and Kevin Egulf hope to resume the tradition.
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“One of the really unique things about Deuces BBQ is that we use pecan chips to smoke all of our meat,” said restaurant manager Tim Richardson. “That isn’t typical, and it makes for a great tasting product.”
Deuces BBQ serves barbecue chicken, baby back ribs, spare ribs and pulled pork. It is open daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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Two doors north of Deuces BBQ is Chief’s Creole Café, which opened last year in a building that once housed Sidney Harden’s grocery store and the Washington Beer Garden.
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The Brayboys, who grew up in Midtown and remember when 22nd Street was the vibrant main street of the black community, own this building, too. They also run the restaurant, which features the nickname of Elihu Brayboy’s take-charge mother – Chief – and some of her Louisiana recipes.
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Diners at Chief’s can choose between the tastefully appointed dining room and the courtyard outside.
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One of the Brayboys’ first tenants was Carla Bristol, who opened Gallerie 909 at 909 22nd St. S in April 2014. The gallery showcases the work of African-American artists, and the exhibits rotate every few weeks.
Bristol has made her cozy shop more than a gallery. There are impromptu musical sessions, photo shoots, wine tastings and spoken-word performances.
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Up the street, at 642 22nd St., is another restaurant. Sylvia’s Queen of Soul Food, which opened in November 2013, is an affiliate of the famous Sylvia’s in Harlem. Like its namesake, it serves home-style soul food. It is open six days a week, with a jazz brunch on Saturday and a gospel Sunday brunch.
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Above Sylvia’s is the Manhattan Casino, which in its heyday hosted everything from school proms, civic club meetings and society teas to performances by black entertainers like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington who were barred from whites-only venues.
The Manhattan closed in 1968 and for many years stood vacant. The city eventually bought and restored it, and the new Manhattan opened in October 2011. It promises “affordable elegance in the heart of St. Petersburg” for meetings, banquets, special occasion parties and wedding receptions.
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For years, residents of Midtown complained that the neighborhood lacked a grocery store. That meant people had to shop at higher-priced convenience stores or find transportation to a full-services grocery outside the neighborhood.
In 2005, Midtown finally got a Sweetbay Supermarket in a shopping center that the city spent $7 million to assemble at 22nd Street S and 18th Avenue. It was named Tangerine Plaza. To the dismay of residents and city officials, Sweetbay abruptly pulled out in early 2013.
But Walmart put a Neighborhood Market in the space in 2014, bringing an estimated 100 jobs. The shopping center is now called Midtown Plaza.
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St. Petersburg College has offered classes at 1048 22nd St. S since 2003. But on Aug. 1 it will cut the ribbon on a new three-story, $15 million Midtown Center at 1300 22nd St. S that will quadruple the space and serve far more students.
The college has also bought a gym and community center across the street. It intends to establish a community outreach center there.
Earlier this month, workers were putting the finishing touches on the building’s exterior and installing desks and furniture in six regular classrooms, three computer labs, two science labs, a career center and a bookstore.
The building is named for the late Douglas L. Jamerson Jr., a Midtown native who served as a state legislator and state commissioner of education.
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In recent years, artists have discovered Midtown. Now at least 200 of them are working in studios sprinkled around the northern part of the area.
Long-empty warehouses that offered abundant space and cheap rent were the initial attraction. Now a nonprofit organization of artists in the Warehouse Arts District has bought six old buildings at the intersection of 22nd Street S and Fifth Avenue that it intends to turn into studio space with reasonable rent.
The president of the nonprofit is Mark Aeling, a sculptor who moved his MGA Sculpture Studio from St. Louis to Midtown in 2005. His studio provides distinctive sculpture pieces to clients all over the country.
Here, Charlotte Chieco is working on a sculpture of Benjamin Franklin for an educational exhibit in Discovery Park of America in Union City, Tennessee.
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The northern flank of Midtown is also home to several craft breweries. They are a five-minute drive from downtown and have become favorite haunts for beer enthusiasts.
3 Daughters Brewing at 222 22nd St. S claims to be the largest craft brewery in St. Petersburg. The brew house is open seven days a week. On tap are 14 beers including Beach Blonde Ale and Bimini Twist IPA.
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Where freight trains once rumbled, artists fire up clay creations
Candice Reshef | NNB- Photos and story BY KELSEY AL
NNB Student Reporter
ST. PETERSBURG – The last locomotive passed through in 1967, but the 1926 brick depot that once helped connect the city to the rest of America is full of life.
Instead of freight cars and citrus, the old depot on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue S and 22nd Street is home to working artists and art appreciators. The St. Petersburg Clay Co. renovated the freight depot in 2000, and the Morean Arts Center for Clay leases year-long studio spaces to six resident artists. A café is open Monday through Saturday.
In the café, there are old photos, model trains and a mural depicting an active train platform. There is also a poem written by the late Rosalie Peck, who grew up in Midtown, became the first black female student at St. Petersburg Junior College and later co-authored two books on the city’s black history with journalist Jon Wilson.
The poem is titled “Remembering 22nd Street: The Way We Were.” It describes the once-bustling street when it was the heart of the black community during decades of segregation:
“It will never be the same, but before our very eyes, it may breathe life again. It may survive and surprise.”
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The depot sits alongside the Pinellas Trail, which follows the abandoned railroad corridor. The structure is unaltered, with high, sloping wooden ceilings and a large façade in the front.
In addition to the six studios, space is available for selling finished pieces to visitors, children’s summer camps, and large gatherings such as weddings and receptions.
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Artist Kodi Thompson works on his final installation at the Center for Clay. He says that his time in the studio building his portfolio helped him get into graduate school for fine arts. The freight cars, caution cones, and brick wall piece that Thompson is working on in the photo are all made of ceramics.
All six resident artists teach classes. Non-professionals in the community can rent work space by the month, enjoy the friendly atmosphere, and use the variety of electric and gas kilns. They must supply their own clay.
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Three times a year, in January, June, and October, a 21-foot outdoor Anagama kiln is fired up. The partially underground tunnel, built according to ancient Japanese techniques, is filled with burning wood to fire ceramic pieces.
Artists must envision the way that the flames, smoke and heat will move through the kiln and arrange pieces accordingly, with minimal space between works to avoid breakage. Here, artist Tyler Houston finishes glazing a piece he built to be put into the kiln.
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Over 1,000 clay artworks are loaded into the kiln, which runs 24 hours a day for 12 days. Location in the kiln affects the finish on the pieces, ranging from ashy to glossy, since each work is touched in a unique way. The results are diverse, with an organic texture that cannot be achieved with modern techniques or duplicated.
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Loading the kiln is a meticulous process that takes several hours and requires teamwork and planning. The Anagama kiln is truly a community project.
Kathleen Rumpf (not pictured) is a 63-year-old artist who says she has five felonies stemming from her political activism for peace and justice.
“When the process is finished and the pieces come out of the kiln, it’s like the opening of a tomb,” she says. Members of the center form an assembly line to unload the finished works, carefully passing and admiring each piece one by one.
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Temperatures are monitored and recorded regularly. They are expected to peak around 2200 degrees Fahrenheit. The wood that fuels the kiln is donated by tree trimming companies that have no use for their scraps. During breaks, the work crew enjoys smokes, beer and snacks.
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Loretta Lamore monitors smoke within the kiln from the rear. When visibility increases, she yells, “In the damper!” That alerts the crew up front to gear up with protective gloves and masks so they can load more wood. Approximately every five minutes, she yells, “Stoke please!” That’s the signal for reloading.
About 45 seconds after wood is added, a flame can briefly be seen rising from the chimney.
One the kiln is done firing, the pieces need to cool down for several days before they can be unloaded and admired. Some will be sold, and some will be kept by the artists for personal use.
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