Community Business Expo coming
The Central Pasco Chamber of Commerce will host its 2014 Community Business Expo March 14 and March 15 at the Land O’ Lakes Recreation Complex, 3032 Collier Parkway in Land O’ Lakes.
The event runs from 4 p.m. to 7 pm., March 14, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., on March 15, with the theme “The Price is Right – Shop Local.”
Sponsorships and booth space remain available, but are limited.
For more information, visit CentralPascoChamber.com, or call (813) 909-2722.
RadioShack mum about store closings
Not long after it impressed Super Bowl viewers with its commercial featuring a number of 1980s pop culture icons, retail chain RadioShack Corp., won’t address a published report that it plans to close 500 of its more than 4,400 stores nationwide.
The Fort Worth, Texas-based company has been remodeling stores as a way to reinvent itself. Yet, the store has continued to suffer losses, most recently $208.8 million through the first nine months of 2013, compared to a $76.1 million loss the year before, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
RadioShack operates two stores in the area, according to its company website, at 23012 State Road 54 in Lutz, as well as at the Shops at Pebble Creek at 19416 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., in New Tampa.
March meeting for Women-n-Charge
Women-n-Charge will meet March 7 beginning at 11:30 a.m., at Pebble Creek Country Club, 10550 Regents Park Drive in Tampa.
Speaking is Debra Lombardozzi, who will talk about how to identify personality types so that people can communicate more effectively.
Cost is $15 for members ahead of the meeting, and $18 for all guests and those who haven’t prepaid by March 5.
For more information, call (813) 600-9849, or email .
Denny’s to help families of fallen officers
Denny’s restaurants will raise money for a Florida organization that provides financial support to families of law enforcement officers when killed in the line of duty throughout February.
More than 140 Denny’s locations will take part in the campaign for Tour de Force, with a goal to raise $75,000 for the nonprofit organization.
Visitors to the restaurants can pledge $3, and receive $9 worth of Denny’s coupons in return, with 100 percent of all proceeds being donated to the families of fallen heroes.
“We hope our support of this wonderful organization will help to make a continued difference in the lives of the families of those brave men and women who were taken from us too soon,” said Denise Gaines, senior manager of field marketing for Denny’s, in a release.
In 2013, four Florida officers were killed in the line of duty in Broward, Charlotte, Polk and St. Lucie counties.
To also help raise money, police officers throughout the area will sell the 2014 Tour de Force charity bike ride patches for $5 that honors the four officers killed. Denny’s serves as the title sponsor for the bike ride, a five-day, 270-mile ride from North Miami Beach to Daytona Beach in April.
Since its inaugural ride in 1997, Tour de Force has raised more than $300,000 for the families of fallen officers and law enforcement-related organizations.
For more information on the group, visit FloridaTourdeForce.org.
Denny’s has a location at the Flying J Travel Plaza at 29933 State Road 52 in San Antonio. Other locations are in Tampa, Brooksville and New Port Richey.
Law book publishers settle with state
West Publishing Corp. and Thomson Reuters Tax Accounting Inc., has agreed to provide up to $6 million in restitution to consumers who received law books, newsletters and other publications that the consumers had not intended to order.
Automatic subscription renewals and automatic product shipments are known as “negative option plans,” and consumers must be told clearly about the terms of such plans, and agree to the terms, in order for plans to be lawful under Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, according to state attorney general Pam Bondi.
The two companies allegedly placed customers into automatic subscription renewals and automated shipment plans for their publications without adequate disclosures, according to Bondi.
Refunds will be offered to all Florida customers who, after Jan. 31, 2010, unknowingly paid for certain publications that were automatically shipped, or for subscriptions that were automatically renewed.
The two publishers also have agreed to modify their business practices to ensure that automatic shipment plans and automatic renewal of subscriptions are put in place only after all appropriate disclosures have been provided to customers, and the customers have provided affirmative consent to the terms.
