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Tampa, Florida -- Labor Day was a good day for Denise Perez. It's been one year since the single mother of three has owned a car, but now she's holding the keys to her own set of wheels thanks to Wheels of Success.
TAMPA - Wheels of Success and the Ryan Nece Foundation is holding the sixth annual Working Wheels to Keep Families Working event on Labor Day.
TAMPA -- Ashley McDuffie can hardly wait to get her first car. Each morning, McDuffie, 20, and a former foster child, must get her 1-year-old brother, whom she has custody, to day care and try to make it to Hillsborough Community College. But the bus schedule often makes her late for her classes, where she is pursuing an associate's degree in child care.
Wheels of Success holds its sixth annual Working Wheels Keep Families Working event at the Tampa Convention Center on Labor Day.
The average Tampa commuter spends a little more than twenty minutes in their car each day traveling back and forth to work. Last year, Forbes magazine ranked the Tampa Bay area as the single worst metropolitan area in the entire United States for commuting. It seems as though the flying cars we were promised as kids won't materialize any time soon, leaving our intrepid automobiles the task of taking us to and fro, idling in traffic on I-275 or breezing through side streets via "secret" shortcuts.
Where: The Anchor Bar on Davis Islands
304 E. Davis Blvd.
When: Tuesday, July 12th, from 6 - 8 PM
With a newly acquired liquor license, casual bar menu, and some great prices at a great Davis Islands location. Join us for a free to attend social and business networking event.