Tampa Metro Civitan Club


​Chartered on April 21, 1927, our service club is dedicated to helping individual and community needs in the greater Tampa Bay area, with special emphasis on helping people with developmental disabilities.

Just a few of our projects include Citizen of the Year, working with Special Olympics, Neighbor-to-Neighbor Christmas program, Angels Unaware group homes for the profoundly disables, Golden Heart award, Bakas Equestrian Horses for the Handicap and Jingle Bell Run.

GUY KING III NAMED OUTSTANDING CITIZEN
Feb 7, 2019
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Tampa, Fla. – Congratulations to our newest Outstanding Citizen of the Year, Mr. Guy King III. Here is an article from the Tampa Bay Times, Feb. 8, 2019 edition written by Kirby Wilson, Times Correspondent. https://bit.ly/2GQBL4D

TAMPA — Debbie King isn’t used to keeping secrets from her husband.
So it wasn’t easy to spend two months hiding from Guy King III that he was to receive Tampa Metro Civitan’s 2018 Outstanding Citizen of the Year Award at Thursday’s Governor’s Day Luncheon.
Until it’s announced, the identity of Tampa Metro Civitan’s prestigious annual award is a carefully guarded secret. Debbie King didn’t want this year to be a repeat of 1930 or 1938 — years when Tampa Metro Civitan decided not to hand out the award because the winner was leaked early. The Tampa chapter of the international community service group has handed out the award annually since 1927 to citizens who show “unselfish commitment of time, talent and energy for the betterment of the y.” Past winners include George Steinbrenner and Derrick Brooks.

But if Guy King was to accept his award, he’d have to make it to the luncheon, held at the Florida State Fairgrounds, under somewhat false pretenses. Debbie King and her son, Guy King IV — “we can’t think of any new names,” his father cracked at the ceremony — had to tell King III that a friend of the family had won the award.
The father bought it. Even as introductory speaker and 2008 winner Tom Touchton began to lay out the biography of the 2018 winner, Guy King III struggled to realize that the life being described was his.
“I am really surprised. I was listening to the description of this guy, and I was going, gosh, he sure is busy,” King said after accepting the award before a packed audience that included his family, several past winners, Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida cabinet.
The 69-year-old King has indeed been busy. He won the award after decades of work with a laundry list of charitable organizations. He’s an insurance man by trade, but he also works with the local YMCA; he helped found the Tampa-Hillsborough Homeless Initiative; he’s on the board at the wellness nonprofit Gracepoint and he’s served as chair of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce.
The list goes on.
“He thinks of everybody else first,” Debbie King said of her husband.
He had a different explanation for how he won the award.
“I’m an insurance agent that doesn’t drink and doesn’t play golf,” King said. “So I’ve got a lot of time on my hands.”
​Formed on April 21, 1927, Tampa Metro Civitan has recognized 88 individuals as its Outstanding Citizen.  This award is presented to those who have unselfishly given their time, talent and energy to help better the City of Tampa.
Here are a few links to past recipients: 
Cornelia Corbet: http://bit.ly/2pXmAv3
Richard Gonzmart: http://bit.ly/2qAyFY3
John Sykes: http://bit.ly/2pZM2zk
Mary Lee Farrior: http://bit.ly/1b6oJf6
Frank and Carol Morsani: ​http://bit.ly/1DMTtLu

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Civitan International

Civitan International is an organization of volunteer service clubs around the world, dedicated to helping people in their own communities. Civitans clubs hold a variety of projects throughout the year including Special Olympics, building wheelchair ramps, holding dances for people with disabilities and collecting food items for the homeless. Take a closer look at Civitan and see all the wonderful things we do to "make the world a better place".

Junior Civitan

The Tampa Metro Civitan Club sponsors five Junior Civitan Clubs in the Tampa area. They are Walker Middle JCC, Lutz Leopards JCC, Noble JCC at Robinson HS, Steinbrenner JCC, Leto JCC and Tampa Bay JCC, a community club. These clubs are part of the Junior Civitan Florida District and Junior Civitan International.

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Tampa Metro Civitan Club meets on the first Monday of each month at Perkins Restaurant, at 6:30pm and the third Monday we hold a social event, knowledge forum, or expedition, in addition to our monthly projects.
Tampa Metro Civitan Club
PO Box 47843
Tampa, FL 33646
​813-803-2484
tampametrocivitanclub@gmail.com
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