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The VanDercar family's eight-acre art sanctuary in Wesley Chapel's Quail Hollow neighborhood offers $10 guided night tours of illuminated sculptures, dragons and gargoyles every Tuesday and Friday through October.
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UF/IFAS Extension Pasco County's 10th annual Gardening 365 Festival & Plant Sale brings free plant sales, gardening seminars, a Butterfly Walk-Thru, Kids Zone and Touch-A-Truck to Wesley Chapel District Park on Saturday, Oct. 3.
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Paychex founder Tom Golisano donated $40 million to Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, the largest gift in the organization's 100-year history, renaming the under-construction Wesley Chapel pediatric campus and adding it to a national network of 21 children's hospitals ahead of its fall 2027 opening.
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Pasco Sheriff's Sgt. Ryan Jackson, shot in the leg in March during an arrest in Moon Lake, completed the 8th annual 9/11 Memorial Mile on Sunday, Sept. 6, alongside K-9 partner Blake, who shielded him during the shooting.
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A Washington Economics Group study finds BayCare's Pasco County economic impact jumped 71 percent to $677 million annually, driven largely by the 2023 opening of BayCare Hospital Wesley Chapel.
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The $35 million Mary W. Sierra Family YMCA at 4379 Wellbeing Way in Wesley Chapel is set to open in September, with charter memberships offering a $0 join fee and youth programs already enrolling.
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A Wesley Chapel family received nearly $60,000 through Pasco County's Better Future program after Hurricane Idalia damaged their home, as the federally funded recovery effort expands eligibility.
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Seven Oaks Elementary in Wesley Chapel hosts its second annual Burgers and Books fundraiser on Thursday, Sept. 10, with Red Robin and Barnes & Noble each donating a portion of sales to the school.
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Wesley Chapel residents have six events to choose from during the week of Sept. 3–9, including The Market Elaine night market, comedy shows, two Saturday morning markets, a cornhole tournament and the monthly Night Markets at Wiregrass.
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Parents at Angeline Academy of Innovation told the Pasco County School Board that dismissal car lines lasting up to two hours are costing families an estimated $2.4 million a year in lost wages; Superintendent John Legg said a new strategy has already cut 30 minutes off wait times and promised a transportation reassessment after the 10-day enrollment count.
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AdventHealth Wesley Chapel unveiled a biplane neurointerventional suite on Aug. 17, enabling on-site mechanical thrombectomy for severe stroke patients who previously had to be transferred to other hospitals for clot-removal treatment.
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Wesley Chapel's week ahead features hurricane preparedness workshops at the local library, comedy at Side Splitters, and a lineup of markets and events stretching into early September, capped by a new mixology series at Epperson Lagoon.
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A guide to Wesley Chapel events between Aug. 21 and Sept. 5, including free karaoke at the Shops at Wiregrass, comedian Subhah Agarwal at Side Splitters, a senior card-game social, a hurricane preparedness workshop and two major markets in early September.
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