After rain postponed the original date, organizers gathered under blue skies last Saturday, Dec. 23, for the 15th annual Joy Of Giving celebration hosted by WWE superstar and Tampa Bay philanthropist Titus O’Neil.

Elected officials, appointed ones, and families came together at the Thaddeus M. Bullard Academy at Tampa’s Sligh Middle Magnet School. to receive much-needed assistance, holiday gifts, and even automobiles provided by O’Neil plus The Jack & Kathy Shields Family Foundation, McKibbon Hospitality, Tito’s, Hillsborough County Public Schools and many more.

Credit: Photo by Dave Decker

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...