Tampa Bay: February 11, 2002
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New life for an old beauty
[Times photo: Scott Keeler]
A $600,000 facelift has breathed new life into the Tarpon Springs Professional Arcade, built in the 1920s. |
North Pinellas County news
Want some beads? Festival offers 86,400
Just show up for the parade at the 11th annual Mardi Gras on Main Street in downtown Dunedin.
Offspring learn on the land of pioneers
Children of the Garrison and Jones clans find themselves enrolled in the Dunedin elementary school named for their ancestors.
Energetic teen group to lobby legislators
More active than expected, the county's Youth Advisory Committee will push for a bill requiring voter education for high school seniors.
Hospitals provide samples
Health facilities around the Tampa Bay area are finding new ways to market their services.
Desalination plants should be opposed
My organization, No-Desalution, conducted an e-mail writing campaign last year to attempt to stop Tampa Bay Water from constructing the Big Bend desalination plant. This campaign fell upon the deaf ears of all the state legislators, the Tampa Bay Water board of directors, county commissioners and many gubernatorial candidates.
