| While playing with her owner at a retention pond, a light-brown dog named Coconut nearly became lunch for an alligator. But, thanks to her owner, she'll live to be an older, wiser pooch. Story
[Times photo: Ken Helle] |
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My Dream: Playground in the heart
March 22 was the last day of class at Gulfport Elementary School. It will soon be demolished to make way for a new school building. Thea Ryan, 9, a fourth-grader, is confident she's going to be a veterinarian when she grows up. If she needs money to pay for college, she says, she'll work at an ice cream stand.
Word for Word: Psychic dos and don'ts
From the Web site of Buckwood Communications, which describes itself as "the largest recruiter for the Psychic Readers Network."
Reader Exchange: Antique combs sought for Ohio museum
As the saying goes, nothing succeeds like success. It's always great when readers are so tickled by the response they generate through this column that they try, try again. Belva Green of Tarpon Springs, for example, wrote a couple of years ago to locate people interested in Billikens. That worked out so well that she's back with two new requests.
Garden
The adoptive gardener
Mature plants from the garden center may give us instant landscape, but there's something about pressing a seed into soil and seeing a plant emerge that satisfies.
From Friday's Floridian:
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One day in 1997, in a relentless rain, two people were sucked into drain pipes in St. Petersburg. A rock musician heard the news and wrote a song. But whose story does it tell -- theirs or his? Story with audio
[Times photo: Fred Victorin] |
