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At the ripe old age of 24, Billy Wood of Zephyrhills is running out of time and unfractured appendages in his struggle to become king of the hill in motocross.Story
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James Borchuck]
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Growing into a vocation
At a time when the Catholic priesthood is under fire, one young man eagerly anticipates his ordination as the most recent step toward the life of service he always desired.
Reader Exchange: Two readers like to noodle in the kitchen
Did someone designate May as "Make Your Own Pasta Month" and forget to tell us? We're getting a bit suspicious, because it isn't often that two requests for pastamakers arrive so close together.
Garden
Backyard Basics: More that take the heat well
The vegetables that perform best in Florida are the good, old Southern veggies: okra, lima beans, snap beans, collards, eggplant, cherry tomatoes and sweet potatoes. Other heat tolerant, although more unusual vegetables are calabaza (a tropical squash), summer (New Zealand) spinach, yard-long beans and chayote. Check out "The Florida Vegetable Gardening Guide" (edis.ifas.ufl.edu/VH021) for a calendar of what to plant when. Or call your extension service for a copy.
The Garden Doctor: Veggies that warm up to summer
Don't let Florida's long, hot summer turn dreams of a garden into a mirage. Some tropical vegetables go wild over blasts of heat and humidity.
Weed the sneezes from your garden
NEW MARKET, Va. -- Gesundheit!
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