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Students hone detective skills at Education Center camp

By Times Staff
Published July 4, 2005

EAST LAKE - The Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center, 3940 Keystone Road, is offering a weeklong Wildlands Investigators camp for students who have just finished fifth or sixth grade. Three sessions, covering the same material, will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 11 through 15, July 18 through 22, and July 25 through 29. The cost is $125 and campers should pack their own lunch and snacks. The center is open Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Thursdays through Sundays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and is closed on holidays. Call (727) 453-6800.

Investigators seek information about body found by boater

CLEARWATER - Police continued to hunt for clues Sunday to the identity of a dead man found floating in the Intracoastal Waterway about a mile north of the Memorial Causeway Bridge. Clearwater police were called at 7:26 a.m. Saturday after a passing boater saw the man, who was described as a white male in his late 40s or early 50s, about 6 feet tall and 180 pounds. He had medium-length wavy sandy brown hair, a mustache and brown eyes. The man was wearing blue jeans, a camouflage shirt and black boots. Police said he had a heart-shaped tattoo on his right biceps with what appeared to be a name in the middle. Police could not decipher the name. The death was being treated as suspicious because police have not been able to determine what happened to the man. Police did not say whether the body showed signs of trauma. Anyone with information is asked to call police at (727) 562-4242.

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