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Neighbors to bond over baseball game

By LORRIE LYKINS
Published July 16, 2006

Friday night is Neighborhood Night at the Devil Rays game, and while baseball fans watch the home team take on Baltimore, members of many neighborhood associations from around town will be in the stands bonding over peanuts and hot dogs.

The annual salute to neighborhood associations is organized by the Council of Neighborhood Associations.

Tickets for the annual event were sold in advance at a discounted rate among neighborhood associations.

"The purpose of Neighborhood Night at the Trop is to entertain the CONA people and give them a night out to meet one another, enjoy the game, talk among themselves, maybe exchange some ideas," said Tom Killian, CONA's second vice president and membership chairman.

Killian also functions as the group's event planner and has been driving around town delivering game tickets to representatives of the groups who have signed up to participate Friday night.

This year's attendance will top 300 with 21 neighborhood and civic associations participating.

Killian said this is the third year CONA has organized a Neighborhood Night at the Trop, and part of the incentive to attend is a competition to recognize the neighborhood with the most members present.

Along with bragging rights, the winning neighborhood gets to take a group stroll across the ballfield.

Killian said this year's winner for the second year is the North Kenwood Neighborhood Association.

"They've got some real baseball fans in that neighborhood, that's for sure," Killian said.

Meetings and events

- The Jungle Terrace Civic Association will meet Monday with social time at 6:45 p.m. and meeting at 7 p.m. at Walter Fuller Recreation Center, 7891 26th Ave. N. The guest speaker will be Dale Armstrong of the Pinellas County Extension to discuss Florida Friendly Yards.

- The Central Oak Park Neighborhood Association will meet Tuesday at St. Luke's Methodist Church, 444 Fifth Ave. N. The Crime Watch will meet at 6:30 p.m., and the regular meeting will start at 7 p.m. The guest speaker will be a representative of Pinellas County Emergency Management to discuss hurricane preparedness.

- The Council of Neighborhood Associations will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Sunshine Center, 330 Fifth St. N.

- The Meadowlawn Neighborhood Association will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Hope Lutheran Church, 62nd Avenue N and 18th Street. On the meeting agenda is the presentation of the neighborhood scholarship to a college-bound resident.

Readers wishing to submit information for the Neighborhood Notebook can contact Lorrie Lykins by e-mail at SPTimeslistings@yahoo .com. The deadline for items submitted for inclusion in the Sunday edition is Wednesday.

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