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Holiday lights

By TIMES WIRES
Published December 14, 2006

To get on this list of holiday lights displays in mid- and North Pinellas, please e-mail northpin@sptimes.com Include your name, address, telephone number, number of lights and a sentence or two about why your display is special.

LARGO

Kimpton Place: Tina Angles writes that her street, Kimpton Place, has a display featuring more than 250,000 lights synchronized to Christmas music that visitors can listen to by tuning their car radios to 88.3 FM.

7501 142nd Ave. N, Lot 550: Robert and Shana Cote in the Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park have a display featuring a huge shadow box with an illuminated Star of David and a lighted 4-foot-tall menorah. The Hanukkah decorations are unique, Mrs. Cote writes, because her husband made them himself: "Nobody has anything like them."

CLEARWATER

2820 Whitney Road: Roy and Judy Stines' display features mostly white lights, a 6-foot Santa standing beside what appears to be a fire in a potbellied stove, with Mrs. Claus in her rocker watching an elf decorate a tree.

2281 Lagoon Circle S: Bob Owens has put up 60,000 lights and decorated all of his palm trees. He also has a helicopter with Santa, sea lions, blue water and an igloo, as well as a polar bear with twin cubs surrounded by snow. Ten radios play Christmas music from 7 to 10 p.m. "The nice thing," he writes, "is I put it all up myself, and I am 60 years old!"

SAFETY HARBOR

2121 Swan Lane: Bob and Maggie Morrison decorate their house and yard with lights and lighted displays featuring more than 10,000 lights, all set to music. Ten songs are programmed to the lights, and visitors can listen either on the Morrisons' speakers or by tuning their car radios to 89.5 FM. Two of the most popular songs are Winter of Wizard and Christmas in Sarajevo, "'which really make the lights dance," Bob Morrison writes. A computer controls 48 plug-ins connected by more than 4,000 feet of extension cords. Lights are on from 6 to 10 p.m. through Friday and from 6 to 11 p.m. thereafter. Santa will make an appearance from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Christmas Eve.

PALM HARBOR

2449 Indian Trail W: Mark Bourdon has more than 40,000 lights, plus figures. "Everyone who sees the display says it's one of the nicest they have ever seen," he writes.

EAST LAKE

4018 Executive Drive: Peter Ganci of Presidents Landing in Lansbrook has more than 25,000 red and white lights covering the house, bushes, trees, basketball hoop and lawn. The decorations include a Santa with sleigh and reindeer, as well as a Christmas tree, a polar bear, penguins, presents, snowmen, soldiers, angels and a nativity scene. Lights are on 7 to 10 p.m.

TARPON SPRINGS

72 N Park Ave.: Metal sculptor Oscar Pumpin has created a 15-foot Christmas tree out of chrome and steel automobile parts. The unveiling and lighting of this new creation will be at 6 p.m. Friday.

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