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Writer shares 10 books we should know

By TIMES WIRES
Published January 22, 2007

There will be a Florida Humanities program with St. Petersburg Times' "Real Florida" columnist, Jeff Klinkenberg, at 7 p.m. tonight at the Lakes Region Library, 1511 Druid Road. The program's title: "10 Books Every Floridian Should Read." Klinkenberg also will be the guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Friends of the A. F. Knotts Public Library at 2:30 p.m. Jan. 29 at the library, 11 56th St., Yankeetown.

Kings Bay group meets Thursday

The Kings Bay Association will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at Coastal Region Library, 8619 W Crystal St. The public is invited. Call 220-6058.

Band performance tickets all sold

All tickets for the U.S. Air Force Reserve Band Performance on Sunday at Curtis Peterson Auditorium have been distributed.

Two meetings to address Iraq war

The Nature Coast Coalition for Peace & Justice will hold two town hall meetings this month to discuss the Iraq war. The meetings will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday and from 1 to 3 p.m. Jan. 30. Both will be at the new Spring Hill Library, 9220 Spring Hill Drive. For information, call (352) 686-9936.

Manatee in oil not art, but interesting

There were many signs at the Crystal River Manatee Festival last weekend. Gator on a stick. Stop pain instantly. Boat tours this way.

But on the pavement in front of Save the Manatee Club's table, co-chairwoman Helen Spivey spotted a sign she wasn't expecting.

It was a dark gray oil mark, left behind by an unknown vehicle, shaped just like a manatee.

"We named it the Miracle Manatee Oil Blob," Spivey wrote in an e-mail last week.

No one adopted it. Spivey said she might.

"Told people I was going to cut it out of the pavement and auction it on eBay, saying it was made from Extra Virgin Olive Oil," she said.

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