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Today is your chance to play Highland games
By TIMES STAFF
Published March 31, 2007
DUNEDIN The 41st Dunedin Highland Games and Spring Clan gathering is from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at Highlander Park, Michigan Boulevard and Pinehurst Road. Cost is $10 for adults; children 12 and younger are admitted free. Free piping, drumming and dancing workshops will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at the Dunedin Community Center, 1141 Michigan Blvd. TARPON SPRINGS Artists to sell their work at festival See artwork by more than 250 artists during the Tarpon Springs Fine Arts Festival at 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Sunday in Craig Park on Spring Bayou. There will be live entertainment, food and commemorative posters and T-shirts. Pets are not allowed in the park. Cost is $2, and children younger than 16 are admitted free. Relations with Cyprus discussed U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Palm Harbor, and the Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus Andreas Kakouris will host a forum from 3 to 5 p.m. today at St. Petersburg College's Tarpon Springs campus on U.S.-Cyprus Relations in the 21st Century. The forum will be in Room 156, Lyceum building, 600 Klosterman Road. LARGO Kids can become nature detectives Become a nature detective with four weeks of fun through hands-on explorations, field trips and conservation activities at Junior Naturalist Camp. The camp is open for youths who have completed grades 4 to 8. The camps will meet from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Cost is $80 a week with a resident card and $100 for nonresidents. All field trips are included in the cost. Call 586-7415. Storyteller to tell tales of Florida Florida Cracker storyteller Butch Harrison will share tales of what the state was like before it was settled, his experiences growing up in Florida and what it means to be a Cracker at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Largo Public Library, 120 Central Park Drive. The presentation is sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council. It is free and open to the public. Call 587-6715, ext. 2514. PALM HARBOR Celebrate Seder at gathering Monday The Young Israel-Chabad of Pinellas County's communal Passover meal, Seder, starts 8:15 p.m. Monday at the synagogue, 3696 Fisher Road, Palm Harbor. Celebrate the story of redemption from bondage in Egypt more than 3,300 years ago in 15 steps filled with food, history and the Great Horseradish Root Challenge. Suggested donation is $36 for adults and $18 for children ages 3 to 12. Hand-baked shmura matzah will be available for $15 a box. Reservations required. Call 789-0408. CLEARWATER Coast Guard offers navigation course Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 11-1 will offer an eight-lesson course in basic coastal navigation from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. starting Monday at the Sand Key station, 1375 Gulf Blvd. The classes meet each Monday and Thursday through April 26. The next classes will be at Clearwater Sailing Center, 1001 Gulf Blvd., Sand Key. Cost is $75 and covers books, chart plotting tools and other materials. Call 469-8895.
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