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Get homes ready for storm with loan

By TIMES WIRES
Published June 8, 2007

COUNTYWIDE

Through its Home Repair Loan Program, Pinellas County continues to offer low-cost loans up to $45, 000 to help some residents make their homes hurricane ready for the 2007 season.

Improvements can include roof bracing or replacement, impact resistant windows and doors, and storm shutters.

The home must be the applicant's primary residence and located within Pinellas County, excluding Belleair Shore, Clearwater, Largo and St. Petersburg, which have similar programs.

To qualify for the county program, household income must be less than 120 percent of Area Median Income and the value of the single-family detached home, townhouse, villa, cooperative or condominium cannot exceed $151, 000.

For information, contact Pinellas County Community Development at (727) 464-8210 or visit www.pinellascounty.org.

COUNTYWIDE

Are phone books cluttering your home?

New phone books will appear on your doorstep soon, so recycle that old one.

Residents with curbside collection in Belleair, Clearwater, Dunedin, Largo and Oldsmar can put their old phone books in their curbside recycling bin. Other residents can go to one of 40 dropoff locations around the county.

Most dropoff sites have bins labeled "phone books." If not, put the phone books in the "mixed paper" or "magazines" bins but not in the "newspaper" bin. For a list of phone book recycling sites, visit www.pinellascounty.org/utilities or call (727) 464-7500.

Pinellas residents discard more than 2-million phone books annually.

To reduce the number of phone books delivered to your office or house this year, call Verizon at 1-800-888-8448 or Yellow Book at 1-800-929-3556..

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