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Animal Services will spread rabies vaccine

By Times Staff Writer
Published January 27, 2008

COUNTYWIDE

In its continuing effort to fight the spread of rabies, Pinellas County Animal Services will conduct its annual wildlife rabies vaccination initiative Monday through Wednesday, using a helicopter for the distribution of the vaccine, if weather permits. This year, 15,000 baits will be airdropped along county borders and in the nine Pinellas County parks and preserves. The baits are not harmful to people, pets or wildlife. If a bait is found, the public is asked not to disturb it, but leave it for wildlife to eat. Pinellas County's rabies airdrop vaccination program is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture with helicopter use provided by Pinellas County Public Work's Mosquito Control division.

EAST LAKE

Pancake breakfast to benefit charities

Get your pancakes from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, 1555 Windmill Pointe Road. Proceeds from the Palm Harbor Kiwanis Club event benefit the East Lake High School Key Club's charities. All you can eat pancakes made from mix donated by Tiffany's Restaurant with sausage, coffee, milk and orange juice cost $5 for adults, $4 for East Lake High School students and $3 for children 12 or younger. Tickets will be available at the door.

Woman leadsfire rescue board

Here's one for the history books. Florence Galloway, who succeeded her late husband Jim Galloway to become a fire commissioner with East Lake Fire Rescue, is the first woman to become the group's leader. She was sworn in as chairwoman on Jan. 15 with Wilbur F. Cannon, vice chairman, Thomas C. McKone, treasurer, Charles O. Dedman, secretary, and C.G. "Chuck" Schult, commissioner at large.

Author discusses 'highway' painters

Learn more about Florida's Highwaymen painters. Starting in the 1950s, the group of artists collaborated on vivid Florida landscapes as an alternative to working in the fields and sold them along Florida's highways. Gary Monroe, who wrote The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters will speak at 3 p.m. today at the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, 600 Klosterman Road, on the Tarpon Springs campus of St. Petersburg College. The talk is in conjunction with an exhibit of Highwaymen art that opens in the museum today. The lecture costs $5 per person, $3 for museum members. Admission to the museum is free on Sundays. Call (727) 712-5226.

OLDSMAR

Seminar focuses on heart disease

Learn more about heart disease, the No. 1 killer of women. A seminar at 7 p.m. Feb. 6 at the Oldsmar Public Library, 400 St. Petersburg Drive E, will feature local women living with heart disease. Representatives of Go Red For Women, an American Heart Association group, also will help attendees assess their own risk and learn how to control it. The program is free, but advance registration is required. To register, call Sue Tieri or Claire LeBlanc at (813) 749-1181.

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