Egyptian patriarch's visit awes worshipers [Times photo: Jill Sagers] More than 1,300 Coptic Orthodox Christians gather as their leader consecrates a new church's altar.

South Pinellas County news

Graduate hopes past is salvaged at Gibbs
To make room for a new school, old buildings at Gibbs High are being razed. But some don't want to lose the past.

Chamber's new chief has wide agenda
Business is people, reasons Housh Ghovaee, and people care about a city's livability -- that's where to focus energy.

Some parents just say no to circus
Re: Circus puts parents' values in center ring, by Katherine Snow Smith, Jan. 21.

BayWalk gets tavern but not tomes as it fleshes out
BayWalk Booksmiths can't make it. Dan Marino's Town Tavern can. Some things are a hot ticket; tropical clothing, right now, isn't.

School briefs
Town meeting on children and Internet privacy

Focus on volunteers
A.S.A.P., a women and children's shelter at 423 11th Ave. S, St. Petersburg, needs volunteers to help at the agency's drop-in center, registering visitors as well as replenishing the center after it closes. The drop-in center not only serves women and children, but homeless men as well, giving them a place to shower and receive mail. Volunteers would work daytime hours. For information, call Myrtle Ward at 823-5665.

Meet chamber's new officers
ST. PETERSBURG -- The St. Petersburg Area Black Chamber or Commerce will hold its monthly meeting Thursday at 5:30 p.m. to introduce its new officers and board of directors.

Albertson's renovation progresses bit by bit
The pharmacy moves to the forefront at 3030 54th Ave. S. Customers can expect more disarray for a while.

Achievers
Baras makes dean's list at Columbia University

Their bus behavior
Blanton Elementary School's bus court deals with problems on school buses but is not punitive. It seems to be working.

Term-limit policy figures in election
South Pasadena's commission will decide whether the current mayor can run again or is prohibited by the charter.

Poetry, tractor fans ignore Uber Bore
On Super Bowl Sunday, fans of farm machinery and free verse will dare to swim against the mainstream at two separate events.

Bayfront on Vine: bigger, better
If you were looking to party, the weekend was a good one. Two of my favorites were in competition with each other Saturday: Bayfront on Vine and the opening reception of Festival Beth-El, which is usually during the last weekend in January but was changed this year in deference to the Super Bowl. I had to miss it but am told that next year, the normal schedule will resume and we won't have to make a tough choice.

Young or not, Devilettes haven't lost a step
ST. PETERSBURG -- Thirteen members of St. Petersburg High School's Devilettes dance team spread out on the lawn at Bay Gables Bed and Breakfast Sunday afternoon for a special performance. They executed a perfectly choreographed series of moves to a driving, hip-hop beat to the delight of 30 Devilette alumni seated in lawn chairs and grouped on the veranda.

Transfer business is always on the move
For more than 100 years, Blocker Transfer & Storage has moved people across town, businesses out of state and industries across the ocean.

What's loyalty worth? A lot of shampoos
ST. PETERSBURG -- "Oh, aren't you nice?" said Gladys Buening, of St. Petersburg. "I think it's great. I've been coming since you first opened the shop," she said to co-owner Ken List on Thursday.

Planning begins for Relay for Life events
Cancer can affect loved ones, neighbors, co-workers, even ourselves.

Fines take residents and police by surprise
One resident says a parking law on 20th Avenue SE hasn't been enforced in nearly 40 years -- until now.

Men's doubles league races coming to close
Senior men's doubles league action is headed into the last couple of weeks.

GoodLife organizers prepare for March competition
Plans for the GoodLife Games are in the works.

Johnston's short game pays off in the long run
One way to shoot a low round is to avoid three-putting.

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