Salvation Army to relocate offices
The organization says it needs more space, while residents say they didn't like the mix in their neighborhood.

Holidays invite festive occasions
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Nightmare of identity theft becoming more common
Think about how often you use your debit card to buy necessities like food and gas. You might even order items regularly over the phone or the Internet with a credit card. As the holiday season approaches, you will charge and order even more.

Schools roundup
ADAMS MIDDLE: The intermediate, advanced and jazz bands will perform at 7 p.m. Dec. 7 in the cafeteria at the school, 10201 North Boulevard. Baked goods will be available for purchase. For information, call (813) 975-7665.

Homeowners re-elect president
PEBBLE CREEK -- Michael Carricato will serve another year as president of the Pebble Creek Homeowners' Association.

Healthy fast food is on Pebble Creek menu
Evos will settle into a strip center on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard.

Girl's persistence will help disabled play at park
An 11-year-old has collected $30,600 so disabled children can also enjoy an Oldsmar park. After less than a year, she is close to her fundraising target.

Keystone woman helps lead planning board
KEYSTONE -- After two years on the board, longtime Keystone resident Terri Cobb is raising her profile on the Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission.

Plan aims to keep 'small town' feel
By creating a zoning overlay and regulations schedule, the neighborhood could guide development away from suburban sprawl and toward neo-traditional towns.

Modern-day egg painting emerges from age-old craft
Pysanky, a centuries old craft using eggs for Easter, is second nature to a woman who creates the pieces all occasions.

Week in review
BOUNTY OFFERED IN BOMB THREATS: Sickles High School has received at least four bomb threats this year, leading administrators to offer a reward to find the culprits. Principal Nuri Ayers said other efforts failed as the threats were placed by cell phone. So earlier this month Ayers announced she would pay an informant $250, some of it from Hillsborough County Crime Stoppers.

Hunter's Green school to get sports program
Gymnastics and basketball programs will be started, and officials hope they will attract black students to the majority-white suburban school.

More pupils stay at Schwarzkopf
Children in the Canterbury and Van Dyke Farms subdivisions will stay at Schwarzkopf Elementary instead of moving to the new McKitrick school next year.

Go, he-coons
You've got the Lawton Chiles High School Timberwolves in Tallahassee, the Lawton Chiles Middle School Eagles in Miami. Why not the Lawton Chiles Elementary He-Coons in Tampa Palms?

Open & shut
New Tampa

Road work
1. INTERSTATE 275, from Busch Boulevard to U.S. 41, will have periodic night lane closures. Also watch for construction at Busch Boulevard and Fowler Avenue near the Interstate. Work will continue until fall 2002, when the highway will have two new lanes.