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December 25, 2001
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Christmas glows on him

[Times photo: John Pendygraft]
A Tampa man accumulates 200,000 lights and enough decorations to keep him busy for five months and still not find time to trim his tree. |
Top stories
Cafe strives to attract needy
Faith Cafe has a good location in South Tampa, caring staff and free food. But it wants more customers.
Near ground zero for the holidays
Nine people from the area volunteer to spend the season helping people who were directly affected by the terrorist attacks.
That moving voice belongs to his son
Out of the sadness of Sept. 11 has emerged the talent of a New York City police officer who has family in Clearwater.
New schools struggle with malfunctions
Mildewed walls and faltering air conditioning have the School Board looking at its construction process.
Activist says charity drains Pinellas funds
ST. PETERSBURG -- Metropolitan Ministries serves more than a million meals a year to the needy, shelters up to 214 homeless people nightly and helps thousands of families avoid homelessness.
South Pinellas headlines
Good Samaritan dies in his efforts
Suspect in 2000 rape turns himself in
Suspect gets away as patrol cars collide
North Pinellas headlines
Two homes hark back to Victorian traditions
12 Days of Pinellas
Area players capitalize on system
Hillsborough headlines
Cafe's reopening renews questions regarding deal
Police sued over request for records
Ernest Hooper
Columbia matriarch lit the way with love
News of Florida
Open records watchers scurrying since attacks
Walton sheriff, brother under FBI investigation
Controversy isn't commission's first
Universities must weed a surge of applicants
Bullet found at airport forces evacuation, delays

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