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THE NEW PLACE TO BE…
In Downtown Clearwater!
Just a month ago, “Pangea Café & International Market” opened at the corner of N. Fort Harrison Ave. and Laura St., in one of the historic brick buildings owned by Jon Heneghan and Geri Aranjo.
Pangea’s is not your run-of-the-mill café & market. From the moment you enter you will be captivated by an ambiance like no other around.
Upon your first visit, your jaw and eyes will need a little time to return to their natural positions. You’ll view beautiful brick walls, hard wood floors and unique furniture from Sweden and the US.
The Nature Conservancy Launches âPlant a Billion Trees Campaignâ with Planet Green
Written by EditorCampaign Will Support Tree Planting Efforts in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil
Today, The Nature Conservancy launched the “Plant a Billion Trees Campaign” at www.plantabillion.org to restore and plant one billion trees by 2015 in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, one of the greatest repositories of biodiversity on Earth.
“This is an unprecedented effort − nothing on this scale has ever been attempted in a single country in South America,” said Stephanie Meeks, acting president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. “No tropical forest on Earth has come closer to total destruction than Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, and now we have a real chance to bring this region back from the brink.”
Old Palm Harbor Main Street Putting a Spin on First Friday Celebrations!
Written by EditorOld Palm Harbor Main Street has taken to heart the requests, concerns, and ideas from the local residents as well as businesses, and other organizations wanting to utilize the historic district for a variety of events, festivals and fairs.
According to Robin Husbands-Cauchi, Executive Director, a couple of objectives of the Main Street Program is to support local merchants by bringing diverse audiences to the area and supplying activities that are more family friendly, Old Palm Harbor Main Street will be revamping First Fridays’. To attract families and a broader audience, First Friday Celebrations will have a theme. April will begin with a Fitness Expo! You can expect exhibitions from fitness facilities such as the Wellness Center in Palm Harbor, Impact Health, Pro Karate Center, and Family Fitness in Dunedin.
New Haven, CT – Studies show Americans are working harder and longer than they ever did before. This places a higher premium on already prized vacation time. But for most, preparing for, going on and coming back from a break can prove just as hectic and tiring than just staying home.
“You’ve earned the time off, enjoy it!” declares Organizing Guru Rosemary Chieppo. “Whether you’re going to the Caribbean for a week or visiting family over the weekend, the key is to plan ahead.” Chieppo reminds that once organized, there’s nothing left to do but to have fun.
Tips to Help Homeowners Combat Common Seasonal Home Problems and Save Energy--
Springtime is near and as flowers begin to bloom and life is injected into trees and plants, cold, dreary weather will soon be long forgotten. This transition from winter to spring can be very exciting, but can also cause potential problems regarding your air conditioning, heating and plumbing systems. Now is the time to ensure your home is running as efficiently as possible, thus saving you money by preventing energy loss.
ARS®/Rescue Rooter® has provided the following tips to prepare tampa area residents’ homes for the upcoming seasonal change.
The Education Channel in Tampa, Florida is currently soliciting films, videos, animations and digital media from independent artists, producers and students in Florida and beyond for inclusion in its 2008 Independent’s Film Festival. In celebration of fifteen years of promoting engaging quality movie making, the festival coordinators have announced a special pricing discount for Florida filmmakers this year. All Florida filmmakers will be able to enter for $20 while Florida students' entry fee is $15.
All genres of film completed between March 2006 and May 2008 are welcome. Work must be submitted for review on DVD (NTSC) in English or with English subtitles by May 30, 2008. Premieres are strongly preferred.
Jacob Gubala shows off his "Poetry Rocks" sign created especially for the youth section of The Downtown Clearwater Poetry Walk on April 19th. Thirty children read their poetry for enthusiastic listeners. Poet and storyteller, Elyse Aronson, known as Mz Goose, the Modern Day Mother Goose, led the event, assisted by Nancy Shaeffer as The Enchanted Mermaid.
EARTH DAY FOCUSES ATTENTION ON WAYS TO HELP
CONSUMERS AND ORGANIZATIONS “GO GREEN”
STONE MOUNTAIN, GA — This April 22nd, millions of people around the country and around the world will celebrate Earth Day. More than ever, the focus will be on ways that consumers and organizations can take practical steps to reduce their carbon footprint and conserve resources. One company, LetsGoGreen.biz, is offering a wide range of household products that will help do just that.
LetsGoGreen.biz is the concept of a Georgia man who found inspiration while watching a Diane Sawyer television special about global warming last year on Earth Day. Kyle Jodice had spent 20 years in sales and distribution, but before that TV program was over he had decided to start a new and very different kind of business, and LetsGoGreen.biz was born.
Study Shows Economic Impact of Florida Boys & Girls Clubs On Local Communities
Tallahassee, Fla. – Young people who attend Boys & Girls Clubs in Florida show higher high school graduation rates and better behavior, resulting in increased lifetime earnings and hundreds of millions of dollars in savings for the state in costs for health care and incarceration. These results, announced today by Florida Lt. Governor Jeff Kottkamp, were the findings of a research study conducted by the Florida TaxWatch Research Institute.
Florida TaxWatch Research Institute, Inc. (known as Florida TaxWatch), a non-profit, non-partisan research institute based in Tallahassee, with assistance from MGT of America, Inc., conducted a comprehensive study of the economic impact of Florida Boys & Girls Clubs (FBGC) on local communities throughout the state.
Children Reading
and Writing Poetry...
In Gaslight Alley
Boys and girls from the Community Learning Center, 1611 N. Ft. Harrison Ave., took pen in hand and wrote original poetry for the first downtown Clearwater Poetry Walk to be held on April 19th. "The hotel is a toy box," wrote Dakota Frank, age 8, and "the rainbow turns into a river up in the sky." Elizabeth Ann Gubola, age 6, provided a poem about riding a lion. "I hold onto the lion’s hair. My hair blows in the wind" Andi Menal, age 11, wrote about a girl who wore glasses that made the world look like a waterfall, but when she took them off...
An unpredictable economy drives people to invest wisely
By Robert Harwood
Heritage Tax & Retirement Advisors, LLC
LARGO, FL – It’s hard to talk about inflation without sounding like an old geezer: “I remember back in 1940 when gas was only 18 cents a gallon!” But this is 2008 and times have dramatically changed. Less than five years ago we can remember the price of gas was below $2 per gallon.
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce and a statistical abstract of the United States, in 1940, a loaf of bread cost 8 cents and a first class postage stamp cost 3 cents. By 1970, those prices had inflated to 24 cents per loaf and 6 cents per stamp. By 2002, inflation had pushed those prices to $2.99 per loaf and 37 cents per stamp. Today, the average loaf is $3 per loaf and stamps will be 42 cents this May.
APRIL 19TH AS CLEARWATER POETRY DAY
Little Book Of Cleveland Street Poetry to be released at the city’s First Downtown Clearwater Poetry Walk in celebration of the proclamation
On Thursday the 17th of April, the Mayor of Clearwater will sign a proclamation declaring April 19th as Clearwater Poetry Day. The first Downtown Clearwater Poetry Walk will be held on April 19th and will honor local poets by releasing “The Little Book of Cleveland Street Poetry” at the walk.
Spring Training Pitch - The Truth About Drugs
Dunedin, Florida – Twenty-five young people from the Drug Free Marshals spent this past beautiful Easter Sunday at a Spring Training Game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Philadelphia Phillies in Dundedin not just watching the game, but raising awareness on the truth about drugs.
As patrons entered the park a few dozen "Drug Free Marshal Kids" took to the field with a 12 foot-long anti-drug banner. Eleven year old Sally Gatza,
Give a Manatee!
Love those sweet-natured manatees or know someone who does? Join the Club! Save the Manatee Club, that is. Thousands of people around the world have become members by “adopting” one or more of the 32 manatees featured in Save the Manatee Club’s three Florida adoption programs, to help protect the endangered marine mammals. Manatee adoptions are often given as gifts, and with Easter coming up, this is a great alternative to candy and the usual fare.
Maureen Dalessio from Pennsylvania adopted manatees for her young nieces and nephew in South Jersey last year for Easter.
CLEARWATER - The Community Learning Center (CLC), which has been offering tutoring and study skills to individuals and families throughout Tampa Bay for over 10 years is launching an exciting new program - the Community Cookbook.
The Community Cookbook is a special project to get community members to submit their very best recipes to be included in the book. The cookbook is scheduled to be released in time for Mother's Day. In addition to the recipes local businesses are being encouraged to place very reasonably priced ads in the publication.
"This will be a fun and simple way to generate a tremendous amount of community participation as well as financial resources for local non-profits and schools to continue to deliver quality programming for young people"
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Parents, Are You Listening or Lecturing to Your Kids?
Written by EditorFive Tips to Help You Listen
Seattle, WA – The knowledge that our children are safe, happy and emotionally sound is one of our greatest concerns. The only way we can truly be sure that they are all right, or if something is troubling them, is if they feel they can confide in us on a person-to-person basis. But are we actually listening to them as equals, or are we listening to them with condescending ears and, in the process, inadvertently breaking these lines of communication between parent and child – leaving them unwilling to come to us for help?
“Children don’t seem to get as much respect as other members of society,” says Julie Scandora, teacher and author of the book ‘Rules Are Rules.’ “They experience the same emotional obstacles as adults,
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Request for QualificationsSculpture360: Art in the Cleveland Street District , Clearwater, Florida Artist Honorarium $4,000.00 (USD) Application Deadline: Postmarked or delivered by 5:00 p.m. Friday, April 11, 2008 Digital images of artwork preferred
Program Background:
Adopted by City Council in 2005, the Clearwater Public Art Ordinance aims to add to the visual identity of the City, creating memorable images for visitors and
The Promotion Committee for the Clearwater Main Street Program, a volunteer organization concerned with downtown revitalization, held our second pet fair last May and it was extremely successful. Clearwater has a lot of dog lovers and pet owners and we would love your participation this year.
A pet parade with prizes for best-dressed pet and pet/owner look-a-like, a pet training demonstration, and puppy races are planned. The Pinellas Counties Animobile, a state-of-the-art mobile surgical unit staffed with skilled and experienced veterinarians
Join the Iron Girl Team for the fifth annual Aflac Iron Girl 10K and 5K Run/Walk on April 5, 2008. The longest-standing event in the Aflac Iron Girl National Series will take athletes along a waterfront course in Clearwater, Fla., one of the world’s most-visited beach destinations. Featuring a picturesque run over the Memorial Causeway and a turn-around point at the well-known Pier 60, this course is the perfect combination of challenge and fun. Seasoned athletes and novices alike will appreciate the scenery and ideal racing conditions.
Drugs for children? Prescriptions of anti-psychotics troubling
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January 16, 2008
Parents at their wits' end, wearing long sleeves to hide bruises and bite marks inflicted by their own offspring. Psychiatrists struggling to cope with children as young as 2 who show intractable behavior problems. Drug companies ready to suggest powerful drugs that can produce marked changes in a child's behavior -- getting heavily involved in state-level determinations of which drugs should be prescribed for which conditions. And a state struggling to keep up with rapid changes that have pushed Medicaid costs for powerful anti-psychotic drugs from $9 million seven years ago to almost $30 million in 2006.
January 16, 2008
Most Americans are too busy in their daily lives to face the obvious: we are a society dependent on drugs. We fought only half the war on drugs. "Just Say No" should have targeted not only street drugs but all detrimental drugs including prescription ones.
There is little ethical or moral difference between a drug pusher in the school yard seducing kids into buying the latest feel good drug and the pharmacological/medical industry dispensing antipsychotic medication to children as young as toddlers. Both the street drug or the prescription drug will lead the child down the same path of chemical dependency that ends in being a taker from rather than a giver to society.
According to the national Teen Drug Survey released Dec. 11 by the White House, teenagers are turning from street drugs to prescription drugs such as OxyContin and Vicodin. The study conducted by the University of Michigan Institute on Social Research, found a modest decrease in marijuana and other street drugs and an increase in prescription drugs. John Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said, "71 percent of young people have reported their source of supply is their parent's or friend's medicine cabinet." Theo Milonopoulos, "Survey Finds Teens Smoking Less Pot, But Popping More Pills," Tampa Tribune, Dec. 12, pg. 13.
Arithmetickles is Coming to Florida Schools in February 2008!
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Arithmetickles, the interactive math show, is on its way to Florida schools during the month of February 2008. A national touring production performed during school assemblies and for parent/student evenings, Arithmetickles is based on the inspired concept of math plus fun.
Presented by ArtsEcho, a New Jersey-based theatre and musical arts production company now in its 20th year, Arithmetickles uses theatre games, audience participation, interactive math, teams of kids onstage, and stand-up comedy to help teach mathematics to children in grades K through 8.
Arithmetickles lives up to its name. It was created by the team of Sandra and Ben Bendor, who are theatre artists and parents of three children. Concerned by their own kids’ reluctance to learn math through traditional classroom methods, the Bendors decided to use their theatre and comedy skills to help school children appreciate the world of math.
WAL-MART GIVES $20,000 TO PASCO COUNTY TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN
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Organization to use funds to help local students attend college
Land O’Lakes, Fla. -- Today, Wal-Mart presented a $20,000 check to Pasco County Take Stock in Children. The donation, which will be used to help seven Pasco County students attend college, was given during a ceremony at the Land O’Lakes store, located at 21703 Village Lakes Shp/Ctr. The ceremony was attended by Florida Representative Will Weatherford and Chip Wichmanowski, executive director of Take Stock in Children.
“We are very appreciative of Wal-Mart’s donation and excited to be able to provide seven more scholarships to low-income students who may not have had the opportunity to attend college,” said Wichmanowski. “We believe that investing early in a child’s education is one of the keys to a successful future.”
The Take Stock in Children program provides an opportunity for students to make an early commitment for post secondary education. The organization has a proven record of helping low-income children stay out of trouble, graduate from high school, attend college, and become productive citizens.
“Support from local businesses, like Wal-Mart, can make a big difference in the lives of our youth,” continued Wichmanowski. “By granting a scholarship to students as early as in sixth grade, we can set the path for their future success and make sure they stay on track to complete high school and achieve their goals.”
Call to Artists
Request for Qualifications
Adopted by City Council in 2005, the Clearwater Public Art Ordinance aims to add to the visual identity of the City, creating memorable images for visitors and residents alike. Public art commissioned through the program will reinforce Clearwater’s role as an emerging leader in culture, recreation and environmental management, and will support the City’s development as a wonderful place to “live, learn, work and play.”
Project Synopsis:
Clearwater’s Public Art and Design Program seeks to commission a site-specific piece of public art for the City’s new Fire Station 48 Training Facility. The selected artwork will be located at the new Training Facility, which is currently under construction to expand the Fire Station 48 campus to include additional equipment storage and training areas. The artwork will be installed at the main entrance to the new Training and Multipurpose Building and will greet visitors and firefighters as they enter the facility. Desired artwork media include, but are not limited to, sculpture, functional elements, mosaic and appropriately themed landscape artwork. Appropriate themes for artwork include outdoor memorial or remembrance themed artwork that honors firefighters that have lost their lives in the line of duty and reflects the spirit of the firefighter – past, present, and future.
3:00 a.m. Sunday, December 9, a tradegy occurred. The building that housed THE IMAGO ART GROUP burned to the ground. No one was hurt, but nothing was salvagable. The fire was caused by arson.
At least 15 artists lost artwork, art supplies and personal effects. Some lost all their artistic creations of a lifetime and do not have the supplies to begin creating again.
These artists need help. Artists-In-Action is seeking to work with other art groups and artists to create a fundraiser -- concert? and auction?-- to help these artists get back on their feet.
If you are a member of another art group and would like to work hand in hand in this effort, if you are an artist who would like to donate artwork for the auction or a performer who would to like to participate in a fundraiser contact Pat Luefan, Executive Director, Artists in Action This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone Elyse Van Breemen
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