December 4, 2003
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Off To See The Dragon
By Mitch Traphagen
ROBBINSVILLE, NC - It’s early November and I’m on a
desolate rural highway headed north into a misty gray horizon. The last
northbound motorcycle I saw was at a freeway rest area in south Georgia.
He was only going as for north as Macon. "You don’t want to go into the
mountains," he said as I started up my bike to return to the highway.
I was headed for the mountains. More
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Thanksgiving Theft
Puts Family on the Edge
By Mitch Traphagen
RUSKIN - He had recently lost his job and on
Thanksgiving night, someone had stolen the family car. But the question Al
and Claudine Leger had was, "What kind of a Thanksgiving could they have
had?"
They wondered what could Thanksgiving have meant to
someone who would steal a car that had two children’s car seats, Christmas
presents and a stroller in it.
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Thousands
Volunteer for Great American Teach In
By Mitch Traphagen
RUSKIN - Nearly 8,000 volunteers from almost every
imaginable career fanned out to share their experiences with students
across Hillsborough County.
At Ruskin Elementary School, students were able to meet
a cake decorator, a television news anchor, a veterinarian, and even a
pitcher from the world champion Florida Marlins, among many others. More
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Huge New Record
for Holiday Cart Parade
As of Nov. 26, the number of golf carts registered for
the Holiday Kick-Off Parade in Sun City Center stood at 283 - nearly 100
more carts than the previous year in which a Guiness World Record was set
with 191 entries. Organizers are expecting that the total number for the
Dec. 5 parade will exceed 300 carts. More
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In The Archives:
Finding Florida: Fire up the
motorcycle and join the Observer News for a different type of travel
story. Tourist motels, road kill and a whole lot of heaven
awaits.
Part One:
Searching From the Beginning
Part
Two: Heading Home
Part
Three: Back to the Islands
The Changing Face of South Hillsborough:
The rumors are flying about several big box retailers moving into
south county. The facts, however, are few. Yet one in every ten new
jobs created in the entire nation came from the Tampa-St.
Petersburg-Clearwater Metropolitan area. South county communities are
joining forces to become a strong player in that prospering market.
How will all of the changes effect our communities and area businesses
and what can south county shoppers expect from the future?
The three-part series is available on
the web:
Part One - Welcome
to SouthShore
Part Two - Meet
the Neighbors
Part
Three
- It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Home Depot!
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