December 11, 2003
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'Tis the Season for Burglary
By Mitch Traphagen
RUSKIN - Would you like to see an immediate 35
percent decrease in car burglaries? It wouldn’t require hiring hundreds of
new police officers or take millions of dollars. All you have to do is
lock your doors.
"Just locking your doors can help," said Hillsborough
County Sheriff’s Detective Mike Cundiff. "I would say that out of the
burglaries I’ve had in the last three or four months, at least 35 to 40
percent of them have involved unlocked car doors." More
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A New World
Record!
By Mitch Traphagen
SUN CITY CENTER - Dark, ominous clouds
threatened but did not damper the mood at the Sun City Center Holiday Kick
Off Golf Cart Parade. It was a new world record with 306 carts - far
exceeding last year’s record of 191, which was listed as a Guiness World
Record.
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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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