December 18, 2003
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HCSO Officers Find the True
Meaning of Christmas

By Mitch Traphagen
RIVERVIEW - They
didn’t ask for much. In all likelihood, they didn’t expect much. For the
26 adult residents of a Riverview group home, Christmas was rarely spent
with family. Some of them have spent a large portion of their lives there.
Some, if not most of them, had been largely forgotten by family and by
society. More
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Running Away to
the Bahamas

By Mitch Traphagen
FREEPORT, BAHAMAS - It all started with a bad
day in the Florida Keys. This was not a run of the mill bad day, this was a
seriously bad day. It was time to lick my wounds, it was time to be somewhere
other than here.
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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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