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Asbury Park Villas

Apathy takes a holiday at Plant High
Teenagers take an active interest in who will lead the country, with rallies, analysis, debates and a mock election.

Art for better lives
Art For Life resurfaces Saturday night for a different cause and minus the drag queens.


Amy Scherzer's Diary
Fundraising in full swing
ALL FIRED UP: Hearts of Fire Gala sparked significant spending Saturday night, with 380 guests raising nearly $200,000 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Co-chairs Barbara and Jim Major, retired general manager of WFTS-Ch. 28, got involved with the Muscular Dystrophy Association 30 years ago during a Jerry Lewis telethon.

Cars
Car detailers will come to you
Auto Detailing Mobile offers people the convenience of a clean car without the hassle.

Channel District
Junior League changes fundraiser
Members of the women's group will be hosting a holiday gift market in place of their traditional thrift sale.

Entertainment
Local haunts
From trick-or-treating to costume contests, the area has plenty of activities guaranteed to make Halloween a scary good time for guys and ghouls of all ages. Here are some of them.

Everybody's business
Of money, food, enlightenment
Palm Bank eyes Davis Islands, Yogani will head to Platt, and Don Pablo's is a wash.

Homes
Family anything but repressed
DAVIS ISLANDS - Steve Miciak, a.k.a. the South Tampa Orchid Professor, lures visitors into his home with a waft of the exotic.
Front Porch: Bungalow preserver will visit
Jane Powell bought her first bungalow in 1987.

Neighborhood notebook
Shop, save and help children with cancer
TAMPA - Cards are on sale for the Shop 'Til You Drop shopping spree Oct. 29-Nov. 7 to benefit the Children's Dream Fund and the Pediatric Cancer Foundation.

Neighborhood report
Gandy/Sun Bay South: Developer woos and wins yacht basin vote
Promises, pledges and advance fees sway the City Council to approve a residential and commercial project.

Obituary
He believed in learning, and knew this town
Gus R. Jimenez: 1928-2004. Gus Jimenez is remembered as someone who seemed to know almost everything and everyone there is to know in his beloved Tampa.

Profile
Out of this world
A former runway model now living in Old Seminole Heights has had some quirky roles as an actor. Catch her in Christopher Reeve's new TV movie.

Religion
Gathering seeks to unite the spiritual
The Sacred Path Gathering will feature more than 70 exhibitors, including artists, shamans and massage therapists.

What's Brewing
Public art worth the cost
It's hard to miss the big, white Slinky along the median of Bayshore Boulevard. Or the exploding chicken sculpture at the foot of the beer can building on Ashley Drive.