Organizers of the Clearwater Jazz Holiday, held annually at Coachman Park on the third weekend of October, are seeking art for next year s poster.
The poster design must include blank space that does not interfere with the design for sponsor logos or the weekend s lineup. Submissions should be printed in color, at least 11 by 17 inches.
The deadline is Jan. 8.
Send entries to Gary Hallas, Clearwater Jazz Holiday, P.
O. Box 7278, Clearwater, FL 33758. Several artists will be selected by Jan.
29, 2007, to receive $200 to develop their ideas.
The final poster design will be chosen by Feb. 23, 2007.
The prize for the winning design is $2,000.
For more information, call Hallas at 895-6264 or e-mail In addition to doctor s offices, walk-in clinics and stores, you can get a flu vaccine shot from a Pinellas County Health Department center at:
- Largo, 12420 130th Ave. N, 588-4040.
- Clearwater, 310 N Myrtle Ave., 469-5800
- Pinellas Park, 6350 76th Ave. N, 547-7780.
- St. Petersburg, 205 Dr. Martin Luther King St.
N, 824-6900.
- Tarpon Springs, 301 S Disston Ave., 942-5457.
Call ahead to check on hours and availability.
Flu shots at the Health Department cost $25. Pneumonia vaccines are available for $34.
Bring your Medicare card, health insurance cards and a photo ID if paying by check or credit card.
Health officials recommend flu shots for everyone this year, especially those 50 and older; residents and staffers at long-term care facilities; patients with chronic medical conditions and their household contacts; children 6 months to 5 years old; pregnant women; health care personnel; and anyone caring for children younger than 6 months old.
Adopt a military family this holiday
The 4-H Operation Military Kids project will join forces with individuals, military members, veterans and community organizations to launch a support program for military families this holiday season.
The adopt-a-military-family project is designed to serve families of deployed, returning and wounded soldiers in our area. For more information, call 582-2469 or e-mail fhervey@co.pinellas.
fl.us. Want to help a needy child in Tarpon Springs?
The Tarpon Springs Police Department s annual Cops/Kids Christmas program provides gifts to local children whose families are in difficult times.
The Police Department will accept new, unwrapped gifts for children of all ages, from infants through teenagers, until Dec. 20.
Officials also are accepting cash donations to provide special Wish List items. Make checks payable to the Tarpon Springs Police Department Cops/Kids Program. Donations can be dropped off at the Police Department, 444 S Huey Ave.
, anytime on any day.
The Cops/Kids Christmas Program does not ask for donations by telephone solicitation, so officials say any calls people receive from someone claiming to be from the program are fraudulent. For more information, call 727 938-2849.
The Civil Air Patrol Palm Harbor Cadet Squadron is looking for new members 12 to 21 and for adults older than 21 to be senior members or supervisors. The Palm Harbor chapter, which also covers Tarpon Springs, especially welcomes middle school students.
Young people in the program attend military camps, practice search and rescue techniques in the forest, can earn scholarships to become pilots and perform community service.
Adults interested in joining as senior members must go through extensive background checks. The cadets meet from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
the first, second and fourth Mondays of the month at All Saints Episcopal Church at 1700 Keystone Road in Tarpon Springs. On the third Monday of the month, the group meets at Tarpon Springs High School at 1411 Gulf Road.
For more information, check www.
phcadet.com, call Capt. Robert Downing at (727) 686-8357 or e-mail Group wedding is scheduled for Feb.
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Pinellas Clerk of Circuit Court Ken Burke will perform a group wedding ceremony in the main courthouse courtyard at 2 p.m. on Feb.
14.
The group ceremony will be a first, and the usual $30 fee to perform the marriage is waived for couples choosing to wed in the special ceremony. (Standard marriage license fees will still apply.
)
To participate, sign up at any clerk s office by Feb. 7. Marriage licenses must be applied for between Dec.
18 and Feb. 9 to take part. Along with the group ceremony, individual ceremonies still will be conducted first-come, first-served in the clerk s offices.
Standard marriage license fees and ceremony fees will apply.
For more information, call 464-4876 or visit the clerk s Web site at www.pinellasclerk.
org.
The Pinellas County Property Appraiser will accept applications for an additional property tax exemption for qualified older homeowners from Jan. 1 through March 1.
This year, 17 municipalities plus unincorporated Pinellas offer the additional exemption. To qualify, homeowners must meet all of these requirements:
- At least one property owner is 65 or older as of Jan. 1, 2007.
- The applicant qualifies for or already receives a homestead exemption.
- The total household income is $23,463 or less, plus a cost-of-living adjustment to be determined by the state Department of Revenue in mid January. (Non-taxable Social Security income is not included in that total.
)
- The homeowner lives in an area offering the exemption.
First-time applicants should bring proof of their age plus documents that show their total income, such as federal income tax Form 1040 or 1040A for 2006, an SSA 1099 or any 1099 or bank statements.
The senior exemption does not automatically renew like the homestead exemption does, but homeowners who received the senior exemption last year can renew by mail this year.
A renewal form will be mailed by the end of January.
Any of the Pinellas County Property Appraiser s offices will accept applications 8 a.m.
through 5 p.m. weekdays.
Special dates and times have been arranged for February at other locations as well as on Saturdays at four Property Appraiser s offices. Call 464-3294 or visit www.pcpao.
org/Exemptions.html.
For the second year, Pinellas County is listing city and county holiday events and displays taking place through New Years Day on its Web site.
Visit www.pinellascounty.org/LightsofPinellas.
The nonprofit Deaf and Hearing Connection for Tampa Bay offers specialized telephones and ring-signaling devices at no cost to residents who are deaf, hard of hearing, deaf and blind, or speech-impaired.
Residents can receive the equipment as long as they continue to live in the state for at least six months per year. Telecommunications access for the hearing- and speech-impaired is paid for by a surcharge on every telephone consumer s bill.
Equipment is available by appointm nt from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.
m. Monday through Friday at the Deaf and Hearing Connection s main office in mid Pinellas or at satellite locations throughout Pinellas and Hillsborough counties. Free hearing screenings, other equipment and hearing aids also are available.
Call (727) 399-9983.
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