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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brown, who is now 60, makes art from trash at his</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hong Kong Willie Art Gallery.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> He has embellished the outside of the gallery with splashes of Caribbean-color paint and found objects reminiscent of Key West.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brown is as colorful as the gallery — he wears a bright tropical shirt with red, white and blue plaid shorts. Patrons tell him they can smell the salt water when they drive up. The gallery, however, is perched inland near Morris Bridge Road and Interstate 75 where a rusty-hair hen named Fred, first thought to be a rooster, patrols the property. Fred, abandoned five years ago by tourists, trots between the gallery and adjacent hotel leaving a trail of droppings behind her.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brown lived on the Gunn Highway Landfill from 1958 to 1963. The Hillsborough County landfill operated for four years and was closed in 1962. “It was astounding how quick they could fill the 15 acres in pits that were enormous,” Brown said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An apartment complex now sits on top of the old landfill. A report by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection indicated that a lining was placed underneath the complex when it was built</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> to block methane gas from leaking. The gas is a byproduct of rotting garbage.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As a child, Brown<span style="color: black;"> lived on his father’s dairy and beef farm. Brown said during heavy rain, the low land on the farm flooded the neighboring Gunn Highway. In 1957, Hillsborough County officials offered to elevate the low land to stop the flooding by turning it into a landfill. When the property was sold in 1984 by Brown’s father, soil testing revealed heaps of old paper and punctured cans of spray paint.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“They dug up and took out newspapers like the day they were put in,” Brown said. “It reminded me of nuclear bombs that were going to go off. They dumped everything in the landfill.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As a child, Brown foraged at nearby dumpsters. County workers saved junk for him that people dropped off. One day, Brown’s parents got a call from his elementary school teacher and told them that Brown had $100 in his pocket and that he must be stealing. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brown picked up the saved junk after school and turned it into something new. Contrary to his elementary school teacher’s accusation, he wasn’t a thief after all. Instead he was a young entrepreneur who sold other people’s trash.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“There was so much excess coming into the landfill,” Brown said. “There was so much waste from our society.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">However, Brown’s mother wanted him to pursue his talents and dreams, not money. But he developed a business sense during his young junk collecting days and told his mother, “I’m not going to be an artist. I’ve read that artists starve to death.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brown’s mother became concerned. He said his mother knew “the value of happiness and the travels of life” and sent him to a summer art class.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The art teacher inspired awe in Brown. She taught him how to reuse baby food jars by melting the glass and adding marbles to the mix to create paper weights. The teacher had traveled to Hong Kong, China and Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. She saw how people were forced to recycle and reuse items out of necessity after the war. This left an impression on Brown. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It was at this time that he personified the name Hong Kong Willie, which harkens back to China where the mass production of merchandise occurs. The “Willies” are people like Brown and other environmentalists who try to reuse trash instead of throwing it into landfills.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After high school, Brown went to college to study business but dropped out after three years. He worked in the material handling industry until 1981. Although Brown had achieved a successful career and lifestyle, he had become discouraged in 1979.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The change came from knowing that I had come to the point of what people call success,” Brown said. “I wasn’t happy inside.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">He had been diagnosed with depression in 1973, a condition that was caused from high fructose intake and that lasted for more than four years.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In 1985, Brown and his artist wife, Kim, bought the half-acre property off Fletcher Avenue and Morris Bridge Road. For two decades the two small wooden shacks, built around 1965, that now house the gallery operated as a bait and tackle shop.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nowadays, Brown raises and sells worms by the pound mainly for composting. He recycled 250 thousand pounds in the worm bed in 2009. Brown still sells the worms for $3.50 a cup for fishing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In 1981, Brown resurrected the Hong Kong Willie name from his childhood art class. In the early 1980s, both he and his wife, Kim, began upcycling trash into art. Brown entered another world when he left his mainstream lifestyle behind — he joined the art scene and booked rock bands at the same time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Brown family spent half their time in Tampa and the other half in a small home on Boot Key Harbor in Marathon. Brown gained the reputation of the Key West lobster buoy artist.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“I had a total different appearance when in Key West,” Brown said. “I used to have hair down to my waist.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When Brown came back to Tampa, he lived in the woods for months at a time, much like Henry David Thoreau in “Walden<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,” </i>who had lived a simple lifestyle in a one room cabin near Walden Pond in Concord, Mass.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Back in Key West, Brown became friends with local fishermen. He and others organized efforts to clean up plastic foam buoys that had collected in the waterways from years of fishing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“You would go and find buoys floating in the mangroves, up on the shore and they had trashed up everything,” Brown said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Earth Resource Foundation reports that plastic foam is dumped into the environment. It breaks up into pieces and chokes animals by clogging their digestive system.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brown sells the buoys from the Hong Kong Willie Art Gallery for $2.00 a piece. He said he has sold from 30 to 40 thousand buoys in the last ten years. Some of the buoys are more than 50 years old and are collected by tourists from China and Japan. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“If you go to the Keys right now and you see a buoy floating, you’ll see someone slam on the brakes to get it,” Brown said. “They’re the most prized buoys of the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brown made a holiday buoy tree 12 years ago from the Key West buoys. Hundreds of buoys are strung on rope and wrapped around a utility pole next to the gallery. Brown hopes the novelty of the buoy tree will inspire and stimulate children to find new ways to reduce, reuse and recycle garbage.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In Kate Shoup’s “Rubbish! Reuse Your Refuse,” the author said much of what we get is designed to be scrapped after only a few uses. We easily throw away pens, lighters, razors and dozens of other items. Shoup said Americans consume 2 million plastic drink bottles every 5 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Likewise, Brown finds uses for items that would otherwise end up in a landfill. He buys used burlap bags from coffee and peanut producers. He sells them to the U.S. National Forestry Service for the collection of pine seeds and Samuel Adams for hops production.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brown and his wife, Kim, also make art hippie bags from the burlap sacks and sell them in the gallery. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kim, also an artist, paints fish, turtles, crows, parrots and the like on driftwood and on wood that Brown has salvaged from saw mills and from old buildings in Key West.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brown said art is viewed and appreciated by certain people. “If it all came out the same, it would be like bland grits all the time,” Brown said. He likes to refer to the gallery art as reused rather than recycled, which takes waste and turns it into an inferior product. Reuse on the other hand involves remaking an item and using it again for the same intended purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“I also try to stay away from imprinting a definite use for a definite item,” Brown said. He explains that 2-liter bottles are not limited to making bird feeders. The bottles can be used for art and craft projects as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brown said the larger message he wants to communicate is that the disposal of garbage today is creating a toxic environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> “I still have the original Gerber baby food bottle that I melted” Brown said. “It’s sitting on my mom’s little table.”</span><br />
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</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Kerry Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894587405135216062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513368602830099131.post-36655572924908650822011-01-06T19:58:00.000-08:002011-01-17T07:57:31.821-08:00Americans are introduced to Moroccan food and culture by way of tagine cooking<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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By Kerry Schofield<br />
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Moroccans and Americans alike are cooking up a healthy offering of delicious food with the tagine — that heavy clay cooking pot with a domed lid.<br />
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A tagine is a standard dish found in the North African cuisine of Morocco. It is a saucy stew of slow-simmering meat, vegetables and spices. Many Americans have become familiar with tagine cooking from visiting local Moroccan restaurants. <br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Where did Moroccan food come from?</span><br />
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In 683, the Arabs invaded Morocco and brought with them caravans of spices and culinary secrets from Persia. The Moroccan cuisine has some great and unique dishes that were also influenced by Jewish Portuguese, French and British settlers — tea-drinking was picked up from British traders — and all merged to become Moroccan food.<br />
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Tagines of lamb, veal, goat and chicken are popular in Morocco. Moroccans cook with the same vegetables as Americans but Moroccan vegetables are mostly organic. Moroccans use a heavier spice mix of saffron, cumin, ginger and paprika. Turmeric is used for coloring.<br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Morocco's answer to the American grill: a tagine pot and majmar</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mourad Chehab is the owner of Treasures of Morocco at 1441 Central Ave. in St. Petersburg. He is from Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city on the Atlantic Ocean. Chehab has lived in the U.S. for 23 years and visits Morocco at least once a year. The store offers a unique blend of Mediterranean decor and a wide selection of tagines and clay pottery. Chehab imports handmade tagines from Morocco and says they are the highest selling item on his Web site: <a href="http://www.treasuresofmorocco.com/">http://www.treasuresofmorocco.com/</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Chehab opened Treasures of Morocco eight years ago to provide tagine pots to Moroccans who lived in St. Petersburg and who did not usually travel back home. He says instead that Americans now make up 90 percent of his customers.<br />
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“That’s why we introduced our culture to the American people, so they don’t have to deal with the shipping and breakage,” he says. “They want to bring Moroccan influence into their own home.”<br />
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Chehab says Moroccans who sometimes travel to North Africa bring back tagines themselves. He sells tagines to people who have never been to Morocco or if they have, find it cumbersome to carry a tagine back home on the plane.<br />
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A traditional tagine pot is made of heavy clay and is sometimes painted or glazed to enhance the color. The domed lid rests on the tagine base, which resembles a flat bowl with low sides. During cooking, condensation runs down the sides of the domed lid and tenderizes the meat. The lid has a knob-like handle at the top for easy removal. The cooked tagine base can be taken to the table for serving. <br />
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Chehab also sells majmars (pronounced mŏg-mars), which are clay pots with openings in the side that hold charcoal. The tagine sits on top of a majmar and slowly cooks from the heat. This is the traditional way of cooking in Morocco. The majmar can be used on a back patio or in a garden much like a grill.<br />
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A tagine can be cooked without a majmar using an electric or gas stovetop. A heat and flame diffuser must be used on top of a gas stovetop. This distributes the heat from the flames and protects the tagine. Diffusers are available at <a href="http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/default.asp?">Bed Bath & Beyond</a> for $3.99. A diffuser does not need to be used on an electric stovetop but the temperature must be kept at medium or below, a setting of 1 to 5. Otherwise, you may end up with a cracked pot. The clay holds the heat extremely well and a minimal setting of 2 or 3 is all that is really needed to cook the tagine.<br />
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A new tagine pot must be soaked in water before using it for the first time. Chehab recommends soaking it for at least one hour before use. The recommendation for soaking an unglazed tagine is 24 hours. An easy way to soak a bulky tagine is in the kitchen sink or in a plastic kitchen basin. A large glazed tagine will need rotating for an hour on each side.<br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Where can you buy Moroccan meats and ingredients?</span><br />
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Brothers Alex and Abdel Laqlalach are owners of Adam’s Fresh Meat Market, so named after Alex’s son. The meat market is located at 6541 54th Ave. N. in St. Petersburg. Alex Laqlalach imports Moroccan spices and ingredients for tagine cooking including seedless prunes. He sells green and black cured olive salads, fresh preserved lemons and dried mint for tea. He also sells Moroccan olive oil.<br />
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Laqlalach’s main attraction is kosher lamb, veal, beef, chicken and goat. The meat is prepared weekly in Orlando and brought back to the St. Petersburg meat market. Laqlalach offers goat for people with diabetes and for those who are managing cholesterol levels. He says goat has less fat and is healthier than lamb. He says it has a similar taste but “is not as delicious as lamb.”<br />
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Moroccans cook tagines with liberal amounts of oil for the binding of ingredients. For Americans, the amount of oil can be reduced or skimmed before serving. Salad, vegetable, and peanut oil can be used for cooking a tagine. However, olive oil is preferred by Moroccans.<br />
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What would a tagine be without Moroccan bread? Bread is sacred and treated with respect by North Africans. An old Moroccan legend tells of a woman who was imprisoned in the moon because she defiled a loaf of Moroccan bread. The heavy-textured round bread is chewy, soft-crusted and highly absorbent. The wedges that are cut from round loaves are ideal for dipping into the savory sauces of tagines and are used as a kind of “fork” when eating traditional Moroccan style. Laqlalach sells 400 to 500 pieces of handmade Moroccan bread weekly at his meat market.<br />
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</tbody></table>For Americans, cooking with a tagine can be quite rewarding. Cooks can experiment and create their own delicious recipes of meat, fish, vegetables and spices. Moroccans boast there are 50 ways to prepare chicken in the big clay pot. Many books are available on tagine cooking as well as online recipes and resources. The definitive Moroccan cookbook was published in 1973 by Paula Wolfert and was named, "Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco," It has since become the classical work on Moroccan cookery. It was republished by William Morrow Cookbooks in 1987.Kerry Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894587405135216062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513368602830099131.post-72273949575859392452010-09-22T18:13:00.000-07:002010-09-24T22:28:42.559-07:00Hong Kong Willie photomontage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm working on a feature story about Hong Kong Willie aka Joe Brown and family who are reuse artists. I recently spent some time interviewing Joe Brown at his studio in Tampa, Fla. We had a pleasant talk about his working gallery. We sat outside and there was a nice breeze, although it was a warm sunny day still here in Florida. Join me in the midst of writing the story. I took a few pictures to share with you. Enjoy. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsbiVyQbULEajaBstWnpwrc_qlfKDWHj8-ZlviVHMNQJUdWaPZXfhuJPULmtFnLeXRr5KRigzjxzp8FZk_X1SCSJpMLDSzMGUH4LoNSYgzaADNsaf4HPcmi6FJC9IF0-znQDEw0AJSeb8/s1600/hongkongwillie8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsbiVyQbULEajaBstWnpwrc_qlfKDWHj8-ZlviVHMNQJUdWaPZXfhuJPULmtFnLeXRr5KRigzjxzp8FZk_X1SCSJpMLDSzMGUH4LoNSYgzaADNsaf4HPcmi6FJC9IF0-znQDEw0AJSeb8/s400/hongkongwillie8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hong Kong Willie family art gallery.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">R</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">euse artists from the 1960s.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Morris Bridge Road and Interstate 75, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tampa, Fla.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The garden shrubbery consists of recycled glass bottles and aloe vera plants.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgAW8mIc76FnUawuj8Tobyu0Ksh_zJRPaSsiY-v7otVm8QPWilX36vA_IBI8oQC1NciKcP3jxj_QHbhsnfsI5GlQZtk32i-AZpLyO8TJZwNb52-xcTPlGpzzuWHF5rjSicLL3_5HyJM3o/s1600/hongkongwillie2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgAW8mIc76FnUawuj8Tobyu0Ksh_zJRPaSsiY-v7otVm8QPWilX36vA_IBI8oQC1NciKcP3jxj_QHbhsnfsI5GlQZtk32i-AZpLyO8TJZwNb52-xcTPlGpzzuWHF5rjSicLL3_5HyJM3o/s320/hongkongwillie2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hong Kong Willie holiday buoy tree.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hundreds of lobster buoys from Key West, Fla., strung on rope,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">wrapped </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">and tied to a utility pole.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdw4ixr0OVy0a-ao8Afi0op2uCdb4HoTXxyos8aE2_DEpvQ0FiOCcB5WYM0rHiSwW7KFn0pC8NjKxb4_ER92feOMT9pIFthc8u7IoA3CNE5nygMD73FOMlVlRvOhD7NZkazxgKmPgjkwc/s1600/hongkongwillie10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdw4ixr0OVy0a-ao8Afi0op2uCdb4HoTXxyos8aE2_DEpvQ0FiOCcB5WYM0rHiSwW7KFn0pC8NjKxb4_ER92feOMT9pIFthc8u7IoA3CNE5nygMD73FOMlVlRvOhD7NZkazxgKmPgjkwc/s320/hongkongwillie10.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hong Kong Willie orange helicopter that once served in</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vietnam </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and later </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">used by a radio station.</span></div><a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibabUfpsBttrlDchr5N2S8yPyDIdk3TquJOOZI0j04t-WaSwmilAv6C5GcT7rQJ7F26KXwVBkh9uwl6bKuXZpRBGnJB3wFdANxGeWMQNJEiS-Zwhaa4dCQzF-ne_4V7CuIWmj3_4cWU2o/s1600/hongkongwillie12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibabUfpsBttrlDchr5N2S8yPyDIdk3TquJOOZI0j04t-WaSwmilAv6C5GcT7rQJ7F26KXwVBkh9uwl6bKuXZpRBGnJB3wFdANxGeWMQNJEiS-Zwhaa4dCQzF-ne_4V7CuIWmj3_4cWU2o/s320/hongkongwillie12.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hong Kong Willie.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Key West lobster buoys hang from the small 1950s wood frame building.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tourists buy the buoys for souvenirs. Some of the buoys are 50 years old.</span> </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNYX21aDfNPNPjmnRHb2mNDQdTZlMMT-4YtonT2Yo4ZekR5WBSKRgYPoBmhsqTvZ17mu2hL68160uqIyDKWUnxA67YKqLkkNYm1HoUcT0zqGjN8mEKmz8g1b6boEucTKkzgEe5CrHSs0A/s1600/hongkongwillie9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNYX21aDfNPNPjmnRHb2mNDQdTZlMMT-4YtonT2Yo4ZekR5WBSKRgYPoBmhsqTvZ17mu2hL68160uqIyDKWUnxA67YKqLkkNYm1HoUcT0zqGjN8mEKmz8g1b6boEucTKkzgEe5CrHSs0A/s320/hongkongwillie9.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hong Kong Willie.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The exterior of the roadside building is an artful blend of</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Caribbean-color paint and found objects.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2BorMrzEs7lnABRRN-pS35TYiSpK8EO-RqaNHQoOqmh8ReG9Nw3M0EuNL_y6Ejvzij1b-qdRbdybJN38VdYCwfUgIOPPyouYfrFZ5WOJnb9kwsf_ugb6M8SGdAqnPR-RQyd96314_Oy8/s1600/hongkongwillie-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2BorMrzEs7lnABRRN-pS35TYiSpK8EO-RqaNHQoOqmh8ReG9Nw3M0EuNL_y6Ejvzij1b-qdRbdybJN38VdYCwfUgIOPPyouYfrFZ5WOJnb9kwsf_ugb6M8SGdAqnPR-RQyd96314_Oy8/s320/hongkongwillie-007.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hong Kong Willie.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seabird plaques, sea glass, melted bottles, painted driftwood</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">and rusty objects are a few of the items that decorate the wood panels.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Entrance into the small building, which is lined from ceiling to floor</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">with burlap </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">sacks from </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">South American coffee roasters.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjss9Gkp5YrXHgI2CQrZsyJtqzu2tIGYOQ1BDs4qLeBX9_asKV3_S3-17wUAXyS3jyMmB-XvEeWASk0fjZv2sKMbHOJ80ZNy2M5xFe4pbT197m7I88JvhxksagQ_TbepSckJRz27JlcGUE/s1600/hongkongwillie4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjss9Gkp5YrXHgI2CQrZsyJtqzu2tIGYOQ1BDs4qLeBX9_asKV3_S3-17wUAXyS3jyMmB-XvEeWASk0fjZv2sKMbHOJ80ZNy2M5xFe4pbT197m7I88JvhxksagQ_TbepSckJRz27JlcGUE/s320/hongkongwillie4.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hong Kong Willie.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joe Brown and family also composts and sells worms. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizh0ksij8ITv6VqgkIxtDDLpKYzLFOjMjZiOQKjNtmbkHBwD6kgmDC14NZTpjG5a_eAZ71Q8RicXP2VThGkQr4fqvkbQcrStUkLGYsljCifoiDOEHCFeVIC6dZF_SKYZftltDGme9rhD4/s1600/hongkongwillie3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizh0ksij8ITv6VqgkIxtDDLpKYzLFOjMjZiOQKjNtmbkHBwD6kgmDC14NZTpjG5a_eAZ71Q8RicXP2VThGkQr4fqvkbQcrStUkLGYsljCifoiDOEHCFeVIC6dZF_SKYZftltDGme9rhD4/s320/hongkongwillie3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hong Kong Willie.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Patrons buy worms for fishing and composting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They also buy South American burlap coffee bean sacks.</span> </div><br />
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</div>Kerry Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894587405135216062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513368602830099131.post-20463908618864149342010-05-22T21:57:00.000-07:002010-05-22T22:14:50.878-07:00USF St. Petersburg Piano Man building gets a makeover for college of business faculty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdZoJ7RWwY4X06E_59JsnC_0ShddfVUnGmW3X-0giOAnfB7WOP5iHScXkhHM1MwInLny1CnBCVmzhAi_iqqkBv-F9M9hIgM94rYR6J61DG1JS2VkT8EWqu_m-t_7yYabUdisEVhnW7Kl4/s1600/COBpianoman1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdZoJ7RWwY4X06E_59JsnC_0ShddfVUnGmW3X-0giOAnfB7WOP5iHScXkhHM1MwInLny1CnBCVmzhAi_iqqkBv-F9M9hIgM94rYR6J61DG1JS2VkT8EWqu_m-t_7yYabUdisEVhnW7Kl4/s320/COBpianoman1.jpg" width="257" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5-VPp5oZNoSU5m9-GiylegRPzpewKMewg0YFV8FDe2hq4Cw7jhuAEyGmH5ifIh55fiiJVlNYW9tt79W65ReQH30zlhDHTpZ-LL6RWYiIl-NbcVLbxmTcoGGbG4AE9-47N18rjOVLdwQk/s1600/COBpianoman2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YhISlCDf_fenmykrz2WzAxgvFJQWzEKfZqcquohbVjVtHrQke2QAp-Ck3Lgqd2pJA9RYaQxpD87-2bmRbmOgbv9eXqvFCNBivepKZ2Q-RNqs69KUOS72FZ0AmbWeq05Wx8otYYvfhcs/s1600/COBmovesavesjobs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YhISlCDf_fenmykrz2WzAxgvFJQWzEKfZqcquohbVjVtHrQke2QAp-Ck3Lgqd2pJA9RYaQxpD87-2bmRbmOgbv9eXqvFCNBivepKZ2Q-RNqs69KUOS72FZ0AmbWeq05Wx8otYYvfhcs/s320/COBmovesavesjobs.jpg" width="257" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">USF St. Petersburg College of Business move saves jobs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">By Kerry Schofield</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Crows Nest</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">February 15, 2010</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Click on image to view</div>Kerry Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894587405135216062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513368602830099131.post-1365316599432781412010-05-22T21:40:00.000-07:002010-05-22T21:51:47.980-07:00Students pay extra for online classes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAk_7SBW395tXOz2IQq3c7juADXsk0z0gS_AYyFgkpsccS_NJh7AyUC2ofCVvtmG_hOYW47ICsfrRz7Q27eUE-v_RZ0gZJyZXVy3mndP4TsF3kopSy6xUOvOLaT1baG2qRNyrn6I7bpzs/s1600/CrowsNestFees.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAk_7SBW395tXOz2IQq3c7juADXsk0z0gS_AYyFgkpsccS_NJh7AyUC2ofCVvtmG_hOYW47ICsfrRz7Q27eUE-v_RZ0gZJyZXVy3mndP4TsF3kopSy6xUOvOLaT1baG2qRNyrn6I7bpzs/s320/CrowsNestFees.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Students pay extra for online classes</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">By Kerry Schofield</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Crows Nest</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">February 1, 2010</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Click on image to view</div>Kerry Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894587405135216062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513368602830099131.post-81082537571309455382010-05-22T21:10:00.000-07:002010-05-22T21:28:33.942-07:00Florida: intense red tide bloom may be linked to 2004 hurricane seasonBy Kerry Schofield<br />
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ST. PETERSBURG — A study by the University of South Florida reported that a widespread red tide bloom in 2005 may have been caused by high amounts of submarine groundwater discharge from the 2004 hurricane season. The red tide bloom affected coastal waters off west-central Florida from January 2005 through January 2006. It killed fish, turtles, birds, marine mammals and organisms living near the ocean bottom.<br />
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University of South Florida St. Petersburg Associate Professor Chuanmin Hu is a researcher in optical oceanography with the college of marine science. He studies toxic algal bloom images from the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Fluorescence Line Height (MODIS FLH) NASA satellite.<br />
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“My expertise is to look at this alga from space, Hu said. “It’s just like taking a photo.”<br />
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Hu explained that the MODIS satellite sees ocean algae, river runoff, oil, and suspended particle forms in different shades of black. An algorithm is applied to the images that determines what type of substance is present. Once red tide is confirmed by satellite imagery, the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in Florida collects water samples for testing to determine if the toxic algae is present. <br />
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“It can be seen in patches if it’s 20 miles off shore,” Hu said. “We look at primarily the west Florida shelf, our neighborhood, off the eastern Gulf of Mexico.”<br />
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Hu said the red tide patches are measured in pixels. Each pixel is associated with an estimated area the size of one square kilometer or 200 meters. The widespread bloom in 2005 was equivalent to 50 times the size of Lake Okeechobee and covered the entire west Florida shelf with depths up to 150 feet. Typically, a red time bloom is three to five times the size. <br />
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The 2006 study suggests higher than average rainfall from the 2004 hurricane season caused elevated groundwater runoff that provided nitrogen-rich food for the massive 2005 red tide bloom. Hu explained that red tide is a tiny, leafy plant about the size of a strand of hair. The toxic plant can swim and shake and is a living species.<br />
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“During daytime, if they need light, they swim to the surface and at night, they swim to the bottom,” Hu said. “They are very smart.”<br />
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Hu said that because red tide is a plant, it must eat nutrients to live. It eats natural fertilizers in the ocean and competes with other plants for food. Groundwater runoff provides food for the plant also.<br />
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“Any land-based runoff is a nutrient,” Hu said. “It has fertilizer, it has a lot of agricultural things and everything goes to the ocean.<br />
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Hu said these plants are harmful because they contain toxins. When the plant dies, it sinks to the bottom of the ocean and releases the toxin into the water. Big fish eat small fish that have eaten the toxic plant and in turn birds eat the fish resulting in death.<br />
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“It’s a chain and there’s toxin in that algae,” Hu said. “It’s like a snake, so they die.”<br />
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Hu said that when humans inhale the toxin, they suffer from an infection and become sick. Small children with under-developed immune systems can possibly die from the toxin. Many human deaths occur worldwide from red tides. Different species of toxic algae inhabit the waters of Japan, China, Australia and England.<br />
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“In Maine, they call it brown tide,” Hu said. “It is a different species and has a different characteristic.Kerry Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894587405135216062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513368602830099131.post-86603396707095581782010-05-22T20:29:00.000-07:002010-05-22T20:49:52.777-07:00A garden in the rough<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2X5U5499vmO4u0YsWIOPIH2o2Il2mqRuvMS_DEaPM4PxM3eKJSr3Xf7l2NHJ0qTAPjj2fjs3cBGKPv5zxBQ91CiAOplUQ74-6iHbBYaDpCANbCNcMZZMR-yOJlEhUcUKyyKaloWXv_wI/s1600/Dorothy+Gilliam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2X5U5499vmO4u0YsWIOPIH2o2Il2mqRuvMS_DEaPM4PxM3eKJSr3Xf7l2NHJ0qTAPjj2fjs3cBGKPv5zxBQ91CiAOplUQ74-6iHbBYaDpCANbCNcMZZMR-yOJlEhUcUKyyKaloWXv_wI/s400/Dorothy+Gilliam.jpg" width="287" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dorothy Gilliam in her Midtown garden.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">St. PETERSBURG — A garden grows to the sky. A garden filled with Japanese sunflowers, a magnolia tree and blooming orchids. A garden planted with a northern pine and butterfly tree, and palms and lilies. A garden imbued with grace.</div><br />
Dorothy Gilliam grows her garden on two lots in Midtown. Her house is surrounded by hundreds of potted and soil-bound plants and trees. With the help of the Pinellas Opportunity Council, she is able to maintain her garden at the age of 90. She has lived in her wood frame home for the past 30 years. Gilliam said she takes care of the garden with help from family and friends and inspires others to grow gardens.<br />
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“I took care of all my business when I was well, but I can’t do it now,” Gilliam said. “I had both hips replaced.”<br />
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The Chore Services Program at the Pinellas Opportunity Council helps people over the age of 60, regardless of income, who need help with yard and in-home cleaning. Gilliam has a lemon and banana tree, a grapefruit and orange tree, and a beat and avocado tree. She has tomatoes, peppers, pineapples, sugarcane, ferns and cactus.<br />
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“It’s so beautiful,” Gilliam said. “I can stay out here all day.”<br />
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The federally funded Chore Program is a one-time per year service for those who qualify. Applicants fill out a questionnaire, which is submitted to the Department of Elder Affairs. An assessment is made based on their needs. <br />
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Kathy Russell, program director at Pinellas Opportunity Council said once a client is approved, a scoring system determines when the service will begin.<br />
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“Some people are in a bigger need than others,” Russell said. “Some of the elderly have health issues and are very frail.” <br />
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Russell said homeowners who have received city or county code violations for alley or fence overgrowth or for yard debris—old cars, tires, or appliances—get prioritization.<br />
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“We don’t want them to be fined,” Russell said. “Places in the county get fined $100 per day.”<br />
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Russell said the Pinellas Opportunity Council has offered chore services to Pinellas County residents since 1977. Due to the economic downturn and loss of funding, they have had to cut back. They have one crew of two people for yard cleanup that goes out at least twice a week.<br />
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“We really go in and clean it up,” Russell said. “Our mission is to keep people more self-sufficient.”<br />
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Steve Bell, maintenance supervisor at the Pinellas Opportunity Council, said a yard cleanup can take anywhere from two to five days. Some yards are littered with buckets, cinder blocks, lumber and junk.<br />
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“We don’t ever leave anything behind,” Bell said. “We find snakes and rats. You name it, we’ve come across it.”<br />
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Bell has worked with Pinellas Opportunity Council for 29 years and said the yard service is designed for people who really need it and whose yards are overgrown and neglected.<br />
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“We’ve touched people’s lives,” Bell said. “I’ve had people crying because they were so happy and thankful.”Kerry Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894587405135216062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513368602830099131.post-27304373530161222912010-05-22T19:23:00.000-07:002010-05-22T20:01:26.354-07:00PCUL weatherizes homes with stimulus money<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKqvgiFO8C6dESP1TYk7V8uFuTuOWrVowW98y_7AFxg7OhDgCY2IdoiiiGmhuxBB96HnonAhNz_JloRg_n5_cu29m-T75iXJibbPvA0-lZECW3tslCNDwiDVzE0tUeWsTQX-vR1fTqRk0/s1600/Home+Weatherization+PCUL+005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKqvgiFO8C6dESP1TYk7V8uFuTuOWrVowW98y_7AFxg7OhDgCY2IdoiiiGmhuxBB96HnonAhNz_JloRg_n5_cu29m-T75iXJibbPvA0-lZECW3tslCNDwiDVzE0tUeWsTQX-vR1fTqRk0/s400/Home+Weatherization+PCUL+005.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
Diana Williams and the Pinellas County Urban League<br />
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ST. PETERSBURG — Diana Williams, a retired daycare provider, lives in a concrete block home in St. Petersburg. The hot sun glares through her broken front window while the air conditioner runs nonstop. The hot water heater rumbles and bedroom closets reveal open holes around piping. Williams’ electric bill is $250 in peak months—30 percent higher than the norm.<br />
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The Pinellas County Urban League is weatherizing Williams’ home with stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which President Barack Obama proposed in 2009. The PCUL recently received $2.6 million for household weatherization services for low-income households in Pinellas County.<br />
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“The Urban League was there for me,” Williams said. “I’m very excited but kind of bashful.”<br />
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Williams, 60, wants lower utility bills and hopes the stimulus money retrofits will help. They include a new refrigerator, water heater, air conditioner and solar window screens. A low-flow showerhead and faucet aerator will reduce water usage. Attic insulation, window caulking and ceiling hole repairs will stop air leakage.<br />
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“I’m short of funds to do things, and the Urban League stepped right in,” Williams said. “They’re just like Santa Claus.”<br />
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Williams’ has lived in her 1950s St. Petersburg home for 30 years. She turns the air conditioner up high or turns it off altogether to save money. She works limited hours at the Diocese of St. Petersburg.<br />
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“Blessed comes,” Williams said. “I really appreciate the Urban League.”<br />
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President and Chief Operating Officer Gregory Johnson said the PCUL has been weatherizing homes since 1977 through various funded programs. In Pinellas County, 90 to 100 homes will be weatherized in November and December. Over the next two years, 360 more homes are scheduled for the process. The total number overall depends on additional funding.<br />
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“This is an addition to our normal allocation,” Johnson said. “Some of this money is on top of what we already have.”<br />
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Johnson said homeowners qualify for the program through a short application process. The homeowner must show eligibility documentation and their income must adhere to U.S. poverty guidelines.<br />
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“It’s based on your income and your household size,” Johnson said. “We can pretty much approve them at the intake.”<br />
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Johnson said homeowners go on a waiting list after they have been approved. It can take up to 60 days to start weatherizing a home. Work can begin sooner depending on how many priority points are assigned to a household.<br />
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“If they have a high burning energy bill, their energy bill is outrageous, they have small children in their household or they have someone who is disabled or elderly—we try to get those homes first,” Johnson said. “This is about impacting the quality of life of those people that can use the assistance.”<br />
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Ludell Hill, director of programs at PCUL, said each qualified homeowner is entitled to receive a maximum amount of funding.<br />
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“We can spend up to $5,000 per home for weatherization and then there’s another $600 in additional costs for health and safety that we can do around the house,” Hill said.<br />
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Hill said diagnostic equipment is used to test the home. A blower door is a cloth door equipped with a computer and fan that measures air flow and pressure. By blowing air through the home, inspectors can detect where air is escaping.<br />
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“Often times what you feel with some of these homes, the top plate was not sealed so air can come in all around,” Hill said.<br />
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Hill said that a thermal imaging camera is used to test for heat. The infrared device shows heat entering the home through the attic and walls. Energy loss can occur from the duct system, which could be torn. If holes are present, then cool air escapes into the attic .<br />
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“They have what is called a pressure pan that can determine what is leaking,” Hill said. “It’s got a little science to it.”<br />
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Abubakar “Duke” Mensah has been a senior housing inspector with PCUL since 1994 and is specially trained in weatherization. He said a typical home inspection examines the structure of the home but not energy loss.<br />
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“What we normally do to homes, nobody else can do that unless they are a weatherization agent,” Mensah said. “Without the blower door and this type of equipment, you would never know these things.”<br />
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University Area Building Contractors is one of five general contracting companies registered with PCUL that is participating in the weatherization program. James Robinson, construction manager, oversees up to three projects at one time. He works with subcontractors and a crew of five people.<br />
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“We’re ready to go right now,” Robinson said. “The majority of the work is subcontracted out because different trades require different expertise.”<br />
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Robinson said it takes anywhere from three to 10 days to weatherize a home. A masonry home may not require as much work as a frame home.<br />
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“The $5,000 limit will start the process of making the house energy efficient,” Robinson said. “The homeowner is very happy to get the work done, but they want you to do more.”<br />
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Robinson said there is probably more that could be done and this program gives the homeowner a good start. It also depends on the homeowner’s living habits.<br />
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“At least what gets done will be a tremendous improvement,” Robinson said. “It will also stimulate jobs, which should put money back into our economy.Kerry Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894587405135216062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513368602830099131.post-26976397733669703642010-05-22T18:35:00.000-07:002010-05-22T22:33:53.466-07:00A community garden under the oaks<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYBjmL8Wtz6KNW3M-hBX2OL4e71Dv42Y_vk6FCZRF9-FT-hX69AiRZ93VBcjQDEEG-e2o9BCbVncu4a2ATgMGxOMnT06DN3lw5z3v7aoiJzbD0B8LSj_KHOxDdpOZIQ9bw2kKRf3dXbAw/s1600/Community+Garden+004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYBjmL8Wtz6KNW3M-hBX2OL4e71Dv42Y_vk6FCZRF9-FT-hX69AiRZ93VBcjQDEEG-e2o9BCbVncu4a2ATgMGxOMnT06DN3lw5z3v7aoiJzbD0B8LSj_KHOxDdpOZIQ9bw2kKRf3dXbAw/s400/Community+Garden+004.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
L. "Lucky" Guerra and Cindy Guerra planting seeds at the<br />
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By Kerry Schofield<br />
Neighborhood News Bureau<br />
December 8, 2009<br />
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ST. PETERSBURG — Driftwood is an old Florida neighborhood snuggled against Big Bayou, a boggy inlet of Tampa Bay. Beyond a tinsel arch stretched over Driftwood Road, the small community is overgrown with virgin oaks and indigenous plants. The neighborhood is home to the popular Oakdale Christmas house and to a new 7,000-square-foot community garden.<br />
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The garden sits behind the Christmas house on Oakdale Street South and is a joint-venture effort between Emmanuel Roux, owner of St. Petersburg’s The Garden restaurant, and property owner James Tiffee, a retired Navy veteran of 34 years. <br />
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“We want it to be an area where people meet and want to have some impromptu gatherings,” Roux said. “People can bring a bottle of wine or some food from the immediate neighborhood.”<br />
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Roux, who has lived in Driftwood for 16 years, said he would like to build an outdoor bread oven in the garden. He wants to share fresh homemade bread with neighbors. He bakes all his own bread for customers at The Garden restaurant.<br />
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“It could be a place where it is fun, and fresh homemade bread is the best thing,” Roux said.<br />
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Roux has planted pole beans, cabbage, broccoli raab, English peas, arugula, Swiss chard, lemon cucumber and basil. He hopes to grow enough basil to supply his restaurant.<br />
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“It’s ridiculous to buy basil at $8 a pound that is coming from Columbia, Ecuador or South America when we have perfectly good land where we can grow it here,” Roux said.<br />
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Roux started a compost pile for the garden in July from 20 cubic yards of horse manure, tree clippings and wood chips. He also adds vegetable peels from the restaurant. The rich compost is mixed in with the sandy soil for fertilizer.<br />
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Large barrels collect rain water and pipes feed the water from the barrels to the garden. The irrigation system will distribute 800 gallons of rain and well water to the garden.<br />
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“It’s going to be very ecological,” Roux said. “We won’t use any city water.”<br />
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Roux said he and a few neighbors approached Tiffee about the community garden in September. Tiffee purchased the 1920s vintage, wood-frame home when he was in the Navy. When he retired and came home, he realized the house was beyond repair.<br />
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“I was on active duty when I purchased it,” Tiffee said. “I was pretty sure it was a tear down.”<br />
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Tiffee said a small garage was salvaged and is now used for a shed to store garden supplies and tools.<br />
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Community garden members L. “Lucky” Guerra and his wife, Cindy Guerra, are long-time friends of Roux.<br />
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“He (Roux) and I have sat down for years and talked about a garden, and he’s the one who said, ‘let’s do it,’” Lucky said.<br />
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The American Community Gardening Association in Columbus, Ohio reports there are 20,000 community gardens in the U.S. and Canada. The nonprofit Association promotes community gardening efforts in urban and rural communities.<br />
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In 2009, the city of St. Petersburg imposed an ordinance for community gardens. Permits expire Sept. 30 of each year. An application for renewal must be filed 30 days in advance. The applicant must notify all property owners within 200 feet of the application. The city retains the right to deny the permit.Kerry Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894587405135216062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513368602830099131.post-15357150651174763072010-05-19T22:27:00.000-07:002010-05-22T21:03:35.845-07:00Worker-friendly green jobsBy Kerry Schofield<br />
Neighborhood News Bureau<br />
Oct. 18, 2009<br />
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ST. PETERSBURG — From blue-collar to white-collar, the new job trend is green-collar. The Pinellas County Urban League will host its first Florida Go Green Career Opportunities Fair Thursday, Nov. 5 at the Pinellas Technical Education Center. The league plans to hold the event annually.<br />
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The fair runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 901 34th St. S. in St. Petersburg. Companies and educational institutions will showcase renewable energy and green job initiatives. Workshops will also be held for employment skills and interviewing techniques.<br />
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A June 2009 report by Workforce Florida recognizes that some green jobs represent “layers of green skills” on existing occupations like building construction. Some green jobs require new skills or training to upgrade existing skills.<br />
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“There is a training curve that has to be addressed,” said Katrisa Winston of the Pinellas County Urban League. One example is solar panel installation. This green job builds upon traditional construction skills and requires some additional training.<br />
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In the broader sector, green jobs are found in construction, reforestation and land restoration. Types of emerging green jobs include energy auditor, wind generating installer, greenhouse gas assessor, smart grid engineer and hybrid cell auto tech.<br />
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PTEC Director Peter Berry said that rising unemployment is causing many people to seek vocational training in alternative occupations. High school students to senior citizens as well as degree holders are returning to school.<br />
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There are 43 vocational centers in Florida. For each full-time equivalent student, PTEC receives $3,700 from the state. Students pay fees and expenses and buy uniforms and books, Berry said.<br />
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“Out of the 43 schools, we turn out more graduates than the 68 community colleges,” Berry said. “The community colleges get more money than we do even though we turn out more graduates.”<br />
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Berry said The Academy of Public Works at PTEC trains city employees for certification in storm water or sewage treatment.<br />
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“If a municipality needs something, we provide it for them,” Berry said. “A lot of their stuff is green.”<br />
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High school dropouts learn welding and carpentry at PTEC through WorkNet Pinellas grants. Berry said the students are paid a stipend for attending class and are required to work at Habitat for Humanity as part of their training. At least 50 percent of the students in the grant program must earn their GEDs.<br />
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Berry also said the St. Petersburg PTEC site has the largest covered construction worksite in the state and offers ten different programs in building construction.<br />
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John Lambert, a state-licensed contractor, teaches Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning certification (HVAC), which is divided into four training blocks.<br />
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“We have different exit points and you can leave with a certificate in a particular career in HVAC,” Lambert said.<br />
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Lance Piscatelly, a health care student, worked as a CNC machinist for 20 years and just started the PTEC program in August.<br />
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“I got laid off and it was the third time in 20 years,” Piscatelly said. “I don’t want to go through that again.”<br />
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Faith-based organizations also provide basic skills and work-readiness training for the underserved in the community. Pastor Sam Infanzon of The St. Petersburg Dream Center created a re-entry program earlier this year for ex-offenders and the unemployed. He wanted to offer entry-level green jobs in landscaping, bicycle and lawnmower repair but could not get the project started.<br />
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“I couldn’t get the funding,” Infanzon said. “People in the community are out of work and cannot donate.”Kerry Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894587405135216062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513368602830099131.post-89286566622633136892010-05-19T21:53:00.000-07:002010-06-07T18:45:14.672-07:00New recycling goal for Florida<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjcUSyBY1ZWFYnLv84cf_EMqfXcTOrGq26IQm8vR-mXsdEZwDjZ1w5d66Ha3MtHb4szotO6K85PzQiclCK2MECF5MGcFBRDZJDVl-hRpLkhOc7xGpsoTqvKPqeJfDGqB8XIMx9nFVOdQE/s1600/Junk+Mail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjcUSyBY1ZWFYnLv84cf_EMqfXcTOrGq26IQm8vR-mXsdEZwDjZ1w5d66Ha3MtHb4szotO6K85PzQiclCK2MECF5MGcFBRDZJDVl-hRpLkhOc7xGpsoTqvKPqeJfDGqB8XIMx9nFVOdQE/s320/Junk+Mail.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUYrNXFIjT8V_d4kXLJZccJAtk0XfP_qUXGwwLzqjbiU8WL1naYFtCbdgPx-l0HyJ3VB5jfvgCqCuKfJbTdQh0SrwBXmindKchDRyNfvnOUvINvkcX38jcQ-rYxJZuhZNK5woNZPXL-AI/s1600/floridarecyclinggoal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUYrNXFIjT8V_d4kXLJZccJAtk0XfP_qUXGwwLzqjbiU8WL1naYFtCbdgPx-l0HyJ3VB5jfvgCqCuKfJbTdQh0SrwBXmindKchDRyNfvnOUvINvkcX38jcQ-rYxJZuhZNK5woNZPXL-AI/s400/floridarecyclinggoal.jpg" width="240" wt="true" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">New Recycling Goal For Florida<br />
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