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The fire started on Tuesday, 5/14/2013. When I got there on Thursday, clean-up was underway and police had taped off the immediate area near the boat. About a block away, I was able to lean out off another dock area and put my long lens to use. There were no injuries and no other vessels were destroyed.
8. Greek Salads are available at many Tarpon Springs Greek restaurants along Dodecanese Boulevard. PHOTO SCOTT KEELER
Celebrating its 31st year of tradition, Sunset Hills Elementary School will host the annual lambatha event.
"Because of Tarpon Springs' large Greek community, the Greek word "lambatha" was substituted for "luminary" when the tradition began more than 30 years ago.
The event was established after a group of Sunset Hills students developed a project to raise money for the Pinellas County Schools Economics Fair. As a form of advertisement, the group sold bags to local businesses and proposed their plan to light up the bayou.
Once the idea was approved by the school principal, mayor, city manager and fire department, the project was set in motion.
On Christmas Eve in 1986, the bags were placed along Spring Bayou and the candles were lit at dusk. The city experienced its first lambatha display.
City officials were so impressed with the outcome, it became an annual event and even made its way onto the city calendar."
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The SCL City of Miami Midwest passenger train is running southbound on Safford Avenue in Tarpon Springs in 1970. St. Petersburg Times photo
Now a museum, the depot in Tarpon Springs still retains much of the flavor of its golden age. The large window at the right peers into the white waiting room, and the smaller window into the colored waiting room of the Jim Crow era. Hillsborough County map on wall reminds visitors that this station operated 24 years before Pinellas County was spun off. Click the three-dot symbol at the right, and select 'View all sizes' to see the details. Courtesy Rob Furney Jr.
An invitation to take a selfie in the company of a pelican, a new installation at Tarpon Springs FL.
Celebrating its 31st year of tradition, Sunset Hills Elementary School will host the annual lambatha event.
"Because of Tarpon Springs' large Greek community, the Greek word "lambatha" was substituted for "luminary" when the tradition began more than 30 years ago.
The event was established after a group of Sunset Hills students developed a project to raise money for the Pinellas County Schools Economics Fair. As a form of advertisement, the group sold bags to local businesses and proposed their plan to light up the bayou.
Once the idea was approved by the school principal, mayor, city manager and fire department, the project was set in motion.
On Christmas Eve in 1986, the bags were placed along Spring Bayou and the candles were lit at dusk. The city experienced its first lambatha display.
City officials were so impressed with the outcome, it became an annual event and even made its way onto the city calendar."
patch.com/florida/tarponsprings/sunset-hills-to-light-up-...
John Stevely (left) and Don Sweat, are Florida Sea Grant
extension faculty who have conducted long-term research
on Florida’s sponge populations. Commercial sponge divers
embraced their recommendation to cut, rather than tear
sponges during harvest to promote regeneration. The measure
is now state law. UF/IFAS photo by Tom Wright.