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Guardian ad Litem Foundation of Tampa Bay finds creative take on fundraising

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A GoFundMe page created to raise money for the Guardian Ad Litem Foundation of Tampa Bay created in late October is still less than half way to its goal. Of the $3,000 targeted to help fund various services through the program, the page has raised just $1,150 as of late Friday afternoon. This being despite some pretty compelling marketing. Norm Bungard, a 74 year old volunteer with the organization, jumped from a perfectly good airplane to raise awareness, and money,…

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Mom of girl found dead accused of abusing 5 kids for years

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The mother of a girl found dead in a freezer was accused of beating her five children for years in a home that at times was filled with rats and roaches, according to documents released Tuesday. The documents, released by the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, show child welfare investigators visited the home of Keishanna Thomas 10 times amid allegations that she beat one of her children with an electric cord leaving welts, burned another child with bleach so badly her…

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ICYMI: HuffPo features Lauren Book’s latest publication

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For most people, organizing a multi-city walk from Key West to the Capitol would be plenty enough. For most, the stress of organizing literally hundreds of volunteers, in places as disparate as Palm Beach and Perry, would check the “I’m kind of busy” box. But Lauren Book is not “most people.” She is in the Big Apple this week promoting the release of her second book, Lauren’s Kingdom – a children’s book designed to help kids spot the signs of…

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Sunday’s editorial pages

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St. Petersburg Times – Poor Stewards Of Our Money: “As St. Petersburg Times staff writer Bill Varian details in today’s Perspective, many local governments went on a binge when times were good, expanding their budgets, giving generous raises, building new facilities and hiring to staff them. And now that times are bad, the choices and the cutbacks are far worse than they would have been had governments been more fiscally circumspect. In the boom times, government failed to plan for…

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