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Fort DeSoto Gets Some Help From its ‘Friends’ “With a little help from my friends,” could be the theme song for Fort DeSoto. As the largest park in the county and one of the busiest county parks in the state with an estimated 2.9 million visitors a year, it relies heavily on volunteers to keep it up and running.

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Horsing Around for Health By Renee Tylicki Kellie Sipos has a passion for helping those less fortunate and a love for horses. For Kellie, the eye of a horse burns with a purpose to heal people and to help them feel alive.

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Exit Bee Line Ferry Enter Sunshine Skyway When my family and I came up the old Tamiami Trail in 1946 on our first visit to Florida, we waited in a long line in Bradenton to board the Bee Line Ferry boat, the only “quick” way to get over Tampa Bay to Pinellas County.

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