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Clothes to Kids charity in need of donations

By Times Staff
Published December 19, 2005

CLEARWATER - As the weather cools, the Clothes to Kids charity needs jackets and other warm clothes for Pinellas County schoolchildren from poor families. Donations of clothes to the nonprofit organization are down, although administrators estimate they will serve 600 kids during December, and many of the items that Clothes to Kids provides will be used by parents as Christmas gifts for their children. Last year, Clothes to Kids provided clothes for more than 3,300 children. This year, it expects to serve 4,600. It recently opened a 5,000-square-foot store at 1059 N Hercules Ave. A $20 donation will buy a jacket, and $35 will buy a child a week's worth of clothes. The organization needs boys long pants sizes 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12; girls long pants sizes 12, 14 and 16; juniors long pants sizes 5, 7, 9 and 11; and young men's long pants sizes 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 and 28. For information, visit www.clothestokids.org

Discovering folk heroes

Children and their caregivers are invited to spend the afternoon exploring traditional folk heroes with stories, music and activities from 2 to 4 p.m. Dec. 29 at the Clearwater Main Library, 100 N Osceola. Free. Call 562-4970, ext. 5236.

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