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Feb 8, 2008
New foe emerges against Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 2008
School using Scientology methods will expand to a new campus — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 20, 2007
Neighbors upset over Goodwill's intent — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Goodwill wants to house a work-release program in a former motel that backs up to a mobile home park. [Picture] "It's a bad element, and it's right next to us," said Daniel O'Connor, who lives in the Embassy Mobile home park in Largo. About 200 park residents lined up along the U.S. 19 frontage road north of East Bay Road Wednesday, in protest of a work-release facility Goodwill administrators want to put nearby. An estimated 200 residents of three mobile home ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Dec 16, 2007
Goodwill plan meets opposition — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Lorri Helfand
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
A longtime dormitory for Church of Scientology staffers will become the site of a work-release program for more than 200 nonviolent inmates if Goodwill Industries-Suncoast buys the property near East Bay Drive and U.S. 19. But that's a big if, said Goodwill spokeswoman Michael Ann Harvey. "As the minutes tick by and days tick by, more problems are occurring with the condition of the building and what it would require financially for Goodwill to bring it up to requirements," Harvey said. ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 12, 2007
A Times Editorial // A church accounting — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Joyce Meyer calls herself a woman of God, and maybe she is, but Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, wants to know how Meyer can justify spending $23,000 in tax-exempt religious contributions for a marble-topped commode. Meyer's church, Joyce Meyer Ministries in Missouri, is one of six Christian ministries Grassley is investigating for possible abuses of their tax-exempt status. Another of Grassley's targets is Without Walls International Church, a controversial megachurch based in Tampa. Politicians should be careful when delving into ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 11, 2007
Famed jazz performer, Scientologist — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 4, 2007
Belgium builds case against Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Susan Taylor Martin
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Prosecutors call the church a "criminal organization." The church says it's a "witch hunt." BRUSSELS — It all began with a woman who wanted her money back. In 1997 a former member of the Church of Scientology, unhappy with courses she had taken, tried to get a refund of 700,000 Belgian francs - about $17,000. Authorities began looking into the church's finances and interviewing people. Now, 10 years and 76 cartons of documents later, prosecutors say the evidence points to one ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 19, 2007
Slow sales, more time // The Island View condos get a one-year extension to start construction — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Mike Donila
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Construction of the Island View condominium and retail complex on the northern edge of downtown won't begin by the end of the year as initially planned because of slow sales and a slight change to the project's design. But officials with Triangle Development of Clearwater say sales have steadily picked up and construction will begin by Dec. 31, 2008 - the new deadline the City Council unanimously approved Wednesday night. Triangle executives asked the council for a one-year extension on their ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 29, 2007
Scientology has big plans for landmark // Church leaders say the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater will have an extensive overhaul. — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jacob H. Fries
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology is in announcement mode again, this time saying it will spend $20-million on a major upgrade of its iconic Fort Harrison Hotel. But what church officials aren't saying is exactly when the work will start. So, expect some eye rolls. That's because across the street from the Fort Harrison is Scientology's seven-story Super Power building. Stuccoed, trimmed and painted on the outside, the huge building is unfinished and vacant on the inside. And, remarkably, it's ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 10, 2007
$385-million later, a new Clearwater core — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
May 20, 2007
Church tutors embrace methods — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Farley
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
TAMPA — The red letters on the white sign in front of the Glorious Church of God in Christ read "Free Tutoring in the C.L. Kennedy Center." An arrow points to a building behind the church. Every afternoon after school, as many as 42 Hillsborough County public school students gather for tutoring in reading and math skills. Most start with a Learning to Learn course, which teaches the basics of L. Ron Hubbard's how-to-study program. The tutors, all wearing red vests, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 20, 2007
Scientology makes it in classroom door — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Farley
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
BATON ROUGE, La. — Inside the industrial looking brick walls of one of Louisiana's poorest performing middle schools, Scientologists finally have achieved a longtime goal. A study skills curriculum written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is being taught as mainstream public education. All the eighth-graders at Prescott Middle School are being taught learning techniques Hubbard devised four decades ago when he set out to remedy what he viewed as barriers to learning. The curriculum and textbooks used by Prescott's 156 ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 6, 2007
Parking garage exec shakes his past — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Scott Barancik
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
The man hired to build the world's largest automated-parking garage is a 6-foot-4 engineer with the Renaissance-sounding name of Royce Savoy Monteverdi. Construction on the 1, 200-car garage is under way in oil-rich Dubai, a rapidly emerging international finance center best known as Michael Jackson's latest playground. In an e-mail exchange from the Persian Gulf city, Monteverdi said the huge project and three others there have freed him to ponder a new career in the more rarefied world of architecture. You ...
Apr 7, 2007
Tie to rights march wasn't revealed // Some sponsors back out upon learning the Church of Scientology is the organizer — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Meg Laughlin
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
ST. PETERSBURG - Just weeks after opening their first facility in St. Petersburg, Scientologists have irked two of the city's most respected institutions - the Holocaust and Dali museums. Representatives of both museums say they were misled when asked to support a human rights march but not told that the organizers are a rights advocacy group affiliated with the Church of Scientology. The Florida Holocaust Museum has withdrawn its sponsorship of the Human Rights Walkathon scheduled for today in Straub Park ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 21, 2007
'Master craftsman of big story' dies — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Craig Basse
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
ST. PETERSBURG - Charles L. Stafford, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the St. Petersburg Times and its national correspondent for two decades, died at 83. Mr. Stafford died of leukemia on Monday (March 19, 2007) at his home in Springfield, Va., according to a son, Michael. The 1980 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting was awarded to him and fellow reporter Bette Orsini for their investigation of the Church of Scientology. Tensions were especially high when Mr. Stafford and Orsini published their ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 20, 2007
Scientology superstar draws crowds at opening — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Farley
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
ST. PETERSBURG - In her purse, she carried well-worn videos of The Boy in the Plastic Bubble and Saturday Night Fever. "Did you know John Travolta sings too?" Barbara Warren asked excitedly, pulling out a CD called Greased Lightnin' as proof. Warren, 38, of Tampa dragged her husband to Williams Park three hours before Travolta's scheduled appearance Monday evening as part of the grand opening of the Church of Scientology's first recruitment center in St. Petersburg. She hoped to catch a ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 3, 2007
Creativity helps keep roof over your head — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Scott Barancik
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Thousands of bay area homeowners are fighting foreclosure suits. Most will be swiftly expelled, their lender stuck with a house it never wanted. There are exceptions. Palm Harbor resident Sandra Mann-Stack hasn't paid her monthly mortgage since 1998, the year Homeside Lending Inc. sued her and husband Peter Stack for default. Over time, the couple has thwarted at least 10 scheduled auctions, twice by filing for bankruptcy protection the day before. They've gone through at least four judges and watched the ...
Dec 23, 2006
Still on church's drawing board — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 17, 2006
Scientology church seeks more units for hotel — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Farley
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER - After years of delay, there are visible signs that the Church of Scientology's ambitious plans to expand its downtown campus are again moving forward. Several months ago, cranes began piecing together a four-story, 275-space parking garage at East Avenue and Franklin Street. It is expected to be finished by April. On Tuesday, the Church of Scientology will go before the city's Community Development Board to request a transfer of development rights from the site of its power plant on ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Dec 6, 2006
Banner plane used to mark death of a Scientologist — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
[Picture / Caption: Towed by a small plane, this banner flies over downtown Clearwater Tuesday to commemorate the death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson.] There have been candlelight vigils and sidewalk pickets, but this year a small group of Scientology critics took their annual protest to the air, hiring a plane to fly over downtown Clearwater at lunchtime Tuesday with a banner that read: "Clerwater- Rember Lisa McPherson (sic)." McPherson was a 36-year-old Scientologist who died in 1995 in the care of ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 5, 2006
Is there more to Clearwater land swap than just land? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Farley
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Some speculate a proposed PSTA / developer deal is driven by Scientology plans or politics. CLEARWATER - From one perspective, the discussions that took place in front of the camera last week seemed pretty straight-forward. The county's bus service, the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority, has a bus depot in downtown Clearwater that is too small and too crowded. Some businessmen want the PSTA's land for private development, and they are in a position to acquire a nearby site on Drew Street ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 1, 2006
Obituaries / Jairo Enrique Ramos — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
RAMOS, JAIRO ENRIQUE, 58, of Largo, died Thursday (Sept. 28, 2006) at Gulfside Regional Hospice, New Port Richey. He was born in San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela, and came here in 1986 from Venezuela, where he served in the Venezuelan Army obtaining the rank of captain. He worked as a manager for Hertz Car Rental, Tampa. He was a member of the Church of Scientology, Clearwater. Survivors include a son, Jamil Ramos, and two daughters, Obsana Sturiale and Jaira Ramos, all ...
Sep 30, 2006
For the disadvantaged and against Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Mike Donila
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Gabe Cazares spoke out, whether it was as Clearwater mayor, to promote civil rights or to fight Scientology. CLEARWATER — Former Clearwater Mayor Gabe Cazares, a civil rights advocate, champion of the disadvantaged and archenemy of the Church of Scientology, died Friday (Sept. 29, 2006). He was 86. As a politician, Mr. Cazares led the local Democratic Party and won public office at a time when few Hispanics even lived in Pinellas County. As a community activist, he worked to help ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 29, 2006
Former Clearwater mayor dead at 86 // Gabe Cazares was a civil rights activist and vocal enemy of the Church of Scientology. — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Mike Donila
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — Former Clearwater Mayor Gabe Cazares, a civil rights advocate, champion of the disadvantaged and arch-enemy of the Church of Scientology, died Friday (Sept. 29, 2006). He was 86. As a politician, Mr. Cazares led the local Democratic Party and won public office at a time when few Hispanics even lived in Pinellas County. As a community activist, he worked to help the poor and build bridges in Clearwater during the early years of integration. But after the Church of ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 17, 2006
Scientology's scourge — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Aug 29, 2006
Scientologist in confrontation over filming will not be tried — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Farley
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
An assistant state attorney says a video of the scuffle shows mutual aggression. CLEARWATER - The State Attorney's Office has decided not to pursue charges against a Scientologist accused of assaulting a church critic who was shooting video of Scientologists downtown next to a sandwich board that read "Cult Watch." Assistant State Attorney Kendall Davidson, after viewing a video of the confrontation captured by a Church of Scientology security camera on a nearby building, determined "it is just not going to ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 6, 2006
Plans for Expansion — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Aug 4, 2006
Former tech star settles into more modest digs — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Kris Hundley
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nasdaq once raved about Digital Lightwave, whose stock hit $150. Its shares now sell for about 25 cents. For lease: 92,000 square feet of Class A office space in a three-story building. Atrium. Marble floors. And terrific exposure just south of Clearwater's Bayside Bridge. Former tenant: a once-high-flying tech star now in more modest digs in a nearby office park. Digital Lightwave Inc., one of Nasdaq's most sizzling stocks in 1999, has left the building that epitomized its promise when it ...
Jul 11, 2006
Scientologist arrested after altercation with filmmaker — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jacob H. Fries
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
The man took exception to being filmed as part of a documentary for a public-access TV station. CLEARWATER — A longtime member of the Church of Scientology was arrested Saturday after he scuffled with an amateur filmmaker who was videotaping on a downtown sidewalk next to a sign reading "Cult Watch," police and a witness said. Michael Fitzgerald, 52, a self-employed carpenter, was booked into the Pinellas County Jail on a misdemeanor battery charge and released after posting $250 bail. Fitzgerald ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 11, 2006
Two tussle over filmmaker's camera — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jacob H. Fries
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
A longtime Scientologist has been charged with battery in a sidewalk scuffle over a filmmaker's videocamera. CLEARWATER — A longtime member of the Church of Scientology was arrested Saturday after he scuffled with an amateur filmmaker who was videotaping on a downtown sidewalk next to a sign reading "Cult Watch," police and a witness said. Michael Fitzgerald, 52, a self-employed carpenter, was booked into the Pinellas County Jail on a misdemeanor battery charge and released after posting $250 bail. Fitzgerald said ...
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