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Pair up your cards with these recyclers

By LINDA D. COLE and INGRID L. KOHLER
Published January 13, 2007

Broken any good resolutions lately? Seriously, we hope your holidays were enjoyable and that the new year is off to a great start. After a couple of weeks away from the Exchange Central mailbox, we're primed for a new year of recycling your wishes and your excess baggage.

As promised, here is the 2006 Christmas card list, a very short compilation of individuals and a group who would like to turn your beautiful Christmas and Hanukkah cards into items that will continue to delight.

Holiday Gospel Assembly

1842 Grand Blvd.

Holiday, FL 34690

all-occasion cards, fronts only

UU in the Pines Conference Center

7029 Cedar Lane

Brooksville, FL 34601

(entire all-occasion cards)

Adeline Grieco

7251 Grove Road

Brooksville, FL 34613

(Madonna and Child, Charlie Brown and Snoopy cards)

Sherry Stump

2000 38th St. S

St. Petersburg, FL 33711

Jane Cox of Seminole reminds us that winter has brought bitter cold to American forces stationed in Iraq, and points out a way we can help them stay a bit warmer.

The heavy metal helmets they wear make their ears and heads even chillier. Jane's grandson wrote from the battlefield to ask if she would knit headbands for him and the five other soldiers in his Humvee. The crew was most enthusiastic when Jane did so.

She is knitting as rapidly as possible and has sent REX knitting instructions for making the headbands, in the hope that readers will pitch in and ply their needles. Any yarn in a dark color will do: black, dark green and so forth.

Please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the mailing address at the end of this column, and we will mail you instructions for the headbands. After you've finished, take the headbands to any recruiting office.

Lena Tighe of Clearwater would like to trade her large round dining table, in good shape, for a midsize breakfast table. Please write to Lena in care of the column if you're up for the switch.

M.J. Jackson of New Port Richey, perhaps getting a jump on next Christmas, is looking for old-fashioned bubble lights. Please call (727) 376-5761.

Mary-Lou Paes sounds the first instructions alert for 2007. She needs the owner's manual for her Welbilt bread oven, model ABM350 and would appreciate being able to copy pages from yours. Please call (813) 835-1556.

The success of several readers in getting help to salvage pictures on aging photographic film seems to have encouraged others to try their luck. Ron Kronon of Seminole has 16mm film of his father on a fishing trip in the late '20s. Ron would like to get prints from the strip, but hasn't found a lab that can do it. Please call (727) 517-8909 or e-mail ekrk@msn.com if you can help.

Diane Hodson of St. Petersburg has two Spode Christmas Tree plates, one a dinner plate and one a saucer for a cup. Unfortunately, the green paint on the rims is flaking off, and Diane thought she'd throw them away. But then she remembered that some hobbyists use broken porcelain pieces in mosaics on benchtops and tabletops. Since the rest of the plates' paint is fine, they could easily be used this way. If you'd like these plates, please call (727) 865-3630.

Sue Spensberger is gathering a baby crib, changing table, car seat and associated "baby furnishings" to use for a good cause. Please e-mail suzettezz@peoplepc.com.

Let's make a final salute to Christmas with a request from Ellen Streich of Clearwater. Several years ago she attended a House of Lloyd party at which she purchased a stuffed Christmas turtle that sings Christmas carols, very slowly.

Bill Abair of Palm Harbor is looking for a Kodak slide projector to replace one that was lost during a move. He has boxes of slides he took during the '70s, but no way to view them. Please call (727) 686-6708 if you can help.

Send requests to Reader Exchange, Floridian, St. Petersburg Times, P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg 33731 or e-mail cole@sptimes.com Requests will be accepted only by mail or e-mail. This is an exchange column, so we will not run items that are for sale. Readers must agree to publication of phone numbers, including area code.

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