============================================================ DIGITAL DIGEST � http://www.marconews.com � Dec. 12, 2004 ============================================================ Subscribe to the Naples Daily News: https://chatterbox.naplesnews.com/transactiontype.asp ** NEW MULTIMEDIA ** ON VIDEO TODAY: Watch Immokalee High School players be cheered in a victory parade and get community reaction to the Indians� football championship. Go to http://www.naplesnews.com for links AUDIO CLIPS TODAY: Andy Kent has interviews with Bucs players and coaches as they get ready to play the Chargers; Kent also has clips of comments from local sports people about baseball�s steroids scandal.
** FROM MARCO ** JOY: By 7 a.m. Saturday, hundreds of needy families stood in line at Kmart on U.S. 41 East, waiting to shop until their holiday hearts were content. The Joy of Giving fund-raiser culminated when 279 families were given a chance to make the season bright for their children. The families were given a $75 voucher for Kmart merchandise for each child 18 and younger. GET ALL MARCO NEWS AND THE EAGLE AT http://www.marconews.com ** TOP NEWS ** IMMOKALEE CELEBRATES: The Class 2A state football champion Immokalee High School team was the main attraction � besides Santa Claus, of course � in Saturday night's Immokalee Christmas Around the World Parade. The football game is the biggest thing to happen to this farming community, some say. HURRICANES: Hurricane Charley obliterated or damaged an estimated 90 percent of farmworker housing in DeSoto and Hardee counties, areas already sorely lacking such shelter. State and federal officials and advocates say this season's prognosis is bleak. CARR�S OUSTER: Most of the attention Mike Carr has generated over the past four years as the leader of the local GOP came from his stands in favor of tougher ethics laws and his crusade against public officials that he thought were corrupt. But members of the Executive Committee say it was more the meat-and-potato issues that cost Carr his job. RED TIDE: With a massive red tide bloom hanging just north of environmentally sensitive Florida Bay and the Florida Keys reef tract, NOAA scientists are scrambling to find the money to monitor such blooms. GET THESE AND THE REST OF THE NEWS AT ... http://www.naplesnews.com ** PERSPECTIVE ** EDITORIAL: One of the big topics in the forecast for the Florida Legislature is growth management. Terms such as "streamlining the process" are bandied about. Uh-oh. When language like that gets tossed around, it can mean the rules are about to be rolled back � and it won't be in favor of the public that has to navigate snarled roads and wonder whether there will be enough water at a fair price. COLUMNS BY PHIL LEWIS, JEFF LYTLE AND BEN BOVA ... LOCAL GUEST COMMENTARY AND MORE ... GET THESE AND THE REST OF PERSPECTIVE AT ... http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/perspective/ ** IN NEAPOLITAN ** CENTERPIECE: They are children with sad pasts and uncertain futures. They are the more than 100 children in Southwest Florida � and more than 100,000 children nationwide � who have been abused or neglected by biological parents, to the point that their parents' rights to care for them have been severed by the courts. So they wait for some unknown family to adopt them, sometimes languishing for years in foster care before an adoption becomes reality. COLUMNS BY ELIZABETH WENDT-KELLAR AND SHARON RANDALL... GET THE REST OF NEAPOLITAN AT ... http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/neapolitan/ ** IN SPORTS ** JAMES� TEST: Javarris James and several of his teammates didn't have much time between important tests. Less than 24 hours after helping the Immokalee Indians defeat Madison County, 17-15, for the Class 2A state championship, the junior running back was being challenged again. This time in the classroom. After arriving back at Immokalee High School at 1 a.m. from Gainesville, James was back at the school Saturday at 8 a.m. to take the ACT test. PEPSI SHOOTOUT: Ryan Hornsby's timing couldn't have been any better. As the clock ticked down in the first half of Saturday night's Pepsi Shootout, the Lely senior turned to the basket and recorded his 1,000th career point. GET THESE AND ALL THE REST OF SPORTS AT ... http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/sports/ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Click on the link below to be removed from the marconews.com mailing list. http://web.marconews.com/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
