Tuesday, February 14, 2012
John Thorington of Palm Harbor was visiting with a friend in the backyard of her Dunedin home when a car plunged into the water nearby.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally posted on Dunedin Patch and Palm Harbor Patch on Feb. 14. It was chosen for Huffington Post's Greatest Person of the Day feature on Feb. 15. No doubt, it will be a Valentine's Day that John Thorington will remember. He ended the day a hero. Thorington, 52, of Palm Harbor, was visiting a friend at her home in Dunedin near the intracoastal waterway on Feb. 14. Around 3 p.m., they were chatting in the backyard when they heard a screech, then saw a car flash by as it headed toward the water. "It sounded like the driver hit something," Thorington said. "We heard the commotion, and we had already started running over there." Thorington says it only took about a minute for him and some neighbors to reach…
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Ryan Shane Johnson's parents were married on Thanksgiving Day 17 years ago. Today, they feel especially grateful to still be calling him one of their biggest blessings.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Ryan Shane Johnson turned the big 3-0 this year. For a gift, Ryan’s family and friends pulled together to get him a something he could really use: a new hospital bed. “His T-shirts and clothes don’t wear out ever,” his stepmother Rennette Johnson said. His first bed, however, is another story. Ryan was born with cerebral palsy and severe scoliosis. When he was 14, his spine was so severely contorted that his right hip touched his left shoulder. He has since developed severe osteoporosis. His parents learned this when his foot was fractured merely from the dress shoes he wore to a wedding. Doctors told them that his bones were as brittle as a 70-year-old man. Now, Ryan doesn’t wear shoes. He weighs 60 pounds, is fed through a tube and …
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Benefit Rock Fest, Skate Jam & Board-A-Thon is expected to draw more than 1,000 skaters and advances a local mother's mission to make helmets cool.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Marcy Tilmann said her son, Ian, was definitely a “free spirit.” Marcy said her free spirit once hitchhiked and camped his way across the country with just the clothes and gear he could carry. She shared anecdotes of his travels through the western and southern U.S. At one point, he bartered his tent away and had to sleep under the stars. He met a man from India who had walked across several countries, and he partied with the Rainbow People in Montana. “He was an awesome guy,” she said. “Ian had a smile that would light up a room.” Ian, a Dunedin resident at the time, was skating with friends on May 16, 2005. Marcy said she received a phone call from her younger son, Jeff: Ian fell while longboarding down a hill on Hercules Avenue in …
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advan306
5:44 am on Tuesday, March 6, 2012
what a wonderful act of heroism more ›