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Those cashed-in clunkers give junkyards shiny prospects. 4b ABAY LOCAL by STATE Iv BUSINESS TAMI Monday, August 10, 2009 I IB tampabay.com rTPS8 Frank Knight has been donating blood components for 50 years. On Tuesday, he'll mark his 100th gallon. MM 11 i 1 WELLNESS SATURDAY: Unwind a little at the Lotus Room on Saturday for Wellness Day sponsored by Gardens Wellness Center. Everything will be free including workshops, yoga classes, acupuncture, massage and refreshments from 9a.m.to2p.m.at1101W Kennedy Blvd.

No registration is required. For information and a schedule, call (813) 254-6777 or visit www. yogalotusroom.com. PITCH FOR PINK: The Clearwater Threshers will wear pink jerseys Friday when they take on the Tampa Yankees during the fourth annual "Pitch For Pink" game at Bright House Field, 601 Old Coachman Road. Gates open at 5:30 p.m., game time is 7.

The women in the ballpark will receive a commemorative pink Threshers tote bag and after the game, the Threshers' pink jerseys will be signed and auctioned off, along with pink bats used in play. Admission is $4, $6.50 and $9. E-mail Amanda Warner at or call (727) 712-4405. Proceeds will be donated to Morton Plant Mease Foundation to benefit breast cancer programs. SHOCK, JAZZY ROCK AND Woodstock Big music acts this week range from shock rock, to peace and love, to quirky.

Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival featuring Marilyn Manson Photos of Frank Knight and platelets suspended in plasma, courtesy of Florida Blood Services Homeowners and the developer object, but Hillsborough says a new route still makes sense. BY MARLENE SOKOL Times Staff Writer LUTZ The people who named the road called it a "parkway." Hillsborough County officials call it a "collector road." Heritage Harbor Parkway, which now deadends just past the golf course, was supposed to hook up to Sunlake Boulevard in Stonebrier, the next neighborhood over. Sunlake would then continue into Pasco County. Now Centex, the developer of Stonebrier, no longer wants to build the road that would link the two. And homeowners in both neighborhoods have made it clear they don't want the road.

County planners disagree, insisting any retreat from their traffic plan will lead to wasted driving and congestion on existing roads. It's a question raised again and again in suburban neighborhoods: Do government plans for a transportation grid trump a community's desire for peace and quiet? See ROAD, 6B and Slayer at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Ford Amphitheatre in Tampa; Dave Marilyn Manson BY IRENE MAHER Times Staff Writer Frank Knight of St Petersburg is about to do something only six other people in the Tampa Bay area have done. Tuesday, Knight, 70, will make a blood donation that brings him to the 100 gallon mark. If It has taken Knight 50 years to achieve this milestone.

He started out as a whole blood donor and in the 1980s joined the ranks of the elite by becoming a platelet and plasma donor. Giving both components in one visit takes a couple of hours, unlike whole blood donation, which takes just a few minutes. If Platelets control blood clotting and are used by cancer, leukemia, open heart surgery, blood disorder and organ transplant patients. One pint of whole blood contains less than an ounce of platelets. It takes four to six people giving whole blood to get the platelets Knight gives in one donation.

If Plasma serves as the body's transportation system for salts, minerals and vitamins and it helps the body fight disease. Plasma is given to trauma, burn and organ transplant patients. By the numbers I Frank Knight's donations TV iim.iii.iini. -1 V-n Celebrating the century mark Knight will be joined by the bay area's six other 100-gallon donors as he is inducted into the Century Donor Club at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Florida Blood Services, 10100 Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. St St Petersburg. The public is invited. Others in the Century Club Here are the other local Century Club donors and how many gallons they've given: FRANK AUMACK. Seminole, 108 gallons DELL WARD, Bradenton, 109 gallons NICK MARINO JR, Bradenton, 112 gallons JOHN VANBERKEL, Bradenton, 103 gallons PETRASTENTZ, Bradenton, 104 gallons ROT RICHARDS, Sarasota, 111 gallons Matthews and his band at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, also at the Ford Amp; A hair-metal throwdown of Def Leppard, Poison and Cheap Trick at 7 p.m. Friday also at the Ford Amp; Woodstock, 40th Anniversary Re-creation, with 20 local bands, at 2 p.m. Saturday at Skipper's Smokehouse in Tampa; $18 advance, $24 at the gate; (813) 977-6474. Quirky party band of the '80s: the B-52s after the Rays vs. Blue Jays on Saturday.

Game starts at 7:08 p.m. and it's free with game ticket; rays.mlb.com. MAMMA Ml At: The Tony Award-winning musical has a plot, of course a young bride is determined to learn who her father is so he can walk her down the aisle but who cares? It's all about the fab ABBA tunes: Dancing Queen, Take a Chance on Me, S.O.S. and more. Opens at 8 p.m.

Tuesday at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater; (727) 791-7400; rutheckerdhall.com. 1 1,260 100 Photo by ZACH BOYDEN-HOLMES Felicitas Morales-Roque, 24, may join the Marines or Air Force, but her long-term goal is a State Department position. Arduous wait for residency finally pays off A native Mexican can pursue academic and career goals, but sees a system in need of change. Months it takes Moffitt Cancer Center to use 100 gallons of platelets. Number of lives Knight has saved or sustained through blood donation.

90 735 Gallons of blood components donated by Knight over the past 50 years. 24 Number of times a year Knight rolls up his sleeves to donate. (That's every two weeks.) Hours he has spent donating blood over 50 years. Percent of the U.S. population that will need donated blood in their lifetime.

Source: Florida Blood Services A Florida Blood Services technician in St Petersburg separates plasma from red blood cells. DANIEL WALLACE I Times (2006) Want to donate? Summer months typically see a drop in blood donations because school is out (high school students make up 15 of all local blood donations) and many people go out of town. Plus Labor Day weekend is traditionally a time of high demand on the blood supply. So now's a good time to help if you: Are at Ieast16 years old. Have a photo ID.

Feel well on the day of donation. Weigh at Ieast110 pounds. Haven't had a tattoo or chemo or radiation treatment in the past year. Haven't been pregnant in the past six weeks For more information, BY SAUNDRA AMRHEIN Times Staff Writer TAMPA Felicitas Morales-Roque feels like she's finally out of the shadows. And not the way she expected.

"You'd think after 20 years, there'd be so much more," she said last week after gaining her green card, or permanent residency. Morales-Roque, now 24, spent the last six years studying for a dual bachelor's degree in business administration and international studies, wondering if she would ever work legally in this country. Her parents brought her to the United States from Mexico when she was a toddler. They filed for residency under the sponsorship of her grandfather, a U.S. citizea While waiting and working in the fields, their visas expired.

And then her grandfather died, leaving all their petitions in limbo. The St. Petersburg Times first published a story about Morales-Roque when she was a senior at Wesley Chapel High School in 2003, when the artist and honor student with a 4.4 grade-point average realized she was an illegal See RESIDENT, 3B More information Whole-blood donors can give at fixed blood donation centers, blood-mobiles and at blood drives. Whole blood can be given once every 56 days. Most platelet donations are made at fixed centers.

Platelets are collected with plasma and can be given every two weeks. Call toll-free1-800-682-5663 for information on blood center locations, blood mobiles orforan appointment to donate platelets. The red blood cells of type 0 donors are always in great demand because they can be given to just about any patient Type A or donors' red blood cells aren't needed as much, but their platelets are always in demand, said Dan Eberts of Florida Blood Services. People are talking about Let's Talk readers dis-Mm cuss Bay Walk's plan to ban protesters from the sidewalks. Savethefrogs: "Are we still free?" John: "Thank God!" Liberal: "Protesters? Yawn.

Go use the public square, such as parks or city hall." Jen: "There is a time and place for everything, and protesting outside a shopping center is NOT the right place." Stuck in the '80s mm readers mourn the death of filmmaker John Hughes. Ian: "I am more distraught over this than Michael Jackson. One million times more." Jake: "Thanks for the great teen years, John. You captured the decade perfectly." JR: "He understood us. He got the angst and dreams of the American teenager." Rowan: "Words cannot express how much John Hughes helped me endure my teen years." Join the discussion at blogs.tampabay.com.

Decades-old act of common decency still resonates will bring six truckloads of South Beach-style furniture along Franklin and Zack so people can lie out under the stars. Sweet Kudos to Mayor Pam Iorio and the city of Tampa for renaming 18th Avenue Park after the late Alfred "AT Barnes Jr. on Saturday. The first black varsity football coach at an integrated Tampa high school certainly deserved the honor. That's all I'm saying.

The burglary of St Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker's home prompted some to say it's another sign of an ineffective police chief. The Police Department's swift action in apprehending the suspects prompted others to say Baker got preferential treatment Talk about a no-win situation. Seen on a T-shirt: Am I Getting Older Or Has The Supermarket Begun Playing Great Music? Family Resources offers an interesting course Wednesday and Thursday at First Baptist of St Petersburg. "Dating 101" promises kids 15 and older a relationship manual. You know they need it To register, go to wwwyouandmewe.org.

Rainer Scheer's Chillounge Night played to success in both St. Petersburg and Sarasota, and now it's coming to downtown Tampa Oct. 10. The event A new friend told me the other day that an old high school classmate he could barely recall reached out to him on Facebook. But the classmate remembered him vividly, describing the day my friend stopped some kids from bullying him.

It's more than 20 years later, and he's telling my friend how that one day made a profound difference in his life. We can't guilt kids into standing up to bullies or reporting ERNEST HOOPER ehoopersptimes.com misdeeds, but we can help them understand the powerful value of acts of courage and kindness..