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Not My Son aims to better the community one door at a time

Police officers, city officials, and residents canvased the Fruitland Heights neighborhood, meeting up at St. Joseph's Catholic Church for the Not My Son weekly initiative. BY MARK PARKER, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG - It was a muggy, rainy, late-June evening on the south side of St. Pete as City Councilmember Deborah Figgs-Sanders and Father Stephan […]

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