Ear to Tampa Bay
Dr. Zena Lansky and her husband
Warren Rodgers of Clearwater organized
a lunch at Cafe Ponte in Clearwater to
honor internationally acclaimed baritone
Sherrill Milnes and his wife, soprano
Maria Zouves of Tarpon Springs, the
artistic director and executive director
respectively of V.O.I.C.Experience, who
recently returned from the successful
Savannah Voice Festival that they founded
in Savannah, Georgia.....Andrea and Paul
Jarvis held a holiday party at their home
in Dunedin.....Maria Zouves and Sherrill
Milnes hosted a supper party at their
home in Palm Harbor to watch the
televised version of this year’s Kennedy
Center Honors, which they had attended
earlier in Washington D.C......Rachael and
Don Worthington of Palm Harbor and
Sarasota invited friends for a New Year’s
Eve dinner party at the Belleair Country
Club.....Merrilee and Jeff Gerew had a
New Year’s Day party at their home in St.
Petersburg.....Dr. Jeffrey Tedder hosted
his tenth annual “Tedsparilla” Gasparilla
Pirate Extravaganza at Casa Jeffrey, his
home on the Bayshore Boulevard parade
route in Tampa.....Barb Izzi of Tampa and
Jim Spencer of Belleair hosted a glamorous
Valentine-themed dinner party in the
private room of the historic Fort Harrison’s
Hibiscus Restaurant in Clearwater.....Jan
Augustine held her annual “The Ladies
of Ovation” cocktail party at her home in
St. Petersburg.....Cathy Kern and her
husband Mike, were honored with a
retirement cocktail/dinner party at
Bascom’s Chop House in Clearwater,
which was attended by guests from
Denmark, California and the Tampa Bay
area and included Connie Whitehead
and her husband Don, whom Mike
replaced upon his retirement as divisional
vice president at AMETEK in Largo.....
Rafael Sciullo of Dunedin, president and
CEO of the Empath Health integrated
network of care, celebrated his birthday
with friends at The Black Pearl in
Dunedin.....Larry Aronson of Saratoga
Springs, New York and Belleair Bluffs was
given a birthday party by his fiancée Gail
Dietrich at her condo’s party room in
Belleair Bluffs.....Terri Davis and Vinny
Things Heard by The Ear
The Ear is wearing a citrine and diamond
earring set in 18kt yellow gold from
Goshwara’s “Rock and Roll” collection at
Harold Freeman Jewelers in Belleair Bluffs.
TONY CHAPLINSKY, JR.
Scully, both of Dunedin, are engaged to
be married.....Robert Danielson, the City
of St. Petersburg’s marketing director, and
Ed Cassidy, Visit St. Pete/Clearwater
CVB’s marketing director, who have been
together for 16 years, became engaged
while snorkeling off the coast of Tortola
in the British Virgin Islands.....Heather
Kuhn of Largo and John Perkins of Cape
Coral became engaged while on a trip to
Salzburg, Austria.....Karol and Fred
Bullard of Clearwater, who were married
45th years ago at Peace Memorial
Presbyterian Church in Clearwater,
celebrated their wedding anniversary at
their Bascom’s Chop House in Clearwater
before traveling to the Ritz Carlton in
Sarasota for a getaway.....Dr. Michael and
Michele Bradner of Tampa and their son
Michael James Bradner have made
proud grandparents out of Hillsborough
County Commissioner Sandy Murman
and her husband Jim, who also live in
Tampa.....Sherry and Bob Heilman,
owners of Bob Heilman’s Beachcomber
Restaurant and Bobby’s Bistro and Wine
Bar on Clearwater Beach, are the proud
grandparents of Henry Alton Long, who
was born on Thanksgiving Day to their
daughter Kristin Heilman Long and her
husband Matt Long, who live in
Beaverton, Oregon near the Heilmans’
Foxy Rock Vineyards.....George Ann
Bissett, president and CEO of the Dunedin
Fine Art Center and her husband Colin
Bissett, president of the Clearwater Arts
Alliance, were in Pittsburgh for the
christening of their granddaughter Helen
Tobasco Bissett, their son Nicholas and
his wife Tobi Turner Bissett’s new baby.....
Barbara Melby-Burhans and her
husband Ira Burhans of Palm Harbor, the
artists who own the Clay and Paper Gallery
of Art in Dunedin, visited their son Leif,
daughter-in-law Dana and their fivemonth
old granddaughter Lucy Jane
Burhans in St. Augustine during the
Christmas holidays.....Barb Izzi of Tampa
and Jim Spencer of Belleair visited New
York City.....Martha and Jay Margolis of
Safety Harbor attended a banquet in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin honoring their son
and daughter-in-law, Dr. Adam and Dana
Margolis, as Parents of the Year of their
children’s elementary schooL.....Betty
Lang of Palm Harbor and her entire family
visited the Wizard of Oz Museum while
spending the Christmas holidays with her
grandson Matthew Ostermann at his
home in Manhattan, Kansas.....Wendy and
Scott Spencer of Belleair took their
children and granddaughter to Hawaii,
where the couple once lived.....Deborah
Nader Rutz and her husband Charlie
Rutz of Sand Key, Clearwater vacationed
at a resort on Waikiki Beach for a week
before cruising around the Hawaiian
Islands for an additional week.....Cathy
Taylor an artist, and her husband Scott
Simmons, the Dalí Museum’s first
executive director, experienced several
exciting adventures while driving from
the Tampa Bay area to their new home in
San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato,
Mexico.....Sandra Nesbit and her husband
Greg Willsey, the principles of GFS
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