Terry McHarg of Palm Harbor was given a
birthday luncheon by Betty Lang in Betty’s
Palm Harbor home.
Private Wealth in Clearwater, flew to the
Bahamas to board a sailing yacht for a
two-week excursion in the Exuma Islands
of the Bahamas.....Dr. Zena Lansky and
her husband Warren Rodgers of
Clearwater took a ten-day cruise from
Miami to South American ports aboard
the Silver Seas Navigator.....Charlene
Gordon of Crystal Beach took her daughter
Allison Bungert on her first trip to
Europe, where they spent two weeks
touring Italy, France and England.....Carol
and Tom Patterson of Dunedin visited
in and around Cape Town, South Africa.....
Susan Benjamin of Syd Entel Galleries
/Susan Benjamin Glass etc. in Safety
Harbor and her husband Steve, who live
in Dunedin, toured Vietnam and
Thailand.....Rita Gould, owner of Art on
First in St. Petersburg, held a kick-off
reception and announced that she will be
exhibiting “Florida’s Natural Places,” the
art of Neil Adamson, during the months
of March and April......Julie Weintraub’s
Hands Across the Bay charity hosted a
Blood Drive in Honor of five-year-old
chronic anemia patient Logan Hooker at
her and her husband Steve’s Gold and
Diamond Source in Clearwater.....Dick
Crippen of St. Petersburg, a board member
of PARC, served as emcee for the dedication
and ribbon cutting of the nonprofit’s new
Carmela Manfrey Center for Early
Intervention Services at its Discovery
Learning Center on the PARC campus in
St. Petersburg.....Bill Moore, the chair of
Charity Works’ 13th Annual Cup Challenge
golf tournament, thanked sports media s
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