E A R TO TA M PA B AY
44 ports in the Western Hemisphere
while circumnavigating the globe during
a 108-day cruise...Judy Holmes of
Madeira Beach, Annette Raimondo of
Redington Beach, Pam Basinger of
Treasure Island and Fran Heffron of
Clearwater went on a safari in Kenya,
Africa...Don Germaise, Tampa Bay
area media personality, and his daughter
Lexi toured Romania and other
countries...Sumatra
“Sue” Bowers, owner of
Thai Spice Restaurant
in Clearwater, took her
daughter Lynn Head to
Thailand to visit family...
Angie and Roger Kumar,
Jr. of Tampa and their
children Maya and
Maddox spent four
months exploring South
America before leaving
for another four-month
visit to Thailand, India
and China, plus Japan
during a volcano
eruption, United Arab
Emirates’ Dubai during a
sand storm, and Nepal’s
Kathmandu during an
earthquake...Judy Lisi,
the Straz Center’s president and CEO
and Opera Tampa’s general director,
announced next season’s lineup of
operatic treats at the Florida Opera
Festival’s year-end celebration at the
Straz in Tampa...Joanie Siegal hosted an
art viewing and wine-tasting reception at
the new Clearwater Center for the Arts in
downtown Clearwater...Syd Entel
hosted a Sunset Social for the Junior
League of Clearwater-Dunedin Sustainers
at her waterfront home in Dunedin...
Clayta Ross of New Port Richey hosted
a Season End Reception for the Florida
Orchestra musicians, board of directors,
board of consultants, council of advisors
and staff members following the
Orchestra’s Beethoven and Sibelius
Andrea Jarvis, center, was thanked by Co-Presidents
Eleanor Vassel and Syd Entel for speaking about vintage
hats and commentating Patchington’s fashion show at the
Sterling Society’s 11th Annual Mother’s Day Tea benefit for the
Dunedin Fine Art Center that was chaired by Candy Ryan and
held at the Center.
concert at the Mahaffey Theater in
St. Petersburg...Julian Hartzog, an
international award-winning artist,
designer and engineer, hosted a private
launch party at his home in Tarpon
Springs for Wearable Art Eleven, the
Dunedin Fine Art Center ’s annual,
creatively funky evening fashion
show...Andrea Graham, Stageworks
board member, and Karla Hartley, the
group’s producing artistic director,
invited donors and subscribers to a
2015-2016 Season Announcement
Reception at the theatre in Tampa...
Dr. James K. Bass, music and artistic
director of the Master Chorale of Tampa
Bay, hosted pre-concert receptions before
the Master Chorale Ensemble Singers’
May performances at the Straz Center for
the Performing Arts in Tampa, the
Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg and
Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater...Lorna
Taylor, president of Tampa Bay
Businesses for Culture and the Arts,
welcomed guests to the group’s Cultural
Encounter at American Stage in
St. Petersburg, which featured a
reception, a presentation by the Museum
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Toni Positano, owner of Nikki’s Glitz and Glam
Boutique in Palm Harbor, thanked WTSP 10
News television anchor Dion Lim for emceeing
the fashion show that showcased her fashions
for the Working Women of Tampa Bay’s brunch
at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater.
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