Dawna Stone and her
husband Matt Dieter,
the founders of the St.
Petersburg Wine and Food
Festival, donated proceeds
from the Festival’s intimate
Wine Pairing Dinner to the
St. Petersburg Arts Alliance
to help support its Second
Saturday ArtWalk. The Arts
Alliance is the umbrella
organization for the arts in
St. Petersburg.
Art Noderer, a partner
with Evercore Wealth Management,
invited guests to an informative discussion
led by Wall Street economist Ed Hyman.
Renée Vaughn, president of the
Williams Consulting Group and the wife
of the University of Tampa’s President
Ron Vaughn, has been selected to be the
GRAM
Zach Feinstein, the new owner of The Black Pearl and The Living Room
restaurants in Dunedin, and Christina Padilla were joined by The Black Pearl’s
Chef Chris Artrip and The Living Room’s Chef Tony Bruno at the Clearwater Jazz
Holiday Sponsor Party that Zach hosted at The Living Room.
chair of the American Heart Association
of Tampa Bay’s Circle of Red, a passionate
group of women committed to educating
other women about the prevention of heart
disease
Jim Rolston, the painter and sculptor
at RedZenArt, exhibited his work, that
was inspired by his recent
trip to France and Italy, at
the downtown St. Petersburg
offices of Premier Sotheby’s
International Realty.
Peggy O’Shea has moved
from the position of vice
chair of the Pinellas County
School Board to chair in
a unanimous vote by the
board, while Terry Krassner
has been selected as O’Shea’s
vice chair. O’Shea was also
the board chair for 2008-2009.
George Cretekos, the Mayor of the
City of Clearwater, has been re-elected
without opposition to serve another term
as its mayor.
Linda Hurtado has been hired by WTVT
Channel 13 to co-anchor the station’s
5 P.M. news broadcast and to anchor their
noon news.
Tony Armer, the St. Petersburg-
Clearwater film commissioner, enhanced
the area’s film making industry by landing
21 days of film production in Pinellas
County for the making of Random Tropical
Paradise, a comedy with Soprano’s actor
Joe Pantoliano as a mob boss and Bryan
Greenberg of HBO’s How to Make It in
America, along with Brooks Wheelan,
who appears on Saturday Night Live.
Congressman David Jolly honored
Armed Forces History Museum
President and Founder John J. Piazza, Sr.
on John’s 77th birthday during a speech
in the U.S. House of Representatives,
where he thanked John for his salute to
the military through his Museum in Largo.
Bill Brown, the “Chief Chocolate
Officer” of William Dean Chocolates
in Belleair Bluffs, was awarded six cocoa
beans, the highest rating available, by
Jill Plaice, Goodwill Suncoast CEO Debbie Passerini, Mary Rachel Dudley, Lance Rodgers, Emilio
Brandt and Terri Hall were in Halloween costumes for the “Ghoulwill” fundraiser at the Coliseum in
St. Petersburg that benefited Goodwill Industries-Suncoast.
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