Things Heard
Dr. Harry Barash and Pat Rawlings had
a brunch at their new home in Clearwater.....
Karen and Brett McMullen invited
friends to their annual Holiday Season
party at their home in Clearwater.....Liz
and Jim Smith invited friends to their
home in Clearwater for a watch party of
English comedian and actor Eddie Izzard’s
past performances in preparation for the
following week’s pre-show dinner at Cuvée
103 and Izzard’s Force Majeure tour show
at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater.....Renée
Vaughn and her husband Ron, the
president of University of Tampa, held
their annual Holiday Open House at their
home in Tampa.....Dona and Peter Leach
held their annual holiday party, complete
with a pianist, photo booth and chocolate
fountain at their home in Clearwater.....
The Honorable Bob Schmidt, the mayor
of Belleair Shore, celebrated the holidays
with a cocktail and buffet dinner party at
the Belleair Country Club.....Georgette
and Rick Diaz of Tampa hosted a seated
holiday dinner party at Eddie V’s Prime
Seafood in Tampa.....Roxanna Fall of St.
Petersburg celebrated her birthday with
a cake provided by Joyce and Walter
Larson during the benefit they hosted in
their Snell Isle home for Infinity, The
League to Aid Abused Children and
Adults.....The Honorable Bob Martinez
of Tampa, the former governor of Florida
and former mayor of Tampa, was given a
birthday party with 23 family members
in attendance by he and his wife Mary
Jane’s daughter and son-in-law Sharon
and Rich Romanski of Tampa.....Paula
Durspek and her twin brother Paul
Manfrey, both of Largo, celebrated their
combined 100th birthday with a 1970s
themed dinner party with The Black
Honkeys playing dance music and
Dwayne “Black Magic” Hill performing
magic tricks.....Angelique Jimenez of St.
Petersburg, who is going to school in New
York City, was surprised by her father Joe,
when he flew up there and walked into
the restaurant, where she and her mother
were celebrating her birthday.....Buddy
E A R T O T A M P A B A Y
By The Ear
The Ear is wearing one of a pair of drop
earrings with two PS 2.93 ct rubies and
two 0.55 ct round brilliant cut rubies with
40 round brilliant diamonds 2.36 ct set
in 18k white gold from Cappello & Co. in
Seminole.
ALEXANDRA GIAMANCO, A G PHOTOGRAPHY
Crawford and Anthony Hartman of
Dunedin, after 24 years together, were
married on Buddy’s birthday on the
waterfront lawn of Dr. Garland and
Martha Forbes’ home and held a reception
at the nearby Hog Island Fish Camp in
Dunedin.....Sandra Nesbit and Greg
Willsey of Palm Harbor, principals of GFS
Private Wealth in Clearwater, celebrated
their wedding anniversary with a trip to
Key West aboard their sailboat.....Jackie
and George Nigro of Dunedin celebrated
their 50th wedding anniversary during a
two-month tour covering 22,000 miles in
the Far East.....Louise Collins of Odessa
had a baby shower for her grandson
Garred McGinnis and his wife Sarah,
who both grew up in Sarasota and now
live in London, England, but were able to
“attend” the party via Skype.....Paula
Paxton hosted a baby shower and tea at
William Dean Chocolates in Belleair Bluffs
for Sophia and Spencer Duke of the
Orlando area, who, a couple of weeks later,
welcomed their new daughter, Piper
Duke, Clearwater’s former mayor and
first lady, The Honorable Frank Hibbard
and his wife Teresa’s first grandchild.....
Peggy and Keith Leclerc, owners of the
International Diamond Center in
Clearwater and Tampa, are thrilled to have
new grandchildren thanks to their daughter
Ashley and her husband Brian Stamey
and their children Gavin, Noah and Isaac,
who welcomed new baby brother Ethan
Cole Stamey; the Leclerc’s son Brian and
his wife Danae, who just had son Kaiden
Leclerc; and their daughter Danielle
Masters and her husband Chad, who are
the proud parents of Kennedy Rae, their
new baby daughter.....Sherrill Milnes,
world-renowned opera baritone of Palm
Harbor, was recognized during the annual
Richard Tucker Gala at Lincoln Center’s
David Geffen Hall in New York City, for
the 50th anniversary of his debut at the
Met.....Debbie and George Baxter of St.
Petersburg visited their family in California,
where he traditionally dons his Santa
suit.....Dottie Scroggins and Rick Nelson
and their Dunedin neighbors Dr. Garland
and Martha Forbes became friends during
a trip that both couples took to Cuba.....
Melissa and Mike Riddlesworth of St.
Petersburg visited Madagascar, Easter
Island, Buenos Aires and more while on a
3,700 mile, 30-day cruise.....Diane and
Ignacio Ferras of Tampa visited Spain,
Granada and Antigua.....Peter Kreuziger,
co-owner of Advantus Corporation, took
Ellen Hale, a manager of the company’s
Bon Appétit in Dunedin, and Alex
Peacock, the manager of its Café Alfresco
in Dunedin, on a tour of Salzburg, Vienna,
and their surrounding areas in Austria.....
Lindsay and Brian Seel of Tampa, who
traveled the world for nine months, were
visited by his parents, Pinellas County
Commissioner Karen and Ron Seel of
Belleair, while they were in Monaco in May
and New Zealand in October after the
senior Seels attended a wedding in Perth.....
Charlane and Jim Martin and Debbie
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