E A R T O T A M P A B A Y
Sally Guthrie of Clearwater and David
Hemerick of Clearwater Beach surprised
guests, who were advised not to “miss the
boat” for his birthday party, then bussed from
the Clearwater Marina to the tented yard of her
1950s-themed getaway in Dunedin.
and Jim Sobeleski of Clearwater Beach,
Marilyn and Paul Wyatt of Clearwater,
Janet and Phil Henderson of Dunedin
and Karyn and Steve Thompson of Palm
Harbor celebrated Jim Martin’s birthday
while cruising from Rome to Barcelona
with stops that included Monte Carlo,
Marseille and Majorca.....Hunter Marie
McKibben and Christopher Phillip
Wheaton of Palm Harbor’s whirlwind
honeymoon took them to Munich for
Octoberfest, Strasbourg, Paris, Brussels
and London.....Maureen and Norm
Dobiesz of Tierra Verde were accompanied
by Drs. Susan and Peter Betzer and
Joyce Larson of St. Petersburg on a trip
to Monaco to attend the Blue Ocean Film
Festival, which was also attended by a
group of students from Canterbury School
in St. Petersburg, who won the award for
the Best Student Film.....Dominic
D’Angelo and his manager Aaron Van
Dora at his Gratzzi’s Italian Grille in St.
Petersburg attended a wine tasting festival
in Rome, Italy.....Chuck Boux, awardwinning
St. Petersburg glass artist, took
his annual trip to Istanbul.....Judy Grim
of St. Petersburg was on a mission trip to
Kolkata, India to help the many neglected
children who live on the streets of the slums
there.....Daniel Alvarez, Sr., the current
Hispanic Man of the Year and president
of the Hillsborough Sheriff’s Hispanic
Advisory Council, was among the speakers s
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