Ear to Tampa Bay
Joan McCreary of St. Petersburg invited
several neighbors to a special showing of
My Big Fat Greek Wedding, complete with
popcorn, candy bars and sodas at the
St. Petersburg Yacht Club.....Kathy Wilder
hosted her annual Easter egg hunt and
brunch for 20 family members of all ages
at her home in Clearwater.....Jay Fleming
of Palm Harbor entertained three
generations of family members from
throughout Florida and New York during
their annual Easter celebration, which was
held in Lansbrook Park.....Betsy
Schweitzer was given a going away party
by her Harbor Bluffs neighbors Kathie
Jackson and Anne Ward before her recent
move to downtown St. Petersburg.....
Dawn Dogganero had a party for friends
and neighbors at her home in Belleair.....
The Honorable Bob Schmidt, the mayor
of Belleair Shore, hosted a post-concert
reception to mark the end of the season
for The Florida Orchestra’s musicians,
staff, musician sponsors, board of directors,
board of consultants and council of
advisors members, following the
Orchestra’s Rachmaninoff’s Symphony
No. 3 performance at Ruth Eckerd Hall in
Clearwater.....Warren Rodgers of
Clearwater celebrated his birthday with
friends at the Columbia Restaurant in Ybor
City with lunch and a private flamenco
demonstration.....Mary Jane Martinez
and her husband Bob, the former mayor
of Tampa, governor of Florida and “drug
czar” of the United States, celebrated her
birthday with a week of intimate gatherings
with family and friends.....Betty McGraw
Perkins of Clearwater was given multiple
birthday celebrations by various friends
and family members.....Gloria Pecora
and Leon Atayan, who live in Palm
Harbor, are looking forward to their
Thanksgiving wedding at Innisbrook in
Palm Harbor.....Katie Britton, daughter
of Charlie and stepdaughter of Julie
Britton, the vice president of development
at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts
in Tampa, and Leo Rodriguez of New
York are planning a May, 2017, wedding
in New York City’s Botanical Gardens.....
Cyndi Meinek, a folk musician who
works for Pinellas County, and artist Ernie
Simmons were married during a
ceremony, which was followed by music
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The Ear is wearing one of a pair of 12.40 ct tw
cushion cut exceptional quality aquamarines
in a flower design of 4.32 ct tw round brilliant
diamonds set in 18kt white gold from Steve
and Julie Weintraub’s exclusive American made
Juleve Collection at the Gold and Diamond
Source in Clearwater.
and a casual cookout at his Dunedin art
studio.....Roma Sharma of Clearwater
and Eddie Murgasen of St. Petersburg
were married during a ceremony and
seated dinner for 800 guests at the
waterfront estate of Fazal Fazlin in St.
Petersburg.....Kimberly Prior, daughter
of Sandy and Doug Prior of Clearwater,
and Daniel Barsky of Minneapolis,
Minnesota were married on April 9th at
the Fountainebleu Hotel in Miami Beach
before honeymooning in Italy.....Grace
Macatee and her husband Keith, the
event manager and marketing coordinator
for Bascom’s Chop House in Clearwater,
and big sister Aven Claire Macatee
welcomed their new baby son, Jack
Gibson Macatee, to their family home
in Largo.....Louise Collins of Odessa is
excited about her new great granddaughter
Poe Zula Rose McGinnis, who is the
daughter of her grandson Dr. Jarred
McGinnis and his wife Sarah of London,
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England.....Ann E. Sabo, a Tampa Bay
Magazine graphic artist, as well as a
cartoonist, whose Off the Pace cartoon
appears regularly in an international horse
racing magazine, attended the third annual
“Jockeys and Jeans” benefit for the
Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund at
Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Florida,
which she and Off the Pace helped
sponsor.....Sherrill Milnes, the famed
American opera singer, and his wife
soprano Maria Zouves, who live in Palm
Harbor, were in Savannah, Georgia to
present the Savannah Voice Festival,
narrated by Sherrill, as part of the annual
Savannah Music Festival.....Mary K. and
John Wilson of St. Petersburg were in
Pittsburgh to see a performance of the show
The Full Monty, which originally starred
their youngest son Patrick Wilson on
Broadway, that was cast and directed this
time by Patrick at his alma mater, Carnegie
Mellon University.....Kris and Ken
Hannon of Dunedin met their daughters
Simone Indianer and Sara Flate,
son-in-law Robert Flate and grandchildren
Luna and Wolfie Flate in Los Angeles
before traveling to Big Sur along the Pacific
Coast Highway.....Susan and Jim Meyers
of St. Petersburg explored Puerto Rico.....
Gary Puckett of Palm Harbor, lead singer
of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap,
entertained aboard a sold out “Flower
Power Cruise” to the Western Caribbean
with passengers dressed in bell bottoms
and tie dye ensembles, who included his
wife Lorrie, as well as her parents,
Dr. Allen and Judith Haimes, and
Deborah and Charlie Rutz of Clearwater
Beach.....Rick Behnke of San Antonio,
Florida and Al Pallack of St. Petersburg
had fun exploring Old Havana, Cuba.....
Sarah Evans, the owner of Found home
décor and furnishings store in Dunedin,
and her husband Evan Tomlin, the senior
vice president of mobile strategy for
Tangoe, attended the Mobile World
Congress, the world’s largest mobility
industry show, while they were in
Barcelona, Spain.....Ginger and Bill
Francisco of Dunedin spent three weeks
touring Bangkok, Thailand and visiting
their daughter Suzanne and granddaughter
Calla in Singapore.....Lisa Hahn chaired
Johns Hopkins Medicine and All Children’s