86 TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE
| MAY/JUNE 2016
Laura Katz, president of the Belleair Garden Club,
thanked Kathe Hardwick and Joan Edwards for
co-chairing the group’s Petals and Poker! Texas
Hold’em Charity Poker Tournament in Belleair,
which was catered by The Stuffed Mushroom in
Safety Harbor.
annual Seagrapes Wine and Food
Festival.....Pat Keel, president of
The Chislers, thanked Celia and Jim
Ferman for serving as the honorary chairs
and Betty Carroll and Sterling Remer
for being the co-chairs of the group’s 20th
annual Market Preview Party cocktail
buffet, live auction and dessert with
entertainment benefit on the verandah at
the 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel at the University
of Tampa.....Mike Dabiri, the owner of
Oriental Rug Bazar in Clearwater, who is
a V.I.P. member of the Persian American
Society of the Tampa Bay Area, a nonreligious,
non-political social organization,
was glad to see that about 800 members
attended the group’s dinner celebration
of the first day of spring, which was held
in Tampa.....Kelly Preston, actress, was
the special guest at a gourmet buffet dinner,
which was held in honor of the International
Day of Happiness to honor community
leaders by the Church of Scientology Flag
Service Organization at the historic Fort
Harrison in Clearwater.....Ellen Markham
Pope and Teri Milligan are co-chairing
The Arc Tampa Bay Foundation’s inaugural
“Wings, Wheels and Wine” benefit in
Clearwater.....David Jenkins, PhD, the
producing artistic director of the Straz
Center’s resident theater company,
announced that Elizabeth Fendrick and
television personality Brendan
McLaughlin of Tampa are co-chairing the
group’s first annual campaign.....Debbie
White of Safety Harbor and Bill Francisco
of Dunedin are the co-chairs of the Dunedin
Fine Art Center’s advisory board.....
Dr. Irwin and Syd Entel and their
Ear to Tampa Bay
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