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Dr. Zena Lansky and Warren
Rodgers of Clearwater hosted a Labor
Day holiday dinner party at the Belleair
Country Club..... Lynn Smeraldo
invited “The Bad Girls” and friends to a
wine party at her home in Dunedin.....
Deborah Nader Rutz invited guests to
a cocktail party in her home on Sand Key
as a prelude to a wine-paired dinner
party she hosted at Carlouel Yacht Club
on Clearwater Beach.....Susan and Stan
Levy held their annual “With Our Loved
Ones” dessert party at their home in
Tampa to welcome in the Jewish New
Year.....Commissioner Deborah Kynes
held “The Wizard of OzEdin” Halloween
Party, her annual girls’ costume evening,
at her home in Dunedin.....Andrea
Graham and her husband Geoff Simon
invited friends to their annual Jewish
New Year dinner party at their home in
Tampa.....Karen Crown of Belleair and
friends celebrated her birthday with a
lunch at Wildflower Cafe in Clearwater....
Mary Ann and Brad Morse hosted an
Opera Tampa dinner party in their St.
Petersburg home, which was catered by
Dr. Barry Levine and his wife Gina De
Angelo of Tampa and included musical
entertainment.....Montserrat Cerf of
Treasure Island celebrated her birthday
during a wine-paired dinner at the Dalí
Museum in St. Petersburg, which was
created by Chef Chuck Bandel of Cafe
Gala and topped off with a cake sent by
her husband Emmanuel, who was in
Manila in the Philippines and could not
attend the party.....Coley and Matt
Simmons of South Tampa had a baby
daughter they’ve named Saylor
Elizabeth Simmons. Her grandparents
are Terri and John Daniels and Candi
and John Westerberg of St. Petersburg,
and Sarah and John Simmons of
Dunedin, and her great-grandmothers
are Jeanette Hale of Dunedin and
Joann Simmons of Clearwater.....April
Wolstencroft and Kevin Caputo, the
front of house manager for Bascom’s
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The Ear is wearing one of a pair of 6.13 carat
tw oval, deep blue fiery sapphires set with
2.73 carat tw round brilliant and 1.02 carat
tw marquis diamonds set in 18k white gold
exclusively from the Gold and Diamond
Source in Clearwater.
Chop House in Clearwater have
welcomed Kalob Martin Caputo,
their new baby boy, to their home in
Carrollwood, Tampa.....Judy and Allen
Davis of St. Petersburg visited their son
Martin and his family in Austin, Texas.....
Dr. Allen and Judith Haimes of
Clearwater Beach attended the 27th
Annual Richard Nader’s Summer Doo
Wop Concert at the New Jersey
Performing Arts Center with the show’s
producers, Nader Mara Entertainment’s
Deborah Nader of Clearwater Beach
and Tommy Mara of Spring Hill, after
which the Haimeses spent a week in
Atlantic City, New Jersey, visiting with
Senator Bob Rovner, who has been a
friend for the past 60 years.....Linda
Saul-Sena, former Hillsborough County
commissioner, and her husband Mark
Sena of Tampa were joined by actress
Eugenie Bondurant and her husband
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Paul Wilborn, the director of the
Palladium Theatre, who live in
St. Petersburg, and Karen Lobo and her
husband Dick, the former CEO of
Tampa’s PBS station, who now reside in
Washington, D.C., for their annual Labor
Day house party at the Senas’ getaway in
the Berkshires.....Loretta Horne and her
husband Bill, Clearwater City Manager,
visited their daughter in Salt Lake
City, Utah.....Dr. Bob Drapkin and
his wife Ranee, who recently moved
from Clearwater Beach to St. Petersburg,
visited with friends in Santa Fe, New
Mexico.....Trudy and David Little of
Clearwater and their daughter Margaret
Marie, along with cousins from
Tennessee, and Jan Doty Word of Santa
Monica, California, who grew up in
Tampa, met up at Indian Market in
Santa Fe, New Mexico.....Janet and Phil
Henderson of Dunedin visited friends
and played golf in Breckenridge and Vail,
Colorado.....Elisa and Rick Katzeff
of Dunedin vacationed in Telluride,
Colorado.....Susan Rolston and her
artist husband Jim of St. Petersburg flew
out West to spend a month visiting our
country’s National Parks in a motor
home.....Marcy and Bob Shuck of
St. Pete Beach and Chris Schmidt of
Hartland, Wisconsin, and her brother,
The Honorable Bob Schmidt, the
mayor of Belleair Shores, took a National
Geographic tour of our country’s western
states.....Cheri Taylor and Paul
Castagliola cruised with Mirella and
Wade James aboard the Castagliola’s
motor yacht from Marathon to the
Marina Hemingway in Cuba, where they
spent over a week visiting museums and
exploring Havana, the city of Cienfuegos
and the countryside before returning
home to St. Petersburg.....Ken Schumann,
owner of Dunedin’s Dry Cleaner,
cruised to The Abacos, British Honduras
and other ports.....Donna Dugan of
St. Petersburg accompanied her friends
Susan Ugan of St. Petersburg and
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