JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017
| TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 87
clarinet for The Florida Orchestra since
1976, and associate professor at the
University of South Florida, was given the
St. Petersburg Opera Guild’s 2016 Cultural
Award by guild president Marilyn Ward
and St. Petersburg Opera Artistic Director
Mark Sforzini during the guild’s
“Silver Bells” luncheon benefit in
St. Petersburg.....“Road Warrior” Hilary
Zalla, investigative reporter Mike Deeson
and feature reporter Noah Pransky
received 2016 Suncoast Regional Emmy
Awards for their work at WTSP-10
television in St. Petersburg during the
Suncoast Chapter of the National Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences “Emmy
Magic” event in Orlando..... Peggy and
Keith LeClerc and their staff at
International Diamond Center celebrated
the season while raising awareness about
Operation Healing Forces during their
“Christmas Around the World” party at
the store in Clearwater.....Julie and Steve
Weintraub made a special presentation
that included three automobiles to three
deserving families from her Hands Across
the Bay and the Wheels of Success charities
during the annual VIP Party at their Gold
and Diamond Source in Clearwater.....Joe
Cappello and his daughter Jennifer
Spaulding invited guests attending their
holiday cocktail party at their Cappello &
Co. store in Seminole to bring unwrapped
toys to be donated to Toys for Tots. 9
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Tom Brusini, general manager of the Clearwater Yacht Club, and his new bride Terry, who live
in Seminole, visited their friends Wendy and Dale Papke, the owners of Ports of Call Resort in
the Turks and Caicos.
Co-chairs Christy Bower, John Coyne and Candy Barnette, all of Dunedin, were proud of the
Dunedin Historical Museum’s successful annual theater night benefit reception and My Three
Angels play at the Francis Wilson Playhouse in Clearwater.
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