Kathy Roble, director of volunteer
services for Empath Health, which is
headquartered in Clearwater and has been
serving the community for 40 years,
congratulated its 2017 Volunteers of the
Year: Martha Lenderman for the Mary
J. Labyak Award, Marie Christner for the
Miriam “Bunny” Flarsheim Award for
Patient/Family Support, Audrey
Lederman for her Specialized Volunteer
Service Award, Roy Eigenmann for his
Organized Support Volunteer Award,
Heather and Morgan Fox for their shared
Outstanding Young Leader Award, plus
Ryan Regan for receiving WEDU’s Be
More Inspiring Rising Star Award.....Sonny
LaRosa, the 91-year-old founder of
America’s Youngest Jazz Band, subject of
Ear to Tampa Bay
Betty and Ambassador Mel Sembler of
St. Petersburg celebrated their wedding
anniversary by hosting a Season End
Reception for the Florida Orchestra’s
musicians, staff, musician sponsors and
board members following Beethoven’s
Emperor Concerto at the Mahaffey Theater
in St. Petersburg.
and Judith Haimes, all of Clearwater
Beach, recently received her Doctor of
Medicine degree from the University of
South Florida’s Morsani School of Medicine
in Tampa and will begin her residency in
pediatrics at Johns Hopkins All Children’s
Hospital in St. Petersburg.....Anita Apley
and Keith Kurber, who both live in
Dunedin, were inducted into the City of
Dunedin’s Senior Hall of Fame in
recognition of their community service.....
2015 Community Spirit Awardee Betty Jo Andrews congratulated Bob and Bill
Crown, who along with their wives, Delene and Bette and their late brother
Ron’s wife Karen, were the 2017 honorees during the Salvation Army’s 12th
annual William E. Hale Community Prayer Breakfast in Clearwater.
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Madeline and Lonnie
Robinson thanked
former television
news anchor Gayle
Sierens for being
master of ceremonies
for the annual
“Heroes Appreciation
Lunch” at the Safety
Harbor Resort and
Spa, an event for the
Wheelchairs 4 Kids
nonprofit they founded
in Tarpon Springs to
improve the lives of
children with physical
disabilities.
Renée and Dr. Ron Vaughn, president of the University of
Tampa, who have been named the honorary chairs for the
American Cancer Society’s 2018 Cattle Baron’s Ball, hosted a
reception in their Tampa home to thank the benefit’s supporters.
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a movie and the inspirational mentor to
hundreds of Tampa Bay area musicians
who now share his love for Big Band music,
was inducted into the Long Island Music
Hall of Fame.....Julian Hartzog of Tarpon
Springs, whose metallic fashion creations
have won awards in New Zealand’s World
of Wearable Art 2014, 2015 and 2016 shows,
will preview his 2017 entries during the
Dunedin Fine Art Center’s Wearable Art
Thirteen runway show in August…..Dr.
Samuel A. Wickline, the inaugural Tampa
General Hospital chair in cardiovascular
medicine and director of the USF Health
Heart Institute, received special recognition
during “Investing in Discovery,” an inside
update on USF Downtown Tampa,
presented at the USF Center for Advanced
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