Tour of Homes.....Aileen Rodriguez of
Tampa, the board vice chair of Tampa
Hispanic Heritage Inc., is the chair for
the group’s Hispanic Man and Woman
of the Year Gala.....Lorna Taylor and
Stephen Gay are the chairs, Margaret
Word Burnside and Aaron Fodiman
are the honorary chairs and Russell
Rhodes will emcee the Tampa Bay
Businesses for Culture and the Arts’
annual Impact Awards reception and
dinner honoring Maestro Michael
Francis, Peter Zinober and Gianna and
Ear to Tampa Bay
St. Petersburg Opera Guild…..Gina
d’Angelo and her husband Dr. Barry
Levine of Florida Health Care News, who
reside in Temple Terrace, are chairing the
David L. Straz, Jr. Center for the
Performing Arts’ 30th anniversary
celebration Broadway Ball in Tampa,
which will honor President and CEO
Judy Lisi and have a Gloria and Emilio
Estefan On Your Feet theme.....Dr. Beth
Wardrum and Bette Dolinsky, both of
St. Petersburg, are co-chairing the Florida
Orchestra Guild, St. Petersburg’s Holiday
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Michelle “Molly Heart” De Carion of Pompano Beach,
below, was selected as the 2017 Ms. Orange Fest Pin-Up Girl
by judges Pink Elephant Pin Up magazine publisher
Jayne Rose, Tampa Bay Magazine publisher/editor
Margaret Word Burnside and former
Dunedin commissioner Ron Barnette, while
Savitre “Bangkok Bunny” Schaefferkoetter of Clearwater,
left, won the People’s Choice award during the eighth
annual Orange Festival in Edgewater Park, Dunedin, to
benefit the educational programs of the city’s Historical
Museum and Chamber.
Neil Gobioff in Tampa.....Tonya Corder
of St. Petersburg is chairing “An Evening
of Purpose,” PARC’s 48th annual Black
Tie Ball in St. Petersburg.....Liz and Greg
Sembler of St. Petersburg will serve as
honorary chairs for the Bowtie Ball,
which will honor PBS news legend and
author Judy Woodruff and benefit the
Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg…..
Theresa and Rick Klingel of
St. Petersburg are chairing “Midnight in
the Garden,” the Suncoast Hospice
Foundation and Empath Health’s annual
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