NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 | TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 85
Shopping Network to benefit and
promote awareness of Lyme disease.....
Karen Van De Putte, planned giving
director for the Suncoast Hospice
Foundation of Empath Health in
Clearwater, announced that an
endowment fund has been created to
fund a teen volunteer college scholarship
program.....Pattie Meek, Jamie
Broome, Arlene Cohen, Debbie
Amrhein, Gerry Goldhammer,
Deborah Nicklaus, Katie Pemble,
Susan Rooth, Fran Rinna, Sandy
Miller, Kathy Wilder and Joan
McCreary, who recently joined together
to found Empath Health Women’s
Giving Network philanthropic group to
learn about and support Suncoast
Hospice and Empath’s other members,
have already funded four projects…..
Ann McKeel Ross of Tampa is the chair
of the second floor art installations at
the Straz Center in Tampa, which is the
only performing arts center in the
country to partner with the National
Sculpture Association, whose artists are
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Elizabeth Elmeer was surprised by
the Honorable Bob Schmidt, mayor of
Belleair Shore with a birthday dinner party
at Cafe Ponte in Clearwater.