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MAY/JUNE 2018 | TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 85
sixth annual Heart of a Champion
Scholarship Dinner in Tampa, which
honored local student athletes and
featured Marine Corps veteran Rob
Jones as the guest speaker.....Sandy
Kearney, founder of Angels Against
Abuse, which has made a difference in
the lives of abused and neglected
children and youths in our community
for 11 years, welcomed guests to the
group’s 11th annual Blue Ribbon Gala
with keynote speaker David Yates of
the Clearwater Marine Aquarium at the
St. Petersburg Yacht Club.....Dimity
and Mark Carlson hosted a casual
1940s-style cocktail party, complete
with a screening of the 1945 musical
comedy The Stork Club for the Museum
of Fine Arts Collectors Choice Gala XVII
sponsors at their home in Feather
Sound, Clearwater, as a prelude to the
Museum of Fine Arts’ Collectors Choice
Gala XVII, a glamorous flashback to the
1940s and 1950s Stork Club with dinner
catered by Cafe Ponte and dancing,
which Dimity chaired at the museum
in St. Petersburg.....Amy and Gary
Connors of Dunedin and Katie and
Clint Cole of Belleair co-chaired the
Robby Tinsley and Alexa d’Angelo, daughter
of Gina d’Angelo and Barry Levine of Temple
Terrace, were married in Haverhill, Maryland,
so Alexa’s 94-year-old grandmother could
attend. The couple honeymooned in Maine
and were given a reception at the Straz Center
for the Performing Arts in Tampa.
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