Ear to Tampa Bay
Cindy Francis, wife of The Florida Orchestra’s Music Director Michael Francis, and Joan Jaicks,
Florida Orchestra Guild-- St. Petersburg’s benefit chair, were thanked by Emily Gillespie, the
guild’s president, for helping make its “50th Anniversary Tea” benefit so successful. The event
in St. Petersburg featured tea tips by MacDill Air Force Base’s Protocol Officer Kay Leonard.
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Education Technology from Arizona
State University to her previous Master
of Science in Math and Master of Arts
in Math degrees.....Nick Dukas of Palm
Harbor has just signed a three-year
agreement for songs that he has written
and recorded to be played on Sirius XM
radio…..Becca McCoy, actor, singer
and creative director for First Unity, led
by author Rev. Temple Hayes, is
spearheading ART46/4 to help bridge
the arts community by presenting special
public arts events at the group’s Spiritual
Campus in St. Petersburg…..Devin
Pappas is the chair and Dr. Joe and
Elif Fitzgerald’s PureLife Medi-Spa is
the main sponsor for the second annual
“Denim and Diamonds” brunch at the
Belleair Country Club to benefit Julie
Weintraub’s Hands Across the Bay
charity.....Montserrat and Emmanuel
Cerf of Treasure Island will chair the
“New York, New York”-themed Sueños
benefit for the Salvador Dalí Museum
in St. Petersburg this fall…..Kim Feaster
of Largo will serve an additional term
as president of the Largo Lion’s Club.....
Gail Phares of St. Petersburg was
crowned queen and her princesses were
Rebecca Malowany, Carol Bonanno,
Catherine deHaan, Natalie De
Vicente, Angeline Howell and Gina
Wilkins at the Queen of Hearts Ball in
St. Petersburg, which benefited Friends
of Strays and the St. Petersburg Free
Clinic. 9
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Brooke Boccacino,
director of corporate
philanthropy for
Suncoast Hospice
Foundation, thanked
Kendall Kirkham, cohost
of CBS 10 News’
Great Day Live television
morning show, for
serving as master of
ceremonies at “Cheers
for 25 Years,” Suncoast
Hospice Foundation’s
25th annual Fashion
Show Luncheon and
Boutique held in Palm
Harbor to benefit
Empath Health and its
network of services.
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