BuzzWorthyitems of note
Terry Tillung has received the 2017
President’s Elite Award from Coldwell
Banker International Residential Real
Estate in recognition of her commitment
and impressive sales accomplishments.
Terry was also named to Coldwell
Banker’s Florida 100.
Jayme Ribeiro-Neto, the general
manager of Telemundo 49, has
announced that meteorologist Ruben
Capote and journalist Alexis Boentes
have joined the station’s news team.
WRMD is Telemundo’s local television
station that serves Spanish language
viewers in the Tampa Bay area, along
with a mobile app and website at
telemundo49.com.
Dr. Stephen Leatherman, the
director for the Laboratory of Coastal
Research at Florida International
University in Miami, has been listing
the world’s 10 Top Beaches since 1991.
Known as “Dr. Beach,” he has once again
named Dunedin’s Caladesi Island State
Park to this year’s list. He says the beach
has crystalline white quartz sand that is
Largo attorney Joe Pippen flew to Memphis, Tennessee, to present a $1 million check to St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital from the estate of professional golfer Dennis Zinkon, who lived in
Haines City and played in three U.S. Open Championships before his untimely death.
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Tina Nichols has opened Just Tina’s on Main Street in Safety Harbor where
she teaches collage art and jewelry making as well as re-selling clothing, along
with art merchandise by herself and other artists.
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Dr. Karen Singer, a board certified plastic surgeon, and Sam
Cantrell, director of operations for the Foggiare Institute in Largo
on West Bay Drive, welcomed guests to a reception in honor of
Dr. Singer, Foggiare Institute’s new medical director, who will do
aesthetics, dermal fillers and other cosmetic injectibles.