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JULY/AUGUST 2018 | TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 85
benefit at the restaurant.....Joan
Dragon, co-owner of Wildflower
Cafe in Clearwater, will continue
her leadership of the Suncoast Jazz
Festival on Clearwater Beach for
its 29th year.....Kimberly Church,
president and CEO of Lighthouse
of Pinellas for the visually impaired
in Largo, and Joan Kline, chair of
the group’s 12th annual Point of
Light luncheon, announced that
the benefit in St. Petersburg will
honor restaurateur Frank Chivas
of Belleair Bluffs and Clearwater
attorney Michael Porter and feature
Clearwater mental health counselor
Wanda Austin as speaker.....Lorna
Taylor and Stephen Gay are cochairing
the 2018 Impact Awards
reception, dinner and program
benefit in Tampa for the Tampa
Bay Businesses for Culture and the
Arts, which will honor Stanton
Storer, Mernet Larsen and USF
Graphicstudio.....Elif Fitzgerald
of PureLife Medi-Spa in Largo is
spearheading “Hand in Hand,” a
dinner with entertainment by the
stars of Broadway’s Rocktopia and the
Trans-Siberian Orchestra to benefit
Julie Weintraub’s Hands Across the
Bay charity on Clearwater Beach.....
Lisa Simington, a board trustee,
and her husband Paul Scharf
Katherine Knoll was surprised by Dr. Erick
Grana with a birthday dinner/dance at the
Straz Center’s Maestro’s Restaurant in Tampa
upon the Odessa couple’s return from Africa.
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