Ear to Tampa Bay
of Tampa will chair the Straz
Center’s Hamilton-themed
Broadway Ball gala fundraiser
in Tampa.....Kathy Devlin was
installed as president of the
Dunedin Garden Club at its
recent annual luncheon…..
Nancy Preis of St. Petersburg
is working with the Walmart
founding family to build a stateof
the-art performing art center
in northern Arkansas.....Devin
Gross, son of Linda and
Windstar Homes’ Bobby Gross
of Pinellas Park, who graduated
with honors from Calvary
Christian High School, is on his
way to the University of Central
Florida in Orlando as a pre-med
student…..Vinnie Luisi, the
Dunedin History Museum’s
executive director, and Blair
Kovi, its interim board
pre s i d e n t , congratulated
Dr. Pat Snair and Pat
Kennedy on being selected as
this year’s History Makers
during its annual picnic, held in
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Randy and Ellen Crisorio proudly introduced singer John Waite (center) to their guests before
he performed with the John Waite Band at a private party at their Tarpon Springs home that
was catered by Cafe Ponte of Clearwater.
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Jeannie Shapiro, CEO of the Clearwater Free Clinic, was presented with
the 2018 William E. Hale Community Spirit Award by The Salvation
Army’s Core Officer, Capt. Michael Harris and Community Advisory
Board chair Capt. Andy Burwell during the Army’s annual Community
Prayer Breakfast in Clearwater.
conjunction with the opening of
the Smithsonian Exhibition’s
“Hometown Teams: How
Sports Shape America.”9
Linda Wittmershaus-Macik, president of the Sterling Society,
which inspires, connects, educates and entertains in support of
the Dunedin Fine Art Center, thanked Syd Entel for chairing the
society’s 14th annual Mother’s Day “Royal Tea,” which featured
Highland dancers and vintage wedding fashions.