Ear to Tampa Bay
JULY/AUGUST 2019 | TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 87
at John Hopkins All Children’s
Hospital in St. Petersburg.....
Joan Kline of Belleair is chairing
Lighthouse of Pinellas’ 13th annual
“Point of Light” luncheon benefit
for the blind and visually impaired
in St. Petersburg......Joanie Sigal
of Clearwater is again chairing
“Fashions with Flair, “the Clearwater
Community Volunteers’ 16th annual
runway fashion show by Megan
Simon’s Pippa Pelure Boutique of
St. Petersburg, luncheon and auction
benefit for the Pinellas Sheriff’s
Police Athletic League of Lealman
Sports Complex and for Winter
Wonderland in Clearwater…..
Allison Kropff of WTSP Channel
10 television will host PARC’s
fifth annual Top Chefs foodie dine
around benefit in St. Petersburg.....
Pam Keris-Rubinson, president
of The Kapok Special Events Center
and Garden in Clearwater, and MOR
TV’s Allan Dadetto, president of
the Tampa Bay Area Chapter of the
National Association for Catering
and Events, are co-chairing “A
Taste of NACE” in Clearwater to
benefit the group’s Pat Discianno
Scholarship Fund.....Dr. John and
Dawn Sullivan of Crystal Beach and
David Siracusa of Clearwater are the
presenting sponsors for Wheelchairs
4 Kids’ 9th annual Wheely Good
Time in Clearwater…..Lorna Taylor,
president and CEO of Premier Eye
Care, learned during Tampa Bay
Businesses for Culture and the
Arts’ annual Charlie Hounchell Art
Stars Scholarship Awards Program
in Tampa that in addition to being
selected the group’s 2019 IMPACT
Awards Patron of Culture & the Arts,
this year’s Art Stars Scholarship for
Piano was being named in her honor.
Renée Flaharty, chair of the Debutante Club of Clearwater, and co-chairs, Beth McMullen
and Ela Landegger, welcomed current and past debutantes to Deb Day, the group’s 60th year
kick-off luncheon with presentations on traditions by committee members, flower arranging
by Belleair Garden Club members and etiquette by Tampa Bay Magazine Publisher/Editor
Margaret Word Burnside at Carlouel Yacht Club in Clearwater Beach.
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Blake and Tate Casper of Tampa, generous supporters of Ronald McDonald House Charities,
both personally and through their family’s Caspers Company, enjoyed this year’s
39th annual Ronald McDonald House Charities Tampa Bay Storybook Ball
benefit in Tampa, which had a Wizard of Oz theme.
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