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LAMPLighters’ Lights, Festival, Hope
“Lights, Festival, Hope,” the 11th annual LAMPLighters fundraiser, formerly known as “Lights, Fashion, Hope,” included a food
truck festival in the outdoor courtyard of this year’s venue, the Bleakley Bavol Denman & Grace law firm campus in north Tampa,
which allowed for social distancing and other health safety concerns. One hundred percent of the fundraiser’s proceeds went to
support the homeless and at-risk children served by Metropolitan Ministries and the foster children of Joshua House. North Tampa
resident Tony March, CEO of the Pay It Backward Foundation, gave a brief talk encouraging LAMPLighters’ volunteers and their
guests to continue supporting the evening’s beneficiaries.
Kimber Williams, chair of the Lights, Festival,
Hope benefit, and her husband Robert
Williams thanked guests for supporting
Metropolitan Ministries and Joshua House.
Nancy Battaglia and her husband Brian
Battaglia, an attorney with the evening’s host
firm, loved seeing its building and grounds
being enjoyed by partygoers for such
a good cause.
Dale Peterson and his wife, Ivy Peterson, the
fundraiser’s co-chair who arranged for the
event’s guest speaker Tony March and The
Cake Girl mini-cupcakes, were among the
evening’s sponsors.
Marianne Bondanza, one of the wellorchestrated
fundraiser’s co-chairs, enjoyed
sampling the fare provided by well-spaced
food trucks with her daughter Morgan Watts.
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Attorney Bob Bleakley was thanked by
his wife Charlene Bleakley, president of
LAMPLighters, for contributing his law
firm’s north Tampa offices for the
evening’s venue.
Kurt Hull and his wife Amy Hull, the
LAMPLighters public relations chair, danced
to the band’s songs sung by Elena Wagner, a
member of LAMPLighters, who co-chaired
its 2016 benefit.
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