Things Heard by The Ear
group members: Gail Eggeman of
St. Petersburg, Mary Lou Krentzman
and Trudy Word Little of Clearwater,
Gay McAllister Miller of Knoxville,
Tennessee, Amy Rice Niswanger of
Eagle, Colorado and Ray Gaines of
Tallahassee, Florida, who gathered
for a reunion in Charleston, South
Carolina…..Sarah Sheppard of
Dunedin, a stylist at LaPosh Salon
in Clearwater, visited friends in
Chattanooga, Tennessee.....Pat and
Bill Blizzard of Dunedin took a
road trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee,
Blowing Rock, North Carolina and
sights in between.....Doris and Eric
Goldman of Oldsmar vacationed in
Maine and in Vail, Colorado.....Martha
and Jay Margolis of Safety Harbor
visited their son Josh and his bride
Michele Karplak, who had recently
moved to Denver, Colorado..... Molly
and Julian Waits of Dunedin were
in Spain.....Bill Moore was the chair,
Clearwater Mayor Frank Hibbard was
the 2021 Give Hope USA Ambassador
while Carr, Riggs & Ingram was
the winning team at the 18th annual
Championship Charity Works Cup
Challenge Golf Tournament, which
was held at the MacDill Air Force Base
Bay Palms Golf Complex in Tampa
to support veterans and homeless
programs serving children and adults
in partnership with the Florida Elks
Charities, and the Give Hope USA
wellness-medical aid program…..
Chief Anthony Holloway, St.
Petersburg’s chief of police, was the
guest speaker for “Seeking Reality
Ear to Tampa Bay
The Ear is wearing 10.6 carat total weight
Asscher cut diamond earrings with .37 carat
total weight accent diamonds in 18K white
gold from International Diamond Center in
Clearwater and Tampa.
INTERNATIONAL DIAMOND CENTER
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Karen and Gary Sasso hosted a
dinner party at their home in Tampa
to benefit the city’s David A. Straz Jr.
Center for the Performing Arts, which
was attended by auction purchasers
Charlene and Mardy Gordon of
Crystal Beach and their guests…..
Liam Tieder, son of Rebecca
Gross Tieder and Chip Tieder and
grandson of Judge Raymond Gross,
all of Clearwater, celebrated Liam’s
bar mitzvah during a service and
lunch at Temple B’Nai Israel and later
with a glow-in-the-dark splash bash
at the Highland Recreation Center
in Clearwater…..Andrea and Paul
Jarvis invited friends to celebrate
her birthday with them individually
on their artistically decorated
and lit terrace, rather than at her
traditional group party…..Morgan
O’Connor, daughter of Donna and
Ray O’Connor of Dunedin, and
Travis Nafe of Tampa, who recently
became engaged, are planning their
wedding for May, 2022.....Maverick
McMullen, son of Karen and Brett
McMullen of Clearwater, and Amy
Lofgren, daughter of Kathy and
Thomas Lofgren of Safety Harbor,
have announced their engagement
to be married. They met when they
walked down the aisle together in his
sister Shelby and Joe Blattenberger’s
wedding in Clearwater Beach last
year…..Sydney and Jonathan
Meighan of Clearwater are the proud
new parents of Eleanor Rose “Ellie”
Meighan, who is the fourth grandchild
of Lorrie and Gary Puckett and
the fourth great grandchild of Dr.
Allen and Judith Haimes, all of
Sand Key, Clearwater Beach.....Dr.
Maria Loulourgas, her husband
Philip Gaitan, owners of Eye See
Clear Vision in Dunedin, and Effy
and Peter Sartes of Clearwater and
their families rode horses on the beach
and shot skeet while vacationing at
The Cloister at Sea Island, Georgia.....
The Rev. Richard Cushman, who
was the popular youth minister at
Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church
in Clearwater from the mid-1960s to
the early 1970s and is now a retired
minister in Summerville, South
Carolina, was visited by a group of
his former Peace Memorial youth