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Area Students Celebrate Season At Ice Sports Forum

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By BARBARA ROUTEN

Tribune correspondent

Published: December 24, 2008

TAMPA - The Ice Sports Forum hosted its annual Holiday Celebration on Ice Dec. 7.

Seventy-four figure skaters from the greater Brandon and South Shore areas who take lessons or train at the rink participated. The youngest skater was three; the oldest was fifty-something.

"The performers at the holiday show... are all amateur skaters," said Tommy Brannen, a forum coach. "Some do it recreationally just to learn the basics and participate in shows; some do it for the physical activity to be healthy and to keep in shape; and some are serious competitors who have a dream of being a champion one day."

Some of the Ice Sports Forum's skaters have competed at the U.S. Regional Championships, Liberty Open in Pennsylvania, National State Games of America in Colorado and the National Showcase Competition in California.

Students who skated in the holiday show are Zoe Alersa, Rachel Arcuri, Melanie Argudo, Jillian Arnold, Lilly Berry, Jayde Billings, Amanda Bishop, Sydni Boles, Courtney Boswell, Lauren Brittain, Alexia Browne, Alanna Carnevale, Audrey Carroll, Alden Cochran, Darci Conklin, Cami Cutchin, Emma Cutkomp, Hannah Cutkomp, Samantha Downing, Gracie Englund, Michelle Fee, Annalise Feeley, Peyton Foley, Megan Fournier, Hannah Frum, Madison Gauvreau, Vanessa Gilbert, Heather Glassberg, Sofia Guizar, Estefania Guizar, Lisa Gullett, Alexandria Hartley, Katie Hawley, Kelsey Hawley, Victoria Houston, Amber Isenbeck, Alexa Jaskiel, Chrissy Kormis, Katie Kruzlic, Brianna Lapwing, Erin Leydon, Courtney Lopez, Christopher Martin, Erin Martin, Nina McDaniel, Jordan Migis, Ainsley Mishka, Riley Moser, AnneMarie Mosiello, Isabella Mourtos, Jordan Muniz, Maddie Muniz, Caitlyn Murdock, Courtney O'Connor, Alexis Plaskon, Isabella Ramirez, Frankie Roberts, Lexi Roberts, Allison Sjoblom, Haley Smith, Sabrina Smith, Jackie Starkey, Kayla Suarez, Sofia Sullivan, Kaylee Swenson, Blair Tolrud, Kissandra Torres, Jayme Valenta, Alexis VanVliet, Emmy Ward, Victoria Weaver, Abbey Worthington and Alexandria Wright.

Bluegrass Extravaganza Features Local Players

SUN CITY CENTER - A fundraiser to help renovate the 210-seat Rollins Theater will include four bluegrass shows: 1 to 3 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. Jan. 3, and 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 4, in the Rollins Theater, 970 Cherry Hills Drive. The public is invited to attend.

The four shows will feature Ron Block, guitarist and banjoist for Allison Krauss and Union Station; teen bluegrass-sensation Sierra Hull, mandolin player; Beth Lawrence, bassist for the Mark Newton Band; and Kelly Emerson, local banjo-playing son of award-winning musician Bill Emerson.

Brandon residents Cory Walker, on banjo, guitar and resonator guitar, and his brother Jarrod, on mandolin, also will play.

The two have been perfecting their craft for several years and perform as the "Bluegrass Parlor Band with Cory and Jarrod Walker."

This summer the brothers participated in a youth exchange tour with Japan. Cory also works with Sierra Hull in her band Highway 111.

Tickets are $17 and are available from 9 a.m. to noon at the atrium kiosk, 1910 S. Pebble Beach Blvd., Sun City Center. To order by credit card, call (813) 642-0606.

Scripture, Carols And Twelfth Night

SUN CITY CENTER - United Community Church, 1501 La Jolla Ave., invites the public to two festive holiday events: a Christmas Eve Candlelight Worship Service of Scripture and Carols at 8 p.m. and a Twelfth Night Epiphany service at 7 p.m. Jan. 2.

The Epiphany service will be followed by a reception featuring English trifle and wassail in the Great Hall.

For information about these free events, call the church office, (813) 634-1304.

Singer And Dancer Also Plays Trumpet

SUN CITY CENTER - Singer, dancer and trumpet player Greg Bonham will perform from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 29, at Community Hall, 1910 S. Pebble Beach Blvd. This show is open to the public.

Born on a sheep farm in Australia, Bonham is based in Las Vegas and has opened for Jay Leno, Joan Rivers, Dom Deloise and Don Rickles.

Tickets are $15.

For details, visit www.greg bonhamweb.com, or call Judy Schings at (813) 642-2001.

Forum Focuses On United Nations

SUN CITY CENTER - The United Nations and its agencies will be the focus of the International Forum of Sun City Center from 9:30 a.m. to noon Jan. 9 in the Florida Room of the Atrium Building, 955 North Course Lane. All Sun City Center residents are invited to attend.

Five panelists will begin the program with up to 10 minutes of remarks. A brief intermission will then precede a question-and-answer period.

Panelists will include Sun City Center residents Dean Mahin, who served in the U.S. State Department Bureau of International Organization Affairs; Tony Espino, director of budget and finance of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria; Kenneth Stephens, technical advisor for the U.N. Industrial Development Organization in several countries in Africa and Asia and an officer for UNIDO in Vienna, Austria; and Charlotte Knaub, a registered nurse who was a consultant for the World Health Organization in Manila. Ambassador Kent Brown, a winter resident of Longboat Key, was U.S. ambassador to Georgia and a corporate representative in Serbia and Kosovo after he retired.

Carl Johnson, former executive director of the Tampa Chamber of Commerce, will be the moderator. Espino is the program director for this event.

Send news and photos of community interest to Barbara Routen at The Tampa Tribune, 505 W. Robertson St., Brandon FL 33511, e-mail neighbors@tampa bay.rr.com or call (813) 657-4531.

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