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Golf Club Gets Organized With Officers, Plays A Round

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By BARBARA ROUTEN, Tribune correspondent

Published: February 23, 2008

Updated: 02/21/2008 04:44 pm

SUN CITY CENTER - The 35-member Hogans, a new Sun City Center golf club, recently elected officers from Sun City Center and Kings Point.

They are: Art Swallow, president and publicity chairman; Karen Jones, vice president and secretary; Rich Lucidi and Charlie Strimpell, members at large; and Dave Case and Ron Kingston, league committee members.

Sixteen members of the Hogans played in the group's inaugural round of golf under drizzling but gradually clearing skies Feb. 1 at Cypress Creek Golf Club. Don Giannelli won 21 skins; Swallow, eight; Ron Kingston, six; Jack Moberg, five; and Bill Hudson, three. Swallow earned the lowest net score, 73, and Moberg the lowest gross score, 92.

Twenty-five people attended a meeting Feb. 7 at which plans were discussed to set up at least two rounds of golf weekly at public golf courses. The group also discussed seeking a community association waiver that would allow the club to include nonresident members.

Winners of the Feb. 8 league round at Apollo Beach Golf Club were Moberg, Strimpell, Dave Diehl, Denny Wintersteen, Dennis Freeland, Case, Giannelli and Bud Keating. Low scorers Feb. 11 at the Summerfield Crossings Golf Club were Moberg, Wintersteen, Giannelli and guest Mary Pat Kirchen.

The membership fee is $5. For information, e-mail Swallow at artswallow@aol.com.

Rotary Meeting Speakers Planned

RUSKIN - The Rotary Club of South Shore meets at noon Wednesdays at the Golf Club of Cypress Creek, 1011 Cypress Creek Blvd.

Club members, guests and Rotarians from other clubs are welcome. The lunch costs $12 per person.

Future meeting speakers are: Sherry Crosby of Sun City Center Flowers and Gifts, Wednesday; Barbara Heineken of Planet Partnership, March 5; Louise Thompson of Tampa Bay Community Network, March 12; and county Commissioner Al Higginbotham, March 26. There is no speaker March 19 because of a business meeting.

For information, call Rotarian Anne Madden, (813) 645-3732.

Local Students Win Teenz Ink Contest

TAMPA - Winners of the fifth annual Teenz Ink Contest were recently announced by the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative and co-sponsor Friends of the Library of Tampa-Hillsborough County.

In the high school age group, Daniel Willis, who is home-schooled, won first place for "Memories to Remember." Sharon Baby of Tampa Bay Technical High School won second place for "I Must Feed My Mother."

Middle school winners were first-place finisher Sara Hetherington of Eisenhower Middle School for "Once Upon a Time." Second place went to Stephanie Husley of Rodgers Middle School for "I Am Klutz."

The four 500- to 1,000-word essays - about a boy whose father goes off to war, a white elephant who takes care of his blind mother, writer-athletes who must jump higher than their competitors to pluck words out of the air and adolescents outgrowing awkwardness with the help of pet goldfish - were judged for originality and creativity. Prizes included $100 and $50 gift cards. To read the winning essays, visit www.hcplc.org.

St. Patrick's Day Celebration Planned

RUSKIN - St. Anne Catholic Church, 106 11th Ave. N.E., will celebrate St. Patrick's Day from 5 to 10 p.m. March 6.

Corned beef and cabbage, potatoes, beer and wine, Irish coffee, tea and dessert will be served. An Irish variety show "direct from the Emerald Isle" will provide entertainment.

Tickets are $30 per person. For tickets or information, call the church office, (813) 645-1714, or Jen Carlson, St. Patrick's Day committee chair, at (941) 726-2326.

"So, join us ... for a St. Patrick's Day Celebration you are guaranteed to remember," said Genevieve Szczepaniak, chairwoman of the St. Anne Communications Committee.

'Sex after Sixty?' Won't Cause Blushes
SUN CITY CENTER - At auditions Jan. 14 for the Pelican Players' first musical, "Sex after Sixty?," Chuck Wirick and Annie Hunter listened to singers, Harriet Wheeler took dancers through their paces and director Carlyn Postle, producer Rose Ostrander, assistant director Joanne Rudy, Wirick and Wheeler listened to actors read from the scripts.

"Despite the title, 'Sex after Sixty?,' this is not a risque play, but a spoof," said Dora Murray, publicity chairwoman for the Pelican Players.

"If there was any doubt about this show being a comedy, the peals of laughter in that room assured those of us sitting there that the audience will be in for a very special treat on April 16-17," Postle said.

Tickets are available for the 2008 Follies performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. March 1 in the Borini Theater, 1900 Clubhouse Drive. The cost is $11 per person; proceeds benefit the Pelican Players Scholarship Fund. Call Ostrander, (813) 633-1753, for information and tickets.

Sorority Presents Bunco For The Kids

BRANDON - Bunco for the Kids will be presented by the service sorority Kappa Kappa Chapter of Kappa Delta Phi at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Center Place Fine Arts and Civic Association, 619 Vonderburg Drive.

The event is being co-chaired by Claudia Yake and Nancy Kelley.

Tickets are $20 and are available at Center Place and from Yake, (813) 685-7998. The event will benefit charities that help children in the greater Brandon area.

Businesses and individuals are invited to donate door prizes. For information, call Susan Saunders, (813) 684-6703.

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

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