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Sun City Center FunFest Organizers Seek Volunteers

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By BARBARA ROUTEN, Tribune correspondent

Published: January 16, 2008

SUN CITY CENTER - The call is out for volunteers to help out at the upcoming Sun City Center FunFest.

The event, in its ninth year and slated for March 15, is a day of free entertainment, health checkups, exhibits by some of the 140 Sun City Center Community Association clubs and "reasonably priced food," said Ann Marie Leblanc, a board member and event chairwoman.

The festival will take place at the SCC central campus on North Pebble Beach Boulevard.

"FunFest is about showcasing the SCC lifestyle," Leblanc said.

"Planning has actually been under way all year," LeBlanc said, although the core group of 19 met formally for the first time in December. "We are fortunate that many of our veteran committee members will help again this year."

Judy Schings, (813) 642-9116, is entertainment chairwoman. And Barbara Gingrich is helping her line up acts for the Florida Room, Rollins Theater and outdoor tent.

Linda Cannarella, (813) 633-3500, is coordinator for events at other campus locations.

Now that club presidents have been notified about opportunities to have a table or become a sponsor, "It will help tremendously if they respond now rather than at the last minute to let us know their intentions," Cannarella said.

Fred Kroog, liaison for business exhibits and sponsorships, can be reached at (813) 633-3604.

Other committee members include Lyn Reitz, association manager; Bill and Phyllis Hodges, publicity; John and Linda Bowker, welcoming; Lannie Cardwell and Bill Dauber, parking; Bill Griffin, food; Kelly Emerson, association operations; Marcy Kuhn, chairman's assistant; Marian Armstrong and Bruce Arnold, advisers; Paul Thibault, sponsors; Lannie Cardwell, security; and Deputy Rob Thornton, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

For information or to volunteer, call the association office, (813) 633-3500.

Celebrate The New Year With Fantastic Dinner
SUN CITY CENTER - The new year has begun, and United Community Church invites people to celebrate with them at a Fantastic Friday dinner and/or show Friday at the church, 1501 La Jolla Ave.

Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. to the musical sounds of Manuel Escudero on piano. Dinner - broccoli salad, almond chicken with cream sauce, baked sweet potato with cinnamon butter, cranberry sauce, rolls, strawberry-topped meringues and coffee and iced tea - will begin at 6 p.m. The show, featuring Don Juceam crooning Frank Sinatra tunes, will start at 7:15.

Tickets are $15 per person for the dinner-and-show package, or $3 for only the show. Tickets may be bought from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday and Tuesday - the reservations deadline - or from 10 to 10:45 a.m. Sunday at the church.

For information, call Dick Herrmann, (813) 633-3740.

Gardeners To Plant Tree For Arbor Day
SUN CITY CENTER - The Elegant Gardeners Club of Sun City Center invites all Sun City Center residents to attend a celebration of Florida's Arbor Day at a tree-planting ceremony from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Sun City Center Emergency Squad, 101 Ray Watson Drive.

"The club is currently in the process of renovating the flower beds at the squad and is committed to bringing added beauty to the site, given all that the emergency squad does for our city," said Molly Tenney, club president. "Planting a tree for Arbor Day accomplishes not only that goal, but doing it on that special date acknowledges our commitment to the environment in our town, and the usefulness of trees in protecting and enhancing that environment."

A flag-raising ceremony and ribbon cutting by Christine Patrick, chief of the emergency squad, will precede the club members' planting of the tree.

"We are also sponsoring a truly significant event for the South Shore area on Feb. 7," Tenney said. It will be a free "full-day workshop on landscape solutions for homeowners that will focus on water conservation, Florida native plants, xeriscaping and integrated pest management."

More information is available on the special events page at the garden club Web site, www.sccegc.org.

Florida Master Naturalist Program Offered

RUSKIN - Camp Bayou, 4140 24th St. S.E., will offer the uplands module of the Florida Master Naturalist Program for five consecutive Saturdays beginning Feb. 2.

Included will be 12 PowerPoint presentations, three field trips and a required final project.

The cost is $225 for the 40-hour class, two manuals, a program patch, certificate and pin. To preregister by the Saturday deadline, call Dolly Cummings, nature center education director, at (813) 363-5438. For information, go to www.campbayou.org/mn/mn07.html.

Golf Tournament To Drop Balls

RIVERVIEW - The Greater Riverview Chamber of Commerce will shower 1,000 golf balls on the driving range in a ball drop at Summerfield Crossings Golf Club, 13050 Summerfield Blvd., at the start of the chamber's 14th annual golf tournament Feb. 2.

Balls for the drop are available for purchase for $5 each or $20 for five balls at the chamber office, 10520 Riverview Drive.

Registration for the tournament will begin at 11:30 a.m.; the shotgun start is at 1 p.m. Lunch will be provided, as will an awards dinner scheduled for 5:30 p.m.

The cost for an individual player is $90. Hole sponsorships are $150; team sponsorships are $300; hole and team sponsorships are $500; greens sponsorships are $75.

"Sponsoring a hole allows you to market your business at that tee box," said Kitty Cunningham, executive director of the chamber. "What a great way to get your business known and have a great time doing it."

For details call the chamber at (813) 234-5944 or call Jill Andrew, tournament chairwoman, at (813) 657-8587.

Concerts Benefit Scholarship Fund
SUN CITY CENTER - The Kiwanis Club Foundation of Sun City Center will play host to three concerts to benefit the foundation's college scholarship fund.

The first is "An Exotic Evening," featuring Yvonne Rene Dechance, soprano, and Tara Richards Swartzbaugh, pianist, at 7:30 p.m. today in the Great Hall of United Community Church, 1501 La Jolla Ave.

"This unforgettable evening of song showcases the exotic ... when composers thought outside their own lands and let their imaginations run wild!" said Joe Nargolwala, foundation chairman. "Beautiful songs by Scarlatti, Holst, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Friml and more."

Tickets are $8 per person, available at the door.

Chuck Wirick and the Sun City Center Men's Chorus will perform "All the Songs We Love to Sing" at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 23 in the sanctuary at the Sun City Center United Methodist Church, 1210 W. Del Webb Blvd.

Tickets are $8 per person and are available weekdays from the church office, during the fellowship hour Sundays at the church, at the Atrium Kiosk, 945 North Course Lane, and at the door the day of the show.

The Friends of Kiwanis, a musical group led by Chuck Wirick, that supports the endeavors of the Kiwanis Club of Sun City Center, will present a concert of light classical music at 3 p.m. Feb. 3 at Community Hall, 1910 S. Pebble Beach Blvd.

Tickets, $5 per person, are available at the Atrium Kiosk, 945 North Course Lane, from 9 a.m. to noon Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays or by calling Nargolwala, (813) 633-8574, or at the door an hour before the show.

Enjoy the music and benefit our college-bound high school students, Nargolwala said.

Sorority Plans To Go Exotic

WIMAUMA - The Laureate Zeta Kappa Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi will meet Thursday at the home of Ginny Burrows.

Connie Stephan, president, will call the board meeting to order at 7 p.m.; the regular meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. Jody Wheeler will present a "New Year Trivia" program.

Peggy Burrows and Melba Hausman will serve an early lunch at 11 a.m. Saturday at Burrows' home. Then the group will travel to Elmira's Wildlife Sanctuary, a nonprofit corporation in Wimauma for exotic animals that need a home.

For information, call Stephan, (813) 634-7890.

For information about Elmira's Wildlife Sanctuary, visit www.elmiraswildlife.org.

Snippets

The Apollo Beach Sail and Power Squadron will hold its next meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church Hall, 5309 U.S. 41 N. Call Charlie Feldschau, (813) 785-5086. ... The Performing Arts Club of Sun City Center will present "Song of New York," starring Ellen Kleinschmidt and Lew Resseguie, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Jan. 31, Feb. 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 and 16, in the Rollins Theater, 970 Cherry Hills Drive. Tickets, $10 per person, are available at the Atrium Kiosk, 945 North Course Lane, or, for credit card orders, by phone, at (813) 642-0606.

Send news and photos of community interest to Barbara Routen at The Tampa Tribune, 505 W. Robertson St., Brandon FL 33511, e-mail neighbors

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