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Ballroom Champions To Perform In Sun City Center

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By BARBARA ROUTEN

Tribune correspondent

Published: February 18, 2009

SUN CITY CENTER - The Moonglow Dance Club will sponsor a dance exhibition by ballroom dance champions Richard and Laurie Collett at the club's dance from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Feb. 26 in Community Hall, 1910 S. Pebble Beach Blvd.

The couple competed the past two years in Celebrity Dancing in Tampa Bay at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, which raised more than $85,000 for The Spring of Tampa Bay. The Spring provides shelter for women and children in crisis.

The Colletts have performed all over the world. Their travels included a tour with the U.S. Professional American Style Team for crowds of about 8,000 in Russia. They won the Triple Crown Theatrical Championships as amateurs and again as professionals. They are the first dance team to do that in 31 years.

Richard is a real estate manager and retired Navy chief petty officer. Laurie is a neurologist, consultant and writer. Together, they own the Rhapsody Ballroom in Tampa.

Tickets are $5 and free for Moonglow club members.

For information about the club, contact Claire Imhof at (813) 642-0171.

Network Helps Students Seek Financial Aid

GIBSONTON - East Bay High School, 7710 Old Big Bend Road, will host College Goal Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday in the media center. The free event is sponsored by ENLACE Florida, whose representatives and volunteers will help students and their parents fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

FAFSA calculations determine a family's eligibility for federal, state and college-based financial aid and the family's own financial responsibility in sending a student to college. College may not be an impossible dream.

ENLACE Florida is a network sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and managed by the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships. It supports and advocates for under-represented students, including African-Americans and Latinos.

For information, visit www.fafsa.com.

For dates, times and addresses of other College Goal Sunday locations, including the University of South Florida, the HOPE Community Center, Brooks-DeBartolo Collegiate and Middleton high schools and Pierce Middle School, visit www.collegegoalsundayflorida.org.

For details about College Goal Sunday at East Bay High School, contact Kayzie Weaver, guidance resource specialist, between 7:30 a.m. and 2:50 p.m. weekdays at (813) 671-5134 or mary.weaver@sdhc.k12.fl.us.

Church Hosts Pancake Supper

RUSKIN - The Men of St. John the Divine and the Women's Auxiliary invite the public to a pancake supper from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at St. John the Divine Episcopal Church, 705 9th Street, S.E.

The supper will celebrate Shrove Tuesday, the day before the beginning of Lent - the period of 40 days during which Christians fast and give penance preceding Easter.

Shrove Tuesday also is called "Pancake Day" in the United Kingdom. Preparing pancakes that day was a way to use up the butter, milk and eggs that would be given up during Lent. "Shrove" is derived from the verb "to shrive," which means to confess sins.

Tickets are $4; $2 for children ages 6 to 12 and free for children younger than 6.

To purchase tickets, call the church office at (813) 645-1521.

Ash Wednesday services will include the imposition of ashes and Holy Eucharist at 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Feb. 25 at the church.

Basic Stage Dance Workshop

The Pelican Players will host a free Basic Stage Dance workshop taught by Linda Carlson at 7 p.m. Monday in the craft room of the Kings Point North Clubhouse, 1900 Clubhouse Drive. The public is welcome.

Guests are encouraged to wear comfortable, closed-toed shoes and loose-fitting clothes. Elementary, basic dance steps and combinations will be taught.

For information, contact Joanne Rudy at (813) 633-3207.

Sorority Crowns Valentine Queen

APOLLO BEACH - The Laureate Zeta Kappa Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority has selected Ginny Burrow of Apollo Beach, current chapter president, as 2009 Valentine Queen.

Burrow and her husband, Garth, live part of the year in Huntsville, Ontario, where she worked as a librarian and columnist for a community newspaper. They have a daughter, Wendy Burrow, a police officer for the city of London, Ontario.

The chapter will fete Burrow on Thursday at a supper hosted by the 2008 queen, Peggy Wolfe of Sun City Center, and at a dinner Friday.

Royalaires To Sing Down-Home Style

GIBSONTON - First Baptist Church of Gibsonton, 9912 Indiana St., will present the Royalaires, a gospel trio from Centerville, Ohio, at the 10:30 a.m. service Sunday.

The Royalaires have been performing for more than 40 years. The current members are Michelle Davis and Jerry and Susan Metzler, who will share their down-home-style harmonies and testimonies.

Since 1984, the Royalaires have been one of the featured groups on the Singing at Sea Southern Gospel Music Cruise out of Tampa. During the cruise, the bars, slot machines and casinos are closed, and preachers and gospel music groups provide the sole - or should that be "soul" - entertainment.

For information, call the church office at (813) 677-1301.

Sounds Of Scotland

Marcille Wallis and Friends will perform the Sounds of Scotland at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the sanctuary of the United Methodist Church of Sun City Center, 1210 Del Webb Blvd. W. Wallis will play hammered dulcimer, Don Pigeon will sing and play various instruments, and Anna and Cal Lloyd will dance. Their music is part bluegrass and Celtic, with some Southern Appalachian and Christian hymn roots.

Samples of Wallis' toe-tapping music may be heard at www.myspace.com/marcillewallis or www.marcillewallis.com.

The cost is a $5 donation at the door.

For information about the concert, call Jeff Jordan, director of music and the arts at the church, at (813) 634-2539.

Community Mural Dedication Set

RUSKIN - The 100- by 18-foot-tall Ruskin Community Mural, "Head, Heart and Hands," will be dedicated at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the old Clark's Furniture building, 629 First St., N.E.

Painter Michael Parker engaged a team of teenagers and adults - called the Ruskin Mural Team - to photograph Ruskin sites and paint them with pictures of important Ruskin historic figures. The SouthShore Arts Council commissioned the work to commemorate Ruskin's Centennial Anniversary in September.

For information, visit www.southshoreartscouncil.org or call (813) 641-8635.

Snippets

Congratulations to Tiffany Haynes of Riverview, daughter of Johnny Anthony Haynes of Riverview and Maj. Rochelle L. Haynes of Diberville, Miss. Tiffany, a student of Oxford College of Emory University in Oxford, Ga., achieved the distinction of being named to Oxford's Merit List for the 2008 fall semester. ... Best wishes to Jim and Ann Thompson of Sun City Center, formerly of Pittsburgh, whose 64th wedding anniversary was Feb. 16. Ann Thompson said she picked Jim out at a party and hasn't let him go since. "We've always been there for each other," Jim said.

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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