The Easter bunny
has come and gone, the weather
is at last looking more like a Florida spring and it
is past time for this issue of the Express. A lot of
our regular winter residents have already decamped,
and if the beach renourishment goes as planned and
the forces of nature don’t intervene (read
“hurricane”), we will have a lot of sand out front
by the time they return.
This picture June, 2006 |
Speaking of sand,
Kevin Hing
(702) Chairman of the St. Pete Beach Beach
Stewardship Committee reports: “on Tuesday, April 6,
the Pinellas County Board of Commissioners approved
the employment of
Coastal Planning and
Engineering, Inc., as the County’s
consultant to facilitate the bidding process for the
Upham Beach Renourishment/Geotube Repair
Project. The County will rely on
CPE to prepare the bid specs that will be
used to select the dredging contractors who will
renourish Upham Beach in
June-July of this
year, as well as the contractor(s) who will
repair the beach’s damaged Geo-textile T-groins.”
Kevin has started a blog….
saveoursand.blogspot.com,
which makes it easy to access information about the
beach and also Kevin’s thoughts about other issues
important to SPB residents……such as sea oats
planting, tentatively scheduled for Saturday, June
19.
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Have you met...
our new
maintenance man, Schawn Osburn.
He is an employee of Bobbi’s
Cleaning Service and his Starlight
hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
When he isn’t at Starlight, he serves as
Youth Minister at Family Fellowship Center
on 54th Avenue N. in St. Petersburg. Welcome
to Starlight, Schawn. |
We have
learned
that our garbage
disposal service provider,
Waste Services of
Florida, Inc., will
pick up large items, such as
mattresses, furniture. You must
call ahead and make arrangements
for the pickup, (727) 572-6800,
tell them you are in Starlight
Tower. (We have a contract with
them.) Place the items out by
the dumpster, and presto…….away
it goes on the designated day. |
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Starlight has had a wind mitigation
inspection and that report will be available
to Starlight owners when it is received to
give to your homeowners’ insurer for
possible discounts on your premium. Copies
will be filed in the “Corbod” rack in the
mail room.
The board is receiving
bids for new tile and lighting in our
elevators.
Next Board meeting is
Thursday, April 15.
The Shuffleboard
Tournament and Dinner...
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was a huge
success, as always. The undefeated
Grand Champions are Dan Reid and
Emily Dobrota. Consolation Champs
are Jack Carlock and Edel Quinn.
Runner-up Champs are Bridget Boyum
and Ave Latawiec. Chairman
Marlene
Reid’s “World’s Greatest Most
Efficient Committee" are:
Sophie Bryk,
Jack Carlock, Emily Dobrota, Beth &
John Dubeau, Anne &
Lorne Hiller, Gina Machado, Verna
& Jim Murphy,
Ursula & Denis
O’Connor, Mary Quinn, Dan Reid,
Edith & Don
Schneider and
Marcia Thorpe. |
Dinner began at 5 p.m. with over 40
people enjoying lasagna, salad and of
course…..the pies! Thirty-two lucky people
had their names drawn to receive door
prizes. Please consider patronizing these
generous donors and tell them you’re from
Starlight:
- Agave Restaurant;
- Abbey’s
Printing;
- Fit For Life;
- The Frog Pond;
- Curves;
- Beverly’s La Croisette;
- Dunkin’
Doughnuts;
- Skidders;
- Beach Hair Exchange;
- Norm’s Liquors;
- The Reef Restaurant;
- Ted’s Barbershop;
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- Su Ottavo Restaurant;
- Publix;
- Fantastic Sam’s;
- Beach Fresh Produce;
- Woody’s;
- Oyster Shucker;
- Arthur Murray Dance
Studio;
- Sweetbay;
- Rally’s Service Stations;
- Village Inn;
- McDonalds.
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And special thanks
to these people who contributed:
Sophie Bryk
– a beautiful hand carved tray made in
Poland;
Mary Quinn, a hand
painted oil
painting;
Ed Diedo, a 3M gift package with
assorted treasures; and
Maggie Ifft Varnado,
two park-hopper passes to Disneyworld. The
evening ended with an enthusiastic
sing-along, led by
Rickie and
Ed Diedo.
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Thanks to
Sophie Bryk (608) who keeps our flowers and
other plantings looking beautiful.
And thanks to
Frank Gulia (903)
who repaired our hard-working
American flag, which flies 24/7. |
Some people
news...
-
Congratulations to Poletta &
Tadeusz Przytula
(508) who will celebrate their 50th anniversary on
April 18.
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The Iffts (408) have a new
grandchild (No. 13), Lucia Mary, born to their
daughter Patty and son-in-law
Scott Anderson. Big
sister Seaira is very happy.
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Our deep
sympathy to Roy Gearhart and
Betty Gibson (402) on
the death of dear wife and sister Peggy. Roy & Peg
were former owners of Unit 602.
And now to the birthdays for May and June...
But
first of all, I apologize for missing Anne Hiller’s
birthday, which is today, April 9. And………..if I
don’t have your birthday, please email me or phone
(367-2189), so that we can wish YOU a happy day! |
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May Flowers to:
Maggie Dickinson-3rd;
Nancy
McGuigan-8th;
Sue Alley-9th;
Tammy Layman-14th;
Evangelos Simos, Al Schaerges and
Else Tarrell –
18th;
DD Wales-24th; Sue Garland-25th;
Carol
Campbell-26th;
Dan Reid-28th;
Ray Thompson-29th.
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June
Bouquets to:
W.A. Smith-6th; Rosela
Simpson-11th;
Margarita Montague-16th;
Mary
Hooten-24th; Pat Ifft-27th. |
Starlight
Tower - April 2010
Starlight Express Newsletter
