Prominent Tampa Bay Ladies Walk the Fashions with Flair
Fashion with Flair Silent Auction & Fashion Show sponsored by the Clearwater Community Volunteers is the elite Fall Extravaganza which benefits local children’s charities and Winter Wonderland, the annual magical downtown Holiday Family Festival and toy and food drive.
Clearwater, FL – On 21 September, 2019 from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm, the Clearwater Community Volunteers will transform the auditorium of the beautiful, historic Fort Harrison in downtown Clearwater into a show featuring fashions from area boutiques. Models are a veritable “Who’s Who” of Tampa Bay. Since 2003, ladies of distinction have graced the “Fashions with Flair” stage. This year’s models include: the publisher of Tampa Bay Magazine, Margaret Word-Burnside; the wife of former Congressman David Jolly, Laura Jolly; local attorney and Police Athletic League (PAL) board member, Doneene Dressback-Loar; Hillsborough County School Board member, Susan Valdes; from the Children’s Home Network, Devon Anderson; Pinellas County educator, Bahiyyah Sadiki; and more.
Enjoy a gourmet lunch by the award winning chefs at the Fort Harrison. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Police Athletic League – Lealman Sports Complex and Winter Wonderland which is a 3-week Holiday Family Festival and toy and food drive for local charities.
The Clearwater Community Volunteers, an organization dedicated to helping children, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for over 25 years for Tampa Bays’ Children’s Charities, including the Sheriff’s Youth Ranches, the Nourish to Flourish Foundation, Shriners Hospitals for Children Tampa and many, many more.
Sheriff Jim Coats is a Fan of CCV!
Dear Joanie,
I want to take this opportunity to tell you how much I appreciate your work and the efforts of the Clearwater Community Volunteers over the past few years. There are so many areas of our community that are so much better off because of your efforts.
As a board member of the Boys and Girls Club of the Suncoast, I want to commend you for your ambitious initiative to support the Clearwater Jasmine Courts Boys and Girls Club. The fashion show fundraiser that your group held was nothing less than spectacular. It truly was professional and enjoyable, and I can assure you that the funds raised were very beneficial to the children in our community.
I appreciate all that your group is engaged in, and I assure you that your support has not gone unnoticed.
Sincerely,
James F. Coats, Sheriff (then Chief Deputy)
Pinellas County, Floria
Entrance to Winter Wonderland is free but we ask visitors to bring a non-perishable food item and/or an unwrapped toy. The toys and canned goods are donated to local area charities, such as the Homeless Emergency Project sponsored by Everybody’s Tabernacle.
This is a wonderful event for the whole family that you don’t want to miss! The kids will love the petting zoo, pony rides, bouncy house, giant blow up slide, face painting, live entertainment, and more, plus the main event—the Easter Egg Hunt—which happens exactly at 12:30 pm.
Please Join the Clearwater Community Volunteers and Tampa Bay Magazine and the Fort Harrison at the 8th Annual Chefs' Showcase at the Fort Harrison.
This event includes a silent auction, great food and a fabulous fashion show with VIP models. The exquisite fashions featured are from local area boutiques. The huge silent auction had something for everyone with well over 300 items, and much more.