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VOL. 22 NO. 7 www.seabreezepublications.com JULY 2021

Ninth Annual

Treasure Coast Bonito Blast Fishing Tournament

This Fun-Filled Family Event The TCBB is the largest one-day

Allows Us To Give Back To tournament on the Treasure Coast. The
bonitos are always biting at this time of the
Florida’s Disabled Veterans year! To date, the tournament has raised
hundreds of thousands of dollars for the
For Their Sacrifices WVRF, which has provided assistance to
hundreds of veterans (https://wvrf.org).
The Ninth Annual Treasure Coast Bonito Blast (TCBB) Please do your part to give back to those
works with various Treasure Coast businesses to create an who gave so much by supporting the
event that brings our quaint town and city (with a fishing TCBB. This is our way of giving back,
problem!) and community together in appreciation and especially for those of us who did not serve.
support of the Wounded Veteran’s Relief Fund (WVRF). The
event includes substantial prize money, dinners, live music, Bonito Blast Fishing Tournament
auction items and raffle. on page 4
Racquets For Recovery Benefits Local Nonprofit

By Jackie Holfelder
The Mark Garwood SHARE Foundation held its first
Racquets For Recovery Tennis and Pickleball Tournament
at North River Shores Tennis Club in Stuart on Saturday,
May 22. All proceeds benefited the nonprofit’s Phoenix
Scholarship program.
Women’s doubles tennis and pickleball and men’s
doubles tennis and pickleball games all saw spirited but
good-natured competition as participants were reminded
of the reason for the event by moving and emotional
speakers.
Volunteers Dr. Juan Giachino and Fern Giachino
roasted a succulent pig, which was part of a delicious Dr. Juan Giachino and Fernando
picnic lunch enjoyed by over 175 participants and guests. Giachino
Jessie Ewing, the first of 32 recipients to be awarded Ladies’ 3.5 tennis winners Carol Kushner, Kathy Gall, Maureen Holley, Brigite
a Phoenix Scholarship by the nonprofit, shared with Racquets For Recovery on page 4 Babine, Sue Whittington, Nancy Pribble and Joyce Costopolous
Sandhill Cove Foundation Presents 2021 Scholarship Awards

By Jackie Holfelder emotionally involved in the
The awarding of the sixth annual Sandhill Cove Foundation lives of these young people, we
Scholarship Awards took place in its beautifully redecorated cheer them on in their successes
pavilion on Wednesday, June 9. and are ready, sometimes, too
Forty-four employees of Sandhill Cove Retirement Living often, to offer advice.
and/or their children were selected to receive scholarships that “Their energy and dreams
totaled $139,500. take us back to earlier times in
The foundation is an independent, tax-exempt public charity, our own lives. We give, but we
set up by Sandhill Cove residents in accordance with Section also receive.”
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service. It reserves 98 percent Dr. Timothy Moore,
of income for qualified awardees. president of IRSC was keynote
Mary Antaya, foundation president, welcomed the scholars speaker, encouraging the
and attendees, stating, “The foundation, started by a few forward- scholarship recipients to pay it
thinking residents, renews our sense of purpose. We become back and help someone else, as

Nancy Treece, William Sheehey, Patricia Morgan, Bobbie Spilman, Ellyn Capper, Katherine
Garlington, Roger Folts and Les Applegate, Sandhill Cove Foundation 2021 Scholarship
Committee members

2021 Scholarship Awards on page 3