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VOL. 23 NO. 7 www.seabreezepublications.com JULY 2021

Ninth Annual

Treasure Coast Bonito Blast Fishing Tournament

This Fun-Filled Family Event Allows Us To

Give Back To Florida’s Disabled Veterans For

Their Sacrifices

The Ninth Annual Treasure Coast Bonito Blast (TCBB) works with various Treasure
Coast businesses to create an event that brings our quaint town and city (with a fishing
problem!) and community together in appreciation and support of the Wounded Veteran’s
Relief Fund (WVRF). The event includes substantial prize money, dinners, live music,
auction items and raffle.
The TCBB is the largest one-day tournament on the Treasure Coast. The bonitos are always
biting at this time of the year! To date, the tournament has raised hundreds of thousands of

Bonito Blast Fishing Tournament on page 6
Racquets For Recovery Sandhill Cove Foundation

Benefits Local Nonprofit Presents 2021 Scholarship Awards

By Jackie Holfelder By Jackie Holfelder
The Mark Garwood SHARE Foundation held its first Racquets For Recovery Tennis The awarding of the sixth annual Sandhill Cove Foundation Scholarship Awards
and Pickleball Tournament at North River Shores Tennis Club in Stuart on Saturday, took place in its beautifully redecorated pavilion on Wednesday, June 9.
May 22. All proceeds benefited the nonprofit’s Phoenix Scholarship program. Forty-four employees of Sandhill Cove Retirement Living and/or their children
Women’s doubles tennis and pickleball and men’s doubles tennis and pickleball were selected to receive scholarships that totaled $139,500.
games all saw spirited but good-natured competition as participants were reminded of The foundation is an independent, tax-exempt public charity, set up by Sandhill
the reason for the event by moving and emotional speakers. Cove residents in accordance with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service.
It reserves 98 percent of income for qualified awardees.
Mary Antaya, foundation president, welcomed the scholars and attendees, stating,
“The foundation, started by a few forward-thinking residents, renews our sense of
purpose. We become emotionally involved in the lives of these young people, we
cheer them on in their successes and are ready, sometimes, too often, to offer advice.
“Their energy and dreams take us back to earlier times in our own lives. We give,
but we also receive.”
Dr. Timothy Moore, president of IRSC was keynote speaker, encouraging the
scholarship recipients to pay it back and help someone else, as residents of Sandhill
Cove have done for them.

Ladies’ 3.5 tennis winners Carol Kushner, Kathy Gall, Maureen Holley, Brigite Babine, Sue
Whittington, Nancy Pribble and Joyce Costopolous

Racquets For Recovery on page 3

2021 Sandhill Cove Foundation Scholarship recipients

2021 Scholarship Awards on page 4