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A crowd of 440 people attending the Five Fabulous Females luncheon at TradeWinds Island Grand Resort in St. Pete Beach watched a video with Academy Prep Center students telling how the middle school they attend for 11 hours a day, six days a week, 11 months a year affects their lives. The annual event raises funds for the school and honors community activists and volunteers. 1. Award winners Dr. Pallavi Patel, Betty Sembler, Sherry Sacino, Nikki Gaskin Capehart and Anne Von Rosenstiel. 2. Philanthropist Anne Von Rosenstiel briefly addresses the crowd before her daughter Kathleen Davis reads her speech. 3. Joslyn Eliga, 14, assists community leader Betty Sembler to the lectern. Sembler and her husband, Ambassador Mel Sembler, said they would like to pay for Joslyn’s first year of college.
Photographs by Monica Herndon
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