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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 19, 2008

Updated: 01/17/2008 08:33 pm

USF CAMPUS - Uncle John's Band will be featured Sunday at the Music in the Gardens Series at the University of South Florida's Botanical Gardens.

The event will be from 2 to 5 p.m. The Garden Plant Shop will be open. Brownies made by garden volunteers will be available. Coolers are allowed.

The band performs Grateful Dead classics. Admission is $4 for the public, $3 for gardens members and free for USF students. Seating is on the grass or in a limited number of chairs. Attendees can bring lawn chairs or blankets.

The USF campus is at 4202 E. Fowler Ave. For details, call (813) 974-2329 or visit www.cas.usf.edu/garden.

Concert Benefits Fund

DOWNTOWN TAMPA - The 12th annual Franz Mantini University of South Florida Scholarship Concert will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 2 at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place.

Featured at the event will be Mantini, a concert pianist and engineer; violinist Amy Schwartz; viola player Che-Yen "Brian" Chen; and cellist David Bjella.

The concert is a fundraiser for two scholarships: one in the USF School of Music and one in the USF College of Engineering.

Tickets are $25 ($10 for students). For tickets, call (813) 229-7827.

Artist At Luncheon

UNIVERSITY AREA - Artist George Hunt will be featured at the Black Heritage Festival's Leadership Luncheon from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the University Area Community Center, 14013 N. 22nd St.

The event is open to the public. Tickets are $10 and can be ordered by calling (813) 205-2466.

Anniversary Celebration

USF CAMPUS - The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its Arts in Medicine Program starting Tuesday and continuing through Jan. 30.

A Healing Arts Extravaganza from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday in the lobby of the Moffitt Clinic Building, 12902 Magnolia Drive, will feature live music, visual arts and prizes. A reception and ceremony will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. on the third flood of the same building.

The Healing Arts Gallery on the fourth floor will present the exhibit "A Legacy of Healing in Paint and Poetry."

Garden Groups Meeting

SEMINOLE HEIGHTS - Paul Storm of Meke Aloha Orchids will speak at Tuesday's meeting of The Tampa Orchid Club.

The meeting at 10 a.m., open to the public free, will be at Seminole Garden Center, 5800 N. Central Ave. It will include a plant exchange and orchids and related items for sale.

For details, visit www .tampaorchidclub.info or call (813) 963-7454.

•The Begonia Society of Tampa Bay will meet 10:30 a.m. Jan. 26 at the Famous Tate Distribution Center, 6401 N. 54th St.

The event is open to the public free, and first-time attendees will receive a plant.

The program will focus on grooming begonias for the begonia show, set for March 15.

For details, call Jeanette Breden-Hall at (813) 779-7641.

•The Tampa African Violet Society will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Seminole Garden Center, 5800 N. Central Ave.

The program, open to the public free, will feature Mary Lou Harden, Dottie Cesario, Jay Sespico and Lynne Wilson in a "designers challenge."

The club is preparing for its annual show and sale Feb. 23 and 24 at the Farm Bureau, 100 S. Mulrennan Road, Valrico. For details, call Cesario at (813) 989-2934.

Students Donate Hair

NEW TAMPA - Five students from Adams Middle School donated hair Jan. 11 at Salon Athena North for the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program.

Beautiful Lengths provides wigs for women who have lost their hair to cancer treatment.

The students were Lania Juarez, sixth grade; Skyler Underwood, sixth grade; Heather Mullen, sixth grade; Emily Schonder, sixth grade; and Kristen Richie, seventh grade.

For information about Beautiful Lengths, visit www.beautifullengths.com.

Focus Is Education

TAMPA PALMS - Shelton Wood Jr., president of the Georgetown Wesleyan University of the Americas, which provides educational opportunities in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Europe, will speak at a meeting of the Rotary Club of New Tampa on Friday.

Wood will speak about "Some Average People Who Have a Great Significance on Our Lives" at the Tampa Palms Golf & Country Club, 5811 Tampa Palms Blvd.

The club is for professional and business leaders who live, work or are retired in the New Tampa area. For details, call Matt Palmer at (813) 972-9235 or e-mail matt.palmer@earth link.net.

Send news of social activities, landmark anniversaries, birthdays and other items of community interest to Lenora Lake at 15310 Amberly Drive, Suite 102, Tampa FL 33647; fax to (813) 975-9488; e-mail to llake @tampatrib.com; or call her at (813) 865-4851.

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