Invites you to Attend a Briefing on

The Steps Small Businesses Will Need
To Take To Comply With The
President’s Health Care Law

at

Seven Rivers Presbyterian Church
Student Ministry Building
4221 West Gulf to Lake Highway
Lecanto, FL 34461

on

Tuesday, May 22, 2012
9 a.m.—noon

Please RSVP prior to Friday, May 18, 2012 to
(352) 799-8354 or toll-free at 866-492-4835

The group is scheduled for the last Thursday of the month at West Winds Assisted Living (37411 Eiland Blvd. in Zephyrhills) at 10 a.m. Dates include May 31 and June 28.

“According to recent statistics from Medicare, more than 65 million people in America are caregivers to a loved one, with seven out of 10 people caring for someone over the age of 50,” said Linda Ward, Gulfside’s president and CEO. “This group allows for caregivers to meet with others in similar circumstances and share experiences, ideas, situations and solutions, which can help both you and others who attend.”

All of Gulfside’s support groups are free and open to the public, and no prior association with Gulfside Regional Hospice is needed to attend. A trained social worker leads all groups. For more information, call Kelly Milner at 813-780-1235.

Gulfside Regional Hospice, established as a nonprofit corporation in Pasco County in 1988 and initially licensed in 1989, serves more than 300 patients daily. GRH employs over 250 professionals and has more than 550 volunteers, and is the only hospice that serves Pasco County exclusively. Gulfside Regional Hospice was selected the 2011 Non-profit of the Year by the Tampa Bay Business Journal. For more information about Gulfside Regional Hospice, call 727-845-5707 or visit www.GRHospice.org.

Gulfside Regional Hospice Thrift Shoppe locations are:
·       Dade City Thrift Shoppe – 37925 Sky Ridge Circle; 813-782-7200
·       Hudson Thrift Shoppe – 12154 US Highway 19 in Bayonet Point; 727-861-4900
·       Lutz Thrift Shoppe – 21780 State Road 54 (east of US 41, next to SunTrust Bank); 813-909-0485
·       New Port Richey Thrift Shoppe – 3601 Universal Plaza (corner of US 19 and Moog Road); 727-842-7262
·       Zephyrhills Thrift Shoppe- 36524 State Road 54; 813-788-5461

All proceeds from sales at these volunteer-staffed stores provide care for patients who have no insurance and support Gulfside Regional Hospice Houses. Donations of gently used items are accepted daily during store hours. Pick up can be arranged for larger items and furniture by calling the store location nearest you.

All of the Thrift Shoppes are open Monday – Saturday from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., and closed on Sunday. All stores will be closed on Monday, May 28 in observance of Memorial Day. Volunteers are always needed at the Thrift Shoppes; call 727-845-5707 or 813-780-1235 for more information about volunteering at any of the five locations.

Gulfside Regional Hospice, established as a nonprofit corporation in Pasco County in 1988 and initially licensed in 1989, serves more than 300 patients daily. GRH employs over 250 professionals and has more than 550 volunteers, and is the only hospice that serves Pasco County exclusively. For more information about Gulfside Regional Hospice, call 727-845-5707 or visit www.GRHospice.org <http://www.grhospice.org/> .

The program is free and open to the public, and CEUs are available for healthcare professionals for a nominal fee. The teleconference begins at 1 p.m. and last until 4 p.m. at Gulfside’s east administrative office, located at 37826 Sky Ridge Circle in Dade City.

This year’s program offers a distinguished panel of practitioners, educators and hospice experts who will examine ethical decisions at the end of life, factors that influence these decisions, survivors dealing with loss, patient care and caregivers and the impact on those who are caring for patients during end-of-life. After the teleconference, Gulfside’s Ethics Committee Chair Mickey McCarthy will lead a panel discussion for those wishing to receive CEUs.

Seating is limited and light refreshments will be served. For more information or to RSVP by May 15, call Mickey McCarthy at 727-992-8041.

Gulfside Regional Hospice, established as a nonprofit corporation in Pasco County in 1988 and initially licensed in 1989, serves more than 300 patients daily. GRH employs over 250 professionals and has more than 550 volunteers, and is the only hospice that serves Pasco County exclusively. Gulfside Regional Hospice was selected the 2011 Non-profit of the Year by the Tampa Bay Business Journal. For more information about Gulfside Regional Hospice, call 813-780-1235 or visit www.GRHospice.org.

The presentation will take place at the Pasco Sheriff’s Administration Office, located at 8700 Citizen Drive in New Port Richey. Scheduled to attend is Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco.

Gulfside Regional Hospice and Pasco Sheriff’s Mounted Posse will also celebrate the end of the Ride for Hospice on May 5 at 11 a.m. at the Gulfside Center for Hospice Care in Zephyrhills (5760 Dean Dairy Road).  Lunch will be served and patients and families staying at the Gulfside Center will have the chance to meet some of the Posse’s horses.

The money raised is from the Ride for Hospice, held on March 31. The Ride for Hospice is a three-hour horse trail ride through Diamond B Ranch and adjoining ranches in Dade City. Other activities at this event included wagon rides, music, horseshoe competition and children’s games.

Sponsors for the Ride for Hospice included:

• Mare – Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Que
• Colt  – The Hook Law Group, MedFleet Ambulance, Norm & Sons Tire and Auto, O2 Solutions, Pasco Sheriff’s Charities, Inc
• Filly  – Bay Area Environmental Services, Blue Skies Equine Services, Inc., CF Industries, Farmers Feed Depot, Firehouse Subs and Oakley Realty, LLC
• Foal  – Martin’s Larsen Farms, Matt’s Certified Tree Care and Surgi-Care Center for Horses
• Pony – AC Plumbing, Albright Services, Bauer & Associates Insurance,  Business Decisions, Cornerstone Financial Planners, Dade City Animal Clinic, IERNA’s Heating and Cooling, Jim Crandell Car, Truck & RV Sales, Land Merchants Property Management and Thomason Creative
• In-Kind Sponsors – Catch of the Day Band, Cold Iron, Design Candy, Diamond B Ranch, Jack Melton Family, Inc., Little Peoples Christian Day Care, Seminole Feed, Steve Melton’s Agricultural Museum, Tommie Turvey’s Amazing Horses, Two Rivers Ranch and Wooten’s Well Drilling & Septic

The Pasco Sheriff’s Mounted Posse has been serving the citizens of Pasco County since 1995. All Posse members must pass and maintain several qualification standards to enable horse and rider to safely work in close contact with the public.  The Pasco Sheriff’s Mounted Unit (comprised of sworn deputies) and the Pasco County Sheriff’s Mounted Posse (comprised of civilian volunteers) are part of the Citizen Support Services (CSS) section of the Pasco Sheriff’s Office. For more information, call 813-220-8459 or visit www.pascoposse.com <http://www.pascoposse.com/> .

Gulfside Regional Hospice, established as a nonprofit corporation in Pasco County in 1988 and initially licensed in 1989, serves more than 300 patients daily. GRH employs over 250 professionals and has more than 550 volunteers, and is the only hospice that serves Pasco County exclusively. For more information about Gulfside Regional Hospice, call 813-780-1235 or visit www.GRHospice.org <http://www.grhospice.org/> .

Photo attached from 2012 Ride for Hospice held March 31 at Diamond B Ranch in Dade City.

The Commons on Pretty Pond offers luxurious, resort-style rental apartment living for adults age 60 and over. For more information about The Tricky Dogs Show or
about all-inclusive retirement living, please call The Commons on Pretty Pond at 813.779.4501.

Mike and Lorri Hafer, a husband and wife keyboard and vocalist duo, perform selections from the Great American Songbook. For over 25 years they have performed in concerts throughout the US, in jazz festivals, on over half a dozen cruise lines, and in Europe. You may remember Lorri’s voice as the lead vocalist with The Hillside Singers and their hit song “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing.” She and Mike have performed with many notable bands including The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Les Brown, Ted Weems and The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Please call 813-779-4501 to make your reservation; seating is limited.

The Commons on Pretty Pond offers luxurious, resort-style rental apartment living for adults age 60 and over. For more information about the Hafer performance or about all-inclusive retirement living, please call The Commons on Pretty Pond at 813.779.4501.

  “Win” Wendy Hopkins Hammer

 “When God Closes A Door, He Opens A Window”

Wendy “Win” Hammer is an intellectually (mentally) challenged(from birth) adult.   She has rapidly become known as a rising star in the world of folk art.

Her works are already owned by several of the renowned Highwaymen artist, including R.L. Lewis Jr., James Gibson, and Robert Butler. Peter Loose, the respected folk artist, is also a collector of “Win’s” work and President Jimmy Carter is the proud owner of two of her original paintings.

“Win” is the youngest daughter of Bill (from Lynchburg, Va.) and Carolyn (from Tarpon Springs, Fl) Hammer, born in Saint Petersburg, Florida on May 21st, 1960. She is extremely proud of her southern heritage and of being a Floridian.

Creativity as well as public service runs in the family. Her father was a civil servant and her mother a nurse. There are military, farmers, ministers, newspapermen, a fire chief, and a senator in the family.  Her great uncle, Walter Hammer, was a luthier (violin and bow maker), and her paternal grandmother, Mary Frances Robinson Hammer, was a shoe designer.

“Win” chose her nickname as a young child, when as a fan of wrestling with aspirations to become wrestler, she dubbed herself “Win” Champion.  She is still prone to apply her well-practiced holds her sister and best friend Milli (Millicent). “Win” began painting, at the suggestion of her sister, after the death of their parents as way of dealing with her grief.  Bill and Carolyn Hammer died ten days apart in September 2005, just four months short of their 56th wedding anniversary. You will find pairs of swans in many of her paintings, just like her mom and dad, swans pair for life.

“Win” enjoyed painting side by side with Lucy, the family cat, until March 2011.  Lucy had along life of 17 years and was well loved by all.  She took care of “Win” and could always be found at her side or in her lap.

“Win’s” paintings are colorful, joyous, make you smile, and will touch your heart.  Art is healing her grief, returning joy to her life, and leveling the playing field for “Win”.

Her favorite sayings are:

“I am just being MYSELF”

“Everyone has their own way of doing things”

and

“When God Closes A Door, He Opens A Window”

On Saturday, May 19th, 2012, celebrate

“Win’s” birthday with a special party, birthday cake, and special prices on all of “Win’s” works.

“Win” will be in the gallery for you to meet, get to know, and celebrate her birthday with.

The party will start at 10:00AM and end at 4:00 PM.

The gallery is located in downtown Dade City at 14125 7th Street, across from Dade City’s Historic Courthouse Square. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday from 10am-4pm or by appointment.

For additional information, please contact:
Stuart Marcus
PH: 813-417-6336
Email:smarcus@thehibrowgallery.com
or The HiBrow Gallery
www.thehibrowgallery.com
Ph: 352-521-3823
14125 7th Street, Dade City, Fl 33525

Images of “Win’s” work are available upon request.

–

HiBrow Art Gallery
a division of The Dade City Center For The Arts 

14125  7th Street

Dade City, FL 33525

 Contact: (352) 521 3823 (Tuesday-Saturday 10:00am to 4:00pm)

 TheHiBrowArtGallery@gmail.com

www.TheHiBrowGallery.com

Invites you to meet

Fred “Dorian” Spinks

April’s Artist of the Month

Saturday, April 21st, from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM, “Dorian” will be in the gallery to answer your questions and show you his  unique works. Dorian’s own words provide
an insight to his motivation and inspiration.

“To introduce my self I am Fred Spinks and I sign all of my artworks as Dorian. I grew up in the Clearwater, Fl. Area and traveled and lived in Arizona and Colorado. I have studied watercolors, hand made paper and casting from many colleges and artists. Much of what I have learned is from trial and error but it has opened a lot of other ways to achieve my unique achievements and artistic developments. When a watercolor didn’t work out, I shredded them and used them to make paper and cast them.

A lot of my work has been influenced by my contact with the Native Americans People. Their culture and ideals influenced me as a child and continues to this day. The most amazing part is their ceremonial dances and ancestral traditions. I have been exposed to many different clans and beliefs. The most fascinating people being the Hopi tribe in the desert country north of The Grand Canyon, they survive in the most primitive environment in the high desert. Their homes are hundreds of years old and are still set in their passed down traditions, no electricity or running water. The sad part is their new generations are being drawn away by the electronic world and they get caught up in the decision to be part of it or continue their clan affiliations and ancient ways.

My art works are usually not the most beautiful or commercially acceptable but they all have a hidden meaning that will affect the viewer. I like to use petroglyphs and ancient symbols in most of my work to trigger the viewer to a memory or dream that is buried in their mind. Hopefully my work brings it forward and they have a visual flashback to experience it again.

I have taught art in several Art Centers, Community Colleges and Co-Op’s and displayed shows in several galleries in Arizona and Colorado, as well as being the Founding Father of “The Mountain Artists Gallery “ in Nederland, Colorado. I hope to bring a change of pace and a new art experience you will enjoy and appreciate.”

The gallery is located in downtown Dade City at 14125 7th Street, across from Dade City’s Historic Courthouse Square. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday from 10am-4pm or by appointment. For additional information, please contact:

Stuart Marcus
PH: 813-417-6336
Email: smarcus@thehibrowgallery.com

The Dade City Center for the Arts/HiBrow Gallery
www.dadecitycenterforthearts.org
Ph: 352-521-3823
14125 7th Street
Dade City, Fl 33525

HiBrow Art Gallery

a division of The Dade City Center For The Arts 

14125  7th Street
Dade City, FL 33525

 Contact: (352) 521 3823 (Tuesday-Saturday 10:00am to 4:00pm)

 TheHiBrowArtGallery@gmail.com

www.TheHiBrowGallery.com

Pasco Regional Medical Center is pleased to host a women’s health event titled, Women’s Works.  Women’s Works is a ladies only event designed to encourage women everywhere to make their health a top priority.

This event takes place on Thursday, May 10^th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Dade City Woman’s Club.  This special evening will be filled with all the things that women love including massage, beauty tips, chocolate, skin analysis, nail and hair care, jewelry, weight loss, shopping, door prizes, hors d’oeuvres, wine, free health
screenings and more.

The first 200 women to attend will receive a free tote bag to fill with goodies from the event.  This event is free, but exhibitors will offer items for sale along with free samples, demonstrations, and free pampering.  To register to attend, please call (877) 362-5321 or visit PascoRegionalmc.com and look under the Events tab for more information and a complete list of exhibitors.

About Pasco Regional Medical Center

Established in 1973, Pasco Regional Medical Center is a 120-bed acute care hospital located in Dade City.  The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission, has the only nationally accredited bariatric surgery program in Pasco County, and is a designated Primary Stroke Center.  Pasco Regional is consistently ranked among
the top five percent of hospitals in the nation and is five-star rated for general surgery.  The hospital specializes in advanced minimally invasive surgical techniques including single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS^®), robotic surgery, incisionless surgery and LAP-BAND^® weight loss surgery.  For more information, please visit PascoRegionalmc.com.