141 attendees joined us at the December 9^th Christmas Dinner – Dance themed “Santa’s Workshop”!  We celebrated the opportunity to support our community and the Reserve “Toys for Tots” the Pinellas County Marine Corps campaign, and in so doing, received an overwhelming contribution of toys both from attendees at the dinner-dance, monetary donations and from several neighbours in the Polynesian Building!  Thank-you OTOW!!  On behalf of the Pinellas County Marine Corps Reservists, Ed Zaleski, Coordinator, Toys for Tots and Mike Palermo joined us.  Rowland Hetrick took wonderful photos and created the lovely image above using one of our cake toppers, a take-away lantern centerpiece and some of our pinecones!

We contracted Banquet Masters for an amazing traditional Christmas dinner.  Everyone enjoyed a great evening of dancing to DJ Les Weiss from Les N’ More!  Les gave us exceptional choices on the dance floor, accepted many requests and the line dancers were amazing!  Eight door prizes collected, and six $50. cash prizes drawn through our Share the Wealth program.  New member, Karen Kaplan who won a Share the Wealth prize on Registration Night, won one of the many door prizes and TWO Share the Wealth cash prizes!!   Lucky Karen!!  We hope everyone had fun!  And a huge thanks to everyyone from OTOW who contributed to the Toys for Tots which helped over 8000 Pinellas children enjoy Christmas! 

On November 14^th Registration Night, we had 172 members register!  Registrar Susan Cober reported that 48 of those are new members, and 124 returning.   Congratulations to all and welcome aboard for what we anticipate will be an enjoyable experience!

We introduced something new for Registration Night by including Share the Wealth ticket sales and had 4 winners of $30 each, cash draw prizes.