The Club hosted its second Happy Hour - Karaoke on Friday, February 7 at the WAC, Belleair Room!  73 very excited folks came out to party!  Our DJ Scott McParland and emcee Laurie Fischer managed the singing and entertainment!  25 people braved the stage area to sing and the line dancers sure enjoyed 6 dedicated dance songs and entertainment!   Attendees brought wonderful snacks to share at the buffet table and our Treasurer drew 4 X $30 Share the Wealth prizes.   A great evening was had by all!   Everyone is welcome, member or not!  Next one is a 50's Scok Hop - 7 March featuring Scott McParland,DJ and Gil Small, emcee!  

On Saturday, January 25, twenty members enjoyed a delicious luncheon buffet at Ed Fletcher’s Early Bird Dinner Theatre and were entertained by the “Love …..or Best Offer” performance on stage.  The production was written by Phil Olsen and runs: January 10th – February 23rd, 2025.   Cheryl is a widow of two years, Stan is a recently divorcee.  After failed blind dates, their best friends, Lori and Dave, convince them to try online dating with the new dating website, “Friends, Love or Whatever.” With the worst dating advice in the world from their friends, Cheryl and Stan set out to find happiness and true love—online. All the trials and tribulations of online dating come to the forefront, including overcoming heartbreak and rejection, all to find love…or best offer.  The show was comedic and very humourous!

Friday, January 17^th saw our first Happy Hour – Karaoke of the season in the West Activity Centre, Belleair Room featuring DJ “Scott McParland” from 4:30 – 7 pm.  We had a great turn-out of 79 with emcee, Laurie Fischer guiding us through the evening!  A bountiful buffet of snacks was enjoyed by all, and several “Share the Wealth” cash prizes were drawn as well!  There were a lot of volunteer singers, line dancing and camaraderie enjoyed by everyone!  It was such a great evening, and we’ll do it all again on Friday, February 7!   Everyone at OTOW is always welcome, regardless whether you’re a member or not!

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.