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Halloween event benefits therapy center
By Times Staff Writer
Published October 21, 2007
ST. PETERSBURG Things get scary for a good cause Saturday at a Halloween hair-raiser called Brew Ha Ha. The event will be at the Rutland-Farley estate in St. Petersburg. It benefits the Bolesta Center, a nonprofit therapy center that teaches children who are deaf or hearing-impaired to listen and speak. Hours for the adults-only, haunted house event are 8 p.m. to midnight. Tickets: $100. Information: www.bolestacenter.org; (813) 932-1184, ext. 23. CLEARWATER Wine tasting will help group home Brookwood Florida, a therapeutic group home for teen girls who have been abused or neglected or who have experienced other family dysfunction, will have its sixth annual Hallo-Wine Tasting from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Feather Sound Country Club, 2201 Feather Sound Drive, Clearwater. Tickets: $75. Information: 822-4789. AREAWIDE Stores to trade savings for clothes Patchington stores in Isla Del Sol (5901 Sun Blvd., St. Petersburg), Belleair Bluffs (280 Indian Rocks Road) and Clearwater (2520-A McMullen-Booth Road) will receive quality used clothing in exchange for discounts on new clothing during their annual Trade-In Sale. It runs Tuesday through Oct. 29 and gives donated items to Community Action Stops Abuse (CASA). Information: 1-800-771-2200, ext. 226.
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