Brown bagging on Longboat Key
LLSA Chamber Executive Assistant Dawn Mims, fitness instructor Steve Schewe, Pam McGee of Longboat Key Financial and Insurance Group, Longboat Key Commissioner David Brenner, Longboat Key Center for the Arts director Jane Buckman, ReMax Realtor® Marnie Matarese and Chamber President Tom Aposporos. CREDIT: Jeanette Billings
What did you do for lunch on Thursday? Business owners and community members were “Brown Bagging It” at Longboat Key Center for the Arts in the historic Longbeach Village at the north end of Longboat Key. The lunch served a full entrée of local artists, business owners hob-knobbing and community members working out plans to continually make Longboat Key the place to be.
Longboat Key, Lido Key, St. Armands Key Chamber of Commerce President Tom Aposporos was excited to introduce Town Commissioner Lynn Larson’s daughter, Hillary Larson-Garnier, to the lunch goers. Larson-Garnier, a resident of Croissy, France, is a tourism “French Connection” for the chamber. She and Aposporos are working on ways to get word about Longboat Key to French residents looking for a great summer vacation destination.
“Our beaches are packed like sardines in the summer months. French vacation-goers would love the beautiful spacious beach life of Longboat Key,” said Larson-Garnier.
Larson-Garnier lives in Croissy with her husband and two young boys.
Aposporos also introduced new chamber member Eddie Merryfield of Tree Trimmers, a holiday décor installation and design company.
Ringling’s Longboat Key Center for the Arts Director Jane Buckman visited with business owners and shared the works of photographers Mary Lou Johnson, Ed Parker and James Corwin Johnson, who were on hand to discuss with the business community their current photo exhibit, the “Power of 3: Love, Life, Light.”
Photographer James Corwin Johnson. CREDIT: Jeannette Billings
Photographer Mary Lou Johnson, Eddie Merryfield of Trimmers Holiday Decor and Hillary Larson-Garnier of Croissy, France. Laron-Garnier is the daughter of Commissioner Lynn Larson. CREDIT: Jeannette Billings
Photographer Ed Parker. CREDIT: Jeannette Billings
