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March 2017 Volume 16, Issue 3 Ph: 657-2418 C E L E B R A T I N G
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Barrington Orchestra To Host Julliard Trained, Trans-Siberian Musician For Workshop
By Kate Quesada
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Dynamic Painting Offers $10,000 In Paint Jobs To Celebrate Anniversary
By Nick Nahas
FishHawk single mom Daniella Vetencourt and her sons Diego, 10 and Matias,7, won a Free Exterior Home Paint job in 2015 after she entered an Osprey contest.
If you could paint a perfect picture of a thriving local business that generously gives back to the community, it would be of Rob Silver’s Dynamic Painting USA. The company started back in March 2007 when Silver started booking jobs before he even had employees, and he had to do most of the painting by himself. Today, the interior and exterior house painting business has taken off and Silver now has over 20 employees working for him within a 25-mile radius of the Brandon, Valrico, Fishhawk and Riverview areas. Silver is very appreciative of the local community where he started his company and found success, which has lead to his generosity of giving back to people in need of a helping hand. According to Silver, he has donated on average $2,500-$3,000 of exterior paint jobs every year for close to five years. The campaign, called Painting From the Heart, gives exterior paint jobs to single mothers on Mother’s Day and servicemen or veterans during the holidays. For the last 10 years, he has also given $3,000-$4,000 in certificates to local charities for room makeovers every year. For the 10th anniversary, Silver plans on donating $10,000 in paint jobs. “I don't do it for the recognition, I do it because I love to give back to the community,” he said. “I am very blessed with how my business has progressed, and if I can make a small difference in somebody’s life by giving a paint job away, then I’d love to do that.”
In March, four people will be selected to receive $2,500 worth of free painting. Potential recipients will write a 500-word essay on why they would like a paint job, and must include a picture of their house in order to be eligible. Entry forms will be available at Osprey Observer headquarters. Certain restrictions apply. The idea for the Painting from the Heart campaign started when Silver put an ad on Craigslist trying to get rid of the extra gallons of paint he had. A single mother contacted him asking for just one gallon so that she could paint her garage. It inspired a full donation. “I love helping out others, it’s a great feeling,” he said. In addition to Painting from the Heart, Silver has also been involved as a guardian for Honor Flight of West Central Florida, taking WWII Veterans on a trip to D.C. for the day. For information on Dynamic Painting USA, visit their website at http://dynamicpaintingusa.com.
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orchestra program," said Caballero. "I was really inspired by the excitement I witnessed in the students he was working with and the joy they were exuding through their playing." The cost for the program, including Wood's artist fees, lodging, transportation and other Mark Wood, founder of Electrify Your Strings musical program, is scheduled to hold a workshop for local orchestra students concert related expensnext months. Sponsors are needed to help with funding. es, is approximately $50 per student. Caballero is Orchestra students throughout the hoping to raise these funds through sponarea have an opportunity to learn from a T-shirt sales and a practice-asorships, musician with a very impressive resume thon event. next month thanks to Barrington Middle "When making the decision on School. spending the time and money to bring Barrington Orchestra Director SuLing Mark to our school, one of the deciding Chau Caballero is working to bring Mark factors was that the cost of EYS is conWood, a Julliard trained musician and siderably more affordable than taking stufounding member of the Trans-Siberian dents on a spring trip," said Caballero. Orchestra, who has worked with famous "Secondly, I know that EYS will have musicians from Billy Joel and Paul more of an educational impact on the stuMcCartney to Kanye West and Lenny dents for years to come. It will push them Kravitz, to Lithia to teach students to reach new performance goals, give through his Electrify Your Strings (EYS) them an opportunity to work cooperatively program. "Last year I had the opportunity with students from around the county and to attend the American String Teacher forge lifelong friendships." Association annual conference in Tampa, According to Caballero, there are curand watched a workshop with Mark," said rently 157 students registered to particiCaballero. "He has designed the EYS pate from Barrington and other local midprogram as a way to boost self-esteem dles schools including Benito, Burns, and transform students into more expresRandall and Progress Village. The group sive musicians." is still searching for a venue to host the After watching Wood, Caballero was workshop and anyone with suggestions is motivated to bring him to the area to help encouraged to contact Caballero. her students with the program's two-day Sponsorships will be accepted through workshop and concert in late April. the end of March. For information, visit "Teachers from around the United www.electrifyyourstrings.com/barringtonStates who worked with Mark have 2017.html or contact Caballero at shared how EYS increases family and SuLing.Caballero@sdhc.k12.fl.us. community engagement of their school
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