Publisher’s Message

Autumn has arrived, bringing a breath of slightly cooler air in the mornings. Makes me hungry for a slice of that Keto Friendly Pumpkin Pie (see page 30).

Paradise News is published monthly October-May, and twice each summer. If you are the kind of person who wants the news first, you should look online! The issues go to the printer and are posted online around the first of each month. In print, it will arrive on racks and stacks around the 10th and in 20,000+ mailboxes around the 15th. Just visit www.paradisenewsfl.com. You can even send a link to a friend.

While on the home page, click on the newsletter tab! Each Thursday our digital staff posts a weekly newsletter to which you can subscribe for free. Every issue has a link to the current magazine online. You don’t even have to remember to look on the first of the month; Thursday’s newsletter will remind you. It will also suggest the top five things to do each weekend, like SPB Friday Concerts in the Park. You can also see a growing list of Events, concerts and entertainment planned for the Holiday Season.

We are happy to see the return of Clearwater Jazz Holiday (in a new venue this year), concerts at Mahaffey, Ruth Eckerd Hall and Straz, a new owner at the Beach Theatre and so much more. We are thankful for the support from so many local businesses who we know have advertising people after them every week. We appreciate their loyalty. Please tell them thanks from us when you do business with them.

Real estate is one of the greatest drivers in our local economy. Rising values are helping to support our municipalities, saving our taxes and ensuring a secure retirement for property owners on the beach. We are proud to have Keith and Tina Slater on the cover this month showing us how they connect with locals and visitors alike from their Dolphin Village office.

Thank you for being a faithful reader. Paradise NEWS is a “Labor of Love” by a score of people who do it all just for you! While our mission includes improving our publication every issue, our long-time readers have come to rely on our long term relationships. Feature writer Steve Traiman, executive editor Nanette Wiser, and astrologer Sarah Lyons are three of them. Thank you, Sarah, for 16 years of stargazing for us and all of our readers.

PHOTO BY JANET NUMMI

Peter & Renee Roos

PUBLISHERS Peter Roos | Marketing & Sales sales@paradisenewsfl.com Renee Roos | Creative Director info@paradisenewsfl.com

EDITORIAL Nanette Wiser - Executive Editor wiser86@gmail.com Steve Traiman - Feature Editor traimancreativecopy@gmail.com

ART & PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Janet Nummi

ADVERTISING REPS Gigi Grimshaw Linda Motzenbecker

CONTRIBUTING COLUMNISTS Arts & Leisure & Events - Buddy Baker Art News - Caron Schwartz

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Dr. Dennis Merritt Jones | Sarah Lyons Michael Moses Jr. | Tom Broderson, ESQ

Ryan Baker, MD | Dr. Scot Trefz, DVM

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Janet Nummi | City of St. Pete Visit St. Pete-Clearwater | Visit Florida

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