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Breakfast with the jolly man himself

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The GFWC Pasco Juniors Woman’s Club’s Breakfast with Santa charity event recently took place at the Lexington Oaks Community Center. The 501(c)(3) nonprofit annually hosts this fundraising event to purchase holiday presents for community youths, and to donate funds to the Sean Bartell Memorial Foundation. The foundation is named for a Wesley Chapel High student who passed away on Christmas Day 2014 from complications of Stevens Johnson Syndrome/Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis. GFWC Juniors vice president Suzette Torres said the event raised about $600, thanks to food and coffee donations from Waffle House, Burger King, Keke’s Breakfast Cafe, Starbucks and Wawa. For more information on either charity, visit their Facebook pages.

Wesley Chapel infant Nikolas Scardino can’t believe his eyes as he meets Santa Claus (Paul Bartell) on Dec. 2, during GFWC Pasco Juniors Woman’s Club’s Breakfast with Santa charity event at Lexington Oaks Community Center. (Mike Camunas)
Six-year-olds Kiarah Edwards, left, and Aliana Hernandez, both of Wesley Chapel, play a knock down the Grinch game at the Breakfast with Santa charity event.
Wesley Chapel kiddo Joey Fonck, 5, gets ready to devour a pancake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GFWC Pasco Juniors Woman’s Club member Janine Marquardt serves up a plate of food during the group’s Breakfast with Santa charity event on Dec. 2.
Wesley Chapel sisters Giulietta Fantuz, 5, left, and Amielia Fantuz, 4, play a sandbag toss holiday game on Dec. 2, at the GFWC Pasco Juniors Woman’s Club’s Breakfast with Santa charity event.
About a hundred people turned out on Dec. 2 to get a warm meal during GFWC Pasco Juniors Woman’s Club’s Breakfast with Santa charity event, at Lexington Oaks Community Center in Wesley Chapel.