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Honorary Mayor Race Fundraiser at Winthrop Tonight (June 30)

A 70's-themed gala is scheduled for June 30 at the Barn Theatre at Winthrop in Riverview, to raise funds for Gay Lynn Love's race for honorary mayor of Brandon.

 

Gay Lynn Love, one of two candidates in the race for honorary mayor of Brandon, will be at the Barn Theatre at Winthrop in Riverview tonight for a fundraiser with a 70's theme.

  • Event details, including food, drink, contests and cost, is available in post by Linda Chion Kenney, editor of Brandon Patch. Her report, , includes as well an interview with Love.
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Starting each year in June, candidates for the honorary post host fundraisers for their designated charities. The candidate who has raised the most money as of the morning of July 4 is declared Brandon's newest honorary mayor. Proceeds from the fundraisers go to the Community Roundtable, which organizes the annual Fourth of July parade and honorary mayor's race, and to the candidates' sponsoring organizations and selected charities and not-for-profit organizations.

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This year there are two candidates for honorary mayor of Brandon: Love, who with her husband, Scott, owns in Valrico, and B. Lee Elam, a long-time attorney, whose office is at the corner of Lumsden Road and Parsons Avenue, the start of the .


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