Eclipse provided sound and lighting services for the Petros Financial Services Customer Appreciation Gala this week.

The gala was held three nights in a row at the St. Johns County Convention Center at the World Golf Village

The ballroom before the show.

Our crew setting up.

Tom, Gary & Fritz have it all under control.

Tom, Gary Jim & Fritz (AKA “Men In Black”)

It was a full house. Petros had over 250 guests each night.

The performers. These guys were great!

The performers with the Petros crew.

Julie Lee, Director of Marketing & Public Relations at Petros, helps test the sound system.

Eclipse Recording Company

Julie and her family

The sound and light gear.

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Jim Stafford & Dan Bagan visited WJCT this week to meet with President & CEO Michael Boylan regarding the production of a POW documentary being produced by Michael Rothfeld (see story below).

Jim & Michael Boylan

Jim, Michael and Dan

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Michael Rothfeld (below)

Michael Rothfeld was a high school Special Education teacher for thirty-five years in Brooklyn, New York. He has been residing in Elkton, Florida for the past ten years.

Michael holds Masters Degrees in Special Education and American History. It was this interest in history that led him to conceive of and produce a documentary about the 32 World War Two veterans of Coquina Crossing, the community in which he resides. He says “I realized that the stories of these veterans were in danger of being lost, so I decided to have them recorded in order that their experiences would not be forgotten”. The documentary he produced with Flagler College students, titled Serve and Protect, led to other documentaries, on Korea and Vietnam all featuring NE FL veterans. These documentaries all premiered at the Flagler College Auditorium in St. Augustine, attended by more than 750 people. The PBS station in Jacksonville, WJCT-TV, broadcasts the documentaries each November around Veterans Day.

Michael is the President of the Not For Profit Corporation, Florida Veterans Programs & Projects, Inc. which sends packages to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as knitted caps and hand-made quilts to our wounded in Germany. The Not for Profit produces the documentaries and provides veteran speakers for schools, libraries, Museums and colleges.

FVPPI has started its next project, the heroic story of local ex American Prisoners of War. This documentary will be filmed and edited by Eclipse Recording Co. and Jim Stafford and Dan Bagan will film and edit this documentary. WJCT President and CEO, Michael Boylan, has promised to premiere the POW documentary on Sept. 16, 2011 which is National POW/MIA Day. The documentary will also premier at Flagler College auditorium on Friday evening Sept. 16.

FVPPI is looking for tax deductible donations to fund this documentary. Checks can be mailed to FVPPI, 4905 Los Altos Circle, Elkton, FL 32033.

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Volunteers honored by Main Library

This is a nice little article by The St. Augustine Record, click the link to read more…staugustine.com/living/

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Roland Fleming came to pick up some of his CD’s before his gig tonight (02-11-2011) at “The Reef” he plays from 6:30-10:00 p.m.

Roland will also be playing at “Tom’s Soul Food” on 609 W King Street (next to Ammar Beauty Supply) from 6:30-9:30 Saturday (02-12-2011) night. Check him out with James Whitfield and Ray Callender

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(below) “Brother Voodoo” was in the studio recording a brand new CD. The band consists of Cliff Harper, Tim Crawford (pictured with his son Bryce) and Ken Bedwell. Check out their website: brothervoodoo.com