Bradenton dancers win national title

Students from That's Dancing! Dance Education for Adults in Bradenton won top awards at the Starpower National Talent Championships.

The event was June 28 at the Dolphin Resort and Convention Center at Walt Disney World, Orlando.

The Starfire Dancers team of Jeanne Wacker, Margy Carraway, Vickie Inglese, Michelle McCaffrey, Suzy Berinsky and Barbara Bensman competed in the adult small group division for four to nine dancers.

Their tap dance routine, created by choreographer Bonnie Gray to "Puttin' On The Ritz," won a platinum medal with a near perfect score. It also won them a "Special Judges Recognition -- The CLASS ACT Award" and the national title of Best Adult Small Group in all dance categories.

As a soloist, Berinsky won a platinum medal for her tap routine to "Get Happy" and received the Highest Score trophy for tap solos.

The dancers, ranging in age from their 40s to early 80s, are students of Gray's That's Dancing! program and study at the Historic Manatee Central Building, 515 Ninth St. E. In addition to performing, they enter competition three or four times a year.

For more information, visit bonniegray.com.

Sweet Adelines chorus

looking for singers

Women who have a passion for music and like four-part harmony might want to consider joining Magic of Manatee, a local Sweet Adelines group.

The chorus practices at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Bradenton Christian School, 3304 43rd S. W., Bradenton.

For information about joining, call Jeanette Rothberg, 778-5499, or Judy McClarren, 779-1416.

Fireman completes

Navy training

Navy Fireman Adam B. Sandager recently completed Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill.

During the eight-week program, Sandager completed a variety of training, which included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was placed on physical fitness.

He is the son of Kimberly A. Sandager of Bradenton and is a 2003 graduate of Southeast High School.

Bundrage graduates

from Army training

Army Pvt. David D. Bundrage has graduated from the Infantryman One Station Unit Training at Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga. The training consists of Basic Infantry Training and Advanced Individual Training.

The individual training course teaches infantry soldiers to perform reconnaissance operations; employ, fire and recover anti-personnel and anti-tank mines; locate and neutralize land mines and operate target and sight equipment; operate and maintain communications equipment and radio networks; construct field firing aids for infantry weapons; and perform drills that include survival procedures in a nuclear, biological or chemical contaminated area.

Bundrage is the son of Sharon Smith of Bradenton and is a 2005 graduate of Bayshore High School.