FC LIFE February 2018

By Mimi Bergel

Mardi Gras came a little early to Frenchman’s Creek, in the form of of the First Ladies Member Guest Invitational, on Thursday, February 8, 2018. Starting off with –happily -lovely weather, it was a delightful day with 224 women playing, including guests representing 57 different clubs. It certainly was as an extremely popular and successful event. To start the day, everyone was greeted by a Dixieland quartet to set the mood. Ladies dressed in Mardi Gras inspired colors and adorned with favors of lots of lovely beaded necklaces. They enjoyed a lovely buffet breakfast before playng a “One Best Ball Shamble Format.” After golf, everyone was welcomed into a dining room which included very beautiful themed decorations and flowers done by our own in-house florist, Mario. All were treated to a delicious buffet luncheon which included some different Mardi Gras inspired dishes, such as New Orleans style shrimp, jambalaya and chicken creole– along with lots of other delights. Among the desserts was a cupcake sized “King Cake,” which is indicative of Mardi Gras and one cake at each table which contained a miniature baby doll. The person who received that cake also received a ball clip and ball marker. Thanks to Chef Berndt who enthusiastically helped to create the menu. Everyone received a $100.00 gift certificate to any Saks Fifth Avenue Store as well as a sleeve of golf balls. Grace Drusinsky and Helene Shuter did a wonderful job of planning and executing the event. Again thanks go out to our wonderful golf staff– especially J.R., Rich, Rocco, Kim , Will and Chris; to Ashish our Director of Food and Beverage and Martina, our Catering Manager, and to our wonderful l dining room staff led by Vineet.

JOAN and RICHARD BAROVICK are so elated, happy and beaming that their children, AMY and JON

BAROVICK have become members of Frenchman’s Creek.

They bought Donna and Steve Fried’s house on Provence

Drive. They also reside in Manhattan, New York.

Jon is in the financial industry and Amy is a designer and

stager of homes. They have three children Jeremy, Sam

and Carly ranging in ages from 21 to 16 years old.