An upcoming event to be held at the Belleair Country Club in Belleair, FL on September 27, 2003 is being touted by a Scientologist front group called Clearwater Community Volunteers as "safe pointing" Scientology expansion in the Tampa Bay area. This event is described as a fashion show featuring local politicians and VIPs, with proceeds going to the Boys & Girls Club of Clearwater and Scientology's Winter Wonderland. One of the sponsors of this event is Progress Energy, the local electric utility. According to the webpage of the national Boys & Girls Club, there is no "Clearwater Boys & Girls Club," although there is a regional Boys & Girls Club of the Suncoast, which appears to be based in Clearwater.Expected to take part in the fasion show are Pinellas County Commissioner Susan Latvala, political consultant Mary Repper, and State Representative Kim Berfield. Cat Coates, the wife of Pinellas Deputy Sheriff Jim Coates, and Teresa Hibbard, the wife of Clearwater Commissioner Frank Hibbard, are also expected to participate.
Also in attendance at this event was Florida Representative Michael "Gus" Bilirakis (R).