Recycle Your Old Instruments for a Good Cause!

General News

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St. Petersburg College is partnering with the Gasparilla Music Foundation to support music and education through the community outreach program, Recycled Tunes. Gently used instruments can be donated Nov. 14-18 at SPC locations. The instruments will be refurbished by Recycled Tunes and then donated to Pinellas County Schools’ music programs.

The first 40 donors will receive a special music lover’s gift bag. All donors will receive:
 • A two-day ticket to the 2017 Gasparilla Music Festival

• A ticket to the SPC’s MIRA (Music Industry Recording Arts) Fall Showcase at the Palladium Theater on Nov. 28

 

The donation drop-off times include:

• 1-5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 14 and Wednesday, Nov. 16

• 4-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15 and Thursday, Nov. 17

• 9 a.m.–noon on Friday, Nov. 18

 

The SPC drop-off locations include:

• SPC Clearwater Campus (ST 122), 2465 Drew St.

• SPC Seminole Campus (UP 192), 9200 113th N

• SPC St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus (SS Building), 6605 5th N.

• SPC Downtown Campus (DC 225), 244 2nd N., St. Petersburg

• SPC Allstate Center (Main Entrance –Front Desk), 3200 34th S., St. Petersburg

• SPC Tarpon Springs Campus (Mon., Wed., Fri. AG Building; and Tue. and Thur., FA Building), 600 Klosterman Rd.

 

For more information, contact Rosaria Pipitone at 727-314-4722 or visit here.

 

About Jeff Cavanagh

Jeff Cavanagh spent his freshman year at St. Petersburg Junior College back in the early 70s before enlisting in the United States Navy. Soon after, he attended Jacksonville University on a Navy ROTC scholarship. After college, he was commissioned and became a qualified Surface Warfare Officer spending the next 22 years honing his skills as a ship-handler and expert recruiter before retiring in 1994. Jeff expresses a deep sense of pride in St. Petersburg College due to connections that go back many years. His father, Tom Cavanagh, was a career Air Force fighter pilot and combat veteran who taught Geography and Western Civilization at St. Petersburg Junior College in the 60’s and 70’s.