{"id":56389,"date":"2025-11-22T05:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/56389\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T05:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:17:10","slug":"the-2025-gulfportian-of-the-year-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/56389\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 Gulfportian of the Year Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-meta\">November 21, 2025 by Cathy Salustri<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-138984 size-large lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gp-of-the-year2025ban-e1763496007724-744x217.png\" alt=\"Text reads: Gulfportian of the Year For 2025\" width=\"744\" height=\"217\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-138984 size-large lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gp-of-the-year2025ban-e1763496007724-744x217.png\" alt=\"Text reads: Gulfportian of the Year For 2025\" width=\"744\" height=\"217\"  \/> And the nominees for the 2025 Gulfportian of the Year are\u2026<br \/>Image via The Gabber Newspaper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Gulfport, you have outdone yourself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> When we opened nominations for Gulfportian of the Year, we weren\u2019t sure what to expect. How many people would nominate someone? 10? None?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> In all, we received more than 50 nominations. Some were names many of us know, and a few were names you may not. But the nominations made one thing clear: Gulfportians notice when people do good. It\u2019s encouraging to see how much love Gulfport has to share.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> In those nominations, we had some duplicates (we briefly debated starting a pool about how many nominations Dawn Fisher would get; she closed out almost 20 nominations).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> Next week, we\u2019ll talk with the candidates and their nominators to give you more insight as to the people in the running for 2025 Gulfportian of the Year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Thanks to all who participated and helped celebrate the best of Gulfport! And thanks to the nominees who help make Gulfport better.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Gulfportian of the Year nominees are:<\/p>\n<p>Peggy &amp; Dave Bach<\/p>\n<p>George Cavanaugh<\/p>\n<p>Bob Chomko<\/p>\n<p>Linda Craig<\/p>\n<p>Wolfgang Deininger<\/p>\n<p>Dawn Fisher<\/p>\n<p>Kelli Garcia<\/p>\n<p>Gail Gravell<\/p>\n<p>Sam Henderson<\/p>\n<p>Helena Josephs<\/p>\n<p>Suzie King<\/p>\n<p>Aimee Kosta and Erin East<\/p>\n<p>Anita McLaughlin<\/p>\n<p>Brenda McMahon<\/p>\n<p>John Mooney<\/p>\n<p>David Perkins<\/p>\n<p>Courtney Prokopas<\/p>\n<p>CreaSirene Egan Romanelli<\/p>\n<p>Mark Sieg<\/p>\n<p>Noreen Smith<\/p>\n<p>Jax Taylor<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Taylor<\/p>\n<p>Dia Vartsakis<\/p>\n<p>And the winner is\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Voting starts now and ends Dec. 10 at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> The winner gets a front-page feature about them in our Jan. 1 issue. They also get bragging rights and a lot of community love.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> So let\u2019s get voting!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Want a reminder to vote? Subscribe to our daily newsletter,<a href=\"https:\/\/thegabber.us14.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=6a6f544ffd833c8d688dcbcd9&amp;id=6204919e05\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the Spoonbill Scoop<\/a>, to get daily news of Gulfport and South Pinellas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"after-content-cta-item-wrap after-content-cta-button-wrap\"><a class=\"after-content-cta-button button\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/supportfloridajournalism.com\/newspaper\/the-gabber\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Support The Gabber Newspaper<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"after-content-cta-item-wrap after-content-cta-content-wrap\">Your donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. The Florida Community News Fund is a program administered by the Florida Press Foundation, tax ID #59-2449377, a 501 (C) (3) organization. All donations made at this link go to The Gabber Newspaper through the Florida Press Association, a 501(c)(3).<\/p>\n<p>Please support local news and The Gabber Newspaper!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"November 21, 2025 by Cathy Salustri And the nominees for the 2025 Gulfportian of the Year are\u2026Image via&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[24497,202,204,203,199,201,200,2793],"class_list":["post-56389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-cathy-salustri","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-the-gabber-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}