Teaching Piano Lessons for 80 years. At 95-years old, Elba Ruilova still teaches piano lessons four afternoons a week from her west Tampa home. She began teaching when she was 15.
How they prepare: "We talk about the previous games and decide who will do the first legs and last legs."
Top travel destination: Cancun, Mexico
Dream destination: Great Barrier Reef
Local eating haunts: El Cap, for burgers in St. Petersburg
Give a high-five to people who work in the hotel and tourism industry, the backbone of our economy, during the fifth annual Hospitality Olympics. About 25 teams of employees from local hotels and attractions will compete for gold at the games, which kick off National Tourism Week. Watch hospitality workers race around cones in a laundry cart or toss toilet paper rolls into pillow cases. The games run from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Monday at the St. Pete Times Forum plaza. Here's a look at three of the competitors.
— Susan Thurston sthurston@tampabay.com
Kellie Vuocolo, 44 Carrollwood
Job: Bar manager for Aramark, defending silver medalists
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