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Drainage project stuck in the mud After years of delays, a project dating back to 2005 to collect and filter stormwater runoff at Siesta Key Beach is once again on hold.

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+ Fit at 50 YMCA fitness trainer and Peruvian aerobics champion Felipe Cava celebrated his 50th birthday Sunday, Sept. 29, at Blasé Café.

His students from the YMCA organized the party, which more than 50 people attended. The Sarasota resident won first place in the Longboat Observer’s “It’s Read Everywhere” contest in 2011 — in the photo, he and his family demonstrated their athleticism even while on vacation!

Donald Porter has braced himself for what he’ll see when he returns in October to his unit at the Gulf and Bay Club Condominiums.

“Gulf and Bay is very unhappy,” said Porter, speaking about the Beach Road Drainage Improvements Project construction site adjacent to the condominium

complex on Siesta Key. “People are going to come back in October and have this massive scar in the ground right off their balconies. Hopefully, it’s a temporary problem, but it’s a big, big mess right now.”

After years of delays, the Beach Road Drainage Project has another hurdle to overcome before

completion. Heavy rains in September stalled the approximately $4.5 million project’s progress, leaving the county scrambling for an affordable solution to drain standing water on the construction site and restart the floundering project, which some resi-

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Standing water from last month’s storms has delayed progress on the Beach Road Drainage Improvements Project.

+ Optimistic outlook Sarasota resident Kevin Swan was honored with the Stephen Heywood Patients Today Award Oct. 3, at the ALS Therapy Development Institute’s Kevin Swan ninth annual Leadership Summit in Cambridge, Mass., for his involvement within the ALS community.

Swan was diagnosed with ALS in 2012 at the age of 31. He founded A Life Story Foundation to raise awareness and fundraise toward research for a cure.

ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.

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ROUGH CUTS

by David Conway | News Editor

Commissioners take aim at budget The two city commissioners who opposed Sarasota’s fiscal year 2014 budget and millage rate offer opinions on how they think government can continue to shrink.

This summer, a series of votes on increasing the millage rate in Sarasota 8.5% fell into a predictable pattern: three votes for, two votes against.

After the final 3-2 vote Sept. 24, finalizing the city of Sarasota’s

2014 budget and millage rates, Commissioner Susan Chapman drew attention to that pattern. She asked Mayor Shannon Snyder and Commissioner Paul Caragiulo, the two nay votes, what they would cut in the bud-

get to eliminate the need for the millage increase.

Neither gave specifics at the time. But given the opportunity to reflect and provide more detailed examples of what they’d target in the budget, both com-

missioners stuck to a more philosophical perspective.

Caragiulo said it was the commission’s job to approve the budget, not to assemble the budget.

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we would have started a few months earlier,” Elfers said. “The end date didn’t change, but there was less time to get it done.”

Porter said Gulf and Bay residents expected the project would be nearer to completion by October.

“This is the No. 1 beach in the world, and it’s a mess right now,” said Porter, who has owned a unit at Gulf and Bay for 15 years.

“They chose to do construction in a part of the year when people weren’t around, but it was the rainy season. And now they’re at a standstill.”

The Gulf and Bay Club Condominiums, adjacent to Siesta Beach, overlook land cleared in August for a retention pond and

UV light treatment units.

“We have to get rid of the standing water before we can start building the UV treatment system,” Elfers said.

In September, Siesta Key received 11.95 inches of rain, compared with 1.95 inches of rain in September 2012. The heavy rain slowed the pace of construction and left project managers with water to clear before resuming work.

Elfers said the only realistic option to drain the standing water is to treat the accumulated rain on site and then pump it into the Gulf of Mexico.

“We’re looking at pumping it offshore, but, first, we have to get rid of sediment and turbidity and meet certain state water standards,” Elfers said.

Elfers said an exact price for the operation has not yet been determined, but he estimates it will be “in the hundreds of thousands” of dollars.

The drainage project’s delay means construction will be ongoing during November’s Siesta Key Crystal Classic sand sculpting competition.

“The event is a big event, and there’s no doubt it will be impacted by the construction,” Sarasota County Parks and Recreation Manager George Tatge said. “It’s a real challenge, but we’re assured by our

contractors that we can do this. Although, the event might have to be slightly modified or adjusted to accommodate the construction realities.“ The Crystal Classic, set for Nov. 15 to Nov. 18, draws 30,000 to 50,000 visitors to Siesta Key every year. Siesta business leaders said the event is a valuable opportunity to promote Siesta Key as a tourist destination. They have raised concerns about the potentially negative impression the ongoing drainage project will leave on visitors.

“It’s a mess out here,” Siesta Key Village Association President Cheryl Gaddie said.

“Is it going to leave tourists with the best impression? Probably not. But will it keep people away from the beach? No.” Despite the standing-water dilemma, Crystal Classic organizers and county officials are confident the event will be successful, albeit with some challenges.

“We’ve got plenty of time for the water to drain,” said Brian Wigelsworth, a Crystal Classic organizer.

Tatge added that the drainage project does not include any construction on the beach that could affect the sand-sculpting competition.

“The rain hasn’t made it any easier, but we expect the event to be a success,” Tatge said.

committed an extra $211,000 toward a homeless shelter, an expenditure Caragiulo proposed and which Snyder supported.

Caragiulo said reducing costs has to be achieved via cutting personnel; there are 9.8 fewer full-time positions in this year’s budget. He acknowledged it would be hard to cut further, but thinks that should be the city’s choice before raising taxes, because property values are also increasing.

Caragiulo said he didn’t have a better alternative to the current budget process.

Under that system, he wants to see commissioners ask even more of the city employees who put together the budget.

“Let’s pretend there isn’t any more money; otherwise, it’s an academic exercise,” Caragiulo said. “Unless you give them less

money to play with, they’re only going to cut what they need to cut.”

Snyder said the city’s various public relations officials could be let go to save money, but he advocated for more radical changes than a few line-item cuts. He said the city should consolidate its building department and some of its law-enforcement services with the county, placing a priority on running “government lite.”

Overall, Snyder said he’d like to see a focus on maximizing the efficiency of city departments. When parking-enforcement officials are driving through the street, for example, he’d like to see them do more than check for parking violations. If there’s an overgrown tree or a pothole along their route, they should alert the proper depart-

ments, eliminating the need for some inspectors.

“It’s not so much downsizing the budget,” Snyder said. “Why isn’t there more coordination of everything?”

Snyder doesn’t believe the city will have a serious conversation about restructuring services anytime soon. Still, he thinks it’s important to have this discussion now. For instance, he believes residents wouldn’t be satisified with the same level of service if the city’s millage rate climbed to around 6 mills, about twice the current rate of 3.1728 mills.

“I think the city of Sarasota is relevant, but, at some point, if the owners don’t see a financial return to the investment, they’ll close the business,” Snyder said.

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dents say is an eyesore for one of the area’s top tourist draws.

“We were scheduled to finish by the end of November, but we’ve slipped by at least a month,” said Mike Elfers, Sarasota County construction services manager. “We’re still looking at how we’re going to get the site dewatered.”

The drainage improvements will alleviate flooding on Beach Road and treat runoff from the road and the Siesta Beach parking lot before it drains into the Gulf of Mexico. Rainwater will be collected in a retention pond and pass through ultraviolet (UV) treatment units before being pumped 2,000 feet into the Gulf of Mexico, through an underground pipe.

The project, originally proposed in 2005, was bogged down for years by various issues, including permitting delays, problems with the bidding process and pushback from the nearby Gulf and Bay Condominiums.

Elfers said constant delays gave the project less flexibility to adapt to unforeseen circumstances, like last month’s heavy rainfall.

“If this thing had gone through the procurement pipeline as originally planned,

BUDGET / FROM PAGE 1A He believes that, if city staff was directed to cut from the budget, they’d find room to cut. If they didn’t feel that pressure, Caragiulo said, the budget would be excessive.

“If you convey to staff that you’re agreeable to the millage increase, you give them no incentive to cut the budget,” Caragiulo said. “You show your cards right out of the gate.”

Caragiulo pointed to money budgeted for pay increases for collective-bargaining employees as a presumptuous allocation.

He also said staff seemed to find more money as necessary. New audio-visual equipment was funded without general fund money only after the commission

Sarasota County Project Manager Alex Boudreau will give a presentation to the Siesta Key Association (SKA) Thursday on the status of the Beach Road Drainage Improvements Project.

SKA will meet at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 3, at St. Boniface Church, 5615 Midnight Pass, Siesta Key. Residents can call 364-4880 for more information.

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by Nolan Peterson | News Editor

TAKING FLIGHT

Sarasota is at the front lines for the domestic use of a high-tech tool from the war on terrorism.

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Gene Payson shows off the S-800 hexacopter drone — one of the small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles used to train drone pilots. tion caught the attention of the Air Force and Naval research labs, which eventually purchased some of Payson’s UAVs and brought him on as a drone instructor pilot.

Payson now builds small-scale drones for a variety of civilian and military clients worldwide. He has sold and provided training on the Penguin B drone to a game preserve in Africa trying to crack down on illegal poachers, and he recently returned from a trip to Africa to train the Nigerian Air Force to use the Aerostar UAV in battling Boko Haram, an al-Qaida affiliate. Payson also received a request from Kuwait to train drone pilots for patrolling oil fields.

Following the 2012 attack on the U.S consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Payson said an ex-Navy SEAL at the Pentagon contacted him about using his drones for security at U.S. embassies.

“I told them I couldn’t do it,” Payson said, referring to the

Pentagon’s request. “We’re not set up for that scale of operation — yet.”

Payson’s Sarasota flight-training operation is an affiliate of the Phoenix-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) University — the only school in the world to offer doctorates and master’s degrees in unmanned systems engineering and project management. Students training to be UAV pilots travel to Sarasota for a $3,500, three-day course run by Payson, which includes 24 hours of instruction. Prior to arriving in Sarasota for training, students complete a 16-hour, computerbased drone ground school developed by Payson, which is the first of its kind. The hands-on training flights are conducted at a remotecontrol aircraft landing strip in Sarasota, which satisfies current FAA restrictions on the commercial use of UAVs. Payson’s students — he has

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about one a month — are mostly ex-military, and many are international, traveling from as far as Sweden, South Africa and Japan for training.

Payson said, however, the UAV University does not provide training or equipment to citizens of Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, Cuba and Libya.

The UAV University flight-training program that Payson runs is at the vanguard of an industry predicted to be worth at least $85 billion and employ 100,000 people globally by 2025. One Air

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Number of drones expected to hit U.S. airspace when the FAA lifts its restrictions on their use

Force report estimated the global UAV market could top $500 billion in the next decade. The defense department plans to increase its fleet of drone aircraft by 45% over the next 10 years, according to a DOD report.

The commercial and lawenforcement use of drones in U.S. airspace is currently prohibited (although waivers have been issued for certain uses such as border-patrol operations) but the FAA plans on opening domestic airspace to UAVs as early as 2015 — giving the U.S. private sector a foothold in a new global market.

Although the FAA has not yet announced what the requirements will be to operate drones in U.S. airspace when the current restrictions are lifted, Payson and the UAV University are shaping their flight-training program in anticipation of the FAA’s requirements.

“The idea with this university is to get students to the level so they can pass the FAA exam,” Payson says. “Of course, we don’t even know what the rules will be yet.”

The FAA estimates 10,000 drones will hit U.S. skies when the rules for domestic operations are set, and Payson’s Sarasota flight school will be one of the only places in the world with the curriculum and infrastructure ready to go to train the industry’s new pilots (a career with a $104,000 average annual salary).

“We will be set up to be one of the first ones in the game,” Payson says about the Sarasota flight school. “But, God knows how many more will open up once the FAA approves drones for U.S. airspace. And once there’s a market, you’ll see venture capitalists and big companies like Boeing and Lockheed Martin jump in the game. The FAA really ought to get their rules sorted out; it would be a real boon to the economy.”

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The walls of Gene Payson’s Sarasota garage workshop are lined with remote-control airplanes and other bizarre flying vehicles that look like something out of a science fiction movie. Some are made from Styrofoam, others from hightech composite materials.

“This one here,” Payson says, pointing to a bizarre, suitcasesized machine with six rotary blades and a digital camera hanging underneath its retractable, spider-like legs, “this is what we train our students on.” He explains how a laptop computer using GPS and Google Earth is used to remotely operate the small-scale unmanned drone.

Payson picks up another of his drones — a small Styrofoam airplane with a video camera mounted in its nose. The plane is launched like a paper airplane, Payson said, and then piloted by an operator wearing a high-tech visor that projects images beamed down from the aircraft’s camera.

“A lot of people get motionsick wearing this thing,” Payson says, referring to the visor. “Even though they’re just standing on the ground.”

Out of his home workshop on Honore Avenue, Payson, 57, and his three employees build smallscale drone aircraft, also known as UAVs, for civilian and military clients around the world and run what might be the world’s only civilian flight school for drone pilots.

“I don’t think there’s anyone else out there doing what we’re doing,” Payson says. “Right now, we’re like Bill Gates writing programs in his garage.”

Payson, a mechanical engineer by trade, is the president and CEO of Troy Built Models Inc., a Sarasota-based company that is one of the largest hobby retailers in the world for remote-control (RC) airplanes. The Chicago native’s career has ranged from working as an engineer for DuPont to creating a dating website. But he eventually settled on channeling his passion for RC airplanes into opening a hobby shop. And when the sale of RC airplane autopilot systems provided a gateway to building small-scale drones, Payson’s Sarasota opera-

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NEWSBRIEFS + Condo owner abandons DID expansion efforts Ron Rayevich appeared at Tuesday’s Downtown Improvement District (DID) meeting to seek an easier path for residential property owners to be included in the district. Instead, he found a new hurdle — and gave up his cause entirely.

Rayevich, the president of the Plaza at Five Points Condominium Association, was leading an effort to include downtown condo owners in the DID, which is currently only made up of commercial property owners.

Taxed at a reduced rate of .5 mills — commercial owners currently pay 2 mills — the revenue generated from residential owners would have gone toward improving safety, security and cleanliness downtown.

DID Board Chairman Ernest Ritz was absent at the meeting at which Rayevich first suggested the expansion. On Tuesday, he was staunchly opposed to the idea. He called the reduced tax rate residential members would pay unfair. He also said adding a residential member to the DID’s five-person board would distract from the original purpose of the district.

“That’s why we’re here,” Ritz said. “We’re commercial property owners.”

Due to a perceived resistance from the

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 Siesta Key Association Meeting — 4:30 p.m. Oct. 3, at St. Boniface Church, 5615 Midnight Pass, Siesta Key  Regular City Commission Meeting — 2:30 and 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, City Hall, Commission Chambers, 1565 First St., Sarasota.  Sarasota Board of County Commissioners Meeting — 9 a.m. Oct. 8, at the Robert L. Anderson Administration Center, 4000 S. Tamiami Trail, Venice; and 9 a.m. Oct. 9, at the Sarasota County Administration Center, 1660 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota

board, Rayevich said after the meeting that he is finished trying to get condominium owners included in the DID. “We are withdrawing our proposal to join the DID,” Rayevich said. “No use fighting an uphill battle.”

+ Correction In a Sept. 26 article about the possible expansion of the DID, Ron Rayevich’s name was misspelled.

+ SRQ adds new Chicago flight through tourist season The Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority has called in reinforcements for tourist season.

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SPD employs a new approach to fighting crime The High Point Initiative aims to work with less-serious drug offenders in lieu of prosecution, a process that depends heavily on community involvement.

Visiting the source

High Point began the drug market intervention initiative in May 2004. David Kennedy, then a Harvard professor, teamed with local authorities to formulate a new approach to tackling the city’s open drug markets.

Ledwith downplayed the immediate results Sarasota might see,

but High Point Police Chief Marty Sumner said the effects were evident after the first call-in.

“The next day, there were no dealers out,” Sumner said. “There was a 75% reduction in violence in the first 50 days.”

In the first neighborhood the initiative was tested in, violent crime had fallen 57% five years later. Violent crime decreased 20% citywide as the effort spread to new neighborhoods. Sumner said there were few bumps in the road.

“Getting the community commitment was way easier than I thought, because they were very motivated to make the change,” Sumner said. “The biggest challenge is to get a committed leader to say, ‘We’re going to do something about this.’”

Cities seeking to implement the initiative can visit High Point to get a first-hand lesson. Sumner said some cities would send just one person to feel out whether the initiative was right for them. Sarasota, on the other hand, was committed; a team of governmental, police and community leaders visited in fall 2012 to be trained.

“I thought they had an excellent chance of replicating it when they got back,” Sumner said.

Changes for communities, police

A less-quantifiable, long-term goal of the program is to create a better relationship between officers and the communities they police. By acknowledging the dif-

POINT OF EMPHASIS The Sarasota Police Department is trying to replicate the success High Point, N.C., had in breaking up drug markets. Here’s a look at how High Point fared, and how Sarasota compares.

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Decrease in violent crime in High Point’s West End neighborhood 100 days after initiative began

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Decrease in violent crime in West End four years after initiative began

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Decrease in drug-related crime in West End four years after initiative began

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Decrease in violent crime in High Point citywide 2 years after initiative began

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High Point’s population when initiative began

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Violent crimes in High Point the year initiative began

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Violent crimes in Sarasota in 2012

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to lead to a decrease in other offenses — particularly violent crimes, which can stem from the drug trade.

“People are stealing to support a habit, or some of our violent crime is offender on offender,” Ledwith said. “If there are no more open drug markets, that takes a hit.”

Six people were targeted for the first round of deferred prosecution. All six appeared at an Aug. 27 community meeting, and Ledwith was happy with the proceedings. He said a group of speakers from the affected community were present to talk with the offenders.

Educational-and-employment service providers, including Sarasota County Technical Institute and Sun Coast Workforce, were also present.

The attentiveness the six offenders showed encouraged Ledwith; he said they had all spoken with the service providers after the meeting. Mentors will monitor the progress of the people who were called in. Still, he said, the offenders will determine how well it works out for them.

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The Sarasota Police Department is trying a new approach to eliminate the open-air markets in the Newtown neighborhood — and, eventually, lower crime rates citywide. One of the most significant changes? Police won’t be arresting some known offenders.

That new approach is known as the High Point Initiative, named after its success in the town of High Point, N.C. Nearly a decade after High Point first implemented the initiative, SPD is trying to replicate that success locally.

Lt. Pat Ledwith described the initiative as a two-pronged approach. The first prong is standard operating procedure — aggressive prosecution of serious offenders in the drug markets. About 35 repeat sellers were arrested at the beginning of June.

The second part is more novel: nonviolent, infrequent offenders can avoid prosecution. Instead, working with the community, the police will offer these individuals rehabilitation opportunities to prevent further criminal activity.

If they’re caught breaking the law again, the original charges can still be filed, but the SPD is looking past arrests as the first option.

“We’re bringing in social services to try to get them redirected in a more positive direction, try to help them with job skills, life skills in general, addiction skills,” Ledwith said. “We’re trying to break the cycle.”

Down the road, this is designed

ference between individual offenders, Ledwith said people would see the police aren’t just out to make arrests.

City Manager Tom Barwin said a decrease in crime, paired with the education and employment opportunities the initiative offers, would eventually lead to a revitalization of areas such as Newtown.

Barwin said participants in drug markets needed to be offered a better economic opportunity elsewhere.

“The whole system of illicit drugs is an economic system,” Barwin said. “If we’re going to get away from the negative impacts of illegal drugs, we’ve got to strengthen the legitimate economy.”

In High Point, Sumner said, struggling neighborhoods saw increased development after drug markets were shut down.

“We found the city put new housing stock in, got a Boys and Girls Club, got a community center,” Sumner said. “A lot of things that healthy neighborhoods have, they’ll never be able to be fully realized if you don’t do this first.”

There was some reluctance to the new strategy among the police force, Ledwith said, due to a perceived leniency. After seeing the department is still focused on prosecuting serious offenders, he said officers are beginning to buy in for now.

“The officers are looking at the fact that we’re still arresting people; people are still going to jail,” Ledwith said. “I think most of them are willing to give it a chance.”

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As a graduate student at the University of Florida, she was earning good grades in her pursuit of a philosophy degree. It came as a shock, then, when she received some harsh feedback from her professor, noted philosopher R.M. Hare.

“He said, ‘You will never be a great philosopher,’” Murphy said. “’But you would be a great urban planner.’”

Murphy heeded that advice, taking a new path that eventually led to her directing Sarasota’s new Urban Design Studio. In a sense, she’s returning to finish what she started, helping the city institute an urbanist, form-based zoning code.

Murphy, who moved to Sarasota when she was 15, first began working for the city as a planner in 1999. At that time, much of the city’s plans and design standards had not been codified. Murphy and other members of the city’s planning department told City Manager David Sollenberger that they needed to rewrite the code.

Sollenberger listened, bringing in the consulting firm Duany Plater-Zyberk to help produce the city’s downtown master plan. Murphy stayed through the initial implementation of that plan, and racked up 60-hour workweeks in the process. The schedule, combined with a desire to spend more time with her three children, made a 2006 private sector job offer too attractive to turn down.

Over the next seven years, Murphy eventually started her own planning firm and helped write a form-based code for downtown Bradenton. She kept her eye on Sarasota as it struggled to make any headway on a citywide form-based code. With all but one of her children off to college, Murphy decided to return to the city and help rewrite the zoning regulations.

Some people might be reluctant to return to such a hectic job. Murphy’s workload may be even more significant now, with principal urban designer Andrew Georgiadis as her only partner in the Urban Design Studio. Still, she said she feels compelled to lend her hand when she thinks it’s needed.

“I think it’s not enough for me just to

be an urbanist; I really believe in helping communities to achieve that,” Murphy said. “Especially when it’s a place that you were raised, and you see that they’re having these difficult struggles and you have a skillset that you think would help.”

Murphy said there are a number of factors that contribute to her urbanist philosophy: she’s a people person; she loves cities; her grandmother never owned a car.

Ultimately, she thinks walkable communities are healthy communities with good civic engagement, all of which adds to a city’s quality of life.

“It’s important to me that I leave those kinds of things behind for the next generation,” Murphy said. “I think sometimes our generation did some damage; I’d like to do my part to heal that fabric in cities.”

Murphy thrives off the varied workload, and says the experience has been fun so far.

The design studio has been open for just more than two months, but for now, she’s up to the challenges.

“Some people can only do one thing, and they get really frustrated if you get interrupted at that one thing,” Murphy said.

“We’re keeping all these balls in the air at one time and still knowing, at some point, we have to stop and get it all done into a work product.”

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School Board referendum election date raises concerns The date of a countywide special referendum election has some concerned about high costs and reduced voter turnout. year 2014 budget.

“In reality, it’s only seven months’ difference, and they can always do a budget adjustment mid cycle,” Barbetta said.

Based on historical election data for Sarasota County, a separate referendum election will draw about half as many voters as a general election and will have a turnout roughly on par with a countywide primary.

Voters approved the last School Board referendum in a March 18, 2010, special election that was held along with the town of Longboat Key general election — the same scenario proposed for 2014.

The 2010 special election drew 70,389 total voters countywide, including 2,052 voters who voted in the Longboat Key election, according to county data.

The Nov. 2, 2010, general election, the last off-presidential cycle congressional election (similar to what 2014 will be), drew 148,307 voters countywide — more than double the number of voters who turned out for the 2010 joint School Board referendum and Longboat Key election. The 2010 countywide primary drew 63,630 voters.

Goodwin said posing the referendum as a standalone vote may decrease participation, but it will increase voter awareness of the issues at stake.

“We always thought a special election was the best way to engage the population,” Goodwin said. “We want more people to pay attention to the referendum and how important it is. We don’t want anything else on the ballot. We don’t want anything standing in the way of good dialogue with the community.”

The upcoming referendum vote was originally scheduled for March 4, 2014, but was pushed back to March 25 to coincide with the Longboat Key race.

Asked if planning the School Board’s referendum vote to accompany the Longboat Key general election would save taxpayers any money, Dent said: “It won’t save the district anything. But it will save the town of Longboat Key some money because now they can piggyback their election on the countywide vote.”

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The timing of next year’s special election to renew a key revenue source for area schools will cost taxpayers more money and put the measure before fewer voters than other options available to the district that year, according to some county officials.

The referendum vote, set for March 25 to coincide with the town of Longboat Key general election, will decide whether to renew for the third time a 1-mill property tax that expires every four years and generates about $40 million annually to fund programs the School Board considers vital to the district. The measure sunsets June 30.

The School Board approved the March 25 election date by a 4-0 vote at an Oct. 1 meeting.

Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent said the March 25 special election will cost district taxpayers about $400,000 and added that including the measure on the ballot for the August primary or the November 2014 general election would cost the district “absolutely nothing.”

“The key issues are the huge extra cost to the taxpayers, coupled with the low voter turnout in relation to November 2014, which will be an election for the governor, Congress and County Commission,” Sarasota County Commissioner Joe Barbetta said, referring to the referendum election. “They (the School Board) clearly should hold it then.”

School Board officials said the election should be held before June 30 to mitigate negative impacts to the budget and ensure that programs and jobs vital to maintaining the above-average standard of education in Sarasota County are not cut while waiting for an August or November vote.

“The referendum is a vote for about 12% of our operating budget,” Sarasota School Board member Jane Goodwin said. “There would be big problems if we lost $40 million from the budget. It would mean layoffs.”

Barbetta said voting for the referendum after the June 30 sunset date would not seriously impact the district’s fiscal

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How Insurance Works, And Why Obamacare Can’t Possibly Work

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Wells Purmort, a longtime and well-respected Sarasota insurance-agency owner, explained to us earlier this year the genesis of property insurance in America.

Benjamin Franklin was among the first to form an insurance company in the mid-1700s in Philadelphia.

As Wells told it, after a fire destroyed a neighbor’s home, leaving the family homeless and property-less, the neighbors, compassionate and worried about similar events, pitched in as a group and helped their neighbor recover.

After this incident, the neighbors decided to protect each other from being wiped out. The neighbors agreed to a plan that included: • Each neighbor contributing money each month to a disaster fund that would be used to help each other recov-

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• Each neighbor employing a chimney sweep to reduce the risk of fire in his home.

• Each neighbor agreeing not to plant trees near his home, another step to reduce the risk of fire.

The neighbors also agreed that at the end of each year if the insurance fund had a surplus of disaster money, they would vote either to return some of the excess money to each neighbor on a pro-rata basis or keep building the fund for future disasters.

In short, the neighbors knew that to keep their fund solvent and reduce the risk of disaster, they needed rules and policies — rules that required everyone to pay his pro-rata premium and everyone to abide by prescribed behavior.

Now apply that historical model to health care:

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Groups of individuals formed what previously were known as mutual health insurance companies, similar to mutual property insurers.

Members pooled monthly premiums to provide for each member in the event one or more of its members suffered catastrophic health events.

Health insurance was not intended to pay for such services as routine doctor checkups, X-rays or prescription drugs or massage therapy.

And like a mutual property insurer, mutual health insurers managed themselves to minimize risk and keep the pool of premiums solvent.

This, too, required policies and rules. With their own money at stake, the mutual insurers’ members were careful about admitting new members. Thus, it followed that the members looked favorably on applicants who lived healthy, low-risk lifestyles.

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This practice makes economic and moral sense. But out of it arose the conundrum of how to provide catastrophic insurance to those who are born with or contract serious diseases or who are too poor to afford insurance.

One way to ameliorate this was for health insurers to spread risk among as many people as manageable but without threatening the solvency of the insurance funds.

The more members pooled together, the less likely multiple, large costly events would wipe out an insurer and the more able an insurer would be able to adjust rates and make insurance less costly and more affordable for extreme cases.

But then Congress created Medicaid and Medicare, two taxpayer-subsidized entitlements for the poor and senior

citizens, respectively.

And as Congress is wont to do, over the years it expanded the services for which Medicaid and Medicare would pay. This increased utilization and cost.

Other factors added to the cost: Demographics; seniors living longer than expected.

Medical advancements; the cost of high-tech procedures and equipment. Lawsuits; a mushrooming of multimilliondollar malpractice awards driving up the price of insurance and health care. Special interests; Congress and state

legislatures forcing insurance companies to offer coverage for routine doctor visits, massages, chiropractic visits, medical devices, etc. Societal expectations; an accepted belief that everyone is entitled to maximum medical care, no matter the cost.

All of these factors drove up the cost of health insurance. And all this, of course, has caused many Americans to choose not to buy health insurance or to be unable to afford it.

This is where Obamacare comes in.

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The above diagram gives you a sense of the economics of health insurance under the Affordable Health Care Act. Nearly 50 million Americans currently uninsured (according to Census data) are now mandated to buy health insurance. If they say they can’t afford it, taxpayers will subsidize the cost.

In addition, everyone must be accepted for insurance; no one can be rejected because of any medical conditions.

While a 20% increase in the number to receive medical insurance may not sound extraordinary, just imagine if the cost of anything you purchase or use increases 20%. It’s a jolt to your system. It will be a particularly harsh jolt to the U.S. health insurance system.

The theory of the Affordable Health Care Act is this: If everyone in the United States is paying a health-insurance premium, the increase in collected premiums from those previously uninsured will help offset the cost of medical insurance for all of the highrisk individuals who will now be insured.

Great in theory.

But here’s where AHCA, aka Obamacara, falls apart: The 63.9% of Americans paying for their own private health insurance are mandated to pay higher taxes to cover the subsidies given to the newly insured — and that is on top of the taxes they are paying to cover the costs of Medicare and Medicaid taxpayers are already paying.

Making matters worse, Obamacare expands the medical services that must be offered in all health insurance

plans. All of these expansions have economic consequences.

Here is a big one: Whenever you offer a desired consumable for free, it is abused and overconsumed. Likewise, lower the cost of a desired consumable — such as the cost of borrowing for mortgages, the cost of flood insurance or the cost of medical care — and the result also will be increased, if not abusive, consumption.

With more people covered by below-cost health insurance, more people than ever will be demanding and consuming medical services.

And yet — and here’s another flaw in the law — while health-care consumption is sure to increase, gobbling up the health-care insurance premiums and taxes the privately insured are paying, the supply of health-care providers is not rising fast enough to meet the demand. Doctor shortages are a certainty, resulting in still higher prices and costs and longer wait times for medical care.

As Americans have seen with the rollout of the Obamacare exchanges, the scale of government intervention and coercion into health care and health insurance has completely distorted the concept of insurance. Confusion reigns.

So go back to the beginning, when insurance was voluntary — between private buyers and sellers managing their risks.

Insurance worked far more efficiently, affordably and equitably than it does now.

Ever since government has intervened — i.e. Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare — efficiency, effectiveness and affordability have evaporated.

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Retention tops sheriff’s priorities Sheriff Tom Knight is taking steps to maintain his most valuable resource — people. at a moment’s notice. By the time he rolled out of bed, Kraayenbrink had transitioned from the mindset of a relaxing Friday night to the stone-cold professionalism forged by 15 years as a SWAT sniper. On the drive to the crime scene he was on his cell phone, gathering as much information as he could about the man with the gun, searching for a way to build rapport and trust when he got him on the phone. That is Kraayenbrink’s tradecraft. He was looking for a way to save the man’s life.

Within minutes, Kraayenbrink was on the scene to take over communications with the holedup gunman.

“The only thing I wanted to know when I arrived,” Kraayenbrink later said, “is if they were set up for the gunman to walk out and surrender.”

Forty-five minutes later, and without another shot fired, the gunman walked out of his home and surrendered.

“As you spend more time on this job, you have a tendency to go into situations calmer than you would have earlier in your career,” Kraayenbrink said. “Normally these people just want someone to talk to. If they escalate, I’ll escalate. But I always try and treat them like I would want someone to treat my family. And you never lie to them. Because if you lie, it’s over.”

“Sgt. Kraayenbrink is one cool customer,” Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight said, referring to Kraayenbrink’s Aug. 2 crisis negotiation. “You can’t take a person with seven or eight years of experience, send them to one hostage negotiation class and have them perform like that.”

Under the direction of Knight, the Sarasota Sheriff’s Office has made it a priority to retain personnel such as Kraayenbrink, whose decades of law-enforce-

The gunman said he wanted to die.

Barricaded in his Sarasota home, the 44-year-old man claimed he had a Glock 40 handgun taped to his hand and 200 rounds of ammunition by his side.

Sheriff’s deputies surrounded the house and sealed off the adjacent streets. Air One, the Sheriff’s Aviation Unit helicopter, patrolled overhead, its lights blinking in the night as it scanned the area with a sophisticated infrared nightvision camera.

Up the block from the gunman’s house, deputies gathered at the back of a squad car to discuss their next move. The night was sticky hot. Deputies were sweating under their bulletproof vests and swatted away mosquitoes.

Bug spray, bottles of water and granola bars were passed around in anticipation of a long, drawnout standoff.

The on-scene deputies radioed dispatch for the shooter’s phone number and were able to get him on the phone. He said he wanted “to go out in a blaze of glory” and dared the deputies to enter his house.

An hour earlier, deputies responding to a domestic disturbance call had narrowly dodged four bullets the gunman shot through his front door. The man’s girlfriend escaped unharmed and reported to deputies that he was suicidal.

Now, sheriff’s deputies and the gunman were stuck at a stalemate, and the potential use of deadly force would hinge on the experience and grace under pressure of one man.

Sgt. Gary Kraayenbrink, a 31year law-enforcement veteran, was at home sleeping Aug. 2 when he got the call. As a member of the Sarasota Sheriff’s Hostage Negotiation Team, he wears a pager 24/7 and can be called into action

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Sgt. Gary Kraayenbrink, left, coaches a SWAT competitor across an obstacle at a September inter-agency competition. ment experience are a key operational asset and an invaluable resource for mentoring younger deputies.

“You can have training and knowledge,” Knight said, “but actual real-world experience is invaluable. You can’t put a number on the importance of guys like Sgt. Kraayenbrink.”

A June Work Force Study determined that Sarasota’s 4.9% annual attrition rate was well below the average of all Florida sheriff’s offices and just below the rates of comparably sized state agencies.

The study ranked salary increases as the most effective retention technique, followed by education benefits. Pay for Sarasota Sheriff’s deputies, ranging from $40,000 to $60,889, is higher on average than other sheriff’s offices across the state, the study said.

Knight added that the agency’s culture plays a lead role in retention.

“You can’t keep people 31 years if they’re not happy,” Knight said.

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“But the cost of maintaining good people is worth it.”

Knight said retention also contributes to more effective mentorship and training.

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“I had a couple guys who I really looked up to,” Kraayenbrink said. “And I took a lot of what they told me to heart.”

The gunman said he would surrender on two conditions — he wanted to meet Kraayenbrink, and he wanted a cigarette. Kraayenbrink went door-to-door in the cordoned-off neighborhood looking for a cigarette before he met the man from the other end of the line.

“If a cigarette is what it takes to get him outside, I’ll go to the store and buy him a pack,” Kraayenbrink said. “You know, when things go right, you feel good and uplifted in a way I really can’t describe. The ones you don’t win are the ones you remember.”

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Lilly said Knight could have gone outside the agency to hire a new head for the jail, but he chose to stick with the Sarasota veteran.

“His (Knight’s) thought is to keep the right people,” Lilly said.

“He wants to maintain the culture of the agency.”

Although Knight can point to falling crime rates (down 21% since he took office) to justify his intelligence-led policing model, and he can prove the value of diversion programs after saving the county the cost of building a new jail, he said it’s harder to prove the merits of retention initiatives, such as increased pay and education programs, which provide a more normative benefit to the agency.

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It’s fantastic to teach the kids. I like listening to them talk when they don’t know I’m listening. I can hear them at snack time comparing each other’s food labels, and I probably get two to three emails every week from parents thanking me. A lot of them say their child is actually teaching them.

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tween a good, nutritious choice and one without the nutrients they need.”

Simon piloted the program last year as a way to teach her students the importance of understanding nutrition at a young age. She says the idea stems from personal experience: Diabetes, heart disease and other health issues run in her family, and she was determined to make a change.

“Three years ago, I changed my life and the way we eat as a family,” she says. “I thought I ate well, and I thought I understood nutrition, but I didn’t understand the science of it. I had to look so hard to find that, and I thought, ‘Why is that, and how can I get that information to kids in a way they can understand?’”

This year, she earned a $500 grant through Gulf Coast Gives to buy food and ingredients to use in lessons throughout the year. Students compare food labels and learn to make healthy snacks and meals. Simon says her goal is not to dictate what they eat, but to give them the skills to make their own informed decisions.

“It’s fantastic to teach the kids,”

The fourth-grade students having a conversation in Amanda Simon’s class boast a vocabulary well beyond their years: trans fats, lycopene, lutein, micronutrients — hardly typical gradeschool fodder. But, these students sound right at home as they carefully analyze food labels to compare caloric and fat content and nutritional value as “nutrition detectives” in Simon’s wellness class.

“Basically, I talk to kids and teach them how to be savvy consumers, know what’s in their food and read labels to determine the ingredients,” she says. “We go through a lot of hands-on investigations, looking at labels and learning the difference be-

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THURSDAY, OCT. 3 Ladies Night Celebrity Bartending — runs from 6 to 9 p.m. at Gecko’s Grill and Pub, 1900 Hillview St. A night filled with fun, entertainment, unlimited hors d’eouvres, draft beer, house wine and cocktails, for a good cause. All proceeds benefit Brides Against Breast Cancer. For more information, visit www.centerforbuildinghope.org.

FRIDAY, OCT. 4 First Friday Fashion Walk — takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. on Main Street in downtown Sarasota.

Participating Sarasota boutiques will have models presenting fall fashions and will provide refreshments. Live entertainment will play around the downtown area. For more information, visit dsasarasota. com.

Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce Networking Luncheon — will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Captain Curt’s, 1200 Old Stickney Point Road. Cost is $12 per person.

For more information, contact the chamber at 349-3800.

SATURDAY, OCT. 5 Fifth Annual Fishing Line Cleanup — takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron, 1717 Ken Thompson Parkway. Volunteers will collect fishing line from bird-nesting habitat islands and coastlines. Sarasota Bay Watch has teamed with Audubon Florida to collect the fishing line. To register, visit sarasotbaywatch.org.

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LEAVING A MARK 7 a.m. — 1700 block of Midnight Cove Road. Suspicious Activity. A man said that, during the day, an unknown person entered his house and rearranged items inside. The man said he had kept a spare key outside and thought someone used it to enter without force. A GPS unit on his counter was turned on, a stool near the kitchen had been moved, a seat cushion was lifted, and his wife’s underwear drawer had been rifled through. No items were taken, and nothing was damaged.

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SPARCC is organizing the event. The cost is $5 and includes a T-shirt.

Children can enjoy a bounce house, and refreshments will be served.

For more information or to register, visit sparcc.net or call Director of Community Awareness Jessica Hays at 365-0208, Ext 106.

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SMOKING PAINT GUN 11:10 a.m. — 2200 block of North Washington Road. Civil Problem. A man said he and a partner had planned on opening a painting business. The man had purchased a paint gun and gave it to the partner to keep in a storage unit. The two had a falling out; and the man wanted to get his paint gun back from his partner.

The partner said he was cleaning out his storage unit and would return it at the end of the day.

Southside Village Oktoberfest — will take place from 1 to 9 p.m. on the corner of Hillview Street and Osprey Avenue. There will be face painting and balloon animals for children until 5 p.m. Live music begins at 5 p.m. This event is hosted by Sam Snead’s. Families and people of all ages are invited. The event is free and open to the public. Food and drink will be available for purchase. For more information, call 906 7771.

CORNER SODA JERK 12:01 a.m. — 2800 block of Pershing Avenue. Battery. A woman was attending a wake. While she was there, she started a conversation with an ex-boyfriend. The man’s current girlfriend was upset that the woman was speaking with the man, and left the property. The current girlfriend returned after a short time with three soda cans, and she threw them one at a time at the woman from 10 feet away. Two of the cans struck the woman in the face and caused an abrasion on her lip. The other woman left the scene before officers arrived.

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Siesta Key Chapel World Communion Sunday and Missionary Day — will take place from 11 a.m. to noon at the Siesta Key Chapel Fellowship Hall, 4615 Gleason Ave. Mission partners will have displays, and people can participate in a silent auction while enjoying international food and music. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the chapel at 349-1166.

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Riverview High golfer Jeremy Perna shot a combined 140 to win the boys 13-15 division of a Florida Junior Golf Tour event Sept. 28, at Sara Bay Country Club.

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Sarasota senior Lauren Hochstetler recorded two aces, 11 kills and 10 digs to lead the Lady Sailors to a 3-0 victory over Cardinal Mooney Sept. 25.

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Cardinal Mooney runner Grace Casagrande crossed the finish line in 18 minutes, 14.40 seconds to finish fourth in the Girls Race of Champions at the flrunners. com Invitational 14 Sept. 28.

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Zack Summerall finished sixth and Adam Bradtmueller finished ninth to lead the Sarasota boys cross-country team to a 10th place overall finish in the Boys Race of Champions at the flrunners.com Invitational 14 Sept. 28.

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Former NBA player Marcus Liberty will begin a four-week basketball clinic for children, ages 6 to 14, in November.

SARASOTA — He couldn’t shoot.

He couldn’t dribble.

He had yet to come into his prime.

And the NBA was certainly the furthest thing from his mind.

At 12 years old, MarBY THE cus Liberty could barely make a jump shot. He NUMBERS had little interest in the 6 — The minigame, and it showed. mum number But, from the moof hours Liberty ment he first picked up spent practicing a basketball, Liberty after picking up vowed to get better. basketball when Over time, Liberty dehe was 12 years veloped into one of the old. premier players in his class. But it didn’t hap— The number 4 pen overnight. of seasons Liberty “I wasn’t that good spent playing in when I started playing,” the NBA. Liberty says. “I contin2001 — The ued to work hard, and year Liberty offithen I started to love it.” cially retired from Now the Sarasota resprofessional basident and former NBA ketball. player is hoping to instill that same work ethic in 1,942 — The today’s up-and-coming number of points players through a fourLiberty scored week clinic and a winter while playing in the NBA. basketball league at the Sarasota YMCA’s Frank G. Berlin Sr. and Evalyn Sadlier Jones branches.

During the clinic, which begins Nov. 9, Liberty will teach players about skill building and proper technique for shooting, ball handling and defense. Following the 90-minute skill session, players will spend the remaining time scrimmaging against one another.

The eight-week Liberty Edge Winter Basketball League will begin Jan. 11. Players will practice once a week and then play games every Saturday. The league also is need of additional volunteer coaches.

The goal is to introduce children to the game of basketball while helping them develop and realize their true potential.

In addition to the clinic and winter basketball league, Liberty also gives private lessons throughout the area, hosts summer basketball camps and attends motivational speaking engagements.

“I teach dedication,” Liberty says. “You have to have determination and a desire to want to get better. It’s hard for kids to really see it. That’s just the era that we live in.

“I’m an NBA guy who played at the highest level, and if I can give you a little something you can work on, then you can become good, too. But you have to keep working hard on your own to become great.”

A native of Chicago, Liberty started playing basketball at the urging of his father, Edgar Liberty.

Liberty would spend anywhere from six to eight hours a day practicing outside by himself and with his father and two older brothers.

Liberty went on to play at the University of Illinois, where he helped lead the Illini to a berth in the 1989 NCAA Final Four.

But it wasn’t until Liberty was getting ready to graduate that the thought of playing in the NBA crossed his mind.

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Marcus Liberty played for the Denver Nuggets and the Detroit Pistons in four NBA seasons.

“I really loved the game,” Liberty says. “I would’ve played for free. There’s just something about picking up a basketball and going out and playing.”

Liberty was drafted in the second round of the 1990 NBA Draft by the Denver Nuggets. He played for the Nuggets and the Detroit Pistons in four NBA seasons.

He went on to play overseas before eventually retiring from the game in 2001. There was a time about five years ago when Liberty missed playing the game and thought about what it would be like to return.

But the time passed, and Liberty began focusing his attention on helping area youth.

Liberty moved about a year ago to Sarasota with his girlfriend, Christine Page, and reached out to the YMCA about forming a youth basketball league.

“Now I’m at peace with where I am,” Liberty says. “I still go to the games, and I like to be involved. My goal now is to help youth and teenagers to get better and develop them.

“I’m really big on teaching,” Liberty says.

“Kids need to understand the game of basketball the way I was taught. I wasn’t good when I first started, but I continued to work on it.”

For more information on Liberty and the Liberty Edge Winter Basketball League, visit www.marcusliberty.com or www.thesarasotay. org.

Contact Jen Blanco at jblanco@yourobserver. com.

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Liberty Edge Winter Basketball League Date: Eight-week session beginning Jan. 11; one practice a week with games on Saturdays Location: The Frank G. Berlin and Evalyn Sadlier Jones branches of the Sarasota YMCA Ages: 6-16 Cost: $60 for members; $95 for non-members Contact: Sarasota YMCA Sports Director Kevin Curtis at 955-8194, Ext. 139

Four-Week Clinic Date: Nov. 9, 16, 23 and Dec. 7 Ages: 6-14 Location: Frank G. Berlin branch (ages 6 to 9) and Evalyn Sadlier Jones branch (ages 10 to 14) Cost: $60 for members and $80 for nonmembers (ages 6 to 9); $80 for members and $100 for non-members (ages 10 to 14) Contact: Sarasota YMCA Sports Director Kevin Curtis at 955-8194, Ext. 139

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The Riverview High boys and girls cross-country teams both raced to second-place finishes at the Manasota Track Club Invitational Sept. 28 in Sarasota.

The boys scored 67 points to finish behind Timber Creek (28), while the girls scored 46 points to finish behind North Port (31).

Michaelie Grajalez finished fourth in 20 minutes, 36.50 seconds to lead the way for the Lady Rams.

Chinami Wade was fifth in 20:49, followed by Robyn Natherson (ninth, 21:22), Jessica Lonas (10th, 21:23.30) and Rachael Cramer (18th, 22:26.50).

On the boys side, Blake Riley finished sixth in 17:10.20 followed by Bryce Vokus (ninth, 17:25.20), Warran Grajalez (10th, 17:27.10), Russell Natherson (19th, 18:09.70) and Matthew Berman (23rd, 18:27.30).

+ Sarasota Christian sweeps PCCC The Sarasota Christian volleyball team defeated Port Charlotte Community Christian 25-13, 25-23, 25-18 Sept. 24.

Briana Eddy and Anikka Jensen each had six kills for the Lady Blazers. Andrea Witmer added five kills.

+ Cardinal Mooney volleyball The Cardinal Mooney volleyball team defeated rival The Out-of-Door Academy 25-12, 19-25, 22-25, 25-21, 15-10 in district action Sept. 24.

Kerri McMahon led the Lady Cougars with 12 kills and 13 digs. Alexis James added four blocks and three kills. Kelli Firek contributed five kills and six blocks.

Madison McMally added 14 kills.

Natalie Buffet had 13 kills and nine digs to power the Lady Thunder. Cameron Graham had 39 perfect passes, 11 digs and three aces.

Reanna Gregory contributed four kills and three blocks.

With the loss, ODA falls to 6-2 (3-2).

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by Yaryna Klimchak | Community Editor

JANUARY 1984 — Kitty Bravo and Steve Williams open Countryside Montessori School for children ages 3 to 6.

FALL 1986 — The school adds a second classroom.

1993 — The school expands through sixth grade.

1993 — NewGate forms its board of directors.

MONTESSORI METHOD Thirty years ago, a teacher and her husband had a vision for a small countryside school. Since then, NewGate International Montessori Academy has grown into an internationally recognized lab school.

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ewGate began as the fusion of two dreams: The school’s founder, Kitty Bravo, believed in the Montessori method of teaching, a developmental approach to learning, in which children choose their own projects and learn in a way tailored specifically to each child. Bravo’s then-husband, Steve Williams, had a passion for organic farming.

“He wanted to have an organic farm, and I wanted to have a school,” Bravo says. “So, we made the dream come true.”

In the early ’80s, Bravo and Williams purchased the almost five acres of land at 5237 Ashton Road, where they would build their school.

When NewGate opened in January 1984, Bravo taught lessons on the front porch of her home. NewGate began as a preschool with five students, ranging from 3 to 6 years old. Williams had an organic farm that the students used for hands-on projects.

Bravo and Williams remodeled the garage into a classroom and eventually added more buildings as the school grew. Bravo and Williams taught students environmentallyfriendly methods, such as recycling and composting, long before the term “green” became mainstream.

By fall 1984, the school had 24 students, and by 1987, it expanded through second grade. Each year the school added a grade level.

In 1994, Tim Seldin, current headmaster and president of the Montessori Foundation, took NewGate under his wing. The Montessori Foundation is an international

organization that works with thousands of Montessori schools to expand the advancement of a Montessori education.

“What I found was an organic farm run by two marvelous people,” says Seldin. “It was a school that was truly committed to teaching kids nonviolence, social justice, making a positive difference, Aiden Pearson, 10, Brittany Stutzman, 8, and holistic living and organic farming. Christina Mroczkowski, 8, play with headmaster Tim There were many values that were Seldin’s dog, Bikram, during their free time. present in the school that I felt were very admirable. Even though it was very small, I felt that there were many things about the school that make it very special.”

1994 — The Montessori Foundation takes Countryside Montessori School under its wing and renames it NewGate School. NewGate was chosen as the name because it was a new school. GATE is an acronym for Global Awareness through Education. In addition, they thought that Gate was appropriate because the school is a gateway to knowledge and Sarasota has many neighborhoods with gate in the name, i.e. Gulf Gate, Southgate, etc.

1996 — NewGate’s first middle school opens.

1996 TO 1998 — The Montessori Foundation purchases 100 acres of land and lays out a master plan for NewGate.

1997 —Bravo leaves school to train other teachers as Montessori educators.

2000 — NewGate parents leave the Montessori Foundation and make it into a private school.

2004 — The first senior graduates NewGate.

2010 — NewGate Board members voted for the Montessori Foundation to take NewGate back as a lab school.

The master plan

Seldin and the Montessori Foundation developed a master plan for NewGate, which Seldin describes as a “labor of love.”

They hired Lorna McGrath in 1994 as an administrative assistant and bought 100 acres of land on State Road 72. They planned for students to participate in hands-on projects with organic farming and raising animals. They also envisioned a Montessori high school with an International Baccalaureate program and were committed to expanding enrollment.

Regarding the master plan, Seldin and the foundation always kept the students’ best interest on the forefront and kept in mind “education is a journey, not a race.”

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Parents voted to leave the Montessori Foundation and make the school private in 2000. In the next decade, student enrollment dropped and the school’s funds declined.

“In the 10 years (the Montessori Foundation) was gone, (NewGate’s) forward momentum stopped,” Seldin says. “It failed financially because of the economy, but, truthfully, it is not a big enough community to survive on the local population.

The Montessori Foundation is an organization that has connections that open up doors for nonpublic schools that normally would not be here.”

The foundation returned at the request of the board of directors in 2010 and implemented a series of takeover transitions to get the school running smoothly once more.

Due to the school’s lack of funds and lack of development on State Road 72, the Montessori Foundation sold the 100 acres of land and abandoned the idea of a country school to refocus its energy and attention on the students.

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There are 110 students enrolled at NewGate, and the school is becoming increasingly selective about admission. School administration hand picks families after getting to know them and chooses students who will stay with them for the rest of their education.

“It’s kind of like dating,” Seldin says. “You want to have someone who is compatible with the school and wants to be here. It’s not right for everyone, and we wouldn’t want it to be.”

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Bravo left the school in 1997, when it had 160 students, to pursue a career in training teachers to become Montessori educators.

“Just because you have a dream, doesn’t mean you have to do it forever,” Bravo says.

“I had always wanted to train teachers, so that is the direction I decided to go in, and it gave me a way to continue to come back to the school.”

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Who says blessings are just for humans? Animal-lovers gathered Sunday, Sept. 29, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, to have their pets blessed. Guests socialized and played games before the ceremony.

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Church of the Redeemer honors St. Francis of Assisi at pet blessing Members of Church of the Redeemer celebrated their beloved pets Sunday afternoon with a blessing in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, who is the patron saint of animals. Both pets and owners left with a blessing and a doggy bag of treats.

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real estate | transactions

By Adam Hughes | Research Editor

Home in Harbor Acres sells for $1.7 million Huntington Pointe

The following residential real-estate transactions took place between Sept. 16 and Sept. 20.

A home in Harbor Acres tops all transactions in this week’s real estate.

Bryan Hodges, of Minnetonka, Minn., sold the home at 1382 Harbor Drive to James Travers, trustee, of Sarasota, for $1.7 million. Built in 1949, it has four bedrooms, four baths, one half-bath, a pool and 4,093 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $1.03 million in 1999.

Thomas and Stella Ekovich, of Sarasota, sold their home at 8993 Huntington Pointe Drive to Igor Leonidov and Tatyana Semenova, of Brooklyn, N.Y., for $360,000.

Built in 1992, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,682 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $280,000 in 2001.

Forest Lakes Country Club Estates Nina Saunders, of Sarasota, sold her home at 2102 Tanglewood Drive to Robert W. Klinger, Robert H. Klinger and David Clark, of Sarasota, for $320,000. Built in 1985, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,334 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $176,000 in 1990.

SARASOTA Hudson Bayou

Angus and Jacqueline Rogers and Eugene Rogers, of Sarasota, sold the home at 1736 Bay St. to Penelope Hill, of Sarasota, for $1.2 million. Built in 2006, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 2,570 square feet of living area.

Condominium on the Bay

Nancy Galvin, trustee, of Lima, Ohio, sold the Unit 1101 condominium at 888 Blvd. of the Arts to Horace Norrell Jr. and Elizabeth Hinkelman, of Sarasota, for $995,000. Built in 1982, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,315 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $650,000 in 2008.

Boris Stanley, of Auburndale, sold his Unit 805 condominium at 888 Blvd. of the Arts to Andre Clavel, of Sarasota, for $675,000. Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,729 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $203,000 in 1983.

Cherokee Park

Maurice and Susan Kosko, of Atlanta, sold their home at 1774 Cherokee Drive to Robert and Emily Stroud, of Bradenton, for $875,000. Built in 1982, it has three

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This home at 1382 Harbor Drive has four bedrooms, four baths, one half-bath, a pool and 4,093 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.7 million. bedrooms, two baths, one half-bath, a pool and 2,347 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $532,000 in 2001.

Poinsettia Park

Scott Greer and Candace Jensen, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1850 Oleander St. to Lawrence and Georgina Clamage, of Sarasota, for $790,000. Built in 2000, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,447 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $655,000 in 2009.

Desota Park

Kim Sorensen, of Sarasota, sold her home at 1840 Datura St. to John and Elaine Kidd, of Sarasota, for $780,000. Built in 1999, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,861 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $145,000 in 1998.

Rajasekhar and Chippy Nalluri, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1954 Datura

St. to Duncan and Patricia Miller, of Sarasota, for $715,000. Built in 1946, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,723 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1,375,000 in 2006.

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Gulf and Bay Club Marcella Phillips, of Erie, N.Y., sold her Unit 410 condominium at 5780 Midnight Pass Road to Judith Sauertieg, trustee, of Sarasota, for $537,500. Built in 1979, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,361 square feet of living area.

Harbor Towers Yacht and Racquet Club

Robert and Mirang Kraner, of Osprey, sold their Unit 11B condominium at 50 Central Ave. to Parviz Daneshjoo, trustee, of Sarasota, for $770,000. Built in 2005, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,671 square feet of living area.

Robert and Diane Delia, of Bristol, Pa., sold their Unit 302 condominium at 5855 Midnight Pass Road to Brian and Deborah Mullen, of Amesbury, Mass., for $310,000.

Built in 1976, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,165 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $121,500 in 2000.

Harbor Acres

Sandy Cove

Uwe Kneile and Sarah Yamada sold their home at 1804 S. Orange Ave. to Gene and Donna Ciemny, of Sarasota, for $590,000.

Built in 1952, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,289 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $412,500 in 2010.

Nancy Chamberlain, of Sarasota, sold her Unit 113 condominium at 113 Pass Key Road to Nell Gross, trustee, of Sarasota, for $225,000. Built in 1973, it has one bedroom, one bath and 656 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $295,000 in 2004.

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2465 Wisteria St. 5019 Stevens Drive 888 Blvd. of the Arts 1954 Datura St. 2255 Mietaw Drive 410 Burns Court 1350 Main St.

Pool Deck Plumbing Renovations Remodel Remodel Alterations Re-roof Re-roof Alterations Alterations

Shawn Davidson Deborah Allen James Plummer Edith Rosebrock Ronald Silver James Kennedy, trustee Duncan Miller John Kurzeja Nancy Hersh Carma Lloyd

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7508 Midnight Pass Road 1125 W. Peppertree Drive 162 Island Circle 6033 E. Peppertree Way 651 Avenida Del Norte 345 Avenida Leona 1200 E. Peppertree Lane 4239 Mangrove Place

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Amount $113,089 $20,000 $18,000 $16,055 $16,000 $15,000 $14,000 $12,270 $12,110 $10,000

Specializing in luxury waterfront sales from Casey Key to Longboat Key, Deborah brings unique experience in closing difficult transactions, for which she was recently recognized, and earned the “Transaction of the Year Award” by Leading Real Estate Companies of the World.

SARASOTA COUNTY Amount $200,000 $162,948 $122,000 $72,500 $70,000 $41,950 $40,000 $40,000 $35,000 $26,651

Source: Sarasota County; city of Sarasota

Villa D’Este

Timothy and Meredith Hogenkamp, of Sarasota, sold their home at 7261 Villa D’Este Drive to Zelda Schadt, trustee, of Sarasota, for $485,000. Built in 1987, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 2,046 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $460,000 in 2005.

Federal National Mortgage Association

sold the home at 4555 Las Brisas Lane to Russell Beckwith, of Sarasota, for $202,000.

Built in 1988, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 2,208 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $180,000 in 2000.

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Casa Vista on Casey Key Gulf to Bay on Sailboat Water MLS# A3974339 $4,800,000

Villa Toscana on Bird Key Expanse views of Little Sarasota Bay MLS# A3981613 $6,300,000

Casa Al Mare Gulf to Bay Masterpiece MLS# A3969266 $8,400,000

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3508 Fenway Dr #A3984687 $179,900 Peggy Wellman

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370 Crane Rd #D5794064 $150,000 Robert Lorence

Venice 941-473-7750 239-682-2106

4020 Crockers Lake Blvd # 528 #A3984661 $114,500 Susan Katanic

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-400-0601

387 S Shore Dr #A3982081 $4,850 Lisa Shope

Sarasota 941-552-4200 941-320-8022

501 Dona Dr #N5781386 Robin Sullivan

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Sarasota 941-552-4200 941-321-6973

3315 Bay Shore Rd MLS# A3973036 $9,990,000

1192 Horizon View Dr MLS# A3968732 $3,990,000

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Colorful flowers sit in a bucket as members of the Sarasota Chapter No. 115 of Ikebana International participate in a mawari-ike ikebana arrangement. A mawari-ike flower arrangement requires all members to participate by placing a branch or flower in the arrangement. The finished arrangement is considered a celebratory effort of everyone’s contribution.

For members of the Sarasota chapter, whose motto is “friendship through flowers,” the group’s monthly meetings are about more than just flower arrangements.

“It’s more than a hobby; it’s a vocation,” says chapter President Pat Bonarek, who has been studying ikebana for 30 years. Bonarek has reached the sixth of eight levels in sogetsu, a school of Ikebana, making her a high-ranking teacher of the art.

Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arrangement that traces back to Buddhist monks in the sixth century.

The monks would arrange the flowers in a triad to symbolize heaven, man and earth as an offering to Buddha. Throughout the centuries, the art evolved, and women of the imperial court learned ikebana from the monks. The samurais were the next to learn, and in the last few centuries, the art form has been passed down to the common person.

Ikebana’s presence began to grow in the United States in 1956, when Ikebana International founder Ellen G. Allen returned to the U.S. from Tokyo. Soon after, groups began popping up all over the United States, and even more abroad.

Aiko Anderson demonstrates calligraphy painting on T-shirts. She imprints a leaf onto the shirt to make a floral design.

Sarasota Chapter No. 115 was founded in 1967 and Merle Sauve became the first president. The group met at various garden clubs until 1987, when it began to meet at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, which is still where it meets today.

Sarasota Chapter No. 115 has ap-

proximately 40 members who meet at 10 a.m. the second Monday of each month at the Selby Gardens Activity Center. Members take different workshops and even go to conventions in different parts of the U.S. and the world to meet with other chapters. Outside of the learning, members say they create lasting friendships.

“It is a friendly group and it has been going on so long,” says Penny Hendry, who has been a member since 1980. “The friends you make here are lasting because you work on things together.”

IKEBANA NAMES // Teachers at some ikebana schools give their students names that are passed down from generation to generation. Pat Bonarek, president of Sarasota Chapter No. 115, is called Mi Tei, or Spring Garden.

Her teacher in Japan named her Tei, meaning garden. Tei was also a part of Bonarek’s teacher’s name. Flower names in Japan are a legal name that people can use to purchase property and even get divorced and married.

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86 School introduction?

87 Divining implement 88 Designated PG-13, e.g.

91 Word after “long” or “ages” 92 Pistachio or cashew 95 Going concern?

97 Attendance fig., often 99 Assuming everything goes perfectly 100 Splatter 102 Early Japanese immigrant 104 Try for a mate?

105 Lightweight helmet, in India (var.)

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Items Under $200 For Sale AB LOUNGE 2, new. Selling for $75 O/B/O. 941-914-0558.

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(No phone calls please.)

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General Merchandise MERLIN MAGNIFIER MACHINE for use in cases of macular degeneration. Perfect condition, $1200.

Regularly $2500. 941-921-7630.

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I PAY cash for vintage clothing! All eras wanted.

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DRESSER, MIRROR, armoire, nightstands, wood, dovetail drawers, $199.00. 941-928-5753.

SENIOR LOOKING to purchase precious metals, time pieces, coins, jewelry and antiques. Please call Marc, 941-321-0707.

OVEN: RONCO Showtime+, never used, $25.

Toshiba 13” TV, $20. 941-321-2694.

PANASONIC FAX plus copy and digital answer machine. Includes unopened replacement film, $15. 941 918-9080.

PATIO CHAISE lounge: black, cushion, $45.00.

Leather office chair, brown, very good condition, $35.00. 941-377-5049.

PILATES REBOUNDER machine, (folds for storage). Excellent for core and toning, $99.

Siesta Key, 309-212-6205.

PLANT: LEMON Grass, 12” pot, 4’-5’ tall, $25.

Call/leave message, 941-341-9718.

STOVE: FRIDGIDAIRE, white, glass top $200.

941-922-0765.

Autos For Sale OVER 30 VEHICLES IN STOCK $10K OR UNDER 2007 Nissan Altima S, 107K/mi., $9988 2005 Volkswagon Convertible, 72K/mi., $8988 2007 Dodge Nitro SXT, 27K/mi., $11,988 1999 Buick Century LTD, 40K/mi., $4998 2003 Nissan Altima SE, 75K/mi., $8988 2010 Nissan Versa, 53K/mi., $9988 2004 Jaguar S Type, 30K/mi., $10,988 2008 Toyota RAV 4, AWD, 74K/mi., $11,988 2002 Ford Ranger Edge, EXT Cab, 67K/mi.! $8988 2007 Chevy Impala LS, 70K/mi., $8988

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MAYTAG WASHER: 2 years old, only 3-4 loads per week. $200. Cannot deliver, 941-504-3699.

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Appraised at $75,000. Call Mike, 727-542-9782 or E-mail: mickey7554@gmail.com

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CALL (800) 243-9076 or (239) 597-3144 9225 Gulfshore Drive North, Naples, Florida 34108

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Free computerized list with pictures of area home sales

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Own Ins. preferable. Paul @ 941-238-8033.

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440-552-6506.

Condos/Apts. For Rent LONGBOAT KEY - FAIRWAY BAY - Two level townhouse available January-April. 2 master bedrooms, 2 ½ baths, two month min/max., no pets. Beautifully furnished. Pool, tennis and exercise room, private beach access. Call 303.440.7009 or 720.440.1779.

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“Growing up in the circus and traveling across America was very exciting, very interesting and informative,” Gena Shvartsman Cristiani says. “It was also very normal to just get up and leave all the time.”

The large Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus’ tent was pitch black. Gena Shvartsman Cristiani stood in the center ring, where she couldn’t make out any faces. But, she could tell it was a packed house from the glow of flashing, swirling and colorful toys the audience members were holding.

For most circus performers, it takes at least a few smaller circus performances before getting to go on the road with The Greatest Show on Earth, but not for Cristiani. She was a center-ring juggling sensation at just 12 years old. And, after traveling the world performing for the past 15 years, the now 30-year-old has just started calling this area home. She’s one of the featured acts in the Sahib Shrine Circus, which takes place Friday, Oct. 4 and Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Sailor Circus arena.

Cristiani originally hails from Russia. It was in a small circus building there that the fifth-generation circus performer remembers watching her father, Eugene Shvartsman, riding bareback on a brown horse while juggling — he was wearing a black costume decked out in rhinestones — like a glitzy Johnny Cash. It captivated her, so, when she was 6 years old he taught her to juggle.

“It was something that I knew I wanted to do,” she says. “I wanted to be on stage or in the ring, and I was going to do just that — minus the horse.”

At first, she couldn’t juggle three balls.

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// ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT Now she can juggle seven. She can also juggle five clubs … on fire … while doing spins and kicks in 4-inch heels. You can see this high-heeled display in a video at YourObserver.com.

She also does hat spinning, ball bouncing and balancing, and hoop and ball tricks — most of which she’ll do in the upcoming performance.

“Not in heels,” she says. “I can do a lot more tricks without heels.”

For Cristiani, performing is a rush. Once, when she was a teenager, a metal club came down on her face, but she continued to perform without missing a beat. Her father, who was throwing her the clubs, kept gesturing that she should leave the stage, but her adrenaline kept her from noticing that her pretty face was bloody and bruised until she finished her act. She fell in love with the adrenaline early on, and dedicated her life to practicing as many as eight hours a day for competitions and performances.

Cristani has traveled across America and as far as China and France to perform. Her “normal,” like many of the other circus performers who call Sarasota home, is packing a suitcase and heading to a show.

She has learned to check her clubs and hoops when she flies because it always takes longer getting through security.

“If I say I’m from the circus, I have to follow it up by answering a whole bunch of questions,” she says with a laugh.

What’s curious for non-circus families is par for Cristiani. In 2004, she won the club category in one of the World Juggling Federation’s world competitions, which was televised on ESPN. There are 68 famous jugglers listed on Circopedia, the online encyclopedia for circus acts, many of whom Cristiani meets at annual conventions. There’s also a Juggling Hall of Fame, but performers must be retired for five or more years to qualify.

“There are a lot of great jugglers out there,” she says.

One soon-to-be-juggler, her 2-year-old son, Mace, watches his mother in awe,

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Cristiani is currently commissioned for seven hand-painted costumes, which she says have to wait until after this performance.

Sarasota’s own hand-balancing act, Duo Romanesc’s Anthony Congdon and Ian Laidlaw, will wear her costume designs at the Sahib Shrine Circus.

And for Popcorn Bob’s Movie Magic reviews and Pam Nadon’s fall film picks, visit YourObserver.com. and seems to be picking up on his family genes.

“He throws (things), and he’s very intent on it,” she says. “Mace will spend an hour just throwing — one day he’ll catch it,” she says with a chuckle. She’s sure her son will continue his family’s legacies, but she’s OK with him choosing whatever path he wants.

Cristiani’s husband of seven years, Mateo Cristiani, and she met when performing in the same circus in Canada — his family does an acrobatic trampoline act, and he’s a seventh-generation performer.

She saw him on the trampoline and knew “she was in trouble.” He’s the reason she now happily calls Sarasota home.

It’s because of her son and husband that she’s planning to cut back on traveling and performing — her priorities have changed a little. Cristiani will focus more on shortterm guest appearances and shows as well as a few other “normal” business ventures. Of course, they’re all related to her juggling passion and circus heritage.

When she’s not being a wife and mother, she paints elaborate circus costumes; co-owns a custom cake business with her mother-in-law, Mara Cristiani, called Center Ring Cakes; and she commissions circus-themed paintings, some of which hang at Wall Art Gallery on St. Armands.

“Now, my life is a little new,” she says. “I love where I am now.”

2. My sister, Vicky Shvartsman — I’m always inspired to push myself to the limits because of her. She’s an aerialist and has absolutely no boundaries, in the best way speaking. Whenever I feel shy, I step in her shoes. She definitely pushes me.

3. My art — The colors of the sky and sunsets inspire my art. I mostly paint circus performers, and, whenever I see them, I’m very much inspired to draw them.

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A Sarasota couple creates a world of their own in Bayou Oaks.

Sometimes, when Cathie Zurich-Wus is watering the plants and flowers that surround the 105-year-old cottage she shares with her husband, Michael Wus, people driving by stop to chat and take pictures. It’s easy to fall under the spell of the place, with its gingerbread detailing and the outdoor rooms and gardens that surround it.

“Once,” Cathie recalls, “a car full of Ringling College students slowed down to take a good look and yelled, ‘This is the coolest house in town!’”

But the picturesque exterior is just half the story. Only when you enter the house itself is the spell really cast. You’re suddenly in another world, filled with hundreds, if not thousands, of artifacts lovingly collected and artfully arranged. Your first reaction is a sort of delighted shock that such a place could actually exist. Then doubt creeps in.

“Could I — could anyone — actually live this way?” you wonder.

But, as you spend more time examining everything, you start to fall under the spell of the unique

atmosphere, dimly lit by a dozen lamps and straight out of a Dickens novel.

Into the cottage’s six rather small rooms, Cathie and Michael have assembled a collection of dolls, teddy bears, toys, china, statues, souvenirs and paintings — their own Old Curiosity Shop, which they not only love, but also live in.

The age-old question that faces every collector — how do I display my stuff? They display everything.

In the living room alone, you notice an art student’s copy of the Mona Lisa — facing left instead of right. Next to it is a fine oldEuropean painting of a young boy.

It hangs above a mantel Christie embellished with whimsical motifs and is flanked by two astonishing Rococo armchairs, found on Craigslist for $40. Every shelf, every corner, every cabinet displays everything that will fit.

The other question that faces every collector is, “How do I keep everything dusted?” and, here, Michael and Cathie have also met the challenge.

“We do the dusting together,” Cathie explains. “Every two weeks

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Above: The home’s exterior features scalloped trim and a shady porch.

Right, from top: Awnings made by the home’s original owner are still in place after 90 years; outdoor lights decorate the dining gazebo; a toy tiger guards the bar; a trio of antique German dolls from the turn of the century, each with her own teddy bear. or so. It’s good exercise.”

And they often watch a DVD of “Arsenic and Old Lace” while they do it. The 1944 movie about two eccentric old ladies who live in a Victorian house and, incidentally, murder people and keep the bodies in the basement, provides the perfect backdrop when it comes time to tidy up their collection of nostalgia and whimsy.

*** It was the house, itself, that started everything. Built in 1908 by a Mr. Healy (no one is sure of his first name), it borders Pierson

Parker Creek in the Bayou Oaks neighborhood of North Sarasota.

This is one of the most picturesque areas of town, with giant oaks providing a cover of perpetual shade. The plants seem to grow a little bigger and wilder than anywhere else in town.

Mr. Healy worked for the circus; he was the chief tentmaker for Ringling Bros., in charge of making and keeping in good repair the Big Top. At the rear of the house, shading the back porch, there are some canvas awnings he made back in the 1920s that are still functioning.

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In the dining room, two window-display mannequins from an old Maas Bros. department store watch over the French reproduction dining table and chairs.

A full-size teddy bear, complete with crown and motto, stands next to an alcove filled with toys and other collectibles. ity. But the couple couldn’t let that happen. They bought the home and set about remodeling.

The goal was to make the place comfortable and livable but certainly not modern. Another bathroom was added, along with air conditioning; the back porch was converted to an art studio for Cathie’s projects (she specializes in creating community art pieces, such as Tidewell’s famous clowns and similar projects in Clearwater and Fort Myers). Most of the original details remain, including the old-fashioned cast iron kitchen sink.

“Everybody helped us,” Cathie recalls of the months spent renovating. “Mothers, sisters, friends.”

“The collecting began when I learned about eBay,” Cathie says.

Back in the mid-’90s, eBay was just starting out, a much more informal and freewheeling place than the more corporate version it has become. Antique dolls were the first items she looked for, but teddy bears soon joined the list, followed by a host of other categories. Michael, who works as

*** It’s fashionable today to design and decorate in such a way as to bring in the outside. Cathie and Michael have done exactly the opposite. They’ve kept the outside out. But that doesn’t mean their acre or so of land is any less important in their lives. In fact, it’s become the emotional center of the way they live. It’s a certified wildlife preserve, meaning they have committed to providing a safe haven for all the wild crea-

tures that still manage to live and even thrive in the middle of Sarasota.

Everybody’s welcome, and everybody shows up — families of raccoons and possums, owls, red rabbits, hummingbirds, butterflies, even black snakes. They find water, plants they like to eat and even emergency medical care.

Cathie and Michael make friends with as many as they can, and many of their own pets — three dogs, three cats and two birds — started out as strays.

With not a single place left to put another thing, Cathie and Michael feel their collecting days are behind them. The focus of their lives is changing.

“Our stuff in the house is pleasant in creating our environment,” Cathie says. “But we could give it all away tomorrow and it would matter not.”

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WHERE ARE THEY?: Photographer takes flashy trip abroad A walkabout is typically an adolescent male’s nomadic excursion into the Australian bush for up to six months as a way to connect to his Aborigine roots. For 60-yearold photographer Cliff Roles, it was a solo two-month traveling trip to visit places he’s never been. Mostly, he just wanted to prove to himself that he could do it.

On July 20, Sarasota became a little quieter when the beloved Brit, known to gallivant around Sarasota’s black tie and com Cliff Roles went to Peles Castle on the munity events while wielding a camera, left outskirts of the Carpathian Mountains, the town. But, for his 3,543 friends on Facebook, one that inspired “Dracula” by Bram Stoker. things were about to get exciting.

“Everyone there is cashing in on it — they’ll sell Roles set off with a backpack containing you false fangs and capes,” Roles says. His fatwo shirts, two underpants, two socks, a Zip- vorite photo from the trip is of this dining room. loc bag of toiletries and his camera bag (he’d stop for new undergarments, socks and T- Orchestra, and her family in her hometown, shirts at every third town along the way). His Tallinn, Estonia. She took him on a tour of starting point was his nephew’s wedding in the town, including a glass-blowing shop Malta. He had two photography gigs along where she blew glass for Roles. She also the way, all the way down south in Israel for showed him where the Germans used to The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee, have fortifications and stood with machine and all the way north in Estonia for Sarasota guns to prevent people from fleeing to Finland.

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“It’s lonely,” he says. “It’s daunting, defiHe’d visit places everywhere in between (and collect a refrigerator magnet at each nitely exciting. You don’t have to worry new place). Roles would go three days with- about anyone or anything; you can get up in out talking to anyone and he says you devel- the middle of the night and work, or be your own master and do what you want.” op certain paranoia when traveling alone.

He returned home to Sarasota Sept. 11, “I would have gone insane without people on the other end,” he says, speaking about tired and, as he says, “feeling like a 75-yearhis Facebook friends. He’d put up a photo old.” He missed his wife, Maria, and his from his day and instantly receive an en- cockapoo, Sam. He proved he could do it, and he’s already decided on his next walkcouraging response from one of his friends.

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How tHey met: Both being at a point in their lives in which they were ready to meet “Mr. or Mrs. Right,” Dan and Courtney are happy to admit they met through eHarmony. At the time, Dan was living in Apollo Beach, so the two emailed back and forth for quite some time before they met in person.

The couple’s first date was Feb. 13, 2010, at Mediterraneo.

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Sarasota Guardianship Program

18th Annual

Sunset Silent Auction

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Sara Scherer, Christine Peixoto, Danielle Brown and Victoria Hulland

// Sarasota Ballet Season Kick-Off Brunch //

Benefiting Sarasota Ballet Sunday, Sept. 29 at FSU Center for the Performing Arts

at Faith Community Center, 7750 Beneva Road, Sarasota DOORS OPEN AT 6:00 P.M. Auctions to end at 8:00 p.m.

Live Auction begins at 8:00 p.m.

ENTERTAINMENT BY: Pete Messina & Standout Entertainment

ATTIRE: Casual or 1960’s attire For information on tickets or if you are interested in donating an item, please call: Lutheran Services Florida at 358-6330 LSF thanks all our Sponsors for the Event

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Distributors - Beer; Gold Coast Eagle Distributors - Live Auction,Yacht; Paula Carney - Live Auction, Cabin in Smoky Mountains; Angers Auto World; Kinetic Air

Underwriters: Comerica Wealth Management - Event Hall, water and soda; Olson Drug Corp. Entertainment; Caldwell Trust Company - Postage; Kathleen Hoonhout, realtor - Tableware/decorations Approved Home Health - Decorations; Laura & John Cohen - Photography

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// 18th annual Share the Light Luncheon // Benefiting: Second Chance-Last Opportunity Thursday, Sept. 26, at Michael’s On East

Right: Kim Cornetet, Veronica Brady and Irma Blumenthal

Emily Clendenon, John Clendenon, Fred and Missy Myers and Hyejung Clendenon

// 16th annual Gala Dinner ‘The Gift of Life’ // Benefiting: Care Net Manasota Thursday, Sept. 19, at Fete Ballroom

Sarah and Clayton Robertson with Becky Fenton

Photos by Heather Merriman

Jennifer and Alyssa Rakovich

Rev. Dr. Vincent Smith and Helena Porter

Photos by Heather Merriman

 Courtney, Dena and Chelsea Ogle

 Elizabeth Kuehl and Patty Li with Rae and Dave Flanders

Honoree Linda DesMarais, April Glasco and honoree Dr. Henry Porter

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THE DETAILS First dance: “On the Sunny Side of the Street”

by Louis Armstrong Photography: My Union House Photography Floral design: Elegant Design Flowers Invitations: The Paper Tree | Cake: Cakes by Ron Video: Bill Wagy | DJ: Jonathan A. Cortez Hair: Hrvoje Horvat | Makeup: Eri Vincent

GROOM’S PARENTS:

BRIDE’S PARENTS: Luiz Carlos and Nana Duclos

The late Robert and Lavelle Dudonis

HOW THEY MET:

Rita Claudino Duclos and Matthew Eric Dudonis met in January 2009, in Venessa Hernandez’s class, at Rosemary Court Yoga.

Rita actually didn’t practice yoga, but happened to have a yoga mat and some free time so she ventured to a class. Following that, Matt attended a Sarasota Ballet performance to see Rita dance.

THE PROPOSAL:

Dec. 19, 2011, during sunset at Muir Beach Cliff, in California

THE WEDDING AND RECEPTION:

Together with the couple’s friend, David Rubin, and incorpo-

rating some aspects of the bride’s Soka Gakkai Buddhist practice, the couple created and wrote their own July 13 ceremony, which took place at Bird Key Yacht Club. The couple’s main objective was to have a “warm” celebration and to have fun, loving people surrounding them.

Photos by My Union House Photography

HONEYMOON:

The couple toasted their nuptials on their first cruise sailing the Adriatic Sea. “The best part of our honeymoon for both of us was to truly relax for 10 days,” says Duclos. “We realized we had never been on a real vacation before.”

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