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BY TOM VAUGHT SUN CONTRIBUTOR

Billed as a compilation of tales of the every-day critters who deliver joy and insight, the 30-page book tells about its author, former Anna Maria Island Sun newspaper contributing photographer. Edna Jane Tiemann. You might remember her as the lady who handed out food samples at the Island Publix a few years ago.

For the residents who are staying home during this pandemic, watching television can get old so one might want to get outside and pay attention to the wildlife. You might find a feral cat that needs a meal or a litter of puppies that would make loving pets.

Tiemann moved off the Island years ago and lives in a mobile home park in west Bradenton, where she met a whole array of critters and she named a few. She

TOM VAUGHT | SUN

describes them in her own witty style. She has names for most of her brood: Jay Jay and Blue Jay; Gail and Gary Goose; Elmer Egret, Daisy and Dudley Duck and more.

She has a heart for animals of prey such as Rob the Rat and Hunter Hawk. She did use rattraps when things got unbalanced and when an animal became a meal for a hawk, it was nature’s way.

“I wanted to share with the readers the joy and insight every day critters deliver if we remain open and receptive to learning, from them “she said

Tiemann was asked who was responsible for convincing her to write her book.

“My daughter, Vicki Hill, thought it was the perfect time for me to write the book I often declared I would and a close friend Reid, Thornton in Colorado, who refers to my writing as being heart-toheart,” she said. “Each encouraged me to write the book while I was recovering from a heart attack.”

To order a copy of “Memorable Musings,” email GabbyET727@ gmail.com.

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FOOD & WINE

Paul Foster Real men do eat quiche!

AUGUST 12, 2020

GINNY'S AND JANE E'S CAFE AND GIFT STORE

Yes, real men do eat quiche. our very beginnings. It is a great Bruce Feirstein wrote a book meal, eaten at any time of the day. 40 years ago, satirizing men’s We make two different types here masculinity at a time when that today - bacon and swiss, which is was being redefined. We have a long time favorite here. It is our come a long way since then, and version of Quiche Lorraine, but I can safely say, both men and we use bacon instead of lardons women enjoy homemade quiche (pork fat strips). The other variety today. We, as men, must feel safer we make, was added in 2015, the in our masculinity. tomato, spinach and feta quiche.

For me, I always loved quiche, These traditional Mediterranean although my mom never called it flavors are vibrant and refreshing that. Being English, it was bacon and has since become a popuand egg pie, served with a side of lar choice for our customers at thick cut chips(fries). The only difGinny’s. Accompanied with fresh ference was there was a top crust, fruit on the side in the morning where French quiche has none. or a fresh salad with an oil and It is a very hardy meal that men balsamic dressing for lunch or dinand women since the 13th century ner, our quiche makes a nice light have been eating in both England choice on these hot summer days and France. here in the South. I hope you enjoy

Quiche has been a constant ofit as much as we do. “Bon Appetit!” fering at Ginny's and Jane E’s since

Quiche

Pie Crust Ingredients

2.5 cups of all purpose flour. 1 teaspoon of salt 6 Tbsp unsalted butter ¾ cup of shortening ½ cup of cold water

Directions

Sift flour and salt together, cut up shortening and butter and add it into flour mixture, continuing to cut it in until you are left with lumpy coarse meal. Then add in the cold water stirring it in with a spatula. Do not add all the water if not needed. You want a dough that you can work with, not to thin. Take the dough and wrap it in plastic wrap and put in the fridge overnight. The next day, take the dough out and roll it out using a a rolling pin. Put it into a 9” pan at least 1.5” deep. Bake for 27 minutes at 340 degrees. Use Coffee beans wrapped in tinfoil to keep crust from lifting while baking.

Filling ingredients

1 cup feta Cheese 1/3rd cup ground parmesan cheese 1-TBSp fresh chopped garlic 2 TBLs-chopped packed basil 1-Cup Lightly packed Spinach Pinch of Black Pepper Pinch Salt 6 Large eggs 1 Cup of milk 8 Cherry Tomatoes

Directions

Take all ingredients and mix well together while you pour into the crust. Do not add the cherry tomatoes. After the mix is in the shell with ingredients well mixed, cut tomatoes in half and place on top of mixture. Put pie in the oven at 340 for 60 to 70 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes, cut and serve.

Windstorm wreaks havoc at Coquina Beach

No one was injured by the high winds that hit Coquina Beach Sunday evening.

BY JOE HENDRICKS

SUN CORRESPONDENT | jhendricks@amisun.com

BRADENTON BEACH – A Sunday evening windstorm – possibly a waterspout or tornado – inflicted significant damage at Coquina Beach.

The winds lifted the top off an old Manatee County Beach Patrol lifeguard tower. A wooden changing station was destroyed after a family was rescued from it by Bradenton Beach police officer Eric Hill. High winds partially toppled a tiki bar alongside the Coquina Beach Café and several chairs and tables were damaged and/or blown about. The high winds also damaged several Australian pine trees.

FAMILY RESCUED

When contacted Monday afternoon, Hill said he received a call from Beach Patrol informing him that a family had taken shelter in a changing station because they lost their keys and were locked out of their car.

“I went to station #7, hit my air horn and there was a family of four from Plant City – a man and a woman and two toddlers. The wind was going crazy and I was yelling at them to get in the truck. I wanted to get them out of there because those stations are located in a tree line and those trees snap and break in high winds. I was afraid something was going to fall on the changing station,” Hill explained.

“I got them into the truck and went to exit the tree line and 45 seconds to a minute later it looked like a waterspout hit land and trees started to get knocked down and stuff started getting thrown around. All the sudden I saw the changing station literally just get blow apart. It was unreal. One of the walls from the changing station was coming towards us and the wind actually rotated my truck 90 degrees. When it blew apart, it spun the truck around counter-clockwise and that wall came up and smashed the side of the truck. The way that wall was coming it would have hit toward the front of the truck. It’s crazy how fate works,” Hill said.

Bradenton Beach Mayor John Chappie mentioned Hill’s actions during Monday morning’s city commission meeting.

“He never flinches. He is great police officer and we are so lucky he is with our force,” Chappie said.

MANATEE COUNTY/NICK AZZARA | SUBMITTED The windstorm produced damage at the Coquina Beach Café.

TOWER DOWN

When contacted Monday afternoon, Manatee County Beach Patrol Chief Joe Westerman said the beach was cleared at approximately 5:15 p.m. Sunday evening due to lighting. Westerman credited Lt. Karen Burkett and the other Beach Patrol members for clearing the beach before the worst of the storm arrived.

“She saw the storm coming. She was watching it on radar on her phone. It was approaching and it was massive,” Westerman said.

“This came through about 45 minutes later. It was about 6 o’clock when it hit,” he said of the wind event that followed.

Westerman said he could not confirm a waterspout or tornado.

“When it happened, the conditions were so whited-out with rain that our staff said they really couldn’t see what was going on. When it cleared, the top of the old tower that used to be our main tower – which would be the spot our lifeguards sat in – had been lifted off and thrown probably 50-60 feet from where it was mounted. Nobody was in it at the time. Fortunately there was no injury to anybody,” Westerman said.

“There’s a reason we’re building new towers. The old ones were at the tail end of their life with over 25 years of service. They were dilapidated and kind of falling apart. The damaged tower was actually slated for demo today anyway, so Mother Nature helped in that process,” Westerman said.

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Commissioner Amy Tripp tenders resignation

BY JOE HENDRICKS

SUN CORRESPONDENT | jhendricks@amisun.com

ANNA MARIA – Anna Maria City Com- missioner Amy Tripp is resigning at the end of the month because she and her husband, Alan, are leaving Anna Maria Island and moving out of state.

On Tuesday morning, Aug. 4, Tripp sent Mayor Dan Murphy an email announcing her Tripp pending resignation. “I am resigning from my seat as a city commissioner in Anna Maria at the end of August. Alan, and I will be moving to Black Mountain, North Carolina at the beginning of September. It has been my pleasure and honor to serve on this commis- sion under your mayorship. I know I leave the city in good hands under your leadership and my colleagues’,” Tripp’s email said.

During Friday’s emergency city commission meeting, Tripp said she and Alan sold their Anna Maria home sold in six days. She said she plans to continue participating in com- mission meetings through the end of the month.

Tripp was appointed to the commission in February 2018. She then ran unopposed for a full two-year term later that year. Her current term ends after the general election in November and she is one of three candidates running unop- posed to serve another two-year term in office, along with Murphy and Commissioner Mark Short.

The mayor and commission have not yet discussed how the short-term and long-term vacancies created by Tripp’s resignation will be addressed. Murphy said he plans to discuss these matters at the Thursday, Aug. 13 commission meeting which begins at 2 p.m.