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Siesta Key Association seeks comprehensive access management plan on facets of Siesta Promenade By Rachel Brown Hackney www.SarasotaNewsLeader.com

MANGROVES

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MORE DEVELOPMENTS New Dairy Queen and retail on Stickney Point Road

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LIDO RENOURISHMENT Updates on December Lido project announcement

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BEACH WEDDING

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If the Sarasota County Commission allows an increase in density on the site of the proposed Siesta Promenade, that “must be linked to a Comprehensive Access Management Plan,” including provisions to ensure Siesta Key residents and property owners have access to U.S. 41 without having to contend with an overburdened Stickney Point Road, Siesta Key Association (SKA) says in an Oct. 6 letter to the County Commission.

The plan should take into account the opening schedule for the Stickney Point Road drawbridge and access points for Siesta Promenade, the letter continues. Furthermore, such a plan “must be linked to all building phases of the project,” the letter adds. [The emphasis is in the letter.]

Todd Mathes, director of development for the owner of the site — Benderson Development — has said the firm expects the build-out of the property will not be completed before 2020.

“New traffic studies should be implemented prior to each phase of the project to ensure safety for flow onto and exiting Siesta Key and demonstrate the Access Management Plan is working as expected,” the letter says.

If the County Commission were to approve the rezoning of the property to Commercial General, that designation would allow up to 140,000 square feet of commercial space, 250 residential units and a 150-room hotel, the letter points out. However, Benderson is seeking county approval of a Critical Area Plan (CAP) for the site, which would allow the company to increase the density up to 25 dwelling units per acre. A Commercial General zone is limited to 13 units per acre. (Read the events of the Oct 11, BCC meeting page 20.)

“We find the one common factor that everybody shares [as concerns about the proposed Siesta Promenade] is the issue

of traffic: traffic congestion, road degradation [and the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists],” Catherine Luckner, the SKA’s second vice president, told about 40 people present for the organization’s Oct. 6 regular meeting. “We really have a goal to make this safe.”

A major concern is “the vulnerability of those people” who live near the site and those on Siesta Key, she added,

especially in the event of an emergency, such as an evacuation necessitated by an approaching hurricane.

The SKA suggests traffic counts be studied on Stickney Point Road during the peak tourist season — February and March — the letter says, focusing on traffic heading onto the Key between 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. and vehicles leaving the island between 3 and 5 p.m.

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Petition signature threshold lowered for property owners seeking maintenance of navigable waterways

By Rachel Brown Hackney www.SarasotaNewsLeader.com Thanks to a recent 4-1 vote of the Sarasota County Commission, it will take only 67% of affected property owners instead of 80% to initiate a petition process for maintenance of navigable waterways.

“It’s still a higher number than a Florida constitutional amendment [threshold for passage],” Commissioner Charles Hines pointed out in making the motion during the board’s Oct. 10 meeting in Venice.

Only 60% of registered voters must approve a state constitutional amendment for it to become law.

During the public hearing, Nokomis resident John Ask — who also is chair of the county’s Planning Commission — told the board, “I am curious as to the wisdom of the requirement of 21% having authority over 79%.”

His combined service as a school principal and 40 years officiating sporting events, he explained, “instills in me a strong sense of

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fairness.”

According to the resolution, the change was to take effect upon approval by the board.

Commissioner Christine Robinson cast the “No” vote.

Although she offered no comments on the matter this time, when the board last addressed the issue — in December 2015 — she called for more public outreach and for “a discussion time set when we can really vet this out … before we skip to the end.”

The Oct. 10 public hearing was the first time the matter had come before the board since December 2015. In a memo prepared for the commission prior to the Oct. 10 public hearing, staff noted only that the board had requested a history of the threshold requirement for petition signatures and a “comparison of signature thresholds required in other County taxing districts.”

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Thanksgiving is just around the corner

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The owners of Abel’s Ice Cream, Jerry and Jill Williams, have much to be thankful for – and at the top of their list are the wonderful customers and friends they’ve met this year, not to mention the beautiful weather, and gorgeous sandy beaches.

To celebrate the essence of the season of Thanksgiving, their featured flavors are Maple Walnut (Sweet maple ice cream loaded with walnuts), Pumpkin (scrumptious pumpkin flavored ice cream-great with whipped cream too!), and Carrot Cake (Carrot cake ice cream with fresh walnuts and a thick ribbon of cream cheese frosting).

Speaking of sandy beaches, Abel’s will be on hand at the Siesta Key Crystal Classic, November 11-15, 2016. This world-famous

event attracts artists from the United States, Canada, and as far away as eastern Europe who work tirelessly to create their temporary masterpieces.

As you work up an appetite admiring the most amazing sand sculptures in the world, stop by Booth# 205 and let the folks at Abel’s know your favorites as you enjoy some of their fantastic ice cream.

If you can’t make it to the Crystal Classic, Abel’s is open Monday-Thursday: Noon9:30pm and Friday and Saturday Noon10pm at 1886 Stickney Point Road (between New Balance and Stonewood Grill). Get a full list of ice cream treats and gourmet chocolates at www.abelsicecream.com, and follow them on Facebook and Twitter.

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New county ordinance governing mangrove trimming and protection in effect as of Nov. 1 By Rachel Brown Hackney www.SarasotaNewsLeader.com Sarasota County Commissioner Christine Robinson still regrets not checking her email an hour or two sooner on Feb. 22, 2014.

That was the day Manasota Key residents reported that a crew hired by owners of the property at 8215 Manasota Key Road in Englewood was “cutting and shredding huge amounts of mangroves with no visible permit,” as one put it.

As soon as she learned what was happening, she contacted county environmental staff and visited the site herself. During the County Commission’s meeting on March 4, 2014, she told her colleagues that the photos emailed to them “don’t even remotely do [the scene] justice. … You can’t even begin to grasp [the damage] until you’re on-site looking at it.”

Staff subsequently learned that the county had no means of enforcement in such a situation.

Because of state law, all that authority rested with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP). But at the behest of the board, staff set about to remedy that. The result was the Oct. 10 passage of an ordinance that implements the delegation of authority over mangrove preservation and trimming from FDEP to the county.

With unanimous votes, the commission approved all the necessary steps for the new law to take effect on Nov. 1.

“Now we will have the proper code in place to deal with [any future problems similar to the 2014 Manasota Key incident],” Robinson pointed out.

Addressing members of the public, Commissioner Charles Hines said, “If you’ve been [handling mangrove trimming] right, according to state laws, you’re fine. This isn’t a changeover to a ‘gotcha.’” He added that county staff’s focus will be on education and outreach.

But for the few people who have been “trying to get around our rules,” Hines continued, “now we have a little more teeth and local control.”

Rachel Herman, the county’s environmental permitting manager,

Red mangroves image from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service explained that the county code mirrors the state law, especially in regard to exemptions provided to private property owners. One key facet of the ordinance, though, is a provision for certification for professional mangrove trimming.

Those who handle that work as part of a business, she said, will be able to take half-a-day of training and then pay a $25 fee for the first year of certification; the annual renewal fee will be $15.

Professional mangrove trimmers will be responsible for signing up for a class and then registering within a year of the Nov. 1 effective date of the ordinance, she pointed out.

Two sessions will be offered in November, Herman said: Nov. 9 at Lemon Bay Park in Englewood and Nov. 17 at Phillippi Estate Park in Sarasota. Other classes will be scheduled in February 2017, she noted.

In discussing the outreach that had been undertaken as part of the effort to win the state delegation of the authority, Herman pointed out that staff had contacted 26 neighborhood associations. The Siesta Key Association (SKA) was among those that requested a presentation, she added; that was provided on Oct. 6.

Brochures about the new ordinance will be available at county parks and libraries, Herman said, and an infographic and other information is available on a county webpage, www.scgov. net/ mangroves.

Alyssa Vinson Sarasota County mangrove specialist.

Photo by Rachel Hackney

Biology and trimming tips During the Oct. 6 SKA meeting, Alyssa Vinson, an environmental specialist with Sarasota County, explained that she will be the point person for inspections and questions that arise in the wake of the board’s passage of the ordinance. She has been working in the Environmental Protection Division about nine months, she added, telling the approximately 40 people present, “I love mangroves. … They are so Florida.

You don’t find them anywhere else in the United States,” and they are not much further north than Cedar Key, which is southwest of Gainesville.

The three varieties — reds, whites and blacks — “are all protected equally under law,” she explained.

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New Dairy Queen/retail center on Stickney Point Road wins Planning Commission endorsement

By Rachel Brown Hackney www.SarasotaNewsLeader.com Questions about traffic access and queuing, dumpster placement and even the circulation of a Venice newspaper came first, but the Sarasota Planning Commission finally gave unanimous approval to a proposed infill project on Stickney Point Road across from the entrance to Sarasota Pavilion.

Planned by the American division of an Ontario firm, the project entails a new commercial center with a restaurant and drive-through window, as well as two smaller retail spaces, on a triangular parcel adjacent to Couver Drive. However, as county Planner Jack Wilhelm made clear during the Planning Commission’s Sept. 15 meeting, the only part of the project on which the board was being asked to vote was a rectangular segment comprising 0.41 acres behind the existing Firestone Complete Auto Care Center at 2121 Stickney Point Road. That rectangle encompasses the parking area for the commercial space and part of the drive-through route for the restaurant.

Officially, the applicant is seeking an amendment to the county’s Future Land Use Map in the Comprehensive Plan to change the designation of the property from Medium Density Residential zoning to Community Commercial Center. The second part of the application seeks the rezoning of that segment of the site from residential to Commercial General.

The application submitted to the county earlier this year says the restaurant will be a 50-seat Dairy Queen. It is proposed to be in the largest of the three commercial spaces, at 2,500 square feet.

Wilhelm told the Planning Commission members that the Firestone car care center will remain as it is. The project will include new sidewalks along Couver

Drive and Stickney Point Road.

Stormwater capacity will be provided aboveground and in an underground vault beneath the parking lot, he noted.

Because of a previous special exception granted to the part of the property proposed for the petitions, he said, no access can be allowed from that area to Couver Drive. Therefore, a new access point will be aligned with the Jasper Street intersection on Couver Drive.

“It is, I think, a perfect infill situation,” James W. Herston of Port Charlotte, president of Herston Engineering Services and the representative of JC Group USA, told the board. “There may be some little tweaks with a couple of the retail areas, but [the president of JC Group] is pretty well set on this is what’s going to be built.”

The president of JC Group USA is Jerry Cybalski, state Division of Corporation records show.

T h e C o u n ty C o mmis s io n is scheduled to hold a public hearing on the project on the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 22, in downtown Sarasota, according to county spokesman Drew Winchester.

Dumpsters and public notices When Commissioner Robert Morris asked about dumpsters on the property, Herston replied that the ones on-site already are up against a wooden fence behind the parking lot.

“I’m just trying to be sensitive to dumpsters and dumpster noise,” Morris added. “I’d like [the project] to be an improvement to the neighbors and not a detriment …”

An aerial map showed two houses directly behind the fence.

Herston pulled out a 3D model

he had created for the proposal; it showed dumpsters closer to the Firestone building.

When Chair John Ask then noted that no one had signed up to speak during the public hearing, Commissioner Jack Bispham said, “I can’t understand why they’re not here tonight.”

Material submitted by the applicant showed that only two people attended an April 6 community workshop on the application, which was held at Gulf Gate Library. “The biggest concern expressed by the two (2) attending residents was related to knowledge and information on the project,” says a letter from Herston.

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Financial Focus Thanksgiving is almost here.

Over the years, this holiday has taken on a variety of meanings, most of them centered on family, caring and sharing. You can carry these same values past Thanksgiving into your daily life – and you can certainly incorporate them into your financial strategies for taking care of your loved ones.

So, here are a few suggestions: • Protect your family. If something were to happen to you, could your family pay the mortgage? Could your children still afford to go to college someday?

To protect your family’s current lifestyle and long-term goals, you may well need to maintain adequate life and disability insurance. Your employer may offer these types of protection as employee benefits, but the coverage might be insufficient for your needs. Consequently, you might need to supplement your employer-paid insurance with additional policies.

• Invest in your children. If you have young children, and you’d like to see them go to college someday, you may want to start

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putting money away toward that goal. You can save and invest for college in a variety of ways, but one popular method is through a 529 plan, which offers high contribution limits and potential tax advantages. Plus, a 529 plan gives you significant control and flexibility: – if you establish a plan for one child, but he or she decides not to go to college, you can name another child as the recipient.

• Be generous. You don’t have to be a millionaire to make meaningful financial gifts to your family. For example, if you have grown children, consider helping them fund their IRAs. You can’t contribute directly to a child’s IRA, but you can write checks to your children for that purpose – though, of course, they are then free to do whatever they want with the money. It’s not always easy for a young person to “max out” on an IRA, which has an annual contribution limit of $5,500 for workers under 50, so any help you can give your children in this area should be greatly appreciated.

• Safeguard your own financial independence. Almost certainly,

one of the most undesirable outcomes you can imagine is to become financially dependent on your grown children. Even if you save and invest diligently throughout your working years, you could still be vulnerable to financial dependency if you need an extensive period of long-term care, such as a nursing home stay.

These costs can be enormous, and Medicare typically pays only a small percentage, and usually for just a limited time. To protect your financial freedom, you should explore ways of addressing long-term care costs. A financial professional can explain those alternatives that may be appropriate for your situation.

• Communicate your wishes to your family. At some point in your life, you will need to draw up your estate plans, which could include a will, a living trust, a durable power of attorney, a health care directive and other documents. To be fair to your children and other family members, and to avoid hurt feelings, you should clearly communicate your plans and your wishes while you are still around.

Thanksgiving means more than turkey and football. And if you can successfully apply the lessons of this holiday to your financial plans, both you and your family will have reason to be thankful.

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Late December the time frame for state North Beach Road lawsuit to announce whether it will issue permit finally served on Sarasota for Lido project By Rachel Brown Hackney www.SarasotaNewsLeader.com County By Rachel Brown Hackney The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) has notified the City of Sarasota that its staff deemed the Lido Renourishment Project application to be complete as of Sept. 28.

The state department’s deadline for issuing its notice of intended action is Dec. 27, according to information FDEP Project Manager Gregory Garis provided Siesta Key Association (SKA) Second Vice President Catherine Luckner. By law, FDEP has 90 days from Sept. 28 to announce whether it plans to issue or deny the permit application for the renourishment of about 1.6 miles of South Lido Key Beach. The project also includes the construction of two groins on South Lido to hold sand in place between subsequent renourishments.

Sarasota County spokesman Jason Bartolone told SNL that, according to the county’s FDEP contact, that whatever intent FDEP issues must be published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Then a 14-day public comment period commences.

During that time, if a petition to challenge the permit intent is received, the petition goes to FDEP legal counsel for review. “If legal counsel determines there are grounds and standing,” Bartolone added, “the case goes to litigation. If

no such petition is received (or if any petitions are found not to be valid) then a Final Order is issued (permit is issued or denied). So depending on the submittal of petitions, the process can take at a minimum 14 days up to an undetermined amount of time after the intent is advertised.”

A day before FDEP made its decision about the Lido application, the City of Sarasota won unanimous approval from the Manatee County Commission to mitigate damage or destruction of seagrass during the Lido project by planting seagrass in Manatee County’s Perico Preserve.

The cost of that undertaking would be slightly less than $1 million, based on documentation submitted to FDEP and Manatee County figures.

The City of Sarasota and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) filed their application for the permit in March 2015. Siesta Key-based organizations have argued against the plan to dredge about 1.2 million cubic yards of sand from Big Sarasota Pass to place on Lido, though they have often vowed support for the renourishment of the barrier island itself.

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Deadline actually was Oct. 8, assistant county attorney acknowledges Late on the afternoon of Oct. 5, Sarasota County finally was served the Petition for Writ of Certiorari Siesta Key resident Michael Cosentino filed in June, alleging the County Commission violated the county’s Comprehensive Plan in voting on May 11 to vacate a portion of North Beach Road.

Robin Bayus, administrative specialist for members of the commission, responded to a SNL request to be notified after the service took place.

Cosentino also has been seeking signatures of registered county voters on two amendments to the County Charter. One would rescind the commission’s 4-1 vote to vacate the 357-foot-long segment of North Beach Road at the request of three couples who own property on that

part of the road, or require the county to buy the property back.

The other amendment would make it impossible for a future County Commission to vacate any segment of county road on a waterway.

The easement matter In a related matter, the new owners of the property at 99 Beach Road and a submerged parcel west of it — Holderness Enterprises LLC and Siesta Beach Lots LLC, respectively — appear to have been the hold-up in the filing of easements proffered by the original parties to the petition for the road vacation.

One “perpetual, nonexclusive access easement” was to allow continued public use of the road segment except by means of motor vehicles. Driving on the section of road has been prohibited since 1993 as a result of repetitive storm damage the county never repaired.

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SIESTA KEY, WE HAVE A PROBLEM THE COUNTY IS ATTEMPTING TO VACATE BEACH ROAD AS A PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY AND MAKE IT THE PRIVATE PROPERTY OF THE ADJACENT LAND OWNERS Maybe you’ve read the “Sarasota County Beach Road Information Sheet” or the guest column Siesta Land Grab? No. by Dennis and Wendy Madden in the September 27, 2016 Sarasota Herald Tribune.

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Folks, while it is certainly complicated to untangle the half-truths in the Ò Sarasota County Beach Road Information SheetÓ and the Maddens’ column, the matter is really quite simple. You cannot equate the value of a public road to the value of an easement over someone else’s private propert property. To claim that there is a public benefit to changing the designation of Beach Road from the former to the latter is downright dishonest. As a public right-of-way we can rebuild our road, add parking spaces and ADA-compliant sidewalks, landscaping, benches,

shoreline protection, etc., etc. All of these things are specifically prohibited in the easement across what would become their private property. This would guarantee that we have no say in the matter whatsoever.

Not now. Not ever. We refuse to abandon our vested Public Interest in Beach Road and make it the private property of the Maddens and their neighbors. Period.

Once again, I hereby challenge Charlie Bailey, the Maddens and their neighbors, all of their attorneys, the County Attorney and his entire staff, and any or all of our

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Siesta Key Round-Up No complaints about outdoor displays Coming on the heels of a nearly six-hour discussion of the Siesta Promenade project, it is no wonder the Sarasota County public hearing on Siesta Key’s outdoor retail displays went so quickly last week.

In a unanimous decision on Oct. 11, the County Commission approved the removal of the sunset date from the ordinance, which was amended in 2014. The Siesta Key Village Association (SKVA), the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce, the Siesta Key Association (SKA) and a merchants group worked together to craft restrictions designed to keep Siesta Village and the South Village from essentially becoming “tacky” — or, as one SKVA member put it, taking on a Daytona Beach atmosphere.

The item was listed on the County Commission agenda as one of those “Presentation Upon Request” hearings. In other words, if no one needed to hear staff remarks, and no member of the public had signed up to make comments, a board member could just make a motion.

Chair Al Maio confirmed that he had no speaker cards.

Two motions actually were required, because the board had to convene briefly while the Land Development Regulation Commission verified the ordinance to be consistent with the county’s Comprehensive Plan. After that was handled quickly, Commissioner Carolyn Mason made the motion to approve the amended Siesta Key Overlay District ordinance without any ending date for the outdoor display guidelines. Commissioner Charles Hines seconded it.

During the Oct. 4 SKVA meeting,

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Vice President Mark Smith had brought up the matter. As he told SNL in September, Smith said, “I haven’t had any complaints about it”; nor had county staff. When Zoning Administrator Donna Thompson asked him about eliminating the sunset date, he told SKVA members, “I thought that would be the thing to do.”

More grant money, please In June, the county’s coastal initiatives manager, Laird Wreford, reported to the Tourist Development Council that it was possible more state funding might be accessible for the South Siesta Renourishment Project completed in the spring.

On Sept. 20, the County Commission formally directed staff to go after that assistance.

As part of its Consent Agenda of routine business items, the board unanimously authorized County Administrator Tom Harmer to execute and submit a Finding Application to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) in an effort to win an extra $5,785,716.

FDEP awarded the county $2,750,000 in 2015 for the project, a memo to the board pointed out. The new funding would come through the 2018 fiscal year Florida Beach Erosion Control Program Budget, the memo adds.

The project area ran “from about 3,000 feet south of Point of Rocks to a tapering end north of the former Midnight Pass,” the memo explains.

The total cost of the work was about $21.5 million.

Projects approved for the type of grant the county is seeking this time “are assigned on a cost sharing percentage based on the amount of

public access provided relative to the project area,” the memo says. In this case, the public access area initially was figured at 37.87%, the memo notes, but that has been revised to 41.31%.

Any further funds the county receives from FDEP will be used to reimburse the Tourist Development Tax fund set aside for county renourishment projects, the memo points out.

The resolution the board authorized for transmission to FDEP with the funding request points out that “the southern portion of Siesta Key has experienced severe and progressive beach erosion which has led to the substantial loss of the public recreational beach, threatened area roads and utilities, left residences vulnerable to storm damage, necessitated consideration of extensive coastal armoring and destroyed dune habitat, all to the extent that South Siesta Key is designated as an area of Critical Erosion by the State of Florida ….”

Speaking of south Siesta beach …

During the Oct. 6 SKA meeting, residents complained about people illegally walking their dogs on the shoreline south of Turtle Beach, especially near the Fisherman’s Cove condominium complex.

“We’re aware of them,” Sheriff’s Deputy Chris McGregor replied.

The problem, he explained, is that it is not easy for officers to access that part of the beach. The sand is too loose for them to use the ATVs they drive on Siesta Public Beach, he pointed out. That means a deputy would have to walk about 2 miles to reach most of the offenders. By the time the deputy could get there,

McGregor added, the people and the dogs would be gone.

People also tend to bring their boats up to shore in that area, he noted, and then get out of the vessels with their dogs. Most of them probably do not know about the county ordinance that forbids dogs on the beach, he continued. “We try to educate them.”

As the Sheriff’s Office representatives have in the past, McGregor also encouraged people to call the non-emergency number to report such incidents. That is 3161201.

If they call the substation, he pointed out, it could be the next day before deputies learn of a situation, as they generally close that office at 6 p.m., unless a special event is taking place on the island. The substation is located at Siesta Public Beach.

McGregor also stressed, “If you’re not sure [about how urgent a matter is], dial 911 and they’ll assess the situation.”

During the same meeting, SKA Director Joe Volpe did offer praise to McGregor and Sgt. Jason Mruczek — the substation leader — for the handling of a different issue: “You’ve done a great job of patrolling the stop signs on Treasure Boat Way.” Volpe had complained at a past SKA session about drivers failing to pay attention to those signs in that neighborhood on the north part of the Key. However, Volpe also told the officers that the organization had been receiving complaints recently about drivers failing to halt at the four-way stop signs at the intersection of Ocean Boulevard/ Canal Road/Avenida Messina in Siesta Village.

Mruczek replied that deputies are trying to keep a watch on that area.

Chamber award nominees sought Each year, the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce recognizes individual businesses and people for “outstanding achievements and service within the community,” it points out in an email blast to members. Once again, it is time to seek nominees for those annual awards; the email asks that they be submitted no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9.

The categories include Large Business of the Year (10 or more employees); Small Business of the Year (up to nine employees); Businessperson of the Year; and the Shining Star Award. The latter goes to “an exceptional employee” who provides an extraordinarily high level of service, the nomination form explains.

The form may be filled out online and emailed to Executive Director Ann Frescura (ann@ siestakeychamber.com), faxed to 941-349-9699 or delivered in person to the Chamber office at 5114 Ocean Blvd. in Siesta Village.

The awards dinner will be held on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 at TPC Prestancia.

Decommission discussion of SK Wastewater Treatment Plant The guest speaker for the November 3 Siesta Key Association meeting is Greg Rouse, P.E. Utility Technical Mgr. Sarasota County, the topic; Decommission of the Siesta Key Wastewater Treatment Plant. The meeting will be Thursday November 3, 4:30 PM at St. Boniface Church, Parish Hall.

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Siesta Sand has received many inquiries about the failed palms the County recently planted throughout the new Siesta Beach public parking area.

We reached out to Brad Gaubatz from Sarasota County to find out what the County is doing to address these concerns.

In an October 6 email response from Gaubatz, he confirmed the County’s ongoing efforts to remedy the situation. “We have been monitoring the palms and have already replaced over 100 failed palms over the 2 year construction period. A small percentage of cabbage palms are expected to fail.

At 1200 palms planted, that’s still a lot of palms. Over the last few weeks we’ve replaced quite a few trees and have more coming. One of the problems is the very high water table at the park’s elevation” Gaubatz stated.

Gaubatz went on to say, “At this time, we’re down to tree by tree decisions. Since we are well above the code requirement for the number of trees, we have 3 options on each: 1. Replace with root-regenerated palms (they have a better chance for success but cost a bit more) 2. Replace with buttonwoods which are more tolerant of brackish groundwater. Certain parking lot locations are not a good spot for a buttonwood.

3. If we feel the location just won’t support a cabbage palm, we can just remove it (and not replace).

This process will probably be an ongoing issue for another season or two until the park settles in.”

Treasure Boat Way resident Joe Volpe was in the shower on the morning of Oct. 3 when the water flow suddenly ceased. The reason?

A contractor working for Florida Power & Light Co. (FPL) had hit a Sarasota County water main as it worked to replace a utility pole.

He immediately called the Sarasota County Contact Center to report the problem and then set out on his bicycle to see what he could find.

And find it, he did. The water was gushing 2 feet into the air at 721 Treasure Boat Way on Siesta Key, Volpe said. The diameter of that “geyser” was about 6 to 8 inches, he added. The street was flooded.

Volpe’s wife, Lana, said the couple and their neighbors had no water service for about three hours.

In response to a request for information, county spokesman Drew Winchester said the contractor for FPL — Diversified Services of Hartselle, Ala. — damaged the 3-inch water main that serves 30 Treasure Boat residents and one house on Oxford Drive.

County employees repaired the damage and distributed “Boil water” notices to the residents on Sept. 26, Winchester added. The boiling advisory is a recommended precaution, county staff has explained, whenever a water line break occurs.

The next morning, Sept. 27, Volpe again was in the shower when the water flow stopped. And, again, he called the Contact Center.

Coincidentally, he reached the same staff member he had spoken with the previous day. As soon as he told

her why he was calling, she replied, “Again?!”

Once more, a county crew went out to the scene to deal with the damage. At least less water was lost that morning. On Monday, Volpe said, the contractor was using what he described as “a huge drill bit,” about 2 feet in diameter. On Sept. 27, the crew members had resorted to hand tools. Nonetheless, Volpe said, “They basically dug almost the exact same location.”

A retired engineer, Volpe added that he told a member of the crew, “‘If you hit [the water main] hand digging, you need to move over a little bit.’”

Bill Orlove, a spokesman for FPL, said in a Sept. 28 telephone interview that the crew was working to install eight utility poles in the neighborhood, a project that should conclude by the end of this week.

Since 2006, he explained, the company has been inspecting its 1.2 million poles statewide to test their strength. “If they don’t meet our standards, then we replace them. …

We want to ensure reliable service to our customers.”

That process is undertaken every eight years, he explained. “It’s a lot of poles.”

Since 2006, Orlove added, FPL has inspected 117,330 poles in Sarasota County alone.

Volpe explained that he compared the size of the new poles to the old ones while he was on the scene of the work. The replacements are about 2 feet taller, he noted, and they have larger diameters.

The subcontractor was using “locates” to try to avoid hitting any utility lines, Orlove added.

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Founder of SRQ Food Truck Alliance plans big rally to encourage support for revised ordinance

By Rachel Brown Hackney www.SarasotaNewsLeader.com

Two days before the Sarasota County Commission once again will consider a revised food truck ordinance, the founder of the SRQ Food Truck Alliance plans a big rally to fire up supporters.

“I’m going to pack that place,” Chris Jett said of the Commission Chambers at the R.L. Anderson Administration Center in Venice.

That is where the board will hold its next public hearing, on Nov. 8, on new measures designed to eliminate facets of the current law that have been challenged on a constitutional basis and incorporate steps to make it easier for the vendors to operate.

The hearing is set for the morning session of the meeting, Assistant County Administrator Steve Botelho said on Oct. 10.

In the meantime, Jett pointed out, people may sign a petition online at srqfoodtruckalliance.com to show their support of changes in the county ordinance that will enable food truck owners to operate safely and legally in the county.

They also are welcome to come to the Phillippi Farmhouse Market in Sarasota between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Wednesdays or the Englewood Farmers Market on Dearborn Street, which is held Thursdays between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., and sign the petition at the Baja Boys food truck operated by his wife, Michelle.

The Nov. 6 rally will be held at 5600 Deer Drive in Sarasota, Jett added. It will begin at noon and continue until about 7 p.m.

He organized a similar rally in April to garner support before the county Planning Commission held a public hearing on the revised food truck ordinance in May. Approximately 4,500 people showed up then, Jett pointed out. “We had plenty of momentum going into that [May 5 hearing].”

Referring to the commissioners on Nov. 8, Jett said, “They have no idea what they’re in for.”

Jett was the lone speaker during the County Commission’s Oct. 10 public hearing on the latest version of the ordinance, which was crafted on the basis of Planning Commission members’ suggestions on Aug. 18 that won unanimous approval of that board. Given the support at that Planning Commission session, Jett told SNL, he “went in there [on Oct. 10] expecting [the proposed changes] to go through without a problem.”

However, our county commissioners cited concerns about potential disruptions to neighborhoods, debating the need for a greater separation than 50 feet between a food truck and a residential property line, for example, and the potential for customer traffic to circulate in

neighborhoods.

Commissioner Christine Robinson specifically noted a recent split board decision to deny a Temporary Use Permit (TUP) sought by a man who wanted to operate a food truck in Englewood that would have been visible across the street from a residence.

Zoning Administrator Donna Thompson had recommended approval of the application.

When Jett told the board members he had no knowledge of that situation, Commissioner Charles Hines said, “I think it would benefit you a lot to review that property and the public hearing that we had on that [TUP request].”

Hines added, “This would have been a disaster in this residential neighborhood.”

Jett told SNL he was able to obtain materials about that request, and he took time on Oct. 12 to drive to Englewood to survey the situation.

It turned out that the applicant did not have any experience with a food truck business, Jett pointed out, and the man did not even own a food truck.

The ingress and egress for customers at the proposed site would not have worked, Jett added, noting that the man would have realized within a couple of days that the idea was a bad one.

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Sept. 21 –Oct. 18, 2016

There were a total of 12 crimes reported on the Key between 9/21-10/18/16

9/24/16 Battery 5100 Block Ocean Blvd The manager of a Village nightclub approached an officer on foot patrol to report an unknown female had struck her on the side of her face. The manager had been trying to help the female get a ride home due to her level of intoxication. She stated that the woman hit her in the face with a closed fist because she couldn’t remember her name.

Video footage of the incident was obtained and placed into evidence.

The woman was transported to the county jail.

9/27/16 Theft An employee of a village restaurant discovered the license plate stolen from his motorcycle as he left work at the end of the day. The theft occurred sometime during his 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. shift.

9/28/16 Petit Theft 200 Block Canal Rd A homeless man was arrested for stealing a can of Mike’s Hard Mango Drink from a Village grocery store. An employee of the store noticed the man place the merchandise in his pants before walking out without paying. This was not the first time the man had stolen from the store.

10/3/16 Theft 600 Block Tremont St A woman reported her license plate was stolen off her car while it was parked in her driveway. The theft occurred sometime between 9/29-9/30/16

10/5/16 Petit Theft 1200 Block Big Oak Ln. A lawn statue of an egret was reported stolen. The complainant stated that while he was out of town from 9/30-10/5, someone uprooted the turf and flora surrounding the statue. The ornament had been anchored into the ground using pvc piping. The complainant noted that he arrived home shortly after

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10/10/16 Theft 4000 Block Shell Rd.

garbage pick up and brought up the possibility of scrappers who usually roam the area just before pickup as being suspect.

10/11/16 BurglaryResidential - 6000 Block Midnight Pass Rd A woman reported some designer purses stolen from her residence. The purses were taken from a storage closet located directly to the right of her front door. There were no signs of forced entry. The victim stated she had last seen the purses in January of 2016. She also advised that she was not originally going to report this incident until a friend told her she should do so before filing with her insurance company. The bags stolen included a Gucci, valued at

A woman stated she left her L.L. Bean beach bag in the sea oats behind her and then fell asleep on the beach. She did not notice her bag missing until she got up to leave. Items taken included; an iPhone 6 Plus (valued at $630), a purse ($40), and $50 cash. There were no witnesses to the crime. The woman stated she placed the bag in the sea oats to keep it shaded.

10/12/16 Burglary-Vehicle 4500 Block Woodside Rd A man reported he parked his car in his driveway and must have forgotten to lock it. Sometime between 10/11-10/12, someone entered his car and took 5 golf clubs, valued at over $1000. The unknown subject also took a handicapped placard out of the glove box and a wooden cane from the backseat. The golf clubs had been stored in the trunk of the car.

There were no known subjects or witnesses.

SIESTA KEY CLOWN SPEAKS OUT News reporter, Rick Adams of local ABC Channel 7 affiliate, interviewed Siesta Key resident and clown, Trebor Britt about the recent outbreak of scary clowns in the country.

“I’m disgusted and disappointed in the adults and older youth involved,” said Trebor. “It’s really more about people with bad judgment trying to scare children than it is about being a clown. I heard that some law-abiding clowns were so upset they organized a “Clown Lives Matter” protest.”

Thankfully, a recent news article on the phenomenon reported not one American child has been physically harmed.

“Fortunately it does not seem to have affected our clown business and I’m hopeful that once Halloween passes, so will the hysteria,” he said.

“I discovered years ago that what actually frightens children about clowns is the full face make up. Preschoolers are not able to understand that they’re looking at a person dressed as a clown. Not long ago, I was named, “The funniest clown in St. Louis”, by John Purtzborn of Fox-TV and I’ve never worn any make-up. I’m still as silly as ever and absolutely love entertaining adults and kids.”

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When asked whether FPL reimbursed the county, Orlove replied, “I can’t really address that. … We do work with the contractor and the people that we serve. … If there’s an issue, it’s corrected.”

Orlove stressed, “Certainly we apologize to any customers that were involved. Our contractors and crews try to work safely and respectfully …”

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value that changes hands as part of an agreement between two or more parties. Consideration is the ‘what’s in it for me’ element of the deal. It is what each party gives the other party as part of the bargain. Consideration could be the payment of money, the discharge of debt, the performance of services, or anything else of value.

The Property Appraiser Office records show the submerged parcel without the groin was valued at $500 this year. It encompasses 12,203 square feet. The property at 10 Beach Road — with the groin — comprises 7,569 square feet, according to county records. It was valued at $700 this year.

The Givens Street light How much?

A bit of buzz was generated recently by Siesta resident Michael Cosentino’s purchase of the property at 10 Beach Road — where an aged groin juts into the Gulf of Mexico — and another submerged parcel just to the northwest of it.

Just how much did he pay, people have asked.

Sarasota County Property Appraiser Office records show that Thomas A. Hamilton of 3400 Hamilton Ave. in Sarasota transferred the parcels to Cosentino “for and in consideration of the sum of [$10] and other good and valuable considerations to [Hamilton],” as the warranty deed language puts it.

The document stamps paid on the exchange totaled $350, reflecting a sale price of $50,000.

Chapter 201 of the Florida Statutes, which governs the Florida Department of Revenue, says, “Documentary stamp tax is levied at the rate of $.70 per $100 (or portion thereof) on documents that transfer interest in Florida real estate property, such as warranty deeds and quit claim deeds. ... This tax is usually paid to the Clerk of Court when the document is recorded. The Clerks of Court send the money to the Department of Revenue and the Department distributes the funds according to law.”

As for the “consideration” language in the deed, research found this explanation on the website deadclaim.com.

“Consideration is an archaic legal term used to describe the

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Regular readers will recall that county staff agreed recently that flashing beacons should be installed at the intersection of Givens Street and Ocean Boulevard, because of the potential for accidents as traffic rounds the curve on Ocean in the vicinity of Givens Street. The intersection is just north of Siesta Village.

The solar-powered lights were expected to be up no later than Friday, Oct. 14, Robert Fakhri, the county’s manager of traffic engineering and operations, notified Michael Shay, past president of the Siesta Key Association. Shay passed along that date.

Shay had worked with residents of the immediate area to encourage county staff to improve safety at the intersection.

As promised, county staff did get the flashing beacon equipment installed earlier in October at the intersection of Givens Street and Ocean Boulevard, just north of Siesta Village.

However, on Oct. 14, Michael Shay — who has assisted residents with the project — notified county staff, “[T]he beacons have been in place for a couple of days & look great,” but he noticed at 5 a.m. that day that they were not blinking.

Therefore, he was seeking an update.

As it turned out, one battery was missing when staff received the equipment, Shay learned.

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Waiting out a heavy downpour did not dampen the spirits of Kimberly Johnson and Curt McGill of South Carolina as they were joined in marriage during an intimate ceremony before their beautiful family and friends on the spectacular shoreline of Siesta Key. This amazing couple met at a Starbucks on a blind date set up by a mutual friend/co-worker. Love struck quickly as Kimberly related, “I realized Curt was the one, on our second date, aka first “real” date not just coffee. We ended up sharing food with one another. He was handsome, funny, and kind-hearted.” Curt interjected, “I really fell in love with Kimberly when we came to Siesta Key for vacation last year. I saw how happy she was and couldn’t wait to ask her to marry me.” Kimberly added, “No matter how bad the storm gets, Curt helps me find the brighter side of life.”

Most of Kimberly’s childhood memories came from spending time on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. She has family and friends who live in the Tampa area. During one of her visits she decided to check out other area beaches. Siesta beach was one of them and she said, “I’ve been in love with it since. So it seemed fitting to have my wedding there.”

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Angelo’s Restaurant Cheese Wheels to Roses Another Italian eatery has joined the Sarasota restaurant scene, but this owner may be setting a new trend with his flamboyant tableside presentations. Angelo’s, located at 6115 S. Tamiami Trail, opened for business this past spring just off Siesta Key’s north bridge.

Owner, Angelo Difiore, has been perfecting his craft at other highly successful local restaurants and is now making waves of his own.

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Angelo knows how to put on a show! You have to go for the pappardelle in the big parmigiana cheese wheel! Leave room for dessert the Nutella crepe is TDF! *** Unbelievable! First the owner held an umbrella in the rain for my fiancé, then he rolled out all the stops and we were strangers. Ate like kings. Great price. Best discovered secret.

Open only 5 months!! This guy is a legend and cooks table side.

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Great tastes. Good wine. And Angelo greeting everyone and making you welcome. The veal is excellent and sauces extraordinary. This is a special place. Enjoy! *** Again we had excellent food. Vegetable Primavera was great. So much fun being greeted like family. Made standing reservations. *** Best experience I’ve ever had in Sarasota! We were greeted with Champaign which was unexpected and our waiter was very helpful and nice. To top it off, Angelo (the owner) came to our table more than once, to speak with us, to see how everything was. Angelo gave me a rose at the end of the night which was very sweet! We will definitely be back again and we will be bringing our friends to join us to spread the word about this amazing restaurant.

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By Rachel Brown Hackney SarasotaNewsLeader.com Chickens soon may be coming to a yard near you Thanks to a 4-1 vote of the County Commission on Oct. 10, backyard chickens will be permitted in a number of new zoning districts, including some on the barrier islands.

Jono Miller, a founder of Citizens Lobbying for Urban Chicken Keeping (CLUCK), led the effort to get such a law approved beginning in June 2009. The county ordinance is modeled on one the City of Sarasota approved in February 2011.

Commissioner Christine Robinson cast the lone “No” vote, as she had during the first public hearing on the law, held Sept. 20.

The ordinance has a sunset date of Jan. 1, 2019; the board may decide to revise the regulations or make it permanent.

The law has the following provisions: • It allows for the keeping of no more than four chickens in the Residential Single-Family, Residential Estate-2, Residential Estate-3 and Residential Commercial zoning districts.

Chickens have been permitted on property zoned for agricultural uses.

• It prohibits roosters.

• It prohibits the slaughtering or selling of chickens, eggs or related products on sites.

• It requires that the chickens be provided with a movable covered enclosure or a fenced enclosure at all times, and the space per bird in an enclosure must not be less than 4 square feet. The enclosures cannot be placed within a front yard or side yard. Further, they must not be closer than 10 feet to any property line for an area zoned residential or within 25 feet of any adjacent residential dwelling.

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In an email to Sarasota City Manager Tom Barwin, he pointed out, “[O]ne of the best pedestrian walkways in the whole City” was on the east side of the RitzCarlton. It featured a 12-foot sidewalk flanked by a 6-foot-wide greenway adjacent to the road and a 13.5-foot-wide landscaping area next to the hotel property.

“Both of these strips were planted with stately palm trees which not only offered striking civic beauty but provided needed shade for Sarasota pedestrians,” he added in the email.

He was alerted by a nearby resident, he continued, “that the trees on the road side had been removed.”

What happened, Lasche asked?

City Engineer Alexandrea DavisShaw reported that she had spoken with the manager of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) resurfacing project scheduled to begin in late September from the vicinity of Bay Street, north to the general area where the 10th Street roundabout is planned.

“He let me know that the Ritz relocated the palm trees as requested by the FDOT” in preparation for the resurfacing project,” she added.

FDOT spokesman Robin Stublen explained that the trees had stood in what FDOT calls a “clear zone,” a secure area that allows traffic to get off the road in an emergency. “We’re actually doing curb and gutter work there,” Stublen added of the strip east of the Ritz.

No trees will be replanted along U.S. 41 by the Ritz after the resurfacing project has been completed, Stublen pointed out.

Asked why FDOT had not asked for the removal of the trees at an earlier point, given that the palms were in the “clear zone,” Stublen replied, “Evidently, it wasn’t a problem until we needed to do the curb and gutter [work].”

It could just have been a matter of extra inches needed for that undertaking, he said.

Countdown to the World Rowing Championships The official year-long countdown to the 2017 World Rowing Championships at Nathan Benderson Park began on Sept. 23.

Meredith Scerba, the executive director of the event, introduced artist Malcolm Robertson — a native of Scotland — whose sculpture “Vortex” holds a digital clock that will tick until the event begins.

Hundreds of spectators were on hand for the unveiling of the artwork, which will remain as a permanent feature in the park landscape, Scerba told the Sarasota County Commission.

Robertson described his design of “Vortex” as a reflection of his fascination with waves and shorelines. The stainless steel sculpture is located on Regatta Island at the park.

Ticket sales also have begun for the Championships. Two-, fourand eight-day passes are available for the grandstand, beach seating and the Championship Pavilion on the west bank of Nathan Benderson Lake. They range in price from $50 to $200. Day passes will be available closer to the event, she told the County Commission.

Altogether, about 1,700 athletes from around the world are expected to participate in the rowing competitions, which will be held Sept. 23 to Oct. 1, 2017.

City has new finance director Kelly Strickland has been promoted to financial administration director in the City of Sarasota, becoming the first woman to fill that role in the 100-plus years of city history, the city has announced.

She had served as the deputy finance director since 2009. She replaces John Lege, who recently was tapped to be the assistant city manager.

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The Financial Administration Department not only prepares the city’s $200-million annual budget, but it also manages city investments, the employee payroll and procurement activities, the release points out.

Prior to her employment with the City of Sarasota, Strickland served as the interim finance director and accounting supervisor for the Martin County School Board in Stuart. She previously was the assistant finance director for the Alachua County Clerk of Courts.

Still no agreement with Airbnb In March, Sarasota County Tax Collector Barbara Ford-Coates told members of the county’s Tourist Development Council (TDC) that she and her staff felt they were “just moments away” from signing an agreement with Airbnb to ensure the collection of the tourist development taxes on units its hosts rent in the county. Airbnb is an online service through which people can rent out accommodations worldwide.

Flash-forward seven months, and an agreement has yet to be inked.

Robert R. Lewis, the director of community and intergovernmental relations for the county, contacted FordCoates after hearing a discussion about Airbnb during a Florida Association of Counties (FAC) meeting.

She explained to him in an email, “Over many months, we attempted to negotiate [an agreement] but [Airbnb representatives] have insisted on a number of provisions that are not in compliance with state law.

This summer, Monroe County contacted the [Sarasota] County Attorney regarding the potential of a class action lawsuit that could be brought by multiple counties against Airbnb.”

Ford-Coates stated that Airbnb thus far has been insistent on an agreement with the county that would allow it to keep secret any details that would identify its hosts. That would make it very difficult, for example, for

Karen Rushing, the county clerk of the 12th Circuit Court and county comptroller, and her staff to complete their annual audit of county finances, Ford-Coates added, because they would have insufficient information about Tourist Development Tax revenue.

“I hate the fact that we’re not collecting [taxes from Airbnb hosts] at the moment,” FordCoates said. However, it would not be fair to those people who have been honest enough to pay the money, she explained, if her office could not collect revenue that should have been paid by others who failed to report it.

She also has been frustrated by the fact that the state Department of Revenue forged an agreement with Airbnb, “which we’re shocked at,” to collect taxes going forward but with no provision for recovering past revenue.

Lewis said he expects to hear more this fall regarding “any FAC legislative policy position.”

Mote senior scientist honored as ‘White House Champion’ On Oct. 7, Dr. Kevan Main, senior scientist at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota was among 12 people from across the country honored in Washington, D.C., as “White House Champions of Change for Sustainable Seafood,” Mote announced.

Main, who serves as director of the 200-acre Mote Aquaculture Research Park, is past president and a current member of the World Aquaculture Society.

She has led Mote’s aquaculture research efforts since 2001.

“The Champions of Change program allows the White House to feature individuals doing extraordinary things to empower and inspire members of their communities,” a Mote news release explained.

The 12 Champions of Change promote sustainable seafood through commercial enterprises, conservation, management and research, the release explains.

Main is one of just two Champions

working in aquaculture.

New owners for the Sarasota Hyatt The 294-room Sarasota Hyatt Regency has been sold to a group led by Dr. Kiran Patel of Tampa.

Although the purchase by Sarasota Hotel Acquisition Group LLC was recorded at $57.8 million, that figure likely did not include furniture, fixtures and equipment, and operational supplies, according to knowledgeable people in the hospitality real estate industry. The full cost is believed to be closer to the $75-million mark.

Blackstone Group, the giant equity fund, had owned the hotel since May 2007, when it spent $65 million for the property.

Blackstone invested $22 million into the Hyatt the following year, winning the “Regency” designation from the Hyatt Hotel Corp.

The hotel is expected to remain a Hyatt going forward, industry sources say.

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The tradition of blessing our pets on or around October 4, which marks the actual Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, continues to be a popular event for area parishioners. This year two island churches offered the pet blessings; St. Boniface and St. Michael the Archangel.

Jennifer brings her rescue dog, Dylan for his first blessing at St. Boniface

Beth and Megan brought their furry friends Newton and Dewey.

This was the first animal blessing for all involved

Jesse and Keith along with their pals Cocoa and Phoenix have made this a yearly event. This is their 5th year attending the animal blessing

Deacon Kim with his buddies Blitz and Danger coming for their first pet blessing at St. Michael’s the Archangel

Fr. Michael Cannon, pastor of St. Michael’s the Archangel administered the blessing to all present including his little furry pal, Oscar

Rachel and Suzanne made the trek from off-island to receive the blessing from Fr. Michael for their sweetie pies: Duke, Princess and Lucy

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|From Millenials on the Move to Justice Down the Tubes?

A New Option for Millennials Imprisoned in Parents’ Basement?

With statistics showing that young adults age 18 to 34 are for the first time more likely to live at home with their parents than with a roommate or romantic partner close to their own age, the implications for the economy are less than rosy... especially when it comes to the housing industry. Education loans for degrees that have failed to help land the expected high-paying job have left this generation burdened by a level of debt formerly used to purchase a first home or start a small business.

But now a local developer has a unique plan to get the kids out of the house and into an affordable place of their own.

Bernard Croghan wants to turn the vacant county jail in downtown Bradenton into living spaces for ‘crowded nesters’ wanting to (finally) light out on their own.

It’s an interesting pitch: trade the comforts of a multi-generational home for the ‘solitary’ space of the former county lock-down. But then again, if you’re going to be chained to a mortgage, it might as well be for a real prison, not simply a metaphorical one.

And if the younger demographic targeted by Croghan doesn’t come through, perhaps he can re-target his marketing plan toward their parents. They might just jump at the chance for a little solitary confinement of their own.

Manatee county commissioners will consider the project in January.

More Millennial Housing News

Malinda Crichton of Sacramento, California has been building her very own dream house in typical millennial fashion: eschewing grand and gaudy for small and cozy in keeping with the ‘tiny’ house trend (living spaces typically less than 500 sf). Such diminutive domiciles are all the rage these days for those raised with a near borderline obsession with reducing their footprint on the planet. There are even several cable TV shows celebrating the trend.

Crichton’s immediate problem though is that her work-in-progress

was so small that someone walked off with it. That’s right, someone stole her new house right out from under her nose; it was just feet away from the nearby apartment she has been renting while she works to complete it during her free time. She went outside one recent morning to do just that and ‘poof’... no house.

Not to worry though, it was eventually found a few blocks away, abandoned in a shopping center parking lot.

But I have to wonder...was it really stolen or did it just get blown across town by a brisk breeze?

Revenge of the Clowns?

Remember the clown statues placed around town a few years back? They were sponsored by local businesses, organizations and governmental offices that decorated them in keeping with a particular theme related to life hereabouts. Many celebrated Sarasota’s circus heritage.

Well, as shocking as it may seem now from the vantage point of the oh so civilized times we live in today (cue the laughter), a number of the clowns were mercilessly attacked, even defiled...proving yet again that no good deed intended to bring the community together goes unpunished.

As best I can recall, none of the defilers were ever caught, but we all learned a new term: coulrophobia: the irrational fear of clowns. Perhaps that’s what led to the vandalism some civic leaders speculated. As for me, I always chalked it up to a simple case of bullying by losers too insecure or cowardly to bully actual living, breathing beings who might actually fight back. In any case, the clowns were eventually removed and all returned to normal.

But now...well... “...they’re back!”

And they’re not happy. Reports of creepy clowns prowling the Internet and even spotted near schools and playgrounds have caught the attention of law enforcement agencies here and in other communities nationwide.

It’s gotten so bad, Target has decided to pull all clown costumes from its shelves this Halloween season; and McDonalds has even

exiled Ronald McDonald, removing him from his former exalted position as corporate mascot and all around ambassador of mirth, at least until the whole creepy clown thing blows over.

Ronald was unavailable for comment, but friends, including Bozo, Clarabelle and Weary Willie report that he is totally devastated by the whole turn of events.

Who’d a thunk it...Ronald McDonald kicked to the curb like a common Hamburglar.

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Choosing between two deeply flawed candidates for president may make the bottom of the ticket in the upcoming presidential election more important to many voters than has historically been the case.

Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine have been largely overlooked throughout most of the race, but in that moment of truth when folks go to the polls, draw the curtain and have to finally decide, they just might be so repulsed by both Hillary and Donald that they make their decision based on the candidates’ vice presidential running mates instead.

And therein may lie an interesting but plausible scenario that just might result in a Pence presidency. Odds are that if elected, Trump will face the very real prospect of impeachment, given his lack of support in Congress.

After all, he is disliked (hated?)

by Republican and Democrat leaders alike in both the House and Senate. But Hillary? If elected, Democrats would never allow her to be impeached...under any circumstances. So conflicted voters who wretch at the thought of either Trump or Hillary leading the nation might just be willing to justify their vote for Trump as really being a backdoor play for Pence, rationalizing Trump is unlikely to survive a year in office before Democrats initiate (and Republican leaders gleefully support) impeachment proceedings against him...catapulting Pence into the oval office.

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County staff to deliver a report to commission detailing facets of further studies planned for Siesta Promenade proposal

By Rachel Brown Hackney www.SarasotaNewsLeader.com It took last-minute assurances from the county staff that further studies that would be expected of Benderson Development — plus agreement that the Sarasota County Commission could hold a workshop on those matters. But approximately five hours and 45 minutes after they began the agenda item, the commissioners voted unanimously on Oct. 11 to continue a public hearing on Benderson’s request for approval of the formal boundary of its proposed Siesta Promenade project.

“We will get back to the commission in a report form” the details about what all those expectations of Benderson are, county Planning Division Manager Allen Parsons told the board.

The studies also will involve the “impact area,” he added: the adjacent neighborhood and other nearby properties that will be expected to deal with more traffic, for example, if the project moves forward.

Commission Chair Al Maio made it clear that he did not want the hearing to be continued for a long time. “I am not going to be a big fan of a gigantic delay.”

“We understand the importance of this,” responded Assistant County Administrator Steve Botelho, who was sitting in for County Administrator Tom Harmer.

Then Parsons pointed out, “Timing is actually just dependent on working through the process [of a Critical Area Plan application].” The various staff members reviewing the materials Benderson has submitted have to complete their efforts, Parsons added, holding up an inches-thick notebook indicating all the various aspects of those reviews.

During his final remarks, Mathes told the board, “Frankly, regardless of the outcome [of the hearing], we’re not going to stop

putting time and effort into trying to build a project that makes sense for the community, no matter what direction it takes.” He added that he and the Benderson staff “take seriously” all the concerns that have been expressed.

“Redevelopment of properties in our urban service area takes work. … And that’s what this project is.”

During his initial presentation on Oct. 11, Mathes said, “What I’m asking is that you designate the boundary. If you do that, it takes away the uncertainty of not knowing where the boundary will end up.”

In making his motion for the continuance, Commissioner Charles Hines indicated that it should be clear from the commissioners’ comments that they are willing to allow the project to go forward.

Otherwise, Hines pointed out, “this conversation would have been over an hour-and-a-half ago.”

Maio also referenced changes implemented by the Florida Legislature in 2011 and 2012 that limit a local government board in what it can require a developer with a rezoning petition to do to improve the handling of traffic a project is expected to generate. The CAP process, he added, does give the commission more leeway in making demands upon a developer.

Sura Kochman, a member of the Pine Shores Neighborhood Alliance who has served as a liaison between that group and county and Benderson representatives, was among numerous public speakers who implored the board to deny the boundary request, citing numerous county future land use policies that she said the project would violate. Among them is Policy 1.2, which calls for the protection of the “quality and integrity of established neighborhoods from adjacent incompatible development.” “This is not a compatible use,” she said of Siesta Promenade.

After the board vote, Kochman told SNL in an email that she was disappointed that the County Commission did not deny the CAP boundary, “but encouraged by the BCC not ‘rubber stamping’ an approval. [The commissioners] seemed genuinely interested in trying to get more information and studies on all aspects involved in the CAP as a whole.”

Altogether, 47 people signed up to address the board on Oct. 11.

By my count, 34 of them did make comments, with the vast majority opposed to the project.

The background “This is a pioneering project that is presented to you this morning,” Parsons told the board at the outset of his Oct. 11 presentation.

Benderson’s application is the first to make use of higher densities available under the CAP policy the county adopted in 2005, Parsons added.

That CAP designation allows the

Access management plan Yet another facet of the access management plan should be the use of a shuttle between the hotel and residential property at Siesta Promenade and the barrier island, the letter notes.

If the County Commission on Oct. 11 approved a resolution on the boundary — or defined area — for the site of the project, Luckner explained, that would be just the first step in the process for Benderson. It would lead to more thorough studies of Benderson’s plans for the approximately 24 acres it owns on the northwest corner of U.S. 41 and Stickney Point Road, Luckner pointed out, characterizing those initiatives as “another hurdle” Benderson would have to clear to create the development.

County staff also needs to take into consideration how the

development would affect water and sewer systems for the area, Luckner told the SKA members.

Although the County Commission continued the hearing, county Planning Division Manager Allen Parsons and other staff will deliver a report to the board on all the facets of studies Benderson will have to undertake as part of the CAP process. The commission directed staff to schedule a workshop on that information after the report has been completed.

Dr. Steve Lexow said he had heard that residents who live near the site have talked about the possibility of the county purchasing the property from Benderson and then creating a gateway park to Siesta Key. The property could be used as a hub, too, for public transportation on

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and off the Key, Lexow added.

“Maybe there can be some sort of movement” to try to achieve that goal, he said.

She doubted that the county would take such a step, Luckner told him, explaining that Benderson paid about $20 million for the property.

SKA member Jean Cannon said it would be important for a lot of people to attend the Oct. 11 hearing. “That is something [the SKA directors] can promote to their members.”

Luckner replied that many of the organization’s members — and other people — have written letters to the County Commission to express their views about the project. She had read 93 of them, she noted. “They were excellent letters.”

firm to seek density up to 25 units per acre. If it pursued rezoning of the property to the Commercial General designation county staff long had figured on for that site, Benderson would be restricted to 13 units per acre.

Mathes explained that when Benderson bought the property in 2005, it was the site of “an aging and rundown mobile home park, a gas station and dilapidated office buildings. We cleaned the property out.”

On the site, 22.4 acres is zoned Residential Manufactured Home (RMH), 1.1 acres is zoned Commercial General and 0.34 acres is zoned Office, Professional and Institutional, according to a graphic Parsons showed the board. Mathes pointed out that only the RMH and Commercial General acreage is eligible for the CAP process, under county planning rules.

County documentation shows the site has been considered for a CAP for 10 years, Mathes added.

Benderson has not finalized its plans for the property, he continued.

However, at its maximum, the CAP will allow “somewhere between 100 and 200” additional dwelling units and limit the commercial intensity,” he said. If the County Commission ultimately approves the CAP, Mathes continued, the firm probably will not end up with 25 units per acre, “based on the work that we’ve done.”

“The upper limits [of density under a CAP], I’m not a fan of,” Maio said at one point.

In the application it filed with the county’s Planning and Development Services Department in August, Benderson proposed up to 140,000 square feet of retail space, a 150-room hotel and 506 multi-family units. In recent weeks, Mathes has shown various groups a revised plan with about 400 dwelling units, two smaller hotels and the same amount of retail space.

Letter to the Editor

Benderson’s Project – Legacy & Stewardship Commissioners, I ask you, what will be your legacy?

Disney-esque , Fort Lauderdale-wanna-be-buildings, accented by empty dead-retail space? Destruction of a quaint, quiet neighborhood; creating deadly road conditions due to over density? Creating serious gridlock, causing voting citizens to spew your names out negatively every time we are unable to travel to our key? Commissioners do you really want your name linked to this legacy?

Commissioners, get out of your office and come visit our neighborhood, make it real, walk our streets - talk to the residents. I personally would love to show you around.

Talk to the people this is happening to and understand what this project will do to our community before you act.

Be the Commissioners remembered for INNOVATIVE STEWARDSHIP, protecting a charming neighborhood and truly working for the better good of all -- not just the money, not just the developers.

Evelyn Alland

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Tropical Splash Open Water Swin Nearly 400 swimmers of all ages entered this years 14th Annual Daiquiri Deck Tropical Splash Open Water Swim in the Gulf of Mexico off the shore of incredible Siesta Beach. Athletes had three race lengths to

choose from, a 1K, 2.5K or a 5K race. The race, hosted by the Sarasota YMCA Sharks Masters is sanctioned by US Masters Swimming and approved by USA Swimming. Story and photos Trebor Britt.

Nearly a hundred 5K swimmers, designated by their pink caps, nervously gathered near the starting line just minutes before race time

Harper age 6, Pierce age 9, Daniel, Alice, and Brad from Merritt Island

Siesta Key Residents For 68 years Siesta Key Association (SKA) has been your advocate for protecting our way of life, our beaches, our wildlife and our home values. Your membership is critical to the continuing success of our advocacy efforts.

We are all concerned about the possible adverse effects of dredging Big Pass, the seasonal traffic congestion because of the size of Siesta Promenade and zoning issues that could enable greater density on Siesta Key. SKA has been working diligently to make sure the interests of Siesta Key are at the forefront of decisions on these and many other issues. For example, since its original proposal, we have been talking with Benderson Development, County and Florida DOT officials and have been successful in getting them to consider lowering the planned density on the site. We also are working to get more incentives for off-island parking, including buses to transport people to the beaches; safer pedestrian and cycling on Siesta Key to encourage alternatives to driving; volunteer initiatives to help keep our beaches and public areas clean and meaningful community-based alternative uses for the old sewer plant site, once its

conversion is completed.

Knowing that we as SKA are your voice, we wield a great deal of influence on decisions related to Siesta Key. We regularly meet with County and State officials and other regulatory bodies to make sure we are heard. We also hold monthly public meetings, which are attended by County and State officials to discuss topics of current interest to Siesta Key residents and property owners. You are invited to attend these meetings which are held on the first Thursday of each month at 4:30PM at St. Boniface Church, 5615 Midnight Pass Rd. We need your support. Our advocacy cannot be effective without the support of you and other Siesta Key residents.

Numbers count when speaking to County officials. We hope you will renew your membership or join SKA. The cost is $30 per year and your dues will be applied to the remainder of 2016 and all of 2017. You can join online at www.

SiestaKeyAssociation.com or you can mail your check to P.O. BOX 35200, Sarasota, FL 34242. Be sure to include your name, mailing address and email address.

Swimmers sprint from the starting line into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico as they begin their 5K Tropical Splash Open Water Swim

Grace Hu (13), Julia Brzozowski (12), Malia Lally (11), Jenna Riley (12), and Isabel Crooks (12) all smiles before their 2.5K race. All swim for the Sarasota YMCA Sharks on the gold or junior teams.

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Swimmer, Belinda Holmes of Sarasota surrounded by her sister, Sandra Holmes of Bradenton and her children, Chase (8) and Arielle Bertrand (6) after finishing her very first competitive swim.

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By Rachel Brown Hackney www.SarasotaNewsLeader.com About that FDEP folder…

The order of files for the Lido Renourishment Project in the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s online folder ended up sparking some County Commission questions about just how much power the Siesta Key Association has.

During the Oct. 6 SKA meeting, Second Vice President Catherine Luckner explained the curious turn of events.

When the County Commission sent correspondence to FDEP in late August about concerns regarding a proposed U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) staging area in the county’s Ted Sperling Park, the material that showed up in the Lido folder included a document the SKA had provided to the county board.

With yellow highlights, that document pointed to sections of the county’s Comprehensive Plan that are applicable to the project.

The SKA wanted to be sure the board members considered those facts when deliberating about how much say they should have about the renourishment plans.

“I was thrilled,” Luckner said during the SKA meeting.

When commissioners started asking how that material ended up linked to their letter, county staff investigated.

In a Sept. 14 report to the County Commission, Matt Osterhoudt, interim director of the county’s Planning and Development Services Department, wrote, “FDEP staff explained they posted the document simply because they received it as public comment. All such public comments are posted to the site.”

The report points out, “FDEP staff also confirmed their determination of completeness or issuance/denial of the permit must be consistent with state permitting requirements, and not on inapplicable public comments.”

Furthermore, Osterhoudt explained in the memo that the Comprehensive Plan applies to development proposals through implementation of county ordinances. The Code of Ordinances’ provisions relating

to coastal systems, he continued, are either not applicable to incorporated areas or they exempt municipal, state and federal projects.

He added that staff had reviewed permitting records “and found no instances of County permits for projects by municipal, state, or federal government agencies for beach renourishment, dredging, and beach hardening projects within the incorporated area.”

Alerts on environmental issues On the heels of an executive order Gov. Rick Scott issued in late September, Sarasota County staff may use its CodeRed system as one means of notifying residents of any future discharges of partly treated wastewater into bodies of water, David A. Cash, the county’s water/ wastewater division manager, told SNL. Regardless of the method it ends up employing, Cash added in an email, “[A]ffected citizens and local media outlets will be notified if there are any future occurrences.”

CodeRed is the emergency notification system the county uses for severe weather alerts, for example, “boil water” notices. Any member of the public may sign up for it through the county’s website.

The link is listed at the bottom of the homepage — www.scgov.net — under Emergency Services.

The issue arose during the Oct. 6 SKA meeting, when Second Vice President Catherine Luckner discussed the discharge of 3.3 million gallons of partially treated wastewater into the Grand Canal from the Siesta treatment plant.

The release began on Aug. 31 and ceased on Sept. 5, according to reports the county filed with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP).

Cash explained to SNL in September that staff was worried that raw sewage would spill over tanks in the plant as a result of the heavy rainfall associated with then-Tropical Storm Hermine.

As Luckner noted during the SKA meeting, word spread on the island after residents noticed

“No Swimming” signs posted at the Grand Canal after the discharge, as required by the Florida Department of Health.

No formal public announcement was made, Luckner pointed out, because “it wasn’t [county staff members’] protocol to do that.”

However, the SKA received five emails from people “who really had some very good points” about the need for public notice of such events, even though the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) allows such discharges in the type of situation the wastewater treatment plant staff was facing during Hermine.

A couple of residents, especially, talked of how “this doesn’t seem right,” she added, given the number of people who boat, kayak and use jet skis in the Grand Canal.

Luckner recognized Jeanne Excurra and Lorie Tiernay, who were in the audience, for their efforts to help protect their neighbors and other members of the public.

Sub s e que nt t o t he Sie s t a incident, Luckner continued, Mosaic reported to the state that about 215 million gallons of acidic water and an unknown amount of gypsum — a fertilizer byproduct with low levels of radiation — leaked into the Floridan Aquifer at its Mulberry plant through a sinkhole. Moreover, the City of St. Petersburg spilled millions of gallons of raw sewage into Tampa Bay — another incident linked to Hermine’s rain.

In response to those events, Scott issued an executive order on Sept. 26, calling for FDEP Secretary Jon Steverson “to issue an emergency rule that establishes new requirements for public notification of pollution incidents to take effect immediately,” Scott’s office announced. “This emergency rule will ensure the public, local governments and DEP are notified within 24 hours by all responsible parties following a pollution incident,” a press release pointed out.

Scott also ordered that within 48 hours, “DEP, local governments and the general public must be notified of any potential risks to public health, safety or welfare and

to surrounding areas by any and all responsible parties …”

Scott added that he will propose a bill during the 2017 Florida Legislature’s session to make certain the public is kept informed of incidents that “may cause a threat to public health and to Florida’s air and water resources.”

That emergency rule is in effect for 90 days, the news release noted.

“So there will be no way nobody will be surprised,” Luckner explained during the SKA meeting.

However, since Scott did not say how the notice should be provided, she continued, the effort to craft protocols for that is underway statewide. The executive order, she added, “was actually to stimulate problem solving.”

In the meantime, Luckner said, Tony Romanus, president of the Siesta Isles Association — which represents the neighborhood where the aging wastewater plant is located — has offered to send out an email blast to residents and to notify the SKA if any incidents occur at that plant in the future.

Some residents were concerned that the recent proliferation of red tide off Siesta Key could have been caused by the discharge of the partly treated sewage into the Grand Canal, Luckner pointed out, but red tide already was present in the Gulf of Mexico at that time. The heavy rains the area has experienced in recent weeks washes anything on land into the water, she noted, adding that it did not seem feasible that the sewage discharge would have had a significant impact. “All I can say is we’ve had a heck of a time.”

Luckner also reminded the audience that the Siesta wastewater plant is an aged facility — more than 40 years old, county staff has explained. “Let’s all keep alert.”

Sandfest 2016 November will be a busy month for the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce, Executive Director Ann Frescura told members of the SKA and the Siesta Key Village Association (SKVA) during their October meetings.

First, the Chamber will host the annual Sandfest on Friday, Nov. 4, from 6 to 10 p.m. at the pavilion in the Siesta Public Beach Park. The theme, she said, will be Flashback to the ’80s.

“We encourage festive attire,” she told the SKA members.

“Take your white suits out of the attic,” Syd Krawczyk of Concept Digital Media responded laughingly at the SKVA meeting when she made the announcement, alluding to disco-era attire.

The cost is $25 per member and $35 for those who do not belong to the Chamber, Frescura said.

Chamber members may reserve tables for 10 for $250.

For more information, check out t he chamb er web sit e — siestakeychamber.com — or call 349-3800.

Close on the heels of Sandfest, the Crystal Classic International Sand Sculpting Festival will be held on Siesta Public Beach Nov. 11-15.

“I can’t wait,” she said of that event when addressing the SKA members. “This’ll be my first time.”

Frescura joined the Chamber in January.

The Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce, New members New Members – October, 2016 1. Culver’s Restaurant – 7250 S. Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 2. Precision Overhead Garage Door 3. Tom Sorrentino with First Home Bank – Mortgage Lenders 4. Sharon Kreci from Paychex Inc. 5. A Home Away From Home 6. Comcast Business 7. Away on the Bay Charters

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Siesta Key Drum Circle Before You Leave...

If you have any non-perishable food items that have not been opened, the Siesta Key Chamber, located at 5114 Ocean Blvd, in the Village at the Davidson Plaza along with St. Michael’s Parish, located at 5394 Midnight Pass Road will gladly take these items and pass them on to the less fortunate in the Sarasota area.

Chamber hours for items to be dropped off are as follows: Monday – Friday: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Saturday: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

For instructions on after hour drop-offs, please contact the Chamber office at 941-349-3800.

St. Michael’s hours for items to be dropped off are as follows: Monday – Thursday: 8 a.m. – Noon and again from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Friday: 8 a.m. – Noon.

If you are dropping off items after hours, please leave any items at the front door of the parish office.

For any additional questions, please contact the office at 941-349-4174.

Every Sunday is a perfect time to come to the Key to reconnect with Mother Nature and to enjoy some wonderful entertainment. I’m talking about the Siesta Key Drum Circle that takes place each Sunday starting about an hour before sunset and lasting until about 10 p.m. The gathering meets up just south of the main pavilion - just follow your ears and watch for the swelling crowd.

Please note the following rules of etiquette that need to be observed at the Drum Circle so that all can enjoy the experience: the inside of the drum circle is

for participants only, not for people standing around.

Feel free to enter the circle, take a picture and dance, but always keep moving. Never play someone’s drum without getting clearance from the owner. Always ask before borrowing other people’s property, especially hula hoops. Flash photography and bright video lights are distracting, so photograph during daylight or use a night vision camera. And finally, please do not drink alcohol or smoke inside the circle and respect our beach by placing all trash in the appropriate receptacles. Photo Courtesy of Aaron Martin.

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By Rachel Brown Hackney www.SarasotaNewsLeader.com High School Jazz Band, Keyboard Players and choirs singing holiday songs. Ocean Blvd. will be lined with luminaries and businesses will be decorated for the holiday season. Free Trolley Rides will be available from Siesta Key Public Beach to the Village from 5:30 pm - 10:00 pm.

Morton’s at Siesta Market Holiday Affair

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Sample Morton’s delicious holiday menu, enjoy wine and cheese tasting, and visit their vendors showcasing new products.

A portion of the proceeds to benefit the Easter Seals of SW Florida. The event will take place at Morton’s at Siesta Key 205 Canal Road in the SK Village, Wednesday, November 9 from 4PM to 7PM, only $10 to

Light Up the Village and Parade On Saturday November 26 children can give Santa their wish list, have their face painted, visit with Santa’s elves and be entertained by Sunshine the Clown.

Santa’s gift bags provided by

Beach Bazaar will be given to the first 250 children who visit with Santa. Santa will arrive by fire truck following the parade at approximately 6:15 pm.

Businesses will provide refreshments, while you enjoy live musical entertainment by the Pine View

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Monthly Meetings SKVA meetings are held the

first Tuesday of each month at the Daiquiri Deck Raw Bar. Meetings begin at 8:30 a.m. and anyone interested in learning more about Siesta Key Village is encouraged to attend. For more information visit their website: www. siestakeyvillage.org.

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NOTICE: Looking for the Village Barber?

For those that have enjoyed the cuts and comradery at The Village Barber over the years, you can still continue to see Scott at his new location. In July 2015 Scott Reich announced moving out of the Village and off the Key. Reich and his stepfather Pete Sparks had been servicing patrons in the Village for the past 20 years. The Siesta Center was sold and the new ownership of the Ocean Blvd building wasn’t quite meeting up to expectations he and Sparks had of the new landlord. Sparks announced his retirement and Reich announced a move to The Shop SRQ at 6625 Gateway Ave. in Gulf Gate. You can reach Scott Reich at 941-346-0222. His hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tues – Fri, and Sat from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. www.SiestaKeyBarbershop.com

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Crescent Club...........................................B-3 #13 Siesta Spirits ............................................ C-3 #17 MAILING & SHIPPING Mail Pack Center .................................... C-3 #14 US Post Office Sub Station .................... C-3 #14 MARKETS 7-11 Store ................................................. C-3 #16 Big Water Fish Market ......................... C-3 #17 Crescent Beach Grocery ..........................B-3 #1 MISCELLANEOUS Moving & Storage ...................................B-3 #10 Flowers by Fudgie.................................. D-3 #17 REAL ESTATE / RENTALS Homes & Condo Rentals ....................... D-3 #17 Re/Max Tropical Sands ...........................B-3 #1 Siesta 4-Rent ........................................... C-3 #14 RESTAURANTS / CAFES A Taste of Germany ............................... C-3#14

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A Taste of Germany 6575 Midnight Pass Rd.

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Anna’s Deli 6535 Midnight Pass Rd.

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Big Water Fish Market 6641 Midnight Pass Road

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Coconuts Fashion MAP 1215 Old Stickney Point Rd. B-3 #1&8

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Nutritious You 6583 Midnight Pass Rd.

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By Trebor Britt

The weather was absolutely perfect on Siesta Beach as host of the 27 Reflekt Polarized Big Shot Volleyball Tournament. Hundreds of men, women, coeds, and junior boys and girls were included in the 17 divisions competing in popular beach volleyball on the pristine Siesta Key shoreline. Some teams came from as far away as Sweden.

This years sponsors included: 4C Iced tea - Drink Mix Energy Stix, Spalding King of the Beach Volleyballs, Rider Sandals, Reflekt Polarized, e-Blasting.com, AC Sports Commission, Venus Swimwear, Sand Socks by Vincere, Sports Authority, HyTail Ponytail Hat, Dig Magazine, Sportime, Horry County,Volley America, South Shore Outdoors, and CORA Sports Medicine.

Donna Look of Oldsmar, FL stretches to tip the ball over the net on their way to winning their first pairs match as partners

Former Florida State volleyball player, Jayce Pardon (23) of Manhattan Beach, CA serving in a Women’s Open Division early round match. She and her partner Brittany Tiegs (25) of Stewart, FL played on the AVP Tour this summer and won prize money at the Chicago tournament

Kibbee Jelks (32) of Jacksonville Beach, FL smashing a jump serve in a Men’s Open Division match.

He’s played in this tournament several times.

His highest finish was second Sydney Loupe (23) of Gainsville and Evnika Krabchuk (17) of Orlando keeping score for a Women’s A Division match. They met at another tournament and played later as first time partners in this division

Donna Look of Oldsmar, FL warming up before her first round Women’s AA Division match

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In 1996, the state passed the Mangrove Trimming and Preservation Act to provide that protection, she pointed out.

Since 1950, development in the state has resulted in the loss of “roughly 80% of our mangrove shorelines.”

Yet, she continued, mangroves are vital in the environment.

During storms, she said, “they buffer a lot of that wind and wave energy.”

They also are critical to the health of seagrasses and corals, she explained, as those life forms depend on mangroves to capture sediment, making the water quality appropriate for sustainability of aquatic life.

Vinson told the group that county staff worked for about 18 months to obtain the state delegation of authority to implement local rules. FDEP approved the county’s application on Aug. 31.

She then asked audience members with mangroves on their property how they handle the trimming.

Dave Thomas told her he cuts back the mangroves less than a foot on the canal where his house is located, and only when the foliage reaches the structure; at that point, the mangroves provide a path for insects.

That is an example of an exempt activity under state law, and it will continue to be exempt under county law, she replied.

The minimum overall height that must be maintained for mangroves, she said, is 6 feet, and that is measured to the soil.

If they are taller than 16 feet, she added, “you have to get a professional mangrove trimmer.”

In response to another comment, she explained, “Technically, dead mangrove material is still protected under the state rules.”

If mangroves are taller than 24 feet, she noted, the trimming has to be staged so no more than 25% of the foliage is removed at one time. That is the type of work that would necessitate a permit from the county, she added.

If someone sees what appears to be a violation, she added, “You can call me; you can email me a picture.” If she cannot get to the scene quickly enough, she said, she will ask a staff member in the field to respond first.

Stickney Point Road Earlier, Morris had asked Wilhelm about the fact that backup agenda material showed that the advertisement for the public hearing appeared on April 2 in the Venice Gondolier. “I don’t think that that newspaper comes up into this area.”

Later, county Planning Manager Tate Taylor confirmed that the county ran its advertisement of the hearing in the Sarasota HeraldTribune. The policy calls for a notice to appear in a “newspaper of general circulation in the county,” Taylor added. “I do think that the interpretation of that is fairly broad, especially using the word ‘general,’” Taylor said. “I believe that the Venice Gondolier meets that [requirement].”

An online search found that the Gondolier circulates approximately 13,500 copies twice a week — Wednesdays and Saturdays. It is owned by the Sun Coast Media Group.

Herston told the board he put an ad in the Gondolier after checking with it and the Herald-Tribune.

The Venice paper had lower rates, Herston explained, and when he asked whether it is a newspaper of general circulation, the person he spoke with assured him that the Gondolier runs ads all the time regarding Sarasota County zoning

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petitions.

Assistant County Attorney David Pearce pointed out that an inquiry could be made of the Gondolier regarding its circulation area. Newspaper staff could provide an affidavit stating that it is a newspaper of general circulation, he pointed out.

Taylor acknowledged that the Gondolier is not a daily publication.

Most of the time, he added, county staff suggests applicants advertise in the Herald-Tribune. According to the Alliance for Audited Media, the daily circulation of the HeraldTribune is 54,274.

Traffic considerations Bispham also was concerned about traffic on Couver Drive.

“I go up and down that [street] frequently,” he said. “It’s a shortcut, and I imagine those residents get [angry] every time I do it. … I just can’t imagine that those two residents are not here,” he added of the people who live to the west of the rectangular area that was the focus of the hearing.

“I use this cut-through all the time,” Commissioner Philip Kellogg added. “It’s not uncommon to have six to eight cars stacked up at the

intersection of Stickney Point Road and Couver.”

Kwamena Sankah, a county traffic engineer, explained that even though a curb cut already exists on the property opposite Jasper Street, county staff would review the development plan to ensure it would meet the appropriate standards.

County regulations require that a driveway be at least 150 feet from a local road, he pointed out, and that access from Couver would not meet that stipulation. Still, Sankah said, the county could grant the developer a variance.

Herston pointed out that when he met with county staff members in late January, they told him the new driveway would have to be aligned with Jasper Street or offset from it by a minimum of 150 feet.

That offset would conflict with the special exception regarding access to Couver, he added, so the design he and JC Group USA had opted for was the Jasper Street alignment.

Finally, Morris told his colleagues he was in favor of the project. “I think we’ve kind of beat this to death. … It seems to be an appropriate request.

There isn’t any major change, really, from the current use.”

“I support it,” Commissioner Ron Cutsinger added. “It makes sense.”

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The smoked chicken wings are unbelievable. Backed up with the pulled pork sandwiches, the smoked bologna, the smoked Turkey, the collard greens, fried corn on the cob, fried okra, fried green tomatoes and one of the best mac ‘n cheese you ever tasted. We do catering no limited to the size of the group. Come in and follow your nose to 6616 Superior Ave, Sarasota FL 34231. Call (941)9260099. See you soon.

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www.shopgulfgate.com Sarasota Pavilion is a popular shopping destination for numerous locals and visitors alike. Its prime location is close enough to the island for frequent trips with a nice selection of chain stores set in one convenient location. But what truly lends to the uniqueness of this district is the host of small, locally owned, specialty shops, boutiques, restaurants and neighborhood bars bordering this pavilion. It makes for a fun and rewarding shopping experience.

Over 150 businesses make up this district. This section helps highlight what you’ll find within this walkable Gulf Gate shopping Village.

With our map, located on the previous page, you’ll be able to navigate your way to our featured shops with ease. Oh Mamma Mia! (GG-4) Offers a truly unique dining experience with dinner shows by Chef Giuseppe Urbano.

Enjoy the family ambiance as you watch him prepare an authentic Italian regional dish with fresh ingredients just for you. Fine dining, great atmosphere at casual dining prices. Reservations highly recommended.

Piccolos Italian Market & Deli (G-47) carries a full line of imported cheeses, fresh baked bread daily, homemade sausages, fresh mozzarella, and numerous hard to get items.

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They now carry Khorasan Wheat which is an ancient and organic grain. Their deli is complete with huge hot and cold sandwiches, salads, fresh homemade lasagna and baked ziti. And, you cannot leave without trying their cannoli filled with their own homemade cannoli cream or the tiramisu or Sfogliatelle from Brooklyn.

Here is where you will find great Italian specialty gourmet items without the gourmet price.

Tony’s Chicago Beef Company (S-16) is owned and operated by true Chicagoans. Dedicated to deliver Chicago’s best food Chicago style Hot Dogs wit’ the works...

Dragged through the garden on poppy seed buns with fresh cut fries, Italian Beef Sandwiches anyway you like, dipped or dry, sweet or hot. All served in true Authentic Chicago Style.

Sarasota Brewing Co. (G-4) Sarasota’s first micro brew pub always has something new to offer.

From over 20 seasonal beers that rotate throughout the year, the Brewing Company always has at least five unique brews online as well as several favorites from around the world. Established in 1989, Their menu has been a winner in the Reader’s Choice Awards of the Sarasota Herald Tribune featuring their mouth watering burgers, Chicago style Pizzas, and

Chicago beef sandwiches. With dozens of televisions, it’s a great place to catch a game with friends and family.

West End Pub (G-49) Where else can you watch your favorite game with a great selection of beers, wines and liquors served by a friendly staff AND where you’re allowed to bring your own restaurant or deli food? Right here.

Hurricane Mike’s Saloon (M-10) is a little neighborhood bar at 2639 Mall Drive, where everyone knows your name type of establishment and friendly staff. TV’s with the MLB and NFL packages, pool table, and full Florida Lottery games.

Happy hour daily from opening to 7pm. Hours: Mon – Sat, 8am – 2:30am and Sun., noon – 2:30am.

The Shop SRQ (G-2) offers flat-tops, fades, tapers, blowouts, razor cuts, and straight razor shaves. Owners, Erick and Dawn use a back to basics approach to grooming with a precise attention to personal detail.

Their commitment to excellence has provided them with many loyal customers. They welcome the opportunity to earn your trust. Hours: Tues. – Fri. 8:30am – 6pm, Sat., 8:30am – 3pm. Closed on Sundays and Mondays. 6625 Gateway Ave, 941-626-4894.

At the original Word of Mouth Restaurant (G-31), every seemingly insignificant detail receives special

attention from the warm, inviting decor to each specially crafted variety of freshly baked muffins to the signature menu items. This small diner is where the locals come to eat breakfast and lunch.

Each staff member works hard to make sure you receive the best service and quality food so you’ll want to return often. Take a look at their mouth-watering menu at www.originalwordofmouth.com.

Hours: Mon-Sun.: 8AM-2PM. 6604 Gateway Ave., Sarasota, 34231, 941-925-2400.

Pride of the South (S-34) has been awarded Top Barbeque in Sarasota for 2016 by Trip Advisor and Yelp. It has been awarded for the best Southern Hospitality.

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Who’s Playing Tonight

By Mike Sales

Sammy “Barefoot” Warren

|An interview with Sammy “Barefoot” Warren Toward the end of last year, I got one of those calls I love to get; an offer to play a New Year’s Eve pick-up gig after I got done playing earlier...an NYE double!

I was told there would be two other musicians there and that they could play all of my songs right along with me, sight unseen (heard?).

I’ve come to trust in this ability from musicians around here, but was completely surprised and really impressed by the way Sammy and his wife Zooey, played every song, without rehearsal, blending enough not to lose me and lending enough to really blow the roof off of the party at The Hub that night.

I couldn’t have asked for a better instant band.

Throughout the year, I’ve followed the posts on Facebook, as the two have played with a lot of different musicians with different styles as a pair and individually… and now I get to interview Sammy…

WPT: What instruments do you play?

Sammy: I am mostly a percussionist. I was classically trained, so I play a variety of percussion instruments. Most of the performance opportunities find me on a drum set or the Cajon, a box-style drum that I sit on… and occasionally other percussion instruments.

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WPT: Is that when you started taking lessons?

Sammy: Not really…growing up in rural Georgia, where the school had 100 music students to one band director with a saxophone background, before the internet with YouTube and no instructors in town, I just watched the other kids and tried to figure out what to play.

I didn’t actually get formal training until my junior year of high school.

WPT: How did you wind up on Siesta Key? Sammy: Well, that story begins with Grandpa Sam, meeting my Grandma Valerie at the Gator Club, downtown. My father was born and raised in this area…fishing around Siesta Key. He moved to Georgia, but my Grandmother stayed in Florida and when my girlfriend and I wanted to relocate, we chose here…we were married on Siesta Key a few months later.

WPT: When was your first paid gig?

Sammy: My first paid gig was at the age of 16, when I started playing with some friends from high school.

Their drummer was sick and I got

work, mostly on the drum set, too.

WPT: What kind of music was

Sammy: At first it was Christian Rock, which later turned into fast rock music with a punk influence.

WPT: Where was the first place you played on Siesta Key? Sammy: Believe it or not, I arrived here on Saturday night and was playing Monday night at SKOB with a friend of mine from high school, Tony Tyler who has a great band named, “Come Back Alice”. His was actually one of the first bands I played with back in high school. I played with them a lot as an auxiliary percussionist.

WPT: What kind of acts do you play with?

Sammy: I play with a variety of acts; David Smash, Zen Seraphine, Diana Catherine Oakley, Brian Spainhower, Cort Farris, John Whiteleather, Chris Otto, Mike Tozier, Albert Donadi, Ober Rivers, Babyl, Zack Yoder…there are so many amazing musicians on this island. I’ve done some session

WPT: What can people expect to see you playing on Siesta Key? Sammy: On Siesta Key, people like to enjoy music during dinner, while on vacation, they prefer more of a low-key sound, and so I usually play the cajon…its like a drum set in a box with a very small footprint.

But it’s different every night, even if you play the same song because on an island like Siesta Key, with new people visiting every week, it’s always a unique experience.

WPT: What’s your favorite part about being a professional musician?

Sammy: I get so much joy out of connecting with so many people at the same time. Whether they’re listening to the music in the background as they eat or actually engaging with the band and getting up to dance; it’s beautiful to observe how the sound connects with all of them.

WPT: What’s your most memorable performance to date?

Sammy: I played with the David Smash Band at the International Blues Challenge on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. We competed against 260 bands from around the world and made it into the top 40.

The band that edged us out actually came in 2nd, so I’m pretty proud of what we did there. It was an amazing experience to be on the same stage as so many legends.

I’m looking forward to going back in February.

WPT: Where do you see your career going from here?

Sammy: So far, I’ve been the starving artist, so I’d like to be able to earn enough from music to free me from sweating the bills. I was fortunate, in college to have studied with some people who exposed me to different world rhythms and instruments from around the globe.

Music is a universal language that allows me to play with anyone, anywhere. Percussion is some of the oldest music there is and every culture has its unique identity with the drum. I don’t need to be rich or famous, I’d just like to travel the world with my wife, playing music.

You can follow Sammy “Barefoot” Warren on Facebook for Siesta Key performance updates.

The Hub is located at 5148 Ocean Blvd in the Village on Siesta Key and features live music 7 days a week.

SKOB (Siesta Key Oyster Bar) is located at 5238 Ocean Blvd in the Village on Siesta Key and features live music 7 days a week.

Mike Sales is a local singer/ songwriter log onto mikesalessings. com for more info.

LIVE MUSIC SCHEDULE MONDAY

In the Village 941‐349‐9822

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WPT: When did your classical training begin?

Sammy: Fifth grade school band, on through junior college and the university, where they focus a lot on the classical music aspects of percussion. I studied timpani, orchestral & rudimental snare drumming, cymbal work, auxiliary percussion (triangle, tambourine, etc.) marimba and xylophone… many different instruments, depending upon what a particular composition called for. In one piece, you might bounce between gongs, triangle, bells, bass drum and crash cymbals…or just play the snare drum for the whole song.

WPT: Where are you from?

Sammy: I was born in Warner Robins, Georgia, and grew up in a small town outside Dublin, Georgia.

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WPT: When did you start playing?

Sammy: As early as I can remember, I’d beat out rhythms on everything…pots and pans and the like, but I started playing on an actual drum set at around age of 8.

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Scott Curts (3‐7pm)

TUESDAY

Live Music 6‐10pm Billy Lyon (3‐7pm)

WEDNESDAY Live Music 6‐10pm

Noel Harris (3‐7pm)

THURSDAY Live Music 6‐10pm

FRIDAY

Live Music (6‐10pm)

Kevin Thompson Spark Notes (3‐7pm) (3‐7pm) DJ TJ (10pm) DJ Crawford (10pm) RPM Live Music 6‐10pm 6‐10pm DJ 10pm – 2am DJ 10pm – 2am Acoustic Open Mic w/ Nally &

Egglefield 6‐10pm Berry Oakley’s Whiteleather 2‐6pm Skylab LIVE BAND 7‐11pm 8pm – 12am Live Band DJ Coz 8 – 11pm 9pm‐2am DJ 11‐2am

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Live Music 6‐10pm

Live Music 6 ‐10pm

Miles Bosworth (3‐7pm) DJ Crawford (10pm) Acoustic Pete 1‐5pm Live Music 6‐10pm DJ 10pm – 2am Eddie James Jazz Band 6‐10pm Dana & Co 2‐6pm Mike Tozier 8pm – 12am Live Band 8 –11pm DJ 11pm‐2am

Matt Gerhardt (3‐7pm) K. Conn (9pm) Road Block 2‐6pm Live Music 6‐10pm DJ 10pm – 2am

Rodney Shenk 6‐10pm

RPM 6‐10pm

Patrick 6‐10pm DJ 10pm – 2am

Al Donadi 7‐11pm

Open mic night 7‐11pm

Kettle of Fish 7‐11pm

THE BEACH CLUB

Baby 9pm‐midnight

DJ Coz or Kensi 10pm – 2am

THE COTTAGE

Live Music 6‐9pm

Live Music 6‐9pm

Live Music 6‐9pm

Live Music 7‐10pm

Live Music 7‐10pm

Live Music 7‐10pm

Live Music 6‐9pm

THE HUB‐BAJA GRILL

Live Music Noon – 3pm 3:30 – 6:30pm 7‐10pm

Live Music Noon – 3 3:30 – 6:30pm 7‐10pm

Live Music Noon – 3 3:30 – 6:30pm 7‐10pm

Live Music Noon – 3 3:30 – 6:30pm 7‐10pm

Live Music 1 – 4pm 4:30 – 7:30pm 8:30 –midnight

Live Music 1‐4pm 4:30 – 7:30pm 8:30 ‐ midnight

Live Music Noon – 3 3:30 – 6:30pm 7‐10pm

Karaoke 9pm – 1am

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Scott Peace 6‐10pm

Jordy Christo 6‐10pm

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RPM 6‐10pm

Sunny Jim 6‐10pm

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Karaoke 9pm ‐1am Chris Otto 6‐10pm

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TBA – 2 pm Tozier – 5pm Chris Otto ‐ 10pm Democracy (Reggae) 10pm‐2am

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Democracy 4‐8pm

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Live Music 3‐7pm

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Live Jazz 7‐10PM

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Above information is subject to change. We suggest calling venues for confirmation.

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Island Humor [ Max was worried. Sam, his loyal deli customer every day for thirty years, doesn’t show up. Max loves Sam. Every day at the deli he gives him the best cuts, charges him the least, treats him like family.

So on the second day, his absence is again concerning. When he doesn’t show up on the third day, Max is almost beside himself.

The fourth day brings more agony with Sam’s disappearance. On the fifth day, Friday, pacing back forth, not knowing what to do, he glances across the street at his competitor’s deli. Through the window, he sees Sam at the deli counter right across the street.

Max tears off his apron, storms across the thoroughfare, and confronts Sam. “What are you doing? For thirty years you’ve been my customer. I’ve given you the best cuts for your meals, I’ve charged you next to nothing, I’ve treated you like my closest family!

How could you show so little loyalty after all this time?”

“Relax,” says Sam, “don’t worry.

On Monday I had a root canal. The dentist said I should eat on the other

side for a few days.” [ Two elderly women were out driving in a large car. Both could barely see over the dashboard.

Cruising along, they came to an intersection. The stoplight was red, but they just went on through.

The woman in the passenger seat thought, “I must be losing my mind.

I swear we just went through a red light.”

A few minutes later, they came to another intersection, and the light was red again. Again, they went right through. This time, the woman in the passenger seat was almost sure that the light had been red but was really concerned that she was mistaken. She was getting nervous and decided to pay very close attention to the next intersection to see what was going on.

At the next intersection, sure enough, the light was definitely red, and yet they went right through.

She turned to the woman driving and said, “Mildred! Did you know we just ran through three red lights in a row! You could have killed us!”

Mildred turned to her and said, “Oh, am I driving?” [ Arriving at the 18th hole where a large pond separated the fairway from the green, the foursome was shocked to see a golfer so furious with his game he threw his bag into the water and stormed off to the parking lot.

As they approached the green they noticed the man returning to the pond, removing his shoes and fishing for his bag. “Wow,” one of the men said, “it seems he has recognized the error of his ways.”

At that moment the errant golfer found his bag, zipped open the pocket, found his car keys, and then threw the bag back into the water.

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Q: What do you do in your spare time?

A: I like to go for long rides on my friend’s Harley and boating on the Bay. When I’m not on the bike or Bay I’m having dinner with friends.

Q: How would you describe yourself?

A: Fun-loving foody.

Q: How would you describe where you work?

A: Casual waterfront restaurant with a great view and amazing happy hour.

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Q: When’s the best time to see you?

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Water World

Navigable Waterways Continued from cover story

Getting to this point “In December 2001,” the memo explains, “the Navigable Waterways Maintenance Management Program and the associated Municipal Services Taxing Unit were created for the purpose of enhancing the availability and use of navigable waterways within the unincorporated County, increasing boater safety, improving access to the [Intracoastal] Waterway, and providing opportunities to enhance the natural environment.”

During his presentation to the board on Oct. 10, Paul Semenec, a project manager in the county’s Capital Projects Division, pointed out that the county process for undertaking maintenance of navigable waterways necessitates two petitions signed by those who would benefit from a project. The first is a “feasibility” petition, calling for county staff to determine whether the proposed project can be undertaken. Then a second petition has to show sufficient support of the landowners who will have to cover the expense of the work.

That process was put in place in April 2003, the memo says. The petition threshold required at least 67% on both petitions, the memo adds.

Then in September 2009, revisions the County Commission authorized raised the petition signature threshold to 80%, Semenec told the board.

That was done “in an effort to improve neighborhood consensus for proposed … projects,” the memo points out.

Semenec characterized it a bit differently: The change was “reaction to that commission hearing repeatedly from property owners who were not in favor of the projects.”

During the December 2015 board discussion, Commissioner Carolyn Mason told her colleagues, “There was constantly … someone or some people who did not agree with [a project].” Since that 2009 change, Semenec continued, no new navigable waterway projects have been undertaken. “It is important to note that the recession began about that same time,” he added.

Staff did conduct a marketing effort in 2015 that included the mailing of a brochure to owners of about 10,000 pieces of property where efforts could be initiated, he said. As a result, he noted, staff received 101 inquiries, and 14 neighborhood groups requested feasibility petitions.

“To date,” he told the board, “I have received three completed feasibility petitions at the 80% threshold.”

Staff has finished one study, he added, and a second is underway.

In the third case, he said, staff concluded that the waterway in question was too narrow to accommodate a project.

He recently contacted the 11 other neighborhood groups he had not heard from since providing them petitions. “None of them are close to the 80% [threshold],” he pointed out, “and, as a matter of fact, none of them are close to the 67% [figure for] a feasibility petition.”

Staff did conduct research in other communities with petition-driven processes similar to those in Sarasota County, he continued: • In Hillsborough County, the threshold is 51% for a feasibility petition and 60% for the second petition to get the work underway.

• Lee County has a three-petition procedure. All of those require a threshold of 50% plus one.

• Charlotte County has a process to establish the taxing unit at the outset, and that threshold is 51%.

• St. Petersburg has a two-petition process with a 51% threshold.

• Pinellas County has a 60% threshold on petitions.

Semenec then told the board that through discussions during its quarterly meetings in May and September, the county’s Waterways Advisory Council had reaffirmed its members’ advocacy for lowering Sarasota County’s threshold from 80% to 67%.

Public comments and a decision Two other speakers joined John Ask in urging the County Commission to reduce the signature threshold.

Catherine Laudet, another Nokomis resident and a representative of the Bayview Drive Association, said the action “will give us an easier path to see whether a project is feasible.”

Along with his other comments, Ask referenced Semenec’s report on the lack of projects with the higher signature threshold. “The data and the evidence, to me, is compelling that the current 80% majority has not yielded a satisfactory outcome.”

The last speaker, Bruce Dillon of Nokomis, asked the board whether boat slip owners are eligible to initiate petitions and to pay for the expense of maintenance of waterways?

“If property abutting a waterway is not a buildable property, but is available for the owner to gain access to the water, they would be included in an assessment district,” Semenec explained. “Of course, that includes boat ramps.”

“That’s what I thought,” Hines replied.

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Stone Crab Season opened October 15 In Memory of Paul Roat Many years ago I wrote that the start of stone crab season Oct. 15 should be a holiday.

Stone crab claws are a luxury/necessity for seafood fiends in Southwest Florida.

The season runs from Oct. 15 through May 15. Fall and winter are best times for the colossal claws.

“Colossal,” by the way, is the biggest of the big of the claws from the biggest of the big of crabs. It’s also the costliest, sometimes running up to $36 a pound, which reaps the customer about two claws. Sometimes less than two. Smaller grades have smaller prices.

Stone crabs are big yellowishbrownish-black-spotted critters that haunt the bottom and, true to their name, like to hide around stones in the Gulf of Mexico during the summer as they grow. As winter comes and the cold fronts move down from the north, crabs start to prowl closer to shore and into the bays.

Only the claws are taken from the critters. Crab fishers love the claws because of the financial harvest they reap. Fish mongers love the claws because of the profit they reap. Seafood aficionados love the taste of the claws.

But unusual in the green world is the fact that environmentalists love stone crabs too because they are a truly sustainable industry. Only claws are taken, and the crab is let loose to grow another pair for another season.

Here’ a comment from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission regarding the one-claw or two-claw take: “Although it is currently lawful to harvest both of a stone crab’s claws, this practice leaves the stone crab with few alternatives to defend itself from predators.

“Although the crab can still obtain minimal amounts of food with no claws, having one claw will enable the crab to obtain greater amounts of food in a shorter amount of time. Stone crabs have the ability to grow back their claws, but this process requires a large amount of energy in the form of food.”

C l a w s have to be 2 ¾ inch long from the elbow to the smaller end the claw to be legal.

A saltwater fishing license is also needed to take stone crab claws.

Crabs are mostly caught in traps baited with a variety of unsavory-tohuman but delectable-to-stone crab stuff. Some fisher use cans of cat food with holes spiked in them. Some like stinky fish. Some … well, maybe a secret recipe. Crabbers use whatever it takes to attract crabs into the traps.

Recreational fishers are limited to no more than five traps.

Here on Siesta Key, Big Water Fish Market, located in Crescent Plaza offers a fresh and plentiful supply.

In the day …

To paraphrase Ben Green’s great book, “Finestkind,” “’Paul … gut up, get out of bed, time to go crabbing … you gonna sleep all day?’ That is how it has to start. That is how it always started — rough.”

Dad and this Little Roat weren’t commercial fishers. Heck, back in the day few commercial guys and gals were bothering with stone crabs, too busy with mullet and pompano and the big-ticket fishery items the Gulf and bays would yield.

But when the nor’westerners started to howl for a day or two, and the furnace had to be lit in our house in Bradenton Beach, and the fireplace got fired up, we all knew for sure was that stone crabs would be moving.

We knew there would be brutally low tides and all the seagrass flats would be exposed. Stone crabs lurked in them thar flats, we knew.

Jeez, it was cold at the barely postdark back then, as Dad and I would

hunker down in our little boat and putter toward Longboat Pass.

We’d loaded up our tools.

Long sticks we’d screwed hooks into back when that was legal, then longer metal rods with a 90-degree bend in them when regulations changed. And we had a couple buckets in the hope of having good luck.

We were hunting for stone crabs with sticks. And prepared to bring home game.

First stop was always along the side of the pass near the rocks. Sometimes we were lucky and could snag a few crabs that were blown into the pass by the strong winds and tides.

Then off to our honey hole: north Jewfish Key. Just inside Longboat Pass at the north end of the little island was a wide expanse of turtle grass. Them thar flats.

The trick was to walk along the seagrass beds and look for a mound of muck. Take stick. Poke stick into area around the mound. Find hole. Stick stick into hole and wiggle until there was a “click,” and you knew you had a crab that was after you.

Gently, gently pull. Crab comes out, pissed. Grab crab — Dad and the Little Roat also eschewed nets — and snap off a claw, put it in bucket, drop crab, run away as it chased you, then go find another muck mound.

Rules were different back in the day for the taking of stone crab claws.

I think.

We never took claws from female crabs.

We only took one claw, the “fighter,” or right claw, leaving the “feeder” claw in place.

Dunno if those were real regs or just what Dad said.

Today, both claws from both sexes may be taken except for “egg-bearing crabs.”

Limits of quantity then were limitless. Today, don’t expect to take your sticks out and get more than 2 gallons of claws per vessel or 1 gallon per person.

We’d usually end up with a halfbucket-plus of claws. Shivering, off we’d go home.

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November offers Siesta Key anglers diverse opportunities.

A wide variety of species are available this month, and multiple techniques will be successful. The key is adapting to the conditions; weather will become a factor at times. Water temperatures will be falling as it cools off and the days become shorter, and this will trigger fish to feed.

Both Big Pass and New Pass will be productive spots to fish this month. Pompano will be targeted by many anglers, along with Spanish mackerel, bluefish, and ladyfish. Drifting with the tide and bouncing a jig off the bottom is a proven technique to catch pompano and other species.

Yellow, white, and chartreuse pompano jigs work very well in deep, swift water. These jigs are small and compact, allowing them to sink quickly. These same jigs are effective in shallow water and on bars when cast out and retrieved back to the boat using short hops.

Spoons and Rapala plugs are very effective when breaking fish are seen working in the passes.

Pompano will also be taken on the deep grass flats, as will speckled trout, bluefish, mackerel, jack crevelle and other species. Soft plastics such as the Bass Assassin Sea Shad baits on a ¼ ounce jig head are extremely productive and a lot of fun to fish. A live shrimp either free lined or fished under a cork is the top choice for anglers who prefer live bait. Fish will begin moving south from the passes to the flats between Stickney Pt. and Blackburn Pt. and

will be scattered over a large area.

Successful anglers will fish quickly until the fish are located.

Redfish schools will be thinning out in the shallow water, but there will still be plenty of fish in the pot holes, along mangrove shorelines, under docks, and around oyster bars. Rapala plugs, weedless gold spoons, and Bass Assassin Elite Shiners on a Pro Elite jig head are all excellent choices for probing the shallow flats. These same lures will also catch snook, along with speckled trout and jack crevelle.

Snook will be migrating through these areas on their way to their winter haunts and will be feeding heavily. Points, bars, and docks with current are prime ambush spots for game fish. Large live shrimp are deadly when fished under docks, although it will not allow anglers to cover as much water. Night fishing under lighted docks and bridges will also produce a lot of snook this month.

King mackerel, Spanish mackerel, false albacore, cobia, and sharks will bend rods and test drags in the inshore Gulf of Mexico, provided the severe fronts stay away. Point of Rocks on Siesta Key is a prime fall spot to either sight cast to breaking fish or troll plugs and spoons. Live bait will also produce, especially once fish are located. Live blue runners and threadfins slow trolled on a “stinger” rig will catch some very nice kings along with sharks.

Drifting a live shrimp or small bait fish will catch plenty of Spanish and albies.

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NOVEMBER 2016 TIDE CHART Florida, St. Petersburg, Sarasota, Sarasota Bay

November 2016

N 27° 20' / W 82° 33' Date

Day

1

Tu

12:46a

High Tide 2.3

2:58p

High Tide 1.6

Sunrise

Sunset

Moonrise

Moonset

8:54a

2

We

1:12a

2.3

3:38p

3

Th

1:43a

2.3

4:26p

4

Fr

2:19a

2.3

5

Sa

3:02a

6

Su

2:55a

7

Mo

8

Low Tide 0.1

7:58p

Low Tide 1.2

7:42a

6:46p

9:11a

8:23p

1.6

9:30a

0.0

8:23p

1.2

7:42a

6:45p

10:02a

9:06p

1.5

10:10a

0.0

8:53p

1.3

7:43a

6:45p

10:52a

9:52p

5:24p

1.5

10:56a

0.1

9:34p

1.3

7:44a

6:44p

11:42a

10:40p

2.2

6:32p

1.5

11:48a

0.1

10:37p

1.4

7:45a

6:43p

12:29p

11:32p

2.0

6:38p

1.6

11:47a

0.2

11:11p

1.4

6:45a

5:43p

12:15p

11:26p

4:05a

1.9

7:29p

1.6

12:50p

0.3

6:46a

5:42p

12:59p

Tu

5:38a

1.7

8:08p

1.6

12:56a

1.3

1:50p

0.4

6:47a

5:41p

1:42p

12:22a

1st

9

We

7:17a

1.7

8:41p

1.8

2:21a

1.0

2:46p

0.4

6:48a

5:41p

2:23p

1:21a

10

Th

8:42a

1.7

9:12p

1.9

3:25a

0.7

3:35p

0.6

6:48a

5:40p

3:05p

2:21a

11

Fr

9:53a

1.7

9:42p

2.0

4:20a

0.5

4:18p

0.6

6:49a

5:40p

3:48p

3:23a

12

Sa

10:57a

1.7

10:12p

2.2

5:10a

0.2

4:56p

0.8

6:50a

5:39p

4:32p

4:28a

13

Su

11:56a

1.7

10:44p

2.4

5:58a

-0.1

5:31p

0.9

6:51a

5:39p

5:20p

5:35a

14

Mo

12:54p

1.6

11:19p

2.5

6:46a

-0.3

6:03p

1.1

6:51a

5:38p

6:11p

6:43a

15

Tu

1:53p

1.6

11:56p

2.5

7:35a

-0.4

6:33p

1.2

6:52a

5:38p

7:06p

7:51a

16

We

2:55p

1.5

8:26a

-0.5

7:06p

1.2

6:53a

5:38p

8:04p

8:57a

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Arts on the Horizon

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By Rodger Skidmore with Bridget Elmer, Coordinator of the Letterpress and Book Arts Center, will be Kathryn Hunter who runs the Blackbird Letterpress in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Seek and ye shall find What does one do upon losing a cat? Some might say hooray and toss out the litter box and the little sifting tool that goes with it. Others would post pictures of the lost kitty on every phone pole between here and, well, The Secret World of Og. Then there are those intrepid souls who would actually travel into that secret world on their quest to recover their living, breathing ball of fur. An added incentive might be that their little brother Paul was with the cat, and that their parents might be a tad upset to find him missing as well.

Where is this strange land?

Well, Og was first discovered by the Canadian Pierre Berton in 1961, who wrote about it in the book “The Secret World of Og.” Because he did not have his camera with him at the time, the illustrations in the book were done by his daughter Patsy, based upon his vivid descriptions as well as her own recollections, as she is the girl in the book who carries frogs in her pockets. This being the modern world, an animated TV series, a Hanna-Barbera TV special, a musical and an opera soon followed.

Snow, one of Canada’s secret treasures, never makes it down to Sarasota. However The Secret World of Og is due to make its US premiere here on Saturday, November 12th, at a 1:30 p.m. matinee at the Sarasota Opera House. There will be additional

performances by this Sarasota Youth Opera production at 7:30 that evening and another matinee the next afternoon on Sunday, the 13th (yes, Friday the 13th falls on a Sunday in November). This is the Dean Burry version of Og, as he did the libretto and music for the opera.

Stage direction is by Martha Collins with Jesse Martins conducting his arrangement of Mr. Burry’s music.

It is not that the Ogs actually kidnapped Paul and the cat, it was more like a kind of borrowing.

They do like to borrow and take whatever they find down to their kingdom underground. And to keep your interest up there are a number of different settings with differing musical themes from Cowboy to Pirate and on to James Bond. And if you find your youngster’s interest flagging (or yours), not to worry, it is an opera in one act. But if little green creatures that live underground in mushroom houses and often say “Og”, and sometimes “Og, og” and of course, the occasional “Og, og, og” turn them on, this is just the opera to start your young ones on a classical musical career.

If you missed the performances of this opera in Toronto in 2010 and would wish to see it here, go to www.Sarasotaopera.org.

A bit hotter It’s good to bring children’s opera down from Canada but Snowbirds come here for the heat,

Siesta Key Round-Up A county employee wrote him in an email, “The battery won’t be in till the first of the week. I got the contractor to go back out there and he has the [northbound] flasher working now. We will install the other one as soon as it comes.”

Update on the new Daiquiri Deck In spite of the heavy rainfall of recent weeks, construction is proceeding apace on the new Daiquiri Deck that will stand in the South Village.

The latest schedule calls for the opening of the restaurant in March or April, co-owner Russell Matthes said on Oct. 4. The slab was to be poured this week, he added; progress will be more easily visible after that.

Co-owner Troy Syprett originally had hoped the latest Daiquiri Deck would be open in December. After finally getting through all the necessary permitting process with Sarasota County staff, he stated this summer, the completion was pushed back to February.

As Matthes pointed out, “It’s construction,” so anticipated

so performances with a theme from hotter climes may be in order. Who better to do so than Gloria Musicae, choral artists of Sarasota, with Viva España!, an afternoon exploration of sultry harmonies and sparkling rhythms being performed at 4:00 p.m. at the Siesta Key Chapel on November 6th. Garcia Lorca wrote a book of poems, Romancero Gitano (Gypsy Ballads), and seven of them were set to music by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, creating a sensuous and haunting mood.

When Gloria Musicae’s Artistic Director Joe Holt was asked how many of them would be on the Viva España! concert he replied “Why, all seven of course.”

One of these poems, the ‘Romance Sonámbulo’ relates the tale of a gypsy smuggler who returns home and finds his wife has died from the despair of waiting for him. Of course this is told from his perspective, but she might actually have died from the dread of his return. Who really knows.

Additional songs are by Albéniz, de Falla, Villa-Lobos (Bachianas Brasileiras), Lara and Grever and continue this dark magic from Spain and South America. Jonathan Godfrey’s guitar backs both Nicole Smith and Jenny Kim-Godfrey’s lovely soprano voices as well as the entire choral.

On December 11th, when it will be even colder, Gloria Musicae will heat things up by performing a gospel version of Handel’s Messiah at the Sarasota Opera House, also at 4:00 p.m. To keep things authentic, Gloria Musicae will be joined by soloists from the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe and members of the Sarasota Orchestra.

It’s true that Germany can be a

bit cool in winter, as can Brahms, so Gloria Musicae will perform Brahms: Beyond the Lullaby. This is the very cool but hot side of Brahms, where he wove lilting waltzes of love with vibrant gypsy songs.

Brahms’ very lovely Liebeslieder Walzer and Zigeunerlieder get the full GM treatment at Faith Lutheran Church at 4:00 p.m. on January 22nd. Baritone Luis González will make his Gloria Musicae debut as conductor for the Liebeslieder Walzer part of the program. More information is available at www. gloriamusicae.org.

Hot off the press That’s what the newsboys used to shout when the latest edition of a newspaper hit the street. With the rise of so many people getting their news on the internet and from TV, fewer and fewer papers are being printed. Add to that the increase in ebooks and you can see that printing presses are becoming passé. Nice to note; however, that while printing may be a dying art, the art part of printing is alive and doing well. So much so that it is a highlight at the Ringling College of Art and Design at the Letterpress and Book Arts Center on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, off N. Tamiami Trail. So that you can learn more about the artistic side of printing, there will be a hands-on demonstration of letterpress printing and die cutting at a Letterpress Luncheon (you bring your lunch and they supply the letterpress - and the sweet treats and aqua fresca as well) from 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday, November 2nd.

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An original wall installation and printed materials by Ms. Hunter will also be on display at the Basch Gallery, in the Ringling Academic Center (2699 Bradenton Road), that opens on November 3rd and runs through the 19th. The opening reception is from 5:00 - 7:00 PM on the 3rd in the gallery with a 6:00 PM Artist Talk at the Academic Center’s Auditorium. Ms. Hunter will also give a Gallery Talk at the Basch Gallery on November 1st between 11:30 AM and noon.

Another Letterpress Luncheon will be on Wednesday, December 7th. The topic will be Printing Digital Designs on the Letterpress.

These sessions are planned for the first Wednesday of each month and will highlight a different letterpress printing technique. To RSVP for the luncheons (RSVPs are very nice) contact Bridget Elmer at belmer@c.ringling.edu. On five Mondays between Nov. 7 and Dec. 5, Ms. Elmer is the instructor in a continuing studies workshop on Book Forms II - check it out.

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timelines are not always realized.

The new Daiquiri Deck is a joint project with the Tush family that owns CB’s Saltwater Outfitters on Stickney Point Road.

The restaurant will be on the top floor of a structure above the second CB’s location, just east of the Stickney Point Road/ Midnight Pass Road intersection.

No crime, but plenty of dead fish Sgt. Jason Mruczek normally arrives early for the monthly SKVA meetings, but Mruczek had been delayed on Oct. 4, SKVA President Wendall Jacobsen explained when he reached the Sheriff’s Office report item on the agenda.

After his arrival, Mruczek had little to report. “Everything’s been pretty quiet. No real crime trends.”

“Anybody coughing themselves to death on the beach from the red tide?” Michael Shay asked.

“No,” Mruczek replied, adding, that “a lot of dead fish” had washed up on the beach in recent days.

“It’s getting slightly better,” Kay Kouvatsos, co-owner of Village Café, said of the red tide effects.

Glen Cappetta, owner of Sun

Ride Pedicab & Historic Tours, concurred, noting that the breeze was helping.

When Jacobsen asked whether county staff had been hauling away the dead fish, Mruczek replied that the fish were being stored somewhere, but he was not absolutely certain of the location.

“Fertilizing something,” Kouvatsos said.

Jacobsen reminded everyone that a number of years ago, when Siesta experienced a lot of problems with red tide, county staff stored the dead fish and related debris on the softball field next to what then was the public beach picnic area.

That comment brought a few wry chuckles, as anyone who drove near that area — including this reporter — recalls the reek only too well.

Yoga on Turtle Beach Starting November 1, 2016, residents and visitors to the south end of Siesta Key can enjoy Yoga on Turtle Beach, from 8:30 – 9:30 a.m., every Tuesday through December 27.

The recent Turtle Beach renovation which was completed last spring, has greatly expanded

the size of the beach allowing yoga to be possible.

Julie, who has experience in teaching outdoor yoga, including SUP Yoga, in both Florida and Maryland, will present an all-levels yoga class to the public.

When: Tuesdays, November 1 through December 27, (weather permitting) starting at 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

Where: Turtle Beach – located on the south end of Siesta Key. Class will be set up on the sands located in front of the stairs/ramp in the north side of the parking lot.

Donation minimum requested: $5.00 In addition to helping to cover the weekly beach usage fee, Julie will be donating a portion of her monthly fees to the Sarasota-based non-profit Karma Yoga Outreach, Inc., which provides free yoga to US Veterans, as well as to local children with disabilities, adults with Parkinson’s and those struggling with addiction.

More information about Karma Yoga Outreach, Inc. is available at: www.karmayogaoutreach.org What to bring: Students are encouraged to bring their own mats or towels, along with bottled water.

For more information about registration, please visit www. chesapeakeyoga.com or e-mail Julie at: julie@chesapeakeyoga. com for more information.

Siesta Key Condo Council Meeting The SKCC will hold its membership meeting on November 15 at 3 PM at the Siesta Key Chapel Presbyterian Church, 4615 Gleason Ave., East of Siesta Village. The guest speaker is Daniel J. Lobeck, Esquire from the Law Offices of Lobeck & Hanson. TOPIC, 2016 Legislative Session Changes; 1. Sprinkler Retrofit Requirement and Deadline 2. New Federal Standards for Criminal Screening of Sales and Leases 3. Case Law Update 4. Maintenance or Material Alterations: The Evolving Law 5. How the Sarasota County Comprehensive Plan Update Can Affect Traffic Condominium Owners, Board Members and Condo Managers are encouraged & welcomed to attend.

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• NIA Tues. & Thurs., 9a.m., Siesta Public Beach (yellow lifeguard chair). Contact Kathy Oravec at 941-724-9719 for more info or check website: www.nianow.com/kathy-oravec • Siesta Key Beach Hoop Jams – (6:30pm) Every Tuesday one hour before Sunset on Siesta Key beach we gather for a community Hoop Jam. (Between the red lifeguard stand and the pavilion; around where the Sunday drum circle happens.)

Register at: www.outwardspiral.net WEEKLY DRUM CIRCLE: • Every Sunday about an hour before sunset.

South of the main pavilion. You can participate or watch this weekly gathering dance, hoop, play the drum or other musical instrument and enjoy the spectacular Siesta sunset.

WEEKLY FARMER’S MARKET • Every Sunday from 8am – 1pm in Davidson’s Plaza in the Village. 5124 Ocean Blvd. Produce, Plants & Flowers, Music, Art, Organic Skincare, Italian Olive Oil, and Freshly Prepared Foods. Listen to live music while you shop.

November Events On The Beach…

• NOVEMBER 4 (FRI) 6-10PM: ANNUAL SANDFEST DINNER & PARTY: This year features a Flashback to the 80’s theme. So, tease up your hair, dust off the leg warmers and come join the party! Event includes music, dancing, silent auction, photo booth, cash bar, and a specialty buffet style dinner provided by local restaurant favorites: Captain Curt’s, Daiquiri Deck, Mattison’s 41, and Village Café. Festive attire encouraged!

Event takes place at the Siesta Key Beach Pavilion.

For more info contact Ann Frescura, Executive Director at the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce at 941-349-3800 or ann@siestakeychamber.com.

• NOV 5 (SAT) 5-9PM/ MOONLIGHT MOVIES: FREE EVENT The popular movie, “Aladdin” will be shown at sunset on the open beach. Don’t forget your blankets and chairs for this fun family event. For schedule of 2016 - 2017 moonlight movies in Sarasota, go to their website at: www. sarasotafilmfestival.com/news • NOV. 11-15 (FRI – TUES) 10AM – 5PM / CRYSTAL CLASSIC INTERNATIONAL SAND SCULPTING FESTIVAL: Live demonstrations of sandsculpting, vendors, food concessions, live music, and an amateur sandsculpting contest are all part of this beautiful event that promises some of the most stunning sand masterpieces. This event opens at 10 a.m. on all five days. See website for complete schedule, site map and ticket pricing as well as this year’s competing sand artists: www.siestakeycrystalclassic.com

Around the island…

• FREE FALL EXERCISE CLASSES: Every Thursday mornings at 9 a.m. Focus will be on stretching, strengthening, toning, posture, and balance specifically for seniors.

All levels are welcome. Space is limited. Call 941-870-5811 to reserve your spot. Classes will be held at Siesta Key Sports and Physical Therapy, 5147 Ocean Blvd, in the Village, next to Coldwell Banker and across from The Hub.

• OCTOBER 31 (MON) 3-6PM VILLAGE TRICK-OR-TREAT: Siesta Key Village Association (SKVA) presents Safe Treats for Kids. Bring your little ones to trick or treat in Siesta Village along Ocean Blvd. and the surrounding streets. Look for participating members displaying orange and black balloons and pumpkin flyers in their windows. This free event provides a safe venue for children on Halloween. For more information visit the web site at www.siestakeyvillage.org or call Helene Hyland at 941 685-2274 • NOVEMBER 13 (SUN) 7AM/ DECK 2 DECK DAIQUIRI DASH-ATHON: This 5th Annual event starts at St. Armand’s Daiquiri Deck to Siesta Daiquiri Deck. There is a donation fee to Sarasota in Defense of Animals (SDA). Must Register to Run. Includes complimentary buffet breakfast, open bar (beer, daiquiris and mimosa).

Trolley will be transporting runners from Siesta Key back to St. Armands from 9:00 a.m.- 11:00 a.m. For more information go to daiquirideck.com.

• NOVEMBER 19 (SAT) 6-9PM: CB’s SALTWATER OUTFITTERS ORVISENDORSED FLY FISHING SCHOOL: is offering an Orvis-Endorsed fly fishing school.

The school will cover fly casting basics, line control, shooting line and the roll cast.

Instructors, Capt. Rick Grassett and Capt. Ed Hurst, will also cover leader construction, fly selection and saltwater fly fishing techniques.

The course, designed for beginning and intermediate fly casters, will focus on basics but also work with intermediate casters on correcting faults and improving casting skills.

Cost for the school, which will run from 8:30 AM to early afternoon, is $150 per person and includes the use of Orvis fly tackle and lunch.

Contact CB’s Saltwater Outfitters at (941) 349-4400 or info@cbsoutfitters.com to make reservations. Located at 1249 Stickney Point Rd, Sarasota, FL. 34242.

• NOVEMBER 26 (SAT) 6-9PM: LIGHT UP THE VILLAGE & PARADE: Children can give Santa their wish list, have their face painted, visit with Santa’s elves and be entertained by Sunshine the Clown.

Santa’s gift bags provided by Beach Bazaar will be given to the first 250 children who visit with Santa. Santa will arrive by fire truck following the parade at approximately 6:15 pm.

Local businesses will provide refreshments, while you enjoy live musical entertainment by the Pine View High School Jazz Band, Keyboard Players and choirs singing holiday songs.

Ocean Blvd. will be lined with luminaries and businesses will be decorated for the

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WEEKLY BEACH CLASSES: • FREE YOGA Mon-Wed.-Fri.-Sat. 9am.

Classes held between blue and green lifeguard station. Call 941-320-6693 to register or go to website for more info. www. yogaonsiestabeach.com

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holiday season. Free Trolley Rides will be available from Siesta Key Public Beach to the Village from 5:30 pm - 10:00 pm.

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And Beyond…

• NOV. 11-14 (FRI – MON) 10AM – 6PM / CHALK FESTIVAL: The Chalk Festival will celebrate its 9th season this November, 2016.

This year’s theme is “Love & Peace” and boasts being the largest gathering of renown pavement artists from around the world with amazing interactive 3D illusions along with a variety of food trucks, beverages and spirits as well as cultural, arts and craft and fine art vendors. Festival will take place at the Venice Airport Fairgrounds. For ticket information, event schedule and site map, go to their website at: www.chalkfestival.org • PHILLIPI ESTATE PARK: LOCATED AT: 5500 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34231.

November is an exciting month at Phillippi Estate Park as the 100th anniversary of the Keith Estate is celebrated with a weekend of fun events and it’s all FREE and open to the public.

Saturday, November 12 – 10 a.m.

Dedication of Archaeological Interpretive Panels – on the Prodie Shell Midden, west of the Mansion. Refreshments to follow on lawn of Keith Farmhouse.

Saturday, November 12 – CIRCUS! Photography Show and Sale at the Edson Keith Mansion. American / Canadian photographer Elizabeth Siegfried found reels of old film in her grandmother’s attic and has digitized them into wonderful images of the Ringling Circus in its heyday in the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Come to see the Circus come to town! There will be historic circus costumes on display and the Founders Garden Club will have floral arrangements throughout the Mansion.

Saturday, November 12 – the Sailor Circus Academy students will be performing east of the Mansion Rose Garden at 12:30 and 1:15 p.m.

Saturday, November 12 – FREE concert – Sarasota Concert Band, 2 – 3 p.m. on the back lawn of Edson Keith Mansion. Bring your lawn chair and enjoy!

Saturday, November 12 – Polpo’s Wood Burning Pizza Wagon in front of Edson Keith Mansion.

Sunday, November 13 – Light Chasers Painters, painting and selling “Off Easel” on the Keith Farmhouse lawn.

Sunday, November 13 – CIRCUS Photography Show and Sale – in the Edson Keith Mansion.

Sunday, November 13 – FREE concert on the Keith Farmhouse lawn, 2-3 p.m. featuring Kitt Moran and the Michael Moran Jazz Trio. Bring your lawn chair and sing along!

Sunday, November 13 - Noon – 4 p.m.

Circus Arts Conservatory Teaching Artists/ Clowns will be doing what they do best – clowning around in the park. Join in the merriment.

Sunday, November 13 – Purple Belle Ice Cream Truck in front of Edson Keith Mansion.

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“Basically,” Jett stated, that man “threw a wrench in this whole thing I’ve been working on for five years.”

However, the fact that the location would not have been a good one for a food truck at least illustrated one point he has been making consistently, Jett said: Food trucks need to be able to roam throughout the county without having to adhere to site plans. What the Alliance has sought, he explained to the Planning Commission and to the County Commission, is a decal that would show a food truck has the necessary county permit and business license to operate. Then the owner could work with private property owners in designated zoning districts to set up where they choose.

Nonetheless, the latest version of the ordinance that Thompson showed the County Commission provided only for a permit that would be valid for a year.

“I got frustrated,” Jett said of the County Commission discussion this week. “I got real frustrated.”

He went on to say, what he had told the Planning Commission and County Commission members: Five food truck operators have had to close since May. That is all the more reason he is anxious to get the law revised.

During his public comments on Oct. 10, Jett said, “Sarasota County should embrace its food truck industry,” because those business owners create jobs — especially entry-level opportunities — and contribute to the county’s economy.

Prior to the Nov. 8 hearing, Assistant County Administrator Jonathan Evans told the board on Oct. 10, staff will analyze how other county and municipal governments handle the issue of separation between food truck operators and residential areas. Nonetheless, Evans explained, he thus far has been unable to find such a measure in other laws he has researched.

He will contact communities “that have struggled” with food truck ordinances, he said, and compile a spreadsheet so the commissioners can see how facets of those communities’ laws compare to what the County Commission was considering this week.

Hines voiced frustration with the fact that the Planning Commission members tweaked the law considerably after the County Commission last saw a version of it. “This was almost a total flip-flop from what we had. … That’s why this thing is so hard today.”

“A Must See” - Broadway World LA “Everything was perfection, I expected a lot, but it was even greater than that... I would urge everyone who hasn’t ever seen this to come as soon as possible because they’ve never seen anything like it before.”

— Dale Rieth, former Venice city manager

“It is beyond anything I can put into words. It’s the most amazing, uplifting, spiritual journey... it transcends you to a higher state of consciousness. Amazing!”

“5,000 years of Chinese music and dance, in one night.”

- New York Times

— Margaux Brooks, executive film Producer

“It blended seamlessly and harmoniously...Very nice blending of cultures. It was wonderful, positive, uplifting.”

FEB 10-12 Four Shows Venice Performing Arts Center

Tickets Online: Shenyun.com/FL

By Phone: 888.974.3698 or 941.480.3191 Get your very best seats now until November 30, you will enjoy ticketing fee waiver, along with flexible ticket exchange privileges until Dec. 31, 2016 on Shenyun.com/fl. Promotion code: flshow17.

— Ron Casados, a musician in Sarasota

Barri Lester, a music teacher, attended Jan. 5, 2016 Shen Yun show in Lakeland: “In less than two hours, [Shen Yun] connects you to all the structures of the universe, to sound, to the stars, to our planet, to our own spirit and light... beyond phenomenal.”

Kathryn Kranz attended Jan. 13, 2016 Shen Yun show in St. Petersburg: “It absolutely gives you hope, and that’s why I think everybody left with a smile on their face...maybe tears in their eyes, but tears of joy.”

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Permit for Lido project Perico Preserve plan On Sept. 27, Charlie Hunsicker, director of Manatee County’s Parks and Natural Resources Department, reminded the Manatee County Commission that when Manatee County constructed the Perico Preserve, “We weren’t interested in enabling or providing for mitigation for any private development.” The preserve was designed for public projects, only, he added.

A Manatee County staff memo for the commission’s meeting says, “To recover approximately $4.3 million associated with the creation of seagrass habitat from uplands at Perico Preserve, the intent is to allow other government agencies to purchase the right to perform offsite seagrass mitigation at the Perico Preserve Seagrass Basin for seagrass impacts associated with their projects elsewhere.”

The memo notes that for the right to perform that mitigation, “the value of the acreage, as determined by Manatee County, shall be paid to the County prior to authorization of use. Manatee County will retain ownership of the property and become the long-term management entity upon release of monitoring and maintenance requirements imposed by regulatory agencies on the agency that will be achieving [its] mitigation needs at the Perico Preserve Seagrass Basin.”

The cost per acre is $351,512.45, according to a table provided with the memo. In the Aug. 1 letter to FDEP, CB&I Environmental & Infrastructure in Boca Raton — the USACE’s consultant assisting with the project — wrote that the city and the USACE proposed to plant a species of seagrass “within 2.8 acres” of the Perico Preserve Seagrass Basin. Therefore, by the SNL’s calculations, the cost to the city and the USACE will be $984,234.86.

The city’s Capital Improvement Program for 2017-2021 shows federal funding covering about 62 percent of the total cost of the $19-million

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renourishment project — $11,780,000 — with the rest of the funding split evenly between a state grant and Sarasota County Tourist Development Tax revenue set aside for city renourishment efforts.

USACE spokeswoman Susan Jackson stated that the project remains unfunded at the federal level. “We put in a funding request and will learn in February/March 2017 if we made the President’s Budget list for Fiscal Year 2018,” she wrote.

As of the Siesta Sand deadline for this issue, county staff still was awaiting a response from the USACE on its letter seeking an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the project. The County Commission voted unanimously on Aug. 23 to request the EIS on the basis of a letter it had received from the Siesta Key Association. During the Oct. 6 SKA meeting, Second Vice President Catherine Luckner called that action “a big success.”

She also pointed out that the county paid almost $50,000 for a peer review of the Lido project — an undertaking urged by the SKA and other groups.

The county also approved $1 million in county funds in 2014 so the city could use extra sand in what the city termed an “emergency” project under Federal Emergency Management Agency guidelines to stabilize the South Lido Beach in early 2015, Luckner said. That undertaking was a response to damage inflicted by Tropical Storm Debby in June 2012.

“The SKA has not been an obstacle to helping Lido in the ways that we can,” Luckner added.

Among the reasons the SKA, Save Our Siesta Sand 2 and other groups have pressed for an EIS, she continued, is that that more intensive review of the proposed project would necessitate addressing options for sand other than Big Pass. It also could lead to the realization that less sand is needed than the approximately 1.2 million cubic yards that the USACE has proposed to dredge from Big Pass, she noted.

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A second easement provided for a 5-foot-wide public path across part of the property seaward of the road section.

Other easements pertained to county utility lines in the immediate area.

County staff finally had given Charles Bailey III of the Williams Parker firm — the representative of the petitioners — a Sept. 26 deadline to provide the easements in recordable form to the county’s Real Estate Department.

On Sept. 27, County Administrator Tom Harmer emailed the commissioners, saying, “[T]he County received materials from Mr. Holderness yesterday afternoon regarding the public easement. The staff will evaluate the materials and provide an update to the Board.”

In response to the our request for a copy of documents Harmer had referenced, staff emailed four pages with the heading Exhibit “C” and the notation that the materials were prepared by and should be returned to Bailey at his downtown Sarasota office.

The grantors identified in the Public Access Easement are Holderness Enterprises and Siesta Beach Lots LLC, both with a mailing address of 7333 N. Tamiami Trail in Sarasota.

Siesta Beach Lots was established on Aug. 9 by Mike Holderness, state Division of Corporations records show. Holderness also is the principal of Holderness Enterprises.

Although Christy S. Ramsey owned the house and land at 99 Beach Road when Bailey filed the paperwork with the county for the road vacation, Ramsey sold the property to Holderness Enterprises on Aug. 12 for $3 million. The same day, Ramsey sold her parcel seaward of the road to Siesta Beach Lots for the “recorded consideration” of $100, Sarasota County Property Appraiser Office records show.

The 2016 value of the 4,824-square-foot Gulfside property is $500, county records note. It is just to the south of the seaward parcel owned by Dennis and Wendy Madden, who also were among the May 11 petitioners for the road vacation.

The Pride of Midnight Pass

By Mike Monroe / island resident Aqua and majestic every Sarasota morn Daybreak she sparkles, as another glorious day is born Awakened, refreshed, our timely sleek glider Soon stops to fetch her fare paying riders Her creature comforts always seem in reach When swooping North, down on New Turtle Beach The chariot’s driver cries out “Please step on board” She rumbles in stride with Chevys and Fords Keysters and tourists seem content with their lives As her wheels whisk us past bars, and dives She scoops up the Amish, now young Mennonites Quiet chatter inside, no fussing no fights The Steel Magnolia slips into Siesta Village Grownups partake of swillage without pillage Disembarking patrons awaiting frivolity Mighty 10, our staple, she’s iconic, no novelty In a chaotic world fraught with fear and greed It’s easy to adore our timely loyal steed She’s the Grande Dame of the Beach, she’s built to last Elegantly understated the Pride of Midnight Pass Her day now done on Cattleman Road As she deposits the last of her load Returning in darkness, farewell to her friends She’ll rest, then arise, she’s the Mighty 10

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Q: Dear Donnarose, how do I let go of the need for an apology? One of my best friends and I had a falling out over business. We swept it all under the rug. But as a result, I never got my apology.

As silly as it may sound, it’s been eating away at me for years. Please advise. ~ MJ A: “No matter how many times you buy new carpet, until the rotted wood underneath it is replaced, the odor will remain.” ~ Donnarose Melvin Your situation is actually more common than you may think. Many hold a great deal of resentment within them. The thing is, your last statement you wrote above can literally happen. Many people who have “swallowed anger”, and/or gut rot from not saying or receiving something years ago, can literally rot out one’s throat, mouth, stomach, etc.

It’s actually what we call in my line of work, “stuck energy”. If not “cleared out”, or “let out” through verbal expression or forgiveness, for example, this stuck energy has no where else to go but to spread around the body and cause havoc.

But the good news is, that by asking your question, that says you’re ready to end your longtime suffering.

It’s also good to know that apologies by themselves, don’t work. If your friend apologized, but you still haven’t forgiven her, or yourself for perhaps blaming yourself for having been in that situation, the apology would simply have a neutral effect. But the other good news, is that you can actually still heal from this by just doing the forgiveness part, even if the apology never arrives.

The reason is, it’s the forgiveness and peacemaking part that helps clear the stuck energy.

What you can do, is bring in your angels, or whatever Higher power you choose, and say, “For all unspoken apologies, as well as anger, resentment, regret, and any other feelings unlike love, from this or any lifetime, that was caused by any negative words, thoughts or actions by all people involved, please help us to forgive and release each other, and ourselves, completely and fully, no matter what happened, for the highest good, please and thank you.”

Besides this forgiveness-type prayer, it’s also always helpful to look for any potential lessons learned from the experience. And finally, to allow the stuck energy to remain cleared, it’s important to work on raising your vibration. Self-worth, selfacceptance, love, and a self-deserving attitude all reside at a higher vibration. Here’s my previous column link which can get you started. http://siestasand.net/soulfully-yoursdonnarose-7-16/ If all the above is considered, you should be able to expect a big increase in your energy, and decrease in your need for an apology.

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Wake & Shake a bit concerned. What am I missing here? ~Regards, BL A: “People often learn how to treat us, by watching how we treat ourselves.” ~ Donnarose Melvin When our energy is out of balance, our lives will match it. Under-doing for ourselves and over-doing for others will eventually cause us to topple over, and like you said, go downhill.

It’s inevitable. And when we don’t tend to our own needs enough, the Universe will lovingly remind us. But after a while, their reminders are not so pleasant. Many people need to be jolted and suffer in order to remember how valuable they are, and to provide themselves with the same nurturing they give to others. What happened here, was in order for you to wake up and nurture yourself, any support around you had to be taken away. When something extreme like this happens, something finally clicks, and the person really starts to wake up and say that’s it, I’m taking care of me now.

This attitude is what has been missing all along.

There are many benefits to dedicating yourself to you, as you help others as well. Consider that as it’s observed by others how you hold yourself in high regard and take care of yourself, the respect energy towards you increases. This may sound odd, but another interesting thing you’ll notice, is whatever you focus on, is what others will focus on.

In other words, if people are so used to you focusing on them, they’ll tend to respond by focusing on themselves as well. But the opposite will replace this as you start taking care of you. When you show you care about you, and focus on you, others then start focusing on you. This also relates to my quote above, that people often learn how to treat us, by watching how we treat ourselves. Experiment with this. Start really focusing on you, and taking care of yourself. And don’t be surprised if all of a sudden you start seeing an emerging pattern of concern, care and assistance continuing to go in your direction. And after a while, you will feel more balanced, and harmony will increase amongst all.~♥ siestasand.net/soulfully-yours-donnarose-7-16/ Donnarose Melvin is a professional intuitive medium, and also does powerful distant energy clearings. Her knowledge from her BA degree in Psychology, along with her natural intuitive gifts, have helped thousands achieve increased peace and success.

Please send your questions to: Donnarose1010@gmail. com or Facebook private msg her at Donnarose. She will select questions each month to share with you.

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The Highs and Lows of Properties Sold on Siesta Key

Provided by Key Solutions Real Estate / www.keysolutionsrealestate.com

Following are properties sold on Siesta Key in the last 60 days, providing a snapshot of home values on the Key for both single family homes and condominiums.

HIGHEST PRICED SINGLE-FAMILY PROPERTY: 852 Freeling Drive: Sold For $2,725,000 Stunning Bayfront on one of Sarasota’s most desirable Streets: this Freeling Drive home offers long views of the bay and bird islands while accommodating the most demanding boater with very deep private dockage, power hoist and immediate access to the Gulf of Mexico. Situated very privately on the coveted north end of Siesta Key, this pristine residence works for a

variety of lifestyles. The sunny, light-filled home opens beautifully to its wonderful outdoor living areas: expansive terraces, azure pool, Cuban Laurel for shade and a perfect outdoor summer kitchen with adjacent covered porch. Guests walk in to this inviting home and are immediately wowed by the big open bay views from almost every room.

The handsome kitchen is designed for efficiency and offers a breakfast bar and inviting adjacent dining area all open to fabulous views.

Volume ceilings add to the openness of the residence. Upstairs and downstairs master suites. Large bonus room for billiards, and family gatherings. Two additional large bedrooms for family or guests. Southern exposure. High tech garage with builtin workshop and storage. The sale of this property came to $648.50 a square foot.

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LOWEST PRICED SINGLE-FAMILY PROPERTY: 661 Venice Lane: Sold For $522,500 This listing was the best value on Siesta Key. Brand New Tile Roof. Impressive from the moment you arrive.

The gorgeous manicured tropical landscaping is a precursor to what is waiting inside. Pride of ownership and meticulous maintenance can be seen in every aspect

HIGHEST PRICED CONDO: 915 SEASIDE DR, #602: Sold For $1,237,750 Sleek design and fine artisanship define this Siesta Key Beach waterfront home. Located in the desirable and highly coveted community of The Residences on Siesta Key Beach, this top floor, corner residence features 1750 square feet, 2 bedrooms, and 3 bathrooms. Bringing the outdoors in with partial beach views and expansive windows, this property

of this stunning 3 bedroom 2 ½ bath Siesta Key home. From the hardwood flooring throughout the living area to the renovated kitchen and bathrooms, this home will not disappoint. The flow of the rooms in this open floor plan make this the perfect home for guests and entertaining.

Stainless appliances, wood cabinets, and high end granite counters accompany a bay window eating area in the updated kitchen. All of this is located on over 17,000 square feet of land in a quiet culde-sac. With plenty of room for a pool and a side yard big enough for anything you can envision, you won’t believe this space is available on Siesta Key. As if you needed any more reason to make this your new home, Siesta Beach is a quick bike ride and the Village is a short drive away. The sale of this property came out to $297.89 a square foot.

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intrigues at every turn of the open and functional floor plan. It features a master suite with an extraordinary master bath, professionally outfitted kitchen with top of the line appliances by Sub Zero, Wolf and Kohler, solid surface quartz countertops, custom cabinets by Lube, and beautiful stone floors throughout. All luxury furnishings and finishes are included in this residence.

Enjoy unique Hyatt hospitality services including, but not limited to, recreation and front desk staff, beach front pool and private cabanas, hot tub, Cabana Cantina providing food and drinks, seaside fire pit, fitness center with steam room, spa facilities, valet parking, and 24 hour security. Incredible rental history grossing over 110K annually! The sale on this unit came out to $707.29 a square foot.

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LOWEST PRICED CONDO: 9022 Midnight Pass Rd, #8: Sold For $206,000 This waterfront property overlooks the inter-coastal and Gulf of Mexico. Coral Shores is a quaint community with only eight units.

The two bedroom, one bath unit has a total of 865 sq. ft. with water views from the bedrooms, Florida room and deck. Community Pool is heated. The sale came out to $284.14 a square foot.

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Negotiations authorized for county’s potential purchase of two undeveloped Beach Road parcels

By Rachel Brown Hackney www.SarasotaNewsLeader.com It took less than 4 minutes on Oct. 11 from the time the director of Sarasota County’s Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources (PRNR) Department stepped to the podium to discuss the matter to the point when the County Commission voted unanimously to authorize negotiations for the purchase of two Beach Road parcels that have been the focal point of county discussions for years.

Both lots have 100% beach dune habitat, PRNR Director Carolyn Brown explained, serving as home to gopher tortoises, beach-nesting shorebirds and nesting sea turtles.

The county’s Comprehensive Plan identifies beach dune habitat as “a critical habitat in need of preservation,” an Oct. 11 memo from Brown to the board points out.

If the county is successful in its efforts, she said during the meeting, its ownership of the property would expand

opportunities for public access to the Gulf of Mexico. Among potential improvements on the sites would be limited parking, a designated path to the beach and interpretative educational signage. Brown noted that any such work would have to meet the county’s Coastal Setback Code requirements.

Asked how soon negotiations might begin, county spokesman Jason Bartolone told SNL, “County staff will be discussing next steps now that the authorization to negotiate has been granted.”

Prior to Brown’s presentation, Sarasota attorney William Merrill III addressed the board on behalf of the owners of the two parcels, who are his clients, he said.

The County Commission in October 2015 denied a request from Ronald and Sania Allen of Osprey to build a three-story structure on the 162 Beach Road property — the third time the board had turned down one of

their proposals for construction on the site. Afterward, Merrill said, they and Wendy B. Cooper — trustee of the Burton M. Cooper Shelter Trust No. 1, which owns

the 168 Beach Road lot — sought the approval of the county’s Parks Advisory and Recreation Council (PARC) for the parcels to be considered for county acquisition

under the Neighborhood Parkland Program and Environmentally Sensitive Lands Protection Program (ESLPP).

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Great Siesta Key home just a short walk to the sugary sands of Siesta Key Beach. Full remodeled with new stucco, paint and custom woodwork on the exterior. Brand new A/C unit, new stainless steel appliances. Bonus glassed-in Florida room is a pure joy for relaxation.

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1122 Horizon View Drive, Sarasota, FL

Deeded Beach Access!!! Your feet will be in the Gulf of Mexico in 60 seconds. This immaculate pool home features large rooms and volume ceilings. Lovely oak Floors and stylish tile will dazzle you. 3 BR, 3.5 BA with LL bonus area for generational living. A truly unique find!

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418 Island Circle, Sarasota, FL

Single Family Home, 3 BR, 2.5 BA Key West Style Grand Canal home on Siesta Key. Built in 2005. Huge lower level bonus area, pool shower, 4-car garage.

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6151 Hollywood Blvd., Sarasota, FL

Front building consists of two 1 BR, 1 BA units. Rear building is a 3 BR, 2 BA unit. Close to beach and shopping. Walking distance to shopping.

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325 Avenida Madera, Sarasota, FL Beaches!, Boating! & Bistros!! This Tropical Paradise in “The Village” has been lovingly updated throughout. BEACHES!- you are a short walk to World Famous Siesta Beach. BOATING!- approx. 72 feet of Canal Front (dredged in 2008) with access to world class fishing and watersports. BISTRO’S!-You are steps away from locally acclaimed dining and entertainment of Siesta Village.

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They are easy to grow, require little care and have brilliant blooms and spectacular ornamental foliage.

They can be grown indoors in cooler climates and can also be used outdoors where temperatures stay above freezing.

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Judy Herman, x Enchotia ‘Kay Judy’ & Kay Weber Lemieux cross between the Brazilian Encholirium horridum with the Mexican Hechtia rosea. They plan to call it “x Enchotia Kay Judy”.

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Both won that approval, Merrill noted, and both were ranked as high priority sites. “We believe a deal can be negotiated and approved in an expeditious manner,” he told the board.

A memo from Brown to the board says that on Feb. 24, the county received the first set of appraisals for the parcels. The lot at 162 Beach Road was put at $1,335,000, while the 168 Beach Road parcel was appraised at $1,380,000. A second set of appraisals — received on April 18 — set the value at $1,125,000 for each lot. “The second set of appraisals included an Extraordinary Assumption that the Properties are buildable,” Brown pointed out.

Then, on May 24, she wrote in the memo, “staff received adjusted appraisals for each property, with the values of $338,000 under the Extraordinary Assumption they were not buildable.”

An average of the three sets of appraisals put the figures at $1,230,000 for 162 Beach Road and $1,252,500 for 168 Beach Road, the memo said.

Funding for the purchase is available through the Neighborhood Parkland Acquisition-ESLPP program, Brown noted in the memo.

The Sarasota County Property Appraiser’s Office records show that the Allens bought the 7,429-square-foot lot at 162 Beach Road, plus the 7,679-square-foot lot at 168 Beach Road, in late May 2009 for $5.4 million from Brent R. Cooper, trustee for the Burton M. Cooper Credit Shelter Trust No. 1, with an office address in Siesta Village.

In February 2012, the Allens sold the 168 Beach Road parcel to Siesta Miramar LLC for a “recorded consideration” of $100. Siesta Miramar LLC, in turn, sold it back to the Burton M. Cooper Credit Shelter Trust No. 1 for $400,000 in May 2013, Property Appraiser Office records show.

The registered agent for Siesta Miramar LLC is William Merrill III, state Division of Corporation records say. Ronald and Sania Allen are listed as managing members of the corporation.

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Incendiary New Product Launch

There have been plenty of new product launches over the years that have gone belly-up. The Edsel…New Coke…

But in most cases the fallout has been relatively benign for consumers. Sure, people might have laughed at your grandfather for driving a car that looked like it needed a rhinoplasty straight off the show room floor, or scratched their heads in wonder over Coca-Cola deciding to reinvent the most popular and profitable soft-drink in the history of the universe.

But Samsung’s incendiary Note 7 ‘smart’ phone takes things to a whole new level. The company’s advice to customers last week was only slightly less alarming than if they had instructed owners to carefully take their new phones to the backyard, bury them to a depth of six feet and…run!

The FAA announced last week it is now a federal crime to bring one of the devices onto an airplane.

Samsung estimates the debacle will cost it in the neighborhood of $5 billion over the coming months.

Sympathy for the Devil(s)?

What do Ted Bundy and Danny Rolling have in common – besides being

cold hearted, remorseless serial killers convicted and sent to their final reward under Florida law? Answer: their death sentences were not unanimous jury decisions. Which means that if they had been sentenced under new guidelines handed down last week by the Florida Supreme Court in a 5-2 decision, these less than model citizens would still be taking up space here on earth instead of sailing through eternity on an all expense paid tour of Dante’s nine circles of Hell with Beelzebub himself serving as their cruise director. (One can only hope...).

Oh...and Joseph Smith, the low life who murdered Sarasota pre-teen Carlie Brucia a decade ago...he’d also skate past death row under the new rules.

Now if juries couldn’t unanimously agree on the death penalty for these three reprobates, it’s hard to imagine any criminal or defense attorney ever taking the Florida death penalty seriously again. Which may just be the ultimate goal of the five ‘reformist’ Florida Supreme Court justices that voted in favor of the new perp-friendly rules.

Cue The Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil.

Justice is supposed to be blind, not the Justices entrusted to administer it.

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House Hunting Siesta Key to Longboat Key • TUSCAN INSPIRED MASTERPIECE ON PALM ISLAND: $779,000 389 Island Circle, Sarasota, FL. MLS# A4110340.

4,134 sq. ft. single family home.

4 bedrooms, 4 ½ baths, roof top pool, private spacious in-law/guest apartment with separate entrance.

Dan Miller, Re/Max Tropical Sands. 941-376-7442 • AMAZING WEST OF TRAIL TRIPLEX: $425,000 6151 Hollywood Blvd, Sarasota, MLS#A4141309 Located in the Pine Shores area.

Front building consists of two 1bed/1bath units. Rear building is a 3bed/2bath unit. Dan Miller, Re/ Max Tropical Sands. 941-376-7442 • KEY WEST STYLE GRAND CANAL HOME ON SIESTA KEY: $1,415,000 418 Island Circle, MLS#A3990080 3BD/3BA. Lushly landscaped tropical lot with Tiki Bar in the pool/spa area. Dan Miller, Re/Max Tropical Sands. 941-376-7442 • HOME ON CANOPIED ROAD: $439,900 5206 Winding Way, MLS# A4163466 Fully remodeled home just a short walk to the sugary sands of Siesta Key beach. Single family home located in a canopied neighborhood with new stucco paint and custom woodwork on exterior. New A/C unit and stainless steel appliances.

Dan Miller, Re/Max Tropical Sands. 941-376-7442 • DEEDED BEACH ACCESS: $997,000 1122 Horizon View Drive, MLS# A4163952

This immaculate pool home features large rooms and volume ceilings. Lovely oak floors and stylish tile will dazzle you.

3BD/3.5 BA with LL bonus area for general living. Dan Miller, Re/Max Tropical Sands. 941-376-7442 • 72’ OF CANAL FRONTAGE: $725,000 – JUST SOLD 325 Avenida Madera, Siesta Key, MLS# A4151934.

3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, designer kitchen with solid wood cabinets, island and granite counters with Stainless Steel Viking Appliances. Dan Miller, Re/Max Tropical Sands. 941-376-7442 • 4696 PINE HARRIER DR, THE LANDINGS, $645,000: MLS #A4162558 Family home with 3Bd/2.5 Bth, Caged Lanai and Pool Judy Greene/ Tara Lamb, Michael Saunders & Company Licensed Real Estate Broker. 941-350-0451 (Judy) or 941266-4873 (Tara) • 1445 GULF OF MEXICO, #401, THE PLAYERS CLUB, $949,000: MLS A4123420 Longboat Key Gulf front Penthouse, 3bd/3Bth on the beach in the Players Club. Judy Greene/ Tara Lamb, Michael Saunders & Company Licensed Real Estate Broker, 941-350-0451 (Judy) or 941266-4873 (Tara) • 5420 EAGLES POINT CIR #401, THE LANDINGS $599,000: MLS #A4163181 3Bd/2.5Bth Updated Penthouse Condo Intracoastal View Judy Greene/Tara Lamb, Michael Saunders & Company Licensed Real Estate Broker. 941-350-0451 (Judy) or 941-266-4873 (Tara)

• 5430 EAGLES POINT CIR #203, THE LANDINGS $899,0000: MLS #4162162 3 Bd plus Den / 4.5 Bth with private garage. Spacious floor plan.

Judy Greene/Tara Lamb, Michael Saunders & Company Licensed Real Estate Broker. 941-350-0451 (Judy) or 941-266-4873 (Tara)

• 1350 SIESTA BAYSIDE Great vacation home or investment property.

Deeded beach access just across the street.

Beautifully furnished 3/2 with garage. MLS#A4142552, $650,000.

Key Solutions Real Estate Group, Sheri & Bob Ruiz. Bob: 941-544-3299 or Sheri: 941-400-4186.

• 1695 STARLING DR, LANDINGS VILLA $525,000: MLS #A4163378 3Bd/2,5Bth Villa at Eagles Point- spacious and bright- master downstairs/2 beds and a loft up.

Judy Greene/Tara Lamb, Michael Saunders & Company Licensed Real Estate Broker, 941-350-0451 (Judy) or 941-266-4873 (Tara)

• PEPPERTREE BAY Direct bay views from this fabulous 2/2 in sought-after Peppertree community. Tastefully, turnkey furnished. Private garage.

MLS# A4149092, $610,000. Key Solutions Real Estate Group, Sheri & Bob Ruiz. Bob: 941-544-3299 or Sheri: 941-400-4186.

• 6234 OCEAN BLVD #207, SIESTA DUNES, $868,500: MLS #A4165035 2Bd/2Bth completely updated/ model perfect/great rental history.

Judy Greene/Tara Lamb, Michael Saunders & Company Licensed Real Estate Broker, 941-350-0451 (Judy) or 941-266-4873 (Tara)

• SOMERSET COVE Fabulous 4 / 3 1/2 home minutes to Beach and Village. 2 car garage, elevator, deeded boat dock with 10k lift. Gated enclave of just 11 homes with community pool.

MLS#A4145095, $779,000.

Key Solutions Real Estate Group, Sheri & Bob Ruiz. Bob: 941-544-3299 or Sheri: 941-400-4186.

• 1249 DOCKSIDE PLACE Short walk to Siesta Beach with deeded boat dock. Spacious 2/2 with garage. Turnkey furnished.

MLS# A4128627, $449,000. Key Solutions Real Estate Group, Sheri & Bob Ruiz. Bob: 941-544-3299 or Sheri: 941-400-4186.

• 1372 SIESTA BAYSIDE Intercoastal views and Siesta beach access. Beautifully renovated 2 bedroom, 2 bath vacation or investment property with garage. Turnkey furnished. MLS# A4153479, $575,000. Key Solutions Real Estate Group Sheri and Bob Ruiz. 941-544-3299.

• 1203 DOCKSIDE Rarely available.

Beautifully furnished 3/3 with 2 master suites.

2,300+ sq ft. A short walk to Siesta Beach. Deeded dock for 35’ boat and garage plus driveway parking.

MLS# A4156232, $719,900. Key Solutions Real Estate Group, Sheri & Bob Ruiz. Bob: 941-544-3299 or Sheri: 941-400-4186.

• THE POINTE Incomparable views of the Gulf and the Bay from this fabulously renovated and beautifully furnished 2/2. Tile throughout, granite, stainless, built-ins and great lighting features. MLS# A4165199, $499,000. Key Solutions Real Estate Group, Sheri & Bob Ruiz. Bob: 941544-3299 or Sheri: 941-400-4186.

• TURNKEY FURNISHED CONDO Across the street from the beach, this 2 BD/2 BA has lots of renovations. The Key West style gated property can be a fabulous vacation residence or excellent investment property. 1372 Siesta Bayside Dr. #1372-C, Siesta Key, $575,000 MLS #A4153479 Key Solutions Real Estate, (941)894-1255 • TURNKEY FURNISHED TOWNHOME This 3BD/2BA townhome, is totally updated. The gated waterfront community features fabulous recreational facilities, a private boat slip, garage, and is just a short walk to the beach.

1267 Dockside PL #214, Siesta Key, $725,000 MLS #A4155386 Key Solutions Real Estate, (941)894-1255 • SIESTA KEY GEM This 3 BD/2 BA home in the heart of charming Siesta Village features a split floor plan with a loft and cathedral ceilings. House has a large yard (.39 of an acre) perfect for entertaining and relaxing poolside.

For investment opportunity, home can rent for $4000-5000 per month.

4868 Featherbed Ln, Siesta Key, $699,999 MLS#A4164700 Key Solutions Real Estate, (941)894-1255 • SPECTACULAR BAYFRONT TOWNHOME This 2,326 square foot 3 bed,3 bath Condo with Gourmet kitchen and lots of upgrades has an attached garage, deeded 25’ boat slip with new lift, and is just a short walk to Siesta Key Beach. 1333 Dockside PL # 223, Siesta Key, $999,000 MLS # A4157478 Key Solutions Real Estate, (941)894-1255.

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Summer Cove blends history with new residences

By Roger Drouin At Summer Cove, two contemporary concrete condo buildings, built in 2007 to modern hurricane codes, include under-building parking and private elevators. The buildings house 45, three-bedroom luxury condo units.

Yet not everything is brand new at Summer Cove.

The former, iconic Summerhouse restaurant was preserved when Summer Cove was developed, and it now serves repurposed life as a clubhouse for the condo community. The restaurant building, which stands out with its glass walls and surrounding gardens, was saved when Snavely Development obtained a height variance for the tall condo building in return for saving the Carl Abbott-designed former restaurant building. In 2007, the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation and Sarasota County awarded Snavely Development a historic designation for the preservation of the Summerhouse building, which was built in 1975 and is associated with Sarasota School of Architecture.

“I love that we are part of that [historic fiber] of the area,” Sue Dietrich, who has been a seasonal resident in Summer Cove since 2009, told Siesta Sand.

“It is still very beautiful,” Dietrich said of the former restaurant building. “The condo association has done a good job maintaining it.”

The repurposed Summerhouse space houses stateof-the-art fitness equipment and a gathering place where Christmas and Super Bowl parties are held for the condo complex.

Other draws that led Dietrich and her husband to Summer Cove include the relatively small community size of only 45 units, the spacious condo interiors, and the community’s location right on the Intracoastal waterway and Little Sarasota Bay. “It’s breathtaking when you look through the balcony and see the waterway,” Dietrich told Siesta Sand.

Dietrich enjoys watching the sailboats navigate the waterway. In addition, from the back balcony, the Dietrichs also have a view of the Gulf.

Dietrich and her husband, who live in upstate New York, purchased their three bedroom, three-and-ahalf bathroom unit in 2012.

The couple’s two sons often visit with them during holidays. “My husband retires at the end of this year, and we plan to start spending more time [on Siesta],” Dietrich said.

For Dietrich, Summer Cove is an extension of Siesta’s laid-back beach atmosphere. She notes that residents will often gather for an afternoon BBQ by the pool, and she knows many of her neighbors’ dogs in the pet-friendly community.

All the units in Summer Cove are three bedroom — although some units feature an additional bathroom.

A typical, generously-spaced unit, which measures approximately 2,150 square feet, can have three bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms and a two-car

garage. The larger units feature three bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms with 2,450 square feet.

“The units are quite spacious,” said Realtor Bob Ruiz, of Key Solutions Real Estate. Ruiz, who has recently listed and sold several units in the complex, said Summer Cove is a “choice community” with one of the nicest pools on Siesta Key, along with a beautiful clubhouse and the first-class fitness center.

“Each unit has a minimum of two balconies with one in the front and in the rear of the unit,” Ruiz said.

Summer Cove also has several boat docks and an excellent kayak launch, Ruiz noted.

Recent sales and listings: • Four recent sales have ranged from $785,000 to $922,500. The unit that sold for $785,000 sold in December, 2015. The three bedroom, two-and-a-half bath luxury unit features open living spaces and a cook’s kitchen, according to MLS listing information.

The sale came out to $378 a square foot.

In January, 2016, a three-bedroom and two-anda-half bath unit sold for $850,000, or $392 a square foot. The unit’s gourmet kitchen includes solid wood cabinetry and granite surfaces, according to MLS information. The stainless steel kitchen features an upgraded Kitchen Aid induction cooktop. The large master suite features separate his and hers walk-in closets and an elegant bath with oversized soaking tub.

A 2,166 square foot unit with three bedrooms and two-and-a-half baths sold for $922,500 in August, 2016. The sale came out to $437 a square foot.

• One unit is currently listed for sale for $1,149,00, or $545 a square foot. The list price was recently reduced for the first floor unit.

NOTE: Realtors Bob Ruiz and Sheri Lasley-Ruiz of Key Solutions Real Estate Group contributed to the sales information used in this article. Other data was compiled from the Sarasota County Property Appraiser Office, Sarasota County Planning & Development Services permits, and Multiple Listing Service (MLS).

Making Things Happen on Siesta Key...BOB and SHERI RUIZ

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Great beach home, vacation or rental property. Across the street from Siesta Beach with dedicated beach access. This 3/2 end unit with attached garage is beautifully furnished.

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The Pointe

Rarely available. Beautifully turnkey furnished 3/3 with 2 master suites. 2,300+ sq. ft. A short walk to Siesta Beach.

Deeded dock for 35’ boat and garage and abundant storage.

Incomparable views of the Gulf and the Bay from this fabulously rennovated and beautifully furnished 2/2. Tile throughout, granite, stainless, built-ins and great lighting features.

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James J. Piro, MAI, CCIM Licensed Real Estate Broker

• Making things happen on Siesta Key with Real Estate agents Bob and Sheri Ruiz from Key Solutions Real Estate Group. If you are looking to buy or sell on the Key contact us. Bob Ruiz 941-544-3299 RobertRuizRR@aol.com, Sheri Ruiz 941-400-4186 SheriLasley@aol.com • Your Siesta Dunes and Landings Preferred Partners in Real Estate, Judy Greene 941-350-0451 and Tara Lamb 941-266-4873 with Michael Sanders & Company 5100 Ocean Blvd Siesta Key 34242 JudyGreene@MichaelSanders.com

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• A Bridge for Independence provides in home companion services including companionship, transportation, light housekeeping, medication reminders and meal preparation and planning.

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• Sun Ride Pedicab – Eco-friendly Pedicabs. Siesta Key Tours and rides – tips only, 941-343-3400 • Siesta Key Free Rides – Siesta Key Free island shuttle for beach, village, condo and tours – tips only. Electric vehicles. Call 941952-8294 • Jonny’s Original Free Ride – The Original Ride the Key Free service on Siesta to anywhere, everyday from 10 AM – 2 AM. Driver tips only. Call 941-928-9200.

• Dollar Limo – holds up to 10 people and is cheaper than a D.U.I • Massage Experience Siesta Key Open 7-day a week. 5138A or taxi. Call 941-735-4732 Ocean Blvd, Siesta Key, 941-349-4833. (MA17596/MM6727).

Transportation for everyone on the Sun Coast Friendliest Ride In Town

Off- Island: •Temple Sinai, a Reform Congregation (The closest Jewish congregation to the Key for visitors) 4631 S. Lockwood Ridge Rd, Sarasota, 941-924-1802 www.templesinai-sarasota.org • St. Andrew United Church of Christ (Protestant) (In the Gulf Gate area, near Beneva and Gulf Gate Drive) 6908 Beneva Road, Sarasota, 941.922.7595 www.uccstandrew.org • The Superior Word Rev. Charlie Garrett Service starts Sunday mornings at 10am.

Bring a friend and share in God’s word.

6512 Superior Avenue, Sarasota, FL 34231 • First Christian Church 7601 Clark Road, Sarasota, FL 34241.

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Tooth loss is linked to Diabetes 29.1 million people living in the United States have diabetes.

That’s 9.3% of the population.

Approximately 1.7 million new cases are diagnosed each year— and 8.1 million people living with diabetes don’t even know they have it.

Diabetes affects your body’s ability to process sugar. All food you eat is turned to sugar and used for energy. In Type I diabetes, the body doesn’t make enough insulin, a hormone that carries sugar from your blood to the cells that need it for energy. In Type II diabetes, the body stops responding to insulin.

Both cases result in high blood sugar levels, which can cause problems with your eyes, nerves, kidneys, heart and other parts of your body.

So what does this have to do with that smile of yours — and how can you protect it? First, it’s important to understand the signs of diabetes and the roles they play in your mouth.

The Symptoms of Untreated Diabetes

The warning signs of diabetes

affect every part of your body.

After a blood test, you may be told by a doctor that you have high blood sugar. You may feel excessively thirsty or have to urinate a lot. Weight loss and fatigue are other common symptoms. Diabetes can also cause you to lose consciousness if your blood sugar falls too low.

If diabetes is left untreated, it can take a toll on your mouth as well: • You may have less saliva, causing your mouth to feel dry.

• Because saliva protects your teeth, you’re also at a higher risk of cavities.

• Gums may become inflamed and bleed often (gingivitis).

• You may have problems tasting food.

• You may experience delayed wound healing.

• You may be susceptible to infections inside of your mouth.

• For children with diabetes, teeth may erupt at an age earlier than is typical.

Why People with Diabetes Are More Prone to Gum Disease All people have more tiny bacteria living in their mouth now than there are people on this planet. If they make their home in your gums, you can end up with periodontal disease. This chronic, inflammatory disease can destroy your gums, all the tissues holding your teeth and even your bones.

“Periodontal disease is the most common dental disease affecting those living with diabetes, affecting nearly 22% of those diagnosed,” says Dr. Gaukhman. Especially with increasing age, poor blood sugar control increases the risk for gum problems. In fact, people with diabetes are at a higher risk for gum problems because of poor blood sugar control. As with all infections, serious gum disease may cause blood sugar to rise. This makes diabetes harder to control because you are more susceptible to infections and are less able to fight the bacteria invading the gums.

How Your Dentist Can Help You Fight Diabetes Regular dental visits are important. Research suggests that treating gum disease can help improve blood sugar control in patients living with diabetes, decreasing the progression of the disease. Practicing good oral hygiene and having professional deep cleanings done by your dentist can help to lower your HbA1c. (This is a lab test that shows your average level of blood sugar over the previous three months. It indicates how well you are controlling your diabetes.)

Your Diabetes Dental Health Action Plan Teamwork involving self-care and professional care from your dentist will be beneficial in keeping your healthy smile as well as potentially slowing progression of diabetes. Here are five oral healthrelated things you can do to for optimal wellness: • Control your blood sugar levels. Use your diabetes-related medications as directed, changing

to a healthier diet and even exercising more can help. Good blood sugar control will also help your body fight any bacterial or fungal infections in your mouth and help relieve dry mouth caused by diabetes.

• Avoid smoking.

• If you wear any type of denture, clean it each day.

• Make sure to brush twice a day with a soft brush and floss daily.

• See your dentist for regular checkups.

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Island Girl This month’s Island Girl is Taya, a former High School Cheerleader from Detroit. Down to visit some school friends, this was her first visit to spectacular Siesta Beach.

Used to the Lakes in Michigan she was impressed by the clarity of the Gulf of Mexico.

She loves and may be addicted to working out. So much so, that her friends affectionately call her a “gym rat”. She’s quite adventurous and excited about living in downtown Detroit soon while studying law at Wayne State University.

Taya If you would like to be considered for our next Island Girl, contact us at islandvp@verizon.net (You must be at least 18 years old to participate)

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