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APRIL 2020 PUBLISHER

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April In Venice IT’S APRIL IN VENICE! The cool, short days of winter are warming, the landscape is greening with the first refreshing rains of the season. The days are warm and pleasant, that perfect time of year when we can stroll downtown all afternoon with friends, dine at our restaurants’ sidewalk tables, and enjoy the cool breezes from the

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Gulf. It’s a great time for days out on the water, on the tennis courts or the golf links.

Here at Venice Lifestyle, we’re planting our gardens before the heavy summer rains and enjoying everything there is to do out-of-doors.

April offers us the perfect opportunity to take a moment to appreciate the gifts our planet gives us. This April issue is filled with community stories and ideas to get you in the Earth Day spirit. How can we show our thanks to our environment? We can join a community project like volunteering to help plant trees at Venice Area Beautification, Inc.’s new Venice Urban Forest, featured in this issue. VABI’s newly opened forest provides a needed urban green space for our native wildlife, and is always looking for helping hands. Check out Café Evergreen’s organic and healthy recipe, ‘Cheesy Quinoa Cakes.’ Enjoy Claudia Daniels’ stunning wildlife photogra-

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INSIDE THE ISSUE APRIL 2020 FEATURES 16 World Class Dentistry Rebrands To Reflect A New Generation While Continuing To Serve Our Region The Updated Look Is A Nod To The Next Generation Joining The Practice

20 Claudia Daniels Finds Her Artistic Inspiration At The Venice Rookery The Urban Refuge Provided By The Audubon Society's Rookery Provides Local Artist With Intimate Opportunities To Photograph Beautiful Regional Birds

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24 Bowersox Air Conditioning & Heating Will Be There When You Need Them New Local Company Knows That When The Air Goes Out, In Florida That’s A Real Emergency

28 VABI's Urban Forest Creates A Green Oasis For Venice Wildlife The Newly Replanted Forest Along The Intracoastal Waterway Is Already Attracting A Diversity Of Birds

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AROUND TOWN Tooth Festival comes to the Venice Airport Festival Grounds from Friday, April 3 through Sunday, April 5, celebrating the fossilized sharks' teeth that wash up on Venice's beautiful beaches. Live music, delicious food and drinks, kids' games and all around family fun! Tickets are $5 at the door, kids under 12 and parking free. Proceeds benefit the Special Olympics. Friday 4-9 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m., and Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. For more information: 941.412.0402 or visit SharksToothFest.com.

STATE FARM SPONSORING NATIONAL WILDFIRE COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS DAY According to Venice agent Rob Reisdorf, State Farm is committed to helping communities prepare for unforeseen events, including wildfires. State Farm's 7th annual National Wildfire Community Preparedness Day with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) will be on May 2. State Farm will provide funding for 150 projects in the amount of $500 to individual grassroots efforts. Activities can be coordinated by anyone working to reduce wildfire risk, advance

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ary to cover a water meter on Venice Avenue & Nassau Street. He designed the statuary, as well as a new planter, to evoke the old Florida postcards style. Sean moved to Venice in 2002. He grew up in Sarasota, where his mother was an elementary school teacher, made educational movies for the school system, and is a writer. His father started the first Art Foundry in Sarasota, which evolved into Sean’s foundry supply Shellspen. com. His father was also a well-known sculptor.

Sean’s wife is Hungarian, and the couple lives in Hungary during the summer, in their home in a tourist area next to Lake Balaton. Aside from making his own sculptures, Sean teaches sculptors how to bronze cast using the Shellspen lost-wax process. He illustrates books with positive messages for children and adults. Sean’s new book

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World Class Dentistry Rebrands To Reflect A New Generation While Continuing To Serve Our Region

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ARTIST’S PALETTE

THE URBAN REFUGE PROVIDED BY THE AUDUBON SOCIETY'S ROOKERY PROVIDES LOCAL ARTIST WITH INTIMATE OPPORTUNITIES TO PHOTOGRAPH BEAUTIFUL REGIONAL BIRDS

claudia daniels finds her artistic inspiration at the venice rookery RAISED ON THE RHINE IN MAINZ, GERMANY, PHOTOGRAPHER CLAUDIA DANIELS FIRST CAME TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1996 TO STUDY GRAPHIC DESIGN AND BUSINESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA, WHERE SHE ALSO COMPLETED A MASTERS DEGREE IN ENGLISH AND MULTIMEDIA. Her travels through Florida brought her to Venice, where she settled in 2003.

“I loved Venice right away,” says Claudia. “I loved the small town feel and the nature that is always close by.

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There are so many animals and wildlife here. Venice

PHOTOGRAPHY CLAUDIA DANIELS

turned out to be the perfect place for me.”

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CONTINUED >

Photographer Claudia Daniels

A black-crowned night heron.

A double-crested cormorant with its catch.

A tricolor heron.

A Florida mottled duck.

A great blue heron feeds its chick.

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AR TIST ’ S PALE T TE (CONTINUED)

“IN SHOOTING WILDLIFE, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN AT ANY MOMENT. EVERY MOMENT IS SPECIAL AND THERE ARE SO MANY SURPRISES.” Much of her Venice-based photography happens at the

it super relaxing and it is my favorite thing to do. When

Venice Rookery, an urban oasis of water and wildlife, man-

I first came to Florida, I didn’t even know the names of

aged and cared for by the Venice Area Audubon Society.

all the birds. But as I went out and began to shoot, I met

Home to many species of waterfowl and wading birds, the

people from the Audubon Society who helped educate

Venice Rookery is an accessible wild space that is also

me, and I attended lectures and have read so many

visited throughout the year by passerine and migratory

wildlife books. When you are out shooting, you always

birds. All of Claudia’s photographs featured in this article

meet people who will help you learn.”

were shot at the Venice Rookery. Claudia also shot the June 2019, cover of Venice Lifestyle.

“I have always taken photos, ever since I was a child and had my first Polaroid camera,” says the affable Claudia. “In

At the Venice Rookery, Claudia says it is important for a photographer to walk around between the two lakes and find where the birds are that day to get the best, most interesting shots.

high school, I was in a photography club and we had our

“Sometimes I shoot with a very low exposure compensa-

own dark room and developed all our own pictures, which

tion,” explains Claudia. “That brings the bird to the front and

was really neat. I started taking photographs of street

makes the background dark. You have to set your camera

scenes and portraits. Then I started shooting animals at the

out to do that, in the last light. The light will have to hit the

zoo and loved that so much that when I came to the States

bird just right. It’s a difficult, fleeting thing to capture.”

and saw all the wildlife we have here, I was really happy.”

Aside from her photography, Claudia is a realtor with RE/MAX Platinum Realty on Venice Island.

“The good thing about my profession is that it allows me to get up really early and take photographs before work,” says Claudia. “And then at the end of the day, I get to go back out and take more photographs.”

Aside from the rookery, Claudia enjoys shooting at the Venice Jetty and Caspersen Beach. She travels for her photography and will soon visit South Africa and the Scottish Highlands. Her influences include Clyde Butcher, Ansel Adams and Mark Washburn.

“In shooting wildlife, anything can happen at any moment,” says Claudia. “Every moment is special and

Claudia prefers shooting with the first and last light

there are so many surprises. My advice to new wildlife

of the day. She recently switched her equipment from

photographers is to just keep shooting and enjoy the

Canon to Olympus and Sony, and uses a wide variety of

reward of being outside.”

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site: claudiadanielsphotography.com and you can find

well as for QVC. She also does commercial videography.

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“It is so challenging to shoot wildlife, they are always moving,” Claudia says. “Even with the challenge, I find

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Bruce and Courtney Bowersox at Bowersox Air Conditioning & Heating.

Braylee, 9 months old, helps out at the office.

Learning from others during his apprenticeship, Bruce always had a dream of opening his own business, of setting his own high standard, and making a brand name of his work ethic and values. Over the years, he has kept his eye out for local talent, encouraging people he went to Venice High with to pursue their degrees as he did. Two of his employees have graduated from Suncoast Technical College, and three more are in the third year of their apprenticeships. It’s no surprise that Bruce went to high school with almost all of them.

“I love being able to hire these guys, since I know how hard they work and how well they represent my

Courtney, Braylee and Bruce Bowersox.

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GIVING BACK

VA B I ' S U R B A N F O R E S T C R E AT E S A GREEN OASIS FOR VENICE WILDLIFE THE NEWLY REPLANTED FOREST ALONG THE INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY IS ALREADY ATTRACTING A DIVERSITY OF BIRDS

ARTICLE TONY D'SOUZA PHOTOGRAPHY PRION PHOTOGRAPHY

Volunteers have made the Venice Urban Forest possible, donating thousand of labor hours.

Phil Ellis end left, Greg Vine end right.

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RIGHT IN THE HEART OF VENICE’S

“The Urban Forest was dreamed up seven

URBAN CORE, A NEW FOREST IS BEGIN-

or eight years ago, but we didn’t have a place

NING TO GROW. All along a 1.75 mile strip

for it,” says Greg Vine, chair of VABI’s Urban

of land between the Venetian Waterway Trail

Forest committee. “When we realized this

and the Seaboard Industrial District, palms,

property was available, we started negotiating

oaks and cedars are taking root, birds and

with the county. This is the southern end of

small mammals are building nests, and Florida

the Legacy Trail property purchase and runs

native wildflowers are blooming. What was

from Venice Avenue south to Center Road. We

once the unused and invasive-species-rid-

broke ground in April 2018, and phase one is

dled former site of the CSX/Seminole Gulf

now open to the public even as the tree plant-

Railway, Venice’s very own Urban Forest has

ing continues. We are deliberately re-greening

just completed phase one of its three-stage

what was an industrial railroad corridor.”

development plan. The use of this 33-acre

“We didn’t want to just build another park,

strip of land has been given in perpetuity

we wanted to grow a forest,” explains Phil

by Sarasota County to VABI—the nonprofit

Ellis, the Urban Forest’s project coordina-

Venice Area Beautification, Inc.—and is in

tor and vice-chair of VABI’s Urban Forest

keeping with John Nolen’s 1926 City of Venice

Committee. “We wanted to give the birds

urban design plan, which incorporated green

and animals some native, natural habitat that

spaces and parks throughout the city.

is becoming ever more rare in our county.

CONTINUED >

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GIVING BACK (CONTINUED) An aerial view of the Venice Urban Forest.

A blanket flower in the Urban Forest.

Trees are important for everybody’s health. Not only do they

jays as they come in from Shamrock Park and Caspersen Beach area

provide oxygen and sequester carbon, but they filter the storm

where there are about 40 birds, and head to Oscar Scherer State Park.

runoff that flows from the industrial park to the bay and improve

We’re planting scrub oak and other food plants they like so they have

coastal resiliency. The forest will be both a green space and a

what they need in the forest if they want to stay. We really want to be

buffer zone. It will benefit the overall ecological health of Venice.”

a flyway for them and facilitate their travels.”

VABI’s vision and volunteers are brining the new Urban Forest

Developers clearing land elsewhere in the county donated hun-

to life. Through thousands of volunteer hours, dedicated local res-

dreds of native palms. Other trees in the forest include live oak, slash

idents have cleared acres of invasive Brazilian pepper trees, and

pine, buttonwood, sweetbay magnolias, and red cedars, all trees

replanted native foliage with an eye toward creating sustainable

specific to Venice’s coastal zone. Irrigation and tree and plant pur-

habitat for all sorts of wildlife, including the threatened Florida

chases have been the project’s major expenses. Expert contributors

scrub jay. Visitors to the Urban Forest will notice that the newly

and volunteers have included the Conservation Foundation’s land

planted trees are young, and the plants just beginning to flourish.

manager Lee Amos, the USDA’s Ken Lackman, Simply Trees’ Carol

But over the coming decades, the forest canopy will develop and

Delehanty, and Sarasota County arborist Sam Wright.

create ever more habitat for wildlife.

The Gulf Coast Community Foundation, the Selby Foundation,

Shortly after the start of the Urban Forest project, expert birders

the Catlin Foundation, and the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf

counted just ten different species of bird at the site. A recent count

Coast have all donated to the project, and VABI is always looking for

of birds, however, already noted more than 72 different species.

dedicated volunteers and donations.

“This past summer, we had two wild turkeys come in,” says Greg,

“So many wonderful volunteers and organizations have come

a Venice native himself. “A native vine we have in the forest pro-

together to make the Urban Forest possible,” says Phil. “This is an

duces a berry that they were after.”

oasis in Venice for animals, and for people. It makes us all feel good

“We had two pairs of scrub jays in the forest last summer and fall,”

to be giving something back to our environment.”

says Phil. “So we had experts from Oscar Scherer come in, as well as our designer, arborist and the Gulf Cost Community Foundation’s

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WATER & WOODS

ARTICLE TONY D'SOUZA

Captain Tom Bailas of TNT Fishing Charters.

PHOTOGRAPHY PRION PHOTOGRAPHY

TNT FISHING CHARTERS’ CAPTAIN TOM TALKS PUTTING CLIENTS ON THE BIGGEST FISH OF THEIR LIVES AND HOW TO CATCH AND RELEASE PROPERLY

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A TNT Fishing Charters Catch of Snappers and Groupers.

TOM BAILAS + captain “I LOVE SHOWING PEOPLE A GOOD TIME AND SEEING HOW HAPPY THEY GET WHEN THEY LAND A BIG ONE.”

FEW FOLKS ARE AS IN TUNE WITH OUR NATURAL WORLD AS OUR LOCAL FISHING CHARTER CAPTAINS. A friendly group of

Captain Tom knows the health of our fishery is important for our environment and the overall quality of life in our region.

captains hang out at MaryBeth Hansen’s Paradise Grill in Nokomis

“I love my job because I help people catch the biggest fish they have

after long days out on the water, including Captain Tom Bailas of

ever caught in their lives,” says Captain Tom. “I also like to let people know

TNT Fishing Charters. Captain Tom is eager to invite folks to come

about the importance of a healthy fishery. We have to keep pollution to

out on his 30 foot Grady White and learn firsthand what makes our

a minimum and we have to only keep as many fish as we can eat. I let

local waters so special, as well as how to protect them.

people on my boat know when they have caught enough fish for the day.”

“At TNT Fishing Charters, we provide everything,” says

Properly releasing fish you aren’t going to keep is also important.

Captain Tom. “They only thing our clients need to bring is a

“After you’ve fought a fish for a long time, it’s tired and you need to

small cooler with their food and drinks. We take everyone from

revive it before you let it go,” explains Captain Tom. “Pull it through

experts to novices. My wife, Trisha, is my mate on my boat and

the water so oxygen flows through its gills. If you don’t, the fish will

she teaches people who have never touched a fishing pole in

unfortunately sink to the bottom and die.”

their lives to fish like a pro in an hour.”

A love for what he does and where he gets to do it keeps Captain

Captain Tom takes his clients up to fifty miles off shore in search of

Tom ‘on the fish’ for his clients. “I put people on big fish and get to see

fish. “We catch bottom fish like grouper and snapper,” says Captain

them enjoy themselves,” says Captain Tom. “I love showing people a

Tom. “We also catch fish that feed on the top of the water like king

good time and seeing how happy they get when they land a big one.”

fish, tuna, cobia, amberjack and sharks. What we catch depends on the time of the year. Fish migrate during different seasons and you

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APRIL

LIFESTYLE CALENDAR

1, 8, 15, 22, 29

Toast to Venice: A Wine, Beer & Food

salads, corned beef hash, waffles, break-

Festival. Highlights include premium wine

fast potatoes, apple cobbler, homemade

ATLANTA BRAVES FARMERS MARKET

and beer, bourbon tasting, food sampling

bread pudding, and so much more. All wel-

from some of Venice’s best restaurants,

come, $32 per person. Reservations: 941-

18800 S. West Villages Parkway

live music, and silent auction. Advance

475-6464 or Bocaroyale.com.

Visit the new farmers market at Cool

purchase tickets are available for $70 VeniceNokomisRotary.org

Today Park, the Spring Training Home

online

of the Atlanta Braves every Wednesday,

and

8 a.m. to noon, October through March.

Company. Tickets $75 at the door. Proceeds

The Atlanta Braves Farmers Market is

benefit local charities.

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Wine

and

Coffee

run with the same mission, the same passion and the same game plan to offer the best quality food and agriculture vendors as the Venice Farmers Market.

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3-5 VENICE SHARK'S TOOTH FESTIVAL

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Join

UNITED WAY OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY 14TH ANNUAL COMMUNITY WALK

with their free event, Walk With A Doc,

Gutierres,

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Medicine, and other healthcare providers looking to champion community wellness held every third Friday of the month at 7:30 a.m. Anyone may join! No RSVP necessary.

Meet at the Gulf Coast Medical Group

'Count Your Steps' and 'Make Every Step

Tuscany located at 1720 Venice Avenue.

Count' at the 14th annual Community Walk

Walking is great, low-impact exercise!

Enjoy music, food, arts, crafts, a kids'

County. The event will be held rain or shine

area and an amazing display of shark's teeth

and begins at the State College of Florida,

and other fossils. Proceeds benefit the

Venice Campus (8000 Tamiami Trail S)

Special Olympics. Venice is the "Shark's

at 9 a.m. Gather a team and help raise

Tooth Capital of the World" because of the

money for the United Way! Uwssc.org/

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25 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY RELAY FOR LIFE Venice Airport Festival Grounds

Survivors and caregivers are the heart and

dren under 12 are free.

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soul of Relay For Life events. We honor

EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA

were diagnosed ten days ago or ten years

their strength and courage with every step they take. It doesn't matter if you

Centennial Park

ago, you can walk while everyone gathers

City Hall

Held at the gazebo in Downtown Venice,

together to cheer you on. Contact Brittney

The lively Venice Farmers Market fea-

the annual egg hunt in search of beauti-

Hoogland, brittney.hoogland@cancer.org,

tures dozens of vendors, locally grown

ful colored Easter eggs. Children's Easter

941.328.3758, for more information.

fruits and vegetables of all sorts. The

Egg Hunt starts at 9 a.m., Saturday

Farmers Market was featured in our April

morning at the gazebo in Centennial

2019 issue. A great source for organic

Park. Meet the Easter Bunny, race to find

produce, seafood, handmade crafts and

hidden eggs and just have fun!

freshly made food. Music, crafts, and a great chance to see all your neighbors, the farmers market continues to grow! TheVeniceFarmersMarket.org

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Join The Twig for small bites and beer/ wine from local restaurants and learn about The Twig's work to be a haven for the foster care community and how

Boca Royale Golf & Country Club

you can contribute. Featuring drawing

Join Boca Royale Golf & Country Club

prizes, the fantastic Mike Weiss band

for its Easter Brunch Buffet. Featuring

and a delicious dessert area to end

roast prime rib or beef, roast leg of lamb

your night on a sweet note. Tickets are

Maxine Barrett Park

with mint jelly, honey baked ham, blintzes

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local organic eatery café evergreen shares a favorite healthy recipe

ACCORDING TO CAFÉ EVERGREEN OWNER TED WEINBERGER, ‘CHEESY QUINOA CAKES’ IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR APPETIZERS AT THE NOKOMIS-BASED EATERY. “The cakes taste great and have the added benefit of being gluten free, as they are made with the organic super food star, quinoa,” says Ted. “Quinoa has one of the highest protein contents of any plant known to man! It is one of the many items we feature at Café Evergreen and goes with our philosophy: ‘Healthy food for a healthy life.’”

café evergreen's cheesy quinoa cakes (Makes about 4 Servings) INGREDIENTS + 4 cups cooked quinoa + 1/4 cup tamari (gluten-free soy sauce) + 1/2 cup small diced onion + 1/4 cup small diced carrots + 1/4 cup small diced celery + (1 oz) minced garlice + 1/2 cup Manchego cheese PREPARING THE CAKES 1. In a lightly oiled pan sauté vegetables and garlic.

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3. Add cooked quinoa to mixing bowl along with cool, cooked vegetables and Manchego cheese. Hand mix until fully incorporated. Roll into 1 1/2 oz. balls for easy cooking later.

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