The Islander Newspaper E-Edition: July 4, 2017

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VOLUME 25, NO. 36

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The Best News on Anna Maria Island Since 1992 AsTheWorldTerns turn the tide on anti-tourism. 6 July 2 boat crash wipes out Key Royale dock. 2 Palma Sola scenic highway redo. 5

Op-Ed The Islander editorial.

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10-20 YEARS AGO From the archives. 7

Meetings On the government calendar. 8 AM, HB address Bert Harris complaints. 8

Happenings Make plans, save a date. 10-11 Holmes Beach officer honored. 15

Streetlife. 16 Gathering. 18 Obituaries. 18

Skimmer chicks arrive in Holmes Beach.

Tapping into H2O debate. 23 Soccer playoffs underway. 24 Fishing, heat intense on the water. 25

ISL BIZ Chambers beat the heat. 26

PropertyWatch. 27 Classifieds. 28

Focus on Top Notch. 14

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Turtle Watch, county stress HB nesting problems

By ChrisAnn Silver Esformes Islander Reporter Call it a message from Mother Nature.

“As we struggle with the business of life and the problems with accommodating both our residents and our tourists, we’ve got to remember there is wildlife that depends on us,” Charlie Hunsicker, Manatee County Parks and Natural Resources director told Holmes Beach commissioners at their June 27 meeting at city hall.

Hunsicker is one member of a group working with Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring to ensure the beaches are safe for people and animals during sea turtle nesting season, which runs through October.

AMITW executive director Suzi Fox asked Hunsicker to the meeting to explain the county’s involvement in nesting on the beaches. Also attending was Lauren Floyd, senior marine biologist at CB&I Coastal Planning & Engineering Inc., the company contracted by the county for beach nourishment.

“My job is to help our clients work through the process of designing nourishment projects — coastal projects that meet their needs while balancing the conservation of these habitats,” Floyd said June 27.

Floyd compiles data submitted by

A bench on the beach fronting Tiffany Place condos, 7000 Gulf Drive in Holmes Beach, is marked to protect a sea turtle nest beneath the bench that was verified June 25 by AMITW. Islander Photo: Courtesy AMITW AMITW to help with permitting renourishment projects for island beaches.

At the meeting, Fox explained that during nesting season, everyone has “roles to play” to keep the beach safe for people and animals.

She said AMITW’s job is to collect data about the birds and sea turtles and, since the beaches have been nourished for almost 30

years, they now provide a nesting habitat for wildlife.

And with the improved habitat comes responsibility.

Fox came to the city commission because Holmes Beach has the most nesting activity of the island municipalities during a recordbreaking sea turtle nesting season.

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Coquina Beach visitor dies boarding PWC

By Kathy Prucnell Islander Reporter A Georgia woman died after she experiencing difficulty boarding a personal watercraft at the Coquina south boat ramp in Bradenton Beach.

Marsha A. Mincey, 51, was with family members from Georgia at about 2 p.m. July 1 when she stepped off a dock, went under water and started to panic, according to police reports.

When BBPD officers arrived at 2:15 p.m., Manatee County Marine Rescue lifeguards and medics were trying to revive the woman near the ramp. EMS transported Mincey to Blake Medical Center in Bradenton.

Before first responders arrived, her family and others attempted to pull Mincey to the dock at the boat ramp on Sarasota Bay at the city’s south end.

Mincey was wearing a safety vest, according to the police reports.

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“I’m not 100 percent sure it was a drowning,” said Bradenton Beach Detective Sgt. Lenard Diaz, adding it may have been medical-related.

The death at Coquina Bayside Park came on the first day of a busy weekend that drew thousands of visitors to celebrate Independence Day at the beach.

Mincey’s is the third water-related death on the beaches since June 9.

Swimmers pulled a 25-year-old Lakeland man, Joseph Teston, from the Gulf of Mexico near Spring Avenue in Anna Maria on June 8. He died a day later.

Michael Angelo Rosario Alvarez, 29, of Haines City, died June 25 after he went missing in the Gulf near 47th Street in Holmes Beach. A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew spotted Alvarez 150 feet from the shore after a two-hour search and rescuers brought his body to awaiting medics.

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There was to be no interruption of service.

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Water taxi launch delayed to November

The scene of a boat crash July 2 in the 600 block of Key Royale Drive looks worse for the dock than the boat. Holmes Beach Police Chief Bill Tokajer said alcohol was ruled out and the cause was due to an “inattentive driver.” Islander Photos: Jack Elka

Key Royale boat crash blamed on operator A boat driver veered off course in Tampa Bay as it passed the waterfront homes on Key Royale Drive, crashing into a dock the second day of the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Paul Martin Duncan, 32, was operating a 21-foot Sea Pro at 10 a.m. July 2 when it crashed into the dock at 665 Key Royale Drive in Holmes Beach, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Officer James Boogaerts.

Boogaerts said an FWC officer responded and reported two occupants aboard the boat — one with “a severe gash to his leg.”

Boogaerts said July 3 it was unclear from the FWC officer’s notes if one or two occupants were transported to Blake Medical Center by EMS. Duncan was treated and released July 2 after an

emergency room visit, according to medical center personnel.

Holmes Beach Police Chief Bill Tokajer blamed the accident on an inattentive driver. No alcohol was involved, he added.

According to the HBPD report, the vessel was traveling west when a passenger attempted to secure an item in the back of the boat and the driver looked away.

Boogaerts said a citation was issued but he had no further details about the infraction at press time for The Islander.

Other emergency responders included the HBPD, Manatee County sheriff’s deputies, marine rescue and West Manatee Fire Rescue.

— Kathy Prucnell

By ChrisAnn Silver Esformes Islander Reporter Timing is everything.

Plans to connect Bradenton Beach and Sarasota via a water taxi have been approved in both cities and Capt. Sherman Baldwin, owner of Paradise Boat Tours in Bradenton Beach, is timing his launch.

Having already secured a dock for arrivals and departures near downtown Sarasota — the 10th Street Boat Basin in Centennial Park — Baldwin is putting off the startup until November.

“This will give us time to get ready,” Baldwin said.

The boat, a 149 passenger high-speed catamaran, will be ready Aug. 1, but Baldwin will wait until Nov. 20 — Thanksgiving week — as business slows on the coast in September and October.

“It’s fitting that a service that can improve the quality of life for our residents will launch Thanksgiving week,” Baldwin said June 21.

As an incentive for passengers, the shuttle service will not charge a fare during its first few weeks.

Baldwin plans to run the water taxi daily from the Historic Bridge Street Pier at 8 a.m., arriving in Sarasota about 31 minutes later. The boat schedule would loop on a 45-minute cycle until the final return at about 10:15 p.m. to Bradenton Beach.

He expects round-trip tickets to run $12.50, with discounts for commuters and employees of Bradenton Beach and some Sarasota businesses.

Baldwin says the service will benefit visitors, but he also is targeting residents who want to travel between Sarasota and Anna Maria Island without traffic hassles.

“It’s time we start thinking about the Intracoastal Waterway as a means of commuter transportation,” Baldwin said. “And the commute couldn’t be more beautiful.”

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Manatee County Parks and Natural Resources director Charlie Hunsicker speaks June 27 with Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring executive director Suzi Fox at Holmes Beach City Hall, 5801 Marina Drive. Islander Photo: ChrisAnn Silver Esformes

NESTING CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 She said the city’s role is to uphold AMITW’s work to keep the beaches safe by enforcing city ordinances prohibiting behavior that could endanger wildlife.

Keeping the beach dark at night is a priority for AMITW, according to Fox. Female sea turtles, which mostly nest at night, only leave the water to nest. So any distraction on land could lead to a false crawl — a failed nesting attempt.

Hatchlings soon will start to emerge from nests, and light visible from the shoreline could disorient the turtles and lead them away from their crawl to the Gulf of Mexico Exterior lights visible from the shoreline must be low, shielded turtle-friendly lighting and indoor lights should be turned off or shielded after dark by curtains or blinds.

Fox said she submitted a list of properties not in compliance with the lighting ordinance to code enforcement in May, but they were still out of compliance as of June 27.

Police Chief Bill Tokajer said he has been work-

ing with Florida Power & Light on street lights that need updating and the other lighting issues mostly are rentals that have new tenants each week. He said code enforcement patrols the beach two nights per week, checking for lighting compliance and issuing verbal warnings.

Additionally, Fox said there are benches on the beach that pose a hazard for nesting sea turtles. She said so far this season, six turtles have “collided with benches” during nesting attempts, resulting mostly in false crawls, but there was a nest laid under a bench.

“In my opinion, the benches are in direct contradiction to the sea turtle protection ordinance which disallows any furniture left on the beach at night,” Fox said.

Tokajer said public works has moved several benches on the beach to higher ground, and will be moving more as needed.

Fox asked if a commissioner would serve as liaison between AMITW and the city.

“It would be really helpful if we had someone on the board who would be willing to check the lights and benches to see if code enforcement has followed

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A game of pickleball at the Center of Anna Maria Island turned to tragedy June 23 when a center member suffered a heart attack in the gym and died at Blake Medical Center in Bradenton.

Roger Nigg, 65, was a longtime visitor who recently retired and moved full time to Anna Maria, according to executive director Kristen Lessig.

During a game of pickleball, Nigg reportedly started experiencing the symptoms of a heart attack and collapsed.

Nikkiah Jaworski, who was staffing the front desk, called 911, while operations director Chris Culhane brought an automated emergency defibrillator from the second floor to the gym, Lessig said.

Nigg’s wife, nurse practitioner Justine Preis, was present and monitoring him, Lessig said, as well as Dr. Carl Pearman, who also was playing pickleball.

Lessig said CPR was delayed because Nigg still appeared to have natural breath and a heartbeat. She said Preis began performing CPR as Manatee County EMTs arrived. EMS was on the scene within 10 to 15 minutes and transported Nigg to Blake.

Lessig commended her staff’s response and added that everyone on staff received CPR training June 28, two months earlier than the past year, to include the summer staff.

Preis also was hospitalized following her husband’s death, but was discharged by June 29.

— Bianca Benedí through,” Fox said.

Commissioner Carol Soustek, a turtle watch volunteer, said she was up for the task.

Fox closed her portion of the meeting and said everyone is working together to do a great job for wildlife on the nesting beaches in Holmes Beach, but as season peaks, the rules must be followed.

“Holmes Beach has the highest density nesting because we’re doing the right thing here,” Fox said.

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Privateers’ parade continues longtime island tradition

By Bianca Benedí Islander Reporter The exact date of the first Anna Maria Island Privateers’ Fourth of July parade is difficult to track down.

According to John “Redbeard” Swager, Privateers president, the first parade was held in the late 1970s or early 1980s.

The parade’s original intention, he said, was to keep people on the island for the summer. During the Fourth of July, most islanders would head elsewhere to attend celebrations, he said. small-business owners and community members decided a parade in town would attract people during the summer, increasing traffic after the snowbird season ended.

When the parade began, the Privateers towed a trailer that they decorated as their pirate ship, which was pulled by a car, and the parade was a small affair.

Today, the journey up the island can attract more than 100 floats, and the Privateers’ motorized ship “Skullywag,” the third ship in Privateers’ history, leads the pack, with all the members onboard.

This year’s parade was to begin at 10 a.m. July 4 at Coquina Beach and to end at the Anna Maria City Pier.

The Privateers are a nonprofit with a mission of entertaining kids and helping the community. They

New postal contract awarded to entrepeneurs

By Terry O’Connor Islander Reporter The U.S. Postal Service delivered as promised.

There is a new post office operator at the Holmes Beach contract mail office in time to maintain continuous service.

Mail, Etc. opened July 1 at 5354 Gulf Drive.

The new contract postal unit serves Holmes Beach after another CPU lease expired June 30, USPS communications program specialist Enola Rice confirmed June 27.

The business manager is Diana Rowe. The postal operator is Laura Ritter.

“The transition occurred Saturday,” said Rowe, along with a meet-and-greet.

What business will occupy the front portion of the postal outlet is yet to be determined, Rowe said.

Rowe said she and her partner decided to see if they could keep the postal contract in Holmes Beach when they heard the previous operators were retiring.

They chose Mail, Etc., as their corporate name.

Longtime employee Sue Phillips was retained, Rowe said.

“She’s worked at the post office here for many years,” Rowe said.

Mail, Etc. provides service to in-store box customers along with full-service shipping, printing, fax and notary services.

Mail, Etc. is open from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays.

The operators succeed Julie Quinlivan and Sally Woodward, whose run ended June 30.

Quinlivan and Woodward notified USPS of their plans to retire April 28 after roughly 18 months of operations.

“We’re retiring and that’s the end of the story,” said Quinlivan. “We were happy to provide the service.”

USPS had at least three confirmed applications.

Rebecca and Eric St. Jean, who have owned and operated Island Mail & More at 3230 E. Bay Drive for nearly four years, confirmed they applied for the contract.

But contract business units are not allowed to provide private mailbox services, third-party delivery services or any competing services similar to those offered by USPS, which disqualified Island Mail & More.

Island Mail & More received many calls from customers about moving their post office boxes, St. Jean said. “Now, it’s not an issue.”

Customers will retain their post office boxes at Mail, Etc.

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participate in a number of events on the island annually, as well as lead two parades a year up the length of the island – the Fourth of July parade, and the Christmas parade.

The parade was to be joined by the Desoto-based Crewe of Hernando DeSoto pirates and the Krewe of

Anna Maria drops 2nd pier engineering bidder

By Bianca Benedí Islander Reporter Anna Maria commissioners held an emergency meeting July 3 to halt negotiations with Taylor Engineering and begin negotiations with McLaren Engineering for the city pier engineering project.

Taylor Engineering’s estimates for the cost to engineer the construction needs and obtain permits for repairs to the city pier ranged from $475,000 to more than $500,000, Mayor Dan Murphy said, more than three times the $150,000 the city anticipated for the project.

“It goes beyond what the city can afford,” Murphy said.

Commissioners unanimously voted to move next to McLaren Engineering — the third-ranked bidder — and allow Murphy to begin a third round of negotiations.

In 2015, a marine survey found the Anna Maria City Pier was in need of repair.

In December 2016, Murphy put out a request for proposals to engineer repairs and obtain permits for remodeling and construction.

Three companies — Wantman Group Inc., Taylor and McLaren Engineering — responded to the bid. Murphy, along with city clerk LeAnne Addy and city planner Robin Meyer, ranked the three companies in order to negotiate.

Under Florida law, a municipality must negotiate with only one bidder at a time.

The relationship with WGI was cut short by the city following two months of delays obtaining information about the extent of the project.

In addition, Murphy said the expenses, at roughly $253,000 were too high to justify. However, Taylor Engineering’s bid came back twice as high as the bid from WGI. Murphy said Taylor’s prices were “higher across the board,” due to a more detailed proposal and a more thorough plan to complete the project, including the potential that the pier may be more extensively damaged than the 2015 study found.

The scope of the project includes engineering plans for repairs to the pier and preparation of permits for the construction. The price tag does not include construction or building costs.

The city now moves on to its final option.

Murphy will seek McLaren’s estimate of the scope and cost of the project and bring it to the commission for consideration.

Anna Maria Island Privateers and their scholarship recipients celebrate the Fourth of July aboard the Skullywag — the Privateer float/ boat — in the annual parade sponsored by the communityminded “all for kids” membership.

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“It’s our way of saying thank you to the island and everybody that supports us,” said Tim “Hammer” Thompson, the Privateers’ liaison officer.

“It celebrates the Fourth of July because without the Fourth of July, there wouldn’t be any freedom,” he said, referencing the nation’s founders’ decision to declare independence.

After the parade, the Privateers are hosting a party at the Ugly Grouper, 5704 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach, to recognize the winners of the scholarship awards. Hammer said more than $20,000 in scholarships will be distributed at the event.

Ahoy matey. And Happy Fourth of July.

Holmes Beach hears bikepedestrian plan update Commissioners also heard an update on the Holmes Beach bicycle-and-pedestrian plan from contracted city engineer Lynn Burnett at their June 27 meeting.

The commission approved a $290,000 drainage contract with Woodruff and Sons Inc. of Bradenton; severed an agreement with the Florida Department of Transportation to maintain two traffic signals; and updated an agreement with Manatee County to remove hurricane debris in the event of a catastrophe.

Commissioners indicated surprise to learn Bradenton Beach traffic signals are maintained by Manatee County at no cost. Holmes Beach pays the DOT an estimated $5,600 of the annual $13,000 cost to maintain two signals.

Holmes Beach is sending a registered letter to end the agreement with the DOT to jointly maintain the traffic lights.

“Basically, we’re getting out of acting as a gobetween between DOT and Manatee County,” said police Chief Bill Tokajer.

Commissioners asked Burnett about costs of the proposed bike-pedestrian trail, too. Burnett assured commissioners the estimated cost for the proposed bike-and-pedestrian plan would be produced soon.

Commissioners were unanimous in approving a contract allowing Woodruff to install stormwater infiltration trenches and replace stormwater pipes and inlets to reduce street flooding. Work on this phase is to be completed by Sept. 30.

In final remarks during the meeting, Commissioner Pat Morton applauded Gail Calhoun for removing a tiki hut atop her home at 516 Bay View Drive. He noted this could have become a thorny legal issue.

“I recommend sending them a thank-you letter,” Morton said. “It could have turned into another tree house.”

Morton was referring to a Holmes Beach treehouse ordered removed by city officials. The owners built a two-story treehouse in 2011 without permits and have been subject to a $50-a-day fine from Holmes Beach since May 2016, while awaiting the appeals process.

The Holmes Beach City Commission will next meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 11, at city hall.

— Terry O’Connor

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Team effort restores Palma Sola-Perico shoreline

By Terry O’Connor Islander Reporter An enhancement and restoration project on Palma Sola Scenic Highway was completed in time to meet its grant-imposed deadline and be showcased for the Fourth of July.

“I look at it as a masterpiece,” said Ingrid McClellan, executive director of Keep Manatee Beautiful, which spearheaded the project.

McClellan pegged the total project cost at $91,273, including in-kind contributions and labor.

Palma Sola Scenic Highway covers 4.5 miles of State Road 64/Manatee Avenue West from 75th Street West in Bradenton to East Bay Drive in Holmes Beach.

The highway carries 14,500 vehicles a day on SR 64 across Palma Sola Bay, Perico Bayou and Anna Maria Sound to and from Anna Maria Island, according to McClellan.

Two boat ramps, several small watercraft launches, a Bradenton park named Palma Sola Causeway Park, and Robinson, Perico and Neal preserves all are fed by the scenic highway.

Vehicles driving onto the shoreline edge were

degrading the area at the east end of the Perico Island Bridge and the east end of the Anna Maria Island Bridge, according to McClellan.

Keep Manatee Beautiful received a $3,000 grant with a deadline to use the funds by July 1 from the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program, McClellan said.

Keep Manatee Beautiful stitched together a community coalition to fund the rest of the project, which involved protecting native vegetation, removing invasive plants, renourishing and regrading sand and shell, adding native plants and installing wooden bollards.

The landscape designs were provided by Tom Heitzman, owner of Sweet Bay Nursery.

“A small project turned into a massive project,” she said. “It involved a lot more organizations than originally intended.”

The Florida Department of Transportation removed 60 tons of invasive plants, while Manatee County government waived the landfill tipping fees for the loads of waste.

Woodruff & Sons graded the eroded shoreline and applied 400 tons of shell, which was donated by SMR Aggregates. Woodruff & Sons also installed and restored bollards.

Newly installed bollards restrict vehicle traffic near the Anna Maria Island Bridge — part of a project on the Palma Sola Scenic Highway

by Keep Manatee Beautiful that also included the addition of native plants, sand and shell. Islander Courtesy Photo

The grant and in-kind donations from Woodruff & Sons, SMR Aggregates, Florida Native Plant Society, Keep Manatee Beautiful, the city of Bradenton, Manatee County government and the DOT helped finish the project.

Top donations included labor valued at nearly $50,000 from DOT inmate crews removing invasive plants, $23,000 in labor from Woodruff & Sons and $5,000 worth of shell from SMR Aggregates.

Gordon Cazella, Woodruf & Sons Inc. safety coordinator, Ingrid McLellan, Keep Manatee Beautiful executive director, and Jerry Konieczny, Woodruf superintendent, review plans in May that resulted in the installation of bollards and other landscape improvements to the Palma Sola Scenic Highway at the Anna Maria Island Bridge. The Palma Sola Scenic Highway Corridor Management Entity proposed the installations in February and finished the job June 30. Islander File Photo: Bonner Joy

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Opinion

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Don’t mess with paradise There are a few days that are harder than most to remember we live in paradise.

So many people come here to love Anna Maria Island.

It’s hard not to fall in love. Dolphins. Sea turtles.

White sand beaches. Aqua waters. Palm trees. Sunsets that burst with color.

The island newspaper slogan in the 1950s heralded, “Where life is peaceful and fishing is good.�

We take for granted that Anna Maria Island is a safe place. Islanders readily reach out to help people in need, strangers and neighbors alike. Crime and tragedy have no place here.

Even after the horror of Sept. 11, when terrorists struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and took a plane crashing to Earth in Pennsylvania, we felt safe on the island.

But what can we do when the island we love brings personal tragedy to a family? When the Gulf of Mexico takes swimmers’ lives without warning? When the danger is masked by the beauty and enticement of the shoreline?

We have to keep trying to educate visitors not just about preserving the beach for protected sea turtles and shorebirds, but of the very real and hidden dangers of rip current, undertow at the shore break and swift and deep waters near the shoreline.

I shake my head every so often while thinking about my family’s trips to the shore at Virginia Beach and Nags Head, where my young cousins and I bodysurfed — long before we could swim — in what I realize now were treacherous waters.

We survived the Atlantic surf. Thankfully.

I think we use much greater caution now. We all shoulder a responsibility to help visitors and alert friends and family of the dangers of the Gulf waters.

And, speaking of visitors, we hear they came in record numbers for the weekend before the Fourth of July.

I’ve always felt the more the merrier. But there are rules to be observed so, please, we hope you come to enjoy paradise and leave only footprints in the sand.

I’m hoping to resurrect a slogan from the restaurant association many years past, “We’re glad you’re here.�

I struggled to recall the slogan until, ironically, editor Lisa Neff found a 1970s photo from the landmark Pete Reynard’s restaurant — long since closed — with that slogan posted on the rotating salad bar.

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It seemed to me it has the perfect ring to it, a charming, welcoming phrase that applies to everyone who comes to love Anna Maria Island.

And hopefully, it will counter the complaining politicians bent on creating rules and limiting the use of vacation homes, which has resulted in a negative impression on our visitors — the impression that they

Opinion

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2 plus 2 equals fair As full-time residents and vacation property owners in Holmes Beach, we are concerned our elected officials are not making proper decisions regarding Bert Harris claims against our city.

Most of these claims stem from the fact that Holmes Beach Ordinances 15-12 and 16-02 restrict vacation rental occupancy to two persons per bedroom, directly affecting the income potential of these properties.

Sure, there are some abuses out there in vacationrental land, but we are sure most of properly licensed vacation-rental property owners/managers act in the best interest of their properties and the laws of the city, county and state.

Indeed, properly licensed vacation rentals pay not only property tax to the county and city, but also 12 percent of vacation-rental receipts is paid to the county and state each month.

We support fair home rule, but believe Ordinance 16-02 is too restrictive and shortsighted. Does this mean a family renting a home cannot place a crib in the home for their baby? Our own immediate family of us, two daughters, two husbands and a newborn would be prohibited from renting our own three-bedroom property.

Silly and unnecessary.

Additionally, what is the purpose of having a vacation-rental ordinance if it is not enforced?

Many city properties are improperly used as vacation rentals with the owner not obtaining a city business tax receipt, no limit on their occupancy, no compliance

are not welcome here.

The political blow to tourism — the mainstay for commerce on AMI has compelled me to take aim at changing that perception.

We’re glad you’re here. And you. And you. And you. All of y’all.

Happy Fourth of July. — Bonner Joy

with rental duration limits associated with zoning and probably not paying state sales tax and county tourism tax.

As far as we know, no enforcement mechanism is in place to bring these properties in compliance with the law. That leaves us with hundreds of properly licensed and managed rentals complying with the occupancy limit, while unlicensed operations rent without restriction.

We believe a fair accommodation to address these occupancy restriction suits is to do what the city of Anna Maria is doing to settle similar claims in their community. Instead of taking a hard line against all vacation-rental property owners, their commission is looking at each claim and offering an increase in occupancy where appropriate. This approach, coupled with the fact that their vacation-rental occupancy ordinance allows two persons per bedroom plus two additional persons limits their financial exposure.

Bradenton Beach also is debating the two-plus-two occupancy limit in its vacation rental ordinance.

We strongly believe it is time for the commissioners of Holmes Beach to do what is best for our city instead of clinging to position that has the potential to make our community insolvent.

Make a minor change in Ordinance 16-02 to set a new limit of two persons per bedroom plus two additional persons.

Dan and Rhonda Diggins, Holmes Beach Send your comments to news@islander.org or comment online at www.islander.org.

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Grassroots group organizes in Bradenton Beach A group of concerned neighbors is uniting to gain a voice in Bradenton Beach.

Concerned Neighbors of Bradenton Beach has held some informal gatherings and is inviting people to its first publicly announced meeting at 9 a.m. Tuesday, July 11, at the Annie Silver Community Center, 103 23rd St. N., Bradenton Beach.

The group will discuss issues pertaining to the city, will have a five-seven member board and plans call for sending a liaison to city meetings to voice the majority opinion of the group, according to CNOBB member Carol Harrington.

“This is not exclusive,” Harrington said June 28.

“We want residents and businesses to be represented and hopefully the commission will listen to what the people want.”

According to Harrington, concerns were raised last year, when a commissioner was appointed to the vacant Ward 2 seat.

The city commission considered a last-minute applicant — who was not appointed — and Harrington

disagrees with the way it was handled.

Additionally, Harrington said the group is concerned with the city charter.

“Changes about a year ago to the city’s charter reflected the opinions of the commission, not necessarily the citizens,” Harrington said. “We want to make our voice heard.”

For more information about Concerned Neighbors of Bradenton Beach, contact chair Bill Vincent at 941730-7715 or go online at cnobb.org.

CNOBB organizer Carol Harrington.

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• A Holmes Beach resident anonymously complained about a resident keeping chickens in her yard in the 500 block of 72nd Street. Commissioner Don Maloney complained that chickens are “as illegal as pigs” and he wanted action. But the mayor said the city didn’t act on anonymous complaints.

• Holmes Beach commissioners revised an agreement with Manatee County for ballgames at city field park, which the county contributed $50,000 to build. The city said the county could organize ballgames through the Anna Maria Island Community Center but the field would also be open for pickup games.

In the headlines: July 4, 2007 • Bradenton Beach officials were reviewing a plan at the vacant beachfront property in the 800-900 blocks of Gulf Drive, where the popular Trader Jack’s eatery stood for decades. The proposal involved rezoning the site for condominiums.

• Bradenton Beach concluded the first phase of a parking study requested by business owners in the Bridge Street area. Recommendations included redesigning Bridge Street with more parking spaces, leasing vacant lots for parking and, long-term, elevating city hall and the Tingley Library for ground-level parking.

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Environmentalists, Cortez captain appeal Swiftmud dismissal

By Kathy Prucnell Islander Reporter Cortez Capt. Kathe Fannon and Suncoast Waterkeeper Inc. aren’t taking no for an answer.

After a Southwest Florida Water Management District June 1 dismissal order, the charter boat captain and the nonprofit environmental group filed their appeal June 16 with the 2nd District Court of Appeal.

The Swiftmud order dismissed the FannonWaterkeeper petition, which challenged the inclusion of a 2.5-mile manmade lagoon and seawall as part of a conceptual permit for Aqua by the Bay. Aqua is a proposed 523-acre mixed-use development on Sarasota Bay southeast of Cortez.

Swiftmud turned down the environmentalists’ request for a formal hearing and request for a denial

order.

Waterkeeper’s mission is to advocate for Sarasota and Manatee counties’ waterways. Fannon is a Cortezbased boat captain who operates charters in Sarasota Bay. Swiftmud permits are required before construction is proposed to affect wetlands, alter surface water flow or contribute to water pollution.

Cape Coral attorney Ralf Brookes, who filed the Fannon- Waterkeeper petition opposing the Swiftmud permit in May, called the order from the administrative agency “unilateral” in violation of state law.

The petition states the permitting decision is not in the public interest because it adversely affects the public safety, flow of water, fishing, marine productivity, the conservation of fish and wildlife and other

Holmes Beach rejects 5 more Bert Harris claims

By Terry O’Connor Islander Reporter Five more Bert Harris letters were OK’d for delivery at the June 27 meeting of the Holmes Beach City Commission at city hall, 5801 Marina Drive.

Commissioners have rejected nearly all Bert Harris claims to date and the latest letters continue the policy of “no change.”

Most of 53 claims against Holmes Beach, all listed on the city website, allege property value losses caused by the city’s short-term rental occupancy rule. Two claims have been voluntarily dismissed without prejudice.

The question remained, however, as to when the letters would be sent out?

During a meeting that lasted more than three hours, city attorney Patricia Petruff was asked when the letters would be mailed.

“Soon,” was Petruff’s answer.

Holmes Beach has 150 days to respond to any Bert Harris claim with a settlement offer, but has so far chosen not to negotiate with any of the owners claiming damage from city policies on vacation rental properties.

Property owners have the option to sue the city if

Anna Maria stands firm on Bert Harris settlement offer Anna Maria commissioners doubled down on a settlement offer they made for a Bert Harris claim filed for an apartment building at 201 S. Bay Blvd.

The counter-offer allows for occupancy of 16 people, with a caveat that the bedrooms must have existed prior to the adoption of the vacation rental ordinance in November 2015.

The city originally issued the offer in November 2016.

However, the property owner, AMI Bayfront LLC, issued a counter-demand for a 34-person occupancy, allowing six people each in six rooms and eight people each in another six rooms in the 12-bedroom apartment building.

The city’s counter-offer also included an advisory notice that the property is a legal non-conforming use and recent renovations, including converting former patios into rooms, expands the non-conformity.

In addition, the city said it could be willing to compromise on occupancy, but not on parking, for the property, which is adjacent to the Waterfront Restaurant.

The Bert Harris Jr. Private Property Protection Act of 1995 allows property owners to seek relief if they can prove a government action lowered the value of their property.

Claimants must provide appraisals to establish value and settlements, in lieu of a cash payments can either fully or partly restore the rights that existed before the prohibitions. The city has 150 days to respond to claims submitted.

One of the most contested portions of the rental ordinance involves limiting occupancy in vacation rentals to eight people.

Of 112 Bert Harris claims filed against the city, 86 have been settled or will be settled upon signing, while 19 are waiting a final decision.

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a settlement is not reached.

Once sent, the city notices set the clock running on a one-year statute of limitations, according to Petruff.

The latest Bert Harris letters will be sent to Thomas and Katherine Hayes, 302 65th St.; Tugboat Properties LLC, 303 61st St., units A and B; Christian and Felicia Tyler, 401 75th St.; and to attorneys Najmy Thompson and Aaron Thomas, for a claim filed on property at 6422 Gulf Drive, Unit Five, which does not have a rental license. No owner was listed for the 6422 Gulf Drive property.

The Bert Harris Jr. Private Property Rights Protection Act of 1995 allows property owners to seek relief if they can prove a government action lowered the value of their property.

Commissioners were warned by Petruff and the city insurer, the Florida League of Cities, that the growing liability potential could overwhelm the city’s insurance coverage.

The city faces roughly $25 million in possible settlement liability in contrast to $1 million in annual insurance liability.

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natural and historic resources in Sarasota Bay. The environmentalists also call out Swiftmud for allowing a “prohibited” vertical seawall, which is “not designed with rip rap.”

Swiftmud’s June 1 final dismissal comes after a May dismissal without prejudice that advised the petitioners “to correct defects” in the pleading, including a failure to contain a statement of all disputed issues of material facts.

In the earlier order, Swiftmud general counsel Karen E. West stated it “does not explain how the alleged facts relate to specific rules or statutes.”

According to Brookes, the petition did provide descriptive language on “how the specific rules were violated.”

Aqua by the Bay is expected to go before the Manatee County commissioners for general development plan and zoning consideration in August.

Capt. Kathe Fannon of Cortez pleads with Manatee County commissioners at a May 4 meeting to reject a large-scale, mixed-use Aqua By The Bay development and save the fish nurseries. Islander Photo: Kathy Prucnell • Aug. 2, 7 p.m., planning commission.

• Aug. 8, 6 p.m., city commission.

• Aug. 10, 6 p.m., city commission.

• Aug. 22, 6 p.m., city commission.

• Aug. 24, 6 p.m., city commission.

• Aug. 28-Sept. 1, noon-noon, election qualifying period.

Holmes Beach City Hall, 5801 Marina Drive, 941-708-5800, holmesbeachfl.org.

Anna Maria City • July 11, 4 p.m., planning and zoning.

• July 13, 6 p.m., city commission.

• July 27, 6 p.m., city commission.

• Aug. 8, 4 p.m., planning and zoning.

• Aug. 10, 6 p.m., city commission.

• Aug. 24, 6 p.m., city commission.

• Sept. 12, 4 p.m., planning and zoning.

West Manatee Fire Rescue • Sept. 14, 6 p.m., city commission.

• None announced.

• Sept. 28, 6 p.m., city commission.

WMFR administration building, 6417 Third Ave. Anna Maria City Hall, 10005 Gulf Drive, 941- W., Bradenton, wmfr.org.

708-6130, cityofannamaria.com.

Manatee County Bradenton Beach • July 25, 9 a.m., county commission.

• July 5, 9:30 a.m., CRA. • Aug. 1, 9 a.m., county commission (budget).

• July 5, 11 a.m., pier team.

• Aug. 3, 9 a.m., county commission (land • July 5, 1 p.m., CRA, budget workshop. use).

• July 6, 1 p.m., CRA, tentative workshop.

• Aug. 8, 9 a.m., county commission.

• July 6, 6 p.m., city commission.

• Aug. 16, 9 a.m., county commission (land • July 11, 1 p.m., city commission. use).

• July 12, 10 a.m., city commission, budget • Aug. 22, 9 a.m., county commission. workshop.

Administration building, 1112 Manatee Ave. W., • July 13, 10 a.m., city commission, budget Bradenton, 941-748-4501, mymanatee.org. workshop.

• July 13, 1 p.m., department heads.

Of interest • July 19, 1 p.m., planning and zoning.

• July 19, 2 p.m., Coalition of Barrier Island • July 20, noon, city commission.

Elected Officials, Anna Maria City Hall.

• July 25, 1 p.m., city commission.

• Aug. 16, 2 p.m., Coalition of Barrier Island • July 26, 10 a.m., city commission, budget Elected Officials, Bradenton Beach City Hall. hearing.

• Aug. 21, 9 a.m., Manatee County Tourist • July 26, 11 a.m., CRA, budget hearing.

Development Council, Manatee Technical College, Bradenton Beach City Hall, 107 Gulf Drive N., 6305 State Road 70 E., Bradenton.

941-778-1005, cityofbradentonbeach.org.

• Sept. 4, Labor Day, most government offices and The Islander office will be closed.

Holmes Beach • Sept. 11, 2 p.m., Island Transportation Planning • July 5, 7 p.m., planning commission.

Organization, Anna Maria City Hall.

• July 11, 6 p.m., city commission.

• July 13, 6 p.m., city commission.

Send notices to calendar@islander.org and • July 27, 11:30 a.m., police retirement board. news@islander.org.

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Vietnam veteran ships out July 4, 1965, aids in space capsule recovery

By ChrisAnn Silver Esformes Islander Reporter It was 1965 and the socio-political climate was charged.

President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated, the Vietnam War was escalating and while some were protesting, others were enlisting.

Bradenton Beach resident Bill Vincent was 19 years old — one of 13 children in his family. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy Reserve as a high school junior in 1963, completed boot camp during the summer between his Vincent junior and senior years, graduated high school in June and, in 1965, he shipped out to the war on the Fourth of July.

“I remember seeing fireworks from the plane as we flew through the night,” Vincent said June 27.

He was flown to Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia, where he boarded the USS Boxer, a Navy aircraft carrier.

“We had no idea where we were going until we were out to sea,” Vincent said. “That was probably best at the time.”

The boat crossed the Atlantic Ocean then the Mediterranean Sea, traveled through the Suez Canal and Indian Ocean to Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam.

“For a 19-year-old from farm country, it was quite an adventure,” he said.

Vincent, a boatswain — an officer in charge of the boat’s equipment and crew — said he learned a variety of tasks associated with maintaining the ship.

On the way back stateside, Vincent said they encountered a cyclone in the Indian Ocean that spawned 120-mph winds and 60-foot waves crashing over the stern.

He was driving the boat.

“The captain said if I kept it 10 degrees either side of the course, he’d be happy,” Vincent said. “It was easier said than done.”

On his second mission, Vincent helped recover AS-201, the capsule from the first unmanned Apollo spaceflight, from the Atlantic Ocean Feb. 22, 1966.

The capsule was part of a program that would lead to the first man on the moon.

Upon returning from his second tour, Vincent resisted Navy recruitment efforts for gunboats and set his sights on submarines.

After several transfer requests, he received orders to go to U.S. Naval Submarine School in Groton, Connecticut.

“The course was extremely difficult to get through,” Vincent said. “It was as much designed to get you to quit as anything.”

After two months of training he was assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln, a nuclear submarine.

Vincent said he undertook six to seven patrol missions, each lasting 60-90 days, during which they were submerged in a laboratory-sterile environment.

He said the crew operated on an 18-hour day, with six hours for sleeping, six hours for recreation and six hours of work. Vincent’s “recreation” included studying and exams for advancement. He said the exams required knowledge of every aspect of the boat, in the case of an emergency.

“The qualifying officer took me into the torpedo room and would call out a valve by name and number,” Vincent said. “I had to go to it, place my hand on it and tell the officer its function. There were thousands of valves in that room.”

Leaving from the U.S. nuclear submarine base in Holy Lock, Scotland, Vincent said they were given orders to “Go north and go deep.” He said the nuclear submarines served as a deterrent to the Russians, who knew where land-based nuclear weapons were located, but not the submarines.

“If the enemies knew, theoretically, that I had a brother with a gun aimed at them, they were less likely to take that shot,” Vincent said.

In 1969, Vincent decided he was finished with the war. He returned home to a tumultuous political climate.

“On my way back, passing through airports in uniform, I saw a mother look at me in fear and pull her child closer to her as I walked by,” Vincent said. “It was terrible. I knew I was done.”

Vincent came from a military family, with many uncles and brothers who spent years serving.

When asked why fewer people today enlist in the U.S. military compared to the past, Vincent said he Bill Vincent stands with his mother, Elenor, in June thinks the goals are less-defined.

1964, before boarding a plane in Lansing, Michigan, “Up until Vietnam and its outcome, the military headed to the U.S. Naval Station Great Lakes in was clear and focused,” Vincent said. “Nobody knows Chicago. Islander Photo: Courtesy Bill Vincent what the goal is now. What does ‘win’ look like?”

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Thursday, July 8 Saturday, July 8 6-8 p.m. — Art reception for Rusty Chinnis’ “Native Beauty” 2 p.m. — Music on the Porch, Florida Maritime Museum, 4415 and Linda Heath’s “Fish Tales,” Studio at Gulf and Pine, 10101 Gulf 119th St. W., Cortez. Information: 941-708-6120.

Drive, Anna Maria. Information: 941-778-1906.

Tuesday, July 11 ONGOING OFF ANNA MARIA ISLAND 2 p.m. — “Lincoln Center Live” screening, “Curtain Up: The • Most second Wednesdays, Think+Drink (Science), 7-9 p.m., School of American Ballet Workshop Performances,” Island Library, South Florida Museum, 201 10th St. W., Bradenton. Fee applies.

5701 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach. Information: 941-778-6341.

Information: 941-746-4131.

• Through Aug. 4, “Egypt—The Eternal Spirit of Its People,” retONGOING ON AMI rospective by Jack Jonathan, Willis Smith Gallery, Ringling College • Throughout July, Artists’ Guild Gallery, 5414 Marina Drive, of Art and Design, 2363 Old Bradenton Road, Sarasota. Information: Holmes Beach, exhibits “Land of the Free” in a window display. 941-359-7563.

Information: 941-778-6694.

• Throughout July, Brenda Alcorn will display “A School of Fish” at Island Gallery West, 5368 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach. Information: 941-778-6648.

• Through Aug. 5, “Fish Tales” by Linda Heath, Studio at Gulf and Pine, 10101 Gulf Drive, Anna Maria. Information: 941-7781906.

• Through Aug. 5, “Native Beauty” by Rusty Chinnis, Studio at Gulf and Pine, 10101 Gulf Drive, Anna Maria. Information: 941-7781906.

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The Island Library continues to show “Lincoln Center Live” screenings. The library will screen ON ANNA MARIA ISLAND “Curtain Up: The School of American Ballet Workshop Performances” at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 11.

Wednesday, July 5 1-3 p.m. — “Our Local Waters: Island Marine Adventures,” Islander Courtesy Photo Studio at Gulf and Pine, 10101 Gulf Drive, Anna Maria. Information: GOOD TO KNOW 941-778-1906.

Thursday, July 6 • Aug. 10, Grandparents Day. 10 a.m. — Juggling show, Island Library, 5701 Marina Drive, • Sept. 4, Labor Day. Holmes Beach. Information: 941-778-6341.

• Sept.11, Patriot Day. Saturday, July 8 • Sept. 22, first day of autumn.

10 a.m.— Origami crafting, Island Library, 5701 Marina Drive, GAMES, SPORTS Holmes Beach. Information: 941-778-6341.

2 p.m. — Making postage stamp art magnets, Island & OUTDOORS Library, 5701 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach. Information: 941-778ON ANNA MARIA ISLAND 6341.

Tuesday, July 11 Saturday, July 8 10 a.m. — Preschool storytime, Island Library, 5701 Marina 9 a.m. — Manatee County/Tampa Bay Watch Coastal Cleanup, Drive, Holmes Beach. Information: 941-778-6341.

Leffis Key and Coquina Bayside, Bradenton Beach. Information: 941-742-5757.

ONGOING ON ANNA MARIA ISLAND Wednesday, July 12 4 p.m. — Chess club, Island Library, 5701 Marina Drive, • Tuesdays, 10 a.m., Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Holmes Beach. Information: 941-778-6341.

Shorebird Monitoring Turtle Talks, CrossPointe Fellowship, 8605 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach. Information: 941-778-5638.

ONGOING ON ANNA MARIA ISLAND ONGOING OFF ANNA MARIA ISLAND

• Wednesdays and Saturdays, 9 a.m., horseshoes pitched, Anna Maria City Hall, 10005 Gulf Drive, Anna Maria. Information: • Fourth Wednesdays, 7 p.m., Stelliferous Live star exploration, 941-708-6130.

South Florida Museum, 201 10th St. W., Bradenton. Fee applies.

Information: 941-746-4131.

OFF ANNA MARIA ISLAND • Most first Saturdays, Family Night at the South Florida Museum, 201 10th St. W., Bradenton. Fee applies. Information: Saturday, July 8 941-746-4131.

9 a.m. — Robinson Preserve Paddle, 1704 99th St. NW, Bra• “Teeth Beneath: the Wild World of Gators, Crocs and Cai- denton. Information: 941-742-5757, ext. 7. mans” exhibit, Mote Marine Aquarium, 1600 Ken Thompson Park- Tuesday, July 11 way, Sarasota. Fee applies. Information: 941-388-4441.

7 p.m. — Robinson Preserve Sunset Shutter Stroll, 1704 99th St. NW, Bradenton. Information: 941-742-5757, ext. 7.

LOOKING AHEAD ONGOING OFF ANNA MARIA ISLAND July 22, Snooty’s Birthday Bash, Bradenton.

• Through Sept. 3, Bradenton Marauders Minor League Baseball games, LECOM Park, 1611 Ninth St. W., Bradenton. Fee applies. Information: 877-893-2827.

• Second and fourth Wednesdays, Roser Memorial Community Church Golfing for God, IMG Academy Golf Club, 4350 El Conquistador Parkway, Bradenton. Fee applies. Information: 941-7780414.

• Through the summer, duplicate bridge games, 1-4 p.m. Tuesdays, Aging in Paradise Resource Center, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key. Fee applies. Information: 941-383-6493.

Save the date of July 22: The South Florida Museum in downtown Bradenton will celebrate the birthday of Snooty the Manatee with a party, cards and manatee-friendly cake. Islander File Photo

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GET LISTED Send listings to calendar@islander.org. Submissions must include a contact name and telephone number for publication, as well as the pertinent details of the event: What, when, where and how much.

Island happenings New artists participate in exhibit Bill DiMenna stands with his painting, “My Spot,� during a June 23 reception at the Anna Maria Island Art League, 5312 Holmes Blvd., Holmes Beach. DiMenna, an island resident, was one of several new artists in the exhibition that runs through July 15 — the last until fall.

For more information about AMIAL, call gallery assistant Fran Sansbury at 941-7782099. Islander Photo: Sandy Ambrogi

County extension service offering summer classes The Manatee County Agriculture and Extension Service will offer two free classes in July at the Palma Sola Botanical Gardens in northwest Bradenton.

Offerings include: • “Drought Tolerant Plants 101,â€? which will be taught at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 18, by horticulture program assistant Valrie Massey. Students will learn about Florida-friendly plants. • “Irrigation Designing,â€? which will be taught by extension agent Michelle Atkinson at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 20. Most of the class will take place outside, where students will learn the tricks to installing an in-ground irrigation system.

The Palma Sola Botanical Gardens is at 9800 17th Ave. NW, Bradenton.

For more information about programs, call the extension service at 941-722-4524.

CLUBS & COMMUNITY ON ANNA MARIA ISLAND Wednesday, July 5 Noon-5 p.m. — Blood drive, Island Library, 5701 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach. Information: 941-778-6341.

Thursday, July 6 1 p.m. — Knitting and crocheting, Island Library, 5701 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach. Information: 941-778-6341.

Friday, July 7 10 a.m. — Senior Adventures screen “Out of Time,� Annie Silver Community Center, 103 23rd St. N., Bradenton Beach. Information: 941-538-0945.

Tuesday, July 11 9 a.m. — Concerned Neighbors of Bradenton Beach meets, Annie Silver Community Center, 103 23rd St. N., Bradenton Beach.

Information: 941-730-7715.

Wednesday, July 12 Noon — Adult coloring club, Island Library, 5701 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach. Information: 941-778-6341.

1 p.m. — “Our Local Waters� lectures with Ed Chiles and Karen Bell, Studio at Gulf and Pine, 10101 Gulf Drive, Anna Maria. Information: 941-778-1906.

ONGOING ON ANNA MARIA ISLAND • Second and fourth Wednesdays, 11 a.m. Just Older Youth/ JOY Brown Bag Lunch Series, Roser Memorial Community Church, 512 Pine Ave., Anna Maria. Information: 941-778-0414. • Thursdays, 7 p.m., Overeaters Anonymous meets, the Episcopal Church of the Annunciation, 4408 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach.

Information: 813-494-6518. • Third Thursdays, 11:45 a.m., Successful Women Aligning Together meets, Bridge Street Bistro, 111 Gulf Drive S., Bradenton Beach. Fee applies. Information: 941-345-5135.

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County volunteers to clean up The Manatee County Parks and Natural Resources Department is coordinating a cleanup campaign at Coquina Beach and Leffis Key in Bradenton Beach.

Volunteers will gather at Coquina Bayside at about 9 a.m. Saturday, July 8. The effort is sponsored by Tampa Bay Watch.

Other upcoming activities include: • Robinson Preserve Paddle, 9 a.m. Saturday, July 8. Paddlers will tour the preserve. Participants must have their own kayak and gear. Robinson is at 1704 99th St. NW, Bradenton. • Robinson Preserve Sunset Shutter Stroll, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, July 11, with photographer Rob Hamilton offering instruction on how to photograph birds and landscapes in the park. • Robinson Preserve Sun Spotting, 9 a.m. Saturday, July 15. Those who visit the Valentine House will find a hydrogen alpha solar telescope set up to observe solar granulation, filaments, sunspots and solar flares.

For more, call the county at 941-742-5757.

Senior Adventures screen ‘Out of Time’ The Senior Adventures of Anna Maria Island will gather for a movie and popcorn Friday, July 7, at the Annie Silver Community Center, 103 23rd St. N., Bradenton Beach.

The film will begin at about 10 a.m. The group will be watching “Out of Time,� a mystery-thriller filmed in the area and featuring Denzel Washington.

The group will skip adventures July 14 and July 23 and then gather for a potluck lunch and book sale 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, July 27, at Annie Silver.

For more information or to RSVP for activities, call Kaye Bell at 941-538-0945 or Peg Miller at 941778-3106.

FOURTH OF JULY FUN ON ANNA MARIA ISLAND Tuesday, July 4 10 a.m. — Anna Maria Island Privateers Independence Day Parade, from Coquina Beach in Bradenton Beach to the City Pier in Anna Maria. Information: 941-780-1668.

Noon-4 p.m. — Anna Maria Island Privateers Fourth of July party and scholarship awards, Ugly Grouper, 5704 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach. Information: 941-780-1668.

1-3 p.m. — City of Anna Maria holiday party, City Pier Park, Pine Avenue and North Bay Boulevard. Information: 941-708-6130.

Sunset — Sandbar restaurant’s annual Fireworks Spectacular: Fourth of July Celebration, on the beach near the restaurant, 100 Spring Ave., Anna Maria. Information: 941-778-8705.

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Activities, art, chart ‘Our Local Waters’ at the Studio...

Work by photographer Rusty Chinnis is featured in “Native Beauty� at the Studio at Gulf and Pine, 10101 Gulf Drive, Anna Maria, through Aug. 5. Islander Courtesy Photo

boat Capt. Rusty Chinnis. “Restore Our Bays and Waterwaysâ€? by Larry Stults, president of Sarasota Bay Watch. • July 26, “Your Gulfâ€? by Sandy Gilbert of Solutions To Avoid Red Tide. “Climate Change and Mangrove Migration Necessitated by Sea-Level Riseâ€? by Karen Willey of Around the Bend Nature Tours LLC. • Aug. 2, “Our Locally Resident Dolphins: What They Have Taught Usâ€? by Randall Wells, director of

...and hosts ‘Local Waters’ classes in culinary arts Learn techniques and recipes and sharpen skills at the culinary arts classes offered at the Studio at Gulf and Pine in Anna Maria.

Erik Walker, the culinary director for the Chiles Group, and Rich Demarse, executive chef at Mar Vista on Longboat Key, will lead the lessons.

The series is part of “Our Local Waters,� a summer celebration of the Florida Gulf Coast at the Studio at

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Danny Stasny, visits Washington, D.C., July 3 with the Circus Arts Conservatory. While there, she taught circus science lessons that she helped write for the 50th Smithsonian's Folklife Festival, a celebration of Circus Arts. This fall, she’ll be a science teacher at Rowlett Middle Academy in Bradenton.

Gulf and Pine. “Our Local Waters� is a community outreach festival with an emphasis on preservation, conservation and sustainability of local ecosystems, according to a news release from the Studio.

Classes will be 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursdays, July 13, July 20, July 27 and Aug. 3.

Early registration for a class is $75 or $275 for the series classes. Class sizes are limited.

The schedule of lessons includes: • July 13, “Chilled Florida Waters,â€? taught by Walker, will focus on sourcing local and sustainable fish, preparing summer dishes, cooking with citrus and cooking shrimp. Students will learn to prepare ceviche, a shrimp roll and a watermelon salad. • July 20, “Grilling A to D—Appetizers to Desserts,â€? taught by Demarse. This class will focus on the sourcing of local fish and the sometimes tricky techniques of grilling seafood. Students will learn to prepare seafood kabobs, red grouper, grilled potato salad and chili-lime grilled pineapple. • July 27, “Foraging and Fishing,â€? taught by Walker, focusing on grilling skills and techniques. Students will create a meal based on garden ingredients.

Aug. 3, “Florida’s Wild Side,� taught by Demarse.

This class will focus on the fruits found in island yards and the seasons to use them. Students will learn to prepare mango-shrimp salad, grilled chicken with avocado and a fruit salad.

The Studio at Gulf and Pine is at 10101 Gulf Drive, Anna Maria.

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Call the Studio at Gulf and Pine, 10101 Gulf Drive, Anna Maria, for more information at 941-778-1906.

Cortez school offering courses in seafood prep The Florida Folk School at the Florida Maritime Museum in Cortez will host a class in seafood preparation Saturday, July 22.

Erik Walker, culinary director for Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant and Pub on Longboat Key and The Sandbar and Beach House restaurants on Anna Maria Island, will instruct students in making ceviche, shrimp rolls and watermelon salad using locally sourced, sustainable fish.

The class will begin at 11 a.m. The fee is $65 and enrollment is limited to 15 students.

For more information or registration, go online to floridafolkschool.org or call 941-7086120.

The museum is at 4415 119th St. W., Cortez.

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Whitfieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 5.

Children will â&#x20AC;&#x153;get up close and personal with sea creatures, learn to identify fish and sea grasses, practice casting with a rod and cast-netting and tying knots,â&#x20AC;? according to a news release.

Also, Wednesday afternoons this summer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; July 12-Aug. 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the art space will host the Our Local Waters Interactive Lecture Series, featuring talks by Ed Chiles, Karen Bell, Rusty Chinnis, Larry Stults, Sandy Gilbert, Karen Wiley, Randy Wells and Suzi Fox. Lectures begin at 1 p.m., including: â&#x20AC;˘ July 12, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sustaining the Future: Creating a New Business Model for Sustainable Economic Development and Environmental Preservationâ&#x20AC;? by Ed Chiles, owner of a trio of restaurants.

Also, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cortezâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Past, Present and Futureâ&#x20AC;? by Karen Bell, owner of A.P. Bell Fish Company and Star Fish Co. in Cortez. â&#x20AC;˘ July 19, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fishing Local Waters: A Look Fantastic Fishing Opportunitiesâ&#x20AC;? by nature photographer and

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Those were the days for July 4 family memories

By Sandy Ambrogi Islander Reporter The Fourth of July conjures up the smell of hot dogs sizzling over the coals and the sound of crackling sparklers.

A great Fourth of July fireworks show is breathtaking — especially when it involves a daytrip to Disney World in Orlando. It’s a kid’s dream come true.

So sometime in the mid-1970s, shortly after Disney World turned empty mid-state Florida swampland into what would become the most visited vacation resort in the world, Bill Tokajer took a ride from Sarasota with his family. It was a summer day-trip that would turn into a life-long memory.

“I was about 15 years old,” Tokajer said, “And we went to Disney to see the fireworks. It is my favorite Fourth, ever.”

A road trip — even if it was for just one day — was no simple task for the Tokajers — a blended family still rare in the ’70s. By the time all the kids had been loaded in the minivan, three sisters and four brothers were crammed in the seats. A fifth brother had already flown the family coup and didn’t take the trip to the mid-state mega-park.

Forget about spending the night back. Tokajer’s father was an accountant and his mother a bank vice president. There were daily jobs waiting for them in

the morning.

“It was drive over and drive back,” Tokajer said, “but the fireworks were spectacular then, and they still are now. I never forget that day. I just recently took my granddaughter and the family to see the nightly Disney fireworks. Fantastic.”

These days, Tokajer spends 16-18 hours on the clock on holidays like the Fourth of July, in his duties as the Holmes Beach chief of police.

Before joining HBPD five years ago, he worked on Longboat Key after his retirement as deputy chief of police with Bradenton.

One of Tokajer’s main concerns for the upcoming holiday is fireworks, which are banned on the sands of Holmes Beach, as are grills, pets and alcohol.

“We want to keep our family-oriented crowd and maintain that family-friendly atmosphere we are known for at Holmes Beach,” he said.

The chief’s advice for July 4 revelers?

“We will have extra patrols working all day to make sure everyone has a fun, safe day. Give yourself plenty of time to get wherever you are going. Be patient. The more time you give yourself, the less stress you will have,” he said.

Here’s betting the chief knows a lot about patience.

Seven siblings and parents in a minivan on a day trip to Orlando? That’s probably where he learned it.

Holmes Beach Police Chief Bill Tokajer, left, holds granddaughter Aniston Franks alongside wife Thea at Disney World. Tokajer recalls a family trip to Orlando as his favorite Fourth of July memory. The family recently gathered again at the Magic Kingdom, where they enjoyed the fireworks. Islander Courtesy Photo

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Kaci Therrien, 13, readies for archery practice at the center. Kaci is competing for a spot on the U.S. World Archery Championships team.

Kids in center summer camp pose around an archery target used by competitive archer Kaci Therrien June 29.

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New Top Notch photo contest begins, deadline July 7

Top Notch

The Islanderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Top Notch contest begins anew.

The contest celebrates what still is known as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kodak moment,â&#x20AC;? despite the widespread switch from film to digital technology.

Look to July 7 for the first deadline, including your July 4 holiday photos.

The contest includes six weekly front-page winners. Each receives an Islander â&#x20AC;&#x153;More than a mullet wrapperâ&#x20AC;? T-shirt.

One weekly will take the top prize in the Top Notch contest, earning the photographer a cash prize from The Islander and certificates from local merchants.

A pet photo winner is announced in the final week.

Look online this week for complete rules and details.

Please, note, each photo must be included in a single email with the name of the photographer; date the photo was taken; location and description, names of recognizable people; and address and phone number for the photographer.

More rules â&#x20AC;&#x201D; published online at www.islander. org â&#x20AC;&#x201D; must be observed. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bonner Joy

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Holmes Beach patrol officer honored for ‘going beyond’ call of duty

By Terry O’Connor Islander Reporter A Holmes Beach police officer known for tracking down drivers operating vehicles under the influence of drugs or alcohol has been honored for his dedication.

Holmes Beach Police Officer Alan Bores, 38, received a dedication and professionalism award June 19 from U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan during the 16th District Congressional Law Enforcement Award ceremony at the Manatee County Courthouse in Bradenton.

“I didn’t know it was coming,” Bores said. “I feel very honored. My family and girlfriend think it’s very good for all the hard work I’ve done.”

In July, Bores will receive another award for enforcing DUI laws from Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

“Officer Bores has made the city of Holmes Beach a safer place to live and visit due to his outstanding police work and proactive patrolling,” read a news release issued by HBPD Detective Sgt. Brian Hall.

“He has quickly become an invaluable member of the department.”

Chief Bill Tokajer recruited Bores in July 2015 to follow him to the HBPD from the Longboat Key Police Department. Bores is a Sarasota native going on his 14th year in law enforcement.

“He’s a very proactive enforcement officer,” Tokajer said. “He’s an officer who does the right thing. He’s somebody that can be trusted to do the right thing.”

Bores made 69 arrests in 2016, including 34 for driving under the influence.

He said he focuses on DUI arrests because they make the roads safer.

“Every day you read about accidents and fatalities that are caused by impairment,” he said.

His chief clue a driver might be tipsy or worse: Erratic driving.

Hall cited three instances where Bores came through with major arrests in 2016: • Jan. 1: Bores arrested a home burglary suspect at an occupied residence with no injuries to the occupants.

• April 13: Bores stopped a vehicle and arrested the driver on multiple charges, including drug possession involving marijuana, cocaine and meth.

• Oct. 7: Bores arrested two suspects wanted in U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Longboat Key, left, connection with several burglaries and property-damrecognizes Holmes Beach Police Officer Alan Bores age cases. with the dedication and professionalism award Tokajer said Bores was selected for training as a June 19 during the Congressional Law Enforcement drug recognition expert for his diligence in enforcing Award Ceremony at the Manatee County Courthouse DUI laws. He is one of four in Manatee County. in Bradenton. Islander Courtesy Photo Bores said the training enables him to detect other

impairment besides alcohol, whether it’s drugs, medical issues or a combination.

“All have different signs of impairment,” Bores said.

Buchanan presented the award to Bores as one of 12 law enforcement personnel honored in his district. It’s at least the fourth year in a row for an HBPD employee to be recognized by Buchanan, Tokajer said.

“To win this award, it takes an officer who goes above and beyond the call of duty,” Tokajer said. “And that’s what Alan does. He’s been doing a great job.”

Buchanan established his awards six years ago to recognize law enforcement officers, departments and units for exceptional achievement, according to a news release from his office.

Buchanan stated, “Every day, brave men and women put themselves in harm’s way to enforce the laws of our society and protect public safety. They deserve our gratitude and respect. These awards are a fitting tribute to our officers and a reminder of the important role they play in our communities.”

Buchanan’s award winners were chosen by a panel of law enforcement personnel.

Roadwatch

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The Florida Department of Transportation posted the following advisories for the week of July 2: • State Roadways in Manatee and Sarasota counties. Crews are trimming trees over the roads and sidewalk on all state roads. Expect lane closures 9 a.m.-4 p.m. through July 21.

• State Road 789/Gulf Drive from State Road 64/ Manatee Avenue to State Road 684/Cortez Road: Manatee County is installing new force mains and water mains. For additional information about the project, go online to amipipereplacement.com.

For the latest road watch information, go online to www.fl511.com or dial 511.

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Cops & Court

Sarasota man arrested for marijuana, meth

By Kathy Prucnell, Islander Reporter

Ex-boyfriend attacks woman in her home

Cortez man arrested for DUI A vehicle without headlights was observed at 1:42 a.m. June 23, careening on Bridge Street and Gulf Drive.

Tanner Pelkey, 27, of Cortez, was arrested for DUI after he was pulled over by Bradenton Beach Police Officer Steve Masi in the 200 block of Gulf Drive North.

Masi had followed Pelkeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vehicle from the Drift Lounge parking lot at 120 Bridge St. and observed it hit curbs and cross the center line Pelkey on Bridge Street. The vehicleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s horn blared near the roundabout at Gulf Drive, according to Masiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s report.

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The woman told police she had seen Swihart at D.Coy Ducks Tavern in Holmes Beach earlier in the evening.

A friend took the woman home at about 2 a.m., after which Swihart woke her up with a knock at the door. She asked him to leave several times but he refused, according to a police report.

Swihart told police several times that the woman invited him inside the residence, the report stated.

Swihart was transported to the HBPD for paperwork. There, he allegedly began yelling and tried to pull away from an officer walking him outdoors for transport to the jail.

The officer put Swihart against a wall â&#x20AC;&#x153;to get a better gripâ&#x20AC;? and walked him to the squad for transport to the Manatee County jail, according to the report.

Attorney Peter J. Lombardo of Bradenton filed a not-guilty plea June 27 on Swihartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behalf.

Swihart was released June 28 on $50,120 bond.

His arraignment is set for 9 a.m. Friday, Aug. 4, at the Manatee County Judicial Center, 1051 Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton.

The officer also reported the vehicle swerved on Gulf Drive between the north- and southbound lanes and veered into the bike lane.

At Masiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request, the Florida Highway Patrol responded to conduct a DUI investigation.

Pelkey told the state trooper he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know why heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been stopped and wanted to go home.

According to the FHP report, Pelkey failed fieldsobriety tests.

While being transported to Manatee County jail, he swore at the officer and refused to provide a breath sample, according to the police report.

Pelkey was released on $500 bond, pending arraignment at 8:25 a.m. Monday, July 24, at the Manatee County Judicial Center, 1051 Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton.

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Island police blotter Anna Maria June 19, 100 block of Palmetto Avenue. A resident brought a home security lockbox she found discarded in her yard to the Manatee County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office substation at city hall.

Anna Maria is policed by MCSO. Bradenton Beach June 22, 500 Gulf Drive North and the beach, warrant. Bradenton Beach police arrested a 49-year-old man on a Manatee County warrant found sleeping on the beach.

June 25, 2400 block of Gulf Drive North, drug arrest. A 16-year-old motorist was arrested after an officer on patrol stopped his vehicle, noticing a strong odor of marijuana coming from it. As the male driver reached for his license in a backpack, a bag of cannabis fell out and he told the officer he had â&#x20AC;&#x153;over 20 gramsâ&#x20AC;? of marijuana. Police searched the vehicle and confiscated 25.3 grams of marijuana. A female juvenile also was in the vehicle and a parent came to pick her up. The vehicle was towed. The male was booked at the juvenile detention center.

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Dustan Swihart, 44, was arrested June 24 on charges of domestic battery by strangulation and criminal mischief after police were called to the womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home in the 300 block of 63rd Street.

Holmes Beach police arrived at 4:11 a.m. to signs of a struggle and observed red marks on the womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neck.

According to reports, the woman told police her ex-boyfriend pushed Swihart her around the bedroom until she locked herself in a bathroom. He then allegedly kicked a hole in the bathroom door, picked open the lock with a knife and pulled her out of the room.

Swihart allegedly grabbed her neck and applied pressure until she struggled to breathe. He then threw her into a closet.

A Sarasota man stopped for speeding was arrested for possessing meth, marijuana and drug paraphernalia in Holmes Beach.

Paul Barnes, 47, was arrested June 11 on the drug charges after Holmes Beach Police Officer Alan Bores clocked Barnesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; vehicle traveling 56 mph in a 35-mph zone in the 700 block of Manatee Avenue.

Bores reported noticing the odor of marijuana when he approached the blue Honda and asked the motorist if Barnes he had contraband.

Barnes allegedly acknowledged that he had marijuana, and, on checking the manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pockets, Bores found crystal meth.

After a vehicle search, Bores reported finding 4.6 grams of marijuana, three glass pipes, a syringe, hypodermic needles and a digital scale. The meth weighed 0.6 grams, according to the report.

In addition to the drug charges, Bores cited Barnes for speeding, driving with a suspended license and failing to provide proof of insurance.

Barnes was transported to Manatee County jail, where he posted $2,200 bond.

Barnesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; arraignment is set for 9 a.m. Monday, July 14, at the Manatee County Judicial Center, 1051 Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton.

THE ISLANDER n JULY 4, 2017 n 17

BB chief hopes to arm patrols with stun guns

By ChrisAnn Silver Esformes Islander Reporter “Because of the use-of-force matrix, we need an added nonlethal weapon,” Bradenton Beach Police Chief Sam Speciale said June 26, regarding acquiring stun guns for officers.

Speciale said, with the increase in people in the business district at night, he’s considering Tasers as a “next step” before escalating to lethal force.

He said stun guns are a tool used by many police departments, including the Holmes Beach Police Department.

“My men carry them as a tool for less-than-lethal use,” Holmes Beach Police Chief Bill Tokajer said June 27. “It’s a good deterrent.”

Currently, BBPD officers start the violation process with a verbal warning, followed by a baton and pepper spray as nonlethal tools before escalating to the use of a firearm.

“That’s only three steps to deadly force,” Speciale said. “With the atmosphere on Bridge Street in general, we need another non-deadly weapon.”

He said he wants the department to be proactive in dealing with issues instead of waiting until a problem occurs.

“I don’t want to see someone get hurt before we start discussing adding this to our ‘toolbox,’” Speciale said.

He said his department staff have discussed acquiring Tasers for officers patrolling in the business district and will present their suggestions to the city commission.

Bradenton Beach Police Chief Sam Speciale reviews paperwork June 26 in his office at the police station, 403 Highland Ave. Islander Photo: ChrisAnn Silver Esformes STREETLIFE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 Bradenton Beach is policed by BBPD. Cortez June 17, 3900 block of 116th Street West, information. A husband reported his wife left the house at midnight the night before to check on her work schedule and hadn’t returned, nor had he heard from her since.

Cortez is policed by MCSO. Holmes Beach June 23, 600 block of North Point Drive, suspicious circumstances. A tire was reported slashed.

June 24, D.Coy Ducks Tavern, 5410 Marina Drive, criminal mischief. An SUV was scratched on the fenders, hood and doors, makeup was smeared on the side of the vehicle and the windshield wipers were bent.

June 24, 5300 block of Gulf Drive, battery. A woman called police to report a man punched her.

Holmes Beach police arrested the caller for throwing and breaking the man’s phone. The man said she’d scratched the back of his forearm and neck.

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WMFR rates in top 4 percent in U.S. Thanks to a new rating by Insurance Services Office, West Manatee Fire Rescue is ranked among the top 4 percent of fire departments in the nation.

Fire Marshal Jim Davis announced June 27 WMFR’s rating moved up from class 3 to class 2, ranking the department among the top fire departments.

ISO’s scale ranges from 1-10.

In March, the ISO visited WMFR to test the department on its equipment and training, as well as its ability to respond to a fire while timed.

The WMFR scored excellently in virtually every category, Chief Tom Sousa said in March.

The fire department struggled to accomplish a timed task, he said, but ISO offers a mathematical formula to calculate the historical response time in place of the timed test, which improved WMFR’s score.

Sousa explained that due to the nature of the island, the department struggles to dispatch a unit from every station, including Station 1 in Holmes Beach, to the scene of a fire within 12 minutes.

Although one engine team on the mainland can generally reach any mainland location in less than five minutes, the fire engine traveling from island to mainland always takes longer, he said.

The rating is used to calculate fire insurance rates.

It goes into effect Oct. 1 and, as a result of the increase, residents and businesses could see fire insurance rates drop, Davis said.

According to Davis, only 1,565 of the nation’s 46,042 fire departments have the same or higher ranking.

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HBPD books coffee, conversation

West Manatee Fire Rescue firefighter Derek Bill loads equipment onto a fire truck at Station 1, 6001 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach. Islander Photo: Bianca Benedí complaint. A noise citation was issued to a renter after police responded to a complaint of a party with loud music, people yelling and laughing in the pool area.

June 25, Jessie’s Island Store, 5424 Marina Drive, battery. Police arrested a man who was observed grabbing a woman’s face and throat and lunging at her. He was transported to the Manatee County jail.

June 27-28,100 block of 45th Street, vehicle burglary. While a man and his girlfriend went to the beach, the man left his wallet in an unlocked car. A day later,

The Holmes Beach Police Department will host a “coffee and conversation” gathering Monday, July 24, at Island Coffee Haus, 5350 Gulf Drive.

An announcement said, “Join your neighbors and police officers for coffee and conversation.

No agenda or speeches, just a change to ask questions, voice concerns and get to know the officers protecting your community.”

For more information, call HBPD at 941-7085804.

the man reported his credit card and $500 stolen after his credit card company notified him someone had attempted to use his card for $1,000 in purchases.

Holmes Beach is policed by the HBPD. Streetlife is based on incident reports and narratives from the BBPD, HBPD and MCSO.

JULY 4, 2017

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By Susan Huppert

Patrick John Flannery Patrick John Flannery, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr. Showbiz,â&#x20AC;? 90, of Bradenton and formerly of Holmes Beach, died June 23.

He was born Aug. 1, 1927, in Hollywood, California, to show business parents. He moved to Anna Maria Island in 1976 after retiring from a long career at IBM. He served in the U.S. Army.

He volunteered for 25-plus years at Island Players, and also volunteered at Manatee Players, as an actor and set designer.

He was a popular ďŹ gure model at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota.

There is no service planned at this time. Memorial donations may Flannery be made to Island Players, P.O. Box 2059, Anna Maria FL 34217.

Mr. Flannery is survived by his spouse, Don Bailey; daughter Eden St. John of Orlando; and son Dirk of Balboa, California.

Roser offers physical, spiritual wellness Roser-Robics are 9:30 a.m. Wednesday and Friday at Roser Memorial Church, 512 Pine Ave., Anna Maria.

Roserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golďŹ ng and study options are held at IMG Academy, 5650 Bollettieri Blvd., Bradenton, Wednesday, July 5. Call the church ofďŹ ce at 778-0414 for details.

Worship at Roser is 8:30 a.m. in the chapel and 10 a.m. in the sanctuary. Church school and a nursery are available during the 10 a.m. service at 512 Pine Ave., Anna Maria.

CrossPointe Fellowship offers Sunday worship at 9 a.m., followed by study and fellowship at 10:30 a.m. in Life Groups for all ages.

A weekly menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bible study group meets at 7 a.m. Wednesdays. The group is studying the book of Hebrews. CrossPointe is at 8605 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach.

The Episcopal Church of the Annunciation worships Sundays at 9 a.m., alternating between Rite I and Rite II. In addition, the public is invited to a Eucharist and healing prayer service at 9:30 a.m. Thursdays at the church, 4408 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach. The weekly Bible study at 9 a.m. Tuesday is canceled this week.

Christ Church of Longboat Key holds worship service Sundays at 10 a.m. Sunday school with the Rev. Norman Pritchard is held at 11:15 a.m. in the church choir room following worship, 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Other studies include a menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s study Mondays and a home Bible study Tuesdays. There will be no womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s study July 5. Contact the church at 941-3838833 for more information.

The Cortez Church of Christ, 12111 45th Ave. W., Cortez, holds Bible study at 10 a.m. Sundays, followed by worship at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Bible study also is held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the church.

Gloria Dei Lutheran Church holds worship 9:30 a.m. Sundays. A traditional service with music and hymns is offered Saturdays at 5 p.m. at the church.

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Roger Nigg, 65, of Anna Maria, died June 23.

He was born Feb. 8, 1952, in Plainwell, Michigan.

He lived in Bradenton as a child and young adult, and then Baltimore for 25 years.

He moved to Anna Maria with his wife, Justine Preis, after retiring from his industrial engineering career in August 2015.

He was active here in horseshoes, golf, pickleball and swimming.

A service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 11, with a reception to follow at St. Bernard Catholic Church, 248 S. Harbor Drive, Holmes Beach.

Mr. Nigg is survived by wife Justine of Anna Maria; daughter Elizabeth Skees and son Charlie of Palmetto; step-daughters Christina Field-Barnett and Catherine Field; and six grandsons, all of the Baltimore area.

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Island horseshoe regular captures 17th consecutive writing award

By Bianca BenedĂ­ Islander Reporter Sam Samuels seems to like winning things.

This year, for the 17th year in a row, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s submitted a story to the Awards for Publication Excellence and, for the 17th year in a row, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s received an award.

He received an award for excellence for his special purpose article, called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Healthy Mind and Body Connection: Key to Longevity,â&#x20AC;? a topic he says caught his interest in recent months. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every time you get upset in the mind, it takes something away from your longevity,â&#x20AC;? he explained.

But heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done this every year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; picked a topic that piques his attention and submits it to the APEX awards, with consistent success.

A retired AT&T Laboratories research engineer from New Jersey, Samuels came to the island as a vacationer in 2002.

One of the first things he did was join Anna Mariaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s horseshoe players at Anna Maria City Hall, 10005 Gulf Drive. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I started playing horseshoe pitch when I was 15,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be turning 80 in March.â&#x20AC;?

Horseshoe pitch has been in Anna Maria since the

early 1900s, according to the Anna Maria Island Historical Society. Anna Mariaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s players are carrying on the tradition.

Samuels currently serves as the team coordinator, managing 12 to 40 players, depending on the season.

He has awards from that, too. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We won the senior games for the last seven or eight years,â&#x20AC;? he said. The annual Gulf Coast Senior Games tournament is played at G.T. Bray Park in Bradenton.

This year, eight members of the team competed Feb. 16, with Samuels among them. He brought back a silver medal, and will be heading to the Florida Senior Games in Clearwater this December.

Along with horseshoe pitching, he also plays golf for fun, and bocce, an Italian hand-ball game, competitively. He has a silver award for that sport, too.

Samuels likes winning and, in Anna Maria, he does it frequently.

Sam Samuels points out a double ringer, two consecutively landed horseshoes, on a pole July 1 in front of Anna Maria City Hall. Horseshoe players meet 8:30 a.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays to play. Islander Photo: Bianca BenedĂ­

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FISH board says facilities lack repairs, Boatworks needs management

By Terry Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor Islander Reporter Spider cracks crisscross the wall at Fishermenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hall in Cortez. The roof is failing, too.

The rattling air-conditioning unit at the hall, 4511 124th St. W., which has been threatening to fail for a decade, sounds ready to make good on the promise.

Grass grows too fast for volunteers to keep up on the 10-plus acres maintained by the members of the Florida Institute for Saltwater Heritage.

And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still no hand on the helm at the FISH Boatworks since program manager Rick Stewartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s May 1 resignation.

The FISH facilities committee outlined these challenges and more at its June 20 meeting.

Under Stewart, Boatworks offered boatbuilding, restoration and repair services at its facility at 4404 116th St. W., Cortez. Now, the Boatworks building sits idle, with boats in various stages of repair stored on the lot.

Stewart taught volunteers how to work on wooden or fiberglass boats.

His boat-restoration skills would be difficult enough to replace, said FISH board member Herman Kruegle. His volunteerism was selfless, too.

Stewart worked five years for FISH without being paid, although he did receive reduced rent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are looking for a person who has experience building and repairing boats,â&#x20AC;? Kruegle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They must know how to manage and teach people the skills

a reduced volume of work, said Kruegle.

His successor should focus more on repairing more vessels, Kruegle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it should be different from the way Rick was running it,â&#x20AC;? Kruegle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was a perfectionist and made museum pieces.â&#x20AC;?

Kruegle should know. He once was part owner of the 14-ton San Francesco with Stewart, a sunken ship that ultimately became a failed restoration project.

According to a January 2015 FISH blog, Stewart and Kruegle embarked on a $2 million fundraising effort to restore the San Francesco, a 66-foot wooden schooner built in Italy in 1870. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The community didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to pay for it,â&#x20AC;? Kruegle said.

The San Francesco, which sank off Clearwater in 2014, was towed to Cortez Dec. 19, 2014.

The ship sank again and was raised last month by the Seafood Shack Marina Bar & Grill, 4110 124th St. W., which now owns it, Kruegle said.

At least two applicants have inquired about succeeding Stewart at Boatworks, according to FISH board members Tim Canniff and David Cadmus, who The FISH Boatworks facility at 4404 116th St. W., are handling the search.

Cortez, is mostly idle since its manager retired May The other issues facing the FISH committee are 1. Islander Photo: Terry Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor less daunting, but no less pressing, members said.

Estimates will be gathered to replace the roof at involved. One condition is there is no salary for it.â&#x20AC;? Fishermenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hall. The facilities committee estimates Stewart was considered a master of wooden boat a new roof will cost roughly $12,000.

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FMMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic boat shop may fall into path of Cortez Road improvement What will become of the 1908 Asa H. Pillsbury boat shop at the Florida Maritime Museum if the 119th Street intersection in Cortez is realigned?

Joy Leggett-Murphy, Manatee County property manager, confirmed the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intent to align two legs of 119th Street at Cortez Road and relocate the historic boat shop from the proposed path.

She stressed the plans were â&#x20AC;&#x153;preliminary.â&#x20AC;?

Under the realignment plan, Murphy-Leggett said both legs would be moved toward the other, adding if it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expansion plans, the shop could stay.

The shack-like building currently stands on the museum site about 50 feet from the Cortez Road-119th Street intersection.

Plans under a $225,000 county proposal for BP settlement dollars seek to double the boat shop footprint, adding a new structure and an open-air addition, according to FMM supervisor Kristin Sweeting.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The boat expansion requires the house to be moved. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the plan at this point,â&#x20AC;? Leggett-Murphy said.

The DOT is working on the latest alignment configuration, she added, and expects the revised plans to be brought forward for approval in the fall.

Charlie Hunsicker, Manatee County Parks and Natural Resources Division director, said the boat shop could be relocated without changing the BP spending proposal.

Hunsicker and Leggett-Murphy agreed the expanded Pillsbury boat shop could be located where a thatched hut currently stands behind the museum.

Leggett-Murphy said, however, the boat shopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s functionality, and access to the parking lot and ingress and egress also must be considered.

The boathouse was moved to the museum site from Snead Island Boat Works in Palmetto in 2007. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kathy Prucnell

Kristin Sweeting, supervisor of the Florida Maritime Museum, stands in front of the 1908 Asa H. Pillsbury boat shop south of Cortez Road West and east of 119th Street on the grounds of museum, 4415 119th St. W., Cortez. Islander Photo: Kathy Prucnell

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Longtime Cortez resident and Florida Institute for Saltwater Heritage board member Mary Fulford Green rises to discuss offering the Fishermen’s Hall, 4511 124th St. W., Cortez, as a wedding chapel for $1,500 and up at the June 12 FISH board meeting.

Islander Photo: Terry O’Connor FISH FROM PAGE 20 Canniff also pointed out FISH is no match for the task of maintaining its vast acreage.

“Our mowers are undersized for the amount of lawn we need to do,” Canniff said. “We’re way underpowered.”

A suggestion to offer Fishermen’s Hall as an income-producing wedding venue will require facility upgrades, such as a covered walkway and trustworthy air conditioning, according to Mark Coarsey, a FISH board member and president at Fishing for Freedom in Tampa.

“If the air conditioning doesn’t work, it’s not looking good to use as a wedding hall,” Coarsey said.

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Last year’s team, also under the guidance of Syre, a Bradenton Beach resident, had brought home a gold medal in the same “health education” event.

But not to be outdone, Cecelia Jackson, Avery Mooney, Marlye Smith and Bella Colagiovanni brought home their own gold medals in June.

The students said they were shocked to be called to the stage as champions in front of roughly 10,000 students and advisors from across the country, as well as a handful of overseas HOSA participants.

The team presented a teaching lesson to fifth-grade students from IMG Academy in Bradenton about protecting their skin. The team presented a portfolio to judges while explaining their results and student evaluations.

Syre said all four students will be entering the medical academy program at Manatee High School in the fall.

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Cecelia Jackson, left, Avery Moone, Marlye Smith and Bella Colagiovanni pose with teacher Jon Syre he said. in June on winning gold medals for King Middle “I’ve been to events here and it’s aggravating if School at the Health Occupation Students of Amerwomen come up here and have their hair done,” he ica international competition in Orlando. HOSA, said. taught by Syre, qualified for the event in April.

“We really need to have a better structure,” said Islander Courtesy Photo FISH board member Linda Molto.

Coarsey suggested a monthly group effort could make maintenance issues more manageable.

“We should have a workday once a month,” he said. “It’d be so much easier. Put some hot dogs on Community Center. It operates the annual Cortez the grill and boom, boom, boom. It would bring us Commercial Fishing Festival. And it takes part in causes related to encroaching developments, such as together.”

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Turtle watch seeks help for post-holiday cleanup

A colony of black skimmers, an endangered shorebird nesting on Anna Maria Island, congregates May 18 on the beach fronting the 5400 Gulf Drive condos, Holmes Beach.

Islander Photo: Sandy Ambrogi

In anticipation of a busy Fourth of July, Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring is planning a beach cleanup at 7:30 a.m.

Wednesday, July 5, at the Manatee Public Beach, 4000 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach.

People interested in volunteering for the cleanup should bring gloves and trash bags, said AMITW executive director Suzi Fox. For more information about the cleanup, visit AMITW on Facebook or call Fox at 941-7785638.

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By ChrisAnn Silver Esformes Islander Reporter People aren’t the only ones enjoying summer on Anna Maria Island.

A colony of black skimmers — an endangered shorebird species — is nesting in Holmes Beach on the shore fronting the 5400 block of Gulf Drive.

The black-and-white birds with a distinguishable splash of orange on their beaks can be seen flying low over the Gulf, skimming their food from the shallow shoreline waters.

Volunteers have been monitoring skimmer nesting on Anna Maria Island for about 15 years, but this is the first known skimmer colony to settle in that spot, according to Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring executive director Suzi Fox. As of June 27, the shorebird monitors reported 56 skimmer nests with about 70 adults and 12 chicks.

Fox says by the end of nesting season — early to mid-August — she expects 30-80 chicks.

When eggs were spotted May 21, the area was roped off for the birds’ protection.

However, the birds’ safety needs extend beyond their present roped-off boundary.

As the chicks mature, they travel between their nests and shoreline, learning to fish, interact and fledge, according to Fox. She says it is important to watch out for the small, sand-camouflaged chicks that hunker on the shoreline.

“Their instinct is to just drop in the sand when their mother calls out a warning,” Fox said. “This means

A black skimmer chick hunkers in the sand June 25 while another chick crouches next to a mature skimmer on the beach in the 5400 block of Gulf Drive in Holmes Beach. Islander Photo: Courtesy AMITW/ Pete Gross

• Leave personal fireworks at home and attend an official display instead. The loud sounds and bright lights of fireworks on Anna Maria Island beaches can have catastrophic effects on nesting birds and sea turtles.

• Stay out of marked nesting areas and keep your distance from nesting sea turtles.

• Don’t use flashlights or camera flashes on the beach at night. They can distract nesting sea turtles and cause them to halt their nesting plans or return to the water.

• Do not feed birds or leave trash, picnic leftovers or fish scraps on the beach. These scraps attract predators that will eat the eggs and hatchlings of birds and sea turtles.

• Report sick, injured, entangled or dead sea turtles to the FWC Wildlife Alert Hotline at 1-888404-3922, #FWC or *FWC on a cell phone or text tip@myfwc.com.

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place to live — let’s keep it that way for animals and they can be at risk of being stepped on if someone’s people.” not paying attention.”

To report a sick bird, contact Fox at 941-778Fox said people should exercise care when walk- 5638. ing on the beach near the colony between 53rd and 56th streets in Holmes Beach.

Additionally, predators drawn by trash are a threat to the skimmers. Fox said while the nesting area doesn’t have open dumpsters, beachgoers need to respect Mother Nature.

“No matter where you are on the beach, especially during this busy summer season, please remember to pick up your trash,” Fox said. “This is a beautiful

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By Lisa Neff

Tapping into global debate over ‘real water’ She sighed, the way kids can sigh.

“I wanted real water,” she told her mom, who held a Tervis Tumbler filled with crushed ice and H2o from the tap in the island vacation rental.

“Real water,” for some people it seems, comes in a 12-ounce plastic bottle and not from the tap.

I can’t imagine what my grandma might have said about people spending $1 for a 12-ounce bottle of water Neff when tap water cost about 0.002 cents per gallon.

But then, I can’t imagine what my grandma might have said over the headlines out of Flint, Michigan, where nine current and former government officials face criminal charges for withholding vital information from the public about lead poisoning in the water and for the continued distribution of corrosive water from the Flint Water Treatment Plant.

I want to inform readers about the harmful environmental consequences of buying bottled water. And yet, I can’t simply make a plea that you use the tap because I don’t know about the quality of the tap water in your home, workplace or school.

So let’s just discuss some issues with bottled water.

The National Resources Defense Council studied bottled water and found 60-70 percent of products are exempted by the Food and Drug Administration, which is the federal agency that is supposed to regulate bottled water.

About 17 percent of bottled water contained high levels of bacteria and 22 percent contained high levels of arsenic and other toxic chemicals too high for the

French Table The soul of France in the heart of Bradenton Beach

Students remove litter near the Anna Maria Island Bridge during a past Keep Manatee Beautiful Coastal Cleanup effort. Such campaigns keep litter from polluting waterways. Islander File Photo mental efforts, invited us to join a campaign for Florida legislation aimed at reducing the amount of plastic waste and litter.

ManaSota-88 is encouraging us to lobby state lawmakers to follow Oregon’s lead and pass legislation requiring a 10-cent deposit for bottled beverages.

A “10 things you can do for trash free seas” chart.

Oregon’s legislation was signed in June 2011 and Islander Courtesy Image the state is reporting energy savings, reduced greenhouse gases, increased recycling and cleaner roadsides, Environmental Protection Agency, which is supposed parks and waterways. to regulate tap water.

Seems like Oregonians tapped into something Under the FDA, bottled water can contain a cer- good. tain amount of any bacteria and can be sold if it is in violation of standards. Bottled water does not have a federal disinfection requirement. And essential natural nutrients — like calcium and iron — are filtered out of bottled water.

Another consideration: Three liters of water are needed to produce one liter of bottled water.

More to think about: Worldwide, a million plastic bottles are bought and sold every minute and more than 480 billion plastic drinking bottles were sold in 2016, according to estimates in a recent trend report from Euromonitor International.

Of the 480 billion bottles sold in 2016, estimates indicate just 7 percent were collected and turned into new bottles. Most of the bottles wind up in a landfill or in the oceans, which, by 2050, might contain more Plastics bottles collected in a cleanup campaign. plastic weight than fish weight.

As for the fish, seabirds and other organisms in the Just 7 percent of plastic drinking bottles are recycled oceans, we know they ingest the plastic — and so do into new bottles. Most bottles are landfilled or, as we, tiny pieces of plastic can be found in the catch that litter, pollute the oceans. Islander Courtesy Photo is served on our dinner plates with a slice of lemon.

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And then there were 2: Center adult soccer cup pairing

By Kevin P. Cassidy Islander Reporter Playoff action in the adult soccer league at the Center of Anna Maria Island got started last week with four quarterfinal matches June 27 followed by semifinals June 29.

No. 7 Moss Builders defied the odds and defeated two higher seeded teams to advance to the championship game.

Moss defeated No. 2 seed Acqua Aveda 4-3 in quarterfinal action June 27 to earn a shot at Mulock Flynn Cassidy Law, which upset third-seeded Slimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place by a 3-2 score to advance to the semis.

Moss Builders next jumped on top of Mulock Flynn on a nice goal from Nate Talucci. Moss almost doubled its lead a minute later when Lexi Sato got loose up the right side, but her shot caromed off the post. The rebound went to teammate Rico Beissert, but his also clanged off the post.

The score stayed 1-0 until there was only 3:41 left in the half and Cortni Wash found Jessica Williams with a cross that she finished to tie the score at 1-1.

Moss Builders quickly answered when Sato again found some room on the right side. She crossed the ball back to the 18-yard line where Matt Kretzman was stationed. He received the pass, juked a defender and finished near post for a 2-1 Moss lead.

With time winding down, Mulock Flynn had the ball deep in its offensive end, looking to tie the score, but a clearing pass by Beissert put Sato on a breakaway. She carried the ball in and beat Mulock goalie Ivan Gaeta to give Moss a 3-1 lead as the half came to a close.

Mulock Flynn came out with a lot of energy to start the second half and immediately put the Moss Builders defense on its heels. The ball ended up on the feet of Danny Anderson on the right side of the box, where he curled a left-footed shot into the upper-left corner of the goal to pull Mulock Flynn within a goal.

Again Moss Builders answered back as Diego Felipe and Kretzman executed a perfect give and go

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that Felipe finished off for a 4-2 lead.

Undaunted, Mulock Flynn continued to battle and got rewarded when Omar Polar scored to again pull to within a goal of Moss Builders.

With just over two minutes left to play and deep in the Mulock Flynn side, Felipe threw the ball into the goal area, but it was knocked back to him. He then juked the defender and finished to give Moss a 5-3 lead.

Mulock Flynn continued to battle and sent a long goal kick to Williams. She passed the ball inside to Anderson who hit a nice shot, but Moss goalie Shawn McCarthy made the save.

A minute later, Sato picked off a pass deep in the Mulock end and poked it into the goal to complete the 6-3 victory.

Felipe, with two goals and an assist and Kretzmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two goals paced Moss, which also received a goal and an assist from Sato. Talucci chipped in with a goal and

FWC invites public to report fish kills The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is seeking the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help in monitoring fish health by tracking marine and freshwater fish kills in state waters.

FWC scientists monitor and document fish kills and diseases, as well as other aquatic animal health issues and associated environmental events. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s involvement is critical to locate, monitor and understand the extent of fish kills,â&#x20AC;? said Theresa Cody, associate research scientist. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the data collected from fish kill events are used in conjunction with directed research to further understand the causes of fish kills and disease incidences.â&#x20AC;?

Many factors can contribute to a fish kill.

Weather-related factors are common causes.

Sudden temperature fluctuations or extreme tempera-

tures can result in fish kills any time of the year.

Hot weather during the summer months can cause fish kills, in part because warm water holds less oxygen than cold water.

In addition, a lack of rain during hot-weather months can lower water level in lakes and ponds, resulting in poor water quality, increased density of animals and faster use of dissolved oxygen.

Heavy rains can compound the situation by suspending sediments in the water column and by washing vegetation, such as leaves and grass clippings, into the system, where they decompose. The decomposition process also can remove oxygen from water.

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McCarthy finished with six saves in the victory.

Anderson, Williams and Polar scored a goal each to lead Mulock Flynn Law, which also received four saves from Gaeta in the loss.

Top-seeded Sato Real Estate avoided the upset bug by rolling past Ross Built 8-2 in its quarterfinal match, and followed it with an easy 7-1 victory over Anna Maria CrossFit in the second semifinal match of the evening to remain unbeaten going into the championship match, which is set for July 6.

Kevin Roman led the way for Sato Real Estate with three goals while Josh Sato, Adam Mott, John Coleman and Jake Parsons each notched a single goal. Chris Klotz chipped in with three assists and Jordan Demers finished with five saves in the victory.

Damir Glavan notched the lone goal for Anna Maria CrossFit and Brett Laudicina made six saves in the loss.

The championship game gets underway at 8 p.m.

Thursday, July 6, for the cup, with the third-place game set for an hour earlier.

Horseshoe news Last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s horseshoe action at the Anna Maria City Hall horseshoe pits was short and sweet.

The June 28 games saw the team of Tim Sofran and Bob Heiger post the lone 3-0 pool-play record to earn the dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outright bragging rights.

Steve Doyle matched that feat with a solo effort, walking his way to the winnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s circle during July 1 action.

Play gets underway at 9 a.m. every Wednesday and Saturday at the Anna Maria City Hall pits. Warmups begin at 8:45 a.m. followed by random team selection.

There is no charge to play and everyone is welcome.

Key Royale Golf news The men kicked off golf action June 26 at the Key Royale Club in Holmes Beach with a nine-hole modified Stableford system match that saw Terry Schaefer take home first place with a plus-3. Jeff Holcomb and Tom McDonnell shared second place with matching scores of plus-2.

A nine-hole scramble was the game of the day June 29. The team of Debi Richardson, Dan Richardson, Dave Richardson and Terry Schaefer combined on a 4-under-par 28 to earn clubhouse bragging rights for the day. The team of Mark Kimball, Paul Phillips and Gary Razze was a stroke back in second place.

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Intense heat, humidity and fishing spell out summertime

By Capt. Danny Stasny Islander Reporter The humidity is up, the heat is intense and the fishing is following suit.

Whether inshore or offshore, there is plenty of productive fishing. Red grouper, snappers and permit are being caught around nearshore and offshore structure. Also in these areas are flounder, goliath grouper and shark.

Moving inshore is providing good action, too. Spotted seatrout can be found around deep grass flats during Stasny incoming tides. Expect also to hook into mackerel, ladyfish and even small blacktip sharks.

Shallower flats are producing sizzling action on catchand-release snook. Free-lined shiners in these areas are producing respectable numbers of linesiders. Sessions resulting in 30-40 snook are not uncommon.

On my Southernaire charters, I’m starting off in the morning targeting mangrove snapper. These fish are being taken around rocks and docks throughout southern Tampa Bay. On average I’m seeing a dozen or so fish in the box before the bites starts to slow down.

Once we have dinner in the cooler, I’m migrating to the flats to get in on the spotted seatrout bite. These fish are being found among the deeper grass during morning incoming tides. Live, free-lined shiners or shiners under a cork are working best as bait. Actually, most bites are occurring on the smaller-sized shiners — “hatch bait,” as we like to call it. Mixed in with the trout bite are Spanish mackerel, ladyfish and some small blacktip sharks.

Lastly, catch-and-release snook are abundant on some of the shallow grass flats in Tampa Bay. Freelining shiners during swift moving tides is resulting in some phenomenal snook action. For these fish, the medium-to-large shiners are working best as bait. Most catches are 20-28 inches, with hook ups of as many as 25-30 fish on a morning trip.

Capt. Warren Girle is working charters over nearshore structure in the Gulf of Mexico. By using live shiners combined with a 1/2-ounce knocker rig, Girle is landing respectable numbers of mangrove snapper.

Most catches are 15-20 inches. Mixed in with the snapper bite are juvenile gag and red grouper, as well as numerous Key West grunts.

Changing baits to free-lined pass crabs or Doc’s goofy jigs is producing another favorite among local anglers — permit. These “hub caps” are being caught by lucky anglers in the same areas as the snapper.

Permit in the 10-pound range are the norm.

While fishing Sarasota Bay, Girle is catching numerous trout on flats of 3-5 feet in depth. Live shiners fished under a popping cork are attracting attention

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Luke Mutter of Bradenton Beach shows off his offshore July 2 catch of the day — a 20-plus-pound kingfish caught on a shiner. Mutter was guided to the fish by Captain Warren Girle. spotted seatrout as well as Spanish mackerel, ladyfish and an occasional bluefish.

Capt. Aaron Lowman is taking charters to the nearshore ledges and hard bottom with good results. By bottom fishing with live shiners or pinfish, Lowman’s clients are catching keeper-size red grouper, as well as mangrove snapper and Key West grunts. An occasional flounder is being taken.

Moving inshore, Lowman is targeting spotted seatrout throughout the lush grass flats of Anna Maria Sound. Live shiners under a popping cork are producing the bite. While targeting trout, his anglers also are catching ladyfish and Spanish mackerel.

Capt. Rick Gross of Fishy Business Charters is targeting a variety of species throughout the waters of southern Tampa Bay and in the Gulf of Mexico.

To start, Gross is targeting mangrove snapper on the inshore and nearshore reefs. Mixed in with the snapper are grouper and flounder.

After the reef bite calms down, Gross is migrating to the flats to target spotted seatrout. Live shiners under a cork are providing the best action. Catch-and-release snook also are being caught on the flats. Free-lined shiners are the best bait for this.

Capt. Jason Stock is working the offshore waters for a variety of fish. Permit are being found sunning themselves over wrecks in 50-100 feet of water. Live crabs cast in their direction are quickly being devoured, resulting in drag-screaming runs and sore arms for

Stock’s clients. Bottom fishing offshore is providing good action for a variety of snapper, including mangrove, yellowtail and American red.

Moving inshore, Stock is chasing some of the remaining tarpon. Live threadfin herring and shiners are working during the morning bite. On the evening outgoing tides, live crabs are a no-brainer. Fish up to 150 pounds are being brought boat side.

Capt. David White of Anna Maria Charters, also is targeting tarpon along the beaches. Casting pass crabs or threadfin herring is producing a bite. Most catches are 50-120 pounds.

Moving to the flats, White’s anglers are hooking up with numerous spotted seatrout. Most catches are slot-size fish in the 15-20 inch range. Also on the flats, White is catching an occasional redfish. Catch-andrelease snook round out the flats experience for White.

Rallies of schooley-size fish are common.

Send high-resolution photos and fishing reports to fish@islander.org.

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Adding class to crafts In addition to great shots, he puts his touch on the ivories, too Most people who know Anna Maria Island know Jack Elka’s photography.

From high-flying drone shots of the coastline to wedding ceremonies to shots of the iconic Historic Anna Maria City Pier and Historic Bridge Street Pier, Elka’s photographs show up in calendars, advertisements and accolades about the island.

Now, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8:30-10:30 p.m., Elka is performing from the “Great American Songbook” at the piano bar at the Doctor’s Office, 5312 Holmes Drive, Holmes Beach.

Catch Elka tickling the ivories with his repertoire of favorites while sipping a hand-crafted cocktail.

Heck, you might even want to turn the tables on Elka and take his picture as he plays.

It’s the perfect cure for the summertime heat.

For more information, call the “doctor” at 941213-9926 or visit www.doctorsofficeami.com.

German favorites now available at lunch For those craving wiener-schnitzel or kartoffel salat, the Old Hamburg Schnitzelhaus, 3246 E. Bay Drive, Holmes Beach, is now open for lunch 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday.

The German and Austrian food is still available for dinner 5-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Don’t forget a side order of a favorite German beer or wine.

Go to www.schnitzel.house for more information, or call 941-778-1320.

Photographer Jack Elka has a new gig — tickling the ivories — at the Doctor’s Office, 5312 Holmes Blvd., Holmes Beach. Islander Courtesy Image Nearby Mirabella garners top LEED awards As developments sprout up in Bradenton, builders and developers are paying more attention to energy efficiency and environmental design.

Seventy homeowners in the Mirabella development, a 55-plus adult community surrounded by homes in the Village Green community, were awarded platinum LEED certificates June 29 by the U.S. Green Building Council — a nonprofit that promotes sustainable building and design.

LEED recognizes energy efficiency and environmental designed green buildings.

Mirabella has 41 homes under construction and 49 lots remaining. For more information, call 941-2543330 or visit the website at mirabellaflorida.come.

The Anna Maria Island Chamber of Commerce has a breakfast on tap for 7:45 a.m. Wednesday, July 12, at the Gulf Drive Cafe and Tiki, 900 Gulf Drive N., Bradenton Beach. The early hour should be cooler than at lunch time for the outdoor eaterie.

The chamber’s annual membership drive is continuing through July 31. Perks and prizes await those who sign up the largest number of new members — the newbies get specials, too. Only a few weeks remain, so get busy.

The Anna Maria Island Chamber of Commerce is at 5313 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach. Visit the website at annamariaislandchamber.org.

The Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce will hold a Networking@Noon luncheon 11:30 a.m. Thursday, July 13, at the Bijou Cafe, 1287 First St., Sarasota.

The cost is $25 for members and $35 for non-members.

The lunch will be sponsored by Conditioned Air. A LBK chamber business after-hours, “BAH” event, will be held by the LBK chamber at 5 p.m.

Tuesday, July 25, on Anna Maria Island at the Bridge Tender Inn, 135 Bridge St., Bradenton Beach.

For more information on Longboat chamber events, call 941-383-2466, visit the website at longboatkeychamber.com or stop by the office at 5390 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Suite 102, Longboat Key.

Capt. Wayne Genthner of Wolfmouth fishing charters addresses early risers June 14 at the Anna Maria Island Chamber of Commerce breakfast. The next chamber breakfast will be at 7:45 a.m. Wednesday, July 12, at the Gulf Drive Cafe and Tiki, 900 Gulf Drive N., Bradenton Beach. Cost is $8 for members.

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Real estate transactions

By Jesse Brisson Special to The Islander 95 52nd St., Holmes Beach, a 2,988 sfla / 4,721 sfur 3bed/3½bath/2car Gulffront pool home built in 2003 on a 24,868 sq ft lot was sold 05/22/17, Swanson to Fangmeyer for $3,450,000; list $3,790,000.

801 N. Shore Drive, Anna Maria, a 4,728 sfla / 7,452 sfur 4bed/3½bath/2car Gulffront pool home built in 2005 on a 7,500 sq ft lot was sold 05/24/17, Deporre to Baab for $3,400,000; list $3,675,000.

2907 Ave. F, Holmes Beach, a 2,300 sfla / 3,997 sfur 4bed/4½bath/2car GulfBrisson front pool home built in 2015 on a 5,009

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819 N. Shore Drive, Anna Maria, a 2,951 sfla / 4,553 sfur 3bed/2bath/2car Gulfront home built in 2000 on a 5,625 sq ft lot was sold 05/09/17, Lamm to Struckman for $2,210,000; list $2,495,000.

8027 Marina Isles Lane, Holmes Beach, a 4,804 sfla / 9,166 sfur 5bed/5½bath/2car bayfront pool home built in 2006 on a 29,800 sq ft lot was sold 05/11/17, Langmaack to Agnelli for $2,000,000; list $2,199,000.

516 N. Bay Blvd., Anna Maria, a 2,500 sfla / 3,238 sfur 4bed/4½bath/2car pool home built in 2016 on a 4,450 sq ft lot was sold 05/17/17, Blue Eyed Girl 516 North Bay Blvd LLC to JPNFL LLC for $1,550,000; list $1,725,000.

8317 Marina Court, Holmes Beach, a 3,676 sfla / 5,972 sfur 4bed/3½bath/5car canalfront pool home built in 1984 on a 8,500 sq ft lot was sold 05/19/17, Tankard to Wendt for $1,450,000; list $1,550,000.

710 N. Shore Drive., Anna Maria, a 1,841 sfla / 3,140 sfur 4bed/3½bath/3car pool home built in 2017 on a 5,100 sq ft lot was sold 05/12/17, Investments in Paradise LLC to Gibbons for $1,350,000; list $1,375,000.

511 Loquat Drive, Anna Maria, a 3,440 sfla / 4,293 sfur 4bed/4bath/2car canalfront pool home built in 1985 on a 9,945 sq ft lot was sold 05/17/17, Duncan to Dragonfly Harbor LLC for $1,275,000; list $1,495,000.

751 Jacaranda Road, Anna Maria, a 1,727 sfla / 2,429 sfur 4bed/3½bath/2car pool home built in 2017 on a 5,000 sq ft lot was sold 05/08/17, Jacaranda Beach AMI LLC to Childress for $1,235,000; list $1,249,000.

626 Foxworth Lane, Holmes Beach, a 2,532 sfla / 3,278 sfur 4bed/3bath/2car canalfront pool home built in 1972 on a 11,543 sq ft lot was sold 05/11/17, Davis to Bale for $1,100,000; list $1,199,000.

6700 Gulf Drive, Unit 8, Gulfplace, Holmes Beach, a 1,603 sfla / 1,827 sfur 3bed/2bath Gulffront condo with shared pool built in 1976 was sold 05/05/17, 104132 Canada Inc to Speer for $1,095,000; list $1,225,000.

222 & 224 Willow Ave., Anna Maria two vacant 9,000 sq ft lots, one canalfront, were sold Marquis to Sunshine Invest LLC for $975,000.

106 Magnolia Ave., Anna Maria, a vacant 7,250 sq ft lot was sold 05/24/17, AMI Assets LLC to Pafg 06 LLC for $900,000.

417 Bay Palms Drive, Holmes Beach, a 1,841 sfla / 2,885 sfur 3bed/3bath/2car pool home built in 1966 on a

11,605 sq ft lot was sold 05/16/17, Cronan to Conover for $938,500.

511 65th St., Holmes Beach, a 2,677 sfla / 3,093 sfur 4bed/3bath/1car canalfront home built in 1965 on a 8,500 sq ft lot was sold 05/12/17, Kern to Goodson for $900,000; list $969,000.

517 N. Bay Blvd., Anna Maria, a 1,762 sfla / 1,996 sfur 3bed/2bath home built in 1951 on a 9,000 sq ft lot was sold 05/17/17, Battle to Stinnett for $799,900; list $799,900.

614 Emerald Lane, Holmes Beach, a 2,475 sfla / 2,940 sfur 4bed/3bath/2car canalfront pool home built in 1968 on a 10,934 sq ft lot was sold 05/22/17, Sams to McIntire for $680,000; list $699,950.

4913 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach, a 2,104 sfla / 4,509 sfur 3bed/2bath bayfront pool home built in 1985 on a 10,425 sq ft lot was sold 05/16/17, Salinas to Eason for $620,000.

210 Gulf Drive S., Unit B, Capri, Bradenton Beach, a 900 sfla / 1,043 sfur 2bed/2bath Gulffront condo built in 2001 was sold 05/12/17, Manser to Spanke for $528,000; list $579,000.

522 Bayview Place, Anna Maria, a 1,080 sfla / 1,688 sfur 2bed/2bath/1car canalfront home built in 1966 on a 6,600 sq ft lot was sold 05/22/17, Belmont to Northington for $419,000.

1201 Gulf Drive N., Unit 200, Key West North, Bradenton Beach, a 1,173 sfla / 1,293 sfur 2bed/2bath condo with shared pool built in 1999 was sold 05/10/17, Beese to Babcock Commons LLC for $387,500; list $399,000.

1801 Gulf Drive N., Unit 130, Runaway Bay, Bradenton Beach, a 1,080 sfla / 1,140 sfur 2bed/2bath condo with shared pool built in 1978 was sold 05/10/17, Devos to Ajayi for $330,000; list $345,000.

100 23rd St. N., Bradenton Beach, a 604 sfla 1bed/1½bath home built in 1952 on a 2,500 sq ft lot was sold 05/09/17, Ramsey to Barger for $325,099; list $399,000.

1301 Bay Drive N., Unit 7A, Bay Watch, Bradenton Beach, a 1,079 sfla / 1,211 sfur 2bed/2bath condo with shared pool built in 1982 was sold 05/05/17, Davis to Driver for $265,000; list $279,999.

204 Church Ave., Bradenton Beach, a 590 sfla / 1,320 sfur 1bed/1bath condo with shared pool built in 1982 was sold 05/22/17, Ireland to Paraschos for $210,000.

2601 Gulf Drive N., Unit 523, Sandpiper Resort Co-Op, Bradenton Beach, a 396 sfla / 611 sfur 1bed/1bath mobile home with owner share, built in 1968, was sold 05/24/17, Gribneau to Engstrom for $120,000.

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