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by Kurt Schultheis | City Editor

City’s directors not being evaluated More than 60 Sarasota employees aren’t up to date on evaluations, including directors.

According to information obtained from the city of Sarasota human resources department, five of the six city’s directors who report directly to the city manager and take home six-figure salaries have not received an annual evaluation since 2007, the year that former City Manager Bob Bartolotta was hired.

The directors join 61 other city

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employees who are listed as past due for performance evaluations.

The city directors are at-will employees who can be fired at any time by the city manager and receive three months of their salary, according to city Human Resources Director Kurt Hoverter.

Hoverter and other human resources directors said it’s up to the city manager or county ad-

ministrator to perform evaluations for directors.

Hoverter said he had reminded Bartolotta each year when his directors were due for evaluations.

“It was his choice whether to do them or not,” Hoverter said.

“He chose not to submit written evaluations for his directors to our office.”

Bartolotta could not be reached

for comment for this story.

Hoverter noted that performance evaluations are not part of a merit-based pay system.

“We haven’t had any raises city-wide since 2008, except for some STEP increases where warranted,” Hoverter said.

When asked if he would prefer

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POINTE THE WAY

Sarasota resident Robert O’Connor recently became a member of the Seven Continents Club, an elite group of runners who’ve completed a marathon on all seven continents. The marathon took place in Rio de Janeiro, and it earned O’Connor a spot on the exclusive list of 249 runners who’ve accomplished the feat since the club’s formation in 1996.

+ Carving out his baseball niche Sarasota’s Tim McCarver has been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. He was honored as this year’s inductee into the Ford Frick broadcast wing of the hall for his service to the game as a color commentator for the past 32 years.

McCarver played baseball for the Phillies before joining the Mets in the early 1980s and earning a 1986 World Series win. After his playing career, he went on to make a name for himself as a broadcaster for the Phillies, the Mets, the Yankees and the Giants.

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Angela Tompkins and Calvin Simon Farias practice during the Sarasota Ballet Summer Intensive program rehearsal July 23 in the studio.

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budget blues By Alex Mahadevan | News Editor

Sarasota school revenues fall for fifth year County schools will endure budget cuts if the tentative budget is adopted Sept. 11. But, the skid could be approaching its end.

Recessions issue a double whammy to economies, whose public schools face budget cuts, weakening the future value of the same economy’s work force.

Sarasota County District

Schools weren’t spared from the Great Recession, with a fifth consecutive year of operating budget cuts and staff reductions included in the budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal year.

But, despite the 686 positions cut during the last five years and $120 million slashed from the operating budget in the same period, most of the data fell by the lowest margin over the year since the

housing crash. Millage rates will rise for Sarasota County this year and taxable values are down less than 1% compared with last year, but trends indicate a parachute is opening for the recession-fueled free fall for the school budget.

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SCHOOLS / FROM PAGE 1A School board members praised Al Weidner’s efforts in reducing the amount drawn from the general fund from $13 million, down to $1.2 million.

“It’s a team effort,” Weidner said at the tentative budget presentation Tuesday, July 24. “(Superintendant Lori White) leads a very conservative message.”

School Board Vice Chairwoman Carol Todd was absent for the meeting, but the four present board members voted to approve the preliminary budget for advertisement.

Weidner said the information will be available on the school board website so the public can study up on the budget the public hearing Tuesday, July 31.

The proposed 2.3% millage rate increase will likely be the focal point of the public hearing, but School Board member Shirley Brown wanted to assert it was the actions of the Florida Legislature that caused the hike — $18 for a property appraised at $100,000, barring any valuation change. The required local effort for student allocation increased 3% in Florida, she said.

“The total taxes are still less than what they were 10 years ago,” she said.

Revenues

Source Total Revenues Unspent Prior Year Revenues Property Taxes State Sources Voted Millage Other Local Sources Local Sales Tax

Funding

Source Total Budget General Fund School Internal Accounts Internal Service Fund Food Service Special Revenue Grant Special Revenue Capital Fund Debt Service Fund

EMPLOYEES / FROM PAGE 1A

+ Student Enrollment 43,000

41,985

42,000

43,000

40,000 2007

’08

’09

’10

’11

’12

+ Staff 6,000 5,800 5,600

5,162

5,400 5,200 5,000

2007

’08

’09

’10

’11

’12

Source: SARASOTA COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD 2012-2013 TENTATIVE BUDGET

Amount $760.35 million $276.11 million $273.45 million $105.41 million $40 million $33.7 million $12.9 million

Amount $642.58 million $374.14 million $11.8 million $6.4 million $16.9 million $29.1 millio $173.19 million $29.84 million

% / Total 100% 36% 36% 14% 5% 4% 2%

% / Total 100% 58% 2% 1% 2% 4% 27% 5%

all city employees have annual evaluations on file, Hoverter said he would.

“We would like reports completed,” Hoverter said.

It is the responsibility of the city’s directors to perform evaluations for the other 61 city employees, Hoverter said.

But the city of Sarasota isn’t the only local municipality that chooses not to have performance evaluations done for its directors.

Former Longboat Key Town Manager Bruce St. Denis did not sign off on numerous evaluations placed on his desk

by Longboat Key Human Resources Manager Lisa Silvertooth.

Silvertooth said she has several evaluations filed away that are technically not complete because they were never signed by the town manager.

Silvertooth, a longtime private company human resources manager, said she was shocked, upon being hired by the town, to learn about its approach to performance evaluations.

“I realize that employees aren’t receiving pay increases at this time, and the argument is, ‘What’s the point?’” Silvertooth said. “But, I believe it’s important to administer annual evaluations so em-

ployees receive input and goals are set for the coming year.”

Silvertooth noted that Longboat Key Town Manager David Bullock is much more receptive to Silvertooth’s requests to have updated evaluations for all employees, including directors.

Although the town of Longboat Key joins the city in its lack of accountability, Sarasota County conducts annual evaluations despite the fact that employees have not seen pay increases in years.

Sarasota County Human Resources Manager Joannie Whitley said her department is up to date on all of its performance evaluations and all 11 directors receive evaluations at the request of County Administrator Randall Reid and the county’s former administrator.

“Performance evaluations are done for directors every December, despite the fact they haven’t received raises for five years and counting,” Whitley said.

“It’s always been our practice to perform evaluations.”

Whitley said she believes performance evaluations are important.

“It’s the one opportunity we have to let employees know how they are doing in their job,” Whitley said. “It’s important to document evaluations and set goals for your employees.”

Evaluations The following is a list of city of Sarasota department directors and the dates of their last performance evaluations. For a complete list of all 67 city employees’ performance reviews, visit YourObserver.com.

Position Name Director of Human Resources Kurt Hoverter Director of Neighborhood and Development Services Timothy Litchet Director of Public Works Douglas Jeffcoat Executive Director of Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Mary Bensel Christopher Lyons Finance Director

Last Recorded Next Scheduled Review Review Nov. 9, 2004 Jan. 6, 2006 Oct. 9, 2006 July 8, 2009

Feb. 28, 2007 Nov. 23, 2010

None Sept. 10, 2007

June 10, 2007 Oct. 5, 2008

*Information courtesy of the city of Sarasota **Former Utilities Director Javier Vargas resigned in May, but had not had an evaluation since 2007 at the time of his resignation

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primary elections

Rod Thomson | Editor At-large

candidate Q&A Editor’s note: As the Aug. 14 primary election nears, the Sarasota Observer will be publishing short profiles and Q&A segments from each of

the candidates who will represent Manatee and Sarasota counties.

In this week’s issue, we feature candidates for

Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections. For complete responses from all primary election candidates, visit YourObserver.com.

SARASOTA County Supervisor of Elections The normally sedate, mundane race for Sara- because the job is not policy-related so much as sota County Supervisor of Elections is one of ministerial. the most heated local races this year, pitting Thaxton, who has cultivated a career as a calm, two long-time, successful Sarasota politicians mild-mannered politician often focused on enagainst each other. vironmental and growth issues, wasted no time It did not appear it was going to be this way. going negative — something that is considered Kathy Dent, supervisor for 12 years, was a near-necessity in unseating a well-known 2012 incumbent. running uncontested for the mostly adPRIMARY ministrative position. She wasn’t cam- ELECTION Thaxton criticized Dent for the well-known paigning or even fundraising. But a court controversy over the touch-screen voting ruling that enforced the voter-approved machines in 2006 that resulted in thousands term limits blocked Sarasota County Comof under votes, and her lesser-known decision missioner Jon Thaxton from running for a fourth to deny a recount to a Charter Review Board canterm. didate in 2010. He has made it personal against Thaxton had a political war chest of nearly Dent, charging incompetence and a lack of per$70,000, and he turned it on the Supervisor of sonal integrity overall in her office.

Elections Office. Dent, at that moment, had “I think the integrity (issue) goes a little furraised less than $2,000 with no opposition. It is ther than just the machines,” Thaxton says in almost an issueless campaign between the two, debates, referring to the ill-fated touch-screens

Kathy Dent

Jon Thaxton

Five children and eight grandchildren Hometown: Born in Butler, Pa. — raised in Callensburg, Pa. Education: Bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, post-graduate work at the University of South Florida Relevant experience: Elected Supervisor of Elections in 2000, then again in 2004 and 2008; Co-chair of the Florida State Association of Supervisor of Elections’ Education and Training Committee 2002-04 Website: KathyDent.com

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Age: 62 Family: Married to attorney, John Dent.

What would be your top priorities if elected?

My priorities, if elected, are to continue to serve the voters of Sarasota County with the same dedication and commitment that I have done over the past, almost 12, years in office. I will continue to be non-partisan, keep politics out of the office and to administer all of the laws regarding elections from the federal and state levels.

Sarasota County deserves an elections professional, and I have the qualifications and experience to provide that.

Do you favor the current system of primaries, or would you like them changed to closed primaries?

Right now, we have closed primaries in the state of Florida. It would take a legislative act to make that change, and it is highly unlikely that either party would want to give up the ability to select the candidates that represent them in the general election.

Do more precincts need to be created or should there be fewer?

The voting trend in the state of Florida is toward absentee (vote by mail) and early voting. In the 2008 election, 60% of Sarasota voters had voted before we ever opened the polls on Election Day. Because of this state-wide trend, supervisors of elections in Florida have reduced the number of precincts by an average of 34%. Sarasota County has done this consolidation, too, and will save the taxpayers $100,000 per election. At the same time, we will be providing the type of voting that the majority of the voters want.

What makes you a better candidate than your opponent?

The fact that I am true professional elections administrator. I have conducted 88 elections in my tenure in office and have amassed hundreds of hours of continuing education. I am certified as an elections administrator at both the national and state levels. I have served as president of our state supervisors of elections association. Besides my professional qualifications, I have a passion for the job. Conducting elections get in your blood and then you never want to do anything else.

six years ago.

Dent, clearly taken aback by the attacks on her, was on the defensive at first. But, recently, she has come back swinging.

She has criticized Thaxton for wrong priorities, taking shots at his status as a layman expert on the endangered scrub jays and being uninformed about the duties of the elections office. Further, she said he was just playing politics with the voting machine issue because he voted to approve buying them as a county commissioner.

Both Dent and Thaxton have loyal supporters and high name recognition. In the final quarter campaign finance filing, Dent has raised nearly $15,000 and loaned her campaign $16,000. Thaxton has raised about $11,000 in the same quarter. The candidates each have about $26,000 in their accounts to spend in the final weeks.

The office pays $116,000 annually.

Age: 54 Family: Married to wife, Hometown: Sarasota Education: Self-em-

ployed businessman since graduating from Venice High School.

Relevant experience: Managed family-owned real-estate office; served 12 years as a county commissioner; have extensive experience in making difficult decisions, establishing trust and being accountable to the electorate Website: jonthaxton.net What would be your top priorities if elected?

My top priority will be to restore transparency and accountability to the Supervisor of Elections position and improve communication between the supervisor and the electorate. As a county commissioner, I have earned the trust from many groups on opposing sides of an issue. This took a lot of hard work, a willingness to listen to all opinions and the conviction to make tough decisions and disciplined stands.

I established my reputation for fairness by always being prepared, transparent and objective. These skills have enabled me to become an effective and trusted county commissioner, known for treating citizens equally and with respect. My goal is for the candidates and the issues to dominate the headlines, not the supervisor of elections.

Do you favor the current system of primaries, or would you like them changed to closed primaries?

I favor the Florida Constitution. Our state constitution was overwhelmingly amended by the voters to require open primaries: “If all candidates for an office have the same party affiliation and the winner will have no opposition in the general election … ” A loophole was created to keep primaries closed when a Florida Division of Election’s

staff member interpreted the intent and will of the voters by suggesting that a writein candidate is “opposition” to candidates whose names actually appear on the ballot.

In one case, a Democratic candidate used her own mother as a write-in candidate to close the primary. In another, a candidate hand-delivered her opponent’s paperwork to the elections office to qualify him as a write-in candidate, again closing the primary. This conflict needs to be resolved by elected legislators, or the voters, not an appointed bureaucrat in Tallahassee.

Do more precincts need to be created or should there be fewer?

As voters move more and more toward absentee ballots and early voting, the need for precincts will decrease. Strategically designed new precinct boundaries will improve efficiencies and save taxpayers’ money, while still maintaining access to the traditional voting on Election Day at the polls for those who prefer it.

What makes you a better candidate than your opponent?

A supervisor of elections needs to be considered by the electorate as a fair-minded, impartial official; able to maintain open and civil communications with multiple and widely varied groups and political parties. By treating people with respect, maintaining open communications and being attentive to the needs of the community as a whole, I believe that I have attained this difficult-to-reach goal.

Last year, I was recognized with top awards from the Coalition of Business Associations and the Gulf Coast Business Exchange for my efforts on preserving Florida jobs and its economy. I was also recognized with top awards from the Florida Wildlife Federation and the Audubon Society, for my work in preserving Florida’s natural environment. The division between these two groups is wide, and rarely do they agree. However, they all agreed that my management style and leadership abilities on significant state issues was deserving of their highest recognition.

To read more Q&As from primary candidates, go to YourObserver.com.

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+ Reid appoints procurement official Sarasota County Administrator Randall Reid has appointed Ted Coyman Jr. as procurement official effective immediately, according to an email from Reid to Sarasota County commissioners.

Second Deputy County Administrator Bill Little has been serving in the interim since the June 19 resignation of Mark Thiele. Coyman is currently contract manager with Sarasota County.

An ethical and procedural overhaul of the procurement department was one of Reid’s main goals when he took the county administrator position at the beginning of this year.

Coyman was a finalist in earlier recruitment efforts for the procurement official.

“His superior performance, high ethical standards and understanding of the complexities of getting the best value for taxpayer dollars are traits that I expect will continue to serve the best interest of our community,” Reid said in the email.

+ Riverview lands big donation The Riverview High School aquaculture program Stars for Starfish got a financial boost yesterday when the Sarasota County School Board voted unanimously to approve a $100,000 anonymous donation to the school.

Half of the amount will be allotted to the marine-science program, which will be used to build a dock on Phillippi Creek and purchase a $20,000 pontoon boat, said Sarasota attorney George Mazzarantani, who represented the

donor at the meeting. The permitting process will also be expedited, he said, with the help of Riverview Principal Linda Nook.

“If you’ve ever dealt with permit issues, let alone permit issues with a navigable body of water,” he explained, “it’s a nightmare.”

The remaining $50,000 will be used by the school’s music program. Mark Spreen, director of the music program, will use $30,000 to buy new instruments and $20,000 to purchase a band tower. The school currently rents a scissor lift.

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+ SRQ reports mid-year traffic increase During the month of June, the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport experienced a 9.6% increase in passengers, as compared to June 2011, with 95,439 people passing through the airport.

This increase reflects a trend in a positive direction, when compared to Tampa International Airport’s traffic, which is down .49% for the month of June, and up .4% year-to-date.

Fredrick J. Piccolo, SarasotaBradenton International Airport president and CEO, said, “We have been keeping a close eye on passenger trends and are pleased with the growth in passenger traffic, resulting from strong demand and the wonderful support for the market provided by our existing carriers.”

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By Alex Mahadevan | News Editor

WCIND grants Sarasota special exception

By Alex Mahadevan | News Editor

Dent, Thaxton attack each other’s party loyalty and track record Sarasota County Commissioner Jon Thaxton and Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent met July 24, for a debate sponsored by the Republican Club.

Commissioner Nora Patterson asked the organization to allow more funding for law-enforcement projects in the county.

When law-enforcement agencies in Sarasota County submitted more funding requests than allotted by the West Coast Inland Navigation District, some weaknesses to the five-member board that oversees waterways for five counties on the Gulf Coast were exposed.

Sarasota County Coastal Resources Manager Laird Wreford at a July 10 Sarasota County Commission meeting did some quick calculations that avoided rejecting any of the 22 WCIND funding requests and only slashed the five law-enforcement applications by 9.8%, however they still only comprised 31.7% of the amount Wreford recommended funding.

The WCIND board at a July 18 meeting at Venice Town Hall voted unanimously to allow Sarasota County to exceed the 30% cap on funding for law enforcement up to 32% for the 2013 fiscal year.

But, the organization’s chairman, Charlotte County Commissioner Robert Skidmore, voiced concern about the fact that Charlotte County had to deny some of its applicants in law enforcement to meet the cap, noting that the county has a new sheriff who could return with more requests. “It’s fine with me if the board wants to raise the cap,� said Sarasota County Commissioner Nora Patterson, who, as a member of the WCIND board, requested the special exception. “But, I know we’ll get larger and larger requests.�

That spilled into more policy issues the board had yet to configure: how to regulate the reservoir of taxes it receives

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The doe milling around the ninth green at Laurel Oak Country Club created a peaceful contrast to the heated debate inside the nearby clubhouse, as two candidates for Sarasota Supervisor of Elections quarreled three weeks before they will meet for the primary election.

Sarasota County Commissioner Jon Thaxton at a July 24 breakfast sponsored by the Sarasota Republican Club continued his attack of incumbent Kathy Dent’s record, which includes three lawsuits. Dent, however, took the opportunity to criticize Thaxton’s party loyalty.

Thaxton is known for his environmental advocacy, which, as a Republican, he said, allows him to capture the votes of moderate Democrats and independent voters.

Dent received 64% of the votes cast in the 2008 general election, which Thaxton said he could match or beat against the Democratic challenger in November. “This man’s passion is the environment,�

Dent said of her opponent. “My passion is elections.�

She implied that agenda has drawn Democrats to work in Thaxton’s campaign, as well as vote for the three-term commissioner. “My opponent has surrounded himself with Democrats,� she said. “And it’s those same Democrats who have been bringing up the dirt.�

She named W. “Skip� Parrish, a computer expert who clashed with Dent in 2009 about voting machines, as a “Democratic operative� working under Thaxton.

Parrish, in May, sent an email urging Sarasota County commissioners to vote against approval of new voter precincts

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Sarasota County Commissioner Nora Patterson schedules the next West Coast Inland Navigation District meeting on her new Droid smart phone.

and uses for emergency regional projects and whether to set a minimum balance for each locality’s County Navigation Improvement Fund.

Sarasota County had to reach into that coffer for more than $500,000 to satisfy funding requests, leaving $250,000 left for any urgent waterway needs during the fiscal year.

But, the WCIND meeting continued until nearly 4 p.m. without reaching an agenda item about minimum reserves, sparking some frustration from Manatee County Commissioner John Chappie. “We’ve been talking about this for 10 years,� he said.

and polling location changes, citing concerns about the elderly population. Thaxton asked Dent for a report on how reprecincting would affect senior citizens. “As of now, I haven’t heard a word about it,� he said during the debate. “Rest assured, there will be confusion on Election Day.�

Prior to the debate, attendees united for a fiery denouncement of Barack Obama from Dr. Rich Show co-host, Johnny Jackson, who also moderated the event. “One hundred and four days,� Jackson said. “That’s how many days we have left before we go to the polls and defeat Barack Hussein Obama.�

Charles Hines, who is running this year for the seat vacated by Thaxton, and current Sarasota County Commission Chairwoman Christine Robinson spoke before the debate about their campaigns and the general election. “After this primary, we have to come together and get going for Mitt Romney,�

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Little girl displays large spirit In May, Tana and Dennis Johnson’s 3-year-old daughter, Teeja, was diagnosed with a rare childhood cancer called neuroblastoma.

Every time Teeja Johnson arrives at the Children’s Garden, she makes a beeline to Snow White’s cottage and kisses all seven dwarfs — then she says “hi” to Dopey.

Without fail, it’s full throttle all the way down the big twisty slide before racing around the garden as fast as her little legs will carry her.

Every so often, she trots back to the cottage to check on the seven dwarfs.

Teeja, who turned 3 years old July 24, was not feeling well the week of May 7. At first, her mother, Tana Johnson, thought it might be the virus that was traveling around Teeja’s preschool, which was causing vomiting and diarrhea in the students. An urgent-care doctor told Johnson that the virus would probably just run its course. But Teeja continued to have stomach pain, especially at night, and would pad down the hall once every hour to find her mother.

The following Monday, Johnson took Teeja to see her pediatrician

and have her checked a second time. They saw an on-call pediatrician because Teeja’s regular doctor was out of town, but again they were told it was viral and it would pass.

“I knew something was really wrong when we took her to her favorite place in Sarasota — the Children’s Garden — and she went down the slide about five times, was completely exhausted and wanted to go home,” Johnson said. “This, from a child who typically goes all day like her mama and was dropping her afternoon nap just last month. She is a child who wants to play and wants to invite you into her imaginary world.

She’s a spitfire.”

After three more nights of Johnson sleeping on the floor next to Teeja’s bed and watching her daughter writhing in pain until the Tylenol or Motrin kicked in, she tried abdominal massage, thinking that constipation might be the cause.

Family Circus Day Friends of the family George and Kimberly Manooshian will host a car wash and fundraiser from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, at Encore Motorcars, 6000 S. Tamiami Trail. The extravaganza will feature children’s activities, clowns, cotton candy, acrobat entertainment, face painting, games, popcorn and raffle items.

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“As I used to do massage therapy, I tried to feel for an obstruction or blockage to help things pass more easily, and I felt what we now know is the tumor,” Johnson said.

“I asked my husband, Dennis, if he felt it as well, but he did not know what to feel for and did not want to press too hard on her tummy.”

Johnson made a third appointment for May 21 — this time with Teeja’s regular pediatrician.

“On Monday, our pediatrician listened to me and felt her tummy,” Johnson said. “She felt exactly what I had been feeling and was on the phone to All Children’s Hospital in an instant and had us up and receiving an ultrasound and blood tests within two hours.”

By May 25, the Johnsons received the diagnosis — Teeja had neuroblastoma, a malignant tumor that develops from nerve tissue and usually occurs in infants and children. Teeja started chemotherapy that evening.

“I’m thankful we found it when we did,” Johnson said. “This disease is a very aggressive cancer that moves fast. But, it hasn’t spread and is not attached to any organs. The goal is to shrink it and remove it, and then she has further treatments after that.”

Over the past few months, the family has made sudden and increasingly frequent trips to All Children’s Hospital. Outpatient visits have become consistent and medications routine. For a moth-

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Teeja Johnson at home June 10 er into natural living, giving her daughter so many drugs has been difficult.

“You can’t just say here, ‘Drink some wheat grass and the tumor will shrink,” Johnson says. “You have to treat it aggressively. It’s a lot for a little body to take.”

Now that part of the tumor has died off and has shrunk, Teeja feels better. It isn’t pressing on her ureters or kidney, which was causing high blood pressure, and she has

more energy. And, even after all of the doctor visits, trips to the hospital and chemotherapy treatments, Teeja still doesn’t know the word “cancer.”

“She knows that something is wrong and that we go to the hospital,” Johnson says. “The only thing I’ve ever heard her say is, ‘Mommy what happened to my hair?’ when she looked in the mirror. She doesn’t have any fear about what’s happening.”

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Candidates bare their claws at Tiger Bay The race for the 12th Judicial District State Attorney’s Office has usually tight-tongued lawyers volleying personal attacks rather than telling voters why they deserve the position.

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because Lombardo criticized Brodsky for seeking endorsements, himself.

Endorsements and their ethical implications, rather than promises to constituents, became the primary topic.

“It’s not difficult to find a picture of Bill Lombardo,” Lombardo explained when questioned about participation in the advertisement, which Brodsky said was devastating for his children to watch.

“Those aren’t pictures — you’re acting,” Brodsky said.

Lombardo asserted he did shoot the footage at the advice of his campaign manager but didn’t know what the final product looked like until it made headlines. He said he was unaware of who underwrote the commercial.

Despite a few jabs from Brodsky, Torraco quietly built audience support and pushed back, as well. He criticized Brodsky’s record, which he said includes doing what attorneys call “jacking it up.” That means increasing the charges against someone right before they go to trial, pressuring them for a plea deal.

“I would have my own case load,” Torraco said. “The tax payer deserves the maximum value for their dollar.”

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The Sarasota Tiger Bay Club luncheons held at Michael’s On East provided a forum in which attendees heard candidates in both races in the same month. But, the aggressive climate leading up to the primary election had state attorney candidates July 19 focused more on how — and how not — to run an ethical campaign, rather than what they plan to accomplish if elected.

The luncheon was expected to be a sparring match between Republican candidates Ed Brodsky and Peter Lombardo, with little input coming from the sole Democrat, John Torraco. But, by the end of the affair, Torraco snuck in a few jabs at Brodsky and managed to avoid the arguments made at the podium.

Days earlier, Lombardo was accused of soliciting support from Dr. Gary Kompothecras, a local entrepreneur. A commercial attacking Brodsky, which was paid for by Kompothecras’ political action committee, sparked the controversy,

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The responses: ‘enraged’ “He just leaves you breathless, dumbfounded … enraged.”

That was the opening sentence to last week’s editorial on this page. And touche, several readers made the same statement about about us. We enraged them, really enraged them.

Check out the letters to the editor.

Those are the ones readers signed.

H. Murray Blueglass, president of the Longboat Key Democratic Club, empatically let us know his organization will no longer purchase advertising space in the Longboat Observer. And as you read the letters, you’ll see that others thought of our comments as “vile,” “hate filled,” “horrific,” “vitriolic” and “disgusting.”

One letter writer called the editorial “hateful claptrap.”

Another said the editorial “borders on treason” and noted that he is going to recommend to everyone he knows to boycott our newspapers and keep them from being distributed to Sarasota’s condominiums. Another said he would be calling the Secret Service to report the final line of the editorial — the reference to “a call to arms.”

The reaction is understandable. We’ve been in their shoes and know how they feel.

We’re not hateful. It’s not personal. Barack Obama is like most of us: He’s a husband and father and tries to do what he believes is right and just.

But there’s a deep gulf between his “right and just” and ours. It’s not hate. Call our opposition “passion.” We’re passionately opposed to his vision for the United States — an ever-expanding role for the state that punishes American exceptionalism so the state can pick winners and decide how to make everyone more equal.

And mea culpa. In hindsight, our reference to “a call to arms” was the wrong choice of words. They were meant to be metaphoric. When they were written, the Aurora, Colo., tragedy had not occurred.

That event made that comment all the more incendiary. It was a metaphor to urge those offended by Obama’s “you didn’t build that” to rally for his defeat in the November elections.

Those remarks were the once-and-for-all evidence that Obama’s core being rejects what Hoover Institution senior fellow John B. Taylor calls “the first principles of economic freedom upon which the country was founded.” At the risk of offending Obama supporters even more, his words and actions confirm: He’s a collectivist.

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“Obama’s supporters claim that he has been falsely charged with being a leftwing ideologue. But based on my reporting, I concluded that Obama is actually in revolt against the values of the society he was elected to lead.

Which is why he has refused to embrace American exceptionalism — the idea that Americans are a special people with a special destiny — and why he has railed at the captialist system, demonized the wealthy and embraced the Occupy Wall Street movement.”

“Hillary (Clinton) rolled her eyes. “‘I’m the highest-ranking member in Obama’s cabinet,’ she pointed out. ‘I eat breakfast with the guy every Thursday morning. What about loyalty, Bill? What about loyalty? “‘Loyalty is a joke,’ Bill said. ‘Loyalty doesn’t exist in politics. There’s no such word in the political rulebook.

I’ve had two successors since I left the White House — Bush and Obama — and I’ve heard more from Bush, asking for my advice, than I’ve heard from Obama. I have no relationship with the president — none whatsoever. Obama doesn’t know how to be president. He doesn’t know how the world works. He’s incompetent. He’s … he’s …’

“Bill’s voice was growing

And that is a rejection of the soul of the United States. As Hoover’s Taylor writes in his new book, “First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America’s Prosperity”: “At its most basic level, economic freedom means that families, individuals and entrepreneurs are free to decide what to produce, what to consume, what to buy and sell and how to help others. The American vision was that those decisions would be made within a predictable government policy framework based on the rule of law with strong incentives derived from the market system and with a clearly limited role for government.”

But ever since his election in 2008, Obama’s goal has been to expand the role of government in your life and shrink the “free” market.

This is anathema to our nation’s economic core. As Taylor also notes in his book: “One of the most amazing things about these defining principles of economic freedom is that they also constitute a set of principles for economic success. Economic theory and experience show that they lead to superior economic outcomes, including strong

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR + You are so hate filled

Dear Editor: We opened your Pelican Press paper and could not believe the article on “The antiAmerican president.”

I have never read any article so hate filled. You are scary to us.

This article was nothing more than an article written to stir up hatred and resentment.

What is wrong with these people? They distorted the words he used.

I came from Texas. Bush country. I was sick to see what he and Dick Cheney did to this country, but not once did I disrespect the office of the president of the United States. This article, like Fox News, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, does nothing but cause mass shootings like we had last week.

Not one of those people named in the article got to where he is today without

help somewhere along the line.

I owned the largest woman-owned specialty advertising company in the country for almost 20 years. I received many awards throughout all those years. I never, ever used my business to spread hate and resentment. There were many times I used the opportunities the government offered to help me build my business.

Your headline and article so filled with hate just make things worse all the way around.

I wish I had not read this article because it broke our hearts.

It would have been better to just run a full page ad for Romney than to print this disrespectful article about a sitting president.

Ira J. and Peggy Ann Chupp Sarasota

hoarse — he was speaking a rough whisper — but he looked as though he could go on forever bashing Obama. And then, all at once and without warning, he stopped cold.

“He bit his lower lip and scanned the faces in the room. He was plainly gratified to see that his audience was spellbound. They were waiting for the politician par excellence to deliver his final judgment on the 44th president of the United States. “‘Barack Obama,’ said Bill Clinton, ‘is an amateur.’”

economic growth and rising prosperity.”

Indeed, it’s not just “right-wing nuts” who see that Obama’s desire for more collectivism has resulted in the historically weak economic recovery. Some on his side of the aisle also see it.

To that end, everyone should read author Edward Klein’s New York Times Bestseller, “The Amateur” (see box above). Klein, a former editor of the New York Times Sunday Magazine, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and former foreign editor for Newsweek — all liberal publications — reported and wrote a stunning, revealing portrait of Barack Obama that definitively verifies our fears.

Many of The Observer readers we offended last week (and probably this week, too) should know: 1) We respect your points of view; and 2) the passion we previously mentioned is rooted in the fervent belief that accompanies this page every week, that of the late Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek: “A policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.”

— Matt Walsh

+ Hateful clap-trap

Dear Editor: You hate Obama; OK, we get that. I am not crazy about him either.

But Good Lord, to compare him to Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro is over the top.

The quote-box statements seem pretty mild. A call to arms? Please.

You undermine your own credibility by spouting this kind of hateful clap-trap.

Better if you had explained to the readers what Obama did to welfare, removing the work requirement.

And here’s another thing: Do we need to read this kind of diatribe in the Pelican Press? It is a local paper that does a good job with local reporting. Stick to what you do well!

Donna Liberman Sarasota

+ Just plain crazy

Dear Editor: I expect to read strong, right-wing opinions in the Observer, but today’s editorial, “The Anti-American president,” was over the top.

SEE LETTERS / PAGE 9A

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LETTERS/FROM PAGE 8A To characterize Barack Obama as anti-American, antiindividualism — even Marxist — is just plain crazy, not to mention completely hateful, disrespectful and uncivil.

I just don’t get how you can argue with Mr. Obama’s premise that “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own …”

Yes, it is this American system of government with roads and bridges built with taxpayer money by a government; schools built and run by the government with the taxpayer money; and public libraries (to name a few) that allow successful entrepreneurs make their businesses “happen.”

No matter how “hard” you worked, if you didn’t live in a country with the rule of law and a court and criminal justice system paid for with taxpayer money but run by the government, your business could be closed down and your assets taken away at the whim of the people in power.

Successful American entrepreneurs have used their wealth to do many good things around the world, but they would not be able on their own to provide the infrastructure I described above.

I hope you will consider a more respectful and civil tone in your future columns.

As a retired Sarasota County teacher, I would not have wanted my students to read this column and conclude that your extreme language was an appropriate way to communicate. I might tell them how lucky we are to have the Bill of Rights with freedom of the press and use this column in a lesson to illustrate the abuse of that right.

Candace Fisher Sarasota

+ You crossed the line Dear Editor: Your editorial, Obama, “The Anti-American president” not only twists facts, it crosses the line.

First, anyone who actually

watched the Obama speech and carefully reads the copy of that speech knows that the president stated that people who start their own businesses didn’t build roads, bridges and a wealth of infrastructure that allows all businesses to thrive.

You failed to highlight the previous sentence, “Somebody invested in roads and bridges,” which makes this perfectly clear.

To think that the president or, anyone for that matter, believes that people who start their own businesses have nothing to do with building that enterprise is ludicrous. I know, I’m a small business owner.

Right-wing partisans and the Romney campaign have chosen to selectively misquote the president in an effort to deflect widespread concern, even by many conservatives, about the Republican candidate’s withheld tax returns and offshore and Swiss tax accounts. Is this activity un-American?

But, more important, to call a sitting president, regardless of party affiliation “Un-American” fails the “stink test.” It adds to a continual right-wing assault on Barack Obama’s “legitimacy.”

You have joined crazies like Donald Trump who still want to pile on about his birth certificate.

Obama, whether you vote for him or not, is certainly a clear example of what a true American can be: raised by a single mother with the drive to attend this country’s finest schools and serve the public on the local, state and national levels. Married to another American success story and raising two children, the man gives generously to charity, pays his taxes and, as a public servant, makes all of his financial records open to the public.

If this is not what being an “American” is all about, what is?

Michael Bille Siesta Key

+ No more ads for you!

Dear Editor: SHAME ON YOU! Your incendiary editorial “The anti-American president,”

in the July 19 edition left me “breathless, dumbfounded and enraged!”

While I respect your right of freedom of speech, you have blatantly neglected the responsibilities that accompany those rights.

Your “call to arms” is symbolic of yelling fire in a crowded theater.

Your less-than-subtle call to insurrection is frightening and worthy of review by the Department of Justice. Your disdain for the president, based on your own ideology, is repugnant to those of us who disagree with you, although we respect your right to print your extreme position.

However, this time you have gone too far. Our organization will no longer advertise in, or support your newspaper. We hope others will join us.

President Barack Obama, is an American, of the people, elected by the people, for the people in one of the most difficult times in American history. He is OUR president, whether you like it or not.

There are many of us who appreciate all that he has accomplished. We are confident that he will continue to do so during the next four years, in spite of your horrific “call to arms!”

H. Murray Blueglass President, Longboat Key Democratic Club

+ Offensive, disgraceful Dear Editor: I found your opinion page of “The anti-American president” offensive, disgraceful and dishonest.

You are totally ignorant of historical fact to cast such aspersions on this president.

You may not like the man, but he does not “resemble Third World socialist, anti-capitalist despots.”

He has perhaps promised more than he can give, but he and his administration understand that there are now two Americas and this should not be.

Indeed, government has the duty to help those who cannot

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Thank you for your candid editorials. I have enjoyed immensely what you do to try to keep our little town of Longboat Key on the straight and narrow.

I enjoy reading the Observer more than I can tell you. Ninety percent of your editorials, I wish I had written. They are so good.

We are on the same page. Keep up the good work.

Jim Bowers Longboat Key, Knoxville, Tenn.

+ How Castro started

Dear Editor: Thank you for the July 19 My View about “the Anti-American president.” A lot of us feel that way, and it’s refreshing when someone so publicly expresses it.

This president is showing all the signs of a Marxist. I know, because I left Cuba in 1966, and that’s how Castro started his “change.”

Please, keep your opinion going.

Ada Perez Siesta Key

+ Commends editorial

Dear Editor: I want to commend you for writing about “The antiAmerican president.” Hopefully, your editorial was read by many independents and some intelligent Democrats who may see the light as to what this president is trying to do to this country.

His statement — “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” — illustrates how misguided he really is.

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Dear Editor: Arguing that President Obama hates America, the Observer’s July 19 editorial attack goes beyond partisanship rhetoric.

To criticize an elected leader over public policy with which you disagree is no license to morph into delegitimizing the government.

Your oft-expressed hatred of Barack Obama reflects the same opposition at all costs engineered by Republicans in Congress. Congressional Republicans, in lock step, now oppose policies they long advanced — cap and trade and Trade, the Affordable Health Care Act mandate.

Your editorial can only be read as denying credit to the Obama administration for eliminating Bin Laden, for returning our uniformed men and women from Iraq and drawing down our forces fromAfghanistan. Saving the U.S.auto industry, which Mitt Romney asserts he would not have done, is apparently in your view “anti-American” and “anti-capitalist.”

Your biased and unfounded effort to diminish this president is indistinguishable from those who challenge his birthright in the face of all the evidence.

I urge the Observer to consider whether your tone and tenor of expressed hatred invites comparison to the pamphleteers who promoted the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, and the writings of a certain Austrian artist duringGermany’s Weimar Republic.

That poverty in this country is at levels not experienced for decades, that infrastructure investment, research and education are on the downturn is a reflection of unprincipled distortion of the facts, unbridled determination to bring down

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LETTERS/FROM PAGE 8A To characterize Barack Obama as anti-American, antiindividualism — even Marxist — is just plain crazy, not to mention completely hateful, disrespectful and uncivil.

I just don’t get how you can argue with Mr. Obama’s premise that “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own …”

Yes, it is this American system of government with roads and bridges built with taxpayer money by a government; schools built and run by the government with the taxpayer money; and public libraries (to name a few) that allow successful entrepreneurs make their businesses “happen.”

No matter how “hard” you worked, if you didn’t live in a country with the rule of law and a court and criminal justice system paid for with taxpayer money but run by the government, your business could be closed down and your assets taken away at the whim of the people in power.

Successful American entrepreneurs have used their wealth to do many good things around the world, but they would not be able on their own to provide the infrastructure I described above.

I hope you will consider a more respectful and civil tone in your future columns.

As a retired Sarasota County teacher, I would not have wanted my students to read this column and conclude that your extreme language was an appropriate way to communicate. I might tell them how lucky we are to have the Bill of Rights with freedom of the press and use this column in a lesson to illustrate the abuse of that right.

Candace Fisher Sarasota

+ You crossed the line Dear Editor: Your editorial, Obama, “The Anti-American president” not only twists facts, it crosses the line.

First, anyone who actually

watched the Obama speech and carefully reads the copy of that speech knows that the president stated that people who start their own businesses didn’t build roads, bridges and a wealth of infrastructure that allows all businesses to thrive.

You failed to highlight the previous sentence, “Somebody invested in roads and bridges,” which makes this perfectly clear.

To think that the president or, anyone for that matter, believes that people who start their own businesses have nothing to do with building that enterprise is ludicrous. I know, I’m a small business owner.

Right-wing partisans and the Romney campaign have chosen to selectively misquote the president in an effort to deflect widespread concern, even by many conservatives, about the Republican candidate’s withheld tax returns and offshore and Swiss tax accounts. Is this activity un-American?

But, more important, to call a sitting president, regardless of party affiliation “Un-American” fails the “stink test.” It adds to a continual right-wing assault on Barack Obama’s “legitimacy.”

You have joined crazies like Donald Trump who still want to pile on about his birth certificate.

Obama, whether you vote for him or not, is certainly a clear example of what a true American can be: raised by a single mother with the drive to attend this country’s finest schools and serve the public on the local, state and national levels. Married to another American success story and raising two children, the man gives generously to charity, pays his taxes and, as a public servant, makes all of his financial records open to the public.

If this is not what being an “American” is all about, what is?

Michael Bille Siesta Key

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Dear Editor: SHAME ON YOU! Your incendiary editorial “The anti-American president,”

in the July 19 edition left me “breathless, dumbfounded and enraged!”

While I respect your right of freedom of speech, you have blatantly neglected the responsibilities that accompany those rights.

Your “call to arms” is symbolic of yelling fire in a crowded theater.

Your less-than-subtle call to insurrection is frightening and worthy of review by the Department of Justice. Your disdain for the president, based on your own ideology, is repugnant to those of us who disagree with you, although we respect your right to print your extreme position.

However, this time you have gone too far. Our organization will no longer advertise in, or support your newspaper. We hope others will join us.

President Barack Obama, is an American, of the people, elected by the people, for the people in one of the most difficult times in American history. He is OUR president, whether you like it or not.

There are many of us who appreciate all that he has accomplished. We are confident that he will continue to do so during the next four years, in spite of your horrific “call to arms!”

H. Murray Blueglass President, Longboat Key Democratic Club

+ Offensive, disgraceful Dear Editor: I found your opinion page of “The anti-American president” offensive, disgraceful and dishonest.

You are totally ignorant of historical fact to cast such aspersions on this president.

You may not like the man, but he does not “resemble Third World socialist, anti-capitalist despots.”

He has perhaps promised more than he can give, but he and his administration understand that there are now two Americas and this should not be.

Indeed, government has the duty to help those who cannot

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Dear Editor: When I come to Longboat Key, the first thing I do is grab a copy of the Longboat Observer. Not only does it tell me everything I need to know that is going on in the local area, it is a magnificent little paper.

Thank you for your candid editorials. I have enjoyed immensely what you do to try to keep our little town of Longboat Key on the straight and narrow.

I enjoy reading the Observer more than I can tell you. Ninety percent of your editorials, I wish I had written. They are so good.

We are on the same page. Keep up the good work.

Jim Bowers Longboat Key, Knoxville, Tenn.

+ How Castro started

Dear Editor: Thank you for the July 19 My View about “the Anti-American president.” A lot of us feel that way, and it’s refreshing when someone so publicly expresses it.

This president is showing all the signs of a Marxist. I know, because I left Cuba in 1966, and that’s how Castro started his “change.”

Please, keep your opinion going.

Ada Perez Siesta Key

+ Commends editorial

Dear Editor: I want to commend you for writing about “The antiAmerican president.” Hopefully, your editorial was read by many independents and some intelligent Democrats who may see the light as to what this president is trying to do to this country.

His statement — “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” — illustrates how misguided he really is.

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To criticize an elected leader over public policy with which you disagree is no license to morph into delegitimizing the government.

Your oft-expressed hatred of Barack Obama reflects the same opposition at all costs engineered by Republicans in Congress. Congressional Republicans, in lock step, now oppose policies they long advanced — cap and trade and Trade, the Affordable Health Care Act mandate.

Your editorial can only be read as denying credit to the Obama administration for eliminating Bin Laden, for returning our uniformed men and women from Iraq and drawing down our forces fromAfghanistan. Saving the U.S.auto industry, which Mitt Romney asserts he would not have done, is apparently in your view “anti-American” and “anti-capitalist.”

Your biased and unfounded effort to diminish this president is indistinguishable from those who challenge his birthright in the face of all the evidence.

I urge the Observer to consider whether your tone and tenor of expressed hatred invites comparison to the pamphleteers who promoted the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, and the writings of a certain Austrian artist duringGermany’s Weimar Republic.

That poverty in this country is at levels not experienced for decades, that infrastructure investment, research and education are on the downturn is a reflection of unprincipled distortion of the facts, unbridled determination to bring down

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by Nick Friedman | Community Editor

Clock dedication a timely tribute The late Carroll Ramsey turned back the hands of time on one historic landmark.

At the southwest entrance to Sarasota’s Five Points Park stands a piece of Sarasota history often overlooked. If it weren’t for the efforts of one man, the stained-glass adorned clock that welcomes visitors might never have seen the time of day.

The clock was originally mounted in the 1920s on the corner of the Palmer Bank Building in Five Points Park, but when the building was remodeled, the clock wound up in storage, where it sat — forgotten — for the next two decades.

Ramsey In 1992, the late Carroll Ramsey, a Sarasota County Parks and Recreation employee, happened upon it one day at work.

Carroll Ramsey, or “Corky,” as people knew him, always had an eye for beauty. A professional welder for more than 20 years, he enjoyed working with his hands, and when he uncovered the historic timepiece, which was in several pieces, he couldn’t stand the thought of letting something so beautiful waste away.

“He was looking for materials, and he found the parts of this

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With Ramsey’s background as a welder and stained-glass artist, the project was a perfect fit.

“He wasn’t college educated, but he could solve any problem,” said Marlies Ramsey. “He was very clever with his hands.”

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By Adam Hughes | Research Editor

Two-bedroom Casey Key home sells for $1,175,000 The following residential real-estate transactions took place between July 9 and July 13. A home on Casey Key tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Robert Bradbury, of Bradenton, sold his home at 1214 Casey Key Road to J. Dale and Jean Ragone, of Osprey, for $1,175,000. Built in 1990, it has two bedrooms, three baths and 2,466 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.1 million in March.

the home at 1621 Field Road to Michael and Melinda Voigt, of Sarasota, for $289,000.

Built in 1957, it has three bedrooms, twoand-a-half baths and 2,155 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $155,500 in 2001.

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Wells Fargo Bank, trustee, sold the Unit 201 condominium at 800 N. Tamiami Trail to Bradford Baker, trustee, of Venice, for $285,300. Built in 2007, it has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,920 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $496,300 in 2011.

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Larry Wilson, of Sarasota, sold his home at 1842 Morris St. to William and Michelle Wright, of Sarasota, for $940,000. Built in 2003, it has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,432 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.25 million in 2007.

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Roger and Marilyn Rowen, trustees, of Woodbury, Minn., sold the Unit 303 condominium at 5440 Eagles Point Circle to William and Vivienne Lambrecht, of Sarasota, for $875,000. Built in 1996, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,943 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.05 million in 2005.

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Melvyn Srybnik and Kathleen Gurney, of Sarasota, sold their Unit PH107 condominium at 1771 Ringling Blvd. to Paul Di Placido and William Johnson Jr., of Sarasota, for $650,000. Built in 2006, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,805 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $475,000 in 2008.

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home at 1602 Bay Road to Kenneth and Kathleen Richmond, of Sarasota, for $575,000. Built in 2004, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,784 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $467,500 in 2011.

in 2000, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,546 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $505,500 in 2000.

Sarasota Bay Club LLC sold the Unit 605 condominium at 1301 Tamiami Trail to Billie Price, of Sarasota, for $585,000. Built in 2000, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,546 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $575,000 in 2006.

Sarasota Bay Club LLC sold the Unit 1012 condominium at 1301 Tamiami Trail to Joan Halpern, of Sarasota, for $435,000.

Built in 2000, it has one bedroom, one bath and 984 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $340,000 in 2000.

Mark and Barbara Edwards, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 601 condominium at 5591 Cannes Circle to Thomas Wilson III, trustee, of Milwaukee, for $349,000. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,024 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $701,000 in 2006.

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Kimberley Marrs, trustee, sold the Unit 1614 condominium at 1064 N. Tamiami Trail to Nancy Girgis, of Sarasota, for $250,000. Built in 2007, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,459 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $230,000 in 2009.

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Roland and Jane Kesler, of Westerville, Ohio, sold their home at 5784 Wilena Place to Ann Gundersheimer, of Philadelphia, for $389,900. Built in 2004, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,201 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $352,100 in 2004.

Lance Cassell sold his home at 7600 Andora Drive to Meredith Chase, of Sarasota, for $230,000. Built in 2004, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 1,845 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $244,800 in 2004.

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Each Monday morning and evening, on public courts around Sarasota, members of the Women of Wonder doubles tennis league can be found honing their skills in the spirit of friendly competition.

The league was formed nearly five years ago by local tennis enthusiasts Evelyn Herring, Edith Dean and approximately two-dozen other women, with whom they had played in another tennis league in Venice.

The league was born out of the women’s desire for a way to play tennis in a more local environment and with a greater emphasis on the game’s social aspect.

“It’s not meant to be competitive,” said coordinator Edith Dean. “It’s more about the social aspect. If you make a mistake, there are no bad remarks or put-downs here — we accept everyone of all skill levels, and we try to build them up.”

The league consists of fall, spring and summer leagues, which are divided into day and night leagues and grouped by experience level. Women of similar skill levels are paired together and promoted through the ranks as they develop their skills.

The women rotate the location of their games and practices among the area’s public courts and the condo courts of members, and the only requirement is that each new player has at least six months of experience.

Over the years, the league’s membership has grown from a lineup of approximately 25 women to a current count of 94 active members and 36 subs. The participating women come from a broad range of age and experience levels, but they’re all

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In the spirit of emphasizing the social aspect of the game, the league uses the money it raises from dues to pay for end-of-season socials that take place at members’ homes.

If there is leftover money, or in the case of an emergency, the women are quick to use the funds to help out a fellow member in financial crisis.

As the league approaches its fiveyear anniversary, Herring says it’s provided an excellent way to make friends and get regular exercise.

“It’s a great way to be able to play tennis all the time,” she said. “It’s really social; it’s not too serious, and I think it’s made quite a few ladies happy over the years.”

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SIESTA KEY CONDOMINIUMS SOLD Midnight Pass Road #8 Moorings Midnight Pass Road #S2 Provincial Gardens S. Portofino Dr. #PH-C Siesdta harbor

SIESTA KEY AND SARASOTA AREA HOME & CONDO SALES LAST WEEK* $378,378 $575,000 $260,000 $372,500 $765,000

SIESTA KEY SINGLE FAMILY HOMES NEWLY LISTED 0 Glebe Lane Siesta Isles Unit 4 1119/1123Crescent Siesta Key 940 Siesta Key Place Siestas Bayside 5831 Riegels Harbor Rd Riegels Landing 9229 Blind Pass Road Blind Pass 22 6020 5237 5964 6415 524 1127 5920 19 5740 915

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$469,900 $718,000 $1,150,000 $1,950,000 $1,990,000

SIESTA KEY CONDOMINIUMS NEWLY LISTED Sandy Cove Road #203 Sandy Cove $179,000 Midnight Pass Road #33 Aloha Kai Apts $239,900 Avenida Madera #5237 Navarra on the Key $315,000 Midnight Pass Road # 142 Palm Bay Club III $349,900 Midnight Pass Road #203 Anchorage $350,000 Beach Road #A 524 Beach Road $549,000 Crescent Street Point of Rocks Terrace $559,000 Midnight Pass Road #505 Sarasota Surf & Racquet $610,000 Whispering Sands Dr. #606 Whispering Sands Sec.7 $775,000 Midnight Pass Rd #F-306 Gulf and Bay Club PH6 $969,000 Seaside Dr #307 Res. on Siesta Key Beach/Hyatt $1,825,000

635

SARASOTA, BIRD KEY SINGLE FAMILY HOMES SOLD Owl North Drive Bird Key $2,175,000

1301 988

SARASOTA MAINLAND CONDOMINIUMS SOLD North Tamiami Trail #303 Sarasota Bay Club Blvd of the Arts #1710 Condo on the Bay Tower II

1268 1221 835 1221 605 605 100 258 401

SARASOTA MAINLAND CONDOMINIUMS NEWLY LISTED 11th St #2303 Broadway Promenade $139,900 North Palm Ave #204 Francis Carlton $225,000 S. Osprey Ave. #406 Central Park $265,000 North Palm Ave #101 Francis Carlton $275,000 S. Gulfstream Ave. #4B Versailles $339,900 S. Gulfstream Ave. #1502 Royal St. Andrew $579,000 Central Ave. #F1012 One Hundred Central $779,000 Golden Gate Point #101 Majestic Bay $1,119,000 S. Palm Ave. #902 Savoy on Palm $1,895,000

55 310 316

$325,000 #379,000

BIRD KEY & LIDO BEACH SINGLE FAMILY HOMES NEWLY LISTED N. Washington Drive St. Armands. Ringling Estates $949,000 Morningside Drive Lido C $1,150,000 W. Royal Flamingo Dr Bird Key $2,575,000 LIDO BEACH CONDOMINIUMS NEWLY LISTED Benjamin Franklin Dr #2F Lido Regency $255,900 Benjamin Franklin Dr #307 Lido Beach Club $435,000 Benjamin Franklin Dr #1102Orchid Beach Club Residences $5,950,000

1700 1212 2050

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548 512 635 1910

LONGBOAT KEY VILLAS & SINGLE FAMILY HOMES SOLD Spanish North Dr Spanish Main Yacht Club $250,000 Cutter Lane Country Club Shores Unit 2 $550,000 Marbury Lane Sleepy Lagoon Park #2 $615,000 Harbour Links Cir #12 Bay Isles $647,000

225 809 4311 1085 1045 2675 545 415

LONGBOAT KEY CONDOMINIUMS SOLD Sands Point Rd #7301 Inn on the Beach III $225,000 Bayport Way #809 Bayport Beach & Tennis Club PHE$330,000 Gulf of Mexico Drive #603 Longboat Beach House $415,000 Gulf of Mexico Drive #105 Beachplace III $460,000 Gulf of Mexico Drive #302 Beachplace III $600,000 Gulf of Mexico Drive #303 Viente $655,000 Sanctuary Drive # A201 Sanctuary III $1,300,000 L’Ambiance Drive #A201 L’Ambiance I $1,900,000

45 82 673 3580

LONGBOAT KEY SINGLE FAMILY HOMES NEWLY LISTED Twin Shores Blvd Twin Shores Mobile Home Park $126,000 Twin Shores Blvd Twin Shores Mobile Home Park $99,900 Norton Street Sleepy Lagoon Park #2 $835,000 Fair Oaks Lane Queens Harbour $1,875,000

6750 1701 1425 4215

LONGBOAT KEY CONDOMINIUMS NEWLY LISTED Gulf of Mexico Drive #153 Whitney Beach Condos Gulf of Mexico Drive #3-F Aquarius Club Gulf of Mexico Drive #407 The Player Club Gulf of Mexico Drive #PH2 LBK Yacht & Tennis Club

$399,000 $595,000 $575,000 $875,000

Based on information compiled from the Mid-Florida Regional Multiple Listing Service, Inc. for the period of 7/17/2012 thru 7/23/2012 This information may or may not include all listed, expired, withdrawn, pending or sold properties of one or more members of the Mid Florida Regional Multiple Listing Service.

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10-YEARS

15-YEARS

20-YEARS

25-YEARS

30-YEARS

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18.42

10.12

7.40

6.06

5.28

4.77

4.5

18.64

10.36

7.65

6.33

5.56

5.07

5.0

18.87

10.61

7.91

6.60

5.85

5.37

5.5

19.10

10.85

8.17

6.88

6.14

5.68

6.0

19.33

11.10

8.44

7.16

6.44

6.00

6.5

19.57

11.35

8.71

7.46

6.75

6.32

7.0

19.80

11.61

8.99

7.75

7.07

6.65

7.5

20.04

11.87

9.27

8.06

7.39

6.99

8.0

20.28

12.13

9.56

8.36

7.72

7.34

Home in estate with den and art studio/guest house providing possible 3-4 bedrooms on a large lot on a cul-de-sac at end of private road. 227’ frontage on newly dredged canal. Dock & Boat House in sheltered anchorage, 100 yards to ICW in Little Sarasota Bay with no bridges. Easy walk to #1 Beach in USA! Broker/Owner NEW PRICE!!! $960,000

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LV3540

Siesta Key

2BR/2BA Villa within walking distance to Phillippi Estates Park and a short bike ride to Siesta Key. Light & bright with a lovely community clubhouse and heated pool. Lots of green space maintained by the Association. $134,900

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