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Lady Mustangs Lakewood Ranch capture another families dare to scare at Boo Fest. district title.

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OUR TOWN + Tick, tock, turn back your clock!

Don’t forget to set your clocks back by one hour this weekend. Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m.

Sunday, Nov. 4.

+ Sip, sample at Suncoast wine fest The Rotary Club of Lakewood Ranch’s annual Suncoast Food and Wine Festival is just more than a week away. Tickets must be pre-purchased.

The festival, which includes food and wine samplings, live music, cooking demonstrations and more, runs from 1 to 4 p.m. Nov. 10, at the Sarasota Polo Club. Visit suncoastfoodandwinefest.com for more information.

Buchanan hosts mock election at Primrose.

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financial crisis by Pam Eubanks | Managing Editor beauty and the feet

Paradise Homes files for bankruptcy, Viking Culinary Center abruptly closes The bankruptcy court trustee has 90 days to sell off assets of the Viking Culinary School, as well as Paradise Homes’ other assets, or potentially have someone purchase the business.

LAKEWOOD RANCH — Big dreams for the Viking Culinary Center came to a quiet, but sudden, halt Oct. 24, when the facility closed suddenly.

By the weekend, a hand-written note saying, “Closed temporarily due to an emergency,” appeared in the storefront’s windows. It has

remained closed since.

The facility’s executive chef and facilities manager, Chris Covelli, who had hoped to bring national attention to the cooking center in the coming years, learned of the closure from his staff while he was teaching cooking classes in Italy.

“When I left (Oct. 18), I was told

we were going to try to make it work no matter what,” said Covelli, who returns from Italy Nov. 5. “There were people interested in investing. There were rumors (about that).”

Covelli said local restaurateurs already have stepped in to help, offering to assist in hosting some

classes and events that were scheduled and hiring chefs and staff members from Viking, but he said he did not know how many things had been rescheduled or if patrons had been contacted.

Viking’s closure may, in fact, be

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+ Garden Club hosts district meeting The Lakewood Ranch Garden Club hosted more than 100 garden club members from throughout the state at the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs District VIII fall meeting Oct. 18, at Woodland, the Community Church. District VIII includes 24 garden clubs that are all part of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs.

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+ Women’s club cooks up fun The LWR Women’s Club enjoyed an evening of handson cooking demonstrations Sept. 19, at the Viking Culinary Center on Lakewood Ranch Main Street. Members and guests of the event sipped wine while browsing the Viking showroom.

The LWR Women’s Club’s annual dinner and auction will take place Dec. 5, at the Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club. The Night of a Thousand Lights-themed event will feature a silent auction.

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“It’s not just about (STEM),” said Doug Wagner, director of Adult, Career & Technical Education for the Manatee County School District.

“This gives you the foundation to build on. “Great things are happing every day in our schools because of the dedicated teachers and students,” he said. “That’s what it’s all about.”

‘Race to the Top’ Manatee County School District leaders have a $28.7 million dream for education.

MANATEE COUNTY — East County resident Doug Wagner has a big dream for education.

It’s a $28.7 million dream, to be exact.

Wagner, director of Adult,

Career & Technical Education, and his team at the Manatee County School District submitted their roughly 400-page grant application Monday, Oct. 29, for the four-year fed-

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Wagner admits the competition is bound to be fierce, with nearly 900 applicants giving a notice of intent to compete for one of up to 40 grants totaling

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Doug Wagner, director of Adult, Career & Technical Education, said local engineering teachers and others weighed heavily into the proposal, offering their suggestions and expertise to ensure the grant application stands out against the competition.

Additionally, the teachers union in Manatee County, the Manatee Education Association, has partnered with the school district for the first time for a grant application, Wagner said.

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The business’ owner, Jim Butler, did not return calls for comment to confirm.

The business’ parent company, Extreme Remodelers of Sarasota, doing business as Paradise Homes, filed Oct. 25 for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Middle District of Florida. A Chapter 7 filing generally indicates a liquidation of assets, while a Chapter 11 filing indicates company reorganization.

Rex Jensen, president and CEO of Schroeder-Manatee Ranch, which owns Lakewood Ranch Main Street, said SMR moved to recover possession of the roughly 4,100-square-foot Viking unit, after Viking missed its September and October rent payments. Actions for eviction and breach of contract for more than $15,000, among others, were filed Oct. 19, and a trustee has been appointed the bankruptcy case.

“That puts everything on hold for a while,” Jensen said.

SMR attorney Dan Perka said the trustee has 90 days to sell off assets of the Viking Culinary School, as well as Paradise Homes’ other assets, or potentially have someone purchase the business. After that time, if no tenant assumes the lease for the Viking space, it would be returned to SMR to lease.

SMR also has put Paradise Homes’ work in The Lake Club on hold, after learning the company was in financial distress. The company has identified 24 Paradise clients who are in various stages of the homebuilding process, ranging from initial lot reservation to substantial completion.

“We are working with these Paradise clients to assist them during this difficult time, as they assess their options and transition to a different builder,” Jensen said. “We have already granted three requests for approval of new builders to complete construction of homes. We recognize that Paradise clients are dealing with a variety of financial issues.

Ultimately, it will be the bankruptcy trustee that will determine the resolution of those issues.

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Lakewood Ranch Golf & Country Club resident Lillian Bracken said she had been looking forward all month to an interactive dinner she’d scheduled at the school Oct. 27, to celebrate her eighth wedding anniversary with her husband and four friends, but learned of the closure while getting her hair done at Cutting Loose Salon that day, just hours before her dinner was scheduled to begin.

“To not even get an email or anything was frustrating,” Bracken said. “We were looking forward to supporting Viking here.

It’s on Main Street. We’re always trying to (support) local shops. The community was really excited to have them here.

(Viking) should have been a little more open about it.

“The two other couples that were going with us found out on Saturday through word of mouth,” she said.

The owner of Cutting Loose, however, knew a local restaurateur and helped orchestrate alternative dinner arrangements at Pomona, in Sarasota. The restaurant arranged for a kitchen-side table for six later that night.

Butler and his representatives provided false and misleading information not only to customers but also to SMR,” Jensen said, noting Paradise had a track record of winning designs up until recent events. “We sincerely hope that the bankruptcy trustee and the State Attorney’s Office will be able to determine if criminal behavior occurred and to address it swiftly.”

Jensen said SMR is allowing owner-selected builders to complete work, even if the builder is not yet a Lakewood Ranchapproved builder. Additionally, Mark Caithness, owner of Caithness Construction, in Venice, has voluntarily offered to complete work on homes at the cost quoted by Paradise Homes, or as close to it as possible.

“We’re trying to do it for no profit,” Caithness said, noting he already is working on getting contract releases and changing over permits for six homes.

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Rosedale expansion takes shape Rosedale Links soon will be open to prospective new homebuyers.

ROSEDALE — An expansion to the Rosedale community has begun quietly.

The Hunt Group’s Newton Development, which developed the original roughly 650-home community off State Road 70, just east of I-75, is nearing the start of construction for Rosedale Links, with three model homes already built.

Home sales for Rosedale Links are expected to begin sometime in November, when the models open.

“It’s a great location,” said Matt Bornstein, sales-and-marketing director for Rosedale Realty, noting entrances to the Links will be from Rosedale’s main entrance and from 44th Avenue. “We’ve held the land for a while. We feel the timing is right.”

The expansion, which encompasses about 231 acres adjacent

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John Cannon Homes plans to construct this model estate home, known as The Caaren. to Rosedale’s Highland neighborhood, sits roughly north of Malachite Drive and south of the 44th Avenue extension, immediately west of Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine’s new dental school.

Developers closed on the

land in 2005 and had originally planned to construct an additional nine holes of golf on the site. Plans changed, however, as the real-estate market came to a standstill. Newton Development altered its course to include about 450 new single-family homes, in-

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stead of the golf course, and 306 units it had envisioned previously.

Newton Development group’s single-family homes will range in size from 1,790 to 2,350 square feet and start at $290,000, Bornstein said.

Newton Development also is

bringing in outside builders to help expedite the build-out of the project, Bornstein said. M.I. Homes, of Cincinnati, and Ashton Woods Homes, of Tampa, both will be constructing models, as will East County-based John Cannon Homes, which will be building estate homes.

Infrastructure for Rosedale Links already is in place, and model home construction for all three outside builders is expected to begin in the coming weeks through January.

Future residents of Rosedale Links will enjoy access to existing amenities at Rosedale, including a semi-public clubhouse, tennis courts, a junior-sized Olympic pool, bocce courts, an exercise facility and an existing 18-hole golf course, Bornstein said.

The project is developer-funded, so there are no community development district assessments.

Congressman Vern Buchanan commends Alessandro Marciales after he voted in a mock election.

Alessandro chose between a rooster and a goat.

by Josh Siegel | Staff Writer

Buchanan helps students conduct mock election U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan takes a break from campaigning to monitor a race pitting a rooster against a duck.

LAKEWOOD RANCH — Congressman Vern Buchanan, RLongboat Key, took a break from the debate of small government versus big government and clean energy versus oil Oct. 16, when he gave preschoolers a firsthand look at the political process at Primrose School.

Buchanan, the fifth-year Republican congressman for Florida’s 13th congressional district who is vying for the District 16 seat in this election, monitored for voter fraud and told tales of his tae-kwon-do teaching days, while Primose students participated in a mock debate pitting Percy the Rooster against Billy the Duck.

Buchanan stood out in the classroom of preschoolers, his 6-foot-tall frame overpowering a child-size chair, as some wideeyed, fidgety preschoolers sat in front of him asking questions.

Students held mini-American flags as they listened.

Before the mock election began, Buchanan asked students what issues matter to them, while also talking about the importance of voting.

The children listed tennis, basketball, soccer and school as particularly pressing issues.

One boy casually blurted out that he too, like Buchanan, played soccer.

A child wearing a red, white and blue plaid outfit asked Buchanan if he lives in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Before Buchanan could respond, one of his aides — who snapped pictures during the visit — asked, “What do you do up there (in Washington)?”

Buchanan replied, laughing, “I’m not sure myself.”

Then the election began.

A Primose teacher highlighted the candidates’ strengths. Percy the Rooster likes to act boldly

Buchanan talked about the importance of voting and asked students to reveal their interests before the mock debate began. and try new things but always makes good choices. Billy the Duck always keeps his promises and enjoys listening to music.

A secondary vote focused on snacks. Kids could choose between cheese and crackers and yogurt with bananas. Buchanan tried to insert a third-party candidate into that race.

“What do you guys think of broccoli?” Buchanan asked. “Do you like spinach?”

One-by-one, teachers called students’ names and gave each

a voter registration card. The students, seemingly aware of the significance of their vote, would hurry over to Buchanan, who verified the voter’s identity.

“Is that really you?” Buchanan asked as he peered down at a card and a smiling boy in a red shirt looked back. “You look really good there.”

Children then tucked their votes into a box and received an “I voted today” sticker on their shirts.

Playfulness aside, Buchanan

couldn’t avoid the seriousness of the presidential race in Washington.

Shortly after sitting down, Buchanan’s phone rang.

Unfazed, Buchanan joked, “That was the president. I will call him right back.”

After one boy trotted toward him without an “I voted today” sticker, Buchanan said, “He didn’t vote yet. That’s voter fraud.”

In a moment before election results were released, Buchanan

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referenced a Boys & Girls Club slogan, saying that children “are 25% of the population but represent 100% of the future.”

At the end of a week during which he visited three local schools — a break from the 40 weeks per year that he spends in Washington, D.C. — Buchanan raised his arms as he announced the results of the mock election.

Billy the Duck would serve cheese and crackers.

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LAKEWOOD RANCH — A 6-year-old Janum Trivedi tried to avoid tripping on strewn wires lying on the floor of the family’s home, as his father fixed a broken computer.

At 13 years old, Trivedi networked within his father’s health-care IT company to grasp fundamentals and build a computer from scratch.

Now, Trivedi, a 17-year-old junior at The Out-of-Door Academy, and his business partner/classmate, Marcus Buffet, also 17, regularly exchange emails with Google’s senior digital designer.

In June, the brainy duo launched an app called Bankr, meant to help a user manage his or her money.

Available in Apple’s app store and for download on the iPhone, the program documents expenses, sets budgets and tracks stock portfolios (if you have one) with simplicity made for everyday movers.

Its features are backed by a crisp, clutter-free design. Bankr’s logo has a white background with blue rectangles topped by a roof-shaped triangle, meant to resemble the outline of a bank.

“Bankr is a simple, intuitive and powerful way to keep tabs on your money,” Trivedi said. “It provides value for tech junkies, while being simple enough for someone without an accounting degree.”

The seven-month project, which started with reading basic software development books and writing lines of code,

The app, called Bankr, combines a crisp, clutter-free design with complex features.

Bankr has gained national attention.

Trivedi and Buffet regularly exchange emails with an executive at Google. peaked with a December all-nighter and ended with the creation of a company, Styled Syntax, and a website for it.

Styled Syntax offers only one product, the Bankr app, which boasts 1,000 users and 16,000 lines of code. Bankr sells for $1.

Trivedi and Buffet earn 70% of an individual app sale in a monthly paycheck, while Apple takes home 30%.

The teens also create custom apps for businesses.

Like any idea, Trivedi and Buffet’s sprouted from a perceived unfulfilled need in the market. In this case, it was a niche market.

“We weren’t pleased with the finance apps out there,” Trivedi said. “They were either too simple or too complex. We also

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Then, the two started writing code.

“Code is like any other language,” Buffet said. “It has its own syntax. When you write a line of code, you are telling the computer to do something. The most basic example would be to get two numbers and have the computer add them up.”

Code and the computer world have followed Trivedi around from the time he could walk.

It trailed him from India, where Trivedi’s father left 26 years ago to move to Detroit, where Trivedi grew up in a wire-strewn home. It followed his family when they moved to Sarasota three years ago.

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Trivedi and Buffet recently played their self-created Bankr promo video at a school assembly.

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Next month, Trivedi and Buffet will tour colleges such as Stanford and Berkley, while experiencing the entrepreneurial energy of Silicon Valley.

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Hall of Fame fan Keith Kunzig shared his anti-drug message with Tara Elementary students Oct. 25.

EAST COUNTY— A decade ago, when NFL Hall of Fame No. 1 Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan Keith Kunzig joined his local sheriff on an all-night ride-along, he thought he was doing it for fun.

“I thought the sheriff would turn on his siren, and we’d be driving around to the sound of ‘whoop, whoop,’ Kunzig said.

Instead, Kunzig witnessed officers arrest five children for carrying or dealing drugs within a 12-hour period. The harsh reality pushed the Bucs fan into public service.

“It really showed me how bad drugs are out there,” said Kunzig, also affectionately known as “Big Nasty” in the Buccaneer fan world.

Kunzig now gives speeches against drugs

to schools in the Tampa Bay area.

“Kids seemed to have had trouble walking away (from drugs),” he says.

Kunzig warned children about the danger of drugs in a speech Oct. 25, at Tara Elementary School.

His face was painted red and white, and he wore a silver-horned helmet, gray-andwhite camouflage shorts, a Bucs jersey and a football gloves as he pounded fists with the children while shouting, “Drugs are nasty!” before he spoke to the group.

“Life is all about choices,” Kunzig said.

“If I can help one kid make the right choice, that’s all that matters.”

Contact Josh Siegel at jsiegel@yourobserver.com.

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+ SCF Trustees will negotiate settlement The State College of Florida Board of Trustees voted Oct. 23 to negotiate a settlement with embattled President Lars Hafner at a special meeting.

In doing so, they chose not to hold a vote of no confidence.

Carlos Beruff, board chairman, announced a motion to hire council from Krunkel, Miller and Hamnet, a Sarasota law firm, which will inform the trustees how they can handle Hafner’s employment status.

The law firm was slated to meet with Hafner’s attorney to decide the president’s fate by Oct. 30, after the East County Observer went to press.

The motions passed unanimously.

Hafner has been accused of making poor financial decisions.

+ Buddy Basket program seeks hygiene items Buddy Basket, an outreach program that helps veterans receive personal hygiene items, is holding a branch drive from Oct. 29 to Nov. 9.

BMO Harris Bank and the Jewish Family & Children’s Services of Sarasota County have partnered to prepare the baskets.

Items sought include paper towels, toilet paper, tissues, toothpaste, shampoo, soap and more.

The items can be dropped off at BMO Harris Bank locations in Bradenton, Palmetto, Ellenton and Sarasota.

+ Big Cat Habitat starts winter hours

Big Cat Habitat and Gulf Coast Sanctuary, a non-profit safe haven

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Meetings &agendas Manatee County Board of County Commissioners Board Land-use Meeting — 9 a.m.

Nov. 1, at the Manatee County Administration Building, 1112 Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton.

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Manatee County Planning Commission Meeting — 9 a.m.

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for large cats, bears and other needy animals, will change to its winter schedule Oct. 31. Hours will be from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.

The group holds an animal demonstration daily at 1:30 p.m.

Donations are $15 for adults and $7 for children 12 and under.

+ Farms re-opens O’Brien Family Farms will re-open to the public Thursday, Nov. 1, for the season.

The farm stand features hydroponically grown fruits and vegetables.

O’Brien Family Farms grows strawberries, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, zucchini and more.

+ Correction In an Oct. 25 article, it stated author Dick Vitale was an NBA referee. He is a commentator for ESPN.

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Referendum on performance On the eve of the 2012 presidential election, it seems inconceivable that anyone intending to vote could be undecided at this moment.

But it could be true.

And if it is, if there are indeed some of you still wavering between re-electing Barack Obama or electing Mitt Romney, this week we are writing to you.

We’re not going to devolve into a debate over the merits of the candidates’ approaches to tax policy, the economy, deficits and entitlements. Instead, we believe there are two compelling matters that will provide the difference and lead you to your ultimate choice. One is honor. The other is leadership.

Together they converge at the root of the two candidates’ being — their character.

All along, over these past few weeks, we have repeated the belief that all candidate elections are referenda on the incumbents’ performance. Does he deserve to continue to represent you? Has he earned, through his performance, the right to remain in office? Did he demonstrate the behavior that earned your trust? Did he do the job as competently as you expect?

responded: “Well, we are finding out exactly what happened. I can tell you, as I’ve said over the last couple of months since this happened, the minute I found out what was happening, I gave three very clear directives. Number one, make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to …

“And I guarantee you,” he told the reporter, “that everyone in the state department, our military, the CIA, you name it, had number-one priority making sure that people were safe …”

But Americans still want to know: Is Fox right? Is Woods’ father right?

As the Marines’ core values require: Be accountable for your actions. Abide by an uncompromising code of integrity. In Thomas Horton’s book, “What Works for Me,” interviews with 16 CEOs, he writes: integrity is the essential quality. “Without integrity, there can be no trust. Leadership is based on trust.”

In the end, the story of Barack Obama’s role in the Benghazi murders is a defining story of his character.

Unable to bring them together

Honor and integrity

When we continue to hear the details of what happened on Sept. 11 in Benghazi, Libya — primarily from Fox News and, shamefully, virtually nothing from the mainstream media — we continue to wait for Barack Obama to tell the American people the truth.

What really happened?

The story for 50 days has been coming to light in pieces — and none of it definitively from the man who is expected to be truthful and straight.

None of it from the man expected to demonstrate integrity and honor to the people he serves. Americans want that, they expect that from their Commander in Chief.

Americans stew with anger that terrorists attacked our sovereign propety in Libya and murdered four of our countrymen. But what makes the event all the more engraging is Americans have found out most of the details through unnamed news sources and memos that a few journalists have clawed and scraped to unearth. None of our public servants is coming clean.

This goes to the heart of honor and integrity. And it points to one man.

Read the books on honor and integrity.

Look at the Core Values of the U.S. Marines, who serve under the Command in Chief.

The first core value is Honor: “Honor guides Marines to exemplify the ultimate in ethical and moral behavior; to never lie, cheat or steal; to abide by an uncompromising code of integrity; respect human dignity; and respect others. The quality of maturity, dedication, trust and dependability commit Marines to act responsibly; to be accountable for their actions; to fulfill their obligations; and to hold others accountable for their actions.

The books on business leadership teem with references to integrity and honor as deeply rooted, foundational requisites.

When D.A. Benton wrote, “How to Act Like a CEO,” she included a section on what CEOs should do in a crisis: “The steps, although important, aren’t as important as the tone and manner in which you carry them out. The mantle of integrity must pervade in every single detail in every way (italics added).

“Take charge,” she wrote. “You must call the shots.” Benton quoted Lee Roberts, CEO of FileNET: “When things are down, you have to be out in front. You’re the captain, it’s your problem.”

When the late Marvin Bower, first managing director of McKinsey & Co., wrote about leadership in the “Book of Business Wisdom,” he quoted Pearl S. Buck, the late Nobel Prize author: “Integrity is honesty carried through the fibers of the being and

whole mind, into thought as well as action that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential of leadership.”

Americans want the truth

On the deaths of the four Americans in Benghazi — Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, it was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, not Barack Obama, who said: “I take responsibility.” She didn’t elaborate. It’s still under investigation, she said.

Two weeks later, Fox News reported more details: “Upon hearing shots fired, team members asked higher-ups at the annex if they could go the consulate. However, they were told to ‘stand down,’ according to sources familiar with the exchange.

“Woods and at least two others ignored those orders and went to the consulate, evacuating survivors and Smith, who had been killed in the initial attack.

“They could not find the ambassador and returned to the CIA annex at about midnight. At that point, they called again for military support and help because they were taking fire at the CIA safe house, or annex. The request was denied. Woods and Doherty were killed at the annex by a mortar shell at 4 a.m.

“The CIA and Defense Department have denied claims about requests for support being rejected.”

Meantime, Tyrone Woods’ father has been quoted, saying: “Within minutes of the first bullet being fired, the White House knew these heroes would be slaughtered if immediate air support was denied. In less than an hour, the perimeters could have been secured, and American lives could have been saved. After seven hours fighting numerically superior forces, my son’s life was sacrificed because of the White House’s decision.”

Yet, when a Denver television reporter, on Oct. 26, asked the president if military support had been rejected, the president

The second matter is leadership.

When we heard the president of the Longboat Key Democratic Club speak at a Venice Tiger Bay Club luncheon last summer, he spoke about his wish for seeing two parties come together so our nation could move forward. He chastised bitter partisanship.

And when you look over the past two years, ever since Republicans regained control of the House, the Washington news archives have been a two-year saga of partisan stalemate.

Disagreement is in the DNA of Washington, D.C., especially so in the House, Senate and White House.

But in the whirl of a hurricane, or, say, the challenge of averting fiscal collapse, at some point the antagonistic sailors must pull together to save the ship. This takes a leader, a leader who can bring sides together, who is willing to reach out, who is willing to put himself second to others, who has the ability to persuade sides to compromise.

We haven’t seen that leader in Barack Obama. In “The Price of Politics,” Bob Woodward — critic of Republicans and Democrats alike — chronicles how President Obama alienated Republicans and business leaders in his first two years in office. The split between him and the House leadership in his second two years was wider than the first two. “Presidents,” Woodward said, figure out how to “work their will — or should work their will — on the important matters of national business.” Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton did, Woodward said. “Obama has not.”

This, too — the ability, or in Obama’s case, the inability to rally competing interests — is a matter of character.

Did he do the job?

If you evaluate what we have presented in the context of what America faces over the next four years, it is indeed relevant to ask, as we did at the outset: Has Barack Obama’s performance earned him the right to remain in office? Did he demonstrate the behavior that earned Americans’ trust? Did he do the job as competently as you expect?

On the two matters presented above — integrity and leadership, Obama’s refusal so far to face Americans fully and honestly about Benghazi and his inability to bring congressional sides together — for neutral thinkers it would seem difficult to answer in the affirmative.

We believe he has not.

If you conclude that as well, the next question is: Does Mitt Romney’s life and career serve as a sufficient predictor that his performance, that his character, would rise above the incumbent’s?

If you study the entirety of their lives side by side, the choice is clear: Mitt Romney.

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Is your community association leaving money on the table?

Although there may be becollect unpaid assessments when ginning signs of an economic a unit or lot is foreclosed upon recovery, a mid-October report by a bank holding a first mortpublished by RealtyTrac gage. Under Florida law, a Inc. highlights a continuforeclosing first mortgage ing problem for Florida. holder is only required RealtyTrac Inc. reports to pay a portion of the that one in every 318 unpaid assessments athomes in Florida was in tributable to the subject some stage of foreclosure property, often referred in September 2012. This to as the “statutory cap,” rate is twice the national when they acquire title. average, and Florida leads The statutory cap requires DAVID G. the first mortgage holder the country in this statisMULLER tic for the first time since to only pay the lesser of April 2005. Unfortunately, 1% of the original mortthe foreclosure crisis continues gage or 12 months of past due to threaten the financial stability assessments to condominium and viability of many community and homeowners associations. associations.

If a community association is A major problem facing dealing with a large number of community associations in this foreclosures, the statutory cap regard is their inability to fully can result in crushing levels of

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR + Cook with your children

Dear Editor: Cooking and baking gives you the opportunity to bring stories to life for your child because it can be fun and educational. When cooking/baking you can use one of your child’s favorite stories in the kitchen. Math, health, safety, music/movement, art and literacy all can be incorporated. Use math by mixing and measuring ingredients. Talk about how much, how many, how big or small and discuss the concept of more or less than. Also, cause and effect can be discovered while baking.

You might use biscuits and show how the dough that was once flat will rise when baked. Health and safety is important. Don’t wear loose clothing that might snag or tangle in the kitchen. Make sure your area and any utensils

are clean. Also, talk to your child about nutrition and tell them whether what you are cooking/ baking is healthy or not. Point out the ingredients that are healthy for our bodies. Lastly, a great idea is to take pictures or a video to look back on and reflect.

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+ In need of clarification Dear Editor: Please clarify the basis for your recommendation (Oct. 25, page 9A) to vote “no” on the three Supreme Court justices seeking retention.

You cite, apparently with approval, Major Harding’s position that “merit-retention votes for judges are not intended to be votes on judges’ decisions.” Yet, you then recommend a “no” vote

“bad debt.” This bad debt often requires community associations to increase assessments to cover the shortfall.

This problem became even more acute based on the ruling in a recent district court case entitled, Coral Lakes Community Association Inc. v. Busey Bank, N.A., 30 So. 3d 579 (Fla. 2d DCA 2010). In this case, the court held that in which a community association’s declaration provides that a first mortgagee has no liability for assessments accrued prior to its acquisition of title (via foreclosure) or provides for liability less than the statutory cap, the language of the declaration controls the language of the statute.

In other words, the Coral Lakes court decided that the assessment collection provisions con-

tained within the association’s governing documents trumped the provisions contained within Florida law. Courts throughout the state are now routinely following this decision and applying it to condominium and homeowners associations. The effect of this case is that many community associations may be unable to recover any of the unpaid past due assessments from a foreclosing bank for the period of time prior to the bank acquiring title to the property.

As such, every community association’s board of directors should review the provisions of their governing documents to determine how they allocate past due assessment liability.

If the governing documents contain language, which limits

or completely restricts the payment of unpaid assessments by a foreclosing bank (accrued prior to taking title), the board should consult with the association’s attorney to discuss the possibility of amending the governing documents. Otherwise, it is possible that your community association could be foregoing its ability to recover large sums of assessment income from a foreclosing bank.

David G. Muller is a shareholder with the law firm of Becker & Poliakoff, P.A. in Sarasota and focuses his practice on the representation of community associations. The subjects discussed in his columns are not intended as specific legal advice and are subject to principles that may change from time to time.

because Justices Quince, Lewis and Pariente decided three cases in ways other than you would have decided them: Gore v. Harris, school vouchers and Obamacare.

Decisions with which you do not agree are not proof of “judicial and behavioral improprieties.” Your recommendation reflects, at best, careless and selfcontradictory reasoning. Your readers, and the justices, deserve better.

Joseph Bartel Sarasota Editors Note: Sorry for the confusion. The whole merit-retention vote for judges is a seriously flawed process, in large part because most Floridians have no clue on what they are voting — the judges’ decisions or their ethical conduct? Harding says it’s a vote on ethical conduct. Yet, Jesse Phillips of Restore Justice 2012, a Central Florida group opposed to retaining the three Supreme Court justices, told a reporter for The James Madison Institute that, “Justice Quince said it best, ‘We have a merit retention system to determine if justices are

doing their jobs.’” According to the institute’s fall edition journal: “Phillips contends that the only way to tell whether they are doing their jobs is to ‘look at their decisions; are they living up to the Constitution?’” We support the type of judicial decision making that emphasizes judicial restraint and fidelity to the original meaning of constitutional text, not that style that makes inferences and is regarded as judicial activism — judges making laws. In our view, Justices Quince, Lewis and Pariente’s decisions too often fit the latter.

general, didn’t support your conclusion and recommendation on that particular amendment. Even there, however, your analysis was, as with all the others, very useful in reaching my own voting decision. As we might say or signal in the Navy: BRAVO ZULU! Your critical jabs at the absurdity of much of the amendment language — and all the legalistic garbage built up in laws by the legislatures over the years — were also not only spot-on (res ipsa loquitur for sure!), but reminded me of my days as a government student at The American University in Washington, D.C., in the mid-1960s.

In one state and local government course I took, we examined various state constitutions and had many laughs over who could find the most useless and ridiculous “statutory” language in those documents.

So how about an Observer piece on when we can expect Florida Constitution referenda on roundabouts and parking meters in Sarasota?

Dan Knauf Osprey

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Park, 515 10th Ave. W., Palmetto. Guest speaker is Jessica McVay, commandant of local Marine Detachment 588. Info, 7234991.

Sweet Adelines Spaghetti Dinner — takes place from 4 to 6 p.m. at Bradenton Christian Reformed Church, 4208 26th St. W., Bradenton. Enjoy food catered by Demetrios while listening to the Magic of Manatee Sweet Adelines Chorus. Cost is $8.

Tickets in advance. Info, 779-1416.

Teacher Preparation Information Session — starts at 6:30 p.m. at SCF Lakewood Ranch, 7131 Professional Parkway E., Lakewood Ranch. Event held in the Medical Technology and Simulation Center, Room 125. Program is for people who have at a bachelor’s degree in a non-education major or teachers with temporary certificates. Info, 363-7274.

Light the Night Walk — starts at 7:10 p.m. at Lakewood Ranch Main Street, 8131 Lakewood Main St., Lakewood Ranch.

Registration starts at 5 p.m. and an opening ceremony starts at 5:30 p.m. Participants will walk two miles for the event hosted by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Info, lightthenight.org/sun.

sunday, Nov. 4 Meteors First Golf Tournament — starts at 8:30 a.m. at the Legacy Golf Course, 8255 Legacy Blvd., Bradenton. Event is a four-person scramble. Cost is $125 per player or $400 per foursome. Cost includes continental breakfast and luncheon. A portion of the proceeds benefit the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Info, Sherri Vitale, 7301335.

Delta Tones — performs from 4 to 7 p.m. at Linger Lodge Restaurant, 7205 85th St. Court E., Bradenton. Info, lingerlodgeresort. com or 755-2757.

Lakewood Ranch Ladies Soccer — plays at 4 and 5:15 p.m. Sundays, at Greenbrook Adventure Park, 13010 Adventure Place, Lakewood Ranch. Play is for women of all ages and skill levels. Info: Roni Duthie, 8126436 or lwrsoccer@gmail.com.

Monday, Nov. 5 American Red Cross Lifeguard Training — class is held at G.T. Bray Recreation Center, 5502 33rd Ave. Drive W., Bradenton. Class will certify participants in lifeguarding, first aid and CPR/AED for the professional rescuer. Info, 742-5923.

Lakewood Ranch Genealogy Club — holds its first meeting of the season at 7 p.m. at Lakewood Ranch Town Hall, 8175 Lakewood Ranch Blvd., Lakewood Ranch. Club founder Donna Moughty will present “There’s an App for That!” as it pertains to genealogy. Info, Nancy Johnson at choco8448@gmail.com.

Alateens — meets from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Mondays, at Woodland Community Church, 9607 State Road 70, Bradenton. Young people meet to learn how to recover from the effects of alcoholism and how to apply the 12 steps, adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous, to their lives. Info, 747-2879.

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Jazzercise — takes place at 9:30 a.m.

Tuesdays, at Sarasota Baptist’s Lakewood Ranch campus, 5600 Deer Drive, Lakewood Ranch. Exercise class is taught by Elaine Spang. Info, coral8136@msn.com.

Lipreading Plus Group — meets from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays, at Human Services Center Building J, 1750 17th St., Sarasota.

Facilitator Betty Petzko, a member of the Hearing Loss Association of Sarasota, is hard of hearing and is becoming proficient in lipreading; she wants to mentor others. Donna Carlton, 366-0260.

Lakewood Ranch Kiwanis Club — meets from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesdays, in the side dining area of the Polo Grill and Bar, 10670 Boardwalk Loop, Lakewood

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MTI students provide free dental care for needy children Siblings experience first major care from different sides of the chair.

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Kimberly Garcia watched as an MTI dental assistant teaches the 7-year-old how to floss. whom have only worked on the teeth of mannequins, perform the cleanings and X-rays, before a professional dentist takes a final look.

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“You have kids in here who don’t even want to eat they’re in so much pain,” said Kimberly Bland, the program director at MTI. “It doesn’t help when friends tell the kids beforehand, ‘Oh, the dentist is painful,’ like we’re here to hurt them,” she says.

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“I can tell he is nervous,” Kimberly said. “His feet are shaking.”

Dental assistants performed work on Kimberly’s mouth, before offering her a cup of water.

When nurses unveiled her X-ray results, Kimberly yelped, “So, that’s why my teeth look like?”

Too young to help her parents pick cucumbers, she followed the crops from Michigan to Florida while her father balanced his trailer driver job, Kimberly says she spent time flossing and brushing her teeth four to five times a day.

The nurses who organized and screened students for “We Care” say she’s the exception.

Cheryl Stuart, a nurse at McNeal Elementary and Braden River Elementary, and Char McLain, a Buffalo Creek Middle School nurse, both call poor dental hygiene the No. 1 culprit for children missing a school day.

“If you have a toothache, you can’t focus and you can’t learn, so kids will just stay home,” McLain said.

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When Juan, a 12-year-old student at McNeal Elementary, sat in the back of his father’s trailer on long treks from Decatur, Mich., to the Falkner Farms in Myakka City, he told tales of the dentist chair.

How, as his 7-year-old sister, Kimberly, recalls, the dentist, “puts something on your tongue, and if you touch it, you fall asleep.”

But Kimberly, at her first real dentist appointment, smiled a toothy grin and flicked her pink sandals to her side as a dental assistant prepared tools and analyzed X-rays as part of the “We Care” project Oct. 24, at Manatee Technical Institute.

Operating on grant money, the project partners MTI dental students, under the supervision of local dentists, with Manatee School District school nurses to provide free teeth cleaning, fluoride treatments and oral screening for uninsured, needy children.

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Many of the children, such as Kimberly, who had received minimal dental assistance before MTI stepped in, come from migrant farm working families who don’t have the means to receive dental help.

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Four-year-old Maria Perez clutched a slime green, purple horned stuffed animal and fled to the outstretched arms of her mother, after Pete Masterson, a dentist at Lakewood Ranch Dental, revealed her clean bill of health.

“You guard against every possible reaction,” Masterson said.

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Meanwhile, Juan, who had received minimal dental coverage near his parents’ farm in Michigan a few years ago, insisted, “It’s not scary. I’ve been to the dentist before.”

On the other side of the exam room, Kimberly twisted her head, gripped a mirror and spied her brother.

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WAGNER/PAGE 1A up to $400 million. But, he remains cautiously optimistic.

Manatee schools have faired well in grant requests previously, with the Adult, Career & Technical Education department earning 301 of 392 grants it applied for in the last 11 years — for a total of $88.5 million.

“We’ll know by Dec. 20 (if we got it),” Wagner said.

Called “Manatee County is F.I.R.S.T (Fully Integrated Reading Science Technology) in the Race to Student Success,” Manatee’s grant request asks for: $11.23 million to create STEM, or Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, labs at up to 41 elementary schools and also includes funding for teacher staff positions, training, equipment and supplies; $3.29 million for elementary personalized learning environments, which incorporate digital learning with project-based learning, classroom libraries and other options; $9.29 million for elementary teacher leadership learning, to provide school professional development and district-wide curriculum alignment and redesign employing core curriculum; $1.09 million for creating program sustainability through community partnerships and evaluations; and $3.88 million for establishing a Technology Zone for students at Manatee Technical Institute’s East Campus off State Road 70.

“We believe there has to be a way for students to apply what they are learning,” Wagner said. “What they learn to solve is real world problems — that’s engineering.”

Manatee County’s history in engineering and technology programs is rich, starting with industrial arts programs at all of the high schools and middle schools more than three decades ago. The program morphed into technology education during the late ’90s and now has advanced into engineering.

“Like many of our career-and-technical education programs, engineering provides a solid foundation to link academics with solving real world hands-on problems,” Wagner said. “It became a really exciting when our Technology Student Association (TSA) students began competing in 2003 and proved to the rest of the state and nation that Manatee County students and teachers are second to none.”

Manatee County has produced more winners in student TSA and SkillsUSA competitions at the national level than any other state — not just a district — for six years, Wagner said. And eight of nine eighth-graders from Haile Middle School passed industry certifications for the Solidworks 3-D modeling program this summer.

“It’s never been done before,” Wagner said.

Although the accomplishments of Manatee students bode well for the STEM cause, Wagner said the data backs the STEM concept, as well, although he admits other factors could influence student success at each school. Even still, the three elementary schools that have offered specific STEM curriculum for three years or more — Abel, Freedom and McNeal — show significant learning gains at grade level, particularly by fifth-grade students. Averaged results from the FCAT show 57% of fifth-graders at the three STEM schools tested proficient in math compared to 46% at the district’s 37 non-STEM elementary schools. Additionally, 45% of fifth-graders at the three STEM schools tested proficient in science, compared to about 38% at non-STEM schools, and 63% tested proficient in reading, compared to 53% at non-STEM schools.

McNeal Elementary was the first school to start an engineering program at the elementary level, and Freedom Elementary followed suit, as did Abel Elementary, a Title I school. Today, nine elementary schools, including Braden River in the East County, offer STEM programming to students.

The grant would bring the curriculum to the remainder of the district’s 41 elementary schools, as well as to seven of eight charter schools, if they opt to participate in the program.

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“We want every student in Manatee County to have this opportunity,” Wagner said. “STEM makes learning exciting. It really gives relevance back to the academic side of things. It shows how academics apply to everyday (life).”

Each school would have its own technology lab, complete with a magnetic levitation track, wind tunnels, a production area and other equipment.

“The whole room would be painted with the dry-erase paint,” Wagner said.

Teachers at schools participating in the program would receive Common Core and STEM training as part of funding, and every elementary classroom would have its own library.

“Our teachers are a critical component (for) the children’s education,” Wagner said. “We have to invest in the teachers.”

The MTI component of grant proposal, Wagner said, is its “standout” feature. The STEM Experience at MTI’s TECH (Technology & Enterprise Career Hub) Zone, as it has been dubbed, would be a roughly 15,000-square-foot expansion to the newly constructed MTI campus off State Road 70 that is slated to open in the coming months.

Wagner describes a scene in which fifth-grade students walk into an auditorium and watch a technology-inspired

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video on a 20-foot television screen. They’d see, for example, a dune buggy driving around, as well as different components of the vehicle. At the video’s conclusion, a presenter would challenge them to construct the vehicle themselves, in groups. They’d be given a budget, a store at which to purchase parts and a challenge to build it using engineering skills learned in the classroom.

The students would also be able to eat lunch at MTI and go on a scavenger hunt in the building, which would expose them to potential industry and technology-related career opportunities.

If the grant were approved, construction on the TECH Zone would start in January, pending acceptance of the grant by the Manatee County School Board.

Funding also would be provided for girls-only engineering summer camps and partnerships with local agencies, such as the United Way, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Manatee and the NAACP, to bring STEM training to community sites outside the classroom.

“I really think this is going to be something every student is going to say, ‘This is what education is all about,’” Wagner said. “We want this grant to be a model (for other districts).”

Wagner said Manatee Schools would make its curriculum available to other districts nationwide online.

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The following information was gathered from incident and arrest reports obtained from the Manatee County Sheriff ’s Office.

Oct. 21

Clothes call

6:59 p.m. — 6700 block of W. Country Club Lane. Domestic Disturbance. A man told his wife to get out of their home and began throwing her clothes out of the house. A deputy found a pile of clothes in the driveway upon arrival but determined that their altercation hadn’t been physical.

The man left the home for the night.

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7:19 p.m. — 8100 block of Glenbrooke Place. Information Only. A man reported that his neighbor had her dogs off their leashes and two came into his yard. The woman then reportedly came into his yard and told him that if he calls Animal Control again, she will “get” him. Deputies documented the incident but found that the woman’s actions didn’t appear to be a criminal act.

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who has a history of mental illness ran out of the house naked, yelling at and threatening anyone she saw. When a deputy arrived, she was wearing only underwear and muttering incoherently before lying down in the grass and telling a deputy that she just needed to die.

The woman was Baker Acted at a local hospital.

Non-Facebook kind of poke

6:54 p.m. — 12900 block of 21st St. E. Battery. A woman and her children left their home after their husband/father slammed his hand on a countertop during an argument about disciplining the children. When the woman returned to pick up her purse and laptop, her husband poked her left shoulder six or seven times and said, “It’s pretty hard not to

be violent when someone keeps poking at you like this.” The man was arrested for battery.

Cruella strikes again?

8:42 p.m. — 300 block of Rye Road E. Suspicious Incidents. A man found a female acquaintance crouched in the corner of a barn where his dogs were barking. The woman said her car had broken down and she needed to borrow gas money but then got in a vehicle and drove away. The man’s girlfriend said that the woman had expressed interest in a Facebook post about the couple’s puppies. The man checked on the puppies and found all pups were accounted for.

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Sting operation

8:44 a.m. — 10400 block of Hamilton Way. Civil Dispute. A man who moved out of a home he had previously shared two weeks earlier told deputies that he has moved all of his belongings off the property except for a set of beehives that the person still living in the home wanted removed immediately. The man said that because of the nature of bees, he would wait until dark to remove them.

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Big plays spoil Lakewood Ranch homecoming

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volleyball by Jen Blanco | Associate Editor

The Lakewood Ranch High football team fell to 3-1 in Class 6A-District 7 with a 38-0 loss to Largo in its homecoming game Oct. 26.

However, the Mustangs season is by no means over. Similar to last season, Lakewood can qualify for a playoff berth as the district runner-up with a win Friday night versus Seminole Osceola.

Last year, the Mustangs (5-3, 3-1 in 6A-7) walked away with a 35-28 victory over the Warriors.

“We told the kids it is down to the last two weeks, essentially, and they just have to decide whether they want to go to the playoffs or not,” Trent says.

“We’re good enough to win. We just have to put it all together.”

Largo (9-0, 4-0 in 6A-7) took control of the game early on, scoring three touchdowns in the first quarter on a 56-yard run, a 31-yard completion and a 50yard interception return.

“Offensively, we’re not good enough to just take control of a game,” Trent says. “Defensively, if we give up big plays, it affects everything.”

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Lakewood Ranch junior tight end Wyatt McLeod catches a pass in the second half.

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The Lakewood Ranch High volleyball team celebrates a point in its Class 6A-District 12 championship game versus Seminole Osceola Oct. 25. The Lady Mustangs won their second-consecutive district title.

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LAKEWOOD RANCH — The Lakewood Ranch High volleyball team is focused on building tradition.

The Lady Mustangs moved one step closer to their long-term goal by capturing their secondconsecutive Class 6A-District 12 championship Oct. 25.

The top-seeded Lady Mustangs overcame an uncharacteristically shaky start to defeat second-seeded Seminole Osceola 25-27, 25-18, 25-15, 25-18.

“We’re very excited,” coach Perri Hankins says. “We wanted to win it.”

With the win, Lakewood (20-5) played host to District 11 runnerup Strawberry Crest in a Class 6A-Region 3 quarterfinal match Oct. 30. Results from Tuesday’s district quarterfinal were unavail-

able as of press time. The winner will advance to the regional semifinals Nov. 6, to face the winner of the regional quarterfinal between Seminole Osceola (7-12) and District 11 champion Tampa Sickles.

“We want to try to start to build some tradition here,” Hankins says. “We want to go deep into the tournament every year.”

Lakewood advanced to the district championship game after defeating Largo 25-10, 25-16, 2513 in a district semifinal. Mariah Robertson had six kills, one block, four aces and five digs to pace the Lady Mustangs. Nicole Grant had eight kills. Emily Ruple finished with seven kills one block, one assist and two digs. Ali Milbourn had 23 assists.

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LAKEWOOD RANCH — The Lakewood Ranch High football team has been here before.

The situation is all too clear.

The Mustangs knew what was at stake well before they walked onto the field for their homecoming game versus Largo Oct. 26.

With Lakewood and Largo both sitting atop the Class 6A-District 7 standings with identical 3-0 records, the winner would undoubtedly clinch the district title, while the loser would have to wait another week to determine its postseason fate.

Two plays into the game, the Packers broke free for a 56-yard touchdown run. It would be the first of several big plays for Largo’s high-powered offense, as the Packers spoiled the Mustangs’ homecoming with a 38-0 victory.

“We can’t give up big plays,” coach Shawn Trent says. “That was the start of the whole thing.

You give up big plays on defense to athletes like that — they are going to score. There is no way around it.”

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touchdown with 3:11 remaining in the second quarter to take a 28-0 lead into the locker room at halftime.

The Mustangs had a couple of opportunities to reach the end zone, including early in the second quarter, when Lakewood drove down to the Packers’ 2-yard line. The Mustangs were unable to convert on fourth-and-goal and turned the ball over on downs.

Lakewood rallied in the third quarter, reaching the Packers’ 17yard line before an interception derailed the Mustangs’ drive.

“We had a couple plays where I thought we could have scored one or two, but didn’t get some stuff to go our way,” Trent says. “We’ve got to finish those drives, especially against a good team.”

Lakewood returns to action in its final district game of the season Nov. 2 versus Seminole Osceola.

Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.

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In the district championship, Lakewood overcame a slow start, in which it lost its first district game of the season. The Lady Mustangs beat the Lady Warriors in three games in their lone match during the regular season. “(Osceola) played great,” Hankins says. “Their libero was unbelievable, and they just hit the ball hard all of the time. We were playing tentative, almost as if the pressure was on us to win, which is kind of different this year because we do have expectations.

The years before we’ve just come in and thought, ‘Hey, we’re just doing better than we did the year before.’”

The Lady Mustangs committed numerous service errors early on in the match, which ultimately allowed the Lady Warriors to edge past Lakewood in Game 1.

“I just think we never got up to game speed and I’m not sure why,” Hankins says.

“We were playing about threequarter speed most of the time.

We started winning after the first game because we started just hitting the ball in the court, which is important in volleyball.

“When you’re not up to game speed, when you go to do things, the ball doesn’t go where it should,” Hankins says. “When we (weren’t) at maximum speed we were making bad decisions.”

However, Hankins credits junior Lauren Owens, who took over serve in the fourth game with the scored tied 18-18 and served the final seven points of the match, with giving the Lady Mustangs the spark they needed late in the match.

“She really pulled us through this,” Hankins says of Owens. “I call her ‘Magic,’ and I was like,

Junior wide receiver Ty McLeod returns a punt for the Mustangs.

‘Thank God for Magic in this match.’”

ODA

A year ago, The Out-of-Door Academy volleyball team failed to win a district match and finished the season 0-7 in district play.

The team lacked a competitive identity.

But now, with a new coach and six seniors leading the charge, the Lady Thunder are heading in a new direction.

ODA advanced to the Class 3ADistrict 10 championship Oct. 25 for the first time since 2007.

The No. 3 seed Lady Thunder fell to No. 1 seed St. Stephen’s 2520, 25-13, 25-17.

Lauren Maxey had seven kills and 13 perfect passes to pace ODA. Sam Albano added 14 digs.

Natalie Buffett had five kills and three aces. Cameron Graham finished with 14 digs and nine perfect passes.

“I was very pleased with our performance at districts,” ODA coach Craig Wolfe says. “In the finals, our team played very well again, but it just wasn’t nearly enough versus an extremely strong and well-coached St. Stephen’s team.

“The goal all year was to make ODA volleyball competitive,” Wolfe says. “I think the program came a long way in two-and-ahalf months, and the players have definitely raised the bar for the future of ODA volleyball.”

As the district runner-up, ODA earned a berth in the regional tournament. The Lady Thunder traveled to District 9 champion Clearwater Central Catholic Oct. 31 for a Class 3A-Region 3 quarterfinal. The winner will face the winner of the regional quarterfinal between St. Stephen’s and District 9 runner-up Clearwater

Calvary Christian.

“My expectations for the regional tournament are for ODA to continue to play its best and compete,” Wolfe says. “That hasn’t changed from day one. These are the really fun matches — when you earn the right to play against another quality team. That’s what the postseason is all about.”

The Lady Thunder advanced to the district championship with a 15-25, 25-23, 25-19, 25-16 victory over No. 2 seed Cardinal Mooney in the district semifinals Oct. 23.

BRADEN RIVER

The Braden River High volleyball team faced Class 7A-District 10 rival Manatee five times during the regular season, and each time the Lady Hurricanes had the Lady Pirates’ number.

That proved to be the case, once again, when the two teams met in a district semifinal match Oct. 23.

For the sixth time this season, the Lady Pirates failed to win a game, as the No. 2 seed Lady Hurricanes defeated the No. 3 seed Lady Pirates 13-25, 14-25, 16-25. “(Manatee) served extremely well against us, and we couldn’t put our serve-receive together (Tuesday),” Braden River coach Matt McElhiney says. “We just couldn’t pass (Manatee’s) serving.”

Demi-Shay Watchorn finished with 22 assists, nine service points, six digs and three kills to pace Braden River (16-10). Madison Jaco added eight kills and eight digs. Courtney McDevitt had six kills and eight digs.

With the loss, the Lady Pirates saw their season come to an end. It was the final game for Watchorn, McDevitt and fellow senior Hailey Rapp in a Braden River uniform.

“Obviously when you lose two of the best setters in the area, with Courtney and Demi-Shay, it’s hard to replace them,” McElhiney says.

“They are kind of like the glue that holds your team together. Hopefully, we can fill that gap.”

Despite having already played Braden River five times, Manatee coach Rachel Batey admitted she was nervous before the start of the district semifinal.

“You learn a team after playing them five times,” Batey says.

“Braden River never gives up.

It’s always good to play against a team that is going to push you. No matter what your lead is, they are not going to quit. It’s always fun to play them. They are like our friends across the line.”

Becca Butler paced Manatee with 16 kills and 12 digs. Jesse Durst added 13 digs and three aces. Haley Coulter had 12 kills and eight digs. Rachel Drummey finished with nine digs, nine kills and seven blocks. Kayla Armer had 35 assists and 10 digs.

“It kind of gets in your head a little,” Drummey says of facing a team six times. “You just have to go in with the same confidence that we knew that we could beat them and we just had to play to our potential. “(Getting to the regional tournament) is really important for us,” Drummey says. We’ve had potential ever since I’ve been here, but we’ve never really been able to play up to it. So, this is the first year that we knew we were good enough to get that far, and so we’ve kind of been focusing on that this year.”

The Lady Pirates advanced to the district semifinals after beating No. 6 seed Port Charlotte (1313) 25-20, 25-13, 25-20.

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+ Golfer named Rolex Junior All-American Lakewood Ranch High junior Danny Walker was recently named an honorable mention Rolex Junior All-American.

Walker tallied four top 25 American Junior Golf Association finishes this year, placing him at No. 37 in the Polo Golf Rankings.

Walker’s best finish came at the Western Junior Championship June 18 through June 22, where he tied for second. He also tied for 10th at the Bass Pro Shops/Payne Stewart Junior Championship July 30 through Aug. 2.

+ Rider competes in national series Twelve-year-old Jesse Ansley finished second in his division at the Grand National Cross Country Series Oct. 20 and Oct. 21, in Indiana.

Jesse finished 28th overall out of the 152 riders who participated.

Jesse will return to action Nov. 3 and Nov. 4 in Hurricane Mills, Tenn.

+ Lakewood Ranch cruises to county titles The Lakewood Ranch High boys and girls cross-country teams both won the Manatee County Championships Oct. 27 at G.T. Bray Park.

The Lady Mustangs scored 19 points to finish ahead of Braden River (57), Manatee (87), St. Stephen’s (97), Southeast (102) and Palmetto (149).

Katie Wray won the individual county championship, finishing in 20:27.11. Michelle Last finished second in 20:40.87 followed by Julia Ortiz (third, 20:43.87), Elizabeth Chandler (sixth, 21:39.55), Emily Perez

(seventh, 22:00.96) and Kristin Zarrella (eighth, 22:02.99).

Alexis Cullen finished fourth in 21:01.18 to pace the Lady Pirates. Asia Borman finished 11th in 22:30.05 followed

by Mia Wiederkehr (12th, 22:34.40) Bridget Lanier (14th, 22:44.46) and Madison Daunt (16th, 23:09.05).

The Mustangs scored 35 points to finish ahead of Manatee (62), St. Stephen’s (77), Bayshore (97), Braden River (118) and Palmetto (125).

Mitch Arnold finished second in 17:22.90 to pace Lakewood. Steven Estes finished third in 17:34.84 followed by Jon Milkovich (11th, 18:08.49), Josh Napier (12th, 18:14.24) and George Dabbiero (13th, 18:17.14).

Southeast’s David Marvel finished sixth in 17:47.21.

+ Thunder fall short The Out-of-Door Academy football team allowed more than 650 yards on the ground, as the host Thunder fell to Naples First Baptist Academy 46-42 in Class 2A-District 6 action Oct. 26.

ODA quarterback Evan Wilson rushed for nearly 200 yards and four touchdowns.

Wilson also threw for nearly 215 yards and two touchdowns.

The Thunder recovered an onside kick and scored a touchdown to pull within four points, but the Lions recovered ODA’s second onside kick attempt.

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LAKEWOOD RANCH — It’s been called the Grand Slam of college tennis.

Nearly 20 men-and-women college tennis teams will take to the court Nov. 9 through Nov. 11, in the 2012 Dick Vitale Intercollegiate Clay Court Classic, at the Lakewood Ranch Athletic Center.

The tournaments is free and open to the public, with a portion of the proceeds going to The V Foundation for cancer research.

The 2012 Dick Vitale Intercollegiate Clay Court Classic, which is the only claycourt tournament in the country, will begin with the opening round of the men’s and women’s doubles tournament at 9 a.m. The opening round of the women’s singles tournament will follow at 10 a.m., and the opening round of the men’s singles tournament will begin at noon.

Play for the 32 draw men’s and women’s singles tournaments will continue throughout the weekend, with the women’s final set for 9:30 a.m. Nov. 11. A juniors exhibition will be held at 11:30 a.m. followed by the men’s final at noon.

“I just enjoy the whole atmosphere,” head tennis professional Chris Marquez said. “To be able to have college tennis here — it’s a cool thing to watch. The members and the community like it.”

This year’s tournament features several new teams, including the University of

Florida women’s team, which is the twotime defending national champion, and the Princeton and University of South Florida men’s tennis teams.

“It’s all word of mouth,” Marquez said.

“The coaches and players say this is one of the best tournaments in the country.

Between the weather, the members being host families and Dick (Vitale’s) part in this, it’s a different kind of tournament.”

In addition, the tournament will feature several players with either local ties to the area or pro level points.

Prior to the tournament, the club will hold a welcome party for the players at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, at the Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club. The event, which includes dinner and live music

by Joel Fisher, is $25 and will offer the community an opportunity to meet the coaches and players who will be competing throughout the weekend.

Nov. 9, the Lakewood Ranch Athletic Center will hold a Friday Night Lights event from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Wristbands are $15 and include unlimited beer and wine, snacks and live entertainment. Food and drinks also will be available for purchase throughout the tournament.

“We’re trying to create a U.S. Open-type of festive atmosphere,” Marquez said. “It’s most festive like a party. We’re trying to create a good fan base, and we want (people) to enjoy everything (about the tournament).”

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Colin Luangphakdy, 1, rides in the train his grandfather made.

Luke, Emma and Mia Jordan take a short break for candy.

Nathan Ragan, 4, looks official as he watches the parade.

Olivia Blank, 6, enjoys time with her family.

Frightful fun Donning their Halloween costumes, East County families Friday, Oct. 26, flocked to Lakewood Ranch Main Street for a night of thrills, candy and family fun, as Lakewood Ranch Community Activities hosted its annual Boo Fest. Guests enjoyed pictures, a cemetery walk, a haunted house, a costume parade and more.

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Right: Megan Workman, Emma Cecil, Kimberley Barr and Madeline Fields are in Girl Scout Troop 764 together.

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Ranch students celebrate homecoming Students at Lakewood Ranch High School celebrated homecoming Oct. 22 through Oct. 27.

Weeklong celebrations included spirit days, a bonfire, the homecoming game and a dance.

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Sarah Persails is a member of the Lakewood Ranch High School marching band.

Brooke Ellery, 17, and the rest of the Color Guard perform during the bonfire.

Seniors Michael Farhat and Amanda Baar were crowned this year’s homecoming king and queen.

Alicia Harris, left, dances with friends at the homecoming dance Oct. 27.

William Marsh, Kenny Inman, Vincent Butz and Shayla Boe, front, watch the bonfire get started Oct. 25.

The Lakewood Ranch High JROTC presented the colors before the start of the Mustangs’ homecoming game versus Largo Oct. 26.

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Families fall into fun at church festivals Families at Cornerstone Church of Lakewood Ranch and Sarasota Baptist enjoyed family-centered fun this weekend, as each church hosted fall festival events. Cornerstone Church families en-

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Stephen and Janice Winn, of Sarasota, sold their home at 6645 The Masters Ave.

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Kathleen DeGregorio, trustee, of Lakewood Ranch, sold the home at 12309 Thornhill Court to Mladen Karcic, of Fairfax Station, Va., for $397,000. Built in 2008, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,083 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $282,500 in 2009.

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Fariborz and Mojgan Aframian, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., sold their home at 251 Petrel Trail to Robert Thomson, of Ontario, Canada, for $237,200. Built in 2005, it has four bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,643 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $562,000 in 2005.

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Sue Anderson, trustee, and Don Anderson sold the home at 6915 Lennox Place to Anthony and Dana Balionis, of University Park, for $425,000. Built in 2001, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,381 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $425,000 in 2011.

Heritage Harbour

$380,000. Built in 2010, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,657 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $362,000 in 2010.

Country Meadows

Larry and Judith Campa, of Sarasota, sold their home at 810 Country Meadows Way to Robert and Joyce Wildman, of Bradenton, for $360,500.

Built in 2006, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,882 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $497,400 in 2006.

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ADVERTISE YOUR MERCHANDISE with the total value of all items $200 or less in this section for FREE! Limit 1 ad per month, 15 words or less. Price must be included next to each item. No commercial advertising.

Ad runs 2 consecutive weeks in 1 Observer.

(No phone calls please.)

(Please provide your name and address) Email ad to: classified@yourobserver.com Online at: www.yourobserver.com Or mail to: The Observer Group P.O. Box 3169 Sarasota, Fl 34230 CHINA CABINET Large Walnut (73”Wx82”H) Lighted display, area. Excellent condition, $200, Firm. 941-795-3837.

COMPUTER/TV ARMOIRE: American Signature Furniture cottage/beach look. Cream color.

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DOUBLE SINK/GOOSENECK faucet: Elkay stainless. Sprayer, soap and filtered water dispenser. Excellent. $110. 941-351-8828.

EXERCISE BIKE: good condition, $60.

941-721-7392.

LADY'S CLOTHING; suits, dresses, shorts, slacks. Sizes 6-8, petite, 23 items. Asking $75.00/all. 941-727-5817.

Platform bed w/ 3 drawers, detached headboard, mattress. $150.00. Don, @ 941-756-9283.

POOL SECTION Cleaner. Hayward Navigator Pro with hose, $180. 941-351-1741.

Autos Wanted CASH FOR CARS! Call Ryan and get paid today!

941-955-1188.

Garage/Moving/Estate Sales

Jewelry, Bose Radio and Bose Radio CD player, Bose speakers, 40" Sony flat screen TV, La-Z-Boy recliners, Lane Leather Rest chair & ottoman, sofa, chairs, sofa bed, 2 queen beds, bedroom set, bronze statue, cypress end table, curio cabinet, entertainment center, glass dining table/chairs, end tables, lamps, mirrors, pictures, patio furniture, Noritake china Tulane pattern, gold electroplate flatware, Elan sewing machine, angel collection, clothes, TV's, silk flowers, nice men and ladies clothes, shop vac, tools, garage items, linens, & kitchenware.

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For Qualified Waiting Clients Contact - Sarasota Luxury Rentals 941-225-1356 email: info@sarasotaluxuryrentals.com

CROWLEY FOLK SCHOOL Learn Basic Skills that never lose their usefulness. Blacksmithing, cheese making, canning, gardening. http://crowleyfolkschool.org, 941-322-1000

Storage

TWIN RIVERS Community Garage Sale: Saturday, Nov. 3rd, 8a.m.-1p.m. 3703 162nd Ave. E., Parrish.

STORAGE FACILITY Boat/ RV/ Trailer. Secure facility, low monthly rentals, Clark Rd area.

941-809-3660, 941-809-3662.

JAN PRO CLEANING FRANCHISE: $950 Down Required, Financing Available for growth, Includes customers. Earn up to $10,000 Month+ Call 941-907-8141

General Merchandise

Help Wanted

TV: PIONEER Elite 53”, with matching jet black stereo cabinet, perfect cond. Was $5000 new.

Sell: $499. Palister leather 7 pc. sectional sofa, duel power recliners. Was $3500 new. Sell: $450.

Rainbow Castle swing set with slide and rope ladder. Was $3000 new. Sell: $399. 941-518-1321.

DRIVERS: LOCAL, Great Pay & Benefits. Home every day. Pd. Holidays/Vac. 401K CDL-A. w/X end. School grads. Accepted. 866-358-3937.

Merchandise Wanted

ChitwoodCharters.com Cruise or Fish Hyatt Sarasota Docks 32’/53’ Yachts - 2hrs./2 months 941-383-5232

DINING ROOM Set “Bassett” Bleached Oak, Buffet, Mirrored Hutch, Table with 6 Chairs, Sell $498. 941-465-6113.

SENIOR LOOKING to purchase precious metals, time pieces, coins, jewelry and antiques. Please call Marc, 941-321-0707.

Garage/Moving/Estate Sales

Motorcycles

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Vacation/Seasonal Rentals PALM AIRE CONDOS: Available only May-Dec. 2012. 1 & 2 bedrooms, furnished, great views, upgraded, utilities included. $1000-$1300/mo.

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Adult Care Services

Business Opportunities

WHISPER BEND Community Garage Sale.

Saturday, Nov. 3rd, 8a.m. - 2p.m. SR-70 to Tara Blvd., right on Tara Preserve Lane, left on Linger Lodge, right to 64th Place East.

LOCALLY OWNED and operated since 2004 with three locations, America's Super Pawn will pay you top dollar for your estate jewelry, watches, diamonds, musical instruments, computers, motorcycles, cars and other unwanted items.

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Real Estate Wanted WANTED LUXURY ANNUAL RENTALS

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Computer Services

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