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OUR TOWN + Nov. 14: A day history was born

They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

By that measure, we don’t think this trashed chair would be anyone’s picture of a throne.

Residents collected trash and fishing line at the first Plymouth Harbor Shoreline Cleanup Day Saturday, Nov. 3.

One of the morning’s biggest finds: a barnaclecovered chair brought in by Karen Minvielle, daughter of Plymouth Harbor resident and former Longboater Betty Blair.

Volunteers found the chair embedded in mangroves on the south part of John Ringling Boulevard. Minvielle had the strength to leverage it out of the mangroves and onto her kayak.

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by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor

Bullock assesses his first year Town Manager Dave Bullock said part of his second year as town manager will focus on his employees and how departments operate to assist the public.

The stars aligned Nov. 14.

Town Manager David Bullock was born Nov. 14, 1950.

When asked to provide an overall Then, five years later, the letter grade for his first year on the town of Longboat Key was job as the town manager of Longboat born Nov. 14, 1955, when Key, Dave Bullock doesn’t need any residents voted 183-16 in time to think about it. He’s already favor of incorporation. graded himself.

Bullock had no idea that “I deserve a ‘C,’” Bullock D he and the town shared a CAR T R said.

O birthday until informed by REP Bullock’s self-imposed K the Longboat Observer at LLOCS grade is a far cry from U B Monday’s Town Commission E GRADELF: the evaluations reworkshop. ceived from his seven HIMS “That’s cool,” he said. bosses. The Longboat Bullock was living in Key Town CommisBerwyn, Pa., on his fifth sion, overall, gave birthday, although he doesn’t him glowing reremember his party. marks for its annuOther prominent individual review and didn’t even als to share a Nov. 14 date feel the need to discuss his perforof birth with Bullock and mance in public at a workshop. the town include: Claude Refusing to grade himself on indiMonet, Condoleeza Rice, vidual categories, Bullock said there’s a Prince Charles, Sen. Joseph reason for his “C” rating.

McCarthy and famed New “I would have liked to resolve the Age keyboardist Yanni. pension issue sooner and had a bit more success permitting sand structures for the north end,” Bullock said.

“I also want to continue forging solid relationships with both counties to make sure we are treated equally with the rest of the neighboring municipalities. Sometimes it’s easy to forget about Longboat Key because we don’t need or ask for a lot.”

The college-history-major-turnedpublic-servant said a phrase from a Photo couretsy of Lou Newman former history professor has stuck with Karen Minvielle carries a him throughout his career. barnacle-encrusted chair to “A professor once said that if you shore.

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Town Manager Dave Bullock gave himself a “C” Monday when asked to provide his overall performance of his first year on the job.

HIGHER STANDARD

by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor

Town strengthens maintenance codes Town officials work to strengthen codes to upgrade deteriorating structures such as Whitney Beach Plaza and some abandoned residential properties.

If you have a ripped screen on your pool cage or park a boat or trailer on the side of your house, the town of Longboat Key is going to eventually force you to fix your screen and park your boats and trailers elsewhere.

At its Monday, Nov. 12 regular workshop, the Longboat Key Town Commission agreed with staff’s recommendation to

strengthen a property-maintenance code that, right now, can only tell property owners to cut weeds and grass.

“This is really thinking about the standards you want to apply to properties town-wide and how you want the community to look balanced with government intrusion, while potentially creating an issue with personal

property rights,” said Town Manager Dave Bullock.

The issue about beefing up the code arose when commissioners started receiving complaints about the dilapidated Whitney Beach Plaza and the rundown Colony Beach & Tennis Resort.

The roof is caving in certain

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A caving roof in the post office building at Whitney Beach Plaza concerns town officials.

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CODES / FROM PAGE 1A spots at Whitney Beach Plaza; the vacant gas station on the north end has a fence falling down; and the outward appearance of the Colony has been an eyesore for months.

None of those issues can be corrected, though, through the current property maintenance code.

Town planner Steve Schield presented the following core value of the town statement to commissioners: “The town shall support well-designed and well-maintained neighborhoods, communities and commercial areas through the regulation and enforcement of landscaping and property maintenance codes for the beautification of the island and protection of property values.”

That value, which was projected on a screen during the discussion, was all commissioners needed to agree on to

BULLOCK / FROM PAGE 1A have a career in government, you will always find yourself at the intersection of individual versus community,” Bullock said.

“Forty years later, I remember those words and they are a bull’s-eye for my job.”

That phrase is the main reason Bullock met a self-imposed goal in his first year to meet with at least 100 residents, to gauge their sense of community and what they expect from their town.

He asked them all what they like most about living on Longboat Key. “They all said they could choose to live anywhere they want, but they choose to live here,” Bullock said.

Bullock said despite perceived differences between the north and south ends of the island, residents from all over the Key have an overwhelming sense of community.

“I don’t see a perceived disconnect from north end and south end residents,” Bullock said. “I see an overwhelming love for

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allow staff to make amendments to the code for their future review.

Some of those changes will include addressing ripped screens on pool cages, extreme cases of peeling paint, visible open storage areas in places such as carports, storage of construction materials, pools that are turning green from lack of maintenance and broken garage doors.

The elimination of boats and trailers parked in side yards and in driveways is also likely.

“What’s creating the most problems are foreclosed properties that are vacant,” Schield said. “They are creating blights in our community.”

The issues commissioners will have to wrestle with when they review a future amended code are increased costs for the code-enforcement department, which currently only has one code-enforcement officer, and backlash from residents who think the town may be intruding on their

the community regardless of what block number you live in.”

That sense of community, according to Bullock, means that discussions of a community center and even a future town center should continue to be explored.

“Communities that have done (town centers) well serve as a positive thing in the community,” Bullock said. “When we get what residents want, they will let us know and will help us approve it. One of the gifts of this community is there is no shortage of informed opinions.”

Year two

The town manager sits in his office Monday, wearing a tie with a Monet painting on it from his collection of more than 100 ties, surrounded by disheveled paperwork that’s not organized to the naked eye. But it works for Bullock.

“Ask me where anything is on this desk and I can get it for you right away,” Bullock said.

When asked about his plans for his sec-

personal property rights. Future community meetings to inform the public and an integrated enforcement plan would be developed if the changes are approved at future public hearings.

“We are not here to be Big Brother and won’t be going after homes with a little bit of paint missing,” said Schield, who said town staff didn’t find numerous future violations Key-wide. “For the most part,

we are a lucky community.”

Commissioners are excited with the potential changes.

“Most people here live at a pretty high standard, and these standards are ones I think our residents would expect,” said Mayor Jim Brown.

If the changes to the code are enacted, Planning, Zoning and Building Director Robin Meyer said his staff could mandate changes be made to a roof that’s caving in at Whitney Beach Plaza.

“If (Whitney Beach Plaza owners) don’t do something soon, we have an issue with unsafe structures, and as our code currently is written, things there would have to get worse before we can enforce them to make it better,” Meyer said.

The same goes for a fence falling down at the former gas-station site.

“If panels are lying down, we can make you pick them up, but I can’t make you fix the fence,” Meyer said.

ond year, Bullock said his first year was all about an external focus, meeting residents and learning about the island.

“The coming year will be more of an internal focus, making sure departments and employees are working to efficiently offer services to our residents,” said Bullock, who is already utilizing Town Engineer Anne Ross as a consultant on special projects and keeping an eye on her for future management opportunities. “I want to see employees refocused with a universal goal to help make this community better,” said Bullock.

Bullock calls his employees “a high-performing team that needs to make sure it is in a continuous learning mode.”

He also hopes to convert pension plans to 401(a) plans and/or find amicable resolutions with the unions on those matters; oversee future redevelopment proposals such as the Longboat Key Hilton Beachfront Resort; find a balance of good cellular service with which all residents can agree; and find a residential/commercial/

tourism balance that residents agree upon through the work of a future consultant and public hearings.

“There’s a lot of cool stuff coming up,” Bullock said.

Bullock said after his first year on the Key, he feels his main responsibility to residents is to ensure Longboat Key remains a highly desirable place to live.

“I take that responsibility very seriously,” Bullock said.

His ongoing goal, Bullock said, is to keep asking: What is the future of Longboat Key? “In 50 years, I want someone to still say, ‘I can live anywhere in the world, and I choose to live on Longboat Key,’” Bullock said. “To achieve that, we always need to be looking into the future.”

Bullock said the day he can’t make Longboat Key any better than it is today is the day he will tender his resignation.

“I’m a subscriber to continuous improvement,” Bullock said. “Sitting around complacent in your job position is not in my DNA.”

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by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Historical Society closes museum The museum will soon be a thing of the past, but its contents are moving into the digital age.

The Longboat Key Historical Society Museum is in the process of moving out of Whitney Beach Plaza.

But that doesn’t mean the Historical Society is history.

The group will continue to hold its programs such as the annual fish fry and winter lecture series.

And, as it continues to document the past, the Historical Society is moving into the digital age. Board member Chet Pletzke, the retired head of the Bethesda Uni-

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formed Services University of the Health Sciences Library, is currently digitizing the museum’s documents, photographs, newspapers and other materials, which will be available at longboatkeyhistory.com.

“It makes sense,” Pletzke said. “This is just a realistic transition. There is no way they could support what they have and pay rent. Going electronic brings it to a reasonable cost level.”

Historical Society President Shirley Beachum said that Whitney Beach Plaza’s

owners reduced the group’s rent from $500 to $300 a month when it considered moving out earlier this year. Maintenance issues in the shopping center, along with a lack of docents to volunteer, contributed to the decision to close, but the main reason was a lack of traffic.

“The reason we have to get out is there is not a soul there,” she said.

With the Historical Society’s departure, just three tenants remain at the plaza: Professional Touch Dry Cleaners, Bayou Tavern and Design 2000.

The museum’s contents will move to the home of Pete and Carla Rowan, which was formerly the Longbeach Jordan Hotel — believed to be the oldest-standing struc-

ture on the Key. The museum moved to the plaza in summer 2008, after the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce left the building at 6960 Gulf of Mexico Drive, where the Historical Society rented space.

Beachum hopes that the group could someday have a museum again, possibly through donated space or a proposed community center.

The group continues to seek materials related to Key history. Contact the Historical Society via email at longboatkeyhistoricalsociety@gmail.com or by writing to Longboat Key Historical Society, 5380 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Suite 150, Longboat Key, Fla., 34228.

HEIGHTS HALTED

by Robin Hartill | City Editor

by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor

Commission plans building height changes The Longboat Key Town Commission agreed with height limits for structures such as church steeples.

Mark Meador began his career with Casa del Mar at age 23, shortly after Hurricane Elena struck in 1985.

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Rising Ranks

Longtime assistant manager Mark Meador is the new general manager of Casa del Mar. Mark Meador has pretty much done it all at Casa del Mar. He started as an irrigation technician and worked on the grounds for a halfdozen years or so. He then moved into the office to handle reservations before getting promoted to assistant manager 12 years ago.

He has spent so much time on the property that even his sons, Matthew, 19, and Michael, 18, know it by heart. When they were children, he could hand them a flashlight and tell them to check the valves in each of its irrigation zones.

But, until Nov. 6, Meador had never served as general manager of the 106room resort. That’s when Meador was promoted to the position following the resignation of the resort’s 31-year manager, D.M. Williams.

Meador was 23 years old when he began working at Casa del Mar. He and Williams were both part of the Cripple Creek Cloggers and were performing in 1985 in the Great Geauga County Fair in Burton, Ohio, when Hurricane Elena struck during Labor Day weekend.

Williams returned to find 3 feet of dirt deposited outside the resort’s hotel buildings and needed help. So, he called Meador, who was working for a Bradenton sprinkler company, and offered him the job.

He began work the following Wednesday.

“I always thought it would be 9 to 5, working on irrigation,” Meador said. “After a few years, I felt like I kind of had my employment home.”

The board’s president, John Zefeldt, declined to discuss the specifics behind Williams’ resignation and said only that the board wishes him the best. The board had renewed his contract through Sept. 30, 2013, but Williams, 81, expressed displeasure to the Longboat Observer in October about the fact that it would be his last year.

Instead, Zefeldt focused on Meador’s performance on the job during the past 27-plus years.

“He’d do anything,” Zefeldt said. “One day, he’d be doing reservations at the desk, then, the next thing I know, he’s digging up a pipe out of a ditch. That’s

the kind of guy I like.”

Meador’s goals for the property include “bringing it into the 21st century.” He plans to redesign the office, replace the paver tiles in the parking lots and make various updates to the 40-year-old buildings. He also will institute a live reservations system so that guests can book their stays directly through the resort’s website.

Meador plans to continue the traditions that have become part of the resort, including the Christmas party, piano concerts and Easter egg hunt. Like Williams, he is a notary, so he can perform beachfront weddings at the resort, as well.

And what about the world’s tallest cotton plant, which was destroyed over the summer by Tropical Storm Debby?

“Six years is enough,” Meador said, referring to the past titles that the resort’s plants won.

Meador is a lifelong Boy Scout who serves as scoutmaster of Bradenton Troop 64, which he describes as his “lifelong passion.”

He wants to continue Williams’ tradition of community involvement, possibly by getting involved with the Longboat Key Historical Society and what is now the Longboat Key Gourmet Lawn Party.

“I guess it could scare you, having big shoes to fill,” Meador said. “But I’m ready.”

Structures such as church steeples will soon have to answer to a higher power: town code.

The changes were needed, town planner Ric Hartman said, to clarify height limits in both the town code and its Comprehensive Plan.

Although an additional 10-foot height limit is already in the code for parapet walls and other rooftop structures, there is no height limit currently provided for church steeples, church spires and any other structures that are built on top of a roof for aesthetic reasons.

The only change requested by Mayor Jim Brown was the elimination of the 10-foot height restriction for the parapet walls.

In its place, Brown and the rest of the commission asked staff to make a change that eliminates the height limit for the parapet walls and instead allows them to be no higher than 3 feet above a structure’s roof.

“Every other community in the country has its code written that way,” said Brown, who is an architect. “Parapet wall heights, in my experience, should not count for height in buildings unless they exceed 3 feet. If not, buildings could be taller than they really need to be.”

Staff must review Brown’s suggestion before it comes back to commissioners for first reading and public hearing.

The Planning and Zoning Board previously recommended the town approve the changes, which mostly affect height restrictions for churches.

The changes establish height regulations for structures such as church steeples to be no higher than 10 feet above the current zoning district height.

Applicants, though, can be granted additional height for structures such as steeples or church spires through a site-plan approval process.

Current churches on the island, though, will not be affected by the changes, and their heights will be grandfathered.

Currently, the highest steeple on the Key is Longboat Island Chapel at 67 feet high, when calculated from ground level. All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church has the smallest steeple at 40 feet from ground level.

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Longboat Key resident Joseph Iannello, who qualified to run against Commissioner Terry Gans for the one-year at-large seat in March last month, notified Town Clerk Trish Granger last week he was withdrawing from the race.

“Regretfully, I would like to inform you that I must withdraw my name as a candidate for Town Commission,” wrote Iannello.

Gans is now the only qualified candidate for the one-year at-Large seat.

The deadline to have all paperwork turned in to Town Hall and be qualified for the March 19 election at noon Nov. 19.

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 Planning and Zoning Board Regular Meeting — 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20  Police Officers’ Pension Board Quarterly Meeting — 8 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28  General Employees; Pension Board Quarterly Meeting — 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 28.  Firefighters’ Pension Board Quarterly Meeting — 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28.  Town Commission Regular Meeting — 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3.

+ Spencer resigns from pension board

All meetings take place at Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road, unless otherwise noted.

Longboat Key town employee Donna Spencer has resigned her position on the General Employees Pension Board. Spencer was also the chair of that board.

“Due to personal reasons, I regretfully tender my resignation to the General Employees Retirement System Board of Trustees,” Spencer wrote in a Nov. 6 email to fellow and former board members and Town Clerk Trish Granger.

A new board member and a new chair will most likely be appointed at the board’s 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28 quarterly meeting at Town Hall.

+ SBW releases 4 million juvenile scallops Sarasota Bay Watch released 4 million juvenile scallops Saturday, Nov. 10, into Sarasota Bay. A larger release will follow in the next week or two.

The group worked with Mote Marine Laboratory to organize the citizen’s science project. It was the second release organized

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+ Corrections • In a Nov. 8 story about parking enforcement, the Ticket Tally chart should have read that in August there were 193 tickets issued on St. Armands Circle and 1,720 tickets issued citywide. It also should have stated in September there were 131 tickets issued on the Circle.

• In the Nov. 8 “Welcome Back” issue, the Longboat Observer unintentionally omitted the name of Frances Feinberg, 99, of Longboat Key, in its list of residents who died over the summer. Ms. Feinberg was active in the Longboat Harbour Harbourettes and was known for her work with the seashells she collected from the Gulf of Mexico.

She died July 12.

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by Robin Hartill | City Editor

St. Armands BID discusses its reservations about fees A new city policy requires a $500 reservation fee for events on city property.

St. Armands Circle Park is an eventful place.

It’s the site of frequent car shows, art festivals and seasonal celebrations such as the Holiday Night of Lights and Fright Night.

For the St. Armands Circle Association, those events have always come at a price: a $275 per day parkusage fee for non-ticketed events, as well as the association’s costs of putting on the event itself.

But the price just got higher, at least for now, due to a new city policy that recently went into effect: As of Oct. 1, organizations must pay a $500 reservation fee to save the dates for each event to be held on city property.

The fees can be refunded after the event is over and bills are paid, according to Toni Welicki, city administrative supervisor of outdoor events and auditoriums.

Circle Association Executive Director Diana Corrigan discussed the impact of the reservation fees on St. Armands at the Tuesday, Nov. 13, St. Armands Business Improvement District (BID) meeting. The organization recently paid $500 fees upfront for all upcoming events from January through June.

“Apparently, we’re paying the price for something that was going on

UP FOR VOTE The Sarasota City Commission will vote Monday, Dec. 3 on whether to send the proposed 10-year extension of the St. Armands Business Improvement District (BID) to referenda vote.

If approved, St. Armands landowners will vote on the extension in early 2013. The BID’s current expiration date is Sept. 30, 2013. downtown called ‘turf wars,’” Corrigan said.

According to Welicki, city staffers have suspected turf wars when people have reserved dates, but then later said their event was canceled after it was too late to schedule a new event, although she didn’t refer to any specific Sarasota area.

“It’s a way to prevent a competitor from getting space for their event,” she said.

Corrigan said that the Circle Association in the past had a $1,000 rolling deposit with the city.

“My argument is, why are we being punished for this?” she said.

But the news wasn’t all bad at the BID meeting.

Corrigan also reported that commissioners directed parking staff last week to work on a plan to make Circle parking enforcement similar to what it was prior to changes implemented last spring or come up with an alternative of which St. Armands stakeholders approve.

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Gourmet lawn party, raffle are good bet for Saturday Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key members hope to sell 400 raffle tickets for this weekend’s Longboat Key Gourmet Lawn Party.

The odds of winning the Florida Lottery’s jackpot: One in 22,957,480.

The odds of winning the Longboat Key Gourmet Lawn Party’s raffle grand prize: Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key members hope tickets will sell out, making the odds one in 400.

But, right now, it’s less than one in 300 — and Kiwanians don’t like those odds. That’s because raffle-ticket proceeds provide scholarships to local students in need. Although the group has sold enough tickets to cover the cost of prizes, more tickets means more scholarships.

And, even though selling all 400 tickets will decrease the odds of winning slightly from where they currently stand, it will also increase local students’ chances of success.

Tickets are $100. The grand-prize winner will receive his or her choice of $20,000 cash; $20,000 toward any vehicle at any of the five Sarasota-Manatee Gettel dealerships; or a $20,000 “Uncrowded Serengeti” safari package from Admiral Travel.

Second prize is a three-day, two-night stay at the Longboat Key Club and Resort that includes use of all amenities.

Third prize is an oil painting by artist Malenda Trick valued at $1,500.

The event has 29 participating restaurants, along with beverages courtesy of Gold Coast Eagle Distributing, Sysco, Premier Beverage, Coca-Cola and Southern Wine & Spirits, and will also feature flowers from Exotica Florist.

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IF YOU GO What: Longboat Key Gourmet Lawn Party When: Noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17 Where: Longboat Key Club and Resort Islandside Golf Course, 300 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Tickets: $25 in advance; $30 at the door. Raffle tickets are $100 each.

Steve Mislyan, aka “Sizzlin’ Steve,” and Steve Avery, who has played professionally for more than 30 years and now lives in Sarasota. For party-goers who need an after-party, a group of local blues artists all named Steve will be playing later that night at Manatee Sports Bar, 7423 Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton.

Luncheon and raffle tickets are available at Lazy Lobster, Ace Hardware, SunTrust Bank, Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce, BP Station and Barrier Island Realty on Longboat Key; Coldwell Banker, Edward Jones and Lynches Pub & Grub on St. Armands Circle; Bridge Street Bistro on Bradenton Beach; and the Observer Media Group in downtown Sarasota. Luncheon cost is $25 in advance and $30 at the gate.

The event will raise money for four local children’s charities: the Boys & Girls Clubs of Manatee and Sarasota counties, Big Brothers/ Big Sisters of Manatee and Sarasota counties, Child Protection Center and Children First.

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+ Mall space leased for library

+ Streetcar idea goes public

Braden River Utilities, a developer-owned utility that provides irrigation water to Lakewood Ranch, Nov. 6, officially started using reclaimed water from the city of Sarasota to provide irrigation water to residents of Lakewood Ranch.

The project has been in the works for more than a year, with BRU installing 1,500 feet of 18-inch and 11,300 feet of 12-inch water transmission lines, according to documents provided by the Southwest Florida Water Management District.

“We are just embarking on this venture,” said Gerald Boyce, manager of compliance and operations for the city of Sarasota’s utility department. “They tapped our system. We already had a line going out east to Hi Hat Ranch.”

The city of Sarasota has agreed to a 20-year contract to provide an average of 2 million gallons of reclaimed water per day, Boyce said.

“That’s a lot of water, but we average making probably 6.5 million gallons a day,” he said. “There’s quite a bit more. At this point, we can meet all our obligations easily.”

The partnership with the city offsets the use of potable groundwater use within the Braden River watershed.

The Gulf Gate Library replacement project reached another milestone after Sarasota County commissioners approved a 25-month lease to house the library’s collection in Westfield Sarasota Square Mall.

The county will pay roughly $5,400 monthly starting in December for 20,092 square feet of space next to JCPenney while contractors demolish the current library and build its estimated $10 million replacement.

County staff estimate those two steps will be under way

by February.

The city is holding a public workshop Thursday, Nov. 15, to present the results of a preliminary study and to collect community input on the possibility of a downtown rubber-tired circulator, such as a bus-type trolley, or a fixed-track streetcar. Recent estimates put the cost of a 1.5-mile first phase of a streetcar in the range of $15 million to $75 million. Sarasota’s preliminary study, conducted by the planning firm Tindale-Oliver & Associates, mapped three potential routes for a streetcar. City officials could also blend portions of the three options to create a hybrid route.

+ County to buy five buses

A 41-unit townhome development, named the Queue, is slated to be built two blocks south of Main Street and will be one of the first residential projects to break ground downtown since the real-estate market went bust.

Construction of the two-and three-story townhomes on a 2.2-acre vacant parcel of land between Ringling Boulevard and Morrill Street could begin as early as March, said Jim Bridges, CEO of Jebco Ventures Inc. Preliminary plans were filed with the city this month.

Although the project meets the city’s zoning code, the Planning Board and City Commission must approve technical requests.

Sarasota County will purchase five heavy-duty diesel buses from Palm Beach County for $1 each, pending approval of the contract from the Federal Transit Administration.

The five buses will be re-branded and put into rotation as quickly as possible, according to a memo from SCAT General Manager Glama Carter to county commissioners.

The move follows discussions during 2013 fiscal year budget workshops this spring, in which Sarasota County Area Transit staff voiced the need for a greater replacement ratio for its fleet of 121 vehicles.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012

HOW LONGBOAT VOTED

SARASOTA COUNTY

The following is a breakdown of how Longboaters voted in the Nov. 6 general election, complete with absentee and early voting numbers. Longboat Key voters cast 2,069 votes total on Election Day. In the Manatee County portion of the island, there are 2,102 registered voters, and on the Sarasota County portion of the island, there are 4,250 registered voters.

When all the votes are counted, Longboaters voted in force for an 83.6% voter turnout.

A check mark indicates the winner of the race; Bold-faced name designates whom Longboaters picked.

LONGBOAT KEY VOTER TURNOUT:

Sarasota

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Registered Voters.......... 2,102 Ballots cast.................. 1,748 Turnout %................... 83.2%

AMENDMENTS

President

Manatee Sarasota Candidate Votes % Votes % Romney 1,082 62.1 2,206 62.0 1,339 37.6 ✓ Obama 648 37.2 U.S. Senator Mack 965 ✓ Nelson 716

Registered Voters.......... 4,250 Ballots cast.................. 3,568 Turnout %................... 84.0%

56.9 42.2

U.S. House ✓ Buchanan 1,039 61.3 Fitzgerald 656 38.7

2,000 1,450

2,090 1,385

57.5 41.7

60.1 39.9

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Amendment 1

Manatee Sarasota Votes % Votes % Yes 816 53.1 1,627 50.3 ✓ No 720 46.9 1,606 49.7

Amendment 9

Manatee Sarasota Votes % Votes % ✓ Yes 1,034 64.6 2,088 62.9 No 567 35.4 1,231 37.1

Amendment 2 ✓ Yes 1,044 65.8 No 542 34.2

2,076 62.7 1,237 37.3

Amendment 10 Yes 888 57.7 ✓ No 651 42.3

1,758 54.1 1,490 45.9

Amendment 3 Yes 710 46.1 ✓ No 831 53.9

1,251 39.0 1,956 61.0

Amendment 11 ✓ Yes 958 60.5 No 625 39.5

1,533 46.9 1,734 53.1

Amendment 4 Yes 738 48.5 ✓ No 784 51.5

1,172 36.7 2,025 63.3

Amendment 12 Yes 677 44.7 ✓ No 836 55.3

1,054 33.2 2,116 66.8

952 30.5 2,173 69.5

Longboat Key Density Referendum 1 ✓ Yes 978 61.3 2,018 68.2 No 618 38.7 941 31.8

1,381 41.4 1,956 58.9

Longboat Key Density Referendum 2 ✓ Yes 1,000 62.3 2,036 68.7 No 604 37.7 927 31.3

State Attorney ✓ Brodsky 1,022 61.9 Torraco 628 38.1

2,060 1,252

62.3 37.7

State Representative District 71 ✓ Boyd 1,037 62.7 Tebrugge 617 37.3

Amendment 5 Yes 659 44.7 ✓ No 814 55.3

2,029 1,278

61.4 38.6

Amendment 6 Yes 686 52.5 ✓ No 928 57.5

State Senator District 26 ✓ Galvano 1,054 63.1 House 616 36.9

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Amendment 8 ✓ Yes 763 49.2 No 789 50.8

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Clerk of the Circuit Court Votes % ✓ Rushing 2,586 99.3 Write-in 18 0.7 County Commission District 3 ✓ Robinson 1,997 61.3 Cohen 1,262 38.7 County Commission District 5 2,416 99.3 ✓ Hines 18 0.7 Write-in Charter Review Board District 2 2,203 84.0 ✓ Barcomb 420 16.0 Coe Charter Review Board District 5 2,071 78.0 ✓ Fellin 584 22.0 Connelly Hospital Board Central Seat 1 1,903 59.9 ✓ Miller 1,274 40.1 Carafelli

MANATEE COUNTY Clerk of the Circuit Court Votes % ✓ Shore 1,264 98.1 Write-in 25 1.9 County Commission District 7 ✓ Benac 1,208 97.7 Write-in 29 2.3 Supervisor of Elections ✓ Bennett 1,022 63.1 Williams 597 36.9 School Board District 2 ✓ Miner 919 68.7 Moates 418 31.3

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Postmortem Congratulations to all of the victors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden included.

To paraphrase the words of Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, in his letter to the president, Americans “offer our prayers that God will give you strength and wisdom to meet the difficult challenges that face America.

“In particular, we pray that you will exercise your office to pursue the common good … ” (The common good: rich, poor; black, white; male, female; young, old; and all in between.) ooo

A reminder to the victors: You are public servants. We are not your slaves. ooo

Here are the results from Tuesday, in short: Liberty lost. Statism won. ooo

On Monday night, Nov. 5, we went to bed a nation divided almost 50-50. On Wednesday morning, Nov. 7, we woke up a nation divided almost 50-50.

The status quo of 2010 prevailed.

Americans contributed $2 billion to two candidates … for nothing. No change. ooo

This brings to mind the record of SunTrust Chief Economist Gregory Miller’s election predictor, which has yet to be proven wrong: If unemployment and inflation rates are trending downward from January through July 4 in an election year, the incumbent party will win the presidency. They were, and it did.

Miller’s model also has determined that voters typically have made up their minds by July 4. So any money spent on campaigning and media after July 4 is wasted. ooo

The biggest winners in this election: TV station owners in Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Colorado, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania. ooo

Florida’s presidential election outcome came down to two counties — MiamiDade and Osceola, two of the most heavily Hispanic counties in Florida. Miami-Dade is 65% Hispanic. Osceola, which is south of Orange County/Orlando and home to many of Orlando’s hospitality-industry employees, is 45% Hispanic.

When you compare the difference between the Democratic Party’s vote totals and Republicans’ vote totals for the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, the results show: Osceola: Democrats’ victory margin 2008: 19,876 more votes than GOP 2012: 26,620 more votes than GOP ’08-’12 difference: +6,744 votes Miami-Dade: Democrats’ margin of victory 2008: 139,280 more votes than GOP 2012: 208,174 more votes than GOP ’08-’12 difference: +68,894 votes When you combine the increase in votes garnered by the Democrats in both counties

in 2012, the total is 75,638 additional votes for Obama than he received in 2008.

Obama beat Romney by 73,189 votes.

In short, Hispanics in Miami-Dade and Osceola counties’ carried Obama to victory in Florida.

If Republicans want to turn Florida into a presidential red state, they have two targets: reverse voter trends among Hispanics and in Pinellas (St. Petersburg) and Hillsborough (Tampa) counties, which continue to trend toward Democrats. ooo

There must be a better way.

Having 11 proposed constitutional amendments on the state ballot is a disservice to Floridians.

Allowing the Legislature not to have to follow the same rules as voter-initiated amendments — i.e., sticking to a single subject and a limit on words — is an equal disservice.

Amendment 4, which had four parts dealing with property taxes, totaled 664 words and almost consumed one-half of a page on the ballot.

It’s absurd to expect 12 million Florida registered voters to research and understand the legalese wording; plus the nuances, background and motivations behind each amendment; plus the expected and unintended consequences of each amendment.

While some news media, such as yours truly, try to explain such details of each amendment, there must be additional and more effective ways to make available information that presents the pros and cons of the proposed amendments.

Likewise, if there were fewer amendments on the ballot, it would become easier and more practical to provide more detailed explanations to the public.

The Florida Division of Elections provides some explanatory material online, but it’s likely the majority of voters don’t know how to find this information. It takes work.

And that’s more than should be expected of voters.

As we move increasingly to a digital information world, it is worthwhile to consider requiring attaching a non-partisan analysis of an amendment when a voter searches for amendments on the Florida Department of State Division of Elections website.

At the least, the Legislature and Division of Elections must do a better job of informing and notifying the electorate of the meaning of proposed amendments. ooo

The issues of too many amendments on the ballot and limiting Legislature-initiated amendments to one subject should top the agenda of Florida’s next Constitutional Revision Commission, which convenes in 2017-18.

The commission also should debate whether to propose an amendment to eliminate judicial retention elections altogether. They’re a farce.

Like voting on constitutional amendments, Floridians have no clue on whom they’re voting in the judicialretention votes.

THE CASTAWAY by Jorge Blanco

ooo

It was no surprise that the only amendments receiving voter approval last week were the three that will give property-tax breaks to combat-wounded military veterans and the surviving spouses of veterans and civilian emergency first responders killed in the line of duty.

Voters also approved giving a propertytax break to low-income seniors who have owned and lived in the same property for 25 years or more.

Obviously, more than two-thirds of Florida voters, to their credit, feel a duty to those who put their lives at risk in defense of our freedom and nation.

But it was a shame that Amendment 3 (state government revenue limitation) and Amendment 10 (tangible personal property-tax exemption) failed.

Amendment 3 seemed like a no-brainer.

It proposed to revise the existing limit on government spending, with the provisions that if the state took in more revenue than it needed, the Legislature could designate those extra funds to a rainy-day fund, to lower local school property taxes or send it back to taxpayers. What is not to like?

This amendment received only 42% voter approval.

Amendment 10 would have cut the tangible property tax for businesses. This, too, seemingly was a no-brainer. It would improve Florida’s business climate, giving businesses more money to invest in their companies and, presumably, create jobs.

But this one received only 45% approval.

Likewise, it was too bad the Legislature larded up Amendment 4, another propertytax measure, with so many provisions.

Three of its provisions make economic sense and would protect all property owners from unjustified and inequitable tax increases. But this measure was so long it’s a surprise it garnered 43% voter approval.

The Legislature never should have placed Amendments 3, 4 and 10 on the ballot. All of these items could have been addressed and should have been addressed as resolutions before the House and Senate.

In spite of the outcome of the election, lawmakers should take up these measures on the floors of the House and Senate.

They’re good for Floridians and good for the Florida economy. ooo

In yet another sign of the economic and political dysfunction that pervades the city of Sarasota, 11,000 city voters — only 30% of registered city voters — voted to retain a city charter amendment that drove Walmart out of Newtown several years ago, costing the Newtown area more than 100 jobs.

This was the infamous “Alternate Minimum Wage” amendment that voters approved in 2007. This amendment requires companies that employ 50 or more and receive an economic-development subsidy from the city must pay a minimum wage that exceeds the federal or state minimum wage.

Corporate subsidies are lousy to begin with, but having laws like this obstructs the city’s ability to attract businesses. Sarasota city and business leaders should continue to try to nuke this law.

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Dear Editor: In regard to Michael Welly — there have been very few people that have become more of a friend to Longboat Key than Michael. His demeanor was always smooth, responsive, appreciative, supportive and completely in-touch with our community.

He was, and is a visionary and he created and worked his vision so well for Longboat Key and the Key Club. Unfortunately, dark forces prevented his vision from prevailing in the end, much to the disappointment of our community. But this was not the result of his personal commitment and leadership skills.

Michael never lost sight of his goals for the Key Club and put his substantial power into moving his vision forward. He enlisted some of the Key’s strongest personalities to assist and inspired many of our citizens to support his efforts to improve the Key Club and as a by-product our entire community.

Lynn and he became community regulars and knew many of our islanders personally. He seemed to have time for everyone and still work on the success of his vision and to manage the

Key Club with the help of a superb and empowered staff.

His personality and people skills worked wonders on the Key Club staff and members. Every member group dustup that occurred ultimately had a good outcome for all of the participants.

We are all glad that Michael decided to come to Longboat Key. He has certainly left the Key Club and this community much better off than when he arrived here.

Michael will be sorely missed, but he will always be remembered by the community and honored for all that he did to support Longboat Key. Ron Johnson Former mayor

+ What about the national election results?

Dear Editor: What a headline! No mention of the important presidential results where your chosen candidate was soundly defeated. No mention of the important senatorial race where your candidate was also soundly whipped.

Nor any mention of the amendments, most of which you supported, that were voted down or that the judges were retained in

Editors Note: Our practice has been the same every election: Cover the local election results in our news pages. That’s our mission: local news. Although we may express our opinions on our editorial pages about national and state elections, which you and we are entitled in our constitution to do, we devote our election-results news coverage to the local races. Ultra-right-wing?

We always thought, and still do, that supporting “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” freedom for the individual and limited government — is an accepted American ideal and principle.

+ Gulf of Mexico Drive should be 25 mph Dear Editor: I’ve been coming to Longboat Key every year since 1986, and have had a home here for about a decade. I am a baffled by the place.

Longboat Key is a tourist/residential/retirement/beach community. Every time I read The Observer, there’s a tirade against cell-phone masts or a report on how the Town Commission brought its full might against a little Jet Ski operator at the Hilton. Easy, soft targets, but when it comes to the biggest source of noise, pollution, crime and fatal accidents on the island, no one seems to have the will to tackle it. I’m talking about Gulf of Mexico Drive.

A supposedly tranquil island should not have a high-speed road thundering through it. The police advised me that at least 70% of the traffic is thru-traffic, using the road as a traffic-light-

+ We support Sunshine Airlines Dear Editor: We would be thrilled if Steve and Hannah Miller were successful in bringing an SRQ-based airline to Sarasota! We live in the Indianapolis area and “commute” frequently to our condo on Longboat. The former AirTran non-stop flights were routinely full because many Indy people vacation in the Sarasota area. We support the Millers’ endeavor and hope to see Sunrise Airlines become a reality.

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Dear Editor: Kudos for the Oct. 23 edition of the Longboat Observer concerning non-stop airline service from SRQ. Steve and Hannah Miller should be applauded and supported for their attempt to make Longboat Key more accessible for so many of us that travel from Pittsburgh. We can garnish support from the large number of us that use Tampa as our only nonstop.

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free shortcut to and from Bradenton. In forward-thinking beach/tourist communities all over the world, it would be considered insanity to have a 45mph road beside the beach, especially in an area with so many elderly people.

Research shows clearly: Highspeed roads attract more and more traffic. But if you make an area people friendly, you attract friendly people. Count the number of trucks barreling along Gulf of Mexico Drive: How many of them have any business on the key?

Longboat Key needs to be rezoned a residential area with a 25-mph speed limit. There should be mandatory stop crossings wherever there is a bus stop.

Longboat Key could be a golfcart community — the road was not built for the benefit of truckers taking a shortcut, or groups of motorcyclists. A slower speed limit would discourage a huge amount of through-traffic. We would take control of our island.

The Town Commission seems to shrug at this, saying it is a state issue.

I have even spoken with one commissioner who is against the pedestrian-friendly crossings at St Armands, saying they should be abolished to speed up traffic through the Circle. This is the kind of antiquated thinking that makes Longboat Key look decades out of date.

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10:36 a.m. — 3300 block of GMD. Harassing Phone Calls. A couple began receiving calls from different moving companies about their upcoming move from Longboat Key to Bradenton, even though they aren’t moving anywhere.

Roadside assistance 9:44 p.m. — 4600 block of GMD. Traffic.

Police provided a gallon of gas for a disabled vehicle and helped the driver jumpstart the vehicle.

Nov. 4 Closing time 10:58 p.m. — 100 block of GMD. Beverage Violation. Four people received written warnings after entering a town park carrying beer around the park’s closing time yelling, swearing and creating a scene.

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Public Service. A sprinkler line broke under the driveway of a home, pushing up the property’s brick pavers. The owner planned to call her landscaping company in the morning.

Bridal bash 10:47 p.m. — 4700 block of GMD. Noise Disturbance. A caller said that 20 to 30 people in a hotel room that was a wedding party rented were being loud. The bride said that the rest of the crowd left after the group got a call from the front desk and that only she and her bridesmaids were still in the room. picious Circumstance. A woman was awakened by the sound of someone pounding on her door. Police arrived in less than two minutes but couldn’t find anyone nearby.

Nov. 6 Smoke signal 8:30 a.m. — 500 block of Bay Isles Parkway. Structure Fire. Drugstore employees told police that smoke was coming from the store’s air ducts. Firefighters shut off power to the air-conditioning unit.

Permitting issues 1:28 p.m. — 6500 block of Bayou Hammock Road. Property Damage. A landscaper said that a homeowner hired him to trim a hole in mangroves on his property to allow a water view. The landscaper said that he isn’t licensed by the state to trim mangroves and couldn’t determine if the property owner had a permit to trim them. Police called a state agency to check permits.

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Nov. 14, 1955.

New York Gov. W. Averell Harriman graced the cover of Time magazine.

The Four Acres’ “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing” was the top song on the radio and on jukeboxes.

“Marjorie Morningstar,” by Herman Wouk, was at the top of the New York Times’ fiction best-seller list.

In terms of national and world history, the day was pretBirthday plans? ty dull.

The town turns 57 this week.

But on that day, a tiny barrier As far as birthdays go, it’s not island split between Sarasota exactly a milestone. and Manatee counties made When the town turned 25, history. Around 7:55 p.m. on a Mayor Ken McCall and Kiwanis tiny island in Florida, a group President George Paules paid of more than 200 gathered in a tribute to 11 “outstanding citifire station. zens” of Longboat Key, each They were gathered to vote of whom had their names inon whether to incorporate as a Guy Paschal led scribed on the Tablet of Honor town. the push for incorin Bicentennial Park.

Retired inventor Guy Paschal poration in 1955.

For the half-century mark in had been pushing for incorpo2005, the town celebrated with ration for the previous three years to give voice to the Key in govern- fireworks at Bayfront Park on its actual ment matters. The island paid taxes to birthday, which fell on a Monday, and a both Sarasota and Manatee counties, but “Miss Longboat Key: 50 and Fabulous” with just 250 registered voters, it had little pageant. Then, it followed it up with an all-day extravaganza the next Saturday sway with county governments.

J.B. Holt and Charles Flanagan led the that included two performances of the opposition, arguing that their property late Claudia Fuller’s play, “Can’t We All Just Get Along?”; a high-wire performance by taxes would go up with incorporation.

More government, more cost, they fig- the Fabulous Wallendas; and an anniversary tournament at the Longboat Key ured.

After three hours and 10 minutes of de- Public Tennis Center.

The town kept it low-key for its 55-year bate, the 199 registered voters in the room proclamation, issuing a proclamation at cast ballots.

The vote was 186 in favor of incorpora- a Harry’s Continental Kitchens wine tasting. tion, and 13 opposed.

And, although it’s a little early to start And so, the town of Longboat Key was discussing 60th anniversary celebrations, born.

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town’s first mayor and selected an eightman board of aldermen, which, two days later voted to designate the fire station as the first town hall and to hold meetings on the first Monday of every month, thus, beginning the grand tradition of Longboat Key Town Commission meetings on the first Monday of every month that continues today.

Later that night, Paschal and Flanagan got into a fight at Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub. Accounts differed as to who started the brawl, but Paschal had a black eye at the next town meeting.

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Last week, you could see the bronze sculpture outside of his Gulf Bay Road home as he prepared to ship it to Dubai, made especially for Sheikh Faisal bin Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi.

When the Longboat Observer snapped this photo Wednesday, Oct. 31, Miracle, his son, Daniel Miracle and Tree Beesong had been at work on it for 130 days.

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In December, Ed Miracle and Beesong will fly to Dubai to meet the still unnamed sculpture when it arrives.

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The event benefited the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a division of the Ringling College of Art and Design, and The Child Protection Center.

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Wednesday, Nov. 14 Sarasota Bay Watch Wine Tasting — takes place from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Harry’s Continental Kitchens, 525 St. Judes Drive. Cost is $20.

RSVP is required. Call 383-0777.

Thursday, Nov. 15 ‘How to Fish in Our Local Waters’ Course — takes place from 3 to 4:30 p.m. for the next three Thursdays, excluding Thanksgiving, at the Longboat Key Education Center, 5370 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Capt. Wayne Genthner will provide insight into local hot spots, the latest fishing tools and more. Cost is $75 for members; $85 for nonmembers. Call 383-8811.

Saturday, Nov. 17 St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Christmas Bazaar — takes place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Stella Maris Activity Hall, 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive. The sale will feature its usual assortment of Christmas goodies, including decorations, knitted specialties, baked goods, gifts, pottery, fairtrade crafts, raffles, cash for gold and more. Call 3831255.

Longboat Island Chapel Holiday Bazaar — takes place from 9

a.m. to 3 p.m. at Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Shoppers will find everything from bird treats to handmade crafts, jewelry, knitted items, book signings, baked goods, a breakfast/ lunch café and more. Call 3836491.

Sarasota Bay Water Festival — takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Ken Thompson Park on City Island. The event will celebrate the importance of Sarasota Bay with live music, local food trucks, a creative arts tent featuring the work of local wildlife and more.

See Sarasota’s first “ice sculpture” created by New College sculpting professor Richard Herzog and a 4 p.m. performance by Sarasota SkiA-Rees. Visit sarasotawaterfestival. com.

Writing in Retirement Workshop — takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Longboat Key Education Center, 5370 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Learn simple ways to access memories or tap into ideas for writing travel journals, memoirs, short stories, poems or family anecdotes.

Cost is $65 for members; $75 for nonmembers. Call 383-8811.

Tuesday, Nov. 20 Interfaith Thanksgiving Community Service — takes place at 5 p.m. at Longboat Island Chapel, 6210 Gulf of Mexico Drive. The Rev. Mark Bernthal, of St. Armands Key Lutheran Church, will preach the sermon. A reception will follow.

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The Rev. Mark Bernthal, St. Armands Key Lutheran; Rabbi Jonathan Katz, Temple Beth Israel; MiMi Horwitz, Longboat Island Chapel; the Rev. Bruce Porter, Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian; the Rev. David Danner, All Angels Episcopal; and the Msgr.

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In 1621 in Plymouth, Mass., the pilgrims and Indians came together to give thanks, or so the legend goes.

And 359 years later, in a land nearly 1,500 miles south of Plymouth, a group of Longboaters, of different faiths, came together to give thanks, as well.

Both traditions, of course, continue today.

The former is Thanksgiving; the latter is the Longboat Key Interfaith Thanksgiving Service.

The 33rd annual Longboat Key Interfaith Thanksgiving Service will take place at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, at Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

People of all faiths are invited to the service, which rotates between island places of worship, with the island’s clergymen taking turns each year to deliver the sermon.

This year, the Rev. Mark Bernthal, of St. Armands Key Lutheran Church, will deliver the sermon. Bernthal hadn’t written the sermon yet as of Friday afternoon and said that it would be his first time preach-

IF YOU GO 33rd annual Longboat Key Interfaith Thanksgiving Service When: 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20 Where: Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive Cost: Free Info: Call 383-6491. ing during the service.

“From my experience in three years, it’s a wonderful opportunity for the faith communities of the island churches to be able to get together and share and celebrate,” he said.

The offering at the service will be split between the Resurrection House in Sarasota and the One Stop Resource Center in Bradenton.

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TOWN OF LONGBOAT KEY PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOVEMBER 20, 2012 Please take notice that the Town of Longboat Key will hold a public hearing on the following Ordinance to adopt proposed amendments to the Longboat Key Comprehensive Plan: ORDINANCE 2012-27 AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN COMMISSION ADOPTING THE ANNUAL UPDATE TO THE FIVE YEAR SCHEDULE OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS OF THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ELEMENT AND RELATED DATA AND ANALYSIS OF THE TOWN OF LONGBOAT KEY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. A Public Hearing before the Planning and Zoning Board on the proposal will be held on November 20, 2012, at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as may be heard, at the Town Commission Chambers, Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, Florida.

All interested persons may appear and be heard with respect to the proposed amendment. Copies of the proposed amendment and related material may be viewed at the Planning, Zoning & Building Department, 501 Bay Isles Road, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. weekdays. Questions may be directed to the Planning, Zoning & Building Department at 316-1966. The proposed amendment will affect property within the corporate boundaries of the Town of Longboat Key as shown on the map appearing at the bottom of this advertisement. No verbatim record by a certified court reporter is made of these proceedings. Accordingly, any person who may seek to appeal any decision involving the matters noticed herein will be responsible for making a verbatim record of the testimony and evidence at these proceedings upon which any appeal is to be based (see Section 286.0105, Florida Statutes.). In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 286.26, Florida Statutes, persons needing a special accommodation to participate in this proceeding should contact the Town Clerk’s office at 941-316-1999 fortyeight (48) hours in advance of this proceeding. If you are hearing impaired, please call 941-373-7002.

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obituaries Mr. Dagleish and his wife, Rosemary, first visited the Key on the recommendation of fellow Brits 21 years ago. They moved to the island permanently in 2007 and became U.S. citizens last year.

A memorial service was held Saturday, Nov. 10, at Christ Church, 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Sylvia Levine

Sylvia Levine, of Longboat Key, died Oct. 28.

One of two daughters of famed New York fashion designer Charles Shulman and his wife, Feyga, Ms. Levine graduated from Brooklyn College. She married Harvey Levine, and the couple lived in New York and California, before moving to Englewood, N.J., where they raised their sons, Marty, James and Matthew. The couple later lived in New York City until retiring to Florida.

Mrs. Levine loved politics, lively discussion, fashion, golf, the arts, progressive causes and dark chocolate.

Mrs. Levine was preceded in death by her son, Marty. She is survived by her husband, Harvey; sons James and Matthew; two grandchildren; and niece and nephew.

A private service will be held for family.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, themmrf. org.

Trinidad ‘Trini’ Ortega

Trinidad “Trini” Ortega, 80, of Longboat Key and formerly of Addison, Ill., died Nov. 5.

Born Jan. 2, 1932, in Tacloban, Philippines, she moved to Chicago to complete her Master of Education in nursing. She worked as a longtime RN educator.

Mrs. Ortega retired to Longboat Key with her husband of 47 years, Michael, and was active in St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church.

Mrs. Ortega is survived by her husband, Michael; daughters Lisa Zoppi, Nancy Khory and Joyce Zeinstra; son, Anthony Ortega; sister, Apolinaria Cancio; and nine grandchildren.

Services took place at St. Mary.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Stillpoint House of Prayer, P.O. Box 619, Bradenton, Fla., 34206.

Edward Joseph Toth

Edward Joseph Toth, 77, of Longboat Key, died Oct. 25.

Born May 13, 1935, in Euclid, Ohio, Mr.

Toth met his wife, Gerda, in 1958, while stationed in Germany as a military police officer in the U.S. Army. The couple married in 1962.

Mr. Toth went on to earn his accounting degree from John Carroll University and his master’s degree from Case Western Reserve.

He worked at TRW in Ohio for more than 20 years, before becoming senior vice presiToth dent and corporate controller for Cargill Inc. in Minneapolis.

Mr. Toth retired in 1998 and escaped the frigid Minnesota winters for Florida with his wife. The couple enjoyed golfing, friends and being together for beautiful sunsets.

Mr. Toth is survived by his wife, Gerda; son, Mark; daughter, Heidi Hedberg; and three grandchildren.

A Mass took place Oct. 29, in St. Paul, Minn.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Mr. Toth’s name to Bethesda Hospital c/o HealthEast Foundation, 1690 University Ave. W., Suite 250, St. Paul, Minn., 55104.

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ORDINANCE 2012-29 AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN COMMISSION OF THE TOWN OF LONGBOAT KEY, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 158, ZONING CODE, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE TOWN OF LONGBOAT KEY, FLORIDA, AMENDING SECTION 158.007(A), ZONING MAP ADOPTED, INTERPRETATION; ADOPTING REVISIONS TO THE ZONING MAP AND MAP LEGEND TO REFLECT THE NEW ZONING DISTRICT NAMES FOR THE PLANNED DEVELOPMENT (PD), GULF PLANNED DEVELOPMENT (GPD), AND NEGOTIATED PLANNED DEVELOPMENT (NPD); PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

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A Public Hearing before the Planning and Zoning Board on the proposal will be held on November 20, 2012, at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as may be heard, at the Town Commission Chambers, Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, Florida.

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All interested persons may appear and be heard with respect to the proposed amendment. Copies of the proposed amendment and related material may be viewed at the Planning, Zoning & Building Department, 501 Bay Isles Road, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. weekdays. Questions may be directed to the Planning, Zoning & Building Department at 316-1966. The proposed amendment will affect property within the corporate boundaries of the Town of Longboat Key as shown on the map appearing at the bottom of this advertisement. No verbatim record by a certified court reporter is made of these proceedings. Accordingly, any person who may seek to appeal any decision involving the matters noticed herein will be responsible for making a verbatim record of the testimony and evidence at these proceedings upon which any appeal is to be based (see Section 286.0105, Florida Statutes.). In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 286.26, Florida Statutes, persons needing a special accommodation to participate in this proceeding should contact the Town Clerk’s office at 941-316-1999 forty-eight (48) hours in advance of this proceeding. If you are hearing impaired, please call 941-373-7002.

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Stuart Dalgleish, 79, of Longboat Key, died Sept. 30.

Born in Scotland, he grew up in England and graduated from Queen’s University in Belfast Northern Ireland before joining his father in the family business.

Mr. Dalgleish was instrumental in making Comfalux one of the largest privately owned textile companies in the United Kingdom. Recognizing that the textile industry was moving to Asia, he eventually sold his company and later acted as a consultant at the request of the British government, helping other companies to work through the transition.

Mr. Dagleish’s true passion was his faith.

As a student he led tours across Europe and retraced the Apostle Paul’s travels around Rome and Italy. He became a member of the Gideon Association, eventually serving as U.K. president. He served in prison ministry for 20 years. He served as an interim pastor to churches and led several well-attended Bible studies. As a recognized biblical scholar, he was involved in the translation of the NIV (New International Version) Bible. He also served as Bible study teacher at Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian.

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Lucy Miller is the brains and nose behind Lucy Miller Pure, a line of natural and organic perfumes that debuted quietly in August — but could make a bigger splash early next year.

leopatra arrived in Tarsus dressed Still, she’s drawn to the vibrancy of as Aphrodite, intent on seducing natural scents.

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Her website describes the scents that Her ship bore purple sails and surrounded and inspired Miller, a sevwas lined with gold and decorated enth-generation Cortez native, in her with flowers. Flutists announced her ar- childhood: mangoes, oranges, jasmine, rival with music. And, in case the crowd magnolias and frangipani, to name a that gathered along the River Cydnus few. couldn’t see or hear her arrival, as her Today, her three favorite scents in the vessel pulled ashore, her attendants an- world are the beach, a newborn baby nounced the arrival by and the smell of her waving fans doused in Goldendoodle, Gnarly, a her perfume. couple of days before he Perfumer Lucy Miller needs a bath. shares the tale because it “There’s something highlights the role of fraLucy Miller will share about the oil on a dog’s grance throughout hisskin,” she said. her knowledge of all tory.

She compares develthings scented at two “Perfume is so steeped oping an appreciation for upcoming classes. in our culture,” she said. natural scents to honing Miller and Euphemia Its history is practically a taste for fine wine.

Haye chef/proprietor as old as fire, dating back “You have to develop Ray Arpke will teach to antiquity, when people an olfactory palate for “All Things Wonderful” tossed wood into a flame them,” she said. “If you beginning at 10:30 a.m. to burn and realized they remember your first sip Wednesday, Dec. 5, at liked what they smelled. of white wine, it probably Euphemia Haye, 5540 The word, “perfume” tasted sort of bitter.”

Gulf of Mexico Drive, in literally means, “from Miller was always the which they’ll take particismoke,” in Latin. type of person who nopants on a scented culiMiller’s rule when it ticed an aroma before nary journey. comes to perfume: anyone else did — even The class is currently Perfume is an intimate before she learned the art sold out, but you can add accessory. Your perfume and science of perfume. your name to a waiting should never arrive beIn her prior career, she list at euphemiahaye.com/ fore you do. was a nurse anesthetist. cooking-classes. Cost is So does that mean But when she and her $60.

Cleopatra went overhusband, David Miller, Miller will also teach board with the perfumemarried 15 years ago, they a winter workshop called doused fans? agreed that she would “The Essence of Perfume” “No,” Miller says, with give up her practice affrom 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. a smile. “She was Cleopater two years. When she Saturday, Feb. 23, at the tra, saying, ‘I’m here!’” left anesthesiology, she Longboat Key Education began doing the work for …

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Lucy Miller Pure didn’t continues today, such as Participants will create debut with a Cleopatramarketing, social media two natural perfumes: a style arrival. and search-engine optisolid perfume from beesMiller quietly launched mization. But she needed wax and another made the line of luxury persomething for herself. using organic alcohol. fumes in August on her She began studying Cost is $90 for memwebsite, lucymillerpure. aromas, aromatherapy, bers; $100 for non-memcom. In early 2013, she plants and master garplans to begin selling it bers. Call 383-8811 or dening. When she went at high-end boutiques, visit lbkeducationcenter. to Japan on Yamaha busitargeting New York City, ness for Cannons, she Los Angeles, Las Vegas studied with an incense master. and Tokyo.

She continued her studies, traveling The line currently includes three wom- around the globe to places such as India, en’s perfume and one men’s perfume. All France, Italy and California. She learned products are natural and organic. from top perfumers and graduated from Miller has nothing against fragrances the Aromahead Institute in Ithaca, N.Y. created in a laboratory.

Miller thinks of natural perfuming as In fact, one of her favorite fragrances more of an art than a science. is a synthetic men’s perfume by Serge It’s something that comes from within Lutens that she wears often. you, she says.

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Lucy Miller is a Longbeach Village resident and seventh-generation Cortez native.

But it’s an art that requires a scientist’s precision.

She specializes in floral perfumes and starts with between one and three essences — i.e., the core scents that make up the fragrances — in developing a perfume. Then, she goes drop-by-drop adding other ingredients as she strives to find the exact blend that enhances the scent without losing the beauty of the flower’s smell.

Miller remembers the first time she thought she had arrived at the perfect scent for her perfume.

“Then I re-blended and I re-blended,” she said.

But Miller isn’t stopping with four types of perfume.

Currently, she is working on a frankincense perfume for men and a lotus perfume for women, although she hasn’t found the perfect blend for either, yet.

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A condominium in Orchid Beach Club Residences tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. James Dilworth of Kronberg, Germany, sold his Unit B1003 condominium at 2050 Benjamin Franklin Drive to Kenneth and Hagar Levine, of Carlisle, Pa., for $1,825,000. Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,936 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1,903,000 in 2005.

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Patricia Tisbo sold her Unit 134 condominium at 2410 Harbourside Drive to Douglas and Cynthia Tibbetts, of Longboat Key, for $1.25 million. Built in 1993, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 3,690 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $645,000 in 1993.

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Donn Neurman and Jane Neurman Rabinovitz, of Charleston, W.Va., sold their Unit 13-D condominium at 2425 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Steven and Maria Piazza, of Lynnfield, Mass., for $599,000.

Built in 1973, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,470 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $62,500 in 1975.

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Allison Rosenblatt, trustee, sold the Unit 906 condominium at 1211 Gulf of Mexico Drive to David and Elizabeth Lepore, of Tavares, for $581,000. Built in 1985, it has two bedrooms, three baths and 2,135 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $388,000 in 1990.

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Leslie Gray, of Sarasota, sold her home at 1645 Hawthorne St. to J&A Contractors Inc. for $450,000. Built in 1952, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,498 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $295,000 in January.

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Charles Rosenfield, of Woodstock, Conn., sold his Unit 72-S condominium at 2295 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Jones Lane LLC for $449,000. Built in 1970, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,235 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $160,500 in 1987.

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Peter Steiner of Klagenfurt, Austria, sold his Unit 314 condominium at 5757 Gulf of Mexico Drive to David and Nancy Rogers, of Loudonville, N.Y., for $430,000. Built in

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Unit B1003 at Orchid Beach Club Residences has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,936 square feet of living area. It sold for $1,825,000.

1975, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,561 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $215,000 in 1994.

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Julie Hart, of Longview, Texas, sold her Unit 402 condominium at 2721 Gulf of Mexico Drive to William and Kimberly Burns, of Naples, for $425,000. Built in 1970, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 884 square feet of living area.

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Howard and Peggy Dubois sold their Unit 116 condominium at 5055 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Alan and Susan Davies, of Westwood, Mass., for $385,000. Built in 1973, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,484 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $215,000 in 1996.

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Miriam Tabachnik, trustee, sold the Unit 326 condominium at 2016 Harbourside Drive to Steven and Paula Posar, of Granger, Ind., for $340,000. Built in 1984, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,270 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $242,500 in 2000.

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Joseph Turgeon, trustee, of Longboat Key, sold the Unit 200 condominium at 911 Spanish Drive S. to Eric Gietl and Kirsten Beyer, of Kemah, Texas, for $300,000. Built in 1968, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,399 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $124,600 in 1988.

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Permit Applicant Amount Kitchen and bathroom Ronald Collier $69,500 Cabinets John Short $52,500 Windows and deck Jane Besen $25,000 Re-roof Charles Watkins $23,930 Door and shutters Richard Beaumont $19,943.16 Door and windows James Marks, trustee $11,936 Doors Carlos Lazcano $10,942 Re-roof Leonard Biberman $10,750 Doors and windows Indra Ananda Sabapathy $9,418 Roll shutters Kenneth Tucker $9,029.82 Deck Robert Purves $8,500 Pool Anna McCann $7,038 Re-roof BankUnited $6,200 Decks White Sands of Longboat Key $5,327 Pool cage John Peacock $5,075.83 Boatlifts LFL Marina LLC $2,400 Window Richard Lochner $1,830 Doors Richaed Daly $1,800 Alteration Olive MacLeod $1,070

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The basics of skin fitness — from the experts Ask a Sarasota beauty about her skin, and she’s likely to mention her aesthetician. One local favorite is Monee Arpin, who recently relocated from Main Street to L. Spa on South Pineapple Avenue. And that is how I came to talk to her and some other highly regarded skin-care specialists about skin fitness.

Let’s acknowledge a couple of things up front.

First, going to an aesthetician is a luxury not everyone can afford. A strong case can be made for making it a priority because MOLLY SCHECHTER your skin says a lot about your age and wellbeing. But it’s an expensive proposition. You can plan on kissing $100 or more goodbye for a treatment — and expect to be encouraged to buy products the salon carries.

Second, the world of those products verges on scary. Cosmetic industry insiders talk about “hope in a bottle” and, in many cases, there is more cost in the packaging of a product than there is in the ingredients.

Marketing claims can stretch credulity, even though manufacturers have been disciplined to use careful language: A product doesn’t reduce wrinkles; it reduces the appearance of wrinkles.

Those caveats aside, there are dos and don’ts for healthy skin just as there are for diet and physical fitness. They are the basics that we all know but may not think about in relationship to our skin. For example, remember your mother’s admonition to get your beauty sleep? Arpin

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Like all of your organs, your skin needs the nourishment of a healthy diet. It needs hydration to keep cells functioning; one of Arpin’s clients says her skin-care routine is as simple as “moisturize, moisturize, moisturize.” Maureen Young-Wolff, of The Little Day Spa uses that exact language: “ … wash morning and night, make sure all makeup is off and moisturize, moisturize, moisturize.”

Exercise is as good for your skin as it is for your overall health, as is sexual activity. A.J. Jacobs, in “Drop Dead Healthy,” writes: “Recent science has come down on the side of sex as healthy … Overall, frequent orgasms have multiple health benefits.

Among them, according to Rutgers University researchers: lower stress and decreased rates of heart disease, breast cancer and endometriosis.”

To which the aesthetics world would add, “healthier, prettier skin.”

Sandra Day, of NeoDerm, another well-known and credentialed aesthetician, says, “What I find most people lack in their basic skin-care

protocol is exfoliation. As we age, dry, dead skin cells make our skin appear dull. The key is to use a product that exfoliates to restore a glow to your skin. It may be a retinol, a gentle scrub or a toner — it should be appropriate for your particular skin type. Exfoliation is important because it allows anti-aging serums and moisturizers to penetrate skin to provide the expected benefit.

Skin-care products are a huge, complicated category with lots of options. There is the drugstore, or “mass” world, then department stores, the aesthetic world and the medical one. In the mass market, according to Arpin, the brands from Europe are your best bet; she mentions Roc and says, “The French are decades ahead.”

Day says, “Professional recommendation by a skin-care specialist can help determine which product or facial treatment is best for you and your lifestyle.”

Arpin concurs.

“What is geared for a 30-year-old is not going to work on a 60-year-old,” she says.

Arpin makes a telling final point about skin fitness: “In order for your skin to look really good, you’ve got to work on it. You have to invest some time just like you do at the gym.”

It may be hard to find that time, but it’s more difficult, by far, to argue with the principle.

Molly Schechter is an ACE-certified personal trainer with a specialty in older adult fitness plus YogaFit Instructor Training, SCF Yoga Fundamentals and Power Pilates™ Mat Certifications. She teaches classes at the Bayfront Park Recreation Center and the Longboat Key Club. Email her at aerobicgrandma@verizon.net.

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Republican Club analyzes election results The Longboat Key Republican Club met Friday, Nov. 9, at the Sarasota Yacht Club for its monthly meeting. The guest speakers were Dr. Richard Swier, political analyst and editor for Watchdog Wire, and Yael Ossowski, Florida bureau chief of FloridaWatchdog.org.

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Numbers out at 8a.m.

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Brown naugahyde has imperfections.

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Man-made nature The last time Rick Herzog was on a boat, he was 8 years old and he got seasick.

The 43-year-old artist laughs at the memory.

“This could be very interesting.

I’m not sure what’s going to happen,” he says of his newest work, “Iceberg Flotilla.”

Sitting outside the New College sculpture building, where Herzog teaches two sculpture classes, is his curious structure: It’s a 22-foot-long pontoon boat, which has been turned into a fiberglass sculpture of an iceberg.

It’s approximately 9 feet tall, 8 feet wide, and it’s drivable.

“I’ve had to do a lot of research, because I’m not a person who has been around boats a lot in my life,” Herzog says. The iceberg is already equipped with the proper lights and safety equipment, but

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he’s talking about adding portholes and possibly turning it into a houseboat.

Herzog is not sure if he will be the one living on it — he hasn’t tested the waters yet.

His idea to create an iceberg sculpture came to him almost a decade ago. He was living in Eastern Oregon where there was a lake about 6,000 feet above sea level and it was iced-over year-round.

“There, it was just an iceberg,” he says. “And here, the idea came back because of the bay and the warm waters — (making it) a little more ironic.”

Four years ago, Herzog and his sculptor wife, Joni Younkins-Herzog, moved to the area. He started building the iceberg boat two years ago — just for fun.

Herzog’s art is more analytical than expressive. He presents an oversimplification of shapes, drawing his artistic influence from the nature.

The wilderness has always been his playground, and he grew up romping around in the woods of Ohio, digging holes and climbing trees.

“I’m conflating the natural and the man-made,” he says.

He typically uses materials such as plastics, synthetics, Plexiglas and vinyl to create a repetitive steady shape like one would find in nature.

His installation, “Everything is Touching by Underground Wires,” in September, at Art Center Sarasota, turned Gallery 3 into an upside-down forest of exagger-

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Rick Herzog stands in the doorway of an unfinished “Iceberg Flotilla.” It’s been nine years in the making, and his next move is to make it livable. ated roots and trunks from floor to ceiling. “(It’s) presenting something that is in our reality; that is tangible to us physically and conceptually,” he says.

Although an iceberg might not be a reality in Sarasota, it’s an irony that will draw attention to the bay when he unveils the project at Sarasota Bay Water Festival Saturday, Nov. 17.

Some people might assume Herzog’s sculpture is a statement

about the environment, but that’s not why he made it.

“If they do start thinking about global climate change, that would be great,” he says.

Herzog doesn’t see himself as an activist.

“I don’t want to say, ‘One thing is right, and one thing is wrong,’” he says. “It’s more of bringing awareness, not of the social issues, but awareness of (the viewer’s) personal perspective on things.”

Herzog isn’t profound or pre-

tentious. He’s just a guy who likes to build interesting-looking things; he’s always been that way.

As a child, he built forts and snow houses — he continues to build forts as an adult.

Given his playful nature, it’s easy to picture him sitting on a folding chair inside his new fort, hanging out.

And, with the eagerness of a young boy who has just built the coolest treehouse on the block, he grins, saying: “Come look!”

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By Mallory Gnaegy | A&E Editor | mgnaegy@yourobserver.com Mayor Suzanne Atwell; Susan McLeod, chair of the board of Season of Sculpture; Dr. Larry Thompson, president of Ringling College of Art and Design; and other friends and patrons of fine art.

Henry discussed how the piece was made as a monument for Sarasota, “to honor the cultural jewel of a city.”

President of Sarasota Public Art Fund Tom Savage and artist of “Complexus” John Henry

 Noise Ordinance takes effect

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The first Noise Ordinance began as a grassroots collaborative project to bring local musicians together in a CD showcase. One can only assume from the name “Noise Ordinance” that the project also ties to the restrictions on sound in downtown Sarasota. Live music is banned between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. on weekdays and 11:59 p.m. and 7 a.m. Saturday and Sunday nights.

The event was initiated in February 2010 by Ed Midler, of sarasotamusicscene.com, and Claire Franklin and Katherine Derr, of local band Waking Giants.

Last Saturday, the CD release party for Noise Ordinance 3 took place at Cock & Bull. Thirty-six bands (selected from more than 80 submissions) played on two stages, and more than 1,000 people were in attendance throughout the day.

The crowd was full of students, young professionals and the young at heart. And no one said, “Turn down the volume!”

Thomas Savage, president of the Sarasota Public Art Fund, wore red last Wednesday at the cappingoff party for “Complexus.” He wore red in honor of the bright-red steel sculpture at the corner of U.S. 41 and Gulfstream Avenue. Before the party, $526,000 was raised, leaving the group with $24,000 to go to keep the sculpture on the bayfront permanently.

Season of Sculpture provides a free and open outdoor museum, but it’s the generosity of patrons that make it so. Savage touched on the controversial “Unconditional Surrender” brought in by Season of Sculpture.

“Art should challenge,” he says.

Interestingly enough, the funding for “Unconditional Surrender” took four years; the funding for “Complexus” was raised in under a year.

The remaining $24,000 was collected Wednesday night, and there were many witnesses, including the piece’s sculptor, John Henry;

 It's a small world after all I was visiting family in Kansas last month when I learned my cousin's partner, Marcus Deloach, would be performing in Sarasota with Gloria Musicae Sunday Nov. 11. DeLoach is a baritone and an operatic composer who stands out when our family sings Christmas carols around the piano. During our visit, we started talking about Sarasota because he had performed here once before.

"Have you come across June LeBell, by any chance?" he asked me.

Why, yes, of course, she's The Observer’s music critic. Well, it turns out DeLoach and LeBell are old friends.

LeBell was the first female announcer on renowned classical music station WQXR, for which she broadcast for 30 years. Beginning in 1995, LeBell led "On Wings of Song," a series by the Marilyn Horne Foundation featured on WQXR. DeLoach was featured in the first season of the program.

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win-win for everyone,” Keefe says.

This is the first Sarasota Concert Band Series concert that will marry music and performing arts.

There’s also “The Magic of Music and Dance,” featuring dancers from local studios; “The Magic of Music and Mystery,” featuring dishes from local restaurants; and “The Magic of Music and Illusion,” featuring magicians.

“It’s not pulling (away) from the

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Sarasota Concert Band isn’t a community band — the musicians are paid professionals. Each performance features about 50 auditioned musicians from diverse backgrounds: some retired military-band performers and school music teachers. The core members make their living as musicians.

oldest musical-arts group in the area,” she says.

The group’s biggest concert is the yearly Memorial Day concert at Phillippi Estate Park. But every concert follows the band’s mission.

“People can enjoy a variety of music and go away just feeling great about life,” Keefe says.

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The band’s history dates back to 1954.

“But our parents are the CzechoSlovakian band, and they were here for 29 years, and when that ended — we started,” Keefe says.

She’s referring to the CzechoSlovakian National band that John Ringling brought in 1925 to Sarasota. In 1954, the Sarasota Concert Band presented its first concert.

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When Linda Keefe, chairwoman of the board of Sarasota Concert Band, walked into Galleria Silecchia a few months ago, a bronze sculpture of a little boy with his arms spread wide greeted her. It was the visual image of jubilance — the perfect statue to be paired with the song “A Jubilant Overture.”

Keefe conceived the idea for the upcoming concert, “The Magic of Music and Art,” that marries music, art and community. There will be 11 songs performed Saturday, Nov. 17, at The Glenridge Performing Arts Center; each song highlights a work of art from six downtown galleries.

For instance, when the band performs Charles Strouse’s “Selections from Annie,” a sun-themed chandelier will appear on a large projector screen while the familiar tune, “The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow,” plays. After a few minutes, a slideshow of art that fits the song’s tone will be projected, and then it will end on the highlighted piece, in this instance — the chandelier.

“We made an outing from it and wandered through the galleries, thought about how it would work and talked to the gallery owners,” Keefe says.

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Brad Wages directed and choreographed the production.

Two members of The Observer staff were in the production. Digital Fulfillment Specialist Danae DeShazer played a voluptuous Hedy LaRue, and Pelican Press News Editor Alex Mahadevan played a businessman.

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Music // Sarasota Youth Opera: ‘Little Nemo in Slumberland’ Sarasota Opera is looking to the future by dipping into the past with the world premiere of an opera by composer Daron Aric Hagen, with a libretto by J.D. McClatchy, called “Little Nemo in Slumberland.”

My father was only 10 months old when the comic strips of Winsor McCay first made an appearance in October 1905, so there aren’t too many of us around who remember its timeless, futuristic, fantastical whimsy. In fact, tap most professed Nemo lovers these days and you’ll probably hear something about Jules Verne’s immortal captain or an adorable little fish. But, to find this Little Nemo, you needn’t plummet 20,000 leagues beneath the seas.

McCay’s Little Nemo is a flesh-and-blood boy whose dream life carries him far, far away from his little bed to the kingdom of Slumberland, which is somewhat in chaos because King Sol wants 24 hours of sunshine and that would mean no dreams — a terrifying thought to all humanity because (and here’s where the moral of this story kicks in), without dreams, we’re nothing.

Hagan and McClatchy have put together an opera for, about and with children that appeals to everyone. It also has everything in it, from high-flying Circque du Soleil-type aerial silk dancers, jugglers and stilt-walkers, to giants, monkeys with 12 legs, bunnies, pigs in tuxedos, an appearance of the Fruit of the Loom guys and, for one scene, more lawyers than the state of Florida would want to deal with.

The music is derivative at times, with strands of “West Side Story,” Schubert’s “Ave Maria” and a touch of the “Superman” theme popping up here and there, but, in this day and age, everything sounds like something else, so the interval of a minor

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Nicholas Lewis, Stephanie Muench, Sierra Dickerson, Gabby Maraia, Melanie Mason, Colby Elliott and Andrew Romano seventh, for example, just automatically alludes to “Somewhere” in our over-stuffed heads. Still, Hagen has managed to create a fresh 21st-century sound that’s accessible, yet musically intelligent and gives the young performers a chance to learn how to successfully bridge the gaps in their vocal registers, deal with syncopated rhythms and accurately make their way through intricate tonal passages that would inspire even Verdi and Puccini.

Meanwhile, the action on stage — all taking place behind and above the performers — almost steals the show. Scenic and Projection Designer Michael Schweikardt, and Associate Projection Designer David Bengali, have taken this Svengali-like production — created by Sarasota Youth

Opera in association with the University of Kentucky — to new technological heights with rear-projection scenery that is positively astonishing. The world tips upside down, stars shoot across the stage, comets and moons cross paths and, with some 50 “RPs” (rear-projectors of the space age), an opera house becomes an IMAX theater and the audience simultaneously holds its breath and gasps.

But even the “Star Wars”-type setting couldn’t compete with the kids. At the performance we attended Saturday, a very young and exceptionally-talented Pablo Gonzalez performed as Nemo. The word in the lobby had it that Pablo was under 10 years old. Whatever his age, he proved to be an exemplary actor with great musician-

ship and a lovely, facile voice that could make him a sought-after Amahl. Adriana Fernandez made charming vocal and dramatic work of the Princess; Sophia Masterson was an agile and fun-loving Flip; and Aubree Zern (Luminella), Devin Bradbury (Glimmerina), Skyler Stahlmann (Chrystalette) and Monica Gonzalez and Rachel Querreveld (Stars) were terrific.

Martha Collins’ stage direction for what could have been a three-ring circus (you try dealing with some 70 or 80 kids on stage!) was fresh, charming and clever.

Steven Osgood held everything together from the “Little Nemo Orchestra” in the pit, to the massive vocal forces on stage. Ken Yunker’s lighting, Howard Tsvi Kaplan’s costumes and Anne Ford-Coates’ wigs made this an absolutely smashing and professional looking project.

Three other things must be pointed out. First, in order to keep the arts alive in America, collaborations are imperative.

Sarasota Opera’s efforts to work with students from Booker High School, The Out of Door Academy and the Sailor Circus are a major step in this direction. It’s also very important to bring new audiences to opera and, seeing 2-foot high moppets running around the Opera House lobby with eyes bigger than moons was heartening and fun. Last, as “Little Nemo in Slumberland” proves, “new music” can be accessible and good, insuring that both younger and older ears are attuned to a musical future without fear.

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n many families, it is nothing short of heresy to fix anything “different” for Thanksgiving dinner — especially when it comes to the basics, such as stuffing for the turkey or, perhaps, sweet potatoes. Either a recipe is tried, true, trustworthy and, most of all, expected … or it is not. Said another way, either the sweet potatoes have marshmallows “because that’s how my mother made them” or …

The other side of the story is to experiment just a bit, even on an occasion as sacred as Thanksgiving. And there is always

the opportunity to try something new when you are “bringing a side dish” as a guest to somebody else’s holiday table. In that spirit, The Observer family is happy to share three of our sweet-potato favorites with not a marshmallow in sight. They range from a puree redolent of bourbon to a tempting coalition with coconut.

If you are inclined to reciprocate, by all means send us your favorite recipe for this toothsome tuber, and we will publish on our website.

Email to mschechter@YourObserver.com.

Candied Sweet Potatoes with Walnuts Yield: 6 servings

Start to finish: 1 hour, 45 minutes (includes potato baking time)

Ingredients:

Bake at 375 degrees until tender. Time will vary from 45 to 60 minutes or more, depending on size of potato.

4 large sweet potatoes (3 1/2 to 4 pounds), baked,

Butter a shallow baking dish (one shown is 7 inches in diameter by 2.5 inches high). Arrange sweet potato slices in layers and scatter walnut pieces over each layer.

peeled and cut into 1/3-inch thick slices 1 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped 1 cup light brown sugar

Combine brown sugar, orange juice, liqueur and butter in a small saucepan over moderate heat. Bring to a gentle simmer. Cook briefly to dissolve sugar then thicken with the cornstarch-and-water mixture, cooking until the sauce is thick and shiny.

1/4 cup orange juice 1/4 cup Curacao or other orange-flavored liqueur 1/4 cup unsalted butter 1 tablespoon cornstarch dissolved in 2 tablespoons water

Pour sauce over potatoes and walnuts and bake 30 minutes or longer if desired.

Instructions:

Cook’s notes: This recipe is delicious without nuts, as well. To save time, you can make this dish with canned sweet potatoes, if desired. For whatever reason, the canned product is typically labeled “yams” (with “sweet potatoes” underneath).

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Scrub potatoes well and prick all over with a fork. Line a jelly roll pan or other baking tray with foil. (Sweet potatoes weep when cooked; this saves clean-up and does not alter the taste or texture.)

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Savory Sweet Potato Puree with Buttered Pecans Yield: 8 to 10 servings

Sweet Potato Casserole for a Crowd

Start to finish: About two hours (includes potato baking time)

Yield: 12 to 16 servings

Start to finish: About one hour

Ingredients: 6 pounds sweet potatoes (about six large) 3 tablespoons bourbon 1/2 cup (eight tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened 2 cups pecan halves 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt 2 tablespoons packed dark-brown sugar Instructions: Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

Bake potatoes as listed in Candied Sweet Potatoes with Walnuts recipe(on page 8).

As soon as you can handle them, peel, cut into large chunks and Photos by Rachel S. O’Hara transfer half the potatoes to a food processor. Add bourbon and six tablespoons butter and puree until smooth. Transfer puree to a large bowl, puree remaining potatoes and add to bowl, stirring to combine completely. Season with pepper and salt it desired. Purée may be made two days ahead and chilled, covered. Bring to room temperature before proceeding.

Ingredients: 3 large (28 ounce) cans of yams, drained 4 eggs

Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees. Spread pecans in a single layer in a shallow baking pan and bake about 10 minutes until fragrant. Toss hot pecans with remaining two tablespoons butter and salt. Nuts can be prepped a couple of days ahead and held at room temperature.

1/2 cup butter, melted

Butter a two-quart gratin dish or other casserole large enough to hold the puree (one shown is 8.5-inch diameter by 3.5 inches deep).

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

Remove from oven, sprinkle coconut and oranges around edges of top. Bake for 15 minutes longer.

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup brown sugar 1 1/3 cups shredded coconut, sweetened

Arrange pecans on top of purée and sprinkle with brown sugar. Bake purée in upper third of 325-degree oven until heated through and pecans are slightly browned, about 30 minutes.

2 15-ounce cans Mandarin oranges

Cook’s notes: It is a good idea to prepare a few extra pecans, so you can select the prettiest ones to decorate the casserole — and have a few to eat. They are irresistible. This dish travels and reheats well.

Instructions: Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

(Recipe from Molly Schechter, Observer food editor, adapted from Gourmet, November 1997)

electric mixer and beat until light and fluffy.

Put in greased 9-inch-by-13-inch-by-2-inch baking dish and bake 35 minutes.

Combine first six ingredients in bowl of

Cook’s notes: Can be prepared in advance. You may not need to use all three cans of yams; start with two and see what the texture is like after whipping with the other ingredients. Then add more if needed.

Mixture should be light and fluffy.

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ometimes all it takes is a little trimming to find some amazing treasures in one’s own yard. When Celia Edmundson moved into her home on Longboat Key, at the end of August, she wasn’t sure how to go about cleaning up the landscape. It was overgrown; the pergola by the dock and the lampposts by the pool were faded; and the walkway to the entrance of the house had been flooded.

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Unfortunately, she couldn’t be there for the book’s debut, which took place at the Nov. 8 reception held at and underwritten by Michael’s Wine Cellar. Aaron had not one, not two, but three conflicting engagements. The shop will have to celebrate her remarkable generosity some other time when she can be there — perhaps at the 10th Anniversary “Winter Wonderland” gala, set for Nov. 30.

at the luncheon. “See, I actually do have a wife!” Bowman told the crowd. Karin Gustafson again organized the luncheon, which she has done every year for the past 23 years …

Lettuce heads … The South Florida Museum held its annual Snooty Gala, celebrating 65 years of memories and dreams Nov. 3. Helen King and Jeanie Kirkpatrick co-chaired the event, during which guests dined right next to the big guy himself. While Snooty enjoyed lettuce heads, everyone else enjoyed Michael’s On East …

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 ‘I’m not eating that’ While perusing the savory hors d’oeuvres at Designing Women Boutique’s VIP Reception Nov. 8, at Michael’s Wine Cellar, Chris Voelker chatted about Street Eating House + Cocktails chef Christian Hershman’s hot new special — gator ribs. “Everyone loved them, and they were served with corn pudding, but I couldn’t do it. It’s a gator! I had a salad,” Voelker said.

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Drop it like it’s hot … The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota served up the cutest little caprese droppers — tomato sandwiches stuffed with mozzarella cheese and pesto — along with lobster bisque in shot glasses, as passed hors d’oeuvres during the Night of Hope Gala cocktail hour Nov. 9 …

The life of a wife ... Paul Bowman, chairman of the YMCA Foundation board, was halfway through his lunch announcements at the organization’s annual luncheon when he said that his wife, Carina, was present

Closet doctor to the rescue … The Women’s Rescource Center of Sarasota County brought guest speaker and closetologist Jackie Walker, co-author of “I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear, The Psychology of Your Closet,” to its annual fundraising luncheon, “Life’s Highs and Lows … And How I Wore Them!” Nov. 2, at Plantation Golf and Country Club. Walker addressed age-old questions such as why women say they have nothing to wear when their closet is packed with clothing …

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