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EAST COUNTY FREE • Thursday, FEBRUARY 7, 2013

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East County residents flock to Main Street for arts celebration.

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Lakewood Ranch High girls basketball captures district title. PAGE 17A

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Hundreds of volunteers help put on Greek Glendi Festival.

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by Pam Eubanks | Managing Editor

Sarasota considers changes to its 2050 growth plan In 11 years, only one project has been completed under Sarasota’s 2050 Plan.

Developers are seeking modifications make development more viable.

+ Ranch Men’s Club gives back The newly formed Lakewood Ranch Men’s Club teamed up with Manatee County’s Habitat for Humanity program to complete its first “Giving Back to the Community” project Jan. 26.

Club members visited Habitat’s Ellenton construction site and got busy for a morning of hard work, camaraderie and fun, as they put down sod alongside future Habitat homeowners.

Anyone interested in joining the LWRMC can contact Pierre Schutte at pierreschutte@gmail.com.

EAST COUNTY — When Sarasota County officials approved their 2050 Plan in 2002, they had a specific vision for shaping growth in undeveloped areas of the county, particularly lands east of I-75.

Developers shared their enthusiasm for creating urban-style, walkable communities with a variety of housing and employment options.

But, more than 10 years later, only one project has been developed — Neal Communities’ Grand Palm development, in Venice.

Lakewood Ranch developer Schroeder-Manatee Ranch has held off on starting its Villages at Lakewood Ranch South project, a 5,500-acre community clustered around seven large lakes east of I-75 and south of University Parkway, despite receiving county approval in May 2010.

Other developers, including Neal, have followed the same lead.

“There have been some obstacles that have prevented anyone from

SEE 2050 PLAN / PAGE 9A

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By Pam Eubanks | Managing Editor

SMR secures use of Viking unit Prospective tenants already are inquiring about the space.

+ ‘Three Bears’ show proves a hit at Braden River Kindergarten students in Marti Bhame’s class at Braden River Elementary School honed their performance skills Jan. 29, as they presented “The Three Bears.” The entire class participated as the cast and crew in the show, which had two performances.

SEE OUR TOWN / PAGE 4A

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The Villages at Lakewood Ranch South, south of University Parkway, depicts a walkable community clustered around seven lakes.

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Channing Weir, as Janet Van De Graaf, sings about how she wants to become a wife in Lakewood Ranch High School’s production of “The Drowsy Chaperone.”

She is pictured with Danny Shevlin, who plays George. See Page 4B.

LAKEWOOD RANCH — Viking Culinary Center may not re-open under the Viking name, but the space will remain a cooking school.

Lakewood Ranch Commercial Realty, a subsidiary of Lakewood Ranch developer Schroeder-Manatee Ranch, reached an agreement Jan. 31 with the trustee for the bankruptcy case of Extreme Remodelers of Sarasota, the cooking school’s parent company.

LWR Main Street LLC has purchased the furniture, fixtures and equipment in the Viking Culinary Center on Lakewood Ranch Main Street to ensure the space is used as is by future tenants.

“We didn’t want someone going in there and changing the aesthetics of the space,” said Julia DeCastro, director of leasing

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Paradise Homes owner Jim Butler invested more than $1 million in cabinetry, appliances and other design features in the Viking Culinary Center, which he opened in September 2011. The center closed in October 2012. for Lakewood Ranch Commercial Realty. “It’s absolutely beautiful.”

The 4,098-square-foot unit will be leased turnkey.

Extreme Remodelers,

SEE VIKING / PAGE 9A

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2013

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by Josh Siegel | Staff Writer

Six candidates will interview for superintendent THE TOP SIX Pam Stewart, of Tallahassee, the former interim education commissioner at the Florida Department of Education Diana Greene, former Marion County Deputy superintendent Dr. Constance Jones, an administrator-onassignment at Gulf Middle in Cape Coral and a finalist for Lee County superintendent in 2011 and Palm Beach County and Pinellas County in 2012 Kathryn LeRoy, director of high school programs in Duval County and former chief academic officer there, who was a semi-finalist for that district’s superintendent post Rick Mills, Minneapolis Public Schools CEO Dr. John Carvelli, principal of Pierce Hammock Elementary School, in Palm Beach County

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School board members will independently interview each candidate Feb. 12. Interviews are open to the public.

EAST COUNTY — Six finalists for the Manatee County School District’s superintendent job are set to interview with the School Board. They include a state education leader, a 110-meter hurdles record holder and a lifelong military man who’s drawn praise from politicians such as Rahm Emanuel and Arne Duncan.

Candidates include Pam Stewart, Diana Greene, Dr. Constance Jones, Kathryn LeRoy, Rick Mills and Dr. John Carvelli.

On Tuesday, Feb. 12, each candidate will interview one-on-one with each of the School Board members, during 55-minute sessions. Interviews will be open to the public and will be recorded.

The next superintendent will replace Tim McGonegal, who resigned Sept. 10, after he revealed a $3.4 million budget deficit. David Gayler has been acting as the interim superintendent since Oct. 15.

Candidates being considered for Manatee’s top post come from varied educational backgrounds.

Stewart, the former interim education commissioner at the Florida Department of Education, began her work with the state in October 2004. She took a brief hiatus to become deputy superintendent of Florida’s top-ranked St. Johns County School District from May 2009 to October 2011. Stewart implemented policy rather than crafted it.

Jim Warford, Florida’s first chancellor for public schools and former superintendent of Marion County Schools, recruited Stewart to Tallahassee.

As superintendent of the Marion County Public Schools, Warford, with Stewart by his side, implemented Florida’s Continuous Improvement Model — the largest state intervention of low-performing schools in the nation, which resulted in more than 80% of those schools moving off the failing list — district-wide.

“What I most appreciate about Pam is her people skills; her ability to balance the school

district and state level and doing it in a nuanced way,” Warford said.

Dr. Joseph Joyner, St. John’s Schools current superintendent, leaned heavily on Stewart, who was in charge of curriculum, especially for instituting Common Core, the new state-led, nation-wide education standards.

Stewart left St. John’s after only two years to return to the state as interim education commissioner. Now, she wants more.

“This has been her objective for a long while,” Warford said. “I know, in her heart, she is pursuing this for the right reasons. She recognizes a superintendent can really make an impact.”

Stewart and Greene once worked together in Marion County and were references on each other’s applications.

Greene, who has worked in Marion County for more 20 years — as a teacher, principal and now as deputy superintendent in charge of curriculum — took a more traditional route to get here.

A former star athlete, Greene holds the school record in the 110-meter hurdles at Marion County’s Vanguard High School, where she also played basketball.

Retired Marion County Superintendent Jim Yancey says Greene played a key part in helping the district cut $50 million — without laying off any teachers — in the last five years.

She’s also battle-tested in soliciting the community. Last November, Greene lost a race to George Tomyn to become Marion County’s superintendent, an elected position.

“She is very good on her feet with answering impromptu questions, and the election helped with that,” Yancey said.

Individuals who have interviewed her call candidate Constance Jones, the former chief academic officer in charge of curriculum for Lee County Schools, “prepared and intelligent.”

Jones was reassigned after she lost out on the

district’s superintendent opening in 2012.

Chuck Shaw, chairman of the Palm Beach County school board, interviewed Jones as a finalist for the district’s superintendent opening in 2012. He called Jones quiet and reserved with a consensus-building style about which Manatee’s citizens group expressed reservations.

Shaw said Jones’ nature didn’t factor into their hire; she just lost to the better candidate for that time period.

LeRoy, the former chief academic officer of Duval County Schools who now directs the district’s high school programs after she lost out on its superintendent job in 2012, handled a budget of more than $175 million and comes from a math and science background.

She served as district supervisor of science for Miami-Dade County Schools from 1999 to 2004.

Mills is an “outside” candidate from Minneapolis Public Schools and formerly of Chicago Public Schools, who also holds 30 years of military administration experience.

When Mills left Chicago as area superintendent of 26 high schools for Minnesota, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel tried to persuade him otherwise.

In letters of recommendation, former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education and former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, credited Mills with developing six military academy schools and 35 high school JROTC programs.

The last finalist, Carvelli, a veteran administrator, has worked for the Palm Beach County School District since 1997 and also served four terms on the St. Lucie County School Board from 1994 to 2010.

He has been the principal at Pierce Hammock Elementary School, in Palm Beach County, since 2010.

School Board members indicated the ultimate hire might just come down to timing.

“All of these people can do the job,” said Bob Gause, Manatee County school board member.

“It’s about who can do the best job during this particular moment in our district.”

by Josh Siegel | Staff Writer

Hundreds of volunteers help put on Greek festival The St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church hosts its 29th annual Glendi.

EAST COUNTY — The thwack of knife to wood echoes off the walls of St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, as an assembly line of Lebanese, Ukrainians, Russians and, yes, Greeks, chops 800 pounds of carrots.

Inside a foggy freezer out back sits 100 pans of moussaka, 80 pans of pastitsio (Greek lasagna), 1,200 half-chickens, 1,800 shish kabobs and 2,800 lamb shanks.

Somewhere, 91-year-old volunteer Olga Olenick prepares a salad.

This year, the 29th annual Greek Glendi, which opens Thursday, Feb. 7 and runs through Sunday, Feb. 10, will feature customs such as Greek folk dancing, church tours and live music by the Greek band ELLADA. Festival-goers can also buy black and green olives, cheeses and Greek olive oil in the Bakaliko market; find jewelry and crafts in the Agora marketplace; and enjoy a climbing wall and bungee trampoline.

A raffle will occur Sunday night, before the festival’s closing. Winners can take home a 2013 Mercedes-Benz, $7,500 cash or a roundtrip to Greece for two.

But, most of the 18,000 patrons will come for the Greek cuisine made by Popi’s Place owner and Executive Chef Popi Ameres and her 300-plus volunteers.

Popi Ameres, executive chef and Popi’s Place owner, and Lakis Pape, food manager, lead a 300-plus group of volunteers. Greek salads will include plenty of onions.

Deep in the church’s kitchen, volunteers and staff cut enough lettuce to produce 8,000 Greek salads.

Olenick, volunteer assistant manager of ushers at the Sarasota Opera House and overseer of the church coffee hour, makes a mean salad.

For the past 19 years, Olenick and her 99-year-old husband, John, have been a Glendi staple.

A church sexton, John Olenick, greets people in a worn black robe.

The Russian Orthodox couple used to be at the church every day of the week during Glendi season with Olenick perfecting her salad — light on the lettuce, heavy on olives with large chunks of cheese — until Denise Chimbos, the festival’s seventh-year chairwoman, told them to slow down.

Now, during Glendi preparation, Olenick only works Sundays, when

of local elementary schools. After her career ended, Olenick couldn’t help but stay active, volunteering at the Ringling Museum and donating money to animal shelters.

Though they’re not Greek, the Olenicks joined St. Barbara nearly 20 years ago, because it was the closest Orthodox church.

Now, the tie is much deeper. The friendships are tighter and the love stronger, a passion Olenick says she spreads to every one of the 8,000 salads she will make for the Glendi.

“Doing this keeps me young,” Olenick said. “I have no time to get old. I’m honored to contribute to the food here. There’s no food like the Glendi.”

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she also helps close the church.

“Olga is a sweetheart,” Chimbos said. “I told her she is leaving at 4 p.m. during the festival, no questions asked. I said, ‘Olga, I’m getting you some help (for the salads). She said, ‘No, no’. Our volunteers’ persistence is what makes this event happen.”

Olenick doesn’t do slow.

She and her husband spent most of their lives in Manville, N.J., a manufacturing hub of mostly Ukrainian and Polish immigrants, where John Olenick supervised a tiling factory and Olenick worked at RCA. When the couple moved to Sarasota, Olenick quickly became involved in the school district’s food department. She chopped bread and mixed salads in the cafeterias

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IF YOU GO 29th Annual Greek Glendi When: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Feb. 7 to Feb. 9; noon to 8 p.m. Feb. 10 Where: St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, 7671 N. Lockwood Ridge Road Cost: $4. Free for children under 12.

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+ East County student named youth delegate Braden River High student Kylie Marcinkiewicz has been selected to represent Florida as a national youth delegate at the 2013 Washington Youth Summit on the Environment June 23 through June 28, at George Mason University.

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+ Sweeties cuddle for Main Street ride Searching for something to do this Valentine’s Day? Lakewood Ranch Main Street will be hosting free horsedrawn carriage rides for couples. The event runs from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14.

+ SaraMana ORT puts on the ‘glitz’ SaraMana ORT recently hosted its “Puttin’ on the Glitz” fashion show fundraiser at Michael’s On East. Models included the East County’s Gail Shane, Natalie Abrams, Marilyn Kessler and Janet Glazer, as well as Alice Cotman, Susan Newmark, Anita Cohen, Bonnie Wilder, Debbie Silver and Janet Alloy. Barbara Berliner and Karen Gary co-chaired the event.

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+ Medical, pharmacy students shift learning Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine medical and pharmacy students traded their classroom study for a clinical education when they received their white coats Jan. 26, at Harvest United Methodist Church.

At this year’s White Coat Ceremony, 130 members of the School of Pharmacy’s 2016 class and 196 students in the College of Medicine’s 2016 class received their coats.

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by Josh Siegel | Staff Writer

Students read to therapy dog Allie and her owner, Deb Zanders, a first-grade teacher at Bashaw Elementary, help children feel more comfortable communicating and speaking publicly through reading sessions.

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Jasmine Beechy, a first-grader in Deb Zanders’ class, reads “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to Allie, an 8-year-old mixed-breed dog certified through Therapy Dogs International.

EAST COUNTY — The oneperson audience doesn’t judge or snicker.

She is comfortable.

She lies down on the classroom floor, red bandana around her collar, photo identification hanging from her neck. She occasionally flashes her freshly brushed teeth and sticks out her purple tongue during a dramatic part of the story.

Every Tuesday, first-graders at Bashaw Elementary read to Allie, an 8-year-old mixed-breed therapy dog certified through Therapy Dogs International — a nonprofit organization with about 24,750 registered dog/handler teams in the country.

Allie belongs to first-grade teacher Deb Zanders, who has brought her to the Bashaw firstgrade class for 15-minute reading sessions in the last three years.

Zanders believes the reading sessions teach children to feel comfortable communicating — with humans and canines — and boost their confidence in public speaking.

Although trained dogs have been known to help guard flocks, sniff for drugs, lead the blind and assist the deaf, their impact can also be more subtle.

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One boy in Zanders’ class had behavioral and social problems.

He lives with his grandparents, whom he never hugged and wouldn’t look in the eye.

And, in class, he’d hit and push classmates. He rarely paid attention.

“His grandma told me the boy has really opened up after reading to Allie,” Zanders says. “He always tells his grandma how much he loves Allie. Allie’s job is to comfort people. Reading and bonding with a dog is different.

They don’t want to correct or interject. They just listen.”

The love is mutual.

Allie has always preferred humans to other dogs.

Maybe it’s because Allie suffers from her own identity crisis. According to Zanders, Allie might be half chow-chow, a fluffy Chinese breed known for its purple tongue, and half German shepherd. But her fierce loyalty also suggests she could be part Rhodesian ridgeback.

Zanders knew Allie was different. When touring a Manatee County animal shelter eight years ago, the 5-week-old mutt offered its paw and waddled to the front of its cage.

Zanders sought a future therapy dog that she could train to

work with her mother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s.

At 3 years old, after 6 months of training — during which Zanders taught Allie basic commands such as ignoring food, loud noises and distractions — Allie became a therapy dog after a daylong test in Brandon.

During the test, a temperament evaluator knocked over a wheelchair behind Allie. Allie didn’t flinch.

Next, the evaluator dropped a heavy phonebook. Nothing.

A plate full of home-cooked human food didn’t entice Allie, either.

Zanders had to be certified with the Therapy Dogs International as a handler, as well.

Rules state Allie must always be leashed and in the presence of Zanders during therapy sessions.

On workdays, Zanders asks Allie, “Are you going to work?”

Allie’s ears perk up and in a rare departure from her calm demeanor, she runs around the house.

“I can’t ask the question if we’re not going to work that day,” Zanders says. “She gets upset.”

On this day, first-grader Jasmine Beechy reads “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to Allie and a group of three students.

“I sit and read the same book over and over and Allie still enjoys it,” Jasmine says.

Allie stares into Jasmine’s eyes and stays still, ready to hear if the caterpillar turns into a butterfly.

“She (Allie) is living a long, happy life,” Zanders says. “Anybody who loves their work does.”

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EAST COUNTY — A unique local company with the technology and equipment to manufacture diamonds is dealing with some internal turmoil.

The firm, Gemesis Diamond Co., remains in business. But it’s doing it out of a new office, still in east Manatee County.

Plus, CEO Stephen Lux, who ran the company since November 2006, resigned just before Christmas.

Martin DeRoy, vice president of marketing at Gemesis, deferred questions to the firm’s marketing company, Raleigh, N.C.based French/West/Vaughan. DeRoy declined to comment on who the new top executive is at Gemesis or any change in the company’s ownership structure. Lux, through Jan. 29, was still listed as a top officer/director for Gemesis on the Florida Department of State Division of Corporations website.

Officials with French/West/Vaughan didn’t respond to written questions or phone calls for comment by press time.

DeRoy, in a statement released by French/ West/ Vaughan when Lux resigned Dec. 20, said, “2012 has been a very exciting year of growth and learning for Gemesis. We have aligned our operations and increased marketing following a wonderful response from consumers for lab-grown diamonds.”

The company’s website further alludes to what potentially could be a big departure from the past, when it focused sales

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efforts on wholesalers in the diamond industry. The new approach is retail and consumer centric, with a bridal portal and an online wish list.

The promise of Gemesis has nonetheless long outweighed sales.

The company once operated out of a 60,000-square-foot facility in Lakewood Ranch. That’s where its machines replicate the conditions under which diamonds are created in nature. The machines apply about 850,000 pounds of pressure per square inch and extreme heat to a tiny synthetic diamond.

That location is also where, in 2007, Gemesis held a much-celebrated groundbreaking. The reason: It planned to build a 31,000-square-foot expansion due to expected increased demand.

Then, in summer 2011, the company left that building and moved into another one nearby that is less than 25,000 square feet. Lux, at the time, said the new location was “more adequately sized for our business.”

Gemesis, which hasn’t disclosed sales figures, has taken more hits of late.

For one, in a December article in JCK magazine, a jewelry industry trade publication, Lux says he left the company partially because of internal distractions. The Business Observer couldn’t reach Lux for comment.

The same publication, formally called Jewelers’ Circular Keystone, also reported that diamond entrepreneur Jatin Mehta bought out most of the Gemesis shareholders in October. Mehta was an official with Mumbai-based Winsome Diamonds through last November, according to public filings.

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+ Buchanan urges FDA for title regulations

U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, in a Jan. 28 letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, urged the Food and Drug Administration to place tighter controls on prescription painkillers containing the active ingredient hydrocodone.

Buchanan introduced legislation in the last Congress to reclassify hydrocodone combination drugs from a Schedule III to a Schedule II drug, which makes them more difficult to prescribe and obtain.

“This epidemic has reached such disastrous proportions that fatal drug overdoses now outnumber the total amount of traffic fatalities in this country. Products containing hydrocodone, such as Vicodin and Lortab, are fueling this epidemic,” Buchanan and U.S. Rep. Edward Markey wrote in the letter to Hamburg.

Fifty-eight members of Congress endorsed the legislation, called the Pill Mill Crackdown Act. Two weeks ago, an FDA advisory panel voted 19-10 to place new restrictions on narcotic painkillers containing hydrocodone. The FDA is expected to review the recommendation in the coming months.

+ Manatee County releases school calendar Manatee County Schools released a proposed school calendar for the 2013-14 school year Jan. 30.

Classes would start Aug. 19, 2013, and end June 9, 2014.

Notices and copies of the draft calendar are being distributed with information about how to provide input.

Information about the proposed calendar is also posted on the front page of the Manatee School District’s website under “Hot Topics.”

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Feb. 12, at the Board Room of the School Support Center, 215 Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton  Manatee County Board of County Commissioners Regular Meeting — 9 a.m. Feb. 12, at the Manatee County Administration Building, 1112 Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton  Manatee County School Board Citizens Advisory Committee Meeting: Superintendent Search — 5 p.m. Feb. 13, at the Professional Support Center, 2501 63rd Ave. E., Bradenton  Manatee Technical Institute Dedication Ceremony — 3 p.m.

Feb. 14, at State Road 70 and Caruso Road, Bradenton

The public can send input on the calendar via email to calendar@ manateeschools.net, or contact Mike Wilder, the district’s coordinator of school leadership development, at 708-8770, Ext. 2247.

The input will be given to interim Superintendent Dr. David Gayler.

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Activity Centers

Manatee County planning officials are evaluating development in the community and how to ensure growth pays for the infrastructure improvements — water, sewer and other services — that come along with it.

Zoning and Planning official John Osborne presented his findings from a two-year “How Will We Grow” study at a Manatee County Commission workshop Jan. 15.

County officials now invite the public to weigh in on options for future growth. This article is the third installment in a series taking a close-up look at each of three scenarios that has been presented as an alternative for growth, as well as other related topics being considered.

The third alternative, dubbed “Activity Centers,” focuses growth in four areas of the county, using a mix of uses, employment opportunities and capital-improvement projects to create livable communities.

MANATEE COUNTY trend in areas. It also helps the — Manatee County’s current local governments better plan Comprehensive Plan and for growth.” land-development codes are Activity centers would vary designed to service a large in types and uses, which would geographic area. range from intense uses, in But, as county planners which the center would inbegan looking at how to best clude a mix of residential, serve the area, a new idea industrial, research/develformed: focusing growth into opment, commercial, civic “activity centers.” and other uses, to residential, Under Alternative 3 of which would include a variety Manatee County’s “How Will of housing options, with supWe Grow” proposal, growth port uses such as churches and is focused into four areas of recreational facilities. the county, so more efficienOsborne said the areas cies can be achieved in terms county staff identified are of county infrastructure, such “potential” locations based as sewer and water. These on generic criteria, including focused areas generally are entitled projects and other nodes of exchange — resi- factors. dential, commercial, retail “However, just because it and employment — near meets that criteria doesn’t residential areas, and pro- mean it’s the right place (for mote a mix of uses, employ- that center),” Osborne said. ment opportunities, focus on “We still need to vet these arcounty resources and capital- eas with property owners and improvement projects and al- residents, for refinement.” low necessary services. They Osborne said county ofwould be designed to include ficials this week are putting higher densities and taller together a public-outreach building heights, as well. plan regarding “How Will Four areas being consid- We Grow?” Additionally, the ered for major activity centers Urban Land Institute has include: Parrish, the area near been retained to evaluate the Port Manatee, the U.S. 41 cor- county’s proposal and provide ridor and Lakewood Ranch. its expert opinion about pro“This idea is a common posed concepts. concept in city planning to Those ideas will be pretry to address areas and vary- sented to the Manatee County ing market needs,” Manatee Board of County CommisCounty Planning and Zoning sioners March 26. Town HallOfficial John Osborne said. style meetings for public pre“When you have areas that are sentations and feedback will under development and have follow, and commissioners been undergoing the typi- will be expected to decide on cal low-density development a growth strategy this sumwhen the market is starting to mer, Osborne said. dictate (higher density), this is Contact Pam Eubanks at a way to capture that market peubanks@yourobserver.com.

Activity Center Design Concepts Development would be encouraged using the following principles: • Mixed-use centers should be designed with universal blocks or connected local streets as much as possible, with standard dimensions that accommodate different types of uses and enable re-use over time.

• Mixed-use developments should have integrated infrastructure, vertical and/or horizontal integration of different land uses and coordinated access.

• Mixed-use centers should promote development planning that encourages site plans to anticipate infill development with future building sites, structured parking, where applicable, and the flexibility to intensify the site at a later date.

Land-use Planning Activity centers may be any of the following: • Intense — residential, commercial, industrial, research/development, hotel, civic/public uses, trails and supporting infrastructure will occur • Moderately intense — residential, commercial, hotel, civic/public uses, trails and supporting infrastructure will occur • Neighborhood — commercial and professional services and supporting infrastructure will occur • Residential — areas include a variety of residential products and intensities and residential support uses, such as churches and recreational areas

Dictating Growth

Under this scenario, the county would use fees or incentives prorated upon location to encourage growth in certain areas. Proposed development within a proposed activity center would get the most incentives, while projects outside the activity center area may be more expensive to develop.

Manatee County would have to develop a detailed plan for each proposed activity center area to make sure capacities are available and consistent with development timeframes.

— “How Will We Grow?” presentation

Port Encouragement Zone Properties west of I-75 along the north side of Moccasin Wallow Road have development entitlements that include lowdensity master-planned residential communities.

In 2009, however, the county provided a dual entitlement for those properties to develop in a non-residential, port-supporting way, at the option of the developer.

Southwest County Commercial corridors exist at Cortez Road, U.S. 41 and State Road 70. In this area, it is more difficult to define one area as a primary activity center, however, this alternative reflects the development of Manatee Fruit Co. properties and IMG Academy’s expansion and the positive impacts to U.S. 41 and other Southwest County areas.

Target areas are community-redevelopment areas and designated urban infill and redevelopment areas. Infrastructure improvements likely would focus on increasing opportunities for walking, cycling and transit.

Lakewood Ranch The Lakewood Ranch activity center focuses on the continued development of the Lakewood Centre Development of Regional Impact and other properties. Ranch developer SchroederManatee Ranch has pushed to have the county’s future land-use map include future activity centers at the southeast corner of Lakewood Ranch Boulevard and State Road 64, and property south of State Road 64 and east of Lorraine Road.

This scenario also includes properties not owned by SMR as future activity centers. Those properties include the southeast corner of I-75 and State Road 64, where commercial components are being developed at Heritage Harbour.

— “How Will We Grow”

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building under 2050, except (me),” Neal said. “I’ve got the only 2050 project ever built, Grand Palm. It (took) eight years and $1 million in approvals for a fairly simple project. (Our) new project would be more complex than that, and I believe most everyone believes the complexity is unnecessary.”

Sarasota County commissioners heard from county staff Jan. 30 about recommended changes to 2050 — changes meant to help development going forward. Based on meetings with property owners and representatives of SMR and Neal Communities, county staff is recommending modifications to 2050, including ones pertaining to fiscal-neutrality conditions, housing-type requirements, density limitations and others.

“We have to be cognizant of the changing market conditions,” Commissioner Joe Barbetta said. “This plan is 11 years old. I think we need to adjust it. I’d like to see something happen with this plan; I’d like to see it work.”

Commissioners authorized staff to prepare a scoping document to identify anticipated issues, public engagement opportunities, an anticipated timeline and workload and to initiate the appropriate implementation steps.

County staff said requests are generally centered on three themes: marketability, predictability and flexibility.

Todd Pokrywa, vice president of planning for SMR, agreed.

“We should not lose sight of the fact that the recommendations provided by the private sector do not seek to change what 2050 was intended to do — clustering development and preserving open space,” he said. “For our part, SMR has evaluated what we need to do to accomplish the goals of 2050. The broad goals are not being questioned, but the provisions preventing them from being accomplished are what we have focused on. The recommendations provide what we believe is the recipe to make 2050 attainable

We don’t know if we build the first house, if we can build the last (house). Given that circumstance, we won’t build the first house.

The Viking Culinary Center unit has been left exactly as is since it closed Oct. 24. The venue hosted cooking classes, wine tastings and other events, prior to its closure.

— Todd Pokrywa, vice president of planning for Schroeder-Manatee Ranch as the incentive-based plan that it was intended to be.”

For example, the 2050 Plan requires development be fiscally neutral. Fiscal impacts are monitored every two years, and if fiscal neutrality cannot be proven, development is forced to halt. Pokrywa said the concept does not comply with recent changes in state law and also does not take into account the natural “ebb and flow” of revenues and expenses for a project, which would have higher upfront costs, because of infrastructure improvements.

“There are a number of provisions that require starting and stopping or going back to the county for approvals,” Pokrywa said. “Those are extremely problematic. We don’t know if we build the first house, if we can build the last (house).

Given that circumstance, we won’t build the first house.”

Additionally, 2050’s housing-type requirements do not allow developers to adjust to changes in the real-estate market; additional flexibility is needed to make projects viable, he said. For example, in Manatee County, SMR’s Cypress Banks Development of Regional Impact, which now includes the Summerfield, Greenbrook and Country Club communities, originally was pitched as a destination resort. Its plan was modified 14 times.

In total, property owners and developers are requesting 37 zoning amendments and Comprehensive Plan policy changes to Sarasota’s 2050 Plan.

Contact Pam Eubanks at peubanks@ yourobserver.com.

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VIKING / FROM PAGE 1A which did business as Paradise Homes, invested more than $1 million in highend cabinetry, furnishings, Viking appliances and other design details for the school, which opened in September 2011 as one of 19 Viking cooking schools nationwide and the second school in Florida; it closed suddenly Oct. 24, 2012.

DeCastro declined to say how much SMR paid for the unit’s contents.

SMR had moved to recover possession of the Viking Culinary space, after Paradise Homes missed its September and October rent payments. Actions for eviction and breach of contract for more than $15,000 were filed Oct. 19. Extreme Remodelers of Sarasota filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Middle District of Florida Oct. 25, and a trustee was assigned to the case. Chapter 7 filings indicate a liquidation of assets.

DeCastro said restaurateurs and other prospective tenants are showing interest in the space; several tours of the unit scheduled for this week. Lakewood Ranch Commercial Realty hopes to reopen the cooking school as quickly as possible, she said.

“We’ve had a ton of interest,” said De-

Castro, who manages Lakewood Ranch Main Street. “We really believe in the use (for this space). It’s great for small meetings, corporate parties. It can be more than a culinary school. I don’t think it was necessarily used to its capacity.

“We really don’t want another restaurant,” she said. “We feel like we have a good mix (of tenants).”

DeCastro also said representatives of Viking Range Corp., the industry’s leading manufacturer of professional category appliances, has indicated the company would like to continue its partnership with the new proprietor of the space and keep the Viking Culinary Center name, if the new tenant would like to do so.

While open, the Viking Culinary Center on Main Street offered a variety of cooking classes, while also hosting parties and other events, and selling cookware, Viking appliances and other items. Paradise Homes owner Jim Butler, visionary behind the project, also intended for the venue to create opportunities for his homebuilding customers to try out and purchase Viking appliances and see how to better utilize home space for entertainment.

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Ross tackles new job responsibilities East County resident Anne Ross has assumed a newly created role at Longboat Key Town Hall.

Age: 40 Family: Husband, Adam; and two sons, Hayden, 10, and Cooper, 8 Residence: Panther Ridge, east of Lakewood Ranch Hobbies: Raising two children, swimming and triathlons Interesting Fact: Ross met her husband at West Virginia University during a bridgebuilding competition. Ross was a bridge engineer, and her husband was a woodworker. Their bridge received the award for best report and came in second when the bridges were tested.

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Anne Ross has a new list of priorities since becoming the town of Longboat Key’s assistant town manager.

• Telecommunications; • Comprehensive Plan changes; • Code changes; • Monitoring the process for hiring a planning consultant to facilitate town code changes; • Dog beach research.

“All of this will be a challenge, but it’s an exciting new challenge for me,” Ross said.

Ross’ annual salary rose Jan. 1 from $88,587 to $97,000, and she is on a probationary period for the position through April 30. Ross has been a town employee for nine years.

Essential functions for her new role, according to a new assistant town manager job description, include: • Assisting the town manager in carrying out the responsibilities of the office as assigned.

• Performing the duties of the town manager in his absence.

• Preparing correspondence, reports, briefings or presentation materials as requested.

• Assisting in the annual budget preparation.

• Monitoring or evaluating the activities of department heads as requested.

• Acting as a community liaison between Town Hall administrative staff, community and community organizations as directed.

• Processing confidential matters, including employee information, dealings with the press, development projects and other issues as required.

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It’s been one month since East County resident Anne Ross assumed her position as Longboat Key’s new assistant town manager, and she’s got the stacks of papers on her desk to prove it.

Town Manager Dave Bullock officially promoted Ross, who has been the town’s engineer since 2004, to the newly created role of assistant town manager Jan. 1.

Ross said she is excited about her promotion and was surprised when Bullock approached her about it a few months ago.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity,” said Ross, a Panther Ridge resident.

“I’m working on changing my project-oriented mind from the Public Works Department into more of an all-encompassing town view thought process.”

Papers and binders that Ross has been perusing to get up to speed on Bullock’s initiatives sit on her desk at the Public Works Department, where capital-improvement project maps and designs used to be the norm.

In the coming months, Ross will officially move from the Public Works Department to Town Hall.

The last few months leading up to the promotion, Ross said Bullock has delegated more of her responsibilities.

So far, Ross has the following responsibilities, assignments or topics on which to get up to speed: • Continuing to monitor town capital-improvement projects because 30% of her workload continues to come from being the town engineer;

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Ashley Delph, holding her daughter, Haley, tells Florida Sen. Bill Galvano about concerns she has with repairs being done on her Willowbrook home.

Galvano takes up Willowbrook cause Sen. Bill Galvano says he will have information for Willowbrook homeowners by the end of this week.

EAST COUNTY — With her 17-month-old daughter, Haley, propped on her hip, Ashley Delph ushered Sen. Bill Galvano into her kitchen, where sheets of plywood replaced what used to be a back wall leading to the home’s balcony.

Repair work by DueAll Construction has been under way since early December, and Delph said she doesn’t know when work will be completed.

Delph fears the boardedup walls pose a safety concern, because she’s not sure how well the boards are secured, and the constant, daily hammering is interrupting her daughter’s twice-daily naps.

“I can’t say, ‘It’s going to be up for this long,’” Delph said. “It’d be easier to handle if I knew (the timeline).”

Delph admitted she’s thankful to see structural and other construction-related problems being corrected in her Willowbrook community, but the situation still frustrating her.

“I feel very comfortable with what (DueAll is) doing,” she said. “I feel KB (Homes) is going to encourage them to take shortcuts, and that makes me nervous.”

Galvano made his first official visit to the East County’s Willowbrook community Feb. 1, at which time he toured several homes either awaiting or undergoing repairs.

“There’s a real problem here,” Galvano said, after touring homes. “It’s not a single building or a single issue. I’m concerned about residents here, by my lay

(person)-eye, living in unsafe conditions.”

In August, a group of homeowners in Willowbrook began putting public pressure on the community’s developer, KB Homes, to correct structural and other issues, which were causing water to leak into homes, among other problems. Willowbrook’s homeowners association worked out a confidential settlement agreement with KB in September; they jointly selected DueAll to complete work.

Galvano said he planned to meet with KB Homes executives this week, and he also planned to speak with the surgeon general about health-and-safety issues he saw during his visit. Additionally, he has requested information related to Willowbrook from other state agencies and expects to hear back from them this week. He said he planned to provide an update to residents by Friday.

“I have a list of questions growing in my mind and then we’ll figure out if there’s something my office can do,” he said.

Galvano’s predecessor, former Sen. Mike Bennett, had begun addressing issues in Willowbrook before he left office. Residents of Willowbrook met Galvano during an early-morning breakfast he hosted Jan. 14, in Lakewood Ranch.

Homeowners are lobbying to establish a lemon law for housing.

Contact Pam Eubanks at peubanks@yourobserver.com.

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IT’S READ EVERYWHERE BULAWAYO, ZIMBABWE A mission team from Bayside Community Church made sure to carry their favorite hometown newspaper with them on a September trip to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The group was there helping Children’s Cup, an organization that feeds several thousand children every day. While in Zimbabwe, group members also visited a game park, where they saw zebra, wildebeest, giraffes and other animals. Pictured clockwise from front are: Don Champion, Daryl Brown, Amy Diaz, Marsha Champion, Alice Hendrix, Dawn Helton, a local pastor named Tauri and Jonna Orwig.

SICILY, ITALY. East County residents Lee and Rick Libro traveled Sept. 11 through Sept. 27 to Italy and made sure to bring their favorite hometown paper along. “We had fun taking photos with the Observer in several spots throughout the trip,” Rick Libro said. Their favorite picture was this one in front of The Temple of Concordia, in Agrigento, Sicily.

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Childen and Adults with Attention Defecit/Hyperactivity (C.H.A.D.D.) Meeting — starts at 5:30 p.m. the first Thursday of each month, at Sea of Strengths Academy, 7313 International Place, Suite 90, Sarasota. Come to this monthly meeting to hear speakers and learn about resources dealing with these conditions. For information, contact Susan Stevens, at sstevens@sosaschool.com or 538-6822.

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Bob Suter — plays at 6:30 p.m., at Living Word Christian Store, 5421 Fruitville Road, Sarasota. For information, call 225-4050.

FRIDAY, Feb. 8 Willis Elementary Family Movie Night — starts at 6:30 p.m. at Willis Elementary School, 14705 The Masters Ave., Lakewood Ranch.

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Mana-Tween Book Club — runs from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month, at the Braden River Branch Library, 4915 53rd Ave. E., Bradenton. Each month, book club members (ages 8 to 12) will explore a different “tween” book and meet to discuss. For information, call 7485555, Ext. 6318.

Manatee Chamber of Commerce 50th Annual Dinner and Member Appreciation Night — runs from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Polo Grill and Bar’s Fête Ballroom, 10670 Boardwalk Loop, Lakewood Ranch. Celebrate the chamber’s anniversary by looking back at its 2012 accomplishments and hearing its goals for 2013. Individual tickets cost $65. Guests can reserve half and full tables. RSVP to Nicole Onorato at NicoleO@manateechamber.com or 748-4842, Ext. 122.

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The thrust for growth is energized at one of the region’s biggest business insurance underwriters, FCCI. The challenge now is fending off the competition.

EAST COUNTY — The pushpin map of the United States at FCCI Insurance Group is getting crowded.

One of the largest commercial-property and casualty-insurance underwriters on the Gulf Coast, the company, located off University Parkway, has been in national expansion mode for several years. But, it recently amped up its growth strategy, both in locations and products.

The goal, say company executives, is to use what it considers its best asset — relationship-centric employees — to pluck more market share.

“We are constantly looking for organic growth,” says Bill Speaker, senior vice president for home office underwriting at FCCI. “We didn’t stop expanding when the economy went south.”

For example, the company opened an office in Maryland in early 2012 and in Dallas in October, for the Southwest market. The Dallas office, says Speaker, brought in $2 million in premiums in the fourth quarter, which exceeded expectations. “Even though we are new there,” says Speaker, “we have name recognition in local employees.”

FCCI also opened an office in Louisiana Jan 1., and Arkansas is on the list for later this year. All told, FCCI now writes policies in 17 states.

The firm’s new offices focus on what the company has always done: It sells a diverse line of insurance policies and programs for businesses through a large group of partner agents and agencies. FCCI, the fourth-largest private employer in Sarasota County, with 374 local employees, doesn’t sell homeowners insurance policies.

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That means the Northeast and the West Coast aren’t in the plans, for now at least. States in those regions, which are mostly high tax and low growth, tend to lean more hostile to insurance companies. Says Speaker: “We want to be in a state where we can make money and be profitable.”

Speaker says a key to profitability stems from a move FCCI made in fall 2011, when it expanded the types of businesses it targets. The firm, through a product it calls Premier Package Policy, now offers property and casualty coverage to everything from hotels and motels to dry cleaners.

FCCI was founded in 1959, when it was called Florida Contractors and Construction Industries. A bulk of its clients are mid-sized businesses, and, for many years, the company focused on the building and related industries. “The (new product) helps us go out beyond construction,” says Speaker. “We didn’t want to go away from construction, but we wanted a better mix.”

Premier Package clicked with agents and clients. In fact, it’s brought in $9 million in new premiums in the past year.

The biggest potential impediment to more success, in locations and products, says Speaker, is what other insurance firms do to take business from FCCI. That’s why Speaker says the hires in the new offices, the people who become the face of FCCI, is a key component of the strategy. “The challenge will always be the competition,” says Speaker. “Everyone has similar types of products.”

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Lakewood Ranch High freshman Kyra Klarkowski scans the court for an open teammate.

The Lakewood Ranch High girls basketball team captured the program’s first district title in school history.

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Lakewood Ranch High junior Emily Bulfin battled a pair of Palmetto players for a rebound in the third quarter.

Champs The Lakewood Ranch High girls basketball team defeated Palmetto 37-32 in the Class 6A-District 12 championship Feb. 1, capturing the program’s first district title in school history.

LAKEWOOD RANCH — With four freshmen in its starting lineup, the Lakewood Ranch High girls basketball team doesn’t know that winning seasons aren’t commonplace.

The Lady Mustangs aren’t familiar with the feeling of walking the court as the district runner-up.

They don’t know they aren’t supposed to go out and beat other varsity teams with more depth and experience.

All they do know is to come out with intensity and a willingness to win, and the rest will take care of itself.

Such was the case last Friday night when Lakewood pulled away down the stretch, defeating Palmetto 37-32 in the Class 6A-District 12 championship and capturing the program’s first district championship.

“It’s surreal right now,” coach Tina Hadley says. “I’m happy that we won, but it just hasn’t sunk in yet. It’s a sweet victory, especially for them. The sweet part is now we have to try to defend it every year, so we have some hard work ahead of us.”

Although the Lady Mustangs (16-8) had their sights set on a district title, it wasn’t until midway through the season, when the wins began to pile up, that Hadley began to believe that youth could’ve been what Lakewood needed all along.

But, along with youth comes inexperience, and the Lady Mustangs made their fair share of mistakes while turning the ball over 30 times. They just had the presence of mind to fight through it.

“I think they reacted as freshmen tonight, but, along with being a freshman, when the coach says, ‘Run through the wall!’ they’re going to try and run through the wall,” Hadley says. “When I asked them to pick up the intensity, they did just that.”

Trailing 21-16 at halftime, Lakewood came out in the second half and went on a 9-2 run to take a 25-23 lead.

“I just told them we’ve got to pick up the intensity and we have to crash the boards and get a rebound,” Hadley says.

With the game tied at 28 with 3:46 left in the fourth quarter, freshman Kyra Klarkowski sank a pair of free throws and junior Emily Bulfin and freshman Elise Spiller scored a pair of layups to give the Lady Mustangs a 34-28 lead.

Spiller scored the game’s final three points, as Lakewood held on down the stretch.

Bulfin finished with 13 points to lead the way for Lakewood. Spiller and freshman Kailyn Scully both finished with 10 points.

“We’re all really happy,” Bulfin says.

“We still won with 30 turnovers, which

The Braden River High girls basketball team saw its season come to an end with a 63-54 loss to Port Charlotte in the Class 7A-District 11 semifinals Jan. 30.

The Lady Pirates, who pride themselves on defense, trailed 26-13 at the end of the first quarter and were unable to bounce back.

“We outscored Port Charlotte the remainder of the game and held them to six points in the second quarter, but (we) had already put ourselves in a huge hole,” coach Carl Williams says. “Regardless, with three minutes left in the game, we were only down by two (points), but we just couldn’t pull it out.”

Braden River lost three of its starters within a span of two minutes, which took its toll on the Lady Pirates. Alexis Stout broke her nose; Kiki Mitchell took a hard fall and was transported to the hospital with an elbow injury; and Kelly Logan went down with an ankle injury. The Lady Pirates also spent half of the game without Madison Jaco due to illness.

It was the final game for Stout and Mitchell and fellow seniors Cheyenne Ogline and Erica Glisson.

“No matter what, we showed heart,” Williams says. “Those girls are gutsy.”

Braden River advanced to the district semifinals with a 58-23 victory over Manatee in the Class 7A-District 11 quarterfinals Jan. 28.

Ogline scored 15 points, and Jaco added 15 points, seven rebounds, four steals and two blocks to lead the way for the Lady Pirates. Stout finished with 10 points and six assists. Glisson added seven points and five steals.

In a season in which Braden River broke 13 school records, including nine team and four individual records, the Lady Pirates learned the importance of teamwork. They overcame adversity and fought for a larger cause.

“We enjoyed some incredible team bonding events, overcame obstacles, cried and laughed together and most importantly, got the chance (for our team) to adopt and bring a smile to a wonderful child, (Eddie Livingston),” Williams says. “I will miss the seniors. They left a beautiful mark at this school and one that will remain forever.”

Freshman Elise Spiller scored the final five points of the game for Lakewood Ranch. is kind of hard. We just really tried to turn up the intensity.

“We already beat them twice, but you can’t come out and think we’re going to win right away because they aren’t just going to roll over and die,” Bulfin says.

With the win, Lakewood will host District 11 runner-up Strawberry Crest in a Class 6A-Region 3 quarterfinal at 7 p.m. Feb. 7. The winner will face the winner of the other quarterfinal between Palmetto and Tampa Sickles in the regional semifinals Feb. 12.

“The more we played, the better they became,” Hadley says. “They didn’t show that tonight, though. They outhustled the other team at the end of the game. I’m pretty sure we should try and be able to pull it together by the time we play on Thursday.”

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The Lakewood Ranch High girls soccer team huddles together before the start of its Class 4A-Region 3 final versus Plant City Jan. 29.

End of the Road The Lakewood Ranch High girls soccer team saw its season come to an end with a 2-0 loss to Melbourne, in the Class 4A state semifinals Feb. 1. It was the Lady Mustangs’ first trip to the Final Four since 2010.

Lakewood Ranch defender Tatum Young sends a cross into the box in the game against Plant City.

LAKEWOOD RANCH — The Lakewood Ranch High girls soccer team wasn’t about to make excuses.

The Lady Mustangs did everything they could.

It just wasn’t their night.

After reaching the Final Four for the first time since 2010, Lakewood saw its season come to an end with a 2-0 loss to Melbourne in the Class 4A state semifinals Feb. 1.

“We definitely got beat by a better team that day,” coach Guy Virgilio says. “They were very precise with their passes. We could tell from the beginning that we were going to have our hands full, but we didn’t give up.”

The Lady Mustangs’ (19-2-4) state semifinal appearance got off to a slow start after the Florida High School Athletic Association failed to assign officials to the match. Both coaches agreed they didn’t want to use local referees.

It wasn’t until about 75 minutes after the original start time that Lakewood finally took the field.

Although the delay was unwelcome, the Lady Mustangs tried not to let it bring them down.

“It did impact the girls, but it impacted the other girls, too,” Virgilio says. “The game was too important for us to dwell on that.”

Melbourne’s Kiera McCarthy scored two goals in the first 20 minutes of the match to secure the victory for the Bulldogs (24-0-1).

The Lady Mustangs attempted four shots while the Bulldogs fired off 15 shots. Lakewood goalkeeper Alex Latham, who only allowed 14 goals all season, was credited with seven saves.

“I’m very proud of the girls, but, unfortunately, as a coach you hate to see something like that,” Virgilio says. “They fought and never gave up. (Melbourne) definitely exploited our weaknesses and capitalized.

“What we normally do to other teams, they were doing to us,” Virgilio says. “We tried to shut them down, but they were moving the ball very fast.”

Lakewood advanced to the state semifinals with a 1-0 victory over Plant City, in the Class 4A-Region 3 finals Jan. 29. Angelica Rego scored the Lady Mustangs’ lone goal off a cross from defender Tatum Young.

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Lakewood Ranch forward Delaney Riggins prepares to fire a shot to the corner during the Lady Mustangs 1-0 victory over Plant City in the Class 4A-Region 3 finals.

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But, with Lakewood’s leading scorers Tyler Gordon (17 goals) and Rego (15 goals) returning next season along with defenders Tatum Young and Hannah Miller, the future looks bright for the Lady Mustangs.

“We’re very young,” Virgilio says.

“For a while there we weren’t playing that well, but we put it together for the finals. I knew these girls could do it. I can honestly say it was just a little bit too much for us. But we’ll regroup and try again next year.”

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Pirates sail past Mustangs The Braden River High boys basketball team defeated crosstown rival Lakewood Ranch 54-42 in non-district action Jan. 31.

Trevon Young finished with 19 points, 17 rebounds and two blocks to lead the way for the Pirates, who had a total 17 steals and 10 assists.

Terrance Cummings added 11 points and two steals. Zechariah Kendall had 10 points, six steals and three assists. He also went 4-for-5 from the free throw line.

Lakewood Ranch juniors Cole Theodoropolous and Justin Otis each scored 11 points for the Mustangs.

“The Mustangs battled hard, but the size and strength inside of Braden River was too much,” Lakewood coach Jeremy Schiller says.

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The number of points Braden River High senior Trevon Young scored in the Pirates’ 54-42 victory over crosstown rival Lakewood Ranch Jan. 31.

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The number of Braden River High girls basketball players who were injured within a span of two minutes in the Class 7A-District 11 semifinals Jan. 30.

Lakewood Ranch senior midfielder Ian Nolan fights for the ball in the first half.

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Lakewood Ranch midfielder Jake Dube, back, battles Naples Gulf Coast midfielder Erick Santiago for possession during the Class 4A-Region 3 quarterfinals Jan. 30.

The Lakewood Ranch High boys soccer team saw its season come to an end with a 4-1 loss to Naples Gulf Coast in a Class 4A-Region 3 quarterfinal match Jan. 30.

The Mustangs are known for pushing the ball forward and using their speed to score quickly. It wasn’t until last Wednesday night that Lakewood found itself in the position of having to defend its own offensive scheme.

“They came out with our game plan,” coach Vito Bavaro says. “Our game plan is to come out strong and send the ball quick and put a couple goals in. When it happened to us it was hard for us to recover.

“They are a mirror image of us,” Bavaro says. “They play like we play. It’s just, at this point in the season, the team that wants it the most wins it. They wanted it more than we did. It was obvious.”

Trailing 2-0, Bavaro moved all of his

players forward in an attempt to cut into the Sharks’ lead.

“At this point in time you win or you lose,” Bavaro says. “It doesn’t matter about the score.”

Senior midfielder Jason Ferguson, who was one of nine seniors who played his final game in a Mustangs uniform, scored the lone goal for the Mustangs with 14 minutes left to play in the second half.

The Mustangs finished the season 166-4 and captured their first district title in four years.

“I’m proud of them,” Bavaro says. “We had a good season. I’m going to miss the seniors, but the future looks bright for us, so we should be around for a long time.”

The number of points the Manatee High cheerleading squad scored to capture its first state championship in the Class 2A Extra Large Division Feb. 1, at Silver Spurs Arena, in Kissimmee.

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“I was pretty surprised,” Bulfin says of the accomplishment.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I wish I could play like that every game.”

Bulfin followed her record-setting performance with 20 points to lead the Lady Mustangs to a 61-47 victory over Dixie Hollins, in the Class 6A-Distirct 12 semifinals Jan. 30.

Bulfin’s hot hand continued in the district championship Feb. 1, where she scored 13 points to lead Lakewood to a 37-32 victory over Palmetto and its first girls basketball district title in school history.

“We’ve been working really hard since the summer up to this point, so it (means) a lot,” Bulfin says.

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+ Pirates advance to semifinals The Braden River High boys basketball team cruised to a 54-38 victory over Manatee in a Class 7A-District 11 quarterfinal Feb. 4.

Terrance Cummings and Zechariah Kendall each scored 11 points for the Pirates.

The defending district champion Pirates traveled to Charlotte for a district semifinal game Feb. 6.

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+ Mustangs send four to regionals Four Lakewood Ranch High wrestlers qualified for the Class 2A-Region 3 tournament Feb. 8 and Feb. 9, at Charlotte High.

Blake Riley-Hawkins (second place), Ty McLeod (second place), Larry White (third place) and Bailey Sever (fourth place) all finished in the top four in their respective weight classes, at the Class 2A-District 11 tournament Feb. 2, at Venice High, to advance to the regional tournament.

The Mustangs finished fifth overall in the 11-team tournament.

+ Lakewood honors seniors with win The Lakewood Ranch High boys basketball honored seniors Corey Adams, Mitchell Cobb and Chaz Grady on Senior Day Feb. 2.

The Mustangs jumped out to a 14-7 lead in the first quarter en route to a 47-41 non-district victory over Manatee.

Grady scored 14 first-half points, and junior Cole Theodoropolous added 13 points.

“It was a big win, and a great way to send out our seniors in style,” coach Jeremy Schiller says.

+ Pep rally to benefit Miracle League The Pittsburgh Pirates will hold a raffle to benefit The Miracle League of Manasota Feb. 16.

The Pirates Pep Rally event will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Main Street in downtown Bradenton.

Raffle tickets cost $1, or six for $5. All proceeds from the raffle will benefit The Miracle League, an organization dedicated to providing an opportunity for all children to play baseball regardless of their ability.

Pittsburgh Pirates autographed merchandise and other items will be raffled off throughout the event.

+ BRSC wins invitational The Braden River Soccer Club U14 girls premier team won the Ormond Beach Invitational Jan. 19 and Jan. 20.

The Rage posted four consecutive shutouts, defeating their opponents 1-0, 1-0, 1-0 and 3-0 en route to winning the championship.

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Doug and Dr. Joi Grice will host the first Tee it up for TaTas golf tournament Feb. 10, at the Legacy Golf Club.

The event will benefit Angie Morgan, Joi Grice’s cousin, who was diagnosed with breast cancer on Christmas Eve. Registration for the four-person scramble, which is $125 per person, will begin at 7:30 a.m. followed by a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m.

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A standing East County residents flocked to Lakewood Ranch Main Street Saturday, Feb. 2, for a day of culture and entertainment. The sixth annual event, called Ovation: A Day for the Arts, featured live music and dance performances, art demonstrations, theater performances and more.

Bob Riggio was visiting Tara resident Barbara McAnulla and friends Iva Thomas and Robert Talley, who also were visiting.

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Lakewood Ranch thespians showcase ‘Drowsy Chaperone’ Lakewood Ranch High School students tipped their creative hats to a parody of the American musical comedy of the 1920s in “The Drowsy Chaperone” Thursday, Jan. 31, through Saturday, Feb. 2. In the show, a Broadway fanatic

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Families at Gene Witt Elementary School enjoyed an afternoon of sunshine Saturday, Feb. 2, at the school’s Winter Wonderland Carnival. Children visited with friends, played carnival-style games, jumped in bounce houses, feasted on sno-cones and enjoyed SarasotaFEB5 x 4:Layout 1 12/8/12 12:41 AM Page 1 other activities.

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Steamy chef blogger releases new book East County’s Jaden Hair focuses on gluten-free, minimal-meat recipes in her new cookbook, ‘Steamy Kitchen’s Healthy Asian Favorites.’

EAST COUNTY — East County food blogger Jaden Hair is at it again.

Six years and 120,000 Twitter followers after creating SteamyKitchen.com, Hair is releasing her second book, “Steamy Kitchen’s Healthy Asian Favorites,” Feb. 5. The 240-page book includes 100 recipes will full-color photographs. Featured recipes include tofumushroom miso soup, Thai larb chicken lettuce cups and mango brulee. Books can be pre-ordered through her website.

“This book really is meant to be refreshing and light,” Hair says, noting recipes are designed to showcase the flavor of the ingredients.

Hair says healthy eating comes in four parts: using less meat, using less gluten, improving cooking techniques and minimizing sauces.

“This is how we normally cook authentic (Asian cuisine),” Hair says. “(For the traditional American dinner), a family of four, each person would have a grilled chicken breast. In Asia, one chicken breast can feed four people. You cut it thin.

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“The act of sharing all the food around the table — that’s part of the experience for you,” she says. “It’s all communal eating, communal cooking. You lay out all the ingredients (and cook together). It’s so much more fun.

“There’s a big difference between sharing a meal and just eating,” she says. “That’s what I try to highlight in the book.”

Desserts are downplayed in “Healthy Asian Favorites.”

Sweets, in the Asian culture, typically are enjoyed during an afternoon tea. Families enjoy tea or fruit together after dinner, and those items are the “desserts” of choice in her new cookbook.

Hair spent about one year developing the new book, which features all new recipes.

The homegrown chef has also been working on her blog, SteamyKitchen.com, which has reached about 6 million page views. Hair has begun posting videos about each new recipe she shares on her website, to help aspiring chefs not only want to make the recipe, but for them to better un-

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Founded by stylist Coral Pleas, the salon has grown from a staff of four to 50.

“I have enjoyed being a hairdresser for the last 30 years and look forward to playing the role of CEO and visionary for our company,” said Pleas, who operates the business with her children, Travis and Taelor. “We are thankful for all our customers and for the growth and success we have enjoyed since we opened in 2008.”

The salon has received numerous accolades; Salon Today magazine recognized it in 2011, 2012 and 2013 as a Top 200 Salon in America, and it was voted “Best Hair Salon” by Living on the Suncoast in 2012.

Cutting Loose is a member of Intercoiffure America/Canada.

Cutting Loose has locations at 8429 Honore Ave., in University Park; 1950 Main St., in Sarasota; and is opening another Lakewood Ranch location in the second quarter of 2013, at 5820 Ranch Lake Blvd., Building B, Unit 112.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2013

real estate | transactions

By Adam Hughes | Research Editor

Home in Country Club East sells for $925,000 Greenbrook Village

The following residential real-estate transactions took place between Jan. 21 and Jan. 25.

A home in Country Club East at Lakewood Ranch tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Bryon Olive and Kirsten Petraitis, of Ontario, Canada, sold their home at 7828 Valderrama Way to Jack and Vicki Deleon, of Chapel Hill, N.C., for $925,000. Built in 2008, it has four bedrooms, four baths, two-half baths, a pool and 4,058 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $974,000 in 2009.

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John and Margaret Sannachan sold their home at 630 Sand Crane Court to Wendy Noll, of Bradenton, for $515,000. Built in 2000, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,665 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $395,500 in 2012.

Kenwood Park

Leslie and Brenda Judy, of University Park, sold their home at 8175 Abingdon Court to Roger Ziemba, of University Park, for $465,000. Built in 2002, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,394 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $485,000 in 2002.

Lennox Gardens

James and Maria Giblin, of Aurora, Colo., sold their home at 7033 Lennox Place to Francine Brown, trustee, of Bradenton, for $440,000. Built in 2001, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 2,223 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $450,000 in 2004.

Edgewater Village

Robert and Joy Stone, of Lakewood Ranch, sold their home at 6614 Tallmast Circle to Albert Knezevich and Suzanne Knezevich, trustees, of Lakewood Ranch,

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This home in Country Club East at Lakewood Ranch, which has four bedrooms, four baths, two-half baths, a pool and 4,058 square feet of living area, sold for $925,000. for $430,000. Built in 1998, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,663 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $699,500 in 2006.

River Place

Darren and Rachel Saltzberg, of Bradenton, sold their home at 7019 74th St. Circle E. to David and Julie Freed, of Bradenton, for $380,000. Built in 2005, it has four bedrooms, four baths and 3,830 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $354,800 in 2005.

Heritage Harbour

Anthony Clowe sold his home at 8915 River Preserve Drive to Virgil Lovelace, of Bradenton, for $362,000. Built in 2008, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,672 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $369,900 in 2008.

Mark Bannon, of Cheshire, Conn., sold

his home at 9009 Heritage Sound Drive to John and Margaret Sannachan, of Bradenton, for $285,000. Built in 2008, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,052 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $249,000 in 2011.

Joseph Valente and Theresa Barion sold their home at 6356 Royal Tern Circle to James and Susan Rogers and Michael Rogers, of Sarasota, for $350,000. Built in 2004, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,605 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $420,000 in 2007.

Hashay and Kelley Burch sold their home at 6719 Pirate Perch Trail to Joseph and Erin Camacho, of Bradenton, for $350,000. Built in 2006, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,043 square feet of living area.

Kevin Hall, of Tampa, and Katharine Hall, of Ellenton, sold their home at 14250 Cattle Egret Place to Theresa Barion, of Bradenton, for $255,000. Built in 2004, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,073 square feet of living area.

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Robert and Michele Cockrum, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3630 Fourth Ave. N.E. to Christopher and Lynn Joyce, of Bradenton, for $355,000. Built in 2000, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,962 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $440,000 in 2004.

David Orchard and Deborah Orchard, trustees, of London, sold the home at 7329 Wexford Court to Jerry Weintraub and Joan Penzell, of Lakewood Ranch, for $325,000. Built in 2008, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,160 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $333,000 in 2011.

Federal National Mortgage Association sold the home at 7328 Lake Forest Glen to Thomas Oravec and Caroline Woolf, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, for $292,000. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,876 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $430,000 in 2006.

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Stan Pinkus, of Sarasota, sold his home at 9902 Braden Run to George and Diane Nason, of Bradenton, for $350,000. Built in 1991, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,714 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $235,000 in 1996.

Gregory and Jill Robert, of Lakewood Ranch, sold their home at 11714 Soft Rush Terrace to Ronald and Lisa Richards, of Castle Rock, Colo., for $315,000. Built in 2000, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,508 square feet of living area.

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7412 Mayfair Court 7523 Eaton Court 16029 Daysailor Trail 406 136th Court E. 4205 Pro Am Ave. E. 7021 Woodmore Terrace 8065 Estates Drive 23990 Jennings Road 6519 193rd St. E. 4718 Glenbrooke Terrace 10330 Palmbrooke Terrace 5011 88th St. E. 5032 Peridia Blvd. E. 6317 Glen Abbey Lane 4607 Shark Drive 6511 Turners Gap Road 5208 Creekside Trail 12220 Thornhill Court 6812 41st Ave. E. 4526 Windsor Court E.

Re-roof Re-roof Pool Addition Re-roof Enclosure Re-roof Re-roof Mechanical Door/Window Door/Window Re-roof Re-roof Re-roof Re-roof Re-roof Re-roof Pool Cage Re-roof Re-roof

Diana Moser Barbara Mills Ed Agasi Matthew Anderson John Lawson Kenneth Robinson Elliott Shulman James Reid Mark Broderick Sean McGettigan Frank Juliano Cornelius Ward Merle Heiden Linda Lederman-Kirby David Boser John Hallenbeck Maria Molnar Carl Carbone Sally Huston Norval Dawson

$35,500 $33,200 $30,555 $25,000 $23,500 $21,900 $20,985 $20,900 $17,900 $17,000 $16,978 $16,170 $15,600 $14,852 $13,980 $13,760 $12,025 $10,550 $10,470 $10,456

5016 64Th W Dr #M5824645 $1,999,000 Debbie Capobianco

Bradenton 941-748-6300 941-704-2394

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Maureen Mayer, of Myakka, sold the home at 8103 Snowy Egret Place to Paul Crank, of Bradenton, for $278,300. Built in 2003, it has six bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,932 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $348,200 in 2003.

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Bradenton 941-752-2683 941-812-0791

6489 Rookery Cir #M5833207 $2,200 Laurie Rastovski

6302 Riverview Blvd #A3963330 $2,600,000 Victoria Stultz

10215 Manatee W Ave # 6 #A3971674 $120,000 Pamela Charron

532 Spring Lakes Blvd # 532 #M5828030 $79,900 Leah Secondo

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3620 57Th Avenue W Dr # 63 #M5834354 $2,000 Laurie Rastovski

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7985 Royal Birkdale Cir #M5830508 $799,000 Deborah Angelo O’Mara

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610 Riviera Dunes Way # 604 #M5832001 $799,000 Joe Foster

Palmetto 941-907-9595 941-812-7634

1713 79Th W Ct #M5833833 Kathy Valente

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4603 Barracuda Dr #M5833223 $569,900 Joe Foster

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503 84Th Nw St #M5834236 $550,000 Cheryl Roberts

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510 Sand Crane Ct #A3965776 $519,900 Howie Drourr

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310 Noble Faire Dr #A3966614 $499,999 Diane Fogo Harter

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1001 Benjamin Franklin Dr # 605 #M5828982 $499,000 Elizabeth Gardini

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Bradenton 941-752-2683 941-812-0791

5111 55Th Street W Cir #M5833409 $399,000 Leah Secondo

Bradenton 941-748-6300 941-545-4430

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603 Baronet Ln #M5832601 $849,000 Kathy Valente

3950 Ironwood Cir # 202 #A3962148 $115,000 Mary Hellhake

6505 Stone River Rd # 104 #M5833368 $74,900 Rebecca Zimmerman

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sold their home at 6960 Country Lakes Circle to Arthur and Rachel Fritsch, of Sarasota, for $260,000. Built in 1986, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,380 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $162,000 in 1995.

Bruce Bell, of Sarasota, sold his home at 5774 Timber Lake Drive to Adam and Nicole Holden, of Sarasota, for $247,000.

Built in 1981, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,219 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $180,000 in 2011.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2013

by Mallory Gnaegy | A&E Editor

Sarasota Opera Festival:

Pieces of the production puzzle Planning for the four-production Opera Festival is akin to putting together a jigsaw puzzle backstage. Operas “Turandot,” “King for a Day,” “The Pearl Fishers” and “Of Mice and Men” rotate simultaneously for more than a month.

Sarasota Opera’s director of productions, Chris Van Alstyne, is the brain responsible for putting the pieces together.

The loud chaos of chords from a full orchestra of practicing musicians filters down the hall into Van Alstyne’s office. A man stops in to ask him about buying batteries; a woman pulls him away to talk about spray painting; Maestro Victor DeRenzi pops his head in. And this is all within 40 minutes. In one week, Van Alstyne has misplaced two pairs of glasses.

“It’s nuts!” he says about the week before the festival begins. When people are watching an opera, they don’t realize the work that goes on behind the scenes — they see the product, but they can’t see how it’s made.

“We’re an opera factory,” he says.

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Three set pieces for three shows.

“The Pearl Fishers,” “Of Mice and Men,” and “Turandot” have three different styles and characteristics.

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Right: This is the largest set piece. It sits at 21.6 feet tall. This side of the dual-opera piece is a backdrop for “The Pearl Fishers” and was designed by Michael Wingfield.

Numbers and Facts: • During the Opera Festival, there are about 250 employed crew and technical members, artists, orchestra members, chorus ensemble, principals and designers.

• All four sets have to fit in about 2,400 square feet.

• Roughly 16 stagehands have to take down and reconstruct a set in a two-hour time period.

• Each multi-set production is allotted no more than a 53-foot tractortrailer. Last year’s opera festival had six tractortrailers; this year there are four.

• Chris Van Alstyne began planning for the Opera Festival 15 months ago.

• Once Van Alstyne has a budget, he can start contracting designers.

Then, he and the executives hold planning sessions with designers to map each production. Once they settle on a model, it’s sent out to scenic shops around the country for quotes.

• He starts with a sketch from a designer, moves to a white model, makes a painted model and, then, ships the model to where the set is built.

• All set pieces must fit on stage, and the Opera House Proscenium is 36 feet wide by 22 feet tall. Many other opera houses average 50 feet wide and more.

• There are about eight on-stage rehearsals in conjunction with each opera, to practice moving the sets.

• An orchestra of 56 to 78 people must fit backstage in addition to the sets during the opera.

• The set pieces can’t be taller than 8 feet when they are loaded on the tractor-trailer because of the door width of the trailer. From there, they have to be under 9.5 feet tall to get through the door of the scene bay. They can be built up in the set-shop, adjacent to the scene bay, but have to be assembled in the scene

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• Jeff Dean designed the set for “King for a Day,” and it was built locally at Asolo’s scenic shop.

• Michael Wingfield originally designed the “The Pearl Fishers” set, last used in 2003, but because it was “overloved” by other opera houses that had rented it throughout the years, it had to be completely rebuilt this year.

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Three weeks later, a spot in shop class became available. Despite his father’s encouragement to take the spot, Lane decided against switching classes. He had already connected with the horn and stuck with it through middle and high school.

After he won a concerto competition his senior year, Lane’s high school orchestra director, Linda Groh, encouraged him to pursue a career as a professional musician.

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Lane says. “I wanted to show them that it was possible to be a professional musician.”

After high school, Lane’s passion led him to audition for University of South Florida’s band as a French horn performance major, and he was accepted into the school. His USF teacher, Ralph Froelich, played principal horn in the Florida West Coast Symphony, now Sarasota Orchestra. Thanks to Froelich, in 1980, Lane played with Sarasota Orchestra, and, then, the next year at Sarasota Music Festival.

In 1986, after his third year of college, Lane moved to Washington, D.C., to play as a paid musician in The United States Navy Band. That was the start of his professional music career. He was 21 years old.

In 1990, he moved to Florida and continued playing professionally for 10 years with Florida Orchestra, in Tampa, and also the Symphony Orchestra, in Orlando.

But in 1994, his passion for music led him to start conducting. For several years, his eyes went straight to one line of the score — the horn part.

He’s now been a conductor for two decades, serving as the music director of the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra in Orlando, where he has been conducting the program of 250, and for the past 10 years, conducting the Sarasota Orchestra Pops series. Starting in 2002, he conducted Sarasota Youth Orchestra for five years.

Lane drives back and forth from Orlando, where he lives, to Sarasota to rehearse with the orchestra a few weeks out of the year.

He considers the musicians in the Sarasota Orchestra colleagues.

“I have this anxiety that I show up, and I have totally forgotten to prepare,” he says about a recurring dream, “and when you’re standing in front of 70 excellent musicians, that’s a pretty scary nightmare.”

When Lane started as the Pops principal director, it was not yet a series, but a few pops concerts throughout the season. He’s watched it grow into a series.

This year it doubled in concerts. At first, Lane was concerned about filling double the seats, but, to his relief, the first program in the Pops series, January’s “Bravo Broadway,” came close to selling out and

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Lane says each section of the orchestra has its own personality.

The musicians in the brass section are tough because they play the dramatic parts; the woodwinds possess a lot of finesse in life, just like in playing; and the string players are versatile and all-encompassing players who have a broad personality, ranging from light-hearted to dramatic.

His audience also has a particular personality that Lane has come to know.

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It’s important to Lane that each audience member finds something to connect with in the series — variety is key. As he plans a Pops series, he keeps one question in mind: “Are they going to look at the series and get excited?” He’s sure the series will excite them.

“There’s this feeling that we’re really becoming connected, and we look forward to seeing each other,” Lane says of the audience.

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This past weekend, the Sarasota Orchestra’s parade of guest conductors continued with Daniel Hege, current music director of the Wichita Symphony and former music director of the now-defunct Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.

Hege is an extremely competent conductor, and what he lacks in energy and zeal is certainly made up by stick technique and clarity. He could step on the podium of almost any major orchestra, without a rehearsal, and come away with a proficient performance. But, for these ears, energy is the key when musicians take that step beyond proficiency, and, for the most part, Hege didn’t have it.

His program, like his podium work, was exemplary. Starting with Haydn, he led the Sarasota Orchestra through a textbook reading that was stylish, clear and witty.

The only mistake he made was in removing the composer’s mischievousness at the end and inserting his own humor.

In his Symphony No. 90, as in much of his music, Haydn shows an elfin waggishness. In this case, he gives us two false endings. The conductor, who leads the audience as much as he does the orchestra, can conduct those finales so the audience knows there’s more to come. Hege chose to give the first ending a wild swoop of his baton, leading the listeners to think it was the end, so, of course, they applauded.

Then, as if he’d never seen the piece before, he looked at the score and “remembered” it was a false ending. So, he lifted his baton and went to the next ending.

At this point, he actually left the podium as the audience clapped, stopped midstride, looked at the concertmaster’s music, put his hand to his head as if to say, “Whoops. I forgot. There’s more,” ascended the podium and proceeded to conduct the real finale. Then, he turned to us and beckoned us to applaud. It was condescending to all. Haydn did it better.

Soloist Philippe Quint joined Hege for a glistening performance of the Barber Violin Concerto, one of the most romantic and beautiful works in the repertoire.

Quint, who has one of the most stunning sounds I’ve heard, has a small dynamic range and, when the orchestra reaches a forte, tends to disappear into the orchestral sound. As shimmering as Quint’s sound is, he has some odd physical mannerisms, when not playing, that

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distract from the performance and make him seem almost embarrassed before an audience unless he’s making music. Still, nothing could take away from the lush, gorgeousness of Barber’s fiddle concerto, a work that overflows with the melodies that made the composer’s songs a staple in the vocal literature.

Before the second half of the concert began, Hege spoke to the audience to explain the process behind the making of his program. His explanation failed to mention the balletic connection between the two pieces to come: Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” and the 1945 revision of “The Firebird Suite,” by Stravinsky.

These are two of the most sensuous pieces of music written in the 20th century, the Debussy achingly like an aural painting by Monet, and the Stravinsky moving into the Matisse era. Hege gave them each note-perfect performances, but they lacked the intensity and tension so necessary in this (and all) music.

Soloists gave the works the inspiration needed. The first chair winds were nothing short of spectacular. They brought the passion and zest that was, for the most part, lacking on the podium.

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field solo that mimicked the steps and music that a music box ballerina would perform. Amy Wood’s Svetlana Beriosova solo was slow, with large sweeping movements suited to her tall statuesque and long lines. Honea leapt across the stage and bounded in the air in the Nadia Nerina solo. Sareen Tchekmedyian was flirty and sassy in the Beryl Grey solo. Finally, Hulland and Graziano were elegant in the difficult pas de deux that included multiple one-armed promenades in attitude derriere en pointé.

Jamie Carter’s “Between Longing & Yearning” was an improved-upon version of “Five Duets,” which he originally choreographed to Johann Sebastian Bach in 2011. With the additional cast members and refinements, the piece expertly displayed the dynamic relationships between men and women through five emotionally charged pas de deux.

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World premieres are always exciting, but no one could have expected the sheer exhilaration experienced at the premiere of Will Tuckett’s “Changing Light,” set to the specifically commissioned music of composer Jeremy Holland-Smith. Director Iain Webb certainly saved the best for last in the program, which featured Sir Frederick Ashton’s “Birthday Offering” and company member Jamie Carter’s “Between Longing & Yearning.”

Holland-Smith’s music was incredibly moving, and Tuckett didn’t miss one note with his choreography, which sent goosebumps up your spine. Simple, yet stunning, costumes by Bill Fenner illustrated the changing light of a sunrise or sunset with yellow, oranges and blues. Warming the entire production was the masterful lighting of Aaron Muhl. It was simply one of the most exquisite productions the Sarasota Ballet has presented this year.

Tuckett’s choreography, which included intricate formations and dynamic group scenes featuring the entire cast dancing on stage together, took your breath away. In the second movement, three principal couples Danielle Brown and Ricardo Graziano, Victoria Hulland and Ricardo Rhodes, and Kate Honea and Ricki Bertoni performed a beautiful pas de deux sequence, in which all three couples were on stage dancing the same choreography only a few beats behind each other — like in a musical round — with Emily Dixon and Anais Blake floating in and out of the three pairs with elegant movements.

At one point Brown, Hulland and Honea were skated en pointe in fourth position across the stage, as if on ice, by their partners. The final sequence of the ballet featured all the dancers on stage being partnered in grand jeté leaps in cannon across the stage. It was simply a breathtaking performance.

Ashton’s “Birthday Offering,” set to music by Alexander Glazunov, was a regal ballet that featured stunning sets and costumes on loan from The Royal Ballet. The piece features seven couples who sweep elegantly on stage in a mazurka circle with large sweeping arms and movements. The men then move to the back of the stage and watch with admiration, as the seven ladies each performs a solo representing each dancer’s style of dancing perfectly.

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WINDSHIELD, 4 Tire Covers. New, for Class C Motor home, $70. Rotisserie, vertical, $45.

941-932-5595.

Autos For Sale 2006 HYUNDAI AZERA 4D SEDAN LIMITED 60,000 miles, Good condition, $8,800.

201-519-0814.

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

Garage/Moving/Estate Sales MOVING SALE! Beautiful designer furniture, king size master bedroom set, lamps, sofas, paintings, high end dining room set with 8 chairs, flat screens, etc. Barely used, LIKE NEW @ Lakewood Ranch. Everything MUST GO! 201-519-0814.

USED BOOKS, LOW PRICES! Friends of Fruitville Library Bookstore Fruitville Rd Exit, 1/2 M. East of I-75 10am-5pm Mon-Sat.

Health/Fitness/Beauty SCHWINN 230 Recumbent Bike, never used. $300. OBO. 941-351-6441.

Medical Supplies/Equipment PRIDE LIFT CHAIR: new 2012, used one month.

Reclines or stands up with push of a button. $750 firm. 941-377-3500.

FABULOUS SEDONA Time Share every other year. 1BR at Los Abrigados (Spanish Mission style on Oak Creek). A Diamond Resorts Property.

Incredible deal $1,000 +legal and transfer costs.

Owner life change prompts sale. Contact: E-mail: lynn19541954-sedona@yahoo.ca

Homes For Rent ANNUAL RENTAL: Lakewood Ranch Country Club. Beautiful, bright villa, 2BR/2BA +den or office. 2 Car garage, large screened lanai, on golf course. Updated and immaculate. Available now. $1800/mo. Please call 941-400-5626 or 941-504-8818.

LUXOR MHP

$450/mo-1 bed/bath mobile homes.

55+ community. No Pets.

5811 14th St. W. Bradenton.

Sarasota Real Estate Assoc., Inc. Greg Nowak 941-809-6034

Homes For Sale

Adult Care Services

Landscaping & Lawn Service

COLLEGE EDUCATED hhaide/companion (25/yrs. experience). Work with for example: alzheimer's, dementia, stroke, cancer, terminal etc. and other persons with such disabilities and disorders. Handle meds, meals and marketing.

Help with both short and long term memory exercises as well as physical therapy ones. Also included: personal grooming, companionship and conversation. Area references upon request.

941-921-1820.

GENTLEMAN GARDENER. Refine your space.

15 years LW Ranch resident. I’m in your backyard!

941-724-5792.

COMPLETE CARE; non-medical and medical.

Errands, homemaking, transportation, medication supervision, meal preparation. Also, medical staff available 24/7. Call 377-4465 for more details or visit our mobile/online website at: eldercaresarasota.com Lic. #30211372. Bonded and Insured.

ELDER HELPER - light housekeeping, meal prep, cooking, grocery shopping, doctor appts, errands.

Compassionate, dependable & mature. $12/hr.

Tina 941-932-7972.

Aluminum ML SCREENING. Family owned and operated.

Over 15/yrs. exp. Lic./Ins. Pool cage screens replaced, screen doors, lanais. No job too small.

Call for free estimate, (941)232-0565.

NEWEST 2012 CONSTRUCTION ON NORTH LIDO PARK Mid 21st Century Eco-House 30 secs to beach, 3 mins to Circle, Reverse FPL meter, 4/3.5, south pool. $1,999,000. Glenn Callaghan Re/Max Alliance Group, 941-928-9020.

Personal Services YOUR PERSONAL BOOKKEEPER, LLC Gail Sunray, Owner

MOTHER'S HELPER while you are home or away.

Light housekeeping, meal prep, cooking, grocery shopping, errands, etc. Dependable & mature $12/hr. Tina 941-932-7972.

Personal & Business Bookkeeping Accounting/ Taxes

Cleaning

I come to your home or office.

30 YEARS experience. We take pride in pleasing customers. Homes, schools, churches, resorts, offices.... 941-756-4570.

BRAZILIAN CLEANING Service by Maria.

Residential/ Commercial. Meticulous Cleaning.

Excellent References. Free Estimates. Reliable.

Lic./ Ins. 941-400-3342.

ELER CLEANING SERVICE. Residential cleaning, 10 years experience. Affordable and reliable.

Call for free estimates and references. Alessandra, 941-301-6493.

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CHOOSE 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Florida's Largest Junk Removal Service.

Homeowners, Contractors, Realtors, and Property Managers get rid of unwanted items effortlessly.

Health Services

Pet Services DOGGY HOTEL. 24 Hour Daycare. Brown Avenue near Bee Ridge and 41 behind Sleep King (new owner). First day FREE. Grooming by Mark.

Meet and greet and get a treat. 941-554-4620.

Pools FULL WEEKLY POOL SERVICE $65 per month.

For screened-in pools. Owner operated, reliable, personal service. Save money - call now. Blissful Pools, 941-705 0400.

Pressure Cleaning

Real Estate Wanted

ELIMINATE HARMFUL Mold. Homes/ business.

Roof, siding, pool, lanai, driveway, sidewalk.

When quality counts! 941-565-3935.

CLASSES & INTRODUCTION COURSES

WANTED LUXURY ANNUAL RENTALS For Qualified Waiting Clients Contact - Sarasota Luxury Rentals 941-225-1356 email: info@sarasotaluxuryrentals.com Personalized attention with professional honest advice.

25 Years Experience - References available

Vacation/Seasonal Rentals

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

PALM AIRE CONDO: Available Feb., March & April. 2 bedrooms, furnished, great views, upgraded, utilities included. $2900/mo. 941-351-1741.

Announcements

Adult Care Services

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Errands, Bill Paying, Companionship Services and Light Housekeeping. Bonded & Compassionate.

Call SueAnn, 941-915-3797.

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Painting/Wallpapering CARLO DATTILO PAINTING. Licensed & insured.

Interior/ Exterior painting including drywall repair and retexturing. Wallpaper installation & removal, pressure washing. Residential & commercial, condos. Honest & reliable. Free estimates.

941-744-1020. 35+ years experience.

VIDA PAINTING Interior/Exterior, 30 years exp., local references, Free estimates, Insured. Call Rich, 941-321-4490, 941-360-2504.

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CASH FOR Old Military Items. Swords, uniforms, insignia & old guns. Call 941-416-3280.

Business Opportunities

ALL TYPES OF MASONRY Specializing in concrete driveways, pavers, decorative concrete, stone work, patios.

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941-525-2435

Hauling

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