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Longboat Key’s beauty routine goes downhill.

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OUR TOWN + Town unveils new iPoc app Can I build that?

That’s the question the town gets every day, but now there’s an app for that.

The town unveiled the iPoc, a new iPhone/ iPad app to help owners sift through the challenges they’ll face should they choose to redevelop their properties.

The app will ring in approval if the redevelopment project is expected to generate five or fewer complaints during the public comments section of a Longboat Key Town Commission meeting; sound a warning alarm if it will likely require three or more four-hour public hearings; and deliver three low-wattage shocks if it will land you in court.

Type the project in the field that says “I want to” and search: Examples: iPoc response I want to …

Ring of Replace a doorknob handle approval Build a new Warning grocery store Spend $400 million Shock to redevelop a resort therapy

+ Car carrier drivers: Hand over your Key Car carriers will have to turn their keys over to Longboat.

The Longboat Key Town Commission voted to ban car carriers from the Key as the result of the latest bi-monthly Gulf of Mexico Drive traffic feasibility study.

The $140,000 study found the trucks frequently cause traffic jams and reduce visibility along Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Snowbirds will have two options for dropping off their vehicles: The roundabout on Bradenton Beach or St. Armands Circle.

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COLONY TO BE

DEMOLISHED The town of Longboat Key has approved a special-use permit to allow a monster-truck show to demolish the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort.

It has taken seven years and counting for the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort disputes to arise and the resort to close and fall into disrepair. But it’s going to take less than 15 minutes for the place to come tumbling down.

A special meeting was held last week on Longboat Key, in which more than 80% of Colony Beach & Tennis Resort units owners approved a complete teardown of the property Thursday, April 1.

Longtime Colony Beach & Tennis Resort owner Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber pitched the idea to the unit owners, even though the owners haven’t picked a development company yet to rebuild the property.

The reason a teardown was approved so quickly?

Klauber has persuaded the 2013 Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam tour to make a stop at the Colony property on its way to a scheduled tour date in Miami.

“We can have the whole place torn down in minutes by selling an exclusive monster-truck show that will demolish the Colony property,” Klauber said. “The

money we raise will be used by unit owners to help pay a new developer the costs for fractional ownership in a new and improved elegant Colony.”

Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam came to Raymond James Sta-

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dium in February and is making its way from Tennessee back to Florida this week.

While tickets for a tour stop in Tampa and other cities cost $35 for the most expensive seats, Klauber said he has already taken

reservations for seats that start at $150 and rise to $500 per seat.

For $500, attendees get to sit with Klauber at the top of his shuttered

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Tower to top off Publix sculpture The 150-foot ‘Flower Fiesta’ cell tower promises to improve cellular service for the southern half of the Key. Talking on a cell phone is about to become a pleasure on Longboat Key. That’s because later this week, contractors will install the final piece of the new “Flower Fiesta” sculpture: a 150-foot cellular tower in the design of the sculpture’s tall green silhouettes that will be called

the Flower Fiesta Greenwise Tower.

The tower will also advertise special Publix Greenwise products on sale each week at the top of the silhouettes in a red digital sign, with digits large enough for condo owners to see from their condo towers.

Last year, Publix proceeded through the planning processes at

lightning pace before tearing down its old location and rebuilding a new 49,000-square-foot store in just eight months.

The store opened its doors at 8 a.m. on a chilly Thursday morning in December to applause from

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by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Swan, peacock hybrid ruffles residents’ feathers Schnoodles and Maltipoos inspired a resident to breed designer hybrid birds known as sweacocks.

“I hear a woman screaming, ‘Help!’”

“My neighbor’s cat must be in heat. It’s keeping me awake.”

“It sounds like Elmo is being mugged outside my house.”

These are a few of the descriptions callers gave Longboat Key police last week when they reported a strange sound coming from the Longbeach Village.

Police figured the sounds could only mean one thing: peacockmating season.

They were only half right.

Police were shocked to discover a flock of squawking birds gliding gracefully through a swimming pool.

Like mute swans, they were white with long, S-shaped necks.

Like peacocks, they had long plumage — but they definitely weren’t mute.

The resident confirmed he successfully mated a Bay Isles swan with a Village peacock — to create the “sweacock” hybrid.

The man said “designer dog” hybrids, such as Schnoodles and Maltipoos he sees walking the Key each day, inspired him. He decided to attempt a bird hybrid after trying unsuccessfully for six years to breed “cacoons” — a feral cat/raccoon hybrid that he eventually learned was a genetic impossibility.

But, there was an obvious attraction between a male peacock and female swan when the swan became confused and flew into

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the Village. The man left nesting materials for the pair after seeing the male flashing his plumage at the female, indicating his attraction.

A few days later, he discovered the birds had laid a nest. Four weeks later, 12 cygfowl, or baby sweacocks, hatched.

Sweacocks appear to take after peacocks in their breeding habits.

Unlike swans, they don’t mate for life.

In fact, sweacocks appear to be some of the Key’s most promiscuous birds, according to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman, who

said that after one year, the population of Village sweacocks has increased from eight to 40.

The presence of the new bird species has ruffled a few feathers.

The swan family is considered royalty because they’re descendents of a swan pair donated by Queen Elizabeth. Bay Isles residents are disappointed at the thought of royalty mating with peacocks, which are known as “commoners” in the avian world.

Village residents, however, have mixed feelings about the birds.

Many residents believe they add to the beauty of the neigh-

The following tips will help you and your neighbors live in harmony with sweacocks.

• Consider trading in all-black vehicles. Sweacocks, like peacocks, can see their reflections on dark vehicles and may scratch them, causing damages.

• Sweacocks are peoplefriendly and love to be photographed. Tourists should consider standing in the middle of Broadway to capture every sweacock step on iPhones.

• Like swans, sweacocks are at home in the water. Keep pool gates open and avoid screening in your pool to allow them easy access to the water.

• Be quiet. Loud noises prevent sweacocks from hearing each other’s mating calls.

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Another man was arrested on wildlife endangerment charges after he brought deviled sweacock eggs to a Village potluck.

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Some Village residents plan to ask the commission to make sweacock removal a priority during next week’s Goals & Objectives workshop. Commissioners, however, said that they need to focus on important issues, such as ensuring that four rats that invaded Town Hall in December never return.

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by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Sequester cuts get ugly for GMD A federal beautification grant disappeared faster than you could say ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009’ and isn’t coming back.

President Barack Obama warned us that sequestration could result in layoffs and slowed economic growth.

But he didn’t say the cuts would get downright ugly — for Longboat Key’s Gulf of Mexico Drive, that is.

The $500,000 federal beautification grant from the $787 billion nationwide stimulus package the town received four years ago to spruce up Longboat Key’s main road is gone.

Longboat Key business owners reported they got an instant jolt from the new sea-salt resistant trees, sidewalks and “Welcome to Longboat Key” signs the grant provided.

But, then the road began to show signs of decay. The island’s plants began to brown, and paint chipped off the welcome signs.

At first, officials blamed the browning plants on whitefly infestation.

But, at a press conference last week, Obama’s landscaping czar confirmed what many Longboaters have suspected: There has never been a documented case of whitefly on the

Key. “Sea turtles are actually a natural predator of whiteflies. There’s no way they could survive Longboat life,” he said.

Citing lack of federal funds, the landscaping czar said the federal government hasn’t been watering or trimming the plants along Gulf of Mexico Drive for the past six months.

And it’s about to get uglier.

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Due to a lack of federal funds to pay for two full-time staffers to maintain each “Welcome to Longboat Key” sign, the feds will soon remove both signs.

The funding to re-stripe the line between the bicycle lane and the main road has also disappeared, meaning Gulf of Mexico Drive could become a free-for-all for motorists, bicyclists, joggers, tricyclists and rollerbladers.

Without federal funds, the town will no longer be able to fund enforcement of its longstanding policy of shielding Gulf of Mexico Drive with a vegetation buffer. That prospect worries Longboaters, who fear they’ll be able to see local businesses and condominiums from the road.

Meanwhile, local business owners are concerned about the potentially devastating impact the cuts could have on the local economy.

One business owner said her customers could get lost without the “Welcome to Longboat Key” signs.

“We’re starting to look like Bradenton out here,” she said.

Reached for comment by the Longboat Observer, an Obama spokesman urged Longboat Key residents to focus on other important issues: the national deficit, the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort, making health care affordable and a planning consultant’s upcoming review of town codes.

Call to service Cuts aren’t limited to Gulf of Mexico Drive.

The town also lost the federal funds that helped to pay for its turtle permit.

That means that each Gulfside condominium will be required to appoint residents to patrol its stretch of the beach for turtle nests each morning before sunrise from May through October.

The town has never had the funds to rake its beach for seaweed. But, to prevent further deterioration, each Key resident will be assigned a 10-foot stretch of Gulf sand and given a town-issued rake to ensure the beach doesn’t lose its beauty.

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by Katie Hendrick | Community Editor

Red-light district helps plaza shine Longboat Key’s codes have confused developers for decades.

But, now, the town is learning the naked truth about just how tough it is to decipher its regulations.

A group of Longboat Key businessmen researched what they could build at Whitney Beach Plaza and learned it was classified as a “red-light district” — meaning, of course, that it can only have low-wattage, low-wavelength red lighting that doesn’t cast a shadow on the beach during turtlenesting season.

They came across minutes of old Longboat Key Town Commission meetings, in which Village residents pleaded for a red light. If only they had specified they meant “traffic light.”

Now “strip mall” is about to take on a whole new meaning at Whitney Beach Plaza.

Construction of the new Longboat Key Red Light District will begin the first week in April.

Businessman A.M. Sterdam, whose company purchased the plaza March 22, told the Longboat Observer, he already has several businesses lined up, including: Bare-ier Island Strip Club; Lock and Key to Longboat, a sex-toy shop; It’s Red Everywhere, an adult bookstore; Senior Moments, an escort/ companion service specializing in May-December pairings. (The Longboat location will be a satellite office. The company is headquartered in Sun City Center and has other

Town officials say their hands are tied when it comes to a new adult-themed business district at Whitney Beach Plaza on the north-end of the Key. It’s Red Everywhere The Longboat Observer will partner with the new adult bookstore to offer a new “It’s Red Everywhere” photo contest seeking photos of the most scantily clad Longboaters.

The grand prize winner will receive a free date with a Senior Moments escort/companion.

See the April 1 issue of the Longboat Observer for details.

HERE IT’S RED EVERYW NOW OPEN locations in The Villages, Largo, Dunedin and Naples.); Lights Out, a risqué, homeentertainment service.

Deeming Tampa “already saturated with strip clubs,” Sterdam took his search farther south. Such institutions “are noticeably absent on Longboat Key,” he said, calling the barrier island “the ideal site” for his endeavors.

Sterdam told the Longboat Observer he took extra effort to comply with town codes. He instructed his new employees at Bare-ier Island Strip Club not to flash patrons after reading it was prohibited. He didn’t know the prohibited flashing was actually a camera flash — because of its potential to disorient nesting sea turtles.

A planning staffer said the incident highlights the need

for clarity in town codes and ordinances.

Still, many Longboaters want the town to give the red-light district the boot.

Christian Morals called the business plan “an abomination” and plans to gather like-minded neighbors to picket the construction site.

“My grandchildren visit me on their summer vacations and we love to eat at Mar Vista,” Morals said. “I don’t want them exposed to this when we’re driving to and from the Village!”

Town officials were baffled that Sterdam’s company got mixed messages from the code. Still, they said their hands are essentially tied.

During a pre-application conference, they told Sterdam the zoning of the

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RPQ-III-AFH zoned-property would require it to be “stripped” — meaning almost totally gutted, and Sterdam interpreted the word literally.

Had the property been located in the nearby RSF-II-D3CPR zone, a partial rebuild would have been possible, and the confusion could have been avoided.

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+ Persson’s bill stacks up for town

Oh, how we hope you made it to this page. Happy April Fools’ Day! To be clear: Every story that appears on this page and pages 1-3 are not true. They were written in the hopes of adding some chuckle to your weekly read. They all are part of the Longboat Observer’s annual April Fools’ edition.

customers, who described it as “awesome” and said they got goosebumps walking through the sliding doors.

But, it wasn’t enough for Longboaters.

By 8:40 that morning, Publix began getting complaints from customers who said their calls were getting dropped before they could place their orders to the deli and bakery.

By 9:05 a.m., at least three Longboaters had gotten lost in the mammoth store but were unable to get a signal to call for directions to the Apron’s Simple Meals station and missed out on praline French toast samples as a result.

At the same time, Publix has an unprecedented need for cellular service: It just unveiled its new digital coupons program, but Longboaters have said they can’t get a signal strong enough to download the chain’s mobile app.

But not everyone is giving the tower a ringing endorsement.

A CVS spokesman said the tower could block CVS’s view of Publix. He suggested Publix consider alternatives, such

as a distributed antenna system (DAS) network or placing signal-boosting antennae on its store.

“A shopping center like this is too special for a cell tower,” he said.

North-end residents are also disappointed the cell tower won’t boost coverage in their neighborhoods. Publix has offered free parking to north-end residents who need a place to talk on their cell phones.

The structure could offer an unobtrusive design for the tower that’s been proposed for the Longboat Island Chapel property.

Meanwhile, police have concerns about Longboaters having access to cell service in highconcentration areas.

Police say that cell phone use is a factor in 71% of accidents in which a motorized cart rider backs over another shopper’s foot. Increased cell phone use could increase the number of shopping cart vs. car fenderbenders.

Town officials also expect the combination of improved cellular service and the new Publix liquor store to cause drunken dialing to skyrocket.

COLONY / FROM PAGE 1A penthouse to watch the demolition derby from above, complete with a champagne toast and “Colony Comes Crashing Down” T-shirts.

Klauber said he’s been amazed by the response and said Longboaters have told him they feel liberated they can now both live on the Key and proclaim their love for things such as NASCAR and monster trucks. Several residents, Klauber said, head to Bradenton Motorsports Parkway each week to watch the school bus races, donned in disguises because they fear neighbors will shame them.

“Residents are sick and tired of going to wineand-cheese parties,” Klauber said. “There’s a little redneck in all of us, and that’s nothing to be ashamed of.”

A scavenger hunt will be held the following day, in which Longboaters and past hotel guests can pay $25 to scour the property for Colony treasures that range from swimming pool pavers to vintage Colony linens.

“Longboaters are very excited to watch this place be torn down,” Klauber said. “It’s an eyesore, and I realize this place needs to be leveled to get things moving in the right direction.”

Town officials have approved a special-use permit to allow the event to occur at 7 p.m. Monday, April 1.

“Residents and commissioners alike are sick and tired of looking at the resort in its current form,” said one Planning, Zoning and Building department employee. “This is worth it to stop the complaints from residents who complain about their property values being affected by these old buildings.”

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Town Attorney David Persson delivered his final bill last week to Longboat Key Town Hall.

And, let’s just say all those Longboat Key Club and Resort hearings, Colony Beach & Tennis Resort questions and overlay discussions really stacked up.

The final tab was so big, Persson delivered it to Town Hall in eight separate boxes and had to borrow a town-owned SUV to haul it from his office.

The Longboat Observer submitted a publicrecords request for the total, but Town Manager Dave Bullock has not yet fulfilled the request.

He says he can’t bear to open the boxes.

Bullock said he wants to ensure future town attorney costs, such as pensions, will be “predictable, sustainable and fair” and will limit all Longboat Key Town Commission meetings to one hour to avoid the ticking town attorney clock.

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Hilton project requires code changes To allow the Hilton a chance to add a fifth floor to its project through the site-plan process, the Longboat Key Town Commission intends to alter its Comp Plan and codes.

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Harold Ronson receives a T-shirt from Harley Rockhill, secretary of the Collegiate Veterans Association at Florida State University.

The Longboat Key Hilton Beachfront Resort is seeking a fifth floor and an additional 15 feet in height as part of its renovation-and-expansion project. The problem is town codes, as written, don’t allow such a request, now that a judge has ruled the town’s outline development application

process (ODP) can’t be used to approve such a request until the town makes sweeping code and Comprehensive Plan changes.

It’s becoming a déjà vu problem for Hilton officials, who are trying to break ground on a new project this summer.

To remedy the situation, though,

the Longboat Key Town Commission agreed at its Wednesday, March 20 regular workshop to alter its Comp Plan and codes, once again, to allow such a request to be approved through a site-plan process, instead.

“It’s just a new process to approve that fifth floor through an-

other means,” said Planning, Zoning and Building Director Robin Meyer.

Without the change, which will come before the town on first reading before it’s sent to Tallahassee for review on the state level,

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+ Presentation suits class to a tee “Harold had my students in the palm of his hand and gave them one of the most memorable experiences of their college years.” That’s what Florida State University history professor Kurt Piehler had to say about Longboat Key resident Harold Ronson’s presentation to his class March 21, on the Tallahassee campus.

Piehler is director of the FSU Institute on World War II and the Human Experience.

The class Ronson addressed studies war as portrayed in film; they screened “Sands of Iwo Jima” (1949), after which Ronson shared his experiences while serving in the U.S. Navy there and answered questions. The students presented Ronson with the official T-shirt of FSU Collegiate Veterans Association.

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Amy Weissman, 8, prepares to dig in to her pancakes Saturday, March 23, at Stella Maris Hall at St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church.

The Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key served almost 500 people at its annual pancake breakfast, which helps fund scholarships for graduating high school students as well as operational costs for the club. For more photos, see pages 1B and 2B.

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+ Four-year-old hooked on fishing Hayne Falck may be 4, but he’s already a big fish.

That’s because he caught his first redfish earlier this month — and his catch was so big that it fed 10 people.

Hayne is the grandson of Longboaters George and Sally Rauch and the son of Siesta Key residents Vic and Ellie Falck.

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by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor

Adams makes push for more Colony units Colony Beach Investors LLC is offering to buy Colony Beach & Tennis Resort units ranging from $25,000 to $50,000, depending on the condition, square footage and location.

Andy Adams, a Colony Beach & Tennis Resort owner who already controls 47 Colony units and approximately 50 unit-owner votes, is making a play for more units and a majority vote for the future

of the resort property.

Unit owners began receiving correspondence dated March 22 from a Tampa-based law firm this week, announcing Colony Beach Investors LLC (CBI) “would like

to extend another offer to purchase additional units because CBI has received several recent inquiries from owners asking if CBI would purchase their units.”

CBI noted it has previously

closed on all units offered for sale (within the company’s price range and in accordance with the company’s terms) in response to

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COLONY / FROM PAGE 5A two prior offers to purchase Colony units.

When asked why the offer was sent to unit owners, Adams told the Longboat Observer, “People were emailing me they wanted to sell their units. We’re not encouraging anyone to sell or not sell.”

To date, CBI purchased 42 units from Feb. 4, 2012, through May 30, 2012. Sale prices for the units the ranged from $65,00 to $80,000.

The current offer, though, is for the purchase of units ranging from $25,000 to $50,000, depending on the condition, square footage and location. According to the letter, the company is willing to extend offers and close within 10 days after execution of a purchase and sale agreement. While the offer is only valid on paper through Thursday, March 28, Adams said that deadline could be extended.

Said Adams: “I never say never to anything.”

Adams also owns three units under W. Andrew Adams and two units under Andy and Dotty Adams. His son, William A. Adams, owns another unit.

The 47 units Adams owns gives him approximately 50 of the resort’s 232 unit

HILTON / FROM PAGE 5A the Hilton couldn’t proceed with a fifth floor. The change will allow the Hilton and other T-6 zoning (six tourism units per acre) properties to request to redevelop through another process while asking for more units on another floor.

At the workshop, Town Manager Dave Bullock called the change “a simple, straight-forward process.”

Currently, the Comp Plan process already allows for the distribution of the 250 tourism-unit pool and an additional story of up to 65 feet.

“This would just extend that right to the site-plan process, as well,” Meyer told commissioners.

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owner votes.

No new purchases by Adams or his corporation were recorded on the Sarasota County Clerk of the Courts’ website as of press time.

When asked, Adams said his reasoning for buying more units is obvious.

“Investment purposes would obviously be the answer,” Adams said. “As I told the owners a few weeks ago, my drive is to get the owners back into their beach houses and enjoy the Gulf of Mexico and Longboat Key as opposed to allowing the buildings deteriorate.”

Adams also said he has “no plan on the table” for a luxury condominium project for the property.

A teardown and rebuild of the property requires approval of 75% of unit owners.

But a rehabilitation of the current proper-

ty allows for a lower majority voter threshold of 50%.

With Adams controlling approximately 20% of the votes, a strong push for more units and more votes could jeopardize a vote for a teardown and rebuild of the property.

Adams’s offer was mailed out soon after the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association sent out a four-page ballot to all owners, asking them to pick whether they want a teardown and rebuild or a rehabilitation of the property.

Unit owners have until April 8 to mail back their ballots.

Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association President Jay Yablon said the poll is strictly an advisory vote that will help give the board a sense of what the majority of the unit owners wants before the annual owners meeting is held May 7, on Longboat Key. When asked his preference for the ballot, Adams said, “I have not voted yet.”

On Feb. 25 through Feb. 27, an Association meeting revealed which way unit owners in attendance were leaning. The board asked owners if they wanted a renovation of the existing units or a teardown and rebuild.

“A straw poll of owners was taken and, aside from the large block of votes that are controlled by Andy Adams, the overwhelming sentiment from the sampling of owners at the meeting was in favor of a new construction project with an outside developer maintaining only the existing beachfront units,” Yablon said in February.

A letter that went along with the ballot also revealed the majority of the Association’s board is not in favor of a renovation.

“The majority of the board is not confident that a 15-acre staged rehabilitation would be successful or that this approach will yield the basis for a competitive resort,” the letter states.

Yablon declined to comment on the recent bid for units from Adams’ company.

Colony owner and rehabilitation supporter Blake Fleetwood, though, said it’s inaccurate to report the majority of unit owners favor a teardown and rebuild project.

“While more people in attendance raised their hands in February for a teardown project, the majority of votes in the room (which belonged to Adams), favored a rehabilitation of the existing units,” Fleetwood said.

Delray Beach-based Ocean Properties Ltd., owner of the Hilton, seeks 85 of the 250 tourism units that would be used for a new tower on the property. The company also wants to redevelop its existing buildings and the 102 rooms that currently sit on the site.

Recent commission challengers Gene Jaleski and Larry Grossman, though, warned commissioners last week they believe the town is amending any code necessary to help the Hilton move forward with its project.

“Don’t push us back into court like you did with the Longboat Key Club and Resort project,” Jaleski said. “We all want the Hilton to prosper, but not at any cost.”

When commissioners sought legal ad-

vice from town attorney David Persson, he said the town was within its right to make the change.

“Here, you are changing rules from which you allocate the 250 tourism units from an ODP process to a lesser process in the siteplan process,” Persson said. “It’s within your right to make that decision.”

The current goal for the Hilton, according to its reservations page on its website, is to shut down for renovations on July 24 and re-open in the second quarter of 2014. The website previously stated the hotel would close May 1.

This isn’t the first hurdle for the Hilton project, which doesn’t have an official application on file at Town Hall.

Ocean Properties Vice President Andy

Berger told the Longboat Observer in January that to keep the Hilton flag flying on the property, Hilton-mandated renovations have to begin this summer, and a project has to be approved before the commission and the Planning and Zoning Board take a summer hiatus on approving projects.

The commission took the first step to avoid the Hilton flag being removed by approving an ordinance earlier this month that modifies the process that distributes the pool of 250 tourism units that were approved by Key voters in 2008. The commissioners’ move also allows the Hilton application to proceed while the town hires a planning consultant to perform a complete review and modification of the town’s current codes and Comp Plan.

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by Robin Hartill | Community Editor

Fire razes Land’s End home A historic 1950s home was destroyed the morning of March 21, after a fire engulfed the home.

The residence at 733 Land’s End Drive was the home of real-estate magnate Michael Saunders’ sister, Joan Bergstrom.

Bergstrom, her daughter and grandson were in the home but escaped without injury before firefighters arrived.

According to Longboat Key Fire Rescue Deputy Chief David Kyle, the department got its first calls about the fire around 9:56 a.m.

Kyle said he could see a thick cloud of smoke as he left the North Fire Station, which is nearly 3 miles away from the home.

The home was fully engulfed in flames and was beginning to collapse by the time firefighters arrived.

According to an email Fire Rescue Chief Paul Dezzi sent to Town Manager Dave Bullock, crews kept the fire contained to the home.

“This fire could have been devastating in that there were three persons in the home when the fire started and all evacuated quickly,” Dezzi wrote. “Also, this home was very close to other homes, and if it were not for the quick actions of the firefighters, the home to the west would have been involved. To make matters worse, the wind that was sustained during this event advanced the fire quickly, engulfing this home in a matter of minutes.”

The fire was under control within approximately 25 minutes, according to Kyle.

The Longboat Observer was unable to reach Bergstrom for comment.

Bergstrom and Saunders’ brother, Tom Mayers, also a Land’s End resident, said Bergstrom moved the house to the north end from midKey, near Publix, approximately 25 years ago. She originally used the home as a guest

The historic residence was the home of Michael Saunders’ sister, Joan Bergstrom.

Photos courtesy of Longboat Key Fire Rescue

Flames engulfed the home in the 700 block of Land’s End Drive the morning of March 21.

The home was completely destroyed by the fire. residence before subdividing the property and selling the main home.

The family has a long history at Land’s End. The siblings’ great-great uncle, John Savarese, was the original settler of Land’s End. He built a vacation home on the edge of the water there around 1914.

During the Great Depression, he failed to pay taxes on the property. In 1936, he gave it to his great niece, Frances Fitzgerald Mayers, and her new husband, Frank Mayers,

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on the condition they pay the back taxes.

The couple were the parents of Bergstrom, Mayers and Saunders.

Mayers said Bergstrom was preparing to leave for Panama, where she owns an inn, when the fire occurred.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation. It was likely caused by oil paintings leaning up against the home’s heater, according to Mayers. Both the fire extinguisher and hose didn’t work properly, and the fire quickly

Mystery man?

Jason Schmidt, Longboat Key Public Works service worker II, was checking meters on his golf cart when he saw the smoke and flames.

He didn’t know all three people had gotten out of the home when he ripped the French doors opened and called out to anyone who might be inside. Flames burst out, and he didn’t see anyone inside, but he heard fire-engine sirens and immediately moved his golf cart out of the way.

“I was just trying to be a good human being and pull anyone out who might be inside,” Schmidt said.

The next day at work, his co-workers were talking about the “mystery man” who braved the fire.

Schmidt has worked for the town for the past year-and-a-half.

“He’s a great worker,” said his supervisor, Public Works Director Juan Florensa. “Apparently, he went above and beyond.”

Coincidentally, the motto Florensa has instilled in his department employees is: “Whatever it takes.”

spread throughout the home.

Bergstrom lost all of her belongings in the fire and was working to get a new passport so that she can return to Panama, Mayers said on Monday afternoon.

“They have to start from scratch to try to get her identity back,” he said.

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by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor

Town employees receive 3% wage increase The Town Commission agreed to give non-union employees a one-time 3% wage increase the town manager proposed.

It’s not an April Fools’ joke: Non-union represented employees will receive a 3% wage increase in their paychecks, effective with the April 1 pay period.

At its Wednesday, March 27 regular workshop, the Longboat Key Town Commission supported Town Manager Dave Bullock’s request to extend the wage increase to non-union represented police employees.

In February commissioners already voted an ordinance forward that gives non-union general employees a 3% raise effective April 1 and also prepares to give 3% raises retroactive to Oct. 1 for Fire Rescue Department employees.

The ordinance calls for $52,200 to pay for the non-union employee raises and $70,000 to pay for pending Fire Rescue raises.

But the police department non-union employees and general employees were exempt from that wage increase at the time.

On March 7, the Public Employees Relations Commission (PERC) announced 31 eligible general employees rejected a union by a 21-6 vote.

That move allowed Bullock to extend the 3% wage increase to those general employees, as well as police department employees who aren’t a part of a union negotiation.

The commission agreed to forward to a regular meeting a budget amendment of $32,000 for general employees and a $22,500 amendment for police department employees that gives them the 3% increase.

Bullock said although he’s a strong believer in merit increases, he’s OK with offering this across-the-board increase at this time.

“It’s been four years of no increases,” Bullock said. “I’m comfortable with this.”

Commissioner Lynn Larson, though, noted employees got a one-time $1,000 end-of-the-year bonus in November 2011 that cost the town $125,000.

by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor

Cellular antennas concern Seagate resident A resident is questioning whether cellular towers placed on the roof of her south-end condo tower could affect her health.

Seagate condominium owner Katherine Matthews is worried cellular antennas on her building’s roof are affecting her health.

The Seagate Condominium Association Inc. board of directors has been attempting to get antennas placed on the roof of its 15-story condominium building since April 2004, and it signed a contract with AT&T in June 2012.

In February, New Tech Construction Corp. placed nine antennas in three separate containers on the top of the building, which is 150 feet tall.

Matthews wrote a letter to the Seagate board June 20, 2012, explaining she is the only owner on the top floor of the building who lives there all year long and expressed her concern about where the antennas would be placed.

In February, she came home from a cruise to find the antennas being placed in close proximity together above her apartment at 2425 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

“They are right over my apartment and 20 feet from the bed I sleep in every night,” Matthews said.

A resident of Longboat Key for 20 years, Matthews said the board dismissed her concerns, refused to give her a copy of the contract with AT&T and won’t return her calls. She sent a letter dated March 20 to the board asking for a copy of the contract.

“Why couldn’t they spread the towers out?” Matthews said.

“I just want some answers and want to know if they can be altered to limit my exposure to radiation.”

In an email to then Seagate

President Fred Herzog dated June 20, 2012, Matthews outlined her wish that the towers be spread out, though, at the time, the board had not released the location of the towers.

“The proximity of radio waves from the cellular towers is a serious concern regarding my health,” Matthews wrote.

In an April 8, 2004, letter to unit owners, the Seagate board addressed concerns about radiation from the antennas by stating, “We have contacted the FCC … it appears we have as much to fear, perhaps more, from a microwave oven than from an FCC regulated cellular antenna,” the letter states.

The Seagate board also stated in that letter the antennas could generate an annual income of $60,000 to $72,000 per year

through a lease with AT&T, stating Seagate needed “to seize the opportunity.” Seagate became interested in the endeavor after it discovered its neighbor, Islands West, and several other southend condominiums receive similar antenna revenue streams.

Seagate condominium Manager Cheryl Fox declined to comment and said she would relay the Longboat Observer’s contact information to current Seagate President Janet Love. Love had not called back the Observer as of press time.

Matthews said she should be at least 100 feet away from the towers and has researched safe radio frequency fields that lead her to believe she is not safe.

“I’m having trouble sleeping and have mental excitation because of this,” Matthews said.

Federal Communications Commission guidelines state: “When cellular antennas are mounted on rooftops, radio fre-

quency emissions could exceed higher than desirable guideline levels on the rooftop itself, even though rooftop antennas usually operate at lower power levels than freestanding power antennas. Such levels might become an issue for maintenance or other personnel working on the rooftop. Exposures exceeding the guideline levels, however, are only likely to be encountered very close to, and directly in front of, the antennas. Individuals living or working within the building are not at risk.”

Planning, Zoning and Building Director Robin Meyer said the department issued a permit for the antennas Oct. 24, after New Tech Construction Corp. met the requirements for antenna placement.

“They’re the experts in this case and know how to install antennas without affecting the safety of condominium residents,” Meyer said.

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Town Manager Dave Bullock is seeking guidance from commissioners on how they would like to review the candidates before making a final decision.

Candidates include Maggie D. Mooney-Portale of Sarasota-based Hankin, Persson, McClenathen, Cohen & Darnell; Charles H. Webb of Holmes Beach-based Webb, Wells & Williams; Robert K. Robinson of Sarasota-based Nelson Hesse; and Susan Churuti of Tampa-based Bryant Miller Olive.

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Assistant Town Manager Anne Ross sent a letter to affected Colony Beach & Tennis Resort parties Wednesday, March 20, informing them the site needs more cleanup before hurricane season starts in June.

The letter, which Town Manager Dave Bullock signed, instructs the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association to clean up certain parts of the property no later than April 12, or the town will begin using the Association’s $50,000 cash bond to pay to clean it up.

Building Official Wayne Thorne submitted a two-page list of resort deficiencies and a series of photographs. Problems include loose gutters, broken fences, exposed wires and loose doors.

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

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Construction will last approximately 60 days. The pier will not be usable during that time.

+ Town hires new senior planner The Planning, Zoning and Building Department has hired Alaina Ray to fill the vacant senior planner position which Ric Hartman, who was working as an hourly employee without benefits, vacated.

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by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Grand Mariner stands as Longboat Key’s newest condo Believe it or not, Longboat Key does have new condominium inventory — or at least “never used.”

Built in 2008, just one of the 14 units at Grand Mariner have sold, and four are under contract.

“It’s the newest condo on Longboat Key,” said Reid Murphy, of Developers Realty Co., who is the sales agent for the project.

But the project faces yet another hurdle in its nearly 10-year history: the possibility of a cellular tower being placed on the nearby Longboat Island Chapel property.

Currently, the town does not have an application on file for a tower at that location.

“It has had a huge impact,” said Sheri Trine who, with her husband, Ralph, bought the property for $9.5 million in April 2011 from Bank of America.

Trine said she “is not pushing sales until the issue gets resolved” — meaning a decision on whether the property will hold a tower.

The condominium is located at the site of the old Buccaneer Inn. Dream Island LLC received approval from the town to build the project in January 2003 but was hit with four separate lawsuits from Dream Island Road residents Accursio Sclafani and Doreen Erickson, who claimed the project violated the town’s ordinances and Comprehensive Plan and that the building would loom over their residence and take away their privacy.

Sclafani and Erickson withdrew their final lawsuit in August 2007,

Pirate back at sea

Open house Sales agent Reid Murphy will hold an open house at Grand Mariner, 595 Dream Island Road, from 1 to 3 p.m.

Saturday, March 30, and Sunday, March 31. Contact Murphy at 232-3304. and the project was finished in early 2008.

Then, Bank of America filed a foreclosure suit in August 2008, claiming that Dream Island LLC defaulted on $22.5 million in loans.

The next year, Bank of America received a $26 million foreclosure judgment. The Trines paid just a fraction of what was owed on the property when they purchased it nearly two years ago.

Since then, one unit has sold for $1,317,500 in April 2012, according to the Manatee County Property Appraiser’s website, manateepao.com.

Units are currently priced between $1.7 million and $2.4 million. Each unit is fully furnished with three bedrooms and three bedrooms and has between 3,200 and 3,400 square feet of living space.

Plus, it has other features that could be a draw to buyers, including a fenced-in pet area and dog run, along with 20 deep-water boat slips.

“It’s very difficult to find a condo and a home that is animalfriendly,” Trine said. “It’s also dif-

The pirate statue that once greeted guests at the Buccaneer Inn and watched over Dream Island Road has a new home.

Grand Mariner owners Ralph and Sheri Trine moved the pirate to the area outside the swimming pool overlooking the water. The pirate also got a makeover, including a repainting and new nose.

“He’s a happy pirate,” sales agent Reid Murphy said. “He’s back on the water, where a pirate wants to be.”

Grand Mariner is located at 595 Dream Island Road.

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PINE PROPOSAL

by Roger Drouin | City Editor

Commission alters fire Lido residents could partner with pension board makeup county to remove Australian pines The commission wants to change the board’s structure for the soon-to-be-frozen plan, with the commission handpicking the majority of members.

The Longboat Key Town Commission wants to retire the current structure of the Firefighters’ System Board of Trustees.

During its March 20 workshop, the commission directed Town Manager Dave Bullock to draft an ordinance that alters future appointments to the firefighter plan, which in the process of being frozen for consideration at its April 1 meeting.

The commission agreed with a plan Vice Mayor David Brenner proposed that would allow the commission to select five board members, one who would be named the board’s chair. The town manager would be responsible for naming two board members.

Board members could include Key residents, firefighters and the town’s future finance director.

“The goal is to move this plan from a high-risk position to a limited-risk one,” Bullock said. “This is part of that plan, with the next step being to change the composition of the board.”

Currently, the board is made up of two commission appointees and two fire department union employees. Those four board members are responsible for selecting the fifth board member.

Although Bullock proposed

three appointees from commissioners and two board members elected by both the town manager and the majority of the firefighters, the commission wasn’t comfortable with that makeup.

Commissioners urged for an odd number of members and increased the number of members from five to seven.

Earlier this month, the firefighters union and the commission ratified a three-year contract that freezes the firefighters’ current pension plan and enrolls current and future firefighters in the Florida Retirement System (FRS). The town will have nothing to do with the FRS plan, but still must administer the current frozen plan that still has benefits for members.

“There is no question where the control is with this future setup,” Brenner said.

In the future, the commission anticipates seeing this board helping to administer another frozen pension plan. The town is negotiating with the Longboat Key Police Union for a similar threeyear contract.

“This format makes it pretty easy to incorporate other plans when the time comes,” Brenner said.

Sarasota County has undertaken similar partnerships in which residents contribute one-to-one matching funds.

An ongoing project to remove invasive Australian pines from Lido Key could get a financial boost soon as the result of a possible partnership between Sarasota County and The Beach Residences at the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota.

The partnership is in the preliminary phase, said Gary Erickson, president of the board of directors at The Beach Residences. “We’ve started a discussion with the county,” Erickson said.

If residents decide to partner with the county, the county would manage a contractor who would remove some of the invasive pines from South Lido Park and plant native shade trees, such as buttonwood, red cedar trees and cabbage palms, said George Tatge, project manager with Sarasota County Parks and Recreation. Residents at the nearby condo, which borders the park, would contribute funding to pay for all or part of the project.

The county has undertaken similar partnerships — sometimes matching contributions from residents.

“One of the last projects we did, the neighbors provided $10,000 and we matched $10,000,” Tatge said.

During that project, a wall of Australian pines was removed on South Lido along Big Pass.

These rapidly growing trees overtake native vegetation, such as mangroves, by producing a dense leaf litter beneath them. Also, with such a shallow root system, Australian pine trees tend to uproot and topple during high winds. Branches also become brittle after a freeze and can readily fall.

Erickson, who has lived at the Beach Residences part-time since 2006 and full-time since 2010, said he would like to see as many of the pines removed as possible and replaced with trees “that won’t hurt the mangroves.”

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“There are some individual residents (at The Beach Residences) who are interested in and are willing, perhaps, to provide some funding to assist the county,” Erickson said.

The condo’s board of directors has not approved the possible partnership.

In addition to returning native vegetation to the area, the removal of the Australian pines is often supported by residents because it also can clear water views because the pines are taller than many native trees.

The project along Big Pass, for example, significantly opened the water views to nearby residents, Tatge said.

Erickson noted, however, some residents on Lido don’t want to see the Australian pines go because of the shade they provide.

“John Ringling brought them over in the early part of the last century,” Tatge said, “as a windbreak or a landscape tree.”

Last spring, the county removed the invasive pines from Ted Sperling Park at South Lido Beach and planted thousands of sapling trees, including some red cedar and slash pine trees.

The young trees “are starting to come around,” Tatge said.

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March 12 Bang-up job 12:14 p.m. — 4700 block of GMD. Vandalism. A man parked his rental car in a hotel parking lot and discovered large dents on both sides of the vehicle. The dents appeared to be too high up to have been caused by another vehicle’s door. The man didn’t know of anyone who would intentionally damage the vehicle.

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10:45 a.m. — 2000 block of GMD. Property Found. A man turned in a black iPad he found in the bushes of the condominium property to a security guard. Police found the owner’s information and left a voicemail.

March 16 Hit or miss?

9:51 a.m. — Gulf of Mexico Drive and Jungle Queen Way. Traffic Violation. A caller reported that a landscaping truck driver might have knocked over a barricade while trying to turn the vehicle around at a dead end. Other witnesses said he was careful when turning around and didn’t hit anything. Police gave the driver a citation for not having a valid license.

March 17 There’s nothing to see here 8:56 a.m. — 400 block of L’Ambiance Drive. Abandoned 911 Call. A condominium employee opened the door to a unit for police, who were investigating an abandoned 911 call. No one was home, and police found no signs of trouble.

March 19 Special delivery 12:53 a.m. — 500 block of Cutter Lane. Domestic Disturbance. A man said his girlfriend slapped him after they got into an argument while celebrating her birthday.

The taxi driver who brought them home said the couple argued in the car, but the dispute didn’t turn physical.

The woman said she didn’t slap her boyfriend but that she did shove him. She explained that she called 911, but meant to call 411 to order a pizza. Police delivered the woman to her friend’s house.

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‘The Andy Adams Colony’?

What follows is not an April Fools’ joke.

To the contrary, it’s a serious moment of truth for the future of Longboat Key. Although we made up the story in our April Fools’ pages of a Monster Truck Demolition Derby event to tear down the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort, in truth, the Colony unit owners are voting as we write this to rehabilitate, or to demolish and redevelop.

For the observers on the outside, who don’t own a Colony unit, there really is no debate. Common sense and everything Longboaters know and see of the conditions of the Colony’s structures say there is no way those dilapidated buildings could be rehabilitated and upgraded to re-create the Colony at the world-class level that it was in its prime.

There’s no way.

And that’s without even considering the regulatory nightmares that would arise to try to overcome the Federal Emergency Management Administration’s 50% rules.

Rehab those crumbling buildings? No way.

And yet, among the owners of the 237 units in the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association, there is passionate, intense debate over renovation or redevelopment.

There is also a looming uncertainty that Tennessee businessman Andy Adams, owner of nearly 50 units, will gain ownership control of the association and figure out a way eventually to become owner and developer of the future Colony.

Talk to association board members, and none of them is sure what Adams’ true intentions are. Some even wonder if Adams’ end game is to see the Colony become a luxury condominium property — no longer a resort.

Adams told us (see page 5A): “… My drive is to get the owners back into their beach houses and enjoy the Gulf of Mexico and Longboat Key as opposed to allowing the buildings deteriorate.”

He says he has had no “plan on the table” to convert the property to a luxury condominium.

Nonetheless, Adams wants more of the Colony than he already has. As we report on page 5A, he is offering to purchase any owner’s unit for $25,000 to $50,000 depending on its condition.

This is worth noting — for all other Colony unit owners and the Town Commission. Here’s why: Adams needs to own 60 units to control more than 25% of association members’ votes, giving him veto power over any big decisions that require 75% ownership approval. Asked how many more units he wants to own, Adams told us there isn’t a goal.

As a member of the founding family and former CEO of National HealthCare Corp. and National Health Investors Inc., Adams has ample resources to purchase more units. According to proxy statements for the two public Tennessee-based companies, Adams and his family’s stock is worth $141.4 million.

These next few days are crucial.

For the past few weeks, the association board has been conducting a non-binding advisory poll of unit owners about which

way to go. The results of this poll are expected to influence how the board will vote to proceed when it meets in early May. The poll presented owners with essentially two options: 1) Staged rehabilitation of 15 of the 18 acres. This plan envisions the board assessing all owners about $36,000 for a first-phase rehab of common areas and rehabilitation of each unit’s exterior. Interior renovation is estimated to cost an additional $25,000 per unit if owners wanted new appliances.

The second stage — to bring the units up to present-day resort quality — is estimated to cost an additional $60,000 assessment. But this would require 75% approval from unit owners.

What’s more, according to a memo to unit owners, none of these estimates includes costs for mold remediation for the mid-rise resort building, legal settlements, recreation-land lease settlement, disability requirements, phone system, cable TV and water bills.

2) Redevelop/rebuild all 18 acres.

Two developers — Vanguard Land LLC

SIGN-GATE, the end

“Frankly, I think you owe me an apology,” said Longboat Key Vice Mayor David Brenner.

This was the vice mayor’s response to the editorial in this space last week in which we said “an apology would be good” to defeated Town Commission candidate Larry Grossman.

Grossman has been pressing for Brenner to resign or at least be censured for removing Grossman and Gene Jaleski campaign signs last month from the property along John Ringling Parkway (SR 789) on Lido Shores before the town election.

Brenner in no way believes an apology is necessary. He says he did nothing wrong; he says he did what the property owner asked him to do.

We failed — to find out and report the whole story.

After Grossman and Jaleski placed their signs next to those of Terry Gans on the private-property portion of the John Ringling shoulder, Brenner asked the property owner whether Grossman and Jaleski obtained permission. The owner said no. Brenner says the owner asked him to remove the signs.

In hindsight, after it happened, that’s all he needed to say. Of course, even that, in all likelihood, would not have stopped the silliness that always accompanies the Silly Season — Longboat’s annual elections.

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and JHM Group — are under consideration, each offering unit owners options to sell their units outright or maintain fractional or full ownership. Specific dollars amounts were not presented in a recent memo to unit owners.

Vanguard Land’s proposal envisions increasing the Colony to 350 units. It wants to add 113 units from the town’s pool of 250 tourism units that Longboat voters approved for allocation about five years ago.

According to the memo to unit owners, a majority of the association board favors redevelopment over renovation. These board members are “not confident that a 15-acre staged rehabilitation would be successful and is not comfortable making an assessment compelling all owners to pay for the first-stage renovations, with no certainty that the second stage would proceed or succeed, or that this approach will yield the basis for a competitive resort.”

The unit owners’ deadline for responding to the poll was to be April 8. Jay Yablon, president of the association board, said the polling could close a few days sooner.

As you might expect with more than 230 unit owners, they have more than 230 opinions on how things should turn out.

But one theme that surfaced in the association’s meetings in February is that most of the unit owners who spoke saw their Colony units as vacation getaways, not as permanent residences, nor as a real-estate investment intended to generate cash or big returns. They want their old Colony back, only in new condition.

Their wishes and desires could become moot, however, if Adams crosses the 60unit threshold.

Given his behavior over the past few years of buying up units and at times seeking to become a developer of the new Colony, Adams indeed views the Colony as much more than a vacation getaway and place to play tennis, which he likes to do.

It’s an investment. He said it himself.

And investors typically like healthy returns.

Which makes many Colony units owners wonder if Adams is being totally forthcoming when he says all he wants is for them to be able to come back and enjoy the beach.

It’s Machiavellian to think Adams has ulterior motives. But it’s also plausible.

Consider what outcome could occur: If Adams is able to achieve the 25%-plus voting threshold, conceivably he could keep the association stymied from moving forward on a redevelopment.

That could trigger a drawn-out process of trying to assess all of the owners to renovate and bring the units up to code. You can envision this creating even more frustration among unit owners, compelling many of them to walk away or sell to Adams for whatever price he offers, eventually giving him 75% control.

All the while, the Town Commission’s frustration would continue to grow, pushing commissioners over the brink and voting to revoke the Colony’s resort densities.

Then what?

That would be up to Andy Adams, a savvy entrepreneur and CEO who has proven adept at building wealth and generating returns on his real-estate investments.

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+ Wake-up time Dear Editor: It’s wake-up time!

I visited the town website defining the parameters that must be followed to fix the very poor cell phone reception on the north end of Longboat Key. I was not impressed

Film has familiar wing for couple

because it does not provide a level playing field and is a roadblock to fixing the problem.

If the wireless providers thought the Distributed Antenna System (DAS) system was affordable, they would have solved the problem years ago. If the town is dumb enough to subsidize the cost, have at it; but we (the people at the north end of the Key) want the problem solved this year!

The electorate knew the position on cell phones of the candidates who lost the recent commission election; that’s why the north end supported your leadership.

Go with the proven success model: the cell tower. The Longboat Island Chapel can put the royalties to good use.

When other affordable technologies become available, move away from the tower solution.

Think where we would be today if the government told Henry Ford he could not build the Model T unless it had a self-starter. When technology is economically feasible, the public will endorse it.

Governments perform better when they get out of the way!

John Sandford Longboat Key

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Longboaters Wayne and Toni Lashway will savor the flavor of their nephew’s documentary, ‘The Great Chicken Wing Hunt.’

Toni Lashway remembers her nephew, Matt Reynolds, was a picky eater at age 4 or 5.

“He was just one of those little kids who would only eat a few things,” said Lashway, a Longboat Key resident of 30 years who teaches at Anna Maria Elementary School. “One of those things was Buffalo chicken (wings).”

It was a love that would last.

Reynolds, 36, went on a search for the greatest chicken wing in America and made a film about the endeavor.

His film, “The Great Chicken Wing Hunt,” will be screened April 8 and April 9, at the Sarasota Film Festival.

Lashway, who is originally from Lyons, N.Y., remembers the spread of Buffalo wings throughout the country.

The Anchor Bar in Buffalo, N.Y., is credited as the birthplace of the Buffalo wing. The creation happened almost by accident: Teressa Bellissimo received a shipment of chicken wings, and, instead of using them as scraps or in soup, she improvised and served them with Frank’s Hot Sauce.

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“There really is no excuse to make a bad wing,” he said.

Reynolds doesn’t want to spoil the ending of the film, so he won’t reveal if he succeeded in his quest for the perfect wing.

Still, he hints: “We reached a satisfying conclusion.”

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What will be served at the screening party of “The Great Chicken Wing Hunt”? Duh … wings.

A wing happy hour will take place from 3:30 to 7 p.m.

Monday, April 8, at Classico, 1431 Main St., Sarasota.

Wings coated with a Buffalo sauce from upstate New York and free drinks with Tito’s Handmade Vodka will be served.

The event is open to the public.

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Reynolds, however, said the film isn’t just about wings.

“The film is really about me discovering where I’m from,” said Reynolds, who left Lyons at age 18 and is a former journalist. “It makes the case that Buffalo wings are the first truly American food to spread throughout the world.”

In all, the crew traveled 2,627 miles and sampled 284 types of wings.

Lashway said she and her husband haven’t researched whether there are great chicken wings locally.

Reynolds, however, said he has had good wings in the area, although he doesn’t remember the location. When he visits his aunt and uncle, he often enjoys eating snook or redfish. He doesn’t eat Buffalo wings often anymore.

“But, if health weren’t a factor, I’d eat them all the time,” he says.

Reynolds said the recipe for a great Buffalo wing is simple: Wings should always be fresh and never frozen. Restaurants should change oil frequently and make sure the oil is the right tem-

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More than 40 volunteers took part in this event and as co-chairpersons, we would like to express our sincere appreciation for helping to make this a successful event.

The show, fashions, lunch and raffles exceeded all our expectations.

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This year, the church tradition took on extra significance, because it paid tribute to choir member Patricia Beckman, who died March 9. “She had 150 hats,” said fellow choir member, Doris Rowe. “Pretty much the only time she didn’t have one on was when she sang in a choir robe.”

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+ Women’s USTA 3.0 team to hit the courts at Daytona championship The Younger family had a rather magnificent 24 hours two weeks ago. On Tuesday, March 12, Longboat Key voters re-elected Phill Younger for another term on the Town Commission. The day before, his wife, Fanny, had her own big news: Her tennis team advanced to the sectionals championship in May in Daytona.

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And the final chapter of this year’s races included the last day of the Longboat Library’s annual book sale.

The library held a book sale during early voting; the last day of the sale was on Election Day. If you missed this year’s sale, you can still check out the private, nonprofit located at 555 Bay Isles Road, next to Longboat Key Robin Hartill Town Hall.

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by Robin Hartill | City Editor

April 1: fooling Longboaters for 14 years and counting

Before joining the Atlanta City Council, Richard Guthman served as president of the Fulton County Republican Club. For 40 years, he’s collected elephant statues and paintings and now has more than 100.

Love it or hate it, we know from your phone calls that you read our annual April Fools’ edition that debuted April 1, 1999.

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s a little boy in the 1930s, Richard Guthman rode with his parents to watch planes take off from the Atlanta airport, then known as Candler Field, a 3.5-acre property that serviced 16 Neighborhood: Promenade incoming and outgoing flights Neighbor per day. Four desince: 1999 cades later, while serving on the Atlanta City Council, he helped expand the airport into William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, a 2.5 million-square-foot hub designed to accommodate up to 55 million passengers per year.

Guthman’s tenure on the city council spanned 14 years and involved several meetings with Presidents Jimmy Carter

and Ronald Reagan, but, for him, the airport project was the most meaningful.

“It turned Atlanta into a major transportation center,” he said, adding that, unlike other airports, Atlanta’s runs entirely on its own revenues, not tax money. “All money earned in the airport stays in the airport.”

A former banker who called fiscal policy his “major thrust,” Guthman takes immense pride in this characteristic.

Guthman felt the calling for public service after volunteering to ride with the city’s homicide, robbery and vice squads on weekends.

“I saw an unseemly side of my hometown,” he said. “I also saw these brave individuals’ dedication to better the city and felt inspired to do something myself.”

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The incident showed that some rules of the road weren’t completely clear: The law stated clearly that bicycles were vehicles. But what about roller skaters? Were they vehicle operators or pedestrians?

The article cited a law stating all bicycles needed an operating sound device and that tricycles were required to have the same equipment as bicycles. The article pointed out the law didn’t clearly state whether a whistle or a shout could technically be considered equipment.

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A child and a peacock fought in the Village. (Breathe a sigh of relief: The peacock wasn’t injured.)

Those were a few of the headlines in the Longboat LONGBOAT Observer’s first April Fools’ LORE edition April 1, 1999.

Two days of phone calls followed the publication, including both complaints and kudos. Adding to readers’ confusion was the fact that April Fools’ stories were mixed throughout the newspaper with actual stories.

We received approximately 50 phone calls: Twenty-two readers praised the issue, and another 10 callers said they were relieved it was a joke. At least 13 readers called to say they weren’t amused.

“I hope your paper never pulls another dumb stunt like that again,” one reader wrote.

Fourteen years later, that individual has finally gotten his or her wish. We will never, ever write an April Fools’ story again.

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Thursday, March 28 Meryl Gordon Presentation — starts at 11 a.m. at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road. Gordon, the author of the New York Times bestseller, “Mrs. Astor Regrets,” and director of magazine writing at New York University’s Arthur Carter Journalism Institute, will speak. Call 383-8161.

Friday, March 29 Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce Night at the Theatre — starts at 8 p.m. at Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe. Former Chamber President Tom Aposporos acts in the opening night performance of the eighth Ten-Minute Play Festival, hosted by Theatre Odyssey. Theatre Odyssey has reserved a block of seats for chamber members at a discounted rate of $12.50. Contact dawn@lbkchamber.com.

Monday, April 1 Enchanting India — starts at 9 a.m. at Longboat Island Chapel’s fellowship hall, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive. A group of church members will discuss their visit last year to India, which included a stay at Home of the Indian Nations, a non-profit home for children.

Sue Reese, Betty Rahm, Linda Dias, Liz Yerkes and Marilyn Johnson will share photos, videos and souvenirs. Breakfast is included. For reservations, call 383-6491.

Community Cancer Support Group — meets from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Mondays, at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road. The group welcomes cancer patients, long-term survivors and caregivers. Call 383-8192.

Tuesday, April 2 Community Support Group — meets from 10:30 a.m. to noon at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road. The group is open to those seeking a safe place to reflect upon life transitions. The group will discuss “life’s important questions” during the month of April. Topics include: life’s meaning, “Who am I?,” “What legacy do I want to leave?”

“Why is there suffering?” and life after death. Call 383-8161.

Friday, April 5 Save Our Seabirds Soiree — runs from 6 to 9 p.m. at Save Our Seabirds, 1708 Ken Thompson Parkway.

The fundraising event will feature live entertainment and food from the Longboat Key Club & Resort.

Tickets are $85. Call 388-3010 for reservations.

Tuesday, April 9 Longboat Key Garden Club Annual Meeting — starts at 11:30 a.m. at Joan Durante Park, 5550 Gulf of

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Easter on the Key SATURDAY, MARCH 30 Mar Vista Easter Egg Hunt — starts at 10 a.m. at Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant and Pub, 760 Broadway St. Call 383-2391.

SUNDAY, March 31 Casa del Mar Easter Egg Hunt — starts at 10 a.m. at Casa del Mar Beach Resort, 4621 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Call 383-5549.

Longboat Island Chapel — An Easter service starts at 10 a.m. at the Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive, followed by a children’s egg hunt. Call 383-6491.

St. Armands Key Lutheran Church Easter Egg Hunt — begins shortly after 10 a.m. at 40 N. Adams Drive. Call 388-1234.

Mexico Drive. The meeting will include a luncheon, beautification awards, the swearing-in of new club officers and the distribution of scholarships and grants. Call Madelyn Spoll at 383-4818.

Saturday, April 13 through Sunday, April 21 Sarasota Open — The USTA Men’s Pro Circuit tournament returns to the Longboat Key Club & Resort’s Tennis Gardens for the fifth year. This year’s event also includes an invitational tournament of 16 professional women players. Day matches begin at 11 a.m.; night matches begin after 6:30 p.m. Finals will start at noon Sunday, April 21. General admission passes are $150; VIP corporate tent access is $500 for the entire event. Visit sarasotaopen.org.

Wednesday, April 17 Wine tasting — runs from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Harry’s Continental Kitchens, 525 St. Judes Drive.

The event, which includes wines from around the world, artisanal cheeses, charcuterie and other hors d’oeuvres, benefits Mote Marine Laboratory.

Admission is $20 and includes a coupon to Harry’s, as well as a Govino wine glass. Call 383-0777.

Friday, April 19 Low Country Boil — starts at 5:30 p.m. at the Sarasota Outboard Club, 1604 Ken Thompson Parkway. The Argus Foundation hosts this all-youcan-eat buffet, which includes shrimp, crab, corn, potatoes and barbecue. The event will include a meetand-greet with government officials. Tickets are $85 per person. Call Sharlene at 365-4886.

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Looking for things to do? Concierges list their top picks These hotel concierges on Longboat Key and in Sarasota list their top recommendations for the area.

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Gloria Schroeder traveled the world with Regent Seven Seas cruise line before becoming the Longboat Key Club and Resort’s concierge.

Originally from Washington, she has lived in Sarasota for nearly 14 years.

Here, she shares the top-10 destinations she recommends to Key Club guests.

Road, Sarasota. They have a petting zoo, and it’s a botanical garden, as well. They have lots of colorful birds.

• Smugglers Cove Adventure Golf, 3815 N. Tamiami Trail,

Thompson Parkway. It’s good for all ages, and it has the sea lion exhibit until the middle of April.

• John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art,

5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota. I always recommend that people visit the circus museum. It’s not really a part of our overall culture, so it’s really like looking into a window of Sarasota history.

• Lido Kayak Tours — Almost Heaven Kayak Adventures has tours twice a day (launching from the north entrance of South Lido Park).

We’ve had really good luck with sightings of manatees and dolphins this year.

• Big Cat Habitat, 7101 Palmer Blvd., Sarasota — The guides are incredibly knowledgeable. It’s like having a very large private view of big cats.

• Treeumph! Adventure Course, 21805 State Road 70 E., Bradenton — The motto is “The ground is overrated.” It has things such as zip-lines and wobbly bridges. It’s a great way for people to enjoy themselves outdoors in Florida.

• Kayaking through the Lido mangroves: We always recom-

mend the bay and Gulf guided nature tour, where you cruise through canopy mangrove tunnels and lagoons. It makes for an ideal kayak adventure.

• Spring training at Ed Smith Stadium, 2700 12th St., Sarasota: Baltimore Orioles spring training runs through Saturday, March 30, at the newly renovated stadium.

• Paddleboarding — Sarasota Paddleboard

Co. delivers paddleboards and gives everybody a 15-minute miniature lesson. The whole family can enjoy it for $60.

• Bicycling — Siesta Bike and Kayak delivers bicycles to the Lido Beach Resort that you can rent for a week for $45. I have them bike around St. Armands, as far as they can go on Lido, on Longboat and to Sarasota.

• Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, 811 S. Palm

Ave., Sarasota — The docents are wonderful, and the setting is beautiful. We always encourage people to see the view of the bay.  Day trip to Anna Maria Island — Check out the

public beaches, and go to the Sandbar, 100 Spring Ave., Anna Maria. There are so many pelicans and birds. You can eat your lunch and have a beer and still sink your tows in the sand.

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I recommend the Ringling Museum due to the history of the circus and the beautiful setting. The exhibits are always changing, but the original home, the Cà d’Zan Mansion and the circus mansion are the top-three attractions.

• Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, 811 S. Palm Ave., Sarasota. If you love plants — flowers and orchids, in particular — it’s a must.

• Mote Marine Aquarium, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, City Island. I always recommend the aquarium for children.

They have eco-boat tours, which are wonderful. They have exhibits that are hands-on, so you get to see how they help injured animals.

Sarasota. It’s a miniature golf course, but there are also live alligators that you get to feed.

• G.WIZ: The Science Museum, 1001 Blvd. of the Arts, Sarasota. They get to use their creativity because it’s handson, and it’s great for children and adults.

(Editor’s note: G.WIZ is currently closed for renovations.)

• Sarasota’s cultural attractions: I always recommend that people check out the cultural attractions during season: the local theaters, the Sarasota Opera and the Sarasota Orchestra.

• St. Armands Circle: You can browse and go in and out of boutiques and have a wonderful ice cream at Ben & Jerry’s or Kilwin’s.

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• John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota.

Susan Ford was recently promoted to the newly established position of concierge at the Lido Beach Resort. Originally from Boston, she moved approximately five years ago to the Sarasota area to be closer to her parents. Prior to working at the Lido Beach Resort, she led tours throughout the world with Group Voyagers.

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• The Old Salty Dog (next door to Mote Marine), 1601 Ken Thompson Parkway —

Have a foot-long, beer-battered, deep-fried hot dog with an ice-cold beer and watch the boats pass. The famous footlong was featured on the “Man V. Food” TV show.

• John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota. —

Go when Ringling in Bloom is happening (springtime). The flowers are absolutely amazing. If you can’t get to the Ringling in the spring, anytime of the year there is beautiful art and wonderful exhibits.

lected Minot as the site of its trip, Aug. 11 through Aug. 17, after learning the natural disaster spurred uncharacteristically few volunteer teams to offer assistance, explained church member Lynn Blackledge.

• Take in a show —

Sarasota has the best entertainment, and there is always something happening.

The West Coast Black Theatre Troupe is one of my favorites, and there are shows during peak and offseason. The Florida Studio Theatre has the improv fest in the summer, and there are dozens of other options. I love the Sarasota Opera, but buy your tickets in advance because it sells out quickly.

• Take a walking tour of the Rosemary District — There are fabu-

lous restaurants and shops. I love Derek’s for dinner. There is always a fun blend of flavors on the menu, and he uses local products. Be sure to order a bottle of wine — the selection is fantastic.

• Siesta Key Drum Circle — Sundays at sundown. It is such an amusing and eclectic way to round out a fun weekend.

It’s not just drums. There are also belly dancers, fire dancers and hula-hoopers. It is hard to take it all in at once, so be sure to go at least twice.

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Maundy Thursday Supper and Communion March 28, at 5 p.m.

Please call the office for reservations.

Easter Sunrise Service at Bayfront Park March 31, at 7:30 a.m.

Bring your own lawn chair to 4052 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

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Easter Service of Worship

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Parishioners at St. Armands Key Lutheran Church hosted a barbecue dinner dance Saturday, March 23, complete with bluegrass music courtesy of The Fiddle Crabs, to raise money for a service trip to Minot, N.D. On June 21, 2011, the Souris River rose at a rate that would fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool in fewer than four seconds, according to statistics from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The flood, which peaked at 1,561.72 feet above sea level, forced nearly 12,000 Minot residents to evacuate and damaged more than 4,100 homes. Nearly two years later, the city still faces rebuilding challenges.

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yummy food and great shopping. I never leave the Circle without picking up some mango sorbet from ScoopDaddys.

to take in all the historic neighborhoods and the art galleries. Stop in to see the Sigrid Olsen Art Gallery on Pineapple Avenue. It’s a great spot to find whimsical art and ceramics. Also, don’t forget to look for the Tube Dudes along Main Street.

• Mote Marine Aquarium, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway.— Go on a Thursday so you can get a tour of the Seahorse Conservation Lab, or take in a Coastal Observation Tour. It is awesome.

• Full Moon Yoga — Takes place on Siesta Key beach during full moons. Be sure to bring a towel. Location is beach access No. 7 at Beach Road and Calle de Siesta. It is so relaxing to do yoga with the full moon above!

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Originally from Delray Beach, Julia Allerdyce became part of the Hotel Indigo team three years ago.

Recently engaged, there’s no doubt she and her fiancé have personally scoped out the following top-10 destinations she recommends to Hotel Indigo guests.

• Downtown bike tour — It’s wonderful

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Rose Tomason, Mary Ann Thornhill and Gladys Henry

Co-Chairwomen Clair Gertz and Joan Webster with Guild Vice President Vivian Leahy and Guild President Michaele McKenna

St. Mary annual style show benefits Catholic charities The Women’s Guild of St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church held a fashion show Wednesday, March 20, at the Longboat Key Club & Resort’s Harbourside Dining Room. The event, which featured clothes by Patchington on the Circle, as well as a few vintage ensembles, raised money for Catholic charities with raffle

ticket sales. Among the prizes: gift cards to Lynches Pub & Grub, the Lazy Lobster and Euphemia Haye; a pearl necklace

by McCarver & Moser Jewelers; and a photo session with Mary Lou Johnson.

Guild President Michaele McKenna also announced nominations for the Guild’s new officers.

Ursula Dimler and Connie Cameron

Marilyn Lamb, Rochelle McKinney and Rosemary Hickey

Sue McDonough, with her sister, Jackie Burke

Pat Harding, Edna Fussner, Audrey Klemens and Freddie Baribault

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EASTER AND PASSOVER SERVICES All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road. A Maundy Thursday service is at 5 p.m.

A Good Friday service is at noon.

Easter worship services are at 8 and 10 a.m. The Rev. David Danner is the rector. 383-8161.

communion service is at 5:30 p.m. A Good Friday Tenebrae service is at 7 p.m. An Easter sunrise service is at 7 a.m.; contemporary service is at 9 a.m.; and traditional worship service is at 11 a.m. The Rev. Mark Bernthal is the pastor. 388-1234.

Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian, 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive. A Maundy Thursday service is at 7:30 p.m. Easter worship services are at 9 and 10:30 a.m. The Rev. Bruce Porter is the pastor. 383-8833.

St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church, 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Lenten weekday Masses are at 9 and 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. Saturday. Stations of the Cross are at 5 p.m. Fridays during Lent. Good Friday stations are at noon; service is at 3 p.m. A Saturday Easter vigil Mass is at 8:15 p.m. Easter Sunday Masses are at 6:45, 8, 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. Msgr. Gerard Finegan is the pastor. 383-1255.

St. Armands Key Lutheran Church, 40 N. Adams Drive. A Maundy Thursday

Passover Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road. Shabbat services are at 8 p.m.

Fridays and 10 a.m. Saturdays. Rabbi Jonathan Katz will conduct services.

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Maundy Thursday is March 28; Good Friday is March 29; Easter Sunday is March 31. Passover is March 25 through April 1.

Hilton Hampton Brown

Hilton Hampton Brown, 68, of Longboat Key, died March 20, after a dignified adjustment to a slow, degenerative disease.

For more than 40 years, Mr. Brown was an active presence in Longbeach Village, especially in Bayou Hammock. His neighbors never doubted they could count on him for help and care.

Mr. Brown is survived by his sister, Helen Brown Levine; his niece, Abigail Hampton Levine; his friends, Richard and Barbara Smith; and his caretakers, Donna Dhennin and Juanita Nay. There will be no ceremony. Mr. Brown wished that his ashes be scattered. A plaque commemorating his life will be erected near his home on Pine Street.

Donations in his memory may be made to Bishop Animal Shelter of Manatee County.

James Fischley

James H. Fischley, 70, of Longboat Key, died March 20.

A resident of Country Club Shores, he formerly lived in Cleveland.

Robert Gephart

Robert I. Gephart, 79, of Sarasota, died March 16.

Born in Circleville, Ohio, Mr. Gephart graduated from DePauw University, in Greencastle, Ind., where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Following his tenure in the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1963, he studied at the University of Wisconsin’s Graduate School of

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Susan Pagano Jack, 58, of Longboat Key and Santa Fe, N.M., died March 15.

Born and raised in Bellmawr, N.J., Mrs. Jack later had many homes, including Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne, Ind. She had a passion for interior design, history and international travel. A dedicated wife and mother, she also loved dogs.

Mrs. Jack is survived by her husband of 36 years, Howard; her daughter, Summer Lee Jack; her sister, Cindy Silvers; and her brother, Stephen Pagano.

A memorial service was held March 18, at Toale Brothers Funeral Home. Another service will be held April 6, in Bellmawr, N.J. Memorial donations may be made in Mrs. Jack’s name to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at www.ocrf.org.

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Mr. Gephart worshipped at St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church.

He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Phyllis; son, Michael; daughter, Ann Moore; brother, Gene; four grandchildren; and one greatgrandchild.

A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, April 5, which would have been his 80th birthday, at St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church, 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Inurnment will follow in the church’s memorial garden.

to bring additional seating or blankets.

Freewill offering will benefit Church of the Palms Food Pantry.

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Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive. A Maundy Thursday light supper and communion service is at 5 p.m. An Easter sunrise service is at 7:30 a.m. at Bayfront Park, 4052 Gulf of Mexico Drive. An Easter worship service and children’s egg hunt is at 10 a.m. The Rev. Vincent Carroll is the pastor. 383-6491.

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ROGER SELLS LUXURY WATERFRONT PROPERTY For the 3rd time in five years, Roger has been named: #1 Realtor in both Sarasota and Manatee Counties • #1 Single Coldwell Banker agent for all of Florida

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Bird Key is an exclusive waterfront community, located between Sarasota and Lido Key. Just past the guard house you will find 510 oversized home sites with beautiful homes, wide streets and underground utilities. Bird Key is a boater’s dream, with deep waterways and easy access to Sarasota Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

The epitome of the Longboat Key lifestyle, this home offers the best of both worlds.

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Spectacular outdoor living areas. $1,095,000

LA BELLASARA

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SEAPLACE seaplaceg8301.com Spacious corner residence. Light and bright with winter sunsets. Furnished. $549,500 seaplaceg1211.com Spacious 2BR/2BA with upstairs living area.

Steps to the beach. Furnished. $339,000 seaplaceg4204.com Terrific value, this 2BR is located in the popular G-4 building. $309,000 seaplaceg3205.com Recently updated 2BR/2BA beach retreat.

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WINDING OAKS 3463windingoaksdrive32.com 3BR villa with lake and golf course views.

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1015bogeylane.com 4BR plus den newer home with views down the canal out to the bay. Upgraded finishes and designer features. $1,895,000 510puttinggreenlane.com This 3BR home is on the sunny southern side of Putting Green Lane. $739,000

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Many upgrades throughout. $1,195,000 grandbay325.com South side 3BR/3½BA Biscayne with marina BAY ISLES and city views. Walls of windows. $829,000 1561harborcaylane.com grandbay212.com A boater’s dream – 160' seawall, 2 docks, on a 3BR/3½BA Biscayne plan with wraparound protected, deep water harbor, this 4BR/4½BA bay and pool views. In wonderful condition. home has soaring ceilings, a cook’s kitchen May be purchased furnished. $799,000 and an open layout. $1,399,000

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SANCTUARY 535Sanctuarydrive203.com This 3BR/3BA is light and bright. Includes one covered parking space. $799,000

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SYC and BKYC hit the lanes for friendly competition.

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Susan Randal, Edith Barr Dunn, Linda Meisenbach and Sylvia Babineau sell 50/50 raffle tickets.

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Left: Asima Palmer with Vince DeLisi

For four hours Saturday, March 23, a hungry crowd trickled into Stella Maris Hall at St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church for a hearty meal of pancakes, sausage and orange juice with a side of goodwill. The Longboat Key Kiwanis Club served approximately 500 people at its annual pancake breakfast, which helps fund scholarships for graduating high school students as well as operational costs, such as feeding guest speakers at the club’s weekly meetings and supporting the Circle K Club at New College.

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Anne Young and Eric Chinn

Jim Burmeister, Richard Crawford and John Wild

Jack Brill serves Rick Williams some hotcakes.

Jim Larson volunteers at the annual Kiwanis Club pancake breakfast.

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SYC, BKYC square off in bowling contest Sarasota Yacht Club and Bird Key Yacht Club engaged in friendly competition Friday, March 21, during the clubs’ 13th Bowl Off, at Sarasota Lanes. Following a tight contest (Bird Key Yacht Club bested Sarasota Yacht Club by 123 pins, 6,913 to 6,790), participants mingled at a party at Bird Key Yacht Club, where they dined on chicken roulette and strawberry shortcake.

“We finally got it back after Sarasota Yacht Club’s back-toback victories,” said Jack Jaret, captain of the Bird Key team, who emphasized the light-hearted nature of the match. “Members of both clubs bowl together, generally, at least once a week.”

Bird Key Yacht Club bowlers Harry Corbin and Sally Reed

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Sarasota Yacht Club bowlers Sirlene and Jerry Bonney with Debbie Duncan, middle

Bird Key Yacht Club bowlers Jack and Sally Jaret

Sarasota Yacht Club bowlers Doug and Mary Jean Mampe

Bird Key Yacht Club bowlers Phil and Trude Smith

Bird Key Yacht Club bowlers Derek and Maureen Morris

Sarasota Yacht Club bowlers Mindy and Bob Mast

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Cedars east You don’t have to be a tennis player to enjoy living in this wonderful resort style complex with junior Olympic pool, 10 Har Tru tennis courts, restaurant and fitness center. This 2/2 townhome is privately located with view of the mangrove preserve and a small pond. 2 week rentals are allowed. Pet friendly.............................. Furnished $298,000 PaMPer YOUrseLF and live on the beach at the Beach Residences, a Ritz Carlton managed property. This 4100+ sf residence has 3 bedrooms, a family room, formal living room and dining room. It is exquisitely finished and decorated and has remarkable views of the Gulf, the Bay, and downtown Sarasota.....................................................Furnished $3,895,000 WINdWard BaY - Penthouse with amazing bay views, tennis, 2 pools, boat docks, deeded beach access. 2 pets allowed .............................................................................................................................................................................$249,000 MarINa aNd BaY VIeWs at Bay Harbour on the south end of LBK – just minutes to St. Armand’s Circle. 2/2 with screened porch ...................................................................................................................................................................................$275,000 WhItNeY BeaCh - a 1/1 with views of Bishops Bayou. Beach, bay, tennis, boat docks, fishing pier. Pets allowed......$225,000 LONG BeaCh - Elevated Longboat Village home with 4 car garage, vaulted ceilings and lush landscaping.....$375,000 BLaCKBUrN POINt WOOds - Beautifully appointed maintenance free 4/3 villa with its own pool in an attractive neighborhood close to Casey Key. Amenities include tennis, community pool and clubhouse. .........................................$374,500 BaYFrONt CONdO ON LBK - 2/2 immaculate condo in a community that offers 2 pools, tennis, fitness, clubhouse, docks and deeded beach access. Furnished. Pet friendly. ...................................................................... SOLD.......... $259,000 BeaCh harBOr CLUB - This 2/2 condo has been exquisitely renovated w/new kitchen, new baths, new flooring, new windows.

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Largest End Unit in Whitebridge with Nature Preserve View. $269,000

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by Katie Hendrick | Community Editor

Longbeach Village hosts neighborhood yard sale Jennifer Redding, dressed in peacock plumes to resemble her neighborhood’s unofficial mascot, stood on the corner of Broadway Street and Palm Drive Saturday, March 23, to usher bargain hunters into the Longbeach Village Association’s yard sale. Eleven households set up ta-

bles selling their former treasures, ranging from books and clothes to swimming pool fencing and a 1989 Dodge Ram 100.

Proceeds benefited the association’s social events, and residents donated unsold items to Tidewell Treasures in Bradenton.

Photos by Katie Hendrick

Wendy Walker, Jan Colby and Rosemary Mahoney

Marilyn Powell leads her first Sea Galls meeting.

Sea Gals host antiques dealer The Sea Gals, the women of Bird Key Yacht Club, arrived at their monthly meeting, Wednesday, March 6, with treasures in tow. Bruce Crissy, of Crissy Galleries, who has been involved in the antiques industry since 1964 (at the ripe age of 8!), shared his expertise and offered appraisals of jewelry, books, silver service and a

Larry Lillie browses CDs.

sword. Several ladies sported costume jewelry from the early-20th century for the occasion, and Marilyn Powell donned a fur cape belonging to her great-grandfather’s fourth wife.

“It’s the only vintage item I own,” she said. “Thank goodness it was cold enough to wear it!”

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Chairwoman Jennifer Redding dressed as a peacock to greet shoppers.

Above: Daphne Walker and Cody Baldwin Right: Event organizer Cade Sibley with guest speaker Bruce Crissy Virginia Luke and Carla Rowan

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SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS

by Katie Hendrick | Community Editor

Seaplace residents show Mexican flair at fiesta Front: Sue Brown and Bettina Rosica; back: Jon and Donna Boscia, Marcia Gutridge and Kerry Gorman Chairwomen Sandy Endres, June Hessel, Peggy Jelinek and Gloria Long

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MaryAnn and Ned Wetzel

Barbara and Jerry Rosenthal

Gino Del Pup and Darryl Jelinek serve Margaritas.

Beverly and Frank Stellon

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Virginia Long

Operation Kindness serves up fun, funds for wounded soldiers Seventy men and women participated in the sixth Operation Kindness Tuesday, March 19, at the Longboat Key Club’s Tennis Gardens and Harbourside Dining Room. The fundraiser, a round-robin tennis outing and cocktail party, co-chaired by Joanne Forch and Lorraine Falivene, benefited the Wounded in Action Family Foundation. The Vienna, Va.,-based organization helps wounded soldiers find employment, transportation and support groups so they can more easily transition from a militaryhospital environment to civilian life.

“We have a different kind of wounded solider returning home today,” said WIAFF CEO Warren Elliott.

Elliott, a Vietnam War veteran, explained that, when he fought, “men got shot.” Now, with warfare tactics such as roadside bombs, “they get blown up,” resulting in head injuries along with lost limbs, which can have mental repercussions for years. “Treating injuries is only the beginning,” he said.

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Rainy weather Wednesday, March 20, moved Seaplace residents’ scheduled “South of the Border” party from the pool area to the clubhouse, but it didn’t dampen residents’ spirits. Margaritas, quesadillas, fajitas and enchiladas set the mood for the Mexican-themed party, which concluded with a lively performance by the Jack Tamburine Band.

NICELY MAINTAINED, ADORABLE, COZY, coastal mobile home. Available DOWNTOWN W/DIRECT BAY VIEWS! 3-4Br/3Ba/2CG w/pvt elevator, detailed & high ceil, crown molding, marble, builtins, gas fp, granite, imported cabinets, MBa w/jetted tub & bidet, state-of-theart sys, 2 balconies in secure bldg w/ amenities! MLS#A3943537 $1,299,000

9th FLOOR WITH BAY VIEWS - DOWNTOWN! Custom remodeled 2Br/2Ba/1CG w/ wood laminate flrs, tile, modern cabinets, built-ins, crown moldings, 2 pvt balconies, hurricane shutters & personal laundry in secure building with full service amenities! MLS#A3951357 $775,000

REMODELED 7TH FLOOR VIEWS! Downtown 2Br/2Ba/1CG w/granite, Euro cabinetry, built-ins, ceramic tiled flrs, renovated kitch.w/SS appls., updated baths, pvt balcony & svc entrance in a secure bldg w/full svc amenities close to everything!

MLS#A3974587 $850,000

for immediate occupancy. Deeded beach access, Marina & active recreation center.

Why rent when you could own? Dia Wilson & Mary Moore #M5835618 $79,900

DOWNTOWN WITH VIEWS! 3-4Br/3.5Ba/2CG in Kanaya, over 3,000SF, 9FT ceil., crown moldings, porcelain tile, quality cabinetry, granite, marble, SS appls., wet bar, 2 pvt balconies in a Feng Shui inspired bldg w/amenities: pool, fitness ctr & more!

MLS#A3974304 $950,00

NEWER MOBIL HOME 2BR/2BA, rarely available, overlooking the serene Marina & boat slips. Open bright floor plan, turnkey furnished and ready for immediate occupancy. See for yourself!

Dia Wilson/Mary Moore $134,900 #M5835782 WATER VIEWS from this 2BR/2BA TKF condo. Updated kitchen, W/D, new A/C June 2012, 2 pools, tennis & beach access. $30 monthly for boat slip. Pets OK. Seller to pay 1 yr. main. fee from date of closing.

Dorothy Cook $249,000 #A3939881

5TH FLR BAY VIEWS! Downtown split plan, 2Br/2Ba/1CG w/tile flrs, mirror walls, bonus space, eat-in kitch., master & guest wing, pvt laundry, balcony & hurricane shutters in secure bldg w/ amenities; concierge, valet, fitness ctr, pool & more! MLS#A3970528 $550,000

ATTRACTIVELY FURNISHED in light colors. 2BR/2BA w/beautiful water views from LR, BR and lanai. Updated kitchen w/built-in desk, guest BR or den, pools, tennis, marinas. 2 pets OK. Dorothy Cook $255,000 #A3968087 CONRAD

WATERFRONT PRESERVE VIEWS Luxurious 3Br/3Ba/1CG w/tray ceil., crown moldings, furn quality cabinets, custom tile, granite, pvt elevator, svc entrance, covered and screened balcony w/sunsets, furn is negotiable in gated golf comm. w/ amenities! MLS#A3949944 $285,000

MAGNIFICENT GOLF COURSE ESTATE! 7,516SF/5-8Br/5FBa/3HBa/4CG w/the best in craftsmanship, marble, wood flrs, granite, built-ins, elevator, wet bars, wine cellar, gas fp, state-of-the-art syst., 4k SF lanai, outdoor kit., pool/spa & more in gated comm. Offered at $2,995,000

MANOR IN THE OAKS BAYSIDE! Over 4,300SF, 4-5Br/4Ba w/formal Lr, sep Dr, gourmet kitch., morning rm, study, fitness ctr & theatre rm seating 8, private picturesque grounds & time honored quality w/ fine finishes & custom details in gated CC comm.! MLS#A3963302 $1,270,000

BAY AND CANAL VIEWS will inspire you from the spacious lanai of this well maintained 2/2 beauty, heated pool, tennis, deep water boat slip & private cabana w/deeded beach access.

Teresia Bradford $279,000 #M5832385

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PROTECTED DEEP WATER! Mainland 3-5Br/3.5Ba/3CG w/teak, mahogany & bamboo flrs, tile, granite, marble, detailed ceil., builtins, custom finishes, wood cabinets, aquarium glass, butlers pantry, gourmet kitch., comb fam rm, saltwater pool/spa & summer kitch on loggia, dock & lift MLS#A3971649 $1,695,000

BEACH Incredible opportunity to own 2 adjoining lots west of Gulf of Mexico Drive. Conrad Beach boasts timeless architecture, com. pool & clubhouse. Purchase separately or w/ M5815731.

Peter Uliano $260,000 #M5815734

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By Adam Hughes | Research Editor

BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of March 15 through March 21, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive)

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Unit 502 at Beach Place has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,392 square feet of living area. It sold for $699,000.

Two-bedroom Beachplace condo sells for $699,000 The following residential real-estate transactions took place between March 11 and March 15.

A condominium in Beachplace tops all transactions in this week’s real estate.

Sunrise Development LLC sold the Unit 502 condominium at 1145 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Therese Keeling-Land and Courtney Land, of Longboat Key, for $699,000.

Built in 1980, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,392 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $820,000 in 2004.

Harbour Oaks at Longboat Key Club

Gage McNally LLC sold the Unit 205 condominium at 2231 Harbourside Drive to Jacques Fortin and Mary Thompson, trustee, of Longboat Key, for $670,000.

Built in 1984, it has three bedrooms, four baths and 2,219 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $390,400 in 2010.

Longboat Beachcomber

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

Address Permit Applicant Amount 5919 GMD Pool and deck Donald Foss $413,547 3521 Bayou Pointe Interior Peter and Sandra Morris $180,000 340 GMD Interior David Weinstein $120,000

Sutton Place Re-roof Condominium Association $49,700 600 Sutton Place

Sutton Place Re-roof Condominium Association $36,036 561-569 Sutton Place Shutters Kathleen Pendleton $25,804 3460 Bayou Sound Kitchen Alan Shaffer $19,588.78 4420 Exeter Drive

Doors and window Harold Bier $14,995 4401 GMD Jeffrey Hotchkiss $13,226 1560 Harbor Sound Drive Lift Lift Dry Dock Enterprises Inc. $9,543.75 408C GMD Pool Ronald Platt $8,187 6211 GMD Lift Steven Gold $7,808 648 Bayview Drive Windows Robin Carlstein $4,309 1191 Bogey Lane Gage McNally LLC $3,000 2119 Harbourside Drive Kitchen Windows Sally Langenbahn $2,800 6701 GMD Door Peter King $2,360 6800 GMD Door James Polito $2,277 3710 GMD Window Andrew McFarland $2,182 3710 GMD Windows David Harding $1,558 4835 GMD Window Joseph Orear $895 882 Spanish Drive S.

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Maureen Hayes, of Winnetka, Ill., sold her Unit 118 condominium at 578 Spanish Drive S. to Michael and Cathy Landis, of Catchogue, N.Y., for $255,000. Built in 1969, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,073 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $175,000 in 2001.

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571 Putter Ln #A3968685 $2,250,000 Linda A. Page

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800 N Tamiami Trl. PH 1608 #A3961090 $795,000 Linda A. Page

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6338 Laguna Dr #A3957942 $795,000 Audrey Singer

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392 Firehouse Ln #A3972882 $715,000 Mary Defrank

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1241 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 402 #A3957287 $2,500,000 Michael Moulton

552 Juan Anasco Dr #A3967539 $644,000 June Mceleavy

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4311 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 201 #A3969075 $550,000 Bruce & Jenine Meyer

Longboat Key 941-383-5502 941-266-8303

3527 Palonia Ct #A3974532 $549,000 Dede Curran

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-928-3255

1007 Citrus Ave #A3975046 $539,000 Barbara May

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755 S Palm Ave # 204 #A3975362 $510,000 Julia Mcclung

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3816 Spyglass Hill Rd #A3973416 $499,000 Sherri Mills

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3438 Winding Oaks Dr # 43 #A3971914 $495,000 Jim Hanrahan

2295 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # Ph-5s #A3968394 $749,500 Bibi-Ann Allard PA

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448 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # A305 #A3965898 $440,000 Diana Kryszak

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240 Sands Point Rd # 4303 #A3971194 $439,000 Ian Addy Pa

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230 Sands Point Rd # 3203 #A3958825 $429,000 Saint Cacchiotti

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7149 N Longboat Dr #A3937245 $399,000 Timothy Field, P.a.

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690 Linley St #A3967460 $390,000 Tama Traberman

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600 Linley St #A3939104 $375,000 Bobbi Banan

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4822 Ocean Blvd # 5F #A3969051 $375,000 Tammy L. Garner

Siesta Key 941-388-4447 941-374-4161

3240 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 103 #A3975227 $365,000 Sylvia Zimmerman

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1350 Main St # 909 #A3975356 $359,000 Maureen Horn

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By Robin Hartill | City Editor

+ Restaurants to participate in Food and Wine on Pine

+ Gold Coast Eagle wins Anheuser-Busch award Longboat Key resident John Saputo’s Gold Coast Eagle Distributing received the “Ambassador of Excellence” award at the annual Anheuser-Busch sales and marketing meeting.

“Tonight Show” host Jay Leno, driven by the Budweiser Clydesdale Team, brought the award to the stage.

The “Ambassador of Excellence” award is given to the 15 distributors out of 675 that obtain the highest scores from AnheuserBusch in categories such as sales, marketing, distribution, human relations, logistics and fleet, according to a news release.

Saputo said in a prepared statement: “Being rated by the world’s largest global brewery as top 15 out of 675 wholesalers is the high point of my 34-year Budweiser career! My dedicated staff of 165 associates deserves all the credit for their day in, day out dedication to our 1,600 grocery store, convenience store, bar and restaurant customers. I must also thank our local beer consumers for their loyalty and dedication to our great beers.”

1111 N Gulfstream Ave # 1C #A3974297 $300,000 Michael Moulton

5396 Creekside Trl #A3965821 $269,995 Jenifer Schwell

4621 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 21F #A3893469 $375,000 - $589,000 Richard Perlman

1111 Ritz Carlton Dr # 1505 Sarasota #A3966943 $8,700-$10,400/month, 60 day min Diane Lyons 941-552-4200

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+ Longboat Key Club offers Sarasota Open specials The Longboat Key Club and Resort will offer a special package with daily passes and complimentary shuttle service to the Sarasota Open tournament April 13 through April 20.

The tournament will take place at the Key Club’s Tennis Gardens facilities.

The Sarasota Open is a U.S. Tennis Association men’s pro circuit event that has showcased players such as Paolo Lorenzi, James Blake, Tommy Haas, Sam Querrey, Alex Bogomolov Jr., Ryan Sweeting and Go Soeda; the winner receives a cash prize.

Sixteen top Women’s Tennis Association/ USTA competitors will play side-by-side to compete for a cash prize, as well.

General admission passes start at $150.

Tickets for individual matches range from $10 to $100. For tickets, call 809-8996.

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3806 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 111 #A3965881 $265,000 Bobbi Banan

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The Ritz-Carlton Beach Residences #701 #A3965415 $3,745,000 Richard Perlman

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by Mark Gordon | Business Observer

Innovation spurs on Kimal Lumber Al Bavry saw something at his lumber firm last year he hadn’t seen since 2006: a profit.

Not only a profit, but annual revenues at the company, Nokomis-based Kimal Lumber, are up 66.7%, from $12 million in 2011 to $20 million last year.

Bavry, the president, CEO and co-founder of the company and a 50-year lumber and construction industry veteran, projects sales will reach at least $23 million in 2013.

While that figure is a steep tumble from 2006, when the company was at $58 million in sales, it’s nonetheless a positive answer to the gloom that dots the region. The company has about 90 employees, down from a peak of 230 in 2006 — but up from 60 in 2011.

“It’s been humbling,” says Bavry, “but as we come out on the other side, we feel like we are stronger now.”

Kimal Lumber is taking that strength out for a spin in several moves Bavry, 71, proudly calls contrarian. One move, a drivethru lumberyard project, is so unique it would actually be one of the only of its kind in Florida.

He also hired sales staff while competitors retreated. “The only way we will survive the recession,” Bavry often tells employees, “is to sell our way out.”

But it’s a lonely existence, given many lumber firms, locally and nationally, remain stuck.

“Our industry,” Bavry says, “has been in the tank for a long time.”

Indiana-based industry consultant Greg Brooks, who has known Bavry for at least 20 years, says not only are times hard, but lumber companies, even in booms, tend to not think ahead anyway. “This is an industry,” says Brooks, with the Building Supply Channel, “that hasn’t had any innovation in 150 years.”

Lumberyard entrepreneur Al Bavry has a gutsy plan for growth: He wants to bring drive-thru convenience to his industry. In the process he will wage battle with bigger competitors.

Brooks says entrepreneurs like Bavry are part of the industry’s 1% or 3% who willingly take chances on bold and unproven ideas. That do-it-different approach, says Brooks, makes Bavry the “Steve Jobs of lumber,” because he finds and pursues opportunities others won’t even think about.

“Al isn’t someone who has any complacency in him,” says Brooks, who is also editor and publisher of LBM Executive, a lumber trade publication. “The ability to respond to the market quickly and accurately is the most important skill you can have in this business, and Al is one of the best at that.”

‘Big void’

To wit: The market-defying moves at Kimal Lumber began with a business model shift, when the company added a retail hardware component. Now it has lumberyards and general hardware stores in Englewood and down the street from its Nokomis headquarters, in south Sarasota County. The firm has an additional sales and design center in Nokomis, and it has three facilities in Venice: a window and door outlet; an engineered wood/truss center; and a 7,500-square-foot training and event center that cost $2 million to build in 2006.

That shift, however, looks small compared with the lumberyard development.

That project is on three acres on Fruitville Road, just east of Interstate 75. It would be a drivethru warehouse where vehicles, up to a full-size four-door pickup truck with a trailer, can access a trove of wood and lumber prod-

ucts in strategically designed aisles.

“It’s really set up to keep everything inside,” says Bavry. “It will be easy to drive in and drive through.”

Bavry and the top executives at Kimal Lumber have been working on the project for two years.

That includes scouting for land and visiting similar facilities outside Florida, like one in Hartville, Ohio. Bavry estimates the project will cost about $4.5 million.

Construction is expected to begin by April, and the facility could be open by the end of 2013. Bavry expects to hire 1215 people to staff the center initially, with the hope that there would be enough business to double the payroll within a few years.

Bavry says the drive-thru will be a good spot for small homebuilders, renovation crews and even the weekend warrior do-ityourself repairmen and women.

“We see a big void in the marketplace, and we think we can fill it,” says Bavry. “I think we will grow like a son of a gun.”

Finally, in what could be the most counterintuitive move of all, Bavry plans to open an 8,400-square-foot hardware store at the Fruitville Road facility, the third such store under the Kimal name. That means he would be selling everything from lumber and lug bolts to screwdrivers and saws right down the road from industry giants Lowe’s and Home Depot.

If Bavry is scared, he hides it well.

“It’s not that difficult to compete against the boxes,” says

SEE KIMAL / PAGE 14B

Al Bavry, president and CEO of Kimal Lumber, looks for ways to innovate to keep revenues growing.

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KIMAL / FROM PAGE 12B Bavry. “Those box stores seem to think of customer contact last rather than first.”

Bavry says for that reason, hiring and training the right people will be his biggest challenge with the drive-thru lumberyard and hardware store. “You can be the prettiest store in the world,” he says, “but if you have an employee up front with a sour attitude, it’s not going to work.”

Studs and plywood

Bavry has made strategy decisions that go against conventional thinking several other times before the drive-thru.

For example, the firm was one of the first in the country, back in the 1990s, to manufacture and sell engineered wood.

That’s a wood product made from composite materials that are bound together.

Kimal Lumber also developed and sold its own line lumber products, to diversify its customer base.

Bavry co-founded Kimal Lumber in 1981 with business partner Kim Pavkovich; the company moniker is after the founders’ first names. A Wisconsin native, Bavry had been a yard hand and a carpenter’s helper at several local lumberyards while growing up. In 1969 he took a management position with a neighborhood lumber company that was ultimately bought by Wickes Lumber.

Bavry stayed with Wickes, then an industry power, for a decade before he and Pavkovich founded Kimal.

The mission with Kimal, initially, was to provide studs and plywood for local contractors. The company did that, and growth came quickly: By 1987 it had its first truss plant and added dozens more materials and products to its portfolio.

In 2003, Kimal opened a high-tech truss plant in Venice and next door to that, in late 2005, it opened a window and door production facility. The training center came the next year.

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BY THE NUMBERS

by Katie Hendrick | Community Editor

Kimal Lumber Year

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2009

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$14 million

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$12 million

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$20 million

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On the drive-thru lumberyard project, meanwhile, Bavry will certainly be satisfied if it becomes Kimal’s iPad. Until then, though, Bavry is content trying to lead Kimal out of the downturn — even if he has to take some unusually high chances along the way.

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Nearly 100 clients attended a party honoring Key Concierge LLC, Thursday, March 21, at Sarasota Yacht Club.

The company, which turns 10 this year, began when husband-and-wife owners, Ferruh Muktar and Susan Robinson, transitioned from seasonal to full-time residents of Lido Key. “Necessity is the mother of all invention,” Robinson said, explaining how the couple struggled to find a reputable home-watch company while they were away. One time, they returned to their home to find three hot-water tanks had burst, one window had broken in a storm, several pool screens had torn and a colony of bats had moved in.

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Temps.

PAINTERLY PICTURE

Record Temps.

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Low

High

Low

Tuesday, March 19

78

61

91 (1921)

40 (1985)

Wednesday, March 20

73

57

90 (1921)

43 (1931)

Thursday, March 21

70

47

90 (1921)

38 (1956)

Friday, March 22

78

46

89 (1923)

38 (1960)

Saturday, March 23

79

66

88 (2007)

33 (1922)

Sunday, March 24

78

69

88 (1974)

38 (1986)

Monday, March 25

69

54

90 (1929)

32 (1915)

Average Gulf water temperature: 66

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Thursday, March 28

Highs 1:37a 1:01p

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Friday, March 29

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Sunset 7:46

Friday, March 29

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Saturday, March 30

7:24

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Sunday, March 31

7:22

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Monday, April 1

7:21

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Tuesday, April 2

7:20

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Garage/Moving/Estate Sales

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

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(Please provide your name and address) Email ad to: classified@yourobserver.com Online at: www.yourobserver.com Or mail to: The Observer Group P.O. Box 3169 Sarasota, Fl 34230 BICYCLE TREK: 18 speed, adult male touring bike with bell & side mirror. Very good condition, $95. (941)383-0167.

LADIES BICYCLE Red, with chrome fenders, $25.

941-383-5313.

LIONEL TRAIN diesel switcher engine 1949/50, nice condition $200. 941-735-1452.

ORIENTAL FISH Bowl Planter - 14" Vintage.

Good Condition, $175/obo. 941 383-3966.

ROCKING CRADLE: Antique Solid Wood, from England. Excellent Condition, $185.00. Call 941-383-1210.

Samsung French door refrigerator/bottom freezer.

Ice maker does not work. $150. Palm Coast.

904-923-4816

Appliances GE PROFILE Series Washer & Dryer, Longboat. Sold as set, $400. 941-928-0990.

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ESTATE SALE March 29 - 10a.m.-3p.m.

March 30 - 10a.m.-12 629 N. OWL - BIRD KEY Maitland-Smith chinoiserie coffee table, old Mary Gregory glass, vintage daisy & button pressed glass, ruby glass, oval mahogany dining table with chairs, mahogany breakfront, grandfather clock, 2 twin bed sets, 3 chandeliers, oak 1900s hall tree/umbrella stand, love seat, lamps, pine chest & dresser, miniature oil lamps, Kindel full bedroom set, nice desk, paintings, 4 nice bikes, vintage Jordan Brown patio furniture, vintage table, stroller, crib, area rug, easy chairs, dinette set, Bollenbach barometer, fishing rods, vacuum, dehumidifier, linens, lady’s clothes & accessories, extension ladder, & kitchenware.

Sale by Julie McClure Pix after Tuesday: www.appraisals4u.biz & www.estatesales.net

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

Autos Wanted

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

BOAT SLIP FOR RENT. High, dry, indoor marina.

Excellent S. Longboat boating location.

Call 941-371-1866.

LONGBOAT KEY: Indoor boat slip for rent. Top Level, 30/ft. length x 8/ft 6 beam x 9/ft. 10 height.

941-806-8500.

Boats 9'X5' INFLATABLE RAFT with Suzuki four stroke 6 HP Outboard Motor. Raft has removable floor.

Good condition, $1900. Call 941-383-4151.

Boats are selling very well. I am sold out of boats again. Season is busy, busy, busy. How about that traffic! Many LBK references. Keeping it simple, “Business On A Handshake”. I also buy boats.

Islandboatsales.net Call Dave, (owner) 941-228-3489.

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

Furnishings MANATEE AUCTIONS: Washers, Dryers, Refrigerators, Freezers. Furniture: Beds, Dressers, Sofas, Tables. TV’s, Records, Books, antiques, collectibles, etc. Don’t give your items away, let us sell them for you! Delivery & pick-up available.

941-527-6571.

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GREAT WATERFRONT CONDO, RUSKIN: 2BR/2BA, open bright living area, new kitchen appliances, inside utility, wood floors, sliders to enclosed lanai overlooking channel to Tampa Bay, covered parking. Resort offers pools, fishing pier, marina, beach, tennis court and restaurants. $195,000.

Claire Tort, Dickman Realty 813-363-7250.

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 BAYPORT, LONGBOAT KEY. Beautifully furnished 2BR/2BA, direct Gulf view, lanai, sundeck, tennis, pool, fitness center, premium cable TV, hi-speed wireless internet, more. Available December 2013-January 2014. 954-476-1137, bayportapt@gmail.com

CASA DEL MAR BEACH RESORT RENTALS 4 NIGHT MIN. GULF FRONT/ GULF VIEW

THRIFT SHOP: THE LORD’S WAREHOUSE. Next to Longboat Island Chapel. Season Opening October 1, 2012: Mon., Wed., & Sat., 9a.m.-1p.m.

Clothes, jewelry, furniture, other items. 6140 Gulf of Mexico Drive. 941-383-4738.

2012 MINI Cooper S: white pepper, 1,750 miles.

Private $21,500. 941-321-6722.

BOAT HOUSE on Longboat Key, Unit 2124, on first level. For Rent or Sale. 708-267-6704.

Condos For Sale

WANTED LUXURY ANNUAL RENTALS

General Merchandise

Merchandise Wanted

Boat Slips For Rent/Sale

SIESTA KEY. Annual Unfurnished 3BR/3BA, 2 story penthouse. Heated pool, private grounds, on Big Pass. Close to Village. Immediate Availability, $2200. Sorry no Pets. 941-228-8104.

Real Estate Wanted

FOR SALE: Wine Collection, 90 bottles. Opus 1, 1983-1992. Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve, 1983-1989. Will sell by the bottle, or complete collection. 941-954-4567.

Autos For Sale

AUTOS WANTED! Let me take the hassle out of selling your car. Cash offered today! Call Mike, 941-713-2277.

Condos/Apts. For Rent L’AMBIANCE, LONGBOAT KEY. Beach front 2BR/3BA condo on high floor with wrap-around deck, 270 degree views over the Gulf, Sarasota Bay and LBK Club. Sunrises, sunsets with light all day through floor to ceiling windows in all rooms.

View at: www.thephotos.smugmug.com Call John at 203-984-8477 E-mail: garment@optonline.net

Reservations: 941-383-5549 Visa/ MC Fax: 941-383-7925

HUGE REDUCTION on Prestigious Gulf Front DOUBLE PENTHOUSE! 2500 Square feet of fabulous Gulf and Bay views. all marble, granite, custom cabinets. Owner has reduced over $100,000 for quick sale!

“Take our video tour at” www.casadelmar.net Office Open 7 Days, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

4621 Gulf of Mexico Drive Longboat Key 34228

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2301 Gulf of Mexico #115 $1,299,000 Call Janet Hopkins, Broker 941-748-8090 or 941-284-0888

NEED YEAR around enclosed garage storage on Longboat Key for a car. Need access to car throughout year. Call 404-273-7397.

LBK PLAYERS Club 3BR/3BA on water.

Beautifully furnished. $899k. 708-814-7445.

WASHER/ DRYER IN EVERY UNIT BEAUTIFUL KITCHENS LARGE HEATED POOL GULFSIDE

Duplexes For Rent

FREE Wireless High Speed Internet

GULFFRONT ANNUAL Rental: 180/degree view, 816/sq.ft., second floor, 1BR/1BA, kitchen, dining area, living room combined. Furnished. $1500/mo. + electric. $1500 security deposit. 340/sq.ft. porch, parking. Non-smoking. No pets. Available May 20th. 778-7293.

“Where People Return Year After Year”

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

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

Help Wanted HOUSEKEEPER - Looking for a mature woman to live in a large Bay Isles home, free of any charges (telephone, cable TV and internet provided), in return for cleaning, care of lanai plants, and identifying need for and arranging upkeep repairs.

Home is without any family or guest visitors approximately nine months of each year. Separate housekeeper suite can be occupied year round, regardless of visitors. The entire home, including pool and spa, can be used when visitors not in residence. Will commit to at least 3 years for this position. Respond to Cindy, 941-383-5032.

HOUSEKEEPER - We are looking for a mature couple to take care of a very high end residence in Sarasota. Must be highly experienced in maintaining top quality fixtures and appliances, caring for antique accessories, etc. Laundry, expert ironing, and serving at an occasional formal dinner party required. Excellent pay and a long term position.

Please send resume and references (references will not be contacted until after an interview) to P.O. Box 15280, Sarasota, Fl. 34277. If not highly qualified please do not apply.

Positions Wanted MATURE DOMESTIC Couple available for employment in private residence. Highly skilled, experienced, excellent references. 386-935-3032 ruthhapner@hotmail.com

Homes For Rent 3BR/3BA ACROSS from Longboat private beach 55+. Single car garage, updated, granite/ stainless kitchen. Private ground level patio. $1950/mo.

Annual. $2700/mo. Seasonal. 941-232-1357.

LARGE HOME for Rent: Exceptional Location Across street from the Gulf of Mexico- On Longboat Club Road inside LBK Club (Island Side) 4700 sq.ft., 5 bdr, 4½ bath, pool, 3-car garage. Interior completely renovated in 2011.

Available January-March 2014 $10,250/month Mature non-smoking, pet-free couple only: Call 203-500-5666.

Homes For Sale CONRAD BEACH, LBK. Upscale Island home built in 2004. 1961sf 2BR + Loft. Quaint Gulfside neighborhood. Community pool & beach access, no busy roads to cross. 941-544-0214, Owner/Agent. www.LuxuryHomes-Condos.com

“INTENTIONALLY BETTER”

CONDO: 2BR/2BA, on bay with beautiful view, beach access. Available May 2013 through May 2014. Bob, 502-216-5255.

DIRECT GULF FRONT at Beachplace: 2BR/2BA, nicely furnished, wireless internet. Available April to December 2013 and for the 2014 Season.

Non-smoking. Call Diane or Mike 847-913-4562.

DIRECT GULF LBK 2 Bedroom 2 Bath condo, July-Nov 30 1 month min, Dec-Mar 3 month min.

201-694-9222.

FALL RENTAL. THE CASTILLIAN. Beautiful 4th fl. Gulf front unit, 2BR/2BA. Available Sept.-Dec. monthly. Contact: rmarkey3@comcast.net GULFFRONT: LONGBOAT TERRACE 2BR/2BA condo. 2014 Seasonal rental. Tastefully decorated. BOOK NOW. 321-279-3610.

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Commercial Property For Rent LUXURY 3 Bedroom- Seasonal, Weekly, Monthly Rental w/Pool. sarasotavac@gmail.com

Condos/Apts. For Rent 1BR/1BA IN the Village. Year lease. Walk to Whitney Beach. Small pet. Non-smoking preferred. 941-565-1401.

BEACH-TO-BAY CONDO at Bayport. Newly decorated 2 bed/2 bath. First floor, end unit.

Free local phone, cable, wi-fi. Monthly rentals beginning mid-May 2013. Contact after 6:00 pm: 317-896-2334.

GORGEOUS LIDO KEY CONDO. Beachfront, spacious 2BR/2BA, fully furnished. Pool. Garage Parking. Available immediately. 6 mo. minimum.

443-829-0287, 800-950-9191.

LONGBOAT BAYPORT BTC- 2BR 2BA Gulf front views- wifi-Monthly rentals 813-541-8876.

LONGBOAT KEY. Not happy with your place?

Try mine at Sutton Place. Reasonable. Call 516-385-0137 or 941-387-7327.

HOUSE CLASSIFIEDS LP # 56733 LONGBOAT KEY: Waterfront: 2BR/2.5BA, City/Bay Views; elevator; hardwood floors; 2200sq.ft., 2 docks, beach access. You will be Surprised!! Bank approved. $1,230,000.

Brokers paid. 941-650-9761.

Real Estate Wanted LOOKING FOR a 2BR furnished beach home or condo. 1 or 2 months: June, July, August.

Family of 3. Non-smoking, no pets. Will provide local references. 727-224-4859 or E-mail: skbrynt@aol.com

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This week’s Cryptogram answers 1. What is the favorite snack of worn out tourists visiting the magnificent Paris cathedrals? The lunchpack of Notre Dame.

2. This is quite a strange quirk: In prison, you can watch TV and play games. At work, you get fired for watching TV and playing games!

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Home Improvement/ Remodeling

Exceptional Vacation Rentals Since 1994 Homes & Condominiums Studios to Six Bedrooms Beachfront, Intercoastal or Garden Excellent Service & Staff

RETIRED LONGBOAT KEY police officer. Drive your car North or South and back. 941-713-1596.

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SUNCOAST TRANSPORTER Long Distance Delivery.

“Snowbirds” I drive your car door to door!

One Inclusive price.

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All Variations of Ceramic Tile Supplied & Installed.

Free Estimates & Custom Designs.

FLORIDA VACATION CONNECTION

LONGBOAT KEY. Gulf front, heated pool on beach, 1BR/1BA condo, full kitchen, dining, sleeps/4, king pillowtop. 617-328-7145, 857-939-1049.

LONGBOAT PORTOBELLO BEACH FRONT 2BR/2BA Condo. Details and Virtual Tour at www.BeachAbodeLBK.com Phone 815-919-5357

www.FLvacationconnection.com 941-387-9709 877-705-2460

ON THE Gulf w/pool. 1BR condo, sleeps 4. Nicely furnished, cable, phone, full kitchen, living, dining area, W/D in building. Weekly or Monthly. May through January. $1600/mo. 351-5101.

Carpentry DECKS, DOCKS, STEPS AND RAILINGS Maintenance free or wood. masterpiececonstruction.net Free estimates. Call Bill, 941-921-4197

L’AMBIANCE, LONGBOAT KEY. Beach front 2BR/3BA condo on high floor with wrap-around deck, 270 degree views over the Gulf, Sarasota Bay and LBK Club. Sunrises, sunsets with light all day through floor to ceiling windows in all rooms.

3 month minimum.

View at: www.thephotos.smugmug.com Call 203-984-8477 E-mail: garment@optonline.net

PROPERTY OWNERS: We need weekly LBK rentals to add to our inventory!

A Paradise Vacation Rentals 941-778-4800.

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LBK BEACHPLACE Condo. Beachfront, 2BR/2BA. Elegantly furnished, internet access, heated pool, covered parking, exercise room.

Available Sept., Oct., Dec., 2013. Non-smoking/ pets. By owner. 941-383-1884.

WEEKLY RENTALS. Luxurious, fully furnished 1 - 4 bedrooms. Condominiums and Cottages.

Beach to Bay. On-site management. Pools, tennis, boat slips. Visit: www.FloridaRent.com for information and virtual tours. 800-333-7335, 941-383-3117.

FRIDAY NIGHT DINNERS ARE BACK AT OUR LONGBOAT KEY CENTRE SHOPS LOCATION!!

LBK C.C. SHORES. VACATION PARADISE HOME w/ dock, 3BR/2BA/2CC, recently renovated and furnished. Wireless high speed internet, cable, plasma TV, phone. huge heated pool, lanai/ electric shutters, W/D, walk to beach. No pets. Non smoking. Sleeps 5. For photos: homeawayrental.com, Property ID#257978. $4500/mo. Owner, 941-504-1492.

Weekly/ Monthly/ Seasonal Rates Beachfront, Bayfront and In Between Houses or Condos

LBK: TIFFANY Plaza Beachfront Condos, 1st floor, 2BR/2BA, W/D in units, walk out to beach.

Furnished, heated pool, covered parking. 1 mo. min. 941-383-3338.

LIDO BEACH CONDOMINIUMS Weekly - Monthly - Seasonal Resort Properties, Inc. Licensed Real Estate Broker Full Service Condominium Management 941-388-3921 - 888-388-3921 941-650-1857 Visit us at: resortproperties.pro LIDO BEACH Vacation paradise. 1 & 2 bedroom condos overlooking beautiful Lido Beach.

Weekly rates. Lido Dorset. Rental condo.

1-800-734-3370.

LONGBOAT KEY BEACH FRONT, 1BR, 2BA Sands Point condo with Gulf views, large living room, den and beautifully renovated kitchen.

2-3 Month minimum. Call 203-984-8477 or email: garment@optonline.net

PRIVATEER WINTER 2014. 3 month rental.

2BR/2BA with full Gulf views. Pool, tennis, beautiful beach and watch complete sunsets from two balconies. Please call 1-203-803-0655 for more information.

Reservations 941-383-6127 Visa/ MC 800-352-0367

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References. 941-761-2656.

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Cleaning

BRAZILIAN CLEANING Service by Maria.

Residential/ Commercial. Meticulous Cleaning.

Excellent References. Free Estimates. Reliable.

Lic./ Ins. 941-400-3342.

EDLA’S CLEANING SERVICES: Residential Commercial, New Construction. Meticulous, deep cleaning top to bottom. We Guarantee. Affordable & Reliable. Excellent References. Free Estimates.

Licensed & Insured. 30% off first cleaning.

941-536-7447.

Computer Services Cmagik - LBK resident, servicing our island year round for over 12 yrs. Bachelors Degree with 20 yrs. experience, PC or MAC. Professional help with computers, iPad/iPhones and tutoring.

References upon request.

Call Cort: 383-3878, 587-5588 cmagik.com OWN A MAC/IPHONE/IPAD? MacTutor offers 21 years experience. Unlimited free telephone follow up. (941)812-3887 www.FLMacTutor.com

Furniture Repair WHY BUY NEW? Refinish, restrap, resling your patio furniture. Factory Direct. Florida Patio Furniture. Cal Karen, 941-773-1713.

Home Improvement/ Remodeling JOHN GUBERNAT SERVICES Residential/ Commercial. Handyman Repairs, Roof Repairs, Coatings, Painting, Power Washing, Property Management, Home Watching. LBK Resident. Lic./Ins. 941-962-4867.

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SKEDMAR HANDYMAN SERVICES. Tile, hardwood flooring, painting, pressure cleaning, window cleaning, light electrical, light plumbing.

No job too small. Licensed and insured.

941-914-8508.

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PROFESSIONAL GUARDIAN: Case Manager, Health Care Surrogate, Power of Attorney, Personal Representative, Trustee, Advocate and Companion for Elderly and Developmentally Disabled. Bonded, Patient and Compassionate.

Call SueAnn Sanders, National Certified Guardian, Notary. 941-915-3797.

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Landscaping & Lawn Service CEDARS FALL LAWN MAINTENANCE. Complete landscape services. Landscaping, fertilization, irrigation, maintenance. Licensed & Insured Commercial/ Residential. Workman’s comp.

Steve, 941-376-2324.

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High quality work, we go the extra mile!

Call 941-565-3935.

Transportation ISLAND SEDAN Serving Anna Maria Island, Longboat Key, West Bradenton and St. Armands Towncar Service Rates: To or From: Tampa International Airport: $80 St. Pete/Clearwater Airport: $75 Sarasota/Bradenton Airport: $35 Call for rates to other locations Local and Long Distance 941-730-8803 islandsedan@gmail.com www.islandsedan.com

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