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MARINE LIFE

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Mote educates children about the seas at World Oceans Day. PAGE 15A

by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor

by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Andrea is first brush with storm season

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+ John Saputo: Undercover boss?

Look closely: Who is that stock boy?

You’re not wearing beer goggles.

That’s Longboat Key resident and Gold Coast Eagle Distributing President John Saputo lending a hand during the Memorial Day weekend at Paradise Plaza’s Publix.

Talk about top-shelf service.

Key residents and town staffers got a reminder last week that hurricane season is here.

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Longboat Key Medical Director Steven Newman says “working together with guys he’s helped train to resuscitate a life” is the best part of his job.

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+ Turtles head home after rehab at Mote Tyler the turtle is back at sea.

Mote Marine Laboratory staffers released the sub-adult Loggerhead Monday, June 3, on Anna Maria Island, nearly three months after he was found floating and lethargic with extreme barnacle growth on his neck and flippers.

After R&R at Mote’s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital, staffers released him off Coquina Beach.

Tyler didn’t stick around for many photo ops. He didn’t hesitate before heading back to the sea.

Four days later, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission staffers returned turtles Grinch, Turbo and Brutus to where they stranded on the East Coast for release after their stays at Mote.

Longboat Key Medical Director Steven Newman’s healing touch has a far reach: His license reaches up to 60,000 patients annually through more than 600 first responders.

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or 29 years, Dr. Steven Newman has treated Longboat Key residents who have a medical emergency and call for an ambulance. But the majority of those patients doesn’t know his name and have never seen his face.

Newman has been the Sarasota County Emergency Medical Services medical director since July 1984.

As part of that position and through individual agreements, Newman also holds the title of medical director of emergency services for Sarasota County, Longboat Key, North Port, Englewood, Sarasota County Technical Institute and the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

That means Newman allows more than 600 firefighters, paramedics and emergency medical technicians throughout Sarasota County to use his medical license seven days a week.

When asked if having all those emergency responders work under his license on a daily basis makes him nervous, Newman quickly responds.

“I don’t have trouble sleeping at night,” Newman said. “I sleep just fine.”

In July 2014, Newman will have held the post for 30 years.

What that job entails is much more than a 40-hour-per-week job.

In his prime, Newman worked 180 hours a month as an emergency room doctor at Sarasota Memorial Hospital and its various clinics, while working an additional 40 hours per month or more training emergency responders the ins and outs of emergency medicine for their shifts.

Today, the 63-year-old works approximately 110 hours per month at the hospital and clinics and more than 50 hours training and working with emergency responders.

Newman evaluates and treats more than 5,000 patients a year. But because his medical license allows so many people to use his medical license to help people, his license alone, he estimates, helps treats 50,000 to

Tropical Storm Andrea brought heavy rains and 40 mph winds to Longboat Key Thursday, June 6, but here’s what it didn’t bring: destruction.

The Key and its surrounding area was under a tropical storm warning Thursday, as well as a tornado watch until 11 a.m. that morning.

There was minor flooding in Longbeach Village: Public Works Director Juan Florensa reported in an email to Town Manager Dave Bullock that as of 4 p.m. Thursday, approximately 3 inches of water remained on Broadway, while Russell Street was under 4-to-6 inches of water near Longboat Drive East, although the water was slowly receding. Sleepy Lagoon streets also saw flooding.

But Andrea gave Longboat Key residents and town staff an early reminder: Hurricane season is here.

“It’s always good to go through one of these early in the season to test your preparedness,” Florensa said.

The storm didn’t appear to result in a significant amount of sand loss, although the beach constantly experiences the loss of sand, according to Florensa.

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I consider it a privilege and an honor that my license is helping so many people. Not many doctors can say their license is helping so many.

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Both Longbeach Village and Sleepy Lagoon streets were flooded after a band of strong winds and rain from Tropical Storm Andrea came ashore June 6. Norton Street looked more like a canal than a street after the storm.

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NEWMAN / FROM PAGE 1A 60,000 patients a year.

“I consider it a privilege and an honor that my license is helping so many people,” Newman said. “Not many doctors can say their license is helping so many.”

Looking back

During the past 29 years, Newman has worked with five Longboat Key Fire Rescue chiefs.

“I watched Longboat Key Fire Chief Paul Dezzi work his way up the ladder in Sarasota,” Newman said.

Florida statutes and the Department of Health require that every licensed emergency medical services provider employ or contract a licensed emergency medical services doctor to serve as its medical director. That’s because firefighters, paramedics and emergency medical technicians don’t possess medical licenses but are able to perform medical procedures through the training and guidance they receive through directors like Newman.

“My primary job as medical director is to develop protocols, which act as recipes for care, that allow those to operate at the scene of an accident or at the home of an injured patient using standards I help to create,” Newman said.

Those standards have changed over the years. Every two years, Newman is charged with updating those practices, so those using his license have the best information and practices possible to both treat patients and resuscitate them.

“When I first started, paramedics with heart attack patients were taught to warm the bodies,” Newman said. “Now we know that patients that are cooled to 92 degrees Fahrenheit improve survival rates tremendously.”

You name it, Newman has developed a Sarasota County emergency protocol for it. Those include cardiac arrest, burns, emergency childbirth, pediatric respiratory distress and allergic reactions, just to

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“It’s an ominous task for a medical director to develop protocols that encompass all of the projected emergencies that might develop,” Newman said.

Longboat Key stands out

When asked what makes Longboat Key Fire Rescue stand out from the other departments he serves as medical director, Newman explains that Longboat Key firefighter paramedics use cutting-edge technologies and practices. Longboat Key was also the first department to completely computerize its medical records system, a system that others in Sarasota County soon emulated.

Newman and his assistant medical director each take two weeks out of the month to be on call 24 hours a day for any emergency medical services personnel who might need their advice while on the scene treating a patient. Newman, though, told the Longboat Observer that Longboat Key firefighter paramedics don’t have to pick up the phone and dial him very often.

In fact, he can’t recall the last time he received a call from them.

Newman calls the support the town’s residents and the commissioners give to its fire department “progressive.”

“The town’s residents, more than any other jurisdiction I oversee, consider this fire department part of their family,” Newman said. “That shows in their day-to dayoperations.”

Newman is at one of the Key’s fire stations the first Wednesday of every month, either training new personnel, teaching a new method or class, or riding with the firefighter paramedics in the ambulance on a call or following them in his vehicle.

He calls the “ride time” he spends with the emergency responders one of the best perks of his job.

“I’m not a back room rubber stamp medical director demanding rules and regulations be followed,” Newman said.

“I’m bunkered up with the men in gear following them to a scene in my car that’s

equipped with lights and a siren.”

When asked what makes Longboat Key stand out the most during the calls he has witnessed, Newman said he can’t single any call out.

“But they have pulled off some pretty amazing water rescues and their cardiacarrest survival rate is at the top of the spectrum in Sarasota County,” Newman said.

Medical director recognition

On July 17, in an Orlando hotel banquet hall, Newman will receive the state’s Emergency Medical Services Raymond H. Alexander Medical Director of the Year Award for 2013.

Newman was chosen as the state’s top medical director, and Dezzi calls the honor “a very distinguished award that Dr. Newman deserves.” Dezzi plans to be there when Newman accepts the award.

But the humble soft-spoken medical director downplays the honor during an interview last week at the north fire station on Longboat Key. “I’m humbled to receive the award, but it’s really the firefighters and paramedics that should be receiving this for all they do on the scene each and every day.”

If he had his wish, instead of accepting the award in Orlando next month, Newman said he would be on a shift with some of the men he’s helped train.

“I love to get bunkered up and get dirty,” said Newman, who used to be a member of a volunteer fire department in a Los Angeles suburb. “I respect what those guys do so much and stay out of the way. I am only there to be of assistance if they need me.”

When asked if his appearance on shifts and emergency response calls has ever helped to save any lives, Newman downplays his response with a soft-spoken response, followed by a smile.

“A couple of times it was a good thing I was on scene to provide assistance,” Newman said. “I’ve saved a couple of phone calls from having to be made, let’s put it that way. But those guys know what they’re

doing, and I rarely have to do anything but observe.”

Newman said it’s his goal in the future to reduce his hospital hours to 60 hours a month and his emergency medical services hours to 15 hours a month, but you get the sense he’s not serious about reducing his workload as the words come out of his mouth.

He then contradicts his reduction of medical assistance hours in his next sentence.

“If I retired or reduced my medical director hours, I would be selling the system short,” said Newman, who said he has at least another five to seven years of fulltime work left in him. “It’s extremely important a medical director walk the walk and talk the talk. Those guys have to see me on the scene with them, slugging it out with them from time to time or my credibility starts falling.”

Dezzi, who considers Newman a longtime friend and mentor, said Newman’s credibility couldn’t be higher than it is right now at the north-and-south fire stations on Longboat Key. “Every one of my guys has learned so much from Dr. Newman,” Dezzi said. “We are an extension of him and his work.”

Dezzi said what he has learned the most from Newman is his calm demeanor in any emergency situation.

“I’ve never once seen him yell at a nurse or lose it in a stressful situation that involved saving someone’s life,” Dezzi said.

“He’s always calm, cool and collected. We try to emulate that trait out here on the job.”

When asked what the best part of his job is as medical director for Longboat Key and other departments he serves as medical director, Newman doesn’t hesitate to provide a response.

“That would be receiving a patient while I’m in the ER from a crew I helped train that has brought the patient back to life for me to work on,” Newman said. “Working with those guys to resuscitate a life together is the best part of my job.”

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Cameras capture Big Brother worries License-plate recognition systems will soon capture data from every vehicle entering or leaving the island, causing some residents to worry about constant surveillance.

Some Longboaters worry that 2013 is starting to feel a lot like 1984.

Within the next month or two, the Key will get licenseplate recognition cameras.

Police say they’ll never see the vast majority of the data the cameras collect; they’ll receive notification if there’s a stolen vehicle or if a driver has a warrant, is a sexual predator or has a suspended license or tag violation.

But some residents think the cameras amount to Big Brother watching the Key — concerns they say are heightened because of recent reports of expanded government surveillance.

Evans Tills quotes the oftparaphrased adage attributed

to Benjamin Franklin when he explains his opposition to the cameras: “Those that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“There comes a tipping point,” Tills said. “I think by putting up cameras unnecessarily, they might nab one or two violators of something or other, but just to have it there willy-nilly, I think is a mistake.”

Ross Alander worries about the potential for abuses.

He doesn’t have a problem with red-light cameras at intersections or surveillance cameras at large events. But he thinks they might be used to profile drivers or catch drivers with a tag that’s expired by a month

or two instead of criminals. He worries about the possibility of a hacker accessing data.

“I’ve never bought into the argument that if you have nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to worry about,” Alander said.

But Longboat Key Police Chief Pete Cumming insists the cameras don’t amount to Big Brother.

For one thing, they won’t amass a giant record of every car coming onto and leaving the island. They’ll be stored for one year, but police won’t see them unless they’re part of an investigation.

“We couldn’t profile even if we wanted to, because the camera doesn’t show us every car that comes over the

bridge,” Cumming said.

The police chief said the data collected will be treated as criminal evidence and will have the same level of security used for any major criminal case. Technically, officers could access the same data by entering tag numbers of vehicles entering the Key. “This is for the sole purpose of increasing security,” Cumming said. “We’re not targeting people, we’re not generating revenue. It’s specifically to help reduce crime and offer a public service.”

Tills, however, worries about what safeguards will be in place to prevent misuse.

“I think you’re entitled to lead your life without people knowing everything,” he said.

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Nathan Alderman smiles as his mother takes a photo of him with a diver in the background Saturday, June 8, during Mote Marine’s World Oceans Day Family Festival. About 800 children visited the aquarium, where they learned from 13 vendors. The day was a celebration of the world’s ocean as a whole and its important role in human survival. For more photos, see pages 15A and 16A.

BRIEF BOARD MEETINGS

by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor

Code Board questions enforcement protocols For the second time in two months, Code Enforcement Board members questioned why they never hold meetings and aren’t being utilized to review code violations.

The Longboat Key Code Enforcement Board met Monday, June 10, even though it had no cases on the agenda to review.

Code board members Beverly Shapiro and Joel Mangel continued a debate the board had at its May 8 meeting.

Mangel said in May there’s been a “dramatic change” in the code board’s use, noting that the last eight meetings in a row have been canceled.

Planning, Zoning and Building Director Robin Meyer told the board he takes full responsibility for the canceled meetings, explaining that Code Officer Amanda Nemoytin has worked well with people to resolve complaints before they have to come before the board.

The debate continued this

week, with Shapiro questioning the use of Nemoytin’s time and how she handles cases that Shapiro feels might be better served if the board reviewed them.

“If some cases had come before us, maybe they could have been nipped in the bud sooner,” Shapiro said.

But Meyer and Nemoytin disagreed.

“You’re not getting reports to review, because they are being resolved and don’t require board action,” Meyer said. “I simply don’t have staff resources to give you reports that are taken care of.”

Shapiro also questioned a process in which Nemoytin makes either verbal or written contact with a property

owner in violation of the town code, working out a time for the property owner to come into compliance.

Attorney Kelley Fernandez confirmed the process that Nemoytin uses, which includes a first-time verbal warning, is both proper and legal.

Code board member Jack Brill suggested the debate stop.

“The town has another budget deficit to deal with, and we don’t need reports with papers stating that cases have been resolved,” Brill said. “It was good we went through this exercise, but it’s been debated twice and it’s time to let it go.”

Both Shapiro and Mangel stated the matter wasn’t solved in their minds and they still disagree with the manner in which

code cases are being brought into compliance.

Commissioner Phill Younger, who was in attendance at the meeting Monday and is a past code board member, called the meeting “perplexing.”

“Historically, it has not been uncommon for code board meetings to be canceled, sometimes for months, when no cases that have reached that stage where a meeting is required,” Younger said. “That being the case, it’s perplexing why the code board has requested two meetings because they are not getting cases. If the procedure works correctly, code board meetings are simply not required, especially when otherwise avoidable presence by the town attorney is required.”

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Last year’s Fish Fry at Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub drew approximately 150 people.

Fish Fry hooks new location Village residents Craig and Cathy Meldahl and Craig and Georgia Walters have agreed to lend their yards for the event.

The Longboat Key Historical Society will have more fish to fry this year.

And Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub will most likely do the frying.

Ed Chiles, owner of Mar Vista, canceled the Fish Fry and Fourth of July fireworks — the restaurant’s two major annual events — because of complaints about parking and noise from residents of the surrounding Longbeach Village who opposed his plan to expand his restaurant.

While it’s not a done deal, the restaurant will likely provide the food for the event at a new location: the backyards of Village residents Craig and Cathy Meldahl and their next-door neighbors, Craig and Georgia Walters.

“We wanted to be respectful of the wishes of the Village residents, but we’ll always be open to working with the Historical Society,” Chiles said.

The Fish Fry has taken place every year at Mar Vista since the Historical Society revived the old-time tradition in 2005.

After learning two weeks ago that Chiles planned to eliminate events from his Longboat Key restaurant, Historical Society President Shirley Beachum asked the Meldahls about holding the event in their backyard.

The Meldahl property is the site of many Village gatherings, some of which have drawn up to 140 people.

Cathy Meldahl said she didn’t want to see the Fish Fry tradition go away.

“A lot of people come to Longboat for that event alone,” she said. “It would have been sad to see it go.”

The two properties combined have approximately 2.5 acres that overlook Sarasota Bay. And, to Meldahl’s knowledge, there haven’t been complaints about noise and parking during past events.

The event will take place later than usual — Nov. 1, instead of the second Friday in October. Tickets will be $25, or $5 less than last year’s price. The Historical Society plans to rent a Port-O-Potty for the event and doesn’t anticipate parking problems because the properties are so large, according to Beachum.

“We want to thank them for letting us use their lovely yards,” Beachum said.

“We plan to try to sell as many tickets as we can.”

Last year’s Fish Fry drew 150 people.

Chiles has submitted a new plan to the Longboat Key Planning Zoning and Building Department that doesn’t include restoration and meeting space for the historic Rufus P. Jordan House, the most controversial part of the application. The new plan calls for proceeding with the construction of a tree house with 11 additional seats.

The Planning and Zoning Board will discuss the plan at 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 18.

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NEWSBRIEFS + Town still seeking Colony developer financials Town Manager Dave Bullock sent a letter dated June 7 to Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association President Jay Yablon, urging the Association to reveal JHM Financial Group LLC’s company history, financial statements, a list of current and completed project, references and banking references.

JHM Financial is the Colony Association’s selected developer, and Commissioner Terry Gans requested the company provide the information at a May 20 special meeting.

“To date, this information has not been received by the town of Longboat Key,” wrote Bullock. “We ask that this information be provided without delay. The requested information should provide the town with an understanding of the financial viability of the JHM Financial Group as the selected developer for the Colony property.”

Yablon told the Longboat Observer that JHM Financial is in settlement negotiations with all affected parties at this time.

Yablon reported to the Longboat Observer and Bullock that “JHM is aware of the town’s request. It is not our Association’s prerogative to disclose JHM’s financial information. We leave it to JHM to make their own decisions as what is suitable for public disclosure.”

The Longboat Observer has also been unsuccessful in obtaining financial information and detailed information about past JHM projects.

+ Many Village residents oppose new Mar Vista plan

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 Town Commission Regular Workshop —1 p.m. Monday, June 17.  Planning and Zoning Board Regular Meeting — 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 18.

All meetings take place at Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road, unless otherwise noted. building a tree house and adding 11 seats to his restaurant.

But residents of the surrounding Longbeach Village, who complained about noise and parking problems when Chiles sought to add meeting space to the Jordan House, are still concerned about the revised plan.

Thirty-three residents signed a June 10 letter to the Longboat Key Town Commission, Planning and Zoning Board and town officials opposing the expansion.

The letter states: “Please see firsthand the existing congestion and impact in peak season. The Village cannot tolerate the patrons the Mar Vista has at present — more is unreasonable” The planning board will discuss the application at 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 18, at Longboat Key Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road.

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Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub owner Ed Chiles submitted a new plan a week-and-a-half ago that eliminated a controversial plan to restore the historic Rufus P. Jordan House, but seeks to proceed with

The May 30 issue of the Longboat Observer incorrectly stated the population of Palmetto. As of July 1, 2012, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city’s population at 12,854, a 0.98% increase over the previous year’s estimate of 12,727.

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by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor

Group seeks to ask the right questions A committee of Key residents worked to create a platform for nine questions that a consultant will use to find out what the town wants and where it’s headed.

A Longboat Key working group submitted the following concept language for nine questions for a consultant to use this fall. Town staff will draft those questions this week for the group to review at 2 p.m. Friday, June 14, at Town Hall: • Are the adopted Vision Plan, mission statement and core values realistic and achievable?

• Does the town have the appropriate mix of uses (residential, tourism, commercial) and what is the right mix?

• Are there different elements of planning that should be considered for different parts of the Key? • A question will be formed regarding redevelopment issues with building complexities and ownership/community infrastructure.

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Town Manager Dave Bullock facilitated a town working group meeting that got together to create a list of questions it expects a consultant to answer later this year.

Urban Land Institute Mission The mission of the Urban Land Institute is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. town’s Vision Plan and mission statement are realistic.

“They (ULI) could tell us our Vision Plan is crap,” Duncan said. “If it is, I want them to tell me that because we need to know if that plan is worth the paper it’s printed on before we can move forward properly.”

Once the group debated the

Vision Plan and its worthiness for a while, the questions started to form rather quickly (see sidebar for a list of proposed questions).

The group decided that questions need to address the Key’s demographics, zoning and how the town should attract future residents.

Questions about whether or not the town needs a town center and/or a community center were also proposed, along with what kind of technology and services the town needs to satisfy residents and visitors.

“We have to know what we need to maintain our premier status,” said Commissioner Phill Younger.

• What’s the appropriate balance of full-time and part-time residents moving forward? Who should the town be attracting and what kind of balance should the town expect moving forward?

• What are the challenges the town faces and what does the town have to do to maintain its status as a premier residential community?

• What are the innovations/amenities and the technology needed to keep the community attractive?

• How does the town leverage its current natural assets, such as beaches, parks and the environment? What are the Key’s advantages and disadvantages and how does the town leverage its advantages?

• Does the town need a town center? If it’s needed, what would be included in the center and where should it be put?

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Town Manager Dave Bullock facilitated the meeting and explained the process.

“Long before I got here, the town began a long-term process that involved generating a Vision Plan in 2007, followed by some core values and a mission statement in 2011,” Bullock said.

“This is the next step in how we get where we want to go.”

Bullock warned that creating the questions is the most important part of the process.

“Ask the wrong questions and you get the wrong answers,” Bullock said.

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A simple yes or no answer won’t do.

A new working group is developing a list of questions for a consultant that will help provide input on where the town of Longboat Key is headed in the future. And, if any of those questions the group proposed Monday, June 10, at Town Hall, receive just yes or no answers, then that means the group provided poor questions.

“All of the questions need as much open-endedness as possible,” said Commissioner Jack Duncan. “We need detailed answers.”

Duncan, Commissioner Pat Zunz, Planning and Zoning Board members Walter Hackett and George Symanski Jr. and Key residents Tom Freiwald and Larry Grossman make up the group that spent three hours Monday formulating questions that it expects the Washington, D.C.-based The Urban Land Institute (ULI) to answer. ULI has asked for a list of no more than 12 questions it would ask residents, when ULI officials meet with panels of residents this fall to seek what they want for the town in the future. After the town submits the questions, the commission will approve a $125,000 contract with the company at its Monday, June 17 workshop. ULI will eventually provide a detailed report once

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budgeting at the beach by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor

Name: Norman Worthington, ’77 Focus: Social Sciences Claim to Fame: CEO of Sarasota-based Star2Star Communications, which made the Inc. 500 List of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies for the second year in a row Charts His Own Course: Leads a company that delivers award-winning, patent-pending, internet communications technology

New finance director excited to take on role in Florida Finance Director Susan Smith is prepared to tackle the town‘s fiscal year budget after moving from Connecticut.

The town’s new finance director is not just starting a new job. She’s starting a new life.

Susan Smith, a certified public accountant with experience in both public and private accounting, left the cold winters of Connecticut for the warm beaches of Longboat Key when she accepted an offer to be the town’s new finance director in April.

Susan Smith Smith and her husAge: 48 band always wanted Family: a retirement home Husband, Kenny in Florida, either in Sarasota or Vero Hometown: Wallingford, Beach.

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But, when Smith’s mother passed away Hobbies: Artwork last year, she was (oil paintings) ready for a new life and going to the and a new home bebeach fore retirement age.

Interesting fact: “There was really Smith likes to nothing keeping me make candles in anymore in my home her spare time. state of Connecticut,” said Smith in her new Town Hall office. “When the Longboat Key job became available, I was very interested and it fit into my whole scheme to where I wanted to be in the present.”

Smith accepted the job offer from Town Manager Dave Bullock with a starting annual salary of $95,000, put a for sale sign in the front yard of her Wallingford, Conn.

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A New College education helped alumnus Norman Worthington become a technological leader and innovator. New College of Florida, the state’s public honors college, teaches our future business leaders, scientists and educators to think critically, analyze and solve problems and effectively communicate ideas.

A liberal arts education prepares our graduates to adapt to an ever-changing world.

home and moved to Sarasota.

“It’s exciting and a new adventure for us,” Smith said.

What wasn’t so exciting was coming to work on Monday, May 28, and trying to get up to speed immediately on a 2013-14 fiscal year preliminary budget that was due to the Longboat Key Town Commission June 1.

“It has been nonstop learning,” Smith said. “I’m getting up to speed and reading up on the town charter.”

Smith graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., and went to work for an auditing firm for eight years while working toward her CPA license.

Smith has served as the finance director for Thomaston, Conn. (a smaller town like Longboat Key with a $25 million budget) and Wethersfield, Conn. (a larger town with an $85 million budget and where she also oversaw a board of education budget).

Besides the busy summer-budget season, Smith is preparing to get up to speed and tackle the town’s comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR). That report is a review of what happened in the last year, as opposed to a budget that reviews expenditures and revenues that are expected to occur in the coming year.

While reviewing a CAFR is an ominous task and time-consuming, the new finance director has already figured out how to make that daunting task easier to handle in her new community.

“I’m going to take it to the beach with me and read it there,” Smith said. “I’m not going to take what this community has to offer for granted.”

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7:06 p.m. — 3700 block of GMD. Traffic. Police saw a driver pass two other vehicles in a no-passing zone. The man said he was frustrated by the slowmoving traffic and got a written warning.

6:49 a.m. — 5000 block of GMD. Lost/Missing Property.

A man put his camera on the roof of his car but didn’t realize he left it there until he was in Bradenton. Police canvassed the area but couldn’t find the fallen camera.

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3:42 p.m. — 3300 block of GMD. Suspicious Circumstance. A woman called police after seeing an unknown man sitting in her out-of-town neighbor’s backyard. Police couldn’t find the mystery man.

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Urine trouble 7:42 p.m. — 6300 block of GMD. Suspicious Circumstance. Police stopped two men who had reportedly been urinating in a business parking lot. A man in a nearby apartment confirmed they were visiting him. Police asked him if there was drug activity going on in the apartment because he appeared extremely nervous.

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The eroding of who we are?

To a great extent, none of us should be expansion plans conformed with the surprised by how far we’ve come. From the town’s codes. Even so, the neighbors didn’t post-Revolutionary War, when there were like them. With their opposition so strilarge pockets of Americans who wanted ab- dent, Chiles pulled back — no renovation solutely no government, to today, when the at Jordan House, no more Fourth of July IRS has become a political organization of fireworks, no more fish fry for the Longboat tyrannical thugs and Big Brother is catalogKey Historical Society. ing your every phone call.

A petulant reaction?

At the local level, we have our versions of No, we get it; every current and former the constant whittling and erosion of the business owner gets it. rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of hapAlong with the gratification and benpiness. Look at the regulatory regime on efits of owning a viable business, there is Longboat Key. It’s probably safe to say most another side of the coin — the constant Longboat Key property owners like it — the hassles … from customers, slacker employregulatory rules that strictly limit how indiees, competitors, government bureaucrats viduals can use their property. and, yes, neighbors. Put yourself in Chiles’ We have often said today’s concept of shoes. It would be a strain to be a pleasproperty ownership is this: Yes, you may ant host to some of the Villagers who are own your property; you paid for it; and you campaigning to drive his restaurant back certainly are forced to pay the taxes on it. to 60 seats from the 113 he now has. There But truth is, it’s not are Villagers, no really yours. You doubt, who boycott can’t change it, say, Chiles’ restaurant the way you can anyway, hoping he change your hair. goes away.

Or dress it, say, But in the bigger the way you dress picture, this conyourself — however certed effort by the you want.

Village’s “runway If you want to residents” — the add a fence; perneighbors who haps grow a hedge bought at the end eight feet tall; build of the runway and a second story complain about above your garage; Kurt Schultheis the noise — can replace your roof; Ed Chiles, right, meets with Village residents. and will work to or, say, add 11 dinthe detriment of ing seats to your Longboat Key. restaurant, you can’t, even though it’s your Think about the future of Longboat Key property. You must obtain the approval of and what, during its history, has made it your neighbors and the regulatory regime. unique. To be sure, the Mar Vista is one of We all know the arguments: Zoning laws the Key’s historical treasures, one of the exist to protect you from your neighbor features that draws the people who buy the harming you and your property. There is Key’s homes and condominiums. Imagine the “Longboat Key would not be the preLongboat Key devoid of all of them — Mar mier residential place it is were it not for its Vista, Moore’s Stone Crab, Harry’s Conzoning laws.” And, if you don’t like the laws, tinental Kitchens, Euphemia Haye, Ciao you’re free to move.

Italia, Lazy Lobster, Blue Dolphin and on But as with all things government, there down the line. is the constant tug and pull of finding the It’s not that far fetched. In fact, we know right balance. In America, you would think, it to be true — that Chiles is on the cusp of the err should be toward our heritage — err that stage that every scarred and weathered on the side of freedom. entrepreneur reaches. This latest encounAlas, it isn’t. And look where it’s taking us. ter with Longboat Key’s mindset has him In the recent hubbub over entrepreneur thinking: “How much longer do I want to Ed Chiles’ desire to renovate the historic fight these battles? Is it worth it?”

Rufus Jordan House and expand the seatWatch out, Villagers, what you wish for. ing at the Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & The options cross his mind: Sell the Pub, we all can understand neighbors’ con- restaurant. No one knows what that might cerns about traffic and parking and providbring. A better operator? A nightmare? For ing proper public notice of his plans. Those that matter, who would want to buy the would be every neighbor’s concerns.

Mar Vista — especially when you do the But, we go back to our comments of a due diligence and learn about doing busifew weeks ago. The Village and Mar Vista ness in Longboat Key and the Village. historically are as native to each other as Maybe it would be easier just to shut it sand and sea shells. Add to that long codown and let it languish while trying to existence the idea that investing in your convert it to residential zoning. Convert it property to improve it and expanding your to a site for a future mega-mansion or two business are as American as apple pie. that would cut off views of the bay and forThere shouldn’t be such strife. ever change the ambience and character of Indeed, in the case of a neighborhood the Village and Longboat Key. Another step, restaurant, expanding within reason and one of many on the Key, backward, not with an eye toward compatibility are also forward. How would we all like that? expected as of a good steward and business So much for the pursuit of happiness and owner. It’s in the owner’s economic interest property ownership. Tyranny of the majorto co-exist. ity, at any level, is a dangerous assault on And from what town officials said, Chiles’ freedom.

THE CASTAWAY by Jorge Blanco

DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN; PLUNDER AS A WAY OF LIFE Since late last year, politicians in Washington, D.C., have been promising to save Americans from the Internal Revenue Service — to fundamentally reform the agency, once and for all. The surge of anti-IRS outrage fits a dismal pattern in recent American history. On July 30, 1996, when signing a bill to provide meager additional protections to taxpayers, President Bill Clinton proclaimed: “We say to America’s taxpayers, when you deal with the IRS, you also have privileges, and we respect them. You have protection, and we will help provide it. You have rights, and we will shield them.”

We’ve heard this before. Since the 1960s, national outrage has repeatedly erupted when news of IRS abuses hit newspaper front pages. Each time, politicians and bureaucrats swore that they would fix the problems and that such abuses would never happen again. Each time, the IRS has continued to tyrannize and terrorize innocent American citizens — with no effective redress from either federal judges or from the U.S. Congress.

— James Bovard, The Freeman November 1998 If our fellow citizens decide when all is said and done that the problem in Washington is that the wrong people are in key positions, that simply replacing them will fix things, then we might as well stop the inquiries now.

We will have failed to learn the larger lessons. Big government is bad government, and it cannot be otherwise.

When concentrating power and scooping up other people’s money are the objectives, abuse of power and waste of money are inherent and inevitable.

The statist, end-justifies-the-means mentality is a green light for anything but character. When you elect or appoint people who have created nothing, managed nothing and want to redistribute everything, you get rampant incompetence and never-ending threats to liberty.

And if you think what you’ve heard so far about the IRS is ugly, just wait until thousands upon thousands of new IRS agents get their mitts on your health-care records as part of their mandate to enforce Obamacare.

Frédéric Bastiat warned us nearly 200 years ago: “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

— Lawrence Reed, Foundation for Economic Education May 15, 2013

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: In the May 22 article, “Commissioners review town wish list,” Longboat Observer Managing Editor Kurt Schultheis noted that at the recent Longboat Key Town Commission’s Goals and Objectives Workshop, I continued my “quest against excessive signage by urging commissioners to reduce the number of signs along Gulf of Mexico Drive.”

However, I also indicated the need for sign beautification as well, something Commissioner Jack Duncan concurred with. I shared photos of the classy signage that another Florida town, Weston, recently installed and remarked that Longboat Key is equally deserving of this aesthetically striking amenity.

Regrettably, because Florida cities and towns refuse to challenge the Florida Department of Transportation’s aesthetic control of their gateway thoroughfares, virtually no distinctive-looking signage is permitted on major arteries in the state.

I would like to see Longboat Key take the lead in petitioning FDOT to make quality signage possible here. Why can’t we help preserve our identity by seeking to be signage trailblazers ?

Rabbi Jonathan R. Katz Temple Beth Israel

+ Progress cannot be denied Dear Editor: It seems for the last year, nearly every issue of your paper has had front page stories about citizens obstructing proposals on almost every front. Sadly, it does not seem to be universally clear that smaller worlds must adapt over time, nor that “the greater good for the greater num-

ber” is an ethical principle to be embraced.

One wonders if those stridently opposing new initiatives ever step back to see the bigger picture, the ugliness of their anger and stridency, and how actions taken to protect or improve a narrow interest may have unintended consequences which may erode the broader quality of life.

The latest sad example is your front page story about how the hue and cry of Village residents has affected Ed Chiles’ proposed modest changes to the Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant and Pub. The lack of trust and unwillingness to take Mr. Chiles at his word is undeserved, and breathtaking to those of us watching from the sidelines.

What possible justification is there for interacting in this way with a longtime businessman who has a continuous record of neighborhood-sensitive development here and elsewhere? Moreover, one who has supported Longboat Key civic celebrations and charity events?

Certainly, progress to enhance our island community needs to be guided by an informed citizenry; further, negative impacts — both perceptual and economic — need to be avoided or mitigated.

Progress, however, will not be denied, and if it is obstructed again and again, it will drift down a path of its own making toward entropy.

The Town Commission and its apparatus has a sizable share of responsibility for this sad state of affairs. Under the guise of reasonableness, it has been elusive in its process and wishy-washy in its decisions.

It would be enormously helpful if it stuck to laying out a clear set of rules, explaining to those who come

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Instead, we are treated to a spectacle of repetitive hearings, into which commissioners toss their own undeveloped ideas — rather than explaining the parameters of the permissible and allowing applicants to imagine and propose within those boundaries. And then, in the resulting confusion, our commission appears to be justified in its dithering and postponed decisions.

It is also not helpful for the commission to shut down out of high season. In today’s world, people do not need to be in residence to keep up with town affairs or to give their input on issues. Physical absence is a poor excuse for inattention and lack of involvement.

Our town exists year-round; it is not something conjured into existence only if certain people grace us with their presence. Trying to cram a year’s worth of governance into an abbreviated schedule is a ridiculous demand at best and disingenuous at worst.

I urge naysayers in these matters — whether related to the Longboat Key Club, the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort quarrel, the Hilton Longboat Key Beachside Resort renovation, the Arts Center expansion, telecommunication strategy, or other actionable suggestions — to examine their attitudes and tactics and to contribute to our community’s progress in more constructive and collaborative ways in the future.

And, I respectfully request our elected representatives to put in place clear rules, apprise applicants for permits of what is and is not permissible, make timely decisions — and move on.

Lack of civility, disinformation and poorly managed process have distorted what should be deliberative governance into serial and prolonged stalling, aided and abetted by parties on both sides. And we find ourselves in stupor and stagnation. We are choking in a tide that is not strong, but relentless.

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Calusa Indians were Longboat Key’s first tourists. They traveled to and from the Key by canoes to search for shellfish, turtles and fishing, before returning to their homes on the mainland.

But Thomas Mann was Longboat Key’s first officially documented homesteader.

On June 17, 1891, President Benjamin Harrison signed a land grant awarding Mann 144.47 acres in what is now the Longbeach Village, through the Homestead Act of 1862, which Congress passed to encourage settlement south of Gainesville.

Settlers had to be armed and settle 160 acres of land; after five years, they could buy the land for $1.75 an acre.

Other settlers received grants for Key land before Mann, but there’s no official record they actually lived on the Key. Mann, a Civil War veteran from Indiana, sailed down the Mississippi River after the war, then traveled from New Orleans to what was then Braidentown by boat with his family in 1872, according to Ralph Hunter’s “From Calusas to Condominiums.”

He moved to the Key, “possibly to avoid the Yankee-hating vigilantes or the yellow fever epidemic on the mainland in 1887 and 1888,” and lived in a thatched hut, the exact location of which is unknown.

Mann died in 1908 in Cortez after worms infested his body, and eventually, his brain.

+ North end businesses call it quits

The Longbeach Chevron and Dr. Robert Gordon’s dental office were the first signs of commercial life Key residents saw when they drove onto the Key over the Longboat Pass Bridge.

But on June 15, 2007, both businesses closed permanently.

Gas station owner Robert Self cited the loss of summer traffic in his decision to close his business on the Key and open a new mechanic shop in Ellenton. Gordon moved his practice to a larger space in Sarasota.

Century 21 Beggins Enterprises now operates out of the former dentist’s office.

The gas station has remained vacant in the six years since then.

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Longboat Key police spotted a man walking nude on the old Holiday Inn’s beach June 19, 1991. An officer questioned him, but the man ran toward his car and put on shorts. Upon further questioning, he took off running and outran the officer.

The next morning, police captured the man, who turned out to be on the run from the Charlotte County Correctional Institution, by changing into civilian clothing and staking out the car, which was stolen.

The man had escaped the month before from a road gang and had more than eight years remaining on his sentence.

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Thursday, June 13 Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key Meeting — runs from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. at the Longboat Key Club and Resort’s Tavern & Whiskey Bar. Longboat Key Police Chief Pete Cumming is the speaker at the meeting. Cost is $10 and includes a breakfast buffet. Call Donna at 388-2847.

Wednesday, June 19 Harry’s Summer Solstice Soiree — takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. at Harry’s Continental Kitchens, 525 St. Judes Drive. The event features wines, beers and hors d’oeuvres and benefits the Anna Maria Island Community Center. Cost is $20.

Call 383-0777.

Sunday, June 23 American Littoral Society Bird Key/ South Lido Park Kayak — takes place from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Enjoy a leisurely paddling and observation. Kayaks and other equipment will be supplied. Cost is $20 for members; $25 for nonmembers. For reservations and meeting location, call John at 9667308.

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Saturdays Mote Marine Laboratory Turtle Walks — take place at 6:45 a.m. beginning at the Longboat Key Hilton Beachfront Resort, 4711 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Meet at the hotel’s pool area for a leisurely one-and-a-half-mile walk. A Mote volunteer will lead participants while discussing sea turtles and other local wildlife. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Call 388-4441.

Lord’s Warehouse — is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 6140 Gulf of Mexico Drive from June through September. The thrift store offers clothing, jewelry, furniture, books and housewares to raise money for local charities. Call 383-4738.

Wonderful, 2,385 sq ft, 3 bedroom, 3 bath country club Shores home with peek-a-boo views of the bay. The home has been lovingly remodeled and features large rooms and a great open floor plan that flows easily from the living, dining, kitchen and family rooms all overlooking the courtyard pool area, the dock & lift and lovely water views. $995,000 MLS A3978393

LOOKING AHEAD Freedom Fest Parade What: Patriotic people (and pups) of all ages are invited to participate in what’s known as the shortest and most charming Fourth of July parade in America. Parade participants are invited to walk the walk around Bay Isles Road or make the rounds via bike, trike or wagon. Then, enjoy breakfast, games and good, old-fashioned fun in Bicentennial Park. For information, call 383-2466.

When: Parade lineup begins at 8:30 a.m.; parade begins at 9 a.m. Thursday, July 4 Where: Bay Isles Road in front of Longboat Key Town Hall

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Some docks in Emerald Harbor were completely overtaken by rising tide waters at high tide June 6.

ANDREA / FROM PAGE 1A Hayley Rutger, public relations coordinator at Mote Marine Laboratory, said staffers are still assessing nests for storm impact.

“We don’t know how many were affected,” she wrote in an email.

The fact that Tropical Storm Andrea came early in nesting season could be good news for nests, because turtles still have plenty of nests to lay for the season.

Storms can have a bigger impact later in the season, when more nests are already in the sand.

Rutger urged beachgoers to be vigilant about watching out for nests. Nests can tolerate some water inundation and still hatch successfully. If no eggs are exposed to water, there’s no need to take action.

If eggs are exposed, call Mote’s Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program at 388-4331. (It’s illegal for beachgoers to handle sea turtle eggs, move nests or otherwise interfere with turtles on the beach.)

Save Our Seabirds CEO David Pilston said that it’s currently baby-bird season,

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“It was your typical summer day,” he said.

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OBITUARIES E. Everett Edwards

Jason Iannello, son of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Iannello, of Longboat Key, proposed to Dayana Bermudez, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Alexey Bermudez, of Santa Marta, Colombia, on the beaches of Longboat Key. She accepted, and the couple is planning a wedding this summer in Santa Marta.

Bill and Mary Lou Johnson, of Longboat Key, announced the engagement of their daughter, Erica Lynn, to Johnson Swann Clark, son of Joe and Terrell Clark, of Tampa.

Johnson recently completed her doctorate degree at Florida Institute of Technology in clinical psychology. Clark completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Vanderbilt University and currently works as an operations associate at PwC in Tampa.

The couple has not yet set a date.

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Dayana Bermudez and Jason Iannello

Erica Lynn Johnson and Johnson Swann Clark

Mr. Edwards was preceded in death by his parents, Edgar and Ernestine Edwards, of Norfolk, Va. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Patricia; children Stephen Edwards, of Nashotah, Wis.; T. Scott Edwards, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.; and Stacey Lee Rice, of Merton, Wis.; and eight grandchildren.

A celebration of life will take place at 6 p.m. Friday, June 14, at Oakwood Church, 3041 Oakwood Road, Hartland, Wis. 53029. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Mission Funds at Oakwood Church, oakwoodnow.org.

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David Kovalsky, 64, of Sarasota, died May 31.

Born Sept. 14, 1948, in North Charleroi, Pa., he grew up in Mentor, Ohio, and graduated from Perry High School and served in the U.S. Navy from 1969 to 1975.

He entered the real-estate industry in 1978 and became regional vice president of the northeast and central divisions for ERA Real Estate. Most recently, he served as sales manager of Premier Sotheby’s International Realty on Longboat Key.

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Mr. Kovalsky enjoyed spending quality time with his wife of 40 years, Marian, and family, golf, sports, traveling, outdoor living and the Florida community. He is remembered for his approach to everything in life with energy, good humor and integrity.

Mr. Kovalsky was preceded in death by his father, John Kovalsky.

He is survived by his wife, Marian, of Sarasota; mother, Eleanore Kovalsky, of Ohio; daughters, Kristan Lewis, of Lakeville, Mass., Nicole Kovalsky, of New York City, and Courtney Kovalsky, of Quincy, Mass.; son Brent Kovalsky, of Columbus, Ohio; brothers Dale Kovalsky, of Ogden, Utah, and Dennis Kovalsky, of Powder Springs, Ga.; sisters Debra Frank, of Mentor, and Stacy Bielaska, of Brighton, Mich.; one granddaughter; and many nieces and nephews.

The family will receive guests at 10 a.m. Friday, June 7, before an 11 a.m. memorial service at the National Cremation & Burial Society, 2990 Bee Ridge Road, Sarasota.

An additional memorial service will take place June 29, in Bourne, Mass.

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E. Everett Edwards, 76, formerly of Longboat Key, died June 6.

Born June 2, 1937, he was a graduate of the College of William & Mary in Virginia.

Mr. Edwards served as regional vice president of Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., in Hartford, Conn., president of Blue Cross & Blue Shield United of Wisconsin, and president of Mutual Group (U.S.) Employee Benefits.

He served on the boards of Red Cross of Wisconsin, YMCA Metropolitan Milwaukee, American Heart Association, Fellowship of Christian Athletes of Wisconsin, Heartlove Place, Community Warehouse, Hope Street and Christian Stewardship Foundation and was a founding member of Christian Executive Organization of Milwaukee.

Mr. Edwards taught the Bible for more than 40 years and served on the board of elders in five different churches.

Upon retirement, the people of the inner city became his passion and ministry. He was a present member and senior elder of Oakwood Church, in Delafield, Wis.

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Madison P. observes the sharks swimming overhead.

Children explored Mote Marine Laboratory’s Aquarium Saturday, June 8, during the World Oceans Day Family Festival. Mote partnered with nonprofits that focus on marine issues to educate children about marine life.

About 800 children visited the aquarium, where they learned from 13 vendors. The day was a celebration of the world’s ocean as a whole and its important role in human survival.

Jojo Zolikoff got his face painted.

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Xander DeWitt and Gilly the Shark Buck Rowell munches on snacks on his way out of World Oceans Day.

Scarlet Wulf reaches for a toy.

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Bird Key Yacht Club celebrates the Queen of England’s birthday Bird Key Yacht Club members celebrated the Queen of England’s birthday Saturday, June 8, at the club. About 50 members attended the celebration, and a few dressed-up in the queen’s likeness.

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T

om Freiwald recently gave the commencement address for the University of Phoenix West Florida to a crowd of approximately 2,000 students and their families.

He told students about Dr. Ben Carson, who grew up in Detroit and became director of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins UniverNeighborhood: sity at age 33.

Spanish Main He told them that Yacht Club commencement wasn’t Your neighbor the end of anything, but since: 2005 rather, the beginning of everything. He encouraged students to go out there — and knock their socks off, before showing off his signature red University of Phoenix socks.

Freiwald has taught at the University of Phoenix since 2008 and was recently named “Faculty Member of the Year.”

The Spanish Main Yacht Club resident has a smaller audience when he speaks at community meetings and Longboat Key Town Hall. He started out in town politics when he reviewed the Public Works Department in 2010 for the Organizational Review Subcommittee. The next year, former Mayor George Spoll invited Freiwald to serve on the Longboat Key Revitalization Task Force.

Freiwald is part of a rare species — a Florida native who moved to Detroit. He grew up in Clearwater and used to visit his

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His career included 30 years in the Detroit automotive industry with General Motors, Penske Corp., and DaimlerChrysler, that took him to Europe for six years and more than 90 countries.

Today, he serves as co-chairman of the Task Force and is also part of a new working group that met Monday, June 10, to form questions about Longboat Key’s future for an Urban Land Institute study.

Through the Task Force, Freiwald has worked on projects that include both a planning charette for the north end that New College professor Dr. David Brain oversaw, and a study of real-estate trends and their impacts on Longboat Key last year.

Freiwald’s message to Longboat Key residents is similar to the “knock their socks off” message he brought to grads recently.

“We have so much competition from other vacation spots,” Freiwald said. “If we get old and tired and our average age of residents keeps getting older, I think that’s a mistake.”

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Community members flock Annual arts and crafts festival to Lou Newman exhibit circles around St. Armands Community members flocked to the opening of Lou Newman’s Wildlife Action Photography Exhibit Tuesday, June 4, at Plymouth Harbor, to see his work from the last 10 months. Approximately 200 people attended to see his photographs from places like Tanzania, New Mexico and Costa Rica. Newman has visited more than 60 countries on all seven continents in the last 10 years.

The retired veterinarian plans to Retired veterinarian Lou Newman has been to go to Wrangel Island in Siberia for more than 60 countries on all seven continents his next photography adventure. in the past 10 years.

Festivalgoers browsed an assortment of arts and crafts Saturday, June 8 and Sunday, June 9, at the 12th annual St. Armands Circle Craft Festival. Crafters from across the United States sold pieces such as art made out of driftwood, animal-shaped cutting boards made out of stone and colorful messenger bags sewn by hand.

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Vizcaya condominium sells for $1,987,500 Fairway Bay

The following residential real estate transactions took place between May 27 and May 31.

A condominium in Vizcaya at Longboat Key tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Deborah Cook and Victor Cook Jr., trustees, of Columbus, Ohio, sold the Unit 2E2 condominium at 2377 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Frank and Katherine Martucci, of Ancramdale, N.Y., for $1,987,500. Built in 1997, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 3,169 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $2,320,000 in 2005.

Bernard and Patricia Murphy, of Jefferson, Ind., sold their Unit 222 condominium at 1932 Harbourside Drive to Richard and Sharon Kleinberg, of Chestnut Hill, Mass., for $365,000. Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,192 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $275,000 in 2010.

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Harbour Court

James and Patricia Ericson, of Longboat Key, sold their home at 2262 Harbour Court Drive to Joseph and Joan McSweeny, of Saddle River, N.J., for $1,325,000.

Built in 1988, it has three bedrooms, four baths and 3,189 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $1.2 million in 2004.

Beachplace

Laura Rifkin sold her Unit 105 condominium at 1045 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Cecil and Gillian Barnett, of Longboat Key, for $1,185,000. Built in 1981, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,819 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $890,000 in 2010.

Mark and Ellen Richmond, of Highland Park, Ill., sold their Unit 505 condominium at 1055 Gulf of Mexico Drive to John and Catherine Mikus, of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., for $743,400. Built in 1981, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,503 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $610,000 in 2002.

Emerald Harbor

Angelo and Marcia Cayo sold their home at 5921 Emerald Harbor Drive to Patrik and Carola Edin, of Vermdo, Sweden, for $1.15 million. Built in 2000, it

Unit 2E2 at Vizcaya, 2377 Gulf of Mexico Drive, has three bedrooms, three baths and 3,169 square feet of living area. It sold for $1,987,500. has four bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,244 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $500,000 in 2010.

Longboat Key Towers

George Watterson, of Cheshire, England, sold his Unit S-401 condominium at 601 Longboat Club Road to Maureen Watterson, of Cheshire, England, for $750,000.

Built in 1970, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,420 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $1.5 million in 2008.

Lois Curry, of Sarasota, sold her Unit S-404 condominium at 601 Longboat Club Road to S-404 Longboat Key Towers LLC for $725,000. Built in 1970, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,560 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $62,200 in 1970.

The Players Club

Harry Glasspiegel, trustee, of Chicago, sold the Unit 104 condominium at 1425 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Scott and Martha Paczosa, of Park Ridge, Ill., for $700,000.

Built in 1983, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 1,771 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $575,000 in 1999.

Country Club Shores

John and Tanya Marsden, of West Yorkshire, England, sold their home at 510 Putting Green Lane to Steven and Melissa Epstein, of Coral Springs, for $680,000.

Built in 1966, it has three bedrooms, twoand-a-half baths, a pool and 1,815 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $825,000 in 2008.

Privateer North

Gage McNally LLC sold the Unit 906 condominium at 1050 Longboat Club Road to Francis and Carla La Voie, of Mundelein, Ill., for $645,000. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,409 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $415,000 in 2010.

Islands West

Howard and Virginia Biddle, trustees, of Mill Valley, Calif., sold the Unit 3-D condominium at 2525 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Charles and Carolyn Moore, of Houston, for $585,000. Built in 1972, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,468 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $205,000 in 1984.

Susan Leighton, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, sold her Unit B603 condominium at 3240 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Stephen Pollock and Victoria Snelling, of Prospect, Ky., for $270,000. Built in 1975, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,260 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $68,500 in 1977.

Longbeach Village

Charles Wickersham, trustee, Melanni Fowler, Mark Wickersham and Cynthia English, of Myakka City, sold the home at 730 Fox St. to Jay Robertson, of Sarasota, for $205,000. Built in 1975, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,050 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $60,000 in 1992.

Lido Shores

Charles and Margaret Robbins, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1190 Westway Drive to Henry and Mary Rodrigues, of Ontario, Canada, for $925,000. Built in 1950, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,632 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $349,000 in 1997.

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These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of May 31 through June 6, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive) Address Permit Applicant Amount

Grand Bay 3010 Grand Bay Blvd.

Re-roof Condominium Association $199,600

Kitchen and 2105 GMD bath Samuel Roberts $100,000 Addition Spardon Ltd. $100,000 520 Harbor Cay Drive Demolition Longboat Harbour Towers $92,000 4454 GMD

Kitchen and doors Richard Percy $80,000 2675 GMD Interior Wendy Osmar, trustee $56,881 1701 GMD Re-roof H.W. Herring Jr. $38,900 3281 Bayou Road Kitchen Marjorie Davis $33,940 4900 GMD Window 319451 Alberta Ltd. $30,000 5481 GMD Kitchen Steven Guggenheim $26,000 1925 GMD

Garage door, Robert and windows, shutters Elizabeth Dods $25,000 6011 GMD Interior Raymond Markham Jr. $22,000 2163 Harbourside Drive Stanley Friedlander $15,000 3416 Winding Oaks Drive Kitchen Interior Matthew Quilter $15,000 2450 Harbourside Drive 2120 Harbourside Drive Master bath Steven Wiltse $15,000 Maryann Eysel $11,975 565-573 Spanish Drive N. Re-roof Re-roof John Vinson $10,995 5930 GMD Deck and railing James Bradley, trustee $10,800 610 Bayport Way Raj Soin $10,458 90 Lighthouse Point Drive Lift davit

Doors, shutters and windows Sanford Wolf $7,318.54 510 Bayport Way 3320 GMD Window John Gard $7,000

Whitney Beach 6701 GMD Pool Condominium Association $6,900 Raj Soin $6,231 90 Lighthouse Point Drive Lift davit 578-586 Spanish Drive S. Interior John Petchul $6,000 2045 GMD Shutters William Smith $4,267.54 Window John Crain $2,400 6700 GMD 3155 GMD Doors Linda Reynolds, trustee $2,300 6701 GMD Window John Redd $1,840 Pool Gulf Tides Develop Corp. $425 3008 GMD 340 GMD Fire sprinkler David Weinstein $0

6750 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 148 #A3978064 $300,000 Tammy Mast

4380 Exeter Dr # 102H #A3976328 $278,000 Richard Perlman

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Longboat businesses catch up at monthly happy hour

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By Robin Hartill | City Editor Chip Hagan III; Manatee County Natural Resources Director Charles Hunsicker; Chiles Restaurant Group owner Ed Chiles; U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan; Mote Marine Laboratory President and CEO Dr. Michael Crosby; Mote President Emeritus Dr. Kumar Mahadevan; and Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan, acting under secretary of commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and acting NOAA administrator.

The Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce held its monthly Business After Hours Tuesday, June 4, at Chart House Restaurant, to network and enjoy refreshments. Community members purchased raffle tickets for a 50/50 raffle and about 30 people attended.

Irina LaRose, of Design 2000, Pat Martin, of Pampered Movers, and Tom Aposporos, of J Wood Realty

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Judy Tatar, of Grayhawk Windows and Door Remodeling, and Tammy Halsted, of St. Armands Travel

Adrian Griffin, of Longboat Title Services, and Alan Hazley, of Alan Hazley Financial

Alyson Harris, of Plymouth Harbor, and Kimberly Stanford, of A Bridge for Independence

Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce executive assistant Victoria Jacobson and Executive Vice President Dawn Mims

+ Crosby, Chiles, Cripe attend + Arpke ‘Tasting Tuscany’ NOAA fish fry in September The 38th annual National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fish Fry, held June 5, in Washington, D.C., featured Mote Marine Laboratory’s farm-raised caviar and Siberian sturgeon produced at Mote’s 200-acre Aquaculture Park in eastern Sarasota County.

Mote partnered with the Chiles Restaurant Group, Anna Maria Fish Co. and Lola Wines for the event. The group’s booth also featured bottarga, a delicacy made from locally caught striped mullet and wine varietals from Lola Wines.

Dr. Michael Crosby, president and CEO of Mote; Ed Chiles, owner of the Chiles Restaurant Group; and Ed Cripe, majority owner of Lola Wines, in which Chiles is also a partner, attended the event. Both Chiles and Cripe own and operate the Anna Maria Fish Co. By serving sustainable seafood produced in Mote’s Aquaculture Park, Mote demonstrated that unlimited water access isn’t needed, nor environmentally sustainable or desirable, for large-scale production of food or growing marine fish species to replenish depleted wild stocks.

As of June 3, six spots remained for a “Tasting Tuscany” trip that Euphemia Haye co-owners chef Ray and D’Arcy Arpke will host from Sept. 22 through Sept. 29. The trip will include cooking lessons and demonstrations, market visits, wine tastings, a chocolate factory visit and tasting, truffle hunting and more.

Ray Arpke will offer his insights on food and wine; Elizabeth Namack, a native Floridian who lives in Florence, will act as the tour guide, providing her commentary on sights, art history, architecture and more.

For the full itinerary, visit EuphemiaHaye.com. For booking and pricing information, call Lisa Silvestri, of Silvestri Travel, at 866-966-6535.

+ Maison Blanche to close for summer Maison Blanche, 2605 Gulf of Mexico Drive, will close for the summer from June 16 through Aug. 13. The restaurant is owned by Jose and Victoria Martinez. For information, call 383-8088.

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FRANCES CARLTON Downtown 1-2Br/1Ba w/historic designation, Lr, Dr, den/study, wood flrs, ceramic tile, carpet, custom cabinets, French doors, Palladian windows, pvt laundry & pool views in secure bldg w/ amenities; courtyards, pool & assigned parking!

MLS#A3974837 $184,000

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

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

ISLAND STYLE INSPIRED 2BR/2BA UNIT. Great rental income property was completely renovated in 2005, new kitchen & bathrooms. Oversized screened lanai for maximum garden view. Mary Moore & Dia Wilson $399,000 #M5835441

ground floor condo. Furnished, gorgeous kitchen, open patio overlooking manicured grounds & Gulf beach. Pet friendly, 8 tennis courts, 2 heated pools. Teresia Bradford $629,000 #M5834579

UPDATED IN BAY PLAZA! 2Br/2Ba/den/1CG w/bamboo lam flrs, ceramic tile, wood cabinets, eat-in kitch. w/granite, modern cabinets & appls., 2 balconies w/views, pvt laundry in secure, full-serv bldg w/ amenities; concierge, valet, fitness ctr, pool & more! MLS#A3978547 $449,000

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This property is located at end of street w/mesmerizing views of Sarasota Bay w/canal access for boating. 2BR/2BA each side, could be single family residence or keep for steady income. Teresia Bradford $975,000 #M5832504

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islands west - beach & bay Views Lovely 2BR/2BA apartment on the 8th floor Southwest side of the building with beautiful water views of the Gulf of Mexico and Sarasota Bay. In perfect condition with new sliding glass doors! $699,000

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lido beach - best waterfront Value Gated Mediterranean inspired residence w/protected Bay views, within walking distance to Lido Beach and St. Armands Circle. 6BR/6.5BA on 148 ft of waterfront. $2,990,000

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Siesta Cove - waterfront Short Sale An incredible opportunity to live in a premier neighborhood, on a superb waterfront lot in a gorgeous 4,869 SF home.

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TEMPERATURES

THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013

Temps.

CALM BEFORE THE STORM

Record Temps.

High

Low

High

Low

Tuesday, June 4

85

76

95 (1943)

59 (1984)

Wednesday, June 5

86

74

95 (1989)

55 (1933)

Thursday, June 6

81

75

99 (1985)

59 (1933)

Friday, June 7

85

77

97 (1985)

57 (1956)

Saturday, June 8

87

72

96 (1959)

62 (1962)

Sunday, June 9

88

72

96 (1985)

64 (1967)

Monday, June 10

88

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60 (1930)

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Thursday, June 13

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ESTATE AUCTION ART & ANTIQUES SUNDAY, JUNE 16TH @ 1PM Inspection Sunday Day of Sale 11am-1pm The sale will be held at our Auction Gallery located on the Southwest corner of 301N & University Parkway.

Quality Estate Auction Featuring: Victorian, Country, and Custom Furniture, Jewelry, Paintings & Sculptures, Pottery, Garden Art, Oriental Rugs, Estate books, and more!

13% Buyer’s Premium 3% Discount for Cash or Check Elliott Bernstein Auctions AUG3504 - AB2545 Gallery Phone: 941-351-3002 Photos & more: www.auctionzip.com Auctioneer ID#8290

Autos Wanted WE BUY CARS. TOP $$ PAID FOR YOUR VEHICLES. Call Hawley Motors, 941-923-3421.

Boat Slips For Rent/Sale BOAT SLIP FOR RENT, up to 25’. High, dry, indoor marina. Excellent boating location. By the month or yearly. Private owner, 941-371-1866.

LBK MOORINGS Slip Rental, 65’ Open Water View (R/8) Dock, $500/per month annual.

813-500-0566.

Boats Boats are selling very well. 17 yr. Island resident, many references. “Business On A Hand Shake”.

I also buy boats. Please visit: 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 BEDROOM SET for sale: 2 twin beds, dresser, night table in perfect condition. Best offer.

Call 914-419-1406.

General Merchandise THRIFT SHOP: The Lord’s Warehouse.

Next to Longboat Island Chapel. Wednesdays & Saturdays, 9a.m.-1p.m. Clothes, jewelry, furniture, other items. 6140 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

941-383-4738.

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

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

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Condos/Apts. For Rent DELUXE WATERCREST CONDO AT LAKEWOOD RANCH 3BR/3BA, 2521/sq.ft.

End Unit, w/2CG, lake, Golf Course and Main Street views.

Gated Community includes: pool, hottub, fitness center, water, sewer.

Granite countertops, stainless appliances. $2100/mo. with Annual Lease.

By Owner, 941-907-9515

SALES POSITION. P/T. Must be available 24-30 hours week, 6 hour shifts, evenings & weekends.

Located on Siesta Key. Retirees Welcome.

727-244-5906.

LBK ANNUAL: with option to buy $1500 month, 2BR/2BA, ground floor, corner, canal view, across from the beach, includes cable and water.

941-387-8485

RENTALS 4 NIGHT MIN. GULF FRONT/ GULF VIEW

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

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

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$1,950/MO.: ANNUAL Rental.

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Updated, awesome beach views, garage, 55+.

941-232-1357.

Office Open 7 Days, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

4621 Gulf of Mexico Drive Longboat Key 34228

UPSCALE, HISTORIC Longboat Village cottage.

400/sq.ft., 1BR/1BA, modern kitchen, heat & air, Washer/ dryer, large walk-in closet, private yard, storage, short walk to beach. Lease. No pets. $1000/mo. 941-383-5080.

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

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WANTED LUXURY ANNUAL RENTALS For Qualified Waiting Clients

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SALE Property of Susie & Murf Klauber home NOTE 8:45 AM OPENING TIME June 14, Fri. - 8:45 AM – 1:45 PM June 15, Sat. - 8:45 AM – 12 NOON 1620 Gulf Of Mexico Dr. – Longboat Key

BEACHPLACE, LBK. Casual beachfront living in 2BR/2BA, balcony condo. Olympic pool, health club, tennis courts. Available June through December, $2000/mo. Also available January through March, $5000/mo. Call for info. Contact Elizabeth/NYC. 212-570-2950.

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GULFFRONT: LONGBOAT TERRACE 2BR/2BA condo. 2014 Seasonal rental.

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

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Available Aug., Sept., Oct., Dec., 2013 & Feb. & March, 2014. Non-smoking/ pets. By owner.

941-383-1884.

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941-312-1747.

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PRIVATEER WINTER 2014. 3 month rental.

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2BR/2BA with full Gulf2014. views.

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ROGER SELLS LUXURY WATERFRONT PROPERTY For the third 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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