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Jennifer Riesenberger enjoys connecting with area seniors.

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+ Sarasota taps into its inner diva Sarasota, as well as local businesses, will be in the spotlight this weekend on E!’s show, “Total Divas.”

Natalie Neidhart, better known as WWE diva Natalya, married fellow WWE superstar Tyson Kidd (T.J. Wilson) June 26, at a private home on Siesta Key, with a reception following at Michael’s On East. The first episode featuring the wedding-planning process will air Sunday, Aug. 18, on E!. Sarasota wedding planner Nicole Kaney put the wedding together, and 60 guests traveled to Sarasota to partake in the festivities.

+ Going to the chapel ...

Sarasota resident Ethan Biter proposed to his nowfiancé, Molly Klauber, in late June on a private cruise in the Bahamas. Biter and Klauber met through mutual friends and share a passion for adventure and travel.

The future bride is assistant general manager at Michael’s On East and also owns Go To Girl, a small consulting firm. The future groom is currently a Navy lieutenant commander stationed in Jacksonville and is serving as an instructor pilot. The couple is currently planning their intimate spring wedding in Sarasota.

A proposed 18-story downtown hotel would allow Sarasota to have its cake and eat it, too.

In June 2012, the city was forced to choose between two hotel proposals for a site on North Palm Avenue.

An independent Floridays Development Co. boutique hotel beat out a proposed Embassy Suites. Though the choice was unanimous, members of the decision-making committee wrestled with selecting one over the other.

“They are both excellent but serve two different purposes,” said Randy Welker, then the downtown economic development coordinator at the time.

“One is more weekend- and businessoriented, and the other is a unique boutique hotel. I wish we could have both.”

Welker’s wish appears to be coming true. Jebco Ventures Inc., which lost out on the Palm Avenue hotel space, has submitted pre-application documents to build an Embassy Suites at 202 N. Tamiami Trail.

The proposed plan includes 200 suites on 10 floors, a 4,000-squarefoot restaurant and a 4,000-squarefoot ballroom/conference area, all atop a six-story parking garage with 200 parking spaces.

Jim Bridges, CEO of Jebco Ventures, says the plans for the hotel really began to ramp up again recently. He says he’s not concerned about other hotels in development in the area, because the company’s market analysis suggests there’s plenty of room for this project.

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and what we see in the marketplace,” Bridges said. “We really began to take a second look at it — we looked at the surveys we’ve done, and the timing’s right.”

Bridges is excited about the new location, which he says allows the hotel to serve as a gateway to Sarasota. He praised the design of the proposed Sarasota hotel, which may buck some people’s expectations of what a typical Embassy Suites would look like.

According to the Embassy Suites website, there are more than 200 Embassy Suites hotels in the United States, Canada and Latin America.

“The architecture here is very modern,” Bridges said. “You could put any flag in the world on there and it would look like it would belong.”

Bridges said he thinks his group will be ready to file for a building permit within the next 90 days. Construction on the hotel is currently projected to take 16 months, and Bridges said he

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Rendering courtesy of Jim Bridges

This 3-D rendering of a proposed 18-story Embassy Suites at Second Street and North Tamiami Trail was included with a site plan submitted to the city.

by Nolan Peterson | News Editor

Low-speed vehicle debate set to accelerate County officials will discuss controversial proposals to open Siesta Key roads to vehicles limited to no more than 25 mph during an Aug. 20 meeting.

Siesta Key residents will have a chance Tuesday, Aug. 20, to get up to speed on proposals to open more of the island’s roads to a controversial type of vehicle.

County officials will run the public forum to discuss a proposed reduction in the speed

limit on a segment of Midnight Pass Road. Also up for debate is an existing proposal to allow low-speed vehicles (LSVs) on the half-mile stretch of Midnight Pass Road between Sanderling Road and Vista Hermosa Circle, as well as to gauge public opinion on opening other

Siesta Key roads to the speedgoverned buggies.

The meeting will pit residents who own lowspeed vehicles and want greater access

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Siesta Key. Low-speed vehicles are already permitted on state-owned roads on to the Key against county officials and the Key with speed limits 35 mph residents with concerns about safety and and below, Wiggins said. traffic flow.

According to county officials, Siesta resAccording to Florida statutes, a lowidents who own low-speed vehicles and speed vehicle is any four-wheeled vehicle, including neighborhood electric vehicles, want greater access to the island, not LSV that has a top speed greater than 20 mph rental companies looking out for their bottom line, primarily back the measures but lower than 25 mph. to be discussed during the Operators are required Aug. 20 forum. to have a valid driver’s li“I think there will be a lot cense and wear a seat belt.

If you go of frustration on the Key,” Use of low-speed vehicles The Midnight Pass said Mike Lewis, owner of is allowed on all state and Road Speed Reduction Siesta Sports Rentals in recounty roads with speed Public Meeting — 5 to sponse to the idea of LSVs limits less than 35 mph, 7 p.m. Aug. 20, at the on Midnight Pass and othunless prohibited by a suSiesta Key Chapel, 4615 er Siesta roads. “The speed perseding ordinance. The Gleason Ave. limit on the Key would authority to ban LSVs from basically be reduced to county roads rests with the Up for discussion: 20 mph; it would be a real County Commission.

• A proposed speed limit hassle.”

The rules for golf carts are reduction on a half-mile The low-speed vehicle different, requiring special stretch of Midnight Pass debate traces back to a approval from the road’s Road between Sanderling Dec. 10 Sarasota County governing body. The miniRoad and Vista Hermosa Traffic Advisory Council mum age to drive a golf cart Circle. recommendation to lower is 14, and no seat belts are • Allowing low-speed the speed limit from 40 required. Unlike LSVs, golf vehicles to operate on the mph to 25 mph on a halfcarts are not permitted for portion of Midnight Pass mile stretch of Midnight nighttime use.

Road with the reduced Pass Road between SandPaula Wiggins, Saraspeed limit. erling Road and Vista Hersota County public works mosa Circle. Bill and Sarah • Gauge public opinion transportation manager, Cooper, residents of the on opening other roads on will lead Tuesday’s forum.

Sanderling Club, originally Siesta Key to low-speed Wiggins said county competitioned for the change vehicles. missioners have misgivso they could use their golf ings about opening porcart on the affected segtions of Midnight Pass to low-speed vehicles, but they are receptive ment of the road, but they eventually cited traffic safety at the Dec. 10 TAC meetto other locations.

“The characteristics of Midnight Pass ing as justification for the move to lower make it a concern,” Wiggins said. “The the speed limit. The Coopers could not be commissioners are, however, open to reached for comment.

Wiggins said that area law enforcelooking at the use of LSVs on other roads ment has not voiced any significant with fewer safety issues.”

Wiggins said the commission is still in concerns about low-speed vehicles favor of lowering the speed limit on Mid- and favor lowering the speed limit night Pass Road but want to ban LSVs on Midnight Pass Road.

County Commissioner Nora Patterfrom the two-lane road — the only evacuation route from the southern portion of son originally supported the Dec. 10

What is a low-speed vehicle?

• According to Florida statute, a low-speed vehicle (LSV) is any four-wheeled vehicle that can go at least 20 mph, but no more than 25 mph.

• LSVs can be operated on any road with a posted speed limit 35 mph or lower.

• Operators must have a valid driver’s license.

• LSVs must be equipped with headlamps, stop lamps, turn-signal lamps, tail lamps, reflex reflectors, parking brakes, rearview mirrors, windshields, seat belts and vehicle identification numbers.

• LSVs must be registered and insured.

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Low-speed vehicles, such as the ones operated by Jonnys Free Beach Rides, are only permitted on roads with posted speed limits of 35 mph or below.

TAC recommendation to lower the speed limit on Midnight Pass Road but did an about-face when she realized the move would allow LSVs on the two-lane road many Siesta residents use for their daily commute to work.

“My big concern, and my only concern,” Patterson said, “is that low-speed vehicles can only go 25 mph, and that is going to seem awfully slow to most of the folks who aren’t tourists and actually have to go to work. A lot of people will be passing on the narrow, two-lane road, and that will be problematic.”

The issue of low-speed vehicles was raised at the Siesta Key Association’s Aug. 1 meeting. Safety topped the board’s concerns. Siesta residents reported dangerous encounters with low-speed vehicles, particularly at night.

“We all want safe roads, there’s no debate about that,” SKA board member Catherine Luckner said. “It could be good to lower the speed limit, but it’s scary to

think about tourists coming here and not knowing where and when it’s safe to drive these things.”

“I am in agreement that I do not want to see the speed limit lowered to see these vehicles given access,” SKA board member Michael Shay said. “It’s a safety issue.”

The Aug. 20 meeting will be an important step to measure community opinion on the low-speed vehicle debate, Wiggins said. Residents are encouraged to fill out online surveys, available on the Sarasota County website, www.scgov.net/PublicWorks/Pages/TransportationPlanning. aspx, that will use county officials to draft policy. Patterson also encouraged Siesta residents to learn more about the different proposals to be discussed and to voice their opinions.

“I think people who live on the Key and care about the quality of their roads should go,” Patterson said. “People who are most affected by an issue are usually the last to know.”

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by David Conway | News Editor

Burns Square tenants bemoan loss of lot After the city allowed its lease of a Burns Square parking lot to expire, business and property owners in the area are demanding a solution to parking problems.

Signs promising free public parking convenient to Burns Square are still standing near the lot at Orange Avenue and Laurel Street, but it’s a promise the city no longer stands behind.

An agreement between the city and the owner of the parking lot, Saunders Family Limited Partnership, which allowed for public parking in the lot, expired July 25. It’s a decision that’s taken some Burns Square business and property owners by surprise.

Cherylyn Van Kirk, a member of the Burns Court Neighborhood Association, was named the point person regarding parking in the area while the city debated whether to renew the agreement. Despite the fact that she has been taking the lead on the issue since the spring, she wasn’t made aware of the city’s decision until Aug. 2.

Van Kirk, owner of Starflower Essentials, 411 S. Pineapple Ave., criticized the city’s lack of communication with Burns Square stakeholders. She said that the decision to let the parking lot agreement expire “outraged” merchants because the parking lot, with 63 spaces, was essential for those working at and patronizing businesses in the area.

Beyond that, she said the city has been unclear as to what the next step will be to address parking needs in Burns Square.

“We don’t quite understand why Burns Court and Burns Square is being undervalued as a viable contingency for the city, why we’re being treated like this,” Van Kirk said.

The decision was made to let the parking license agreement with Saunders Family Limited Partnership expire after the City Commission did not direct staff to renew the contract, city Parking Director Mark Lyons said.

City commissioners discussed renewing the lease at a July 3 commission meeting.

Commissioner Susan Chapman said the onus should be on businesses, not the city, to secure parking for private use.

Lyons said the city has communicated that directive to Burns Square business owners. He said it was still early in the process, and that there were hundreds of street spaces in the area to use while multiple avenues are explored.

“We certainly have encouraged them to form some other business group — similar to our Downtown Improvement District within downtown, or some other sort of

mechanism — that would help them fund parking within their district,” Lyons said.

Denise Kowal, founder and chairwoman of the Sarasota Chalk Festival, is also the owner of a building in Burns Court that contains residential and commercial units.

She said her building — mixed use, with frontage on Orange Avenue — represents something the city is seeking in creating a walkable city center. In exchange for preserving property of that nature, which frequently has little or no parking space, Kowal thinks the city should fill the parking gap.

“If they want people like me to maintain a historic structure, then they have to have the sustainable elements in place so that the area can continue to prosper,” Kowal said.

Kowal pointed to the Downtown Parking Master Plan from 2005, which listed a parking garage at Laurel Street and Orange Avenue as the No. 3 priority behind garages

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on Palm Avenue and State Street, as evidence that the city knows Burns Square is in need of parking beyond what’s available on the street. She said the city should stick to that plan, rather than leaving the fate of Burns Square parking in the hands of the commission.

“You can’t reinvent the wheel in a small committee, which is what they’re trying to do with this situation,” Kowal said.

“They’re trying to design something different by committee, which is ridiculous; we already did this.”

Lyons, along with City Manager Tom Barwin, will meet with the Burns Square Neighborhood Association Sept. 5 to discuss the parking situation in the area.

Van Kirk said she was looking forward to finally discovering what the city had in mind for Burns Square businesses in need of parking. Kowal, on the other hand, expressed her dismay that a meeting was

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Despite signs indicating otherwise, the city no longer uses the parking lot at Orange Avenue and Laurel Street to supply public parking near Burns Court — a move that has upset some business owners in the area.

even necessary in the first place.

“I find it frustrating that we’re having a meeting about something that is 100% a no-brainer,” Kowal said.

Pension liabilities: the elephant in the city Sarasota’s unfunded pension obligations are widely acknowledged as a serious issue that needs to be addressed — so why isn’t more being done?

There’s little disagreement among city commissioners that Sarasota’s ever-looming pension liabilities are a problem.

Commissioner Paul Caragiulo: “It’s not a question of whether the bomb goes off, it’s a question of how.”

Commissioner Susan Chapman: “There is a point — and we’re at it now — when our pension costs are taking away from our ability to provide city services.”

Commissioner Suzanne Atwell: “Although we’ve been taking proactive steps to address (our unfunded pension liabilities), we have to do more.”

Mayor Shannon Snyder: “Some people say it’s really bad, and some people say it’s really, really bad. That’s the only thing people are debating.”

According to the city’s 2012 comprehensive annual financial report, the city has almost $296 million in unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities from pensions.

That number is based on a 7% assumed rate of return for investments that fund the pensions — a rate some commissioners have called unrealistic. A 6% rate of return, which those commissioners say is closer to accurate, leaves the city with about $376.5 million in unfunded liability.

With such harmony among members of the city’s primary governing body, a question arises: Why isn’t this issue being dealt with more proactively?

Snyder says there’s a lack of political will in City Hall to deal with such a daunting issue. He has harped on a refrain that Sarasota is Detroit, 10 years out — a comparison other commissioners roll their eyes at — and foresees the city dealing with the issue in bankruptcy court in the future rather than confronting a harsh reality today.

His preferred course of action is to begin to contract out police services with the county sheriff’s office. The savings could then go to fulfilling existing police-pension obligations.

“There’s a financial initiative for the county to jump in and help us with this issue,” Snyder said. “They would rather help us out now than save this mess in 10 years.”

Chapman doesn’t think that goes far enough. She said it was regrettable that there were expectations of lush pensions for employees, but that it’s an expectation that can’t be met. Her proposed solution is to shift all city pensions to defined contribution plans, such as a 401(k).

It’s a move that the city has begun to make for general employees: Those hired

before a 2011 agreement can choose between a defined benefit pension and a defined contribution plan, and those hired afterward are locked into a defined contribution plan.

Snyder believes soon police may become amenable to a defined contribution plan, an option they’ve stood firmly in opposition to in the past.

“I was surprised, for general employees, how many people went from defined benefit to contribution,” Snyder said. “When the average police officer really comes to terms that they won’t get what they’re promised, I think you’ll see the same thing.”

Caragiulo has a different answer for why anything isn’t getting done: It’s complicated. That means not only that developing a solution demands careful consideration, but that there are so many moving parts — including many on a state level — that it’s not possible to come up with a quick fix.

The challenge for the city now, he said, is establishing a new normal. He, too, advocates for a leaner police department, so that they might be able to maintain better benefits with fewer people.

“There’s no way you can form additional

payroll costs,” Caragiulo said. “Pension costs are at 80% of what the payroll number is — it’s 10 times what it was just a few years ago.”

Even dealing with the local aspect of the issue is challenging. In collective bargaining with city employees, Caragiulo said, people have become entrenched on both sides. Mistrust, built up over the years since the economic downtown, is just another obstacle that must be cleared to get to a solution.

Down the road, if the market improves to the point that the city can bond out its pension shortfall, he’d like to see the city get out of the pension business entirely, migrating its costs to the state-managed Florida Retirement System.

A platform for considering these issues is the city’s second annual State of the City’s Pensions workshop, which will be held Aug. 23. Snyder credited the city for meeting more frequently in the past 18 months on the issue of pensions and said the severity of the issue has become clearer as a result.

Still, Snyder said, a more acute awareness of the problem hasn’t led to significant progress on a solution. Unless the mindset of the city changes, he finds it hard to believe that progress will be made.

“Everybody’s still wanting to believe that there’s a money tree somewhere, and there isn’t,” Snyder said.

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NEWSBRIEFS + Main Street updates press on; businesses remain open

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Traffic has reopened and a brick crosswalk has been installed at Main Street and Pine Place, but construction continues at the intersection — and elsewhere on Main Street — as streetscape improvements continue.

On the north side of Main Street from Mira Mar Court to Five Points, barricades and fencing will be installed this week in advance of curb and sidewalk demolition.

Improvements will also continue on the north side of the street from Gulfstream Avenue to Mira Mar. Main Street businesses will remain open throughout construction.

 Sarasota County Development Review Committee Meeting — 9 a.m. to noon Thursday, Aug. 15, Conference Room 2, 1001 Sarasota Center Blvd.  Regular City Commission Meeting — 2:30 and 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19, Commission Chambers, City Hall, 1565 First St., Sarasota.  Development Review Committee — 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesday Aug. 21, Room 112, City Hall, 1565 First St.

Cynthia Peterson, a certified archivist, earned the Bob Graham, Honorary AIA, Architectural Awareness Award in recognition of her efforts to bring the first graduate program in architecture to Sarasota.

“I’m honored by this award,” said Peterson, who was the first curator of the University of Florida Smather’s Libraries Architecture Archives. “More importantly, I’m so pleased that this award will draw even more attention to the importance of the efforts to preserve the architectural heritage of our community.”

+ Sarasota architecture firm named No. 1 in the state A Sarasota architecture firm took home top honors at a statewide design awards program Aug. 10. Guy Peterson Office for Architecture received the Firm of the Year Award at the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architect’s annual design awards program in Orlando.

“This award represents the hard work of both past and present members of our team,” said Peterson, a fellow in the AIA and the firm’s founder and principal architect. “We also share this honor with the wonderful clients we’ve had the privilege to work with.”

The Firm of the Year Award recognizes outstanding achievement in design, community services, education and service to the profession and the AIA by an architecture firm.

Another key member of Guy Peterson OFA’s staff was awarded the highest honor given by AIA Florida to a non-architect.

+ Corrections In the Observer’s Back to School supplement, the Gulf Coast Gives website listed within the copy should have been stated as gulfcoastgives.org.

In the “Food fight commences at State Street” article in the Aug. 1 addition of the Sarasota Observer, Ian Black should have been attributed as a real-estate broker the city retained to sell the garage’s retail space.

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by Nolan Peterson | News Editor

Sarasota tourism sees another banner year Sarasota County tourism revenue grew by more than 10% last year, continuing a trend in the tourism industry’s growth.

The numbers are in, and Sarasota’s tourism industry is looking good.

Buoyed by an unusually profitable slow season, Sarasota saw another year of growth this year in both the total number of visitors to the county and the dollars those tourists spent, continuing a yearslong trend in growth in the tourism industry that has brought valuable tax revenue to the area.

According to Visit Sarasota County, Sarasota County had 740,300 visitors in fiscal year 2013, which ended June 30, spending $640,974,200 in the area economy. That is a 5.8% jump in visitors from fiscal year 2012 and a 10.2% increase in direct spending. “These are extraordinary increases,� said Virginia Haley, president of Visit Sarasota County, referring to the increased level of direct spending by tourists. “We’ve seen more consumer confidence and a whole lot more spending across the board.�

In March, Visit Sarasota projected only a 3% increase in tourist visits for 2013. The better-than-expected results come after an unusually active summer season, generally the slow season.

Haley attributes the increase in tourism to the improving economy, as well as several high-profile events such as June’s PanAm Masters swimming competition and the Sarasota Cup soccer tournament. “Any time we expose people to Sarasota, it’s a good thing,� Haley said.

Business leaders on Siesta Key report that 2013 has been one of the best tourism years in recent memory. “Our visitors are up, our business is up.

Things are looking good,� said Cheryl Gaddie, president of the Siesta Key Village Association. “What a difference from three

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years ago.�

Kevin Cooper, executive director of the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce, said the return rate of visitors is higher for Siesta Key than most other Florida tourist destinations. “We have a high retention rate for visitors, so continuing to introduce people to the island is vital to us,� Cooper said. “We want people to know about Siesta Key.�

Data from the Sarasota County Tax Collector paints a positive picture for the area tourism industry.

Asked if 2013 will be record-breaking year for tourism revenue in Sarasota County, Haley said, “I don’t see how it can’t be.

There’s just no way we won’t come out on top.�

With three months of revenue left to be calculated for 2013, Sarasota County has already raised $12,179,818 in revenue from the Tourist Development Tax — eclipsing the total revenue reported for 2011. This comes after multiple years of increased revenues from the tax. Development Tax revenue grew 16% in 2011, and 17.5% in 2012.

The Tourist Development Tax is a 5% charge on the revenue from rentals of six months or less. Revenue from the tax is used for tourism promotion, maintenance

and renourishment of beach park facilities and beaches, sports stadiums, nature center facilities and promoting new tourist attractions and events.

Projects such as the proposed dredging of Big Pass rely on Development Tax revenue.

Siesta Key business owners agree; they report that growth has been consistent and predictable since about 2006.

Chris Brown, owner of the Beach Club in Siesta Key Village, reports that he has seen a steady 8% to 12% increase in business every year since 2006. “It just keeps getting better and better,�

Brown said. “We’ve seen steady, stable growth for a few years now.�

Brown attributed the steady growth to the improving economy, but said the rejuvenation of the Village and the efforts of the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce and the Sarasota Chamber or Commerce have had a positive effect. “The chamber does a great job promoting the island,� Brown said, referring to the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce. “People are starting to take notice.�

Cooper said high-profile events, such as the Siesta Key Crystal Classic, a sandsculpting competition, help introduce people to the area. The Crystal Classic, scheduled for Nov. 15 to Nov. 18, is expected to bring 30,000 to 50,000 visitors to Siesta Key, with more than half traveling from outside Sarasota County. “Any time people from outside come to Siesta Key, it means rooms sold,� Cooper said.

Asked if she thinks the current tourism uptick is sustainable in the long run, Haley said, “Our goals are ambitious. We expect an increase next year, but not at this level.� “But we’re looking at reports that October will be particularly good,� Haley added.

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Empty city police cars serve as crime deterrent

Since April, the Sarasota Police Department has been stationing unoccupied vehicles around town in an attempt to prevent criminal activity in the area.

After slamming on the brakes at the sight of a cop car on the side of the road, Sarasota motorists may notice something peculiar about the patrol vehicles: There is nobody inside.

“It’s a little bit of an outside-of-thebox theory,” Sarasota Police Department spokeswoman Genevieve Judge said. “It’s to show there’s a police presence in the city.”

Though Judge pointed out that you can’t tell if an officer is inside a vehicle when you’re driving 60 mph, the cars aren’t just intended to trap unsuspecting motorists.

The unoccupied vehicles, first used in April, are a general crime-deterrence technique, part of the department’s efforts to emphasize preventing crime rather than fighting it after it’s occurred.

By placing the cars in areas where they believe crime is likely to take place — whether it’s to combat prostitution on the North Trail or cut down on speeding in a hotspot — the department can have a presence without necessarily employing an officer,

Judge said.

There aren’t any hard figures on whether the tactic is working, but Judge said there’s been positive anecdotal feedback from business owners in areas near unmanned vehicles. She said the business owners have indicated that people in the area took note of the cars.

After seeing a police vehicle, Judge said, the decision-making process for wouldbe criminals could be altered, even if an officer is not present in the area.

“It just makes people do that double take,” Judge said. “‘Is there a police officer in there? Maybe I need to think twice about what I’m doing.’”

Judge said the cars are all functioning, and that they’re periodically moved around the city during the day. The cars double as pool cars, serving as backups when regularly used patrol vehicles are out of service. Overall, she said, there are anywhere from five to 10 unmanned cars stationed at a time at various points throughout Sarasota.

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Defund Obamacare

This is sick. No, actually it’s sickening.

Obamacare.

The federal government is now hiring “navigators” to instruct Americans how to navigate those so-far-fictional “Health Exchanges.”

Navigators? Really?

No doubt many will be recent college grads who can’t find jobs. And who are they kidding: They’ll be advising Americans on a law and system that no one understands to begin with. And, to top things off, everyone will be monitored by the trustworthy IRS. Really?

It gets more absurd: Federal leaders are now saying to qualify for a federal healthinsurance subsidy you will not have to verify your income when you enroll. It will be an honors system.

You can picture the Medicare fraudsters in South Florida. They can’t wait. Now there’s even more free money MATT to scam!

WALSH In all of their decades as B-to-B health-plan advisers, Joe Part, founder and CEO of Palm Harbor-based Alltrust Insurance, and Rich Pierro, managing partner of Bradenton-based Kitchner & Pierro, have never, ever seen anything like this. “Not even close,” Pierro says.

They wouldn’t say it this way, but we will: Never, ever have they seen anything so absolutely, unequivocally awful in their professional lives.

“Confusion and frustration,” says Part.

“If there’s anything business owners don’t want, it’s confusion and frustration. It’s uncertainty and ever changing — everything a business owner does not want to deal with.”

Twenty years ago, when Part visited clients to renew their annual health plans, he met with the heads of companies’ payroll departments. Ten years ago, he met with the HR directors. Seven years ago, he met with the CFOs. Today, at every meeting, he’s sitting with the CFOs and CEOs. Ditto Pierro: “They’re nervous and scared about what’s going to happen.”

It’s chaos. And it’s getting worse.

Pierro tells of a restaurant client who employs 350 people, 250 full-time equivalents. The owner figured if he didn’t offer health insurance, he would end up paying a $500,000 fine. It would shut him down.

When Obamacare first passed, Part says, “We all had the opinion this law wouldn’t have legs. Then we thought the Supreme Court would overturn it. Then it was Obama wouldn’t win re-election. All of a sudden, there’s a lot more focus on what does this all mean? Rates are going up 80% one day and down the next. Employers have hit the pause button again.”

What’s galling is the Democrat majority in the U.S. Senate — and especially Obama — have no clue what uncertainty does to the economy. It freezes growth and new initiatives.

The chief operating officer of a Gulf Coast group of 30 internal-medicine physicians

told us horror stories of the effects of one regulation after another coming down from Washington. Take Medicare. Every year, physicians sit on edge wondering how much the federal government is going to cut Medicare reimbursements.

Imagine, the COO says, trying to plan your business’ annual staffing and budget in that environment. Or going to your bank for equipment financing. Few banks will say yes when they don’t know whether the borrower’s income is going to be cut by 2% or 24%. That is real.

Here’s another Obama nightmare for doctors: If a health-exchange enrollee does not pay his health-insurance premium, the insurer still must pay the physician for the first 30 days. But between 30 and 90 days, the physician must try to collect from the patient who hasn’t paid his insurance premium. Here’s the catch: There is no mechanism in the law to allow physicians to check if a patient’s premium has been paid when he shows up at the doctor’s office with an insurance card. You can predict what’s going to happen.

Other effects: Obamacare is creating jobs all right, but the wrong kind. The physiciangroup COO told us his firm has one employee dedicated to regulatory compliance.

Part says he hired a compliance manager more than a year ago. The job is to educate Alltrust’s employees and customers on the details of Obamacare and produce models to help customers predict their costs.

You can see where this disaster is headed.

Just as every business must have a trusted accountant and lawyer to “navigate” the federal tax codes, every business will soon face the next inevitability: hiring “compliance” staffers and departments to comply with Obamacare. Health care is now as bad as, if not worse than, banking, an industry that is suffocating from government regulation.

These are the wrong kinds of jobs to be created. They’re non-producing; they do not create wealth. They’re jobs that suck productive capital out of the economy to feed the regulatory and legislative leeches in Washington, D.C. The government monster just continues to grow and choke off your freedom. You become further enslaved.

None of Obamacare is going to save a nickel. Obama and Democrat lawmakers missed an obvious fix: Give individuals the same tax deduction on health-care costs that businesses get. There isn’t a rational business owner in America who wants to manage his employees’ health insurance.

They don’t manage their employees’ car insurance or 401(k)s. Why health insurance?

Health insurance should be an individual choice and responsibility, not a government mandate.

Confusion and frustration. Part is correct.

But he is being diplomatic.

It’s far worse than that.

It’s beyond comprehension how any lawmaker in the U.S. Senate or House can believe Obamacare is good for America.

Defund it.

Call or write your congressman or senator. Urge them to kill it.

The entire debacle makes you sick to your stomach.

THE CASTAWAY by Jorge Blanco

WHAT THEY SAY, DO ABOUT OBAMACARE

When the U.S. House and Senate reconvene in September, they are expected to pass and adopt a new spending bill to continue funding the federal government. They have many choices.

One choice that freshman Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and others are advocating is for Congress not to provide appropriations for Obamacare, or “defund” it. If you think Obamacare is further destruction of America and your freedom, urge your representatives to have the courage to defund it.

Rep. Vern Buchanan

Rep. Buchanan has voted to repeal since it passed in 2010, most recently voting to repeal in July 2012. “This government takeover of the healthcare system does nothing to bring down the cost of health care for Americans … Once fully implemented, this health restructuring law will cost $2.5 trillion.

We cannot afford those costs … ” How to contact: http://buchanan. house.gov/; 941-951-6643; 202-2260828.

Sen. Marco Rubio

“I hope this law never goes into effect,” Rubio said Aug. 1 at a press conference with Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee. He and they are campaigning to defund Obamacare. “I don’t think it can be fixed … We have to go home and say, ‘We did everything we could.

We took every step available to us.’ And that’s why this is such an important issue. That’s why defunding this … is so critical.

Because it truly is our last best chance to stop this law from moving forward.”

How to contact: http://www.rubio.senate.gov/; 813-977-6450 (Tampa); 202224-3041

Sen. Bill Nelson

Nelson supports Obamacare. At a town hall meeting in 2012, Nelson made no apologies for (his) vote, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Nelson said at the town hall meeting: “Would you like me to repeal the part where you can keep your kid on your family policy until age 26? Would you like me to repeal that part that says that the insurance company can’t cancel you when you’re in the middle of treatment?”

How to contact: http://www.billnelson. senate.gov/contact/email.cfm; 813-2257050 (Tampa); 202-228-2183

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Lowered Siesta Key speed limit could lead to ‘assisted suicides’ According to the law, suicide is illegal.

And assisting someone to take their own life is currently illegal, as well.

We have all seen the newspaper articles about Jack Kevorkian and how he, time after time, “helped” others to end their own lives. The fact that they were diseased, dying, in extreme pain and trying to be masters of their own fate was beside the point. For many years our society has decided that suicide is against the law and that decision has not been amended here in Florida and, more to the point, not in Sarasota.

Given that it is illegal to take one’s own life and illegal to assist someone in doing so, what is the legal and moral culpability for those who watch someone commit that act and do nothing: to just observe and, when it is over, to walk away.

Here is your chance, right here in Sarasota, on Siesta Key, to watch a number of people attempt to commit suicide and to watch others assist them. Even more interesting, you will have the choice to say, “No, stop,” or to remain silent and then, later, read about their deaths.

And worse, too, perhaps read about the deaths or injuries of others who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

On Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m Aug. 20, at the Siesta Key Chapel, residents of the Sanderling Club gated community are going to request that the speed limit on Midnight Pass Road, between Vista Hermosa Circle and Sanderling Road (.4 miles) be changed from 40 to 35 miles per hour.

How can lowering the speed limit by 5 miles an hour lead to their possible deaths and the potential deaths and in-

3:53 p.m. — 3400 block of South Osprey Ave. Petit Theft. A man walked up to the register at a gas station and asked for gas on his pump. He left a credit card next to the register and pumped $35.75 of gas into his car before leaving. After 20 minutes, the manager ran the credit card to see if the customer had been there before, and the card was denied. The manager used an Internet search engine to search the name on the card, and a picture of the man came up.

THROWING STONES 7:15 p.m. — 5300 block of Ocean Boulevard. Criminal Mischief. A person in a condominium complex reported hearing an “explosion,” and another person saw a man jumping a gate in the complex. Rocks were found in the pool, and two windows were broken. Rocks were found on the balconies where the windows were broken, as well. The person reporting the incident said the suspect either had a really strong arm or was possibly shooting rocks out of a water gun.

Aug. 10 QUIET TIME 2:47 a.m. ­­— 1400 block of Main Street.

Dispute/Fight. Law-enforcement personnel told a group of about 20 people involved in a verbal confrontation on Main Street to break it up. Several of the people began loudly arguing in front of the Selby Library a little while later. Two people

said the confrontation started when one group of people started taunting another group for unknown reasons.

Aug. 11 NAKED TRUTH 2:30 p.m. — 1700 block of Ken Thompson Parkway. Suspicion Person. Police received a complaint about a suspicion of naked toddlers running around a park. When he arrived, an officer observed two boys, about 18 months old, not wearing clothes. The mother of the boys said she didn’t think anything was wrong with the situation. The mother’s mother said she would talk her daughter into putting clothes on her children.

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First, the speed limit on Midnight Pass Road, between the Stickney Point Bridge and Turtle Beach, a distance of just 2.6 miles, will go from 25 to 40 to 35 to 40 to 35 mph. If anyone thinks people will obey all those changes, they are insane — and in the case of those committing suicide, criminally insane.

What is their stated reason for wanting to lower the speed limit? So they can ride their golf carts from the club to where they moor their boats on the bay.

Sounds like fun (for them), but what will happen should they be able to do this?

Currently, drivers are clocked at between 30 and 50 mph in this area. Reducing the speed limit means drivers will be going anywhere from 30 to 45 mph. This leads to the second reason.

Usually, golf carts drive across roads, not along them. A driver on a county road going 30 to 45 mph is not used to rapidly coming upon a golf cart going only 10 to 25 mph in their lane of traffic.

The result will be wild breaking, swerving and attempts to go around the golf carts by switching lanes without being fully aware of oncoming traffic — cars to the left and bikes (in the bike lane) on the right.

If these predictions are wrong, the only outcome would be Sanderling Club members having lots of fun. If they are right only once, then all those who approve, and all those who do not disapprove (not attending the meeting is a conscious act of silence), will be guilty of either assisting in the tragedy or of standing silently by and then walking away.

Rodge Skidmore is a Siesta Key resident.

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Sarasota resident Jason Collins started coaching when he was 15 years old after spending six years as a competitive gymnast in South Carolina.

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Former competitive gymnast Jason Collins returned to the gym last year and was named the Sarasota Surge’s new program director in December after spending 15 years as a professional opera singer.

SARASOTA — Jason Collins always knew he could fly.

But, the then 9-year-old just hadn’t quite mastered his newfound set of wings.

That didn’t stop the former soccer goalkeeper from testing his limits every chance he got.

Collins would sit in the box and wait for the ball to cross the other side of the field.

As soon as that happened it was game on.

Collins would pull himself up onto the top bar of the goal and backflip off. He would repeat the

process again and again with the same result until the ball made it’s way back down the field.

“I always landed on my face,” Collins says with a laugh.

After her son attempted one too many backflips, Collins’ mother enrolled him in gymnastics much

to his delight.

“I always wanted to be in it,” Collins says.

Now, 30 years later, Collins is teaching backflips to Sarasota’s new wave of young gymnasts — albeit in a safer setting.

Last week, Collins celebrated his one-year anniversary coaching the Sarasota Surge YMCA gymnastics team. Collins returned to the gym after 15 years as a professional opera singer. In December, Collins was named the Surge’s new program director.

Since then, Collins has hired a pair of former Olympians and also started a boys program.

Most recently, Collins took 39 gymnasts to the 2013 YMCA National Gymnastics Championships. Of those 39 gymnasts, 38 placed in the top 10, with 11 gymnasts capturing individual allaround titles.

“It was an embarrassment of riches,” Collins says. “Seeing them do well or learn a new skill is as good as, if not better than, any standing ovation I’ve received.”

A native of South Carolina, Collins began taking gymnastics when he was 9 years old; within six months he was training at a competitive level — traveling 90 minutes away three times a week to compete.

“It was fun,” says Collins, who thrived on the high bar and floor exercise. “It was an adrenaline rush. Although I didn’t know what an adrenaline rush was at that age.”

Collins competed until he was 15 years old. At that point, he felt he had achieved all gymnastics had to offer and was ready to take the next step in his career.

His coach at the time gave him a job as an instructor, and Collins quickly discovered he had a passion for helping other gymnasts achieve their goals.

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Collins coached through his sophomore year at the University of South Carolina before his career took a somewhat unexpected turn.

A former voice major and Gamecocks cheerleader, Collins received a call that the university was in need of a singer. Collins obliged and shortly thereafter he was approached about auditioning for The Juilliard School.

After submitting a tape and participating in a weeklong series of auditions, Collins received a fouryear scholarship. After graduating from Juilliard with bachelor’s degree in music, Collins was one of two people accepted to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, in Philadelphia, where he received his master’s degree in opera.

Upon graduation, Collins traveled throughout the world performing at the Kennedy Center, the San Francisco Opera, the Seattle Opera and throughout Italy, among other locations.

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Whether you prefer to eat or drink your veggies, we can all agree that adding more nutrients to your diet is a good thing — especially when they taste this good.

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he adage “eat more vegetables” is difficult when serving sizes for the average adult amount to eating four to five cups of leafy greens daily.

Tommy Klauber, owner of Polo Grill and Pattigeorge’s Fine Costal Cuisine, puts it best: “That’s a lot of chewing!”

There’s a gourmet solution cropping up around the country, which celebrities such as Sarah Jessica Parker and Gwyneth Paltrow are touting. Klauber discovered it when he was training for his first triathlon — juicing.

In 2010, Klauber decided to get in shape after things such as raising kids and owning businesses got in the way of personal health.

He was feeling the effects of living unhealthily, so he joined a fitness studio, started eating right and began training for triathlons.

Klauber started working with holistic nutritionist Stacy Koski and got into making and drinking juices. He did a four-day cleanse, a juice fast, leading up to a triathlon.

The juice he drank isn’t the kind chock-full of sugar or made from concentrate, it’s made up of a combination of raw fruits and vegetables such as carrots, beets,

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There’s no sugar added to it, but it’s just as sweet as something loaded with sugar.

“You don’t even know you’re drinking spinach,” Klauber says.

Klauber thinks it’s not long before more people jump on the trend. For now, Polo Grill (10670 Boardwalk Loop, Lakewood Ranch) is one of the only finedining establishments in Sarasota to offer freshly squeezed organic juice (Klauber’s brother, Michael, also offers a pressed juice daily on Michael’s On East’s menu).

Polo Grill offers organic juice daily on its Polo Fit menu, which Koski helped him develop. The menu features organic, nutrientdense foods presented in an eyeappealing and appetizing way — and it offers some of the most inexpensive juice of this kind in Sarasota at just $6 a glass.

Lynn Morris, owner SaraFresh Juice, has juices that start at $6, too. She was the first in town to start distributing cold-pressed, raw juice made from local produce.

Places such as Whole Foods offer national brands similar to Morris’ such as, Suja and Blueprint, for around $10 each.

This begs the question: Why is this kind of juice so expensive?

Answer: Because they’re packed

with pounds of produce in one little bottle.

Morris explains these details from the small headquarters of SaraFresh Juice, which is tucked inside the retail warehouse for Detwiler Market. She samples a beautiful, earthy red juice made from beet, carrot, fennel, apple, lemon and ginger to make sure it’s up to her taste standards. She produces around 600 bottles a week to fill orders and to sell at the Sarasota Farmers Market.

She’s just created a new variety made from Thai young coconut, spinach, banana, raw sprouted almonds, spirulina (freshwater algae), and, although it looks too green and healthy to taste good, it is divine.

Morris, like Klauber, also grew to love juicing after trying a cleanse. She found adding juice to her diet was an efficient way to pack a lot of nutrients into her diet, and she decided to start making the juices herself.

Her main goal for drinking juice (and for the people she sells it to) is that everyone gets in more good than bad.

“We’re all going to have Chickfil-A every once in a while,” she says with a laugh.

It’s why she offers both an organic and non-organic line of juices; so that those interested in

Carrot juice • 6 carrots • 2 apples • 1/4 bulb of fennel • lemon juice and ginger to taste This serves two, and you can make it with organic or non-organic produce. *Courtesy of Lynn Morris

juicing, who might not be willing to spend the extra money for organic, can have their cake and drink it, too, so to speak.

She can personally attest to the benefits and says the juice keeps her energized — it even got rid of the muffin top she once had. Plus, it makes her feel better. Her boyfriend, Steve Seidensticker (owner of Libby’s and Louies Modern), lost 25 pounds juicing.

You can find her products year-round at the SaraFresh Juice booth at the Sarasota Farmers Market, at Definition Fit, 1489 Fifth St., and at Detwiler Market, 6000 Palmer Blvd.

You can also find pressed juice at Get Fit Fuel, located at 2063 Siesta Drive, which opened in March. It’s what owner Greg Gentile refers to as a healthy fastfood restaurant with portioned, balanced meals that offers delivery.

Gentile first started juicing 10 years ago because he could drink all of his servings on the go. He packed as many vegetables into a blender as he could without paying attention to the flavor. His juice was brown, but at least he was getting all the nutrients.

“This is like eating at least four salads minimum,” he says. “You wouldn’t imagine the amount of produce it takes for one juice.”

When he opened Get Fit Fuel, he started doing the research to offer the same convenience he found in drinking juice, but with great flavor so it appealed to customers. He brought on an expert juicer three months into opening and sold her organic juices in-house. They prepped 120 juices the first day (no brown ones offered) and sold out. He sold more than 100 juices daily in the

Masticating blender (cold-pressed) — the kind of juice Lynn Morris makes.

This process uses pressure to squeeze nutrient-rich, raw juice leaving the fiber and shell of the vegetables and fruits behind. It’s cold-pressed, because when heat is used in the process, it cuts down on the percentage of healthy enzymes and nutrients. This is the most expensive method.

Centrifugal blender — This is Tommy Klauber’s favorite method for blending hard vegetables such as beets, carrots and peppers. Fruit and vegetables can be pushed through a rapidly spinning chamber, which is funneled over a mesh filter. The medium-priced method.

Blender and strainer — Tommy Klauber recommends using this if you are a beginner and don’t want to put a lot of money into juicing.

It doesn’t fully separate the liquid from the pulp, but you can blend everything up, and strain the juice to leave behind the fiber segments.

You could get the same effect using a citrus juicer and a blender for the citrus products. This is the most inexpensive method. first week.

“If I had known what kind of demand I would have had, I would have carried them from the beginning,” he says. He’s been carrying them for two months, and he, himself, has been drinking up to five daily. Since drinking more fresh juice, he has noticed changes in his complexion; he’s sleeping better; and he has lost 15 pounds.

He’s also taken the past two

months to learn the juicing art form and, with his chef, has been developing Get Fit Fuel’s own recipes. He has ordered two of what’s considered the Cadillac of juicemakers — the Angel — that can churn out around 50 gallons of juice in an hour. Get Fit Fuel started carrying Gentile’s new original recipes Monday, Aug. 12.

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Building a legacy Shawn O’Malley’s grandfather taught him the art of woodworking from salvaged material. Now, O’Malley is the teacher.

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“Everybody brings different things to the table,” Shawn O’Malley says of his co-op woodshop. “This camaraderie is what I envisioned.”

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Ross had once made a bench from pine resurrected from a barn in a valley nearby where Ross lived in Kentucky. The barn was standing during the Civil War and, within a 48-hour period, both Union and Confederate soldiers spent the night in the barn.

The bench currently resides in O’Malley’s kitchen; his family sits on it nightly for dinner.

Ross not only passed furniture and woodworking adages, such as “measure twice, cut once,” down to O’Malley, but he passed down the love of woodworking.

When O’Malley had children — Liam is now 10 and Jack is 13 — he and Ross used to work in Ross’ woodshop, a building adjacent to Ross’ Sarasota home, making wooden toys for O’Malley’s children. They were ones Ross would have played with as a child.

After Ross died nine years ago, O’Malley retreated to the woodshop and began building farm tables out of salvaged wood — a way to connect to his heritage.

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// Arts&Entertainment Five things that inspire Shawn O’Malley: 1. My wife — She is my rock.

She is my support. She is my inspiration and the reason I do everything.

2. My kids — For the exact

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to build a table.” O’Malley would ask how they planned to attach the legs, and then cringe at their haphazard plans. O’Malley wanted to take them under his wing and show them the proper way — the way Ross would have done it.

O’Malley always envisioned a place he could do this — something with more space where he could create a cooperative environment and turn commoners into craftsmen. This desire for a co-op grew when O’Malley became store manager for Sarasota Architectural Salvage in 2006.

In spring 2012, a 5,000-squarefoot warehouse became available on Central Avenue a few doors down from Sarasota Architectural Salvage. The space was perfect — it is a short distance to transport wood or other salvaged supplies, such as beams from the old John Ringling Hotel, from SAS to the woodworking space.

O’Malley gets first dibs on what comes into the store.

The new space is also large enough that his fellow artist-type

co-workers from Sarasota Architectural Salvage can explore their own creativity. It’s the type of place that draws in outsiders from all walks of life — his shop has grown to house about 12 fellow craftsmen.

“There’s no shop class offered in high school anymore,” O’Malley says, “but people crave it and don’t have the means to do it.”

O’Malley invites those with “sawdust in their blood,” as he says, to work in his shop. He lends his tools and space for free and helps teach them the art.

Nothing excites O’Malley more than artistic people who have a project in mind but don’t know how to build it.

Though he doesn’t ask for anything in return, he has found that they are glad to give something back to him. One craftsman specializes in home brewing and stocks a row of refrigerators at the front of the shop with the beer he makes. Another is a tattoo artist who offers his services to the craftsmen. Another is a

I feel like I put kids out into the world and I’m like this grandfather looking back ... ... Shawn O’Malley says about all the tables he has built.

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“You get what you put in,” O’Malley says. “That’s what this

woodshop has taught me tenfold.”

And, in keeping with their great-grandfather’s legacy, O’Malley’s two sons have also tapped into the art form. Jack helps deliver the custom tables

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“It’s such a shame Pop didn’t get to see what I’m doing in the workshop,” O’Malley says.

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Mandy Jane and Shawn O’Malley met in the fourth grade at Pine View Elementary, where they were both students. They were placed in the same group on a trip to Epcot, and they were friends until they started dating in their junior year of high school.

In high school, O’Malley used to sign notes he wrote his sweetheart with a heart with wings. So, years later, when they were brainstorming what to call his early painting and craftsmanship, his wife said, “Heart’s Art” — not only as homage to his signature, but because everything he made came from his heart.

He says the theme has translated itself a few times and tends to be recurring. Most recently, he has been working with heart pine.

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Tiny ballerinas pranced around in tutus Aug. 4 to Aug. 9, in preparation for their “Sleeping Beauty” performance in front of their families.

Six campers, ages 3 to 6, met from noon to 3 p.m. each day and made an activity book that included ballet terminology and the story of “Sleeping Beauty.” They learned basic ballet steps and practiced their dance for an hour each day.

Total campers for the summer

Sienna Steiner, 6, gracefully shows what she has learned.

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Siena Cook and Roselyn Wagner

Steps learned:

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What did you guys do this week?

Roselyn: We colored these pages.

Have you been learning how to dance?

Roselyn: Yes. What did you guys learn this week?

Roselyn: We learned the story of “Sleeping Beauty.”

What do your costumes look like?

Roselyn: We are wearing white tutus and a feather hat for the blue bird dance.

Who is coming to see you guys perform today?

Siena: My mom and dad.

Do you guys want to be ballerinas one day?

Siena: Yes, I might be a fashion model, though.

What do you think your parents will say after they see your performance?

Roselyn: They are going to say, “You are great.”

Sienna Steiner, 6, Elise Settini, 3, Emma Kleppinger, 4, Rory Wagner, 3, Roselyn Wagner, 6, and Siena Cook, 6, rehearse their dance one last time before showing parents what they learned.

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ost people are lucky to have one or two grandmothers in their lives. Jennifer Riesenberger, the new senior center manager for Sarasota Senior Friendship Centers, says she can count 50 or 60 in Sarasota alone.

During her first four years of working for the SFC, which partners with the Robert L. Taylor Community Center in North Sarasota, Riesenberger formed close, lasting relationships with the seniors at the center — a group of mostly women who gather every day to play cards and socialize. Together, they’ve gone to the circus, the museum and various performing-arts productions, and they’ve learned a lot from one another.

“They’re like an extended family to me now,” she says. “They’re very genuine and honest, and they’ve taught me a lot about family devotion, faith and friendship and the joy that can be found in fellowship: socializing, eating or just sharing each other’s company.”

Riesenberger first began working for Senior Friendship Centers in 2008. The youngest of her three children had started kindergarten, and she was looking for work that could utilize her degrees in arts education and curriculum instruction, as well as the experience she’d gained immediately after graduation as an AmeriCorps volunteer. She contacted AmeriCorps, and she worked for two years as a volunteer for SFC in North Sarasota until they hired her as coordinator.

Senior Friendship Centers is a nonprofit network of centers that provides volunteer services in the areas of healthy aging, support and volunteerism to people ages 50 and older. For Riesenberger, the job offered her a chance to tap into her passions for creativity and helping others.

“It means an opportunity to express my creativity,” she says. “It’s an opportunity to use that to influence others and promote healthy aging and introduce more youthful programming.”

In her new role as senior center manager, Riesenberger oversees day-to-day operations at the Brother William Geenen location, including introducing new programming. In her first two months, she’s started to introduce new programs in the areas of exercise, technology and even dating. Although she knows some people might be apprehensive about change, she says she’ll rely on the valuable experience she gained in North Sarasota.

“At first, it was a challenge to get the seniors to open up and become comfortable with me,” she says. “It took awhile to get them to trust me fully enough to try new ideas and programming and outings that might be outside their comfort level.”

As much as Riesenberger encourages seniors to try new things and step outside of their comfort zones, she says that with their age and experience, the teaching goes both ways.

“A lot of them are great-grandparents,” she says. “They have great parenting experience and advice. I share my family experiences with them, and they share their experience with me. They’ve definitely taught me more than I’ve taught them.”

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Branching

OUT In her second month as senior center manager at Sarasota Senior Friendship Centers, Jennifer Riesenberger uses her passion for creativity and helping others to broaden seniors’ horizons.

Photos by Nick Friedman

Jennifer Riesenberger brings four years of experience with Senior Friendship Centers to her new position. She uses her love for art and creativity to plan new programs for seniors.

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Tower Residences condo sells for $2,062,500

The following residential real-estate transactions took place between July 29 and Aug. 2.

A condominium in Tower Residences tops all transactions in this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real estate. William Matthies and Mary Forte, of Philadelphia, sold their Unit 802 condominium at 35 Watergate Drive to Michael and Eileen Normile, of Sarasota, for $2,062,500. Built in 2003, it has four bedrooms, four baths and 3,751 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.75 million in 2003.

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A. Louis Parker and Alita Webb sold their Unit 401 condominium at 258 Golden Gate Point to Vinaya and Vijaya Gavini, of Plymouth, Mich., for $1.4 million. Built in 2004, it has three bedrooms, three-and-

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The Rivo at Ringling LLC sold the Unit PH203 condominium at 1771 Ringling Blvd. to Steven and Isabella Lehrer, of Redwood City, Calif., for $762,500. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 3,296 square feet of living area.

Cloisters at the Landings

Richard and Penelope Mutter, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3741 Tangier Terrace to Andrew and Elizabeth Ford, of Sarasota, for $1,502,500. Built in 2007, it has four bedrooms, four baths, two half-baths, a pool and 5,879 square feet of living area.

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William and Laura Rees sold their home at 1708 Cherokee Drive to Gregory and Lara Yull, of Sarasota, for $1.85 million. Built in 1940, it has six bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 4,497 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $522,000 in 1999.

San Remo Estates

is, for $857,500 each, totaling $1,715,000.

Both were built in 1970, and have two bedrooms, two baths and 1,187 square feet of living area. Unit 152 previously sold for $280,000 in 1993 and unit 153 previously sold for $212,000 in 1990.

JPMorgan Chase Bank sold the home at 7350 Captain Kidd Ave. to Full Throttle Properties LLC for $1 million. Built in 1958, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,685 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $2.15 million in 2004.

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James and Sara Bagley, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1435 Cedar Bay Lane to Robert and Elizabeth Kueppers, of Weston, Conn., for $1,512,500. Built in 1990, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,318 square feet of living area.

$1,175,000. Both were built in 1938. The first has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,636 square feet of living area.

The second has one bed, one bath and 924 square feet of living area. They previously sold for $825,000 in 2002.

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a-half baths and 3,031 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.85 million in 2006.

Coral Cove

David and Michelle Balot, of Sarasota, sold their home at 7351 Periwinkle Drive to Kirk Jobe, of St. Petersburg, for $1.29 million. Built in 2007, it has five bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 4,512 square feet of living area.

Bay View Heights

Gregory and Lara Yull, of Sarasota, sold two homes at 1718 Bayview Drive to John and Leslie Korff, of Sarasota, for

F. Joseph and Elizabeth Wheeler, of Sarasota, sold their home at 4848 N. Peregrine Point Circle to Allan Warren and Wendy Burgess, of Ontario, Canada, for $648,000.

Built in 1993, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,880 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $405,000 in 1996.

Bay View Acres

SRQ Invest LLC sold the home at 6701 Ave. B to A. Ingemar and Janet Persson, of Sarasota, for $530,000. Built in 1977, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 2,283 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $319,000 in 2012.

SIESTA KEY The Terrace

Leo and Patricia Marshall sold their Units 152 and 153 condominiums at 5400 Ocean Blvd. to Serge Pizem, of Par-

Wayne and Betty Johnson, of Sarasota, sold their home at 4044 Roberts Point Road to Mark and Lisa McDevitt, of Bradenton, for $1,637,500. Built in 1951, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,560 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1,231,800 in 2001.

Siesta Properties

Pauline Curry sold her home at 8445 Sanderling Road to Todd Bavol-Montgomery and Sean Bavol-Montgomery, of Wilmington, Del., for $1.6 million. Built in 1955, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,128 square feet of living area.

Boca Siesta

Erin Schwartz, of Maineville, Ohio, sold her Unit 1 condominium at 5919 Midnight Pass Road to Kathleen Dunn, trustee, of Huntersville, N.C., for $1.47 million. Built in 2003, it has three bedrooms, four baths and 3,833 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.25 million in 2011.

Harmony

Gregory Anderson, of Sarasota, sold his home at 331 Treasure Boat Way to Matthew and Lorraine Coffey, of Sarasota, for $850,000. Built in 1957, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 3,038 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $210,000 in 1993.

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464 Blue Garden Ln #A3975642 $825,000 Nicole Dovgopolyi

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-356-5849

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Venice 941-485-5421 941-223-6318

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317 Buena Vista Ave #A3982099 $245,000 Kristen Srur

166 Golden Gate Pt # 70 #A3975261 $2,250,000 Kim & Michael Ogilvie

10700 Lemon Creek Loop # 103 #D5793739 $195,000 James Litton

5046 Kenvil Dr #C7045080 $114,900 Jonathan Marshman

Englewood 941-473-7750 941-822-9648

North Port 941-639-0000 941-268-0324

Sarasota 941-552-4200 941-321-6973

4720 Capri Ave #A3981881 $1,475 Lisa Shope

Sarasota 941-552-4200 941-320-8022

Nokomis/North Venice 941-383-7591 941-928-3559

Mid Longboat 383.5502 • South Longboat 383.7591 • St. Armands 388.4447 • Main Street 951.6660 Palmer Ranch 966.8000 • Siesta Key 349.3444 • Venice 485.5421 • Englewood 473.7750

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Robert Gillespie and Constance Gillespie, trustees, of Sarasota, sold the home at 5447 Cape Leyte Drive to Daniel Najjar, of Sarasota, for $550,000. Built in 1974, it has three bedrooms, two-and-ahalf baths, a pool and 2,348 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $165,000 in 1980.

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and Margaret Sanders, of Yorkville, Ill., sold their home at 1259 Southport Drive to NSF Development LLC for $750,000.

Built in 1957, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 1,960 square feet of living area.

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Rotary Club members help stuff backpacks An assembly line of backpack stuffers filled approximately 1,000 backpacks with pens, pencils, notebooks and markers Tuesday, at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. The “stuffers” were members of the Rotary Club of Sarasota Bay, who worked alongside representatives from the schools that will be receiving the backpacks.

Six schools in the Sarasota area will each receive 150 backpacks, and 60 will go to the Salvation Army Family Center. The backpacks and supplies are paid for through the Rotary’s Backpack Program, which runs throughout the year.

“Since we’ve started this program, we’ve probably given about 7,000 to 8,000 backpacks to students who need them,” says Bill Folz, Rotary Club of Sarasota Bay president-elect and chairman of the backpack program.

“Rotary is always looking for ways to help our community, and doing so is such a rewarding experience.”

The backpacks will be taken to the schools this week.

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TemperatureS

Record Temperatures High

Low

High

Low

Wednesday, Aug. 7

92

73

97 (1989)

62 (1982)

Thursday, Aug. 8

92

76

96 (1973)

67 (1916)

Friday, Aug. 9

92

73

96 (1993)

68 (1971)

Saturday, Aug. 10

92

74

97 (1993)

68 (1975)

Sunday, Aug. 11

93

75

95 (1998)

68 (1982)

Monday, Aug. 12

93

76

96 (1973)

67 (1949)

Tuesday, Aug. 13

91

75

99 (1973)

67 (1972)

Average Gulf water temperature: 86 RAINFALL

Sunrise / sunset

Wednesday, Aug. 7

0.90

Sunrise Sunset

Thursday, Aug. 8

0.15

Thursday, Aug. 15

7:01a

8:09p

Friday, Aug. 9

0.95

Saturday, Aug. 10

0.06

Friday, Aug. 16

7:02a

8:08p

Sunday, Aug. 11

0.00

Saturday, Aug. 17

7:02a

8:07p

Monday, Aug. 12

0.00

Sunday, Aug. 18

7:03a

8:06p

Tuesday, Aug. 13

0.01

Monday, Aug. 19

7:03a

8:05p

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30.11 in 33.74 in.

Tuesday, Aug. 20

7:04a

8:04p

Wednesday, Aug. 21 7:04a

8:03p

Month-to-date: 2013 2012

2.82 in 4.89 in.

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ACROSS 1 Central city of Islam 6 Pesticide banned by the EPA 9 Back talk 13 Navy’s goat, e.g.

19 “... ___ of many colors” 20 Written acknowledgment of a debt 21 Architectural pier 22 Prepare to shower (var.)

23 Time for rueful reflection 26 High-stepping aids 27 Ingratiate 28 Lobster features 30 ___ segno (from the repeat sign, in music) 31 African flying pests 34 Month after Nisan 35 Org. with moles 36 Favre of football fame 39 “And ___ thou slain the Jabberwock?”

40 Baby delivery method 43 Carnival attraction 44 Cyst 45 Flightless flock 48 Plays for time 49 Aged 50 Cavalry’s place 51 Grave message?

52 Oiler or liner 53 Shrewdly tricky 54 Bakery output 56 Natives of Manitoba 58 Fat-nosed antelope 61 Romney of politics

122 Not a happy 62 Commotion camper 64 Where a boxer 123 Small amounts may be trained 65 New Zealand fruit 68 Frosted Lenten dOwn pastry 1 Pepper spray 71 Arch type alternative 2 Subj. for an MBA 72 African antelopes 3 Fresh from the 74 Baby’s output? fridge 75 Ending with “play” 4 Brownie, a few or “party” years later 77 Civil War side 5 “Finally!”

78 Haile Selassie 6 Sarcastic comment follower, familiarly 7 “Stupid me!”

79 Slow times 8 Some learners 9 Call at first 81 Common Market 10 “No ifs, ___ or inits., once buts” 84 Constriction of the 11 Branch of physics pupil concerned with 86 Egg cells equilibrium 88 Fish organ 12 Vote for verbally 89 Dumfries denial 13 Marsh rodents 90 Dropped clues 14 Aardvark fare 91 Small amount of 15 ___ Lanka 16 Attempting to residue make sales 92 Moonves of CBS 17 Acquires 93 Model T 18 Unit equal to manufacturer 10,000 gauss 94 Go around 24 Anger completely 25 Pearl harborer 96 Auspices (var.)

29 Lads’ dates 98 Bridal path 32 Adverb in contracts 99 Lose firmness 33 Cupid’s boss 100 Backup for a prez 36 JFK and RFK, e.g.

101 Money in reserve 37 Brook 103 Matterhorn, e.g.

38 Christian Science 104 Lots and lots of founder groceries 41 Chinese civet 107 Urgent prompting 42 First Lady 111 Justification Roosevelt 113 Ache treatment 44 Values 46 Handy oven 116 Margaux 47 Revolted Hemingway’s 50 “Donnie Brasco” grandfather grp.

117 Botanical cover 52 Grammar class 118 “Able was I ___ ˙” subject 119 Red Square figure 55 Former Italian 120 Blue book writings leaders 121 Amount to make 57 Artist’s stand 59 Comment from do with

the Beaver 60 A pint, maybe 61 Making, as money 63 Ancient Roman magistrate (var.)

64 Rolling features of some golf courses 65 Novelist Kesey 66 1969 Nobel Peace Prize grp.

67 Coal-under-thebed containers 69 “Jabberwocky” opener 70 Hardest on the eyes 73 Hindu loincloth 76 Class for U.S. immigrants (Abbr.)

78 Knight’s publishing partner 80 Jamaican tangelos 81 “The Dukes of Hazzard” spinoff 82 Countess’s husband, in Britain 83 Formally surrender 85 Mansion staff 87 “To do” list 90 Some use faith 91 Disapprove of 93 One in a ring 95 Kind of injection or weapon 97 Beaux ___ (gracious acts) 98 Ancient 99 Hindu’s wrapping outer garment (var.)

102 Emulate a tide 104 Brit’s teapot covering 105 “Miss ___ Regrets” 106 Cobblers’ tools 108 Volcano in Sicily 109 Not in need of a diet 110 Addition column 112 Caribbean, e.g.

114 Victorian, for one 115 Word with “flag” or “alert”

Thursday, August 15, 2013 Thursday, August 15, 2013

Items Under $200 For Sale Items Under $200 For Sale Garage/Moving/Estate Sales Business Opportunities SINGER PROFESSIONAL 5 Overlock Serger.

MANICURE

By Mirian. Local in your ADVERTISE YOUR MERCHANDISE Items Under $200 For Sale Items Under $200 For Sale Garage/Moving/Estate Sales ? Pedicure Business Opportunities

Hardly used 5 bonus feet, PROFESSIONAL workbooks. $150.5 Overlock Serger. ESTATE SALE own home. Sarasota area 941-879-1989 with the total value of all items $200 or YOUR less inMERCHANDISE SINGER MANICURE ? Pedicure By Mirian. Local in ADVERTISE Call 941-925-3051. Hardly used 5 bonus feet, workbooks. this section for FREE! Limit ad per month, Saturday, $150. August 17, 9:30a.m.-3p.m. own home. Sarasota area 941-879-1989 with the1total value of all items $200 or less in ESTATE SALE 15 words or less. Price must be included next to 12225 Clubhouse Dr., Bradenton Calltone 941-925-3051.

Help Wanted this section for FREE! Limit SOFA: 1 ad per7/FT., month, off-white, on tone, 5 cushioned.

Saturday, August 17, 9:30a.m.-3p.m. each item. No commercial (Located off SR70) 15 words advertising. or less. Price must be included next to $100.

941-556-9547.

12225 Clubhouse Dr., Bradenton SOFA: 7/FT., off-white, tone on tone, 5 cushioned.

CAREGIVER FOR LongboatHelp lady: Wanted 12-hours, Ad runs 2 consecutive weeks 1 Observer. eachin item.

No commercial advertising.

(Located off SR70) Friday, Saturday, other days as needed. Experience 941-556-9547.

TABLE TOP: glass, $100.

4/ft. round, thick, $45. Dog CAREGIVER FOR Longboat lady: 12-ho (No phone calls please.)

Rattan: sofabed, chair and table. Rugs, Ad runs 2 consecutive weeks in 1 Observer. in healthy cooking, wheelchair cages (2), $25. Shelving, $45.TOP: 941-488-2747.

Friday,personal Saturday, care, other days as needed. Experie TABLE glass, 4/ft. round, thick, $45. dining Dog table, (Please provide your name and address) glasstop set ofsofabed, Noritakechair china, phone calls please.)

(No Rattan: and table. Rugs, transport. Seeking patient, cooking, intelligentpersonal individual, in healthy care, wheelc cages (2),frame $25. Shelving, $45. 941-488-2747. to: provide your nameTRUNDLE Email ad (Please and address) dinette, queen bed, Henrydining Link patio glasstop table,table set of Noritake china, TWIN popup bed with mattress, degree transport. preferred, Seeking pet friendly, flexible. patient, intelligent individ classified@yourobserver.com Email ad to:new condition, $200.TRUNDLE andmattress, chairs, teak bookcases andbed, tambour dinette, queen Henry Link college patio table 941-922-8305.

TWIN popup bed frame with Clean driving record, smoking, references. college no degree preferred, pet friendly, flex Online at: classified@yourobserver.com of craftteak items, dolls, and and chairs, bookcases tambour new condition, $200. 941-922-8305.chest, chandelier, tons Clean driving record, no smoking, referen $14+/hour.

(941)780-5490 or avanga42@aol.com Online at: WHITE WICKER Dresser. Excellent condition. www.yourobserver.com chest, chandelier, tons of craft items, dolls, costume jewelry, decorative accessories, Dresser. Excellent condition. $14+/hour. (941)780-5490 or avanga42@aol.c 6 drawers, $199. CallWHITE my cell WICKER at 941-400-9681. www.yourobserver.com Or mail to: costumeand jewelry, decorative accessories, linens, kitchenware misc.

RENTAL CAR Agency seeks Auto Attendant, 6 drawers, $199. Call my cell at 941-400-9681.

Or mail to: The Observer Group linens, kitchenware and misc.

RENTAL& CAR Agency seeks Auto Attend Cleaning, Washing Customer Service Autos For Sale The Observer Group P.O. Box 3169 A Nice Sale Washing & orCustomer Ser Agents. E-mail: Cleaning, SoSotaCar@gmail.com call Autos For Sale P.O. Box 31692004 TOYOTA SOLARA SLE V6 CONVERTIBLE, A Sales Nice Sale Sarasota, Fl 34230 Sale Conducted by Palma Sola 224-244-4881. Agents. E-mail: SoSotaCar@gmail.com or Sarasota, Fl 34230 Sale Conducted by Palma Sola Sales 2004 TOYOTA SOLARA SLE V6 CONVERTIBLE,Numbers 224-244-4881. at 8a.m.

ASSORTED PAPERBACK books 2 boxes @ 83,100 miles, Silver w/Grey Leather interior, Numbers at 8a.m.

83,100tires, miles, Silver w/Grey Leather interior, ASSORTED PAPERBACK books 2 boxes @ garaged, newer Michelin Power Windows, $15.00 each and 8 boxes @ $10.00 each.

Condos/Apts.

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Locks, JBL audio, CD,newer Keyless entry. tires, No Power Windows, Condos/Apts. For Rent 941-378-2121 Mirrors, Locks, JBL audio, CD, Keyless entry.

No 941-378-2121 FOURTH BAYSHORE CONDO 55+. Shorter term: accidents! Looks & drives great. $10,800 OBO FOURTH 55+. Shorter t accidents! Looks & drives great. $10,800 OBOOUR BOOKS 1/2 Price BIKE: TORKER Boardwalk, 6 speed, deluxe seat, CARFAX Call 941-587-2440. $700/mo. Longer term: BAYSHORE $650/mo. CONDO + deposit.

OUR BOOKS 1/2 Price BIKE: TORKER Boardwalk, 6 speed, deluxe seat, CARFAX Call 941-587-2440. $700/mo. Longer term: $650/mo. + dep BEE RIDGE BOOKS $200. O/B/O. Excellent condition. 941-228-5984.

1BR/1BA, remodeled, fully furnished. w/new furniBEE RIDGE BOOKS $200. O/B/O. Excellent condition.

941-228-5984.

1BR/1BA, remodeled, fully furnished. w/new fu LEXUS ES-330, 2006. Original LBK owner, 48,000 ture. No pets. Pool, screened lanai, laundry, LEXUS ES-330, 2006. Original LBK owner, 48,0004104 Bee Ridge Road 4104 Bee Ridge Road CAR JACK: new, 2 stands, $40. Car ramps, $25. miles, excellent condition, ture. No pets. Pool, screened lanai, laun white. $16,000.

Bee Ridge Plaza CAR JACK: new, 2 stands, $40. Car ramps, $25. miles, excellent assigned parking. Non-smoking. 941-345-4785. condition, white. $16,000.

Bee Ridge Plaza 6/ft. Fiberglass ladder, $40.

941-302-0447. assigned parking. Non-smoking. 941-345-478 941-780-5490; avanga42@aol.com.

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Trade-In your Paperbacks MOTHER-IN-LAW SUITE on SiestaSUITE Key, furnished, MOTHER-IN-LAW on Siesta Key, furnis 941-377-8998 COTTAGE STYLE COTTAGE coffee table/end table.

941-377-8998 STYLE coffee table/end table. pool, utilities, internet. $875 month.

941-349-1013 Autos WantedAutos Wanted pool, utilities, internet. $875 month. 941-349-1 Maple top, white legs, 2 drawers. $100.

Maple top, white legs, 2 drawers. $100.

Call 941-544-0990.

SIESTA KEY $500 and KEY up. Reserve WE BUY CARS. TOP $$ PAID FOR Call 941-544-0990.

SIESTA $500 andVacation up. Reserve Vaca WE BUY CARS. TOPYOUR $$ PAID FOR YOUR Rentals, NOW!Rentals, 1, 2, &NOW! 3 bedroom VEHICLES. Call Hawley Motors, Call 941-923-3421.

1, 2, & units.

3 bedroom u General Merchandise VEHICLES. Hawley Motors, 941-923-3421.

General Merchandise FREEZER: APARTMENT size, $65.

2 Adjustable FREEZER: APARTMENT size, $65. 2 Adjustable Weekly, Monthly, Seasonal Annual. and Ann Weekly, Monthly,andSeasonal outdoor lounges $70. outdoor 36" table, 2 chairs, $50. lounges $70. 36" table, 2 chairs, Furnished/Unfurnished.

DESIGNER CONSIGNER. store onEntire Boat $50.

Slips ForBoat Rent/Sale Furnished/Unfurnished.

DESIGNER Entire CONSIGNER. store on Slips For Rent/Sale 941-346-1895.

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3639 Bahia Vista St. (NE corner powerhood, boat.works Private residence, location. excellent location. power boat.excellent Private residence, perfectly, $185. 941-388-5013.

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941-349-1919 941-349-1919 LFNTN@copper.net LFNTN@copper.net Condos ForCondos Sale For Sale BOAT up SLIP up to 25â&#x20AC;&#x2122;. High, dry, BOAT SLIP FOR RENT, to FOR 25â&#x20AC;&#x2122;. RENT, High, dry, Merchandise Wanted Wanted GARMIN GPS.for New, still in box. Sell for 50% indoor marina. Excellent boating location. Merchandise GARMIN 1450 GPS. New, still in 1450 box. Sell 50% LONGBOAT KEY CLUB: LONGBOAT KEY CLUB: 2BR/2BA, views2BR/2BA, of Gulf views of By the indoor marina. Excellent boating location. By the off new cost. $75. 941-961-3482. off new cost. $75. 941-961-3482. & Bay, 11th 1500updated, sq. ft., fully upda & Bay, 11th Floor, 1500 sq.Floor, ft., fully CASH FOR Items.

Old Military Swords, month or yearly.

Private owner, 941-371-1866.

CASH FOR Old Military Swords,Items. month or yearly. Private owner, 941-371-1866. finishes, furnished or not. $850, quality finishes,quality furnished or not. $850,000 insignia & old guns. Call 941-416-3280. uniforms, insignia &uniforms, old guns.

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GREMLIN GUITAR with hard case, $70. (4) black GREMLIN GUITAR with hard case, $70. (4) black 941-896-2810. 941-896-2810.

Boats chairs for (941)730-1776, $10. 941)358-8511, (941)730-1776, Boats chairs for $10. 941)358-8511, SENIOR LOOKING to purchase precious metals, SENIOR LOOKING to purchase precious metals, (941)730-8252.

(941)730-8252. pieces, jewelry and antiques. Please time pieces, coins,time jewelry andcoins, antiques.

Please Homes ForHomes Rent For Rent call Marc, 941-321-0707.

LOVELY Trundle bed. Good condition, ChitwoodCharters.com call Marc, 941-321-0707.

LOVELY SINGLE Trundle bed.SINGLE Good condition, ChitwoodCharters.com 5153 SANDY Cove Siesta brass/white. $125.00 Call 941-320-1251.

Cruise or Fish 5153 SANDY Cove Ave. Siesta KeyAve. canal, poolKey canal, brass/white. $125.00 Call 941-320-1251.

Cruise or Fish home, quiet street, 4 bedroom, 3 bath, avail Hyatt Sarasota Docks Storage home, quiet street, 4 bedroom, 3 bath, available Hyatt Sarasota Docks MASSAGEfull MAT: full body, $49.

Storage Augustper 15th. $3800Annual. per month, Annual.

MASSAGE MAT: Homedic, body,Homedic, $49.

32â&#x20AC;&#x2122;/53â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Yachts 2hrs./2 months August 15th. $3800 month, Call 32â&#x20AC;&#x2122;/53â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Yachts - 2hrs./2 months Holmes Foot Buddy, new/in box, warms feet, $25.

STORAGE FACILITY Boat/ RV/ Trailer. Secure or kateeible@me.com.

Holmes Foot Buddy, new/in box, warms feet, $25.

941-383-5232 STORAGE FACILITY Boat/ RV/ Trailer. Secure 941-376-5001 or941-376-5001 kateeible@me.com.

941-383-5232 941-739-8758. facility, low monthly rentals, Clark Rd area.

941-739-8758. facility, low monthly rentals, Clark Rd area.

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

LUXOR MHP 941-809-3660, 941-809-3662.

MICROWAVE OVEN: GE, 1100 watt, counter top/ LUXOR MHP MICROWAVE OVEN: GE, 1100 watt, counter top/instruction book. $40. $450/mo-1 bed/bath mobile homes.

Furnishings Furnishings turntable model, complete $450/mo-1 bed/bath mobile homes. No Pets. turntable model, complete instruction book. $40.

KING SLEIGH bed: contemporary with medium 55+ community.

941-924-0871.

Things To Do KING SLEIGH bed: color contemporary with 55+ community.

No 14th Pets.St. W. Bradenton. wood frame andmedium large black leather inserts.Things To Do 941-924-0871.

5811 color wood large black leather inserts.

5811 14th St. Sarasota W. Bradenton.

NIGHTSTANDS: ANTIQUE white woodframe with and $300.

941-922-8305.

Real Estate Assoc., Inc. NIGHTSTANDS: ANTIQUE white inwood $300.

941-922-8305.

Sarasota Real Estate Assoc., Inc. drawer, made North with Carolina. $200.

Can send Greg Nowak Sabika Jewelry Open HouseGreg Nowak 941-809-6034 941-809-6034 drawer, made in Northphoto.

Carolina. $200. Can send PRICED TO sell: Bedroom, Living room, Dining 941-321-7801.

Sabika Jewelry Open House PRICED TO sell: Bedroom, Living room, Diningpans, dishes, etc. photo. 941-321-7801.

Room furniture.

TV, pots, WANTED HOME or condo. Unfurnished an Room pans, dishes, etc.

On Siesta Key WANTED HOMErental or condo.

Unfurnished annualKey prefer PLAYER PIANO: Old, heavy, $50 o/b/o. furniture.

You move. TV,Bypots, appointment only. Call 941-383-5646; if no with Gulf view. Siesta On Siesta Key Sunday, August 18 rental with Gulf3BR/2BA, PLAYER PIANO: Old, heavy, $50 o/b/o. You move. By appointment only.

Call leave 941-383-5646; 941-266-9571. answer, message. if no view. Siesta Key preferred.

2000/sq.ft. minimum. $3000/ Sunday, August 18 4:00-6:00 p.m. 3BR/2BA, 2000/sq.ft.

941-266-9571. answer, leave message. $3000/mo. maximum.minimum.

941-383-2812.

4:00-6:00 p.m.5230 Avenida Navarramaximum. 941-383-2812.

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Hidden Lagoon Stunning Full Gulf View!

#1 Agent in the Siesta Key Office for 22 years!

etsy B de MANIO

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â&#x20AC;˘ 2,560 SF, 3 Bedrooms, 3.5 Baths, 1 Car Garage. â&#x20AC;˘ Elevator to every floor! â&#x20AC;˘ Solid maple cabinets, granite counters & SS appliances. â&#x20AC;˘ Outdoor shower â&#x20AC;˘ Covered Loggia under building for al fresco dining and entertaining. â&#x20AC;˘ A short walk to SK Beach and SK Village!

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Budding Tennis Stars come here to play, swim, relax and will call this beach front 1300 sf. 2 /2 ground floor access: 4 Har Tru tennis courts, active tennis program, a workout facility, and two community pools,, one of which is located directly on the beach The Bleacher Report is in and Siesta Key living is all about the beach. Sarasota Surf and Racquet is the most popular tennis gated community that takes full advantage of its privileged location on Crescent Beach, just steps from the world famous Siesta Key Beach.

Just a stroll to the pool. The beautiful views. The nightly sunsets. Sarasota Surf and Racquet has everything you want in a tennis beach getaway. Generate more than 70K income from Y101 when you arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there, and everything will be handled for you! The community, as its name would suggest, offers additionally offers a beachfront barbecue area for family picnics; and a library for when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had enough Florida sun! $799,000

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Dock your lifestyle INTO this attached villa home! For a full time resident who wants to move in right now! Pristine and quietly kept neighborhood, this beautifully large and happy home is in amazing condition. Leave nothing behind! There is so much space. Want some panache? Add your granite countertops to this kitchen/update ceiling and voilaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;...sparkle to please yourself! Best private boat docks for value: Less than $15 a month slips?!! Sunsets by boat.Tranquility and Fishing!

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Endless relaxation, fun and Gulf of Mexico views. Furnished, Bring only your SCUBA gear, golf clubs, golf balls, tennis racquets, tennis balls, tennis ball machine, bikes, bike racks, kayaks, kayak racks, Frisbees, softballs, to your PRIVATE 2 CAR GARAGE hidden below your luxury 2377 sq feet End Unit spacious condo with NorthWest amazing views.

Moving to your dream residence on the water doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean you give up your privacy. Pull onto the new pavered drive behind the Ocean Blvd landscaping right into your PRIVATE 2 car garage, (with the kayaks on the roof of your vehicle) shut the door and walk thru the beautiful, secure, secluded, lobby and ride upstairs to your postcard home. Or change into your SCUBA gear and walk out to the sea wall and view ALL the amazing aquatic life that comes through at tide change. Have an Olympic spirit -- swim 250 strokes across to LIDO Park. Or slip your kayak into the water and go birding or BBQ on the sandbar. $965,000

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UNCOMPROMISING SOUTHERN BAY VIEWS With 2 deep water docks and a boat house for small craft, this California Mission style home is situated on one of North Siesta Keyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite streets. The Main house and Guest house are comprised of over 9,385 sq. ft. with ultimate flexibility for the large family, multiple guests or extensive office space. Six bedrooms, 2 offices, large game room, dark room, new barrel tile roof, private heated pool and spa retreat and 3 car garage are featured. This 1.5 acre estate is walled and gated with a long circular drive and is surrounded on 2 sides by water. $4,895,000

MUSEUM AREA: 4948 BAY SHORE ROAD Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as though this home was plucked from a Costa Rican rain forest. The walled compound has lush tropical gardens spanning 5 lots and ž acres. Three covered pavilions are assembled for the ultimate in sophisticated outdoor entertaining. A linear fireplace anchors the Living, Dining and Social Pavilions. Magazine quality interior design of the home is beyond spectacular. A very unique and desirable property. Designed by architect, Terry Green. $1,995,000

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Gulf Gulf&&Bay Bay Club Club isis aa gulf gulf front, front,gated gated community community located located on on over over 30 30 acres acres with with 780 780feet feet of of beach beach frontage. frontage.Amenities Amenities include include33 heated heated pools, pools,88 tennis tennis courts, courts, aafifitness tness center center with with spa, spa,aa clubhouse clubhouse with withlibrary library and and multiple multiple barbeque barbeque areas. areas.

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7922 South Holiday drive | Sarasota, Florida | 5BR  5 Ba  2 HB  12+cG  8,505 SF | $7,900,000

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