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HOME RUN

FOOTBALL

Resident visits 30 major league baseball stadiums in 38 days.

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OUR TOWN

Lakewood Ranch quarterback leads team to victory.

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world class

MILESTONE

Don Thompson celebrates his centennial.

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by Josh Siegel | Staff Writer

Benderson Park to host rowers Rowing’s governing body chose Nathan Benderson Park to host the 2017 World Rowing Championships, which would be the largest international event in East County’s history.

Courtesy photo

Barbara Romig, Dawn Clayton and Nancy Kopnisky

+ Generous golfers give back Booker Elementary kindergarten students received school uniforms thanks to the University Park Country Club Ladies Golf Association and the 9-Hole LGA. This is the second time the women have raised funds for school uniforms. Booker Principal Dawn Clayton received the check for $2,530 from Barbara Romig, LGS hospitality chairwoman, and Nancy Kopnisky, LGA president.

EAST COUNTY — Nearly four years ago, Paul Blackketter told the East County Observer a small lake that was once a construction borrow pit would be the rowing course for the United States.

Four years from now, Nathan Benderson Park, transformed and unrecognizable since Blackketter’s prediction, will be the

rowing course for the world.

Sarasota’s Nathan Benderson Park has been named the venue for the 2017 World Rowing Championships, the sport’s biggest competition outside of the Olympics.

The Swiss-based International Federation of Rowing Association’s (FISA) 137-member congress picked Sarasota over Plo-

vdiv, Bulgaria, in a unanimous vote Labor Day weekend in Chungju, South Korea.

A contingent from Sarasota and Manatee counties, including representatives from the Suncoast Aquatic Nature Center Association (SANCA), the nonprofit group that made the bid — which Blackketter heads — witnessed the selection in per-

son.

The group returned from Korea the night of Sept. 3, after the East County Observer went to press.

There hasn’t been a world rowing championship in the United States since 1994.

“Five years ago, a small group

SEE ROWING / PAGE 8

CLOSER LOOK

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+ Paws-itively adorable Windsor Retirement Community held a dog fashion show for its residents Friday, Aug. 30. Proceeds went to Nate’s Place, a retail and adoption center. The residents enjoyed an afternoon of seeing pups in dressed in raingear, bowties and frilly collars.

+ Risen Savior seeks donations The Risen Savior Lutheran Church is accepting donations of unneeded reading glasses (not full prescription), dress shirts and ties for students in rural Nigeria. The church’s pastor, the Rev. Daniel Witte, is visiting the West African country. Witte will give any glasses, dress shirts and ties donated to the underprivileged students.

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First-graders Khloe Johnson and Marissa Belan use their magnifying glasses to view mosquitoes close-up Thursday, Aug. 29, at McNeal Elementary. For more photos, see page 20.

EDUCATION

by Josh Siegel | Staff Writer

School district to hire 85 teachers The hiring of 85 additional teachers for this school year is one of many unexpected costs the Manatee County School District added to its budget.

EAST COUNTY — The new Manatee County School District leadership team has a new motto: Just say no.

No wasteful spending. No new programs. No fear of accountability.

But, as in life, in managing a

school district, “no” sometimes means “maybe,” and “no” requires flexibility.

Because more students have filled Manatee County classrooms this year, the district announced it will hire 85 teachers.

“Some unexpected items have

come our way, and we want to be transparent about them,” said Superintendent Rick Mills, the man hired to lay a new foundation for a broken district that suffered a multimillion-dollar bud-

SEE BUDGET / 8

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Cops Corner..........10 Crossword.............28

Neighborhood.......17 Real Estate...........24

Sports...................13 Weather................28

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by Josh Siegel | Staff Writer

center stage

by Josh Siegel | Staff Writer

East County performer puts on first Manatee Playreading Festival Dylan Jones, an actor, writer and composer, wants to share the playwriting process with the public.

Bill Curphey kept his tickets from every game and bought a key chain from every ballpark.

All-American

Tourist

Bill Curphey visited 30 major league baseball ballparks in 38 days, a trip that showed him a country united by an American pastime.

EAST COUNTY — For a guy who has just visited all 30 major league baseball ballparks in 38 days, Bill Curphey is surprisingly not a diehard fan of the sport.

He doesn’t read the sports section of the newspaper.

During the trip, he sported a Cleveland Indians hat, for his hometown team, but he wore a plain T-shirt instead of a baseball jersey.

At stadium gates, he turned down bobble-head dolls — a ballpark staple — because he had nothing in which to carry them.

But, for 38 days, flying to a different U.S. city nearly every day, there was Curphey, sitting behind a dugout, often with a hot dog and a beer, surrounded by people like him, appreciating America’s game.

“This was the most baseball I’ve seen in 20 years,” Curphey said. “But, what was neat about this whole thing is, sitting in all these stadiums, you get to meet America. Baseball brings people together. There are no differences between us.

We laugh at the same jokes.

That’s America.”

A 65-year-old East County lawyer with clients all over the world, Curphey has seen India, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Moscow, London and more.

He’s seen America, too.

Before the trip, which he returned from Aug. 24, Curphey had already been to every city in which he would see a game, except San Diego.

But, he had never gotten so intimate with America.

The planning for the trip started four years ago, when Curphey vowed to be a part of someone else’s bucket list.

Bill Baumgart, a client and friend, wanted a companion

to fulfill a lifelong dream of visiting every baseball stadium.

Before this season started, Baumgart, a White Sox fan from Chicago, studied the MLB schedule and organized a route to the goal.

The friends ordered the tickets, all along the first base or third base lines, through a broker in Chicago.

The trip began with the best. Curphey and Baumgart flew July 16 to Citi Field in New York for the AllStar Game. They stayed for three days before a run of 12 games in as many days.

They took July 31 off, one of seven days on the trip with no games scheduled.

By that time, Curphey needed a haircut. The friends only traveled with backpacks with a week’s worth of clothes; they found laundromats along the way.

Curphey’s wife, Joanne Derstine, couldn’t stand being away from her husband for two weeks, so she traveled Aug. 7 to Seattle to meet the baseball travelers. Derstine also attended games in San Francisco, Atlanta, New York and Philadelphia.

Before night games, Curphey and Baumgart explored the cities. They went horseback riding in Denver.

Baumgart bought an 8-foot longhorn in Texas.

The complex logistics brought challenges. At first, Curphey’s secretary, who booked hotels as they went, picked lodging close to airports but far away from games.

That presented a problem for the Royals game Aug. 5, in Kansas City, Mo. They took an $80 cab from their hotel to the Kauffman

Stadium.

“The hotel was nowhere near the stadium,” Curphey said. “The stadium is literally in a weed field. There was just nothing going on there.”

But the slow drive allowed Curphey to see more of America.

Curphey also saw America in Boston.

There, at a Red Sox game against the New York Yankees July 20, Curphey felt a part of a conversation between a group of young men nearby, who told stories of their jobs and sports in thick Boston accents.

“You can’t get that authenticity on television,” Curphey said. “They had me in stitches.”

In Houston Aug. 23, Curphey became a co-star in another American rite — a fight about foul balls.

A player hit a foul ball that hit a young child in the shoulder. A skinny man with a scruffy beard came from behind and snatched the ball from the boy’s feet. People hissed at the man and called him names. The boy cried. The said he planned on giving the ball to his child, who was at home.

“I yelled out, ‘You’re going to give the ball to your kid who you didn’t even bother to bring to the game!’” Curphey said.

The man began to preen for a fight. Security hauled him away.

A man sitting nearby, who Curphey learned was a referee for the National Basketball Association, left his seat and came back with a new baseball. He gave it to the boy.

“If Congress went to every ballpark in America and saw what America is really like, maybe things would be better for them,” Curphey said.

By the time the trip ended Aug. 24, with a Rays game in Tampa, Curphey had caught a cold.

“It became an ordeal after a while,” Curphey said. “It was a great adventure I’ll remember. But I wouldn’t do it again.”

Curphey is writing a book about the trip.

“It will be a guide to America’s ballparks with stories about the people who make it American,” Curphey said.

YourObserver.com // See photos of various ballparks

from Curphey’s all-American tour online.

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EAST COUNTY — Rarely during family dinners do children ask their parents from where plays come.

Dylan Jones, a 29-year-old East County actor, writer and composer, doesn’t kid himself that curiosity about theater will keep up with wonderment about babies.

But, he does bet people will become interested in the playwriting process — how words inside a head are transformed into a performance — if they attend his first Manatee Playreading Festival, which starts Sept. 6.

“It’s a process people don’t see a lot of,” Jones said. “Now you won’t have to ask, ‘Daddy, where do plays come from?”

Jones, a board member of the Theatre Odyssey in Sarasota, which promotes local playwrights and actors, experiences the crackling art and performance scene of Bradenton’s southern neighbor and wants to bring the same bustle to Manatee County.

“People in Lakewood Ranch drive all the way to Sarasota when there’s talent even closer,” Jones said. “I want to give back to this market and make people aware of it.”

To accomplish that broad goal, the three-weekend event at the Manatee School for the Arts in Palmetto caters to both local actors and writers and to the general public.

The event is free and open to public, though Jones suggests a $5 donation.

Each weekend during the first three weekends of September, a different playwright will perform a semi-stage reading of his play to an audience.

The writers includes David Smith, a former Lakewood Ranch resident who has had plays published; Delia Revarda, a senior at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School and aspiring playwright; and Bernie Yanelli, a Saint Stephen’s teacher who has performed in New York City.

The writer will sit in a chair on a stage and read his script aloud to others sitting on the stage with them. There is no makeup; there are no lights; and there is no movement.

“It gives the writer a chance to

If you go WHAT: The Manatee County Playreading Festival WHERE: Manatee School for the Arts, 700 Haben Blvd., Palmetto WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Sept 6 and Sept. 7; Sept. 13 and Sept. 14; and Sept. 20 and Sept. 21 WHAT: The festival will feature Manatee County playwriters who will read their plays to the public. hear the words out loud,” Jones said. “When you come up with a script in your head, you are just crossing your fingers it works. It’s a blank stage.”

Jones says the normal progression from a reading to rehearsals to performance can feel rushed and unrehearsed.

“It’s a rocky, messy transition,” Jones said. “Doing a reading is a long way from putting on a full production.”

The Manatee Playreading Festival will function as a semistage reading — a step between a reading and a performance.

For example, if the script says a person is sitting at a table and eating, the reader will actually show the act happen.

“I wanted to challenge myself and others and do something different,” Jones said. “I want to show people things not seen before.”

A semi-stage reading is not quite as “dolled up” as a performance. Readers do not wear costumes and use limited props.

Each writer will a perform a one- to two-hour reading over two days on a weekend.

After each reading, the audience can “talk back” to the readers and give their opinion on the performance.

“Your comments influence how the actual play will function,” Jones said. “The writer learns what works, what doesn’t work and what can be better.”

Jones, a graduate of Manatee High School, was born into a theatrical family. Spending most of his adult life studying and performing film and theater here, Jones has become frustrated with Manatee County’s lack of cultural relevance.

He hopes that changes.

“There are tremendous people here, but not much of a connection,” Jones said. “I want to help make Manatee County the cultural mecca I always thought it would be.”

Worst stadium:

Oakland Athletics,

Oakland Coliseum

Worst key chain: A

Hello Kitty key chain from Dodgers Stadium, in Los Angeles

Dylan Jones hopes the festival becomes an annual event.

Josh Siegel

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Lakewood Ranch solves murder mystery Wes and Christa Harding are murder-mystery game writers who host a dinner during in which their guests solve the pretend murder the couple has scripted.

Jenny Heffler plays crazy cat lady and art patron Jasmine Lipton, and Heffler’s real-life sister, Coleen Clemens, plays Libby Reed, the British wife of the butler. They have just found out there’s been a murder! blocked off with a curtain and a notice: “The East Wing of the museum is closed until further notice.” This is either the Harding’s sly way of hiding the toys belonging to their three children, or it could it be where the dead body resides.

Prior to the dinner, guests were sent invitations with their roles and a costume suggestions.

Christa Harding wields an artist’s notebook to become character Michaela Gelato, a competitor of the artist. Wes Harding is highbrow architect Mark Chase, the boyfriend of the artist. The Bertsches aren’t playing a couple this evening — Jenny Bertsch is playing a hyperactive, rude aerobic

instructor and sister of the artist and Nathan Bertsch is playing an art-student protégé. Three more couples slowly straggle in, each one a suspect. Upon all of their arrivals, Mark Chase (aka Wes Harding) informs the guests of Rall Museum that Raphaela Palleta (the fake artist) has been murdered by one of the guests, and it’s up to them to figure out whodunit.

It gets confusing at times; guests ask, “Wait, are you talking about real life?” as opposed to their fake, potentialmurderer lives.

Some were typecast. The Hardings’ friend, Matt Heffler plays sports journalist Tip Wright, which gives Heffler, an avid Baltimore Orioles fan in real life, an excuse to check the score of the game throughout the evening. During each course of dinner, the guests read a new script to bring them closer to solving the murder. With each course, or glass of wine, the guests get more comfortable.

By the end of the night, they’ve had a fun, non-traditional evening with friends.

“Back to the real world!”

Christa Harding writes in an email recap of the event.

“Thank God for that, because everyone’s character was pretty much a scoundrel!”

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Tonight, their friends are attending the ritzy art opening of pretend artist Raphaela Palleta’s controversial paintings. The first floor of their family home is rearranged to look like the fictional Rall Museum. The family photos are replaced with art prints; the candle sconces are lit; the rooms off the open family room and kitchen are

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Wes Harding opens the door to the lightning-illuminated silhouettes of Nathan and Jenny Bertsch. Eerie orchestral music drones in the background, like a scene straight out of the movie “Clue.”

The couple signs the guest book by the front door using their aliases for the murdermystery dinner party, Eddie Grayson and Rami Palletta.

There’s a magnifying glass propped on the guest book, foreshadowing the point of the whole evening: solving a pretend crime.

The hosts, Wes and Christa Harding, aren’t writers by trade. Christa Harding, 34, is a psychologist, and Wes Harding, 34, is a physician’s assistant. In 2006, the couple played a mystery-party game with friends and decided they could write a better-quality game. They went on severaldozen date nights to create interesting characters and storylines.

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At its meeting Aug. 27, the commission voted unanimously to put the topic on its legislative agenda for next year, hoping lawmakers would close loopholes in the proposal by then.

In July, the commission had asked the Manatee County Attorney’s Office to draft an ordinance after voters approved a constitutional amendment about it in 2012.

That amendment automatically permitted a city or county to provide for an additional or alternative exemption covering the entire assessed value of homestead property, valued up to $250,000, for seniors who had lived there for at least 25 years.

 Manatee County Board of County Commissioners Land-use Meeting — 9 a.m. Sept. 5, at the Manatee County Government Administrative Center, 1112 Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton  Manatee County School Board Meeting and Public Hearing to adopt 2013-14 budget — 5:45 p.m. Sept. 9, at 215 Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton  Manatee County Board of County Commissioners Meeting — 9 a.m.

Sept. 10, at the Manatee County Government Administrative Center, 1112 Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton  Manatee County Board of County Commissioners Budget Public Hearing — 6 p.m. Sept. 10, at the Manatee County Government Administrative Center, 1112 Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton

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The “campaign” has included public service announcements, roadway signs and other measures.

Bristow said, generally, more than half of vehicle burglaries involve unlocked cars.

The sheriff’s office, which often finds young people ages 16 to 24 responsible for the burglaries, has had recent success putting burglars in jail with the help of witnesses.

The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office reported a flurry of vehicle burglaries Aug. 29 on one street in Lakewood Ranch.

Deputies responded to four vehicle burglaries on the 11000 block of Rivers Bluff Circle.

The incidents go against a trend of decreased vehicle burglaries in Manatee County the last two years — after a stretch of several years where the crime happened more frequently — said Dave Bristow, sheriff’s office public information officer.

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Bristow also said Lakewood Ranch has not seen an inordinate amount of vehicle burglaries compared to other parts of the county.

“But Lakewood Ranch has cars like everywhere else,” Bristow said.

+ Rosedale begins construction on its ‘pristine’ new models Rosedale Construction has broken ground on a new model home in Rosedale Links, a recently opened phase located in the Rosedale Golf & Country Club.

The new model, The Pristine VI, will include 2,395 square feet of living space with two bedrooms, a great room, dining room, kitchen, den, covered lanai, laundry room and two-car garage with golf cart parking.

The home will be also have standard features such as granite countertops in the kitchen and bath, tile in all main living areas, impact-resistant windows and doors, a brick driveway and General Electric kitchen appliances.

Construction crews have also begun work on two new spec homes in Rosedale Links – another Pristine VI and a slightly smaller design called the Rosa.

The Rosa has 1,993 square feet of living space that includes a kitchen overlooking a great room and nearby dining room.

A master bedroom features double closets and vanities.

The homes also include a guest room, den, second bath, laundry room, a covered lanai and a twocar garage with golf cart parking.

Rosedale expects all three homes to be complete this fall.

The new Pristine VI model will be open for public viewing by Oct. 31.

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apartments headed to East County The hot East County apartment market is primed for another project.

The latest, Creekside Apartments, will be a 256unit complex off Lakewood Ranch Boulevard, according to Lakewood Ranch Commercial Realty President Brian Kennelly.

The developer is Winter Park-based P.A.C. Land Development Corp., which also built the 272-unit Lost Creek Resort at Lakewood Ranch apartment complex on 24 adjacent acres in 2011.

The new project will be on 17 acres, and construction could begin by November, say officials at Lakewood Ranch, one of the largest multifamily master-planned communities on the Gulf Coast. Other apartment projects in the works in the area include The Venue at Lakewood Ranch, a 237unit complex across from Lakewood Ranch Main Street.

The Lost Creek project, meanwhile, reached 95% occupancy in less than a year, and P.A.C. Land Development Corp. sold that complex to an Illinois real-estate firm in September 2012 for $39.25 million.

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BUDGET / PAGE 1 get deficit before his watch.

Offsetting the 950 extra students recorded in the first 10 days of the school year requires the addition of 55 teachers.

Another 30 elementary school teachers will be hired to meet Florida class-size requirements.

Hiring the additional teachers will cost the district $4.3 million, of which $2.1 million will come from the state, $1.2 will be provided through Title 1 funding and $1 million that was already built into the budget.

The hirings come after the district cut 182 teaching positions in May — most of whom have found jobs inside or outside the district — as part of a plan to recover from the deficit and meet class-size requirements.

At a public hearing Aug. 29, the first chance for the public to speak on a 2013-14 fiscal year line-item budget released a week earlier, district leadership announced another $3.9 million in unexpected costs to this year’s budget.

The district must sell surplus property to pay for the extra costs — which staff noticed when it closed the books this month — and maintain a balanced budget.

The costs include: $1.6 million to fund an extra hour of school for low-performing schools — none of which is in East County; a $75,000 audit of sales tax revenue, which had been misused in the past; and $150,000 in legal costs for the school board.

The district also found it needed to spend $920,000 to trim last year’s deficit. Other costs are more mundane, such as the $27,000 increase in the telephone bill.

All of the money will come

from the general fund.

“When you go to the level of detail we did, you see things you haven’t seen before,” said Don Hall, deputy superintendent of operations. “Life happens, and when life happens, you have to respond to that happening. It doesn’t change our goal of meeting the state-required $10.3 million fund balance (reserves).”

The school board had little to say about the budget updates, except that it felt refreshed to see an actual line-item budget, a 417-page document broken down by individual school.

Basic accounting practice represents progress from past budgets that appropriated money that didn’t exist based on data from bookkeepers who were not properly trained to manage them.

Major budget adjustments Changes to the 2013-14 fiscal year $345.5 million budget since July:

$1.6 million to fund an extra our of school for five under performing schools

$920,000 to make up the 2012-13 budget deficit

$150,000 in legal costs to the school board

$27,000 addition to telephone costs $75,000 sales tax audit $4.3 million to pay for 85 new teachers

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Manatee County School Board Chairwoman Karen Carpenter and Superintendent Rick Mills took comments on the 2013-14 budget at a public hearing Aug. 29. The school board will vote to adopt the budget Sept. 9.

Board member Bob Gause did question whether costs such as the sales tax audit could wait until the district has more money.

He also regretted more money that’s budgeted to fund school board travel.

“We have significant challenges and serious staff limitations,” Gause said. “We’re asking everyone to spend less, but the board is spending more. This district needs every dime it can get.”

Mills responded that the district needs answers now.

“I’m not comfortable where we are at right now with a lot of unanswered questions about the sales tax,” Mills said. “We need to have the answers to these questions.”

Mills and his staff did not have the answer to how many students would actually show up to school — until now.

Hall said the district had expected to lose students to charter schools.

But an influx of migrant students and a shift of students

from charter schools to public school required the additional teachers.

Pat Barber, president of the Manatee County Education Association, the district’s teacher’s union, said the teaching positions are open to anyone, including non-renewed Manatee teachers who were not rated highly enough to be rehired under a “memo of understanding” with the district.

The memo said that highly rated teachers who had lost their jobs in the district could be reappointed to the school they taught at or at other district schools.

As it is now, Barber described schools with crowded classrooms and shuffling teachers.

She hopes the new teachers bring stability — and growth.

“It’s always positive when the district is growing,” Barber said. “It’s even greater when you didn’t expect it to be that way.”

Contact Josh Siegel at jsiegel@ yourobserver.com.

ROWING / PAGE 1 of people had this dream of what might be,” said Nicole Rissler, the sports director of the Sarasota County Sports Commission. “When the decision was made to make this facility (Nathan Benderson Park) the best, the goal was always to go after the biggest event. In one weekend, we saw those dreams become reality.”

Winning the bid will bring a world stage to East County, but it also carries significance that hits closer to home.

Officials estimate the 10-day World Championships will attract more than 42,000 people and 1,500 athletes to Sarasota and Manatee counties and have a regional economic impact of $25 million.

The investment, a partnership between taxpayers and Benderson Development, a Manatee County-based development company, will be a boon to the area’s restaurants, hotels, stores and attractions, including The Mall at University Town Center, which comes online in October 2014.

A group that included Blackketter, a project manager for Benderson and chief operating office of SANCA, Randy Benderson, president of the development company, Ed Hunzeker, Manatee County administrator, and more, spent days in Chungju at the site of the 2013 championships to curry favor with the rowing community and learn best practices.

“We are very excited about winning the bid and now the work really begins,” Blackketter said in an email from Korea.

“Our partnership and dedication to this venture has been

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Competitors race toward the finish line in August as USRowing hosted its 2013 Masters National Championships at Nathan Benderson Park. relentless, and we owe much gratitude to all our volunteers, organization committee members and partners. This will be an exciting four years until the event where we will be able market ourselves as a true international sporting community to last long after the championships.”

Sarasota and Manatee counties have collectively already put $5.6 million — through tourism bed tax dollars — to the 2017 World Rowing Championships.

Gov. Rick Scott allocated $5 million for infrastructure work to the park, adding to previous state contributions.

Over the next two years, construction crews will build a boathouse and start and finish towers, the core of an expansion to facilities that requires Suncoast to raise another $15 million.

Benderson Development has pledged to cover any financial shortfall for which fundraising cannot pay.

Planners believe they have enough lodging.

Sarasota and Manatee counties have 22,000 lodging units between them, a figure that includes condos and traditional

hotels.

Benderson plans to build two new hotels, as part of the Mall at University Town Center, in time for a World Cup competition Nathan Benderson Park will host in 2016.

The 2014 Dragon Boat Festival, the park’s first major international event, which will bring more than 2,500 paddlers, will provide another test run.

As part of its 300-plus-page bid package, officials have reserved specific hotels for the athletes, who will come to train two weeks to a month before the World Rowing Championships.

“Now you have a by-product,” Rissler said. “We have enough, but now that we earned the bid, we can attract additional hotels and commercial businesses.”

Blackketter, an East County resident and rowing enthusiast whose daughter, Chloe, rows at Stetson University, has banked on the sport for the last 10 years, as he traveled the globe to study rowing and aquatic facilities.

Progress to date on Nathan Benderson Park has been as big as Blackketter’s vision.

Thirty million dollars in taxpayer money went into the park’s construction, includ-

ing $1.5 million from Manatee County, $19.5 million from Sarasota County and $10 million from the state.

The lake at Benderson Park was dredged and Cattlemen Road extended to make the course an Olympic-sized 2,000 meters.

Dredge material from the lake and dirt from the construction of the Mall at University Town Center helped build a Regatta Island.

Along with the start and finish towers, which will house FISA representatives officiating the event and media, and the boathouse, the island will also have grandstands and parking.

The $2,782,000 each county budgeted to land the event will continue to fund traveling to more international events and hosting rowing officials through 2017.

Officials hope the investment pays fruit beyond 2017.

“When you look back in 10 to 20 years and think to what Sarasota was a part of, you will say that the 2017 World Rowing Championships left a legacy,” Rissler said.

Contact Josh Siegel at jsiegel@ yourobserver.com.

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Med student embraces bruising hobby

Nikole Stephens, a second-year medical student at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, takes off her lab coat to play roller derby with the Bradentucky Bombers.

LAKEWOOD RANCH — In six months, Nikole Stephens would become Hailey Explosive, but there in the stands, watching the roller derby players shoulder each other to the ground, she only wished she could skate.

“I thought, ‘I want to do this,’” said Stephens, who was watching the Bradentucky Bombers play roller derby in February at Astro Skate.

In six months, Stephens, a medical student who will one day treat pain, would administer it.

Stephens would learn how to skate, learn how to bully other women to the floor with her bottom and join the Bradentucky Bombers as the lead jammer in a bout.

Stephens, a second-year medical student at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and a Lakewood Ranch resident, played in her first bout Aug. 17, at the Bradenton Area Convention Center, helping the Bombers to victory against the Miami Vice City Rollers.

The Bombers are an all-female

a physical outlet to keep her sane through endless studies.

“I had to get out of the school, sleep, eat, school routine,” Stephens said.

In March, Stephens began the Bombers training program.

Learning how to skate came first.

At home, she cleaned dishes wearing her skates.

When Stephens could stand without falling, she learned how to play roller derby.

Roller derby, played on roller skates, started in the 1920s as a respite for woman from the Depression.

It’s a contact sport played by two teams of five members rollerskating in the same direction around a track.

When the whistle blows, a “jammer” starts skating behind a pack of “blockers” and “pivots” who jockey for position, trying to clear space — using their bodies — for the jammer to pass through.

For the most part, Stephens is a blocker.

The teams try to assist their own jammer and prevent the

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Nikole Stephens spends most of her time in a lab coat, but at night, she puts on skates and kneepads and becomes, Hailey Explosive, her roller derby alter ego. roller derby team with women ages 18 to 40.

Its members include wives, mothers, students, mechanics, bartenders, web designers and artists, among others, who inherit alter egos such as Busty Bruiser, Mia Psycho, Snow Wipe U Out and, now, Hailey Explo-

sive.

“It’s a hard-hitting, intense game,” said Stephens, wearing her clean white lab coat. “I love the aggressiveness of it. These are strong women.”

A three-sport athlete at Faith Christian Academy in Orlando, Stephens had been searching for

opposing jammer from passing through at the same time, so they play offense and defense simultaneously.

A jammer scores points by lapping members of the opposing team.

She trained for eight weeks before she became eligible to compete. Now, she knows that she must skate low and cross her legs over on turns. She learned that blockers can’t hit opponents above the shoulders or below the mid-thigh. They can’t use their elbows and can’t hit people in the back.

“I faced my fears,” Stephens said. “My brain knows I’m going to get hit, but I can take it.”

She practices two hours, three days a week, usually at night.

The Bombers play home games every month.

They skate by the motto, “Strong women rolling for a strong community.”

Stephens likes to hit people, but she also likes to mend them.

She’s wanted to heal since her parents bought her science experiments every Christmas.

Right now, she wants to be a cardiologist.

She says her grades have improved since she began the sport.

“I definitely branched out from the other side of my apartment,” Stephens said. “I never knew what was out there.”

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Sunday, Sept. 8 One Year Celebration — runs from 9:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Bayside Community Church, 8893 Fruitville Road. Celebrate one year of the Bayside Community Church East Sarasota Campus with food, family-fun activities and two services, which the Rev. Randy Bezet will lead. Everyone is welcome.

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8, at The Fresh Market, 5251 University Parkway. The Fresh Market is holding its 19th annual sidewalk sale. Enjoy ice cream snacks, hot dogs and root beer floats while helping Type 1 diabetes charity, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; all sales go to JDRF. For more information, go online to thefreshmarket.com.

Tuesday, Sept. 10 SWAT Networking for Successful Women — Successful Women Aligning Together’s Lakewood Ranch chapter meets every Tuesday at the Polo Grill and Bar to have lunch, socialize and network. You are welcome to bring business cards, brochures and flyers to promote your business, service or product.

For more information on registration and tickets, contact Dr. Robyn at 962-0884.

To RSVP, call 224-4773.

Thursday, Sept. 12 Alienated Grandparents Anonymous — will meet at 1 p.m. at Living Lord Lutheran Church, 11107 Palmbrush Trail, Lakewood Ranch. Everyone is welcome to this support group for alienated parents and grandparents. Email aga2_lwr@yahoo.com.

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9/11 Memorials Come pay respect to those we lost and to honor those still fighting for our country on the 12th anniversary of 9/11. Every year, Manatee and Sarasota County residents come together to remember the heroes who lost their lives Sept. 11.

With memorials taking place in the morning and evening, all can honor those who fell victim to the tragedy and to the brave men and women who continue to fight for our freedom to this day.

Lakewood Ranch Remembers 9/11 — takes place from 8:45 to 9:15 a.m. Sept. 11, at LWR Manatee Technical Institute East Campus, 5520 Lakewood Ranch Blvd.

Remember those who died and those who fight for us along with local school children, public officials and neighbors. Guest speaker Garrett Lindgren, 9/11 survivor and vice president of the Retired Firefighters from 9/11, will share his story and advice on public safety and the importance of never forgetting the men and women we lost. For more information, contact Lori Basilone at 7571530 or visit lwrcac.com.

Seventh Annual Manatee County Remembrance Ride — line up starts at 5 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 11, at the Bearded Clam Waterfront Restaurant and Tiki Bar, 7150 N. Tamiami Trail. The wreath memorial will take place at 6 p.m. on the water before the ride begins. The parade is a motorcycle-only event. However, everyone is welcome to cheer on the bikers from the sidelines.

All motorcyclists are invited to ride in the parade, which goes from U.S. 41 to the Applebee’s on University Parkway. For more information, contact Esther Halt at 914-2327 or visit the event’s Facebook page.

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Lakewood Ranch resident and IMG Academy and University of Florida alumna Erika Tymrak, who plays for FC Kansas City, was recently named to the U.S. Soccer Women’s National Team.

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Quarterback Chad Rex accounted for six touchdowns in leading Lakewood Ranch to a 55-34 victory over Southeast Aug. 31.

LAKEWOOD RANCH — Lakewood Ranch High junior quarterback Chad Rex didn’t know what it was like to beat Southeast.

Rex was in the eighth grade the last time the Mustangs beat the Seminoles. His senior teammates were freshman — the vast majority of which didn’t suit up on varsity until well after the dust had settled.

But Rex and his teammates were hoping this year would be different.

They wanted to make a statement.

And, so, they turned to their signal caller, who didn’t make his

The Braden River High defense forced five turnovers en route to a 28-3 season-opening victory over North Fort Myers Aug. 31.

Quarterback Chad Rex scores one of his five rushing touchdowns on the night.

varsity debut until last season en route to leading the Mustangs to a 5-5 season.

Trailing 13-0 midway through the first quarter, Rex stepped up and took control —lighting up the field and putting on a performance that left many Mustangs fans in awe.

Rex accounted for six touchdowns, including five rushing touchdowns, to lead Lakewood to a 55-34 victory over Southeast Aug. 31 in the season opener for both teams.

“It was a big (win),” Rex says. “Everyone projected

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Lakewood Ranch sophomore Brandon Luckett turns a reverse handoff into a big gain.

Left: Cameron Pearcey hauled in six catches for 111 yards, including a 4-yard touchdown.

cross country by Jen Blanco | Sports Editor

Fresh Faces LAKEWOOD RANCH — State berths have become nothing short of commonplace at Lakewood Ranch High School.

The girls cross-country team has advanced to the Class 3A Cross Country Championship each of the past four seasons, finishing in the top five, including a pair of back-to-back, state runner-up finishes, each of those seasons.

But, now, with four of their top five runners from the past four years having moved on to college, including 2011

individual state champion Olivia Ortiz, the Lady Mustangs are relying on a group of new faces to carry on the tradition of excellence.

Over the past three years, seniors Emily Perez and Michelle Last and junior Katie Wray have been part of the expectation.

They’ve been part of the team everyone watched.

A team that dominated cross-country in the area; and a team that was all but guaranteed a berth in the state meet.

They’ve experienced the

Lakewood Ranch High seniors Emily Perez and Michelle Last and junior Katie Wray are adjusting to their new role as the leaders of the Lakewood Ranch High girls cross-country team. thrill of competing on the sport’s biggest stage on more than one occasion. And they’ve dealt with the pressure that comes with being the team everyone is seeking to knock out of contention.

Now, for the first time since they set foot at Lakewood Ranch, Perez, Last and Wray, along with the rest of the Lakewood girls crosscountry team, are experiencing a new reality — one that has them coming into the Jen Blanco season as the underdog.

Katie Wray, Michelle Last and Emily Perez are relying on their faith and belief in one another to carry them SEE LEADERS / PAGE 14 this season.

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MUSTANGS / PAGE 13 us to lose, and we wanted to make a statement.”

Rex scored on runs of 20, 2 and 1 yard in the first half to give Lakewood a 21-20 lead. He added runs of 1 and 2 yards in the second half and also connected with Cameron Pearcey for a 4-yard touchdown in the third quarter to secure the victory for the Mustangs.

It was the most touchdowns Rex had scored in a single game.

Rex finished with 118 yards on the ground. He also completed 13-of-15 passes for 192 yards.

“It was good (to get the running game going) because we wanted to get a good

LEADERS / PAGE 13 It’s a position the girls haven’t faced before, but one they are using as motivation for what they hope will be another special season for Lakewood.

“A lot of people are expecting us not to do as well,” Perez says. “We’re just going to try and do our best and try to fill everyone’s shoes who left.”

Wray agrees.

“There’s not so much pressure and anticipation this season,” Wray says. “We know we have standards to uphold. The fact that a lot of teams don’t think of us as a big threat is kind of what drives us.”

The Lady Mustangs began training for the season over the summer, relying on one another and pushing one another to maintain the standards set before them.

Perez, Last and Wray all attended running camps prior to the start of the season, and they shared the tools and knowledge they received with their teammates in hopes of strengthening the team.

“We’ve bonded a lot more this season,” Last says. “We really push each other to stay positive as a group, so that we’re all on the same page.”

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night, so we can keep going during the season,” Rex says.

Over the past year, Rex has taken on a leadership role by doing whatever it takes to help the Mustangs win — even if that means losing a helmet or taking a few hard hits, as was the case Friday night.

“Chad is a great kid,” coach Shawn Trent says. “I wish he would get down sometimes and not take all the hits that he takes; but as long as he keeps getting up, it’s all good.”

And, although Rex admits he doesn’t play quarterback simply for the notoriety, there’s no denying all eyes were on him when walked off the field last Friday night.

Contact Jen Blanco at jblanco@yourobserver.com.

by Jen Blanco | Sports Editor Ten-year-old Zoe Lammers warms up before Gainesville Soccer Alliance’s game versus the Lakewood Ranch Chargers.

tero Invitational Sept. 1, at Estero Community Park. Wray finished 12th in 21 minutes, 33 seconds to help lead the Lady Mustangs to a sixth-place finish.

Andrea McDonald, Julia Ortiz, Perez and Elizabeth Chandler also all scored points for Lakewood. The Lady Mustangs were without Last, who is coming off a knee injury and opted to run in the annual Canes Classic in Bradenton.

Now, with their first meet under their belts, Perez, Last and Wray are looking to the rest of the season — one they hope will live up to the expectations they’ve created for themselves rather than the ones others already have established for them.

“I’m excited to see how it plays out for all of us,” Perez says. “There’s not as much pressure. We’re definitely more under the radar, so it’s more of a challenge to see where we get without people expecting it.”

Wray agrees.

“We’re not just going to be given states,” Wray says. “That’s not a guarantee this year. We really have to work for it.”

Contact Jen Blanco at jblanco@ yourobserver.com.

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Youth teams kick it into high gear N e a r l y 300 youth soccer teams from across the state put their skills to the test during the 2013 Labor Day Showcase Aug. 31 through Sept. 2, at the Premier Sports Campus in Lakewood Ranch.

Players ranging in age from U11 to U18/19 participated in this year’s tournament.

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by Jen Blanco | Sports Editor It was awesome. It meant a lot more than a normal meet. You got to wear the Team USA uniform and represent your country.

It was about the country medaling as opposed to medaling as an individual.

It’s a different mindset.

I was surprised I got three silver medals. I knew based on my numbers that I was going to get a medal, but I was expecting bronze. Silver was a good surprise.

I’m most proud of my total overall weight medal, because the best lifter is going to win the gold in the total weight.

I started weightlifting after I got pushed into the high school weightlifting team.

My teammates from gymnastics said I should do it because it would benefit my gymnastics.

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RILEY BOHAN Lakewood Ranch High sophomore Riley Bohan won three silver medals at the U15 Pan American Championships Aug. 15 through Aug. 19, in Shreveport, La. The 15-year-old, who won three of the United States’ nine total medals, finished second in both

the clean and jerk and snatch. She also finished second in the overall weight total.

Bohan began weightlifting eight months ago and quickly developed a passion for the sport. Today, she trains six days week with varying intermediate rest days.

I like the sport of weightlifting and the people in it. I wouldn’t do it if the people weren’t good.

By December, I hope to break the American record for all three (lifts).

I tied the snatch record of 62 kilograms. I like the snatch the best because I’m better at it right now.

In competitive gymnastics, it’s like the balance beam. You’re either good at it or you’re not. You really have to be aware of where everything is. I’m good at that part.

ODA junior setter Monica Costa netted 37 assists.

Lady Thunder win opener The Out-of-Door Academy volleyball team defeated Sarasota Christian 25-23, 18-25, 25-21, 25-21 Aug. 26.

Natalie Buffett powered the Lady Thunder with 16 kills, 14 perfect

passes and eight digs.

Lauren Maxey added 13 kills and three aces.

Cameron Graham finished with 17 perfect passes and 16 digs. Setter Monica Costa had 37 assists.

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+ Mustangs swing to tournament win The Lakewood Ranch High boys golf team won the eight-team East Lake High School Invitational Sept. 1, at Lansbrook Golf Club in Tarpon Springs.

The Mustangs shot a combined 300 to finish 14 shots ahead of runner-up Seminole. Clearwater Central Catholic was third with a 315.

Co-captains Ramsey Touchberry and Danny Walker each shot a 2-under par 70 to share medalist honors. Louie DelFabro shot a 79. Ben Parisi added an 81.

+ TOPSoccer season is on the horizon The Braden River Soccer Club will hold registration for its seventh TOPSoccer season from 9 a.m. to noon Sept.

14, at the BRSC Clubhouse.

TOPSoccer is a free soccer program for special-needs children, ages 4 and up.

Each athlete is paired with a volunteer buddy throughout the program.

Games will be played at the Lakewood Ranch Park soccer fields from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Sundays, beginning Sept. 29. The season will run through Nov. 24.

Parents interested in registering their child should bring a photo ID and a note

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For more information about TOPSoccer, to volunteer as a buddy or to become a sponsor, contact Dave Robinson at 358-0497 or drobinson018@msn.com.

+ Manasota LAX to hold free clinics The Manasota Lacrosse Club will hold free lacrosse

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+ ODA swimmers post wins in opener The Out-of-Door Academy boys swim team opened the season with victories over Canterbury and Keswick Christian Aug. 27.

The Thunder defeated Canterbury 100-67, and Keswick Christian 115-46.

Across the pool, the ODA girls swim team defeated Keswick Christian 106-85 and fell to Canterbury 16469.

Junior Joie Eckhard and senior Joseph Plechy both set new school records in the 100-yard butterfly.

ODA will return to action Sept. 4 in the Venice Relay Meet.

+ 8U River Dawgs to hold tryouts The River Dawgs will hold tryouts for their 8U travel baseball team from 10 a.m. to noon Sept. 10, at the

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Don Thompson served in the Navy from 1943 to 1945.

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Don Thompson, center, with his family: daughter and son-in-law Karen and Tom Vaclavik and their children, Alicia Vaclavik, Breanne Vaclavik, Brian Gaydek and Jeff Vaclavik.

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Bradenton resident Don Thompson, who turns 100 this week, looks back fondly on his Navy days in World War II. This week, Bradenton resident Donald Thompson turns 100, and he doesn’t seem too fazed by it.

“I have nothing to do with it, really, I don’t,” he says. “It’s just one of those things.”

It seems Thompson’s life has been as fun and carefree as the man himself. Looking back on some of the biggest moments in national history, he laughs and shrugs them off.

After 100 years, he’s seen more than most and doesn’t enjoy recounting historic events as much as his favorite personal stories, like his service in the Navy during World War II. “They kept us there in Siam (now known as Thailand) for ship repairing but not a ship came in. That’s the story of my life,” he jokes.

Thompson shares stories of his friends and him playing pranks on each other and sneaking extra bacon and eggs

from the trucks for breakfast, while stationed in Thailand.

He was in his late 20s when he joined the Navy in 1943. By then he had already met his wife, Alicia, and had a successful career as an electrician in the automotive industry.

Growing up in Presto, Pa., Thompson lived with his coalmining grandparents. There, he worked in the local market making 85 cents an hour.

When it came time to go to college, he decided to move to Detroit, where he had an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer.

After raising their daughter Karen, who was born in the mid-’40s, Thompson and his wife drove across the United States for 25 years. From 1970 to 1995, the pair drove an RV and visited as many states as possible. During the trip, Thompson discovered a love for Arizona. The people, the

landscape and the weather still make Thompson smile with nostalgia.

In 2005, after his wife died, Thompson moved to the East County, where his daughter Karen lives. Today, Thompson splits his time between reading and playing his favorite card game, Crazy Eights.

With two parties in his honor this week, Thompson says he has much to which to look forward. Family from around the world flew in for his party Saturday, while a second celebration was planned for Wednesday, at Meals on Wheels Plus of Manatee.

Even though Thompson is no longer the strapping, prank-loving, 6-foot-4 sailor he once was, he still manages to make an impression.

Asked what advice he would give to a 20-something, he chuckled and blurted out, “Die young!”

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Thompson and Gelene Listro laugh at his birthday party Saturday.

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Orchestra celebrates instrumental moments

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Sarasota Orchestra founders Dr. W.D on Cott h Rut s, Gibb rge Geo g, Sug Butler and Sam Hill

mind,” about taking the job.

Nonetheless, Butler, with some help from George Gibbs, Sam Hill and Dr. W.D. Sugg, collected an eclectic group of 50 volunteers, who met Jan. 2, 1949, in the band room of Sarasota High School.

They were her friends, fellow instrumentalists and piano pupils, such as 15-year-old Robert A. Kimbrough. Kimbrough, now 79 years old, was one of a handful of wind players recruited from the high school band.

On March 12, 1949, the group made its first public appearance to an at-capacity audience in Sarasota Municipal Auditorium. On Jan. 19, 1950, Wiltse led a 65-piece orchestra in the official first concert of a three-concert season.

“I would say the whole effort was meager,” Kimbrough says. “But the community seemed to think it was wonderful.

There was music talent in town, and this was an outlet for some of it.”

Wiltse would not return the following year. Instead, 68-year-old composer, violinist and conductor Alexander Bloch, or “Allie,” as his musicians called him, signed on as the first permanent conductor in August 1950, a position the then-Siesta Key resident would hold for 11 years.

Bloch insisted an entire symphony be included in every concert, and he believed he shouldn’t play down to the audience by including popular music in his programs.

For the first six years, the group would meet in whatever space was available — the majority of its budget went to rental fees. In 1954, the City Commission approved the idea of constructing a rehearsal building in the city’s civic center near the municipal auditorium. Florida West Coast Symphony’s was completed in November 1955.

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In 1961, Bloch announced his retirement. Paul Wolfe was selected as conductor from more than 100 applicants from as far as Europe. The 35-year-old professional musician played violin, piano, harpsichord and oboe and had previously conducted the Bronx Symphony Orchestra for

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“Why couldn’t we do this in Sarasota?” Ruth Cotton Butler, a Sarasota piano teacher, thought during a Tampa Symphony Orchestra (TSO) concert in 1948.

Then, TSO consisted of volunteers who had been playing together for just two years under Dr. Lyman Wiltse.

By intermission, Butler had an orchestra planned. She was persistent in having Wiltse also direct her orchestra. He politely declined, but, eventually, Butler prevailed — Wiltse would dedicate one year to the then-unnamed community orchestra.

Butler realized few people thought the idea of a symphony could be successful. Even Wiltse said, “I must have been out of my

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five years.

He was demanding, but improved the musicianship of the orchestra through doubling (sometimes tripling) the number of rehearsals before each concert.

The new time restraints caused a few musicians to leave, and Wolfe brought in paid professionals. He developed a small staff and established a budget. The first year, the orchestra’s budget was $1,200; by the 1968 season it exceeded $70,000.

Wolfe also introduced a 15-piece chamber orchestra and a string quartet. He began conducting the Youth Orchestra. The Youth Orchestra flourished under Wolfe.

In 1965, his interest in helping young musicians led him to found the Sarasota Music Festival at New College — a festival that continues to bring young music students from around the world to learn under the professionals each June.

Robert Vernon, current principal violist of the Cleveland Orchestra, got his start in Sarasota; he was a student at The Juilliard School when he first auditioned for the Sarasota Music Festival in the late 1960s. Soon after, Wolfe encouraged Vernon to audition for the New College string quartet, which he did. He joined the faculty of New College, as well as played with FWCS as principal viola for one season. In 1978, he joined the Sarasota Music Festival as faculty, and he continues to return as faculty yearly. In 1985, Sarasota Music Festival merged with FWCS. It has remained an important branch of Sarasota Orchestra to

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The first formal concer t of the FWCS Youth Orchestra was held in 1960. Pictured is the Youth Orchestra in rehearsal in 1978.

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The appointment of a new energetic and promising artistic director, Anu Tali, along with the 50year celebration of Sarasota Music Festival and 65-year anniversary of Sarasota Orchestra, proves it’s a new era for the Sarasota Orchestra. It’s hard to believe that, at one point in time, Sarasotans had to drive nearly 50 miles to see serious music.

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this day, and will celebrate its 50th anniversary in June. Vernon emphasizes the capacity of its importance — it’s known internationally by musicians. It helps put Sarasota Orchestra on the map.

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TIMELINE 1949 — Florida West Coast Symphony performed its first public performance March 12.

1950 — Jan. 19 marked the first concert of the three-concert season.

1951 — In August, Alexander Bloch became the second music director of FWCS. 1953 — 1,500 children attended the Children’s Concerts program to give children their first taste of orchestral music.

1955 — The Florida West Coast Symphony Orchestra Rehearsal Hall was completed in November.

1959 — Youth Orchestra Program was founded through sponsorship of the Symphony Women’s Association (founded by Lota Mundy in 1957).

1961 — Paul Wolfe began his tenure as the third music director.

1964 — Wolfe founded the Sarasota Music Festival at New College 1977 — FWCS introduced its Summer Music Camp 1985 — Sarasota Music Festival merged with FWCS 1990s — FWCS evolved into a fully paid professional orchestra 1997 — Leif Bjaland was appointed as fourth music director 2001 — Executive Director Gretchen Serrie retired, and Joseph McKenna becomes administrative leader of FWCS 2002 — FWCS was unionized under the American Federation of Musicians 2008 — FWCS rebranded, taking the name Sarasota Orchestra 2013 — Anu Tali was appointed fifth music director of Sarasota Orchestra

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David Cohen, the concertmaster in the early years of FWCS and a man who did everything from manage business to stagehand, was a city commissioner and mayor in 1970 that led the movement along with the Allied Arts Council to build what is now Van Wezel Perofrming Arts Hall. He was devoted to the orchestra for more than 30 years, and in 1971 they honored Cohen by naming the rehearsal hall in his name.

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the American Federation of Musicians. Current Executive Director Joe McKenna had only been with the organization for a short time.

Principal trombone for Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops Toby Oft was a member of FWCS then, and he remembers McKenna as being a positive force throughout the unionization. Oft says he had “a gentleman of character.” McKenna continues to be a strong leader today, and the orchestra remains in the black. In 2008, the FWCS changed its name to the less-cumbersome Sarasota Orchestra.

Three years later, in 2011, Bjaland announced he would step down from his position.

In the 15 years he Joe McKenna guided the Sarasota Orchestra, Bjaland brought unfamiliar works to audiences. For instance, he created the series Journeys to Genius, what is today the multimedia Innovations series that Dirk Meyer leads. And Bjaland commissioned new music and brought rarely performed music to Masterworks concerts.

Anu journey begins

For two seasons, guest conductors directed in the interim between artistic directors.

The first to arrive following the announcement that Bjaland would retire was Anu Tali, co-founder of the Nordic Symphony Orchestra. Hunsberger remembers it as an emotional time for the orchestra, but that the week with Tali was a positive experience for everyone. She connected with the musicians and the audience.

During the interim was an 18-month closed search for a new director. Guest conductors led Sarasota Orchestra — some were candidates, others were not. The search would end when the proper candidate was selected.

On June 11, the committee announced that Tali signed a three-year contract with the orchestra, effective Aug. 1. She will conduct her first concert as music director in the first Masterworks of this season, “Dawning of a New Season,” starting Nov. 9.

The tagline? A new journey begins. Here’s to another successful 65 years.

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In 1995, Wolfe retired from the conductor position after a dedicated 35-year tenure.

Kimbrough chaired a search committee for a new conductor (he served on the board from 1979 through 2003); principal tuba with Sarasota Orchestra since 1987 Jay Hunsberger was also on the committee.

Hunsberger remembers it as a diplomatic, positive experience; the committee created a list of candidates from the applications and visited those conductors on-site. If the committee liked what it saw, the conductor was invited to guest conduct. Hunsberger went to Buffalo, N.Y., with executive director at the time Gretchen Serrie for one on-site evaluation and remembers it as a real chance to get to know each other.

“She was a terrific leader … and suddenly one day found herself at Gretchen Serrie the helm of this orchestra,” Hunsberger says. “She was a real nurturing, smart and savvy leader. She was a real positive force.”

Kimbrough remembers the search that resulted in Leif Bjaland’s appointment a little differently. After one full season of guest conductors, he says they didn’t select any candidates.

“We had people writing us letters saying we ruined the orchestra and no noteworthy conductor would ever come back,” he laughs.

The next season they worked with the American Symphony Orchestra League’s conductors liaison department for suggestions of ideal candidates — one was Bjaland, head of the New World Symphony in Miami.

Bjaland rose to the head of the candidates’ list that second season. He was named the third permanent artistic director (fourth, if you count Wiltse) in 1997.

Kimbrough remembers watching Bjaland conduct entire symphonies from memory without missing a cue. Hunsberger remembers the times following concerts when Bjaland would socialize with the musicians and how he’d try to make rehearsals fun with his campy sense of humor.

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Winding River home sells for $2,685,000 The following residential realestate transactions took place between Aug. 19 and Aug. 23.

A home in Winding River tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Larry and Lynda D’Urso, of Bradenton, sold their home at 14007 11th Terrace N.E. to Francis and Linda Wenthur, of Bradenton, for $2,685,000. Built in 2007, it has five bedrooms, four baths, four half-baths, a pool and 8,709 square feet of living area.

12815 Kite Drive to Shelby Cursinger, of Bradenton, for $365,000.

Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,545 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $624,900 in 2006.

James Ryder and Patricia Ryder, trustee, sold the home at 12420 Aster Ave. to John and Krista Langowski, of Bradenton, for $360,000. Built in 2004, it has five bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,862 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $383,000 in 2004.

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LB Lakewood Villas LLC sold the home at 7983 Matera Court to Song Min and Eun Sook Lee, of Orlando, for $1.15 million. Built in 2009, it has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,652 square feet of living area.

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Richard Hilaire, trustee, sold the home at 8028 Warwick Gardens Lane to William and Joan O’Neill, of Cary, N.C., for $790,000. Built in 2003, it has three bedrooms, three-anda-half baths, a pool and 3,323 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $950,000 in 2005.

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Raymond and Mary Morton, of University Park, sold their home at 7011 Lancaster Court to SPE #33 LLC for $535,800. Built in 2000, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,279 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $670,000 in 2005.

This home in Winding River has five bedrooms, four baths, four half-baths, a pool and 8,709 square feet of living area. It sold for $2,685,000.

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Nancy Raynor, of Bradenton, sold her home at 23410 Jennings Road to Charles and Marcia Rentz, of Myakka City, for $529,000. Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, two baths, two half-baths, a pool and 3,896 square feet of living area.

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Henry and Karen Kehoe, of Bradenton, sold their home at 4515 Shark Drive to Kevin and Jill O’Neil, of Bradenton, for $475,900. Built in 1996, it has one bedroom, three baths, a pool and 2,577 square feet of

living area. It previously sold for $432,000 in 2010.

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Helga Bellman-Bigley, of Parrish, sold her home at 5240 97th St. E. to Ernest and Barbara Thompson, of Bradenton, for $450,000. Built in 2005, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,535 square feet of living area.

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Karen Harding, of Aurora, Colo., sold her Unit 1 condominium at 1011 Fish Hook Cove to Nicola McKenna, of Bradenton, for $441,000. Built in 2007, it has

four bedrooms, two baths, two half-baths and 4,072 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $780,000 in 2007.

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Asdollah Livani and Shabnam Ravadgar, of Bradenton, sold their home at 360 Blackbird Court to Geoffrey and Kimberly Springfield, of Bradenton, for $440,000. Built in 2005, it has five bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,242 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $539,100 in 2005.

Edward and Ann Kurpell, of Bradenton, sold their home at

Frederic Morineau and Veronica Arboleda sold their home at 5008 Creekside Trail to Domenic and Jennifer Ceccanecchio, of Philadelphia, for $310,000. Built in 2002, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,128 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $295,000 in 2004.

Katherine Graham, of McComb, Mich., sold her home at 4921 Creekside Trail to Thomas Morin, of Sarasota, for $242,500.

Built in 2000, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,723 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $160,600 in 2000.

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4538 La Jolla Dr # 13-B #M5839790 $249,000 Neddy Harkins

Bradenton 941-748-6300 941-730-4941

6101 34Th W St # 25F #A3980033 $239,000 Adam Cuffaro

Bradenton 941-752-2683 941-812-0791

14171 Cattle Egret Pl #A3983364 $235,000 Larry Mitchell

Lakewood Ranch 941-951-6660 941-330-0987

3105 45Th E Ave #M5838121 $220,000 Laura Tracy Clekis

Braden River 941-748-6300 941-915-4167

9712 Sea Turtle Ter # 201 #M5834975 $219,900 Mary Fiorini

East County 941-907-9595 941-526-6755

4307 2Nd E Ave #M5838276 $189,500 Kimberly Roehl

Bradenton 941-748-6300 941-447-9988

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These are the largest East County building permits issued by Manatee County for the week of Aug. 19 through Aug. 23, in order of dollar amounts.

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14615 Sundial Place Pool Michael Woolever 7519 Haddington Cove Pool Daniel Moehle 16206 Baycross Drive Pool James Williams 22550 Morning Glory Circle Pool William Ostan 12703 Kite Drive Pool Winston Beverly Jr. Alterations Kenneth Lewis 5579 Golf Pointe Drive 7409 Eaton Court Pool Janet Beiler Thomas Rogers 4705 Seneca Park Terrace Pool 11708 Clubhouse Drive Door/Window John Kravontka 4843 77th St. E. Demolition Lynn Kenney James Frazier 6628 Butlers Crest Drive Mechanical 7920 Conservatory Circle Re-roof Paul Bird 6620 225th St. E. Mechanical Brenda Bair 6920 Cumberland Terrace Mechanical Sandra Lundin 8008 Coates Row Place Mechanical Thomas Kearney 1010 134th St. E. Door/Window Dean Paquet 7424 Green St. Door/Window John Lemp 4625 Glenbrooke Drive Siding Neal Pegram 11351 Rivers Bluff Circle Mechanical Jody Abrams 13238 Torresina Terrace Pool Cage John Walker

$80,000 $77,000 $57,000 $53,500 $50,900 $50,000 $45,100 $42,245 $21,716 $20,000 $16,291 $15,490 $14,200 $12,963 $12,652 $11,900 $11,723 $11,200 $10,000 $9,554

447 Meadow Lark Dr #M5838875 $3,750,000 Kere Lewis

Sarasota 941-907-9595 941-685-3270

Source: Manatee County

Catherine Lindquist sold her home at 11875 Hollyhock Drive to Susan Mutschler, of Bradenton, for $272,500.

Built in 1998, it has five bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,015 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $225,000 in 2009.

Brian and Angela Steusloff, trustees, sold the home at 11219 Blue Sage Place to Matthew and Kimberly Watkins, for $255,000. Built in 1996, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 1,876 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $123,000 in 1996.

George and Linda Dabbiero, of Barden-

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6314 Rosefinch Ct # 204 #A3980780 $129,900 Sandra Maslen

Bradenton 941-388-4447 941-315-5488

8234 Planters Knoll Ter #M5839844 $2,700 Laurie Rastovski

6280 Riverview Blvd #A3959260 $4,500,000 Pam Taylor

5807 Garden Lakes Palm #M5836958 $150,000 Judy Browning

6505 Stone River Rd # 104 #M5833368 $69,900 Rebecca Zimmerman

University Park 941-748-6300 941-345-9080

6538 Lincoln Rd # C #M5839760 $1,350 Laurie Rastovski

Lakewood Ranch 941-907-9595 941-779-5000

105 66Th St # 11 #A3978703 $960,000 Kevin Carroll

Holmes Beach 941-748-6300 941-465-8843

$799,000

Bradenton 941-748-6300 941-685-6767

8323 Grosvenor Ct #A3967190 $779,000 Judy Nimz

University Park 941-951-6660 941-374-0196

7918 Royal Birkdale Cir #A3972048 $750,000 Pamela Charron

Lakewood Ranch 941-951-6660 941-993-3388

7782 Saddle Creek Trl #M5838483 $675,000 Joanna Sternberg

Sarasota 941-907-9595 941-928-7345

7909 Royal Queensland Way #A3982073 $659,900 Sherwin Taradash, PA

Lakewood Ranch 941-907-9595 941-448-3301

2007 21St W St #M5832159 Lynne Callahan

$625,000

Palmetto 941-748-6300 941-720-3278

5453 46Th W Ct # 304 #A3980748 $625,000 Adam Cuffaro

Bradenton 941-752-2683 941-812-0791

2523 89Th Nw St #M5839288 $599,900 Debbie Capobianco

Bradenton 941-748-6300 941-704-2394

6660 Saint James Xing #A3975028 $529,000 Edward Haggerty

University Park 941-907-9595 941-685-6154

7696 Silverwood Ct #A3979632 $435,000 Laura Navratil

Lakewood Ranch 941-907-9595 941-806-7436

Silverlake

Sean and Adrienne Eaton, of Englewood, sold their home at 5947 48th St. E. to Jessica Tarr, of Bradenton, for $272,000.

Built in 2005, it has four bedrooms, twoand-a-half baths, a pool and 2,418 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $183,200 in 2009.

Fannie Mae sold the home at 5960 48th

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Braden River 941-907-9595 941-730-3183

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4509 5Th W St #A3976857 Valerie Telfair

7010 Belmont Ct #A3971043 $999,997 Robin Bowman

5224 Willow Links # 78 #M5839803 $150,000 Bill Weed, PA

4440 Ironwood Cir # 301D #M5838881 $55,000 Cheryl Roberts

1708 78Th W St #M5838246 Kathy Valente

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Braden River 941-748-6300 941-345-9080

6503 64Th E Dr #M5839280 $1,150 Kendra Vogel

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U.S. Bank, trustee, sold the home at 5959 48th St. E. to Beazer-Pre-Owned Homes LLC for $216,000. Built in 2006, it has four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,835 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $463,900 in 2006.

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Jon and Velma Oats, of Castle Rock, Colo., sold their home at 5509 Simonton St. to Timothy Sheredy, of Bradenton, for $270,000. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,110 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $160,000 in 2010.

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Diamond Rental Properties LLC sold the home at 6125 55th Ave. Circle E. to Samuel and Sandra Waldron, of Bradenton, for $239,900. Built in 1991, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,255 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $345,000 in 2005.

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Jerry and Ann Russell, of Sarasota, sold their home at 8345 Brandeis Court to Ahmet Tezcan, of Sarasota, for $238,000. Built in 1986, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,491 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $96,000 in 1992.

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Norman Vogt, of Venice, sold his home at 8066 Monticello Lane to Steven and Meredith Spanellis, of Sarasota, for $238,500. Built in 1991, it has four bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,054 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $209,500 in 2009.

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Wayne and Dorothy VerCammen sold their home at 10583 Old Grove Circle to Kimberly Harmeyer, trustee, of Cincinnati, for $225,100. Built in 2002, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,833 square feet of living area.

Stoneybrook at Heritage Harbour

Federal National Mortgage Association sold the home at 8989 Stone Harbour Loop to Michael Peel and Sarah Herb, of Bradenton, for $216,000. Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,996 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $398,400 in 2005.

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Pinehurst Estates

Edwin and Victoria Meyer, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 192 condominium at 7421 Eleanor Circle to Bozena and Leszek Jamrozik, of Sarasota, for $207,000. Built in 1997, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,665 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $175,000 in 2001.

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David and Diana Sujanto, of St. Petersburg, sold their home at 4802 70th Ave. E. to Brian Tullis and Yvonne Williams, of Ellenton, for $335,000. Built in 2008, it has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 3,482 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $354,900 in 2008.

Lakeside Preserve

David and Deborah Williams, of Farmington, N.Y., sold their home at 12015 54th Glen E. to Rachel Diez, of Parrish, for $250,000. Built in 2007, it has four bedrooms, two baths and 2,360 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $264,200 in 2007.

Parkwood Lakes

Valerija Weinhoefer, of Brookfield, Ill., sold her home at 8421 29th St. E. to Michael and Susan Ziebell, of Parrish, for $247,000. Built in 1996, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,156 square feet of living area.

Harrison Ranch

John and Pamela Mauriello, of Bradenton, sold their home at 5740 99th Ave. Circle E. to John Segneri, of Parrish, for $244,500. Built in 2008, it has four bedrooms, three baths and 2,742 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $247,500 in 2008.

Jonathan and Joan DeLorenzo sold their home at 5217 100th Drive E. to Stanley and Jayne D’Amico, of Parrish, for $205,100. Built in 2008, it has four bedrooms, two baths and 2,209 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $206,400 in 2008.

River Woods

Phyllis Martfeld, of Indianapolis, sold the home at 3025 River Woods Drive to Brian Corbett, of Prospect, Conn., for $227,000. Built in 1997, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,148 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $232,000 in 2001.

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TemperatureS

Record Temperatures High

Low

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Low

Tuesday, Aug. 27

89

73

97 (1923)

65 (1930)

Wednesday, Aug. 28

91

72

98 (1938)

65 (1984)

Thursday, Aug. 29

92

73

98 (1938)

68 (1960)

Friday, Aug. 30

88

75

96 (1998)

64 (1930)

Saturday, Aug. 31

88

76

97 (1970)

65 (1927)

Sunday, Sept. 1

89

76

95 (1952)

63 (1927)

Monday, Sept. 2

90

75

95 (1962)

63 (1960)

Average Gulf water temperature: 88 RAINFALL

Sunrise / sunset

Tuesday, Aug. 27

0.19

Wednesday, Aug. 28

0.00

Sunrise

Sunset

Thursday, Aug. 29

0.16

Thursday, Sept. 5

7:11a

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Friday, Aug. 30

1.36

Friday, Sept. 6

7:12a

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Saturday, Sept. 7

7:12a

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Sunday, Sept. 8

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Monday, Sept. 2

0.02

Monday, Sept. 9

7:13a

7:43p

Tuesday, Sept. 10

7:14a

7:42p

Wednesday, Sept. 11 7:14a

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38.69 in. 38.43 in.

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