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by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor
Klauber to receive $3 million Colony Lender principal David Siegal says a settlement reached isn’t legal and Colony Lender plans to dispute its validity on Oct. 10, in a bankruptcy judge’s courtroom.
B.J. Webb and Dave Bishop
+ Webb turning into a Bishop Come November, you won’t see B.J. Webb at the helm of the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board. She’ll still be the board’s chairwoman, but when the board meets again in November, she’ll be B.J. Bishop, following her upcoming Oct. 19 nuptials to Dave Bishop. The couple got engaged in May 2012 and will marry at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church. Webb joked at the planning board’s most recent meeting, “I heard you get treated better in Rome if you are a Bishop.”
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Rabbi Jonathan Katz
+ Beth Israel reaps fruitful harvest Temple Beth Israel celebrated Sukkot, the weeklong holiday commemorating the fall harvest, with its annual food drive. This year’s harvest was fruitful: Members gathered enough food to fill 100 Publix-donated bags that were given to All Faiths Food Bank. The congregation’s Social Action Committee, led by Chairwoman and board Vice President Kathy Brooks, organized the collection. The temple kicks off its food drive every year on Rosh Hashanah. “It’s always the right time to help others, but with the High Holy Days, especially, we turn our focus to those in need,” Brooks said.
The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association Board of Directors and longtime Colony owner Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber signed an agreement Sept. 25 that will give Klauber $3 million over five years through a “Klauber Family Consulting Agreement.”
If unit owners and Judge K. Rodney May approve the settlement, it will end a more than six-year legal battle between the Association and the Colony’s longtime owner. The settlement, which a U.S. bankruptcy trustee also signed off on, doles out $5.3 million and
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absolves the Association from a $25 million judgment for damages Klauber won in a bankruptcy appeals court last year. If approved, it will end all legal issues with Klauber and transfer all of his Colony property to the Association. The properties that will be
transferred to the Association include everything, from Klauber’s shuttered restaurant and bar to the resort’s swimming pool and tennis courts. But that won’t be the end of litigation surrounding the Colony.
SEE KLAUBER / PAGE 2A
by Robin Hartill | City Editor
Hazan’s key ingredient: simplicity Famed Italian cookbook author Marcella Hazan died Sept. 29. She was 89. The “Godmother of Italian Cooking” visited Olive Garden only once. She had to order a Jack Daniel’s to console herself after tasting one of the dishes. It was 2004, and Marcella Hazan dined at the chain’s Sarasota location, accompanied by her husband, Victor, and USA Today reporter Jim Cox. The Jack Daniel’s was ordered after tasting the tortellini di fizzano, pasta stuffed with ricotta cheese and spinach, served in a beef-and-pork Bolognese sauce. Hazan, though, declared the pork filettino “a winner” with its tender meat and sautéed, flavorful potatoes, according to Cox’s report. She questioned selections such as lobster spaghetti, though. “There are 60,000 recipes in Italy,” she said. “Why do they have to invent new ones like lobster spaghetti?” Hazan emphasized simplicity and fresh ingredients in the six Italian cookbooks she wrote that sold more than 1 million copies combined and are credited with introducing Americans to authentic Italian cooking. She believed a two-ingredient Bolognese pan-roast of pork and milk best embodied the genius of Italian cuisines. Her famed tomato sauce contained just four ingredients: tomatoes, butter, onion and salt. “She believed in homecooked meals, in not taking shortcuts, but that doesn’t mean that a meal had to take a long time to prepare,” said her daughter-in-
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Marcella Hazan, pictured in 2008 at her Promenade condominium, shortly before the release of her memoir, “Amarcord: Marcella Remembers.” law, Lael Hazan, who runs Cooking with Giuliano Hazan with her husband in northern Italy. “She was very gifted in making cooking accessible to millions of people. She changed what peo-
ple thought of Italian cooking.” Hazan, of Longboat Key, died Sunday, Sept. 29. She was 89. She was born April 15, 1924, in the seaside village of Cesenatico, Italy, into a world in which her
family never purchased pasta, because her grandmother used a rolling pin — nearly as long as she was tall — to role it out us-
SEE HAZAN / PAGE 13A
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