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by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor

Colony settlements proposed Colony Lender LLC has produced an exhibit that reveals Orlando-based Unicorp National Development Inc. is offering a bankruptcy trustee $2.3 million cash immediately.

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+ Jane Webb books colorful reprint Casa del Mar owner Jane Webb recently republished her children’s book, “Furry Friend.”

The book was originally printed in 2003 in black and white. The new edition comes to life with full color and illustrations by Micheline Grenier.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge K. Rodney May will review a proposed settlement and Klauber Family Consulting Agreement Oct. 10, in his Tampa-based U.S. Bankruptcy Middle District of Florida courtroom.

But, he’ll also review two objections to that settlement, which offers money to longtime

Colony owner Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber and a U.S. bankruptcy trustee, but leaves out Colony Lender LLC, the bankruptcy case’s largest creditor.

If May approves the tentative settlement, Klauber would sign over his property that still has liens on it from Colony Lender to the Colony Beach & Tennis Re-

sort Association.

The Association would give Klauber $3 million over five years through a consulting agreement, which would absolve the Association of a $25 million judgment for damages Klauber won on appeal. The settlement also gives a U.S. trustee $2.3 million to pay off creditors.

In an Oct. 3 objection, Colony Lender LLC attorney Michael Assaf insisted May must deny the settlement because Klauber can’t file for bankruptcy, sell assets in exchange for money and not pay off creditors.

In the objection, Colony Lend-

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ULI: impact assessments

Officials from three communities offer insight on the impact of the Urban Land Institute study and how it affected where they live.

The Urban Land Institute has studied cities as large as Moscow, Chicago and Hong Kong.

But what kind of impact will the upcoming ULI visit and subsequent study have on the future of a community like Longboat Key? To assess the potential impact of the study, the Longboat Observer spoke with representatives of three communities — each of which has populations of 26,000 or less and has its own unique character. The three communities have undergone similar ULI studies, and officials from the communities discussed the impact the report had and how they’re implementing the panels’ recommendations.

ULI will conduct its $125,000 study on Longboat Key from Oct. 21 through Oct. 25.

Luke and Hannah Yates, Kai Meighan, Sarah Oliveri and Joshua Meighan with an injured cormorant.

+ Volunteers rescue birds at cleanup Volunteers collected more than just trash Saturday, Oct. 5, at the fifth annual Sarasota Bay Watch Monofilament Cleanup.

Volunteers rescued three entangled birds that they delivered to Save Our Seabirds, where they are expected to recover.

Participants collected 800 pounds of trash.

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“We’re literally building a community from scratch in a lot of ways,” said John Kross, town

+ Missing swan resurfaces Unofficial Harbourside swan keeper David Novak feared the worst when an English mute swan outfitted with a green band for identification purposes disappeared last week.

Fortunately, this isn’t a time for swan songs.

Novak spotted the cygnet Friday morning, after it apparently came out of hiding while its parents were foraging. The young swan had vanished shortly after undergoing banding and veterinary treatment last weekend.

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Caelin Gorman, 9, brought her 2-year-old cockapoo, Pretzel, to be blessed Saturday, Oct. 5, at St. Armands Key Lutheran Church. Approximately 20 dogs and one hedgehog were present.

Participants enjoyed punch and cake after the blessing. For more photos, see page 15A.

Queen Creek, Ariz.

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er produces an exhibit that reveals Orlando-based Unicorp National Development Inc. managing member Charles Whittall submitted a letter Sept. 30, to U.S. bankruptcy trustee William Maloney, offering Maloney $2.3 million cash upfront to pay off creditors that’s available as soon as May approves the offer.

The letter reveals Unicorp is interested in developing the property.

The settlement the Association board of directors approved with the trustee, meanwhile, gives the trustee $2.3 million over five years only after a list of conditions are met. Those conditions include a vote of unit owners to approve the settlement and the town’s approval of a future redevelopment project.

Unicorp, a large retail, mixed-use and drugstore developer, has also developed resort projects such as the Wyndham Hotel Orlando.

“As the largest creditor, Colony Lender endorses the offer of Unicorp and urges the trustee to seek approval of the offer,” states Colony Lender’s objection. “It is clear that Unicorp, a major developer with both adequate monies and experience to revitalize and/or redevelop the resort, is attempting to assemble under uniform control the individual assets necessary to form the contiguous whole required to redevelop the resort.”

The Association and its selected developer, JHM Financial Group LLC, have yet to sign a development agreement.

Colony Lender also suggests in its objection that a foreclosure sale of all Colony Lender’s assets scheduled for Dec. 6 “has the potential to generate far more value for the individual assets than is contemplated by the settlement.”

Asked to comment, Colony Lender principal David Siegal said: “We are confident Judge May will reject the settlement and consider other alternatives. Oct. 10 should be a very interesting day in court.”

On Oct. 2, Colony unit owner Kenneth Byers Jr., an affected creditor in the bank-

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Proposed settlements for the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort will be discussed in a Tampa bankruptcy courtroom Thursday, Oct. 10.

ruptcy case, filed a motion for extension of time to file a redevelopment proposal and obtain a different settlement agreement with Longboat Key-based MW Development Group. The company is working to negotiate settlement agreements between Colony parties, even though the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association didn’t select the company to be the project’s developer.

MW Development Group project principal Manfred Welfonder says he has three letters of intent with contingencies from private and/or corporate sources to pay all parties and fund a project.

Byers’ filing, however, doesn’t include a concrete settlement or agreement with the parties. Welfonder said his company needs until the end of the month to file such a settlement.

Association President Jay Yablon said May has a duty to review all objections filed this week, but expressed optimism the settlement his board of directors approved last month will be approved.

“Does anybody seriously believe that a federal judge is going to order the Association to do business with MW, or anybody else, as a development partner?” Yablon said. “Whatever other deficiencies it may have, that is just not the way our legal and economic system works.”

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Bill Colton, Frank Howard, Ed Mues and Stefan Dekowski. Colton, Howard and Mues are Longboat Key residents, while Dekowski lives on Bird Key.

by Robin Hartill | News Editor

OVER THE HILL GANG

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triever as a door prize at a physicians conference in the early 1950s. More than 50 years later, he has never taken a golf lesson.

He’s a good putter, but he’s never quite mastered a swing.

Howard, also 91, is a retired orthopedic surgeon, but, unlike Dekowski, he’s taken many golf lessons. During his career in medicine, however, he stuck to tennis.

“Tennis was much more competitive,” Howard said. “Golf is more cerebral.”

At 96, Mues is the oldest of the bunch.

On a recent Friday morning, he sank the ball with a nice putt on the last hole of the morning.

“Hey, did you see that?” he called to his friends.

His buddies agree he’s the best golfer among them, although, that only matters if you’re keeping score — which they stopped doing years ago.

Back when Mues was still

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15 — The approximate

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9 — The number of holes they golf

3 — The number of times

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keeping score, he accomplished a major feat by golfing his age.

He was 84. It’s one goal that Mues, a retired executive vice president of American Whole Products, found gets easier to reach the older you get.

Colton, Dekowski, Mues and Howard have been close friends for approximately 15 years.

They were part of a larger group that started playing golf together more than 20 years ago. The rest of the group members have

since died.

Today, they joke the pros on the golf course check their heart rates instead of their clubs in the morning.

Just being on the course is a feat each day, especially for two of the golfers.

Colton’s doctor told him to buy life insurance back in 1970, after he had a heart attack.

“It was a good thing, because I started exercising and eating better,” he said. “I’m very, very lucky.”

Dekowski, too, suffered a heart attack, in 1979. His doctor gave him five to 10 years to live.

Each of the men believes golf keeps him young.

“It keeps the heart beating,” Mues said.

But maybe it’s not the golf.

“Golf is practically secondary now,” Mues said.

“We really enjoy the golf,” Howard said. “But we enjoy each other more.”

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Golf and friendship are par for the course for a group of four nonagenarians who meets three mornings a week to play golf at the Islandside golf course.

Never hit a hole on a bad lie.

Never hit a ball from the sand trap.

Never worry about a ball that ends up in the water — those balls don’t count.

Those are the rules Bill Colton, Stefan Dekowski, Ed Mues and Frank Howard follow when they play golf every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the Resort at Longboat Key Club’s Islandside golf course.

Here are the stats on each golfer.

At 90, Colton is the youngest player. He’s the retired president of Griffin Pipe Products and reached nonagenarian status in September and celebrated by — you guessed it — playing golf.

He jokes that the group should call itself the “Over the Hill Gang.”

Dekowski, 91, is a Polish-born retired neurosurgeon who took up golf when he won a ball re-

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+ Old Publix building coming down this week The final piece of the old Avenue of the Flowers plaza is being torn down this week.

Interim Planning, Zoning and Building Director Alaina Ray informed Town Manager Dave Bullock in an Oct. 1 email that Lakeland-based Publix Super Markets Inc. submitted its demolition permit and is knocking the building down.

“They will be blocking off the drive on the west side of the building that is being demolished, but will not block the intersection near the outdoor Publix dining area or the parking on the east side of Publix,” Ray wrote in the email.

The demolition comes five months after the Longboat Key Town Commission originally wanted the building torn down, per the company’s original plan.

Once the rest of the old plaza is torn down, Publix plans to put more parking spaces in its place before the Key’s seasonal population returns.

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

two on an iPad. The IT Department has also worked to develop similar programs for the Longboat Key Police Department, which now can complete reports electronically in the field through a software application.

+ Mote-rescued turtle “Murph” released on Lido Beach A 300-pound loggerhead turtle nicknamed “Murph” was released Monday on Lido Beach.

Earlier this summer Mote’s Stranding Investigations Program received a call about a stranded turtle off of Turtle Beach and discovered a large loggerhead that appeared to be tethered to something underwater.

Because the turtle was rescued on Memorial Day, he was nicknamed “Murph” in honor of Navy Lt. Michael Murphy, who was killed in 2005 in Afghanistan.

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Cell tower looms over talk about telecommunications

Commission approves new police vehicles

A discussion of Comprehensive Plan amendments again turns into a debate about cellular reception and towers.

Longboat Key Police will receive three all-wheel drive SUVs and one patrol car this year, followed by two patrol cars, one SUV and one detective vehicle in 2014.

A debate about reception and cellular towers echoes through Town Hall whenever the word “telecommunications” appears on an agenda, despite Town Manager Dave Bullock’s attempts to differentiate between the two.

At the Longboat Key Town Commission regular meeting Monday night, Bullock tried again to separate the issues.

He explained the agenda item on first reading removes the regulation of personal wireless service facilities and places it in the town’s land-development regulations instead. The town is trying to amend this portion of the Comp Plan before a deadline from the state expires Nov. 18, which would force the town to start over.

“This is not an ordinance or code language that deals with where to place facilities,” said Bullock, who explained that ordinance will come before the commission in November or December.

The clarification didn’t help.

Village resident Gene Jaleski came to the podium with a PowerPoint presentation titled “NO Cell Towers on Longboat Key,” and the reception issue continued to work its way into the discussion.

Some commissioners worried about approving such changes before they review the actual ordinance.

Commissioners eventually approved the changes on first reading by a 6-1 vote, but not before entering into a discussion on how to resolve the Key’s reception problem.

Commissioners asked Bullock to comment on meetings he’s held with both Verizon Wireless and AT&T representatives.

Bullock also held a meeting last month with Simon Platt and Michael Tattersall about a small-cell alternative for the Key. “I thought the direction you received was the town was going to do an in-depth analysis and we would receive a report from you on your findings,” Duncan said.

Bullock responded by explaining he already reported on his findings with Verizon Wireless. On Monday, he went over his discussion with an AT&T representative.

Asked by Commissioner Terry Gans if he planned on meeting with Platt and Tattersall again, Bullock said, “We talked about where the industry is going and I would like to get his (Tattersall’s) list of contacts.”

Gans pressed again, taking a different approach.

“Is it fair to say you as staff are investigating and using energy and trying to learn as much as we can about all (cellular tower) alternatives?” Gans asked.

Bullock responded by saying, “I want to be very careful.”

“We are bringing you forward an ordinance that regulates wireless facilities; it’s not a code that makes signals stronger or provides you with streaming data,” Bullock said. “The other issue is what role the town may or may not want to play in influencing and incentivizing (carriers).

Many communities provide no role.”

The commission then moved on after a small speech from Mayor Jim Brown.

“We all want to have better cell service,” Brown said. “I just don’t know how we get to the decision.”

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dredging doesn’t get touched.”

Instead, surtax monies will be reallocated for public-safety purposes, including canal dredging, with Bullock noting that $164,000 in new surtax funds will be put back into those funds later this year, after the commission decides where the dollars should go.

With the commission already agreeing to put $1 million aside for canaldredging purposes, the town will have $1.3 million available for future dredging.

Rubino, meanwhile, explained the need for the new cars, noting the town put off replacements last year.

“We have a tired fleet right now,” Rubino said.

To save money, the squad car with the lowest mileage will replace a Fire Rescue Department car that has too many miles.

The police department will purchase three all-wheel drive SUVs and one patrol car this year, followed by two patrol cars, one SUV and one detective vehicle in 2014. The SUVs will help police patrol neighborhoods during severe flooding and after severe storms.

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The Longboat Key Police Department will have four vehicles with that new-car smell in a new model and color scheme hitting the streets by the end of the year.

After reviewing a report from Police Capt. Frank Rubino about why the vehicles are needed and agreeing with Town Manager Dave Bullock’s funding recommendation, the Town Commission voted unanimously to fund the vehicles at its Monday regular meeting.

Bullock presented an ordinance to commissioners in September that would reallocate infrastructure surtax funds to provide for the $356,000 by reducing funds for other projects — including a reduction of $100,000 each for comprehensive beach management, canal dredging and parks and recreation.

At that workshop, the commission reached consensus to move forward with an ordinance reallocating the funds but also debated the need for the vehicles and asked for a report outlining that need. They also had concerns about finding funds for future canal dredging.

Commissioners wanted a breakdown of the replacement schedule, which is based on a formula of both mileage and hours on the road, because police vehicles spend a large amount of time idling.

On Monday, Bullock said “the $400,000 we have allocated for canal

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Villagers hope to sink boat-parking ordinance Opposition to Key-wide parking changes was nearly unanimous at the first Village Association meeting.

Restrictions on boat-and-trailer parking aren’t going to float in Longbeach Village.

An ordinance that would prohibit boat owners from parking their vessels on any Longboat Key front yard will soon be anchored in front of the Longboat Key Town Commission.

But residents who attended the Longbeach Village Association’s first meeting of the season Wednesday, Oct. 2, made it clear that it won’t be smooth sailing for the ordinance.

Village residents told the five commissioners who attended the meeting they would voice their opposition when the commission discusses the issue in November.

Country Club Shores residents let their deed and covenant restrictions lapse years ago and now want the town to ban trailers and boats from being parked in their driveways.

Village residents, however, believe that a ban on boat and trailer parking in a historic boating community, in which many lots don’t have water access, is unfair.

Village Association President Michael Drake, who served on a subcommittee that explored the issue, told residents about a study the town conducted by driving through neighborhoods to count violations and tallying complaints in each neigh-

borhood.

“The Village had the most violations and the fewest complaints,” he said. “That tells me that, in our neighborhood, we really don’t mind looking at somebody’s boat.”

“It sounds to me like they couldn’t get support in their communities, so they’re going to force it on everybody,” Village resident Bus Fischer said.

A group of Village residents agreed at Wednesday’s meeting to form an islandwide committee of residents who have concerns about proposed restrictions.

“I have to believe there are people even in Country Club Shores who feel the way we do,” Drake said. “It’s telling me that they have trouble getting their covenant restrictions restored.”

The Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board recommended the new restrictions in September.

The proposed ordinance states those with corner lots can’t park their boats and trailers on side yards that also have access to the street.

Boats and trailers parked in side yards must also be screened so they are not as visible from the road.

The changes do allow the parking of boats and boat trailers in a carport, garage or any other building.

The commission will most likely discuss the ordinance at its November workshop.

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BID, DID move toward restaurant restrictions

On St. Armands Circle and in downtown Sarasota, some fear the growing presence of restaurants will harm the vibrancy of the districts. The BID and DID want the city to take action. bring in a consultant like Gibbs to investigate whether the number of restaurants within the BID and DID was problematic.

Putting in the restrictions that these boards would like to see is far from simple.

Deputy City Attorney Michael Connolly said the city would be opening itself up to lawsuits if it restricted the constitutionally protected rights of property owners. Under Florida’s Bert Harris Act, business owners may seek compensation when government regulations place a liability on their property rights.

Connolly said it would be easier to create incentives for ideal retailers than it would be to shut out unwanted ones. If the city were to install restrictions on restaurants, it would first have to create an overlay district throughout the BID and DID with new zoning regulations. Additionally, any limits on land use would have to be deemed to protect the health, welfare or safety of the public.

Even if a consultant says there is a problem, there needs to be public support. Tim Litchett said he’s seen well-conceived plans carried through to the City Commission, only to be defeated when nine out of 10 public commenters opposed it.

DID President Ernie Ritz, the only board member at the meeting to say he doesn’t believe a restaurant problem exists, questioned whether that support could be found.

“I’d like to know who’s complaining,” Ritz said. “I don’t hear anyone complaining about too many restaurants.”

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In 2005, the St. Armands Business Improvement District hired urban retail planner Robert Gibbs to study St. Armands Circle. Rappaport, the organizer and chairman of the BID, said Gibbs praised the Circle as a shopping destination. Still, Gibbs said there was one looming problem that could derail its success.

“He said the tenant mix was way off,” Rappaport said “There’s too many food and food-related tenants for a commercial tourist district.”

After that study was conducted, the BID suggested restricting restaurants from occupying the first floor of buildings; that effort was unsuccessful. Rappaport thinks the problem has only worsened since then. He estimated that 55% of the retail space on the Circle was used for food or food-related purposes, up 10% since 2005.

On Tuesday, the BID held a joint meeting with the Downtown Improvement District (DID), to revisit the possibility of limiting the space restaurants occupy on the Circle and in downtown Sarasota.

Even though city attorneys warned there were a host of legal issues involved with restricting land use, Rappaport said it was a cause worth pursuing.

“If downtown or St. Armands turns into a giant food court, they’re going to lose their vibrancy,” Rappaport said.

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Wanted: a cellular champion “We all want to have better cell service. I just don’t know HOW SMALL-CELL TECHNOLOGY CAN COVER THE KEY how we get to the decision.”

— Mayor Jim Brown Longboat Key Here’s how: Get a champion.

For goodness sakes, talk about another Longboat Key tar baby. That’s what this is.

And we all know the story: Some Longboat residents would love to have a 150foot cell tower erected on the north side of the Key to improve their cellphone reception. Other Longboat residents are rabidly opposed; they say beautiful Longboat Key is no place for a cell tower, even if it’s disguised as a pine tree.

The map shows four possible small-cell sites that could provide and improve cellular coverage on (As an aside, as of last Longboat Key, according to Simon Platt, partner at StoneTurn Group LLP. “This is based on typical LTE week, that strident opposismall-cell specs; a detailed engineering study would be needed to create a version that could be impletion declined by one. Former mented,” Platt told the Longboat Observer.

Mayor Jeremy Whatmough and his wife, Myrna, closed on the aptly recommended, Longboat residents companies that erect the towers or cell sale of their Gulf of Mexico Drive home should take their case to their carriers. sites together. across the street from the former site of He’s right. If you don’t like your recep2) The Town Commission needs to send a proposed cell tower. The former mayor tion, complain to your carrier. Or, switch the cell carriers a strong definitive mesacknowledged he no longer has standing, carriers. sage: Sorry, Longboat Key will never allow but he still believes “Longboat Key is no Of course, that’s easier said than done. a 150-foot tower. An alternative must be place for a cell tower.”)

Bullock joked that Longboat residents used.

And then, of course, there is the Town have been turning to the town to solve On that point, the Verizons and Sprints Commission. Commissioners have adoptthis problem in part because residents will squawk. They like to rent space on ed the U.S. Senate approach to the issue — can actually talk to someone. Try getting towers because towers are inexpensive. always avoiding a vote on whether a tower through to a human being at one of the cell But as Provincetown has shown (smallis permitted. carriers. Good luck with that. cell sites will provide that resort town with So commissioners turned to their bailout So here’s what should happen: Do what satsifactory coverage), the carriers will man, Town Manager David Bullock, hoping Provincetown, Mass., did. In that vein: indeed negotiate when they know the town he would find the magic solution.

1) First and foremost, Longboat Key won’t budge.

But if you talk to Bullock, he will tell residents, businesses and the town need 3) If necessary, be willing to provide an you: It’s not the town government’s job to a cellular-service champion. And he or incentive for the small-cell site contractor improve your cellular service. she doesn’t have to be Bullock or a town to do business here. In Provincetown, the “We clearly have a regulatory role in employee. They could be a resident or a government gave the contractors reduced siting and land use,” Bullock told us. The hired consultant. But this champion needs rent on public buildings for five years. issue of service, he said, is between the to be someone who has the skills to bring Mr. Mayor, you want better service? Start customer and the provider. As Bullock the town, the cellular providers and the by recruiting your cell-service champion.

THE BIG LIE

Who shut down the government?

Even when it comes to something as basic, and apparently as simple and straightforward, as the question of who shut down the federal government, there are diametrically opposite answers, depending on whether you talk to Democrats or to Republicans.

There is really nothing complicated about the facts. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted all the money required to keep all government activities going — except for ObamaCare.

This is not a matter of opinion. You can THOMAS check the Congressional SOWELL Record.

As for the House of Representatives’ right to grant or withhold money, that is not a matter of opinion either. You can check the Constitution of the United States. All spending bills must originate in the House of Representatives, which means that Congressmen there have a right to decide whether or not they want to spend money on a particular government activity.

Whether ObamaCare is good, bad or indifferent is a matter of opinion. But it is a matter of fact that members of the House of Representatives have a right to make spending decisions based on their opinion.

ObamaCare is indeed “the law of the land,” as its supporters keep saying, and the Supreme Court has upheld its Constitutionality.

But the whole point of having a division of powers within the federal government is that each branch can decide independently what it wants to do or not do, regardless of what the other branches do, when exercising the powers specifically granted to that branch by the Constitution.

The hundreds of thousands of government workers who have been laid off are not idle because the House of Representatives did not vote enough money to pay their salaries or the other expenses of their agencies — unless they are in an agency that would administer ObamaCare.

Since we cannot read minds, we cannot say who — if anybody — “wants to shut down the government.” But we do know who had the option to keep the government running and chose not to. The money voted by the House of Representatives covered everything that the government does, except for ObamaCare.

The Senate chose not to vote to authorize that money to be spent, because it did not include money for ObamaCare.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that he wants a “clean” bill from the House of Representatives, and some in the media keep repeating the word “clean” like a mantra. But what is unclean about not giving Harry Reid everything he wants?

If Senator Reid and President Obama refuse to accept the money required to run the government, because it leaves out the money they want to run ObamaCare, that is their right. But that is also their responsibility.

You cannot blame other people for not

giving you everything you want. And it is a fraud to blame them when you refuse to use the money they did vote, even when it is ample to pay for everything else in the government.

When Barack Obama keeps claiming that it is some new outrage for those who control the money to try to change government policy by granting or withholding money, that is simply a bald-faced lie. You can check the history of other examples of “legislation by appropriation” as it used to be called.

Whether legislation by appropriation is a good idea or a bad idea is a matter of opinion. But whether it is both legal and not unprecedented is a matter of fact.

Perhaps the biggest of the big lies is that the government will not be able to pay what it owes on the national debt, creating a danger of default. Tax money keeps coming into the Treasury during the shutdown, and it vastly exceeds the interest that has to be paid on the national debt.

Even if the debt ceiling is not lifted, that only means that government is not allowed to run up new debt. But that does not mean that it is unable to pay the interest on existing debt.

None of this is rocket science. But unless the Republicans get their side of the story out — and articulation has never been their strong suit — the lies will win. More important, the whole country will lose.

Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Copyright 2013 Creators Syndicate

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Town freezes two pension plans Twenty-nine firefighters entered a new pension plan, and general employees have new defined-contribution plans effective Oct. 1.

It’s official: Two of the town’s three pension plans are frozen, and 29 Longboat Key firefighters have been enrolled in the Florida Retirement System (FRS) pension plan.

As anticipated, the changes occurred Oct. 1, at the beginning of the town’s new fiscal year.

General employees now have new 401(a) accounts that allow them to invest up to 16% of their salaries into the plan.

After a few hiccups last week, FRS officials agreed to enter the firefighters in the plan as long as they held a ballot vote that allowed them to decide whether they wanted to be entered into FRS. Twenty-seven firefighters agreed to enter FRS. Two firefighters were on vacation at the time of the ballot and have also been enrolled in FRS. The town and FRS-enrolled firefighters will split the plan’s required

contributions 50/50, with the town’s maximum contribution capped at 13%, according to the new threeyear contract that was ratified in February.

Five firefighters, who have entered the Deferred Retirement Options Program (DROP), declined to enroll in the FRS pension plan.

Those employees are Tom Batchelor, Matt Altman, Rob Jacobs, Pete Collandra and Frank Stoudt.

Because their pension payouts are currently accumulating in a separate interest-bearing account while they continue to work for the next three years, they no longer will contribute 10% to the frozen pension plan.

Those firefighters, therefore, will see a 10% increase in pay that previously was being put toward the frozen plan.

Longboat Key commissioners are pleased with the hybrid pension so-

lution that was reached.

The town offered a similar plan to the Longboat Key Police Union, but a contract could not be reached during negotiations and the police union and the town are at impasse concering a new contract.

With FRS pension costs rising, police officers were afraid to take a pension option that could take more money out of their paychecks after the town’s cap is reached and officers have to pay for costs above that cap.

They also declined to accept an offer before a mandated deadline that offered a 401(a) retirement plan that included a 3% pay increase and would have given officers another 7% increase in take-home pay.

A police union contract impasse hearing will be held Oct. 16 to discuss the points of contention of a new contract. Commissioners will then review recommendations.

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Everybody has a story to tell. It’s amazing what people say in that little room. There are some strong women out there, and it’s amazing what people can survive and go through. — KAREN DERITTER, BRIDES AGAINST BREAST CANCER

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When she arrived, she began searching online for job and volunteer opportunities, and she found the Gulf Coast Community Foundation’s You’d Be Perfect For This website.

While browsing, she learned about an opportunity to volunteer at Brides Against Breast Cancer, a local nonprofit organization that contributes funds to programs for cancer patients, their families and caregivers.

Having been personally impacted by breast cancer, she saw the opportunity as a chance to relate to people with similar experiences.

“I thought, ‘Oh, I would be perfect for this,’” says DeRitter. “It fit the bill.

My mother is a breast-cancer survivor, so it’s nice to be able to give back and support other families going through the same type of thing. I feel a connection, and I’m lucky to meet so many strong women who have survived and are able to tell their story.”

DeRitter worked as a volunteer for a few months, working one-on-one with brides to help them pick a dress, and eventually she was hired as a bridal consultant.

Just a few months after moving to Sarasota, DeRitter says her volunteer opportunity had not only helped her

As a newcomer to Sarasota, Karen DeRitter was searching for a way to connect with her new community.

After relocating in December from upstate New York, the retired schoolteacher began looking for ways to meet new people, get involved and learn a new set of skills that she could use to make a difference.

“I was concerned about moving,” she says. “I lived in a small community for 30 years, and I thought, ‘How do I start again?’ I’d asked my kids to do it when they went off to college, and here I was getting ready to do it again.”

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Jeremy Whatmough will still get his hair those days, the town paid for a hotel room cut at Manny’s Barber Shop on Longboat for commissioners during evacuation peKey. riods.

He’ll visit the Key because he still has But have you ever tried checking into a many friends with whom he socializes hotel room with six dogs? regularly.

Whatmough knew it wasn’t going to But you probably won’t see happen and purchased the the six-year commissioner and home, in part, so they’d have former mayor around Longboat somewhere to take the dogs.

Key Town Hall because he sold He put his Longboat Key home his house at 6171 Gulf of Mexico on the market more than five Drive — meaning he’s no longer years ago but still returned at a Key resident. least every five days to do what Whatmough, his wife, Myrna, he admits is one of his passions: and their eight Airedale terrimowing the lawn. ers will reside at the Sarasota With 12 acres in Sarasota Polo Polo Club home the couple pur- Whatmough Club, Whatmough has plenty of chased 10 years ago. space to pursue that hobby. He “I don’t think I’ll go to commission has three lawn tractors and a farmer tracworkshops or meetings because I don’t tor to help keep his grass grazed. think I have much standing anymore.

A self-described “string saver,” WhatStanding is important,” he said. mough is starting to get rid of the items Whatmough first visited the Key after he’s amassed over the years. He’s thrown he developed scarlet fever as a child. His out the thick booklets of commission doctor told his parents they should take agenda materials from six years’ worth of him someplace warm, so he stayed at meetings. He previously stored them on a Whitney Beach Cottages in March 1940 bookcase by date. and March 1941.

He jokes that by next year, people will He didn’t return to the Key until 1976, scratch their heads and say “Whatmough when his wife suggested they visit Florida. … who?”

He bought a unit at Inn on the Beach, “The town moves on, and you become then moved to Gulfside Road, then pur- less important as time goes on,” Whatchased the home at 6171 Gulf of Mexico mough said. “But, whether you drive on Drive in 1993.

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ULI / FROM PAGE 1A manager of Queen Creek, which was founded in 1989 and has a population of 26,000.

Like many Arizona communities, the town was devastated by the housing crash, which abruptly ended nearly a decade’s worth of unprecedented growth.

The town brought in the ULI in June 2011, at a time when building permits had dropped by approximately 90% and general funds were down by nearly 50%. As a result, Queen Creek was resizing its government based on decreased revenues and was seeking a fresh perspective on how to position itself as it emerged from the Great Recession. Kross believes the panel made some valid recommendations, such as higher-density development at the community’s Town Center and various suggestions to ensure sustainability in the community’s employment lands — the land needed to sustain long-term employment growth.

But, although the $120,000 has resulted in minor tweaks to town policies, it wasn’t an impetus for major overhaul.

“Frankly, what the report did with a lot of its findings very much validated the existing direction. That brought a lot of criticism, quite frankly,” Kross said.

The town manager expressed disappointment with the recommendations of the financial adviser who was part of the panel.

The report included the comment that costs associated with the town’s administration were “disproportionally high for the size of the town.”

Kross said the costs associated with administration make up 80% of the town’s departments and doesn’t believe the panelist took time to understand the town’s budget process or listen to officials.

Kross said that the town should consider the report the ULI compiles as just one piece of information for the town to consider.

“It’s one perspective, and it’s one perspective only on the community,” he said.

“There’s a lot of perspectives to take.”

the community pool, revamping the municipal golf course (which golfers often found difficult to play and navigate) and revamping the community’s entrances.

Voters approved a $7 million bond for these facility upgrades in 2009 — at the height of the great recession.

Based on ULI recommendations, the community has also increased code enforcement and worked to help a milelong commercial strip that’s stagnant but located between two prime ski destinations.

Layman believes the study made some unrealistic assumptions about the community’s potential for real-estate development but points out that the ULI study took place in June 2008 — right before the real-estate market crashed.

Although some board members initially balked at the cost of the study, Layman believes the exercise was worthwhile.

“They’re looking at strategic kind of ideas — the big, big picture planning,” he said. “Boards tend to look at things in a much more narrow focus.”

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EAGLE VAIL, COLO. Date: May 2008 Sponsors: EagleVail Metropolitan District, Eagle County School District, EagleVail Property Owners Association EagleVail Community Manager Jeff Layman still describes the ULI report as a “game changer” five years after the study of the unincorporated community in Eagle County, Colo.

“Our community used the ULI study almost exclusively for about two years as the planning document until we got our act together enough to do strategic planning,” Layman said. “Even now, people will refer to the ULI study and everyone knows what they’re talking about.”

EagleVail Metropolitan District, Eagle County School District and EagleVail Property Owners Association sponsored the study in 2008 to help the community plan for the future.

“The look of the community was kind of stale and a little old,” Layman said. “We were having some difficulty supporting some of the infrastructure we had, like the golf course, pool, playgrounds and parks.”

The panel recommended merging the community’s two governing boards, the EagleVail Metropolitan District and EagleVail Property Owners Association. That turned out to be legally impossible, so the boards formed a joint operating committee.

“That was a big one because it made each board way less parochial and more focused on what was best for the entire community,” Layman said.

The panel also recommended replacing

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The Amelia Island Plantation (AIPCA) Community Association approached ULI at a turning point in the history of the resort community that’s located in the town of Fernandina Beach.

In November 2009, Amelia Island Co., which owned Amelia Island Plantation (AIP) since 1978, declared bankruptcy, leaving the future of the resort, companyowned club and community in flux.

Omni Hotels and Resorts purchased resort assets in 2010, while community members rallied to create the memberowned Amelia Island Equity Club to ensure continued access and maintenance to onsite club facilities.

Now, the Equity Club operates the facilities, which Omni technically owns until the completion of a 20-year lease/purchase agreement.

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“We had talked about getting one or two planners in to help us with that transition, but we decided that we liked the ULI approach better,” Ligare said. “We did not want to reach firm conclusions so much as to generate options as far as where we could go.”

Many of the recommendations were easily implemented, according to Ligare.

The panel recommended the AIPCA board hire a full-time executive director and increase its transfer fees — both of which the board did within six months.

The panel told the AIPCA that parts of the community weren’t aging well and said some of its amenities were out of date. The report stated that maintenance needs throughout the community were preventing AIP from meeting real-estate demands.

Ligare believes the study helped get the community talking about revitalization, along with the role of the community association.

Is it to keep flower beds pretty and roads clear? Or is it to have future vision for the community?

Today, more AIP residents attend Fernandina Beach Town Commission meetings as well as local chamber of commerce functions.

“I don’t think we’ve looked at ourselves the same ever since,” Ligare said.

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children Thomas “Jim” Halpern Jr., Cliff Halpin, Helen Kline, Patty Benjamin and Lynda Connelly; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

A private Mass was held in Warrenville, Ill. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to Family Centered Hospice, 2171 Executive Drive, Unit 450, Addison, Ill., 60101.

Thomas Jacob Beckett

Thomas Jacob Beckett, 80, of Bradenton, died Sept. 20.

Born Jan. 6, 1933, in Oxford, Ohio, he received his bachelor’s degree from Miami University. He practiced accounting in Ohio, then worked for 15 years for a national CPA firm in Tampa before opening his own office in the Sarasota-Bradenton area.

Mr. Beckett was a founding charter member and elder at Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian, and served as treasurer for the past seven years.

Mr. Beckett is survived by his wife, Marianne; sons Roger and Christopher; and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

A funeral took place Sept. 24, in Bradenton.

A church memorial service will take place at a later date.

Donations can be made to Christ Church of Longboat Key, 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, Fla., 34228.

Dr. Donald Eugene Taggart

Dr. Donald Eugene Taggart, 78, of Osprey and formerly of Longboat Key, died Sept. 22.

Born July 26, 1934, in Akron, Ohio, he graduated from the University of Notre Dame before graduating as a dentist from Marquette University in 1958.

In 1960, Dr. Taggart and his wife, Colleen, moved to Bellevue, Ohio, to set up his dental practice. He became a longtime member of Knights of Columbus and a lifelong member of the Elks Club. He eagerly followed his four children’s activities while practicing as a dentist.

Dr. Taggart retired in 1998 and moved to Longboat Key, where he became a member of St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church.

Eventually, the Taggarts moved to Osprey, where they joined Our Lady Mount Carmel Church.

Dr. Taggart is survived by his wife of 55 years, Colleen; children Julie Canter, Tom Taggart, Ted Taggart and Tim Taggart; and eight grandchildren.

A service took place Sept. 30, at Our Lady Mount Carmel Church.

Thomas ‘Tom’ Halpin

Thomas “Tom” Halpin, 88, of Naperville, Ill., and formerly of Longboat Key, died Oct. 4.

Born Dec. 6, 1924, in East St. Louis, Ill., he served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was an attorney for Northern Trust for more than 40 years.

Mr. Halpin is survived by his wife, Ann;

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Republican Club of Longboat Key — meets at 11:30 a.m. at the Resort at Longboat Key Club’s Harbourside Dining Room, 3000 Harbourside Drive. Rich Pierro, managing partner of Kitchner & Pierro, will speak about “The Insanity of Obamacare.” Cost is $25 for members; $28 for nonmembers. Call Ruth Strauss at 383-5349.

Anatabloc Longboat Key Triathlon Race Series What: The race is on for the fourth annual Longboat Key International Sprint Triathlon & Duathlon. The race offers a scenic course for athletes and a chance to volunteer or cheer on racers for non-athletes.

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Ageless Creativity Exhibition and Awards — takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design, 6860 Longboat Drive S. RSVP is required.

Call 383-2345 or email lbkca@ringling. edu.

Mote’s Night of Fish, Fun & Fright — takes place from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Mote Marine Aquarium, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway. Explore Dr. Frankin Fish’s Icky-ology Lab and don’t miss the underwater pumpkin carving that will take place in the spooktacular shark tank. Cost: $6 per person online at mote.org/Halloween through Oct. 16; $8 for members; and $10 for guests at the door; free for children age 3 and younger. Call 388-4441.

This event offers a scenic course for competitors When: 7:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 20 Where: Race begins at the Resort at Longboat Key Club, 301 Gulf of Mexico Drive Cost: $75 for triathlon sprint distance; $120 for international distance; and $110 for duathlon before Oct. 17. Register at lbktriseries.com.

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Mathew Pitchford, 13, got his African pygmy hedgehog, Dobin, blessed.

Vicar James Henricks, the Rev. Mark Bernthal and Australian shepherd Jack

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Vicar James Henricks and the Rev. Mark Bernthal blessed parishioners’ animals Saturday, Oct. 5, at St. Armands Key Lutheran Church.

Approximately 20 dogs and one hedgehog were present. Participants enjoyed punch and cake after the blessing.

Right: Ninemonth-old French bulldog Sylvie

John and Judy Hoover with their 10-year-old bichon frisé, Baxter

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Sue Kerzisnik and her 5-year-old Cavalier King Charles spaniel, Bailey

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Around 1:30 p.m. every other Thursday, a group of residents gathers in the sewing room at Plymouth Harbor to assemble “snack packs” for students at Bay Haven School.

Last year, Plymouth Harbor residents B.J. Peters and Marian Kessler decided they wanted to start a program similar to All Faiths Food Bank’s backpack program as a way to help local students. After getting approval from Plymouth Harbor, they went to All Faiths Food Bank to pitch their idea. It was then that the snack pack program was formed.

Peters and Kessler invited all of their friends at Plymouth Harbor to join them. Now, every other week, the group assembles snack packs. The group, which started out with Peters, Kessler and a handful of their friends, now has more than 30 volunteers.

“During snack time at school, some of the students don’t have any snacks. These snack packs go to them,” says Peters.

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Mote electrifies at National Plug In Day expo In celebration of National Plug In Day, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium hosted “Electrify the Island” Sunday, Sept. 29. The event featured a plug-in electric vehicle expo, test-drive sessions with electric vehicles and multiple vendors providing information about sustainability and energy efficiency.

During the event, Sarasota Mayor Shannon Snyder presented a proclamation that Sarasota County issued Tuesday, Sept. 24, honoring National Plug In Day: Electrify the Island.

Nigel Mould and Chris Sharek co-chaired the event.

Major sponsors included Tesla, Sarasota Ford, Sunset Chevrolet, Gettel Nissan and Region Solar.

Along with celebrating National Plug In Day, Electrify the Island promoted the Sustainable Energy Initiative at Mote.

“We have solar panels on the animal hospital, LED lighting initiatives, and we are continually trying to retrofit our old buildings with new sustainable energy technology,” said Hayley Rutger, Mote public relations manager.

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Asolo Rep Theatre Guild holds first season meeting The Asolo Rep Theatre Guild met for its first meeting of the season Thursday, Oct. 3, at Bird Key Yacht Club. The group gathered for lunch and listened to guest speakers:

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by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Historical Society Fish Fry nets new location, date

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by Yaryna Klimchak | Observer Staff

The Longboat Key Historical Society’s annual fundraiser will offer the same fried favorites at Cedars Tennis Resort.

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The menu at this year’s fish fry will offer the same fried favorites — plus Caesar salad and cornbread, minus fried green tomatoes.

stead of fried green tomatoes. After dinner, participants can dance to the music of Blues Pig. Money raised from the event helps to offset Historical Society expenses, including costs of its speaker series and storage of museum items.

“It’s going to be the best fish fry we’ve ever had,” said Shirley Beachum, president of the Historical Society. “We have plenty of parking, good food and a lovely place to have it.”

Tickets are $25 in advance; $30 at the door.

Tickets will be available later this week at various locations: First Bank of Longboat Key, 5370 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Unit 101; Steff’s Stuff Antiques, which reopens Oct. 15, 5380 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Unit 101; Cedars; and Beachum’s home, 7025 Longboat Drive N. (Knock hard so she can hear you.)

President and CEO of Easter Seals Ladd Waldo tells members about his organization.

Longboat Key Chamber members chat over breakfast The Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce held a coffee-and-bagel breakfast Tuesday, Oct. 1, at Easter Seals Southwest Florida to catch up with area businesses. Approximately 15 people attended the event, during which they learned about the disabilityservices center.

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Longboat Key fish fries are a tradition dating back to the 1940s, when locals needed to raise money for area organizations.

This year’s event is the same old-fashioned tradition — with a new date and location.

Since the Longboat Key Historical Society revived the tradition as a fundraiser in 2005, the event had been held each year on the third Friday in October at Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant IF YOU GO & Pub. This year, Historical however, the Society Fish Fry event will take When: 5 to 9 place Friday, p.m. Friday, Nov. Nov. 1, at Ce1; dinner will be dars Tennis Reserved from 6 to sort, 645 Cedars 8 p.m.

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(Its application with the town is currently on hold, so the restaurant will still be open for business.)

This year, the menu will offer grouper and mullet, along with the same fried favorites from past years, although Caesar salad and cornbread will be served in-

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By Robin Hartill | News Editor

+ Key restaurants reopen for start of the season

5370 Gulf of Mexico Drive, reopened.

• Maison Blanche, 2605 Gulf of Mexico Drive, took a two-month hiatus earlier this summer but reopened Aug. 9.

• Moore’s Stone Crab Restaurant, 800 Broadway, will be open for summer hours of 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Thursday through Sunday and closed Monday through Wednesday, and will resume regular hours Oct. 15 — the start of stone-crab season.

Longboaters have more on their plates this month as Key restaurants reopen for season.

• On Oct. 4, Euphemia Haye Restaurant and The Haye Loft, 5540 Gulf of Mexico Drive, and Harry’s Continental Kitchens restaurant and deli, 525 St. Judes Drive, reopened.

• Dry Dock Grill, 412 Gulf of Mexico Drive, is scheduled to reopen in early October after closing in August for renovations.

• Lazy Lobster of Longboat Key, 5350 Gulf of Mexico Drive, closed for lunch for the summer but resumed lunch Tuesday, Oct. 1.

• Last month, Café Don Giovanni, 5610 Gulf of Mexico Drive, and Ciao, Italia!,

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The store sells handcooked Virginia peanuts and fine Southern specialty food. It also offers daily samplings.

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Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key member Jeff Mayper was so impressed with last year’s Sarasota Chalk Festival that he felt the need to contribute this year.

At the Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key’s weekly breakfast meeting Sept. 19, Mayper presented a $1,500 check to Chalk Festival co-founder and Executive Director Denise Kowal. His contribution raised the total amount of money the Longboat Key chapter is giving the festival to $4,000.

The money will go toward funding the children’s section of the event, which accounts for more than $10,000 of this year’s $1.4 million budget, to fund chalk for children who will draw near Five Points Park when the event begins

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real estate | transactions

By Adam Hughes | Research Editor

Water Club II condominum sells for $1.53 million her home at 600 Linley St. to Brenton Cloud and Pallas Knight, of Longboat Key, for $340,000. Built in 1981, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,296 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $270,000 in 2000.

The following residential real-estate transactions took place between Sept. 23 and Sept. 27.

A condominium in The Water Club II at Longboat Key tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Brad Cobb, of Longboat Key, sold the Unit 605 condominium at 1281 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Primrose LLC for $1.53 million. Built in 1999, it has two bedrooms, three baths and 2,667 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1,342,500 in 2004.

Sutton Place

George Cosbar, life estate interest, Kelly Seanor and Laura Beck, of Fairfield, Conn., sold the Unit A201 condominium at 605 Sutton Place to Vladimir and Mary Cecka, of Camp Hill, Pa., for $270,000.

Built in 1973, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 1,148 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $116,000 in 1991.

L’Ambiance at Longboat Key Club

Harris Properties of Sarasota Inc. sold the Unit B-302 condominium at 415 L’Ambiance Drive to Thomas and Laura Sweet, of Lutz, for $1,152,000. Built in 1992, it has two bedrooms, three-and-ahalf baths and 2,385 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $725,000 in 2000.

ST. ARMANDS

John Ringling Estates

Islander Club of Longboat

Millicent Finkel, of Sarasota, sold her Units 85S and 86S condominiums at 2295 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Ronald and Marilyn Horner, of Pittsburgh, for $760,000.

Built in 1970, it has four bedrooms, four baths and 2,470 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $825,000 in 2003.

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Unit 605 at The Water Club II has two bedrooms, three baths and 2,667 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.53 million. ing area. It previously sold for $175,000 in 1994.

Beachplace

Country Club Shores

SRC Industries Inc. sold the home at 537 Sloop Lane to Gordon and Jennifer Cooper, of Longboat Key, for $700,000. Built in 1969, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,271 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $259,300 in 1990.

Sleepy Lagoon

Ronald Johnson, of Longboat Key, sold his home at 6485 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Paul Brown, of Longboat Key, for $680,000.

Built in 1975, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,548 square feet of liv-

Marion Bobrowski, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the Unit 601 condominium at 1065 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Christopher Iacobelli and John Iacobelli, of Bradenton, for $510,000. Built in 1981, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,172 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $190,000 in 1982.

Longboat Harbour Towers

Marie-Luise Marx, trustee, of New Albany, Ohio, sold the Unit 905 condominium at 4401 Gulf of Mexico Drive to John and

Joanne Mavroides, of Westford, Mass., for $490,000. Built in 1972, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 961 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $385,000 in 2000.

Fairway Bay

Gerald and Margot Robinson, of Longboat Key, sold their Unit 1401 condominium at 1928 Harbourside Drive to Maria DiPede, of Ontario, Canada, for $408,000.

Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,375 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $455,000 in 2002.

Longbeach Revised

Dawn di Lorenzo, of Longboat Key, sold

Thomas and Pamela McMullan, of Sarasota, sold their home at 236 N. Blvd. of the Presidents to Gerald and Krisztina Gilmartin, of Paxton, Mass., for $625,000.

Built in 1951, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,754 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $443,000 in 2002.

BIRD KEY

Suzy Frater, of Providence, R.I., sold her home at 105 Seagull Lane to Edward Brodzinski, of Sarasota, for $600,000. Built in 1987, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,509 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $422,000 in 1999.

LIDO KEY

Key Towers South

Debra Bowe, of Eau Claire, Wis., sold her Unit 10-C condominium at 1750 Benjamin Franklin Drive to Gideon Jewel, of Kenilworth, United Kingdom, for $570,000.

Built in 1970, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,364 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $170,000 in 1991.

LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKER

551 Putting Green Ln #A3978393 $949,500 Hannerle Moore

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-387-7300

3060 Grand Bay Blvd # 124 #A3979353 $949,500 Kathleen Carbone P.A.

Longboat Key 941-966-8000 941-228-8429

618 Bayview Dr #A3982183 $899,000 Eileen Burke

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-266-8949

3524 Fair Oaks Ln #A3970247 $895,000 Michael Yawitz

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-587-8091

373 Benjamin Franklin Dr #A3971800 $3,000,000 Stephanie Church

1800 Benjamin Franklin Dr # B308 #A3977399 $849,000 David Simon

Lido Key 941-388-4447 248-342-3551

1942 Wisteria St #A3974548 $729,900 Dede Curran

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-928-3255

2301 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 23N #A3984508 $729,000 Susan Fox

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-544-6648

8338 Midnight Pass Rd #A3921743 $599,000 Tak Konstantinou

Siesta Key 941-388-4447 941-374-1606

1100 Benjamin Franklin Dr # 412 #A3983820 $584,900 Barbara Najmy

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-724-5448

Sarasota 941-383-7591 941-383-7591

1485 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # A401 #A3980645 $554,000 Christina Landry

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-376-4498

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578 Bayview Dr #A3978163 $515,000 Bobbi Banan

4765 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # B102 #A3974664 $2,825,000 Nell Leffel

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-356-2659

450 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # B101 #A3970985 $459,000 Diana Kryszak

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-993-4078

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-932-0032

8033 Via Fiore #A3982382 $450,000 Susan Mcleod

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-928-4445

448 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # A106 #A3968129 $410,000 Sylvia Zimmerman

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-350-5022

690 Linley St #A3967469 $390,000 Tama Traberman

Longboat Key 941-383-5502 941-225-3351

8160 Nice Way #A3983599 $379,900 Anna Kaminski

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-374-3200

2039 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 204 #A3972416 $360,000 Tom Delaney

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-387-3990

1930 Harbourside Dr # 124 #A3982406 $359,900 Saint Cacchiotti

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-809-0787

615 Dream Island Rd # 306 #A3969421 $349,000 Barbara Dumbaugh

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-350-3743

250 Sands Point Rd # 5101 #A3937380 $309,000 Joan Boltax

Longboat Key 941-951-6660 941-350-6390

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BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of Sept. 27 through Oct. 3, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive)

4400 Exeter Dr # 202 #A3983983 $305,000 Sharon Freeman

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

355 Firehouse Ct #A3976330 $239,000 Maureen Horn

1104 Benjamin Franklin Dr # 619 Sarasota #A3967663 $3,500-$4,500/month, 30 day min Diann Thelen 941-552-4200

680 Lands End Dr #A3977642 Diann Thelen

Amount

Edward Kolodzieski

$1.6 million

Richard Guzewicz

$739,254

Triple Eldred Realty LLC David Mesiter Seke Investments LLC Jerry Bowles, trustee Stephen Dull David Fagerlee John Hoskins Alice Harper, trustee David Noble Resort at Longboat Key Club Craig Walters

$600,000 $450,000 $349,313 $250,000 $145,000 $117,214 $91,824 $75,000 $51,119 $47,224 $41,607

Brett Holdings

$33,719

Sally Goldreyer Anna Dyer David Jones Miles Group Longboat LLC Twin Shores Association Thomas Greeley David Mitchell II David Stetson, co-trustee

Dennis Thiergartner Hal Schwartz, trustee Linda Lee Beekman Maibach Frederick Steven Himes Warren Girle Alteration Michael Kieffer

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-228-8580

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-539-3384

3315 Gulf Of Mexico Dr #A3984171 $3,850,000 Ian Addy Pa

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-961-8850

$30,947.64 $25,000 $20,000 $19,558 $16,530 $16,256.25 $16,000 $14,000

Jeffrey Van Spankeren, co-trustee $13,000 Diocese of Venice $9,983.72 Kendall Coates $8,435 Thomas Greeley $7,500 Irene Antoniou, trustee $7,200

RE N TA L

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-383-9253

RE N TA L

3320 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 104-C #A3977957 $249,900 Doris Bushman

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-545-0899

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1281 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 703 #A3982353 $1,849,000 Julie Jordan

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-388-4447

535 Sanctuary Dr # 401 #A3985337 $1,799,000 Robert Dardas

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-376-7591

3532 Mistletoe Ln #A3981859 $1,795,000 Marcia Salkin

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-376-6121

475 E Royal Flamingo Dr #A3983861 $1,790,000 John August

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-320-9795

531 Yardarm Ln #A3980172 $1,699,000 Maureen Horn

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-539-3384

561 Spinnaker Ln #A3975981 $1,690,000 Michael Moulton

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-928-3559

101 Ben Franklin Dr # 9N #A3980634 $1,538,000 Douglas Parks

Lido Key 941-388-4447 941-400-9087

572 Gunwale Ln #A3980750 $1,499,000 Jenifer Schwell

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-780-0968

3030 Grand Bay Blvd # 333 #A3957486 $1,299,000 Sandi Layfield

Longboat Key 941-383-5502 941-914-2807

3349 Sabal Cove Way, Bay Isles #A3971449 $1,175,000 Judy Nimz

Longboat Key 941-951-6660 941-374-0196

$6,423 $6,400 $5,990 $5,741.98 $5,200 $4,500 $3,500 $2,736

3804 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 302 #A3981712 $255,000 Stephen Harris

3465 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 105 #A3983303 $239,000 Ian Addy Pa

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-780-2352

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-961-8850

RE N TA L

Address Permit

New single 6550 Bayou Hammock Road family home

New single 659 Marbury Lane family home

New single 433 Firehouse Court family home 1241 GMD Alteration 545 Sanctuary Drive Alteration 2450 Harbourside Drive Alteration 5757 GMD Alteration 6505 Gulfside Road Alteration 570 Golf Links Lane Alteration 2550 Harbourside Drive Alteration 5461 GMD Alteration 475 GMD Re-roof 690 Hibiscus Way Alteration

Windows 775 Longboat Club Road and doors

Sliding glass 775 Longboat Club Road doors 4600 GMD Alteration Alteration 5940 Emerald Harbor Drive Alteration 537 Cutter Lane Seawall 3740 GMD Seawall 5757 GMD Alteration 2089 GMD Alteration 2450 Harbourside Drive Alteration

Sliding glass 1485 GMD doors 4280 GMD Shutters 573 Norton Street Re-roof 5757 GMD Windows 2371 Harbour Oaks Drive Poolcage

Sliding glass 717 Bayport Way doors 2332 Harbour Oaks Drive Poolcage 4390 Exeter Drive Windows

Sliding glass 2045 GMD doors 2377 Harbour Oaks Drive Poolcage 512 Lyons Lane Seawall 7141 La Lenaire Drive Dock 605 Sutton Place Windows

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Longboat Key $3,000 941-552-4200

2045 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 313 #A3980346 Diann Thelen

Longboat Key $2,600 941-552-4200

VA C AT I O N R E N TA L S 1436 John Ringling Pkwy #A3962144 $6,799,000 Harvey & Ethel Lovelace

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

Lido Key 941-349-3444 941-586-7390

White Sands of Longboat whitesandsoflongboat.com 800.230.2428

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Veranda Beach Club verandabeachclub.com 800.411.5511

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2013

OBSERVER WEATHER

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TEMPERATURES

Record Temperatures High

Low

High

Low

Tuesday, Oct. 1

92

72

94 (2005)

53 (1920)

Wednesday, Oct. 2

91

73

94 (1986)

49 (1920)

Thursday, Oct. 3

91

73

95 (1959)

58 (1984)

Friday, Oct. 4

89

75

95 (1923)

52 (1929)

Saturday, Oct. 5

89

73

93 (1959)

56 (1929)

Sunday, Oct. 6

87

72

95 (1989)

57 (1913)

Monday, Oct. 7

87

75

94 (1973)

54 (1932)

Average Gulf water temperature: 84

MOON PHASES

SUNRISE / SUNSET Sunrise

Sunset

Thursday, Oct. 10

7:28a

7:08p

Friday, Oct. 11

7:28a

7:07p

Oct. 18 Full

Saturday, Oct. 12

7:29a

7:06p

Oct. 26 Last

Sunday, Oct. 13

7:29a

7:05p

Monday, Oct. 14

7:30a

7:03p

Tuesday, Oct. 15

7:30a

7:02p

Wednesday, Oct. 16

7:31a

7:01p

Oct. 11 First

Nov. 3 New

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96 Oscar contender 97 Like Barack Obama’s father 98 Beauty or brains, e.g.

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LONGBOAT KEY: Sunset Beach condo, Gulffront, beautiful 2BR/2BA, completely updated, 2/mo. minimum. Available December through April.

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

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General Merchandise THRIFT SHOP: Longboat Island Chapel, 6140 Gulf of Mexico Dr. Open Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays, 9a.m.-1p.m.

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

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

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LBK: SANDS POINT 1BR/2BA, annual, unfurnished. Non-smoking, No Pets. $2000/month.

941-383-3702 LBK: TIFFANY Plaza Beachfront Condos, 1st floor, 2BR/2BA, W/D in units, walk out to beach.

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

LONGBOAT KEY - FAIRWAY BAY - Two level townhouse available January-April. 2 master bedrooms, 2 ½ baths, two month min/max., no pets. Beautifully furnished. Pool, tennis and exercise room, private beach access. Call 303.440.7009 or 720.440.1779.

Homes For Rent “BIRDIE SINGS” For Rent.....

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Real Estate Wanted WANTED LUXURY ANNUAL RENTALS For Qualified Waiting Clients

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Vacation/Seasonal Rentals

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THE WESTCHESTER GULF FRONT 2BR/2BA, open, direct views, tennis court, 2 heated pools, steps away from the sand.

Recently remodeled.

941-228-5671.

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“Every painting is a chunk of your life that in a way you somehow wrestled into paint,” James Griffin says.

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If James Griffin were to create the cover art for a book about his career, it would illustrate just enough of his story to seduce you to read the pages beneath it.

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NATURAL TALENT S If James Griffin were to create the cover art for a book about his career, it would illustrate just enough of his story to seduce you to read the pages beneath it.

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“When I’m working in my studio, I get a little more fantastical than when I’m out in nature doing plein air stuff,” James Griffin says. “It’s so compelling; you’re desperate to get it down before the light changes.” This Maine plein air-inspired piece is called “Sonata for Wind and Sun.”

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You can find his steamy artwork in most bookstores, and many avid romance genre readers have owned his work at some point in time. But, Griffin is more than just a cover illustrator.

In fact, he started as a realist painter living as artists live: in a hovel with an $80 monthly rent, he says. At first, Griffin was determined to remain noncommercial. But, when the opportunity arrived, the income was as provocative as the covers he’d end up creating for the next 30 years. Time spent illustrating these fanatical covers gives his gallery style and landscape art a fresh perspective and modern approach.

The 64-year-old’s love for realist work started in elementary school when a teacher’s assignment, “Draw yourself,” yielded a result she wasn’t expecting.

His classmates excelled in stick figures, while his self portrait included every detail from the rubber tips of his sneakers to the stitching on his blue jeans.

“I guess it was then that I realized I was doing something different,” he says.

The soft-spoken man sits at a high-top table at his new home and studio on the North Trail.

The walls are decorated with his varying work: illustration-style portraits of women; plein air;

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Griffin grew up in the middle of five children, and he found that art was a method of appropriate attention seeking from his parents.

His late mother, Gibson, wasn’t the type to tell him he needed a backup plan. She encouraged him because she was an art student, herself, before having children.

His father, Vincent’s career in international business helped shape Griffin’s passion. Griffin was born in Ontario, Canada, and moved to the U.S. for a couple of years before moving to Peru (no one in his family spoke Spanish), then back to the U.S. By the time he was 11 years old, they had moved to London, where Griffin spent has adolescence being exposed to classical art. He not only got the sense that he could do anything he wanted as far as art was concerned, but he also got the feel for paint — literally.

In those days, there weren’t museum guards. His curiosity as a young artist urged him to reach out at museums and feel the priceless Monet, da Vinci, Turner or any painting he could. Even though he knows he shouldn’t have been touching them, it gave him a special feeling for creation he wouldn’t have had otherwise.

Following his study of art at Pratt Institute, he stayed in Brooklyn, N.Y. He worked as an artist and a carpenter until a neighbor, Charles Gehm, saw his work. Gehm created the covers of romance novels and needed

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1. Light — It’s the most basic. It shows or hides. It gives everything form, too. I can do a whole painting of somebody’s driveway with just the shadow coming across it; that’s inspiration enough right there.

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2. Color — I don’t use color the way people normally would think of using color. The sky is not always blue; it’s blue, red, green and yellow.

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Where: Dabbert Gallery, 76 S. Palm Ave., Sarasota Cost: Free Info: Call 955-1315 ONLINE: Visit YourObserver. com to see James Griffin talk about some of his different styles of work. help. Being an assistant quickly evolved into Griffin doing the work himself, and then it became his career. But he would always continue his non-commercial art on the side.

Cover art is planned. It comes from photo shoots that use models followed by illustrating and painting the scene. Over the years, the cover-art process has evolved to creating pieces digitally. Sometimes, Griffin will use this process to help plan what he’ll paint for a gallery-style piece.

One consistent theme in his series is that all of Griffin’s works tell a story. For instance, Forces of Nature uses women to portray a part of the natural world in a realistic way. For instance,

“Fugue” is on display at Dabbert Gallery. It’s part of one in Griffin’s Forces of Nature series. ”The Dabberts were quite open to my work,” Griffin says. “I like them very much; I think they are a wonderful team, and they work hard for the artists and collectors.” to portray the energy of Florida’s daytime, he painted a portrait of a woman reaching for a grapefruit — she is posed similarly to the Columbia Pictures iconic image.

And, even if the piece doesn’t contain an obvious story, his objective is to make the viewer feel what he was feeling when he painted it.

“I think an artist is always inventing, or reinventing himself,” Griffin says. “It’s kind of a strange thing because it’s like a meditation … does what I’m putting down really represent what I am feeling?”

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5. Pattern — Pattern is really interesting to me. I like to create patterns, and I like to break patterns.

“I realized the thing to do is to constantly be creating a new look,” Griffin says of his cover art. “Everyone else copies someone else’s work, but I want to be the one setting the trend.” This piece was used on the cover of “Devilish Duke in My Bed”

by Susan Gee Heino.

6. Telling a story — Every painting is telling a story … the main reason you paint is not just to move pigment around on a canvas — it’s to actually reach out and communicate with somebody and to touch somebody. If they can feel a little about what you were feeling, even if it’s just a glimmer, that’s a really cool thing.

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FST’s newest project explores what ‘Older than Dirt’ means What does it mean to age? It could mean a drawer full of hair dye and wrinkle cream; it could mean a metaphoric drawer full of life experience and wisdom; or it could mean you share your good, bad, dramatic and comedic stories with a Florida Studio Theatre interviewer. In its new community project, “Older than Dirt,” starting Oct. 14, it will use the interviews to explore what aging is all about.

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Sanchez operates American Records, a theater company that creates plays from real-life interviews; each aims to tell the bigger picture. For instance, “ReEntry” is a hard-hitting play that used interviews with Marines who had returned from Iraq and Afghani-

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the age of 65, according to a 2012 U.S. Bureau of the Census Population Estimates Program. stan to create a story of the challenges servicemen face when they attempt to reenter civilian life. “ReEntry” was a project, like every one of Sanchez’s projects, that sought to promote understanding and change.

Sanchez hopes to serve the same function with a focus on specific issues of aging using Sarasotans’ stories to create a plot.

A team of FST interviewers will conduct interviews with as many people who want to participate.

Sanchez estimates they’ll conduct between 40 and 100 interviews and expects the bulk of interviews to come from people ages 60 years and older, although, she hopes to speak with teenagers and middle-aged people, as well.

Some people will become the main characters, whom they might interview on a few differ-

ent occasions. All of the interviews will be anonymous once they are turned into a script.

Sanchez isn’t fishing for certain answers — she lets the interviews lead the way. It always starts with a question, similar to: “Do you experience any sort of biases relating to your age?” Sanchez calls it a “thrill ride” because there’s no way to know what the end result will be.

“What’s so cool about being willing to participate — these people are actually impacting the play,” she says.

She hopes that the eventual outcome, the play, will get people talking and thinking and will be funny, smart and entertaining.

“Hopefully it will help the younger members of our country understand the issues and how to take better care of (the elderly),” she says.

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Volunteers held together by The Ringling glue There are three volunteers manning the welcome desk at The John and Mable Ringling Museum. One of them, Roberta Schaumleffel, or “Bobbi,” as her museum friends call her, greets another volunteer, John Fisher, as he arrives for his shift. She says that although she has logged more than 500 hours so far this year, he has probably doubled that.

One of their friends, who is also a volunteer scheduled that day, has been having a rough month.

“You need to go talk to her today,” Schaumleffel tells Fisher in a caring voice. The museum volunteers are a tight-knit group.

Schaumleffel explains that September at the museum is one of the slower months, but it gives the volunteers a chance to get to know each other better. During Ringling International Arts Festival (RIAF) from Oct. 9 through Oct. 12, there’s a lot of foot-traffic and people to greet — she likes it best when it’s busy.

Schaumleffel has volunteered for the festival since its first year.

She and Fisher work the membership table in the front lobby of the museum.

“They were supposed to do the festival every other year,” she says, “but, after the first year was over, it came back to us that Mikhail Baryshnikov would like to see this event every year — he was pleased.”

The festival is a partnership between The Ringling and the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

And, speaking of Mikhail

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“A lot of us are so busy greeting, talking to people and loving it,” Roberta Schaumleffel says of the volunteer perspective on RIAF. “But every year I buy a ticket, and I can tell you my favorite performance — it was when Mikhail Baryshnikov performed.”

Baryshnikov, his performance in 2010 was Schaumleffel’s favorite RIAF event. She sat on the edge of her seat, wanting to cry, and could hardly breathe during the performance.

She mostly volunteers at the festival because she sees many members and recurring visitors, people with whom she can have “reunion chitchat.” The types of

people to whom you ask, “How was your summer?” “What have you been up to?” or “How was Michigan?”

She says there are some who are drawn to one particular RIAF event. For example, Schaumleffel says her exterminator is a big fan of flamenco dancing and is planning to see Rocío Molina.

Others get tickets to every event.

Schaumleffel says that this year, she’s planning on buying a ticket to the closing-night party and attending as a non-volunteer. She’ll attend with some of her volunteer friends.

This group of friends, ages 56 to 88, socializes outside of The Ringling and gets together for dinner every once in a while — there’s a tram driver, a couple

of docents, an ambassador who works in the pavilion and more.

“The Ringling is what we might have used to call full-circle banking but, instead, full-circle volunteering,” she says.

You make friends; you learn; you’re part of a support group; there are wonderful restaurants; there are events and concerts on the grounds; the museum is constantly changing; and you can sit out on the terrace and read a book if you don’t want to do anything else, she says. You can find her there some days.

For Schaumleffel, the biggest perk of her job is the camaraderie.

“Being with people whom you like, who like you and whom you have something in common with (is a perk),” she says. “It’s a bond — The Ringling glue.”

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 Fred Astaire Dance Studio staff and dancers presented “Puttin’ on the Ritz” Sunday, Oct. 6, at Sarasota Opera House. The pieces they performed were perfected over the past three months and were choreographed by Bruno Collins. Performers included Jeisenia Gonzalez, Dr. Harvey Levine and Petra Pennington, left, and Jesse Goodnight, lifting Pennington.

 Manatee County Cultural Alliance celebrated the opening of “The Skeletons of Bone Valley” exhibit Friday, Oct. 4, at Bradenton’s Village of the Arts first Friday art walk. The exhibit features photography of Florida’s phosphate country, Bone Valley, from photographers, including Richard Porter, curator Matt Allison and Virginia Robinson, pictured, as well as other photographers. The exhibit will be on display through Oct. 28.

 Every October, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens hosts a music series.

The 2013 series kicked off with Photos by Mallory Gnaegy The First Brass performing “Red, White and Brass: American Salute” Sunday, Oct. 6, with vocals by Sharon Scott. Attendees, such as Mimi and John Greco, lounged beneath the banyans, where they enjoyed a patriotic salute to our veterans. The series takes place every Sunday in October. The next concert, “O Som Do Jazz,” takes place Oct. 13. Tickets are $5. Call 366-5731 for more information.

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American theatrical comedy loves men suffering mid-life crises and scratching their seven-year itches. Steven Dietz’s “Becky’s New Car” gives equal time to women-of-a-certainage stuck in various ruts. Our titular Becky (Becky Holahan) is a 50-something wife and mother. She has a good job at a car dealership, a stable husband (Neil Kasanofsky as a roofer with his feet on the ground) and a good life. She’s bored to tears.

Not that Becky complains … exactly.

Though she does maintain a running dialogue with the audience. Dietz’s play doesn’t so much break the fourth wall as it crashes through it like a four-wheel-drive assault vehicle. (More automotive puns ahead. Proceed with caution!) Becky maintains a running chatter with the audience, offering them soda and beers — or getting them to help with her collating. (If you’ve ever wanted to break into theater, sit in the front row at this play. You’ll get your chance.) Becky never asks the audience for help with her midlife crisis, though.

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Becky’s working late one night when Walter (Neil Levine), a befuddled-but-charming millionaire appears. While Becky fills out his last-minute order for nine cars, Cupid zaps his heart. Widower Walter gets the impression that Becky is also a widow. She never corrects him. Complications and an affair ensue.

Nothing bad happens … exactly. The comic engine simply accelerates Becky into the farce lane. Becky, (a four-square, moral lady) is suddenly juggling lies and double lives.

Like all good people, she’s bad at it, and all the stuff she’s juggling comes crashing down.

But, failure is always funny — just ask Wile E. Coyote. John Michael Andzulis’s excellent set design helps sell the joke; the action all

happens in one set, doubling as home and office. Becky leaps across time and space.

Aristotle’s unity of action gets hit in the crosswalk.

Such wacky comedy needs savvy comedic talents. Venice Theatre delivers. Director Murray Chase’s screwball rhythm is firing on all eight cylinders. The actors are equally fine. Holahan doesn’t exactly steal the show — the car belongs to “Becky,” after all. But the weight of the play is on her, and she carries it effortlessly. Kasanofsky is wonderfully deadpan as the husband. Levine serves up the dead-opposite vibe as the heart-on-his-sleeve millionaire. Diane Brin is winning as a poor little ex-rich girl. Ronald Krine Myroup is Robin Williams-esque as Becky’s co-worker — a widower on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Great performances also from Scott Ireland (as Becky’s psycho-babbling grad student son) and Arianna DeCecco (as his bubbly girlfriend).

Strong script. Strong cast. Strong direction. It all adds up to a light, tight, bright performance. At the end of the road? It’s no spoiler to say: Becky’s life resets. A few dings and scratches, maybe. But no shootings, stabbings, ghosts or “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” shouting matches. Comedy (farce especially) forgives. Especially when it’s Becky we’re talking about. This is a play that wants you to like it, with a central character who shamelessly wants you to like her. It works.

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But, even better, the ensemble’s ability to focus each musician’s virtuosity into a singular sound made its playing so spontaneous and rich, it was the true essence of what chamber music should be: vital, alive and natural.

The “Serioso,” which is the only quartet for which Beethoven offered a subtitle, is a biting, strongly emotional work with unison statements the members of the Ariel played like one person. It was a sweeping performance, always with a point, in sound and direction. Mendelssohn, commenting on this piece, once said it was Beethoven’s “most characteristic work.” Interestingly, the final movement of this Opus 95 sounds Mendelssohnian with, perhaps, a slight nod to things to come.

Beethoven’s Opus 127, however, is the future. Part of the composer’s late period, violinists Gerchikov and Kazovsky switched roles, with Kazovsky taking the first chair.

Between the angularity and almost dissonant sound of the music and the different timbre of the ensemble, because Kazovsky’s sound is leaner and more modern than that

Esteemed director Alfonso Cuaron has always wanted to be an astronaut. In his new film, “Gravity,” it’s extremely apparent that he has a meticulous vision as to what it would be like, weightless, drifting about in space. And it’s stunning beyond words.

Four years in the making and seven years since his last film (“Children of Men”), “Gravity” is about the utter lack thereof. A veteran astronaut, Matt Kowalski, (George Clooney) and medical engineer, Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), are in the middle of making a technical repair outside of their space shuttle. Suddenly, all hell breaks loose when a shower of debris from the explosion of a Russian satellite hits them.

For an amazing 13 minutes, the audience is in perfect tandem with the two until they are, literally, lost in space. Matt, velvety smooth and cocky (so signature Clooney), reassures Ryan as she’s frantically losing oxygen to “sip it like wine, not gulp it like beer.” He then performs a drastic act of heroism and leaves Ryan to her own devices. The gravity of the situation is dreadfully dire.

One need not give a hoot about sci-fi thrillers to immerse himself in this visually gripping survival saga. There are no aliens, evil forces or unexplained events inhabiting this groundbreaking piece of filmmaking.

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Here is the angry, almost disjointed Beethoven, perhaps looking — inside his now completely deaf head — toward a future only he could hear.

This was not a popular piece when it debuted in 1824, and it’s still difficult to hear and, certainly, to perform.

The Ariel, using even more body language than it did in the first two quartets, caught the right mood of ferocity, digging in with a fierceness and fragmentation that is practically 21st-century urban clamor.

Robert Schumann, the great romantic composer, said of these string quartets, “True lovers of Beethoven lock the doors, savoring and reveling in every single measure.” The Ariel still has 11 more works to play in the course of four more concerts in February and May. They all take place in the intimate (though sterile), acoustically friendly Selby Auditorium on the USF campus in Sarasota, and I’m sure we will be savoring and reveling in every one of these historic performances.

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Rather than presenting the cycle in numerical order, The Ariel has chosen to play one quartet from each of Beethoven’s early, middle and late periods, so we are able to hear the evolution and revolution the composer went through as he not only aged, but also as he became increasingly deaf.

If this week’s concerts set the example for future performances, it’s going to be a fascinating journey.

The first concert, which took place last Tuesday, offered the F major, No. 1, from Opus 18, composed in 1799; the “Serioso” Quartet, Opus 95, No. 11, coming from the composer’s middle period in 1810; and the Opus 127 in E flat, written in 1824.

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Cosimo’s Restaurant and Catering is launching a charitable program called “Cosimo’s for a Cause” and will be raising money for schools and non-profits in our area by hosting fundraisers on select Tuesday evenings this month at the restaurant with 10% of every check going to the featured organization. John Ganley, general manager, says, “We’ve been part of this community for more than 15 years, and it’s important to us to give back.” For information, go to www.cosimos.net.

We’ll tell you more about this charming restaurant in the future but, for now, we want you to know about Fresh Start Café, an appealing indoor-outdoor hideyhole at 630 S. Orange Ave. that’s family owned and has spectacularly great sandwiches, salads, soups and breakfasts concocted

by Chef Matt with Hanna and Susan doing a little of everything and Sam serving. Oh, and don’t forget Jonah. He’s responsible for those yummy shortbread and butter cookies they give out as gifts when you get the check.

“We like slave labor,” Sam joked. “Jonah’s 9.”

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Think Italian and you might see visions of pastas swimming in red sauces. Not at Gabbiano. Chef Paolo, who’s originally from Ischia, has an osso buco ravioli that floats.

His fillet of grouper, with sundried tomatoes, spinach and capers in a white-wine sauce, is perfect for waste-line watchers. And the scaloppine Mamma Lucia, sautéed in Marsala with wild mushrooms, thinly sliced eggplant and fresh mozzarella, is so tender you won’t need your knife.

Peter has been in the restaurant business since he can remember and, together with Marc, Café Gabbiano has taken on a whole new ambience that caters to romantic evenings for two and parties of 150.

My favorite is a charmingly intimate paneled dining room that would be perfect for an intimate, candlelit dinner of 10. Like home, but better.

Oh — they also have a full bar and 220 different kinds of wine — 3,000 bottles on the premises — and 23 hand-selected Italian wines with artistically designed ceramic labels.

as an entry into the Great American Beer Festival Competition this month. And, because Chef Darwin is from South America, there are also “American craft beers inspired by and infused with the exotic flavors of the Amazon and the Andes.”

We’ll still find Chef Darwin spending most of his time in Sarasota, but Matt says, “This is a family business. My family partners with Chef Darwin. I had completed law and graduate school in Chicago and was beginning a career there, but ultimately couldn’t pass on the opportunity to work with Darwin and our brewmaster, Jorge Rosabel, in getting this operation off the ground.”

Matt moved in March to Sarasota.

The concept of a lawyer involved in brewing beers (and probably drinking them) fascinated me, so I asked how one affected the other. Matt replied, “I’m not licensed to practice in Florida, although I am giving some consideration to sitting for the Florida Bar next summer. But that will depend on how busy we are at the brewery.” Meanwhile, he adds, “A background in law helps in any business or profession.”

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afé Gabbiano on Siesta Key just north of the Village has been reinvented, and it took a family, not a village, to do it. Peter Tracy actually lives in California but, because he’s spending more time on Siesta Key near the Gulf of Mexico than along the Pacific Coast, he’s really a Sarasotan. His job as general manager of the 4,000-square-foot café keeps him in town most of the time. And his nephew, Marc Grimaud, the restaurant’s proprietor, has moved here with his wife, Laura, and they love every minute.

Four thousand square feet may sound big, but Café Gabbiano feels intimate. It also has one of the best chefs for authentic, delicious Italian cuisine. Chef Paolo is known as “The man behind the vision,” and that vision is more like a magnificent vista filled with delicacies such as burrata — fresh Italian cheese made from creamy mozzarella so delicate it melts on the tongue, served with speck (a sort of gentle prosciutto), fresh pesto and yummy, crusty Italian bread.

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K, it hasn’t opened yet, but Darwin’s on 4th, one of our favorite spots in town, is building a brewing company in Bradenton. Matt Cornelius, who’s helping Chef Darwin Santa Maria pull it together, says, “We’re in the process of winning approval from the Bradenton Zoning Board and City Council before construction begins. Our goal is to be open at 803 17th Ave. W., across from McKechnie Field, by March.”

That doesn’t mean Darwin’s on 4th is closing. Far from it. It just means the brews that are made and on tap in Sarasota will soon be available to the north.

“We are a production brewery and will be strictly serving beer in our Bradenton tasting room and accompanying beer garden,” Matt explains. “But we plan to invite community food truck vendors to serve on our property.”

What are some of the brews we can expect in Bradenton? Well, among them are the West Coast IPA, which was second runner-up as best beer in Florida. There will also be Ayawasca — a Belgian dubbel; and Charapa — a spiced porter, which Matt says was accepted

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St. Martha Catholic School held its annual interactive dinner and auction Saturday, Oct. 5, at Michael’s On East. All committee members, as well as Chairwoman Amanda Lopez, donned blue aprons, while a sold-out crowd of more than 200 guests mingled, bid on silent-auction items and were introduced to the live-auction

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items, poodle pups named Saint and Martha.

After thanking all those who made the dinner auction happen, Rebecca Blitz announced that it was the Rev. Fausto Stampiglia’s birthday, while Phil Mancini wheeled out a surprise birthday cake. Everyone sang “Happy Birthday,” and the priest blew out the candles

on his cake, along with the Rev. Sebastian Szczawinski, whose birthday was earlier in the week.

Michael’s On East Executive Chef Jamil Pineda and Mancini then took the stage and instructed the guests on how to cook each course — all to raise money (more than $100,000 and counting) for St. Martha Catholic School.

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SARASOTA’S BELOVED JEWEL t was a sad day last week in the Black Tie department as news arrived that sweet Jewel Ash had died. Ash had been a friend to many of us here, so we wanted to share a few memories of her.

Molly Schechter: The Sarasota Opera Guild; Sunshine from Darkness (international mental health research organization); Temple Beth Israel of Longboat Key; Catholic Charities; The Sahib Shrine; Jewish Family & Children’s Service; Glasser-Schoenbaum Human Services Center; St. Jude Catholic Church HispanicAmerican Center; Circus Sarasota; Designing Women Boutique, where she was a longtime board member, styling chairwoman and originator of the Salon Series; Senior Friendship Centers; and the list goes on …

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Newlyweds Peter Plotkin and Diane McNeelPlotkin cut the groom’s cake.

Jewel’s husband, Mike, had gifted her a few dresses that she didn’t feel were “her” and that she thought I would love (I guess Mike knows our little secret now!). Our lunches always took place at Bijou Café, and because she knew I loved its famous pommes gratin dauphinois, she always ordered them and acted like she’d help eat them, which she never did. She just wanted to see me happy, and that was one of the many things that was so special about Jewel. I wore the dresses she gifted me this week in her honor and will continue to miss her friendship.

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ies, which only go back to 2006 — a tiny, but telling, descriptor of the extent of her community involvement.

And she was not just a name on a committee list; she really worked.

If “stalwart” is an odd word to describe a delightfully delicate little lady, it is an apt one. Jewel was as determined and persistent as she was kind and generous.

Before they wed in 1978, Jewel took Mike Ash to her doctor, wanting him to fully understand her medical history. The doctor told them, “You’ll be lucky to have five years together.” They had 35. She was proud of and happy about that, as she had every right to be.

Emily Walsh: Who knew that someone so small in stature could behold so much power? Well, this BT Editor certainly didn’t until she unleashed it upon me during the Designing Women fashion shows that she so expertly styled for so many years. Many of you know that my style is, uh, let’s say conservative. The only, and I mean only person who could ever convince me to wear a white suit with nothing underneath the suit jacket but a lacy bra was Jewel Ash. And, believe it or not, I did it. And I did it because I loved her. And, I’ll have to agree with her ... I didn’t look half bad! Well, being in my late 20s at the time probably didn’t hurt, either.

Stephanie Hannum: Although I always loved seeing Jewel’s smiling face at events, I especially loved the occasional phone call from her saying, “We need to have lunch. I have a dress for you.”

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eter Plotkin and Diane McNeel met at a philanthropy roundtable meeting Nov. 4, 2000, in Pasadena, Calif. But when Peter proposed to Diane Aug. 20 — on bended knee, as she had specified — he wanted the wedding to take place before the end of the year. Diane is an organizer extraordinaire, so a mere five weeks later, on the morning of Oct. 1, they said their vows at their Casey Key home, with John Kidd, the bride’s brother, officiating. They celebrated that evening with 170 guests at Cap Joie, the home of friends Anders and Katherine Ebbeson.

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The party was a love feast featuring the couple’s favorite foods — hotdogs and a devil’s food groom’s cake topped with Cool Whip for Peter and steak Diane for the bride — as part of a bounteous spread prepared by Paul Mattison. In a toast by Diane’s son Ian, he described his new stepdad as “one of the last true gentlemen.”

Singer/songwriter Jordan Bennett came from Los Angeles to perform a program including the nonagenarian groom’s request for “Hello Young Lovers” and a duet with Sarasota reggae queen Shantel Norman. daughter is no stranger to Sarasota or its charities. In high school, she volunteered with Teens for Wishes, and she is currently serving on various event committees.

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