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County seeks better transparency Leaders say more town hall meetings, timely agendas should benefit the public. SEE PAGE 4

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MAY WE HAVE THIS DANCE? After two years without a formal event, local students get their proms back.

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Future on patrol

Paige Jessop, a first grader at Braden River Elementary, knew how she wanted to dress for Career Day March 30.

She put on khakis and a gray shirt with the word “Guardian” on the back and grabbed a pair of handcuffs. Jessop dressed as her hero, Bill Radle, the guardian at the school. Guardians are security guards placed at the district’s schools.

“I really like Mr. Bill, and I like how he protects the school,” said Jessop (above with Radle).

Jessop wants to protect schools when she grows up.

Radle said he was surprised to see a student dress as him for Career Day. “It was awesome,” he said.

“She’s a good kid.”

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Jayden O’Neal and Sarah Dipasquale, seniors at Braden River High School, look forward to going to the prom together after the pandemic prevented the school from hosting a prom for the past two years. Jayden asked Sarah, his workout partner at the gym, by surprising her with this sign.

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A new spring break destination?

Kaylee Mayes and Savannah Gaast (above) spent a night of their spring break visiting Music on Main April 1.

The two “best friends” are juniors at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and said Lakewood Ranch is a great destination to relax and celebrate their 21st birthdays.

The two friends are visiting Mayes’ parents, Lakewood Ranch residents Meghan and Chris Mayes.

“You can always guarantee the weather will be nice,” Savannah said. “We’re used to very unexpected events (in St. Louis), lots of rain and snow.”

“The whole Lakewood Ranch area is so much fun,” Kaylee said. “A lot of really great restaurants, and lots of little shops that you can peek into.”

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Bradley Warren, principal of Lakewood Ranch Preparatory’s lower school, and Cheryl Cendan, principal of the upper school, meet with incoming freshmen to discuss the beginning of their high school careers.

New charter school already at capacity Parents have high hopes the school will offer alternative choices for education. SEE PAGE 3

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Sarasota County’s record 2021 for tourist tax dollars could add up to an additional percentage point of tourist development tax by next fall, from 5% to 6%.

That’s about an additional $5.2 million with which to maintain and renourish beaches and help fund larger-scale capital projects, such as Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium’s new aquarium project in Benderson Park.

The additional point’s $5.2 million would be broken down this way: 70% for capital improvements and facilities, 20% for beach maintenance and 10% for beach renourishment.

Kim Radke, director of the Sarasota County Office of Financial Management, said the capital improvements portion could go toward Mote’s aquarium, money for which was sourced from elsewhere in the county’s tourism development pot.

“If we do enact this, then we’re considering utilizing this money to fund the Mote project,” she said. “It would assist us with that need over the original plan of taking it from promotion.”

Sarasota County has pledged $20 million toward the construction of Mote’s aquarium, estimated to cost around $130 million to complete.

Nancy Detert, chair of the Tourist Development Council and a county commissioner, called the tax a “winwin” at the March 30 commission meeting but conceded earlier that it could serve to put back money into Visit Sarasota budgets for promotion – money that had been redirected to the Mote project.

Among other promotions, Visit Sarasota promotes many of the national and international events that occur at Nathan Benderson Park.

WHERE DOES IT COME FROM? According to the Sarasota County tax collector, here is a breakdown of where the tourist development tax was generated in 2021: n Siesta Key 27% n Sarasota 26% n Online platforms 21% n Sarasota County 13% n Longboat Key 8% n Venice 4% n North Port 0.6%

Virginia Haley, director of Visit Sarasota, said the extra tax wouldn’t harm tourism at all.

Detert said a vote to raise the tourist tax will allow Visit Sarasota to operate as it has for years.

Kathleen Lehner, a member of the Tourism Development Council and president of the Venice Area Chamber of Commerce, said she’s spoken to hotel owners who said an extra percentage point on a hotel bill of $300 or $400 a night “wouldn’t even be seen.”

“I guess the name of it says it all,” she said. “Certified High Tourism Impact means that they’re coming.”

Sarasota County set a record by collecting $31 million in tourist tax in 2021 (on about $620 million taxable sales).

Sarasota County’s Tourism Development Council in early March unanimously approved recommending to the county commission that the tax be raised to 6%. On March 30, county commissioners voted 4-1 (with Christian Ziegler dissenting) to schedule an April 26 public hearing on the topic.

If enacted, the new levy would go into effect Oct. 1, with the start of the new fiscal year.

“This is a great opportunity for us to provide additional amenities,” Commissioner Ron Cutsinger said.

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In March, workers put sections of the walls of Lakewood Ranch Preparatory Academy into place.

New Lakewood Ranch Preparatory Academy already has a waitlist for every grade it offers.

OPENING SOON LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMY Grades: Kindergarten through 12th grade Ages: 5-18 Opening dates: Lower school August 2022; high school August 2023 Location: Lower school at 5550 White Eagle Blvd., Lakewood Ranch; high school at 5570 White Eagle Blvd.

Total enrollment: Approximately 1,965 students First year: Kindergarten through sixth grade and ninth grade (projected to have 740 students)

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When Harmony’s Chase Carter learned he was accepted to Lakewood Ranch Preparatory Academy, he began flapping his arms like an eagle.

Carter, who will be in kindergarten next school year, will be part of the inaugural class of Lakewood Ranch Preparatory Academy Eagles.

Lakewood Ranch Preparatory Academy is a new K-12 charter school set to open in August on White Eagle Boulevard. In its first year, the school has accepted 740 students in kindergarten through sixth grade, and in ninth grade.

In January, families applied and then waited to hear whether they were accepted or waitlisted, which they learned in February. Once they found out, they had until the beginning of March to decide whether they would send their student to the new school in August.

The school had nearly 1,500 applications and now has a waitlist for every grade.

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Above: Bradley Warren and Cheryl Cendan, principals of Lakewood Ranch Preparatory Academy, meet with Lakewood Ranch’s Bree Goldberg and her husband, Renato Carotti, and her son, Jett CarottiGoldberg, who will be a freshman next year.

Left: Lakewood Ranch’s Jacob and Grace Lopez will be part of the inaugural class at Lakewood Ranch Preparatory Academy.

THRILLED BY OPENING

Several families are thrilled to be sending their children to the new school in August.

Chase Carter’s mother, Danielle Carter, toured several Lakewood Ranch traditional public schools but felt they couldn’t provide or offer the individualized education and parent involvement she desired.

“I love the fact it’s a smaller setting with high expectations,” Carter said. “School has been in the same standstill setting for so long that I’m glad they’re opening up and having the village idea with the open classroom concept of the teachers coming together versus just having the one teacher in the one room with 20 students. It’s all about team building, building the personalities of these kids and molding and shaping them to be the best they can be.”

The learning villages will include a team of teachers that will have a group of students, or a village, to do communal activities and provide more opportunities for socialization.

The villages will have modular classroom areas with flexible seating and breakout areas.

Teachers will work together to have lessons with flexible grouping based on student needs. Teachers can split students into groups based on how they’re doing on a subject to help students who are struggling, provide a refresher for students or have students move to the next lesson.

A DIFFERENT WAY

“They’re going to teach the same things, but they just have a little bit different way of doing that in a more customized way,” said Jessica Marchione, the mother of a kindergartner, Colin, who will attend Lakewood Ranch Prep as a first grader next school year. “He’s in a small classroom now. It started out with 16 students and now it’s at 18 or 19, but they all have to be taught the same thing at the same time in the same way.

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Whereas the charter school, it sounds like there’s going to be a little bit more of an individualized approach.”

Lakewood Ranch’s Laylay Lopez said she looks forward to having her children benefit from the school’s WISH model, which focuses on wellness, innovation, science and health.

The model is meant to focus on each individual student as whole, meaning they are excelling academically, emotionally and socially.

The school also will build partnerships with people, organizations and businesses in Lakewood Ranch that can provide a variety of opportunities for students.

“The most important thing is bringing in professionals to let the kids have the opportunity to get to know what the real work world is going to be instead of just reading textbooks,” Lopez said.

When Lopez’s children, Jacob, who is in fifth grade and Grace, who is in third grade, go into high school, she likes the fact that they will have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement courses or can be a part of the Cambridge Assessment International Education program, which provides rigorous courses that emphasize higher-order thinking, written and oral skills, problemsolving and other skills.

Lakewood Ranch’s Jett CarottiGoldberg, an eighth grader at the Sarasota School of Arts and Science, will be taking college-level courses as a freshman at Lakewood Ranch Preparatory Academy.

Carotti-Goldberg and his parents, Bree Goldberg and Renato Carotti, met with Bradley Warren, the principal of the lower school, and Cheryl Cendan, the principal of the upper school, for his first counseling session.

Cendan helped Carotti-Goldberg set up a preliminary schedule for his freshman year. He’s advancing into three honors courses and one AP course.

WIDE WORLD OF BENEFITS

“It’s going to open up a whole wide world of benefits and opportunities that were so pale when I was growing up,” Carotti said about his son being able to take college-level courses. “It’s absolutely wonderful that those opportunities are there.

To take advantage of those opportunities is up to the child, and I hope that my son does that.”

Cendan focus on both the advanced core classes Carotti-Goldberg will take and the electives he could pursue. Cendan said in a new school the staff is able to create electives based on students’ interests, so she asked Carotti-Goldberg about his interests, potential colleges and dream jobs.

Lopez said Lakewood Ranch Preparatory Academy is opening at a perfect time as Lakewood Ranch continues to see population growth.

Marchione and Lopez’s children currently attend B.D. Gullett Elementary School. As much as they love the school, Gullett Elementary is 360 students over its capacity of 927 students as of November 2021.

“We were looking at going to a less

crowded school when we heard the news about Lakewood Ranch Prep opening,” Marchione said.

They are zoned for Lakewood Ranch High School, which is 578 students over its capacity of 1,818.

“The local schools here are so inundated and overflowing,” Carotti said. “What really draws me (to Lakewood Ranch Preparatory Academy) is the small nature of the school.

People already are starting to know (Carotti-Goldberg) by name and are excited to have him there at school.”

BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS

With a K-12 school, Marchione looks forward to building relationships with teachers and staff as well as other students as Colin continues to go through school.

Carter said attending a school where classes all start at the same time regardless of grade means her son will have more structure to his day. She also won’t have to worry about what changes the family will need to adjust to as he transitions from elementary to middle and finally high school.

“He’s going to know from day one that this is how school runs, this is how they’re doing things, and I think that’s great,” Carter said.

Marchione was nervous to apply for the school with concerns if the school wouldn’t be constructed before the start of the school year, but the principals have ensured her construction will be complete.

Scott Woodrey, the president of Red Apple Development, said the construction should be complete by mid-July to allow time for teachers and staff to settle into the school.

Because it’s a new school, some parents have concerns.

“We know there’ll be some growing pains with a new set of teachers working together and a new school, but with the two principals having history running charter schools, I have faith they’ll have that well under control,” Marchione said.

Lopez and Carter said that as long as the school’s teachers and staff, parents and students work together, they can navigate any challenges that come with being a new school.

“I am going in with an open mind,” Carter said. “I know there’s going to be some quirks.”

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Local government in a glass house?

Manatee County leaders seek ways to provide better transparency to the community.

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t the pursuit of transparency, Manatee County leaders said they will participate in more “town hall”-type meetings with neighborhoods and release agendas of public meetings sooner to keep residents better informed of the government’s operation.

At a March 23 press conference, and in the wake of the Manatee County inspector general’s report that found favoritism in the county’s code enforcement processes, Administrator Scott Hopes pledged better transparency.

“I think transparency is the fundamental basis of how we should operate government,” Hopes said in a March 31 interview. “We’re improving in that regard. The answer is a lot of engagement and communication. You’ve got to get out; you’ve got to engage people and get the commissioners out to engage with their constituents.”

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Commissioner James Satcher attended a town hall meeting March 31 at the Rocky Bluff Library in Ellenton to talk with residents about the potential removal of the North Central Overlay that was scheduled for a commission vote April 7. The North Central Overlay has been in place to preserve the agricultural feel of north central Manatee County and regulate development to be compatible with the rural surroundings.

Another topic was the widening of Fort Hamer Road.

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Satcher said it was his first time holding such an event.

“I do live in the community, and I do hear from people and pay attention to their thoughts,” Satcher said.

“I think the first time in this type of setting went well. Anytime change happens in a community, friction occurs, and I understand fully.”

Commissioner George Kruse said the commissioners also will have more work sessions to allow public comment on things they care most about, as well as planned changes.

Kruse said he already has been hosting town halls to get feedback about issues related to the Future Development Area Boundary Line.

“When I came in, I promised people — and I would argue every other commissioner at some point in time or another has promised — to provide timely information to the citizens, to give them a voice in how they expect to be governed and how Manatee County is expected to move forward,” he said. “But at times it feels we don’t do that.”

TIMELY ACCESS

Carol Felts, a Myakka City activist, isn’t convinced that the county is providing timely access to information to its citizens.

Felts, who is running in the District 6 Commission race against incumbent Carol Whitmore and Jason Bearden, said Manatee County could improve its transparency by making it clear how citizens’ input is being considered and addressed. She said town halls are not useful if the residents don’t know how their concerns influence the county’s direction, if at all. She said she has heard no discussions about how such input is processed. She also said no agenda was offered for the Rocky Bluff town

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“We’re only responsible for the budget and for setting the policy,” Whitmore said. “We don’t do operations, and we are not allowed to direct directors.”

She said any policy requires a work session for it to be presented; it will then be reviewed by the county administrator and county attorney.

She also pointed to the measures currently in place that allow staff members to submit complaints.

Whitmore said that amid calls for transparency, people should not develop a false picture of the government.

“Have we gone through many changes? Yes,” she said. “But to say that every department is corrupt is false.”

County Administrator Scott Hopes says Manatee County must be more transparent to citizens.

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Carol Felts says Manatee County doesn’t always present meeting agendas in a timely manner.

hall meeting.

Felts said Manatee County has a poor record in terms of posting agendas for its public meetings. She said the agenda for the April 7 land use meeting came out one week before the meeting, which she said isn’t enough time.

“I don’t find that very transparent or accountable,” she said.

Kruse agreed that before his arrival on the board just over a year ago, the agendas were often delivered to the commissioners and the public on the Thursday or Friday before a Tuesday commission meeting. He said it was not nearly enough time to sort through all the issues before the meeting, and it was not enough time to form a reasonable opinion.

He said early in 2021, the county began to make sure agendas went out at least 10 days in advance but has since reverted to a shorter time frame. He noted his frustration at a

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James Satcher hosts the March 31 town hall at the Rocky Bluff Branch Library.

March 22 commission meeting.

“I feel the frustration of a lot of citizens who have approached me, and approached this board as a whole, saying that they feel like things are being held back too long, and it is not giving people enough opportunity to voice their opinion,” he said.

AGENDA ITEMS

Kruse said he favors getting agendas out as soon as possible, even as raw drafts, indicating the issues.

“You can at least let people know, ‘Hey, a discussion about affordable housing is going to be on the agenda; a discussion about the plot of this subdivision will be on this agenda,” Kruse said. “For most people, that’s sufficient for them to know whether or not they may need to pay attention.”

Kruse and District 5 Commissioner Vanessa Baugh said that exceptions would need to be made for certain urgent agenda items, such as an emergency incident at Piney Point.

“You can’t write a rule that says you have to have (10 days notice) no matter what, but you can do your best,” Baugh said.

Commissioners Misty Servia and Kevin van Ostenbridge expressed concerns about lengthening the amount of time when an agenda should be released to the public.

“I feel like we’re going to trade one frustration of the public for another, if we publish a draft, and then we go into briefings and six changes are made,” Ostenbridge said. “If we’re a week out, I think that’s ample time.”

Felts said time isn’t the only concern when it comes to agendas. She said often the items are not made “in plain English,” so the general public can’t understand the reference or what is about to be considered.

“This guy wants to put 80,000 houses here. That is very simple,” Felts said.

Baugh said she will bring forward a transparency and ethics policy for

the commission to follow but didn’t want to talk about the policy until she presents it to the commissioners later this month. She also is proposing a system of registration for any lobbyist who wishes to speak on a topic at a commission meeting, noting that sometimes a spokesperson for a group will speak before without disclosing an affiliation with the party they are promoting.

DEPARTMENT ISSUES

Transparency between government officials and employees and the general public isn’t the only issue.

Baugh said that greater transparency is needed for county employees to report grievances. She said in the past, grievances have been addressed by department directors, but she says an independent person or department should review these issues.

Whitmore said commissioners should be conscious of the limits of their responsibilities.

County leaders also said they must make sure the public can access information with relative ease to facilitate transparency.

“We do want people to have not just the truth available but access to the truth,” Satcher said.

Hopes said perhaps some education is needed about what is available on the county’s website.

“Most of what goes on in Manatee County government is on that website,” he said. “My intent is for the website to be a little bit more user-friendly.”

Bill Logan, the information outreach manager for the county, said the county is always looking for ways that the effectiveness of the site can be improved.

Logan highlighted two main resources: the Capital Project Dashboard, which shows progress on capital improvement projects, and the Manatee County Administration dashboard, which contains separate dashboards related to a variety of county departments. He said that these resources provide the ability for the public to understand the county’s operations through detailed breakdowns that reveal information such as the amount of money approved for community health and well-being.

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hristine Johnson, the president of the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast, sees a certain connection between people and sensitive lands, but her focus often goes toward one particular group.

It’s children who are often on her mind, many of whom have never experienced the land the way weekend hikers, bird-watchers or anglers do. For years, her organization, itself based at a free and open-to-thepublic former estate alongside the bay in Osprey, dedicated itself to setting aside land from development, something fewer than two dozen similar organizations statewide do.

But with its Next Gen Conservation initiative, the foundation and its supporters have branched off to introducing kids to what nature can offer.

“We are creating the next generation of conservationists in this program, but the feel-good about it is we have stories that will make you well up with tears to hear kids say, ‘I’ve never had my feet in the sand,’” she said.

“I’ve never been to the beach. I don’t see anybody here that looks like me. I don’t know how to fish. And so, we’re teaching them to fish, we’re teaching them to kayak, we’re taking them out to Myakka. That’s rewarding.”

Working with youth group, the foundation since 2017 has presented programs for kids to not only experience the outdoors but also see the basics of land preservation and career options that might have been invisible to them otherwise.

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In June, Sarasota County commissioners agreed to a similar easement with the Sarasota Audubon Society and the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast to protect the 33 county-owned acres west of Celery Fields at Apex Road and Palmer Boulevard, referred to as the quads. At the same time, the county rezoned the northeast, southeast and southwest parcels of the Quads to government use, which means the land can now only be used for government, civic, educational and recreational purposes.

Plans for the quads will be unveiled soon. Lakewood Ranch’s Willis Smith Construction was selected in September as the manager of the project, joining Kimley Horn as the site engineering firm and owners’ representative Steve Suau of Progressive Water Resources.

The foundation said the new land easement east of Celery Field could end up serving as habitat for birds attracted to grasslands, such as the loggerhead shrike and eastern meadowlark. Celery Fields’ wetlands attract a wide variety of species and is a favorite among bird-watchers.

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In 2018, the foundation was a key player in a push that resulted in the Floyd C. Johnson and Flo Singer Johnson Preserve at Braden River.

Manatee County purchased a 32.9-acre parcel from Myarra Property Joint Venture for $3 million, but the foundation raised $1,029,000 of that amount. The land had been targeted for development.

In Florida, 21 similar nonprofit organizations exist. The foundation and five others are accredited under a rigid set of criteria that must be renewed every five years.

The notion of leaving a legacy of a land saved forever is often the goal of a private owner or a government entity. Either way, the foundation works to help preserve green space for public use out of reach for future development plans.

“When we’re talking about land conservation, the landowner has rights,” Johnson said. “And one of those rights is that they can conserve their land in perpetuity with a land

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trust. And why is it in perpetuity with a land trust and not elsewhere, because we have our own code in the IRS that says when we acquire land with a conservation easement, it must be forever.”

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It often starts with an idea and a conversation. Johnson said the typical way her organization has gotten involved in a project is a simple chat with a landowner who, for one reason or another, wants to see property set aside from development.

She said she’s a firm believer that not all land needs to be saved, but in the case of a recent transaction, the conversation about a parcel on the east end of Fruitville Road just made sense. She said the owner was situated between county land and land already preserved by the foundation.

He wanted to sell, and soon, but the county was months away from a decision. Developers were interested, too.

“We stepped in and bought it,” Johnson said. “And then we turned around and said to the county, ‘OK, now we own it. Do you want buy it from us?’ And they did. So that’s a new way of doing it.

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“We are beginning to dip our toe into counties just east of those five,” she said. “Why? Because nobody else is. And because of quickening the pace of conservation, because real estate is quickening its pace, everything is moving east. People are truly concerned about global warming and sea level rise. So we are seeing a lot more development in those inland counties.’’

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“It was very special. We got all dressed up and went out to dinner, and then we went to her house and had our own dance and spent the rest of the day together. … This year it will be special to celebrate with everyone there.”

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Evan Dangler and Haley Dragon, seniors at Braden River High School, were disappointed when prom was canceled last year, so they had their own prom. This year, they look forward to going to an offical prom with friends.

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lthough Caitlyn Cox, a senior at Braden River High School, is getting

ready to graduate and jump toward adulthood, she’s excited to have one more moment when she can feel like a little kid.

She will be dressing for her school’s prom April 8 in a floorlength maroon dress with straps on the side of the shoulders and a slit on the right leg.

“It’s like when you’re a kid and you’re playing dress up all by yourself and you’re living in your imaginary world,” Cox said. “It feels like another chance at that, especially because the past few years we’ve had to mature so much.”

After two years of COVID-19 pandemic, Lakewood Ranch and Braden River high schools can host a prom again. Lakewood Ranch’s prom is April 8, and Braden River’s is April 14.

“It’s like we’re rebuilding,” said Kennedy Lollar, a junior at Braden River High School. “We’re getting back to where we were. It’s hopeful.

I guess we were stuck in the mindset that (the pandemic) was going to last forever. Everything was taking so long to get back to normal.

“It’s good we’re all getting back to a place where we can live our lives to the fullest again.”

Guests are allowed at the proms, so some students will bring graduates of the schools who didn’t have an opportunity to attend their own proms because of the pandemic.

Emily Garcia, a senior at Braden

River High School, is taking her boyfriend, Thomas Finn, to the prom.

“I don’t care too much for dances, but my boyfriend was a senior last year, and he hadn’t gone to prom,” Garcia said. “He’s in college now, and I’m excited to take him.”

Garcia asked Finn to the prom while they were at work at Starbucks.

“There’s these little green apron cards, and I write him love notes every now and then,” said Garcia, who used the apron card to spring the question.

Jayden O’Neal, a Braden River senior, surprised his girlfriend, Sarah Dipasquale, who also is a senior at Braden River, with his “promposal.”

O’Neal went to Dipasquale’s house and to coax her outside told her he needed help getting things from his trunk. He asked her to get his shoes from the trunk, but instead of finding his shoes, she saw flowers and a sign asking her to the prom.

His sign read, “I couldn’t weight.

It would lift me if you gave me a spot at prom,” referencing the time the couple spends at the gym together.

“I had no idea it was happening, and it was really cute,” Dipasquale said. “It was one of those moments I didn’t expect to happen because so many other fun high school things were canceled.”

Evan Dangler, a senior at Braden River High School, and his girlfriend, Haley Dragon, also a senior, met at homecoming their sophomore year.

This year’s prom will be the first official dance they’re able to attend together since they met.

When they found out prom was canceled last year, they decided to have their own prom.

“It was very special,” Dangler said.

“We got all dressed up and went out to dinner, and then we went to her house and had our own dance and spent the rest of the day together. … This year it will be special to celebrate with everyone there.”

Cassidee Calamaras, a senior at Lakewood Ranch High School, has bought her dress and shown it to friends. However, her best friend, Julia Sammons, has yet to see it.

Calamaras and Sammons, also a senior at Lakewood Ranch, decided they would surprise each other at the prom. They have been friends since sixth grade.

“It’s nice, especially because we are so close and we get to joke around like that,” Calamaras said. “We don’t get to dress up very often, so I think it’s nice to see another side of both of us.”

Calamaras went to Ellenton Premium Outlets with her mom, Jimee, to find her emerald green gown with gold accents and a six-layered skirt.

“It was a solidifying moment because we haven’t gone and done that before,” Calamaras said about dress shopping with her mom. “The last time we went dress shopping, it was just something kind of small and quick at Macy’s. Going to an actual store that focuses on dresses, it was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is actually happening.’”

Cox found her dress online.

“Waiting for it to come in the mail was such an experience because it came earlier than I expected, and I remember opening the package and being really excited,” Cox said. “I felt like a kid on Christmas.”

Kelsey McLeod, a senior at Lakewood Ranch High School, is borrowing a dress from a friend who graduated but wasn’t able to go to prom because of the pandemic. The dress is navy with silver sparkles and an open back.

“Honestly, I’m just happy someone gets to wear that dress because she didn’t get to wear it like how she dreamed,” McLeod said. “I’m not one that likes to go dress shopping, so having one already at my convenience was nice.”

For seniors, the prom is another signal their high school education is about to end.

“I’m not going to the same colleges as my friends, and I think this is going to be one of the last big things I do before we all go off to college,” Calamaras said. “It’s great to have that crowning moment.”

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Longtime Realtor still values human element I f you’ve lived a little, you might have experienced the feeling.

The one where you are staring into a computer screen, you need to accomplish something important, and you are wishing your son or daughter was around to help.

It’s a new world, and of course, dinosaurs don’t have fingertips to pound a keyboard.

Those of us who have a hard time breathing when we appear to be locked in a computer escape room have seen the reliance on online fluency seep into every aspect of our lives.

And now, navigating the internet has become key when it comes to buying a home, too.

Why, oh why, has buying a home evolved into anything other than a personal inspection of a home and a face-to-face bargain session with the seller or seller’s representative?

Competition is the answer. We’re in a market in which if you don’t move lightning fast, you’ve lost. Or so it seems.

It all made me glad to meet Matthew Good, who is taking over this month as the managing broker for Premier Sotheby’s International Realty in Lakewood Ranch. In the current market, in which a buyer online in Europe can pull the trigger on a Lakewood Ranch home sight unseen before a bidding war forms for the property, it would seem relationships have taken it on the chin.

Good, however, says not so fast.

“It is far more stressful during the bidding process,” Good said of the current home-buying market.

“But our No. 1 job still is walking consumers through the process and, at the end of the day, you have to get from the contract to close.

I still believe in reaching out and talking to people on the phone and in sending them a lot of handwritten notes. It’s about relationships.

There is a human element that can’t be replicated online.”

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Matthew Good takes over this month as managing broker for Premier Sotheby’s International Realty in Lakewood Ranch.

Bravo. Good sounds like an “I, Robot” fan.

You can tell Good, who has been in the real estate business for 26 years minus a couple of short breaks, still believes his job involves putting his personal stamp on a transaction, and that certainly makes him a good guy in my book.

That’s also true in Premier Sotheby’s book, which has good notes about him when he handled the same job he has now in Naples from 2019-20.

Good is a native Minnesotan but lives in Sarasota and has had lots of ties to Florida, such as his parents owning a condo in Siesta Key. Over the years, he did the old Florida two-step, or three-step or four-

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step, in which people romanticize that life was better at old home sweet home – in his case, Alexandria, Minnesota.

When the pandemic hit in 2020, Good and his wife, Paige, watched as their 10-year-old son, Hanson, struggled with online learning and especially the social aspect of being off campus. The Goods also have a 22-year-old son, Mac, who lives in Minnesota.

They packed up and left, and Good left the real estate industry to manage a manufacturing company for a friend.

It took some 10-degree-below days for Good to reconsider his future in real estate.

“I had to own the fact I made the

wrong decision going back (to Minnesota),” he said.

But how could he return to a killor-be-killed market? Some Realtors are making major scores while others are dying on the vine with no inventory to sell. At the very least, it’s a tough go.

“The fast pace also makes the opportunity exciting,” Good said.

“There are inventory issues everywhere. But there is no question there is pressure like we’ve never seen for people who do this for a living.”

He said one problem Realtors face is dealing with clients who are ultra frustrated by failed attempts to buy property. He said they “say they are done getting their teeth kicked in.”

Perseverance is key, which Good

makes sure resonates with his brokers.

“You provide your clients with the data,” he said. “Every single piece, so they can make good decisions.

“Then we have to keep our agents engaged, convince them that activities breed success. We support them in that way, and we have the benefit of having a global network.”

With that, Good launched into a brief commercial for his employer, noting Premier Sotheby’s International Realty is the 19th-largest real estate group in the nation along with being associated with Sotheby’s Auction House, which has been selling cars, art, homes and “stuff” since 1744. OK, not bad.

But really, Matthew, is your approach going to be good in this dog-eat-dog market?

“We’ve been through this before,” he said. “In 1999-2000 in (Washington) D.C., they were using escalation clauses then (a buyer’s bid automatically increases when someone bids higher). The 2019-20 market in Naples was a lot like this, too.

“There’s a lot of cash here now, but are we going to see 50% annual appreciation? ... I don’t think so.

“But I do know this is a people business, and (Realtors) are as important today as they ever have been. You need to have an online presence, but interaction is critical.

“I’m excited because this is what I know.”

Jay Heater is the managing editor for the East County Observer. Contact him at JHeater@ YourObserver.com.

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Then Russia invaded Ukraine in February.

On April 1, Kaeyer was hanging her “Soldiers of Ukraine” painting, one of four she will place in the exhibit with the hopes of raising money to benefit those living in Ukraine or displaced by the war.

“I have no connection whatsoever (to Ukraine),” said Kaeyer, who has won first-place awards (professional category) for her work at the Maine Lobster Festival and the Beaufort Art Association Show in South Carolina.

“But we all were so devastated by the death and destruction. The Ukrainian flag was everywhere. I felt I had to express myself.”

Kaeyer will donate 50% from the sale of any of her war-themed paintings to the Peace Presbyterian Church of Lakewood Ranch to distribute to Ukrainians in need. ComCenter takes no percentage of any sale during its art exhibitions.

“These paintings were out of my comfort zone, but it had to be done,” said Kaeyer, who has a summer home in Maine, which leads to her work focusing on seascapes, lighthouses and architecture (her late husband, Richard, was an architect). “I think they came out OK.” Mary Ellen Slenker, president of the Lakewood Ranch Art League, said 14 artists would be featured in the exhibit of 75 paintings. The work is mostly watercolors and oil, and when a painting sells, the Lakewood Ranch Art League replaces it with another work. It is the fourth year the Lakewood Ranch Art League has

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“It’s a win-win situation,” Blake said. “We use four to five groups and each displays its art for five to six months each. It keeps the art fresh, and our walls our decorated.”

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KELSEY MCLEOD College: Louisiana State University Major: Business professional sales Dream job: Medical sales “I’m super excited because I’m basically starting a new life,” McLeod said. “I’m going to a school where I don’t know anybody. I’m 11 hours away from my family. I’m so excited for that new chapter in my life.”

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Ten grand scholarships for nine students Picerne Family Foundation presents grants to Lakewood Ranch High School seniors.

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elsey McLeod, a senior at Lakewood Ranch High School, has dreamed of going to Louisiana State University since she was 8.

Her love of gymnastics first led McLeod to the university, and after touring the university last fall, she was certain.

“Stepping on a campus after it had been my dream school since I was 8, I literally just fell in love with it,” said McLeod, who has lived in Florida her whole life. “I want a different culture.”

Attending an out-of-state university isn’t cheap, but McLeod will get a lot of help from the Picerne Family Foundation.

McLeod was one of nine Lakewood Ranch High School seniors to receive a $10,000 scholarship from

the foundation on March 28.

“I was honestly speechless because I applied for a lot of different scholarships, but I never expected to get one, especially one that’s $10,000,” McLeod said. “I’m super excited.”

The Picerne Family Foundation was established by a Rhode Island real estate group in 1925. The company has regional offices in Florida.

Ricardo Acevedo, a college and career counselor at Lakewood Ranch High School, said the foundation, which has a Bradenton office and was seeking potential candidates for the scholarship in the East County area, reached out to him about the scholarships.

Each of the scholarship students will receive $1,250 semiannually in their four years of college. The seniors agreed that the scholarships relieve stress about college costs.

“I’ll be the first person going to college in my family,” said Mohamed Hageltoum, one of the recipients.

“Both of my parents are African immigrants. I want to study civil engineering at (University of Central Florida), and I want to take some of that (knowledge and experience) and

go back to the Middle East, where I can help.”

Scholarship recipient Brooke Pater said having the scholarship will help her focus on her education and start her own business while having fewer student loans to worry about.

Beside providing their transcripts, a letter of recommendation and two essays, the students had to write about a time in which they helped someone else as part of the scholarship application process.

Annabelle Lam wrote about sitting next to a student in middle school who had recently immigrated to the United States. She helped the student transition to life in Florida and learn to speak English.

“I went through a hard time when I was younger, so I just wanted to help him out because English isn’t my first language either,” Lam said.

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ANABELLE LAM College: Vanderbilt University Major: Human and organizational development Dream job: Technology product marketing “I wanted to go to a prestigious school, and I know Vanderbilt is known for being collaborative,” Lam said. “I just wanted to be in that type of environment going forward for university. Your junior or senior year, they pair you with companies to do semester-long internships.”

PAIGE WILLEMSEN College: University of Florida Major: Architecture Dream job: Owner of her own architecture firm “Both of my parents went to the University of Florida, and it has the top

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EMANUEL IBARRA College: University of South Florida Major: Psychology Dream job: FBI behavior analyst “After watching (‘Criminal Minds’) I researched (behavior analysts), and I came to find out everything on the show wasn’t exactly what it was,” Ibarra said. “They’re portrayed as one group on the show, but in reality, there’s three different groups that target specific areas, and they’re not always in the field. But it’s definitely an experience I want to go through, and it’ll be a growing experience.”

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“I was working on this painting, and it was just going to be a very simple contrast of colors,” he said.

“And then the war hit.”

DeBear stores unfinished paintings in his closet, often returning to them when inspiration strikes.

About six days after Russia’s attack on Ukraine began, he saw a painting that was matte yellow and matte blue, mirroring the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

“It was just an attempt to meld two colors and different geometrics together,” he said. “I never knew what I wanted to do with it.”

Working on the painting over the next week, the 72-year-old DeBear wanted the violence to be represented along with Ukraine’s resilience.

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DeBear does not invest great effort in selling his artwork and often gives away pieces. However, this painting is priced at $900, which will be donated toward charities that assist the Ukrainian people. For information, send an email to edebear@ gmail.com.

It is rare for DeBear’s artwork to involve issues in the world, but this is not the first time he has entered such a realm. His art is typically inspired by music and nature and usually highly abstract.

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said, ‘How can I violate the blue background?’” he said. “How can I take this painting and represent the violation of Ukraine?”

DeBear hasn’t been to Ukraine and isn’t personally connected to people in the war. He also doesn’t typically paint about issues in the world.

“It’s a feeling, and it’s personal,” he said of his work, which he began after the loss of his left leg from peripheral artery disease in 2018. “I don’t do this for a living. I do this just to explore my emotions, to explore color and shape.”

Nonetheless, his sense of horror at what the Ukrainian people were going through drove him to bring his sympathy for them to the canvas.

“You think, how would you feel if you were there?” he said. “What if your parents were in Ukraine, trying to get into Poland? It’s horrible.”

He slowly reworked the painting, adding more shades of the colors and reducing the sharpness of the contrast, while also adding the red and black streaks across the bottom.

“You’ll see that it’s not a flat blue, and it’s not a flat yellow,” he said. “I started changing the blue to look ravaged. You’ll see it looks like it started with a matte blue in the background that now has become very disturbed.

And I put in a few different depths of yellow to show a big impact.”

Across the bottom of the painting, a red streak is overlaid on a streak of black. He said the red represents bloodshed, and the black is there to bring out the contrast of the red, though it can also represent darkness.

“Bloodshed and darkness is what war is,” said DeBear.

However, DeBear said the theme of resilience is important in the painting.

“Although your eye is drawn to the violence,” he said, “I tried not to have the violence be the main theme and show there is still a Ukraine there by having the larger part of the painting in their colors. You notice their flag, but it’s being torn up, this country.”

DeBear said that he does not want to overdefine the meanings of his work, and that while viewers can look at his paintings and try to determine what different colors represent, or at least how they interact with one another on the canvas, art is also personal.

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VAULT FULL OF GOLD ODA junior Tyler Beck aims to soar to a state medal in the pole vault.

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Tyler Beck, at the time an eighth grader at The Out-ofDoor Academy, was on his back and unable to move after attempting a pole vault at Venice High.

Beck had tried to get in his rock back position, in which pole vaulters rotate their bodies using their shoulders as a pivot point, so their legs point into the air, but he rocked too far. His feet went behind his head.

Beck tried to turn to catch himself but landed on his back.

He was not paralyzed, but he was hurt. He pulled tendons and had the wind knocked out of him. Yet he was back to competing in a month.

Still, the moment scared him. The risk of serious injury in pole vaulting never goes away.

Now an ODA junior, Beck doesn’t think about the risk anymore.

“You have to put that stuff out of your mind,” Beck said. “I live in the moment. I don’t think about anything (when preparing to vault), actually. It all comes naturally now.”

As of April 1, Beck has the thirdbest effort in the pole vault among Florida High School Athletic Association Class 1A athletes. His vault of 13 feet, 5 1/2 inches came March 23 at the IMG Spring Break Invitational.

He is tied with Bishop Snyder senior Jacob Tantarelli and just 3 3/4 inches behind Providence High senior Jonah Casey for second place. They all trail Community School senior Nick Molloy (15 feet, 9 inches) by a significant margin.

Beck is not ruling out the possibility of catching Molloy by the state meet in Gainesville on May 11.

That’s because Beck was off to a

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ODA junior Tyler Beck hits a vault of 12 feet at a March 30 practice.

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late start this season. He also plays on ODA’s boys basketball team and suffered a concussion during the basketball season that left him unable to participate in early track and field practices.

When he returned, his conditioning was off, and he had not built up the strength or speed necessary to reach heights that would put him among the state’s best. It took Beck weeks to feel like he was where he needed to be in his training.

Beck said he feels good now and is trying to make up for the lost time.

Not originally a pole vaulter in track and field, he started as a distance runner. As a sixth grader, Beck was told by then-ODA distance running Coach Jeff Taylor that he would make a great pole vaulter because of his natural athleticism and strength.

The only problem was that Taylor did not know how to coach pole vault.

Taylor suggested YouTube videos.

“I was OK with that,” Beck said. “I was kind of crazy back then.”

Even without an experienced coach, Beck was able to vault 8 feet as a sixth grader. His abilities as a runner provided him with a lot of momentum going into each vault.

Since that first season, Beck has worked with a number of experienced pole vault coaches to improve as much as he can. He currently trains with Lacy Harper, a Cardinal Mooney High graduate who made the U.S. Olympic team in 2012. Harper and John Raleigh, Harper’s former coach, run an AAU pole vault club that practices at Cardinal Mooney each afternoon. Though Harper has tons of personal experience with pole vault, she’s been coaching only for a few years. As a result, Harper said, she tries not to go overboard when discussing a pole vaulter’s potential.

Still, Harper said she believes Beck has a bright future.

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ODA junior Tyler Beck is ranked No. 3 in FHSAA Class 1A’s boys pole vault.

“He has been progressing well because he’s been doing it for so long,” Harper said. “He’s experienced; he’s big, and he’s strong. He could easily jump 15 feet someday, but we’re hoping for even more than that.

He’s quick on the runway, and that is super helpful. We’re just focused on fixing a few technical things.”

Beck said his biggest improvements have come when he goes back to the basics. Sometimes, Beck said, he thinks every aspect of every vault has to be perfect, that all elements of a vault have to be weighed equally. That is not always true. A good plant — the transition between the approaching run and going vertical — can make up for a lot of mistakes elsewhere. As long as your plant is strong, Beck said, you can worry less about other things. Remembering that has helped him get out of ruts.

Beck also said that being in the air is comforting to him – so comfortable he is working toward a pilot’s license. It’s that love of floating through the air that drives him even more than any medal.

“For me, it’s about knowing you have the ability to do something that few other people can do,” Beck said. “It has a uniqueness to it. It has freedom.”

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n the No. 5 hole at Cypress Links, Barb Shaw was waving her club as if it had some magical power to make the shot she had just struck veer onto the fairway.

“C’mon, c’mon” she repeated to herself.

It didn’t work. The shot did not veer enough and landed in a rough spot.

“Oh dear,” Shaw said. “Actually, more like, oh (expletive)… .”

She uttered a word I can’t include in this story, but it made her partner for the day, Kathy Weisblat, laugh.

“Sorry, I have a potty mouth when I play,” Shaw said.

No apology was needed. It was one of many chuckle-worthy moments from my March 29 morning spent with the Lakewood Ranch Country Club’s Women’s Golf Association, which was holding the first day of its two-day Spring Member-Member event.

The association, which has more than 300 members, had 171 players participate in the event. On the first day, players either played the Cypress Links course in a best ball shamble on the front nine and normal best ball rules on the back nine, or the King’s Dunes course, playing best ball on the front nine and a scramble on the back nine. On the second day, they flipped courses.

The member-member event was Kentucky Derby themed. Each flight was named after a famous racehorse — Seattle Slew, Secretariat and War Admiral, to name a few — and fun facts about the race were scattered on signs across the two courses. Did you know, for instance, that the founder of the Kentucky Derby was Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr., grandson of William Clark (of Lewis and Clark fame)? I didn’t,

but I do now. In addition to these fun facts, all the golfers dressed the part. That is to say, they all looked like the members of the elite society that line the derby’s stands — as much as people can look elite while in golfing clothes.

“Just make us look skinny,” Brenda Deona said after I snapped photos of her group.

Everyone else laughed and agreed. I didn’t have to do anything to make the pictures nice. Everyone looked ready to party.

Events like these are a common occurrence with the WGA. Marcie Caplan, the current WGA president, said the association has a chairwoman and co-chairwoman for each event who handle the planning alongside various team members. Each event also has a dedicated book that acts as a summary of events and is passed on to the following year’s chair to illustrate how to plan the event.

It also helps prevent repeat ideas.

Caplan said making sure each event feels fresh requires talking to other clubs to see what they do as well as conducting online research and keeping up with the news. For instance, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the club held a “Mask-erade” event that allowed people to play and have fun while staying safe.

Caplan said she started golfing almost 40 years ago, but her obsession with the sport increased when she moved to Lakewood Ranch eight years ago. She immediately got involved with the WGA, which is celebrating its 20-year anniversary this year, as a way to meet new people. Not only did Caplan accomplish that goal, but she now also considers her WGA friends as people she will cherish for the rest

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Above: Lisa Stilwell reacts to her tee shot on the No. 5 hole on the Cypress Links course.

Right: Barb Shaw tries to force her tee shot on the No. 5 hole to veer right, to no avail.

of her life.

“The people in it are quite different,” Caplan said. “There are people in their 40s who are not yet retired, and there are people still playing in their 80s. That is what I find so amazing about golf. All of those people find connection through it.

It’s about camaraderie as much as it is competition.”

The competition side did manage to shine through during the Spring Member-Member event, but even it was served with a side of sweetness.

After Tracey-Lee Wingrove hit her tee shot on an early hole into the middle of the fairway, the opponents in her group, Donna Wrobel and Regina Beatty, issued the traditional compliments.

“You can’t hit it any better than that!” Beatty said.

Of course, the women of the

WGA all want to win, but they won’t sacrifice politeness to do it.

At this particular event, Valerie Duva and Bonnie Staley (140) were named the overall champions and earned $140 each. Caplan and her partner, Mona Neal, finished second in the Seattle Slew flight and received $80 each. The cash is nice, Caplan said, but the real reward is getting to hear their names called at the dinner that followed the conclusion of the event.

It was also at the dinner that the women let loose on the dance floor. Even more than playing golf, Caplan said, the get-togethers are where she has the most fun. As the competition part of the day is over, the dinner and dancing are an opportunity to experience pure joy.

And unlike during a round, when you interact only with the people

in your group, the get-togethers allow everyone to mingle. The mix of things the WGA provides is why it continues to go strong after so many years, Caplan said.

“It’s been 20 years of women dedicating their time, meeting people and having fun,” Caplan said.

“We’re fortunate to be supported by the club. We have a great time.”

Of that, there is no doubt.

Ryan Kohn is the sports editor for the East County Observer. Contact him at RKohn@ YourObserver.com.

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Lucas Anthony Lucas Anthony is a sophomore on the Lakewood Ranch High boys lacrosse team. Anthony scored a combined 12 goals in the Mustangs’ 16-5 road win over St. Petersburg High on March 30 and the team’s 14-7 road win over Sickles High on April 1. Anthony leads the Mustangs with 51 goals and 10 assists as of April 4.

When did you start playing lacrosse?

I was 9 years old. I started in rec league lacrosse before moving on to travel ball and then eventually high school lacrosse. My dad (David Anthony) was a lacrosse player, and I wanted to be just like him.

What is the appeal to you?

I like lacrosse because it is a nonstop game. You’re always running back and forth. I played baseball at the same time as lacrosse for about two years, and I just got bored of baseball. I was always standing there waiting for the ball to come to me. Lacrosse is action-packed.

What is your best skill?

My best skill is my ability to pass to my teammates and see where they are on the field. My overall lacrosse IQ is high.

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What are your goals for this season?

I actually just achieved one. I had a goal of scoring 50 goals this season, and I’m now at 51 after our last game. I’m happy I was able to do that as a sophomore.

What is your favorite food?

It’s pancakes. I love pancakes. I top them with syrup, butter and sometimes strawberries.

What is the best advice you have received?

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. I was not the most naturally gifted lacrosse player, but I worked at it and got better.

Finish this sentence: “Lucas Anthony is …” … Passionate. I just love everything: lacrosse, my teammates, my friends, movies and school. Well, I love school sometimes.

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I have been working to improve my shot. I don’t make every shot I take, and I want to be making every shot. I can always be better in that area.

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he popular regional band Kettle of Fish often describes its musical style as “festiblues,” and that certainly was on display during spring’s first Music on Main in Lakewood Ranch.

Among Kettle of Fish’s lineup on April 1 were longtime lead singer Dana Lawrence; Greg Poulos on guitar; Chris Guertin, the former musical director on Princess Cruises, on bass and vocals; Pat McDonald, who previously toured with the Charlie Daniels Band, on drums; and Robin Swenson, who has played for the Four Seasons and Aretha Franklin, on keys.

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aniel Dokko had a nice score after bringing JPAN to University Town Center six years ago, so he decided to try again in East County with Korê Steakhouse, which just opened at Waterside Place.

Dokko said he didn’t see other restaurants in East County that offered a taste of his Korean heritage, so he took it upon himself to bring it to the community.

“Thirty years ago, Chinese food was very popular,” he said, “Fifteen years ago, Japanese food was very popular. Now, Korean food is going to be the most popular. And we didn’t want to open just any Korean restaurant. We wanted to become a staple.”

Born to parents Yung A. Dokko and Edson Dokko from Seoul, South Korea, and raised in Brazil, he hired a management team that includes two

former JPAN UTC staff members: South Korea native Clark Park, who serves as a chef and manager, and Indonesia native Anderyas Putranto, who will be a manager.

Dokko said the early customer feedback has been positive.

He said the experience is designed to offer a high degree of authenticity and quality. Recipes are made with expensive ingredients and inspired by the cooking that he and Park enjoyed in their homes growing up.

Dokko said most of the recipes Park learned from his mother, Yong Mi Kim. Park will sometimes call her to ask for cooking tips, though the 12-hour time difference between Florida and Korea, where she lives, means they can talk only very early or very late in the day.

“Whenever I make a dish or some sauce, I remember my mom is a really good cook,” Park said. “I just ask her,

‘Whatever you think you’d make for me, tell me how you’d make it.’ She just tells me: ‘Salt this much, sugar this much, and whatever other ingredient this much.’ Every time, she tells me: ‘Whatever you make, always make it the same. Be consistent.’”

Park said one useful tip he’s received involved the making of kimchi, a staple of Korean food set to become available when the full menu arrives on April 11. Kimchi is a dish of Napa cabbage salted for dehydration, then sliced and stuffed with Korean chili pepper paste, garlic, onions, carrots and ginger, before all the ingredients are fermented and stored for a few days.

Kim told Park that the best way to slice cabbage is by cutting into it only a short way before pulling it apart. This makes the cabbage split along the natural edges of the leaves, preventing small shreds from mixing into the dish.

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appealing when presented unmixed.

Yet despite the effort invested into creating the dishes, Dokko noted that the restaurant also is based around simplicity.

“All it really is is salts and sauces,” he said. “Me, Andre and Clark, we make all the sauces ourselves, and we have special salts that we use, but there’s not any cheese. It’s simple — with the best quality.”

In fact, he said that he’s interested in the establishment becoming a Michelin Star restaurant and cited the quality of ingredients as important to that goal.

“We have great vendor relationships,” he said. “They do the best to give us their best.”

One of the most highly regarded delicacies the restaurant offers, he said, is Wagyu beef of grade A5, the highest quality version. Imported from Japan, Wagyu comes from specially bred cows, providing a highly marbled texture and rich flavor.

“It is indescribable,” he said. “It’s like butter melting in your mouth.”

Because of the prestige associated with Wagyu, the menus will feature a thorough list of details, such as the location where each cow was bred and dates establishing the freshness of the meat.

One prominent feature that makes the restaurant different is the presence of a grill right in the center of the table.

“There’s nothing better,” said Dokko, noting that he is trying to replicate the experience of eating at a grill with friends. “When you order a big steak, the first bite is delicious, and the last third of the steak is cold.

Here, every bite has energy.”

He also cited the staff, which he describes as equally dedicated to the restaurant’s vision, as important to the experience. Staff members show customers how to use the grill.

Despite the work that staff invest into the restaurant, they will politely decline any tips.

“It’s part of Korean culture,” Dokko said. “We’re creating a team that we want to be as authentic as possible. We’re not toning things down.

Tips are an American thing.”

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“I ended up buying everything,” Bloomfield said with a laugh about the clothes she modeled during the fashion show. “(Janet Carr) did great matching the clothes with the people.”

However, Bloomfield and the Cascades’ Ann King, who co-chaired and modeled for the fashion show, said it was fun to dress in clothes they normally wouldn’t wear.

The Cascades of Sarasota Women’s Club has been waiting two years to be able to host the fashion show. The club’s 2020 and 2021 shows were canceled due to the pandemic.

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Ocala’s Lauren Proctor-Brown, who plays in both mixed action with men and all-women events, expected a rough-andtumble match.

“Women can be cattier,” Proctor-Brown said with a smile. “These games can be very physical.”

Polo continues Thursday, April 7, at the Sarasota Polo Club with the Sunset Polo Happy Hour and Sunday, April 10, with the Hillcroft Invitational.

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EGGSTRAVAGANZA Runs from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at Waterside Park, 7301 Island Cove Terrace, Lakewood Ranch. Lakewood Ranch Community Activities presents Eggstravaganza, an egg hunt with more than 10,000 eggs for children 3 and up. The event also includes the grand arrival of the Easter Bunny, face-painting, music, refreshments and more. The cost is $10 per child for Lakewood Ranch residents and $20 for nonresidents. The event is limited to 500 children. To register for the event or for more information, go to MyLWR.com.

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MEET THE AUTHOR Runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Lakefront Drive in Waterside Place at Lakewood Ranch. Meet authors Michelle Schuman, who will talk about her latest book, “Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun,” and Ann Votta, who will talk about her book “Reunited: When the Past Becomes a Present.” Schuman is scheduled for 10 a.m. until noon, while Votta will sign books from noon to 2 p.m.

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home in Lake Club topped all transactions in this week’s real estate. Charles and Terri Dees sold their home at 16263 Daysailor Trail to Peter Marsella, of Greenwich, Connecticut, for $2,001,600. Built in 2018, it has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,087 square feet of living area. It sold for $977,500 in 2018.

WATERLEFE GOLF AND RIVER CLUB

Daniel Edison Diskin, trustee, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, sold the home at 918 Maritime Court to Harold and Joyce Huston, of Sarasota, for $1.3 million. Built in 2003, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 4,079 square feet of living area. It sold for $1,335,000 in 2005.

Peter Christopher Hankey and Victoria Carol-Lynn Stevenson, of Ontario, Canada, sold their home at 7314 Heritage Grand Place to Ludvik and Anita Podolinsky, of Bradenton, for $1.2 million. Built in 2010, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,422 square feet of living area.

It sold for $660,000 in 2016.

SW FL Land Co. LLC, Equity Trust Co. as Custodian FBO Full Throttle Properties 401K, Karl Helbig, trustee, Equity Trust Co. as Custodian FBO IRA Account #200220096 and Premier Capital Properties Inc. sold the home at 6188 Palomino Circle to Joseph and Kimberly Garcia, of Sicklerville, New Jersey, for $896,000. Built in 2004, it has five bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 3,481 square feet of living area.

It sold for $494,600 in 2004.

David and Kathleen Clark, of Swansea, Massachusetts, sold their home at 6135 Palomino Circle to Rickey and Bambi Andrews, of Bradenton, for $650,000. Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,101 square feet of living area. It sold for $349,900 in 2007.

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Dulcie Ann Fusillo, of Wake Forest, North Carolina, sold her home at 438 147th Court N.E. to Michael and Arominta Blake, of Sarasota, for $867,000. Built in 2012, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,178 square feet of living area. It sold for $542,500 in 2020.

BRADEN WOODS

Michael and Lorraine Morrissey, of Aurora, Ohio, sold their home at 6207 98th St. E. to Garrison Maxwell Hoyt, of Bradenton, for $810,000.

Built in 1991, it has four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,418 square feet of living area.

Daniel Virkus and Morgan Thomas, of Bradenton, sold their home at 6222 Braden Run to Calvin and Meghan Kwekel, of Bradenton, for $683,500. Built in 1984, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,103 square feet of living area. It sold for $434,900 in 2019.

Michael Busby, of Port Orange, sold his home at 336 River Enclave Court to Stephen and Mary Glaesser, of Bradenton, for $523,000. Built in 2009, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,055 square feet of living area. It sold for $254,000 in 2015.

Madison and Blake Mealy, of Bradenton, sold their home at 13740 American Prairie Place to James Torres II, of Hailey, Idaho, for $775,000. Built in 2019, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,192 square feet of living area. It sold for $455,000 in 2021.

Todd and Carisa Albrecht, of New Smyrna Beach, sold their home at 14208 11th Terrace N.E. to Mickey Andrew Escala and Sharyl Kay Escala, of Bradenton, for $1.04 million. Built in 2007, it has three bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,584 square feet of living area.

GREYHAWK LANDING

David and Patricia Christeson, of Newburgh, Indiana, sold their home at 405 Petrel Trail to Paul Pacini and Marie Fi Pacini, of Woburn, Massachusetts, for $930,000. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,170 square feet of living area. It sold for $612,000 in 2020.

Robert and Deborah Orsillo, of Sorrento, sold their home at 12255 Lavender Loop to Reid Edward Dean and Michelle Dean, of Bradenton, for $560,000. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,257 square feet of living area. It sold for $376,000 in 2021.

POMELLO PARK

John and Janet Baroncelli, of Waynesboro, Tennessee, sold their home at 22906 67th Ave. E. to Ann Zaeske-Janke, of Naperville, Illinois, for $925,000. Built in 2000, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,325 square feet of living area.

COUNTRY CLUB

Thomas and Debra Bishop, of Bradenton, sold their home at 7043 Vilamoura Place to Robert and Susan Burns, of South Dennis, Massachusetts, for $911,000. Built in 2004, it has two bedrooms, twoand-a-half baths, a pool and 2,680 square feet of living area. It sold for $515,000 in 2004.

Robert Martell sold the home at 12122 Thornhill Court to Stephen Bristol Herrick and Mariette Sutherland Herrick, of Cumber-

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Michel and Sylvie Haski, of Vaud, Switzerland, sold their home at 7218 Heritage Grand Place to Peter Hankey and Victoria Stevenson, of Bradenton, for $950,000. Built in 2008, it has three bedrooms, threeand-a-half baths, a pool and 3,391 square feet of living area. It sold for $740,000 in 2014.

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land, Rhode Island, for $650,000.

Built in 2012, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,840 square feet of living area.

This Waterlefe Golf and River Club home at 918 Maritime Court sold for $1.3 million. It has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 4,079 square feet of living area.

Lane E. to Blake Juan Tanon and Emily Rose Stewart, of Port Charlotte, for $655,000. Built in 1993, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,138 square feet of living area. It sold for $299,900 in 2018.

GREENBROOK

Lori Cullen, as Personal Representative, sold the home at 15623 Lemon Fish Drive to Shayla Macheel, of Lakewood Ranch, for $635,000.

Built in 2014, it has four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,754 square feet of living area. It sold for $320,000 in 2014.

Bradenton, sold their home at 13604 Second Ave. E. to Douglas and Camilla King, of Bradenton, for $635,000. Built in 1989, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,027 square feet of living area. It sold for $370,000 in 2019.

DESOTO LAKES COUNTRY CLUB COLONY

Calvin and Meghan Kwekel, of Bradenton, sold their home at 4827 W. Country Club Drive to Thomas and Holly Russo, of Sarasota, for $624,900. Built in 1979, it has four bedrooms, three baths and 2,654

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Joshua Perk, of Holly Springs, North Carolina, sold his home at 10619 Glencorse Terrace to Robert and Kelly Shennett, of Ocean City, Maryland, for $740,000. Built in 2013, it has three bedrooms, threeand-a-half baths, a pool and 2,651 square feet of living area. It sold for $399,900 in 2019.

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Patricia Gregoire, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the home at 12102 Whistling Way to Kevin and Susan Connolly, of Lakewood Ranch, for $667,000. Built in 1998, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,342 square feet of living area. It sold for $171,900 in 2011.

Downtown St. Petersburg

Stacey Anne Abraham, trustee, of Charleston, South Carolina, sold the home at 11804 Winding Woods Way to Jason Craig Remmer, of San Diego, for $625,000. Built in 1999, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,288 square feet of living area. It sold for $261,000 in 2014.

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Michael and Mary Elizabeth Altman, of Wailuku, Hawaii, sold their home at 6556 Meandering Way to Mary Kelly, trustee, of Lakewood Ranch, for $551,500. Built in 1998, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,765 square feet of living area. It sold for $225,000 in 2011.

Downtown Sarasota

Enrique and Anna Alvarado, of Lakewood Ranch, sold their home at 11209 Blue Sage Place to Patrick Michael Kelley and Joana Alvarado Kelley, of Lakewood Ranch, for $425,000. Built in 1995, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,914 square feet of living area. It sold for $270,000 in 2015.

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square feet of living area. It sold for $275,000 in 2016.

COUNTRY CLUB EAST

John Uttero, of Lakewood Ranch, sold his home at 7214 Belleisle Glen to Christina Heidenberger, of Bradenton, for $615,000. Built in 2013, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,794 square feet of living area.

WATERBURY GRAPE FRUIT

Efrain Tamayo and Barbara Wynn Tamayo, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3730 225th St. E. to Eric Maser and Stephanie Schenk, of Bradenton, for $610,000. Built in 1990, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,614 square feet of living area. It sold for $370,000 in 2020.

RIVERDALE REVISED

Raymond Tore Nilssen and Mary Eleanor Nilssen sold their home at 4219 Second Ave. N.E. to Universal Holdings Group 407 LLC for $590,000. Built in 1981, it has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,395 square feet of living area.

It sold for $190,000 in 2000.

EDGEWATER

Beverly Brown, of Lakewood Ranch, sold her home at 6718 Oak Manor Drive to Brandon Lambiris and Brittany Najmy-Lambiris, of Lakewood Ranch, for $585,000. Built in 1998, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,671 square feet of living area. It sold for $275,000 in 2003.

SABAL HARBOUR

Edward Ernest Kish Jr., of Parrish, sold his home at 10136 Reagan Dairy Trail to Rafael Urbina and Ana Gabriela Borges Urbina, of Quincy, Massachusetts, for $540,000. Built in 2000, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,372 square feet of living area. It sold for $325,000 in 2019.

DEL WEBB

Carole Weber, trustee, of Boca Raton, sold the home at 17413 Hampton Falls Terrace to Ciarra Lodin, of Bradenton, for $525,000. Built in 2018, it has two bedrooms, three baths and 1,574 square feet of living area. It sold for $366,700 in 2018.

RIVER SOUND

James Bender, of Peyton, Colorado, sold his home at 5311 Tide Point Way to Paolo and Maria Maiorino, of Ontario, Canada, for $500,000.

Built in 2011, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,535 square feet of living area. It sold for $170,000 in 2011.

PINEHURST ESTATES

Ana Paula Santos Csch and Willys Dos Santos, of Lakewood Ranch, sold their Unit 102 condominium at 7390 Eleanor Circle to Margo Love Story, of Sarasota, for $475,000.

Built in 2002, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,526 square feet of living area. It sold for $315,000 in 2006.

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Daniel Tommasone and Jerry Tommasone, of Schenectady, New York, sold their home at 7607 Birds Eye Terrace to Michael John Murray Jr. and Danelle Murray, of Bradenton, for $475,000. Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,650 square feet of living area. It sold for $196,500 in 2014.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2022

NATURE’S BEAUTY WITH

FORECAST THURSDAY, APRIL 7 High: 82 Low: 64 Chance of rain: 71%

FRIDAY, APRIL 8 High: 75 Low: 62 Chance of rain: 3%

SUNRISE / SUNSET Sunrise Sunset Thursday, April 7

7:13a

7:50p

Friday, April 8

7:12a

7:51p

Saturday, April 9

7:11a

7:51p

Sunday, April 10

7:10a

7:52p

Monday, April 11

7:09a

7:52p

Tuesday, April 12

7:08a

7:53p

Wednesday, April 13

7:07a

7:53p

MOON PHASES

SATURDAY, APRIL 9 High: 74 Low: 53 Chance of rain: 0%

SUNDAY, APRIL 10 High: 77 Low: 54 Chance of rain: 2% Gordon Silver captured this green anole exploring the landscape in Del Webb of Lakewood Ranch.

May 8 First

May 15 Full

May 22 Last

May 30 New

RAINFALL Monday, March 28

0

Tuesday, March 29

0

Wednesday, March 30

0

Thursday, March 31

0

Friday, April 1

0.06

Saturday, April 2

0.14 0

Sunday, April 3

*Rainfall totals from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport

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YEAR TO DATE: 2022 4.18 in.

2021 5.10 in.

MONTH TO DATE: 2022 0.52 in.

2021 0.37 in.

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32 Draw in 1 Goes behind a curtain, say 34 On the ___ (fleeing) 35 Drop by 6 Human rights lawyer 37 (Don’t) Film without Clooney lighting?

10 Tiff 43 Praline ingredients 14 Playtex undergarment 46 American uncle 17 It may be pimiento47 Goals stuffed 48 Louvre Pyramid archi18 Smokes minus the tect I.M. smoke 49 Hybrid utensil 20 Pop flies’ paths 50 Sour mood 21 Hard rain 22 (Do) Visualize the actor’s 52 ___ Light (beer brand, movements before filming? informally) 54 Veggie in homemade red 25 “Do ___ Otters: A Book hair dye, say About Manners” 55 (Do) Decide on a 26 Binary digit soundtrack?

27 Window shade 58 It gets under your skin 28 Event with floats 59 Simple top 29 Dazzle 60 Like a bad “twin” 30 Cheek or lip

61 Word before “chocolate” or “sauce” 62 Dogs with many hybrid breeds 64 Huge fan 65 Porcupine descriptor 67 The Matterhorn’s range 68 Spreading unchecked 71 ATM digits 72 Word after a sigh 73 Potential lead for a detective 76 Point in soccer?

77 (Don’t) Edit out the good-looking extra?

81 Lions are big ones 82 Like a haunted house 84 “U r 2 funny!”

85 From Havana, say 86 Doctor’s org.

87 Musical work

88 Also 89 Wipes up or wipes down 90 (Do) Keep filming during fight scenes?

96 Port-au-Prince’s Caribbean country 97 Actor McKellen 98 Blue-green 99 Burial place 103 “Me, Myself & ___” (Jim Carrey film) 105 Christmas beverage 108 Edinburgh native 110 Bestie, e.g.

111 At no charge?

112 (Don’t) Get in front of your camera?

115 Likelihood 116 One might be compulsive 117 Use mousse on, maybe

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Puzzle Three Clue: N equals C

53 Affectedly creative 54 What duvets cover 56 “Dear ___ Hansen” 57 Nice dinnerware 58 Summer treat on a stick 62 Hunter-gatherer diet 63 “I’m ___, and I like warm hugs” (“Frozen”) DOWN 64 Whirlpool tubs 1 Hostess snack cakes 65 Goad into action 2 Glazer of “Broad City” 66 Feel sorry for 3 Jumps headfirst 68 Steerable toy vehicle, 4 Anticipatory night familiarly 5 Something to save for a 69 Hertz competitor friend 70 Black Sabbath super6 “___ Q” (musical inspired fans, e.g. by “Sesame Street”) 72 De Armas of “Knives 7 “Om,” for one Out” 8 Fitting 73 It’s big in jazz 9 Bound upward 74 Tehran’s home 10 Sausage such as sop75 Writes pressata 77 Bread or cabbage 11 Poke 78 Fail like a movie 12 “You can’t deny this” 79 “This is no longer for 13 Disapproving sound me” 14 Slippery item in comedy 80 Whom a host hosts 15 Cracker brand 82 Roasting skewer 16 Source of a soothing gel 83 Honeybunch 19 Winding ski race 87 Boo-boo 21 Muggy 88 Voices below altos 23 Does a dairy farm task 89 Moretz of “Kick-Ass” 24 German sausage, 91 Goes over well, as a joke familiarly 92 Detroit team with a 29 Primates Jane Goodall striped mascot studied 93 ___ Mae Lee of “Pitch 31 False ___ (racing Perfect” blunder) 94 Maker of Nerds and 33 Nail polish brand Goobers 36 “Heavens!”

95 Secret stores 38 Pic under a sock, maybe 100 Diva’s realm 39 Berets, e.g.

101 Wayne ___ (Batman’s 40 “Great” detective of home) kid lit 102 Give divine favor to 41 Peter Parker portrayer 103 Revered person Carney 104 Second try 42 High-flying toys 106 Stats on college apps 43 Wordless “Hey!” 107 Post-punk subculture 44 Olympic sword 109 Bygone Russian 45 Pigeon’s place autocrat 50 Time on a job 112 Low key?

51 Anaheim Ducks’ org.

113 Big Apple sch.

52 “High” time 114 $$$ exec 118 Hairstyles for Diana Ross and Pam Grier, sometimes 119 ___ Angeles 120 Model Holliday 121 Magenta and others 122 Crowd sounds

By Luis Campos Celebrity Cipher cryptograms are created from quotations by famous people, past and present.

Each letter in the cipher stands for another.

Puzzle Two Clue: B equals Y

DOS AND DON’TS OF FILMMAKING by Taylor Johnson and Christina Iverson. Edited by David Steinberg

Puzzle One Clue: O equals F

crossword

sudoku Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.

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Painting

DEADLINES: Classifieds - Monday at Noon

3BR/3.5BA PANTHER Ridge nr LWR. Gated Custom Home with 2 lakes, lg lanai with tropical pool, Koi Pond, 4C garage, 30x40 workshop/barn, circular drive with fountain, $2,330,000.

941-737-0409 for appt Bright Realty/Abbott/Kasper MLS A4526534

CARLO DATTILO Painting Licensed & insured. Interior/ Exterior painting including drywall repair and retexturing.

Wallpaper installation & removal, pressure washing. Residential & commercial, condos. Honest & reliable.

Free estimates. 941-744-1020.

35+ years experience.

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Pets

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856-981-2047.

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OUTDOOR TABLE, hexagon shaped with tempered glass top.

Six chairs, comfortable cushions. $199 OBO. 941-896-4017 RED SKELTON lithograph painting (Henry Fonda caricature) "RODEO CLOWN" $145.

Dollhouse barn 1/2'' scale $50.

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Call 516-528-5876

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auto

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Call 941-726-2677.

MOVING SALE Saturday April 09, 9:00 AM-2:00 PM 6739 Coyote Ridge Cr. Downsizing, lots of household items. Cash only please.

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Gina Lollobrigida Puzzle Three Solution: “I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I’m forced to.”

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ENGLEWOOD 7108 Trout Lane Amee Sams & Beth Sargent

F LO R I DA GU L F COAST LUXU RY L E A D E R THE CHOICE WHEN SELLING YOUR HOME

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SARASOTA

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