East County Observer 10.6.22

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Ravaged by the storm Category 4 Ian drops its eye on Myakka City.

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Veronica Young stands in front of her flooded home and pickup (left) at Singletary Road and Riverview Road in Myakka City in the wake of Cateogry 4 Hurricane Ian.

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Manatee County employee Angie Wilson (above) could have spent Oct. 1 in the comfort of her home following Hurricane Ian, but instead decided to comfort those in Myakka City.

Wilson had an ice machine in her Bradenton home that produces 700 pounds of ice per day. She and her husband, Scott Wilson, use the ice to hydrate employees of Scott Wilson’s lawn care business, GRO Green Lawn & Landscape Maintenance, as well as for their own hunting and fishing trips.

She went to the Myakka Community Center, scooping the ice into bags for those in need.

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Overflow from the Myakka River floods Rose and Clyde Alstrom’s barn during Hurricane Ian.

Myakka City family spends 12 tense hours as flooding waters threaten their home and their lives. SEE PAGE 3A

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A downed tree blocks the main walkway through Nate’s Honor Animal Rescue.

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Rob Oglesby, Nate’s Honor Animal Rescue’s development director, says panels from the cottages that were wrecked by Hurricane Ian are salvageable.

Hurricane not rough on animal shelters Nate’s Honor Animal Rescue and Humane Society at Lakewood Ranch make it through Hurricane Ian with limited damage.

her Lakewood National home and was looking for something to do.

She decided to head over to Nate’s Honor to help with clean-up efforts Sept. 30.

“I said, ‘I’m going to Nate’s because it’s a happy place,’” Osterling said. “I got my cup of coffee, came here and whatever Rob (Oglesby) wants me to do, I’ll do it.”

Nate’s Honor Animal Rescue and the Humane Society at Lakewood Ranch saw minimal damage after Hurricane Ian made its way through Lakewood Ranch and Myakka City.

Rob Oglesby, the nonprofit’s development director, said he wasn’t too concerned about how Hurricane Ian would impact the nonprofit’s facilities because the cottages and

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akewood National’s Barbie Osterling and Waterside’s Jill Hennessey were busy picking up palm fronds and moving them to the edge of the Nate’s Honor Animal Rescue property so they could be taken away.

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new facilities are hurricane proof.

In the days leading up to Hurricane Ian, Nate’s Honor was able to find foster homes for 32 dogs and 15 cats.

Oglesby said that in the past, the property always would flood during heavy rains.

“I would have had my knee-high boots on and would have been going through about a foot of water hoping the sump pumps were working if we still had power,” Oglesby said.

“Those days are gone, thank heavens.”

Nate’s Honor raised its property 2 feet with drainage. Hurricane Ian was a test to show whether the property would flood. There weren’t any parts of the property that flooded except a puddle where a yard drain

Dogs Nate’s Honor Animal Rescue found foster homes for during Hurricane Ian

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Cats Nate’s Honor Animal Rescue found foster homes for during Hurricane Ian

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Cats at Humane Society at Lakewood Ranch

Dogs at Humane Society at Lakewood Ranch

hadn’t been opened.

“They don’t open them until it’s sodded because they don’t want the pipes filled with mud,” Oglesby said. “If it was sodded, all that water would have gone into the drains.”

Nate’s had about 40 feet of white vinyl fencing knocked down, two trees were uprooted, two new cottages that were under construction were destroyed and several downed palm fronds littered the grounds.

Oglesby said panels from the two cottages that were wrecked were salvageable.

Damage to the property will not postpone the completion of Nate’s

$10 million expansion.

“Worst case scenario, we’ll just have two cottages that aren’t done when everything’s supposed to be (finished) in February,” he said.

At the Humane Society at Lakewood Ranch, Dani Ziegler, the nonprofit’s manager, said the house and shelter had limited damage, and they were without power and water. Some of the play yards were muddy and the pond was full.

“Other than that, we have, thankfully, minimal damage,” Ziegler said.

“We have some branches down and a few shingles on the roof are off.

Nothing major.”

When staff members walked through the doors Sept. 29, Ziegler said the 10 cats and 12 dogs at the shelter were thrilled to see them.

“It was such a relief,” Ziegler said.

“I hated not being able to take them home with me. I went as soon as it wasn’t dark out and safe. The animals all made it through the storm just fine. They were very happy to see us and get all the love and attention.”

Ziegler said the nonprofit had a generator that could be used to turn fans on if power wasn’t restored.

The Humane Society at Lakewood Ranch closed to give the nonprofit time to fix the roof and clean up the grounds, but Ziegler said the nonprofit will reopen Oct. 7.

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TWELVE HOURS OF TERROR

Sarasota’s Ashlee Middleton and her family escaped flooding waters with the help of neighbors and emergency workers.

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shlee Middleton had no idea evacuating from her home near Siesta Drive in Sarasota and sheltering in Myakka City during Hurricane Ian would lead to the most stressful 12 hours of her life.

She didn’t know Hurricane Ian had its eye on the home of her parents, Rose and Clyde Alstrom, on River Road.

11 P.M. SEPT. 28 AT THE ALSTROM HOME

Middleton and her husband, Ken Middleton, were able to finally get their children, 2-year-old Brooke and 4-year-old Liam, to sleep. She was feeling good about her decision to shelter in Myakka City because her parents had a generator and were far from the coast. Middleton’s family and her dad were joined by her uncle, Myakka City’s Brian Alstrom, as well as her brother, Billy Alstrom, who lived on Cortez Road by the bridge to Bradenton Beach and thought evacuating to Myakka City would be a good idea.

Power was crucial to the Middletons because Brooke Middleton has cystic fibrosis and needed power to do physical therapy twice a day.

Middleton began getting nervous, though, as she heard parts of the aluminum roof being pulled from the home as the winds picked up. The children were awake again, and they all moved to a bathroom where she distracted them with videos on her phone.

“As a parent, it was very terrifying, but I knew my dad said we were safe and it wasn’t the actual roof coming off but the top portion,” Middleton said.

Middleton still decided to check things out and looked outside. Water from the overflowing Myakka River had come up to the barn, which was behind the house.

“My dad said, ‘It’s never flooded here, we’re not in a flood zone,’” Middleton said.

They all tried to get some sleep.

3 A.M. SEPT. 29

Middleton just couldn’t sleep. She looked outside toward the barn once again. In the barn’s faint lights, she could see the glistening water, which was surrounding her brother’s truck tires. She knew the water was getting close to the house. She woke up her father and brother.

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Rose Alstrom, who was on vacation in North Carolina, received a call from Ashlee Middleton saying the house was surrounded by water.

“I was nervous,” Rose Alstrom said.

“I started making calls to everybody we could think of. We called three fire rescues. I put a post on Myakka City 411 (on Facebook) for any local people with airboats, but the winds were still really strong.”

Panther Ridge’s Tiffany Sisk, who had never met the Alstroms or Middletons before, saw Alstrom’s post on Facebook and commented, “I don’t have a boat, but I’ve got a big truck, and I’m on my way.”

“I have my EMT license, so it was kind of an automatic response,” Sisk said. “If people are in need, I’m going to go.”

Middleton said she could tell her father was stressed.

“I said to him, ‘I’m getting scared; the water’s coming up a lot faster, isn’t it?’” she said. “He was like, ‘Yes, Ashlee.’”

Middleton knew her family shouldn’t wade through the water because no one knew if there were down power lines or even alligators.

The Alstroms decided to move all the vehicles to River Road, which was higher ground. They knew it was a risk, but without their vehicles and not knowing when someone could help them, they didn’t know how

they would make it out.

Meanwhile, Sisk ran into Manatee County Sheriff’s Office deputies in the field, who had boats and were trying to make their way to the family. They were having trouble because of downed trees and power lines.

Sisk called Cody Duncan from Cody’s Tree and Debris to get a bulldozer. With his help, they slowly made their way down River Road.

7:15 A.M. SEPT. 29

Her father, brother, uncle and husband were all outside on the road as the the water continued to approach the home. Deputies had contacted them by phone and told Middleton to dress her children in bright clothing and write her name and Social Security number on everyone.

“That’s when I started to get very panicked,” she said. “It was scary.

We had nothing there that I knew of at the time to float. The generator went out, so the kids and I were in total darkness. When I saw the cows and how deep they were in the water, I got really upset because I was afraid we were going to watch them drown.”

Middleton was relieved to see her father in his giant truck making his way through deep water toward the home. They all piled into the truck.

“The water was so deep it was coming in through all the doors of the truck,” Middleton said.

But they reached River Road, and they saw Manatee County Search and Rescue was finally able to make it to them along with deputies.

“We probably did things we should not have done to get out,” Middleton said. “But there’s a sense of peace that comes from seeing four Sheriff’s Office trucks, a boat and others. I’m so thankful.”

The water nears Rose and Clyde Alstrom’s Myakka City home during Hurricane Ian. Clyde Alstrom and his family were able to evacuate before the water got to the house.

7:30 A.M. SEPT. 29

Although the Middleton family was safe in Middleton’s SUV on River Road, the obstacles just kept coming.

They started making their way down toward Fruitville Road when they saw a huge tree blocking the road with power lines surrounding it. They decided to turn back and try State Road 70. Unfortunately, they came to a bridge that was completely submerged and cars were stalling out as they tried to make it across. But their vehicle made it through.

“That was another one of those terrifying moments because we didn’t know where we were going to be safe outside of our car,” Middleton said. “Fortunately, we made it through that area.”

The Middletons eventually made their way back to their home in Sarasota and found it was without power and their water was on a boil advisory, so they decided to stay with Ashlee Middleton’s grandmother, who lives in Sarasota and had power and internet.

Clyde Alstrom went home with Billy Alstrom to find Billy’s house on Cortez was not impacted by the storm.

The cows at Rose and Clyde Alstrom’s property in Myakka City wade through water as it approaches the home.

10 A.M., SEPT. 29

Clyde Alstrom and Ken Middleton were able to go back to the Alstrom home in Myakka and found the water had stopped at the porch of the onestory ranch.

The barn was flooded, but the home was OK. Their cows were all alive and safe.

THE AFTERMATH

Middleton said she has peace now that she and her family are safe after 12 hours that were mentally and physically exhausting.

“I’m thankful for where we are now,” she said. “Going outside, it just seems like an average day. It just makes it seem like the experience was almost not real. It’s something I’ll definitely never, ever forget.”

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Sarasota’s Ken Middleton, his wife, Ashlee Middleton, and children, 2-yearold Brooke and 4-year old Liam, are grateful for everyone who helped them evacuate from Myakka City during Hurricane Ian.

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WAITING FOR HELP

There wasn’t much the residents could do as they waited for help.

“We did a lot of praying,” said Myakka City resident Gail Nagy.

“As the eye got nearby, all of a sudden, the wind and rain was pulled every which way. Upside down. Left.

Right. And that lasted longer than I was expecting. There’s nothing you can do, so you just have to ride it out and pray for God’s mercy and grace.”

By Oct. 1, floodwaters from the Myakka River covered large swaths of the area, infiltrating homes and leaving some residents stranded on their property. The East Manatee Fire Rescue and Manatee Search and Rescue were involved in operations to transport residents along Taylor Road, as well as on Singletary Road, to safety.

Saddlebag Creek resident Regis Champ, who has lived in the area for two-and-a-half years, said the community had previously seen flooding from the creek, which flows alongside the subdivision, but said it was the first time the waters had risen to nearly waist-deep heights, although they spared his home, which sits at a higher elevation.

He said fortunately all his animals survived, as he had built pallets, with hay on top, that kept his Nigerian Dwarf Goats above the water.

“This was catastrophic,” he said.

Manatee Search and Rescue employee Jared Leggett, a native of Bradenton, called the disaster one of the worst he had seen.

He said navigating the waters by boat was difficult, due not only to objects underneath including lawn decorations, but also to the fastmoving currents.

The county used drones flown by Airborne International Response Team, working alongside multiple fire departments including the East

Manatee Fire Rescue, which can employ techniques such as thermal imaging, to spot stranded residents.

Residents of Myakka City were uncertain about the future.

Resident Veronica Young said she didn’t know how she would deal with her uninsured home off Singletary Road, which was flooded with waistdeep water.

However, she said the family does have an RV and hoped her husband, Timothy Young, a well-known builder in Myakka City, would be able to complete the needed repairs on their home.

Warren Kelly, who lives near Wauchula Road, said his livelihood had been impacted by the destruction of his tool sheds, where he stores the tools he uses to work on bikes and cars. He said one of the two sheds was crushed, while another blew apart.

“It’s hard to say what we can do as a community because not everybody has the money,” Kelly said.

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However, residents said they believed they would hold strong.

Kelly said on Friday, he noticed that two trees, which had fallen in the road near his home, had been moved, apparently by neighbors.

“We’ve just got to stick strong because we are a little small part of the map in a big county,” said Kelly.

Courtney Dakin said the farm’s cleanup attempts had already seen assistance from family, friends and other members of the community.

“This is an amazing community that we have out here,” said Dakin.

“We’ve already seen so much support.”

“Everybody will help each other as they can,” said Nagy. “People put out ‘I need hay’, or ‘I need a new feed for the animals, does anybody have any?’ and usually somebody can supply it.”

“I hope we never have to go through anything like that again. I don’t wish it upon anybody, anywhere, ever,” Myakka City’s R.J. Douglas said.

“We’ll all pull together and help each other, and get it back to the way it was. That’s the way it always has been, and the way it’ll always be.”

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“They jumped in and swam — unreal — in 7 feet of water with all of that in their way,” she said. “People risked their lives to save my horses.”

One of her dogs is still missing.

Kucia’s horses are now being kept on a neighbor’s property, while the seven dogs recovered are now boarded at an animal hospital. She has created a GoFundMe account, which she said is mainly for the care the animals will require.

Manatee County rescue workers converged on the area as soon as heavy winds subsided the morning of Sept. 29, while the county set up rescue operations Oct. 1 at the Myakka City Community Center on Wauchula Road. With nonprofit organizations bringing supplies, residents were given water, food, tarps and other emergency supplies.

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“If we do not receive funding, we will not be able to help the community anymore,” Blitz said. “We are desperate for community support now more than ever. We might have to re-home horses or rethink what we do here. We finally made it through the pandemic. We had all the programming starting. The place looked incredible. We were ready and then boom! Here comes a Category 4 hurricane.”

Blitz drove up to Sarasota Manatee Association for Riding Therapy on Sept. 29, but she wasn’t ready for what she was about to see.

She had waited until there was enough light to navigate the roads the morning after Hurricane Ian swept through Myakka City.

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With the damage from Hurricane Ian, Blitz said those plans could be scrapped.

In the meantime, staff estimated SMART would be closed for programming for about two weeks as long as the nonprofit received funding to cover the cost of repairs, and volunteers helped to clear the property of debris and downed trees.

Parrish’s Corinne Adams, who has been volunteering at SMART since 2014, was one of about eight volunteers helping clear the facilities Sept.

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Adams said seeing all the damage and debris was overwhelming.

“Thank God all the horses were safe because the rest can be dealt with,” she said. “I knew it would happen because there are so many old trees on the property, but I didn’t expect this much.”

Before Hurricane Ian made its way through Florida, the SMART staff members were hard at work preparing for what was to come.

“It was all hands on deck,” Blitz said.

Staff gathered enough feed and hay to last two weeks and scrubbed all trash receptacles and filled them with water. They put the hay and water in different locations in case one was damaged.

Blitz and SMART staff braided tags into the horses’ manes and tails in case they escaped the property.

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“They’re exhausted,” she said.

“They literally went inside, laid down in their shavings and went to sleep.”

The hard work continued for staff and volunteers after seeing all the damage that was done on the property.

Besides several large trees being uprooted and the debris being scattered throughout the property, Blitz said there was roof damage and broken fences. She said a waterline below the arena burst, causing water to bubble through the ground.

A lanai on one of the buildings was severely damaged. A large tree was uprooted and tore through the lanai, which cracked the concrete floor.

As of Sept. 30, SMART still didn’t have electricity, which meant the nonprofit couldn’t get a pump working to provide water. Blitz said they have enough water to last until Oct. 5.

Stacey Volpe, the volunteer coordinator for SMART, remained hopeful.

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wo days after Hurricane Ian had devastated the immediate area, Jennifer Welde spent Sept. 30 swinging a sledge hammer, trying to tighten down straps being used to pull a fence on the property upright.

Welde is the daughter of Monica Welde, who owns the Bearadise Ranch Bear Preserve in Myakka City.

The fence borders a lake and play area for the bears and obviously needed to be repaired as soon as possible. Although trees were down all around the property, the welcome barn was damaged, and a fence around the house’s patio was destroyed, the damage was minimal compared to the flood damage that plagued many of the local residents, some who lost their homes.

During the worst of the storm, Jennifer Welde thought they would be blown away, too.

“It was terrifying,” she said.

Years from now, residents of Manatee County are likely to describe Hurricane Ian as a “near miss,” unless you happened to be living in the Myakka City area.

When Manatee County Commissioner Vanessa Baugh arrived at the Myakka Community Center on Oct. 1, where the county was organizing relief efforts, she went to a back room where they had set up television screens to watch drones fly over the area to check damage while searching for those in need.

“They put a drone in the air and we did that,” she said. “What choked me up most was seeing the water, and just the tops of homes and not knowing if anyone was in them, whether we would have a whole family of fatalities.”

Baugh said as of Oct. 3 every flooded home in Myakka City had been checked and emergency workers reported no fatalities.

Dr. Russel Vega, the medical examiner for District 12 (which includes Manatee County) confirmed two storm-related deaths on Oct. 3 that could be attributable to Hurricane Ian. However, the county didn’t release information about what caused the deaths.

Despite the tragedy, Baugh said she saw inspirational moments as well.

“What struck me the most is a positive thing, that the community has joined together trying to help each other, to make sure we all are OK.” Baugh was at the Myakka Community Center where the county was organizing relief efforts.

“They were giving out baby formula, diapers, batteries, propane tanks, tarps, ropes, ice, water ... the Salvation Army, the Red Cross, area restaurants, Meals on Wheels,” she said. “All this was brought to Myakka. Truckloads of ice. There are still people out there surrounded by water, with no power.”

The focus now is cleaning up the mess and helping those most affected.

“We have to make sure we get them on their feet,” Baugh said. “We have millions upon millions of dollars of damage.”

Although Myakka City was crushed by the storm, most of the Lakewood Ranch area suffered only minor, although expensive, damage.

On Sept. 29, as Hurricane Ian moved toward central Florida, Main Street at Lakewood Ranch shop owners were cleaning up.

Joann Kavanaugh, the owner of Arts A Blaze, was sweeping out a small amount of water that had covered the floor of her business.

She said her business suffered almost no damage and would be open Sept. 30.

“We lost a box of envelopes,” she said.

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As Hurricane Ian passed through Manatee County, it left devastation in its wake, even if it wasn’t as terrible as counties to the south. Here is a look at the hurricane’s impact in Manatee County. (Numbers as of Oct. 3)

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Feet that the Myakka River crested on Oct. 1 at Myakka River State Park (flood stage is 7 feet)

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Schools in Manatee County that transformed into shelters

Damage in millions of dollars to Manatee County homes (90% of surveys completed)

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some point during the hurricane (of 738 lift stations overall)

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Manatee County residents ordered to evacuate Zones A and B during Hurricane Ian

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Florida Power & Light customers in Manatee County who were without power during or in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian

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Angel flies through the storm at Bearadise W ith the winds of Hurricane Ian sweeping over Bearadise at more than 100 mph late on Sept. 28, Monica Welde went outside her Myakka City home to check on her beloved eight bears.

Before she could get to the bear house, the winds had ripped open the two large barn doors on her Welcome Barn, which contains her gift shop, snack bar and memorabilia.

Those barn doors had been secured by three heavy metal slats, which rested in brackets on either side of the doors. The slats horizontally crossed the doors at the bottom, middle and top on the inside of the barn. And yet, the wind lifted them right out of their brackets.

Welde’s adult daughter, Jennifer Welde, ran from the house to help her mom as the contents inside the Welcome Barn started to blow out the doors. The winds, though, were too strong and dangerous, and the two women fought through it back to the house, without managing to close those barn doors.

Monica, Jennifer and Jennifer’s 6-year-old son, Bjorn Thomas, sat in their home, feeling helpless.

“Everything was flying out (of the Welcome Barn), but we were getting blown away,” Monica Welde said.

The night simply wouldn’t end as Welde, watching the clock tick away each minute, worried about her bears.

“We were hearing noises on the roof,” she said. “I thought we were going to lose it. All I could do was pray.”

Finally, the sun peaked through enough to bring daylight to Bearadise. Welde raced to the bear house, which her late husband, Johnny, had constructed mostly out of concrete. The house and her bears were just fine.

Filled with emotion, she walked back toward her house, which sits a couple of hundred yards from the

Monica Welde shows a porcelain angel that flew from her Welcome Barn to a spot under her bedroom window during Hurricane Ian.

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bear house. The fence around her patio had been shredded, but to her surprise, her roof only had minor damage.

“The gutter was torn off, and it was hitting the side of the house,” she said of the noises she had heard hours before. “The rest of the roof was intact.”

As she walked the perimeter of the home, she noticed something white in the grass underneath her bedroom window. She walked to it.

It was a porcelain angel that was part of a floral arrangement sent to Johnny’s funeral in 2017. She kneeled to pick up the angel, seeing that it had not been damaged by the storm, and she burst into tears.

All she thought about was how this angel had to be a sign from Johnny.

Her husband, who was completely healthy at the time, told her three years before his death that they would never grow old together.

He had a premonition he would be

leaving the world early, a premonition that came about when he had a heart attack in his sleep in 2017 at the age of 60.

“But he said ‘I always will watch over you, the kids (Jennifer and Johnny Jr.), and the bears,” Welde said.

After his funeral, she took the porcelain angel, and the sympathy cards she had received at the funeral, and packed them together in a box. She put the box in a store room in her Welcome Barn.

Somehow, in the worst of the hurricane, the angel had flown out of the store room, out of the Welcome Barn and out of the box.

The opening of the barn doors faces away from the house, which was about 75 yards away, so the angel had to make a left-hand turn before landing under Welde’s bedroom window.

How could that be?

“It’s kind of a miracle if you believe in that stuff,” said Welde,

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Three days later, Welde was in her Welcome Barn, checking for damage. The gift shop was full of black dirt from the neighbor’s farm. Some of her cherished memorabilia, such as a Disney poster for the movie, “The Incredible Journey” that featured her late black bear Carroll, was on the floor, the glass frame shattered and the poster having suffered water damage. For much of the memorabilia, it was a complete loss.

A photo of Carroll with Lucille Ball survived and still hung on the wall, alongside of a rare poster of the movie “Man’s Favorite Sport?”

Welde explained that movie, which starred Rock Hudson, featured Carroll riding a motorcycle that was operated by remote control.

With damage all around her, she could smile.

“First and foremost, I am grateful we survived this,” she said. “Some were not so fortunate. This is all repairable.”

She already had canceled several upcoming tours, and she needed to clean the gift shop as soon as possible to host Halloween Tours at Bearadise. The fences on the perimeter of the property and around the bear habitats had been crushed by falling trees. Like many in Myakka City, Bearadise had no power.

But like many in Myakka City, help was on the way.

Big Cat Habitat’s Clayton Rosaire came with a crew and machinery to clear fallen trees away from the fences. A truck from Arkansas Power and Light was working on nearby power lines. A disaster relief hub was set up at the Myakka Community Center.

Most of the work at Bearadise Welde said can be accomplished by her family, which includes her son Johnny Jr., who was out of town during the hurricane. She said if anyone wants to help, Bearadise is

in need of sawdust and dog food (for the bears) that includes Monkey Crunch (the bears like it), and sweet potatoes.

Better yet, her bear Bruno, an 8-foot-tall, 750-pound Syrian brown bear, is in the final four of the America’s Favorite Pet competition that presents the winner with a $10,000 check. It would be a windfall for Bearadise’s cleanup efforts.

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Welde laughs when she considers Bruno’s main competition is a singing donkey. It feels good to laugh after a hurricane.

She talked about others in the area, such as those at Dakin Dairy, which had more than 250 cows perish in the storm.

“It is heart-wrenching,” she said.

“I’ve been here 42 years and I’ve never seen anything like this.”

She credits her late husband for getting her family and their 15-acre ranch through the storm.

“My husband was a heck of a welder and builder,” she said. “The outbuildings are mostly concrete walls. They all are intact.”

Welde was asked if she will continue to run Bearadise after another disaster.

“We have too much history here,” she said. “I will take care of these bears until they pass away. They aren’t props. They are family.”

Besides, she has magic, now sitting on a shelf in her home, for all to see.

A porcelain angel.

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

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East County’s Marlene Pell has been living alone since her husband, William Pell, died in April.

When Hurricane Ian was making its way toward Florida, she decided to evacuate to Braden River High School so she wouldn’t be alone during her first hurricane.

“I felt the Lord wanted me there,” the 82-year-old Pell said. “I had never been through a hurricane, and I didn’t want to be in a place that could get destroyed. I knew it could be dangerous to stay.”

Pell was one of more than 800 residents who found shelter at Braden River High School, which was one of 17 schools opened as shelters during Hurricane Ian. The high school also was one of four schools to be pet friendly, and it served to keep more than 200 pets safe.

By 9:30 a.m. Sept. 29, only about eight evacuees were left at the shelter, with most of them waiting for transportation to be able to return to their homes.

Cynthia Saunders, the superintendent of the School District of Manatee County, was assigned to Braden River High throughout the hurricane. She said the school had minimal damage from the hurricane

with some trees being knocked down along with the loss of power around 5:30 a.m. Sept. 29.

“We were very blessed,” Saunders said. “When you think that at one point the projection was heading toward Manatee, we’re so very fortunate we were able to escape it. Our hearts certainly go out to those in the Fort Myers area. There’s others that were far more devastated than we are.”

Parrish’s Trece Campbell was grateful for all the staff at the shelter. She and her family decided to evacuate Sept. 27 because they did the same when Hurricane Irma hit in 2017.

Campbell said Hurricane Ian wasn’t as scary as Hurricane Irma, but she was still nervous. Being surrounded by her family and other evacuees helped ease any anxiety.

“We were all together and at peace,” she said.

Campbell was able to stay in contact with neighbors in Parrish who told her they still had power and suffered little damage.

Bradenton’s Tyler Bindley evacuated to Braden River High because he was in Zone A, the first area in which Manatee County issued a mandatory evacuation.

“It was nice to have coffee the whole time,” he said.

Braden River High’s Rebecca Austerman, Prine Elementary’s Scott Flynn, Lakewood Ranch High’s Mike Staker and Jeannie Galindo, and Superintendent Cynthia Saunders care for evacuees at Braden River High School.

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Eagles used the tall tree in front of Our Lady of the Angels for years to build nests, but the tree fell during Hurricane Ian.

THE EAGLES’ TREE HAS FALLEN IN LAKEWOOD RANCH For years, people with cameras set up across from Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church on White Eagle Boulevard to take photos of the majestic bald eagles who made the tallest tree in front of the church their home.

Then came Hurricane Ian. After the Category 4 hurricane went through the area Sept. 27 and early Sept. 28, the tree toppled.

It still is only leaning as the adjacent trees are keeping it from falling all the way to the ground, but it is likely to be cut down soon as the top half of the tree hangs over the main entrance to the church.

Most of the existing nest already had been blown away, for mating eagles won’t begin building new nests for another few weeks when the mating season begins in October.

The nest made headlines in 2017 when construction crews building the church’s new 21,060-foot building had to stay 100 feet away from the nest at all times. During nesting season, from October through May, crews had to stay more than 330 feet from the nest. The guidelines have been established by the United States Fish and Wildlife Services.

The new church opened in April 2018.

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Mill Creek residents work together to cut a tree that was uprooted and almost hit a house because of Hurricane Ian.

NEIGHBORS COME TOGETHER IN MILL CREEK Bradenton’s Amanda Lewis woke up Sept. 29 to find her truck had been hit by an uprooted tree in her father’s Mill Creek driveway.

Lewis and her father, Bob Lewis, were able to safely get the truck out from under the tree with minimal damage.

Amanda Lewis said she and her father heard a larger tree down the street when it hit the ground, but they had no idea about the tree in their front yard until a neighbor notified Bob Lewis about it.

“I got kind of anxious because I didn’t

know how damaged my vehicle was,” Amanda Lewis said. “I was happy it didn’t hit my dad’s house.”

Residents all around Mill Creek were spending their morning of Sept. 29 clearing trees and debris.

Amanda and Bob Lewis, with the help of neighbors, had been trying to cut the tree that had just barely missed Bob Lewis’ neighbor’s house since 8 a.m.

“We’re all trying to get it done,” Amanda Lewis said. “Our neighbors and everyone have been awesome. It’s

that kind of community. I actually grew up on this street. This is my childhood house, and we have amazing neighbors.”

Bob Lewis said he was blessed that his property had only minimal damage.

Once he was done clearing his property, he said he was going to help his neighbors with anything they needed.

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HURRICANE IAN UNABLE TO SCARE EVERYONE

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Silver Star owner Vicki Krone and caterer Beth Culbertson served the Myakka community.

In the days leading up to Hurricane Ian, Mill Creek’s Kyle Cross focused on getting his 3-year-old son, Nick, excited for what was to come.

Cross didn’t want Nick Cross to be scared, so they talked about how there was going to be a lot of wind, rain and the possibility of losing power. Most importantly, they would be safe.

“I just kept telling him it’s going to be fun,” Cross said. “He got all excited about it. He kept looking out the window and saying, ‘The hurricane is here.’”

Although Cross’s home lost power and the pond behind his house had elevated levels of water, he was happy to see no damage had occurred to his home, besides a few pieces of fence being torn down.

“I honestly wasn’t too worried about it,” Cross said. “I brought everything from outside indoors through my garage. I just wish we didn’t lose power, but it wasn’t too bad. I’ve been through all of them, (Hurricane) Charley, (Hurricane) Irma, the rest of them.”

After ensuring his home was free of damage, Kyle and Nick Cross went across the street to help neighbors who had an uprooted tree almost hit the home next door.

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Freidrich Hoffelner, who manages the Linger Lodge RV Park, stands next to the flooded lower half of the campground. The RV Park opened Sept. 25 after two years of renovations.

TWO DAYS AFTER OPENING, RV PARK SLAMMED BY IAN Although Linger Lodge RV Park didn’t sustain any extreme damage, it did take a serious hit. The RV Park had been closed for two years due to reconstruction and upgrades and had just opened on Sept. 25. The restaurant had reopened Aug. 5.

Much of the fencing around the RV park had been blown away and two huge trees fell down. The lower half of the campground was completely submerged.

A big tree fell on the restaurant, although the damage, yet to be assessed, appears to be minimal.

“It’s going to be a lot of work,” said Freidrich Hoffelner, who manages the RV Park. “But this happens when you live in Florida. Everything can be repaired.”

He was thrilled the new clubhouse and pool cage were not damaged.

His wife, Ruth Hofer, who manages the Linger Lodge restaurant, said an inspection would have to be done on the restaurant before it could reopen.

— JAY HEATER

SILVER STAR RESTAURANT COMES THROUGH FOR THOSE IN NEED With most of Myakka City out of power after Hurricane Ian, a local restaurant served hot meals for several hours Oct. 1.

Using an outdoor grill and food donated from Gordon Food Service, Silver Star East was able to provide a meal for anyone in need.

Waves of Myakka City residents turned out, taking home hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken sandwiches, snacks and soft drinks.

“We just put together whatever we could with no power, no water, no nothing,” said Vicki Krone, who co-owns the restaurant with her sister Toni BevierSapp.

She said she found herself on the verge of tears seeing how residents who came to help came together to make the event happen.

“They will not stop thanking us,” she said of the meal recipients.

Sarasota’s Casey Thompson, a caterer with the restaurant, said she wanted to help, for she felt guilty because of how dry and safe she had managed to stay.

“I have my family, and then I have my Silver Star family, and they’re all amazing,” she said.

Krone said Rohrer’s Septic Tank and Tractor Service pumped the sewer system, allowing guests to use the restrooms.

“It’s awesome,” said Myakka City’s Bert Culbertson, who took away a meal. “I know God will bless them as they are blessing the community. They are blessed to be able to do this.”

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Mill Creek’s Kyle Cross helps his neighbor Bob Lewis cut a tree. Cross says after he saw there was no damage to his home, he started helping his neighbors clear their properties.

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River Club’s Marilyn Blazakis stands in front of the ficus fig tree she brought from Ohio and planted as a seedling 23 years ago. Hurricane Ian took it down.

She says it was the “neighborhood tree.”

The winds ripped apart the yard of East County’s Bob Bowermaster, who lives on Saxe Road, a hundred yards west of Linger Lodge.

Seven or eight trees were either totally knocked over or snapped in half.

Bowermaster pointed at a huge oak tree limb that fell just by his front door.

“My wife (Michele) and I were standing right here last night talking, and we went into the house,” said Bowermaster as he stood next to the big limb. “As soon as we went in, this fell.”

Bowermaster, who has lived there since 1988, believed a small tornado hit his street because all the trees and limbs that fell look like they had been twisted off. Manatee County did not report a tornado.

As far as the Braden River that runs alongside his home, he said he wasn’t worried about rising water, saying the river rose much higher during other hurricanes.

Bowermaster said he didn’t worry about all the cleanup work that was facing him.

“I don’t work,” said the disabled Vietnam veteran and U.S. Marine who holds a Purple Heart. “I’ve got nothing else to do.

This is like physical therapy.”

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NEIGHBORS LEND A HELPING HAND

When Dakin Dairy saw significant losses following Hurricane Ian, including about 200 cows as well as damage to its farm buildings, it wasn’t long before friends from the community arrived to assist with the situation.

Mill Creek’s Michelle Crane and her daughters, Kaylee and Ashley Crane, were among those helping clean up the pieces of the metal barn roofs the hurricane left strewn about, including in places where they might pose a hazard to the 5,000 cows on the property.

Michelle Crane said the farm’s owner, Jerry Dakin, had helped her children with raising animals of their own in the past.

Sarasota’s Donna Stevens, another helper, said she wanted to help support her friend Jerry Dakin and also to give back to a business she said filled an important need in the community for local dairy products.

“Jerry is an incredible person,” Stevens said. “He does so much for the community. If we can give back, I’m here. This is our food source. We have to protect it, and we have to know that somebody good is in charge of it.”

The tree she planted as a seedling 23 years ago was on its side, a victim of Category 4 Hurricane Ian early Thursday morning.

River Club’s Marilyn Blazakis looked down at the fallen ficus fig as if it was a family member.

“It was the tree of the neighborhood. I planted it when it was this big,” she said, holding her hands apart about a foot.

Fortunately, the big tree on her front lawn didn’t fall toward her house.

“Thank God we were so fortunate,” Blazakis said.

Her neighbors, Dede and Fred Nelson, also were fortunate as huge trees covered their lawn but didn’t hit their home.

An East Manatee Fire Rescue crew was busy cutting up a tree that was blocking the Nelsons’ driveway.

Dede Nelson complimented Battalion Chief Charles Reid for coming so quickly.

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East County’s Bob Bowermaster and his wife, Michele, were close to being hit by the huge fallen limb just outside his front door.

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“A lot of our family from other parts of the country were worried because they were seeing kind of the most catastrophic part of what was happening on the news, and they were concerned,” Kayleen McDonald said. “We stuck with trying to listen to local news and local advisories, and we felt Manatee County knew how to guide everybody to do the right thing. We now kind of feel like we know the drill.”

After a few days of stress preparing and then experiencing the hurricane, the McDonald family pulled over on the side of State Road 70 near Uihlein Road to fish.

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Kayleen McDonald, her husband, Trevor McDonald, and children, 17-year-old Clara McDonald, 15-year-old Annie McDonald and 7-year-old Nolan McDonald, moved into their Summerfield home only three days before Hurricane Ian powered through Florida.

Trever McDonald said they didn’t have furniture, only a couple of mattresses for everyone.

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n some ways, it was a punch that punctuated Riley’s Rebuilds’ ascension into the world of rebuilt carburetors.

Sure, Lakewood Ranch’s Riley Schlick-Trask already had shown she had the skill and work ethic to build her own small business from scratch. Paired with her father’s car enthusiast mechanical skills, and his insistence she earn the money to buy her own first car, Schlick-Trask embarked on a successful endeavor, rebuilding carburetors in her Bridgewater garage at the age of 14 to earn those funds.

While most teens might turn to the service industry to find a job, she had been under the hood with her dad, Dane Schlick, since she started handing him tools at age 3. Over the years, she became more involved. If her dad, who has a collection of classic cars that include his favorite 1957 Chevy Nomad, was too big to get to a spot underneath the car, she would do it.

So when it came to finding her first job, she started looking around at car parts. After seeing a pile of used carburetors, she felt she could quickly become an expert at repairing them.

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She collected old carburetors, which regulate the fuel and air ratio for internal combustion engines, for either free or up to $50, and sold them for $200 or much more. With her father agreeing to a match anything she earned, it was only a matter of months before she found a “rat-infested,” 1995 Jeep at Anderson RacePark in Palmetto to buy for $2,500.

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“It was a nasty blue,” she said. “But it had a roll cage.”

The roll cage came at the insistence of her parents, Dane and Kara, who wanted her to buy something big and slow that had a roll-bar. With her dad’s help, they spent about $500 on parts, did the mechanical work, including a new transmission, to get it running, while a friend helped them repaint it.

Life was good for Schlick-Trask, who figured she could go back to concentrating on her competitive soccer, surfing and academics (a perennial honor society member).

Rebuilding carburetors was profitable, but it would have to wait.

Then came the punch.

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Amelia Sabo, Catie Burgess, Riley Schlick-Trask, Dagny Van Aken and Elaine Zdancewicz make up the crew at Riley’s Rebuilds.

long for Schlick-Trask to get into an accident, in this case rear-ending her friend’s 2012 Honda Accord. An angry Dagny Van Aken socked her.

Van Aken, who attends Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School of Bradenton with Schlick-Trask, said her aggression was deserved since her friend had “crushed my surfboard,” which was connected to the back of the car.

Schlick-Trask laughs about the incident now with kind of a “I deserved it,” mentality, but it did change her direction. Suddenly she needed to raise $7,000 in car repairs.

So why not expand the carburetor rebuild business?

It was obvious if she needed a crew, why not enlist her friends who mostly were working minimum wage jobs. And why not include Van Aken, whose toughness under fire was apparent? Consider Schlick-Trask is a 6-foot goalie who is athletic and also has competed in wrestling and jiu jitsu.

Van Aken was working at Subway at the time, but quit when she found rebuilding carburetors for her friend was more lucrative.

Now in business for three years, the 17-year-old Schlick-Trask has four employees, all her friends, in Van Aken, Catie Burgess, Elaine Zdancewicz and Amelia Sabo. All are Saint Stephens students except for Zdancewicz, who attends Lakewood Ranch High.

It’s strictly an all-girls operation, since the boys who have visited have tended to slow down the process.

“These are all good girls, hard workers,” Dane Schlick said. “And the girls can make as much money, or as little, as they want.”

Currently, the girls spend at least two nights a week working together.

There are three basic jobs — breaking down the used carburetors, soda blasting them clean and then rebuilding them. Schlick-Trask assigns the tasks.

Actually, Zdancewicz said she is the “oddball” in the group as she only has rebuilt three carburetors.

She handles the media responsibilities, editing YouTube videos and Facebook posts. All the girls are seniors except for Zdancewicz, who is a junior.

None of the girls expects to build carburetors, or to be auto mechanics, as their primary job in the future. But it’s good money now.

Schlick-Trask will take business classes at Connecticut College, where she said she will continue on rebuilding carburetors as a side job.

“I wanted to be a lawyer,” she said.

“But I have dyslexia, and I didn’t want to read all day.”

While she might not be an auto mechanic as a main job, from it she has learned public relations, accounting, business and more.

Schlick-Trask says her rebuilt carburetor business has generated so much interest in social media that she receives inquiries on her work from all over the world.

“I was getting marriage offers,” she said of the interest. “I’ve been offered cows and chickens.”

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Hornyak said Nate’s Honor holds a special place in his heart and he wanted to help the nonprofit.

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William H. Bashaw Elementary School families were able to participate in dances and arts and crafts, enjoy food from three food trucks and listen to fifth-graders present reports on famous Latinos during the school’s Hispanic Heritage Festival on Sept. 22.

“I’m looking forward to learning something new, trying out some of the food, listening to great music and exposing them to new things,” Clayton said of Marley Miller, who is a third-grader, and Lee Miller, who is 4.

Christina Evans and her fourth-grader, Eli Evans, had fun dancing to “Los Machetes.”

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home in Country Club East at Lakewood Ranch tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Kevin Thomas Fitzgerald and Vicki Lynn Fitzgerald, of Lakewood Ranch, sold their home at 16504 Kendleshire Terrace to Erik and Lori Harpsoe, of Bradenton, for $2.28 million. Built in 2019, it has four bedrooms, fourand-a-half baths, a pool and 3,000 square feet of living area. It sold for $1,005,600 in 2019.

LAKE CLUB

Karl and Kirstina Ordetx, of Sarasota, sold their home at 7951 Matera Court to Edward Carlstrom, of Sarasota, for $1.95 million. Built in 2013, it has three bedrooms, threeand-a-half baths, a pool and 2,938 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.05 million in 2019.

COUNTRY CLUB

Robert and Sharon Girard, of Lakewood Ranch, sold their home at 6914 Dominion Lane to Brandon and Jennifer Bloodworth, of Lakewood Ranch, for $1,279,000. Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,086 square feet of living area.

COUNTRY CLUB EAST

Robin and Heather MacDonald, of Lakewood Ranch, sold their home at 14639 Castle Park Terrace to Denise Huyser, trustee, of Lakewood Ranch, for $1.25 million. Built in 2015, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,673 square feet of living area. It sold for $655,000 in 2018.

Kelly Conklin-Penwell, of Key West, sold her home at 14910 Castle Park Terrace to Thomas Looney and Teresa Looney, trustees, of Ridgefield, Connecticut, for $1.15 million.

Built in 2015, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,795 square feet of living area. It sold for $975,000 in 2021.

DEL WEBB

David and Susan LaGosh, trustees, of New Port Richey, sold the home at 6827 Gosport Cove to Vickie Lee Craun, trustee, of Battle Ground, Washington, for $1,193,000. Built in 2017, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,488 square feet of living area. It sold for $509,100 in 2017.

ESPLANADE

Jane Kusnir, trustee, of Bradenton, sold the home at 13904 Messina Loop to Robert Edward Dunphy and Sharon Ann Dunphy, of Ridgefield, Connecticut, for $1.1 million. Built in 2017, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,359 square feet of living area. It sold for $460,000 in 2017.

Steven and Sami Salvatori, trustees, of Bradenton, sold the home at 13135 Sorrento Way to Robert and Kathy Maehling, of Bradenton, for $1.05 million. Built in 2017, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,380 square feet of living area.

It sold for $602,700 in 2017.

ROSEDALE ADDITION

Jacqueline and Thomas Rogers, of Bradenton, sold their home at 5014 Tobermory Way to James and Melissa Jones, of Bradenton, for $857,000. Built in 2013, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,379 square feet of living area. It sold for $468,000 in 2018.

EDGEWATER

Robert and Kathy Maehling, of Bradenton, sold their home at 8107 Waterview Blvd. to Norman Olmstead and Sharon Patterson, of Lakewood Ranch, for $850,000.

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Built in 2000, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,765 square feet of living area. It sold for $410,000 in 2012.

MALLORY PARK

Natalie and Taylor Gilsinger, of Parrish, sold their home at 11424 Golden Bay Place to Nicholas and Sarah Morley, of Bradenton, for $825,000. Built in 2017, it has four bedrooms, three baths and 3,142 square feet of living area. It sold for $550,000 in 2021.

Robyn Allan Myers and Deirdra Myers sold their home at 11914 Blue Hill Trail to Zack Allen Taake and Amanday Lyn Taake, of Bradenton, for $789,900. Built in 2018, it has four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,854 square feet of living area. It sold for $474,900 in 2019.

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Tony and Sarah Hoskins, of Waterford, Michigan, sold their home at 1105 Bearing Court to Jeremie Dale Price and Melissa Dawn Price, of Ringgold, Georgia, for $720,500.

Built in 2016, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,980 square feet of living area. It sold for $520,000 in 2020.

WOODBROOK

Purchasing Fund 2020-1 LLC sold the home at 4538 Cedar Brush Terrace to Dana Carol Bettge, of Sarasota, for $682,700. Built in 2014, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,248 square feet of living area. It sold for $670,000 in July.

WATERLEFE

Kelly Prather, Kristi Custer and Matthew Nessetti, of Bradenton, sold their home at 704 Foggy Morn Lane to Richard Frank Rohrer and Regina Rohrer, of Bradenton, for $650,000. Built in 2001, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,003 square feet of living area. It sold for $295,000 in 2014.

This Country Club East home at home 16504 Kendleshire Terrace sold for $2.28 million. It has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,000 square feet of living area.

to Marsha and Frankie Vincent, of Bradenton, for $570,000. Built in 2011, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,108 square feet of living area. It sold for $238,000 in 2011.

CENTRAL PARK

John Egnot, of Knoxville, Tennessee, sold the home at 4734 Claremont Park Drive to Christine Sue Meier, of Bradenton, for $530,000.

Built in 2012, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,863 square feet of living area. It sold for $260,000 in 2013.

Jhon Manuel Bossa-Conrado and Mariela Mercedes Lizcano Angarita, of Bradenton, sold their home at 11107 Encanto Terrace to Nicole Kurz, of Lake Suzy, for $425,000.

Built in 2013, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,311 square feet of

living area. It sold for $255,000 in 2018.

ROSEDALE HIGHLANDS

William Roger Pike, of Newfoundland, Canada, sold the home at 9735 53rd Drive E. to Richard Gallant and Arleen Jane Gallant, of Seekonk, Massachusetts, for $525,000. Built in 2006, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,633 square feet of living area. It sold for $275,000 in 2010.

GREENBROOK

Margaret Bennett, of Georgetown, South Carolina, sold the home at 6344 Golden Eye Glen to Brian and Heather Baty, of Bradenton, for $524,900. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,034 square feet of living area. It sold for $189,000 in 2008.

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VIRGINIA WATER

Paul and Maxine Smith, trustees, sold the home at 6701 Virginia Crossing to Ulf Lennart Stridh and Mary Elizabeth Beirne, of Armonk, New York, for $630,000. Built in 1995, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,242 square feet of living area. It sold for $282,000 in 1997.

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Raymond and Kim Poulin sold their home at 12421 Perennial Place to Glenn and Theresa Gauvin, of Acton, Maine, for $625,000. Built in 2020, it has two bedrooms, twoand-a-half baths, a pool and 1,901 square feet of living area. It sold for $625,000 in June.

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Elliott and Robin Varon, of Bradenton, sold their home at 4858 68th St. Circle E. to Marcos and Lillane Campos, of Bradenton, for $611,000. Built in 2015, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,014 square feet of living area. It sold for $375,000 in 2017.

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RIVER CLUB SOUTH

George Francis and Rachel Taylor, of Bradenton, sold their home at 10126 Glenmore Ave. to Stanley and Edith Gontarek, of Bradenton, for $600,000. Built in 1999, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,963 square feet of living area. It sold for $374,900 in 2007.

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James and Melissa Jones, of Bradenton, sold their home at 8605 53rd Place E. to Thomas and Jacqueline Rogers, of Bradenton, for $600,000.

Built in 2000, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,823 square feet of living area. It sold for $500,000 in 2021.

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Darlene Parker, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the home at 8709 52nd Drive E. to Gary and Susan Hall, of Bradenton, for $515,000. Built in 1994, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,490 square feet of living area. It sold for $331,000 in 2021.

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To register or for more information, go to MyLWR.com.

FIELD BOCCE Runs from 11 a.m. to noon at Waterside Park, 7500 Island Cove Terrace, Lakewood Ranch. Learn the basics of bocce and enjoy a game in Waterside Park. The event is free for Lakewood Ranch residents and $10 for nonresidents. To register or for more information, go to MyLWR. com.

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MUSIC ON MAIN Runs from 6-9 p.m. at Main Street at Lakewood Ranch. Music on Main features the Trevor Bystrom Band, which will play calypso, reggae, Latin and blues music. At the opposite end of the street will be a DJ that will keep you dancing with today’s Top 100 hits.

As always, the free block party features food vendors, beer trucks, sponsor booths and plenty of kids games and rides. Proceeds benefit Lakewood Ranch Community Activities. For more information, go to MyLWR.com.

SUNDAY, OCT. 9

FARMERS MARKET Runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Lakefront Drive in Waterside Place, Lakewood Ranch. The Farmers Market at Lakewood Ranch will run year-round every Sunday. Vendors will be offering seafood, eggs, meats, dairy products, pastas, bakery goods, jams and pickles among other items. Other features are children’s activities and live music. For more information, go to MyLWR.com.

YOGA IN THE PARK Begins at 9 a.m. at Waterside Place Park, 7500 Island Cove Terrace, Lakewood Ranch. Lakewood Ranch Community Activities offers yoga that is free to residents and $10 for nonresidents. For more information, go to MyLWR.com.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12

RANCH NIGHT WEDNESDAYS Runs from 6-9 p.m. at Lakefront Drive in Waterside Place, Lakewood Ranch. Live music, food trucks, a market with rotating vendors, a mobile bar and a recreational cornhole league highlight this crowd favorite event. Pets are welcome but no coolers or outside food or beverage allowed. For more information, go to WatersidePlace.com.

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BINGO FOR ALL Begins at 10 a.m. at Greenbrook Adventure Park, 13010 Adventure Place, Lakewood Ranch. Lakewood Ranch Community Activities hosts Bingo. For more information, go to MyLWR.com.

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REC DAY Runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Nathan Benderson Park, 5851 Nathan Benderson Circle, Sarasota. Nathan Benderson Park hosts Rec Day, which offers participants the chance to try stand-up paddle boarding, kayaking, canoes, fishing and more.

Meet at the base of the finish tower.

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50 Strands after a cold stereotypically snap 22 *Valedictory address 53 *Passionate adoration 25 Garden statuette 56 Hajj destination 26 Shannon of Thirty 58 In vitro eggs Seconds to Mars 59 Unleashed 27 Oklahoma tribe 60 Totally smitten 28 Put a new title on 61 ___ mode (with ice 30 Pimple cream) 31 Snoozed 33 *Places for construction 62 Video game slowness 63 Movable car roof site advisors

65 *Adverse event 72 Womb-related 75 A, in Argentina 76 What a bargain hunter might circle on a calendar 77 *Adrift at sea 81 Psychedelic journey 82 Lead-in to “Dhabi” 83 Oolong, e.g.

84 Common Swedish name 86 Coal cart 90 Triple ___ (liqueur) 91 “Pray tell!”

93 *Advantage point in tennis 96 Cholesterol reducer 98 Exciting action in poker 100 Netlike material 101 Private Twitter chats 102 Amphitheater level

103 Fix, as hand-me-downs 105 Singer Redding 107 *Embarrassing advice 113 Unisex fragrance since 1994 117 “So is that ___?”

118 Part of a minute 119 Versatile, electrically 122 Big events for CFOs 123 Game with cards of numbers 125 *Addiction specialist 129 Buttoned-down 130 Make a call on a dating app?

131 2008 political fervor 132 “Frozen” princess 133 Leave agog 134 Web developers that catch bugs?

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73 Land of Everest’s North 1 Lunches, e.g.

Base Camp 2 Be brilliant 74 Having intellectual value 3 Roofing rock 78 Approach 4 “Totally awesome!”

79 Disney warrior princess 5 “___ had enough!”

6 Striped fish in Pixar films of 2021 80 Medium’s rare gift 7 Mental resolve (Abbr.)

8 Asexual, informally 85 Vigor’s partner 9 Journal 87 “Way cool!”

10 Journal keeper 88 Cornhole asset 11 Kind of wrench 89 “The Marvelous ___ 12 Ross of “Pose” Maisel” 13 NFL Hall of Famer 91 Light pop?

Dawson 92 Deli sandwich specifica14 Hardly cold? tion 15 Come clean about 93 Applications 17 Garbage barge 94 Deli list 19 Perform karaoke 95 Runway-ready 21 Hardens, as cement 97 As late as, briefly 23 Marsh plant 99 Cry after arriving at the 24 “Bliss!” last minute 29 Battlefield doc 104 “Fudge!”

32 Helen of ___ 34 Twitter’s blue bird, e.g. 106 Button over a YouTube video interruption, and a 35 Faculty head 36 Nickname for Maurice hint to interpreting each 38 “That ball isn’t coming starred clue 107 Chatters back!”

108 “Workers of the world, 39 Economy fare? ___!”

42 Ride-or-die pal 109 Lenovo machines 43 Show on TV 110 Hacks (off) 44 Peg on the links 46 The “O” of WHO (Abbr.) 111 Celebrity gossip show 48 Congresswoman Ilhan 112 Repeat word-for-word 114 Share a take 49 Depend (on) 51 Name that anagrams to 115 Polite refusal 116 “Como ___?” “avian” 120 Newbie socialites 52 Prone to pestering 121 Unlucky throw in a dice 54 Back in fashion game 55 Atlas part 57 Driver’s sound system 124 USO audience members 64 Muscle spasm 126 Laptop core 66 Yes, in Evian 127 Rooster that’s not a 67 Cease rooster 68 Price label 128 Coy response to 69 Sincere “You’re kidding” 70 “Baby Cobra” comic Wong 71 Swimming pool measure

Puzzle Three Clue: M equals H

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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: J equals U

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Puzzle One Clue: W equals K

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This week’s Crossword answers

This week’s Celebrity Cipher answers Puzzle One Solution: “You can hear a hundred nice words about yourself, and you’ll only remember the one bad one.”

Alicia Vikander Puzzle Two Solution: “I find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing.

Liev Schreiber Puzzle Three Solution: “Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world.

But my life is my family, my son, my friends.”

James Caan

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