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Schroeder-Manatee Ranch’s Amanda Zipperer, Nicole Hackel (above with Zipperer), Lisa Palmeri and Tony Olivero placed almost 3,000 miniature American flags Sept. 6 in Main Street at Lakewood Ranch.
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“It’s important to be able to honor those who passed away as well as the heroes who stepped up, helped so many people and showed compassion,” Hackel said.
Kate Cucci, an assistant principal at Braden River Middle School, loves that the school has kept the tradition of making murals like she did when she attended the school from 1994 to 1997.
New Myakka fire station delayed
Being the only volunteers at Bob Gardner Community Park on Sept. 10 didn’t stop three 7-year-old Brownies from trying to earn their first badges and leave the park looking pristine.
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Kendall Marks’ mother, Trisha Marks, said the girls picked the event because they had been to the park before and they thought it was
Besides the flags, a 4-footby-4-foot wide and 8-foot high cube, complete with chalk boards on all sides for people to write their memories of 9/11, was placed at Waterside Place for the weekend. The cube was made for last year’s 20th year commemoration of 9/11 in a ceremony on Lakewood Main Street.
An inclement weather fore cast had cancelled the cleanup event planned by Keep Manatee Beautiful, so the girls decided to form their own work detail.
Sarasota’s Kendall Marks, Lakewood Ranch’s Addison Benson and Sarasota’s Samaya Laeger (above) are members of Brownies Unit 574. They walked around the park, picking up trash to carry out. The girls said the park was very clean, but they still filled up their trash bags.
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The flags were to honor each of the 2,996 lives lost in the ter rorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
n How to vote: Go to Facebook.com/ hashtag/vote4bruno
hen Bearadise Ranch owner Monica Welde saw that the America’s Favorite Pet com petition expanded to include animals other than household pets this year, she immediately thought about her ownShebears.needed a big personality.
one cat, gecko, rabbit, parrot and bear.
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Welde put together a profile for Bruno and entered the contest in early August. Judges from America’s Favorite Pet LLC selected Bruno to go up against contestants from all over the country. In late August, Bruno was selected as one of the top 20 pets, and on Sept. 8, he was named one of the top 15.
Better yet, Bruno currently stands No. 3 overall in the voting.
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(standing straight up) and 750 pounds, the 20-yearold Bruno is one of Welde’s Syrian brown“Whenbears.Isit with him, he is just so massive,” Welde said. “It’s just his size and his personality.”
So far, it has.
Welde was surfing around Face book when she found the contest and the fact it had been restructured, now being called America’s Favorite Pet — Animal Kingdom. The entry form said “open to animals of all shapes, sizes and species.”
Those wanting to vote for Bruno can go to loving“Amazing,outlifebilitatestomultipleawantsvote4bruno.Facebook.com/hashtag/Althoughanyonewhotovotecandosoforfreeonceday,thosewhowanttoregistervotescanmakeadonationthePawsFoundation,whichrehaorphanedandinjuredwildandalsorunssheltersthatadopthomelesscatsanddogs.Welde’sprofileofBrunocallshimawesome,intelligent,andgentle.Bearambassador.”
n Contest ends: Voting ends Oct. 22
n Does it cost to vote?: Anyone can vote for free once a day. Multiple votes are awarded to those who donate to the Paws Foundation
n Current standing: Bruno ranks No. 3 after the cut to 15 competitors
“It always had gone to cats and dogs,” Welde said. “But there was a new category for exotic animals. Whoa! I decided to enter one of my bears.”The eventual winner of the con test receives $10,000 and an InTouch magazine feature.
Welde actually picked Bruno for the contest over Bearadise Ranch celebrity bear Caroll, who has been on television shows and in commer cials. She thought Bruno’s presence would impress the voters.
The field narrows to the top 10 on Sept. 15 and voting ends Oct. 22.
n What: The “America’s Favorite Pet — Animal Kingdom” contest
Of the top 15 pets in the contest, there are seven dogs, three horses, and
Bearadise’s Bruno the bear makes run at America’s Favorite Pet title.
Tracking Bruno’s votes
No. 1 to this point is Phoebe, a terrier. A Friesian stallion named Gabriel is No. 2, and then Bruno.
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n Local competitor: Bruno the bear of Myakka City’s Bearadise Ranch
One major feature of the site will be a retention pond that will sup ply the firefighters with water when needed. Whitehurst said water can tend to be a scarce resource in the eastern parts of the county.
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A well, complete with a refilling tank of at least 26,500 gallons, will be created . It’s a much bigger capac ity than the current facility.
He said once complete, the station will become an important resource for the “Thecommunity.firestation tends to, along with a school, be one of those com munity icons,” Whitehurst said. “For me personally, my intent is to have that building there, so that if all else is gone, that building is something the community can depend on, that our employees can depend on, and feel safe in.”
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The new station has been planned to be built adjacent to the existing Station 11, which will be torn down, on Wauchula Road.
“Once it rips the skylight out, then that wind’s coming right in there,” Taylor said. “And it can lift the whole roof off the Whitehurstbuilding.”saidthere will be impact glass windows, as well as an automated generator in the new sta tion.“You’re trying to go out and respond to the public and get ready for hurricanes,” Whitehurst said. “So to top that off (you don’t want to) shutter your station and worry if the power going out.”
The cost of the new station is $4 million-plus, with the emphasis on plus during the current period of inflation and construction delays. If commissioners affirm their decision to delay construction for any sig nificant period of time, costs could shoot up Whitehurstsignificantly.said impact fees can only cover a third of the sta tion’s construction costs with the rest of the money needing to
He said issues with obtaining materials were still ongoing, and noted the Parrish Fire District’s troubles in ordering construction materials over the past six months.
Firefighters will get a dedicat ed area for decontaminating their gear, an action they must perform after responding to a fire, as well as rooms to store their gear away from exhaust.Theplans also call for a new ven tilation system that will recirculate air more rapidly than the previous system.Upgrades include a driveway and parking lot, which will have increased thickness to hold newer, heavierDuringtrucks.theworkshop, Whitehurst presented commissioners with two objectives, to either build the station or hire six firefighters. The commis sioners moved forward with the hir ing of firefighters but cut the number to Hiringthree.
During the Sept. 12 hearing, the board voted 4-1 for a preliminary approval of a Fiscal Year 2022-2023 budget containing funds for three additional firefighters, with Com missioner James Carlino in dissent because of an absence of funding for advanced life support, or paramed ics, on East Manatee Fire Rescue fire engines, an initiative he is currently pursuing.AtStation 11, firefighters said they were looking forward to the benefits of the replacement station.
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Whitehurst17. said the board could return to the topic during midfiscal year, in a discussion, which he hopes will follow the results of the rescue’s audit that is due by June. The com missioners have the option to per form budget amendments through out the fiscal year.
A new station on Wauchula Road eventually will be built and the existing one torn down. Station 11 at 10215 Wauchula Road, Myakka City, is targeted for replacement and will be torn down.
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Battalion Chief Kyle Taylor shows the shed that currently stores firefighters’
Firefighter Kyle Powers said he would look forward to individual bunk rooms. He also said he works out every day, but the temperature is “cooking,” making it very hot in the bay area.
Whitehurst said when Hurricane Charley struck the area in 2004 with greater than 100 mph winds, it became apparent the rescue needed to be better prepared for storms.
The new construction will increase livability as it enlarges the kitch en space and provides a dedicated workout room so firefighters don’t have to work out in the bays.
He said East Manatee Fire Rescue was rounding the corner on adequate staffing.“Ithink if we keep looking at this with blinders on, putting four people per unit, it’s going to cost this district a lot more money,” Lawson said.
uniforms.There will be seven bunk rooms at the new Station 11 instead of the current two.
Discussion of the station’s ground breaking isn’t likely to take place until next spring, making it unlikely the station construction would begin in Fiscal Year 2022-2023. The Fiscal Year begins Oct. 1.
Battallion Chief Kyle Taylor noted the roof of the current building leaks, causing a dangerous situation in case heavy winds hit the area.
“I don’t think four million is going to come close to completing it, turn ing the key, ready to move in,” he said of building a new Myakka City sta tion.Fire Commissioner Bob Conley said he favored looking into hiring three new Nonetheless,firefighters.hesaid the threat of hurricanes makes building a new Myakka City station an important issue, noting the current station’s lack of rating to house firefighters, leading to a longer response time, during a big storm.
ith the potential hiring of an additional three fire fighters putting a strain on its budget, commis sioners for East Manatee Fire Res cue decided during a Sept. 7 budget workshop to delay construction of a new Myakka City fire station.
East Manatee Chief Lee Whitehu rst said one reason Myakka City is in need of a new station is that if a storm with Category 3-force winds (111 to 129 mph) or higher hits the area, Sta tion 11 would need to be evacuated, with firefighters and staff needing to go to another station, or possibly moving to Myakka City Elementary, which has a higher rating for storms.
Seven bunk rooms will be con structed in the new facility as com pared to two in the current building.
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He said the communications tow er on the grounds will be updated to enhance the alert system.
more firefighters is a goal to build more four firefighter units instead of the mostly three-man units currently assembled. White hurst said East Manatee Fire Rescue currently has only two four-person units.Commissioner Garry Lawson called the current time of economic uncertainty a “bad time to build a new station,” describing himself as “on the fence” about beginning the project, while also saying he would support the will of the board.
Fire Commissioner Richard Jacobs said he favored pursuing the three new firefighters Commissionerfirst.Derek Foss asked if it was feasible to follow both plans, saying he did not want to put the sta tion project off and leave its future uncertain.“Weneed to do right by the Myak ka residents,” he said.
Whitehurst said he believes the new building will be rated for gusts up to 200 mph.
Budget concerns slow Myakka fire constructionstation
come from the general operating budget.Deputy Chief Paul Wren said the station’s site plan currently is under review by the county, which is a criti cal step forward, while engineers and architects are currently working on theThedesign.fire commissioners cast a preliminary vote to delay construc tion during a Sept. 12 trim hearing, affirming their earlier decision, with final approval of the budget to come Sept.
STATION 11 Cost: $4 million (plus) Delayed: Plans delayed until at least spring 2023 Features: Seven bunk rooms; stormshigh-ratedforacapacity,expandedawellandretentionpondadditionalwater,buildingfor Address: 10215 Wauchula Road, Myakka City, Florida
East Manatee Fire Chief Lee Whitehurst presents information on the proposed new fire station alongside Administrative Secretary Dawn Graf.
The existing station would remain in use until the new building is com plete.Another reason for a new station is simply more space. The new struc ture will be 10,500 square feet com pared to current structure’s 6,500 square feet. Whitehurst said that during a natural disaster, the station could see doubling — such as during Hurricane Irma — or even tripling of staff members on duty. The new facil ity would have the needed capacity.
Whitehurst said the station would be best addressed post audit, and he could come back with a legend to support one option or the other in the middle of the fiscal year.
anatee County officials wanted to rise to greater heights when it comes to obtaining federal funding for a second span of the Fort Hamer Bridge.Sothey went to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office to borrow a helicopter.Afterconvincing U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-Missouri) to visit the area Aug. 29, they loaded up the helicop ter and took a tour of Manatee Coun ty’sGravesroadways.isthe ranking member of the House Transportation and Infra structure Committee, placing him in an important leadership role. Jack Ruddy, the staff director of the House
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, accompanied Graves on the trip to Manatee County.
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In May, Manatee County com missioners visited Washington D.C. to network with congressmen on the possibility of obtaining funds. They met with Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, and Florida Rep. Verne Buchanan, among others. Besides the Fort Hamer Bridge expansion, Manatee County needs to widen the roads leading to the bridge.“It’s very expensive, but we need it desperately,” District 5 Commis sioner Vanessa Baugh said of the bridge expansion in May.
Manatee commissioner meets with important federal helicoptercommitteetransportationexecintour.
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Also in the helicopter was Mana tee County Commissioner Kevin Van Ostenbridge, who basically was act ing as a tour guide and explained why the Fort Hamer Bridge expansion is so important to the area.
U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-Missouri) and Commissioner Kevin Van Ostenbridge converse before their flight.
Chopper conference
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Van Ostenbridge said Graves didn’t indicate during the tour whether he would support Manatee County’s effort to get federal funding, but he did write to the county afterward that it was “extremely helpful to discuss and see firsthand the infrastructure needs of folks across the country.”
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Commissioner George Kruse said Graves’ visit was an important step.
“He was very interested in the master-planned aspect of Lake wood Ranch,” Van Ostenbridge said of Graves, who noted that Lakewood Ranch didn’t have similar traf
Van Ostenbridge said the group explained to Graves the differ ent segments of Manatee County, including “the bedroom community of Parrish, the master-planned com munity of Lakewood Ranch and the city center between the population out east and the beach.
After his arrival, Graves met at SeaPort Manatee with Van Osten bridge, Kruse and District 1 Com missioner James Satcher. Also in attendance were Ruddy; L.K. Nan dam, the district secretary at the Florida Department of Transporta tion; and Carlos Buqueras, executive director of SeaPortManatee.
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“You can sit there all day long at a table and explain our needs to some body in Washington, D.C., or Tal lahassee,” Kruse said. “It’s a whole different thing when you convince them to come down and visualize it.”
The county is seeking $160 mil lion.The helicopter also flew over the Lakewood Ranch area.
“In the end, he did see the all the traffic jams we wanted him to see,” Van Ostenbridge said.
After subsequent meetings with Graves, Van Ostenbridge was able to convince him to visit Manatee County in late August.
One of the key takeaways of the meeting for Van Ostenbridge was that funding is not as lengthy a pro cess as he had initially believed.
“We’vesubmitted.ignoredinfrastructure too much, for too long,” Kruse said. “We, as a small community, cannot fund all the infrastructure needs here, especially when you consider the big-ticket items like the bridges.”
“(Graves) was very proud of seeing the diamond working and flowing so well, and I was quick to point out this is another example of if we build it properly, it flows and it works,” Van Ostenbridge said.
Kruse said as the commission moves forward, it will be meeting again with Graves during its annual trip to Washington, D.C., in what will likely be spring 2023, by which point Kruse hopes to have funding requests
Van Ostenbridge called the flight over Fort Hamer Bridge the “most important aspect of the trip” because of the commissioner’s efforts to pro cure the funds.
“Whathour.surprised me was the visual of urban sprawl,” Van Ostenbridge said. “It’s quite a sight to see so many rooftops, and then the blank pads, and then the farmland beyond it.”
From the interchange, the group saw bumper-to-bumper traffic northbound along Interstate 75, from University Parkway to Ellenton.
The diverging diamond in the UTC area is seen from the helicopter flight.
fic problems as other spots in the county.Thegroup also flew over the diverging diamond interchange at University Parkway and I-75.
He said the trip also took the group over all notable county road projects, such as the 44th Avenue extension, the future connection of the two segments of Lena Road and the wid ening of Lorraine Road.
“It’s not a fast process, but it’s not funding that’s going to take 10 or 15 years to get,” he said.
After about two hours, Van Osten bridge, Graves, and Ruddy boarded the Sheriff’s Office helicopter for an overview of the county, at the 5 p.m. rush
Commissioner George Kruse said in May the bridge would open an important evacuation route in an area where limited options are avail able for vehicles to cross the river.
The Community Fund is hoping she is lucky when it comes to orga nizing“Whatfundraisers.Isee,personally, is that people who live in neighborhoods like mine are privileged,” she said.
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Nancy Sykes, a Lakewood Ranch Community Fund board member, is in charge of organizing the fund’s first wine soirée event.
Lakewood Ranch Community Fund raises awareness of its mission with a wine soirée.
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The event also will be used to con gratulate and recognize the Commu nity Fund’s C. John Clarke Humani tarian of the Year award recipient as well as presenting grants from the Lakewood Ranch Community Fund
She just has to worry about making sure they have fun once they get there.
She said “Eat. Drink. Give Thanks. Be Generous” will give the fund the opportunity to drive awareness, as well as celebrate the work of the region’s nonprofits.
ancy Sykes doesn’t have to worry that she throws a party and nobody comes.
The event has been welcomed by the community with open arms, with almost 200 of the available 250 tickets already purchased.
Sykes is the event coordinator for “Eat. Drink. Give Thanks. Be Gener ous,” which is the Lakewood Ranch Community Fund’s new event to produce funds for regional charities and to bring more awareness about the Community Fund.
“It’s really our inaugural (wine) event,” Sykes said. “Think about how many people have moved into the area in the last 10 years. They don’t know us.”
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of Manatee Community Foundation to regional charities. Proceeds from the event will allow the Commu nity Fund, which will present about $60,000 in grants this year, to issue even more grants in 2023.
Sykes volunteered for the event coordinator’s job because she wants to help in any way she can.
The hope is that the wine event, which will be held Oct. 27 at Espla nade Golf and Country Club in Lake wood Ranch, becomes an annual tradition. Sykes, who joined the Community Fund board a year ago, has the important task of putting it all“Itogether.havenever done anything like this before,” she said of being the coordi nator at a huge fundraiser. “This will be several fundraisers within one fun draiser. We will have a silent auction with wine, a live auction, a raffle.
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“I retired young,” she said. “So I decided I should spend my time helping others.”
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She spent her career in human resources for companies like Gener al Electric, Goodyear, U.S. Steel and Southern Company, so it’s obvious she has people skills. She even lived in Shanghai, China, for three years.
She now lives in Esplanade and she notes that she and her husband Howard live in the 13th house on the 13th hole on the Esplanade golf course, in house number 13013.
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Sykes, the board secretary, said she is excited about the Lakewood Ranch Community Fund’s direction and future. She said the fund’s addition of a full-time executive director in Adri enne Bookhamer was a huge addition.
“We are thrilled to be hosting the first wine soirée event for the Lake wood Ranch community fund,” said Board President Nicole Ryskamp. “It’s going to be a great night to be with friends, meeting new friends and learning about the amazing work by many of our local nonprofit orga nizations, as well as hearing from our Humanitarian of the Year recipient.”
Her main task now is to work with a Community Fund board that seems determined to host more events in the future so it can raise more money to support nonprofits.
much. But there are so many won derful organizations here that do great things for people who need help. I want to visit as many of them as I can, and I want to be able to give back to the community I live in.”
Wines will be paired with appe tizers and a pasta station will be offered.Esplanade Golf & Country Club will be catering the event.
“Yes, I believe our trajectory is so positive in terms of what we can accomplish,” she said.
Eat. Drink. Give Thanks. Be Generous.
n Tickets: $125 (go to LWRFund.org to purchase)
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Sykes said she hopes the event becomes bigger and better every year.
n About: Eat. Drink. Give Thanks. Be Generous is a Lakewood Ranch Com munity Fund event that will raise funds to support regional nonprofits and raise awareness about the fund and its mission. The event also will recognize the Community Fund’s C. John Clarke Humanitarian of the Year award and will feature the handing out of approximately $60,000 in grants to regional nonprofits.
As far as the event itself, Sykes calls it a cocktail-attired, wine and food pairing with a lot of socialization.
n Where: Esplanade Golf and Country Club, 12825 Malachite Dr., Lakewood Ranch
The great community response to the wine event shows people are willing to support those in need.
“Being on this board gives me more reach (in helping),” she said. “And I find that not many people know about how many of our neigh bors are in need.”
More than 30 grant recipients will be acknowledged at the wine event with a brief description about what they do.
n When: 6 p.m. Oct. 27
n Sponsorship opportunities and donations: Go to LWRFund.org for various sponsorship opportunities; also go to the same site to contact the Lakewood Ranch Community Fund about donating items for the silent and live auctions.
“People are going to get to know
Tickets are $125 and can be pur chased at LWRFund.org.
their community leaders who run the nonprofits,” she said. “Everyone will be having a lot of fun while we are driving the awareness and cel ebrating their work.”
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“What I’m realizing as I’ve done more teaching is that this is what I’m meant to be doing,” Durante said. “I feel like I’ve arrived where I belong. Everything I do, I’m super passionate about. I’ve never been a morning person, but I wake up at 5 a.m., I have my coffee and I’m ready to go. It’s been life changing just being here and having this oppor tunity.”Durante has become accustomed to leading the orchestra rather than being in one of the seats playing viola or violin. He’s even added his own flair to his directing. For exam ple, during the orchestra and band’s
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In some ways, Cucci, Rubal and Durante are still students as they take every opportunity to learn from their former teachers, and veteran teachers.“Theteachers still on staff, who were part of my middle school years, are some of the best and brightest,” Cucci said. “Knowing that, I’m com ing from a perspective of ‘you raised me up.’”
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At the time, kindergarten teacher Stacy Freeman would present her students with different stuffed ani mals. Wally Wildcat was Rubal’s favorite.“Ivividly remember being so happy that she chose me to take him home,” Rubal said. “As a little kin dergartner, that was just the best thing in the world. I remember being so excited.”
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n the corner of Bella Rubal’s firstgrade classroom at Gilbert W. McNeal Elementary are cubbies that always have been filled with her students’ backpacks.
“Seeing (former teachers) from a different viewpoint, holding all the keys to all the doors and all the plac es I’m still discovering was very eye opening,” said Durante, who teaches orchestra, guitar and other music classes. “You have more sympathy for what (teachers) do. You don’t understand everything that goes into being a teacher until you’re actually doingDuranteit.” said he ran into his former marine sciences teacher, Larry Hick man, who still had a project Durante did in his class. The assignment was to pick a topic from the class and do something creative with it. Durante decided to write a song about flying fish.“That was cool to see that,” Duran te said. “Wow! I had kind of a memo rable impact on him just as much as he had on Duranteme.”always wanted to become a college professor, but teaching AP Music Theory, which is a college course, has satisfied that desire.
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Braden River Middle School’s cam pus in August for her first day as a new assistant principal, Diane Mine ro, the senior secretary who retired in August, recognized her immediately.
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Several teachers in East County have come full circle, working at schools they once attended as stu dents.When Kate Cucci walked onto
Cucci said at first Minero thought she looked familiar and probably was a cousin of her husband, Steve Cucci. That was until Kate Cucci reminded Minero of her maiden name, Joseph. Minero then remembered her and her brothers and pulled out a year book to “Thatreminisce.reallysolidified that I was right where I should be,” Cucci said.
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Now that Rubal has begun her first year teaching at her former school, something else has joined those backpacks — a stuffed animal, school mascot Wally Wildcat.
Now Rubal keeps Wally Wildcat in her own classroom as a daily remind er of Freeman and the impact she had on her as a child.
At Lakewood Ranch High, Thom as Durante never thought he would become an educator, let alone return to his alma mater. When he gradu ated in 2007, his sights were set on music composition. He later opened a business when he was 26, repair ing and rebuilding pianos before he started teaching.
Stephen Gregorich, a physical education coach at Braden River Middle School, remembers Kate Cucci, who is now an assistant principal at the school, as an energetic student.
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Swartling, Rubal’s fourthgrade teacher who now teaches fifth grade at McNeal, presented Rubal with a plaque with a quote about being a teacher for her desk.
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Rubal gets some teaching tips from Swartling during the break they have each day when their students have lunch. They both share advice.
She doesn’t need too many reminders as both teachers work on the staff at McNeal. Now McNeal is Freeman’s colleague.
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This school year marks a return for both Rubal, who attended McNeal as a student, and that particular Wally Wildcat, who was given to Rubal when she was a kindergartner.
Freeman said she catches herself sometimes calling Rubal by her first name in the hallways rather than Miss Rubal in front of the students.
His return to Lakewood Ranch High School in September 2021 seemed bizarre to him.
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May 4 Star Wars theme concert, he didn’t hesitate to grab a lightsaber and started conducting with it.
Cucci often tells the students about her experiences at Braden Riv er Middle School when she attended from 1994 to 1997. The teachers and coaches she had helped her realize she wanted to be a middle school educator.“Ifyou’re going to influence and mould a student, middle school is when we have the availability to do that,” she said. “Middle-schoolers can be a little bit easier to influence and to guide, and they’re looking for that.”Cucci just moved to East County from Sarasota. She remembered being a student and riding her bike to school and having to adjust to being in middle school on top of being at a new“Itschool.wasexciting to start something new, but definitely intimidating to not really know that many people,” sheButsaid.she had some great experi ences.Somewhere stored away in the school’s gymnasium, which cur rently is undergoing renovations, is the Golden Shoe that Cucci and her 4x100 meter relay track teammates earned.Stephen Gregorich, a physical education teacher at Braden River Middle, remembered Cucci as an energetic student and now knows her as an energetic assistant princi pal.“She’s almost the same kind of person, just in adult form,” Grego rich said.
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Freeman, who now teaches third grade, said Rubal was a quiet stu dent who always looked out for her classmates.“Shestood out as being a very spe cial, kind-hearted person,” Freeman said. “Honestly, she was an amazing student. Then for her to turn around and share that personality and all of her kindness now with a whole (new) generation of kids is amazing.”
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Thomas Durante, a fine arts teacher at Lakewood Ranch High School, said teaching at his alma mater seems almost “bizarre” to him.
“I felt like I was coming home,” Rubal said. “I was coming back to where I belonged. Everyone here is so helpful, welcoming and warm. I just felt like this is where I belong and this is what I’m meant to do.”
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“I had this long adventure of figuring out who I wanted to be and why, and I ended up in a place where people remember me as a student. I want the same for my students, to have thatForconnection.”RubalandCucci, returning to their former schools, now as a teach er and an administrator, was a dream comeRubaltrue.said her goal always was to return to McNeal as a teacher. She purposefully stayed near home for college, attending the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee so she could intern at McNeal with the hopes she would be hired full time.
Rubal said working with her for mer teachers was intimidating at first because she looked up to her as a child. She quickly learned there was no reason to be intimidated.
“To little kids, teachers are super heroes, they’re their whole world,” Rubal said. “I quickly learned they’re just people, and they’re really nice people.”Mindy
“In the teachers lounge, I was so excited to see her in there at the same time because I can see her every day,” Swartling said. “I can check in on her and see how things are going.”
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McNeal teacher Bella Rubal wants to make her students feel the way her kindergarten teacher, Stacy Freeman (photo at right with Rubal) made her feel at McNeal. Rubal (above) shares her stories with her students.
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cian didn’t diagnose the problem, but she said he eventually relented and went to Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, where Laura said the care was extraordinary. Unfortunately, after doctors there quickly diagnosed the problem, his heart gave out and he died.
Why not? The Elks members embraced them both and welcomed them to the family.
A Black Democratic activist was treated with respect both in Republican-dominated Lakewood Ranch and at the Elks.
Hopefully, though, the life of Leon Harris is proof that things can change, even if it is in tiny increments.Lewis,who lived in Lakewood Ranch, experienced racism in almost every step of his life. He died Aug. 21 at the age of 92.
More than 50 years ago, the Elks Club was known for not allowing Blacks, but the discriminatory policy was wiped out and corrected. Still, Laura said they were often the
“The Elks treated Leon like he was the President, and I was the First Lady,” Laura said. “They liked us and we liked them.”
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He always was told by his father, Leon Sr., that “Junior, in order to compete, you have to be three times better than the White man.”
He said Nyack was “half White and half Black” when he was growing up, so he learned to get along withManyeveryone.ofhisMonarchs teammates were from the South and they had experienced far worse, and they told Leon their stories. Then in barnstorming with the Monarchs, he said the “White here, Colored here” signs.Asa teen, he had worked in factories under miserable conditions and that led him to become a union organizer. Later in life, he moved
But she finally relented, and as she put it with a laugh, “I saved him.”Over the years, she saw Leon as being active in the community and in his own life in terms of golf or sports.“Hegot sick and went down so fast,” she said of the days before his death. “He had been saying how much pain he was having in his legs. He was getting cranky after he fell a couple of times.”
Laura spent 38 years with Leon, the last eight as husband and wife. Leon finally asked her to marry him, and she said she would agree with one stipulation — that he would turn his spare room in his Lakewood Ranch home into space where she could store all her clothes. He agreed.Thetwo met in 1994 when Laura
Services were held at Chandler’s Funeral Home and at the Bethlehem Baptist Church in Sarasota. At both services, Laura noticed many members of the Lakewood Ranch Elks Lodge in attendance.
was living in Manhattan and Leon was living across the bridge in New Jersey.One of her neighbors and Leon attended the Englewood Social Club in New Jersey together and he introduced them. Leon kept asking Laura for dates for months, and she kept saying no. Tall and athletic, Leon was a striking man and what Laura called “a ladies’ man.”
It wasn’t a surprise to her. More than 15 years ago, when Leon had to quit playing golf because he had a hard time walking, he looked for something else to do. He decided to join the Elks Club.
Hopefully, Leon Harris left a better world
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“They always are bringing me food (since his death),” she said. “They are always calling to see how I am. But now I just need some time to “Imyself.haven’t had a chance to grieve, and I miss him terribly. He watched TV all the time and I couldn’t stand all the commercials. But I wish I could bring him back ... he could play the TV all night and all day. This house is, oh my goodness, so quiet.”Growing up and living much of his life with racism surrounding him, his final years were different for Leon in Lakewood Ranch. Perhaps we have, indeed, made some minor steps as a society.
hen it comes to racial injustice, change in our world comes far too slowly.
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He said, “I found that to be true.”
Lakewood Ranch’s Laura Harris says her husband Leon, who died Aug. 21, was a people person and a breath of fresh air.
“The thing with death is that it is so final,” Laura said. “I need a little time, but I will be going back to the Elks. One of the couples there said they would pick me up and bring meVanover.”Riper added, “The Elks will be there to help.”
I asked Leon, who in his earlier years often couldn’t play on golf courses because he was Black, whether he thought America was making progress in terms of racial injustice.“Youstill have the darkerskinned people doing the menial jobs,” he said last summer. “In 2075, that might be changed, but it’s going to take a long time. There have been gains, but they mostly have been gestures with no money attached. Reparations should be given. Social Security should start earlier through the payment system for Blacks. Our life expectancy is not expected to be as long as White males and Certainly,females.”Leoncould have been a bitter man. But he wasn’t. Hopefully, those who came into contact with Leon learned a little something from him. He worked against injustice, without hate. And those who reached out to him in kindness, would receive kindness back, no matter what their race or ethnic background.“Leonwas a people person,” said his wife, Laura. “He was very friendly, and very happy. He was one of the nicest people you ever would meet, a breath of fresh air.”
to New York City and become president of the Greenwich Village NAACP. In retirement, he was head of Manatee/Sarasota Democratic Black Caucus for 10 years.
Some of his experiences were noted in a Lakewood Ranch Life magazine story last summer. He grew up in Nyack, New York, not being able to join the “White” Boy Scout Troop or the YMCA because he was Black.
only Blacks to attend some of the functions there.
Laura said her Lakewood Ranch neighbors also were “the best.”
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When it came to his baseball talent, he didn’t get a chance to play in the major leagues, instead pitching for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League. He wouldn’t even refer to the “other” league as Major League Baseball.
“He was always a gentleman,” Elks member Gerald Van Riper said of Leon. “He never bragged about anything, even though he knew Hank Aaron. Like wow! He would talk about it if you asked him and his mind was sharp as a tack.”
“Any league that wouldn’t allow Black players and limited access to Latin players couldn’t be called Major League Baseball,” he said.
“Construction is always delayed, especially now,” Ray said of the cur rent environment.
t was in June 2021 when Sam Ray, the owner of Tsunami Sushi & Hibachi, talked about his restau rant’s anticipated opening at The Green in Lakewood Ranch by the end of that year.
Sam Ray is the owner of Tsunami Sushi & Hibachi Grill.
The “Coming soon” sign was up for Tsunami, just as it had been before for Irish 31 Pub & Eatery, which never opened in that space at The Green. So when Tsunami didn’t open in 2021, tenants were once again disappointed.
A year later, the excitement has returned, as Ray and his restaurant have overcome supply chain issues that delayed construction. He said Tsunami will open next month.
For instance, he said there is a lot of work goes into preparing the juli enned cucumbers so that they do not overpower the flavor of the fish.
Although the restaurant will fea ture a family friendly vibe during the day, Ray said after 10 p.m., the lights will dim and patrons will experience a change in atmosphere as the music will shift to a faster, adult vibe with the opportunity to dance. He plans to stay open until 2 a.m.
Becoming a sushi chef at the res taurant also demands commitment. Ray said it takes roughly three years of experience just to learn how to properly cook rice.
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“It’s one of the things we don’t have,” he said of late-night food and entertainment in Lakewood Ranch.
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Ray said his food will be a major draw as well. That includes the sushi rolls, which he said are a product of his staff’s outstanding creativity. The head chef will be Alan Yu.
The seating capacity will be 165, including the outdoor patio.
Construction worker shortages also were responsible for the delays, and Ray said construction material costs tripled. Some materials were not available at Nonetheless,all.with interior con struction in the final stages, his res taurant is on the cusp of opening.
It was encouraging news to the other tenants at The Green, who were excited about the traffic it would drive into the shopping center. When Winn-Dixie opened in November 2020, several of the other tenants experienced a boost in business.
“A lot of people serve these frozen pieces of fish that they have had in their cabinet for too long,” Ray said. “We don’t do that.”
“Until you can get the rice perfect ly, you can’t start as a chef,” he said.
After mastering the rice, trainees can move on to cutting the vegetables.
Ray said his current favorite roll on the menu is Hot Mama, which brings together tempura grouper, crab, avocado, tuna, cucumber, and baby scallops.
Yu begins the quality process by being picky when buying fish.
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Ray, who also owns a Tsunami in Sarasota, is excited as he said the Lakewood Ranch area doesn’t have many restaurants that serve sushi, and also have late-night hours.
The restaurant will feature a fullsize cocktail bar with a huge fish tank, a sushi bar and a mezzanine area for live music and entertainment.
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Caulkins says it’s also important to treat the audience to Irish music they haven’t heard yet.
“All the five band members are all specialists in their instruments and in this kind of music,” says Joseph Caulkins, artistic director of Key Chorale. “We pulled together the best people from all over the coun try. When you read the bios of these guys, they’re amazing at all the things they’re doing.
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The show — entitled Equinox: A Celtic Celebration — is meant to kick off the choral group’s new season and also to pay tribute to the changing of summer to fall, and Key Chorale has enlisted tenor Brad Diamond and Foley’s All-Star Irish Band to make
Key Chorale is coming back from its summer recess with a tribute to the old country that will bring an Irish flair to Church of the Palms.
it more authentic.
Key Chorale is going all in on a celebration of Irish and Celtic culture to open its upcoming season.
Dylan Foley, the four-time Ireland Fiddle Champion, will be coming to
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For instance, if you make it out to Equinox, you will hear unusual instruments such as the hammered
They’ve never done such a show as this, but that’s part of what makes it exciting for singers and band alike.
Caulkins says Key Chorale will be singing together for the first time since May, but the singers have all had access to a video guide of the material to allow them to practice.
Caulkins calls that kind of prepa ration a “grand experiment,” and he says the final days of rehearsal will be invigorating.“Whenyou’re rehearsing this online, you don’t get the sound of all the voices coming together,” he says. “It’s always an exciting time. It’s fun to see where they are with learning their parts. Then we put the magic to it; we talk about phrasing and articu lation and musicality.
Of course, there’s the chorus of singers dozens strong that Caulkins leads from the podium.
“This whole season really is about just bringing our whole audience back and letting them enjoy live music again. That audience is com ing back but they’re not coming back like a light switch. They come back as they feel ready.”
For Caulkins, the hard work comes in blending all those talents.
dulcimer and the uilleann pipes played by master craftsmen.
“Fortunately for us, Brad Dia mond, our tenor soloist that’s com ing down, he has so much Gaelic to spitDiamond,out..” a professor of voice at Samford University, won’t be the only distinguished guest.
“We’re going to just do the most fun part of music, the details which make it really enjoyable.”
Foley, based just outside Nashville, Tennessee, is thrilled to be working with this assemblage of musicians. He’s been in Nashville for about a year, and he plays with Dillon every
The show will also have an appropriate opening act.
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Key Chorale artistic director Joseph Caulkins leads the group through a recent rehearsal.
Foley says he’s never played with a choral group this size before. So the mix of sounds should be new for everyone; not just the audience, but also the musicians themselves.
“They call me The Big Yank,” he says of his following in Ireland. “I’m 6-foot-7, so it’s hard to blend in over there. I’ve gotten out there and I’ve played a lot and people know my name. They know what I look like, but I’ve got a beard now. I’m no lon ger 12, you know?”
“It’s very natural to us. We all have the same repertoire,” he says. “Once we get down there and have our first rehearsal, it’s going to be really cool to see how it all pieces together.”
“We were mostly in person pretty much all last season, but everybody comes back to the concert hall in their own time,” he says.
Blue Skye Pipes and Drums, an allfemale pipe and Celtic performance band, will play for a half-hour before the main Caulkinsprogram.isexcited for another season of performances, and he says that visitors to Key Chorale’s web site should have the opportunity to watch shows remotely. But he’s hoping, at this point, that people are ready to come hear music in person.
“I thought, ‘What would be another thing that would appeal to a lot of people?’ The timeless melodies and infectious rhythms of Irish and Celt ic music seem to be a good fit.”
Dylan Foley, a four-time All-Ire land Fiddle Champion, will be lead ing the supporting band, which will also feature guitarist Brian Hanlon, hammered dulcimer player Stephen Humphries, flutist Sean Cunning ham and uilleann pipe artist Eamonn Dillon.
“Last year we did a show that was all gospel music, and it was a nice way to kick off the season,” says Caulkins.
He says he started playing the fiddle at age 8 and was inspired by virtuoso Jay Ungar, and he was first crowned an Irish fiddle champion at age 12. He later won in another two youth brackets and was crowned adult champion in 2014.
Foley, 30 years old, was raised in upstate New York.
week. Cunningham pops in from time to time, and Hanlon runs his own recording studio in Nashville.
They haven’t played all together that often, says Foley, but when they do, it’s instant chemistry.
and their guest tenor until the actual week of the show.
The music is primed for Key Chorale’s Celtic celebration.
How do you manage to rehearse when your performers are split between multiple states?
And while he might not have real ized it at the time, taking on this music means taking on a new lan guage.Caulkins says that’s not necessar ily difficult or out of the ordinary for
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Key Chorale rehearsed for the first time in person on Sept. 6, and they won’t meet with the Irish All-Stars
Key“We’veChorale.probably sung in all the languages except Gaelic. Gaelic and Russian are the two outliers,” he says. “I think the hardest thing is that when you look at a Gaelic word it looks nothing like it sounds.
Scheible, a graduate of Braden ton’s Southeast High School, has been playing in Manatee County bars since before he was allowed to drink. The guitarist estimates he played more than 100 shows as part of Magic Tree Conspiracy, a classic rock cover band, by the time he got to New College. Then he met Quimby as a freshman and became friends.
“We’re older now,” says Quimby, who started Physical Plant as part of an independent study project at New College. “We’re the age of the bands — maybe older —that were asking us to play shows back then.
mate change but also perhaps to their own musical trajectory.
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hey’ve gone from the New College kids to the wizened old heads on the Sarasota rock scene. And they’ve done it in the space of two albums.
Josh Scheible and Caegan Qui mby, singers and songwriters for Physical Plant, went into a brief musical exile during the pandemic that allowed them to sharpen their material. They’ve emerged with a veteran rhythm section with ties to several other local Sarasota bands, and they’re celebrating the August release of their second album, “Hot Future,” which is a reference to cli
“Things can happen here. But we have to make them happen.”
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Physical Plant emerged from the pandemic with a new album, two new members and a resolve to keep writing new songs.
Physical Plant wants to revive the Sarasota rock scene.
The pair began working on music together and immediately recog nized that they had an excellent partnership, and they credit one of their professors, Steve Miles, not just for recognizing and encouraging their talent but also for giving them
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“We always just tried to have faith, just kind of write more songs.”
They’re scouring the local scene and looking for places to play. Phys ical Plant is going to be playing a show at the Ringling Underground in November, and they say it would be nice to return to their roots at New College and play there again.
“When we’re the closest to an argument,” adds Quimby, “It’s because we’re both wrong.”
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But when they look at the local scene, they realize that it’s a chal lenging environment for them and for other bands like them.
recent gig, and he underlines how fortunate he is to be able to do what he loves in his hometown.
The pair meets once a week, on Wednesdays, to tighten up musi cally and prepare for their Sunday full-band rehearsals, which usually see them striving to stay tight on their current material.
The next step — the Hot Future, if you will — sees Physical Plant not just making its own music but also setting into the parallel path of finding gigs for themselves and other bands around them.
sit down together and trade licks and lyrics? No, not really.
The important part of their part nership, though, is that Scheible and Quimby share the same tastes.
Their first album, “What’s Laid Down,” came out in 2018, and four years later it’s a completely different band with a different mindset.
“We have to cater to the demograph ic that’s going to come out and keep the place in business.
“That’s just business. As someone who came out of what I like to call the Margaritaville circuit, I get it. That’s what I came up doing.”
Scheible, who moonlights as a guitar teacher, says he saw one of his classmates from first grade at a
There were a lot of good bands in the area back then, and a lot of them gave young Physical Plant an oppor tunity to open up for them.
They make sure to point out that their old bassist, Dave Baker, has not left the band. He’s just entering a new phase of life as a father, and they’re forging ahead with their old music and with their new stuff.
But it wasn’t just their schooling; Scheible and Quimby also say that the indie rock scene in Sarasota from about 2010 to 2015 was incredibly productive and nurturing.
But Quimby is a prolific songwriter with a backlog of material just wait ing to get the full-band treatment.
The band’s new drummer, Michael Murphy, formerly played in Equines and Cats in the Basement, and young Scheible and Quimby first met him as a promoter who got them their first gigs. Dave Cornicelli, their new bassist, formerly played in Hail Dale and the Umbrella Cult, and he brings versatility because he can also play drums. But more than their musical chops, Murphy and Cornicelli bring a new attitude to the band.
“Caegan and I, we’re both clas sic perfectionists and overthink ers,” says Scheible. “It’s nice to have somebody in the room who is the ‘Just do it,’ attitude. It’s nice to hear that because between the two of us, (we) will just talk, talk, talk.”
“When we disagree, it’s usually pretty relevant. There’s a reason we disagree,” says Scheible. “About 95% of the time, we like the same stuff. But the sticking points, it’s usually something interesting to tease out.”
Most bars, says Scheibel, don’t want to book a band that plays origi nal“We’remusic.going to book a cover band that keeps people here all night,” he says of the bar owner’s perspective.
At this point, they’re thrilled to be playing music again.
Best of all, they’re not in a rush. They’re committed to seeing this thing out over the long haul.
“We got to play with people from the orchestra. We got to write for people from the orchestra. We got all these very interesting perfor mance opportunities that happened through New Music New College.”
“I’m going to keep doing it wheth er I’m getting paid or not,” Quimby says. “So we never doubted that we’re going to keep doing some thing. But each time the lineup dis solves, it’s very anxiety inducing.
plenty of opportunities to perform in public.“That was one of the very cool things at New College,” says Scheible of his student years. “They saw that we had a functioning rock band and said, ‘OK, well, let’s use it.’
Scheible says he’s more of a per fectionist and often doesn’t bring a song to the band unless it is a com pletely finished product.
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Scheible and Quimby spent the pandemic rehearsing as a two-piece outfit with a drum machine, and their partnership was only strength ened by their mutual commitment.
They have enough material for a third album; and maybe a fourth, if you count the songs Quimby hasn’t brought to the band yet.
How do they write songs? Do they
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“They say you get all your life to write your first album and a couple years to write your second one. But that’s not really a problem for us,” says Scheible. “We always have 10 new tunes. We’ll get to them when we get to them.”
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Kessler said he never had a Face book page until he created one to reach more people to raise money for the McFarland,cause. who works in East County, became a Real Men Wear Pink ambassador in 2021 to sup port his colleague at the time, Emily Rhoads, who is a cancer survivor. He said knowing someone who was impacted by breast cancer was an eye-opening experience because Rhoads was only 25 when she was diagnosed.“It’samazing to see the supportive community,” he said.
“It’s a lot more fashionable than you think,” he said. “It’s not going to be chaps and leather jackets. HarleyDavidson has really become modern with their clothes. They’re very fashion forward now.”
“Your mind always wanders to the worst, but thankfully her prognosis was good,” Kessler said of his wife, who has been in remission for a year.
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When Lynch suggested Baran participate in Real Men Wear Pink in 2021, he was eager to help.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 Classifieds 15B Games 10B Real Estate 5B Sports 7B Weather 10B Male models will be in the pink as they strut their stuff at The Mall at UTC. IF YOU GO Real Men Wear Pink Fashion Show n When: 6 p.m. Sept. 24 n Where: Grand Court of The Mall at University Town Center, 140 University Town CenterSarasotaDrive, n Tickets: $30 n Details: Watch 33 Real Men Wear Pink ambassadors from Sarasota and Manatee counties hit the runway to support the American Cancer Society. n More information: MallAtUTC.com/eventsVisit
“It was pretty nice wearing an $800 jacket, but I had to return it,” Kessler said with a laugh. “It was all of about two minutes of stress and just hoping you don’t fall off the stage.”
ther than seeing Major League Baseball play ers wear pink during Breast Cancer Aware ness Month, Summerfield’s Jeff Young never gave much thought to breast cancer or the American Can cerThatSociety.allchanged in August 2021 when Young’s wife, Betsy, was diag nosed with triple-negative breast cancer, which is considered an aggressive cancer.
Jeff Young said. “It’s not a serious event, which you think it would be because it’s cancer related, but it’s a chance for everybody to have fun.”
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Jeff Young hasn’t decided what pose he will strike at the end of the runway.“Ikind of want to see what every body else does first,” he said. “It’d be cool to go last because you don’t want to do something that somebody else has already done. I’m just going to wing it and go with the vibe.”
When Lakewood Ranch’s Scott Kessler walked the runway last year, he threw his hands up in the air and yelled, “Hey, my people are here,” before reaching the end of the run way, where he handed a rose to his wife, Cheri, and kissed her.
Real Men Wear Pink ambassadors were given the goal of raising at least $2,000 this past year. Kessler, Baran and Parrish’s Luke McFarland went beyond the goal, with each of them raising more than $12,000.
“When it became real, we talked to the kids about it, got the family together and worked out a plan,” Jeff Young said.
Bethany Lynch convinced Jeff Young to “Everybodyparticipate.saysit’s a lot of fun,”
To raise funds, McFarland hosted a golfThistournament.year’sgoal among all the ambassadors is $125,000.
Jeff Young said being with the oth er Real Mean Wear Pink ambassadors has given him his own support group of people who know what it’s like to know someone who has or had breast cancer.“Alot of times, understandably so, the noncancer spouse usually gets set aside, so it’s nice to have a sup port network for them as well,” Jeff Young said. “Everybody says we’re here for you and we understand what you’re going through, which it’s nice of them to say that, but they don’t unless you’ve actually gone through it.”
“It was kind of corny but spur of the moment,” he said. “They all are my people. They were all there for one cause and that was to raise mon ey for breast cancer.”
For Lakewood Ranch’s Ted Baran, participating in Making Strides Against Breast Cancer has become a tradition for his family since they moved to the area in 2007. Baran’s family wanted to support the American Cancer Society because his mother, Kathleen Foley Baran, fought breast cancer for 14 years before she died in 2007. Other fam ily members and friends also were diagnosed with breast cancer.
“We were having a little family challenge as it were, which was fun,” Kessler said.
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Kessler started getting involved in Real Men Wear Pink to support the American Cancer Society and Cheri, who was diagnosed with breast can cer three years ago. Kessler said the diagnosis was a shock.
Kessler thought the fashion show would be embarrassing, but he end ed up having fun.
“We started doing the walk just so my kids could have some sort of a memory of doing something for my mom,” Baran said. “We called it Grammy’s Walk, and we did that for a bunch of years.”
Jeff Young heard of the fashion show by running into River Club’s Sammy Lynch and his wife, Bethany, who is an American Cancer Society senior development manager, the day after last year’s fashion show.
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Summerfield’s Betsy Young and her husband, Jeff Young, can’t wait for the Real Men Wear Pink Fashion Show, where Jeff Young will walk the runway.
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He will join 32 other men from Sarasota and Manatee counties to strut down the runway during the Real Men Wear Pink fashion show Sept. 24 at the Mall at University Town“It’sCenter.goingto be hilarious,” Betsy Young said about the thought of see ing her husband on the runway.
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Courtesy photo Lakewood Ranch’s Scott Kessler says the event brings a sense of camaraderie among the ambassadors.
Kessler and Jeff Young said they’ve not only had to compete against the other Real Men Wear Pink ambassa dors but also their wives, who both had Making Strides Against Breast Cancer teams raising money.
Parrish’s Luke McFarland hopes to raise at least $20,000 for Real Men Wear Pink.
This year, Kessler will sport clothes from Adrenaline Harley-Davidson, where he works.
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. For more information, go to www. NathanBendersonPark.org. The fee is $10 per person or $5 for an adult who brings a child. The event is free for children 6 and younger.
MOVIE NIGHT Begins at 8 p.m. at Waterside Place, 1651 Lakefront Drive, Lakewood Ranch. Waterside Place hosts the free family movie, Clifford the Big Red Dog, in an outdoors setting. Grace Community Church sponsors the event which is preceded by a “Paw-ty with Nate’s Honor Animal Rescue” and Nate’s adoptable puppies from 6-8 p.m. Seating for the movie is firstcome, first-served. Bring a blanket or lawn chairs. Concessions are available from O&A Coffee and We B’ Poppin’ Popcorn and Kettle Corn. Face painting will be available from 7-9 p.m. For more information, go to WatersidePlace.com.
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BUSINESS ALLIANCE WORKSHOP Begins at 11:30 a.m. at Lakewood Ranch Golf & Country Club, 7650 Legacy Blvd., Lakewood Ranch. The Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance hosts Innovations in Work Place Culture, a luncheon to show how culture matters and how businesses make their employees their biggest asset. The luncheon is $35 for LWRBA members and $45 for nonmembers. For more information, go to LWRBA.org.
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EDUCATION NIGHT Runs from 6-8 p.m. at Manatee Technical College, 6305 S.R. 70 E., Bradenton. The School District of Manatee County hosts its annual Post-Secondary Education Night that features information about the college application process, financial aid and scholarships. The event will have representatives from 50 colleges and universities on hand. For more information, call Erin Cox at 751-6550, ext. 43021.
EVENT Runs from 1-9 p.m. at Main Street at Lakewood Ranch. McGrath’s Irish Ale House and Ed’s Tavern host Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day with Irish food and drinks, live music, and games for the kids. For more information, go to MyLWR.com.
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Runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Lakefront Drive in Waterside Place at 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 www.MyLWR.com.
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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.
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LEARN TO FISH Begins at 10 a.m. at the Patton Park picnic pavilion, 5725 White Eagle Blvd., Lakewood Ranch. Come join Lakewood Ranch Community Activities and the Lakewood Ranch Anglers Club to learn fishing basics and tips. The event is open to all ages and is free to Lakewood Ranch residents and $10 for nonresidents. For more information, go to MyLWR.com.
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From 6-9 p.m. at Waterside Place, 1561 Lakefront Drive, Lakewood Ranch. Singer Kimi Tortuga will provide the live music, as those visiting Waterside Place enjoy sunset views of Kingfisher Lake. For more information, go to WatersidePlace.com.
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usan Connelly took advantage of every moment she had with her granddaughter, Makaila Connelly, who is a fifthgrader, during Gilbert W. McNeal Elementary School’s Grandparents“It’sLuncheon.tearingme up that she’s going to be going to middle school,” Susan Connelly said.
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fifth grader Emily Flesche and Maureen McNeally can’t believe it’s their last grandparents luncheon. “I can’t believe she’s already in fifth grade,” Maureen McNally says.
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“I’ll find a way,” Jim McNally said with a laugh. “The extra time with her is always good.”
Willie Cauthen and Peggy Cauthen have a great time eating lunch with their granddaughter, Cali Cauthen.
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The luncheon was bittersweet for Jim and Maureen McNally because it was their last with their granddaughter, Emily Flesche, a fifth-grader.“Ican’tbelieve she’s already in fifth grade,” Maureen McNally said.
nelly’s last, Susan Connelly has a few more years of luncheons with her granddaughter Alyssa Connelly, who is in first grade.
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Loretta Button, trustee, of The Woodlands, Texas, sold the home at 7322 Eaton Court to Monica Slater Van Buskirk and Richard Van Buskirk, of University Park, for $950,000. Built in 1996, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,773 square feet of living area.
Anthony David Barak and Jennifer Ash Barak, of Bradenton, sold their home at 6911 Riversedge St. Circle to Caio Braz Santos and Juliana Martins Dias, of Bradenton, for $1.36 million. Built in 1997, it has five bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 4,733 square feet of living area. It sold for $755,000 in 2020.
Octavio Robles Salomon and Silvia Robles, of Burr Ridge, Illinois, sold their home at 9908 Marbella Drive to Michael Gonnella and Randi Mack, of Bradenton, for $760,000. Built in 2019, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,493 square feet of living area. It sold for $445,000 in 2020.
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Hillspoint Real Estate LLC sold the home at 529 Mast Drive to Traci Nelson and Alejandro Lazo, of Bradenton, for $1.61 million. Built in 2013, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,930 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.4 million in WilliamApril.
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Kevin Koziel and Nadieska Eubank, of Apollo Beach, sold their home at 820 116th Court N.E. to Dmitri Goubarenko and Yuliia Rudiuk, of Bradenton, for $740,000. Built in 2017, it has four bedrooms, threeand-a-half baths, a pool and 2,675 square feet of living area. It sold for $366,800 in 2017.
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Vera Mender, of University Park, sold the home at 7913 Whitebridge Glen to Charles Abdian and Ruthelia Abdian, trustees, of University Park, for $580,000. Built in 1995, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,609 square feet of living area. It sold for $235,000 in 2011.
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Elaine Ann Slough and Ronald Slough, of Parrish, sold their home at 10321 Palmbrooke Terrace to Robert William Rider and Susan Maxine Rider, of Bradenton, for $830,000. Built in 1993, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,429 square feet of living area. It sold for $378,900 in 2004.
Aaron and Erin Nikou, of Greenwood, Indiana, sold their home at 8052 Grande Shores Drive to Vasilios and Jennifer Kiritsis, of Sarasota, for $1.7 million. Built in 2021, it has four bedrooms, fourand-a-half baths, a pool and 4,027 square feet of living area. It sold for $978,400 in 2021.
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Hector and Kortnee Gonzalez, trustees, of Bradenton, sold the home at 4507 Cedar Brush Ter-
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race to Jeffrey and Mary Jenson, of Sarasota, for $655,000. Built in 2014, it has three bedrooms, twoand-a-half baths, a pool and 2,222 square feet of living area. It sold for $385,000 in 2019.
Francis and Christine McCafferty sold their home at 10027 Carnoustie Place to Jeffrey and Suzanne Nagourney, of Scotch Plains, New Jersey, for $882,500. Built in 2015, it has three bedrooms, two-anda-half baths, a pool and 2,617 square feet of living area. It sold for $635,000 in 2020.
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RE Property Holdings LLC sold the home at 10317 Palmbrooke Terrace to Commercial Residential Investments LLC for $420,000. Built in 1993, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,734 square feet of living area. It sold for $185,000 in 2009.
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Tiago and Stela Oliveira, of Bradenton, sold their home at 6915 74th St. Circle E. to Troy Coleman Swenson and Danielle Swenson, of Bradenton, for $735,000. Built in 2005, it has four bedrooms, threeand-a-half baths, a pool and 2,930 square feet of living area. It sold for $305,000 in 2015.
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Michael and Rebecca O’Keefe sold their home at 9311 65th Ave. E. to Connor Brian Long and Jessica Long, of Bradenton, for $735,000. Built in 1986, it has four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,256 square feet of living area. It sold for $285,000 in 2002.
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Country Club home topped all transactions in this week’s real estate. James and Margaret Pontious sold their home at 7018 Dominion Lane to Thomas and Jean Canty, of Bradenton, for $1.7 million. Built in 2005, it has four bedrooms, five-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,356 square feet of living area. It sold for $1,335,000 in 2006.
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Laguna Properties LLC sold the home at 13931 Siena Loop to Laurent Massa and Jessica Rafael, of Lakewood Ranch, for $1,527,000. Built in 2004, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,273 square feet of living area. It sold for $785,000 in 2021.
Edward and Kathy Kalenichenko, of Sarasota, sold their home at 4616 Whispering Leaves Drive to Robert David Little and Angela Elder Little, of Winder, Georgia, for $580,000. Built in 2016, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,760 square feet of liv ing area. It sold for $285,200 in 2016.
Ralph Hughes, trustee, of Bra denton, sold the home at 5609 Cloverleaf Run to Gerald and Celia Martin, of Brewster, New York, for $960,000. Built in 2015, it has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,744 square feet of living area. It sold for $481,900 in 2015.
MALLORY PARK Luke Anderson, of Lakewood Ranch, and Laura Anderson, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3413 Anchor Bay Trail to Lewis and Jackie Bonadies, of Bradenton, for $805,000. Built in 2020, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,483 square feet of living area. It sold for $500,300 in 2020.
Marla and Delwin Quenzer, trustees, of Littleton, Colorado, sold the home at 13409 Matanzas Place to Charles Brown and Helene Deon Brown, of Lakewood Ranch, for $1.55 million. Built in 2011, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,829 square feet of living area. It sold for $930,000 in 2017.
Brian Scott Richless and Ellen Richless, of Sarasota, sold their home at 15519 Castle Park Terrace to Thomas Schuster and Ann Marie Gerlach-Schuster, of Bradenton, for $1.45 million. Built in 2020, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,647 square feet of living area. It sold for $679,800 in 2020.
This Country Club home at 7018 Dominion Lane sold for $1.7 million. It has four bedrooms, five-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,356 square feet of living area.
RIVER FOREST James and Judith Watterson, of Bradenton, sold their home at 5935 River Forest Circle to Jennifer and Anthony Barak, of Bradenton, for $1.2 million. Built in 2002, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,905 square feet of living Leearea.Hecklinger, of New Albany, Ohio, sold her home at 5954 River Forest Circle to Christopher and Amy Forrest, of Bradenton, for $1.2 million. Built in 1999, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,447 square feet of living area. It sold for $609,000 in 2003.
James and Rebecca Holland, of St. Johns, sold their home at 409 167th Blvd. E. to Christopher and Brikeda Lambert, of Bradenton, for $730,000. Built in 2018, it has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,568 square feet of living area. It sold for $479,000 in 2018.
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Bruce Page and Susan Wells Page, of Bradenton, sold their home at 4778 Mainsail Drive to Michael and Rachel Cascio, of Ivins, Utah, for $1.2 million. Built in 2004, it has four bedrooms, three-and-ahalf baths, a pool and 3,405 square feet of living area.
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While West has made many posi tive changes, it was apparent Lake wood Ranch has more work to do to approach the Pirates’ level.
Bradley said Mustangs Head Coach Rashad West has done a fine job building his program and said this year’s team is much improved from previous Mustangs teams, even if the final score was not indicative of thatThatimprovement.wasn’tany consolation to West.“We had some opportunities when the game was still in the balance and they made more plays than we did,” West said. “They got after us on both lines of scrimmage. Give them cred it. They played well and we’re going back to the drawing board. It’s frus trating to lose any game, whether it’s against Braden River or not. We have to figure it out.”
A late Everhart touchdown was Lakewood Ranch’s final touchdown.
Pirates hold edge over Mustangs
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Where: Lakewood Ranch High Mustangs player to watch: Junior safety Dalin Koscielski, who had an againstinterceptionBradenRiver Storm player to watch: Senior athlete Chip McCutcheon, who is averaging 96 total yards per game
“This is not an easy place to play. We didn’t start out well tonight, but the kids responded after that.”
Lakewood Ranch senior Kevin Everhart, left, was the Mustangs’ only real offensive spark against Braden River, accounting for both of the team’s touchdowns in a 33-14 loss.
Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club has seen a trio of holes-in-one in recent weeks.
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Braden River (3-0) clashes with Manatee (3-0) in a battle of unbeat ens at Braden River High.
Note: This game can be streamed on Braden River’s YouTube chan nel for free
The Mustangs defense could not stop Braden River junior Trayvon Pinder (7), who ran for 197 yards and three touchdowns thanks to holes like this one opened by the Pirates offensive line.
Dees, who threw for 424 yards and six touchdowns in the opener, and the Mustangs will be looking to regain the form they showed against Cardinal Mooney when they travel to Celebration (0-3) on Sept. 16.
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s the 2022 NFL season kicked off this weekend, it was a good time to think about the East County alumni in the league, or more spe cifically, the lack of them. Former Lakewood Ranch High center Austin Reiter is on the Kansas City Chiefs’ practice squad. As of today, he’s the only one signed with a team. Former Braden River High safety Sharrod Neasman, who spent five years as a reserve with the Atlanta Falcons and one with the New York Jets, was signed to the Los Angeles Rams practice squad in January but released in February. The most successful area alumnus of the last de cade — former Lakewood Ranch cornerback Dominique RodgersCromartie — hasn’t played since 2019 after a 12-year career. With all the success Braden River has had during Head Coach Curt Bradley’s tenure, it is surprising there are not more Pirates in the league. That said, there might be more in the next season or two. Former Pirates running back Deshaun Fenwick had a breakout season at Oregon State in 2021 and has started well in 2022 as a junior. On Sept. 10, Fenwick had 19 carries for 102 yards (5.4 yards per carry) and a touchdown in the Beavers’ 35-32 win over Fresno State. Those who wanted to watch Fenwick had to stay up until 3 a.m. to watch the West Coast night game.
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Braden River’s defensive line, meanwhile, kept constant pressure on Dees, who threw for 114 yards.
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ith a new quarterback in junior Clayton Dees and a new confidence com ing off a 51-29 thrashing of Cardinal Mooney in the seasonopener, it appeared the Lakewood Ranch High football team had a shot to end its losing streak against cross town rival Braden River High.
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On offense, Braden River pushed Lakewood Ranch around to open wide holes for running backs Tray von Pinder (197 yards, three touch downs rushing). Roy Burchett, who rushed for 75 yards, also scored a rushing touchdown for Braden River.
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Braden River junior Marcus Waiters (6) holds the Braden River-Lakewood Ranch rivalry trophy above his head before the game. After Friday night, the Pirates have won seven straight games in the series.
“Thiswin.(rivalry) was the first team we ever played as a staff and it did not end well for us,” Braden River Head Coach Curt Bradley said, ref erencing his team’s 21-7 loss in 2012.
George Morgan sank one Sept. 7 on the 155-yard No. 17 hole of the club’s Royal Lakes course using a 4-hybrid. Tess Poots had an ace Sept. 3 on the 127-yard No. 2 hole of the club’s Cypress Links course, also using a 4-hybrid. Not to be outdone, Greg Kushto dropped a hole-in-one Aug. 30 on the 151-yard No. 16 hole of the Cypress Links course using a 7-iron.
Lakewood Ranch will not have a potential game in the postseason as Lakewood Ranch is a Suburban 4 team and Braden River is a Suburban 3 team.
When: 7 p.m. Sept. 16
The Pirates had beaten the Mus tangs six straight games coming into the Sept. 9 showdown at Lake wood Ranch High, but after Dees and senior running back Kevin Everhart, who scored on a five-yard run, led the Mustangs down the field on the game’s opening possession, the home crowd was chanting “Sink the ship.”
Pirates running back Trayvon Pinder runs over Mustangs with 197 yards rushing and three touchdowns.
While Lakewood Ranch displayed some impressive skill position play ers, Braden River was dominant on the offensive and defensive lines.
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Where: Braden River High Pirates player to watch: Junior running back Trayvon Pinder, who ran for 197 yards and three touchdowns against Lakewood Ranch Hurricanes player to watch: Junior running back Cory Sanders, who has 223 yards and five touchdowns this
The Pirates maintained control of the “Steering Wheel Trophy” the two schools created for the rivalry for the seventh straight time the teams met.
“We know what this means for the football teams, and also the schools. This game means a lot. It had great attendance even in the rain.
The rest of the night, however, was a cruise for the Pirates, who scored the next 33 points to finish with a 33-14
The Lakewood Ranch golf team — sophomore Henry Burbee, sophomore Parker Severs, junior AJ Hovermale, senior Preston Severs and senior Eli Martin — played five holes Sept. 10 before storms postponed the scramble event.
Lakewood Ranch sophomore Parker Severs is the team’s No. 1 golfer, but all of the Mustangs golfers will need to play well at the Lakewood Ranch Invitational, a scramble event.
“You can see who is hitting a wedge higher, who is lining up putts right, who is getting more spin,” Frantz said. “It’s not the same in practice. The pressure and atmosphere is different.”
Lakewood Ranch Head Coach Dave Frantz said he’s thankful to Lakewood Ranch Country Club for being flexible and allowing him to push the event back a week. The only change is that instead of having staggered tee times as planned, the Sept. 17 event will feature a 1 p.m. shotgun start.
Lakewood Ranch High boys golf Head Coach Dave Frantz says the Lake wood Ranch Invitational on Sept. 17 is the state’s only scramble event he’s aware of on the high school calendar.
“I believe we’re the only (scramble) in the state,” Frantz said. “I don’t know of another high school one, anyway. It’s exciting. I’m ready to watch how our guys attack this.”
is an individual sport, the team aspect is important in high school. Events like scrambles emphasize the team aspect of the game and, hopefully, allow participating schools to see their athletes grow closer and learn from one another. It sounds like it will work.
The tournament was planned for Sept. 10 at the same location, but thunderstorms forced tournament organizers to postpone the event after a handful of teams had teed off. The Mustangs teed off first and were given a tantalizing taste of the scramble fun, playing five holes before the storms came.
Mustangs sophomore Henry Burbee said he’s excited for the event as he’s only played in a hand ful of scrambles before this one. While the holes Lakewood Ranch played on Sept. 10 won’t count on Sept. 17, it did give the team an idea of how it all works. The team was four under par through five holes and, Burbee said, the players developed somewhat of a strategy. Burbee said he would always tee off last, and as long as one person was already in the fairway, ensur ing at least a decent start, Burbee would, in his words, “bomb nukes” without regard for accuracy.
Postponed by lightning, the scramble event will be held Sept. 17 at Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club.
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“We were looking solid,” Burbee said. “I’m feeling good about us and about my own game. I have been working on shortening my swing to make it more consistent and have been hitting with the middle of the club face more as well, which has added distance.”
And it also was supposed to have happened already.
For now, high school teams want to participate in an event that offers a different format. This year’s Lakewood Ranch event has 20 schools entered, with five of those schools entering two teams each. Frantz said as long as the other schools enjoy the event, as he hopes they will, perhaps they will continue to enter the tournament next year and beyond. Frantz said the event comes early enough in the season that teams have plenty of time to take part in other tournaments that will count toward the rankings.
Athletic Association/iWanamaker team rankings, as it is not the individual stroke play format used at the FHSAA state tournament. That’s not a big deal this season, as the rankings are currently more for bragging rights than anything else. Starting next season, though, the rankings will be a factor in deter mining which teams qualify for the state tournament. As a result, Frantz said, there’s a chance most golf coaches opt to forego more unique formats in favor of ones that can help their ranking.
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Perhaps Frantz can waive the rule stating coaches cannot give instructions to their golfers while on a green. When combined with the ability to see all of a team’s top golfers play at the same time, the event provides a great opportunity for coaches to do what they do best — coach and evaluate.
Frantz said he’s excited about the chance to build bonds with his players as well. As much as golf
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It didn’t always work, of course, but the scramble format provides an opportunity for such risky shots to be no harm, no foul. And since Burbee can drive the ball more than 300 yards, it’s a free pass to swing as hard as he can.
In addition to the Mustangs, The Out-of-Door Academy will play in the scramble event, as will Tampa Jesuit, Columbus High and Saint Stephen’s Episcopal, all of which finished in the top three in their respective classes at the state tournament in 2021.
On Sept. 17, the Lakewood Ranch Invitational will be held at Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club’s Royal Lakes course. It is not, like most high school golf tournaments, an individual stroke play event. The event features a scramble format.
The delay is an opportunity for the golf community to watch this rare event. For those that don’t know, a scramble is a format where a group of teammates tee off on the same hole and then each plays the best shot of the group until they hole out.
Lakewood Ranch scrambles to host tourney
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The scramble format might not be around next season, except in Lakewood Ranch. Its results do not count toward Florida High School
A nonranking event could provide some bonuses in the future.
Coach (Curt) Bradley tells us that all we got is all we need. Last year, after injuries and people leaving, I was the only back left. The team needed someone to step up and I did. I feel like anybody could do that if they expect to do it. It’s that ‘nextman-up’ mentality.
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My determination. I fight to gain every yard I can. I don’t ever give up on a play. My vision is strong as well.
My explosiveness. There have been a few times running the ball when I felt like if I was faster I could have made a bigger play, so I’m trying to get my speed up. I am also trying to be more versatile.
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What have you been working to improve?
I like the challenge it gives me and I like how physical it gets. I honestly don’t know what I would be doing if I was not playing football. I just love the sport.
What is your favorite TV show or movie?
Trayvon Pinder is a junior running back on the Braden River High football team. Pinder had 197 rushing yards and three touchdowns Sept. 9 in the Pirates’ 33-14 win over Lakewood Ranch High.
I love a shepherd’s pie. Either a nice one or a cheaper version
What is the best advice you have received?
Which superpower would you pick? I would want to read people’s minds. That way you could determine how to act around them, based on what they think of you.
I started when I was 8 years old. I saw some of my older cousins playing it together and wanted to play it myself. Football runs in my family and usu ally people start when they are even younger, like 5 years old, but I was late.
What are your goals for this season?
I don’t have specific numbers but I want to improve my stats from last year (1,190 yards on 208 carries and 13 touchdowns) and get noticed by colleges. I want to play at the next level, so junior year is a big year for me. I want to lift that (collegiate) financial burden off my family.
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What is your best skill?
What is your favorite food?
My favorite show is “Beyblade,” which is an anime, and my favorite movie is “Fat Albert.” It’s a movie about determination and about family, which I like. I’m a big family guy.
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