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With a major hurricane looming and Florida at risk, emergency personnel instruct Longboat Key residents to prepare for the worst, and ‘get moving.’

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Moving up in rank

Tina Adams and Mark Weston

Public Safety staff gets new hardware The desks of some Longboat Key Public Safety staff have some new hardware thanks to a generous resident. Mark Weston of Mark Weston Artistry supplied all Longboat Key fire and police staff and office personnel with name plaques for their desks.

Bourque is now a lieutenant, still a detective.

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Pat Gussin books a new title Local author and co-owner of Oceanview Publishing, Pat Gussin, is preparing to release her latest book.

“Come Home,” a story about a seemingly perfect couple with a perfect life until the husband leaves with their son, will make its debut on Nov. 7. The book will be available in hardcover and in all ebook formats.

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ongboat Key officials say all residents should begin preparing for Hurricane Irma, which could be the first major storm to hit the area in more than 10 years.

“This is the time to prepare and get moving,” said Longboat Key Fire Chief Paul Dezzi.

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Business was steady at the Mobil station, though one pump was out of order for a while.

On the scene on Sept. 11 Longboat resident recalls a day that none of us will ever forget.

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Town staff questions Colony timeline Development Review Board meets with Unicorp over Colony plans and seeks more information on project.

TOWN CALENDAR Summer is coming to a close, and that means town meetings are back on the schedule: Sept. 11 10 a.m. — Code Enforcement Board 1 p.m. — Town Commission

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Sept. 12 9:30 a.m. — Zoning Board of Adjustment Sept. 19 9 a.m. — Planning and Zoning Board

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Longboat Key Director of Planning, Zoning and Building Alaina Ray, seated, speaks with Unicorp President Chuck Whittall after a meeting reviewing his company’s plans to redevelop the former Colony property.

on this size of a project,” Ray said.

“I’ve never seen this size of a project go that fast.”

Town planning staff also said three weeks of review would be needed before the Oct. 3 agenda deadline, meaning Unicorp would need to finalize survey and research work by the middle of September. That’s assuming no revisions are needed.

Missing that deadline would push the proposal into November or December, meaning the Town Commission likely won’t see it until early 2018.

“It’s a lot of work,” said Unicorp President Chuck Whittall. “If we can get comments in, and they can get comments into us, and we can get our comments back

in, we’ll make that date, but it’s a tight timeline.’’

Closed in 2010 after courtordered bankruptcy proceedings, the former Colony property has been embroiled in litigation since before Whittall’s group bought it in 2014.

After voters in March rejected Unicorp’s request to add density to the property, the company reworked its proposal to fit the property’s existing density.

The new plan still requires town approval before it can begin construction.

One of the key missing pieces is a 3-D elevation of the property, showing how the proposals buildings and features co-exist.

“The site plan has to include

it’s seeking to override the town comprehensive plan with a special exemption.

The property is entitled to the same 237-unit allotment of tourism rooms that the Colony offered, but the new proposal calls for a 166-unit St. Regis hotel and 102 condominiums.

“There was no justification for why that was beneficial or how it meets the state’s intent to reduce density in those areas,” Ray said.

Representatives from both parties said they hope to advance the project while adhering to local requirements.

“Longboat Key needs the Colony to be rebuilt and a new development to be there, and we are in a position to do that,” Whittall said. “We hope they’re on board.”

architectural elevations so we can see what the buildings look like and what they look like in relation to surrounding properties so we can see what the impacts might be,” Ray said.

“Without those, it’s hard to judge what the characteristics of the property are going to look like and how it will impact adjacent properties.”

Among the other town concerns: a study is needed of tree species and locations on the property and a report on the use of amount of drinking water and production of wastewater by the resort.

Town officials said the plan was also missing a narrative section of its application to explain why

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Longboat Key leaders met with Chuck Whittall and members of his Unicorp National Development’s team Sept. 1 to deliver the town’s first reviews of the redevelopment plan for the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort property.

Members of the town’s Development Review Committee handed Unicorp a 28-page document of comments and a list of missing information necessary for the proposal to advance to the Planning and Zoning Board.

Ultimately, the plan will need Town Commission approval.

Alaina Ray, the town’s Planning, Zoning and Building director, said information on water pipes, trees on the 18-acre property and a 3-D view of the proposed development were still required.

Unicorp hopes to have the application finalized in time to present to the Planning and Zoning Board at its Oct. 17 meeting and possibly to the Town Commission in November. Committee members said that can’t take place until all the information is included.

“It would be a miracle for that to happen between now and then

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Employees were busy securing nearly 30 boats at Cannons Marina ahead of what may be the largest hurricane to strike Florida in more than a decade.

Around the Key, Longboat residents made sure they prepared in case Hurricane Irma strikes.

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ongboat Key is getting ready for Hurricane Irma.

Preparations took on a higher level of urgency on Tuesday after Irma strengthened into a Category 5 storm projected to hit Florida over the weekend.

Stores reported more customers.

Gas stations noted an increase in business. Pretty much everywhere you went, Irma was the center of conversation.

Casa del Mar Beach Resort General Manager Mark Meador said some people canceled rentals or rescheduled their trips to late October. Some visitors, he said, packed up and left. But like many others on the island, Meador is in limbo.

“We’re trying to stay positive and wait for the next update,” he said.

On Monday, Gov. Rick Scott called a state of emergency for all 67 Florida counties. A day later, Longboat Key government entities began emergency procedures.

Sarasota County officials have asked residents to start preparing now, for effects from Irma could hit the area as early as Saturday, Sept. 9.

Emotions on the island ranged from ambivalence to worry ahead of what could be the strongest storm to hit Florida in decades.

Connor Flanagan, manager at The Lazy Lobster, said business hasn’t necessarily changed. He’s heard some customers come in and make jokes or comments about Irma.

“I think that the No. 1 thing … tomorrow, Irma could turn into the Atlantic and dissipate,” he said.

Over at the Longboat Key Tennis Public Tennis Center, Grace Hackett, who works in the pro shop, said they would move furniture inside and adjust wind screens on the court fences over the next few days.

“There’s not a lot we can do to protect the courts,” she said.

At Cannons Marina, workers were securing nearly 30 docked boats and laying sandbags on the property as a precaution. For the most part, boat owners were waiting and watching ahead of the storm.

“People are still figuring out what to do,” said Cannons employee Danny Berthold.

EVACUATION TIPS If required, an evacuation could be ordered as early as Thursday, Sept. 7. n Manatee and Sarasota would coordinate evacuation orders. n If an evacuation takes place, police will set up checkpoints on the north and south ends of the island. No one will be allowed back on the island until a safety sweep is made. Then, only people who can prove they are island residents or business operators can return. n Sign up for CodeRED alerts for news and information at longboatkey.org

As Longboat residents began securing their property, rumors circulated that gas stations were depleted and hardware stores were running short of supplies.

Longboat’s sole gas station had plenty of fuel as of Tuesday and had an incoming order scheduled for Wednesday delivery, said comanager Cindy Dearth. She said there had been an unusually high amount of traffic through the station that morning that had continued through the afternoon.

Among the customers was Luc Beeckman, who had come from Lido Key to fuel up his 2000 Jaguar S Type in preparation of the storm. He said he witnessed Charley engulf a Maserati with nearly 2 feet of water and said his biggest concern was to make sure his car was on high enough ground so it would avoid the same fate.

At Ace Hardware on Longboat Key, Dave Silvani said he’d seen a steady stream of customers concerned about their vehicles and their homes. By early afternoon, he had sold nearly 20 propane tanks, and was nearly out of flashlights, charcoal, lanterns, radios and coolers.

Peter Salefsky, a customer at the hardware store, was among a rare voice hoping forecasts would predict Irma was coming to Longboat.

“The good news is wherever place they predict, it goes somewhere else,” Salefsky said.

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Jeff Driver, 56, purchases a cooler at the Longboat Key Ace Hardware store to preserve food in case Hurricane Irma knocks out power to the island.

Nearly all gas cans and propane tanks were already sold out at the Longboat Key Ace Hardware store by the early afternoon Tuesday.

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Town officials are encouraging all residents to sign up for Longboat Key CodeRED on the town’s website, longboatkey.org, which provides updates on the storm and any subsequent preparations including bridge closings or evacuations. CodeRED alerts will be sent out through a resident’s choice of email, text message or phone call.

Gov. Rick Scott called a state of emergency for all 67 Florida counties on Monday, which allows emergency personnel to mobilize in anticipation of the storm.

Longboat Key began emergency procedures Tuesday.

Hurricane Irma was expected to move into the Florida Keys this weekend, then make a right turn to the north, with most of the peninsula at risk. County emergency managers said tropical storm force winds are possible by Friday night under current conditions.

It would be the first major storm to strike the region since Hurricane Charley in 2004.

“We’ve been very lucky. People haven’t thought about it because the storms haven’t happened here,” Dezzi said. “We have to get off that thinking process and make sure that people get this is a very serious storm that we will need to make sure we watch.”

With the possibility of significant damage, Dezzi said residents need to be proactive. An evacuation order could come as early as Thursday, Sept. 7.

“This storm is powerful and moving all over the place, so we’re not sure where it’s going to go,” Dezzi said. “What we do know is we will be impacted somehow.”

Sarasota and Manatee counties will work in conjunction to call an evacuation order if necessary, meaning there won’t be a situation where one side of the island evacuates and the other doesn’t.

If an evacuation is ordered, mainland shelters will open. Residents are reminded to look for shelter details, including if they allow pets.

Longboat officials have already begun reaching out to residents with special medical or transportation needs to prepare them in case of an evacuation. Longboat Key Fire Rescue is working in collaboration with area medical facilities to make sure all have a destination in case of an evacuation.

Should the island require an evacuation, the Longboat Police Department will set up check points at the north and south entrances of the island, and all people wishing to get through after the storm will need some sort of identification proving they are residents on Longboat. This can include, but is not limited to, a drivers license, an electric bill or other documentation that verifies an address.

First responders are also preparing in case of significant damage to the island. Dezzi said that in addition to significant damage to housing on the island, emergency personnel are preparing for damages including downed powerlines, flooded streets and broken gas lines.

“It’s a huge process even for a small town like we have here,” Dezzi said.

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CONV E RSAT I O N WITH CHUCK WHITTALL After more than five years, the president of Unicorp National Developments Inc. continues to work toward developing the former Colony property.

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huck Whittall, the president of the Orlando-based Unicorp National Developments Inc., first visited the Key on vacation with his family more than 12 years ago. After returning a few more times, he decided the island would make a great place for him to retire.

Three years ago, Whittall bought a unit at the then still-to-be-constructed Aria.

Now, Whittall and his family often spend weekends there.

For more than five years, Whittall has been working to develop the former Colony Tennis & Beach Resort property, which closed in 2010.

Whittall’s initial proposal for the nearly 18-acre property, which included a total of 417 units and maximum building heights of 12 stories, drew strong criticism from Longboat residents, who voted against it in a March referendum by an 87% margin.

Now, Whittall is seeking approval from the town for a plan that includes a 166room hotel operated by St. Regis and 102 residential condominium units. Buildings are no more than 65 feet high.

On the afternoon of Aug. 31, we spoke with Whittall at his Aria condo about how far he’s come with the project, and how far he still needs to go.

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Chuck Whittall outside of his Aria condo

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So it all started when you met with the Colony bankruptcy attorney. What then?

He gave me the phone numbers of the players involved and said, “If you’re interested in getting involved, it’s a mess, but here are the phone numbers.” I made the first few phone calls and thought, “I don’t want to get involved in that.” Then I came here again a few weeks later and thought, “You know … I gotta get involved in this. Somebody’s going to redevelop that property.

It might as well be me.”

So I got in touch with Colony Lender and met Andy Adams.

Andy and I got nowhere, but Colony Lender wanted to sell their position, so I made a deal and I bought their position and started pursuing development of the property.

With all of the challenges you’ve faced — all of the lawsuits, the failed referendum, the public backlash — what keeps you motivated to develop this site?

My personality, in general. I’m a “I don’t give up” type of person. I won’t give up. It’s a great piece of property. It’s got great potential. It’ll be great for the community.

There’s a resort I go to out in California called The Montage, and The Montage is such a wonderful addition to Laguna Beach.

It’s very much like this community. It’s a small, little, quaint community, and this (hotel) has become the nucleus of their community.

It’s just a great place to be. The locals come, visitors come, and I thought, “That would be a great example of what to build on Longboat Key.”

So that’s what our plan is — to build something really special that the community will embrace. The community will benefit from it for many reasons: tax dollars, amenities, tourists coming here to stay who will spend their dollars in the community, community events that can happen here … Weddings, bar mitzvahs, retirement parties.

It’ll be the place where people want to spend their time.

How do you address concerns some residents have raised regarding the proposed ballroom and meeting space?

Well, the current Colony has a ballroom of 15,000 feet. The entire second floor of the midrise is a ballroom. It’s always had one. If you don’t have that, the problem is you can’t bring in conventioners who will fill up the hotel. Generally, when people come in for groups, they’re going to want to have meeting space, or have an event, or have a speaker. If somebody comes for a wedding, they’ll come book 40 rooms, they’ll have a wedding on the lawn, then they’ll come inside to have their reception afterward in the ballroom.

If you make it too small, it just won’t function. And I’ve hired experts. Ernst & Young, an economist (and) the Marriott Hotel have all given us advice about what (the space) needs to be to make the hotel function properly.

Part of what the former Colony’s charm was the tennis courts. Why not include tennis courts in the new plan?

Well, the former Colony was great with tennis, but there was a void created when it closed

and that void’s been filled by the town’s tennis facility and Longboat Key Club’s tennis facility.

So, it would be redundant and dilutive to both of them if we had a big tennis facility. So, we thought, let’s go in the direction of health and wellness and have a big wellness spa and do something special there that the island doesn’t have.

“I’m a ‘I don’t give up’ type of person. I won’t give up. It’s a great piece of property. It’s got great potential. It’ll be great for the community.”

— Chuck Whittall

Have you made any progress with Andy Adams? (Adams controls 75 units of the former Colony resort.)

I can say that Andy and I have had good conversations. We spoke three times this week. We haven’t agreed on everything yet, but I think Andy has come to realize that I’m probably the most viable purchaser for him.

Just like anything, it’s a negotiation. It’s hard for me to make a deal with him quite this second because I don’t have the town approval. I don’t want to buy his units if I can’t get approved to build a resort there. Andy really wants to know I can build a resort there before we make a deal. So, it’s the chicken or the egg.

Once I have the entitlements and I know I can build it, then I can go secure financing and I can secure the rest of the acquisition of the property. But, you really generally don’t go complete an acquisition until you know what you can do there.

In this case, I have gotten involved and I’ve spent a lot of money, but I’m probably as deep as I want to be until I know what I can build on the property.

Some people question whether Unicorp has the financial capabilities for a project like this. Does it?

We certainly do. We’re doing projects as big as this now. We’ve got lots of projects now — a 613room Wyndham in Orlando, I’m building another Element Hotel in Orlando, I’ve got $400 million worth of development going on now. For this one, we’re only going to borrow a couple hundred million. So, we can certainly perform on this project. We’ve got the leading hotel company in the world on board, the largest hotel company in the world. I’ve got a team of consultants that are the best of the best. We’ll certainly be able to deliver it.

Why the mixture of tourism and residential units?

I wanted the mixture of hotel and condos, but the truth is that you cannot build a five-story hotel like this, a resort hotel, without residences because the cost of the hotel is so great. You need the residences to offset that cost. Just like you see at the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota just on the other side of the bridge, they have residences that go with it because it offsets the cost of the hotel and the operating costs

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with the residences that are there and the dues they pay and the price they pay.

If everything goes well with town discussions, when do you hope to get the project underway?

If the commission approves this Nov. 6 at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, we will immediately finalize our building plans …

Then we’ll completely design the buildings and finish that.

That will take us about five or six months to do, then we’ll go into permitting. That would put us sometime in the middle of next year.

We’ve got to file to terminate the condo (association). We’ve got to go through the state of Florida. We don’t have 100% of the people on board. Luckily, changes to Florida statute now do not require us to have 100% on board. We’re preparing a termination plan as we speak. So we’ll file that termination plan and then we’ll replace it with a new condo (association), which will be for the new development.

That could take six months, it could take 12 months. We’re hoping it’s six to nine months, which will flow with our timeline to start construction.

So if everything goes well, we’ll be under construction summer to fall of next year, hopefully summer. Thirty months is what it should take to build it. It may take up to 36 months depending on how much manpower is available in the market, but 30 to 36 months.

With that, we should open it in late 2020 or early 2021.

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Longboat Key Police Chief Pete Cumming explained that he could give a long list of jobs Detective Sgt. Robert Bourque had accomplished within the department.

However, Cumming said the important thing was to get him promoted.

On Tuesday, Bourque was formally elevated to the rank of lieutenant.

Cumming addressed a small crowd, including Longboat Key commissioners, and shared some of Bourque’s career history.

Bourque has been with the department for nearly nine years, serving as detective sergeant for about three years. Before coming to the Key, he worked for the Tampa Police Department and the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.

Bourque is the lead detective in the homicide task force investigating an Aug. 4 crime at the Zota Beach Resort that ended with the deaths of two employees.

On Aug. 9, police arrested Darryl Hanna Jr., and charged him with robbery and second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of 51-year-old security guard Kevin Carter of Bradenton and 59-year-old night desk manager Timothy Hurley of Sarasota.

Police said Hanna also stole $900 from the front desk cash drawer.

Cumming said Bourque was already in line for a promotion for his “continuous exceptional work,” but his role in the Zota case “certainly didn’t hurt.”

Town Manager Dave Bullock referred to Bourque as an “excellent detective.”

“Bob is meticulous, organized, persistent and dedicated to finding folks who commit crime on Longboat Key and bringing them to justice,” Bullock said.

WHAT’S NEXT IN THE CASE AGAINST HANNA? Suspect Darryl Hanna Jr. is scheduled to be arraigned at 8:55 a.m. Friday in the courtroom of Judge Brian Iten in the Manatee County Judicial Center.

He is charged with armed robbery and two counts of second-degree murder with a firearm. The murder charges could be upgraded to first-degree murder.

Bullock also praised Bourque for maintaining strong relationships with police officers in other local jurisdictions.

“Bad folks don’t pay attention to city or county boundaries, so it is important to have good working relationships with nearby departments,” Bullock said. “Bob excels at this.”

Bourque praised his fellow members of the task force, which includes officers from Manatee County, Palmetto, Holmes Beach, Bradenton and Bradenton Beach, for identifying and locating the suspect.

“It truly is a team effort,” Bourque said. “It has a lot of moving parts, and a lot of people to help move them.”

In particular, Bourque commended for Detective James Curulla of the Bradenton Police Department for his efforts.

“He’s been a godsend,” Bourque said.

The lieutenant also praised the Key officers who first responded to the Zota crime scene.

“Our people handled it perfectly,” he said.

Bourque will still work as a detective, so he said his duties don’t change much. If anything, he will have more administrative work, but being named lieutenant is still an honor for him.

“It’s always nice to be recognized for hard work,” he said.

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BRIEFS Mote releases rehabbed turtle On May 14, a subadult loggerhead sea turtle was hooked in Lee County by an angler.

Now, a little more than three months later, that turtle made her way back to the sea.

On Aug. 30, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium staff released the turtle, named Patti, into the Gulf of Mexico at Lido Beach.

When the angler noticed the turtle was hooked, he called Mote’s Stranding Investigations team and brought her to Mote.

Mote staff found Patti covered in barnacles and algae, indicating that she could have been suffering from an illness before ingesting the fishing hook.

On May 15, Mote’s veterinarian anesthetized Patti and surgically removed the hook. Mote’s rehabilitation and medical care coordinator, Lynne Byrd, said hooks usually can be removed without surgery, but this hook was larger and had settled in Patti’s esophagus. Blood work revealed that Patti was anemic, as well.

On May 16, Patti moved to a rehabilitation tank and was put on antibiotics and fluid therapy.

Initially, Patti wouldn’t eat, but on May 23, she began eating and eventually gained weight and become more active, a statement from Mote said.

In early July, Patti was well enough to be taken off the antibiotic and her anemia began to slowly resolve.

Byrd said calls about turtles getting hooked aren’t rare, and upon rescuing them, Mote staff often finds marks from other

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Mote staff carries Patti to the water on Lido Beach. Patti squirmed as they carried her and she took off quickly when they set her down.

hooks. Turtles venture toward hooks because they think food will be around, she said.

“Once a turtle does this behavior, they’re more likely to do it again,” she said.

To report a stranded, injured or dead marine animal, call Mote’s Stranding Investigations Program at 988-0212.

Sarasota Bay sees record year for dolphin births Sarasota Bay experienced its fair share of newcomers this dolphin calving season.

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium, in partnership with Chicago Zoological Society’s Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, documented a record

19 births during the 2017 calving season.

Dolphins usually give birth between May and September, peaking in late spring and throughout the summer months. The dolphin calves join up to five generations of long-term Sarasota Bay inhabitants.

A release from Mote said the record year is something to celebrate. A high number of new dolphins speak to the health of Sarasota’s dolphin and the overall health of Sarasota Bay. “Bottlenose dolphins are sentinels of the health of our coastal ecosystem in Sarasota,” said Randall Wells, Sarasota Dolphin Research program director. “They breathe the same air, swim in the same waters and eat the same fish we do.”

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When Amore Restaurant closed in May, loyal Longboat Key customers were left without a gathering space.

But that won’t be the case for much longer.

Owner Howard Rooks said he hopes to have the new location in Sarasota’s Burns Court open by the end of September.

In January, Rooks sold his property at 555 Bay Isles Parkway to the town of Longboat Key for $2.2 million to be used for the coming Arts, Cultural and Education Center. Rooks had owned that property since 2004 when it was Mattison’s Steakhouse.

In May, Rooks purchased the empty space at 446 S. Pineapple Ave. in Sarasota so he could relocate the restaurant and bring the staff, including hostess Liana Vitorino and her husband, Amore manager Tito Vitorino, with him.

The new Burns Court location is about half the size of the Longboat location. Rooks said the new restaurant has seating for about 180 people.

Rooks planned to open the new location in July, but once he got into the space, he saw room for improvement.

“I’m anticipating that you never finish quite as quickly as you think you’re going to,” he said.

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Amore will now be located in Burns Court in downtown Sarasota at 446 S. Pineapple Ave.

Expanding the kitchen and replacing and leveling the floor of the outdoor patio were the two big projects, Rooks said. Other improvements included smaller cosmetic enhancements.

“We’re only adding a little bit of space, but in doing that you have to redo almost everything else as well,” he said.

The kitchen will be adequately sized to serve 180 people, but it isn’t as big as the Longboat location’s kitchen, he said.

“That kitchen was big enough to accommodate a hotel,” he said.

Rooks is looking forward to opening the space and said he is counting on his Longboat customers to venture off the island to his new location.

“I’m excited,” he said. “I really am.”

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POST-STORM CAN BE WORSE Be ready for two storms: when Irma hits and her aftermath. Recovery can be harder, longer than the storm.

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ho knows, as of this writing, where Hurricane Irma will decide to go. Suffice it to say, she’ll let herself be known to us no matter what.

And hopefully, by now, and several days ago, you refreshed your game plan for the possibility of a direct hit.

Some of the obvious steps: n Gas up the car. By Tuesday morning, Longboat’s one service station was down to one pump. And if you’re going to evacuate, get as much of an early start as possible. If you think traffic is bad during season, multiply that multiple times. n Review your wind, flood and homeowners insurance policies. That will remind you what’s covered. That review also may trigger your decision to pack up precious family valuables if you’re thinking of leaving town. Also, if you haven’t done it, take your cellphone around the house and take pictures of everything, even inside your drawers and closets. If you have a good insurance agent, he or she already has that on file.

Obviously, make special note of the contact numbers for your insurance agents, especially their cellphone numbers and email addresses. It’s a good idea to connect with them before Irma strikes so you’re clear on what to do after the storm.

There is much to be done, that’s for sure. And after watching what Hurricane Harvey did to Houston, that should be motivating you to be prepared for the worst.

If you’re unsure of all you need to do before and after Irma, the Red Cross posts a detailed checklist online. We’re posting it on online: YourObserver. com/red-cross-checklist.

Remember, too, the constant advice of two of Longboat Key’s former police chiefs, the late Wayne McCammon and Al Hogle. They always reminded Longboaters: If you’re crazy enough to stay on the Key to ride out a hurricane, just be sure to put a tag on your big toe with your name for identification. In other words, when public officials tell you to evacuate, go.

As we were all reminded over the past two weeks, the storm is one event.

After the storm actually is a much bigger, longer event. Put it in perspective: The storm may last 48 hours. Recovery can last as much as 48 months.

And that’s what we want to empha-

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Harvey 8/29/17 8/25/05 1. Katrina 8/24/92 2. Andrew 10/28/12 3. Sandy 9/12/08 4. Ike 10/24/05 5. Wilma 8/13/04 6. Charley 7. Ivan 9/15/04 9/17/89 8. Hugo 9/24/05 9. Rita 9/5/04 10. Frances

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of Damage

In 2016 Dollars

Texas, La. $70-$160 $70-$160 SE U.S.; 6 states; $41.1 $49.79 Fla., La. $15.5 $24.5 NE, Atlantic, 15 states $18.75 $19.86 Texas, Midwest, 9 states $12.5 $14.03 Florida $10.3 $12.5 Fla., N.C., S.C. $7.5 $9.34 Fla., SE, Atlantic, 15 states $7.11 $8.89 SE/Atlantic, 6 states $4.2 $7.2 Fla., SE, Texas; 7 states $5.62 $6.81 Fla., Ga., N.C., S.C., N.Y. $4.6 $5.7 Source: Insurance Information Institute

size: Be prepared for the aftermath — especially when you consider some of the accompanying data: n Six of the 10 biggest hurricanes in the United States in terms of property damage hit Florida. Those of us on the Gulf Coast who lived through 2004 and 2005 surely have vivid recollections of Charley, Frances, Jeanne, Ivan, Rita and Wilma.

Few can forget Charley’s damage to our southern neighbors in Charlotte County and what it took to rebuild. n Flood insurance: Fortunately, our region hasn’t experienced the catastrophic storm surges that often are predicted with these storms. When Charley was headed our way in 2004, there were predictions of 10-foot surges on Longboat Key. If that occurs with Irma, you can imagine — especially in the wake of Harvey — that the post-storm process for collecting on flood insurance claims is likely to be slower than it otherwise might. Get in line behind the Texans. n Wind/property insurance: If you’re one of taxpayer-owned Citizens Property Insurance’s policyholders, the post-hurricane claims process will be, to a degree, an unknown. Citizens’ response forces haven’t been fully tested with a large-scale Category 4 or 5 hit since its inception. No one knows if it’s ready to handle the deluge of claims after the storm.

Good news is Citizens has declined from being the largest property insurer in Florida to fifth largest (5% market share), and it has had more than a decade to build up $7.5 billion in reserves.

If Irma, God forbid, inflicts, say, $30 billion in damage on the state, Citizens’ share of that could reach $1.5 billion, well within its means. All policyholders — no matter who the carrier

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Building Insured Count Value 113,170 $33,783.2 77,672 $19,838.3 49,220 $14,269.2 57,694 $13,985.3 18,174 $7,200.7 18,853 $5,270.5 19,429 $3,948.5 17,333 $3,875.5 13,570 $3,653.3 12,428 $3,050.5 5,580 $1,977.8 5,468 $1,731.1 7,077 $1,595.4 5,820 $1,258.8 6,485 $1,257.8 2,706 $809.9 472,734 $124,063.0

Source: Citizens Property Insurance

is — would be spared from having the annual state assessments increased to help fund Citizens and the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund.

In that same vein, many of the insurers that acquired policyholders from Citizens have not been tested, either. They have the capital to cover their claims, but the manpower is an unanswered question.

All of which points to your being as prepared for post-hurricane as you are for when, and if, Irma hits. To that end, the Insurance Information Institute has an excellent guide on the steps required to settle your claims. We have posted this guide online as well: YourObserver.com/how-to-settleyour-claim-after-a-hurricane.

Meantime, we’ll pray we are spared.

Be safe.

HOOKED ON LONGBOAT’S KING OF SWING

Lynn and Larry Elgart in 2015

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Famed saxophonist Larry Elgart was the best kind of celebrity: humble, soft-spoken, friendly and warm. You had to love his smile.

Elgart died Aug. 29, at age 95.

A regular in Longboat Key’s Publix, Elgart blended in as he shopped for himself and his wife, Lynn. Many of his contemporary Big Band fans never realized the quiet guy with the beard next to them was one of the all-time American music greats.

Many Longboaters had the privilege of enjoying Elgart’s Big Band sounds at the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce’s Sunday Concerts in the Park in the early 2000s at Joan M. Durante Park. He and his colleagues would fill the afternoon air with tunes that made the audience nostalgic for the good ol’ days. He had everyone Hooked on Swing.

Longboat and Publix fans will miss their King of Swing.

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Well stated; thanks for encouraging words on America Thank you for your commentary, “Bring Back My Country”!

It was well stated, truthful and encouraging.

Also, thanks for printing President Trump’s American Family statement.

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Bicyclists need to be careful

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Is recent flooding here just the beginning?

winds will push and stack up the waters back into the creeks, canals, and up onto low-lying lands. Being already saturated, flooding and wave wash damage will be like you cannot imagine.

In anticipation of this, everyone in high hazard flood and wind areas will be advised to evacuate, and everyone on the keys will head for the few bridges to the mainland. Meanwhile those who live on the bayfront areas will head for the few “evacuation routes” these people on the island are also heading for. Imagine the evacuation roads as a funnel with maybe Tuttle and Beneva being the crunch point, and everyone on side streets and behind trying to get to them all at once.

Now, on these routes have a car break down, or an anxious driver rear end another driver.

Suddenly unexpected reduction in lanes available to evacuate and

The weather bureau advises we just experienced 20 inches of rain in August. To most of we old timers who were here during Hurricane Donna in 1960 through the “no name storm” and other storms to date, this is just another day in paradise.

To all the newbies, when a hurricane heads this way, it normally doesn’t show up over night, but we experience days and/or weeks of rain as we’ve just had before it gets here. The ground is saturated. All the drainage systems are like they are now, loaded to the top. Then the hurricane hits with all the high winds, driving rains, etc.

If the hurricane (or major storm) heads into Manatee or Hillsborough County or goes by in the gulf just offshore, the

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Now read the article in the local papers of Aug. 29 about the lady in north Sarasota who had flooding in her house because of an unexpected blockage in the drainage ditch, where everyone was too busy, too disinterested, or too unsympathetic to get her help.

What we’ve been experiencing is normal and only the tip of the iceberg or is the opening introductions to what becomes a very terrible and deadly situation.

How about maybe being overly cautious about the lives of our citizens and visitors and expand, not restrict evacuation routes.

As my old German professor in college used to tell us, “A word to the wise is sufficient.”

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SUSAN LOHR GERDA L. SMITH Smith, 91, of Atlanta, (HALL) ALEXANDER Gerda died Aug. 31.

Susan Lohr (Hall) Alexander, 72, of Longboat Key, died Aug. 18.

She was born on May 20, 1926, in Berlin, Germany. At age 12, in 1938, Mrs. Smith left Nazi Germany in an escape with her parents to settle in Newark, N.J. She later attended Ohio State University, where she met her future husband, Morton Smith.

They married in 1947.

After having three children, Mr. and Mrs. Smith made it a priority to host frequent family gatherings, which became highly anticipated and annual events including August in Wellfleet, Mass., May in Stowe, Vt., and winters on Longboat Key. Mrs. Smith was an accomplished bridge player, an active member in a variety of civic organizations including ORT and the Council of Jewish Women. She was known for her cooking and entertainment expertise including table settings, floral arrangements and culinary works of art. Her flourless chocolate cake decorated with chocolate ribbons was popular.

At age 50, Mrs. Smith began a catering company.

She is survived by her husband, Morton; children, Leslie Corris, Cindy Smith and Neal Smith; their spouses; and four grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Mort and Gerda Smith Philanthropic Fund at the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, Ohio, at jewishcleveland.org.

She was born in Detroit and spent much of her childhood in Indianapolis. She was a graduate of Indiana University with a master’s degree in spiritual psychology from the University of Santa Monica. She was a high school English teacher in Indianapolis and a Realtor and developer and counselor in Indianapolis, Naples and Sarasota.

In Indianapolis, Ms. Lohr Alexander was a member of the Junior League and the Day Nursery Auxiliary and Stephen Ministry at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church. In Sarasota, she volunteered her time counseling with the Salvation Army.

Ms. Lohr Alexander was divorced from Stephen Ross Alexander and the widow of Marvin Eugene Jaffe.

She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Marjorie Hall; and her sister, Carol Peters.

She is survived by her daughters, Shannon Lohr Alexander Farrar and Heather Lohr Alexander; son-in-law Grant Farrar; two granddaughters, a niece; and two nephews.

A celebration of life will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 30, at Unity Church of Sarasota, 3023 Proctor Road.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network at pancan.org or 1500 Rosecrans Ave., Suite 200, Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266.

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Larry Elgart remembered for his love of swing music The composer and bandleader recorded ‘Bandstand Boogie,’ which was used as the theme song for ‘American Bandstand.’

KATIE JOHNS STAFF WRITER

Perhaps most known for his arranging and recording of TV’s American Bandstand theme song “Bandstand Boogie” and 1982 smash hit “Hooked on Swing,” Larry Elgart was a firm believer in swing music.

“A reviewer said that Larry was hooked on swing and responsible for the second coming of swing where he reached two generations,” Elgart’s wife of 54 years, Lynn said. “He certainly was the new king of swing, and he enabled big bands to carry on with ‘Hooked on Swing.’”

The composer and band leader died on Aug. 29 on Longboat Key. He was 95.

In his book, “The Music Business and The Monkey Business,” which he co-wrote with Lynn, he shared that his first professional job came when he was 15.

He performed at the Blue Eagle Hotel in the Catskill Mountains.

His pay was room and board and a few extra dollars.

“He was shy and sweet, and he just wanted to play better all the time,” Lynn Elgart said. “He always wanted to be perfect.”

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Producers Inc. was Elgart’s final agency. He worked with the company for almost 30 years and became friends with the president and vice president, Craig and Kathy Hankenson.

“He was a very approachable, very friendly person,” said Craig Hankenson, president of Producers Inc. “I wouldn’t call him outgoing because he was very reserved. He didn’t push his being famous on anyone. He was just very modest and quiet.

He was very handsome with a full beard.”

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Lynn Elgart said Larry Elgart spoke through playing his saxophone but always had stories to interject, and those stories are what made up his and Lynn’s book.

Lynn Elgart’s favorite story is how they met. It all started with Elgart’s music.

The two met in a doctor’s office. Lynn had never heard of Larry or his brother before, so Larry took it upon himself to educate her. He brought some of his records over [it wasn’t a real date] and as he left he kissed her and asked her to marry him.

She said yes.

“It was love at first sight,” she said. “It happens.”

The two moved to Longboat Key 27 years ago. In his spare time, Elgart enjoyed listening to music, and some of his favorite artists include Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. He also enjoyed cooking and playing tennis.

When he wasn’t listening to or playing music, Elgart loved to go to the Longboat Key Publix.

On their most recent anniversary, Lynn Elgart brought Larry there. He hadn’t been there in awhile, and he couldn’t walk, but he got a special wheelchair and was greeted with balloons and a cake.

But what sticks out most is his love for swing music. Lynn Elgart recalls Larry repeating the same belief to reporters.

“Swing will always remain, but it will come back in different forms,” he would say. “It will always be there.”

Elgart is survived by his wife, Lynn, and sons Brock and Brad.

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250 Sands Point Road $889,000 | Web ID A4192778 Gloria Bracciano & Greg Van Natter 941.730.1999

126 12th Avenue East $879,000 | Web ID A4163340 Arnie DuFort 941.224.8602

800 North Tamiami Trail #817 $799,950 | Web ID A4174016 Laura Pearson & Don Wood 941.993.5167

2105 Gulf Of Mexico Drive #3204 $799,900 | Web ID A4172301 Dennis Girard 941.809.0041

8921 9th Avenue NW $795,000 | Web ID A4157526 Frank Lambert 941.920.1500

4725 Gulf Of Mexico Drive #103 $750,000 | Web ID A4190386 Dennis Girard 941.809.0041

7002 Marina Drive $749,999 | Web ID A4189916 Joseph Ebert 941.932.1487

510 Riverside Drive $749,000 | Web ID A4155669 Lisa Morreale 941.400.9038

2373 Landings Circle $675,000 | Web ID A4190427 Traute Winsor 941.504.1949

1000 Longboat Club Road #703 $649,000 | Web ID A4181875 Jo Rutstein 941.587.9156

1750 Benjamin Franklin Drive #2E $549,000 | Web ID A4182384 Nancy Endara & Peter Laughlin 941.323.1700

1188 North Tamiami Trail #203 $499,000 | Web ID A4158333 Cheryl Loeffler 941.302.9674

1220 16th Street $495,000 | Web ID A4173517 Cheryl Loeffler 941.302.9674

1064 Tamiami Trail #1317 $459,500 | Web ID A4187909 Roberta Tengerdy 941.321.2292

4301 17th Avenue West $450,000 | Web ID A4194298 David Harrison 941.363.1009

1350 Main Street #1205 $439,000 | Web ID N5912640 Elke Von Oertzen 941.441.7073

6937 Gulf Of Mexico Drive #12 $435,000 | Web ID A4195302 Brian & Kathy Maher 941.284.5070

707 South Gulfstream Avenue #302 $355,000 | Web ID A4181628 Maureen & Matt Morris 941.320.3960

12349 Baypointe Terrace $350,000 | Web ID A4190797 Vittoria Rutigliano 941.962.5867

1303 Water Oak Way North $349,900 | Web ID A4182510 Jayne Kocher 941.915.6000

130 Riviera Dunes Way #601 $329,900 | Web ID A4176595 Jim Soda & Donna Soda 941.544.0763

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GEESE ARE A-OK 4:50 p.m. – Near Fire Station 2 Public service: An officer received a call from Longboat Key Fire Rescue that a passer-by knocked on the door of Fire Station 1 to say a Canada goose might have been hit near the sidewalk close to Station 2. A responding officer reported the normal flock of about 15-20 geese was feeding along Gulf of Mexico Drive but no signs of distress were exhibited. No traffic obstructions were noted, either.

TAKING FLIGHT 9:02 a.m. – 3400 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Property damage: A man called police for a report after his truck was damaged. He told an officer that he was sitting by the pool when a gust of wind blew an umbrella into the air, landing on the hood of his truck, which was parked nearby. The officer documented the damage, which appeared to be minimal.

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NOT REALLY OPEN 3:17 p.m. – 1620 Gulf of Mexico Drive Suspicious circumstance: While on road patrol, an officer noticed the main gate to the Colony Tennis & Beach Resort property was open. No one was found on the property, though a grounds crew had been there earlier. The gate was secured.

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NOTHING TO SEE HERE 9:16 p.m. – 7300 Gulf of Mexico Drive Fishing disturbance: An officer was sent to the Longboat Pass bridge on a report of a fisherman interfering with boat traffic. The officer who arrived to investigate reported that the person had moved along.

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HOOKED 11:40 a.m. – Near Jewfish Key Animal assistance: An officer on marine patrol was flagged down by four men on a construction barge. The men had found a pelican entangled in fishing line and two large fishing lures with treble hooks. The officer asked the men for a box large enough to contain the pelican and transported the bird to the Linley Street dock to meet with a road-patrol officer.

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Tourists head to Longboat Key and resorts like the Zota for its “exclusive” and “elegant” feel, local experts say.

Longboat visitors help keep tourism rates climbing Since 2011, Sarasota County’s hotel visitor numbers have climbed, and a new hotel on the Key is helping Manatee County’s numbers.

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ourists love coming to Sarasota, and the numbers prove it. Every month, Visit Sarasota releases tourism numbers and almost every month, they top the same month of the previous year.

It’s a trend that’s been going on since 2011.

In June alone, there was an 8%

increase in visitors staying in hotel rooms in Sarasota County over June 2016. However, the average annual increase per month is starting to hover more around 1% or 2%. Those tourism numbers don’t capture visitors who stay in private homes and don’t pay room-related tourist taxes.

Although Manatee County’s data show the month-to-month comparison per year isn’t always

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a steady climb, the annual averages for both the room rates and the occupancy have increased incrementally each year. This puts Manatee County on par with Sarasota County’s average growth.

Room rates and occupancy rates on Longboat Key are on the rise of late. For 2016, the average daily room rate for both the Sarasota half and the Manatee half of the Key was $190.32. The average occupancy rate for the year was 72.9%.

On Longboat Key, the community has tried to balance the need for tourism with its desire to remain residential and low key.

Town voters in 2008 established a townwide pool of 250 socalled tourism units, from which developers could draw when building new or redeveloping.

Since then, only one hotel has tapped into the pool. Ocean Properties added 85 rooms to the former Hilton, which the company remade into the Zota Beach Resport.

In one proposal to redevelop the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort, developer Chuck Whittall proposes to tap the pool for the remaining 165 units.

With more than 1,000 new hotel rooms coming to downtown Sarasota by 2018, as well as the newly opened Zota Beach Resort on the Key, Haley said her staff focuses on attracting people to host more small meetings or events in the county to fill those rooms.

As for Manatee County’s side of the Key, Bradenton Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Elliott Falcione said they have waited for a hotel like Zota to fill a vacancy in the organization’s efforts to bring tourists to the area.

“We were patiently awaiting Zota to open up, because we really needed those amenities to fill that void,” he said. “Unfortunately we really won’t see any additional hotels be added because there’s just no room left on Longboat Key

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for an asset like that.”

Whittall’s plan to redevelop the Colony property into a 166-room St. Regis hotel is working its way through the approval process.

He hopes to open by early 2021.

His original plan to build a larger resort failed a March referendum.

Following the Zota resort’s opening two months ago, Falcione expects to see a sharp increase in tax dollars generated from hotels on the Manatee-half of the Key. “Now that Zota’s open, we expect to see a double-digit increase in tourism tax revenue every month for the first year,” he said. And after that: “In my subjective opinion, you’ll see a 3% to 5%, probably, growth on north Longboat Key, as long as the economy stays strong.”

Although new hotels raise concerns about congestion and traffic in the area, Haley said it’s always hard to tell if they will draw new, added attention, or if existing tourists will simply shift their attention to these hotels.

Mason Tush, owner of CB Saltwater Outfitter’s on Siesta Key, said more tourists are good for businesses in the area.

“Added hotels and added tourism to this town will help a lot of tourism-driven businesses,” he said.

If either county ever did get to a point where there were too many visitors, however unlikely that is, Haley said ending advertisements would not be a solution. Visit Sarasota operates with an annual promotional budget of just more than $6 million.

“There are some communities that made decisions to stop marketing … and it did not work out well,” Haley said. “Because you still have the same number of people coming, they don’t go away. But when you stop marketing, other places take your good customers.”

Essentially, the job of any tourism agency isn’t about attracting people here — it’s about attracting the types of visitors from whom the areas would most benefit.

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Robert Collis overlooks the scene at the site of the World Trade Center after 9/11.

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REMEMBERING THE UNFORGETTABLE Robert Collis was a lieutenant in the New York City Fire Department on 9/11 when the twin towers collapsed.

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He was at home when his phone rang.

The voice on the other end instructed him to turn on his television.

When he did, Collis, like many Americans, watched the north tower of the World Trade Center burn.

But unlike many Americans, Collis, now a Longboat Key resident, couldn’t stay home.

He was a lieutenant of Engine Co. 317 of the New York City Fire Department. He got dressed and left to join his fellow firefighters.

It was eerie, Collis recalls now as the 16th anniversary of terror attacks approaches. The only other people on the road were fellow firefighters driving to help.

The firefighters saw the lieutenant name tag on Collis’ shirt and yelled across the road asking where they should go.

He told them to go to their firehouses.

When Collis arrived at his, he watched the north tower collapse on TV. “I was in the back of about 15 men, and I just blurted out, ‘We just lost over 100 firemen,’” he said. “Every head turned toward me, snapped toward me almost in

disbelief and disdain that I would even say such a thing. That it was unthinkable, and I just shrugged.

‘Where do you think they are?’ and then a cold chill hit me.”

It was at that moment that Collis checked the time. It was between 9 and 9:30 a.m., which is usually when the night crew leaves and the day crew arrives.

The crews plan it that way to avoid Manhattan traffic. He knew that everyone in the night crew would jump on the trucks with the day crew. It’s called riding heavy. That meant it was more likely that 200 or 300 firemen had died when the towers collapsed.

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way, the second tower fell. Traffic was at a standstill. Collis and the firefighters he was with stopped a city bus and had the passengers get off and drove toward a park near City Hall where they were instructed to assemble. They didn’t stay long. The area was covered in dust. Paper and debris peppered trees. Collis told them they had to leave.

They started walking toward the World Trade Center. When they arrived, Collis couldn’t recognize the once-familiar layout of the land. He had worked as a credit manager in a hotel one of the towers fell on. In 1981, as a rookie fireman, Collis was assigned to Ladder 1, the closest truck company to the World Trade Center at that time.

The scene Collis walked into was a mix of chaos and confusion.

“It became so obvious that, essentially, there was nobody to rescue,” he said. “There were only six or so firemen that selfextracted themselves from the stairwell with one civilian.

Beyond that, there was nobody.

They were all gone.”

In the next 24 hours and the weeks that followed, Collis and the other firefighters spent 24 hours at a time working. Not a lot could be done by hand because all of the debris was connected.

Wires were connected to cables, which were caught on steel, which was mixed with concrete.

They worked to find and identify bodies.

Retired firemen joined those serving in searching the rubble.

One day, as Collis was leaving his

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shift, he ran into an older man who wasn’t planning to leave.

He told Collis he couldn’t leave because his son was still missing and he had to bring him home.

“These connections just kept going and going throughout this job,” Collis said. “Whose brother?

Whose cousin? He just got promoted. He left the firehouse, and now he’s gone. And that was the city, too. I mean the civilians, they didn’t deserve that day.”

Sometime after 9/11, Collis was having lunch with a captain who was stuck in a stairwell during the attacks. Collis asked him what it was like. The captain began hitting his hand on the table, explaining that was what it sounded like when one floor collapsed onto another. Gradually, that clapping got quicker, until suddenly, the captain looked up

and saw blue sky as smoke passed.

Collis said he would do it all over again if he had to. He became a captain shortly after 9/11, and knew the attacks sped up his promotion because so many in the ranks died that day. For that, he feels guilty, but he made it a mission to make every new firefighter feel welcome. Veteran firefighters gave him pushback for being so nice to the new guys, but Collis wouldn’t have it. “‘I’m going to give them everything I can in terms of them fitting in right from day one because that’s what this job is all about,’” he said to his firefighters. “‘You would do it all over again, and even after 9/11, people are taking the job.’”

In 2010, Collis was given medical leave and forced to retire. His lungs weren’t strong enough to

continue. His doctor told Collis he wouldn’t be going back to his firehouse.

“I begged the doctor, ‘Don’t do this to me,’” he said. “This is all that I am.”

Collis’ wife, Nora, said Collis has always been aware that going to work every morning might mean he wouldn’t come home at night, which is why he wasn’t looking for sympathy after 9/11. He, and all the other first responders, were just doing their jobs.

“Everybody felt sorry for the first responders, but he said, ‘This is what we do,’” she said. “‘We know this could be our last day, but the poor people, the moms and dads and brothers and sisters who just went to their desks, their offices, those are the victims.”

Longboat Key Fire Rescue Deputy Chief Sandi Drake wanted to be firefighter since kindergarten. Jose Rivera was drawn to the camaraderie of fire departments and knew he wanted to be a part of it. Ron Koper was in a car crash 30 years ago and decided to get a public service job because he appreciated what the paramedics did to save him.

No matter where they got their start, the paramedics and firefighters of Longboat Key don’t take their jobs lightly. We asked them about the hardest parts of their jobs and why they come back each day.

Drake: “I think the hardest part, for me personally, is … if we have pediatric events, that’s difficult, or not being able to save somebody. You know you get on a scene and you work a cardiac arrest or your work a drowning and you try to get them back. You know the feelings that you get after that and for the family members that have lost someone that they love.”

Rivera: “My big thing is camaraderie and the addition of never really knowing what’s going to happen or what we’re going to have to do that day.”

Koper: “I enjoy being part of a team, and we have the opportunity to help people when there is no other alternative for them.”

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13

OPERATION KINDNESS COMMUNITY NIGHT Takes place from 5-9 p.m. at Cafe L’Europe 431 St. Armands Circle.

Cafe L’Europe will donate 15% of each dinner check to Operation Kindness Florida Inc., an organization that raises money for veterans who have sustained emotional and physical injuries while in service. Mention Operation Kindness when making your reservations. Call 388-4415.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 14

NETWORKING AT NOON Takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Tommy Bahama Restaurant and Bar, 300 John Ringling Blvd., St. Armands Circle. Network with Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce members and enjoy lunch. Cost is $25 in advance for members, $30 for member walk-ins and $35 for future members and guests. Call 383-2466

SATURDAY, SEPT. 16

INTERNATIONAL OCEAN FILM TOUR HOSTED BY MOTE Takes place from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway. The International Ocean Film Tour is packed with stories from the seven seas and some of the best water sports action of the year. Tickets are $5 a person.

Call 388-4441.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 21

LADIES NIGHT Takes place from 5-9 p.m. on St. Armands Circle. Enjoy an evening of 15% off discounts, raffle prizes and refreshments at participating stores and restaurants. Call 3881554 for information.

RECURRING EVENTS MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS

LORD’S WAREHOUSE Hours are 9 a.m. to noon at the south end of the Longboat Island Chapel campus behind the parking lot, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Gently used women’s and men’s clothing, accessories, artwork, kitchen ware and home goods will be sold. Call 383-4738.

ROTARY CLUB OF LONGBOAT KEY Meets at 5:15 p.m. at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road. Cost is $10. Call Jack Rozance at 383-5659.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 19

EAST MEETS WEST EXPO Takes place from 4:30-7:30 p.m. at Robarts Arena, 3000 Ringling Blvd. Meet and mingle with business professionals from across Sarasota and Manatee counties and catch a glimpse of the latest products and services from nearly 100 local business. Tickets are $5 in advance and $10 at the door.

Call 757-1664.

WEDNESDAYS

WONDERFUL WEDNESDAYS BOOK SALE Takes place from 9 a.m. to noon at the Longboat Library, 555 Bay Isles Road.

Gently used books will be discounted by 50%. Paperbacks will be 50 cents, and hardback books will be 50 cents to $3. Call 383-2011.

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Leslie Norton, Bill Johnson, Andrew Smith and Shawn Lorenz of Brilliant Harvest at last year’s Electrify the Island.

ZUMBA AND MAT PILATES FOR SENIORS COMBO Takes place from 10-11 a.m. at The Paradise Center, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive. The class, designed for active seniors, starts with Zumba and shifts to all-level mat Pilates at 10:30 a.m. Work core strength and endurance with a series of slow, controlled movements and stretches. Cost is $10.

RSVP to 383-6493.

SHIFTING SANDS SUPPORT GROUP Takes place from 10-11:30 a.m. in the Ruth Cushing Room of Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Call 383-6491.

and their families. Cost is free.

Call 904-610-7565.

FRIDAYS

INTERMEDIATE BRIDGE SESSIONS Takes place from 10:30-11:30 a.m. at The Paradise Center, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive. The sessions include a fun, relaxed step-by-step approach to upgrading skills. Cost is $10. RSVP to maryannbrady@aginginparadise. org or call 383-6493.

CONNECTED WARRIORS Takes place from 4-5 p.m. at Feel Good Yoga, 6350 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Debby McClung’s traumaconscious teaching methods can help service members, veterans

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5BR/5.5BA | 6,216 SQFT | BAY FRONT HOME ON 2 LOTS WITH 300’ OF SEAWALL AND DEEP SAILBOAT WATER. SEPARATE GUEST HOUSE.

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3BR/2.5BA | 2,375 SQFT | GULF AND TROPICAL GOLF COURSE VIEWS FROM THIS TOTALLY RENOVATED UPSCALE COASTAL MODERN RESIDENCE WITH 3 FULL BEDROOMS.

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3BR/3.5BA | 2,250 SQFT | WATER VIEWS FROM EVERY ROOM. SOUTH SIDE 4TH FLOOR RESIDENCE. A WALL OF FLOOR TO CEILING GLASS PROVIDES ACCESS TO A WRAP $985,000 AROUND TERRACE.

1BR/2BA | 1,094 SQFT | RARELY AVAILABLE DIRECT GULF FRONT LOFT FLOOR PLAN BEING SOLD TURNKEY FURNISHED.

3BR/3.5BA | 2,550 SQFT | WIDE OPEN BAY VIEWS, PRIVATE ELEVATOR LOBBY, 2 NEW A/C UNITS & DEEDED GULF ACCESS.

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VACANT LAND | 24,500 SQFT | PRIME 1/2 ACRE LOT WEST OF THE TRAIL, IN THE HISTORIC FIELD CLUB ESTATES OF OYSTER BAY.

4BR/3.5BA | 3,192 SQFT | CUSTOM-BUILT ELEVATED HOME ON AN OVERSIZED LOT BEHIND THE GATES WITH PRIVATE GULF ACCESS.

5BR/4.5BA | 4,282 SQFT | CONTEMPORARY 3-STORY UPDATED HOME IN THE ONLY GATED COMMUNITY WEST OF THE TRAIL.

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2BR/2BA | 1,629 SQFT | INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY IN A DESIRABLE DOWNTOWN LOCATION.

3BR/2.5BA | 2,507 SQFT | LOVELY VILLA IN BAY ISLES WITH LONG GOLF COURSE & LAKE VIEWS. NEW HVAC, HOT WATER HEATER AND ROOF!

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BAY PLAZA #307 UNDER CONTRACT DOWNTOWN SARASOTA

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VILLA SENA - PREMIER 2-ACRE GULF FRONT MEDITERRANEAN ESTATE - LONGBOAT KEY 7 BR/6.5BA | 10,087 SQFT | INCLUDING ATTACHED GUEST HOUSE, ON 150’ OF PRISTINE BEACH FRONT. LUXURY NEOCLASSICAL INTERIOR SPACE AND GATED TOTAL PRIVACY.

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However, there was one important ingredient missing from that mix. Wind.

As the 71st Annual Labor Day Regatta kicked off, the wind settled.

Sailors took their boats out on Sarasota Bay and waited. Then waited some more.

The regatta was the first for the youth sailors this season. For 9-year-old Samuel Long, it was his first regatta ever.

“It’s really cool, and I’m a little nervous about my first race,” he said.

For others, the regatta was a way to catch up with old friends and get back on the water.

“Sailing, it gives you this sense of freedom when I’m on the water by myself,” Ben Strom said.

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L O N G B OAT K E Y 3461 Bayou Sound Janice Perry 941-228-0848 A4194111 $2,150,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 3010 Grand Bay Boulevard 456 Ian Addy Pa 941-961-8850 A4156194 $1,695,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 210 Sands Point Road 2601 Ian Addy Pa 941-961-8850 A4181396 $1,299,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 455 Longboat Club Rd # 508 Michael Moulton 941-928-3559 A3996566 $1,295,000

LIDO KEY 444 S Polk Drive Mel & Jan Goldsmith 941-356-6673 A4163297 $1,225,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 3380 Gulf Of Mexico Drive Julie Klick 941-780-6001 A4185604 $1,150,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 521 Golf Links Lane Jane Ebury 941-726-9360 A4184578 $895,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 535 Sanctuary Drive A103 Carol Cohen Pa 941-356-3829 A4180237 $849,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 1445 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 405 Jenifer Schwell 941-780-0968 A4192056 $849,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 2425 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 9E Mel & Jan Goldsmith 941-356-6673 A4190279 $789,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 2301 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 113N Douglas Parks 941-400-9087 A4179500 $739,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 2425 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 1E Mel & Jan Goldsmith 941-356-6673 A4160613 $725,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 1485 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 307 Sherri Mills 941-350-7112 A4185519 $599,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 4621 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 7C Richard Perlman 941-228-8580 A4186617 $578,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 4725 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 113 Ian Addy Pa 941-961-8850 A4169667 $499,900

L O N G B OAT K E Y 448 Gulf Of Mexico Drive A203 Sandi Layfield 941-914-2807 A4191901 $469,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 100 Sands Point Road 201 Sandi Layfield 941-914-2807 A4165105 $439,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 4960 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 204 Sharon Freeman 941-545-0899 A4186932 $389,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 5220 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 202 Jenine Meyer 941-266-8303 A4176632 $385,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 5231 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 105 Becky Sirigotis 941-201-8000 A4191616 $369,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 4420 Exeter Drive 302 Tammy Mast 941-256-6543 A4182361 $349,900

L O N G B OAT K E Y 4960 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 201 Bobbi Banan 941-356-2659 A4177049 $349,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 589 Sutton Place 589 Malihe Karimi 941-376-5099 A4191632 $329,900

L O N G B OAT K E Y 250 Sands Point Road 5102 Cindy Schatzle 941-587-7556 A4164563 $309,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 4380 Exeter Drive H203 Peter Salefsky 941-724-5107 A4175216 $289,900

L O N G B OAT K E Y 3320 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 207-C Maruta Miluns 941-374-9702 A4179281 $274,900

L O N G B OAT K E Y 2600 Harbourside Drive G-18 Janet Walter 941-232-2000 A4172298 $119,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 891 Longboat Club Road Kim & Michael Ogilvie 941-376-1717 A4167892 $8,500,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 2141 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 4 Michael Moulton 941-928-3559 A4192935 $3,600,000

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L O N G B OAT K E Y 580 Chipping Lane Mackenzie Longueuil & Pat Mudgett 941-961-4023 A4143578 $2,250,000

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square feet of living area. It previously sold for $375,000 in 2003.

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home in Lighthouse Point tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Links Avenue Real Estates Services LLC sold the home at 55 Lighthouse Point Drive to Michael and Sharon Tetterton and Marsha Couch, of Longboat Key, for $4.5 million. Built in 1995, it has four bedrooms, fourand-a-half baths, a pool and 6,159 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $4,215,000 in 2015.

LONGBOAT HARBOUR

Gary and Nancy Howard, of St. Petersburg, sold their Unit 302 condominium at 4320 Falmouth Drive to Ulf Langgard and Jan Langgard, trustees, of Lawrence, Kansas, for $255,000. Built in 1969, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 928 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $72,000 in 1987.

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Patricia Roberts, trustee, of Bradenton, sold the home at 7140 La Lenaire Drive to Rony Rodriguez, of Bradenton Beach, for $1.05 million. Built in 1993, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 2,378 square feet of living area.

SLEEPY LAGOON PARK

Jerome and Sharon Glassman, of Ocala, sold their home at 549 General Harris St. to Keith and Jolynn Graham, of Killarney, for $562,500. Built in 1961, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 1,689 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $500,000 in 2013.

LONGBOAT SHORES

Joshua and Wendy Band, trustees, of Alexandria, Va., sold the home at 604 Buttonwood Drive to Graciano and Sherry Nikolich, of Bel Air, Md., for $550,000. Built in 1960, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,656 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $300,000 in 2001.

CASA DEL MAR

Advantage Inc. sold the Unit 7 condominium at 4621 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Sonny Calhoun Properties LLC for $400,000.

Built in 1973, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 900

Richard and Laurel Maul, of Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., sold their Unit 23 condominium at 7145 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Timothy Leffler, of Hubertus, Wis., for $472,000. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,170 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $193,000 in 1997.

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Richard and Connie Grace, of W. Lafayette, Ind., sold their Unit 230 condominium at 3155 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Bradley and Elizabeth Winer, of Charlotte, N.C., for $321,800. Built in 1960, it has one bedroom, one bath and 680 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $133,500 in 1997.

SUTTON PLACE

Karl Horwitz, trustee, sold the Unit T-24 condominium at 575 Sutton Place to Edward and Victoria Salisbury, of Ontario, Canada, for $320,000. Built in 1972, it has one bedroom, one bath and 1,450 square feet of living area.

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Michael and Wendy Tellone, of Newland, N.C., sold their Unit 201 condominium at 600 Sutton Place to Patricia and Richard Saddlemire, of Bradenton, for $279,500. Built in 1973, it has one bedroom, one bath and 696 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $232,500 in 2007.

Edward and Victoria Salisbury, of Ontario, Canada, sold their Unit 105 condominium at 605 Sutton Place to Martyn and Evelyn Clay, of Plant City, for $268,000. Built in 1973, it has one bedroom, one bath and 775 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $245,000 in 2013.

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TOP BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of Aug. 25-31, in order of dollar amounts.

LO C A L LY K N OW N . G LO B A L LY C O N N E C T E D.

L O N G B OAT K E Y ADDRESS 649 Norton Street

PERMIT Interior

APPLICANT Brenda Rodriquez

AMOUNT $225,000

3590 Mistletoe Lane

Interior

Charles Sauers

$195,000

1511 Gulf of Mexico Drive

Hurricane shutters Tencon Beach

Saint Cacchiotti & Marie Monsky

440 Gulf of Mexico Dr • Longboat Key • 941.387.2468 • 941.350.3245 For Saint and Marie, real estate is all about relationships.

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565 Sanctuary Drive

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Jose Muniz Neto

542 Ranger Lane

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Anne Marsland Fousse $52,000

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2055 Gulf of Mexico Drive

Kitchen and

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Shane Nicholls

$40,815

601 Longboat Club Road

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Jane Palmerick

$39,292

5005 Gulf of Mexico Drive

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TLJ LBK LLC

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3618 Fair Oaks Place

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Joseph J. McElmeel Jr. $34,000

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521 Putting Green Lane

Dock and seawall

James Olson

775 Longboat Club Road

Interior

Spergel Sunshine Trust $27,000

530 Harbor Point Road

Dock and lift

William Stein III

761 Tarawitt Drive

Reroof

Nathalie Treonis

$15,750

3571 Bayou Circle

Glass doors

John Stitzel

$15,000

448 Gulf of Mexico Drive

Glass door

Toni Feldmann

$13,790

1955 Gulf of Mexico Drive

Shutters

Saunders Seaplace Inc. $13,510

1000 Longboat Club Road

Glass doors

Michael Forrest

$12,146

Glass doors

Jenisa Naidoo

$12,146

545 Rountree Drive

Pool enclosure

Anthony Paul

$11,500

2045 Gulf of Mexico Drive

Shutters

Howard Sabin

$11,066

6550 Bayou Hammock

Boat lift

Edward Kolodzieski

$10,195

2450 Harbourside Drive

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Michael Williams-Jones

$6,375

540 Neptune Avenue

Glass door

Christopher Navratil

$4,480

684 Marbury Lane

Garage door

William Emerick

$2,726

380 Gulf of Mexico Drive

Shutters

William Wiltsie

$2,539

1055 Bogey Lane

Dock

Barbara Ernst, trustee

$2,500

7095 Gulf of Mexico Drive

Windows

Margaret Landsman

$30,000

SaintCacchiotti@michaelsaunders.com MarieMonsky@michaelsaunders.com

$25,913

#402 #205

$1,0700

Source: Town of Longboat Key

L O N G B OAT K E Y 741 Hideaway Bay Drive A4103504 $2,500,000

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L O N G B OAT K E Y 6540 Gulf Of Mexico Dr A3997271 $1,688,000

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S A R A S O TA 35 Watergate Drive 1403 A4154217 $2,200,000

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L O N G B OAT K E Y 6608 Gulf Of Mexico Drive A4104091 $675,000

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n following its new meeting times, the Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key held its first happy hour Aug. 31.

Members gathered in the home of club President Steve Branham and Susan Phillips and enjoyed drinks and appetizers, all made by Phillips.

In July, the club made meeting changes to accommodate more members. In addition to happy hours on the fifth Thursday of months where it applies, such as August, the club adjusted other meeting times.

Now, the club meets on the first Thursday of each month for breakfast at the Tavern and Whiskey Bar. There are no meetings on the second and fourth Thursdays. The third Thursdays are luncheons at various restaurants.

Kiwanis Club President Steve Branham and Susan Phillips hosted the event.

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$1,289,000

$2,095,000

258 Golden Gate Point #201

This immaculate 3BR plus office residence is only a sunny walk from the lively activities of downtown Sarasota. Directly overlooking Sarasota Bay, John Ringling Bridge and the city skyline, the one-of-a-kind views are featured from every room.

www.MajesticBay201.com

1211 Gulf of Mexico Drive #904

www.PromenadePenthouse904.com

975 Whitakers Lane - Whitakers Landing

$1,695,000

416 Bayshore Road - Bay Acres

The circular motif design and walls of glass at this home enhance panoramic water views. Offering lush tropical, native Florida landscape and boat dock.

www.416BayshoreRoad.com

$1,395,000

1211 Gulf of Mexico Drive #609

Move right in and begin enjoying this recentlyupdated, 6th-floor residence. Sprawling vistas of azure water and white powdery Gulf shores greet you from nearly every room of this 2BR/2BA retreat with a Gulf-front wraparound terrace.

www.Promenade609.com

$949,000

SARASOTA 1654 Landings Boulevard - The Landings

A spotless, neutral décor with charming furnishings included, create a wonderful environment at this 2BR, 1,500 SF, direct Gulf-front residence.

Direct access and sprawling views of Sarasota Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as an expansive, 6,200+SF interior create an ideal environment to immediately enjoy at this 6BR Bird Key estate.

$4,395,000

$625,000

3240 Gulf of Mexico Drive #B501

www.PortobelloB501.com

Resort-style living at this 2BR Gulf-front retreat will be hard to ever leave. Ideal as a year-round getaway or rental property, this residence is offered furnished.

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4239 Gulf of Mexico Drive #MH2

www.PelicanHarbourMH2.com

5841 Gulf of Mexico Drive #245

$489,000

The newer Smart Home features offered throughout this stunning traditional-style, 6BR estate, create a level of convenient luxury for the modern family, that provides access to everything at the touch of a button. Includes 6-car garage.

www.1654LandingsBoulevard.com

A light and bright beach getaway, this second-floor, furnished Sand Cay residence is the ideal vacation retreat simply waiting for you to enjoy or rent.

$479,000

$2,195,000

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174 Golden Gate Point #31

In a central location, within walking distance to downtown Sarasota, this beautifully renovated residence is ready for you. Direct bay views are a showcase from this 2BR getaway. Move right into this stylishly-furnished residence.

www.HarborHouse31.com

201 Gulf of Mexico Drive Suite 1, Longboat Key, Florida 34228 office: (941) 387-1840 cell: (941) 586-6668 fax: (941) 827-9444 website: www.longboatrealestate.com e-mail: roger@pettingell.com Owned and operated by NRT, LLC

$729,000

245369

1135 Gulf of Mexico Drive #106

Walk directly from the open terrace of this 3BR Beachplace residence, to relish the pristine shores and sparkling azure waters of the Gulf beaches on Longboat Key. Direct water views welcome you, with walls of glass at every turn.