Longboat Observer 8.4.22

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VOLUME 44, NO. 52

YOUR TOWN

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They’re here, but you won’t hear better until later this year or 2023. PAGE 4A

Lauren Tronstad

He’s still serving

Former Longboat Key Police Lieutenant Chris Skinner served food to public safety personnel out of his new food truck, Native Fish & Grill last week.

“It was a good experience for me because it was our first time actually working out of the truck,” he said of the initial steps of bringing a 15-year dream to fruition.

The orders of his former colleagues gave him the opportunity to get a better feel for popular menu items and feedback before his next outing.

Serving his former colleagues was a way that Skinner felt that he could give back after 11 years serving the town himself. He retired from the town in September 2021.

Sunday-morning rush Cyclist, runners rise and shine for Longoat race. PAGE 5A

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Dredging at Greer Island is complete after about three weeks.

Lagoon goes with the flow

Lesley Dwyer

‘Oy, what a woman’ July 31 was Mimi Horwitz Appreciation Sunday at the Longboat Island Chapel, and the congregation cheered, “Oy, what a woman!”

The crowd laughed and celebrated Horwitz’s 16-year tenure as Pastoral Care Assistant with prosecco and cake.

Extra champagne flutes were pulled from the kitchen when 50 weren’t enough to serve everyone who came to toast Horwitz.

She was given a basket filled with thank you cards and letters.

Former Chapel Reverend Bill Friederich called her a “mensch,” Yiddish for “good person.”

“She’s someone we all want to be like,” he said.

Nests False crawls

Harry Sayer

Not only did participants in the Siesta Sprint Triathlon compete on City Island and Longboat Key instead of their intended spot, but they also only competed in two of the three planned race segments.

Dog days of summer The Paradise Center’s director gets a lot of paw-sitive reinforcement. PAGE 1B

Turtle tracks LONGBOAT July 24-30

Dredging opens Canal 1A again as new rules for boaters await. PAGE 3A

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Totals since April 24 2022 2021 Nests 1,281 1,011 False crawls 1,514 1,408 Source: Mote Marine Laboratory Lesley Dwyer

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Town enters contract for stage construction, talks plans for community center The town of Longboat Key entered a contract with Jon F. Swift Construction to begin work on the privately funded stage.

LAUREN TRONSTAD STAFF WRITER

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he town has entered into its contract to begin construction of the stage in the town’s soon-to-be updated town center.

After private donations closed the gap on the final amount needed to fund the center’s stage, phase two of the project has started, first with a reshaping of the grounds.

Since acquiring the private donations, Town Manager Tom Harmer has signed the contract with Jon F. Swift Construction of Sarasota to begin the purchasing of materials and completing the final design.

The completion date of the project is not yet known as the arrival of materials will play a large factor in the beginning of physical construction, Harmer said. Harmer and Swift representatives intend to talk within the next two weeks about a project timeline.

Without the additional funding, the town would have moved forward with the project and removed the stage from its final design plans.

“We were going to be full steam ahead with just the site work if the private sector residents didn’t step forward to fund the stage,” Harmer said. “They did, and they did it in a very quick fashion.”

Originally, the town anticipated the project would cost about $500,000. One couple, Paul and Sarah Karon, opted to donate the entirety of that amount.

However, after going out to bids, the final total came back to the town at about $860,000.

The Town Commission asked residents of the town to make up the needed funding, if the stage was important to them.

The remaining money was raised

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with the help of about 12 other individuals.

The individuals are protected with anonymity by the Longboat Key Foundation, which collected the donations and then conveyed that money to the town. A plaque is planned that will reveal the names of donors who do not wish to remain anonymous at a later date, chair of the foundation Jim Brown wrote in an email.

Site work for the town center is town-funded with about $530,000, which included $445,000 from the town’s land-acquisition fund. Work includes raising and re-grading the site with fill. Stormwater infrastructure will be installed to accommodate site work and anticipated future buildings. The town’s portion is funding walkways, streetlights, landscaping and space for food trucks.

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The center is another portion of the institute’s recommendations to create a centralized place for the entire island to gather. The location of the town center was chosen based on the locations of the Town Hall, post office and Publix grocery store.

“I think in (the institute’s) initial sketches, they thought there might be more private development of shops and retails, but it has evolved to a focus on a community center, educational programs and events,” Harmer said.

The center is in the works of design and finding partners with which to receive funding. Some potential partners include Sarasota County, Manatee County, Sarasota County School Board and Manatee County School Board.

Sarasota County has already pitched in $1 million in its next fis-

cal year’s budget, which will become available in October if passed as proposed. The funding will aid in covering design costs for the space.

Discussions are ongoing with Manatee County and with both county school boards for further participation and potential uses of the proposed building.

“What we would expect is that the (architectural planning firm) will come out here and hold a public planning process,” Harmer said.

“They would invite the stakeholders and the public and go through a couple of iterations before going to commissioners and town staff to be involved.”

The parcel where the community center would be located measures about 11,200 square feet.

The hope for the community center space is to include a library as the core component, meeting rooms and classrooms and a large multipurpose space.

Town leaders and the construction company will meet this month to discuss a construction timeline for the Town Center Green land and the stage focal point.

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SHIFTING SANDS Restricted areas on the north end of Longboat Key will only allow swimmers, kayakers and paddleboarders.

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he emergency dredging project of Longboat Key’s Canal 1A near Beer Can Island has been completed.

Over the past three weeks, the crews have been working to reopen the passage between the lagoon to the west and Sarasota Bay to the east for wildlife access, tidal flushing and boats.

The town used previously granted permits from state and federal agencies to dredge about 1,500 cubic yards of beach-compatible sand from the waterway.

The crews who excavated the sand were directed to place it on a mound temporarily. The sand will then be moved to the Gulf side of the bridge.

For a video segment with Town Manager Tom Harmer, Public Works Department Director Isaac Brownman stood on the newly created mound of sand on the area also known as Greer Island.

They discussed the ins and outs of the project and what the department saw for the future of the area.

“This sand has migrated here over time,” Brownman said. “Greer Island used to stop west of the bridge, so we are trying to return some of this sand back to where it came from on our Gulf-front beaches on Longboat Key.” Property owners of Land’s End dock right by the bridge had reported the sand reaching up to their dock,

creating a hazard and a nuisance as boaters often walked across the ankle deep water to climb up on the dock.

Brownman said the sand likely came from beach nourishment projects that occurred west of the bridge.

“Over time the way the currents and dynamics work on this part of the island, a lot of this material would either wash into the pass and we could dredge it back out,” he said.

“Some of that material would actually wrap around and deposit here where the velocities are slower and the currents are slower.”

WHAT NOW

In the likely event sand begins to pile up in the same area from which it was just removed, the town plans to repeat the process.

“What we are in progress with right now is a permit for a management plan so that the town can come in and re-dredge this material and place it back on the Gulf front where it came from,” Brownman said. “We will do it as many times as we need to do it with whatever frequency we believe we need to do it with.”

The permit has been obtained, and the town is in the process of creating a final design plan.

The sand is to be moved back to the Gulf side of the island with Brownman and the department focusing on aerial photographs from 2006 for locations in which to replace the sand.

After plans are complete and the

project goes out to bid, a contractor will take on the job, which Brownman is hopeful will be complete by the end of the year.

The town is only allowed to remove a limited amount of sand. As the sand moved over to the area, it allowed for the growth of mangroves and other ecologically important habitat, which caused state and federal permits to consider limiting removal.

Additional sand from the opposite side of the bridge and dredging site will also be part of the sand being moved to Gulf-facing beaches.

For future dredging projects, Brownman said the department intends to plan such projects alongside beach nourishment cycles, which take place every six to eight years.

NEW BOAT RULES

The dredging took place in an area set for new rules limiting motorboats in the area. On the southeastern portion of the sand, the town is in the process of obtaining permits that will prohibit the use of motorized vessels in the area.

“We will be putting buoys out here and signs that talk about that this is not an area for motorized vessels,” Brownman said. “We’ll also be putting up signs just to encourage people to be careful when they are out here in this area, if they are going to be wading or swimming. We’ll be establishing that as soon as we get those permits in hand.”

“This sand has migrated here over time. Greer Island used to stop west of the bridge, so we are trying to return some of this sand back to where it came from...”

— Isaac Brownman

These signs are likely to enforce the newly permanent rules, which will only allow swimmers, kayakers and paddleboarders. Vessels will still be allowed to beach and anchor in nonrestricted areas of the spit.

For property owners in the restricted zone, in the lagoon and law enforcement vessels, a navigational zone will be maintained and enforced for both to have access to the area. “(The restricted zone) will extend from a point a little northward of the dock, about 180 feet to the north and then that zone will conclude,” Brownman said. “There is no restriction beyond that as you head west under the bridge.”

The timeline for restricting access is dependent on how quickly the town receives its permits from Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission.

Since the construction, the town has had to resubmit permit applications that take into account the new state of the sand spit after dredging.

“There is work now underway to educate the public about the changes with the new ordinance,” Harmer said. “The beach volunteers have been notified. Rental boat companies have been notified. We’re trying to let the boater community know of these changes.”

The department is working on finalizing plans for another project, which includes redepositing the sand back on the Gulf shores.

The plan is to continue to dredge the area as needed to maintain the area as the town would like to see it.

The plans for the placement of the sand originate from drawings done in 2006 that show the placement of the sand prior to the currents and other projects pushing it on the other side of the bridge.

New boater restrictions will be put in place once the town receives its permits.

State regulators required a new look to account for post-dredging realities.

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Harmer delivers his last planned budget Town Manager Tom Harmer on Monday delivered to town commissioners his final budget recommendation of the season, and of his time in Town Hall.

As required by the town’s governing charter, Harmer transmitted a proposed spending and revenue document that calls for $17.85 million in general fund spending against $18.5 million in general fund revenue. All in, the budget that also includes capital project funds, enterprise funds, debt service and special revenue funds calls for $85 million in spending, $49.5 million in revenue, a beginning fund balance of nearly $91 million and more than $55 million in the fund balance at the end of fiscal year 2023.

Town commissioners in July set a maximum millage rate for property taxes at 1.99, a cut of 5.9% from the previous year’s rate of 2.1144, which is expected to still generate nearly $1 million more in revenue that in the previous year. In comparison, Manatee County commissioners agreed to a maximum property tax rate of 6.3326 for 2023, down from 6.3826 and Sarasota County commissioners agreed to a maximum rate of 3.4463, down from 3.4561.

One mill equals $1 for each $1,000 of taxable property value.

Harmer acknowledged in his budget message that further adjustments will likely take place following the finalization of state revenue.

Town commissioners will consider the final document at a public hearing first at 5:01 p.m. Sept. 12 and again on Sept. 27.

Here are some of the details of the budget: n July 1 certified property values were 14.39% higher than the previous year, which would have produced an increase in tax revenue of $1,883,675 using the current millage rate of 2.1144. The increases in taxable value in homesteaded properties, based on Florida’s Save our Homes provisions, were 3%. Last year, the rises were capped at 1.4%. n Expenditures were increased by $41,204 from the last time commissioners had budget considerations in front of them. In those, $93,512 was added to cover town manager retirement payouts including related overheads; health insurance was reduced $50,654 based on a 3% renewal; retirement-contribution costs were reduced $8,598 due to changes in staffing; wages and related overheads increased $6,944 for changes in staffing. n Costs to replace Public Tennis Center fencing rose above initial cost estimates. The line item was increased by $140,000 to be paid from Sarasota County Infrastructure Surtax money. That’s in addition to $120,000 set aside for the project from last year’s budget. n The five-year capital plan includes $42.8 million in needs to the water and wastewater system including the asbestos cement pipe replacement in Country Club Shores through 2025 and replacing the town’s sewage link under Sarasota Bay to Manatee County from 20242025.

Harmer in June announced he would not seek renewal of his contract with the town and plans to leave his position in December, after serving for five years. The town has said it would seek specific candidates rather than open a broad search for his replacement.

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The town’s budget will be discussed by town commissioners in September.

Serenissima no longer No. 1 in sales price Though the recent sale of a mainland property knocked a Longboat Key landmark out of top spot on the list of priciest residential real estate sales, half of the top 10 are still within the town limits.

For about six months in late 2020 and early 2021, the Serenissima estate behind the gates of the Longboat Key Club, at 845 Longboat Club Road, was the highest price ever paid for residential real estate in Manatee or Sarasota counties: $16.5 million.

In 2021, a Casey Key property also sold for $16.5 million.

In July, though, a home in Sarasota’s bayfront community of Harbor Acres sold for $17.5 million.

The 12,000-square-foot home, which sits on almost 2 acres at 1423 and 1435 Hillview Drive, offers nearly 250 feet of bayfront, two docks, downtown views and plenty of outdoor space for recreation and large-scale entertaining.

The other four Longboat Key properties in the top 10: 3303 Gulf of Mexico Drive, sold in 2022 for $13.75 million; 4651 Gulf of Mexico Drive, sold in 2020 for $13.25 million; 6021 Gulf of Mexico Drive, sold in 2020 for $13 million + $1, 825 Longboat Club Road, sold in 2011 for $12.5 million.

Roundabout work rolls on in Sarasota Drainage work associated with the U.S. 41/Gulfstream Avenue roundabout project at First Street has been completed, but don’t look for the intersection at North Tamiami Trail to be opened anytime soon.

That was one update provided by Project Engineer Pinky Pakalapati’s monthly update of the FDOT project that has snarled traffic through the area for nearly two years.

Although the end is in sight with the actual roundabout taking shape and moving toward a mid- to late fall completion, inconveniences and street closures in the area will remain as work on the approaches to the circle from the south, north and west continues, along with the impending paving of the circle itself.

The intersections of First Street, Second Street and Palm Avenue at U.S. 41 will remain closed for the foreseeable future as work continues between First Street and Fruitville Road. Asphalt is being removed from that stretch in preparation for the drainage work.

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Verizon’s nine cell poles are built, await activation Improvements in phone service are expected to begin no later than early 2023, company says.

LAUREN TRONSTAD STAFF WRITER

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ine cell service poles approved by the Longboat Key Town Commission in February have been placed on the north end of Longboat Key. Although the new poles themselves have been built, improvements to service have not been made as antennas must still be installed and connections made to the network.

Andrew Testa, a spokesman for the company, said Verizon has received permits to proceed with the next step of activating the equipment.

“Construction will begin this summer, and consumers should experience these benefits no later than early 2023,” he said.

The poles came after town commissioners in February approved plans for construction in hopes of alleviating historically spotty service on the northern portion of the island.

After public hearings that ran from November through February, commissioners voted unanimously to approve site-development.

Town specifications set in 2019 called for poles no higher than 35 feet tall along Gulf of Mexico Drive and 25 feet on town rights of way in neighborhoods.

The town has long had rules against the construction of taller towers or cell antennas that masquerade as flag poles, trees, religious symbols or other things.

During approval hearings, Kerry Burrows, a representative of Verizon, told commissioners that the 25-foot and 35-foot poles would take longer to arrive and set up because of the custom nature of the design to meet

town regulations.

All poles have been placed with seven 35-foot poles along Gulf of Mexico Drive, ranging from North Shore Drive to the 5000 block. The 25-foot poles are on Binnacle Point Drive and the other was built at the corner of Broadway Street and Lois Drive in Longboat Beach Village.

The towers were required to be black to match the color and general appearance of streetlights planned for installation as part of the town’s underground utility project. When possible, the poles were hidden among trees to decrease visibility to passersby.

Although residents were eager for improved phone service, complaints during public hearings centered on the exact placement of the neighborhood poles.

Residents objected to different pole locations due to concerns for aesthetics, visibility and property value decreases.

Operators of MarVista Dockside, for example, were among those supporting the notion of better cell service but argued against the location of a 25-foot pole immediately adjacent to its sign at the corner of Lois Lane and Broadway Street.

However, Verizon engineers argued in favor of their placement as moving pole locations would likely require additional poles to be built to fill in the gaps.

While customers of Verizon, including the town itself and its first responders, will initially benefit from the new network on the north end, company officials said their equipment is designed to accept another company’s gear. But, they said, a company such as AT&T or T-Mobile would have to come to a business agreement with Verizon, and the locations of the poles would have to mesh with the other company’s network needs. Potentially, other carriers could make a similar application to the town to erect their own poles, though the town’s 60-foot spacing requirement and other specifications would still apply.

Verizon tucked a 35foot cell pole in the trees at the corner of North Shore Road to the left of the Longboat Key sign.

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The racers started out bright and early from City Island.

Race takes a Siesta on Longboat

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he Siesta Sprint Triathlon has been going through some changes.

Its location, this year, most obviously. The annual gathering of athletes has historically been held early in the morning on Siesta Key Beach — it’s in the name, after all — but the event was relocated to City Island on Longboat Key this year owing to permitting issues, organizers said.

Then there’s the matter of the local elements.

While several local beaches had noswim advisories lifted, a high bacteria level warning for the Ringling Causeway and Bird Key Park area remained in place as the triathlon drew near this weekend.

So event organizer Thierry Rouillard made the decision to eliminate the triathlon’s swimming portion and turn the race into a duathlon in which athletes ran and biked a total of 15 miles.

“We just went with plan B — I always have one ready,” Rouillard said. “It can be frustrating for the racers though, some are strong swimmers.”

Racers broke into a 3-mile run from City Island through Quick Point Nature Preserve and back early Sunday morning before switching to bikes and riding for 12 miles.

Gabriel Gutierrez, 42, of Sarasota and Katie Logan, 36, of Land O’Lakes, were the overall men’s and women’s top finishers.

Rouillard says he plans to stay at City Island in the future.

—HARRY SAYER

Gary Holland heads out on his bike from City Island.

Taylor Ferrell gears up for the bike portion of the race.

Richard Harrison runs in a group.

Katie Logan was the first woman to cross the finish line.

Gabriel Gutierrez of Sarasota took first place in the duathlon.

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What is a voter to do? Go with the career politicians who have created the messes we are in, or roll the dice on unproven, unknown newcomers?

MATT WALSH

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ongtime residents here probably remember Congressman Dan Miller, the Bradenton Republican. He was unlike most politicians.

Miller was truly a principled fiscal conservative. He is often remembered for having the courage to take on the Big Sugar industry subsidies — a blasphemous position for a Florida Republican. He also opposed the slimy practice of congressional earmarks.

In the end, what voters probably admire most about Miller is that he did two things politicians rarely do: 1) He said he would serve a maximum of 10 years; and 2) that’s exactly what he did.

He did not become a career politician.

Miller came to mind as we perused the Aug. 23 primary ballots.

Front and center are three candidates making a career as politicians: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist; Congressman Vern Buchanan; and Manatee County Commissioner Carol Whitmore.

Whitmore is the champ — 31 years in elected office. Crist is second, 22; and Buchanan, 16.

All three, mind you, are good people. But, to be blunt, when politicians run for and hold office as many years as they have, they earn that ignominious label: political hacks.

And yet, here’s the mystery: Voters keep re-electing them. And we keep getting the same (lousy) results.

This creates such a conundrum for voters. What to do: Send the experienced hack back to the county commission, the statehouse and Washington; or roll the dice on some new, unproven candidate?

That’s the dilemma Republican and Democratic voters are facing in the Aug. 23 primary in Manatee and Sarasota counties.

Now add this factor to the above: Voters are PO’d. “Mad as hell, and aren’t going to take it anymore.”

But what is a voter to do?

In last week’s Observer, we devoted this space to candidates running for Sarasota County School Board and the Sarasota Hospital Board.

With this week’s installment of Observer recommendations, we’re addressing federal, state and Manatee County Republican and non-partisan primaries. As noted last week, because of our rejection of the Democratic Party’s politicoeconomic philosophies, we don’t make recommendations in those races. Here, then, are some considerations to weigh:

U.S. CONGRESS, DISTRICT 16, GOP Here are the Republicans’ choices in this race: Vern Buchanan: businessman/ entrepreneur, now career politician. In 16 years, he has earned the distinction of having the lowest and second to lowest ranking among Florida’s congressional Republicans from the Club for Growth and Freedom Works, two of the nation’s leading freedom and free-enterprise advocacy organizations.

If Republicans win back the House in November, Buchanan’s seniority puts him in line for the chairmanship of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. That’s a prized position that can mean having heavy influence in how and where billions of federal dollars are allocated. It’s also a position Friends of Vern want to keep — more pork for them.

But one more thing to consider: What signature, nation-changing legislation has Buchanan sponsored and passed in 16 years? None.

Martin Hyde: Sarasota businessman/entrepreneur who has run unsuccessfully twice for a seat on the Sarasota City Commission.

Depending on your point of view, Hyde is seen as a gadfly or an astute financial watchdog for taxpayers (the latter is our view) at City Commission and Sarasota School Board meetings. He constantly challenges how commissioners and board members spend taxpayers’ money.

To his detriment, Hyde also has a reputation for saying and doing things in public that you don’t want an elected official to do — e.g. for one, hassling a Sarasota police officer who observed him driving 57 mph in 40 mph zone and texting while driving. He said to the officer, among other things: “You know who I am, right?”

What was he thinking? (He wasn’t.)

With the nation in the state it is in, there’s a strong inclination to recommend voters throw out everyone in Congress. None of them deserves re-election.

If, by chance, voters do reject Buchanan, Republicans would default to a candidate who is a philosophically principled constitutional conservative. Yay. Hyde’s voting, presumably, would align far more than Buchanan’s with strict limits on government and expanding individual rights and free enterprise, but, unfortunately, his behavior, alas, can be unpredictable, erratic and embarrassing.

We recommend: Flip a coin.

AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER The best candidate on the ballot is a Floridian most Floridians don’t know.

Meet James Shaw, Republican for commissioner of agriculture. He is not a politician.

When Antifa threatened to destroy the Gettysburg Battlefield Monument and gravestones in 2020, Shaw and two of his sons drove through the night from their home in Okeechobee to stand guard at the monument.

Shaw bleeds red, white and blue Americanism.

“I don’t drink. I don’t smoke.

I don’t do drugs. I don’t do antidepressants,” he told us. “I’ve been married 40 years. I have eight children and 22 grandchildren. That is my soul.”

He is also a successful entrepreneur in a business that takes a bull’s strength — owner of a trucking company with 200 employees, and once managed a 600-person trucking facility with 525 hard-core Teamsters Union members. He is also a farmer — a 30-acre composting farm.

And this: He was an honorable mention All-American in football at Colgate and graduated with a bachelor’s in anthropology.

Shaw knows his opponent — establishment Republican and Senate President Wilton Simpson — has him outgunned. Simpson has raised $782,000 to Shaw’s $50,000, $47,000 of which is his own money.

Why is he doing this? “The Nov. 20 election,” he said. “It put a spark in me.”

Why ag commissioner? “I don’t want to be a congressman or a senator. I want to be in a position of influence. So I said, ‘Let me at it.’”

Go to Shaw’s website. It’s worth reading: VoteJim.us.

We recommend: James Shaw

MANATEE COUNTY COMMISSION

One of the clear messages of the 2020 elections in this Republican stronghold is voters wanted to shift county government, particularly its

fiscal direction, more to the right.

And voters did so decisively with the election of three conservatives, albeit political novices, to the commission — James Satcher, Kevin Van Ostenbridge and George Kruse.

With incumbent Vanessa Baugh, this foursome steamrolled over the other three commissioners — Democrat Reggie Bellamy and more moderate Republican Misty Servia and liberal Republican Carol Whitmore.

The question now is whether Manatee’s Republicans are still in a testy mood and want the commission stacked with six staunch conservatives and one Democrat.

Judging from the TV attack ads and petty campaign fights about signage and other irrelevancies, you can say the testiness is still there.

And if money is an indicator, the who’s who of political contributors in Manatee are betting on the incumbents.

One way to interpret the contributions is the establishment donors want checks and balances to keep the conservative majority wing from becoming wingnuts. n District 4: Incumbent Misty Servia has taken plenty of buckshot in the back during this election cycle for her stance on masks and lockdowns during the pandemic. To be fair, she certainly wasn’t the only conservative politician sucked into the lockdown vortex. As the saying goes, “If we only knew then what we know now.”

And, as we have seen over the past year and a half, Servia has taken her share of bullets from the Manatee commission’s majority for not thinking exactly as it does.

Everyone has winced at this bickering, likely recalling that great Los Angeles riot philosopher, Rodney King: “Can’t we all just get along?”

In that vein, Commissioner Kevin van Ostenbridge, one of the leaders of the commission majority, would like to see that dissension subside by replacing Servia with her opponent, Michael Rahn.

Rahn looks like he has the right stuff. Conservative; a 13-year Marine, including Operation Desert Storm; past president of the Manatee-Sarasota Building Industry Association; vice chair of the Safe Children Coalition and the SCC Foundation, which serves children in foster care; inducted in 2017 into the Florida Housing Hall of Fame.

Servia’s campaign strategist, Anthony Pedicini, of course, has blasted Rahn for a string of real estate loan defaults during the big recession, questioning whether Rahn should be a steward of the county’s billion-dollar budget.

But here’s what appears to be a key point for voters: Do Manatee County residents want a super stack of all like-minded commissioners?

Or are they willing to have some checks and balances by re-electing Servia?

There is merit to having different points of view on a board. Servia can continue to provide that.

We recommend: Misty Servia n District 6: “I’ve been doing this a long time. You can’t do your job if you dwell on something that you’re not going to win. You’ve got to work with everybody, whether you agree with them or not.”

Those are the wise words of incumbent at-large Commissioner Carol Whitmore.

Yes, she has been “doing this a long time.” Too long.

God bless her passion and love for Manatee County. (No doubt she likes the power and limelight as well.)

But like Commissioner Servia, Whitmore is not in alignment on many issues with the current commission majority. In fact, she is justifiably called a RINO, Republican in name only. And it’s fair to say she is often a burr rubbing the rumps of the commission majority, voicing sarcastic comments that serve as irritants, not constructive dialogue.

If re-elected one more time, Whitmore would remain what she is — another check and balance.

Perhaps, however, she can heed her own words — “You’ve got to work with everybody.”

The alternative is first-time candidate Jason Bearden.

Bearden has many attractive qualities: combat Marine sargeant and Scout sniper in Iraq; son of

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a career Marine; steeped in the Constitution and history of the U.S.; father; husband; national vice president and local president of the Full Gospel Business Gatekeepers Organization; understands that leaders must prepare for what is to come.

But here’s the deal: Earnest as he is, Bearden needs seasoning. He needs more time and experience in Manatee County community affairs.

For District 6, we’re expecting this to be the last time we write …

We recommend: Carol Whitmore

MANATEE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD In this three-person, non-partisan race, each of the candidates has positives. None has glaring negatives. But at the same time, none of them stands so superior to the others to make this an easy choice for voters.

James Golden is the incumbent.

He is Old Guard Manatee — a longtime civic leader; preacher; former two-term Bradenton City Council member; board member with Centerstone (formerly Manatee Glens), Meals on Wheels and Just for Girls.

Richard Tatem, 56, spent 30 years in the Air Force, retiring as a colonel. He also served as an assistant professor of foreign language at the Air Force Academy; a commercial pilot for five years; and as deputy division chief of an Air Force reserve unit. He has lived in Manatee with his wife for four years.

Chantal Wilford knows a lot about language. She earned a bachelor’s degree in French, Russian and Linguistics from the University of Durham in England. She works and has worked as a translator — translating textbooks from Dutch and French into English. And, she and her husband have four children — all of whom he she homeschooled until they reached fifth grade and entered Manatee’s public school system.

Now overlay those three candidates on the Manatee School District. For the past three and a half years, under the leadership of Superintendent Cynthia Saunders, the district has made noteworthy, steady progress — after years of upheaval and dissension on the board.

There are no more “D” and “F” schools in the district (A decade ago, there were 13). The district’s academic ranking has reached its highest in history — 25th out of 67.

The district’s surplus has grown from $14.4 million in 2014 to $39.4 million, highest ever. Upward momentum is palpable and steady.

With Golden and Wilford, voters will get status quo and little disruption — a positive for a district that was long in need of stability and consistency.

With Tatem, voters are likely to get more of a man of action, new ideas and leadership. You don’t become a colonel by being a donothing wallflower.

Tatem has made many statements about constitutional principles and being against critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion indoctrination. To be sure, parents don’t want that either.

What taxpayers do want is a school board member who will be a smart steward of taxpayers dollars and a sensible, forward-thinking leaderadviser to the superintendent.

We recommend: Richard Tatem

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Pastel postcard in time Six paintings by Enomoto Chikatoshi form the heart of a Ringling Museum exhibit that depicts a brief era before World War II.

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hese six paintings have come across an ocean and across a continent, and collectively they represent a world that only existed for a brief moment in time. Perhaps most interestingly, this marks the first time that they’ve been shown together in the same place in about four decades.

Ballroom Florida, an exhibit at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, attempts to re-create the Jazz Age in Japan. The centerpiece of the display is a series of paintings

by Enomoto Chikatoshi that depict women who may have frequented the dance hall that lends the exhibit its title.

These works represented a diversion in the mores of Japanese art, which had famously portrayed women in traditional poses and outfits. But Chikatoshi painted contemporary women in Western garb as

glamorous, and he captured the brief moment of the Jazz Age in Japan.

Rhiannon Paget, curator for Asian Art at the Ringling Museum, says Chikatoshi’s paintings are an example of the Japanese art style of Bijinga, which depicts beautiful people.

“That’s a genre that goes back hundreds of years,” Paget says of Bijin-ga. “But what’s interesting about Enomoto Chikatoshi is rather than doing this kind of demure, oldfashioned women as a lot of his peers were doing, he made them fashionable. He put them in contemporary western clothes. He gave them bobs.

He made them look like they were doing cool stuff that modern women wanted to, representing kind of an aspirational lifestyle.”

Chikatoshi, while working in the ’20s and ’30s, was very much an artist of his time.

And because of the chaotic nature of the world at that point, it was a time that wouldn’t last.

Ballroom Florida opened in 1928,

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and Paget says the scene would disappear as quickly as it emerged.

That makes Chikatoshi’s paintings more than just art; they’re historical postcards of a wrinkle in time.

“In the late 19th century, there was a period of really rapid westernization,” says Paget of Japan’s development. “By the 1930s, their relationships with a lot of Europe and America are getting [strained].

They’ve already invaded China; they are defining their own type of mod-

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ernism. They’re setting their own natural identity, which means they can enjoy these westernized lifestyle aspects. Women are enjoying a lot more social freedom.

“But they’re still very Japanese.

They keep their own traditions and create new traditions. They’re quite nationalistic at this point of time.”

Paget says the women in the paintings were likely taxi dancers who worked at the ballroom and would dance with men for a fee.

Some of the women are depicted wearing jewelry. One of the women depicted appears to be a singer, and another sits next to a ticket booth as if she’s waiting to greet a customer.

The unifying element is that these are young people who are dancing to Western music quite similar to the way people did across the Pacific.

“It was the hottest place in town,” says Paget. “Then basically all the

These paintings picture the Jazz Age in Japan.

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clubs close within a short period of time. I don’t know if that was within a few weeks or months.

“But it all came to an end. With the war effort, it was no longer deemed becoming of a good Japanese citizen on the homefront to be dancing to American jazz music.”

So what do we know about the people depicted in the paintings?

Paget stresses that the identities of the women in the paintings are not clearly known, but she’s able to make an informed guess about what life may have been like for them.

For women in Japan at this point in time right before World War II, there were limited options for working outside the home.

“This is not a job for a young woman of a good family unless she’s a complete rebel,” says Paget. “It’s like bar work. It does occupy quite an ambiguous territory.

“But in a changing world, this offered a range of options to women who wanted to or had to support themselves. Maybe it was better than working as a waitress in a cafe. And maybe it wasn’t.”

Even the name of the club is a bit of an anachronism. You may wonder what exactly people in Japan knew about Florida in 1930, and the answer is probably not much.

The name Ballroom Florida came from a popular club in Paris, and Paget says it had a double meaning.

“It’s an idea of the exotic,” she says. “Why do you call it Ballroom Florida after a Parisian nightclub, which is named after Florida state?

“I think there’s an element of escape and glamour; it encourages the sort of Parisian chic and also this promise of a tropical world. There’s all these good things — what a great place to go and enjoy a night out.”

What else can we see from the paintings? Each of them is in the shape of a fan, but Paget says they wouldn’t have been used that way.

They were too large and unwiedly for that. In fact, the only way you could see these paintings was by looking up toward the heavens.

Paget says they adorned the ceiling

of a famous Tokyo hotel called the Meguro Gajoen until the mid-1980s, when they were taken down as part of a renovation project.

They were sold to a private art collector at that point, and later found their way to the Ringling’s collection.

The paintings had fallen out of favor.

But all these years later, they’re back in vogue.

“They went through a stage where these kinds of paintings of modern women were not fashionable in Japan,” says Paget. “They might’ve thought, ‘That is tacky. That is an abomination.’ They wanted to see beautiful women in kimonos.’

“But now, everyone would love to have these. But they can’t have them because we have them.”

The artworks, so precious and so rare, are on display through Sept. 25, and Paget says after that they will be placed back into storage for five years to preserve them.

That’s a necessary step because light can damage them over time.

Interestingly, these six paintings have not been displayed together since their time in Japan.

Paget says that three of them were part of a touring exhibition in 2012, but to have seen all six of them together, you’d have to go back in time to Meguro Gajoen decades ago.

The paintings aren’t the only artifacts from Japan’s Jazz Age. Paget says that the museum was able to acquire some of the actual tokens that taxi dancers would be paid with, and the exhibit also houses home furnishings that would’ve been part of the same era in Japan.

The exhibit also lists some of the American musical artists and songs that would have been played in Ballroom Florida during its brief reign as one of Tokyo’s leading hotspots.

The furnishings, which all come from a private collection in St. Petersburg, include lacquered boxes and vases, and there’s even a luxury metal smoking set from roughly the same time frame in Japan.

“These are not the kinds of things that would be on display in the dance hall. This is more like for the home,” says Paget of the furnishings. “I chose these particular pieces from the collection because they sort of tie in with some of the themes that you see with the Ballroom Florida.”

A woman waits to dance at Ballroom Florida.

This painting depicts a singer at Ballroom Florida.

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Here comes the Sun King Clay Robinson, co-founder of Sun King Brewing, isn’t just opening a new venue in Sarasota. He’s moving his family here to be a part of the craft beer community.

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Sun King specializes in India pale ales, with nearly half of its 10 taps devoted to that style of beer.

One of its best sellers is a Mexican-style lager named Pachanga. Another notable standout is its Cherry Busey brew, a red ale aged with cherries.

From an orange vanilla cream ale to an amber ale, the brewery offers a variety of styles and Robinson says they look forward to continuing to experiment as they embrace their new Florida location.

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lay Robinson took the direct route to building his own brewery. He started at the source.

Robinson is the co-founder of Sun King, Sarasota’s newest brewery, and he’s been working in beer his entire adult life. He started at Rock Bottom Brewery in his native Indiana at the age of 24, and a decade later, he wound up starting his own brewery with friend and colleague Dave Colt.

Sun King, opened in 2009, grew by leaps and bounds and eventually spawned another six locations.

Now, Robinson is sitting in the remodeled former JDub’s Brewing Co. location on Mango Avenue — which opened on July 22 — and he’s getting ready to move his life and his family from Indiana to Florida.

“My grandparents lived in Clearwater when I was a kid. So I spent a lot of time in Southwest Florida,” he says. “As an adult, coming down and seeing it again, the area’s beautiful.

Sarasota, in particular.

“As we started talking about our lives and our growth strategies, we realized that if we could open a brewery in Florida — which has been very welcoming and enjoys our beer — then we would have an opportunity to become part of the craft beer community and grow our presence in Florida. We’re Sun King. It’s the Sunshine State.”

His life never had to take this turn.

There were no frustrating evenings spent in his garage trying to perfect his process. Robinson learned the brewery business at Rock Bottom,

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and he later moved to work at Ram Restaurant and Brewery in 2005.

That’s where he began working with Colt, and as they got to know each other better, they immediately started dreaming new dreams.

“At the end of our first week together, we were having a beer and the conversation started,” says Robinson. “‘What would you do if you could open your own brewery?’ That conversation lasted three years while we worked together. After three years of talking about it, we were working on some plans, talking with some chef and restaurant partners try-

ing to figure out how to do a brewpub. We realized that restaurants and breweries cost a lot of money to open, so we decided we didn’t want to be a restaurant and brewery; we just wanted to be a brewery.”

Things happened quickly for Sun King, which just celebrated its 13th anniversary. Robinson had quit his job, cashed in his savings and made a bet on himself.

His five-year goal was to brew about 5,000 barrels a year, and that came more quickly than expected.

Sun King went from 500 barrels in 2009 to 5,000 barrels in 2010,

and it kept on expanding by about 5,000 barrels a year. Robinson says Sun King now brews about 30,000 barrels a year, and he hopes his Florida location will eventually produce 5,000 barrels of its own.

“We went from four owners working 80 hours a week (in) year one, and today we have 60-plus full-time employees, and 100 and some parttime employees between seven locations,” Robinson says.

Sun King has some Florida employees helping to build the brand.

Joe Burns, the brewery’s vice president of sales, has lived in Sarasota for 20 years, and he previously worked for Cigar City in Tampa. Tim Marshall, Sun King’s head brewer in Florida, learned the business by brewing at Rock Bottom Brewery in Daytona. Despite all their brewing

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experience, the location required some work.

Renovations to the former JDub’s facility included replacing drywall, resurfacing the bar and doing some heavy cleaning, including coating and repairing the concrete floors.

“Somebody who was here the other day was like, ‘You could eat off these floors.’ That’s the point,” Robinson says.

While the construction was happening, Robinson brought his wife, Staraya, and daughter, Zaya, down to frolic on Siesta Key. The trip was all they needed to rethink where they wanted to call home.

“We went back up to the Midwest in late spring and it was so cold,” says Robinson. “We were talking and my wife was like, ‘Do you think we could move to Florida?’”

So now, Robinson is in the midst of his move that shifts his entire life.

With a son due next month, everything is coming together for Sun King in Sarasota.

“We’re living with her parents right now, so we’ve got family support while my life is crazy with getting breweries open and doing all this,” he says. “It’s a lot of moving pieces.”

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Matchmaker, matchmaker, find me a film. “Fiddler on the Roof” played the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center earlier this year, and now it’s back in its classic film rendition at the Sarasota Opera House. “Fiddler on the Roof” was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1971, and it won for Best Cinemtography, Best Music and Best Score. Chaim Topol stars as the patriarch trying to hold his traditions and his family together.

‘GODSPELL, JR.’ 7:30 p.m. at Jervey Theatre, 140 W. Tampa Ave., Venice $18, $16 college/educator, $12 youth Visit VeniceTheatre.org Do you like your musicals with a touch of religion? The Venice Theatre will present “Godspell Jr.,” an enduring Broadway classic based on parables from the Gospel of Matthew. The show first opened up off-Broadway in 1971, and it came back for a run on Broadway 40 years later in 2011. The Venice production stars Sydne Hirshman, Addie Ross and Michael Snyder, and it’s helmed

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It seemed like the circus would be here forever. But now you have a week left to see it. The Summer Circus Spectacular, an extravaganza jam packed with balance artists, contortionists, nimble acrobats and a clown college graduate, first came to the Ringling in June, and it will play to a packed house until Aug. 13.

TRACY SMITH 7 p.m. at McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre, 1923 Ringling Blvd. $25 Visit McCurdysComedy.com

It’s a street party with some live entertainment thrown in for good measure. Lakewood Ranch’s Music on Main series returns with Shelly Bonet, who will play “rock, soul and good ole blues music.” Main Street will be filled with food vendors, beer trucks and sponsor booths, and proceeds from Music on Main will benefit the Asolo Repertory Theatre.

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ave you ever heard of an executive director so hands-on she teaches Zumba and the basics of

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iPhones? Suzy Brenner does, often alongside her

You can’t spend a day with Suzy Brenner without also spending a day with Chief Greeting Officer, Lahni, a 10-year-old pitbull mix Brenner rescued eight years ago. When people ask if Brenner moved to Longboat Key to retire, she answers, “Lahni retired to Florida.

I had to come down and get a job to support her lifestyle.”

canine companion, Lahni, at The Paradise Center.

As the leader of the island hub for exercise classes, medical and mental health care, education and socialization, Brenner wears many hats throughout a given day.

And even though things slow down in the summer, Brenner and Lahni spend a lot of time keeping busy to make sure

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Brenner leads a mat Pilates class. Pilates is a low-impact exercise unlikely to cause injuries. It’s especially beneficial as people age because it focuses on strength, balance and flexibility. Lahni likes it because it provides a mid-morning cuddle and nap.

Paradise Center clients have a place to gather and see each

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other — something easier to do when thousands more people

For people who didn’t grow up with phones in their pockets, iPhones should come with instructions.

Brenner’s goal is to see seniors living their best lives. These days, that includes getting the most out of your iPhone, so she started a class that goes over the settings menu and offers tips on photo storage and how to open and close applications.

arrive in town during the season.

Brenner, 54, keeps moving from sun-up to sundown. To see what a typical day looks like, Longboat Observer reporter Lesley Dwyer tagged along with her camera and her notebook.

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Brenner and Lahni walk from their nearby condominium to Bayfront Park, passing up the dog park in favor of the waterside trail. Lahni, 10, gets tired and needs a lot of breaks. This particular morning, Brenner filled her pockets with treats to coax Lahni up off the grass quicker at the end of break time.

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The Paradise Center is a nonprofit organization, so Brenner spends a lot of her time on the phone with donors and sponsors. She also writes a lot of grant applications, competing with other organizations for funding.

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As Zumba time approaches, Lahni waits by the door because so many class participants arrive with treats, head pats and even a handshake or two.

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Brenner gets tailed by a manatee on her stand-up paddle board. After their last brutal winter in Philadelphia, she and Lahni appreciate the warm weather.

“I remember pulling ice from her paw pads and thinking, ‘What are we doing here?’”

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Brenner paddle boards regularly, one activity in which Lahni cannot join her. Lahni waits in the grass, but not always patiently.

When the work day ends, Brenner likes to enjoy the local restaurants. Cindy Schatzle helped Brenner find her condominium. Their mutual love for dogs bonded them as friends forever.

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Brenner is a former gym owner and certified Zumba instructor. Some people questioned if a Zumba class would be popular at a senior center, but Brenner says Zumba is for all fitness levels and was sure the fit, youthful seniors on Longboat Key could keep up. To watch a class is to confirm what Brenner knew all along.

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Temple Beth Israel members visit the Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College.

his universe. After his wife passed away, he married a second time to Mary Clark, and embraced her three children, Amy, Gwen, and Henry, as well as grandchildren, Lorenzo and Leo, as lovingly as his own. He also is survived by his sister, Judy Kepecz- Hays and husband, John; brother, John Buky and wife, Kathy; and several nieces and nephews.

With the love and support of his family, he successfully beat liver cancer. Gabe, Jr. heroically became his father’s donor for a liver transplant. Gabe thrived and lived life competitively, instilling a quest for excellence in all he touched. His favorite pastimes were baking, ping pong tournaments, and playing pickleball at the Center on Anna Maria Island almost every day, as well as sailing Tampa Bay on his boat, “Serendipity.”

He departed his life here on Earth all too soon on July 28, 2022. A memorial mass will be held at St. Bernard Catholic Church in Holmes Beach on Saturday, August 6, 2022 at 11 a.m.

Gabriel Robert Buky Sr. was born in Budapest, Hungary on April 27, 1952. His family left Hungary in 1956 and relocated to Chicago, Illinois with sisters, Judy KepeczHays and Susan Buky, to seek freedom in America.

There, Gabe’s brother, John Buky, was born while the others gained citizenship through naturalization. They were proud to be Americans but always stayed true to their Hungarian roots.

Gabe graduated from University of Illinois with a degree in Architecture.

However, once introduced to Anna Maria Island, he and his wife, Patricia C. Buky, née Drennan, along with their children, left Chicago to become full-time residents of the Island. He switched careers to own and operate a popular wine and cheese bistro, before becoming a realtor, a career that allowed him to work closely with his family.

He was a selfless, loyal, mild-mannered family man of strong faith and a devoted parishioner of St Bernard Catholic Church. He is survived by his children, Charles Buky and wife, Rebecca; Gabriel Buky Jr. and wife, Martha; Nicole Buky Kasten and husband, Robert; and grandchildren, Nathalie and Drew Buky and Wade, Nina, and Giuliana Kasten.

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Marianne Mandell and Robin Green

A day at the museum

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emple Beth Israel members took a day trip off the island on July 27. Maxine Tauber and Robin Green organized an afternoon at the Sarasota Art Museum.

“I started coming a couple of years ago,” Tauber said.

She thought easy parking and air conditioning made it a great spot for a summer outing. The group of 18 met for lunch beforehand at the on-site bistro and took a selfguided tour through the two floors of exhibits. Docents greet visitors in each room to offer information on the building, exhibits and artists.

The building was constructed in 1926 as Sarasota High School, then closed in 1996. The museum opened in 2019. Several temple members were first-time visitors.

And for those who had been before, it was still a fresh experience. There are no permanent exhibits. The collection of paintings, photographs and installations changes every couple of months.

Until Sept. 30, the museum is on summer hours. It’s open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

General admission is $15, but on the second Sunday of every month, admission is free. The museum is located at 1001 S. Tamiami Trail.

DONATIONS: In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Ministry of Presence, a non-profit organization which operates an orphanage.

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The chamber welcomed representatives from four new members this month: Zack Easton from Panhandle Cleaning, Charlie Murphy and Jeff Martin from Hotwire Communications, Alexis Smith-Frady from Compass Luxury Coastal Living Group and Dorian Kramer from The Paradise Center.

Juan Pingarron and Stella Villegas have been trying to open their restaurant, La Villa Mexican Grill, on Longboat Key since May 2021 and said they were happy to announce that the restaurant was about to have its final inspection the next day.

“We’ve been trying to open for a long time,” Villegas said. “It’s always something.” But she felt the approval was imminent and the restaurant should be open in two weeks.

The next chance to network with the chamber is a luncheon Aug. 11 at the Chart House.

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LONGBOAT KEY 2161 Gulf Of Mexico Drive PH3 4 Beds 4/1 Baths 6,002 Sq. Ft. Jenifer Schwell 941-780-0968 A4534425 $8,950,000

LONGBOAT KEY 597 Bayview Drive 3 Beds 3 Baths 2,450 Sq. Ft. The Walter Group & Steve Walter 941-232-2000 A4537864 $2,699,000

LONGBOAT KEY 311 Firehouse Court 3 Beds 3/1 Baths 2,352 Sq. Ft. Cindy Fischer 941-465-1124 A4534473 $2,395,000

LONGBOAT KEY 537 Spinnaker Lane 3 Beds 3 Baths 2,046 Sq. Ft. Kathy Callahan 941-900-8088 A4536497 $2,375,000

SARASOTA 1350 5th Street 301 3 Beds 3/1 Baths 1,928 Sq. Ft. Heidi Lusk 941-681-5227 A4540753 $2,195,000

ANNA MARIA ISLAND 218 82nd Street 3 Beds 2 Baths 1,802 Sq. Ft. Kathy Harman 941-900-9828 A4541555 $1,895,000

LONGBOAT KEY 701 Penfield Street 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,736 Sq. Ft. Ian Addy, PA 941-961-8850 A4537570 $1,499,000

SARASOTA 1646 7th Street Valarie Wadsworth 941-780-3858 A4531752 $1,369,000

SARASOTA 770 S Palm Avenue 901 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,532 Sq. Ft. Barbara Dumbaugh & Victoria Lear 941-951-6660 A4538482 $1,250,000

LONGBOAT KEY 4545 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 309 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,340 Sq. Ft. Julia Mcclung 941-356-6499 A4540729 $1,250,000

SARASOTA 1111 N Gulfstream Avenue 3C 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,736 Sq. Ft. Jodene Moneuse 941-302-4913 A4533731 $1,145,000

SARASOTA 707 S Gulfstream Avenue 1003 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,305 Sq. Ft. Marybeth Flynn 941-704-1477 A4535832 $1,050,000

SARASOTA 3113 6th Street 3 Beds 2 Baths 1,500 Sq. Ft. Rudy Dudon 941-234-3991 A4540438 $1,000,000

LONGBOAT KEY 4311 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 401 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,293 Sq. Ft. Victoria Lear 941-350-1064 A4522542 $995,000

LONGBOAT KEY 3080 Grand Bay Boulevard 522 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,276 Sq. Ft. Ann Martin & Joanna Benante 941-356-7717 A4540091 $989,000

LONGBOAT KEY 240 Sands Point Road 4401 1 Bed 1 Baths 739 Sq. Ft. Ian Addy, PA & Gail Wittig, LLC 941-961-8850 A4542676 $949,000

SARASOTA 628 42nd Street 3 Beds 2 Baths 2,506 Sq. Ft. Francoise Borel 941-228-3768 A4534123 $899,000

SARASOTA 1709 N Tamiami Trail 510 1 Bed 2 Baths 1,332 Sq. Ft. Lenore Treiman 941-356-9642 A4539807 $899,000

LONGBOAT KEY 3806 Gulf Of Mexico Drive C404 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,514 Sq. Ft. Stephen Harris 941-780-2352 A4536940 $895,000

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SARASOTA 101 S Gulfstream Avenue 15A 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,200 Sq. Ft. Ethel Lovelace & Mina Johnson 941-586-7390 A4538174 $759,000

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SARASOTA 1652 7th Street 2 Beds 1 Baths 712 Sq. Ft. Valarie Wadsworth 941-780-3858 A4531550 $697,000

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LONGBOAT KEY 2600 Harbourside Drive C-12 Joanna Benante & Ann Martin 941-356-7717 A4526188 $185,000

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William and Meike Dooley, of Longboat Key, sold their home at 550 Norton St. to E. Belinda Bauer and Peter Haselhorst, trustees, of Fontana, Wisconsin, for $2.8 million. Built in 2002, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,453 square feet of living area.

SANCTUARY AT LONGBOAT KEY CLUB

Richard and Joanne White, trustees, of Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, sold the Unit B-206 condominium at 545 Sanctuary Drive to Jerald and Catherine Pollard, of Bradenton, for $2.25 million. Built in 1991, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,375 square feet of living area. It sold for $730,000 in 2014.

Peter and Betsy Farrell, of Knoxville, Tennessee, sold their Unit B-106 condominium at 565 Sanctuary Drive to Jane Karen Fiedler, trustee, of Longboat Key, for $2 million. Built in 1989, it has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,375 square feet of living area.

It sold for $700,000 in 2020.

EMERALD HARBOR

Carol Katzenbach Falck, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the home at 791 Binnacle Point Drive to Donald and Kathleen McCroskey, of Longboat Key, for $2.2 million. Built in 1975, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,194 square feet of living area. It sold for $155,000 in 1980.

BAYVIEW ESTATES

James and Erica Simpkins, of Longboat Key, sold their home at 518 Bayview Drive to Troy and Danielle Timmons, of Myakka City, for $1.57 million. Built in 1958, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,740 square feet of living area. It sold for $500,000 in 2018.

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Michael Philip Garippa and Jane

Eric Garwood

The home at 550 Norton St. was built in 2002, and it offers 3,453 square feet.

Wall, of Miramar Beach, sold their Unit 5-B condominium at 2525 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Gregory Stephens, of Indianapolis, for $1,215,000. Built in 1972, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,491 square feet of living area. It sold for $864,000 in 2021.

BEACHPLACE

Anne Petralito, of Cos Cob, Connecticut, sold her Unit 302 condominium at 1125 Gulf of Mexico Drive to James Dale and Ellen Small, of Baltimore, for $1.14 million. Built in 1979, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,392 square feet of living area. It sold for $500,000 in 2007.

1,092 square feet of living area. It sold for $171,000 in 1999.

THE DIPLOMAT

Kim Christiansen, trustee, of Tavares, sold the Unit 245 condominium at 3155 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Adrienne Batta, of Bradenton, for $490,000. Built in 1960, it has one bedroom, one bath and 680 square feet of living area. It sold for $227,500 in 2010.

LIDO DORSET

Michael and Tami Singer, of Hopatcong, New Jersey, sold their Unit 204 condominium at 475 Benjamin

THE PLAYERS CLUB

Robert Solomon, trustee, of Washington, D.C., sold the Unit 103 condominium at 1485 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Jascott Enterprises LLC for $980,000. Built in 1981, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,774 square feet of living area.

It sold for $255,000 in 1983.

Franklin Drive to Ross Talmage, of Sarasota, for $485,000. Built in 1963, it has one bedroom, one bath and 593 square feet of living area. It sold for $329,000 in 2021.

LIDO TOWERS

VERGEL DE DIOS 1 LLC sold the Unit 212 condominium at 1001 Benjamin Franklin Drive to Robert Doyle, trustee, of Lexington, Kentucky, for $470,000. Built in 1980, it has one bedroom, one-anda-half baths and 813 square feet of living area. It sold for $393,000 in 2021.

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Joseph Longtin and Sheila Weiser, of Longboat Key, sold their Unit 201 condominium at 4320 Falmouth Drive to Gregory Lowell Janssen and Patricia Janssen, of Lakewood Ranch, for $649,000. Built in 1969, it has two bedrooms, one bath and

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Thomas L. McCollum Jr.

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Peter H. Mitchel

$76,564

565 Sanctuary Dr. #B606

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$85,800

573 Juan Anasco Dr.

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Alexander Daniel Conlan

$84,770

777 Lands End Dr.

Re-roof

Ann B. Roth

$67,422

621 Ranger Ln.

Windows and doors

James Chirgwin

$62,256

6685 GMD

Deck

David M. Kantor

$60,432

2305 Harbour Oaks Dr.

Interior alterations

Spencer and Linda Minns

$58,000

548 Spinnaker Ln.

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Trading Waves FL LLC

$1,113,847

Rd. #605

Electrical

Marek Lochnicki

$56,000

Sliding glass doors

Mark Tormey

$43,922 $42,900

7120 Longboat Dr. E.

Re-roof

Harold R. Christensen

3630 GMD #B301

Windows and doors

Douglas M. Garback

$37,660

1095 GMD #105

Interior alterations

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$35,000

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FAMILY DAY From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Armands Circle Park, 1 St. Armands Circle.

Enjoy Sunday in the park with face painting and a superhero-themed scavenger hunt. This event is free and open to the public.

RECURRING EVENTS MONDAYS

STRETCH & STRENGTHEN From 10-11 a.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road. Focus is on strength training and flexibility for balance. Suzy Brenner leads the class. Fee is $10. Walk-ins welcome.

Call 383-6493.

THINKING OUT LOUD: TIMELY TOPICS WITH MIKE KARP From 1-2:30 p.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road. Topics will include U.S. and world current affairs, popular culture and topics relevant to seniors. Cost is $10.

Walk-ins welcome. Call 383-6493.

MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS LORD’S WAREHOUSE THRIFT STORE The thrift store will be open 9 a.m. to noon at 6140 GMD. Donations are accepted during business hours.

Call 383-4738.

TUESDAYS

QI GONG From 10-11 a.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road. Class is outdoors, weather permitting. Cost is $10. Walk-ins welcome. Call 3836493.

MAH JONGG From 1-3 p.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road. Fun time for experienced players. To check availability at the tables, email MaryAnnBrady@TheParadiseCenter.org.

ROTARY CLUB Meets at 5 p.m. on first and third Tuesdays in All Angels Parish Hall, 563 Bay Isles Road. To learn more, call Nancy Rozance at 203-6054066 or email Info@LongboatKeyRotary.org.

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BREATH BALANCE AND BLISS YOGA From 10:30-11:30 a.m. at Bayfront Park Recreation Center, 4052 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Cost is $10 for members, $15 for non-members.

Call 361-6411 ext. 2212.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10

BOOK SALE 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Longboat Library, 555 Bay Isles Road. Books are 50% off, and the sale is inside. Call 383-2011 for information.

TUESDAY AND FRIDAY

LONGBOAT LIBRARY The Longboat Library is open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays at 555 Bay Isles Road. A halfprice sale on the library’s collection of used books is held every Wednesday. Call 383-2011 for information.

WEDNESDAYS

BEGINNER TAI CHI From 10-11 a.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road. Class is outdoors, weather permitting. Cost is $10. Walk-ins welcome. Call 3836493.

THURSDAYS

third Thursday of the month for breakfast and a speaker. Breakfast is $10. Email Lynn Larson at LynnLarson@comcast.net to register.

mat Pilates at 10:30 a.m. Come for 30 minutes or the full hour. Cost is $10. Walk-ins welcome. Call 3836493.

ST. ARMANDS KEY LUTHERAN CHURCH BRIDGE CLUB Every Thursday beginning at 1 p.m. at St. Armands Key Lutheran Church, 40 N. Adams Drive, join an ACBL-sanctioned game of contract bridge with a certified teacher. All skill levels are welcome. There is an $8 suggested donation for each session. Refreshments will be provided.

RSVP to 952-9251.

FRIDAYS

ZUMBA AND MAT PILATES From 10-11 a.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road. The class, designed for active seniors, starts with zumba and shifts to all-level

KIWANIS CLUB OF LONGBOAT At 8:30 a.m. at Lazy Lobster, 5350 Gulf of Mexico Drive. This service organization meets every first and

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