LONGBOAT
WINTER 2016
Observer
SEASON THE OBSERVER’S GUIDE TO THE ARTS AND SOCIETY
Longboat Key’s weekly newspaper since 1978
YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
VOLUME 38, NO. 21
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Winter 2016 edition of Season INSIDE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2015
A YEAR TO
REMEMBER
View some of the most memorable events and photos of 2015. STARTS ON PAGE 2A
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Aggie and Charlie Campbell with the Buccaneer Inn pirate in 1954 or 1955.
Remembering pirate life on Key Going through old photos never disappoints. Country Club Shores resident Carol Campbell found a picture of her husband, Charlie, and his sister, Aggie, posing with the pirate from the old Buccaneer Inn in 1954 or 1955. The family vacationed regularly at the former Colony Beach & Tennis Resort and Far Horizons before moving to the Key in 1961.
Rosemary Younger
Rosemary Younger, RN Congratulations to Longboat Key resident Rosemary Younger, daughter of Commissioner Phill and Fanny Younger, who graduated with a nursing degree from Keiser University Dec. 17. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Coastal Carolina University.
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Top, from left: Alan Moore reflects on Moore’s Stonecrab Restaurant’s 47 years in July, after the family-owned restaurant closed. Center: Athletes Ryan Chalmers and Travis Dodson train in January on Gulf of Mexico Drive for the 2016 Paralympic Games. Bottom, left: Francey O’Brien, Shirley Beachum and Evelyn Fresch, all World War II veterans of the Women’s Auxiliary Corps, serve as grand marshals of the Nov. 11 Rotary Club of Longboat Key Veterans Day Parade. Bottom, right: Calli Cook, 7, and her brother, Tyler, 11, catch some (sting)rays June 6, at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s World Ocean Day Family Festival.