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Interim police chief spent time on Longboat’s force.

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Baby boom

Sea turtle nesting season officially began May 1, and they’re not wasting any time. On May 4, the first nest was found on Longboat Key, dug by a loggerhead.

Longboat Key Turtle Watch patrollers Tim Thurman, Heather Sellers and Bridgette Clark found the tracks and staked out the nest.

Nearby areas including Siesta Key have gotten nests already, before turtle season officially started. As waters get warmer, more turtles will show up in greater numbers.

More than 1,100 were tallied in 2020.

CHARGED UP Questions arise on where to fuel electric cars. SEE PAGE 3A

Mark Bergin

Longboat Key resident David Novak owns a Tesla Model S and is able to recharge at home, but not everyone can.

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Sister Keys in spotlight

Advice?

Moms deliver With Mother’s Day just around the corner, we asked for some matronly words of wisdom.

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Longbeach Village is among the 40 stops in a free watershed tour of Manatee and Sarasota counties.

In April, a plaque with instructions on accessing an audio presentation was placed just south of Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant.

Resident Rusty Chinnis narrates how citizens came together to protect the Sister Keys.

“You could say that the Sister Keys are the crown jewel in an excess of islands that grace Sarasota Bay,” he said.

The program is funded

by Sarasota Bay Estuary Program, Southwest Florida Water Management District and the Florida Beverage Association.

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Town encouraged at budget year’s halfway mark ON THE FINANCIAL SIDE

Financially and operationally, no cause for alarm, leaders say.

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olice issued 214 more citations and warnings in the first six months of the fiscal year than officers did over the same time in the previous fiscal year, in large part because of the town’s resident-only parking system in Longbeach Village.

In a mid-year report on a range of emergency service topics, the town reported officers issued 751 tickets and warnings so far in fiscal year 2021. In the first six months of 2020, the town issued 537 tickets and warnings.

Since the implementation of the new system in January, the only public street parking is directly adjacent to the Village’s restaurants. Public parking is available on Broadway Street between Lois Avenue and Bayside Drive. There is also public parking available on Lois Avenue between Broadway Street and Linley Street.

In addition to the new permit program, the town also increased parking fines from $30 to $75.

The Longboat Key Police Department has also seen a higher number of calls for service: It received 3,178 calls thus far in fiscal year 2021 compared to 2,595 in fiscal year 2020. Some of those calls also can be attributed to residents notifying police of illegally parked cars in the Village.

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Longboat Key firefighters put out a fire in 2020 at the Portobello condominium at 3235 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Longboat Key Fire Rescue responded to fewer calls in the time frame but took less time to arrive.

From Oct. 1, 2020, through March 31, 2021, the Longboat Key Fire Rescue Department had an average response time of 5.4 minutes. The department responded to 990 calls. During the first six months of fiscal year 2020, it took Longboat Key firefighters an average of 5.6 minutes to respond to 1,046 calls.

“We look at the individual response time, but it’s really important that we look at the

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GENERAL FUND SNAPSHOT

Six months into the 2021 fiscal year, here is a quick look at the general fund: ■ Total revenue: $13.56 million (83.1% of budget compared to 81.4% in 2020) ■ Total expenses: $7.9 million (45.6% of budget compared to 44.8% in 2020)

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average over time, and we try to keep that within a certain range for both police and fire,” Town Manager Tom Harmer said. “It’s critical to get there in a timely manner whether it’s a medical emergency, a fire emergency or some law enforcement matter that’s serious.”

The police department had spent $1.4 million of its $3.2 million budget by the midpoint of the fiscal year (44.5% versus 44.6% in 2020). The fire rescue department spent $3.3 million of its $7.1 million budget (46.5% versus 45.7 in 2020).

Financially at the halfway point of the fiscal year, town officials say conditions are not as dire as the COVID-19 pandemic could have been.

“We believe we’re in a really good spot,” Town Manager Tom Harmer said. “Revenues are higher than we thought. We’re underspending a little bit like we did last year, so we should have a positive event at the end of the year that will go back into the savings.”

Town Finance Director Sue Smith estimated the town is set to lose about $436,986, based on the town’s shares of sales tax, gas tax, tourist development taxes, recreational fees and public tennis center revenues.

However, the town has received $219,077 in funding from the federal coronavirus relief act and other grants for personal protective equipment.

“That doesn’t really offset the revenue losses because that’s something different, but I just wanted to point that out that we could get that type of collection,” she said.

Smith said the town is attempting to collect more money through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the state to recoup from the financial impact of the pandemic.

“We’ve been looking at the other federal opportunities,” Hamer said. “There’s been kind of an earmarking opportunity through local Congress members, so we’ve been trying to pursue that as well.”

While Monday afternoon’s presentation was focused on the current fiscal year, commissions are set to hold the workshop May 18 to discuss the capital plan and general fund. A second workshop is set for June 21.

The town is set to a maximum mileage rate July 6. The Town Commission is set to hold its first reading for the fiscal year 2022 budget Sept. 13 and adoption Sept. 27.

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POWER TO THE PEOPLE

As more electric cars hit the road, public chargers begin to figure into plans of town leaders.

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ongboat Key resident Tim Williams considered a Porsche about a month ago but instead bought an all-electric Tesla model.

“It’s unlike any car I’ve ever driven,” he said.

Williams and his wife, Debra, who serves on the Longboat Key Town Commission, live in the Positano condominiums. They have a private garage where they can install a home charging station to essentially fuel up whenever they like.

Not every condo resident has that option, which led to recent debate over building more charging stations on the island.

“Private homes, no issue, but the multifamily dwellings, the condos, they have more problems because they have existing infrastructure they have to deal with in order to put privately metered plugs or charging stations for individual owners,” Debra Williams said.

Although market share nationwide for battery-powered electric vehicles stood at 1.8% at the end of 2020, forecasters see growth in the segment as prices come down and fuel prices inch up. Still, practical applications of charging stations have their limits.

“It comes up fairly regularly at board meetings,” said Clive Samuels, an association president in Grand Bay and an engineer. “For us as a community, we tried to determine, what’s the best way to do it?

“We cannot have every owner install a charger at their interior parking space because it would be a nightmare. You’d have 56 owners in each building having an electric service running from the utility room with conduit running

in a spiderweb to each parking lot, and I’m not sure if the building has adequate … incoming services big enough to enable that.”

State law provides a condo association cannot prohibit an owner from installing a charging station within the boundaries of the owner’s limited common element parking area.

But some condos do not consider parking spaces as common elements. Plus, the condo owner has to pay for installation, operation, maintenance, repair and insurance of the charging station.

Former Longboat Key Mayor Terry Gans’ wife owns a Tesla.

The couple installed a charging outlet at their condo.

“Luckily, we have another Tesla driver one parking space over who participated in the cost, and he charges his car, [and] we charge our cars,” Gans said.

Longboat Key resident, Longboat Private Services founder and Tesla Model S owner David Novak wrote to the Town Commission in October 2020 about what he would like to see happen.

“I ended up like many people,” Novak said. “They have great aspirations [that] they’re going to get a fast charger, and then they see the difficulty associated with that and settle for something less, and that’s what I did.”

Novak lives in a home with a garage and a charger, but there’s a limit to how quickly he can charge his Tesla. He acknowledged how it was easier for EV owners in single-family homes compared to multifamily dwellings, such as condominiums.

Planning, Zoning and Building Director Allen Parsons sent Town Manager Tom Harmer a memo in November 2020 about EV charging stations. Parsons wrote that installing an EV charging station can cost between $500 to thousands more depending on if

Photos by Mark Bergin

Above: Whitney’s offers two Tesla electric vehicle chargers for restaurant customers.

Top: Tim Williams bought his Tesla about a month ago.

a garage needs to get rewired or restructured to accommodate it.

Longboat Private Services manages The Atrium condo association at 2018 Harbourside Drive. It features two buildings with 40 units each.

Novak said he, the president of the association and a Longboat Private Services manager, figured out a way to put one charger in at The Atrium, but they ran into a problem.

“There’s no way that this is scalable because, like me in a single-family home, he didn’t have enough power to the building to run a fast charger,” Novak said.

“For one person, yes. Two people, maybe. Three [or] four people, probably not.”

The town of Longboat Key offers an EV charging station at Bayfront Park. The NovaCharge NC5025 nonnetworked, singleport, Level 2 charging station can accommodate only one car at a time, but it is free.

Facilities, Parks and Recreation Director Mark Richardson said the unit, along with construction costs, totaled about $5,500 when it was installed in 2017. Richard-

son said a Sarasota County grant covered $2,734 of the cost.

Richardson said the EV charger in Bayfront Park is not designed to track how much use it gets.

“I know it doesn’t get used a lot,” Richardson said. “It’s been getting used … a little bit more in the last couple of years I’ve noticed, and I don’t know if that’s because of the pandemic or not.”

Whitney’s at Gulf of Mexico Drive and Broadway Street has two Tesla chargers for customers. Owner James Brearley said his establishment is considered an official Tesla charging station.

Although the Whitney’s EV chargers only accept Tesla vehicles, the establishment pays for the cost of electricity. Tesla paid for the cost of the chargers.

“I fell in love with the idea that it was an old gas station, like still being able to fill up your vehicle with clean energy,” Brearley said.

“I just thought there was some like storyline there that was really kind of like subtly cool.”

Several other condos offer their residents communal electric charging stations, such as the two offered at Marina Bay. “I think having the town install on a pay-per-use basis would be a huge opportunity and a big improvement for Longboat Key,” Samuels said.

The city of Venice has recently agreed to a partnership with Florida Power and Light to add EV charging stations. The city already operates four.

“I think the whole electric vehicles thing is something that all jurisdictions, all municipalities, probably on the federal level are going to have to formulate a policy because right now it’s kind of piecemeal,” Gans said.

Harmer said Longboat Key is in discussions with FPL about potential sites on the island. Town staff is planning to update commissioners about the program at an upcoming meeting. Harmer said staff will seek direction on whether it’s something commissioners want to pursue.

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Turner previously served the Longboat Key Police Department from 2001 to 2007.

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“I really had a hands-on feel of what the officers deal with every day in Longboat Key and had that interaction with both the public, the residents [and] the visitors.”

— George Turner, interim chief

ongboat Key interim Police Chief George Turner says his familiarity with the town of Longboat Key helps in his return. Turner, 64, previously served as a town police department captain.

“I really had a hands-on feel of what the officers deal with every day in Longboat Key and had that interaction with both the public, the residents [and] the visitors,” Turner said.

Friday marked Turner’s first official day in the new position as he takes over for outgoing Police Chief Kelli Smith, who resigned after six months to accept the police chief position at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers.

Turner has more than 40 years of experience in law enforcement.

He served as the police chief of the now-defunct Brooksville Police Department from October 2007 through March 2018, and he was promoted to captain while working for the Longboat Key Police Department from December 2001 through October 2007.

He also served as a police captain from 1978-2000 in Ulster County, New York.

Brooksville City Manager Mark Kutney fired Turner in March 2018 and accused the former police chief of illegally releasing information in a news release about a homicide in the city.

Turner said Kutney gave him two options.

“He gave me two letters, one to resign or the other he was going to terminate me for cause,” Turner said. “When I asked him what the cause was, he wouldn’t tell me, which is not due process, obviously.

“So when he finally did give me a letter, his letter was that I released witness information on that homicide, which was not true.”

Although Turner said he did not personally write the department’s news releases, he took responsibility.

“That was such a devastating thing to be saying about a 40-year career law enforcement officer that I released witness information, which is against the law and I would never do,” Turner said.

“So I refused to resign, and I took him to task on it.”

Turner disputed the accusation and filed a federal lawsuit in April 2018 against the city. In November 2018, the Brooksville City Council voted to settle the case with Turner. It paid him tens of thousands of dollars.

The Brooksville City Council voted in June 2018 to abolish its police department.

The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office now handles law enforcement duties for the city of Brooksville, about 60 miles north of Tampa.

Turner called the whole Brooksville situation “dirty politics.” He oversaw up to 30 people in his department. Several of them also lost their jobs.

In Brooksville’s first year pay-

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ing the sheriff’s office to serve as the area’s law enforcement agency, Turner estimated the city saved about $1 million.

“The only reason that they tried to get me to resign was because then I was giving up three months [of] severance pay,” Turner said.

Turner estimates it would have been about $30,000.

State records also show Turner’s departure from the Brooksville Police Department is described as “retired, not involving misconduct.”

Turner said Brooksville also withdrew the for-cause termination.

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mendation letters from former Brooksville City Manager Jennene Norman-Vacha, former city attorney Thomas Hogan Jr. and former city council member Lara Bradburn advocating on Turner’s behalf.

“I had a great career in Brooksville,” Turner said. “I’m very proud of all the accomplishments that we made there.”

Turner said he’s ready to start his new role in Longboat Key. “To have the citizens actually say that they are happy with the services that Longboat Key police provide, which I already know they are already, but I just want to continue that,” Turner said.

“I also want to, as I said, the accreditation is important to the town manager and to the town and to the citizens, so I want to move them in that direction.”

Turner said he had not discussed the possibility of becoming Longboat Key’s permanent police chief with Harmer.

“I know he wanted to hire an interim and not discuss [the] permanent, long-term [position],” Turner said.

“And my response to that was, ‘I’m here for as long as you feel that I fulfill your job requirements.’”

Harmer estimated Turner will serve as the interim police chief for about six months but did not provide a specific time span.

Turner will receive $4,400 every two weeks with no benefits during the duration of his tenure.

Turner is a resident of Manatee County, has a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from State University of New York and is a graduate of the National FBI Academy.

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The Longboat Key Town Commission can continue using a hybrid approach for its meetings until the early summer.

Last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis extended Florida’s state of emergency for another 60 days because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, town officials were examining the governor’s order this week to suspend all COVID-19 emergency orders.

The Town Commission must continue to fulfill a physical quorum with at least four commissioners present. It means up to three of them can vote and participate using Zoom through June 26, which is when DeSantis’ executive order expires again.

“Our commissioners are generally back [meeting in person], so it has [a] minimal impact from a commissioner standpoint,” Town Manager Tom Harmer said.

Still, Harmer said the town had awaited the governor’s decision.

“That allows us to continue the flexibility that we have had for our

meeting format,” he said. “We’re really looking at trying to keep this flexibility, at least again for the next two months, and I would say maybe a little longer depending on what the governor does.”

Town leaders were unsure whether DeSantis would allow for Florida municipalities to continue using virtual technology to operate.

“Having that flexibility is helpful for us right now with everything going on,” Harmer said.

Harmer said the town would consider continuing to use Zoom even after the pandemic, specifically for participation among the public and presenters.

“I think the flexibility of public participation is obviously a big deal,” Harmer said. “We always livestreamed the meetings, but this allows for a two-way participation.”

Using Zoom also allows presenters to speak before the Town Commission without having to physically drive to Town Hall.

“There’s a cost savings to that if the town doesn’t have to pay them to drive here and be here in person,” Harmer said. “So we’ve tried to carefully and thoughtfully think about doing those remotely when it makes sense.”

In April 2020, the town began using Zoom for Town Commission and the Planning and Zoning Board meetings because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Florida setting the example on vaping regulations Misinformation around e-cigarettes continues to plague much of the media, state legislatures and the general public.

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egislation raising Florida’s tobacco age to 21 is heading to the governor’s desk. It’s hard to believe that before the COVID-19 pandemic, the most contentious issue in public health was how to regulate electronic cigarettes.

In 2019, an outbreak of lung illnesses and deaths was attributed to e-cigarettes. Confusion abounded because the products had never been linked to such illnesses and are promoted by many public health experts as a safer alternative to traditional smoking. Because e-cigarettes don’t contain or burn tobacco, they are a dramatically safer way for smokers to consume nicotine.

What the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention termed EVALI (e-cigarette or vaping device use-associated lung injury) spurred several states to issue executive orders banning e-cigarettes or e-cigarette flavors outright. After an exhaustive investigation, the CDC found nicotine e-cigarettes were not responsible for EVALI. EVALI resulted from an existing prohibition on marijuana, with victims inhaling black market THC cartridges containing a vitamin E acetate. Nevertheless, the debate on e-cigarettes continued to intensify, with critics claiming vape flavors were luring kids into nicotine addiction. In response, the Donald Trump administration raised the federal age of tobacco products to 21 and removed some flavors of the most popular devices from the market until the Food and Drug Administration approves them.

But in Florida, the Legislature passed a bill banning e-cigarette

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flavors anyway. The bill would have killed the state’s vape shops and denied smokers the most popular alternative to cigarettes.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, however, listened to Florida vapers and health experts and vetoed the bill.

“While originally conceived as a bill to raise the legal age to buy tobacco to 21 (which is superfluous given this is already mandated by federal law), CS/ CS/CS SB 810 effectively bans tobacco-free vaping flavors used by hundreds of thousands of Floridians as a reduced-risk alternative to cigarettes, which are more dangerous,” DeSantis said in his veto message.

The case for the governor’s veto has only strengthened.

The youth vaping rate fell dramatically in 2020, before school closures and lockdowns.

The Cochrane Review, the gold standard for evidence-based medicine, released a report concluding more smokers quit with e-cigarettes than with nicotine gum or patches. A study from the Yale School of Public Health found adult vapers who used the kind of flavors DeSantis saved were more likely to quit cigarettes than those who used tobacco flavors. All e-cigarettes are now subject to review by the FDA, determining if their benefits outweigh any potential costs. If they fail this test, they will be removed from the market, preempting the need for any state prohibition.

The fears that youth vaping was somehow a gateway to traditional smoking have also been found wanting. A report by the Taxpayers Protection Alliance shows the percentage of Flori-

da’s high school students who smoked at least once in the past month is at a record low of 4.8%.

Even among those young adults who could legally purchase cigarettes, the number of those smoking continues to decline.

(See graph, below) Although Florida might have made the right call on vaping, other states have decided to pursue the prohibitionist path. Last June, Massachusetts became the first state to implement a ban on flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes.

According to the Tax Foundation, Massachusetts could lose around $120 million from the ban in the first year. Cigarette sales in New Hampshire and Rhode Island have skyrocketed while the purchase of nonmenthol cigarettes jumped 14% in the first six months.

Rhode Island continues to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes while all cigarettes remain on the shelves.

However, this might change as a former supporter of the ban, Rep. Julie Casimiro, has introduced a bill to repeal the ban. After listening to vape shop owners, reading the research around vaping, and the CDC’s results on EVALI, Casimiro did that all too rare thing and changed her mind.

Misinformation around vaping continues to circulate. In Florida, at least, the administration refused to be taken in by panic benefiting small businesses and better public health alike.

Guy Bentley is the director of Consumer Freedom, and Adrian Moore is vice president at Reason Foundation.

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HARD TO FIND 12:19 a.m., near Jewfish Key Noise: A resident from the north end reported noise in the area, though an officer couldn’t immediately find its source while canvassing the neighborhood. The officer surmised the sound could have come from a large boat moored off the island, though there was no means to reach the vessel. The officer notified the caller of his findings.

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I was surprised when I read the coverage of U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan’s proposed Harmful Algae Bloom Essential Reporting Act and the statement about the need for further study.

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Mooney and Harmer interviewed the lawyers with the firm: Blake Gaylord, Andrew Diaz, Cary Gaylord, Lorena Hart Ludovici and Kimbel Merlin.

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“It’s just like we’ve brought in litigation counsel before for a very specific item because that’s an expertise that maybe doesn’t sit within the town attorney’s firm,” Harmer said. “And so this rightof-way acquisition is similar to that.”

Last month, the Town Commission agreed to hire Sarasotabased law firm GarciaDell to help evaluate the possibility of filing litigation after the June 2020 sewage break. Commissioners also agreed to hire Jennifer Cowan with the Tampa-based law firm of Bryant Miller Olive to fill in for Mooney as it pertains to the public hearings connected to final approvals for construction of the Residences at the St. Regis Longboat Key.

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Harmer mentioned the different types of access the town could need as it continues to deal with the fallout from the June 2020 sewage break that resulted in millions of gallons spilling from an underground pipeline. In April, commissioners approved a pair of environmental projects to satisfy a state consent order.

The state must still review and approve the projects, which include improvements to the wet well at Master Lift Station D on Gulf Bay Road and replacing a backup generator.

Mayor Ken Schneier said he is a proponent of trying to solve any rights-of-way issues without having to buy land.

“With some of the issues in front us, I think it’s important to, as a first step, try to work with this counsel to take advantage of opportunities we have with our existing rights of way without looking at acquisition of rights of way,” Schneier said. “Acquisition would be only as a last resort of what we have [if] already is insufficient under whatever our plans may be.”

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“It evolved into the first event we’ve had in person,” President Susan Phillips said. “It’s a thank-you for all the members who have hung in there during a difficult year. We’re such a social club, and there are so many deep friendships. You could ask any person here, and they’ll say they’re grateful to see faces and be with people.”

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Tai chi students learn from a master Chen tai chi expert Max G. Yan taught one class at The Paradise Center to a group of 25 students.

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s it is every Wednesday morning, the parking lot of The Paradise Center became an oasis of calm, restorative movement as a group of students practiced the slow, purposeful exercise known as tai chi. But on April 28, they weren’t just learning from anyone. Master Max G. Yan had come to teach.

Yan himself gave off a calm demeanor, but his movements belied the focus he brought to his practice.

The Paradise Center’s usual teacher, Reuben Fernandez, warmed up the students before handing them off to Yan. Fernandez has been a student of Yan’s for 17 years.

Yan practiced kung fu in his childhood but began tai chi when he was 14. He still remembers the day he started, as well as the day three years later when he met his

influential teacher, Chen Quanzhong, a grandmaster practicing his family’s art. Chen teaches the Chen style of tai chi, which is the most popular style of the exercise.

That’s what Yan learned and what Fernandez teaches to the students regularly. It’s the oldest form of tai chi.

“It has very clear, circular movements,” Yan said. “It’s very flowing, very graceful, elegant like a dance. Almost everybody can join. It’s a beautiful art.”

Although Yan began his personal journey with tai chi when he was 14, his familial journey began far earlier. Yan, now 54, is a 27th generation practitioner of Dragon Gate Taoism, a form of the philosophy that incorporates Buddhism and Confucianism. Tai chi is a physical manifestation of Taoism and its softness and balance.

Yan has been teaching Chen tai chi for nearly 30 years. Today, tai chi is perhaps the most common form of exercise in the world, and

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After a beginning series of postures, Max Yan took students into a more flowing form.

according to an article by Medical Daily, there are about 250 million practitioners in the world and 2.5 million in the U.S. Yan began promoting Chen tai chi in the U.S. in the 1990s.

“I feel extremely lucky to share this art in the U.S.,” Yan said.

“I came here in 1995, and Chen wasn’t popular then.”

The Paradise Center class drew

more students than usual, but those who have come to Fernandez’s classes regularly appreciated the opportunity to learn from someone such as Yan, and they enjoyed his demonstration at the end of class. Yan performed one of the forms of Chen tai chi, and in tai chi, a form is a flowing series of movements like steps in a dance.

“He was so graceful,” student

Susan Landau said.

At the break and afterwards, students discussed Yan’s prowess in amazed tones. Although they had practiced the very form Yan demonstrated, they were in awe.

“Just to see the master do it was amazing,” Angela Bennink said.

“It’s like at the end of the school year when you’ve learned something, and it all sinks in.”

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It was the closing outing of the season as snowbirds prepare to head north. The luncheon was the first time the ballroom had been used for a large group in a while. The golfers, mostly vaccinated, felt free to hug and catch up as they found their seats for lunch.

President Margaret Lachmann took the podium and moved to install the new board. Her successor as president will be Sandy Finnegan, joined by Vice President Lyn Haycock, Secretary Mary Taylor and Treasurer Arleen Klein.

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TRIBUTES Paul H. Achre 1929-2021 Paul H. Achre died on April 26, 2021 in Bradenton, Florida. He was 91.

Paul was born in Sharon, PA on December 15, 1929, to Paul Achre and Mary McCarthy Achre. He graduated from Sharon High School in 1948. He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and the Diving team at Vanderbilt University where he graduated with a degree in Business in 1952. He then entered Officer Candidate School and served 4 years in the United States Navy as an officer on destroyers in the Mediterranean.

Paul married the love of his life, Judith Lee McMurray, in 1958. He spent most of his career working for Sharon Steel Corporation. He was active in the community serving as President of the F.H. Buhl Club Board of Directors and the Association for Children with Learning Disabilities. He also served as a Deacon, Elder and Trustee at First Presbyterian Church of Sharon.

An avid watercolorist, his paintings won several local prizes. He enjoyed running (continuing his daily runs until he was 80 years old), playing handball, drinking coffee milkshakes and eating peanut butter crackers (preferably together).

After moving to Longboat Key, FL, Paul served as President of the Sea Club I Beach Resort, and was a member of the Longboat Key Rotary Club. He volunteered as a tutor at Alta Vista school in Sarasota and was active with the Longboat Island Chapel serving as a Chapel Friend, a group that visited shut-ins.

His friendliness, warmth, compassion and humor made him loved by many. He always had a kind word for, and about, everyone. His positive outlook and carefree attitude was contagious, and he made everyone around him smile with his jokes, funny stories, songs and pithy sayings.

Paul was preceded in death by his parents and grandson Tate Nathaniel Ramsden. He is survived by his beloved wife and three children: Amy Ramsden (Bruce) of Nashville, TN, Steven Achre (Linda) of Bradford, PA and Nancy Estabrook (Neil) of Carmel, IN. He is also survived by four grandchildren. Arrangements have been entrusted to Sherman Funeral Home of Hermitage, Pennsylvania. In lieu of flowers, please consider contributing to the Charitable Outreach committee at the Longboat Island Chapel.

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ith the number of “Best Mom Ever” mugs sitting on desks, counters and coffee tables in the world, clearly many moms are doing things just right for their families. With Mother’s Day on Sunday, these Longboat Key moms share what makes a good mom in today’s world — and in their homes.

Donna Sharp-Blaney, who has two daughters in their 20s, said that trying to see the world through your children’s eyes is essential. Letting go of the “boomer” way of thinking, Sharp-Blaney said, is key.

“You have to listen and understand that it’s going to be their world,” Sharp-Blaney said.

For Heather Rippy, being a good mom means taking the time to listen to her children. The family doesn’t do cellphones or other “time sucks,” Rippy said, and tries to spend a lot of time outside.

“You have to find time every day to look at their faces and listen to them,” Rippy said. “It’s about allowing them to be who they are and allowing them to grow older.”

Rippy has two daughters, 9 and 11. She said “Let’s try that” is better than, “That won’t work.”

Linn Torres has a 26-year-old daughter whom she said is “the apple of [her] eye.”

“You have to give them space,” Torres said. “You care deeply but let them live their own life and

make their own mistakes.”

As a grandmother, Sandy Wood has plenty of mom experience.

The key to being a great mom these days, in her opinion, is that you must teach children coping skills and to take responsibility.

“You never know what is going to happen,” Wood said. “That way, that child is going to be able to say, ‘I can get through this.’”

Judith Zunz has two daughters, one in elementary school and one about to graduate college, and tries to teach them to be respectful and inquisitive.

“It’s important to teach them respect and love for all things around us,” Zunz said. “And always say the truth — because why not?”

Kids are smart, Zunz said, and they will be better off if things are explained to them rather than parents just saying “because I said so.” And if all that makes you tired, then Zunz said that moms need rest, too.

“Moms have to take care of themselves because if you are good, everything’s good,” Zunz said.

There are four generations of mother-daughter relationships in Jorie Riesen’s world, and Riesen, who’s the second youngest. To be a mom these days, she said, requires a lot of flexibility.

“We have a lot of motherdaughter dynamics going on, so it’s interesting to see that,” Riesen said. “We’re all still learning from each other. … It’s nice to have the freedom to be a work in progress.”

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her daughter be a mom. She said her daughter, Megan, does a great job of listening to and staying in tune with her kids.

“Especially with a 12-year-old, he’s really aware of what’s going on, and he has concerns, and sometimes they don’t know how to verbalize how they’re feeling,” Pashkow said. “She really zooms in on them and is able to connect to it to connect with them and know when she needs to step in.

And you know, sometimes you have to step away. She’s really good at that.”

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LEARNING THE GAME The Tennis for Fun program is part of the Special Olympics, and the Longboat site already has three athletes taking part.

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hree kids batted at balls and kicked up dust on the clay courts of the Longboat

Key Public Tennis Center on April 23. Although it was their first tennis lesson — ever — the coaches of the newly established Tennis for Fun program were soon chasing after plenty of well-hit balls.

“Bryanna [Schmidt] was really looking forward to this day because her sister is a tennis pro,” mom Rossanna Schmidt said.

“We bought her a racket about a year ago, and she didn’t get a chance to use it, so she was so excited today.”

After a few minutes, Bryanna was getting some experience on her brand-new racket, thanks to Coach Chris Goodwin. Nico Moschini arced balls high into the air and over the net, quickly getting the hang of a well-struck forehand. Emily Paulsen worked with multiple coaches, mostly happy to be meeting new people.

The tennis program is a branch of Special Olympics and is a free program for athletes with various disabilities. Tennis for Fun was started by a Tampa-based Jesuit High School student in 2000, and after a short time it grew to more than 200 athletes. Now the public tennis center is the only site for the program in Sarasota County.

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difficult for her to find activities she can do,” Rossanna Schmidt said. “But Special Olympics worked with her and were very accommodating.”

Special Olympics Director Stanley Sylverain has been helping Coach Brenda Terihay get the program set up and provide volunteers the program might need.

On the first day, she was helped by tennis center Director Kay Thayer, as well as Ron Schields, Tamara Wright and Goodwin.

“I’ve coached so many things,” Terihay said. “I just love being with the kids, and I’m fortunate because I’m surrounded by these great volunteers who are also so talented.”

Each athlete was already making strides in tennis technique by the end of the session. Bryanna Schmidt had picked up on the importance of moving to the ball, which Terihay praised and started to encourage.

“I like exercise and that I get to get out of the house and have fun,” Bryanna Schmidt said. “I’m already better than I was.”

For Moschini, the Tennis for Fun lessons are a big upgrade from his at-home tennis set-up, which mom April Spagnuolo-Moschini said involves hitting balls on the driveway against the garage door.

The family heard about the tennis program through Manasota Buds, a group for families with Down syndrome, and Spagnuolo-Moschini appreciates that the program is a low-risk way for kids to try something new.

“After the first time, he came home and said, ‘I’m really good at this,’” Spagnuolo-Moschini said.

“He just beamed.”

By the end of the second day, Moschini had started with Schields on overheads and serves.

For now, they will run the program on a trial basis through the spring, then break for the summer before starting again in November. All three athletes who have started plan to keep coming.

“I like to do it for fun and all the people here,” Paulsen said.

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Key’s Paradise Center to start edible garden Thanks to a Longboat Key Garden Club grant, the center will soon plant herbs and vegetables.

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Within the next year, it should be with edible herbs and vegetables.

The Paradise Center received a $2,000 grant from the Longboat Key Garden Club for an edible garden, which it will begin after summer. Executive Director Suzy Brenner is starting the next steps of finding a site on the center’s property, working with the Tidewell Foundation and its landscaping company and visiting St. Martha Catholic School to see its garden.

“There isn’t really a public garden on Longboat Key that people can come and just garden if they don’t have their own yard,” Brenner said. “It can be a very social activity, and it’s good for physical health, mental health, all the things we like to do. If we do some kind of edible garden, we can make it useful.”

This isn’t the first edible garden the Garden Club has funded.

The garden at St. Martha’s that

Brenner will visit got started from the same grant initiative a few years ago and is now flourishing to the point where students and teachers harvest the vegetables for farm-to-cafeteria meals.

They also started a butterfly garden at the school.

“Those kids and teachers are teaching other teachers and kids and not only that but our demographic on Longboat Key to help them start their own garden,” Garden Club President Susan Phillips said. “It’s kind of a mentor program on ‘Here’s how you build, what you build, what’s going to be successful.’ You’ll also see the younger demographic helping the seniors, which is in itself another nice lesson.”

Raised beds will make it easier for gardeners with mobility issues. The grant money will be used to construct those beds and buy the soil and plant material.

For now, the proposed site for the garden is the southeast corner of The Paradise Center, so it can get some shade and full sun.

Brenner will also work with the community and school gardens coordinator for Sarasota County to get access to seminars on successful gardening.

“Other than that, I won’t be having a lot to do with it because I have a black thumb, so I won’t be in charge of keeping the plants alive,” she said. “I will be relying on people with green thumbs.”

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oggerhead shrikes are carnivores that prey on other small birds, rodents and large insects.

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Lacking a raptor’s strong talons, they rely almost exclusively on their beaks for capturing, processing and ingesting prey.

So to aid in the process of killing and eating, shrikes impale their prey on thorns, barbed wire or other sharp objects. They also impale prey as a way of storing food, returning to enjoy their leftovers at a later time.

Indeed, having a well-provisioned cache of prey, called a larder or pantry, is especially beneficial during breeding season, when energy demands are high.

And although they might be gory to us, caches do help a male shrike attract a mate.

Loggerhead shrikes are the only natural predator of the highly toxic lubber grasshopper, which other species avoid. To render lubbers edible, shrikes decapitate then impale the noxious insects, leaving them out in the hot sun for a few days to detoxify.

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liza Ladd is the human equivalent of a perpetual motion machine. Her creative work colors outside the lines of performance arts genres — performer, dancer, writer, music maker, choreographer and director, to name a few. She’s also the FSU/ Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training’s associate professor of movement and dance.

For years, it seemed like nothing could stop this human dynamo. And then the pandem-

ic came, bringing with it a world of social distancing and remote human connection on Zoom.

Ladd’s response was “Gravity and Levity,” a short, spokenword and performance video.

Calling it minimal doesn’t do it justice. In this piece, the artist reduces herself to a single hand, with two googly eyes glued to its fingers — a literal hand puppet.

It sounds funny, and at times it is. But the piece can also be heartbreaking. It ranges from slapstick to mime to dance to a cry from the depths of the artist’s heart. What was Ladd thinking?

Here’s what she told us.

“My work as an artist is all about the body. The pandemic removed my ability to play, perform and practice with others in a shared space. What will become of live theater? Is it doomed to disembodiment?

This question was already in the air before the pandemic with the prominence of the computer and technology.

“The tag line to ‘Gravity and Levity’ is: ‘It took 400 million years to go from quadruped to biped and now this?’ ‘This’ refers to what’s happened in the pandemic, the removal of the body from common currency or perhaps its reduction to fingers and eyes. Typing and texting, seeing and watching, living your life through the computer screen. Nowadays it’s how I teach, make art and find theater.

“In pre-pandemic times, I was already aware that my field was slowly becoming a dinosaur art form. But it’s not extinct yet, and people still long for the expressive art of the human body, perhaps even more than

ever. The pandemic may have accelerated our evolution (or devolution) toward disembodiment. This raises so many questions for an artist of movement.

“Is it possible to find embodiment and community through the computer and technology?

Can we still create relationships, communicate and express ourselves through movement? Can we make meaningful theater on Zoom? Can we still connect?

“To answer these questions, I created a character with my hand and some googly eyes.

She’s a kind of a puppet who’s just fingers and eyes. And this little one is me, but she’s also not me. I shape-shift into that puppet. This character dances, sings and speaks poetic text — all in her little black box. This allows me to create physical expression with my fingers and eyes and transmit it through the Zoom sphere.

“And it turns out that the answer to all my questions is yes — on a very deep level.

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apply in a performance made of a hand and some googly eyes.

The tiny expresses the vast. And technology becomes a window into something expansive and liberating. There’s a magic of scale — and it speaks to the isolation we’re all feeling.

“This tiny being expresses a great deal about what we’ve lost and what it means to be alive right now. She’s confined to a little black box and pushes back against the boundaries. Despite her limitations, she keeps trying to express herself and communicate. So in a way, I’m thinking inside the box. But I’m also reaching outside the box for some kind of freedom. Putting this little persona in such a confined situation speaks to both the powerlessness and power of our bodies in the spaces we create inside the computer.

“My character expresses playfulness, poetry and defiance. And I think the viewer knows exactly how she feels.

This tiny being bonds with the audience and expresses the loss and grief we all feel when we can’t relate to the big world with our whole body. But she also expresses a kind of power. She’s a shape-shifter, with a sort of fluidity — and that’s a powerful thing. She taps into the vastness of humanity with her transformations. In the end, I think this little one makes a connection with the audience — and that’s when I show my face. It’s as if to say, ‘You’re here, I’m here, and we’re still together.’

“We’re alive, and we’re dying.

It’s funny and tragic. Ah, theater!”

Eliza Ladd’s performance and talkback was produced by Sarasota Contemporary Dance.

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Ringling Estates home sells for $3.15 million SLEEPY LAGOON

Victor Cuco and Melissa Rodocker, of Longboat Key, sold their home at 6430 Gulfside Road to James and Vikki Black, of Scarsdale, New York, for $2.98 million. Built in 2017, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 3,527 square feet of living area.

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Built in 2020, the home at 220 Coolidge Drive has seven bedrooms, sevenand-a-half baths, a pool and 3,514 square feet of living area.

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home in John Ringling Estates tops all transactions in this week’s transactions. 220 Coolidge LLC sold the home at 220 Coolidge Drive to Trevor and Kyle Schauenberg, of Siesta Key, for $3.15 million. Built in 2020, it has seven bedrooms, seven-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,514 square feet of living area.

Lillian Oboler, trustee, and Josh Oboler, of Sarasota, sold the Unit 1006 condominium at 1300 Benjamin Franklin Drive to Charles Ferrara and Diane Manning Ferrara, trustees, of Flower Mound, Texas, for $2.92 million. Built in 2005, it has two bedrooms, three baths and 3,017 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.27 million in 2005.

Bruce and Arlene Barsumian, trustees, of Cookeville, Tennessee, sold the Unit 1007 condominium at 1300 Benjamin Franklin Drive to ARBO Holdings LLC for $2.65 million. Built in 2005, it has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 3,057 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.8 million in 2011.

BAY ISLES

Peter and Susan Wolf, of Longboat Key, sold their home at 3381 Bayou Sound to Raymond and Jennifer Zaborney and Lisa Stone, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for $2.15 million. Built in 1982, it has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half

baths, a pool and 2,931 square feet of living area. It sold for $895,000 in 2004.

BIRD KEY

Kenneth and Kathleen Moscone sold their home at 454 Meadow Lark Drive to 1465 Hillview LLC for $1.8 million. Built in 1972, it has three bedrooms, two-anda-half baths, a pool and 3,328 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.55 million in 2016.

L’ELEGANCE ON LIDO BEACH

William Sander and Colleen Sharon Herman, of Punta Gorda, sold their Unit B-209 condominium at 1800 Benjamin Franklin Drive to Timothy and Kathleen O’Donnell, of Lexington, Massachusetts, for $1.58 million. Built in 1996, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,230 square feet of living area. It sold for $1 million in 2013.

SEA GATE CLUB

Corey and Sarah Conner, of Longboat Key, sold their Unit 6-D condominium at 2425 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Mark and Dawn McNeill, of Cape Coral, for $1.5 million. Built in 1973, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,470 square feet of living area. It sold for $725,000 in 2018.

ISLANDS WEST

David and Stacy Rolfe, of Chesterfield, Missouri, sold their Unit 13-D condominium at 2525 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Terri and Paul

Chamberlain, of Ontario, for $1.33 million. Built in 1972, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,468 square feet of living area. It sold for $705,000 in 2016.

PELICAN HARBOUR AND BEACH CLUB

Kenneth Bennett, of Longboat Key, sold his Unit MH-4 condominium at 4239 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Lawrence Clarke and Peggy Kopmeyer, of Longboat Key, for $1.12 million. Built in 1950, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 1,241 square feet of living area. It sold for $725,000 in 2005.

Peter and Lori Sue French, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, sold their Unit K-1 condominium at 4234 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Joseph and Susan Miller, trustees, of Atlanta, for $515,000.

Built in 1973, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 1,150 square feet of living area. It sold for $455,000 in 2018.

LIDO BEACH CLUB

James and Susan Travers sold their Unit 401 condominium at 1212 Benjamin Franklin Drive to Ellen Lawlor Nicholson, trustee, of Sarasota, for $1.03 million. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,532 square feet of living area. It sold for $690,000 in 2012.

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ISLANDER CLUB OF LONGBOAT

Carl and Gayle Pfirrmann sold their Unit 31-S condominium at 2295 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Peter and Georgia Vrankovic, of Huntington, New York, for $930,500. Built in 1970, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,235 square feet of living area. It sold for $160,000 in 1990.

John and Mary Rayis, of Longboat Key, sold their Unit 34-N condominium at 2301 Gulf of Mexico Drive to John and Leisa Harding, of Lansing, Michigan, for $535,000. Built in 1970, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,235 square feet of living area. It sold for $375,000 in 2010.

SANCTUARY AT LONGBOAT KEY CLUB

Bruce and Jennifer Natale, of Great River, New York, sold their Unit A303 condominium at 575 Sanctuary Drive to Tillman Investments LLC for $915,000.

Built in 1990, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,823 square feet of living area. It sold for $875,000 in 2019.

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Loyola Heights LLC sold the Unit A-103 condominium at 575 Sanctuary Drive to Larry Lucas and Elizabeth Rachael Lucas, of Longboat Key, for $800,000.

Built in 1990, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,823 square feet of living area. It sold for $775,000 in 2018.

These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of April 23-29 in order of dollar amounts.

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415 L’Ambiance Drive #B502 Windows and doors Paul Thomas

Alan and Gary Harlam, trustees, and Grace Goldberg sold the Unit 706 condominium at 1211 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Richard Freeman and Anne Courtney Freeman, of Oak Brook, Illinois, for $910,000. Built in 1985, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,598 square feet of living area. It sold for $850,000 in 2014.

2045 GMD #111

Interior alterations Stuart P. Hersh

$177,639

1485 GMD #110

Interior alterations John B. Bartlett II

$156,250

Living Trust

3240 GMD #B401

Interior alterations Homestead Partners

$145,431

1965 GMD #305

Interior alterations C O Howey

$131,297

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Frank DeQuattro, of Wakefield, Rhode Island, sold his Unit P-B condominium at 1701 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Teresa JoAnne Morneau, trustee, of Ontario, for $867,500. Built in 1975, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,551 square feet of living area. It sold for $575,000 in 2014.

$210,880

2012 Grantor Trust

1975 GMD #107

Interior alterations Vincent and Patti Bugge $88,262

696 Marbury Lane

Interior alterations Jeremy Brongo

$78,000

360 GMD #331

Interior alterations Jeffrey Spalter

$73,262

3240 GMD #B307

Interior alterations Michael J. Balog

$71,555

2020 Harbourside Drive #426 Interior alterations Craig Small

$55,000

300 Firehouse Lane

Deck

$53,916

508 Bayview Drive

Interior alterations William W. Motyka

5840 GMD

Re-roof

1945 GMD #111

Interior alterations The Alicea Group LLC

$41,829

6270 GMD

Lift

Mateos Family LLC

$39,900

698 Spanish Drive S.

Demolition

William X. Fincke

$31,920

Allen Martin Susan M. Graf

$50,500 $42,971

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RECURRING EVENTS MONDAYS

From 10-11 a.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road.

Focus is on strength training and flexibility for balance. Class is outdoors and led by Suzy Brenner. Fee is $10. Walk-ins welcome. For information, call 383-6493.

HULA CLASS From 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road. Held outdoors with social distancing and led by native Hawaiian Debbie White.

Free for members, $10 per person. Walk-ins welcome. For information 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. Held outdoors, weather permitting. Cost is $10.

Walk-ins welcome. For information call 383-6493.

MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY

PUMPING THE PRIME WITH MIRABAI HOLLAND At 10 a.m. on the lawn of the Bayfront Park Recreation Center, 4052 GMD. Class led by Mirabai Holland. $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers. Sign up online at FabulousForever. com. For information, email Mirabai@MovingFree.com, or call 201-956-1466.

DON’T MISS FRIDAY, MAY 7

YOGA IN THE MEDITATION GARDEN 10:30 in the Meditation Garden, St. Armands Key Lutheran Church, 40 N. Adams Drive. Join choral scholar Nina Vannucci for a 30-minute beginner session. Bring a yoga mat and water bottle. Email nina@ SAKLC.com to register.

customers at a time inside the warehouse. Masks are required.

Visit LongboatIslandChapel.org for information.

TUESDAYS

QI GONG From 10-11 a.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road.

Qi gong is a mind-body-spirit practice designed to improve mental and physical health.

Class is outdoors. Cost is $10.

Walk-ins welcome. For information call 383-6493.

ROTARY CLUB Meets at 5 p.m. virtually on Zoom, every first and third Tuesday. Call Nancy Rozance at 203-605-4066, or email Info@ LongboatKeyRotary.org.

WEDNESDAYS

TAI CHI From 10-11 a.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road.

Class is outdoors. Cost is $10.

Walk-ins welcome. For information call 383-6493.

MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY

LORD’S WAREHOUSE From 9 a.m. until 1 p.m., shop at the Lord’s Warehouse thrift store. All proceeds from the store go to charity, and donations are welcome too. Indoor and outdoor shopping will be available, but limited to five

THURSDAYS

KIWANIS CLUB OF LONGBOAT KEY At 8:30 a.m. at the Lazy Lobster, 5350 GMD. This service or-

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Zoom only. Four sessions. Members $100, nonmembers $110.

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