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In the wings Town moves ahead with plans to add a stage to town center. PAGE 5

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Two kinds of Sunday service Every year, the Sunday after Sept. 11 is God’s Work, Our Hands, a day established by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

It’s a response to the tragedy, Director of Music Michael Bodnyk said, when churches focus on giving back to their communities.

This year, SAKLC decided to bring together the organizations that the church supports year round. Leaders from All Faiths Food Bank, Second Chance Last Opportunity, Lutheran World Relief, Baby Basics, Safe Children Coalition and Lutheran Services Florida set up tables to talk about the work they do in the community.

Throughout August, church members had been picking up brown bags to fill with food and bring back Sept. 12, too. In total, the church will donate 68 bags of food.

TRADITION

Flags mark anniversary of 9/11. PAGE 12

Award-winning madness “Shared Madness” has led to solo greatness. Author and retired psychiatrist Rick Moskovitz has earned an honorable mention in Readers’ Favorite 2021 International Book Awards’ Fiction Audiobook category for his psychological thriller “Shared Madness.”

This isn’t Moskovitz’s first time as a published author.

He’s already put out the “Brink of Life” trilogy, which is a futuristic sci-fi saga.

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For the past 19 years, the Public Works Department has placed memorial flags along the length of Gulf of Mexico Drive.

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Brista Homes has hired Payne’s Environmental Services for tree removal along Gulf of Mexico Drive and 597 Buttonwood Drive. The contractor has worked on clearing invasive trees in the past week.

Land clearing concerns residents of Buttonwood.

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Raises on the way for town manager, attorney Commissioners voted 7-0 to approve a 3% raise for Tom Harmer following a positive job evaluation.

THE SCORES

Commissioners evaluated Town Manager Tom Harmer on a three-point scale in 10 areas of job performance.

Here are their scores: Mayor Ken Schneier: 30 Vice Mayor Mike Haycock: 30 Sherry Dominick: 29.5 Penny Gold: 30 Debra Williams: N/A Maureen Merrigan: 29 BJ Bishop: 27

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Longboat Key Town Manager Tom Harmer and Town Attorney Maggie Mooney are in line to receive raises following positive job evaluations from the Town Commission.

Commissioners delivered their annual evaluations of Harmer and Mooney at Monday afternoon’s commission meeting.

“I always tell the commission individually that I (am) really not asking for a raise,” Harmer said.

“I think that’s at commission discretion. The way my contact is written that if they’re going to give a raise, then they should talk about it and do it when they do my evaluation.”

Public records show Harmer made $203,362 in the last fiscal year. Commissioners voted 7-0 on Monday to give Harmer a 3% raise beginning Oct. 1 “I don’t make everything happen in the town. I’m just one of 130, so it’s really the employees,” Harmer said. “When I provide a highlighted list of accomplishments for the town, when we’re doing retreats or updates and quarterly reports, there’s a lot of fingerprints on that.”

Commissioners evaluated Harmer in 10 categories with a

Commissioners Debra Williams did not provide scored evaluations of Town Manager Tom Harmer.

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Longboat Key Town Manager Tom Harmer has filled his position since December 2017.

score of 3 representing the highest mark he could receive. The categories are professional skills and expertise, commission relations, citizen and public relations, policy execution, intergovernmental relations, staffing and management, fiscal management, planning and organizational development, leadership and decision-making, and individual characteristics.

Several commissioners praised Harmer for his work during the past fiscal year. Mayor Ken Schneier mentioned Harmer’s ability to deal with town staff and

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“I think Tom has really figured out how to do both in a superb fashion, both in terms of the communication and in terms of dealing appropriately and stimulating his staff to do the best that they can possibly do,” Schneier said.

Schneier also mentioned Harmer’s intergovernmental relations with Sarasota County.

“He is just invaluable in helping with us,” Schneier said of Harmer.

Vice Mayor Mike Haycock said he appreciates Harmer’s communication skills with the monthly briefs, surveys, interaction with

the community and “Talk of the Town” YouTube videos.

“I gave him a perfect score, so obviously I think very highly of Tom and my interaction with him,” Haycock said.

Commissioner BJ Bishop praised Harmer’s ability to work with the differing personalities of the Town Commission.

“I have worked (with) seven town managers in my career, two of which we had to fire back where I come from, and I can say that in working with all seven of them, I have never appreciated working with a town manager who is not only effective but also is able to work so effectively with a commission of seven,” Bishop said.

“It’s not easy to get seven elected officials that you have to keep

happy on a day-to-day basis.”

As part of a fee agreement with the town, Mooney’s law firm Persson, Cohen & Mooney, P.A. has an hourly rate that is adjusted each year on Oct. 1 by the consumer price index. Mooney cited a 1.7% rise in the CPI as the reason to increase her hourly salary to $252 and her associates to $236 per hour.

Last year, Mooney’s hourly rate was $244 and her associates made $228 per hour.

“The only thing I would like to add to this, which really isn’t a review of her, as I understand that by contract, the increase in compensation is based on a pretty credible cost of living formula, which calls for a 1.7% increase,” Schneier said. “Anyone who’s bought anything in the last year knows that there’s no relationship to reality.

“I don’t think we’re in a position to change the contract, but I’d just like to put in staff’s mind that, that doesn’t make a lot of sense.”

Mooney had to leave Monday’s meeting early for other commitments but did say in a statement that she appreciates the favorable review from commissioners and appreciates the constructive comments.

Commissioners evaluated Mooney in 11 categories, and she could receive marks of excellent, fully satisfactory, satisfactory or unsatisfactory for each. She earned more marks in the excellent and fully satisfactory categories than anything else.

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R I S I N G W A T E R Drainage problems in Buttonwood Harbour prompt residents to ask for action, but new development nearby brings new concerns.

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Winslow Place resident Jason Wilson took this photo of Buttonwood Drive flooding after the July 29 rainstorm.

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uttonwood Harbour resident Tom Tucker said that drainage and flooding worries in his mid-island neighborhood are getting worse.

He explained the problem by describing a common kitchen mishap, also pointing to landclearing work underway nearby as a potential new trouble spot ahead.

“This is what happened in (Hurricane) Eta: Picture yourself with a full glass of water over your full kitchen sink, and then go to try to put more water in it.

It’s going to overflow,” Tucker said, adding that debris often clogs drain structures, and water levels in nearby Sarasota Bay can sometimes prevent a smooth flow without special valves designed to keep that from taking place.

Since early 2020, the town has paid more than $12,000 for three rounds of ditch maintenance in Buttonwood Harbour, aimed at keeping the water moving in the proper direction.

Deeper assessments are planned in the 2022 town budget, which is nearing approval this month for a fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.

“Shortly after Oct. 1, we do want to engage with our engineer to get that going,” Public Works Director Isaac Brownman said.

“And the goal would be to move it along as quickly as possible.”

The assessments will help the town identify engineering options to address flooding and drainage issues in both the Buttonwood Harbour neighborhood and Sleepy Lagoon.

Town Manager Tom Harmer said it is a similar process that town staff went through to determine the best approach to the Lyons Lane flooding issues, which is now moving into the construction phase.

In addition to Lyons Lane, town staff has worked on other floodprone areas over the past several years. That has included some drainage work and installation of WaStop valves in the Longbeach Village neighborhood, as well as the installation of new valves in the Sleepy Lagoon area.

Brownman said the town heard some of the loudest complaints in early July when particularly heavy summer storms struck and roads filled with water from driveway across to opposing driveway. “(It) was a highly unusual rain event,” he said. “No storm systems are designed to (withstand) a 3- to 4-inch rain shower in two hours. That’s a lot of rain in a very

Buttonwood Drive on a clear day

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Brista Homes has hired Payne’s Environmental Services for tree removal along Gulf of Mexico Drive and at 597 Buttonwood Drive. The contractor has worked on clearing invasive trees in the last week.

“When you don’t even need a named storm like Eta to have problems that keeps people in the neighborhood, that could flood homes, it just seems like something needs to be fixed.”

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short period of time.”

Buttonwood Harbour residents agree, saying garden-variety downpours can often wreak havoc, bringing with them worries about property damage.

“When you don’t even need a named storm like Eta to have problems that keeps people in the neighborhood, that could flood homes, it just seems like something needs to be fixed,” Winslow Place resident Jason Wilson said.

Brownman said the town is in phase two of a four-phase sealevel rise study to examine which neighborhoods face flooding issues or others that could in the near future. Later phases of the plan would identify solutions and implement them.

Beyond concerns about runoff, so-called blue sky flooding is also on the town’s mind. In those cases, water from Sarasota Bay can back up into storm drains on higher-than-normal tidal swings.

Many of the older streets in the Longbeach Village and throughout the north end, including General Harris Street, where the Public Works building is located, were built barely above sea level, which means they are more exposed to flooding.

There is also a concern among Buttonwood Harbour residents that proposed developments along Gulf of Mexico Drive and Buttonwood Drive could compound existing drainage issues.

Brista Homes Founder and President Mark Ursini said he’s hired Tampa-based Payne’s Environmental Services to perform tree removal along Gulf of Mexico Drive and the 597 Buttonwood Drive tract.

However, the removal process is limited to only invasive tree species, which include Brazilian pepper trees and Australian pine trees.

Neighborhood residents say the density of growth, invasive or not, on that land holds back runoff and allows it to more easily absorb into the soil.

Ursini said he knows about the water problems and wants to make improvements as part of his

development plan.

“We’re also going to be talking with Public Works about the drainage situation there at Winslow (Place) and Buttonwood (Drive),” Ursini said. “We are well aware that’s critical to the neighborhood, and what we build we want to make sure we help the situation.”

Ursini plans to meet with the town for site plan approval and a permit to remove more trees. He said his preliminary design calls for a 16,000-square-foot commercial plaza along GMD. At 597 Buttonwood Drive, Ursini said he plans to put in two residential homes if the Nov. 2 referendum is approved by the town’s voters. If the referendum fails, Ursini said he plans to put in another commercial building.

He prefers to build two residential homes.

“To me, it makes no sense to have a commercial building on that residential street, and the way that two homes would impact density is much less than an office building that has multiple businesses inside and continued traffic flow,” Ursini said.

Even if the referendum passes, the proposal to build two homes on Buttonwood Drive is subject to further town approval.

Tucker said he plans to vote against the referendum, and he would encourage other voters to do the same. “(It’s) not because we’re against development, or we’re opposed to having nice residential homes in our neighborhood,” Tucker said. “We’re concerned about the stormwater situation.”

Ursini insists he wants to be part of the solution.

“I’ve been upfront and working with the Buttonwood Harbour Association since the beginning,” he said. “Obviously, I would like their support toward the referendum, but also I would like to improve the neighborhood drainage situation.”

In addition to hiring a civil engineer to work with the town, Ursini said he has formed a PAC called Better for Buttonwood, Best for Longboat Key. Ursini said the political action committee creates postcards, mailings, a website and a social media campaign to advocate on behalf of the referendum.

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If Saba decides to pursue the Conrad Bay name proposal again, he said he will also consider making a land donation to the town.

Manatee County property records show Saba owns five plots on the north end of Longboat Key. Established in 1890, the BGN is the federal authority responsible for all geographic names.

The BGN had asked the Longboat Key Town Commission, the Manatee County Commission and the Florida State Board on Geographic Names for their recommendations before moving ahead.

Before Saba withdrew his request from the BGN, the Longboat Key Town Commission was set to discuss the proposal during its Sept. 13 meeting.

“I feel good that I tried,” Saba said. “I respect everybody on Longboat, and I’m glad that I tried. We’ll see how it turns out in the future.”

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Bill Saba has decided to rescind his request to name the body of water between Greer Island and the north end of Longboat Key as an homage to his grandparents.

Saba, 59, has withdrawn paperwork he filed with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to name it Conrad Bay. The name proposal was meant to honor Marjorie and Frank Conrad, who deeded land to the town in 1974 for public use.

“My purpose for proposing the naming of the bay was to honor my grandparents for deeding the property to the state in a way that it would forever be left in its natural state for public use,” Saba said.

The bay is formed by the northernmost portion of Greer Island, which curls around from the Gulf and forms the southern boundary of Longboat Pass.

Since the proposal was made, several Longboat Key residents have advocated for a different name.

Suggestions included Greer Bay and Manatee Bay. Saba said he is evaluating whether he wants to pursue the proposal in the future.

“I want to wait until I can get a consensus on (the) issue before I proceed forward with it,” he said.

“You can’t be successful until you have a consensus, and there just isn’t a consensus at this point.”

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Town center stage planning takes shape Commission approves plan for performance space and OKs Longboat Foundation to raise private donations to pay the price tag.

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Former Mayor and Longboat Key Foundation Chair Jim Brown is helping the town fundraise to build a town center stage.

said he believed naming rights of the stage would require a donation that covers at least 50% of the cost.

“That’s one of the things that we will talk about … is how to approach them, and I have some people in mind already that could afford that if they wanted to,” Brown said.

Harmer said the town would schedule regular meetings with

Brown and other members of the Longboat Key Foundation along the way.

Commissioners considered three stage designs, all placed on the north end of the property nearest the Longboat Key Public Tennis Center: n A 60-foot downstage opening by 37-foot depth for an approximate construction cost of $400,000.

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A 50-foot downstage opening by 32-foot depth for an approximate construction cost between $320,000 and $400,000. n A 40-foot downstage opening by 25-foot depth with an approximate construction cost of $320,000.

“I thought the 60-foot was overwhelming for the space,” Vice Mayor Mike Haycock said. “It just seemed too big, and frankly, the 40-foot (seemed) too small.”

Commissioner Maureen Merrigan was the only commissioner who preferred the 40-foot stage.

“I felt like the big stage was too big for that area, so I sort of agree with Mike on that, but again that’s just one person’s take,” Merrigan said.

Although Brown did not have vote on which stage size to select, he said he preferred the 40-foot stage.

“This is a small community,” Brown said. “We’re not going to try to bring everybody in from the city to come out here for big presentations, and we did have big presentations, that’s what would happen.”

The town had marked off with stakes the sizes of the options for commissioners to see in threedimensions.

Commissioners BJ Bishop, Sherry Dominick and Penny Gold initially preferred building the 60-foot stage.

“I went out to the site, and I think the 60-foot looks like it would be actually a better fit for that site, especially if it was centered in that space,” Gold said.

“And besides the aesthetics, which Sherry mentioned, which I do think are better, I think it gives us more flexibility if we wanted to bring in an orchestra.”

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WHAT’S PLANNED? Some events are already queued up for the town center green: n November 2021: Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony by the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce n December 2021: Lawn Party by the Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key n January 2022: Concert on the Green by the Chamber of Commerce n February 2022: Art Show and Festival by Howard Alan n February 2022: Concert on the Green by the Chamber of Commerce n March 2022: Concert on the Green by the Chamber of Commerce

would have been too confined for performers.

Gary Hoyt of the Sarasotabased firm Hoyt Architects attended Monday afternoon’s Town Commission meeting. The firm is about 30% finished with the design of the town center stage concept.

The town has about $911,000 remaining in its town center fund to apply to phase two work, which does not include plans for a permanent stage. Construction on lighting, pathways and other improvements is expected to start in October or November.

Although some events are already scheduled, town leaders emphasized that event organizers will have to be flexible to work around potential construction.

Sarasota’s best performers, musicians and visual artists will take center stage at St. Armands Circle. So bring a seat and join us for a day of memorable performances, including: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe Chamber Orchestra of Sarasota Jazz Club of Sarasota The Alan Grant Band Florida Studio Theatre

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The Longboat Key Town Commission on Monday approved plans to build a 50-foot-wide permanent stage at the town center site along with plans on how to privately finance it.

The Longboat Key Foundation will coordinate fundraising efforts, which included a potential naming rights deal, said former Mayor Jim Brown, the foundation’s president.

“He brings, obviously, that experience as being a mayor, a commissioner but also a private architect, so he understands all those components, and he’s been part of the foundation for some time, so he’s worked through the fundraising initiatives,” Town Manager Tom Harmer said of working with Brown.

Brown said the Longboat Key Foundation planned to meet to discuss who to approach as potential donors and how. He

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“All things considered, I’m glad I’m alive,” Reed said.

Reed, 35, suffered a shattered shoulder blade, a concussion and injuries to his knee and ankle in the crash in the 1200 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive. It was his second day on the job.

“I don’t actually remember the impact because it came from behind, but I basically woke up a few minutes after that,” Reed said. “I was facedown in the ditch, and I say woke up, but I could have been conscious. The first thing I remember after the fact was basically seeing the ambulance there and the paramedics running towards me.”

Reed had just started working as a banquet chef, preparing food for weddings, private dinners, lunches and brunches. He had not been on the job long enough to qualify for paid medical leave, and Reed figures he won’t be able to work for up to three months.

The driver, a 48-year-old Tampa woman, was arrested shortly after the crash following a traffic stop on Bird Key. She was charged with leaving the scene of a crash with serious bodily injuries and driving under the influence with serious bodily injuries, court records show.

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County leaders have removed red tide advisory signs on all 16 Sarasota beaches, indicating water sampling by the Florida Department of Health-Sarasota shows no sign of the microscopic Karenia brevis organism responsible for the blooms.

“Enjoy the Beach!” signs replaced the “Red Tide Present” advisories at the beaches this week.

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The Longboat Key Town Commission is scheduled to hold a joint meeting with the city of Sarasota at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 8. The meeting is set to be held at Sarasota City Hall, 1656 First St. The Town Commission is also scheduled to meet jointly with the Manatee County Commission at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 1. The meeting is set to be held at the Manatee County Government Administration Center in the fifth-floor Manatee Room, 1112 Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 – 9:15 AM Please take notice that a public meeting and hearing of the Town of Longboat Key’s Planning and Zoning Board will be held to consider proposed modifications to Title 15, Land Development Code, Chapter 158, Zoning Code, of the Code of Ordinances of the Town of Longboat Key, as more particularly set forth in Ordinance 2021-11: ORDINANCE 2021-11 AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LONGBOAT KEY, FLORIDA, MODIFYING AND AMENDING TITLE 15 LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, CHAPTER 158: ZONING CODE; MODIFYING AND AMENDING ARTICLE V, SUPPLEMENTAL DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS; AMENDING SECTION 158.103, SCREENING REGULATIONS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Copies of the proposed ordinance can be obtained by contacting Donna Chipman at Town Hall at dchipman@longboatkey.org or (941) 316-1966.

The public hearing before the Planning and Zoning Board on proposed Ordinance 2021-11, will be held on September 21, 2021, at 9:15 a.m., or as soon thereafter as may be heard, in the Town Commission Chambers at Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, Florida.

All interested persons may appear and be heard with respect to proposed Ordinance 2021-11. Copies of proposed Ordinance 2021-11 and related material associated with the proposal may be viewed at the Planning, Zoning & Building Department, 501 Bay Isles Road, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. weekdays prior to the hearing. Questions may be directed to the Planning, Zoning & Building Department at 316-1966. The proposed amendment will affect property within the corporate boundaries of the Town of Longboat Key as shown on the map appearing at the bottom of this advertisement.

No verbatim record by a certified court reporter is made of these proceedings. Accordingly, any person who may seek to appeal any decision involving the matters noticed herein will be responsible for making a verbatim record of the testimony and evidence at these proceedings upon which any appeal is to be based (see Section 286.0105, Florida Statutes). In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 286.26, Florida Statutes, persons needing a special accommodation to participate in this proceeding should contact the Town Clerk’s office at 941-316-1999 forty-eight (48) hours in advance of this proceeding. If you are hearing impaired, please call 941-316-8719.

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The year still has three months and change remaining – including the all-important holiday travel season – but the SarasotaBradenton International Airport is already celebrating a 2021 to remember.

The airport by the end of August set a 12-month record for passenger traffic, breaking the old mark set in 1990.

In the first eight months of 2021, 2.03 million passengers passed through the airport, eclipsing the record of 2.01 million set 31 year ago. In August, passenger traffic reached 247,900, 83% higher than the pre-pandemic levels of 2019 and more than three times the passenger traffic of August 2020.

Ten airlines — Delta, United, American, Southwest, Allegiant, Jet Blue, Sun Country, Elite, Frontier and Air Canada — operate to and from 50 destinations from Sarasota-Bradenton International.

reported that a patchy bloom remains offshore Pinellas County, and high concentrations of Karenia brevis were reported offshore Charlotte County. But in 25 Gulf and bay shoreline sampling locations from the northern tip of Anna Maria Island to Manasota Beach south of Venice, testing this week found either no concentrations of red tide or background levels.

Monitoring will continue at testing sites, and if concentrations rise, new advisories will be posted.

County officials on July 13 raised the first advisory that red tide was present on all 16 county beaches, indicating that aerosol effects and dead fish were widely reported in various concentrations. Longboat Key officials had come to the same conclusion days earlier, and initial reports of some beaches affected by red tide were received as early April.

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Hey Joe: Take your mandate and shove it The president’s mandate to require businesses with more than 100 employees to be vaccinated is a farce, hypocritical and destructive — just another day of Joe Biden incompetence and tyranny.

MATT WALSH

“All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.”

— Article I. Section I. U.S. Constitution

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he above provision is the first provision in the U.S. Constitution. In fact, nowhere in the Constitution does it specify, or even hint, that the president has any power to make laws or mandate the citizens of the U.S. to do anything.

And yet, there he was last week, doddering, incompetent President Joe Biden, mandating that all businesses with 100 or more employees will be required to have all of their employees vaccinated or tested every week for COVID-19, subject to a $14,000 fine for each violation.

This is laughable for its absurdity, infuriating for its authoritarianism. For four years, we heard Trump-deranged Democrats incessantly harp on the bogus accusation that Donald Trump was a dictatorial tyrant destroying our democracy.

But as it turns out, Trump, in comparison to Biden, was nothing of the sort.

Now we see and feel who the real tyrant is and who is destroying, not democracy, but our republic. With each week Biden is in the White House, you can’t help but wonder: How much more of this embarrassing, destructive incompetence

must we endure? At this rate, our democratic republic won’t make it through three more years.

Someone, please, tell us one thing Biden has done to make America better and not worse.

There can be no arguing, for instance, that the Afghanistan tragedy, debacle and surrender are the worst of the worst, the most stunning, egregious examples of incompetence of any president in the past century and a quarter.

Under normal standards, public anger and backlash would be so great that it would force Biden and the whole cabal of Biden’s top advisers to resign for the sake of the country and the U.S.’s standing in the world. They have made us the laughing stock.

And now this — a new tipping point: the vaccine mandate.

It is so farcical, hypocritical and destructive on so many levels that it makes you truly wonder: Who are the boobs who come up with this stuff? They are mad — mad for power and clueless to how destructive their fiats are to ordinary Americans.

Let’s start with the hypocrisy.

While Biden is issuing vaccine mandates for U.S. employers, the rest of us are watching his administration allow hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated undocumented immigrants — many of them already carrying COVID-19 — pour across the U.S. southern border every day into U.S. communities. And nothing is being done to stop them. No, as Biden sees it, American employers and employees are the ones who deserve punishment, not undocumented immigrants. Outrageous.

What’s more, there are the newly relocated Afghans. Biden already has welcomed 24,000 of the expected 50,000 Afghan refugees into the U.S. — untold numbers of them unvaccinated.

They are being shipped to seven military bases, where they are being housed and fed on our tax dollars — and in the process exposing our military to who knows what that these unvetted refugees might be carrying.

The Biden administration says the U.S. government (i.e., taxpayers) will pay to have the refugees vaccinated. But what if they don’t get vaccinated, will they be fined, too?

More hypocrisy: According to Biden’s order, congressional members and their staffs and U.S. judiciary members and their staffs will be exempt from the mandate. Once again, the ruling elite are not required to live by the same laws as we peons.

That is yet another example why so many Americans despise the whole of Washington, D.C. We pay those people; they work for us. But in their minds, it’s the other way around: They are our rulers; we are their slaves.

The farce of the mandate: Small businesses comprise 99.9% of the U.S. businesses.

That’s 37.1 million businesses.

They employ 60.6 million people, or 47% of private-sector employees, according to Small Business Trends.

That means only 37,137 businesses have more than 100 employees. Their numbers total 68.3 million employees.

So how does that make sense that roughly half of the private-sector employees will be required and coerced to be vaccinated or tested, and the other half will not? How does that selectiveness make any sense?

Or look at it this way: Employer A makes widgets and has 101 employees. A competitor, Employer B, makes similar widgets and has 99 employees. Because of the mandate, Employer A will be forced to implement new and disruptive costs, procedures, recordkeeping and reporting to satisfy Biden’s mandates and bureaucrats. Employer B will not.

Because of these new regulations and costs, Employer A will become less profitable and competitive, likely losing market share to Employer B. So although Employer A might end up with more vaccinated employees than Employer B, Employer A and A’s employees actually are being punished,

About that van of men shouting ‘Death to Bush’ …

Last week’s report on this page on how the Longboat Observer became involved in the portion of the 9/11 tragedy that touched this region triggered memories.

For Richard Perlman, a longtime Longboat Key resident, lawyer and Realtor, it rekindled his unforgettable recollection of the Middle Eastern men in the van — the van of men shouting “Death to Bush” and the men in the van whom the Secret Service said didn’t exist.

Here is Perlman’s version: “On the late afternoon of

Monday, Sept. 10, 2001, I ventured into St. Armands Circle to watch the motorcade pass through on its way to the Colony. I have always been impressed Perlman with motorcades since I was a kid in New Rochelle, New York, living in a neighborhood occupied by several of the ambassadors from the U.N. who often had large, extravagant parties at their homes with large

contingencies of dignitaries and cavalcades of limousines.

“As I was walking around the Circle on that late summer afternoon, I was stunned to see two Middle Eastern-looking men dressed impeccably in tightly tailored, European-styled suits and ties, not a common sight in St. Armands.

“I saw them again near me as the motorcade passed by but could not discern what they were saying. They were speaking a foreign tongue. The image of these two men has been with me and

forfeiting their freedom of choice and losing out economically. Employer B, meanwhile, will prosper, and likely hire more people, all the while dealing with COVID-19 without the coercive hand of government.

That illustration is the farcical nature of government. It is always picking winners by force at the expense of others.

To draw out the farce even more, what is the purpose of these mandated vaccines and bureaucratic testing costs? The recovery rate for COVID-19, after all, is 97% to 99.5%.

The mandate’s destructiveness: There is nothing constructive or productive in government coercion. “Coercion destroys your freedom of choice,” the late Leonard Read said in his seminal book, “Anything That’s Peaceful.” Coercion, by its nature, is always destructive.

Although some of you might say requiring these employer vaccines will ensure well-being of our society as a whole, you are missing the larger, more significant point: What freedom will Joe Biden and the Democrats take from you next?

Our puppet-in-chief is doing exactly what his socialist string pullers want: ignoring the limits on government in the Constitution, acting as if they have unlimited powers, behaving as if they are answerable to no one, controlling more of everyone’s lives and enslaving us to them.

This is not government for the people and by the people. This is government force on the people.

Read wrote: “The idea set forth in the Declaration of Independence that each person has an inherent and inalienable right to life becomes meaningless when a person loses the authority for his own decisions and must act according to someone else’s dictates.”

Biden, how business owners interact with their employees is none of your business.

To paraphrase the Moonshine Bandits: “Take your mandate and shove it.”

haunted me for 20 years.

“The following morning, I was in front of the old Holiday Inn downtown where the motorcade would turn north to head toward the school. I was there in support of the Sierra Club’s efforts protesting oil drilling off our coast and on my way to play golf at Foxfire.

“At the end of the motorcade, I distinctly recall seeing a van with Middle Eastern-looking men shouting, “Death to Bush” from the open windows.

“I then left to play golf, not thinking much of what I had witnessed over the prior 14 hours.

That is, until you know what happened next.”

— M.W.

“If we are to build a better world, we must remember that the guiding principle is this — a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.”

Friedrich Hayek

“Road to Serfdom,” 1944

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he Longboat Key Town Commission held the first of two reviews of the 2022 budget Monday afternoon.

The revised budget for the upcoming fiscal year shows the town is due to collect $17.42 million and will spend $17.83 million.

The town is due to spend $17.31 million.

“You really want to see how close your operating expenses are to your revenues because the capital fluctuates,” Town Manager Tom Harmer said.

The budget maintains a flat millage rate of 2.1144. Using that rate, a revenue increase of about $740,886 is anticipated, based on a property value increase of 6%.

“We lost some revenues last year, so we were using a little bit more of our savings,” Harmer said. “Right now, we’re pretty balanced, and we’re just slightly ahead on revenues than we are expenses, which is a good sign.

So it’s a good recovery from where we were last year and where we were two years ago. This is pretty similar to where we are this year.”

Among the recommended expenditures: n Underground utilities project, which is still under construction. n Completing the outdoor town

center phase two improvements, including walkways and lighting. n Annual citizen survey. n Budgeted compensation plan and pay increases for employees. n Continued funding for red tide contingency at $50,000. n The beginning phase of a multiyear $7.2 million construction project to replace asbestos-laced cement pipes in Country Club Shores. n Early stages of a redundant sewer line under Sarasota Bay. The project would build a parallel line to one day replace the existing line. The town is planning to pursue the project in 2024 at a cost of about $21.8 million. n Development of a canal dredging plan. n Added funding for the town’s federal lobbyist and for grant assistance. n Added $300,000 for a roundabout design and engineering at Gulf of Mexico Drive and Broadway. n Added $130,000 for the GMD corridor plan. n Added $80,000 for phases three and four of the sea level rise, pending grant assistance.

Commissioners are scheduled to hold a second reading and adoption vote at 5:01 p.m. Sept. 27.

Longboat Key’s fiscal year 2022 budget starts Oct. 1.

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RINGING IN EVERYONE’S EARS 10 p.m., 6600 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Alarm: Following a report of an activated residential intruder alarm, the new owner of a home told responding police officers about alarm issues since moving in a few days earlier. Police checked to make sure everything was in order.

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BEACH, INTERRUPTED 1:48 p.m., 6600 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Citizen dispute: A walker on the beach exchanged words with the owner of a beachfront residence who recently ended public access from one side of the private property to the other. The beachgoer complained it was unfair to make people walk in the surf to get past the property’s seawall. The beachgoer was advised to make her opinions known when the town discusses the issue at a public meeting.

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Police recommended several other areas of town that offered easier access to a turn-around.

The driver headed north with that in mind.

WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD 11:37 p.m., 500 block of Yawl Lane Property damage, not vandalism: A person moving into a home reported to police accidentally backing into a water shut-off valve on a nearby vacant lot, breaking it. A Public Works Department staffer said the valve itself was

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ROGUE ONE, A LOST KEY STORY 10:51 a.m., police headquarters Found property: An officer arriving at the police department encountered two people who said they found a key fob near the front door and wanted to turn it in. While on patrol, the officer kept an eye out for the make and model of the car but didn’t see one. The fob was taken into safekeeping.

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The man said he had come to the home to visit a friend and his friend’s partner, but the partner said the man was not welcome to stay in the house. The officer said the man was not permitted to simply stay in the car,and spoke to the parties inside, who said he could come back after 9 a.m. The man drove off.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 – 9:15 AM Please take notice that a public hearing of the Town of Longboat Key’s Planning and Zoning Board will be held to consider proposed amendments to the Town of Longboat Key’s Comprehensive Plan as more particularly set forth in Ordinance 2021-15: ORDINANCE 2021-15 AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LONGBOAT KEY, FLORIDA, ADOPTING AMENDMENTS TO THE TOWN’S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PURSUANT TO SECTION 163.3184, FLORIDA STATUTES; AMENDING CHAPTER 160, COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, SECTION 160.01, ELEMENTS, OF THE TOWN OF LONGBOAT KEY CODE OF ORDINANCES TO ESTABLISH A “PROPERTY RIGHTS ELEMENT”; PROVIDING FOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE COMMUNITY PLANNING ACT; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Copies of the Comprehensive Plan Amendment can be obtained by contacting Donna Chipman at Town Hall at dchipman@longboatkey.org or (941) 316-1966.

The public hearing before the Planning and Zoning Board on the Comprehensive Plan Amendment, will be held on September 21, 2021, at 9:15 a.m., or as soon thereafter as may be heard, in the Town Commission Chambers at Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, Florida.

All interested persons may appear and be heard with respect to the request for Comprehensive Plan Amendment. Copies of the Comprehensive Plan Amendment and related material associated with the requests may be viewed at the Planning, Zoning & Building Department, 501 Bay Isles Road, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. weekdays prior to the hearing. Questions may be directed to the Planning, Zoning & Building Department at 316-1966. The proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendment will affect property within the corporate boundaries of the Town of Longboat Key as shown on the map appearing at the bottom of this advertisement.

No verbatim record by a certified court reporter is made of these proceedings. Accordingly, any person who may seek to appeal any decision involving the matters noticed herein will be responsible for making a verbatim record of the testimony and evidence at these proceedings upon which any appeal is to be based (see Section 286.0105, Florida Statutes). In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 286.26, Florida Statutes, persons needing a special accommodation to participate in this proceeding should contact the Town Clerk’s office at 941-316-1999 forty-eight (48) hours in advance of this proceeding. If you are hearing impaired, please call 941-316-8719.

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SHUTTING IT DOWN 4:53 p.m., 4000 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Fire assist: Police, fire-rescue and gas-utility personnel responded to a hazardous condition brought on by a gas-line break. Police closed both directions of Gulf of Mexico Drive for about two hours while crews worked. No detours were available.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8

BLOCKING, NOT BLOCKING 11:30 a.m., Dream Island Road Citizen assist: An officer was sent to check into an anonymous complaint about construction vehicles blocking the road in a neighborhood. When the officer arrived, everything on the street was in order.

BORDER DISPUTE 8:22 p.m., 500 block of Spinnaker Lane Citizen dispute: A resident who had left for a day reported to police coming home and finding shrubs on the east side of his property trimmed. A neighbor told police that the two had been disputing each other’s version of the property line for some time.

The neighbor said time had come to begin work on a fence, and the shrubs had to be cleared to make room. Both were advised to seek an accurate representation of the property line from governing documents with the town. No assault took place.

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LONGER WALK THAN PLANNED 1:42 a.m., 100 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Assist other agency: Longboat police met Sarasota police at the south end of town to help a lost hotel guest find his way back.

The Sarasota officer said the man reported walking around for close to two hours trying to gain his bearings without success. The Longboat Key officer drove the man back to his accommodations.

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Above left: The first flag on Longboat Key is planted just after New Pass Bridge.

Above right: The flags lined the Bayfront Park sign.

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Tony Porter and Mark Kerr from the Public Works Department.

n Sept. 11, American flags on Longboat Key flew at half-staff But closer to the ground, 2,997 miniature American flags fluttered proudly in the breeze on the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

It was the 17th time the Public Works Department put them up on behalf of the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce. Since 2003, the tradition has been to put the flags out on Sept. 10 and take them down on the morning of Sept. 12. Chamber President Gail Loefgren envisioned the flag tradition and made it happen with the help of the Public Works Depart-

ment and Ace Hardware. The only times the flags haven’t been put out were in 2004 and 2017 for hurricanes.

The flags marched up the east side of Gulf of Mexico Drive for all 11 miles of the Key from New Pass to Longboat Pass.

Each flag is about 20 feet away from the next, said Streets, Facilities, Parks & Recreation Manager Mark Richardson.

It takes his team about five hours to put out every flag, Richardson said.

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 17

MOVIE NIGHT AT ST. ARMANDS KEY LUTHERAN CHURCH Beginning at 6:30 p.m., watch “High Society” in the fellowship hall of St. Armands Key Lutheran Church. Due to technical difficulties Aug. 20, the church is showing the movie again. Admission is free, and there will be movie snacks. Email Michael Bodnyk at Michael@SAKLC.com for information.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 18

SARASOTA ARTS LIVE From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., St. Armands Circle visitors will get to experience live music, live painting and interactive exhibits in this event, which is the apex of the summer Sol of the Circle series.

Musicians will include Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, Chamber Orchestra of Sarasota, Jazz Club of Sarasota, Florida Studio Theatre and The Alan Grant Band.

Visit bit.ly/SarasotaArtsLive for information.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 26

ST. ARMANDS CIRCLE FAMILY DAY From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., head to St. Armands Circle for family fun.

Educational, interactive activities will be stationed around the circle. Call 388-1554 for information.

RECURRING EVENTS MONDAYS

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.

For information, call 383-6493.

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MAHJONG From 1-3 p.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road. Fun time for experienced players. To check availability at the tables or to be put on a waitlist for a beginner class, RSVP at MaryAnnBrady@TheParadiseCenter.org or 383-6493.

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Each table had the history of Labor Day, and parishioners were invited to “clock in” to the party.

espite the name of the holiday, Labor Day was all play and no work Sept. 6 at St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church. The parish hosted a party, and even though volunteers from the Men’s Club and Women’s Guild were put to work serving up sandwiches, a jolly time was had by all.

The Men’s Club organized the party, which was held away from the heat in the Father Edward Pick Fellowship Hall. Volunteers cooked the food and plated the cheese and fruit, which parishioners partook in with pleasure.

At the tables, every seat had a printout with the history of Labor Day, and patriotic decorations were scattered around the room.

Pianist Eddie Tobin played for the crowd, who caught up with friends and regaled them with tales of summer vacations.

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TRIBUTES Joseph P. Callahan 1925-2021

He was preceded in death by his parents, Marie (McNeive) and Michael Callahan, his wife Margaret, his sister Mary Maraia, his sister-in-law Catherine Gallagher and brothers-in-law Doug, Gene and Edward Doody, and son-in-law, Robert Bellamente. He is survived by his daughters, Barbara Bellamente and Mary Callahan, his grandchildren Megan Thomas, Erin Diamond and John J. Bellamente, M.D. (Lauren) and three great-grandchildren, his step-grandchildren Robert (Amy) and Michael (Heidi) Bellamente and their children, his brothers-in-law Drury Gallagher & Arthur (Sheila) Doody, sister-in-law JoAnne Doody, many nieces & nephews, many treasured friends and his beloved friend, Eileen Gildea.

Joe was born in Brooklyn, New York.

He grew up in Flatbush and graduated from St. Francis Prep in Brooklyn. Later, he attended John Jay College in New York City. Joe served in the Navy during WWII in the South Pacific arena. After serving in the Navy, Joe worked as a police officer and then detective in NYC. Following retirement, he worked as a sales rep for Borden’s and later became Director of Security for Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association (TIAA) in Manhattan.

Joe had been an avid tennis player until

late into his eighties and played golf until he was 93 years of age. Joe had been a member of the Elks on Long Island and performed in local stage productions. Joe was an associate member of Longboat Harbour Yacht Club, a parishioner at St. Mary’s Star of the Sea on Longboat Key and Our Lady of Lourdes in Massapequa Park, NY, and a member of St. Mary’s Men’s Club. He served on the entertainment committee for Longboat Harbour for many years. He loved his community of Longboat Harbour and all of its residents.

The family extends appreciation to the therapists, nurses and staff of Baycare who cared for him following his hospitalization, and the wonderful, caring team from Tidwell Hospice who accompanied him in his final chapter.

A funeral mass will be held on September 23, 2021 at St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Church on Longboat Key. A celebration of life will be held at a later date to be announced.

DONATIONS: In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Joe’s name to Tunnel for Towers Foundation, 2361 Hylan Boulevard, Staten Island, New York 10306 or Tidewell Hospice, 5955 Rand Boulevard, Sarasota, FL 34238.

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MAESTRO WITH A MISSION

Every article I read about you speaks to your charismatic ways with the audience.

What is your personal style?

Making a connection with my audience is very important to me. I believe in being authentic — audiences can tell if someone is authentic or not — and I’ve learned to say the right thing at the right moment.

I like to have intense visual contact with my audience as I believe the eyes are the windows to the soul and help to build trust. I like to talk softly and intimately to my audience, making sure I don’t use artificial verbiage that’s technical and “mumbo jumbo.” I believe in keeping it simple and always, always humor.

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maestro at the peak of his career, Bramwell Tovey might be new to Sarasota audiences, but Sarasota isn’t new to the British-born conductor. Sarasota had a brief taste of Tovey when he guestconducted the Sarasota Orchestra in the 2019-2020 season. This time, he’s here to stay.

Tovey’s track record has been a successful one, working with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as orchestras across Europe and Asia. He’s also a pianist and composer and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music.

The Observer spoke with Tovey about his musical experience and his plans for the Sarasota Orchestra.

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You’ve said that “the power of music changes lives.”

What does that mean to you?

Words can’t describe the nuances of life, but music can.

Music influences us in so many ways in a harmonious fashion.

Sounds generate emotions, and when we’re all put into a room together playing instruments, we are in harmony, and that brings us all together.

Tell us about your passion of mentoring youth and opening them up to music.

I love to ignite young souls.

When I was music director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, I created the VSO School of Music, … where students of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds could enjoy lifelong learning, and the majority of instructors would be members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Funding allowed a new community music school, serving students from 3 months old to senior citizens, catering to all ability levels from beginners to aspiring professionals. I also believe that we need to teach our youth more about the famous composers so they can identify with them. Beethoven was a rock star. And he looked a little

What lured you to Sarasota?

I came down to visit a friend in Sarasota, and I met many people in leadership positions in the arts and music. I loved their energy. I also liked the city itself. What’s not to like?

I also recently recovered from cancer (diagnosed in 2019), and I felt the universe say to me, “Go for it.” The cancer journey was life-enhancing for me. I learned how to be a better human being as a result.

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Kids can relate to that.

What is the Sarasota Orchestra’s five-year plan?

I want to help the orchestra develop and fulfill its growth potential, especially through recruitment. I also want to address areas of repertoire that we haven’t yet tackled, such as looking at different ways of presenting “tried and trusted” pieces of music and other types of repertoire.

This year I’m hoping to explore a brilliant composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor whose work was performed in the U.S. in the early 1900s. Of course, we all would like to see a new home built for Sarasota Orchestra.

You’ve said your father had a profound influence on you growing up.

I was born in England, and my father died at a young age. When he was alive, he recognized that I was a very shy little boy and that I loved to listen to music. He encouraged me to play an instrument, and I played in the school orchestra, and he never missed a concert to show his support.

I was trained for classical, but when I joined the Salvation Army Orchestra, I was influenced by other types of music.

You know something about me?

I’m a bit of a jazzer, too.

Any other thoughts to share?

My decision to join the Sarasota Orchestra was made because the musicians’ artistry and dedication and the organization’s health and community’s support all resonated with an inspirational unanimity of vision.

For me, music is a profound language that addresses humanity at a level that is beyond words. To have been able to spend my entire career sharing music through the power of the modern symphony orchestra has been an extraordinary privilege.

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ongboat Key residents have plenty of good views to choose from on the island, but they still look forward to their trips out of state and around the

world for a change of scenery (and a break from summer humidity). No matter if it was a fresh memory from this summer or a summer long gone, Longboaters loved looking back on happy vacations. We asked them to send us their favorite summer vacation photos.

RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE Jack and Nancy Rozance count their trip to the middle of the world as one of their favorites. The couple traveled several years ago to Quito, Ecuador, and experienced the strange effects on gravity that come about at the equator, such as being able to balance an egg on the head of a nail.

FAMILY FIRST Ed Krepela’s trip to Long Island, New York, this summer was more of a mission than a vacation, he said. He had been trying to get up north for a big family reunion for about three years to see the whole 23-member Krepela clan, including his nine great-grandchildren.

“Four of them I had never seen in person before, just in pictures,” Krepela said. “I also found out that there’s another on the way, so by the end of the year, I’m going to have 10 great-grandchildren.”

The one in the photo is Molly, the youngest Krepela relative. Krepela met her for the first time in her young life during the family reunion, but the two became fast friends.

BIG SKY COUNTRY Julie McGue and her family go to Big Sky, Montana, every year to visit the Last Best Place. They visit Yellowstone National Park, go hiking and fishing, and take a western adventure. One of McGue’s favorites was an overnight horseback trip into back country to a working wigwam campsite. Their guide took them, a cook and pack horses to camp.

“At sunset, the guide and cook served us dinner grilled over an open fire,” McGue said “Afterwards, we sat atop logs, sipped hot chocolate and tried to put names to the scores of constellations lighting up the night sky.”

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FINDING A WAY TO CURDS Cyndi and Mike Seamon don’t often travel in the summer, because Cyndi is the vice president of the Longboat Key Turtle Watch and walks the beach most summer mornings. However, they did get away to visit Cyndi’s parents in Wisconsin for the Fourth of July.

They flew into Green Bay and snapped a selfie with the resident Cheeseheads before joining the family and forgetting to pick up their phones for pictures. Sometimes the simplest trips are the best.

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FRAMING THE SUMMER Mike and Lyn Haycock took a two-month summer trip in their RV. They stayed in state parks, the front and backyards of friends, driveways and RV parks. They hit 19 states and made 20 stops. Lyn said it was a new adventure for the couple and that they loved every minute of it.

In this photo, they’re at Sleeping Bear National Park on Lake Michigan. They had a full, active day riding the biking trails, going for a slow, scenic mountain drive and exploring the golden sand dunes.

STAY-CATION Irina LaRose’s sister visited last summer and rented a house in Bradenton. Despite COVID-19, the family had a wonderful vacation (or stay-cation, for LaRose) and stayed mostly outdoors. There was a lake by the house, and the nieces and nephew loved going out back with the fishing poles.

“That was the fallback,” LaRose said.

They would catch and release the fish every time. LaRose is soon taking a late-summer vacation to St. Louis to see them for the first time since last summer.

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BIRD OF THE WEEK A closer look at the feathered friends with which we share Longboat.

Crested caracara

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triking in appearance, crested caracaras are an important yet increasingly scarce yearlong resident of Florida dry prairies.

These large falcons are opportunistic feeders that eat both carrion (as vultures do) and live prey (as hawks do). They are also known to steal food from other species (as eagles do).

The featherless patch of skin on their face ranges in color from pale yellow to red, depending on whether they’re relaxed or stressed.

This bare skin serves the same purpose as the featherless head of most vultures: Because they frequently eat carrion, having bare skin above the beak helps keep them clean.

And although their talons are raptorlike, they lie flatter than most, making it easier for them to walk and run. Indeed, caracaras spend a lot of time on the ground, even hunting on foot.

Whereas some bird species are habitat generalists that can thrive in many places, others, including the crested caracara, are habitat specialists.

Although they’ve adapted, by necessity, to cattle ranches, caracaras are largely dependent on the open, treeless habitats of the dry prairie landscape. Therefore, the most serious threat to our endem-

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And because they’re attracted to roadsides in search of carrion, car mortality is a threat.

To protect our native birds, we can use care when approaching scavengers feeding on carrion along highways. And by understanding the importance of our few remaining Florida dry prairies to caracaras and many other native species, we can choose to actively support ongoing land conservation efforts.

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LONGBOAT KEY 415 L Ambiance Drive D906 2 Beds 2/1 Baths 2,634 Sq. Ft. Kim Ogilvie 941-376-1717 A4503404 $4,295,000

SIESTA KEY 1660 Summerhouse Lane 503 3 Beds 2/1 Baths 2,400 Sq. Ft. Kevin Wiegand 941-350-7345 A4510014 $2,795,000

ANNA MARIA ISLAND 520 77th Street 2 Beds 2/2 Baths 3,241 Sq. Ft. Leah Secondo & Lynne Callahan 941-545-4430 A4508576 $2,650,000

LONGBOAT KEY 571 Ranger Lane 4 Beds 3/1 Baths 2,500 Sq. Ft. Kathy Callahan 941-900-8088 A4509967 $2,400,000

BRADENTON 5948 Riverview Boulevard 5 Beds 4/1 Baths 5,091 Sq. Ft. Kathy Valente & Gregory Zies, LLC 941-685-6767 A4504528 $2,195,000

LONGBOAT KEY 647 Marbury Lane 4 Beds 4/1 Baths 2,651 Sq. Ft. Sandi Layfield 941-914-2807 A4503569 $1,799,000

SARASOTA 1723 Oak Street 4 Beds 3/1 Baths 2,862 Sq. Ft. Judy Nimz 941-374-0196 A4510139 $1,750,000

ANNA MARIA ISLAND 2719 Gulf Drive 3 Beds 2/1 Baths 2,119 Sq. Ft. Melinda Alvarez 941-704-0633 A4506596 $1,749,000

BRADENTON 20504 65th Avenue E 4 Beds 2/1 Baths 3,738 Sq. Ft. Aaron Corr & Leslie Emery 941-840-2346 A4509727 $1,599,000

SARASOTA 1233 N Gulfstream Avenue 602 2 Beds 2/1 Baths 1,780 Sq. Ft. Barbara May 941-312-1302 A4506289 $1,500,000

SIESTA KEY 5770 Midnight Pass Road 607 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,447 Sq. Ft. Karen Chandler 941-544-4919 A4505576 $1,350,000

SARASOTA 1711 Baywood Way 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,358 Sq. Ft. Jami Kellogg 941-809-6931 A4488310 $1,200,000

LONGBOAT KEY 1445 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 201 3 Beds 2/1 Baths 2,274 Sq. Ft. Kathy Callahan 941-900-8088 A4504369 $1,137,000

BRADENTON 1523 1st Avenue W 4 Beds 3 Baths 3,500 Sq. Ft. Fran DeDona & Pam Goodwin 941-812-5023 A4505327 $1,050,000

SARASOTA 1771 Ringling Boulevard 1101 3 Beds 2 Baths 1,895 Sq. Ft. Linda Driggs & Sara Boudarga 941-374-2920 A4511187 $1,050,000

LAKEWOOD RANCH 4607 Balboa Park Loop 5 Beds 4 Baths 4,309 Sq. Ft. Tina Ciaccio 941-685-8420 A4511142 $950,000

SARASOTA 99 Sunset Drive 201 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,655 Sq. Ft. Judy Nimz 941-374-0196 A4511193 $929,000

SARASOTA 400 Golden Gate Point 23 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,388 Sq. Ft. Laurel James & Michael James 941-350-9240 A4510771 $899,000

SARASOTA 3624 S Lockwood Ridge Road 4 Beds 3/1 Baths 4,013 Sq. Ft. Rudy Dudon 941-234-3991 A4508564 $895,000

LONGBOAT KEY 1701 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 303 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,551 Sq. Ft. Michael Moulton 941-928-3559 A4503585 $875,000

SARASOTA 2582 Bay Street 4 Beds 2/1 Baths 2,800 Sq. Ft. Nancie Kalin 941-928-8833 A4507964 $760,000

LONGBOAT KEY 4234 Gulf Of Mexico Drive A1 3 Beds 2 Baths 1,636 Sq. Ft. Lenore Treiman 941-356-9642 A4504718 $699,000

LONGBOAT KEY 4621 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 16F 2 Beds 2 Baths 900 Sq. Ft. Richard Perlman 941-228-8580 A4508698 $495,000

SARASOTA 7239 39th Lane E 4 Beds 3 Baths 2,184 Sq. Ft. Tammy Mast 941-256-6543 A4508115 $459,999

SARASOTA 7792 Fairway Woods Drive 1206 3 Beds 2 Baths 1,956 Sq. Ft. Michael Moulton 941-928-3559 A4506661 $425,000

SARASOTA 4759 Ringwood Meadow 3 Beds 2 Baths 2,097 Sq. Ft. Cathy Meldahl & Susan Smith 941-724-7228 A4510543 $415,000

BRADENTON 984 Sandpiper Circle 984 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,115 Sq. Ft. Bill Anderson & Adrienne Scott 941-313-4059 A4506992 $309,000

SARASOTA 3424 Dante Drive 2 Beds 1/1 Baths 1,024 Sq. Ft. Susan Katanic 941-400-0601 A4510741 $275,000

SARASOTA 1122 44th Street 2 Beds 1 Baths 1,120 Sq. Ft. Rachelle Golden & Peter Salefsky 941-538-8998 A4510661 $199,900

UNIVERSITY PARK 7320 Barclay Court 4 Beds 5/1 Baths 7,579 Sq. Ft. Bernadette Caswell & Victoria Turner 941-320-8265 A4500081 $3,950,000

SARASOTA The Ritz-Carlton Tower Residences, 902 4 Beds 4 Baths 3,751 Sq. Ft. Joan Dickinson & Beth Afflebach 941-914-0496 A4499039 $3,450,000

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ANNA MARIA ISLAND 102 Cedar Avenue 4 Beds 3/1 Baths 2,290 Sq. Ft. Hannah Hillyard & George Myers 941-744-7358 A4507978 $4,200,000

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home on Bird Key tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Charlotte Bimba, of Sarasota, sold her home at 582 S. Spoonbill Drive to Barry Cohen, trustee, of Sarasota, for $6.5 million. Built in 2016, it has four bedrooms, fourand-a-half baths, a pool and 4,361 square feet of living area.

BAY ISLES

Bernard and Susan Ouimette, of Longboat Key, sold their home at 530 Harbor Gate Way to Robert and Ella Cohen, of Longboat Key, for $5.03 million. Built in 2014, it has four bedrooms, four-anda-half baths, a pool and 5,011 square feet of living area.

SLEEPY LAGOON

Peter and Kristen Laviolette, of Arlington, Virginia, sold their home at 6609 Gulf of Mexico Drive to A.C. Buddendorf Ltd. Partnership for $3.58 million.

Built in 1994, it has four bed-

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The home at 582 S. Spoonbill Drive ob Bird Key was built in 2016.

rooms, four baths, a pool and 4,132 square feet of living area.

L’AMBIANCE

Linda Schneider, trustee, of Pepper Pike, Ohio, sold the Unit C-603 condominium at 415 L’Ambiance Drive to Anthony Gallo and Rosa BenvenutoGallo, of Belle Harbor, New York, for $3.03 million. Built in 1992, it has three bedrooms, three-andtwo-half baths and 2,634 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.68 million in 2012.

JOHN RINGLING ESTATES

Jeffrey Beg sold his home at 535

McKinley Drive to Charles and Patricia Maines, of Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, for $3 million.

Built in 1965, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,794 square feet.

ORCHID BEACH CLUB

Charles and Patricia Maines, of Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, sold their Unit B804 condominium at 2050 Benjamin Franklin Drive to Jeffrey and Lisa Bowen, of Greenville, Delaware, for $2.3 million. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,936 square feet of living area.

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REVISED LONGBEACH

Charles Streich, of Mequon, Wisconsin, sold his home at 431 N. Shore Road to Joshua and Jill Ball, of Longboat Key, for $2.25 million. Built in 2014, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 4,641 square feet of living area.

TOP BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of Sept. 3-9 in order of dollar amounts.

L O N G B OAT K E Y

Walter Group

Luxury Waterfront Specialists

440 Gulf of Mexico Drive | Longboat Key

ADDRESS PERMIT APPLICANT 535 Sanctuary Drive #C606 Windows and doors Frederic J. Sears

AMOUNT $210,626

608 St. Judes Drive

Interior alterations Anchor Jemm LLC

$136,770

630 De Narvaez Drive

Pool and spa

$108,162

Marc A. Cannon

435 L’Ambiance Drive #G901 Electrical

Ian Wilbraham

$75,000

550 Chipping Lane

Seawall

Robert Metz

$74,070

759 St. Judes Drive N.

Pool

LB Key LLC

$70,742

7149 Longboat Drive N.

Pool and spa

John Richard Exley III

2110 Harbourside Drive

Concrete repair

Fairway Bay III Association $56,575

550 Chipping Lane

Dock and lift

Robert Metz

2721 GMD #602

Interior alterations Nancy J. Stevens

415 L’Ambiance Drive #B702 Electrical

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$65,000 $52,680

Samuel B. Guren

3070 Grand Bay Blvd #631

Interior alterations Allen Hecht

2045 GMD #409

Interior alterations Madeline B. Wikler

$49,377

Janet Walter 941.232.2000 Steve Walter 941.809.0907 www.waltergrouprealestate.com

$45,000 $40,000 $34,120

Revocable Trust

3040 Grand Bay #291

A/C change-out

Robert E. Neiman

428 0 GMD

A/C change-out

St. Mary Star of the Sea $31,984

$33,995

Parish 4600 GMD Unit 301

Window

Katherine L. Cook

$29,657

replacement 415 L’Ambiance Drive #E307 Electrical

415 L’Ambiance Drive Unit $25,000

E307 3540 GMD #C301

Windows and doors James G. Dole

689 Lands End Drive

A/C change-out

$24,680

Petrone, Dino Julio and $24,000

Ashley Ann

3575 Mistletoe Lane

A/C change-out

Jose A. Marroig

$21,192

580 Jungle Queen Way

A/C change-out

Timothy M. Kelly

$20,931

660 Penfield St.

Dock

Michael Stephen Heath $17,605

2282 Harbour Court Drive

A/C change-out

David Darrin Revocable $16,022

BIRD KEY 483 Meadow Lark Drive A45105712 $6,950,000 The most sought-after location on the Sarasota Islands, this custom designed residence, is set on 100’ of premier Sarasota Bay frontage. Sensational deep boating waters overlooking a sprawling horizon that captures city views from this mesmerizing property, create the perfect place to call home.

Trust Electrical

Neal Horne

$16,000

1101 Bogey Lane

Pool cage

Wesley C. Walraven

$13,650

2377 GMD #2E4

Plumbing

Catherine V. Salvendy

$13,000

3502 Fair Oaks Court

A/C change-out

Francis Garcia

$12,697

Source: Town of Longboat Key

LONGBOAT KEY 640 Roundtree Drive A4503523 $4,950,000

SOLD

LONGBOAT KEY 6609 Gulf of Mexico Drive A4507099 $3,650,000

SOLD

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 18 High: 85 Low: 77 Chance of rain: 42%

SUNDAY, SEPT. 19 High: 87 Low: 77 Chance of rain: 31%

TIDES Thursday, Sept. 16 Patricia Muller captured a glistening bayfront from the shore of Longboat Key.

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