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by Robin Roy | City Editor

Surveillance-camera system expands What started as just a few cameras installed at crime hot spots around the city has grown to a system of 43 devices. More are scheduled to go online within the next few months.

Photos by Loren Mayo

+ Albino alligator takes cover Four-year-old Pearl, one of 40 estimated albino alligators in the world, is the star attraction at Smugglers Cove Adventure Golf, 3815 N. Tamiami Trail.

Pearl is the offspring of an albino alligator found in 1992 by a rancher in Cut Off, La. Due to the lack of pigmentation that protects alligators from the sun, all albino alligators are in captivity.

Pearl’s exhibit is under cover, and the water is heated, filtered and UV cleaned.

She may look shiny and scaly, but the staff at Smugglers Cove assures us she feels soft to the touch.

In a room not much larger than a walk-in closet, the Sarasota Police Department houses the command center of its citywide surveillance-camera system.

Forty-three cameras mounted on poles, streetlights and the sides of buildings keep watch over all the activity in their ranges. Some cameras can read cartag numbers from four blocks

INSIDE: HOW IT WORKS / PAGE 2A away.

“They’re an undiscovered tool,” said police Capt. Jeff Karr, who oversaw the implementation of the system.

He uses the word “undiscovered,” because the new system

has yet to reach its full potential.

Currently, the police department doesn’t have the staff monitor the cameras in real-time, but it uses them as an additional investigative tool. They check the recordings after a crime has been committed to help make an arrest.

State law requires that surveillance footage be archived for 35

+ TV show gobbles up TurDucKen The designer of this T-shirt sounds like a real quack.

It was hanging on the wall at Alpine Steakhouse Thursday, when we stopped by to check out Authentic Entertainment’s “TurDucKen” filming for the Food Network show, “The Best Thing I Ever Ate,” which is scheduled to air this fall. It’s the second time the network has stopped at the restaurant to inquire dish of turkey, duck and chicken.

According to Alpine Steakhouse owner Mark Rebhan, the T-shirt — in which a turkey holding a machete chases a duck holding a gun which chases a weaponless chicken — was designed by the Harold Pearl, the illustrator of Walt Disney’s “Dumbo” character.

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days before it is deleted.

Officers were checking the footage from the Palm Avenue parking garage June 6, because of some vandalism committed the previous weekend.

Karr said no major crimes have yet been recorded on the cam-

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Sarasota police department TVs display live footage from remote cameras around the city. Views can be changed by joy sticks and a computer operated by Capt. Jeff Karr.

making headlines

by Robin Hartill | Observer Staff

Observer Group acquires Pelican Press The locally owned Observer Group is the new owner of the 40-year-old Sarasota weekly.

The Observer Group Inc., publisher of the Observer weekly newspapers and Gulf Coast Business Review, closed Wednesday on the purchase of the Pelican Press and the Pelican Press Marketplace.

The Observer Group acquired

the 40-year-old Pelican Press and its sister publication from Journal Community Publishing Group Inc., the Milwaukee, Wis.based publisher of more than 30 community newspapers and shoppers in Wisconsin, Sarasota and Jacksonville. Journal Com-

munity Publishing Group is a division of Journal Communications Inc., a Milwaukee-based, publicly-traded diversified media company.

The price of the sale was not disclosed.

Hugh McGarry, general manager of Journal Community

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PELICAN / FROM PAGE 1A Publishing Group, said the company sold the Pelican Press and Pelican Press Marketplace because of a strategic decision to concentrate on its cluster of newspapers in Wisconsin.

“It has been a great property for Journal Communications with a great team in place,” McGarry said of the Pelican Press. “The acquisition should give the Observer an expanded footprint in the Sarasota market.”

Journal Communications acquired the Pelican Press in June 1998 from Sarasota entrepreneur John Davidson.

Davidson founded the Pelican Press in 1971 on Siesta Key as a way to help promote his startup drug store.

A pharmacist by training, Davidson went on to grow his pharmacy and drug store business to three stores in Sarasota and Siesta Key and also publish the weekly Pelican Press.

For the first 20 years of its existence, the Pelican Press primarily served Siesta Key. But over the past two decades, the Pelican broadened its coverage and focused much of its editorial coverage on Sarasota city and county governments and downtown Sarasota. Today, the Pelican has a staff of approximately 10 and an office on Siesta Key. Like the Pelican Press, The Observer Group also has deep local roots: Longboat Key residents Ralph and Claire Hunter founded its flagship paper, the Long-

boat Observer, in 1978. They sold the weekly newspaper in 1995 to current owners Matt and Lisa Walsh. Today, the company has more than 80 employees and publishes the Longboat Observer, Sarasota Observer, East County Observer and Gulf Coast Business Review. The company also owns and publishes the Palm Coast Observer, on the east coast of Florida. With the acquisition of the Pelican Press and its sister shopper, The Observer Group increases the number of newspapers the company publishes to seven.

No immediate changes to the Pelican have been announced, although staffs will work to determine market needs in the near future.

Altogether, The Observer Group newspapers, including the Pelican Press and Pelican Press Marketplace, will distribute 124,500 newspapers a week.

“We’re thrilled to become the next stewards of the Pelican,” said Matt Walsh, CEO of The Observer Group Inc. “Although we have been direct competitors for the past seven years in Sarasota and on Siesta Key, the Pelican is a great fit for our company.

We focus on the same thing — helping local businesses with their advertising and providing the Sarasota market with hyper-local community news and information.

“We’re excited about joining our two staffs into a common mission and publishing great newspapers and websites,” Walsh said.

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CAMERAS / FROM PAGE 1A eras.

The parking garage has 18 cameras trained on its six parking decks. One camera is perched at Selby Five Points Park. One keeps watch over North Trail at Myrtle Street and U.S. 41. Two cameras monitor the activity in Payne Park, and 23 cameras are mounted at the Housing Authorities’ various public-housing projects, such as Janie’s Garden and McCown Towers.

Fredd “Glossie” Atkins Park may soon replace its 11 obsolete cameras. Two of the hightech cameras will now be able to do the job of those 11 older devices.

The soon-to-open Robert L. Taylor Community Center will also have its own camera system, which will tie in to the police department’s command center but will also have its own on site.

Officers on the night shift are increasingly visiting the command center, said Karr, because the nights can be slow. Those officers will monitor several of the cameras to see if they can catch any illegal activity in action.

So far, between the city and the housing authority, more than $500,000 has been spent on the wireless-camera system.

Karr said the next step is getting large residential alarm companies to forward video footage to the police department if there’s a crime in progress.

And, although it would not be recorded, he also foresees video from an automated traffic system, which monitors Sarasota’s

How THE CAMERAS WORK On one wall inside the first-floor command center are four 42-inch Vizio flatscreen televisions.

Each TV has the capability of displaying the image of one camera inside a fullsize screen or dividing up the screen into 16 small boxes, each one displaying the image from a separate camera.

A desk sits about 5 feet away from the monitor wall with a computer display, mouse and two joysticks, which control pan, tilt and zoom.

A double-click of the mouse transfers one of the 43 camera images to the computer display and allows the use of the joystick to control movement.

The cameras have a long visual range. They can make out a face or license plate number from up to four blocks away.

For example, the camera at Selby Five Points Park can shoot an image clear enough to identify people dining outside at Main Street and Lemon Avenue. roadways, to be fed into police headquarters. “(The camera system) will become more and more important as we move forward,” said Karr.

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by Robin Roy | City Editor

Ringling roundabouts take shape

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by Robin Roy | City Editor

One lane of traffic will remain open on Ringling Boulevard during construction of two roundabouts.

Construction on two Ringling Boulevard roundabouts will have to occur during tourist season if the city wants to avoid completely paying for them itself.

State funding is directly tied to the timeframe in which the roundabouts are constructed.

The city will be ready in two weeks to accept contractor bids for the roundabout at Palm Avenue.

To receive Florida Department of Transportation funding for that project, work needs to begin this summer.

It’s estimated it will cost $727,720 to build that roundabout.

The Pineapple Avenue roundabout will be ready to go to bid next month. Its estimated cost is $621,078.

City staff is now angling to do both projects simultaneously and is trying to get citizen support for that.

“Doing them together (could) minimize impact,” said Neil Gaines, the city’s manager of capital-improvement projects.

Although both projects will have separate bidders, Gaines hopes the same contractor will be the low bidder on both to simplify the construction process.

Because of the FDOT requirement that the Palm Avenue roundabout funds be spent immediately, the six-

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The strip of 12 individual newspaper and magazine boxes at Ocean Boulevard and Calle Miramar would be replaced by two homogenous green boxes to hold all of those publications.

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Landscaped bulbouts will separate angled parking spaces on Ringling Boulevard from the Palm Avenue roundabout. month construction process will bleed into tourist season.

However, Gaines believes the impact will not be as great as some residents fear, because one lane of traffic on Ringling Boulevard will remain open, except for an occasional transition day.

“The fire department requires one lane open for access to the high-rise condos with ladder trucks,” he said.

The projects will turn Ring-

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ling Boulevard into a two-lane road from Orange Avenue to Gulfstream Boulevard. It’s currently four lanes in that section.

The center of each roundabout will be landscaped with Florida-friendly plants and trees and so will the medians leading into the roundabouts.

The city presented the projects to the Downtown Sarasota Alliance last week to get its support for simultaneous con-

struction.

“As long as residents have the opportunity to move up and down Main Street, we might as well bite the bullet,” said Mary Anne Servian, DSA vice chairwoman.

The DSA board gave its consent and had some high praise for the projects.

Said Forrest Shaw, DSA board member: “I think these are fantastic changes and are a welcome change to Ringling.”

by Robin Roy | City Editor

Historians uncover hidden tribute The Mable Ringling Memorial Fountain, in Lukewood Park, was covered after World War II. John and Mable Ringling are well-memorialized in Sarasota. Ringling Bridge, Ringling Causeway and Ringling College of Art and Design are some of the best-known examples.

But one memorial to Mable Ringling has been hidden for the better part of seven decades.

The Mable Ringling Memorial Fountain was a beautiful landmark in Lukewood Park, which is on both sides of the U.S. 41/U.S. 301 split. The fountain is on the north side, near Senior Friendship Centers.

It was covered after World War II, but a group of local historians is seeking to revive the fountain.

“So much of Ringling history has been torn down, such as the Ringling Hotel,” said Ron McCarty, curator of the Ringling mansion, Cà d’Zan. “Doing this project is a lovely way to thank the Ringlings.”

After John Ringling’s wife, Mable, died in 1929, the fountain was conceived in honor her.

It opened on Arbor Day 1936 and became a place where many Sarasota residents planted trees and shrubs to honor their late loved ones.

But during World War II, funding dried up, because so much money was going to the war effort.

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The Mable Ringling Memorial Fountain opened on Arbor Day 1936 at Lukewood Park. could no longer maintain the fountain, and it was covered.

Larry Kelleher, owner of the online history resource Sarasota History Alive, is leading the charge to renovate the fountain.

“We’re not asking for any money from the city,” he said.

Renovation and ongoing maintenance is expected to cost $111,000, which will be paid through donations. An endowment would fund ongoing maintenance.

“It truly would beautify the area,” said McCarty.

This year marks the 100th year since the Ringlings moved to Sarasota.

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Brick staircases are all that is visible today of the Mable Ringling Memorial Fountain.

Siesta Key to transform newspaper boxes The mix of newspaper racks on Siesta will be replaced by uniform racks, which Key leaders hope will make the Village more attractive.

The Siesta Key Village Association has been working for a year to clean up what it considers an eyesore — the clusters of differently sized and differently colored newspaper and magazine boxes.

“They’ve become real tacky,” said association President Russell Matthes.

Soon to be installed along Ocean Boulevard will be modular units, dark green in color and homogenous, much like those downtown on Main Street.

With all the money that’s been put into the Village to improve its appearance, said Matthes, it’s time for the newsracks to also show some improvement.

“The whole objective is to get rid of ugly newsracks,” he said.

Later this month, the Sarasota County Commission will consider a change to the zoning code in the Village that would prohibit an individual publication box to be within 500 feet of a modular unit, essentially forcing out the individual boxes.

Matthes had pushed for a 1,000foot barrier, but the county was afraid that restricted too much the publications’ constitutional right to disseminate the news.

The modular boxes will be capable of carrying up to 16 publications in each location.

The first area to see the new units will be Ocean Boulevard and Calle Miramar, where a cluster of 12 publication boxes now stands.

According to Matthes, a second, future location will be near the SunTrust Bank at the north end of the Village.

If Matthes received the 1,000-foot barrier that he sought, those two locations would have prevented any individual newspaper boxes from being placed anywhere in the Village.

The 500-foot barrier will prohibit individual boxes from Calle Miramar north to the 7-Eleven store, and from the SunTrust Bank south to the Davidson Shopping Center.

The cost per location is about $4,800, and the participating publications will be responsible for funding them, as well as their maintenance.

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+ Red-light cameras to soon appear Red-light cameras will soon be installed at up to 11 of the city’s most dangerous intersections.

City commissioners approved a contract with a company to place the cameras at those intersections for the payment of $4,750 per month, per camera approach, which is one direction of travel at an intersection.

Police say cameras will make roads safer, and the city is counting on about $400,000 in revenue the first year to help balance the budget.

Offenders will receive $158 tickets.

The following intersections are being recommended.

• Fruitville Road and Beneva Road • Fruitville Road and U.S. 301 • Fruitville Road and Tuttle Avenue • Fruitville Road and Lockwood Ridge Road • South Tamiami Trail and Bee Ridge Road • South Tamiami Trail and Siesta Drive • South Tamiami Trail and Waldemere Street

Commission chambers June 6 to protest the overhaul of their pension program.

Nearly three-dozen members of the Teamsters Local 173, which represents many of the city’s employees, held signs that read: “We’re Teamsters and we vote” and “Stop the war on workers.”

Last month, the city declared an impasse in its negotiations with union representatives.

For the first time in Sarasota’s history, City Hall’s pension obligations will cost more than the total tax revenue the city collects.

City leaders have been warning for more than a year that something has to give.

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The most read stories online last week were: 1. Army officer chases down bank robber (June 2) 2. Woman dies in morning crash (May 31) 3. Photo gallery: Sarasota Memorial Day Parade (May 30) 4. Photo gallery: Pet therapy at SMH (June 1) 5. Off the beaten track (June 1)

• South Tamiami Trail and Bahia Vista Street • Tuttle Avenue and Bahia Vista Street • U.S. 301 and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way • North Tamiami Trail and University Parkway

+ Hoffman declines county administrator job Maj. Kurt Hoffman, of the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, is turning down the job that he accepted two weeks ago.

Hoffman was asked to replace, on an interim basis, County Administrator Jim Ley, who resigned amid a scandal.

He has since learned accepting the job would likely reduce his retirement benefits.

+ Union teamsters plead to keep pensions Union members packed the City

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 County Commission budget workshop — 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 14, County Administration Center, 1660 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota  Downtown Improvement District — 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 14, City Hall, 1565 First St., Sarasota  Rosemary District Association — 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 14, Fifth Street Fire Station, Sarasota  County Commission budget workshop — 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 15, County Administration Center, 1660 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota  City Commission workshop — 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 15, City Hall, 1565 First St., Sarasota

Awaiting a final ruling on that would take more time, so realizing the county’s urgency in filling that position, Hoffman turned down the job.

The County Commission has not named a replacement candidate.

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opinion | our view

Jackson demise for the best Contrary to prevailing establishment opinion, Sarasota County did not “lose out” on the Jackson Laboratory deal.

The state and the county were able to save money for a much better deal, or series of deals — if public financial incentives to private entities is how officials insist on spending taxpayer dollars. We prefer an open-door business climate to all comers and existing businesses, where the welcome sign is hung out through low taxes, modest regulations and a minimum bureaucracy in place to help businesses succeed.

Late last week, the Maine-based biotech nonprofit and pulled its request for $100 million after being asked to submit a much smaller request. Sarasota County Commissioner Joe Barbetta said: “Hopefully it doesn’t send the message to companies looking to come to Florida that the state is not open for business.”

Au contraire, Commissioner. Hopefully the message being sent is that the state is open to all businesses, but that it is not open to massive handouts to private non-profits that only hold out a cross-fingered hope of big returns. Roulette wheel-spinning is not the formula for invigorating or diversifying our economy.

The Jackson deal was always a shockingly expensive, extremely high risk venture for government. Jackson wanted about $100 million from the state and $100 million from the county.

For that, it promised to create a grand total of 432 jobs — over 20 years. A mere 100 jobs would come in the first five years. All the rest

of the big numbers tossed about in connection with the deal — 1,800 to 3,000 jobs and $550 million in economic impact — came from the hoped-for spinoffs that would result from the lab’s work.

Let’s be honest. Those numbers are better suited to Las Vegas than Wall Street, and certainly not Sarasota and Florida taxpayers.

In fact, Collier County thought the same thing when it balked at coming up with $130 million, along with $130 million in state money, for the same Jackson deal just last year. The non-profit says that it has had talks with Texas and Utah. Good luck getting anyone to fork over that kind of money for such meager returns in this economic environment.

Florida’s previous attempts at building massive biotech hubs have shown pretty modest returns so far, nothing to suggest that such rose-colored numbers are a viable expectation for Sarasota.

And, it is instructive how quickly the Maine non-profit jilted the Gulf Coast Community Foundation, which had worked tirelessly to get Jackson here and was willing to offer foundation land. President Teri Hansen, who had worked hard to bring Jackson to Sarasota, said she was taken by surprise at Jackson’s abrupt exit, and did not expect it to end that way.

All for the best. Jackson could not promise much for the amount they asked, and when the chips fell, they didn’t appear too loyal or grateful to their friends.

The demise of the deal may yet prove providential for Sarasota and Florida, as

better opportunities will come. Now if only leaders would just stop picking winners and losers with our money.

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At first blush, it can appear that Sarasota County’s decision to sell advertising space in public parks is just good stewardship — get some return on taxpayer investment.

But like so many things the government gets involved in, there is a price being paid beyond the surface.

There is a finite world of marketing dollars that businesses can spend to advertise their wares and services. The dollars are spread between multiple mediums and outlets, from newspapers and television to Web sites and billboards. But those are all private venues.

When the government starts offering something already being done in the private sector — in this case, providing advertising space — it is literally taking business away from taxpaying private businesses. Any dollars spent with the county to advertise are dollars not spent with private advertising companies such as The Observers, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, WWSB-TV, WLSS radio and so on.

Getting advertisers is highly competitive and a lot of work. Sarasota County just made it that much harder for dozens of taxpaying entities. No taxed companies should have to compete with tax-supported government for their livelihood — a principle violated almost daily.

The county should stop the advertising.

my VIEW | immigration

Needed: immigration principles Immigration reform died in the Legislature last month. What is so difficult about making everyone play by the same rules?

The Legislature defeated a simple immigration enforcement bill in May that was hardly comprehensive, revealing a fatal weakness of principle and reality on the part of many Republicans in the Legislature.

The bill would have used the federal government’s E-Verify to ensure the legal status of any candidate for state employment. A fine would have been levied on employers found to have hired an illegal alien. And the legal status of anyone arrested by law enforcement would be checked.

ROD The original idea was to have an Arizona-style THOMSON law making it a crime for someone here illegally to work, penalize employers who hire them and make local authorities turn them over to the feds — not that the feds would do anything with them. These are nothing more radical than steps to enforce the federal immigration laws that a Congress passed but, captivated by special interests, won’t enforce.

The Florida immigration bill that was defeated was significantly weaker than the Arizona law.

Georgia, however, passed a law similar to Arizona’s during its legislative session, and it is a bit mysterious that a Florida Legislature dominated by Republican senators who supposedly believe in the rule of law voted it down by a substantial margin.

The bill’s rules were completely reasonable for making sure that people are not here illegally, having broken into the country and taking jobs without paying payroll taxes. Unfortunately, the Senate debate devolved into an emotional game with contestants trying to outdo each other in how deeply they feel about the importance of “our nation’s roots in immigration.”

Oh for Pete’s sake. How many times does this canard have to be corrected? Those roots are in legal immigration. That whole Ellis Island thing? They were coming from Ireland, Germany, Poland and so on…legally.

Legal. Illegal. Different. Opposites. Got it?

A Palm Beach protestor in Tallahassee during the session, identified by the St. Petersburg Times as Saul Lopez, said, “This bill threatens our rights.” By enforcing federal law? Neither Lopez nor anyone else has any “rights” to be in this country illegally. If he is here legally, then nothing is threatened.

But if he is here illegally, he is not the same as others who have been waiting to immigrate legally, instead of hopping the border in the dead of night. He is not the type of immigrant on which the country was built, because he is here illegally, unlawfully, criminally. He has no rights on this issue. U.S. citizens have the rights, in cases such as these, primarily to rid the country of lawbreakers.

There are two simple prongs at work here.

One is in principle. One is in reality.

First, principle. People sneaking into our country without applying and following the rules is like being in a long grocery line at the checkout counter. You’re waiting patiently with others when a guy takes cuts at the very front, pushing his way into first spot at the counter and gets his groceries without waiting. Oh, and he does not have to pay taxes on his purchases — illegal aliens generally do not pay federal income, Social Security or Medicare taxes. But you, following the rules, wait in line and when your turn finally comes, you have to pay taxes, too.

That’s the principle. It’s wrong to take cuts.

How hard is this to understand?

And then there is the reality. We need to know who is in our state and in our country.

As it is now, Osama bin Laden could have come in across the Mexican border, and we probably would not have known it. Maybe he could have hidden better picking Florida tomatoes then hiding in Pakistan.

Immigration reform protest in Tallahassee last month. Note use of “anti-immigrant” when the issue is “illegal immigrant,” and the used of children.

We are completely in favor of letting in Hispanics and any others from any countries as long as they follow the rules.

But another canard is that wanting those rules followed is racist. As usual, more nonsense. Let them in, as long as they follow the rules and a good percentage arriving come with an education. Please, come and add your value to the melting pot of America.

Our domestic birthrate shows the importance of immigration for us. But we are deluded if we think we can take all of those who cannot make it in their Third-World countries. We can take a few, if we take those who can contribute more, too, and require everyone to learn English and our history. It’s our nation’s history, and if they want to be part of this nation, they should know it.

Right now, we don’t do any of that, and we are poorer, deeper in debt and more vulnerable for it.

This reform needs to happen next year.

It should not be hard. Gov. Rick Scott is on board with an Arizona-style law. The Republicans running the Legislature need to get their act together and stop kowtowing to a damaging and short-sighted alliance of agribusiness interests and open-borders liberals.

As Scott said after the session, there is always next year.

As long as the Legislature does not become the Chicago Cubs on the issue of “next year.”

Rod Thomson is editorial pages editor of the Observers and can be reached at rthomson@yourobserver.com.

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Rod Hartwick’s love of horses began at a young age when his father “got the bug” for racing, and the family began buying horses and traveling around to various racetracks in Michigan and Ohio. Although his home was in Berkley, Mich., Hartwick was rarely there.

“We were gone all the time, like gypsies,” he said.

On June 29, 1945, just after turning 13, Hartwick, a jockey, won his first race. By the end of his first year he had won 155 races and was the leading apprentice rider in America. But Hartwick was technically too young to ride — the legal age was 16.

“I said I was 16 every year,” Hartwick laughs.

Although Hartwick rode many of his family’s horses, he rode for other horse trainers, as well, including Lucien Laurin, best known for being the horse trainer to Secretariat, who Hartwick later treated.

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In 1959, Hartwick graduated from veterinary school and made his way back to the racetracks.

“I was trying to get clients and was running around like an idiot,” recalls Hartwick, “but after a year or so, you build up a clientele and you become their veterinarian. There were certain stables where I did all their work forever.”

In 1992, Hartwick retired from his veterinary practice.

“I decided I wasn’t going to die on the racetrack,” he says.

Hartwick’s living a lifetime on the racetrack normal.

“It was a normal process of being raised on the racetrack,” he says. “Being a vet was a logical thing, and how neat to be able to work on the racetrack and make a darn good living — it was fun! Being involved in racing — I loved it.”

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On Secretariat: “I flew into Belmont Park to operate on a horse, and Lucien (Laurin) was there, and he said, ‘I got to show you something,’ and he brings out this big chestnut horse that was only 2 years old. He said, ‘This horse is going to be the best horse in America.’ This was before Secretariat had even run a race. I got to treat him a few times while I was up there.

Later, I treated Secretariat when Lucien brought him to Chicago to run in one of the big stakes. He had already won the Triple Crown. He just had a personality of his own and was a magnificent beast.”

On the CO2 laser: Hartwick helped develop the CO2 laser, a light that acts like a knife and is used in procedures such as de-clawing cats. “I would use the laser to make an incision, and it would save time and it was a more humane way.

There was no swelling and no pain. Cats would start jumping around right away and didn’t even realize what had happened to them.”

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Dear Editor: May we please stop the lunacy of killing our downtown shop owners and restaurants? There are many parking spaces now that match the cries for help by merchants trying to survive this economy and off-season.

Our new mayor (check the tapes of the City Commission public meetings on all) has stated that paid parking was inevitable. Oh, really — where?

Our city manager for months claimed that meters were not an economic move but one for vibrancy. This is a word that a paid consultant gave the previous commission to use after they determined that meters were needed. These people were meter experts — what did you expect?

Our city manager then said meters were an economic need — he must have (excuse me Roger Clemens) “misremembered” that he said the opposite, until that moment.

Ask any store owner today if they want meters. The City Commission keeps saying that there are plenty of free spaces in the new garage. This garage will start charging for parking in October.

The timing of this is also idiotic. You start this now, when the snowbirds are gone, and place the burden on the residents? The timing, even if it were a good move, is ridiculous.

The City Commission claims that the store owners and employees were the ones taking up the free parking spaces.

Did these people ever own a retail business? Sounds like another catch phrase put into their heads by consultants.

The deficit from the previous system was the inability to collect fines from visitors. They should have fixed that problem and the $500,000 deficit rather than spending close to $600,000 on meters. Dumb and dumber.

The parking meters installed in major cities such as New York and Chicago were installed to keep cars out. They are there to promote the use of rapid transit, which we do not have. Even if this were a logical idea, many of these meters would never even pay for even their own cost, based on their illogical locations.

Lastly, those who do not live near downtown will no longer drive there to shop or eat. Gasoline, time and now … meters? No expendable income past food, rent, clothing, gas, unemployment at record numbers, and you want to tax our residents in these conditions?

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Midnight — 1800 block of Bayonne Street. Disturbance. A mother has refused to allow her daughter’s boyfriend into the house. On the above date, the mom suspected the boyfriend was in the house again and searched for him. She found him hiding in her daughter’s bedroom closet. Mom asked police to give him a trespassing warning from her home. Officers complied.

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Cardinal Mooney’s graduating class received more than $4.5 million in academic scholarships. The majority of students have received Florida Bright Futures Scholarships, which represent nearly $1 million in tuition funding.

Scratch that 12:47 p.m. — 1700 block of South Tamiami Trail. Criminal Mischief. A man and a woman were in separate cars and waiting for the same restaurant parking spot to become available. He had been waiting longer and entered the spot. The woman yelled something at him and searched for a different spot. When the woman found a parking space, the man was inside the restaurant. He watched her walk out of her way to walk next to his car before she entered the restaurant.

The man said he didn’t think anything of her detour, and he opened the restaurant door for the woman. It wasn’t until he went back outside that he noticed a long scratch on his car, and he remembered that the woman had keys in her hand when she walked by his car. He called police, and officers questioned the woman. She denied keying his car, and there was no physical evidence to back up the

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Rocks in her head 6:31 p.m. — South Tamiami Trail and Webber Street. Reckless Driving. An officer in his police car saw a woman drive up on a sidewalk to avoid two cars stopped at an intersection. She almost hit a small child, who was on the sidewalk at the time. The woman continued on and was driving erratically. The officer turned on his emergency lights and siren and began to follow her. She would not pull over and nearly caused another accident before speeding into a crowded coffee-shop parking lot and locking up her brakes.

The officer caught up with her and found a prescription bottle on her lap. Inside the bottle were several rocks of crack cocaine.

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Giannini was the student government president during her senior year, a member of the National Honor Society and on the varsity basketball team. She will attend the University of Central Florida this fall.

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Kathryn Price, of Sarasota, sold her home at 3715 Kingston Blvd. to Agustin Bernal and Susan Drake, of Hartford, Conn., for $273,000. Built in 1986, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,489 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $380,000 in 2004.

Bruce and Nelly Camardo sold their home at 3889 Kingston Blvd. to Vincent Corsi, of Sarasota, for $230,000. Built in 1982, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,989 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $177,900 in 2000.

Richard and Phyllis Arno, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 1404 condominium at 888 Blvd. of the Arts to Alfred and Cristina Thieme, of Falls Church, Va., for $450,000.

Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,729 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $225,000 in 1996.

Robert and Marie Sherman, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2119 Lusitania Drive to David Vondra and Kristine Zamastil, of Sarasota, for $320,000. Built in 1957, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 1,885 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $615,000 in 2005.

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Carolyn Picket, trustee, sold the Unit 113 condominium at 835 S. Osprey Ave. to Dieter Havlicek, trustee, for $267,000.

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It previously sold for $103,600 in 1997.

Marcie McGuire sold the Unit 112 condominium at 835 S. Osprey Ave. to Monique Joannette, of Sarasota, for $243,000.

Built in 1985, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,260 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $171,500 in 2001.

Todd Fenton, of Farmington Hills, Mich., sold his Unit 407 condominium at 825 S. Osprey Ave. to Rudolf and Rose Bartels, of Prior Lake, Minn., for $200,000.

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Sarasota Bay Club LLC sold the Unit 826 condominium at 1299 Tamiami Trial to D. Robert and Inge Gould, of Sarasota, for $675,000. Built in 2003, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,524 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $536,000 in 2003.

Sarasota Bay Club LLC sold the Unit 1004 condominium at 1301 Tamiami Trial to Barbara Blumfield, of Sarasota, for $625,000. Built in 2000, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,424 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $453,000 in 2000.

sold their home at 1867 Riviera Circle to David Ivey Jr. and Trisha Johnson-Ivey, of Sarasota, for $275,000. Built in 1973, it has five bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,728 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $155,000 in 1988.

Robert and Florence Lohr sold their home at 2134 Mietaw Drive to Ethan and Adriana Weisman, of Bethesda, Md., for $280,000. Built in 1925, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 950 square feet of living area.

Sydney Blair, trustee, and Luis Garcia, of Suches, Ga., sold the home at 1755 Cunliff Lane to Norma Funk, of Sarasota, for $250,000. Built in 1943, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 1,052 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $70,000 in 1987.

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Harold and Kathleen Kendall, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3012 Hyde Park St. to Dianna Grancagnolo, of Sayville, N.Y., for $239,000. Built in 1972, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 1,953 square feet of living area.

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James and L. Ann Golm, of Sarasota, sold their Unit WP-2 condominium at 1308 Old Stickney Point Road to Michael Steck, trustee, for $1.2 million. Built in 2002, it has three bedrooms, three-and-ahalf baths and 3,445 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.78 million in 2005.

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William Burton, trustee, sold the Unit 802 condominium at 5880 Midnight Pass Road to RSJ Capital LLC for $585,000.

Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,498 square feet of living area.

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Hamilton Club

Revised Siesta

Siesta Dunes Beach

Harbor Towers Yacht and Racquet Club

Gary and Tina Johns, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 16 condominium at 3978 Hamilton Club Circle to James and Debra Warden, of Clifton Park, N.Y., for $565,000.

Built in 1997, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,798 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $875,000 in 2006.

Stephen and Gwenda Kroeger, of Loveland, Ohio, sold their Unit 108 condominium at 6234 Midnight Pass Road to Siesta Dunes LLC for $500,000. Built in 1979, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,150 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $700,000 in 2002.

Stephen and Gwenda Kroeger sold their Unit 202 condominium at 6204 Midnight Pass Road to Marco Drudi and Marilena Sebastiano, trustees, for $375,000. Built in 1979, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,170 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $250,000 in 1999.

Crystal Sands

Milton and Florence Johnson, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 15 condominium at 6300 Midnight Pass Road to Scott Barker, of Carmel, Ind., for $355,000. Built in 1969, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,261 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $725,000 in 2006.

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Wells Fargo Bank, NA, sold the home at 1033 Shadow Lawn Way to Jason and Jennifer Smith, of Sarasota, for $305,000.

Built in 1960, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,103 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $388,900 in January.

Crescent Royale

John and Beth Schmidt, of Trenton, N.J., sold their Unit 103 condominium at 797 Beach Road to William and Anna Pereira, of Toronto, Canada, for $300,000. Built in 1970, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,122 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $165,000 in 1995.

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J. Thomas Nay, of Sarasota, sold his home at 3750 La Paloma Ave. to Charles and Beate Langsdorf, of San Jose, Calif., for $280,000. Built in 1962, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,246 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $201,700 in 1998.

David and Debra Heist, of Northville, Mich., sold their Unit 226 condominium at 5855 Midnight Pass Road to Steven Baker and Susan Mohr-Baker, trustees, for $270,000. Built in 1976, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,056 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $100,000 in 2007.

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Robert Hitchcock, of McKinney, Texas, and Rosaura Baez, of Miami, sold their home at 8982 Bloomfield Blvd. to Scott and Ann Sensenbrenner, of Osprey, for $615,000. Built in 2004, it has five bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,979 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $810,000 in 2004.

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Connie Wickens, of Okemos, Mich., sold her home at 5609 Kosteli Place to John Gaudiano, of Sarasota, for $400,000.

Built in 2003, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,521 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $550,000 in 2006.

Beverly Fertig, trustee, sold the home at 7804 Andora Drive to Eric and Jodi Dalton, of Morgantown, W.Va., for $229,000.

Built in 2004, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 1,845 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $212,000 in 2004.

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TOP BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest city of Sarasota, Sarasota County and Siesta Key building permits issued by Sarasota County and city of Sarasota for the week of May 23 through May 27, in order of dollar amounts.

CITY OF SARASOTA Address

Permit

888 Blvd. of the Arts 2299 Hillview St. 3907 Bay Shore Road 1607 Flower Drive 1590 Gulfview Drive 1845 Jasmine Drive 2353 Burton Lane 1870 Jasmine Drive 975 S. Osprey Ave.

Alerations Jane Gottlieb Pool Deanna De Paoli Renovations Barbara Cherry Remodel Stephen Buckley Re-roof Kerry Kirschner Remodel Amy Kremer Re-roof Laura Sperling Remodel Virginia Miller Alterations Jeffrey De Jongh

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Amount $56,000 $43,250 $28,000 $25,560 $24,075 $16,000 $13,500 $12,000 $12,000

SARASOTA COUNTY Address

Permit

1225 Quail Drive 417 Casey Key Road 2125 Calusa Lakes Blvd.

1110 Delacroix Circle 1415 Seafarer Drive 5174 Cote Du Rhone Way 3305 Sheffield Circle 585 Eagle Watch Lane 406 Cezanne Drive

Alterations C.A. Cooper Addition William Backer Pool/Deck James Vogt Re-roof Nicholas Karras Addition Kenneth Zawacki Lanai Natalie Sessa Re-roof Harry Baker Jr. Mechanical Robert Buckley Re-roof Justin Jordan

Applicant

Amount $66,550 $50,000 $40,000 $28,750 $22,610 $20,000 $16,655 $12,378 $12,000

SIESTA KEY Permit

1087 W. Peppertree Drive 3960 Somerset Drive 6550 Sabal Drive 9011 Midnight Pass Road 131 Whispering Sands Circle 5880 Midnight Pass Road 508 Siesta Drive 19 Whispering Sands Drive 722 Siesta Drive

Remodel Kenneth MacDonald Remodel Michael Newman Pool/Deck Brian Follese Renovations William Dodge Windows/Doors Irving Pollack Windows/Doors Hariett Vanwagoner Water Heater Eva Morris, trustee Alterations Marilyn Manzer Mechanical John Proctor

Applicant

Amount $130,593 $49,975 $30,500 $20,965 $20,819 $12,588 $10,995 $8,000 $6,080

Source: Sarasota County; city of Sarasota

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GREATER SARASOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

SMALL BUSINESS AWARDS { SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR } Sarasota’s 1st Choice Industries may not be a household name, but its clients certainly are — The Home Depot, Starbucks, Denny’s and Circle K, just to name a few.

The multifaceted AT A GLANCE company was founded in 1983 in New Address: 1941 Jersey, but moved its Whitfield Park headquarters in 2006 Loop, Sarasota to its current location Start date: on Whitfield Park 2006 Loop. The company Number of has grown steadily employees: 48 ever since — even in the midst of a recession.

Its CEO, Gary Simone, credits his company’s simple business philosophy for that success.

“Surround yourself with good people and good things happen,” he said. “No matter what you are doing, you must always make a difference and be a partner to your clients.”

1st Choice offers construction services for the restaurant, retail, hospitality, medical and banking industries. But it also provides facility-management, interior-design and business-solutions services.

Building for the restaurant-and-retail industry did not offer the steadiest work in the faltering economy, but 1st Choice Industries made the best of the situation.

“We adjusted to our customers’ needs,” said Wayne Jones, the company’s business-development specialist. “Find-

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Thursday, June 2, at the Hyatt Regency Sarasota

Les McCurdy was the emcee for the 2011 Small Business of the Year Awards.

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Gary Simone, CEO of 1st Choice Industries, gives his acceptance speech Thursday, June 2, at the Hyatt Regency. ing out what our clients’ challenges were and working within their budgets.”

Simone believes that fostering good relationships with customers and em-

ployees is the best way to do business.

“Take care of the people who take care of you,” he said.

— Robin Roy

Bob Summers presents the “Technology and Innovation” award to Jeffrey Nelson, CEO of Axiom.

{ YOUNG BUSINESS OF THE YEAR }

Polo Grill / Fête Ballroom Tommy and Jaymie Klauber were spearheading a 55-person trip through Asia when they signed (in the middle of the ocean) the 70-page lease on their new restaurant location.

The couple AT A GLANCE had spent 18 months creatAddress: ing the ultimate 10670 Asian excursion Boardwalk Loop, for the members Lakewood Ranch of their ConStart date: noisseur Club Nov. 1, 2007 — a 10-year-old Number of dining program employees: 35 that incorporates to 50 wine tastings, cooking classes, interactive dinners and culinary excursions — and weren’t about to cancel the opportunity when the lease was only at a verbal agreement.

“We were trying to take people on a once-in-a-lifetime tour to taste noodles,” said Tommy Klauber, owner of Polo Grill and Bar and Fête Ballroom, in Lakewood Ranch. “We sent the lease back and forth with the Internet taking an hour to get each document downloaded.”

Near the end of the trip, the Klaubers announced their new endeavor to everyone aboard the ship. When they returned home Oct. 24, 2007, they were one week shy of taking over the

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lease and had yet to name the place that they’d spent seven years trying to find.

“We wanted to expand our catering and could not find a venue that had what this venue offered us,” Tommy Klauber said. “The ballroom was critical in our decision. Lakewood Ranch is really attractive in a business-climate sense, and in growing residential, and we knew this was the type of facility we’d need to grow.”

Jaymie Klauber wanted the Polo Grill and Fête Ballroom to become that place for every occasion and holiday.

“We’re hospitality people, so we love making people happy,” she said. “I love nothing more than seeing people dining, smiling, laughing, enjoying and consuming. All I want them to do is have fun.”

With three years in the hopper, Tommy Klauber is excited to be recognized as a young business in the community.

“I feel like we’ve built a great venue — a place where people love to come and that’s part of the community,” Tommy Klauber said. “Being nominated as Young Business of the Year is a celebration about the people who started with us, the people who’ve joined us and our customers.”

— Loren Mayo

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Jaymie and Tommy Klauber officially signed the lease on their Polo Grill and Bar restaurant during a 55-person trip through Asia.

Pam Truitt, with Truitt Consulting, and Susie Bowie, with the Community Foundation of Sarasota County

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{ THINK GREEN }

MY GREEN BUILDINGS, LLC Steve Ellis grew up in Boston as the son of a prominent developer. He loved going to visit his dad on job sites and seeing how his father changed an old piano factory into the first conAT A GLANCE dominiums in the area. It is no wonder that Ellis grew Address: 205 up with a fascinaN. Orange Ave., tion with wanting Suite 1 SE, to improve upon Sarasota things that had Start potential to be date: 2006 something more.

Number of In 2006, Ellis beemployees gan working on a when started: house he owned Two and asked for Number of help from Grant Rachel S. O’Hara employees Castilow, now his Steve Ellis, co-founder of My Green now: 10 business partner Buildings LLC, says the company “pracat My Green Build- tices what it preaches.” ings LLC. As the two worked together on building Ellis’ house, they tried to make it as high-performing and green as they anthropic work, including the Warren knew how. Once the house was finished, Back Pack Program, as well as sponsoring it became the first green home certified foundations such as the Sarasota Conunder the Green Coalition in Florida and servation Foundation and the Humane the second-highest scoring home in the Society. state. The two realized that they had hit Ellis has been inducted into the Ecoon an emerging trend. nomical Development Corporation of Since then, My Green Buildings LLC Sarasota Hall of Fame as Entrepreneur of has added eight more full-time employ- the Year, and he and his company have reees and moved into its second office ceived many other philanthropic honors. space. The entire staff incorporates green But Ellis is not ready to settle for what into everything they do from recycling at he has already accomplished. the office, using more efficient lighting, “We are poised for growth,” said Ellis. painting the walls with zero VOC paint “We have staff that would allow us to take and buying all their furniture used. on a lot more work, and we have develWhen the team is on a job site, it makes oped systems and processes that allow us sure to achieve certain LEED levels and to take on jobs of almost any size and be build buildings in efficient ways that pro- successful at them without having to do duce the least amount of waste possible. rapid ramp up of hiring. We have built a “We practice what we preach,” he says. really good team.”

The company also participates in phil— Rachel S. O’Hara

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{ TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION }

Anexio Anexio, which provides IT support, business consulting and technology infrastructure services to clients locally, nationally and internationally, doesn’t focus on the technology when meetAT A GLANCE aspect ing with new clients.

Address: 40 Instead, Anexio N. Osprey Ave., first understands Sarasota each business and Start date: its specific needs so Company foundthat it can target its ed in April 1996; services to each cliCEO Jeffrey ent.

Nelson came on It’s that apboard in 2002 proach, an “alignNumber of ing technology” apemployees proach, that Anexio when started: CEO Jeffrey Nelson Two says sets his comNumber of pany apart from employees other technology now: 19 companies.

“We want to use technology to help solve their (clients’) problems,” says Nelson. “We want to understand what the business is about and take the business focus and align it with technology.”

Another way Anexio stands out among its competitors is that nothing is outsourced. Anexio, headquartered in Sarasota, has a fully staffed service desk and local network operations center. It offers assistance in IT services, on-site support services, server technologies, telecommunications systems, technology consulting services and more.

IT is Anexio’s primary service, and the company was the first company globally to become a Certified Green IT provider awarded from the Managed Services Provider Alliance.

Anexio helps its clients employ green

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Jeffrey Nelson, CEO of Anexio, says the company focuses on sharing technology trends with its clients.

IT practices, such as scanning documents electronically instead of printing them, reducing energy consumption throughout the office and installing energy-smart PCs. Part of Anexio’s job, of course, is to stay on top of the latest technology trends, but Anexio goes one step further and makes sure to help its clients understand how they can utilize the latest technology practices in their businesses.

“A lot of our job is educating the companies and clients on trends and making it user-friendly,” Nelson said.

One way Anexio reaches its clients is through Anexio’s blog on its website.

Nelson says receiving phone calls from clients thanking the company for helping them reduce their costs is one of the greatest rewards of his job.

“The best part of my job is to see clients be successful,” Nelson. “To me, it’s why I do what I do.”

—Jessica Luck

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{ YOUNG PROFESSIONAL }

{ WOMAN ENTREPRENEUR }

COURTNEY WISE

MARJORIE BROUGHTON

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Rock Solid Construction Group

Courtney Wise, the 30-year-old executive director of Take Care Advisor, doesn’t just focus on her own tasks. As her position has continued to evolve, she has welcomed any additional AT A GLANCE responsibilities with a calm deaddress: 3920 meanor, a smile Bee Ridge Road, and a get-it-done Building D, Suite attitude.

101, Sarasota It’s almost 6 Start date: p.m. on a Friday April 2008 and with her bruNumber of nette curls peremployees: Six fectly intact, Wise is hauling trash bags out the door before she escapes for a family rendezvous.

“How this part of the company (Take Care Private Duty Home Health Care) does is on my shoulders in terms of business development,” Wise says. “I Loren Mayo manage all accounts billing, accounts receivable, run day-to-day operations Courtney Wise is the executive director of and I take out the trash. I used to be the Take Care Advisor, a geriatric-care management firm. cleaning lady.”

This year marks the second time Wise has been nominated as Young Profes- for women and philanthropy, when Pam sional of the Year. When asked who the Truitt’s response to the question of how ideal young professional of the year is, she got to where she is today hit close to Wise says that it’s someone who is able home. to set an example to other young profes“She basically said that if you’re the sionals and show what can be done here right kind of leader, it’s not that you plan in Sarasota. to do some of these things, but you have “In terms of what that person is in- these certain qualities that people ask volved in, what they are doing with their you to be part of these things and it hapcareer, being a forward-thinker and be- pens organically,” Wise says. “I’ve always ing able to help others then connect with felt like I’ve had something to give back, each other, it’s someone who embodies and I knew I wanted something bigger. all of those really positive qualities and I think people saw that as I got involved wants to see Sarasota move forward and in little things. I didn’t come here to say, succeed as a community,” Wise says.

‘I’m going to be on the board of YPG’ — She recalls attending a Greater Sara- it really did happen on its own.” sota Chamber of Commerce luncheon — Loren Mayo

The sign on the wall opposite Marjorie Broughton’s desk says it all: “Behind every woman is herself.”

Marjorie Broughton is the female force (co-founder and president) behind Rock Solid Construction Group.

AT A GLANCE “My husband and I renovated Address: 766 houses as a hobby,” S. Osprey Ave., says Broughton.

Sarasota “My family is full Start date: of educators, and June 2005 during the sumNumber of mer, the male eduemployees cators built houswhen started: ing developments.

Eight I grew up around Number of construction. My employees dad thought it was now: Three-andimportant that a a-half girl knew how to do things, and he taught me.”

The entrepreneur has shown a continuing ability to streamline use of resources, both financial and manpower, while identifying and responding to new market trends and opportunities. Broughton is constantly looking for new opportunities to make sure the company is always moving forward.

“We defined the areas we could compete in and maintain the corporate philosophy we started with — whatever we do, we do with integrity and top quality,” she said.

Like every other construction firm, the economic downturn affected Rock Solid.

However, Broughton embraced that time and focused on identifying growth markets, new trends and funding directives during the recession and the ensuing stimulus packages as well as identifying developing markets resulting from military conflicts,

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Rock Solid Construction Group President Marjorie Broughton stands on the job site of a custom home the company is building.

environmental initiatives, the aging population and homeland security endeavors.

This put Rock Solid in a position to organize marketing initiatives to “follow the money.”

“Rock Solid met the economic challenges of the last few years and found new opportunities — more importantly, we created new opportunities,” says Broughton.

Regardless of the projects Broughton is tackling with business partner Perry White, Rock Solid has one ultimate goal: “We want the company to be synonymous with integrity and quality,” says Broughton.

Broughton has also made a personal mark on the Sarasota community with her volunteer efforts, which include Pines of Sarasota, Van Wezel Foundation, the Sarasota Chalk Festival and Junior League of Sarasota, to name a few.

“I’ve made a commitment to give back,” Broughton says. “It’s a huge part of the company and part of the way I was brought up.”

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{ NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION }

{ CULTURAL ORGANIZATION }

The Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice’s website states: “The difference between reaction and proaction is everything.”

Rather than sitting back on the sidelines, the Community Foundation decided to be proacand map out AT A GLANCE tive a plan for transforming the comAddress: 601 munity.

Tamiami Trail S., On the front Venice line stands PresiStart date: dent and CEO Fall 1995 Teri Hansen, who Number of joined GCCF nine employees years ago. when start“Together with ed: 12 (when our donors, we Hansen started) are working to Number of transform the reemployees gion,” says Hannow: 17 sen.

Examples of initiatives the foundation is taking to make the community a better place include CareerEdge, STEM and Gulf Coast Gives.

“Gulf Coast is always looking for a return on investment; we always want to leverage the money we invest in the community,” says Hansen. “We take a long-term view on everything — to make systemic change, not just put a Band-Aid on a problem.”

During the current economic climate, GCCF has had to adjust just like any other business. Every spring, the foundation strips down to zero base and reevaluates.

“It makes us stop and think about what we’re doing and do we need to keep

Eleven years ago, she was just about to head back to a government job, and four years ago, he was painting houses and doing some acting on the side. Today, Michelle Bianchi-Pingel and Jeffery Kin work sideby-side as the managing director and artistic director, respecAT A GLANCE tively, of the Players Theatre.

“We’re kind of Address: 838 setting an example N. Tamiami Trail, now across the naSarasota tion of the dual Start management style date: Michelle in theater,” says Bianchi-Pingel Bianchi-Pingel, became an “We are co-manemployee in agement. I don’t do 2002 after years anything without of volunteering, him, and he doesn’t and Jeffery Kin do anything without took on the role me. I’m the money of artistic director side, the financial in 2007. side, and he’s the Number of creative guy.” employees The two have a when startclose bond and are ed: The Players proud of what their Theatre was an organization has to all-volunteer offer Sarasota. group during the “We are producDepression. ing really goodNumber of quality, high-octane employees theater,” Kin said. now: Eight full“We are an entertime; three parttainment organizatimet; and 700 tion. However, we’re volunteers not just another arts organization, we’re a business. We are just like everyone else.

Our widgets are our shows.”

The Players Theatre is the oldest performing-arts organization in Sarasota (it began in 1929) and is the second-oldest in the state.

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Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice President and CEO Teri Hansen joined GCCF nine years ago.

doing it, and what we’re not doing and how are we going to do it — and who do we have who is going to do that?” says Hansen. “We have reduced staff by 25%, our operating budget by 30% and have focused our responsive grant making much more to align with the board’s priorities for the community.”

Amid implementing important programs, the Non-Profit Organization Award is exciting to GCCF. “This honor is affirmation to the board and to the staff that we are focusing on the right things and doing what we need to do for our community,” says Hansen. “We always say, ‘If not us, then who?’ It’s our job to care and to take the long road to the do the right thing.”

— Stephanie Hannum

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Jeffery Kin and Michelle Bianchi-Pingel pose backstage on the set of “The Foreigner.”

The organization has established the Players Kids program and recently paired with Sarasota Senior Theater to create Sarasota Silver Stars.

The community theater can put on a variety of shows that may be difficult for some professional theaters due to money constraints. Shows with lots of parts are not difficult to cast because the theater uses local talent who volunteer to be a part of the shows. Even though the actors are volunteers, the talent level remains. The theater’s production of “Tommy” last year impressed so many people that it was condensed, and the show was taken to Venice, Italy, to represent the United States in the International Community Theater Festival.

Bianchi-Pingel and Kin are excited about the Players Theatre’s future.

“We are going to do great big shows, shows that haven’t been done in the area for ages,” said Kin. “We’re also doing shows we have never done.”

— Rachel S. O’Hara

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Non-Profit Organization

Think Green

Young Business

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Woman Entrepreneur

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Judith Bell Nonprofit Resoucre Center of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County

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Pedro Reis and Dolly Jacobs Circus Sarasota Inc.

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Average Gulf water temperature: 83.2

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Last weeks Cryptograms 1. I’ve met Elvis. When we were on a UFO going around the world, he sat between me and Bigfoot.

2. The huge lobsters ate much more than the crabs, prawns and crayfish. They were shunned by the other crustaceans as petty, greedy and shellfish!

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Items Under $200 For Sale

Furnishings

ADVERTISE YOUR merchandise with the total value of $200 or less in this section for FREE! Limit 1 ad per month, 15 words or less. Price must be included. No commercial advertising. Ad runs 2 consecutive weeks.

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PANASONIC TV, 28”, $50. Black TV stand, $50. Bamboo look cabinet on rollers, $50.

941-302-9154.

SARASOTA BARGAIN Thrift Store & Consignment Center. 1635 12th St., Sarasota. Washers, Dryers, Refrigerators, Freezers. Furniture, Beds, Dressers, Sofas, Tables, TV’s, Records, Books, etc. Don’t give your items away, let us sell them for you!

Delivery & pick-up available. 941-812-0587

ANTIQUE END tables, pair $40. Desk $55.

Sofa: pale gold faint Oriental brocade $60.

941-922-2046.

BEDSPREAD: KING size with matching shams, skirt, drapes, 96”x98”, gold and rose. $99 o/b/o. 941-358-5313.

COLLAGE PICTURE- Framed, matted, gold frame, 18x22, colorful, unique medium. Must see. $50 firm. 941-952-1097 ELECTROLUX VACUUM, like new, power nozzle, attachments, bags, $130. VHS Panasonic video camera/recorder, $50.

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JEWELRY CASE: 6’, oak, $75. Coffee and 2 end tables, oak w/glass inlay, $125.

941-377-5225.

LUGGAGE: 2/EA. Forecast, wheeled, 26x18x11, never used. $25/ea. 941349-6196.

MADAME ALEXANDER Scarlett Ohara Portrait size doll #1590NIB $185.00.

941-922-3281.

MICROWAVE OVEN: new, still in box, $175.

941-927-5143, Hein.

MITKITA CIRCULAR 10” saw, $80.

Stainless steel refrigerator, 5/cu.ft., $120.

941-302-0447.

PATIO SET: white, 4 chairs with flowered cushions & 40” glass top table, $100.

941-359-3831.

SINGLE BED frame, mattress, liners, $20.

Beige sectional couch, $30. Glass/brass coffee table, $35. 349-2129.

SOFA: 92” roll arm, Robb & Stucky, natural linen, great cond. $600. 941-379-5279.

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AUTOS WANTED! Let me take the hassle out of selling your car. Cash offered today!

Call Mike, 941-713-2277.

GARAGE SALE: Saturday, 6/11 8a.m.2p.m., 487 Oak Point Rd., Osprey Blackburn Point Woods. Glassware, china, furniture, tools, fishing equip., scrapbook supplies, and more.

Boats 1978 SEARAY Express Cruiser 26. Must see. $8500 o/b/o. Call Norm, 941-320-8711.

HOT TUB: 5 person with lounger, 110/220, never used. Warranty, can deliver. $2595.

941-462-0633.

Furnishings LAKEWOOD RANCH ESTATEAluminum 5-piece patio (cost $1700Restoration Hardware) now $699; Sofa & loveseat (Robb & Stucky) like new $850.

Henredon and Drexel bedroom sets, Stearns & Foster Beds, Stiffe lamps, Stanley Entertainment Center for plasma/LCD ($350@Robb &Stucky) $995.

5-piece Cherry Home Office w/2-lateral files, La-Z-Boy sleeper, much, much, more.

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RECYCLING CARTS, shells, electronics, furniture, more. Best buys! 1201 North Lime Avenue. Call Billy, 941-893-7929.

Merchandise Wanted LOOKING FOR memorabilia items, photos, etc. from the old Summer House restaurant on Siesta Key. Contact Jim, 262-510-3375 or E-mail info. to: jschlesing@gmail.com

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ORGANIST/ PIANIST AVAILABLE to substitute for church services. Please call 941-727-5512.

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Storage STORAGE FACILITY Boat/ RV/ Trailer.

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LUXOR MHP $425mo-1 bed/bath mobile homes.

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Polished Couple With 8 Yrs Experience Available For Short Term Or Permanent Opportunity. Live-in Position Desired.

Travel Companion, House Manager/ Housekeeper, Companion/Caregiver, Cook, Driver, Personal Assistant. Performed daily household tasks for senior couple in country club community. (House Manager/Personal Assistant/Driver). The last year of our employment, they both had serious health issues and we also provided “companion” support. Live-in Estate Manager/Property Caretaker for retired executive living in gated estate. Condos, Homes, Estates. Launched “senior outreach” program for our church, and provided companion/caregiver services to many seniors living in upscale North Atlanta. We enjoy the water, boats, tennis, golf, culture, art, music, reading, and writing.

Strong computer and business skills.

Dan & Margie Curry 561.385.6424 (West Palm Beach number) Moving to Longboat Key/Sarasota area. Awesome References.

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Email: dancurry@bellsouth.net

LBK: TIFFANY Plaza Beachfront Condos, 1st floor, 2BR/2BA, walk out to beach.

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OPEN SUNDAY, 1P.M.-4P.M. RON STAHL REALTY, 941-374-1671.

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HIDDEN LAKES: Studio, immaculate, balcony, pool, tennis courts, weight room, sauna. $595/mo. annual. No pets. 374-3401.

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“One thing about arts that drives me crazy is that we always take ourselves too seriously,” Rebecca Hopkins says.

“We’re not walking on water — we are storytelling. We need art, that’s what makes us human.”

Improv master

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Florida Studio Theatre’s managing director zips off to work to take care of the daily grind, but at the end of the day, it’s all about making plays.

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ebecca (Langford) Hopkins emerges from her tiny window-lined office at Florida Studio Theatre with a sunkissed glow.

It’s been two weeks since she and Richard Hopkins, the theater’s artistic director, said “I do” during sun-

set at the Longboat Key Club and Resort and only days since the newlyweds returned from their honeymoon cruise to the Eastern Caribbean.

You’d think the managing director, a woman responsible for all of FST’s operations — including its three

theaters, 14 residential properties and administrative wing — the head writer for FST’s “Laughing Matters” series and co-developer of more than 20 musical revues for cabaret, would be as much of a mastermind at planning a wedding as she is at planning shows.

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“It was nothing like that,” Hopkins says. “I can’t wait to see the video, because the whole thing was so overwhelming to me emotionally that it blurred past me. I came over the boardwalk and saw my friends, family and Richard, and the whole world buzzed around me. I couldn’t stop crying during the entire vows. It was better than any show or any review.”

Returning to work after a two-week vacation required some hardcore catchingup for this multitasker, but Hopkins lives for changing hats at a moment’s notice and has been pushing herself to the limit since high school.

“I don’t come in and fall apart because I have stacks on my desk — I always have stacks on my desk,” she says, her eyes scanning every semi-organized pile, finally settling on her computer screen where the emails continue to flow in. “I’m a procrastinator by nature. All those selfhelp books on how to get organized — I call them ‘horoscopes for management.’”

This is Hopkins’ 13th season at FST. She started her career in the early ’90s as an actor hammering out improv with Next City Comedy, in Atlanta, and through the years transitioned into producing. When she signed a one-year contract with FST in 1991, she thought it would give her time to figure out where to move. Back then, it was anywhere but Florida.

Rebecca Hopkins lets us in on the shows she’s worked on that are closest to her heart.

‘Laughing Matters’

“All of them. These are at my heart. I love sketch comedy. The day we lose our ability to laugh at how nuts this world has become is the day we are in real trouble.”

‘Night Train to Memphis’

“I could not love this music more. The storytelling is fantastic. It connects to the core of who I am. The bridge material just flowed out of me. The music and the stories are part of who I am.”

‘The Wanderers’

“This was one of those magic shows.

“I was assuming Chicago, Seattle or New York,” Hopkins said. “None of those was real exciting to me because I hate cold weather, but they were where the theater was. I came here and fell in love with Sarasota and FST.” Although the theater’s diverse pro-

I love the music of the ’50s and ’60s and the doo-wop groups. It was challenging as a woman to write for a fourguy group. I got to help them become what women imagine them to be.”

‘Piano Men’

“How could you not love working with the music of Billy Joel and Elton John?

They are the Shakespeares of our time.”

IF YOU GO

The off-Broadway, honky-tonk musical comedy, “Cowgirls,” will kick off Florida Studio Theatre’s 2011 summer season with preview performances at 8 p.m. June 8 and June 9, at the Keating Theatre. The show runs through July 3. Call 366-9000 for tickets and information.

‘The Flip Side’

“I have a pretty edgy sense of humor, and this one played to that. The show opened with ‘Would Jesus Wear a Rolex?’ and ended with ‘Still Going to Die,’ which celebrates the fact that no matter what we do, we all end up at the same finish line. I loved the darker side of it.”

gramming impressed her, she noticed that it lacked a strong improv program, and that just wouldn’t do.

“I think it’s a fantastic form of theater, because the shows are based on what the audience gives you that night,” Hopkins says. “I taught classes, and at the end I

held an open class and invited people to bring friends. I came out to set up soda and cookies and found 100 people waiting in the lobby. By the second year, we had regular shows on Tuesday nights.”

She founded the improv program in 2001. Three years ago, she added to it by bringing in groups from around the country. She also organized an improv festival that takes place in July. At first, ticket sales were disastrous, and Hopkins was terrified. She soon realized that with the shows geared toward a younger audience and what she calls “hip, older people,” patrons tend to wait until the night before to purchase tickets.

“Looking back, I shouldn’t have been so nervous — now it’s sold out,” Hopkins said. “When you go to other festivals and you do it all night, you feel like you’ve gone through a war if you go to everything. There’s a sense of accomplishment. You don’t just sit back and watch and have a good time.”

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HOT TICKETS SARASOTA MUSIC FESTIVAL: For three

weeks each June, the Sarasota Music Festival brings together internationally recognized guest artists and student musicians to study and perform chamber music.

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mentors. Today, the festival, a program of the Sarasota Orchestra, hosts 70 guest artists and is led

by Artistic Director Robert Levin. Performances include artist showcases, Levin lectures, master classes, Friday festivals, Saturday symphonies and student recitals.

The festival, which runs through June 18, takes

place at Holley Hall in The Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center, 709 N. Tamiami Trail, and the Sarasota Opera House, 61 N. Pineapple Ave. Tickets are $10 for a one-day pass and $30 for a one-week pass. Call 953-3434 or visit www. sarasotaorchestra.org/ sarasotamusicfestival for information.

+ Booker grad gets ‘cadaver’ claim to fame

+ Drag Queen Bingo makes debut in Venice Felicity Liemont and Heather De Haven will be ruffling some feathers June 17, when their bawdy bingo show takes center stage at the Venice Theatre.

Calling out lucky numbers and awarding winners is, of course, part of the plan. But these professional female impersonators will taunt and tease until you’re laughing your socks off with a show that includes singing, dancing, improv and wardrobe changes in a cabaret setting.

According to Allan Kollar, producing director, the timing is finally right to host the show.

“What better place for a drag

show than the theater that has put on ‘Rocky Horror,’ ‘Reefer Madness’ and ‘Evil Dead, the Musical?’” Kollar asks. “This is a perfect fit for us. Felicity (Liemont) and I began talking about it a while ago, and I’m glad we’re able to put it on the schedule now. I think our audiences are going to eat it up.”

Tickets cost $10 and include one card for each of the four games, plus the show. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Bingo games start at 8 p.m. June 17, June 18, June 24 and June 25, at Venice Theatre, 140 W. Tampa Ave. For information, call 488-1115 or visit www. venicestage.com.

Henry Bardi

+ All hail the king

Arts and Entertainment Editor Heidi Kurpiela’s eminent “bump” has officially deflated.

Weighing in at 8 pounds and 12 ounces, “King” Henry Richard Bardi assumed his throne at 1:05 p.m. Sunday and has since taken over the green “baby cave” in the Kurpiela/ Bardi household.

The Observer team wishes its arts and entertainment editor and her husband, Joe Bardi, the best. Heidi notes since she’s been on maternity leave for the past week-and-a-half that she hasn’t had to meet any deadlines — except Henry’s due date — which she missed by five days. Her official due date was June 1.

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In summer 2012, Sarasota native Charlie Barnett will be dueling aliens alongside Will Smith, Josh Brolin and Emma Thompson in “Men in Black III.” For now, you can see Barnett hang out with some dead bodies Sunday, June 12, when he stars in the “Cadaver” episode of “Law and Charlie Barnett Order Criminal Intent.”

Barnett graduated in 2006 from the Booker High School Visual Performing Arts theater program and then obtained his bachelor’s of fine arts degree from the Juilliard School, in New York City.

It will be Barnett’s second time on “Law and Order.” Last November, he starred in an episode on “Law and Order SVU.” Barnett is the son of Bob and Danee Barnett of Sarasota.

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Fuzión Dance Artists Angela Rauter and Marlee Weinberg started off the performance, “Dancing Through the Eyes of Women,” Friday, June 3, at Art Center Sarasota. As the spotlights clicked on and cast shadows around the room, the girls became visible. Using slow, controlled movements, they contorted their bodies over tabletops and each other.

Inspired by the artwork of Pamela Sumner, Leymis Bolanos Wilmott, cofounder of Fuzión Dance Artists, created the choreography for the performances.

The artwork also served as inspiration for composer Francis Schwartz, who created a multi-sensorial composition entitled, “The Sweet Breath of Sound,” which premiered during the event.

Fuzión Dance Artists perform during “Dancing Through the Eyes of Women.”

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The brilliantly disturbing new film, “In a Better World,” is an examination concerned with revenge vs. forgiveness. In it, two young boys’ worlds are mirrored by their parents as they struggle with addressing brutality.

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Driving home Friday, June 3, from the country’s No. 1 beach, top down on my convertible, Sirius satellite radio was playing Schubert’s “Trout” quintet in a knockout performance by the Takacs Quartet with pianist Andreas Haefliger and bassist Joseph Carver. That would make two “Trouts” in one day, because in the evening, we were going to the Sarasota Music Festival to hear the beloved piece, and all I could think was, “They’ll have to go some distance to match this recording.”

Pianist Robert Levin, violinist Timothy Lees, violist Kim Kashkashian, cellist Timothy Eddy and bassist Paul Ellison didn’t match it — they overtook it and made it into one of the most radiant, Susan Starr vigorous performances I’ve heard. This was a gourmet dish, filled deliciously with dynamic contrasts, tasteful colors and artfully crafted nuances.

It was the perfect end to a not-so-perfect evening. The andante from Brahms’ lush horn trio in E flat opened the program well with hornist Trevor Nuckols, a Juilliard student, violinist Brendan Shea, from Oberlin, and Indiana University pianist Mariko Sudo.

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There was also an energetic, excellent performance of three movements from Prokofiev’s Quintet, Opus 39, by oboist Andreas Oeste (University of Central Arkansas), clarinetist Tianyu Zhang (Central Conservatory of Music), violinist Keir GoGwilt (Harvard), violist Aaron Mossburg (Oberlin) and bassist Emily Honeyman (Rice University). At times sounding like a plaintive aria by Menotti and at others reminiscent of Prokofiev’s own “Romeo and Juliet,” this is a terribly difficult work that the students took in their skillful stride.

As Festival Director Robert Levin said before the concert started, “These are our future luminaries. Hundreds of applicants from all over the world auditioned for fewer than 60 places.”

These kids have talent to burn with the intelligence and mastery to overtake many seasoned players. And that was made obvious when veteran musicians Susan Starr, Tom Robertello and Ronald Leonard performed Weber’s G minor piano trio. This is a teaching festival, one of the best in the country, so it’s possible these troupers spent more time coaching the kids than rehearsing the Weber. Then, there’s the problem with the piece itself. Written when the composer was ill, it has little of the exuberance and musicality we’ve come to associate with Weber. Still, this was a singularly uninspiring performance of a rather uninspired work. We’re sure these musicians are great mentors and their experience is inestimable to the students. But, if there’s to be an audience, it might be good to look inward, as well as to the future.

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