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consolidation By Mark Gordon | Gulf Coast Business Review beauty and the feet

Lakewood Prudential still open for business Real estate broker Helen Sosso will close five Prudential Palms Realty offices to reduce costs. Her Lakewood Ranch venture remains open.

+ Grad returns from internship at Capitol A former migrant student and Lakewood Ranch High School graduate has put her mark on Washington.

Liliana Ibarra spent the summer serving in Washington, D.C., where she worked as an intern with the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.

Ibarra shared about her experience with the Manatee County School District’s English Speakers of Other Languages-Migrant Department during a special presentation Aug. 16.

“It was amazing,” Ibarra says of her internship. “It was truly a lifetime experience.”

Ibarra has started her college coursework at the University of South Florida, where she plans to study political science.

LAKEWOOD RANCH — A wellknown Sarasota real estate broker will be focusing her attention on her Lakewood Ranch venture as her company consolidates several offices in Sarasota County.

Helen Sosso, one of the most prominent residential real estate brokers in the Sarasota-Bradenton market, has slashed the size of her business.

Sosso, president and CEO of

Prudential Palms Realty in Sarasota and Prudential Lakewood Ranch in the East County, will downsize her firm to capture

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GOVERNANCE

By Pam Eubanks | News Editor

CDDs change landscape contractor Lakewood Ranch CDDs 4 and 5 soon will contract with Down to Earth for landscaping services.

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Hanban/Confucius Institute Headquarters in China and the College Board in the United States. In total, more than 450 teachers from China have been assigned to teach in elementary, middle and high schools throughout the United States. Yi is one of four teaching in Manatee County.

Yi has been teaching English

LAKEWOOD RANCH — Two Lakewood Ranch Community Development Districts will be doing business with a new landscape contractor starting Oct. 1.

At separate board meetings Aug. 18, supervisors from CDDs 4 and 5 voted to contract for landscaping services with Down to Earth, a full landscape-service company headquartered in Mount Dora.

Down to Earth was the topranked landscaper for both CDDs 4 and 5 after members of Lakewood Ranch Town Hall’s operations department reviewed contract proposals based on services provided and pricing, Director of Operations Ryan Heise said.

“You always have some concern when you change contractors, but our staff feels (Down to Earth) will be able to work well (here),” CDD 4 Supervisor Joe Sidiski

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By Pam Eubanks | News Editor Pam Eubanks

Phoebe Yi, of China, will be teaching the Chinese language and culture to students at Braden River High School over the school year. She hopes her ventures in the United States also will foster authentic material for her students learning English back home.

Cultural Exchange

Teacher Phoebe Yi, of China, is eager to teach students at Braden River High School her language and culture this year.

+ Heritage Harbour enjoys poolside flick It’s not everyday you can enjoy a movie and a dip in the pool at the same time.

But for some lucky families in Heritage Harbour, that’s exactly what happened Aug. 19.

Residents donned their bathing suits and goggles and jumped into the pool at Stoneybrook Golf Club to watch “Flight of the Navigator.”

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Prudential Palms Realty President and CEO Helen Sosso said she will trim her business to about 80 agents.

BRADEN RIVER — As students filed into Phoebe Yi’s classroom at Braden River High School Monday, a rush of excitement replaced any nervousness she had leading up to the first day of school.

Although Yi has been teaching English in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China for several years, the China native now is sharing her cultural and language skills with American

students at Braden River, where Yi is introducing the school’s first Chinese language curriculum.

“Wow, I had a wonderful day with the kids,” Yi said after her first day of classes Aug. 22. “I am sure they can master this language easily. (The students) are very talented.”

Yi, who will teach full time at Braden River this year, is part of the Chinese Guest Teacher Program, a collaboration between

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more market share through the implementation of technology. It’s a plan that has been in development for some time, she said.

“I’ve been trying to migrate to this model for 24 months,” Sosso said. “But I didn’t have the group of people to support it.”

The reborn Prudential Palms in Sarasota will be run out of two offices downtown instead of seven spread throughout the county. The Lakewood Ranch presence, meanwhile, will continue as is. Although she holds the titles of president and CEO, Sosso does not have an ownership stake there and holds only a minority ownership stake in Prudential Palms Sarasota.

The combined operations will have about 80 agents. At its peak, the firm had nearly 200 agents and employees. Five offices — Longboat Key, Siesta Key, St. Armands Circle, downtown Sarasota and South Sarasota County — will close.

“I’m eliminating offices that weren’t making any money,” Sosso said. “Real estate doesn’t have to be done in offices.”

Originally, Sosso considered shutting down completely the Sarasota operations

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and only running the business out of Lakewood Ranch to focus on East County sales.

However, she met with several Sarasota agents in recent days about the closure, who convinced her to give the new model a chance in both locations.

The Prudential Palms contraction created a buzz in the real estate community. In a statement released Aug. 22 through Grapevine Communications, Sosso addressed rumors that the firm faced deeper financial troubles. She stated the firm has “no plans to file bankruptcy.”

Sosso acquired Lakewood Ranch Realty in late 2009.

“I just thought Lakewood Ranch is a phenomenal place,” Sosso told the East County Observer at the time of the sale. “It’s a city, and what developer doesn’t want to be able to build a city? It’s over 30,000 acres and has virtually every use you can think of.

“It’s a phenomenal developer’s story,” she said. “They had a master plan for the whole development (before it was built). ... It’s the type of product that every developer and builder wants to be a part of.”

Sosso previously ran a residential realty firm in Pittsburgh. She opened her first real estate office in the region in 2002.

CREATURE FEATURE Ranch residents fawn over fawn: Country Club of Lakewood Ranch residents Bob and Karol Borkowski caught a glimpse of this precious fawn tucked into the base of a blooming plumbago.

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Benvenuti a Casa! Palm-Aire welcomes

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After being tortured and kidnapped and taking a ride in a police car, Luigi Rizzo finally is safe at his home at Carmen’s Italian Café.

MANATEE COUNTY — Luigi didn’t shake hands, give highfives or shout in jubilation as his friends rallied around him to celebrate his homecoming Aug. 17.

Instead, he let them do the work for him, only standing in for photo opportunities with everyone who walked in to his home at Carmen’s Italian Cafe.

After being kidnapped in April, Luigi, the 4-foot-tall statue that greeted customers outside the restaurant with an Italian flag in hand, is finally home.

“I couldn’t believe (we got him back),” said chef and East County resident Carmen Rizzo, who owns the restaurant with his wife, Kay. “He’s been a part of the family (for about 15 years). It was a terrible (loss).”

Luigi was taken from the restaurant one evening in April, during business hours.

“He always stood post outside for us,” Kay Rizzo said.

“We didn’t even know he was gone until (we went to take him in for the night).”

The Rizzos thought they’d never see their beloved statue again.

But in July, Kay

Luigi is named for Carmen Rizzo’s brother.

Although Carmen says his brother is taller and thinner than the statue, he shares the smaller Luigi’s mustache, dark hair and smiling face.

new club manager

Joseph Sumner will start as the Palm-Aire Country Club’s general manager and chief operating officer Sept. 1.

Photos by Pam Eubanks

East County residents Kay and Carmen Rizzo, owners of Carmen’s Italian Cafe, are thrilled to have Luigi back at their restaurant after he was taken during business hours one night in April.

Rizzo’s parents, Nina and Bob Henderson, spotted Luigi in someone’s backyard along U.S. 41 as they headed home from visiting family in Clearwater.

They came straight to the restaurant and told their daughter and son-in-law the news.

“What are the odds?”

Kay Rizzo said. “It’s just fate. I didn’t think we’d ever see Luigi again.”

Neither did Carmen.

And the next day, he and his father-in-law went to check it out.

After realizing they had indeed found Luigi, the men contacted the police. After following procedure, deputies later tucked Luigi in the back of a patrol car and took him home, Kay Rizzo said.

The Rizzos decided not to press charges for the kidnapping.

Luigi’s arrival prompted much excitement at the restaurant, where regulars Steve and Rosie Petty were dining that evening. Seeing Luigi’s poor condition — broken off fingers and a split-open side — Steve Petty offered to take the statue under his care. He then took Luigi to his friend, Jim Albright, who owns a fiberglass boat repair business, for what patrons now have dubbed as Luigi’s “pasta surgery.”

When repairs were finished about three weeks ago, Steve Petty took Luigi home and gave him a fresh coat of paint.

“It wasn’t too challenging,” Petty said of the job. “I added some gray hair to make him look more distinguished.”

Patrons organized Luigi’s homecoming celebration, which featured a pasta special and even a new “Luigi” cocktail. Customers themselves planned the celebration almost entirely, making banners, sending out emails and even taking photos with Luigi throughout the night, Kay Rizzo said.

“It was very neat to see the customers get involved,” Carmen Rizzo said.

Although Carmen’s Italian Café has been open only threeand-one-half years, Carmen Rizzo has had Luigi for at least 15 years, he said.

The statue has stood watch at several of Rizzo’s other restaurants over the years and had become a generational photo opportunity for regular customers and tourists alike.

The Rizzos planned to return Luigi to his outside post sometime this week, after the East County Observer went to press.

He will join another statue at the restaurant, Gordon, who assumed Luigi’s job of holding the Italian flag during Luigi’s absence.

Kay Rizzo said she expects Gordon to take up his role holding a “Welcome to Carmen’s” pizza paddle, as he did before Luigi disappeared. Gordon has been at the restaurant for about a year.

Contact Pam Eubanks at peubanks@yourobserver.com.

Anniversary plans Carmen’s Italian Cafe regulars Steve and Rosie Petty spent their 38th wedding anniversary in Italy in May. After three weeks of touring the country, the couple returned home, eager to share their pictures with their friends, Carmen and Kay Rizzo, owners of Carmen’s Italian Café.

After much discussion, the Rizzos and the Pettys now will return to Italy together in September.

Carmen and Kay Rizzo plan to share their own fifthanniversary dinner on Sept.

4 at the same restaurant the Pettys dined for their anniversary a few months ago.

PALM AIRE — Thirty years after Joseph Sumner left the Sarasota/ Bradenton area, his dream of returning has come true — this time as the new general manager and chief operating officer for the PalmAire Country Club.

“I’m looking forward to a long and prosperous relationship with the members and staff of Palm-Aire,” Sumner said.

“It’s kind of like (coming) full circle for me. I relished the opportunity (to Sumner come back).”

Sumner was hired to replace former general manager John Costello, who left earlier this month to work at the Audubon Country Club in Naples.

Sumner officially starts work Sept.

1 but already has been busy getting to know his new staff and making other preparations.

Sumner started his career in the food and beverage industry 30 years ago at St. Armands Circle’s Café L’Europe. When the restaurant prepared to open a second location on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, Sumner, then a corporate trainer, made the move. It was in Palm Beach that Sumner met his wife of 25 years, Sharon.

After finishing his role at Café L’Europe, Sumner worked at several other exclusive private dinner clubs before transitioning into the private country club business in 1992.

Since then, he has worked for clubs such as High Ridge Country Club in Boynton Beach, Frenchman’s Creek Country Club at Palm Beach Gardens, the Falls Country Club in Lake Worth and, most recently, at Stonebridge Golf & Country Club in Boca Raton.

“I’ve been looking to relocate to the West Coast,” Sumner said of his decision to join Palm-Aire’s team.

“My wife and I enjoy the area here.

We feel it’s less congested and a more engaging environment.”

Already the couple is enjoying new restaurants, the beaches and catching up with old friends who live in the area.

As the Palm-Aire Country Club’s new general manager, Sumner said he plans to get to know the club’s membership and culture and build on successes the club already has achieved. Then, after careful consideration, he plans to throw a little of his own innovation into the mix.

He said he envisions the club hosting wine seminars and wine tasting events, and expanding the club’s ability to host weddings and other outside events, among other possibilities.

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+ Straw poll tabulation begins despite concerns

“We want to make sure we have checked and double-checked anything before we make any official comments (about the 129 ballots),” Lane said.

“We’re an independent party here.

We’re trying to make sure there’s integrity of the process, and hopefully, these results are representative of what the community feels on this issue.”

Friends members are concerned the number of disenfranchised voters could be much higher and could affect results of the straw poll.

Brian Jones, president of Andrick and Associates, the company that handled the printing and mailing of the ballots, said his company sent out ballots to nearly 12,000 registered voters. Of those, about 1,400 voters had ballots sent directly to the forwarding address.

Despite concerns that some registered voters in the community did not get ballots as promised, tabulation of the straw poll regarding Lakewood Ranch’s incorporation has begun.

“We will be performing a final count and verification of the results this week,” said Rob Lane, managing partner at Kerkering Barberio, the firm conducting the poll, on Aug. 22. “We will then release the outcome on Aug. 29 to Sen. Mike Bennett’s and (District 67) Rep. Greg Steube’s offices.”

Kerkering Barberio’s news comes after an Aug. 18 press conference during which Friends of Lakewood Ranch leaders Gary Berns and Bob Hendel said they knew of at least 129 registered voters who did not receive ballots.

Berns said Friends members are concerned registered voters were unintentionally disenfranchised.

“We’re not pointing fingers at anybody,” Berns said. “We know there’s a problem. We don’t know how endemic the problem is.”

Lane said the integrity of the straw poll is critical.

+ Back-to-School Splash Bash returns to Lakewood The Lakewood Ranch Community Activities Corp. will offer East County family’s one last chance for summer fun with its annual Back to School Splash Bash.

This year’s event will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 27, at the Lakewood Ranch YMCA pool and pavilion area. Guests are being asked to bring new or used children’s books to be donated at the event.

+ Manatee offers financial aid for seniors’ energy bills Manatee is now accepting applications for a state grant that offers financial help to residents 60 years old or older who are facing an economic hardship The county has through March 31 to distribute $78,000 to customers in need through the Emergency Home Energy Assistance for the Elderly grant program, to customers of Florida Power & Light and Peace River Electric Cooperative. To be eligible, applicants must be part of a household with at least one person who is 60 years old or older in the home, have a documented heating or cooling emergency and a gross household annual income equal to or less than 150% of the federal poverty guidelines.

For more information, call 749-3030 or visit www.mymanatee.org.

Rep. Steube to host open house District 67 Rep. Greg Steube will host an open house from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Sept. 8 at his district office, 5830 Lakewood Ranch Blvd.

Steube said he wanted to give constituents an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the office and its staff.

Rep. Steube Steube, a veteran, also is launching a care package drive at the office for military service members who are deployed oversees, in preparation for the Christmas season, and to help the local organization, Manatee Operation Troop Support. Items being collected include cardboard boxes and stamps, and food items such as beef jerky, Clif bars, peanuts, cashews, dental floss, razors, white socks and more.

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The following information was gathered from incident and arrest reports obtained from the Manatee County Sheriff ’s Office.

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10:12 a.m. — 10600 block of Forest Run Drive. Criminal mischief. The victim reported three fence posts on her property had been damaged while she was out of town. The bottom of the three posts were cracked and crooked. The victim stated she suspects her neighbor may have done it and thinks he will admit to it if he was questioned. She stated she thinks the reason her neighbor did it is because he stole items from their house and he was charged with a felony. The victim stated she thinks he would be getting revenge on her for pressing charges against him.

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5:30 p.m. — 8200 block of Cooper Creek Boulevard. Grand theft. The victim reported money had been taken from her wallet while at her place of business.

She left her items at a corner table in the dining room with only one customer in the restaurant. When she returned, she found her wallet was missing. She attempted to locate the money by backtracking her steps, but the wallet wasn’t found. When she returned, she found her wallet had been placed back with her stuff minus $400 that had been inside.

She questioned everyone there, which included employees and one patron. Nobody physically observed anybody take or put anything back.

ed an ex-employee has been threatening him over the phone. He stated he has tried numerous times to get the former employee to stop calling him. The victim said he fears the former employee will follow through with his threats and cause harm to the victim and his family.

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2 p.m. — 6200 block of State Road 64 E. Theft. The victim reported her boyfriend stole the radio from her car and pawned it. She stated she allowed him to borrow her car after he dropped her off at work.

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Sensible wetlands changes Manatee County is taking steps in the right direction in tweaking its wetlands protection ordinances, following the reasonable goal of creating certainty for property owners and potential property owners.

Unfortunately, some in the environmental community are responding with the hyperbole we have come to expect — a response not in scale with changes that are not significant in effect and probably helpful overall to wetlands in the county.

Joel Christian, environmental program manager for the county, explained the goal this way: “We attempted to provide some predictable standards, so when somebody is looking at purchasing a piece of property, he knows what the rules are.”

That alone is a huge step. The direction coincides with the County Commission’s stated goal of making decisions that will boost the economy and foster job creation.

Further, the proposed changes appear to strengthen many wetland elements.

Glenn Compton, chairman of the ManaSota-88 environmental group, wrote a letter charging the proposed changes were a “significant step backward for wetland protection” and that they would allow for the “continued destruction of existing wetlands.”

The key word is “existing,” because the changes allow for tiny wetlands to be developed. However, those wetlands — often

less than a half acre — would have to be mitigated, meaning that they would have to be recreated elsewhere as wetlands. That meets state law, but then further, the developer would have to pay into a fund that would be dedicated to enhancing wetlands in Manatee County.

So opponents decry the “destruction” of existing wetlands, even though those wetlands are so small as not to be viable and may not be functioning as wetlands. They decry the loss, even if it would be mitigated by a viable wetland elsewhere and cash garnered for more wetlands protection.

Remember, the county is being stricter than the state with some of its changes.

The changes also allow for wetlands to be developed when “no other practical alternative exists.” But even in this case, the proposed ordinance calls for mitigation and payment into the wetlands fund.

This is more than reasonable accommodation to environmental concerns for someone who has a right to develop his property.

“The result, we feel, is that we will have more wetlands in Manatee County, with better function,” Christian said.

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The Lakewood Ranch Rotarians dug into their emergency funds to give $3,000 to the Food Bank of Manatee County.

The act was in response to the empty shelves at the food bank and the continuing difficult times for many families in Manatee. It was the kind of big-hearted action for which Rotarians are noted.

But they did more than write a check.

They rolled up their sleeves.

The Rotarians took the money and bought the food from a Save-A-Lot in west Bradenton. About 2,985 pounds of food staples were delivered to the food bank, re-stocking shelves and helping those most in need.

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Privatization future is here The future for local government operations is to privatize or outsource a whole lot more functions than is currently thought reasonable.

The debate over whether Lakewood Ranch should incorporate into a city has had one great benefit for the rest of the region: highlighting the value of outsourcing for everyone.

As part of a summerlong series of reports on the consequences of becoming a city or remaining unincorporated, the East County Observer reported on three other Florida cities that had incorporated, outlining their experiences.

Wellington was the ROD most traditional, doing THOMSON everything in-house except law enforcement, which it outsourced to the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office. Bonita Springs outsources about half of its city operations and has a tax rate lower than unincorporated Lee County.

But the most illustrative city was Weston, a city of 62,000 residents in Broward

County. Weston operates on a $100 million budget. It has 14 city parks, a nice, new City Hall building, the full range of law enforcement, fire and rescue, zoning and community services common to any city.

But it has a grand total of nine employees. Nine. Cities such as Sarasota, struggling with huge pension costs and ballooning employee benefits, dealing with difficult unions and so on — plus all the spine operations to handle those issues — should be envious of Weston’s arrangement. Those headaches and cost containment responsibilities belong to the private-sector companies to which Weston outsources.

All nine employees are directors of a city department. But in reality, they are contract control agents overseeing 30 major private contractors that handle everything in the city down to the receptionist at City Hall.

The result of this outsourcing is that Weston has the lowest tax rate of any municipality in Broward County. Further, a recent study for Broward County found that when all taxes, fees and other govern-

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it sees fit for the market.

The unanimous decision to reject the request by Lake Lincoln LLC, developer of Tara, follows last year’s decision to reject a rezoning request. So the developers are left without the ability to develop the land consistent with where they see the market.

They threaten to sue the county under the state’s Bert Harris Act, which requires property owners to be compensated if they can prove that government action “inordinately burdens” their property.

Neither side needs to be spending money on lawyers for this. The county and developers should find some way to settle.

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mental assessments on citizens are combined, Weston is the least expensive place in the county to live — as far as paying for government expenses go.

And Money magazine named it “One of America’s Best Small Cities” in 2008, one of only three Florida cities.

While Weston is a wealthy city with no inner-city issues and no legacy costs, the outsourcing principles remain true for many operations in any city, and more are finding it to be true.

Local governments are privatizing public parking, golf courses, zoos, libraries, roads, custodial services, judicial security, solidwaste collection, recycling, convention centers and park maintenance, to name a few. Hard-core union city Detroit has re-written its anti-privatization charter to start outsourcing that city’s services.

Even the slow-moving Leviathan federal government doubled its outsourcing activities between 2001-2008 to more than $500 billion. Union-backed politicians in D.C. have unsuccessfully tried to undo that trend. Privatizing more government functions is the future.

And it is certainly the future for forwardlooking governments intent on providing an affordable, high quality of life for all their citizens, not just unions and government employees.

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+ Ranch growth shows no need to incorporate

Dear Editor: A recent headline proclaimed that the great recession is over in Lakewood Ranch.

This news is a testimonial to the excellent job of planning by Schroeder-Manatee Ranch and the cooperation between SMR and Manatee County providing excellent service at a low tax rate. Our CDD supervisors should also be congratulated for their governance which makes our Ranch such a desirable place to live and proving the CDD form is a viable and efficient form of government.

These factors belie the Incorporation Study Group’s claims that we are a community without a plan and need to control our own destiny. Just visit any of SMR’s community information offices to see SMR’s vision of the future. There is no evidence Manatee County may wish to interfere with SMR’s vision and spoil our Ranch.

The incorporators also claim CDD governance is inefficient, does not provide good services and is not appropriate for a community as large as Lakewood Ranch.

This last point is disproved by The Villages, a retirement community in central Florida with a population of more than 80,000 people, which is governed by CDDs. The residents had voted not to incorporate.

It is the height of arrogance to assert that five part-time councilors would do a better job of planning than SMR and would be better stewards of our money than Manatee County, which has received an AA bond rating.

Save our Ranch! Vote no to incorporation!

Fred R. Braun Lakewood Ranch

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Miracle Child LAKEWOOD RANCH — As Ryan Roman sits in a chair in his living room, his newborn daughter rests in his arms.

Ryan Roman dreamed a moment like this would one day come, but until Giavanna Jayne Nicole Roman was born at 10:26 a.m.

Aug. 6, he and his wife, Christine, never were certain.

At 28 years old, Ryan has been battling cancer since 2005. Doctors have said his condition — one that has left him paralyzed from the waist down — one day will kill him, but they don’t know how soon.

“I was just mesmerized,” Ryan said of seeing his daughter for the first time.

Doctors diagnosed Ryan Roman with ependymoma, a condition where cancerous tumors develop in the spinal canal and brain, in March 2005, after an accident resulted in back pain so severe Ryan could hardly walk. He lost feeling in his legs, which caused him to fall in the shower. That night, an emergency-room MRI revealed cancer in his spinal column.

“That’s where it all started,” Ryan Roman said, noting he stayed in the hospital for nearly two months after his surgery to remove the cancer. “I had to learn to walk again.”

Ryan reunited with Christine, an old high school friend, in September 2007, and the couple quickly became inseparable.

“It just was what it was,” Christine said of learning about Ryan’s battle with cancer. “He was really open about it. There was no sign of (his cancer) ever coming back.”

Ryan Roman didn’t know if he’d be alive to see the birth of his daughter, Giavanna. Now, he can’t wait to see what the future holds for her.

Doctor’s note

Lakewood Ranch Medical Center’s Dr. Julio Pabon commended the Romans’ foresight in banking Ryan’s sperm prior to his chemotherapy treatments.

Chemotherapy, he said, can negatively affect sperm counts and can make individuals sterile permanently.

“Chemotherapy can affect the ovaries and the testicles, and it can be longterm,” Pabon said. “(The Romans’ story) is a patientawareness story.

You have a young couple facing a horrible diagnosis, and they had the foresight to freeze sperm.

Cancer patients should not only think about surviving cancer, but their future fertility.”

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Christine and Ryan Roman welcomed their daughter, Giavanna Jayne Nicole Roman, to the world Aug. 6, 2011.

Ryan added: “They said the cancer was rare. There wasn’t very much information about it.”

But in November 2008, Ryan’s pain returned — this time in his neck. An MRI confirmed the fear his cancer had returned. Ryan underwent several subsequent procedures and surgeries to remove cancers and to repair spinal fluid leaks throughout 2009 and 2010.

And knowing his pending chemotherapy treatments could affect his future fertility, Ryan banked his sperm in May 2009.

“I knew I wanted to have kids,” Ryan Roman said.

Christine and Ryan began talking about children in October 2009, and the couple married Feb. 6, 2010. Christine had her first con-

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“We got a Gia bean,” Christine says, smiling at her newborn.

Ryan, who will care for Giavanna once Christine starts back to work in a few weeks, already is getting proficient at changing diapers, feeding the baby and handling other day-to-day newborn-related tasks from his wheelchair.

“It’s a miracle, right there,” Ryan says, eyes tearing up as he looks at his little girl. “It’s awesome to have just one thing work out.”

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For CDD 4, Garden Leaders came in at less than two points below Down to Earth’s score and at a slightly higher price of $469,525 annually. The new contract with Down to Earth will cost CDD 4 about $448,000 per year.

For CDD 5, Garden Leaders came in two points below Down to Earth but offered a better price — about $28,245 less than Down to Earth’s $509,760 proposal.

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(Martin Luther King Jr.)

Residents visiting last week’s CDD meetings may have noticed a few changes to aid in the transparency of the districts’ operations.

Agendas and supplemental information were set out on a table at the meeting for residents to review.

“It’s just a baby step,” new Executive Director Eva Rey said of the changes. “I felt the people who come to meetings would be interested in that backup information, as well. It provides a frame of reference for the item (being discussed).”

A microphone and podium at which residents could share their comments before the CDD boards also made their first appearances at the meetings.

Rey said she also is working on creating a new website for Lakewood Ranch’s CDDs to give them more of an identity and to provide more access to information for residents. The plan being considered would cost about $7,000 annually.

Ranch residents currently pay about $70,000 annually for Digital Village, Rey said.

In other businesS CDD 2

• Engineer Mike Kennedy reported Manatee County plans to repair portions of University Parkway by the end of November.

• Director of Operations Ryan Heise reported landscape contractor Garden Leaders will spend the next few weeks making repairs to turf on The Masters Avenue, Lakewood Ranch Boulevard, Legacy Boulevard and other areas.

• Supervisors directed the Country Club/Edgewater Village Association to determine how to best address the issue of security in Edgewater, where two homes were entered at gunpoint in recent weeks. Supervisors had planned to remove from their proposed budget about $15,600, which had been reserved primarily for landscaping in Edgewater, but will leave the dollars in place until they vote on the issue at their Aug. 25 budget hearing.

Edgewater residents asked the money be kept in the budget to serve as “seed money” for security improvements.

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• Engineer Mike Kennedy reported his company had identified potential snags in the Braden River, and district staff would be requesting that Manatee County clear problem areas.

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• Supervisors adopted a $1.85 million budget, up 7.4% or about $122,800 from last year. Supervisors said the increase stems from an effort to increase reserves, which have been drained by litigation surrounding the community’s storm drains ($68,100), as well as monies for continued expenses and litigation for the storm drain issue ($25,000) and other projects ($34,000). The figures average out to a $128 increase annually per household.

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• A motion to pay for the installation of a charging station for electric cars at Lakewood Ranch Town Hall — about $2,000 — failed 2-2. A U.S. Department of Energy grant would have paid the cost of the charging station equipment, valued at about $8,000.

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“This is a good opportunity for both sides,” Yi said. “For my English students (back home), I want to bring them very authentic materials. For students (here), I will give them a new impression of China today.

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Yi says her first challenge will be teaching her American students the four tones used to speak the Chinese language and also to explain culture differences between the Chinese and Americans.

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Since arriving in Bradenton July 28, Yi has visited the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, attended Lakewood Ranch’s Music on Main concert and tasted her first hot dog at a Bradenton Marauders baseball game.

“I really want to cherish the time here,” Yi said. “I want to see different areas with different cultures and visit universities, if possible.”

While in the United States, Yi said she also would like to visit some of the country’s famous cities, such as Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Seattle.

Braden River Assistant Principal Alan Ramos said Yi won’t just be teaching her students in the classroom but also will be working to infuse Chinese culture throughout the school, collaborating with other teachers to educate students about Chinese art, agriculture and other aspects of China.

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Primrose serves up kitchen fun Kids at Primrose School’s Camp Primrose shared some homemade recipes with parents at the camp’s “Dig, Stir, Chomp!” session last week. After honing their cooking skills with author Suzanne Beecher, the kids served “stone soup” based on a popular children’s book.

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Out-of-Door Academy inks Nike partnership

ODA announced a three-year partnership with Nike during a press conference Aug. 19. ODA also announced the addition of four new head coaches as well as new lacrosse programs.

LAKEWOOD RANCH — Student athletes at The Out-of-Door Academy will be sporting new uniforms and equipment this year thanks to a recent partnership with Nike.

Head of School David Mahler and Athletic Director Noel Beaulieu announced the new three-year partnership during a press conference Aug. 19, in the Petrik Thunderdome. ODA is one of only a handful of small schools across the state to have its athletic programs outfitted in Nike apparel.

“Ours isn’t football-driven; ours is schooldriven,” Beaulieu said of the deal. “When they heard we have a 100% matriculation rate, they really liked our academic side.

ODA is a school on the rise. We’re not established — we’re clearly evolving in our athletic department.

“Over time, we’ll migrate and all of our sports programs will be equipped by Nike apparel,” Beaulieu said. “Our hope is that as our teams improve and get more experience, then the (size) of the deal goes up.”

Financial terms were not disclosed.

Seniors Brian Ragone, Zach Hoppe and Sammi Jo Gaeta sported ODA’s new Nike football, baseball and volleyball uniforms during the press conference.

“We’re going to play well no matter what,” Ragone said. “This is just one of the benefits.”

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In addition to football, baseball, volleyball and soccer, ODA will be sporting its new Nike apparel on the lacrosse field. The Thunder will be joining the Florida High School Athletic Association as an independent in boys and girls lacrosse for the 2011-12 season.

The Thunder will join Cardinal Mooney as the only local programs directly involved in the FHSAA. In addition to the Cougars, the Thunder is likely to play Berkley Prep, Tampa Catholic and teams from Fort Myers and Naples.

Prior to this year, ODA had club la-

crosse teams similar to Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School and the Sarasota Military Academy. However, ODA has spent the past few years working to become an official FHSAA-sanctioned team.

“When they hired me five years ago, they knew I was coming from Maryland, which is the hotbed for lacrosse,” said Jamie Carver, director of Middle and Upper School Admissions who also will serve as the boys lacrosse coach.

Amy Whittington, who played defensive point for the University of Delaware from 1995 to 1997, will serve as the girls coach.

“I’m just looking forward to playing the sport again and being with high school kids,” Whittington said. “I’m very excited to get on the field, and show a new school what it’s like to have lacrosse.”

In addition to lacrosse, ODA also welcomed Billy Dietrich as its baseball coach and Keba Phipps as its volleyball coach.

Last year, Dietrich served as an assistant coach for the Thunder. Dietrich replaces coach Mike Verrill, who resigned in June.

“They’re fantastic kids, and it’s been fun watching them grow over the past three years,” he said.

Phipps played on the 1988 and 2004 Olympic volleyball teams and spent 15 years playing professionally in Europe before starting her own club team in the Tampa area. Phipps first learned about the open position at ODA from a team parent who knew her from her club team.

“She asked if I would interested in coaching and developing young girls,” Phipps said. “I was a little worried about them buying into my philosophy of training, but it was definitely the right decision.

These girls are working so hard, and I’m very excited about their future.”

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Ranch attracts new athletic schools The House of Pain Martial Arts Academy opened Aug. 1, while Lakewood Ranch Gymnastics will open Sept. 6.

LAKEWOOD RANCH — Beginning this fall, East County students and their families will have two more athletic opportunities available to them.

The House of Pain Martial Arts Academy opened Aug. 1, on Lena Road in Bradenton; Lakewood Ranch Gymnastics is scheduled to open Sept. 6.

THE HOUSE OF PAIN MARTIAL ARTS ACADEMY

For the past five years, Josh Escher has been dreaming of opening his own martial arts academy.

But it wasn’t until his friend and fellow fighter Larry Jarrett was killed in a car accident in January that Escher finally decided to follow through on his dream.

“That (encouraged) me to get the process started, and here we are,” Escher said. “Just the whole situation — there was something about it. I don’t know if it was his way of coming down and telling me. … I started training with (Master Mike) when I was about 10 years old, and Larry was the first person I met. We grew up together and I looked up to him like an older brother. Losing him was like losing an older brother.”

On Aug. 1, Escher, along with Master Mike Hollobaugh, opened The House of Pain Martial Arts Academy, 5103 Lena Road, Suite 115. The House of

his mother encouraged him to get involved.

“It teaches you a lot about respect toward others,” said Escher, who also works as a deputy for the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.

Escher joined an after-school program at Bayshore Elementary before he began training with Hollobaugh in the early 90s. Since then, Escher has won Junior Florida State, Florida State Lightweight and U.S. Lightweight titles.

Those interested in signing up for classes or receiving more information can stop into the academy, call 755-6000 or visit www. myhouseofpain.com.

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Josh Escher began taking martial arts at 5 years old. He also is a deputy with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.

Pain, which is open from 4:30-9 p.m., Monday through Thursday; and 4:30-7 p.m., Friday, offers a wide variety of instructional classes, including traditional karate, kickboxing, MMA Fitness Training, cardio training, danger awareness, women’s self defense, grappling and zumba, among others, for children and adults.

Prices vary depending on the length of the class. Law enforcement, EMS, military, fire and family discounts also are available.

“We want people to come in and have fun and, in the process, learn martial arts and get in shape,” Escher said. “We have so much to offer.”

In addition, The House of Pain also offers an after-school program, which includes free pickup from select East County elementary schools, independent homework time, an instructed karate class and supervised playtime.

Escher began taking martial arts when he was 5 years old after

Laura Parraga will never forget the day her mother told her she needed to find a part-time job.

The Inlets resident was going to school in South Carolina at the time. From the moment she set foot in the gym, Parraga felt right at home.

“I completely found my passion,” Parraga said. “They spent so much time training me in European technique, and I also learned about balance because (children need to lean that gymnastics) is a choice. It’s just my passion.”

Upon graduating from college, Parraga, who took gymnastics as a child, went to work for a gymnastics club in Augusta, Ga., where she ran the club’s lower-level competitive teams while also cheering for the Atlanta Falcons.

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Now, after spending the past seven years coaching LaFleur’s Gymnastics’ competitive team in Largo, Parraga and her husband, David, a former world champion gymnast on both vault and floor, are hoping to bring their competitive edge to Lakewood Ranch.

On Sept. 6, the couple will open Lakewood Ranch Gymnastics, 10615 Technology Terrace. In addition to running the school, the Parragas also will continue to coach their competitive team in Largo for another year.

“This time last year, we approached the (LaFleur) family and originally we thought about purchasing and running the Largo gym, but this is our community,” Laura Parraga said. “Hopefully, we can provide the area with something that has seemingly been missing — great technical gymnastics and a lot of fun at a high level.”

Lakewood Ranch Gymnastics offers a variety of classes for children 16 months and up, including cheerleading and tumbling classes, recreational gymnastics for boys and girls and competitive gymnastics. In addition, the gym also will host open gyms from 11 a.m. to noon, Wednesdays; and 6:30-8:30 p.m., Fridays, as well as birthday parties. Classes range from $63 to $120 per month for once or twice a week sessions.

Beginning next year, the gym also plans to begin hosting USA Gymnastics competitions.

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“The lights make us very unique in that we are the only local facility that is privately owned that has playing fields with lights,” Lakewood Ranch Director of Sports Tim Mulqueen said. “We can now be host to at least nine national events — events that will be massive in terms of economic impact and exposure to the area that we could not have secured without lights.”

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kirsten hannabass Lakewood Ranch High alumna Kirsten Hannabass finished sixth in the Swivel at the 37th Division 1 Show Ski National Championship Aug. 12-14, in Janesville, Wis. The Sarasota Ski A Rees Water Ski Show team member, who will be a freshman at the University of Central Florida, also finished third in Adiago Doubles with teammate Jeff Maglione. Here is an inside look at this week’s Athlete of the Week.

What do you enjoy the most about water skiing?

The people. I spend the weekend with my family. My boyfriend of more than a year and my best friends, who are like my brothers and sisters, do it.

Of the different events that you do, which is your favorite?

I like the doubles, because I have someone there to rely on and the attention is not just on me. I like having someone there help me get over the nerves.

How did you get into water skiing?

My dad had a boat, and my neighbors had boat, so we would go out and tube, and then my neighbor decided to teach us how to ski. Once I learned everything in the river there was to learn by myself, I went and joined team to learn other stuff.

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Do you have any siblings?

I have a sister, Samantha, who is 16 years old.

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Europe. I’ve always wanted to go there, mainly Italy, for the history of it.

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Do you have a favorite TV show?

“Pretty Little Liars.” It’s my bonding time with my sister.

Who is your biggest role model?

I look up to everybody, especially a lot of people on my team. They all teach me stuff.

Do you have a favorite food?

My dad owns an Italian restaurant, so anything Italian except pizza. I kind of get sick of that.

If you could do any other sport, what would it be?

Kite boarding. I see them next to the (Sunshine) Skyway all the time, and it looks really cool. I would like to do that.

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How do you think you did at the national championships?

We did a lot better than we thought we would do. For the category where I got sixth, I wanted to drop out, but my parents wouldn’t let me. I was really nervous, because thought I would fall a lot, but I didn’t.

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TemperatureS

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High Sun., Aug. 14 92 Mon., Aug. 15 92 Tues., Aug. 16 90 Wed., Aug. 17 91 Thurs., Aug. 18 92 Fri., Aug. 19 92 Sat., Aug. 20 89 Average Gulf water temperature: 87.6

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Sunrise Sunset Thurs., Aug. 25 7:06 7:59 Fri., Aug. 26 7:07 7:58 Sat., Aug. 27 7:07 7:57 Sun., Aug. 28 7:08 7:56 7:08 7:55 Mon., Aug. 29 Tues., Aug. 30 7:09 7:53 Wed., Aug. 31 7:09 7:52

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Kellie Holohan, 14, took this sunset photo from her backyard in Lakewood Ranch.

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Last weeks Cryptograms 1. A shady politician outlined his philosophy: you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you should really focus on.

2. Too often, politics seems to describe the ability to find a worrisome trouble area, misdiagnose it, then willfully misapply the wrong remedy!

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ETHAN ALLEN Dining table: two leaves $100.

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LAKEWOOD RANCH ESTATE- Aluminum 5-piece patio (cost $1700-Restoration 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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SENIOR LOOKING to buy precious metals, time pieces, coins, jewelry and antiques. Please call Marc, 941-321-0707.

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Garage/Moving/Estate Sales FLEA MARKET. Sarasota Municipal Auditorium.

Saturday, August 27, 10a.m.-5p.m. & Sunday, August 28, 10a.m.-4p.m. For info: 954-4165 MOVING SALE: Whisper Bend, 6312 67th Street East behind Tara Elementary School. Sat. August 27th 8am to 2 pm. Leather couch, easy chairs, tv armoire, double bed, dresser, nightstands, lawn mower, household goods and more!

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We Will Never Forget Coming Sept. 8 Special 9/11 Memorial Editions of the Longboat Observer, Sarasota Observer, East County Observer and Pelican Press.

10th Anniversary of the Terrorist Attacks The editorial staffs of the Observers and Pelican Press will bring back to life the events in Sarasota, Longboat Key and Venice that connected our region to this tragic day.

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