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+ Residents see unlikely sighting A few weeks ago, Longboat Key residents Bob and Shannon Gault spotted what appeared to be an American saltwater crocodile swimming in the Sarasota Bay near their home. About 5:30 p.m., the animal was seen eyeing two small white herons sitting on the sea wall, then it meandered north toward Bay Isles.

“We have never seen this in 15 years on the water here,” Gault said.

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Robert Gaglio, Nancy Curtis, Amy Blair and Lee Fox

+ SOS honors Old Salty Dog Save Our Seabirds presented Old Salty Dog restaurant with an award Tuesday for its service to the organization.

SOS board members Nancy Curtis and Robert Gaglio and SOS Executive Director Lee Fox presented the award to restaurant Manager Amy Blair. The restaurant held a fish fry fundraiser for the organization in July, donated the food for the event and raised $3,000 for the birds.

“It was a few months ago now, and we’re still getting compliments about the fish fry; they really did a great job,” Curtis said.

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At 94, academy matriarch Julia Rohr refuses to take a bow. PAGE 12

performance review

D.M. Williams celebrates 30 years at Casa del Mar. PAGE 17

by Kurt Schultheis | City Editor

St. Denis under fire Longboat Key commissioners are meeting with the town manager to discuss his performance. Preliminary reviews by commissioners don’t give him top marks.

Town attorney David Persson confirmed to the Longboat Observer that he called each member of the Longboat Key Town Commission last week to inquire what kind of annual performance evaluation they were likely to submit for Town Manger Bruce St. Denis’ performance, which is expected to be performed by the end of the year.

The evaluation is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

St. Denis deferred any comment to Persson, who confirmed for the Longboat Observer he made the calls at the end of last week.

“It’s pretty obvious over the last many months, there have been some issues between the town manager and the commissioners,” Persson said. “So, the mayor (Jim Brown) told me that based on the negative feedback he was receiving, he requested that I talk to commissioners individually and relay the information to the town manager out of respect for him.”

Persson said the information has been relayed, and St. Denis is now in the process of meeting with Bruce St. Denis commissioners individually to discuss the feedback.

The preliminary feedback provided by three commissioners was indicative that a negative review would be presented to the town manager’s office.

Brown requested the annual written review for the town manager be reinstated after a three-year absence and has expressed displeasure publicly this summer regarding St. Denis’

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handling of the 2011-12 fiscal year budget.

Brown did not return a phone call seeking comment.

Vice Mayor David Brenner hesitated when asked what kind of review he would give St. Denis.

“To be honest, there are some things he hasn’t done super well,” Brenner said.

Commissioner Phillip Younger, meanwhile, said he “looks forward to a review process.”

When asked what kind of review he would give St. Denis, Younger said it’s common knowledge what kind of relationship he has with St. Denis.

“Anybody who has sat in a meeting has seen incidents where it was obvious I was not pleased with the input I was receiving from the town manager,” Younger said.

Town Clerk Trish Granger confirmed that St. Denis was meeting with several commissioners throughout the day Tuesday, Sept.

13.

When asked if all commissioners met with the town manager on a regular basis, Granger said she could not recall the last time Younger and St. Denis had entered a room together that didn’t involve a scheduled meeting that required them both to attend.

Commissioner Lynn Larson, meanwhile, ex-

For the record Four of the seven Longboat Key town commissioners shared their thoughts on Town Manager Bruce St. Denis and what kind of annual performance evaluation they would give him.

“Anybody who has sat in a meeting has seen incidents where it was obvious I was not pleased with the input I was receiving from the town manager” — Commissioner Phill Younger “To be honest, there are some things he hasn’t done super well” — Vice Mayor David Brenner “I will not be giving him a stellar review” — Commissioner Lynn Larson

“(I would give the town manager) a very favorable review” — Commissioner Hal Lenobel

SEE ST. DENIS / PAGE 2

by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Commission adopts 1.8872 millage rate The Longboat Key Town Commission approved the millage rate and 2011-12 fiscal year budget on its first reading.

Even if you can’t make it to Longboat Key Town Hall on the first Monday night of the month, you’ll still be able to spend the evening with the Longboat Key Town Commission.

Although Town Manager Bruce St. Denis suggested eliminating the town’s $20,000 contract with the Bradenton-based Studio 26 Productions, ending televised meetings, the commis-

sion directed St. Denis to add $10,000 to the budget to continue the contract for six months, during which the company will add live-stream videos. The town will evaluate the number

of viewers after six months to determine whether to continue.

If you do curl up with a commission meeting, you may notice that commissioners aren’t flipping through giant stacks of paper. They likely will be using

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ST. DENIS / FROM PAGE 1 plained she told Persson “she was less than pleased” with St. Denis’ performance.

“I will not be giving him a stellar review,” said Larson, who said St. Denis has not responded to several of her requests for public information.

Larson doesn’t feel St. Denis has done enough to help revise or work toward terminating employee pension plans she and others say are causing too much of a drain on town funds.

“I feel the commission is put in place by voters who expect us to be responsive to them,” Larson said.

“If the town manager is less than open with us in sharing information, I don’t feel we can properly respond to our constituents.”

Every commissioner who was interviewed said they believed St. Denis has made many contributions to the town over the last 14 years.

But Larson doesn’t think that

BUDGET / FROM PAGE 1 iPads, which they directed St. Denis to add to the budget at a cost of $6,000. The tablets had been discussed as a way to decrease paper costs and increase efficiency.

The streamed meetings and iPads are two of the tweaks the commission made during its Sept. 12 budget workshop during which they considered various items in St. Denis’ preliminary budget and gave direction on how to use the $52,400 surplus.

Commissioners also directed St. Denis to eliminate a proposed business-tax hike estimated to

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means the town manager is doing a good job today.

“The town has changed,” Larson said. “We don’t want a town manager who we don’t feel comfortable talking with or asking questions. Bruce has done the job commissions have asked for in the past. But this is a different commission, and we want problems solved — not problems pushed into the future.”

Commissioner Hal Lenobel was the only commissioner interviewed who told the Longboat Observer he would give the town manager “a very favorable review.”

Commissioners Pat Zunz and Jack Duncan did not return phone calls seeking comment for this story.

Speculation is looming that St. Denis could resign before going through a negative public review process. Any performance review by the town manager is required to be held as part of a public meeting.

Brenner said he was unsure if St.

Denis would consider resigning.

“Look: It’s the nature of the beast to have friction between the commission and any town manager,” Brenner said. “The town manager must decide if he can handle a little more friction than usual at this juncture.”

A unanimous vote of the commission is needed to terminate St. Denis’ employment with the town.

In 2007, St. Denis received a $25,000 salary increase (to $177,000) after commissioners discovered he was a top-10 finalist for the city manager position in Naples.

At the time, the $177,000 salary was one of top salaries of a town, city or county manager in the Southwest Florida region; only a similar managerial position in Sarasota County had a higher salary of $208,707. At the time of his raise, St. Denis oversaw 126 employees, while the Sarasota County manager was responsible for 2,491 employees.

generate an additional $8,000 in revenue.

“I just think this is not the time to be increasing business taxes,” Vice Mayor David Brenner said.

They agreed to resume contributions to Solutions to Avoid Red Tide, Sarasota Bay Estuary Program, the Economic Development Corporations of Sarasota and Manatee counties and Sarasota County Openly Plans for Excellence, although in the total amount of $44,600, rather than the proposed amount of $52,400.

Later, at the commission’s regular meeting, Commissioner Phill Younger asked Town Fi-

nance Director Tom Kelley about one of the town’s biggest budgetary items — its three employee pension plans.

Kelley said the plans will cost the town more than $2.7 million this fiscal year — more than 15% of its overall budget.

The commission unanimously approved on first reading the 2011-12 fiscal year budget, along with a millage rate of 1.8872 mills — unchanged from the previous fiscal year. The commission will adopt the millage rate of 1.8872 and budget at a special meeting beginning at 5:01 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26, at Longboat Key Town Hall.

auction block

by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Klauber-owned property scheduled for auction The property at 4110 Gulf of Mexico Drive will be auctioned Friday, Sept. 16.

The property at 4110 Gulf of Mexico Drive, owned by longtime Colony Beach & Tennis Resort owner Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber, is scheduled for a foreclosure sale Friday, Sept. 16. And although a change of ownership could happen soon, the property’s new owner won’t be the town of Longboat Key — for now.

The Longboat Key Town Commission was scheduled to discuss the property, located just north of Bayfront Park, at its Sept. 12 meeting but removed the item during the meeting.

Commissioner Phill Younger, who asked that the item be discussed at the meeting, said with just days left until the foreclosure auction, the timing wouldn’t work.

“It just doesn’t work,” Younger said. “It’s an enticing piece of property. In a perfect world, it would expand the park area.”

According to a uniform judgment of mortgage foreclosure filed in July in Sarasota County Court, Klauber owes a total $662,593.46 on the property, including a principal amount of $580,850.13.

The Sarasota County Property Appraiser’s website,

sarasotaproperty.net, states that a 1,332-square-foot residence with three bedrooms and three bathrooms is located on the property. According to the website, the just market value of the property is $518,500. It last sold for $329,000 in January 1998.

On Tuesday afternoon, Klauber said he wasn’t worried about losing the property. He said his main focus was the battle over the shuttered Colony in which he awaits a ruling from U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday.

“If I have to lose it, I have to lose it,” Klauber said of the Gulf of Mexico Drive property.

Klauber stressed the property is unrelated to the property next-door, where Pattigeorge’s restaurant is located. His son, Tommy Klauber, owns the restaurant.

Klauber said he was unable to make payments on the property because of the ongoing dispute with the Colony Beach & Tennis Association. But as of Tuesday afternoon, he said he hadn’t completely given up on the property.

“It’s not a closed case yet,” he said. “We still have three days.”

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by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Firefighters submit new proposal Younger hopes Under the union’s proposal, firefighters would not receive wage increases unless other employees get raises. But the contract suggests other forms of compensation.

The latest contract proposal put forth by the Longboat Fire District Union includes a “me too” clause — i.e., a provision that firefighters will forgo step and cost-of-living allowance increases unless other town employees receive raises.

However, the latest proposal also contains several provisions that are likely to spark debate in the latest round of contract negotiations between the firefighters union and town, including: • Paid time off for elected union officials to attend union functions; • Increased vacation time; • Recalculations that could double the amount of addi-

tional pay given for certain specialties; • An increase in the Deferred Retirement Option Program period to 60 months from its current 36 months; • An increase of 0.8 hours in compensation for holiday paid time off.

The proposal suggests increases in vacation time ranging from 144 hours, up from the current 120 hours, for firefighters with five to six years of service; and an increase to 360 hours from the current 240 hours for firefighters with more than 14 years of service.

Specialty pay would be calculated on an hourly basis, rather than the current

biweekly stipend firefighters receive for various specialties. For example, fire apparatus driver operators currently receive an additional $20 per biweekly pay period.

The new proposal suggests an additional $0.4465 per hour, which would equal about $50 per biweekly pay period for firefighters, who work 56 hours a week, or 24 hours on duty followed by 48 hours off.

Certified fire safety inspectors would receive an extra $0.893 per hour, rather than the current $50 per biweekly period, an increase that would equal a little more than $100 per biweekly period.

The proposed contract

would be valid from Oct. 1, 2011, through Sept. 30, 2014.

In June, the commission approved a temporary contract between firefighters and the town.

Reynolds Allen, the town’s labor attorney, declined to comment on the contract.

“We have it under advisement, and we’re working on it,” he said.

According to Lisa Silvertooth, human resources manager for the town, negotiations are unlikely to resume before the end of the month. If a new contract is not approved before Oct. 1, the current contract will remain in effect during negotiations.

IN MEMORIAM Mallory Gnaegy

Each year, the Longboat Key Public Works Department employees place 2,977 flags in the ground lining Gulf of Mexico Drive to honor each of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The tribute, started by the Longboat Key, Lido Key, St. Armands Key Chamber of Commerce and the town of Longboat Key, began in 2002.

SHRINKING SHORELINE

by Robin Hartill | City Editor

North-end sand never a long-term solution According to Longboat Key Public Works Department Director Juan Florensa, the loss of sand following an emergency beach project should be expected.

Gene Jaleski told the Longboat Key Town Commission the north end of Longboat Key is losing sand. In a Sept.

9 email to Mayor Jim Brown, Jaleski wrote: “Today, I measured the distance from the seawall at Longbeach Coquina building to the 3-foot escarpment that runs for hundreds of yards at the north end. I feel the 3-foot escarpment is a safety hazard as well as making it difficult to get to and from the water.

More disturbing is the fact that the distance between the seawall and the water is now 17 feet and diminishing daily.

If sand loss continues at the current rate, there will be no beach by the end of October with the winter storms approaching.”

But, according to Longboat Key Public Works Director Juan Florensa, the 133,000 cubic yards of sand deposited as part of the emergency north-

to put new candidates on the map

Commissioner Phill Younger suggested a new system of three geographic commission districts with four at-large commission seats.

Longboat Key Town Commissioner Phill Younger at a Sept. 12 workshop proposed a change in the way Longboat Key is represented at the Town Commission.

To increase the pool of potential candidates, Younger suggested a revision that would give Longboat Key three districts, stretching from the north end of the island to the Sarasota-Manatee county line; the county line to 1930 Harbourside Drive and 2165 Gulf of Mexico Drive; and from that point to the south end of the island.

One commissioner would come from each of the three districts, and the remaining four seats could be at-large.

“It would not be an abandonment of the district concept, but rather a fine-tuning to address today’s realities,” Younger said.

Younger said districts should be drawn based on the number of voters rather than voter turnout.

Younger told commissioners at the workshop the town’s current system made sense in the past. The system in which five of the island’s seven commissioners are spread throughout the island, while the other two commissioners hold at-large seats, was thought to “(ensure) that representation was spread throughout the island and that no one enclave was over-represented,” Younger read from a pre-written statement.

However, Younger said that system restricts potential candidates.

“The reality is that the mandate severely limits the talent pool, as evidenced by the lack of contested races,” Younger said, noting his comments weren’t directed at any past or present commissioner. “Unfortunately, there have been incidences whereby the interest level in a given district is minimal to virtually non-existent, with wellqualified candidates outside of that district denied the opportunity to serve.”

Younger said he would like to see voters decide on the issue via referendum vote in March.

“What I’m trying to do is get the ball rolling on this,” he said.

Town Manager Bruce St. Denis agreed to put the issue on the agenda for a future commission workshop.

Current districts District 1

Commissioner: Lynn Larson Boundaries: South end to 1145 GMD and Putter Lane

District 2

Commissioner: Jack Duncan Boundaries: 1145 GMD east to Putter Lane and Marina Bay

District 3 Rachel S. O’Hara

In June, 133,000 cubic yards of sand was placed on the north end of Longboat in an emergency beach project. The sand is projected to remain in place for one year. end beach project completed in June was never meant to be a long-term solution to northend erosion.

Some sand loss is expected following any beach renourishment, Florensa said, because of a process known as equilibration, in which some sand naturally erodes. Because of that process, extra

sand is deposited during a project.

But Florensa said the $4.5 million project was only meant to last a year.

“We did this so that Longbeach Coquina would have protection for the summer,” he said.

Florensa said that long-term solutions, including struc-

tures and sand placement, are in the works, although they won’t come quickly. The town has applied for permits from regulatory agencies, but the permits could take at least a year to obtain.

“Basically, you have an erosive area that cannot be fixed with sand alone,” Florensa said.

Commissioner/Vice Mayor: David Brenner Boundaries: 2251 GMD to 3715 GMD and Marina Bay to Buttonwood Cove

District 4

Commissioner/Mayor: Jim Brown Boundaries: Buttonwood Cove to 5611 GMD

District 5

Commissioner: Pat Zunz Boundaries: 5611 GMD to north end At-large commissioners: Hal Lenobel and Phill Younger

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by Kurt Schultheis | Staff Writer

St. Armands median project starts this week Work will begin in the next few days on a St. Armands Circle median project intended to enhance the district and improve pedestrian safety. and Rappaport said the medians near the Longboat Key thoroughfare would be completed first to avoid any potential traffic conflicts when residents come back to the island for season.

The project will install sidewalks along the Circle’s four medians. The sidewalks will allow visitors to exit there and walk down the center of the median to the pedestrian crosswalks near the center of the Circle. The sidewalk medians were added to address concerns expressed at traffic workshops about pedestrians exiting their vehicles and jaywalking, creating potential hazards.

All of the medians will be completely overhauled with new benches and new landscaping that includes shade trees.

The medians of each quadrant also will have a different theme.

Overall, the project is aimed at enhancing the appearance of the district while improving safety.

The project is being performed through a partnership between the city of Sarasota and the St. Armands Business Improvement District.

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A $450,000 St. Armands Circle median enhancement project will begin this week, according to St. Armands Circle Business Improvement District Chairman Marty Rappaport.

At the Sept. 13 St. Armands Business Improvement District meeting, Rappaport told those in attendance that motorists will begin to see the start project construction in the next few days.

The project, which is not expected to create any traffic congestion for motorists, will be complete by Thanksgiving.

Sarasota-based contractor John F. Swift Inc. has received general permits for the work,

“The next stage is landscaping for the Circle, removing the exposed power lines and building a multi-story parking garage,” he said.

That last step could take years to complete, Rappaport said, and depends on when city funds would be earmarked for the garage that could be built near the Circle’s fire station.

The city’s master parking plan, Rappaport said, shows the Circle has a shortage of more than 1,000 parking spaces during season.

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EATING EXPERIENCE

by Mark Gordon | Gulf Coast Business Review

Refined Dine Sean Murphy, proprietor of the award-winning Beach Bistro on Anna Maria Island, has ordered a new gastronomic experience. He aims to meld the extravagant with the essential and do it in an easygoing, comfort food, eat-it-here kind of way.

In fact, Murphy’s restaurant venture is simply called, “eat here.”

“We are debunking upscale formality,” Murphy says. “We’ve taken all the flavors at Beach Bistro and put them with more accessible fish and beef products.”

Murphy’s concept, too, is more than just a new menu that plays off Beach Bistro. For one, although Beach Bistro has the lone location on Anna Maria Island, the plan is to build a stable of eat heres, starting with the Gulf Coast.

The first eat here opened in December on Holmes Beach. A second eat here is set to open on Main Street in downtown Sarasota in November, and Murphy has begun to scout locations in Tampa and St. Petersburg for future eat heres.

In addition to more locations, Murphy tinkered with the highend restaurant model he built at Beach Bistro. That restaurant consistently earns one of the top dining spots in Florida in annual Zagat’s guides.

Eat here, Murphy says, offers smaller plates than Beach Bistro and does it in a more relaxed atmosphere. The menus, for example, are printed on regular paper,

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Eatery Excerpts Sean Murphy goes straight to the meat when he explains the menu differences between Beach Bistro and eat here.

BEACH BISTRO

Beach Bistro, the well-known restaurant Murphy owns on Anna Maria Island, serves rack of lamb. Murphy’s eat here serves pot roast.

The Beach Bistro menu, includes maple leaf duckling, which comes with a cognac demi-glace and costs $42.

EAT HERE

The eat here menu includes entrées ranging from $9 to $17.

Many appetizers are in the $5 to $8 range.

Designed and written by Murphy, the eat here menu also pokes fun at stuck-up foodies. The pan-cooked mussels, for instance, come with “frites (pretentious fries).”

Also, there’s fried (tempura) beets, “because Sean’s grandmother would roll over in her grave.”

stapled together and given to customers on clipboards. The napkins are cotton kitchen towels.

“It has a cool and hip feel, but it’s still casual and welcoming,” says Murphy.

Finally, the eat here model de-

The hard-hit Gulf Coast restaurant industry has a new entry. The recipe is to mix avant-garde with approachable.

pends on a quick and easy opening. The Holmes Beach location was built-out in a month and cost about $250,000 — ultra-fast and inexpensive in the restaurant industry.

Murphy, who opened Beach Bistro with his wife in 1985, brought on two passive partners for eat here. One, part-time Longboat Key resident Skip Sack, who once owned multiple Applebee’s and is a past president of the National Restaurant Association, helps Murphy look for new locations.

“I think it’s a great concept because it’s a niche no one else is doing,” Sack says. “It’s not like a chain.”

The eat here idea, Murphy says, goes back five or six years, when he saw customers shift their attitudes about dinner out. “I began to notice dining out was becoming much more about being entertained,” Murphy says.

Murphy noticed the trend at the Beach Bistro and at the Mangrove Grill in Palmetto, a restaurant he helped open in 2004. Murphy also works in a consultant role with the restaurant at The Concession, a private golf club in east Manatee County.

Although the shift to new dining-out attitudes is a big reason behind eat here, the No. 1 lesson Murphy teaches budding restaurant owners, that food comes first.

“It’s always about the food,” Murphy says. “You have to get an ‘A’ every time.”

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Longtime Anna Maria Island restaurateur Sean Murphy opened eat here last year on Holmes Beach. Murphy plans to open another eat here in November in Sarasota.

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A worthy tradition Sunday, 9/11/11, was indeed a tough day.

Surely, you tuned in to one of the many, many 9/11 specials on television. Or you read one or more of the multitude of stories and essays in newspapers. And at one point during any of these, your emotional well began to flow. Tears.

Quivering chin. Clenched jaw. Tightened throat … as you fought back the grief and relived that day through the personal narratives of that awful, awful act of terror and murder.

Sept. 11, 2001, always will hold a special place on Longboat Key — because of this little town’s role in the day’s events. But what makes that day even more poignant here are the flags placed along Gulf of Mexico Drive. Spawned by the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce, members of the town’s public works department on the day before 9/11 places one flag in the ground the entire length of the Key for each of the 2,977 victims who died in New York City, at the Pentagon and in Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. The flags are so much greater than their size. Although they represent one life lost, you can’t help but think of the overwhelming grief that rippled from the deaths of each of those 9/11 victims — the husbands, wives, children, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, co-workers and communities. All of these people carrying for 10 years the memory and hurt unjustly inflicted upon them and the 9/11 victims.

We appreciate this tradition on Longboat Key — a small but richly meaningful way for us never to forget. Thanks, public works.

+ Calm before the storm(s)

To use the clichés: These “dog days” of September are playing out as another typical September on Longboat Key — the calm before the storm, literally and figuratively.

This September is typical in that, economically, it has been so far, as Jim Seaton, owner of Longboat Limousine, recently put it: “Crummy like all Septembers.” No more or no less crummy.

Just typically crummy.

The good news is we have so far avoided hurricanes. Just two-and-a-half months to go. (Unfortunately, that’s still plenty of time for a lot to happen, as those of us who lived through 2004 remember — Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne spun through and up the Gulf Coast in 40 days.)

So let’s hope this September lull is not the literal calm before the storm.

Figuratively, September often is the calm before the next Town Hall storms.

Town commissioners by law take a hiatus in August. But when they reconvene again this month to adopt the fiscal 20112012 budget, that will trigger the start of addressing an agenda full of issues that

continue to linger and, as only on Longboat Key, are guaranteed to be contentious. A sampling: • A cell-phone tower proposal for the north end.

• The proposed Publix redesign and redevelopment.

• The town and Longboat Key Club and Resort’s continuing legal battles with the Islandside Property Owners Coalition.

• The town’s pension problems.

• And, watch for this: increasing tension between town commissioners and Town Manager Bruce St. Denis.

Let’s not forget, either: • The fate of the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort is expected to be decided later this month, with the owners association selecting a developer. We can count on that becoming yet another controversy to be added to the list of unresolved disputes there.

• Likewise expect some additional news on the fate of the Whitney Beach Plaza.

Enjoy this calm. But be assured: As longtime Longboaters know, although September may be calm and crummy, the other 11 months of the year always seem, as the weather saying goes, to “pack a punch.”

+ Perry and Ponzi

The Northeast and media elites just can’t stand that Texas swagger. That raw, rough-edged, tell-it-like-it-is honesty that’s as native to Texans as cotton and cowboy boots.

We love it.

And we love that he had the chutzpah to call Social Security what it really is: The biggest legalized Ponzi scheme in all of history.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry told a Tampa radio station Monday he wasn’t the first to call Social Security (and Medicare, as well) a Ponzi scheme. But he was the first national politician to have the guts to do so.

It is. It’s a scam. In fact, it’s worse than a Ponzi scheme. As the Reason Foundation notes, Social Security is worse than a Ponzi scheme for three reasons: 1) A Ponzi scheme collects money from new investors and uses it to pay previous investors — minus a fee. Social Security collects money from new investors (working taxpayers), uses some of it to pay previous investors and spends the surplus on programs for politically favored groups — minus the cost of supporting a massive bureaucracy.

Since its startup, trillions upon trillions of dollars have been spent on these groups and bureaucrats. There’s no trust-fund lock box.

2) Participation in a Ponzi scheme is voluntary. Social Security participation is required by force of law, at the point of a gun. The government automatically takes

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“We are in the midst of a global religious expansion that goes hand in hand with a widespread political uprising against oppression and corruption.

“It is commonly assumed that the most dynamic faith in the global revival is militant Islam, but it isn’t. The blue ribbon goes to American-style evangelical Christianity.

“You might not know, for example, that a leading Chinese government economist recently wrote a famous study of market economies, in which he concluded that successful capitalist countries have successful churches, and thus that China should embrace religious organizations.

“As two sharp-eyed British journalists note in their recent book, ‘God is Back,’ (Evangelical) Christianity is booming in the People’s Republic (and most everywhere else Christians are free to practice their faith), and the Chinese Constitution has actually been amended to make room for it …

“So when we hear the leaders of the American establishment declare war on the tea partiers, we would do well to remember that such movements are deeply embedded in our national DNA, that those establishment types owe their own status to such a movement, that the dreams of the tea partiers are shared not only by millions of American voters, but by freedom-seeking peoples in some unexpected places, and that it is no accident to discover that a global movement in the name of freedom coincides with a global great awakening, with roots in America and its unique revolutionary tradition.” your money out of your paycheck and “invests” it.

3) A Ponzi scheme eventually collapses when its perpetrators can’t con enough new investors to pay its previous investors.

Social Security, on the other hand, may worry about running out of investors, but it always has a trump card: It can raise your taxes.

Perry was being gentle when he called Social Security a Ponzi scheme. It’s Ponziplus. Legalized looting.

+ Perry and Palin?

Say good-bye to Bachmann, Caine, Gingrich, Huntsman, Paul, Romney and Santorum.

If Perry makes it through the remainder of the year without the mainstream media mutilating him, he’ll be the GOP guy.

Lurking with potential to strike (believe it or not): Sarah Palin.

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Value of gold should continue to increase they’re in trouble, as is the euro, who is buying the bonds?

Russell Napier discovered that the Fed was buying 200% of the securities that the Fed, itself, was selling. Because that cannot happen, Napier went on to learn that our domestic banks are currently big sellers of treasury bonds. The banks are selling bonds back to the Fed in return for cash. This is obviously the reason banks have such huge cash positions, and the reason the Fed can “purchase” 200% of what the Fed sells.

The Fed prints $4.4 billion every day just to pay the government’s bills. The Fed uses the cash it just printed to purchase treasury securities, previously issued and sold by the Fed to the banks, just like it is doing now. When money the Fed makes every day filters down into the economy, there ends up being too much cash for the goods and services available.

Therefore, the price of goods and services goes up.

3. Politicians and the press went crazy over Standard and Poor’s downgrading of U.S. debt, calling it “ridiculous, unnecessary and overreacting.” Standard and Poor’s rates U.S. government bonds (debt) based upon the ability to repay the obligation, as well as the government’s ability to pay the interest charges. The questions should be: What took Standard and Poor’s so long to

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5. In March 2008, the U.S. national debt was $9.4 trillion and the cost for servicing that debt was $406 billion. Today, our debt is $14.5 trillion. Professor Warwick McKibbin told the Melbourne Institute Conference last month that the U.S. is forecast to have debt of more than 100% of GDP. At zero interest rates, that can be sustained. At 5% interest rates, however, the U.S. will have to put aside at least 5% of GDP every year just to pay interest on the debt. That is not sustainable.

6. Fifty percent of people who file tax returns pay no income taxes. The other 50% pays all the income taxes. Our tax situation is too demanding for half of our taxpayers to pay no taxes at all. Our “leaders” are in a pickle: It’s tough to make people start paying taxes, and it’s tougher to raise taxes, especially in this environment.

The root causes of our economic problems are not being resolved. There are no answers to the continuation of policies that got us into trouble. It is, therefore, likely that the U.S. financial situation will get worse, while the value of gold and silver should, logically, continue to increase.

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downgrade the debt of a country that has no plan to repay its debt, and who continues to borrow 35% to 40% of expenditures every year? It’s unsustainable. It’s like the family who makes $65,000 and spends $100,000, year in and year out, until the borrowing they do to accommodate their lifestyle collapses upon them.

4. In the last several years, South American, European, Japanese and the U.S. governments have borrowed all of the savings of their countries just to sustain their own governments. The money our government spent, which has gotten us into trouble, is the spending for entitlement programs. Those programs have failed to do anything constructive.

Instead of being used in a way that could create permanent and growing employment, this use of capital is known in economics as “mal-investment,” which means — bad investment. The country’s savings have not been used for industrial growth. They have been given away to people who are not productive, but who are “entitled” to various U.S. government payments. Now, that $14.5 trillion of expenditures is U.S. government debt that must be repaid. But, it can’t be repaid until we quit borrowing money just to pay interest on the existing debt. That is the worst of all financial downward spirals.

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The following problems continue to cause deterioration in the purchasing power of our country’s currency and the commensurate increase in the price of gold: 1. The administration recently agreed with Congress to enact a $2.4 trillion spending cut over the next 10 years. There are two things wrong with this agreement: They have not yet agreed upon any spending cuts; and next year’s deficit spending is estimated to be $1.3 trillion. The debt ceiling isn’t shrinking — it’s rising. As with past years, they’ll be up against the debt ceiling within two years, if not before, and we’ll go through the same process again.

2. There are fewer buyers to purchase U.S. government bonds. Far Eastern economies do not want more dollar investments. European banks, we have just learned from our sneaky Federal Reserve, were borrowers of 70% of the Fed’s bailout money a few years ago. If European banks are out of the equation because

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The RAUCH economics associated with gold clearly favors a greater gain over the next 10 years than can be seen in ownership of other investments.”

There are three phases to a gold bull market. The first phase is when investors realize gold is undervalued and begin to accumulate it for their own investment purposes. Smart investors realize those policies will force the value of currencies down and the value of gold up. These are early investors, and that phase is over.

The second phase of a gold bull market occurs when everybody starts talking about the increasing price of gold. We are there. In the second phase, the media begins to talk about gold, and the public realizes the reasons gold has increased in value.

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salad plate onto a chair. The guest told police he was recently released from Manatee County Jail after he demanded that a store clerk install a LoJack chip inside his 10-year-old son; he said voices belonging to either Jesus Christ or the Boogeyman told him to do so. He also told police he was fighting the devil and if he ate poisoned mushrooms, “It would not look like suicide.” The man told police to wait while he grabbed the slingshot he dropped in an earlier battle with a demon. No slingshot was located. Police transported the man to Manatee Glens Treatment Center in Bradenton and completed Baker Act paperwork.

Dem bones 6:48 p.m. — 5400 block of GMD. Suspicious Circumstance. A woman turned in a plastic bag with seven small bones, one large bone and a black bracelet with “eaortho.com smile 4 awhile” written on it. Although the smaller bones resembled animal bones that often wash ashore from crab traps, the woman felt that the larger bone and the bracelet were suspicious.

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CLASSIC COPS June 18, 2003 Presidential address 9:35 p.m. 1600 block of GMD. Suspicious Person. A Pennsylvania woman hanging around the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort told police she is trying to locate George W. Bush, because they are supposed to get married. The woman is a little late — Bush has not been to the Colony since Sept. 11, 2001. The woman’s current husband told police his wife has had a mental breakdown.

Source of the leak 9:41 a.m. — 3200 block of Bayou Road. Civil Disturbance. A woman reported the contractor’s employee who recently repaired and renovated her bathroom had not responded to her calls about an irregular leak in her toilet. The company agreed to send out a technician, but the woman felt the contractor employee should be responsible for repairs.

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9:24 a.m. — 3200 block of GMD. Suspicious Person. Police responded to a report of a suspicious person on private property and found the subject sitting on a bench. The man told police he went out early that morning for a swim, met with a Realtor and was looking at the property.

12:36 p.m. — 100 block of N. Shore Road. Public Service. A man called police after he parked his vehicle in a beach access and was unable to find it when he returned. The man appeared to be dehydrated and slightly disoriented. Police found the vehicle and drove the man to it.

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Florence Mann, 91, of Canton, Mass., and formerly of New Bedford, Mass., and Longboat Key, died Sept. 1.

Mrs. Mann was born June 23, 1920. She graduated in 1942 from Simmons College, in Boston. Mrs. Mann and her husband, Howard Z. Mann, owned and operated women’s apparel stores in New Bedford.

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her husband of 55 years, Howard Z. Mann.

She is survived by one sister, Pauline Feinstein; two sons, Jeffrey and Edward; one daughter, Susan Bain; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Services were held Sept. 4, in New Bedford, Mass.

Remembrances may be made to Tifereth Israel Congregation, 145 Brownell Ave., New Bedford, Mass., 02740.

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All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road, will hold Sunday worship services at 9 a.m. The Rev. David Danner is the rector. 3838161.

Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian USA, 595 Bay Isles Road, will hold Sunday worship services at 10 a.m. The Rev. Bruce Porter is the pastor.

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Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive, will hold Sunday worship services at 10 a.m. The Rev. Kenneth Gill is the minister. 383-6491.

St. Armands Key Lutheran Church, 40 N. Adams Drive, will hold contemporary Sunday

Info: RSVP to Ruth Strauss at 3835349

Cancer Support Community Sessions — take place from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Mondays at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road. The sessions offer support to cancer patients and their family members and friends. Call 921-5539.

Longboat Library — is open from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

The library is located at 555 Bay Isles Road. Call 383-2011.

The Lord’s Warehouse — is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. The thrift shop is located 6140 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Call 383-4738.

worship services at 9 a.m. and traditional Sunday worship services at 11 a.m. The Rev. Mark Bernthal is the pastor.

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St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church, 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive, will hold daily Mass at 9 a.m. Monday through Friday, Saturday Mass at 5 p.m. and Sunday Masses at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. Msgr. Gerard Finegan is the pastor. 3831255.

Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road, will hold Shabbat services at 5:30 p.m. Fridays and 10 a.m. Saturdays.

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“If you practice discipline and good manners in music class, you’ll see it in everything else you do,” Julia Rohr says.

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The music ma’am The 94-year-old matriarch of Julie Rohr Academy proves she’s still got what it takes to make kids sing.

J

ulia Rohr has a reputation for being strict.

The 94-year-old music teacher admittedly has little patience for slackers.

Her pupils and her colleagues know this.

Even her daughter, Julie Rohr McHugh — a bubbly 65-year-old for whom Rohr purchased her private

school on Fruitville Road — refers to Rohr as a disciplinarian, followed by this label: “old school.”

“Kids used to say they felt sorry for me,” McHugh says. “They didn’t know my mother wasn’t stern at home.”

Stern is the last thing Rohr appears to be on this particular morning.

Dressed in a green tracksuit decorated with fabric, painted butterflies,

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Rohr teeters merrily across the lobby at Julie Rohr Academy on a gold cane bedecked in rhinestones.

McHugh, Rohr’s only child, trails closely behind. An ageless motherdaughter duo, the two are inseparable. Together they’ve touched thousands of lives in Sarasota and have served as tireless champions for youth music programs.

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Bert Minot and Bev Crawford with one of the new displays.

Designing Women Boutique is apparently recession proof.

Not only did the consignment shop see a 25% increase in sales this year, it ushered in a new estate liquidation and downsizing department and added 800 square feet of new office space to its North Tamiami Trail location.

And the makeover continues.

In just one weekend last month, DWB Development Director Pam Day and a team of volunteers (Annie Sundeen,

Bev Crawford, Butch Amerson, Bert Minot and John Day) enlarged and remodeled the sales floor.

The group clocked more than 400 hours primping the store before its Aug. 15 grand reopening.

If you haven’t stopped by the boutique, you should. The entire north end of the store now houses pretty home furnishings and accessories, while the south end showcases DWB’s famous stock of designer duds.

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+ Baby, I’m back!

Wondering where I’ve been all summer?

Yeah, me too.

In case you missed the photo of my new favorite subject –– Baby Henry, who made an appearance in this column following his June 5 birth –– here’s another shot of the little guy. (You know us new moms.

We’re relentless when it comes to baby pictures.)

Anyway, I’m back from the abyss, and by abyss I mean maternity leave, and by maternity leave I mean the haze of sleepless nights, soggy burp cloths, dirty diapers

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and endless consoling of inconsolable cries.

Ah, who am I kidding? I’m still in the thick of it.

But, I’m happy to be back to work, because the only arts and entertainment in my life right now is a musical rattle that never shuts up and a stuffed dog that sings “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” in a cringe-worthy falsetto.

Thank you to Loren Mayo for doing a killer job with this section while I was away. If you see Loren around town, please give her a hand for a performance well done.

And, please, by all means, tell me my baby is cute.

dozens of s/ART/q volunteers who dry, fold and organize hundreds of pieces of apparel faster than it takes most people to do one load of laundry.

The Sept. 10 event served up a variety of designs, including an old lady in a superhero cape done by the always-enigmatic Brian Haverlock. The print was a sleeper hit among new parents

+ Golden Apple goes ‘Butch’ for bucks The Golden Apple Dinner Theatre has found its niche.

Between Drag Queen Bingo and last weekend’s “Butchlesque Fashion Show,” the Apple is quickly becoming the poster theater for gender-bending entertainment.

The 40-year-old dinner theater

brandishing white baby onesies.

Also a hit among infants: Tim Jaeger’s ode to John Ringling — an illustration of the circus magnate dressed as a dorky tourist in knee socks and a Hawaiian shirt.

One can only assume that if Ringling were still around, he’d be in line at the print party, hoping to jazz up his tailored suit coat.

recently filed to become a nonprofit organization in an effort to pay off its debts. With events such as “Butchlesque,” billed as a fundJamie Arena raiser to help save dons a mean the Apple, it looks like the theater is moustache.

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Ariana Franco at work.

on the upswing of its struggle.

The Sept. 10 show sold out well before it opened.

None of this, however, seemed to fluster the female models, many who had never walked a catwalk before — and in men’s clothing.

Said Gail Forbes: “I heard the lights will blind me, so I won’t see how many people are out there.

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Doesn’t the s/ART/q print party suit Sarasota to a tee?

(Sorry, I can’t resist a good pun.)

For the third year in a row, the artists of s/ART/q prove if you ink it, they will come.

The Rosemary District’s HuB once again hosted the popular screen-printing party, which now runs like a well-oiled machine thanks to the

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ROHR from 12 Their greatest legacy is, of course, the academy that bears their name.

With its focus on visual and performing arts, JRA has staged approximately 150 musicals over the course of 37 years.

Rohr, with her pink lipstick, flashy cane and halo of white hair, is the grande dame of the school, which she purchased in 1973 when it was a rundown day care with only 17 kids on the roster.

She famously bought the building so McHugh, who followed in her mother’s footsteps, would leave her post teaching music at a Fort Lauderdale middle school and return to Sarasota for work.

“You know how mothers are,” Rohr says. “I was determined to have my daughter near.”

The plan worked.

McHugh took over the school the following year and embarked on the herculean task of overhauling a neglected building with grease splatters so thick on the kitchen walls it took weeks to scrape them clean.

“I thought it would take a miracle worker to change this place,” McHugh says. “But Mother kept saying we could do it. I tell ya, when she sets her mind to something … ” “What?” Rohr asks. “You’re the one who did it.”

Humble as she is, Rohr has set her mind to many things since she and her late husband, former Sarasota Concert Band Director Arthur Rohr, moved in 1953 to Sarasota.

A classically trained violinist, Rohr played the viola in the Sarasota West Coast Symphony,

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“I don’t think anyone ever mouthed off to my mother,” says Julie Rohr McHugh of her mother, Julia Rohr, pictured here directing the Sarasota Boys Choir in the 1970s. founded the Sarasota boys and girls choirs, led an all-accordion band and for 48 years directed the Bee Ridge Presbyterian Church Choir and the Sarasota Choral Society, for which she still serves as director emerita.

“I’ve always felt that music was as important as math or science,” says Rohr, who during her nearly 30-year tenure as a music teacher in Sarasota County taught in every public elementary school in the district. “Music helps everything else in the brain develop.”

Perhaps this is why her brain has stayed so sharp.

Three years ago she suggested creating “Sarasota’s Got Talent,” a performing-arts competition in the vein of her three favorite TV programs: “American Idol,” “America’s Got Talent” and “So You Think You Can Dance.”

The school opened up the contest to children and adults; the auditions are held at the Plymouth Harbor Auditorium.

The first year, 35 performers auditioned. Last year, that number doubled.

“Working with children all of these years has kept my mother young,” McHugh says. “Teaching and being with her grandchil-

dren and great-grandchildren has kept her in a youthful frame of mind. Although, if you ask her, she’ll say she’s old.”

The two women are sitting sideby-side in Rohr’s tiny wood-paneled office at JRA. Even though she retired from teaching in 1982, Rohr still gives piano lessons and keeps an office at the school.

Her desk is cluttered with photographs, stacks of sheet music, an assortment of awards and a glass jar of jellybeans. Among the framed accolades is a plaque from the city of Sarasota proclaiming Nov. 28, 2004, “Dr. Julia W. Rohr Day.”

“When she complains about being old, I tell her most women her age are in nursing homes,” McHugh says. “And here she is driving, shopping and working.”

McHugh emphasizes the word “working,” to which Rohr rolls her eyes and shrugs.

As much as she’s scaled back her involvement with other organizations, Rohr continues to throw her weight around at JRA. “The teachers here have learned that when she says, ‘Jump,’ they ask, ‘How high?’”

McHugh jokes. “When she needs a new cane bedazzled, the art teacher bedazzles it.”

Rohr chuckles quietly to herself. Some schools have a mascot. The Julie Rohr Academy has a matriarch –– and she rules with a sparkly cane.

“All the children call me ‘Dr. Rohr,’” Rohr says, referencing her 1991 honorary doctor of liberal arts degree from her alma mater, Shenandoah University. “I always get a charge out of that.”

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SEBASTIAN’S CELEB ENCOUNTERS

Music Director Michael Sebastian returns to his Golden Apple stomping grounds with a feisty new musical about disgruntled Disney princesses.

nomadic lifestyle and the variety of theater credits it affords him, he say there’s nothing quite like musicdirecting a show at the Golden Apple.

A cello major from the University of Michigan, in 1978 Sebastian moved to Sarasota to play for the Florida West Coast Symphony, where he served as its principal cellist for six years.

Tired of stringing Bach, Sebastian took a gig as a keyboardist with a top-40 cover band. At the time, it was 1985. Bob Seger and Huey Lewis dominated the radio.

“I loved it, but I still felt like I was exclusively doing one thing,” Sebastian says.

“I still wanted to mix it up.”

After a three-year stint working as the music director on a cruise ship, he returned to Sarasota, landed “South Pacific” at the Golden Apple and was soon hired as the theater’s resident music director.

The job taught him how to work fast. The 40-yearold dinner theater has notoriously short rehearsal

Smokey Robinson “He turned to the string section and said, ‘I should have hired a synth player instead.’ Ouch.”

Bernadette Peters “She’s got drive like no other.”

Paige O’Hara (the voice of Belle in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”) “She was so delightful, so talented and so humble.”

Johnny Mathis “He’s pathologically shy.”

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“The score is my bible,” Michael Sebastian says. “If I can’t translate what’s in the hard copy of the score, I don’t have the right to be a music director.” periods — one week to 10 days.

It taught him the delicate art of stroking an actor’s ego or, as Sebastian describes it, “getting inside an actor’s head and learning what makes ’em tick.”

It’s also where he met

his husband and current manager, Mark Marvell, the theater’s former box office manager.

“We have a really long and wonderful history,” Sebastian says. “Both personally and professionally.”

He even digs the Golden

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Apple’s music pit, which, unlike most orchestra pits, is located above the stage instead of below it.

“It’s cool up here,” Sebastian says, tugging at the dusty black curtain that keeps his piano from being spotted by the audience.

“You can misbehave and no one knows.”

His first show back is “Disenchanted,” a new musical about bitter fairy-tale princesses whom Sebastian describes as “quick, smart and bitchy.”

No, he’s not being judgmental.

The musical’s full title –– “Disenchanted: Bitches of the Kingdom” –– is curiously missing from the theater’s website.

“It has its raunchy mo-

ments,” says Sebastian, who’s looking forward to meeting the 10 females who will round out the cast.

The musical, which opens Oct. 11, hasn’t been cast yet.

In the meantime, Sebastian has begun the process of “internalizing” the score, a process he repeats with every musical, no matter how many times he’s seen other productions of the show.

“I always find something in the score that I’ve never seen before,” Sebastian says. “With the last show I did, the composer wrote ‘Congrats! You did it,’ at the end of the score. With this show, the composer wrote, ‘A tempo di insane.’ That’s a first.”

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Michael Sebastian is happy to be home again.

He’s happy to be home in Sarasota after wrapping his last show in New Hampshire, and he’s happy to be home at The Golden Apple Dinner Theatre, where he got his start as a music director 20 years ago on the 1991 set of “South Pacific.”

“It feels so good to be back,” Sebastian says.

More than 12 years have passed since he worked on a show at the Golden Apple, but you wouldn’t know it by the way he banters back and forth with the theater staff.

It’s as if he never left.

Strolling through the mostly empty theater on a Tuesday afternoon, Sebastian tosses one-liners back and forth with Kyle Turoff, the theater’s managing director.

The Golden Apple’s former resident music director, Sebastian now spends his time on the road traveling from theater to theater, orchestra pit to orchestra pit.

Although he loves his

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Friday and Saturday The restaurant is closed on Sunday. tuna wrapped with rice paper, edamame puree and cherry tomatoes and tuna tataki (see recipe below). For a main course, he suggests traditional tempura and a combination sushi boat for three to four people. And for dessert, he suggests a tempura fig. His lunch recommendation is a lunch bento box priced from $8.99 to $12.99.

Dokko, 28, learned the restaurant business from the scullery up and has done virtually every job in the kitchen and the front of the house. At Amura, Orlando’s largest Japanese restaurant, he rose from chef to general manager. He came in 2008 to Sarasota and built a team including his right-hand man, Bao Kosai Tep, also 28, with whom he worked in Orlando and later recruited from Atlanta, and Victor Ahn, 21. The three chefs practice their art daily and create new masterpieces on a monthly basis.

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Forty years ago in this country, sushi was exotic — a rarity sought out and enjoyed by a culinary intelligentsia. Today, you can buy it in plastic containers at your local supermarket, and in some ways, that’s good news. But there is more to sushi than fish with rice. It’s a legitimate culinary art form that requires talent as well as skill. And eating sushi can be an artful, unique dining experience.

That’s what it is at Jpan Restaurant & Sushi Bar, tucked away on the north side of Paradise Plaza. The menu delivers raw fish treated with respect in all the conventional guises and some uniquely Jpan ways.

There are the expected Japanese classics, here called “kitchen entrées” — tempura, teriyaki, miso sea bass and more. The black-garbed servers are knowledgeable, efficient and pleasant, and the place manages to be simultaneously tranquil and lively. This is sushi-the-experience as well as sushi-the-food.

What gives Jpan a twist is the heritage of chef/proprietor Daniel Dokko, who was born and raised in Brazil.

“Sushi has a clean taste, so it goes really well with fruit,” he said.

He means tropical fruits — for the most part: kiwi, mango, strawberry and Asian pear. He says the idea is popular with customers. An example from the list of J Pan’s specialty rolls: Aloha Roll, made of shrimp tempura and cream cheese topped with mango and coconut. Other specialties include low-carb options such as Cucumber Delight, which consists of tuna, salmon, kani and asparagus wrapped in transparently thin cucumber.

In an economy that has been hostile to restaurants, Jpan is thriving. Just three months ago, Dokko doubled the size of his place so it now seats 90. The art of the food finds its match in a wall decorated by a collaborative effort of Professor DongHuy Kim, from Ringling College of Art and Design, and Dokko’s 3-year-old son, Dario.

Asked what he would recommend to a new customer visiting for the first time, Dokko’s appetizer choices included the Summer Breeze roll of white and regular

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Memory

Maker For his 30 years as general manager at Casa del Mar, D.M. Williams received not one but two surprises last week from those who work closely with him.

On the wall lining Casa del Mar urday, Sept. 10, about a dozen reGeneral Manager D.M. Williams’ sort staff members and the board office are four framed poems at Casa del Mar surprised him written by resort guests about again — this time with a luncheon Williams. In the past 30 years, he during which they presented him has worked at the resort, he has with a plaque, a garden windmill collected about nine poems. and many thanks for his longtime “They just keep on writing leadership. them about me,” Williams says “He’s the best boss I’ve ever with a grin. had,” said Jeanette Frint, Casa del The 80-year-old shows off his Mar office manager. office packed with memorabilia In the last three decades, the like a cherished trophy collec- Texan has made lots of memories, tion: a world map with 100-plus he says. pins marking places his Cripple One cherished memory was Creek Cloggers danced; plaques when Williams and Casa del Mar displaying his “Citizen of the Year hosted teenaged terminally ill 1988” and “They Make A Differ- cancer patients, through a proence 2003” awards; and photos gram called, “Kids by the Sea.” with famous people from their Twenty-five years ago, Williams stays at the resort, such as the provided 24 rooms to the kids, late Boston Red Sox Manager Lou doctors and aids for five nights, Gorman. with full amenities.

Last week, Williams received Edith Barr Dunn helped by prothe newest piece of memorabilia viding catered meals from her for his collection.

Shenkel’s restaurant. The kids From his bookshelf, he deli- also played at the beach, ate in cately lifts a wooden plaque with different restaurants, danced and a model of a Longboat Key police went on sight-seeing buses. Café car mounted on it — and again L’Europe sent limos for the pahe breaks into his trademark big tients to dine at the restaurant. smile.

“I sat by one 14-year-old boy “I know I’m protected now,” he who was looking out over the jokes.

Gulf of Mexico and asked him to On Thursday, Sept. 8, Police tell me about his life,” Williams Chief Al Hogle, retired Deputy said. The boy had been told two Police Chief Martin Sharkey and months prior that he was termia few other police officers sur- nally ill. “It broke my heart,” Wilprised Williams with the plaque, liams said. to thank him for his support over That event was the inspiration the years. for Williams’ work with St. Jude “We leaned on him a couple Children’s Research of times,” Sharkey Hospital — he has said. been working During a hurriwith it and the cane evacuation, Longboat Key Williams would Kiwanis Club give all law offor the past ficers as many 25 years. It’s a rooms as they well-known needed so fact that they wouldn’t each year have to drive Williams home after a sells the 12-plus-hour The Longboat Key Police Department lion’s share shift. of raffle gave Williams this plaque for his loyal And on Sat- service to its department. tickets for

Casa del Mar Board of Directors President John Zefeldt recognizes D.M. Williams’ service with a plaque Saturday, at the Helmsley Sandcastle Hotel.

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Police Chief Al Hogle and retired Deputy Police Chief Martin Sharkey present D.M. Williams, middle, with a plaque in recognition of his support of the police department over the years. The trio wore pearls to signify Williams’ 30 years as general manager of Casa del Mar — 30th anniversaries are often marked with pearls. the St. Jude Gourmet Luncheon raffle, organized by the Kiwanis Club.

Williams’ philanthropicallyinclined demeanor extends to everyone he meets.

“D.M. treats every person as the world’s No. 1 most important (person),” says Casa del Mar Building and Grounds Supervisor Holly Baran, who has worked with Williams for the past 18 years.

The staff also spoke about his passions for dancing and riding horses; how kind, considerate and quick-witted he is; the great stories he tells; but, most of all — the lessons he has taught them.

“I learned a lot from him,” said landscaper Juan Cavazos. “He’s not only experienced with plants, but he gave me a job when I needed it and helped me and my family a lot.”

Williams loves his flowers — al-

most as much as people.

“I have one of the most beautiful landscape and properties on Longboat Key,” Williams said.

He has built a flourishing orchid garden, which started with only one board of orchids some Casa del Mar guests left in Williams’ care. The garden has become a bountiful haven of about 250 orchids. He has grown the world’s tallest cotton plant — more than once — something reminiscent of his past. Williams grew up on a cotton farm in west Texas, where his mother raised him and his 11 siblings. He was the youngest, and he attributes the cotton plant’s world-record growth to his older brother, who sent him the seeds.

His newest project at Casa del Mar is a rose garden. He has four arches set up and is waiting to plant 20 climbing roses and three rose bushes in October.

The grounds are filled with dozens of species of flora and fauna, which Casa del Mar uses to create arrangements for guests’ special occasions, for first-time visitors or just to brighten someone’s day. Williams orchestrates these plants with landscaper Elton Arellino, who puts the arrangements together.

“It’ll make them remember us,” Williams said.

Williams has certainly made a name for himself in the past 30 years on the Key. Whether it’s through activities at Casa del Mar or his many charitable contributions — Williams doesn’t know a stranger. And even though he looks back on his time spent here with satisfaction in all that he has achieved, this gardener knows there’s always room to grow.

“I’ll stay until I can’t do it anymore,” he said.

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En Provence condo sells for $2.9 million BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of Sept. 2 through Sept. 8, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive)

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Unit 6 at En Provence, 2161 Gulf of Mexico Drive, has three bedrooms, three baths and 3,400 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.9 million.

Jerald Kamiel, of Cresskill, N.J., sold his Unit 6 condominium at En Provence, 2161 Gulf of Mexico Drive, to John and Charlotte Suhler, of Darien, Conn., for $2.9 million.

Built in 2001, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 3,400 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $3.1 million in 2008.

Of this week’s six residential real-estate sales recorded between Aug. 29 and Sept. 2 at the Sarasota and Manatee County courthouses, the En Provence transaction was the sole transaction to top $1 million.

2,396 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $273,000 in 1986.

Harbour Oaks II

Bernhard and Heidi Meier sold their Unit 744 condominium at 744 Bayport Way to Ravi and Shirley Venkataraman, of Cookeville, Tenn., for $300,000. Built in 1983, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,456 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $151,000 in 1993.

Lorraine Buccino, of Burr Ridge, Ill., sold her home at 2332 Harbour Oaks Drive to Hal Schwartz and Connie Schwartz, trustees, of West Bloomfield, Mich., for $445,000. Built in 1986, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and

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JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., sold the Unit 207 condominium at 775 Longboat Club Road to David and Vicki Justice, Indianapolis, for $315,000. Built in 1984, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 1,842 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $574,900 in February.

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Donald Pierce, of St. Marys, Ga., sold his Unit PH-3 condominium at 600 Sutton Place to Jerome Tomaino, Longboat Key, for $290,000. Built in 1973, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 992 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $263,000 in 2010.

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Allan Pollock, Lakeland, sold his Unit 6

condominium at 4140 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Michael and Janice Carrillo, Gainesville, for $217,500. Built in 1973, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,144 square feet of living area.

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This summer saw a new exercise technique added to the options locally available to fitness seekers. The method and the studio are called Pure Barre. Owners and teachers are young Sarasotans Melissa DeMore and Sara Ferguson.

Carrie Rezabek Dorr, a Detroit-born lawyer-turned-entrepreneur, created Pure Barre in 2001. Its heritage includes Pilates, Yoga and Lotte Berke.

Pure Barre started in a small studio with no bathroom. The classes grew quickly, as did the staff. In 2006, Pure Barre began expanding and is now offered MOLLY SCHECHTER in studios nationwide.

DeMore discovered the methodology while visiting college friends in Birmingham, Ala. She came home and was excited to share it with her good friend, Ferguson, who was then pregnant. An avid runner and exerciser, Ferguson loved to work out, but her condition and her doctor prohibited her from getting her heart rate too high. Pure Barre was a workout that was both demanding and safe. She did it until right before she delivered, and she was back at it two weeks after.

Pure Barre is not a conventional ballet barre workout, and if you try it with that expectation, you will be sorely disappointed. It is intense, working muscles to the point of failure, or the “shakes.”

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Sarasota-based Michael Saunders & Co. will attack the residential real-estate market with a “think big” strategy.

The firm recently hired a new director for its expanded rental division, part of a $750,000 investment in rental real estate. It plans to hire at least nine full-time rental agents in the coming months and up to six more people for inside office jobs.

“We felt strongly this was the best long-term decision,” said Michael Saunders, company founder and CEO. “Our consumers demanded it. And our agents demanded it.”

The division will work with both property owners and tenants. It will also work with short-term, long-term, seasonal and annual rentals.

Michael Saunders & Co., founded in 1976, previously ran a rental division that marketed and managed more than 800 units in Charlotte, Manatee and Sarasota counties. Saunders sold that division eight years ago to focus on the then-burgeoning housing boom.

The firm maintained a few rental-focused contracts after it sold the division, though, including two Longboat Key resorts. Saunders sought to get back into rentals full-time over the past year, when several trends showed the demand, along with clients and agents who saw the need.

One of her first moves was to hire Jayci Grana, a rental properties executive from Orlando, to run the division.

Grana is incoming president of the National Association of Residential Property Managers, an industry-lobbying group.

Grana says one key to the rental unit is that the brokers will be paid a salary, with a commission on top.

Most other firms take a commission-first approach. The rental division also has an improved website, says Grana.

Grana says in many local markets the rental dynamic is slated toward more demand, less supply. She expects an onslaught of business.

“A lot of people are renters by choice,” says Grana.

“There are a lot of tenants out there.”

— Mark Gordon

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PRICED TO SELL! Promenade – Gulf Views Largest Northwest facing two bedroom, two bath floor plan with beautiful water views. Updated kitchen, tile floors, and marble master bath $ 650,000

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Promenade Penthouse Prestancia – -Villa D’Este Beautifully plus 2,612 den Sweeping Gulfupdated and Bay two viewsbedroom with sunsets. maintenance free villa featuring new paint & carpet, luxurious sq. ft. w/ 10 ft ceilings, fireplace, wet bar, high ceilings, bamboo flooring, upgraded kitchen granite & marble baths, garage.

2 terraces, 2 valuable & master bath. 2-car Golf&community. garage parking spaces included. $ $349,000 999,000

EXTREME VALUE! Sea Gate Club - Direct Gulf Front Floor-to-ceiling glass frames the Beach and Sunsets from every room in this 1,470 SF 2BR/2BA with higher ceilings, wood floors and 2 terraces. Great amenities and on-site management. Walk to shopping. $ 549,000

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Lido Shores - Direct Gulf Front Palazzo Combines 200 ft. of seawalled Gulf front with private Dock and Beach access. This 7,415 SF residence built in 2003 has 5BR/8BA, exercise room, his and her bath & studies, 50 ft pool/spa & 5-car garage.

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SANCTUARY III - Behind the Gates $ 5th Floor 3BR/2.5BA 2.375 Sq. Ft. 799,900 BEACHPLACE III – Direct Gulf Front #304 3rd Floor 2BR/2BA 1,503 Sq. Ft. $695,000 BAY HARBOUR – Longboat Key Bayfront Developer Corner Apt. 3BR 1,250 Sq. Ft. $295,000 RED ROCK TERRACE – Oyster Bay Vacant Lot Lot w/ House Plans $399,000 BEACHPLACE III – Direct Gulf Front #302 3rd Floor 2BR/2BA 1,392 Sq. Ft. $670,000 GRAND BAY II – Direct Bay Views!

South Corner 3BR/3BA 2,925 Sq. Ft. $1,395,000 GRAND BAY I – Direct Bay Views 9th Floor 3BR/3.5BA 2,550 Sq. Ft.

$1,150,000

Siestas Bayside – Deep Water Canal Gorgeous waterfront home fully updated with wood & granite throughout, 2,641 square feet, three bedrooms/ two baths and a large tropical patio area with pool/spa, boat dock with lift and floating jet-ski dock. $ 849,900

Longboat Key – Boater’s Fantasy 3,435 SF home with 114 feet of DEEP water frontage!

Extra large rooms, with living area on one level and tons of ground floor play space. Covered 45x20 slip and Jet Ski dock included. $ 995,000

WAGNER REALTY Bringing People Home Since 1939

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Call 941-383-5577

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Sorrento Shores - Rancho del Sol Sprawling waterfront estate on 1.24 acres and 224 feet of Sarasota Bay front! 5 BR/ 4.2 BA with separate 2BR renovated historic guest house. Includes 350 foot deep water dock w $ 2,495,000 18,000lb lift.

MINT CONDITION MODULAR, superior location, land

owned with NO FEES. Only 2 minutes from Anna Maria beaches & Intercoastal.

Excellent fishing, park, and boat ramp rental available. Debra Ibasfalean $ 110,000 #M5821342

1BD/1BA BAyfRONT SUTTON PLACe condo

Ritz Tower – Bay & City Views PENTHOUSE residence with 4,704 Sq. Ft., 4 BR plus family room and 4.5 bathrooms offers incredible views, wood & marble floors, granite & stainless gourmet kitchen, 10’ ceilings. $ 3,595,000

La Firenza - Direct Beach Front Stunning sunsets over the Gulf and partial Bay views from this SW corner 3,521 SF apartment with varying 11 & 12 ft ceilings. Spacious floor plan with 3BR+ family room and den/3.5 BA, full bar and summer kitchen. Oversized private 2-car garage. $ 3,500,000

#305 w/beautiful bay, pool and marina views. This complex has 2 pools and deeded beach access. Owner can have 2 small pets. Susan Klement $ 199,000 #M5823008

Longboat Key – Direct Beach Front “The Johnson Estate” Gated privacy on 2+ acres w/ 150 ft. of Gulf front. 10,000 SF. 7BR/6.5BA includes separate attached guest wing. New in ‘07. $ 11,500,000 www.Johnsonestatelongboatkey.com

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Complete remodel, new A/C & heat, stove, blinds, tile, carpet and granite just to name a few. 2BR/2BA in one of the finest coastal communities in the Sarasota-Bradenton area. Curt Bell $ 224,999 #M5818807

WATeR VIeWS from this 2BR/2BA

turnkey furnished condo. Updated kitchen, W/D, newer air, 2 pools, 2 tennis courts, beach access, only $12 a month for boat slip. Owner pays assessments until end of the year. Dorothy Cook $ 250,000 #A3939881

Bayport- Sporting Community Beach retreat that lives like a home. Beautifully & freshly remodeled, 3 full BR with sitting areas, and loads of storage, 2 private patios, his/her bath areas. Steps to private beach. $ 629,500

La Bellasara - Downtown Bay Front Outstanding Bay, Marina, & City Skyline views!

3BR/4.5BA + study or 4th BR with 3,370 SF. w/ summer kitchen, private elevator lobby, 2-car garage Turnkey furnished. Annual lease available $ 2,395,000

University Park - Custom Lakefront Beautifully maintained 3BR + Den home with 10ft ceilings, his & her bath, quality builtin’s, & expanded great room overlooking the pool/spa and lake. Two car garage. $ 569,000

CONRAD BeACH

Incredible opportunity to own 2 adjoining lots west of Gulf of Mexico Drive. Conrad Beach boasts timeless architecture, comm. pool & clubhouse. Purchase separately or w/M5815731. Peter Uliano $ #M5815734 260,000

BeAUTIfUL 2 BR 2 BA

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Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, LLC ● 201 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Suite #1, Longboat Key

Owned and Operated by NRT, LLC.

water front condo w/a great view of the bay!

Deeded 30’ boat slip, updated bath, kitchen & nicely furnished. Tennis, large heated pool, spa & comm. boat ramp. Turnkey furnished.

Marcia Bayard $ 389,500 #M5818101

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

games | deal us in

By Donna Swan | Contributing Writer

Loser-on-loser play makes winning easy “You an easily see,” writes Alma Jones, of Iron Mountain, Mich., “looking at mine and my partner’s hands that a three notrump contract would have been better and easier to make but difficult to bid.

“If West had led a spade, there is no way I could have made this contract.

West led the king of hearts. Or, if I had relied on West holding the ace of spades for his overcall, I could have lost three tricks in that suit.”

Jones was not the sort of player who relied on a 50% proposition when she

could find a sure-trick line of play. She won the ace of hearts and cashed the king and queen of trump and ruffed a heart. She played her three high diamonds and sluffed a spade from her hand. When West discarded a heart on the third diamond, her contract was made.

Jones continued with a fourth diamond and pitched another spade loser from her hand. East won the trick but was not happy with being on lead. If East led a red suit, Jones would discard a third spade from her hand and ruff the

trick in the dummy. If East led a spade, the defenders would only take one spade trick.

With the help of the loser-on-loser play, Jones made her contract of five clubs; her only losers were a diamond and a spade.

Donna Swan is a resident of Longboat Key, an ardent bridge player and an American Contract Bridge League certified director who plays “for the fun of it.”

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Sunrise/sunset

RAINFALL

Mon., Sept. 5 Tues., Sept. 6 Wed., Sept. 7 Thurs., Sept. 8 Fri., Sept. 9 Sat., Sept. 10 Sun., Sept. 11

North 0.00 0.67 0.54 0.09 0.05 0.01 0.00

Mid 0.00 0.50 0.82 0.04 0.27 0.00 0.00

Month to date: 2011

1.70 in Year-to-date:

South 0.00 0.12 1.16 0.00 0.35 0.00 0.00

Sunrise

2010 0.55 in.

2011 2010 36.83 in. 32.43 in.

Sunset

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Sun., Sept. 18

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Mon., Sept. 19

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Tues., Sept. 20

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Wed., Sept. 21

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WEEKLY WINNEr: SNEAK PEAK

TemperatureS

Temps.

High Low 86 76 85 73 86 75 88 72 89 75 89 75 91 76

Tues., Sept. 6 Wed., Sept. 7 Thurs., Sept. 8 Fri., Sept. 9 Sat., Sept. 10 Sun., Sept. 11 Mon., Sept. 12

Record Temps.

High Low 95 (1983) 68 (1997) 96 (1970) 67 (1984) 96 (1991) 66 (1997) 94 (1990) 62 (1972) 95 (1990) 67 (1984) 94 (1983) 68 (1980) 94 (1970) 68 (1984)

Average Gulf water temperature: 83.7

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CRYPTOGRAMS by Myles Mellor 1. C Y U H D F U R L Y O Z G Q K C O B R Q F M M K P F D H R K D F U R K P C X J ’ U X P C U L Y O Z G U H P K H B R Z Y J M K P.

BUILDING THE PERFECT BEAST by Stanley Banks

ACROSS

1 Thing 5 Low, deep voice 10 What some losses are taken in?

16 Scottish beret 19 “... for a ___ pittance” 20 American dogwood 21 Ridicule, in a way 22 Mispickel or cinnabar 23 Capable of prudent planning 25 One way to fight 27 Helps with the dishes 28 Atlanta research university 30 Teeniest Greek letter?

31 Satisfies, as thirst 33 Simple sweepers 34 Fez adornment 36 Many crosswords feature them 37 Paper purchases 38 Huckabee of politics 39 Greeted wordlessly 40 Saxophones, bassoons, etc.

42 Stirring time?

45 “Beware the ___ of March” 46 Monetary unit of Samoa 47 An Alfred Hitchcock film appearance, e.g.

48 “Green Eggs and ___” 50 ___ Aviv, Israel 51 Playful, as a kitten 53 Clavell novel set in Hong Kong 54 “Ciao, Caesar” 55 Curtis in the hair care aisle 57 ___ alcohol, gasoline additive 59 Bar on a guitar 60 All three red properties in Monopoly 62 Causes of distress 63 Backslide 66 Laundry unit 67 They’re prepared for

breaks French ladies 5 Unidentified planes, 68 Carpenter’s cutter to the military 69 Unpaired, as a sock 70 Greatest possible, as 6“... ___, dust to dust” 7 Assumes a reading a degree position 73 Where to find lashes 8 Keep company with 75 Bit of financial 9 Chose from the planning, for short menu 78 ___ out (barely make 10 The Chords hit do) 11 “A Farewell ___” 79 Purposely stay just (Hemingway) out of reach, e.g.

12 Golfer Sabbatini and 80 Grp. that rolls out the actor Calhoun barrels 13 Suffix with “meteor” 81 Tiny bit of matter 14 “Zip-A-Dee82 Ancillary Doo-___” 84 Wretchedly bad 15 O’Hare 86 Class clown announcement 16 Commotions 87 Member of 40-Across 17 Craggy ridge 88 Diets 18 Olympic prize 90 Military school 24 Irritated students 26 First-generation 91 One who states his Japanese-American views 29 Extinct New Zealand 94 Jughead’s topper birds 95 Compound used in 31 Where some people street lights have it made 96 Hawaiian coffee 32 Cool and balanced grounds 33 Shout from those 97 Elizabeth of huddled together? cosmetics 34 ___ pedis (athlete’s 98 The Good Book foot) 99 Kind 35 Ohio tire town 103 Amenable to other 36 Airhead 38 Salivary gland perspectives swelling 108 Armed Forces’ 40 Comes down in recreation grp. buckets 109 “Seinfeld” friend 41 “Do it or ___!”

110 Dictionary subject 42 Boat’s wind catcher 111 Brown, bubbly 43 Fast, intellectually beverage 44 Chalet overhangs 112 Holiday in Vietnam 46 “A ___ Grows in 113 He once ran a Mickey Brooklyn” Mouse operation 47 Low-lying islands 114 Patrol car wailer 49 Apportion (with 115 TV statuette “out”) 51 Debilitating bug 52 Bread machine need dOwn 53 This and this 1 Global currency org.

56 Caboose’s place 2 “Coffee or ___?”

58 It brings down the 3 To do it is human house 4 Collective title for

59 Airplane Flying Handbook org.

60 Soothing succulent 61 Liquor in a white Russian 62 When stolen, it stays in place 63 “Harper Valley PTA” singer Jeannie C. ___ 64 With a cast of thousands 65 Some baby boomers dropped it 67 “At no ___ to you” 68 Workout units 70 Horseshoe-shaped lab item 71 Saxophone type 72 Medieval weapon 74 Brooklynese “y’all” 76 A delivery man has one 77 Arena equipment 81 Group of spectators 83 Man with a big fish story?

84 Checkout counter annoyance 85 Like dark clouds 86 Prefix with “graphy” 88 Chilled out 89 Corporate structure?

90 Guys with medallions 91 “Yeah, however ...”

92 Composure under duress 93 Fort Knox bar 94 Drive home a run 95 Door-hanging hardware 98 Boo-Boo or Pooh 100 Opposite of AAA, in footwear 101 Frazier foe, once 102 ___ in rabbit 104 Tire inflation abbr.

105 ___ Perignon (expensive French champagne) 106 Boston’s Liberty Tree, for one 107 “A ___ at the Races”

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Last weeks Cryptograms 1 A baseball umpire became a bouncer at a bar, as he had gotten really good at throwing people out. His friends said he was way off base.

2. My wife and I, both baseball fans, were checking out a very good game on TV. She suddenly commented, “Talking about high and outside, the grass needs mowing.”

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Items Under $200 For Sale

Condos/Apts. For Rent

Vacation/Seasonal Rentals

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. Email ad to: classified@yourobserver.com or online at: www.yourobserver.com/classifieds

LONGBOAT KEY PIERRE CONDO on the beach.

2 bedroom plus den/convertible 3rd bedroom.

Garage parking. Furnished. 2,410 sq ft. Available 10/1/11 thru 9/30/12, or any portion. Pool, tennis, fitness center. Gorgeous Gulf, golf course, sunrise views. Photos available. No pets. 248-310-8308.

BEACHPLACE

Autos For Sale 2002 MB E430: Every option, new tires, 83K new, KBB 10K. Asking 8K OBO. Private Party, 941-993-7659.

Autos Wanted AUTOS WANTED! Let me take the hassle out of selling your car. Cash offered today! Call Mike, 941-713-2277.

Boat Slips For Rent/Sale BOAT SLIP. High and dry, indoor, for sale or lease.

Southend of LBK at the Boathouse. Owner financing available. For info, call 941-544-5597.

LBK MOORINGS: 48' protected water boat slip N6 for rent, $550 per month with annual lease.

937-414-7062

Boats Boats Are Selling Very Well. Do you want to sell yours! Over 74 Sold YTD, Big and Small, Business on a handshake. Dave, 941-228-3489, Yachtingflorida@aol.com

Furnishings UPSCALE CONDO: Contemporary King bedroom with leather headboard, large front load washer & dryer with stands. Green leather sofa and loveseat (like new). La-Z-Boy sofa sleeper.

Haverty’s 9 piece formal dining set with large china cabinet. Lexington TV stand. 58” plasma TV. Lexington wicker sofa sleeper & bedroom suite. Drexel iron baker’s rack (marble shelf).

Le Barge mirror. 5 piece home office group. Set of 3 tall bookcases. Thomasville iron & oak dining suite (cost $3500+ new).

Manatee Furniture 3015 1st St. Bradenton, 10 Blocks north of DeSoto mall on US Hwy 41.

941-745-2596

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

Saturday, September 17, 10a.m.-5p.m. & Sunday, September 18, 10a.m.-4p.m. For info: 954-4165

General Merchandise THRIFT SHOP: LORD’S WAREHOUSE. Hours: Summer Schedule: Aug.-Sept., Saturday, 9a.m. to 1p.m. Non-profit. Clothes, jewelry, furniture, other items. 6140 Gulf of Mexico Drive. 941-383-4738.

Merchandise Wanted SENIOR LOOKING to buy precious metals, time pieces, coins, jewelry and antiques. Please call Marc, 941-321-0707.

Personals MY MOTHER-IN-LAW wants to visit Longboat Key from West Orange, NJ for Thanksgiving. She does not want to fly. We pay ROUNDTRIP gas, tolls, etc. Please call Janet, 941-387-0102, ext. #19 or E-mail: janet@aRetiredCollection.com

Storage STORAGE FACILITY Boat/ RV/ Trailer. Secure facility, low monthly rentals, Clark Rd area.

941-809-3660, 941-809-3662.

Help Wanted DRIVERS - TEAMS: $6,000 Team Sign-On Bonus when you team drive for Werner Enterprises!

Call Now for details! 1-888-567-4856.

LUXURY ANNUAL RENTAL - Beach Harbor Club, furnished, 2BR/2BA. Private beach, clubhouse and pool. $1250/mo. 941-356-5610.

PARADISE ON LBK! Newly decorated 2BR/2BA. First floor with freebies. Steps to beach and bay.

Details: www.bayportbtc.com (unit 701). Available January and/or February 2012. 615- 376-9448.

STUDIO APARTMENT for rent at Lerfald Landings on a canal across from Whitney Beach. Water included. $700 month. 1 year lease required.

(941)565-1401, (941)792-0411.

BOULEVARD OF The Arts, 12th floor 2BR/2BA, recent high-end renovation, beautifully decorated, European kitchen, stainless appliances, excellent security. Panoramic views of Sarasota Bay, boat dock available. Annual or seasonal available. 941-724-4703, 412-310-8436.

CASA DEL MAR BEACH RESORT

Reservations: 941-383-5549 Visa/ MC Fax: 941-383-7925

PELICAN HARBOUR LBK- FULL BAY VIEW, boat slips, beach, tennis and pool. Custom wood and granite kitchen opens to dining & living room for a Great Room effect. 2BR/2BA. No weight limit for dog. $349,000. Steve or Craig Abbott, Michael Saunders & Company. 941-374-3003.

Office Open 7 Days, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

4621 Gulf of Mexico Drive Longboat Key 34228

Homes For Rent ANNUAL RENTAL: Longboat Key, Twin Shores Mobile Home, 55+, private beach, 2BR/1BA. Call Karen (813)377-6864.

LIDO SHORES: Waterfront home 3BR/3BA. Pool, Dock, Private Beach access. Walking distance to world class shopping and restaurants!

Furnished or unfurnished. Annual rental. $5100/month. Call 941-928-1542.

LUXURY ANNUAL RENTAL - contemporary waterfront, family home with private pool and boat dock. $3950/mo. 941-356-5610.

Real Estate Wanted LUXURY ANNUAL RENTALS WANTED for qualified waiting clients. Furnished or unfurnished.

Licensed Realtor. 941-356-5610.

FLORIDA VACATION CONNECTION www.FLvacationconnection.com 941-387-9709 877-705-2460

Resort Properties, Inc. Licensed Real Estate Broker Full Service Condominium Management 941-388-3921 - 888-388-3921 941-650-1857 Visit us at: resortproperties.pro

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LIDO BEACH Vacation paradise. 1 & 2 bedroom condos overlooking beautiful Lido Beach.

Weekly rates. Lido Dorset. Rental condo.

1-800-734-3370.

WASHER/ DRYER IN EVERY UNIT BEAUTIFUL KITCHENS LARGE HEATED POOL GULFSIDE

LONGBOAT KEY CASTILLIAN 3BR/2.5BA, Gulf front, furnished condo.

Available now throughout Season 2012.

Call 416-569-6659 or 416-944-3048

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LONGBOAT KEY Cottage: furnished, 2BR/1BA, carport, sunroom. 5/minutes to St. Armands, 10/min. to downtown. Available Season 2012 $4000/mo. includes water, sewer, garbage and lawn care. Pets considered. 941-554-4248.

“Where People Return Year After Year” “INTENTIONALLY BETTER” LBK BEACHFRONT: 1BR/1BA, heated pool, $1000 weekly. 3BR/3.5BA: $1250 weekly.

941-383-3844, 941-383-7873.

LBK: TANGERINE BAY CLUB. Luxurious decorator furnished Penthouse, 4BR/4.5BA. Full garden/ pool/ Bay views. Granite kitchen, 2 private terraces, outdoor gas grill, 2 car garage, FIOS, Beach Club access/ 3 month minimum. Non-smoking.

No pets. E-mail or call for availability, rates, photos. d.turners@verizon.net, 202-363-0740.

LONGBOAT KEY. Gulf front, heated pool on beach, 1BR/1BA condo, full kitchen, dining, sleeps 4, king pillowtop. 617-328-7145.

LONGBOAT KEY: beautifully furnished 2BR/2BA 10th floor, excellent view of Gulf, Bay, pool & tennis courts. Non-smoking. Available Sept., Oct., Nov. & Dec. 2011. 941-377-4177.

LONGBOAT: DIRECT Beachfront Condo, 2BR/2BA. $2000+ tax/mo. April-December.

727-501-3675.

ON THE Gulf w/pool. 1BR condo, sleeps 4. Nicely furnished, cable, phone, full kitchen, living, dining area, W/D in building. Weekly or Monthly. May through January. $1600/mo. 351-5101.

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PLAYERS CLUB Penthouse: Summer rental 2012. 3BR/3.5BA, 7 rooms, furnished, rooftop courtyard, 4 Har Tru tennis courts, parking garage.

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