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by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Board selects Club Holdings Club Holdings LLC, a Broomfield, Co.,-based company, was unanimously chosen to redevelop the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort.

+ Boehme honored with namesake day On Sept. 10, Calvin Boehme turned 80 years old — and his hometown had a unique gift for him. The town of Bound Brook, N.J., issued an official proclamation that Sept. 10 would be “Calvin Boehme Day.” Boehme lived in Bound Brook his entire life before moving in 1980 to Longboat Key part-time (he has lived here permanently for the past few years). Bound Brook Mayor Carey Pilato previously worked for Boehme and his wife, June, at the flower shop they owned, America’s Florists. Pilato presented Boehme with the plaque on his birthday.

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+ Guide dogs make a splash at Mote Mote Marine Aquarium hosted the Southeastern Guide Dogs pups and their trainers for an early-morning tour Saturday as part of the dogs’ training. The dogs are in their first round of training, which occurs when they are 9 weeks to 12-to-14 weeks old.

After that, they go to “puppy college,” where they train with a professional trainer for four to eight months.

Aside from weekly play dates, the dogs must have one day of exposure training and one day of obedience training per month. The exposure training puts them in a public place without people where they must perform all of their duties.

But it was hard for some pups to stay professional when Percy the Penguin stopped by for a visit.

Discussions stretched for 15 hours Saturday and another eight hours Sunday.

But, by Sunday night, when the nine board members of the Colony Beach & Tennis Association voted, their choice for the company to redevelop the historic resort, which has been shuttered since August 2010, was unanimous: Club Holdings LLC. Colony unit owners were notified of the decision Tuesday morning in an email from board President Jay Yablon. He described the search process that began October 2010 with 16 candidates and eventually was narrowed to four plans: those presented by Club Holdings LLC; Colony unit owner Andy Adams and his AdamsMark LLC; Arendee Colony, represented by Randy Langley and David Siegal; and Naples-based Coral Hospitality.

“It has been a long year of intensive, albeit quiet groundwork,” Yabon wrote, “but one which has been highly productive and will yield dividends for future generations of Colony owners and guests to come.”

The company chosen by the board is the parent company of three major vacation networks — the Quintess Collection, DUO

by Quintess and the Tour Club.

In August, Club Holdings Chief Executive Officer Pete Estler

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Klauber urges owners to go with ex-Ritz team ‘The day that West Paces … reopens our beloved Colony will also be the day that I will gladly and proudly retire … ” Murf Klauber said.

compared his company to “a hotel that operates around the world.”

Estler did not return a call from the Longboat Observer seeking comment. But in August, he and co-founder Ben Addoms said their company has grown since its inception in 2004 to include more than 350 residences in 40 locations and eight countries throughout the world.

To develop their proposal

for the Colony, they partnered with the Windemerebased Miller Group Development, which was founded

by Glenn Miller, an original owner at the Colony who arranged the original financing for the resort and owns a unit today at Grand Bay. But as plans for redevelopment move forward, legal issues remain. Among those

Still determined to see the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort revived in his vision, longtime Colony owner Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber said Tuesday the unit owners’ board of directors “has no right to make a decision” on what company redevelops the shuttered resort.

And in response to the association’s announcement that it had selected Club Holdings Inc. to redevelop the Colony, Klauber released to the Longboat Observer a letter he has prepared to send to Colony unit owners, urging them to select Atlanta-based West Paces Hotel Group Inc. as the redeveloper.

West Paces is the worldwide luxuryresort developer and operator headed

by Horst Schulze, former president and CEO of the Ritz-Carlton Hotels from 1982 to 2002.

“We must have really sophisticated, seasoned, luxury, simple elegance,” Klauber said Monday, adding he believes Schulze’s company can execute that better than any of the other contenders vying for the Colony project.

In his prepared letter — “you as investors,” Klauber wrote — he outlined three financing options for them to consider if they were to opt for West Paces.

In addition, he pledged: “I submit to those without any hesita-

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by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Town proceeds with interim manager talks The commission is negotiating with David Bullock, deputy Sarasota County administrator, for the interim town manager position.

Town attorney David Persson got the go-ahead from the Longboat Key Town Commission to proceed with negotiations with David Bullock, deputy Sarasota County administrator, for the interim town manager position.

But the 4-3 vote came after extensive debate from the commission about where they’re heading in the

search for a town manager — and how quickly they want to get there.

Before Monday’s meeting, Persson laid out Bullock’s qualifications for the interim position, which commissioners agreed would last six to eight months while the town searches for a permanent replacement for former Town Manager Bruce St. Denis, who served 14 years.

“I have a candidate who meets the qualifications that you outlined: extensive experience in governmental management and organizations, aware of and a participant in local and state issues, an activist manager rather than a passive one and from outside the town’s organization,”

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affecting redevelopment plans is the matter of Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber’s ownership stake in a recreational lease that controls the Colony’s tennis courts and other amenities.

Adams owns a 5% interest in the Colony’s recreation property. Siegal and Langley, who purchased $10 million in overdue bank loans and are now foreclosing upon and have a lien on 100% of Klauber’s Colony properties, also own a first mortgage on Klauber’s 80% of the recreational properties and own by deed a 15% interest in the recreational properties. Both parties continue to await a ruling from U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday, who, in July, reversed 2009 bankruptcy rulings made by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge K. Rodney May.

KLAUBER / FROM PAGE 1A tion that the day that West Paces Hotel Group re-opens our beloved Colony will also be the day that I will gladly and proudly retire from management and operations.”

Klauber’s financing options included: • Option A — Self-financing. He said the Colony renovation would total roughly $33.2 million, or $140,000 per residential unit. “For unit owners who have the means and desire to fund individually and independently their pro-rata share of these improvements, they can contribute this amount and enter into the resort’s rental program.”

That would allow unit owners to share in the revenues of their units.

“Unit owners electing this option will also enjoy the use of their unit for personal use up to 30 days per year to use in similar fashion” as before.

• Option B — Sale. For unit owners

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Klauber’s attorney, Charles Bartlett, said that he doubted the association could proceed until pending legal matters are resolved.

“Although it is, perhaps, important, it doesn’t do anything in terms of advancing the development itself,” he said.

Yablon declined to comment about any pending legal issues. But, he described the Colony’s future, saying: “The Colony will continue to be an owner-based condominium resort, fully open to the general public but upgraded to 21st-century facilities, amenities and hospitality services.”

To move forward with redevelopment, 75% of unit owners must approve the project. “The proposal is excellent,” Yablon said of the Club Holdings proposal. “We will make certain that it is attractive to at least 75% of our owners.”

Persson wrote to commissioners.

But Commissioner Lynn Larson started discussions by suggesting for the interim position the man sitting two seats to her left: Longboat Key Police Chief Al Hogle, who was appointed acting town manager one week earlier.

“I felt like we would be walking past a diamond lying in the sand if we walked past Al Hogle as interim town manager,” Larson said.

But Commissioner Phill Younger disagreed. Describing the decision as “extremely agonizing” because of his respect for Hogle, Younger said: “If I were closing my eyes and not knowing the situation, I would choose Mr. Bullock.”

Commissioner Pat Zunz suggested that based on interest expressed by Bullock and Hogle, along with other interested parties who submitted resumes, “perhaps the decision shouldn’t be made quite as rapidly as we wanted it to.”

Commissioner Jack Duncan said that if the commission considered Hogle for the interim position, it should open it up for other town employees.

Vice Mayor David Brenner asked Persson if Bullock indicated a time frame for his interest in the position.

“The position you put me in is to do this quickly,” Persson said. “So I haven’t asked how to do it slow.”

The discussion then shifted to contracts and benefits, with commissioners at one point discussing a potential salary cap.

But as they discussed salaries, Persson interjected.

“If part of this qualification is a salary cap, you need to tell me,” he said, “because that changes the ballgame significantly.”

Younger said that his concern was getting the best-qualified candidate — and that St. Denis’ compensation, which included an annual salary of $177,505, “seems to be the going rate for a quality person.”

But Mayor Jim Brown emphasized to

who wish to sell, “we will offer to buy your unit at the lesser of appraised value or $50,000.”

• Option C — Exchange. For unit owners who wish to continue the 30-day rent-free use of their units, as they previously did, but who do not want to or cannot make a capital contribution, “we will offer the opportunity to exchange a fractional deeded interest in a fully renovated and equipped unit … in exchange for the full-ownership deeded interest of their unit.”

Fractional owners “will have the same rent-free rights as they previously enjoyed but will be subject to their pro-rata share of assessments under the condominium declaration …”

Told of Klauber’s letter, Jay Yablon, president of the unit owners association, declined to comment. Officials from West Paces Hotel Group did not return the Longboat Observer’s calls.

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“This is someone to run the town while we select a town manager,” he said.

Commissioners spoke about their oneon-one meetings with Bullock and said that he indicated that he wanted a oneyear contract and hoped the position could become long term.

Commissioners expressed interest in other candidates, particularly Daniel Kleman, who will retire from the city of Jacksonville, where he held various positions, and also served more than 20 years as Tallahassee city manager.

But Younger made a motion to begin contract negotiations with Bullock. It passed, 4-3.

Then, Larson suggested another motion in which the commission would continue looking at other candidates. It failed, 3-4.

The commission will continue discussions at its Monday, Oct. 3 meeting.

Bullock said Tuesday afternoon that it was too early to discuss the terms of any possible agreement with the town. But he was pleased with the results of Monday’s meeting.

“I’m honored that the town would consider me,” he said.

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by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Responses to cell tower plan heard loud and clear The P&Z Board will discuss a proposed cellular tower next month.

Residents both for and against the tower want to be heard.

Dr. Pam Lipkin thinks a 150foot cell tower at Longboat Island Chapel would be “complete and utter suicide” for Longboat Key. She cites as examples high-end communities such as Nantucket, Mass., Cape Cod, Mass., and Laguna Beach, Calif., none of which has cell towers. She worries that the values of nearby properties, such as her home, located across the street from the chapel, would plummet.

“I’ve never seen an advertisement for real estate that advertises, ‘Good cell-phone reception,’” Lipkin said.

But to resident Bob Dockery, the proposed cell-phone tower is a no-brainer. He lives directly across the street from the chapel and owns a second north-end property. He said he’s tired of the dropped calls that frequently happen when he does business over the phone.

“I think it’s time to join the 21st century,” Dockery said. “I can’t get any cell service.”

Last week, the Planning Zoning and Building Department (P&Z) determined complete an Outline Development Plan Amendment, special exception and site plan amendment applications submitted for the personal wireless service facility on the Longboat Island Chapel property. Longboat Key resident and AlphaOmega Communications Inc. owner Jim Eatrides and his business partner, Kevin Barile, submitted the plans. The proposal calls for a 150-foot stealth tower that would allow six major carriers to provide service.

The north end has typically experienced more cell-phone service issues than the south end of the island, which has taller buildings that have allowed for the placement of four antennae throughout the Sarasota County portion of the island that boost signals.

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This rendering shows what a 150-foot cellular tower would look like on the Longboat Island Chapel property, at 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

The application will be forwarded to the Oct. 18 P&Z Board meeting for review.

Eatrides and Barlile, president of the Tampa-based Ridan Industries II, will hold a public meeting to discuss their proposal at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, at the chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Support for the proposed project have been mixed in the past, but reactions — both for and against the tower — have come in loud and clear.

In their applications, Eatrides and Barlile respond to many concerns.

Their executive summary states that the larger risk of radiofrequency comes from the cell phone device, rather than the tower, and that a nearby tower allows devices to operate at a lower power, thus, reducing the risk. The application also includes a study the pair commissioned by the real-estate appraisal, broker and consultant firm of Lee Pallardy Inc., which states that based on more than 10 years of research: “No adverse

impact resulting from a cellular communication tower can be supported by market sales.”

But Bruce Myer, of Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, said that he doesn’t believe a tower is needed.

“Based on the level of service that is achieved, I don’t see that it would be a help to real-estate values,” he said.

Hannerle Moore, a veteran Realtor with Michael Saunders & Co., also questioned whether a cell tower was needed. She said that she uses Verizon, which works with few interruptions on the north end, and said that she recently had a buyer for a $3.2 million home who walked away from the sale out of concerns about the proposed tower.

“People perceive it as ugly, but, more importantly, as a health hazard,” she said. “Today’s buyers are into living longer and healthier, they take the time to go to Whole Foods and exercise, and they’re not going to move into a community with a cell tower.”

Requests to be heard During its Sept. 22 workshop, the Longboat Key Town Commission also debated the need for improved wireless communications, although discussion was focused not on any one proposal but on whether to authorize the P&Z Board to hold public hearings about possible telecommunications-related amendments to the town’s zoning code.

Commissioner Pat Zunz, who lives on the north end, said that she is the only member of the commission who doesn’t have a townissued cell phone and noted that she has tried a variety of carriers but has been unable to get a signal.

But Commissioner Jack Duncan said that his cellphone troubles largely went away once he switched to Verizon.

Duncan asked P&Z Director Monica Simpson whether the town has ever commissioned an independent study to identify the town’s wireless communication problems and possible solution. Simpson said that she has contacted a number of consultants in the past about conducting a study, but each ultimately declined upon learning that the study could create a conflict of interest for future projects.

Simpson also warned that the town’s current wireless issues could deter future developments.

“It is really hurting the town of Longboat Key,” she said. “We will never draw people whose businesses need those types of technologies.”

Commissioners reached consensus at the workshop to direct town staff to send out a request for proposals for wireless solutions.

Millage rate flat at 1.8872 The Longboat Key Town Commission approved unanimously the millage rate and budget for the 2011-12 fiscal year.

Longboat Key property owners won’t be seeing an increase in tax rates for the fiscal year 2011-12.

The Longboat Key Town Commission unanimously approved a millage rate of 1.8872 mills Monday, Sept. 26, on second reading, holding the rate flat from the previous fiscal year. One mill is equal to $1 for every $1,000 of assessed valuation.

The commission also unanimously approved on second reading a budget for the fiscal year that includes a $14,221,684 general fund budget — a decrease of $201,579, or 1.4% from the previous fiscal year.

Additionally, the commission unanimously approved on first reading an ordinance amending the 2010-11 fiscal year budget to transfer $268,364.81 from the town’s General Fund to the Town Manager Severance Fund to provide for severance amount as provided in Town Manager Bruce St. Denis’ contract with the town.

According to a budget memo prepared in August by St. Denis, the recommended budget was prepared based on a 4.23% reduction in property values, resulting in a reduction in ad valorem revenues of $375,000 based on the current millage rate.

The original budget St. Denis proposed in June included a 2.6% millage increase, which would have raised the rate to 1.9367 mills, although the final proposed budget presented in August contained $285,000 in expenditure reductions. The final budget contained a $52,400 surplus, which allowed the town to resume contributions to organizations such as Solutions to Avoid Red Tide and Sarasota Bay Estuary Program.

At a budget workshop earlier this month, commissioners eliminated a proposed 5% business tax hike, which reduced the surplus by $8,000.

The current budget includes no cost-of-living allowance (COLA) or merit raises for employees.

by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Commission seeks to crack open Beer Can issues The north-end beach is located in the town but maintained by the county. So, who should pay for police services?

Beer cans don’t belong on Beer Can Island.

So, Longboat Key police confiscated two cans of Busch beer from a beachgoer Saturday. Neither do drinking games. So, on Saturday, police warned a 22-year-old man to table his game of beer pong.

Police also warned boaters about playing loud music.

Although these incidents took place in the town of Longboat Key, they also occurred in an area that is maintained by Manatee County. To some, it’s Beer Can Island. Others know it as Greer Island. But, whatever you call the stretch of beach

located at the northern-most tip of Longboat Key, it’s a favorite boating spot on weekends — and uses up police and fire rescue resources.

The Longboat Key town commissioners discussed the island at its Sept. 22 workshop and planned to talk more about enforcement at an Oct. 18 joint meeting with the Manatee County Commission.

At the workshop, commissioners discussed an interlocal agreement between the city of Bradenton Beach and Manatee County for police patrol of Cortez Beach, Coquina

Beach and Coquina Bayside Park, which fall within city limits but are operated and maintained by the county, in which the city receives $7,688 per month to assist with the cost of providing police services to those areas.

It isn’t the first time the town has sought a joint agreement with the county for Beer Can Island enforcement. In August, Mayor Jim Brown and Town Manager Bruce St. Denis appeared before Manatee County commissioners to seek $76,500 from the county in West Coast Inland Navigation District (WCIND) funds

for marine patrol efforts on Beer Can Island. The county agreed to a one-time amount of $30,000.

Longboat Key Police Chief Al Hogle, who is currently serving as acting town manager, said that Manatee County deputies frequently assist police with Beer Can Island enforcement. His staff is currently compiling data on how much time Longboat police spend patrolling the island.

“I’m not sure what the answer is there,” Hogle said. “I think the Town Commission wants to investigate what the opportunities are.”

Rap sheet The following incidents have been reported on Beer Can Island so far in 2011: Animal violations................................10 Alcohol violations..................................8 Public service.......................................3 Disturbances........................................2 Fire/rescue...........................................2 Traffic/boat violations............................2 Camping..............................................1 Narcotics..............................................1 Suspicious activity................................1 Trespassing...........................................1 Total incidents....................................31

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The town’s Building Code Effectiveness Grading Schedule for residential and commercial properties has been restored to a Class 3 by the Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO), according to Planning Zoning & Building Director Monica Simpson. Simpson said that the town was notified last year that its ratings would be downgraded to a Class 4 because of departmental changes, including a decrease in the percentage of the budget reserved for training and a decrease in the cumulative amount of personnel experience.

Simpson said that the town worked to regain its rating through increased documentation and administration. The rating impacts insurance premium discounts for eligible properties.

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The most read stories online last week were: 1. “Bruce St. Denis’ final bow” (Sept. 21) 2. “St. Denis submits resignation offer” (Sept. 17) 3. “Whitney Beach owner checks out hotel plans” (Sept. 21) 4. “Commission accepts St. Denis resignation” (Sept. 19) 5. “Publix shops plan revisions to P&Z” (Sept. 21)

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Brown puts Kiwanis Club on agenda Wickersham recovers

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Mayor Jim Brown talked Publix, pensions and the town manager position at the Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key’s morning meeting.

The path to the mayor’s seat on the Longboat Key Town Commission began with a weak moment for Mayor Jim Brown.

“I never wanted to be a commissioner,” Brown told the Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key at its Thursday, Sept. 22 meeting. “I never thought about being a commissioner.”

Brown, an architect, said that he felt at home Brown on the Longboat Key Planning & Zoning Board, which he joined in 2004. At the time, Brown said, the commission was split on many issues, although he soon began hearing from leaders on both sides who wanted him to seek office.

“These people are driving me crazy,” he told his wife before reluctantly agreeing to run, thinking he would serve a single term.

His first term began in 2009. In 2010, he was selected by his fellow commissioners to serve as vice mayor. Last spring, Brown began his second term as a commissioner, and his colleagues chose him for the mayor’s seat.

At Thursday’s meeting, Brown updated Kiwanians about several issues.

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Longboat Key native Charles ‘C.J.’ Wickersham remains at Bayfront Medical Center following a weekend attack by a bull shark off of Anna Maria.

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pre-application submitted by the supermarket after years of talks was “disappointing,” he was optimistic about its revisions submitted earlier this month.

He talked pensions.

Brown said that the town’s $27 million in unfunded liability was created by different commissions operating in different economic times.

“Decisions have been made for us that were not the best in the long term,” he said.

And he also discussed the town manager issue. Just two-and-ahalf days earlier, Brown and his fellow commissioners unanimously accepted the resignation of 14-year Town Manager Bruce St. Denis.

“Bruce St. Denis has served this town very well for a long time,” Brown said. “I think he has been continuing to think the way he was taught to think over many commissions in the past.”

Brown said that the town manager had not done “anything that was punishable” and that a public debate on his performance would have “caused a blood bath.”

“I’m grateful that I have had the support of people during this time, including the town attorney, labor attorney and my fellow commissioners,” Brown said. “Bruce St. Denis did a good job, but it was time to let him go.

We wanted to let him go with his head held high. I think we accomplished that.”

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Longboat Key native Charles “C.J.” Wickersham has been an avid fisherman since he was 4.

“It’s his passion,” his mother, Ella Wickersham, said of her 21-year-old son.

But nothing could prepare Ella Wickersham for the phone call she got Saturday.

Her friend, Jeannie Bystrom, called her and told her first that C.J. was OK. “But,” Bystrom said, “he’s been bitten by a shark.”

Wickersham was spearfishing with friends, including Bystrom’s son, Connor, when an 11-foot bull shark bit him on his left thigh Saturday, Sept. 24, near Rod & Reel Pier off of Anna Maria. His friends immediately got him back on their boat and called 911.

Wickersham sustained a 15inch wound and was transported to Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg via Bayflite helicopter.

Wickersham had surgery Monday afternoon to debride his wound, according to his sister, Kristi Wickersham.

On Tuesday afternoon, Ella Wickersham said her son was in a lot of pain, having received approximately 800 sutures. But she said that the

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“It went awesome,” she said.

“They were able to save that whole muscle so he doesn’t have to have skin grafts. Now, we’re just praying the infection stays away.”

Wickersham said the attack is still sinking in for her son.

“I think he realizes how lucky he is,” she said.

Wickersham, a 2008 graduate of Manatee High School, will likely remain in the hospital for approximately 10 days.

But will he return to the water anytime soon?

“Not if we can help it,” his mother said.

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Start with a blank sheet In adversity, there is opportunity.

For the town of Longboat Key, the departure of the town manager presents a huge opportunity.

This is it: the opportunity to start with a blank sheet of paper. To think big and bold.

To question seriously the entire status quo surrounding the town manager’s job and the structure of town government.

If they think deeply about what they face in their search for a new town manager, town commissioners have this rare moment to step back from convention and tradition and ask themselves: What are the possibilities?

Are there better alternatives to managing the town? Are there better alternatives to conducting a traditional, standard national search that will result in selecting that one man or woman who will fill all of the same job duties of the previous town manager? Is that what we need — a municipal-government administrator who has climbed the bureaucratic ranks and who operates within the framework of the International City/County Management Association handbook?

The alternatives should be explored.

First, Longboat Key Mayor Jim Brown is right. In the wake of Bruce St. Denis’ departure, the town cannot afford to have a “placeholder” occupying the town manager’s office until a permanent replacement is hired. There are too many pressing issues that must continue moving forward — resolving the town’s pension problems; facilitating and monitoring the redevelopments of Publix, Longboat Key Club and the Colony; beach maintenance and renourishment; the town budget; firefighter union negotiations; whether to build a community center; not to mention the normal day-to-day challenges that arise.

Brown and his fellow commissioners made a good choice when they appointed last week Police Chief Al Hogle as acting town manager. And although Hogle would make a strong interim town manager as well (if not a permanent town manager), Town Attorney David Persson recommended Monday another worthy candidate for the interim manager position — Dave Bullock, former assistant county administrator and No. 2 administrator for Sarasota County. They both have long histories as manager/leaders in municipal and county government in our region; they know the town and its issues; and they have reputations for being competent and effective. With either Hogle or Bullock, Longboat taxpayers could feel assured the interim town manager would keep the town moving forward.

What’s more, with either of them as the interim town executive, commissioners would have the time to explore all options on how the town government should look and be managed now and in the future.

Longboat’s future

There are ample possibilities.

But start with the town’s likely future.

Longboat Key is a physically mature community and virtually built out. It’s not going to grow in population or density.

AN ANSWER TO THE PENSION PROBLEMS Longboat Key Mayor Jim Brown told members of the Longboat Key Kiwanis Club last week that he and his fellow commissioners are moving closer to resolving the town’s public-employee pension problems — specifically how to cauterize and erase $25 million in unfunded liabilities.

Brown would not elaborate on specifics, primarily because the details are discussed in executive sessions.

And the last thing the mayor wants — in the midst of everything else going on — is to rile town employees before the Town Commission is ready to unveil what’s next.

But lo and behold, in last Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, under the headline, “Perry Is Right: There Is a Texas Model for Fixing Social Security,” Merrill Matthews, resident scholar at Dallas-based Institute for Policy Innovation, explained how several Texas counties and cities opted out of Social Security in the early 1980s for their municipal employees and created what is known as “the Alternate Plan.” Matthews noted how these communities’ retirement plans have no unfunded liabilities and have produced far better benefits and larger retirement funds than employees ever would have received from Social Security.

The author of this plan is Rick Gornto, president of First Financial Benefits Inc. in Houston. We spoke with Gornto. When we explained Longboat Key’s pension problems, he said the Texas Alternate Plan could be a good alternative to what the town offers now.

We’ll save the explanation of how it works for another week. But before town commissioners finalize their new plans, we would urge them to contact Gornto: 713-882-4245, or via email: rick@drdacpa.com.

New construction will be redevelopment.

Commercial growth will consist of the expanded Key Club, perhaps an expanded Longboat Key Hilton Beachfront Resort and possibly a boutique hotel at Whitney Beach Plaza. But even these projects, along with a redeveloped Avenue of the Flowers, only will bring Longboat Key back to where it was 10 and 20 years ago. And while these projects will require some skills dealing with developers, managing the town will not become any more complex than it is now or was. Longboat Key will remain a quiet, residential, resort community with moderate tourism traffic.

The primary government concerns will continue to be beach and water-system maintenance. Public safety will remain a top priority as well, but Longboat Key’s demographics will continue to make that a low-demand service (relative to most communities).

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Altogether, the relative simplicity of Longboat Key (vis-à-vis such communities as Sarasota or Bradenton) begs the question: Can the town’s bureaucracy be simplified or pared without sacrificing the service levels Longboat Key residents expect? What can be privatized or outsourced that would not diminish the quality of services — and yet lessen the taxpayers’ burden and responsibilities for the employees and issues that come with them?

Outsource? Privatize?

To this point, you can find an increasing number of municipalities around the country shifting to outsourcing and privatizing more and more services.

Three hours or so south on Tamiami Trail, for instance, the city of Bonita Springs has 60,000 residents and a town government staff of 60 full-time employees (That compares to more than 100 for Longboat Key). The Bonita Springs Fire Department and all utilities are outsourced or privatized. The Lee County Sheriff’s Department provides police protection.

We know Longboaters cherish their town-controlled fire and police departments and would shudder at the thought of turning those services over to a county-run fire or sheriff’s department.

But who says Manatee County or Sarasota County are the only options? What about a privately run fire-rescue corporation? Is this a viable option?

Or consider the city of Weston in west Broward County. Its population totals 64,000 residents. It has nine — only nine!

— full-time city employees. All services are contracted out. The nine city employees are all directors of departments, in charge of working with contractors to make sure the services provided meet contractual standards. Weston, it’s worth noting, has the lowest tax rates in Broward County.

And just as appealing: Weston has no unfunded pension liabilities or, for that matter, no employee pensions at all — Weston’s vendors handle all of that.

It’s a new time and different era than it was 14 years ago when the town hired Bruce St. Denis as town manager. It’s a different era than when the Town Commission committed to paying townemployee compensation in the top 25% of the public-employee pay scales.

Americans have seen more than three generations of an ever-expanding government and all of its attendant expenses. And now they are seeing what was an inevitable result — a private-sector economy overwhelmed and suffocating from the weight of the government burden.

This is what dominates today’s political debate. Americans want dramatic change — and that means a smaller government.

Longboat Key is a part of this. And that’s why, in spite of the difficulties that come with changing town managers, the Town Commission has an extraordinary opportunity. Look to the future. Ask: If we started over, what would we do? How could it be better?

Think big. Think bold. Carpe diem.

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ENFORCEMENT ISSUES

by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Town Commission considers aesthetics of new codes The Longboat Key Planning Zoning & Building Department frequently fields complaints from residents about aesthetic issues: torn screens, peeling paint and swimming pools that are not maintained, for example.

But the department’s two code-enforcement officers are limited in their capacity to handle such issues.

“Current code doesn’t allow us to enforce anything beyond things such as weeds and grass and life-andsafety issues,” P&Z Director Monica Simpson told the Longboat Key Town Commission at its Sept. 22 regular workshop.

Simpson wrote in a Sept. 14 memorandum that the aesthetic conditions of many structures on the island have decreased in recent years as the result of factors such as increased foreclosures and absentee owners. To address these issues, Simpson suggested that the commission consider adopting the International Code Council’s International Property Maintenance Code, either in its entirety or in parts. According to the memo, the code has been adopted in many Florida communities and addresses issues such as swimmingpool maintenance; peeling, flaking and chipping paint; maintenance of doors, windows, porches, decks and fences; torn screening; and maintenance of parking lots and landscaping.

Commissioners agreed that many of the issues were worth considering.

“There are some things in here, swimming pools, for example, that can become health issues,” Commissioner Pat Zunz said.

But Mayor Jim Brown worried that certain parts of the code address issues that are generally private matters.

“I’ll bet you I’ve got some chipping, peeling paint,” Brown said.

The commission reached a consensus to continue discussion at a workshop, schedule for 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6.

But Simpson cautioned that even if the IPMC were adopted, because of current staffing levels of one full-time and one part-time code-enforcement officer, the code wouldn’t be a quick fix.

“With the current staff load, we will be more reactive than proactive,” Simpson said. “The transition would be slow.”

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1:36 p.m. — 6900 block of GMD. Traffic Violation. A driver told police on the above date that he did not believe his license would be suspended until the next day. Police found that the license was actually suspended Sept. 6 for failure to pay a traffic fine.

Police confiscated the man’s license and told him to have a licensed driver remove the vehicle.

4:18 a.m. — Off the Key. Assist Other Agency. Police went to the Sarasota County Jail to assist a Sarasota officer who needed assistance with breath testing for a DUI suspect.

Dec. 8, 1985 Sharp shooter 10:46 p.m. — 5100 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive. Report of youth with machine gun. Looks real, but only shoots water.

Sept. 19 On the rum 11:17 p.m. — 7000 block of GMD. Suspicious Circumstance. A man began stretching his arms, kicking his legs outward and stating that he wanted to punch himself in the head after police pulled him over following a report of a reckless driver who was possibly armed with a handgun.

The man told police that he was running late for his shift as a hotel security guard, had had a couple of drinks and takes seizure medication. The driver turned out to be armed only with a bottle of Bacardi rum and an empty alcoholic beverage can. A family member agreed to pick up the man and his vehicle.

Sept. 17 Past the expiration date 12:39 a.m. — 100 block of GMD. Traffic Violation. A driver admitted to police that his license “has been expired for a long time.” Police discovered that the license expired in May 2006. The man received a citation and was ordered to appear in Sarasota County court.

Repeat offender 3:50 p.m. — 500 block of Bay Isles Parkway. Trespassing. After a store manager complained that a man had trespassed, police found the man sitting on the curb of a shopping center.

Dispatch told police that the same man had trespassed at the same store earlier that day. Police released the man after taking him to the station and gave him a notice to appear in court.

Sept. 21 5:33 a.m. — 100 block of GMD. Lost or Missing Property. Police found that approximately 72 feet and 5 inches of thick, braided rope was taken from a park. They notified Public Works about the missing town property.

9 p.m. — 500 block of Bay Isles Parkway. Suspicious Person. Police noticed two subjects at the rear loading docks of a store. Both subjects told police they were part of a contracted work crew preparing to refinish the interior floors.

The smell of suspicion 8:06 a.m. — 3200 block of GMD. Suspicious Circumstance. A condominium maintenance supervisor reported that a resident noticed a “suspicious person” who “had a bad odor about him” the week earlier. The supervisor told police that he has noticed items such as toilet paper and air fresheners missing from the pool bathrooms and suspects that a person could be living in the nearby wooded area.

Security check 11:34 p.m. — 200 block of GMD. Security Check. Police found that the door of a real-estate office was not secured but could not find the listing for a contact person. A maintenance worker told police that he would arrange for updated contact information.

Nov. 4, 1999 Cleaned out 1:00 p.m. — 6000 block GMD. Suspicious Circumstance.

Cleaning company went to wrong house. Cleaned out refrigerator.

Will replace any discarded food. way and GMD. Suspicious Person. A man reported a suspicious person walking east on Broadway from Gulf of Mexico Drive. Police stopped a man who met the caller’s description. The suspicious man told police that he was returning to his boat with recently purchased supplies.

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12:08 p.m. — 2500 block of GMD. Domestic Violence. A 20-yearold woman told police that a man dumped eggs and milk on her head while she was holding their baby. The argument arose because the man took the woman’s cigarettes and the woman took the man’s car keys and food-stamp card. The woman told police that the man did not hit her, although a witness reported otherwise. Police observed what appeared to be milk and eggs in the woman’s hair and on the ground below her.

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‘Provocative Petticoats’ — An opening reception for the “Provocative Petticoats” exhibit takes place from 6 to 8 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 6, at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art Design, 6860 Longboat Drive S. The exhibit, on display through Nov. 10, features work from 18 member artists of the Petticoat

 Sharktoberfest — takes place Saturday, Oct. 1 through Sunday, Oct. 30, at Mote Aquarium, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway. Children who wear their Halloween costumes on Saturday or Sunday in October receive a treat bag and free admission with paying adult. Tickets $12 to $17.

Call 388-4441.

Painters. It is also the kickoff for Festival sARTée. PAL sailor circus will be performing at the opening reception. Call 383-2345.

Longboat Key Public Tennis Center Summer Specials — run through Oct. 7, at the Longboat Key Public Tennis Center, 590 Bay Isles Road. The Tennis Center will offer a $119 package of five one-hour tennis classes on tennis basics from 9 to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday.

Participants will also receive a Wilson tennis racket, Tennis Center T-shirt and discounts on private lessons, ball-machine use and user passes for the facility.

Call 316-8367.

What: Sarasota Bay Watch and bird experts from Audubon of Florida and Save Our Seabirds are seeking volunteers to help remove monofilament line from bird habitats. This is event is free and open to the public.

When: Starts at 8 a.m.

Saturday, Oct. 1 Where: Ken Thompson Park, 1717 Ken Thompson Parkway Info: Call 955-8085 for information and to RSVP.

Networking at Noon Luncheon — takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, at Holiday Inn Lido Beach, 233 Ben Franklin Drive. Network with other professionals and businesses at this luncheon hosted by the Longboat Key, Lido Key, St. Armands Key Chamber of Commerce. Tickets are $20 to $25. Call 383-2466.

Joseph Corben, 85, of Longboat Key, died Sept. 10.

Mr. Corben was born Sept. 23, 1925. He served in the 82nd Infantry Division and was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star and was inducted into the French Legion of Honor.

He is survived by his wife of more than 60 years, Jacqueline; sister, Florence; two sons, Ronald and Bruce; and four grandchildren.

WORSHIP SERVICES 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. 383-8833.

Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive, will hold Sunday worship services at 10 a.m. The Rev. Kenneth Gill is the minister. 3836491.

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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 3834738.

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 or visit cancersupportsuncoast. org.

St. Armands Key Lutheran Church, 40 N. Adams Drive, will hold contemporary Sunday worship services at 9 a.m. and traditional Sunday worship services at 11 a.m. The Rev. Mark Bernthal is the pastor. 388-1234.

Rotary Club of Sarasota Keys — meets at noon Thursdays at Café L’Europe, 431 St. Armands Circle. Visitors are welcome to the meetings, which feature lunch, camaraderie and humanitarian programs. Call President Jack Geldi Jr. at 918-0742 for information.

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. 383-1255.

Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road, will hold Shabbat services at 5:30 p.m. Fridays and 10 a.m. Saturdays. Rosh Hashanah services will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28 and at 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 29. Rabbi Jonathan Katz is the rabbi. 383-3428.

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Natural Inclination

by Rachel S. O’Hara | Staff Photographer

The Sarasota Bay Estuary Program and Around the Bend Nature Tours hosted the local National Estuaries Day celebration Saturday, Sept. 24, at Ken Thompson Park.

The free event included hands-on learning with dip nets, kayaking 101, face painting and tours through the mangroves. There was also a special performance put on by the Sarasota Ski-ARees water ski show team — the first of the season.

The day also coincided with the Ocean Conservancy’s 25th annual International Coastal Cleanup. Many people were spotted with trash bags in hand, ready to pick up any debris they came across.

Draven Bean got a hermit crab painted onto his arm.

Kate Carver drew a picture of the ocean.

Sisters Vanessa and Michelle Kwak get up-close and personal with marine life in the bay by dip netting.

Photos by Mallory Gnaegy and Rachel S. O’Hara

High school Mote Marine Aquarium interns Alisen Burdine, Payton Hensen, Sam Levell and Jordan Miller ran a table about spotted eagle rays.

The Ski-A-Rees performed their human pyramid trick to wow the crowd.

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Bird Key home sells for $5.25 million RPF Developments Inc., a Florida corporation, sold the home at 675 Mourning Dove Drive to Kevin Kiernan, trustee of 675 Nominee Trust, for $5.25 million. Details about the newly constructed home were not available on the Sarasota County Property Appraiser’s website, sarasotaproperty.net. The property last sold for $2 million in December.

The sale was the largest of the six transactions recorded at the Sarasota and Manatee county courthouses during the week of Sept. 12 through Sept. 16, during which three sales were recorded on Longboat Key, one of which was in Manatee County. One sale each took place on Lido, St. Armands and Bird keys. Of the week’s sales, three exceeded $1 million.

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Jonathan Bridgford and David Browning, co-trustees of the John Bass III Trust, sold the home at 3475 Gulf of Mexico Drive to ThirtyFour Seventy-Five LLC, a Florida limited-liability company with a Coventry, R.I., post office address, for $1.35 million. Built in 1956, the 800-square-foot home has two bedrooms and three bathrooms.

Sleepy Lagoon Park

Mechthild Kreissle, of Sarasota, sold the vacant Lot 40 at 600 De Narvaez Drive in Sleepy Lagoon Park to Anthony and Roxanne Marterie, of San Rafael, Calif., for $292,600. The canalfront lot is just under a quarter-acre.

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This home at 675 Mourning Dove Drive sold for $5.25 million.

Country Club Shores

585 Schooner Lane LLC, a Delaware limitedliability company with an Allendale, N.J., address, sold the home at 585 Schooner Lane in Country Club Shores Unit II to Michael and Diane Schmidt for $2.3 million. Built in 1994, the 5,620-square-foot home has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half bathrooms and a swimming pool. It last sold for $1,525,000 in November 1994.

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Ronald and Kathie Hermann, of Sarasota, sold the home at 165 Tyler Drive in Lido Beach Division B of the John Ringling Estates to Brian Moran and Lenore Savio, husband and wife, of Hillsborough, N.J., for $440,000. Built in 1939, the 1,184-square-foot home has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. It last sold for $374,000 in May 2002.

The Longboat Key, Lido Key, St. Armands Key Chamber of Commerce hosted its “Business After Hours” Tuesday, Sept. 20, at the Helmsley Sandcastle, as a way for local businesses to network.

This month, the chamber sold 50/50 raffle tickets during the event. The winner won half of the money, and the other half went toward helping a family the chamber will adopt during Christmas.

Sarasota Harbour

Eileen Burnjas, of Sarasota, sold Unit 6 at the Hawthorne House in Sarasota Harbour East Apartments, 777 John Ringling Blvd., to Kathleen Lauder, a married person, and Michele Villeneuve, a single person, as joint tenants in common with a post office address in Ottawa, Canada, for $280,000. Built in 1965, the 938-square-foot unit has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. It last sold for $75,000 in September 1995.

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Overall winners 1. Jack Wilber and Larry Auerbach 2. Cele Schwartz and Mary Lou Thomas 3. Connie and Don Howard 4. Helen Schweyer and Jayne Forstenzer

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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

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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

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

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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 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!

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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

Sept. 13 Overall winners 1. Connie and Don Howard 2. Jack Wilber and Larry Auerbach 3. Jayne Forstenzer and Duci Kovacik 4. Mary Lou Thomas and Cele Schwartz

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 SE OU Dr N H stway-4 E P O 9 We un 1 S 121 at & S

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

Promenade Penthouse Prestancia – -Villa D’Este Beautifully plus 2,612 den Sweeping Gulfupdated and Bay two viewsbedroom with sunsets. maintenance freew/villa paint &wet carpet, luxurious sq. ft.

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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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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.

Bird Key – Waterfront Opportunity Long wide views of Sarasota’s protected Bay front from almost every room! 4BR/4BA home with many upgrades & an incredible 4,000 square feet under A/C. Screened pool/spa deck and large dock with extra seating area & boat lift, generator, $ hurricane protection.

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by Mallory Gnaegy | Community Editor

Republican Club welcomes notable guests The Republican Club of Longboat Key’s kickoff meeting this season included notable guests. Two of Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman’s daughters and his sonin-law spoke at the Sept. 21 meeting, held at Sarasota Yacht Club.

The club invited each Republican presidential candidate’s spouse to the meeting, but many had to send their regrets.

“I could give the real skinny on the Huntsman family,” Huntsman’s son-in-law, Jeff

Livingston, who lives in Clearwater, joked.

Livingston said Huntsman deserved the presidency because he emphasizes the private sector and has international experience. He also discussed Huntsman’s future initiatives: regulatory reform, tax reform, energy independence and free-trade agreements.

And Abby Livingston, one of Huntsman’s daughters, spoke about what qualifies him for the presidency.

“Raising five daughters,” she said.

Photos by Mallory Gnaegy

One of Jon Huntsman’s daughters, one of seven children, Abby Livingston, poses with her husband, Jeff.

Deborah DiCarlo and Jim Whitman

Randy and Charlotta Langley

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Longboat Key Town Commissioner Lynn Larson and her husband, Jim

“First Responders” Inaugural Golf Tournament Saturday, October 1, 2011 Honoring the 10th Anniversary of September 11th and benefiting the Emergency Response Teams of Longboat Key, Sarasota and Manatee Counties.

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By Donna Swan | Contributing Writer

How to save an entry to dummy There is nothing sadder than having winning tricks in the dummy that you have no way of reaching. We have all been there, done that. South’s jump to four hearts describes a great hand. A bid of three hearts would simply be competitive.

West led the king of diamonds, and declarer liked his dummy — if he could ever use it. The danger was that he could lose three club tricks in addition to the diamond. The opening pre-empt suggested another line of play, which depended on West having no more than two trump.

West won the king of diamonds

and led the ace. Declarer ruffed with the seven of trump, and East sluffed a spade. When West dropped the queen on the first trump lead, declarer could claim his contract. Declarer continued with two more high trumps and cashed and ace and king of spades.

The scene was set for the defense to come to declarer’s aid by providing him with an entry to the dummy.

Declarer gave East a trick he did not want by leading his deuce of hearts to dummy’s nine. East got a trick he did not expect and was forced to lead a black suit. No matter what he did, he had to give the declarer an entry to

the dummy to enable him to take two club pitches on the queen and Jack of spades.

The key play was declarer ruffing the second diamond with the seven of trump. If he had trumped with the deuce, East could have prevented the end play by putting his nine and six of trump under declarer’s winners, and declarer would have no way of putting East on lead.

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.”

IT’S READ EVERYWHERE The Observer’s “It’s Read Everywhere” photo contest is now online at YourObserver. com. Visit our website, YourObserver.com, to upload your photo submissions from now until Oct. 15; photos submitted directly to the paper will automatically be uploaded to our website.

Online voting takes place from Oct. 15 to Nov. 7.

Winners will be announced in the Nov. 10 issue of the Longboat Observer. Email your entries to nschwartz@ yourobserver.com or mail them to the Longboat Observer, 5570 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, Fla., 34228.

NEW YORK. Longboat Key residents Margaret and Bob Lachmann, Ernie and Carol Westward and Bill and Anne Flinter brought the Longboat Observer along when they saw the light — the lighthouse, that is. In August, they traveled to Long Island, N.Y., to visit the Montauk Point Lighthouse, the oldest lighthouse in the state of New York and the fourth-oldest active lighthouse in the U.S.

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“With the passage of the right-to-carry legislation, residents throughout the area are seeking proper training,” said Joe Krawtschenko, Lead Instructor. This course meets and/or exceeds Florida’s training requirements for concealed carry permit applications.”

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High Low 96 (1970) 59 (1991) 93 (1987) 59 (1981) 94 (1992) 63 (1972) 96 (1987) 62 (1972) 94 (1990) 62 (1967) 95 (1995) 63 (1996) 94 (1993) 63 (2008)

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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.

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Janet Mishner, Gail Rubinfeld, Bettina Sego and Susan von Gries meet in Mishner’s Lakewood Ranch studio. “We respect each other’s opinions,” Rubinfeld says.

“There aren’t many people I’d say that about.”

Painted ladies

The members of artinsight-sarasota discuss their diverse work, inspiring friendships and fifth show, ‘Y Not Women,’ which opens next month on Anna Maria Island.

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here’s a lot going on in Janet Mishner’s Lakewood Ranch home.

There are women mingling, a little white dog yipping, a plate of raisin cookies circulating and an assortment of painted canvases accumulating.

It’s the kind of friendly commotion

and camaraderie you don’t get often when you step into an artist’s world.

The vibe is neither solitary nor tortured. There’s coffee brewing, and photos of Mishner’s new grandson line the kitchen counter.

It’s exactly what Mishner, Bettina Sego, Gail Rubinfeld and Susan von

Gries had in mind when they formed their contemporary artist group, artinsight-sarasota, one year ago.

“In all my years of painting, I never had girlfriends who were artists,” von Gries says. “I can’t tell you how nice it is to be surrounded by women who share my passion.”

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‘Y NOT WOMEN’ from 1 The other women nod their heads in unison.

“Creating art can be a very lonely experience,” Rubinfeld says. “When you get together as a group, it becomes more — ” “Of an exchange,” Sego interrupts.

“Because when you’re alone, you’re alone,” Rubinfeld says, finishing the sentiment.

The artists met several years ago in artist Joseph Melancon’s class at Art Center Sarasota. Established painters, each with a rich resumé and decades of experience behind the easel, they were an obvious foursome.

“We came together out of common ground,” Mishner says.

Soon the women were meeting for lunch, meeting to paint and then meeting to discuss the obvious: forming a group.

“As an individual, when you approach a gallery and ask, ‘May I have a show here?’ 2,000 other artists have as well,” Sego says.

“From a marketing perspective, you’re in a better position if you’re in a group.”

They founded artinsight last fall to coincide with Festival sARTée, the two-week arts event that runs concurrently with the Ringling International Arts Festival.

In just one year they’ve

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held four exhibitions, proving that in a struggling economy there’s strength in numbers.

“So many galleries have closed in the last couple of years,” Rubinfeld says.

“I think art groups are the wave of the future.”

The group’s fifth show, “Y Not Women?” which will run Oct. 7 through Oct. 26, at The Studio at Gulf and Pine on Anna Maria Island, is its biggest exhibition.

An homage to American female artists, the show will include a lecture by Ringling College of Art and Design instructor Kevin Costello and music by an Irish harpist.

To prepare for the event, the women brushed up on the biographies of dozens of 20th-century female artists, including Lee Krasner, an abstract expressionist whose marriage to Jackson

“Contemplation,” by Gail Rubinfeld Pollock often overshadowed her career.

“Women have been painting all along,” Sego says. “But they don’t have their place in history as they should. Ask people to name a female artist, and you’ll get ‘Georgia O’Keeffe’ and that’s about it.”

Despite the focus of this upcoming exhibition and the obvious fact that the group lacks a male pres-

ence, the women of artinsight do not consider themselves feminists.

Rather than labeling the group as “women artists,” Rubinfeld says she’d rather artinsight be referred to as “artists who happen to be women.”

“In the New York art world, if you’re a woman artist over the age of 50, forget it,” Rubinfeld says.

“It’s the kiss of death.”

But this is the Sarasota

art world, and middleaged female artists are in good company, which is why “Y Not Women?” poses much more than a rhetorical question.

Given the area’s demographics, artinsight is almost a better fit for Sarasota than the other (younger) contemporary arts groups making headlines — for instance, s/ART/q, which was founded in late 2008 by a cast of 30- and 40-something artists.

This is not to say that artinsight lacks edge. The women’s paintings, as well as their bios, are colorful and diverse.

Rubinfeld, a Connecticut native who owns the Turtle Beach Resort and Inn on Siesta Key, didn’t start painting until the late 1990s, when she was bequeathed a box of art supplies from her twin sister, an artist who died of cancer 13 years ago.

The German-born Sego worked in marketing for luxury fragrance lines before moving in 2000 to Florida, where she carved out a reputation for painting abstract landscapes using textured acrylics, mixed media and collage.

Mishner, a former elementary school art teacher from Baltimore, was so drawn to abstract figures inspired by psychological metaphors and storytelling that she began bringing her work to psychoanalysis

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And, then, there’s von Gries, who spent 20 years living as an expatriate in El Salvador, Brazil, Venezuela, Belgium, and the Netherlands, where she worked in sculpture before settling down seven years ago in Sarasota.

All of the women have studied art, held solo exhibitions and sold work to private collectors and businesses.

“We each make our own marks,” von Gries says of their four distinct styles.

Von Gries’ marks are bold and spontaneous, the product of whatever music she happens to be listening to at the time.

Mishner’s marks are more purposeful, although lately she says she’s begun to embrace an impulsive style.

Rubinfeld loves to render figures and faces, often in multiples, a touching nod to her twin sister. And Sego’s canvases are heavy with metallic layers, semiabstract icons and symbols that conjure up nature in an elemental and prehistoric way.

“What we all had in common was that external observation was a moot point,” Mishner says. “Our work is the product of interpretation.”

She looks to the other women for approval. They concur.

“And, of course,” she adds, “almost everything we do is personal.”

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+ Sarasota’s bourgeois beckoned for J. Lo film The Internet has been a-Twitter with news that Jennifer Lopez is shooting a movie this week at the Ringling Museum.

And, yes, it’s true — hundreds of Sarasotans will be in it.

The movie, “Parker,” is a thriller based on a series of crime novels by writer Donald Westlake. Directed by Oscar winner Taylor Hackford (“Ray”), it stars Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte and Michael Chiklis.

Last week, R.J.’s Casting and Unique Casting Partners issued a call for 200 extras available for filming Sept. 28 to Sept. 30 at the Ringling Museum’s Cà d’Zan mansion.

Sloppy 20-somethings, however, need not apply.

According to the missive, the movie wants only “high-end, wealthy, Palm Beach-types, ages 30 to 70” for a swanky fundraiser scene.

And, if that’s not specific enough, it goes on to suggest that extras show up in “fulllength ball gowns with coordinating fancy jackets. Shawls, purses that are clutches or small shiny handbags are great. Any undergarments — Spanx, strapless bras — nude and black —

When singer/songwriter Matt Facciolla gets on a writing streak, watch out.

The musician penned 47 songs for his latest album, “Second Chances,” which is slated for release in January. No wonder it took him a year-and-ahalf to finish the project.

Facciolla, the former lead singer of the Electric Bushman, a Buffalo, N.Y.,-based band that in the 1990s opened for the Gin Blossoms and Jewel, is going the extra mile to make sure this album, his second as a solo artist, gains serious traction.

Earlier this year he flew home

to Buffalo to mix his tracks at the Goo Goo Dolls’ studio. This month, he went to Atlanta to master the album at Rodney Mills Masterhouse, a mastering engineer who has worked with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rage Against the Machine and Pearl Jam, to name a few.

You can catch Facciolla at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at The Loft Ristobar. When he played the venue in February (with Dan Toler, former guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band, and Mike Logan, former harp player for Queenie and the King Bees) it was to a packed house.

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Jennifer Lopez on the Miami set of “Parker” should be brought.”

Got that?

Don’t show up thinking there will be Spanx to spare. Even big-budget action flicks have to tighten the belt somewhere.

Bad news: The New York Pops has canceled its December show at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall due to “unforeseen economic and logistical challenges.”

Good news: “Stuffed and Unstrung,” the salty adult-only puppet show by the Henson Alternative is still scheduled to open the fall season Wednesday.

Even better news: The hall has replaced its wornout, 40-year-old seats with contour-padded, steel-supported seats from the same company that furnished the Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C. Using a grant from the Selby Foundation, the Van Wezel selected a five-person committee to test the quality and

suitability of several seat companies before settling on Seating Concepts, which has also cushioned the rears of patrons at Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and Fort Lauderdale’s Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

According to a press release issued last week by the Van Wezel, the new seats are 20 to 22 inches wide and have serpentine springs, recessed cup holders, mahogany armrests and aubergine fabric.

(Aubergine, by the way, is a fancy way of saying purple.)

So, get your tickets now. Who needs the New York Pops when you’ve got mouthy Muppets and a soft purple place to land?

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Off the cuff

JEREMY LAMB’S COMEDY ICONS George Carlin

“He’s my first comedic love. What he was saying to me — an all-black-wearing suburban white kid — seemed more like the truth than what I was hearing from my parents and teachers.”

Florida Studio Theatre’s newest long-form improviser likens performing on stage for hours to a unique form of storytelling.

Jeremy Lamb wasn’t always a happy-go-lucky improv comedian with an arsenal of hammy jokes at his disposal.

As a teenager growing up in Austin, Texas, Lamb was withdrawn, surly and serious, a misunderstood youth with an eyebrow piercing and wardrobe of black clothes.

At one point, even his beard was dyed black.

“Improv opened me up and changed my personality,” Lamb says. “It made my relationships with people better. It made me a more positive person.”

It also turned him into somewhat of an improv addict.

After getting a degree in film from the University of Texas, Lamb, 31, studied at Second City in Chicago and at Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. Both theaters have become breeding grounds for some of the entertainment industry’s most famous sketch comedians, including a slew of “Saturday Night Live” cast members.

In 2002, he founded Austin’s “Out of Bounds” comedy festival.

Three years later, he formed the touring improv troupe, Available Cupholders, which has become a fan favorite at the Sarasota Improv Festival.

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He’s recorded comedy albums, directed and starred in a sketch comedy film and an online comedy series in addition to touring as a solo act under the name Bearded Lamb.

Hired as a guest-teaching artist at Florida Studio Theatre, Lamb, whose first session of comedy classes started this week, has already created a comedy show with Managing Director Rebecca Hopkins.

“Just Desserts,” which opens next week in the Gompertz Theatre, is a hybrid of short-form and long-form improv with a dose of audience participation.

Directed by Lamb, the show is a compilation of short scenes, sketch comedy and games. It stars a cast of four improvisers (Christine Alexander, Adam Ratner, Samantha Stern and Steve Turrisi) who take turns directing one another in different scenes.

At the end of each scene, the audience will get to choose which director did the best job. Those who don’t succeed will be asked to perform an embarrassing task in front of the audience, or as Lamb describes it, “a quick penance to cleanse the palate.”

The show will serve as an introduction to long-form improv, something FST audiences have

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“There’s a huge stigma against improv,” Jeremy Lamb says. “Like it’s disposable, like it’s some dumb gimmick you’d see in a bar, which couldn’t be further from the truth.” seldom seen since Hopkins created the company’s beloved improv program 10 years ago.

Long-form improv is Lamb’s specialty.

The actor is such a fan of the format that he once attempted to break the Guinness World Records for the longest play by improvising with his troupe for 27 hours straight.

Although his efforts proved futile (Guinness wouldn’t recognize the show because it was unscripted), it did cement Lamb’s status as an up-and-coming improviser.

“Long-form is more rewarding,” he says. “There are greater opportunities for character development. There’s more room to move people.”

As intimidating as it might seem to perform a two-hour unscripted show, Lamb says almost anyone can do it.

“It taps into something that’s innate in all of us,” he says. “It’s storytelling. Anyone can tell a story.”

Is that what he tells the shy students who take his class?

“Actually, I tell the shy students

“Just Desserts” runs Oct. 1 through Oct. 29, in the Goldstein Cabaret at Florida Studio Theatre. For more information, call 366-9000 or visit floridastudiotheatre.org. that the most important thing is to be OK at failing,” Lamb says. “If you’re not failing, you’re not being a good improviser. We want people to be comfortable with failure so they take risks.”

And what if they’re not comfortable with stinking?

“Then we ask them to take a giant overblown circus bow,” Lamb says. “We say, ‘That’s fine.

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Make-A-Wish of Central and Northern Florida hit new heights with its third season-anticipating Handbags and Happy Hour event Sept. 22, at Michael’s On East. Executive Director Michelle Butler announced that the local chapter granted a record 17 wishes in the year that just ended and that supporters donated a record 107 purses for the evening’s silent auction.

Also hitting new highs were the guests’ shoes (Beth Ferguson’s pumps! Susan Jones’ wedges!) and hemlines that were straight out of 1970s miniskirt days. Monica Barth and Kyla Weiner co-chaired.

Wish recipient Hannah Swain, who answers the inevitable age question with “close to being 9,” was there to thank the organization for granting her wish, which was to meet iCarly.

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+ A new page turns for Stephanie Hannum Stephanie Finnan was barely out of college when she came to work as a reporter at the Longboat Observer in 2006 and was quickly promoted into the role she really wanted — Black Tie assistant to Emily Walsh Parry. Only two years later Courtesy photos and married to Max Hannum, she became Advertising Black Tie editor and now she is onward coordinator and upward to the publishing side as Stephanie advertising coordinator, liaising between advertising sales, production and advertis- Hannum ers.

“I am excited to have the opportunity to learn more about the business and the ins and outs of The Observer Group,” Stephanie says. “I love having my personal life back and my new schedule, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, but I will miss working with the non-profits.”

Well, maybe not; she is staying involved on the advisory board for Make-A-Wish Black Tie Foundation, committee for Key to the photographer Cure and is co-chairwoman of SPARCC’s Peter Acker Pirate & Princess Ball. The Black Tie section, however, will miss her a lot.

BT is taking over as Black Tie editor, effective with this issue. Joining the team as Black Tie photographer is Peter Acker, widely recognized as one of Sarasota’s premier event shooters, an associate since 1996 and a dear friend who has pitched in on uncountable projects.

Going forward, please send your calendar listings and other news to mschechter@YourObserver.com. And, please, keep smiling for our cameras!

Newlyweds … Richard Hopkins and Rebecca Langford married in May. There were two weddings July 3: Melissa Jekonski and Dr. Brad Lerner and Shelley Binion and Ed Sarbey, both couples at their respective homes. BJ Creighton’s daughter, Gennifer Robbins, wed Eric Kissinger at the Vinoklet Winery July 30, in Cincinnati.

They have known each other since seventh grade, and BJ reports that when Gennifer’s sons, Brendon, Zach and Sam Robbins, walked her down the aisle and his son, Connor Kissinger, stood up for Eric … there was not a dry eye anywhere.

Next to go down the aisle …

Jean Weidner and Al Goldstein will wed at an unspecified future date. C’mon, guys. Don’t keep your cheering sections waiting! More happiness: Yara Michaels and Dr. David Shoemaker will marry Thanksgiving Day on St. Lucia and celebrate their nuptials locally next spring at the Ringling Museum.

Sunglasses are recommended for viewing her engagement rock, er, ring. Yara popped over to Vera Wang in Miami to select her wedding dress. Ivana Lucic and Renzo Rivolta have set their nuptials for Dec. 23 at the Sarasota Yacht Club. Their original plan was Dec. 7, the day of St. Ambrosio the guardian of Milan, in honor of Piero and Rachele Rivolta, who are Milanese. But some family couldn’t make that date.

Speaking of dates … Montana Ross has set her wedding to Irwin Taplinger for May 19, 2012. The couple is opting for a sunset ceremony at Selby Gardens and a party afterward at the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota.

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Buffalo, N.Y.’s well-known Berger clan — as in the department store. The 30-plus guests gathered at one long table in Michael’s Wine Cellar; Kaya Orlin sang her grandma’s favorite song, “Sunrise, Sunset,” with lyrics created especially for the occasion. All present hoped to be as sharp at 90 as Roz is.

New nonagenarians … Jack Curran, the World War II veteran who donated the “Unconditional Surrender” monument to the city of Sarasota, turned 90 June 13 and celebrated with friends a few days later at Michael’s On East.

And long-time local Roslyn Orlin hit that major milestone Sept.

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Mike Bowen, of Key of Life, the music group that plays for all the Center for the Apes events, performs at the event.

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