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Road-crossing options sought A Florida Department of Transportation engineer says that FDOT may suggest options such as crosswalks instead of pedestrian islands along part of Midnight Pass Road.

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If data justifies other options, they will be presented when the Florida Department of Transportation holds a public meeting Dec. 6 to discuss its proposal for placing 10 pedestrian islands in the center turn lane of Midnight Pass Road between Beach Road and Stickney Point Road, an FDOT engineer told the Siesta Key Association Oct. 6.

Whatever treatments FDOT suggests for improving the safety of pedestrians trying to cross that 1-mile stretch of road will have to be justified by department studies, L.K. Nandam, district traffic operations engineer,

told the SKA board and the approximately 20 people in the audience.

“We want to really assure you all that community input is very critical to us,” he said. “Safety is our No. 1 priority … but we want to make sure the community is actually on board with what we do.”

Members of the Siesta Key Condominium Association have launched an initiative to derail the islands option, saying the structures will create more danger instead of improving pedestrian safety.

In explaining the history of the

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project, Nandam said that when the Sarasota County Commission about six years ago asked FDOT to look at safety issues on Midnight Pass Road, a study of traffic and pedestrian data showed that only one accident in five years had involved a pedestrian crossing the road.

Nonetheless, Nandam said, the road is heavily traveled, and people use the center turn lane as a refuge to enable them to pull out into traffic. The major problem for pedestrians, as illustrated by FDOT studies, he said, was

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FDOT TO HOST PUBLIC meeting The Florida Department of Transportation will hold a public information meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 6, at St. Michael the Archangel Church, 5394 Midnight Pass Road, to gather comments on a proposal for 10 pedestrian islands to be constructed along Midnight Pass Road between the Beach Road and Stickney Point Road intersections.

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Scott: Jobs will solve state’s problems Gov. Rick Scott’s visit to the Observer Group prompted discussion on economic growth, the importance of jobs and Scott’s intention to reduce state taxes.

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott believes the state’s road to economic recovery depends upon the jobs he believes can be created the quickest — those in the hospitality and agriculture industries.

Scott, who met with The Observer Group’s editorial board Monday at the company’s downtown Sarasota office, said those two industries will be the driving forces in helping to pull the state out of an anticipated $1.2 billion shortfall this year. The state had previously anticipated a $1.5 billion surplus after cutting the budget approximately $700 million last year.

“Tourism will continue to do well,” said Scott, who noted that the Florida Panhandle hotel bed-tax numbers were up 100% compared to a year ago when the BP oil spill devastated the region and its tourism numbers.

“There’s no reason to expect the agriculture industry won’t have a good year as well, and our ports have big opportunities.”

The elimination of a visa requirement for Brazilians, Scott said, will also help bring more tourism to the area.

Scott also intends to deliver on a campaign promise that involves bringing 700,000 jobs to Florida in seven years.

In a new statement he released over the weekend, Scott said “no matter what the economy might otherwise gain or lose,” his goal was always to create that many jobs.

“We are going to get there,” Scott told The Observer. “We are adding 10,000 jobs a month right now in the private sector alone.”

Scott said the state and its economic leaders must do a better job of promoting the state and also realize that Florida is competing with everyone else for jobs.

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott visited The Observer Group’s downtown Sarasota office Monday to answer questions for its editorial board about his agenda for the upcoming legislative session.

The governor said he’s not willing to lure companies to the state with promises of huge tax breaks if they can’t deliver on their promise of jobs and economic growth to the state.

“We can’t give tax breaks to companies unless we hold them accountable,” Scott said. “If they don’t provide what they promised, they need to give the money back.”

Once the economy is more stable, Scott said he intends to

reduce the state’s business tax, property tax and intangible business tax before reducing the state’s sales tax. Eliminating unnecessary regulations for businesses, Scott said, is also key.

When asked what his boldest, most controversial proposal he was likely to submit to the Legislature at its next session, Scott said he’s frustrated with the state’s education dollars and how they are disbursed.

Noting that more than 2,000

people make more than $144,000 a year in the state’s education system, Scott said changes need to be made so that more Florida students attain science, technology, education and math degrees.

“If we are going to change this state, I will do everything I can to help our money go into those education sectors,” Scott said.

Scott said he also plans to ad-

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dress the backlog of foreclosures in the next session by considering the allowance of voluntary non-judicial foreclosures to speed up the process.

Scott also expressed frustration with Citizens Property Insurance, the state’s insurer of last resort, and said residents are not aware it’s underfunded by $18 billion.

When asked about his position on proposals for widening casino gambling in Florida, Scott said he would like the decision to be made at the local level.

“What I have said all along is I don’t want to do this as a way to balance the budget,” Scott said.

Scott said he’s not likely to commit to a Republican presidential candidate until the state’s primary is held Jan. 31.

“It will come down to whom the American public believes can get jobs going again,” Scott said. “You can’t solve anything until you get a job.”

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Q&A with Gov. Rick Scott In an hour-long interview Monday with Observer Group editors, Gov. Rick Scott outlined key issues he’ll push in the next session of the Legislature, as well as his outlook for Florida’s economy. To read the complete interview and to see videos of his answers, visit YourObserver.com.

Other than seeing that a budget is passed, what key legislation will top your agenda for the next session?

Jobs. We have a big budget deficit that we didn’t anticipate again. We anticipated a $1.5 billion surplus. Instead, we are $1.2 billion short and have to find the money because we are not raising any taxes.

Look back for a minute on your first nine months: Are there any decisions as governor so far that you’d like to have back or would like to change?

I might do things a little differently, but I wouldn’t make different decisions. People want to know you listened to them, and I would like to come up with a forum where people feel comfortable and can provide me feedback. Town Hall meeting forums are tough when you are the governor.

For a long time, Floridians have talked about broadening the sales tax. You, at one point, supported the idea of removing the state portion of the school property tax and perhaps raising or broadening the sales tax. Do you see yourself pursuing any major tax reform — other than eliminating the corporate income tax?

I think as the economy gets better, I would like to reduce business, property and intangible business taxes. I would like to reduce the sales tax, too, after all the others.

Do you have a plan for the state if the Supreme Court says Obamacare is constitutional?

I am hopeful it will get repealed. If it

doesn’t get repealed, it will devastate jobs in our state. Our biggest businesses are hospitality and agriculture, and neither of those industries can afford it. It would also devastate small employers.

What will be your boldest, most controversial proposals next session?

Changing how our education dollars work. Less than 20% of our graduates get degrees in important areas such as math, education and political science. I will do everything I can to make sure our money goes into science, technology, education and math.

A $1 billion gaming resort with 1,500 hotel rooms is being proposed by a business group for The Forum at Colonial Boulevard and Interstate 75 in Fort Myers, as well as in Broward and Dade. What is your position going to be on widening casino gambling in Florida?

What I have said all along is I don’t want to do this as a way to balance the budget. I want the decision to be made locally. It will be interesting to see what makes it to my desk.

Are you going to push any legislation again addressing Citizens Property Insurance and Florida’s highly regulated insurance industry?

The problem is no one seems to understand the issue. Citizens is underfunded by $18 billion. We are not going to get it fixed until everyone understands the problem.

In terms of your 7-7-7 plan, what is it go-

ing to take to get to 700,000 jobs in seven years?

We are going to get there. We are adding 10,000 jobs a month right now in the private sector alone. If we do 100,000 this year, we will be on track. But we are losing jobs faster than I thought we would, and we have to understand we are competing for jobs.

In what sectors do you think there are the most opportunities to grow the most jobs the quickest? What conditions need to change to make that happen?

Hospitality and agriculture. In the Panhandle, our bed-tax revenues are up 100%.

I also got rid of the visa requirements for Brazilians, which will increase tourism.

There’s no reason the agriculture industry won’t have a good year as well and our ports have big opportunities.

The Wall Street protests have spread now to a dozen cities in Florida. What are your thoughts on the protests and protestors?

I’m not sure what they want. But I think people showing up to get involved in political process is a big plus. The world is changing, and people need to decide what they want out of their government.

Are you ready this morning to commit to a Republican presidential candidate you will support? When can we expect that?

No. I met with Mitt Romney last week, and I told him I’m not endorsing anyone right now. I do know it will come down to whom the American public truly believes will get jobs going.

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by Rachel Brown Hackney | Managing Editor

FDOT site sought for county park project County officials will hold a meeting with neighboring residents before pursuing FDOT approval about offloading material from a spoil area restoration project on a Siesta Bridge right of way.

Sarasota County officials will plan a meeting with members of the Bay Island Association before they proceed with seeking a Florida Department of Transportation permit to use FDOT right of way as a staging ground for removal of materials from Palmer Point Park on north Casey Key. That right of way is on the mainland, just below the north Siesta Bridge. The project calls for up to 300 trucks to transport the material (unloaded from barges onto the right of way) to a Palmetto site owned by the contractor. The trucks would have to make left turns onto Siesta Drive, though Public Works Project Manager Paul Semenac said during the Oct. 6 Siesta Key Association meeting that flagmen would not be used; the trucks would have to pull out onto the road just as any other vehicle would from that site.

The offloading could begin Nov. 1 and continue through December, he said. If the county cannot complete the work by Dec. 31, it risks losing a $300,000 grant from the Southwest Florida Water Management District to help pay for about 50% of the construction-related expenses, according to Curtis Smith, also a project manager working on this initiative.

The SKA Board of Directors Oct. 6 approved a motion supporting the proposal for material from Palmer Point Park to be offloaded from barges at the FDOT right of way and trucked away, if FDOT grants the necessary permit. An FDOT official at the meeting indicated to Semenac that the department would expedite its approval of the request.

However, County Commission Chairwoman Nora Patterson, who lives on the north end of the Key, suggested Semenac hold the extra meeting with residents,

because none of the SKA board members who voted lives near the work site, Semenac told the Pelican Press.

He hoped to schedule that meeting as soon as possible with Bay Island Association residents, he said.

SKA President Catherine Luckner explained before Semenac’s presentation that Palmer Point Park is adjacent to what once was Midnight Pass.

Semenac said the county is restoring the park. The southeastern portion of it was used as a spoil disposal site when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was constructing the Intracoastal Waterway by Siesta and Casey keys in the 1960s. The dredge material, he said, was cast onto a shallow portion of the bay, creating “spoil islands.”

The spoil material, he added, is primarily sand, shell and rock, with “a small amount of organics.”

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County staff is working on a plan to use Florida Department of Transportation right of way on the north side of Siesta Drive, mostly under the north bridge, as a staging point for offloading material from barges as part of a park restoration project.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection must approve the contractor’s sediment management plan, he said. However, objections from two different neighborhoods had led him to propose the site just off Siesta Key for the offloading of the sediment from barges, Semenac said.

The barges would be pushed through the ICW to the FDOT right of way, he said, where an excavator would extract the material and put it in the dump trucks.

“There will be no stockpiling of material on the site.”

The plan called for each barge to hold a hopper containing 20 yards of material, he added. However, if the contractor was able to use the FDOT site, Semenac said, it was likely that more than 20 yards could be accommodated per barge load.

Altogether, Semenac said, 6,000 cubic yards of material needs to be removed from the park. At a minimum of 20 yards per barge,

he said, that would necessitate the use of 300 dump truck loads.

The project calls for a 90-day timeline, he said.

By her calculations, Patterson said, that would mean about four trucks per day leaving the FDOT site. “So let’s say you only allocated 60 days for (the work),” she said. “That doesn’t sound so bad.”

Patterson added, “These figures are really pretty important in trying to evaluate whether this is going to be a mess or not.”

Patterson and SKA board members also raised concerns about the project extending into season.

Semenac said the use of the right of way would have to end before FDOT started preliminary work for the rehabilitation of the north Siesta bridge. That project is set to begin June 5, 2012. However, he said, it was even more critical to utilize the SWFTMD funding by Dec. 31. “They are not going to extend that (grant), I have been told.”

A restoration effort For about 15 years, Sarasota County has been working on plans to restore spoil areas the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers created in the 1960s in the Intracoastal Waterway.

Spoil islands resulted from vegetation growing up in materials dredged out of the waterway.

Non-native Australian pines and Brazilian pepper trees have become plentiful on the islands, according to county officials.

The first restoration project, on the southeastern section of Palmer Point Park, has been designed to improve water quality in that part of the bay, returning the body of water to the level of health it enjoyed before the ICW was created, according to Sarasota County Public Works Project Manager Paul Semenac.

Palmer Point Park is on the north end of Casey Key. A contractor has been removing the exotic vegetation from an approximately 10-acre area of Palmer Point Park and burning it on site. The work was scheduled to be completed no later than Oct. 10, Semenac told the Siesta Key Association during its Oct. 6 regular meeting. The removal of the exotics began the first week of August.

Another part of the project calls for planting 5,000 red mangroves on the site, in the effort to return the area to wetlands. Those plants, Semenac said, would be either 1 or 3 gallons in size.

New iron fence design wins approval Before Halloween, county officials plan to replace a damaged wooden fence along Ocean Boulevard by the Treasure Boat Way intersection.

Sarasota County Commission Chairwoman Nora Patterson has authorized county staff to proceed with seeking a quote from a regular vendor for a new wrought-iron fence along Ocean Boulevard at Treasure Boat Way. “We want to get it before Halloween,” Tom Maroney, general manager of business operations and public works for the county, told the Pelican Press Monday. “It’s doable at this point.”

Village merchants and others had voiced concerns that children coming to the Key for Safe Treats, the traditional Halloween observance, would be endangered by walking next to the wooden fence that was installed after the county completed the Village beautification project in March 2009. Vandals have damaged the wooden fence repeatedly over the past year; the majority of its vertical railings are missing.

Sheriff’s Office deputies on the Key have responded to numerous calls about the damage, but no arrests have been made.

Sgt. Scott Osborne, who leads the community policing station in the Village, told the Pelican Press in July that the fence seemed

to be a favorite target late at night for people on foot headed north out of the Village.

A group of Key representatives met with county staff Oct. 6 to discuss plans for a replacement fence. Among them were Mark Smith, a member of the Siesta Village Maintenance Corp. board of directors; Catherine Luckner, president of the Siesta Key Association; and Russell Matthes, president of the Siesta Key Village Association. Luckner reported during her organization’s regular meeting that evening that the group had looked at several fence designs, with a focus on durability and aesthetic appeal, “and I believe we have a plan.”

Patterson, who lives on the Key, had asked county staff to forward to her the options. Maroney said Monday that she gave him the go-ahead to pursue the replacement fence after he emailed her the preferred design.

Although the wrought iron will have to be painted more often, Maroney said, “it’ll hold up better.”

The replacement will be the same height as the current fence, he said.

Referring to the new fence, Maroney said, “Little children can’t slip through the thing.” Moreover, he said, the design should impede people from throwing trash into the adjacent creek.

“And the people who are kicking the fence might actually get their feet stuck in it,” Maroney said with a laugh. If that happened, he said, at least a call to EMS on the Key would reveal the identity of the vandals.

Gary W. Spraggins, the mobility infrastructure/Buchan Airport manager, who has been overseeing Village maintenance until the county can hire a new firm to handle the upkeep, had emailed Patterson Sept. 22 with two recommendations for the replacement. One, which he called “the standard for the Parks and Recreation Department,” consisted of chain links coated with black paint, with a gray composite handrail. One of those is at the Siesta Key Public Beach, he told her.

The other design featured a cable system he had suggested earlier, he pointed out. “Recommendation is to install a black cable with a clear coating over it,” with the

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Late this month, this wrought-iron fence design is expected to replace a damaged wooden fence on Ocean Boulevard at Treasure Boat Way. gray handrail on top, he added.

“It feels like this has taken a long time to get us just these two choices,” Patterson responded. “Chain link is definitely not acceptable to me no matter what color.”

The boardwalk along beside that portion of Ocean Boulevard also will be replaced at the same time as the fence, Maroney said.

The county plans to use a composite material that will hold up better, he said.

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+ 2011 a banner year for two sea turtle species

Institute scientist. “Nesting by both species has been rising dramatically and can be attributed at least in part to major conservation efforts over the past few decades. However, our loggerhead nesting totals have declined, or are at best stable, which suggests that this species has a different, and perhaps more difficult, set of conservation challenges.”

For more information about seaturtle nest counts, visit MyFWC.com/ Research, click on “Wildlife,” then click on “Nesting” under the “Sea Turtle” heading.

Sick or injured sea turtles can be reported by contacting the FWC Wildlife Alert Hotline at 888-404FWCC (3922).

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and its partners have documented a record high annual nest count for green turtles in Florida, along with high numbers of leatherback turtle nests.

The leatherback nest count fell just shy of the previous high mark in 2009, according to the FWC. For the green turtles, the count was 10,701; for the leatherbacks, it was 601. The figures reflect what the FWC calls “core index beaches,” which are surveyed each year to determine nesting trends.

No increase was recorded, however, for loggerheads, the species that nests most commonly in Florida. The nest count for this federally threatened sea turtle was close to average for the previous five years: 41,939. Since 1998, the number of those nests has been in a general decline.

“We’re pleased with the green turtle and leatherback nesting totals in 2011,” said Dr. Blair Witherington, an FWC Fish and Wildlife Research

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terms of endearment

by Rachel Brown Hackney | Managing Editor

Tiger Bay panel debates value of term limits One panelist said that the threat of a popular county commissioner being forced out of office would not be enough incentive for citizens to extend term limits.

Given the overwhelming public support for term limits, a Sarasota Tiger Bay Club panelist said Oct. 6 that she did not believe county voters would approve a new referendum broadening the length of time the county commissioners could serve, regardless of the popularity of current commissioners.

If the Florida Supreme Court upholds an August ruling by the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Florida regarding a Broward County term limits case, a 1998 Sarasota County referendum that restricted commissioners to two terms could end up being enforced, John Patterson, president of the club, explained during the program.

Bob Waechter, former chairman of the Sarasota County Republican Party, pointed out during the question-and-answer portion of the meeting that Commissioner Jon Thaxton is seeking his fourth term on the board and “the people love him.”

Waechter added, “We have an informed electorate in Sarasota County (and) we have people kind of happy with the way things are being done.” Yet, the Supreme Court action could put the county “at risk of losing a very experienced County Commission,” he said.

“A lot of things have changed since 1998,” Waechter added, saying he felt a new referendum could expand the terms to a maximum of three for the county commissioners.

However, Susan MacManus, a professor of public administration and political science at the University of South Florida, said polls showed little support for broadening limits.

LBK term - 2010 - IWhen she asked for a show of hands among the 250 audience members regarding their view, the majority favored term limits.

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Frank Alcock, a New College professor, serves as moderator of the meeting featuring panelists Susan MacManus of the University of South Florida, Longboat Key Town Attorney David Persson and former state Sen. Lisa Carlton.

“I think my poll stands,” MacManus said.

Earlier, she had told the audience, “This county has some good people … that people would like to vote in, if they had the opportunity.” Recent polls have shown that 70% to 80% of Americans favor term limits, she added.

Yet, panelist David Persson, attorney for the town of Longboat Key, said during the program, “The closer the form of government is to the people, the less attractive term limits seem to be.”

However, Persson said he had seen term limits result in “a subtle transition of power from the elected official to the appointed official.” After being forced out of elected office, such as a seat in the Legislature, Persson said, people often pursue the position of town manager or town attor-

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ney, and their background leads to them “being a little more powerful than they should be (in those jobs) … That’s one of the real concerns I have at the local level.”

Regarding the Legislature, for which the limit of two consecutive terms won approval in 1992, panelist Lisa Carlton of Osprey, a former state senator, said she felt the staff had assumed more power. Moreover, she said, once a new legislator walks in the doors, that person already is planning his exit, “and I think (that) has taken away a little bit of the stability” in government.

Carlton said running the state was akin to running a $70 billion business. Who would citizens prefer their state leaders be, she asked: people who understand policy and budgets or newcomers who have limited experience?

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Commission seeks term limits charter change The Sarasota County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to ask County Attorney Stephen DeMarsh to draft language for a county charter amendment calling for a maximum of three terms before a commissioner would have to step down from the board.

Commission Chairwoman Nora Patterson pointed out during the regular meeting, held at the R.L. Anderson Administration Center in Venice, that if the Florida Supreme Court upholds an appellate court decision that would force county commissions to abide by term limits, she and Commissioner Jon Thaxton both could be affected.

Patterson is serving her fourth term on the board; Thaxton has filed to seek re-election to his fourth term during the 2012 County Commission races.

Commissioner Carolyn Mason made the motion for the amendment.

The county charter was amended in 1998 to limit County Commission terms to two terms; subsequent court action rendered that moot. However, Commissioner Christine Robinson pointed out that the Supreme Court action could reinstate those limits.

The charter change proposed Tuesday, she said, “would take effect going forward” from a Supreme Court ruling.

Without the county action, DeMarsh said, the court ruling could come down after a filing period was closed, and a candidate’s name might have to be struck from the ballot.

Mason asked that the draft language be presented during one of the board’s meetings later this month. If approved by the commission, county citizens would have to vote on the charter change.

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

Friedrich Hayek “Road to Serfdom,” 1944

Editor & CEO / Matt Walsh, mwalsh@ yourobserver.com Executive Editor / Lisa Walsh, lwalsh@ yourobserver.com Associate Publisher-Multimedia / Emily Walsh Parry, ewalsh@yourobserver.com Managing Editor / Rachel Brown Hackney, rhackney@yourobserver.com Assistant Managing Editor/Design / Jess Eng, jeng@yourobserver.com City Editor / Kurt Schultheis, kschultheis@ yourobserver.com Community Editor / Loren Mayo, lmayo@ yourobserver.com Black Tie Editor / Molly Schechter, mschechter@yourobserver.com Arts & Entertainment Editor / Heidi Kurpiela, hkurpiela@yourobserver.com Web Editor / Eddie Kirsch, ekirsch@yourobserver.com Editor-Editorial Pages / Rod Thomson, rthomson@yourobserver.com

Caution on beach schedule Sarasota County is considering a dramatically revved-up schedule for the renovations of Siesta Key Beach, but needs to be cautious about entering into anything that could be financially constricting.

The idea, brought up by County Commissioner Joe Barbetta, is to take advantage of low construction costs and low interest rates and condense the 12-year plan into 18 months.

It is 12 years mostly because that is how long it would take the county’s surtax to generate enough money — $17 million at the last estimate — to pay for the improvements. The final $9 million needed for the project is not expected to be available until 2024.

Barbetta’s proposal has merit. Costs for construction and capital are indeed low.

And the improvements, from drainage to parking to facilities, are needed. There really could be monetary savings on the improvements, including the reality that costs grow with time.

But there are potential dangers. When commissioners hear from the staff Oct. 25 on the possibilities, they need answers to some serious questions.

First, how might borrowing the money upfront affect the county’s financial rating using a worst-case scenario? The economic worst case is a real possibility, and the assumptions cannot be Pollyanna-like. If there is a risk that the debt would affect other projects or cause a downgrade in the county’s borrowing capacity, the commission should stick with pay-as-you-go.

Second, how will parking and the general use of the beach be affected if all of the work is being done at about the same time?

The beach was just named the best beach in the country by Dr. Beach, and there has been a boom in tourism on the Key that appears to be linked to that ranking.

Parking is already a problem at the beach, and the plan could actually remove parking spaces. The idea that a trolley to the beach will solve that problem just has no basis in reality. It would be nice, but it is a cross-fingered, eyes-closed hope right now.

Not exactly what planning should be based upon.

The last thing the county should do is throw a huge roadblock in front of the momentum that the beach ranking has given the island.

Give Barbetta credit for bringing up the option, but it is fraught with risk. Only if those issues can be confidently overcome should the county move forward with the expedited process.

+ Good news on beach signs

Getting an earful from the community on the dreariness of the signs that Sarasota County made proclaiming Siesta Key Beach’s No. 1 status, the county is getting ready to scrap white on mud-brown.

Anything would be better.

County staff is gathering organizations interested in real signage, such as the Siesta Key Chamber, the Siesta Key Association and the Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau, along with individuals.

We hope serious consideration will be given to banners, which apparently do not fit current county code. That problem is eminently fixable. But whether banners or not, some sort of fun, big-splash signage is in order.

The only qualm we have is directing Interim County Administrator Terry Lewis to coordinate the redesign. Surely he has much weightier issues to deal with.

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Occupiers not like tea partyers The Occupy protests have spread to Sarasota and continue expanding, but to what end no one seems to know — including the demonstrators. The philosophies expressed in endless interviews range from incoherent to Marxist, with the stray libertarian throw in.

But one thing is clear.

The occupiers are not the tea party in the way some commentators would like. But there is one sense in which the occupiers and the tea party are alike: They are both natural outcomes of the two broad ideologies that divide the ROD country.

THOMSON The tea party is the natural product of the right, focusing on personal responsibility, faith, family, capitalism, individualism and traditional America.

It is made up of people who go to work daily, make products and offer services, pay taxes and serve the community. They love the country and are proud to be Americans.

In essence, despite a media caricature, they are not the extreme, but a chunk of the mainstream who make America work and want to save the American way of life.

The occupiers are the natural outcome of the grievance-oriented, redistributive left at the core of modern progressivism. They are filled with students, the unemployed and the angry. They largely don’t pay taxes; they take taxes. They do not produce; they

consume. They are not out to preserve the American way of life but to destroy it for some undefined alternative.

Tea party members show up for a few hours at a rally or event because they have jobs and families. The occupiers, by definition, tend to stay put because they do not have jobs and most do not appear to be supporting families. Plus, it turns out that some of the protesters have been paid to show up at some events, and there is growing evidence that there have been quite a bit of union efforts involved.

The occupiers have brought litter, disorder and stench to their permanent demonstrations on Wall Street — part of living on the street. The tea party is noted for leaving the Washington, D.C., mall cleaner than it found it. In hundreds of events, there has never been one tea party arrest. The occupiers’ protests have seen 700 arrests so far.

Tea partyers have a general idea of where most of the problems lie, and that is with government policies and government getting in bed with big business and Wall Street. (Think automaker bailouts.) Therefore we need new public policies.

The occupiers look mostly at the rich, and see the solution in destroying what is, without really knowing what they want to replace it with. Socialist utopia is a welldocumented nightmare. And destruction without purpose is never, ever good.

Tea party events are resplendent with American flags, kids in strollers and a list of specific policy changes. The occupiers, not so much.

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as the same kind of groups, just different ideologies, these two groups are not alike at all — except where they represent the natural outgrowth of the two dominant philosophies.

So what is it that occupies the occupiers’ minds? We asked Gov. Rick Scott his thoughts on the occupiers when he was at the Observer Group office Monday. His first response was: “What do they want?”

No one seems to know. Even by street protest standards, there is such ignorance and silly student hyperbole as to make it laughable.

In the Occupy Sarasota demonstrations last week, the group was more eclectic than the original Wall Street group, with lots of typical college kids, the unemployed and a smattering of older people.

The comments, though, remained vague at best.

There was a strong anti-capitalist theme running through the signs and the comments of protesters, including by those who were in college, apparently not understanding that when they eventually graduate to the real world they will be seeking employment from capitalists — unless, of course, they get jobs with government, which, of course, is funded by taxpayers who earn their livelihoods via capitalism.

The occupiers look to be bent on destruction, and my prediction is that is exactly what will begin to happen more.

Tea partyers clean up and build.

The two are not remotely the same.

Rod Thomson can be reached at rthomson@yourobserver.com.

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main street modifications

by Kurt Schultheis | Staff Writer

Main Street improvement suggestions

Public gives input on project Residents and business owners made recommendations for a downtown Main Street renovation project Monday.

Imagine Main Street with a brick street and historic street lamps, wider, brick sidewalks and cohesive storefronts to go along with parallel parking, shade trees and more landscaping.

That’s the way 125 people who attended a public workshop Monday believe Main Street should look.

City residents and business owners agreed with many of the suggestions that were offered as possibilities for a Main Street renovation project that will stretch from Bayfront Drive to U.S. 301 and will highlight the street’s historic district from Gulfstream Avenue to Orange Avenue.

At the start of the workshop, those in attendance were asked to put an orange dot on their leastfavorite section of Main Street and a green dot on their favorite section.

Green dots flooded Main Street from the Five Points roundabout to Orange Avenue, while orange dots predominantly littered Main Street from Orange Avenue to Osprey Avenue.

After a brief presentation, the public was broken into four groups to come up with concepts for the following segments of the future project: • Bayfront Park to the Five Points roundabout

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• Five Points roundabout to Orange Avenue • Orange Avenue to Osprey Avenue • Osprey Avenue to U.S. 301 It was discussed that parallel parking could replace angled parking to widen sidewalks from Bayfront Park to the Five Points roundabout. More consistency, the majority of attendees said, was also needed with storefront awnings.

A pedestrian mall, where Main Street could be closed off for periods of time to allow people to

The following suggestions were made to renovate Main Street and define its historic district: • Wider, bricked sidewalks • Brick streets in the historic district • Historic street lamps • Parallel parking (replacing the angled parking would create wider sidewalks and reduce parking overall) • More green space and trees • More extended bulbouts • More crosswalks defined by bricks • Consistent storefront awnings • A pedestrian mall on the street • Main Street gateway arches • Wayfinding signs • More pubic art • Enhanced lighting

red-headed stepchild of Main Street,” said Downtown Improvement District board member Dr. Mark Kaufmann.

To connect Main Street east of Orange Avenue, the public suggested an archway at U.S. 301 and Main Street to let people know they are entering downtown Sarasota.

Grants to spruce up storefronts and make the street in that area look more like Main Street west of Orange Avenue was also suggested.

Those polled said they didn’t believe it was a good idea to take away angled parking for parallel spots from Orange Avenue to Osprey Avenue, because there are no nearby garages to supplement the loss of spaces that would be removed for parallel spots.

Kaufmann noted during the workshop that parallel parking would reduce the number of parking spaces overall.

“Do we want to give up angled parking for wider sidewalks?”

Kaufmann asked. “We can’t have both.”

The majority believed a roundabout at Orange Avenue and Main Street would enhance downtown and draw pedestrians east of Orange Avenue.

Wayfinding signs and extended landscaped bulbouts on street corners were also supported.

Another public meeting will be held in November to present design alternatives for Main Street

Bill Waddill, with Kimley-Horn Associates, discusses the Main Street streetscape project Monday with Sarasota residents.

shop in the street, was also suggested.

From the Five Points roundabout to Orange Avenue, it was suggested that storefronts should litter the area with potted plants and there should be wider sidewalks, brick streets and historic streetlights.

From Orange Avenue to U.S. 301, residents believe more drastic changes need to be performed to draw pedestrians east of Orange Avenue.

“This is the section of the road that’s always been labeled the

based on the information collected at the workshop.

The goal is for the city to finalize a design and cost for the project before presenting it to the Sarasota City Commission for its review by the end of the year.

Tony Souza, a member of a planning committee that has helped bring this project to fruition, thanked everyone for working on the project.

“We have a great opportunity here to build a future on the best of the past,” Souza said.

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ISLANDS / FROM PAGE 1A that “people have to look for (traffic) gaps in both directions and worry about what’s happening in the center lane.”

Therefore, he said, FDOT sought a solution “to make the decision-making process easier for the pedestrian.” The result was the pedestrian islands proposal. Because no funding was available for the plan, Nandam added, nothing was done with it.

FDOT did lower the speed limit on that portion of Midnight Pass Road from 40 mph to 35 mph, however, he said, and it erected four sets of signs to warn motorists about pedestrians crossing the road.

In June, the Sarasota/Manatee Metropolitan Planning Commission found funding for the pedestrian islands project, Nandam continued, but subsequent to that, FDOT officials learned county officials and residents wanted them to revisit the proposal. The December public meeting will be part of that process, he said.

“My fear is that you have money to spend, and we don’t want to just say, ‘no,’” SKA President Catherine Luckner told Nandam.

“This is the kind of forum we would promote to get feedback,” he replied.

“Are there other opportunities, other solutions, that we are not seeing, but you are seeing? ... If it is an option that really is workable,” he said, FDOT would evaluate it.

SKA board member Bob Waechter then asked, “Is one of the viable opportunities doing nothing? I don’t see how you could improve the safety record of one accident in five years. The chances of you doing this (project) and having a better safety record are pretty slim.”

“If we hear … this is something that the community doesn’t want,” Nandam said, FDOT probably would not pursue the project.

However, Nandam said, “If we could

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So far, a majority of Key residents has expressed opposition to a Florida Department of Transportation plan to construct 10 pedestrian islands along a 1-mile portion of Midnight Pass Road, to make it easier for people to cross the street during heavy traffic times. find one concentrated place where pedestrian crossings happen, we could focus on that one particular place.”

Sarasota County Commission Chairwoman Nora Patterson pointed out that representatives of the condo association had suggested lowering the speed limit on that portion of Midnight Pass Road to 25 mph instead of putting in the islands.

“In season, traffic is so backed up, it is that slow,” she added.

Another suggestion was for just three pedestrian crosswalks along the road, she said, but FDOT had responded that not enough people would use them. “I still wonder if that isn’t a solution that people might embrace,” she said.

“We are going to look at that,” Nandam told her. However, FDOT has a minimum pedestrian count that dictates putting in a crosswalk, he said, and pedestrians still would have to make decisions about

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Commission delays hearing on new metals ordinance Expressing concerns about sufficient exemptions, the Sarasota County Commission Tuesday asked county staff to push back a public hearing until December.

After requesting another stakeholders meeting and revisions in the proposed language, the Sarasota County Commission Tuesday voted unanimously to hold a public hearing Dec. 13 on a new ordinance covering the sale and purchase of ferrous, non-ferrous and precious metals.

Commissioner Christine Robinson told Wayne Applebee, the county’s criminal justice policy coordinator, and Det. Dan Valentino of the Sheriff’s Office that she believed the ordinance needed to spell out exemptions regarding secondhand dealers.

“I want to make sure we still allow for church flea markets” and other entities, such as Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore businesses, which sell surplus building supplies at prices below retail, Robinson said.

Commissioner Joe Barbetta agreed.

“We’re looking at unintended consequences,” he said.

Valentino explained that the process of developing the revised ordinance began about a year ago, when law enforcement officers began linking an increasing number of jewelry and metals thefts to subsequent sales involving secondhand dealers.

He linked those thefts to the need to support illegal drug habits.

“Rising market prices (for metals),” he said, “have had a marked effect on the number of burglaries and thefts,” along with damage to utilities, businesses and homes.

The county has 156 secondhand dealers

that buy jewelry and metals, Valentino said.

That figure compares to 194 pharmacies in the county. The most recent figures, he added, showed personal and commercial losses to such thefts totaling $5.1 million in the county. Going back to 2009, he said, that figure added up to about $12 million.

When Robinson referred to the section of the ordinance regarding exemptions for secondhand dealers, she noted it referenced the state ordinance without offering specifics. “I just want to make sure we’re not going overly broad on this,” she said.

“We can certainly put the language for exemptions back in there,” Assistant County Attorney David Pearce told Robinson.

Pearce also pointed out that the proposed ordinance no longer included rare coin dealers in its new restrictions.

Numerous dealers had complained that the proposed new requirement that they hold onto any coins they bought for a minimum of 30 days would tie up so much money in inventory that they would be forced out of business.

Commission Chairwoman Nora Patterson also complained about the inclusion of DVD and CD resellers in the restrictions for secondhand businesses.

“I buy used DVDs all the time,” Robinson said. “I also sell ’em back to stores.”

When Patterson then suggested it might be premature to advertise the public hearing on the ordinance for Nov. 9, the original date requested, Applebee told her he would make sure another workshop was held with the stakeholders.

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Sept. 16 Those nagging suspicions 8 p.m. — 2000 block of Siesta Drive. Criminal Mischief. An employee at the Siesta Drive Post Office reported she had discovered her right rear tire had been punctured about 8 a.m., when she was preparing to leave for work. Although she lives in Manatee County, she told a police officer she suspected the tire had been damaged at the post office. She said she was new to that office and recently had had some disagreements with other employees there. Video surveillance did not aid the investigation, and people the complainant identified as potential suspects said they knew nothing about the incident. The officer was unable to determine whether the incident did indeed occur at the post office.

Sept. 28 Not a good time to talk 6:05 p.m. — 5100 block of Siesta Drive. Suspicious Incident.

A man reported that he was giving a female friend a ride home when she told him a taxi driver had touched her inappropriately. The man told the responding deputy not to call the woman during the daytime, however, because she would not talk about the incident when her boyfriend was around. The deputy took no further action.

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Oct. 4 Window work 9:30 p.m. — 6700 block of Sarasea Circle. Burglary. A guest at a resort said that between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. that day, someone had forced open the bedroom window in the unit where he was staying and removed several items, including his wallet, $250 in cash, a credit card and a purse. The responding deputy could find no fingerprints and no sign of the items around the property. No witnesses to the incident could be found, either.

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City to revisit Five Points Park benches The majority of downtown residents and business leaders agree that the atmosphere in Selby Five Points Park has improved since benches were removed three months ago.

Those who live and work near Selby Five Points Park say that crime has been reduced and that transients are virtually nonexistent since the city removed six benches from the park three months ago.

Sarasota Police Capt. Paul Sutton backs up the crime-drop claims.

From July 1, 2010, through Sept. 30, 2010, Sutton said the department received 16 calls related to the park. In the same time period in 2011, the department received three calls. And, the overall police district that the park sits in received 67 calls from July 1, 2010, through Sept. 30, 2010, compared to 39 calls in the same time period for 2011.

There were also 19 arrests made in that district during the 2010 timeframe, compared to 12 arrests for the same period in 2011.

“However, you want to measure it, crime is down in that area,” Sutton said.

The bench-removal decision was made after residents complained that the benches attracted transients and panhandlers and allowed them to congregate, which intimidates some citizens and tourists.

But the city is planning on revisiting its decision.

City staff will approach the Sarasota City Commission in early December at the earliest and ask commissioners whether they want to place benches back in the park. The three-month trial period will have ended by that time.

But the question that really needs to be asked, according to Peter Fanning, president of the Downtown Sarasota Condominium Association, is what the city would do differently if the benches were to be returned.

“There’s no denying that our association has voiced support of bringing the benches back in after three months,” Fanning said.

But Fanning said that, as of now, he and his association don’t support the return of the benches at this time.

“We have since taken the position of supporting the residents’ desire to refrain from putting the benches back in at this time,” Fanning said. “Safety, security and cleanliness has much improved in the area, and we feel that needs to be maintained until a permanent solution can be reached.”

Fanning suggests the city draft an ordinance that addresses homeless feedings and has agreed to work with the Rev. Thomas Pfaff, who is working with all parties to reach an amicable solution. Pfaff plans to present his plan to the commission some time early next year.

But the homeless issue isn’t the only problem, according to Fanning and others.

“We need enforcement mechanisms to actually be consistent and enforced,” said

Fanning, who believes the city needs to enforce its no-camping ordinance. “We are trying to work out a situation where we can get both sides to agree on something.”

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“The question everyone needs to ask is whether the downtown area is better now than it was when the benches were installed there,” Grande said. “There’s no question that if you poll the residents and business owners of the downtown area, which are directly affected, the answer would be a resounding yes.”

The Sarasota Observer contacted eight business owners near Selby Five Points Park, and all agreed with Brenner and Grande’s assessment.

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“We are so pleased with this street and the activity we have now,” Heibel said.

City Manager Bob Bartolotta, who will present the issue to the commission again for its discussion, said he wants a discussion to take place before benches are considered again.

“I can see there has been a notable difference in the Five Points Park area,” Bartolotta said.

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Sailboat raises lots of questions.

Siesta Key home sells for $2.8 million.

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The Rev. Dean Taylor blesses Coalette, a threelegged cat that Morgan Wallace adopted from Cat Depot last year.

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Blessed event When Morgan Wallace arrived at St. Boniface Episcopal Church clutching a red-and-green blanket with a little black face peering out, parish members quickly surrounded her.

Inside the blanket was a furry feline named Coalette that Wallace adopted last year from Cat Depot.

“She has

three legs and had reconstructive surgery to her face,” Wallace said during the church’s Blessing of the Animals Sunday, Oct. 9.

The Rev. Dean Taylor made his rounds to the pet owners — one of whom even had brought a fish — and blessed each and every animal. Owners tied special bandanas around their pets’ necks following the blessings.

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Rosie, a dog living with the Humane Society of Sarasota County, hoped to find a home during the event.

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Boat offshore raises lots of questions About the same time that property prefers sailing to motoring. owners on North Beach Road began enAccording to sources, the boat’s owner gaging in a dispute over their rights early bought the vessel to use it for his home. this month, other Key residents started His goal eventually is to reach the moorspreading the word about a sailboat an- ing field on the bayfront, by the Marina chored approximately 200 yards off the Jack complex. beach near Access 7.

Lourdes Ramirez, former president of Coming soon the Siesta Key Association, alerted me to One comment that aroused considerthe situation. able interest during the Oct. 6 SKA meet“The last thing we need is to ing was Lally’s mention of a new see a lot of boats moored off the restaurant coming to the Village. beaches,� she said.

SKA board member Michael When I contacted county Code Shay told everyone the machines Enforcement Officer John Lally from the laundry mat adjacent Sept. 30, he said the matter had to the Siesta Market had disapbeen turned over to the Sheriff’s peared practically overnight.

Office.

When he asked whether Lally “I can’t swim that far,� he said had any information about that, in his distinctively humorous Lally responded that a new resmanner. taurant was going into the space. “I put in for a boat (for next The owner’s lease is supposed to RACHEL year),� he added, “(but) was told, become effective Nov. 1.

BROWN ‘Not even a life vest.’�

Shay also remarked on the HACKNEY abundance of garbage around During the Oct. 6 Siesta Key Association meeting, Lally reported the site. Lally said that was why that the sailboat had been pullhe had approached the owner. ing up anchor and gradually moving fur- The man said he would get everything ther north. As of that afternoon, he said cleaned up once the lease became valid, it was anchored offshore between Beach Lally added.

Accesses 5 and 6.

Asked if he had any idea what type of “As long as it moves somewhere,� he restaurant it would be, Lally said, “It’s not said, “it’s legal.� a doughnut shop, (in spite of) what everyThe boat also had moved farther out in body thought.� the Gulf; it was about three to four miles offshore.

Back to boats When I spoke Oct. 7 with Sgt. Scott OsIn light of the recent discussions regardborne of the Sheriff’s Office, he said the ing boating on the Key, the SKA board inlaw requires a vessel to move a minimum vited two representatives of the Sarasota of 500 yards every 48 hours. As long as a Power & Sail Squadron to make a presenboat moves regularly and it has power and tation during the Oct. 6 meeting. a working septic system, the owner is not “We’re the best-kept secret in town,� subject to fines or other measures.

Commander Leon Warshaw told the apThis boat is complying with the law, Os- proximately 25 people in the audience. borne said, though apparently the owner The squadron, which has existed for al-

most 60 years, is part of an international organization, Warshaw said. Its office is on Hyde Park Street.

About 70% of the boating accidents involve skippers who never had a basic safety course, Warshaw said. That’s why squadron members provide the “ABC,� or American Boating Course, which teaches “the very basic rules of the road and how to behave and how to be courteous on the water,� he added.

Most boating accidents occur when people stop paying attention to what they’re doing, Warshaw said. As part of a group, especially, he said, “You’re all having lots of fun on board ‌ You’re kind of forgetting where you are and where you’re going.â€? When the boat is traveling 30 mph, he said, “that is dangerous.â€?

Florida has become the top state for boating accidents, he added, taking the title from California.

Along with the American Boating Course, the squadron provides free vessel checks. “We go through a checklist,�

Warshaw said. Every boater whose vessel passes gets a sticker to display. If the person doing the check finds problems, he’ll tell the boater what to do to meet the proper safety standards.

The ABC boating course is taught over four nights. For upcoming dates when it will be held, visit www.sarasota-boating. org or call the squadron at 953-7565.

EVENT NEWS WELCOME With season shortly coming into full swing, the Pelican Press is asking the public, churches, condominium complexes, organizations and any other entity not included in those categories to send in information about upcoming events.

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Siesta residents have been keeping track of a boat (top right of photo) they first observed anchored about 200 yards off Beach Access 7. It since has moved farther from shore and up the Key’s coastline.

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by Loren Mayo | Staff Writer

Sarasota BMX goes preschool What seems to be chaos barreling down a BMX track is in reality carefully calculated moves, as two little racers jockey for position in a fierce fight for first place. Kick-slides and even a little air time make this race just as exciting as watching the pros — on a much smaller scale, of course.

“JoJo got a bike from his Swiss godfather before he could even walk,” says his dad, John Zolikoff. “He has been riding since he was 14 months. At 3 1/2, he learned how to ride an electric motorcycle.”

Now both 4 years old, JoJo Zolikoff and Devin Miller are among the youngest professional athletes in the country. They both ride Strider bikes, which are made without a chain, pedals and hand brakes. By using their legs and feet to propel the bike forward, riders as young as 18 months can learn balance, motor skills and coordination, completely eliminating the need for training wheels.

This weekend, they’ll compete in a race specially designed for children ages 2 to 5 — the 2011 Strider World Championship.

But it won’t be their first, because these kids are used to frequent competition. And so are their families.

“I came out of the motorcycle industry, figuring that everything I was doing for Harley-Davidson I could do with little kids,” says Zolikoff, who is now director

IF YOU GO The 2011 Strider World Championship for children ages 2 to 5 takes place Friday, Oct. 14 and Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Sarasota BMX Track, 1590 N. Tuttle Ave. A clinic with BMX legends Greg Hill and John Purse takes place from 10 a.m. to noon Friday, followed by a barbecue, practice round and opening ceremony from 4 to 8 p.m. From 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday there will be practice, a best trick contest, family fun festival and world championship service. Proceeds from the event benefit the Suncoast Children’s Charities. of business development with Strider. “JoJo has traveled 30,000 miles with my wife and me, and in his short four years, has been to Europe seven times and Brazil four times.”

Devin’s grandparents, Erma and Dave Miller, became involved with the construction of Sarasota BMX, built in 1974, when it was nothing but a track and a manually operated gate.

“In 1977, Devin’s father, Doug, brought home a flyer for a Sarasota County Parks and Recreation event at this facility,” Erma Miller says. “We loved it, and he

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Devin Miller and JoJo Zolikoff race each other on the BMX track. loved it. We were track operators here from 1980 to 1995, and we’ve always stayed involved.

I don’t know what we’d do if we weren’t doing this.”

The Millers’ love for BMX led them to buy Devin his first Fisher Price bike.

“It’s a baby bike,” Devin says.

“I used to do tricks on it and ride it in grandma’s house. When I got my big boy (Strider) bike, I asked Grandpa, ‘Where are the pedals?’”

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“At the National Bicycle League Grand National in Kentucky, Devin came around the corner, got into the muck and fell,” Erma Miller says. “JoJo came around, saw his friend on the ground and stopped. Neither one made the podium — a big deal because you get to stand up and hold up your trophy for picture time — but they did a knuckle punch and fist pump and were hugging each other.”

Five things you didn’t know about Jojo Zolikoff and Devin Miller Jojo, 4 1. He owns five racing outfits and has his own custom line of shirts and You Tube channel.

2. His favorite breakfast is Mickey Mouse pancakes.

3. He speaks Portuguese.

4. He won the Munich Bike Expo Children’s Cup in Germany.

5. He wants to be an angry orange monster for Halloween.

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2. His favorite food is Mickey Mouse pancakes.

3. He loves to play with his big toy bulldozer.

4. He dressed like a policeman with Jojo at National Night Out. 5. He likes to play in the rain.

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How the METI deal was done The top executive for a $60 million Sarasota medical technology business took on a complicated mission: Find a buyer for the firm without sacrificing price. It was an exacting operation.

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Lou Oberndorf, left, cofounded METI in 1996. The company has since become one the largest health-care technology firms on the Gulf Coast, with a focus in lifelike human simulators.

Mike Bernstein, right, was named president of METI in 2009. possible. One advantage for METI: Bernstein had done similar deals before, for which, as an executive with a smaller health care industry firm, he courted a larger acquisition partner.

Bernstein says CAE was an obvious candidate to buy METI. CAE, he says, is the de facto standard in the simulation industry and “is everything that a health-care simulator could and should be.”

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METI’s new owners share that confi-

dence in Bernstein. After the deal, the firm named him president of CAE Healthcare, which oversees METI and several other operations. Bernstein will be based out of Sarasota and report to CAE executives in Montreal.

Bernstein’s promotion, says CAE executives, puts the division in a position to acquire other firms that can facilitate growth. Bernstein, who considers himself a transactional CEO, says while Baird approved some acquisitions, the deal making had a ceiling. That’s because METI

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That strategy is rapid growth.

The company got into the health-care technology business, including simulators, two years ago, and has already grown the unit from $2 million in annual revenues to $38 million. Parent projects METI, in concert with CAE’s other health care entities and its mining division, will surpass $120 million in Canadian dollars in annual revenues, and be profitable in fiscal 2013.

“METI,” says Parent, “is a premier organization.”

A onetime METI investor and nonexecutive board chairman, Bernstein thought that, too. That’s why he accepted a position as METI president in 2009.

Back then, METI’s cofounder, Lou Oberndorf, had just led a $63 million debt and equity financed buyout of the company from its previous majority owner, L3 Communications. Chicago-based Baird Capital Partners backed Oberndorf in the buyout, and the private equity firm held about 55% of the firm after the deal.

Baird Capital officials and METI’s board, which included Oberndorf, set a goal to cash out within three to five years.

“We were too small a business to go public,” says Bernstein, “so we always knew we would be sold.”

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The $130 million sale of one of Sarasota’s most successful homegrown companies began with a stealthy phone call.

The president of the company, Mike Bernstein of Medical Education Technologies Inc., METI, called the head of the health care division at Montreal-based CAE Inc. in early summer 2010. CAE is a $1.63 billion firm with a focus in aviation simulators and training.

But Bernstein knew CAE wanted more from the lifelike human patient medical simulator business — METI’s forte.

Bernstein spoke with the executive about how the two firms could partner on a potential business deal in the Middle East. METI could bring the product knowledge, and CAE could bring the training components. While the opportunity was legitimate, and potentially profitable, Bernstein admits he had an ulterior motive.

“The first call was more to make sure they knew who we were,” says Bernstein.

“The first conversation was more code than direct.”

The code was the first signal sent out in a 14-month courtship that ended Aug. 24, when publicly traded CAE closed on the $130 million acquisition of METI. Founded in 1996, METI has been one of the 15 largest privately held companies in annual sales in Sarasota-Bradenton for the last five years. At the time of the deal, it had more than 200 employees, including 180 in Sarasota.

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Now Bernstein is the one in buy mode.

“And,” he adds, “I have a bigger purse than I’ve ever had.”

The largest deal, however, was the one with CAE. Bernstein approached that initial phone call to CAE in 2010 with both a bit of reserve and a bit of moxie. The firm had $55 million in annual revenues at the time, up 37.5% from $40 million in 2006, though a drop from $63 million in 2008.

“We were far from sale-ready. We hadn’t seen enough growth,” Bernstein says. “But I thought we should have their attention.”

Nonetheless, Bernstein, with a reputation as a relaxed, yet direct, executive, was guarded with CAE. He wanted to build a relationship. But he also wanted to make sure he didn’t give away too much about METI, or ask too much about CAE. “The dance,” says Bernstein, “is the cultivation of a rapport.”

That call got things going. Bernstein soon spoke with and met Nick Leontidis, a CAE executive in strategy and business development. Bernstein calls Leontidis one of the best big-company dealmakers he has ever worked with, a key player in the dance who was easy to work with and sensitive to the deal’s progression.

Bernstein eventually visited CAE in Canada, and CAE executives, including Parent, the CEO, visited METI at its 76,000-sqaurefoot office in Sarasota, just east of Interstate 75.

But the relationship building part of the deal soon gave way to money.

Bernstein says an advantage in how he set METI’s price was access to Baird Capital’s research department, which helped create a detailed valuation formula. Bernstein kept in regular contact with METI’s board, too, so he knew the parameters of the numbers that would work and those that wouldn’t work.

CAE’s first offer came late last year. “It wasn’t in the ballpark,” says Bernstein, “although it made us feel good.”

The sides took a hiatus from negotiations after that offer. But it was back on by spring, and by June, says Bernstein, a deal began to come together.

‘Human element’

The ultimate price, $130 million, is more than double METI’s 2010 sales.

CAE executives, though, say the price reflects not only METI’s future valuations, but the promise of the human-patient simulator market. Parent says the global industry for simulation technology and training is worth more than $750 million a year, with customers from hospitals and nursing schools to governments and the military.

“The acquisition of METI brings us much closer to fulfilling our vision in health-care, which is to drive industry acceptance of simulation as the way to improve the way that doctors, nurses and other health care professionals are trained,” says Parent.

“Our intent is to lead the industry by setting standards and gaining acceptance of simulation-based training as we’ve done in aviation over the past 60 years.”

The medical simulation industry standard, in several ways, has been set by METI over the last 15 years. Oberndorf, an Air Force pilot and Vietnam veteran, founded METI in 1996, after 25 years in the aerospace industry. The technology behind the products was invented and licensed by the University of Florida.

Bernstein, meanwhile, must balance the what’s next of CAE with the what’s now of METI, which will keep its distinctive name under CAE Healthcare. “The METI brand is very important to us,” says CAE spokeswoman Pascale Alpha.

Part of Bernstein’s challenge is rumor control, to make sure employees have facts on the company’s future. About 60 employees in duplicate positions were let go after the acquisition, including 20 from METI. Bernstein says he has learned from past mergers and acquisitions that patience and prudence are allies. That, and executives must over-communicate, rather than leave decisions open to multiple interpretations.

“It’s a human element,” says Bernstein.

“And you can’t rush it.”

The good news, says Bernstein, is there are several new long-term growth possibilities under CAE. For one, manufacturing work in CAE Healthcare will move from a plant in San Jose, Calif., to Sarasota, and, the deal opens new sales and product development lines, including CAE’s surgical simulators and ultrasound simulators.

Bernstein says he will deliver a message of optimism and confidence to the entire company. “I’m very bullish about this plant,” Bernstein says, “and our presence in Sarasota.”

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October Fest — 5:30 to 9 p.m.

Oct. 21, St. Boniface Episcopal Church, 5615 Midnight Pass Road, sponsored by the Siesta Key/Greater Sarasota Republican Club. Event to feature singing and dancing to the Ompah Band and The Bill Millner Trio, plus a German buffet served at 6:30 p.m. Tables of eight and 10 available. Cost: $25. Make checks payable to SKGSRC, PO Box 35131, Sarasota, FL 34242. For more information, call 924-2422.

‘How To Get Maximum Cooperation from Your Preschooler’ — 10 a.m. Oct. 22, St. Boniface Community Center, 5615 Midnight Pass Road, featuring Cindy Barrow, a clinical social worker and therapist. Free. For more information, call 349-5615 or visit www.bonifacechurch.org.

Free Exercise Classes — 9 a.m. every Thursday, Siesta Key Physical Therapy, 5147 Ocean Blvd. Space limited. For details and to register, call 870-5811.

Yoga on Siesta Key Beach — 8 to 9:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. Free. For more information, email avanandamaui@ yahoo.com YES — 11:30 a.m. every Tuesday, Young Entrepreneurs

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Cost: $12 at the door, including lunch. Visit www.yes941.com.

Alcoholics Anonymous — 8 a.m. Monday through Friday, Siesta Key Men’s Group meets at Siesta Beach Shelter, south side of beach; open to all. Call 951-6810.

PUBLIC EVENTS Strider World Championships — Oct. 14-15, Sarasota County BMX Track, 1590 N. Tuttle Ave., Sarasota, for racers ages 2 to 5 from North America, Europe, Asia and South America. Free admission and parking. Proceeds will go to Suncoast Charities for Children.

For more information, visit www.striderlife.com/worldchampionships or call 861-5000.

Sarasota Art & Craft Festival — 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 15 and 16, a juried event on Main Street in downtown Sarasota, from Lemon Avenue to Five Points Park. Free. For details, visit www.artfestival.com or call 561-746-6615.

‘Sarasota County Celebrates Volunteers’ — 2 to 5 p.m. Oct. 16, Payne Park Auditorium, 2100 E. Laurel St., Sarasota, with a variety of local not-forprofit organizations providing information about their missions and encouraging attendees to sign up. Complimentary food and beverages will be

BEST BET Third Phillippi Shores 7K and New Balance 1 Mile Fun Run — Oct. 15, Phillippi Shores Elementary School, 4747 S. Tamiami Trail. 7K starts at 7:30 a.m.; fun run starts at 7:35 a.m. Course to feature displays and creative props by students and staff at the school. Cost: $10/ age 18 and under; $25/age 19 and older; $25/Manasota Track Club members; $50/ family rate for two adults and up to four children living at the same address. To register, visit www.phillippishoresschool.com provided. For more details, call 330-4838 or visit www. onebikeonecause.org.

Big Cat Habitat — Winter schedule begins Oct. 19. From 12:30 to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, visitors may see the exotic and other animals in the sanctuary and petting zoon; at 1:30 p.m.

Saturdays, educational animal demonstrations are offered.

Donations: $15/adults; $7/ children age 12 and under. For details, visit www.bigcathabitat.org/calendar or call 3716377.

Book Readings — 7 p.m. Oct. 18, by Matthew Edlund, author of “The Power of Rest”; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21, by Tony D’Souza, author of “Mule”; 6 p.m. Oct. 26, by Chad Faries, author of “Drive Me Out of My Mind,” at Bookstore1Sarasota, 1359 Main St., Sarasota. For details, visit www.bookstore1sarasota. com or call 365-7900.

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Hidden Harbor home tops week’s sales at $2,875,000 The following residential real-estate transactions took place between Sept. 26 and Sept. 30. A home in Hidden Harbor tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Northern Trust sold the home at 5132 Jungle Plum Road to Thomas and Alison Murphy, of Southampton, N.Y., for $2,875,000. Built in 2008, it has five bedrooms, five baths, two half-baths, a pool and 6,928 square feet of living area.

BUILDING PERMITS These are the Siesta Key building permits issued by Sarasota County and city of Sarasota for the week of Sept. 26 through Sept. 30, in order of dollar amounts.

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5911 Midnight Pass Road

Remodel

Erich Gross

$41,534

5223 Siesta Cove Drive

Electrical

David Smith

$34,770

6006 Midnight Pass Road

Re-roof

Martin Blum, trustee

$17,208

119 Whispering Sands Circle

Windows/Doors

Thomas Peeler

$13,710

777 Beach Road

Windows

Antoinette Ogle

$13,500

5182 Sandy Beach Ave.

Mechanical

James Niffenegger

$10,299

1257 S. Portofino Drive

Windows

Raymond Droege

$7,925

8701 Midnight Pass Road

Windows

Robert Kenney

$6,500

313 Canal Road

Mechanical

Brian Porter

$6,300

4828 Featherbed Lane

Mechanical

Linda Mason

$6,145

5855 Midnight Pass Road

Door

Sharon Okimura-Bradford

$5,500

living area. It previously sold for $238,000 in 1997.

5966 Midnight Pass Road

Plumbing

Helen Raibourn, trustee

$4,995

5830 Midnight Pass Road

Mechanical

Theodore Legendre

$4,632

Villa Navarra

1355 Portofino Drive

Mechanical

Edmund Lane

$4,585

9042 Midnight Pass Road

Mechanical

Roger Sheer

$4,100

5666 Cape Leyte Drive

Re-roof

Donald Schell, trustee

$3,785

901 Beach Road

Mechanical

Pierre Simonian

$3,645

9105 Midnight Pass Road

Mechanical

Stanley Ferro

$3,223

6154 Midnight Pass Road

Mechanical

E.L. Piver

$3,000

8911 Midnight Pass Road

Mechanical

David Pace

$3,000

4508 Woodside Road

Re-roof

Frank Martinelli

$2,489

65 Beach Road

Irrigation

Stuart Johnson

$1,900

8213 Midnight Pass Road

Screens

Hillary Steele

$1,633

6727 Midnight Pass Road

Door

Donna Royle

$1,011

Tiffany Sands

ARC Pool 1 LLC, of Coronado, Calif., sold the Unit 540 condominium at 548A Beach Road to Robert and Pamela Morris, Sarasota, for $753,000. Built in 1981, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 2,080 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $949,000 in 2005.

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Michael Alderfer, of Perkasie, Pa., and Mary Alderfer, of Souderton, Pa., sold their Unit 459 condominium at 459 Canal Road to William and Patricia Hurst, Sarasota, for $740,000. Built in 2003, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,653 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.1 million in 2004.

Horizons West

Jeff Downing, of Big Canoe, Ga., sold his Unit 202 condominium at 6140 Midnight Pass Road to Robert Schrage, of Fort Thomas, Ky., for $610,000. Built in 1967, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,296 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $975,000 in 2007.

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Darlene Bates, of Youngstown, Ohio, sold her Unit G-45 condominium at 5966 Midnight Pass Road to Dale Brown and Angela Pietig-Brown, of Zionsville, Ind., for $515,000. Built in 1970, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 968 square feet of

Loren Mayo

This home at 5132 Jungle Plum Road has five bedrooms, five baths, two half-baths, a pool and 6,928 square feet of living area.

It sold for $2,875,000.

James and Tove Cravens, trustees, sold the Unit 1 condominium at 133 Avenida Messina to Daniel and Kathryn Ruscitto, of Syracuse, N.Y., for $230,000. Built in 1966, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 900 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $45,000 in 1997.

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Henry Mastrianna sold his Unit 511 condominium at 6415 Midnight Pass Road to Thomas Mucci and Leslie Mastrianna, trustees, of Middlebury, Conn., for $200,000. Built in 1975, it has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,358 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $296,000 in 1999.

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Karenia brevis, the red tide organism, was detected in low amounts near Blind Pass offshore Sarasota Wednesday, Oct. 3, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.

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Last weeks Cryptograms 1. Check these wacky songs with a picnic theme: “Tastes Good” by the Ant Invaders and “Leave my Honey Alone” by Bears in the Camp.

2. Mom was proud of her corn on the cob and bragged about it at the picnic. As she described how she prepared the vegetable, her friend said: “Go ahead, give me an earful!

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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 ANTIQUE BRASS Wash Basin. Good condition, $50. 941-388-9600.

CAMOUFLAGE ADULT beanbag. Brand new with backrest, $30. 941-650-0947.

CHAISE LOUNGER chair: black leather, new condition. Sold new $450. Sacrifice for $175.

941- 356-2923.

FREE CLASSICAL Records. Moving. Also some Broadway show albums. All FREE. 941-966-2096.

JEWELRY CANVAS Carrier for Trays. Used twice.

Black, Standard size. $20.00. 941-925-0970.

LIGHTHOUSE CHINA dishes, 26/pcs., $30.

Homedics Bubble Foot Bath, $15. Christmastime dishes, 20/pcs., $25. 941-953-5222.

MATTRESS SET - Queen, Sealy Posturpedic, 10” High, good condition. $80/obo. 941-924-8477.

MODEL PLANE B29, $75. 3/pc Samsonite+briefcase, $60. Dietzgen drawing instruments, $20.

Sports watch, $5. 941-925-7485.

POOL COVER Reel: fits 15' wide blanket, cost $150, asking $75 - manual crank. 941-488 -1853.

PREMIUM FUTON: Steel frame, Rosewood arms, 4 throw pillows, 52x72x7, extremely comfortable. $199. 941-349-9639.

SAILFISH - 8 foot mounted. I believe it is a skin mount. Needs minor work. $200. 941-349-4340.

SLEEPER SOFA: Queen, microfiber, $150.

(2) Office chairs, 1 sled base, 1 task, $15/ea.

941-266-8308.

TV STEREO Cabinet: 4’hx4’w, 28” TV 1 side, 32” glass stereo side w/light, $30. 941-922-6754.

WICKER SET, 4 piece: coffee, end and foyer tables and etagere, honey colored, $200. 941592-6927.

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

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BY NANCY DUNN LLC 941-925-1993 Saturday, 10/15 9AM-2PM 2060 Burgos Drive “The Isles” Palmer Ranch Tommy Bahama Desk & Chair, Queen BR Set +Extra Furniture, Bakers Rack, 2 Book Shelves, Round Glass Table & 6 Chairs, 3 Bar Stools, 3 Pc. Media Center, Flat 50” TV, Coffee & 2 End Table (Carousel Motif), Red Micro Fiber Sofa, Sofa Table, Children’s Furniture, Cedar Chest, Misc. Tables-Chairs-Lamps & Pictures, 3 Stained Glass Windows, Ohio St. Items, Lots of Xmas, Lg. Set “Desert Rose”, Old Glass, Linens, Lots of Misc., Carpenter’s Tools, Generator, Powerwasher, Professional Precision Tools, Whimsies, Full Kitchen, Fine Gold & Jem & Silver Jewelry. for pictures go to: www.estatesalesbynancydunn.com Numbers out @ 8AM BIG GARAGE SALE! Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th, 8:30a.m.-3:30p.m. Inside and out, everything goes. 4230 Centergate Lane in Centergate, follow signs. Leather sofas, corner bookcases, computer table, lamps, oak dropleaf table, TV cabinet, glasstop sofa, side and coffee tables, 4 bar stools. Lots of other stuff. For more info, call 941-713-6522.

Rattan dinette, love seat, TV, console type that works, coffee & end tables, mahogany china cabinet, 4 chairs and table, almond leather sofa, swivel rocker, grandfather clock, server, sleeper sofa, marble table, accessories, good table linens & kitchen.

Pictures: www.appraisals4u.biz Sale by Julie McClure ESTATE SALE in Deer Creek: Friday, 14th, 11-a.m.-6p.m., Saturday, 15th, 12p.m.-6p.m.

8691 Woodbriar Dr. Directions at the guard gate.

Dining room set, 2 king bedroom sets, bistro tables with matching chairs, oriental rugs, china, crystal, trundle bed, toys and more. All items in excellent condition.

GIFT SALE. Saturday, Oct. 15th, 9a.m.-12p.m.

7317 Oak Run Lane, Sarasota 34243. Beautiful new contemporary Italian crystal glass accessories. Vases, centerpieces, wine holders, photo frames, etc. Created by renowned Italian designers. Great holiday gift ideas/ boxed. Prices range from $50 to $100 per piece. Original retail $250 to $350 per piece. Cash only.

JOHN DEERE riding mower, lots of tools, and much more! 940 Scherer Way, Osprey. 8am-5pm.

42" FLAT PANEL TELEVISION, 2 REFRIGERATORS, WASHER, DRYER, LIKE NEW DISHWASHER, 2 QUEEN BEDROOM SETS, 2 DINETTE SETS, SOFAS, EASY CHAIRS, COFFEE AND END TABLES, DESK, VACUUM, MICROWAVE OVEN, EXERCISE BIKE, BOOKS, RECORDS, LINENS & KITCHEN.

1426 Fruitville Road Between Lemon & Central

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Positions Wanted EXPERIENCED TELEMARKERTER: Seeks part-time position. Flexible hours. 30+ years experience. You have it. I sell it! 941-780-3958.

SALES POSITION WANTED. Sales lady has over 20 years experience in retail sales, lady’s fashions, home accessories, gifts and toys. Strong customer relations experience. Reliable, hours flexible. 941-650-5719.

Condos/Apts. For Rent

Affordable Senior Housing

Homes For Rent

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

ANNUAL RENTAL: Lakewood Ranch County Club. Beautiful, bright villa, 2BR/2BA +den or office. 2 Car garage, large screened lanai, on golf course. Updated and immaculate. $1800/mo.

Please call 941-349-1980 or 941-504-8818.

DOWNTOWN DUPLEX HOUSE: Across from park, 2BR/1BA, $900/mo. (includes utilities) +security. Non-smoking. No Pets. See to appreciate. 941-586-5672 or 955-7693.

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

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

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$425mo-1 bed/bath mobile homes.

55+ community. No Pets.

5811 14th St. W. Bradenton.

Sarasota Real Estate Assoc, Inc. Greg Nowak 941-809-6034 SPACIOUS 2000 sq.ft., 3BR/2BA with den, enclosed porch, on partially fenced treed private yard. West of trail. Prestigious Field Rd. neighborhood. Pets okay. Lease, references and deposit required. $1900 negotiable. 941-400-0950.

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CASA DEL MAR BEACH RESORT RENTALS 4 NIGHT MIN. GULF FRONT/ GULF VIEW

WANTED - HOUSE OR CONDO ON THE BEACH! I have CASH BUYERS from Europe looking to invest in a second home with 2-3 BR on Siesta, Lido, LBK or Anna Maria. Call Helmer 941-592-8853 - Realtor at Dawn Cohen Int. - Lic. Real Estate Broker.

Accounting BOOKKEEPING SERVICE Business & Personal, 20+ yrs. exp., available nights and weekends.

941-685-8633 or marysbookkeepingsvc@gmail.com

HOME AIDE COMPANION. 6 years experience, CPR trained, bi-lingual, HHA, Certified. Excellent references. Clarita Douglas, 407-535-2569.

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HOME CARE COMPANION seeking P/T position.

Please call Ellen, 941-924-8443.

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

4621 Gulf of Mexico Drive Longboat Key 34228

IN-HOME CARE/ COMPANIONSHIP/ HOMEMAKING available all hours; days, nights, weekends.

Call 377-4465 for more information or visit our website @ www.eldercaresarasota.com Lic. #30211372 Bonded & Insured.

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

EDLA’S CLEANING SERVICES: Residential Commercial, New Construction. Meticulous, deep cleaning top to bottom. We Guarantee. Affordable & Reliable. Excellent References. Free Estimates.

Licensed & Insured. 30% off first cleaning.

371-9869.

HOUSECLEANING. I’ll Make Your House Sparkle & Shine! Perfectionist, Many Years Experience, Great References. 941-586-0663 / 941-488-1478.

HOUSEKEEPER PROFESSIONAL, reliable +17 years prev. employer. Housekeeping, driving, shopping, cooking, house sitting. Live out.

941-323-3336.

MEET ANGHELIKA. She does a fabulous job cleaning my house. Anghelika, 941-204-3589.

RESIDENTIAL/VACATION HOMES & Offices: Flexible schedule. Low rates. Call Amanda 941-357-3296.

WE CLEAN offices and houses, as well as laundry, ironing, alterations and we have a handyman on staff. 941-204-7587.

Computer Services SRQTECH AFFORDABLE PC Repair.

Premier provider of onsite PC repair, tune ups, Virus/Spyware removal, and more. Servicing Sarasota, Bradenton, and surrounding areas. www.srqtech.com 941-301-8324.

Auto Transport

SLIDING GLASS Door Repair.

Roll-in Roll-out Construction, Inc. 941-321-9010, www.Roll-inRoll-out.com

HANDYMAN EXTRAORDINAIRE Reliable & Prompt. 25 Years Experience 5 Years in Bradenton Area. Flooring, Masonry, Doors, Carpentry and Water Damage ... etc. Call Scott at 941-536-1770. scottmwoolf1@gmail.com

LIDO KEY. Seasonal rental on beach. Months flexible, 3 month minimum. 3BR/2.5BA, large terrace, direct view of city/ bay/ Siesta Key. Tennis, Olympic pool, spa, gym. 215-833-5967.

A CLEANING EVEN YOUR MOTHER-IN-LAW WILL APPROVE! Every time, guaranteed! Lic./Ins. Bonded. Pamela, 941-320-0023. www.CleanTimeServices.com

MOBILE HOME REPAIRS AND RESTORATIONS. Licensed. Insured. Absolutely excellent references. Everything you need and more!

Call and ask for R.J., 941-586-8996.

LONGBOAT KEY PIERRE CONDO on the beach.

8th floor. 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. Outstanding Gulf of Mexico and sunrise views. 3 guest suites in bldg. for occasional company. Photos available.

248-310-8308.

BETTY’S HOUSECLEANING Service. High quality cleaning. Reasonable rates. Licensed.

References. Call 941-650-6180.

R.J. DAVIS WHOLESALE FLOORING, LLC. Tile Setter, Wood Floor Installer. Lic./Ins. 10 Years working in Lakewood Ranch custom homes.

You buy the material, we install. 941-586-8996.

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Residential/ Commercial. Meticulous Cleaning.

Excellent References. Free Estimates. Reliable.

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“Jini is one of the most interesting women I’ve ever met,” says Jini Mount’s gallery roommate, Beverly A. Smith. “She’s not sleepy. She knows what’s going on at all times. She’s very, very clever.”

A life uncommon I

Jini Mount is a painter, sculptor, ice skater and now an actress. Is there anything this 84-year-old Renaissance woman can’t do? The Celery Barn proprietress invites us into her colorful world.

t took Jini Mount a long time to find good work as an actress. Sixty years, to be exact — not that she’s counting.

A sprightly feminist with piercing blue eyes and a wicked sense of humor, Mount moved in the early 1950s to New York City to work as an actress.

But, as she likes to say when discussing her

unconventional past, she got sidetracked by other opportunities.

There were her days as a swimsuit model for White Stag, her gig as a vacuum cleaner spokesmodel for Lewyt Vacuums, her seven-year stint as a professional ice skater with “Holiday on Ice” and, of course, her career as a sculptor and painter.

In between all of this, Mount — a brazen tomboy from western New York, who studied English and drama at Ithaca College — raised two children, studied painting at the Art Institute of Miami, ran a gallery in Atlanta and, in 1963, despite her disdain for killing animals, competed in a women’s spearfishing competition in Seattle.

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At 84, she’s embarked on more adventures than this reporter has notebooks. Yet, it was her adventures as a grandmother that inspired her latest and most taxing project — a movie.

The 20-minute short film, “A Lot in Common,” is Mount’s love letter to her 4-year-old grandson, Kian, a curly-haired preschooler whom Mount refers to as a male Shirley Temple.

To get it off the ground, she collaborated with Sarasota filmmaker Jacqueline Serrano, whose 2009 black-and-white love story, “Amoureuse Fantasy or Reality,” is one of Mount’s favorite short films.

Much of the script was pieced together using actual dialogue plucked from Mount’s interactions with Kian.

“What do you call a child who is wise beyond his years?” Mount asks. “Gifted? Talented? Unusual? Whatever it is, that’s Kian.”

Mount was so impressed with her grandson’s vocabulary that she began picturing his words in a movie format.

She began to picture the vignettes: a grandmother and a grandson playing games in the park, strolling hand-in-hand along the beach, mixing cake batter in the kitchen.

Much like her paintings, she saw something cinematic in ordinary real-life situations. She saw something touching and universal in the spontaneity of Kian’s words, something profound.

She saw herself as a girl — a girl who once lopped off all her hair so she could play outdoor

games with the boys.

“I’m very old and he’s very young,” Mount says. “My mind is going out and his mind is coming in.”

This couldn’t be further from the truth.

Anyone who’s familiar with the artist knows this is just Mount being self-deprecating.

Most Sarasota artists and art collectors know Mount, a whitehaired spitfire, as the owner of the Celery Barn, the biggest and brightest neon-green art gallery in Towles Court.

A member of the Florida Artist Group and the Petticoat Painters, Mount is still as provocative and outspoken as she was when she was a 30-year-old art student in Hans Hofmann’s winter school.

“A lot of women from her generation would be more subdued,” says artist Beverly A. Smith, whose BAS Studio and Gallery operates out of the Celery Barn. “Not Jini. She’s an athlete. She’s a dancer. She’s theatrical. She’s funny. She was at my house last Christmas and my son had to roll up the rug so she could dance, because that’s what she does when she’s home. She rolls up the rug and dances.”

But even tireless eccentrics get exhausted from time to time.

Perched at a glass table in her Palm Avenue condo, Mount is a little less fiery than usual as she sips from a cup of green tea and nibbles on biscotti. After two weeks of filming, she’s exhausted.

Acting is more grueling than she thought.

“I wanted to be an actress,” she sighs. “Now that I know how difficult it is, I’m glad I didn’t

DID YOU KNOW? • Kian was born on Christmas Day four years ago in the Celery Barn.

Jini Mount was so nervous about her daughter’s midwife-assisted birth that she refused be there for it.

“I fainted dead away at the thought of her going into labor without a doctor or anesthetic,” Mount says.

• When Mount first moved 25 years ago to Florida, she taught figure drawing workshops out of a real celery barn in Venice. “When I heard about Towles Court, I decided that was the place I needed to be,” she says.

• Mount is currently writing a science-fiction novel about a planet on which all the women are named after their mothers.

• Before she moved into her Palm Avenue condo, Mount lived for a year with her husband on a boat in Venice. “I’m not the housewife type,” she says. “I don’t like to mop floors.

Needless to say, I loved living on the boat.”

• Mount skied until she was 83 years old.

Jini Mount, in her mid-20s, on tour as a professional ice skater with “Holiday on Ice.” pursue it.”

Her 18th floor condo unit, which faces Sarasota Bay, is home to some of her most beloved paintings, a collection that includes impressionistic images of elephants roaming the African plains, bicyclists crowding the streets of China and her granddaughter playing under a tree in the grass.

After spending more than a decade creating large public art sculptures, Mount says she’s content to just paint for a few

hours every day.

“I think if I were younger, I’d have had a marvelous time in the movie business,” Mount says. “I’d have been fine just rolling with it.”

She mentions that she fell during the first day of shooting. She and Kian were at the Children’s Garden pretending to be pirates.

They were dueling with play swords, fake fighting over a hidden treasure chest when Mount jumped across a short bridge and hit her head on a log.

Two weeks later, she’s still sore.

“I guess I got so excited about being a pirate, that I forgot my age,” Mount says. “Then again, we did seven takes, so I suppose after that many duels it could have happened to anyone.”

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+ Anna Paquin indie slated to shoot in Sarasota While hobnobbing this week with the cast and crew from “A Lot in Common” (leading lady Jini Mount is this week’s Diversions cover girl), I walked away with an interesting scoop.

According to Art Director Courtesy photo Annette Actress Anna Breazeale, a Paquin low-budget indie flick by writer/director Shana Sosin is scheduled to begin shooting Oct. 22 in Sarasota.

Sosin’s script is based on her life story about growing up the daughter of a marijuana smuggler.

Susan Dynner, who won the Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, is producing the featurelength film, which will star “True Blood” actress Anna Paquin.

Perhaps the movie will need extras. If so, let’s hope the age and costume stipulations are less upper-crusty than that which the director of last month’s Jennifer Lopez caper was looking.

Those of us under 30 who don’t own ballgowns would like our turn at a Hollywood close-up.

+ One man’s dead palm is another man’s tiki pole After stormy weather ravaged many of Anna Maria Island’s cabbage palms, waterfront business owners figured they’d be shelling out big bucks to have the trees removed.

Enter local artist Jeff Chouninard, who last week transformed some of the dead trunks by carving them into tiki poles.

Chouninard, who owns Surf Soul Tiki, has already turned three dead trees in front of the BeachHouse Restaurant on the south end of Anna Maria into tropical décor.

If you see Chouninard around town, be sure to praise his resourcefulness.

When most people would have fired up a stump-grinder, this guy picked up his whittling knife.

+ ‘Whimsical’ demolition under way on the North Trail Southland Inn, which Lee purchased earlier this year for $950,000. She says she plans to spend the next couple of years expanding her art museum and converting what’s left of the existing motel into office and studio space.

“I’m always on the lookout for more space,” Lee says. “I don’t know the schedule (for renovating the exterior) yet, but we will probably paint it sometime.”

Who wants to bet she paints it pink?

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The pink flamingos at the Marietta Museum of Art & Whimsy are spreading their wings.

Mary Lee, the Sarasota art collector who in 2008 purchased the old Kancha Buddhist Center on North Tamiami Trail for $1.55 million, painted it pink and turned it into a museum for her eclectic art collection, has now gobbled up the parcel next door.

Demolition has already begun on the 29-unit

the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota County. The talent competition/fundraiser has become one of the must-see events of the year. Where else can you see a gastroenterologist, ophthalmologist and neurologist rock out to Ozzy Osbourne? Tickets are $25. For more information, visit www.doctoridol. org or call 685-0367.

Sarasota sculptor Jorge Blanco was one of 20 sculptors selected by the Community Foundation of the Lowcountry for its public art exhibition on Hilton Head Island, S.C. Blanco’s 14-foot aluminum “Zephyrus” is currently on display through the end of the year at Hilton Head’s Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn.

The Venezuelan-born sculptor, who was chosen out of 339 applicants for the event, is competing against juried artists from across the country for a spot in Hilton Head’s permanent public art collection. You can vote for Blanco for the exhibit’s People’s Choice Award by visiting www.hhipublicart.org.

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The people pleaser The Historic Asolo Theater’s guest artist manager shares his secrets to keeping calm under pressure during the Ringling Museum’s busiest week of the year.

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The Ringling International Arts Festival runs through Oct. 16 at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. For a complete list of performances, visit www.ringlingartsfestival.org. where he always keeps a scrap of paper and a pen that clicks. He’s fastidious when it comes to organization. The paper is for recording reminders throughout the day.

The pen is for blowing off nervous energy during staff meetings.

“It doesn’t make noise when it clicks,” he says with a chuckle. “There’s nothing worse than listening to someone anxiously click a pen in a meeting.”

Kohlmann has become a master at keeping the festival’s stars happy. To do so, he’s had to overcome language barriers, secure work visas, negotiate contracts and book hotel and plane accommodations.

He’s had to coordinate rehearsals and hotel shuttle bus schedules. He’s had to make sure there’s a plate of fresh fruit in Argentinean actress/singer Soledad Villamil’s dressing room and a pet-friendly hotel for pianist Anne-Marie McDermott’s Maltese, Samantha.

Because the theater doesn’t supply performers with alcohol, he’s had to track down a nearby bar that serves local craft beer for New York City-based street band Asphalt Orchestra.

He found one on North Tamiami Trail — Growler’s Pub, a favorite watering hole

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“I love to be surrounded by artists,” Michael Kohlmann says. “They always find a way to do what they love, and they always reinvent themselves so nothing is ever the same.” among Ringling College of Art and Design students.

“You don’t have time to sit and stew or wonder, ‘How am I going to do it all?’”

Kohlmann says. “You just do it.”

He thrives off fueling the creative spirits of artists. It’s why he’s in the theater business and not the banking business. He says he tried once to work in the box office as a business manager but found nine-tofive paperwork dull and uninspiring.

“I decided I’d rather be around the people creating the art,” Kohlmann says.

“It energizes me. When art is done really well, you see parts of yourself in it. I see it here with the festival. The energy of these performances has a profound effect on people.”

As much as he adores theater, Kohlmann is not out auditioning for parts. He prefers to work offstage. It’s where all the stories are, anyway.

Take this one: In the early 1980s, shortly after Henry Fonda finished filming “On Golden Pond,” he played an old cowboy facing death in a play at the Hartman Theatre in Connecticut.

Kohlmann was the show’s property master, which meant he was tasked with helping an aging Fonda get in and out of his costume.

Kohlmann remembers it well. Fonda would get off stage exhausted. He’d lie on a cot, close his eyes to relax, and Kohlmann would begin the process of tugging off Fonda’s boots and jeans. With only a minute-and-a-half to complete the costume change, Kohlmann had to work fast.

He didn’t mind the job. In fact, it’s become one of his most interesting claims to fame.

“I took Henry Fonda’s pants off 38 times,” says Kohlmann. “No one in my circle of friends can say that.”

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In the very least, he should be grumpy.

Instead, Kohlmann is cheerful, laidback as usual.

Perhaps that’s why he was hired a year ago to be the guest artist manager for the Historic Asolo Theater at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. “I’m not much for stewing on what needs to be done,” says Kohlmann, a veteran stagehand from Stockton, Calif. “I just do it.”

His job is an especially big one this time of year, thanks to RIAF. The giant six-day performing-arts event features a rotating repertory of 10 companies, many of which are based outside the United States, which makes the task of organizing travel arrangements more complicated and time-consuming.

Since the museum announced RIAF’s 2011 lineup in March, Kohlmann has exchanged hundreds of emails with company managers in New York, Argentina, Ireland and Italy.

“It’s all a big game and a puzzle,” he jokes. “It’s a piece of cake when you’re only dealing with the logistics of one company early in the year, but as the festival gets closer and you’re managing 10 companies, it gets much more intense.”

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>> ‘Moneyball’ Too much hype can be a bad thing.

Sometimes it raises expectations to unattainable levels. The usually elusive Brad Pitt is everywhere promoting his new film, “Moneyball.” And that costs lots of money.

Ironically, the film’s subject matter is all about cash and the lack of it in professional baseball. When the Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane (Pitt) can’t produce a team to reach the World Series, he’s convinced it’s due to a lack of money.

He turns to an Ivy League statistics genius (Jonah Hill) who advocates Sabermetrics, a statistical approach to drafting players.

Together they compile a team of misfits, revolutionary in its concept, and end up setting a world record. In 2002, the Oakland A’s won 20 consecutive games in a season, and although they didn’t make it to the World Series, the game of baseball was reinvented.

“Moneyball” is a good story and slickly scripted by Aaron Sorkin (“The Social Network”) and Steven Zaillian (“Schindler’s List”). But it’s obvious that there was a different film in mind than what ends up

on the screen. The immensely gifted Robin Wright, as Beane’s ex-wife, has only one scene and yet receives top billing. Brief scenes between Beane and his daughter seemed to be tossed in for no reason.

Perhaps the fact that director Steven Soderbergh spent a great deal of time promoting the movie as semi-documentarial accounts for the superfluities. Bennett Miller (“Capote”) replaced Soderbergh when he and the studio parted ways.

Two outstanding performances by Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Arliss Howard are dreamy to behold — effortless perfection. Pitt is fine, but since his over-the-top small role in “True Romance,” I’ve never seen him stretch (well, almost in “Inglourious Basterds”).

Based on Michael Lewis’ book, “Moneyball” is more of an insider’s guide to the inner workings of baseball. I loved such films as “A League of Their Own” and “Bull Durham” because you didn’t have to know anything about baseball to fall under their spells. “Moneyball” strikes out on that level and dashes my great expectations.

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What would you do to win a luscious cupcake the size of a baby’s head? Breakdance for 30 seconds? Spit on a gerbil?

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The cast of Florida Studio Theatre’s latest improv comedy show, “Just Desserts,” did all of the above and more opening night.

The show is organized into improvised scenes based on theater games, with a designated performer assuming the role of director. The audience shouts “Yes!” or “No!” at the end of each scene, and the director is rewarded or penalized. At the end of the show, the winning director receives his or her “just desserts.”

The opening-night audience members were delighted by the antics of the “sugarholics” assembled to entertain them. My neighbor, who’d never seen live improv before, declared to me, “I loved it.”

The show was as funny as a mouthful of marshmallows, which came spouting out of the maw of Adam Ratner during one scene. “Just Desserts” was appropriately full of spit-takes — ah, my favorite. Two guys chewing, like chipmunks, an entire box of crackers, without swallowing, produced the most sidesplitting minutes I ever spent in a theater. A close second was Ratner in a subway musical scene in which he had to spit-take a mouthful of water before singing.

Ratner has been performing improv in various guises at FST since he was a “wee lad.” He is the co-author of the children’s play, “Jack and the Enchanted Beanstalk,” also currently in production at the theater.

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Under his direction, the first scene was an interview with an expert on unicycles, featuring Christine Alexander as the interpreter for the deaf. As one example of Alexander’s notoriety for this scene, her “sign language” for the word “Sarasota” is an elderly person using a walker.

A founding member of FST and Lazy Fairy improv troupes, Alexander produces AnythingArts.com and Back Patio Productions.

Steve Turrisi, who was rightly belittled by his teammates as a first-time director and made to call his dad, who happened to be in the audience, nevertheless claimed the giant cupcake in the end. He is, after all, apparently the only person in the troupe capable of performing any type of sound effects.

As chock-full of nutty deliciousness as the performances were, the show should have allowed the audience members to compete for a cupcake as well. A scene called “Arms” was especially successful, thanks to the efforts of two onlookers chosen to go on stage to serve as the arms of two performers. The more animated the arms, the funnier the scene.

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We heard a teenage violinist named Sirena Huang the other day in a “soiree” recital with pianist Lee Dougherty Ross for the Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota. The performance, held in the home of John Fischer (executive director of the ASCS) and Jim Weisenborne, had the perfect setting: warmth and charm, in a generous, rectangular music room equipped with two massive pipe organs and a Steinway grand. It was not as big as a concert hall but certainly right for chamber music of this type.

Huang also had warmth and charm. This petite slip-of-a-girl is personable, wellspoken, bright and the essence of contained exuberance. She attacks her gorgeous Guarneri with a power and fearlessness that brings out the best in this incredible instrument. She began her program with Giuseppe Tartini’s “Theme and Variation on a Theme by Corelli,” arranged by Fritz Kreisler. She pounced on the opening notes before the applause for her entrance had died down. From then on, the room was hers.

She plays, as the best of the violinists have always done, with her whole body, breathing with the phrases, moving with the music and, at the same time, getting out of her own way so the composer’s intention shines through.

But we can’t overlook Ross, co-founder and artistic director of the ASCS and Huang’s partner at the piano, who played with a beauty and expressiveness, not to mention technical prowess, that gave the young violinist the kind of supportive assurance necessary in a recital. Their collabora-

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Best of all was their performance of Pablo de Sarasate’s “Zigeunerweisen,” which they bit into with an impassioned gutsiness that was perfect for this wandering gypsy-ofa-piece. I wish you could have heard how Huang handled the glissandos that so many seasoned violinists play impeccably but without the sense of style she brought to them. Hers were shimmering and shivery, sounds reminiscent of Rabin and Shaham.

There were a few moments when Huang’s enthusiasm and youth got the best of her, such as when, in the Grieg C minor sonata, some of her pizzicatos lost their focus, she rushed the third movement, and, occasionally, her pitch went sharp, especially in some of the large ascending intervals. But I’m nitpicking. This is stuff that will even out with age, experience and the ability to channel that exuberance and make her playing both exciting and flawless.

This brings us back to the question of what makes a super career. Huang is 17.

She’s working with one of the finest violin teachers at Juilliard, and the school has found her worthy of using one of their best instruments for her performances. She’s smart, personable, attractive, musical, an excellent technician and passionate. One would think that if she continues along this track, she’ll become one of the great violinists of the 21st century.

Yet, so much can happen in a life, and only the future will tell what will become of this young performer. Will she become a musical household name, join a string quartet and become a chamber musician or join an orchestra where she’s assured of a regular income and a home base?

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Black Tie Editor The crowd of guests resembled butterflies in their beautiful, bright sundresses and colorful footwear in the warm, bright sunshine at Children First’s “Flip Flops and Fashion.” The event, held Sept. 30, at Sharky’s on the Pier, set records for revenue and attendance with more than 320 guests.

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The fashion show featured wearable clothes for kids, moms and dads from Captain’s Landing, L Boutique, L Kids and Sunbug. The kids in attendance stole the show more than once.

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Amerson is the cook and a bit of a card; his menu includes scare-ribs, pigs-in-bandages, grave-lox and terror-yaki tenders. Ficht, an interior designer, is in charge of décor, which will feature haunted hedges, dancing witches brooms and devil-onlyknows what else. Tariff is $50 per person. For reservations, call 366-5293 or stop in the shop.

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