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by Kurt Schultheis | City Editor

Bartolotta denies allegations of computer scrubbing The city manager emphatically called the allegations of computer scrubbing ‘completely unfounded.’

The Sarasota Observer asked Sarasota city commissioners the following two questions. Their responses are listed below.

He’s known for getting into all kinds of riffraff beneath the Bobby Jones Golf Club. But Putter the prairie dog has settled into his new digs at Sarasota Jungle Gardens and will be officially welcomed during a homecoming celebration by the gardens, Mayor Suzanne Atwell and the city of Sarasota at 10 a.m.

Friday, Oct. 21.

Putter, a non-native black-tailed prairie dog, was first spotted at the golf course earlier this year and will share his new quarters with two other prairie dogs, Pork Chop and Bob.

 The Information Technology Department declared there was no scrubbing of computers performed before Auditor and Clerk Pamela Nadalini began an investigation into the computers. Should the commission have been informed and been responsible for making the decision to investigate the computers?  With the issues and accusations that appear to be mounting at City Hall, do you still have confidence and faith in City Manager Bob Bartolotta and Auditor and Clerk Pamela Nadalini and their ability to continue to perform their jobs effectively?

“I think so. I’m still frustrated that an email making unsubstantiated claims wasn’t even sent to all five commissioners.

“I have stated I depend upon, respect and value my talented staff. Until I am convinced otherwise, I will listen to my staff. I want the alignment of clerk and the city manager’s office to work. Further division will not do the commission, staff or the community any good. I don’t like reckless and behindthe-scenes accusations, which further divide the charter officials we are talking about. ” — Mayor Suzanne Atwell

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+ USF student crowned countess Samantha Ramon, a senior criminology major at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, was recently crowned the 2011 Homecoming Countess. Ramon serves in the United States Navy, works as a legal assistant at the State Attorney’s Office and will start law school next fall. She is a mother of two children and the founding president of the on-campus Multi-Culture Club.

“Running for countess was important to me, because I believe that no matter your background, your race, your age or your gender, anything is possible,” she said. “Ambition is so important in being successful in life.”

Ramon will represent the college at USF Tampa’s homecoming dance and parade.

Commissioners back Bartolotta and Nadalini

City Manager Bob Bartolotta is questioning allegations brought against him and his deputy city manager.

City Manager Bob Bartolotta believes the accusation last week that he and another city employee attempted to erase data from their computers is an effort to undermine his management of City Hall. Bartolotta also believes it’s more than coincidental that the computer accusation was made after he complained about the Sarasota City Commission transferring the Information Technology Department from his office to the Auditor and Clerk’s Office.

Last week, Sarasota attorney and former state Sen. Bob Johnson sent an email to Commissioners Willie Shaw, Shannon Snyder and Paul Caragiulo that accused Bartolotta and Deputy City Manager Marlon Brown of ordering their computers

INSIDE: Bartolotta’s computer accusation timeline / PAGE 2A “scrubbed” of data before the IT Department was officially transferred to Auditor and Clerk Pamela Nadalini Oct. 1.

Johnson has declined to disclose his source of information. Bartolotta said that should be the first telltale sign that the accusation is false.

“If Bob Johnson has good authority, he should produce that person,” Bartolotta wrote in an email to the Sarasota Observer.

Mayor Suzanne Atwell, who didn’t receive the Johnson email along with Vice Mayor Terry Turner, also had an issue with the alle-

gation.

“I’m still frustrated by it,” Atwell said. “Why didn’t we all get the email?”

On Oct. 12, Bartolotta and Brown both submitted their computers to the IT Department.

City Attorney Bob Fournier agreed to take the computers until an independent third party can perform an investigation.

Fournier also suggested that investigations such as the one that will be performed need to be curtailed in the future.

“We need to be much more careful in the future about performing an investigation with no concrete source of information,” Fournier said.

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“I think before the auditor and clerk begins what appears to be an auspices investigation, she should clear it with all five commissioners. It appears this didn’t go down professionally or appropriately. I am absolutely confident in the city manager. The problem is we are pursuing all these irrelevant issues.

There hasn’t been an allegation yet that’s been unfounded.”

— Vice Mayor Terry Turner “No, the commission should not have been informed before the investigation began. I am very much supportive of both of these city officials.

Things like this are going to come up now and again.”

— Commissioner Willie Shaw “I think our charter officials handled it the way it should have been handled. The clerk is responsible for public records and needs to investigate the allegation. I am confident in both of their abilities and honestly believe they are working through their issues. We need to get on with city business.”

— Commissioner Shannon Snyder

“The auditor and clerk has pretty high authority in the charter to do what she did. Prior to this scrubbing accusation, she planned to do a security sweep of the whole IT system anyway now that she is in charge of it. I have complete faith in that (auditor and clerk) office to do what needs to be done. As far as the other guy, not so much (confidence).

— Commissioner Paul Caragiulo

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BARTOLOTTA / FROM 1A Bartolotta questions why the investigation was requested by Nadalini’s office in the first place. “No notification or guidance was sought from the commission (as our bosses) as to whether a charter official can investigate another charter official without commission concurrence,� Bartolotta wrote in the email.

Nadalini did not return a phone call seeking comment for this story.

Internal memos between Bartolotta and Nadalini also reveal that Bartolotta agreed to turn over the computers only if the investigation was performed by a third party and that Audit Manager Heather Riti’s computer was also reviewed as part of a computer forensic investigation.

Bartolotta said the investigation is fruitless because any information from city employees’ computers is backed up as part of the city’s public record program.

Bartolotta’s Computer Accusation Timeline City Manager Bob Bartolotta presented the following timeline in his own words to the Sarasota Observer. He believes the timeline shows his department did nothing wrong and says it raises questions as to who is behind the accusations levied in the wake of a computer investigation at City Hall. • 11:19 a.m. Friday, Oct. 7 — Bob Johnson sends an email to three commissioners stating, “Have it on good authority that on Sept.

30 and after that the IT tech, Anthony, was scrubbing data from Marvin (sic) Brown and Mr. Bartalotta (sic) computers. The stakes get higher and an investigation will be called for.�

Please note that on Sept. 30 (date of the alleged activity), I was in Tampa at a Department of Environmental Protection meeting in the morning, and Diane (Bartolotta’s assistant) was out that day. The only two people in the office were Marlon (Brown) and Veda (Brown’s assistant). If Bob Johnson has a “good authority,â€? he should produce that person.  • 2:22 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7 — Commissioner (Paul) Caragiulo forwards Johnson’s email to Pamela Nadalini “for the public record.â€?

No copy (was given) to the city manager or deputy city manager.  • 5:25 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10

— Nadalini forwards the email to (IT employee) Chance Craig for a follow-up investigation. No copy is sent to the city manager or deputy city manager. • 12:50 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10 — Craig responds to Nadalini with a copy to Brown and I stating that IT was working on a routine email rights issue and that there was no “scrubbing of data.â€? • 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10 — I met with Nadalini and volunteered both my computer and Marlon’s computer. Pamela responded that that was not necessary because she felt the case was closed and that she would transmit her findings to Bob Johnson. • 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10 — I received a hand-delivered memo from Nadalini stating that she had directed IT to remove computers from my office. No reason was given for why, the day before, discussion indicated the case was closed and on this day it required further investigation. Also for the first time she indicates that

Johnson and the media felt that there was some connection with the HUD (audit) review. No notification or guidance was sought from the commission (as our bosses) as to whether a charter official can investigate another charter official without commission concurrence. • 7 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12 — I responded in a hand-delivered memo to the clerk that Marlon and I had “absolutely no problem in turning over our laptops for a further review.â€? Also in this memo I requested that Nadalini treat this complaint and other complaints in an equitable manner. Because allegations had been made that the audit manager had taken files off the file servers and placed them in a separate hard drive controlled only by her, this should also be investigated by a third party. I also requested that prior to transfer of laptops that the files be copied to a new computer so that our office could continue our daily work. At no time did this office resist in any way turn-

ing over these computers for review. Computers were given to IT by noon on Wednesday. • 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12 — City manager, deputy city manager, city attorney, city auditor and clerk and deputy city auditor and clerk met to discuss follow-up issues. The city attorney agreed to hold on to all three computers until such time a third party review took place. Nadalini agreed to have the outside review also include the audit manager’s removal of files from the file server. I requested that the third party contractor be an objective contractor and that the scope of the review be shared and not be an “open-ended reviewâ€? and that it be conducted ASAP to remove any cloud. The city attorney also cautioned that in the future we should not be investigating “anonymousâ€? or unnamed allegations.

I indicated that there are other agendas being moved forward by these constant stories and that we had to be careful not to be used for other’s purposes.

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Sarasota police pensions safe for now The Sarasota City Commission agreed Monday night to table a proposal to force police officers into a 401(k) plan.

Police pensions will remain intact for Sarasota Police Department officers — for now.

More than 100 officers and their family members packed City Hall during the Sarasota City Commission meeting Monday to support the current pension plan.

Representing the police union, attorney Diane Bailey Morton tried to dispel what she indicated was “a perception that police officers were dragging the city into financial ruin.”

“Police officers are not deaf, dumb and blind to what’s happening around them in this economy,” Morton said. “But if you take away their pensions for a 401(k), these officers who act as domestic soldiers for your community will leave.”

Sarasota Police Benevolent Association President Mick McHale said the department already had lost two officers who had become fed up with the stalled police contract negotiations. McHale also expressed frustration that officers weren’t being offered the same

type of contract the city agreed upon last month with the local Teamsters union.

That three-year deal gives Teamsters employees the right to keep an amended pension plan or move into a defined contribution plan.

Since the police department officers also agreed to waive their rights to Social Security benefits in the 1950s — as long as they received a guaranteed pension — McHale explained that officers could not accept a 401(k) without the restoration of Social Security benefits.

“You cannot in good conscience say the men and women sitting behind me should continue to risk their lives with a guaranteed 401(k),” McHale told the commission.

Sarasota Police Chief Mikel Hollaway and his captains confirmed for the commission what more than two-dozen officers publicly stated during a five-hour hearing that stretched until 11 p.m.

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like a marriage based on commitment that must endure even during tough times,” Hollaway said.

“I wouldn’t commit to a career in law enforcement today with just a 401(k).”

The wide support from officers and residents convinced the city’s five commissioners to back away from a city staff suggestion to convert the officers’ pension plans to 401(k) plans.

Vice Mayor Terry Turner, who had urged staff to cut more expenses in this year’s budget, and who has complained of high personnel costs, made a motion to keep the pension plans for current and future police officers, while reducing a cost-of-living allowance pension modification from 3.2% to 1%.

Currently, a police officer who retires at age 50 would get his 3.2% cost-of-living pension allowance immediately.

Turner’s proposal means officers would have to wait until they are 65 years old to receive the decreased, 1% cost-of-living pen-

sion change.

The proposal, Finance Director Chris Lyons said, would reduce pension costs considerably over time, but he had no estimate for the total savings.

If the city had approved the status quo pension plan without the cost-of-living adjustment, the plan would have cost the city approximately $132 million over the next 30 years.

Turner acknowledged his decision might be surprising to his fellow commissioners and the public.

“I know I’m a real hawk with defined benefits, but I see a real problem here,” Turner said.

The rest of the commission agreed, noting that the decision was just for a contract that expired Sept. 30. The city and its police officers right away must begin negotiating a new long-term contract.

Realizing that, the commission also supported a motion by Commissioner Willie Shaw to direct staff to continue negotiating Social Security benefits for officers in case further pension modifications are part of a new contract.

Commissioner Paul Caragiulo expressed frustration Wednesday with the whole process: “Now we

Police pension changes approved The Sarasota City Commission Monday made the following decisions regarding the Sarasota Police Department’s pension plan: • Pension plans stay intact for current and future police officers.

• A cost-of-living pension allowance was reduced from 3.2% to 1%; it will be paid out at age 65 instead of at age 50.

• A decrease from 6.5% to 2.5% was approved for the Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP).

• A 300-hour overtime limit was implemented for payouts for pension purposes.

• Retirement qualifications remain the same: 25 years of service or 10 years of service after turning 50 years of age.

• No change to disability benefits was approved.

get to come back and do this all over again.”

by Loren Mayo | Community Editor

Sarasota to fly sky-high Next month, when 3 million US Airways passengers pick up their in-flight magazine, they’ll be thumbing through 50 pages jam-packed with pictures and text — all about Sarasota.

“We had a fabulous story about Sarasota in AirTran that focused on circus heritage,” said Virgina Haley, president of the Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau. “We were outof-control excited because it was three whole pages. Something like this — granted, that it’s advertising, but in editorial style — we started out with 14 pages and space sold-out in

By the numbers 80 million — number of

passengers served each year

by US Airways 19,700 — number of daily flights offered by US Airways to customers 3,200 — number of US Airways flights each day 1,077 — number of airports served by US Airways 200 — number of communities served by US Airways in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Central and South America 175 — number of countries served by US Airways 9.6 — number of readers per magazine copy

hours.”

Two hours after the request had been made, with responses from seven local cultural organizations, the SCVB sent out an email saying the space had been filled.

“Everybody was upset with us because we said they had a week-and-a-half to send in paperwork,” Haley said. “So, we opened it up to 30 pages of advertising space. Some people came in independently and worked with US Airways.

It’s been interesting because in the last year, I’ve seen so many more organizations collaborating — it’s something I see growing in this community.”

The initial suggestion for the magazine spread was brought to the SCVB in July, after Sarasota resident Harry Leopold noticed a special advertising section for Greensboro, N.C., in the US Airways Magazine and thought it would be a perfect vehicle to promote Sarasota. At the same time, the Sarasota County Commission approved a one-time cultural tourism grant that the SCVB would manage on behalf of the Arts Alliance.

“Because of a change in accounting, the county had about $1 million in cultural tourism funding that became available,” Haley said. “A committee had met for a year thinking about creating a festival and in the end decided not to do the festival and use the funds for the existing arts grant. They set $200,000 aside specifically for cultural tourism marketing for the coming year, and this US Airways section is part of it.”

With the right idea and money to put behind it, Haley said

What started out as a 14-page advertising section featuring Sarasota’s cultural organizations has more than tripled in size.

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it seemed like a win-win situation.

“As usual, we wanted to run the numbers,” Haley said. “Especially with one-time funding where people were counting on us to do a really good job for arts groups, we wanted to invest wisely. It came back at an incredible price and we would be reaching out to markets we wanted to reach — the northeast Mid-Atlantic into the Midwest — with solid projects.”

Twenty-seven organizations will be represented in the advertising spread in the magazine, which will produce

315,000 copies that will reach 3 million people. The magazine will be distributed on all US Airways flights for the entire month of November.

“The other really neat thing is that visual artists are combining to do a section within the section,” Haley said. “You tend to see performing arts in Sarasota, but Elizabeth Van Riper has put together two whole pages featuring eight of the area’s visual artists.”

The airline is the secondlargest carrier of passengers out of Sarasota, behind Delta. Haley did her legwork on

Delta but felt the airline didn’t publish special sections in the same manner that US Airways does.

“It meant a lot of scrambling to pull it together so quickly for November, but that’s the crazy Thanksgiving traffic period and the busiest travel month of the year, just before season starts,” Haley said. “I think because you have such a variety of organizations participating, for someone who may not know Sarasota, it leaves the passenger with an impression of the cultural activity and how deep it goes.”

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+ Walmart on schedule for North Trail site Lorna Alston, general manager of North Sarasota redevelopment for the city of Sarasota, told those in attendance at a District 1 forum last week that a Walmart supermarket proposed at 3500 N. Tamiami Trail has received its building permit and is on schedule to be complete in August.

“We will also be working with WalMart and others to make sure those in the area that want to work there will be able to work there,” Alston said.

The new Walmart is expected to bring 100 new jobs to the area.

North Trail neighborhoods have been without a nearby supermarket since the Winn-Dixie, which had been there for four decades, closed last fall. Currently, the nearest grocery store is the Publix at N. Tamiami Trail and 10th Street.

+ SCVB and Sarasota Chalk Festival partner The Sarasota Chalk Festival has partnered with an organization to solidify its financial situation and secure a grant

Sarasota Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Thanks to that alliance, a $25,000 grant from the city is guaranteed, because the SCVB will act as the festival’s financial agent.

SCVB President Virginia Haley approached the city first to discuss the concept, which the city approved. It saves the festival both time and expenses because the city was requesting audits and financial statements.

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Special City Commission Meeting regarding downtown grants — 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24, City Hall, Commission Chambers, 1565 First St., Sarasota. 

 Special City Commission Meeting regarding Newtown grants — 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24, City Hall, Commission Chambers, 1565 First St., Sarasota.

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 Board of Adjustment Regular Meeting — 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, City Hall, Commission Chambers, 1565 First St., Sarasota.

Regular City Commission Meeting — 2:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, City Hall, Commission Chambers, 1565 First St., Sarasota. 

from the city of Sarasota, barely two weeks before the festival’s fifth year commences Nov. 1.

Tuesday at the Sarasota Opera House, Chalk Festival Director Denise Kowal announced a partnership with the

The city of Sarasota has started sending welcome packages to new business owners to thank them for doing business within city limits.

The new program, called “Succeed in Sarasota,” was launched last week as a gesture to merchants and service providers to highlight the city’s commitment to local businesses succeeding in Sarasota.

Included in each “Succeed in Sarasota” package will be a letter from Mayor Suzanne Atwell explaining that a new business-friendly attitude is emerging at City Hall. The packet will also explain the city’s permitting process has been

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The most read stories online last week were: 1. “City to revisit Five Points benches” (Oct. 13) 2. “Scott: Jobs will solve state’s problems” (Oct. 10) 3. “My View: Occupiers not like tea partyers” (Oct. 12) 4. “County Commissioner fumes over art project” (Oct. 7) 5. “Runaway arrested for burglaries” (Oct. 12)

simplified and that water/sewer impact fees have been suspended for the next 10 years. “We have a new mindset,” said Atwell in a news release.

“This is our way of welcoming businesses to our city, and we hope they succeed in Sarasota.”

A “Succeed in Sarasota” package will be mailed to businesses that register for a new local business tax receipt after Oct. 1, which was the start of the city’s new fiscal year.

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ALL IN THE TIMING By Rachel Brown Hackney | Staff Writer

Commissioners confident about candidate timeline The majority of the Sarasota County commissioners believe they are allowing ample time to receive applications for a new county administrator. If they do not find the applicant pool adequate, they will extend the process.

Although two community activist organizations and a wellknown Sarasota attorney have questioned the schedule, the majority of the Sarasota County commissioners this week said they felt confident about the timeline for selecting a replacement for former County Administrator Jim Ley. In email exchanges with the commission and county staff in the past week, Citizens for Responsible Government and attorney Dan Lobeck expressed concern that the schedule the commissioners approved is too compressed to allow sufficient opportunity for the best candidates to come forward.

Additionally, in her organization’s October newsletter, Sarasota County Council of Neighborhood Associations President Ann Kaplan wrote a column saying the hiring of the new administrator “is a decision that should not be rushed but very carefully considered and thoroughly vetted to make sure we get our (government) back on the right track in

terms of efficiency, public trust, transparency, ethics and making service of the public sector the No. 1 priority.”

Cathy Antunes, spokeswoman for Citizens for Responsible Government, said Monday that the selection of the new administrator “is too impor tant to be expedited.”

The deadline for candidate applications is Oct. 21, which the commissioners approved in late September by a 4-1 vote. The board’s consultant in the process, The Mercer Group, had proposed Oct. 28 as the cutoff date. Chairwoman Nora Patterson cast the lone dissenting vote. She said she, too, was worried the timeline was too short.

However, County Commissioners Joe Barbetta and Christine Robinson said this week they felt the deadline allowed plenty of time for good candidates to send in their applications.

“We’d rather have an extra week on the interview end,” Barbetta said of the board.

In an Oct. 11 email to the com-

missioners, Lobeck wrote, “I have been told that it seems to be the board’s consensus to see who you get from this expedited review,” and if the commissioners do not like any of the candidates, they will send The Mercer Group “back for more work.” Lobeck concluded, “It is far more important that this critical decision be made right rather than it be made quickly.”

County Commissioners Carolyn Mason, Jon Thaxton and Robinson all said this week that if they were not happy with the applications that came in, they would ask The Mercer Group to seek more.

“If I don’t like what I see, I’m not going to force myself into making a decision on what might have been a flawed selection process,” Thaxton said, noting that he did have some concerns “about the shortened, dare I say, hastened, timeframe.”

“We’re not going to please everybody,” Mason said. “I think the commission is doing the absolute best it can do.”

Mason, Robinson and Thaxton also said the county needs to find a replacement soon for Ley, who resigned May 24 in the wake of the Procurement Department scandal. “I think we need to get somebody in this position and move on,” Robinson said.

Noting that Interim Administrator Terry Lewis has offered to stay beyond the Dec. 14 expiration of his contract, Thaxton said that although Lewis “is doing a great job … it’s still transition, and transition, by its very definition, is unsettling, and it’s important that we get settled and move on.”

Antunes said her group also was concerned that the four focus groups the county conducted in September to aid in the administrator search had not included a broad enough mix of community residents. She pointed out that the current commissioners had been accused at various times of “favoring certain special interests.” The invitations they sent out to people to attend the focus groups reflected that, she said.

“You need to invite those who are … critical as well.”

Additionally, she questioned whether the county publicized the meetings adequately, to ensure broad attendance.

“Short of smoke signals,” Robinson said, “I don’t know what else we could have done,” adding that the county sent out press releases, the commissioners discussed the upcoming sessions during their regular meetings and the county publicized the sessions in its e-newsletter.

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• Nov. 2: The commission will receive from its consultant, The Mercer Group, the applications from the top 15 candidates.

• Nov. 8: The commission will review the applications and select three to five candidates to come to Sarasota for public meetings and interviews.

• Nov. 13: The first “meetand-greet” public meeting will be held at 4 p.m. at the Venice Community Center, 326 S. Nokomis Ave., Venice.

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• Nov. 15: The commissioners will conduct public interviews with the candidates between 12:30 and 5:30 p.m. Following the interviews, the commissioners will rank the candidates and decide whether to make an offer to one of them.

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Fatal flaws of public schools requiring a “uniform system.” Every Last week provided great politicalschool is required to provide the same media entertainment in our little part resources to every child — essentially of Florida. It also brought to light collectivism.

— again — the fatal flaws of public But this can never work. A uniform education. public-school system can try, but it Gov. Rick Scott visited the Observer can never adequately meet the needs Group office last week in Sarasota. of every child. Nor would taxpayers And during a one-hour interview pay what would be required to meet with editors — a session he later every child’s special needs. repeated with the editorial board To make matters worse, every year down the street at the Sarasota 160 legislators in Tallahassee microHerald-Tribune — Scott said he manage Florida’s schools and univerwants to funnel more of our universities, dictating every aspect of how sity tax dollars toward science, techthe schools must operate and how nology, engineering and math to help much money will be spent and where. push his agenda of adding 700,000 Imagine your business taking orders private-sector jobs in seven years.

Loren Mayo on how to operate from 160 legislaAnd then, in a short breath after Gov. Rick Scott chats with Alex Mahadevan, Tampa tors. What a nightmare. expressing that strategy, the governor Bay editor for the Gulf Coast Business Review, durIn this structure, individual taxpayadded, “… While anthropology is realing the governor’s visit last week to The Observer ers are virtually powerless over how ly interesting, there are no jobs” in it.

Group office in Sarasota. Pelican Press Managing their money is used. Just consider When Scott said the same thing Editor Rachel Hackney stands in the background.

Gov. Scott’s “STEM” initiatives. If, say, to Herald-Tribune editors, what folyour college-age student has the paslowed was predictable. The pundits The real Rick Scott sion and skills to be a great anthroand anthropologists went blooey. Just It happened several times last week after Gov. pologist, you would want him to imagine the clucking you would hear Rick Scott visited The Observer Group office. Readhave the same resources afforded to if you threw that proverbial fox into ers asked us: “What was the governor like?” state-university engineering students. the chicken house.

They said they read about his official pronounceSo who is Gov. Scott or those 160 legThe clucking went on for seven ments and legislative agenda, but they wanted to islators to decide what is the best way days, culminating with five letknow what he was like as a person. spend your educational tax dollars? ters to the editor in the Sunday The accompanying photo pretty much says it all So letter-writer, Deborah Landes, Herald-Tribune and 15 letters from — Gov. Scott laughing with young Alex Mahadevan, was right. The best way to improve University of South Florida anthroson of Kumar and Linda Mahadevan of Siesta Key education in Florida would be to pology majors, all ripping into Scott. and a recently hired writer/editor at the Gulf Coast turn all of it over to the private secBut one of the letter writers, Business Review, a sister paper of the Sarasota tor. Eliminate school taxes, and let Deborah Landes, had it right. She Observer. parents, grandparents, educators and wrote: Dressed in a business-casual shirt with a Florida business people decide on their own “Clearly, if the governor is sincere emblem on his chest, carrying a “grande” cup of how to educate Florida’s school-age about wishing to create employment Starbucks, Scott was at ease, relaxed and friendly. and college-age children. and foster entrepreneurship in our When he entered the Observer office, he walked The power of the free market would beautiful state, not to mention saving around the entire floor, shaking hands to meet and be astonishing. Schools and universithe taxpayers a bundle, the solution is chat with every staffer in the room — roughly 30 ties would pop up to serve every level to close down the entire state univerpeople at the time. He asked each staffer’s name of need and specialization and every sity system.” and what he did for the company. level of ability to pay. Just as we have She then said she was being satiriAnd in many instances, he engaged in conversacars and clothese that range from cal, a writing device she learned in a tion, the highlight of which had to be his encounter affordable to expensive, so it would be liberal arts college. with 24-year-old Mahadevan. Ever the un-politically with schools and universities.

Fact is, she is right. correct comedian, young Mahadevan made the Competition would drive up the No matter how much more tax governor nearly guffaw when he introduced himself quality of education and drive down money the governor funnels into eduby saying to the governor: “Hi, I’m Alex Mahadevan, the cost.

Accountability would be cating more engineers and scientists, the company’s token minority.” When Scott realized instant. If a school failed to meet its the effects will be marginal at best.

Mahadevan was joking, the governor broke into a customers’ needs, it would go out of That’s the history of Florida public grin and started chatting about Saturday Night Live business. Teachers would be compeneducation over the past three decades. skits that reminded him of Mahadevan’s sense of sated on the basis of skill and perforIn truth, Florida’s public-education humor. mance. No more guarantees of tenure system — from pre-schools to the By the time the governor left the building — an or union collectivism. universities — needs to be blown up hour after his arrival — the common refrain among The use of technology would and wiped out. All education should Observer Group staffers was: “He’s just a regular explode, revolutionizing how chilbe private-sector driven. No governguy.” dren are taught. And parents would ment involvement whatsoever. have control over how their money is Stick with us on this. spent.

Public education is so flawed that, operations of Florida’s public schools; and Think about the freedom and eduin spite of Scott’s efforts to change the fact individual taxpayers have virtually cational entrepreneurism parents would the university system’s focus (and we would no control over how their educational tax experience if the $22 billion a year that is urge him to stay on his course), the likelidollars are spent, you get what we have. spent on Florida’s public education were left hood of his achieving dramatic effects are No matter how good some of Florida’s in the hands of individual Floridians. slim. Public education, at every level, is simuniversities may be in certain disciplines, Give Gov. Scott credit for trying to initiply destined to mediocrity at best. the perception and reputation of Florida ate educational change. But Florida needs Sure, there can be and are pockets of public schools and universities nationally more than that. If Floridians want a differexcellence in Florida’s public education are not those of being among the country’s ent economic and educational destiny than systems. But because of the constitutional best, not by a long shot. And for deserved what they’ve had for the past 30 years, they mandate to provide “a uniform” system of reasons; they aren’t. need more than change. They need an edufree public schools; the fact 160 legislators Part of the fatal flaw is constitutionally cational revolution. control and manage the tax dollars and

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Dear Editor: I read Rod Thomson’s article (“Occupiers not like tea partyers”) with great pleasure. It was so to-the-point and accurate of what is happening today. Your facts and comments are right on.

I come from an old, hardworking family who always was able to somehow make a living and never too proud to take any honest job as long as it put food on the table. Unlike the protesters today, the people who were rich in our time were considered “heroes” and gave us the incentive to want to do the same and

+ Occupy and tea party differences are backward Dear Editor: I agree with the headline to your “My View” opinion in your Oct. 13 Sarasota Observer, “Occupiers not like tea partyers.” However, you have not included some of the major differences.

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Many in the media are trying to convince Americans that the two are related.

I attended the first tea party in Sarasota April 15, 2009. The signs I saw reflected the goals of those who attended: Taxed Enough Already, Cut Spending, Give Me Liberty Not Debt, Smaller Government, Wake Up America and Follow the Constitution! These people were “patriots” who expressed love for the U.S. and a desire for fiscal responsibility. Many wore red, white and blue and carried American flags.

They were local people who were not bused in or paid to protest. There was no outside money or radical groups sponsoring their rally, and they picked up their trash and left the location cleaner than they found it.

The occupiers express a desire for larger government with handouts and express class warfare hatred. There was a sign on Wall Street that said: “Eat the Rich.”

Unfortunately, our current president has fed the fires of class warfare. We need a new leader who will inspire, not divide, Americans. I believe that the tea party patriots will help elect such a leader in 2012.

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on-the-scene law enforcement stated, they were not unruly or disruptive. Some dressed like hippies, but they weren’t.

They want the America back where the top 1% doesn’t continue to get richer and richer, while the middle class is destroyed.

Please don’t tell us that those are the job creators. They have benefited from the Bush tax breaks for 12 years. Where are the jobs?

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Dear Editor: Thank you for Rod Thomson’s accurate article pointing out the differences between the occupiers and the tea party.

I consider myself a “member” of the tea party and attended some of the events.

The occupiers do not want to take personal responsibility for their lives and want others to take care of them. What were their parents thinking when they raised them like that? Maybe they could get a job if they studied a major that is actually needed.

One area with which all Americans can agree is that the government needs to treat everyone on an equal playing ground, no more bailouts or crony capitalism. That makes everyone mad.

I find it promising to have one in the media speak the truth as you did.

Jennifer McCann Sarasota

launched with, and is still largely financed by, the billionaire Koch brothers, whose lifetime goal, like their father’s before them, has been the dismantling of FDR’s New Deal. They want to eliminate Social Security and its later created citizen helpmate, Medicare. Their main tools are the financial strangling of the government’s income and the privatizing of both plans to for-profit enterprises. Look at the attacks of this group and the goal is clear.

The tea partyers I have talked to are definitely not unified in this goal. However, the far right has, for decades, convinced the voting public to vote against its own best interests. Many of the tea partyers have a single objective. They are pro life or want their country back from people with dark skins, both AfricanAmericans and Latinos. They are angry, but most are not so angry they would carry automatic weapons to a political rally, carry placards equating President Obama with Hitler or call him a communist.

Yet tea party rallies, even in our nation’s capital, have featured those actions and more. Contrary to your editorial, many of them are unemployed and blame Obama like there was no president for the two terms preceding his election.

The occupiers have no sugar daddies financing their movement. They are not bums, nor do they physically threaten anyone. I walked among the occupiers here in Sarasota and observed people from all age groups, some well-dressed and some not. They are mad at the banking, financial and insurance institutions that negotiated a sweetheart bail out CD with theMONEY Bush Administration, with no AND MARKET ALTERNATIVE! strings attached, such as providing lendBANKERS 5 YEAR ing toTHE the disappearing middle class. They TAX-DEFERRED ANNUITY carried signs but they were calm, and, line

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We were taught to study and better plan our future, which never included sharing other people’s wealth.

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Of course, he put on his best suit, tie and polished shoes and went to the unemployment office. He returned a short time later and told my mother he didn’t belong in that place and didn’t stay. He said, “That’s where all the local bums were,” and he didn’t belong there. The next day, he went to town and came back with a job.

Of course, I am not implying that some of the people on unemployment are “bums,” as my dad put it, but coming from my dad at the time was sort of a little lesson in life.

Again, thank you for a column wellwritten.

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Owen Comora It’s an overcast, breezy day out at the Celery Fields, and Owen Comora is leaning against his SUV with a set of binoculars draped around his neck.

His trunk is filled with wild birds. Well, not literally, but it contains everything from binders packed with up-close and personal photographs of birds in the wild to a camera and spotting scope for his personal birding adventures and those he leads at Myakka River State Park, where he volunteers as the senior bird naturalist.

Since Comora and his wife, Betty, moved in 1998 from New Jersey to Sarasota, park visitors have come to know him as the “the bird man.”

Comora, whose backside faces several boat-tailed grackles lining the walls of the gazebo where he is seated, remembers the first bird that ever intrigued him.

“I was 13 years old and going fishing in North Bergen, N.J., where I grew up,” he says.

“I saw this beautiful bird with yellow under its wings fly by my friend, Ned Boyajian, who was watching it through binoculars. It was a northern flicker, a member of the woodpecker family. I nixed fishing, and we went birding every day before junior high school.”

For Comora, birding isn’t just

As the senior bird naturalist at Myakka River State Park, Owen Comora has devoted more than 4,000 volunteer hours to his passion.

IF YOU GO Volunteer bird naturalists of Friends of Myakka River will return for their 13th season at Myakka River State Park’s Birdwalk beginning Monday, Oct. 31. The program runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every day through mid-April.

The birding volunteers share their spotting scopes, field guides, photographs and expertise with visitors to the Birdwalk, a boardwalk and observation platform at the park’s upper lake that offers unobstructed views of the lake, birds, alligators and other wildlife.

For information, call 361-6511. a passive hobby — it has become his obsession.

“You may go up a mountain to see a bird, and you may not see the bird, but (you might) freeze,” he says. “I’ve gone to Churchill on Hudson Bay, in Canada, to see the Ross’s gull, and I didn’t see it.”

Nevertheless, Comora has managed to record 645 species of birds, just 100 species behind his acquaintance, Sandy Komito, who traveled 260,000 miles on a 260-day birding trip.

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Comora’s wildest adventure was a solo trip to the lower Rio Grande Valley, in Texas, where he added 80 species of birds to his list.

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Toddlers display fast feet It was like watching “The Flintstones,” only toddler-style.

Children ages 2 to 5 competed in the 2011 Strider World Championship Oct. 14 and Oct. 15, at the Sarasota BMX Track. Hoping to go home with a trophy, the determined youngsters pushed their legs to the limit as they maneuvered their Strider bikes — which are made without pedals to promote balance — around the racecourse.

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Tessera condo sells for $3.2 million his Unit 126-E condominium at 235 Cocoanut Ave. to Graham and Jill Edwards, Sarasota, for $350,000. Built in 2006, it has two bedrooms, threeand-a-half baths and 2,320 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $675,000 in 2006.

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Debra Pitell sold the home at 436 Poinciana Drive to William and Phyllis Childers, Sarasota, for $295,000.

Built in 1960, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,418 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $245,000 in 2008.

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Bank of America sold the home at 1392 Harbor Drive to John Ebin, trustee, Sarasota, for $1,760,000.

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1620 Shelburne LLC sold the home at 1620 Shelburne Lane to Steven and Maureen Bramley, Sarasota, for $397,000. Built in 1970, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,570 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $699,000 in 2004.

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Basil and Portia Paterson, New York, sold their Unit 1715 condominium at 988 Blvd. of the Arts to Ehab Rafail, trustee, of Ontario, Canada, for $370,000. Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,555 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $153,000 in 1995.

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Ronald and Barbara Chomko, of Henderson, Nev., sold their home at 2473 Yorkshire Drive to David and Jennifer Wilson, Sarasota, for $250,000. Built in 1963, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,592 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $280,000 in 2000.

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Mark McGlaughlin sold his home at 1836 Ridgewood St. to Tomas Kudera, of the Czech Republic, for $240,000. Built in 1952, it has four bedrooms, three baths and 2,513 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $107,000 in 2001.

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Sandor Genersich and Olga Genersich, trustees, Sarasota, sold the Unit 22 condominium at 660 Golden Gate Point to Douglas Olson, Sarasota, for $215,000. Built in 1970, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,359 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $195,000 in 1997.

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Brooks Carson, Osprey, sold the home at 7130 La Ronda Court to Deborah Riveros, of Sao Paulo, Brazil, for $255,000. Built in 1994, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,372 square feet of living area.

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Frances Havens, trustee, of Lincoln, Calif., sold the home at 5522 Modena Place to Janice and Michael Bradley, Sarasota, for $240,000. Built in 2003, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,534 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $270,000 in 2008.

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Average Gulf water temperature: 77.1

Valerie Byford submitted this sunset photo, taken near Marina Jack in downtown Sarasota.

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2. George Washington was true to his goals and a great statesman, as he never blamed the nation’s problems on the previous administration!

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Beautiful, bright villa, 2BR/2BA +den or located the corner of 301N & Bayside condominiums available at different rates.

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ZIP CODE ADDRESS 34242 34242 34242 34242 34242

OASIS BY THE SEA. Panoramic Gulf Views Award Winning Architecture $6.495 Million

2718 Casey Key Road

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SUBDIVISION SOLD PRICE SIESTA KEY CONDO SALES 9200 MIDNIGHT PASS RD # 26 INLET $189,000 5790 MIDNIGHT PASS RD # 409 GULF & BAY CLUB $600,000 6610 MIDNIGHT PASS RD # 3 EBBTIDE $127,500 1350 N PORTOFINO DR # 202 SIESTA HARBOR $300,000 6020 MIDNIGHT PASS RD # 59 ALOHA KAI $302,000 LONGBOAT KEY CONDO SALES 3040 GRAND BAY BLVD # 266 GRAND BAY $1,137,000 1115 GULF OF MEXICO DR # 102 BEACHPLACE $428,000 1620 GULF OF MEXICO DR # 121N COLONY BEACH & TEN CLB $49,000 DOWNTOWN SARASOTA CONDO SALES 1300 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DR # 707 THE BEACH RESIDENCES $1,350,000 874 HUDSON AVENUE # 874 Hudson Landings $425,000 1255 N GULFSTREAM AVE # 406 BAY PLAZA $425,000 1255 GULFSTREAM AVE N # 901 BAY PLAZA $725,000 1350 MAIN ST # 1200 1350 MAIN RESIDENTIAL $500,000 1188 N TAMIAMI TRL # 602 SAN MARCO $440,000 1771 RINGLING BLVD # 1202 RIVO AT RINGLING $315,500

ZIP CODE ADDRESS SUBDIVISION SOLD PRICE SIESTA KEY SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES 34242 350 AVENIDA LEONA SIESTA MANOR $347,000 LONG BOAT KEY SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES 34228 551 HARBOR POINT RD BAY ISLES $3,097,000 DOWNTOWN SARASOTA SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES 34236 409 MEADOW LARK DR BIRD KEY $2,750,000 SARASOTA SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES 34233 3772 ASTER DR BENEVA PINES $290,000 34233 3900 COUNTRY VIEW DR COUNTRY PLACE $257,000 34233 4518 FALCON RIDGE DR SOUTH GATE RIDGE $117,000 34233 5641 CREEKWOOD DR CENTER GATE WOODS $150,000 34233 4428 FLATBUSH AVE KEW GARDENS $59,000 34231 3915 MARAVIC PL MOLLER $270,000 34231 3215 YORKTOWN ST SUN HAVEN $85,000 34231 5524 WANETA PL PHILLIPPI GARDENS $310,000 PALMER RANCH SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES 34238 7613 BERGAMO AVE VILLAGEWALK $245,000 34238 5588 BILBAO PL VILLAGEWALK $455,000 34238 8167 NICE WAY TURTLE ROCK $315,000 34238 6113 BENEVA RD CLARK LAKES $150,000 34238 4532 DEER TRAIL BLVD VILLAS AT DEER CREEK $247,000

Based on information compiled from the Mid-Florida Regional Multiple Listing Service, Inc. This information may or may not include all listed, expired, withdrawn, pending or sold properties of one or more members of the Mid Florida Regional Multiple Listing Service.

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CASA SALAMANCA, Private Walled Estate 290 ft. Waterfront $5.995 Million

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BEACH CHALET, Custom Designed in 2009 Air Conditioned 5-Car-Garage. $3.895 Million

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VILLA BELLA ROSA, Neo-Classical Estate Deep Waterfront Property $3.649 Million

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Units for Sale - All Furnished: B-309 2B/2B - Water Views ....$799,000 D-309 2B/2B - Water Views ....$750,000 D-608 2B/2B - Water Views ....$715,000 C-107 2B/2B - Water Views ....$549,000

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“It’s like I’ve come full circle with a suitcase full of knowledge, experience and technological advances,” Sigrid Olsen says of her life as an artist.

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Eileen Fisher. Lilly Pulitzer. Ellen Tracy. Sigrid Olsen.

Now it’s written in small white capital letters at 407 S. Pineapple Ave: SIGRID OLSEN art gallery & ISLA beach house.

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The only garb you’ll find inside is airy, laidback resort wear by little-known designers whom Olsen loves.

Olsen no longer designs clothes.

In 1999, she sold her company to Liz Claiborne. Nine years later, the corporation eliminated her line and with it the designer’s position as creative director.

“Everyone wants to know when I’m going to make clothes again,” Olsen says. “It’s a good thing and a bad thing. I love that they love the clothes, but, please, look around and see if you like what I’m doing now.”

What Olsen is doing now is sitting cross-legged on a rattan sofa in her new downtown gallery. She’s taking long sips from a chai latte and listening to a dreamy mix of songs by raspyvoiced singer/songwriters.

“You know what it’s like?” she asks with a playful grin. “It’s like the Beastie Boys have come a long way in their careers, yet people still want them to sing ‘Fight for Your Right to Party.’”

Tan, blonde and dressed in a white eyelet blouse of her own design, Olsen, 58, radiates effortlessness from her blond ponytail, to her flip-flops to her knowledge of 1980s hip-hop.

Compared to her days as a jetsetting fashion designer, Olsen’s career has taken a sort of quiet, contemplative turn.

Three years ago, she and her husband, Curtis Sanders, a former textile merchant, sold their 3,600-square-foot suburban home in Hamilton, Mass., and moved into their summer cot-

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unusual colors and textiles.”

“I love everything Miuccia Prada does. She doesn’t care what the trends are. She forges ahead of the curve and stays true to herself.”

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Sigid Olsen’s art is tropical with a Scandinavian influence. The artist is drawn to images of birds, fish, shells and flowers. tage — a funky wood-shingled bungalow in Rocky Net Art Colony in Gloucester, Mass.

They turned the space into a studio, gallery and retail location devoted to selling and exhibiting Olsen’s watercolors, hand-painted ceramics and stationery.

A breast cancer survivor, the designer began painting in 2005 after undergoing a double mastectomy.

“I needed peacefulness in my life,” she says of the reinvention that has been chronicled in great depth by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and her hometown daily, The Boston Globe. “At this point in my life, if I’m going to design clothes again, it has to have some profound meaning in my life other than just being a job.”

Her jump from fashion to art isn’t that major of a reinvention.

The entrepreneur’s fashion career began in weaving and textile design. After graduating in 1974 from Montserrat College of Art, Olsen lived in a cabin in Massachusetts with no running water, where she created handprinted fabrics using stamps cut from potatoes and belonged to a cooperative craft gallery that sold wares at small craft fairs.

“When I started my clothing career, the majority of my day was spent making something with my hands,” Olsen says.

“When it came to an end, only 1% of my time was spent making something with my hands. It was like the only hands-on piece I retained was when I made store appearances as Sigrid Olsen.”

She’s returned to her roots, as they say.

Sigrid Olsen, the artist, is a daily yoga-devotee, a self-

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“It totally inspired the island lifestyle for ISLA beach house.

I love that kind of beachy, bohemian chic.”

“He’s closer to an artist than a lot of (designers) in the fashion crowd. Some of his styles are not that wearable, but I love his

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we’re here, the more we’ll make connections,” she says. “I’m still getting a feel for the texture and depth of the community based on the kind of people coming in and out of the store. Hopefully they get it. Even if they don’t buy anything, I hope they at least leave feeling better.”

She spent a long time transforming the narrow concrete space into an atmosphere that conjures up a relaxed island vibe or, as her store motto suggests: “from beach to bistro.”

The floor is lime green and the back wall is sherbet. Olsen’s artwork is bright and cheerful, peppered with uplifting messages and Caribbean motifs.

Contrary to what might have seemed like an obvious fit, she didn’t want to open a store on St. Armands Circle.

“I think we’d lose our identity in the tourist milieu,” Olsen says.

“I like it here. The neighborhood is funky. My yoga studio is next door. What can I say? In New York I always lived downtown.

I guess I’m just not an uptown girl.”

SIGRID OLSEN art gallery & ISLA beach house is now open. Olsen will host a reopening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 28, at the gallery. For more information, visit sigridolsenart.com or call 312-5826. published cookbook author, a speaker at inspirational retreats and now a Sarasota merchant.

After embarking on what she calls a “reconnaissance mission” to find the perfect Florida city in which she and Sanders could open a second gallery, they settled on Sarasota.

“We wanted a town with some unique personality,” Olsen says.

“And it had to be easy to fly back and forth (to Gloucester).”

They opened their Sarasota location in March. By May, however, the business was closed for the summer, leaving locals to wonder if Olsen would be back next season.

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A panel of celebrity judges will judge the costumes.

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by Heidi Kurpiela | A&E Editor

+ RIAF drama, cool encores, mistaken identities Oh, how this year’s Ringling International Arts Festival delivered. From the second Asphalt Orchestra invaded the museum courtyard (and the personal space of Sarasota’s favorite glitterati) with its merry marching band of raucous horn players and drummers, we knew RIAF meant business.

Even the artists were blown away by the opening night fanfare.

Dancer and choreographer Stefanie Batten Bland, whose company of loose-limbed hoofers performed a contemporary dance piece about the movements of immigrants over bodies of water, was overheard exclaiming, “This is the first time I’ve seen fireworks for art.”

Welcome to Sarasota, Stefanie.

Speaking of Bland … apparently there’s a dancer in her troupe who bares a striking resemblance

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Meklit Hadero to me. While at the Meklit Hadero show Thursday night, I was mistaken not once, but three times for a dancer in Bland’s company.

When I approached the RIAF ticket counter, one staffer showered me with so many compliments on my dancing I was compelled to let the mix-up slide.

Doppelgänger aside, Hadero’s concert was a groovy, jazzy, acoustic delight. Hadero, whose

+ Sarasota Ballet gets its pink on The Sarasota Ballet is off to an exciting start this season.

The gang, who just returned to Sarasota after performing at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., (see Highlights on page 4) will dance next week on hometown

turf to benefit Key to the Cure.

For $25, you can catch the premiere performance of an original ballet by principal dancer Ricardo Graziano. Set to music

by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and featuring all-

lush voice has drawn comparisons to Norah Jones, performed tracks off her 2010 album “On a Day Like This,” in addition to a peppy cover of The Talking Heads’ “Naïve Melody” and a stirring encore that had the entire audience singing with her.

What else is there to know about the third annual RIAF? Well, according to Michael Kohlmann, the festival’s guest artist manager, one artist was hauled off to the hospital with a curiously inflamed bug bite.

Kohlmann wouldn’t share the artist’s name. Suffice it to say, the swelling went down and the show went on. pink costumes, the piece will pay homage to Key to the Cure’s chief mission: raising funds for women’s cancer programs at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.

The show is at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 27, at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts. For reservations, call 917-1286 or visit smhf.org.

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Sarasota’s favorite temptress, Virginia Hughes (aka Miss Petite Coquette)

+ Former dancer sells massive canvas

Former National Ballet of Cuba dancer Javier Dubrocq has finished his colossal “Legend of Sarasota” –– a 6-foot-by-9-foot narrative painting that he started in 2006.

Local ballerinas probably know Dubrocq for his moves in the rehearsal studio. The multitalented artist (and father of three sons) is a private dance coach and a faculty member at the Sarasota Ballet School, along with his wife, Isabel.

“The Legend of Sarasota” –– Dubrocq’s largest painting ever –– depicts the story of Sarasota, beginning with the ill-fated romance of Hernando de Soto’s daughter, Sara, and her Indian brave paramour Chichi-Okobee.

According to local lore, when Sara de Soto contracted a deadly illness from Chichi-Okobee, she was buried in the body of water that now bears her name: Sarasota Bay.

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Javier Dubrocq and “The Legend of Sarasota.”

“To me, it’s one of the most beautiful stories,” says Dubrocq, who recently sold the work to a private collector in Tampa. “I wanted to do the last image.

When (Okobee) went to the bay, he brought 100 warriors to follow him. They jumped into the water and all died.”

After spending more than five years on one painting, what does Dubrocq hope to capture next?

“Ballet,” Dubrocq says. “I was in it, but I never painted it.”

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Simon Mumme and Anais Blake, both dancers who went to Washington, D.C., pose together with their glasses of champagne.

Kay Aidlin serves glasses of champagne.

Murray Sherry poses in between Jorgen and Gudrun Graugaard.

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IF YOU GO Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” opens. Oct. 28 and runs through Nov. 15, at the Sarasota Opera. For more information, visit sarasotaopera.org or call 366-8450.

Chris Van Alstyne brings a carpenter’s touch, a Yale education and two years of experience with Cirque du Soleil to the Sarasota Opera.

Chris Van Alstyne fits in well at the Sarasota Opera House, so well, in fact, that he could almost pass for an opera singer.

At 6-foot-3, the 49-year-old is as strapping as any tenor, with a goatee and crop of wavy hair that make him look Figaro-esque, if such a word exists.

“I started out college as a singer,” says Van Alstyne, who joined the opera house staff this summer as director of production.

“And then I learned I’m not disciplined enough to be one. When your body is your instrument, every choice you make affects it, from what you eat to how you sleep. It wasn’t for me.”

So Van Alstyne, a native of Staten Island, N.Y., studied technical theater at the State University of New York at Fredonia.

He worked for six years as a cabinetmaker at The Museum of Modern Art and then left to get his master’s degree in technical design and production from the Yale School of Drama, where he studied under Tony Award-winning set designer Ming Cho Lee. “Whenever I’ve had to choose between comfort and challenge, I’ve chosen challenge,” Van Alstyne says. “It’s partly why I decided to come to Sarasota.”

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He served as the production manger at the Boston Ballet, for which he staged the world’s largest performance of “The Nutcracker,” a behemoth production that rolled in on 17 tractor-trailers.

After that he spent two years on the road with Cirque du Soleil’s “Dralion Tour” — an even more massive production consisting of 45 tractor-trailers and 155 performers and crew members.

“We were a moving village,” Van Alstyne says.

The tour took him all over North America and Europe. It landed him in Baltimore, where he was hired as the production manager at the Baltimore Opera Company.

It was the first time he had worked for a major opera company. The experience was as rewarding as it was heartbreaking.

In 2009, after spending twoand-a-half years with the 58-yearold organization, the company folded due to dwindling ticket sales and a drop in donor support.

Van Alstyne was one of the last employees out the door.

“It was horrific,” he says of the company’s demise.

After the fallout, he stayed on

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“I’ve fallen in love with every single production I’ve worked on,” Chris Van Alstyne says. as a technical consultant, working with the auction house tasked with liquidating the opera’s assets.

His job was to find new homes for the company’s elaborate sets.

Says Van Alstyne: “You spend all this time trying to save an organization and then when it’s over, you’re shipping pieces of it to other (opera) companies.”

Luckily, things are much more stable in Sarasota.

Van Alstyne has only been on the job two months, and yet he

seems to have already established a rapport with his staff and even more so with Maestro Victor DeRenzi, a fellow Staten Islander who attended the same high school as Van Alstyne.

“We kind of talk the same language,” Van Alstyne says of DeRenzi. “Except he’s elegant and I’m much more of a jeans kind of guy.”

As he navigates the back of the opera house, bantering briefly in the corridor with DeRenzi, he

answers questions from the crew about the “Madama Butterfly” set, which is in various stages of assembly.

“Doing ‘Butterfly’ right now is a luxury for me,” Van Alstyne says. “It gives me a chance to do one show before things really start to pick up.”

He walks into the scene shop, where again he’s confronted with more questions. Calmly, he addresses every one.

In addition to managing the company’s stage operations, scene construction, technical administration and wig and makeup departments, Van Alstyne oversees an annual operating budget of $4.1 million.

The responsibility would be enough to rattle most people but not Van Alstyne. After setting up and breaking down 380 Cirque du Soleil productions, he can handle anything.

“When I worked for Cirque, people would say, ‘My God. Don’t you get tired of seeing the same show?’” he says. “I’d tell them, ‘It’s exactly the opposite.’ There’s nothing more exciting than seeing a group of individuals all working toward a single goal on a single night. Being privy to that and then seeing it come together night after night is enough to bring you to tears.”

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As press secretary Stephen Myers, Ryan Gosling discovers a potential political scandal that threatens Mike Morris’ (George Clooney) shot at the presidency in “The Ides of March.”

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Backstabbing in the intimate backrooms of politics is a given. In George Clooney’s new film, “The Ides of March,” he elevates it to an art-form, applying gloss to a filthy business.

Clooney stars, directs and co-scripts this political drama, which wrestles with idealism and corruption. Young, eager and dedicated Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) is press secretary to charismatic presidential hopeful, Mike Morris (Clooney). Morris is the quintessential politician — smooth, effective and making sense at every turn.

But we, as voters, know instinctively there has to be an Achilles heel (usually located a bit further up the leg).

When Myers stumbles upon a potential political scandal that threatens Morris’ shot at the presidency, all hell breaks loose. It seems there’s a golden rule in politics: You can lie, cheat and blackmail all you want, just don’t screw the interns.

Clooney has assembled a tsunami of

talent, which includes the likes of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood. All of them give Oscar-worthy performances in small but powerful roles. Golden boy Gosling is so hot as of late (“Drive” “Crazy, Stupid Love”) he can’t turn it off. His portrayal of the disillusioned staffer in this film is pitch-perfect.

And, speaking of perfection, two words: George Clooney. In his fourth turn as director, Clooney proves his prowess behind the camera is every bit as fetching as in front of it. And he’s no fool. He knew he had to play a Democrat in order for the film not to appear as a soapbox. Interestingly, Clooney put the film on hold due to the elation of many after the 2008 election. He wanted to wait until people were “cynical again.”

That cynicism is the underlying theme upon which this powerful film is based. The thirst for power can be a lethal quaff. As the soothsayer warned Caesar, “Beware the ides of March.” Et tu, Clooney? I think not.

— Pam Nadon

at the Golden Apple

Finally, years after the ERA has been passed, the women of Disney have revolted!

“Disenchanted! Bitches of the Kingdom” is about all those storybook princesses co-opted by animated movies, theme parks and pop culture and plopped into dreary lives of enforced “happily ever after.”

Under the direction of Kyle Ennis Turoff, the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre show bounces along like happy little blue birds on smack, and the eclectic choreography runs from doo wop to hip-hop. The music is highly enjoyable, and the lyrics are wonderfully clever and witty. The new musical comedy’s book, music and lyrics were written by Dennis C. Giacino, with additional lyrics by Fiely A. Matias.

During the opening act, Jennifer Baker, as Snow White, Mari Bryan, as Cinderella, and Alex Torres, as Sleeping Beauty, threaten everything from offing themselves to ripping Steamboat Willy a new one in their determination to liberate themselves from body wraps, pedicures and facials.

The show also stars Dianne Dawson, as Belle, Jenn Abreu, as Mulan, Aileen Suseck, as Pocahontas, Hilary Kraus, as the Little Mermaid, Helen Holliday, as Rapunzel, and Ariel Blue, as the Frog Princess. The casting is everything for which you could ask. Roberta MacDonald absolutely slays the audience in her walk-on roles as three secondary princesses.

Nicely accompanied by Michael Sebastian on the piano, the score features one knockout, well-written song after the other. For example, Beauty complains of going from promising French lit scholar to promising to pick up the Beast’s poop.

The Little Mermaid sings with fish puppets and complains of having to shave her

Alex Torres, as Sleeping Beauty, Jennifer Baker, as Snow White, and Mari Bryan, as Cinderella, in the Golden Apple’s production of “Disenchanted.”

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legs and getting blisters from high heels.

Cinderella charmingly moans, “All I want to do is eat,” and Snow White’s great singing voice spouts out laughable obscenities.

The play is fresh from sweeping up awards at the 2011 Orlando International Fringe Festival, where it enjoyed soldout houses and rave reviews. Its run was extended numerous times, which should be the case in Sarasota, too.

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Orchestra’s Journeys to Genius: ‘Solving Elgar’s Enigma’

The English composer Edward Elgar, who straddled the 19th and 20th centuries, wrote symphonies, myriad chamber works, concertos, songs, choral works and many marches, of which his “Pomp and Circumstance” pieces brought him international acclaim. The British royals even saw fit to honor him as “Sir Edward.” So, why the usually illustrious Journeys to Genius programmers at the Sarasota Orchestra chose to dismiss most of Elgar’s music and focus only on his “Enigma Variations” was something of an enigma in itself.

Until this performance, the orchestra’s Journeys to Genius performances have been unmitigated successes, drawing us — like Leonard Bernstein’s video musical lectures — into a spellbinding web of the lives and works of composers. The programs also brought a new audience ­— younger and perkier — to the orchestra, while keeping those of us who have been dyed-in-thewool music fans for a long time. But “Solving Elgar’s Enigma” last week fell far short of the triumphs of the

past.

So, what was it about this program that was, well, enigmatic? For starters, the premise of this journey was flawed. Elgar was considerably more than his “Enigma Variations.”

Then there was the script, which was less than compelling. Jim Helsinger took on the role of storyteller, but the story he told was somewhat lackluster, and, to make matters worse, his microphone was so inept it was difficult to understand much of what he was saying. Patrick Sullivan made a dreary Sir Edward, and Diana Brune, as Alice Elgar, seemed to float on and off the stage without much character.

This was more the fault of the tedious script that was more ill-defined than fascinating and the stage direction (by David Chernault) that was fuzzy and blurred. Basically, this presentation lacked the focus and excitement of Journeys in the past.

Worst was the sound system that cut out, drowned out or muffled the speakers, rendering them somewhat impotent in their various non-descript roles.

This has been a problem before at the Sarasota Opera House, and, with the small screens on either side of the stage purporting to show slides of the various people who influenced Elgar, this Journey was more of an audio-and-visual blur than the captivating concerts to which we’re accustomed.

Christopher Confessore, the writer and conductor of this program, is a former resident of Sarasota and was known to us as a talented youngster who won the (then known as) Florida West Coast Symphony’s Young Artists Concerto Competition.

He’s participated in the Sarasota Music Festival and even served as the orchestra’s associate conductor from 1992 to 2000 and as education director in the early ’90s. Currently, he’s music director of the Brevard Symphony and principal Pops conductor of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.

Confessore may have underestimated the sophistication of Sarasota audiences. What may work elsewhere can come across in this town as academic and

bookish rather than exciting and elucidating.

Leaving the enigma of Elgar’s “Enigma” aside, the second section of this program, as always, focused on a performance of the work itself. And, here again, we were disappointed.

Elgar’s “Enigma Variations” have always sparkled for me. From the opening segment with its Mahlerian harmonies to the gorgeous and celebrated “Nimrod” variation, it’s always been a fun, exhilarating and, at times, electrifying musical romp. So it pains me to say this performance left me bored and considerably disappointed.

The Sarasota Orchestra is an ensemble that I brag about to my friends and colleagues. This was not one of its sterling moments.

Intonation in the strings was shaky, and the tension and excitement we’ve grown to expect were lacking.

It is early in the season, and they may not yet have melded into the cohesive ensemble we know they are.

I can only hope that future Journeys are presented to us with the genius they’ve shown in the past.

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Passion in the kitchen translates to the table IF YOU GO

Indigenous Restaurant

239 S. Links Ave., in Towles Court www.indigenoussarasota.com Owners: Steve Phelps and Robert Trosten Hours: Open for dinner starting at 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Opening soon for lunch. spray the sidewalk,” Phelps says.

“Local” here means even more. Indigenous offers wines with a local connection — a syrah and a cabernet from Porter Family Vineyards in Napa Valley, Calif., owned by Longboat Key residents. Phelps got the community involved in designing the restaurant’s logo with an event at the Shamrock Pub that attracted 100 people to draw up their vision of “What does Indigenous look like?” Chairs and tables are made by local craftsmen from reclaimed cypress wood from northern Florida. Provisions come not from Sysco but from locally-based businesses — right down to the linen.

Another of Chef Steve’s passions is education. He wants to help people become more conscious of their food intake. Where did it come from? What did it cost to get it here? Was it sustainably produced? He is training staff to be able to answer those questions and hopes customers will ask them.

Phelps has a crystal-clear vision for his new restaurant; he wants it to be a place where you can come, “whether you want a beer and a burger or a $120 bottle of wine.”

Perhaps, most of all, he wants it to have soul, something he feels is lacking in Sarasota restaurants.

“The staff is excited to be here and serving the food,” he says. “As soon as you walk in the door, you become part of our energy.”

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Chef/proprietor Steve Phelps sears meat in the kitchen at Indigenous.

Above: Indigenous’ logo was designed by Sarasota locals.

Right: Furnishings at Indigenous are made by local craftsmen using reclaimed Florida materials.

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“These short ribs need as much love as a small puppy,” says Chef Steve Phelps, simultaneously searing the meat in three flaming hot pans and explaining that if they are not afterward finished perfectly with a specific braising technique, they will not turn out right.

“Goat cheese ice cream with port syrup and a fresh fig at Indigenous tonight. Insanely good!” So proclaims a young friend who has happily eaten his way around most of the world at many of its most expensive fine-dining spots.

One suspects a cause-and-effect relationship between those two quotes. It would be something like, “Passionate chef results in passionate customers.” It is certainly a hopeful sign for Phelps’ new restaurant, Indigenous, in Towles Court.

Indigenous starts from its name. The food is as local and native as realistically possible in Florida, not just in the interest of freshness and taste but in using resources wisely and supporting the local community. The good news is that “Chef Steve,” as his staff and friends call him, can source his daily “Hook to Fork” fish entrée with Gulf and Atlantic specials virtually year-round. An example from September was red grouper from Venice. Another daily special is called “Plentiful and Abundant.”

It might come from far away, but it may not be an overfished or endangered species, because “sustainable” is another of Phelps’ passions.

Local produce is no problem for much of the year, but, “People forget that everything gets killed here in summer,” Phelps says.

Three Boys Farm in Ruskin supplies local lettuce, carrots, peppers and herbs all the time. The produce is all grown indoors, organically and hydroponically. And here’s sustainability again: They reclaim 99% of the water they use.

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By MOLLY SCHECHTER Black Tie Editor It was a more-than-festive opening night block party for the Ringling International Arts Festival Oct. 11, on the grounds of the Ringling Museum. And a great big, global block it was, with novel treats for all the senses.

Six hundred guests were greeted at the gate by a stilt walker and a piano-playing puppet elephant, then were entertained by a juggler and strong-man performances on the terrace. They were serenaded

Heather Smaha, Kellie Lynch, Krista Jansen and Cori Marquis perform some impromptu dancing.

at full volume by New York’s remarkably talented Asphalt Orchestra (see this week’s “Scene and Heard” on page 3 for more on that) and treated to a magical motionmotivated exhibit of the art of sound and fireworks that “went on and on and on,” according to guest Dan Graue.

The food did the same, ranging from pizza to paella to popcorn in three flavors.

All in all, it was an auspicious kick-off for the third annual festival.

Kudos to the party planning team: Jennifer Carroll, Dwight Currie and Christina Fraser.

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Stern & Schwarz Conductor Michael Stern is receiving accolades as music director of the Kansas City Symphony. He will lead the Sarasota Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s thrilling Symphony No. 4. Julian Schwarz, one of the brightest stars on the classical music scene, will shine in SaintSaëns’ brilliant Cello Concerto.

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+ The red shirts …

Made it easy to find the helpful committee members at Temple Beth Sholom’s third annual “Le Petit Marché” Oct. 12, at Michael’s On East.

The event drew 200 enthusiastic shoppers representing three generations. Among the 30 vendors were Denise Hoff of Joombali.com who was selling her hand-made purses; Meredith Collins, who described her Muse Galleria as “a shop for Etsy lovers”; Rhonda Gallehue looking fit in gear from her Gymmey’s Fitness Wear on Main Street; Liz Murray, owner of Influence; and Mary Swartz and Karen Sluman of Addison Craig, the latter two of St. Armands Circle. More photos on page 13 and online at www.YourObserver.com.

What an evening is planned for the debut of this event fighting pediatric brain can-

cer. World-renowned performance painter Michael Israel will work his magic and create five paintings from bare canvas. (The patron ticket includes a private meet-theartist cocktail hour.) And Savanna Wright, Payton’s 14-year-old sister, will sing, accompanied by Scott Curts.

One number will be a song she wrote for Payton, titled “It’s Gonna be a Good Day.” It’s certainly going be a good — and emotional — evening.

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Mary Swartz and Karen Sluman of Addison-Craig

+ More than a luncheon Shoe-lovers and supporters of Forty Carrots Family Center … despair not. The Nov. 4 Wine, Women & Shoes luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton is indeed sold out, but there are other ways you can participate, beginning with a champagne reception that afternoon from 3 to 4:30; tariff is $50. From 2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 5

there’s a wine tasting at Michael’s Wine Cellar, free to Gulf Coast Connoisseur Club Members and anyone making a $10 donation to Forty Carrots. And there are still some tickets available for winemaker dinners at various homes and locations that evening, from $150 to $275 per person. For reservations and information, call 365-7716.

… JetBlue jet set … Jennifer Kouvant and Hans Li were married Oct. 15 at the groom’s Six Duchess Farm in Duchess County, N.Y. Ms. Kouvant is the daughter of Vivian Kouvant of Bird Key. She was escorted down the aisle by George Allison and Alan Watkins (Designers Source of Sarasota). They traveled to New York Oct. 13 with Nina Hughes, who said she was wearing a red gown and purple shoes for her role as “elderflower girl.” Or did she say “elder flower girl?” All were

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On Nov. 6, Glasser/Schoenbaum Human Services Center will celebrate its benefactor, Betty Schoenbaum. Reservations $150; 3716798. On Nov. 10, the Argus Foundation will present its Lifetime Achievement award to Hollis Tucker and a posthumous award honoring Gene Whipp. Reservations $125, 365-4886. On Nov. 16, the YMCA Foundation of Sarasota annual Donor Appreciation Luncheon will pay tribute to Sen. Bob Johnson. Complimentary for donors or $35 donation. Reservations 951-1336. On Nov.

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Be ther Reservations $100; 355-2721. Also Nov. 17, the honors American Jewish Committee will present its 2011 cause o families Civic Achievement Award to Gwen MacKenzie.

Reservations $175, 365-4955. And Nov. 19, Cat E xperien Depot will salute 15 honored veterinarians for force as h 2012 at its annual Pawpurr’s Ball. Reservations on th os $67.50; 366-2404. That’s 34 in 30 days ... con-Wrigh e t Fo gratulations toJo one inand usall. fo

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It’s not surprising that Tana Sandefur studied social work at The Ohio State University. She and her late husband, John, have given their hearts, time and resources to improve so many aspects of life in Sarasota. For years, Goodwill, the Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation, WEDU, State College of Florida, Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center (SPAARC) and others have benefitted from their generosity.

The Sandefurs also help sustain gems like the orchestra, ballet, Circus Sarasota, the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art and Florida Studio Theatre.

Before John died in 2009, he said leaving a legacy with the Community Foundation was like having a son to carry on the Sandefur name and philanthropic spirit. We’re so grateful that Tana and John have partnered with us to protect the future of the things they love.

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