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Beach sign approved The County Commission Wednesday unanimously approved a two-sided sign proclaiming Siesta Key Public Beach No. 1 in the United States.

DIVERSIONS It used to be that Linda Heath fished for her dinner. Now she spends more time fishing for her subjects. The emerging Gyotaku artist explains the surprisingly odorless practice of fish rubbing.

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The No. 1 beach in America shortly will have a 4-foot-by-8-foot sign proclaiming that status.

The Sarasota County Commission Wednesday voted unanimously to approve a design created by county Communications Department staff. The sign will be placed in a grassy area between the public beach pavilion and the beach itself, Rob Lewis, executive director of the county’s Planning and Development Services Department, told the commissioners during their regular meeting.

The exact location, Lewis said, would be determined by the Sarasota County Historic Preservation Board. However, he said, that

board already had voiced preliminary approval of the site.

The sign will have two sides, Lewis explained. The front will feature a smaller sign with a sunset background imposed on a bigger sign depicting the shore during the day.

On the other side, the smaller sign will resemble a postcard, saying, “Wish you were here … at the #1 beach in the USA!” The Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau, Lewis said, had indicated it would pay most or all of the cost of the sign. The estimate is $1,300, he added.

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A sign announcing Siesta Key’s ranking as the top beach in the United States should be erected soon near the beach pavilion.

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St. Boniface Episcopal Church welcomes members and guests to enjoy songs and treats of the season.

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and 4B Parks Recreation staff see hundreds of runners aim for the prizes in the annual Sandy Claws events on Siesta Public Beach.

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This beauty was definitely the brightest star on Higel Avenue, dominating all the rest to become our top pick for decorated single-family homes in The Observer Group’s Light Up the Key Contest for Siesta. Although we’re not sure how many trees decorate the yard, we do know the dangling icicle archway, soft green glows and bright blue hues caused quite a lot of stopping, gazing and smiling from passersby. Bravo.

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Barrier island height restrictions back on track The County Commission Tuesday started a process to impose maximum construction height restrictions once again on the barrier islands.

With a 4-1 vote Dec. 13, the Sarasota County Commission authorized the Planning Commission to hold a public hearing on zoning amendments that once again would impose maximum height and minimum setback restrictions for construction on the county’s barrier islands.

Commissioner Christine Rob-

inson cast the single dissenting vote.

The action followed commissioners’ reconsideration of a vote Oct. 12 that they thought applied just to a critical area plan for Nokomis. They learned afterward that it had wiped out construction restrictions throughout the county that had been implemented in 2003.

After news of that vote spread, some Key residents voiced alarm that the island one day could resemble Fort Lauderdale, with skyscrapers along the beaches.

The amendments the board considered Dec. 13 included prohibiting the adoption of a critical area plan that could establish heights above 85 feet

on the barrier islands; eliminating increased heights in the residential multi-family zoning districts along the Intracoastal Waterway, as increased height would apply only in the case of mixed-use development; and restricting the maximum height allowed by the adoption of a critical area plan to 85 feet.

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SIGN/PAGE 1A “I think we’re going to get a great dividend in marketing,” he said.

“My request,” Commissioner Jon Thaxton told Lewis, “is (to get the sign up) as soon as possible.

We got rated No. 1 a little while ago.”

Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman, of Florida International University, who is known as “Dr. Beach,” ranked Siesta Key Public Beach No. 1 in the nation May 27, just before Memorial Day weekend.

In an interview after the meeting, Lewis said he could not provide an exact date for when the sign will go up. He said he would know more next week about the timing.

Lewis explained to the commissioners that the designs had been developed through the work of a stakeholders group that included representatives of the Siesta Key Association, the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce, the Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Friends of Sarasota County Parks, as well as individual Key residents.

A second design he presented had been developed by SCVB staff months ago.

“I don’t think it accomplishes what we originally set out to do,” Thaxton said of that design, which showed palm trees and a boat in the Gulf of Mexico.

Patterson added, “And this is very dark.”

Although the stakeholders group had considered three sizes for the beach sign, including 3 feet by 6 feet and 2 feet by 6 feet, the commissioners said they preferred the largest version.

Commissioner Joe Barbetta said his only concern was that the “#1” and the “B” in “Beach” were

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too close together in the sunset sign.

“That’s a good point,” Lewis responded, adding that staff easily could remedy that situation in the final product.

Thaxton also suggested that staff work on providing more separation between the smaller sign and the background sign. That way, he said, people could put their hands around the smaller sign, “so it looks like they’re holding up the postcard,” for photo opportunities. He added, “That’s the kind of interactivity … that’s going to take off in the social media environment.”

“If that can be done without a big cost,” Chairwoman Nora Patterson added.

Commissioner Christine Robinson concurred with the importance of people taking family photos by the sign. “I spent my vacation this summer in the Smoky Mountains,” she said, “and we couldn’t wait to get under that (park) sign because it’s iconic.”

Lewis also presented an option for a small sign announcing the No. 1 beach designation that could hang below the Siesta Key Village sign on Ocean Boulevard.

However, he told the commissioners, some of the stakeholders said they preferred the No. 1 beach sign go on top of that sign.

If it were below the Village sign, he said, stakeholders worried that plants in the landscaping would grow tall enough to obscure the wording.

Robinson also asked Lewis if staff could create a version of the sign the board approved Wednesday that could be used to replace the brown No. 1 beach signs that were installed in late August on posts with Sarasota County Area Transit signs.

“We can revisit those signs,”

Top: The other side of the sign resembles a postcard.

Right: Stakeholders said they preferred an addition to the Siesta Key Village sign proclaiming the beach ranking go on top of the sign, instead of on the bottom, as depicted.

Lewis told her. “One could consider them temporary.”

The goal with those signs on the SCAT posts, he said, was to get up something that complied with the county’s zoning code. He could work with the zoning staff, he said, to see what could be done with the new design.

“With regard to the brown signs,” Patterson said, “when I first saw those, I said, ‘Yuck!’”

Since then, she said, Catherine Luckner, president of the Siesta Key Association, had pointed out that the signs were consis-

tent with Florida Department of Transportation signage for parks and other attractions.

“I do think it would be neat to have a small version of this,” Patterson added, referring to the design approved Wednesday. “I don’t think you want billboards going up.”

Lewis told her James K. Harriott, executive director of the

county’s Public Works Department, already planned to contact FDOT to talk about what types of signs it would permit on the roadways.

Lewis Wednesday also presented an oval design proclaiming the No. 1 beach status that could be used as a logo on T-shirts, for example. “That would be for the private sector,” he said.

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By Rachel Brown Hackney | Managing Editor

Chalk Fest seeks partnership Sarasota Chalk Festival founder Denise Kowal has asked the County Commission to partner with her on an application for an arts grant.

During discussion set for Jan. 11, 2012, the Sarasota County Commission is expected to decide whether it will partner with Denise Kowal and the Sarasota Chalk Festival on an application for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Kowal emailed commission Chairwoman Nora Patterson Dec. 2 to explain details of the grant and to ask for the assistance.

“As you remember, I wanted to pursue the grant last year, but Jim Shirley (executive director of the Sarasota County Arts and Cultural Alliance) pursued it on behalf of the Festival of Firsts and did not get invited to apply,” Kowal wrote. “Can you let please let me know if and what I need to do, (because) only one grant can be pursued by each governing agency each year?”

The Our Town grants offered by the National Endowment for the Arts support “creative placemaking projects that contribute toward the livability of communities and help transform them into lively, beautiful and sustainable places with the arts at their core,” according to the material Kowal sent Patterson.

The NEA information added, “Pending availability of funding, grants will range from $25,000 to $150,000.”

The application deadline is March 1, 2012. Projects funded would be held between Sept. 1, 2012, and Dec. 31, 2014.

As she promised Kowal in her response, Patterson brought up the matter during the Dec. 6 County Commission meeting.

Referring to Kowal, Patterson told her fellow commissioners, “She would like our blessing, (but) I don’t know if that is possible by our policies.”

Nonetheless, Patterson pointed out that the Chalk Festival “has continued to grow and attract a lot of folks.

Patterson added that the county would not be obligated to contribute funds by partnering with Kowal on the application.

“You’re saying that other arts organizations could apply for this

Our Town grants guidelines The Our Town grants provided by the National Endowment for the Arts are in their second year of funding. According to the guidelines, they are investments in creative and innovative projects in which communities, together with their arts and design organizations and artists, seek to: • Improve the quality of life; • Encourarge creative activity; • Create community identity and a sense of place; • Revitalize local economies.

The guidelines state, “A partnership between a local government entity and a nonprofit cultural institution is required; additional partners are encouraged.”

To view the 51 “Our Town” grants awarded in 2011, visit www.arts.gov/ national/ourtown/index.php.

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(grant)?” Commissioner Joe Barbetta asked.

“We can’t prevent that,” Patterson said, adding that she could check with Shirley to learn his view of Kowal’s request.

“I don’t want to be part of that (application) without seeing more input,” Barbetta said.

Patterson suggested Interim County Administrator Terry Lewis and County Attorney Stephen DeMarsh research the matter and report back to the commission. In an email to Kowal, Lewis said the County Commission also wanted budget staff to look into the application process.

Kowal clarified in an email response to Lewis that, according

to the NEA guidelines, the county could partner with only one arts entity to seek funding.

Kowal said when the County Commission last year chose to apply for a grant on behalf of the Festival of Firsts, she tried to convince the commissioners that the application probably would not be successful.

“It’s a very competitive grant,” she said, adding that an entity seeking NEA funding has to be invited to proceed with a formal application.

Of 400 initial applicants, Kowal said, only 35 or 40 typically receive funding.

The County Commission more than two years ago had taken a

pool of about $1 million in tourist development tax revenue and created a Festival Steering Committee, charging it with the creation of a new festival that could draw people to Sarasota County.

The goal was to complement the Ringling International Arts Festival.

After bouncing ideas to local arts organizations and hiring a Canadian consultant to assist with the process, the steering committee decided to pursue a “festival of firsts.” However, the committee never was able to gain backing from the arts groups for that initiative, and the consultant found insufficient planning to indicate the festival could succeed.

The County Commission abandoned the concept in June.

“I was upset last year (that) I was kicked out (of the NEA application process),” Kowal said.

mandates and incentives By Rachel Brown Hackney | Managing Editor

Wiki work mostly earns commission praise The County Commission agreed for now to focus on state mandates in revising the county’s ordinance on water-efficient landscaping.

Although Sarasota County Commission Chairwoman Nora Patterson Dec. 13 questioned the value of the “wiki” process used to craft a revised ordinance on water-efficient landscaping, most of her fellow commissioners voiced approval of the new means of gaining public participation.

According to a report prepared for the commission, 264 people visited the wiki between July 25 and Sept. 6. Those people offered a total of 400 changes or recommendations for the ordinance language. The majority of the visitors — 377 — were from the United States, 11 were from Canada, seven were from Brazil, two were from Germany and one

each was from the United Kingdom, Bulgaria and Austria.

Modeled after Wikipedia, the county wiki allowed members of the public to suggest changes to the county code, with the County Commission having final authority on the language.

“I think the wiki is proving to be a positive tool for the county,” Commissioner Jon Thaxton said, adding that staff gained a lot of information it otherwise would not have had.

A staff memo notes the wiki “was introduced by email to various engineering groups, consultants, environmental groups, community groups, homeowners associations and contractors.”

However, Patterson said, “I’m

not too sure one can actually write an ordinance with a wiki. … You get (comments) that are not ordinance-like, because the people are putting in what ideally they think should be in (the ordinance).”

Commissioner Christine Robinson voiced a number of concerns about language in the draft ordinance. For example, she questioned whether homeowners would be confused by a section regarding regular testing of sprinkler systems, when that part of the ordinance was aimed at new construction.

Commissioner Carolyn Mason concurred with Thaxton, though, saying, “I think it’s a great beginning to get more folks involved.”

Chuck Henry, the Sarasota County health administrator, who had worked with the wiki before he was appointed to his current position, told the commissioners, “The real value of the wiki is to open up public comment 24/7.”

He agreed staff needed to assemble the comments into language suited for an ordinance.

After Jack Merriam, county environmental manager, presented the results of the wiki process, the board voted unanimously to direct staff to proceed with finalizing the ordinance to encompass state-mandated requirements for water-efficient landscaping.

“I think we should be doing what’s mandatory according to state guidelines,” Commissioner Joe Barbetta said in making the motion.

By Rachel Hackney | Managing Editor

Yard debris a violation on streets, in canals Code enforcement said Sarasota staff can use photos of violations to cite offenders.

A complaint about yard equipment noise during the Siesta Key Association’s meeting Dec. 1 prompted the Key’s code enforcement officer to warn against illegal lawn maintenance activities.

After audience member Katherine Zimmerman complained about neighbors routinely using noisy leaf blowers in the evenings and early on Sunday mornings, John Lally, the county code enforcement officer who handles issues on the Key, reminded everyone present it is illegal for anyone to blow yard material into the streets or the canals.

He added if anyone witnessed someone in their residential area pursuing such activity, he or she should take photos. If he and other county staff had photographic evidence, Lally said, that could be used to write a citation against an offender.

The fines can go up to $500 per day if a person repeatedly ignores warnings, Lally added.

SKA board member Ron Flynn said workers with professional law service companies routinely blow pine needles and lawn trimmings into the canals.

“We need to know the companies that are doing it,” Lally said.

“Then, we can address it with the companies.”

Sarasota County Commission Chairwoman Nora Patterson, who lives on the Key, emphasized it also is illegal to blow the material into the roadways.

“Street debris ends up in the bay,” she said.

“A picture’s (worth) 1,000 words,” Lally added. “You got ’em right there doing it.”

Regarding Zimmerman’s complaint about the early-morning and late-evening yard work pursued by her neighbors, Lally said the law allows yard equipment to be operated between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m., but the equipment must be functioning properly.

Adopt-A-Road effort fills 16 bags During the Siesta Key and Siesta Key Village association meetings this month, members reported they collected enough trash to fill 16 large garbage bags during their quarterly Adopt-A-Road undertaking Nov. 19.

SKA Vice President Peter van Roekens said the volunteers filled about half the bags in the Village.

SKVA President Russell Matthes said he was disappointed at the number of cigarette butts that continue to litter the Village.

Volunteers worked from the north Siesta bridge to Beach Road and at Turtle Beach.

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+ Florida Supreme Court accepts term-limits case

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The Florida Supreme Court Dec. 12 agreed to hear a Broward County case that could have a statewide impact on term limits for county commissioners, including those in Sarasota County.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal ruled unanimously Aug. 10 that term limits in Broward County are constitutional, overturning a lower court ruling that was similar to the 12th Judicial Circuit Court’s 2005 ruling in Moore v.

Sarasota County. The Moore case found county commissioner term limits unconstitutional.

A Sarasota County lawsuit filed Nov. 16 already had sought to have the Fourth District Court of Appeal decision applied to Sarasota County. However, in a Nov. 21 hearing, Senior Circuit Judge Jack Schoonover had ruled the Moore decision could stand.

Sarasota Citizens for Responsible Government President Cathy Antunes, one of the plaintiffs in the November case, issued a press release Dec. 12 reaffirming the group’s support of local term limits. Antunes added she under-

Mike and Sheila Lewis, owners of Siesta Sports Rentals, 6551 Midnight Pass Road, are searching for a beach wheelchair they rented Nov. 13.

The wheelchair, which disappeared from Lido Beach the same day they last rented it, turned up the afternoon of Dec. 11 at Access 5 on Siesta Key, Sheila Lewis said.

However, by the time Mike Lewis arrived at that location, “It had completely disappeared,” she said.

The deputy who saw it at Access 5 confirmed that it had a Siesta Sports Rental sticker on it, Lewis said.

“Somebody must have pushed it into the water (on Lido Key),” she said.

stood the Florida Supreme Court’s decision could come as early as April.

+ Legoman makes a Top 10 list in Time Siesta Key’s Legoman has made Time magazine’s list for Top 10 Oddball News Stories of 2011.

The 8-foot-tall, 100-pound fiberglass LBK creature, also known as Ego Leonard, ranked No. 2 on the list — one of 54 lists Time compiled by surveying “the

“I can’t imagine anybody putting it in a truck at Lido and driving it over to Siesta Key.” The wheelchair, which is valued at $2,500, has a metal frame with a blue seat and back rest.

“It was our best one,” Lewis said.

Anyone who sees it is asked to call the Lewises at 346-1797.

highs and lows, the good and the bad, of the past 12 months,” according to its website, www.time.com The item notes that Legoman “washed ashore on Florida’s Siesta Key in October,” with the words, “No Real Than You Are,” printed on its front.

The article also says Legoman was linked to a Dutch artist, but it does not mention 2010 - the J Sarasota Chalk Festival connection discovered by Tim Jaeger, of Sarasota Visual Art. Leon Keer, an artist from The Netherlands who participated

in that event, created a design involving Legomen.

The man who reported the discovery of Legoman, Jeff Hindman, paid the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office $25 Dec. 1, so he can take custody of the creature in January if no one else comes forward to produce legal documentation of rightful ownership, Wendy Rose, the Sheriff’s Office public information office, said.

Hindman has not been reachable by phone or email since early Oct. 25.

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Commission approves stricter metals ordinance A 30-day holding period and restriction of cash payments to $100 are part of a new county ordinance for secondhand metals dealers.

Although five speakers Tuesday afternoon pleaded with them to scrap all or parts of a new ordinance governing secondhand transactions involving precious and other metals, the Sarasota County commissioners voted unanimously in favor of the changes, with only one concession to the speakers: a delay in the effective date from Jan. 1 to Feb. 1.

Wayne Applebee, the county’s criminal justice policy coordinator, explained at the outset of the meeting that Sheriff Tom Knight’s intelligence-led policing approach to law enforcement had produced significant information about theft of precious and other metals spurred by drug abuse and overseas demands. Lt. Charlie Thorpe, of the Sheriff’s Office, explained in an interview in October that Det. Dan Valentino had pulled together statistics showing an increase over the past year in burglaries involving jewelry, coin collections and pharmaceuticals.

As a result of those efforts, Applebee said, the Sheriff’s Office had requested the county update its 1993 ordinance governing the activities of secondhand dealers. However, when he and Thorpe addressed the commission Oct. 11, commissioners felt the language in the proposed ordinance was not specific enough. Applebee said he had

worked with the Sheriff’s Office and Assistant County Attorney David Pearce to improve the language and to split the ordinance into two parts.

Moreover, Applebee said, because of complaints about the constraints that would be imposed on rare coin dealers, the ordinance on secondhand dealers and secondhand goods no longer would apply to them.

Among its provisions, the new ordinance requires secondhand dealers to hold any items for 30 days, a requirement with which pawnbrokers must abide, and it stipulates that no secondhand dealer may pay an individual more than $100 in cash at one time. The ordinance also requires dealers to transmit detailed data about the sellers to the Sheriff’s Office over the Internet by 10 a.m. the day after a sale. Dealers must obtain a fingerprint of each seller as well as a clear image of the person, but those images may be retained on site, Thorpe said.

All those measures, Thorpe told the County Commission Tuesday, “are vital to our ability to increase the recovery of stolen property” as well as to discourage addicts from stealing jewelry to get quick cash to support their habits. “The 30-day hold system, we believe, is critical,” he added, although the state calls for just a 15-day holding period in its current statutes.

However, Robert Turffs, an attorney representing Gold Pros, told the commissioners that the 30-day holding period “is giving an additional incentive for burglaries … at the (secondhand dealers’) stores.” Businesses will have to carry more insurance, Turffs said, and install better safety measures. The need for such measures was complicated by the Jan. 1 effective date of the ordinance, he said.

Applebee told the County Commission staff had no objection to delaying the effective date.

In response to a suggestion from Turffs that the materials could be stored in a separate, secure location, Thorpe said, “Transferring these materials back and forth creates a huge hazard.”

Raymond Miller, of North Port Coins, objected to the provision restricting a dealer from paying more than $100 in cash to a single seller.

Given the requirements for obtaining ID information from

each seller and taking a photo of every person, he said, the provision was unnecessary.

Sean Gignac told the commissioners he objected to the necessity of holding metals for 30 days, given swings in market value. After a sale, he said, the market value of an item could drop, and the dealer could lose all his profit.

Pawnshop dealers buy metals at 20% of the market value, Gignac said. “Nobody I know goes to a pawnshop for a fair price.”

Gignac also objected to the ID requirements, pointing out that many of his customers are elderly people, and they would be offended if asked to provide a fingerprint. “They will go outside of Sarasota County,” Gignac added.

Steve Kagy, of Kagy’s Jewelry, said he and his family “are emphatically against this ordinance.” He agreed with Gignac in opposing the 30-day holding period.

“As a small business,” he said, “we are terrified

of waiting an extra 15 days.”

“We understood that (extra holding time) would be a contentious issue, obviously, because of the market,” Thorpe told the commissioners. However, he emphasized the timeframe’s value to solving burglary cases and the fact that it matched the requirement for pawnshops.

Kagy also objected to a provision of the ordinance requiring the photos of sellers be kept for five years, calling it “pretty costprohibitive.”

Valentino told the board businesses would be welcome to submit photos on CDs to the Sheriff’s Office on a weekly basis, so they did not have to store them long-term.

Applebee told the commissioners he understood business owners’ concerns. However, he said, the Sheriff’s Office planned an intensive education program to help them understand the new regulations. Although business owners also objected to new county pain management clinic regulations, Applebee said, after several months of training, all those businesses were 100% in compliance.

Just before the board voted, Commissioner Jon Thaxton said, “It’s not a perfect ordinance; we’re not living in a perfect world … I think we have clear and compelling evidence from the Sheriff’s Office (that the current regulations) are not working now.”

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FDR was right: No unions It should be obvious to almost everyone paying attention at this point: Government unions are almost always at odds with the public good when working on behalf of their members.

Normally, it is a money issue, for which the unions representing government employees fight hard to keep their members from losing any benefits, pensions and pay raises, even though the government institution may be nearly bankrupt and would have to raise taxes on everyone to keep paying. That’s what government unions do — whether it is teacher unions, police unions or the range of other government unions that include such heavyweights as AFSCME and the Teamsters. They fight to get politicians to take more money from taxpayers to give to their members.

Really, it is the only way it can be, which is why public officials need to know history and open their eyes.

But lately, we have seen another side to the problem, and it is in the unsettling

realm of public safety.

Law enforcement officers are increasingly not cooperating with criminal investigations when it comes to providing DNA samples. This came up locally when Sarasota County deputies who responded to a violent home invasion were asked to give DNA samples. Investigators had found a bead of sweat and needed to rule out the deputies. One would think that this would be a natural part of being in law enforcement. But the deputies refused.

This has gone on around the country as law-enforcement officers, encouraged by their powerful police unions, question how their genetic material may be used. This, even as private citizens are routinely asked to give samples to rule them out of an investigation. The refusals cause problems for investigators and could endanger a prosecution.

Further, in a series of stories on how a few bad cops get and keep jobs in Florida, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune pointed out

that the state commission that oversees police conduct is now packed with leaders and members of the Police Benevolent Association — the police union. That commission has consistently put up roadblocks to getting rid of bad cops in the same way that teachers unions put up roadblocks to getting rid of bad teachers.

It’s one of the many things government unions do that is destructive for the public at large and raises the question of whether we should allow government unions.

George Meany, former president of the AFL-CIO, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt were sure of the answer: Resoundingly no. The result would be obvious: Unions would insist on laws and contracts that serve union members’ interest at the expense of the public good.

Meany and FDR were right. We’re living with the growing burden of allowing public-sector unions. The question is can this be undone, or must the public remain subservient to the union?

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Education, jobs top budget priorities Next year’s budget for the state of Florida focuses on education and jobs without adding new financial burdens to families and businesses.

After months of traveling the state and listening to teachers, parents, students, small businesses owners and families, I unveiled my budget recommendations this week which reflect the issues and solutions most important to Floridians — funding education and helping Floridians create jobs.

The dollars in this budget belong to all Floridians, and I have listened to the things they believe are important to spend these dollars GOV. on. I have heard loud RICK and clear that FloridSCOTT ians want their money spent on education and jobs, without additional burdens on families and businesses, and this budget accomplishes that.

Highlights of my $66.4 billion proposed budget for fiscal year 2012-2013 include: • Adding more than $1 billion in new state K-12 funding; • Creating new tax relief measures totaling nearly $35 million in taxpayer savings next year, and more than $86 million in fiscal year 2013-14; • Injecting $300 million in the Florida Retirement System pension fund; • Reducing state spending by 4.6% — close to fiscal year 2005-06 levels; • Adjusting Medicaid reimbursement methodologies to control soaring costs; • Gaining efficiencies and savings for

Florida taxpayers as a result of a 40-year low crime rates.

This budget year, Florida faced significant education funding challenges. Florida gained 30,000 more students that require almost $200 million more in state funding.

Florida also faces a $400 million reduction in ad valorem taxes, due to declining property values, and one-time state education funding. Despite these challenges, the budget I submitted to the Legislature includes: • Adds more than $1 billion in new state K-12 funding.

• Raises per-student funding to $6,372, including 30,000 addition children in the public school system and less local funding due to declining property values.

• Creates the third largest amount of state K-12 funding in Florida history at $9.5 billion.

I will not sign any budget into law that doesn’t contain more state dollars for education than we have this year. I am absolutely committed to acting on what I have heard and prioritizing education funding in this budget.

Because education and jobs are inextricably linked, a number of small business tax reform measures are also included in my budget which gives Florida businesses the competitive advantage needed to create the jobs.

These tax reform measures include increasing the business tax exemption again this year from $25,000 to $50,000 — eliminating tax liability for more than 25% of those who pay it and reducing taxes by

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about $25 million for all taxpayers. I also propose increasing the tangible personal property tax exemption for those with less than $50,000 of such tax, providing an overall tax relief of about $22 million, if approved by the voters, and also broadening the sales tax exemption for manufacturing by lowering the percentage expanding businesses must increase output from 10% to 5% in order to make sure manufacturing can grow.

This budget also places approximately $300 million into the Florida Retirement System pension fund: $180 million of new state funds to fully fund the normal cost, plus an additional $120 million toward the unfunded actuarial liability. We must be serious about fixing Florida’s pension fund in order to protect our ability to fund important priorities like education and jobs. The pension as it is now is a major liability for the state that will threaten other priorities if we do not talk honestly about its status with state employees.

Florida is heading in the right direction.

We have gained 106,900 net new jobs since January with a total of 118,000 jobs in the private sector. In addition, Florida’s unemployment rate is at its lowest point in 28 months at 10.3%. Florida is doing the right things to keep the cost of living low, get the state back to work and create a world-class education system that prepares students for a job.

I would like to thank all of the Floridians — small business owners, job creators, parents, teachers and students — that took the time to talk with me over the past few months. It has been an important and meaningful dialogue and I hope they will continue to let me know what they think.

To view my full budget proposal, visit http://letsgettowork.state.fl.us/

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LETTERS TO THEEDITOR + Occupation points out income inequalities Dear Editor: It boggles the mind that the top 1% in the U.S. has more wealth than the bottom 90%.

And the concentration of wealth in the hands of a select few is projected to continue.

Since extremely wealthy people do not need to spend more than a small fraction of their income, their wealth is bound to increase just from the effect of interest or investment return, especially when the growth from investment return (interest and dividends) is taxed hardly at all.

Add to that the access to favorable regulation and legislation that the super rich enjoy, and one can easily see that we are headed towards a plutocracy, where just a few people have all the power and wealth and the rest are barely able to eke out a subsistence living.

We are far advanced in this direction already.

This grim future could change if our legislators could stand up to the big-money interests and not give them unfair advantage.

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Art committee debates its mission The Public Art Committee held a special meeting last week to discuss its policies and existence moving forward.

Annoyed and frustrated with its perceived lack of control over future downtown art projects, the Public Art Committee held a special meeting Dec. 7 to discuss its concerns.

Longtime art committee board member George Haborak, who requested the meeting, told the committee he believes the committee should not have approved projects, such as the Season of Sculpture’s Intersections project and a future interactive sculpture art project.

“I’m against both those projects, because I believe our public art policy statement says the committee is committed to the enrichment of the community through private and public acquisition of public art,” he said.

Haborak said approving two projects that don’t involve the acquisition of public art goes against the committee’s mission statement.

“It was always our committee’s mission and goal to acquire works of art for the city and the betterment of the community,” Haborak said. “Although these other projects are great, all we’re doing is sponsoring art exhibitions, and that’s why I voted against them.”

Art Committee Chairman Leonardo Lunardi and member Andrew Maass disagreed with Haborak.

“We are also given the responsibility ‘to separate and display’ public art purchased by expenditures of the public art fund,” Maass said.

Haborak, though, said he felt the committee was starting to focus more on projects that promote businesses and tourism instead of focusing on acquisitions of public art.

Board member Trulee Jameson told Haborak she was glad he brought the issue up, and the board agreed to further discuss the issue and hold a joint workshop with the Sarasota City Commission to discuss its concerns.

Jameson also brought up what she perceives as a committee that’s diminishing its control.

Senior planner Dr. Clifford Smith said the committee can “redefine its policy so it’s more flexible but still has an emphasis on permanent public-art acquisitions.”

“I think we should also have the ability to publicly disapprove of objects on city property labeled as art that don’t measure up aesthetically to our standards,” Jameson said.

Comments made by Jameson and Haborak represent a growing discontent that the art committee has with its control and/or the amount of approval it has

over certain projects.

In November, Jameson expressed concern that her board has no control over a concept being shaped for a $55,000 interactive public-art project the committee approved in August.

At its Nov. 9 quarterly meeting, Jameson said that although the board already approved an interactive project for nine bronze sculptures to be placed along Main Street, she wants the committee to approve the concept that goes with the sculptures.

Smith, however, has said that although the committee will be updated on the future of the project, it only has control over the sculptures themselves, which the committee already approved.

Jameson, meanwhile, is frustrated that the committee approved a project when the committee doesn’t know what the sculptures are going to be.

“My concern is we are stuck no matter what fabulous concept and multiple layer is presented for this project,” Jameson said in November. “We are stuck with static bronze sculptures hidden somewhere on Main Street.”

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By Rachel Brown Hackney | Managing Editor

Emergency Operations Center sites eliminated

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A Sarasota County-owned site at 1301 Cattlemen Road remains one of two options approved Tuesday as potential sites for the new Emergency Operations Center.

site met the necessary criteria for consideration.

Those criteria include the need for two ways in and out as well as access by paved roads.

“If we did have a disaster, then (other communities) might come to our aid,” she said.

Furthermore, responding local government entities would have to be assured their vehicles could reach the EOC without problems, Eastwood said.

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The commission’s vote directed staff to consider examination of the Professional Parkway property and 1301 Cattlemen Road, along with detailed cost estimates.

During her presentation, Eastwood explained that staff had undertaken a preliminary evaluation to determine whether each

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With Chairwoman Nora Patterson recusing herself because of her husband’s business ties, the Sarasota County Commission voted 4-0 Wednesday to narrow to two the number of prospective sites for the new Emergency Operations Center.

One of them is a countyowned parcel at 1301 Cattlemen Road. The County Commission has been working on a new location for several years, since learning that its Administration Center on Ringling Boulevard in downtown Sarasota could not withstand a hurricane stronger than Category 3.

The board also gave unanimous approval to a request from staff that it be allowed to seek a time extension for a $1 million federal grant through the Florida Division of Emergency Management. The funds would be used for the design and construction of the new EOC. Carolyn Eastwood, of the Public Works Department said the grant is set to expire May 31, 2012, and it is linked to the Cattlemen site. A memo to the County Commission from Interim County Administrator Terry Lewis said the grant may be in jeopardy because of federal budget deficit reduction efforts.

Eastwood reminded the County Commission it had directed staff July 26 to advertise a request for information to determine whether other sites in the

new EOC will house the 911 Call Center. Some of its employees live in the southern part of the county, she added, and utilize public transportation.

It also was preferable for the site to be appropriately zoned, she said, so the County Commission would not have to seek rezoning action.

Yet another concern, she said, would be the construction of a communications tower, which could be as tall as 150 feet. However, she cautioned, staff at this point does not know for certain how tall the tower will have to be.

Eastwood said staff had not been able to determine whether the communications tower would be permitted on the Professional Parkway site. Staff had contacted the neighboring homeowners association, she said, but the HOA board members had not indicated whether the tower would win their endorsement.

Commissioner Jon Thaxton recommended eliminating the Lockwood Road site because of the configuration of the property and the fact that it is located in the middle of a residential area.

He also suggested eliminating the Beneva Road site. Commissioner Christine Robinson concurred that it was problematic, because a senior citizens facility backs up to the property.

The Beneva Road site also is located in the 100-year flood plain, and the communications tower would not be allowed on that site.

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Chairwoman Nora Patterson initially took exception to the third provision, regarding the maximum height of 85 feet in a CAP. “That is not exactly what I asked for,” Patterson told Planning Director Tom Polk and Assistant Zoning Administrator Donna Thompson.

What she had requested, Patterson said, was County Commission authority to allow a CAP to exceed the 85-foot restriction if a supermajority of the board approved such a request.

Polk responded that the Dec. 13 discussion was just the first attempt to remedy the Oct. 12 vote.

However, Thompson pointed out that the zoning code would not allow a special exception for construction above 85 feet in a residential area, but it would in other districts.

“What we approved (Oct. 12) had no height restriction whatsoever,” Patterson said, “so this is a backtrack.”

When Commissioner Joe Barbetta mentioned that the zoning changes would allow special exceptions up to 110 feet, Patterson said, “I never mentioned the 110.” Her only intention, she said, was to make it possible for the County Commission to approve construction above 85 feet, with four of the five commissioners casting “yes” votes on a specific request.

“I feel pretty strongly it should be that way,” Patterson added of the supermajority suggestion.

Commercial zoning districts, which allow some residential use, Patterson said, do allow unrestricted heights. “It has been in the code for years,” she added, “and it hasn’t really caused a great catastrophe to occur.”

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In response to another point Patterson raised, staff pointed out that the county’s Comprehensive Plan does not allow extra density on the barrier islands, so language to that effect was not necessary in the amendments.

Patterson repeated that her goal in seeking the amendments was to provide extra protection for the barrier islands.

She said she favored “whatever language it takes to make it work.”

Robinson said she would not concur with the need for a supermajority vote to allow construction over 85 feet in a CAP. In response to public comments made prior to the discussion, Barbetta asked Thompson whether the new language eliminated the possibility of construction higher than 35 feet in a Commercial Marine zoning district, including no provision for a special exception.

“That’s what we’re going to have to address,” Thompson said. As written, she added, the zoning code would allow taller buildings through the adoption of a CAP in such a district.

Patterson said no building should be taller than 35 feet in a commercial marine zone, but Barbetta told her, “I wouldn’t want to prohibit redeveloping other areas” zoned CM, when such construction might be appropriate.

Thaxton pointed out that the county has only four or five commercial marine zones and any proposal for construction would necessitate a public hearing.

With the commission vote Dec. 13 authorizing the Planning Commission to hold another public hearing on the issues, Thaxton said county residents would have an opportunity to weigh in on any points they felt appropriate.

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Building director defends department Director of Neighborhood Development and Services Tim Litchett said his building department and its divisions are offering exemplary service while performing the same level of work with fewer employees.

Sarasota Director of Neighborhood Development and Services Tim Litchett said there is a growing misconception that a huge drop-off in construction has occurred within city limits and that his department is providing subpar customer service.

On Tuesday, Litchett provided a list of building permits and other licenses granted the past two years that show the city is handling roughly the same number of permits, if not more, than in earlier years (see sidebar).

“I do think there’s a perception out there that there has been this huge drop-off of construction and work over the last year,” Litchett said. “But, really, our numbers show we have been steady for some period of time.”

Although the city is more than 95% built out, Litchett said it generates revenues from remodeling projects and at least a few large projects each year. This year, the Sarasota Memorial Hospital wing addition, Litchett said, is generating revenue for the building department. The construction value of permits issued in fiscal year 2010-11 increased more than $20,000 compared to the previous fiscal year’s figure.

Litchett points out his department and various divisions are performing roughly the same amount of work with fewer employees.

Three years ago, his department had more than 100 employees.

By the Numbers The city of Sarasota’s Neighborhood and Development Services Department compared the following items over the last two fiscal years for the Pelican Press: Item Fiscal Year 2009-10 Construction value $168,430,924 Building permits issued 4,224 Sign permits issued 385 Business tax licenses issued 5,405 Code compliance orders issued 842 Code compliance complaints 1,466 Alcohol beverage permits issued 103 Development Review Committee petitions 49 Number of variances 7 Number of adjustments 8 Walk-in building customers 17,068 Walk-in zoning customers 2,276 Walk-in engineering customers 3,192 Walk-in Newtown redevelopment customers 320 Agenda requests prepared 144 Today, the department has 56.

“At the end of each year, I show my department what we’ve done and how we’ve done it,” Litchett said. “Even with 40% less staff than we had three years ago, we have a tremendous load we are handling well.”

Litchett also questions rumblings about his department having a customer service problem.

He points to 120 customer comment cards collected from January 2010 to July 2010 showing that 113 respondents checked off “excellent service” and seven marked “good” service.

During that same time frame,

Fiscal Year 2010-11 $188,321,615 5,457 293 5,109 759 1,835 101 45 6 6 15,895 1,123 682 170 141

the building department served 29,033 customers and issued 8,067 building permits.

Litchett says that every customer is handed a comment card.

“If they choose not to fill it out, I’m guessing they aren’t having any problems they wish to let us know about,” Litchett said.

And from July 2010 to July 2011, the department received 139 “excellent” ratings out of 142 cards received.

Litchett also said that three open-house, problem-solving sessions with City Manager Bob Bartolotta this year have led to zero complaints for the building

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division, despite the fact those sessions were requested by the Sarasota City Commission after Vice Mayor Terry Turner said he wanted to gauge whether the department had any customer-service issues.

“We are the Walmart of government when it comes to handling a large amount of people each and every day,” Litchett said. “We are taking every customer seriously, and I believe the way we are tracking customer service levels reflects that.”

Litchett said the numbers speak for themselves.

“I have heard Sarasota’s closed

for business for some time now and I’m fighting that,” Litchett said. “We are doing our job quite well.”

Turner recently requested the customer comment cards to review them.

“I am quite impressed with the positive responses Tim’s department is getting,” Turner said. “In large measure, I now believe the concerns and comments about poor service are reflecting service some (people) had three or four years ago. Today, Tim’s department is providing exemplary service with fewer staff, and it’s something this city should be proud of.”

Joel Freedman, owner of Sarasota-based Freedman Consulting Group, concurred with Turner.

Freedman’s company recently received approval for a project at 1400 DeSoto Road involving 280 apartments on 16 acres.

Three or four years ago, Freedman said, it would have taken the city eight months to approve such a large project. But it took the city four months to approve the project this past fiscal year. If a similar project were proposed in Sarasota County, Freedman said it would take at least nine months to win approval.

Freedman credits Bartolotta’s reorganization of several departments under Litchett’s supervision for the quick turnaround.

“I find that of all the cities and counties I work in, I always prefer to permit that work in the city of Sarasota,” Freedman said.

Pointing to frustration of city residents and business owners regarding delays in getting a P.F. Chang’s restaurant application to the Planning Board, Freedman said that also is not the city’s fault.

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The Sarasota City Commission declined to hear an appeal by a group of neighborhood residents that is upset with the Planning Board’s decision to approve a Goodwill Superstore.

A group called Citizens for Reasonable North Trail Development didn’t get an opportunity to make its case for why it believes a Goodwill Superstore isn’t appropriate for the surrounding neighborhood.

At a special meeting Monday at City Hall, the Sarasota City Commission unanimously declined to hear an appeal of the store, upholding its Planning Board’s decision Nov. 9 to approve the store.

The move meant Sapphire Shores residents opposed to the store did not have the opportunity to make their voices heard in a public hearing setting.

Approximately 40 people congregated outside of Commission Chambers after the meeting to complain.

“It was fixed,” said Sapphire Shores resident Anne Fordham. “This is a superstore that belongs in an industrial zone, not a neighborhood.”

The decision essentially allows the project, slated for two vacant parcels that sit at the corner of U.S. 41 and Myrtle Street, to move forward.

The planning board approved the 29,699-square-foot retail store by a 3-2 vote, despite concerns from residents who think the store doesn’t fit the character of the neighborhood they are looking to revitalize.

Sapphire Shores resident Robert Casella, along with residents Mel Harner and Scott Eller, jointly appealed the decision.

Casella, who said he has a petition of 50 residents against the project, expects his organization to dispute the decision in January by filing an appeal with Sarasota County Circuit Court in January.

“We were really disappointed,” Casella

said Tuesday. “We didn’t expect to prevail, but we also didn’t expect to be disrespected by the commission, who couldn’t even give us the courtesy to review our appeal with them.”

The Goodwill store will replace an existing, aging Goodwill location that sits down the street at 3333 N. Tamiami Trail.

The new store would have approximately 80 employees, compared to the 60 employees the current location has.

The store will sit approximately 12 blocks away from the site of a new Walmart grocery store that has already received a building permit.

Casella has said he believes a store of that size should not have been approved under city codes and shouldn’t be built at an intersection that is not slated to receive a traffic signal, even though the Florida Department of Transportation signed off on the project.

The appeal of the application also states the group is concerned about the project’s tree protection measures, landscaping, noise from the nearby neighborhood and security.

Not everyone is against the project, though. Gretchen Seerie, a 35-year resident of the neighborhood, praised the application, but she encouraged the developer to see that the building complements existing structures in the area.

The commission had agreed to fast-track the hearing after Goodwill officials explained they needed to know by the end of the year if the project could be sidetracked because of lease concerns with the store the new Goodwill replaces.

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Church School: 9 a.m., for ages 3 to 12; adult classes, 10:15 a.m.

Wednesday: Evening Prayer, 5:30 p.m., followed by potluck supper in the parish hall Tuesdays and Thursdays: 10 a.m. worship service Fish Fry Friday: 5 to 8 p.m. Dec. 16. The dinner includes talapia, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, cornbread, dessert and a drink for $10. Meals are available for dine-in or takeout; located in the community center.

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Pine Shores Presbyterian Church 6135 Beechwood Avenue; 922-1597; www.pineshorespres.org Sunday morning worship services: 9:45 a.m.: traditional worship service in the sanctuary with choir and children’s church 10:15 a.m.: informal worship gathering in the Community Center; child care available.

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“Sounds of the Soul”: 6 p.m. the first Friday of every month, an outdoor gathering under the trees, with liturgy based on “Giving Thanks.”

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Hundreds of Two-home deal runners hit the tops transactions beach for prizes. this week.

Lifeguards win county accolades.

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The spirit of Christmas reigns at Gabbiano’s. From the reindeer pausing on the rooftop to the red bows tied onto the bushes, the café brightens up the Key.

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Other residents may be doin’ all right with their Christmas of white, but the residents at this Siesta Drive home are clearly dreaming of a blue Christmas and, judging by the red, white and blue bush in the right-hand corner, perhaps a little Fourth of July nod.

We struggled not to climb over the gate and rock around the Christmas tree at this Higel Avenue house. Ever try decorating your palm fronds to look like fireworks? We loved this bright, all-white, light-upthe-night display and hope the owners go all-out again next year.

Driving around Siesta Key Out to find the brightest spot Palm fronds lit so delicately Taking pictures as we stop

Driving around Siesta Key Where mechanical Rudolphs adorn every lawn Blasting Christmas tunes with the windows rolled down We’re bound to have some fun

Back and forth through the Village we made mad dashes to find the most colorful creation. Decked out in red, white, green and blue lights from top to bottom was the Old Salty Dog.

We get such a warm and fuzzy feeling When we see Reindeer-topped roofs, giant candy canes and twinkling angels While serenading one another with the lyrics to ‘Jingle Bells’ Driving home from Siesta Key Discussing the spirited light displays This holiday season we bring to you Our 2011 Light Up the Key!

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and ... well, Rudolph must have used his shiny red nose to light up all of these bushes and trees. We’re pretty keen on the whole red-and-white color scheme at this Treasure Boat Way home.

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Siesta lifeguards earn recognition for public service During the Nov. 15 County is their job, but (this rescue) was Commission meeting, Chair- done in a particularly wonderful woman Nora Patterson remarked way.� She added, “I just want to on a letter she had received from make that public.�

Robert R. Maycan, a resident of Interim County Administrator Park Ridge, Ill., regarding Siesta Terry Lewis then told the comlifeguard Robert Martini. In Au- missioners that a Canadian tourgust, Martini came to the rescue ist also recently had praised the of Maycan, Maycan’s county’s lifeguards. The wife and their 8-year-old woman tourist had left grandson after they got her wallet in the ladies’ caught in a rip current. room on a trip to Siesta Maycan wrote in that Public Beach. Lifeguards letter, “We did not know had found it and secured of the dangerous rip it immediately. Lewis current, although the added that the commislifeguard stations had sioners would be hearthe warning flags up ‌ â€? ing more at a later date.

When Maycan saw his That date was Dec. 7, RACHEL when Lewis asked Marwife and grandson drifting away from the beach, tini and Scott Ruberg to BROWN hanging onto a swim HACKNEY come up to the front of noodle, he swam out the Commission Chamwith a noodle to try to bers during the commishelp, but he also became caught sioners’ meeting. in the current. “All of a sudden,�

Lewis explained he had been Maycan wrote, “a face popped up making an effort to recognize in the water in front of me and some of the county’s 2,000 em(the man) gently asked, ‘Do you ployees each month. “All of us need some help?’ It was lifeguard work hard,â€? he said. “We try to Martini, who then brought us make a difference ‌ and I think safely to shore.â€? it’s important that not only our Maycan continued, “He did community and our leaders but not criticize us for not heeding our fellow employees be remindthe warning flags, but just said, ed of the quality of people who ‘That’s my job’ after we thanked work here.â€? him. I would just like to acknowlLewis first related details about edge the fine work he and other Martini’s rescue of the Maycan lifeguards do and am thankful, as family members, then he talked all the tourists are, that they are about the incident with the lost there for our safety.â€? wallet, which had a “considerable Referring to the county’s life- amount of money in it.â€? guards, Patterson told her fellow Lewis added, “They had alcommissioners, “Obviously, this ready duct-taped the money, the

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Interim County Administrator Terry Lewis recognizes Sarasota County lifeguards Scott Ruberg and Robert Martini as County Commission Chairwoman Nora Patterson looks on. credit cards and everything together� before they located the woman. Ruberg said that the goal was to make sure the items in the wallet were secured.

Lewis continued his presentation, noting that Sarasota County employees take actions like that “every day of the week ‌ every day of the year.â€? He told Ruberg and Martini, “It’s just a privilege for me to stand up here with you.â€?

When I spoke with Martini about the recognition, he talked first of the Maycan family. It was a red-flag day, he said, just as Maycan had mentioned in the letter.

The swells were running 3 to 4 feet, he said — great for surfers

but not for swimmers.

Martini was keeping an eye on the woman and her grandson, he said, so he realized it immediately when they lost their footing and started drifting. Watching the current, Martini said, he was able to judge when to swim out and catch them and Maycan, who had swum out and found himself also in jeopardy. “Basically, I was kind of like a ‘merman,’� Martini said of his popping up beside the three people. Martini had taken his can buoy with him, so he gave it to Maycan, to assist in getting them all back to shore. A woman lifeguard on duty that day was watching to see if he needed any

help, Martini added. He gave her the international diver/swimmer circle sign over his head to let her know all was well.

Once the family members were safe, Martini said, he suggested they not wade in any deeper than their waists the rest of the day. He also took the opportunity to explain how rip currents work.

Maycan tried to pay him, Martini said, but Martini politely declined the money and explained that he was just doing his job. The next day, Maycan returned to the beach and sought out Martini.

Maycan had found three copies of the issue of the Pelican Press with an article about Martini written by my colleague, Rachel O’Hara. Maycan asked Martini to autograph the articles, which Martini was happy to do, in spite of the fact that Martini was surprised by the request.

What really made Martini happy was Maycan’s decision to contribute $150 to the Junior Lifeguard Program. O’Hara had pointed out in her article how dedicated Martini is to that county undertaking. “He was very generous,� Martini said of Maycan.

As for the wallet incident: Martini said lifeguards find and return property “all the time.� In this case, the woman went to the Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau to tell her story and praise the lifeguards. “I really appreciate it,� Martini said.

By the way, Martini noted that Ruberg is his boss, “but he’s kind of a cool boss.�

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The Sarasota County Commission Dec. 7, recognized 13 elementary students whose artwork appears on the “Food — Keep it Local” calendar for 2012.

Nearly 1,500 students entered the competition to illustrate ways to encourage residents to purchase and eat locally grown and produced food as a way to improve health, reduce the carbon footprint, support the local economy and protect and preserve natural resources.

The calendar was a project of the county’s Neighborhood Environmental Stewardship Team, in cooperation with the Sarasota County School Board.

“The calendar encourages students and all Sarasota County residents to purchase and eat locally grown and produced food, which is fresher, more nutritious and tastes better,” Rob Wright, who coordinates the NEST calendar contest, said in a news release.

Buying and consuming locally grown foods, he added, reduces waste and requires less energy for packaging and transportation.

During the recognition of the students, Wright pointed out, “When we eat and buy local produce … we are not only helping the environment, we are also keeping money in the local economy.”

Along with the winning illustrations, the free calendar features a thought for each month.

The annual calendar contest is open to elementary students in all public and private Sarasota County schools, including charter schools, as well as elementary school-age, home-schooled students. Each winner’s school will receive a supply of calendars. The winning artwork will be displayed throughout January in the Sarasota County School Board Administration offices.

The calendar will be available at all county public libraries and administration facilities after Dec. 15. To get a free “Food — Keep it Local” calendar for 2012, or to learn more about the NEST program, contact Rob Wright at the Sarasota County Call Center, 861-5000.

Sarasota County commissioners Dec. 7 had just recognized all the youngsters whose artwork was chosen this year for the Neighborhood Environmental Stewardship Team’s annual calendar when Commissioner Christine Robinson asked them for a favor.

Addressing the 11 children, she said Commissioner Jon Thaxton was celebrating his birthday.

She asked if the youngsters would help him mark the occasion by singing “Happy Birthday” to him.

With Thaxton Photos by Norman Schimmel standing behind Josh Kroepfl, 9, helps Josh Kroepfl, 9, sing “Happy Birthday” whose artwork to Sarasota County had been se- Commissioner Jon Thaxton. lected for the calendar cover, the children, the other commissioners and audience members complied with Robinson’s request.

As the children headed back to their seats, Interim County Administrator Terry Lewis joked of Thaxton, “I was figuring (he was) 62 or 63; he’s 59.”

As a few audience members gasped, a grinning Lewis glanced back at Thaxton. “What’s he going to do? Fire me?” Lewis asked.

Lewis has been serving as interim administrator since June, following the resignation of County Administrator Jim Ley in late May. Lewis agreed Dec. 1 to the commission’s request that he stay on through Feb. 15, so new County Administrator Randall Reid would have his help for a couple of weeks.

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ODA art teacher Linda Wallin invited him to the school to teach the students about the artistic process involved in his work. Wigelsworth, founder of the annual Siesta Key Crystal Classic Master Sandsculpting Competition, created a sculpture of ODA’s logo and added a few extra touches, such as tree roots turning into books.

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Chamber After Hours Business Card Exchange — 5:30 to 7 p.m. Dec. 15, at A’Tu Jewelry & Clothing Outlet, Building O S, 3900 Clark Road, Sarasota (next to Millie’s Restaurant).

Cost: $5 for members; $10 for non-members. RSVP by noon Dec. 14, to 349-3800 or by email to tess@siestakeychamber.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.

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Book Signing — 6 p.m. Dec. 16, author Jean Germain will discuss her book, “Jazz from Row Six;� 6 p.m. Dec. 22, with poet Neil Shepard discussing his latest books. Both events at Bookstore1Sarasota, 1359 Main St., Sarasota. For details, call 365-7900 or visit www. bookstore1sarasota.com.

Yoga on Siesta Key Beach — 9 to 10:30 a.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Starting Dec. 16, 10 to 11:30 a.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Free. For more information, email avanandamaui@ yahoo.com.

WSLR Dance Party — 8 p.m.

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Poetry Open Mic — 6 p.m.

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Participants welcome to bring their own poetry to read aloud or be part of the audience. For details, call 365-7900 or visit www.bookstore1sarasota.com.

Taste of Chanukah — 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 20, in Selby Five Points Park, downtown Sarasota, hosted by the Chabad of Sarasota. Free. Event to feature a 5-foot-tall ice sculpture of a menorah, a Hanukkah hula show, a Dress Like a Dreidel contest for children ages 5 to 10, kosher food and beverages, live music and a Hanukkah Gifts and Goodies Marketplace.

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Lipizzan Pre-Season Training Sessions — 10 a.m. Saturdays through Dec. 17. Regular training shows begin at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 22, and will continue at 1 p.m. Fridays and 10 a.m.

Siesta Key Kiwanis Club — nNon to 1 p.m.

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9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays through April, Phillippi Estate Park, 5500 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Visit www. siestafarmersmarket.com. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturdays, Lakewood Ranch Main Street.

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This boat was a favorite among many spectators because of the fire-breathing dragon on the bow.

Star light, bay bright The waters of the bay were bathed in colors of red, green and blue Saturday, Dec. 10, for the 25th annual Sarasota Christmas Boat Parade of Lights.

There were 25 boats that participated in the parade,

and each boat was uniquely lit with twinkling lights and decorated in a creative theme.

The boat that most caught the judges’ attention was “Emerald Isle,” which portrayed a tropical

Special Guests Dr. Charles Hoge, former director of Walter Reed Research Institute SSG Tommy Rieman, U.S. Army and National Guard, Silver Star and Purple Heart Recipient Paul Freedman, film director of the documentary Halfway Home; and other honored military guests and veterans.

Christmas theme. The boat won the coveted trophy, which is awarded to the “Most Creative” boat. The trophy, bearing the winner’s name, stays on display for one year at Marina Jack restaurant.

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Two-home deal tops week’s sales at $3.015M The following residential real estate transactions took place between Nov. 28 and Dec. 2.

A two-home sale in Revised Siesta top all transactions in this week’s real estate.

Kevin and Antoinette Cogan, of Louisville, Ky., sold two homes, at 4079 Shell Road and 4083 Shell Road, to Neil and Sandra DeFeo, of Westport, Conn., for $3.015 million. The home at 4079 was built in 1998; it has three bedrooms, two-and-one-half baths, a pool and 2,159 square feet of living area. The home at 4083 Shell Road was built in 1959; it has three bedrooms, four baths and 4,239 square feet of living area.

The homes previously sold for $4.115 million in 2006.

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Michael Foran, Sarasota, sold his home at 125 Beach Road to Christopher and Michele Brown, Osprey, for $700,000. Built in 1980, it has three bedrooms, five baths and 2,568 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $210,000 in 1989.

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Donald and Carolyn Robinson, Sarasota, sold their Unit 225 condominium at 1341 Dockside Place to William Becker and Jimmy Upchurch, Fort Lauderdale, for $650,000. Built in 1982, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,326 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $315,000 in 1998.

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Jay Price and Leslie Juron, Sarasota, sold their home at 7222 Melaleuca Way to Myron and Gilda Kwan, Valrico, for $610,000.

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Linda and Eric Murphy, trustees, Cape Coral, sold the Unit 72 condominium at 5830 Midnight Pass Road to David Schmidt and Carissa Burton, of Ontario, Canada, for $410,000. Built in 1964, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 986 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $195,000 in 2000.

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Robert and Vicki Holstead, of Round Hill, Va., sold their Unit 113 condominium at 5238 Avenida Navarra to David and Kim Burrell, of Norwich, N.Y., for $394,000. Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 960 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $590,000 in 2005.

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Virginia Smith, of Davidsonville, Md., sold her Unit 505-C condominium at 8776 Midnight Pass Road to Ronald and Melissa Gindling, Cincinnati, for $345,000. Built in 1975, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,338 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $435,000 in 2003.

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Harriett Gracely-Hritz, Sarasota, sold her home at 4638 Gleason Ave. to Colin and Cheryl Robertson, of La Grange, Ill., for $340,000. Built in 1955, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,907 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $116,000 in 1988.

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Michael Yore, trustee, of Orland Park, Ill., sold the Unit A-3 condominium at 113 Vista Hermosa Circle to Valerie Pober, Sarasota, for $215,000. Built in 1971, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,201 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $87,000 in 1992.

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Manoj Gupta $110,000 $35,000 Howard Miller Jr. $32,950 Timothy Peoples $30,097 Alok Sharma, trustee $10,000 Myron Kwan $8,000 Mark Morin Virginia Heidersberger $7,465 $6,987 Henry Herold $5,886 Epp Miller $5,865 Ian Gallie $5,366 Ronald White Caroline Jacobs $5,250 $5,000 Derek Houghton $4,975 Jason Hastings $4,535 Laurie Anderson $4,045 Anthony Stanford David Peirce $3,993 $3,786 Kyle Shaw $3,750 Ronald Shay

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High Low 86 (1972) 30 (1937) 87 (1978) 30 (1937) 86 (1978) 30 (1984) 86 (1972) 29 (1917) 87 (1972) 31 (1938) 85 (2001) 26 (1957) 87 (1965) 22 (1962)

Average Gulf water temperature: 64

Hermann and Andrea Kaendler shared this photo of a December sunset on Siesta Key Beach.

Sunrise/sunset Thurs., Dec. 15 Fri., Dec. 16 Sat., Dec. 17 Sun., Dec. 18 Mon., Dec. 19 Tues., Dec. 20 Wed., Dec. 21

Sunrise 7:12 7:13 7:13 7:14 7:14 7:15 7:15

Sunset 5:38 5:38 5:39 5:39 5:39 5:40 5:40

Karenia brevis, the red tide organism, was not detected onshore or offshore Sarasota County, Friday, Dec. 9, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.

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1 Some choir voices 6 Military outpost 10 One of 12 at Alcoholics Anonymous 14 Borrower’s burdens 19 “Donnie ___” (2001 cult film) 20 Andy’s old radio partner 21 Words said with a sigh, perhaps 22 Sneak ___ (look quickly) 23 Greek poet saved by a dolphin 24 Valley of vineyards 25 ___ and fortune 26 Unlike a rolling stone?

27 Top dog, so to speak 30 Every Shakespeare play has five 31 ___ chi (exercise system) 32 Make a little ___ long way 33 ___ up (kicker’s job) 34 Furnished with footgear 36 B&O stop (Abbr.)

37 Turn bad, as meat 38 “Jurassic Park” co-star Laura 39 Long-haired wild ox 41 To and ___ (back and forth) 42 French or Italian, e.g.

46 Mormon state 47 The appendix extends from it 50 Tampa Bay baseballer 51 Spiteful 53 High on the Mohs scale 54 Kill, as a dragon 56 Period of prosperity 58 Bassoon or clarinet 60 Father of Fear, Panic and Trembling 61 One with a sticking point

62 Really long time (Var.) 63 Foundation for a train track 66 It’s in all living cells 67 Everyone’s discussing it 70 ET’s ride 71 Shakespeare play (with “The”) 73 Reason for parental scolding 74 “To a Mouse” or “To a Skylark” 75 Bad mood 76 Bakery product 77 Not stuffy 78 Barely gets by (with “out”) 79 Proactiv target 80 Fall display 83 Be a snoop 84 Earth pigment 85 “Meet Joe Black” star Brad 87 Imperial soldiers of film 92 It may be attached to an old butt 93 Clock setting at 0 degrees longitude (Abbr.)

94 Periods of history 95 Actress-director Lupino 96 Blood classification letters 99 Dress with elaborate care 101 Liveliness of mind 104 “Dig in!”

105 Wet/dry ___ (shop accessory) 106 Topmost point 107 Spontaneous 111 “Thank you, monsieur!”

112 Language spoken by Amazonian natives 113 Call to a mate 114 Kitchen appliance 115 Lotion additives 116 “The Last Command” Oscar

52 Tehran is its largest city 54 Hydrotherapy locales 55 Airy melody 56 Ross of flag fame 57 Sounds of amazement 59 Give the meaning of 62 Way off in the distance 63 Decided not to walk 64 Has a balance due 65 Grandparent, dOwn stereotypically 1 Changes to fit 67 “Ask me no questions 2 Cattle-catching rope and I’ll ___ ...”

3 Nixon’s daughter 68 Flexible weaving 4 “All right, I heard you material already!”

69 City attacked by 5 Early baby picture?

Godzilla 6 Bach composition 72 Whodunit 7 Indian au pair component 8 Be sulky 75 Biological pouches 9 Lyre’s old cousin 77 Way back when 10 Starts to melt 78 Amorous deity 11 “You’re the One ___ 81 Suffix with “critic” or Want” (“Grease” “manner” song) 82 One giving testimony 12 Netherlands 83 Slapstick antic commune 84 Handel work 13 Henrik Ibsen drama 85 Mushy food 14 Twilled linen 86 Hailing from Haifa 15 Period of history 88 One way to row a 16 Top choice from boat several options 89 Group of three 17 Mosaic tile people 18 Where to aim a 90 Drunk as a skunk telescope 91 Product encased in 28 April 1 victim red wax 29 “Able was ___ ...”

93 Banded rock (middle of a 96 Exact retribution for palindrome) 97 Maine town 35 Outburst from 98 Double foursomes?

Homer Simpson 100 Person with a mike 38 WWII turning point 40 Ten-percenter (Abbr.) 102 Sea froth 103 School attendee 42 Beer topping 108 Start of a 43 Didn’t pass the bar?

Commandment 44 Biscuit at teatime 109 Car signal 45 “___ Sam” (Sean 110 Quite a few Penn movie) 111 Visitors’ center 46 Took advantage of handout 47 Graph 48 Salary recipient 49 Elite

winner Jannings 117 Traditional teaching 118 Fort Knox block 119 Vocal cords, informally 120 Count (on) 121 Ilsa ___ (“Casablanca” character) 122 Some court hearings

Last weeks Cryptograms 1. December is a really notable and uncommon month. Why? Because it’s the only month with a D in it.

2. Fido was enchanted and started covertly snatching things off the Christmas tree. The vet finally diagnosed him with tinselitis.

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Holiday Worship Guide Come celebrate Christmas Eve as we worship and sing songs of praise to the Newborn King with a mix of old and new favorites.

Trinity United Methodist Church

The Rev. Charles Mann, Rector • 355-3262

Christmas Worship Opportunities Community Christmas Party

Everyone invited on Sunday, Dec. 18th, 6pm. Worship with special music and the reading of the Christmas story and then a fun party. Free gifts for children, cookies and more.

Santa and Mrs. Claus will be here, too!

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ADVENT HOLDEN VESPERS: 5:45 PM Thursdays during December BLUE CHRISTMAS SERVICE: 5:45 PM December 22nd CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICES: CANDLELIGHT – COMMUNION – CAROLS 4:00 PM Traditional Service • 7:00 PM Family Service 11:00 PM Traditional Service with Choir

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The Story of Christmas

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Music • Live Animals

December 18th at 5:00 Blue Christmas Service of HOPE

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Christmas Eve Candlelight Service, 7pm Christmas Day Service, 11am

Christmas Eve at 6:00 Service of JOY

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Christmas Day at 10:00 Service of PEACE Hear the story of God’s Greatest Gift as well as the stories behind Christmas Carols

New Years Day at 10:00 Service of LOVE

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SARASOTA: Condo Condo and and Home Home Sales Sales 12-05-11 12-05-11 thru thru 12-12-11 12-12-11 SARASOTA:

Geoff Rossman REALTOR® (941) 544-3232 REALTOR® Geoff Rossman Rossman REALTOR® REALTOR® (941) (941) 544-3232 544-3232 Geoff geoff@geoffrossman.com geoff@geoffrossman.com geoff@geoffrossman.com geoff@geoffrossman.com ZIP CODE ADDRESS ZIP CODE ADDRESS ZIP CODE CODE ADDRESS ADDRESS ZIP 34242 34242 34242 34242 34242 34242 34242 34242 34242 34242 34242 34242 34242 34242 34242 34242 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34236 34239 34239 34239 34239 34231 34231 34231 34231 34231 34231 34231 34231 34231 34231 34231 34231 34231 34231 34231 34231 34238 34238 34238

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SOLD PRICE ZIP CODE ADDRESS SOLD PRICE ZIP CODE ADDRESS SOLD PRICE PRICE ZIP ZIPCODE CODEADDRESS ADDRESS SOLD $217,500 $217,500 $217,500 $217,500 $260,000 $260,000 $260,000 $260,000 $430,000 $430,000 $430,000 $430,000 $260,000 $260,000 $260,000 $260,000 $410,000 $410,000 $410,000 $410,000 $345,000 $345,000 $345,000 $345,000 $181,000 $181,000 $181,000 $181,000 $750,000 $750,000 $750,000 $750,000 $224,000 $224,000 $224,000 $224,000 $35,000 $35,000 $35,000 $35,000 $123,000 $123,000 $123,000 $123,000 $118,000 $118,000 $118,000 $118,000 $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 $155,200 $155,200 $155,200 $155,200 $240,000 $240,000 $240,000

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RE/MAX Tropical Tropical Sands Sands RE/MAX RE/MAXTropical TropicalSands Sands RE/MAX 1211 Old Old Stickney Stickney Pt Pt Rd. Rd. Siesta Siesta Key Key FL FL 34242 34242 1211 1211Old OldStickney StickneyPtPtRd. Rd.Siesta SiestaKey KeyFL FL 34242 34242 1211

SUBDIVISION SUBDIVISION SUBDIVISION SUBDIVISION SIESTA KEY SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES SIESTA KEY SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES SIESTAKEY KEYSINGLE SINGLEFAMILY FAMILYHOME HOMESALES SALES SIESTA 799 TROPICAL CIR SIESTA BEACH 799 TROPICAL CIR SIESTA BEACH 799TROPICAL TROPICALCIR CIR SIESTABEACH BEACH 799 SIESTA 369 AVENIDA LEONA SIESTA MANOR 369 AVENIDA LEONA SIESTA MANOR 369AVENIDA AVENIDALEONA LEONA SIESTAMANOR MANOR 369 SIESTA DOWNTOWN SARASOTA SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES DOWNTOWN SARASOTA SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES DOWNTOWNSARASOTA SARASOTASINGLE SINGLEFAMILY FAMILYHOME HOMESALES SALES DOWNTOWN 1831 HAWKINS CT POS 1831 HAWKINS CT POS 1831HAWKINS HAWKINSCT CT POS 1831 POS 1783 STAPLETON ST GRANADA 1783 STAPLETON ST GRANADA 1783STAPLETON STAPLETONST ST GRANADA 1783 GRANADA 2511 S OSPREY AVE HARTSDALE 2511 S OSPREY AVE HARTSDALE 2511SSOSPREY OSPREYAVE AVE HARTSDALE 2511 HARTSDALE 2579 LOMA LINDA ST RUSTIC LODGE 2579 LOMA LINDA ST RUSTIC LODGE 2579LOMA LOMALINDA LINDAST ST RUSTICLODGE LODGE 2579 RUSTIC SARASOTA SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES SARASOTA SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES SARASOTASINGLE SINGLEFAMILY FAMILYHOME HOMESALES SALES SARASOTA 3839 WARREN RIDGE ST SOUTH GATE RIDGE 3839 WARREN RIDGE ST SOUTH GATE RIDGE 3839WARREN WARRENRIDGE RIDGEST ST SOUTHGATE GATERIDGE RIDGE 3839 SOUTH 4961 FALLCREST CIR AMBERLEA 4961 FALLCREST CIR AMBERLEA 4961FALLCREST FALLCRESTCIR CIR AMBERLEA 4961 AMBERLEA 5637 BENEVA WOODS CIR BENEVA WOODS 5637 BENEVA WOODS CIR BENEVA WOODS 5637BENEVA BENEVAWOODS WOODSCIR CIR BENEVAWOODS WOODS 5637 BENEVA 3933 MARAVIC PL MOLLER 3933 MARAVIC PL MOLLER 3933MARAVIC MARAVICPLPL MOLLER 3933 MOLLER 1803 UPPER COVE TER CORAL COVE 1803 UPPER COVE TER CORAL COVE 1803UPPER UPPERCOVE COVETER TER CORALCOVE COVE 1803 CORAL 2256 CONSTITUTION BLVD PHILLIPPI GARDENS 2256 CONSTITUTION BLVD PHILLIPPI GARDENS 2256CONSTITUTION CONSTITUTIONBLVD BLVD PHILLIPPIGARDENS GARDENS 2256 PHILLIPPI 5664 BRONX AVE SUN HAVEN 5664 BRONX AVE SUN HAVEN 5664BRONX BRONXAVE AVE SUNHAVEN HAVEN 5664 SUN 1410 LAKE SHORE DR OYSTER BAY 1410 LAKE SHORE DR OYSTER BAY 1410SSSSLAKE LAKESHORE SHOREDR DR OYSTERBAY BAY 1410 OYSTER 2131 OUTER DR LAS LOMAS LAS LOMAS OUTER DR 2131OUTER OUTERDR DR LASLOMAS LOMAS 2131 LAS 6920 ANTIGUA PL GULF GATE 6920 GULF GATE 6920 ANTIGUA ANTIGUA PL PL GULFGATE GATE GULF 2444 CONSTITUTION BLVD PHILLIPPI GARDENS PHILLIPPI GARDENS CONSTITUTION BLVD 2444CONSTITUTION CONSTITUTIONBLVD BLVD PHILLIPPIGARDENS GARDENS 2444 PHILLIPPI 1712 LANDINGS BLVD LANDINGS 1712 LANDINGS BLVD LANDINGS 1712 LANDINGS BLVD LANDINGS LANDINGS PALMER RANCH SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES RANCH SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES PALMER PALMERRANCH RANCHSINGLE SINGLEFAMILY FAMILYHOME HOMESALES SALES PALMER 5827 WILENA PL VILLAGEWALK 5827 WILENA PL VILLAGEWALK 5827 WILENA PL VILLAGEWALK VILLAGEWALK 4900 FLAGSTONE DR STONEBRIDGE STONEBRIDGE FLAGSTONE DR 4900FLAGSTONE FLAGSTONEDR DR STONEBRIDGE 4900 STONEBRIDGE 3659 EMILY LN CLARK LAKES 3659 EMILY LN CLARK LAKES 3659 EMILY LN CLARKLAKES LAKES CLARK

SOLD PRICE SOLD PRICE SOLDPRICE PRICE SOLD $1,554,717 $1,554,717 $1,554,717 $1,554,717 $400,000 $400,000 $400,000 $400,000 $215,000 $215,000 $215,000 $215,000 $220,000 $220,000 $220,000 $220,000 $320,000 $320,000 $320,000 $320,000 $99,900 $99,900 $99,900 $99,900 $87,500 $87,500 $87,500 $87,500 $290,000 $290,000 $290,000 $290,000 $256,000 $256,000 $256,000 $256,000 $147,500 $147,500 $147,500 $147,500 $900,000 $900,000 $900,000 $900,000 $142,000 $142,000 $142,000 $142,000 $124,900 $124,900 $124,900 $124,900 $1,265,000 $1,265,000 $1,265,000 $1,265,000 $55,500 $55,500 $55,500 $55,500 $225,000 $225,000 $225,000 $225,000 $135,000 $135,000 $135,000 $135,000 $600,000 $600,000 $600,000 $600,000 $319,000 $319,000 $319,000 $319,000 $465,000 $465,000 $465,000 $465,000 $119,900 $119,900 $119,900 $119,900

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Units Furnished: Unitsfor forSale Sale--All AllFurnished: Furnished: B-309 2B/2B Water Views ....$799,000 B-3092B/2B 2B/2B---Water WaterViews Views....$799,000 ....$799,000 B-309 B-309 2B/2B Water Views ....$799,000 A-302 2B/2B Water Views ....$779,000 A-3022B/2B 2B/2B---Water WaterViews Views....$779,000 ....$779,000 A-302 A-302 2B/2B Water Views ....$779,000 A-707 2B/2B Penthouse .......$759,000 A-7072B/2B 2B/2B----Penthouse Penthouse.......$759,000 .......$759,000 A-707 A-707 2B/2B Penthouse C-107 ....$509,000 C-1072B/2B 2B/2B--Lk Lk&&pool poolViews Views....$509,000 ....$509,000 Other information upon request Other information upon request Otherinformation informationupon uponrequest request Other

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Sandy Sandy and and Jerry Strom Jerry Strom Bay Front 3BR/3.1BA sits on tropical setBay BayFront Front3BR/3.1BA 3BR/3.1BAsits sitson ontropical tropicalsetsetting. ting.Hardwood Hardwoodfloors, floors,newer newerkitchen kitchen and each bathroom has its own updated and andeach eachbathroom bathroomhas hasits itsown ownupdated updated full fullbath. bath.New New33zone zoneA/C A/Cin in2011, 2011,private private gas-heated pool and refurbished deck. gas-heated gas-heatedpool pooland andrefurbished refurbisheddeck. deck.

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Built to be the premier condominium Built Builtto tobe bethe thepremier premiercondominium condominium resort on Siesta Key and resort resorton onSiesta SiestaKey Keyand and #1 Beach in USA. #1 #1Beach Beachin inUSA. USA. 2BR/2BA unit has Gulf views, 2BR/2BA 2BR/2BAunit unithas hasGulf Gulfviews, views, new new A/C A/C and and turnkey turnkey furnished. furnished.

MLS# A3951029 MLS# MLS#A3951029 A3951029 Offered Offeredat at$593,000 $593,000

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761 Siesta Key Circle

7th floor updated 2 bed/ 2 bath unit in popular beachfront condo directly on Siesta Key Beach. Great year round rental program. Beach, tennis, BBQ, fitness center. $549,900 A3942862

1601 Pelican Point Dr. # HA211 Excellent rental potential, 2BR/2BA - Move-In-Ready!

MLS#33953008 $259,000

Elegant100+ Year Old Oaks WEST OF THE TRAIL NEIGHBORHOOD

No bridges - deep water sailboat slip, plus dock & lift on .78 tropical acres, 4 beds, den, 2.5 baths $999,000

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2130 Sonoma Drive

Executive 3 bed/3 bath+den pool home on lush 30,000 sq ft lot solidly built with Ytong block construction $549,000

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1603 Bayhouse Point Dr. #BA212. 2BR/2BA 2nd Floor end unit with fabulous views of Little Sarasota Bay and ICW MLS#3951185 $264,000

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436 Beach Road

6285 Midnight Pass Road #207

646 Waterside Way

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18.42

10.12

7.40

6.06

5.28

4.77

4.5

18.64

10.36

7.65

6.33

5.56

5.07

5.0

18.87

10.61

7.91

6.60

5.85

5.37

5.5

19.10

10.85

8.17

6.88

6.14

5.68

6.0

19.33

11.10

8.44

7.16

6.44

6.00

6.5

19.57

11.35

8.71

7.46

6.75

6.32

7.0

19.80

11.61

8.99

7.75

7.07

6.65

7.5

20.04

11.87

9.27

8.06

7.39

6.99

8.0

20.28

12.13

9.56

8.36

7.72

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$1,069,000

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$599,000

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$575,000

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$528,500

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GONE FISHING

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by Heidi Kurpiela | A&E Editor

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“I no longer look at a fish like it’s just my dinner,” Linda Heath says. “I stare at the details, and I’m amazed by the colors. I think it’s Mother Nature’s best work.”

Artistic angler

It used to be that Linda Heath fished for her dinner. Now she spends more time fishing for her subjects. The emerging Gyotaku artist explains the surprisingly odorless practice of fish rubbing.

Some artists turn to beautiful women for their muses. Linda Heath turns to fish.

She loves the scales. The fins. The colors. The eyes. Oh, how she loves the eyes. She spends hours sometimes peering into the glassy pupils of her slippery subjects.

A budding Gyotaku artist and a seasoned angler, Heath always finishes her work by painting a white dot in the center of each fish’s eye, that way, when the piece is up on a wall, its gaze can follow you around the room.

This can be especially disconcert-

ing when you’re in Heath’s studio, where every fish eye appears to be fixed on you.

“Some people believe painting the eye gives the fish its soul back,” Heath says. “Because, as you know, the eyes are the windows to the soul.”

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FISH TALES Heath’s cool catches Mahi-mahi

“Mahi-mahi light up when you catch them, but within five minutes their color fades. You have to take a photo right away.”

Tarpon

“The scales are humongous.

They’re as big as the palm of my hand.”

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“They have no scales. They’re like manatees. You really have to think about how you’re applying the ink to get that Gyotaku impression.”

HEATH / FROM PAGE 1 If this is true, then Heath, a commercial and residential real-estate broker by trade, is surrounded by some pretty significant saltwater souls.

There’s the 35-pound black grouper that she caught deep drop-fishing 800 feet over a hole near Key West; the 80-pound Cubera snapper that placed first in this year’s De Soto Fishing Tournament; and, of course, the swallowtail bass that was so rare it was sent off to an ichthyologist to be studied.

“The only known swallowtail is in a jar of formaldehyde somewhere,” Heath says. “When my husband was asked if he would send it in to be studied, he said, ‘Sure, but my wife is an artist and she has to rub it first.’”

Heath is always talking about fish, such as the 80-pound Cu“rubbing” fish. The first few times bera snapper, it can require brute you hear her say it, the term strength. sounds sort of peculiar. Like she’s Says Heath: “It’s not for the faint a fish masseuse. of heart.”

“It’s a happy feel-good thing,” Looking around Heath’s studio, she says of the hobby. “I’m able to you’d never know she has just beintegrate art into the one thing I’ve gun working with Gyotaku. You’d loved to do my whole life: fish.” also never know she was entirely A plucky 53-year-old with a self-taught.

Southern drawl, Heath’s earliest In just a year-and-a-half she’s memories are of catching bluegill exhibited work in six shows, inwith her father in Kentucky. cluding last weekend’s Winterfest She first came across Gyotaku on Anna Maria Island.

— the Japanese art of making fish In addition to donating pieces rubs — in the 1980s when she was for fundraising events at Mote working for the U.S. Department Marine, the South Florida Muof Commerce and traveling to seum and the Boys & Girls Clubs countries in Asia. of Manatee County, Heath is also Fish rubbing, which dates back represented by a gallery in Key to the mid-19th century, origi- West, where she’s generated most nated as a way for fishermen to of her big-ticket sales. record their catches. These days She recently sold an original the tradition is regarded as more rub of a 50-pound tarpon to of an art form than a recorda couple that runs a bed and keeping system. breakfast in a castle in Eng“Fishermen would make land. impressions of their catches “When you hit your midso the fishmongers would 50s I think it’s common to pay them,” Heath says. “It ask, ‘What is it that gives was a way to document the me great joy?’” Heath says. actual size of the fish.”

“I’m just wondering why One thing this took so long to rattle is for sure: out of me.”

It’s not for She works girlie girls. out of a In a nutr e n ov a t e d shell, the ranch home process inon a sleepy volves catchbayou along ing a fish, the Manatee cleaning it, pinning River. She inherited it, slathering it in the property from sumi ink and rubher mother, whom The swallowtail bass bing its imprint on she says would have is so rare it was sent rice paper. been proud to see to a lab to be studied.

It’s a dirty job, her develop as an A photo of the fish was and in the case of artist. published in two fishing a monster game Her first-floor magazines.

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Heath is usually able to get more than one print off a fish. studio, which occupies the home’s original kitchen, is equipped with easels, movable gallery walls and clotheslines from which rice paper in varying sizes dangles like silent tissue-paper wind chimes.

It is surprisingly odorless. As Heath likes to point out when friends crinkle their nose at her new enterprise: Fresh fish doesn’t smell fishy.

“It’s not as easy as it looks,” Heath says of the technique. “Invariably, at the last second I’ll poke a hole through the paper with a fin. It’s delicate tissue. One false move and you smudge the ink everywhere.”

The first fish Heath ever rubbed was a hogfish.

It started off as a dinner table bet. When a friend announced that he intended to catch a hogfish, Heath offered to rub it.

Both parties came through on their promises.

“He’s my favorite so far,” Heath

says presenting a to-scale replica of a gnarly-looking orange fish with teeth and a snout. “The details are fantastic.”

The hogfish has become her signature print: Heath’s Mona Lisa pulled from the sea. A bottomfeeder that can only be speared, the hogfish is also her favorite fillet.

That’s right: Heath uses watersoluble ink so she can eat her subjects when she’s done painting them.

She gestures in the direction of a sheepshead. Silver with gray stripes, the sheepshead has a cuter face than the hogfish.

Heath has just finished painting the eye.

“I pan-coated him up with a little Key lime aioli sauce,” she says.

“He was delicious.”

To see more of Linda Heath’s work, visit lindaheathgyotakufishrubs.com

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by Heidi Kurpiela | A&E Editor

+ La Musica lures in ladies; Rivolta rejoices Ah, Piero Rivolta, you unabashed ladies man, you: Your honesty is so refreshing.

At an otherwise standard La Musica press conference last week, Rivolta, president of the organization’s board of directors, announced that the 26-year-old chamber music festival had finally succeeded in capturing the attention of younger audiences — in particular, younger, female audiences.

“I always look the audience up and down,” said the Italian sports car magnate-turned real-estate developer-turned novelist. “You know me, I always look for beautiful ladies, and (last year) I saw a lot of beautiful ladies. That will give us a potential future.”

It was a harmless non sequitur, even though it made Associate Artistic Director Derek Han cringe.

Wanton observations aside, here’s what chamber music fans can expect from next year’s festival: The theme — “Something in the Air” — includes the regional premiere of Academy Award-winning composer Roberto Sierra’s “Songs from the Diaspora” sung by Dina Kuznetsova (fresh from her Metropolitan Opera debut),

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Schoenberg’s “Verklarte Nacht,” and Brahms’ “String Sextet in B flat major.”

Musicians include violinists Federico Agostini, Anne Schoenholtz, and Laura Zarina; violists Daniel Avshalomov, Bruno Giuranna and Nokuthula Ngwenyama; cellists Julie Albers, Emilio Colon and Eric Kim; double bassist Dee Moses; and pianists Derek Han and James Winn.

The festival runs April 5 through April 18, at the Sarasota Opera House. As usual, rehearsals will be open to the public at the Mildred Sainer Pavilion on the New College campus. For tickets, call 346-2601 or visit lamusicafestival.org.

HOT TICKETS

There’s only one more week left to catch the run of “My Fair Lady” at the Asolo Repertory Theatre.

For all the fuss that was made over presenting a two-piano version of the musical, the show has generated as much hoopla as some of the theater’s bigger-budget musicals.

You can thank Music Director Doug Peck for that.

Peck and fellow pianist Ian Weinberger are so good at what they do it’s easy to forget there isn’t a full pit orchestra accompanying the singers.

“Its one of the best two-piano versions out there,” Peck says of the beloved Lerner and Loewe musical. “It languished in obscurity for a while, but since it’s been revived, it’s been tremendously successful.”

Not only is Peck getting awesome feedback off stage, he’s getting it on stage, too.

At a show earlier this month, when a technical difficulty required some scenes to come to a halt during Act Two, Peck actually engaged in conversation with a woman sitting in the front row.

“She said she had the best seats in the house,” Peck says. “You usually get people talking to you after the show. I’ve never had anyone actually talk to me during the show.”

If you’ve not had a chance to see this feelgood musical, get your tickets now before the curtain falls Dec. 23.

Who knows, if you get really good seats, you might be able to initiate small talk with Peck.

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by Sharon Ferguson, Photo courtesy of by Don Walker it stars Stevie Lee Stevie Lee Romero and Romero, Dianne Dianne Dawson in “Amahl Dawson, Ben Turoff and the Night Visitors” and Michael Bajjaly.

The show is a double bill with a second act featuring a musical revue of classic holiday standards performed by Sharon Lesley and Philip Alexander.

It runs Dec. 13 to Dec. 22, at the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre. For tickets, call 366-5454 or visit thegoldenapple.com.

+ Nokomis man peddles his cigar box guitars Two trends should help drive up Steve Cinnamon’s cigar box guitar sales this Christmas: shopping local and going green.

Cinnamon, a Nokomis resident, has been making cigar box guitars for more than a year now.

The former advertising executive from New Jersey has become a regular at local tobacco shops, not because he’s itching for a smoke, but because he’s browsing the merchandise for creative materials.

Believe it or not, you can turn an ordinary cigar box into an instrument by rigging it with three strings and machine heads and fastening it to a wooden slat.

Sometimes Cinnamon uses old sink drains as resonators.

His creations have become popular among ragtag jug-band musicians and cigar aficionados alike.

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In “Take Shelter,” Michael Shannon plays Curtis LaForche, whose life unravels after he suffers from recurring nightmares about an apocalyptic storm.

>> ‘Into the Woods’ at Booker High School Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” is much more than a musically fantastical fairy tale. It’s the paths we take in our lives, into the woods, wandering, losing ourselves and those we love, struggling in the dark, stumbling, falling, scraped and scratched by scary trees, fighting giants and, perhaps, seeing the light ahead and emerging from the forest stronger for the journey.

It’s also one of the most musically, rhythmically and dramatically difficult American musical theater pieces of our time, but the students at Booker High School did it, and they did it with professionalism and an almost unbelievable amount of vocal and theatrical talent.

“Careful the things you say, children will listen,” says Sondheim.

These Booker students, under the direction of Scott Keys with music director and conductor Johnnie Mnich, have listened and learned, for “Into the Woods” teaches us, through fractured fairytales, what life is and what, if you have the imagination and ethical grit, it can be.

In Ken Wiegers’ brilliant stage set of pillars, giant books used as stepping stones, a movable, raked turntable that takes us deeper and deeper into the woods and flying clouds that look like wheat Chex, this cast of fairytale characters teaches us parables and lessons as Cinderella meets her Prince Charming, Rapunzel lets down her hair, Jack trades his beloved cow for a giant of a beanstalk and a witch, a wolf and others we know all too well enter the woods and spin into the wrong story, sometimes dying, sometimes living to tell the tale and grow stronger, wiser and, perhaps, a little sadder.

Booker’s enormous cast is an incredibly

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cohesive ensemble, as good as we may find in professional Equity theaters. Of the twodozen different characters, there were some standouts but, in naming them, we don’t deflect attention from all the others. The two princes, Zach Herman and Sam Garvin, were charming and lecherous in their “Agony” duets. Ellie McCaw’s Cinderella was beautiful in spirit and voice, growing into a wise young woman before our enchanted eyes.

Rachel Henry, as Little Red Riding Hood, had the right mix of innocence and insouciance with a Kristin Chenoweth-like voice; Brian Finnerty’s Baker was brilliantly sung and acted; Becca Leap, as his wife, was disarmingly charming; and Matt Robertson’s Jack was exuberant. Madeleline Kaus, as the witch who loses her power and presence to become human, cast a vocal and emotional spell that could lift her, magically, onto a Broadway stage.

The next time you see that Booker High is producing a show, go! It’s the best investment you’ll make in a city filled with culture.

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I make it a rule to see any film which Michael Shannon chooses to grace with his presence. In the quietly terrifying new film, “Take Shelter,” Shannon’s wrenching performance will leave you breathless.

Shannon plays Curtis LaForche, a loving father whose life is unremarkable, yet comfortable and happy. When he begins having recurring nightmares about an apocalyptic storm, his life slowly unravels.

His terror is so overwhelming that he actually feels physical pain long after having awakened.

Curtis becomes obsessed with building a storm shelter, much to the bewilderment of his wife, Samantha (the amazing Jessica Chastain). His unsettling behavior begins to border on paranoia, eventually resulting in the loss of his job, his standing in the community and his wife’s trust.

Director Jeff Nichols (“Shotgun Stories”) plays his cards close to the chest. Is Curtis losing his mind or chan-

neling omens of impending disaster? The audience never knows for certain. We’re caught in the same dilemma as Curtis.

We see what he sees, but is he really seeing it?

The implied terror, the suspicion of a looming catastrophe and our sympathy for Curtis assault our senses throughout the entire film. We want Curtis to be right because he’s a good man. But if he’s right, everyone is doomed.

That’s why “Take Shelter” is such an exceptional piece of filmmaking. There’s no escape hatch. You’re in it for the long haul. Nichols’ subtle but extremely effective camera work can spark panic with droplets of oily rain and birds flying in eerie formations. An ominously scant score is instrumental in intensifying the horror. Curtis’ nightmares will become fodder for yours.

Shannon’s portrayal of a man sinking into insanity is a gift to behold. It’s reminiscent of his powerful work in “Revolutionary Road.” It’s Oscar-worthy in every respect. Curtis’ fear parallels the paranoia in our world today. We identify with it because it’s real.

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Party girl Circus legacy aside, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art wasn’t always the hottest spot in town for a party.

Those of you who make your rounds in cocktail gowns have probably noticed the 100-yearold art institution has let its hair down over the last few years.

Last season’s Hip-Hop Lounge, anyone?

The Ringling International Arts Festival seems to have served as a catalyst for fresh programming, although the addition of a modern and contemporary art curator and a posh party planner has certainly helped.

The posh party planner has a more formal title, of course. Her name is Christina Fraser, and she’s the museum’s public functions coordinator.

A 38-year-old mother-of-two from North Port, Fraser is responsible for organizing some of the museum’s biggest events of the year: RIAF’s opening-night party, the museum’s annual Holiday Splendor event, Ringling in Bloom and this month’s Greet the Light Solstice Celebration in the Courtyard.

The Dec. 22 party will mark the opening of James Turrell’s hotly anticipated Skyspace exhibit, a 3,000-square-foot room covered by a 35-foot-high canopy with an aperture that opens to the sky.

Several years in the making, it is Turrell’s largest Skyspace

To kick off this month’s new Skyspace exhibit, Christina Fraser organized a courtyard fête that should be one of the museum’s most enchanting parties yet.

IF YOU GO Greet the Light: Solstice Celebration in the Courtyard runs from 8 p.m. to midnight Dec. 22, in the courtyard at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door. For more information, call 360-7339 or visit ringling.org.

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The job has forced me to be much more organized,” Christina Fraser says. “You can’t slip up, because everyone’s reputation is on the line, not just mine.” to date and the only one in the state.

Designed to manipulate the viewer’s perception of the sky, Turrell installed LED lights synchronized to change directions with the seasons and time of day.

Fraser is among only a handful of people to step inside the space since construction began on the project last year.

“I felt pretty honored,” she says plopping down on a bench

facing the courtyard. “It’s very mysterious at this point to a lot of people.”

The lip of the canopy can be seen poking out from the Ulla R. and Arthur F. Searing wing. When Fraser points it out, it looks like she’s picking out a UFO lifting off from Earth.

“I think it’ll be a big draw for a lot of people,” she says. “To celebrate the solstice here will be really special.”

Planning a party that revolves around something this significant might seem like a lot of pressure, but Fraser is the consummate planner, a compulsive list-maker and a DIY-crafter with Martha Stewart-like instincts.

“I’ve always kind of led the fun committee,” Fraser jokes.

A Port Charlotte native, Fraser operated a handmade soap business at the Sarasota Farmers Market before joining the Ringling Museum staff three years ago.

A business degree from the University of South Florida has helped make her resourceful.

Faced with pulling together chic events on a budget, Fraser has learned to cut corners without compromising her vision.

For the Hip-Hop Lounge Party that coincided with the museum’s “Beyond Bling” exhibit, Fraser sorted through bins of re-

cycled spray paint cans provided

by Sarasota County.

In keeping with the urban/ bling theme of the evening, she painted the cans metallic silver and purple, covered them in rhinestones and placed them in the center of each table.

When her friends turned out for the event, they instantly recognized the centerpieces as Fraser’s creations.

“The satisfaction of seeing people enjoy themselves is huge for me,” she says. “I guess I’m a hostess wherever I go. Even at my own wedding I was like, ‘That’s it. I’ve had my three drinks. Now let’s make sure everyone else is having fun.’”

And she’s not afraid to get her kids in on the project.

She recently employed her 10-year-old son to help her tackle the decorations for the Skyspace party.

For $2 he stripped all the leaves off a heap of branches Fraser cut from a tree in the family’s backyard.

She intends to paint the branches shades of silver and blue, which she’ll illuminate with upward-facing lights in the museum courtyard.

“I’m playing with a lot of glitter right now,” Fraser says, a mischievous grin spreading across her face. “I’m hoping to create my own personal wonderland.”

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their technical skills and adorable stage personas. Padilla whipped off multiple fouetté turns that included double pirouettes Ice skaters, ballerinas and cowboys, oh in between each fouetté. Honea performed my! One would think the three wouldn’t an amazing piqué turn manèges that mix, but, oh, how enjoyable a mix in the included a double-piqué turn that started Sarasota Ballet’s recent production that with one arm in fifth position and ended included Sir Frederick Ashton’s winter-won- with the opposite arm in fifth position that derland piece, “Les Patineurs,” Christopher finally ended with a fouetté into attitude.

Wheeldon’s lyrical homage Red Girls Danielle Brown to America’s bread basand Christine Peixoto ket, “The American,” and seemed to have their musiAgnes DeMille’s Western cality off in the beginning fantasy, “Rodeo.” of their duo but later dem“Les Patineurs” opens onstrated grand movements with four Brown Couples with incredible high extengliding onto the stage, sions in devéloppés. arms interlocked in a series As the Blue Boy, Logan of slow arabesque chugs Learned impishly entered in a circle. The dancers the stage throughout the proceed to emulate icepiece with diminutive skips, skating with precision with but right before he left the steps such as chassés, stage he wowed the auditwirling turns with their ence with enormous skills partners and a multitude such as high-jumping entreof fouetté arabesque jumps chat six and no-handed in star-shaped formations. cartwheels manèges. He Their thighs had to be literally brought the curburning, but all their faces tain down with his chugfeatured pleasant smiles ging grand pirouette à la Kate Honea and Miguel … just like those you’d seconde. The curtain rose Piquer in Christopher find on the faces of famiagain to show that Learned Wheeldon’s “The American.” was still turning, and the lies skating at Rockefeller Center. audience erupted into Those smiles and skatapplause as the curtain ing-like proficiency remained even when a came to a final close. He stole the show. near-disaster almost occurred during a trafWheeldon’s “The American,” is a beaufic jam during one of the fouetté arabesque tiful ballet set to the music of Antonin jump diagonals between two dancers, but Leopold Dvorák. The ballet is meant to the bump-into was barely noticeable. highlight America’s prairies and plains at Blue Girls Kate Honea and Nicole Padilla different times when the sun and moon skipped across stage en pointe in and out illuminate them. The entire cast of this of the ballet and wowed the audience with ballet consisted of principals, soloists and

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coryphée with the exception of Yoohong Lee, who is a member of the corps de ballet, so from the start you knew you were in for an impeccable performance, which it was.

Brown, aided by the strong partnering skill of Octavio Martin, demonstrated a passionate and fluid pas de deux, while the entire cast, with their individual pas de deuxs, pas de trois and multiple couple vignettes, seemed to ooze with deliciousness like that of warm syrup. In plain speak: “The American” was quite perfect.

DeMille’s “Rodeo,” was downright fun.

Choreographed in 1942, DeMille was at the forefront of contemporary choreography among the likes of Jerome Robbins.

“Rodeo” combines folk dancing, Broadway show-style dancing and ballet set to the allAmerican score of Aaron Copeland.

Elizabeth Sykes was charming as the Cowgirl. Displaying a perfect combination of naiveté and humor, Sykes kept up with the Cow-Hands during her pursuit of the

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Molly’s Potato Pancakes (Latkes) Start to finish: Approximately 45 minutes; Servings: 6

6-8 potatoes, either Russet (Idaho) or Russet/Yukon gold mixed, about 2.5 pounds, peeled and cut into chunks 2-3 onions, peeled and quartered 2 eggs, extra large, lightly beaten

2 tablespoons Matzo meal 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt White pepper to taste Vegetable oil for frying Applesauce and/or sour cream as accompaniments

DIRECTIONS: • Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

• Place a colander over a large bowl. Grate or finely shred potatoes and onion in food processor or by hand and put in colander. Press down hard to squeeze out as much moisture as possible.

(Alternatively, line the colander with a clean dish towel, wrap around shredded potatoes, twist and Potato latkes as served at Jimmy’s squeeze potatoes as dry as Sandtrap Restaurant. These are possible.) Grating potatoes and made with a combination of finely onions together helps keep chopped and grated potatoes at a potatoes from turning brown. ratio of one onion to two potatoes.

Let the liquid settle in the bowl for a few minutes. Carefully pour off the watery part, reserving the potato starch that has accumulated in the bottom of the bowl.

• In a clean bowl, combine potato mixture with remaining ingredients and add the reserved starch. Stir vigorously with a wooden spoon to combine.

• Heat vegetable oil, about 1/4- to 1/2-inch deep, in a heavy skillet.

Drop potato mixture into hot oil, about 2 tablespoons per pancake.

Fry, turning once, until pancakes are golden on both sides. Put cooked pancakes on cookie sheets covered with paper towels to drain and hold in oven while you make remaining pancakes, adding oil if needed. Serve latkes as soon as possible after frying; they will become soggy after about 15 minutes.

• Serve with applesauce and/or sour cream.

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For the love of latkes There are three important things to know about latkes, the famous Jewish potato pancakes of the Hanukkah season.

The first is best understood by a story from another lifetime when I was an advertising biggie. A delightful client by the name of Roland W. Watters Jr. had a weekend place not far from my own in New Jersey and would stop by for supper en route home. He loved latkes, and one night asked, “If there are any leftover latkes, may I have some to take home?” He was my client, so I let my late husband break the news: There is no such thing as a leftover latke.

Attribute No. 2: Latkes are best served straight from the fry pan, not made ahead. This assertion will no doubt elicit howls of protest from the legions who make them ahead, drain them carefully on paper towels and refrigerate or even freeze them to reheat and serve later. They will argue that their latkes are every bit as good as ones served immediately. I will challenge anyone to a comparison of the two methods. In that aforementioned other lifetime ,when my weekend kitchen was larger than my weekday apartment and equipped with a six-burner gas range, I invited 50 friends for a Hanukkah party and served the latkes straight from the stove. I only did that once.

Finally, latkes are to Jewish cuisine what Bolognese sauce is to Italian and fried chicken is to Southern.

There are as many ways to make them as there are cooks who do so. The potatoes can be coarsely grated or finely shredded, or a mixture. (Jimmy Galanis, of Jimmy’s Sandtrap Restaurant, whose latkes are pictured at left, uses both.) You can use Russet baking potatoes, one of the waxier boiling types or a combination. You can use matzo meal or flour to bind the mixture.

The variations are literally endless. Paper-clipped together in my file is a collection of latke recipes from my New Jersey neighbor Judy Weinstein’s Hanukkah potluck, to which everyone was invited to bring his recipe — and his results.

A m o n g the ingredients: scallions (versus the standard onions), lemon juice, parsley flakes, baking powder and carrot. One recipe leaves the potatoes unpeeled. Another calls for separating the eggs and beating the whites into stiff peaks. One brave soul even contributed the side panel

from a box of Manischewitz potato pancake mix. Some people season, bind and fry up leftover mashed potatoes and call them “potato pancakes.” I call them “croquettes.”

Latkes can be a side dish to accompany braised brisket of beef or stuffed cabbage, for example. In my life, they are most often a main dish served with applesauce, preferably homemade and a bit chunky, and sour cream.

Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the Tempe of Jerusalem, when there was only enough undefiled oil to keep the sacred menorah burning for one day, but it miraculously lasted for eight days. Thus, Jews enjoy foods fried in oil at this season. Latkes are unquestionably the best known.

Another favorite is sufganyiot, a jellyfiled doughnut.

The recipe at left is how I make latkes. It is derived from Mimi Sheraton’s “From My Mother’s Kitchen,” published in 1979, which reminds me that I have been doing this for an extremely long time. There are still no leftovers. Enjoy!

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+ More than the Israeli Red Cross The mission of American Friends of Magen David Adom is to raise awareness, and there is much to know beyond its affiliation with the international Red Cross movement.

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It was a virtual festival from boutiques in the front yard to Molly Schechter a special tent for the “Most Seasonal” winunique Gentlemen’s ner Aimee Chouinard Committee in the bayside backyard. Yara Michaels and Nancy Blackburn were in charge of the hat contest; Aimee Chouinard described her “Most Seasonal” winner as “two boas on a beach hat.” There was a goodie bag with $145-plus worth of coupons from the likes of Center for Sight, Mattison’s and Michael’s On East — not a bad deal for a $100 ticket. Nobody remembered to order a mic, but that was gracefully covered by the presence of Circus Sarasota clown Chuck Sidlow, who echoed Diane McNeel’s every word with his booming voice. See more photos on pages 11 and 12 and at www.YourObserver.com.

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+ Tidbits Yara who? … Unless they know something BT doesn’t know, the Mad Hatter program got ahead of itself naming her Yara Michaels Shoemaker.

Soon enough, soon enough … Oops … the Asolo gala described in last week’s column as “Ragtime Revisited” is correctly “Ragtime Revival” … Girls Inc. honors … “She Knows Where She’s Going” awards to Flori Roberts and Pam Truitt, “Girl of the Year” to Shayla Brown and the “Donna Brace Ogilvie Visionary Award” to Susan Jones, all to be presented at the 24th annual Celebration Luncheon Tuesday, March 20, at the Ritz …

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