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Thursday, FEBRUARY 9, 2012

bark of the park

by Kurt Schultheis | City Editor

Dog washes no longer welcome Dog owners are complaining about the county asking a mobile dog-washing business to stop coming to the 17th Street Paw Park.

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Winner Jim Hoseth devoured three veggie burgers.

+ Veg hosts burger contest Veg celebrated its second anniversary in grand fashion Feb. 4, at the restaurant on Gulf Gate Drive.

The celebration included the restaurant’s second Veggie Burger Eating Contest.

This year, five contestants bellied up to the table to see who could eat the most veggie burgers in three minutes.

When all the plates had been cleared, Jim Hoseth, who devoured three burgers, emerged as the winner.

No one misses the services of a mobile dog-wash business more than Ron Spence and his chocolate Labrador retriever, Brantlee.

Brantlee, who has been a regular at the 17th Street Paw Park for more than four years, used to able to count on Bubbles Mobile Dog Wash to make sure his coat was gleaming clean before he went home.

Last year, however, Sarasota County Parks and Recreation staff told the service’s owner,

Larry Kelly, he no longer could operate at the park.

“Brantlee jumps in every mud hole he sees, and we miss the service a lot,” Spence said. “It was a great service that was totally self-contained, and it was a huge loss to the park.”

Dog owners say they are upset and frustrated about the county’s decision.

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St. Armands, hospital could see meters With parking meters operational downtown, city staff will explore the idea of meters for St. Armands and Sarasota Memorial Hospital.

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+ Superhero visits Bay Haven Students at Bay Haven School of Basics Plus got a special visit from a superhero Feb. 8, in the school’s cafeteria.

Florida Power and Light’s Captain Conservation’s Captain Conservation presented a 45-minute interactive presentation to teach children about conserving energy.

Captain Conservation sang and played the guitar while teaching his lessons.

+ Louise Harrison visits USFSM Louise Harrison, sister of the late George Harrison, visited the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee to speak with marketing students about promotion.

Harrison, a promoter of The Beatles, will work with the students throughout the semester to help them develop business plans and promote her organization, Lou Harrison’s Help Keep Music Alive.

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Dogs roll in the dirt at Sarasota County’s 17th Street Paw Park.

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Madeleine Cooper, 10, has fun sliding down the bounce slide at Phillippi Shores Elementary School’s “Disney Storybook Characters” Day Friday, Feb. 3. For more photos, see page 4B.

Not only did the majority of the City Commission Monday vote to keep parking meters in operation downtown, they also agreed city staff should hold discussions with St. Armands Circle merchants and Sarasota Memorial Hospital staff about the possibility of erecting parking meters in those areas, to bring in more revenue.

“If St. Armands Circle is serious about building a parking garage … this is a way to help fund it,” Commissioner Shannon Snyder said.

Nonetheless, the commission approved a motion Monday to hold off until 2013, at least, on plans for another downtown parking garage — this one on State Street. The commission agreed to wait on issuing a request for proposals for companies interested in

bidding on the construction of that garage until 2013, even though it is obligated to have the facility in place by 2015.

The affirmation vote for the downtown parking meters came after more than 50 protestors had to be reprimanded repeatedly for clapping, booing and rustling paper bags to drown out speakers Monday night.

The vote also followed Parking Manager Mark Lyons’ presentation of new data showing the metered spaces in the downtown core are more than 75% full during the lunch and dinner periods.

Moreover, the figures revealed that more than 150,000 paid transactions have occurred since the program was implemented in October.

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METERS / FROM PAGE 1A

Kelly’s company, Bubbles Mobile Dog Wash, had been a regular fixture at the park for 15 months. Kelly told the Sarasota Observer he was shocked when a county employee called him in September and abruptly told him to end his service there.

Kelly said he believed that action was related to the scandal that erupted last spring in the Sarasota County Procurement Department.

“I’m not a vendor like a hot-dog vendor that should have to solicit bids to be at the park,” Kelly said. “I’m the only one in town that performs a mobile dog service that’s more of a community service.”

Sarasota resident and longtime park user Mark Bolten sent an email to Sarasota County Parks and Recreation General Manager Carolyn Brown in November, expressing his dismay about the decision.

“Normally, we would get our dog washed like clockwork once a week, which was handled by (the) small dog-washing business,” Bolten said. “(Bubbles’) footprint in the park was very small; it was an attraction and a much-needed service for the dog community.”

The decision about the service followed the completion of a pilot program operated

by Friends of Sarasota County Parks.

“Mr. Kelly’s business was not the only one (affected),” said Brown, adding that a different dog-washing business was told it no longer could provide services at Brohard Paw Park in Venice.

According to County Commission discussions with Brown last October, residents had complained about what they called commercialization in county parks, after the Friends group had worked with firms to sponsor park facilities, and put up appropriate signage, during the pilot program.

Over the next year, Brown said, county staff will be undertaking a comprehensive analysis of the issue.

“If the decision were to be made that this is a service we would want to pursue in the future, the opportunity would be formally advertised to allow anyone with a similar

“That’s a lot of footprints downtown since October,” said Lyons, who plans to start a marketing effort with merchants designed to assist motorists in using the meters.

“Clearly, people continue to come downtown and park,” Lyons said.

Vice Mayor Terry Turner made the motion to terminate the parking-meter program, but he won support only from Commissioner Paul Caragiulo.

Turner and Caragiulo tried to persuade their fellow commissioners to shut down the $24 million program in light of data the city had released earlier: The program hasn’t achieved the 85% user rate city officials had hoped for when the meters went back into operation in October.

In fact, only three districts where the meters are operating have achieved an average user rate of more than 80%.

Meanwhile, the parking meters in the judicial center aren’t collecting much money, either, and the user rate in the Palm Avenue parking garage is hovering around 14%, according to the data.

The City Commission last year had approved moving the meters from the 1300 and 1500 blocks of First Street, Cocoanut Avenue and Gulfstream Avenue to the Judicial District. At the time, city staff voiced the expectation that people in and out of court would be more likely to drop their coins — or slide their credit cards — through the meter slots.

“We would be hard-pressed to come up with a more poorly implemented idea than we did here,” Caragiulo said of the program. “The commission made a goodfaith effort to wander into a bar fight we didn’t start, but this has gone as far as it can go and this thing has run its course.”

Turner agreed. “I have always felt the meters were a bad idea and we implemented them badly,” Turner said.

Lyons’ comments and new data also did nothing to persuade the merchants who had marched, many with bags on their heads, from Mattison’s City Grille to City Hall.

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For several months, Bubbles Mobile Dog Wash advertised its services through a sign mounted on the gate at the 17th Street Paw Park.

business the same opportunity (to bid),” Brown said. “Vendors would submit a proposal,” she said, “and one, or maybe two, vendors would be selected.”

Kelly said he designed and built his Sarasota-based, all-green, truck-based service after he lost his construction-engineering job four years ago. He said the county decision diminished his income for four months. Finally, he said, he was able to find other locations where he could park his truck and provide dog washes.

Kelly said other communities around the country accept companies like his at parks.

They allow the businesses to apply for permits, he said.

“This is too good of a service for the county not to consider it anymore,” Kelly said.

“If Sarasota County wants to label itself as a progressive forward-thinking county, they have to figure out a way to be receptive to these types of services that their residents want.”

Kelly isn’t hopeful he’ll be invited back to the 17th Street Paw Park anytime soon, and that’s frustrating to the dog owners who counted on the washes after their canines finished cavorting and rolling in the dirt.

“It would seem to me that good common sense would prevail and the county could take the steps necessary to help us with our modest request to make our community a better place for our four-legged fury friends and their owners,” Bolten said.

James Derheim, owner of European Focus on Main Street and the leader of the “Bag the Meters” protest, admitted to having begun work with Lyons in December on the new customer-service campaign to facilitate meter usage.

“But the worse business got, the more I realized I should be running my business and not your defective program,” Derheim said to city officials.

When City Auditor and Clerk Pamela Nadalini reminded Derheim he had only a minute left to speak, he yanked a quarter out of his pocket and plunked it down on the dais.

“I got a quarter and I want to buy some more time,” said Derheim, whose remark drew chuckles from the crowd and the commissioners.

“Don’t sit here and tell us you need more time to play with the numbers,” Derheim added. “I don’t have any more time, because I need to pay my rent.”

In voting against Turner’s motion, Mayor Suzanne Atwell, Snyder and Commissioner Willie Shaw said the program needed more time to prove itself.

“More than 80% of all parking downtown is free,” Snyder said. “To throw this out now, without a plan for how we will manage two-hour parking when we don’t have the resources to manage it, won’t work.”

Shaw said the commission must hold a future workshop to gather more public comments and discuss changes to the meters’ time-and-price schedule.

Atwell agreed. “To remove these now would be a huge mistake,” she said. “We need some more cycles and some more time.”

After those comments, most of the bag-wearing protestors began leaving the Commission Chambers.

“It’s absolutely devastating,” said Derheim, adding he couldn’t believe the commission refused to bag the meters during roundabout construction on Ringling Boulevard.

“They need more time, and we told them we’re out of time and can’t survive.”

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farewell

by Nick Friedman | Community Editor

New College president to retire Dr. Gordon ‘Mike’ Michalson says he hopes to spend more time with his family after he retires from the school in July.

Timeline 1992 — After a national search, professor Gordon “Mike” Michalson of Oberlin College joins New College as dean and warden, a position he would hold for five years.

2001 — New College becomes independent of the University of South Florida, the 11th school in the state’s university system 2001 — Michalson is named president of New College of Florida 2001 — Michalson recruits special assistant Suzanne Janney and Glenn Cuomo, professor German, to enhance New College’s Fulbright Scholarship Program, which will produce more than 50 Fulbright scholars over the next decade 2001 — Completion of the Pritzker Marine Biology Research Center, which contains seven labs and more than 100 aquariums 2004 — New College gains independent accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

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Dr. Gordon “Mike” Michalson says he’d like to see New College’s enrollment continue to grow. After 11 years as president of the Sarasota school, he hopes to return to teaching, following a muchdeserved break.

After serving New College of Florida for nearly 20 years in various positions, Gordon “Mike” Michalson, the college’s president, plans to retire in June and return to teaching.

Michalson joined New College in 1992, serving five years as dean and warden before returning to teaching the philosophy of religion full-time. He was named president in 2001.

Under his leadership, the college has seen significant improvements, including its distinction as the state university system’s honors college for liberal arts, a 300-student increase in enrollment, improved compensation for faculty and various construction projects.

After 11 successful years at the New College helm, Michalson decided the time had come for him to step down and let someone else take the reins.

“The school needs a break,” Michalson said. “Everyone can benefit from a fresh source of energy, and as a member of the community, I think it will be a good thing.”

Michalson has personal reasons for retiring, as well. A husband and father, he said his busy schedule has not allowed him as much time as he would like to spend with family.

With his son, Elliott, a freshman at Riverview High School, Michalson’s retirement will enable the two of them to enjoy more activities together.

“As an older father, time tends to pass more quickly,” said Michalson, 63. “I don’t want to blink and have him be off to college. He’s a very talented baseball player, and I’m looking forward to having more time to go to his games.”

Michalson plans to take a one-year sabbatical, during

IF YOU GO Dr. Gordon “Mike” Michalson will be honored during a retirement gala at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at The Polo Grill and Bar in Lakewood Ranch. Tickets are $250. For more information, call 487-4600. which he said he is looking forward to a renewed focus on his hobbies, including boating, fishing and traveling.

“On July 1, I’m going to Goodwill and donating all my ties,” Michalson joked. “After that, my wife and I will start making some travel plans.”

After his year off, Michalson will return to New College as a professor — a role with which he says he has never stopped identifying.

As an acclaimed scholar on the philosophy of religion and, especially, Immanuel Kant, Michalson has published several books. He has continued to teach one class on the philosophy of religion each year during his tenure as president.

After a much-deserved break, he looks forward to returning to academia, which he believes is his true calling.

“I was made to be a college professor, not a president,” he said. “It was only by a series of happy accidents that I became a president.”

But with his impressive list of accomplishments, his success as president hardly could be called an accident.

After joining the New College faculty, Michalson saw many opportunities for improving the school, but he said his proudest accomplishment came with the college’s emergence as a freestanding institu-

tion, separate from the University of South Florida system.

However, that presented financial issues.

“We had always relied on USF for our infrastructure, and now, we had to do all that on our own,” said Michalson. “We had to seek separate accreditation, which was very time-consuming and detailed work.”

Emphasizing the benefits of collaboration, Michalson is modest about his achievements; he gives his colleagues much of the credit for the school’s success.

“I’m most proud of the way my team of fellow administrators worked together,” he said.

“It really brought out the importance of teamwork.”

Another issue high on Michalson’s list of priorities was increasing New College’s sense of community. During his tenure, the school has seen numerous improvements to its facilities. Among those projects have been the completions of the Rhoda Pritzker Marine Biology Laboratory, the Rolland V. Heiser Natural Sciences Complex, the Public Archaeology Laboratory, the Black Box Theater, five new dormitories and, most recently, the Academic Center, which is connected to the Jane Bancroft Cook Library by the new LEED-certified Robert and Beverly Koski Academic Plaza.

But Michalson sees the recently completed facilities as more than bright, shiny buildings.

“The biggest change involves developing a sense of campus,” he said. “It goes beyond a physical change; it creates more collegiality, and it’s important to have that sense of community.”

As he looks toward the future

2006 — USF SarasotaManatee relocates to the Powell Crosley Estate, and New College regains full control of its campus 2007 — Construction of five new residence halls on campus is completed 2007 — The Princeton Review names New College the best value in public higher education 2007 — Michalson is named president of the Southern University Conference 2010 — Completion of the Public Archaeology Lab 2011 — The Academic Center and Plaza, with LEED certification for its sustainable features, is completed.

2012 — Michalson retires, effective July 1 of New College, Michalson hopes to see continued growth, both in enrollment and academic status. Under his direction, the college’s enrollment has increased from fewer than 500 students to more than 800, and he’d like to see the number continue to rise.

“It’s no secret that I’d like to see our enrollment increase to 1,200,” said Michalson. “With each (burst of ) growth we’ve experienced, we’ve become a stronger college. I think this would help us develop a deeper, richer curriculum, and we’d still remain a small college by all means.”

Although he feels reinvigorated by the opportunity to return to teaching, Michalson says he will miss the neverending endeavors to burnish the reputation of a college whose transformation he has overseen for the past 11 years.

“There’s a deep sense of camaraderie and satisfaction that comes with working with a team to do some heavy lifting,” said Michalson. “I’m going to miss that.”

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SLOWING SPEEDS

by Kurt Schultheis | City Editor

U.S. 41 roundabouts to be unveiled in May forum Two roundabouts planned for U.S. 41 at 10th Street and 14th Street are intended to slow traffic to 35 mph in the area once built.

A Florida Department of Transportation official told the Sarasota City Commission Monday the department still supports U.S. 41 roundabouts at 10th and 14th streets.

FDOT District 1 Secretary Billy Hattaway, confirmed for the commission that FDOT is planning to present its recommendations and roundabout renderings during a public forum in May. “We hope to receive feedback and suggestions for the project at that time,” Hattaway said.

FDOT held a U.S. 41 roundabout public workshop in September, to review potential plans for the roundabouts and receive the public’s input.

No presentation was made last year, however, and the public was able only to review diagrams and provide feedback.

The roundabouts are the first phase of the bayfront-connectivity concept that FDOT has endorsed.

An FDOT team still is evaluating and exploring various alternatives for upgrades to U.S. 41 in the downtown corridor, including roundabouts with raised islands for pedestrians at 10th Street and 14th Street.

The Tamiami Trail project is designed to slow traffic speed, create wider avenues and medians and provide more space for bicyclists and pedestrians.

Commissioner Shannon Snyder, who has been trying to find a way to lower the speed limit on U.S. 41 prior to the installation of the roundabouts and to make the thoroughfare safer, asked Hattaway what could be done in the interim.

Not much can be done until the roundabouts are installed, Hattaway said.

“Unless there are physical changes to the roadway, to reduce speed, we can’t just go out and change the speed limit,” Hattaway said. “People will not slow down — even if you lower the speed limit — and will drive as fast as they feel comfortable on a four-lane roadway.”

Hattaway, however, noted that once the roundabouts are installed between 10th and 14th streets, motorists will be able to go only 35 mph, by law, as they approach the roundabouts.

They will be able to travel 20 mph to 25 mph when they are in the roundabouts.

“We will be artificially reducing the speeds in those areas while keeping traffic moving efficiently,” Hattaway said.

Other long-term roundabouts planned through the city’s connectivity plan call for future roundabouts at the U.S. 41 intersections of Fruitville Road, Main Street, Orange Avenue and Gulfstream.

Funding for those roundabouts is expected to be available in the future, because FDOT plans to allocate more money to U.S. 41 projects.

In all, the bayfront-connectivity plan calls for six roundabouts from 14th Street south to Orange Avenue.

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+ Children’s Week artwork on display at City Hall

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The 17th annual Children’s Week is being observed by the city of Sarasota with the lobby display of artwork created by some of the city’s youngest residents.

Preschoolers from across Sarasota County submitted artwork to the Early Learning Coalition and The Florida Center for the display. The children designed colorful paper cutouts of their hands, with each hand representing the unique and important voice of each child. The project emphasizes the need for all children to have access to programs and services necessary for the children’s nurturing and preparation for school and adulthood.

City Hall is located at 1565 First St. The display is open to the public 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, through Friday, Feb. 24.

+ Commission seeking committee members The Sarasota City Commission is seeking individuals willing to serve on the Defined Contribution Plan Advisory

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The most read stories online last week were:

1. “Car crash splits car in half” (Feb. 2) 2. “Sheriff searches for student stalker” (Feb. 2) 3. “Police announce North Sarasota crime operation” (Feb. 3) 4. “PHOTO GALLERY: Fifth Annual Sarasota Indian Festival” (Jan. 30) 5. “PHOTO GALLERY: Prix Prep Part One” (Jan. 25)

Committee, which will be called the Employee Retirement Account Committee.

Two seats, with trust banking or investment management experience preferred, are open. The committee oversees the Defined Contribution Plan and makes recommendations regarding such matters as administration and investment parameters. The commission will make appointments to the Employee Retirement Account Committee during its

regular meeting March 5. The deadline to submit an application to the Office of the City Auditor and Clerk is 5 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 24. Preference will be given to those who wn property in Sarasota.

To apply, go to the Office of the City Auditor and Clerk in City Hall, 1565 First St., or call 954-4160.

+ North Sarasota crime operation under way Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight and Sarasota Police Chief Mikel Hollaway held a press conference last week to announce that, thanks to their forces working in partnership in North Sarasota since mid-December, 181 people had been arrested on 294 charges.

Hollaway, who is combating a growing crime problem in North Sarasota, asked for Knight’s help last month in getting repeat offenders off the street.

“Everyone in the community needs to get involved,” said Hollaway, who is heading to High Point, N.C., with Sarasota City Commissioner Willie Shaw later this month to see how a community program there helped reduce crime by more than 50%.

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 North Trail Redevelopment Partnership Meeting — Noon Thursday, Feb. 9, Center for Arts & Humanity, 1226 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota.  Rosemary District Association Meeting — 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, Fourth Street Fire Station, 1445 Fourth St., Sarasota.  St. Armands Business Improvement District Board of Directors Meeting — 8:30 a.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 14, City Hall, Room 109, 1565 First St., Sarasota.  North Trail Alliance Meeting — 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, The Roskamp Center, 1226 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota.  Arlington Park Neighborhood Association Meeting — 7 a.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 21, Waldemere Fire Station, 2070 Waldemere St., Sarasota.

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Energy Economic Zone Police complaints committee feud grows program parameters set Members of the city’s Police Complaints Committee have refused to accept a suggestion that briefer reports cannot be produced for their review, and they are questioning whether investigations into police misconduct are wasting taxpayer dollars.

The discussion has resulted in a committee member’s scheduling a meeting with the city attorney this week to discuss state statutes regarding the department’s internal affairs investigations.

During the Jan. 17 committee meeting, board member Frank Brenner and Lt. John LeBlanc’s ongoing disagreement over the length of reports escalated after Brenner distributed a memorandum he said was proof the department was not following proper investigative procedures.

Brenner has said he dislikes reading about investigations of alleged officer misconduct that include countless depositions from witnesses who he believes shouldn’t be deposed. Brenner says the department needlessly takes witness statements to prove facts that already have been admitted in cases or that are not in dispute.

LeBlanc told Brenner in December that the Police Department was not creating excessive paperwork in cases. He suggested Brenner discuss the department’s procedures with the city attorney.

Instead of following LeBlanc’s advice, Brenner took time during the Jan. 17 meeting to distribute to his fellow committee members a five-page report titled, “Let Prevail.”

LBKReason - 2010 - K The document inLBK -what 2010 K was a reproduction cluded he said of the statute including the Police Officers Bill of Rights. He added that he believed the Sarasota Police Department was mis-

interpreting part of the statute.

“In this alleged reproduction of the statute, it states that all identifiable witnesses should be interviewed prior to the investigation of an accused officer,” Brenner said.

“But an accused (person) in any truthseeking process is entitled only to disclosure of what evidence will be used against him.”

Brenner asked his fellow board members to imagine a scenario in which 25 officers were deposed to get statements verifying that a police chief had given an order that one officer had disobeyed.

“I submit (that) resources can be used to uncover disputed facts and not facts that aren’t disputed,” Brenner said. “The longer an improper procedure goes on, it becomes more egregious.”

Brenner proposed that if the Police Department modified its procedure, the committee members would benefit as well, by receiving shorter reports. Further, he said taxpayer dollars wouldn’t be wasted to fund unnecessary depositions.

“If you stop this, you won’t be reading reports of 25 pages and investigators interviewing six different people to establish one fact that’s not in dispute,” Brenner said.

LeBlanc, who heads up the police department’s Internal Affairs and Complaints Unit, disagreed with Brenner.

“I contend there is no error,” said LeBlanc, who added that every police department performs investigations the same way the Sarasota department does.

Brenner will meet with an assistant city attorney Feb. 10, to determine whether the department’s procedures should be changed.

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After spending more than two hours Wednesday in discussions about a controversial economic pilot program, the Sarasota County Commission voted 4-1 in favor of changes in the proposed ordinance for the program and asked staff to return with the document for another public hearing Feb. 22.

The county will have to approve the ordinance by March 1 to continue its participation as one of only two local government bodies in the state allowed to work on it. State officials selected Sarasota County and the city of Miami in 2009 to host the pilot program.

The Energy Economic Zone Pilot Program, which would encompass onethird of the county, has been designed to lure clean-energy businesses to areas that need an economic jolt.

Among the changes they agreed to for the ordinance, the commissioners set the county’s official EEZ boundaries. The pilot program area will include the 7,000acre Central County landfill and 1,000 acres along State Road 681, east of U.S. 41. The latter site once was considered a location for a Jackson Laboratories biomedical village.

The boundaries also include major employment centers within the county’s urban service area. Any municipality in the county that has adopted an urban service area opt-in will be part of the program as well.

The majority of the commission agreed upon those parameters.

“There are a lot of unanswered questions here,” said Commissioner Jon Thaxton, “and I would rather keep the definition of boundaries as narrow as

possible … Once some of the fears are satisfied, we can expand (the EEZ zone) at a later date.

Commissioner Joe Barbetta, a strong proponent of the program, disagreed and pushed unsuccessfully for a larger area for the zone at the outset.

“I want anything that encourages redevelopment of our urban areas,” Barbetta said.

The commission also tweaked the ordinance’s definitions of “green businesses” and “clean technology.”

The clean-technology sector is defined as manufacturing businesses with processes that harvest renewable materials and produce less waste.

Eligibility criteria for an EEZ company were modified, too, to clarify that companies must offer at least five cleantechnology jobs and at least 10 jobs in the green-business sector, if they want to apply for inclusion.

The commission approved the changes by a 4-1 vote, with only Chairwoman Christine Robinson voting against the motion.

Robinson said she disagreed “with the direction the commission was taking” the program.

“I don’t think we’re encouraging development, especially with the energy standard we’re providing,” said Robinson, noting she believed the changes also required businesses to adhere to Florida energy-code requirements that were too difficult to achieve.

During the meeting Wednesday, residents and local attorneys continued to voice concerns about the eligibility criteria.

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Observer readers share their stories of true love

Are you ready for inflation?

Turn on the Tony Bennett and pop open the rose-colored champagne. For this Valentine’s Day, we asked readers to send in their love stories and letters. Apparently, Cupid has been busy over the years shooting his arrows in unexpected places — including the Internet. So, fall in love with these stories, which could give Nicholas Sparks some inspiration.

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Then, in 1963, we broke up, because of religious differences.

Years later, I heard she had married a chiropractor and was living in Boston. I moved to Long Island, then, in 1998, to Boynton Beach.

In 2000, I found myself single once again and began surfing the Internet. When I happened upon a site called Classmates. com, I began wondering if my old girlfriend was registered there. Sure enough, she was. I sent her a note and said if she were not still mad at me 37 years later, perhaps she’d write back.

She did write back, telling me she was widowed and living in Sarasota. We spoke on the phone the next night, and two days later, I drove over to take her to dinner.

I showed up at her door with 37 roses (now my license plate number). We hit it off immediately, as though we never had missed a beat.

A journey that began in 1959, 1,200 miles away, ended in 2000. In 2005, we were married, and we are living happily in downtown Sarasota.

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This woman has given me a new lease on life, with love and compassion that is so very hard to find. It is true that we both have families of our own; yet, it seems as if we are one big family.

Linda has yet to experience the gift of grandchildren, so she will have to live through dealing with mine for a while.

They have taken her into their hearts and are welcoming her into their lives.

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DID approves $1.9 million project The Downtown Improvement District has approved a Main Street project that it intends to fund with a 20-year bond.

Pineapple Avenue to U.S. 41 • $1 million for a roundabout at the intersection of Main Street and Orange Avenue Altogether, the CRA will be asked to spend $4,434,000, with the DID paying 43% of the projects’ costs and the CRA spending 57% of its available dollars.

What remains unfunded are upgrades estimated at $1.3 million on the easterly half of Main Street from Orange Avenue to Osprey Avenue, plus all the improvements proposed from Osprey Avenue to U.S. 301.

It’s the DID’s hope that merchants east of Osprey Avenue that witness improvements will join the DID and receive improvements further east on Main Street.

After more than two years of workshops and formal meetings — and merchants’ last-minute threat of legal action in protest — the Downtown Improvement District Board of Directors has approved a $1.9 million project for Main Street that it intends to pay for itself.

Design work could begin as early as March, with construction finishing up by Thanksgiving, if the City ComRight: A $1.9 million Main Street project was approved mission gives the DID its support. by the DID Tuesday.

During its Feb. 7 regular meeting, the DID officially approved the portion of the project that exists within its boundaries. The board will forward its recommendation to the City Commission, acting as the Community Redevelopment Agency, for review.

While some board members questioned whether the commission would support the project, DID Operations Manager John Moran reminded them the DID is going to pay for the improvements from Bayfront Avenue to Orange Avenue, along with approximately half of the upgrades proposed from Orange Avenue to Osprey Avenue.

“You are financing this yourselves with a 20-year bond,” Moran said.

The DID will use bond revenue that its stakeholders will pay back through the continuation of a 2 mill assessment over the next 20 years.

The DID sent out a letter last week to the stakeholders, to request their input, but board members said Tuesday they had received very little feedback.

However, Ron Soto, owner of Soto’s Optical at 1383 Main Street, brought to the meeting a petition with signatures of merchants on Main Street from Bayfront Avenue to the Five Points roundabout. He said the petition protested the DID decision to widen and brick the sidewalks along that portion of the road.

The DID also plans to replace angled parking with parallel parking on the north side of the road in the historic district.

“More than 75% of us just want you leave the sidewalks alone and the only ones that want it widened are the four restaurants in that area,” Soto said. “We don’t want it, and we know you’re going to railroad it through anyway, though, so our next step is that we are going to lawyer up.”

The comments didn’t deter the board members, because Moran told them two of the project’s goals are to create wider sidewalks and to add more definition to the historic district.

Earlier this year, the DID pared back plans to install wider sidewalks on more of Main Street and to brick that street in the historic district, from Bayfront Avenue to Orange Avenue.

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Obama’s assault on religion No ideas are more fundamental to our nation’s heritage and moral principles than those expressed in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The idea of religious freedom took root in America 150 years before that first shot heard around the world rang out for freedom and independence. The Puritans at Plymouth Rock had left England and the Netherlands for a safe haven in America for the express purpose to escape religious persecution and to practice their religious beliefs freely and in peace.

And when the Founding Fathers later codified the Bill of Rights, they deliberately made the first clause in those rights to say: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof …”

This has been a sacred, inviolable principle in this land for 392 years. Until now.

Shockingly, this inalienable right, as viewed by Barack Obama, is to become subservient to the coercion and brute force of the State. Obama apparently believes he and the state have the tyrannical authority to usurp this fundamental right.

This should be the fatal blow to Obama’s reign. American Catholics will see to it.

As will all others who cherish freedom of religion. And they should.

Throughout Catholic Masses this past Sunday, parish priests informed their communicants of what amounts to a declaration of war on freedom of religion. Priests and bishops informed their parishioners of a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ruling last week that, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, will require almost all employers, including the Catholic Church, to offer their employees’ health coverage that includes sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs and contraception. Almost all health insurers will be forced to include those services in the health policies they write. And almost all individuals will be forced to buy that coverage as a part of their policies.

The Rev. Fausto Stampiglia, pastor of St. Martha Catholic Church in downtown Sarasota, told his parishioners in a hushed

LETTER TO CATHOLICS FROM BISHOP DEWANE The following are excerpts of a letter from Bishop Frank Dewane that was read last Sunday to Catholics at all masses in the Diocese of Venice: “An alarming and serious matter … strikes at the fundamental right to religious liberty for all citizens of any faith.

The federal government, which claims to be ‘of, by, and for the people,’ has just dealt a heavy blow to almost a quarter of those people — the Catholic population — and to the millions more who are served by the Catholic faithful …

“In so ruling, the administration has cast aside the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, denying to Catholics our nation’s first and most fundamental freedom, that of religious liberty. And as a result, unless the rule is

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serious tone that when he and his family left his native Italy as a boy, they were fleeing the communism and socialism that was sweeping through Europe. “I never thought I would see it in the United States,” he told parishioners. “We are seeing it now.”

Father Fausto went on to read a letter to all Diocese of Venice Catholics from Bishop Frank J. Dewane — see the accompanying box below — decrying the HHS mandate.

But beware, all who believe in freedom of religion. The supporters of Obama’s attack on religious freedom will cast as kooks and extremists those who oppose this outrageous act of tyranny. The Obama administration will deny that it is infringing on religious freedom. It will deny that its rules force Americans to act against their religious consciences.

To wit: In a White House blog, the administration posted a series of claims to dispel the opposition. Among them: “No individual will be forced to buy or use contraception,” the White House says.

“This rule only applies to what insurance companies cover. Under this policy, women who want contraception will have access to it through their insurance without paying a co-pay or deductible. But no one will be forced to buy or use contraception.” overturned, we Catholics will be compelled either to violate our consciences or to drop health coverage for our employees (and suffer the penalties for doing so).

“The administration’s sole concession was to give our institutions one year to comply. We cannot — we will not — comply with this unjust law. People of faith cannot be made second-class citizens.

“Do not be misled by attempts to turn this into a debate about Church teaching or the morality of contraception. The issue here is religious liberty and freedom of conscience.

“Already our brothers and sisters of all faiths and many others of goodwill have joined in this important effort to regain our religious freedom.

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To which the Catholic Church responds: “The statement that no one will be forced to buy it is false. Women who want contraception will be able to obtain it without co-pay or deductible precisely because women who do NOT want contraception will be forced to help pay for it through their premiums. This mandate passes costs from those who want the service, to those who object to it.”

The White House: “Churches are exempt from the new rules: Churches and other houses of worship will be exempt from the requirement to offer insurance that covers contraception.”

Catholic Church: “This is not entirely true. To be eligible, even churches and houses of worship must show the government that they hire and serve primarily people of their own faith and have the inculcation of religious values as their purpose. Some churches may have service to the broader community as a major focus, for example, by providing direct service to the poor regardless of faith. Such churches would be denied an exemption precisely because their service to the common good is so great. More importantly, the vast array of other religious organizations — schools, hospitals, universities, charitable institutions — will clearly not be exempt.”

Ever since Franklin Roosevelt, the coercive grip of government has grown tighter and tighter over every aspect of our lives, squeezing the life out of the liberty our Founding Fathers bestowed. With this usurpment of religious freedom, our struggling nation is on the precipice of the same dark chasm that caused the Puritans to flee to America and Plymouth, Mass.

Think about it: In 2009 and 2010, the members of the Tea Party said they had had enough and were tired of the government’s confiscatory spending. In 2012, we now have members of religious faiths protesting a gross infringement on freedom of religion. Americans should be alarmed.

Write your congressman. The HHS rule on contraception, abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization must be repealed. It is not hyperbole to say: Your liberty is at stake. only to have their posterity stripped of their God-given rights.

“In generations past, the Church has always been able to count on the faithful to stand up and protect her sacred rights and duties. I hope and trust She can count on this generation of Catholics to do the same. Future generations deserve nothing less.

“Therefore, I would ask of you two things. First, as a community of faith we must commit ourselves to prayer and fasting that Wisdom and Justice may prevail, and religious liberty may be restored.

Without God, we can do nothing; with God, nothing is impossible.

“Second, I would also recommend visiting www.usccb.org/conscience to learn more about this severe assault on religious liberty and how to contact Congress in support of legislation that would reverse the administration’s decision …”

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by Dean Kalahar

Advocates who demand non-judgmental public policies out of a sense of guilt only lead vagrants into dependence.

Back in the days of TV’s Andy Griffith, Otis Campbell, the town drunk, would put himself in jail so as not to bother anyone in Mayberry. The sensibilities back then were straightforward: Show compassion to Otis’ humanity, but hold him accountable for his decisions and behavior while protecting private and public property.

Today, this idea is anathema to many homeless advocates in Sarasota who favor more government support and protections. Others, however, are concerned about the unintended consequences of allowing people Kalahar to live at will on the streets.

According to The Heritage Foundation, homelessness is usually a transitional condition, with individuals who lose housing typically residing in an emergency shelter for a few weeks or months before re-entering permanent housing. In 2009, one out of 180 poor people was homeless in the literal sense of being on the street and without shelter. Studies also show that on a typical night, shelters have an average vacancy rate of 10%, so there are enough beds to meet the need.

Because more people become temporarily homeless over the course of a year than are homeless at any single point, most homeless people are one-time victims.

As you can see, “the homeless” is a poor description of the individuals

the community is concerned about. A more accurate description would be: vagrants. Granted, some individuals are wandering the streets because of psychiatric or substance-abuse problems. For them, many avenues of help are offered in the community.

No one is begrudging private charities, churches and families that historically have taken the lead offering assistance and hope to those whose freewill is broken.

But it is unacceptable to defend those who defecate in public, commit crime and engage in behaviors that violate property rights.

Advocates who demand loose non-judgmental public policies out of a sense of guilt, pity and self-promoting compassion only lead vagrants into dependence and despondence instead of personal responsibility and dignity.

The role of government is to protect people and their property, so government’s responsibility addressing the vagrant issue must defend a larger moral principle. Morality is based on the simple idea that anything that harms a person or his property is immoral. For example, murder, rape, theft or vandalism is immoral, and there are criminal laws against such acts. Even behaviors that cause property values to be diminished can be seen as immoral so consistent laws must also be applied to protect abuses that are seen and must be foreseen.

People, homeowners and businesses have the right not to have their persons or property harmed,

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My family, friends and I believe that this is a grave mistake, for us and for the airline.

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Symposium focuses on research treatment The 15th annual Suncoast Parkinson’s Disease Symposium, held Feb. 4, drew nearly 1,000 patients, caregivers and physicians, who came to learn about the latest advances in Parkinson’s studies and treatments.

Attendees packed the Sarasota Memorial HealthPlex gym to capacity, to hear from leading health-care professionals in the field. The symposium was live-streamed to two overflow satellite locations, to accommodate the large registration numbers.

During his presentation, Dr. Michael Okun, medical director of the National Parkinson Foundation, discussed his hope for a shift in the philosophy surrounding the treatment of Parkinson’s patients, to focus on a patient-centric model. He stressed the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to treatment, saying that facilitates more discussion and better results.

He also shed light on some of the most upto-date research and studies, which he said are yielding promising results.

“Patients might have the disease, but the disease does not have them,” said Okun. “Par-

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Dr. Cynthia Fox, a research associate at the National Center for Voice and Speech and co-founder of the Big and Loud Voice Therapy, outlined the Lee Silverman Voice Therapy system, which incorporates voice and body exercises into Parkinson’s treatment.

Dr. James Schumacher, a Sarasota Memorial Hospital neurosurgeon, discussed deep-brain stimulation and the groundbreaking science of creating dopamine cells from people’s own skin cells. The latter effort has been designed to help patients overcome the effects of the faulty cell mechanisms that result from the disease.

Dr. Dean Sutherland, medical director of the Neoro Challenge Foundation and founder of the Southeastern Center for Parkinson’s Disease, discussed the causes, risk factors and methods for diagnosis of the illness.

The Neuro Challenge Foundation hosted the symposium, the largest of its kind in the nation.

by Kurt Schultheis | City Editor

City commission combats graffiti The Sarasota City Commission agreed at its Monday, Feb. 6 regular meeting the city would work to wipe graffiti clean from city buildings in a more efficient manner in the future.

Commissioner Shannon Snyder agreed to work with law enforcement and city officials to come up with a program to be alerted about the graffiti more quickly and have it removed so it doesn’t promote more graffiti within city limits.

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Alta Vista association focuses on grant, crime prevention With elections approaching, members are hoping for more community participation on their projects.

Candy Spaulding, president of the Alta Vista Neighborhood Association, is encouraging the organization’s members to sign up their fellow residents in an effort to win a government grant that could be used for traffic-calming efforts.

During the organization’s Jan. 26 meeting, held at the Concordia Lutheran Church, Spaulding said the association needs to collect about 180 more signatures to achieve the required number of 240, or the funds will go to another neighborhood.

For the program, Sarasota Police Officer Ford Snodgrass and Detective Kim Laster reported on the neighborhood’s crime statistics: Four burglaries and 11 thefts occurred in the previous two months.

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“Theft is a crime of opportunity,” said Snodgrass. “If you make it easy for the criminals, it’s going to happen.”

He suggested residents examine their homes, to determine situations that would be enticing to criminals. Loose bricks or stones near windows, as well as ladders stored outside, make entry easier, he said, while grills and other personal items kept outdoors are ready targets.

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Because members have expressed dissatisfaction with the association’s bi-monthly meeting schedule, those attending the Jan. 26 session voted to hold monthly meetings for the rest of the year.

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12:55 p.m. — 1300 block of Main Street. Theft. A woman reported that someone had stolen her pink purse at a bar. She said the purse contained nothing but two bottles full of prescription medication.

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Dispute. A man told police that he had let a neighbor borrow his stereo over the holidays, but she had slammed the door in his face when he went over to retrieve it. The woman told police she didn’t have his stereo, and a search of the home, with her consent, confirmed her statement.

1:50 a.m. — 2500 block of Central Avenue. Open Doors. Police discovered the rear door to an abandoned house was open, broken and impossible to secure.

Police made plans to repair the door and keep the building locked up.

‘Celebrate good times’ the witness said, the man began pulling items out of his pants. The man admitted to stealing more than $75 worth of merchandise from two stores, because “it was hard times.” Officers arrested him.

Jan. 30 ‘Did I say I needed help?’

1:22 a.m. — 1500 block of Seventh Street.

Suspicious Noise. A man told police the excessively loud noise reported coming from his place had resulted from a party for his birthday. The festivities were breaking up, he added, and he promised he would party more quietly the rest of the night.

2 p.m. — 1400 block of First Street. Disorderly Intoxication. Police located a man who, they reported, “was too drunk to care for himself.” They took him to a facility where he could receive appropriate care.

9:27 a.m. — 5000 block of Barrington Circle. 911 Call. A woman told police she must have accidentally hit the panic button in her home.

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Some follow-up needed 3:40 p.m. — 1700 block of 17th Street.

Dispute. A woman reported her husband had violated a restraining order by texting her twice and calling her cell phone. Police couldn’t locate a valid order with the Sarasota County Clerk of the Court, so they urged her to confirm her order and validate its case numbers.

Caught in the act 6:40 p.m. — 1300 block of South Tamiami Trail. Shoplifting. Loss prevention officers at a grocery store confronted a man in the parking lot and brought him back inside, where he admitted to having stolen 11 items totaling $68.51. He was trespassed from the site, arrested and taken to jail.

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6:52 p.m. — 1300 block of Boulevard of the Arts. Suspicious Circumstance. A crisis-center hotline representative called police after a man phoned the hotline and threatened to “walk away from everything.” Police went to the man’s condominium complex, where the security guard told them the man seemed fine when he left minutes earlier. The guard added that the man could be “quite dramatic” at times.

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4:15 p.m. — 2000 block of Ringling Boulevard. Police Assistance. A woman told police she and her son had been evicted a couple days earlier and were waiting for a check from her friend. She planned to use the money to find a new place to live. She was transported to the Salvation Army, so she could stay there until the check arrived.

10:29 a.m. — 800 block of South Tamiami Trail. Suspicious Person. Police pulled over a man matching the description of a burglar in a crime that had just occurred. A strong odor of marijuana emanated from the man’s vehicle, officers said. The man admitted to having smoked marijuana and driving with a suspended driver’s license. He maintained that neither he nor his friends were involved in the burglary, nonetheless.

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Patterson Foundation focuses on partnerships During the first of seven scheduled sessions, Patterson Foundation Executive Director Debra Jacobs outlined Tuesday the specific partnerships and projects of the organization, with an emphasis on its guiding philosophy.

Because the principles of philanthropy and entrepreneurialism were so important to founder Dorothy Patterson, who established the foundation in honor of her late husband, Jim, Jacobs said the Patterson Foundation is striving to use the $200 million endowment left by the late Patterson to do the most good it possibly can on the local, national and global level.

“Rather than having grant cycles, the Patterson Foundation chooses strategic partnerships to develop relationships that will make the biggest impact,” said Jacobs. “We want to create new realities by seeing things not how they are, but as they could be.”

Jacobs discussed the list of initiatives the foundation will be supporting, such as EdExplore, a web platform in partnership with the Sarasota County Public Schools. That system will connect students and teachers to cultural and scientific experiences in the community.

The Patterson Foundation also is lending support to the New Media

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Brent Parker stands at the Sarasota bayfront, which his Sarasota Vision project hopes to one day connect to Main Street via a pedestrian walkway. Parker is a resident of Golden Gate Point.

Parker expects the Downtown Improvement District to bring the plan before the commission within the next month, and he hopes to present in parallel with them.

City Commissioner Paul Caragiulo is open-minded about the proposal. “I am intrigued about anyone that has a vision for this town and am willing to review it,� Caragiulo says. Although there is enthusiasm surrounding the project, there are some detractors — mostly downtown merchants. “They’re worried about the disruption, but there are ways to ease that,� says Parker, who suggests that using materials such as brick as opposed to concrete would make for a much less intrusive construction process. He adds that the pedestrian-only Main Street could be tested using retractable metal poles to gage its success. “At the end of the day, it would lead to a huge increase in downtown pedestrian traffic.� — Nick Friedman

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Brent Parker is an architect who likes to stay ahead of the technological curve. “We’re no longer drawing,�

Parker says. “The program we’re using doesn’t even have a line tool. We place walls and windows much like a contractor would do in the physical realm, only we do it virtually.�

Parker says these three-dimensional drafts allow customers who aren’t trained to read floor plans envision the final product more easily, which may be the reason one of his latest projects is getting positive reactions around town.

Parker and local activist Gil Waters recently teamed up to finalize a 50-year-old plan for downtown Sarasota that would create a pedestrianonly Main Street and a pedestrian walkway connecting it to the Sarasota bayfront. “The fact that I can offer these three-dimensional drafts really helps people understand what the project will look like,� Parker says. “I took it to the farmers market, and out of the 75 people that I talked to, only one person voiced a problem with it.�

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Booker High School presents “All in the Timing” — takes place at 7 p.m. through Saturday, Feb. 11, in the VPA Theater, 3201 N. Orange Ave. Cost is $5 for students, $10 for seniors and $15 for the public. Call 355-2967.

Bay Biocruise — takes place from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, at Bayfront Park. Experience the wildlife of Sarasota Bay and view nests of the native bird life.

Cost is $15 for American Littoral Society members and $20 for non-members. Call 927-3409.

FRIDAY, FEB. 10

Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Annual Kick-Off Breakfast — takes place from 7:30 to 9:15 a.m. Friday, Feb. 10, at the Sahib Shrine Center.

Cost is $30 for Chamber members before Feb. 7 and $45 for non-members. Call 556-4051.

Temple Sinai’s Breakfast with Laura Freedman — takes place at 9:15 a.m. Friday, Feb. 10, at Temple Sinai. Temple Sinai’s preschool director Laura Freedman will talk about the temple’s programs. Free. Call 926-9462.

Community Superstars Award Luncheon — takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. Cost is $50. Call 3663911, Ext. 121.

Wildlife Gardening — takes place at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, at the Gulf Gate Library. Call 8611110.

Kirk Nesset, ‘Writing at the Intersection of Poetry and Prose’ — takes place at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, at the Selby Public Library, Gelbert Auditorium. Call 365-7900.

SATURDAY, FEB. 11

Big Cheese Cheese Tasting — takes place from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 11, at the south

Debra Jacobs will update the community on the work of The Patterson Foundation locally, regionally, nationally and globally.

She will also discuss the foundation’s strategic partnerships, including many with Sarasota entities, and how the foundation is partnering to create new realities within our community and beyond. Registration required.

Call 952-1435.

FRIDAY, FEB. 10 Smooches for Pooches and Kisses for Kitties Stroll — takes place from 5 to 9 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 10, at Southside Village. Southside Village hosts a Humane Society Valentine stroll and invites family and friends to gather with their pets. There will be a kissing booth, specialty pet vendors llamas and miniature horses, pet portraits, a raffle to benefit the Humane Society of Sarasota County and dogs and cats available for adoption. Cost is free. Call 9554131, Ext. 101.

TUESDAY, FEB. 14

Phillippi Shores Integrated Art Exhibit — takes place from 9 to 10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, at Phillippi Shores Elementary. This exhibit is the culmination of two ongoing arts-integration projects developed with the assistance of the Youth Experiencing the Arts Foundation and Ringling College student artists. Call 361-6424.

end of the Sarasota Farmer’s Market. Call 225-9256.

Dr. Terrence Roberts Speech — takes place at 11:30 a.m.

Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Sarasota Hyatt. Dr. Roberts, who was one of the nine African-American students integrated into Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., will discuss his experiences as a 15-year-old during the troubled time. Call 379-0232 for more information.

Southwest Florida Heritage Festival — takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Crowley Museum and Nature Center. Call 322-1000.

SUNDAY, FEB. 12

Singles on the Go — takes place from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, at Faith Presbyterian Church, 1201 N. Beneva Road. Call 9223709.

MONDAY, FEB. 13

Patterson Foundation ‘The Journey Unfolds’ — takes place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, in the USF SarasotaManatee Selby Auditorium.

Abilities Possibilities Expo — takes place from 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, at the Gulfcoast Event and Conference Center. The Stroke Association of Florida will host this event, which is a community-resource day that will inspire people with disabilities, their families, caregivers and healthcare professionals. Call 355-3006.

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Philanthropy flies high at 16th disc golf tourney Cathy Tulk, Terry Murphy, Carol and Tyler Barnt, J.R. Ekins and Deb Renner

More than 100 disc golfers spun into action for the 16th annual Ice Bowl Disc Golf Tournament Feb. 4, at North Water Tower Park.

In addition to a round of disc golf, participants enjoyed spicy bowls of chili and plenty of outdoor fun.

The tournament raised money and food donations for All Faiths Food Bank.

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Phillippi Shores kids enjoy Disney Day Drivers on U.S. 41 near The Landings might have done double-takes as they passed Phillippi Shores Elementary School Feb. 3: The playground was full of Disney characters, leaping into the air in bounce houses, running an obstacle course and relishing snow cones.

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taking strides By Nick Friedman | Community Editor The walk-athon is a tradition at Cardinal Mooney.

Below: Gage Schrantz and Brian Richter

Cardinal Mooney students completed the 5-mile walk-a-thon with ease.

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Cardinal Mooney High School students and staff members pounded the pavement for the school’s 11th annual walk-a-thon Feb. 4.

The annual walk raises money for All Children’s Hospital.

Eleven years ago, the high school lost several students to leukemia and decided to start this fundraising event to raise money for research.

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Tower Residences unit sells for $950,000

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Burton and Judith Rudman, of Albany, Calif., sold their home at 1403 Cedar Bay Lane to Fred and Judith Hollingsworth, Sarasota, for $700,000. Built in 1991, it has five bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,559 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $312,700 in 2009.

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Richard Ulrich and Nancy Wachendorf, Sarasota, sold their home at 1654 Prospect St. to Daniel Butturini and Carol Malinowski, of Ridgefield, Conn., for $420,000. Built in 1925, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,635 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $82,400 in 1989.

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Unit 1506 at The Tower Residences, 35 Watergate Drive, has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,799 square feet of living area. It sold for $950,000.

Harriet Cooksey and Katheryne Moriarty, trustees, Sarasota, sold the Unit 21 condominium at 350 Golden Gate Point to Nancy and Christopher Winship, of Chestnut Hill, Mass., for $380,000. Built in 1969, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,612 square feet of living area.

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David Johnson and Kinga Huse, Sarasota, sold their home at 1766 Shoreland Drive to Wayne and Nancy Sault, Sarasota, for $280,000. Built in 1952, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,480 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $337,000 in 2003.

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The following residential real estate transactions took place between Jan. 20 and Jan. 27.

A condominium in The Tower Residences tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Aurora Loan Services LLC sold the Unit 1506 condominium at 35 Watergate Drive to Selene RMOF II REO Acquisition II LLC for $950,000. Built in 2003, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,799 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.9 million in 2007.

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JUSTIN FLAGG Justin Flagg is one of the newest faces of CrossFit in Sarasota County.

Flagg moved from Huntington Beach, Calif., to Sarasota with his wife, Stacy, and two little girls, Sloan and Hayden, in October 2011. Flagg, a former firefighter, met his wife when they lived

in California and were both personal trainers. Soon, the two founded CrossFit and started doing some personal training sessions at their home gym for clients who were interested in CrossFit. Today, Flagg runs CrossFit Suncoast.

What is CrossFit? The definition is constantly varied, functional movements, done at a high intensity. So, you take things such as squatting, dead-lifting, pushing and pressing things over our heads, running, jumping, pull-ups, push-ups, lunges, kettle-bell work, work with dumbbells — anything where you are moving more than one joint at a time in your body. It is broad, general and inclusive. I like to say our specialty is not specializing.

potential to be a big influence within Sarasota in how people work out and live their life. It is a community-based sport that leads to a healthier life style.

What is the CrossFit community like here in Sarasota?

It is small but growing. There are a couple other gyms in the area, and it is just on the brink of expanding. Tampa and Miami have large CrossFit communities. We are a smaller-type town, but it is just starting out, and it has

What other sports did you play?

I was a linebacker at UC Berkeley. I grew up playing a lot of different sports — basketball, baseball, football. I did a little bit of track in high school, and I’ve done surfing and snowboarding and other outdoor activities as well.

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Don’t give up. Take it slow and know you are not going to learn everything in a month. You could spend years and not master everything there is in CrossFit. I’ve been doing it for four years now, and I have worked out in

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012

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Record Temps.

High Low 85 (1991) 32 (1936) 84 (1983) 31 (1980) 85 (1990) 27 (1917) 85 (2012) 21 (1917) 87 (1990) 24 (1996) 85 (1957) 28 (1996) 84 (1989) 31 (1978)

Average Gulf water temperature: 65

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Sunrise 7:12 7:11 7:11 7:10 7:09 7:09 7:08

Sunset 6:17 6:17 6:18 6:19 6:20 6:20 6:21

Richard Chen submitted this sunset photo, taken on Siesta Key beach.

Karenia brevis, the red tide organism, was detected in background concentration alongshore Sarasota County, Friday, Feb. 3, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.

PHOTO CONTEST: Win an iPad 2 or Canon EOS T3 camera. Enter your sunset, sunrise or weather-related photos for The Observer’s weather photo contest, sponsored by . To enter your photos, visit YourObserver.com, and click on the “Contests” tab in the upper-right corner. Weekly winners will have their photo printed in the paper and will be entered into a drawing for that month. The monthly winner will choose between an iPad 2 or Canon EOS T3 camera.

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27 Marble-producing Tuscany commune 28 Napolean’s birthplace, to the French 30 Rather costly?

31 Nut yielding caffeine 34 Cheese made with goat’s milk 35 Mothers of lambs 36 Mr. with more than one Mrs. 40 Beelzebub (with “the”) 43 Finger-painters’ protection 47 Geller who claims to be telepathic 48 Tiny amounts 50 Put more salsa on one’s nacho, e.g.

52 Animal trap, or Animal’s set piece 53 Month to honor vets 54 Uncomplicated 57 Tee or blouse 58 Prepare to be dubbed 61 Disposes (of) 62 Scoffing look 64 California’s Santa ___ winds 65 Oklahoma Indians 67 What a Manx is missing 69 Fall-like

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46 Flower part 49 Four-door vehicle 51 Prefix meaning “false” 55 Where Marco Polo explored 56 Bigfoot’s cousins 59 Relative of “My word!”

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COFFEE TABLE: Danish Teak Modern "Massiv" 28 X 56. Sacrifice $190.00 OBO. 925-1074.

DINING TABLE: 60x42 Beveled Glass top, Wood base shell motif, $160. Call 941-357-6883.

DOULTON RETIRED Small Sports Jugs: Baseball Player, Hampshire Cricketer, $49/ea. Toronto Bluejay, $75. 941-349-6274.

ELECTRIC STOVE and microwave, almond, excellent condition. $195.00. 941-349-2032.

ETHAN ALLEN Old Tavern Muffin Stand. Made in Vermont, $95. 941-924-5093.

HONDA LAWN mower $125.00 Leaf Blower Electric $17.50 Weed Eater Electric $17.50 Call 941-355-3176.

16’ SCOUT CENTER CONSOLE 2008 Yamaha F60 four stroke engine, 50 hours, SS prop, Bimini top, swim platform, bow cushion, bow lifting ring, Northstar 660 GPS fish finder.

Kept indoors. Aluminum Continental trailer, $15,500. 941-346-1010.

Consignments CLOTHING Ladies Designer Clothes, Bags, Shoes and Jewelry at affordable prices. Peggy Ann’s Chic Boutique, 6530 Gateway Avenue, Sarasota. Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM to 4PM. 941-487-7085.

Furnishings

LASER PRINTER. Color, Multifunction $149.

Samsung CLX-3185. Never used. Box still unopened. South Sarasota, 216-262-0021.

ENTERTAINMENT CENTER: Broyhill, 6’4”hx3’2”wx21”d, as new. $650. Also, assorted pictures, tables and lamps. 941-383-7771.

LIGHT-OAK DINING Room Table w/ Pedestal, 58x42, 4 Chairs, Like New! $190. 941-379-8356.

MOVING FROM The Oaks. Luxury queen and king size bedroom sets and office furniture for sale.

Act fast. 941-966-9865.

PHOTO ENLARGER: Simmon Omega B6, B&W, $20. Two tripods, both for small cameras, $20.

941-953-3571.

ROCKING CHAIR: Amish, handmade, solid oak, cushion. $75.00. Side table, round, mahogany, $95. 941-926-0778.

RUSSIAN BLACK Lacquer boxes, including Famous “Firebird”. Beautiful signed 1980s artwork. 4 total, $200. 941-320-7775.

SEWING MACHINE Portable: Sears Kenmore with case. Excellent condition. $75. Call John (941)924-1008, Sarasota.

TIRES: FOUR 17”, 225/65R, 5/32 of tread. $60/OBO. Call Robert, (941) 924-0876.

WING CHAIR Quality, off white bargello slip cover.

Photo available, $30. 941-360-0612.

WOMEN'S 24INCH Trek Bicycle, $100. Women's Golf Club Set, $100. Call 941-918-1951.

Autos For Sale 1989 CADILLAC SEVILLE: Like new!! Garage kept, 1 owner, 65,000 original miles. Must see to believe! $4,995. 941-966-0614 or leave msg.

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

Boat Slips For Rent/Sale LONGBOAT KEY Marina boat slip for rent: way below market! 45' length 18' width, free cable, Wi/FI, laundry, showers, 24 hour gated security.

Live aboards permitted, electricity extra. $250/mo. for 6 month lease. Contact Andy: aweeks@ehr.org 603-475-2986.

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Garage/Moving/Estate Sales *******THREE ESTATE SALES THIS WEEK*********

BY NANCY DUNN LLC 941-925-1993 FRIDAY 2/10 9AM-2PM 3542 Jacinto Court, Off Siesta Dr. All High End Furnishings, Queen BR Set, Micro Fiber Sofa & Chair, Leather Chair & Otto, Trundle Bed, Flat Screen/Surround Sound System, Professional Keyboard/Speakers, 2 Saxophones, 1 Flute, Fine Rugs, Pottery Barn Patio Furniture & More!!!!

FRIDAY 2/10 9AM-2PM 7404 Dickens Drive - Gulf Gate Area 2 Twin BR Sets, Traditional LR, Marble Top Cabinet, Double Bed, 2 Teak Wood Chests, Lots of Misc.

SATURDAY 2/11 9AM-2PM 1255 Gulfstream Ave. PH 1503 in Bay Plaza, Downtown Sarasota Expect the Best Here!!! Antiques, Fine Porcelains, Sterling, Ivories, 2 Chandeliers, Fine Art, Jewelry & Much More - Please Note: Park on the Street or Public Garage Parking.

For Information: www.estatesalesbynancydunn.com AUCTION: FRIDAY - 2/10 - 2p.m.-? (Preview at 1:30p.m.) at Spanish Lakes MHP, 1340 N. Tamiami Trail, Nokomis (Roberts Rd. & 41, behind Clubhouse). Antiques, jewelry, tools, household and much more! Rain or shine.

ENTIRE CONTENTS OF DOWNTOWN CONDO TO BE SOLD Sat. 2/11 from 9-2. Items include Danish day bed/sofa, mid-century entertainment center, vintage lanai table w. 4 chairs, French 60's stained glass coffee table, Art Deco mantle clock, orig. art, hand-painted square glass table, ceramics, kitchen items, 4 Italian stacking bistro chairs, mans' Raleigh Retro bike, Globe, Art/Travel books, Vintage lamp, etc. 1637 Oak St. #23. Just 1 block east of Burn's Square.

ESTATE SALE Everything must go!! Antiques, Households...Saturday & Sunday 9AM-2PM, 4598 Cactus Ave., Sarasota, 34231. #’s at 8AM. SARASOTA PINEHURST ANNUAL MULTI-FAMILY SALE Saturday, February 11th from 8a.m.-5p.m.

Something for everyone.

(Off north end Lockwood Ridge Rd. to Oak Run, Eleanor Circle and Lindsey Ct.)

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ESTATE AUCTION ART & ANTIQUES SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH @ 1PM Inspection Sunday Day of Sale 11am-1pm The sale will be held at our Auction Gallery located on the Southwest corner of 301N & University Parkway.

Quality Estate Auction Featuring: Victorian and Custom Furniture, Art, Pottery, Collectible Glass & China, Sterling Silver, Jewelry, Oriental Rugs, & More!

13% Buyer’s Premium 3% Discount for Cash or Check Elliott Bernstein Auctions AU3504 - AB2545 Gallery Phone: 941-351-3002 Photos & more: www.auctionzip.com Auctioneer ID#8290 ESTATE SALE 9a.m.-3p.m. - Friday, Feb. 10 5916 DRIFTWOOD AVE. - 34231 Baywood Colony Villas OFF US 41 JUST N. OF STICKNEY POINT Nice mahogany four poster bed, curio, blanket chest, marble top wash stand, hutch, brown leather sofa, jewelry cabinet, 1900s chair, pottery umbrella stand, large curio, Doulton jugs, old glass, fern stand, double dressers, chests, two good twin beds, love seat, 6 Windsor chairs, lamps, coffee table, egg cups, baskets, wall clock, bric-a-brac, nest of tables, paperweights, animal figurines, antique reference books & other books, bookcases, Hoover Quick Broom, linens, kitchenware and lady's clothes.

SALE BY JULIE MCCLURE PICTURES: WWW.APPRAISALS4U.BIZ SUPER SECONDS SALE - Sat. - 2/11 - 9a.m.1p.m. Spanish Lakes MHP, 1340 N. Tamiami Trail, Nokomis. Furniture, household, linens, jewelry, tools, golf, electronics. Lottery, lunch and bake sale.

WINDWARD ISLE: Trash & Treasure Sale!!

February 9th, 9AM-1PM. Benefits local charities!

Catamarin Drive, Sarasota.

General Merchandise HOT TUB: seats 5 with lounger, 24 jets, 5HP. Never used. $1795. 941-462-0633.

VENTO MOTOR SCOOTER: 2008 150CC, Pristine condition! Windshield and Storage compartments, $1,200. 941-966-0614.

Health/Fitness/Beauty MASTER THE ART of Permanent Makeup for eyebrows, eyeliner and lip color. 561-886-7863.

Business Opportunities ABBEX, INC 941-365-3833 Service Co. - Absentee Owner 1 Full Time Employee Nets: $79,000 Price: $200,000 Distributor Nets: $120,000 Price: $250,000 Sales/ Service Plus Inventory Nets: $210,000 Price $400,000 Service Company Nets: $12,000/mo. Price $150,000

WWW.ABBEXINC.COM Steve Alexander

Help Wanted CNAS HHAS RN/LPN Seeking experienced I/C for private duty care. All positions available. All shifts available.

Email resume to: busynurseregistry@gmail.com.

FL #NR30211387 DRIVERS-EXP. OTR: $1500 Sign-On. 7-10 days out. Apply: www.heyl.net. Heyl Truck Lines: 800-973-9161.

HAIRSTYLIST WANTED: Salon Capelli, Siesta Key Village. Rental, Must have some clientele.

941-349-5257 or 941-320-2356 leave message.

TERRITORY SALES SPECIALISTS needed to sell Internet, phone and TV in the Sarasota/Bradenton Market. High Commissions plus Bonuses. Prior exp. not needed, training provided. 941-747-6813 Email: careers@ustci.com to apply.

HIRING NOW!

Positions Wanted CAM WITH CMCA, AMS, PCAM designations seeking Condominium Association to manage.

Excellent references.

Please contact: resumepnb@yahoo.com or 941.685.0500 HOUSEKEEPER: EXPERIENCED German lady.

References. Seeks day work, Sarasota-Venice.

Homeowner, excellent cook. 941-726-2055.

Condos/Apts. For Rent BEACHFRONT CONDO, Lido Beach. Available now. Spectacular sunsets, 2BR/2BA. Full Gulf views, large rooms. 9th floor, recently upgraded, fully furnished, heated pool, sauna, stroll to St. Armands, $3350/mo. Seasonal. Available annually at lower rate. 305-582-8466, angela@ahce.com CASTEL DEL MARE, Furnished large one bedroom. Garden Unit with Lanai, Water view.

Minimum 6/9 month Rental, Avail.4/1/12, $1000/month, 847-651-1929.

LOS LAGOS. Unfurnished. Annual. 2BR/2BA, first floor, garage, Clarke Rd., 2 miles to Siesta Key. $1190/mo. Ashton Realty, Joe Bonsell.

941-923-1945, 941-356-6356.

This week’s Crossword answers

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

Sporting Goods GUN & KNIFE SHOW: Bradenton Auditorium, February 11th & 12th. 941-746-7937.

Schools/Instruction

HOUSE CLASSIFIEDS LP # 56733

PIANO, GUITAR, DRUM LESSONS my studio.

Beginner to advanced. Many years experience.

Bring the joy of music to your life. 941-371-1924.

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

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

Business Opportunities JAN PRO CLEANING FRANCHISE: $950 Down Required, Financing Available for growth, Includes customers. Earn up to $10,000 Month+ Call 941-907-8141

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1. A historian and a fortuneteller were discussing their professions. While the seer could not see too far ahead, the historian was mired in the past. Both had a problem with time management.

2. Two crack managers were jousting over job status and pay levels. “I’m a captain of industry,” said one. “That’s nothing,” his rival fired back. “I’m a business major.”

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Affordable Senior Housing

JEFFERSON CENTER 930 N. Tamiami Tr., Sarasota, FL 34236

Condos For Sale CONDO ON #1 Beach in USA. Siesta Dunes.

Ground floor walk-out, 2BR/2BA, totally updated kitchen & baths w/ SS appl., pool, hot tub, tennis, covered parking. Photos online: siestadunes.com BUILDING 5 UNIT 104. Broker protected. $749,000. 941-462-1155 or 216-401-0070.

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References. Call 941-650-6180.

BRAZILIAN CLEANING Service by Maria.

Residential/ Commercial. Meticulous Cleaning.

Excellent References. Free Estimates. Reliable.

Lic./ Ins. 941-400-3342

OYSTER BAY LANDING WATERFRONT HOMESITES Sarasota's Most Exclusive Gated Waterfront Community Open Saturday & Sunday - 2p.m.-4p.m.

Completely Private Priced from $1.250 Dock Included Non-waterfront from $600k w/dock.

14 community homesites. Only 6 remaining.

Direct Bay Access Appointment Only Rita Ferrell Lasky 941-780-3579 Ferrell-Lasky-Team

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Licensed & Insured. 30% off first cleaning.

371-9869.

FRESH BREEZE HOME CLEANING SERVICE: Family Owned business, Residential & Commercial. Excellent references, Licensed & Insured. Free Estimates, 941-404-0104.

QUALITY CLEANING Service. 10 years experience. Residential & Commercial. Call Anghelika, 941-204-3589.

WILL CLEAN homes, windows, offices. Also, can transport people to appointments. First cleaning discounted. 941-993-4375.

Prudential Lakewood Ranch Realty

SARASOTA RANCH CLUB: 3BR/4BA, Brand New! Turnkey Furnished, 5,000 sq/ft., 4/5CG, Theater Room, 10 Acres, Call for more details! $2,950/mo. Call 941-928-1542.

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Vacation Rentals Available Sarasota/Siesta Key 941.966.8000 Dependable rental & property Heritage Oaks management services.

941.926.8844Key Sarasota/Siesta Venice & Punta Gorda 941.966.8000 941.485.5421 Heritage Oaks Palm Island 941.926.8844 941.769.0313 Venice & Punta Gorda Boca Grande & Englewood 941.485.5421 941.964.2000 Palm Island

A LENDING HAND, INC. Caregivers/Companions, Hourly 24/7 Care, Transportation, Social Outings, Dr. Appts., Housekeeping, Meal preparation, Respite Care.

Phone: 941-809-3725 RESERVE YOUR VACATION NOW!!

LUXURY BEACH RENTALS…COTTAGES TO CONDOS…ONE TO FOUR BEDROOM…LOOK NO FURTHER THAN FLORIDARENT.COM DISCOUNTED RATES 20-40%...CALL TODAY!!

PLEASE MENTION CODE OBS2011 941 383 3117 800 331 7293 ASHTON LAKES CONDO: Units available March 2012 and now booking for renter 2013. 2BR/2BA, 2 Pools, 2 miles to Siesta Key Beaches. Call Ashton Realty. 941-923-1945, 941-356-6356.

CASA DEL MAR BEACH RESORT RENTALS 4 NIGHT MIN. GULF FRONT/ GULF VIEW Reservations: 941-383-5549 Visa/ MC Fax: 941-383-7925

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Adult Care Services A BRIDGE FOR INDEPENDENCE LLC assists the elderly, post surgical, dementia and mental health clients. Our bonded & insured caregivers provide light housekeeping, shopping/errands, transportation, meals, laundry & more. Owned and operated by a Registered Nurse. 941-925-2433

WEST OF TRAIL. Grove St. - 2479 sq.ft., bright, open, newer upscale home, 3BR/2BA. Many builtins, walk to Southside Elementary, shops & restaurants, 5 min. to Siesta Key. $2900/mo. Call 941-926-2915.

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Real Estate Wanted SELLERS WANTED INVENTORY LOW! Currently working with buyers, if your home is not yet listed, please call today! Dawn Cohen, Lic. RE Broker/Owner, Dawn Cohen & Associates, 941-228-0077.

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ADULT CARE. Let us take care of your elderly loved one in our family care home. Licensed by the Sate of Florida. Nice clean family home.

Reasonable price. 941-922-8340.

ALTERNATIVE TO NURSING HOME Beautiful room and bath available in a private care home in Sarasota. Bed bound, Alzheimer’s & Hospice patients welcome. Also offering Respite Care, daily and weekly. Excellent local references.

941-720-8840.

HOME CARE COMPANION seeking P/T position.

Please call Ellen, 941-924-8443.

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

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

Auto Service AUTO STORAGE New facility in Sarasota storing classic and exotic cars, motorcycles, boats and more. Over 11,000 sq ft. Climate Controlled. 24 Hour Surveillance. Call (941)404-9676.

WANT YOUR CAR IN 24 HOURS Driven to/from North, with or without you! Contact me at palmsjan@msn.com or (941)727-1499 Tour Bus driver with 33 years of experience and over 3 mil. miles. 53 years old, non smoker.

Financial Services GOOD CREDIT? Bad credit? No credit?

No problem! Are you currently employed? Are you living paycheck to paycheck? Do you need cash? We can help! Apply for a loan today! Call 1-888-823-8766.

Home Improvement/ Remodeling HANDYMAN EXTRAORDINAIRE Reliable & Prompt. 25 Years Experience 5 Years in Bradenton Area. Flooring, Masonry, Doors, Carpentry and Water Damage ... etc. Call Scott at 941-536-1770. scottmwoolf1@gmail.com R.J. DAVIS WHOLESALE FLOORING, LLC. 20 Years Licensed and Insured. 941-586-8996.

WATER HEATERS, faucets and small plumbing repairs. Reasonable rates. License #CFC1426756.

941-737-0349.

Home Services 120 CHANNELS + Locals, $29.99/mo. Rocky Satellite Sales & Service Authorized Dish Network Retailer, 941-554-8078.

ARTIST FOR HIRE: Interior painting, yardwork, spring cleaning, handyman projects, creative, reliable, and affordable, Call Rich 516-477-6774.

Painting/Wallpapering CARLO DATTILO PAINTING. Licensed & insured.

Interior/ Exterior painting including drywall repair and retexturing. Wallpaper installation & removal, pressure washing. Residential & commercial, condos. Honest & reliable. Free estimates.

941-744-1020. 35+ years experience.

Pet Services DOGGY HOTEL. 24 Hour Daycare. Brown Avenue near Bee Ridge and 41 behind Sleep King (new owner). First day FREE. Grooming by Mark.

Meet and greet and get a treat. 941-554-4620.

Tile STEVE ALLEN FLOOR COVERINGS PROFESSIONAL TILE & MARBLE INSTALLATION

WE WANT TO BUY YOUR VEHICLE!!!

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“I never felt typecast,” Audrey Landers says of her image. “I’ve played a pretty good variety of characters. I was a CIA agent once. I shot an uzi!”

A chorus girl Actress Audrey Landers dishes about her famous roles, her hot European career, why she left Hollywood and why she didn’t think she was cut out for ‘A Chorus Line.’

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Those of you who are familiar with Audrey Landers’ famous number in the movie “A Chorus

Line” know what I’m talking about.

In the film, Landers stands on stage in a pink bikini and a black belt. In a voice that’s

a cross between girlish and bawdy, she sings a politically incorrect song about her augmented assets while an amused Michael Douglas looks on.

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When Director Richard Attenborough cast the actress as the flirty Val Clarke in the 1985 film version of the musical, she was already a star on one of the hottest shows of the decade — “Dallas.”

A Juilliard-trained singer, Landers never thought she’d get the part. She wasn’t a dancer, and she had yet to see “A Chorus Line” on Broadway.

She auditioned anyway.

“Pretty much what you see in the movie is what I did at the audition,” Landers says.

“I left feeling like I made a fool of myself, and then my mother (Ruth Landers, her manager) called to tell me I got the part.”

That was 27 years ago. She still has the bikini.

In person, it’s more of a faded peach color than a pink. And it’s tiny — seriously tiny. When Landers heads to her bedroom to retrieve it, she returns carrying a sandwich baggie.

The bikini fits in a Ziploc.

“This is it,” she says, holding it up like it’s a laboratory specimen. “There’s nothing to it.”

Over the years, numerous collectors of Hollywood memorabilia have asked to buy the itty-bitty two-piece, but Landers, now the mother of two 18-year-old sons, has never caved — until now.

In honor of The Players Theatre’s production of “A Chorus Line,” the 55-year-old actress will auction off the suit at a fundraiser this month benefiting the theater.

“I hope they have a good way to display it,” she says with a shrug. “Otherwise, it won’t look like much.”

It’s a Tuesday afternoon and Landers is sitting at her kitchen table in Osprey. Her two dogs — small rescue pooches named Roxy and Andy — are circling her stilettoed feet, begging for apples and cheese, which the actress has neatly arranged on a tray lined with éclairs and starfruit.

It’s a gracious bounty for a mid-morning interview, and Landers has no problem sharing it with her pets.

In between bites, her cell phone rings.

First, it’s a text message from her son

IF YOU GO The Players Theatre will host a “T&A Soiree” at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20.

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“One of the reasons we left California was so our kids wouldn’t go into show business,” Landers says. “But when you have it in your blood and you need it for survival, how can I not support that?”

Adam, who’s currently studying economics at Duke University. Then it’s a call from her husband, Donald, regarding the clothing line Landers launched four years ago with her mother.

The company ran into a legal snafu branding shoes.

If this were an episode of “Dallas,” there would be drama. Landers would probably pout and hang up the phone in a huff.

Instead, she brushes off the issue and returns to snacking, explaining that in 13 years, she’s never regretted relocating her family from Beverly Hills, Calif., to a sleepy community on a golf course in Osprey.

“It was total culture shock,” she says of the move. “But I wanted to raise my kids away from the spotlight. I needed a break

• The Landers family filmed several episodes of a reality show for the E! Network. They opted out of the project when producers suggested they spice things up by faking arguments and posing for “Playboy.”

• Landers’ 18-year-old twins, Daniel and Adam, graduated from Pine View School.

• Landers last major TV role was in 2008, on the cable network crime drama “Burn Notice.” from show biz.”

A testament to her career in show business covers the walls of her foyer.

An impressive mixed-bag of magazine covers, movie posters and tabloid features, the wall of fame includes everything from Landers’ 1983 clothed “Playboy” pictorial to the 2006 Sarasota-based adventure flick, “Circus Island,” that she co-wrote and codirected with her mother and sister, Judy Landers.

Many of the magazines were published in Germany, where Landers is still a hot pop singer.

“It’s like a secret career that no one knows about in the U.S.,” she says of her celebrity status in Europe.

That doesn’t mean the paparazzi don’t still trail her in Los Angeles.

“It’s fun every now and then to have that attention,” Landers says. “It makes you

mentary by her mother and longtime manager, Ruth Landers. Single tickets are $65 or $100 for two. The evening will include a pre-show reception and live auction. All proceeds will benefit The Players Theatre.

For more information, call 365-2494. “A Chorus Line” opens Feb. 15 and runs though March 4.

• Landers’ early television credits include “The Love Above: Landers Boat,” “Fantasy and her mother, Ruth, Island,” “One in a German celebrity Life to Live” and gossip magazine.

“The Dukes of Hazzard.”

• Landers, together with her sister and mother, co-created the children’s TV series “The Huggabug Club,” which ran from 1995 to 2000 on PBS. appreciate the peace and quiet when you come home. It’s a different world here. You don’t have to be done up to take out your trash. It’s nice to chill out and have a normal life.”

Does that mean she has no interest in returning to “Dallas” for the remake slated to premiere this summer on TNT? Landers blushes. Of course she wants to be back on “Dallas.”

And, yes, she’s familiar with the Facebook fan page dedicated to the cause: “Bring Audrey Landers Back to Dallas on TNT.” It’s up to 6,272 likes.

She says producers have already talked to her about appearing in a cliffhanger at the end of the first season.

As for whether we’ll finally find out who shot J.R., the actress can’t say.

“I can tell you one thing,” she says. “It wasn’t me.”

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+ Orchestra’s Leif Bjaland takes a bow Goodbyes are never easy, especially when they involve violins and sobering operas

by Richard Wagner.

Maestro Leif Bjaland will end his 15-year tenure with the Sarasota Orchestra next week with a handful of farewell concerts that include the prelude to Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger,” Schumann’s “Symphony No. 2 and Grieg’s “Piano Concerto.”

The performances, which will feature guest pianist Orion Weiss, will run Feb. 16 to Feb. 19, at Neel Performing Arts Hall and the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.

Bjaland announced his resignation last year after auditioning to be the music director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. (The job went to a 37-year-old Spanish conductor.)

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Now that the maestro’s send-off is finally here, the time has come to ask him the most obvious of softball questions.

What will he miss most about the job?

“That’s easy,” Bjaland

says. “The musicians.”

OK. No surprise there.

How about restaurant-wise?

Surely there’s a Sarasota establishment that Bjaland will be sad to leave behind.

“Definitely Morton’s,” says the maestro. “I probably ate more than half of my meals at Morton’s. I know all the girls at the deli (counter). I’m going to miss them terribly.”

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+ Chorus of the Keys concert will have a certain ‘Twain’ Sarasota Chorus of the Keys is taking its Dixieland concert theme to a whole new level, thanks to the addition of a Mark Twain impersonator.

Bradenton-based Twain doppelganger, Rod Rawlings, will bring even more authenticity to the organization’s 62nd annual show —“Musical Voyage to Dixieland,” a program that features a selection of songs from the South, including “Swanee,” Riverboat Days,” “Darkness on the Delta” and “Shenandoah.”

The show begins at 2:30 and 7 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Riverview Performing Arts Center. For more information, call 484-7589 or visit chorusofthekeys.org.

+ Sayer brings her finger pickin’ back to Sarasota Banjo buffs rejoice!

Cynthia Sayer is back!

The New York City-based banjoist is in town this weekend to visit her parents, Bert and Barbara Sayer. Lucky for us, she’s added a concert to her to-do list.

A longtime member of Woody Allen’s Manhattan jazz band, Sayer is a rock star in the four-string banjo world. She was recently the subject of a PBS documentary and many of her collaborators are A-list jazz musicians (Bucky Pizzarelli, anyone?)

She’s generated a fan

‘Next Fall’: Florida Studio Theatre continues its streak of presenting love stories with unusual twists as the curtain opens on Geoffrey Nauffts’ “Next Fall.” Nominated for a 2010 Tony Award, the play raises powerful questions about love and faith as it follows the highs and lows of a gay couple at odds over their religious differences. The play runs now though March 25, in the Keating Theatre. For tickets, call 366-9000 or visit floridastudiotheatre.org.

base in Sarasota here as well, selling out concerts at The Players Theatre two years in a row.

This time she’s strumming at the Glenridge Performing Arts Center — within walking distance of her parents’ new condo.

When I caught up with Sayer last month to see what she’s been up to, she said she was gearing up to play in Switzerland with her band, Sparks Fly, and is in the process of recording a new CD (“Joy Ride”) with Bruce Springsteen’s accordion player, Charlie Giordano.

It’ll be out this summer.

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‘Carmen’: Sarasota Opera’s production of “Carmen” is causing a stir before it’s even opened. According to one of the supers on the set, mezzo soprano Fredrika Brillembourg is awesome as the opera’s favorite hedonistic gypsy with a temper. The production kicks off the winter opera season and the company’s opening night gala, Feb. 11, at the Ritz Carlton. The show runs Feb. 11 through March 24. For tickets, call 366-8450 or visit sarasotaopera.org.

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The secret’s out: The first Ringling Underground event Thursday, Feb. 2, drew a large crowd. The music party was held in the Museum of Art Courtyard and featured music

by Sons of Hippies, Red Feather and Physical Plant.

Two exhibits were open, including the ZIMOUN: Sculpting Sound and Joseph’s Coat Skyspace created by James Turrell. There will be two more Ringling Underground evenings — March 1 and April 5.

— Rachel S. O’Hara

Red Feather performs at the event.

Sarah Kunkel and Stephen McFadden

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“Jiminy Cricket,” a ’50s exclamation second only to “gee whiz” in the age of innocence nomenclature, blurts forth from the lips of nebbishy nice guy Gabe Green, winningly played by Robby May. The Golden Apple Dinner Theatre’s production of “Breaking Up is Hard to Do” takes place during the golden era of the Catskills, a popular resort destination in upstate New York where, in its heyday, up and coming performers made or broke their careers, and producers such as Dick Clark might have been found scoping for talent.

Multi-talented Kyle Ennis Turoff directed and choreographed the nostalgically sweet musical written by Erik Jackson and Ben H. Winters, featuring the music of Neil Sedaka. The play, itself, is reminiscent of early screwball TV situation comedies such as “I Love Lucy.” The acting is on target, and the Sedaka songs, as well as the cute, period choreography, are entertaining and makes for a satisfied audience. One lucky member is coaxed to the stage and serenaded with: “Happy Birthday Sweet 16.”

Turoff packs a big vocal wallop as she plays the part of Marge Gelman, initially a pathetic left-at-the-altar loser, who feels like she’s trapped in a “bad, bad Betty Grable movie.” She and May are most enjoyable in a charming

IF YOU GO “Breaking Up is Hard to Do” runs through Feb. 26, at the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre, 25 N. Pineapple Ave. Call 366-2646 for information. dream scene duet, “Laughter in the Rain.” Memorable, also, is her touching solo, “Solitaire,” one of Sedaka’s lesserknown songs.

Alana Opie energetically portrays Lois Warner, a “dumb blonde” who checks them both into the Mamie Eisenhower suite in an effort to cheer up her friend with a vacation adventure, “Where the Boys Are.” The main boy the pair ends up revolving around, Del Delmonico, a slinky, slimy, self-serving egoist, is well-played by a hip-slinging Jeff Gregg, who successfully captures the Sedaka sound.

The action takes place at Esther’s Hideaway, where Esther (Helen Holliday) and Harvey, the master of ceremonies of the evening entertainment, played by Steve Carroll, feature in the B plot. Holliday does a great New York accent, which serves her well in loudspeaker announcements that apologize for “yesterday’s four-alarm chili” or offer free delousing and tetanus shots after the afternoon hike. She and Carroll represent the vaudeville side of typical Catskill offerings, adding their skills to what is essentially a successful ensemble of talent, ably aided by Musical Director Berry Ayers.

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Daniel Radcliffe plays a widowed father whose presence seems unwelcome, while conducting business in a remote English village.

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Sometimes you get sucked into seeing a film because of the actors involved. So, when the enormously successful Harry Potter chap tackles a new genre, I’m game. In his new film, “The Woman in Black,” Daniel Radcliffe may have been best served passing on it.

The storyline is so full of holes, it’s difficult to relate. Radcliffe’s character, Arthur Kipps, a widowed father, is sent by his law firm to a remote English village. Once there, he’s to collect papers from the home of a deceased client (why?). Upon arrival, Kipps realizes he’s extremely unwelcome. Seems the dead woman’s ghost has been luring the village children to their deaths.

Why his presence there has anything to do with their icy reception is totally unclear.

To further murk the waters, Kipps is befriended by a resident, Sam Daily (Ciaran Hinds), whose young son died under mysterious circumstances. His wife (Janet McTeer) claims she com-

municates with the dead boy, which really has no bearing on the flimsy plot.

I was confounded by the fact that director James Watkins (“Eden Lake”) managed to assemble such a glowing cast with such a dull script. McTeer, up for an Oscar this year (“Albert Nobbs”), is excellent as the wacko wife but has a measly two scenes. Hinds (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”), who is always a joy to watch, also does a fine job, given with what he has to work.

And Radcliffe expertly pulls off the lead role of the befuddled Kipps, demonstrating depth beyond Potter.

I do have to give high marks to cinematographer Tim Maurice-Jones. The sprawling gray landscapes of Northern England are exquisitely captured by his lens. His interior shots of the haunted house provide the bulk of the fear that this Gothic horror film exudes. And the extensive attention to detail greatly enhances the visual experience.

A great horror film can take hold of you and never let go. “The Woman in Black” never achieved establishing that grasp. The expectations were high, the delivery low.

— Pam Nadon

ic eulogy that delivered a knockout punch to the gut. Margaret Bonds’ setting of Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Sings of Rivers,” with a piano part that’s a mix of Rachmaninov, Debussy and Gottschalk, was simply gorgeous in Jones’ magical hands. Hampson’s >> ‘A Panorama of American near-crooning sound and wondrous way with Song’: Thomas Hampson and regional inflections were brilliant in songs Warren Jones

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The intellectual side of So why did almost a quarHampson told us, “We had ter of the audience leave at more trouble choosing what intermission? I’m sure part not to sing … ” on this of their problem was the program, which is part of a dreadful acoustics in the Van larger foray into the Art Songs Wezel. There are a few seats of America. But, given the scattered through that house enormous wealth of material, that allow you to hear acousthis was a fine “Panorama tic performances. But, for the of American Song” that ran most part, hearing live music the gamut of composers from Thomas Hampson that’s not amplified is like sitthe 18th-century Francis ting in a plane with your ears Hopkinson, to the contemporary (and still liv- unpopped. Someday, some way, we will have ing) Michael Daugherty. a real concert hall.

The pastiche of songs in English, so beauThe other reason is that many people don’t tifully sung that the printed texts were hardly understand that a vocal recital is not an needed, was a tribute to Hampson’s scholaropera. Like chamber music, it’s an intimate, ship, curiosity and knowledge. What he and one-on-one experience in which each song Jones did with those songs was a beacon of (not aria) is a mini-drama. It’s much harder light to singers aspiring to perform with the to be a recitalist, because with every song, best musicianship and technique heard anyyou change characters without the added where. benefits of costumes or scenery. OK, maybe Daugherty’s “Letter to Mrs. Bixby,” a heart- it’s an acquired taste but, like great wine rending epitaph based on a letter by Abraham and expensive caviar, it’s worth getting to Lincoln to “ … the mother of five sons who know. And, when you have great artists such have died gloriously on the field of battle,” as Hampson and Jones to lead the way, it’s is, musically, no more than a simple passaworth hanging in there and tasting something caglia. But in the performance by Hampson truly exquisite. and Jones, it became an overwhelmingly trag— June LeBell

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‘Dangerous’ liaison Larry Parr calls the shots on the theatrical premiere of ‘Nick Danger: Third Eye.’ The actor-turned-chef explains why he’s bringing his favorite radio detective spoof to the Sarasota stage.

Barrett describes the production as a play within a play.

A parody of a classic 1940s radio detective program, “Nick Danger” is the brainchild of Firesign Theatre, a comedy troupe that got its start on Los Angeles radio in the 1960s.

The group, which still performs today, has released several comedy albums centered on the misadventures of this protagonist. For years, Barrett, 57, has been itching to perform the 1969 LP, “How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You’re Not Anywhere at All?” “In terms of comedy, it’s a work of genius,” he says of the album.

“It’s something you rarely listen to by yourself. For me, it meant sitting around with a group of people, laughing our butts off listening to this album — an actual record. Remember those?”

So, Barrett contacted Firesign member David Ossman to see if the troupe would be willing to let a small Sarasota cast perform the show.

DID YOU KNOW? Larry Barrett loves to re-create presidential dinners. A voracious researcher, he has spent hours mastering the menus of former White House chefs so that he can serve similar meals at presidential-themed dinners. His Kennedy dinners have become a hit at private parties up and down the Gulf Coast.

According to Barrett, JFK’s beloved New England clam chowder puts Bill Clinton’s onion rings and George W. Bush’s grilled cheese sandwich to shame.

IF YOU GO “Nick Danger: Third Eye” runs now through March 1, at the Powel Crosley Estate. Performances are scheduled for 7 p.m. Feb. 9, Feb. 15, Feb. 16, Feb. 22, Feb. 23, Feb. 29 and March 1. The cast includes Keith Chrismon, Joelle Davis, Marty Fugate and John Forsyth. The show includes a dinner with a menu inspired by Delmonico’s, the country’s first finedining restaurant, which opened in 1837 in New York City. Tickets are $45. For more information, call 225-9122.

Ossman was thrilled with the idea. No one had ever presented the sketch without the troupe before.

Two days later, Barrett received the script in the mail with full artistic license to make changes. Ossman even gave his blessing to take the show on the road.

In October, he put out a casting call, and the turnout took him by surprise.

“They crawled out of the woodwork to audition,” he says. “There are so many people who loved Firesign Theatre. There’s a vintage quality to it that I hope will appeal to a more … how do I put it? ‘Mature audience.’”

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“With theater, you push the envelope as far as you can,” Larry Barrett says. “It’s the same thing with cooking. You’ve got to remember you’re still playing to the 90th percentile. You can’t be too out there.”

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The kitchen is a stage, and the people seated at your table are an audience.

The philosophy explains a lot about the former soap-opera actor’s current vocation — owner and chef of Simply Gourmet, a Sarasota catering business with a flair for drama.

In the 1980s, Barrett appeared on several daytime soap operas, including “All My Children,” “Another World” and “Days of Our Lives.”

Although he claims to have “bailed on acting,” he still dabbles in live theater.

He’s an entertainer at heart, which explains why he’s hung a red velvet curtain in his catering shop.

“It’s all about truthfulness,” Barrett says. “With acting and cooking, you should never have to question what’s real.”

His latest project, “Nick Danger: Third Eye,” is taking truthfulness to a whole new level.

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7:30 p.m. at Holley Hall Tickets $24 to $69. Call 953-3434.

Sarasota Newcomers Luncheon 11 a.m. at Longboat Key Club Tickets $25. Call 907-9865.

Forever Tango with Cheryl Burke 8 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Tickets $30 to $55. Call 953-3368.

Education Luncheon Asolo Repertory Theatre 11:30 a.m. at Michael’s On East Tickets $75. Call 351-9010, Ext. 4702.

‘Three Tall Women’ 8 p.m. at the Players Theatre Tickets $15. Call 365-2494.

Theatre Arts Youth Education Luncheon honoring Gulf Coast Community Foundation and Margot and Warren Coville Asolo Repertory Theatre 11:30 a.m. at Michael’s On East Tickets $75. Call 351-9010, Ext. 4712.

7th annual Jazz Fest Anna Maria Island Concert Chorus & Orchestra 3 to 5 p.m. at the Sandbar Pavilion Tickets $8 in advance; $10 at the door.

Call 778-8585.

‘FAB’ sale and exhibit opening reception 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Art Center Sarasota Runs through Feb. 12.

Free. Call 923-3290.

Talk 2012 annual New College Juried Student Art Exhibition 6:30 p.m. at Isermann Gallery Free. Call 487-4888.

‘All in the Timing’ 7 p.m. at Booker High School VPA Tickets $5 to $15. Call 355-2967.

Simply Gourmet presents: ‘Nick Danger: Third Eye’ 7 p.m. at Powel Crosley Estate Tickets $45. Call 225-9122.

Great Escape Series: Embraceable You Sarasota Orchestra

‘Cats’ 8 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Tickets $30 to $75. Call 953-3368.

‘Three Tall Women’ 8 p.m. at the Players Theatre Tickets $15. Call 365-2494.

‘The Milkshake’ Harvey Milk Festival fundraiser 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Shamrock Pub Admission is free; $5 donations to festival.

10 friday Jazz at Two featuring the Eddie Tobin Trio Jazz Club of Sarasota 2 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota Tickets $5 to $12. Call 366-1552.

Hermitage Artist Retreat Open House 5:30 p.m. at Hermitage Artist Retreat Free. Call 475-2098.

Great Escape Series: Embraceable You Sarasota Orchestra 5:30 p.m. at Holley Hall Tickets $24 to $69. Call 953-3434.

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Jill Sobule, composer of “Yentl,” which runs through April 26 at the Mertz Theatre, will perform original music as well as songs from “Yentl” during her Feb. 13 performance in the Mertz Theatre.

8 p.m. at the Players Theatre Tickets $15. Call 365-2494.

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‘All in the Timing’ 7 p.m. at Booker High School VPA Tickets $5 to $15. Call 355-2967.

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‘Cats’ 8 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Tickets $30 to $75. Call 953-3368.

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Sunday at Neel Series: The Marlins State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota 2 p.m. at Neel Performing Arts Center Tickets $30. Call 752-5252.

Opera on the Island ‘The Mikado’ Anna Maria Island Concert Chorus and Orchestra 2 p.m. at CrossPointe Fellowship Tickets $20. Call 778-8585.

Sarasota Opera: ‘Carmen’ 4 p.m. at Sarasota Opera House Runs through March 24.

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Cynthia Sayer’s Hot Jazz Trio 2 p.m. at Glenridge Performing Arts Center Call 552-5325.

‘All in the Timing’ 7 p.m. at Booker High School VPA Tickets $5 to $15. Call 355-2967.

Valentine Concert — from Allegro with Love 3 p.m. at Allegro Music Academy Free. Call 358-8511.

‘Love Letters’ 7:30 p.m. at The Manatee School for the Arts Tickets $5 to $10. Call 721-6800.

Organ Concert 4 p.m. at First Congregational Church Tickets $15. Call 953-7044.

Great Escape Series: Embraceable You Sarasota Orchestra 8 p.m. at Holley Hall Tickets $24 to $69. Call 953-3434.

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‘Sinful Shrimp’ Serves: 6

John Fischer says: “This is an easy recipe that I’ve been preparing for decades — and one of my submissions back in 1983 to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s 432page ‘Culinary Counterpoint’ cookbook.

These days, I always warn my guests that it’s really not very healthy, but it’s always the first thing on their plates and has a wonderfully rich flavor and texture.”

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3 tablespoons butter 1 pound raw shelled shrimp, deveined, cleaned with tails removed 1/2 pound sliced fresh mushrooms 4 tablespoons butter 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon dry mustard Dash of cayenne pepper 2 cups light cream 3 tablespoons cooking sherry 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese Cooked rice or pasta

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For more intimate dinners of eight to 10 people, John Fischer creates individualized menus with up to three choices for entrées.

of food served is planned as carefully as the music programs.

“We serve lots and lots of one-bite appetizers,” Fischer says. “Beyond that, I’m always looking for presentation ideas. One disaster was the 144 stylish shot glasses I bought, along with tiny spoons. They were great fun but the tall, skinny glasses toppled like dominos, and we used them just once.”

He found a solution, though.

“A year or so ago, I started doing miniature pastry cups that I can fill with a variety of sweet or savory fillings.

They’re fairly fast to do, and I really like serving things directly from the oven.”

We’re starting to get a picture here.

Fischer loves to prep, cook and make things beautiful, whether it’s for 200 or two.

For more intimate (eight to 10 is his idea of intimate) dinners, I like to do individualized menus with a choice of up to three entrées, he says. Guests like it, and it balances recipes that require

levels of last-minute attention. It’s impressive without being scary.

It’s Lee Dougherty Ross, the artistic director of the ASCS, who gets to feed (and cater to) the 40 or so performers on the series. This is fortunate because, according to Fischer, there have been singers who have literally “eaten everything in the house after a performance.” Another gracious and earnest provider of all things good, Dougherty Ross was actually asked by a performer one morning, “Do you have any Weight Watchers bagels for breakfast?” Fischer says, “Lee got in her car, went to the grocery and accommodated the request.”

Fischer says: “That’s just one of the reasons Artist Series performers love to return: to perform and to be pampered.”

The music that accompanies Fischer as he cooks is usually instrumental.

“If I listen to a Broadway cast album I can be drawn into recreating the show in my head,” he says.

• Melt the 3 tablespoons of butter in a large skillet. Add shrimp and mushrooms; cover and cook over medium heat until mushrooms are tender and shrimp is pink (about five minutes.) Remove and set aside.

• Add the 4 tablespoons of butter to the skillet; when melted, blend in flour and seasonings. Sir in the cream all at once; cook, stirring constantly until the mixture thickens and boils. Add the shrimp and mushrooms to the sauce; stir in cooking sherry and Parmesan cheese. Salt to taste.

• Serve over rice or cooked pasta.

Musical accompaniments While recreating John Fischer’s “Sinful Shrimp,” we suggest listening to “Danses sacree et profane” by Debussy, in a performance by harpist Nicanor Zabaleta.

In honor of Fischer’s easy way of feeding the masses, try: “Revolutionary Etude” by Chopin, played on the organ

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Dan Hoffman, Baritone, & Elizabeth Goldstein, Piano...Daniel A. Hoffman, Director of Music, Christ Church of Longboat Key, Florida, Presbyterian, USA, will present a program entitled “The Same, but Different” highlighting vocal works of inspiration and hope by such composers as Malotte, Bizet, Gounod, Schubert, Rodgers and Hammerstein and traditional American spirituals. Dan will be accompanied on the organ and piano by Elizabeth Goldstein, Director of Music and Organist at the First United Methodist Church, Sarasota, Florida.

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If you live around here and are interested in hearing good music in beautiful surroundings, you know The Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota. And if you know ASCS, you know John Fischer, the affable mainstay-of-an executive director who seems to do all things, all the time, everywhere. So, how does someone who’s so busy have time to cook?

“I feel just as busy now as when I retired from my ‘real’ career in marketing 10 years ago,” says Fischer, trying to put things in a Sarasota perspective.

The thing is, Fischer doesn’t just cook for his family. He does a lot of cooking for his friends and for “work,” too, because a major part of his job with the Artist Series is fundraising.

“It’s a bit ironic that I’ve prepared heavy hors d’oeuvres and strolling suppers for hundreds of people and just recently started making dinners for smaller numbers of friends,” he explains.

It’s even more ironic that the home he shares with his partner, Jim, is by most standards, humongous.

“Our home was built with a large music room for our pianos and pipe organ, so fingers frequently point in my direction when it comes to concerts and charity events,” say Fischer. “We’ve hosted more soirees for Artist Series Concerts alone than I can remember.

And we’ve also hosted events for the Sarasota Orchestra, Sarasota Opera and other groups. Music is such a great connector. Add food and conversation, and you’ve got a winning combination.”

Fischer’s description of their home underestimates its splendor a bit. Their music room feels closer to the Ringling’s living room, which was also built around a pipe organ. But, whereas the Ringling has only one piano, theirs has three concert grands and a pair of organ consoles and the pipes. Of course, it takes time to build a pipe organ, but that’s Fischer’s ongoing project. Meanwhile, the music and food beat on.

“We joked about downsizing our Sarasota home when we retired here in 2001,” Fischer says. “(But) we still ended up with just under 6,000 square feet.”

The thing is, even with all those musical instruments, there’s plenty of space for listeners and imbibers, so the type

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MY FAVORITE ROOM: Movie magic When it came to designing her home movie theater, which was completed in December, Sarasota resident Jennifer Fox contemplated incorporating ‘Finding Nemo’ and ‘Batman.’ But once she spotted a giraffe-print carpet, the room’s decor began to revolve around an animal theme.

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7. Ceiling mural — “We were going to do a fiberoptic ceiling with twinkle lights, but it was extremely expensive. We had Joe Barron paint a glow-in-thedark mural with constellations, the Milky Way, the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper.”

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The all-female receiving line of six dazzling ladies was enough to make any man weak at the knees. The cochairwomen of the fifth annual Palm Ball — Cornelia Matson, Amie Swan, Margaret Wise, Ariane Dart, Pauline Joerger and Nora Johnson — greeted each guest Saturday night with a hug, kiss on the cheek or handshake and sent them outside to congregate in the perfect evening air.

In attendance at the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast’s “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”-themed event was Jacque-

line Morton in her lovely Dolce and Gabbana blouse with its giant flower decoration; Bruce Lesser wearing one of his favorite tuxedo jackets from Singapore; B.J. Creighton donning a fabulous strapless black evening gown adorned with beautiful red satin roses down her back from top to bottom; and Barbara Staton and Bob Cutler in a matching purple orchid corsage and boutonnière.

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They say you can’t have too much of a good thing, which was certainly the case with the Betty Boop Ball, Temple Beth Israel of Longboat Key’s annual dinner dance held Jan. 23, at the Sarasota Yacht Club.

Honorary co-chairwomen were Sarasota philanthropists Betty Schoenbaum and Betty Schiff. And there was a live performance by Betty Boop, the famous animated character from the 1930s, brought to life by Sarasota actress Heather Kopp, most recently seen in these parts in the Asolo Rep’s production of “My Fair Lady.” She shared the stage with Richard Levine, honored at the event with the Rising Star

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After being named Black Tie Editor about a month ago, I’ve been welcomed with fashionably open arms to each social event I’ve attended.

And, although I’m trying my best to catch up to speed as quickly as possible, there is, undoubtedly, a learn-

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Her response: “Well, I used to live in this house … ”

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About his latest shiny gold coat that was tailor-made in Singapore, Lesser says he wanted a different coat that no one else would have. His hope with every coat is that when he attends a function, someone will say, “Where did you get that?”

Lesser currently owns 20 tuxedos in every color of the rainbow from Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong.

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Joan Mendell calculates that this is the 18th year she has entertained on Super Bowl Sunday, first at her home on Bird Key then at her Ritz-Carlton condo and, since last year, at Michael’s Wine Cellar. The party has become such a fixture that the one year she didn’t have it, a friend protested that she was owed money because she ended up entertaining 10 people who should have been at Joan’s. She did not collect. The only hitch at this year’s party was that Linda Dickinson by mistake went home with Dottie Garner’s handbag. It was Anne Folsom Smith to the rescue! She called Dottie’s cell phone, which was in the purloined purse. No answer there, but Dick Dickinson answered his home phone, and Molly Schechter Dottie’s bag was back at the Wine Super hostess Joan Mendell and her partner, Bob Coppenrath Cellar in no time!

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Sarasota Opera Opening Night Gala

The Sarasota Opera’s elegant Opening Night Gala will follow the 4 p.m. opening night performance of the opera, “Carmen.” The gala, which begins with a festive cocktail hour with savory hors d’oeuvres and mingling, will be designed to reflect elements from the opera, including a delectable and lavish, three-course Spanish-themed dinner prepared by Chef Dwayne Edwards of the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota.

After dinner, the Jazz Legacy Big Band will assemble for dancing and enjoyment.

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Susan and Larry White

Elliott and Susan Charnas

Barbara and Patti Auchter

Judy Hanson with Joanna Vealey

Dining With Danger

5th Annual

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National Premiere of the Firesign Theatre’s ~Nick Danger, Third Eye

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Frank and Judy Moore with Dorothy Williams

Photos by Loren Mayo

Dr. Larry Thompson and his wife, Pat, with Shannon Roher-Phillips and Neil Phillips

Town Hall Lecture Series Featuring Roland Fryer

Wednesday, Feb. 1 | Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

Neil Hubbard and Adriana Gomez

Mary Lee Richey and Audrey Coleman

Mary Ann Meyer and Ann Charters

Jomel Ferdinand and Grace Riker

Linda Whitacre, Ginny McCloskey and Olivia Thomas

The Sarasota Concert Association presents Winner of the 2010 Gilmore Artist Award

Kirill Gerstein

Thursday, February 16 • 8 p.m. at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall 777 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota Kirill Gerstein’s masterful technique, musical curiosity and probing interpretations of classical music and jazz have led to a full performance schedule at the world’s major music centers and festivals.

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Molly Klauber, Natalie Mills, Rebecca Kaufmann and Betsy Bowers

19th Annual Celebration of Imagination Temple Beth Sholom Schools | Saturday, Feb. 4 | Michael’s On East

Louise Miller and Judy Dunn

Laurel Piland and Diane Creasy

Donna Newman

Director of Temple Beth Sholom Schools Kavita Vasil and Chairwoman Shannon Fedder

Heidi Rodehauer and Heather Miller

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Photos by Rachel S. O’Hara

Marie Borsellino, B.J. Huerta, Nancy Galloway, Flo Miller, Dawn Moore, Sherry Cushing and Martha Snyder

Nicole Coudal and honoree Roxie Jerde

Lunch for the Cure Honoring RoxiE Jerde Friday, Feb. 3 | Hyatt Regency Sarasota

Sigrid Olsen and Judy Krakow

Molly, J.P. and David Jackson

2012 Mrs. Florida Larissa Chiccino and Pat VanStedum

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By Loren Mayo | Black Tie Editor

FACE TIME Cheeks

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• Laura Mercier Ballet Pink Baked Eye Color YSL Shocking Mascara False Lash Effect • Dior DiorShow Brow Styler

Lips Base • Laura Mercier Secret Camo Concealer  Lancome Dual Finish Powder Foundation • Trish McEvoy Even Skin Foundation

Tools  Clarisonic Mia • Trish McEvoy Blending Brush, Laura Mercier Angled Eye Shadow Brush, Bobbi Brown Eye Liner Brush and Laura Mercier Angled Blush Brush

Dior Addict Lipstick 865 • Trish McEvoy Gloss Irresistible • Laura Mercier Lip Pencil

I never go without using my Clarisonic. Regarding skin care, I religiously use the complete line of RéVive — cleanser, toner, serums and moisturizers. My makeup routine actually takes only about 10 minutes. I keep it very basic. And my hair dries quick — it’s short and easy!

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TORY BURCH CLUTCH “I needed a bag I could carry for luncheons and to cocktail events.

This bag fits the must-haves all girls feel we need, and it has sparkle.”

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SALLY SCHULE ALEXANDRE BIRMAN STILETTOS “There are many tones of gold shoes. Some can be awful — not these.

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AG SKINNY JEANS “These never stretch out — perfect for my weekends.”

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“I wear a classic Audrey Hepburn look with a modern twist.”

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Theatre Arts Youth Education Luncheon honoring Gulf Coast Community Foundation and Margot and Warren Coville

Goodwill Fat Tuesday Gala ‘Count Down to Mardi Gras’

Pig Roast in the Woods

Benefiting: Asolo Repertory Theatre When: 11:30 a.m. Where: Michael’s On East Chairs: Pat Anderson, Betty-Jean Bavar and Stephanie Shaw Contact: Laura Wood, 351-9010, Ext. 4712 Price: $75

Second Hand Rose Fashion Show and Luncheon

Benefiting: Goodwill Manasota When: 6 p.m. Where: Michael’s On East Chairs: Tara Williams and Kevin Gallagher Contact: Veronica Brandon Miller, 3552721, Ext. 104 Price: $100

Benefiting: South Florida Museum When: 4 p.m. Where: Home of John and Carol Woods, 7921 Ninth Ave. N.W., Bradenton Chairs: John and Carol Rice and Ron and Rose Carlson Contact: Jamie Jalwan, 746-4131, Ext. 14 Price: $75

9th Annual Caring Hearts Luncheon & Silent Auction Honoring Emily Walsh

20 MONDAY Spotlight on Plato

Benefiting: Safe Place & Rape Crisis Center When: 10 a.m. Where: The RitzCarlton, Sarasota Chairs: Luisa Goldman Contact: Jessica Hays, 365-0208, Ext. 106 Price: $95

Hosted by: First Step of Sarasota, Inc. Benefiting: First Step’s Mothers & Infants program When: 11 a.m. Where: Michael’s On East Chair: Marcella Schuyler Contact: Kelly French, 5522065 Price: $60

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17 FRIDAY

23 TUESDAY

Sarasota Opera Opening Night Gala

Benefiting: Sarasota Opera When: 7:30 p.m. Where: The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota Chairs: Don and Rachael Worthington Contact: Jennifer Simms, 366-8450, Ext. 402 Price: $250

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Town Hall Lecture Series featuring Gen. Stanley McChrystal

Benefiting: Ringling College Library Association When: 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Where: Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Chair: Kristine Nickel Contact: 9251343 Price: $200 to $600

Friends of the Sarasota Ballet Showcase Luncheon

Hosted by: Friends of the Sarasota Ballet

Benefiting: Local scholarships When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17 Where: Five unique homes in Venice Co-Chairwomen: Bea Holt, 488-5897 and Kathy Black, (518) 744-3379 Price: $20

Benefiting: Our Mother’s House of Catholic Charities When: 5:30 p.m.

Where: Plantation Golf and Country Club Chair: Joyce Scott Contact: Joyce Scott, 485-6264 Price: $75 www.ourmothershouse.org

Starry Night Dinner, highlighting ‘Hamlet, Prince of Cuba’

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15 WEDNESDAY

Bethesda House Mardi Gras Madness

Cooking for Wishes

Benefiting: Asolo Repertory Theatre When: 6:30 p.m. Where: Home of Robert and Mollie Nelson Chairs: Katherine Harris, Lee Peterson and Margaret Wise Contact: Laura Wood, 351-9010, Ext. 4712 Price: $250

Benefiting: Bethesda House of Catholic Charities When: 6 p.m. Where: Sarasota Yacht Club Chair: Sandy Gallagher Contact: Jeanette Wozniak, 355-4680, Ext. 311 Price: $125

Benefiting: Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central and Northern Florida, Suncoast Sarasota Region When: 11 a.m. Where: Michael’s On East Chairs: Terri Klauber and Denise Mei Contact: 952-WISH Price: $150 http://cookingforwishes.kintera.org Benefiting: Sarasota Ballet When: 11:30 a.m. Where: Michael’s On East Chair: Richard Hurter Contact: Richard Hurter, 780-3311 Price: $35 www.sarasotaballet.org

‘Best In Show Gala: The ARCAdemy Awards, A Tribute to the Best Animal Films of All Time’

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Benefiting: Animal Rescue Coalition When: 6:30 p.m. Where: Michael’s On East Chairs: Mary Ann Robinson and Shelley Sarbey Contact: Brenda Terris, 957-1955 Price: $200

Benefiting: Tidewell Hospice When: 11:30 a.m. Where: The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota Contact: Aida Matic, 552-7551 Price: $75 www.tidewell.org

Tidewell Hospice ‘Compassion in Caring’ Luncheon

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Benefiting: New College Foundation When: 6 p.m. Where: Fete Ballroom, Polo Grill Chairs: Lisa Walsh and Emily Walsh Contact: Johnette Cappadona, 487-4600 Price: $250

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Nancy and Laura Jessen at last year’s Cooking for Wishes event.

Our Mother’s House Wine Tasting and Dinner Dance

ChurCh of the redeemer Baritone Jason Stearns February 12, 5 p.m.

BringS the Magic of the Metropolitan opera “Jason has it all, the superb voice, expressive feeling, versatility and charm beyond any other baritone singing today. No one can touch him.” … Acclaimed soprano Evelyn Lear, quoted in Baltimore Sun newspaper Selected by Maestro Zubin Mehta, one of the world’s most renowned conductors, to play the primary baritone role (Alverich) in upcoming production of Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung.

A Can’t-Miss Concert!

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Purchase tickets online at www.redeemersarasota.org or call 941.955.4263 The Church of the Redeemer, 222 S. Palm Ave., Downtown Sarasota

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New College Foundation Gala honoring President Dr. Gordon ‘Mike’ Michalson

Benefiting: PLATO Inc. When: 6 p.m.

Where: Golden Apple Dinner Theatre Chairs: Mary Ann Robinson and Robert Turoff Contact: Bob Turoff, 366-2646, Price: $150 www.platoarts.org

American Association of University Women Annual Tour of Homes

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It’s difficult not to fall under the charm of Provence handcrafts… tablecloths, baskets and pottery.

Come in and meet our guinea fowl from Lussan—they are an undeniable part of provençal allure. These ceramic poultry, with their generous stylized lines are made of clay and hand glazed.

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