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+ Hub reopens three weeks after fire Chris Brown, owner of The Hub Baja Grill in Siesta Village, reported that the restaurant passed all its inspections Tuesday and was ready to reopen for lunchtime Wednesday, 22 days after an early-morning fire caused extensive smoke damage in the building.

No one was injured in the Feb.1 incident.

A malfunctioning cooler caused the fire, which was confined to the kitchen,, the Sarasota County Fire Department reported.

Employees of The Cottage, an adjacent restaurant Brown also owns, spotted smoke coming from The Hub and called 911.

Brown said construction crews gutted the building “and put it back together …

They worked 17- to 18-hour days, seven days a week.”

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The Doctor is in

Green thumbs dig into Selby plant festival.

By Rachel Brown Hackney | Managing Editor

The Sand Man Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman was a professor at the University of Maryland when he created the Top 10 U.S. Beaches list and earned the title, ‘Dr. Beach.’

It all started at the University of Maryland.

For 10 years, Stephen P. Leatherman taught a freshman class called “Waves and Beaches.” It was so popular that, in spite of seats for 250

students, he routinely had a waiting list with 150 names.

That demand notwithstanding, Leatherman said that he had to work to keep the students engaged in his 9 a.m. lectures.

“They (were) partying all night,” he said, so they tended to doze off in class. “I’m going around, waking people up, (telling them), ‘That’s going to

+ A show of thanks from ‘Birdland’ Sarasota County Commissioner Joe Barbetta (left) and Sarasota resident Norman Schimmel were joined Feb. 27 by Janet-Marie Smith, vice president of planning and development for the Baltimore Orioles, to celebrate the formal completion of the Orioles’ new Baseball Operations Center at Ed Smith Stadium.

Schimmel had taken an array of photos at the stadium, after renovations were finished in time for the 2011 springtraining season. Many of them adorn the BOC walls.

Among the photos was a close-up of the Oriole weathervane. Schimmel climbed atop the stadium roof, he said, and maneuvered around solar panels, to capture the iconic shot from “Birdland” in Sarasota.

Monday, he and Barbetta gave Smith a canvas study of that photo.

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Dr. Beach tells a national TV audience in late May about his selection of the SEE DR. BEACH / PAGE 2A Siesta Public Beach.

FEEDING FRENZY Nick Friedman

Jane Early, Grace Connett, Doug and Paula Griffen and Carmen Ramsey were among the Siesta Key Kiwanis Club volunteers who gleaned fruit from local trees Feb. 25. The fruit will be donated to All Faiths Food Bank. For more photos, see page 10B.

booming back

By Rachel Brown Hackney | Managing Editor

Buyers flocking to Siesta homes, condos With the No. 1 beach drawing more tourists, the inventory of houses and condos is decreasing, and prices are going back up, Realtors say.

By late February, Debbie Judge, branch manager of the Michael Saunders & Co. office on Ocean Boulevard in Siesta Village, could look out her window and see vehicles backed up from the stop sign at Canal Road.

“It feels a lot like April,” she said

Feb. 27. And many of those tourists coming to see the No. 1 beach are so enthralled with the island, they’re snapping up homes, Realtors said this week.

Judge said she knew it was going to be a good season when she learned in early fall that nothing

was left to rent for the coming months.

“I think it became pretty evident with the traffic we saw last fall that the No. 1 beach helped put us on the map,” she said.

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The Siesta housing market has been recording strong sales figures over the past months, Realtors say.

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DR. BEACH/PAGE 1A be on the exam’ and ‘No sleeping in my class!’”

Moreover, he said, “They couldn’t remember my name.”

When they started calling him “Dr. Beach,” he said, “I didn’t mind it.”

Word of Leatherman’s classroom antics soon spread to Baltimore, where a TV weatherman named Ed Turney had become known for his own stunts. Turney had a regular local-news feature called “Turney’s Journeys,” so Turney came to College Park one

Dr. Beach bio Hometown: Charlotte, N.C. Education: Bachelor’s of science from North Carolina State University in 1970; doctorate in environmental (coastal) sciences from the University of Virginia in 1976 Occupation: professor at Florida International University in Miami and director of FIU’s Laboratory for Coastal Research Professional accomplishments: author of 16 books and more than 200 professional journal articles and technical reports, including articles in both science and nature magazines; 10 appearances before the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives to provide expert testimony; and onscreen host and co-producer of “Vanishing Lands,” a 1992 documentary that won three international film awards.

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day in the early 1990s, to film a segment on Leatherman’s class.

“He put (the video) on the 5 o’clock news and the 6 o’clock news and the 11 o’clock news,” Leatherman continued. It was referred to as the “Dr. Beach” segment.

“After that,” Leatherman said, “even the president of the university called me Dr. Beach.”

Even before he earned the sobriquet by which he is known internationally, Leatherman was recognized as an expert on beaches, having accumulated 60,000 slides and 10,000 maps from beaches all over the United States.

He received a phone call in 1989 from the editor of Conde Nast Traveler magazine. A new writer on staff had taken the “Waves and Beaches” course at the university, the editor said, and had recommended Leatherman when the staff started planning an article about the top American beaches.

Leatherman confesses that he was a bit distracted when he took the call, because he was trying to finish packing for a trip to Peking University, in Beijing, China, where he had been asked to serve as a visiting professor for two months.

When Leatherman asked what the editor wanted him to use as criteria, the editor said, “Tell me your favorites.”

Leatherman said he was standing there thinking, “I’ve got to get this guy off the line, (so) I just started rattling off beaches I knew and loved.”

After Leatherman had named 10, the editor told him that was what he needed.

“I’m all done, and he sounded happy,” Leatherman said, so he

thought no more of it — for several weeks.

When he arrived in China, the student revolt in Tienanmen Square was under way. All the classes were canceled at Peking University, so he decided to march with the students.

He and a colleague decided to take a trip to the northernmost city in China, where the majority of seaweed served in Chinese restaurants comes ashore. When Leatherman returned to Beijing, his cab driver couldn’t even make it through Tienanmen Square.

That was just hours before the tanks came out, he said.

After about three weeks of turmoil — and another week trying to get a flight back to the United States — Leatherman returned home. The interview with the editor was the furthest thing from his mind, when he found a copy of Traveler magazine in his mail one day, with a front-page teaser for the country’s “Top 10 Beaches.”

Thinking that would be fun to read, Leatherman opened the magazine to the page and found his list, in the order in which he had given it to the editor.

“I was a little bit horrified,” he said.

“Right away, the phone started ringing” with representatives of convention and visitors bureaus asking him for more details about why he had chosen their beaches.

“I didn’t know what a CVB was,” he said.

Among the callers, a woman from the Lee County CVB was elated, Leatherman said, because Sanibel was No. 8 on his list.

“Next year,” she told him, “we’ll be No. 6.”

“I said, ‘What do you mean, next

If you go What: Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman, aka Dr. Beach, will be the special guest of the Siesta Key Association during its annual breakfast meeting. Other special guests will be Sarasota County Commissioner Nora Patterson and John McCarthy, interim executive director of Sarasota County Community Services.

The meeting also will include the election of officers for 2012.

When: 8:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday, March 10. Breakfast will begin at 9 a.m.

Where: The Community Center at St. Boniface Episcopal Church, 5615 Midnight Pass Road, Siesta Key Cost: Each SKA member family receives two free tickets. Otherwise, tickets are $10. RSVP required; visit www. siestakeyassociation.com. year?’” Leatherman asked her.

Acknowledging the American public’s fascination with lists, and realizing that coming up with a Top 10 beaches list “was more interesting than anything else I had done in my life,” Leatherman said, he began devising criteria for all his subsequent lists. It took him two years, he added, to come up with 50 points.

In 1991, Leatherman released his first official Top 20 U.S. Beaches list, gave it to a publicrelations person at the University

of Maryland and took off for a project in Venice, Italy.

The PR person trimmed the list to 10 and released it just before Memorial Day weekend.

“He sent that out, and it went gangbusters,” Leatherman said, adding that the man called him in Italy to tell him, “You’ve got to come home.”

“I’m the only one who’s ever done this,” Leatherman said of his annual list. “I call it the icing on my cake … It keeps me moving around the coast.”

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‘souper’ support By Nick Friedman | Community Editor

Pine Shores youth group collects record donations The Pine Shores Presbyterian Youth Group raised $17,432 and collected 2,365 cans of soup — more than any other Presbyterian church in the country — on Super Bowl Sunday.

When Super Bowl Sunday rolls around, most people look forward to filling up on their favorite snacks and critiquing new commercials, but the members of the Pine Shores Presbyterian Church Youth Group celebrated in a different way.

For the seventh consecutive year, the group collected donations and food to support the nationwide Souper Bowl of Caring program.

According to coordinator Terri Jo Crego, Pine Shores raised $17,432 and collected 2,365 cans of soup for All Faiths Food Bank— the largest total of

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Souper Bowl of Caring was started in 1990 at Spring Valley Presbyterian Church in Columbia, S.C., as a way to use Super Bowl weekend to unite people in helping others. Since then, youth groups across the country have raised more than $81 million for food banks and other charities.

any Presbyterian church in the country, and the second biggest collection of any denomination.

“Food drives like this are so

important,” said Nicole Double, interim executive director of All Faiths Food Bank. “We wouldn’t be able to keep up without the community stepping up, and Pine Shores’ contributions have been massive.”

The youth group’s accomplishments are even more impressive when the size of Pine Shores’ congregation (about 500 members) is compared to the membership of other churches across the country.

While the youth group had come close in years past to its impressive 2012 numbers, it always had been topped by a

spring break By Rachel Brown Hackney | Managing Editor

Sarasota named No. 1 In a survey of U.S. travel writers, Livability.com has determined that Sarasota is the No. 1 spring-break destination for families.

Sgt. Scott Osborne of the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has been saying for weeks that families have been making up the majority of visitors to Siesta Key Public Beach. In mid-February, he pointed out, “We don’t have the spring-break partiers, yet.”

Even though Osborne and his fellow officers have their traditional spring break logistical plan in place, the officers may continue to see a multitude of families, thanks to Sarasota earning the No. 1 ranking among the top 10 spring-break destinations for families.

That honor was announced this week by the website livability.com, which says it “has spent more than 20 years finding the good stuff in small to mid-sized communities all across America.”

In a Feb. 27 press release issued, Livability.com says its editors “asked members of the Society of American Travel Writers for their expert opinions on what makes a city a fantastic place for a springbreak vacation.”

Annette Thompson, SATW board member and freelance travel writer and photographer, said in the release, “An ideal destination provides a wide range of activities for families with children of different ages and interests.” She added, “There should be things to do both indoors and outdoors, because the weather is not something even the best itinerary can predict.”

The news release notes, “Sarasota mixes white-sand beaches and calm blue waters with dozens of entertainment options to create one of the best spring-break destinations.”

As he read through the press release Feb. 27, Kevin Cooper, executive director of the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce, pointed to the part about the beaches and said, “That’s gotta be us.”

Cooper added, “Most people are supposed to know we really are family-focused (on Siesta) …

It’s good to see that somebody else sees that.”

Nonetheless, Cooper said,

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Members of the Pine Shores Presbyterian Church Youth Group are celebrating national recognition for helping All Faiths Food Bank. church with 5,000 members.

“There are definitely much bigger youth groups out there,” said Crego. “We have about 20 kids in our group. We’re not in competition with these other churches; it’s just exciting to see this kind of response.”

Crego attributes the program’s success to Pine Shores’ enthusiasm for mission-oriented projects and the initiative taken by the younger church members, who helped lead worship servic-

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es, made promotional materials and gathered in the donations.

“I knew hunger was a pressing issue, but I wasn’t aware of just how pressing it was until I saw the statistics about hunger, even in our own community,” said William St. Pierre, a sophomore at Pine Shores and a member of the youth group. “I realized that I was much more fortunate than a lot of other people, and I felt a moral obligation to help other members of community.”

By Rachel Brown Hackney | Managing Editor

Condominium owners worried about Citizens Insurance decision Siesta condominium owners this week were seeking clarification about a ruling that could lead to their paying as much as five times more for wind damage insurance policies.

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John and Mable Ringling’s mansion, Ca d’Zan, is just one of the attractions that makes Sarasota the top spring-break family destination, according to Livability.com. people often think of rowdy college students when they think of spring break. Still, with its beach homes and wide range of condominiums, he added, Siesta is a strong draw for families.

Virginia Haley, president of the Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau, said in an email, “This latest honor confirms what we have always said about our spring break, that it has always been multi-generational — mom, dad, the kids and oftentimes the grandparents.”

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Condominium owners on Siesta Key are trying this week to gain clarification of a vote taken Feb. 23 by the Citizens Property Insurance Board of Governors, regarding wind damage policies.

Candace Bunker, a spokeswoman for Citizens, reported Feb. 28 that the board had approved an option that calls for restricting coverage to $1 million for any single structure with condominiums in which more than 25% of the units are rented regularly.

That could translate into insurance policy increases between 400% and 500% for owners of units in such buildings.

In December, the Siesta Key Condominium Council sent letters to all of the state legislators representing Sarasota County, pleading with them to intervene on behalf of coastal condominium owners who were alarmed about the potential insurance cost increases.

The Citizens board originally was scheduled to vote on the wind policies last year; however, lobbying by condo owners resulted in the delay of the decision until late February.

According to a list of options provided to the Citizens board for its Feb. 23 meeting, the change in wind damage coverage would be in line with private-sector policies, it would improve Citizens’ financial footing and it would lead to new and renewal policies being handled in the same manner, resulting in a fairer process.

However, the option pointed out one minus:“Agents and current policyholders would not like the change, as rates would be increased on some renewals.”

After reviewing the Citizens decision, Walt Olson, vice presi-

dent of the Condo Council, said Wednesday morning, “There’s some wiggle room that we don’t understand” in the adopted option.

According to his reading of the information Bunker provided, Olson said, it appeared the $1 million policy limitation would be applied to buildings in which more than 25% of the units were rented at least three times in a calendar year for less than 30 days at a time. If that were correct, he said, the condominium complexes in Sarasota County would be exempt.

As Sarasota County Code Enforcement Officer John Lally has pointed out numerous times over the past year, owners cannot rent property more than once every 30 days. When the Florida Legislature approved a bill last year regarding shortterm rentals, any existing county ordinance, such as Sarasota’s, was exempt from the state guidelines.

Olson pointed out that each of the buildings in the Excelsior complex on Midnight Pass Road, in which he lives, carries about $10 million in coverage with Citizens.

During the Condo Council’s Feb. 21 meeting, guest John Dauenheimer, vice president of Insurance Service of Sarasota, had predicted the Citizens board would not change the residential wind damage policy, saying it was purely a political issue.

He also decried the fact that more members of the public had not protested the proposal.

Olson was unable to reach Dauenheimer Wednesday for clarification of the Citizens vote, he said.

Community Editor Nick Friedman contributed to this story.

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+ Libraries, AARP offering free tax-return assistance Sarasota County libraries and the American Association of Retired Persons are offering free assistance with the preparation of 2011 tax returns through April 17.

AARP Tax-Aide volunteers are available to assist with filing federal returns at the following locations: • Gulf Gate Library, 7112 Curtiss Ave., Sarasota • Selby Library, 1331 First St., Sarasota • Fruitville Library, 100 Coburn Road, Sarasota Days and times vary by location, according to a county news release.

For more information, contact the Sarasota County Call Center at 8615000 or visit the libraries’ website at www.sclibs.net, and click on “Taxes.”

will be conducted from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 7, at sites throughout Sarasota County.

In case of rain, the cleanup will be held Saturday, April 14.

“The Great American Cleanup gives people the opportunity to take pride in their community,” said KSCB Manager Sandra Washington in the news release.

“Residents of Sarasota take a lot of pride when it comes to living in paradise, so when family and friends come to visit, they want to make sure they get the best impression.”

“The Great American Cleanup is one of the county’s most popular events,” Washington said in the news release.

For more information, contact the Sarasota County Call Center at 8615000 or visit www.scgov.net, keyword search “KSCB.”

ments for the various taxing districts and makes recommendations to the Sarasota County Commission, through the fire chief, regarding acquisition of property, capital improvements, operations and maintenance.

Additionally, the board conducts studies to enable it to recommend and request services and facilities it deems necessary to the residents of the respective districts.

The board has seven vacancies. To serve, an applicant must be a resident of Sarasota County. Applicants may not live on Longboat Key or in the city of North Port.

One vacancy must be filled by someone residing within each of the following areas: the city of Sarasota, EnglewoodFire Control District and the city of Venice. Four members must reside within Sarasota County.

The term of appointment is three years, and members must be able to attend at least 75% of the scheduled meetings in a calendar year. The board meets no more than four times a year.

For more information, visit www.scgov. net; use the keyword search, “Advisory Boards.”

Meetings & agendas  Siesta Key Association — 4:30 p.m. March 1, St. Boniface Episcopal Church, Room F, 5615 Midnight Pass Road, Siesta Key.  Siesta Key Village Association — 8:30 a.m. March 6, Daiquiri Deck Raw Bar, 5250 Ocean Blvd., Siesta Key.  Sarasota County School Board — 6:30 p.m. March 6, Sarasota County School District offices, 1980 Landings Blvd., Sarasota.

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Keep Sarasota County Beautiful has begun registering volunteers for the 2012 Great American Cleanup, which

+ Members sought for emergency services board

The Sarasota County Fire-Rescue and Emergency Medical Services District Advisory Board is looking for new members.

The advisory board reviews the assess-

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By Rachel Brown Hackney | Managing Editor

Gulf Gate Library open house is an open book An open house last week offered about 80 Gulf Gate Library patrons the opportunity to suggest features for the new two-story facility. board members indicated in discussions last year that they wanted the facility to be completed in 2013. The commission voted Dec. 6 to award a $740,000 contract to Harvard Jolly for the design work.

Sarasota County Libraries General Manager Sarabeth Kalajian said this week that people were waiting outside the church when the doors opened at 4:30 p.m. for the open house.

“I was very pleased with the turnout,” she said.

Three stations offered some preliminary designs, she said, and flip charts were available for members of the public to write down comments about what they hoped to see in the new facility. The library will be built on the same property where the current facility stands, 7112 Curtiss Ave., Sarasota.

“They could look at the boards, ask some questions,” Kalajian said. “Then we, of course, asked them some questions and recorded what they had to say.”

Common themes emerged, Kalajian said. For example, many of the participants talked about how much they like “the intimate, cozy atmosphere of the current Gulf Gate Library. It’s warm, inviting,” she added.

For another example, she said, “Folks really like the natural light from the central atrium” and its windows, because seating areas in that space provide a pleasant place to read newspapers and

books.

“I know the architects have really been thinking of ways to interpret that comment,” Kalajian added. “They’re really taking that to heart.”

Yet another common point focused on the need for improved parking facilities. “Parking always is a big theme in libraries,” she said.

Designers spend much time working on the look of a new facility’s interior, Kalajian said, but the convenience of parking affects everything else.

Some attendees also wanted to be sure the Friends of the Library would be able to maintain their bookstore and said they hoped it would be enlarged.

In surveying comments Tuesday afternoon on a website Harvard Jolly had set up for internal staff use, Mitchell said he also saw comments about an additional or expanded area for visually impaired readers. The library has one room with a special computer that enables readers to use a much larger screen.

He found comments, too, asking that the proposed new space for teens be flexible, so it could be used for other purposes.

The new library’s teen space will be modeled on the design recently unveiled at Selby Public Library in downtown Sarasota, Mitchell said.

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“I’m not going to complain (about the latter),” he said.

Mitchell has been the Gulf Gate Library manger for almost three years. Prior to that, he was in charge of all the public libraries in New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina hit.

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Tuesday afternoon, he was looking at one piece of artwork, which a 5-year-old had completed. It featured a youth department on the ground floor of the planned two-story structure, and it had an abundance of trees on the property.

The final noteworthy feature showed the sun shining down on Gulf Gate Library.

“It’s a good thought,” he said of the color scheme, with its predominance of green, blue and purple shades. “It won’t fly, though, with the Friends of the Library,” he added with a chuckle.

With limited schematics available so far from the design team of Harvard Jolly Inc., Mitchell said, he’s been using the children’s artwork in discussions with people as the planning process continues for the new library.

That planning process took a big step forward Feb. 23, when nearly 80 people attended an open house Sarasota County officials hosted at St. Andrew United Church of Christ, on Beneva Road, invite comments about LBK to - 2010 I how the modern, 22,000-squarefoot Gate Library LBKGulf - 2010 - I will look.

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Sarasota County braces for looming shortfalls General fund projections for Sarasota County show a budget shortfall hitting as early as 2015, then climbing.

Sarasota County expects at least a $14 million budget shortfall in the 2015 fiscal year, after its reserve fund runs out, as well as a $35 million shortfall the year after that.

During their first budget workshop of the year, held Feb. 23, the county commissioners made some preliminary decisions on budget and tax increases. Among those was tentative approval of a property-tax hike to pay for mosquito management services.

It would be the first time that tax has been raised in 10 years.

The higher rate would translate into $12 more per year for a home with a $200,000 taxable value. The tax hike will be considered again in June, when the commission will set tentative millage rates for advertising and a public hearing. The final budget is scheduled for approval in September.

The increase would cover the mosquito program’s estimated $1.5 million annual cost.

Commissioner Joe Barbetta urged those attending the budget workshop to realize “it’s a restoration of a previous millage rate, even though it will be called a tax-rate increase.”

During the county’s economic boom, the commission cut the tax for five straight years , because the mosquito management fund was taking in too much money. However, the lack of a tax, combined with the recession, resulted in the County Commission’s deciding to use general-fund dollars to pay for the service the past couple of years.

“While I oppose unnecessary millage rates, this one is necessary, and I never an-

ticipated the general fund to permanently subsidize mosquito control,” said Commissioner Nora Patterson.

The tentative decision, however, came on a 3-2 vote, with Barbetta, Patterson and Commissioner Carolyn Mason approving the tax. Mason made it known she could change her mind before a final vote takes place this summer.

Also looming is a decision on an aging county emergency-response communications system, which Interim Fire Chief Mike Tobias said is being held together by a series of figurative band-aids and is unreliable.

An up-to-date 800 MHz system is needed in the future, Tobias said. However, the thought of spending $30 million for it made commissioners cringe. They agreed to put off any further discussion of that topic until later this summer.

Another major decision for the commission last week involved the transfer of $2.47 million from the general fund to pay for another year of Health and Human Services Department costs.

The County Commission also agreed to set aside $6 million toward the county’s economic incentive grant program, to offset high unemployment rates by trying to attract more companies to the area.

While Patterson agreed with the incentive-grants funding, she voiced worries over it in the context of county budget projections showing shortfalls beginning in the 2015 fiscal year.

“My concern is we are leaving a legacy in a couple years of substantial decisions that have to be made,” Patterson said.

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REAL ESTATE/PAGE 1A Numbers for 2011 already looked better in the fall than figures she had seen for several years, she said, with a 26% increase in housing units sold through her office and a 10% rise in the average price per unit.

In January, Judge said, her office recorded a 50% increase in closings.

“Pending (sales for February) are just off the chart,” she added.

Inventory on the Key has dropped from the 27-month level recorded in January 2006 to the 12-month level in January 2012, Judge added. “But we’ve got all price ranges in there,” she pointed out.

Keith Redding, a broker at Key Solutions Real Estate Group, on Midnight Pass Road, said he’s been enjoying looking out the window, too, seeing drivers “slamming on their brakes and turning into our parking lot.”

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Steve Bailey, managing broker at Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate in the Village, said his pending sales had increased by 100% the past six months, compared to the previous half-year.

“Inventory is down and properties are selling fast,” said Adam Robinson, a broker with SarasotaForeclosures.com. “Prices are so good right now,” he added, averaging at levels he last saw in 2001 or 2002.

“Of course, everybody wants a threebedroom (home) right on the beach for $400,000,” he said with a laugh. Although that’s not realistic, Robinson said, “the less-expensive waterfront homes sell immediately.”

For example, he said, a 2,700-squarefoot, single-family condominium at Somerset Cove, which went on the market Feb. 23 for $399,000, was scheduled for 16 showings Feb. 25.

Judge said she had seen many good sales on Beach Road. One house priced about $3 million “sold rather quickly,” she said.

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“Siesta does have a higher average sales price” than other areas of the county, Bailey said. “It’s almost like this utopian, laidback tropical environment, and (buyers are) recognizing they want to be there.”

Ali Murphy, rental director and sales associate at Argus Property Management, on Stickney Point Road, concurred with Bailey. Argus handles properties for 34 condominium complexes and homeowner associations on the island.

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Waterfront properties on the Key are available, but prices are rising again.

The best buyers, Robinson said, are owners of one- or two-bed condos, who want to upgrade or move from homes across the road from the beach to right on the beach.

“They’re not comparing us to Naples,” he said. “They’ve decided they’re Siesta Key people.”

Although some potential buyers have had difficulty understanding they can’t afford waterfront property, Redding said, the majority of them realize they’re going to pay between $400,000 and $600,000 to see the water.

Thomas D. Ward, broker owner with ERA Waterside Realty, on Ocean Boulevard, said, “We’ve really seen a buying trend here the past two to three months.”

Properties priced in the $500,000 to $600,000 range had been staying on the market longer, he said, but newer homes costing more than $1 million “(are) very hot.”

Many houses in the $3 million range also are selling well, he said. “(Buyers) want the new granite and tile and the marble,” he added, pointing, as an example, to the recent sale and transformation of the Hyatt Siesta Key Beach from a fractional-ownership property to a whole-ownership property called The Residences on Siesta Key Beach.

A Feb. 8 news release reported four whole-ownership sales and two pending sales, representing “two-thirds of all condominium sales on Siesta Key Beach over $950,000 during the last quarter of 2011.”

Still, Ward said, “Anything that’s a little older or dated, if they get it for a steal, they’ll take it.”

Bailey said one trend he had observed involves first-time homebuyers recognizing the value of owning property they can rent. Some of these, he added, had been renters themselves.

The average price of properties he’s been handling for people looking to invest in Key real estate has been between $300,000 and $400,000. People interested in becoming permanent residents, he said, were spending between $500,000 and $800,000.

Judge said most of her sales so far this

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removed until the new courts A couple of weeks ago, it was were ready. the beach parking. Now, again, The staff of Total Tennis in Siit’s the tennis courts. Where does esta Village welcomed that news, all the misinformation come because players who are regular from on the Key? It ebbs and customers had seen that sign at flows like the tides on the public the beach. beach.

Of course, I never unearthed A few months ago, someone a clue about who had put up the put up a sign on the tennis sign. If Smith found courts at the Siesta any evidence pointing Public Beach, saying to a culprit, he was too they were going to be much of a gentleman demolished to make to mention it. I doubt way for the improveseriously, though, that ments at the park. As anyone would have soon as county comclaimed responsibility, missioners learned of especially after the real that false information, story became known. they alerted county Yet, last week, I staff, which went into found another email damage-control mode.

RACHEL to County CommisPublic Works DepartBROWN Nora Patterson, ment Project Manager HACKNEY sioner who lives on the Key, Curtis Smith went to from a resident who the courts to talk to had watched the commission’s players and let them know budget meeting Feb. 23 and the rumor was untrue. The was alarmed that Patterson had courts were going to be moved, mentioned eliminating some of he explained to them — and the planned amenities for the explained to me for an article beach. She was trying to look at in the Pelican Press. However, ways for staff to cut down the Smith underscored the fact that estimated cost of the project. the current courts would not be

This latest email writer demanded to know whether Patterson wanted to get rid of the tennis courts.

“No,” Patterson responded.

“The courts will be moved south, and this will be done in such a way as to not have facilities closed until new ones are available.”

Patterson pointed out that the relocation of the courts makes way for a significant portion of the planned new parking spaces at the beach.

The writer was relieved, noting in a follow-up email that the hundreds of tourists who use those courts, along with full-time residents of the island, would be relieved to know the plan.

Patterson took the opportunity to respond again to the writer, pointing out that, of course, more parking spaces could be added to the park plan if the tennis courts were eliminated.

However, she emphasized that the County Commission would have to take a vote on removing the courts, “and nobody has even broached the possibility at our table.”

In spite of that exchange, I fully expect to see more emails in the coming days, in the county email folder, regarding the fate of the tennis courts.

Having grown up in a small town, and having lived for another 25 years in a town that was bigger, but still not that big, I understand only too well how news can be mis-communicated. It’s a lot like the children’s game I knew as “Gossip,” in which one person whispers a simple statement in the ear of the closest youngster, and the statement gets passed down a line of a dozen or more children until it comes out at the other end, in the most fancifully distorted fashion you can imagine.

When my husband and I moved in the summer of 2005 to Sarasota, we heard from more than a few people about the city’s small-town feel. When we later lived on Siesta Key for 14 months, we truly found ourselves in a community that felt even more like our former home, in terms of the ease of getting to know people and talking with them about life on the island.

Given that kind of environment, I realize it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that statements on the Key can be transformed from one figurative end of the island to another, just as they were in those lines of children when I was growing up.

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Always looking for new ways to attract visitors to Siesta Key, the SKVA is exploring the possibility of installing an electriccar charging station in the Village. The charging stations have GPS locators that enable people cruising down the interstate to check their smart phones for the locations, see if the Siesta Key Village stations are in use and Association reserve charging time.

The Siesta Key Village It takes around two is doing great. The busiMARK hours to charge a car for nesses had a wonderSMITH a nominal fee that will ful summer, thanks to offset the electric bill.

Siesta Beach being the This is another way to put Siesta No. 1 beach in America. What Key on the map. always brings a smile to my face are the families that crowd onto Siesta Key Village the front porch and sidewalk of Big Olaf’s in the early evening, Maintenance Corp. no matter the weather, and the The Siesta Key Village Mainsidewalks bustling with people, tenance Corp. consists of all the heading to and from the differproperty owners in the commerent restaurants and shops. The cial district that makes up the I have the distinct pleasure of being on the board of directors of the Siesta Key Village Association and the Siesta Key Village Maintenance Corp., as well as being chairman of the board for the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce. I have lived and had my architectural office on Siesta Key for the past 18 years. This gives me the unique perspective of both a resident and a business owner on Siesta Key.

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Village. Since the completion of the Village beautification project in 2009, which created the brick sidewalks, street medallions and the gazebo, it has been the SKVMC’s responsibility to oversee the maintenance and upkeep of the Village.

Last week the Sarasota County Board of Commissioners voted on a modification to the ordinance that governs the maintenance of the Village. This is the first step necessary for the county to issue a request for proposals to firms interested in the daily tasks needed to keep the sidewalks clean and the landscaping thriving.

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2011 was one of the most successful years the chamber has had. Membership is increasing, and the overall business climate is looking positive in this tough economy.

Last year’s Siesta Key Crystal Classic Master Sandsculpting Competition brought two-dozen of the world’s best sculptors to

our beach for a week of unbelievable artistry. This event draws tens of thousands to Sarasota County and is estimated to bring in more than $2 million to the local economy. Proceeds from the Crystal Classic made possible a $30,000 donation to the Mote Marine Turtle Program.

The Siesta Key Chambersponsored annual Fourth of July fireworks celebration was again fantastic. Most people don’t realize that the cost of the fireworks, $33,000, is paid entirely from sponsorships and attendance at the picnic at Siesta Beach; no tax money is used. So, please remember that and frequent the shops and restaurants that make it all happen.

Siesta Key is an island paradise that some of us are blessed to work on and be able to call home. We can never take it for granted, and we must all participate any way we can to keep our island No. 1.

Mark H. Smith is a Siesta Key architect and long-time board member of various island organizations.

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LETTERS Siesta Key remembers barber THE TO EDITOR Larry Lantz, who was known for his wit and warmth during 48 in memoriam By Rachel Brown Hackney | Managing Editor

years of work as a barber on Siesta Key, died Feb. 13. He was 75.

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him, but that would take forever.”

Lantz used to joke with Sparks and fellow barber Scott Reich — Sparks’ stepson — about what they would find to “yell at (him) about today.”

Asked if he had a favorite story about Lantz, Reich said, “That would be all of ’em … We worked 3 or 4 feet apart for 12 years.”

Reich said he and Sparks used to tease Lantz, telling him “he’s older than the asphalt” on the Key. He and Lantz became even closer after Hurricane Charley left a swath of destruction across the area in 2005, Reich said. With the shop closed Mondays, they would head out to the Longino Ranch, owned by Berryman T. “Buster” Longino, to help clean up debris and get things reorganized.

Longino was known for his innovation in land-management techniques on the 8,000 acres in the eastern part of Sarasota County, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

“He didn’t have very much help for the amount of property he had,” Reich added.

Thanks to Lantz’ joking, Reich said, the work went quickly.

“I think about him every day,” Reich said of Lantz.

The memorial service for Lantz took place Feb. 24, at Pine Shores Presbyterian Church, in Sarasota. Along with his wife, Dottie, Lantz is survived by a son, Jamey; a daughter, Penny; and a granddaughter, Krystal, whom Lantz and his wife were raising.

Larry Lantz served as a barber on Siesta Key for 48 years. He spent the last 12 years of his career at The Village Barber, in Siesta Center. from having worked so long on the island.

“It’s too bad he didn’t write it down years ago,” Sparks said.

Sparks added, “He’s going to be missed by a lot of people, that’s for sure … We could tell all kinds of stories on

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Crosswalks on Midnight Pass Road and a reduction of the speed limit to 30 mph on Beach Road, between Siesta Village and the Midnight Pass Road intersection, are steps in the right direction.

However, Sarasota County and Florida Department of Transportation officials still don’t understand that there must be an adequate traffic signal at the Beach Road intersection with Beach Way. I also commend the Pelican Press for its expert reporting of the news related to traffic issues on the Key. Joseph F. Barresi Siesta Key

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Long-time friends and customers of Larry Lantz are mourning his Feb. 13 death, after a two-year bout with cancer.

Lantz, 75, worked as a barber for 48 years on the Key. His wife, Dottie, said this week that many of his customers have been contacting her after learning of his death.

They had been married more than 50 years, during which time his sense of humor enabled them to share many laughs.

Putting smiles on people’s faces, she said, “was one of his things to do.”

Lantz started out as a barber in 1956, in the shopping center on Old Stickney Point Road where the Crescent Beach Grocery stands. He spent the last 12 years of his career on the Key at The Village Barber, in Siesta Center on Ocean Boulevard.

About 18 months ago, he left that shop and went to work as a barber on Constitution Avenue.

“He was a great guy,” Pete Sparks, owner of The Village Barber, said this week. Sparks and Lantz worked together for 20 years.

When customers come into the shop and learned of Lantz’ death, Sparks said, they have been shocked.

“He always had a story, but he’d spice it up a little more,” Sparks said of Lantz, adding that Lantz, perhaps, was best known for the succinct conclusion to most of his tales: “It don’t matter now.”

Lantz also had a wealth of information about the history of Siesta Key

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11:54 p.m. — 5200 block of Ocean Boulevard. Battery. A 50-year-old man called the Sheriff’s Office to report that he and his 53-year-old wife had been in an argument inside a Village restaurant. When his wife left, he said, she dented the front of his truck and broke the side mirror. A deputy told the man that, because the couple is married, the damage to the truck could not be considered a crime. The man said he didn’t want to press charges anyway; he just wanted the incident documented.

He then told the deputy that the wife had slapped him in the neck before she left the restaurant; however, he said he did not want that incident documented. When the deputy asked him for more details, the man said his wife had thrown a glass of wine at him, and it had hit him on his left shoulder. Then, she had slapped him and gone outside, where she damaged his truck. The man did not have any injuries, he said, adding that he planned to stay at

a friend’s home for a few days. Because his wife had no idea about his plans, he said, he did not think she would harm him further. The man also said they had no history of domestic violence, and he asked the deputy not to try to talk to his wife. The deputy gave the man a card for Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center in Sarasota.

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When the deputy arrived at the mother’s residence, he saw the vehicle and noted it appeared undamaged. The daughter, who was at the home with her mother, admitted not only to having taken the vehicle but also to having a drug problem. The daughter said she was seeking help for the latter. The mother said she did not want to press charges, but she wanted to make sure her daughter continued with drug rehabilitation.

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12:24 a.m. — Intersection of Avenida Madera and Calle Minorga. Driving Under the Influence.

A deputy spotted a 37-year-old man and his girlfriend holding hands and sleeping in a vehicle parked near a Village nightclub.

The deputy noted that the vehicle’s engine was running, and its lights were on. The deputy reported that the couple did not wake up when he shone a flashlight beam on them. After the deputy knocked on the window several times, the man woke up abruptly, sat up and turned off the engine. He then put the keys under the driver’s seat, took them back out, put them under the seat again, then reached under the seat and removed them once more before putting them in his pants pocket. He was looking around and acting confused, the deputy reported. When the deputy asked for his license and registration, the man had difficulty finding them; the deputy saw the man’s hands move over them several times. When the deputy asked the man to step out of the vehicle, the deputy report-

ed he could smell the distinctive odor of an alcoholic beverage on the man. The man also had bloodshot eyes, and his speech was slurred, the deputy reported.

The man told the deputy he was not drunk and that the only reason he had kept the car running was to keep the heat on. He added that he had had very little to drink and that he had not passed out. In fact, he said, he couldn’t drink, because he was waiting to go into the nightclub to promote his music. The man then insisted he had had nothing to drink and that he felt he could operate a vehicle safely, though he was not going anywhere right at that time. He followed up those statements with the comment that he has a back problem, for which he takes medication, though he wasn’t sure what type of medication. After the deputy arrested

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Feb. 12: Purloined purse 5:52 p.m. — 5100 block of Ocean Boulevard. Petit Theft. A 26-year-old tourist called the Sheriff’s Office to report that someone had stolen her purse from a Village nightclub between 11 and 11:30 p.m. the previous night. The purse contained about $40 in cash, plus her keys, her driver’s license and her debit card. She was able to cancel the credit card before any unlawful activity appeared on the account, according to the Sheriff’s Office report.

the man on a DUI charge and put the man into the back of the patrol car, the man started screaming and “using extreme profanity,” the deputy reported.

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AL SMITH

There, Smith was offered a 10% share of the paper. He eventually bought a chain of seven weeklies, became a wellknown fixture on Kentucky radio and television and became engaged in politics.

By the early 1980s, Smith’s life was a far cry from that of the struggling reporter with empty pockets and high hopes. Smith found himself recounting his childhood experiences to a woman on a train ride. Hailing from Sarasota herself, she informed him the Acacias was scheduled to be demolished.

Nearly 40 years after first leaving, Smith finally returned to visit his childhood home.

“I fell back in love with the town that had caused my family so much heartbreak,” he says.

Ten years ago, Smith and his wife, Martha Helen Smith, bought a condominium on Siesta Key, which they call home several months of the year.

“It’s almost home,” said Smith. “But I owe Kentucky too much to stay here full-time.”

Smith recently wrote a book about his experiences; it is titled, “Wordsmith: My Life in Journalism.”

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At 17, Smith joined the U.S. Army. He earned an opportunity to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point but turned it down in favor of Vanderbilt. Shortly after that, Smith abandoned his scholarships and dropped out of school to pursue a journalism career in New Orleans. Smith showed promise as a young reporter.

He found a lot of success in New Orleans until his drinking

problem got him fired.

“I went back to Nashville to dry out,” Smith says. “When I got sober, I started working for a weekly paper in Russellville, Ky. Coming from New Orleans, I thought this small town was nothing, but it turned out to be everything for me.”

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In 1929, at age 12, Al Smith left Sarasota — a town where he and his family had experienced a lot of heartbreak. He would grow up to become one of Kentucky’s best-known journalists, but his success wasn’t easy.

From learning his craft as a broke reporter in New Orleans, to overcoming alcoholism, to purchasing a chain of weekly papers in Kentucky, Smith’s career took him places he never imagined he’d see. But it was a chance encounter on a train, 40 years after he left Southwest Florida, that led him home.

Smith spent his childhood with his parents and sister in Sarasota’s historic Acacias Mansion, where the Sarasota Bay Club now stands.

“It was quite a romantic place,” Smith remembers. “It was rooted in so much history.”

His father tried to sell the mansion, but after he was unable to find a buyer, the Smiths found themselves in Depression-era financial trouble and were forced to move. This sudden change of luck marred Smith’s otherwise positive memories of Sarasota and led his father to develop a drinking problem. Smith followed in those footsteps later.

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Siesta Events FRIDAY, MARCH 2 Chamber Networking Luncheon — takes place at 11:30 a.m. at Mattison’s Forty-One, 7275 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Cost: $12; make checks payable to Mattison’s Forty-One. RSVP by noon March 1 to 349-3800 or by email to info@ siestakeychamber.com.

Siesta Key Association Annual Meeting — takes place at 8:30 a.m. in the Community Center at St. Boniface Episcopal Church, 5615 Midnight Pass Road. Program will include breakfast at 9 a.m. and remarks by Sarasota County Commissioner Nora Patterson and John McCarthy, interim executive director of Sarasota County Community Services. Each SKA member family is entitled to two free tickets. Cost: $10 for non-members.

Reservations requested at www. siestakeyassociation.com.

Benny Kimsey’s Bluegrass Picnic at Turtle Beach — takes place from noon to 5 p.m., with four bands: Skeeterland Bluegrass Band, Sycamore Shade, Siesta Key Boys and Tonga Street Bluegrass.

Donations will be accepted for the American Red Cross. Lunch will be served from noon until 1:30 p.m., featuring hot dogs, hamburgers and sides. Attendees are asked to bring their own drinks. Free. For more information, call Kimsey at 4007212, visit www.turtlebeachbluegrass.com or email turtlebeachbluegrass@gmail.com.

Chamber After Hours Business Card Exchange — takes place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Holiday Inn Express & Suites-Sarasota I-75, 5730 Gantt Road. Cost: $5 for members and $10 for guests. RSVP by noon March 14 to 349-3800 or email info@ siestakeychamber.com.

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Poetry Open Mic — takes place at 6 p.m. at Bookstore1Sarasota, 1359 Main St., Sarasota. Attendees are welcome to bring their own poetry to read aloud or just be part of the audience. For more information, visit www.bookstore1sarasota.com or call 365-7900.

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St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church 5394 Midnight Pass Road; 349-4174; www.stmichaelssiesta.com Saturday Vigil: 3 and 4:45 p.m.

Sunday: 7:30, 8:45 and 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.

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Siesta Key Chapel (Presbyterian) 4615 Gleason Ave.; 349-1166; www.siestakeychapel.org Sunday worship services: 8:45 and 11 a.m.

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20th annual School of Christian Living: Every Wednesday through March 28, with three classes — “Generous Justice,” “A Closer Look at the Lord’s Prayer” and “Following Jesus: The First 300 Years.” Dinner begins at 5 p.m. each of those evenings. Classes take place from 6 to 7 p.m. Cost per meal: $9, although the church may waive the fee for those on limited budgets. For more details, visit www. seistakeychapel.org, email siestakeychapel@comcast. net or call 349-1166.

St. Boniface Episcopal Church 5615 Midnight Pass Road; 349-5616; www.bonifacechurch.org Sunday morning worship services: 7:45, 9 and 11:15 a.m.

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

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Helene Giraud, 3, does her impression of a monkey.

Photos by Rachel S. O’Hara

Students in the class for 3- to 4-year-olds listen to librarian Nancy Velazquez as she reads, ‘I Took My Frog to the Library.’

Love of Learning Gulf Gate librarians visited the St. Boniface Preschool Feb. 27, to read, sign and dance with the children as part of the school’s ongoing outreach program.

The children had a blast spending time with the volunteers.

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Cash Murphy, 4, acts out “Wheels on the Bus.”

Isla Cawley, 2, gives herself a hug during the “Morning Song.”

Henry Gilbertson, 2, and Barbara Papantonakis listen as librarians Nancy Velazquez and Michele Guffanti read and act out a story.

Makala Milburn, 3, brushes her teeth during the “Morning Song.”

Hayne Falck, 2, plays peeka-boo.

Nancy Velazquez reads “Brown Bear Brown Bear,” while Michele Guffanti sticks stuffed animals from the book on her story apron.

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YES! WE DID IT! As many of you know, The Hub Baja Grill and Bar was required to close on February 1st due to a kitchen fire. The smoke and soot damage was so intense we decided to do it RIGHT by completely rejuvenating the entire building from top to bottom to every nook and cranny.

We achieved this huge undertaking in only 22 days from permit application to final inspection. It would have been impossible to accomplish this rapid transition without the help of the following participants:

• THE SARASoTA counTY FIRE DEpARTmEnT. In particular, Siesta Key branch, Station 13 (for putting the darn thing out!).

They quickly responded that night, and have made multiple stops to check in on us showing care and thought throughout the transition process.

• THE SARASoTA counTY BuIlDInG DEpARTmEnT and how understanding they were of the position we were in and quickly putting us on the fast track for permits and inspections.

• THE HollIDAY GRoup (craig and patrick) Without their level of expertise and the great relationship we have, this project could not have been possible.

• All THE locAl BuSInESSES (you know who you are) for supplying food and beverages to us and the staff during this stressful time of loss and despair.

• To THE HunDREDS AnD HunDREDS oF locAlS AnD TouRISTS that kept our motivation and momentum up and positive by sending emails, cards, and stopping by with words of encouragement and eagerness to have us up and running.

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• FInAllY, To THE STAFF In THE WoRlD, Who stayed with us and hung in there through the battle and even got a little dirty along the way. We now know what the true meaning of family really is. Thank you. now, it’s mARGARITA TImE so come in enjoy great food, drinks, new and improved atmosphere, and people!

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Gathering at the Garden Thousands of people enjoyed learning, looking, wandering and buying at the Plant & Garden Festival Feb. 25 and Feb. 26, at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

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Palm Island residents hold picnic in renovated park nated more than 500 hours to clear overgrowth, add pavers, create flowerbeds, construct new benches and a sign and add decorative totem statues.

The park was named in honor of the late Elsie Blair, who lived on Palm Island from 1963 until her death in 1994. Blair founded the Palm Island Garden Club and was a long-serving president of the Palm Island Neighborhood Association.

Association members say the park honors her love for Palm Island.

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to Michael Tesar February winner of the CoolToday Weather Photo Contest Taken at the Manatee County Fair

Photos by Jen Blanco

Sixteen-year-old Ben Delaney carries his boat up out of the water following the boys high school 2x race, which he and his teammate won.

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The following real estate transactions took place between Feb. 13 and Feb. 17.

A condominium in Summer Cove on Siesta tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Joseph and Regina Culloo, of Highlands Ranch, Colo., sold their Unit 404-C condominium at 1660 Summerhouse Lane to Susan Dietrich, of Norwich, N.Y., for $1,185,000. Built in 2007, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 2,490 square feet of living area.

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Captain Curt’s Crab & Oyster Bar ✦ The Very Best in Florida Seafood, Traditional Fare & Specialties served in a Casual, Fun Atmosphere! Voted #1 Clam Chowder in the World! Nightly entertainment in the Backroom Saloon & great drinks & snacks at the Sneaki Tiki Bar. Open daily for lunch and dinner. Kids Menu available. • 1200 Old Stickney Point Rd. • 941-349-3885 • www.captaincurts.com

Daiquiri Deck Raw Bar ✦ Featuring an extensive menu of Snacketizers, Soups, Salad Sensations, Bodacious Burgers, Specialty Sandwiches, Wraps, Pizzas and of course daiquiris. Happy Hour daily, 2-for-

Casual Waterfront Dining

✦ In the Center of Siesta Key Village, Lobster Pot is Siesta Key’s New England Seafood Restaurant.

Open for lunch & dinner Mon.-Sat. and dinner seasonally on Sundays. They offer everything from fresh fish cooked the way you want it... to Steak, Chops, & Chicken... to Homemade Soups and more... Premium Wine & Beer. • 5157 Ocean Blvd. • 941-349-2323

Navarra on the Key

William and Linda Kuper sold their Unit 5239-A condominium at 5239A Avenida Navarra to Aldred and Jennifer Clarke, of Ontario, Canada, for $310,000. Built in 1963, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 736 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $244,900 in 2001.

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These are the Siesta Key building permits issued by Sarasota County and city of Sarasota for the week of Feb. 13 through Feb. 17, in order of dollar amounts.

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9397 Midnight Pass Road 1255 W. Peppertree Drive 4660 Ocean Blvd.

5324 Siesta Court

Remodel Remodel Windows/Door Renovations

Jean-Michel Duquenne Fred Kramer Tim Harrington Tatiana Connolly

Amount $110,800 $68,000 $16,600 $13,100

Source: Sarasota County; city of Sarasota

✦ Venice’s waterfront landmark since 1976, Featuring casual fine dining overlooking the Marina & Venice Inlet. Voted ‘Venice’s “Best Overall Restaurant”’ seven years, and “Best of Award of Excellence” from the Wine Spectator.

Fun casual atmosphere in The 1st Floor Tavern • Boat or car • Lunch and dinner • Open daily • 1968 Tarpon Center Dr. • 941-484-9551

6631 Midnight Pass Rd. Crescent Plaza (1/4 Mile So. of Stickney Pt. Rd.)

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Dennis and Judy Buttinger, of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., sold their Unit 502 condominium at 9393 Midnight Pass Road to Antonio Castaldo and Christine Castaldo, trustees, of Ontario, Canada, for $340,000. Built in 1975, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,029 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $192,000 in 1997.

1 daiquiris 3-7pm. Lunch specials Mon. through Fri. Live entertainment. • 5250 Ocean Blvd. Siesta Key • 941-349-8697 • Daiquiri Deck Raw Bar • St Armands • 325 John Ringling Blvd • 941-388-3325 www.daiquirideck.com

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Victoria Krupa STATS Victoria Krupa, 17, is enjoying a stellar junior year as Cardinal Mooney’s goalkeeper for the lacrosse team. Last week, she notched five saves on seven shots as the Cougars squashed Sarasota Military Academy 12-2. Krupa also plays for Lax Maniax and officiates middle school and youth lacrosse games in Tampa.

What is the hardest part about goalkeeping?

It’s the mental and emotional side to it.

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When you are not on top of your game, it is hard and you have to keep yourself upbeat. The mental and emotional exhaustion is really hard.

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I want to get into sports psychology.

Psychology is a pretty common college major, so I should be able to do it wherever I go. I want to get into sports psychology, especially being a goalie with all the mental mind games you have to deal with.

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The perfect record for the Sarasota Middle School basketball team this year.

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The number of strikeouts Sarasota High softball pitcher Bailey Hamel tossed in the Sailors’ 2-1 win over Manatee Feb. 28.

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Do you have a favorite lacrosse memory?

I went the University of Notre Dame for summer camp, and our team was in the semifinal for camp championship, and we went into a braveheart. That’s when there is one goalie and one field player from each team, and they start at the same time, and you play until “sudden victory” — whoever scores first wins.

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Do you plan to play in college?

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How did you get into lacrosse?

My mom played in college and had been coming to Florida for years to coach a camp. I used to live in Philly, and when you are from there, you are basically born to play the sport. When we moved here in 2006, I got more into it.

Fresh Seafood

The weight in pounds of former Cardinal Mooney football star Clayton Hazeltine.

Hazeltine, who went on to play at Wingate University, qualified for the National NFL Combine, which will be held March 30 to 31, in Detroit.

& Packa

6519 Midnight Pass Rd., Siesta Key

941-349-1311

Full service bar & drive thru package window

(Located on south side of building).

Free hot dogs steamed in Sauerkraut ready at noon every Saturday!!!

Open 7 days a week ~ 365 days a year 10:00 A.M. ~ 2:30 A.M. Weekly Sunday 12 noon ~ 2:30 A.M. 62103

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By Nick Friedman | Community Editor

Siesta Kiwanis Club members join forces to fight hunger

Hosts Diana and Nevin Weiner, Judie Berger and Marilyn and Ron Shapo

Members of the Siesta Key Kiwanis Club rose bright and early Saturday, Feb. 25, to glean area fruit trees.

Eleven teams collected grapefruit, lemons and other fruits to donate to All Faiths Food Bank. Members of the Pine View Key Club joined in the efforts.

The club had put out a notice weeks ago, asking area residents to donate unwanted fruit from their

Paula Griffin

Photos by Nick Friedman

Carmen Ramsey

trees, to aid in the fight against community hunger.

Siesta Isles neighbors enjoy monthly soiree Members of the Siesta Isles Neighborhood Association gathered for their monthly soiree Feb. 22, at the home of Ron and Marilyn Shapo.

Each month, association members take turns co-hosting the social event. Along

with the Shapos, the February hosts were Nevin and Diana Weiner and Judie Berger.

Guests enjoyed appetizers, catered by Village Café, as they engaged in predictions for the Feb. 26 Academy Awards ceremony.

Mellonie Smicklas and Brinton Smith

Marcia and Dick McLaughlin

Grace Connett and Jane Early worked hard throughout the day.

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High 77 78 81 77 77 85 84

Temps.

Low 59 70 69 62 60 67 67

Record Temps.

High Low 87 (1990) 30 (1977) 86 (1962) 33 (1978) 87 (2001) 32 (1964) 87 (1922) 28 (1989) 87 (1962) 27 (1967) 86 (1927) 31 (1974) 88 (1997) 31 (1935)

Average Gulf water temperature: 65.2

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Karenia brevis, the red tide organism, was not detected onshore or offshore Sarasota County, Friday, Feb. 24, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.

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27 ___ Island National Monument 29 Hardly a guzzle 30 Second word in many a limerick 31 “Pushing Tin” director Mike 32 Word with “metric” or “honor” 34 Bioelectric creatures 36 Scepter partner 38 Hoarse-sounding 39 About 225 Earth days, on Venus 41 Fashion line?

43 Affirmative votes 45 Rocky peak 48 Have down cold 50 Enjoy the slopes 51 Growing canines 55 Greek war god 57 Dynamic ___ (Batman and Robin) 58 Result of sun exposure 59 Alphabet opening sequence 60 Politician Paul 61 ___ no good (scheming) 62 Smasher particle 64 For men ___ (stag) 66 Horn-shaped object 68 ___ store (discount shop) 70 A politician may resign in it 73 Fixes a manuscript

74 More ethereal 76 Do a double-take, e.g.

77 Kind of hammer 79 Curl the lip 80 Lacking teeth 83 Tibetans, e.g.

85 A-frame overhangs 86 City near Phoenix 87 What knitting needles need 89 Strike dumb 90 The time of one’s life?

91 Wheeler-dealer in D.C. 92 Former Delta rival 95 “Crying” singer Orbison 96 White-hat wearer, stereotypically 97 Sleep inducer 100 Understanding cries 101 Round bread of India 103 Embroider 104 ___ fide (authentic) 105 Color in a stable 107 Took a card 109 Trunk without a lock 112 Was ahead in points 115 Fall gemstone 117 Intrepid 121 Delphi prophet 123 Sudden transition 125 A mouse may move across one 127 Splendid 128 Pioneer of cool jazz 130 Scarcer 132 ___ mater 133 Optometrist’s concerns 134 Worthless stuff 135 Marine organisms 136 Foot’s five 137 Impudence 138 Affirmatives 139 Make corrections to, as text 140 ___ d’oeuvre

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ALWAYS LBK’S BIGGEST & BEST! ROYAL RUMMAGE SALE V ST. MARY STAR OF THE SEA 4280 Gulf of Mexico Dr. SAVE THE DATES Friday, March 2, 1p.m.-5p.m. $5 Admission Saturday, March 3, - 9a.m.-3p.m.

Free Admission

BLOWER: BLACK & decker, $55. TV, 27”, color antenna/cable, $75. Set of dishes, $12.

913-269-1857.

CHICKEN SOUP For The Soul: 1 book or box of 31. Mint. $3/ea. 941-360-3557.

FOOD PROCESSOR: Cuisinart Little Pro all attachments. Never used. $15.00. 941-355-3747.

CLEARANCE AUCTION SUNDAY, MARCH 4TH @ 1PM The sale will be held at our Auction Gallery located on the Southwest corner of 301N & University Parkway.

Cleaning out the Warehouse, Lots of Estate Material, All to be Sold in a Fast Paced Auction!!

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

KITCHEN TABLE oval, 4 chairs. Also end table.

Both excellent condition, $200. 941-921-1597.

LADY’S PATTY Berg Irons, Putter, 3, 5, 7 Woods, Golf Bag & Balls. $39. 941-918-2767.

OLD ROCKER, $25, Pakistani rug, $65, African trade beads, 100/$100, Stickney Point area.

941-600-3596.

ROUND TABLE 4 Chairs All wood painted, $45.

48" 60" with leaf. 941-650-8181.

Antiques/Collectibles ALWAYS BUYING: Fine antique 18th & 19th Century Furniture, Art and Collectibles. Call Ren Selby, 941-822-9092.

Autos For Sale 2001 CHRYSLER Sebring, Great Condition, 79,000 Miles, Cold Air, Runs Great, 941-284-2593.

2009 PORSCHE Boxster, 15,000 miles, Midnight Blue/Tan Interior, Loaded. Navigation, SportCrono, Bose System. $40,500. Original price, $64,000. 941-387-1323.

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

Consignments

FAMILY ESTATE SALE Friday & Saturday, 8AM-2PM. 2260 Wason Road, River Forest off 41. Park on Right side of road, or on Palos Verdes. Contents of Architects 4BR Waterfront Home: Antique Wicker Loveseat & Chair, Upholstered & Wood Armed Chairs, Wicker & Wood Tables, Music Cabinet, Wash Stand, Metal Full Bed, Glassware, Metal Patio Furniture, Deco Lamps, Sectional Sofa, Bamboo Dining Room Table & Chairs, Oak Dining Room Table, Large Glass Cube Coffee Table, Headboard, Chest, Desk, Wurlitzer Piano, Fisher Pool Table, Loaded Kitchen with Small Appliances, Linens, Paintings, Books, many collections including Birdhouses, Fiesta, Birds, Bunnies, Howdy items, Crib & old Baby items, and much more!!

HUGE SALE! Christ Church of Longboat Key. 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Saturday, March 10, 8:30 - 2:30. Clothing, jewelry, housewares, electronics, books & more.

OUR BOOKS 1/2 Price BEE RIDGE BOOKS 4104 Bee Ridge Road Bee Ridge Plaza Trade-In your Paperbacks 941-377-8998

Furnishings 52” TV Mitsubishi on rollers, $300. Solid Cherry Roll-Top Desk, Beautiful, Lots of extras, $500.

Chandelier, 43” High, 3 Tier, $250. 941-445-5213.

**********TWO ESTATE SALES THIS WEEK*********

BY NANCY DUNN LLC 941-925-1993 SAT. 9AM-2PM 3940 Oakhurst Blvd. Off Bee Ridge Kitchen Table & 4 Iron Chairs, Double Bedroom Set, Wicker, Quality Kitchenware, Gold & Fine Costume Jewelry & Accessories, Antiques, Books, Pressure Washer, Collectibles, Fine Quality throughout.

SAT. 9AM-2PM 3529 Green View Court, Off Beneva “Village in the Pines” Franciscan China, Stemware, Twin & Double Bedroom Sets, Dining Room Suite, Cedar Chest, Misc. Tables - Chairs - Sofas - Lamps & Pictures, Kitchen Items & Misc.

For Pictures: www.estatesalesbynancydunn.com ALWAYS BUYING: Fine antique 18th & 19th Century Furniture, Art and Collectibles. Call Ren Selby, 941-822-9092.

BUY OWNER: Siesta Key #1 Beach, Siesta Dunes Condominium, Gulfside, 2BR/2BA, 2nd Flr. Condo Package: Covered Parking w/ Storage, Upgrades, Saltwater Pool, Hot Tub, Tennis Court, BBQ’s, Beach Deck, Outstanding on-site rental program. Together with a 2003 White Mustang, Auto, V6 Convertible, 53K Miles, Mint condition. Package: $429,900.

941-349-1643 for appt.

Events KINGS GATE PARK FLEA MARKET & BAZAAR SATURDAY, MARCH 3RD 9A.M.-2P.M. FLEA MARKET FURNITURE, CRAFTS & VENDORS FOOD COURT & BAKED GOODS

SUNNYSIDE FOUNDATION SALE Estate liquidations, Household, Misc. & Baked Goods. Saturday, March 10th, 8am to Noon. No early birds please. 5201 Bahia Vista Street, Sarasota. (Follow the signs).

General Merchandise HOT TUB: seats 5 with lounger, 24 jets, 5HP. Never used. $1695. 941-462-0633.

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

PALMER RANCH The Isles, Villa 2BR/2BA/2gar., beautiful home many upgrades & built-ins, lanai and pool overlook tranquil pond.

REDUCED -- $279,900

1500 KINGS WAY IN NOKOMIS NORTH OFF LAUREL RD BETWEEN I-75 & 41 RAIN DATE MARCH 4TH

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

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

Business Opportunities

Stoneybrook Golf Veranda Condo 2BR/2BA/garage, 1st fl with panoramic golf and lake view, immaculate and turnkey furnished.

--REDUCED-- $194,900.

Stoneybrook Golf Villa 2BR/2BA2gar., immaculate with expanded lanai overlooking golf course and pond.

REDUCED-- lowest priced villa in Stoneybrook $289,900

ABBEX, INC 941-365-3833

NANCY CASEY Coldwell Banker 941-966-9072

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

COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE: Sat., March 3rd.

Woodland Park, off McIntosh between Bahia Vista and Fruitville, starting at 8a.m.

ALWAYS BUYING: Fine antique 18th & 19th Century Furniture, Art and Collectibles. Call Ren Selby, 941-822-9092.

Garage/Moving/Estate Sales

Condos For Sale

ANNUAL YARD SALE/RUMMAGE SALE. St. Andrew Church, 6908 Beneva. Saturday, March 3rd., 9a.m.-1p.m. Bake shop, jewelry, electronics, kitchen, linens, books, furniture, clothing. Much more! BBQ Grill lunch available.

GRINDER: FREE standing, Dual spindle, 6” Wheel on one side, buffer on other side, $200.

941-951-6022.

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

Sporting Goods GUN & KNIFE SHOW: Bradenton Auditorium, March 10th & 11th. 941-746-7937.

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“He’s a joy to be around,” says Asolo Rep Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards of director Peter Amster, above. “He’s fun and bright and inspires confidence in the actors.”

Prim and improper Peter Amster might be a Yankee in Noël Coward’s court, but his attention to nuance and spontaneity has made him the go-to director of high British comedies.

His silly streak continues with this month’s ‘Fallen Angels’ at the Asolo Rep. Peter Amster has a big black binder filled with everything he needs to know about “Fallen Angels,” the three-act comedy by Noël Coward that outraged critics when it opened on Broadway 87 years ago.

In the binder is a list of words that were used to describe the show, all of them different ways to express discontent.

Amster decided to include the list in his production notes. It reminds

him that he’s handling racy material, even if it’s tame by today’s standards.

Opening his binder, he rattles off the insults with the kind of pride and irony that only a seasoned director of high British satire can display.

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“Vicious, vile, disgusting, degenerate, shocking, nauseating, obscene … ” Amster closes the binder and grins. Chances are when the show opens next week at the Asolo Repertory Theatre, few people will leave muttering “degenerate” under their breath.

“From a socially conservative point of view, it was probably shocking for 1925,” Amster says.

“It deals with sexuality with a certain penetrating understanding.”

Before you wonder if Amster’s use of the word “penetrating” is a Freudian slip, you should know that the director is a master of nuance and innuendo, having already directed many of Coward’s plays, including “Hay Fever,” “Private Lives” and “Present Laughter.”

If you didn’t know better, you’d think he was British.

“Noël Coward is Peter Amster’s sweet spot,” says Asolo Rep Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards. “He’s an incredibly stylish and humane director. He’s got a tremendous sense of language, and he’s brilliant with comedy.”

It’s no surprise, then, that when the rights to “Fallen Angels” were finally released after sitting for decades in relative obscurity, Amster’s name was at the top of many artistic directors’ lists.

Amster received three offers to direct the play from companies in Indiana, Ohio and California.

He chose to direct it at the Asolo Rep, where he’s now in his fourth season and where his commute to work is less than 10 minutes.

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Hillary Clemens and Kate Hampton in “Fallen Angels.” last year and moved into a condo in downtown Sarasota.)

“The living is easy here,” Amster says. “Miami was fine, but I had to leave town in order to work. It’s exciting here. Michael (Edwards) says there are more people per capita working in the arts in Sarasota than in any other city in the country, except for New York. The synergy of that is wonderful. It’s gratifying to know what we do matters to so many people.”

Given its timeless subject matter, “Fallen Angels,” though it may be a lesser-known Coward play, should matter to Sarasota audiences.

According to Edwards, the Asolo Rep is one of only a handful of theaters to perform the play since its 1956 Broadway revival.

Regarded as the 1920s version of “Sex and the City,” “Fallen Angels” revolves around two married women, best friends who

IF YOU GO “Fallen Angels” runs March 9 to May 13, at the Asolo Repertory Theatre. For tickets, call 351-8000 or visit asolorep.org. in one drunken night relive the affairs they had with the same Frenchman before they got married.

“They each get a postcard from a man named Maurice,” Amster says. “And all these feelings emerge; things you’d imagine you’d feel if someone you had a fling with years ago suddenly reappeared in your life.”

He says the subject matter is something everyone can relate to, “whether they’re willing to admit it or not.”

Even Amster, who has been in a committed relationship with Galati for 41 years, isn’t exempt

from dredging up emotional baggage.

“I had a past,” he says mischievously. “Of course, with Facebook it makes it easier to see what happened to your past.

Most of the time I’m like, ‘Why do they look so old?’ ‘What happened to their hair?’”

A 62-year-old New York native, Amster got his start performing in musicals in Chicago, where he got his Ph.D. in performance studies at Northwestern University.

A dancer, he was athletic, built for lifting and jumping in all the usual big musical productions — “1776,” “Damn Yankees,” “Show Boat” and “Oklahoma,” to name a few — until a poorly landed grand jeté sidelined his career as a performer.

It proved a fortuitous accident.

Amster was a natural at directing. Many of his productions in Chicago were nominated for theater awards, including “Once on this Island,” “The World Goes Round, “The Rothschilds” and “Pride and Prejudice.”

He even worked as a choreographer on Galati’s Broadwaybound “Grapes of Wrath.”

An intuitive director, he often uses feedback from the actors to drive a scene, an approach that makes his characters pop rather than blend into the milieu, which is especially important when audiences are familiar with the material.

“I like to find these little crannies in polished characters,” Amster says of direction. “Sometimes it means finding things that aren’t in the script, exposing the innermost recesses of these characters until you find the beating heart

PLAYING FOR KEEPS Peter Amster weighs in on his three favorite playwrights.

Jane Austen

“Using the smallest gestures of everyday life, she manages to create a whole world of feeling. Her (stories) sometimes sound hopelessly domestic, but within that domestic setting there are such riches.”

Oscar Wilde

“‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ was a silly, topsyturvy play. (Wilde) talked about important things, but he did it with a gloss of silliness. His main comic weapon was inversion. Just when you thought you knew where an idea was going, he would reverse it.”

Tom Stoppard

“One needs to be a mental acrobat to follow his work.

‘Arcadia’ is absolutely brilliant and dazzling in terms of intellectual language.”

under the gleaming surface.”

In other words, the director isn’t afraid to put his mark on a play, even though he stepped out of the spotlight years ago.

“People say I’m a tasteful director,” he says, “which raises my hackles a little bit. I don’t think my shows are successful because I’m tasteful. They’re successful because they’re true.”

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+ Playwright program swimming in scripts If you think you’ve got too much work on your plate, try sitting at Adam Ratner’s desk at Florida Studio Theatre.

The FST teaching artist and improv comedian is up to his waist in new submissions for the “Under Six” competition in this year’s WRITE A PLAY program.

Written by children in kindergarten through sixth grade, the plays are cleverly titled (“How the Evil Alien Became Nice,” “Oreo, the Lifeguard Dog,” “Bob the Donkey’s Job Search Adventure,” “Clean

Your Dirty Desk” and “The Puppy Who Stole the Police Car”) and have come from all corners of the world. The theater even received one from a blind child that was written in Braille.

At last count, more than 3,000 playwrights submitted scripts, 10 of which will be performed this spring by professional actors in FST’s Keating Theatre. (I’m crossing my fingers for the donkey on a job search.)

In May, the winning playwrights and their families will be honored at the Young Playwrights Festival. May the best scribe win!

museum’s largest luncheon + SMOA nets sculptor the crowd yet: 117 people. at ARTmuse luncheon Echelman, a Harvard grad, is the museum’s third guest artist Wondering what’s shaking this season. Her unique publicwith the Sarasota Museum of art sculptures, created using Art since it unrolled its bannets, are an example of the ners on Sarasota High kind of contemporary work School? that will one day grace the Well, the museum conSMOA campus. tinues to host dynamic According to President new artists at its regular Wendy Surkis, the ARTmuse programs. museum, which will Last Thursday, sculptor operate as a division Janet Echelman paid a Echelman of Ringling College of visit to the future site Art and Design, has now raised of the museum — i.e., the former Sarasota High School build- more than $14 million toward its $22 million fundraising goal. ing — where she spoke before

As a native of Buffalo, N.Y., I can’t let Nik Wallenda’s impending wire walk over Niagara Falls slip by without at least one mention in this column.

Last fall, the Sarasota daredevil submitted a proposal to walk 1,800 feet between the American and Canadian sides of the Falls; a spectacle he assured officials would draw more than 120,000 spectators and at least one major television special on the Discovery Channel.

Hip to the merits of a good publicity stunt, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo immediately approved legislation Wallenda File photo authorizing Niagara Falls parks officials to approve the walk.

The Canadian side, however, was slow to warm to the idea.

In December, the Niagara Parks Commission in Ontario turned down Wallenda’s proposal, prompting Wallenda to embark on a relentless lobbying mission that finally paid off two weeks ago.

On Feb. 15, Canadian commissioners approved the act on the basis that “stunting” has always been a part of the “history and promotion of Niagara Falls.”

Wallenda is scheduled to cross 60 to 70 feet above the Niagara River Gorge sometime this summer. The date of the walk will be finalized by the end of this month.

According to a recent story in The Buffalo News, Wallenda says his dream is to parlay the stunt into a permanent summer attraction, which would mean making Niagara Falls “his second home,” marking the first time anyone from Sarasota has relocated to (and not from) Western New York.

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‘Disenchanted: Bitches of the Kingdom’: Sarasota’s favorite scorned princesses are back. After a successful (and raucous) run in October, the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre has decided to bring back its ‘Bitches’ for a second round of royal

fury. The show returns Feb. 28 and runs through March 25. If you’ve ever scoffed at “happily ever after,” this is the musical for you. Snow White has never looked so angry … or empowered. For tickets, call 366-5454 or visit thegoldenapple.com.

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+ Asolo Rep cuts ribbon on production It’s about time the Asolo Rep cut the ribbon on the Robert and Beverly Koski Production Center.

The building, which houses the theater’s scene shop and vast costume and prop collection, has been open for two years and already has 22 shows under its tool belt.

On February 21, the 36,000-square-foot facility on Tallevast Road was officially dedicated to its benefactors — the late Robert Koski and wife, Beverly, who several years ago

initiated the project together with a group of ambitious arts patrons. (We’re talking about you: Ted and Jean Weiller, Joan Armour Mendell, Warren Coville, Herman Frankel, David Bavar and Jim Chandler.)

Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards praised the group for its persistence at last week’s ribbon-cutting ceremony. “(This) team of movers and shakers scouted this foreclosed warehouse, researched the market assiduously, assembled the funding and struck while the iron was hot,” he said.

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Supporting Role When Florida Studio Theatre’s Artistic Director Richard Hopkins hired Phyllis Silverman in 1994, the Pennsylvania native had no previous theatrical experience, except for a love of tap dancing.

It didn’t matter.

Silverman had something better: a warm personality and outstanding customer-service skills, traits carried over from her previous job as the owner of a Hallmark card store in Pittsburgh, Pa. “I told (Hopkins) during the interview that when I ran my store, my goal was to make every customer smile before they left,” Silverman says. “Anyone can ring up a card, right? To have good conversation and make someone feel good, it sets you apart from the rest. I think that’s what got me the job.”

And it’s likely that’s what’s kept her on the theater’s payroll for 18 years.

When Silverman, 71, came on board, the FST campus and its staff was half the size it is now.

There was no Goldstein Cabaret or Gompertz Theatre. Everyone worked out of the Bea Friedman Room.

“We were on top of each other,” Silverman recalls. “It made for wonderful cooperation.”

It’s hard to tell if she’s being sarcastic. For a woman who claims to have no acting chops, she’s quite the entertainer.

A North Sarasota resident, she spent her first five years tending to box office and bookkeeping

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“I enjoy working with young people,” says Phyllis Silverman. “It keeps me busy and it keeps me young.” duties, until Rebecca Hopkins (she and Richard Hopkins got married last year) was promoted in 1998 to managing director and Silverman was promoted to her assistant.

The two women are close, even if Hopkins is always juggling 100 things at once.

“We go out to lunch a lot,” Silverman says. “It seems like the only time I can get her undivided attention.”

Hopkins oversees FST’s administrative, business, marketing and development departments, in addition to serving as a liaison to other arts organiza-

Silverman has already begun sorting through subscription renewals for next season. tions. A co-creator on many of the company’s cabaret revues, she also works as a head writer for FST’s “Laughing Matters” series.

As a result, her job is demand-

ing, so Silverman, like any personal assistant, is tasked with everything from feeding her boss’ cats to picking up new scripts.

Last year, when Hopkins was planning her wedding, it was Silverman who helped get the invitations in the mail on time. As the mother of three grown sons she never had the opportunity to participate in the frou-frou side of wedding planning.

“I think of her as my second mother — my Jewish mother,” Hopkins says. “She kind of watches out for me here. When I’m sick, she brings me soup. She thinks part of her job is telling me I work too hard.”

An expert multitasker, Silverman is constantly helping out other departments when they’re short-staffed, which means it’s not uncommon to find her manning her old post in the box office or hand-sewing fringe on clothing in the costume shop.

“I always fill in the cracks if any department is in crisis,” Silverman says. “There are certain skills that come after 18 years. I might not always be able to solve the problem, but I’ll know who to ask.”

She’s become FST’s resident den mother.

When the company’s 83-yearold bookkeeper retired recently after 25 years of service, Silverman, who has 10 grandchildren, became the oldest full-time employee.

At 4-foot-8, she’s diminutive,

NOW PLAYING The popular rock-androll musical revue, “Shake, Rattle and Roll,” has been extended another two weeks.

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but that doesn’t stop her from treating the theater’s red staircases like her personal treadmill now that she’s had a knee replacement.

“I’m afraid to retire,” she says.

“I don’t play bridge or golf well enough to retire.”

In 13 years, she says she and Hopkins have only butted heads once: When Hopkins insisted Silverman participate in her senior improv program.

Despite her inherent sense of humor, Silverman balked for days leading up to the first class.

Although she participated begrudgingly and eventually grew to enjoy the experience, she failed to overcome her stage fright and to this day refuses to perform on stage in front of a crowd.

“It was one of those things where she griped and complained the whole time,” Hopkins says. “But I know she had a blast.”

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“After a show, my top pick would be to go to Crab & Fin. They have the best seafood ever! My favorites on the menu would have to be the chilled king crab and the lobster.

Both are extremely delicious! But my meal wouldn’t be complete without raw oysters and a Caesar salad to start with.”

Maria not only speaks in exclamations points — she lives them!! A ball of energy, she eats everything from Caesar salads and lobsters to chocolate and pizza without a thought about calories or carbs. Like a playful puppy, she appears to be on springs with the kind of energy that burns fuel like a torch. Whether it’s ice-skating or singing, she’s ravenous.

“It’s close,” she admits, “but ice

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skating always makes me hungrier. It takes so much concentration, and you use your entire body all the time so you get pretty hungry after a long session!”

There are, however, a couple of caveats.

“Lucky for me, dairy doesn’t really affect my voice the way it does other singers, so I don’t really have to stay away from that. But when it comes to skating and, even in some degree with singing, eating too much can be bad. As long as I don’t eat to the point my stomach hurts, or drink soda — which could cause an embarrassing moment on stage — I’m pretty much fine with anything!”

Teenagers, even the ones with talent and happy homes, need comfort food.

“A good slice of pepperoni pizza and something chocolaty makes everything better!” Maria says.

“I love chocolate and my voice teacher, Alan Corey, makes the best chocolate cookies, ever!”

Although Jeaneen Wirries does almost all the cooking at home, Maria manages to make her presence known around the stove and fridge, too.

“When I’m cooking or in the kitchen making a mess, I love listening to the ‘Mama Mia’ soundtrack,” Maria says. “Maybe it’s because Meryl Streep played the incredible chef, Julia Child. All I know is that groovy ABBA music just makes everything more fun!”

With all the energy and exuberance Maria has, she also has a thoughtful side, and that comes

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Her explanation says it all.

“This song really means a lot to me, and I love singing it, because it has many meanings and the meaning changes for me daily,” she says. “It tells a story about

growing up and making choices and not being sure if they are right or wrong. And, in the end, breaking free and discovering what the world has to offer. Even though it may be scary, just knowing that you have one life means you should live it and not hide in a cage.”

Certainly not one to hide in a cage, Maria — on stage or off — has a wonderful depth that’s rooted in simplicity. And, like the girl, herself, her favorite recipe is simple.

“I love my mother’s sautéed tilapia,” she tells us. “She really doesn’t cook with recipes. Really, it’s just tilapia filets sautéed in butter with some herbs served on top.

We eat it frequently, and it’s really good after a long day at school!”

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Maria Wirries is only a couple of years into her teens, but she has definite ideas about everything from singing to skating to eating and, without being obnoxious about it, she makes her feelings known.

“My favorite restaurants in Sarasota? I have so many,” she says.

“Crab & Fin, Millie’s, Michael’s On East, Olive Garden and Steak ’n’ Shake.”

If you think her taste in restaurants is eclectic, take a look at what she does. Maria is a superstar in these parts, but she doesn’t do it in just one area. She’s smart, eloquent, beautiful and graceful. And she puts all that to good use on the ice and on the stage. But let’s go back a bit in Maria’s comparatively short life.

Born in Haiti, her father, a white American missionary worker, died when Maria was just 4 months old. Her aunt, Jeaneen, flew to the island and brought the infant back to live with her, first in Myakka City and, more recently, in Bradenton.

Jeaneen, who is in her 70s, may, technically, be Maria’s aunt, but in every other way she’s her mother.

“My mom definitely does the cooking in my family,” Maria insists. “She is very good and can cook pretty much anything.”

Good thing, too, because beneath her svelte figure, Maria loves to eat, and between the skating, singing, dancing and acting, she works up quite an appetite.

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Tony Award-nominated play by actor-turned Jason O’Connell is especially gratifying in playwright Geoffrey Nauffs is a timely take on religious and social issues that are in the his portrayal of the main character, Adam, an insecure, hypochondriac, Woody Allenforefront of current political debate. type, which could easily go off the rails He employs the cinematic style of cutting between past and present to depict the without O’Connell’s astonishingly naturalistic approach. complicated relationship between two gay Luke, his partner of four years, is symmen. The technique effectively reveals a central conflict in their past and a dramatic pathetically played by Kevin Cristaldi. Luke has compartmentalized his religion from the crisis in their present, which illustrates, respectively, broader “us versus them” divi- love he bears for Adam. He failed to tell his father of their relationship, which ultimately sions in religious and cultural norms. The dominant theme is basically that of science leads to a dramatic confrontation.

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orchestra to play with an elegant transparency that made the old Grieg new again. The individual solos in the first movement by bassoon, flute, horn and clarinet were stunningly played with lovely rounding of phrases that echoed what Weiss was sculpting at the piano. The horn solos, performed by coprincipal Joe Assi, demonstrated world-class playing.

This is a work that could be hackneyed, but this performance was anything but. The third movement had a wonderfully driven, propulsive quality, without being rushed, and the well-deserved ovation at the end led to an encore by Weiss of a well-known Grieg “Nocturne” that was equally exquisite.

Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 was a fitting finale for Bjaland. The first movement was played with optimism and nostalgia, but his reading of the Scherzo was absolutely riveting. Many conductors stretch out of proportion the “poco ritard” that’s written in the score, turning this light, airy, dance-of-amovement into a ponderous musical statement. Bjaland did just the opposite, staying with what Schumann wanted, slowing down just enough to breathe and making this normally difficult transition sound like a breeze.

Even the coda that followed was as light as a froth of Mozart.

This was a ravishing, eloquent performance, and the finale, with its grand “Amen” written into the final chords, sang a most appropriate farewell to Bjaland.

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>> Sarasota Orchestra — Masterworks with Bjaland and Weiss The Sarasota Orchestra’s recent Masterworks Concert marked the grand finale of Leif Bjaland’s 15-year tenure, and he couldn’t have gone out with a finer, more fitting program.

His conducting of Wagner’s prelude to “Die Meistersinger” was majestic and lush in a tempo, so slow and measured, it seemed he didn’t want to finish it. That didn’t mean it was sluggish. In fact, this deliberate pace became taut in its control and vibrant in a stately, regal reading.

What followed was just as impressive but for different reasons.

The Grieg A Minor Piano Concerto is a warhorse-of-a-work that has been put on a back burner in recent years because, I suppose, it became too popular for its own good. It was wonderful to hear it again, like welcoming back an old, dear friend. In the hands of Orion Weiss, who was recently named the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year, we heard a fine technique combined with an exquisite sensitivity and a beautiful touch.

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The evening began with a heartfelt video of Both Dixon’s partners, Ricardo Graziano and Director Iain Webb reflecting on his memories Ricardo Rhodes, demonstrated great mascuof Ashton and Ashton’s influence on him as a linity in their supporting roles. dancer. Webb eloquently relayed how special Ashton’s “Façade” was the perfect end this performance was to him and his wife, to the production, creating merriment for Margaret Barbieri. It was a nice, genuine both the cast of dancers and the audience. touch.

Nicole Padilla, Caitlin Kirschenbaun and “Valses Nobles et Sentimentales” was a Simon Mummé were sprightly while performbeautiful, elegant ballet set to an interesting ing petite allegro in Scotch Rhapsody. Kate score by Maurice Ravel. Four couples led by Honea garnered guffaws from the audience a principal couple swooped onto a transparwhile “milking” a pretend cow and performent, maroon screen-lined stage with the men ing promenades en pointe atop a tiny stool twirling their ballet-pink, full-skirted partners as the Milkmaid. Sara Sardelli, who also in circling waltzes. replaced Hulland, was simply sweet in the Principal Danielle Rae Brown danced the polka. Brown and Octavio Martin were overlead role with a pleasant look of ease and the-top drama in the Tango-Pasodoble. But happiness, which was delightful to watch. the real standouts in this year’s performance When performing difficult tours de promof “Façade” undoubtedly were Miguel Piquer enades en pointe in à la seconde that rotated and Ricki Bertoni in Popular Song. Dancing to arabesque penchée, while supported by almost as Siamese twins, the two entwined hand by Ricardo Graziano and Jamie Carter, their steps and jumps with deadpan humility.

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The Corinthian Gala committee promised old-timey, gin-filled bathtubs, smokin’ hot cigarette girls and dashing men in uniform — and deliver they did. But so did the guests, who sauntered sassily through the doors of the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota, in boas, flapper dresses and layered pearl necklaces and took their seats in the Cocktails & Cole lounge for a live piano performance featuring the Abe Guard Orchestra, which performed tunes written by Cole Porter.

One wouldn’t dare ask for a cosmo at this gala. Guests had a choice of specialty drinks such as “Kiss Me Kate Planter’s Punch,” Sidecar, Sloe Gin Fizz and “Speakeasy Lemonade” in the lounge, then drifted into the Peacock Room for dinner and speakeasy music by the Z Street Band.

The Peacock Room was transformed into The Corinthian Club after dinner, when Impulse Entertainment took over to play the hottest tunes from the 1970s through today. MC Hammer “Can’t Touch this,” anyone?

“Lucky and Roxie,” known in their everyday life as John and Wendy Gerhardt, were on the dance floor before, during and following dinner, swaying, pushing, pulling and twirling in every direction. (Yes, we have video to prove it!)

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Would you have believed Pat and Bob Baer if they told you they didn’t coordinate their outfits for Asolo’s Starry Night Dinner Series highlighting “Hamlet, Prince of Cuba?”

Pat bought her blouse on Main Street and wore it to her son and daughter-in-law’s rehearsal dinner in 2009, at the Pat and Bob Baer Carnivale restaurant, in Chicago. Bob just happened to pluck this Coogi sweater from his closet — a gift from his wife years ago when the two went to see a comedy show at Comedy Castle, in Los Angeles.

“Nonsmoking was right by the stage, so we sat up front,” Pat said. “He got picked on for that sweater by the first comedian, and everybody else who came on after that picked on him. When we left, all other patrons kept saying ‘Goodnight Bob.”

They saw 2-by-4s — and that’s exactly what Asolo Rep Production Manager Victor Meyrich did to officially dedicate the theater’s Robert & Beverly Koski Production Center. Meyrich is a bit of a legend in the theater world; young designers are afraid of him but end up loving him for making their ideas work. He reminisced about his early days when the Asolo scene shop was only 10,000 square feet and “we built the sets sideways because we didn’t have Victor room to stand Meyrich them up.”

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See more about the new facility in Scene & Heard, page 3.

Tim Cameresi and Jennie Famiglio were two standouts at Van Wezel’s 35th Anniversary Gala Saturday night. Tim pinned a modern silver and quite prickly looking Dream Weaver brooch on his suit jacket that, if it were larger, would look fabulous hanging in a museum or home. Jennie, looking radiant in a multicolored dress with a slightly eye-deceiving pattern and tattered bottom layers, took the not-so-“extra” material that her children accidentally ripped off and turned it into a floral-like ornament for her violet necklace.

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Cheryl Loeffler and Deborah Beecham

Claudia Cardillo shops for earrings.

Frankie Alvarez and Andhy Mendez

2012 Renaissance Luncheon Chairwoman Norma Cohen, featured speaker Gina Barreca, Women’s Resource Center CEO Janice Zarro and Board Chairwoman Lydia McIntire

Photos by Loren Mayo

Hosts Mollie and Robert Nelson

Women’s Resource Center

Leanne McIntire and Renee Hamad

Roxie Jerde and Margaret Wise

Starry Night Dinner Series

‘Come Laugh with Gina Barreca’

Thursday, Feb. 23 | Home of Robert and Mollie Nelson

Thursday, Feb. 23 | Michael’s On East

Rae Ceil Schwartz and Carolyn Spizzirro Left: Rachel Schaeffer, Michelle Katz and Susan Schaen

Photos by Loren Mayo

Jane Margulies and Anne Silverman

Gisela Chipe

Esme Carroll with Margie and Chuck Barancik and Chris and John Currie

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Trey Desenberg, Eli Herschberger, Paul Mattison and Sandy Loevner

Florida Winefest and Auction

Balloon Glow Dinner

Friday, Feb. 24 | Herschberger Ranch

Photos by Loren Mayo

Carol Angelotti

Marjorie Floyd and Chip Gaylor with Mary and Doyle King

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speciAl MArch events At

Longboat Key Center for the Arts CALL TO ARTISTS!

Clint Hummon, Bryan Hodges and Susan Mitchell Right: Gianna, Michelle and Eric Mattison

ILLUMINATED NATURE

The Sarasota Concert Association presents

Submit your 2D/3D artwork and photography incorporating our 2012 theme of Water, Light or Nature. Photography will be judged separately from 2d/3d work.

Award-winning violinist

Receiving Date: Monday, March 5 • 10 am to 2 pm Pick-up Date: Friday, March 30 • 10 am to 2 pm

Midori

Limit 4 entries per person: Member Entry Fee = $17.50 • Non-Members Entry Fee = $25.00 Photography Prizes:

Minnesota Symphony Orchestra

1st = $300 2nd = $150 3rd = $75

LBKCA Annual Juried Exhibition

Durante Gallery & Cultural Media Room • March 8 – March 29, 2012 Opening Reception: Thursday, March 8 • 5 – 7 pm

for exhibition requirements visit lBKcA or go to lbkca.ringling.edu. entry forms will be available on the receiving Date.

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Maincourse: LECTURE/LUNCH:

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OUR LOVE AFFAIR WITH FILM

‘RAT PACK’ RE-IMAGINED

chair - Digital filmmaking Department ringling college of Art and Design Monday, March 12 • 11 am to 1:30 pm Cultural Media Room • $35 (includes lunch)

Tue., March 13th 7:30 pm $20 Advance $25 Door Durante Gallery

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Osmo Vanska Wednesday, March 7 8 p.m.

at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall 777 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota

for more information, go to our website at lbkca.ringling.edu. register for our weekly community arts classes, Master classes, buy tickets, or rsvp to any of our events by calling 941.383.2345.

Tickets: $35 • $45 • $55 • $60

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For upcoming concert schedule, go to: www.sarasotaconcertassociation.org

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Daniela Kirvin, Cheryl Hamblin, Francesca Duran, Brigid HewesSaah and Nancy Cason

Fashion, Flowers and Food: Lilly Pulitzer Fashion Show and Luncheon Saturday, Feb. 25 | John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

Photos by Loren Mayo

Lauren Ann Walsh

Missy Rubin and Rachel King

Lida Shackelford and Margot Moore

Allie Smart and Johanna Glover

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Patrice McDaniel RN, PMS, LE, CME

Free Parking No Meters

Complimentary Consultations BEFORE

Begins March 4 IN THE GOMPERTZ THEATRE

Professional Makeovers Jane Iredale

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Kathy Halenda. Photo by Alan Ferguson.

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