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Computer whiz Nancy Markle paints with her left brain.

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Attorney General Bondi will speak Friday in Sarasota.

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OUR TOWN

Thursday, MARCH 15, 2012

creative development

Loren Mayo

+ Longboaters honored at Tree of Life event The Jewish National Fund hosted the Tree of Life Award Dinner March 10, at Michael’s On East. It was a big night for Longboat Key. Rabbi Jonathan R. Katz made the invocation.

Longboat Key Fire Rescue Lt. Rocky Parker was honored for his service to Firefighters for Israel Emergency Volunteer Project. Longboaters Marty and Paulette Samowitz were given the Lifetime Achievement Award for their philanthropy to more than 50 organizations. And Key residents Len and Helen Glaser were given the Tree of Life Award.

Arts Center members display their works at annual show.

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by Robin Hartill | City Editor

North end enters discussion zone The Longbeach Village Association heard ideas recently generated as part of a community-based planning exercise for the north end.

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Peacocks: asset or area for “upgrade”?

New College sociology professor Dr. David Brain found that north-end stakeholders were deeply divided on that issue.

But through 32 stakeholder interviews conducted by five students, along with approximately 50 completed online surveys and

a planning charrette, all part of a community-based planning exercise facilitated by the Longboat Key Revitalization Task Force, he found consensus in other areas about the positive features of the north end and areas for upgrades.

Brain discussed his findings at the March 7 Longbeach Village Association meeting.

Participants liked the north end’s beauty, beaches, community, tennis and feel/vibe of the Longbeach Village. They liked its location relative to Sarasota — some said its closeness was a good thing, while others thought its distance was an asset. They saw room for improvement in Whitney Beach Plaza and the va-

cant former Longbeach Chevron station as well as managing traffic impact. They said it was difficult to sustain year-round business and convenient retail and service.

Brain said that he found two perspectives on north-end development: Some saw dangers in development; others saw dangers in doing nothing.

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FLEUR ALLURE

Mallory Gnaegy

Ray Maloney paints a hibiscus from a photo he took Tuesday, March 13, at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design. Maloney is enrolled in Jeanine Hoffman’s four-week pencil drawing course at the Arts Center.

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Grand Bay III event cochairs Ellen Flatow and Burt Herman with Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation CEO Alex Quarles

+ Grand Bay hosts grand fundraiser Grand Bay III held its mid-winter party and fundraiser, called “Have a Heart,” Feb. 6. Fifty-eight residents attended the event that benefited Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc. and raised $4,400 to support the cause.

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by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Village district makes date with history April 2009 was history-in-the-making for the Longbeach Village. So, how did everyone miss it?

This isn’t breaking news. Actually, it’s more like old history.

In April 2009, the Florida Division of Historical Resources designated a core part of the Longbeach Village as the Longboat Key His-

toric District.

So, how did Villagers celebrate?

Did they mark the occasion Longboat Key-style with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, plaque unveiling and heavy hors d’oeuvres? Not

exactly. The designation recently came as news to Villagers, when resident Carla Rowan announced it nearly three years later at the March 7 Longbeach Village Association meeting.

Just last month, Rowan and her husband, Peter, who own the home that used to be the Long-

beach Jordan Hotel, which is believed to be the oldest standing structure on the Key, had a conversation with their neighbors, Ken and Carol Weiss, who own a home that dates back to the 1940s.

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“It’s important to recognize that’s what you’ve got,” Brain said. “There are two bodies of development here that need to be addressed in any planning effort.”

Stakeholders had discussed what they would like to see at the north end during the charrette. A team of architects and designers then held a sketching session last month to visually represent the ideas.

Architect Gary Hoyt presented the sketches at Wednesday’s meeting.

Some ideas presented included ways to make Broadway stand out, possibly through a roundabout, that would distinguish Broadway while also making drivers slow down.

“Another idea discussed was the creation of a Gulfto-bay nature walk that could include a Beer Can Island groin that could also serve as a walkable pier,” Hoyt said.

Brain said the ideas were purposely generated without discussing zoning.

“Too often, we create a vision that’s geared toward zoning, and it really should be the other way around,” he said.

Revitalization Task Force Chairman George Spoll emphasized that the concepts presented were ideas, not plans.

“What we’re trying to do is stimulate community interest in planning,” he said.

They talked about preserving the Village character — a discussion prompted by the community planning effort facilitated by the Longboat Key Revitalization Task Force. They formed the Longbeach Preservation Task Force to discuss the possibility of getting historic designation for the Village. Carla Rowan said that she thought the process could take up to a year to obtain.

But after online research, Ken Weiss found that the Florida Division of Historical Resources had already designated a small portion of the Village that includes the stretch of Broadway from Longboat Drive to Bayside Drive along with part of Poinsettia Avenue and Lois Avenue already existed.

“He just about fell off his chair,” Carol Weiss said of the moment her husband made the discovery.

How did history unfold without making a sound?

According to an announcement distributed at the Village meeting, the Longboat Key Historical Society completed a historic survey of the Key in 1999 in hopes of obtaining National Register Historic District Designation for the Village area. The survey found that, although 10 to 20 Village properties would likely qualify for individual recognition, the Village area didn’t meet the criteria for national recognition. However, based on the 1999 survey, the Florida Division of Historical Resources created a master-plan site file for the Longboat Key Historic District. Additional forms weren’t submitted at that time. But it turns out that a decade later — in April 2009 — the state historical division staff made the needed site division to the Village, took photographs and completed the forms required.

Town Clerk Trish Granger said that the town never received notification of the designation.

Neither, of course, did Villagers.

The newly formed Longbeach Preservation Task Force hopes to use the designation to provide information about the historic district. And the Rowans got an official designation letter from the state. They also researched the possibility of getting a plaque to mark the district.

But with the cost of a bronze plaque quoted at $2,000, they got a history lesson: Preserving the past isn’t cheap.

Association pushes back unit-owner vote

The following 10 ideas generated the widest interest from participants in a Jan. 28 planning charrette: • Redeveloped area from Whitney Beach Plaza to Broadway • Enhancement of the anchorage area at Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub and Moore’s Stone Crab Restaurant • Arts district • Boutique hotel • Harbor plan with Boardwalk • Integrated linear concept for Broadway that encourages walkability • Revitalization of the Moore’s property • Mini seaport at waterfront • Well-designed walking pier at beach • Launch for non-motorized marine vessels at the Moore’s site with extra parking

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Commissioners expressed frustration with the Colony parties at the March 5 regular meeting, during which they gave a status update related to an extension of a continuance of the town’s tourism abandonment requirement for the Colony. They weren’t interested in seeing the draft site plan or in discussing the merits of a redeveloped Colony but, instead, wanted evidence that the parties were working toward resolving longtime legal disputes.

Charles Bartlett, attorney for longtime Colony owner Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber, couldn’t be reached for comment Tuesday, March 13. However, after last week’s commission meeting, he told the Longboat Observer what would need to happen to resolve the disputes.

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The Longboat Key Town Commission had a stern warning for the interests in the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort last week: Work out a resolution or risk losing more than half of the resort’s 237 units.

That warning may have had an impact already: Unit owners will receive detailed information about a plan to redevelopment plan proposed by the board and its development partner, Club Holdings Ventures, at the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association’s annual meeting, scheduled for April 2 and April 3, but they won’t be taking a vote.

A March 12 email sent to unit owners stated: “Following the March 5 meeting at which the Town Commission made a very strong point about putting settlement discussions first (with which we agree), we decided to pursue a less aggressive schedule for the owner vote, because when owners are finally asked to vote, part of what they are voting on should either include a resolution of all the unresolved issues at The Colony, or a viable workaround for proceeding in the event no resolution or only limited resolution can be achieved.”

“We want to be sure that when the owners take a vote that whatever they vote upon can stick,” said Association Board President Jay Yablon. Also

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THE ENFORCER

by Rod Thomson | Editor-at-Large

Bondi. Pam Bondi.

Don’t let the blond hair, button nose and good looks deceive you. Pam Bondi is a dynamo, and you don’t want to be in her way with nefarious intents.

She built her reputation in Tampa as a tough and successful prosecutor. Now she is expanding that reputation as Florida attorney general and will be on the national stage in the court battle to stop the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as ObamaCare.

She just never wanted any of it. Really.

Bondi, 47, was happy sending bad guys to the brig in Hillsborough County. More than happy. She loved it.

“I was prosecuting for almost 20 years and loved almost every second of it,” she says with sincerity that makes you believe her.

She told her Tampa prosecuting staff that “when you stop feeling the passion, you’ve got to get out. I never stopped.”

And so the night before she made her announcement to run for attorney general, she was still wavering.

“Running for office was such an incredibly difficult decision for me. I kept postponing my announcement,” she says with a heavy sigh. “I didn’t want to leave my job. I had no political aspirations whatsoever … I always said if I won the lottery, I’d keep prosecuting.”

Even her parents, siblings and boyfriend — now fiancé — were not sure the announcement would be that she would run.

But once in, she was all in, and the rest was in all the news: defeating better known Republicans in the primary — including the sitting lieutenant governor — and then beating a well-known Democrat in the general election.

“There were 50 reasons not to, and none to,” says the fourth-generation Floridian over her decision to run.

What tipped her in favor?

“Prayed a lot. Prayed a lot. Prayed a lot,” she says with slight pauses each time, as though willing you to believe it. And she quickly expands on it. She never prayed to win, she says, but that God’s will would be done.

The story of how Bondi decided to run for Florida attorney general tells a lot about who she is, and why she might be just the right person to be the lead attorney general in the ObamaCare lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court in March.

Novice but briefly

In a way, Bondi is in the mold of Gov. Rick Scott in that she is a political novice, bringing a non-political, outsider attitude to hyper-political, insider-driven Tallahassee.

It left her a bit unprepared at first. She was most surprised at “how difficult it is to pass very good legislation in the state of Florida.

You would think it would be much easier.”

Why is it so hard? “Special interests,” she says. “Maybe it was a bit naïve on my part, but I’m not naïve anymore.”

Another problem in getting the right things done? Tallahassee is “extremely partisan. I’d like to change that.” OK, so maybe she is still a little naïve.

But there is no doubt she has climbed the steep learning curve, and made an impact almost before getting settled into her new office that is next to the governor’s on the first floor of the Capitol building.

In her first month on the job, she got a call from Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen regarding “bath salts,” the euphemism for a drug that mimicked heroine and cocaine and was being sold legally. She sent agents into a Tallahassee mall and they were able to buy the drug — Methylenedioxypyrovalerone, or MDPV — which went under such soothingly deceptive names as Vanilla Sky, Ivory Wave and Ocean Burst.

The psychoactive drug made people see monsters and think they could fly. It was multiplying rapidly in Panhandle “head shops” and spring break was arriving before the Legislature could act.

Bondi has a nurturing side — such as getting a St. Bernard from an animal shelter

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Attorney Gen. Pam Bondi will give the keynote presentation at a breakfast co-hosted by the Republican Club of Longboat Key Friday, March 16. about Pam Bondi,” he says. “What I worry is that if a Republican is in the White House, they are going to try to recruit her to be the next U.S. attorney general.”

Childhood and faith

Mark Wallheiser

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is making waves in Florida with high-profile take-downs of pill mills, gang members and the synthetic drug industry. But her biggest role may be when she hits the national scene later this month leading the legal challenge to ObamaCare. and nursing him back to health. And she has a pit bull side, such as going after bad guys, particularly those aiming at children.

This brought out the pit bull.

Bondi took the extraordinary step of temporarily banning bath salts through an emergency order. It instantly became a felony to possess them.

State agents swept through shops throughout the state and confiscated thousands of packets. The Legislature subsequently made the ban permanent.

“We stopped it. It was all over Tallahassee and all over the Panhandle,” she says. “This poison was being sold to our kids legally.”

On the heels of bath salts came the “pill mills” legislative battle.

Pill mills exploded in South Florida where medical clinics were dispensing painkillers and other addictive medicines to addicts and dealers. They quickly spread to the rest of the state, and by 2009 the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reported that nine people a day were dying of prescription drug overdoses. Ohio, Kentucky and other states were complaining that Florida’s lax laws were spreading the problem nationwide.

It jumped to one of Bondi’s top priorities.

But lawmakers had been stymied for several years and special interests kept fighting it at every step.

It was a quick lesson in the ugly underside of Tallahassee politics. But after only a few months in office, she worked the Legislature like a seasoned veteran, staying in the House until midnight on the last day of the session to help ensure that it passed.

“I’ve been more than impressed with Pam Bondi’s willingness to take on tough issues.

She went in and led on the pill mills,” says Mark Wilson, president and CEO of the Florida Chamber of Commerce.

As difficult and sometimes distasteful as the politics are, there is much more for Bondi.

“It’s so easy to pass legislation, to hold a press conference and move on to some other issue. But you are not going to solve the problem,” she says. So she beefed up enforcement of the new law, set up a strike force and pushed educational efforts.

The result has been obvious nationally.

The pill mills have been shut down in Florida, and are now scurrying to other states that are following Florida’s lead.

A Feb. 20 USA Today editorial stamped her efforts: “Florida, once the epicenter of

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Attorney Gen. Pam Bondi to give keynote presentation What: This will be Attorney Gen. Pam Bondi’s first talk in Sarasota since taking office in 2011. A continental breakfast with Pam Bondi will take place starting at 8:30 a.m., and she will speak from 9 to 10 a.m. She will update attendees on the lawsuit to repeal ObamaCare and the most recent lawsuit, in which Bondi joined six other attorney generals to defend Americans’ religious freedom in a lawsuit filed against a federal government mandate that requires religious employers to offer health-insurance coverage. The breakfast will be hosted by the Republican Club of Longboat Key in conjunction with four other Republican clubs in Sarasota County.

When: 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 16 Where: Sarasota Yacht Club, 1100 John Ringling Blvd.

Cost: $20 Info: Call Ruth Strauss at 383-5349 and mail a check to RCLBK, P.O. Box 8181, Longboat Key, FL 34228 this trade, barred doctors from dispensing the drugs directly last year and saw the volume of prescriptions plummet. Other states should follow suit.”

An aide brought the editorial to Bondi during a recent interview in her office. Her face lit up. “See, others are saying it,” she says with no small amount of excitement.

Indeed.

“She has led in a way that inspires,” says Tom Feeney, president and CEO of Associated Industries of Florida and the inverse of Bondi as a long-time legislator, House Speaker and three-term member of Congress.

Scott is similarly high on Bondi. “Whether you consider her stand against Florida’s prescription drug-abuse epidemic, or her leadership on Florida’s lawsuit challenging ObamaCare, you couldn’t ask for a better,” attorney general, he says.

Feeney goes even further: “She’s a national model for what an attorney general can do.”

That actually gives pause to Wilson.

“My counterparts nationally are talking

One of Bondi’s big challenges as attorney general might surprise: being away from family. She is a softy for kids, family and faith. In fact, she only has an apartment in Tallahassee, and goes home to Tampa every weekend. Every weekend.

“I’m extremely close to my family,” she says. That includes her 175-pound St. Bernard, Luke, named after the Book of Luke in the Bible, whom she carts back and forth with her between Tallahassee and Tampa on weekends.

“The hardest part, personally, is missing my family. Being up here by myself is very difficult,” she says.

Bondi, who is twice-divorced, is close with her parents, sister and brother-in-law, niece and nephews, fiancé Dr. Greg Henderson and his children.

“Every weekend. It’s my sanity,” she says.

To those who know Tallahassee well, that is an understandable sentiment for someone who is not a political junkie. She doesn’t like the political game, the constant power plays and the partisanship.

Bondi was a registered Democrat until 2000. But she was not particularly political.

She says she was a Democrat because everything in Tampa was run by Democrats and most races were decided in the primaries.

But she only voted a few times — something she now regrets — preferring to concentrate on schooling and then prosecuting.

She switched party affiliation because her conservatism was just more in line with the Republican Party.

In some ways, she is as much a woman of faith as of politics. In addition to prayer being a deciding factor in her decision to run, she is a regular at the Wednesday morning legislative prayer group in the Capitol.

“I wish more people attended,” she says.

“It is a bi-partisan group and one of the best things in Tallahassee in my opinion.”

Her fiancé, a Tampa ophthalmologist and widower for nine years, is a founding member of Bell Shoals Baptist Church in Tampa.

He has four grown children, and they are involved in the May wedding planning for the couple.

Further, she wants to become a foster parent. She’s seen enough damage to children in this world and is ready to help a few on a personal level.

She’s taken the foster-parenting classes.

Twice.

The dynamo

Pam Bondi is never off the clock. She keeps a pad on the night stand and writes notes as she thinks of them in bed — which apparently is frequently.

“I don’t sleep a lot,” she chuckles.

Even as her staff tried half a dozen times to respectfully get her to the next appointment, she followed a visitor all the way out to the reception desk, explaining in more detail about the tragedy of the oxycodoneaddicted babies.

The bath salts fight was just the first in what is shaping up to be a yearly battle. New synthetic drugs manufactured in Asia keep popping up. K2. Spice. Jazz.

And Bondi is determined to stay on top of each one. “Calls to poison control plummeted after we outlawed this synthetic substance,” she says of the K2.

But there are always more emergencies.

She got a call from a neo-natal, intensivecare nurse at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, telling her that 20% of the babies born into the unit were addicted to oxycodone. She began investigating and found that 30% of those at All Children’s Hospital’s neo-natal intensive care were addicted. It was an epidemic.

“So I went and saw the babies,” she says.

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+ Town will hold public information meetings The town will hold the first of two public-information meetings from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 16, as part of the telecommunications study being conducted by TE Connectivity. Presentations will take place on the hour and will provide an overview of the signal-levels test, results of the analysis and public survey and a question-and-answer period. For information, call 316-1988.

+ Three-car crash delays traffic on GMD A three-car crash near the 3700 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive delayed traffic early Monday afternoon while vehicle passage was limited to a single lane. According to Police Chief Al Hogle, the crash involved two sportutility vehicles and a Volkswagen. No one was injured in the crash.

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The most read stories online last week were: 1. “Commission warns Colony Parties” (March 6) 2. “RVA buys Cedars Barrier Island Realty” (March 5) 3.“Colony dispute sent back to Tampa” (March 2) 4. “Colony Stakeholders to give update tonight” (March 5) 5. “Villagers share north end ideas” (March 8)

County Commissioners discussion of the Longboat Pass Inlet Management Plan originally scheduled for March 13 has been rescheduled for March 27 at the County Commission’s regular meeting. The study suggests that a single terminal groin on Beer Can Island and two permeable adjustable groins are key parts of the solution to stopping the southward movement of Longboat Pass and stopping north-end erosion.

+ Early voting ends Friday Longboat Key’s General Municipal Election drew 306 voters during the first three days of early voting Saturday through Monday. According to the Town Clerk’s office, 63 voters were from Manatee County, while 243 voters were from Sarasota 2012 County. Early voting continDISTRICT 3 COMMISSION ues through Friday, March 16. Hours through Friday are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily at Longboat Key Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road. Bring a picture ID with a signature. For information, contact the Town Clerk’s Office at 316-1999.

+ Mote seeks residents with asthma for study

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 Town Commission Regular Workshop — 2 p.m. Thursday, March 15  Town Commission Statutory Meeting — 7 p.m. Monday, March 26  Planning & Zoning Board Meeting — 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 27  Town Commission Regular Meeting — 7 p.m. Monday, April 2

All meetings take place at Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Parkway. cian’s diagnosis of asthma. The one-hour survey will be conducted in person at Mote, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway.

Participants will receive $50. To enroll, email decisionmaking@mote.org.

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+ Inlet Management Plan discussion rescheduled The Manatee County Board of

Mote Marine Laboratory and the University of South Florida are seeking residents who have asthma to participate in a one-time survey about Florida’s red tide, seafood consumption habits and participants’ beach-going activities.

Participants must be 18 years or older, reside full-time or part-time in Sarasota or Manatee County and have a physi-

+ Correction

The name of Larry Starr’s company was misidentified in the March 8 Longboat Observer. The company’s correct name was Longboat Accommodations.

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Nosh-A-Rye to close in April Police increase patrols The owner of Nosh-A-Rye describes the decision to close the 15-year-old Longboat Key restaurant as ‘bittersweet.’

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Nosh-A-Rye’s motto is: “Stay and nosh awhile.”

Actually, people have noshed there for more than a while — the kosher-style deli has operated out of the Avenue of the Flowers shopping center for more than 15 years and is known for its corned beef and beef brisket and Friday night pre-Shabbat crowd.

“It’s about the best I’ve ever had,” said Betty Schiff of the beef brisket.

Schiff isn’t sure where she and fellow Temple Beth Israel members will go after the second week in April: That’s when the restaurant, which opened in 1997, will close permanently on Longboat Key. “I’m very sorry to hear it,” Schiff said.

“I’ve enjoyed it, and it’s nice to have a deli out here.”

Owner Barbara Bowman said that she decided to close the restaurant because of back problems and because Publix Super Markets Inc., which is under contract to buy the plaza, allowed her to terminate her lease. She said she will consider re-opening in a different location, but it won’t be on the Key. Bowman told the Longboat Observer in 2007 that she never pictured herself in the restaurant business. Originally from Ann Arbor, Mich., she was a 20-year veteran bartender who, in 1998, after years of vacationing in the area, took a job at NoshA-Rye as a waitress. In less than a year, she became manager, and in 2002, she bought the restaurant. After buying the restaurant, she worked to streamline the menu, eliminating such LBK -items 2010 - Kas chicken wings that didn’t fit well with the kosher-style menu.

Bowman described the decision to close

Police Chief Al Hogle told officers to provide extra patrols at the Colony and Whitney Beach Plaza after a string of vandalism and incidents was reported.

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Nosh-A-Rye Manager Marlene Zobel, server Sharon Jagger and owner Barbara Bowman

the restaurant as a difficult one.

“It’s time to move on, but it’s bittersweet,” she said.

Bowman said that the loss of hotel units on the Key coupled with the overall decline in the economy made business difficult. But the bright spot of the business for Bowman were her regular customers.

Bowman said she realized just how much her customers cared after the first time she had back surgery. She didn’t expect to receive anything but ended up getting between 50 and 100 cards and get-well gifts from customers.

“You learn to get to know and to love a lot of your regulars,” she said. “It made you want to come back to work. It made you know that people really care.”

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A recent string of incidents has prompted Longboat Key Police Chief Al Hogle to ask officers to increase their visibility and provide extra patrol at the shuttered Colony Beach & Tennis Resort and the largely vacant Whitney Beach Plaza, both of which “are very vulnerable to vandalism and other public-safety issues,” Hogle wrote in a March 8 email to police department employees.

“The town is working within its available resources/tools to provide both locations with an opportunity for recovery/re-modeling/replacement/ etc.,” Hogle wrote. “In the future, take a couple of extra minutes during your shift to be very visible and provide extra patrol at these locations.”

Last week a string of vandalisms occurred at the Colony that police believe could be the result of springbreakers, according to Hogle. Doors of multiple units had been kicked in, and the culprits clearly entered the units, although nothing was stolen and no major damage occurred. Police don’t have a definite timeframe for the incidents, which could have happened as long as one month ago. Police have not yet released reports for the incidents, which remain under investigation.

Longtime Colony owner Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber didn’t want to com-

ment about the incidents but said that he has noticed additional patrols over the last week.

Richard Juliani, whose company, the Boston-based Juliani Kenney Investment Capital LLC, owns Whitney Beach Plaza, said that the shopping center has had minor incidents such as thefts of air-conditioning units, which haven’t been reported, and the dumping of trash on the property. Police have increased their patrol of the plaza area since he reported the trash dumping last month, Juliani said.

The Colony is largely encircled by a neighborhood, which makes it difficult to access, according to Hogle, while the plaza is located in a highly visible area, which serves as a deterrent. However, he said that both properties are vulnerable because of the lack of people.

The 237-unit Colony closed in August 2010 as the result of a longstanding dispute between the partnership that ran the Colony and the Colony Beach & Tennis Association. The historic resort remains the focus of ongoing litigation.

Juliani Kenney purchased the distressed plaza in December 2010. Juliani said that he hopes to finalize the plaza’s construction budget this month and begin work on the property after peak season.

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key-nesian economics

by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Voters supply questions, demand answers at debate

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Vice Mayor David Brenner and challenger Ray Rajewski debated for the first time Monday night. The Longboat Key Club’s plan was the $400 million question.

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The economic impact of the Longboat Key Club and Resort’s proposed $400 million redevelopment-and-expansion plan boils down to supply and demand for both Longboat Key Vice Mayor David Brenner and District 3 Town Commission seat challenger Ray Rajewski.

Brenner believes that the increased supply of hotel rooms will increase the number of affluent buyers exposed to the Key, eventually increasing demand for island properties and upping property values.

“Who’s going to buy your condominium when you want to sell it?” Brenner asked Monday night of a resident who described the project as “over expansion.”

Rajewski thinks that the project’s additional condominium units will increase the supply of condominiums without increasing the demand, and possibly decreasing property values.

“You have supply and demand, and you’re going to add 250 units that are going to be the same,” Rajewski said.

With just eight days left until the election for the District 3 Longboat Key Town Commission election, incumbent Vice Mayor David Brenner and challenger Ray Rajewski debated for the first time Monday, March 12, at Bayfront Park Recreation Center.

And, although questions covered the gamut of Key issues, including pensions, a proposed community center and possible cellular tower, the most pressing issue on the minds of audience members was clear: the implications of the Key Club Islandside renovation-and-expansion plan approved by the commission in June 2010.

“It’s the elephant in the room,” one audience member muttered.

Brenner doesn’t regret his vote in favor of a development order approving the plan.

But, although he wasn’t on the commission when the process began, he said that some things should have been done differently.

“With the benefit of hindsight, it would have made sense to make sure that it was supported by the Comprehensive Plan,” Brenner said.

Rajewski wasn’t at the dais when the de-

cision was made, although he estimated that he attended about a half-dozen of the public hearings at Temple Beth Israel leading up to the June 2010 approval. But, he said that, if faced with another plan for a planned-unit development (PUD), which could, like the Key Club application, include many requests for special exceptions, he would rely more on the input of the Planning, Zoning & Building director “who would have more impact and knowledge than I would.

“I’m not a professional planner,” Rajewski said. “I would look at a project and rely on the expertise of the people you employ in the town.”

Rajewski made it clear, however, that he believes the Key Club’s project could have negative impacts.

“Imagine driving over New Pass and instead of seeing open space and condos far off in the background, you see a massive hotel tower,” he said. “I don’t see the benefit.”

One resident asked the candidates about a closely related issue, asking them whether they believed the Key has too much commercial property, as suggested by a town study conducted approximately 10 years ago.

Rajewski said that Longboat Key has approximately 12 restaurants, along with amenities such as a cleaners and barbershop.

“As a full-time resident, I’m serviced very well by the businesses out here,” he said.

He described how many businesses have survived by serving residents while also adapting to seasonal patterns, with many restaurants closing for a month or two or only serving dinner during summers.

Brenner said that the marketplace will determine how much commercial property is needed.

“We’re trying to get a level of commercial activity here that supports us,” he said. “That’s gotta come from more than just us because we don’t provide the economic fuel needed to keep those guys in business.”

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SHOP TALK

by Robin Hartill | City Editor

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plan nears checkout time Dry Dock owner suggests Publix The Lakeland-based supermarket chain still aims to close its overlay district is needed existing Publix in April to re-open by the end of this year.

Eric Hammersand wrote to the mayor that the idea could enhance waterfront dining for Key restaurants.

Dry Dock Waterfront Grill owner Eric Hammersand has an idea that he believes could enhance waterfront dining throughout the Key. In a March 5 letter to Mayor Jim Brown, he wrote that a new overlay district for restaurants that offer waterfront dining that would reduce the required waterfront yard and setback from 50 to 20 feet would make the setback consistent with covered roof structures over outdoor dining areas.

Hammersand said that the reduction of the requirement would allow him to extend his existing second story at the restaurant, located at 412 Gulf of Mexico Drive, but could also help other Key restaurants that offer waterfront dining.

Essentially, the reduction would allow him to enclose the roof he built in 2009, after approximately four years of meetings and discussions before gaining approval. Setback issues caused various roadblocks for the project, but, eventually, Hammersand received approval to build the roof 22 feet from the bay. A special exception was granted to allow the roof to have a minimum of 20 feet of waterfront yard instead of the required 50foot setback. Hammersand had stated that the roof was necessary because bad weather during peak season often meant that patio space couldn’t be used, which would result in a loss of revenue and longer wait times.

He wrote that his restaurant would gain 1,107 square feet from the enclosure but wouldn’t change the restaurant’s seating

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An architectural rendering depicts the view of Dry Dock Waterfront Restaurant with its second-floor dining area extended toward Sarasota Bay.

capacity or parking requirements. Instead, he would reconfigure the existing first- and second-floor dining areas to allow for more tables to overlook the water and allow for more space between tables.

Hammersand wrote that by moving five first-floor dining tables to the second floor, he could possibly separate the bar and waiting area from the dining area on the second, while also potentially expanding its kitchen. “ … creating an overlay district will enable us, as well as other waterfront dining restaurants on Longboat, to make additional investments and improvements to our restaurant — ensuring we’ll remain competitive and an asset to the community for years to come,” Hammersand wrote.

“This isn’t about expanding our seating,” he told the Longboat Observer. “It’s about enhancing the environment for our diners.”

A closing date for the existing Longboat Key Publix store hasn’t been set, but the Lakeland-based Publix Super Markets Inc. is still aiming for April, according to spokeswoman Shannon Patten.

And Town Building Official John Fernandez said Tuesday afternoon he doesn’t anticipate difficulties with the timeline proposed by Publix. Construction plans for the new CVS store in the Publix-owned Avenue of the Flowers shopping center are “very much under review,” Fernandez said. Although construction drawings haven’t technically been submitted for the new Publix, he said that the company paid for a courtesy review of plans ahead of time to take care of major issues. Drawings will likely be formally submitted to the town Wednesday, March 14.

“The heavy legwork has been done,” Fernandez said.

Patten revealed a few new details to the Longboat Observer about what residents can expect after the store’s completion, scheduled for sometime before Christmas.

The new Publix will be a hybrid store, with conventional items along with many of the chain’s earth-friendly GreenWise products. Of existing Publix stores in the region, the 54,000-square-foot hybrid store at the Marketplace in Pelican Bay in Naples, which opened in October 2010, is the one that most closely resembles the future Longboat Publix, according to Patten. Like the planned Longboat store, it has enhanced selections of wines and cheeses, salad bar, soup bar and a Pacific wok station carrying Pan-Asian dishes.

The Longboat Key Publix will offer coffee and a seating area, but, unlike the Naples store, it won’t have a café because the

Photo courtesy of Publix

Like the Naples hybrid store, the Longboat Key Publix will offer an enhanced selection of artisan cheeses and will have a cheese specialist on staff.

Longboat store is smaller at approximately 49,000 square feet.

The store will have a pharmacy, but Publix hasn’t determined whether it will also have a liquor store, according to Patten.

Publix revealed in its application in July that it was under contract to buy two parcels adjacent to the store. Local real-estate investor W. Howard Rooks, who owns one parcel, said Monday evening that he expects the sale to close on Wednesday or Thursday. Joseph Wolfer, registered agent of Bay Isles Enclave Acquisition LLC, which owns the other parcel, said that a closing is scheduled for Thursday.

The Longboat Key Town Commission approved two outline development plans and a site-plan amendment for the project in February.

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Colony needs a new knight There is a simple solution to the legal morass that is killing the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort.

Money.

Everyone agrees on that.

“It’s a doable deal,” Charles Bartlett, attorney for Dr. Murf Klauber, told the Town Commission two weeks ago.

“There is nothing unsolvable,” attorney Jeff Warren, representing the Colony Beach & Tennis Association board, told commissioners.

“The easiest way to do it is to acquire (Klauber’s) interests,” Bartlett said.

“But this will never be settled by anyone sitting there saying ‘I have to get what I want,’” Warren said.

Warren obviously was referring to Klauber, but he, as well as everyone else in the Town Commission Chambers that night, knew his comment also applied to all parties involved.

Indeed, that is the crux of resolving the Colony litigation. While everyone knows a settlement is all about the money, the two keys to the kingdom are: • The right amount of money.

• And someone willing and able to pay it.

The clock is ticking.

And it’s ticking faster. With each tick, odds of the Colony reopening in two, three or five years as an acclaimed tennis resorthotel anything close to what it was in its heyday are increasingly unlikely.

As Bartlett stated unequivocally, unless Klauber and the association board can agree to a settlement, “this matter is going to go on for many more years.”

The Colony needs a white knight. On a big horse, with saddle bags bulging with money the knight is willing to spend and invest.

Would anyone stay there?

The clock is especially crucial for the Colony Association board and unit owners. They have a deadline with the town to reopen the Colony as a resort hotel before Jan. 1. If they don’t meet that deadline, the Town Commission will vote on whether to grant an extension to avoid the town triggering an abandonment of use.

That action would declare the Colony no longer able to operate at its current density of 237 units on 18 acres, or 13 units per acre. It would have to conform to the town’s codes of six units per acre — roughly 108 units total and a loss of 129 units.

This threat is real. Three commissioners already have indicated they would vote not to extend the deadline to keep the Colony’s current units per acre.

What’s more, if you’ve been to the Colony in the past four months, it’s difficult to imagine how the association can restore some of the beach-front bungalows to a point where any guests would want to stay there.

Indeed, we have heard plenty of Colony watchers who think the association board is kidding itself believing it could call the Colony “re-opened” if it refurbishes some

of the beach units and operates with no amenities — no restaurant, no swimming pool or no tennis courts, all of which Klauber and his lenders own. Who, pray tell, would want to stay?

Let’s say the association does indeed lose its current-use rights and must reduce its units per acre. This no doubt would trigger another layer of complications and litigation among the Colony’s unit owners and association board.

The board would be faced with figuring out an equitable system of deciding: 1) which unit owners would lose their units; 2) how to compensate them; and 3) how much to compensate them. Not to mention, it would have to figure out where it will raise the funds to cover these buyouts.

Can you imagine? Can you imagine the blood-pressure levels among the unit owners who have forfeited use and enjoyment of their units for two years? “Many more years” of litigation would be an understatement.

The cost of the court’s options

The clock is ticking on another potentially costly bomb, too. Next Tuesday, Klauber and the association will go back to bankruptcy court in Tampa. Judge Rodney May is expected to preside over hearings ordered by U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday to determine one of two courses of action Merryday has ordered. Either: • Reinstate the Colony Partnership — whereby Klauber and the association are partners again, as they were for 40 years. If the bankruptcy trustee agrees, this would put the Colony hotel units back under the operation of Klauber, with the association and Klauber working side by side again. To compensate Klauber for the past five years, Merryday also ordered the partnership be paid $7.7 million.

• Or, keep the partnership disbanded and pay the partnership $20.6 million.

Either option will bring huge concerns to the unit owners.

Back under the partnership, the association board, unit owners and Klauber would haggle again over how much unit owners would be required to pay to renovate their units — if, in fact, that’s still possible. Let’s not even open the discussion of what effect FEMA rules would play in this.

Capital would be needed to renovate the recreation facilities and restaurant, too.

Who would be obligated for that? Klauber

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could argue for more damages, claiming the facilities would not have deteriorated had the association not caused the Colony’s shutdown.

If Judge May and the association opt to keep the partnership disbanded and only pay damages, this would trigger a sum greater than $20.6 million. We’re told the amount would rise to between $26 million and $30 million once you include legal fees and damages owed on the Colony’s recreational lease.

(Contrary to belief, all of those damage amounts would not go directly to Klauber as a big payday. They would go to the Colony Partnership and its creditors. Whatever is left from that would be split 50-50 between Klauber and the unit owners.)

In this latter option, with the partnership disbanded, not only would unit owners be obligated to fund the damages, they also would face the additional cost of renovating their units (or perhaps selling them for pennies on the dollar), as well as the issue of paying to buy out the three acres Klauber and his lenders hold.

Sunlight versus darkness

Those three acres have been called the hole in the donut. They are three scattered acres the association needs if it wants to redevelop the Colony. It’s probably more accurate to call them the true keys to the kingdom. If all of the combatants — Klauber, Colony Lender, the association board, unit owners, these are the primary players — can agree on a price for Klauber’s three acres and agree to forego future litigation, the years and years of more litigation can end.

The deterioration at the Colony and, by extension, to all of Longboat Key can end.

The entanglements can end. The efforts to redevelop and reopen the Colony can move forward. Sunlight versus darkness.

No matter how it goes, though, the clock is ticking on Colony unit owners. They will have to pay. Pay now, stop the losses and move forward. Or pay later, endure still more grief and suffer still more losses.

The Colony needs a new white knight. A knight who has the financial wherewithal to stop the litigation and the vision re-create a new Colony in its former image — a world-class family, tennis resort that served as the gateway and springboard to living on Longboat Key.

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LETTERS Town manager drafts questions TO THEEDITOR for zoning, Comp Plan review framework

by Robin Hartill | City Editor

+ Rajewski responds

Dear Editor: Here are a few observations concerning your “Profile in leadership: Brenner”: • Brenner’s leadership: He does have a record of leadership, and it has been focused on bringing more expansive development and tourism to the Key with disregard for the town code and Longboat Key’s historic character as an upscale residential and active retirement community.

• Paying dues and coming up through the ranks: That sounds a lot like the military. This concept has resulted in a Town Commission of cronies who, by insinuating themselves into the town’s various boards and committees, have taken control of the town with the help of the business community.

• Against development: You mischaracterized my position. I am for redevelopment and responsible development that conforms to town code. I am against over-development, of which the approved Key Club project is a prime example.

• Brenner wants “a balance”: Where was this sense of balance when he voted to approve the overbuilt Key Club project? According to testimony by the town’s planning, zoning and building director, its size and scale were one of the reasons she recommended against approval of the plan.

• The Brenner vision plan: This verbose document contains 79 references to tourism/commercial/ business development and describes Longboat Key prominently as a “recreational community.” Rather than exemplifying a vision, it is more like a road map for justifying increased tourism on the Key. Ray Rajewski District 3 candidate for Town Commission

The Longboat Key town manager has put together a draft list of five categories of framing questions to serve as a starting point for discussion about what the town seeks in a possible review of its Zoning Code and Comprehensive Plan.

The first framing question proposed by Bullock is: What will it take to sustain our unique character and quality of life? The category includes questions about the Key’s competitive position compared to other communities. Questions include: “Should we try to attract more full-time residents?” “Should we try to grow our residential base through new development?” Other questions focus on who the town wants to attract — i.e., more family-oriented housing or younger baby boomers — along with the types of housing needed to attract those residents.

The second question concerns the role of the island’s tourist industry with questions about how important it is to the local economy, the level of support it provides and whether steps should be taken to encourage continued investment in tourism properties.

The third framing question focuses on the viability of the Key’s restaurants, commercial services, rec-

reational facilities and professional businesses. “Given the seasonality of demand, can we expect these businesses to thrive or to barely survive?” the letter asks. The category includes questions about whether there is room for expansion or if the amount of land zoned available for commercial use should be reduced, the special arrangement of businesses and the possibility of mixed-use for vacant non-performing town properties.

The fourth framing question concerns the development of a strategic plan to ensure the future viability of the Key as a residential and tourist destination and to maintain a healthy balance between residents, visitors and commercial activities.

The category includes questions about whether the land-use plan and allocation of zoning are consistent with achieving a mix of uses and activities or with an enhanced residential community and whether the Comprehensive Plan and landuse regulations need more focus on redevelopment and concentrating commercial uses.

The fifth framing question relates to land-development regulations and whether they need to be modified — and, if so, whether they

should be strengthened or loosened and how they could be used to work toward the town’s goals.

Bullock wrote in his email that he will be prepared to discuss the draft at the commission’s Thursday, March 15 workshop. Bullock wrote that after a commission discussion, the draft could be sent to the Planning & Zoning Board for comment and made available to the public for comment before finalizing the draft and issuing a request for proposals or submitting it to the Urban Land Institute for response.

The commission began discussing a possible Zoning Code and Comprehensive Plan review in January after a writ of certiorari was granted in the challenge of the commission’s approval of a development order for the Longboat Key Club and Resort’s $400 million Islandside project. Bullock earlier suggested a two-phase approach, beginning with a review of planned-unit development (PUD) issues followed by a holistic look at the code, and possibly, the Comprehensive Plan.

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The cost of bringing the Bayfront Park Recreation Center into compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act regulations and the Florida Building Code would likely fall between $125,000 and $150,000, according to a due diligence report by the St. Petersburg-based Wannemacher Jensen Architects Inc. But the Longboat Key Town Commission will discuss at its 2 p.m. Thursday, March 15 workshop a costlier option that is gaining support from many Key residents: a community center that would likely cost just under $7 million to construct. Wannemacher Jensen Architects, which designed a prospectus for the proposed center, will present at the workshop during which town staff will seek direction from the commission.

In addition to construction costs, total operating costs are estimated at $350,000 to $400,000 annually, not including potential revenue that could be generated through grants and gifts, concessions, event tickets, site revenue from sources such as shelter rentals, outdoor concerts, kayak rentals and garden-plot fees and programs offered through vendor-leasing space.

The town held public meetings in January and February to seek feedback about the prospectus, the first of which drew approximately 50 people. During the meetings, Mayor Jim Brown told residents that although voters would need to approve a bond for the project up front, private funding sources are available that could cover most of the $7 million cost. But, costs aside,

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Susan Goldfarb, executive director of the Longboat Key Education Center, said at the first meeting that many of the programs proposed for the facility could compete with her organization. She reiterated many of those concerns Monday to the Longboat Observer, saying she wouldn’t stand in the way of a facility that residents wanted, but she also expressed concerns about the potential overlap in programming.

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11:51 a.m. — 600 block of Bay Isles Parkway. Suspicious Person. Police were unable to locate a nondescript subject reportedly standing by a tree waving his hands.

Signing off 1:32 p.m. — 1900 block of GMD. Larceny. A commission candidate reported that three signs placed on the Key plus two signs placed just south of the Key had been illegally removed. The candidate didn’t have a suspect but said that he believes the removal was politically motivated.

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ing when she heard several loud noises outside her window that sounded as if someone were trying to open the breaker panel. She also saw a shadow of someone outside the window but was unable to provide a description. The woman waited three hours after the incident before calling police, who were then unable to find anything out of the ordinary.

March 3 Source of the sound 9:47 p.m. — 500 block of Spinnaker Lane. Disturbance.

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9:57 p.m. — 500 block of Broadway. Suspicious Circumstance. A woman told police that she was shower-

10:19 p.m. — 5800 block of GMD. Disturbance. Police told a DJ at a wedding reception to turn off loud music that

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Feb. 29 On the run 9:09 a.m. — 3300 block of Bayou Sound. Public Service. A man called police because he was worried about a woman who jogs in the roadway in the mornings and could get hit. Police told the man they would attempt to have night-shift officers speak to the woman. was a violation of the town’s noise ordinance. Police had gotten an earlier complaint about the music and told the DJ and event planner that any further complaints after 10 p.m. would result in the entertainment being shut down.

March 5 No shortcuts 11:38 p.m. — Intersection of GMD and Spinnaker Lane.

Suspicious Person. A caller said that a 6-foot white man wearing plaid shorts was ducking in and out of bushes while cars passed him. Police found the man, who said that he was walking home from Sarasota after getting into an argument with his father at a dog track. The man said that he had a few drinks and possibly cut through a few yards to get home.

Cracking the case 12:57 p.m. — 5300 block of GMD. Civil Disturbance.

A storeowner argued with a woman who came into the store, looked at a bowl and accidentally knocked it down, causing it to crack. Police told the owner that if the bowl were broken accidentally, her only recourse would be to pursue the case in small claims court, which would cost more than the $15 bowl price.

March 6 In shell shock 9:17 a.m. — 500 block of Lyons Lane. Disturbance. A man told a driver that he ought to “kick his (expletive)” after the driver accidentally backed into his yard while trying to do a U-turn. The man said that he yelled at the driver, who may have damaged the plastic landscape trim that retains the shell in his front yard. But he had since calmed down and wanted nothing done.

ALL BARK 3:17 p.m. — Linley Street. Public Service. A man said he believed that an unknown person dumped a load of wood at a dock. Police found that the wood pilings were dumped in the water, lashed to a boat and transported to Jewfish Key and that no debris was left in the dock area.

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The St. Armands Business Improve- merchants or merchant landowners were ment District (BID) Board of Directors on the three-member board, the board will move forward with seeking a 10-year could then choose to use the extra 2 mills extension of its taxing district for future generated for BID monies to fund merCircle enhancements and a coveted park- chant special events and pay for a BID exing garage. ecutive director salary instead of funding BID Chairman and leading organizer capital-improvement projects.

Marty Rappaport announced at the BID Rappaport presented desired changes Board of Directors meeting Tuesday that for BID requirements last month that legal counsel for the BID mandate a board memhas held discussions ber must be an owner with deputy city attorand taxpayer of property ney Michael Connolly within the district. To in an effort to move the avoid conflicts of interextension forward. est, Rappaport also sug“We have been asked gests no two directors to put this before the can serve if they share Sarasota City Commisownership on one or sion at a future meeting,” more properties within Rappaport said. “We will the district. present the referendum And to ensure the BID to the commissioners.” remains a landowner Needs for another 10association, Rappaport Marty Rappaport, year extension of the proposes that at no time BID Chairman BID include gathering can there be any more funds for a parking gathan one director who is rage on the Circle, pubboth a landowner and a lic bathrooms, burying power lines, more merchant within the district. landscaping and Circle entrance signs for Without those changes, Rappaport said motorists. the BID does not have the support of the A Circle garage that offers free parking Circle landowners for a simple majority and free valet service could free up park- vote to approve an extension of the BID. ing on the Circle, according to BID board On Tuesday, Rappaport said the city atmembers. torney’s office agrees with most of those The BID doesn’t intend to move forward points and the discussion will ensue at a with the 10-year extension and a $15,000 future commission meeting. referendum effort until it clarifies some The BID agrees the last 10 years of taxissues with the city of Sarasota first. ing its Circle property owners an extra 2 Currently, the BID consists of a mer- mills has been beneficial, funding a dozen chant landowner and two landowner in- projects and helping to create more than vestors. It’s perceived that if a majority of $2.5 million worth of improvements.

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BONDI / FROM PAGE 3A Bondi may be a fourth-generation Floridian, but she speaks in the quick cadence of a Northerner. “Once you see them … the babies’ cries are like nothing you’ve every heard. The cries are shrieking cries. Instead of milk they’re getting morphine or methadone.”

The moms will admit they did alcohol and cocaine or other drugs, but never even think about a prescription drug they received from a doctor.

“Many of the moms are shocked their babies are born in that condition,” she says, leaning forward to emphasize the point. “Some had given up alcohol.”

Well, she was on the case.

She flew to Washington, D.C., to meet with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, telling him: “We want Florida to be the prototype state.”

She is there for businesses, also. The chamber’s Wilson says if local chambers have a problem with an issue, she jumps on it.

“If she thinks it’s worth doing, she’ll make a phone call right there in front of you,” he says. “She doesn’t wait for someone else to do it.”

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Bondi talks more passionately about pill mills, time-share re-sale fraud and babies born hooked on oxycodone than on the ObamaCare lawsuit that is national news. In fact, she volunteers to talk about the state issues and must be prodded about ObamaCare.

But once asked, the same level of understated intensity rises.

ObamaCare is controversial in nearly every aspect. But the area that has triggered a constitutional fight is the portion that eliminates choice by mandating that every American must purchase health insurance.

The idea was to require everyone to be in the pool to spread the costs. President Obama and the Democrats invoked the commerce clause to support the mandate.

Conservatives and many constitutionalists think the mandate is unconstitutional, and philosophically worry about the precedent of requiring Americans to buy a product simply by being alive.

So 26 state attorney generals filed a legal challenge to the mandate portion of ObamaCare — the central element of the health-care reform.

Bondi recommended the states hire Paul Clement, former U.S. solicitor general and currently a professor at Georgetown University. He has argued 53 cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

“He is, in my opinion, the premier Supreme Court practitioner in the country,” Bondi says. After interviewing Clement and several others, the 26 states voted unanimously to hire him. The Supreme Court, normally allowing one hour for oral arguments, is providing five-and-a-half hours over three days — March 26-28.

“People were saying this is a frivolous lawsuit. Now, I don’t think anybody in the country is going to dispute that this is of great national importance,” she says. She is writing briefs and rebuttals in the case.

In the primary election, her opponents tried to paint her as a moderate — twice divorced, Democrat until 2000 — but she hardly comes across that way now.

“This is truly one of the biggest cases in our lifetime. It affects more than health care. If the federal government can force us to purchase a product simply by being alive, they can force us to do anything,” she says. “They’re trying to do this under the commerce clause and this isn’t about commerce. It is our rights as citizens of this country and they’re being trampled on by the federal government.”

Impassioned statements like that put her on the national political radar. But Bondi is adamant that she is not after higher office. She is content at attorney general and says she will run for re-election because she promised she would.

“You come into this office and the biggest fear was that you would be a political figure head and you couldn’t make a difference on a large scale. But you can.”

She may have just begun.

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Nautical Night at the Salvage Yard — takes place from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Sarasota Architectural Salvage, 1093 Central Ave., Sarasota. This night is a fundraiser for Mote’s animal hospitals. Cost is $15 in advance; $20 at the door. Info and tickets available at: www.sarasotasalvage.com.

Historical Society Speaker: Jono Miller Jono Miller, a local naturalist and environmental studies specialist from New College, will discuss our state tree: the cabbage palm.

When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 20 Where: Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design, 6860 Longboat Drive S. Cost: Suggested $10 donation.

Info: Call 387-8323.

Friday, March 16 Republican Club of Longboat Key — takes place 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the Sarasota Yacht Club, 1100 John Ringling Boulevard. This will be Attorney General Pam Bondi’s first speaking engagement in Sarasota since taking office in 2011.

Breakfast will be served, and she will speak from 9 to 10 a.m. Cost $20.

Call Ruth Strauss at 383-5349.

Saturday, March 17 Pug Parade on the Circle — starts at 10 a.m. at St. Armands Circle Park.

This 15th annual event benefiting the Humane Society of Sarasota County will feature a parade of pugs.

Free. Call 383-2855.

19th Annual Anna Maria Island Tour of Homes — takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at homes on Anna Maria Island. This year’s tour includes six select island properties in Holmes Beach and a boutique with original arts, crafts and culinary delights. Cost is $20. Call Sandee Pruett at the Anna Maria Island Community Center, 778-1908, Ext. 0.

St. Patrick’s Day on St. Armands — takes place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Armands Circle. Celebrate the “Luck of the Irish” in an authentic way. Festivities begin at Lynches Pub and Grub. Make sure to wear green.

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Scholars in Residence Program — starts at 9 and 11 a.m. at St.

Armands Key Lutheran Church, 40 N. Adams Drive. Dr. Gerald Christianson, emeritus professor of church history at Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary, will preach at these services and will continue leading seminars and programs through March 27. Call 388-1234.

TBI Nuremberg Screening — starts at 2 and 7 p.m. at Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road. A film about the Nuremberg Trials will be screened, and Director Sandra Schulberg will be present to discuss the film. Cots is $10 in advance; $15 at the door. Call 383-3428.

Tuesday, March 20 Sandpipers Men’s Meeting — starts at 12:30 p.m. at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road. The speaker will be the Rev. Bryan O’Carroll, of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Bradenton, who will talk about his church’s food pantry operation and ministry to migrants. Free. Call 383-8161.

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MARILYN ROTHSCHILD If you go Art in the Park What: Multi-artist exhibition featuring Marilyn Rothschild’s work, among other artists.

When: Noon to 5 p.m.

March 31 to April 4 Where: S.M.art Castings and Sculpture Services, LLC, 2258 Industrial Park Blvd., Sarasota Cost: Free Info: Call 3550111

This is the first sculpture Rothschild ever made of a birdwatcher.

Marilyn Rothschild and her husband, Steve, were on a safari in Africa, where it is customary never to take photos of locals without permission. But Rothschild sought permission and gave compensation to the woman and boy she photographed on the roadside. The little boy was carrying a circular piece of scrap metal around his neck — what Rothschild assumed to be his toy.

But the photograph became more than just a documented memory — it inspired her. She turned it into a true-toscale drawing, which would became the basis for a sculpture.

“Usually, I find the spirit or movement of the sculpture in my drawing,” she says. “If the drawing doesn’t move me, I don’t go forward.”

From there, she made a wire armature upon which she carefully worked every detail of the oil-based clay.

“Hands have been challenging; faces are the most fun,” she says.

From the clay sculpture (or wax, which is her current favorite medium to sculpt in), it goes to a production person who does the technical work of making the molds, pouring the bronze and then conditioning it to be the right color. She uses S.M.art Castings in Sarasota for this part of the job.

For this Longboat Key artist, a sculpture is worth 1,000 photos.

Mallory Gnaegy

Marilyn Rothschild works on a female sculpture in her home studio.

Before she began sculpting, Rothschild was looking at Sarasota sculptor Jack Dowd’s work at a local art gallery. She told her friend that she’d love to learn to sculpt with Dowd, and an employee overheard her. The employee told her Dowd would again be teaching, and Rothschild signed up for the course.

She was hooked instantly.

“I became intrigued that a

sculpture has 1,000 photos … you can look at it from all angles, and that is an interesting challenge for me,” Rothschild says.

Rothschild already had experience studying color theory, impressionistic painting, life drawing and portrait painting, and she has loved drawing and painting ever since she was a child.

When she sold her stationery, journal and gift-manufacturing

business, Mara-Mi Inc. after 26 years in 2005, Rothschild made a bucket list of activities she wanted to learn to fill her time.

“I had no idea what the future could possess for me because running a business was so encompassing,” she says.

Sculpture was the open door after closing her business.

Unfortunately, Dowd stopped teaching after that initial course, and Rothschild had to look for teachers elsewhere. Most recently she had a Longboat Key mentor, Marci Weisgold, and a Sarasota teacher, Pedro Cobian.

But, in Rothschild’s case, it seems she doesn’t need any additional teaching — her works already resemble small-scale versions of real life.

Sometimes she finds inspiration in photos and works with live models.

“My most recent is of (a) little garden girl. It was inspired by a relative,” she says. She typically works on a few sculptures at a time in her studio in her Longboat Key condo.

“There’s always an allure to go back there, and when I do, time just evaporates,” she says.

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on a mission by Dora Walters | Senior Editor Christ Church ‘sales’ through rummage sale It seems everyone loves a rummage sale. Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian held a “Sale Away” sale March 10. When volunteers arrived at 6:30 a.m. to prepare for the sale that started at 8:30 a.m., they found shoppers already in line.

Once inside, shoppers quickly snapped up bargains buying bicycles, clothing, jewelry, household items and more. A booth featuring homemade cookies, muffins, and cakes was popular.

Sale co-chairwomen were Sue Wertman and Vivian Chester, cochairman. Wertman reported approximately $15,000 was raised, and it will be distributed to local missions.

OBITUARIES Patricia H. Kennedy

Patricia H. Kennedy, of Sarasota, died Nov. 26. She was born Sept.

27, 1923. She was 88 years old.

She is survived by her husband, Loma B.; daughter, Diane Verbiski; and stepson, Mark S. Services were held at Plymouth Harbor.

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Francis Munz, of Longboat Key and formerly of Sarasota, Philadelphia and Richboro, Pa., died March 5. He was 88.

Mr. Munz was born March 16, 1923.

Mr. Munz was a sergeant in the U.S. Army military police during World War II, stationed in Luzon POW Camp, in Manila, Philippines. He was a Freemason for 50 years and a Shriner.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Jane, and five brothers.

He is survived by daughter, Susan Rash; stepson, David Munz; and Olive MacLeod, his companion of 11 years.

Memorial donations in Mr. Munz’s name may be made to Sahib Shrine, 600 N. Beneva Road, Sarasota.

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Diane Sundman, of Longboat Key and Mashpee, Mass., died March 8.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth E. Sundman.

Mrs. Sundman is survived by her brother, David Boesse; sister, Michelle Howard; four children, Pamela White, Patti McClure, Kenneth Sundman and Mark Sundman; 10 grandchildren; and three great-granddaughters.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, March 13. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod, 765 Attucks Lane, Hyannis, Mass., 02601. www.nickersonbournefuneralhome.com

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Mr. Randall moved in 2004 to Longboat Key. Mr. Randall had a great memory and was a terrific storyteller.

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death by his wife, Harriet, in 1991.

He is survived by his wife, Clare Goss Randall; three children, William, Jonathan and Eleanor; stepsons, Edward and Tysen; six grandchildren; and seven greatgrandchildren.

Services will be held in Framingham. Those wishing to send condolences may do so at www.keenanfuneralhome.com.

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Chase Bank on St. Armands Circle opens.

Three-bedroom Beach Residences unit sells for $3.9 million.

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There was a record number of 161 works of art on display at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design, for the annual Members Exhibition and Juried Show, which opened March 8. First-place winner in the 2D/3D category was “Still Light,” by Denis Versweyveld. Mary Lou Johnson, of Longboat Key, took first prize in photography with “Strike One.” Other winners in the 2D/3D category were: second place, “Shells,” by Pat Sulzman, and third place, “Rain Cloud,” by Christine Eckerfield.

Honorable mentions went to Gary Gorman, Elisabeth Phillipson and Karen Geck.

In photography, second place was awarded to John Kokajko, “Marie Selby Botanical Gardens No. 6733.” Third place went to Isabelle Eaton for “The Indian Artist.” Honorable mentions were awarded to Kokajko, Judith Horn and Laurel Maul.

The show will continue through March 29.

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“Crimson Sunrise”, by Regina Johandes

Elaine Appel, admires James Gabbert’s “The Four Elements: EARTH, AIR, FIRE, WATER.”

“Strike One,” by Mary Lou Johnson, won first place in the photography category.

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The Beach Residences unit sells for $3.9 million David Shoemaker, trustee, Sarasota, sold the Unit 1101 condominium at The Beach Residences, 1300 Benjamin Franklin Drive, to James and Misdee Miller, Lakewood Ranch, for $3.9 million. Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, three-and-ahalf baths and 4,194 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $3,312,600 in 2005.

This week’s residential real-estate transactions took place between Feb. 27 and March 2. Of this week’s 17 sales, five were for $1 million or more.

Sanctuary IV at Longboat Key Club

Frank and Linda Verdi sold their Unit B-805 condominium at 535 Sanctuary Drive to Thomas and Gail Janes, of Ontario, Canada, for $1.4 million. Built in 1990, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,590 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $1.6 million in 2004.

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Henry Retek, of McHenry, Ill., sold his home at 551 Yardarm Lane to Schin Kamth, Ocala, for $592,500. Built in 1967, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,716 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $625,000 in 2001.

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Vernon and Linda Frazier, Indianapolis, sold their Unit 102 condominium at 4425 Gulf of Mexico Drive to John Bishop and Jill Bishop, trustees, of Annandale, Minn., for $517,500. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,264 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $475,000 in 2001.

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Seating is limited, so make plans now to attend this worthwhile event.

Winding Oaks

Susan Heide, of Benton, Ore., sold her Unit 40 condominium at 3456 Winding Oaks Drive to Enrico and Marie Patrone, Longboat Key, for $388,500. Built in 1988, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 2,073 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $450,000 in 2004.

Seaplace III

Edward Burke, trustee, Longboat Key, sold the Unit 201 condominium at 5645 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Marion and Deborah Dean, Longboat Key, for $450,000.

Built in 1985, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,395 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $635,000 in 2009.

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Alice Sverdlow, trustee, sold the home at 2369 Harbour Oaks Drive to Harvey and Jean Greller, of Shrewsbury, N.J., for $408,000. Built in 1986, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,424 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $249,000 in 1986.

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Minn., sold their Unit 13 condominium at 4621 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Stephen Shea, of Ontario, Canada, for $400,000.

Built in 1973, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 756 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $600,000 in 2005.

Trifone and Josephine Ferrante, of N. Calverton, N.Y., sold their Unit G4-306-C condominium at 1975 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Elizabeth Hartter-Cornell and Kent and Linda Hartter, Windermere, for $365,000. Built in 1977, it has one bedroom, two baths and 933 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $45,500 in 1977.

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Unit 1101 at The Beach Residences, 1300 Benjamin Franklin Drive, has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 4,194 square feet of living area. It sold for $3.9 million.

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Richard and Patricia Wagner, Longboat Key, sold their Unit 903 condominium at 1918 Harbourside Drive to David and Debra Groff, of Loganville, Ga., for $327,000.

Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, three baths and 1,626 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $512,500 in 2009.

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University Park - Custom Lakefront Beautifully maintained 3BR + Den home with 10ft ceilings, his & her bath, quality built-in’s, & expanded great room overlooking the pool/ spa and lake. Two car garage. $469,000

Sanctuary III - Beautiful Views South facing 4th floor apartment with 3BR plus den /2.5BA & wraparound terrace w/ views of Gulf and Golf Course. Incredible opportunity! $899,000

Grand Bay-Bay, City, & Golf Course Views Sought-after south facing corner residence with 3BR/3 Full Baths, private elevator foyer, wraparound terrace, wood floors, stainless appliances, granite wet bar. $1,289,000

San Remo Shores - Deep Yacht Basin On 160’ of waterfront has 5BR/5.3BA & 7,582 SF of luxury. Home theater, office, media room and rooftop widow’s walk. Private dock & 4-car garage. $3,995,000

Coral Cove - Bay Front Beauty Mainland Mediterranean Perfection with 130’ of waterfront, 5BR, theater, library, family room, infinity edge pool/spa, dock, jet-ski lift and 4-car garage. $3,195,000

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La Firenza - Direct Beach Front Stunning sunsets over the Gulf and partial Bay views from this SW corner 3,521 SF apartment with varying 11 & 12 ft. ceilings. Built in 2007 with 3BR+ family room and den/3.5 BA, full bar and summer kitchen.

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The Bougainvillea House - Tudor Revival Renovated in 2006 on 3 lots with 4BR/3.5BA + separate guest house totaling 4,857 square feet. Home exudes old world charm while offering today's modern conveniences. Wood floors, marble, pool, & 2-car garage. $1,290,000 G NEW LISTIN

Sanctuary II – One of a Kind! Direct Gulf front walk down with private plaza deck. View gives the feel of living on a Caribbean island.

Largest 3BR with 3,115 sq. ft. Gulf/beach views. Unique opportunity. $1,985,000

Ritz Tower Residences – Incredible Opportunity One of a kind 4th floor walk-down to amenity level with four bedrooms, 4 baths and 3,659 square feet of easy living space. Sought-after floor plan, marble floors, wood cabinetry and stainless appliances throughout.

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Water Club I – Direct Gulf Front Gorgeous 7th floor apartment with 3BR/5BA and 3,400 sq. ft. Amazing water & sunset views! Oak wood floors, unique interior finishes, 2 parking spaces & excellent amenities. $2,700,000

Grand Bay III - Beautiful Water Views Light and bright 3BR/3.5BA residence in Building 3 with nine foot ceilings, spacious floor plan and wrap around terraces for enjoying views of Sarasota Bay. $829,000

Water Club I - Gulf & Bay Views 6th floor 3BR/3BA newly designed & furnished apartment with beautiful water views, private elevator, and two terraces for viewing sunsets. Gated community with excellent amenities. Furnished. $1,475,000

Longboat Key – Boater’s Fantasy 3,435 SF home with 114 feet of DEEP water frontage!

Extra large rooms, with living area on one level and tons of ground floor play space. Covered 45x20 slip and Jet Ski dock included. $869,000

Water Club II - Gorgeous Views Gulf, Bay & City lights views from this premier 9th floor Dover model. 3 full BR+den/4.5BA, 10’ ceilings, Saturnia marble floors, private elevator foyer. 2 parking spaces. $2,395,000

Sorrento Shores - Rancho del Sol Sprawling waterfront estate fully furnished on 1.24 acres and 224 feet of Sarasota Bay front!

5 BR/4.2 BA with separate 2 BR renovated historic guest house. Includes 350 foot deep water dock w/18,000 lb. lift. $2,495,000

Ritz Tower – Bay & City Views PENTHOUSE residence with 4,704 Sq. Ft., 4 BR plus family room and 4.5 bathrooms offers incredible views, wood & marble floors, granite & stainless gourmet kitchen, 10’ ceilings. $3,595,000

Lido Shores - Direct Gulf Front Palazzo 200 ft. of sea-walled Gulf front with private Dock and Beach access. This 7,415 SF residence has 5BR/8BA, his and her bath & studies, 50 ft. pool/spa & 5-car garage. $7,900,000

Bird Key - Outstanding Waterfront Opportunity Built in 2007 on a wide protected boat basin. Home has 8,071 square feet, 5BR/5.5BA, guest wing with separate entrance and more! Infinity edge pool, boat dock, and 4-car garage. $3,850,000

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Drive to 350 Polk Drive LLC for $325,000.

Built in 1977, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,036 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $270,000 in 2010.

Whitney Beach Condo

Herbert Swartz, of Guilford, Conn., sold his Unit 139 condominium at 6700 Gulf of Mexico Drive, to William and Cathy Hedberg, of Albany, N.Y., for $255,000. Built in 1969, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,305 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $275,000 in 2009.

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Donald and Rosalie Allard, trustees, of Davenport, Iowa, sold the Unit 516 condominium at 1100 Benjamin Franklin Drive to Pamela Paulsen and Lynnmarie Pierskalla, of Plymouth, Minn., for $315,000.

Built in 1976, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,456 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $145,000 in 1987.

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Marion and Deborah Dean, Longboat Key, sold their home at 1448 John Ringling Parkway to Edward Burke and Julie Burke, trustees, Longboat Key, for $2.8 million.

Built in 2002, it has four bedrooms, fiveand-a-half baths, a pool and 4,231 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $2,935,000 in 2007.

Bird Key

Elliot and Linda Zahalsky, LauderdaleBy-The-Sea, sold their home at 299 Robin Drive to Gennady and Kira Gekht, Sarasota, for $1.1 million. Built in 1984, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 4,485 square feet of living area.

John and Margaret Eldred, of Holland, Ohio, sold their home at 321 Bird Key Drive to Triple J Eldred Realty LLC for $850,000. Built in 1962, it has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,504 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $775,000 in 2010.

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Willem and Wibbina Kampen, Sarasota, sold their Unit B-1009 condominium at 1800 Benjamin Franklin Drive to William McCarty, Sarasota, for $1.2 million.

Built in 1996, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,230 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $1,325,000 in 2004.

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Address Permit Applicant Amount 1211 GMD Alteration Martin Vandersteen, co-trustee $65,000 6701 GMD Re-roof Herbert Gold $26,760 591 Putting Green Lane Alteration Herbert Gofman $24,753 3170 Bayou Sound Alteration Thomas Thompson $23,615 520 Birdie Lane Alteration Edward Christie $19,890 531 Rountree Drive Alteration Louis Haenel $18,950

Marina Bay 2410 Harbourside Drive Demolition Condominium Association $17,300 5321 GMD Alteration Jerry Uelsmann $16,000 2295 GMD Alteration Steven Cole $11,936 2301 GMD Alteration Rudolph Baron $11,936 2045 GMD Alteration Jane Gonzales $11,845 585 Gunwale Lane Alteration Alvin Neumann $11,380 5931 Emerald Harbor Drive Alteration Martin Callaghan $5,973 2301 GMD Alteration Lorraine Ageloff, trustee $5,430.44 388 Firehouse Lane Alteration Rafael Fernandez $5,000 648 Bayview Drive Alteration Steven Gold $4,600 5461 GMD Alteration Edmund Adams $4,000 100 Sands Point Road Alteration Joanne Marozza, trustee $3,875 3710 GMD Alteration Stephen Chapin $3,000 3596 Fair Oaks Lane Alteration Karen Grigsby $2,865 707 St. Judes Drive Alteration Gregory Winsper $2,493 3402 Winding Oaks Drive Alteration John Wild, trustee $1,284 3740 GMD Alteration Rae Secor $900

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3,600 sq. ft. 3 BD 31/2 BA. Master suite beach side. Incredible designer finishes throughout. Walk to St. Armands. Private 2 car garage. $2,675,000 SABAL COVE Spacious 4BR w/first level master suite. Exquisite lakefront! Bay Isles subdivision, deeded beach. Close to tennis $1,695,000 EMERALD HARBOR NEW HOME on wide canal. 4 BD/ Master bedroom downstairs, plus 3 suites upstairs. Top of the line finishes. Exercise rm., kayak launch pad, deepwater dock & pool. Lots of privacy w/bay views, plus deeded beach access. $2,395,000 HARBOUR VILLA CLUB Fantastic 2/2 Bayfront penthouse. New windows & decorating. Fabulous views. 40 ft. boat dock. $550,000, 2/2 end unit $495,000 BAYPORT 3 BD Gulf view corner condo - split floorplan.

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Great boat dock. $4,250,000 OLD FLORIDA CHARMING 4,400 sq.ft. Home w/193 ft. unobstructed Bay vista. Dock your boat and launch your kayak from your own private beach. $3,250,000 LUSHLY LANDSCAPED private and charming home.

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by Mallory Gnaegy | Community Editor

Chase Bank opens for business Chase Bank on St. Armands Circle, 30 N. Blvd. of the Presidents, hosted a ribbon-cutting and meet and greet Wednesday, March 7.

St. Armands Circle Association members, the Longboat Key, Lido Key, St. Armands Key Chamber of Commerce officials and members and bank customers were in attendance and snacked on appetizers and drinks.

Chase Bank is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays.

Leyla Gomez, Josh Groeschel, Debbie Oravetz and Steve Ham with Chase Bank

Joe Tine, with MycoTek, Allie Hueter, with GCSI Paintscape and Ask the Seal, and Tammy Overgaard, with Service Painting Florida

Networking at Noon attendees get right down to business The Longboat Key, Lido Key, St. Armands Key Chamber of Commerce hosted a Networking at Noon luncheon Thursday, March 8, at the Holiday Inn Lido Key. Local businessmen and women socialized and spoke about their businesses.

Chase Bank customers Louis and Elza Csepes with Nikki and Joe Boguszewski

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Alton Pardue, with Chase Bank, and Jack Peffley, with Taffy’s Left: Suzy Lysen, with Jude Connally, Bob Huff, with Coldwell Banker, and Linda Pol, with Jude Connally

Steve Keller, with Metlife, and Rhonda Coblentz, with Principal Financial Group

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+ Sarasota Yacht Club makes a splash with new water-sport program Sarasota Yacht Club rolled out a kayak and paddleboard water-sports program that began March 5. Members will be able to rent kayaks and paddleboards. They will also be able to take lessons, fitness classes and take Ecotours. Prices range from $25 to $35 for half-days, and $30 to $50 for full days, but there will also be a paddle clinic monthly in which members will be able to try the equipment for free.

Part of the proceeds will benefit Mote Marine Laboratory.

+ Cool pool on Longboat Key receives recognition from state association Lucas Lagoons Inc. of Sarasota won a bronze award in the Residential Restorations category for a pool on Longboat Key. The judges for the Florida Swimming Pool Association selected it from a “pool” of candidates for its waterfall, landscape and stonework with vegetation.

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games | bridge bites By Brian Gunnell | American Contract Bridge League

No safe exit This month’s deals have been about finessing. In earlier weeks, we were trying to avoid them in favor of better alternatives. But, this week, we are actually going to take a finesse — eventually.

N-S takes the express lane to 6 ♥ and West leads the Q♣. You will win that and draw trumps in two rounds, but then what? You have 11 tricks, can you find the 12th?

This hand appears to depend on a successful Spade finesse, and, if the K ♠

still make his slam whenever West had the K♠, and he would also succeed when the King was doubleton with East.

But only if Declarer cashes his minor suit winners first, forcing East to concede that ruff and sluff after winning the doubleton King.

is with West, then 6♥ makes. But that King is with East on the actual lie of the cards. Does that mean it’s down one?

Not at all! Having drawn trumps, Declarer cashes those minor-suit winners and leads a Spade to the Ace. Then he crosses back to hand with a trump and leads a Spade toward the Queen. East wins the King but has no safe exit. With nothing left but minor suit cards, whatever he plays will give Declarer a ruff and sluff. Declarer will pitch the Spade loser from his hand and ruff on the board, making 12 tricks.

Taking the delayed finesse gave Declarer a second way to win. He would

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54 Glen Campbell title city 57 Gentle breeze 61 Overwhelm with noise 63 In addition 64 Gets out of Dodge 66 Mystery board game 67 “___ world’s a stage” (Shakespeare) 68 Person regarded as eccentric or mad 71 Ham-and-___ (average Joe) 74 HBO’s “Real Time” moderator 75 New England catches 77 Interrogatory questioning 80 Treats, as a sprain 81 Of the ear 83 Unit of parsley or

84 86 88 90 91 94 95 97 99 100 102 104 105 107 113 114 116 117 119 122 125 126 129 131 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142

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5 Exultant yell 6 Gibraltar’s peninsula 7 Scoreboard entry, in baseball 8 “___ Doubtfire” (Robin Williams comedy) 9 Length times width 10 Person related by marriage 11 Goader 12 Biblical book or prophet 13 Protective covering used by Roman troops 14 “Wipeout” network 15 Soft, blue-gray mineral 16 Petri dish gelatin 17 “Dick Tracy” gal 18 “All ___ being equal ...”

24 Romanian’s neighbor 26 ___ Aviv 30 Caught on 32 Walesa of Polish politics 33 British cathedral city 34 Canal that leads to the Red Sea 37 Saint who founded Scholasticism 38 Politico Gingrich 39 Miscellaneous mixture 40 Part of a boxing match 42 A freelancer may work on it 43 “To ___ is human” 45 Secret sympathizers 46 Little laugh 47 “Lou Grant” actor and family 49 Pinball violation 52 Actress Lupino 55 Ambassador’s asset 56 Asian nurses 58 Person to whom a promise is made 59 Enormous 60 Safecracking burglars 62 French novelist ___Rene Lesage

65 Hop, ___ and jump 69 Grammarian’s topic 70 “Captain Blood” star Flynn 72 Winged god of love 73 Act like bug spray 75 Fairy-tale dwelling 76 Bested at the track 78 Pickler’s herb 79 Coastal bird of prey 82 Sylvester, famously 85 Mine entrance 87 Zeta-theta go-between 89 Arched molding 92 Toledo’s waterfront 93 Remove from print 95 Tried the tripe 96 CPR givers 98 Libation with sushi 101 Light folding cot 103 Command for an attack dog or lawyer 106 Ultrasound focus, often 108 Drunkards 109 Separate the wheat from the chaff 110 Glutton 111 Aviary noises 112 Fastened with stitches 115 Volcano output 118 Paris tube 119 ‘60s hairstyle 120 ___ tube (slang for TV) 121 Winter Olympics vehicle 123 More volcano output 124 See in the distance 126 Arabian Peninsula port 127 Basilica section 128 Batik worker 130 Golf ball supporter 132 Significant period of time 133 “I do” is one 134 Hack down

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Items Under $200 For Sale

Consignments

Condos/Apts. For Rent

Out-of-State Property

3.5 TAO Digital Photo Frame/Clock (Mahogany), New in box, $50. 941-953-5222.

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

LONGBOAT KEY - ON THE BEACH AT THE PIERRE: Fabulous views. 2,410 sq/ft. 2 bedroom plus den/convertible 3rd bedroom. 3 baths.

Available 8/16/12. 3 month min. Looking for Fall Rental. Annual available. Photos: 248-310-8308 or ebstulberg@gmail.com

ENERGY EFFICIENT, unique 2BR/1.5BA home on 7 well managed woodland acres, 1300 feet of road frontage and brook, in VERMONT. $450,000’s. See at: berrie@sucab.net or call (802)348-6613.

ADVERTISE YOUR MERCHANDISE with the total value of $200 or less in this section for FREE! Limit 1 ad per month, 15 words or less. Price must be included. No commercial advertising. Ad runs 2 consecutive weeks.

Email ad to: classified@yourobserver.com (Please provide your name and address) Or Online at: www.yourobserver.com/classifieds (No phone calls please.)

CLUB CHAIR, ottoman, tan, nice $60; Paintings: sunset, 30"x39”, $50; sidewalk cafe scene, 32"sq. $40. (941)387-8820.

COLOR LASER Printer/Copier/Scanner Samsung CLX-3185. Brand new. Box never opened, $119.

216-262-0021.

COMPUTER: 2.8GHZ Dell Dimension 2400 with newly loaded Windows XP, $100, 941-756-6728.

HP PRINTER, scanner, copier all in one. Hardly used $25.00. 941-587-5060.

PORCELAIN SUGAR bowl/creamer, collectible, German, $50.00. Call 941-795-8734 .

TV/VCR COMBINATION: 21"color with operating instruction booklet. Excellent picture quality. $65.00 obo. 941-383-4177.

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

WANTED MILITARY ITEMS I collect bayonets, swords, medals, old guns, helmets, military items.

CASH, 941-685-3003

Autos For Sale

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

HUGE 3 DAY ESTATE SALE March 16, 17 & 18 Numbers out at 8a.m.

Doors open 9a.m.-4p.m.

1610 Meadowood St., Sarasota, FL 34231 (Toy collector’s dream) Toy collection - over 10,000 toys including: Lionel trains, die cast vintage cars, Monopoly collectibles, Betty Boop, cast iron banks, PeeWee Herman collectibles, model cars.

Over 300 vintage cameras, art deco lamps, art deco furniture, Koken barber chair, Victorian furniture, clocks, Bakelite tube radios, old telephones, pine furniture, patio sets, wicker furniture, Barbie dolls (50 - new in box), 3 1920’s Texeco gas pumps, lots of Texaco collectibles, vintage peddle cars, Erector sets, leather furniture, gas chandeliers, Studebaker/ Packard Corporation stock certificates, 1930’s Coca Cola vending machine and lots of Coca Cola collectibles, garage tools, generator, bikes, cement yard statues, pottery, kitchen items, lots of bric-a-brac, 2001 Club Car golf cart, Tiffany & Co. items, pair of Mountain bikes, new electric cigar Humidor, 50 bottle wine cooler, extensive wine collection, board game collection, sterling, king size bed (mattress/ box springs, area rugs, original water colors.

1999 MERCEDES SL500, 2 Seat Convertible, Separate Hard Top. Only 34,806 Miles! White/Grey Leather, $15,000. 941-383-6417.

For more details and pictures, go to: estatesales.net or call Ken 941-356-3318

2002 LINCOLN Continental. Cabriolet top, mint condition, low mileage. Call Frank. 863-899-2523.

Estate Sale conducted by Antiques & Chatchkes for more info: 941-356-3318

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

Boat Slips For Rent/Sale 16,000 LB. Boat lift and Dock for Rent. Deep Water Canal, Gulf Access, 537 Yawl Lane, Longboat Key. $500/mo., 312-735-5193.

BOAT SLIP: Longboat Key Marina, 58x20, $122,000. Call Bob Baker, 941-704-4628.

BOATHOUSE ON Longboat unit for sale on east end, second level. $35,000, reasonable offers welcomed. Call Mike, 941-952-0308.

BRADENTON BOAT CLUB -- HIGH AND DRY STORAGE LONGBOAT AMENITIES WITH CORTEZ PRICING. Only $11.00 per ft., per month 12 months, $11.50 per ft, per month 6 months.

Located on Cortez Rd, 1600 ft. of the most beautiful, peaceful canal in West Florida, lands you in the Intercoastal waterway. Unlimited daily use of the facility and launching to include: engine flushing and boat washdown. Full mechanical service, Detailing Service and boat sales. COME SEE US NOW, 1st month $200.00 regardless of size of boat. We have grown 250% in the last year and will soon be at full capacity. Call 941-795-3625 doug@bradentonboatclub.com

NEIGHBORHOOD TAG SALE: Friday, March 16th, 8:30a.m.-1p.m., 601 Yardarm Lane, LBK. Boat items, many household, dehumidifier for boat, stroller, trike, folding bikes, rowing machine, misc.

General Merchandise JAZZY SELECT Power Chair, never used, $400.

941-323-7208 Osprey.

THRIFT SHOP: LORD’S WAREHOUSE. Hours: Mon., Weds., & Sat., 9a.m. to 1p.m. Non-profit.

Clothes, jewelry, furniture, other items. 6140 Gulf of Mexico Drive. 941-383-4738.

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

Investor Wanted

FOR SALE OR RENT, fantastic high and dry boat slip, superb S. Longboat location. Call 941-371-1866.

INVESTOR WANTED Sarasota based company established over 33 years ago. Owner is a graduate of Ringling College of Art. Family owned company holds signed contracts totaling over 900K+ plus a large amount of accounts receivables. Looking for short term working capital. I have small amounts of collateral. Please contact Scott at 941-544-6949, Thank you.

Boats

Storage

Boats are selling very well. 16 Year Island resident, business owner, many references.

Keeping it real simple. “Business on a handshake.” Let’s talk about selling your boat.

941-228-3489.

Superior Boat Cleaning. Includes Exterior wash, interior wax, upholstery and stainless. Special **$100-$200** Full detail also available any size boat. Let your boat sparkle! 941-228-3489.

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

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

Help Wanted DRIVERS: IMMEDIATE Local P&D Openings!

Great Home-Time, Pay & Benefits! CDL-A w/Hazmat & Twins, 1yr. Exp. (EOE/AA) Old Dominion Freight Line Call Steve Howard: 1-866-367-6335.

Positions Wanted

HOUSE CLASSIFIEDS LP # 56736

HHA/COMPANION AVAILABLE Caring, gentle and knowledgeable Home Health Aid/Companion available to care for your loved one. Over 18 years experience. CPR and first aid certified. Call 941-356-1712 and ask for Mary.

Condos/Apts. For Rent BEACH-TO-BAY CONDO at Bayport BTC Newly decorated 2bed/2bath. First floor, end unit.

Free local phone, cable, Wi-Fi. Monthly rentals beginning May 2012. Contact owner at 615-376-9448.

SEAPLACE: 3BR/2BA, RARE first floor corner unit. Beautiful Gulf and Garden views from every room, furnished, turn-key unit, new paint, new carpet, updated kitchen. Covered parking and another uncovered parking, 10/ft. ceiling in master BR. Lots of new furniture. Mark, 941-383-4381, bradtma@yahoo.com SPELL-BOUNDING FULL BAY VIEWS. Location is everything. Direct on the bay overlooking Ringling bridge and downtown Sarasota. Walking distance to downtown, St. Armands Circle and the Gulf beaches. Boating and fishing are only steps away.

2 bedroom condo, ground floor, covered parking, some furniture is available/unfurnished, boat dock included. Newly renovated pool. 55 and older community. No pets. $950/mo. annual. Tenant pays electric. Karin Stephan at 941-504-4435.

Condos For Sale

Out-Of-State Rentals BREVARD, NC Cool Mountaintop House with View. 2BR/3BA, Pet Friendly. No Smoking, $2,000/mo. Owner: 941-383-6844.

Real Estate Wanted WANTED LUXURY ANNUAL RENTALS For Qualified Waiting Clients Contact - Sarasota Luxury Rentals 941-356-5610 email: info@sarasotaluxuryrentals.com

BUTTONWOOD COVE. Lovely water views from beach to bay complex on LBK. 3BR end unit, 2 enclosed lanais, under building parking, deeded boat slip, pool and tennis. Just steps to Gulf and private beach park. Just listed. Priced to sell, $365,000. Michael Saunders & Co., Craig Abbott, 941-383-1990 or Sharon Freeman, 941-545-0899.

SUNNY SOUTHERN exposure, water views, boating and beach access. 2BR/2BA, new a/c & more in amenities-rich Longboat Key complex. $269,900. Sharon Freeman, 941-545-0899 Michael Saunders & Company.

WANTED SEASONAL Rental: 3 1/2 months December 15th, 2012 through March 31, 2013.

2BR/2BA, Internet, land phone. Non-smoking.

317-341-0404, mbfleming1996@sbcglobal.net

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Homes For Rent

Annual, Seasonal & Vacation Rentals Available Dependable rental & property management services.

Longboat/St. Armands 941.552.4200 Bradenton/Lakewood Ranch 941.552.4200 Sarasota/Siesta Key 941.552.4200 IMG Academies 941.752.2682 Heritage Oaks 941.926.8844

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8X11 KARASTAN Sarouk Rug. Good condition, $200. Call Pat 941-724-1586.

RESERVE YOUR VACATION NOW!!

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

PLEASE MENTION CODE OBS2011 941 383 3117 800 331 7293 392 FIREHOUSE Lane, LBK - Newer upscale Island home. Steps to beach & pool. Furn. 2BR + Loft. Annual or short term. No pets. No smoking.

Owner Agent. 941-544-0214. www.LuxuryHomes-Condos.com BAYFRONT CONDO- PANORAMIC VIEWS: LBK 2BR/2BA + Den, Pelican Harbour & Beach Club Available 2012 & 2013, Seasonal or Yearly.

Private Beach, Pool, Tennis, Dock.

Call: 513-608-4320. richwoodkids@hotmail.com BEACH FRONT SUNSET BEACH, LBK. 2BR/2BA. Pool, spa. No pets. 2-3 mo. rental. Available May-Dec., 2012. Jan-March 2013. 248-330-7675.

BEACHFRONT LONGBOAT KEY CONDO Rare 3BR/2.5BA with beautiful views of Gulf of Mexico. Remodeled kitchen and baths, W/D, pool, tennis, spa, photos available. lburton177@aol.com or 941-953-3438

michaelsaunders.com/rentals

This week’s Crossword answers

3 BED 3 bath Home, 900 feet from Siesta Beach access. $2900.00 month. 1st, last, and security.

Annual 941-320-6000.

LARGE HOME FOR RENT: EXCEPTIONAL LOCATION Across street from the Gulf of Mexico On Longboat Club Road inside LBK Club (Island Side) 4700 sq/ft., 5 bdr, 4½ bath, pool, 3-car garage. Interior completely renovated in 2011.

Available January-March 2013 $10,000/month.

Mature non-smoking, pet-free couple only: Call 203-500-5666.

HOUSE CLASSIFIEDS LP # 56733

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

Lots/Acreage For Sale WATERFRONT BUILDING SITE South facing canal lot five lots from bay on Jungle Queen Way. Plans for 2600 ft. custom home included. For sale by owner $299,000. Call 612-723-6437 Reserved Space

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This week’s Cryptogram answers 1. A thief broke in through a bathroom window and took the scales. Observant police caught him at a spa as he gave himself a weigh.

2. An entrepreneur bought a number of small coffee and beer companies. When questioned about this, he said he was determined to get lots of liquid assets.

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Exceptional Vacation Rentals Since 1994 Homes & Condominiums Studios to Six Bedrooms Beachfront, Intercoastal or Garden Excellent Service & Staff

LBK: SEASONALLY OR ANNUALLY: DROP DEAD GORGEOUS GULF VIEWS from every window of large, updated, handsomely decorated, 2BR/2BA condo right on beach.

Plasma TV. No Brokerage Fee. Available starting 2013 Season. Call 941-349-0432 or 941-284-2002.

SEAPLACE: 2BR/2BA, NON-SMOKING. Garden view, 2 parking spaces, queen MBR, twin beds 2nd BR, turnkey furnished. New A/C. Local phone service and all utilities included. Available September, 2012 through May, 2013. 2 month minimum. 3 months or longer, better rates. May be seen March 2012 or after. Call Saul Coplan, 941-727-4774 or 941-350-9843.

FLORIDA VACATION CONNECTION

CASA DEL MAR BEACH RESORT RENTALS 4 NIGHT MIN. GULF FRONT/ GULF VIEW Reservations: 941-383-5549 Visa/ MC Fax: 941-383-7925 “Take our video tour at” www.casadelmar.net Office Open 7 Days, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

4621 Gulf of Mexico Drive Longboat Key 34228

WASHER/ DRYER IN EVERY UNIT BEAUTIFUL KITCHENS LARGE HEATED POOL GULFSIDE FREE Wireless High Speed Internet

“Where People Return Year After Year” “INTENTIONALLY BETTER”

LBK BEACHFRONT 1BR & 3BR condos, heated pool, furnished. Starting at $1000 weekly.

Outrigger Resort, 941-383-3844.

LBK BEACHPLACE Condo. Beachfront, 2BR/2BA. Elegantly furnished, heated pool, tennis court, covered parking, exercise room. Available May-Dec., 2012 & Jan., Feb., March 2013.

Non-smoking/ pets. By owner. 941-383-1884.

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Vacation/Seasonal Rentals

BEACHPLACE 3BR, UPDATED, TASTEFULLY DECORATED. GULF & BAY VIEWS. CALL CYNTHIA 407-492-5749

13B Classifieds 17B

LIDO BEACH CONDOMINIUMS Weekly - Monthly - Seasonal

www.FLvacationconnection.com 941-387-9709 877-705-2460

Resort Properties, Inc. Licensed Real Estate Broker Full Service Condominium Management

LBK SEAPLACE - Available January-April.

Lovely 2BR, fully equipped, W/D in unit, lanai, garden view, steps to beach, pool, tennis, full clubhouse amenities. Great! Non-smoking/pets.

770-314-6321.

LBK, BAYFRONT, Longboat Arms, 2BR/2BA, updated, nicely decorated, clean, fully furnished condo, high speed Internet, heated pool, tennis court, fantastic water views from 30ft screened/glass enclosed lanai, private beach access steps away. Available May 2012 through April 2013. Monthly rates starting at $2500.

603-692-6445 or saf3009@gmail.com LBK, C.C. SHORES. Gorgeous, beautifully furnished home, 3/2/2, W/D, heated pool, wireless highspeed internet, plasma TV, cable, lanai, dock and more. Walk to beach. No pets/ smoking.

Sleeps 5. $4000/mo. Owner, 941-504-1492.

LBK/SEAGATE Fabulous Gulf views; 2bd, 2 ba, 2 balconies, steps from beach, pool, tennis courts, other amen; avail May-Oct., 3 mo. minimum, $3500-$4500 + tax/mo; 201-659-0956 or email rcharnes@ix.netcom.com LBK: SEAPLACE, 2BR/2.5BA Town House.

Partial Gulf views, nicely furnished, lanai+ terraces, full kitchen, living, ding area, beach club access (sauna, gym, tennis, w/pool), walk out to the beach, breathtaking sunsets. Rental: Jan.-May $3900. June-Dec. $1500. 2 mo. min.

Full year $2350/mo. mandalka@gmx.de LBK: TIFFANY Plaza Beachfront Condos, 1st floor, 2BR/2BA, W/D in units, walk out to beach.

Furnished, heated pool, covered parking. 1 mo. min. 941-383-3338.

941-388-3921 - 888-388-3921 941-650-1857 Visit us at: resortproperties.pro LIDO BEACH Vacation paradise. 1 & 2 bedroom condos overlooking beautiful Lido Beach.

Weekly rates. Lido Dorset. Rental condo.

1-800-734-3370.

LONGBOAT KEY. Gulf front, heated pool on beach, 1BR/1BA condo, full kitchen, dining, sleeps/4, king pillowtop. 617-328-7145, 857-939-1049.

ON THE Gulf w/pool. 1BR condo, sleeps 4. Nicely furnished, cable, phone, full kitchen, living, dining area, W/D in building. Weekly or Monthly. May through January. $1600/mo. 351-5101.

THE WESTCHESTER GULF FRONT 2BR/2BA, open, direct views, tennis court, 2 heated pools, steps away from the sand, breathtaking sunsets.

941-228-5671.

WEEKLY RENTALS. Luxurious, fully furnished 1 - 4 bedrooms. Condominiums and Cottages.

Beach to Bay. On-site management. Pools, tennis, boat slips. Visit: www.FloridaRent.com for information and virtual tours. 800-333-7335, 941-383-3117.

Weekly/ Monthly/ Seasonal Rates Beachfront, Bayfront and In Between Houses or Condos

PLAYERS CLUB - Direct Gulf! Upscale 2BR/3BA. Available December 1st. No smoking. 4 month minimum. 847-634-1991.

Reservations 941-383-6127 Visa/ MC 800-352-0367

RARELY AVAILABLE RESORT STYLE LIVING Private beach, tennis, heated pools, 2BR/2BA, Whitney Beach, Longboat Key, downstairs, Bayou/ dock frontage.

941-724-3519

5360 Gulf of Mexico Dr., Suite 101 Longboat Key, FL 34228 Rental office 9a.m. - 5p.m. M-F

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18B Classifieds SPECTACULAR Bay Views Throughout!

2BR/2BA remodeled condo. W/D in unit.

Steps to pool/beach access, tennis, WiFi. 941-228-5671. Rentals Vacation/Seasonal

Waterfront Property WINDWARD BAY NEW BAYFRONT VILLA'S On Longboat Key. AVAILABLE MARCH 2013 Deeded beach access. Only 4 available starting in the low $200's. Best kept in a 55+ commuSPECTACULAR Bay secret Views Throughout! nity. 2BR/2BA Owner says SELL! All reasonable remodeled condo.

W/D inoffers unit. will be considered.

Financingaccess, Available!

DiaWiFi. Wilson, Steps to pool/beach tennis, 941-284-3667. Leslie Russell, 941-330-7006.

941-228-5671.

Barrier Island Realty, Inc. PALMA SOLA BAY LAND: 3.9 acres of waterfront approved Waterfront for 7 homes andProperty 5 docks or use as a single estate. $1,499,000. Will consider exchange NEW BAYFRONT VILLA'S On Longboat Key. for income property or Sarasota waterfront home.

Deeded beach access. Only 4 available starting in Marcia Wood, Broker, 941-350-2285. the low $200's. Best kept secret in a 55+ community.

OwnerFAMILY says SELL! All BOATERS reasonable offers will SINGLE VILLA DREAM! be considered.

Financing Available!

Dia1,516 Wilson, Deep Water, Extra Wide Canal w/Dock.

SF 941-284-3667.

Russell, 941-330-7006.

2/2 in Active 55+Leslie Community on LBK. $469,000 Barrier Island Realty, Inc. OBO. 941-383-9236.

PALMA SOLA BAY LAND: 3.9 acres of waterfront approved Adult for 7 homes andServices 5 docks or use as a Care single estate. $1,499,000. Will consider exchange for income property or Sarasota waterfront home.

A Broker, LENDING HAND, INC. Marcia Wood, 941-350-2285.

Caregivers/Companions, Hourly 24/7 Care, SINGLE FAMILY Social VILLAOutings, BOATERS DREAM! Transportation, Dr. Appts., Deep Water, Extra Wide Canal w/Dock.

1,516 SF Housekeeping, Meal preparation, Respite Care.

2/2 in Active Phone: 55+ Community on LBK. $469,000 941-809-3725 OBO. 941-383-9236.

CAREGIVER: I have a 100% unique gift to share Services with you. Adult I was a Care 24/7 caregiver for my mother through all stages of Alzheimer's until her recent death. I haveAaLENDING gift to give.

Do you need me? Call HAND, INC. Mark 941-524-7712.

Caregivers/Companions, Hourly 24/7 Care, Transportation, Social Outings, Dr. Appts.,from PRIVATE CAREGIVER with references Housekeeping, preparation, Care.at Longboat Key. Meal Flexible hours. Respite Call Lucy 941-539-0421.Phone: 941-809-3725

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RETIRED LONGBOAT KEY police officer. Drive your car to the North and back. 941-713-1596.

BEST CLEANING Best Price. Do Not Miss This!

Call Joan Today, 941-445-5844.

SUNCOAST TRANSPORTER Long Distance Delivery.

“Snowbirds” I drive your car door to door!

One Inclusive price. www.yourobserver.com Mike 941-993-0236

BEST HOUSECLEANING Great Price.

Experienced. My Promise - You WILL Be Satisfied!

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Cmagik LBK resident, servicing our island year round for over 12 yrs. Bachelors Degree with BEST HOUSECLEANING Great Price.

20 yrs. experience, PC or MAC. Professional help Experienced.

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Housesitting, etc. Great references.

Longboat Key. 941-358-0563.

OWN A MAC/IPHONE/IPAD? MacTutor offers 21 years experience. Unlimited free telephone follow Computer Services up. (941)812-3887 www.FLMacTutor.com

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SUNCOAST TRANSPORTER Catering Long Distance Delivery.

“Snowbirds” I drive your  car  door to door!

One DOLPHIN Inclusive price.

BLUE CAFE Mike 941-993-0236

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Auto Service WE WANT TO BUY YOUR VEHICLE!!!

Any Make, Any Model, Any Condition.

No Title - No Problem! Bank Lien - No Problem!

Paying up to $30,000 for Vehicles. Call AJ now at 813-335-3794 for a Free Quote or 813-531-4298.

383-3787 CALL FOR RESERVATIONS BEER & WINE AVAILABLE

Auto Service

Longboat Key. Flexible hours. Call Lucy at 941-539-0421.

Home Improvement/ Remodeling

FOR “QUALITY AND EXPERIENCE” HANDYMAN EXTRAORDINAIRE Reliable & Prompt. 25 Years Experience Years in Bradenton Floors, bathrooms,5showers, Area. backsplashes, Flooring, Masonry, Carpentry patioDoors, and pool decks. and Water Damage ... etc. Call Scott at 941-536-1770. scottmwoolf1@gmail.com 20 years design background.

Licensed - Insured - LBK Resident References upon request.

ISLE TILE 941-383-2659 FOR “QUALITY AND EXPERIENCE” JOHN GUBERNAT SERVICES Floors, bathrooms, showers, backsplashes, and pool decks.

PROPERTYpatio MANAGEMENT HOME MAINTENANCE AND ALL REPAIRS 20Painting/ years design Powerbackground.

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“When I get an idea in my head, I just keep researching it until I find what I need,” Nancy Markle says. For this still life, she wrangled some fruit at the grocery store.

Creative Reboot Think a computer whiz can’t be artistic? Think again. Former IBM programmer Nancy Markle is creating art the old master way: by studying, researching and making the subject personal.

Jazz music is blasting from Nancy Markle’s downtown Sarasota condominium. The music is so loud that it can be heard from the elevator that opens to her unit.

It seems kind of early to be listening

to music this loud — 10 a.m. Markle, however, doesn’t seem to notice.

She’s spent most of her life in business suits and skirts navigating the quiet IT departments of Fortune 100 companies. If she wants to spend her

Tuesday mornings listening to loud jazz inside her waterfront condo, so be it.

Barefoot and dressed in a black tracksuit, she shuffles around her kitchen fixing coffee and tea.

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“Cream and sugar?” Marat the top of her class and, at kle asks politely over the roar 21, took a job at IBM, where of saxophones and trumpets. she worked in the early field She grew up in Georgia, of computer programming, but she doesn’t have, as she teaching mulish governdescribes it, “a little Southern ment officials and military accent like a Georgia peach.” generals how to use the techA familiar face on the Saranology. sota social circuit, Markle is “I was a snot-nosed kid to the former CIO of the Amerthem,” she says. “On top of icas at Arthur Andersen and that, I was female. I learned a longtime board member of quickly how to carry my the Asolo Repertory Theatre. own.”

She’s also an extraordinary By the mid-1990s, Markle painter, whose work has takwas the mother of two grown en a backseat to, of all things, daughters, the CIO of Home a career in computing.

Savings Bank and ranked in Heidi Kurpiela “I promised myself I would McGraw-Hill’s list of the Top retire early so I could do art,” “I don’t like doing portraits of people I 100 Women in Computing.

Markle says. “Then I flunked don’t know,” Nancy Markle says of the “I had to give up someretirement.” composite. “It feels like an exercise, like thing,” she says. “Art was it. I Up until last year, she when I’m done with it, I just want to toss knew one day I’d come back spent her retirement work- it out.” to it.” ing as an IT consultant, adHer father would be vising executives on matters that daughter — former Victoria’s Se- proud. She’s taken the opposite would make most artists cringe: cret model, Jill Goodacre, whom path of a starving artist. innovative technologies, strategic most people know as the wife of Her most recent commission planning, project management singer Harry Connick Jr. — a silhouette of a Porsche 911 and systems development.

It’s an obvious conversation Turbo, which Markle painted in She gave it up to focus on paint- piece in a waterfront condomin- actual automotive paint ­— took ing. ium filled with a mix of abstract more than a year to complete.

“I think I’m happier and more and representational work, some Painted across five canvases relaxed now,” she says of the de- of which Markle created herself and pieced together using staincision. “I’m more appreciative of years ago when she was a com- less steel bolts, Markle spent life.” puter science student at Pennsyl- months tracking down the exact The first thing you notice upon vania State University. paint codes for each one of the entering Markle’s tastefully funky She had a natural aptitude for Porsches parked in her patron’s pad is a life-size bronze sculpture art even as a child, but, at the in- garage. of a woman resting on a stone. It sistence of her father, she did not Unsure of how the paint would catches most first-time visitors off pursue a career in it. respond to the canvas, she visited guard, a reaction that secretly de“He always said I could take all body shops and sought the advice lights Markle. the art classes I wanted, as long of automotive painters and man“She’s my security system,” she as I majored in something that ufacturers from Sarasota to Fort says of the figure. would make me financially inde- Myers.

Sculpted by artist Glenna Goo- pendent,” Markle says. “So, I went Armed with a white face mask, dacre, Markle purchased the off to school to be a pharmacist. I she asked for special permission piece 12 years ago after falling in found out I liked math, but I didn’t to paint on the weekends in her love with it at Galleria Silecchia. It like blowing things up.” condominium’s ventilated trash was modeled after the sculptor’s She stuck with math, graduated room, where she layered the

canvas with acrylic paint before spraying it with the Porsche colors.

When the work was finally finished, she hosted a “coming out” cocktail party for it and invited the new owner and a small gathering of friends.

She says the project has rekindled her interest in making more multimedia art.

“I always believe before you do something you should research what other people have done before you,” Markle says. “That way, you’re building on something rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.”

Analytical, meticulous and prone to study, Markle sometimes spends months researching a subject before approaching a canvas.

Some artists work impulsively, but Markle works deliberately.

Under the tutelage of esteemed oil painter David Leffel, who teaches a five-day workshop every year at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design, Markle’s still-life portraits have evolved into rich, velvety paintings based on techniques devel-

oped by the old masters.

“He has completely changed the way I paint,” Markle says of Leffel. “I learned it takes layers and layers to get luminosity.”

Those who know Markle know her jump from technologist to artist isn’t a total transformation.

A painting she created decades ago of her daughters, Jillana and Sharon, as toddlers hangs above her bed. An impressionistic composite of both girls’ faces, the work is rendered in pale shades of blue, purple, pink and green.

“People have said that I should create a stock of paintings,” Markle says. “I would rather paint something that’s based on something that’s important to people.”

Does that mean she’s averse to painting instinctively?

“Let’s just say I don’t believe in happy accidents,” Markle says.

“I believe in making happy accidents happen.”

“I started collecting sculptures when I moved to California and I saw the results of an earthquake,” Nancy Markle says. “I realized if you need something that’s unbreakable.”

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+ Riverview Kilties roll out the green carpet Band geeks are in for a rare treat this month.

Japan’s famous Green Band will roll into town next week for a joint performance with Riverview High School’s Kiltie Band.

The Green Band formed in 1998 with a mission to promote environmental awareness by performing overseas concerts in conjunction with pitching in on eco-conscious volunteer projects.

The band, which recruits its members from Japanese high schools, has notched countless Rose Bowl Parades over the years.

Fifty-eight visiting “green” musicians will kick off their Sarasota stay March 25, with a beach party on Siesta Key. Each member of the band has already been paired up with a Kiltie host family.

In addition to performing, the Kilties and the Greens will visit Myakka State Park and participate in a tree-planting ceremony at Riverview High School.

The bands will perform a free concert at 7 p.m. March 27, at the Riverview Performing Arts Center. Donations will be accepted for victims of last year’s Japanese earthquake.

Japan’s Green Band frequently performs at Disneyland.

How many leg puns can one writer work into a blurb about “A Chorus Line?”

Well, here’s a start: Last month The Players Theatre got a leg-up on its competition when it opened “A Chorus Line” Feb. 16 to a sold-out crowd.

For two weeks, the musical played to a packed house, setting the new record for the highest-grossing show the theater has ever produced. (The previous record went to the 2007 production of “Miss Saigon.”)

To the “Chorus” cast and crew, I say congratulations. Way to kick butt.

“A Chorus Line” wrapped March 4, at The Players Theatre.

+ Sarasota pole dancer slides into first place This news didn’t surprise me: Pole dancer Nicole Landkas placed first this month in the amateur division at the Florida Pole Fitness Championship in Orlando.

A fifth-generation aerialist, Landkas is a vertical tour de force. Anyone who’s ever seen her perform can tell you her moves on a pole are equal parts physical and sensual.

Watching her in action can be both mesmerizing and terrifying.

With Gumby-like flexibility and Herculean strength, she effortlessly swings, contorts and hangs from the pole as if the apparatus were an extension of her body.

A teacher at Sarasota’s Apple Jelly Studios, Landkas, who grew up performing on the silks, ropes, Lyra and swinging trapeze, is one of the most flexible dames on the Gulf Coast.

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If you think pole dancing is only relegated to strip clubs, you’re sadly misinformed.

Landkas could spin circles around an exotic dancer.

‘Vanessa’: Before “Cougar Town” there was Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa.” The three-act opera about an aging aristocrat and her delusional crush on the son of her former lover has all the frothy drama of a modern-day soap opera. The production continues Sarasota Opera’s American Classics Series and runs through March 24. For tickets, call 3668450, Ext. 1 or visit sarasotaopera.org.

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Tricky Business If Nathan Coe Marsh looks familiar, you’ve either dined recently at the Melting Pot or sat front and center at a Black Diamond Burlesque show.

Fondue. Strip teases. Coe Marsh’s act knows no bounds.

A Tampa native, he’s been performing magic in Sarasota for six years. His most recent gig — performing sleight-of-hand tricks on Sunday nights at The Melting Pot in downtown Sarasota ­­­­— is a return to his roots.

The 29-year-old magician honed his close-up act in 2006 doing a similar bit at the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre.

It was his first steady gig out of college. For six months, he worked six nights a week at the dinner theater, moving from table to table with a deck of cards.

It wasn’t easy. Even in a dinnertheater atmosphere, people were apprehensive to give up their personal space to a roving magician.

So, Coe Marsh focused on sharpening his magic and customizing his approach.

“It’s a completely different experience for the guest,” he says of close-up magic. “You have to establish credibility very quickly. So often when you see magic it’s on a TV screen, or you’re in Vegas a mile away from a dimly lit stage. When you see it right here and right now, it has an immediacy like nothing else in our culture.”

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“When you’re confronted by an experience where you feel like there’s no explanation for it, you suddenly open up to the impossibilities that are around you,” says magician Nathan Coe Marsh. eral-arts college in Annapolis, Md. His friends and family seemed to think he’d pursue a law degree or follow in the footsteps of his professor parents and become an academic.

Even Coe Marsh wasn’t sure where his life was headed, until one summer during college he got a job teaching magic at a youth camp in the Pocono Mountains.

“The first night I did a show for the campers, I experienced the high that comes from a live performance,” he says. “It was unlike any other feeling. When there’s a connection with a room full of strangers it’s like you’re dancing together. It’s like an unspoken thread flows between you

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However, his fascination with magic began well before that.

When he was 10 years old, a friend

of his parents pulled out a dollar bill, crumpled it up and opened his fist.

The bill seemed to float in midair.

Coe Marsh had never seen anything so unbelievable. He grabbed the dollar bill and folded it over and over trying to make sense of the trick.

“I went nuts,” he says. “It was a really defining experience for me.”

On a quest to float his own dollar bill, he went to the library and signed out all the magic books on which he could get his hands.

It was a hobby he couldn’t shake.

In college, he sought the mentorship of a magician in Baltimore, who ran a magic shop and performed nights at after-dinner shows around the city.

Says Coe Marsh, “The guy was a treasure trove of information.”

He taught the young magician how to build his stage show, which is now Coe Marsh’s main attraction; he spends most of his time traveling the country playing to corporate crowds at five-star resorts and business conferences.

Fooling buttoned-up CEOs might seem like a stodgy undertaking, but, for Coe Marsh, it’s the perfect challenge. He loves an audience that appeals to both his Type A and Type B sensibilities.

“Great magic has this contrast where, rationally, you know it’s not real, but, emotionally, it’s so compelling it forces you to go to the place where there’s no pat script,” Coe Marsh says. “It’s a social lubricant. People’s masks fall away in the face of it.”

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Lenny Bruce “He was so outside of the mold.

He created something that was completely unlike anything that was being done by any other performer from Bob Hope on.”

Roy Benson “He was a comedy magician who flourished in the early 1950s and 1960s. He was decades ahead of his time. A lot of magic scholars feel he was the first standup comedian.”

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Written in the 1920s, the play was considered outrageous in its frank admission of premarital sex on the part of two high-society housewives, who unwittingly shared the same lover. The plot hinges on the imminent arrival of suave, debonnaire Frenchman-in-question, Maurice Dudos, mustache and all, charmingly, if all too briefly, played by David Breitbarth.

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Added to this mix is an eccentric maid, who was actually an afterthought by Coward to liven up the frenetic goings-on and, many argue, a device to contrast the worthiness of the working class compared to the privileged class. Carolyn Michel stands out hilariously in this role, as Saunders, who’s been everywhere and done everything.

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In an attempt to contemplate the true nature of evil, we strive to analyze the horrors generated by the Nazis. Films about the Holocaust lend vast insight into what happened and, if done well, haunt our dreams.

“In Darkness” is one such film — a must-see — although it may be the most difficult 145 minutes you’ve ever spent in a movie theater.

We’ve seen movies about Jews who hid from the Nazis in the woods (“Defiance”), attics (“The Diary of Anne Frank”), even latrines (“Schindler’s List”). But I was never aware of the fact that Courtesy photo Jews hid in the sewers.

“In Darkness” centers on a small group of Holocaust surviSet in Lvov, Poland, “In vors who hid in sewers in Lvov, Poland.

Darkness” is the story of ally lived — and survived — under these a small group of Holocaust survivors who abominable conditions is mind-blowing. endured the unthinkable for 14 months.

When Nazis liquidated the ghetto in 1943, Cinematographer Jolanta Dylewska definitely deserves applause. sewer inspector Leopold Socha (Robert There are horrifying moments in the film Weickiewicz) discovers Jews hiding in the Lvov sewer system. An anti-Semitic Catholic, that will indelibly etch themselves into your Leopold agrees to help them for 500 zlotys a psyche. Naked women being shot in the forest, a Jew’s beard being torn from his face day, the price he would receive per head for and a baby being suffocated by his mother handing them over to the Nazis. When “his are devastating to watch. In an interview Jews” run out of money, rather than turning them in as planned, Leopold has a change of with Holland, she asks, “Where was man during this crisis? Where was God?” heart. His evolving compassion for his hapBut “In Darkness” is also about being less wards is the beauty that radiates within brave, acts of kindness and redemption. the dark cellars of this extraordinary film.

When you emerge from the theater, you will Celebrated Polish director Agnieszka breathe a sigh of relief, having escaped the Holland (“Europa, Europa”) chooses not to make her film about good vs. evil. All of her dark confines, and have hope for the human characters are flawed in one way or another. race.

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INGREDIENTS: 6 slices bacon, diced 1 cup finely chopped onions 1 1/2 cups fresh or bottled clam juice 2 1/2 cups water 1 1/2 cups diced carrots 2 cups diced potatoes 1 1/2 teaspoons salt Freshly ground black pepper to taste 1/2 teaspoon rosemary

PREPARATION: 1. In a deep sauté pan, sauté the bacon pieces until crisp. Remove the bits, drain on paper towel and reserve.

2. Sauté the onions in the bacon drippings until tender.

3. Add the clam juice, water, carrots, potatoes, salt, pepper and tomatoes. Bring to a boil and simmer, covered, 15 minutes, or until the vegetables are almost tender.

4. Add the rosemary, thyme, celery and fish. Simmer, covered, about 10 minutes or until the fish flakes (or shell fish, if using, is done).

5. Add the half and half, cream or milk and bring to a simmer while stirring. Do not allow to boil.

6. Sprinkle with reserved bacon bits and serve.

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Julia Hyman likes preparing simple foods for herself and her husband, Dick. sculptures are large, and they’re made of marble and alabaster, with occasional forays into wood, so her days are spent surrounded by saws, drills and lots of dust.

“My sculpture work is so absorbing and physical that I never think of food,” she says. “Of course, when I carved fruits and vegetables out of marble and alabaster for a solo show, that was different.”

The Hymans are busy people.

But they do manage to enjoy their meals, even though their work schedules are fairly different.

“Dick sleeps late and I work early in the morning,” Hyman says.

“We almost always have brunch

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or lunch together, sometimes walking into downtown Venice, where there are many restaurants.

“At dinner, Dick does not cook, but he does help either with setting the table or pouring beverages. Generally, I prepare simple food when it is just the two of us, steaming or sautéing fish, a veggie and salad.

“Here in Florida, we eat out a lot, often with friends in good, convenient restaurants near the various performance halls like the Opera House, Van Wezel and Asolo. Some of my favorites in Sarasota are Selva Grille, Derek’s and Mediterraneo,” she says.

Then, there’s the travel that

comes with being married to a pianist-arranger-composer who’s performing all over the world.

With that whirlwind of beautiful, romantic but, often, hectic places, what would Hyman think of as the perfect setting for a great meal?

“One memorable evening was on Manasota Key Beach in Englewood,” Hyman says. “We were invited to the Hermitage, and we sat at a table for eight on the sand near the water’s edge, surrounded by torches, a gentle breeze, no bugs, good wine, good food

and interesting people. It had a dreamlike feeling for both of us.”

The Hymans have been almost everywhere on land and sea, but Hyman’s choice for an idyllic setting is right here at home on one of the most magnificent stretches of beach anywhere. But, there’s something else, even more important that makes the perfect dinner for the Hymans: people.

“I would have to say that it’s the company that accompanies the meal that makes it special,” Hyman says.

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“I loathe liverwurst,” she says.

“I once played hooky from school with two girlfriends and all we had for lunch was a liverwurst sandwich. Needless to say, I was sick with worry about being found out and had a terrible stomach upset.”

There are also some foods she and Dick don’t share. For instance, she tends to stay away from pasta, bread and potatoes, but Dick does include them. They also don’t share beef or lamb because she likes hers rare and he prefers his well done.

“It’s a bit like the lyric from ‘Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off,’” she says. “You know, ‘You say potato and I say po-tah-toe … ’” But, they both agree, “We don’t feel music should be used as a background, even though Dick professionally made many Muzak recordings. We do our listening with guests in Dick’s studio.”

Ah, those old Muzak sounds.

Elevator music, we used to call it.

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by Loren Mayo and Molly Schechter | Observer Staff which has been hosted by the Greenbaums for a remarkable 13 consecutive years. The new + Fitness queen stops season launches a five-year in Sarasota project exploring “The American Hannah Curlee remembers being Character” and will kick off with on TV in front of 93 million people the musical, “1776.” It seemed in the most unsupportive sports bra uniquely appropriate that Marty she could ever have imagined. She Samowitz was among the hadn't been on a date in 15 years, guests, with his wife Paulette, and the last time she remembered after his having recently been wearing a dress was 12 years prior. honored by the Kiwanis Club of While in town last week, Hannah, Longboat Key as the oldest livMolly Schechter one of the top two finishers on sea- ing Marine survivor of Iwo Jima.

Actor David Breitbarth son 11 of “The Biggest Loser” TV There was also a non-combat and hostess Rita series — runner-up to “the Biggest injury: actor David Breitbarth Greenbaum Loser,” her sister, Olivia Ward — is on a cane nursing a torn calf Sally Schule wih a puppy gave the women attending the Go muscle incurred while performing in “God of Carnage.” The Red for Women Luncheon an inspir- understudy who went on for him was third-year conserva+ What happens ing talk about her life. “The best tory student Jake Staley, whose regular gig this season is the at Saks … day (of my life) was not when my ensemble in “Yentl.” According to Bill Sandy, “Staley did Stays at Saks — sometimes. sister came to me and said ,‘I think such a good job that somebody in the audience asked, ‘Which General Manager Sally Schule we should go on ‘The Biggest Loser one was the understudy?’” The party was scheduled for 5:30 proudly informed every guest ... I wanted to punch her.’” If not to 7:30 p.m., but, according to Greenbaum, the last guests and canine present at ARC’s for competing on the show, Hannah didn’t leave until 10:30 p.m. … yet another aspect of “The Dog’s Night Out event Friday probably wouldn't have learned that American Character?” that Saks had just gotten a at 32 years old, she was at a 70% new installation. risk of suffering from a heart attack + A few extra pounds “This is brand new carpet,” by age 40. During the final taping, said Sally, surrounded by pair Olivia beat Hannah by 1.9 pounds Kyla Weiner and her mother, after pair of Jimmy Choos and for $250,000.

Judith Yaeger, dressed their furry Valentinos. “And we’re letting friends, Jacob and Ezra, in matching your dogs run all over it.” razzle-dazzle collars for ARC’s “Dog’s Not even one hour later, Night Out.” When Judith first adoptthere was a little “oops” incied Ezra, he was all fur and bones. dent that left one dog owner Thankfully, Judith has managed to clutching his pup to his chest. fatten him up, but that meant 10 A cocktail napkin was quickly costume changes for Dog’s Night spread out on the floor. At Out because nothing seemed to fit! least, for the pup’s sake, it The collars were a last resort, but Photos by Loren Mayo happened on the tile.

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