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Publix to close Saturday The nearly 32-year-old Longboat Key supermarket will close starting this weekend for eight months of construction of a new store.

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+ A rose is a rose Casa del Mar is home to a world-famous cotton plant and a beautiful orchid garden and a month ago Casa del Mar staff planted its newest addition — a rose garden.

The green-thumbed staff has planted climbing rose bushes around four archways, upward of 25 rose bushes and has added rock formations and a fountain leading to the orchid garden. The roses have been growing well in this climate; some have already started blooming.

Longboat Key’s Publix will close its doors at 9 p.m. this Saturday to make room for a new, 49,000-square-foot Avenue of the Flowers store.

The new store is slated to open before the end of this year, but for the eight months between now and then, the island will be without a supermarket for the first time in nearly 32 years.

But local businesses are working to make shopping more of a pleasure in the meantime.

Harry Christensen, owner of Harry’s Continental Kitchens, will keep his restaurant and deli open for the month-and-a-half that he usually shuts down for the summer, although he might have to close for a week or

two during September for repairs. Christensen has worked to make his deli more Publix-like, offering more breads and cold cuts. At Harry’s Corner Store, he is offering more hot items and fresh sandwiches and could also add

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+ Key resident flounders around It’s not a fluke — it’s an 18-inch flounder caught by Diane Foxman, of Longboat Key, at the Mote Park Pier.

Here she is showing off her prize catch.

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Following long-standing tradition at St. Armands Key Lutheran Church, many women attending Palm Sunday services wore their most colorful bonnets or hats. Colors and styles varied to create a festive look, with many hats featuring bright flowers added to the brims.

GOLDEN EGG + The turtle that was left behind Mote’s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital received a patient unlike any it has ever helped. Stanley, the 3.5-inch-long turtle, was rescued from a canal in Marco Island. Typically, a turtle at this stage in life would be found far offshore, but Stanley was left behind for some reason. The turtle caretakers will continue caring for Stanley until he can be released.

by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Businesses prepare for hopping Easter weekend The Easter Bunny’s timing is just right this year for local hotels and motels that are prepping for one of the busiest holiday weekends in recent years.

The Easter Bunny will bring more than eggs and candy when he hops through town this Sunday, April 8: He’ll deliver a full crowd of tourists and visitors to local hotels and motels during what is typically one of season’s

busiest weekends.

It turns out the Easter Bunny’s timing is good this year: Last year, the holiday came two weeks later, creating a lull in post-spring break traffic during the first two weeks of April.

Karen Rangel, regional director of sales at Ocean Properties Ltd., which owns the Longboat Key Hilton Beachfront Resort, Lido Beach Resort and Holiday Inn Lido Beach, said that the holiday’s timing means that the

three properties won’t experience the slight drop they felt last year because of Easter’s late arrival. All three hotels are expect-

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TOURISM / FROM PAGE 1A ed to be full this weekend, as they have been during each weekend of March.

“What we are finding with every weekend is, 24 hours in, we’re done,” Rangel said. “It’s really important that people are making reservations outside of a 72hour window.”

Next year, when Easter falls on March 31, the resorts will plan for an even more compressed season, Rangel said.

D.M. Williams, general manager of Casa del Mar, estimated that the 102room resort will be at 95% capacity, with bookings up for the weekend compared to last year. (Williams said he typically leaves a few rooms open in case of an emergency.)

But although Easter gets part of the credit for the hopping weekend, it isn’t the only reason for the traffic. Many tourism professionals say the season overall has been busier than in recent

PUBLIX / FROM PAGE 1A items such as roasted chickens.

“I’m just taking it as it comes,” Christensen said. “We’re always adding new items.”

Reed Savidge, whose Quik-N-EZ convenience store opened in February at the site of the former 7-Eleven, plans to offer produce by the end of the week. Already, he has started offering Boar’s Head sandwiches, soups, meats and cheeses.

“We’re trying to listen,” Savidge said.

“Whatever people want, just tell us.”

Nazeela Rahman-Shaw, co-owner of BP Longboat Key, told the Longboat Observer in February that she would likely offer an enhanced selection of dairy products and freshly baked goods throughout the construction period.

Publix’s closing comes nine months after the Lakeland-based chain first filed plans with the town to redevelop the

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years.

Sandra Rios, director of communications at the Longboat Key Club and Resort, said that reservations are up between 3% and 10% this weekend over last year’s Easter weekend, and the resort expects 100% occupancy this weekend. That spike will continue through next week, when the resort hosts the Sarasota Open, she said. This year, the resort has had more guests booking weekly stays compared to past years in which stays have been shorter, Rios said.

Jan Jordan, vice president of Florida Vacation Connection, said that most of the 180 properties the company manages island-wide will be booked, many by visitors who arrived in January and are staying through the month of April.

“We’re very fortunate to be seeing these kind of numbers,” she said. “We’ve been in business for 18 years and I don’t know that we’ve ever seen these kind of occupancy levels.”

by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Armstrong’s attorney says settlement is likely An attorney representing Longboat Key resident Jim Armstrong believes that an agreement could be imminent with the town.

The Second District Court of Appeals has denied two appeals filed by Longboat Key resident James Armstrong, challenging orders issued by the town’s Code Enforcement Board, which found that Armstrong violated the law by performing unpermitted work on his home.

However, Armstrong’s attorney, Jim Helinger, believes that an agreement is imminent in the town’s case against Armstrong.

Helinger expressed optimism that a tentative settlement would be reached involving a third-party certified inspector going inside the property to certify that work has been properly completed, along with a compromise on Armstrong’s legal fees.

“Once it’s inspected, we will go from there, and Mr. Armstrong will, hopefully, get a clean bill of health,” Helinger said.

“We’ll all sing ‘kumbaya’ at the next town meeting.”

According to an April 2 litigation update sent by Town Attorney David Persson to the Longboat Key Town Commission, the town is “seeking injunctive relief for inspection of certain improvements made to a dwelling without the benefit of permits or inspections.”

Persson wrote: “We are actively attempting to resolve this dispute without the necessity of trial. We should know whether these efforts have been successful by the end of this month.”

Persson declined to comment about any agreement but said

Avenue of the Flowers shopping center.

Plans also call for a new 13,000-squarefoot CVS, however, the current store will remain open throughout the new store’s construction. The Longboat Key Town Commission approved three outline-development plan amendments and a site plan for the property in February, and last month, Publix began doing preliminary site work in the property’s parking lot.

Publix will likely tear down its existing store and begin work on its new parking area in May. The new CVS is scheduled to open in September, with demolition of the old CVS planned for October. The new Publix is scheduled to open in December.

The new store will have a pharmacy, coffee area, enhanced selections of wines and cheeses, salad bar, soup bar, a Pacific wok station carrying Pan-Asian dishes and a large selection of international foods.

that if a settlement is reached, the town manager would have to sign off on it before bringing it before the commission for approval.

Armstrong first went before the Code Enforcement Board in July 2010 after receiving a notice of code violation. At the time, he said he planned to obtain necessary permits but argued that his rights as a property owner had been violated. The board voted to fine Armstrong $50 a day until he brought his property into compliance and require him to pay $2,178.50 in administrative costs. In December 2010, the commission authorized Persson to file a lawsuit because the town was unable to properly enforce its codes.

Helinger represents Armstrong pro-bono through the Pacific Legal Foundation, a group that, on its website, pacificlegal. org, describes itself as “the oldest and most successful public interest legal organization that fights for limited government, property rights, individual rights and a balanced approached to environmental protection.”

Helinger told the Longboat Observer in November that town employees violated Armstrong’s Fourth Amendment rights by entering his property to gather evidence without his permission. At that time, however, Persson wrote in an email to the commission that the town was asking Armstrong to comply with the laws that all citizens are required to meet.

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By Rod Thomson | Editor at Large

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mong Sarasota’s embarrassment of blessings are the two largest community foundations in the state.

The Gulf Coast Community Foundation, based in Venice, and the Sarasota-based Community Foundation of Sarasota County total almost $400 million in combined assets, roughly split evenly.

You see their representatives at nearly every event, socializing, networking, looking for donor opportunities and gifting opportunities. Their paths cross often, and, in a sense, they are competing for many of the same donor dollars. But there is almost no friction between the two giant foundations.

In fact, there is nearly a brotherhood — or sisterhood, in this case.

“We get together once a month just for fun,” Teri Hansen, president and CEO of the Gulf Coast Community Foundation, says of her counterpart at the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, Roxie Jerde.

“I enjoy having a colleague here like Roxie.”

Jerde, who is about a year into the job, agrees. “Teri and I have spent time getting to know each other. We’re off to a great start.”

But it was not always so.

Until recently, there was an undercurrent of tension between the two organizations that had its roots in the arrival of Hansen to run GCCF in September 2002.

Stewart Stearns, then president of CFSC, did not get along with Hansen. But the cause of the conflict is muddled between the two.

“I don’t think Stewart Stearns was my biggest fan,” Hansen said. “He told me when I first got here, the day my board hired me was the day they declared war against him.”

Stearns has a different recollection. He said he called Hansen in Cleveland to congratulate her when she was hired and already knew her from the Council of Foundations. They met for breakfast when she arrived, and he offered to take her around to meet people.

“I figured at the time that it was a real coup for me to be working with someone I already knew rather than someone I did not know at all,” he wrote in response to a set of email questions.

Hansen said it was at that very breakfast at First Watch that he made the “declaration of war” statement and the tone was set.

But Stearns says they were merely focused on different goals, that Hansen was more focused on fundraising, and he was more focused on programs.

“So, we did not agree on a lot of issues. So … ? There’s no harm or sin in that,” he wrote.

But the clear fact that the two were not getting along was bound to be reflected in how the foundations acted and in how the top players in each got along.

When Stearns retired in May 2010, there was the sense that something needed to change and his departure provided the opportunity. CFSC began a “listening campaign” that summer, gathering input from donors and the community about the foundation, its operations, its value, its future. With some facilitating help from the Patter-

How do Florida’s two largest community foundations co-exist in the same community? Pretty well — now.

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Colony unit owners aim for May 1 deadline Owners who attended a meeting this week voted on a nonbinding resolution directing the board to proceed if a settlement isn’t reached.

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Roxie Jerde, president and CEO of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, and Teri Hansen, president and CEO of the Gulf Coast Community Foundation, have forged a friendlier relationship between Florida’s two largest community foundations. They’ve even directed prospective donors to the other, such as Hansen did recently with an education donor more suited to the literacy program in Jerde’s organization. son Foundation, one thing they listened for was whether the community wanted two foundations.

The answer was yes.

“There’s room for both of us in this community. We both have very different heritages,” Jerde said of the results that were done before her hiring.

But there was more. People in the area were aware of the conflict.

“The community clearly said we’d like to see the two foundations work more closely together,” Jerde said. She began work at CFSC in March 2011, and there were other changes made among top CFSC executives.

That cross-foundation cooperation became part of Jerde’s charge.

New cooperation

A concrete result of that was the Community Foundation Coalition, in which Hansen and Jerde and their respective board chairmen meet regularly to work together where it makes sense, keeping an open line of communication.

The arrangement is close enough now that they will actually refer donors to the other one.

For instance, not long ago Hansen and her team met with a prospective donor.

“Her passion was literacy,” Hansen said. “We said, ‘You need to talk to the Sarasota foundation. They have this literacy initiative that might be something you would be interested in.’”

While both groups have major education initiatives, CFSC has a program focusing specifically

on literacy. GCCF is zeroing in on STEM — science, technology, engineering and math.

“If it would have been STEM” the donor was interested in, Hansen said, “we would have told her what we’re doing.”

The two try to complement each other in that way, rather than compete. “If they’re in a space, great,” Hansen said.

Another example is the Giving Partner program, a concept that Jerde brought with her from Kansas City.

This is a free online database that gathers all the necessary information about charitable organizations in Southwest Florida, allowing donors and residents to make more informed decisions. All the organizations are vetted, and the database includes IRS form 990 financial statements, strategies, communications, histories and so on.

There are about 100 charitable organizations so far, but they are hoping to get the database to about 450 in three years. The community’s first 36-Hour Giving Partner Challenge took place March 27 and 28 and raised approximately $2.4 million for area nonprofits, doubling its goal of $1 million.

“There is an opportunity for both of us to work successfully in this community,” Jerde said of the tenor of the relationship.

Fundraising history

The two foundations have markedly different histories, which leads to varying strategies for gaining donations.

The Gulf Coast Community Foundation — formerly the Gulf Coast Community Foundation

of Venice — was born of the sale of Venice Hospital in 1995 to Bon Secours Health System Inc. That sale netted $85 million and became the center endowment for the foundation. Since then, GCCF has given out more than $131 million in grants in the areas of education, health and human services, the environment and civic and economic development.

But GCCF has also been fundraising through the years — something it must do to retain its IRS standing as a community foundation — and now has assets of about $207 million.

The Community Foundation of Sarasota County had entirely different beginnings.

More than 30 years ago, the Southwest Florida Estate Planning Council created the foundation after realizing that its philanthropic customers had millions of dollars they wanted to donate in their wills but had no good way of handling that.

The council was not equipped to run such philanthropy, so it created the foundation as a place to funnel those donations.

It was an all-volunteer organization at first, but its initially modest assets have now grown to $194 million in 850 individual funds. CFSC has 19 full-time and two part-time employees.

But how the two have gone about continuing to get donations remains different.

While GCCF does get some donations through wills, CFSC remains connected to the estate planning council and the Southwest Florida Planned Giving

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Unit owners who attended the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association’s annual meeting voted on a nonbinding resolution directing the board to move forward with a plan to develop 15 of the resort’s 18 acres, if a settlement between the parties isn’t reached by May 1, according to Association Board President Jay Yablon.

“I’m not going to be optimistic or pessimistic,” Yablon said of what will happen over the next month. “We’re just going to work on it.”

Katie Moulton, the longtime president/general manager of the Colony and daughter of owner Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber, declined to comment on the direction, saying that the proceedings of the meeting were confidential.

The legal issues surrounding the property are so complex that in December, Town Attorney David Persson told the Longboat Key Town Commission: “If I were a law professor and I was teaching land-use law and I wanted to flunk all my students, I would give this as the example, because there is no right answer.”

The resort closed in August 2010, approximately four-anda-half years into a legal dispute between the Association and Klauber, when U.S. Bankruptcy Judge K. Rodney May converted the Colony Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization to Chapter 7, giving unit owners complete control over their units. Klauber and his entities retained ownership of approximately three acres within the property at the time of the ruling.

Then, in October, U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday ruled in favor of Klauber, ordering a bankruptcy court to decide whether the Colony Beach & Tennis Association should return possession of units to the partnership that ran the Colony and recommend receive damages of $7,751,470 or recommend an award of $20,646,312 for the partnership with no return of units.

In December, Yablon and representatives of the board’s development partner, Club Holdings Ventures LLC, vowed to move forward, even if it meant developing around three acres owned by entities controlled by Klauber if they couldn’t reach an agreement.

The commission warned the feuding parties last month that they could lose the property’s tourism use if an agreement isn’t worked out by Dec. 31 — the deadline commissioners set last year as part of an extension of the town’s tourism abandonment requirement. If the 237-unit property lost its tourism use, future development could be limited to six units per acre.

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Shawn Tyson, the teen charged with the murders of James Cooper, 25, and James Kouzaris, 24, was found guilty March 28 and sentenced to life in prison. Both men were British citizens and were staying at the Whitney Beach condominium that Cooper’s parents were renting. Both were shot and killed April 16, after going out in downtown Sarasota and wandering into Newtown.

The most read stories online last week were: 1. Hilton looks to expand property (March 28) 2. April Fool’s: Company shows naked ambition (March 28) 3. Welfonder, Tallman make pitch to Colony (March 30) 4. Publix buys properties for $2.35 million (March 26) 5. April Fool’s: Will the real housewives please stand up? (March 28)

+ Fernandez says goodbye after 16 years Town planner Steve Schield spoke at Monday’s Town Commission meeting about John Fernandez, who worked as a private contractor in Tampa and as the Holmes Beach building official before beginning his 16 years with the town.

“We’re going to mostly miss John for his experience,” Schield said.

Schield laid out just how much experience Fernandez has built by the numbers: Schield holds state building license 1,789; Fernandez’s buildinginspector license is 5, and his building

+ Meeting audio for P&Z boards now posted online

official license is No. 4.

The chronology of the license numbers led Mayor Jim Brown to ask Fernandez: “You didn’t invent the building code, did you?”

Longboat Key Town Manager David Bullock instructed the town’s Planning, Zoning & Building staff in a March 28 memorandum to place audio files of Planning & Zoning Board, Zoning Board of Adjustment and Code Enforcement Board meetings on the town’s website, longboatkey.org. Previously, only Longboat Key Town Commission and pension board meeting audio files were available online.

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Q&A

by Robin Hartill | City Editor

Mayor Brown talks priorities Longboat Key Mayor Jim Brown talks about the past year in the mayor’s seat and where he hopes the town will go in the following year.

What are your top-three priorities for the town in the next year?

First and foremost, I think for all of the commissioners, is working on the pension situation, and that is something we’ve started working on. Secondly, my goal would be to try to get a handle on this community center. Obviously, I’d like to see it built, but we need to see if the community is on board with doing it. Also, beach renourishment. I’m hoping that the information from consultants is showBrown ing us that we don’t have to do island-wide beach renourishment and can, instead, focus on hot spots.

How should the town move forward its pension plans?

The approach I would like to see is pensions being part of a balanced approach to employee compensation because it’s uncontrollable. I’m hoping it will be put into a situation where employees would be put into more control instead of the town being liable for it.

How will the town approach beach management in the next year?

LBK - 2010 -K We will develop a revised plan.

Our current plan says we will renourish the beaches every eight years and spot-nourish as need-

past year?

I think the hardest issue that we dealt with was the town manager issue. It thrust a lot of responsibility on me, which I was not trained to do. I think that I was extremely lucky the way things fell into place and by the fact that David Bullock came in front of our search party.

I’ve talked to cities lately where they’ve done a national search, and it can be a very trying experience and frustrating because they hire consultants to help find people, and the people aren’t exactly who you’re looking for.

ed. That will all be worked out with our consultant.

What changes do you hope will be made to the town’s zoning code?

Basically, we’ll just be bringing the zoning code and Comprehensive Plan up to today’s standards.

When I was on the Planning & Zoning Board, we were constantly running into situations where they weren’t up to today’s standards and having to make changes to individual codes, so it makes sense to go back and look at the entire thing.

What has been your proudest accomplishment so far as mayor?

I don’t know that it was my accomplishment, but probably the same thing in that we got the town government going in the right direction. Also, we finally got the Vision Plan adopted that was presented to the commission in 2007 … but they didn’t know what to do with it at the time.

If another budget shortfall occurs, how would you expect the town manager to address it?

We’ve been advised that there probably will be an 8% to 10% budget shortfall countywide.

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beach blueprint by Robin Hartill | City Editor

WCIND board endorses inlet management plan Longboat Key officials say making the recommendations official could help when it comes to obtaining permits and funds.

The West Coast Inland Navigation District board unanimously approved a letter Friday, March 30, requesting that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection consider the Longboat Pass Inlet Management Plan, developed jointly by the town and Manatee County and a WCIND study of Longboat Pass, as the official inlet management plan for the Pass.

Town Manager David Bullock told the Longboat Key Town Commission at its Monday, April 2 regular meeting that the decision could be important when it comes to permitting and for funding.

Public Works Director Juan Florensa agreed the approval of the letter is significant because the WCIND is the local sponsor of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which must permit the project. The approval means that WCIND will work with the town and Manatee County to implement the plan.

“We have a single blueprint,” Florensa said told the Longboat Observer. “In the past, there was some coordination but I think it could have been improved.”

The Town Commission agreed in November to be-

gin the permitting process for the recommended groin structures but has asked for flexibility in terms of the number, size and locations of the structures. The Manatee County Board of Commissioners voted last week to move forward with the plan’s recommendations.

Bullock said that funding could come in still undetermined increments from the town, county, WCIND and FDEP. “I think it’s safe for us to assume that the town of Longboat Key will pay a significant portion for the cost of certainly the structures and maybe at least part of the dredging,” Bullock said.

The $125,000 Longboat Pass Inlet Management Study was jointly commissioned in 2010 by the town and the county to reveal why the channel in Longboat Pass is moving southward and provide solutions for the north end’s ongoing erosion issues.

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by Robin Hartill | City Editor

April Fools’ stories elicit Commission approves funny reader responses Rooks’ site plan The Longboat Observer’s April Fools’ edition seems to have received more feedback this year than most.

For the record: The stories on pages 1A to 4A in the March 29 issue of the Longboat Observer are not true! Here are some of the stories we’ve heard regarding this year’s April Fools’ issue.

The approval allows owner W. Howard Rooks to maintain an existing restaurant site on a smaller site following Publix’s purchase of a 1.52-acre piece of his property.

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• “I wanted to tell you how much I learned from your update on Longboat Key … Since our place is in Bradenton, I don’t get into the Longboat Key details very much … I enjoyed the April Fools’ edition, when I picked up one today on the way home. I have to tell you a story about last year’s prank. We have friends who stay on Longboat Key, and they frantically called us to say that there would be a toll gate installed at the bridge and that it would cost $5 to come see them. We listened and asked if maybe it could be April Fools’, and as you know, it was. No frantic calls about the nudist colony yet.” — Bill Wartinbee

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• Longboat Key, Lido Key, St. Armands Key Chamber of Commerce Executive Assistant Dawn Mims received a call from a concierge at the Longboat Key Club and Resort. His boss asked him to call about their concern with the closing of the Gulf of Mexico.

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• Community Editor Mallory Gnaegy received a voicemail from a resident calling on behalf of his wife. If someone could please call her with further information about casting, she would be interested.

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Lisa Robinson and Diane Norco pose in their Real Housewives shirts at a St. Patrick’s Day party held at the Longboat Key Club.

• Roy Robinson made T-shirts for his wife, Lisa, and her friends who consider themselves the Real Housewives of Longboat Key. He made them a few weeks ago and sent a photo in after reading our article. “They’d put Atlanta and Beverly Hills to shame!” he says.

• “Real housewife” Wendy Feinstein, who was featured in our April Fools’ article, posted a link to the article on her Facebook wall. A friend she had talked to for a half-hour earlier in the day called Feinstein back later that night. “How could you talk to me for a whole half-hour without even mentioning you were going to be on TV?” the friend yelled. “I want to know the air date, what channel and when it will be on TV. I’m going to film every episode!”

Feinstein attended the Orchid Ball Saturday, and she handed a business card to a couple. The woman replied, “Oh my god! You were the first one picked!” she said.

“What a difference a few months make.”

That was Town Attorney David Persson’s comment before the Longboat Key Town Commission held its final quasi-judicial hearing related to Publix Super Markets Inc.’s redevelopment of its Avenue of the Flowers store.

Gone was the standing-room only crowd that filled the commission chambers in January. Instead, less than a dozen people filled the room. Just two people — Publix consultant Joel Freedman and Town Planner Steve Schield — were sworn in to speak.

The commission approved a site-plan amendment application for Town Plaza Phase II submitted by owner W. Howard Rooks to maintain the property’s 6,206-square-foot commercial building and 89 off-street parking spaces on a 2.01-acre site at its Monday, April 2 regular meeting. The parcel was originally part of a 3.53-acre site until last month, when the Lakeland-based Publix Super Markets Inc. purchased a 1.52-acre tract from Rooks for $1.25 million.

As a condition of the outline development plan the commission approved for the property in February, Rooks had to submit a site-plan application for the smaller property.

Freedman spoke briefly before the commission and expressed Publix’s excitement with moving forward, describing the application as “the final piece.”

Commissioners had no questions — a

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The building at 545 Bay Isles Parkway was home to the former Mattison’s Steakhouse at the Plaza.

stark contrast to January, when discussion of Publix’s plans comprised most of a meeting that stretched to 11:50 p.m.

“It has changed, hasn’t it?” Mayor Jim Brown asked.

Just three minutes passed from the time Brown struck his gavel to open the public hearing to the time the commission took its 6-0 vote. Commissioner Hal Lenobel was not present at Monday’s meeting. The Longboat Key Planning & Zoning Board unanimously recommended the site-plan amendment in February.

The building was the home of the former Mattison’s Steakhouse at the Plaza, which closed in 2008. Rooks is looking for a restaurant tenant.

“It’s a beautiful restaurant, and I think Longboat needs that,” he said.

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They got to try on firefighters’ jackets and slip their feet into heavy black boots. They even got to use fire extinguishers to put out real fires.

A demonstration of equipment used to free passengers and drivers from car accidents kept the crowd focused on the action. As the simulation progressed, Lt. David Kyle explained each move and its purpose. The adults left with a new appreciation for the department and the kids left dreaming of growing up to be firefighters one day.

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Job 1: Fix, reduce pensions It’s time. The Longboat Key Town Commission election and commissioners’ installations are completed. It’s time to get back to work, and as the late Jim Durante used to say, do it “with all due haste.”

And the first order of business: Fix Longboat Key’s pension plans.

This issue — specifically, the town’s unfunded pension liabilities — became an issue as far back as 2002, when the town’s total unfunded pension liabilities jumped from $709,000 to $11 million (see table).

And so began the continuing trajectory of a rising gap between how much Longboat Key taxpayers were promising — and obligated — to pay retired town employees in the future and how much money actually existed to pay.

The hope was that the pension funds’ investment portfolios would produce 8% or more annual gains and cover taxpayers’ obligations. But as we say in business: Hope is not a strategy.

When the unfunded liabilities crossed the $20 million threshold around 2007, former town Commissioner Randy Clair tried to persuade his fellow commissioners to quit digging taxpayers into a deepening hole. His efforts went nowhere.

There’s no point recounting all of the reasons why that was so. That’s another long story. Suffice it to say this current group of commissioners has appeared more motivated than any of the previous commissions in solving the problem. But this commission, too, has been deliberate in releasing the papal smoke through

LONGBOAT’S UNFUNDED PENSION LIABILITY 2010........................... $26,560,726 2009........................... $26,390,888 2008........................... $22,766,014 2007........................... $21,239,605 2006........................... $15,824,151 2005........................... $14,284,226 2004........................... $12,634,660 2003........................... $10,587,416 2002........................... $11,927,925 2001................................ $709,322 2000............................. $2,418,204 Source: Town of LBK

the chimney to let taxpayers know it has a plan. As we’re told, that plan is likely to be presented to firefighters at the end of this month or in early May. There really isn’t a mystery how to stop the liability from growing. Getting there is the problem — i.e., educating the firefighter and police unions to accept reality. And that reality is they will be required to give up a lot.

They should look around. Indeed, two weeks ago in The Wall Street Journal, one of that paper’s editorial-page editors interviewed the treasurer of Rhode Island, Gina Raimondo. She is credited with singlehandedly reforming that state’s fast-collapsing pension system.

One of the comments she made should be implanted in our own town commis-

sioners’ and union chiefs’ minds. As she put it: “This problem will not go away, and I don’t know what people are thinking. By the nature of the problem, it gets bigger and harder the longer you wait.”

Raimondo had another face-reality warning for the union leaders in her state: “Today we’re arguing about whether you get a COLA (cost-of-living adjustment), tomorrow we’ll be arguing about whether you get a pension.”

Indeed, in one Rhode Island city, retired fire and police officers have had their pensions cut in half.

After months of educating everyone involved, Raimondo wooed unions and legislators to do such things as: • Shift all workers from defined-benefit pensions into hybrid plans, which include a modest annuity and a defined-contribution component.

• Increase the retirement age to 67 from 62 for all workers.

• Suspend cost-of-living adjustments for retirees until the pension system reaches a healthier state.

On Longboat, taxpayers and commissioners know the town’s defined-benefit plans must end. Simple as that.

But commissioners also know the union members won’t be the only ones who must swallow some bitter medicine. There is no way around it: Taxpayers are going to have to make up that $23 million unfunded liability through higher taxes.

The sooner commissioners end this disaster, the better. It’s time.

MY VIEW by Terry Gans

Civil defense: I’m not running for office In the wake of the recent election for one Town Commission seat in Longboat Key, there has been a suggestion that citizens and politicians conduct themselves with a bit more peace, love and understanding — with civility. Another element that could be mixed in should be honesty.

Without as much forethought as I could have given it, I have ventured into a backand-forth through the Town Commission mail with one neighbor who took the commissioners to task on an issue and then made what I believed was a meritless suggestion.

A few commissioners weighed in, the neighbor went further and I went further.

Really, all quite humdrum and maybe a bit silly, but still it was people expressing their opinions and arguments.

This is all in the Town Commission e-mails, which are public records, but I wouldn’t urge anyone to spend time looking them over.

Where I have concerns are in two areas.

First, the original letter writer, not content to let my words speak for themselves, inferred that my motivation was to ready my acceptability for public office. This has since been picked up and amplified by others who have chimed into the discussion.

That is not my motivation, nor has that been my motivation in any of the letters I have written in the past, in public testimony or in my service on the Longboat Key Public Interest Committee board. I want to nip all such chatter in the bud.

My motivation always has been to be interested in what goes on where I live; learn what I can about the important issues and express myself on what I see to be the key points; and, perhaps, influence others at least to consider my position.

This easy attribution of motivations goes hand-in-hand with a human tendency not to accept things on their surface. There is a regrettable recourse to see conspiracies where none exists, to believe in cabals where there are none and to believe there are dark purposes driving those with whom we simply disagree.

In the past election, the candidate who consistently advocated balanced renewal and improved tourism was painted as being the puppet of the chamber of commerce and maybe even in league with casino interests for darker future purposes. Those who supported the unsuccessful candidate were sometimes implied to be selfish potentates stuck in an anachronistic existence. None of this name-calling serves any purpose other

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than old-fashioned crass politics. It certainly does nothing to raise the level of discourse.

I am a believer in honesty in public matters, perhaps naively. Stretching the truth and distorting reality to make a point may rally a base, but it holds us back as a community. A little side story: 20 years ago in Maryland a neighbor ran afoul of the law in a money-laundering scheme. One of the local television stations breathlessly ran footage and said, “He plowed the proceeds into his Rockville mansion.” It was a tract development house.

Calling it a mansion didn’t make it so, no more than calling a relatively small series of rooms a convention center makes it so.

We have plenty of issues facing us without painting things as what they are not, such as myself as a politician.

It is not civility to have to turn the other cheek to mischaracterizations and misrepresentations. It is not a contradiction of civility to argue a position, and it is not a contradiction of civility to present a factual argument.

It is the tone, choice of words and volume level that make the difference.

I’ll close with a lighter non-sequitur: I am a dog lover, but to this day my dog has never voiced a desire to be on the beach.

Terry Gans is a resident of Longboat Key.

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LETTERS PIC clarifies who it is, what it does TO THE EDITOR

By Gaele Barthold and Ann Roth

It was once said that in public life “never complain, never explain.” That is a fine abstract principle, but sometimes reality dictates that one must speak up.

In the most recent Longboat Key Town Commission election, distorted claims about the Longboat Key Public Interest Committee (PIC), its members, leadership and positions were made for political purposes.

Now that the smoke of the campaign has cleared, it is time to set the record straight.

What we are

For nearly 30 years, the PIC has served to learn the facts behind issues facing Longboat’s citizens, inform the public and give voice to policies that keep our island the wonderful place it has been, is and will be in the future. We are not and have never been a mouthpiece for the Town Commission. We are watchful, critical and supportive, depending on how the commission meets the criteria of our mission, the Vision Plan and the good of our citizens.

As in its early days, PIC believes there is a necessary balance of residential population, visitors (or tourists) and commercial to serve residents and visitors on the island. At times, the goal of balance — as in the past — meant saying “too much.” Today, it means recognizing that the Key is falling short on available visitor units and retail establishments and that some of our older facilities need renewal and redevelop-

• Forum on the plans and scheduling for the Publix and Avenue of the Flowers rebuilding; • Old-fashioned town meeting reception for PIC membership to meet Interim Town Manager David Bullock and get an update on town issues; • Special receptions for our membership to thank them for their support and to elicit their ideas; • Candidates debate for the Third District Town Commission election, cosponsored with the Longboat Observer; • Forum for a report from the task force on the north-end revitalization project.

In addition, PIC board members attend all Town Commission meetings and many other community meetings sponsored by island groups.

ment.

Certainly it would seem reasonable that a committee operating for the public interest should support revitalization. A worrisome trend has occurred on the Key with the closing of shops in the Avenue of the Flowers, Whitney Beach Plaza, the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort and two conveniently positioned service stations.

Who we are

PIC membership is open to any resident of Longboat Key. PIC’s membership, and its 16-member board, are made up of homeowners — singlefamily and condo — as well as renters.

Its membership includes full-time residents and “snowbirds.” It is people who are working, and those who are retired.

It is men and women. It is people from all parts of the island. It is inclusive, rather than exclusive, and it is certainly not some limited elite. PIC is made up of your neighbors.

All invited

We invite all those interested in the future of Longboat Key to join as members. Your support keeps us vital and able to present important programs of interest to our citizens.

That support has also enabled us to create an informative web site that will also keep you abreast of PIC projects and other community information, such as election results. It also offers a forum for your questions and ideas and offers you the ability to join us as members. Please use it: LBKPIC.com Gaele Barthold and Ann Roth are copresidents of the Longboat Key Public Interest Committee.

PIC’s accomplishments

In the last several years, PIC fulfilled its core mission of gathering and sharing information through a group of public forums and through membership receptions. PIC will continue to do so. Events have included: • Forum on the town’s pension crisis; • Forum on beach nourishment; • Forum on wireless communication; • Forum on aging in paradise; • Forum on off-shore drilling;

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Dear Editor: The quotation, “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” is not a statement about home construction. However, people who live in concrete houses should be vindicated (without throwing stones) by the results of the recent study from the experts on cell-phone signal strength.

The sponsors who conducted the study will present the results to the commission at a meeting in April. Advanced presentations of the results of the thorough study of signal strength, which monitored the length of the Key, demonstrated that the loss of signal strength inside a concrete structure diminished by 6 decibels compared to a wooden structure. This equated to a signal degradation from a fair rating to a poor rating.

The most effective solution is still up in the air.

What is unfortunate for the Key is that residents have been pitted against one or the other for years; some saying they don’t have a problem while others complaining about poor or no cell phone reception. It turns out that both groups were correct.

Unfortunately, we all suffered from the animosity. If it’s not one issue it’s another on our island. We just can’t seem to function as a one-island democracy.

I have noted that the Type “A” personalities who have had successful careers retire and live quiet, cooperative and happy lives, while disappointed, frustrated career people slip into aggressive, unhappy naysayers. They follow the poor management syndrome: When in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

It is time that we look for and follow engineered, logical solutions for our problems and avoid the political, emotional and juvenile behavior.

John Sandford Longboat Key

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GCCF often gets donations from people who want to be part of specific programs or broad areas the foundation is already funding. The organization has more than 500 donor funds. Plus, GCCF pursues a strategy of leveraging what it has to get far more bang.

For instance, after Denise Amber Lee was kidnapped and murdered in January 2008 in North Port, a serious fault was found in the 911 system. Her widower, Nathan Lee, went to GCCF to set up a foundation in her name.

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But when that dynamic is flipped, as it is now, the balance sheet flips, and both foundations are now recovering with the strong rebounding financial markets.

GCCF posted $50.2 million in revenues in 2011 while CFSC posted $42 million last year.

But, interestingly, donations continued strong in the recession.

“In the last several years, our donors have skyrocketed,” said Mark Pritchett, senior vice president for Community Investment at GCCF. “Assets went down because of the recessions, but our gifts (grants) continued to go up even more.”

CFSC saw a similar phenomenon. Donations stayed steady through the recession, and 2010 was a huge year, with the help of large bequest of $15 million, according to Mark Rehder, vice president of finance and operations.

Part of GCCF’s success was the aggressive strategy of bringing onboard rainmakers Scott Anderson as senior philanthropic adviser and Veronica Brady as senior vice president for philanthropy.

Because of the size of the foundations, it is clear that investment success plays a huge role in annual revenues. But new donors are the lifeblood for both — including GCCF, which now gives out more in donations from its funds that are not part of the Venice Hospital sale endowment than from that original endowment.

So, as improved as the cross-foundation cooperation is, there remains an undeniable truth: They are competing for some of the same donors. They’re just doing it more cooperatively now.

“Donors have a choice,” Jerde said. “But I hope we always have the attitude that philanthropy is great for this community.”

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March 27 3:03 p.m. — 7100 block of La Lenaire Drive. Public Service. A resident emailed police to advise that unknown persons were trespassing on her property, defecating, urinating and allowing their dogs to relieve themselves. Police will meet with the resident when she returns to the state in April.

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8:55 p.m. — 2600 block of Harbourside Drive. Disturbance. A man told police that he was standing on the dock to which his boat is tied, talking to the residents of a neighboring boat, when they were interrupted by the resident of another boat who began cursing and insulting them. The man who was yelling at them told police he had been drinking and he doesn’t like the other man but agreed to go to bed without causing further incidents.

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Jerry Springer wants to be an average Joe He’s in his 21st season filming “The Jerry Springer Show” and has become an icon for hosting the talk show that features fist fights and cheating husbands. On top of filming 300 shows a year, he hosts a GSN game show called “Baggage,” “America’s

Got Talent LIVE” at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas and “The Price is Right Live” in Las Vegas. Needless to say, when he comes to the area, Bird Key resident Jerry Springer does not want to hear people yell his name every time he sits down for dinner, espe-

cially because he frequents local restaurants.

Springer just wants to relax; he says the area has a calming effect on his hectic schedule. We talked to Springer to find out the local scoop.

Q&A How did you end up in Sarasota?

We decided we wanted to live some place on the water because we were living in Cincinnati at the time. Truthfully, at first, we were looking in California, but since I was taping a show in Chicago, there was no way I could fly out every weekend to California and get back to the show or else I’d spend my weekends in the air.

Then we looked at Hilton Head Island, S.C., but it wasn’t warm in the winter, so we looked in Florida. Micki called me after spending half of a day down there looking along the coast from Naples up to Sarasota.

“Oh my God! It’s beautiful,” she said. We got a Realtor to look at a bunch of homes. I told her to pick out her 10 favorites and then flew down for a day to look at them. And, as Realtors always do, the last one they show you is the one that grabs your heart. And we’ve been here for 15 years, and we just love it.

What’s your filming schedule like?

I spend every Monday and Tuesday in Stamford, Conn. We film three (“The Jerry Springer Show”) shows on Monday and two shows on Tuesday, which amounts to 300 shows a year. In Vegas, I do “The Price is Right” for five weeks with one show a night.

Then, the “America’s Got Talent” tour, which I do in Las Vegas. Then “Baggage” in L.A., which we do over a three-month period Wednesday through Friday.

What’s the best-kept secret in terms of food?

Saturday we went to The Table — that was excellent.

What do you fly?

My own plane. There’d be no other way.

It’d be impossible — I land at Dolphin (Aviation) in Sarasota.

Where do you eat the most?

The place we are most, because it’s a quick lunch and so consistent, is Tommy Bahama’s. I get the chicken (teriyaki and) tonkatsu.

How do people react when they realize you are a television celebrity? Do people typically recognize you?

Well, yeah, but they are very nice. They will take pictures and all of that kind of stuff, but generally there’s a respect for privacy. That’s what I like. I’m a public figure everywhere else, and (I can live normally here).

Where are some of your favorite places to eat in Sarasota?

Mediterraneo, Tommy Bahama, Columbia Restaurant; we have breakfast at The Blue Dolphin, Crab and Fin … Honestly, I think you could go around and talk to restaurant owners, because we have to be the best contributors to the restaurant industry here. We laugh about how much we contribute.

Do you ever catch any spring training games?

I have not this year, but every other year I have been to a bunch of games. Having spent 30 years in Cincinnati where the Reds were, we were at Ed Smith Stadium for (spring training) all the time (when the Reds played here).

What do you love about Sarasota?

Where do you start? First of all, it’s beautiful … It is totally comfortable, and the people are friendly as can be. We love the opera. And Friday night (March 23) we saw “Lucia di Lammermoor.” We love getting to see the plays, obviously enjoying the water and St. Armands Circle — it is kind of where we live. And the wonderful restaurants! It really is a perfect community.

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Myakka Exhibition Opening Reception — takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. at Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design, 6860 Longboat Drive S. Regional artists have come together by creating artwork inspired by this Myakka River State Park. This exhibit runs through May 24. Free. Call 383-2345.

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Republican Club of Longboat Key Meeting — takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Sarasota Yacht Club, 1100 John Ringling Blvd.

Rep. Jim Boyd, R-Bradenton, will give an update on redistricting and other Tallahassee happenings. 1490 talk show host Johnny Jackson will give his conservative perspectives.

Cost is $22 members; $25 for nonmembers. Call Phyllis Black at 3832567.

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Easter Egg Hunt — takes place from 2 to 4 p.m. at Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant and Pub, 760 Broadway St. The Easter Bunny will entertain while children find eggs to put in their baskets. Children should bring their own baskets. Free. Call 3832391.

Behind the Science: Exploring the Bay — takes place from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Mote Marine Laboratory, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway.

Explore Sarasota Bay like a Mote scientist, collecting critters with marine nets and dip nets. Then identify and discuss what you’ve caught. Cost is $8 for members; $10 for non-members. Call 388-4441.

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BILL SANDY Bill Sandy has ridden the rollercoaster of business and shares his experience.

Bill Sandy sits at the desk where he produced the advice in “Learning from Upheaval.” copywriters, but there weren’t a lot of people who understood this specialized and rapidly changing field,” he says.

Ultimately, Sandy decided to stay with Jamison Handy because he believed it would be at the frontier of change.

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get people to sense what happens next?”

He wrote the book with his nine grandchildren in mind.

Many of his grandchildren are college age and older.

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pany with its own payroll with more than 300 full-time employees plus several hundred freelancers — he had his own view of turbulence in addition to the mostly automobile clients he was assisting. He was in the heart of the changing face of business.

Since his retirement, he has been able to step back and look at his experiences and personal growth and change.

He likes to compare upheaval to tsunamis. Animals can sense when a tsunami is coming, he says, “But how do we

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The last chapter in the book was about GM. Founding, leading and running his corporation, he had a front-row seat to the unpredictability and transitions that the 20th century brought for today’s business. These changes resulted from a number of sources, such as: technology, international competition, the expanding role of government, demands of investors for results, threats of war and peace; the list continues.

“The advice I give isn’t how to solve (problems), but how to handle and react,” he says.

Issues are inevitable, but “you can always manage your reactions to them.”

One piece of advice is that Plan B might not be what one has in mind, but a lot of times it works out better than Plan A. For instance, early in Sandy’s career he was given a job offer of his dream job as a copywriter with a major advertising agency. At that time, he was working for Jamison Handy, who invented what’s now known as the distancelearning industry.

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In 2009, the federal bailout of the auto industry split $60 billion between Chrysler and General Motors to rescue the companies. GM was Bill Sandy’s leading client when he owned the Sandy Corp., from which he retired in ’96. At the time he retired, GM was generating $132 million a week.

Sandy Corp. is a performance-improvement organization that combines consulting, training, communication, motivation and measurement of results. Sandy had been in the same industry for 43 years and learned valuable lessons along the road — especially the inevitable rollercoaster ride companies and individuals, like GM, face.

“Everyone is facing turbulence and upheaval — and it will be that way for a long time,” says Sandy, a Longboat Key resident. “It’s just the way things are.”

It was this way with Sandy’s business and also for his multi-billion-dollar clients’ businesses. A couple of years ago, Sandy decided to share advice from his personal experience in a book, “Learning from Upheaval,” and it was

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They have even developed their own lingo over the past five months.

“Happy head” is a term used to describe a happy or flirtatious penguin. It’s when it gets so excited, it shakes its head back and forth.

“The (personalities) can come out of anywhere and change in a second,” says Nicolaisen.

A penguin can go from happy heading to giving the stink eye, a signifier of an aggressive penguin ready to attack. And they love to give the stink eye to new people.

“Penguins test new people — the new interns were initiated with bite marks,” says Nicolaisen.

All of the trainers went through their own initiations and have slowly been considered part of the flock.

The “Penguin Penthouse,” a name the handlers coined, is the upper borough at the Penguin Island exhibit, which was made to look like a reallife habitat. Every penguin has occupied the top-dog (toppenguin, in this case) position throughout their stay. The penguins will say good-bye to Mote April 14.

“It’s been a great learning experience and a ton of fun,” says Denum.

Even with a learning curve — and a few bites along the way — the penguins have waddled their way into the Mote staff’s and visitors’ hearts.

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There was turmoil when an escaped penguin was seen floating in the water, away from its Penguin Island exhibit. That was until everyone realized it was just a gift-shop toy penguin that had blown into the water.

All six of the black-footed penguins — Sly, South, Rudy, Oswald, Coaster and Ninja — were safe in the Penguin Island exhibit. This is just one of the stories from their stay at Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium.

Senior Research Trainer Katharine Nicolaisen and Research Trainer Laura Denum have gotten to know the penguins well since their arrival Nov. 1 from Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif. And they have plenty of stories — and bite wounds — to share.

The handlers keep a running contest on who has the biggest bite bruise. At the Oceanic Evening black-tie event at Mote, the trainers had to handle the penguins in black-tie apparel.

“By the end of the night, we were all covered in bite marks and penguin poop,” Nicolaisen says.

When cleaning the 6,000-foot exhibit, the solution the trainers use can make the uneven rockwork slippery. Though no one has fallen in yet, almost every trainer has gotten “a boot full” of water, they say.

“It’s a messy job,” Denum confirms.

Both women have pinpointed each penguin’s personalities.

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It was a sold-out and enthusiastic audience who attended the classic-andpop music concert, “Katherine Raises the Roof,” presented March 25, at the Longboat Island Chapel. Featured was classical pianist and vocalist Katherine Alexandra and Alex Dilan, composer and accomplished keyboardist and organ-

ist. Alexandra is the music director at the chapel. The event was a kick-off for the chapel’s Raise the Roof Fundraising Campaign.

Nancy Ledding served as Concert Committee chairwoman. Following the concert, a wine-and-cheese reception was held in the chapel garden.

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Cornelia Van Hook Futor

Cornelia Van Hook Futor, of Sarasota, died March 28. She was 82.

Mrs. Van Hook Futor was a Tri Delta, avidly interested in archaeology, a former American Foreign Service employee with tours in Bombay and Paris and a world traveler.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Norman.

Mrs. Van Hook Futor is survived by her nieces, Gayle Hough and Jessica Hough.

Services took place Tuesday at Plymouth Harbor.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to SPCA, aspca.org.

Lucia Ellis Uihlein

Lucia Ellis Uihlein, of Longboat Key and formerly of Lake Bluff, Ill.. died Feb. 29. She was 94.

Mrs. Uihlein was born in Kansas City, Mo., and was reared in Washington, D.C., but spent her childhood summers on the family farm in Lee’s Summit, Mo. Uihlein In 1941, she married Edgar J. Uihlein Jr., of Chicago. After World War II, they moved to Lake Bluff, Ill., where they raised their five children.

Mrs. Uihlein enjoyed volunteering and serving on the boards of numerous Chicago charitable and cultural institutions.

Travel was a passion of hers and many summers were spent abroad with her family. An avid and competitive tennis player, she continued to play well into her 80s. Her greatest joy was her family.

Mrs. Uihlein was preceded in death by

WORSHIP SERVICES All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road, will hold a 5 p.m. communion and stripping of the alter on Maundy Thursday, April 5; at noon Good Friday, April 6, liturgy of the cross and Mass of the presanctified; and 8 and 10 a.m. Easter Sunday, April 8, services featuring the festal Eucharist, choir, hand bells and trumpet. The Rev. David Danner is the rector.

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Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian USA, 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive, will hold a 7:30 p.m. Maundy Thursday, April 5, service; and 8 and 10 a.m. Easter Sunday services April 8. The Rev. Bruce Porter is the pastor. 383-8833.

Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive, will hold a 5:30 simple supper on Mandy Thursday, April 5; and 7 and 10 a.m. services on Easter Sunday, April 8.

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William Varnell, of Longboat Key and Dade City, died March 22.

Mr. Varnell graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1950 and served with the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He worked for Lykes Pasco for 29 years in Dade City, mostly as its international director of sales for its vitality division.

Mr. Varnell opened his own brokerage company, Sourcing International, in 1990, and imported and exported industrial fruit juice concentrates. He retired at age 70 to Longboat Key. Mr. Varnell is survived by his wife of 58 years, Julia; son, William Tandy; daughter, Amy Christine Goodman; four grandchildren; and a step-granddaughter.

A memorial service was held at the First United Methodist Church, in Dade City. An internment at the National Cemetery for United States Veterans in Sarasota will take place at a later date. Toale Brothers Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The First United Methodist Church, 37628 Church Ave., Dade City, Fla., 33525; to Tidewell Hospice, 5955 Rand Blvd., Sarasota, Fla., 34238; or to The Salvation Army, P.O. Box 2792, Sarasota, Fla., 34230.

941-778-0414 512 Pine Avenue, Anna Maria www.roserchurch.com Gary A. Batey, Pastor EASTER DAY SERVICES 8:00 &10:00 AM

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The Reverend Dr. Bruce Porter Sunday 9 AM and 11 AM —Traditional Worship Director of Music: Dan Hoffman 10 AM —Adult Sunday School & Book Study 9 AM —Children and Youth Church School

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In celebration of this glorious day, we will be featuring special Choral Music with Trumpets, Timpani, and Organ.

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St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church, 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive, will hold 9 a.m. Mass of the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday, April 5; a noon stations of the cross and 3 p.m. reading of passion and communion on Good Friday, April 6; an 8:15 p.m. Easter vigil Mass, Saturday, April 7; and 6:45, 8, 9:30 and 11:30 a.m.

Masses on Easter Sunday, April 8. Msgr.

Gerard Finegan is the pastor. 383-1255.

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Shabbat service on Friday, April 13. Rabbi Jonathan Katz is the rabbi. Call 383-3428.

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Please bring an item for the food bank

Easter Sunrise Service at Bayfront Park

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Bring your own lawn chair to 4052 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

The Rev. Charlie Shook, Preacher Katt Hefner, Soloist and Matt Bokulic, Accompanist

Easter Service of Worship 10:00 a.m.

The Rev. Charlie Shook, Preacher Children’s Easter Egg Hunt in the Garden For more information, call 383-6491

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her husband, Edgar.

She is survived by her five children, Edgar Uihlein, Richard Uihlein, Sally Rauch, Stephen Uihlein and Lucia Uihlein; 10 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held April 28, at Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian, 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Memorial donations may be made to Tidewell Hospice, 5955 Rand Blvd., Sarasota, Fla., 34238 or to Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian, 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, Fla., 34228.

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Free will offering to benefit All Faiths Food Bank.

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Sandra Rochlin and Marge Kraft

It was an evening of fond memories as residents and former residents of the Islander Club celebrated the condominium’s 40th year.

Organized by Mary Marthaler and Joann Nair, the event’s highlight was a prolific collection of photos of Islander social events from its beginning. But the real story came from the reminiscences of the assembled group.

Ann Hullinger, a resident for all 40 years, recalled the beach the condominium fronts.

“When I moved in the beach was all rocks,” Hullinger said.

“Look at it now. It is a wonderful sandy beach.”

Bill O’Brien, a former longtime resident had the group laughing as he recalled tales of the Islander’s past residents. Jenny Walder, a former resident, said the party was “like coming home.

I don’t know why we ever left.”

Special recognition was given to the late Leonard Goldenson, president of ABC, who resided at the condominium for several years.

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Condominium President Maggie Brenner chats with Vel Nair.

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By Adam Hughes | Research Editor

Jodats buy Ringling Estates home for $1.12 million The following residential real-estate transactions took place between March 19 and March 23. A home in John Ringling Estates tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. James Fynes, Bradenton, sold his home at 477 McKinley Drive to Gary and Lisa Jodat, Longboat Key, for $1.12 million. Built in 1939, it has four bedrooms, three baths and 2,064 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $154,800 in 1985.

Tangerine Bay Club

Raymond and Maria Turner, trustees, Washington, D.C., sold the Unit 432 condominium at 370 Gulf of Mexico Drive to 432 Tangerine Bay Club Holdings LLC for $850,000. Built in 1994, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,900 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1,225,000 in 2005.

The Players Club

Lynne Cosler, Winter Park, sold the Unit 110 condominium at 1485 Gulf of Mexico Drive to John Bartlett II, of Andover, Mass., for $737,500. Built in 1981, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,722 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $960,000 in 2005.

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Donald and Marcia Deitrich, Longboat Key, sold their Unit 104 condominium at 4420 Exeter Drive to Kenneth and Pamela Euerle, Longboat Key, for $157,000. Built

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This home at 477 McKinley Drive sold for $1.12 million.

in 1970, it has one bedroom, one bath and 725 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $79,500 in 1987.

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Marsh Family Properties LLC sold the Unit 1-F condominium at 1336 Benjamin Franklin Drive to James and Susan Davis, of Mequon, Wis., for $600,000. Built in 1966, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,520 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $85,000 in 1979.

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BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of March 23 through March 29, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive) Address Permit Applicant Amount 525 Bay Isles Parkway New construction Publix Supermarkets $3,398,420

Avenue of the Flowers 505 Bay Isles Parkway New construction Acquisition $1,250,000

Avenue of the Flowers 525 Bay Isles Parkway New construction Acquisition $896,288 3121 Bayou Sound Alteration Judy Weston, trustee $150,000 3240 GMD Alteration Catherine Eddy $20,000 2033 Harbour Links Drive Alteration Sheldon Glickman, trustee $20,000 7120 Longboat Drive E. Alteration Harold Christensen $11,800

Windward Bay 4888 GMD Alteration Condominium Association $10,009 6500 Gulfside Road Alteration Patrick Bogert $10,000 3351 Bayou Sound Alteration Jane Besen $6,500 4300 GMD Alteration Sutton Place Association Inc. $2,400 783 Marbury Lane Alteration Edwin Kavanagh $2,128.48 2145 Harbourside Drive Alteration Anthony Vlahides $827

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Harry E. Hobson, president and CEO of Plymouth Harbor Inc., announced the 2012 officers of its board of trustees: Chariman F. Thomas Hopkins; Vice Chair Jody Hudgins; Treasurer John M. Strickland; and Secretary William R. Johnston.

Hobson also announced two new directors of Plymouth Harbor’s Board of Trustees: G. Duncan Finlay and Sarah H. Pappas.

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“We’re very pleased that Tom is joining us here at Mote,” says Dr. Kumar Mahadevan, Mote president and CEO. “He brings a wealth of experience to our organization, and we are excited to have Tom here to lead the charge and help us build a strong financial base for the lab.”

Waters previously worked for the Community Foundation of Sarasota County for which he served as the foundation’s vice president of Development and Donor Services

since 2000. He has more than 26 years of fund development experience in places including Sarasota, Denver and Louisville, Ky.

+ St. Armands businesses make some changes St. Armands Circle is undergoing a few changes. The shoe store, Reasons, located at 57 S. Blvd. of the Presidents, will be moving to North Lemon Avenue, in Sarasota, in October.

St. Armands Fashion Jewelry & Handbags closed its doors after 43 years of business on St. Armands. The shop has been on the Circle since the early days of St. Armands. Owner Lisa Johnson wrote in a farewell letter to the Circle Association: “Customers would be driven to the store by their chauffeurs, life was slower, the stores were owned and operated by family

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“In these past nine years, the Business Improvement District has a long list of accomplishments that have been made possible because of Northern Trust Bank’s commitment to our community,” said Rappaport, who explained the company’s financing helped elevate the Circle “to both national and international status.”

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Moving into St. Armands Circle is Bob Carter Cos. LLC, to 400 Madison Drive, Suite 204, which is above the new Chase Bank. Bob Carter Cos. is a fundraising and philanthropy assistance to nonprofit organizations and institutions.

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Fashion shows off St. Mary’s style

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As usual, the annual fashion show and luncheon held by the Women’s Guild of St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church attracted a sold-out crowd March 26.

The guest of honor at the event, which was held at the Longboat Key Club Harbourside Dining Room, was Cornell Schultz, founder and first president of the Guild in 1972.

Speaking briefly, the Rev. Edward Pick, pastor emeritus at the church, praised Schultz for her dedicated effort to bringing a church to the Key and called her “the co-founder of St. Mary’s.”

The fashion show, “A Stroll Around the Circle,” featured clothing from 13 shops on St. Armands Circle that was modeled by Guild members. Narrator Mary Elizabeth Carey gave details about each shop as the models strolled the runaway.

Elected as new officers during the event were: Michaele McKenna, president; Vivian Leahy, vice president; Gerri Nagle, recording secretary; Mary Ann Fair, corresponding secretary; and Rhonda Browning, treasurer. A surprise conclusion to the event was Pick leading the crowd in a sing-along with “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody” with former Music Director Michael Tucci at the piano. All proceeds of the event will benefit various community projects.

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Cornell Schultz, first Guild president, with Carole McMahon

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The above moves are from Elyse Briggs’ “Stretch in Time” video.

Adaptive yoga can be done easily in the home A recent video from California puts a whole new spin on what could technically be called “chair yoga.”

It comes from a team headed up by Elyse Briggs, who describes herself as a “Type A neurotic Jewish woman.” That may have MOLLY been the case when SCHECHTER she discovered yoga 40 years ago at age 19, but she gave it up because she felt, “I don’t have time for this.”

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“The first thing in order is laughter,” she says. “If you can’t laugh with somebody, you’re not getting through to them at all.”

Don’t misunderstand; her video is not comedy. It is serious, sensible movement … blessedly free of any of the pressure to achieve the perfect posture that is commonly associated with yoga.

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Briggs likes things zingy and rhyming and named her video, “Stretch in Time,” as in, “Stretch in Time to Save Your Spine (and everything attached to it).” It is her opening argument: that it is never too late to learn or relearn movement and benefit from it.

“People I work with are in their 80s and 90s, and it’s not hard to be 100 now,” she says. “Being ‘in the moment’ is everything for them.”

A significant part of her clientele consists of people who have lost the ability to move due to age or injury. She also works with people with Alzheimer’s disease: “Can they remember what you teach them? Absolutely not. Can you help them in the moment? Absolutely,” she says.

The “Stretch in Time” DVD focuses on five simple postures that stretch the major joints and muscles. The names are as straightforward as the moves. Students work with two chairs (one pupil is in a wheelchair). The video has three sections: a 25-minute piece that introduces, instructs and explains the moves and their benefits, a four-minute physician’s insight and the five postures presented as a routine for the viewer to follow. It has the usual disclaimer: Caution: Not all exercises are suitable for everyone. Consult your doctor prior to attempting this or any other exercise program.

Briggs calls her approach “Adaptive Yoga” and stresses that, “Anyone at any level of ability can benefit from any of

these postures. They really help you move deeper into a lifestyle that you were once used to or want to reacquire.”

Briggs’ yoga training began in New York City and continued in California, where she was mentored by Carl Dawson, past president of the Iyengar Yoga Association of Southern California and founder of the Iyengar Yoga Institute of Los Angeles. She is nationally certified in therapeutic massage and bodywork, is a Licensed Massage Therapist, a registered Thai Therapist and a certified and nationally registered teacher of massage therapy for 20 years.

She has a private practice and is the owner of Yoga at the Village in Glendale, Calif.

The “Stretch in Time” video team also includes Beth Marcus, M.D., Jeffrey M. Ring, Ph.D., and Kris Sanders, RYT-500 (which means a registered yoga teacher with 500 hours of training). You can order the video online at stretchintime.com or Amazon.com; the cost is $19.95. It is an especially worthwhile investment for anyone who would like to enjoy yoga-based movement without having to get up and down from the floor — a requirement of even gentle yoga classes.

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JULIUS ‘JULES’ RAUCH In the late ’90s, Julius Rauch and his buddy, Warren Girle, began fishing competitively. It started with a few local tournaments then morphed into larger tournaments in Louisiana and Texas. In 2000, he won the Anglers of the Year Award for the Redfish Tour.

He never used live bait, and 99% of the fish were released after the tournament. He still fishes twice a week, and because he lives on a canal, the sport is convenient for him.

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What reeled you into fishing?

I grew up with it. My father and I (used to fish together). I had five or six first cousins within five blocks, and as kids we would go to the creek and fish. Before I was a teenager, I would go with my father and relatives on trout fishing trips in the Poconos in Pennsylvania.

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Sally Jaret’s score for women’s high-scratch series March 27 for the Bird Key Yacht Club bowling league.

What is your favorite fish to catch?

Redfish. It is a great eating fish and a great fighting fish (it’s a challenge to catch).

It is caught in 3 feet of water or less, and you sight-fish them in the summer. So, you can actually see your quarry, and you use your skills to isolate the fish that are the perfect size.

What’s your favorite aspect of fishing?

Selecting a fish you want to catch, presenting the bait, successfully hooking it,

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getting it to the boat and releasing it live.

What’s the most difficult aspect?

Equipment failure at the wrong time — mostly boat failure or engine problems.

What’s the biggest fish you’ve ever caught?

It was a 42-inch snook here in Sarasota.

I was fortunate in the 1990s to catch a 19-pound snook that I entered in a tournament, and it was the winning fish.

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Finish time for non-spinnaker first-place winner “Solitude,” captained by David Wilson, April 1 in the 2012 Sunday Spring Series Race No. 2 at Sarasota Sailing Squadron.

What’s the breakfast of champions?

One or two fresh fruits, dried cereal, yogurt and, most importantly, two glasses of water. In fishing in this climate you need to hydrate an hour before you get on the water.

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Can you tell us any stories from when you were fishing?

In Louisiana, you’re fishing in what they call “duck ponds” and heavily grassed areas.

We came across a mother alligator (12 feet to 14 feet long) with all of her babies. They were basking in the sun, and we went by her (within three feet). She growled at us.

I’ve seen a lot of sharks, too.

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Men’s highscratch game score made by Doug Turner Wednesday, March 28 for Sarasota Yacht Club bowling league.

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Where is the most beautiful place you’ve ever fished?

Well, certainly Sarasota Bay is one of the premier fishing areas of the country. Each place I’ve fished has its own attributes: for sunsets, the China Sea; Chile is beautiful; the Keys; and the Everglades are magnificent for natural wildlife.

Pins Doug Mampe has knocked down this year as of Tuesday, March 27, in the Bird Key Yacht Club bowling league.

Richard Cyr, Longboat Harbour resident, got a hole-in-one at the Bobby Jones Golf Course the week of March 30.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2012

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

Don’t overruff!

This week you are South, defending 3♠. You must make three good plays in order to beat this contract. Are you up to the challenge?

Before you take your place in the South seat, let’s admire Declarer’s robust Spade suit.

The 10♠ and 9♠ are big cards! After the high enemy Spades have been knocked out, those intermediates can look after the rest of the suit.

In fact, even if the trumps

split 4-1, that lovely 9♠ will come to the rescue and make sure that the enemy 8♠ does no damage. Well, “Phooey!” is what N-S have to say to about that. They are about to score their lowly 8♠, even though trumps are 3-2!

Sitting South, you lead the J♥. That holds the trick, Partner playing the 10. You lead another Heart, this one being won by Partner’s Eight.

Declarer ruffs the third round

with the 9♠, and it’s time for your first good play. Don’t overruff! Now Declarer leads the Q♠, and you make your second good play, you duck your Ace! Well, perhaps that play was not so brilliant, there was no rush to take that trick. And, anyway, you would look extremely foolish if your Ace crashed Partner’s singleton King! As it happens, Partner wins the trick with the K♠ and, with relentless single-mindedness, leads another round of Hearts. Declarer ruffs with the Ten and it’s time for the third good

IT’S READ EVERYWHERE

play. Don’t overruff! That’s right, your stubborn refusal, on three occasions, to play the A♠ has orchestrated a trump promotion! The defense scores two Hearts and three trumps for down one.

Who would have thought that A86 would produce two natural trump tricks?

Visit www.acbl.org for more about the game of bridge or email marketing@acbl.org.

Contact Brian Howard, owner/ director of the Bridge Center of Bradenton, at 795-8981.

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Boats

Condos/Apts. For Rent

Homes For Rent

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ALUMINUM 13 ft. extension Ladder ($40) & Electric 18 inch hedge trimmers, ($20).

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PAINTING: BEER Can Island North End, with tall pines on beach, 18x24, $200.00. 941-383-0509.

POOL/PATIO FURNITURE: Two chaise lounges $75/ea. Two matching chairs, $25/ea.

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PRIME WELL Tires: 2-195/60 R15 Less than 25 Miles! $80. Call 941-918-1593.

TWO NEW Hammacher Schlemmer Bed Lounges, Cost $300. Asking $95. New Garmin GPS, $75.

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Boat Cleaning. *Wash, Hand Wax Interior.

Stainless, Upholstery+, $100-$200 or Full Detail “The Works” available. 941-228-3489. We actually show up!

LBK: WATER view, boating. Beautiful 3BR/2BA. Elegantly renovated. Annual or Seasonal.

Also, Sarasota 2 Villas: 2BR/2BA. 941-383-7850, 941-927-9533.

Boats are selling very well, many in less than 2 weeks. Come visit us - 12160 Cortez Rd. New high and dry marina. Keeping it real simple.

“Business on a Handshake”. Boats Needed 10K-100K+. I buy boats too. Island Boat Sales.

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2BR/2BA, Bay View, Private Beach, Second floor.

Non-smoking. 3/mo. min. or Annual. No pets.

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SIESTA KEY: Great updated Old Florida Home on Heron Lagoon. New Kitchen with Granite Counter, Gourmet Gas Range, Screened Pool, Dock on Lagoon, Walkway over Lagoon to Private Beach with Cabana. Great for entertaining!!

2+Bedrooms, 2 1/2 Baths, Unfurnished, W/D, Annual Lease. $3,200/mo. MLS#83956841 Owner/Agent Call 941-809-6760.

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

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.

BOATHOUSE ON Longboat unit for sale on east end, second level. $30,000, 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 FOR SALE OR RENT, fantastic high and dry boat slip, superb S. Longboat location. Call 941-371-1866.

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Furnishings MULTI-COLORED FABRIC lounger sofa for two, 36” by 60”, $175. Magnetic glass front letter display case, 24” by 36” with multiple letter sets, $75. Rattan glass dining room table and six blue fabric chairs, 48’ by 80”, $199. Call 383.9700.

General Merchandise FOR SALE: Wine Collection, 90 bottles. Opus 1, 1983-1992. Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve, 1983-1989. Chateau Lafite 1987.

941-954-4567.

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.

Lost & Found FOUND: SONY digital camera (red), south end of Key. 941-730-4934.

Merchandise Wanted NEW OR Used Wanted to Buy, Kodak Carousel Slide Projector 760H. 941-383-4278.

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

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

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

Business Opportunities TEACHERS, CONCERNED about cutbacks? Not paid your worth? $300 to $1K mo. PT Cars, trips, bonuses, training. 941-366-4586.

Positions Wanted CAREGIVER/LPN SEEKING WORK Experienced, compassionate Caregiver/LPN working with the elderly.

Seeking full-time employment for single client. Personal needs, medications, cooking, light duty & transportation. $17 per hour. References, of course.

Ask for Elle, 941-806-7066 elleveld@yahoo.com

Condos/Apts. For Rent HOUSE CLASSIFIEDS LP # 56736

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.

BEACHPLACE, LBK. Casual beachfront living in 2BR/2BA, balcony condo. Olympic pool, health club, tennis courts. Available April through December, $1995/mo. Also available January through March, $4990/mo. Call for info. Contact Elizabeth/NYC. 212-570-2950.

Homes For Sale

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

Available 5/1/2013 (not 2012) and thereafter.

3 month min. lease req'd. Annual lease from 5/1/13 also avail. 8th floor. Rare amenity- bldg has 3 guest suites on 1st floor rentable for tenant's overflow company. Photos: ebstulberg@gmail.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. Victoria Profetta at: 585-509-4136.

Condos For Sale DISCOVER THE OTHER ISLAND, Tidy Island in Sarasota Bay. Great Bay front townhouse, 2/2/2 plus loft. Pet friendly. $390,000. Katharine Pepper, Rosebay Real Estate. 802-363-9973.

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. $419,000. Mark, 941-383-4381, bradtma@yahoo.com 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.

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

Annual 941-320-6000.

3 BEDROOM 3 bath beach facing. Annual, furnished rental across from private beach.

Unobstructed view, single car garage, washer dryer, private patio, 55+. Non-smoking. No pets.

Call for details, $2250/mo. 941-232-1357.

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BIRD KEY RENTAL: 2BR/2BA, Open Dining & Living room, Kitchen, W/D, 2CG. No pets or smoking. Some furniture. May-September or any part. $1800/mo. + Utilities, 941-320-2319.

SIESTA KEY BEACH HOME FOR RENT Big 3,200+ sq ft, 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 baths, Fireplace, Pool w/waterfall, Pavers. Tray ceilings, Granite counters in Gourmet kitchen. Separate Dining room. 4 good size bedrooms - 17x14, 21x15, 15x14, 13x12. Screened lanai.

Washer/dryer room. 2 car garage. Tile, wood and carpet flooring. Totally renovated in '06. Like new.

Freshly painted. Bike walk to beach and village.

Close to Out-of-Door Academy. In town Owner. $4,000/mo. Call Mark 203 979-4774.

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ISLAND BUNGALOW, 1 BEDROOM, TRAILOR REMODELED, "55+" PINES TRAILER PARK, 4 MINUTE WALK to GULF SUNSETS, ON BEACH!! PRIVATE BOAT CLUB, FREE FISHING on PIER REDUCED to $10,000, MAKE OFFER!!

ISLAND BUNGALOW, 1 BEDROOM, $402 REMODELED, Lot Rent TRAILOR Photos JoesWebb1@mac.com "55+" at PINES TRAILER PARK, 941-730-7470 4 MINUTE WALK to GULF SUNSETS, ON BEACH!! PRIVATE BOAT CLUB, FREE FISHING on PIER PARK EAST MOBILE HOME: Double-wide, Large lanai & screened in porch, New A/C, New Roof, REDUCED to $10,000, MAKE OFFER!!

Vinyl siding, Tie-downs, $13,500 negotiable. $402 Lot Rent Call Elliot 941-284-7917.

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BAYFRONT, Personalized 2BR/2BA Longboat Arms: updated, attention very clean and nicely furnished, with professional honest steps advice.to beach, nice25water from lanai.

Availableavailable May 2012 Yearsviews Experience - References through Dec. 2013. saf3009@gmail.com or 603-692-6445.

BEACH FRONT SUNSET BEACH,Rentals LBK. 2BR/2BA. Vacation/Seasonal Pool, spa. No pets. 2-3 mo. rental. Available BAYFRONT, 2BR/2BA Longboat updated, May-Dec., 2012.

Jan-March 2013.Arms: 248-330-7675. very clean and nicely furnished, steps to beach, LONGBOAT KEY CONDO niceBEACHFRONT water views from lanai. Available May 2012 Rare 3BR/2.5BA with beautiful views of Gulf ofor through Dec. 2013. saf3009@gmail.com Mexico. Remodeled kitchen and baths, W/D, 603-692-6445. pool, tennis, spa, photos available.

BEACH FRONT SUNSET BEACH,Rentals LBK. 2BR/2BA. Vacation/Seasonal lburton177@aol.com or 941-953-3438 Pool, spa. No pets. 2-3 mo. rental. Available May-Dec., 2012. BEACHPLACE Jan-March 2013. 248-330-7675.

Exceptional Vacation Rentals Since 1994 BEACHFRONT LONGBOAT KEY CONDO Homes & Condominiums Rare 3BR/2.5BA3BR, withUPDATED, beautiful views of Gulf of Studios to Six Bedrooms DECORATED. Mexico.TASTEFULLY Remodeled kitchen and baths, W/D, Beachfront, Intercoastal or Garden GULF & BAY VIEWS. pool, tennis, spa, photos available.

Excellent Service & Staff CALL CYNTHIA 407-492-5749 lburton177@aol.com or 941-953-3438 FLORIDA VACATION CONNECTION BEACHPLACE BEACHPLACE CONDO: 2BR/2BA, private parking, beautiful pool & Gulf, WIRELESS INTERNET. www.FLvacationconnection.com UPDATED, Pictures available.3BR, 941-807-0897.

941-387-9709 TASTEFULLY DECORATED. 877-705-2460 GULF & BAY VIEWS. CALL CYNTHIA 407-492-5749

CASA DEL MAR1 car IMMACULATE, FURNISHED, 2BR/2BA, garage, pool home in Venice.

Close to everything.

BEACHPLACE CONDO: 2BR/2BA, private parkBEACH RESORT Bookbeautiful now for pool next & Season at discount INTERNET. rates. Lots ing, Gulf, WIRELESS of other available. properties941-807-0897. also available. 941-441-7120 Pictures RENTALS 4 NIGHT MIN. or 800-568-0806.

GULF FRONT/ GULF VIEW

LBK SEAPLACE - Available January-April.

Lovely 2BR, fully equipped, W/D inMAR unit, lanai, CASA DEL garden view, steps to beach, pool, tennis, full Reservations:BEACH 941-383-5549 Visa/ MC RESORT clubhouse amenities. Great! Non-smoking/pets.

Fax: 941-383-7925 770-314-6321.

RENTALS 4 NIGHT MIN.

our video tour at” beautifully LBK, C.C. “Take SHORES. Gorgeous, www.casadelmar.net GULF FRONT/ GULF furnished home, 3/2/2, W/D, heated pool, VIEW wireless highspeed internet, plasma TV, cable, lanai, dock OfficeWalk Opento7 Days, - 5 p.m. and more. beach.9 a.m.

No pets/ smoking.

4621 Gulf of Mexico Drive 941-383-5549 Visa/ MC SleepsReservations: 5. $4000/mo.

Owner, 941-504-1492.

Longboat Key 34228 Fax: 941-383-7925 LBK: 1BR furnished condo, water views, includes cable, WASHER/ Longboat DRYER Harbor. INCovered parking, no EVERY “Take our video tour at” UNIT pets/ smoking, Gulf/ private beach house access.

BEAUTIFUL KITCHENS www.casadelmar.net Boat dock available.

1st - Dec.10th.

LARGE Available HEATED April POOL $800/mo. +utilities. GULFSIDE 734-216-6622.

Office Open 7 Days, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

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Reservations 941-383-6127 2BR/2BA, Whitney Beach, Longboat Key, PLAYERS CLUB Direct Gulf!

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Full year $2350/mo. mandalka@gmx.de TOWN HOUSE in SEAPLACE Condo, complete and furnished to the LIDOnicely BEACH Vacation2BR/2.5BA, paradise. 1 &steps 2 bedroom beach, spacious lanai+ terraces, full kitchen, WEEKLY RENTALS. Luxurious, fully furnished condos overlooking beautiful Lido Beach. living, area,Lido beach club (sauna, gym, tennis, 1Weekly - 4 dining bedrooms.

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LONGBOAT KEY. full$1,900, view, 2BR/2BA, on information and Beautiful virtual tours.

800-333-7335, Full $2350/mo. mandalka@gmx.de bay, year across street from beach. Prefer 3 or 4 month 941-383-3117. rental. Call Bob, 502-216-5255.

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Reservations PLAYERS CLUB - Direct 941-383-6127 Gulf! Upscale 2BR/3BA. Rental office1st.

9a.m.

5p.m. M-F Available December No - smoking.

4 month Visa/ MC minimum. 847-634-1991.

800-352-0367 Ask about our special rates!

RARELY AVAILABLE Wagner Realty RESORT STYLE LIVING 5360 Gulf of Mexico Dr., Suite 101 Private beach, tennis, heated pools, Since 1939 Longboat Key, FL 34228 2BR/2BA, Whitney Beach, Longboat Key, www.wagnerrentals.com downstairs, Bayou/ frontage.

Rental office 9a.m.dock - 5p.m.

M-F 941-724-3519

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PALMA SOLA BAYSince LAND:1939 3.9 acres of waterfront $3500/mo.

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Large single estate. $1,499,000. consider exchange 2BR/2BA, floor,oroverlooking pool andhome.

Gulf. for income first property Sarasota waterfront Large terraces off each bedroom and living room Marcia Wood, Broker, 941-350-2285. with walkdown.

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BACKSTAGE PASS Elisabeth Stevens shares her secret paintings / PAGE 8 Heidi Kurpiela

“Writing for grownups doesn’t appeal to me anymore,” says children’s entertainer Mifflin Lowe says. “I’m through with the adult neuroses, the problems, the whining. I create what I like now: happy, fun stuff.”

Lone Star

Mifflin Lowe’s story of an inner city kid who wants to be a cowboy has lassoed the attention of famous hip-hop artists, record executives and now the Sarasota County Film and Entertainment Office.

Mifflin Lowe has been riding around for a long time with the image of an inner-city cowboy galloping through his head.

The cowboy is young.

Maybe 10. He’s black. And, like Lowe, he has an overactive imagination. He fantasizes about riding steer and roping cattle.

He pictures New York

City as the Wild West. He pictures skyscrapers as mountain peaks, bicycle handlebars as ox horns and women in fur coats as grizzly bears.

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His name is Cowboy Kareem, and his adventures have occupied Lowe’s thoughts for so long it’s hard to tell where Kareem’s dreams end and Lowe’s begin.

“I honestly can’t even remember when I (conceived) it,” Lowe says of the story. “I never set out to make a point. I just liked the idea of a child who daydreams about becoming a cowboy under unlikely circumstances.”

A Bird Key resident and former advertising copywriter from Newport, R.I., Lowe took second place last month in the Sarasota County Film and Entertainment Office’s “TV ME!” pitch contest.

He entered his “Adventures of Cowboy Kareem” in the competition’s one-off/long format category.

Although the 82-page screenplay is written as a full-length feature, Lowe says he’d be happy to see the story turned into an animated short with an accompanying soundtrack — for now.

He’s already met with an animation student at Ringling College of Art and Design and discussed staging the script with live actors at the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe.

“I’m putting a lot of hooks in the water and seeing whoever bites,”

Lowe says. “Maybe I’m spitting ing radio jingles. into the wind a little bit … eh …

In the mid-1980s, he wrote a who knows what might come out book inspired by a lunch he once of it.” shared with a stingy colleague, Jeanne Corcoran, director of who ordered nearly everything on the Sarasota County Film and the menu then weaseled his way Entertainment Office, says there’s out of paying. a reason Lowe’s pitch stood out “I’d never seen anything like among the nearly 200 pitches she it,” Lowe recalls. “As I was driving received for the contest. home that night, I thought, hey, “It’s not something that just that would make a good book.” popped into his head overnight,” “The Cheapskate’s Handbook: Corcoran says. “It’s very well de- A Guide to the Subtleties, Intriveloped, and it has an inspiration- cacies and Pleasures of Being a al message that goes completely Tightwad” was published shortly against stereotype. I could see it thereafter with a black-and-white tickling the fancy of certain net- photograph of Lowe on the cover works that like imaginative famlooking like Larry King, in ily content.” suspenders, a bow tie and This wouldn’t be the first wire-rimmed glasses. time his cowboy fantasy has It was an instant suctickled people’s fancies. cess.

At one point, hip-hop artThe publisher, a division ist Wyclef Jean wanted to of Penguin, printed 250,000 produce the project. (He and copies. Lowe was offered an Lowe share a mutual friend.) advance on a second book, Then Mercury Records presiwhich he took, and a guest dent Ed Eckstine wanted to spot on “The Oprah Winfrey jump on board.

Show,” which he didn’t take Both connections, however, — a decision that is as much failed to pan out. a non claim-to-fame as it is a When Lowe finally did sell claim-to-fame for the writer. the rights to the script, he opted “I don’t like to fly,” he says to take them back after producwith a shrug. “I also think I had ers suggested he make Cowboy something to do that day.”

Kareem white.

When his second and third “I couldn’t do it,” he says. “It’s humor books — “I Hate Fun,” too good an idea and too a good a tongue-in-cheek analycharacter to compromise like sis of the American pursuit that.” of amusement, and “How To Lowe, himself, is something of Be a Celebrity,” a tongue-ina character. cheek guide to achieving A musician with a desuperstardom — failed gree in art history from to make the masses Princeton University, Lowe has won several laugh, Lowe decidhe spent most of his major advertising awards, ed it was time to recareer working in ad- including a CLIO Award turn to a friendlier vertising and compos- and One Show Award. niche: writing and

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“It was the greatest thrill of my life,” Mifflin Lowe says of the time his teenage son confessed that one of his favorite paperbacks was a poorly selling humor book Lowe had written. performing material for children.

With his longtime collaborator and friend, Berklee College of Music professor Greg Wardson, Lowe turned his first children’s book — the 1987 illustrated “Beasts by the Bunches,” a book of poetry with accompanying songs about groups of animals — into an orchestral score for the Syracuse Symphony.

The gig led to a performance last year with the Missouri Symphony Orchestra, at which Lowe met Sarasota Orchestra violinist Carlann Evans, with whom he hopes to collaborate on future projects, namely a “Beasts by the Bunches” performance with the Sarasota Orchestra.

“I probably sound like I’m all over the place,” Lowe says, chuckling nervously. “It’s just that my imagination runs off with so many ideas. I know I need to stick with one for a moment.”

With “Cowboy Kareem” finally gaining momentum, Lowe says it’s obvious what he needs to focus on: a little boy in a 10-gallon hat.

He picks up his guitar and starts to strum a song he wrote for the story, an infectious ditty called “Homeboy on the Range.”

As he picks each chord, signing the lyrics with an appropriately gravelly twang, his face and his posture transform into something a little more rugged: his version of a kid’s version of a cowboy.

“It all boils down to doing what you like,” Lowe says. “A lot of my work is about people using their imaginations to view the world in a much happier way. I guess you could call it escapism, which is fine by me. I’ve got child-like sensibilities.”

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+ Artist Series announces 2012 scholarship winners And you thought J.Lo, Randy Jackson and Steven Tyler had it hard.

Imagine what the judges for the Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota must go through when they select the final six for the organization’s scholarship competition.

The agony!

by Heidi Kurpiela | A&E Editor

+ Actress Penelope Ann Miller joins SFF lineup This just in: Penelope Ann Miller will receive this year’s Career Tribute Award at the Sarasota Film Festival.

The festival announced Friday that Miller will join the ranks of this year’s VIP guest list, which, so far, includes documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy, director Todd Solondz and actors Frank Langella, Jena Malone, Dominic Monaghan and Ashley Bell.

Miller stars alongside Lauren Ambrose in the drama “Think of Me,” a story about a struggling single mother in Las Vegas, which is slated to screen April 21 and April 22 at the festival.

The actress will receive the accolade at the festival’s

Filmmaker Luncheon April 20 at the Sarasota Yacht Club.

Miller, who broke out in Hollywood with a string of hits in the early 1990s, including “Awakenings,” “The Freshman” and the Al Pacino/Sean Penn flick, “Carlito’s Way,” is back in the spotlight again thanks to a nice run in the now-canceled “Men of a Certain Age” and a supporting role this year’s Best Picture winner, “The Artist.”

Miller’s appearance is a cherry on top of a thick festival sundae highlighted by NPR host and New York Magazine movie critic David Edelstein talking robots and Nixon with Count Dracula himself, Frank Langella.

Actress Penelope Ann Miller

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Artist Series scholarship finalists Gabriela Pena-Kim, Erica Ogihara and Likai He

At least on “Idol,” Ryan Seacrest is on hand to console the castoffs.

Divided into two age groups — scholarship level (ages 14 to 19) and performance level (ages 20 to 26) ­­— the competition came to a head last month when 10 semi-finalists competed against one another for a spot in a final performance at the Historic Asolo Theater.

Judged by violist Christina McGann and Sarasota Orchestra musicians Abe Feder and John Miller, the competition awarded $25,000 in scholarships.

Finalists in the scholarship level were cellist Erica Ogihara and violinists Gabriela Pena-Kim and Likai He. In the performance level, awards went to violinists Born Lau and Ryan Meehan and cellist Matthew Allen.

+ Sarasota bids adieu to two dynamic directors Two resignation announcements hit my email inbox last month: one from Art Center Sarasota Director Fayanne Hayes, the other from G.WIZ Executive Director Molly Demeulenaere.

Double bummer.

Hayes joined the Art Center in 2007. Demeulenaere joined G.WIZ in 2009. It feels like I just met these women at the start of their tenures — especially Demeulenaere, who graced the cover of this section just one month into the job.

At the time, she said she could picture herself leading G.WIZ for another 10 to 15 years, but, alas, Demeulenaere is moving up … to Tampa, where she’ll work as the vice president of development at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI).

In April, her G.WIZ run will come

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José Carreño auditions dancers at the Sarasota Cuban Ballet School

+ Carreño Dance Fest exceeds enrollment goal José Carreño and Robert de Warren auditioned dancers all over the country this winter, hoping to pad out the second season of summer intensive classes at their Carreño Dance Festival.

Last year, the school enrolled 56 students. This year, Carreño and de Warren were hoping to double that number. Mission accomplished.

In addition to holding auditions last month at the Sarasota Cuban Ballet School, the duo saw preprofessional dancers in WinstonSalem, N.C., Los Angels, Phoenix, Miami and Houston.

Their jet-setting paid off. The program, which runs Aug. 5 to Aug. 25, at the Sarasota Opera House, has grown to more than 100 students.

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Fayanne Hayes kicked off her final “iconcept” last week. to an end, as will Hayes’ time at the Art Center.

I wish you ladies lots of luck. You provided stability and leadership and fostered innovative programming and smart collaborations during trying economic times.

These two neighboring organizations are flourishing because steered them. You will both be sorely missed.

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‘A Shadow of Blue’ is an imaginative adventure “A Shadow of Blue,” by Carlos Lascano, is playing as part of Sarasota Film Festival’s Shorts 14: youthFEST Animated Shorts I at 11:45 a.m.

Saturday, April 21, at Regal Hollywood 20.

The Film Festival’s Shorts 14 will include screenings of: “Monarch,”

by Victor René Ramirez Madrigal and Jorge Arturo Tornero Aceves; “The Name-less,” by Violaine Lecuyer; “Ravenboy,” by Andrew Deppert; and “Rose & Violet,” by Claude Grosch and Luc Otter.

Tickets to the screening are $12 for adults and free for children.

Tickets are on sale now at sarasotafilmfestival.com.

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“A Shadow of Blue” is like a kiss from heaven.

This short film, by Carlos Lascano, can touch the children of the world to still push and believe that disabled or not, you can still reach the sky.

The film is about a girl who uses her imagination to create an adventure through the forest without leaving her feet. She moves only by her shadow with her butterfly leading her. To see that there is faith for her if she is disabled makes her life meaningful for her and kids all over the world.

This is my impression of “A Shadow of Blue,” a loving story of a girl with hope and a blue light still in her heart.

A gaunt little girl sits on a park bench and allows her imagination to wander. Director Carlos Lascano brings together emotional music and characters in an adventurous story. “A Shadow of Blue” is a touching story full of adventure.

A little girl fills her time on a park bench creating a majestic blue paper butterfly. The butterfly comes to life, along with the girl’s shadow.

She imagines enthralling adventures with her shadow in the lead.

There are suspenseful twists as her

shadow skips and jumps, reaching for the butterfly.

A nasty crow acts as an antagonist and plots to scare the little girl away. The actions are expressive, and the music adds eerie suspense.

Everything is not as it seems as the plot develops.

Since there is no dialogue, the actions are clear and expressive.

The actions are dramatic, and the little girl’s leaps and jumps are expressed through flailing arms; crying with the heaves of the little girl’s shoulders. Even in shadow, actions are clear and precise.

The antagonist plays its part as a crow, attempting to make it impossible for the little girl to catch the

butterfly. Its expressive crowing adds to its menacing appearance.

The music and the creative angles give the story another dimension.

The music adds emotion with a twirly, tinkly song in happy scenes and eerie music in the scenes of suspense. Without the music, Lascano couldn’t have portrayed emotions in shadow.

Lascano brings together great music and emotional characters to create a short film full of imagination. With twists and turns, the imagination of a little girl brings together happiness and sadness in an adventure worth taking. So, come along and take the adventure in “A Shadow of Blue.”

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The perennially marvelous score features songs, such as “Consider Yourself at Home,” “I’d Do Anything,” “It’s a Fine Life” and “Pick a Pocket or Two.” Some highlights included “As Long as He Needs Me,” beautifully sung by Dianne Dawson as Nancy; a heartbreaking “Where is Love?” sung by Stevie Romero as Oliver; and a cunning rendition of “Reviewing the Situation,” by Steve Dawson, who most engagingly transforms himself into Fagin. Robby May is extremely effective in his dual role of narcissist, Mr. Bumble, singing the plaintive, “Boy for Sale,” and Bill Sykes, villainous psychopath, who sings a chilling “My Name.” Also effective in dual roles as Widow Corney and Mrs. Bedwin is funny Helen Holliday. And Matty Colonna creates a charming Artful Dodger.

In the play’s iconic opener, in which Oliver Twist holds out his tiny bowl and asks for “more” gruel, is followed by an adorable romp as the young cast of “boys” sings “Food, Glorious Food.” The children playing the boys: Summer Boucher, Brett McDowall, Kaity Cairo, Bryson Gregory, Max Lieberman, Evan Huit, and Joshua Roberson.

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“I just loved it; it’s the best one I’ve seen here,” declared my satisfied neighbor, Phyllis Mallette, a longtime Sarasotan, who explained that her father had taken her to the Apple and the Van Wezel in his time, and she was glad “to see the place making a comeback.”

Based on Dickens’ semi-autobiographical novel, “Oliver Twist,” the play was adapted by Lionel Bart, who wrote the book, music and lyrics. It was produced in 1960 at London’s West End and went on to a hugely successful, Tony Award-winning Broadway run in 1963.

“Oliver Twist,” the novel, is a searing indictment of 19th-century England’s treatment of orphans, in particular, and the poor and homeless, in general, during the Industrial Revolution. It employs heavy satire to expose the ruthlessness and hypocrisy of the wealthy and privileged, as well as the larcenous and corrupt, and had a major impact on the nation’s deplorable “poor laws” and other injustices of the period.

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There are some performances that are important events. There are others that are important evenings of music-making. Victor DeRenzi’s recent celebration of 30 years with the Sarasota Opera was a lot of both.

The stage was filled by the Sarasota Opera Orchestra, risen from the pit and fully visible, as well as admirably audible. Behind them was a chorus of about 40 singers taken from the various ranks of this season’s Sarasota Opera roster. And, at various times downstage, were this year’s excellent soloists.

It was a gala evening with an inventory of composers from Beethoven, Bellini and Boito, to Verdi and Wagner, and there were highlights that will stay with us for some time to come.

Opening with the ballet music from Verdi’s “Otello” made perfect musical sense, because “Otello” was one of this season’s greatest hits, and hearing the superb orchestra joined (briefly) by members of the grand chorus was thrilling. So was Maria D’Amato’s rich performance of “Casta diva” from Bellini’s “Norma,” especially because the soprano had just come from singing Desdemona in the house that same afternoon!

The final scene from Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” featuring Kara Shay Thomson, Sarah Asmar, Mathew Edwardsen, Adam Ulrich, Jeffrey Beruan and Stephen Fish, showed a leaner, keener, almost Mozartean side of DeRenzi.

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equals, swooping, diving and tumbling together like acrobats without a net, yet never diminishing Beethoven’s musical intent.

The prelude and “Liebestod” from Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” blew us away, from the exquisite cello solo in the prelude, to Thomson’s gorgeous delivery of the “Liebestod.” With every note under control, she gave us a spine-shivering, brilliantly sung account of one of music’s finest moments.

Danielle Walker and Joshua Kohl seemed risen on wings of song in the glorious Act II duet from Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut.”

But, for me, the absolute height of a splendid program came in the finale, when bass Young-Bok Kim, the chorus, members of the company’s Youth Opera, full orchestra and off-stage brass catapulted us through the roof with the prologue from Boito’s “Mefistofele.”

This is the kind of music making that converts atheists to believers and non-opera goers to music nuts.

It was a mighty tribute and accolade to the well-deserved tenure of DeRenzi. In fact, as an encore, DeRenzi repeated the last part of the prologue, perhaps looking toward another 30 years.

— June LeBell

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‘iconcept’ launches a new wave of fashion Art Center Sarasota’s must-see runway show of the year featured hip-hop, hula-hoop dancers, fire spinners, food trucks and a whole lot of unconventional inspiration.

Barbara Gerdeman’s “Mommy’s in the Market for Monet”

Where were you Friday night?

We were at Art Center Sarasota, sweating and howling with the masses, as models paraded down a runway dressed in bubble wrap and repurposed bicycle tubes for the annual “iconcept” art/fashion show.

Before we go any further, let’s first give credit to the models that each year look fabulous in materials most people toss in the garbage. (We’re talking about you, Bonnie Greenball Silvestri. You stole the

show, pushing your 1-year-old daughter in a shopping cart, dressed in a dress made from Publix shopping bags.)

And the artists? Without their unbridled creativity, “iconcept” would cease to exist. No one would realize black trash bags could be woven into a Chanel jacket. (We’re talking about you, Lisa Berger. Your “Haute Plastique” was a work of genius.)

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Give these folks a medal. For months they work tirelessly to

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This year’s Ringling Picnic food trucks were a nice touch.)

Kudos to all of you for making “iconcept 2012” a rousing success.

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Christina Michiels’ “Cupcake Candy Pop” was inspired by a Katy Perry song.

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Elisabeth Stevens is currently working on a companion piece to “Circus Sarasota,” the etching she created two years ago based on a sketch of a Circus Sarasota performance.

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Elisabeth Stevens spent the first half of her career traveling the country, critiquing art for newspapers and magazines. Now she spends her days creating it in a converted garage studio in her Sarasota home.

Elisabeth Stevens has a secret stash of paintings in her studio.

To illustrate how secret they are, she marked the drawer in which she keeps them.

If you were tempted to snoop through Stevens’ filing cabinet in search of this collection, you wouldn’t have to look for long.

The drawer that contains the

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work is clearly and obviously labeled, “Secret Paintings.”

Stevens may be talented, but she’s not stealth.

“They’re kind of kooky,” she says, pulling out an image of a cat with women’s breasts. “Well, maybe all my work is a little bit kooky.”

Stevens painted the images

years ago, when she was still working as an art critic for The Baltimore Sun and before that, The Trenton Times, and before that, The Wall Street Journal, and before that, The Washington Post.

She spent more than 25 years in journalism.

In the beginning of her career, she went wherever her husband,

a finance whiz, was hired.

“I knew I was a writer,” Stevens says. “It just never occurred to me that I was an artist. Money was always such an object that I rarely had the time to create it. I had to work.”

She was a widow at a young age. Her husband suddenly died when their daughter was just 7 years old. Creating art was a luxury then. Stevens had bigger concerns.

“I was never able to really sit down and focus (on making art) until my daughter went off to college.” Stevens says. “That’s not to say I didn’t loved being a journalist, because I did.”

Sometimes she would find the time to paint.

At night, after her daughter had gone to bed, she would create wild, figurative paintings in acrylic — the 29 “secret paintings,” as they’ve come to be called.

Her favorite is of a two-headed woman, one facing the morning and one facing the night, a baby and a book cradled between the women, the word “joyful” spelled out at the bottom of the picture.

“My daughter seems to think they’re great,” Stevens says. “I can’t imagine anyone would care about them.”

A native of Rome, N.Y., Stevens studied English at Wellesley College and Columbia University.

At first, she thought she wanted to be an English teacher, until she started pumping out short art reviews during grad school for the New York-based art magazine, ARTnews, which still exists today.

She was a bohemian, as interested in the beat generation as any young writer living in the early 1960s in New York City. As proof

UP CLOSE To see Elisabeth Stevens’ work in person, visit the Stakenorg Fine Art Gallery in downtown Sarasota. To see her work online, visit gosspress.com.

of this, she has an assortment of ink drawings created on the spot in cafés and street corners.

The collection includes sketches of Lenny Bruce, Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac, as well as a series of images depicting the 1963 coal mining disaster in Dola, W.V. “They actually let me down there,” Stevens says. “Can you imagine? I made drawings in the mine.”

It’s hard to imagine Stevens — a tiny, blond lady living in a well kept country-club neighborhood — lugging an art portfolio through New York City subway stations and West Virginia coal mines, until you start studying everything she’s created: six books of short fiction, five books of poems, art monographs, etchings, linocuts and silverpoints.

All of them contain imagery and themes that are a little offkilter, a little surprising and often come from such strange recesses in her mind that even she can’t tell you from where they came.

Take, for example, the story of a woman who inexplicably grows a halo above her head in Stevens’ latest work, “Impossible Interlude: Three Short Plays.”

“I was a very serious journalist,” Stevens says. “I traveled all over the country writing about art. Just don’t ask me to explain my own. If I could explain it, I wouldn’t create it.”

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Several Marie Antoinettes and their Frenchmen, originally lounging and soaking up the evening by the banyan tree, made a run for cover and dried themselves off inside the white tent set up for the 31st annual Orchid Ball: “An Evening at Versailles.”

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Baroque dancers Alyson Dolan, Angela Rauter and Caitlin McMullen fascinated guests as they performed enchanting dances, and Michael Klauber auctioned off items such as one orchid each month for one year; and admittance to the everpopular Michael’s On East dinner for 10, at the Christy Payne Mansion. Later, everyone boogied on the dance floor to the DeLeon Orchestra.

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The American Cancer Society will hosts its annual Cattle Baron's Ball gala to benefit its Reaching Out to Cancer Kids programs — R.O.C.K. Camp, R.O.C.K Scholarships and Families R.O.C.K. Weekend.

The award for most creative means of transportation to the 31st annual Orchid Ball goes to Tony Neubroch and Chris Gilligan, who arrived via bicycles. Tony pedaled along in his tux and Chris was in her pink evening gown and flip-flops. They decided to bike instead of driving because they live around the corner from Selby Gardens.

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+ Almost too perfect for words Oh, Roger Pettingell, you certainly do belong in this photo. As Baroque dancers Alyson Dolan, Caitlin McMullen, Angela Rauter gracefully organized themselves and their stunning dresses into perfect poses at Saturday’s Orchid Ball, Pettingell did what any man watching three beautiful women would do — he took the empty chair, smiled and posed with them! His wife, Alisa, was quick to pull out her own camera and capture the moment in a photograph.

+ A twinkle in his eye Ernie Kretzmer’s sense of humor lit up the room when he accepted the American Jewish Committee Human Relations Award presented to him and wife, Alisa, at the eponymous annual dinner March 26, at Michael’s On East. His response to being given a shofar: “I guess I get a

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He saluted the AJC for “shining a bright light on human relations violations worldwide,” and closed with, “Let us all join the eternal battle against evil.” A crowd of 200-plus was present to honor the Kretzmers; there is hardly a non-profit in town that has not benefited from their remarkable generosity.

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Maestro Victor DeRenzi’s 30 years There were almost 60 guests at with the Sarasota Opera. And what the surprise 60th birthday party a celebration that was, with the for Dr. Susan Weinkle March 24, spectacular “Mefistophele” featurat Michael’s Wine Cellar. Reports ing the Sarasota Opera Chorus are that the MOHS Surgery for and the Youth Opera Chorus as Skin Cancer surgeon and dermaits finale. Bravo! … From hope tologist was genuinely surprised and fear set free … In the past and the party went on until midfew weeks: Michael Silverstein, night … Smart move … Some Norman Menell and Kay Ronson guests came to the Weinkle party succumbed after long battles. May on the late side, following Ringling their memories be for a blessing.

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guestfashioneditor Veronica pastore There are days when Veronica Pastore is chic and polished and days when she’s outfitted in retro wear. Either way, it’s always a look. The associate marketing director of the Sarasota Film Festival loves shopping secondhand and enjoys the thrill of discovering buried treasures in unexpected places.

Emilio Pucci multicolor heels

“One of my absolute favorite pieces. I’m a big big fan of Pucci and I always get tons of compliments on these. The rhinestonebow on the toe is also kind of unexpected and makes them even more fabulous.”

RED PRADA DRESS

“I got this at Goodwill in town and it fits me like a glove.”

“This was the only item of clothing at a random estate sale I went to and it fit me perfectly. My sister threw a ‘Monster Ball’ party last summer and I went as a glamorous space monster, complete with a third eye.”

REVERSIBLE CLUTCH “This clutch is amazing because it’s reversible and two of my favorite colors — baby pink and sea foam green.”

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“I just have fun with what I wear on a daily basis. It’s almost like costuming to me, coming up with a theme and then executing it based on what I’ve got in my closet.”

Black fur dress “This one found me in a rural flea market somewhere in the hills of Georgia.

The fur trim is adorable — I actually did wear it once here last winter when it got a little chilly, but it doesn’t make it out of my closet much.”

VINTAGE LANVIN CROCODILE BAG

“I found this in a local thrift store for $6 — much less than what it’s actually worth.”

Blue poofy dress

“My princess dress!

This is from Everything But The Girl, Laura Daniel Gale’s old shop in the Rosemary District.

I finally got to wear it for a really fun “flamingo” photoshoot on the beach.”

Lacy baby doll dress

“Another vintage piece from a shop in Atlanta.

It’s actually a little girl’s dress, I think, which is why it’s so cute.

Depending on the occasion I can wear it as a dress or more like a shift over denim. The high lace collar is my favorite part.”

YSL AND MISSONI TIES “I really like to wear neck ties every once in a while as a fun twist on office wear. These are two of my faves.”

SKIRT FROM PARIS

“This skirt is from a vintage store in Paris.

I love the bright coral print. (And it’s velvet!)”

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