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FPL busts myths at SKA meeting Representatives from Florida Power & Light Co. spoke at the monthly meeting of the Siesta Key Village Association to temper health and privacy concerns about the firm’s smart meters.

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+ Beautiful moment Melissa Herron and her husband, Mike, of Bradenton, are active members of the Longboat Key Turtle Watch.

Herron is used to watching Longboat Key’s spectacular sunrises, but this sunset photo, taken on Greer Island, was a more rare sighting for her. She said the lighting was spectacular on this January night, and she couldn’t resist capturing this universal moment between a mother and child, when the mom was showing her child the beauty of the world.

Herron’s daughter, Danielle Etienne, jokingly asked her mom why she didn’t submit a photo of the two of them for The Observer’s Mother’s Day photo contest.

“This appeals to everyone,” Herron said of the photo.

This year’s contest included 25 submissions, and 3,993 total votes were cast. Herron’s winning photo received 1,370 votes. As the winner, Herron will receive a $75 gift certificate.

Ahead of the Florida Power & Light Co. plans to install smart meters in Sarasota County, a project manager representing the electric company took questions and presented a video to the Siesta Key Association to

ease resident concerns about the switch.

Project Manager Steve Anderson led the session, which proceeded with near silence from SKA members to accommodate quiet computer speakers sup-

porting the video. He explained that FPL expects to complete the meter switch for its 4.6 million customers by 2013; Sarasota County meter upgrades are expected to start in November.

New meters come with a

wealth of benefits, Anderson said. They emit a radio frequency to FPL allowing it to alert the firm when a customer (or customers) loses power. Instead of waiting

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By Alex Mahadevan | News Editor Matt Grover, Troy Syprett and Russell Matthes stand in front of the bar at Daiquiri Deck’s Siesta Key location.

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+ Kiltie Band preps for final concert The Riverview High School Kiltie Band will perform its final concert of the year at 7:30 p.m. May 10, at the school, 1 Ram Way. The 90-minute spring concert will feature a variety of music performed by members of the band in their traditional Scottish uniforms.

A donation of $5 at the door will support Kiltie Band activities throughout the year.

For more information, call 539-5383.

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Expansion plans The owners of Daiquiri Deck Raw Bar are using lessons learned in their 18 years of experience operating a business in Siesta Key Village to expand their brand.

Like the five types of oysters Daiquiri Deck Raw Bar has on its menu, the island-themed restaurant and bar captures the unique flavor of each region in which its restaurants reside.

And now, Daiquiri Deck, a

brand held by SMG that was founded in 1993, will expand its regional focus once again this fall with a new restaurant in Venice.

SMG co-owner and Vice President of Operations Matt Grover,

Daiquiri Deck President and coowner Troy Syprett and Daiquiri Deck Vice President and co-owner Russell Matthes plan to apply the experiences they’ve collected operating the Daiquiri Deck Raw Bar, a Siesta Key Village land-

mark, in their latest business endeavor.

“It’s really defined the criteria we require to open a Daiquiri Deck,” Grover explained about

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Anderson said FPL will only see the kilowatts of electricity a custo field calls complaining about tomer consumes. outages, they can quickly zero in Additionally, Anderson said on a region that has lost electri- there would be minimal intrucal power and speed up techni- sion by crews during the upgrade cian response time. There could progress. The company will send even be fewer surprised consum- technicians to install a customers opening monthly electricity er’s smart meter and technicians bills, because smart meters will will visit the meter “two or three generate monthly forecasts so times” for testing. forward-thinking customers can When the potential health plan ahead. hazards of the new meters was brought up by an SKA member, Anderson responded with a poll of those who own cell phones. When a majority of hands shot into the air, he asserted that frequencies emitted by cell phones are far greater than what smart meters generate.

“Radio frequency is part of everyday life,” he added.

Smart-meter installations have already started in Dade and Broward counties, AnCourtesy photo derson said. Of the 3.2 Florida Power and Light plans to start million that are comreplacing Siesta Key resident’s current elec- plete, 2.5 million have tric meters with smart meters in November. been activated.

Sarasota County But change is sometimes ac- residents can expect to receive companied with concerns: Priva- a notice in the mail with more cy was one of the issues that got information about smart meters the most attention. One member and when crews will switch out of SKA asked about public avail- their meters. ability of the information gathAnderson said that changing ered by the meters. Anderson out the meters should take less explained that customer data than a minute and explained transmitted to FPL would be pro- that despite the new name and tected. He also addressed a myth capabilities, installation would that the company would be able be no different than switching to break down what customers out a malfunctioning meter. are using electricity for — such “(FPL) has been changing out as toasting bread, for example. meters for years,” he said.

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Tasty timeline 1993 — Daiquiri Deck opens in Siesta Key Village.

1995 — Daiquiri Deck opens a second location further north in Madeira Beach.

1996 — Daiquiri Deck owners open the Peanut Gallery, a small bar in Siesta Key Village, which is now the raw bar for the Siesta location.

1997 — The owners open a bar on Main Street, which they sold in 1999.

2000 — The owners open Pancho’s, a Mexican restaurant, and in 2002 convert it into the Siesta Key Oyster Bar. 2003 — The Siesta Key Oyster Bar is sold to its current owners, and Daiquiri Deck owners open Octave, another bar, in Gulf Gate.

2004 — The owners sell the Madeira Beach location.

2005 — The owners sell Octave.

2011 — The owners open another location on St. Armands Circle.

2012 — The owners plan to debut a hybrid model of their brand in a new 6,500-square-foot location in Venice, which include elements from the Siesta Key and St. Armands locations. (*Years provided by co-owners)

DAIQUIRI / FROM 1A opening Daiquiri Deck brands in Madeira Beach and on St. Armands Circle.

Although the island-themed concept is tourist-driven, it has to offer local patrons something as well; for example, the popular breakfast menu offered at the St. Armands Circle location.

When season ends, the amount of local support for a business can separate a fleeting bar from a sustained brand.

“Bars come and go all the time, but having a quality food product that tourists and locals can enjoy is how you stay in business,” said Matthes.

Lobster Benedict and mimosas, breakfast options that Grover said lures locals to the twostory location on St. Armands, aren’t the only way to buoy local support. The owners keep a tight bond with the community through charities, schools and neighborhood organizations.

In a way, the trio serves as community ambassadors: Matthes takes up causes on Siesta Key; and Grover concentrates on St. Armands Circle. Syprett has been visiting Venice often, making him the face of Daiquiri Deck in that region.

“We sometimes lose sight of how much we’re involved with the community,” Grover said.

“Especially at the Siesta location.”

Also, the managers that will steer the new restaurant have already paid a visit to the Venice Area Chamber of Commerce and Venice MainStreet Inc. events (a nonprofit that oversees downtown Venice activity).

“Ironically, they’re both (the managers) from the Venice

area,” Grover said. One even played and coached basketball at Venice High School.

Siesta Village was not always a bustling tourist hub, and Matthes said the expansion into Venice might provide a similar challenge to when they cofounded the Siesta location in 1993.

“We need to ask ourselves how to steer people to a sleepy downtown,” Matthes asked.

One regional factor the owners hope to tap is the greater number of retailers near the planned Venice Avenue spot, something that is lagging in Siesta Village but has helped the St. Armands location.

“I’m encouraging (the shops) on Venice Avenue to stay open later,” Matthes said. “St. Armands is a shopping mecca from 6 to 10 p.m., and a lot of the shops on Venice Avenue close at 5 or 6 p.m.”

Parking is another familiar hurdle for the Daiquiri Deck owners. They will need to keep the same ratio for parking spaces to capacity: one space for every five seats.

“We’ve been dealing with (parking issues) for almost 20 years,” Matthes said. “We know if people are fighting over parking spaces, we have to make (visiting the Daiquiri Deck) worthwhile.”

The expansion could be part of a long-term goal to market the Daiquiri Deck as a franchise concept.

“We’re certainly open to franchising and have been approached numerous times,” Matthes said. “But at this time we feel it will take three to five stores to really hone in on a corporate chain level.”

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turtle tracking By Alex Mahadevan | News Editor

Siesta Key welcomes newest visitors A loggerhead turtle was observed nesting on Siesta Key on the first morning of sea-turtle nesting season. Two other nests were discovered the same day.

This year’s turtle-nesting season on Siesta Key is off to a surprising start.

It’s not the recorded number of nests and false crawls, three each, which remain in line with the previous year’s data for the first week of the season.

It’s one turtle’s nesting habits, which were on display for onlookers May 1.

Mote Marine Laboratory enlists 350 volunteers and four staff members for daily beach patrols from Longboat Key to Venice to gather data. But turtle

trackers rarely get the opportunity to observe a sea turtle in the act of digging a nest and laying its roughly 100 eggs, because turtles generally nest at night.

However, this year some beachgoers and members of Mote’s turtle patrol witnessed a loggerhead turtle finish nesting at approximately 7 a.m. May 1, said Mote senior biologist Kristen Mazzarella.

There are a variety of reasons the turtle eschewed its normal nesting habits, including some that would indicate question-

able character traits. Mazzarella explained that it could have reached the shoreline in the early hours of the morning or struggled to find an acceptable spot to dig the 1-foot-deep nest — making the mother late or picky.

But, there is no way to determine the actual cause. “(Different sea turtles) are just like people with different personalities,” Mazzarella said.

“They just make different choices.”

Turtle tracks are the key to

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spotting false crawls, which happen when a sea turtle emerges from surf and becomes disoriented and returns to the sea without nesting.

Disorientation can happen when beach furniture or sandcastles and trenches create obstacles or shoreline lights cause visual confusion.

At the monthly Siesta Key Association meeting Monday, May 7, Mote Marine Laboratory volunteer Tommy Vaughn-Birch gave a brief demonstration about what to expect during this

season on Siesta Key. Although the lowest nesting numbers were recorded in 2003, VaughnBirch said, “We’ve been on an upward trend for nests.”

The hypothetical battle of the turtle sexes will likely result in more females emerging from nests towards the south end of Siesta Key on Turtle Beach and males dominating the north. It’s all in the sand, Vaughn-Birch explained.

The temperature of the nest determines a sea turtle’s sex, so the dark sands of Turtle Beach will yield a different sex ratio than the light sand of the morthern beach.

“Remember: hot mommas and cool daddies,” she said.

by Loren Mayo | Black Tie Editor

Sweet on Mom

Roses are red, violets are blue. Hey, moms, here’s a Mother’s Day Q-and-A just for you! The Pelican Press chatted with students at Bay Haven School of Basics-Plus and Out-of-Door Academy about their moms and Mother’s Day.

Miya Osbourne You love your mom because: She’s so nice and helpful. My favorite food that she cooks is shepherd’s pie when she puts seasonings on it.

Mother’s Day is: When you make stuff for your mother.

Your mom is prettiest when: She goes to church.

Your mom is funniest when: She yells at my sister.

JACK WARNER

Isaac Cedano You love your mom because: ’Cause she does nice things. She gives me hugs and kisses and that’s it.

Your mom is prettiest when: She goes to the Banyan Ball.

Every year she buys something different.

She’s the best mom because: She lets me go outside.

You love her because: She’s really funny and she makes me laugh a lot.

Her favorite flower is: Probably sunflowers.

If you could get your mom any present it would be: A card that says “I love you.”

Dahlia Mankovich

Why do you love your mom?

She gives me a lot of things that are special, like gold stuff, silver stuff.

What do you know about your mother?

I know her name and I know she’s a flower.

Your mom is the prettiest when: When she has a skirt on.

She’s the nicest when: Always.

What would you do if your mom went away for a whole week?

I would probably cry.

Why do you love your mom?

She reads to me.

ANSLEY WHITE

Her favorite flower is: She likes orchids.

Your mom is nicest when: When I get all of my words right on my spelling test.

Mateo GIACINTI

BLAINE BENTLEY Why do you love your mom?

Because she gave birth to me.

Why do you love your mom?

Her hugs always make me smile.

What makes her special?

That’s really hard. I don’t really even know.

Your mom is nicest when: Whenever I get something done and I do a great job at something.

Your mom is the nicest when: She’s usually always nice.

What makes your mom special?

She always is nice, and when she doesn’t want to do something she still does it.

If you could take her anywhere in the world?

China. Then the whole family could see the Great Wall of China.

GABRIELLE KOZel

Why do you love your mom?

I love my mom because she’s funny. She makes me laugh a lot.

Why do you love your mom?

Because she gave me a pogo stick for my birthday.

She’s a flower?

She’s named after a flower — Camillia.

What makes her the best mom?

She makes me breakfast in the morning, picking me up after school and being really nice.

Have you ever sneaked into her jewelry box or closet?

Once I tried on her really high heels. Her pink high heels.

Your mom is the prettiest when: When we went to Bonefish. She wore a dress, pearl necklace and pearl bracelet.

Why is she the best mom in the world?

Because she bought the Banyan Ball dog (a Dakota sport retriever) for me.

Did you make her anything for Mothers day?

A picture.

CATE PAXTON

Your mom is nicest when: When she’s sleeping.

Your mom is the prettiest when: When she goes to Banyan Ball or a special occasion.

Skyler Parsons You love your mom because: She’s beautiful. I like when she makes good food — macaroni and cheese. She reminds me of a chef.

Your mom is prettiest when: She puts lipstick on.

Her favorite flower is: Roses.

Your mom is funniest when: She pretends her hand is a dog.

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+ Village lot considered for new paint Funding for freshly painted lines in the municipal parking lot in Siesta Key Village is included in a $500,000 omnibus, according to Sarasota County Public Works Executive Director Jim Harriott.

“They’re not quite 7 years old and we’re not sure why were losing them, but they’re definitely going away,” Harriott said about the lines to Sarasota County commissioners during the Monday, May 7 budget workshop.

The Board of Sarasota County Commissioners approved a fouryear grant of $124,000 to help an unnamed company relocate to the region at its Wednesday, May 9 meeting. Jeff Maultsby, director of business and economic development for the county, asked for approval of the Economic Development Financial Incentive grant based on the forecasted $72 million positive economic impact the company’s relocation would generate. The grant would be an added incentive to the $930,000 funding already planned by the Economic Development Corporation of Sarasota County.

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Russell Matthes was selected to serve his second term as president of the Siesta Key Village Association and the organization re-elected the previous year’s officers at its monthly meeting Monday, May 7. Wendell Jacobson will return as vice president; Helene Hyland as secretary; and Roz Hyman as treasurer.

+ Commission approves development funding

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Meetings &agendas  School Board Monthly Work Session — 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 15, Landings Administrative Complex, 1960 Landings Blvd., Sarasota.  Statutory City Commission Meeting — noon Friday, May 11, City Hall, Commission Chamber, 1565 First St., Sarasota.  School Board Meeting — 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 15, Landings Administrative Complex, 1960 Landings Blvd., Sarasota.  Development Review Committee — 9:00 a.m.

Thursday, May 17, Planning & Development Services Building Dept., 1001 Sarasota Center Blvd., Sarasota.

+ Overtime pay burdens SCAT budget At the May 1 budget workshop held by the Sarasota County Commission, Planning and Development Services Director Robert Lewis called attention to what he says is a burden on the Sarasota County Area Transit Authority budget: overtime pay.

The presentation was aimed at preparing commissioners for the budget SCAT will seek later this year. Lewis said the organization could ask for a budget increase of $27,105, which would be used in part to hire 42 additional employees.

Data presented showed that hiring has remained relatively static over the past five years but the number of routes offered has grown. The amount of overtime pay allotted has increased because of this asymmetry, he said.

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Selby Gardens invites you to experience Mother’s Day Brunch as Mother Nature intended · · · ·

Spectacular vista of Sarasota Bay Delectable buffet featuring Michael’s On East Three seatings: 10 am, 11:30 am and 1 pm Live classical & jazz guitar to accompany the program

It’s what Mother Nature would have wanted.

Isn’t that good enough for your mom?

Tickets available at www.Selby.org or at the Welcome Center 811 S. Palm Ave., Sarasota

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By Alex Mahadevan | News Editor

FDOT distributes flyers about bridge repair Representatives of the Florida Department of Transportation canvassed Siesta Key May 1 as part of a campaign to inform residents and businesses about the North Bridge renovation.

The Florida Department of Transportation is using the Internet, the U.S. Postal Service and old-fashioned legwork to keep Siesta Key residents and businesses informed about the upcoming renovation of the North Bridge.

The agency established a website (siestakeybridge.com) that

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has safety tips for motorists traversing the construction site and frequently asked questions. In addition, FDOT representatives distributed flyers to Siesta Key merchants on-foot and through the mail. A public meeting is scheduled for May 22; a department spokeswoman said residents are encouraged to attend.

The effort is in part to squash misconceptions about the project, explained Siesta Key Association President Catherine Luckner at a Thursday, May 3 meeting of her organization. For example, contrary to some rumors, the FDOT expects to close one lane — which will not restrict all access — on the bridge from 9

p.m. until 5 a.m. from June 5 until Oct. 16.

At the same meeting, Luckner discussed traffic concerns South Siesta Key residents have about the project. Although the North Bridge will not be closed off completely, Luckner said there were worries about vehicles being rerouted to the South Bridge

to avoid congestion. This and other topics will be discussed at the next SKA meeting Thursday, June 7.

FDOT representatives will give a presentation and answer questions.

FDOT will host an open house from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 22 to discuss any updates to the renovation plans and address any concerns. It will be held at the Siesta Key Chapel located at 4615 Gleason Ave.

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Triathletes to take over Siesta Key About 800 triathletes are expected to compete in the Florida International Triathlon this Saturday on Siesta Key. The area’s largest charitable triathlon is in its seventh year; and this year, it is being run by volunteers from the local Sarasota Storm Triathlon Club.

The race is set to start at 7 a.m., but there could be a short delay, because Mote Marine experts must first mark the newest turtle nests. International triathlon participants will begin with a 1,500-meter swim in the Gulf of Mexico, followed by a 26-mile bicycle portion that takes them on two-loop course on paved Key roads. The comLBK - 2010 - I a 10K run in the petition ends with sand. The sand-run has been adjusted - 2010 - I of the endangered toLBK avoid disruption snowy plovers.

Participants will not be receiving the usual paper advertisements and specials in their goody bags this year.

Instead, they will get their information via email on the day of the event.

Through the new electronic program, sponsors will eliminate printing costs, and the athletes will receive special day-of-event coupons, encouraging them to visit local restaurants and businesses after the race. Race Director David Strehlow said he expects “a Groupon effect, especially among businesses which offer the most attractive discounts on race day.”

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1990-1994 — Sarasota County provides funding for a group of agencies in need of transmission support and a consultant to design a county-wide radio system.

1995-1996 — Motorola Inc., which has since split into Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. and Motorola Solutions Inc., builds six towers to support the system.

2004-2006 — A seventh tower is constructed to support new channels added to keep pace with population growth.

2007 — An $18.1 million capital

improvement project was submitted originally for funding from Surtax 3, a sales tax. The initial proposal called for the plan to upgrade the radio system, to start in the 2011 fiscal year.

2012 — The county issues a request for proposal for a consultant to analyze the county’s radio needs and signs a contract by fall.

“It’s like doing an Internet search,” he said. “We get suggestions for other sources with every call.”

Tobias said that the project would meet cost and land restrictions if new towers were placed directly adjacent to current towers; it’s called co-locating.

Patterson noted that sales tax wasn’t included as a funding option, and Commission Chairwoman Christine Robinson said selling municipal bonds should be considered, as well.

“I don’t want to lose track that it’s part of a whole sales-tax discussion as well,” Patterson said.

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There were nearly 9 million radio transmissions sent out by 38 agencies on about 4,500 radios using the Sarasota County 800 megahertz radio system last year. At the Monday, May 7 budget workshop, Public Safety Communications General Manager Robert Stuckey said that the 16-year-old system couldn’t handle that load much longer.

There have been discussions about implementing a new central radio system since 2007, but now that the School Board of Sarasota County, Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport and numerous police and fire units are plugged into a system that was built to last for only 15 years, the project is getting more priority. However, after seeing projected costs double in one week, commissioners directed Stuckey and other agencies involved, to return with more of their own research before hiring a consultant. (See timeline.)

“We’ve got to stop running out and calling consultants,” Commissioner Joe Barbetta said.

The cost discrepancy came from the expected $8 million to $12 million expense of radios and mobile electronics agencies will use in the field, which was omitted during the May 1 joint meeting between Sarasota County and Manatee County commissioners. Stuckey said infrastructure was the focus in that meeting but included the other costs to get the best advice from commissioners on how to move forward.

The new system being sought is called P25 and was recommended by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In a Monday interview with the Pelican Press, Tobias said the research commissioners suggested was on track with calls to officials in Chattanooga, Tenn., and Charlotte, N.C.

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Public Works: Roads need work With Sarasota County commissioners allocating the 2012 fiscal-year budget, Sarasota County Public Works presented transportation infrastructure needs.

There are enough combined lane markings painted on Sarasota County roads to stretch from downtown Sarasota to New York City. And, according to Sarasota County Public Works, more than half of the 2,830 miles of county roads could use some kind of work.

Jim Harriott, executive director of public works, gave an overview of roads, bridges, streetlights and signs at the Tuesday, May 7 budget workshop. His presentation showed that the county is following the national trend of failing transportation infrastructure. He recommended that resurfacing and intersection improvement projects be combined, so when funneling Surtax 3 funding to road improvements, the needs of different types of projects could be weighed as a whole.

“You could decide whether you need an intersection improvement at one site or a road repaved at another,” he said.

Also, projections presented showed that the resurfacing program’s budget is expected to shrink this year and in 2013.

The average forecasted budget for the next five years barely meets half of what was spent in 2011 on resurfacing. With the price of asphalt expected to increase to $120 per ton by 2015

By the numbers 2,328 — the miles of lane roads maintained by Sarasota County 1,200 — the miles of lane markings supervised by the county 50,000 — estimate of the number of raised pavement markers, the reflective pieces used as audible lane boundaries 37,843 — the number of road signs maintained by the county 236 — the number of county-maintained traffic lights 4,681 — number of streetlights supervised by the county 760 — the miles of sidewalks maintained by the county 137 — number of countywide bridge structures

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Bahia Vista Street was recently micro-surfaced, a process which is 33% cheaper than repaving. However, the cost-cutting measure fields complaints from residents who say the roads are still too rough.

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from $90 per ton today, costs could squeeze the purchasing power of the program’s budget.

One of the only cost-cutting alternatives has generated complaints from residents.

The process, called microsurfacing, is 33% cheaper than

repaving and ostensibly extends the life of a road by seven years. But, a road has to be treated when it falls in a certain range of the “Overall Condition Index,” a score from 0 to 100 used to rate a road’s condition — and it’s rough.

“The surface becomes almost useless for rollerblading,” Harriott said about Bahia Vista Street, which was recently micro-surfaced. “We’ve fielded complaint after complaint about these roads, but based on our evaluations they’re just fine.”

Commissioner Nora Patterson said she would like to see line items considered for Surtax 3 funding re-evaluated to look for more funding for repaving. Patterson and Commissioner Christine Robinson said they were concerned about an increase in complaints that micro-surfacing could bring.

Patterson wasn’t sold on the potentially controversial costcutting measure. It could cost a third of what repavement costs, but said Patterson: “It only lasts a third as long.”

To see if Public Works recommends your road for micro-surfacing or repaving, visit http://gis.scgov.net/.

Rating a road Sarasota County Public Works uses the “Overall Condition Index” to evaluate a road’s condition when considering a repair. Cracks, water leakage, potholes and other imperfections are used to score a road from 0 to 100. Dirt roads get a 0 while roads that need resurfacing fall below 60. The public works presentation to Sarasota County commissioners suggested that roads falling between 60 and 70 OCI should be candidates for micro-surfacing, which ostensibly adds seven years to a road’s lifetime.

More than 30% of the roads maintained by Sarasota County, 785 miles in total, are below 60 on the index and more than half are under 70, meaning that public works recommends that more than 50% of the roads under county management need some type of repair.

Sarasota County Public Works gathers road and bridge data in a system that allows anyone to research the condition of a road on the organization’s website.

At the Monday, May 7 budget workshop, Public Works Executive Director Jim Harriott ran a live demonstration of the system.

Commissioner Joe Barbetta suggested Richardson Road, for which he receives many email complaints. The web report states the road hasn’t been paved since 1983 and has an OCI in the 30s.

Barbetta expressed some frustration that re-pavement was allowed to surpass the 20-year average lifespan of a road.

“This just isn’t acceptable,” he said. “We have to come up with a better system.”

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What is downtown’s strategy?

It’s almost dizzying when you think about all that has been transpiring and contemplated for the heart of downtown Sarasota.

• The on-off, in-out carousel ride with parking meters on Main Street.

• The construction of a roundabout at Five Points on Main.

• The seemingly interminable (and poorly timed) construction of roundabouts on Ringling Boulevard at Palm and Pineapple avenues.

• The Palm Avenue parking garage (and whether to charge or keep it free).

• Proposals for a hotel next to the Palm Avenue garage.

• The repaving of Fruitville Road from U.S. 301 to Tamiami Trail.

• When to build and how much should be spent on the parking garage on the State Street parking lot.

• New streetscaping for Main Street from Gulfstream Avenue to Orange Avenue with brick sidewalks, bulb-outs and parallel parking spaces.

• Streetscaping for First Street between Pineapple and Tamiami Trail and along North Palm.

• A roundabout at Main and Orange.

• And to some extent, you can include the new lift station at Osprey and Mound (another seemingly interminable project).

That’s a lot.

And from the glass-half-full point of view, perhaps all of this can be viewed as modernizing progress that is upgrading and making downtown Sarasota more vibrant.

Indeed, when all of these projects are completed, residents, downtown business owners and visitors may well be pleased with the transformations and think all of the grief endured was worth it.

Of course, that’s hard to imagine now, if, say, your business or condominium is at or near the intersections of Ringling and Pineapple and Ringling and Palm. The glass could look more than half empty.

In fact, there is another perspective to all of these downtown projects as you add up the list: What is the end game? What is the overall strategy? What is the master plan?

We hesitate even to bring up the concept of a master plan, largely because of what it suggests — central planning from a central government. Yet it also makes sense that all of the pieces downtown need to fit and work toward the same objective.

That objective, of course, is to create an aesthetically attractive, vibrant and easily accessible shopping, dining and entertainment destination. And, perhaps all of these projects are intended toward that end.

Nonetheless, some of the randomness

of these projects brings to mind once again what Dr. Phil Kotler, the pre-eminent marketing expert from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, advised for Sarasota at an Argus Foundation luncheon recently: Sarasota needs a brand and a distinguishing architectural landmark that helps convey that brand.

Kotler suggested that Sarasota would be wise to model its downtown in look and feel to be more European.

Create an overall strategy, he said.

With that sage advice in mind, and knowing what projects are pending and planned, it is worth broaching again the idea that was accepted for downtown in the early 1960s but never completed. The indefatigable city of Sarasota advocate, Gil Waters, says this is the prime opportunity to close off from cars Main Street from Gulfstream to Orange at certain hours of each day to create a European walkable plaza — lined on Main with retail shops, restaurants, outdoor dining, sidewalk music and kiosks of retail goods similar to those in the malls.

This would fill and justify the parking garages. More important, it would help create that brand; draw more and better merchants; spur storefront redevelopment; generate more tax revenues for the city; and add to our quality of life.

my VIEW by Dr. Rich Swier Sr.

Israel — land of dichotomies People say first impressions are lasting. I returned recently from a trip to Israel, my first, with three everlasting impressions.

• Israel is ancient on the surface, yet new at its core.

• Israel, like its capital, Jerusalem, is divided but yearning for unity.

• Israel thrives in a toxic environment.

In the first two days of our visit — as part of a group organized by the Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee — we traveled to the adjoining cities of Jaffa, founded more than 4,000 years ago, and Tel Aviv, founded Dr. Rich Swier in 1912. These citSr. photographed ies symbolize how himself with Israel’s ancient roots Sarasota’s sister gave birth to a modcity in Israel, Kiryat ern and cosmopoliYam, behind him. tan culture.

Viewing Tel Aviv from Jaffa, you can see why Israel is called the “startup nation.” Corporations such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have a major presence. When you check out at any Publix super market, you will be accessing a software program developed in Israel. The old and the new.

When we arrived in Jerusalem, we quickly learned how it was divided into the Arab, Christian, Armenian and Jewish

quarters. Each is unique, yet separate, with commerce freely flowing between them.

Likewise, Israel is divided as the Jewish state, with the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip as remnants of the 1967 war. The commerce between these so-called territories is limited and often restricted. Yet every Israeli we met wants peace, which will require unifying both Jerusalem and Israel.

Some talk about a “one-state” solution, while the official government stance is for a two-state solution. Having traveled across Israel and seen the pre-1967 borders, I cannot envision a two-state solution with so little land to divide. I am convinced, more now than ever, Israel cannot exchange land for peace. Rather, it can and does today offer peace and equal justice under the law to all living in Israel.

And, yet, despite this desire for peace and justice, you can see Israel is seated in a toxic environment.

Israel is a desert, with the southern half and much of the West Bank uninhabitable.

But out of this desert wasteland, Israel has created an oasis.

When it formed in 1948, almost all food was imported. Today, Israel is a net exporter of food products. The highest-producing milk cows in the world are from Israel. You can attribute Israel’s agricultural success to the industriousness and ingenuity of the people, Arab and Jew alike.

A recent survey ranked Israelis as the 14th happiest people in the world. This is astonishing, given Israel is surrounded by

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nations who have been or are in a constant state of war with it.

We toured the northernmost section of the Golan Heights. Our guide was retired Israeli Defense Forces Col. Kobi Marom. He showed us how Israel is truly vulnerable.

We were a quarter-mile from the Lebanese border, where 50,000 Hezbollah rockets are pointed toward Israel. We drove just a few miles to the Syrian border, a nation in turmoil. Marom explained how important it is for Israel to maintain a credible deterrence against any threat.

Security drives the Israeli people. Dr. Reuven Hazan, director of the Political Science Department at Hebrew University, said while Americans are focused on the economy and social issues this election cycle, Israelis care most about security.

On our final day, we visited Yad Vashem — the Holocaust Museum. I purchased a memorial pin depicting barbed wire turning into an olive branch with leaves. The quote on the packaging states, “Remembering the Past, Shaping the Future.”

This says it all about Israel.

Dr. Rich Swier Sr., a retired Army lieutenant colonel, was awarded two bronze stars in the Vietnam War. He holds a doctorate of education from the University of Southern California and a master’s in management information systems from George Washington University. He is president of the Sarasota County Veterans Commission and editor of Red County-Sarasota. He also hosts a radio talk show on WWPR AM 1490.

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LETTER TO Reflections on the season on Siesta THE EDITOR opinion | my view

Another winter season on Siesta sumption of alcohol taking place where Key has come and gone. The weather there are children present. This goes for was great, but, then, it was pretty mild both the public beach and in Siesta Key throughout most of the United States.

Village.

Comments from various business ownIn addition to the Ban the Beer on the ers on the Key suggest that this was a Beach movement this season, there has good year, especially for lodging and also been much consternation about the restaurants. In fact, many estabamount of noise coming from lishments said it was a record the bars and restaurants in the year for them, and some of that Village at night. Although the success is attributed to having volume of the music streaming been given the designation as from some of the open-air bars the No. 1 Beach in the U.S. in has been a target for some of 2011. the nearby residents, the most In addition to this good news, egregious offenders are the however, Siesta Key has been actual patrons of these busiengulfed in some controversies nesses. that basically focus on the use I received a response to a (or more specifically, overuse) of column I wrote in April about JOHN alcohol, both in Siesta Key Vilsubject in which the GUDRITZ this lage and on the public beach. woman stated that it is not the The most important and music that is the problem but spirited and ongoing debate the inebriated customers. This was born out of a tragic accident that woman who lives near ground zero of occurred in January. Siesta Key resident, the Village bar scene said that it is the wife and mother Donna Chen, 53, was yelling and swearing of the people that killed after being struck by a car driven she finds most annoying and someby Blake Talman, 22, as she was jogging. times offensive. In effect, the Village has It was reported that Talman had been at gone from being rated “G” to “PG-13” the public beach that day and, accordand sometimes “R,” depending on the ing to witnesses, was suspected to be crowd. intoxicated and in no condition to drive.

I realize that I have come across in my Everyone agrees that this was a horcolumns as critical of the way that Siesta rible incident. However, there seems to Key, especially the Village, has develbe almost an even split among the resioped over the last decade or so. But as I dents of Siesta Key between those who have said to my kids as they were growwant to create a law that bans alcohol ing up, “This criticism comes only from consumption on the beach and those love. and I say it to help you be the best who want to leave it as it is. you can be.”

Although I understand the arguments Despite my criticisms and concerns, for both sides and favor a compromise, I love Siesta Key. It has been my oasis I continue to question the propriety of since I was in high school back in the having an adult activity like the con1960s. From the first time I crossed the

bridge on Siesta Drive and saw that glorious view of the water, the boats and downtown Sarasota, I have been looking forward to the day that I would call Siesta Key my home.

After my parents became seasonal residents of Siesta Key in the 1970s, my brother, sister, spouses and children became annual visitors. We all have wonderful memories of family reunions on the Key where we would hang out in the Village with our young kids at night after dinner and not worry about inappropriate language or behavior from patrons of a bar scene that was not nearly as expansive as it is today.

A few years ago, my wife and I purchased my parents’ condo and took their place as seasonal residents of Siesta Key. We now look forward to having our son, daughter and her family coming down to see us every year and establishing our own family traditions on the Key, especially with our granddaughter and any grandchildren who may come later.

Siesta Key is a special place with its beautiful beaches of cool white-powder sand and greenish-blue water. Having lived in and visited many of the coastal towns and villages in Florida, I have yet to find one I like better.

As my wife and I head up north for the summer, I am already thinking about the next season. In addition, I still look forward to the day that I will call Siesta Key not just my winter home but my home, period.

John Gudritz is the co-owner of an investment management firm. He and his wife have been coming to Siesta Key since the 1970s and have been property owners and seasonal residents since 2008.

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12:09 a.m. — Ocean Boulevard and Calle Miramar. Driving Under the Influence. An officer pulled over a man he observed driving without his headlights on. The officer observed the odor of alcohol and noticed the man’s eyes were glazed. While the officer was explaining a field sobriety test, the man appeared confused and had to be told again. He refused to submit to a Breathalyzer test and swayed and used his arms for balance while performing the “one leg test.”

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2:35 a.m. — Canal Road and Avenida De Mayo. Driving with a Suspended License. After observing a car being driven without its headlights on, an officer pulled over a vehicle containing two men. When the car came to a stop, the driver switched seats with a rear passenger, then told the officer that he had not been driving. He handed the officer a Florida identification card. He was placed under arrest after the officer discovered he was a habitual traffic offender.

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7:42 p.m. — 5200 block of Ocean Boulevard. Hit and run. A man observed another man hit a cement barrier with his car. The driver motioned for the man, who had installed the barrier at his restaurant, to move, then drove away. An officer contacted the driver suspected of striking the structure who said he would “take care of it.” When the officer went to the man’s residence, his car was observed with damage consistent with the complainant’s account.

had its window smashed. The woman saw whom she described as a bald, white male with numerous tattoos on his shoulders and back. He was suspected to have a hammer or crowbar in his possession. Nothing was missing from the vehicle.

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“I think I was 10 or 12 when I had my first job. I was weeding onions in an onion patch on a celery farm. They had all sorts of fruits and veggies and they would hire young kids to do the weeding in the summer after school was out.”

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Daniela Florio, 4, had fun participating in the Sand Sculpting Contest.

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All the winners posed together, Saturday, May 5, after competing in the 40th annual Sand Sculpting Contest.

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Sand-sculptors of all ages took to the nation’s No. 1 beach May 5, to create and compete in the 40th annual Sand Sculpture Contest.

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The local prize sponsors included Siesta Key Village Association, Village Cafe, Beach Bazaar, Sun Garden Cafe, Davidson Drugs, The Broken Egg Restaurant, The Surfin’ Plumbers, Sarasota Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce.

Adult Miscellaneous First place: “Castle by the Sea” Second place: “Jane and Louie” Third place: “50 Yards to the Outhouse” People’s Choice Adult: “Lightning McQueen” People’s Choice Youth: “Mermaid No. 11” Judges’ Choice: “Pirecan”

Ken Shields and Mollie Morgan work on their piece, “Castle by the Sea,” Saturday, May 5.

Linda Bjorkquist and Gary Wolf Left: Chip Perling won Judges’ Choice and first place in the adult humorous category with his “Pirecan.”

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Nick Celestino

get a taste of the success of working so hard. In golf, that doesn’t happen so often, so I am just enjoying it and going to get back to work.

Nick Celestino, 18, celebrated a major victory last when he won the 2012 Sarasota City Men’s Championship May 6, at Bobby Jones Golf Club. The Sarasota High School senior finished four rounds at 6-under par 282. Celestino has been hitting the links since he was 4 years old and played on the Sailors’ golf team all four years of high school. He also used to volunteer for First Tee of Sarasota, a youth golf organization, and has been a member of the National Honor Society.

How long have you been playing?

When I lived in Vermont, my dad loved the game; he played all the time.

He introduced me when I was 4 and took me out to practice holes at the Hanover Country Club, the Dartmouth college course. Dad made the game fun for me, and I love spending time with him and something we could do together and we really bonded.

Who do you admire in the professional golf world?

I’ve always looked up to David Duval since I was 7, and he won the British Open in 2001. He was just so dominant, and I like the way he carries himself on the golf course and even throughout his struggle the past 10 years, you never see him get angry.

He just keeps a level head and keeps a positive attitude about the game.

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What is the best score you have had in a game?

Sixty-eight. It was at a Future Collegiate World Tour competition, which

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Augusta National, for sure. Mainly because there is so much tradition there. I haven’t seen it yet, but I hope to one day go to Masters to watch or being able to play one day.

Why did you decide on attending University of Rhode Island this fall?

Mainly the coach, Gregg Burke.

He was one of the few coaches really interested in me. There were a few other coaches who had interest, but they didn’t end up offering any sort of scholarship. So, I really wanted to go where someone wanted me. It is a wonderful school, and it has an upand-coming golf program and coach Burke really does everything he can for the players to help them and get what they need.

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A home in Sarasota Beach tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Daniel and Karen Leonetti, of Sarasota, sold their home at 606 Calle Del Ontono to Marc and Judit Ellingstad, of Dulles, Va., for $455,000. Built in 1976, it has four bedrooms, three baths and 1,720 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $145,000 in 1990.

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Edwin Ceitlin, Margaret Biller, Bonita Nickol and Harold Ceitlin, of Birmingham, Ala., sold their Unit 92 condominium at 5830 Midnight Pass Road to Douglas and Susan McLelland, of Lakewood Ranch, for $319,000. Built in 1970, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 921 square

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Oleg and Alena Karakulian, of Scarsdale, N.Y., sold their Unit 207 condominium at 5912 Midnight Pass Road to Jon and Antoinette Halsted, of Hamilton, Ohio, for $287,000. Built in 1971, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 830 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $350,000 in 2003.

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SIESTA KEY SINGLE FAMILY HOMES SOLD 1356 POINT CRISP RD POINT CRISP ADD 724 TROPICAL CIR SIESTA BEACH 10 LANDS END LN LANDS END 7233 PINE NEEDLE RD SANDERLING CLUB SIESTA KEY CONDOMINIUMS and TOWNHOUSES SOLD 5740 MPR # 406F GULF & BAY CLUB PH 6 6326 MPR # 506 EL PRESIDENTE 9393 MPR # P5 POINTE ON MIDNIGHT PASS 1100 COVE II PL # 954 MIDNIGHT COVE II 6033 E PEPPERTREE # 115 PEPPERTREE BAY II 24 SANDY COVE RD # 6-D SANDY COVE 6157 MPR # E03 BAY OAKS 360 362 CANAL RD # 0 SARASOTA BEACH 1245 SIESTA BAYSIDE 1245B GULF & BAY CLUB BAYSIDE SARASOTA AREA SINGLE FAMILY HOMES SOLD 658 MOURNING DOVE DR BIRD KEY 520 HARBOR CAY DR BAY ISLES SARASOTA AREA CONDOMINIUMS SOLD 35 WATERGATE DR # 502 RITZ CARLTON TOWER RESIDENCES 888 S ORANGE AVE # PHC HUDSON CROSSING 888 BLVD /ARTS # 1001 CONDO ON THE BAY TOWER I 888 BLVD /ARTS # 1604 CONDO ON THE BAY TOWER I 888 BLVD /ARTS# 1606 CONDO ON THE BAY TOWER I 750 N TAMIAMI TRL # 806 RENAISSANCE 1 3010 GRAND BAY BLVD # 466 GRAND BAY 4 455 LB CLUB RD # 408 PIERRE 1000 LB CLUB RD # 1102 PRIVATEER SOUTH 2045 GMD # 511 SEAPLACE II 2109 GMD # 1502 SUNSET BEACH

2,500,000 1,000,000 540,300 515,000 865,000 420,000 400,000 365,000 340,000 199,000 193,562 625,000 425,000 980,697 1,075,000 1,800,000 1,375,000 599,000 525,000 400,000 148,000 1,300,000 840,000 537,500 470,000 468,500

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GMD # 312 BEACH HARBOR CLUB 415,000 GMD # 208 SEAPLACE IV 258,000 SIESTA KEY SINGLE FAMILY HOMES & CONDOMINIUMS PENDING SALES 5641 MPR # 908 WHITE SANDS VILLAGE 199,900 8764 MPR # 105A ISLAND REEF I 375,000 5920 MPR # 705 SARASOTA SURF & RACQUET 549,900 5770 MPR# 411 GULF & BAY CLUB PH 3 619,500 1200 E PEPPERTREE LN # 407 PEPPERTREE BAY II 320,000 6300 MPR # 501 CRYSTAL SANDS 2 599,900 6146 MPR # 17S ISLAND HOUSE 790,000 930 SIESTA KEY PL SIESTAS BAYSIDE 1,275,000 7233 MPR SANDERLING CLUB 750,000 7909 MPR MIRA MAR 1,500,000 SARASOTA AREA SINGLE FAMILY HOMES and CONDOMINIUMS PENDING SALES 1750 BEN FRANKLIN DR # 10F KEY TOWER SOUTH 725,000 765 J.RINGLING BLVD # 36 SARASOTA HARBOR 270,000 750 N TAMIAMI TRL # 1018 RENAISSANCE 1 275,000 1342 12TH ST BOULEVARD ADD TO SARASOTA 132,000 401 BURNS CT BURNS COURT 849,900 1135 GMD # 102 BEACHPLACE I 639,000 1045 GMD # 401 BEACHPLACE III 749,000 3453 GMD # 237 SEA HORSE BEACH RESORT 199,000 1281 GMD # 907 WATER CLUB 2 AT LONGBOAT KEY 2,395,000 1045 GMD # 304 BEACHPLACE III 639,000 1095 GMD # 404 BEACHPLACE II 499,000 2301 GMD # 81 ISLANDER CLUB OF LONGBOAT 449,000 3810 GMD # 103 BEACH HARBOR CLUB 199,900 600 BOWSPRIT LN COUNTRY CLUB SHORES UNIT 4 SEC 2 1,479,000 571 BIRDIE LN COUNTRY CLUB SHORES 1,250,000

Based on information compiled from the Mid-Florida Regional Multiple Listing Service, Inc. for the period of 5/1/2012 thru 5/7/2012.

This information may or may not include all listed, expired, withdrawn, pending or sold properties of one or more members of the Mid Florida Regional Multiple Listing Service.

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3251 Higel Ave Siesta Key #A3952313 $2,950,000 941-951-6660 Kim Ogilvie & Linda Dickinson 941-376-1717 or 941-350-3304

1924 Lincoln Dr #A3919383 Michael Hays

$1,299,000

280 Saratoga Ct #A3959713 Nicole Dovgopolyi

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-376-1826

$949,000

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-356-5849

6671 Hanoverian Cir #A3959656 Tom Cail & Jason Grande

Nokomis/North Venice $879,000 941-349-3444 941-780-2245

1111 N Gulfstream Ave # 5C #A3946059 $629,000 Melba Jimenez PA

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-356-3970

8830 Bloomfield Blvd #A3947968 Maripat Flood

$575,000

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-320-0441

33 Sandy Cove Rd # 2-E #A3940162 Linda Dickinson

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“We were dealt such a legion of blows for five years that people weren’t sure if we’d be around next year,” Kyle Turoff says of the financial drama surrounding The Golden Apple Dinner Theatre. “Well, we’re here, and we’re not going anywhere, come hell or high water.”

Golden comeback

Money woes, be damned. With Kyle Turoff at the helm of Sarasota’s newest non-profit theater company, The Golden Apple Dinner Theatre is hoping to shed its financial drama.

Kyle Turoff is sitting at a table inside The Golden Apple Dinner Theatre, sharing ideas for arts programming with a theater patron.

Around her, a million things compete for her attention:

the wait staff, her twin boys, her parents, her husband, nagging hunger pains.

If Turoff is flustered by any of these distractions, it doesn’t show. She simply continues to conduct busi-

ness as she always does: with honesty, humor and unflappable focus.

Carole Kleinberg interrupts.

“You gotta get all these people out,” Kleinberg says. “I have a rehearsal to start.”

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“Yes, yes, I know,” Turoff says, shooing what people remain from the inaugural meeting of the Arts Lover’s League, a support group organized with the purpose of providing outreach between area schools and PLATO, the new non-profit theater company operating out of the Golden Apple. “I’m working on it.”

Kleinberg is PLATO’s associate artistic director. Turoff is its president and artistic director. Together, the women are building a new identity for the 41-year-old dinner theater.

First on the agenda: clearing up confusion about what Turoff refers to as “the separation between church and state.”

Or, in other words: outlining the differences between PLATO and the Golden Apple.

“People are like, ‘Who’s Plato? What’s Plato?’” Turoff says. “The explanation is so long, it’s easy to see why there’s been confusion. Basically, the Golden Apple is no longer producing theater.

PLATO produces the theater, and Golden Apple provides the venue. It’s that simple.

Kind of.”

PLATO — an acronym that stands for Professional Learning and Theatrical Organization — is a lifeboat for the fledging dinner theater, which, over the course of the last few years, has been crippled by debt, downtown parking shortages and a failed development project in Lakewood Ranch.

Launched late last year in an effort to keep the theater from going under, PLATO is eligible for grant funding and charitable donations that the Golden Apple, as a for-profit company, is not.

“There were people who said for years that the theater should go non-profit,” Turoff says. “It was just something we never really wrapped our brains around. We had followed a certain model for years, and that was just the way it was. We were very insular in that regard, always chasing the dollar in our own little world.”

The theater is insular no more, thanks to several strategic moves that Turoff hopes will keep the venue on its feet.

Last year, to help pay its bills, the Golden Apple sold its Pineapple Avenue building for $1.7 million to a commercial real-estate company with an arrangement to lease the space for several years.

In addition to this transaction, it launched an aggressive $250,000 fundraising campaign; organized PLATO’s board of directors; and hired Kleinberg, the former artistic director of the Banyan Theater Company, to help lead the company.

At the helm of all these changes is Turoff, a fasttalking character actress and the only daughter of Bob and Roberta Turoff — the Broadway lovebirds who in 1971 opened the landmark dinner theater.

“She’s the future of the place,” Kleinberg says. “She’s

smart. She’s spirited. She’s got great ideas, and she’s patient.

She’s got a huge task ahead of her and a very full plate, but I know she’s up to it. I’ve been around for a long time, so I speak from experience when I say she can make it happen.”

To Turoff, the Golden Apple is more than just a family business. It’s a home.

It’s where she and her older brother, Ben, grew up. It’s where, at age 4, she made her stage debut as Ngana in “South Pacific.”

It’s where, on the nights her mother had a show, she would watch the actresses apply their makeup and fake eyelashes, then, during intermission, fall asleep on a cot in the women’s dressing room.

“I can’t tell you how many times I woke up after the women had come in from their bows,” Turoff says. “I was that comfortable.”

And she’s still that comfortable.

As she makes her way to the front of the house, a babysitter approaches Turoff with two 3-year-old boys clinging to her side.

The boys — Kennedy and Avery, Turoff’s twin sons with husband, Trez Cole, the theater’s technical director — have their mother’s dark hair and big eyes.

When they’re not in school at the Julie Rohr Academy, they’re at the theater in the company of a babysitter.

Already little hams, Turoff recently caught them singing

on stage between auditions.

“I have a hard time getting anything done when they’re around,” she says. “Can you blame me? I miss the days when I could hold them and cuddle them. They grow up too fast.”

As the boys amble past, Turoff calls out to whoever is listening: “Please tell my husband to feed the kids.”

When no one responds to the command, she repeats it once more then sighs.

“I have a hard time delegating tasks,” she says, “and letting go of control.”

Admittedly, Turoff was one of the last people in the Golden Apple’s inner circle to agree to PLATO. In all her years of working in show business, she never had to answer to a board of directors or write a grant proposal or seek donations from area businesses and philanthropists.

In all her years of designing posters and playbills, she never had to reach out to advertisers. As a for-profit company, it was never an option.

“There’s been a huge learning curve,” she says. “But it’s all good. It’s reinvigorated all of us, including my mother and father. Things are very hands-on right now. It feels a lot like it did when I was a kid and my parents would get a call from the manager on a duty about a leak in the bathroom. We’re all working harder now than we’ve ever worked before, because this is it. It’s make it or break it, baby.”

IF YOU GO The PLATO season will include four musicals and three straight plays, beginning with this month’s “Moonlight and Magnolias,” directed

by Carole Kleinberg. The play, which stars local actors Chris Caswell, Ryan Fitts and BJ Wilkes, is the true Hollywood story about the creation of the “Gone With the Wind” script.

The show runs through July 1, at The Golden Apple Dinner Theatre. For tickets, call 366-5454 or visit thegoldenapple.com.

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+ Ballet principal takes his final bow It goes without saying that we’re going to miss Sarasota Ballet dancer Octavio Martin.

A principal with the company for six years, Martin announced last week that he would be leaving the organization due to contract disputes.

Also departing: his wife, ballet mistress and Martin Sarasota Ballet School instructor Yaima Franco.

The news came on the heels of the company’s final performance, “Theatre of Dreams” program, for which the dancer choreographed one of five world premieres.

According to managing director Mary Anne Servian, the 38-yearold Cuba native “sent hints that he might not be coming back

about a year ago. We had some inkling that this might be his last year.”

Says Servian, “We wish Octavio and Yaima the best of luck and we regret that we were unable to come to terms on his contract.”

Director Iain Webb says he’s in no hurry to replace the principal, who was the oldest and highest paid dancer on the Sarasota Ballet roster.

“The company, the way it stands at the moment, is just fantastic,” Webb says.

“I’ve got brilliant principals, and, yes, Octavio has given a lot and it’s sad that he’s decided to go, but I’m not worried that it’ll affect any of the stuff we’ve got planned. I’m happy about where the company is headed. It’s a shame that for him, at this point in his career, he’s not going to be a part of it.”

+ New gallery opens in the Rosemary District Here’s my first thought upon learning that Sarasota contractor Jake Brady had opened a gallery in the Rosemary District that exhibits minimalist art in concrete frames: How on earth do you hang such heavy things? Certainly the walls of the new MillerBrady Fine Art Gallery are stronger than drywall.

Why not see for yourself from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 11, at the gallery’s grand opening reception?

Located at 614 Florida Ave., the space houses original paintings by Brady’s lifelong friend, Spokane, Wash.,-based artist Eric Miller.

For more information, follow MillerBrady Fine Art on Facebook.

By now I’m sure you’ve noticed May 11, with a reception at that the Sarasota talent pool is 5 p.m. in the Selby Gallery pretty deep. Well, guess what? and continues into the month The same can with tours of the be said for the Ringling campus, entire state. the future Sarasota Proof of this Museum of Art can be found (SMOA) and an at this year’s animation workshop Florida Artist led by a Ringling Group Exhibit faculty member. and Symposium This year’s juror, at Selby Gallery esteemed painter on the campus and printmaker Courtesy photo of Ringling Tom Nakashima, Artist Tom Nakashima College of Art will give a presentaand Design. tion of his work at 11:30 a.m.

The 62nd annual statewide Saturday, May 12, at the Ringling exhibition, which runs May 11 College Auditorium. to June 1, features the work of I suggest you swing by Selby professional painters, sculptors Gallery to peruse the work of this and photographers, all of whom year’s artists. Many of them are come with an impressive amount local, including painter Susan von of industry cred and diverse bodGries, mixed-media artist Meg ies of work.

Pierce, sculptor Ofra Friedman The show kicks off this Friday, and photographer Jean Germain.

+ Sarasota filmmaker takes horror flick overseas Who doesn’t love candy — I mean, “Candy.”

Filmmaker Sage Hall has had nothing but sweet success with “Candy,” the eight-minute short she produced and starred in two years ago.

Hall’s film noir debut put her on the indie horror map last year when it was selected to screen at the 2011 Screen Actors Guild boardroom in New York City.

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‘The Full Monty’: Haven’t had the pleasure of watching six out-of-work steel workers strip down to their skivvies? The Players Theatre has extended its manly musical romp, which stars Artistic Director Jeffery Kin, through the end of this weekend.

Get your tickets now and be prepared to blush. This ‘Monty’ isn’t for the prude of heart. Call 3652494 or visit theplayers.org.

+ RIAF reveals its 2012 festival lineup The Ringing International Arts Festival (RIAF) is back with another eclectic variety pack of performances.

Now in its fourth year, the Ringling Museum’s annual collaboration with New York’s Baryshnikov Arts Center runs Oct. 10 to Oct. 13 on the museum grounds.

The festival kicks off Wednesday, Oct. 10 with the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) in the Mertz Theatre, followed by dinner with RIAF artists in the museum galleries.

Also on the festival bill: Shantala Shivalingappa, whose interpretation of her native India’s traditional Kuchipudi dancing looks downright hypnotic, the OBIE-winning and vaguely vaudevillian Pig Iron Theatre Company and a chanting folk ensemble from the Republic of Georgia.

Pianists Adam Tendler and Phyllis Chen will shake up the solitude inside the museum’s Skyspace exhibit — Tendler with his from-memory recital of John Cage’s complete “Sonatas and Interludes” and Chen with her tinkering on the toy piano.

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FILM >> ‘The Deep Blue Sea’ The idiom “between the devil and the deep blue sea” describes a choice between two undesirable situations. In Terence Davies’ new film, “The Deep Blue Sea,” the celebrated director invites his audience to witness this as two people pay a high price for their indiscretions.

As the film opens, Hester Collyer (Oscar winner Rachel Weisz) is in the throes of committing suicide. Her selfish lover, Freddie Page (Tom Huddleston), has opted to play golf with his mates rather than celebrate her birthday; or so she thinks.

Her radical reaction to his shenanigans is a clear indication of how one-sided and dysfunctional their relationship is.

Hester’s mother-in-law-from-hell (deliciously played by Barbara Jefford) passes on a tidbit of wisdom to her, stating, “Passion always leads to something ugly.” It’s a foreboding remark, because Hester leaves her loving yet passionless husband, Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale), for his friend, the penniless former Royal Air Force pilot, aforementioned, Freddie. Throwing caution to the wind of passion, Hester seals her fate.

Weisz (“The Constant Gardener”) gives an Oscar-caliber performance as a woman obsessed by a man whom she knows can never love her equally. Witnessing the loss of dignity so central to her character, one can’t help feeling the immense pain she endures. The extreme talent Weiz possesses exquisitely manifests in her facial expressions, tone of voice and body language. Her commitment to passion is shear perfection and a joy to behold.

Davies (“The House of Mirth”) has not only assembled a grand cast, he paints a beautiful picture. Darkly lit rooms, golden,

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Set in 1950, England is still recovering from the Blitzkreig. There’s a flashback of Londoners huddled beneath the city in the Underground as the Nazis bomb from above. It’s incredibly moving as a soldier sings “Molly Malone.” Flash-forward: The ruins ironically analogous to their personal circumstances surround Hester and Freddie.

“The Deep Blue Sea” conjures up memories of other great films about unbridled passion. I was secretly hoping for a jump onto the train tracks or a mouthful of arsenic. But, alas, in the end we’re left with a dose of hope.

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MUSIC >> Sarasota Orchestra’s ‘Journeys to Genius’: Shostakovich It’s been only a few seasons since Sarasota Orchestra began its “Journeys to Genius” series. The series combines history and music into compelling narratives with actors and singers, videos and musical examples and, finally, a complete performance. Last week’s Journey, “Shostakovich: Truth or Consequences,” was probably the most successful yet, for two reasons: The conductor, Dirk Meyer, worked with Stephen Schlow, chair of the UCF Film Department in Orlando, to come up with a gripping script; and even with the severe limitations of the video and sound systems in the Sarasota Opera House, things ran smoothly, allowing the storytelling and music-making to take center stage.

The Meyer-Schlow collaboration brought underscoring to the storyline, so as the actors, Eric Pinder and Stephan Jones, took on varied roles in Soviet history, from Stalin to Shostakovich, the live music gave their script an urgency and immediacy that only music can do.

The story also gave us a lot to think about and, at times, to question.

What, for example, would Shostakovich’s music have sounded like if the Soviet government had not forced him to compose music that

would be interpreted in different ways by different people? Stalin, they pointed out, heard a triumphant march in the now famous Fifth Symphony, while noncommunists could easily hear intended sarcasm, contempt and mockery.

The storyline, which pointed out the political propaganda espoused by the Soviet regime, might also be heard as a 21st-century western view of socialism.

Political reality versus artistic reality is, after all, still floating around today. But what was then called “leftist” is now on the “right” and what was then right, in some quarters, seems to have become wrong.

Politics aside, Meyer’s comparison of the repeated notes in Beethoven’s Ninth and Shostakovich’s Fifth, and the final 44 or so minutes devoted to the complete performance of the Shostakovich symphony were extraordinary. And tenor Adam Ulrich’s brief excerpts of works by Mussorgsky and Shostakovich added just the right varietal color.

As insightful as the historic videos, designed for the first half by Austin McKinley, were, even more stunning was Steve Lemke’s live camera work zooming in on principal players and section configurations, giving the audience a chance to peer inside the orchestra to see, as well as hear, how this (now) romantic work is designed.

Yes, there were some notquite-unison sounds among the strings in unison sections, but the overall performance was mesmerizing, and it showed us a side of Meyer we were most happy to see.

— June LeBell

THEATER >> ‘Reel Music’ Florida Studio Theatre’s musical review, “Reel Music,” now playing in its cabaret theater, is a zippy, zany celebration of musical cinema. Developed by Richard Hopkins, Rebecca Hopkins and Jim Prosser, with additional assistance from Amanda Cayo and Jessica Mingoia, the patter is snappy, the transitions clever and informative and the musical selections scrumptious, spanning nearly 100 years of aural treats.

The talented cast members, under the sizzling direction of Bill Castellino, begin showing off their hot and considerable “stuff” with a nod to silent movies. The history of movie musicals began with the very first “talkie,” to wit, “The Jazz Singer,” which starred Al Jolson. What follows borders on parody, but is a seriously fun ballroom dance through the genres. Costume designer Nicole Wee throws everything from Mexican sombreros for “Carioca” to “Puttin’ on the Ritz” top hats into the mix. In Act II, she dresses the ladies in yummy sherbet green and pink chiffon ’50s designs.

Music Director David Nelson is a marvel of unpredictability. The arrangements are little unexpected gems, never failing to surprise and delight, as well as to invoke nostalgic shivers of recognition.

The range of the performers matches that of the songs. L.R. Davidson breaks the audience members’ hearts as she puts her lovely voice to “Some Day My Prince Will Come,” while Matt Mundy quickly mends them with “Make ’Em Laugh.” Gil Brady provides preventive care with the lyrics “Ay-yi-yi means I love you.”

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Brick Road” on a journey “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” to Casablanca, and “As Time Goes By” to “Moon River” where “It’s Wonderful,” we learn “How much do I love you?” in thrilling fourpart harmony. Afterward, we dwell on our “Memories,” stunningly sung by Liz Power. Act II brings even more laughs, thrills and movie trivia with “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”

Most impressive is the creative cast ensemble of movie songs, sans lyrics, including “Chariots of Fire,” ”Superman,” “Rocky,” “Pink Panther” and “Mission Impossible.” Another set in an impressive array of highlights was Power’s moving rendition of “Windmills of Your Mind.”

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Scenic route Michael Gray is listening to classic rock and maneuvering his way around a warehouse stocked with decades’ worth of dismantled scenery and props.

As he walks among the pieces, he can picture them on stage at The Players Theatre, where he’s worked on and off as a set designer since 2000.

There’s the polka-dotted toadstools from “Seussical,” the pirate ship from “H.M.S Pinafore,” the transparent bistro backdrop from “Dear World” and the winding staircase from “Mame” that was used in so many other Players productions Gray is beginning to lose count.

“We store a little more than we should,” he says, his voice muffled by the loud whir of a box fan, which serves as the only form of air conditioning in the muggy scene shop.

“It comes in handy, though.

When we were in production for ‘The Full Monty,’ we were able to pull most of the set from stock. Right now, we’ve probably got (scenery from) 15 different shows on stage.

It’s all just reconfigured. That’s the thing about scenery. You can rework it and no one notices.”

A seasoned set designer and Sarasota native, Gray, who was hired last season as The Players’ technical direc-

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“I have a shop behind our pool at home,” says Michael Gray, technical director at The Players Theatre. “My daughter is always asking to come inside and tinker. It’s adorable.” tor, has worked backstage at almost every performing-arts organization in town.

Between his work at The Golden Apple Dinner Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, the Asolo Repertory Theatre and Sarasota Opera, he estimates he’s built more than 150 show sets.

“I originally thought I’d go into film and TV,” Gray says.

“This seems like a better fit.

It’s a fun job. It keeps me busy, and each month is something new.”

The 38-year-old got his start in carpentry straight out of

high school, working for the Sarasota-based construction company, Maglich Homes.

He was a good builder, but admittedly too antsy to perform the same tasks over and over. Eager to pursue a more creative industry, he transferred from State College of Florida (then Manatee Community College) to Florida State University, where he studied design technology and dreamed of following in the footsteps of his godfather, Sarasota native Steve Rothman, who in the 1970s moved to California to revitalize the

Pasadena Playhouse.

“I was never really interested in acting,” Gray says. “I like being behind the scenes. It’s neat to sit in the audience and know that I made something for a couple hundred bucks.

It’s satisfying.”

Adrenaline junkies can appreciate his handiwork as well.

After college, Gray worked for a company in Orlando that built many of the fake rock walls that surround the rides at Universal Studio’s Islands of Adventure.

“I’ve done a lot of different jobs,” Gray says. “About eight years ago, I worked for the Home Shopping Network, setting up stages for Suzanne Somers, Richard Simmons and Wolfgang Puck. I worked from noon to midnight, moving sets in and out. I got to be on TV, but it wasn’t glamorous.”

Despite his celebrity coworkers, rolling in kitchen countertops and cookie-cutter bedroom sets for 12 hours a day paled in comparison to building pirate ships and making it rain on stage, the details of which Gray won’t divulge. “(Stage rain) is a theater secret,” Gray says. “Although, if you really wanted to know, you could Google it pretty quickly.”

THE STORY BEHIND ‘JADA’S ROBOTS’ Inspired by the funny little box-shaped robots his young daughter, Jada, often scribbles in her notebooks, Michael Gray started building quirky box-shaped figures out of found objects and antiques.

Many of the pieces, which are sold at Ashby Art & Antiques in Towles Court, are functional, such as this shelf-like design, titled “BanJoe.” Gray says he scours estate sales, Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore location and Architectural Salvage to find antique crates, cabinet pulls, table legs, faucet heads, brass fittings and doorknockers.

Although the collection is named “Jada’s Robots” after Gray’s daughter, in conversation, the set designer usually refers to them as his “little dudes.”

He’s hoping his work appeals to art collector Mary Lee, the owner of Sarasota’s Marietta Museum of Art and Whimsy.

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A pearl of an oyster bar There’s a new kid on the block near the Hollywood 20 movie theater: it’s the Half Shell Oyster House, and it has an enticing promotion to get you in to try its wares. From 3 to 6 p.m. daily, you can have oysters on the half shall, freshly shucked to order and served with cocktail sauce and horseradish for 50 cents each.

Not a fan of raw oysters?

Any time the restaurant is open, which happens to be seven days a week starting at 11 a.m., you can order the oyster combo of three each of oysters: charbroiled, Bienville, Rockefeller and Orleans, for $17. There is a little something special in how they prepare each of these classics: a touch of cream cheese enhances the texture of the Rockefeller filling, for example. And the restaurant prepares its own blends of spices and herbs for all its dishes, oyster and otherwise.

The po-boy sandwich comes in three varieties: shrimp, Voodoo shrimp or oysters. They are all made on bread from New Orleans’ Gambino Bakery, a necessity for authenticity, according to Half Shell Oyster House owner and President Dino Miranda, and all are served with

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Half Shell Oyster House Bienville Topping Yield: topping for 30-dozen oysters Start to finish: 30 minutes Note: This is a restaurant-sized recipe; adjust downward for amount you wish to prepare.

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INGREDIENTS: 12 ounces butter 3 cups bacon, chopped 1/2 cup minced shallots 1 1/2 cups minced garlic 1 1/2 cup diced mushrooms 5 pounds chopped shrimp 2 cups chives, minced

your choice of sides, including fried okra (Southern boys, take note!) and exceptionally crisp French fries. “Fully-dressed,” the po-boys come with lettuce, tomato and onion. The Voodoo sauce is a chutneylike sweet-and-sour condiment.

To start, Miranda suggests the oyster combo, followed by a cup of crab-andshrimp gumbo made fresh in-house daily. His entrée recommendation is Polynesian mahi-mahi topped with homemade pineapple salsa, the entrée special for May. For dessert, his recommendation is housemade, cinnamon-roll bread pudding. “Anybody can put whipped cream on

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President/owner Dino Mirando and Manager Jaime Jackson with their oyster combo: Orleans, Bienville, chargrilled and Rockefeller. bread pudding,” says Miranda, so he serves his with a Myers rum sauce.

Half Shell Oyster House is in the space long occupied

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Guest checks average $7 to $13 per person for lunch, $13 to $25 for dinner. The daily lunch combo is any

two of a half po-boy, salad or a cup of soup, plus a hot or cold beverage for $9. The restaurant has indoor and outdoor seating and a private dining room that can accommodate 48.

The regular customers give the impression that Half Shell Oyster House will be around for a while. Take, for example, the octogenarian couple that comes in twice a week and orders three-dozen oysters; they eat 30 of them and take six home to fry for lunch the next day.

2 cups milk 2 cups white wine 2 cups grated Parmesan cheese 1 1/2 teaspoons white pepper 2 1/2 cups Italian bread crumbs 2 pounds lump crab meat 1 pound crab claw meat

DIRECTIONS: • Sauté butter and bacon until browned in a large braising pan. (Hint: It’s easier to chop bacon when it is frozen.)

• Add shallots, garlic, shrimp and mushrooms, and sauté until shrimp turn pink.

• Add remaining ingredients, except the crab meat.

• Remove from heat, and then fold in the crab meat.

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The pond house Nora and Billy Johnson have always believed in naming their homes. They call their current residence on South Lake Shore Drive the “Pond House,” because of the “pond” (lake) in the backyard. You wouldn’t know it unless you’d toured the inside of the Pond House, but there’s also a koi pond indoors, just past the kitchen.

“Our cottage in Michigan is called ‘The Roost’ because it’s where all the bats used to roost before we bought it,” says Nora Johnson. “It’s a fun and easy way to refer to your house, and it gives it an identity.”

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“It was Billy’s idea to put the pond addition on,” says Nora Johnson. “There was a natural kind of void there.”

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This Bible is an heirloom from Billy Johnson’s family.

“Florendo Rozante was a member of the Young Masters Society at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum. He did four (portraits) of my son and a larger one of my daughter.”

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Escape artist When updating the outdoor scenery of a home, many people automatically think about which plants they should buy in order to change the look of the landscape. Landscape architects, however, must imagine how best to incorporate hardscape such as patios, pools, pavilions and pergolas into the big picture and complement the plant life.

David W. Young, the founder of the landscape architectural firm DWY, recently helped a couple from Minnesota recreate their seasonal retreat on Bird Key. Young’s goal was to make the exterior space a more pleasant environment so the couple could enjoy the outdoor habitat of their waterfront home.

“The exterior was functionally challenged and aesthetically inconsistent with a leaking pool and cumbersome, multi-level red clay brick patio and a stoop area, just large enough for a small table and two chairs,” Young said.

Today, the home’s exterior features a water wall, water garden, lap pool, spa, dining terrace, pavilion, pergola, grill, fireplace and outdoor shower. Young says the success of that transformation is evident from the owner’s reaction that it’s better than she could have imagined.

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It’s fun to stay at the … circus! Cirque du Gold Co-Chairwomen Debbie Dannheisser, Dawn Epstein and Denise Mei and several helping hands transformed the Sarasota Family YMCA from its usual gym equipment-filled state into Cirque du Soleil bliss.

The space was fabulously adorned with costumed circus characters performing everywhere you looked: A life-sized Slinky corralled a group of guests in the silent auction room and appeared to start a dance-off.

Nicolette Fornasary dazzled guests with slow, graceful movements from a trapeze and, after a quick costume change, was spotted carrying a hula-hoop; and let’s not forget Simon Arestoe in his inflatable wrestling suit or Yetty Wallenda, who pranced from room to room dressed as a colorful box with polka-dotted tights and hot-pink shoes.

Cirque du Gold is the Sarasota YMCA’s largest fundraiser and celebrates 21 years of “going for the gold.”

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+ Wedding bells She is the founder of Sarasota Ballet and Designing Women boutique; he is one of Sarasota’s most generous and beloved philanthropists. They have been good friends for more than 20 years, and come the second week of August, they will be husband and wife.

Congratulations and best wishes to Jean Weidner and Al Goldstein.

And … yippee!

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+ A man and his dancin’ shoes Phil King says the shoes he wore to the YMCA Cirque du Gold bash Saturday, May 5, have been dancing from city to city and country to country since the ‘70s. He bets he’s danced more than 1,000 times in them. Ronelle Ashby says she helped Phil celebrate his 40th birthday at her apartment in Paris, and, yes, the shoes were there to celebrate Phil’s birthday, too.

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Always beautiful, poised and perfectly put together. You’re picturing Cornelia Matson, right?

BT caught up with her Monday, April 30, at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Chairman’s Circle, when she happened to mention “her wine” was stocked in a particular corner at Michael’s Wine Cellar.

She’s owned a vineyard, located in France, for the past 14 years and happily told several entertaining tales about how, still to this day, she and her friends can be found pulling the stems from grapes by hand to ensure everything is tip-top quality.

She’s also the vineyard’s official (and self-proclaimed) “pool girl,” who will go to any length to make sure the vines are trimmed to perfection and the area around the pool is spotless — even if it means accidentally falling in. The best part — she invited BT out sometime to stomp grapes.

Making mischief? … A dozen or so of Margaret Wise’s BFFs convened last week to conceptualize an event in her honor this coming December. The grand ball will be the debut of Katherine Harris and Anders Ebbeson’s new home on the bayfront.

The BFFs included Alex Quarles, Bev Bartner, Kim Githler, Deb Knowles, Carolyn Michel, Molly Schechter, BJ Creighton, Nikki Sedacca, Veronica Brady, Susan Buck, Diane MeNeil and Raul Molina. The party will benefit two of Wise’s favorite charities: Asolo Rep, of which she is past president, and the Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation, a board she presently heads. It is hard to imagine a more deserving honoree ... Beautiful is as beautiful does … There was a precious energy wherever Paulette Blair was present. She took enormous delight in her family, her community and her life, even when it was difficult.

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Lady-about-town Renee Sheade became a greatgrandmother Saturday, May 5, when her granddaughter, Rene Mavashez, of Beverly Hills, Calif., gave birth to a 6-pound, 6-ounce baby girl.

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What did Tommy have to say about his jacket, you ask? It's the cheesiest thing he owns.

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