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City struggles with Sunshine Law City Manager Tom Barwin has been criticized for Sarasota’s recent history of potential Sunshine Law violations, but he promises a new mindset from the city in the future.

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+ Day of Hope The city of Sarasota recognized Church of the Redeemer for serving the community’s homeless and at-risk children at its third annual Day of Hope, held in August. During the City Commission’s Oct. 21 regular meeting, Mayor Shannon Snyder praised the church’s volunteers for their dedication to helping those in need.

More than 200 Redeemer and community volunteers donated their time at this year’s Day of Hope. The event provided 179 homeless and at-risk school children with meals, haircuts, medical checkups, family portraits, backpacks full of school supplies and $50 gift cards for new clothes.

+ Artistic award Patrice Kennedy, art teacher and fine-arts specialist at Oak Park school, received the 2013 Cindy Balisteri Distinguished Arts Educator Award for Kennedy Leadership in Arts Education from the Community/Schools Partnership for the Arts.

Kennedy also received a $1,000 grant for her education or her classroom.

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Daylight saving time ends Sunday, Nov. 3, so turn your clocks back before you head to bed on Saturday night and enjoy an extra hour of sleep.

Sarasota City Attorney Robert Fournier was cagey last Friday about certain details of a lawsuit accusing the city of violating the state’s Government-in-the-Sunshine law. There was at least one area, though, where he didn’t tread lightly.

A meeting of downtown business owners, attended by Com-

missioners Susan Chapman and Suzanne Atwell, was held Oct. 10 to discuss homelessness issues.

City Manager Tom Barwin was also present, and, according to minutes taken at the meeting, he brought up the topic of a potential regional homeless shelter. In no uncertain terms, Fournier expressed his displeasure with the

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city manager’s actions.

“When you are at a gathering where two or more commissioners are present that has not been noticed to the public, you don’t start talking about something that the commissioners are going to be voting on,” Fournier said.

“That’s a problem.”

Fournier also brought up a

previous Sunshine lawsuit filed against the city after Barwin formed a homeless advisory committee that was, according to Fournier, making recommendations about the hiring of caseworkers.

Fournier said Barwin was upset

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by Nolan Peterson | News Editor

SUCCESSION PLAN

Thomas Harmer, Sarasota County’s new interim county administrator, talks about overcoming crises and adapting to unexpected circumstances as he steps in to lead.

Thomas Harmer is a man of few words. But he has plenty of wisdom.

Harmer, 55, has a long list of life experiences from which to draw.

He is a former 911 dispatcher, firefighter, fire chief, businessman and holds a second-degree black belt in karate. But in the spirit of the martial art — which is only used in selfdefense when all other options are exhausted — Harmer is deliberate, focused and speaks only when he has something necessary to say.

The Hollywood, Fla., native stepped in to lead Sarasota County as interim county administrator last week following the Sarasota Board of County Commissioners’ decision to remove Randall Reid from the top county post after less than two years on the job.

At a workshop Tuesday, the County Commission voted 5-0 to keep Harmer in as interim county administrator for a period of at least six months, with the option to revisit the appointment in three months.

That afternoon, his second day as interim administrator, Harmer sat down with the Sarasota Observer to explain how his background in business, emergency management and martial arts has prepared him for a leadership opportunity that few, including him, saw coming.

SEE HARMER / PAGE 2A

Nolan Peterson

Thomas Harmer, 55, was tapped to be Sarasota County’s interim county administrator for a period of six months following the firing of former County Administrator Randall Reid last week.

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What lessons has your experience in emergency operations taught you about performing in a crisis?

One of the things you learn in emergency services is to remain calm, not just to make rational decisions but to calm everyone around you. You have to provide leadership and keep the focus on the mission on hand.

Is Sarasota County government in a crisis?

No, not at all. We're very fortunate here to have survived the economic downfall. At the same time, we have tough decisions to make because the economic recovery doesn't happen overnight. In government you try to do the best you can with what you have, so we have to be very careful with our resources.

What drew you to martial arts and how does it affect your leadership style?

There’s a Japanese saying — mizu no kokoro — which means "a mind like water.” In karate, that relates to flexibility and adaptability. It’s about knowing when you have to adapt. That is transferable to this job. Each circumstance is different, there’s no one set sequence of events that will solve every problem.

Will the county commissioners’ critiques of Randall Reid guide your leadership and management style? What lessons did you learn from his firing?

If you don't learn from the past, you're doomed to repeat it. In a general way, we all have to learn from the past and apply that knowledge moving forward.

I went in the private sector in 2006; I was in real estate development. You learn creativity and how important predictability is for the private sector. Time is money — you learn that in the private sector. But you’re only willing to spend money if things are predictable.

HARMER’S TOP PRIORITIES • Take care of the county’s day-to-day obligations, such as preparing meeting agendas, addressing resident concerns and providing timely information to commissioners. “When someone needs us, they need to know someone will be here, ready.”

What was your first reaction when you got the call about taking the interim county administrator position?

I was in Atlanta on my way to a conference, just walking off the Jetway when my phone rang. I answered, and I was asked if I would agree to step in as the interim administrator.

I wasn't shocked. I just took it in stride that the board had a need to fill a leadership void, and I was prepared to step in and do what they expected of me.

• Clearly define and understand the strategic vision of the County Commission. “I want to quickly get up to speed on all the big issues.”

• Preparing the agenda for the Dec. 5 County Commission retreat.

• Ensure that major projects such as the new Emergency Operations Center/911 Center and the Siesta Beach improvements go smoothly.

Some commissioners mentioned bad morale in their critiques of Reid. How do you fix bad morale?

Morale is based on a lot factors — some you can control and some you can't. Good communication, direction, showing progress and empathy to employees for the work they're doing — those are all things you can control. My goal is to create a positive, productive work environment.

We have a good group of employees here who are working hard and trying to do the right thing.

How did your experience in the private sector shape your decision-making as deputy county administrator, and how do you think it will guide your role as county administrator?

What is the biggest challenge facing Sarasota County?

Making sure we match the level of service expected of us with the resources we have available.

What will your greatest personal challenge be in this new job?

I'm optimistic about going into this assignment. I'm focused on this as an opportunity to move forward.

If offered the opportunity to permanently take over as county administrator, would you take it?

(Smiles) I expected that one. I don't want to be distracted by that question. I want to focus on what I have to do right now.

And, finally, the question on everyone's mind — you versus Chuck Norris, who wins?

He'd probably kick my butt.

One of the things you learn in emergency services is to remain calm, not just to make rational decisions but to calm everyone around you. — Tom Harmer

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Crime rate data under fire Businesses seek sidewalk café expansion The Sarasota Police Department disputes the accuracy of crime data that show the city has a higher rate of crime than neighboring municipalities.

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The Downtown Improvement District endorsed a revision of a city ordinance so non-dining establishments can provide outdoor seating for their businesses.

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Police Chief Bernadette DiPino was named head of the Sarasota Police Department in January.

sota also decreased from 2006 to 2012, falling from 3,583 to 2,897 — a 19% drop.

According to FBI data, however, Sarasota's crime rate is still significantly higher than nearby municipalities — about three times higher than North Port and 1.3 times higher than Bradenton.

Comparing Sarasota to cities like North Port could be problematic, Capt. Pat Robinson, commander of SPD's uniform services division, argued.

“North Port is a unique city,” Robinson said. “We all have dissimilar populations. Comparing city to city is not an accurate comparison.”

Sarasota's rate of crime reduction has outpaced national and

state trends, indicating the effectiveness of police department initiatives, Robinson said.

Nationwide, violent crime fell by 15.4% during the last five years, and property crime fell 8.3%.

Statewide, crime was down about 10% in the same period.

“It's not just a national drop we're seeing,” Robinson said. “It's the hard work of the department that led to the precipitous drop in the crime rate that we're seeing.”

Moyer added that several recent initiatives such as DiPino’s community policing program would continue to bring down Sarasota’s crime rate.

“If we continue the way we're going, we will continue to see our crime rate go down,” he said.

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The downtown area could see a population boom take place along its sidewalks soon — at least among tables and chairs.

At its meeting Tuesday, the Downtown Improvement District (DID) recommended the city revise its sidewalk café ordinance so non-dining establishments can place tables and chairs outdoors.

The recommendation came after A. Parker’s Books and the Gator Club, both located on Main Street near Lemon Avenue, expressed an interest in establishing outdoor seating. Under the current city ordinance regulating sidewalk cafés, however, only dining establishments are allowed to provide outdoor seating for their customers.

As part of Main Street improvement efforts this summer, sidewalks were widened and brick bulb-outs were constructed at several intersections, including Lemon Avenue. DID members said Jeff Speck, a walkability expert who spoke in the city earlier this year, encouraged the presence of cafés and other sidewalk attractions throughout downtown.

Representatives from the businesses seeking a change to the ordinance echoed that sentiment.

“It’s ridiculous to have the neck-outs and not have anything there,” Gator Club owner Larry Siegel said.

At A. Parker’s Books, the tables would be put out so customers could play table games like chess or backgammon, according to Manager Dan Christian. The DID was especially receptive to that idea, as were other downtown merchants, according to Sarasota Downtown Merchants Association President Ron Soto.

Rick Knowlton, a Sarasota chess enthusiast, spoke at Tuesday’s meeting to assure the DID that the gaming tables would be used.

“If you put them up, we will come,” Knowlton said.

“We’ve got the chess culture in town to support them.”

In response to a question about whether the Gator Club would attempt to extend the current hours sidewalk cafés are allowed to operate, Siegel said it would abide by the regulations in place. Sidewalk cafés must be vacated by 11 p.m. from Sunday through Thursday, and by 11:59 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

City engineer Alex DavisShaw said there were some concerns about expanding the program because the city already receives occasional complaints about the lack of tidiness from existing sidewalk cafés. She said staff was worried that adding more tables — and thus requiring more enforcement — could worsen the problem. Still, she said, the city was interested in activating downtown.

The next step, DavisShaw said, is for the City Commission to consider if it is interested in changing the ordinance. If it is, the commission would have to receive public input before it could vote on whether to approve a revision. Overall, the process could take a few months before any change is in place, she said.

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Sarasota Police Chief Bernadette DiPino said crime statistics showing the city has a higher crime per capita than Chicago don’t show the whole picture.

Statistics show the city’s crime rate actually has declined 26% over the past five years.

DiPino sent a letter Oct. 24 to her police department staff, Sarasota City Manager Tom Barwin and the Sarasota city commissioners in response to a crimerate index. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data show the city’s total crime per 100,000 residents at 6,261 incidents — higher than in Chicago, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, New York and Los Angeles, as well as Bradenton, North Port and Tampa.

“Over the last five years, violent crime has steadily decreased in the city of Sarasota thanks to all your efforts,” DiPino wrote.

DiPino added that the city of Sarasota's recent crime rate decrease paralleled a 26% reduction in personnel during the same period.

“Positions have been eliminated, but all of our officers and civilians have stepped up and continue to answer every call for service,” DiPino wrote.

DiPino’s letter disputed the conclusions of a crime-risk score broken down by ZIP code.

The data spurred Sarasota Mayor Shannon Snyder to advocate merging the Police Department with the Sheriff’s Office last week.

In addition to arguing the city’s crime rate has been steadily declining for years, Sarasota Police Department leaders said per capita projections of crime rates are an inaccurate way to compare municipalities.

“The most important number is the actual number of crimes,” Sarasota Deputy Chief Stephen Moyer said.

Moyer also cautioned against comparing Sarasota’s crime rates with other cities, claiming that extrapolating crime rates per 100,000 citizens skews the data, making smaller municipalities such as Sarasota — population 53,055 — seem more dangerous than they really are.

According to FBI UCR data, the city of Sarasota reported 565 violent crimes in 2006. That number dropped to 425 by 2012 — a 25% reduction in five years.

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NEWSBRIEFS + City Commission maintains State Street garage plans At a special meeting of the City Commission Oct. 25, Commissioner Paul Caragiulo asked commissioners to reconsider the design they selected for the State Street garage, but a majority of the commissioners declined to change course.

Caragiulo voted in favor of the design picked at an Oct. 21 City Commission meeting, which would place a small commercial building next to the garage along Lemon Avenue. Caragiulo said he was in favor of live/work developments — a centerpiece of that design — but questioned whether the city could find a market for them.

“I have absolutely the utmost confidence in our Urban Design Studio folks,” Caragiulo said about the team that developed the selected garage design.

“However, I’m not quite as confident in the city’s ability to really function as a developer.”

Caragiulo felt a plan that would place a larger commercial building adjacent to the garage would open up the possibilities for the city and developers interested in the space. Commissioner Suzanne Atwell, the only commissioner who voted against the design selected Oct. 21, voted with him to rescind the selected design. The rest of the commission, however, remained in favor of the original plan.

+ Drug turn-in event sees increased participation The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office collected 123 pounds of unused or expired prescription drugs as part of the Drug Enforcement Agency’s national turnin event Saturday, Oct. 26.

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Saturday, Nov. 2, Waldemere Fire Station, 2070 Waldemere St., Sarasota  Regular City Commission Meeting — 2:30 and 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4, Commission Chambers, City Hall, 1565 First St., Sarasota  Sarasota Board of County Commissioners Meeting — 9 a.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 5, at the Robert L. Anderson Administration Center, 4000 S. Tamiami Trail, Venice. The County Commission will also meet at 9 a.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 6, at the Sarasota County Administration Center, 1660 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota

Sarasota collection locations and 53 pounds in Venice, according to a Sheriff’s Office news release. The total amount collected Saturday was more than 55% greater than the 79 pounds turned in April 27, the last drug turn-in event.

The DEA and Sheriff’s Office aim to reduce drug abuse, theft and even environmental hazards, among other objectives, by collecting the unused pharmaceuticals.

For those who missed the event, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has permanent dropboxes at the Criminal Justice Center, 2071 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota, which is open 24 hours, and the south county office, 4531 State Road 776, Venice, where the hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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City looks to neighborhood watches for help The Sarasota Police Department’s renewed focus on community-led policing has the city encouraging interest in neighborhood-watch groups.

When Linda Holland moved in 1980 to Sarasota, the Gillespie Park neighborhood was rife with crime, she said. Immediately, she had to make a decision about her new home.

“Did I want to improve the neighborhood and get to the point where it was a safe neighborhood?” Holland said. “Or did I just want to walk away?”

Holland stayed, forming a neighborhood-watch group to combat crime in the area. Thirtythree years after Holland arrived in Sarasota, the group is still active — albeit with a less formalized structure — and serving as a model for new neighborhoodwatch groups forming in the city.

Under the direction of Police Chief Bernadette DiPino, who took her position at the beginning of the year, the Sarasota Police Department has focused on community-led policing.

As a result, the city has seen an increased interest in neighborhood watch groups, according to Officer Cherie McKeon, part of SPD’s Crime Prevention Unit.

McKeon and DiPino both credited the existing neighborhood structures in the city for creating an easy transition for areas interested in forming a neighborhood watch. Even groups that don’t want to form a “traditional” neighborhood watch can easily take a more active role to help police their

neighborhood, DiPino said.

“The thing about Sarasota is, they already have the neighborhood groups that meet frequently,” DiPino said. “It’s great because we can jump into those meetings and share information and data.”

The increase in neighborhood-watch activity can’t entirely be credited to better SPD outreach, though. Recent statistics show that, particularly for burglaries and thefts, Sarasota’s per capita crime rate is higher than most Florida municipalities. McKeon said that people often form these groups to help fight problems they believe the police department is failing to address on its own.

“They may have seen an increase in burglaries or a perceived increase in burglaries,” McKeon said. “As the weather cools off up north and people start moving down, they will see an increase in the transient population.”

Still, getting assistance from citizens to better fight and prevent crime is the goal of the SPD’s efforts, and the presence of neighborhood-watch groups is a boon in that regard, DiPino said.

McKeon said any association of neighborhood watch groups with vigilantism was a misconception. The focus, she said, is primarily on communication,

both within the neighborhood and with the police. As the SPD teaches residents what to keep an eye out for, residents are equipped with the ability to better perceive when a suspicious person or activity is problematic.

When that information makes its way back to the police department with greater regularity, the SPD can more effectively police on a local level without increasing the number of officers on the street.

“In order to fight crime, we all have to participate,” McKeon said. “That’s what we try to encourage with the residents: Communicate with each other.”

Although the Gillespie Park neighborhood watch group is more relaxed than it once was, it embodies that idea of constant communication. Holland said Gillespie Park residents have shared their experiences with other neighborhoods interested in forming a neighborhood watch, and that the group is still going strong more than two decades after forming.

“It’s still active in terms of people watching out for each other,” Holland said. “If people are in the neighborhood you’re not familiar with, you become very attuned to whether they’re looking for trouble.”

Beyond the crime numbers — which are improving, DiPino

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Sarasota Police Chief Bernadette DiPino, second from right, met with the Nancy Street Neighborhood Group earlier this month to talk about establishing a neighborhood watch, one of several neighborhood groups that has recently expressed interest in the program. said — there are less tangible effects of the community-led approach that the chief values.

“They can only go so far,” DiPino said about crime statistics.

“Some of it has to do with trust within the community, and I think the big thing I’m seeing is a bigger trust of our police department.”

That trust can be found in Gil-

lespie Park, where Holland said the neighborhood was willing to do whatever it took to assist the agencies that provide public safety.

“We’re a really big supporter of the SPD,” Holland said. “There isn’t anything we won’t do to help maintain the safety and security of not only our neighborhood, but other neighborhoods.”

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It hasn’t always been smooth sailing for Hidden Harbor Marina’s $9 million renovation project.

First, there was the recession.

Then, there was the BP oil disaster.

And, now, after more than six years, Hidden Harbor Marina is just weeks away from reopening.

“There were a lot of hurdles,” said Spencer Dunford, general manager of Hidden Harbor Marina. “There was the recession, and we didn’t know if all of the Gulf waters would be shut down because of the oil spill.”

Dunford said he expects the marina to open in about four to six weeks.

“We’re already accepting applications for rental slips,” Dunford said.

The marina’s current owners bought the property in 2004. According to Dunford, the site was “dilapidated” prior to the renovations; the property sat vacant throughout the project.

The revamped marina, which can accommodate boats up to 40 feet, will give area boaters a new storage option within a rapidly crowded market due to rebounding boat sales in the wake of the recession.

Sarasota County marinas are, on average, about 90% to 95% full. This lack of storage space parallels a nationwide resurgent in the boat-sales market.

Hidden Harbor Marina, located on south U.S. 41 near Vamo Road, will have several hundred indoor dry storage spots available for rent, along with outdoor options.

The marina’s concierge services will give boaters the option of calling ahead to put their boat in the water, gas it up and fill the ice box; engine flushing and cleaning services are available on return.

The marina will also have on-site boat

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Spencer Dunford, general manager of Hidden Harbor Marina, said the revamped facility will feature concierge services, a boating club and a future restaurant.

sales and service, a ship’s store, and plans are in the works for a restaurant.

Freedom Boat Club will also operate from the marina.

“We want it to be a unique experience,” Dunford said. “It’s all about worry-free boating.”

It will take boaters about five minutes to reach the Intracoastal Waterway from Hidden Harbor, and Gulf access is 40 minutes away.

Dunford said he would support a measure to reopen Midnight Pass, saying the move would improve water quality in the bay and help his bottom line.

“If Midnight Pass opened, we’d be the busiest marina in town,” Dunford said.

“But the biggest benefit is that it would clean out the water. It gets really stagnant away from the Gulf passes. We’re going to really push and do what we can to help the cause.”

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A committee representing area criminal justice leaders approved an ordinance that tightens loopholes in the laws banning designer drugs.

The Sarasota County Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) approved a proposal Monday to crack down on the distribution and marketing of designer drugs, such as bath salts and synthetic marijuana.

Although most state and local ordinances ban specific substances, the proposed Sarasota County ordinance will target the marketing and distribution of designer drugs — penalizing manufacturers for inaccurately labeling products and going after landlords who permit banned or improperly labeled substances to be sold in their stores.

“The idea is to destroy the marketplace,” said Patrick Duggan, general counsel for the Sarasota Sheriff's Office, who presented the ordinance to the CJC at Monday's meeting. “These drugs are a real problem in our community. We want to regulate the unregulated areas and tighten the loopholes sellers use to skirt the law.”

Violators of the proposed ordinance will be subject to both civil and criminal penalties, Duggan added.

Monday's proposed ordinance was the product of a Sept. 13 request from the CJC for county and Health and Human Services staff to draft a law that specifically targeted the manufacturing and distribution of designer drugs. The CJC unanimously approved the draft on Monday, which, after some slight modifications, will go before the Sarasota Board of County Commissioners for final approval.

Designer drugs are substances that produce pharmacological effects

We’re not looking for arrests, we want to make an environmental change. Our intent is education and public safety.

— Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight similar to illegal narcotics. Law enforcement experts warn that the risks of using designer drugs are often higher than with other drugs, such as marijuana, due to wide variations in purity and concentration.

One of the most prevalent designer drugs is synthetic marijuana, also known as “spice” or “K2.” Synthetic marijuana is produced by spraying chemicals on natural herbs or spices, which, when consumed, produce effects similar to marijuana. Synthetic marijuana is sold in convenience stores, tobacco shops, head shops and on the Internet.

According to state and Sarasota County data, 21.7% of Sarasota County high school students use synthetic marijuana, compared with 13% statewide.

National substance-abuse data indicate that children aged 12 to 17 are responsible for 44% of emergencyroom visits caused by the designer drug.

“We do feel an urgency, in the interest of public safety, to move forward on this,” Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight said.

“We fully support this ordinance,” said Ed Brodsky, state attorney for the 12th Judicial Circuit. “This is a tremendous measure that will have a significant impact on our community.”

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currently ban many designer drugs.

The bans, however, only apply to the specific chemical makeup of each drug.

The problem with banning specific compounds, Duggan said, is that it allows manufacturers to skirt the law by slightly modifying a compound's chemical structure, thereby exempting it from the narrow confines of the law.

“We want to tighten those loopholes,” Duggan said, referring to state and neighboring county ordinances related to designer drugs. “We tried to build on what others did well. We let them be the guinea pigs, which let us have the more refined product.”

Sarasota County Commissioner Christine Robinson represented the County Commission at Monday's CJC meeting. Robinson said she supported the ordinance, but pushed for modifying some of the law's wording to eliminate any “wiggle room” for offenders.

Knight, a member of the CJC board, also supported the proposed ordinance, citing eight spice-related crimes in Sarasota County the weekend prior to Monday's meeting, including a shooting and an aggravated child-abuse case.

“We're not looking for arrests; we want to make an environmental change,” Knight said. “Our intent is education and public safety.”

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High crime in Sarasota?

Mark Twain popularized Benjamin Disraeli’s famous line about three types of lies — “lies, damned lies and statistics.”

We can imagine Sarasota Police Chief Bernadette DiPino wanting to invoke Twain and Disraeli last week when she sent a letter to Sarasota City Manager Tom Barwin, the Sarasota city commissioners and her entire police department staff.

DiPino wrote to those parties after the Sarasota Observer reported FBI crime statistics showing the city of Sarasota having higher crime rates per 100,000 population than such crime-havens as Chicago, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. The stats even said it’s worse in Sarasota than in Bradenton and North Port.

Sarasota? How can that be?

The data for total crimes per 100,000 were so startlingly high — 6,261 in Sarasota versus 5,806 in Washington, D.C. — that Sarasota Mayor Shannon Snyder couldn’t resist. He popped off once again on Chief DiPino, telling our County News Editor Nolan Peterson: “I have no confidence in DiPino’s leadership … Crime downtown isn’t going to change until we get a new city manager and (Sheriff) Tom Knight takes over law enforcement for the city of Sarasota.”

To invoke another wise commentator, radio broadcaster Paul Harvey, Mayor Snyder should have taken into account “the rest of the story” before huffing and puffing Chief DiPino’s house down.

Yes, it’s true: Reported total crime, property crime, burglaries and thefts per 100,000 population are extraordinarily high in the city of Sarasota comparatively.

But don’t blame that on DiPino’s competence or lack thereof.

If Mayor Snyder had looked at the rest of the statistics, he would be, or should be, pleased to see the city’s crime rate and the number of incidents have been falling steadily for the past five years. More remarkable is the precipitous decline in 2012. Check out the table above.

DiPino can’t take any credit for those statistics; she started her job this year.

Which is all the more reason Mayor Snyder shouldn’t be so quick to judge.

While many Sarasotans know that Snyder’s call for consolidating the city’s police department and the sheriff’s department would make fiscal sense for taxpayers, consolidation is a long way off.

But if Snyder wants that agenda to move forward, a better approach than denigrating DiPino would be to give her more time (and support) to do her job.

If the trend of declining crime rates reverse and go back up under DiPino’s watch, then there may be a legitimate cause to put the blame on the chief.

But for now, it’s no time for lies or damned lies. The challenge for DiPino and her department is to continue to find ways to reduce the crimes per capita. In the end, those numbers won’t lie.

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FIRST DANCE OF FREEDOM When you’re born free, most likely, you take it for granted.

When you’re born in bondage, freedom is profound.

Last weekend, when Sarasota Ballet began its 2013-14 season, 23-year-old Edward Gonzalez, who defected from Cuba only six months ago, danced in his first ballet for the company.

He was cast in one of the lead roles in “Gitano Galop,” a piece choreographed by Sarasota Ballet principal Kate Honea.

After Gonzalez’s first performance Friday night, Gonzalez took the occasion to ask Javier Dubrocq, a former Sarasota Ballet company member who also defected from Cuba nearly 20 years ago, to deliver an important message to Honea. Gonzalez is in the early stages of learning English.

The message: He thanked Honea for casting him in her ballet, and he thanked her for “allowing him to dance his first dance of freedom.”

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THE CASTAWAY by Jorge Blanco

• What went wrong?

• Where did it first go wrong?

• How did it happen?

• Why did it happen?

• What should be done differently to avoid that bad event from occurring again?

Let’s hope Sarasota County commissioners use that checklist as a starting point for hiring the next county administrator.

In the case of Randall Reid, whom commissioners dismissed last week as Sarasota County’s administrator, the “what went wrong” may have been the buildup of a series of actions and inaction that reached a tipping point. But from our perspective, the “what went wrong” began with Reid’s selection from the start.

As most county and city commissions are wont to do, Sarasota County commissioners defaulted to standard government hiring practices when they hired Reid.

They conducted a national search, largely among experienced bureaucrats who had previously served as a county administator or city manager. In effect, trading one professional government man for another.

The outcome is almost always the same.

They run a government like a government.

And their bosses eventually get frustrated at the slow pace of improvement or lack of business sense. Inevitably, the administrators or managers get fired. It’s just a matter of time.

So perhaps Sarasota County commissioners will quit the insanity — doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Perhaps they’ll recognize that professional government administrators and managers, to use the cliche, are overwhelmingly cut from the same bureaucratic cloth.

In contrast, we have often advocated that elected commissioners show some guts and shatter the mold. Hire a business leader. Hire a proven business executive or entrepreneur. You can bet such an administrator would understand what we all wish government would understand: • The need for speed; • Time is money; • Customer service is the be-all, end-all; • Increasing productivity and cutting costs are daily habits; • Competition makes you better; • Accountability is essential; • There’s no such thing as job security; • And, if you don’t produce, if you don’t make your goals, eventually you get fired.

We have just the guy in mind. Sarasota banker Jody Hudgins. Some Sarasota city commissioners are sorry they didn’t hire him when they had the chance.

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12:05 a.m. — 1500 block of 30th Street. Suspicion General. A woman said passwords of her Gmail, Facebook, PayPal and personal website accounts had been changed. Several of the accounts used a phone number or email address as verification, both of which belonged to a former friend of hers, she said. The woman said she and the former friend had a falling out, and she believed the former friend was changing all the passwords.

9:30 a.m. — 4000 block of Bahama Drive. Dispute/Fight. A man was in a dispute with an employee of his. The dispute began due to some money that was owed to the employee, the man said. The man said he believed the employee took some of his tools as a result of this dispute, and he was unable to contact the employee to resolve the problem.

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“He wanted me to get him out of it,” Fournier said. “I couldn’t do that, because I am a lawyer, not a wizard.”

Fournier believes the city currently has a legitimate case against the nonprofit group Citizens for Sunshine, which has filed six lawsuits against the city for Sunshine Law violations in the past four years. He also said that, although Barwin put the city in murky legal territory on two separate occasions, his actions pertained to two separate provisions of the law.

Barwin, for his part, is promising the city will act with extreme caution going forward. He expressed a frustration with Citizens for Sunshine, a group that he and Fournier say is advocating for expanded interpretations of the Sunshine Law. Fournier said, under Citizens for Sunshine’s interpretation of the law, the presence of two commissioners at a meeting where potential future commission business is discussed qualifies it as a public meeting. That means, even if the city didn’t call the Oct. 10 meeting and the commissioners didn’t personally discuss the topic of a homeless shelter, the city should have provided 72 hours advance public notice and kept minutes.

Fournier believes the commissioners would have needed to actively participate in the discussion to qualify as a sunshine violation. Still, Barwin acknowledged that the group, based out of Sarasota, isn’t going away anytime soon, and that the city will have to operate with that in mind.

“I think all of us are actively consulting or seeking the direction of the law department in virtually any scenario that could

be construed to be a violation,” Barwin said. “We’re going to extreme measures now in doing that because we don’t know where that line ever is going to be set.”

Citizens for Sunshine attorney Andrea Mogensen said there was no pattern or personal agendas that drove the group to take action against the city, and she denied the notion the organization was seeking an expansion of the law.

When it came to Barwin, though, she did say she saw a pattern among the people who brought complaints to the organization’s attention.

“I will say that the current city manager has received negative attention and negative feedback from a number of the city’s constituents,” Mogensen said. “They’re watching his behavior.”

At least two commissioners have expressed their doubts about Barwin’s ability to stay in the Sunshine going forward.

Mayor Shannon Snyder said it was clear that the city manager didn’t care about the Sunshine Law, and Commissioner Paul Caragiulo said he agreed with much of what Snyder said. Caragiulo later confirmed he shared Snyder’s view of Barwin’s tenure thus far.

“I kind of cringe to think he’s still not ‘getting it,’” Caragiulo said. “I think that he thinks this is sort of a quaint little asterisk that goes along with public policy in Florida, but it’s not — it’s a serious issue.”

Caragiulo said he felt interpretations of the Sunshine Law were “borderline absurd,” but that people involved in government should already be accustomed to working with that in mind.

“We have the Sunshine police here — Hawaii doesn’t deal with frozen lakes,” Caragiulo said. “That’s life; deal with it.

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THE GOOD NEWS // How donors, volunteers and beneficiaries connect

JEANEEN HALL & SUZANNE HORNER For many people, retirement provides not only a chance to relax and spend more time with family, but it also frees up time to devote to hobbies, passions and, in some cases, volunteering. For recent retirees and transplants Jeaneen Hall and Suzanne Horner, this was certainly the case.

After relocating to Sarasota, Hall and Horner say they were both hoping to get involved in their new community through volunteer service, and they found that chance in Historic Spanish Point.

“I thought it was time to look into doing something to give me a little structure in my life,” says Hall, who moved in 2012 to Sarasota after retiring from her career as a physical therapist in Ohio. “I found the ‘You’d be Perfect for This’ website, and I thought this position would be nice; it’s low-key and totally different from the medical field I was in all my life.”

As a volunteer, Hall spends two afternoons each week either greeting customers or fielding their questions as they arrive, or working inside the visitors center. She’s enjoyed meeting fellow volunteers and employees, as well as visitors; learning about the history and beauty of her surroundings has been an added bonus.

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93rd annual SCC Membership Meeting and Luncheon — runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency, Sarasota, 1000 Blvd. of the Arts. The Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce will recognize the achievements of its members at the second annual Salute to Business at its 93rd annual meeting. The meeting is also a chance for the 500-plus attendees to network. For more information, call 556-4043

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Myakka resident Gilles Canesse has won petanque national championships in singles, doubles and triples.

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Cardinal Mooney runners Grace Casagrande and Cal Davidson Turner both captured Class 1A-District 10 titles Oct. 25, in Largo.

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The Outof-Door Academy’s Joe Plechy won the 50-yard freestyle in 22.70 seconds at the Class 1A-District 8 meet Oct. 26, in St. Petersburg.

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SARASOTA — Myakka resident Gilles Canesse has won more national championships than he can remember.

He won his first title in 1994, in doubles, and won his thirdconsecutive triples title last year.

He’s one of the most decorated petanque players in the area and yet, there is still one competition that has continually eluded him — the world championships.

Canesse attended the world championships once as a referee, but the Sarasota Club de Petanque co-founder is hoping this will be the year he can finally cross the threshold from spectator to competitor.

On Nov. 2 and Nov. 3, the Sarasota Club de Petanque will host the 2013 FPUSA National Men’s Triples Championships and World Championships Qualification Tournament, at its home courts at Lakeview Park, 7150 Lago St., Sarasota.

The tournament will determine which team will represent the United States in the Pan American Confederation Selection Tournament. The U.S. team will compete with teams

from Canada, Haiti and Mexico for one of two spots at the International Federation of Petanque and Jeu Provencal Men’s World Championships Nov. 20 through Nov. 24, in Tahiti.

The top petanque players from across the country will vie for a spot on the U.S. team, including Canesse, who will compete in the triples championship.

“This is the big time,” says Canesse who, in addition to competing, also will serve as this year’s tournament director.

“I’m just looking forward to being among the sport’s biggest players.”

Petanque is a French game that combines horseshoes and bocce ball. Players stand in a circle and try to throw a set of steel balls as close to a small wooden ball as possible.

Triples play is considered to be the international game, but all three levels pose their own unique challenges.

“Singles is interesting because the way you play is completely different,” Canesse says.

“With each one, you have to adjust your game and the way you play.”

A native of France, Canesse began playing petanque when he was about 4 years old with his older brother, Freddy. Canesse started playing with plastic balls before graduating to steel petanque balls when he was 10 years old.

Canesse spent his childhood playing pickup games with family and friends and relishing his nation’s pastime.

“In France, it’s like a national sport,” Canesse says. “Everyone has their own set of petanque balls inside their car.”

After moving to Florida in 1987, Canesse and his brother began playing petanque in a parking lot in Sarasota with some friends.

The two attended a competition in Lake Worth in the early ‘90s, but were unable to play because they weren’t associated with a club in the federation.

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Last year, Canesse and his nephew, Alex, were invited to play in the quarterfinals of a world championship qualifier.

The pair did well in the beginning, even tying the game at 4-4, before one of the top petanque players and his doubles partner pulled away to win.

“It was a lot of fun to play against him (the professional player),” Canesse said.

Now the winner of three triples championships, Canesse is focused on putting together one of his best performances in the hopes of reaching the world championships and claiming the one title that continues to elude him.

“We’re very happy to have it here,” Canesse says. “It’s just like a Super Bowl for us, basically. We know we’re going to be playing against professionals, but you never know what can happen in a game.

“They might win 90 times out of 100, but all I need is one game,” he says.

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+ Riverview Rams win district crown The Riverview High boys cross-country team scored 32 points to win the Class 4A-District 8 championship Oct. 23, in Largo.

Blake Riley won the individual crown, finishing first in 16:34.15. Bryce Vokus finished second in 16:46.58, followed by Warran Grajalez (third, 16:52.76). On the girls side, Riverview scored 42 points to finish second behind North Port (30).

Chimami Wade finished fourth overall in 19:59.43, followed by Jessica Lonas (fifth, 20:15.70) and Michaelie Grajalez (sixth, 20:16.65).

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KUDOS + ODA Volleyball The Out-of-Door Academy volleyball team captured its first district title since 2007 with a 25-20, 22-25, 25-12, 25-11 victory over rival Cardinal Mooney in the Class 3A-District 10 championship Oct. 24.

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With the win, ODA hosted Clearwater Calvary Christian in the Class 3A-Region 3 quarterfinals Oct. 29. ODA won the match.

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It was definitely unexpected. At the third mile, my coach said, “Eighteen (minutes),� and I just started sprinting. When I crossed the finish line and my coach said, “You got the school record,� I was really excited. All of my teammates set personal records, so it was a good race for all of us.

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An aerial view of John Ringling’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel in 1952.

HAUNTED HISTORY

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John Ringling’s Ritz-Carlton hotel stood vacant on Longboat Key for more than 30 years, leading many locals to call it ‘the Ghost Hotel.’

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ust 90 days stood between John Ringling and his vision, by many accounts.

That vision was a Ritz-Carlton hotel on the south end of Longboat Key that would look more like a waterfront castle than a hotel.

Construction began in March 1926 on the parcel of land near the present-day Chart House building. Ringling poured $650,000 of his own money into his dream.

By late 1926, the exterior of the structure was complete.

So were the first of three planned golf courses and the first of the 350 rooms the hotel was to hold.

But that year, as the hotel neared completion, the Florida land-boom bubble burst, and Ringling’s huge holdings that included real estate, banks and circuses began to rapidly dwindle. The land boom ended just as the city of Sarasota had increased its taxable land to include the southern tip of Longboat Key,

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Demolition of the hotel was completed in January 1964. A local Realtor proposed making the hotel a convention site in 1962, but Arvida opted to tear it down. effectively quadrupling the circus magnate’s taxes between 1925 and 1926.

Ringling halted construction on the Ritz-Carlton and other projects in November 1926. The stoppage was sup-

posed to be temporary. But, for the next three-and-a-half decades, Ringling’s failed vision of a seaside castle haunted the south end of the Key. Many locals called it “the Ghost Hotel.”

Weeds covered the property.

The ornate bronze plumbing and fixtures that had been left around the property when work stopped disappeared quickly. (In Longboat Observer founder Ralph Hunter’s 2002 book, “From Calusas to Condominiums,” he wrote that some fixtures were reportedly still used in Sarasota homes.)

Visitors came to the property, but they weren’t the luxury hotel guests Ringling envisioned. Many were teenagers who used the site for parties, romantic trysts and fraternity initiations. Some teens dressed as mummies by covering themselves with ACE bandages and scaring those who dared to pass near the area.

The site was especially popular on Halloween.

Adults also visited the site, often out of curiosity.

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SPOOKY SAGA MARCH 1926 — Construction began on the Ritz-Carlton hotel on the south end of Longboat Key. NOVEMBER 1926 — John Ringling ordered construction to stop on the hotel.

DEC. 2, 1936 — John Ringling died in New York City.

1954 — The death of a Sarasota High School student prompted officials to place a steel fence around the hotel.

JANUARY 1964 — Arvida completed demolition of the hotel.

1988 — Construction of the 18,549-squarefoot Chart House building near the site of the old hotel was completed.

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HOTEL / FROM PAGE 19A “We used to come out and if we’d get company, we’d take them out and show them the inside,” said Longboat Key Historical Society President Shirley Beachum, who visited her mother and stepfather on the Key when the hotel was still standing.

“It was a little eerie because you could go up the steps but there was nothing on the side.”

Longtime Longboat Key resident Bud Freeman remembers visiting the hotel.

“We weren’t supposed to be there,” he said. “It was off-limits.”

Teenage boys would race their cars in the sand dunes nearby, where high-rise Longboat Key Club Islandside condominiums now stand.

Because construction stopped abruptly, the staircases were in place, but the railings were never finished.

According to Sarasota County historian Jeff LaHurd, as many as eight people fell to their deaths in the abandoned hotel.

Visitors would later claim to have seen the ghost of Sarasota High School student King Richter, who was one of those

teens who died in the hotel, calling out the names of his friends.

After Richter’s death in 1954, officials placed a steel fence around the building.

But it didn’t keep the trespassers away.

A July 11, 1962, article in the now-defunct Sarasota Journal reported on a fire at the hotel that police believed trespassers who entered the fenced-off grounds by boat caused.

The hotel’s final chapter came in January 1964. The parcel had been part of Arvida’s 2,000 acres, including the south end of Longboat, along with its surrounding keys.

Before its demolition, the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce and Manatee Committee of 100 sponsored an eightminute documentary film by Hank Swain, of Sarasota, titled “The Ghost Hotel.”

Much of the fill from the hotel site was used to create City Island.

Over the years, Kim Cool, author of “Ghost Stories of Sarasota,” has received reports of ghost sightings around the old hotel’s location, although she hasn’t heard of a sighting in more than a year.

“Some people hear things or some say they see people or shadows,” Cool said. “It

depends on the people doing the reporting.”

Cool never tries to convince readers that ghosts haunt sites, but, instead, approaches the paranormal from the perspective of a reporter and a scientist.

If ghosts do, in fact, haunt the site, she doesn’t believe they’re the spirits of those who fell to their deaths in the hotel.

“Maccabre people like to dwell on that sort of thing,” Cool said. “I like to put a happier slant on it, that if we do have ghosts and we get to choose where we go, why wouldn’t we go to a happy place?”

She cites John and Mabel Ringling as an example: She hears of many sightings of their ghosts around Cà d’Zan, their winter residence.

For the couple, the home carried happy memories of the their travels that helped inspire its design. It makes sense their ghosts would return there, rather than to the site of the failed hotel, she says.

So, if you believe that ghosts haunt the hotel property, whose spirits could they be?

“I would think it would have been some of the people who were involved in building the hotel, the people who were really

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Still, many of the building’s past visitors and current tenants are skeptical that the site was or is haunted.

“I was never haunted by ghosts at the old Ritz-Carlton,” LaHurd said.

Roger Pettingell, a longtime broker associate for Coldwell Banker’s Longboat Key office in the Chart House building, also said he hasn’t heard of ghost sightings.

“I’ve worked a lot of late nights here,” he said, “but I’ve never seen a ghost.”

Neither has Debbie Stannick, whose store, Exit Art, has been at the Chart House building for 17 years, although she notes that she feeds a spooky black feral cat that visits the business each morning.

“I’ve never really felt any kind of ghost presence here, although it’s not necessarily that I don’t believe in that type of thing,” Stannick said.

Then, she thinks back to recent events in the building. There have been floods and a fire last week that caused approximately $25,000 worth of damage.

“Then again, we have had our share of crap,” she said, joking that the occurrences could be supernatural signs.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2013

real estate | transactions

By Adam Hughes | Research Editor

Home in Siesta Isles sells for $1.1 million The following residential real-estate transactions took place between Oct. 14 and Oct. 18.

A home in Siesta Isles tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Thomas Fuller, trustee, of Geneva, Ill., sold the home at 5415 Azure Way to Robert Hinkle and Brenda Hinkle, trustees, of Purcellville, Va., for $1.1 million. Built in 1961, it has three bedrooms, two baths, one half-bath, a pool and 3,063 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $360,000 in 1995.

Road to James Riley Jr. and Jonathan Riley, trustees, of Mendota Heights, Minn., for $902,000. Built in 1979, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,534 square feet of living area.

Sara Sands

Matt Sperling and Judith Sperling, of Sarasota, sold their home at 5104 Windward Ave. to Richard Fultz and Patricia Burquest-Fultz, of Great Falls, Va., for $705,000. Built in 1967, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,662 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $190,500 in 1990.

SARASOTA

Rivo at Ringling

David Cumming and George Krieger, of Asheville, N.C., sold their Unit 910 condominium at 1771 Ringling Blvd. to James Ellis and Elizabeth Pitchford, of Sarasota, for $657,500. Built in 2006, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,895 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $550,000 in 2008.

John Caloger, of Brewster, N.Y., sold his Unit 1205 condominium at 1771 Ringling Blvd. to David and Betty Luft, of Sarasota, for $435,000. Built in 2006, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,483 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $325,000 in 2011.

McClellan Park

Christine Caldwell, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the home at 2159 Sioux Drive to Matthew and Marina Parkin, of Sarasota, for $615,000. Built in 1925, it has four bedrooms, two baths, one half-bath and 2,656 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $570,000 in 2002.

1350 Main Residential

Melvin and Nancy Stumler, trustees, of Knobs, Ind., sold the Unit 1401 condominium at 1350 Main St. to Linda Goldstein and Ellen Fulchiero, of Sarasota, for

Siesta Beach

Harriet Sokmesuer

This home at 5415 Azure Way has three bedrooms, two baths, one half-bath, a pool and 3,063 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.1 million. $580,000. Built in 2007, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,364 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $561,700 in 2007.

Landings

FV-I Inc., trustee, sold the home at 1780 Pine Harrier Circle to Deborah Knowles, of Sarasota, for $525,000. Built in 1980, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,942 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $499,000 in 2001.

Poinsettia Park

Monika Hager, of Sarasota, sold her home at 1907 Magnolia St. to Judy Turner and Cynthia Johnson, of Rehoboth Beach, Del., for $449,500. Built in 1951, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,236 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $400,000 in 2012.

Palm Avenue Villas

Robert and Sandra VanLangen, of Sarasota, sold their home at 523 S. Palm Ave. to Just Emma LLC for $425,000. Built in 1998, it has two bedrooms, two baths, one halfbath and 1,460 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $319,900 in 2012.

Shoreland Woods

Christiana Trust, trustee, of Santa Ana, Calif., sold the home at 1622 Shoreland Drive to Dara Spiro and Peter Fassbender, trustees, of Sarasota, for $425,000. Built in 1975, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,914 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $415,000 in 2003.

SIESTA KEY

Siesta Dunes Beach

LDM Properties LLC sold the Unit 402 condominium at 6208 Midnight Pass

Commonwealth Developments LLC sold the home at 5039 Commonwealth Drive to Maureen Sehr, of Westport, Conn., for $670,000. Built in 2006, it has four bedrooms, three baths, one halfbath, a pool and 2,317 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $870,000 in 2005.

Siesta Sands

Gloria Morriss, of Birmingham, Ala., sold the Unit 71 condominium at 118 Beach Road to Kenneth and Linda Bobis, of Scottsdale, Ariz., for $400,000. Built in 1960, it has one bedroom, one bath and 509 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $76,500 in 1986.

PALMER RANCH Villagewalk

John and Sandra Gillis, of Sarasota, sold their home at 8100 Cardena Lane to Robert and Sue Cobb, of Johns Creek, Ga., for $440,000. Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,201 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $451,700 in 2005.

Jonathan and Tanya Hart, of Sarasota,

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3810 Flamingo Ave #A3986497 $2,525,000 Pamela Charron

507 S Casey Key Rd #A3985975 $997,000 Diana Fischer

Siesta Key 941-951-6660 941-993-3388

Nokomis/North Venice 941-951-6660 941-685-7680

7975 Manasota Key Rd #N5780498 $1,650,000 Maryanne Kurtz

Englewood 941-485-5421 941-441-6624

121 S Warbler Ln #A3985864 $1,575,000 Michael Moulton

Sarasota 941-383-7591 941-928-3559

5780 Midnight Pass Rd # 601 #A3986390 $1,040,000 Stephanie Kitsemble

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-313-0874

336 S Shore Dr #A3972537 $5,500,000 Nora Johnson & Klaus Lang

6160 N Gator Creek Blvd #A3979777 $899,000 Robert Moffatt

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-232-3370

412 E Macewen Dr #A3986096 $869,900 Betty Mullinnix & Steve Abbe

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-928-3441

390 Anchor Row #D5794655 $695,000 Pamela Neer

Placida 941-473-7750 941-830-0999

2409 Adagio Way #A3985222 $675,000 Phyllis Garfinkel

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Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-302-6400

6140 Midnight Pass Rd # 105 #A3972757 $529,000 Felix Power

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1756 Pine Harrier Cir #A3986427 $525,000 Tara Lamb & Judy Greene

3344 Gulfmead Dr #A3960478 $2,950,000 Karen Chandler

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-266-4873

7260 N Serenoa Dr #A3982070 $499,000 Ann Martin

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-356-7717

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-544-4919

7563 Alister Mackenzie Dr #A3985251 $489,000 Janis Collier

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-313-1212

7618 Broomsedge Ct #A3986538 $469,900 Mark McCann

Lakewood Ranch 941-349-3444 941-685-7624

3191 Matecumbe Key Rd # 605 #C7048490 $347,000 Sandra Limberger

Punta Gorda 941-505-5555 239-898-5238

11633 Garessio Ln #A3986275 $295,900 Dorothy Mckendry

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-586-5007

9086 Midnight Pass Rd # 17 #A3986567 $369,900 Harvey & Ethel Lovelace

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-586-7390

6157 Midnight Pass Rd # 0 #A3986059 $349,000 Dan Freed

Siesta Key 941-966-8000 941-735-0770

68 Bishopscourt Rd # 115 #A3986531 $289,900 Nicole Dovgopolyi

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-356-5849

727 Carnoustie Ter # 14 #N5780389 $279,900 Scott Johnston

Venice 941-493-2500 941-232-5482

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by Sarasota County and city of Sarasota for the week of Oct. 14 through Oct. 18, in order of dollar amounts.

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CITY OF SARASOTA Address

Permit

Applicant

1700 Bayview Drive 3705 Tangier Terrace 750 N. Tamiami Trail 1770 S. Oval Drive 481 S. Lime Ave. 1807 Oleander St. 3906 Bay Shore Road 4900 Sun Circle 845 Patterson Drive 2745 Waldemere St.

Re-roof Re-roof Alterations Pool Re-surface Re-roof Mechanical Demolition Mechanical Mechanical Mechanical

Edward Eible $111,200 Paul White $15,000 Deborah Phelps $11,600 Andrew Dorr $11,441 Sandra Zaloudek, life estate $7,600 Richard Peake, trustee $7,400 William Townsend $6,000 Leonard Schneeman $5,500 Nancy Spilewski $5,460 $4,930 Barbara Vallor

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SARASOTA COUNTY Address

Permit

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3942 Hamilton Club Circle 6027 E. Peppertree Way 432 Yacht Harbor Drive 8630 Midnight Pass Road 7877 Epseranza Circle 226 Yacht Harbor Drive 8531 Woodbriar Drive 2330 Bradford St. 4415 Claremont Ave. 4811 Sweetmeadow Circle

Renovations Renovations Roof Remodel Re-roof Renovations Re-roof Pool Pool/Patio Generator

Luca Naccarato Terry Wilber Robert Koch Steve Horgan Henry Ciaffone J. Joffee Susan Logan, trustee Dan Anbar John Massa Barnaby Ohrstrom

Amount $150,000 $70,000 $68,235 $60,000 $44,500 $40,000 $35,000 $32,000 $29,000 $28,798

Source: Sarasota County; city of Sarasota

606 & 608 S. Casey Key Rd MLS# A3986420 $6,475,000

1671 North Drive MLS# A3985140 $1,475,000

sold their home at 5397 Cambiago St. to Judith Koch, trustee, of Machesney Park, Ill., for $275,000. Built in 2004, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 1,846 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $355,000 in 2006.

Turtle Rock

Gerald and Ashley Pennella, of Sarasota, sold their home at 5098 Timber Chase

Way to Steven and Cynthia Stonecipher, of Aurora, Ill., for $404,000. Built in 1998, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,166 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $315,000 in 2010.

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1680 Fortuna Street MLS# A3985442 $899,000

Jonathan Abrams 5100 Ocean Blvd. • Siesta Key 228 Auburn Woods Cir #A3986382 $235,000 Kathleen Carbone P.A.

Venice 941-966-8000 941-228-8429

2220 Grove St #A3986457 $234,900 Jennifer Sangbush

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-465-0121

8968 Bantry Bay Blvd #D5794435 $225,000 Susan Gilmore

941. 232.2868 Jonathan’s outstanding track record in real estate has positioned him as an expert on waterfront properties.

Englewood 941-473-7750 941-223-0832

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6718 Virginia Xing #A3949161 $4,500 Lisa Shope

North Port/Venice 941-639-0000 941-623-5874

University Park 941-552-4200 941-320-8022

11625 Garessio Ln #A3984094 $3,800 Lisa Gullick

918 La Costa Cir # 3 #A3986503 $109,900 Kristine Niehaus

Sarasota 941-552-4200 941-321-6973

1485 Queen Rd #N5781380 Robin Sullivan

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Venice $1,300 941-485-5421

6001 Gulf of Mexico Drive Sold for $6,800,000 2012/2013 Highest Longboat Key Sale

267 Ben Franklin Drive MLS# A3978310 Offered at $2,999,000

85 S Washington Drive Osprey 941-966-8000 941-266-7829

Mid Longboat 383.5502 • South Longboat 383.7591 • St. Armands 388.4447 • Main Street 951.6660 Palmer Ranch 966.8000 • Siesta Key 349.3444 • Venice 485.5421 • Englewood 473.7750

MLS# A3973435 Sold for $2,045,000 113722

112 Osprey Point Dr #A3952220 $4,350,000 Sania Allen

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OBSERVER WEATHER

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TEMPERATURES

Record Temperatures High

Low

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Wednesday, Oct. 23

81

71

90 (1971)

47 (1961)

Thursday, Oct. 24

75

62

91 (1919)

45 (1923)

Friday, Oct. 25

82

60

91 (1971)

44 (1937)

Saturday, Oct. 26

81

60

92 (1971)

45 (1937)

Sunday, Oct. 27

82

57

90 (1960)

43 (1968)

Monday, Oct. 28

85

60

90 (1984)

43 (1957)

Tuesday, Oct. 29

86

64

90 (1965)

40 (1944)

AVERAGE GULF WATER TEMPERATURE: 75 RAINFALL

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Wednesday, Oct. 23

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Thursday, Oct. 24

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Friday, Oct. 25

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Saturday, Oct. 26

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6:42a

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6:43a

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51.11 in. 43.69 in.

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Month-to-date: 2013 2012

0.55 in. 3.32 in.

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24 Like some stops, in speaking 25 Goddess often depicted in armor 26 Third man from the first man 27 Happening many times 29 One skilled at handling his pride?

31 “Alexander’s Bridge” novelist Cather 33 Dutch painter Jan 35 Map legend, usually 36 Branch of medicine dealing with X-rays 40 Like graduation caps 42 Like a dead weight 43 Change your story 45 50-50, in the Senate 46 ___ chi 49 No less than 52 Elaborate wall tapestry 54 Clears up, as rumors 57 Tell an untruth 58 Prefix with “brewery” or “wave” 60 After-hours school grp.

62 Animal with a hump 63 French G.I. 65 Thin, crisp cookie

127 Throat ailment, 68 Old name for the commonly flu 69 What a circus promises to be DOWN 73 Pressing issue?

1Tire nuts 74 Expression of 2 Alternative to a saber praise 3 Buffoon 75 Suit sizes 4 Act that makes 76 Grocery store people look up pathway 5 67.5, direction-wise 77 Venomous reptile 6 GI ID 78 Search deeply (with 7 A willing partner? “into”) 8 In a bit 80 Sigma follower 9 Strike 10 Letters on a 83 Alternative to cornerstone contacts 85 Run ___ of (conflict 11 Becomes hard and dry, as bread with) 12 Start of some juice 88 Some refuse blend names receptacles 13 Actress McDaniel of 91 TV Tarzan Ron “Gone With the 92 Gobbled down Wind” 94 Midmonth, to 14 Easily accessible 15 Agenda listings Caesar 16 Indian queen (var.)

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annoyance 63 Bell tower emanations 64 Desert watering holes 66 “Caught you!”

67 Cheesy dish 68 Offspring’s inheritance 69 Cook, in a way 70 Express anew 71 Spanish appetizer 72 Star that brightens and then fades 73 Barred enclosure 77 Behind, asea 79 “What ___ can I say?”

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96 Brandy-making fruit 97 Souvenir stand item 98 Low men at La Scala 100 Bake sale goods 101 Org. with covert operations 102 Discombobulate 103 Architect I.M. and family 104 Take in or let out 105 Exit 109 Biggest diamonds on a table 110 Bottom of the foot 111 Walked heavily 113 Transylvanian lab assistant?

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Items Under $200 For Sale ADVERTISE YOUR MERCHANDISE with the total value of all items $200 or less in this section for FREE! Limit 1 ad per month, 15 words or less. Price must be included next to each item. No commercial advertising.

Ad runs 2 consecutive weeks in 1 Observer.

(No phone calls please.)

(Please provide your name and address) Email ad to: classified@yourobserver.com Online at: www.yourobserver.com Or mail to: The Observer Group P.O. Box 3169 Sarasota, Fl 34230 BOOK: SPIRIT into Sound", softcover, autographed by author Gratefull Dead Drummer, Mickey Hart $50. (941)504-0165.

BRUNO LIFT for vehicle. Includes bolts, etc. Suitable for an adult scooter. $200. 941-966-5844.

COUCH: LIKE new, 80"L Regency style, light cream and seafoam color striped fabric. $195.

941-921-3223.

DOG BOOK: 1 1/2'x2', $75.00. 2 Clowns: 2' high, both for $50.00. (941)496-9252.

Garage/Moving/Estate Sales BIG SALE Saturday, November 2 - 8:45AM - 2PM 1711 Bayshore Dr. Englewood, Fl. 34223 Exit 193 (Jacaranda), cross US 41 and turn left onto 776. Rt. on Overbrook, Left on Bayshore Dr. 2 queen bed sets, 2 nice dinette sets, light wood dining set, 4 bar chair set, 3 bar chair set, Renaissance Revival hall chair, 2 sofa /love sea setst, 2 coffee & end table sets, dining set with server & china cabinet, dresser, chest, lots of nice accessories, dishes, stemware, lamps, bakers rack, pink depression glass, leather & suede sofa with matching recliner, Wii guitars & Wii drum sets, bookcases, brown leather sofa, leopard upholstered chair, Aubusson style rug, silk plants, mirror, Water buffalo mounted head, Queen sofa bed, lamps, etagere, lots of pictures, plants, linens, yard tools, & kitchenware.

Sale by Julie McClure Estatesales.net

GOLF CLUBS: (10), 11/balls, brown, Ladies’ and USKIDS 9-11, complete set, green bag, $65/ea.

941-739-8758.

COMMUNITY WIDE Garage Sale, Saturday, November 2, 7:30am-1pm. Glen Oaks Manor Dr., 12th & Beneva.

LIKE NEW - Used but once, Commercial Paint Sprayer. $175. 941-227-3149

GARAGE SALE: Saturday, 8-1pm, Holiday decorations, tools, furniture, Disney, Rubbermaid shed and more. 3700 Amesbury Ln., Sarasota

Loveseat: Wicker, off-white. $70. File Cabinet: 2-drawer, legal size. $25. Pitcher/Bowl Set $25.

941-544-8641.

LUGGAGE: AMERICAN tourister, 3 sizes, fits inside, 1 shoulder bag, black, $40 o/b/o.

941-924-8477.

PARK TRACE, Osprey. COMMUNITY SALE 8am-1pm, Saturday, 11/2, Rain Date Saturday, 11/9. Located: East end of Bay St. Furniture, Appliances, Clothing & Collectibles.......

General Merchandise

MASSAGE CUSHION: Homedics Portable, excellent cond., $38. Weber vented table grill w/cover, $14. 941-377-4522.

STUNNING LETOUT, white, Baby Mink coat.

Made for petite sized woman. $1900 941-661-8712

PALM TREES: Eight large Queen, $25.00 each. U dig and move. 941-924-5093.

Merchandise Wanted

PING PONG table: collapsible, with net, paddles,$50. 35" square white card table, $25.

941-927-4404.

CASH FOR Old Military Items. Swords, uniforms, insignia & old guns. Call 941-416-3280.

POWER JUICER: Jack Lalanne’s w/operating manual and recipes. Like new, $50. 941-822-4566.

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

ROCKING CHAIR: brown w/cushions, wood frame, almost new, $40. 941-350-5644.

Musical Instruments

SPEAKERS: (2) Bose 301 Series II, JVC Stereo receiver, JVC Quartz turntable (20/yr. old), $60.

941-923-6056.

SURROUND SOUND System: Yamaha amp./tuner, 6 speakers +Woofer, $500 o/b/o. 941-704-8879.

TEAK ARMCHAIRS (2) for patio, folding and reclining, $60/ea. Wheelbarrow, $30. 941-374-3329.

VIOLIN WITH bow and case, $159. (941)358-8511, (941)730-1776, (941) 730-8252.

WORK BENCH, $50.00. White Parsons Chair, $15.00. Yellow Upholstered Chair, $35.00. Call 941-539-8136.

Autos For Sale OVER 30 VEHICLES IN STOCK $10K OR UNDER 2003 Nissan Xterra XE, 70/K miles, only $8988 2011 Ford F150 XL, WT, like new, $11,988 2004 Acura MDX AWD, one owner, great condition, $11988 2008 Smart Fortwo Cabriolet, 33K/miles, like new, 33MPG city, $9988.

2006 Toyota Corolla, 5/speed, 43K/mi., $9988 2003 Nissan Altima SE, 75K/mi., $8988 2010 Nissan Versa, 53K/mi., $9988 2005 Chrysler 300 LTD, CLEAN, $9988 2005 Ford 500 Limited, leather, all the options, $8988 Hawley Motors II 5741 Pinkney Ave. (1 block west of MacIntosh, off Clark) 941-312-5890

Personals ADOPTION: CARING and understanding Teacher and Physician Assistant promise unconditional love and education to child. Expenses paid. Sandy and Clint, 1-800-968-9851. www.sandyclintadopt.com.

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Schools/Instruction

Commercial Property For Rent

PIANO LESSONS in your home. All ages, all levels.

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EXECUTIVE SUITES: South Tamiami Trail, Gulf Gate area. Full service conference room. 3 Room Suite available. One month free rent. Wireless internet and utilities included. From $250/mo. Call 941-923-6050.

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

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

Things To Do GULFSIDE MINI-VACATION IN NAPLES JUST $179 PER PERSON ***

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Non-smoking. $1250/mo. Annual. Unfurnished.

Call Ashton Realty, Inc. Joe Bonsall, 941-923-1945 or 941-356-6356.

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Pictures available. 586-978-8123.

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3 month minimum Jan-Feb-Mar $7,500/month including weekly maid service plus security, taxes.

No smoking or pets.

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5411 Avenida del Mare - $1,089,000

777 Beach Road #4B - $649,000

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Siesta Key 1.5 blocks to beach. Built 2003, 3,695 s.f., High ceilings, bamboo floors throughout, theater, 4 car garage

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5505 Cape Leyte Drive - $655,000

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7508 Midnight Pass Road - $2,275,000

One of the most desirable streets on Siesta Key. Fabulous views. Deep boating water near the bay. 3 beds/2 baths

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1384 harbor Drive $4,479,000 Previously listed since 2008 with two other Realtors. Once closed, the listing price per square foot will be unprecedented, and the sellers will receive outstanding value.

3922 solymar Drive $2,250,000 North Siesta Key Gulf-front lot on the beach offering beautiful sunsets. Private gated access driveway and community boat dock.

2315 mietaw Drive $1,255,000 4 bedroom, 4 bath distinctive Florida home with West Indies influence less than a half-mile to Southside Village and Southside Elementary School.

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650 Golden Gate Point, 202 $825,000 An elevator takes you to the residence and, as the door opens, you are drawn to amazing panoramic views of the bay, city and Marina Jacks.

50 Central avenue, 11b List Price: $795,000 I listed this condo in The Plaza at Five Points in May. It was under contract in just 54 days, and sold for 97% of the listing price.

204 Garden Lane $425,000 2 bedroom, 2 bath tropical Siesta Key home just two tenths of a mile from the Shell Road Beach access where you can see the amazing Florida sunsets over the Gulf.

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“Small roles are different from title roles,” Angela Mortellaro says. “Sarasota Opera was an incredibly positive experience … I feel really comfortable here.”

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DAY IN THE LIFE Two singers will perform arias in November at Sarasota Opera House — one a teenaged aspiring opera singer; the other, a professional principal.

Angela Mortellaro, above, is a principal Studio Artist with the Sarasota Opera. She will be playing Adele in the company’s upcoming performance of “Die Fledermaus.” Monica Gonzalez, right, will play a lead role in the Sarasota Youth Opera’s upcoming production of “The Little Sweep.”

Prelude to school

It’s 5:30 a.m., and Monica Gonzalez is walking Milo, her American Eskimo puppy. She makes her bed, washes her face, makes herself toast with pineapple and prepares Cuban coffee for herself and her mother, Gina Arabitg. If she has time, she does a load of laundry and the dishes. Most parents would kill for a 17-yearold like this.

After she drops her younger sister, Jessica, off at the bus stop, she heads to Cardinal Mooney an hour before school starts. By 7:55 a.m., she’s in first period, where she’s the teacher’s assistant.

“The chemistry teacher, Vanessa Santos, loves me,” Gonzalez says. “She’s even coming to see the show!”

Gonzalez is referring to Sarasota Youth Opera’s production of Benjamin Britten’s “The Little Sweep,” in which she plays one of the leads, Rowan.

“I feel incredibly different from my peers,” she says. “My priorities, the way I view life — opera opens a completely different world.”

By the time she’s 30, she hopes an international opera company, via the route of a conservatory and graduate school, competitions, summer programs and apprentice programs, will hire her.

She’s currently undecided on schools.

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At 8 a.m., 31-year-old Angela Mortellaro goes for a run. She’s had breakfast with her all-important cup of coffee, and by 10:30 a.m., she’s ready to warm up her voice. As a principal Studio Artist, she lives in housing downtown, two minutes away from the opera house. Today, she goes there for her ideal hour-and-a-half vocal warm-up.

Interestingly enough, her first big professional performance after graduate school was at Orlando Opera; she played Ida in “Die Fledermaus.” This time, she’s playing Ida’s sister — Adele.

This is not how Mortellaro expected it would be. When she was 17, she took choir. Her teacher gave her a solo — only once — and she completely crashed and burned.

“I hated it,” she says with a roaring laugh. “I didn’t want the pressure of having a solo.”

Mortellaro worked many hours at the Brookfield, Wis., grocery store her father, Robert, owned.

She said she was independent and strong-willed — two qualities she’d later need as a singer. Although Mortellaro enjoyed music and playing the piano, she never saw herself performing.

“I thought I’d be in Wisconsin, maybe a music teacher somewhere, married with lots of children right now,” she says. “I thought I’d follow a more traditional path.”

She is married to a fellow professional Sarasota Opera singer, Jeffrey Beruan, who is currently singing at an opera in Kansas City, Mo., and who will arrive this winter in Sarasota. They speak two times a day by phone.

It wasn’t until late in her undergraduate student career at the University of Wisconsin when a

Q&A How many people do you have to work with to prepare for a role?

Gonzalez: My voice teacher, Maestro Jesse, is my vocal coach; Miss Martha is my director. And I work with a teacher from Oberlin via Skype on how to tackle this role.

Mortellaro: My vocal teacher; if I don’t know the language then a language coach; and a music coach.

Do you take voice lessons?

Gonzalez: I take voice lessons over Skype with my teacher, Rose Marie Freni, who moved to North Carolina. Every two months I go there to stay with her for a weekend (of lessons).

Mortellaro: I study with Stephen King (at Rice University) whenever I can get to Houston. I go for a week two times a year and take as many lessons as I can.

What are your parents’ names and what do they do?

Gonzalez: My dad’s name is voice teacher, Carlene McMonagle, pointed out Mortellaro’s singing talent.

“People told me in high school, but I didn’t listen,” she says. “I listened to her.”

She went to Rice for graduate school, and that was her turning point.

“There’s not a set path to be an opera singer,” she says. “And, I still feel like I’m really getting started in this business.”

Her first big role with a professional company was Gretel in Sarasota Opera’s 2010 production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel.”

“Sarasota Opera took a chance on

Dr. Julio Gonzalez, and he’s an orthopedic surgeon who goes to law school at Stetson at night (he’s running for state representative).

My mom, Gina Arabitg, is a gynocologist and an incredible painter.

She’s good at singing, too, but would never sing in front of people.

Mortellaro: Martnie Mortellaro, my mom, is a choral director at a church, and my father, Robert Mortellaro, is retired. He owned Century Foods grocery stores.

Earliest memory performing: Gonzalez: I was in preschool singing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” and the teacher came up, took me out of class and had me sing it for the other teachers in the faculty room.

Mortellaro: Singing in choir at church because my mom was the choral director, and we had a really great group of singers in that choir.

All of those people were really good musicians. me, and it really paid off and helped me learn I could do it,” she says.

She’s called for a 12:30 p.m. rehearsal for Sarasota Opera’s “Die Fledermaus,” then she gets to take a three-hour break at 4 p.m. when she eats lunch, has another important cup of coffee and calls her husband. She’ll look over her lines and music, but likes to stay quiet to rest her voice. She reads Colum McCann’s “Dancer” until her 7 p.m. rehearsal with the chorus.

Finale out of school

Gonzalez tailored her classes to her passion. She switched from taking Spanish to taking French, and she’s now in a class with all

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freshmen. At 1:40 p.m., Gonzalez has study hall, and she utilizes her time to take college-level online music-theory classes. If her voice is tired, she tells her friends she’s on vocal rest and avoids talking.

When school lets out at 2:30 p.m., she listens to Russian operatic soprano Anna Netrebko and drives to Sarasota Opera House — her ritual.

Gonzalez loves Netrebko. It was watching a DVD of one of her live performances that inspired her “to get serious” in summer 2012.

“She looked on stage how I felt when I sang,” Gonzalez says. “And the way the audience was responding, I wanted the audience to fall in love with me like that.”

That’s all it took. Gonzalez called her voice teacher with plans to go professional. She’s devoted her adolescent life to acquiring this dream — “The Little Sweep” is her first big role.

Even though her voice teacher moved from Sarasota, she has Skype coaching sessions every Wednesday, in addition to three rehearsal days a week.

Today, she warms up for 20 minutes before her first hour-long rehearsal. Gonzalez spends her 30-minute break with a tutor at Selby Public Library, and then she is back for the evening rehearsal that will last until 8:30 p.m.

She gets home, does her homework and any loads of laundry she didn’t finish that morning.

She takes a shower and tries to be in bed by 10:30 p.m. On the weekends, or if she doesn’t have rehearsal the next day, she’ll act like a 17-year-old and hang out at a family friend’s house swimming with peers until 2 a.m.

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It’s been a long day of rehearsals for Mortellaro. She finishes the evening telling her husband goodnight, but sometimes she’ll go out with her opera friends for an hour or so. She tries to get to bed by 11:30 p.m.

With rehearsals six days a week, she likes to spend her off days like a teenager — sleeping in, eating a late brunch and enjoying the Florida weather.

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Iain Webb dedicates his 2013 Arts Leadership Award to Ulla Searing’s memory Fuzión Dance Artists

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Emma Thurgood curates excitement Emma Thurgood bet on her college education. She could study art at her parents’ expense, if she graduated with straight A’s and made the dean’s list.

“It was a real deal,” she says.

They signed a contract.

Ringling College of Art and Design brought her to Sarasota, where she’s now the exhibitions coordinator at Art Center Sarasota. Her art, along with remnants from past and upcoming exhibitions, decorates her office.

She picks up a plush navy and pink polka-dotted egg sculpture she made. It’s happy-looking, like Thurgood.

“This season is exciting,” she says. “It’s so different from what we’ve done.”

Four exhibitions launch the season at Art Center Sarasota Thursday, Nov. 7, one of which, “Pulp Culture: Of and About Paper,” she curated.

“Pulp Culture” examines all of the other ways “the unsung hero” is used aside from something you paint on, such as: paper installations, sculptures, origami and bookmaking, for example.

She walks to the back room where boxes of art are waiting.

Thurgood works with a 10-person volunteer committee and Director Lisa Berger to decide the season; then, Thurgood does the legwork. According to her pedometer, she walks seven miles a day during a change of exhibitions.

“Nothing I do is exceptionally difficult, but you have to have a love for it to do it well,” she says.

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Her excitement belies her passion.

Her biggest headache is the packing process. She opens boxes one layer at a time, and takes a photo of each layer so she can send it back exactly the way the artist shipped it. She pulls out a paper antelope sculpture by Tasha Lewis. Letting out a giddy yelp of excitement, she makes it leap through the air. It’s her favorite in the exhibit.

“They’re so cute!” she says.

She displays equal excitement about March’s Confluence Project, featuring the work of Sarasota’s sister cities.

With help from the Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee, Tel Mond, Israel, will be the first sister city exhibited this March.

The exhibit will challenge misconceptions of Israel. Vladimir, Russia, is 2015’s sister city.

Thurgood continues her display of happiness as she discusses last season’s Jackie Peters

Cully’s community leaf project and installation. It was such a success that ACS staff decided to do one every year. This year’s community project will be architectural paper structures that link together from Netherlandsbased artist Noa Haim — Thurgood has a couple on her desk.

For the first time, Thurgood’s passion turns from giddy to serious. When she was in art school, people told her not to get involved at ACS because it doesn’t

help local artists. Those people were wrong, she said.

Last year, ACS paid local artists more than $25,000 for work sold at the center. Thurgood’s challenge is serving both artists and art viewers. Exciting exhibitions of nonlocal artists in one gallery brings people in to see the community-featured work in the others. Two of the four upcoming exhibits feature locals.

Thurgood’s goal is perpetual improvement. And, we’ve learned, so far, that her determination wins bets; whether it’s, as she says, “stepping up the game” at Art Center Sarasota or graduating with straight A’s on the dean’s list — she’s prone to success.

“They drill it into you in art school that you’re going to fail,” she says. “I’m actually way ahead of where I thought I was going to be at this point in my life.”

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DANCE // ‘Theatre of Dreams’ Opening up the 23rd season of the Sarasota Ballet with a program featuring the works of its own dancers in “Theatre of Dreams” was a great way to kick off what’s expected to be a knock-out year for the ballet company. The entire show always surges with energy — excitement from the dancers who are given the opportunity to choreograph; excitement from the dancers performing their peers’ works; and excitement from the audience witnessing the hard work and passion the entire company has for its craft.

Three of the pieces on the program were created by veteran “Theatre of Dreams” choreographers — Kate Honea, Logan Learned and Jamie Carter — and three pieces were by virgin choreographers — Alex Harrison, David Tlaiye and Kelly Yankle. The program offered a variety of styles and themes offering delight to many styles and tastes. Of course, the veteran choreographers’ pieces were more notably full of depth, levels of complication and length, due to more experience.

Every piece was an achievement in itself.

Kate Honea’s “Gitana Galop” set to Johan Strauss’ “Five Gallops from Kettentanz” was a glittering array of waltzing couples in and out of formations along with solo dances from audience-favorite Logan Learned and lead couple Emily Dixon and Edward Gonzalez.

Honea has mastered multilayered choreography, in which different groups of dancers are dancing different sequences of steps to several different sections of music at the same time. This gives the piece a full-effect, making even a small cast seem larger-thanlife.

Logan Learned always delights the audience with his high-flying leaps, double tour en l’air and multiple entrechat six. The wonderfully talented (both technically and

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dramatically) Emily Dixon has found herself a nice partner in Edward Gonzalez, the newest member of the Sarasota Ballet after defecting from Cuba. Gonzalez has all the makings of a Cuban dancer with the Cuban signature knack for being able to pull-off multiple pirouettes.

Edward Tlaiye’s “Xibalba” was a contemporary piece set to Radiohead’s “Videotape.”

The premise of the piece was a love affair gone wrong with Sareen Tchekmedyian leaving Ricki Bertoni for Juan Gil. Bertoni was the star of this piece. His ability to perform diverse styles of dance, from the classical to the utmost contemporary, like in this piece where his body is contorted into a multitude of difficult movements, is astounding.

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“The Last Banquet” by Jonathan Grimwood is a sense-feast of a novel spanning 18thcentury France. Tracing the life of its speaker-protagonist, Jean-Marie D’Aumout, the novel opens with D’Aumout’s earliest memory: snacking on dung beetles in a dung heap outside his childhood home (his parents, destitute nobles, starved to death inside). Through a combination of good fortune, unique intellect, courage and kindness, D’Aumout follows his taste buds down a charmed path that restores his family’s legacy, at least for a time, and aids him on a quest for the perfect flavor.

The stringy flesh of an old lion sautéed with onion? Check. A secret Corsican cheese made from women’s breast milk and tied in muslin? Check.

He continues his quest until the very end of his life, as the French Revolution literally knocks on his chateau’s gates. Although this is a novel that revels in the riches of the senses, it is as much a history lesson mapping the fall of the French aristocracy, as D’Aumout observes the growing discontent of the peasant class — eventually so destitute that they defecate openly in the streets. He winces at the crumbling opulence of Versailles, where princes and tiny dogs dwell together in the stench of bodily functions and rotting meat.

Wolf wrestling? Check. A recipe for braised flamingo tongue? Check. Discarded animals from Versailles’ menagerie? Check. A whole warthog jarred in brine? Check.

This is a sensuous, sensual, engaging and sometimes risqué novel peppered with

slightly disturbing, with Tchekmedyian smothering Bertoni to death with a pillow, start for this new choreographer.

Alex Harrison’s “The Blue Hour” was a beautiful pas de deux set to Frederic Chopin’s “Nocturne No. 27 Opus 2) featuring Danielle Brown and Ricardo Graziano, who are the absolute best at dancing pas de deuxs that portray passion and giddy love.

This pas de deux had the lyrical qualities much like Antony Tudor’s “The Leaves are Fading.” Kelly Yankle’s “Ne Me Quitte Pas” set to Edith Piaf’s song of the same name, was another pas de deux featuring David Tlaiye and Sara Scherer. This pas de deux was more contemporary in nature and reflected more on the ending of a relationship.

Logan Learned went the opposite direction this year with his piece “Nebulous.” Last year his piece certainly had a “story” and this year his piece was more along the lines of the neoclassical non-story ballets, much like his title describes. “Nebulous” was set to Philip Glass’ “Violin Concerto Movement 3” and featured some of the company’s strongest dancers in three couples — Kate Honea and Juan Gil, Victoria Hulland and Ricardo Rhodes, Elizabeth Sykes and Ricardo Graziano. Not to take anything away from the lovely ladies, but the three men were certainly powerhouses in this piece.

Jamie Carter is a whimsical choreographer, always surprising his audience with interesting themes. This year “The Tarot” describes the process of tarot cards through dance set to specially commissioned music by Louis Mander that was played live on stage. The large cast was costumed in original pieces designed by Bill Fenner. Ryoko Sadoshima who danced the role of “The Moon” was a true standout in this piece. Her quality of movement in sweeping pas de bourrée couru across the stage and elegant balances in arabesque were a delight to watch.

“Theatre of Dreams” is always one of this critic’s favorite programs of the season and it was a pleasure to have it be the first one of this year’s lineup.

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D’Aumout’s exotic recipes. It is, in fact, a story about taste, a story about seeking pleasure in a sad world, a portrait of 18th-century France.

And it’s as much a story about love and friendship: D’Aumout is a husband twice, a father, a lover, a lifelong friend. His interactions with other characters form the backbone of the narrative.

A locked Corsican cave with only live bats for nourishment? Check. An old dog tried by a court of children on behalf of its owner, hanged and cooked? Check.

Despite some dizzying tense changes (perhaps a device Grimwood used to make us question the nature of memory and time and to create passages of present-tense visceral experience), “The Last Banquet” is a fascinating sensory experience written in a mostly engaging first-person voice.

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You can’t keep a good monster down — or a good monster story. Case in point, Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” Science-fiction authors from Asimov to Zelazny have played with the concepts; James Whale and other horror filmmakers have scared our pants off with them. The mad doctor as wannabe God. The creature as the doctor’s rejected son. It’s a great story — probably one of the greatest.

Like any great story, it inspires great storytellers to find new ways of telling it.

This was Mel Brooks’ and Gene Wilder’s stroke of genius in the original “Young Frankenstein” film from 1974. They didn’t mock or deconstruct “Frankenstein.” They lovingly worked within the tradition. Their movie wasn’t just a satire; it was a sequel.

(In case you missed it, Dr. Frankenstein’s grandson, Frederick, reluctantly follows in his forbearer’s “footshteps”). The original movie didn’t trash Shelley’s concepts. It stitched them together, gave them a new zap of electricity and made them come alive. Brooks and Wilder built on the original story, and it worked.

Mel Brooks’ 2009 musical, (co-written with Thomas Meehan — and now rampaging on the Manatee Performing Arts Center stage) works for the same reason. It’s surprising how much tissue survives from the original film. The horses neigh in terror at Frau Blucher’s name; Igor’s hump shifts from side to side. The gags (both smutty and clean) still make audiences howl.

Director/choreographer (Dewayne Barrett), actors and all the technical wizards involved are clearly enjoying themselves.

Controlled anarchy isn’t easy on stage, but Barrett pulls it off like it’s no big deal. As to the actors: Brian F. Finnerly pushes away from Gene Wilder’s characterization. His Frederick Frankenstein is a nebbishy overachiever, not a sublimated wild man. Mark Netherly’s Igor, on the other hand, is an

“Crazy for You” (the 1992 Broadway hit now hitting The Players stage) is basically a fix-up of “Girl Crazy” (the 1930 Broadway hit). The reincarnation juggled the original plot elements and gave the story more zip — not that the new story makes any more sense. It’s charmingly preposterous. You not only have to suspend your disbelief, you have to put your disbelief in concrete overshoes, drop it off the Brooklyn Bridge and change your address. Simply put …

Back in the 1930s, Bobby Child (Logan O’Neill), a rich, young fellow in New York City, just wants to dance. Bela Zangler (Chip Fisher), the Flo Zeigfeld clone, wants him to dance in somebody else’s theater. His mom (Donna DeFant) wants him in the family business (banking, that is) and sends him to Deadrock, Nev., to foreclose on a cowboy theater. There, Bobby falls in love with Polly Baker (Kathryn Parks), the theater’s cowgirl proprietor. Complications and misunderstandings ensue. Bobby and Polly put on a show to save the theater. They do. (Spoiler alert: They also live happily ever after.)

This short synopsis sounds nearly sane.

Trust me, it’s not. Hilarious, yes. Logical, no.

But the plot’s not the point. As with the original “Girl Crazy,” the story’s just an excuse to put the George and Ira Gershwin songbook on stage. These crowd-pleasers include “I Got Rhythm,” “Bidin’ My Time,” “I Can’t Be Bothered Now,” “They Can’t Take That Away from Me,” “But Not for Me,” “Embraceable You and Someone to Watch Over Me,” “Naughty Baby,” “Stiff Upper Lip,” “Nice Work if You Can Get It” and, of course, “K-ra-zy for You.” This ear candy is delivered via Jared E. Walker’s screwball direction, Kyle Turoff’s high-voltage choreography and a cast bubbling with chemistry. O’Neill is a snappy dancer (tap and non-tap), a great singer

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“Young Frankenstein” runs through Nov. 10, at Manatee Players. homage to Marty Feldman’s original. (You were expecting maybe Peter Lorre?) Karen Lalosh puts in her own deadpan homage of Cloris Leachman’s Frau Blücher, but gets into kinky depths at which the movie only hinted. Andrea Wright’s Inga (not derivative of Teri Garr!) is her own Transylvanian temptress. Robert Austin’s wooden as Inspector Kemp — but his character’s supposed to be wooden — at least partly. (That’s the gag.)

Danae DeShazer sizzles as Elizabeth, Dr. Frankenstein’s narcissistic, teasing-but-sexually-frozen fiancée. DeShazer makes the role her own; Madeline Kahn would be proud.

William E. Masuck’s Creature is less Peter Boyle, more Lou Abbott. His misunderstood monster is a regular Joe, putting up with mopes and dopes in an Eastern European backwater. Space doesn’t permit props for all the mad scientists behind the minimal but effective sets, wacky costumes and joyfully over-the-top lighting effects.

And joy is what this musical’s really all about. (Surprising in a monster story, but there it is.) The original Dr. Frankenstein rejected his stitched-together son. Young Frankenstein doesn’t. In a pep talk worthy of a Jewish mother, he says “This is not a monster, this is a good boy!” In the end, creator and creature swap their best, uh, features, and the villagers put down their pitchforks and go home to have cake.

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“Crazy for You” runs through Nov. 3, at Players Theatre. and a fine physical comic, too. Parks brings the same level of talent — nicely playing the down-to-earth comic foil to the untethered balloon of Bobby’s optimism. Fisher’s Zangler is the classic domineering, temperamental, bearded impresario seen in nearly every Marx Brothers movie — though he’s not a heel. Speaking of which, O’Neil (disguised as Zangler) and Fisher (as the “real” Zangler) bring down the house in a spin on the mirror scene in “Duck Soup.” That scene alone is worth the price of admission. But Jeffrey Kin (as Lank, the bad-guy saloon keeper) and Lindsey Nickel-de la O (as Irene, Bobby’s ex-fiancée, who proves to be a naughty baby, indeed) are equally sidesplitting. There are no weak links in the cast’s comedic chain — or weak legs, in the killer congeries of chorus girls. Fine orchestration, great costumes and clever fly-away sets, as well.

Improbability aside, the story framing the songs is sharply penned. Ken Ludwig (the playwright behind the musical’s “book”) is self-consciously working in the pre-Sondheim, pre-Andrew Lloyd Webber tradition of American musical theater. (With plenty of post-modern winks to the audience.)

As crazy as it is, his story makes you care.

Ultimately, it’s a heartfelt love story — to the music of George and Ira Gershwin.

And that ain’t so crazy, after all.

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TROPHY HOMES TO MATCH A CELEBRITY’S LIFESTYLE

The news that Rosie O’Donnell bought a $5 million home on Casey Key has the whole town talking. The four-bedroom, 4,700-square-foot beachfront residence seems perfect as a second home for the comedian and her family (wife Michelle and five kids), but we can’t help but wonder — what other properties did Rosie look at? So, just in case buyer’s remorse sets in, or you happen to know any other house-hunting celebrities, here are some other trophy homes that are just special enough to tempt the lucky few who can afford the ultimate.

1. THINKING BIG 7922 S. HOLIDAY DRIVE

For the celebrity who collects cars or other large objects, here’s a mainland waterfront estate with a 20-car, air-conditioned “motor salon.” It’s walled and gated and located on the bay, with a sunset view toward Siesta Key. Extra touches abound — two elevators, three fireplaces, a wood-paneled library, an outdoor kitchen, a 125-foot dock and enough lawn for several simultaneous soccer games. It also has a state-of-the-art security system with surveillance cameras to keep overeager fans at bay. An elegant yet kid-friendly home with five bedrooms, which is just a few minutes from Siesta Beach.

Priced at $7.9 million. For more information, call Joel Schemmel of Premier Sotheby’s at 941-587-4894.

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2. OLD FASHIONED CHARM 7321 MIDNIGHT PASS ROAD This home, built in 2001, has the look and feel of an old-fashioned country house, with wide porches and verandas overlooking Sarasota Bay. It’s located on Siesta Key, on 2.8 acres of land, well screened from the road. There’s the obligatory elevator, four fireplaces, a wine room and a whopping seven bedrooms, all with intricate wood detailing.

The master suite has his-and-hers offices — or, in Rosie’s case, hers and hers — and the grounds boast giant oaks and a lagoon-style pool with a waterfall. The only thing missing is a tennis court, but there’s plenty of room to put one in.

Priced at $6.95 million. For more information, call Michael Hayes of Michael Saunders at 941-376-1826.

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suite has a wet-bar, a private sitting room and its own terrace overlooking the water. On the ground floor of the building is a private three-car garage. With only three bedrooms, Rosie’s kids would have to double up, but for a celebrity couple looking for a hassle-free beach retreat, this place would be ideal.

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hen I was a kid, called us regarding my parents, preparing lunches for wonderful, inventive them, it was like a sign and artistic cooks, from above. not only gave me so“Adults know what called adult food, they they like,” he says, also let me help out “but kids are still open in the kitchen. We not to new tastes. When only ate really well, cooking for adults, I we all loved devising marry many flavors new recipes, never together and the dish to be quite the same becomes the sum of again. the parts. I keep the Then I had kids’ food very simCourtesy sleepover dates Larry Barrett of Simply ple, not marrying too with girlfriends and Gourmet Caterers many flavors. Keeping found they were not the tastes simpler for only eating dinner earlier and at the the kids helps me isolate what they children’s table, they were eating really enjoy.” spaghetti that came in tins, mystery Who’s fussier? “A child alone with meats smothered in more mysterious family can be a real problem. Food sauces and bland, tasteless things I can sometimes become a weapon, pushed around my plate. a way to manipulate. But adults are Now there’s Larry Barrett of Sim- fussy in their own way. The older we ply Gourmet Caterers. Chef Larry, get, the more we become creatures who’s cooked for U.S. presidents of habit. At the Church of the Palms, and heads of state, has taken on all the students eat the same meal. an even more important challenge: When they see their peers enjoying cooking for children. lunch, the world is a beautiful and or“I started cooking for myself ganized place. when I was seven, so the first child “The only way to get kids to enI cooked for was myself,” says Chef joy food is to expose them to all the Larry, whose Grandma Minnie was a good stuff — fresh foods with texture, fantastic cook and instilled a culinary taste and color. The more diverse passion in him. “I became a profes- their culinary experience, the more sional chef at 22. When it was time they can appreciate not just food, but for our son, Dylan, to go off to kinder- other cultures.” garten, we were shocked to see that Kids aren’t the only ones who the bar had not been raised on pub- can sample and enjoy Chef Larry’s lic school food. We knew right then cuisine. His headquarters, Simply we wanted to contribute to creating Gourmet Caterers, is located at 4783 better cuisine for kids. When Saraso- Swift Road, and can be reached at ta’s Church of the Palms preschool 941-929-0066.

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Recipes and how to cook them properly are not just demonstrated; the results are served, accompanied by wines, all for $70 per event. In November, the chefs take a look at Mexican recipes by

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Polo Grill, in Lakewood Ranch, has a new executive chef.

Stephane Pierre, the 44-year-old Belgian-born chef who started in the business cleaning fish at a Brussels restaurant, has put on his Top Toque and is just about ready for the re-launching of the Polo Grill in just a few days.

“Chef Pierre is an exciting and welcome addition to the Polo Grill

family,” says Tommy Klauber, the restaurant’s chef and proprietor.

Taste of Asia is now open in its new digs at 4413 S. Tamiami Trail.

The restaurant, most recently on Siesta Key, needed more space to accommodate its devoted clientele, and its new full bar. There’s also abundant parking and both indoor and outdoor dining. Chef Lam’s family says, just ask for what you want. “If Lam can, he will.”

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And, later, they look at great recipes from modern Japanese culture via the splendid skills of Nobu.

Seating is limited to 16 per class, so you’re sure to get personalized attention and your questions will be easily answered. For reservations, call 941-378-1901 or go to http://innovative-dining.com/.

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It’s one of the best places in town for great cuisine at pocketfriendly prices. We were in the newest branch on Siesta Key a couple of weeks ago and got to meet the entire cast of characters who make up this personal place, starting with its heart and soul, Sean Murphy.

This flamboyant restaurateur loves what he does, from socializing with his patrons and making sure his original concept is never diminished, to working with his chefs to ensure highquality cuisine infused with creativity. Although there are now three Eat Here establishments — Holmes Beach, Main Street Sarasota and Siesta Key — this is not a chain restaurant where everything is like a carbon copy of what you’ve had before.

“Things change all the time, even the weather,” Murphy told us at dinner. And he’s right. How many times have you made your favorite recipe and it’s come out tasting different because it was an especially humid day and you had to adjust the cooking time or the recipe, itself.

But, when it comes down to it, Murphy knows the food we love. Not Mama’s pot roast is just what Mama ordered. And Eat Here’s island-style ribs will keep you coming back to, well, Eat Here.

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by Molly Schechter | Contributor Community AIDS Network’s CANDance “Dancing with Our Stars” gets better every year, and the event Saturday, Oct. 26, at Michael’s On East was no exception. Chaired by Jackie Rogers and Penny Hill, the event was a sellout, and, while numbers are not known at press time, the live auction yielded more than $43,000 (auctioneer Michael Klauber outdid himself, even doubling down on a few items).

More than 340 guests packed the red-hued ballroom (the attire also called for red dresses and black tie) to see the hard work of local celebrities pay off. Dance pairings included Lee Anne Swor

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and Sid Pocius, Will McComb and Sabrina Paxman, Cinde Carroll and Max Lotofskyy, Ramses Serrano and Ivana Varga, Wendy Feinstein and Luis Pena, Dr. John Fezza (who even took off his shirt, which became an ad-hoc auction item with spirited bidding to $1,100) and Marina Gando and Eve Caballero and Dwayne Barrett.

Grace, style and range of motion displayed by competitor Cinde Carroll made the best possible argument for Pilates and the other kinds of fitness that she teaches, but in the end, Eve Caballero took the trophy for most money raised and Wendy Feinstein won for best performance.

Wendy Feinstein and Luis Pena won the evening’s dance competition.

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The “Solemen” include these team captains: Team Armani’s Tim Beury, Team Gucci’s Andy Tack, Team Ferragamo’s Chris Pinckney, Team Milly’s Rob Lyons, Team Burberry’s Robert Stroud, Team Fendi’s Ted Dunn and Team Louboutin’s Wayne Rollins.

An addition to this year’s lineup is the beautiful book, “A Day in my Shoes Sarasota,” which celebrates Forty Carrots Family Center’s 20th anniversary. The high-fashion coffee-table book’s cover features Terri Klauber (on the cover of the 13” x 11” book) and Diana Kelly (on the cover of the 10” x 8” book).

The books will be available for purchase at the luncheon, or by calling 365-7716.

The name game … The atrium of the Sarasota Opera House is sporting a new identity. Board member Harold Ronson named the prominent spot to honor the memory of his late wife, Kay, who was a great fan and introduced him to the art form. The fact that her favorite was Wagner’s ring not Sarasota’s Verdi cycle matters not

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f it were up to BT, Wendy Feinstein would have won a few more awards at Saturday’s CANDance — best dress for her custom design by Bradenton couturier Maria Dela Luz of Purabel Fashions and for the most family in attendance. The local celebrity dancer’s fans filled four tables, which included husband Jerry, mother Betty Clowson, sister Tammy Breymaier, daughter Lindsee Street and many, many more … as well as three babies elsewhere with a babysitter.

A few more tidbits from the evening …

The last of the taxi dances (No. 15) is always a “surprise” and this year’s was Miley Cyrus’ famous song for her “twerking” — ignored by most, but credible versions provided by Carolyn Michel and Brent Greeno … A handsome first-timer was noticed at the event — Michael Zuckerberg, son of Judy, recently relocated to Sarasota from Fort Lauderdale … Gene Noble says he is taking ballroom lessons now so he can dance with his date, Pat Talbott, who is quite an expert and showed her form during the taxi dances … Instructor Ivana Varga had no lifts in the routine she performed with Ramses Serrano for good reason — she is “with child.” … CAN board President Ed Schaye brought daughter Elizabeth Ballis from Chicago and son Robert Schaye from Beloit and his friend, Tracy Meints … The emcees gave Ron Carter and his partner, Jimmy Neal, some stage time to plug the next Community AIDS Network benefit, which is the Black & White GAYLA drag show Nov. 18.

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Christina Fraser  Christian DeBlasis, Lauren Prechitti, Zara Barrie, Eduardo Anaya and Skye Stern

 Amy and Chris Shaffer, Kevin Friedman and Tammy Walsh

SAFE SEX HALLOWEEN BASH ‘STUDIO 13: THE UNDEAD DISCO’ Benefiting Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida Friday, Oct. 25, at Michael’s On East

Lauren Brenzel and Mia Newell

Chris Clayton and Bobbi Jo Donner

Mike Pawlus and Audrey Scherer

Sisters Laura and Santa De Oliveira

Silke and Rudi Weiss

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Jan Loomis and Sue Tankersley

Michael Pandrella and Briana Martin

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If SMA’s Cadets have made an impression upon your life, now is a great time to let them know.

SMA thanks Sarasota for its support over the last thirteen years!

 Local musicians/ physicians battled for the title of “Doctor Idol”

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‘DOCTOR IDOL!’ Benefiting The Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota County Friday, Oct. 25, at Hyatt Regency Sarasota

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 Whitney Prewitt, Jennifer Tojun, Alex Miller and Jennifer Rubenzer

Jesse Bono and Kiki Steinberg

Photos by Heather Merriman

Renee and Randy Halbert channeling ZZ Top.

LECOM GALA

Dawning of a New Season:

Benefiting Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine Saturday, Oct. 26, at Hyatt Regency Sarasota

Anu TAli in her first concert as Music Director.

Dvorak No. 7 & Rachmaninoff

Dr. I.J. and Valerie Pober

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pianist

Lukáš Vondráček

november 8, 9, 10 Van Wezel | Tickets from $30

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Kinga and Jesse Jakubowski

Chairman Michael Polin and Mary Hawk-Polin

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John and Marilyn Ingold with Sally and Kim Schoeffel

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 Christine Jennings with Jane and Andy Reeves Judy Altier, Mike McMullan, Colleen Blumenthal, Steve Altier and Sommer Altier Henri Zwick and Don Shaver

GOODWILL AMBASSADOR OF THE YEAR AWARDS DINNER

‘THE SHOW OF SHOWS’ Benefiting Mental Health Community Centers, Inc. Wednesday, Oct. 23, at Michael’s On East

Bunny Coelingh, Betty Schoenbaum and Rosemary Chase

Judy Cuppy, Chairwoman Sophia La Russo and Carolyn Eagen

Photos by Heather Merriman

Bob and Alice Brittingham

Josh Burch with Goodwill Manasota Employee of the Year Margaretann Villani

Benefiting Goodwill Manasota Thursday, Oct. 24, at Hyatt Regency Sarasota

Honoree Tana Sandefur with John and Deborah Sandefur

Photos by Heather Merriman

Susie Walters and Honoree Stu Gregory

Allen Conrad, honoree Peter Crowley and Dr. Joseph Arme

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