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by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor

Colony vote under fire Monday’s hearing centered around whether Colony unit owner Andy Adam’s block of 58 votes — crucial to the 75% majority needed to approve the settlement — can be counted.

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U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan with his wife, Sandy, draw the winning ticket.

+ Kids win big at Gourmet Lawn Party The cash or the car?

That’s always the question following the Longboat Key Gourmet Lawn Party raffle in which the grand-prize winner can choose a new car or the cold, hard cash.

This year, the answer is neither, because the winner opted not to take the 2013 Ford Fusion or $10,000 so that 100% of the raffle would benefit Kiwanis.

According to Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key Secretary John Wild, this year’s winning ticket was actually purchased as an anonymous donation for the Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key Foundation in honor of Bob Gault, who recently won the club’s Presidential Zeller Award.

The ticket was the only one of 313 that were sold with the words “for the Foundation” written on it.

That means that children and students win big because more than $30,000 will go to the foundation. The event raised more than $50,000 for scholarships and grants.

+ Help us Observe your news Here at the Longboat Observer, we’re planning on capturing a packed social scene with our cameras this season.

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Submit the photos you captured at Key events and moments throughout the week to Robin Hartill at rhartill@yourobserver.com for a new “You Observe” feature we’ll run each week in the newspaper. We’ll include our favorite pictures in print and have more available at YourObserver.com.

“This is just odd.”

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge K. Rodney May made the statement during the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort bankruptcy hearing Monday in Tampa, which centered around whether a unit owner vote to approve a settlement is valid.

May made the comment after attorneys took the stand as witnesses and he watched them argue about submitting emails that potentially contradicted previous statements. At one point, May characterized an attempt to enter the emails into the record as try-

ing to “pull a fraud card” on Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association attorney Jeff Warren.

In the end, though, a day that started with the hope of May making decisions on a proposed settlement and confirmation of bankruptcy plans before the

holidays ended like most Colony bankruptcy hearings do: scheduling more time for another day to resolve issues.

May set aside Tuesday, Dec. 3, for closing arguments and anoth-

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FIR-RY FRIENDS Photos by Kelsey Grau

Kurt Hennard inspects the middle section of the St. Armands Circle Christmas tree Friday, Nov. 22, before the top is assembled. Inset: A crane lifts the top of the tree into place. The tree will be lit at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6, during the 35th annual Holiday Night of Lights.

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Thanksgivukkah: Gobble tov There’s more to the rare convergence of Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah than menurkeys and cranberry-filled doughnuts.

Thanksgiving and Hanukkah each come but once a year.

But Thanksgivukkah? The last time it occurred was in 1888. And, after this year, you’ll have to wait more than 75,000 years before you can celebrate this rare holiday again.

Thanksgivukkah is the term

coined for the overlap of Thanksgiving with the first day of the eight-day festival of Hanukkah.

“It’s a topic of conversation,” said Temple Beth Israel Rabbi Jonathan Katz. “In terms of gastronomy, there’s lots of attempts at overlaps.”

When Katz learned about the holiday overlap earlier this year,

he consulted with an artist about creating a turkey-shaped menorah to commemorate the event. He soon learned that 9-year-old Asher Weintraub, of New York City, had already built the “menurkey,” so he ordered one from the boy’s website,

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Emma Katz, 11, poses with a menurkey.

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Nationwide, the convergence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah has led foodies and restaurants to be creative.

The Thanksgivukkah dinner at Kutsher’s Tribeca, in New York City, will feature sweet potato latkes, challah-chestnut stuffing, pumpkin knishes, cranberryfilled donuts and a cornucopia overflowing with chocolate gelt. Restaurant personnel plan to greet diners with a warm “Gobble Tov.” At the temple, Katz hasn’t found many people who plan to fuse foods, although he did give the recipe for butternut squash latkes to a woman who stopped by his office. Instead, many of his congregants say they’ll serve Hanukkah foods such as doughnuts and latkes along with Thanksgiving food. Some say they’d do more if their grandchildren were nearby.

How will the rest of the Key celebrate this once-in-a-lifetime day?

Harry’s Continental Kitchens, which typically prepares approximately 500 Thanksgiving dinners and between 100 and 200 Hanukkah Seder meals each year, won’t be observing Thanksgivukkah.

“It would be too much because we’re so busy for Thanksgiving,” said Hal Christensen, general manager.

On Nov. 28, the restaurant will serve only Thanksgiving fare, but, later in the week, it will have Seder dishes such as brazed beef brisket and noodle kugel, available by advance order.

Longboat Key resident Sharon Oper plans to forgo a Seder dinner on the first day of Hanukkah, opting instead for a traditional Thanksgiving meal.

“Just think how many calories we’re going to save by combining the two meals,” Oper said.

Susan Landau is heading to Greenville, S.C., to visit her daughter. They’ll probably eat a traditional Thanksgiving dinner plus potato pancakes to go with the stuffing. They’ll light the menorah candles afterward.

Katz believes there’s more to Thanksgivukkah than menurkeys and cranberryfilled doughnuts.

Both Thanksgiving and Hanukkah are associated with giving thanks, and both

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HAPPY HANUKKAH A Hanukkah dinner will take place 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, at Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road. For information, call 383-3428.

the Maccabees and Pilgrims were religiously persecuted and sought liberation from tyranny. The significance could go even further.

“Some historians contend that the early Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving observance was rooted in the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. Often referring themselves to as ‘new Israel,’ they likely knew that the holiday commemorated Israel’s deliverance from Egyptian oppression,” Katz wrote in the temple’s bulletin.

Katz wrote that Hanukkah itself could constitute a delayed celebration of Sukkot, because during the Maccabean struggle, the festival couldn’t be celebrated at the normal time and was postponed until the fighting ended.

He lists the similarities of Sukkot and Hanukkah: Both are eight days, involve the recitation of Hallel psalms and celebrate light.

“Additionally, not only did King Solomon dedicate the first temple on Sukkot but the second temple was also dedicated during the festival. Perhaps not coincidentally, Hanukkah commemorates the rededication of the temple,” Katz wrote.

The rabbi plans to share his menurkey with his congregation.

“When you talk about something that won’t happen again for 75,000 years,” Katz said, “you kind of feel like you’re living in a special time.”

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Longboat Key Chamber plans move to Centre Shops The organization will open in its new location mid-December after nearly nine months at Mediterranean Plaza. It signed a three-year lease.

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The Centre Shops of Longboat Key is home to variety of businesses, including three restaurants, a bank, retail shops and a medical practice.

The Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce is moving to its sixth location since 1993.

The chamber signed a three-year lease Nov. 19 for Unit 102 of the Centre Shops of Longboat Key, located in the 5300 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive, and will move from its current location in Mediterranean Plaza, 595 Bay Isles Road, in mid-December.

Chamber President Gail Loefgren hopes the location will be the organization’s permanent home.

“We hope never to move again,” said Loefgren, who was there for three of the past four moves when she first served as the chamber’s president from 1993 through 2008, before returning to her role in September.

Shortly after assuming the role again, Loefgren told the Longboat Observer that finding a new location would be a top priority.

She described the Mediterranean Plaza office building as “a beautiful building” at the time but didn’t believe it was right for a chamber of commerce. “ … due to the nature of the mission of chambers in general, the office really needs to be located in a highly visible area,” she said.

At the time, Loefgren said the Centre Shops would be a good location for the chamber.

“It’s mid-Key, it’s easy to find and we’ll have visible signage,” Loefgren

said Wednesday. “The Centre Shops is a very active shopping center with a lot of great shops, and the Education Center alone has a lot of members. I think it will be a win-win situation for both us and business owners.”

She also expressed gratitude to Jim Getzen for providing the space at Mediterranean Plaza to the chamber since March.

The chamber was located in a smaller space in the Centre Shops in 1993, when Loefgren was first hired, but moved to a larger space in 1995 in Whitney Beach Plaza to accommodate its growing membership of 500.

The chamber moved again in 2004, this time to the old bank building at 6960 Gulf of Mexico Drive, before moving to the Longboat Observer building at 5570 Gulf of Mexico Drive in 2008.

The latest move to its current location at Mediterranean Plaza, 595 Bay Isles Road, took place in March.

Stephanie Claussen, owner of Steff’s Stuff in the Centre Shops and a chamber member, was pleased to learn Friday that the chamber would be moving into the shopping center next month.

“I think more people will be able to find the chamber, which is important to businesses, and, hopefully, when they find the chamber, they’ll manage to find us,” she said. “I think they’re just a positive influence on business and we need more of that on the Key.”

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NEWSBRIEFS + Three crashes reported on GMD The operator of a scooter was seriously injured in one of three crashes that occurred shortly before 10 a.m. Monday on Gulf of Mexico Drive.

The first crash occurred at the intersection of Outrigger Lane and Gulf of Mexico Drive, when a driver failed to brake and collided with the vehicle in front of him, causing the second driver to hit a town vehicle driven by a Longboat Key Public Works employee. The middle driver sustained minor injuries.

As traffic on Gulf of Mexico Drive snarled, the scooter operator attempted to bypass traffic in a bicycle lane and struck an SUV turning onto Schooner Lane. The scooter driver was taken to Blake Medical Center, in Bradenton, with serious injuries that were not considered to be life-threatening.

A Sarasota police officer responded to the scene to determine whether Longboat Key police were in need of assistance. When he learned they didn’t need help, he attempted to turn his vehicle around — but accidentally struck a street sign.

The bumper of the vehicle was torn off, but there were no injuries.

+ ULI prepares for first meeting The Urban Land Institute Implementation Advisory Committee has been formed, and its first meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26, at Longboat Key Town Hall.

The committee includes Mayor Jim Brown, Planning and Zoning Board Chairwoman B.J. Bishop, Tom Freiwald, Larry Grossman, Roger Leibin, David Novak and Jered Whitehead.

+ Town prepares for state groin challenge hearing The town is preparing for an upcoming state hearing in response to a challenge to place three groins on the north end of the Key. On Oct. 10, former Manatee County Commissioner Joe McClash filed a second amended petition stating the groins will have adverse impacts on marine life and the coastal area.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection determined the amended petition had merit and is forwarding the objections to the Division of Administrative Hearing/ The amended petition puts the permit on hold again as FDEP reviews the petition.

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The building at 555 Bay Isles Parkway has been empty since late 2008, when restaurateur Paul Mattison closed Mattison’s Steakhouse at the Plaza.

But the building’s owner, W. Howard Rooks, hopes that will soon change.

On Nov. 18, he submitted a petition for a special exception to add 50 seats to an existing 1,600-square-foot outdoor patio.

The change would increase the restaurant’s capacity to 260.

If granted, the petition would allow Rooks to “include an outdoor 50-seat sitting area that will provide food and alcohol as prepared inside the restaurant.”

Rooks told the Longboat Observer Friday that he hopes to open a restaurant in the building early next year with a partner who will serve as its chef and general manager. He declined to identify the potential partner or other details about the restaurant at this time but said he plans to update the building.

“There will be some additional improvements, but I don’t know what and when,” he said.

Lakeland-based Publix Super Markets Inc. purchased the adjacent 1.52-acre Town Plaza II for $1.25 million from Rooks in 2012 but wasn’t interested in the restaurant building. The chain began demolishing the shopping center in October to create more parking.

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The building at 555 Bay Isles Parkway was modeled after the Plaza Hotel, in New York City.

will give my restaurant a great deal more exposure because you’ll actually be able to see it from the street,” Rooks said.

Rooks paid $1.4 million for the 7,500-square-foot building that’s modeled after the Plaza Hotel, in New York City, in May 2004.

When Mattison closed his restaurant there in July 2008, he said off-season business had declined at the location since he opened there in 2003. Rooks told the Longboat Observer in 2010 that he hadn’t anticipated having difficulty attracting a new tenant, but the building remained empty as the economy declined.

The Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board will consider Rooks’ request at its Dec. 17 meeting.

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Locals look forward to a boost from Small Business Saturday Nov. 30.

EAST COUNTY — Do you know a store around the corner that lives up to the sitcom “Cheers” mantra — “where everybody knows your name?”

Here’s a chance to say thank you.

Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday comes a newer kid on the block: Small Business Saturday.

American Express welcomes shoppers nationwide to show appreciation to small-business owners Nov. 30 by shopping locally. The company seeks to surpass the number of consumers who participated last year — 100 million.

With little to no representation during the shopping holidays, a gap for small-business owners needed to be filled, said Patricia Norins, retail expert and spokeswoman for Small Business Saturday. The day was created in November 2010 to address the issue.

Approximately 25% of the shoppers who visited the Lakewood Ranch store Urban Accents during the event last year mentioned the holiday to owner Kevin Wallace. This year, Wallace will focus on informing customers of the store’s online presence — social-media sites and the company’s Web page — and obtaining customers’ contact information.

“The most important question we’ll be asking is, ‘How did

THEIR WORDS “We’ve been participating (in Small Business Saturday) since it began. I’m the only master goldsmith in the area, so we stay pretty busy, but this helps.”

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Stephen Powell, owner of Jewelry by Cole, crafts jewelry at his store on St. Armands Circle. you hear about us?’” Wallace said.

Brad Stewart, co-owner of Captain Curt’s Crab and Oyster Bar and gift shop, on Siesta Key, said buying local also helps boost the area’s economy.

“Spending money locally keeps the money in that neighborhood,” Stewart said.

Creating awareness of businesses with owners who focus on customers first is the goal of the day.

“To ‘shop small’ is to celebrate small businesses yearround,” Norins said. “We need to help them, the way they help us. Owners know our names.

The customer service is excellent, and their products are

great; they’re vital to our communities.”

To help spread awareness of the event, American Express posted printable signs on the event’s website for participants to hang in their windows.

As an incentive, customers who use their American Express cards Saturday at a retailer on the Small Business Saturday map will receive a $10 credit off their next statement.

For more details on the event, the map of which businesses are participating and how to get involved, visit americanexpress. com/us/small-business/ShopSmall.

Contact Amanda Sebastiano at amandas@yourobserver.com.

“I can tell the economy is bubbling back up. This event definitely draws more people into my store.”

Kevin Wallace, owner of Urban Accents, Lakewood Ranch

“We’re really fortunate in this area to have a lot of small businesses here.”

Brad Stewart, owner of Captain Curt’s Crab and Oyster Bar, Siesta Key “We provide coffee in the morning every few months to do something extra for the customers.”

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The Observer is getting into the holiday spirit with a holiday edition of its annual “It’s Read Everywhere” photo contest.

You’re used to snapping photos with the Observer while on trips around the world, but this holiday season we’re offering a contest that hits a little closer to home. All you need is your 2013 Holiday Gift Guide (inside this issue) and a shopping list.

While out and about this season, make sure to take your gift guide to any of the advertisers in it (there are more than 110 from which to choose!) and take your photo at the advertiser’s location.

The next step is easy: Upload your photo online at YourObserver.com (click on the Contests tab in the upper right-hand corner). Submit your photos between now and Dec. 24. Voting for the contest opens Dec. 25 and ends Jan. 1; you may vote up to 10 times per day.

The entrant’s photo with the most number of votes will win a $250 gift card to the Holiday Gift Guide advertiser of your choice, along with a $250 Gulf Coast Gives card to benefit a local charitable project.

We hope to see you with your Holiday Gift Guide soon. Happy shopping!

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“Our dispatchers don’t hang up on nonemergency calls,” Gohl said.

The ability to train dispatchers isn’t a moneymaker for the town or the department. But departments looking for an alternative training site for dispatchers could reach out to Longboat Key to provide that training.

But Rubino is quick to point out the decision is saving the town money.

“If we would have hired a dispatcher that needed training, we would have had to pay them their wage while they trained somewhere else for 240 hours and paid for their meals as well,” Rubino said. “This way, they are learning on the job where they are going to work.”

The town is still investigating whether there’s a cost savings to eliminating the town’s dispatch service and using Manatee or Sarasota County services instead. Longboat Key Police Chief Pete Cumming is hesitant that either county can provide the level of service the town’s residents currently receive.

“From the beginning to where this ends up, I’m going to act like our dispatch is going to be here forever because it has the level of service we want for the town,” Cumming said. “We’ll keep getting better all the time. I’m hoping the dispatch service never goes away out here.”

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The Longboat Key Police Department put out a call for dispatchers but didn’t get answers from the caliber of applicants it sought. So, Tina Gohl, a 14-year department employee who was promoted in October to dispatch supervisor, completed the sixmonth process the department needed to train a dispatcher.

“We didn’t want to lower the standard,” said Capt. Frank Rubino.

Recently, the department hired its first trainee: Amanda Goff, sister of Denise Amber Lee, whose kidnapping and murder in 2008 led her family to advocate for reforms to the 911 system after calls from Lee and others were mishandled.

Goff said her sister’s murder led her to pursue a criminal justice degree and to become a dispatcher.

When Goff completes her training, she will become a town dispatcher on Longboat Key. It became mandatory in October 2012 for dispatchers statewide to obtain a 911 telecommunications certification through the Florida Department of Health as part of the Denise Amber Lee Act the Legislature unanimously passed in 2008. Dispatchers also must be recertified every two years.

But the town also seeks dispatchers who can handle calls that aren’t emergencies.

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Q&A : DONNA DUNIO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR // AGING IN PARADISE

Donna Dunio became the first paid employee of Longboat Island Chapel’s Aging in Paradise Resource Center (AIP) in October, when she was chosen from 102 applicants as the new position of executive director.

Dunio is an 18-year Sarasota resident who has served as senior director of resource development for American Red Cross Southwest Florida Chapter.

AIP is not a health care facility, however, it aims to serve as a liaison between individuals facing age-related issues and the organizations and services available.

The Longboat Observer recently spoke to Dunio about aging issues and her vision for AIP.

Does AIP take a position on whether a permanent medical facility is needed on Longboat Key? I’m not well versed enough to discuss the issue, but we certainly would welcome anything that would enhance good medical care.

What are your long-term goals for AIP? If we could continue to grow, I would like to fully utilize all of the facility from early in the morning until evening with all the things people need, want and enjoy — anything from dancing to computer classes and iPhone lessons to information for people who need caregivers or have Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease, for example.

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The ‘why’ of Thanksgiving “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”

— Cicero Thanksgiving Day kindles so much in many of us: gratitude for what we have; for our families and friends; for the blessings bestowed on us, however great or small they may be. And if you’re a praying sort, it’s also a day so many offer prayers not just of thanks for what they have but that God also looks with favor on those who are less fortunate.

This is indeed a great day to reflect.

And surely, you have to believe we would be so much better off as a nation and people if we did more of that this day — if our media and secular cultures focused more on the virtues and values of this day rather than on the commercialism of the next day.

There was a time, as many of you remember, when virtually all stores and businesses closed on Thanksgiving and Sundays. That was part of our nation’s Christian and biblical heritage. Says the Third Commandment: “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.”

Yes, remember.

This is a day we should remember, a day to remember why Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day. When George Washington proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day in 1789 (see below), he articulated on behalf of all Americans and as only he could, his heartfelt gratitude for “the many and signal favors of Almighty God” bestowed on the young republic and its people. While many historians marvel at the simple clarity and brevity of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Washington’s Thanksgiving proclamation is just as deserving as a historical marker to be remembered by all generations of Americans.

It’s an archived reminder that our nation’s founding is rooted in religion and faith in God.

It was about more than a feast

Indeed, the why of Thanksgiving Day goes far deeper than the popular story of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony in 1622.

Yes, they were thankful to God for their bountiful harvest and their new-found Indian friends. But if you can imagine yourself in the shoes of any of the original 102 Pilgrims who sailed from Leyden, Holland, for America, a land unknown, and who survived that tumultuous journey, followed by two years of near starvation, your gratitude simply for being alive would put a whole new perspective on Thanksgiving Day. It wasn’t at all about being thankful for a big fall feast.

Seldom, if ever, do we focus in our his-

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tory texts on the details that compelled the Pilgrims — also known as Separatists, Puritans and Calvinists — to set sail. The textbooks typically mention — briefly — they fled religious persecution. But it would be worthwhile today for Americans to remember some of those precise details. As we all know, history repeats.

In his 500-page, hand-written account of Plymouth Plantation, Gov. William Bradford wrote how his fellow Calvinists in England became “hunted and persecuted on every side, so as their former afflictions were but as flea-bitings in comparison of these which now came upon them.”

“For some were taken and clapped up in prison, others had their houses beset and watched night and day, and hardly escaped their hands; and most were faine to flee and leave their houses and habitations, and the means of their livelehood,” Bradford wrote.

After a year of this and meeting in secret to practice their worship of God, they saw “they could no longer continue in this condition,” and “resolved to get over into Holland.” The people of Amsterdam, they had heard, accepted the free practice of religion.

But sailing 200 miles to Amsterdam was no small matter; it was a monumental ordeal. Bradford describes the fear many of the Separatists had of leaving England, as bad as it was, as “a misery worse than death.”

“But these things did not dismay themfor their desires were set on the ways of God and to enjoy his ordinances,” Bradford wrote.

The relatively short trip to Holland was horrible for many. Chartered ship operators, once at sea with the Separatists, robbed them; ransacked their belong-

ings; molested many of the women; and then sailed back into the original port and turned over the Separatists to local authorities, who then imprisoned them.

Amazingly, the Separatists didn’t give up. “Some few shrunk at these first conflicts and sharp beginnings,” Bradford wrote, “yet many more came on with fresh courage and greatly animated others. And in the end, notwithstanding all these storms of opposition, they all got over at length.”

For 12 years, the Calvinist-SeparatistPilgrims lived and practiced their religion in freedom and peace in Leyden, an area within Amsterdam where many of them became weavers.

And then the trouble began again.

Bradford wrote of “Arminians,” who “greatly molested the whole state;” and university professors and other preachers who began to slander the Pilgrims’ religious practices. The tormenting rose to such a level that Bradford said some of his neighbors preferred being in prison in England than “this liberty in Holland, with these afflictions.”

Why they fled Holland

Distressed by the increasing abuse, the Separatists’ elders began to look ahead.

They believed within a few years they “were fearful either to be entrapped or surrounded by their enemies” and unable to flee.

What’s more, they worried about their children. It was common for them to labor long hours in the mills, “their bodies bowed under the weight.” Many children also were falling to the temptations of youthful “licentiousness” and being drawn into “extravagant and dangerous courses,” Bradford wrote. Parents saw “their posterity would be in danger to degenerate and be corrupted.”

At the same time, many of the Separatist looked outward and spoke among their neighbors of “advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world,” Bradford wrote.

All three of these influences — persecution, the well-being of their families’ future generations and spreading God’s word — combined to motivate the Pilgrims to seek a new beginning. As the Pilgrims discussed their options, Bradford wrote, “It was answered … the difficulties were many, but not invincible.”

When the Pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving in 1622, they were thankful for much more than their feast. They were grateful to have the freedom to live and worship God as they wished.

That is why America exists today. We are a nation rooted in God and religion.

Happy Thanksgiving. — MW

THE FIRST OFFICIAL THANKSGIVING: GEORGE WASHINGTON’S 1789 PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:” NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and assign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was,

that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish Constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favours which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also, that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and

supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in publick or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us); and to bless them with good governments, peace and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

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er attempt to make rulings on matters that are years in the making.

What’s still at stake is a settlement that gives $3 million to longtime Colony owner Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber and doles out $2.3 million to a U.S. bankruptcy Chapter 7 trustee to pay creditors. The settlement also absolves the association from a $25 million judgment for damages Klauber won in a bankruptcy appeals court last year.

The association, though, still hasn’t negotiated a settlement with Colony Lender LLC, which owns bank loans on Klauber’s property and is seeking to collect on a recent judgment of more than $13 million.

Colony Lender is the largest affected creditor and is seeking to get paid.

Monday’s hearing, which was a continuation of a Nov. 22 hearing, also centered on the validity of the unit owner vote held last week and whether Colony unit owner and developer Andy Adam’s block of 58 votes — which are crucial to the 75% majority vote needed to approve the settlement — can be counted as votes for approval.

Colony Lender LLC attorney Michael Assaf asserted to May “it’s quite clear to me the unit owner vote fell way shy of the 75% majority needed.

“If that vote fails, there can be no settlement approval, no bankruptcy confirmation, and a motion to dismiss this case could be granted,” Assaf said.

At the Nov. 22 hearing, Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association President Jay Yablon noted the association chose to disregard the list of conditions that Adams placed on his block of 58 approval votes.

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Assaf attempted to submit emails into the record that revealed Warren had accepted the list of conditions from Adams’ attorney, Bob Goodrich, during the unit owner meeting Nov. 20. According to Assaf, after the owners meeting during which they approved the settlement, Warren informed Goodrich later in an email that the association had been advised to accept the votes but not address the list of conditions.

Goodrich confirmed Assaf’s statement.

“The votes were turned around on my client,” said Goodrich on the witness stand.

“That’s not the way to do business. The votes were never unconditional.”

Goodrich maintained that the block of Adams’ votes didn’t count as approval votes unless the conditions were addressed.

Those conditions included waiving Adams and his family members from any liability involved with the Colony and the settlement involving the purchase of Adams’ 5% interest in a recreational facilities lease.

May observed Goodrich’s testimony as “an alliance shift.”

“I don’t know where we are now,” May said. “If this thing is falling apart, we need to regroup and come back another day.”

Goodrich and Warren, though, confirmed they are still holding discussions on how to resolve the vote issue and could have them addressed before the settlement is approved.

Assaf asked Goodrich why Adams would offer the votes if they had a list of conditions attached.

Said Goodrich: “A no vote says we are done and then we are blamed for stalling the settlement work that’s been done. That’s not my client’s message. A conditional vote says we are for this plan, but some things

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After the vote discussion, May let the parties know that he “never thought of the (unit owner) vote being decisive here” as part of his future ruling.

The comment frustrated Assaf.

“Your honor, you previously told us that today was the end and the association was out of gas,” Assaf said. “We’ve been at this for 11 months now and my client just wants to be paid and to move on.”

Assaf continued to press for a decision, suggesting again that Klauber’s entities should not be in Chapter 11 because there’s nothing to reorganize.

May, though, again urged all parties to try and “work a deal.”

“I’m not prepared to rule today,” May said.

May, though, relayed to the parties he has issues with a proposed settlement that forces the transfer of property, including interests obtained by Colony Lender and Adams’ Breakpointe LLC in the recreational facilities lease (property that resides in the middle of the resort), “without paying them.”

Although May urged the parties to consider delaying a court hearing for three weeks while they enter into mediation again to work things out, Colony Lender didn’t express a willingness to do so.

Assaf noted May gave Colony Lender permission to hold a public foreclosure sale Dec. 6 in Sarasota “that will set a price for the assets.”

May continues to stress his rulings Dec. 3 “will only be appealed” in the hopes the parties reach a monetary understanding before the hearing.

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9:45 p.m. — 500 block of Spinnaker Lane. Welfare Check. A woman asked police to check on her 93-year-old mother whom she had been trying to call. Her mother greeted police after they entered her home through the garage. When police said the woman’s daughter had been trying to call earlier, the mother realized her house phone’s battery was dead.

NOV. 14 TIME TO MOVE ON 5:25 p.m. — 3800 block of GMD. Civil Disturbance. A man let his girlfriend move in with him while she had her home fumigated. The couple began fighting while she was away visiting her family, and the man told her he wants to end their relationship. The woman said it was her home, too, and that she would destroy him and his property if he touched her belongings.

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NOV. 16 PARTY HOUSE 8:30 p.m. — 600 block of Dream Island Road. Noise. The owner of a house that’s been the subject of prior noise complaints said she would keep the music down and bring guests inside by 10 p.m.

NOV. 17 ARRESTING DEVELOPMENT L’AMBIENCE GULF FRONT 3BR CONDO $2,750,000 Southern exposure. Elegant designer upgrades.

8:54 a.m. — 2300 block of Harbour Oaks Drive. Civil Disturbance. A woman

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‘I DO’ NOT HAVE PERMISSION 5:04 a.m. — 100 block of GMD. Public Service. A man and woman got a golf cart they were driving stuck on a sidewalk. They said they were staying at the Resort at Longboat Key Club for a wedding and admitted they didn’t have permission to take the cart.

The resort’s manager didn’t pursue criminal charges, and the man and woman returned to their room.

paid an $80 deposit to a man to upholster four chairs last month, then discovered his business had closed. The man’s business partner and roommate said he’s in jail. After police called him, the man returned the $80 and chairs.

COLONY VIOLATION: WEED/GRASS 5:10 p.m. — 1600 block of GMD. Narcotics Violation. Police arrested a man sitting out by the pool of the shuttered Colony Beach & Tennis Resort for misdemeanor marijuana possession.

NOV. 19 RACCOON REHAB 7:39 a.m. — 600 block of De Narvaez Drive. Animal. A man brought a raccoon onto his porch because it was limping. Police told him the raccoon only appeared to have minor injuries and there are no rehab facilities for raccoons. The man agreed it would be best to release the animal.

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Tuncer Koksal

Tuncer Koksal, 79, of Lancaster, Ohio, and formerly of Bradenton, died Nov. 22.

Born Sept. 2, 1934, in Istanbul, he was a past production manager for Diamond Power in Lancaster and became vice president of Jerpbak-Bayless, in Solon, Ohio, and went on to serve as manager of Sea Club I condominiums on Longboat Key. Mr. Koksal is survived by his wife of 55 years, Sharon; son, Cevdet “Jeff” Koksal; daughter, Aylin Koksal.; sister, Oya Tanrikut; and three grandchildren.

Memorial contributions can be made in Mr. Koksal’s name to the Pickering House, 282 Sells Road, Lancaster, Ohio, 43130.

Dr. Herbert Paskow

Dr. Herbert Paskow, 91, of Sarasota, died Nov. 13.

Born July 21, 1922, in Elizabeth, N.J., he received his undergraduate and dental surgery degree from the University of Pennsylvania. There, he was a member of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity as an undergraduate and a member of Alpha Omega dental fraternity as a graduate student.

of the Sea, Catholic Church, 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to Ringling College of Art and Design, Office for Advancement, Scholarship Fund, 2700 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, Fla., 34234.

WORSHIP SERVICES All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road, holds Sunday worship services at 8 and 10 a.m. Wednesday communion and anointing services are at 10 a.m. The Rev. David Danner is the rector. 383-8161.

Peter Voorhees

Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian USA, 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive, holds Sunday worship services at 10 a.m. The Rev. Bruce Porter is the pastor. 383-8833.

Peter Voorhees, 67, of Longboat Key, died Nov. 22, after a battle with melanoma.

He married his wife, Pam, in a surprise wedding on his 50th birthday and also loved his family, friends, home on Longboat Key and cabin on Hunt Lake in upstate New York, boating, The Albany Academy gang, entertaining, photography and practical jokes.

Mr. Voorhees is remembered for his enjoyment of life to the fullest and sense of humor. He appreciated antique cars, fine art, music and golf.

Mr. Voorhees is survived by his wife, Pam; sisters, Martha Blackman, of Delmar, N.Y., and Carol Voorhees, of Niskayuna, N.Y. A private celebration of life will take place at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made in Mr. Vorhees’ honor to The Albany Academies, 135 Academy Road, Albany, N.Y., 12208; reference the Ernie Steck Scholarship Fund.

Patricia ‘Pat’ Redmond

Patricia “Pat” Redmond, 85, of Longboat Key, died Nov. 19.

Born Sept. 8, 1928, she is remembered as the epitome of grace and dignity, for her sense of humor and fun and as the life of the party.

Mrs. Redmond was preceded in death by her husband, Terry. She is survived by her children, Terry Redmond, Tricia Haley, Maureen Schwartz and David Redmond; and nine grandchildren.

A funeral Mass will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 4, at St. Mary, Star

All Angels by the Sea

Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive, holds Sunday worship services at 10 a.m.

The Rev. Vincent Carroll is the minister. 3836491.

St. Armands Key Lutheran Church, 40 N. Adams Drive, holds contemporary Sunday worship services at 9 a.m.; fellowship and education at 10 a.m.; and traditional Sunday worship services at 11 a.m. The Rev. Mark Bernthal is the pastor. 388-1234.

St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church, 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive, holds Sunday Masses at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m.; and Saturday Masses are at 5 p.m. Msgr. Gerard Finegan is the priest. 383-1255.

Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road, holds Shabbat services at 8 p.m. Fridays and 5:30 p.m. on the last Friday of the month and 10 a.m. Saturdays. Jonathan Katz is the rabbi. Call 383-3428.

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He served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Navy in 1945.

Dr. Paskow was a charter member of the Sleep Disorder Dental Society and published author of and consultant for many related articles in the American Medical Association and American Dental Association national journals.

Several of his sleep-apnea preventative prosthetic devices have been patented.

Dr. Paskow was preceded in death by his son, Richard. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Beverly; son, Steven; brother, Sanford; three nieces; and three nephews.

Memorial donations can be made to Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, Fla., 34228.

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Anna Marie Johnson, of Pennsylvania, enjoys the bazaar while visiting her sister in Longboat Key.

On Saturday, Nov. 23, the crowd at St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church was filled with holiday cheer, as shoppers gathered for the church’s annual Christmas Bazaar. At table after table,

Phyllis Lewis and Joan Gagnon shop the holiday bargains at the Christmas Bazaar.

shoppers found seasonal ornaments, decorated trees, fair-trade gifts and holiday treats that were sold from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. This Women’s Guild event raised money for local charities.

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Vivian Leahy laughs as she turns on the lights for one of the decorated trees.

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Dee Tornillo wears a dancing Christmas hat to the bazaar every year.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR Social Media Workshop — takes place from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Longboat Key Education Center, 5370 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Bring your own laptop or smartphone to learn the fundamentals of Facebook, Twitter and blogging. Cost is $45 for members; $50 for non-members. Call 383-8811.

Lighting of Bridge Street — takes place from 5 to 10 p.m. on Historic Bridge Street, in Bradenton Beach. The Bridge Street Merchants will host this evening of live music, food and crafts. Call Melissa at 215-906-0668.

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TUESDAY, DEC. 3 All Angels Transitions Support Group — meets from 10:30 a.m. to noon Tuesdays, at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road. The group is free and open to individuals in the community who are experiencing changes in their lives. Call 383-8161.

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Lido Regency - Bay and City Views Choice south corner two bedroom two bath apartment on the 10th floor with tons of space, oak wood floors, and spectacular Sarasota Bay and city views! $525,000

Senior Clay Courts Men’s Tennis Tournament — takes place at the Longboat Key Public Tennis Center, 590 Bay Isles Road.

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4 St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church Christmas Concert — begins at 1 p.m. in the parish hall at St. Mary, Star of the Sea, 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive. This event will feature members of the Artist Series of Sarasota. Call 383-1255.

Temple Beth Israel Hanukkah Dinner — takes place at 6 p.m. at Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road. Call 383-3428.

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Turnkey furnished 2BR+ den/2BA Penthouse level apartment originally purchased for $773,100 includes private single car garage and premium deeded boat dock. $399,000

Shifting Sands Support Group — meets from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Thursdays, at Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive. The group provides an opportunity to discuss personal and/or health concerns, give and receive support and exchange information. Call 383-6491.

Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce Holiday Party — takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. at Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub, 760 Broadway. Cost is $5 for members; $10 for nonmembers. Call 383-2466.

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Holiday Night on St. Armands What: Join in the Christmas fun at the 35th annual Holiday Night on St. Armands. With a performance by the Cuban Ballet School, a Christmas carol sing-along and photos with Santa, there’s something for the whole family. Attendees are encouraged to bring an unwrapped gift for the Toys for Tots drive and/or donate a canned good to benefit All Faiths Food Bank. Call 388-1554.

Ringling Pointe - Historic Sapphire Shores Stunning Direct Bay Front On 145 feet of deep water with 5BR/3.5 BA, a 2,200 SF master suite, 1,000 bottle wine room, $3,490,000 private dock.

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COUNTRY CLUB SHORES - Remodeled canal front 4BR residence on an oversize lot. A3975981 $1,695,000

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COUNTRY CLUB SHORES - Canal front lot in this desirable south end LBK neighborhood. A3986400 $575,000

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GRAND BAY #344 - 2BR+Den/3Full/2Half Bath, 4th floor residence with over 3,300 sq. ft. of open living. $1,090,000

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COUNTRY CLUB SHORES 572 Ranger Lane - 2BR+Den/3BA canal front pool home with boat dock. $769,000

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Mainland Sarasota Marina Tower $1,499,000 Barbara Ackerman, 941-387-1820 Just listed!

City living in a 3,980 sq ft townhome. Dramatic interiors & views MLS#A3985135 74438 Bay View Heights $1,295,000 Tammy Garner, 941-366-8070 West of Trail Spanish Mediterranean home w/pool & outdoor kitchen. MLS#A3987908 95026 Avondale $699,000 Linda Ann Remley, P.A., 941-388-3966 Reward yourself with luxury in this gracious 3BR/2BA residence. MLS#A3985733 44894 1350 Main $629,900 Martina Coppenrath, 941-387-1853 Sweeping views of intercoastal; heart of downtown; designer inspired 2B/2B. MLS#A3986138 77475

Sarasota, Essex House $449,900 2/2 Jenna Carver 941-366-8070 MLS#A3987740 91299

One Watergate $500,000 Lynn Robbins, 941-366-8070 8th floor 2BR/2BA, bay views! Updated. Close to downtown, St. Armands, beaches.

MLS#A3985390 91319 Isles Of Sarasota $244,900 Valentina Pippin, 941-383-6411 3BR/3BA; 3 walk-in closets with 2 car garage. Townhouse in Palmer Ranch.

MLS#A3981447 78643 Bent Tree Vlg $219,000 Lynn A. Luken, 941-388-3966 Make yourself at home in this comfortable 3BR/2BA residence. MLS#A3987567 44895

The Keys Key Royale $1,545,000 Gabe/Charles Buky, 941-387-1870 True island oasis; elevated 5BR waterfront/golf course masterpiece. MLS#A3985984 78631 Bird Key $1,274,000 Patrick DiPinto, 941-387-1866 Desirable & spacious 4BR/4BA canal front pool home. Deep sailboat water. MLS#A3971256 79232

Longboat Key, Country Club Shores $959,000 3/2 Judy Kepecz-Hays 941-387-1825 MLS#A3987028 78639

Longboat Key, Seaplace $369,500 2/2 Sandy Endres 941-387-1861 MLS#A3972984 79215

Beach Walk $1,095,000 Carolyn Donnelly, 941-387-1835 Wide gulf views; beachfront 3BR/3BA, 2,400 sf townhouse w/elevator; 2 car garage MLS#A3987977 78644 Open Sun 1-4pm. 777 Jungle Queen Way , Longboat Key. $789,000 Gail Kayajian, 941-383-6411 Unbelievable price for beautiful home in prestigious area; numerous extras! MLS#A3987010 78629 Tidy Island $574,900 Michelle Musto, 941-387-1882 Verify for yourself the charms of this wonderful 3BR/2+BA condo. MLS#A3976683 74448 Pelican Harbour $330,000 Phil Schneider, 941-387-1889 Direct Bay views; tons of updates; pet friendly; excellent rental potential MLS#A3985289 78627 Price Reduced $295,000 Michael/Mary Nell Moore, 941-321-8594/941266-7740 Cedars East updated 2BR/2.5BA townhouse; fulltime residence/ rental income. MLS#A3958914 79271

Manatee Wildewood Springs $132,900 Scott Norris, 941-387-1880 Downstairs 2BR/2BA w/glassed in lanai, lake view and covered parking. MLS#A3983510 77455

Sarasota, Georgetowne $260,000 3/2 Lynn A. Luken 941-388-3966 MLS#A3987969 44897

Ironwood 10Th Condo $110,000 Vickie Lonborg, 941-388-3966 Look into this very nice 2BR/2BA condo. Elevators. Community tennis. MLS#A3987743 44896

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MARY LOU JOHNSON BOOK SIGNING. Mary Lou Johnson signed copies of her new book, “The Lure of Longboat Key — Sunrise to Sunset,” Nov. 10, at Garden Argosy on St. Armands Circle.

Johnson will hold another book signing from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, at Saks Fifth Avenue, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. 

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210 Sands Point Road #2702 | Longboat Key | $970,000

3315 Gulf of Mexico Drive | Longboat Key |$3,850,000

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Here’s a roundup of reader-submitted photos from events around the Key. To submit photos for this new weekly feature, email Robin Hartill at rhartill@yourobserver.com.

Submitted by Longboat Key Garden Club

LONGBOAT KEY GARDEN CLUB VAN WEZEL TOUR. The Longboat Key Garden Club checked out the backstage area of the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall during an Oct. 31 field trip.

The group enjoyed lunch at Caragiulos ItalianAmerican Restaurant after the tour. 

Average Addy & Wittig Home Sales - 27 Days on Market!

Michael Saunders & Company Licensed Real Estate Broker

Submitted by Mary Donato

440 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, FL 34228 GailWittig@michaelsaunders.com

TEA TO TEQUILA. The club held its Halloween party Oct. 30, at the home of Teena Kantor. 

• Leading Specialists at Longboat Key Club & Resort • 63+ Years of Combined Real Estate Sales Experience • Team Sales Exceed $244 Million Since 2005 • 2010, 2011 & 2012 Top Sales Team Michael Saunders & Company, Longboat Key

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Luxury Service • Strategic Marketing •Benchmark Results Submitted by Longboat Island Chapel

We invite you to take advantage of our team’s experience and allow us the opportunity to present you with a complimentary market analysis of your property.

LONGBOAT ISLAND CHAPEL. Betty Jo and Fred Haas chat with Margaret Noble at the Longboat Island Chapel’s “Let’s Celebrate” event Sunday, Nov. 17, following the worship service. The event celebrated the return of the Rev. Vincent Carroll and his wife, Molly, who recently returned from Mackinac Island where he spent his final summer at the Little Stone Church, and it also celebrated an Island Chapel sanctuary renovation project. The Haases and Noble were major donors for the project.

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Lynne Koy ◆

941.387.1803

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LUXURY

PREMIER COLLECTION◆

SPICE BAY - Antigua floor plan features 3BR/3.5BA, courtyard and pool. Builders - Perrone Construction. $2,200,000

lkoy@coldwellbanker.com

Tour Lynne’s properties at

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BIRD KEY - 4BD/4.5BA Waterfront Estate with views of the Bay and Siesta Key. $1,725,000

BAY ISLES - Fantastic lot available in Bay Isles, situated at the end of the canal with views into Sarasota Bay. $1,395,000

LIDO BEACH - Canal front undeveloped lot - 12,785 sq. ft. and 75 ft. of waterfront! One block to Lido Beach! $1,200,000

COUNTRY CLUB SHORES - 3BD/2BA/2CG home situated canal with dock, lift, and access to Sarasota Bay! $739,000

Broker/Associate, CRB, CRS, GRI Previews International Property Specialist Legends Society Involved Citizen: Sarasota Opera, SPARCC, Make-a-Wish, Meals on Wheels, Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, Breast Cancer Awareness

Global MarketinG: NYtimes.com Birdkeynews.com Coldwellbanker.com Worldproperties.com Trulia.com LynneKoy.com Rightmoves.com Greatwaterfrontliving.com Realtor.com Zillow.com SEAPLACE

M1-114.......$384,900

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M1-403.......$319,000

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G3-302.......$299,000

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BAY ISLES - Beautiful 3BD/3.5BA BEACHES - 2BD/2BA 7th floor home situated on water’s edge. condo with gorgeous full Gulf Custom features, upgrades views and stainless appliances. $699,000 galore! $725,000

ISLANDS WEST - Gulf and beach views from this 2BD/2BA condo!

Fully furnished; completely renovated! $679,000

H-301.....$269,000

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CONDO ON THE BAY - Full Sarasota LIDO REGENCY - 5th floor PLAYERS CLUB – Experience Bay views from this 2BD/2BA 11th 2BD/2BA condo right on Lido paradise with partial Gulf views floor, Tower I condo. $639,000 beach, with direct Gulf views! Se- from this 2BD/2BA condominium. cure building. $549,000 $469,000

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FAIRWAY BAY - 2BD/2.5BA three PRIVATEER NORTH - 2BD/2BA LONGBOAT ARMS - 2BD/2BA constory townhome nestled within lush, Beachfront residence with partial do with Partial Gulf and Bay views; tropical grounds. $399,000 Gulf views; abundant amenities! small, mid-key complex! $299,000 $399,000

40 MILLION “THANK YOU’S” TO MY CUSTOMERS AND CLIENTS FOR THEIR SUPPORT!

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FINE FÊTE

by Kelsey Grau | Community Editor

BKYC holds Commodore’s Ball On Saturday, Nov. 16, members of Bird Key Yacht Club gathered in their finest and fanciest fashions to honor Commodore David Powell and his wife, Marilyn, for their efforts and contributions throughout the year.

After the receiving line, guests enjoyed cocktails and hors d’oeuvres before a dinner the club’s executive chef, Brent Williams, prepared. The event gives members an opportunity to thank the current commodore for his service to the yacht club.

Lynn and Kendall Smith with Barbara Gardner

Annette and Bill Lloyd

Anita Pihl and Anna Whaley

Photos by Kelsey Grau

Commodore David Powell and his wife, Marilyn

WHITNEY BEACH Bring your decorating ideas to this 1BR/1BA, 2nd flr condo with beautiful Bishop Bayou and canal views. Over 900 sq ft of living space. Being offered turnkey furnished and As Is with Right to Inspect. Whitney Beach offers 3 heated pools, docks/boat slips on protected water a short boat ride to Sarasota Bay, kayak launch & storage area, beach front tennis courts, fishing pier and several hundred feet of deeded beach front and miles of sandy beaches. A3985987 $189,000

Norman and Ann Weber

Sally Jaret and Jean Glasser

IT’S STILL MRS. ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD Grande Dame of Real Estate 39 Years of Experience

Advising, Buying, and Selling with a Personal Touch!

941.284.7373 annetterogers@michaelsaunders.com

Michael Saunders & Company, Licensed Real Estate Broker

WAGNER REALTY

www.WagnerRealty.com

Bringing People Home Since 1939

5360 Gulf of Mexico Dr., Suite 101, Longboat Key

Call 941-383-5577

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Michael Saunders & Company Cathy C. Meldahl P.A. Licensed Real Estate Broker

AFFORDABLE, TURNKEY, LIGHT & BRIGHT 2BR/1BA mobile home.

PENTHOUSE W/BAY VIEWS! Magnificent multi-level 3Br/3.5+Ba/3CG w/wood flrs, diagonal tile, granite, wood cabinets, detailed ceil., crown moldings, built-ins, SS appls., pvt elevator, 2 open-air balconies & close to many cultural activities Furn is negotiable. Offered at $2,500,000

BRAND NEW W/DIRECT GULF VIEWS! 3Br/Den/2.5Ba w/full renovations & redesigned flr plan, pvt elevator, custom cabinets, walnut flrs, quartz, granite, mother of pearl art, glass tile, balcony & garaged pkg in gated comm. on LBK w/amenities!

Offered at $2,250,000

PENTHOUSE WITH VIEWS! 3-4Br/3.5Ba/2CG overlooking bay & city vistas w/diagonal tile, crown moldings, wood cabinets, granite, SS appls. & 2 pvt balconies in an inclusive downtown bldg w/ full amenities & great location in cultural district! MLS#A3982043 $800,000

Deeded beach access with the benefit of a Bay Marina. Friendly, active 55+ community for you. Dia Wilson & Mary $109,900 Moore #M5835321

HARBOR ACRES BAY FRONT! 4-5Br/3.5Ba/2CG w/Lr, Dr, fam rm, lg kitch. w/ctr island, bkfst nook, fp, wood flrs, quarry tile, vault ceil., crown moldings, built-ins, hurricane windows & doors, French doors, 2 lanais, deck, pool, spa & 2 SBW docks/lifts!

MLS#A3984895 .......................$2,150,000

GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO OWN

on Longboat Key at a fraction of the cost.

Turnkey furnished, oversized living room, wood laminate floors, deeded beach access, marina, fishing pier, active, friendly community. Dia Wilson & Mary Moore $129,900 #M5838013

ADORABLE 2BR/1BA GETAWAY located mid-key, tastefully decorated, large outdoor entertaining area situated at the end of the street. Twin Shores is a very active waterfront community. Dia Wilson & Mary $139,900 Moore #M5840765

DOWNTOWN VILLA! 3Br/2.5Ba & loft, maintenance free townhome w/tray ceil., crown moldings, built-ins, wood lam, tile, bamboo, wrought iron, gas fp, granite, wood cabinets, Kitchen-Aide SS appls., jetted tub, pvt garden & comm. pool next to Laurel Park MLS#A3986512 $550,000

NEWLY UPDATED 1ST FLOOR 1BR/1BA with lanai. Water view, four pools, fitness center, clubhouse, beachside facility w/ restrooms, shower & storage. This condo is rented Jan.15 to Apr. 15, 2014. Dorothy Cook $220,000 #A3984549

FANTASTIC 0NE STORY CANAL FRONT home, located on elevated lot.

PROTECTED DEEP WATER! Mainland 3-5Br/3.5Ba/3CG w/teak, mahogany & bamboo flrs, tile, granite, marble, detailed ceil., builtins, custom finishes, wood cabinets, aquarium glass, butlers pantry, gourmet kitch., comb fam rm, saltwater pool/spa & summer kitch on loggia, dock & lift MLS#A3971649 $1,694,000

UPDATED PENTHOUSE W/VIEWS! 2Br/2Ba w/full Bay view w/Lr, Dr, bonus rm, modern kitch., granite, Corian, travertine, wood cabinets, built-ins, Sub-Zero, Thermador, Bosch, pvt laundry & under bldg pkg on LBK in boating comm.w/docks & amenities! MLS#A3985581 $375,000

FRANCES CARLTON Downtown 1-2Br/1Ba w/historic designation, Lr, Dr, den/study, wood flrs, ceramic tile, carpet, custom cabinets, French doors, Palladian windows, pvt laundry & pool views in secure bldg w/ amenities; courtyards, pool & assigned parking!

MLS#A3974837 $184,000

Deep water canal opens to beautiful Sarasota Bay with dock and lift. 3BR/3BA plus ofc., granite counters, wood cabinets, tile floors, french doors to pool & hot tub. Dia Wilson & $789,900 Mary Moore #M5839040

UPDATED IN BAY PLAZA! 2Br/2Ba/den/1CG w/bamboo lam flrs, ceramic tile, wood cabinets, eat-in kitch. w/granite, modern cabinets & appls., 2 balconies w/views, pvt laundry in secure, full-serv bldg w/ amenities; concierge, valet, fitness ctr, pool & more! MLS#A3978547 $449,000

BEAUTIFUL DEEP WATER LOT in the secluded community of Hideaway Bay. Cul-de-sac peninsula style lot with deep sailboat water on 3 sides. Great location to build your dream home. Kelly Belisle $995,000 #M5836272

www.candyswick.com 105499

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DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES FOR SALE

Photos by Kelsey Grau

Steve and Madeline Ast

Tom and Marilyn LaConte

FIRST LONGBOAT $189,000 Expansive water views. Community offers beach and boat docks. Great rental history!

MLS A3955775

SUTTON PLACE $219,000 Light & Bright 2/2 townhome 1 car garage, Beach Facility, Boat Docks, 2 Pools. Great Mid Key Location MLS A3941718

Pam Hagan • 941-400-6682 Century 21 Beggins Enterprises

Jenine Meyer • 941-266-8303 Michael Saunders & Company

Erin Reid • 941-356-0818

Century 21 Beggins Enterprises

License #CGC043438

PRIVATEER SOUTH $529,000 Bay, City, & Gulf Views 2/2 behind the gates of MLS A3974667 Longboat Key Club.

LV7098

INCOME PRODUCING GULFFRONT $349,000 Stay and relax in a resort environment when you can, and make money when you can’t. Two bedroom with impressive revenues.

MLS A39769

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Harry’s Continental Kitchens hosted a wine tasting for the Longboat Key Garden Club Wednesday, Nov. 13, to benefit the club’s scholarship and grant programs. Last year, the club raised more than $25,000 for environmental interests.

A raffle included prizes of tickets to Taste of the Keys and Fashion Show and a copy of Mary Lou Johnson’s new book, “The Lure of Longboat — Sunrise to Sunset.”

Jenine Meyer • 941-266-8303 Michael Saunders & Company

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Garden Club event benefits scholarships

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Tina Ernst, Harry Christensen and Susan Tolbert

CUSTOM KITCHEN & BATH • WINDOW & DOOR REPLACEMENT

5 bed, 5 bath,Vanishing edge Pool, yacht Dock, bay View & gated Community Marina bay, built in 2008, 4 bed, 3 bath, 3 access to Suite on 1st Floor. largest 3 bed, 2.5 bath Condo on Car garage. lake/golf lot, built in 2004. longboat key under 1 Million. Pool & Spa. east of Siesta key, gated. Former Furnished Model. offered at 2.6 Million Recently Reduced granite all Counter tops.

Rare Find! $975,000

$550,000

2 bed, 2 bath, Updated kitchen appliances, granite in Master bath, Heated beachfront Pools, tennis, turnkey Furnished

DOWNTOWN SARASOTA $599,900 Sweeping bay views and high end finishes in the heart of downtown.

MLS A3986584

LONGBOAT KEY - SEA TWIG $645,500 Rarely available direct Gulf front updated 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo.

MLS A3986854

Martina Coppenrath • 941 724 3339 Coldwell Banker

Sylvia Zimmerman • 941-350-5022 Michael Saunders & Company

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LBK • (941) 383-9215

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Showroom by Appointment: 5610 Gulf of Mexico Dr. Suite 3

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CUSTOM HOMES •REMODEL • ADDITIONS

$299,000

Visit: www.SarasotaClubRealty.com to view additional photos, and properties including foreclosures

•Porch Enclosures •Parts •Repair •HURRICANE WINDOWS

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COUNTRY CLUB SHORES $1,995,500 Magnificent custom deepwater canal home. 4 Bedrooms plus den.

MLS A3984052 Sylvia Zimmerman • 941-350-5022 Michael Saunders & Company

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5330 Ashton Ct., Sarasota

492-5200

Michael Yawitz • 941-587-8091 Michael Saunders & Company

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GATED BAY ISLES TOWNHOME $999,000 Rarely available Marina Bay 3 bedroom 3.5 bath 2,933 square foot townhome with atrium and amenities.

Private dock.

MLS A3972270 LV7079

State Certified General Contractor

QUEENS HARBOUR $895,000 Designer elegance with a total wow factor in this furnished 2,866 sq. ft. professionally decorated home.

Beautiful details and updates.

MLS A3970247 LV7077

Real Estate Broker

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CLUB REALTY

Call: John Gill 941.366.8390

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Call: Brooke O’Malley 941.726.2677

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By Adam Hughes | Research Editor

BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of Nov. 15 through Nov. 21, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive)

Kelsey Grau

Unit 601 at Westchester, 4825 Gulf of Mexico Drive, has two bedrooms, one bath and 1,393 square feet of living area. It sold for $525,000.

Two-bedroom Westchester condo sells for $525,000 The following residential real estate transactions, from the Manatee County Property Appraiser, took place between Nov. 11 and Nov. 15. Transactions from the Sarasota County Property Appraiser for this week were not available as of press time.

Westchester

David Hodgson and Mary Hodgson, trustees, of New York, sold the Unit 601 condominium at 4825 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Gerald and Sandra Marsh, of Pittsburgh,for $525,000. Built in 1970, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 1,393

square feet of living area. It previously sold for $315,000 in 1997.

Cedars West

Richard and Sandra Mahrenholz sold their Unit 204 condominium at 5655 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Claritas LLC for $475,000. Built in 1975, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,274 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $65,500 in 2003.

YOUROBSERVER.COM // See a map of this week’s real estate sales.

Address Permit 603 Longboat Club Road Interior 7141 La Lenaire Drive Roof 2110 Harbourside Drive Bathroom Elevator 760 Marbury Lane 651 Penfield St. Doors

Sliding glass doors and windows 4835 GMD 1965 GMD Interior Interior 1485 GMD 3527 Fair Oaks Lane Shutters

Sliding glass door and window 711 Bayport Way

Sliding glass doors and windows 4380 Exeter Drive 540 Chipping Lane Demolition 747 Marbury Lane Pool resurfacing

Glass doors and windows 5231 GMD 959 Spanish Drive S. Roof 6701 GMD Concrete repair 640 Broadway Re-roof 6560 GMD Dock

Sliding glass doors 3804 GMD 2301 GMD Shutters 2675 GMD Shutters 3191 Bayou Sound Re-roof 588 Bayview Drive Garage door 537 Sloop Lane Pool resurfacing 2721 GMD Window

Certificate of 638 Bayview Drive occupancy

Certificate of 40 Lighthouse Point Drive occupancy

Applicant Ronald Palmerick Meghan Davis Angela Mantilla Allan Brockett Debra Gilbert

Amount $192,756 $32,500 $20,000 $17,000 $16,900

Jan Nyquist Marsha Stoik Christopher Iacobelli Thomas Sappenfield

$15,644 $15,000 $14,000 $13,742

Marcie Lance

$13,000

Allan Kathnelson Willard Foley III John Christie

$10,980 $10,740 $10,300

Karen Kramer $7,000 Nancy Beveridge $6,972.13 Dilip Mathur $5,486 Bad Mob Enterprises Inc. $4,980 Craig Huss $4,100 Carl and Pauline Borneck Revocable Trust $3,600 George Lazi $3,420 Pauline Rea, trustee $3,359 William Seagraves $3,100 Rolland Freeman $2,450 Gordon Cooper $2,275 Ralph Stebenne $1,040 Joseph Iannello

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572 Gunwale Ln #A3980750 $1,499,000 Jenifer Schwell

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-780-0968

601 Longboat Club Rd # 201S #A3987049 $1,495,000 Hannerle Moore

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-387-7300

230 Sands Point Rd # 3005 #A3987939 $1,300,000 Ian Addy Pa

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-961-8850

556 N Washington Dr #A3982966 $1,200,000 Diana Kryszak

7792 Holiday Dr N #A3981288 $1,099,000 Marcia Salkin

Sarasota 941-383-7591 941-376-6121

3060 Grand Bay Blvd # 124 #A3979353 $924,500 Kathleen Carbone P.A.

Longboat Key 941-966-8000 941-228-8429

1800 Benjamin Franklin Dr # B308 #A3977399 $849,000 David Simon

Lido Key 941-388-4447 248-342-3551

1135 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 404 #A3986439 $750,000 Janis Collier

St. Armands Circle 941-388-4447 941-993-4078

Longboat Key 941-951-6660 941-313-1212

1241 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 402 #A3957287 $2,500,000 Michael Moulton

6338 Laguna Dr #A3957942 $719,000 Audrey Singer

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-928-3559

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-350-2588

2301 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 23N #A3984508 $699,000 Susan Fox

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-544-6648

FAMILIAR FACES. EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS. Showcase your property to over 6,500 affiliate branches in 52 countries.

4600 Bay Shore Rd #A3983290 $649,000 Nancie Kalin

100 Central Ave # Ph-2 #A3987937 $1,695,000 Bibi-Ann Allard PA

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-928-8833

1485 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # A401 #A3980645 $554,000 Christina Landry

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-376-4498

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-685-0422

1111 N Gulfstream Ave # 3C #A3986560 $545,000 Peggy Mock

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-356-3584

1000 Longboat Club Rd # 1003 #A3974667 $529,000 Bruce & Jenine Meyer

Longboat Key 941-383-5502 941-266-8303

4485 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 503 #A3979554 $519,000 Steve Magner

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-376-8559

7537 Trillium Blvd #A3987289 $484,000 Diane Thomas

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-313-7500

1930 Harbourside Dr # 124 #A3982406 $359,900 Saint Cacchiotti

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-809-0787

615 Dream Island Rd # 306 #A3969421 $349,000 Barbara Dumbaugh

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-350-3743

225 Sands Point Rd # 6204 #A3985969 $349,000 Terri Derr

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-356-6694

2039 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 204 #A3972416 $330,000 Tom Delaney

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-387-3990

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By Robin Hartill | City Editor

+ Sanctuary manager earns PCAM designation Sheila Connell, general manager at the Sanctuary condominium, recently earned the Professional Community Association Manager (PCAM) designation from Community Associations Institute (CAI).

Fewer than 10% of managers nationwide have attained the designation.

Connell has served as the Sanctuary’s general manager for the past nine years and is the director of the West Florida chapter board of directors of the CAI and the board liaison for the Management Education Committee.

+ SYC introduces Farm-to-Fork initiative Sarasota Yacht Club (SYC) has implemented a new Farm-to-Fork initiative that includes more local fresh produce on its menu and new vegetarian offerings.

SYC has partnered with Honeyside Farms, which will provide approximately 75% of its produce.

The new menu includes a “Daily Chef Vegetarian Inspiration” that will give vegetarian diners different options each day.

“The impact of this partnership can be seen from both an economic and a health perspective,” said SYC General Manager Bernhard Kloppenburg in a prepared statement. “We are helping the local economy by purchasing our produce from

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440 Gulf of Mexico Drive • Longboat Key 941.961.8850 | 941.228.1985 a local, family-owned business, and we are supporting healthier lifestyles for our members by providing them with the best produce our area has to offer.”

Luxury Service n Strategic Marketing n Benchmark Results The Addy & Wittig team has garnered recognition as Michael Saunders & Company’s top sales team on Longboat Key for 2010, 2011 and 2012. As a consistent top producing Realtor® and Sarasota native, Gail has more than 33 years of local real estate experience. Ian brings a robust financial management background focused on valuation to complement his abilities as a skilled negotiator.

+ The Met on St. Armands to host Feed-a-Family event The Met on St. Armands Circle, 35 S. Blvd. of the Presidents, will host Feeda-Family benefit with holiday portraits, including pictures with Santa Claus, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30, to benefit All Faiths Food Bank.

The husband-and-wife team of Salvatore Brancifort and Jennifer Soos-Brancifort will provide portraits and a complimentary 8-inch-by-10-inch photo. Additional sizes will be available for purchase.

To reserve a session time with an optional donation to All Faiths Food Bank, call The Met at 388-3991.

With the highest sale on Longboat Key in over two years, accomplished with only 51 days from listing to contract and the uncontested leader in sales at the luxurious Longboat Key Club & Resort, this team sets themselves apart from the competition. Focusing on exceptional service, which includes personally accompanying on each and every showing, this results driven team has distinguished themselves as among the very best in the profession.

Please visit www.athomesarasota.com to learn more.

3315 Gulf of Mexico Drive MLS# A3984171 Pending in 50 days $3,800,000

+ Moore’s celebrates 46th anniversary Moore’s Stone Crab Restaurant, 800 Broadway, celebrated its 46th anniversary Nov. 21, and it will kick off the start of its 47th season with anniversary specials during December.

According to Moore’s coowner Alan Moore, stone crab season started out slowly this year but is beginning to improve, with the supply of both medium and large crabs starting to increase.

“I think it will straighten itself out in the next three or four weeks,” he said.

8407 Midnight Pass Road MLS# A3987523 $1,750,000

210 Sands Point Rd. 2507 MLS# A3985077 $1,250,000

Sylvia Zimmerman 440 Gulf of Mexico Dr. • Longboat Key 941.350.5022 Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-320-4261

6750 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 148 #A3978064 $300,000 Tammy Mast

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-256-6543

4540 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 202 #A3979332 $274,900 Sharon Freeman

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-545-0899

4235 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # G203 #A3936274 $239,000 Eileen Burke

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-266-8949

6750 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 179 #A3897503 $189,900 Sandi Layfield

Longboat Key 941-383-5502 941-914-2807

Sylvia Zimmerman attributes her reputation as one of Southwest Florida’s most outstanding real estate agents to her extensive business background, as well as her intense focus on customer service.

A longtime Sarasota-area resident, Sylvia builds enduring client relationships, possesses a profound facility for bringing buyers and sellers together and offers an intricate knowledge of the many unique communities that beckon newcomers to both Sarasota and Manatee counties.

Drawn to Sarasota by its natural beauty, exciting culture and remarkable weather, Sylvia’s love for tennis and golf found the perfect fit. Having lived on the bay (Siesta Key), on the beach (Casey Key), on a canal (Bird Key) and in two golf course communities (Lakewood Ranch Country Club and Laurel Oaks Estates), she can personally identify with the variety of opportunities available on Florida’s Gulf Coast—a unique advantage she passes on to her clients.

With her years of experience in real estate sales, no one knows the area better!

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4960 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 202 #A3979213 $309,500 Diane Otis Stirling

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844 Evergreen Way # 29 #A3988103 $320,000 Cathy Meldahl

Please visit my website: www.sylviasellssarasota.com 350 Golden Gate Pt # 21 #A3987409 Diann Thelen

Sarasota $5,600 941-552-4200

2301 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 31 Longboat Key #A3986521 $4,000-$5,500/month, 90 day min Diann Thelen 941-552-4200

1211 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 206 #A3972079 Diann Thelen

Longboat Key $3,500 941-552-4200

420 Golden Gate Point 300B MLS# A3985992 $2,695,000

571 Putting Green Lane MLS# A3984052 $1,995,500

VA C AT I O N R E N TA L S The Ritz-Carlton Beach Residences # 503 #A3981871 $2,950,000 Julia McClung

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

Lido Key 941-388-4447 941-356-6499

MLS# A3986854 $645,500

White Sands of Longboat whitesandsoflongboat.com 800.230.2428

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Veranda Beach Club verandabeachclub.com 800.411.5511

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2013

OBSERVER WEATHER

Do you love taking photos? We want your best photos of sunrises, sunsets, rainbows, etc.

Submit your local weather photos for a chance to have your photo published in the paper!

See all of the winning photos each week by visiting The Observer’s Facebook page.

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Record Temperatures High

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90 (1963)

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Sunday, Nov. 24

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37 Topper for a 95 Casino wheel Scottish soldier 100 Furthermore ...

39 Immunization 102 Checks for liens, shots, e.g. mortgages and 40 Angel dust, briefly such 43 “Bye for now” 105 ExxonMobil brand 44 Rude look 46 Words after “point” 106 Bay or cove 109 Beds in tents or “bill” 110 It’s used but not 48 Flightless bird owned 49 Impression 112 Become ex-exes produced by pressure or printing 114 One who does penance 55 Ancient Persian 117 Ultimate ruler conclusion 56 Dreamer’s acronym 121 Massage therapist 57 Private sign?

122 Staccato’s opposite 58 Paper unit 123 Mono 60 Homophonic duo improvement 61 “Glycerine” opener 124 Certifies under 63 Debate topic oath 64 Walt ___ Disney 125 Notched like a 65 Wes Craven street maple leaf name 66 Submission with a 126 Concepts submission DOWN 71 Tolkien’s tree 1 Yank’s Civil War foe creature

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7 Shoguns’ capital 8 Musketeer motto word 9 Southwest people 10 Alphas’ counterparts 11 Sci-fi author Arthur C. ___ 12 Done, to poets of old 13 Takes risks 14 Fancy-shmancy pitchers 15 Eastern royalty 16 Fleur-de-lis 17 Gouda alternative 19 Eastern Indian language 20 Boxing match sound 26 ___ rally (school event) 28 Do some film work 30 More up to the task 31 Draw for a moth 32 They “drift by,” in song 34 Beyond pleasantly plump 35 Bit of bait from the backyard 36 Love archer 38 Wave’s high point 40 “Good-bye” and “See you” 41 Paw, like a bear 42 Gourd fruits 44 Costello of old comedy 45 Winter hours in NYC 47 Like Munch’s “The Scream,” in 1994 and 2004 50 Wine press residue 51 Some accidental singles 52 It’s heard in the Highlands

53 Where fledglings are fed 54 Drawn tight 59 Less likely to put up a fight 62 Pictures on a screen 63 “Well, ___ be!”

65 New York city where Twain is buried 67 Work the bleachers 68 Decorative needle and scissors case 69 Tattered cloths 70 Outside of a watermelon 72 Steal 73 Some college clubs 76 75-Across, mules, hinnies and such 79 Evil spell caster 80 Some claim it’s before beauty 81 Kilmer of “Top Gun” 83 ___ fixes (obsessions) 84 “You are not!” reply 86 It welcomes change 88 ___-tat (knocking sound) 93 Caught a fly ball, e.g.

96 Stomach ailments 97 Feline zodiac sign 98 Sprawling property 99 Perfumery employee 100 Film rat 101 Colorado’s ___ Park 102 On edge 103 Largest of the Greek Islands 104 Role model 106 Jerry Lewis film “Friend” 107 “No ice, bartender” 108 Suffix for “wander” 111 Opposition party member 113 Egyptian boy king 115 Lennon’s bride 116 Xis’ preceders 118 It can follow you but not me 119 Herd’s pasture 120 ___ Gatos, Calif.

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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 ENTERTAINMENT CENTER: rattan, medium color, excellent condition, 5’wx6.5’h, $125.

941-383-3193.

Autos For Sale 1987 CADILLAC: yellow, 1 owner, great condition.

Call 765-463-7271.

2006 MERCEDES R350: 50K/miles, 6 seats.

Mint condition. $20,000. 941-387-0376.

Autos Wanted

Garage/Moving/Estate Sales ESTATE SALE Saturday, Nov. 30th - 8:45a.m. -2p.m.

1828 Mid Ocean Circle Forrest Lakes, Sarasota Lladros, set of Lenox Cinderella dishes, set of Royal Crown Darby Imari pattern dishes, 4 oriental rugs, paintings by Robert Larsen, Richard Zolon & Bonrod; modern lighted display cabinet, glass top end tables, pr. of French chairs, round cocktail table, desk, dishes, lamps, lighted curio cabinet, rattan chair, records, boom box, books, bookshelves, 4 file cabinets, slide projector, folding table, lady's & men's clothes, bed, table & bath linens; nice Christmas items, grill, helium & tank, pet items, good kitchenware, tools & silk plants.

Sale by Julie McClure Pictures www.estatesales.net

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

WE BUY CARS. TOP $$ PAID FOR YOUR VEHICLES. Call Hawley Motors, 941-923-3421.

Storage

Boat Slips For Rent/Sale

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

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

45’ BOAT Slip for rent: Longboat Key Moorings.

941-812-3395 BOAT SLIP for sale. Boathouse, S. LBK, fully enclosed, top level, S.W. corner, will accommodate 32/ft. boat. Make an offer. Mark, 941-383-4381 bradtma@yahoo.com

Condos/Apts. For Rent

HIGH & DRY, indoor boat slip for sale or rent. Fast, easy, access to Gulf and Bay. Owner financing available. Why rent when you can own? Call 941-544-5597.

BEACHPlACE, lBk. Casual beachfront living in 2BR/2BA, balcony condo. Olympic pool, health club, tennis courts. Available June through December, $2000/mo. Also available January through March, $5000/mo. Call for info. Contact Elizabeth/NYC. 212-570-2950.

LONGBOAT KEY: Indoor boat slip for rent. Top Level, 30/ft. length x 8/ft 6� beam x 9/ft. 10� height. 941-806-8500.

LBK: SANDS POINT 1BR/2BA, annual, unfurnished. Non-smoking, No Pets. $2000/month.

941-383-3702

SLIP RENTAL- LBK Moorings. By Owner.

M18, premier slip, 58 ft. $600 month.

941-316-9372

LBK: TIFFANY Plaza Beachfront Condos, 1st floor, 2BR/2BA, W/D in units, walk out to beach.

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

Boats

Condos For Sale

Boats are selling very well. 89 sold this year.

Excellent location. www.Islandboatsales.net Buy-Sell-Consign-Donate. “Business on a Handshake� Call Dave, (owner) 941-228-3489.

ChitwoodCharters.com Cruise or Fish Hyatt Sarasota Docks 32’/53’ Yachts - 2hrs./2 months 941-383-5232 FISHING KAYAK. Ocean Kayak Prowler 15T Angler. Sand Color. Never been in the water and was stored indoors. Includes Dolly and Paddle. $750. 383-7094.

LBK BOATERS..SELLING OR buying, call Captain Dave! World Class Yacht Sales (877)901-BOAT. captaindave@wcyachtsales.com SAILBOAT: 20/FT. 1990/95 COM-PAC, (Hutchins) 19/3, 8HP Honda, with 27 hours, fully equipped, like new, $6900 O/B/O. Must see. 941-383-3337.

SEARAY SUNDANCER 260: dual props, mint condition, low hours, 300/HP, stored on a lift. $17,000.

Kayak: 2 seater, $300. 941-387-0376.

Garage/Moving/Estate Sales HOLIDAY BIZARRE, Craft Treasures. 848 Myrtle St., West of Trail, Saturday 9-3pm, Sunday 9-1pm.

General Merchandise THRIFT SHOP: Longboat Island Chapel, 6140 Gulf of Mexico Dr. Open Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays, 9a.m.-1p.m.

Volunteers welcome! 941-383-6491.

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BEACH SIDE of street. 2 bed 2 bath Condo. $299,000 CLUB REALTY. Call 941-726-2677 Brooke O'Malley FREE! What every Real Estate buyer or seller needs to know!

Go to: www.yourmarketupdate.com LBK CONDO: For sale by owner, 2BR/2BA, 3rd floor unit, bay front, fully updated, $380,000.

941-374-0060.

LBK CONDO: turnkey, for sale by owner.

2BR/2BA, 2nd floor unit overlooking the Bay, nicely furnished. $270,000. John, 352-751-4343.

LONGBOAT KEY CLUB COMPLEX. By Owner.

Private club suite, turnkey, tennis, Golf course view, 650/sq.ft. $349,000. 708-267-6704.

Condos For Sale MARINA BAY: Largest condo under 1 million.

3BR/2.5BA, 3,100 sq. ft. Incredible views. Brooke O’Malley, CLUB REALTY. 941-726-2677

Duplexes For Rent LONGBOAT KEY: 3/BR, private beach. $1900/mo. +utilities. Updated, granite/ stainless kitchen, garage, patio, 55+. 941-232-1357.

Homes For Rent LIDO SHORES: Waterfront home 3BR/3BA. Lagoon Pool/Spa, Dock, Private Beach access.

Walking distance to world class shopping and restaurants! Furnished or unfurnished. Annual rental. $4500/month. Call 941-928-1542.

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Lots/Acreage For Sale BIRD KEY. Prime Sarasota Bay lot. SSE exposure.

Waiting for your dream house. For sale by owner.

No brokers please. 631 Mourning Dove. See our lot on www.forsalebyowner.com. $2,800,000.

941-388-7832

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Vacation/Seasonal Rentals 1BR/1BA CONDO Turn-key, Bradenton. No pets.

Winter season, $950/mo. Possible annual.

610-751-7939 or 610-997-0249.

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

3 BEDROOM Longboat Key beach rental.

Seasonal ($3200/ mo. includes tax). Across from private beach. Garage. Unobstructed views. Updated, patio, fully furnished, 55 +. March and April plus off-season. (941) 232-1357.

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

A BEACHPLACE LBK Condo. Beachfront, 2BR/2BA. Elegantly furnished, internet access, heated pool, covered parking, exercise room.

Available December, 2013 & May, June, 2014.

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

BEACH PLACE: 3BR/2BA, fully furnished, elevator, gated security, pool, walk out to beach.

Available January 1st, seasonal or annual.

631-765-3162 LIDO BEACH Vacation paradise. 1 & 2 bedroom condos overlooking beautiful Lido Beach.

Weekly rates. Lido Dorset. Rental condo.

1-800-734-3370.

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ST. ARMANDS: 3BR/2BA, garage, walk to beach, dining. Available Dec. 15. Sarasota Style Realty, 941-388-2135.

LONGBOAT HARBOR TOWERS: 2BR/2BA, beachfront condo. Wonderful sunsets. Recently remodeled. Large pool, exercise roon. Available February 1, 2014. 2/month minimum. $4700/mo.

719-201-8801.

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

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Reservations: 941-383-5549 Fax: 941-383-7925

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

4621 Gulf of Mexico Drive Longboat Key, FL 34228

941-388-3921 - 888-388-3921 941-650-1857 Visit us at: resortproperties.pro ON THE Gulf w/pool. 1BR condo, sleeps 4. Nicely furnished, cable, phone, full kitchen, living, dining area, W/D in building. Weekly or Monthly. May through January. $1600/mo. 941-351-5101.

SARASOTA BAYFRONT by RITZ. 2BR + office/ 2.5BA/Carport. Gated comm, pool. 3 Month minimum, Jan-Feb-March at $7,500/mo. + tax incl. weekly maid. Addl. mos. available. N/S, no pets.

Spaciousandstunning@gmail.com or 941-383-9729

Computer Services Cmagik - LBK resident, servicing our island year round for over 12 yrs. Bachelors Degree with 20 yrs. experience, PC or MAC. Professional help with computers, iPad/iPhones and tutoring.

References upon request.

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

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OWN A MAC/iPHONE/iPAD? MacTutor has 21+ years experience teaching Apple products.

I speak English, not “Geek”! (941) 812-3887 www.FLMacTutor.com

Home Improvement/ Remodeling ISLE TILE FOR “QUALITY AND EXPERIENCE” Floors, bathrooms, showers, backsplashes, patio and pool decks.

20 years design background.

Licensed - Insured - LBK Resident References upon request.

941-383-2659

Fully equipped 2BR/2BA condos with washer and dryer, and wireless internet in each unit.

Extra Large Heated Gulf View Swimming Pool!

OUR GUESTS RETURN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.

JOHN GUBERNAT SERVICES Residential/ Commercial. Handyman Repairs, Roof Repairs, Coatings, Painting, Power Washing, Property Management, Home Watching. LBK Resident. Lic./Ins. 941-962-4867.

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

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

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Provides home healthcare from as little as 4 hours to 24/7 care.

For more info Phone: 941-809-3725 License #230506 & #30211577 CAREGIVER IS available for traveling, baths, meds. Possible live-in. Full time or part time.

References. 941-545-5992.

MEDICAL ASSISTANT/NURSING ASSISTANT CERTIFIED - FT or PT. Light cooking & housekeeping, doctors appointments, shopping, free to travel anywhere, personal care. Overnights available. Own vehicle. Non-Smoker. References available. 4 languages. Kati, 941-228-4183.

RETIRED NURSE: 60 years young. Honest, many references. Offer care, cleaning, companionship and more. 941-358-0373.

Air Conditioning GULFSIDE A/C & Heating, LLC. SALES & SERVICE, FREE ESTIMATES! 10 MINUTE RESPONSE. Visa/MC/Disc. Lic. #CAC1816929 941-962-6863.

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oVer $62 Million SolD or penDing Since JAnUArY 2013 Roger has pending and sold 9 Grand Bay residences since January 2013 Roger has sold 7 Seaplace residences since January 2013 Roger has sold 4 Country Club Shores homes since January 2013 Roger has sold 3 Bird Key homes since January 2013 Roger has sold 3 Gulf front homes since January 2013 For the third time in 5 years, Roger has been named: #1 Realtor on Longboat Key and Bird Key #1 Realtor for all of Sarasota #1 Single Coldwell Banker agent in all of Florida

2013 ACTIVe lIsTINgs

CLOSED SALES 1 535 Sanctuary Dr. A603 2 1281 Gulf of Mexico Dr. # 1102 3 5393 Gulf of Mexico Dr. # 214C 4 2399 Gulf of Mexico Dr. # 3C4

$590,000

Bird Key

$895,000

CC Shores

9 4401 Gulf of Mexico Dr. # 1101 10 625 Buttonwood Dr. 11 7043 Stanhope Place 12 420 Firehouse Ct. #3

$475,000 Beachplace RogeR sells SEAPLACE $2,725,000 Sleepy Hollow

The best beachfront value on Longboat Key. ItTowers is located on 42 acres $595,000 LBK Harbor mile of prime beachfront.

Amenities include a 24-hour guard gate, clu $580,000 Buttonwood Harbor pools and hot tubs, children’s pool, playground, and three tennis court University Park nice selection of $625,000 floor plans, from one-bedroom lofts to three bedroom $217,000

13 1955 Gulf of Mexico Dr. #207

$425,000

Seaplace

$1,050,000

Queens Harbour

15 3010 Grand Bay Blvd. # 446

$1,320,000

Grand Bay

16 3060 Grand Bay Blvd. # 165

$925,000

Grand Bay

17 1111 Bogey Ln.

$700,000

CC Shores

18 1945 Gulf of Mexico Dr. # 516

$540,000

Seaplace

19 2045 Gulf of Mexico Dr # 313

$407,500

Seaplace

20 3463 Winding Oaks #32

$567,500

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22 4600 Gulf of Mexico # PH5 23 3482 Mistletoe Lane 24 3802 Gulf of Mexico # 101

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$232,000

SEAPLACE $2,100,000

Beach Harbor Club

COUNTRY CLUB SH La Bellasara

26 6201 Gulf of Mexico Dr.

$3,225,000

Sleepy Hollow

27 280 N. Shore Rd #9 (represented both sides)

$1,700,000

360 North Condos

28 510 Putting Green Ln.

$700,000

CC Shores

29 1925 Gulf of Mexico Dr. # 301

$522,500

Seaplace

30 619 Mourning Dove Dr.

$4,000,000

Bird Key

31 1561 Harbor Cay Ln.

$1,295,000

Bay Isles Harbor

32 3540 Gulf of Mexico Dr. #304

3 bedrooms

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As the economy has drifted lower over the past years, prices hav cally in our area; in some cases have seen as much as 50% value d erties saw at least 30% from their highs. Interest rates declined as lows (and they appear to still be declining).

Over the past year, buyers have come into our market with bought all of the “low-hanging fruit” – the short sales and the became more realistic and as buyers perceived value, they bough SOLD PRICE COMMUNITY need to sell held on to their properties. $780,000 All of these events have combined Sanctuary to create a very low invento $2,800,000 Clubyour property, now this season. If you have been wantingWater to sell $350,000 Longboat Terrace in today’s mark Roger and ask for his evaluation of your property

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$375,000

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$550,000

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$220,000

Lot - South of Downtown

40 1925 Gulf of Mexico Dr. # 406

$390,000

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Tangerine Bay

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seaplaceg1211.com 510puttinggreenlane.com $640,000 Islands West Spacious 2BR/2BA with separate upstairs This 3BR home is on the sunny s 35 581 Chipping Ln (represented both sides) $1,930,000 Shores living area. Light and bright and literally stepsCC of Putting Green Lane. Furnishe to the beach. Furnished. $349,000 36 4725 Gulf of Mexico Dr. # 209 $319,000 Sand Cay 34 2525 Gulf of Mexico Dr. #4D

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$1,695,000

2 1233 N Gulfstream Ave. #304

Marina Tower

$1,499,000

3 4239 Gulf of Mexico Dr. #MH2

Pelican Harbour

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Tower Residences

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Long Beach

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1 1015 Bogey Ln

4 35 Watergate Dr. #503 5 7100 Longboat Dr. E 6 3436 Mistletoe Ln

43 100 Sands Point Rd. # 116 44 2089 Gulf of Mexico Dr. # 211 45 435 L'Ambiance Dr. #K505

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CC Shores

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Sanctuary

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9 3080 Grand Bay Blvd #542

Grand Bay

$699,000

48 3030 Grand Bay Blvd. # 315

10 1902 Harbour Links Cir #16

Emerald Pointe South

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49 3040 Grand Bay Blvd. # 212

11 2729 Gulf of Mexico Dr. #11

LB Beachcomber II

$695,000

50 435 L'Ambiance Dr. #M608

46 540 Sutton Place

12 4825 Gulf of Mexico Dr. #404C

Westchester

$625,000

51 6171 Gulf of Mexico Dr.

13 1975 Gulf of Mexico Dr. #109

Seaplace

$489,000

52 3030 Grand Bay Blvd. # 241 53 582 Spoonbill Dr.

TOTAL CLOSED

TOTAL PENDING

TOTAL CLOSED YTD

54 1425 Gulf of Mexico # 204

$60,234,500

$2,439,000

$62,673,500

55 3060 Grand Bay Blvd. #156

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Alexis Orgera writes daily. So, when her father’s Alzheimers worsened, her words became healthy therapy.

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As a teen, Orgera got ragers once a week; as a 36-year-old adult she gets them as infrequently as twice a year. She did a lot of research on her ragers for her novel “You Don’t Mind: Neurojourney.” The book explores her brain’s foibles paralleled with her father’s, Bo Orgera’s, struggle and eventual death from Alzheimer’s Disease. It was in doing this research that she realized her migraines are stress related.

Go figure, when she quit her job to pursue writing in fall 2011, she got lots of ragers. She was teaching composition and creative writing at her alma mater, New College. It was terrifying to quit — even if her motive of producing literature was worth the uncertainty involved in trying to support herself on words alone.

Her pursuit was to achieve truth.

She says once she delved into the cause of her ragers, she didn’t have as many — despite the fact that she went through a stressful time experiencing the slow death of her father from Alzheimer’s.

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“I make art because it’s an expression of my life experience,” she says.

Orgera is soft-spoken. She sits relaxed in the backroom reading nook of Bookstore1Sarasota, where you can occasionally find her working the front desk. She’s also the coordinator of PoetryLife, Sarasota’s annual celebration of poetry and poetry education. If you’re seeking poetry, Orgera can pull the perfect book for you from the shelves of thousands — she’ll know exactly where it is.

What you probably wouldn’t find out is that her first book of poetry “How Like Foreign Objects” is proudly propped on the front display — unless one of her co-workers tries to hawk it to you and you somehow noticed her name on the front cover. She’s too shy to sell it herself.

Poetry is in Orgera’s nature.

Her second book of poetry “Dust Jacket” comes out in December.

“You Don’t Mind,” which is in the editing process, is her first foray into autobiographical narrative. The work of literature won her this year’s The Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County’s John Ringling Towers Fund Award.

Orgera moved back to Sarasota when her father got sick nearly a decade ago. Her father was 52 years old, and Orgera was living in California at the time.

“My mom called me saying, ‘Something’s wrong with your dad. He’s sleeping all the time and forgetting really basic things,’” Orgera explains.

A year after that conversation,

Orgera decided she needed to move back home. Orgera didn’t start writing the book until her father got progressively worse.

It follows his final years up until he was admitted into a nursing home. He died in August at age 60.

Some people, referring to that pejorative group of writers who think there are unbreakable rules to writing, would say not to write a book while you’re going through the experience about which you’re writing.

“But I couldn’t not!” Orgera says. “I think I needed to get through the experience, and I didn’t know how to do it without writing.”

She wrote about the afternoons she and her father spent painting together. They’d listen to “Mellow Yellow” by Donovan or “Crimson and Clover” by Tommy James and The Shondells. These are the same songs that Orgera remembers listening to before her dad got sick. Her favorite memories were driving and listening old ’60s songs; he would tell her about the first time he heard them.

She wrote about when they had to stop painting because her father couldn’t hold a paintbrush or hold his attention — he forgot the movements.

“It can be really difficult to read in terms of emotional intensity,” she says of her book.

It’s written in a lyric essay form meant to reflect what’s taking place in her mind as it’s happening. This means it’s not always linear. Some essays are one page long. Others are 20 pages long.

They all connect and speak to each other. She hopes in some ways other people dealing with similar life experiences can feel a

Alexis Orgera’s five tips to writing poetry:

“There’s this photograph of he and I when I was about 7 years old that I use at the beginning of the book,” Orgera says. “There are about 10 sections that meditate on this photograph; it has this beautiful light in it that shines down and we’re both wearing white shirts.”

1. Don’t censor your first draft.

“Let it spill out because that’s where the good meat is.”

2. Think in images rather than explanations. “Language becomes vibrant when you’re using all the senses. It’s the old ‘show don’t tell’ adage.”

“For about six months, he drew this strange ghostly woman,” Orgera says. “He’d do it in pencil, and she always looked exactly the same. I don’t know who she was or who he thought he was seeing.”

3. Listen to the rhythm of language. “It helps to read other poetry. Sometimes, I’ll sit and read my favorite poets before I write to get them in my head again. There are all different types of rhythms of language.

You have to find the ones you really like.”

She is all the expectation packed into that fragile October moment just before a man drives his car off the Brooklyn Bridge—just before the Galileo rises on the back of a space shuttle—before Candlestick shakes and 63 are buried by the Bay—before the stocks crash and burn—before housing gets affordable, then doesn’t, then does. Before she knew her words didn’t make her, deep inside the mechanisms of her brain were cogs and spinning wheels, tricked-out little gadgets of bliss that would whir and grind and whir and ready her. Then November, then December, then a new decade when everything before was now full of after.

— Alexis Orgera, the title “Dust Jacket” to be released December 2013 kinship.

“There could be a sense of comfort,” she says. “Or repulsion.”

The book gets progressively more difficult to read as her father gets progressively worse. She talks about him urinating on the kitchen floor and wiping feces on the bathroom’s light switch.

“It’s ugly,” she says.

But, it’s honest. It honestly portrays the peaceful times they

4. Write down your dreams.

“Literally, when you wake up in the morning record your dreams. I have so many poems that come directly from dreams I had or my brother had. They almost come out as whole poems if you break the lines right.”

spent together, too. It taught her a lot about Alzheimer’s more so than her father. She had to do a lot of research for the book.

In fact, the title comes from Dr. Alzheimer’s documentation of one of his earliest patients dealing with Alzheimer’s. Her essays are sprinkled with research on migraines and Alzheimer’s. She hasn’t had as many ragers since exploring her own brain’s functions.

5. Try not to rhyme. “Rhyming can get sing-songy and that’s not the kind of rhythm you’re looking for. Slant rhyme works really well, but direct rhyme can sound sing-songy.”

But, this process was therapy in more ways that that. She can, and appears ready to talk about her father today without getting emotional.

“I couldn’t help but face it because I was there in the process,” she says of not hiding from grief.

“It forced me to integrate grief into my life as we went.”

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“Dance in healing is using the creative process of dance to not only bring healing to me, but bring healing to other participants,” Leymis Bolaños Wilmott says. “My heart is for people, and I believe in the power of dance.” positive. The class not only heals her own wounds, but Wilmott also hopes it brings joy and provides a positive outlet for people dealing with Parkinson’s.

“I think I’m more driven to really encourage the participants to keep moving, to encourage the caregivers to be involved and do something fun,” she says. “Have a good time, move, laugh — they can come here, let loose and enjoy.”

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She started the biweekly dance class, “Let’s Dance Expressive Exercise” at Parkinson Place in September 2012. This particular student was a seasonal visitor, and had taken her dance class for four months before returning up north. Before leaving, he told her something powerful: “He came up to me and told me, ‘I’m really going to miss your class because when I came in, I had a walker, and now, I don’t need it,’” Wilmott says.

On Dec. 7 and 8, Parkinson Place students will dance in Fuzión Dance Artist’s winter program “Voices of Fuzión: Melange.”

Parkinson Place’s mission is to improve the lives of those living with Parkinson’s disease, and it offers many participation programs for its members and their spouses. The staff approached Wilmott about leading a dance class a few years ago, but Wilmott’s mother-in-law Phyllis Wilmott’s own struggles with Parkinson’s were getting worse. Wilmott and her husband, Kavin Wilmott, acted as caregivers, and Leymis Bolaños Wilmott wasn’t yet ready to lead the class.

Her mother-in-law died from complications of Parkinson’s in August 2011, and it wasn’t until a year later that Wilmott was ready.

Wilmott’s students socialize before the class begins, and many of the spouses of those with Parkinson’s disease also attend the class either drinking cups of coffee and chatting with each other, or participating. It’s a support system to both partners. It’s a class where students don’t force smiles and positive energy — it just happens naturally. They have fun with it. They encourage each other.

“She would have loved this program,” Wilmott says of her late mother-in-law.

“She loved to socialize and talk, and she liked to move.”

Phyllis Wilmott attended nearly every Fuzión Dance Artists performance. Toward the end, when she couldn’t even leave the house to go to the doctor, she still made it a point to attend the performances. Wilmott begins to cry when speaking about her mother-in-law’s strength.

Ultimately, she feels like she’s turning the energy from her loss into something

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Guests mingle at the Philip and Nancy Kotler Glass Collection, which runs through June, at The Ringling.

Glass exhibit opens

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Philip and Nancy Kotler and more than 150 guests attended the opening of the Philip and Nancy Kotler Glass Collection Nov. 18, at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. The 22-piece collection, featuring a broad range of colors, shapes, styles and artists, curated by Matthew McLendon, fills the Ulla R. Searing Wing.

The Kotlers have promised an additional 100-plus pieces and museum Executive Director Steven High suggests this is only a sampling of what’s to come.

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large instrumental ensemble so, whenever a young solo voice appeared, either the piano or a smaller instrumental group provided the accompanying orchestral parts. And Martins did fine work keeping it all together without ever overpowering the singers.

Chris van Alstyne’s imaginative set was brilliantly lit by Ken Yunker, with resourceful costumes by B.G. FitzGerald and inspired hair and makeup by Audrey Bernardin.

But it was Collins whose creativity won the day with an ingenious staging that gave each character a reason to be a real person and kept the audience enraptured throughout the entire production.

“The Little Sweep,” along with Collins’ visionary prologue, turned Britten’s opera into what could be called his Young People’s Guide to the Opera, a work that inspired those in the audience, as well as those on the stage.

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by Benjamin Britten, back this season after having performed it, to great acclaim, a few years ago. It returned for a couple of excellent reasons: First, 2013 is the centenary of Britten’s birth. Second, it’s an interesting piece with some great parts for young voices, and, with the cast of characters changing at the Youth Opera, it was particularly good as a showcase for some of the new young singers who are showing great potential.

Almost as interesting as the 100th birthday celebration of the illustrious composer was the way “The Little Sweep” was presented this time around. Martha Collins, the stage director, and Jesse Martins, the conductor and music director of the Sarasota Youth Opera, collaborated on a prologue to show the audience how an opera comes together. A little like Britten’s own “Let’s Make An Opera!” and a slight take on Mickey (Rooney) and Judy (Garland) putting together a show, this prologue began with the entire cast of kids, dressed in brightly colored T-shirts, milling around the stage, talking about what they and their mentors were planning as a performance.

Written by Collins with musical selections cleverly chosen by Martins, the witty dialogue was interspersed with choral selections, including arrangements of “Shenandoah,” Verdi’s “Lo Spazzacamino,” “Stomp Your Foot” from Copland’s opera, “The Tender Land” and “Goin’ to Boston.” An excerpt from Samuel Barber’s “Souvenirs” was used as traveling music to transport us to colder climates (Boston), where there are chimneys and, with those chimneys, little sweeps.

With that “Souvenir,” the choral risers vanished from the stage and a whole new set — walls, windows, fireplace, massive wardrobe,

Sarasota Youth Opera presents Benjamin Britten's “The Little Sweep.” children’s building blocks and an oversized rocking horse — was constructed right before our eyes, a little like the magical Christmas tree rising on the set of Balanchine’s version of “The Nutcracker.” Like magic, we were transported to 19th century Boston and inside a real-life opera.

Britten’s music isn’t easy, even when he’s writing for children. But musical kids have the ability to adapt their intelligence and ears much better than adults, so melodies and harmonies that could stump many a grownup singer poured easily out of the mouths of these babes.

Monica Gonzalez, the teenager who tackled the intricacies of Rowan, the nursery-maid the day we attended the performance, was particularly striking. In fact, she sang and acted so well, I had to check the program to be sure she was part of the Youth Opera and not an Apprentice Artist. Other youngsters

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who acquitted themselves well as singing actors that day included Natalie Almeter (Juliette), Katherine Powell (George), Skyler Stahlmann (Sophie), Sophia Masterson (Johnny), Grayson Almeter (Hughie) and Dominique Cecchetti (Tina).

Pablo Gonzalez, who took on the sophisticated part of the Little Sweep, Sam, rolled easily with the vocal range Britten wrote and deftly had us believing he was alternately frightened, brave and victorious.

The three parts given over to adults — Big Bob, the mean old sweep-master; Clem, his chip-off-the-mean-old-block son and assistant; and Miss Baggott, the grumpy, tyrannical housekeeper — were niftily performed by a trio of Sarasota Opera Apprentices: Constandinos Tsourakis, Jesse Malgieri and Samantha Weppelmann.

Britten was clever. He made sure the younger voices were never covered by a

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(Let’s just call them “The Middle Ages,” that sounds less depressing.) As fans of the 1975 film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” know, said epoch was a time of war, famine, pestilence and hilarity. Thanks to the Tony award-winning, 2005 musical adaptation, they can also be seen as a time of war, famine, pestilence, hilarity, song and dance.

Medieval historians note: The musical on the FST stage is a “loving rip-off” of the 1975 film, with uncredited looting from Sir Thomas Mallory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur.” The stage adaptation’s Arthurian authors are Eric Idle (a Monty Python alum) and his faithful musical collaborator, John Du Prez, (with additional material from Neil Innes of Bonzo

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“Monty Python’s Spamalot” runs through Jan. 11, at Florida Studio Theatre’s Gompertz Theatre. Call 366-9000 for more information. the songs? They’re hilarious. On many levels.

You could call this a musical for people who hate musicals. In fact, let’s do that. This is a musical for people who hate musicals.

“The Song that Goes Like This” throws a pie in Webber’s formulaic face. (As noted, there are pies for Fosse and “Fiddler,” too.)

“Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” (lovingly ripped-off from “Monty Python’s Life of Brian”) is a Bronx cheer for “Tomorrow,” “Keep Your Sunny Side Up” and every other dose of cheap optimism. The final showstopper — “Find Your Grail” — is a fish-slap to everyone’s face. (Everyone in the audience, that is. The last laugh is, in fact, on you.) The original movie ended by cheating you of an ending. (1975 U.K. cops arrest Arthur and Co.) But the musical gives you exactly the ending you want. A warm dose of emotional manipulation, nudge-nudge, wink-wink. I’d call it post-modern, but it’s actually funny, so let’s just call it excellent satire. A satiric slap at a by-the-numbers, feel-good ending, to be sure. But you still feel good.

If you feel like laughing yourself silly between occasional breaths, see this musical.

And, perhaps most importantly, find your grail.

— Marty Fugate

I first read Edwidge Danticat as a first-year New College student in the ’90s in a class called New World, New Stories: Women’s Voices in the Americas. That class is still one of the best I’ve ever taken. In it, we read and discussed Danticat’s first book, “Breath, Eyes, Memory,” a brutal, lyrical, coming-of-age story about the weight of the past on our lives.

Danticat has since become known as a literary master, particularly for the bridge she builds between Haiti and the U.S., guiding her readers on journeys back and forth: homeland and diaspora — and the physical waters in between.

“Claire of the Sea Light” rests firmly in Haiti though there are reminders of those who left to find different lives in Miami and elsewhere.

Peppered with Creole and peopled with wellrounded characters, the novel’s town, Ville Rose, serves as a seaside backdrop for a series of connected stories so expertly and delicately woven that it took me about a third of the novel to figure out what Danticat was doing.

The story is connected and bookended by the book’s title character, Claire Limyè Lanmè Faustin, a child whose mother died birthing her.

The novel opens on Claire’s seventh birthday, the night she disappears. Her father, a fisherman named Nozias, is poised to give her away to the local fabric vendor, Gaëlle (whose tragic story also figures prominently in the book) in his quest to ensure a better life for his daughter.

There is a timeless quality to this novel; we know it’s taking place in the not-too-distant past, but the presence of the ever-enchanting and enchanted sea — fishermen lost, attempted suicides, lighthouse beacons, magical fairytales, and livelihoods built around this sea — gives “Claire” a fabular quality that makes the characters’ lives seem epic against its mass.

In one passage, for instance, Nozias recalls the night he and his dead wife went fishing.

Despite the darkness, his wife jumps into the

water to swim in a pool of bioluminescence (haven’t we all tried that once or twice?). From the sparkling scene, part of Claire’s name is born: Limyè Lanmè, or Sea Light.

And sometimes the sea fills with longing, as when Claire imagines the mother she never knew: “Sometimes when she was lying on her back in the sea … while she was listening to both the world above and beneath the water, she yearned for the warm salty water to be her mother’s body, the waves her mother’s heartbeat, the sunlight the tunnel that guided her out the day her mother died.”

Finally, one of the most intriguing stories in the novel is that of Max Ardin Jr., a young man whose struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality leads him, as well, into the sea.

“Claire of the Sea Light” illuminates how intimately our individual stories are connected to a larger whole, how behind every interaction we have, every handshake, every nod, an ocean of untold stories awaits.

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Dog Doo-Dah Band fame). Director Bruce Jordan and choreographer Lori Leshner bring their medieval madness to life.

As the original movie mocked the filmed adventures of knights and men in tights (Arthur Robin Hood, Ivanhoe, et al.), so the stage adaptation skewers Broadway musical theater. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Bob Fosse get their share of comic arrows — even “Fiddler on the Roof.” Oy. In case you’ve never seen a late night rerun of “Excalibur,” the story concerns King Arthur’s quest for the Holy Grail with a quartet of dysfunctional knights (Danny Bernardy, Gil Brady, Jake Mills and Bruce Warren) whose key strategy is “Run Away!”

Arthur’s also aided by his longsuffering manservant Patsy (Kevin Loreque) and the Lady of the Lake (Priscilla Fernandez). This “scimitar-lobbing bint” was only referred to in the movie; she gets plenty of stage time in the musical — though, diva that she is, the Lady mourns that it isn’t enough.

On their quest, Arthur and Co. encounter God, a stuffy historian (Jacob Hoffman), an anarchist peasant, the Knights of Ni, French Knights, the Black Knight, a Trojan rabbit, a killer rabbit, Vegas showgirls, and a pining princeling. All of that may sound familiar. But it’s not as familiar as you might think …

As noted, the musical draws much of its mad material from the ripped-off film — but this isn’t a “Rocky Horror” situation where stage and screen versions are interchangeable. Where the movie turned left, the musical will often turn right. New characters emerge. Others are dropped. The musical is its own comic beast and works on its own terms, whether you’ve seen the film or not.

And boy does it work.

The curtain goes up, you start laughing — and then you don’t stop.

And why should you?

The ingredients are all there. Brilliant comic timing and choreography from Jordan and Leshner. Cockeyed comic acting from everyone involved. Clever costumes from Sarah Bertolozzi. Skewed set design from Jim Hunter (a winding path through a forest and a pop-up book medieval castle). As for

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THINGS LONGBOAT FOR LESS Longboat Key is famous for its showplace homes and apartments — and the prices that go with them. But look around. You’ll find a variety of homes that are affordably priced yet still retain a generous helping of that famous Longboat panache, where residents and visitors bask in a year-round, resort-style setting of beach, golf, and boating.

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605 SUTTON PLACE #301 Longboat’s signature look comes with a beautiful water view, and this apartment in Sutton Place has a particularly lovely vista of the bay, a pristine mangrove island, and the mainland off in the distance. Light and bright — it’s a third floor end unit — there are two bedrooms and two baths in 1,148 square feet. The complex, a mixture of villas and mid-rise buildings, was built in 1973 and has been very well maintained. Amenities include two heated pools, boat docks, and deeded beach access just across Gulf of Mexico Drive. The unit comes with one covered parking place. Pets are allowed.

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The surrounding area — Beer Can Island and Coquina Beach — are famous with the locals for weekend boating and beachgoing. This home, on a corner lot, was built in 1968 and features two bedrooms and two baths. There’s an open plan, Mexican tile floors, and a sunny, enclosed front porch. The Village itself is famous for its year-round vacation vibe and contains several well known restaurants (Mar Vista and Moore’s Stone Crab.) Downtown Sarasota is just 30 minutes away.

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ere’s a tidbite that’s as irresistible as a song. A group of Sarasota restaurants is donating part of what we spend on their food to Make-AWish Foundation of Central of Northern and Central Florida, Sarasota region. Calling it “Dishes for Wishes,” MacAllisters, The Lobster Pot, Madfish Grill, The Table, Ophelia’s on the Bay, The Grasshopper and several other excellent local restaurants have each cooked up clever ways to give money to Make-A-Wish in the next several weeks. For example, Ophelia’s, the beautiful restaurant on the bay near the south tip of Siesta, will host a “Give Back Night” Monday, Dec. 16, donating a portion of the proceeds from that evening’s sales. Madfish has a different idea.

It has come up with a gift card giveback and, for every gift card sold through the holiday season, Madfish will donate $1 to Make-A-Wish. The Lobster Pot in Siesta Village, which has some of this town’s most luscious lobster bisque, by the way, is selling “stars” for $1 throughout the holiday season. MacAllisters Grill on Main Street Lakewood Ranch has devised a signature dish it’s calling “Scotch and Salmon Delight” and,

from every order, the restaurant will donate $2 to Make-A-Wish.

(Maybe they should call this one “Make a Fish.” Or not … ) And The Table, which is about to reinstate its Sunday brunch (see right for more information), will donate a portion of every patron’s brunch check Dec. 8.

Every year, some 27,000 children are diagnosed with a medical condition that makes them eligible for a wish experience. Last year, the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted the wishes of nearly 14,000 kids.

Those wishes have included everything from one child’s desire to “meet a real ballerina” to a trip to Paris. Allen, a 17-year-old with leukemia, said he wanted to design cars, so MakeA-Wish helped him and he presented that car to GM. Four-year-old Lauren, who had cancer, had only one wish: to give back comfort and hope to others, so, with the help of Make-A-Wish, she made and gave away a cozy bunny blanket.

Our local restaurants’ Dishes for Wishes benefits everyone. We eat beautifully, and part of the money we spend goes to make children’s wishes come true. Definitely a winwin situation.

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ast year, The Table Creekside initiated one of the best brunches anyplace, anywhere.

We missed it this past summer when the charming restaurant with great views and even greater food decided to forgo brunch and stick with dinners. But now, back by popular demand, is Sunday brunch. Starting Dec. 1, we can sit inside or out, hovering over historic, idyllic, peaceful Phillippi Creek, and enjoy the stuffed French toast panini we drooled over last season and attempt to choose among the six different variations on a theme of eggs Benedict. Or have them all because, this year, Chef Pedro is

introducing an intercontinental buffet that will do amazing things for your waistline. Trust me. Amazing.

For us, the incredible part of Sunday brunch at The Table is the combination of great service, magnificent views and the enormous variety of tempting dishes Chef Pedro manages to invent, all at reasonable prices. They tell us we could eat Sunday brunch at The Table Creekside every Sunday, all season, and never eat the same thing twice. You do need reservations because last year’s brunches gained The Table a reputation among Sarasota’s brunch-offoodies.

You’ve been reading in The Observer about the new rooftop lounge service that recently opened at Eat Here. Where is here? It’s on Main Street, downtown Sarasota. Well, now Eat Here is serving lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. every Monday through Friday, and Sean Murphy, the heart and soul of Eat Here, is giving you a choice of eating inside at traditional or community tables (a great way to make new friends), on the covered deck or in the park patio around the fountain.

Wherever you choose to sit, though, the menu is perfect for lunch. From the double burger to the fish tacos, this is great food — comforting, fun and fabulous. If you’re one of those who likes to eat lightly for lunch but can’t stand wasting food, Eat Here has a clever doggie bag.

The “Keen Wa” (aka quinoa) salad is served in a Mason jar. So, if you can’t finish your portion, just take it home, complete with the reusable jar. Do that often enough, and you’ll have a whole set for your homemade jams and jellies to give as Christmas and New Year’s presents.

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by Heather Merriman Black Tie Assistant Editor When more than 300 guests arrived for Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota County’s Dream Makers Ball Saturday, Nov. 16, at Hyatt Regency Sarasota, they were led to a wooden door where club kids required them to knock three times before allowing them to enter. After being shuffled through the “underground” entrance and greeted with a flowing tower of champagne, the guests had entered the 2013 Dream

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Guests were dripping in pearls and feathers and the casino was bursting with excitement as guests played for keeps and BuzzCatz kept the Roaring ’20s feel going all night with its live swing-style music.

The event, which raised more than $240,000 for scholarships for kids to attend a Boys & Girls Club in Sarasota County, featured many live auction items, including a trip to Menaggio, Italy (that went for $8,000) and two vacations

to Sun Valley (that went for $5,600 each). Guests also went home with a wonderful gift as a thank you — Armel Jewelers provided silver cuff links customized with the BGC logo and T. Georgiano’s provided vintage-style compact mirrors and silver charms.

During the program, Mack Reid presented the 2013 Dream Makers Award, which honored the late Glen Rey and his family for their long-time support. Also in attendance was Whitney Stewart, 2013 Youth of the Year.

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Smith, a staple in couture fashion, has an impressive background. The designer, who interned with Hermès in Paris, Louis Vuitton, Torrente and Christian Dior Haute Couture, launched her line in 2001. The MILLY Collection is sold at stores worldwide, including Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Saks and The Met, which brought the designer and collection to town to be a part of the pop-up boutique at the event.

At the event, women were given the ultimate experience — shopping a designer collection with the designer present. Smith provided fashion advice and suggestions for her collection to clients, and BT got to talk with her about this season’s fashions. She pointed out some of her favorite pieces, including the leather detail jumper, which features a French couture, geometric, jacquard pattern with leather details at the armholes and waist. She says one item to add to any outfit in the transition from fall to winter is the lace coat. The black long-sleeve coat, crafted in embroidery tulle will “instantly elevate any outfit,” Smith says. She keeps one in her office for that exact reason — when she has to run to something more formal after a day of working at the office. Smith also says that cocktail coats and fur vests are a must-have this season.

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Co-Chair Nikki Taylor was absent after recently welcoming baby girl Ella. Seen mingling at Northern Trust was Mary Lou Winnick, Flora Major and Deb Knowles … Polo Under the Palms, which takes place March 8, kicked off Nov. 21, at The Center for Building Hope, one of the event’s beneficiaries. CoChairs Jamie and Mary Uihlein and James and Christie Uihlein hosted a serene evening, complete with a three-course dinner by Chef Jeremy Hammond-Chambers. And, finally, car enthusiasts and sponsors gathered Nov. 21 at Lamborghini Sarasota for the Sarasota Exotic Car Fest kickoff party.

Gary and Marilee Roberts (left) are co-chairing the “Gatsby” themed events, which will run Feb. 21 to Feb. 23 and benefit United Cerebral Palsy of Southwest Florida. Guests at the party also got to be a part of the unveiling of the Lamborghini Aventador — one of only 100 built ... Moving on up … Charlie Ann Syprett has joined the Sarasota Film Festival as its director of development, for which she will be focusing on new projects and collaborations. This year’s festival will take place April 4 to April 13.

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