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+ Reading rainbow Students at Haile Middle School raised more than $6,000 to further the cause of reading late last month, after the school’s language arts department hosted a fundraiser for the Ethiopia Reads! organization.

Starbucks provided tea and coffee for students, while Smoothie King provided smoothies and Woodland Community Church popped popcorn.

Haile students hoped to raise $1,200 to provide books to children in Ethiopia.

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+ Gift giver For Lakewood Ranch resident Doreen Degirolamo, the best Christmas gift was one she already had at home.

Just before Christmas, Doreen lost her balance and fell, breaking her favorite bird statue. Much to her surprise, her husband, Pat, found a way to fix it.

“In this holiday season of spending on gifts with money we don’t have just to give someone something, this gift will last forever in my home and in my heart,” Degirolamo says.

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+ Tail tappin’ If Lakewood Ranch resident Helen Hagerty had a tail, it would be wagging.

Her book, “Please Let Me Stay,” a true story told through the voice of a dog named Toby, has been named a finalist for the Maxwell Medallion, an honor the Dog Writers Association of America gives annually.

Hagerty co-authored the book with Sue Nelowet, of Virginia.

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TRAFFIC AT THE MALL AT UTC

Sarasota County’s Interim isting, unused bus stop next to Transportation Director Jona- Pier One Imports, in the Shoppes than Paul sees something new at University Town Center, farther for the place where Sarasota and north.

Trolley service throughout Manatee counties merge — a place soon to become a regional Benderson’s shopping plazas and hub for retail, entertainment and the mall will connect with the bus sports: the interchange of Univer- routes, as well, so patrons can either bus to the area and use the sity Parkway and Interstate 75.

There, Paul stands with traffic trolley to travel from plaza to plawhizzing by, signals turning from za, or park once and do the same.

“You can come, and rather green to yellow to red, and horns honking to encourage the move- than drive up Cooper Creek or to Kohl’s, you can circulate on those ment of traffic.

As Benderson Development trolley systems,” Mathes said. and Taubman Centers complete “(We will) scale up (that service) an 880,000-square-foot, high-end as ridership increases.

“There’s a lot of stuff in the shopping destination, the Mall at University Town Center, at the pipeline that will emerge within intersection’s southeast corner, the next six, eight and 10 months Paul and local government of- that we think will manage traffic,” ficials, county and state plan- he said.

Jim Daisa, senior project manners and consultants are pooling their time and talent to ensure ager for Kimley-Horn and a consultant for the Unithe mall’s opening Pam Eubanks versity Town Center — and future resiSarasota County Interim Transportation Director Jonathan Paul says local officials from both Sarasota and project, is tasked Manatee counties are working to resolve traffic issues surrounding the Mall at University Town Center. dential development OVERVIEW: Lowith persuading the — not only has minical officials are public to use public the end of their contract (will be best options? You revisit what’s on provements to the intersection to mal impacts on trafworking with the transit. fic, but also fosters the books (in terms of develop- I-75 and University Parkway to worth it).”

FDOT to improve In New York and a new way of thinkDaisa also said the association ment mitigation requirements) accommodate growth in the area. the intersection of more urban areas, will monitor the traffic every year, and what’s in place and what’s FDOT and county engineers and ing for Manatee and residents are ac- conduct surveys of programs of- promised and analyze options for planners are still hammering out University Parkway Sarasota county resicustomed to taking fered and make modifications ac- flow of traffic.” dents. and Interstate 75. details of the proposal, which insubways and buses cordingly.

In short, they see Officials also hope to Hutchinson also said making clude a diverging-diamond-style to and from work. the mall, and the expand transit in the “There’s a real commitment on sure traffic signals are correctly interchange.

Daisa is confident a Benderson’s part to do this and timed — particularly at UniversiUniversity Parkway University Parkway FDOT spokeswoman Robin similar transporta- make it work,” Daisa said. “They ty’s intersection’s with Cattlemen Stublen said the diverging-diacorridor surroundcorridor to alleviate tion philosophy can don’t want opening day (for the Road and Market Street — will be mond interchange will fail if the ing it, as a destinatraffic congestion be developed here. tion that can make mall to occur) and have (traffic critical to smooth traffic flow. counties do not make improveassociated with the Daisa said Bend- problems.)” public transit a prePaul says another key to miti- ments to the intersections of Unimall. erson proposes the ferred mode of transManatee and Sarasota counties gating traffic will be better uti- versity Parkway and Cattlemen PLAYERS: Sarasota creation of a trans- are committed to finding solu- lizing existing roadways. The Road to the west and University portation in the area. and Manatee County portation manage- tions, as well.

“We are planning Cattlemen Road extension, which Parkway and Market Street to the officials, Florida Dement association — for getting comMembers of the Sarasota/Man- essentially connects Fruitville east. partment of Transa group with a board atee Metropolitan Planning Or- Road in the south to University munity residents “The interchange, on its own, portation and the of directors made up ganization, a regional transpor- Parkway to the north, is under cannot manage traffic generated around and increasManatee-Sarasota of major tenants and tation-planning agency, passed utilized, carrying only about 10% from unlimited development,” ing access to busiMetropolitan Planstakeholders, such as a motion in late December to of the traffic of which it’s capable. Stublen said. “Without improvenesses within that ning Organization Macy’s and Bender- ask the FDOT to study the entire northeast portion Additionally, the malls’ hours ments to these intersections on son — that will fos- I-75/University Parkway corridor and peak traffic times will trans- local roads, the new interchange of the county,” Paul TIMELINE: Ongoing; ter the concept. For holistically, to better meet future late into having little impact on will fail.” said. mall opens Oct. 16, example, businesses transportation needs. Boundar- rush-hour traffic. The mall opens Todd Mathes, diThe FDOT does not have any 2014. may offer employ- ies for the study would run from at 10 a.m., compared with peak money earmarked for the divergrector of developees cash incentives Linger Lodge Road to the north, traffic times between 8 and 9 a.m., ing-diamond interchange until ment for Benderson for riding the bus to to 17th Street in the south, Lake- and its busiest daytime hours are after 2021. Although officials from Development, which work or carpooling. also owns a string of shopwood Ranch Boulevard to the east late in the afternoon, late in the multiple agencies are working to “We’re trying to think of things and Honore Avenue to the west, evening and on weekends. ping centers along University see the project advance, work Parkway, said Benderson, in coor- more innovatively; if you com- said David Hutchinson, planning “The takeaway is we are coor- on the project will not start until dination with both counties, has mit to carpooling or transit (or manager for the MPO. dinating with the DOT, develop- after Sarasota County hosts the a long-term plan for increasing another alternative), maybe you “Alternatives analysis means ments in the area and Manatee 2017 World Rowing Championtransit options for customers and get a membership to the gym, on- looking at all the options — County and trying to come up ships, at Nathan Benderson Park, site day care for a big discount or bus, bicycle/pedestrian trails, with some holistic plans,” Paul just south of University Parkway employees coming to the area.

Benderson already has com- meal tickets for the mall,” Daisa road network improvements,” said. Additionally, FDOT is work- off Cattlemen Road, Stublen said. mitted to providing stops for said. “Hopefully, that incentive, at Hutchinson said. “What are the ing on longer-range plans for im— Pam Eubanks both Sarasota and Manatee Area Transits at the southeast corner “The takeaway is we are coordinating with the DOT, developments in the area and Manatee County and trying to come up of the roundabout at DeSoto and with some holistic plans in place.We’re planning for getting community residents around and increasing access to busiCattlemen roads, and has an ex-

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MANATEE SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET EAST COUNTY — It was Friday the 13th, in December, and Rick Mills, sporting a pink dress shirt with the top button undone and a black sport coat, crashed a holiday lunch his finance staff was holding.

Within a month before this festive gathering, the Manatee County School District had received two State Auditor General’s Office reports revealing the district could spend more than $9 million to recover from major financial errors past leadership had made.

“I appreciate the work each and every one of you are doing during this difficult time,” Mills, the district’s superintendent since March, told his team. “I’m here to say I believe in the team, and I believe in this district, and we’re still on track to make it one of the best school districts in Florida.

Happy holidays.”

Mills promptly took the elevator to his upstairs office, where he and two top aides squished onto two couches.

Even as their task becomes more challenging by the day, the leaders — Mills and his deputy superintendents, Don Hall and Diana Greene — vow to keep the district afloat.

“I don’t regret taking this job at all,” Mills said. “There were times during the last budget process when the three of us worked 80-hour weeks. That’s what the job required. When we find a challenge, we handle it.”

Mills has conceded he may have to persuade the state to permit a deferred payment plan to meet required reserves — or extra cash on hand to use in its operating budget.

Mills’ financial recovery plan, which the Florida Department of Education approved in June, promised to restore a required 3% fund balance — $10.3 million — by June 30, 2014.

The plan helped the district avoid state turnover, which was possible because the district has not met state-mandated reserves in three years.

“We are going to ask for forgiveness of certain areas or payments in future years,” Mills said. “We want to show the state the control systems we have now. We have a set plan that we plan to follow and monitor.”

Through a series of action plans presented to the state, Mills says the district can reduce the more than $9 million in extra costs — required by audits that exposed a series of mistakes caused by poor recordkeeping and misused spending.

Those unexpected costs, combined with another $3.9 million in costs the district failed to account for last fall, show that plans change.

Mills believes he can reduce the costs because he says the district has addressed some of the state’s concerns already; the external audit accounting firm Mauldin & Jenkins conducted in the spring confirmed

“I told my team that we can make mistakes — if it’s an honest error — but we can never have a repeat finding. We learn.”

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A team to lead a new way

Creating buy-in

The goals haven’t changed beWhen he interviewed for his cause Mills believes he has as- position, Mills made promises sembled a steady, related to overcomcapable team. ing the Navigant reHall, the deputy port’s findings. superintendent of He believed a OVERVIEW: Superinoperations, came lack of transparency tendent Rick Mills here with Mills from meant the district hopes a competent Minneapolis Public had lost the trust of team, stronger Schools. the community. controls and comGreene, the deputy He tries to emmunity support help superintendent of inpower the public. the district right its struction, competed The district began budget. against Mills for the the budget process top job in the disfor 2014-15 in OcPLAYERS: Rick Mills, trict. Mills hired her a tober, nearly a year Don Hall and Diana month later. before the docuGreene Mills created new ment would be apTIMELINES: October budget and finance proved.

2013 — The school director positions.

Ad m i n i s t ra t o r s district began the He also hired an will use results from budget process for executive director surveys adminis2014-15; Decemof human resources tered to parents late ber 2013 — The and recreated the last year to set goals State Auditor Gendistrict’s organizafor the district’s fiveeral’s Office released tional chart. year strategic plan, a two-part report “We have the right which will span 2014 unveiling more people in the right through 2019. costs to the district; seats,” Mills said.

The strategic plan March 2014 — the “The new team has — to be published in district’s five-year uncovered the maMarch — will guide strategic plan will be jority of the chalhow the district published. lenges we have. I feel funds its budget. good most of it is beFor three days in hind us.”

December, princiAnother audit, this one pals, teachers, community conducted by Navigant and members, students and adreleased in January 2013, investi- ministrators participated in a gated a $3.4 million budget defi- strategic-planning conference cit from 2011-12 that preceded at Manatee Technical Institute, the resignation of former Super- where survey results were reintendent Tim McGonegal. vealed and discussed.

It cited the district for slow re“There was lots of concern

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about the budget,” Mills said. “It was constructive feedback.”

Transparency translates among the school district staff, as well.

The talk is not always what people want to hear.

“If a principal wants a new staff member and it’s not already budgeted for, the answer is no,” Hall said. “If a employee is leaving, it’s a two-step review process. Can you combine classes? Can you redistribute the students?”

Position control, payroll encumbrances and requisition have been built back into the budget process.

The encumbrance system only gives administrators access to available money. If the money isn’t there, it won’t allow the expenditure — a new hire, for example.

Regaining control

Even with controls in place, a school district budget is a working document that depends on federal and state funds that are tough to project, Hall said.

“There are so many unknowns in building a budget,” Hall said.

“You’re preparing it around all of these projections. But you can respond faster to change if you have accurate data. Now we have accurate data. Now we can make educated estimations.”

Mills says the district has relaunched a student information system that tracks how schools manage attendance and demographics and give grades.

The system determines state funding for full-time equivalent (FTE) counts.

Mills and his staff determined, in the past, that system was used at 25% to 30% of its capacity and produced 27,000 errors.

The district worked with each

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Manatee County Schools Superintendent Rick Mills believes changes in process, among other measures, will fix the district’s budget woes. principal to correct those errors, and it has reduced the mistakes to 90, an improvement that will give the district an extra $2 million.

Mills believes the district can attain other savings by simply following protocol that was neglected in the past.

For example, under the Medicaid system, school districts can bill back a portion of costs to the federal government for district

activities such as bus transportation for exceptional student education (ESE) students and remediation.

Mills will likely encounter more challenges — but he and his team have learned from past mistakes.

“I told my team that we can make mistakes — if it’s an honest error — but we can never have a repeat finding. We learn,” he said.

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many of the problems the state would soon find.

“My goal going in was to balance the budget, which we have, and restore the fund balance,” Mills said. “That hasn’t changed.”

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SPORTS TOURISM EAST COUNTY — First you cre- Lakewood Ranch has closely folate the venues, then you win the lowed the equation’s steps.

It’s obvious during a two-week bids.

Next comes buy-in and, then stretch in December, as Tim Mulqueen, Premier’s — hopefully — sucdirector of sports, cessful performances sits behind the that spur year-round OVERVIEW: Sarasota wheel of a stationvisitation and a steady and Manatee counties, ary golf cart — his stream of economic private businesses and perch to watch amdollars. volunteers continue ateur athletes from On its journey to beto pool resources to Portugal, England come an internationensure forthcoming and Brazil play socal sports haven, the international sports cer on his fields.

Sarasota-Bradenton events run smoothly.

Mulqueen, who area has completed the worked for U.S. most difficult steps — PLAYERS: Paul BlackSoccer from 2005 to the first two. ketter, Nicole Rissler, 2011 and coached Now, it’s game time.

Elliott Falcione, Tim major league soc“Both counties and Mulqueen cer before comprivate business such TIMELINE: Pentathlon ing here, used his as Schroeder-ManaWorld Cup Finals at strong ties to help tee Ranch (Lakewood Nathan Benderson Premier land the Ranch’s developer) and Park and Sarasota Nike International Benderson DevelopYMCA’s Selby Acquatic Friendlies tournament have invested in Center in June; Interment — the U.S. world-class facilities,” national Breast Cancer Soccer Federation’s said Nicole Rissler, the Paddlers Commission’s biggest youth event sports director of the Dragon Boat Festival — for the last three Sarasota County Sports at Nathan Benderyears.

Commission, a divison Park Oct. 24 to Nike just signed sion of Visit Sarasota.

Oct. 26; and Nike on to hold its event “We’ve gone after interInternational Friendat Premier for annational-caliber chamlies tournament Dec. other three years pionships, and we’ve 8 through Dec. 16 after 2014. gotten them. We have (tentative) at Premier The 2012 toura responsibility now to Sports Campus nament attracted fill those facilities with 6,000 players and spectators and excite15,000 fans who ment to create longbrought $11.3 million of lasting economic value.” economic impact to the region.

Mulqueen expects better numPremier venue The Premier Sports Campus at bers this year.

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Athletes from sports as varied as lacrosse, Irish hurling, ultimate Frisbee and rugby come to Premier to play on 108 acres of fields.

Using Mulqueen’s connections as a starter, Premier’s strategic plan called for it to attract marquee events often and quickly, because it knew — once athletes played their best soccer on these fields — Lakewood Ranch would soon become the talk of the soccer community.

To take the next step, Premier must expand its facilities to include bathrooms and locker rooms, staff offices and concession stands.

“We won’t build what people don’t want,” Mulqueen said. “After three years, we have a good idea of what this place will look like in the future.”

Premier changed the flow of its parking lot — an unpaved, rocky area near the fields — to better accommodate out-of-town visitors.

It installed lights at eight of its 22 fields, so sports can be played at night. Premier learned it can keep its fields green by spreading rye seed, and, last year, it began doing so two weeks earlier than it had before.

“The hard part is over,” Mulqueen said. “We have established ourselves as an international destination. Next, we have to make it better.”

Premier also has taken steps to include the community.

In December, the East County franchise of i9 Sports partnered

Photos by Josh Siegel

Tim Mulqueen, director of sports for Premier Sports Campus in Lakewood Ranch, believes exposure to the best athletes — including soccer players who came to East County for the 2013 Nike International Friendlies Tournament — will help the facility grow quickly. with Premier to move its sports leagues there.

Already, Tim Howard, the U.S. National team goalkeeper, runs a goalie camp at Premier during the summer.

Brian McBride, Howard’s former teammate, will add a camp for forwards to Premier’s offerings.

In the age of the next big thing, Mulqueen expects more.

“We can’t sit back and say, ‘We’ve done it,’” Mulqueen said.

“People are smart and will try to copy our model.”

Collaboration pays

Paul Blackketter, president of the Suncoast Aquatic Nature Center Associates (SANCA), which operates the Nathan Benderson Park rowing center, spearheaded the decision to make the facility the best.

Thirty million dollars in taxpayer money went into the park’s construction, including $1.5 million from Manatee County, $19.5

Nicole Rissler, the sports director of the Sarasota County Sports Commission, a division of Visit Sarasota, says the region has a responsibility to fill its top-notch facilities with athletes and spectators to bring a return on investment. million from Sarasota County and $10 million from the state.

Officials estimate the 10-day 2017 World Rowing Championships — the sport’s biggest competition outside of the Olympics — to be held at the park, will attract more than 42,000 people

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and 1,500 athletes to Sarasota and Manatee In advance of the World Rowing Champicounties and have a regional economic im- onships, Nathan Benderson Park will host pact of $25 million. another world event — the International The investment represents a partnership Breast Cancer Paddlers Commission’s between taxpayers and Dragon Boat Festival — in Benderson Development, a 2014.

BY THE NUMBERS Manatee County-based deThe venue will also velopment company. host the World Cup finals MANATEE COUNTY Elliott Falcione, direcfor modern pentathlon For 2013, Manatee tor of the Manatee County in June, the first of four County sporting events/ Convention and Visitors events in the sport that tournament generated an Bureau, says such collabowill come here the next estimated 54,200 overnight ration must continue in three years. visitors staying in commerthe years before the World cial lodgings in the area.

Rowing Championships to Challenges await This represents a 23.2% ensure it lives up to the inOn the challenges side, increase from the 2011 vestment.

Rissler and Falcione say level.

His organization — in the region needs more In 2013, visitors spendconjunction with Visit Saraing generated $78 million hotel rooms. Other chalof economic impact for the sota — is working to receive lenges include providing region, a 30.0% increase approval for a banner proforeigners with translacompared with 2011. gram to better showcase tors, diverse food opand market events. tions, visa services and SARASOTA COUNTY Banners advertising security.

For fiscal year 2013, events and welcoming athRissler says her organisporting events/tournaletes would be plastered zation is working with the ments generated $71 milto light poles and at rights Department of Homelion of economic impact, of way, especially near the land Security to secure with 67,519 hotel rooms Sarasota-Bradenton Intermore global events. booked.* national Airport.

Rissler will visit six ma*For events sponsored by Visit Falcione hopes the projor trade shows in fiscal Sarasota and the Sarasota Sports gram comes online in four year 2014 to continue to Commission to six months, pending market Sarasota-Bradenreview by commissioners ton as the place where from both counties. sport comes to play.

“When you have people from all over the “The minute we become complacent, world coming here, you need to focus on we stop climbing that ladder,” Rissler said. customer service,” Falcione said.

“We would never have the budget to get He says Manatee County is continuing to the word out the international marketing improve its technology, including mobile way. With events, we can spread the name apps meant to allow visitors to explore the and the brand through participation. If area when they’re here. you come here and experience it, you later He even envisions collaboration between come back and buy a house or start a famthe banner program and the apps, so visi- ily. That’s where you get into the economic tors could learn about nearby restaurants development piece of this.” and hotels.

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HOW WE WILL GROW EAST COUNTY — Manatee “If a neighborhood wants sideCounty leaders are setting a new walks and streetlights, we put in vision for growth. sidewalks and streetIn October, the lights,” Hunzeker Manatee County said. “We set a plan OVERVIEW: Manatee Board of County to do that and share County CommissionCommissioners enthe costs with homeers have endorsed a dorsed a blend of owners. These would plan for growth. Now, two options from be more aesthetic through a funding the county’s “How changes.” plan and changes to Will We Grow” plan, The county had its codes, Manatee which provides altera similar program County must implenative strategies for in place during ment the plans with Manatee County’s the 1990s, but on a input from community. future growth. smaller scale than PLAYERS: John OsIn 2014, individual what Hunzeker enviborne, Ed Hunzeker neighborhoods can sions now. and Vanessa Baugh communicate their In the next few TIMELINE: October visions for their spemonths, Hunzeker 2013 — Manatee cific community to will present a fundCounty commissioners the county. ing plan related to endorsed a blend of Ed Hunzeker, How Will We Grow options two and three county administraand the neighborfrom the “How Will tor, said the county hood grant program.

We Grow” plan; Jan. is working on unveilHe said he would not 31, 2014 — deadline ing a neighborhood be opposed to recfor public comment to grant program, in ommending comfirst phase changes of which county staff missioners assume the Manatee County would meet with debt to fund the Land Development homeowners from a plans.

Code; first quarter 2014 — Ed Hunzeker, specific community “This is your Manatee County adand listen to their n e i g h b o r h o o d ,” ministrator, will come wishes.

Hunzeker said. to commissioners with The county would “What do you want a list of potential ideas share the cost of deto do with it?” related to “How Will velopment with the We Grow.” neighborhood.

The old way Neighborhood Hunzeker and Osgrants would go toborne believe the ward improvements related county needs to rethink despecifically to recommendations velopment. made from the Urban Land Insti“Density makes things haptute, in a report it issued in March pen,” Hunzeker said. that evaluated How Will We Grow.

Zoning and Planning official John Osborne, whom Hunzeker selected to lead How Will We “This is your neighborsays density creates effihood. What do you want to Grow, ciency. do with it?” — Ed Hunzeker “We have to do a better job of

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Tasked with charting growth for Manatee County, John Osborne, an East County resident who developed the How Will We Grow plan over two years, believes opportunity for efficiencies should drive growth.

density never has a place in Manatee County. Part of the conversation is to determine where the right places are.”

Choices by many

The community, in conjunction with commissioners, will help determine how its county looks.

Hunzeker says, in the first quarter of this year, he will come to commissioners with a list of potential ideas related to How Will We Grow.

Vanessa Baugh, District 5 commissioner, believes opening the conversation to the public allows for opportunity, “It’s wonderful to give neighborhoods a choice,” Baugh said.

“A lot of people have come to me and said they want their medians to look like Lakewood Ranch. I tell them, ‘People pay for that beauty’ (with community development district assessments). Maybe certain neighborhoods want to have a CDD. We can help facilitate that.”

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efficiently managing our existing infrastructure instead of building and widening new roads,” Osborne said. “The county is like any other business. With infrastructure, you need a certain amount of customers per linear square foot, otherwise you are operating in the red.”

For the last decade, Manatee County officials have shied away from high-density projects in unincorporated areas, enacting a “low rise — low density” development philosophy.

But commissioners now realize staying that course does not provide the best answer to a central question of How Will We Grow.

That is: How can the county best ensure growth pays for the infrastructure improvements — water, sewer and other services — that come along with it?

To allow the growth proposed in How Will We Grow, county staff aims to revise its codes.

The first phase of revisions to the Manatee County LDC — a document written in 1989 — were revealed in November.

These changes, posted to the county website for public comment through the end of January, are largely superficial.

They change verbage and organization and make the LDC document easier to navigate and implement.

But, taken together with second-phase changes — revisions to be presented later this year to incorporate How Will We Grow — the new code will set a path to a modern-day Manatee County.

“We need to take the handcuffs off our codes,” Osborne said. “The codes need to allow for mixed uses. All of this is not to say low

EAST COUNTY — For nearly a investors to snatch homes off the year, Michael Saunders & Co. Bro- market in the coming year, which ker/Associate Antaeus Balevre has will leave more inventory available from which priset aside time daily to mary homebuyers find the perfect home can choose. for a Punta Gorda “Investors are couple. shifting to other “They started off markets,” said Pelooking for homes ter Crowley, the in gated commu2014 president of nities in Lakewood Sarasota AssociaRanch, but we tion of Realtors. couldn’t find anyOVERVIEW: Investors “That’s not to say thing,” Balevre said. moving to other marthey aren’t still here, “We started looking but I don’t think kets, leaving more for homes in gated they’ll be as preoptions for primary communities near dominant in 2014.” the University Park homebuyers, and Trends also show area, but couldn’t the construction of home prices will find anything they additional homes continue to rise. were looking for, still. in East County, has A Sarasota AssoNow, they’re just real estate profesciation of Realtors looking for a two- or sionals optimistic for report cites prices of three-bedroom home a 2014 with more single-family homes anywhere in this options at reasonwere up 20.6% year area.” able prices. to date as of NoConsumers strugTIMELINE: 2014 vember. The average gled to find reasonprice jumped from ably priced homes $155,000 in Novemthat matched their ber 2012 to $187,000 in Nocriteria in 2013, Balevre said.

In 2014, however, things may be vember 2013 — a trend real estate authorities agree will continue in different.

Realtors say they expect fewer 2014.

“It (higher home sale numbers) all depends on product diversification and what we have to offer,” — Alan Anderson, executive vice president for Manatee-Sarasota Building Industry Association

In Lakewood Ranch, prices were up 7.9% from 2012, and continue to climb, said Jimmy Stewart, vice president of sales for Lakewood Ranch Communities.

Home inventory also is on the rise.

As of Nov. 30, the supply of homes in Sarasota County’s inventory was 5.4 months’ worth for single-family homes and six months for condos — up from 4.8 months in 2012. The time frame reflects how long it would take to sell every home on the market now at the current sales rates.

For prospective buyers who aren’t impressed with resale options, constructing a new home is becoming a more appealing option, as well.

New homes account for 56.3% of all homes sold in the Lakewood Ranch market currently.

“It’s a handsome alternative, getting what you want, the way you want it — the warranties and amenities,” said Alan Anderson, executive vice president for Manatee-Sarasota Building Industry Association. “All those things go along with a new home over an existing one. The builder has the opportunity to customize homes to their customers’ needs. Sometimes selections may be limited, but that’s better than going into someone’s old home to change what they have done.”

Buyer demographics

Like last year, buyers still consist predominantly of families and baby boomer retirees, seeking to either upgrade or down-

grade from the home they currently have.

Retirees are leaving their singlefamily homes behind and flocking to the condominium option to avoid performing maintenance on their own home, Balevre said.

Floor plans with master bedrooms on the bottom floor, so residents can avoid going up stairs to get to their bedrooms, is another perk, Balevre said.

Activity-based communities, ones with amenities such as golf courses and tennis courts, also are popular.

“People are buying for the neighborhood first and the home second now,” Anderson said.

Shortsales, situations in which the seller accepts a lower offer for his home than what is still owed on the mortgage, may not generate as high of sales numbers this year, however.

If the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act is not renewed, homeowners who sell property in a short sale will start paying taxes on the difference between the amount still owed and the sale price.

The act expired Jan. 1, and legislators will discuss it when they return from holiday break this week.

Real estate professionals anticipate 2014 will see growth in terms of both the number and diversity of homes on the market.

“It (higher home sale numbers) all depends on product diversification and what we have to offer,” Anderson said.

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INDIGENT CARE

EAST COUNTY — Manatee Manatee County Administrator County officials and local health Ed Hunzeker said. “It is not a poor care professionals agree there is people problem.” no easy solution as they brace for a potential health Finding solutions care crisis.

A study into the A health care trust region’s health care fund that provided industry proposes ISSUE: A county trust about $9 million antwo goals: to improve fund that provides nually for medical access to primary medical and mental and mental care to care through a new health care to the people in need will be delivery model and needy will be depleted depleted in 2015. to build communityin 2015.

Manatee commisbased interventions.

PLAYERS: Ed Hunzesioners have allocat“It’s about prevenker, Vanessa Baugh, ed about $14 million tion and wellness Adell Erozer, Jennifer a year from property and access to care,” Bencie tax collections for said Dr. Jennifer Bensimilar needs, in adTIMELINE: Balance cie, chairwoman of dition to that $9 milthe Manatee County of indigent-care lion.

Health Care Alliance, trust fund: 2010= In 2014, commisa nonprofit that as$40,892,168; sioners will decide sisted with the study.

Projected 2013= whether to continue “People who keep $16,578,632; funding the $9 milcoming back to the Projected 2015= lion via another emergency room ($2,203,466) source, such as highbecause they can’t OVERVIEW: Local er taxes; cut other afford follow-up care nonprofits seek to parts of the budget; and medication is expand their offerings or discontinue the $9 expensive. It’s too to compensate for the million funding and early to say what will potential depletion of let other sources and happen without the the trust fund. providers fill the gap. trust fund. But we are “This is an overall being as proactive as health care problem,” possible.”

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The Health Care Alliance meets quarterly to improve its preventive-care offerings. At its next meeting, in January, Bencie says the group will consider a series of pilot programs intended to decrease the cost of care.

One idea is to work with specially trained EMS employees who could deliver primary care to people at their homes. The EMS employee would act as a case manager who visits patients regularly to ensure they are taking their medication or to measure their blood sugar levels, for example.

Other alliance initiatives include consulting on instituting worksite wellness programs and emphasizing technology, such as clinically integrated data systems that would allow people’s health status to be tracked from home and sent to doctors.

“We need new ways to deliver health care to prevent the crisis situations,” Bencie said.

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Manatee County Administrator Ed Hunzeker views a fast-depleting indigent-care trust fund as a potential health care industry problem that extends beyond the people who benefit from the county’s assistance. provides health care to the uninsured, wants to “double or triple” its capacity in 2014 to provide primary medical and dental care.

Erozer says her clinic will focus on dental care to address a shortage in the county. Turning Points is working with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, whose fourth-year students already work with the organization to provide primary medical care for its patients, on a program for students to do dental rotations at the clinic.

Erozer predicts that initiative will go live in 2015 or 2016.

“This is a overall health care problem. It is not a poor people problem.” — Manatee County Administrator Ed Hunzeker,

on the depletion of a trust fund that helps fund indigent care

Still, Erozer says Turning Points is a stop-gap solution; the organization refers patients to specialists or hospitals that can deliver more complex care, such as blood work.

But if those providers lose trustfund dollars, they may not have the means to deliver the care, health care professionals worry.

Local officials and nonprofit leaders say they will work hard toward a resolution in 2014.

“This (issue) is not going away,” said District 5 Commissioner Vanessa Baugh. “It’s a very important issue with no easy answer. We have to deal with it. We have to make sure every program we fund is a necessary one so we can afford the things the people of Manatee County need.”

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Lakewood Ranch murder remains unsolved Two years after Ina Gross was murdered, her daughter says she still believes the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office will arrest the killer.

LAKEWOOD RANCH — It will be two years Jan. 9 since Ina Gross, 78, a beloved community member and local volunteer, was found murdered in her Lakewood Ranch home.

According to the Manatee Sheriff’s Office report, Gross’ son, Thomas, found her dead at 5:37 a.m. Jan. 9, in the garage of her Riverwalk Hammock home.

Two years later, Sheriff’s Office officials still have released few details surrounding Gross’ death, aside from calling it a homicide and naming her son a “person of interest” in May 2012.

Dave Bristow, spokesman for the sheriff’s office, says investigators have not spoken directly with Thomas Gross, who lives in Israel.

“There is not a lot more we can say,” Bristow said. “We continue to work on it, and it’s a very active investigation. We still have high hopes of resolution. Nothing has changed as far as her son (Thomas Gross). He remains a person of interest. We’re moving forward.”

Two years later, Ina Gross’ daughter, Ellen Gerth, is resolved.

She runs outside before it’s light out, part of her training for marathons, and she continues her work as an archaeological curator in Tampa, where she also lives.

Her hope for justice remains constant, as does her belief in the sheriff’s office.

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After her mother’s death, Ellen Gerth, with her husband, Dave, left, continues to run marathons and continues with her career, despite the fact that closure may never come.

“I am not frustrated; I am confident in the Manatee County Sheriff’s Department,” Gerth said. “It is not unusual for a case like this to take this long. I have received honest updates from the sheriff’s office about the process.

I have a clear understanding of the steps involved in getting justice.”

Two years later, the first murder in Lakewood Ranch history is still the only one, and it lingers beyond the fact that it is unsolved.

“There are days I forget my

mother is not alive,” Gerth said.

“But my mother will never be here for me. My life was turned upside down. It’s right side up now. The tragedy is my mother had her life taken from her at a time in her life when she had so much more to give.”

Gerth gives for her mother.

She serves on the board of directors for Stop Children’s Cancer, an organization her late father, Dr. Samuel Gross, co-founded and her mother supported for decades, and she works with Res-

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urrection House, where Gross volunteered.

She sustains a lectureship series (see sidebar) to benefit children’s cancer in the name of her mother and father, a celebrated medical professor and researcher.

Gerth and her husband, Dave, care for Gross’ dog, Nicky.

Gerth’s parents moved in 2004 to Lakewood Ranch from North Carolina to be closer to Gerth and her husband.

Gerth’s children, Olivia, a University of Florida student who hopes to become a prosecutor, and Gabe, a high school senior, became close with their grandmother.

“It’s a big hole in their lives,” Gerth said.

Bristow says his department hopes to resolve the case of Gross’ murder this year, although he could not promise a resolution.

A lead detective, with assistance from another detective, remains on the case, as they have from the beginning.

The sheriff’s office continues to coordinate with the State Attorney’s Office.

“We don’t want to make an arrest and go to the state without a good case,” Bristow said. “We have to be patient.”

Bristow acknowledged there have been other people of interest besides Thomas Gross, but would not release any names.

Thomas Gross has been hard to reach, Bristow said.

LECTURESHIP Ellen Gerth sustains a lectureship series to benefit children’s cancer in her parents’ names. Since January 2012, the “Stop Children’s Cancer Dr. Samuel and Ina Gross Memorial Lectureship” has operated to encourage medical students and pediatric residents to pursue careers in hematology and oncology to help cure children with cancer. The next lectureship will be May 15 at the University of Florida. Money donated will be matched dollar for dollar

by Stop Children’s Cancer, a foundation for cancer research co-founded by Dr. Samuel Gross, Gerth’s late father.

Donations can be made online at stopchildrenscancer.org/ Donate_Online.

“If he were right here, and not in Israel, things would be easier,” Bristow said.

Gerth has learned to live without her mother, with the help of compassionate family, friends and colleagues.

She sometimes slips.

She hopes justice is less elusive.

“The person who took my mother’s life continues to see the sun rise and the sun set,” Gerth said. “It’s about justice. I will never have closure.”

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World Changer Time magazine recently included Brittany Wenger, an Out-of-Door Academy graduate and Duke freshman, on its ‘30 People Under 30 Changing the World’ list.

EAST COUNTY — Alone even the actor Michael B. in her Duke UniversiJordan. “It was shocking ty dorm room, Brittany when I found out. It is 30 Wenger wakes up every under 30. I am 19.” hour throughout the night Wenger made the list, to the sound of her alarm. according to Time, beThe noise — which cause she won the 2012 sounds like a dump truck Google Science Fair’s backing up — awakens the Grand Prize for teaching notoriously deep sleeper a software network, or an and tells her to test another artificial brain, to detect breast cancer sample from breast cancer. her computer.

Her diagnostic process Wenger also runs triuses a fine needle aspials during the day, but she rate to sample cancer needs the extra time at cells, and the data go into night. a computer, rather than a The more trials Wenger microscope. runs, the more statistically The process is considsignificant the results beered less invasive and come. cheaper than the cur“I pull out one breast canrent biopsy procedure, cer sample, run it against the and the project helped Courtesy photo Wenger land a full scholneural network and see how it diagnoses it,” Wenger said. Brittany Wenger is a college student who plays arship to Duke.

“For the first few minutes, I Quidditch by day and is an obsessive cancer But to hear Wenger tell just run trials and record it. I diagnostician by night. it, at home in East County don’t do major analysis until on the last day of her first the morning because I don’t think graduate was named in Decem- winter break from college, her my brain would be alert enough ber to Time magazine’s annual list dream goes beyond the boundin the middle of the night for it to of “30 People Under 30 Changing ary of a computer and into the the World.” be very valid.” laboratory.

“I didn’t expect to make it,” said Wenger is a college student not The dream has changed over Wenger, who made the list along- time, but college has made it getting enough sleep.

She also is changing the world. side the founders of Snapchat, firmer.

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career every week — a singer, a veterinarian, you name it,” Wenger said. “My parents have always been supportive without forcing me to do anything.”

When she was in sixth grade at Nolan Middle School in a class of 30 students, Wenger’s teacher pulled her aside and commended her curiosity, encouraging her to apply it to research.

Wenger began building Web pages that same year.

Today, Wenger is a dual major in computer science and biology and is also interested in courses in genomics, a discipline of genetics.

During waking hours at school, Wenger, a freshman, plays Quidditch — the wizard sport played on brooms as told in the Harry Potter book series.

“My position in Quidditch is a beater,” Wenger said. “It requires the most strategy and the least hand-eye coordination.”

Wenger’s week will also include 15 hours or so of class time and another 15 hours of fun time — in a laboratory.

Wenger’s dream calls for her to spend another eight years in school after undergraduate studies to earn a doctorate of medicine and of philosophy (M.D.-Ph.D.) so she can work as a pediatric oncologist who can also do research.

As a professional, she will spend half her time treating children with cancer and the other half in a lab.

“I was joking with my mother that currently I am a kindergartner in terms of years of school I have left,” Wenger said.

Wenger has extended her breast cancer diagnostic work to leukemia and has plans to tackle ovarian cancer next.

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Two hospitals, one in Philadelphia and another in Italy, are beta testing her breast cancer diagnosis procedure.

“I communicate with the hospitals, and they share the results,” Wenger said. “Right now, the hospitals are using my procedure as the second line of defense. Ideally, it will be the first line of defense.”

At home during winter break, when she wasn’t dealing with more age-appropriate crises such as sharing a car with her brother and navigating her parents’ new neighborhood, Wenger was waking up at 4 a.m. to submit a second draft of her breast cancer research to a scientific journal.

Back at Duke, Wenger will continue her nighttime test runs.

When she was in 11th grade, she says she ran 7.6 million trials on breast cancer samples.

Wenger spends her time improving cancer diagnosis because her cousin was diagnosed with the disease when Brittany was in the 10th grade.

She does not seek the spotlight, although it has found her, and it allows her to share her insights.

A week after the Time story ran, the U.S. State Department invited Wenger to speak in Russia at a tech summit.

At the event, from May 13 to May 16, Wenger will speak to children interested in science and inspire them to learn.

Last April, she recorded a broadcast for the state department that was shown around the world.

“When you do something you work quite hard on, it’s amazing to share it with others,” Wenger said.

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EAST COUNTY — After more than a decade of developer control, Stoneybrook residents have assumed ownership of their community.

Lennar, the developer of Heritage Harbour and its Stoneybrook neighborhood, formally resigned from the homeowners association board Jan. 2.

On that same day, after roughly 400 votes were tallied, a new nine-person board of residents began work.

“It’s about time,” said Lee Miller, the HOA’s new vice president.

In a community that has been split during a controversial decade-plus of developer control, the nine winners all identify with a group that calls itself the “Pro-Stoneybrook Team.”

Ira Tropp, the new treasurer, does not expect familiarity to affect the board’s ability to be unbiased.

“Going forward, I believe we will have the community as a whole behind us,” said Tropp, who had been on the homeowners association finance and landscape committees when Lennar was in control. “There won’t be a rubber stamp. Each board member has different views on how to do things.

And, I hope the candidates who did not win participate and don’t just fade away. The conflict is in the past.”

The new board will hold a workshop at 6 p.m. Jan. 8, at the Stoneybrook recreation center, to determine a meeting schedule.

The board cannot make motions during workshops.

Lennar still must turn over the community’s assets and documents.

Tropp expects that to happen soon.

He says the board likely will hire a lawyer to review the documents and ensure the legality of the transition.

Lennar decided to turn over the community’s assets, including its recreation center and pool, through a quitclaim deed, rather than a warranty deed.

For a quitclaim deed, the owner simply “quits” claim to the property, allowing transfer of ownership to occur. A warrantee deed guarantees title to property under a transfer.

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New Stoneybrook homeowners association members Tom Bakalar and Dick Williams (and Williams’ wife, Barb) came together for coffee Dec. 17 in anticipation of the Jan. 2 turnover date and election.

TURNOVER LEADERSHIP

The residents voted to the new nineperson resident-controlled board are: Tom Bakalar (president) Joanne Pytlik Dave Arras Ira Tropp (treasurer) Dick Williams Mike Listro Phil Martinetti Gene Zeiner (secretary) Lee Miller (vice president) Lennar decided to turn over the community after a task force of residents sent the developer a letter in mid-August demanding its departure.

A Lennar representative, Tony Burdett, traveled from Fort Myers to a Stoneybrook homeowners association meeting in September to announce the developer’s intent to give up control.

Board members say Lennar competently managed the community’s assets, such as the recreation center, pool and basketball court, but they plan to make those amenities more accessible.

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The following information was gathered from incident and arrest reports obtained from the Manatee County Sheriff ’s Office.

DEC. 27 TONGUE LASHING 3:31 p.m. — 6600 block of Anchor Loop.

Information Only. While a woman drove through the parking lot of an apartment complex to get to her building, a neighbor stepped in the middle of the road to block her. The neighbor began to yell at the woman in a foreign language.

In English, he then called the woman a “slut” and “whore.” The man then banged on the passengerside window of her vehicle. He then went upstairs to his apartment unit and left the premises with his family.

DEC. 31 STOLEN SPIRIT 12:25 a.m. — 11000 block of Hyacinth Place. Theft. A man reported someone took Christmas decorations from his front yard and fled in an unknown direction by unknown means. The man provided a picture of the decorations. tried to pry open the driver’s-side door of a vehicle. The suspect(s) did not gain entry.

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8:45 a.m. — 4700 block of Sabal Key Drive. Burglary. Unknown person(s) entered an unlocked screened lanai door.

Once inside, the person(s) used an unknown object to break open a slidingglass door. The home’s alarm went off immediately, and the person(s) fled.

9:43 a.m. — 6600 block of Oakbrook Circle. Information Only. A woman reported her house slipper as missing. She thinks her neighbor took the slipper. There are no signs anyone entered her home.

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LOCKED OUT 8:17 p.m. — 3200 block of University Parkway. Burglary. Unknown suspect(s)

10:10 a.m. — 8100 block of 27th Street E. Theft. An unknown person(s) stole a steel pipe from a construction site. The pipe was removed from the ground and later recycled. The pipe weighed several thousand pounds and was valued at $500.

Due to the weight of the pipe, the victim believes the suspect(s) used heavy equipment from the construction site to remove the pipe.

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1:33 a.m. — 1000 block of Rainbow Court. Theft. A woman was moving out of her home. She hired a mover. The homeowner had friends help her pack the house. She told one friend not to pack jewelry or the medicine cabinet. After the movers left the home, the homeowner noticed her jewelry was missing. The friends unpacked all of the boxes and did not find the missing items.

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MOMENTS OF THE WEEK

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On Dec. 18, former Braden River High pitcher Courtney Mirabella became the first player in school history to have her jersey retired.

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The Manatee Admirals hockey team improved to 13-1 with a 10-4 victory over Steinbrenner Dec. 21.

3

Hunter Reed, Tim Dwyer and Jared Dipsiner went undefeated to help lead Lakewood Ranch to a secondplace finish at the fourth annual Kiwanis Classic Mustang Duals Jan. 4.

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Zach Kendall scored 18 points to lead the Braden River High basketball team to a 55-41 victory over Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High in the Suncoast Holiday Classic Dec. 26.

5

The Nolan Middle School girls soccer team closed out the fall season with its thirdconsecutive championship.

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Lakewood Ranch High senior Emily Bulfin has aspirations of scoring 1,000 points in her career and breaking her school record of nine 3-pointers in a game before the end of the season.

SHARP SHOOTER Lakewood Ranch High senior Emily Bulfin is on pace to break the 1,000-point mark for her career before the end of the season.

LAKEWOOD RANCH — Emily Bulfin is a quintessential gym rat.

The Lakewood Ranch High senior shooting guard boasts natural potential and, yet, she constantly seeks to improve.

Rarely a day passes when Bulfin is not immersed in shooting drills, helping lead the Lady Mustangs to victory or showing her teammates what it takes to be successful both on and off the court.

In essence, she is a coach’s dream.

Bulfin has spent the past four years perfecting her game, and now she’s on the verge of accomplishing a feat only two players before her have done — reaching the 1,000-point mark for her career.

Bulfin needed 200 points to break the mark prior to the start of the season. Bulfin, who is averaging 15.4 points per game, is close to the milestone, but Bulfin admits she doesn’t know how many points she has scored thus far.

And for good reason. Lakewood coach Tina Hadley hasn’t shared that information with Bulfin. She hopes the suspense will keep Bulfin motivated, as well as focused.

“It’d make me really happy because only a couple of other people at Lakewood Ranch have scored 1,000 points,” Bulfin says.

Growing up in Chicago, Bulfin spent many snowy afternoons in

BY THE NUMBERS 8 — The number of years

Bulfin has been playing competitive basketball.

4 — The number of years Bulfin has been on Lakewood’s varsity squad.

15.4 — The number of points Bulfin is averaging so far this season.

200 — The number of points Bulfin needed at the beginning of the season to reach 1,000 points in her career.

0 — The number of seniors, besides Bulfin, who are on Lakewood’s roster.

9 — The number of 3-pointers Bulfin scored in a single game last season to set a new school record. her driveway shooting into a plastic hoop.

Bulfin eventually joined a YMCA basketball league about eight years ago and has been playing competitively ever since.

“I love the aggressiveness of it — just being able to be so competitive with each other and getting all of your anger out,” Bulfin says.”

Bulfin joined the Mustangs squad as a freshman, and she has

been focused on improving ever since.

“As a freshman, I was really scared whenever I stepped onto the floor,” Bulfin says. “I didn’t know what I was doing. I still get nervous in games, but I’ve gotten a lot better.”

Bulfin got off to a relatively slow start this season — an occurrence she says has been a trend throughout her career.

“At the beginning of the season, I missed all of my shots,” Bulfin says. “I think every year it takes me a few games to get my shot going. I overthink things a lot.

“I’m not good under pressure,” Bulfin says. “Coach Hadley usually takes me out then, because she knows I can’t deal with it.”

But, it didn’t take long for Bulfin to find her rhythm. She scored 33 points, including seven 3-pointers, to lead Lakewood to a 70-35 victory over Sarasota Christian Nov. 25.

Since then, Bulfin has helped lead the Lady Mustangs to a 15-2 record (4-0 Class 7A-District 10) and a No. 2 ranking in the state in Class 7A. As the lone senior on a squad with three freshmen and six sophomores, Bulfin has taken it upon herself to push Lakewood toward its ultimate goal of playing in the state championship.

Emily Bulfin is less than 200 points away from her career goal.

But, for a player who will undoubtedly be remembered for her shooting ability, Bulfin is content to do whatever it takes to perfect her game while engaging her teammates at the same time.

“I just kind of do my thing and they follow me,” Bulfin says. “I’m not a verbal leader. I don’t like telling them what to do.”

Contact Jen Blanco at jblanco@ yourobserver.com.

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Olympic swimmers hope to inspire young athletes The Lakewood Ranch YMCA Wave Runners will host the Fitter & Faster Swim Tour, featuring Olympians Davis Tarwater and Claire Donahue, later this month.

LAKEWOOD RANCH up and 1 to 4 p.m. Jan. 26 — Nine-year-old Summer for ages 11 and under, at the IF YOU GO Cardwell stood on the pool Lakewood Ranch YMCA, FITTER & FASTER deck in awe.

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Date: 1 to 4 p.m. Jan. around her neck, Summer saRecognized as one of 25 (ages 12 and up) vored a glimpse of Olympic the most versatile swimand Jan. 26 (ages 11 glory. mers in the world, Tarwaand under) The Lakewood Ranch ter, who began competing Location: Lakewood YMCA Wave Runner has asat the highest level in the Ranch YMCA, 5100 pirations of swimming in the United States when he was Lakewood Ranch Olympics one day, and, dur16 years old, was part of the Blvd. ing a Fitter & Faster Swim United States’ gold-medal Cost: $105 ($79 Tour clinic four months ago in winning 800 freestyle relay online) Winter Haven, Summer swam at the 2012 London OlymInformation: fitterandalongside a pair of former pics. faster.com.

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Donahue, who special“It was really fun,” Summer izes in the 100 butterfly, says. “The Olympians gave us advice on reached the finals at both the 2012 London what to do before a swim meet and told us Olympics and the 2013 World Championto always do our best.” ships.

Following the Fitter & Faster Swim During the three-hour clinic, particiTour, Summer’s mother, Adrienne, ap- pants will work on stroke work and gain a proached the tour’s organizers about better understanding of how to approach holding a clinic in Lakewood Ranch. each stroke. Swimmers also will learn Two months later, organizers contacted proper stretching and strength-training Adrienne Cardwell, and the Lakewood techniques and practice alongside TarwaRanch YMCA began taking steps toward ter and Donahue. holding a clinic.

“Hopefully, by exposing them to OlymOn Jan. 25 and Jan. 26, the Wave Runners pians, it’ll motivate them to see what’s out will host the Fitter & Faster Swim Tour, there for them and what it takes to get to featuring Olympians David Tarwater and the Olympics,” Matt Cardwell says. “They’ll Claire Donahue. be able to see something tangible.”

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+ LRLL registration upcoming Lakewood Ranch Little League will hold registration for the spring season from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 10 and Jan. 17 and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 11 and Jan. 18, at the Lakewood Ranch Ballpark.

Individuals interested in participating must bring a birth certificate, proof of residency and a Little League school enrollment form for those taking advantage of the new eligibility rule. This season, Little Leaguers who reside outside Lakewood Ranch Little League boundaries are now eligible to play at Lakewood Ranch Little League.

Cost is $75 for T-ball and coach pitch; $150 AA machine pitch; and $190 for all other divisions. Sibling discounts are available. Tryouts for minors, majors and intermediates will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Jan. 18. Opening day is scheduled for Feb. 15.

For more information and to download registration packets, visit LWRLittleLeague. com.

+ TOPSoccer to kick off winter season The Braden River Soccer Club TOPSoccer program will hold registration for the winter season from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Jan. 11, at the Braden River Soccer Club fields behind Lakewood Ranch High School.

TOPSoccer is a free soccer program for physically and developmentally disabled athletes, ages 4 and up.

Parents of individuals interested in participating must provide a release or letter from their family doctor that allows the athlete to play soccer, as well as a photo ID. TOPSoccer will have six sessions from 10:30 a.m. to noon every Saturday, beginning Jan. 25. The season runs through March 1. All players will receive a uniform jersey, soccer ball and water bottle.

For more information, contact program coordinator Dave Robinson at 358-0497 or email drobinson018@msn.com.

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GSJGA SEASON TEES OFF The Greater Sarasota Junior Golf Season kicked off its 2014 season Jan. 5, on the Royal Lakes Course at the Lakewood Ranch Golf & Country Club.

Individual winners include: 9-HOLE BOYS 10 AND UNDER Thomas Abom (37) Liam Abom (39) Thomas Tyler (42) 9-HOLE BOYS 11 AND UP Jordan Evans (40) Noah Cone (55) Nolan Laurvick (55) 9-HOLE GIRLS Aaron Whitley (46) Taylor Golden (54) Haley Keech (57) BOYS 12 AND UNDER Matthew de Heus (79) Aaron Pedimina (85) GIRLS 12 AND UNDER Meadow Southworth (93) BOYS 13 TO 15 Joshua Perna (77) GIRLS 13 TO 15 Alyssa Mercado (80, won in playoff) BOYS 16 TO 18 Jeremy Perna (75) Ron Johnson (76) GIRLS 16 TO18 Victoria Cangero (79) The next GSJGA event will be held Feb. 9.

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The number of points freshman LaDhazia Williams scored to lead the Lakewood Ranch High girls basketball team to a 60-43 victory over Riverview Jan. 3.

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PAWS for celebration Honor Animal Rescue adopted out 1,000 animals in 2013, thanks to the DePew family’s December adoption of Lexi, a 2-year-old collie mix.

EAST COUNTY — As Lexi, a 2-yearold smooth collie mix, lies on her back and gnaws at her rawhide bone, her new family, the DePews, watches her contently from the couch across the living room in their Mill Creek home.

The Christmas tree is still up, but it appears ornament-less and bare near the bottom. Lexi had a fascination with tree decorations, the family explains, laughing; the tree had to be un-decorated near the Lexi-canreach zone.

“It was almost as if she chose us,” Christina DePew says. “She had only been at the rescue for a few days when we found her.”

On Dec. 28, the DePews adopted Lexi from the Ranch Adoption Center at Nate’s Honor Animal Rescue, making her the 1,000th animal adopted in 2013. Formerly named Jasmine, the DePews renamed their new pet after Gene Witt Elementary School fifth-grader and Honor volunteer Lexi Brown, who was murdered last year.

Christina DePew, her husband, Doug, and their 15-year-old son, Der-

ek, met a variety of dogs the evening before they adopted Lexi. But, they were looking for something special.

Besides having a fun personality, being friendly and requiring minimal training, the newest DePew would need to be comfortable with cats, as well. The family already owned seven, who weren’t going anywhere.

The DePews, also Honor volunteers, walked the prospective dogs one by one into the cat cottages — brightly painted cabins with a few cats and their toys inside — at the rescue.

Lexi, the only one intrigued by the cats, could not wait to get a closer sniff. Wagging her tail, she pulled Christina DePew forward and tried to get closer to play with the cats.

The shelter volunteers were preparing to close for the day, and they needed one more adoption to fulfill their goal of 1,000. for the year. Despite wanting to help the rescue accomplish its goal and wanting a new dog, the DePews decided to go home and think things over first.

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The DePews — Derek, 15, Christina and Doug, adopted Nate’s Honor Animal Rescue Ranch Adoption Center’s 1,000th animal of 2013.

Top: Lexi, formerly named Jasmine, is named after Gene Witt Elementary fifthgrader and Honor Animal Rescue volunteer Lexi Brown, who was murdered. following day. Upon arriving at the rescue, balloons and signs greeted the family, celebrating that Lexi’s adoption brought Honor to its goal.

Now, Lexi slowly is being introduced to the other furry occupants at her new home as her new family brings out a new cat for her to meet and get used to, one at a time.

The family, like many of Honor’s adoptive families, have adopted there before. The DePews fostered a cat, Sutton, in 2012, and ended up adopting him shortly after.

“They were foster failures,” Honor Executive Director Dari Ogelsby says, laughing.

Honor volunteers knew they wanted to dream big for 2013, at which time they readied their forces to secure 1,000 adoptions.

Honor volunteers spread the word through social media outlets — one of the keys to obtaining so many adoptions, Ogelsby says. When new dogs were brought in, they were listed on

websites such as Facebook.

Volunteers remember putting up posts recently about three available shih tzus. Within 15 minutes, all three found new homes.

The shelter’s guidelines for which animals it accepts also helped put it in line to secure more adoptions in 2013 than in any other year since it opened in 2011.

By June, when the rescue was closing in on about 500 adoptions, Ogelsby and her team realized they had a chance at meeting their goal. Total adoptions in 2012 (dogs and cats) reached 680, and in 2013, adoptions reached 680 just for dogs, plus the adoption of 320 cats.

“It took time for us to make a name for ourselves,” Ogelsby says. “Everyone said, ‘No one will come, it’s too far,’ and that really isn’t true.”

Although Honor does not have an adoption goal for 2014 yet, the East County rescue has adopted out 22 animals so far this year.

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THURSDAY, JAN. 9 How to Maximize Your Social Security Benefits — runs from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Braden River Library, 4915 53rd Ave. E., Bradenton. Financial adviser Daniel Ramsey will present this seminar. For more information, email at ramsey.dan@gmail.com.

SATURDAY, JAN. 11 Rock Your Robot Science Fair — runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Greenbrook Adventure Park, 6655 Greenbrook Blvd., Lakewood Ranch. Make your own robot costume and compete in the robotcostume contest. Also enjoy interactive science and math activities, a balloon artist, face painting and a space shuttle turbo slide.

Event is free.

For more information, visit lwrcac. com.

Sarasota Singles Golf Association — meets for 18 holes of golf at 1 p.m. at the Palm-Aire Country Club, 5601 Country Club Way, Sarasota.

Group rate is $50 per person and can be paid at the pro shop.

Dinner follows the event. Reservations required. For information, email ssga.friends@gmail. com or visit meetup.com/asgasarasota/.

TUESDAY, JAN. 14 Manatee Democratic Women’s Club — meets at 11:30 a.m. at Renaissance on 9th, 1816 Ninth St. W., Bradenton. Event will

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DON’T MISS Bearadise Ranch Winter Tours — run from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursdays and Saturdays (except in February), at the ranch, 6908 245th St. E., Myakka City. Educational presentations start at 1 p.m.

Some blackout dates apply.

Cost is $8 for adults and $6 for children. Reservations are required. For more information, visit bearadiseranch.com or call 322-2462. include a fashion show and silent auction to support the club’s scholarship foundation. Cost is $16. Reservations required by Jan. 10. For more information, contact Phyllis Virzi at 7957608 or Mary Duda at 7080713 or mcmduda@aol.com.

Lakewood Ranch Democratic Club — meets at 7 p.m. at Lakewood Ranch Town Hall, 8175 Lakewood Ranch Blvd., Lakewood Ranch. Guest speaker Betsey Downing will discuss the reality of global climate change. For more information, email lucy@lwrdems.com.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15 Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance January Membership Luncheon — runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Polo Grill & Bar Fête Ballroom, 10670 Boardwalk Loop, Lakewood Ranch.

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Current Treatment Options for Foot and Ankle Pain Tuesday, January 14 / 5 – 6 p.m.

LWRMC Conference Room 1 Presented by James M. Cottom, DPM, FACFAS, Coastal Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Light refreshments served.

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Spinal Deformity: Prevalence, Management and Treatment Thursday, January 16 / 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

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Surgical Options for Weight Loss Monthly lectures Thursday, January 23 / 6 – 7 p.m.

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Preventing Golf Injuries: Common Golf Swing Faults That May Lead to Injury A 3-part lecture series January 28 / February 25 / March 25 / 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

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Flavorful Dishes for 2014 – Demonstration and Tasting Tuesday, January 28 / 11 a.m. – Noon MMH’s 2nd Street Bistro Presented by Tim Schoonmaker, Director of Food and Nutrition Limited to the first 50 reservations.

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Treatment Options for Hip and Knee Arthritis Tuesday, January 28 / 6 – 7 p.m.

MMH Auditorium (off the Tower Main Entrance) Presented by Sajeev Nair, MD, International Center for Advanced Spine & Orthopedic Surgery Light refreshments served.

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Women Living with Cancer Support Group Second and fourth Thursday of each month January 9, 23 / 6 p.m.

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Heart Failure Patient Support Group at LWRMC Third Friday of each month January 17 / 11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

LWRMC Conference Room 1 Come and meet your cardiologist and the Cardiovascular Services team at LWRMC. Lunch is provided.

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Lap-Band® Surgical Weight-Loss Support Group Monday, January 20 / 6 p.m.

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Please call 941.746.5111 ext. 57756 for information and dates.

Sleeve Gastrectomy Support Group Friday, January 24 / 3 p.m.

Manatee One and Two (off the Tower Main Entrance, near the café) This group is designed to provide postoperative support.

Also for those interested in learning about surgical weight loss using the sleeve.

Please call 941.254.4957 for information.

Diabetes Self-Management and Education Mondays: February 3, 10, 17, 24 / 2 – 4 p.m.

MMH Classroom A (off the Tower Lobby) Facilitated by Susan Schussler, RD, CDE Nutrition & Diabetes Education for You, LLC Cost: $25 for workbook This 4-week class will cover healthy eating, being active, monitoring diabetes medications and reducing risk of complications.

Classes are limited to 25.

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In the spring, Honor will open the doors of the two-story home on its property to patrons for birthday parties.

Interested individuals will have access to the kitchen to bake treats for the animals, which patrons can feed to the rescue animals later, along with pool and hot tub access.

Over the next few months, volunteers will work to dust off the shelves and tidy up the home to make it party-ready for children and adults.

Setting up a community food bank to which Honor and participating companies can donate supplies such as toys, beds and food for pet owners in need is one of Honor’s future, down-the-road goals, as well.

“When an animal dies, oftentimes the owner will give us unused medication, toys, food — all kinds of stuff,” Ogelsby says. “We want to be able to share that with everyone.”

The director also hopes to offer boarding and help a veterinarian open an office on the premises, to avoid the extra cost and hassle of transporting animals to vet appointments.

With plans for the future in mind, Honor volunteers continue to focus on providing a clean, safe environment for their animals.

“We’re taking baby steps, for now,” Ogelsby says.

The DePews are happy they’ve helped Honor save more animals, and are enjoying their new family member.

As Lexi stared through the sliding-glass doors in the DePews’ living room last week, fixated on one of her new roommates — a multicolored cat who stared back at her — the family laughed.

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Two women join forces for their recently released book to fight the war on New Year’s resolutions.

EAST COUNTY — Since the ’90s, Sandy Chase and her family have been putting their own spin on New Year’s resolutions.

On Dec. 31 of each year, the Chase family jots down hopes, or predictions, for each family member for the coming year; those predictions are revealed the following New Year’s Eve. Sometimes, family members’ forecasts come true, like when Chase’s son, Dan, earned a promotion at work; other times, they are a little off. The prediction that a family member would become a parent to a pet alligator became a family joke over the years, Chase says, laughing.

This year, Chase, a University Park resident, hopes to make good on her family’s previous prediction — that she would become a best-selling author. Using her knowledge of resolutions, Chase partnered with co-author Violet April Ebersole to write “The Resolutionary War,” released Dec. 11.

The book, which was self-published through Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, sheds light on the struggle to keep promises made at the start of a new year. Chase hopes readers discover a story with which they can relate.

“Writing a resolution has been a tradition,” Chase says, smiling. “People might think twice about creating them now.”

The story focuses on 11 friends who, while at a New Year’s Eve party, decide to create and share resolutions with each other. The women don’t foresee, however, the string of mishaps and struggles that are to follow.

The group’s members, whom Chase calls “soldiers” because of their role in the war against breaking resolutions, fight to do what they said they would do. It’s the constant changing of their battle plans, or ways of keeping their word, that helps the characters accomplish the feats.

The character Mom, a published author who is working on her next book, creates a plan to help her fulfill her resolution of becoming better at managing her time. By changing her lifestyle — cooking larger meals and freezing the leftovers (her battle plan) — she saves herself time later and, in turn, can focus more on writing, Chase explains.

The first-person story, narrated by the character Brenda, is divided into chapters named after each month of the year, to show the progress each character makes.

Brenda’s involvement in the story is more complex, however, as she works to fulfill two resolutions — one real and one faux. She shares a fake resolution with her friends, because she isn’t ready to tell them what she really wants — to start a family. As a decoy, she tells the group she wants to improve the guest room in her home.

“It’s about dreams, struggles, coping and just life,” Chase says. “Resolutions can be catalysts, involving and affecting other people who didn’t even make the resolution; that’s what happens here.”

For the story’s setting, Chase and Ebersole, a seventh-generation Floridian,

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chose to pay homage to the state where they both live. Area establishments, including the Hob Nob drive-in restaurant in Sarasota, make cameos in the 294page paperback.

The two women first met in 2004, when Chase was seeking an extra set of eyes to review her book, “Ancestral Spirits.” Her publishing company, Peppertree Press, connected her with Ebersole — a former technical writer for the government. The relationship of the two women eventually changed from editor and writer to co-authors.

After the more than two-year process of meeting at coffee shops in the towns in which the women live — Sarasota and Englewood — phone calls that lasted hours and scratching ideas and brainstorming new ones, the women became close friends.

“The Resolutionary War” is listed on amazon.com for $12.69, and is also available for $14.95 through Chase’s website, thewordmaster.net, or through requests via email to theresolutionarywar@gmail. com.

Feedback on Amazon’s website is welcome and appreciated, Chase says, because it is equally important to her as selling books; she wants people to learn something about the characters and to make connections with their own lives.

“What I want to leave the reader with is that all the characters change in some way in the story,” Chase said. “But, are they changing because of the resolutions, or in spite of them?”

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Back in the mid-1960s, Joe Orton, the late, lamented, bad boy British playwright, burned up the theater world with three outrageous farces. (“Outrageous” used in its original, literal sense of inspiring outrage.) “Loot,” the current FSU/Asolo Conservatory production of one of his farces, shows us what the outrage is all about. The play is a slaughterhouse for sacred cows.

These include dogged detectives, noble nurses, religion in general, Catholicism in particular, sexual repression, the sanctity of the British family and respect for the dead.

The plot? A young lad’s bisexual lover works as an undertaker at a funeral home next to a bank. The pair tunnel into the bank, steal a ton of loot and stash it in a wardrobe in the lad’s house.

Unfortunately, a thuggish detective pokes his nose in, pretending to be from the waterworks to avoid the tedious paperwork of search warrants. Er, fortunately, the lad’s mum is dead — the victim of a serial killer nurse. To avoid detection, the lads stuff the money in the coffin, and they put the corpse in the wardrobe. Corpse and money change places repeatedly. A glass eye rolls away.

Human rights are abused, and common decency violated. This goes on for a while as Orton dials the outrage up to 11. Ultimately, the guilty are rewarded and the innocent punished.

This truncated summary may sound hilarious, but it doesn’t really say why it’s so hilarious on stage. Orton, for want of a better term, plays it straight. (His material reminds me of that Monty Python undertaker sketch where the bereaved son is informed they can bury, burn or dump his mother — and nobody ever cracks a smile.)

Director Jonathan Epstein plays it straight, too. No winking, mugging, elbows to the ribs or giggles. He offers us an absurd, amoral, bizarro-world universe where black is white, good is bad and up is down — and nobody seems to notice. (Except for the one innocent person who gets what’s coming to him.)

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Nobody in this comedy knows they’re in a comedy, and that’s why the comedy works. Bravo.

Epstein’s comic timing is equally sharp — a clockwork outrage, if you will.

The reactions, pauses, double-takes and slow burns are all perfect. Kudos also for movement coach Eliza Ladd and fight choreographer Brian Nemiroff for the flow of bodies in space. This staging is as much a dance as a performance.

As to the second-year conservatory student actors, they all seem to be having the time of their lives.

Jory Murphy and Matthew Anderson make a nice comic duo portraying Hal, the rotten-but-honest son and Dennis, the oversexed undertaker, respectively.

Brian Owen puts in an inspired comic performance as Truscott of the Yard.

Essentially, he’s a self-satisfied, selfrighteous rotter: a man with no morals whatsoever, who’s bloatedly moralistic about it. On top of that, he’s a bloviating parody of Sherlock Holmes, complete with deerstalker, pipe and magnifying glass.

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Paul Herbig is fine as Meadows, Truscott’s robotic bobby sidekick, mangling the English language or suspects as the need arises. Michael Frishman channels Mr. McLeavy’s increasingly tattered presence.

Nurse Fay (Olivia Williamson) cloaks herself in Heaven’s righteousness, as opposed to the State’s. She marries and murders for money while spouting sanctimonious drivel. Her walk doesn’t match her talk, but she never notices.

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This is not a review. I wouldn’t attempt to review what is, in most ways, perfection. Rather, it’s the personal story of one of the most exciting, fun evenings of music in memory, and it all revolved around the 10th anniversary gala of the Perlman Music Program’s Winter Residency here in Sarasota.

Although the program involved open rehearsals, master classes and performances for a couple of weeks over the holidays, I’ll concentrate on the concert and gala that took place this Saturday evening at the Sarasota Opera House. The concert featured a bevy of super-talented string players between the ages of 12 and 20, with the internationally renowned and beloved violinist, conductor and singer (yes, singer), Itzhak Perlman.

What we heard at the gala concert is that PMP is doing everything right. The first part of the program was devoted to choral music under the direction of Patrick Romano. Singing string players?

Yes. They learn to sing in a chorus so they can sing with their instruments. They learn to breathe and phrase and be great musicians.

These are string players, not singers.

But the musicianship they learn from using their God-given instruments, the built-in ones, will make them finer players in the long run. (And there was, somewhere in that group, one soprano who had a real voice. Maybe she’ll become another Judith Blegen, the violinist-turned-Met Opera soprano, who used her instrumental training to become one

of the world’s finest singers.)

In the second half, the players did a memorable performance of Mozart’s exposed “Eine kleine Nachtmusik.” As Perlman said before he conducted the work, this may sound like simple music but it’s very difficult and very complex.

With Perlman’s help on the podium, the kids got it, especially the richness of the inner voices, and this was a beautifully crafted presentation.

They concluded with the outer movements of Mendelssohn’s great octet for strings in the orchestral version. Here, it was the lower voices that soared, especially in the final movement when the basses and cellos positively buzzed with passion and precision.

But now we come to the personal part.

Toby Perlman and I were both at the High School of Music and Art in New York City at about the same time. That means we’ve known each other for more than a half-century. Her inspiration gave birth to the wondrous PMP. And the party that followed the concert, and included the faculty and students as well as sponsors and PMP Friends, was what making music is all about.

After a sumptuous dinner at Michael’s On East, the Perl-Tones — renamed the Try-Tones for this event — took the stage for some of the most cultivated Doo-wop in the history of music: Bass player Rachel Calin, violinist/singer Sean Lee and Merry Peckham (all faculty members) joined with choral director/Doo-wop soprano extraordinaire, Patrick Romano, and basso Woo-Woo-Woo specialist Itzhak Perlman for renditions of the 1956 best-seller, “In the Still of the Night,” and, our favorite, “Walk Like a Mensch.” Who knew?

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A home in Country Club East at Lakewood Ranch tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Taylor Morrison of Florida Inc. sold the home at 7315 Haddington Cove to Kamal and Patricia Sarbadhikari, of Longboat Key, for $799,400. Built in 2012, it has three bedrooms, three-anda-half baths, a pool and 2,841 square feet of living area.

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Henry and Ruth Vaccaro, of Palmetto, sold their home at 528 Sand Crane Court to Nancy Webb, trustee, of Ontario, Canada, for $700,000. Built in 2005, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,538 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $660,500 in 2005.

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Maureen and Lawrence Stanczak, of Bradenton, sold their home at 4704 Halyard Drive to Octavio and Marlene Vidal, of Bradenton, for $615,000. Built in 2000, it has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,108 square feet of living area.

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Built in 2001, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,060 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $375,500 in 2011.

Jeremiah and Catherine McDonald, of Bradenton, sold their home at 7212 St. Georges Way to Robert and Margaret Brooks, of University Park, for $600,000.

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This Country Club East at Lakewood Ranch home, which has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,841 square feet of living area, sold for $799,400. rooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,789 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $795,000 in 2006.

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Lee Wetherington Homes LLC sold the home at 12008 Longview Lake Circle to Bryan Flanagan and Tamara Flanagan, trustees, of Lorton, Va., for $549,900. Built in 2013, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,770 square feet of living area.

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Charles and Dorothy Tirrell, of Celebration, sold their home at 7536 Harrington Lane to James and Holly Waite, of Bradenton, for $545,000. Built in 1999, it has five bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,425 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $490,000 in 2010.

Dustin and Kimberly Mast, of Middlebury, Ind., sold their home at 14725 Second Ave. Circle N.E. to Daniel and Rebecca Powers, of Bradenton, for $435,000. Built in 2007, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,027 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $304,900 in 2010.

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Stephen and Rhonda Harrison, of Bradenton, sold their home at 6610 Rosy Barb Court to Anthony Gula, of Bradenton, for $487,000. Built in 2006, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,117 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $375,000 in 2008.

Arthur Rosenberg sold his home at 13458 Purple Finch Circle to Christopher Horlacher and Tomi Jo Crawford, of Bradenton, for $290,000. Built in 2003, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,415 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $355,000 in 2005.

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Myles and Kelly Detterman sold their home at 7618 Broomsedge Court to James Oberthaler and Suellen Oberthaler, trustees, of

Randall and Dawn Burcham, of Nokomis, sold their home at 7410 Lake Forest Glen to Joel and Sandra Felsenfeld, of Lakewood Ranch, for $405,000. Built in 2009, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,063 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $325,000 in 2011.

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M/I Homes of Tampa LLC sold the home at 4682 Royal Dornoch Circle to David and Constance Thelen, of Bradenton, for $337,700. Built in 2013, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,825 square feet of living area.

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William and Kathleen Winkler, of Bradenton, sold their home at 6469 Shoal Creek St. Circle to George and Kristen Widunas, of Bradenton, for $335,000. Built in

1995, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,119 square feet of living area.

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Miramar at Lakewood Ranch LLC sold the Unit 84 condominium at 8104 Miramar Way to Rolf and Debra Nielsen, of Bradenton, for $302,900. Built in 2013, it has three bedrooms, two-and-ahalf baths and 2,169 square feet of living area.

Moira Glaiel, of Lakewood Ranch, sold the Unit 201 condominium at 8427 Miramar Way to Terence and Denise O’Neill, of Bronxville, N.Y., for $275,000.

Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,024 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $240,000 in 2008.

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Peggy Giroux, trustee, of Massena, N.Y., sold the Unit 102 condominium at 6560 Moorings Point Circle to Lawrence Klepetko, of Sarasota, for $299,000. Built in 2004, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,804 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $215,000 in 2010.

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Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC sold the home at 6122 Ninth Ave. Circle N.E. to Jeffrey and Sara Ranke, of Bradenton, for $280,000. Built in 2001, it has four bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,465 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $574,000 in 2006.

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4512 19th Ave W #M5841226 $235,000 Kathy Valente

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11858 Forest Park Cir #M5842229 $214,900 Maria Christenson

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10623 58th St E #M5839499 $209,995 Leah Secondo

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4905 72nd Ct E #M5840574 Jonnie Dwyer

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1559 Napoli Dr #A3989795 $179,900 Kathy Lewis

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These are the largest East County building permits issued by Manatee County for the week of Dec. 23 through Dec. 27, in order of dollar amounts.

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12051 Forest Park Circle 7640 Drayton Circle 5817 Fairwoods Circle 8325 Farington Court 6904 Stoneywalk Court 6852 Country Lakes Circle 22323 Panther Loop 6206 95th St. Circle E. 6911 Stetson St. Circle 10727 Old Grove Circle 5909 Fairway Lakes Drive 11218 Pine Lilly Place 7122 Whitemarsh Circle 6910 Westchester Circle 5102 76th St. E. 12732 Del Corso Loop 6328 Wingspan Way 6724 64th Place E. 13641 Third Ave. N.E. 6447 Royal Tern Circle

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Gareth Wood David Youngblood Louis Frank Eber Brown Jr. Joan Waylen James Jones James Leitten Kevin Rager James Lehmann Perry Romano Arthur Schaerli Brian Darley Ephrain Royfe Ronald Dunn Elia Cipriano Henry Ashe Donald Harney Steven Merriman Sharon McDermott Dean Warren

$50,109 $37,692 $24,960 $24,360 $22,000 $17,400 $17,285 $16,250 $13,860 $13,100 $12,321 $11,349 $10,000 $9,908 $8,995 $8,977 $6,984 $6,400 $6,341 $6,309

22915 Fuller Rd #A3980776 $1,500,000 Diane Fogo Harter

Bradenton 941-907-9595 941-445-2431

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Genevieve Henry, of Liverpool, N.Y., sold her home at 6319 67th St. E. to Fernand and Kristina Senechal, of Bradenton, for $258,000. Built in 2004, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,990 square feet of living area.

Summerfield Village

Peter Nolan, of Lakewood Ranch, sold

Bradenton 941-748-6300 941-915-4167

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2911 36Th W Ave #M5842716 $139,900 Laura Tracy Clekis

Lakewood Ranch 941-388-4447 941-928-9496

5577 Key West Pl # 5577 #M5839575 $2,400 Kendra Vogel

3612 63rd St W #M5841638 $168,900 Elizabeth Gardini

2819 52nd Avenue Ter W #M5839863 $128,000 Jaymie Carter

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Braden River 941-552-4200 941-773-4372

6541 Waters Edge Way #M5841535 $2,300 Kendra Vogel

7218 Ashland Gln #A3982478 $949,500 Sylvia Zimmerman

Lakewood Ranch 941-383-7591 941-350-5022

12301 Baypointe Ter #M5839375 $825,000 Kathy Valente

Cortez 941-748-6300 941-685-6767

7650 Silverwood Ct #M5840848 $699,900 Deborah Angelo O’Mara

9375 Old Tampa Rd #A3987189 $595,000 Sandra Maslen

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Anna Maria Island 941-748-6300 941-465-8843

Bradenton 941-951-6660 941-356-0096

Bradenton 941-748-6300 941-920-4573

14813 Skip Jack Loop # 14813 #A3989801 $149,900 Theresa Meyers

5724 21St W St #M5842737 $123,900 Debbie Capobianco

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Palmetto 941-748-6300 941-720-3278

2011 21st St W #M5836753 Lynne Callahan

Lakewood Ranch 941-907-9595 941-730-0777

7909 Royal Queensland Way #A3982073 $619,000 Sherwin Taradash, PA

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Parrish 941-907-9595 941-726-0035

22475 Panther Loop #A3989559 $575,000 Dana Westmark

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3702 54Th W Dr # Q204 #A3989695 $515,000 Adam Cuffaro

Bradenton 941-752-2683 941-812-0791

7648 Calle Facil # 7648 #A3984504 $499,900 Howie Drourr

Sarasota 941-907-9595 941-812-6476

230 Sands Point Rd # 3203 #A3989464 $455,000 Thomas Cinquegrano

Longboat Key 941-907-9595 941-284-5049

Lakewood Ranch 941-907-9595 941-780-5214

Bradenton 941-748-6300 941-704-2394

Lakewood Ranch 941-552-4200 941-773-4372

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3911 Hawk Island Dr #M5841777 $1,995,000 Francine DeDona & Pam Goodwin

107 66th St # 12 #A3978714 $850,000 Kevin Carroll

Louise Davidson, of Berkeley, Calif., sold the home at 7427 Birds Eye Terrace to Silvano and Sherry Iaboni, of Bradenton, for $224,500. Built in 2005, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,814 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $319,100 in 2005.

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his home at 6230 White Clover Circle to David Breslau and Tania Gontarek, of Bradenton, for $240,000. Built in 1998, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,939 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $185,000 in 2001.

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Philip and Nicki Coffaro, of Sarasota, sold their home at 5746 Carriage Drive to Daniel Harbert and Carol Kiley, of Monroe, Mich., for $275,000. Built in 1991, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,024 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $167,000 in 1996.

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Country Club Village home sells for $850,000 The following residential real estate transactions took place between Dec. 16 and Dec. 20.

A home in Country Club Village at Lakewood Ranch tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Alvaro Joves and Maria Maldonado, of Miami, sold their home at 7217 Greystone St. to Robert Hofmann, of Bradenton, for $850,000. Built in 2011, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,861 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $741,600 in 2011.

1994, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,920 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $325,000 in 1998.

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Thomas and Joyce Mumford, of Sarasota, sold their home at 911 Maritime Court to Milton Ellis, of Bradenton, for $705,000. Built in 2003, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,299 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $680,000 in 2012.

Edgewater Village

John and Hallie Vitolo, of West Chester, Pa., sold their home at 8119 Waterview Blvd. to James and Michelle Glower, of Lakewood Ranch, for $679,000. Built in 1998, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,804 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $582,000 in 2011.

Country Club Village at Lakewood Ranch

LWR Country Club West LLC sold the home at 7491 Edenmore St. to Sarah Sinclair, of Bradenton, for $467,000. Built in 2009, it

Country Club Village at Lakewood Ranch home, which has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,861 square feet of living area, sold for $850,000. has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,116 square feet of living area.

Daniel Leonard and Giovanna Adimari, of Malvern, Pa., sold their home at 7115 Presidio Glen to Jonathan Laurens, of Northbrook, Ill., for $318,000. Built in 2004, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,911 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $330,400 in 2004.

Greenbrook Village

Paul and Melissa Van Hatten, of Lakewood Ranch, sold their home at 6470 Indigo Bunting Place to John and Karen Pruim, of Bradenton, for $450,000. Built in 2004, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,038 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $329,000 in 2011.

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sociation sold the home at 14531 Sundial Place to Philip and Rebecca Woods, of Bradenton, for $437,000. Built in 2006, it has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,863 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $483,000 in 2007.

David and Jama Kyle, of Moorsetown, N.J., sold their home at 15665 Lemon Fish Drive to Christopher and Lisa Rubal, of Bradenton, for $312,000. Built in 2007, it has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 2,572 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $342,500 in 2007.

River Club North

Stephen Furber, trustee, of Apollo Beach, sold the home at 6201 Glen Abbey Lane to Petro and Iryna Chyshkevych, of Bradenton, for $439,500. Built in

Justin and Kelly Powell, of Bradenton, sold their home at 2006 153rd Court E. to Robert and Crystal Reynolds, of Bradenton, for $365,000. Built in 2006, it has four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,759 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $299,000 in 2009.

Loretta Britton and Daniel Allen, of Sullivan, Wis., sold their home at 15103 21st Ave. E. to Gregory and Jennifer Pozanski, of Bradenton, for $330,000. Built in 2005, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,654 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $520,000 in 2006.

Jeffrey and Tracy Woodin sold their home at 13903 18th Place E. to Bradley and Karen Wilcosh, of Bradenton, for $286,000. Built in 2002, it has three bedrooms, two-and-two-half baths, a pool and 2,417 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $461,500 in 2005.

Federal National Mortgage Association sold the home at 403 135th St. E. to Paul Jorgensen, of Bradenton, for $221,500. Built in 1988, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,709 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $351,000 in 2005.

Sarasota, sold the home at 5642 Country Lakes Drive to Keith and Margaret Blodgett, of Sarasota, for $357,500. Built in 1993, it has three bedrooms, two-anda-half baths, a pool and 2,861 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $352,000 in 2004.

Stoneybrook at Heritage Harbour

Thavone Senelath and Melissa Hacker, of Palmetto, sold their home at 9085 Willowbrook Circle to Nabil and Norma Elfiky, of Bradenton, for $365,000. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,153 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $464,900 in 2006.

Miramar Links at Lakewood Ranch

Miramar at Lakewood Ranch LLC sold the Unit 82 condominium at 8108 Miramar Way to Suk and Boduck Chang, of Bradenton, for $339,200. Built in 2013, it has three bedrooms, two-and-ahalf baths and 2,262 square feet of living area.

Miramar at Lakewood Ranch LLC sold the Unit 83 condominium at 8106 Miramar Way to William Milne III, of Strafford, Vt., for $314,400. Built in 2013, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,262 square feet of living area.

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Merchandise Wanted CASH FOR Old Military Items.

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SENIOR LOOKING to purchase precious metals, SENIOR LOOKING to precious SENIOR LOOKING to purchase purchase precious metals, metals, LUXURY ANNUAL RENTALS time pieces, coins, jewelry and antiques.

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