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Neighbors pitch to Hilton guests Longboat Key will have 102 fewer tourist units for 16 to 18 months when the Hilton shuts down, but other properties are ready to roll out the welcome mat during the resort’s remodel.

+ Resident buys winning ticket Longboat Key resident Robert Rich is now $53,165.93 richer. He purchased a winning Fantasy 5 ticket at the island’s Publix, according to the Florida Lottery.

Rich was one of four winners of the Jan. 27 lottery, each of whom will receive a $53,165.93 prize.

The other three winning tickets were purchased in Coral Springs, Tampa and Miami.

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Google the words “Longboat Key,” “Hilton” and “alternatives.”

The first search result will take you to the website hiltonlongboatkeyalternative.com — which redirects you to the website of Sand Cay Beach Resort, the Hilton’s next-door neighbor to the south.

The Longboat Key Hilton Beachfront Resort isn’t accepting reservations after April 30,

in preparation for a $24 million redevelopment and expansion project. That means the Key will have 102 fewer rooms during construction, which Delray Beach-based Ocean Properties anticipates will last 16 to 18 months.

Of course, Ocean Properties has other options in the area.

It’s the owner of the Resort at Longboat Key Club, Lido Beach

Resort and Lido Beach Holiday Inn. Karen Rangel, regional director of sales for Ocean Properties, said she couldn’t comment on the company’s plans to bring Hilton guests to the company’s other resorts.

But other properties, such as the 60-unit Sand Cay, are happy to spread the message that they

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The Hilton will stop accepting reservations after April 30.

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The Seattle Seahawks’ Super Bowl XLVII victory ended a winning streak for Mote Marine Aquarium manatee Buffett.

Buffett placed his bet on the Denver Broncos Jan. 24, when he swam to a target with the Broncos’ logo. He had picked the Super Bowl winner correctly for six consecutive years.

Perhaps Buffett’s halfbrother, Hugh, is now the manatee to watch before placing bets next year: Hugh swam to the Seahawks’ target.

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Brothers Travis, Garrett and Boo Bouley perform jumps along with Lance Robbins Sunday at the Sarasota Ski-A-Rees season-opener at City Island stadium. The show team executed everything from jumps to three-tiered pyramids in front of a crowd. For more photos from the show, see page 6B.

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+ A Longboat Key beach proposal Tad Landau, son of Lenny and Susan Landau, and his sweetheart, Caley Ross, got engaged after a New Year’s Day proposal on the Bay Isles private beach. The couple plans to marry this fall in Orlando.

Landau, a DeKalb County, Ga. firefighter, was recently named Georgia’s Firefighter of the Year.

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Accounting issues plague budget The town seeks to eliminate outdated accounting practices and improve its revenue projections as it grapples with a projected $1.4 million budget deficit from last year.

Finance Director Sue Smith took over as chief accountant for a few months in 2013 while the town sought to fill the open position. The extra work enabled the former auditor to uncover and correct some strange accounting practices that have affected the town’s balance sheet for years.

For instance, the town hasn’t addressed office supplies inventory since the 1990s and was just expensing the supplies to the department budgets when they needed supplies. Tennis Center supplies, Smith said, also weren’t being accounted for correctly.

Smith also said the town will

discontinue a policy of carrying purchase orders over prior years, which affected the operating budget and increased department budgets.

And, a $42,980.75 fund consisting of fees for replacement trees that can’t be saved when new projects are built wasn’t be-

ing accounted for correctly and wasn’t singled out as a special revenue fund.

The town has filled the accountant position, but Smith told the Longboat Key Town Commission at its meeting Mon-

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“I’m apprehensive as to what it could do,” McGucken said. “It could hurt us with them working outside. We’re working with them, and they’ve been good neighbors.”

Gail Loefgren, president of the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce, believes the Hilton’s closing will impact local businesses.

“It’s like the Holiday Inn when it closed,” she said. “The nice thing about the Hilton is that visitors can come and stay one or two nights. In season, it’s always nice to have places like that.”

The temporary loss of meeting rooms will also affect local organizations, including the chamber, Loefgren said, adding: “But we’ll be happy to have a new and rebuilt Hilton.”

The project will add 85 rooms with Gulf views to the Longboat Key hotel in a new tower on the property. The existing property, including its current 102 rooms, will be gutted and remodeled.

The property will get a remodeled pool area, new lobby building and new restaurant/meeting space building.

The Longboat Key Town Commission approved the project in January. The Hilton expects to reopen in fall 2015.

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are ready to welcome Hilton guests.

“We opened up the website to be able to capture anyone who might be staying there,” said General Manager Elaine Frederick, who said the resort got a few new visitors last year, when the Hilton planned to close in May 2013.

Because many Sand Cay guests walk to the Hilton’s restaurants, the resort’s board is looking into other ways to provide snack foods and beverages to guests, including a possible partnership with Harry’s Continental Kitchens.

At the 102-unit Casa Del Mar Beach Resort, located just a block north of the Hilton, owners dropped the minimum stay from seven nights to four nights in anticipation of the resort’s plans to close in May, according to General Manager Mark Meador.

The resort could drop the minimum stay further to three nights because many Hilton guests book shorter stays.

“We’re hoping to pull a few of them in,” Meador said. “If we can just keep them in this area, that would be the goal.”

Chris Bushman, manager at

Sea Club I, said the 24-unit resort hasn’t done anything specific to advertise to Hilton guests, but has had individuals who are staying at the resort stop by for a brochure.

At the 50-unit Diplomat Beach Resort, marketing coordinator and reservations manager Matt Angelo said he reached out to Hilton officials to let them know that the resort could accommodate some guests.

“In season, we have a minimum stay of seven days and that’s pretty firm because we have a lot of return guests,” Angelo said. “But after the middle of March, we can go into one or two nights. We are very flexible with dates.”

Still, some have concerns about the impact of the Hilton’s temporary closure.

Jim McGucken, manager at the Sun ’n’ Sea Cottages & Apartments, located next door to the Hilton on the north, said the 24-unit property typically has an 80% to 90% occupancy rate, which is why he doesn’t plan to do anything to draw Hilton guests.

But he’s concerned about the impact of construction, although he credits Hilton officials with being receptive to his concerns.

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Commission won’t pursue Gulf-front property The majority of commissioners decided that purchasing a home on the beach wasn’t a good use of taxpayer dollars.

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The seawall in the Gulf at 6541 Gulfside Road won’t be torn down after commissioners decided not to purchase the property.

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Town Manager Dave Bullock recommended the town purchase a beach-front property at 6541 Gulfside Road, in order to tear down a seawall and create a future public beach access, for $1.17 million.

Commissioner Jack Duncan recommended the town purchase the property for $1.

The Longboat Key Town Commission didn’t approve either recommendation at its Monday night meeting, and the town won’t pursue the property at a foreclosure auction this week.

Duncan made his facetious $1 motion to thwart any attempt at buying the property, and the majority of the commission agreed that the town shouldn’t purchase the parcel.

Bullock recommended the town put a bid on the property for $1.17 million, which is the average of two appraisals performed for the property. Bullock needed five commissioners — a super majority vote — to approve the purchase.

The home, which is owned by Roseann Morrison, has an estimated mortgage foreclosure claim from JPMorgan Chase Bank valued at $2,407,256.25. The property will be sold at auction 11 a.m.

Wednesday, on the Manatee County public auction website. The half-acre property contains a 2,214-square-foot home that last sold for $1 million in September 2001.

The total assessed value of the property in 2013 was $909,301, according to the Manatee County Property Appraiser’s website.

The house sits on the beach and is just south of the former Yonkers property, which was recently transformed into a Gulf-front estate called Ohana at 6633 Gulf of Mexico Drive that’s on the market for $22 million. The town missed an opportunity to purchase that property years ago to knock down its seawall.

The Ohana property seawall has prevented sand from staying on the shoreline for years.

Commissioner Phill Younger said the property in question was not causing a problem and that the loss of sand in the area can be attributed to the larger seawall at the Ohana estate.

“Is there any downward impact on the sand?” Younger said. “No, it’s being caused by the other seawall.”

The money to be used for the purchase would have come from the beach fund, which contains more than $5 million.

But Duncan said it didn’t matter.

“My gut feeling is this isn’t a good expense of taxpayer dollars,” Duncan. “The money might be in the beach fund, but it’s still taxpayer dollars.”

Other commissioners and some people from the audience also recommended the town not bid on the property.

“This is a total waste of money for the town,” said former mayor George Spoll.

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“Our beach engineer has recommended we buy this and it could save money over time from the amount of sand we would have to place there,” Brenner said.

Bullock said his recommendation wasn’t an easy one, but he stuck by it.

“I haven’t changed my belief the property is better in public ownership than private ownership,” Bullock said, noting that there are only a few properties that have structures protruding on the coastline where sand should exist to protect the barrier island. “As long as there is a

town, we will be in the beach-building business. We would be able to deal with this property better under our ownership than have no control over it like we do now.”

A potential deal breaker for commissioners, though, revolved around an easement from Gulfside Road to the beach house that wouldn’t allow the town to use machinery to access the beach for future beach projects.

Although the town could have turned the property into a future public beach access, it wouldn’t be able to use it for beach maintenance purposes.

“If we can’t have the access to the road we want, that’s a problem,” said Mayor Jim Brown.

Duncan made a motion to move forward with attempting to purchase the property for an auction bid price of $1.

Then, every commissioner but Brenner voted against the purchase.

Despite the outcome, commissioners praised Bullock for bringing the land purchase option before them.

“This had merit to bring it forward and we should commend the town manager for that,” Younger said. “We lost an opportunity years ago to purchase the property that causes the real problem here.”

GROINS RECEIVE STATE PERMIT The Department of Environmental Protection issued a joint coastal permit Friday afternoon for two permeable adjustable groins to be placed in front of the Longbeach and 360 North condominiums to hold sand in that area.

“Now all attention is on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit,” wrote Town Manager Dave Bullock in a Jan. 31 email to commissioners.

It could take six months for the town to receive a federal permit for the groins. The town could then bid a sand and groin project later this summer.

In the meantime, Bullock and town staff are working with the Longbeach and 360 North condominium owners who are concerned that the groins won’t be built soon enough.

“Further erosion could seal the fate of some of our buildings before these groins are built,” Longbeach President Bob Appel told commissioners at Monday night’s commission meeting.

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Longboat Key and Cranston, R.I. po- cause of death was blunt force trauma. lice officers, along with Sarasota County Cranston police continued to investiSheriff’s deputies, converged upon the gate and flew to Clearwater to investiResort at Longboat Key Club Jan. 29 to gate a lead in October, according to rearrest a trainer on first-degree murder ports, and also worked with the Boston charges.

Police Department. Three Officers arrested Carlos detectives traveled to SaraManuel Reyes-Sanchez, 30, sota last week, where they late that morning without inciworked closely with sheriff’s dent at the resort’s fitness cendeputies and determined ter shortly after Cranston, R.I. they had sufficient evidence police issued a warrant for his to charge Reyes-Sanchez. arrest.

A Rhode Island judge The charges stem from the signed an arrest warrant the 2012 death of Victor Baez, 49, morning of Jan. 29. whom police found lying in Sheriff’s records show that Courtesy Sarasota County the street in front of his home Sheriff’s Office Reyes-Sanchez, who lived in Jan. 30, 2012, Cranston Patch Carlos Manuel the 3700 block of South Osreported. Cranston police be- Reyes-Sanchez prey Drive in Sarasota, was lieve that Baez was involved in arrested two days earlier on an altercation at a Providence nightclub misdemeanor charges of driving with a that continued at a house party. suspended or revoked license and misPolice said he fled the party in a cab, demeanor marijuana possession. He and at least two individuals, one of was released on $620 bond for those whom was Reyes-Sanchez, beat him cases. then ran him over with their vehicle.

Reyes-Sanchez was booked at 1:22 Baez was hospitalized in critical con- p.m. into the Sarasota County Jail and is dition and died of his injuries May 26, being held without bond as he awaits ex2012, nearly four months after the attack. tradition to Rhode Island. He has agreed The medical examiner determined the to waive his right to fight extradition.

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These wetlands were once covered with 6 inches of Australian pine needles. Newly planted spartina grass helped mangroves to grow that today are alive with fiddler crabs, minnows, crustaceans and sea birds that feed on the rich fauna.

Funded by a Longboat Key Garden Club grant, this sign on the town dock details the evolution of Sister Keys.

Audio tour spotlights protected Sister Keys Sister Keys is home to gopher tortoises and gumbo limbo — but no golf courses — and your cellphone can help you find out why. that highlights watersheds throughout Sarasota and Manatee counties. The SEC plans to add new stops every year.

For the Sister Keys stop, Chiles tells of how developers first sought to build the Shangri-Isle Club on the mangrove islands — complete with a golf course and landing strip for airplanes — and later planned to develop residential homes on the islands. But that never happened.

“A group of concerned citizens had another vision to purchase and protect Sister

Keys, and they formed the Sister Keys Conservatory and for four years the group worked to make it happen,” Chiles says.

Finally, the town purchased the islands in 1992, ensuring their preservation as a mangrove wetland.

Later in 2007, the town took on a $1 million mitigation project to remove invasive plants, including the Australian pines that covered the island, and replace them with native species.

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Sister Keys are the largest set of undeveloped islands from Tampa Bay to Charlotte Harbor. But in the 1980s and early 1990s, developers had other visions for the four islands.

Sarasota Bay Watch founding board member Ed Chiles, who owns the Chiles Restaurant Group, narrates the story of the islands on a new audio tour of Sister Keys that’s available through the Science and Environment Council of Southwest Florida Inc.’s (SEC) Mobile Phone Tour. It’s Stop 23 of a larger 25-stop SEC tour

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Keys is now home to a greater diversity of wildlife, including fiddler crabs, ibis and roseate spoonbills. The waters surrounding the islands have shallow seagrass beds that serve as nurseries for fish such as snook, redfish, sea trout and flounder. Seagrasses also provide a home, protection and food source for other species such as crabs, oysters, scallops and manatees.

A sign at the town dock in the Longbeach Village, funded by a grant from the Longboat Key Garden Club, was erected last month to commemorate efforts to preserve Sister Keys.

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Sarasota Bay Watch board member Steve Traves removed this invasive pepper from the uplands. Peppers and Australian pines need continual clearing to prevent them from re-establishing a foothold on the Sister Keys.

Sister Keys’ perimeter wetlands were created from a barren area of dredging fill. The wetlands around the main island are teeming with minnows and other crustaceans.

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A Longboat Key couple reported that between $550,000 and $600,000 worth of jewelry was stolen from their condominium Jan. 28. Earlier that day, a man and woman reported a break-in at the home where they were staying and at least $3,000 worth of jewelry missing.

But while both incidents occurred midKey and on the same day, police don’t believe they are related.

The larger of the two thefts occurred Tuesday evening at Vizcaya condominium, 2355 Gulf of Mexico Drive, while John and Elenor Maxheim were out to dinner in Sarasota.

Police say the suspect(s) entered the fire escape stairwell from the garage, which wasn’t locked, and entered the second floor, where the couple’s door was propped open with a brick. The thief or thieves then opened an unlocked door to the dinette area.

The suspect(s) apparently removed jewelry from a tray in the master bedroom’s drawer and a travel bag and also stole $1,200 and 500 Euros, all in cash, from a closet.

A Vizcaya manager called police at 10:12 p.m. to report the incident. According to a police report, the condominium does not have video surveillance on the property.

Earlier in the evening, police responded to a burglary reported at 6:06 p.m. in the 600 block of Buttonwood Drive.

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Neighbors reported seeing two white or Hispanic males in the area that night and the day before in a black or gray vehicle.

The incidents don’t appear connected, according to Longboat Key Police Chief Pete Cumming.

“After looking at both of them, there’s nothing that seems to be related in any way,” Cumming said. “One was a forced entry. In the other, the door to the building was propped open and the point of entry appears to be a stairwell.”

Cumming said Monday afternoon that police continue to pursue leads in both cases and could possibly use data from the license-recognition cameras installed on both entrances to the Key last year to identify the vehicle witnesses described in the Buttonwood Drive case.

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Aria condos attract those looking for new inventory

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Ten of 16 available units were reserved during the first week the project began taking deposits from buyers. will allow owners to control everything from the air conditioning to entertainment systems, complete the mix.

Tallman, who also developed Vizcaya and en Provence, hopes to begin construction, which is anticipated to last 15 to 17 months, this summer. Priced between $3.44 million and $4.25 million, units will range from 3,804 square feet to 3,940 square feet in a new four-story building.

Drake said the project’s clubhouse, which is the former Villa Am Meer’s 5,000-square-foot residence that’s being rehabilitated on the site, is also a draw to future buyers.

“People love the location and that the villa is being preserved and will continue to be a part of the community,” Drake said.

A German immigrant named Dr. Hermann Kohl purchased the property in the depths of the Great Depression in 1932, two years after he was indicted on federal bootlegging charges. After Prohibition ended in late 1933, the charges were dropped, and Kohl built Villa Am Meer in 1935 as a winter retreat.

Drake also believes the property’s history played a part in its early reservations.

With only 16 units on the property, Drake said that the limited number of units can also be attributed to the project’s early reservations.

“People understand the scarcity of the offering and they don’t want to miss out,” she said.

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In its first week of sales, 10 of 16 planned luxury condominium units for the Aria project were reserved.

The Longboat Key Planning & Zoning Board recommended the project Jan. 22, and reservations for the units opened that day.

“On opening day, we reserved 50% of the units,” said Amy Drake, director of sales and marketing for Aria. “By the end of the week, we had 10 reservations with signed agreements and deposits in hand.”

Drake and Sarasota developer Jay Tallman, president of Ascentia Group LLC, attribute the reservations to a need for new high-end units on Longboat Key. Tallman said he began receiving calls about the condominium units right after he announced plans for the project at 2251 Gulf of Mexico Drive in September.

The units will feature a “coastal contemporary theme,” which Tallman describes as “more modern with a style that uses wood to create warmth in a beachfront setting.”

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The hedgehog strategy The continued thought and talk on Longboat Key about developing a town center east of the Publix and the Shoppes at Bay Isles certainly are titillating.

Wouldn’t it be great?

And you have to admit the accompanying rendering, pulled from the preliminary report from the Urban Land Institute study late last year, adds to the enchantment of the idea.

Reality, as we know, is another story.

When you take a snapshot of Longboat Key today, it brings to mind that bromide “two steps forward, one step back.”

The “forward” is the momentum we’re seeing in new development. In the span of weeks, the town of Longboat Key approved Ocean Properties’ plans to redevelop and expand the Longboat Key Hilton Beachfront Resort and Ascentia Group’s plans to develop Aria, 16 luxury condos at Villa Am Meer. Crossgate Partners simultaneously is pressing ahead to develop Infinity, an 11-unit, Gulf-front luxury project at midKey, and Shawn Kaleta of Holmes Beach unveiled his plans to develop nine homes on the Gulf side between Positano and Club Longboat.

All of this brings back memories of the Roaring mid-1990s.

But then we take that one step back.

What a tragic pity to think the Colony saga has come to this: The town has scheduled a public hearing in early March at Temple Beth Israel to determine whether that storied resort should be declared a public nuisance and forced to be demolished.

What an indignity. We all know that horrible dispute has rendered the Colony’s buildings irreparable. But does the town really need to kick more dirt in the face in the final chapter of the Colony’s book?

While that slowly plays out, we read news that the town’s budget is headed toward a $1.4 million deficit largely because Longboat’s property owners — 70% of them part-timers — are using far less electricity and gas than the town projected. We hate to point it out, but that’s not a sign of strengthening health.

And that news comes amid the town’s ULI advisory subcommittee apparently still trying to figure out a meaningful purpose for itself. Its mission, as we’ve come to understand, is to help the Town Commission and Longboat residents decide what projects or recommendations in the ULI study the town should undertake and which should be shelved.

Oh my, surely we’re all smart enough to see where that’s likely to go. It’s a committee of commissioners, town staffers, Town Hall watchers and a couple of independent citizens. Did we say it’s a “committee?”

Enough said.

In spite of this, last week there may have been a breakthrough. The group appeared

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ULI rendering of an imagined town center next to Publix on Longboat Key. to agree that it should focus on how to improve the looks of Gulf of Mexico Drive and Bayfront Park and Recreation Center.

This makes sense. The idea of a town center, while enticing, should be put on “low percolate” while other priorities occur.

Consider this: As we reviewed the ULI preliminary report, we stopped at one of its recommendations: “Find opportunities for quick successes.”

And that brought to mind one of the truisms from author Jim Collins’ famous business book, “From Good to Great.”

Collins researched the performance and operations of more than 1,000 companies to determine what is required for a good company to become a great company. And one of his discoveries — although not a surprising revelation — was this: “There are no silver bullets.”

Cliche, yes. But true. And here’s the relevance to Longboat Key: Forget for the time being about focusing time, energy, money, consultants and resources on developing a town center. Other important changes must occur first to make a town center financially plausible.

It’s like building a newspaper: First you need compelling, relevant content. With that, you can attract readers. And when you have readers, you have a market for retailers and advertisers.

On Longboat Key, that means we need new and better content — updated amenities that appeal to potential homebuyers.

And if there are candidates for “quick successes,” they are Bayfront Park and Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Indeed, it would seem sensible for the the Town Commission and town manager to bring the redeveloped Bayfront Park and Recreation Center to fruition. More than four years ago, the town pressured the Sarasota County Commission to send some of Longboat taxpayers’ millions of dollars back to the Key. One of the results was the county’s acquisition of the property south of Bayfront Park. In addition, the county was to earmark funds to redevelop the entire park.

Alas, the recession hit. But now it’s time.

Finish the park.

Then imagine the impression: Three completed new condos, an expanded and redeveloped Hilton and a new, public recreational amenity. Surely that would help attract more residents and more buyers.

And once the critical mass of residents and visitors is rebuilt, the idea of a sustainable town center becomes more plausible.

That’s not to say efforts to move the town center forward should be shelved altogether. They, too, can percolate.

But if you look at the state of the Key today, it reminds us also of another of Collins’ findings in “Good to Great.” The great companies all had this characteristic: They were hedgehogs. They worked toward greatness over long periods. That’s what will be required of Longboat Key. No silver bullets. Grinding it out over many years.

And now is the start.

INCOME INEQUALITY AND THE MINIMUM WAGE Even going back to biblical times, various groups, leaders and movements have sought and promised the imagined nirvana of material equality.

In more modern times, we’ve seen this delusion in Marx and Hitler; the Soviet Union; the rise of the European Union; and, ever since FDR, in the Democratic Party here in the United States.

The method is always the same: bring down those who have risen above others.

Punish achievement.

But in all of this time — more than 2,000 years — no one has ever achieved equality for all. Nor will they ever. Indeed, just the idea of redistributing material wealth is in itself a proposition of inequality — the self-anointed choosing one over another. And yet, people like Barack Obama persist.

As always, the “equalists” rail about increasing the minimum wage here in the United States. Obama says it should be $10 an hour.

But why stop there? Why not go all the

way? Let’s really make everyone equal and, once and for all, eliminate poverty: Pay everyone $200 an hour!

No level of minimum wage will ever eliminate poverty or inequality. And even raising it a little is harmful. Milton Friedman once explained this vividly: What you give to one, you must take away from another. Give more to one group, you have less to give to another group (e.g. fewer jobs at the entry level, where they are needed most).

That’s the economic argument.

It’s also a matter of freedom.

What an employer pays an employee is no one’s business except theirs, and certainly it is none of the business of the government.

When an employer and employee agree on a wage, they have created a private contract between themselves. They have voluntarily and peacefully agreed that the wage to be paid is a fair trade for the work to be employed. That is free enterprise.

But what about exploitation? That’s why

we must have government-prescribed minimum wages, say the do-gooders.

This is bogus.

To begin with, when an employee accepts a job and the pay, he is doing so voluntarily. No one is forcing him.

Likewise, if he feels exploited by an unacceptably low wage, he has the freedom to quit.

Now flip the coin: It’s in the employer’s self-interest to pay a fair wage that will allow the business to succeed and attract the right people he needs to succeed.

If he exploits, employees will quit, the employer’s reputation will suffer and he will fail.

If you want wage fairness, there is no better arbiter than the marketplace of two individuals practicing peaceful, voluntary, free trade — the act of a buyer (the employer) and a seller (the employee) agreeing on the value of the seller’s good or service.

That is freedom. Bring in the government, and the transaction becomes distorted coercion. Laissez-faire.

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+ What’s so onerous about Aria conditions?

Dear Editor: When you take the town to task on how, you think, it is foreclosing the rights of the poor and middle class to afford a home on Longboat Key because of the “onerous” conditions imposed on the plans currently approved “unanimously” by our Planning and Zoning board for the Aria project, this old engineer objects.

There is nothing in the set of conditions to which you devoted so much space that is not required in an adequate set of construction drawings. Did you hear any complaints from the proponents?

The problem in our town is that the planning board has nothing to do with approving plans. The way our town is now structured is that the Longboat Key Town Commission gets the chance to approve plans. The planning board just makes recommendations.

The result is that the plans presented to the planning board are mostly smoke and mirrors, and the actual plans are finally submitted after the Town Commis-

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sion has completed its machinations and approved the project.

Just out of curiosity, exactly which of the 37 conditions do you find unnecessary or redundant? I actually found one item missing. There is no provision mentioned about the necessity for a tire-cleaning crushed-stone area to clean the wheels of the construction vehicles exiting the site onto Gulf of Mexico Drive, but I am picky.

Kudos to the Planning, Zoning and Building Department for doing its job!

But to return to your complaint about the affordability of these proposed dwellings: our Declaration of Independence guarantees our people certain inalienable rights, including “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” It doesn’t guarantee happiness, merely its pursuit.

Nobody is denied ownership of these proposed homes. But let me

Aria rendering assure you, anyone who manages to buy one should be guaranteed that all 37 conditions were included in exchange for his or her money. Same goes for the neighbors and the citizenry of Longboat Key who might be impacted.

Bradford Saivetz Longboat Key Editor’s Note: Mr. Saivetz: The list of 37 conditions is a tiny representation of the labyrinthine regulatory scheme on Longboat Key. You ask: Which of the conditions do we find unnecessary or redundant? How about this as a sample:

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“14) Native and drought-resistant plant species shall be used in the buffer and other common areas to reduce water requirements. No more than 25% of the site may be planted with sod or plant species that are not drought resistant. A detailed landscape plan shall be submitted to the town and approved by the Planning, Zoning and Building Department prior to the issuance of a building permit.

“15) All nuisance exotic species of trees on the entire site shall be removed, including Australian Pine (Casuarina spp.), Carrotwood (Cupianopsis anacardioides) and Brazilian Pepper (Schinus terebinthifolius). All efforts shall be made to avoid the removal of native vegetation; however, whenever such native vegetation having a diameter breast height (dbh) of four (4) inches or greater must be removed, the applicant shall provide on-site replacement trees at a ratio of two (2) replacement trees for each one (1) tree removed. Replacement trees shall have a minimum of a four-inch dbh and a 12-foot height, when planted at grade.”

Really? — Ed.

+ Town employee receives kudos Dear Editor: It is nice to see the town of Longboat Key doing some positive work with local businesses. Human Resources Manager Lisa Silvertooth has been working diligently to include and promote businesses on the Key in the health and wellness initiatives the town is offering their employees and Key residents. This is a very positive step and much appreciated by Key businesses. We need the town support to help keep businesses on the Key, which, in turn, allows the residents to have the services they need right here on the island and helps many of them stay in their homes and maintain their independence.

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QUALITY CONTROL 3:22 p.m. — 500 block of Bay Isles Parkway. Civil Disturbance. A drycleaning store employee and a customer argued after the customer said he had dropped off six shirts and the employee insisted he only dropped off five. The employee got upset after the customer said the quality of service at the business had gone down, and he told him to leave and did not give him back his clothing. Police told the man the missing-shirt issue was a civil matter but accompanied him back to the store so he could pay for his cleaned clothing.

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5:05 p.m. — 500 block of Forest Way. Suspicious Circumstance.

A woman’s home was still locked when she returned, but she worried someone could be inside because she could not find her cellphone and found a piece of chewing gum near the sink that looked different from the gum she normally chews. Police found her cellphone near the area she had been in earlier but did not find anything out of place in the home.

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SLEEPING UNDER THE INFLUENCE 2:40 p.m. — 5600 block of GMD. Suspicious Circumstance. A convenience store clerk called police because a man, who was possibly intoxicated, was sleeping in the driver’s seat of a truck parked in front of the store. Police noticed several open cans of beer on the floorboard of the truck. The keys were not in the ignition, and no witnesses saw him driving. The man got a ride home from a friend and a warning from police about the consequences of drinking and driving.

BARK IN ANOTHER PARK 4:31 p.m. — 100 block of GMD. Animal. A caller reported that a couple had a dog off-leash in a park, but, when police arrived, the dog was on a leash, which was still a violation of the town ordinance because dogs are not allowed at the park. Police suggested they take the dog to nearby Ken Thompson Park, where dogs are allowed.

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WEIGHTY ISSUE 1:13 p.m. — 500 block of Yawl Lane. Disturbance. A woman found Styrofoam bowls with pencils stuck through them on her property that were the same type of bowls she uses to feed her cats outside her home.

Her neighbor said she was tired of picking up the bowls after they blow onto her property. Police suggested

9:16 p.m. — 4000 block of GMD. Public Service. A convenience store employee called police about a disheveled-looking female who was not wearing shoes. The employee tried to give her money but she ran away.

Later, police stopped a woman, who matched the employee’s description, in the parking lot of another convenience store. She initially refused to

JAN. 26 SMOKIN’ HOT 5:06 p.m. — 4900 block of GMD. Fire Alarm. Police responded to a fire alarm at a condominium. When an officer arrived, the security guard told him he was heating up his fried chicken dinner in the guardhouse kitchen and the meal set off the alarm when it began to smoke. answer questions from police but then said she wanted to go to her parents’ home in Bradenton. Police gave her a ride.

JAN. 25 GAME OVER 10:32 p.m. — 700 block of Longboat Club Road. Suspicious Circumstance. A “European-type gypsy” woman got on the elevator with three condo residents and followed them to their units. One of the residents confronted the woman after the couple on the elevator invited the woman inside for a glass of wine. The woman pulled a necklace with a peacock jewel on it from around her neck and told them they were part of the peacock jewel game. She said she is trying to get to the next level of the game and that the man’s driving drew her to him. She called the man by name before leaving, which concerned him, because he did not give her his name.

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Kiwanis Club cashes in with Vegas theme This year’s Valentine’s Ball allows participants to win prizes and children to receive scholarship money.

You’re taking a gamble if you wait much longer to buy tickets for “Valentine’s in Las Vegas Dinner Dance & Casino Party,” presented by the Longboat Key Kiwanis Foundation and the Longboat Key Club.

“We’ve sold about 160 tickets with two weeks to go,” said Kiwanis Club member Bob Gault. “We have (tickets for) about 20 couples left. I anticipate selling out.”

As usual, youths are the real winners in this event because it raises money for local children’s charities and scholarships for students in the Sarasota/Manatee area.

But this year’s event offers participants the chance to win big, as well.

The event will kick off at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 14, with cocktails and games such as blackjack, roulette, three-card poker and craps. Each attendee will receive approximately 15 chips and can purchase more throughout the evening.

A sit-down dinner begins at 7:30 p.m., then the games will crank up once again and continue until 10 p.m. At that time, players will cash in their chips for raffle tickets.

Prizes include a trip to Las Vegas, a Universal Orlando Resort VIP Experience, a weekend golf stay at the Resort at Longboat Key Club, a six-course meal for 10 at the Lazy Lobster and a family photo session with Mary Lou Johnson.

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Nine years ago, Kristen Kohl’s life was much different.

Her 2-year-old son died tragically in a firearm accident.

Subsequently, she lost custody of her other two children, and their father was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Overcome with guilt and grief, she turned to drugs to escape the situation. She’d hit rock bottom.

In 2008, after going through a detox program in Fort Myers, she learned about Harvest House Transitional Centers, a social service in Sarasota that provides drug and alcohol treatment as well as transitional and permanent housing, and she decided to check in.

She graduated from the program and moved back to Fort Myers, but within a month of graduation, she relapsed and began drinking and using drugs again.

“I couldn’t function normally sober,” she says. “I just didn’t know how. I had a lot of shame and a lot of guilt.”

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Matthew Minor, director of development and community engagement, grew up immersed in Harvest House, which his parents founded in 1992. The center started as a six-bed drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility for men but steadily grew to offer services for both men and

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“I’m not done with my investigation yet,” Smith said.

Smith and Town Manager Dave Bullock also informed commissioners they are reviewing new accounting software because the town’s system is old and outdated. A new system could cost taxpayers more than $100,000.

Although commissioners were happy to hear that Smith corrected some accounting practices, they were upset that auditors hired to review the town’s finances each year never caught the irregularities.

“I’m concerned the auditors weren’t all over this,” said Commissioner Jack Duncan.

When staff informed commissioners that a three-year auditing contract with Clearwater-based Carr, Riggs & Ingram expires this year, Commissioner Phill Younger said, “It’s time to find a new auditor.”

Further frustrating commissioners was the announcement that the town already has a $1.4 million deficit to address because revenues aren’t coming in as expected for the fiscal year budget that ended Sept. 30, 2013.

Franchise fees have been declining for years, and town staff said it has to start doing a better job of estimating more realistic revenue numbers in the future. The decrease in utility revenues, staff said, might be attributed to seasonal residents coming to the island for shorter periods of time.

The town’s Investment Advisory Committee, Bullock said, will work with staff to come up with more realistic revenue projections. Smith will also provide the commission with quarterly revenue and budget updates.

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To counteract the deficit, the town has used more of its fund balance and Bullock’s preferred operating budget, which shoots for a 90-day minimum operating fund balance in case of an emergency, has now dropped by 15 days to 75 days.

Bullock told committee members that staff will present a two-year plan this summer to return the budget to the 90-day operating budget he prefers. The town is already making cuts, which include cutting the fire marshal’s hours from full time to three days a week.

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Super Bowl Sunday draws crowd at Sarasota Yacht Club Sarasota Yacht Club Charitable Foundation members cheered on their football favorites during a Super Bowl XLVIII party Sunday, Feb. 2.

Along with a tailgate-style buffet, attendees enjoyed a raffle, a game day pool and many prizes. Proceeds benefited the foundation’s scholarship program for studies in marine science, marine engineering and seamanship.

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Beachplace residents celebrated the big game with a Super Bowl party Sunday at their community clubhouse.

Attendees feasted on football favorites such as fried chicken, barbecue and chips and dip before cutting into the Super Bowl-themed cake.

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THURSDAY, FEB. 6 Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key — meets at 7:30 a.m. at the Longboat Key Club’s Tavern & Whiskey Bar. Rabbi Jonathan Katz, of Temple Beth Israel, will speak. Cost is $10 and includes a breakfast buffet. Call Donna at 388-2847. ’50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus’ Screening — begins at 7 p.m. at Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road. Temple member David Milberg, whose mother was one of the last children the Krauses brought to safety, will speak following the film. The event is free.

Call 383-3428.

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RSVP by Feb. 17. Contact Erin Knievel at eknievel@mote.org.

When: 2:30 to 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21 Where: Longboat Key Club Harbourside Dining Room, 3100 Harbourside Drive

Lido Tides Arts and Crafts Show — takes place from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in front of the Lido Beach Pavillion, 400 Ben Franklin Drive.

Call 379-0951.

SUNDAY, FEB. 9 Jazz Worship Service — takes place at 10 a.m. at Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Al Hixon and several other jazz members will perform. A Mardi Gras-style brunch will follow. Call 383-6491.

MONDAY, FEB. 10 Christ Chruch of Longboat Key Fashion Show — begins at 11 a.m. at Christ Church, 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Fashion by Patchington and hair by Design 2000. Cost is $10. Call Janet FitzGerald at 778-4376.

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Cost is $25 for members; $28 for nonmembers. Call Ruth Strauss at 383-5349.

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Marion Elizabeth Koerner

+ Younger: Think you ‘cancan’ dance?

In the 1980s, Commissioner Phill Younger and his wife, Fanny, spotted a cabaret restaurant while roaming the foothills of Nice, France, with a memorable moniker: Chez Fanny. They vowed to return.

They made plans to return Christmas Eve four years ago but found it was closed, despite assurances it would be open.

But, the third time was the charm for the Youngers last Christmas. Despite arriving 30 minutes after the show’s start time, the restaurant delayed the start until the couple

Marion Elizabeth Koerner, of Akron, Ohio, and Longboat Key, died Jan. 24.

Mrs. Koerner was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas; sisters, Ginny and Caryl; and son, Tommy.

She is survived by sons, Michael, Stephen, Jim and Greg; daughters, Mary Pat and Joanne; sister, Dorothy; 14 grandchildren; and nine greatgrandchildren.

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Commissioner Phill Younger performs at a cabaret show. arrived.

The show allowed the commissioner to add a new title to his resume: cancan dancer. Or, as Fanny Younger described in an email to the Longboat Observer, “can’t can’t” dancer.

William Robert Jones

William Robert Jones, 82, of Irvington, N.Y., and Longboat Key, died Jan. 27.

Born May 10, 1931, in Irvington, N.Y., he graduated cum laude in 1953 from Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y. He studied for a year at the Episcopal Theological School, in Cambridge, Mass., and for three years at the Union Theological Seminary, in Broadway, N.Y., where he earned a master’s degree.

Mr. Jones was ordained to the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church and subsequently served as associate minister of St. Andrews Church in Yonkers, N.Y., until joining the overseas department of the national church in 1959.

After studying Japanese at the Yale University School of Far Eastern Languages, Mr. Jones and his family moved to

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+ Bernie Ditchik courts 90th birthday Longboat Key resident Bernie Ditchik celebrated his 90th birthday Jan. 28 on the tennis courts of the Players Club with friends Manfred Welfonder, Mike Tighe and Marty Hauselman.

He sported a T-shirt that featured a picture of himself and his double off the courts: his twin brother, Charlie, and the words, “Made in 1924: built to last.” Ditchik drove to Florida’s East Coast over the weekend for a joint birthday celebration with his brother.

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Japan, and he served in the Diocese of Osaka of the Anglican Church of Japan for six years.

He then served as rector of St. David’s and St. John’s churches in Orange County, N.Y., upon returning to the United States.

In 1968, Mr. Jones redirected his career to the field of pediatric rehabilitation medicine.

He held administrative positions at Montefiore Medical Center, in New York City, St. Agnes Children’s Center, in White Plains, N.Y. and Blythedale Children’s Hospital, in Valhalla, N.Y. Mr. Jones retired to Longboat Key and spent summers at his family home on Long Beach Island, N.J. He was active in the Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning Global Issues Program and served on its board of directors for several terms.

Mr. Jones was preceded in death by his first wife, Emily Alison Howden.

He is survived by his wife, Nancy Lowden; sons, William Winslow, of Irvington, N.Y., Pearce Richard, of Dripping Springs, Texas, Peter Howden, of Irvington, N.Y., and Andrew Arthur, of Bangor, Maine; sister, Alice Dorn, of Suffield, Mass.; brother, John Thomas, of Princeton, N.J.; nine grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Doctors Without Borders, doctorswithoutborders.org. A celebration of Mr. Jones’ life will be held at a later date.

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Traditional Worship Celebration • 11:00 a.m.

The Reverend Mark A. Bernthal

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The Rev. Dr. Vincent Carroll Senior Minister

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Sunday Worship Schedule

God’s work. Our hands.

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6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive • Longboat Key, Florida 34228 Telephone: 383-6491 • web: www.longboatislandchapel.org The Lord’s Warehouse

St. Armands Key Lutheran Church 40 North Adams Drive

Adult Education 9 – 9:45 a.m.

Communion and Healing at 9:45 a.m.

Worship Service at 10 a.m.

Jazz Worship at 10 a.m.

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COINCIDENCE? Congratulations to these Realtors who ranked among the Top 25 Highest-Selling local Realtors in 2013 – all Observer advertising partners.

Our thanks to these Realtors for their continued loyalty and partnership!

Roger Pettingell Barbara Ackerman • Candy Swick • Cheryl Loeffler • Lynne Koy • Judy Kepecz-Hays Linda Dickinson • Joel Schemmel • Bruce Myer • Ian Addy • Reid Murphy • Maureen Horn

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ROGER SELLS LUXURY WATERFRONT PROPERTY For the fourth time in six years, Roger has been named: #1 Realtor in both Sarasota and Manatee Counties • #1 Single Coldwell Banker agent for all of Florida

ROGER SELLS GRAND BAY

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Enjoy wonderful southern views from this stylishly furnished Antigua plan residence. Spacious layout, panoramic views from the wraparound terrace.

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602SouthOwlDrive.com New construction, 4BR/4½BA bay front home. More than 5,500 sf includes en-suite bedrooms, office, media room, kitchen/family room, huge garage and more. $5,495,000

2735GulfofMexicoDrive.com Pristine luxury awaits in this custom-built 6BR/5BA home situated on the powdery shores of the Gulf. Offering designer interior features, stunning laniai overlooking the beach, private wine cellar and an array of entertaining areas. $6,800,000

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Direct Gulf views and stunning sunsets abound from every room of this wonderful residence. Wraparound terrace, open layout.

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627MourningDoveDrive.com This exquisite 4BR/5½BA bay front home is a statement of luxury living. Offering 5,800 sf of designer features and outdoor entertaining areas with bay breezes. $4,495,000 398BobWhiteDrive.com Charming 4BR/3BA waterfront home offers southern views and recent updates. Sailboat water, a newer dock and lift. $1,195,000

LONGBOAT KEY 5861GulfofMexicoDrive.com Immediately fall in love with the stunning sunsets that this direct Gulf front home offers. $4,295,000

BEACHPLACE Beachplace2405.com Direct Gulf front, 2BR/2BA on the 4th floor.

Beautiful sunsets from every room. Also includes one deeded, covered parking space.

Just steps to the beach. $760,000

THE OAKS 384BunkerHill.com Beautifully upgraded 4BR/3½BA home in the prestigious Oaks golfing community.

Featuring a cook’s kitchen, formal living and dining rooms, plus an excellent pool deck with outdoor entertaining areas. $999,000

EMERALD POINTE EmeraldPointeSouth16.com Secluded 3BR/3½BA villa. 2-car garage.

Access to Bay Isles Beach Club. $699,000

PRESTANCIA 7890EsperanzaCircle.com Splendid Arthur Rutenburg lake front 3BR/4½BA home. New kitchen, expansive layout and wonderful pool deck. $749,900

GRAND BAY GrandBay263.com Beautifully upgraded 2BR/2½BA Cayman.

Media room, wine storage, cook’s kitchen and custom features throughout. $1,575,000 629RountreeDrive.com Located on deep sailboat water with newer dock and seawall. This spacious 3BR/3BA home offers formal living and dining rooms.

Deeded beach access. $1,795,000

L'AMBIANCE LAmbianceL307.com Building II, Areca plan, wonderful sunsets views, expansive wraparound terrace. All new windows and sliders. $1,549,000

GULF FRONT CONDOS

LONGBOAT BEACHCOMBER II GulfFrontCondo103.com

LongboatBeachcomber11.com Walk out to the beach. 2BR/2BA ideal retreat or rental. Furnished. $660,000

PELICAN HARBOUR PelicanHarbourMH2.com Villa on the Beach! Rarely available 2BR beachfront Manor Home. Recent upgrades.

Enjoy the beach in your backyard. $1,495,000

BEACH RESIDENCES BeachResidences303.com Lido beach's premiere community offers this lovely 2BR+den/2BA with a great layout and spacious Gulf terrace. $1,095,000

COREY'S LANDING 3436MistletoeLane.com Light and open 4BR/4BA home situated directly on Sarasota’s bayfront, 2-car garage, boat dock and lift. $1,349,000

BUTTONWOOD HARBOR FourWinslowPlace.com Light and open 3BR/2BA bay front home in this secluded community. Ideally located on deep bay water. $1,095,000

LA FIRENZA LaFirenzaS301.com Direct Gulf front with southern exposure, 4,800sf, 4BR/3½BA penthouse with designer details. Wraparound terrace with summer kitchen, three-car garage. $4,495,000

COUNTRY CLUB SHORES 1015BogeyLane.com Stunning 4BR/5½BA plus den with views down the canal out to the bay. Upgraded finishes and designer features. $1,695,000 511BowspritLane.com Custom-built, newer 4BR/3½BA waterfront home situated on an oversized lot. Offering a light and open layout, wonderful views, dock, lift and newer seawall. $1,095,000

3 bedrooms, 2½ baths

The pristine shores of the Gulf are just steps away from this rarely-available 2BR/2BA residence in a quaint community. $599,000

LONGBOAT BAYSIDE 7100LongboatDriveEast.com Bayfront Rustic Luxe! Upgraded 4BR/3BA home on deep-water dockage with multiple lifts offers two separate homes. $1,395,000

HAWKS HARBOR 7038HawksHarborCircle.com The epitome of luxury living rests in this private island. Nestled among lush landscape, almost two acres on the open bay. $1,990,000

SEAPLACE SeaplaceG4109.com Walk out to the white powdery sands of the Gulf from this 2BR retreat. Recently updated.

One covered parking space. $449,000 SeaplaceG5102.com Charming, updated 2BR/2BA with a private garden area. End unit, with recent upgrades.

Steps to the beach. $399,000

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GrandBay121.com Rarely-available 3BR/3½BA Antigua plan offers panoramic views from the wraparound terrace, bright eat-in kitchen. $1,200,000 GrandBay324.com Enjoy views of Sarasota’s bay, downtown and Moorings Marina in this 3BR/3½BA Cayman in Building III. $999,000 GrandBay325.com Southern-facing 3BR/3½BA Biscayne with marina and city views. Walls of windows, wraparound terrace. $849,000 GrandBay542.com 2BR/2BA, 4th floor, Bimini, custom details and views of the bay, golf course and downtown. Furnished. $679,000

AQUARIUS AquariusClub602.com Direct Gulf front 2BR/2BA 6th-floor residence abounds in far-reaching beach vistas. $649,000 AquariusClub402.com Wonderful 2BR/2BA beach getaway. You will adore Gulf sunsets from the terrace. $575,000

QUEENS HARBOUR 3613FairOaksPlace.com 2BR+den/2BA, open pool deck, lake views.

2-car garage. Private beach access. $899,000

Roger has listed and sold more than $1 billion in local property.

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Clare Segall and Arleen Klein

Judy Safier and Janis Cohen Honey Casden, Maxine Landau, Ellen Harvey and Barbara Godt

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Susan Dweck and Hedy Shavel On Wednesday, Jan. 29, the Women’s 18-Hole Golf Association invited Longboat residents to enjoy a little friendly competition at “Go for the Cure” Games Day. Attendees played bridge, canasta, mahjong and dominoes. The event drew 148 participants and raised approximately $10,000 for Breast Health Sarasota.

Marion Levine and Lorraine Kaplan organized the event.

Cris Meyers, Margaret Wallace and Lynn Walters

Mary Lou Johnson, Clair Spivack and Ruth Manasse

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by Kelsey Grau | Community Editor

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Republican Club of Longboat Key Luncheon Meeting

Sherry Linhart arranges a centerpiece with apples and cranberries as accents.

Flower arrangements blossom for Longboat Key Garden Club The Longboat Key Garden Club flexed its green thumb during its Jan. 28 monthly meeting at Windward Bay’s clubhouse.

Sherry Linhart presented “The Art of the Flower,”a demonstration of how to create striking flower arrangements for any occasion and what tools are necessary.

LOCATION CHANGE FOR THIS MEETING ONLY

The Longboat Key Club is moving our meeting to LBK Club Islandside, 220 Sands Point Road (next to Charthouse).

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Friday, February 14th

11:30 to 1:30 pm

Longboat Resident Armondo Linde, former Deputy Secretary of the International Money Fund will talk about his 33 year career of advising countries on how to revive their failing economies. Don’t miss this informative look into international high finance.

Janet Williams, Barbara Livingston and Sarah Tate

Please call Ruth Strauss 383-5349 to make your reservation

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For a list of local events or to submit your own, visit ThisWeekInSarasota.com/calendar

The Resort at Longboat Key Club Harbourside Dining Room Hats Encouraged Individual Tickets: $100/pp 1955 Founding Table Sponsors: $1,955 Corporate Sponsorships Available All proceeds benefit the science, education and outreach of Mote Marine Laboratory.

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The Lara Logan lectures are sponsored by:

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2014

by Kelsey Grau | Community Editor

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ON THE CATWALK

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by Kelsey Grau | Community Editor

REID MURPHY Luxury on the Water

Beth Israel Women holds dream of a fashion show On Monday, Feb. 3, Beth Israel Women hosted its fashion show and luncheon at Michael’s On East in Sarasota. More than 200 women attended the show, which featured fashions by Dream Weaver on St. Armands Circle.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2014

by Kelsey Grau | Community Editor

Lance Robbins leaves the water and takes the stage after his run.

Fifteen people assemble for the grand finale, a three-tiered pyramid.

Ski-A-Rees make waves at first show Nick Vickers performs a flip on a sky ski.

The Sarasota Ski-A-Rees water skiing troupe began its season Feb. 2, at its City Island stadium.

The show team executed everything from jumps to three-tiered pyramids in front of a crowd. Shows run every Sunday through May 4.

Admission is free.

Jeff Maglione lifts Kirsten Hannabass during their performance.

The Ski-A-Rees’ ballet line combines dance and water skiing.

Photos by Kelsey Grau

The synchronized doubles entertain the crowd.

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HEALTH CALENDAR

Ian Addy & Gail Wittig

Community Cancer Support Group — meets from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Monday at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road. The group welcomes cancer patients, long-term survivors and caregivers. Call 3838192.

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Saturday, Feb. 22, at Longboat Island Chapel’s Aging in Paradise Resource Center, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Various professionals will provide information and tests.

Call Donna at 383-6493.

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‘How to Use an AED, What to Do in an Emergency, Who to Call and When’ Seminar — takes place from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 7, at Longboat Island Chapel’s Aging in Paradise Resource Center, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Longboat Key Fire Rescue Chief Paul Dezzi will present at this seminar and will have rescue and fire vehicles onsite for tours. Call Donna at 383-6493.

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Blood Pressure Screenings — are offered from 9 to 11:30 a.m. daily at Longboat Key Fire Rescue, 5490 Gulf of Mexico Drive. On occasion, personnel may not be available to provide the service if they are out on a fire/rescue call. Call 316-1944. 

www. athomesarasota.com 749 Freeling Drive | Siesta Key |$3,600,000

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‘Laugh and Live Longer’ Lecture — takes place from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 4, at the Longboat Key Education Center, 5370 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Suite 212. Dr. Joel Schwartz, a psychiatrist and board-certified psychoanalyst, will discuss the physical and emotional benefits of humor. Cost is $15 for members; $20 for nonmembers. Call 383-8811.

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

‘FOOD FOR HEALTH’ COOKING CLASSES

Takes place from 4 to 6 p.m. Mondays through Feb. 24 at St. Armands Key Lutheran Church, 40 N. Adams Drive. Dr. Evelisse Capo will teach participants how to cook meals that improve health. Cost is $25 per class. For reservations, call Tracey Rzepka at 388-3764.

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YOUR NEIGHBOR | Vonnie Moody

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

Submitted by Julie Becker

CASA DEL MAR BEACH RESORT. Unit owners enjoyed a Jan.

20 trip to the Sarasota Kennel Club to watch greyhound racing. The excursion is an annual tradition for owners at the resort.

Submitted by Sue Reese

LONGBOAT ISLAND CHAPEL.

Classical piano prodigy Noah Waddell, 12, performed Jan. 26 at Longboat Island Chapel for the second consecutive year. Noah received numerous standing ovations.

 THE LADIES OF CONRAD BEACH. The women

enjoyed their first gettogether of the season Jan. 24 at the home of Kathleen Whelan. Each lady brought a dish to share and caught up on the latest happenings.

The group consists of past and present residents and their guests.

Submitted by Kathleen Whelan

A quick conversation with any passionate dog owner results in an unquestionable takeaway: Fido isn’t just a pet; he’s part of the family. One such owner, Vonnie Moody, found her furry companion in the last place she thought she would: on a late-night TV comNeighborhood: mercial.

Pelican “This never, nevHarbour er happens to me,” Moody said. “But I Your neighbor woke up at about 4 since: 1974 o’clock in the morning and turned the television on, which I never do. There was a commercial on with Beverly Sebastian, of the National Greyhound Foundation. I wrote down the 800 number at the bottom of the screen ... and kept it for two months without calling. Then, one day, I thought, ‘I think I better call her.’”

That was 10 years ago, and Moody has been rescuing greyhounds ever since.

“I was emailed a picture of Ki,” said Moody of her first greyhound. “I sent it to my son and daughter and asked what they thought of me adopting her. All they said was, ‘What’s to think about? Do it.’ So I did.”

Ki was on the Miami racing track for five-and-a-half years, which took its toll on her health. She developed kidney failure from the poor treatment during her racing years and had to be put to sleep.

“I only had her for two years, but I became extremely attached,” Moody said.

After that experience, Moody didn’t think she could adopt again.

But, much like the first time, Moody couldn’t resist when she received a fateful email with a picture.

Moody adopted DeeCe, and the two soon became inseparable. DeeCe was once a much-loved prison therapy dog in Pennsylvania; the inmates named her DC. “I kept the name, but I thought she needed a more sophisticated way of spell-

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DeeCe has been in Moody’s life for seven years, and it’s clear the two find a quiet companionship in one another. A story about a trip to the groomer best describes their relationship.

Moody and DeeCe walked to the shop to get DeeCe’s nails clipped, but, when they arrived, DeeCe was frightened by a small dog’s high-pitched bark and slipped out of her collar. The retired racing dog started running — with Moody and the groomer in tow.

“I knew if she went out on Gulf of Mexico Drive, she’d be gone,” said Moody.

But DeeCe knew better.

“I kept running, and when I came flying up to my door, she was just sitting there, looking at me with her big black eyes, like, ‘What took you so long?’” said Moody, laughing. “She knew she was home.”

— Kelsey Grau

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LONGBOAT KEY TOWERS - #804S, Elevated 2BR/2BA end residence with open floorplan and panoramic views. $1,195,000

530 HARBOR POINT RD - Freshly manicured canal front lot in Bay Isles Harbor Section. $1,495,000

360 NORTH - 280 N. Shore Road #6, Three levels of splendor amid the northernmost beach of Longboat Key. $995,000

GRAND BAY #354 - 3BR/3FULL/2HB, 5th floor residence with panoramic Gulf and Bay views. $1,195,000

LONGBOAT KEY TOWERS - #1003S, 2BR/2BA residence on the south tower’s 10th floor with endless views. $949,000

1400 HARBOR SOUND DRIVE - Vacant lot with picturesque waterway view to the Bay. $1,395,000

LONGBOAT KEY TOWERS - #802N, Stunning 8th fl, 2BR/2BA residence with east and west balconies. $990,000

GRAND BAY #344 - Bay, golf and mooring views from this 2BR+Den/3Full/2Half Bath, 4th floor residence. $1,049,000

SEAGATE - #14D, 2BR/2BA with direct, elevated Gulf views from this 14th floor, finely detailed home. $749,000 SEAPLACE - #G3-102, 3BR/2BA ground floor, corner residence with a tropical westerly view. $529,000 SUNSET BEACH - #1401 Furnished 2BR/2BA, 4th floor home with poolside and Gulf views. $499,000 BEACHPLACE - BLDG 11-#202 2BR/2BA unfurnished residence with 1 covered/1 uncovered parking space. $419,000

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BIRD KEY - 339 Bob White Way - 4BR/3BA furnished pool home with 540 sq. ft. Florida room, situated on a garden lot. $849,000 COUNTRY CLUB SHORES 572 Ranger Lane - 2BR+Den/3BA canal front pool home with boat dock. $769,000 2043 HARBOUR LINKS DRIVE - 3BR/2.5BA courtyard villa with 2-car garage and pleasant golf course views. $499,000 LONGBOAT KEY MOORINGS - The west coast’s largest marina has a 45’ slip just for you! $74,500

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by Kelsey Grau | Community Editor

Center for Architecture hosts Ohana home tour

Renea Glendinning, Wilson Stiles and Cindy Peterson, board president of the Center for Architecture Sarasota

Jordan Letschert, Eva Ebbessom and Gabriella Ebbessom with architect Guy Peterson

On Sunday, Feb. 2, the Center for Architecture Sarasota (CFAS) hosted a behind-the-scenes tour of the Ohana estate on the north end of Longboat Key. The event gave CFAS members a chance to tour the private residence and its beachside gardens. Architect Guy Peterson spoke to attendees about what inspired the architecture and pointed out unique design features.

The three-acre, Gulf-front property is currently listed for $22 million by Deborah Beacham, of Michael Saunders & Co. The listing price is a record for the Sarasota area.

by Kelsey Grau | Community Editor

Lorraine and Jerry Knab, Joanne and Jere Sheehan and Lisa Page

Photos by Kelsey Grau

Beach Harbor Club celebrates revamped condo clubhouse Beach Harbor Club celebrated the reopening of its refurbished clubhouse with cocktails and appetizers Friday.

Originally built in 1972, the clubhouse now features a marble bar, media room, card room and fitness center.

The kitchen is modern and stylish.

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The main entrance to the Ohana estate

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Technology exec’s success has grown organically Getting friendly with competitors is anathema to many executives. But one well-traveled decision maker has found a way to turn business rivalries into advantages.

Gulf Coast technology executive Dan Clarke, an engineer and the youngest of 10 kids who grew up on a northeast Ohio farm, is used to being a tad different.

In the early 1980s, he was part of a team at Intel that worked on something called a laptop computer. Intel’s old guard looked down at the young laptop team, recalls Clarke. They called them “crazy kids.”

Clarke worked at Intel for seven years.

He ultimately ran two departments, including the $75 million video components group. The biggest lesson he learned from the $53 billion semiconductor chip manufacturer: It’s imperative to form business partnerships with competitors, large and small, in addition to peers.

Intel, says Clarke, called it ecology. It’s when the firm created a mission or objective, figured out which entities outside the firm to work with and simultaneously presented an opportunity to all potential partners — especially competitors.

“I like to align myself with giants,” Clarke says. “I feel the more competitors you can be friendly with, the better.”

Clarke recently brought his partnership theory to the Gulf Coast, where it has been a major boost for Lakewood Ranchbased Living Naturally.

Living Naturally provides mobile marketing, website management and software services. It also provides data-based loyalty and product-ordering programs for natural product stores, specialty groceries and independent pharmacies.

Many functions are cloud-based.

Clarke was named CEO at Living Naturally in April 2012. The payroll has since

doubled, from 40 to 80 employees, and the total value of products the firm processes through its software has jumped 257%, from $1.4 billion to $5 billion. The company has satellite offices in Phoenix and Chicago, but about 70 of the employees are based in the headquarters.

Clarke projects the firm, with 10 current job openings, will hire at least 40 people in 2014. Living Naturally doesn’t disclose revenues, but Clarke says it had positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization for the first time in the fourth quarter.

Living Naturally now partners with some of the leading wholesalers and distributors in the natural and organic-food industry, including Nature’s Best, United Natural Foods Inc. and KeHE Distributors.

Those partnerships are wrapped around data-marketing projects.

And Living Naturally won a major business victory late last year when it signed up the $1.8 billion Phoenix-based Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. for its ordering, procurement and supplier programs.

Sprouts, says Clarke, is already one of Living Naturally’s largest clients. The business, he adds, only came after Sprouts tested Living Naturally on a few small projects.

Says Clarke: “We had to gradually prove ourselves over time.”

Living Naturally was founded in 1999.

Co-founder Jim Sheehan and some business partners worked at The Granary in Sarasota and wanted to open their own natural foods store. But they shifted directions after realizing there were few, if any, businesses devoted to helping the technol-

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Living Naturally, a software services and marketing firm, named Dan Clarke CEO in April 2012. The firm has since grown from 40 to 80 employees. ogy and marketing side.

Today, the current version of Living Naturally is far from Sheehan’s original vision.

The vision now is centered on its GeniusCentral software suite of services.

The system uses tailored promotions and coupons, through mobile apps and email marketing, to drive customers into stores. Other Living Naturally products are geared to specific client needs in ordering and inventory.

The company’s growth comes at the right time. Total sales of organic groceries alone, for example, have surpassed $30 billion, up from $1 billion in 1990, according to the Organic Trade Association. Big industry grocers, from Walmart to Publix,

have also expanded specialty and organic inventories in recent years.

Finding top employees, especially in technology, has been Clarke’s No. 1 challenge as he seeks to match the industry surge.

An executive-for-hire who has been a CEO or board member of more than 10 technology-related businesses since his Intel days, Clarke says he could stick around at Living Naturally longer than other stints. He signed a three-year contract, but “there’s so much upside here,” he says, he might stay at least seven years.

“Our success will be based on our ability to execute,” says Clarke. “And I love that. I like being able to control my own destiny.”

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MARKET WATCH by George Rauch | Contributing Columnist

The U.S. dollar is no longer as good as gold

Approximately $80 billion of brand-new money is made each month, creating an inflated, over-valued market.

1984

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etary bubble in history.

Any bubble always represents current market value far in excess of the liquidation value of the underlying assets. The debt that created our bubble is an obligation of the U.S. government, just like currency. The government used to be required to have enough gold and silver in storage to redeem outstanding obligations. Ever since the Federal Reserve System was created in 1913, however, politicians have chipped away at that constitutional requirement.

We cannot turn our dollars in for anything other than more government paper obligations. There is now little U.S. “hard” currency. The government is obligated to eventually redeem almost $20 trillion of bond and currency obligations. It is not possible. Government bonds are secured by assets that include thousands of failed pieces of real estate, which could not be redeemed for 50 cents on the dollar.

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To see how great a Ponzi scheme this really is, take a look at the money-supply chart above.

The chart tells us a lot. In 1954, the gold backing of our entire money supply was 20%. Skip 60 years to 2014, and the gold backing of currency outstanding is only 2.9%. In that same period, inflation has dropped the purchasing power of our dollar to 11% of what it would purchase in 1954.

For a country’s business to be strong, the government’s balance sheet must be strong. Historically, civilizations whose currencies become world currencies fail.

They fail for the reasons we are failing; they put more emphasis upon promising and providing benefits for the populace than governing. The only way those promises can be met is through more and more debt.

Government debt has destroyed every great economy in history by first destroying the value of the country’s currency.

Rome, Portugal, Spain, France and England all did the same thing, and their

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world currencies failed. Government indebtedness required so much of their countries’ resources that interest obligations eventually could not be met. Other countries quit using their currencies.

That’s what is happening to the dollar.

The market bears an inordinate amount of risk. The big stock houses and banks are making bundles because of government money-making. Dividends are at an all-time low of 2.1% on the Dow. That is not even enough to cover inflation. Solid fundamentals don’t exist to support this market. Sooner or later, all Ponzi schemes are exposed. Obamacare, pending tax increases, onerous interest costs on the national debt and a highly over-leveraged monetary system make the risk of purchasing additional stocks in this market greater than the potential for good returns.

GEORGE RAUCH, Longboat Key, is chief executive officer of Bradenton-based General Propeller and a former Wall Street investment banker.

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This is a dangerous market. We continue to be deceived by the president and Congress about the necessity of continuously increasing the national debt. Every single dime of that debt goes to welfare recipients for the benefit of politicians purchasing votes. If either the Democrats or the Republicans had wanted to balance the budget and get out of the pyramiding tragedy of increasing our debt, they GEORGE would have.

The “ladies and gentleRAUCH men” in Washington are working on their own behalf. Examples of that include automatic pay raises, separate and better health and retirement plans and exemptions from Social Security and Obamacare. The inability of our politicians to pay attention to the “limited government” theory of our founders has resulted in the greatest Ponzi scheme in history: destruction of the dollar’s value.

The market is at historically high levels for only one reason: Congress and the president continue to insist upon making money out of absolutely nothing to pay for the government’s current expenditures. It amounts to $80 billion a month of brand-new money, which doesn’t have one single lick of work, sweat or obligation involved in its creation. That money goes to banks and stock speculators who keep churning the market. This has contributed to two things: an inflated, overvalued stock market and the largest mon-

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RITZ BEACH RESIDENCES - Elegantly designed 3,300sf 3BR condo with a large terrace. A3981649 $2,795,000

COUNTRY CLUB SHORES - Remodeled canal front 4BR residence on an oversize lot. A3975981 $1,690,000

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By Adam Hughes | Research Editor

John Ringling Estates home sells for $1,625,000 BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of Jan. 24 through Jan. 30, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive)

Photo courtesy of Michael Saunders & Co.

This home at 613 Tyler Drive has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,693 square feet of living area. It sold for $1,625,000.

The following residential real estate transactions took place between Jan. 20 and Jan. 24.

A home in John Ringling Estates tops all transactions in this week’s real estate.

Timothy Musios, of Sarasota, sold his home at 613 Tyler Drive to Steven and Karin Retzlaff, of Sarasota, for $1,625,000.

Built in 1951, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,693 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.2 million in 2000.

Seaplace

bedrooms, two baths and 1,257 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $385,000 in 2004.

ST. ARMANDS

Address 4900 GMD 1540 Harbor Cay Lane 540 Chipping Lane 2525 GMD 592 Rountree Lane 676 Spanish Drive N. 702 Spanish Drive N. 3309 Sabal Cove Circle

4401 GMD 3432 Mistletoe Lane 100 Sands Point Road 3155 GMD 100 Sands Point Road

584 Halyard Lane

2929 GMD

Permit Alteration Pool Dock and seawall Antennas Pool Re-roof Re-roof Pool cage Windows and doors Re-roof Door Door Windows Certificate of occupancy Certificate of occupancy

Applicant Amount Ben Thayer $78,785.38 Timothy Clarke, trustee $53,115 Willard Foley III $33,733 Islands West Condo Assoc. $30,000 Trevor Gillott $15,000 Antonio Imbriano $14,000 Mary Ruth Meyers $9,985 Thomas Geyman $7,965 Richard Arenstrup Carri Trine Sands Point Condo Assoc.

NLW Family LLC Douglas West, trustee

$7,802 $2,993 $1,675 $1,550 $1,222

William Bowe, trustee

N/A

Venture Corp. Properties LLC

N/A

Sarasota Harbour East

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. sold the Unit 2 condominium at 769 John Ringling Blvd. to Kenneth and Jennifer Southward, of Sarasota, for $269,000.

Built in 1965, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 880 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $326,500 in 2005.

Bruce and Judith Wideberg, of Ipswich, Mass., sold their Unit G2-107A condominium at 2055 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Franklin and Lilian Bracken, of Longboat Key, for $317,500. Built in 1974, it has two

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6560 Gulf Of Mexico Dr #M5842242 $699,000 Shelley Barker

Longboat Key 941-383-5502 941-706-5403

546 47Th St #A3988830 $699,000 Jeffrey Weller

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-266-8206

3070 Grand Bay Blvd # 641 #A3989376 $699,000 Carol Aviles

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-356-6777

1485 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 207 #A3989980 $685,000 Jenifer Schwell

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

5030 Gulf Of Mexico Dr #A3980709 $4,890,000 Richard Perlman

3080 Grand Bay Blvd # 522 #A3991522 $625,000 Kathleen Callender

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-321-3115

4600 Bay Shore Rd #A3983290 $599,000 Nancie Kalin

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-928-8833

2400 Adagio Way #A3991024 $599,000 Marcia Salkin

Sarasota 941-383-7591 941-376-6121

4401 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 201 #A3989147 $595,000 Maureen Horn

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-539-3384

6821 Hughes St #A3982781 $575,000 Dana Westmark

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-228-8580

Longboat Key 941-951-6660 941-356-5091

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

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-356-3584

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4485 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 503 #A3979554 $499,000 Steve Magner

347 W Royal Flamingo Dr #A3977913 $2,900,000 Barbara Dumbaugh

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

450 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # B101 #A3970985 $459,000 Diana Kryszak

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-993-4078

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-350-3743

6005 Demarco Ct #A3988567 $389,900 Cathi Reali

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-232-8200

613 Norton St #A3987573 $389,000 Sandi Layfield

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

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

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

225 Sands Point Rd # 6204 #A3985969 $344,000 Terri Derr

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

2002 Harbourside Dr # 1601 #A3931062 $339,000 Eileen Burke

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

1790 Pinyon Pine Dr #A3989904 $339,000 Jessika Arman

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-587-4202

2522 Mapleloft Rd #A3990267 $325,000 Judy C Beck

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-320-2825

4540 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # Ph2-f #A3991491 $325,000 Sharon Freeman

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

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By Robin Hartill | News Editor 102 of the Centre Shops of Longboat Key, 5370 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Before the move, the chamber had operated out of Mediterranean Plaza since March. For information, call 383-2466.

+ Cannons Marina to attend Miami Boat Show

+ Chamber makes a move with help from its members In January, the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce moved to its new location at the Centre Shops with help from its members.

According to Gail Loefgren, executive director of the chamber, the following members, businesses and organizations helped during the move: Jay Anderson, of Edgewater Contractors; Don Roberts, of the Centre Shops; Jay Vandroff, of Yarnall Warehouse/United Van Lines; Jack Dean, of G. Fried Carpet; Tony Driscoll and Jake Lockwood, of TDA Global Sports; Wagner Realty; Rick Bergere, of Madison Avenue Advertising; John Cozy, of Floor Care Solutions; Bradenton Area Convention and Visitors Bureau; Visit Sarasota County; Aqua Plumbing and Air; and Pam Santarlas Cleaning and Maintenance.

The chamber is now located in Unit

5120 Treesdale Ct #A3979195 $319,000 Brigitte Von Kessel

4598 Guava Ct #A3987578 $315,000 Klaus Lang

2633 Pursell Cir #A3986454 $249,900 Sherri Mills

Barbara Miller recently celebrated her 25-year anniversary with Coldwell Banker Residential Realty.

She began her real estate career in 1988 at the company’s Bee Ridge Road office and has spent the last 20 years at its St. Armands Circle office.

Before moving to Sarasota, Miller was an actress, model and dancer. Her career included several performances with Sammy Davis Jr. and appearances in ad campaigns for A&W Root Beer, Anacin, Unisom and other brands that ran in various women’s magazines. She also acted in several soap operas and TV commercials and had a small role in the 1986 film “Jumping Jack Flash.”

Today, Miller has two children and two grandchildren. She recently received the “5 Star — Best in Client Satisfaction” award for the sixth consecutive year.

Sarasota 941-383-7591 941-320-1223

Sarasota 941-383-7591 941-350-7112

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4700 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # D202 #A3986790 $285,000 Bobbi Banan

Sarasota 941-383-7591 941-266-2174

+ Barbara Miller celebrates anniversary with Coldwell

1281 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 204 Longboat Key #A3961762 $7,750-$11,000/month, 90 day min Diann Thelen 941-552-4200

2165 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 114 Longboat Key #A3982871 $7,500-$12,500/month, 60 day min Diann Thelen 941-552-4200

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

4350 Chatham Dr # 105 #A3988751 $209,900 Michael Bruno

4765 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # S401 #A3989517 $5,733,000 Nell Leffel

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-932-0032

5144 Gulf Of Mexico Dr #A3986587 $2,895,000 Ann Martin

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-356-7717

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

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

571 Putting Green Ln #A3984052 $2,245,000 Sylvia Zimmerman

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-350-5022

1281 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 1104 #A3963869 $1,995,000 Hannerle Moore

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

609 Triton Bend #A3990694 $1,774,900 Barbara Najmy

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-383-7591

545 Sanctuary Dr # 503 #A3991776 $1,150,000 Ian Addy Pa

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

3010 Grand Bay Blvd # 415 #A3983643 $899,000 Julie Klick

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-780-6001

627 Owl Way #A3975598 John August

$890,000

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-320-9795

524 Gunwale Ln #A3991398 $849,000 Mel & Jan Goldsmith

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-356-6673

1942 Wisteria St #A3974548 $729,900 Dede Curran

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-928-3255

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

Longboat Key 941-966-8000 941-320-3229

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Robin Hartill

The Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce has a three-year lease on its new location at the Centre Shops.

Cannons Marina yacht sales broker Marcel Kasten and manager Benny Parrish will attend the 2014 Miami Boat Show that will take place from Feb. 13 through Feb. 17, at the Miami Beach Convention Center and Sea Isle Marina.

The marina’s staff will showcase the newest boats from Jupiter Marine and Grady-White Boats. For information, call 383-1311.

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Longboat Key $4,300-$6,300/month, 30 day min 941-552-4200

VA C AT I O N R E N TA L S 1435 Westway Dr, New Construction #A3960472 $6,500,000 Stephanie Church

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TEMPERATURES

Record Temperatures

High

Low

High

Low

Tuesday, Jan. 28

76

53

84 (1974)

26 (1986)

Wednesday, Jan. 29

65

47

84 (1957)

23 (1940)

Thursday, Jan. 30

55

48

85 (1975)

31 (1978)

Friday, Jan. 31

69

52

85 (2002)

26 (1966)

Saturday, Feb. 1

81

63

85 (1991)

32 (1936)

Sunday, Feb. 2

82

61

84 (1983)

31 (1980)

Monday, Feb. 3

81

61

85 (1990)

27 (1917)

Average Gulf water temperature: 60

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35 Cowboy ___ Bill of folklore 37 Team created in 1969 38 Co-renters, slangily 42 Pine-___ (cleaning brand) 43 Perform on a TV show 46 ___ up (invigorates) 47 Former German chancellor Willy 48 Engrave with dots 50 “The Canterbury ___” 52 Do a hair-raising job?

53 Help, as a lawbreaker 55 “___ my word!”

56 Pig’s place 57 ___ alcohol (biofuel) 59 Blue color 60 Beginnings 61 Salon appliance 63 Mythical blood of the gods 65 Demean

66 Be too busy for more work 71 Thin, delicate pancake 73 Brilliance of reputation 74 Showy lace loops 76 Hindquarters 77 Brown alternative 78 Guillemot’s cousin 80 “That’s awesome!”

82 HOMES lake 83 “The Last of the Mohicans” woman 84 Ecstasy’s antithesis 86 Italian white wine variety 88 As a fop might 90 Situated away from the coast 92 Cheese of France 93 “___ Yeller” 94 Cow’s bellow 95 Censure 97 Like the Capitol 98 Buggy people?

100 “___ Factor” (sci-fi TV show) 101 Puts the collar on 103 Figures of speech 106 Mame’s butler in “Auntie Mame” 108 Venus de Milo, e.g.

111 Learned scholar 112 Blame 118 Opposed (to) 119 Group of three 120 Military truce 121 Security deposit payer 122 Fewer than twice 123 Student debt 124 Dove’s place

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3 Mel, the legendary Giant slugger 4 ___ forma 5 Neighbor of Nigeria

6 With a smoother finish 7 “Make do” amount 8 Apple or banyan 9 Move back 10 Salivated 11 Sunrise time 12 Writer of many fables 13 Arizona city or patriot Samuel 14 Pasta dish 15 Winners of a certain singing show 16 Jazzman Jackson 17 Make a smooth road 18 Iditarod need 20 Small amounts 24 Andes animals 29 Ninth months (Abbr.)

30 Permissions for priests to leave a diocese 31 Think hard or concentrate 32 Almost win 34 Ticket window sight 36 Chief city of the Ruhr valley 39 Do as you’re told 40 Unwritten exam 41 Decide not to quit 43 Start a war 44 Dirt clumps 45 All keyed up 49 Southwestern American Indian dwelling 51 People’s essences 52 “Comin’ ___ the Rye” 54 Verse reciter 58 Golf-hole start 59 Swap words on the Web 60 Pesto and marinara 62 Wouldn’t shut up 63 “Robinson Crusoe” locale 64 Half a ballroom dance 67 Word with miss or catastrophe

68 Filled pastry 69 Hardly heavyfooted 70 Christmas tree, often 71 Belief statement 72 Like the back country 75 Part of USSR 77 Has ups and downs?

78 Like early Beatles recordings 79 Word processing command 81 Gives careful attention to 83 Monastery or convent 84 Mont Blanc and neighbors 85 Showy 87 Long, slender instrument 89 Giant 91 Patronizing, in a way 96 Our Lady of ___ (Portuguese shrine) 97 Bottom-of-thebarrel stuff 98 Away from each other 99 Knowledgeable about 102 Argument 103 Onetime Russian ruler 104 Behave like a lunatic 105 Dutch or convection follower 107 Go sour, as milk 109 Dark greenish-blue 110 Dr. J’s hairstyle, once 113 Little piggy, so to speak 114 And so forth (Abbr.)

115 “___ Bravo” (Wayne film) 116 “Eight” starter 117 Born, on the society page

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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Items Under $200 For Sale ADULT TRICYCLE, like new, made by Miami Sun. $199. Call 941-383-6416.

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

Ad runs 2 consecutive weeks in 1 Observer.

(No phone calls please.)

(Please provide your name and address) Email ad to: classified@yourobserver.com Online at: www.yourobserver.com Or mail to: The Observer Group P.O. Box 3169 Sarasota, Fl 34230 KEYBOARD: YAMAHA YPT-300 with music. Like new. $85. 941-379-4172.

Autos For Sale 2003 MERCEDES E320. Beautiful classic black, leather, garage kept, 125,000 miles with another 125,000 to go! Call 349-4835 to see, $11,999.

89’ VOLVO 740 GLE: 100,500/miles, white, excellent condition. Great second car. Must sell. $2800 o/b/o. 941-383-5005.

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

Boat Slips For Rent/Sale 60’ BOAT Slip for Sale. Longboat Key Moorings.

Slip H-12, prime location outside the restaurant.

713-552-1101, 713-725-3453.

BOAT SLIP for rent, Third level LBK Boathouse.

Up to 29'. 941-444-7181.

BOAT SLIP for sale. Boathouse, S. LBK, fully enclosed, top level, S.W. corner, will accommodate 32/ft. boat. Make an offer. Mark, 941-383-4381 bradtma@yahoo.com BOAT SLIP in quiet, scenic, secure, LBK marina. $11/ft. www.dockonthebaylbk.com 941-302-3440.

BOAT SLIP on Longboat Key, Boat House.

Unit-2124, on first level. For Rent/Sale. $295/mo.

Minimum 6/mos. 708-267-6704.

DRY STORAGE BOAT SLIP. Indoor dry storage at Dry dock / Boathouse for boat up to 30’. Top rack. $275/mo. South Longboat. Call 941-350-6686.

LBK MOORINGS; 45’ slip near bay for rent by owner. Good monthly or longer rates.

941-383-3103.

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

NEW YEAR, New LOW rents from private owner in high and dry Marina. Excellent boating location.

We will beat all prices! Call 941-544-5597.

Boats Boats are selling Extremely well. Let’s talk about selling yours. Keeping it simple, “Business on a Handshake.” We buy boats too. www.Islandboatsales.net 941-228-3489.

ChitwoodCharters.com Cruise or Fish Hyatt Sarasota Docks 32’/53’ Yachts - 2hrs./2 months 941-383-5232

Furnishings BRAND NEW Serta Mattress Sets. 50-80% OFF. King, $290. Queen, $150. Full, $140. Excellent value! Won’t last! Call (941)387-4810.

Garage/Moving/Estate Sales

Condos/Apts. For Rent

Homes For Sale

AUCTION MID-CENTURY DESIGN SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH @ 1PM Inspection Sunday Day of Sale 11am-1pm The sale will be held at our Auction Gallery located on the Southwest corner of 301N & University Parkway. *****FEATURING: Danish Modern Furniture, Lucite, Signed Modern Art, Retro Lighting Fixtures, Jewelry, Signed Sculptures, Rugs, Glass and Pottery from several local Estates.***** 13% Buyer’s Premium 3% Discount for Cash or Check Elliott Bernstein Auctions AU3504 - AB2545 Gallery Phone: 941-351-3002 Photos & more: www.auctionzip.com Auctioneer ID#8290

BEACHPlACE, lBk. Casual beachfront living in 2BR/2BA, balcony condo. Olympic pool, health club, tennis courts. Available June through December, $2500/mo. Also available January through March, $5200/mo. Call for info. Contact Elizabeth/NYC. 212-570-2950.

WHAT'S YOUR HOME WORTH?

General Merchandise *COMPLETE WINE Celler* 108 bottles of vintage wine. New 2 zone wine cooler, glasses, wine racks and more. Cost well over $2000. Sacrifice at $1200. 941-465-1247.

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

WE BUY Fine Quality Antiques Chinese Antiques; Jade, Porcelain, Ivory, Bronze, Coral, Paintings and other works of art. Fine art, watches, jewelry, and entire estates. We are now accepting consignments for future auctions.

Manatee Galleries, Inc. 941.722.4800 or email us at: info@manateegalleries.com.

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

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

Help Wanted JANITORIAL POSITION: Longboat Key Condominium, common area cleaning. Competitive pay, Liability Insurance. References, and background check required. 941-383-1498.

Positions Wanted CAM, CFCAM, CMCA, AMS, PCAM designations seeking 300+ units in HOA or Condominium to manage. Real Estate licensed. Excellent references.

Please contact: pnbresume@yahoo.com or 941.685.0500.

L’AMBIANCE, LONGBOAT Key Club: Beach front 2/bedroom, 3/bath condo on high floor with 270° views over the Gulf of Mexico, Sarasota Bay and LBK Club. Sunrises, sunsets over the water thru floor to ceiling windows in all rooms. View at: www.thephotos.smugmug.com/WaterFront/LBKCondo

Call 203-984-8477 or email garment@optonline.net LBK PORTOBELLO BEACH FRONT: 2BR/2BA Condo on 4th floor.

For details and Virtual Tour, visit: www.BeachAbodeLBK.com Phone 815-919-5357.

LBK: SANDS POINT 1BR/2BA, annual, unfurnished. Behind gates at Islandside. Water view. Non-smoking, No Pets. 941-383-3702.

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

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

LUXURY CONDO available for season. Fairway Bay property on Longboat Key, 2BR/2BA, 400 square foot walk-out, and walk-down overlooking the Bay. Wheelchair accessible and full amenities including washer/dryer in unit, Wi-Fi and cable services. Covered parking and full security, access to walking and biking paths from your front door.

Unit is available in season at $6,200.00/month effective February 1st, and for a long-term rental price is negotiable. Non-smoking unit. If interested please email: kimberleynyc@hotmail.com

Condos For Sale FREE! What every Real Estate buyer or seller needs to know!

Go to: www.yourmarketupdate.com LBK: BAY ISLES; By Owner. 2BR/2.5BA, 2 car garage, 2400/sq.ft., $565,000. Call 941-383-5944.

MARINA BAY: Largest condo under 1 million.

3BR/2.5BA, 3,100 sq. ft. Incredible views. Brooke O’Malley, CLUB REALTY. 941-726-2677 REDUCED: INN ON THE BEACH: LONGBOAT KEY CLUB. Private club suite, turnkey, tennis, Golf course view, 650/ sq.ft. $339,000.

708-267-6704.

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

Waiting for your dream house. For sale by owner.

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

941-388-7832 DOUBLE LOT, by owner. Gulf Bay Rd, LBK. Asking $375K. Property and street are surrounded

by Durante Park; deeded gulf and bay access rights. 941-400-4622.

Open House SIESTA KEY Waterfront home For Sale By Owner.

Open Sunday, February 9th and February 16th, 1p.m.-4p.m., 526 Treasure Boat Way. Two story, Key West style, 2BR/3BA and mother-in-law apartment. Solar heated pool, lush tropical landscape on large lot. Walk to beach and Village.

Seen on Zillow. Asking $879,000.

Real Estate Wanted WANTED LUXURY ANNUAL RENTALS For Qualified Waiting Clients Contact - Sarasota Luxury Rentals 941-225-1356 email: info@sarasotaluxuryrentals.com Personalized attention with professional honest advice.

25 Years Experience - References available

WANTED SEASONAL Rental: 3 1/2 months December 15th, 2014 through March 31, 2015.

2BR/2BA, Internet, land phone. Non-smoking.

317-341-0404, mbfleming05@gmail.com

Vacation/Seasonal Rentals BAYPORT, LONGBOAT KEY. Beautifully furnished 2BR/2BA, direct Gulf view, lanai, sundeck, tennis, pool, fitness center, premium cable TV, hi-speed wireless internet, more. Available December 2014-January 2015. 954-476-1137, bayportapt@gmail.com Exceptional Vacation Rentals Since 1994 Homes & Condominiums Studios to Six Bedrooms Beachfront, Intercoastal or Garden Excellent Service & Staff FloRIDA VACATIon ConnECTIon www.Flvacationconnection.com 941-387-9709 877-705-2460 LBK: BEACHFRONT. BOOK NOW for your next season rental. 1BR & 3BR condos. Starting at $1250. The Outrigger Resort, 941-383-3844.

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18B Classifieds Reservations 941-383-6127 Vacation/Seasonal Rentals Visa/ MC 800-352-0367 Weekly/ Monthly/ Seasonal Rates Beachfront, Bayfront Between 5360 Gulf of Mexicoand Dr.,In Suite 101 Houses or Condos Longboat Key, FL 34228 Rental office 9a.m. - 5p.m. M-F Reservations 941-383-6127 MC Ask aboutVisa/ our special rates!

800-352-0367 Wagner Realty Since 1939 5360www.wagnerrentals.com Gulf of Mexico Dr., Suite 101 Longboat Key, FL 34228 Rental office 9a.m. - 5p.m. M-F Ask about our special rates!

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“Your Home by the Sea” Office Open 7 Days, 9a.m. - 5p.m. www.casadelmar.net 4621 Gulf of Mexico Drive Longboat Key, FL 34228 Weekly/Monthly Condominium Rentals 4 Night Minimum Fully equipped 2BR/2BA condos with washer and dryer, and wireless internet Reservations: in each941-383-5549 unit.

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Swimming 4621 Gulf of Mexico Drive Longboat Key, FL 34228 OUR GUESTS RETURN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. Fully equipped 2BR/2BA condos with washer and dryer, and wireless internet in each Book unit. now for next LBK C.C. SHORES. year. 3BR/2BA/2CC, laminated floors. Vacation Heated View paradise Extra home Large w/dock, large Gulf heated pool, lanai Swimming w/electric shutters, king Pool! sized bed, Wi-Fi, plasma TVs, phone, cable. No pets/non-smoking.

OUR GUESTS RETURN Sleeps 5. Laundry room w/W/D, walk to beach.

GENERATION TO GENERATION. For FROM photos: homeawayrental.com, Property ID#257978. $4900/mo. Owner, 941-504-1492.

LBK C.C. SHORES. Book now for next LIDO BEACHlaminated CONDOMINIUMS year. 3BR/2BA/2CC, floors. Vacation Weekly - Monthly - Seasonal paradise home w/dock, large heated pool, lanai w/electric shutters, king sized bed, Wi-Fi, plasma TVs, phone, cable. No pets/non-smoking.

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Licensed Real Estate Broker Property For photos: homeawayrental.com, ID#257978. $4900/mo.

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PORTOBELLO ON Longboat 5th floor unit, www.yourobserver.com Sleeps 5. Laundry room w/W/D, walk to beach.

Gulf view, private heated pool, steps beach, For photos: homeawayrental.com, 2BR/2BA. Available now through end Property of May. ID#257978. $4900/mo. Owner, 1 month minimum.

Please 941-504-1492. contact Harold, Vacation/Seasonal Rentals 941-223-0061.

ON THE Gulf w/pool. 1BR condo, sleeps 4. Nicely furnished, cable, phone, full kitchen, living, dining LIDO BEACH CONDOMINIUMS area, W/DWeekly in building.

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Clockwise from top left: Syd Solomon at 65, (Photo copyright Jill Krementz; a portion of Estate of Syd Solomon photo archives); “Shoretour” 1974 by Syd Solomon on display at Spanierman Modern (courtesy of the Estate of Syd Solomon); “Clearing Gulfstorm” by Syd Solomon on display at Spanierman Modern (courtesy of the Estate of Syd Solomon); “Aprility” by Syd Solomon on display at Spanierman Modern (courtesy of the Estate of Syd Solomon).

THE LEGACY OF

SYD SOLOMON The late Syd Solomon’s colorful history helped build Sarasota as an artist’s colony.

It still thrives as an art-centered community today.

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THE LEGACY OF SYD SOLOMON The late Syd Solomon’s colorful history helped build Sarasota as an artist’s colony. It still thrives as an art-centered community today.

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ome children of the ’70s had tiddly winks and barrel of monkeys. Michael Solomon had Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. His father, the late artist Syd Solomon, hosted famous parties attended by movers and shakers in East Hampton, N.Y., and Sarasota, where they split their time. In the winters, they brought their artist friends here and created a vibrant artists’ colony in Sarasota.

Michael Solomon sits in the front office of the Estate of Syd Solomon between two large black-and-white portraits of his father. This warehouse off Clark Road houses the archives of the Estate of Syd Solomon. He has been camping out there recently working on a Ken Burns-style documentary film about his father and his legacy.

Solomon is a recognizable name in Sarasota. For one, there’s Michael Solomon, a minimalist artist whose work will be on display in an upcoming exhibition at Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art. Then there’s Annie Solomon, Michael’s mother and Syd’s widow, who is giving a talk at The Ringling about her and her late husband’s contributions to the artist colony. But it’s Syd Solomon with whom people are most familiar.

The artist died in January 2004, but his contributions to building a vibrant artist colony helped make Sarasota the arts city it is today.

Photo by Mallory Gnaegy

Top: Michael Solomon thumbs through Estate of Syd Solomon archives. Bottom left: Syd Solomon with author John D. MacDonald, 1963. Bottom right: daughter Michele Solomon, Michael Solomon and Annie Solomon, 1961.

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Syd Solomon’s art, which hangs

in prominent places such as the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, is easily recognizable. Critics classify Solomon as an abstract expressionist due to his energetic gestures and spontaneous raw emotion. But he is more of an abstract impressionist. The areas of smaller brushstrokes exhibit the controlled, technical movements of a baroque painter.

“He doesn’t really fit into the boxes with which most of the other abstract expressionists fit,” Michael Solomon says.

Though Solomon was very much a part of the abstract expressionist art movement, he never lived in Manhattan, N.Y., with the New York School that includes Pollock, de Kooning and Franz Kline. Plus, his career did not mature in the ’50s like the others’; he started to flourish a decade later. This was something Harold Rosenburg, former art critic for The New Yorker, once cited. Rosenburg told Solomon that he was getting better, while the other artists had hit their peaks.

“And that just made it for him,” Michael Solomon says.

Contributions to Sarasota

The couple found Sarasota, a place they had never heard of, following a trip to Miami. When Solomon came across a gallery, or what was the John Ringling collection before the museum opened its doors, he realized this little town had more to offer than they had expected. They

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Photo by Hans Namuth, copyright Estate of Hans Namuth

Jim Dine, Syd Solomon, Phil Guston, Aldolph Gottlieb, Conrad MarcaRelli,1964 settled in 1946.

Solomon quickly started contributing to the city. He built a relationship with Ringling College of Art and Design and, by the mid-’50s, he was teaching Saturday morning children’s art classes (local artist Craig Rubadoux was one of his students).

The Solomons also opened Sarasota School of Art in 1950 on First Street. He became the first art professor at New College, where he founded the Fine Arts Institute. He brought visiting artists to teach, such as Conrad Marca-Relli, Philip Guston and Larry Rivers. Many of his visiting friends took up residence here.

He first built these friendships when he started visiting East Hampton in 1955. The Solomons spent every summer on Long Island, N.Y. In the winters, their friends came here.

Every weekend for three decades, the Solomons hosted parties. Guests such as crime writer John D. MacDonald, artist Jimmy Ernst, writer Joy Williams, director Elia Kazan and writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr. were famous attendees.

Newspapers featured interviews with the visitors; gallery openings became big functions because of the visual artists’ presence. The visual-art scene exploded in the ’50s, much in part to Solomon.

There are photos of Michael Solomon as a young boy spending time with famous family friends. A lot of it had to do with Solomon’s wife, Annie. She always cooked and reached out to people as the natural host.

“I don’t think they would have had the kind of life they had were it not for Annie,” Michael Solomon says.

“Field of the Heart” featuring the works of Michael Solomon “Face to Face” featuring the works of Alain Huin

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Friday, Feb. 7. Runs through March 1.

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Sarasota influence

And, as much as Solomon impacted Sarasota, the city reciprocally influenced his work. Kevin Dean, now the director of Selby Gallery, then a Sarasota-based arts writer, discusses this influence: “There was this sense of beauty in his work,” Dean says. “Some people thought his work was too pretty … but he responded to where he was, and he was living in two very beautiful places.”

Solomon always painted outdoors. In 1970, architect Gene Leedy designed a controversial home and outdoor studio on Turtle Beach — some would argue it was too close to the water.

Solomon always painted in the morning light and always with a cigar. He’d take a lunch break when he would watch “Perry Mason” on a small black-and-

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Living here, he met inventor Guy Paschal, a seasonal Longboat Key resident. Paschal, known mostly for developing Airwick deodorizers, also helped develop acrylic paint in the late ’40s. Paschal created polymers, and Solomon tested them. Because of this relationship, Solomon was one of the first artists to use acrylic paint. He gained national attention for his Sarasotainfluenced acrylic work.

A legacy lives on

Solomon’s blossoming career was recognized locally when he was the first contemporary artist The Ringling added to its collection in 1962. In the following decades, the Ringling held two major retrospectives of his work.

But, more than that, by the

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Syd and Annie Solomon, 1959 time Solomon died in 2004 from Alzheimer’s, he had shows at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Dallas Museum of Art and The Smithsonian, to name a few. His work hangs in the Guggenheim and Whitney museums and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. Feb. 5 marked the close of a month-long show at Spanierman Modern in New York City.

This thrills Annie Solomon, who will speak Feb. 11 at The Ringling to share the Solomon story.

“He’s getting new recognition (in New York), and it’s really important and gratifying to me,” she says. “It’s a whole new aspect of his work, and I’ve had so many wonderful letters congratulating me. I’m very excited about it.”

Solomon’s legacy lives on — both locally and nationally.

“I think it’s important that people know of Syd Solomon and remember his history,” Dean says.

“He’s very much a part of this town.”

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WHERE: Featured February, at Michael’s On East, 1212 S. East Ave., Sarasota. to look at it. I like to get up close because when I did, I was just amazed at the complexities and the uniqueness of each flower…

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Kids Komedy Club steals hearts in Valentine’s show It’s 10 a.m. on a Saturday morning at Florida Studio Theatre’s Goldstein Cabaret. Three girls with scripts in hand are on the stage doing a comedy sketch about building the perfect boyfriend, a sketch they helped write.

One girl wants to change her nerdy, momma’s boy, putz-of-aboyfriend into someone a little more masculine, so they pump him up with an air pump and turn him from a nincompoop to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Director Adam Ratner (just one of his three titles at FST) founded Kids Komedy Club (the second generation) in 2009. It’s a group of 10 performers ages 10 to 15 that meets every Saturday morning to write, rehearse and perform sketch comedy and improv routines. Some of the children, such as Clarence Dodge, have been involved since the first year the group started. Another, Andrew Stevens, donated $250 of his bar mitzvah money to the theater’s capital campaign. Today, they are preparing for their Valentine’s Day-themed show — they typically perform shows for the public near all the big holidays.

Siena Siegel, 15, asks Ratner if she can play around with her character and make her a valley girl.

“Try it out and we’ll see if it works,” he tells her.

These three girls have not yet experienced the put-the-toiletseat-down nature of the male species, yet their hilarious display of this aspect is spot on during one of the sketches. It’s one example of the quick wit of this particular group of kids. Plus, their

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Above: Kaity Cairo, Adam Ratner, Emma Katz and Andrew Stevens. Right, top: Siena Siegel. Right, middle: Parker McCormick and Andrew Stevens. Right, bottom: Dylan Caruso knowledge of pop culture nearly two decades before they were born is impressive. They make “Kindergarten Cop” references and talk about watching Talking Heads music videos.

Back in the ’80s, when he was experiencing these firsthand, Ratner was a member of the first generation of Kids Komedy Club.

It’s where the then-7-year-old got his start doing improv. Now he’s made a career of acting and he also performs in the professional adult improv troupe, FST Improv.

The whole troupe takes the stage for the next sketch — it’s

YOUROBSERVER.COM // See these talented children in action. all improvised around the audience’s suggestion. For worst mortician ever, one child makes another child pretending to be a dead body dance. For worst juggler ever, one child pretends to not have any arms. It’s so funny, the pianist providing the improvised music for the show, Erik Sumner, can’t help cracking up.

In a news sketch, two boys don masks of George Washington and Abe Lincoln with the mouths cut

out. Parker McCormick keeps making Lincoln stick his tongue in and out in a Kiss-like fashion — the move is unrehearsed. The whole room is in stitches. Ratner, a real professional, says he learns from them every day.

“They are so funny! They are so quick,” he says. “That’s one of the things — as I get older it’s like some of the things they do, I remember being that funny, I remember being that fast!”

IF YOU GO When: 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 8 Where: Florida Studio Theatre, 1241 N. Palm Ave. Cost: Tickets are $6.

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by Mallory Gnaegy | A&E Editor Byron Poore, Patrick Kilbane and Duane Fenn are “the three tenors of Sarasota” — rather two tenors and a bass. The three men are the newest leadership team fronting Sarasota Chorus of the Keys, the all-male, a capella, four-part harmony, barbershop chorus specializing in ’50s and ’60s popular music. It’s not a new performing-arts organization by any means — the group has been around Sarasota for 64 years. But these three men hope to build a new dynamic for the group and crescendo to the next level.

“There was a known Sarasota Chorus of the Keys years ago … that was reasonably successful in the area,” says Fenn, assistant director. “But, with the loss of that

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In January 2012, the men of Chorus of the Keys sought the help they needed by appointing Poore as its new director, Kilbane as president and Fenn as assistant director. These three recently sat in a room at First Baptist Church before their weekly, three-hour-long Tuesday night rehearsal to discuss the group’s new tune.

When Sarasotans think about performing-arts groups, Chorus of the Keys might not be the first one to come to mind, they say, but Poore hopes that in the next five years, Chorus of the Keys will be one of the first groups people talk about.

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Singing Valentines explode with love Every year, Chorus of the Keys offers your sweetheart a surprise singing telegram, via a barbershop quartet. The quartet delivers a card, rose and two love songs.

One year, four Chorus of the Keys members were going to do an interview promotion on the WSRZ radio show Jones & Crane for Singing Valentines.

Someone called in to say WSRZ would receive a package in four parts. Not knowing what this package was, the radio station went into high alert thinking it was a bomb threat. Little did the station know, the threat was four men singing “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.”

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The chorus’ ideal member is someone between the ages of 20 and 60 who’s local, who has maybe never sung in a barbershop quartet, but who is capable of singing and willing to work hard. Poore calls it the “Average Joe’s chorus.” Reading music is not a requirement, but carrying a tune is. So, if you’re the type of guy who sings along to the radio or in the shower pretty well — the chorus wants you. The group is implementing a qualification process and working on the musicality of current

Get to know the new leadership: Byron Poore, Director Age: 35 Based in: Land O’Lakes Day job: Financial adviser Favorite Love song: “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Any More” Describe Chorus of the Keys with one adjective: challenging Patrick Kilbane, President Age: 34 Day job: Financial adviser Favorite Love song: “I Never See Maggie Alone” Describe Chorus of the Keys with one adjective: fun Duane Fenn, Assistant Director Age: 68 Day job: Retired manager, IT and technology Favorite Love song: “Little Bit of Heaven” Describe Chorus of the Keys with one adjective: rebirth

members to improve the overall quality of singing for the nearly 60 members.

The group also hopes to do more than the annual performance and its Singing Valentines, but details are still in the works. The more they perform at events such as chamber luncheons and community events, the more people they can reach with their new sound.

“We want to give back to the community so that Chorus of the Keys flows off the mouths of locals when they think of arts organizations in town,” says Poore.

IF YOU GO ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll:’ This concert is a throwback to the ’50s featuring songs such as “Jailhouse Rock” and “Rock Around the Clock.” In addition to Chorus of the Keys, two internationally renowned groups, all-female barbershop quartet Speed of Sound and award-winning Acoustix, will also perform.

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The Ringling’s R. Luke Dubois exhibit gets gears turning Explaining The Ringling’s “R. Luke Dubois — Now” exhibit with any combination of words wouldn’t properly align one’s expectations. The Ringling members present at the Jan. 30 member opening would probably agree.

The exhibit of New York-based artist R. Luke Dubois is the first-ever survey of his work. He’s an interdisciplinary artist who explores society and its culture using film, composition, printmaking and performance, to name a few. For instance, the compositions are less for enjoyment and more for portraying a message about a particular subject. One experience combines 857 Billboard Top 100 songs into one 37-minute song by compressing each song and taking its average tonality. Another series features a print for every President of the United States’ State of the Union address that showcases the words each president used most to the words he used least in the

same layout of a vision-test chart. Much of Dubois’ work uses algorithms, data mining or other purposeful technology he created to look at society. For instance, he created a map of the United States using 19 million online dating profiles (he joined 21 online dating sites for this project) to measure keywords of towns and cities. Can’t picture it?

Imagine trying to put it into words.

In certain aspects, he’s as much a sociologist and scientist as an artist in the way his work encourages critical thinking about society and time. Although, his interactive commission looking at Sarasota’s circus culture presents a more approachable look at our own history in an interactive video exhibit featuring Circus Sarasota performers.

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Three stages, nearly 25 performing groups and most every arts organization in Sarasota proudly represented the arts our city has to offer at Grand Ovation Saturday, Feb. 1.

Grand Ovation takes place on Main Street in Lakewood Ranch and it offers four hours of live performances from area arts groups and organizations — this was its seventh year.

The street was full of families, dogs walking people, impressed tourists, tap dancers, ballerinas and people in clown noses. Each stage offered a performance be it a music or dance, and featured organizations from Sarasota Opera to the Sarasota Folk Club. Between acts, patrons visited booths hosted by the organizations to learn about them or participate in fun activities they offered.

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MUSIC // Sarasota Orchestra — Masterworks IV with Tito Muñoz and Giora Schmidt Tito Muñoz, who has been assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra and Cincinnati Symphony, led the Sarasota Orchestra in performances of works by Barber, Piazzolla and Rachmaninov this past weekend and knocked the roof off the Van Wezel. This 31-yearold musical architect is a conductor with a vision of the music and Tito Muñoz a blueprint in his ear that allow him to sculpt, mold and chisel the sound of an orchestra so the music sounds new and, what could be dense becomes clear.

Take the monumental Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2. Lasting about an hour, Muñoz was like an architect, building each phrase so it fit, like a mosaic, into an overall blueprint that turned what could have been opaque into a luminous, translucent sound that shimmered with light. The musicians of the orchestra played with a richness and warmth worthy of world-class ensembles.

The spectacularly gorgeous adagio was brought to life, particularly by the splendid playing of clarinetist Bharat Chandra who positively sang his solo, making it sound like the composer’s famous “Vocalise,” milking the richness without ever pulling its long line out of shape. The aggregate result Sunday afternoon brought a spontaneous burst of applause from the audience, something that doesn’t often happen after a slow movement.

There were solos galore throughout the Rachmaninov, each played with a care that

belied the energy that underscored even the softest passages. Breathtaking, mesmerizing and inspired hardly convey what happened in this performance. It was a short hour.

That’s how this all-20th century concert ended. It began with a fresh, clean, colorful reading of Barber’s zesty overture to “The School for Scandal.” Catching the wit, fun and sarcasm of the composer’s nod to the 1777 comedy of manners by Sheridan, Barber wrote everything from impishness to romantic flirtations into his score. With characters like Lady Sneerwell and Snake inhabiting this 18th century play, Barber had to color his music with playfulness. Muñoz and the orchestra caught the color and fun, giving us some beautiful playing, especially

by English horn player Michael Austin.

In the middle was the fantastic “Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas,” (aka The Four Seasons of Argentina) based on a quintet

by Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla, and arranged for orchestra and violin solo by Leonid Desyatnikov. Giora Schmidt who, like Muñoz, is 31, made a showpiece out of this showstopper, playing with the various fun sounds written for him and the orchestra: slaps, slides, hiccups and zings that were spine-tingling and belly-tickling. It’s a wonderful piece, worthy of more hearings. Schmidt, reading the music from his iPad and turning its pages by stomping on a wireless pedal on the floor, positively lit the music with a tone that was never less than beautiful, while managing to infuse it with a full-bodied richness showing him to be a virtuosic player.

I left the hall with four impressions: Schmidt is a terrific violinist; Muñoz, who now has his own orchestras here (Ensemble LPR in New York City) and abroad (Opera National de Lorraine and L’Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy), is headed to the top and probably will be at the helm of a major, big-budget orchestra in the near future; the Sarasota Orchestra is positively blooming; and I can’t get that slow movement theme from the Rachmaninov out of my head.

— June LeBell

THEATER // ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ What do you get when you toss “The Cherry Orchard,” “Three Sisters,” “The Seagull” and other chunks of Anton Chekhov’s plays in a Cuisinart and hit frappe? To find out, check out the Asolo Rep’s current production of Christopher Durang’s Tony Award-winning “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.”

Vanya, Sonia and Masha are aging baby boomers living in America, not a dacha on the Black Sea. (Their theatrical parents saddled them with names from Chekhov’s plays.) Vanya and Sonia reside in their shabby genteel childhood home. Their sister, Masha, owns the place and pays for it. She’s a movie star with a fat bank account, thanks to an exploitive series about a crime-fighting nymphomaniac. Vanya and Sonia gripe, feel sorry for themselves, squabble and analyze their own motives in abstract, Chekhovian style. Masha flies into their lives like a selfimportant hurricane. She’s dressed as Snow White for an upcoming costume parody, but comes off as the Wicked Queen. Spike (who was not named after a Chekhov character) comes attached. He’s a pumped-up boy-toy whose chief pride is a near-miss at a role in “Entourage II.” (That, and constantly stripping down to his underwear.) Thus stripped, Spike takes a dip in the lake and returns with Nina, a wide-eyed neighborhood innocent. (She is not in sexual competition for Spike, though Masha does not buy it.) Cassandra is the Jamaican housekeeper. She speaks prophecies of doom, which nobody believes. (Surprise.)

Masha plans to cut down the cherry orchard and — sorry. Masha plans to sell the house and toss her siblings out. That and what to wear to the costume party is the play’s core dramatic tension.

But, hey, it’s a comedy. Tension is not the

“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” runs through April 13, at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts, 5555 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Call 351-8000 or visit asolorep. org for more information. point. Peter Amster’s start-stop direction keeps the audience laughing. He plays each scene like sketch comedy (which each basically is — more on that later). The comedy kills. The actors do, too.

Anne-Marie Cusson’s Masha is always on, a cartoon caricature of an over-the-top diva addicted to the spotlight. (There is madness to her method: Stanislavsky it ain’t.) Peggy Roeder puts in a performance with heart as Sonia, a wallflower who flowers when she plays Maggie Smith at the masquerade.

Tyla Abercrumbie is hilariously convincing going into Cassandra’s prophetic trances.

(Abercrumbie could easily start her own religion, though I advise against it.) Tori Grace Hines plays Nina as lighthearted, bright and sweet, but not cloyingly so. By rights, her character should hold a magic wand and fly on fairy wings.

Jefferson McDonald’s Spike has a lot in common with Tigger. He bounces and grins a lot. To extend that analogy, Andrew Sellon’s Vanya would make the perfect Eeyore. He slumps and frowns a lot — except for his crowd-pleasing comic monologue, excoriating the fractured reality of modern miscommuni-

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// ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT: REVIEWS cations and longing for the days of Ozzie and Harriet’s adventures.

Each character gets a moment to shine.

It’s a comedy, so there is a happy ending, of course. The journey that takes you there is a laugh-a-minute ride. The elements are in place. Each little sketch works, but the play as a whole does not quite work.

What kind of a play is it, anyway?

Is it a parody, or a story that stands on its own? Durang, it seems to me, could not make up his mind. He has stated he did not intend this to be a parody. OK. So, he wrote a halfparody, instead.

The result is a play that does not quite work as parody — with a story that can’t quite stay on its feet.

A funhouse mirror to Chekhov would have been funny, but Durang ducks the parody potential of the material.

A play about three theatrical siblings who strip off their masks and become a family again would have been poignant. But the gags and jokey tone get in the way.

The result is very, very funny. But it’s a good play that could have been better.

I wish he’d made up his mind.

— Marty Fugate

FILM // ‘Labor Day’ “Labor Day” is a sexy and sensual love story in which the participants never disrobe.

Director-screenwriter Jason Reitman, instead, conveys forbidden love through exquisite performances and a modest approach.

Kate Winslet plays Adele, an emotionally wounded mother who lives with her 13-year-old son, Henry (the wonderful Gattlin Griffith). She’s as unkempt as the home in which they reside. Adele has become reclusive, and her relationship with with her son borders on becoming Oedipal.

On a necessary outing to the local store, a

man who has blood on his shirt approaches them and insists they give him a ride. His name is Frank (Josh Brolin), and he admits to having been injured while jumping out of a prison hospital window where he’s serving 18 years for murder. When they arrive at Adele and Henry’s home (as ordered), Frank ever so gently ties up Adele, lending credibility to a kidnapping if he’s caught. Soon after, he removes the ropes.

The longer Frank remains, the more Adele and Henry want him to stay. He makes repairs on the house, cooks fabulous meals and teaches Henry to play baseball. Over the next five days, Frank’s love and kindness resurrects Adele’s emotions, which she thought were long dead. The three agree to become fugitives by moving to Canada.

The plausibility of what unfolds in “Labor Day” depends on the viewer. Set in 1987, in a small town, pre-modern technology, it is not so far-fetched to accept the turn of events.

Frequent flashbacks of Frank’s former life shed light on the particulars of his conviction.

Reitman skillfully constructs the circumstances that surround the story so as not to let it slip into sentimentality. He’s masterful at taking unlikely situations and morphing them into perfectly acceptable outcomes (i.e.”Juno”).

Reitman also sought out actors who could lend immense credibility to the story. Kate Winslet is known for her ability to portray broken women who take great risks (“The Reader,” “Revolutionary Road”). In “Labor Day” she manages to make the transition from abject fear to unconditional love seem extremely feasible.

Brolin is also on top of his game balancing his portrayal of a desperate and potentially dangerous fugitive with that of a gentle soul whose past is inescapable. His compelling performance is so convincing we totally understand Adele’s willingness to trust him.

“Labor Day” is one of those films you either find utterly outrageous or touchingly graceful. Sometimes it’s nice just to take the ride, ask no questions and take it all in stride.

The result can prove to be exhilarating.

— Pam Nadon

DANCE // ‘‘Four Temperaments,’ ‘Lux Aeterna’ and ‘Sinfonietta’ Sarasota Ballet continues to astound with every pirouette and leap. This program that featured George Balanchine’s “Four Temperaments,” Will Tuckett’s “Lux Aeterna” and Sir Frederick Ashton’s “Sinfonietta” was technically and athletically challenging for the entire company and most especially the principal dancers who performed in two and, even in some cases, all three of the pieces. There was no ounce of energy or enthusiasm lost in any piece and each was performed to perfection.

In short, the Sarasota Ballet dancers are really, really good. It must warm Founder and Chair Emeritus Jean Weidner Goldstein’s heart to see the highest-level caliber of dancing being performed by her very own Sarasota Ballet.

“Four Temperaments,” set to music by Paul Hindemith, is one of George Balanchine’s most famous Neo-Classical ballets performed in simple black leotards and tights. The ballet juxtaposes sharp staccato movements with smooth rhythmic lifts; range of motion from turned-in to turned-out and épaulement from croisé (crossed) and effacé (open).

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ettes performed effortlessly multiple times by Kate Honea in the Sanguinic section. Her partner Ricardo Rhodes also performed a technically challenging pirouette sequence where he performed a fouetté into retiré derrière while on demi-pointe en plié. Logan Learned was adept at combining allegro movements with high-reaching développés.

And Ricardo Graziano intertwined four tall women in an intricate maze reminiscent of other scenes in Balanchine ballets such as “Apollo” and “Serenade.”

Will Tuckett’s world premiere, “Lux Aeterna,” set to music by Morten Lauridsen, was an absolutely breathtaking piece. The music, the choreography, lighting by Aaron Muhl and the costumes by Bill Fenner all contributed to the stunning group dance that interweaved the dancers into different patterns and formations on stage. Graziano and Danielle Brown dramatically lead the cast of 21 dancers with charged emotion. The beginning of the piece was exceptionally dramatic with the men of the piece running in slow motion before being shot down as if in battle.

The evening ended with Sir Frederick Ashton’s “Sinfonietta,” which is set to music

by Sir Malcolm Williamson CBE. The ballet is a plotless, yet fun, upbeat and fast-paced piece. The only exception was the second movement where Victoria Hulland performs an adagio that seems like her feet never hit the ground because she is lifted and carried into different poses by five men.

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“Details really make the home— without it, all you’ve got are walls and floors,” says Mary Williams.

“This house is a prime example of how each individual

The mosaic in the home’s foyer was designed to create the movement and light that Mary Williams envisioned.

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nicely spaced tables for quiet conversations.

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lthough it’s been there a while, we recently discovered JPan, one of the best restaurants around for fresh, inventive sushi. With two branches, one at 3800 S. Tamiami Trail, and the other at 8126 Lakewood Main St., you have a choice of venues. But in either place, you’ll find sparkling, fresh, delicious raw fish, sizzling teriyaki and crunchy tempura.

We tend to go to the Lakewood Ranch restaurant for convenience, and we’ve found some spectacularly tender white tuna sushi that simply melted in our mouths. The Dynamite Roll, with tuna, yellowtail, scallions and wasabi is spicy and hot, while the smoked salmon, avocado and cream cheese roll made a terrific, and different, dish for brunch.

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In fact, Arthur Lopes, one of the two proprietors with Ryan Boeve, has catered, both privately and in Pomona, many a great, relaxed but delicious dinner for several of the Sarasota Orchestra players. It’s a well-known fact that musicians are often associated with locusts, ravenous and rapacious when it comes to food. When great food is put in their path, watch out. A famished fiddler, clarinetist, flutist or percussionist seems to have a homing instinct for great eating establishments and, when they befriend a restaurateur like Lopes, they tend to move in, slide, bow and rosin.

Our experience a couple of weeks ago before a concert was like finding a new home. Small, cozy rooms filled with candlelight and crystal almost kept us from the music, but we managed to have a leisurely dinner and still get to the concert on time.

One of the things Lopes told us while we were having exceedingly dry martinis and snacking on a salad of tender romaine lettuce with quail egg, brioche and parmesan cheese, was that the restaurant’s new bar service is now offering specialty aperitifs called “$6 before 6.”

A new tea house has opened on Hillview, one of several restaurant rows in Sarasota, but Elixir is different. Like some recently established coffee houses in the same neighborhood, Elixir is a place to hang out and enjoy local music while you’re sampling loose teas that are brewed to your specification. There are “orthodox” black and green teas. But, if you like tangy, unusual flavors, there are also leaves like apricot, chocolate truffles and orange cookie black teas, along with Cranberry rose, Japanese cherry and something called “Red Riding Hood” white teas, not to mention white, decaffeinated and flavored fruit blends.

If that’s not enough to whet your appetite for a Cup-a, there are “Wellness Herb Teas” such as Feng Shui, and even tea cocktails: ice tea punch and piña colada.

Of course, most of us think sweet when we think it’s tea time, and Elixir offers a bevy of pastries from cocoa croissants to raisin rolls. For those who prefer their brews in different categories, there are also numerous choices from espresso and cappuccino to hot chocolates and even a slurpy, molten chocolate fondue.

Elixir is the brainchild of Gyula, a Hungarian who knows what a tea (or coffee house) should be. He, his wife and a few of the other employees are new to the U.S. and they seem to love what they’re doing on Hillview. It’s that love that makes their tea house extra special.

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 Janet Huelster and Edie Chaifetz

To celebrate the beginning of Sarasota Opera’s Winter Festival, more than 250 guests gathered Feb. 1 for a night of mystery at Hyatt Regency Sarasota.

The event, chaired by Carol Brualdi, is Sarasota Opera’s largest fundraiser of the season and was held exactly one week prior to opening night of “Il trovatore.”

“Everything looked beautiful, the food was wonderful, everyone had a great time and we raised money for the opera, which is most important,” says Brualdi.

“Overall, it was very successful.”

The ballroom was draped in curtains, sparkling lights and chandeliers and guests were dressed elegantly, many wearing elaborate masks. As the doors opened to the ballroom, the sounds of 42nd Street Band were too tempting to not sneak in a dance before dinner.

Mezzo-soprano Chrystal E. Williams and baritone Marco Nisticó both sang during the four-course meal and following the performances and dessert, 42nd Street Band returned to stage as guests danced the night away.

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he people and the place (the Hyatt Regency Sarasota ballroom) never looked better than at the Feb. 1 Sarasota Opera Masked Ball.

Edie Chaifetz and Jacqueline Morton were even more glamorous than usual in red. Stephanie Shaw was a lesson in good design with a large mask in an inverted V shape echoing the V of the skirt of her gown. Perhaps the most fun garb was a black mask, white hat, bolo tie and star badge on Bud Shapiro, who wisecracked, “Haven’t you ever seen a Jewish sheriff?”

Naming a “best mask” would be impossible, but Wendy Feinstein would have been a contender; she and hubby, Jerry, went mask shopping in New Orleans on their annual New Year’s visit. It was great to see Jerry cutting the rug as though his miserable summer of back sur-

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Many opera gala guests had been to the Sarasota Ballet the previous evening and raved about the premiere of Will Tuckett’s “Lux Aeterna” and Iain Webb’s postperformance party announcement that the troupe has been invited Photos by Cliff Roles to perform at Stephanie Shaw City Center in New York.

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Some enchanted evenings … There was a handsome stranger recently seen at an Asolo Rep opening night, two circus performances, the Downton Abbey dinner at Café L’Europe and elsewhere around town. It was Ruth Tyler, here for three weeks visiting Ron Taub and his daughter Marcia Jean Taub.

Now 85, Tyler joined the Taub family 56 years ago this month to take care of Marcia Jean, her siblings and the two grandmothers who lived with them. “It made us happy to do for her a bit as she has given so much to my family over the years,” said Marcia Jean Taub.

Looks like it made Tyler happy as

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hat do you do when you and your husband’s birthdays fall within weeks of each other?

Throw a big bash, of course!

To celebrate their 40th birthdays, Wayne (Feb. 22) and Mindy Rollins (Jan. 26) enjoyed the company of 40 of their closest friends and family for a weekend of fun at their beachfront home. It kicked off Jan. 31 with a casual barbecue and then a beachside bash Feb. 1, which included a fireworks show by Firepower Fireworks and tunes spun by DJ Kuma.

Among those toasting the birthday couple: Chris Pinckney and Johanna Gustafsson, Brooke and Karen Misantone, Roger and Alisa Pettingell, Richard and Bianca Lawrence, Steve and Catherine Ellis and Mark and Aurelie van den Broek.

Also celebrating a 40th birthday recently was Amanda Morris.

Husband, Rob, with planning committee Retta Wagner, Jamie

well … Not so fast there … Photographer Cliff Roles passed his citizenship test Jan. 29 and mentioned it to Sen. Nancy Detert at the Gulfcoast Builders Exchange awards banquet Jan. 30. She marched him up to Gov. Rick Scott, who not only congratulated Roles on his accomplishment, but also announced it to the crowd. Just one teeny problem: It isn’t quite true until Roles is sworn in at a yet-to-be-determined date …

Blue suede shoes … Dan Babcock and Miqui Lora’s shoes were event appropriate at Child Protection Center’s Blue Ties and Butterflies preview party Jan. 30. Babcock brought out his blue Prada loafers

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Wayne and Mindy Rollins Becker and Lesley France, hosted a party in his wife’s honor at Star Keeper Café. Special (and pink!) details filled the quaint restaurant, and more than 50 guests enjoyed the celebration, including parents Frank and Emily Buskirk, in-laws Bob and Pam Morris and friends Julie Dooley, Colleen Shoemaker, Ariane Dart, Ashley Carson, Heather O’Neill, Stephanie Kempton and Katie Hollingsworth, to name a few.

Photo by Heather Merriman

Dan Babcock and Miqui Lora for the event and Lora found these L.L. Bean duck boots in her car.

“I had on my Gucci loafers but it started raining and so I put these on — and they’re blue!” she said.

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This year’s Super Bowl party was Joan Mendell’s 20th and the fourth cohosted with beau Bob Coppenrath. Mendell had 26 guests at her first party; this year, there were more than 80. That’s called going-out with a bang because the couple has decided, “This is our finale.” … Howard Millman and Carolyn Michel hosted another longstanding get-together for the same guys who gather in their pool house on Sundays all season long.

That gang includes Bruce Rodgers, Stan Jacob, Len Gumley, Jimmy Hoskins, Alan Kurland and more.

For the Super Bowl, they bring their women, but they had to do without Michel this year — she was at the Asolo rehearsing “Grapes of Wrath.” Allen and Stephanie Hochfelder hosted a dual-purpose event to introduce local friends to visiting friends Iris and Marty Gradman as well as watch the game. At L’Ambiance, social committee Chairwoman Sylvia Pastor with help from Betty Ewing and food contributions from Marion Levine and Connie Cotros once again put together a full feast for more than 60 guests. This, too, was a double-header; it also celebrated the 60th wedding anniversary of Sherman and Joyce Cooper.

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