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Delays stall Key Club project Ocean Properties plans to redevelop the Key Club, but first, the town must complete its work on an Outline Development ordinance that came to a stop for seven months last year.

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+ Village kids hop aboard bus project The historic Longbeach Village school bus stop has a new look courtesy of the neighborhood’s children, who gathered March 1 for a painting project. Mary Mazza organized the effort. The bench now features multiple colorful critters thanks to the young artists’ work.

+ Kiwanis Club is flapjack happy

Ocean Properties officials erased any doubts about their desire to redevelop the Longboat Key Club at Tuesday’s Planning and Zoning Board meeting. The only thing preventing a project from moving forward now is a town ordinance.

Planning, Zoning and Building Director Alaina Ray told the

planning board Tuesday she doesn’t know why Bill Spikowski, of Spikowski Planning Associates, was inexplicably told in May to stop working on changes to an Outline Development Process.

“There was no work being done on this ordinance from May until September when I had communications with Bill, and I can’t tell

you why,” Ray said. “In mid-December (after Ray became director), we funded him again, and he started in earnest. I can’t speak as to the thought process as to why the work stopped.”

Planning board members expressed frustration that they were still providing comment for an ordinance that needs to be up-

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LEGAL EVALUATION

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by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor

Commission questions town attorney’s advice

Get ’em while they’re hot.

The Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key will hold its annual pancake breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m.

Saturday, at St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church, 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Proceeds benefit local children’s charities in Sarasota and Manatee counties.

Breakfast includes a hot stack of pancakes, sausage, juice, coffee and prizes.

Tickets are $7; but buy five tickets and get one free. Purchase tickets at the door, from Kiwanis Club members or at the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce, 5390 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Contact Wayne Swift at 3832095.

Commissioners are willing to give Maggie Mooney-Portale more time in her role, but some question her performance.

+ Turn a new page at Library sale Early voting runs through March 22, and election day is March 25.

Before or after you cast your ballot for two commission races, stop by the Longboat Library, located next to Longboat Key Town Hall at 555 Bay Isles Road, to pick up new reads during its election week book sale.

Paperbacks are 50 cents, and most hardcover books are $1. The sale runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, ending on election day March 25. Call 383-2011.

dated to help properties such as the Key Club proceed with a future project.

“This is a stop-gap measure that’s taken a year and we’re just now commenting on it,” said planning board member Allen Hixon. “We should have fixed it

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Carla and Pete Rowan dress up for the Longbeach Village St. Patrick’s Day parade Saturday, March 15. Residents paraded through the streets on foot, bicycles, golf carts and vehicles. For more photos from the parade, see page 1B.

Some Longboat Key commissioners are beginning to question the legal advice they are receiving from Town Attorney Maggie Mooney-Portale.

Longboat Key Mayor Jim Brown added an agenda item to the Longboat Key Town Commission’s Monday regular workshop to discuss the town attorney and her progress in the role.

Brown made the decision after Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association attorney Don Hemke informed the commission at a March 4 public nuisance hearing that his client had not received due process after receiving some witness reports less than a week before the hearing. One report was released the day before the hearing.

Former town attorney Dave Persson, who sat with the commission at the hearing due to his previous legal knowledge of the Colony and because he works for the same law firm as Mooney-Portale, agreed with Hemke’s assessment that the association had not received due process. The commission continued a hearing that decides the fate of rundown Colony units until May. Brown expressed frustration after the hearing, telling the Longboat Observer “there’s going to have to be questions asked and questions answered from our legal counsel.”

But at the commission’s regular workshop Monday, Brown said he had discussed his issues internally with Mooney-Portale, Persson and Town Manager Dave Bullock.

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KEY CLUB / FROM PAGE 1A and had it in front of us a long time ago.”

Key Club officials, which haven’t expressed an interest in talking publicly about a Key Club project until Tuesday, are now ready to help the town with ordinance changes that will pave the way for a a future project application.

Ocean Properties Vice President Mark Walsh, son of company founder Tom Walsh, and Vice President of Operations Andy Berger attended the meeting to provide comments to proposed modifications to the ODP process, which allows applicants to make modifications and ask for departures from town codes to get approval for projects town staff could not otherwise consider.

Spikowski made suggestions to the ordinance at the meeting, which would allow an applicant like the Key Club to submit a future project.

Walsh told the planning board that he intends to build a future project at the Key Club that fits within the neighborhood and complies with codes.

Board members, however, expressed concern and the need for clarification for an ODP process that doesn’t explicitly state who owns or is in control of unused units slated for planned unit developments (PUDs) like those in Islandside and Harbourside.

There are approximately 600 unused units in Harbourside and 800 unused units in Islandside. The planning board wants to know who can ask to build those undeveloped units.

“Where I come from, density belongs to the property owner,” said planning board Chairwoman B.J. Bishop. “But in the case of Harbourside and Islandside, who controls the unused units and who can ask for them? The golf course, the existing condos, the tennis courts? It’s not clear.”

Walsh told the planning board that from his perspective, his company, which bought the Key Club in 2012, is in

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control of the unused units.

“My perspective is density was there and belongs to the person who will develop the vacant land,” Walsh said. “I think there are rights there and we need something that allows us to move forward. We want to build a quality development that fits with the neighborhood.”

Walsh also told the board he hopes the town preserves the company’s rights to ask for 12-story buildings and 130 feet of height for tourism uses for a future project, which the comp plan currently allows. However, the current ODP process allows for departures up to eight stories, making it even more confusing for an applicant looking to town codes and plans for clarification.

“To do a good development at the club, you are going to need height,” Walsh said. “Lowering height is problematic to us and won’t get us where we want to go with a quality project because of setbacks. There are 145-foot buildings in that (Islandside) area now. I think in this district, we would like to work with staff to find a solution we think is better.”

Ray explained the proposed changes as “a stop-gap measure” for applicants such as the Key Club who otherwise can’t ask for changes unless the town changes its ODP process. Those properties have been in limbo since a judge’s 2012 ruling that quashed the process by which the town approved the former Key Club project redevelopment application.

The ultimate goal, Ray said, is to eliminate the ODP process altogether once the town’s codes and comp plan are updated “from the ground up.”

That process, Ray said, will take two years to complete. Walsh said he’s willing to work with the town during this process.

“The long-term goal is to address nonconformities on island that is 99% developed,” Ray said. “We are very excited to make these codes simple, understandable and be able to address modern issues we now face. We bang our heads every day on our desks when dealing and having to interpret these current codes.”

ATTORNEY / FROM PAGE 1A “A document (see sidebar) has been put together, establishing the expectations we have for our town attorney,” Brown said.

“As a result, I think we should give our town attorney an opportunity to get up to speed.”

Brown noted that Mooney-Portale has only been the town’s attorney for eight months and was on maternity leave from October until early January.

“I don’t think she’s had enough time to be judged,” Brown said. “I would like to wait and have this discussion again in the fall.”

Commissioner Jack Duncan agreed, noting that commissioners have to communicate with Mooney-Portale as much as possible to relay their concerns.

Commissioners Lynn Larson and Phill Younger, though, took the opportunity to reveal concerns with Mooney-Portale during the workshop.

Larson said the town had a chance to find a new town attorney but never really switched because it kept the same law firm and still seeks Persson’s legal advice in matters such as the Colony.

“We almost made a change but we didn’t, and we are compounding the mistake by dragging this out,” Larson said.

Younger made no comments regarding Mooney-Portale’s performance during the discussion item, but became frustrated during Mooney-Portale’s town attorney comments at the end of the workshop.

Mooney-Portale said the town will seek a legal opinion in a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Office to get direction about the Planning and Zoning Board’s ability to take on duties of the Zoning Board of Adjustment if ZBA members cannot meet.

Younger, a member of the Georgia bar for more than 30 years, and planning board member George Symanski Jr., a former attorney with more than 30 years of experience in such areas, do not believe planning board members can serve under both capacities. But Mooney-Portale has

TOWN ATTORNEY EXPECTATIONS MEMO Excerpts from the following memo Town Manager Dave Bullock crafted last week with input from commissioners regarding the expectations for Town Attorney Maggie Moooney-Portale in the future.

• Attorney will provide clear advice to commission on a variety of issues when the law is established and known to attorney; • If law is not well-settled or the facts are not clear, then, attorney will so explain, providing “if/then” scenarios; • If the attorney does not know the law as to a particular issue or if the complexity of the issue is such as to require more analysis, the attorney will so state and request time to conduct analysis and report back to commission. A timeline for the report will be provided; • Clear options, guidance and recommendations on issues that have legal aspects that must be considered by the commission; if an issue is believed to be primarily policy or political in nature, the attorney shall explain why the issue is not a legal concern. suggested planning board members could handle such duties on an as-needed basis.

Younger said he disagrees with getting an opinion from Bondi’s office because the opinion will not be binding, explaining to the Longboat Observer he would rather see Mooney-Portale make her own legal decision.

“It doesn’t seem like sound legal advice,” Younger said at the workshop.

Mooney-Portale told the commission Monday she “appreciates the opportunity to continue on.”

The commission is responsible for the hiring and firing of only two Longboat Key officials: the town manager and the town attorney.

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Longbeach Café coming to the menu for Whitney Beach Plaza By the first week in April, Pete and Colleen Collandra and Jeff Daly hope to open the new restaurant, which will serve breakfast and lunch.

A new restaurant is coming to Whitney Beach Plaza, but it will have a familiar flavor for longtime residents.

It will be located in the old Isabelle’s Eatery location at 6836 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Like Isabelle’s Eatery, it will serve breakfast and lunch and offer many of the same items on its menu. One of the partners, Colleen Collandra, is a former manager and part owner of Isabelle’s, which closed in 2007. She and her husband, Pete Collandra, met their partner in the restaurant, Jeff Daly, years ago at the old Isabelle’s.

But the restaurant will not be called Isabelle’s. It will be known as the Longbeach Café.

“People will remember it as Isabelle’s and call it what they want, but we’re going with a fresh start,” Daly said.

Pete Collandra came up with the name Longbeach Café — Longbeach being the historic name of the north end.

Daly and the Collandras hope to open during the first week of April. The opening will come at the tail end of season. It is later than they would have preferred to open — they initially wanted to open before Thanksgiving but had to hold off to wait for the restaurant’s ceiling to be replaced and obtain permits.

Since mid-January, the Collandras have worked 10- to 11-hour days to replace virtually everything in the restaurant — from counters and booths to kitchen equipment.

“I can honestly say everything in here is literally new,” Colleen Collandra said.

The menu includes omelets and other breakfast items, salads, sandwiches, soups, burgers and more. Nearly all items are under $10, and everything on the menu will be homemade.

OPEN SPACE Whitney Beach Plaza has 11 remaining spaces, ranging from 785 square feet to 10,138 square feet. The rental rate is $16 per square foot. Listing agents are Ian Black Real Estate agents Nick DeVito II and Deborah Anglin.

NEWSBRIEFS + New north-end group prepares for first meeting The North End Coalition of Property Owners, a new group consisting of north end property owners and associations, will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design, 6860 Longboat Drive S., to discuss a variety of topics that include beach renourishment and north end redevelopment.

The forum, which will enable homeowners to ask questions, will be a new venue to increase community dialogue and build collaboration with town leaders.

For more information on the forum or the new group, email northendcoalitionlbk@gmail.com or call 383-0001.

+ Kiwanis Club awards first grants for 2014

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Jeff Daly and Colleen and Pete Collandra hope to open by the first week in April.

All three partners have deep roots on the Key. Colleen Collandra, who currently works at the Lido Beach Resort, previously worked at the Market and Tiny’s of Longboat Key, in addition to Isabelle’s. Pete Collandra is a 28year firefighter/paramedic with Longboat Key Fire Rescue.

Daly, who recently purchased a home on the Key, attended the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy before it became IMG Academy.

He visited his parents on the Key for years and frequented Isabelle’s. Last year, when renovations at the mostly vacant plaza were underway, he called Colleen Collandra to ask if she would be interested in opening a restaurant at the old Isabelle’s location.

“There truly needs to be something here at the north end,” Daly said.

The shopping center remains largely vacant but is beginning to show signs of life.

Last month, plaza co-owner Ryan Snyder confirmed plans to open a liquor store in the space previously occupied by Longboat Key Liquors. In the fall, Engel & Volkers Florida, Linen Locker and attorney Christopher Caswell moved into the plaza. Longtime tenants Design 2000 and Bayou Tavern remain open in the plaza.

In addition to offering breakfast and lunch, the Longbeach Café will offer catering. After the restaurant begins operating, the next priority will be to open for outdoor dining in the back area, which overlooks a canal.

“People walk by every day,” Daly said.

“They just can’t wait.”

TIMELINE May 2008 — Whitney Beach Plaza owner Andrew Hlywa closed The Market, the shopping center’s anchor.

December 2010 — The Bostonbased JKI Investment Capital LLC purchased the mostly vacant Whitney Beach Plaza and assets for $3.7 million in a commercial short sale.

November 2012 — Bradenton attorney Ryan Snyder became a partner in the plaza with Rich Juliani, JKI principal.

March 2013 — Owners began a $2 million renovation of the shopping center.

June 2013 — Engel & Völkers announced plans to move to the plaza and become its first new tenant following renovations.

Fall 2013 — Engel & Volkers Florida, Linen Locker and attorney Christopher Caswell moved into the plaza.

Spring 2014 — Longboat Key Liquors and Longbeach Café are slated to open in the plaza.

The Longboat Key Kiwanis Foundation announced its first grants for 2014.

The first grant will go to the United Community Neighborhood Learning Center, better known as the 13th Avenue Dream Center, to support the Reading Recovery Program for at-risk children in kindergarten through third grade.

The Child Protection Center of Sarasota County will receive the second grant in support of its Child and Families Supervised Visitation Program.

A third grant will go to the Dance: The Next Generation project of the Sarasota Ballet to support a summer nutrition program.

Additional grants will be announced in the coming weeks. This year, the Kiwanis Club will offer approximately a dozen organizations grants of $500 to $5,000 based on their service to children in need.

Organizations must be located in Sarasota or Manatee counties and have a Kiwanis member as a sponsor.

Contact club president Richard Crawford at 388-2847.

+ Correction New American Jewish Committee regional board of directors member Jules Rose is a Longboat Key resident. A news release incorrectly stated Rose’s residence.

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Thursday, March 20  Town Commission Statutory Meeting — 7 p.m. Monday, March 31  Town Commission Regular Meeting — 7 p.m. Monday, April 7 All meetings take place at Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road, unless otherwise noted.

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commissioners March 25 Election day is nearly a week away, but as of March 16, at least 17.8%, or 1,104, of the town’s 6,188 registered voters had cast their ballots for the town’s March 25 general municipal election.

Early voting, which began March 10, drew 656 voters to Longboat Key Town Hall during its first seven days. Another 448 voters returned absentee ballots through March 14.

In this year’s election, Terry Gans and Ray Rajewski are running for the District 3 seat, and Armando Linde and Irwin Pastor are running for one of two at-large seats on the Longboat Key Town Commission. All Key voters are eligible to vote in both races.

Early voting will continue from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through March 22 at Longboat Key Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road, for voters in both Sarasota and Manatee county. The town clerk’s office is sweetening early voting with daily refreshments. Refreshments are available only during early voting only.

The deadline to request an absentee ballot is March 19.

On election day, polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Manatee County residents will vote at Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive, while Sarasota County residents will cast their ballots at Town Hall.

In the past three town elections, the majority of votes were cast before election day, either early or absentee.

Voter turnout for town elections is usually less than 50%. (See box.) By comparison, more than 80% of the town’s voters cast ballots in the previous two presidential elections.

VOTER TURNOUT Fewer than 50% of voters typically cast ballots in town elections.

Clair vs. Gene 2009 Randy Jaleski; $27 million capital improvements bond issuance

Registered voters: 6,502 Votes cast: 2,324 Turnout: 35.74%

Larson vs. Randy Clair; 2010 Lynn David Brenner vs. Peter

O’Connor; Hal Lenobel vs. Phillip Younger

Registered voters: 6,330 Votes cast: 2,970 Turnout: 46.92%

limit referendum ques2011 Term tion; beach bond referendum Registered voters: 6,296 Votes cast: 1,176 Turnout: 18.68%

Brenner vs.

2012 David Ray Rajewski Registered voters: 6,298 Votes cast: 2,334 Turnout: 37.06%

Brown vs. Larry Gross2013 Jim man; Terry Gans vs. Irwin Pastor; Gene Jaleski vs. Phill Younger

Registered voters: 6,263 Votes cast: 2,509 Turnout: 40.06%

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Ballads speak universal language to Longboat man Yusuke Horiguchi doesn’t speak Spanish, but the meaning of bolero music needs no translation.

Yusuke Horiguchi gave up on speaking Spanish after a few months of classes.

It was the late 1980s, and he was working for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Latin America was in the midst of its debt crisis, and Horiguchi was required to take a Spanish class. Then, he bumped into two Columbian friends and asked them,“¿Cómo estás?”

They didn’t understand; Horiguchi’s wife, Oya had to translate.

“I told my senior people, ‘I have absolutely no aptitude to learn that language,’” Horiguchi said. “They agreed with me that it was a waste of time.”

The Japan native and Marina Bay resident never learned to speak Spanish — only to sing it. At 71 and semi-retired, he has been performing bolero music, a romantic Latino style of music, for more than five decades. He doesn’t know the meaning of the words he sings, but he knows what the songs mean.

“In bolero music, there are not many themes,” he said. “They’re always about love that was lost…I can imagine, basically, what the songs are about, but in terms of details, I have very little idea.”

He listens to a song over and over, then transcribes it phonetically into Japanese to learn it by heart. The process can take six months to perfect a song to the extent that he is comfortable performing it for a crowd.

Horiguchi was a teenager when he and his younger brothers first heard the Latin American trio Los Panchos play in Tokyo.

The group’s music became a sensation in Japan, and Horiguchi and his brothers saw the trio in concert two or three times a year. His brother later announced that he had taught himself to play guitar.

So, Horiguchi and their other brother followed suit and taught themselves, eventu-

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Yusuke Horiguchi performs on a requinto guitar, which is tuned higher than a regular guitar to allow the lead guitarist to play a beautiful introduction to a song.

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ally forming their own trio that played at parties.

“You know, despite the fact that we have very little idea about what is being said in those song lyrics, I think that the melodies are very beautiful,” he said.

But for most of his life, his career left little time for music. After earning his Ph.D. from Rice University, he taught economics before taking a position with Organisation

for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He went on to work for the IMF from 1978 to 2002, becoming its Asia and Pacific Department director, and after that, chief economist of the Institute of International Finance Inc. The work was high-pressure, but Horiguchi found time to perform on occasion, often at office parties.

Longboat Key resident Armando Linde,

a Cuba native who also retired from the IMF, remembers Horaguchi performing at parties.

“He’s very good,” Linde said. “It’s funny because when he sings, he doesn’t have an accent.”

Now semi-retired, Horiguchi has more time for music. He still writes papers and advises companies, so he devotes the morning to economics — but from midday on, he focuses on his music. He plays from 7 to 10:30 p.m. Tuesdays at 15 South on St. Armands Circle as part of the Café de Romance that also includes the duo Nic & Ari and French chansons by Michelet Innocent, and he plays from 6 to 8 p.m.

Sundays at Darwin’s on 4th restaurant in Sarasota.

A one-man bolero performer is unusual. Typically, a trio performs boleros, with one person playing lead guitar on a requinto and second and third guitarists who play regular guitars. The third guitarist is also the lead tenor, but all three performers sing.

Horiguchi was part of a trio with his brothers as a young man in Japan and admits he is more self-conscious now that he is a solo act.

“Now, I do three peoples’ music by myself,” he said. “It’s quite taxing.”

Although he worries about getting chords right and whether he will miss a note, he has never taken a guitar lesson — and has no plans to do so in the future.

Instead, he prefers to embrace every performing experience.

Horiguchi does not know where his second career as a solo bolero performer will take him — but he is OK with improvising.

"I will make up a path as I go along,” he said. “When a way stops opening up for me despite my efforts, that I should take as a sign that my career as a musician, as I now conceive it, is coming close to an end.”

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by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor

North-end erosion deemed emergency

Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key presents its annual

Pancake Breakfast Enjoy a fresh, hot stack of pancakes, sausage, juice, coffee and prizes!

The town will get 100% of sand dredged from a WCIND project this summer for its shores, with Manatee County receiving 100% of sand the next time the site is dredged.

Only $7 per person Buy 5 Get 1 FREE Time: 7 to 11 a.m. • Date: Saturday, March 22 Place: St. Mary Star of the Sea, 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive Tickets can be purchased at the door, from Kiwanis members or at the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce, Centre Shops 5370 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Call Wayne Swift, 383-2095.

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Town Manager Dave Bullock confirmed his belief that the town should place sand on the north end of the Key as soon as it becomes available during the Longboat Key Town Commission’s Monday regular workshop.

The town wants sand for the Key’s shore that the West Coast Inlet Navigation District (WCIND) plans to dredge out of the Intracoastal Waterway near Jewfish Key this summer.

Public Works Director Juan Florensa said the state has approved the permit, and the project could receive a federal permit in a couple of weeks. Approximately 50,000 to 75,000 cubic yards of sand could be placed on the north end up to the Broadway beach access to act as a stopgap fix until sandsaving structures can be built the following summer.

“Our coastal engineer believes the rate of erosion south of the (Longbeach condominium) seawall is an increasing rate of erosion,” Bullock said. “The information justifies me sending a letter to WCIND saying this constitutes an emergency and allows them to get a dredge to dredge the sand traps earlier.”

In a March 7 email to the commission, Bullock explained that WCIND’s project calls for dredging the channel near Longboat Pass while placing beach-compatible sand on the north end of Longboat Key. WCIND will dredge the channel north-

west of Jewfish Key to prepare for installation flood shoal sand traps in that area.

The traps, once installed, will trap between 40,000 and 60,000 cubic yards of sand that is swept off the north end of the Key and deposited in a large sandbar near Jewfish Key. WCIND is seeking a permit for sand traps because that same sand also makes its way into the Intracoastal Waterway, clogging the boating channel and forcing the district to perform expensive dredging projects.

Bullock said the town will get 100% of the sand dredged for its shores, with Manatee County receiving 100% of the sand the next time the site is dredged. The town and county will receive a 50/50 split for future projects.

The traps will be installed in a shallow depression in the waterway and intercept sand before it makes its way to the Jewfish Key site.

WCIND board members agreed to accelerate plans and place sand around Longbeach condominiums and the surrounding area after the sand is removed. WCIND also agreed to allocate $500,000 for the project.

WCIND is soliciting prices for vendors and placement of sand around the north end. Bullock will bring the commission in April an estimate on how much the town will have to contribute toward the sand project.

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City attorney warns against St. Armands event ban The City Commission discussed extending its moratorium on events at St. Armands, but the city attorney said that could cause legal action because it targets a specific event.

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Rosenblum agreed with Snyder about the potential safety issues created by the high-traffic event.

“Your primary duty as a governing body is the public health, safety, welfare and morals, not commercial interests,” Rosenblum said.

City Attorney Robert Fournier strongly opposed the idea of extending the moratorium this year. He said he believed people on the Circle are specifically targeting next month’s art festival because they asked the city to deny the permit for the event last summer.

“I just think it’s a very bad idea, from a legal standpoint, for you to entertain extending this moratorium period where this one event is the specific target,” Fournier said.

Although multiple commissioners expressed interest in extending the moratorium, the commission took no action at Monday’s meeting. Fournier said that for next year, the city could revise its special events ordinance to incorporate similar restrictions on St. Armands Circle Park events.

Rosenblum said he was disappointed by the city attorney’s comments, and said the residents were not specifically targeting any event.

“The issue tonight is not about our special events privileges,” Rosenblum said.

“The issue tonight has to do with public health, safety and welfare.”

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St. Armands Key residents asked the Sarasota City Commission to consider extending a ban on special events on St. Armands Circle at a meeting Monday, but the city attorney cautioned commissioners about the legality of — and the motive behind — lengthening that moratorium.

Mayor Shannon Snyder, who said he wanted to consider extending the moratorium on events at St. Armands Circle Park through the end of the month after speaking with people on the Circle, requested the item be placed on the agenda.

Snyder said the extra traffic created by special events was a public safety concern. He questioned whether the benefits of an event in a busy area — specifically, the St. Armands Fine Art Festival, scheduled for April 26 and April 27 — outweighed the negatives.

“If there’s a fire out there, an ambulance needs to get out to Longboat Key, there could be a problem,” Snyder said.

The commission originally approved a moratorium for Feb. 1 through April 20 of this year. Circle stakeholders feared that the events cause added traffic congestion and compete with local businesses during the busiest part of the year.

A group of St. Armands residents attended Monday’s commission meeting, with St. Armands Residents Association Vice President Ed Rosenblum speaking in favor of the moratorium on their behalf.

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Two topics that appear to be the subjects an independent governing authority — with of many dinner conversations these days “skin” in the game. It won’t work with just DON’T FORGET TO VOTE on Longboat Key are: the ideas of a town “renters” and elected politicians. Just look at The official election day is next center near Publix and a new cultural center what exists now as proof of that.

Tuesday, March 25, for two Longboat nearby.

City commissioners must give up control.

Key Town Commission races and Longboaters are not the only ones diswhether to extend for four more + About that Wolfer purchase cussing such issues. Across the bay in Sarayears in Sarasota County the one-mill Here’s an issue the new Longboat Key sota, a similar conversation is beginning on property tax for the county’s public Town Commission will likely face when the how to transform the 75 acres comprising schools. election is over. the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center, the In the Longboat Town Commission As Longboaters now know, the Town shuttered G-WIZ museum and the former election, last week we recommended: Commission voted to approve a $1.5 million Quay property into a world-class cultural • Terry Gans purchase of the Einisman-Wolfer property park.

• Irwin Pastor near Publix. They saw it as a way to help Longboat Key taxpayers won’t have any In the Sarasota County one-mill secure property for the potential future electoral power in what the city of Sarasota property tax extension, the Longboat development of a town center. ultimately decides to do with the cultural Observer said on Feb. 27: The funds for the purchase came from park. But as staunch patrons of Sarasota’s “We’re not going to advocate either the town’s parks and open-space land arts, Longboat arts supporters may want for or against Sarasota County’s oneacquisition fund. This fund was set up to to make sure they have a voice … or two as mill, four-year school tax. To no surextort — our term — money, land or both those conversations progress. prise, it is earmarked to continue the from developers in exchange for permission The results will be crucial to the entire centralized, union-controlled model of to build on Longboat Key. It typically only region — Longboat Key to be sure. delivering education. If you’re happy applied to big projects, mostly all of the big Imagine the amazing possibilities. with that, vote yes. If you’re not, and condominium projects on the Key. Over the past few months, Michael Klaubbelieve in more choice, send a mesIn the process of approving the purchase er, owner of Michael’s on East and chairman sage.”

— Ed. of the Wolfer property, town commissioners of VisitSarasota, and VisitSarasota President were told that if the town found a developer Virginia Haley have spearheaded efforts to for the town center, the town could sell the bring together the boards of VisitSarasota, If Klauber, Haley, all of the interested arts Wolfer property to a developer and then arts organizations, economic development organizations, business leaders, neighborre-deposit the funds back in the land-acquiorganizations and the Van Wezel Foundahood associations and believers in the sition fund. tion to begin discussions on how to make potential of Sarasota are serious about this So just for clarification, we read the town the dream of a world-class cultural center once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, they must code. Here is what it says: become reality. persuade the city and commissioners to let And just imagine: A cultural park that go.

158.017 Parks and open space land acquireplaces the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Turn over ownership and governing sition. (J) The fees collected under this secwith a Kennedy Center-like plaza able to control of the entire 75 acres, including the tion shall be paid to the town at Town Hall, accommodate comfortably halls for SaraQuay property, to a special taxing district 501 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, Florida. sota Orchestra, Sarasota Ballet and Sarasota and authority. In effect, create another All such fees, including any fees collected Opera simultaneously. Imagine a cultural Reedy Creek Improvement District — the pursuant to Ordinances 79-7, 80-1, 80-9 and park with the rehearsal studios and faciligoverning authority over everything that 81-27, shall be placed in a reserve account ties to create suitable, permanent homes for happens within the confines of Walt Disney in trust within the general fund and shall be these cultural gems. known as the reserve for lands for parks land Imagine a linear, landscaped park for all to World’s 25,000 acres in Central Florida.

After the late Walt Disney accumulated open space. Monies in the reserve account enjoy, stretching the length of the property all of the property for his City of Tomorrow, shall be used and expended solely for the from Sarasota Bay Club south to the Beau he obtained approval from the Legislature acquisition, improvement and expansion of Ciel condominium. And imagine an attracto create Reedy Creek. Because it owns the town parks and open space land. tive mix of additional hotel and meeting space, offices, condominiums and appropri- property and appoints members to its board of supervisors, decision-making is fast; buKey words: “Shall be used and expended ate restaurants and retail — bustling with reaucratic delays are non-existent. solely (italics added) for the acquisition, visitors and residents alike.

To be sure, many of Sarasota’s City Hall improvement and expansion of town parks It can happen. And it should. meddlers would shudder in horror at the and open space land.”

Getting there, however, is practically a idea of the City Commission giving up It sounds like once a park, always a park. pipe dream.

Uh-oh.

Here’s why: The Sarasota City Commission control of how the Van Wezel property is developed, governed and managed. But it’s and city of Sarasota government. the only way the dream will come true. To + ‘Medical’ marijuana With all due respect to those good people leave decision-making up to five elected Here is a future scene in Florida based on the commission and working inside City commissioners will assure failure, or, at best, on “The Weekend Interview” in the March Hall, history has shown for nearly a halfa frustrating disappointment.

15 Wall Street Journal. Associate Editorial century these institutions are incapable of We’re not sure an exact replica of the Features Editor Bari Weiss interviewed Justin big things. Even little things.

Reedy Creek Improvement District would Hartfield, a marijuana entrepreneur in CaliSure, we have the 10-year-old Ringling apply to a Sarasota cultural park. In the fornia. Here’s an excerpt: Bridge, the most significant addition to case of Disney World, the Walt Disney Co. “The people I met who are involved in the Sarasota since the 1960s. But even that took essentially is the Reedy Creek Improvement California weed industry emphasized maria decade to come to fruition. It finally hapDistrict. As such, it has had access to capital juana’s healthful benefits. A young couple pened not because of leadership from city and counted on its attraction to generate the passing around their homegrown weed commissioners or the city itself, but largely cash to fund construction and maintenance asked: ‘Will you be medicating with us?’ (I because of one man, Gil Waters, who had of its City of Tomorrow. wouldn’t be.) the persistence and passion to rally public Similar financing may not feasible for a “But not one person I met with a medicalsupport. It was one of the most excruciating, cultural park. Certainly it would help if the marijuana card was actually sick. It took me contentious and ugly times in modern city privately owned Quay property paid in taxes $150 and under an hour to get a card from history. to a special cultural district taxing authority a physician in Venice, even after admitting So imagine. Knowing what you know what it would otherwise pay to the city and I was just in town for a visit. (My malady? about how the City Commission has such a county.

Stressful deadlines.) knack of bungling and obstructing economBut those are details to be addressed. The “Though Mr. Hartfield naturally falls ic opportunities, imagine the City Comkey point here is if there is to be a worldinto the same tropes, using ‘marijuana’ mission trying to make decisions on what and ‘medicine’ interchangeably, when should or shouldn’t be developed on the Van class cultural park, there must be owners — I challenge him on it, he Wezel property. Imagine the admits that the system is a exhausting, interminable C E N TRAL AV E N U E ‘farce’” … debates. Imagine the city commissioners meddling + Jeb Bush is in into every detail of what is He’s running … For the placed where on the propC O C O A NUT A VENU E GOP presidential nominaerty. Imagine them caving tion. Bank on it. in, as they typically do, to the Pioneer Proscenium Park The evidence? In March vision-less naysayers who he’s campaigning for shoo-in resist any attempt to make 41 governors in New Mexico Sarasota a more vibrant and Nevada; speaking to place.

Quay leaders of the Republican Imagine the Sarasota City Cultural Park Jewish Coalition, an influenCommission leading the tial group backed by casino transformation of the Van magnate Sheldon Adelson.

Wezel and G-WIZ property And then he’ll co-host an into a world-renowned culCentennial GWIZ education conference in tural park.

Park Texas, where Hillary Clinton It won’t happen.

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In SSA, the referendum funds also cover the costs of art and music programs and a technology program. The Legislature mandated computerized math testing, but did not provide the dollars to buy computers. Thanks to the referendum, we were able to purchase the technology needed for not only testing, but for extended learning opportunities.We also use the money to cover the extra 30 minutes added to the school day, providing more time for student learning than the state offers. In addition, charter schools set their own salaries

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Although under the umbrella of the school district, charter schools are independently run, with our own board and our own specialization. They give parents the opportunity to choose an educational program that is best for their child and their philosophy of child raising. In Sarasota County, the choices are more extensive than in most school districts around the country. Thanks to the support of the community and the past referendums, charter schools here are able to further enhance our individual educational environments for the benefit of our students.

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Swans Nik and Bello have been enjoying their new territory in the Harbourside golf course waters since late February. They are named for circus performers Nik Wallenda and Bello Nock.

Clare and Greta are thriving in the Islandside waters.

They are named after swan supporters’ Hein Rusen and Bill Rainville’s wives.

But unlike the swan pairs that came before them, neither pair will produce a nest full of fuzzy white cygnets. That’s because Nik and Bello are males; Clare and Greta are females.

The couples are the first same-sex swan pairs unofficial swan steward David Novak matched together as part of a long-term plan to control the Key’s swan population. Novak placed a third male-female pair that is still unnamed in a Sarasota neighborhood that he declined to identify out of respect for the community’s privacy.

All six swans hatched last spring from Stan and Wendy’s nest.

“The mortality rate for cygnets is very, very high,” Novak said. “It’s astonishing to have six.”

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Most cygnets fall victim to predators or their own parents that cull the flock and eliminate the weakest.

If they survive to maturity — around seven or eight months — their parents will consider them a threat and chase them away.

The survival of all six cygnets made overpopulation a possibility on the Key. Swans are territorial by nature, and the island has seven territories that can each hold an adult pair.

But swans will mate with members of the same sex if paired together in the same territory, so Novak devised a plan for matching samesex pairs in the remaining

territories and relocating additional future cygnets.

Novak needed to capture each cygnet for medical treatment, pinioning and DNA testing to identify each bird’s sex. He devoted three weekends late last year to the capture, but caught just three cygnets.

He captured a fourth cygnet after it was brushed by a passing car and taken to Save Our Seabirds. But the last two cygnets remained in their parents’ territory, even after Stan became aggressive.

Novak captured one cygnet after cornering it in the bushes. He was on his bicycle and found the last

GRACIE SWAN FOUNDATION In 2013, David Novak set up a fund through the Regal Swan Foundation to assist with swan care costs.

Now, he has established a new nonprofit foundation that’s named for swan matriarch Gracie, who died in 2007.

Contributions can be made to: The Gracie Swan Foundation, c/o SunTrust, 510 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, FL, 34228. young swan sleeping on the bank of a pond. He tiptoed behind him, grabbed him and rode home, holding the cygnet in one arm.

The final count: three males, three females — which is why Novak paired one male and one female in the Sarasota community. His goal is to have no new pairs that add to the Key’s swan population. But current male-female pairs Alan and Beverly, Stan and Wendy and Sully and Suzie could create as much as a decade’s worth of new cygnets.

Later in 2014, Novak plans to fill the remaining two territories and place any remaining cygnets where they can thrive.

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Lido residents hold off on campaigning for renourishment Lido Key residents want to take an even-keeled approach in supporting a proposed beach project that is drawing heat from Siesta Key groups.

The Lido Key Residents Association responded to opposition to a proposed Lido Beach renourishment project by focusing on the long view during its meeting Saturday.

Several Siesta Key organizations and residents have declared their opposition to a proposed project that would renourish Lido Beach with sand from Big Pass, citing concerns about negative impacts on Siesta Beach.

The plan, proposed by the city and spearheaded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has not yet been submitted for state approval and is years away from potentially beginning, but groups have already begun to stake out their positions on the topic.

Lido residents were looking for a way to combat opposition and publicize facts that support the renourishment last month, but Assistant City Manager Marlon Brown told board member John Kirker to wait for the Army Corps to finish a report on the projected impact of the plan, currently expected by the end of May. At that point, Kirker said, the city will begin to advocate more strongly for the project. He said it would be difficult for the residents to bite their tongues, but that it made sense to follow the city’s lead.

“This is a city project,” Kirker said. “This is not the Lido Residents Association’s project. We’re going to benefit from working with the city.”

Some Lido residents expressed fear that they were falling behind in the realm of public opinion. Mollie Thibodeau pointed to a front-page story in the Sarasota Observer about Siesta Key residents bringing an organ out to Big Pass, playing “Let it Be” to discourage sand dredging. If people on Lido aren’t more proactive, she said, the effects could be devastating.

“We have another song that we might need to sing: ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee,’” Thibodeau said. “I believe we’re in a Titanic situation here — we are sinking.”

Association Secretary Mary Moss said members of the group are diligently working behind the scenes to communicate with commissioners and other parties.

“Some of it you don’t know about because we’re not out there tooting our horns,” Moss said.

In the meantime, residents association Vice President Debbie Comer encouraged Lido residents to try to put Siesta stakeholders at ease regarding the project. She said that many people have a strong negative reaction to hearing the word “dredge,” and are unaware of facts surrounding the proposed project, including that it would use about 3% of the sand in Big Pass.

“We just want a tiny bit of our sand returned,” Comer said. “Let’s make it a friendly discussion so that everybody wins.”

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SANDRA FRANK An attorney by profession, All Faiths Food Bank CEO Sandra Frank says she discovered long ago where her true passion lay.

“I knew probably 20 years ago,” she says. “I went into a law firm, and within a few years, I discovered that it wasn’t motivating for me. I’m absolutely passionate about children, so since then, I’ve spent a career making sure kids are well-fed and cherished — as they should be.”

Frank worked in various positions in the nonprofit sector before arriving at All Faiths two years ago, where she says she quickly learned the importance of the organization.

Founded 25 years ago as a way for several faith-based organizations to combine their efforts, All Faiths is now considered the main fooddistribution hub in Sarasota and DeSoto counties, serving 41,000 people per year with approximately 7 million pounds of food.

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One of the nonprofit organization’s biggest challenges lies in meeting the growing demand for food, and it has recently undergone several expansions to keep pace.

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Sandra Frank has spent the majority of her career in the nonprofit sector. She became CEO of All Faiths Food Bank two years ago.

Starting April 1, All Faiths will launch its Summer Hunger campaign, designed to counteract this trend. It will collect food and financial donations, and Frank says one of the easiest ways to contribute is for seasonal residents to empty their shelves and donate extra food before heading back north.

“I know that I grew up in very fortunate circumstances,” says Frank. “I’m very blessed, and I know it. You can’t help but see the suffering and hunger and shortages that surround us, so it’s important for all of us to do whatever we can to make sure everyone is well-fed and to make sure that children survive and thrive.”

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GOP club hears about high-stakes amendment The Republican Club heard from Dr. Jim Whitman and Larry Eger about a burning issue on the November ballot: medical marijuana.

Both Dr. Jim Whitman and Larry Eger believe the question of medical marijuana is a public health issue. Both Whitman and Eger are Republicans, and both believe the appearance of a medical marijuana initiative on the upcoming November ballot has a hidden agenda: to get Democrat Charlie Crist elected as governor.

But Whitman and Eger have different views on legalizing medical marijuana. Whitman, director of psychiatric services at the Manatee County Jail, believes it should remain illegal, while Eger, public defender for the 12th Judicial Circuit Court, favors legalization.

Whitman and Eger debated the issue at the Republican Club of Longboat Key’s March 14 meeting at the Longboat Key Club’s Harbourside Dining Room.

Whitman, a Longboat Key resident, told the audience the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recognized two chemical constituents of marijuana, THC and dronabinol, as having medicinal uses — not for pain, but side effects resulting from che-

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Larry Eger, public defender for the 12th Judicial Circuit, and Dr. Jim Whitman, director of psychiatric services at the Manatee County Jail, debate medical marijuana. motherapy and radiation treatments. Both of those chemicals are available by prescription in Florida, he said.

But the amendment specifies nine medical conditions for which a doctor can prescribe marijuana — plus “other conditions for which a physician believes that the medical use of marijuana would likely outweigh the potential health risks

for a patient.”

“That’s a very wide door that anyone can walk through,” Whitman said.

But Eger said that marijuana in pill form has not been shown to have the same effect as smoked marijuana. He compared his support of legalization to his opposition to the Affordable Care Act, saying he does not want the government to make decisions such

as whether individuals are required to have health insurance.

“I stand on the principle that I don’t want the government telling physicians they can’t prescribe what he or she feels is appropriate,” Eger said.

Whitman, however, worries that marijuana use will increase if voters approve the amendment.

“It might not even be because it is prescribed but because it is diverted,” he said, citing examples from states that have legalized medical marijuana. “People sell it on the streets or give it away.”

Whitman argued that legalization could result in public health dangers, such as child neglect or driving under the influence.

He sees the effects of substance abuse every day in jail, where at least 75% of his patients are referred to him for substance abuse.

But Eger countered that marijuana is already on the streets and, despite criminalization, use among individuals under 24 has gone up. In comparison, tobacco is legal for those 18 and up, but the government regulates its potency and advertising, and also taxes it. Tobacco use has fallen among individuals under 24.

Eger described the legal impact

of marijuana criminalization.

“Lives are ruined, not because of abuse but because of arrest.

People lose educational opportunities, scholarships; they’re saddled with arrest records,” he said. “These aren’t people who are drug addicts. We’re talking about our kids.”

A marijuana arrest in Sarasota County takes a deputy off the streets for three hours, he said — “money that would be much better spent in pursuit of crimes that profoundly impact public safety.”

Eger argued that money used for arresting people and sending them to prison for marijuanarelated crimes would be better spent on treatment, education and regulation.

Eger said the placement of the proposed amendment on the ballot was “a Democratic ploy” but urged Republicans not to view it as a party issue, saying, “I believe individual liberties are a value we all can support.”

The initiative will require at least 60% approval to pass.

“It’s going to fail, but it’s going to get a majority,” Whitman predicted. “That’s not going to stop them, and they’re going to have amendments every year until it passes.”

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“It’s going to the Senate floor soon, and we’re keeping a close eye on it,” Duncan said. “We had a great meeting with Congressman Buchanan and his staff, and we feel good about it.”

The ManaSota League is also monitoring a vacation rental bill that would restore control of vacation rental restrictions to local municipalities. A 2011 law prohibits municipalities from regulating short-term rentals unless the municipality has an ordinance giving it the grandfathered right to do so — as Longboat Key does.

Although SB 356 would not impact Longboat Key because of its grandfathered ordinance, the bill would restore control of rental restrictions to local officials in the cities of Holmes Beach, Anna Maria and Venice.

It has been a busy legislative priority season for Duncan, who flew to Washington, D.C., in February to hold several meetings with federal officials, only to be stranded during a winter storm. He has also held meetings with local legislators and traveled to Tallahassee to lobby on behalf of the league.

Duncan, a retired pharmaceutical executive, said he has embraced his new role.

“I like getting out and trying to sell things,” Duncan said. “Lobbying for our local region for what we want and need is just an extension of my former career that I enjoy.”

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Although Longboat Key continues to be his top priority, he has also taken on a regional role with the ManaSota League of Cities.

Chosen by the Longboat Key Town Commission as the town’s ManaSota League delegate for the past two years, Duncan was also selected to lead the organization as its president in November after he ran several meetings when the league’s former president was unable to do so.

Duncan and the league are wrapping up the busiest time of the year, which involves trips to Tallahassee, Washington, D.C., and offices of several legislators in the U.S. House Duncan and Senate to lobby for legislation that affects local cities and counties.

“We’re an advocacy group that advocates for legislation that affects member cities and towns, including Longboat Key,” Duncan said. “Member cities determine the legislative priorities we create.”

At its March 10 quarterly meeting at Sarasota City Hall, the league reviewed an update on its legislative priority progress, including updates on two issues that barrier island officials are watching closely.

The U.S. Senate passed legislation last week that will provide relief to Floridians faced with steep rate hikes for flood insurance premiums. President Barack Obama is expected to sign the bipartisan bill. The Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act, which the House already passed with a vote of 306-91, also provides long-term certainty to the real

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Spanish Main Yacht Club Home Tour — takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 5600 Gulf of Mexico Drive beginning at the clubhouse. Eight homes will be showcased. Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tickets are $15 at the door. Call Ellen at 383-5063 or Ingrid at 383-5868.

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Longboat Key Historical Society — meets at 7 p.m. at Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian, 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Jeff Rodgers, director of education for the South Florida Museum and director of the Bishop Planetarium, will speak. Visit longboatkeyhistory.com

SUNDAY, MARCH 23

Christ Church Concert — begins at 4 p.m. at Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian, 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Fonda Davies, director of music ministries and organist at Englewood United Methodist, will perform on the organ. Call 383-8833.

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Water, Wildlife, Weather: Longboat Key and its Lure — takes place from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design, 6860 Longboat Drive S. Photographer Mary Lou Johnson and Longboat Key native Tom Mayers will explore images, history and reflections of the Key. RSVP by calling 383-2345.

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Mary Lou Morris is walking on sunshine after jumping out of an airplane at 13,500 feet.

What: Enjoy fresh pancakes, sausage, coffee, juice and prizes at this year’s Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key Pancake Breakfast. Tickets are $7 per person. Purchase five tickets and get one free ticket. Buy tickets at the door, from Kiwanis members or at the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center. Proceeds benefit children’s charities in Sarasota and Manatee counties. Call Wayne at 383-2095.

Mary Lou Morris opened her Christmas gift from her son, Peter, and found an advertisement for skydiving.

“I almost fainted,” she said. “I said, ‘Peter, what makes you think I would possibly jump out of a plane?’”

Peter Morris, 50, had been on a balloon dive decades ago but had never jumped from a plane. He thought his mother might enjoy skydiving because she is a bit of a daredevil. At 73, she enjoys riding motorcycles and has ridden in a helicopter and a hot-air balloon.

Morris decided to give it a try March 1, when she went on a tandem dive at Sky Dive City in Zephyrhills. Her brother, Bob Regan, 75, traveled with her to Zephyrhills and planned to stay grounded while his sister took to the skies. But approximately an hour-and-a-half before the dive, Regan — who also had never gone skydiving before — decided he would make the jump, too.

Morris was not especially nervous when it came time to dive out of the plane. She has never been afraid of heights, and her instructor, who was connected to her by a harness, assured her she would be fine.

They jumped at 13,500 feet and experienced 60 seconds of free fall. The 125 mph winds in the sky made her skin flap in the

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wind. She now jokes that she wishes she could have duct taped her cheeks.

“At first, I closed my eyes, then I thought, ‘What good is that?’” Morris said. “The rest was beautiful. I could coast down. I was absolutely thrilled.”

Morris called her son as soon as she was back on the ground.

His response: “Mom, I’m so proud of you.”

Morris’ adventure has earned her bragging rights among her neighbors at Beach Harbor Club, who still cannot believe she went skydiving. She does not plan to challenge her son to give skydiving a try because he has four young children.

But she does not think the March 1 trip will be the only dive for her and her brother.

“I think we will go again, probably not this year, but this time next year,” Morris said.

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He worked on 1,600 projects from Miami to Montreal, one of the biggest being a master-planned city for 100,000 people.

In the late 1960s, Hixon set up a satellite office in St. Armands and began exploring the surrounding areas, including Longboat Key. Like many residents, he and his wife, Dottie, were drawn to the Key’s beauty and warmth, but they were also attracted to something else.

“The exciting thing about the jazz scene here is when Johnny Carson moved ‘The Tonight Show’ to California. The band quit because they didn’t want to go to California … and they retired down here,” said Hixon.

The couple has now lived on the Key for more than two decades, and Hixon has enjoyed sharing the stage with talented musician after talented musician around the Sarasota area.

He currently plays for various events and dinners, but greatly enjoys the rush of jazz jams at 15 South Ristorante on St. Armands two nights a week.

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Hixon continued to learn, practice and play drums throughout his schooling. In seventh grade, he was invited to join the high school band, in which he excelled with many other talented musicians, and in college he formed the University of Massachusetts dance band and became its first student manager.

But music was not Hixon’s only creative outlet. He channeled his energies into his career as a landscape architect, as well.

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Dr. Sreedhar Nair, 85, of Norwalk, Conn., and Longboat Key, died March 3.

Born July 28, 1928, in Trivandrum, India, he earned his medical degree at age 22 from the University of Madras.

In 1951, Dr. Nair came to the United States for his medical residency and fellowship training at the New York Medical College Metropolitan Hospital. He was an Eli Lilly Research Fellow and co-discovered cycloserine, an anti-tuberculosis drug that is still used to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Dr. Nair was one of the first boardcertified physicians in pulmonary medicine. He moved in 1958 to Norwalk and began his career in pulmonary and critical-care medicine. He founded the Norwalk Medical Group with four other physicians in 1962 and led the development of Norwalk Hospital’s Critical Care Unit.

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Richard “Dick” Sax, of Rochester, N.Y., and Longboat Key, died March 1.

Mr. Sax was owner and president of Sax Communications Inc. He is survived by his wife of 32 years, Teri-Ann; daughters, Barbara, Cynthia and Nancy; brothers, Raymond and Robert; and five grandchildren.

A celebration of Mr. Sax’s life will be held at a later date. Memorial contributions can be made in his name at bestfriends.org.

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Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian USA, 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive, will hold Sunday worship services at 9 and 10:30 a.m.

The Rev. Taylor Hill is the pastor. 383-8833.

Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive, holds communion and healing services at 9:45 a.m. and worship services at 10 a.m.

Sundays. The Rev. Vincent Carroll is the minister.

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St. Armands Key Lutheran Church, 40 N. Adams Drive, holds contemporary worship services at 9 a.m., fellowship and education at 10 a.m. and traditional worship services at 11 a.m. Sundays.

The Rev. Mark Bernthal is the pastor. 388-1234.

St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church, 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive, holds Sunday Masses at 8, 9:30 and 11:30 a.m.; Saturday Masses at 9 a.m. and 4 and 6 p.m.; and daily Mass at 9 and 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. Msgr. Gerard Finegan is the pastor. 383-1255.

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

Foundation (NEF). The NEF helps to increase public awareness of emphysema by supporting advocacy, education and research.

Dr. Nair is survived by his wife of 59 years, Rhoda; children, Laurence Nair, Ronald Nair and Karyn Bhak; brother, Kesav; five grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the National Emphysema Foundation, 128 East Ave., Norwalk, CT 06851 or to Norwalk Hospital Pulmonary Section, norwalkhospital.org.

A memorial service will be held at a later date. Contact ronnair@gmail.com for details.

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Janice Brown, 74, of Columbus, Ohio, and Bradenton, died March 1.

Born Dec. 9, 1939, in Columbus, Mrs. Brown attended St. Mary of the Springs Academy.

She married Roger Brown Jan. 17, 1958, and the couple lived in Columbus. They moved around to various cities in the Midwest and in 2011, they began dividing their time between Bradenton and Longboat Key and Prescott, Ariz.

Mrs. Brown was a devoted Christian, avid reader and gifted decorator. She loved flowers, nature and traveling.

She was a strong advocate of helping the homeless and disadvantaged.

She recently volunteered with local charitable stores and food programs, including St. Stephen’s Community Thrift Store, Salvation Army and Project Open Door.

Mrs. Brown is survived by her husband of 56 years, Roger; sons, Hugh and Douglas; daughter, Leanne; sister, Carolyn Souders; three grandchildren; a great-grandson; and her dog, Bruno.

A private celebration of Mrs. Brown’s life will be held in Bradenton for friends and family.

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BAYFRONT LUXURY LIVING Rustic Luxe! This recently upgraded boater’s paradise features deep-water dockage, multiple lifts and plenty of room to store your boat. Situated directly on Sarasota’s open bay, with picturesque views to enjoy and neighboring Gulf waters. Offering a main home and a guest cottage. The main residence has been completely updated with a revamped layout, brand new kitchen with professional-grade appliances and new flooring throughout. The master (second) level welcomes you with sprawling views, gas fireplace, granite bath and a walk-down to the covered pool deck. The guest cottage includes its own private entry, living room, sitting room, expansive bedroom and hideaway kitchenette. The best of both worlds with direct access to the bay and beach access just a short distance away.

GULF TO BAY LUXURY LIVING Direct Gulf-to-bay estate parcel on Longboat Key! Offering a special site for your dream beach home. Enjoy the best that Gulf-to-bay living offers, with the ideal shores of the Gulf to the west and a place to moor your boat on the waterway leading directly to the open bay on the east. More than 1.5 acres of direct Gulf living including bayfront parcel with guest house and covered boat dock. This is a very unique, rare opportunity on Longboat Key to enjoy the best of both worlds with real Gulf-to-bay living.

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Neighbors gather on the sidewalk to cheer on the parade.

Lynn Rookes and her new puppy, Tula, watch the parade.

Jodi Tharou and her dog, Tags, enjoy the parade from the sidewalk.

On March 15, the residents of Longbeach Village celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with a colorful parade through their streets. Residents paraded through the streets on foot, bicycles, golf carts and vehicles. The parade began on Palm Drive and ended at the home of Craig and Cathy Meldahl, who hosted an after-party.

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Penny Pollock and Shirley Myers Right: Jasper and his owner, Verna Ritter, prepare to walk in the parade.

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Fred Kagi plays the clarinet during the parade.

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Benedict and Evelyn Fredrick Couples dance throughout the night to Patsy and Majella.

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Dave and Rosemarie Carter

St. Mary dines and dances for St. Paddy’s Day

Stacy Stack and Maryann Simpson

The St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church Men’s Club hosted enthusiastic celebrations of St. Patrick’s Day March 15 for more than 200 attendees. The crowd enjoyed a traditional Irish dinner, raffles and dancing throughout the night by musicians Patsy and Majella.

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MODEL MYSTERY

by Kelsey Grau | Community Editor

Lord’s Warehouse solves a mystery fashion crisis Charlotte Cooper prepares the jewelry for her first outfit before the show.

Co-Chairwomen Sue Reese and Cindy Kuehnel

On March 11, the Longboat Island Chapel hosted a mystery-filled fashion show and luncheon for more than 150 attendees.

The event featured mystery guest H. Terrell Griffin, a “whodunit?” theme and fashions from the Lord’s Warehouse thrift shop.

Dorothy Gordon smiles during her walk down the runway.

Author H. Terrell Griffin was the mystery guest at the afternoon event.

Left: Geri Riley does Joan Partridge’s makeup in the dressing room.

Jan Holman and Kate Nothacker

Martha Miller laughs at the commentary during her turn on the catwalk.

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FAIRWAY BAY TOWNHOUSE 2BR/2.5BA, iving room w/frpl, vaulted ceiling & skylights, 1 car garage w/ tandem parking for 2 cars, heated pool & spa, tennis, clubhouse & deeded beach access. $389,000 Margot Robinson #A3991494

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Left: Cheryl Wilson and Tracey Bradford

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ALL ANGELS DINING CLUB. Marge Stapleton, Judy and Don Lewin and Barbara Maclean attended the All Angels Episcopal Church Dining Club dinner, which brought together the church’s individual dining clubs. The clubs meet throughout the year in members’ homes or restaurants. The event took place Feb. 28, in the candle-lit Parish Hall of the church. The four-course dinner was prepared by and served by a committee of eight members, led by Jane Perin and Phil Kreis. The evening could be repeated as an annual event.

LONGBOAT HARBOURETTES LUNCHEON. On March 12, the Longboat Harbourettes hosted a St. Patrick’s Day luncheon chaired by Margaret Demey and Alice Jorgensen, which 48 Harbourettes attended. The event featured a surprise performance by six dancers from the Drake School of Irish Dance. The girls, ranging in age from 10 to 19, did both soft- and hard-shoe dances.

Chairwomen Margaret Demey and Alice Jorgensen attended the Longboat Harbourettes St. Patrick’s Day luncheon.

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THE OSCARS AT THE LONGBOAT KEY EDUCATION CENTER. Al Brown accepts a bottle of bubbly from instructor Jack Rubin, who taught a course at the Longboat Key Education Center titled, “The Oscars.” Brown correctly guessed more Oscar night winners than anyone in the class.

Diana Emrich with her husband, the Rev. Fred Emrich, attended the All Angels Dining Club dinner.

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Tournament raises funds for Child Protection Center The Longboat Key Club held a round-robin tennis tournament and dinner March 10 to benefit the Child Protection Center. In its ninth year, the fundraiser generates more than $17,000 for the organization annually.

Right: Tom Cail III with his daughter, Caitlin, and his father, Tom Cail

Bill and Lynn Rosen with Ashley and Allison Gunkel

Kathryn Edstrom, Sandy Doblinger, Gail Sack and Marie Hunter

Shelly Glickman, George Noble and Paul Levine

Lorraine Falivene and Joanne Forch

Graci McGillicuddy, John Woods and Ronni Minnig

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

LONGBOAT KEY TOWERS #804S - Elevated 2BR/2BA end residence with open floorplan and panoramic views. $1,149,000

ATRIUM #535 - COASTAL CHIC Furnished 3BR/2.5BA remodeled condominium home with 2 parking spaces. $1,349,000

360 NORTH - 280 N. Shore Road #6 - Three levels of splendor amid the northernmost beach of Longboat Key. $949,000

GRAND BAY #354 - 3BR/3FULL/2HB, 5th floor residence with panoramic Gulf and Bay views. Includes 2 covered parking spaces. $1,149,000

LONGBOAT KEY TOWERS #1003S - 2BR/2BA residence on the south tower’s 10th floor with endless views. $949,000 LONGBOAT KEY TOWERS #802N - Stunning 8th fl, 2BR/2BA residence with east and west balconies. $970,000 SANCTUARY IV #303 - 2BR+Den/2.5BA furnished home with partial Gulf views from large wrap around terrace. $890,000 LONGBOAT KEY TOWERS #803S - 2BR/2BA residence offer$849,000 ing Gulf, Bay, golf course and downtown views.

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1400 HARBOR SOUND DRIVE - Vacant lot with picturesque waterway view to the Bay. $1,395,000 GRAND BAY #344 - Bay, golf and mooring views from this 2BR+Den/3Full/2Half Bath, 4th floor residence. $1,049,000

BIRD KEY - 339 Bob White Way - 4BR/3BA furnished pool home with 540 sq. ft. Florida room, situated on a garden lot. $849,000

SEAGATE #14D - 2BR/2BA with direct, elevated Gulf views $749,000 from this 14th floor, finely detailed home.

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

SEAPLACE #G3-102 - 3BR/2BA ground floor, corner residence with a tropical westerly view. $529,000

2043 HARBOUR LINKS DRIVE - 3BR/2.5BA courtyard villa with 2-car garage and pleasant golf course views. $499,000

ISLANDER CLUB #22S - 2BR/2BA, furnished home with $525,000 pleasing Gulf views and one carport.

LONGBOAT KEY MOORINGS - The west coast’s largest marina has a 45’ slip just for you! $74,500

SUNSET BEACH #1401 - Furnished 2BR/2BA, 4th floor home $499,000 with poolside and Gulf views.

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Siesta Cove - Siesta Key Waterfront 3- story coastal home located on a quiet cul-de-sac with 4BR/5BA has glorious water & tropical views from each level. 4,764 SF with private dock. $1,545,000

Laurel Oak Estates - Lake Front Custom built 4,300 SF home with 3 bedrooms and a possible 4th bedroom in the attached guest house with full bath.

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OAKS BAYSIDE - Courtyard residence that has been beautifully remodeled and replumbed. A3986008 $699,000

BIRD KEY - Beautifully renovated 4BR canal front residence incl. the kitchen, bathrooms and flooring. A3989659 $1,750,000

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Temple Beth Israel Women held its Games Day March 12. Attendees enjoyed lunch before playing mahjong, bridge and other card games for the afternoon.

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Democratic chairwoman confronts voting challenges

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On March 11, the Longboat Key Democratic Club met for its monthly luncheon at the Longboat Key Club’s Harbourside Dining Room. After lunch and general club announcements, Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Allison Tant spoke about the challenges of the 2014 election cycle.

Ray Rajewski, Bob Krosney and Armando Linde

Pam DeFratus and Celia Edmundson

Republicans hear about November ballot initiative Photos by Kelsey Grau

Longboat Key Democratic Club President Murray and Alice Blueglass Left: Mort Tarter with Betty and Stanley Pelletz

On March 14, the Republican Club of Longboat Key held its monthly luncheon at the Longboat Key Club’s Harbourside Dining Room. The meal included corned beef and cabbage in honor of St. Patrick’s

Day. Larry Eger, public defender for the 12th Judicial Circuit, and Dr. Jim Whitman, director of psychiatric services at the Manatee County Jail, debated an initiative that could legalize medical marijuana.

Lowell Curtis and Barbara Katz Right: Alan Bandler, Carol Pacheco and Andy Maass

George Spoll and Commissioner Terry Gans

Larry Eger, Republican Club of Longboat Key President Phyllis Black and Dr. Jim Whitman

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Tennis foundation fosters future for young Israelis Israel Tennis Centers Foundation hosted its annual tennis exhibition and dinner March 11 at the Longboat Key Club’s Tennis Gardens. A team of Israeli children played tennis for attendees before dinner. Tom and Karen Bernstein and Larry Greenspon chaired the event.

Back, Ori Hai Assidon, Shir Hornung, Moty Radionov and Rakefet Benyamini; front, Neriya Yona and Mohammad Uthman

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Tom and Karen Bernstein with Amy Pinto and Larry Greenspon

Agnieszka Gruszecka and Ilona Ratajczak

BUSINESS BRIEFS

By Robin Hartill | News Editor

+ MIC Insurance relocates to Longboat Key Longboat Key resident Michael Mailliard has relocated his MIC Insurance to Mediterranean Plaza after four-and-a-half years on Bee Ridge Road in Sarasota.

The independent agency specializes in waterfront insurance and primarily handles individual policies, including home, auto, umbrella and boat insurance.

Mailliard has 33 years of experience in the insurance industry. Previously, he owned a Farm Bureau Financial Services agency.

For information, call 554-8909.

+ BeachHouse Restaurant completes renovation An extensive makeover of the BeachHouse restaurant on Bradenton Beach is complete.

The restaurant now has a completely rebuilt interior, including a new dining room, bar, bathrooms, retail area and state-of-theart kitchen. The project at the 20-year-old restaurant, according to a release, took nearly seven months.

The new dining room includes new flooring, ceiling, fixtures and furniture, while the expansive bar has new seats and larger windows for Gulf views. A wine wall also stretches the length of the dining room’s south end, the release states.

“This was an ambitious undertaking,” BeachHouse owner Ed Chiles said in the release. “It was important that it be done right. We knew there were going to be challenges due primarily to the scope of the project. I am extremely happy with how it has turned out and congratulate all those who have worked so hard to make it happen.”

Firms that worked on the project include Sarasota-based architecture and inte-

rior design firm the Schimberg Group and Whitehead Construction, based in Cortez.

Chiles also owns Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub on Longboat Key and the Sandbar restaurant on Anna Maria.

+ MS&Co. announces top 2013 agents and teams Michael Saunders & Co. recently announced its top 2013 agents and teams.

Maureen Horn, of the Longboat Key South office, was the top company-wide producer for 2013. She and her husband, Steve, were the owners of the former Maureen’s Palm Grill on Longboat Key. She holds the Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist (CLHMS) and the Resort & Second Home Property Specialist (RSPS) designations from the National Association of Realtors.

The team of Ian Addy and Gail Wittig was the 2013 company-wide top team. Addy is a second-generation Sarasotan and Realtor who holds an MBA from the University of Florida. He began his career as a financial adviser but later entered the real estate industry, and eventually teamed up with Wittig, his mother, who has 31 years of real estate experience. The team co-listed the property at 6001 Gulf of Mexico Drive, which sold in July for $6.8 million, the highest amount paid for a Longboat Key property in 2013.

The team of Linda Roe Dickinson and Kelly Quigley was named the 2013 top new team. Dickinson has achieved more than $1 billion in sales during her career and has worked for Michael Saunders & Co. for more than three decades. Quigley began her career with Northern Trust Bank, eventually becoming second vice president before beginning her real estate career.

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By Adam Hughes | Research Editor

Water Club condo sells for $2.3 million The following residential real estate transactions took place between March 3 and March 7.

A condominium in The Water Club at Longboat Key tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Martha Wile, trustee, sold the Unit 402 condominium at 1241 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Jerry Jacobson and Laura Jacobson, trustees, of Sugarcreek, Ohio, for $2.3 million. Built in 1996, it has three bedrooms, five baths and 3,400 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $2,225,000 in 2004.

feet of living area. It previously sold for $275,000 in 2010.

Beach Castle Resort

James Theiss and Margaret Theiss, of New Richmond, Ohio, sold their Unit 22 condominium at 5310 Gulf of Mexico Drive to David and Susan Jacobsen, of Sun Prairie, Wis., for $340,000. Built in 1973, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,014 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $441,300 in 2005.

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L’Ambiance at Longboat Key

Charlotte Gallagher, of St. Louis, sold her Unit 178 condominium at 731 El Centro to Ronald and Jamie Seagren and Randall and Susan Mason, of Apollo Beach, for $205,000. Built in 1969, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,361 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $80,000 in 1984.

Shelley Winkler, Jean Winkler and Linda Winkler sold their Unit C-303 condominium at 415 L’Ambiance Drive to Timothy and Dawn Horth, of Zionsville, Ind., for $1.48 million. Built in 1992, it has two bedrooms, two bath, two half-baths and 2,634 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $625,000 in 1993.

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Conrad Beach

Jerry and Pamela Brabant, of Longboat Key, sold their home at 383 Firehouse Lane to Roger and Rhonda Werner, of Greenwood, Ind., for $825,000. Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,117 square feet of living area.

Tangerine Bay Club

Gwendolyn Bottoms, trustee, and Robert Bottoms, of Watkinsville, Ga., sold the Unit 422 condominium at 370 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Charles DeRose, trustee, of Charleston, S.C., for $800,000. Built in 1994, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,255 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $835,400 in 2005.

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Dawn Horth, of Zionsville, Ind. sold

Unit 402 at The Water Club, 1241 Gulf of Mexico Drive, has three bedrooms, five baths and 3,400 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.3 million.

the Unit 407 condominium at 1211 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Phillip and Kimberly Marshall, of Prospect, Ky., for $785,000.

Built in 1985, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,827 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $500,000 in 2011.

Bayport Beach and Tennis Club

Patricia Lambert, of Rockport, Mass., sold her Unit 725 condominium at 725 Bayport Way to Chris and Christine Lake, of Longboat Key, for $430,000. Built in 1983, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,456 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $395,000 in 2011.

The Privateer South

Richard Thie II and Eleanor Deskin, trustees, of Sarasota, sold the Unit 205 condominium at 1000 Longboat Club Road to Prakashen Govender and Jenisa Naidoo, of Manitoba, Canada, for $405,000. Built in 1972, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,290 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $217,000 in 1998.

Silver Sands

FL Silver Sands LLC sold the Unit 253 condominium at 5841 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Julia Katsis, trustee, of Elmhurst, Ill., for $375,000. Built in 1972, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 760 square

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Rainer and Debora Blomster, of Sarasota, sold their home at 55 N. Washington Drive to Chrisopher Roberts and Josephine Gambardella, of McLean, Va., for $945,000. Built in 1960, it has six bedrooms, five-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,071 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $975,000 in 2013.

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Lido Regency

J. Richard and Patricia Hudome, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 3-G condominium at 1700 Benjamin Franklin Drive to Sallie West, of Wheeling, W.Va., for $350,000.

Built in 1968, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,382 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $279,000 in 2001.

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575 Sanctuary Dr # 403 #A3993941 $949,000 Carol Cohen Pa

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15986 Cutting Horse Trl #A3934609 $899,000 Michele C Burnett

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618 Bayview Dr #A3982183 $899,000 Eileen Burke

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580 Chipping Ln #A3992292 $3,200,000 Marcia Salkin & Stacy Hanan

573 Juan Anasco Dr #A3992657 $899,000 Diana Kryszak

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3010 Grand Bay Blvd # 415 #A3983643 $859,000 Julie Klick

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3070 Grand Bay Blvd # 641 #A3989376 $679,000 Carol Aviles

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2425 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 9B #A3994101 $675,000 Mel & Jan Goldsmith

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200 Cocoanut Ave # 9 #A3991775 $595,000 Nell Leffel

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550 Oakford Rd #A3985889 $549,000 Valerie Telfair

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

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1952 Hibiscus St #A3993999 $499,500 Sylvia Zimmerman

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523 S Palm Ave # 11 #A3989862 $485,000 John August

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

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450 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # B201 #A3994193 $425,000 Ian Addy Pa

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4822 Lake Breeze Ter #A3992124 $319,900 Maureen Horn

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4830 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # V-11 #A3987845 $279,000 Bobbi Banan

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BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of March 7 through March 13, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive) Address Permit 551 Birdie Lane Alteration

Doors, windows 415 L’Ambiance Drive and entry doors

Doors and 415 L’Ambiance Drive windows 3290 Bayou Sound Addition

Doors, windows 3580 Bayou Circle and entry doors 607 Triton Bend Re-roof 5000 GMD Alteration 749 Hideaway Bay Drive Re-roof 4985 GMD Windows 100 Sands Point Road Re-roof 6832 Pine St. Re-roof 770 St. Judes Drive N. Boat lift 694 Spanish Drive N. Re-roof 578 Bayview Drive Re-roof

Sliding glass 1935 GMD door replacement 5393 GMD Hurricane shutters 4440 Exeter Drive Windows

Sliding glass 2425 GMD door replacement 820 Spanish Drive S. Re-roof 844 Spanish Drive S. Re-roof 4835 GMD Windows 770 St. Judes Drive N. Boat lift dredging 731 Fox St. Windows and doors

Sliding glass 724 Bayport Way door replacement 570 Golf Links Lane Re-roof 3613 Fair Oaks Place Pool resurfacing

Certificate of 609 Triton Bend occupancy 2003 Harbour Links Drive Fire alarm

Temporary 3454 GMD construction fence

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Amount $205,150

Paul Sobey

$158,796

Marsha Roth, trustee Jerry Brabant

$128,666 $60,000

Chezelle Serev $32,000 Triton Bend II LLC $2,677 Hoyt Barnett $25,900 Robert Hanna $22,430 Stephen Dutton $22,160 Sands Point Condo Assoc. $17,365 Sherry King $16,990 Warren Malmquist $14,522.25 Girdon Simmons $12,925 Bernard Welch Jr. $11,050 Colonial Gardens Apartments Inc. $10,998.65 Bradley Ytterberg $7,550 Karen Gerber $7,250 Charles Thomson Peter Mellor Sonya Gerson Warren Harding Warren Malmquist Jason Stout

$7,160 $7,000 $6,456 $5,925 $5,200 $4,000

Edward Bolwell $6,000 John Hoskins $2,420 Sharon Farmer $2,150 Walker Collier Real Estate Holdings N/A Harbour Links Condo Assoc.

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440 Gulf of Mexico Drive • Longboat Key 941.961.8850 | 941.228.1985 Luxury Service n Strategic Marketing n Benchmark Results The Addy & Wittig team has garnered recognition as the top sales team company-wide with Michael Saunders & Company and top sales team on Longboat Key for 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. As a consistent top producing Realtor® and Sarasota native, Gail has more than 33 years of local real estate experience. Ian brings a robust financial management background focused on valuation to complement his abilities as a skilled negotiator.

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

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749 Freeling Drive MLS #A3989373 $3,600,000

545 Sanctuary Drive #503 MLS# A3991776 $1,150,000

SOLD 8407 Midnight Pass Road MLS# A3987523 $1,650,000

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2307 Cass St #A3985230 $269,000 Brigitte Von Kessel

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637 Spanish N Dr #A3976185 $239,500 Maruta Miluns

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850 S Tamiami Trl # 728 #A3993667 $239,500 Nina Dearing

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2633 Pursell Cir #A3986454 $224,900 Sherri Mills

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

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

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

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

571 Putting Green Lane MLS# A3984052 $1,995,000

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THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014

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TEMPERATURES

Record Temperatures High

Low

High

Low

Tuesday, March 11

77

54

86 (1973)

37 (1961)

Wednesday, March 12

77

68

86 (1973)

36 (1934)

Thursday, March 13

69

55

87 (1997)

36 (1998)

Friday, March 14

78

47

90 (1964)

37 (1926)

Saturday, March 15

78

52

89 (2012)

34 (1926)

Sunday, March 16

82

58

89 (1945)

36 (1932)

Monday, March 17

76

69

89 (2002)

34 (1916)

Average Gulf water temperature: 68

MOON PHASES

SUNRISE / SUNSET

Sunrise

Sunset

Thursday, March 20

7:35a

7:41p

Friday, March 21

7:34a

7:42p

March 30 New

Saturday, March 22

7:33a

7:42p

Sunday, March 23

7:32a

7:43p

April 7 First

Monday, March 24

7:31a

7:43p

Tuesday, March 25

7:29a

7:44p

Wednesday, March 26

7:29a

7:44p

March 23 Last

April 15 Full

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O B S E RV E R C RO S S WO R D Edited by Timothy E. Parker

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Highs

Lows

Thursday, March 20

3:33a

2:39p

9:08a

10:41p

Friday, March 21

4:36a

3:19p

9:34a

11:43p

Saturday, March 22

5:54a

4:06p

10:01a

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Sunday, March 23

7:46a

5:05p

12:55a

10:29a

Monday, March 24

10:03a

6:22p

2:13a

11:47a

Tuesday, March 25

10:38a

7:51p

3:26a

2:25p

Wednesday, March 26 11:04a

9:18p

4:28a

3:56p

BODY MAPPING by Holly Copeland ACROSS 1 Dog in the Dick and Jane books 5 Fix, as stones in cement 10 “Fee, ___, foe, fum” 13 Type of equation 19 Long arm bone 20 Archie’s dimwitted pal 21 Santa ___, Calif.

22 Arctic exploration tool 23 Returning a favor 26 Driftwood and such 27 Becomes more inclined 28 Fuel ship 29 Light smooch 30 Runs out of steam 31 Make a solemn request 32 Puppy’s cry 33 December ditties 36 Pledge 37 Dark-colored sour cherry 40 Move stealthily 41 Incredible and hard-to-believe 44 Author Fleming 45 Revival meeting shout 46 Word on some beer bottles 47 Feel bad 48 Affliction of the eyelid 49 Number system having 16 as its base 53 Opposite of love 54 High-quality stationery 58 Johnnycakes 59 A level playing field 61 Was as good as

62 Advertises 63 Capital of Ontario 64 He done it in many whodunits?

65Part of a statue foundation 66 Doubly dangerous, as a sword 67 Punching tools 68 Some bank transactions 70 Makes mistakes 71 Fury 72 “The Whole ___ Yards” 73 Swift 77 Be deceitful 78 Delectable 83 Demonstrate without marching 84 Kind of cover 86 “God ___ America” 87 Reroute, as traffic 88 Monk’s garb 89 Give a guarantee 91 Editor’s “take out” 92 Carpet type 93 Khaki relative 94 Dancing style 98 Watered silks 100 Like “She sells seashells ...”

102 Japanese miniature tree 103 Three strikes, e.g.

104 Stopped lying?

105 Met highlight 106 Infuriates 107 Last in a series 108 Gambol 109 No longer on active duty (Abbr.)

DOWN

1 Reserves on the bench 2 Chart, as land

3 On a single (var.) occasion 56 Torturous 4 Dismantle, as a 57 Gloomy Christmas tree atmospheres 5 Connections 59 British city on the between English Channel speakers?

60 Tenth letter of the 6 Forenoons Hebrew alphabet 7 Feathery wraps 62 Carved pole 8 Pa. hours 63 Nasal sound 9 Figured out, as 65 Letter addressees secret writing 66 Delivery room 10 Fear of many surprises 11 Exclusive, as 68 Help with the circles dishes 12 Tidal bore 69 Licorice flavor 13 Garbage can part 70 Shade source 14 What the Titanic 73 Exceptional, as a ran into restaurant or 15 Small cloud hotel 16 Extremely loud 74 Nibbled on 17 Graph line 75 Honorific for Paul 18 Do followers on a McCartney music scale 76 Powerful 24 Overturn, as milk explosive 25 Part of some 78 It’s good for Muslim women’s climbing hills attire 79 Sick 31 Bearded, as barley 80 Aromatic liqueur 32 Hither and ___ (var.)

33 Tax pro 81 Adhered 34 Radius setting 82 “On the Road” 35 Potential school author Jack 36 Stringed 83 Some bank instrument of deposits India 85 Raspy-voiced 37 Grain grinder 87 Resister 38 Baby clothes 89 Give in to, as an 39 “___ size fits all” impulse 41 Kind of review or 90 Hardly a whisper signal 91 Use a divining rod 43 “Buenos ___!”

92 Before you know (“Good day!”) it 46 Biblical outcast 94 Common traffic 48 Many-stringed sign lute 95 Add staff 49 Barbara, Alan and 96 “Don’t bet ___!”

Nathan 97 “Heavens!”

50 Memorable 98 CEO’s degree, period perhaps 51 “It ___ Happen to 99 Daddy’s girl, for You” short 52 Prefix for state 101 History-book 53 Speedy mammals chapter 54 Yank’s foe 55 Marine museums

03-20-14

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Items Under $200 For Sale

Furnishings

Condos/Apts. For Rent

Vacation/Seasonal Rentals

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.

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(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 BICYCLES: MAN’S & woman’s, excellent condition, used 3/mos. $100/ea. 941-383-3663.

CAST NET: Cabela's 6/ft. across, 3/8/sq.in. mesh, Easy Accu Throw Ring, carrying case. $29.

941-383-0167.

LADIES BIKE: Biria, aluminum frame, wheels, 26”, foot brakes -step over. Good condition. $200.

941-383-0242.

PORTABLE BASKETBALL Hoop/ Backboard /Base. Great for the driveway or backyard. $50.

941-387-0931.

TWIN LOVESEAT, sleeper sofa, like new, beige tweed, originally $900. Asking $200. Twin headboard, bed frame, Serta box spring and mattress, like new. Asking $200. Both for $350.

941-383-7771.

PALMER RANCH condo: 1BR/1BA, $1025/mo. includes water. Gated, W/D, new carpet/ paint, pool, parking, gym, tennis. Available April 1st.

941-587-5969.

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

Available Aug., Sept., Oct., Dec., 2014. Nonsmoking/ pets. By owner. 941-383-1884.

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, $11,500 o/b/o.

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

Boat Slips For Rent/Sale 45’ BOAT Slip for rent: Longboat Key Moorings.

941-812-3395 FOR RENT: Dry dock boat slip at the Boathouse (dockside LBK). Accommodates 29.5/ft. powerboat. Annual rental $4500 (less than market). Call 708-220-8888, E-mail: jstone@petitami.us

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 ChitwoodCharters.com Cruise or Fish Hyatt Sarasota Docks 32’/53’ Yachts - 2hrs./2 months 941-383-5232 RED KEOWEE #3 Kayak: seats 2 adults, $300.

941-387-0376.

UNIQUE, ERGONOMIC friendly Kayaks. www.wavewalk.com. Kayaks are now available on the Keys. Call Tom or Ari for your free Sarasota Bay demo. 941-524-7272.

Wow, Busy Selling Season. Over 35 boats sold already. We also Buy boats. www.Islandboatsales.net 941-228-3489. Dave/Owner

Furnishings BRAND NEW Serta Queen Pillowtop Mattress Set. Willing to sacrifice for $150. Need to sell quickly!

(941)387-4810.

DESIGNER FURNITURE: Bernhardt dining, Baker game table, Drexel bedroom, Stanley bedroom, Tommy Bahama buffet and more. 941-962-4884.

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Garage/Moving/Estate Sales ESTATE SALE Friday, March 21 - 10a.m.-3p.m.

Saturday, March 22 - 10a.m.-1p.m.

356 W. Royal Flamingo Dr.- Bird Key Antiques: French provincial table, 3 &4 door cabinets & cupboard; miniature chest, framed tapestry, mahogany corner chair & table, cherry bookcase, prints, carved walnut desk, paintings, Lombard wall clock.

Furniture & decorative accessories: Sterling plates & more,Venetian mirror, 17 oriental rugs, set of Wedgwood bone china, paintings, king bed, 2 sets twin beds, 2 coffee tables, lots of lamps, bar chairs, corner chair, end tables, bench, cockfighting chair, 57" HD TV, mahogany desk, writing table & bookcase table; Chagall, Picasso & other prints, barometer, urns, patio items, stereo, bronzes, books, Portmeirion dishes, linens & kitchen.

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General Merchandise *COMPLETE WINE Cellar* 110 bottles of vintage wine. New 2 zone wine cooler, glasses, wine racks and more. Cost well over $2000. Sacrifice at $1200. 941-465-1247.

MASSAGE CHAIR: Multi-function, new. Cost over $8000. Sacrifice $2200. 941-465-1247.

Lost & Found LOST: WOMAN’S Ebel watch, Thursday, 3/13, inscribed on back, great sentimental value.

Reward. 941-383-7125.

Pets ADORABLE TOY Poodle puppies, AKC, beautiful coats, $1500/ea. 941-302-9261.

Pools/Spas HOT TUB seats 5, with lounger, 110 or 220 volt.

Never used. Can deliver. Sacrifice $1895.

941-462-0633.

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Personals *ADOPTION*: At-Home-Mom, Financially Secure Couple, LOVE & Laughter, Travel awaits baby.

Expenses paid. 1-800-552-0045 FLBar 42311 *Lisa & Kenny*.

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

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

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Condos/Apts. For Rent 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.

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

Condos For Sale FAIRWAY BAY – RARE END UNIT!

Beautifully renovated 2BR/2BA end unit with bonus room off kitchen. Great bay and downtown views! Remodeled kitchen with granite counters and stainless appliances. Baths feature wood vanities with Corian counters. Gorgeous wood floors in LR, DR & Entry, track lighting, built-in closets, two porches and UV film on windows make this sunlit unit a standout! Located in gated Bay Isles community. Coveted garage space, deeded access to Bay Isles Beach Club, and some furniture included. $538,000.

MLS#R4600962.

Virtual Tour: www.1932Harbourside237.com David Brody @ 412-889-8498 or 412-310-3680 Seneca Realty Co.

GATED BEACHFRONT Community on Longboat Key. 2BR/2BA, updated kitchen, appliances, granite in master, heated pools. $299,900. Brooke O’Malley, CLUB REALTY. 941-726-2677

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

Homes For Rent

LBK C.C. SHORES. 3BR/2BA/2CC. Vacation paradise home. Beautifully furnished, large heated pool, dock, laminated floors in bedrooms, king sized bed, screened lanai, Wi-Fi, plasma TV, phone and cable, W/D, walk to beach.

No pets/non-smoking. Bring your boat. Sleeps/5. $4500/mo. Owner: 941-504-1492, 941-504-1927.

1600/SQ.FT. LONGBOAT Key: 55+, bright and cheery, beach facing ground level, sunset plus water views, updated, 1 car garage, patio, granite/ stainless kitchen. $1750/mo. +utilities.

941-232-1357.

LBK/SEAGATE BEACHFRONT with fabulous Gulf/sunset views; 2BR/2BA, 2 balconies: pool, tennis courts, more. Availability Jan-April 2015, 3 month min., $4500 + tax/mo. Call 201-659-0956 or email rcharnes@ix.netcom.com

LONGBOAT KEY CLUB: INN ON THE BEACH. Private club suite, turnkey, tennis, Golf course view, 650/ sq.ft. $339,000. 708-267-6704.

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BIRD KEY UPSCALE LUXURY HOMES Prestigious, upscale homes Between $700k to $6Mil. Free list with photos www.BirdKeyProperty.com 0r Free recorded message 1-800-691-0176 ID#1049 Re/Max Alliance Group ENJOY THE FUN!!

St. Armands Best home is 4,757 sq.ft., Very open & spacious, southside pool.

Convenient to Lido Beach & Opera.

Asking $1,800,000 Glenn Callaghan, LLC Re/Max Alliance 941-928-9020

Out-of-State Property JACKSON HOLE GOLF AND TENNIS CLUB. A VIEW TO LIVE FOR!! Single Family Cabin with spectacular views of the Tetons. At the edge of Grand Teton National Park. Great golf, tennis, swimming, world class skiing, fishing and superb dining. Wildlife abundant. 2BR/2.5BA. Designer furnished and decorated. Convenient to airport, historic Town of Jackson. Golf and tennis membership available. Offered at $1,250,000. Joseph Albano 941-400-8877.

LIDO BEACH Vacation paradise. 1 & 2 bedroom condos overlooking beautiful Lido Beach.

Weekly rates. Lido Dorset. Rental condo.

1-800-734-3370.

LONGBOAT KEY - MILLION DOLLAR CONDO ON THE BEACH AT THE PIERRE: Fabulous views.

2,410 sq/ft. 2 Bedroom plus den/convertible 3rd bedroom, 3 baths. Available 7/1/14 to 12/31/14.

Dates flexible. 3 mo. min. Underground parking.

Photos: ebstulberg@gmail.com LONGBOAT KEY Club Beachfront: 1/BR, 2/Bath.

Sands Point Condo with Gulf views, large living room, den and beautifully renovated kitchen. Call 203-984-8477 or E-mail: garment@optonline.net LONGBOAT KEY, PORTOBELLO: 3240 GMD on 5th floor unit, Gulf view, private heated pool, steps to beach, 2BR/2BA. Reserve 1st quarter 2015.

941-223-0061.

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

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

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

Personalized attention with professional honest advice.

25 Years Experience - References available

LONGBOAT HARBOR: 2BR/2BA, elegant top floor, furnished, bay/harbor views, W/D and whirlpool in unit, 4 pools, tennis, activities, exercise room, clubhouse, private beach, beach house. Annual $1500/mo. plus utilities.

Non-smoking. No pets. Call 941-544-4509.

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

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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.

BAYPORT BEACH: 2015 Season. First floor, 2BR/2BA, end unit, gym, nobody above, internet, 1650/sq.ft. 941-387-0070.

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2014

Vacation/Seasonal Rentals 2015 SEASONAL GULFFRONT CONDO. lonGBoAT TERRACE 2BR/2BA condo. Tastefully decorated.

321-279-3610.

This week’s Cryptogram answers

1. A shark asked his friend how he chose his prey.

The other coolly replied, “It’s easy. Gorge as you go, but be sure you don’t follow any red herrings.”

2. A lawyer commented: “You seem to be the heir apparent.” His bald client responded, “Yes, but I wish I had some hair apparent.”

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THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014

www.yourobserver.com Vacation/Seasonal Rentals WEEKLY RENTALS. Luxurious, fully furnished 1 - 4 bedrooms. Condominiums and Cottages.

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

Adult Care Services “Your Home by the Sea” www.casadelmar.net

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

Wagner Realty Since 1939 www.wagnerrentals.com LONGBOAT KEY: Sunset Beach. 2BR/2BA, professionally designed condo with gulf views, beautiful sunsets, double terrace with private steps leading to beach, pool and jacuzzi. Designated underground parking spot. Available April/May 2014, very flexible time frames. $5800/mo. Virtual tour: www.stephanienigrodesigns.com. Click Floridian Projects, then beachfront property. 941-586-6882.

ON THE Gulf w/pool. 1BR condo, sleeps 4. Nicely furnished, cable, phone, full kitchen, living, dining area, W/D in building. Weekly or Monthly. May through January. $1600/mo. 941-351-5101.

SEAPLACE, 1BR/1.5BA, +den. High floor, southwest gulf and bay views. Steps from beach. Fitness center, tennis courts. Available December 2014 through May 2015. 3 Month minimum. Photos w w w. s e a p l a c e a p t . s h u t t e r fl y. c o m / a c t i o n .

941-270-0237.

SUMMER AT the Beach. Private home with large pool and spa. Longboat Key. Beach access. Sleeps 6. Pet friendly. Long or short stays $3200/mo.

Owner. 941-374-3642.

HHHHH BLUE DOLPHIN CAFE FRIDAY NIGHT DINNERS ARE BACK AT OUR LONGBOAT KEY CENTRE SHOPS LOCATION!!

4 LIVE MAINE LOBSTER 4 BLUE FIN CRAB CAKES 4 PRIME RIB 4 GROUPER OSCAR

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

4621 Gulf of Mexico Drive Longboat Key, FL 34228

OUR GUESTS RETURN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.

Home Services

FRIDAY **MARCH 21**

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

Extra Large Heated Gulf View Swimming Pool!

Catering

A Lending Hand, Inc.

Weekly/Monthly Condominium Rentals 4 Night Minimum

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

THE LONGBOAT OBSERVER Thursday, March 20, 2014

Caregivers/Companions Hourly 24/7Care Transportation Social Outings/Dr. Appts.

Housekeeping Meal Preparation Assistance With Daily Living Activities Respite Care 941-809-3725 HCS #230506 NR #30211577

IN−HOME ASSISTED Living Why leave the safety, beauty and comfort of your own home to receive professional, affordable and compassionate care? You don’t need to! ElderCare Services provides complete customized care perfectly tailored to suit your needs and lifestyle. Services include, but not limited to, homemaking, transportation, running errands, meal prep., medication supervision, 24/7 medical staffing, and more.

Please call 377−4465 for more info. or visit us on the web @ eldercaresarasota.com. Licensed, bonded and insured. Lic.#30211372 PERSONAL SERVICES: Companion, bookkeeping and organization, stress reduction services.

My intention is to decrease the stress and increase the joy of living of my clients. Chris 941-363-1148.

PROFESSIONAL GUARDIAN: Case Manager, Health Care Surrogate, Power of Attorney, Personal Representative, Trustee, Advocate and Companion for Elderly and Developmentally Disabled. Bonded, Patient and Compassionate. Call SueAnn Sanders, National Certified Guardian, Notary. 941-915-3797.

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

Auto Transport RETIRED LONGBOAT KEY police officer. Drive your car North or South and back. 941-713-1596.

SHIP YOUR CAR, TRUCK OR SUV anywhere in the United States. Great rates, fast quotes. Call Hawley Motors, 941-923-3421.

SUNCOAST TRANSPORTER Long Distance Delivery.

“Snowbirds” I drive your car door to door!

One Inclusive price.

Mike 941-993-0236

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Cleaning 30 YEARS experience. We take pride in pleasing customers. Homes, schools, churches, resorts, offices. 941-756-4570.

BLUE FISH CLEANING INC. 941-705-3812.

Insured, Bonded. Affordable reliable home cleaning, $80, 2 cleaners, 2 hours.

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

References upon request.

Call Cort: 383-3878, 587-5588 cmagik.com OWN A MAC/iPHONE/iPAD? MacTutor has 21+ years experience teaching Apple products.

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

Home Improvement/ Remodeling ISLE TILE

LBK EASY COME -EASY GO- Apartment /Home Prep and Recovery. All Services to make your arrival seamless and your summer worry free.

Seasonal, Monthly, Weekly inspections keep your home safe. Ideal service for Rental Property Owners. Pet services. Call Rick 412-817-1799.

LBK References.

Painting/Wallpapering CARLO DATTILO PAINTING. Licensed & insured.

Interior/ Exterior painting including drywall repair and retexturing. Wallpaper installation & removal, pressure washing. Residential & commercial, condos. Honest & reliable. Free estimates.

941-744-1020. 35+ years experience.

CUSTOM PAINTING, Wallpaper Removal.

Quality work at a reasonable price.

Free Estimates. Established 1978. Call Daniel at L.L. Armstrong Contracting. Lic./Insured.

941-323-5074.

RICK STEAKLEY PAINTING. Interior/Exterior.

Pressure Washing. Wallpaper Removal. Drywall Repairs. Reasonable. Reliable. Professional.

30+/years experience. References available.

Free Estimates.

Lic./Ins. 941-228-7605, rlsteakley60@gmail.com

Personal Services DO YOU NEED A PERSONAL ASSISTANT? Transportation, Personal Errands/Shopping, Doctor Appts, Housesitting, Social EventsTheater, Dinner etc. Light meal preparation/ housekeeping. Call Ms. Schwabe 941-932-2732.

SARASOTA COURIER Your Full Service Company! *Restaurant Pick up & Delivery *Private Executive Car Service *Parcels, Gifts, Flowers, Groceries, Prescription Pick up & Delivery *Professional Packing and Moving *Removal of Unwanted Items *House Clearance Specialists 20 Years Experience - Uniformed Staff www.sarasotacourier.com 855-776-7363 or 212-804-8525

YOUR PERSONAL BOOKKEEPER, LLC Gail Sunray, Owner Personal & Business Bookkeeping Accounting/ Taxes I come to your home or office.

4 Bill Paying & Account Reconciliation 4 Organizing Personal and Business Files 4 Budgets & Financial Reports 4 Federal and State Tax Returns

FOR “QUALITY AND EXPERIENCE”

BONDED & INSURED Over 25 yrs. experience

Floors, bathrooms, showers, backsplashes, patio and pool decks.

Telephone: 941-749-5646 yourbookkeeper@tampabay.rr.com

20 years design background.

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“People just sit there waiting for those outfits to come out,” says Lisa Berger about Iconcept attendees. “They don’t know what those artists are going to come up with every year.”

LISA BERGER ‘MAKES IT WORK’ Art Center Sarasota Executive Director Lisa Berger encourages dressing in rags.

Anything nontraditional or recycled goes in Art Center Sarasota’s Iconcept fashion show.

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LISA BERGER ‘MAKES IT WORK’ Art Center Sarasota Executive Director Lisa Berger encourages dressing in rags. Anything nontraditional or recycled goes in Art Center Sarasota’s Iconcept fashion show.

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“I wanted to get more involved as a volunteer to help them raise money and promote the center,” Lisa Berger says.

t’s three weeks before Art Center Sarasota’s annual Iconcept fashion show, and Executive Director Lisa Berger is hunkered down in her office.

Outside her office, Art Center staff works to hang its new exhibit. Artists come in to pick up some of their pieces. In front of Berger’s door, a staff member paints pedestals white. Visitors come in and interrupt Berger with questions.

It’s as if today is Berger’s personal obstacle course. In addition to her daily routine, she is the woman behind Iconcept, the fundraiser for the Art Center featuring local artists’ fashion designs made of nontraditional or recycled materials. The show takes place Saturday, March 28, at the Sarasota Municipal Auditorium.

Instead of leather, cotton and linen, the artists create detailed appliqué from wire hangers, two-pieced suits from newspapers and bridal gowns out of bras. Berger conceptualized and founded the show, which is in its sixth year.

The funds raised benefit the

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Sitting in her cluttered office, Berger works to finalize the details of the event. The following day, she’ll coordinate a six-hour photo shoot featuring all 23 artists, 27 designs and models at Barbara Banks’ photography studio. She has at least 10 phone calls to return, and she still has to find time to finish her own dress for the show.

This is all in addition to her normal job running an art gallery and public art center. Her desk is buried under stacks of papers.

She has circles under her eyes.

Her cell phone and a Tervis tumbler of coffee with an orange lid are practically glued to her hands.

She admits she hasn’t slept much.

Adding to the hoops she must jump through before the final show, she’s run out of Purex laundry detergent bottles while making her mermaid-inspired, underthe-sea couture dress for Iconcept.

She’s already dug through all of her neighbors’ trash.

“They all use Tide!” she says.

Tide is the wrong color.

Even though it’s the last thing she has time for, she’s still excited to show a visitor the newest exhibition being hung. She takes the visitor behind the temporary wall to the gallery where “Confluence: Israel” is halfway set up.

As she walks past the pieces, she narrates the half-finished exhibit with a calm, collected excitement. “Check out the detail

Sumaya Ayad in Sharon White’s design.

Zara Barrie models the top half of “BRAdal Gown.”

Artist Ray Peper’s accessories

of this embroidery,” she says as she stands in front of one piece.

Pointing to a blank wall, she reveals a place where a 3D Hebrew alphabet will go. That is, after she picks up the artist, Ohad Zlotnick, from the airport Sunday.

The Arts Center is more than a job for Berger — it’s her passion.

Berger studied art prior to earning a fashion degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Berger worked a fashion designer in New York City, where she became the director of design at a high-end fashion wear company, Ellesse. In the ’80s and ’90s it was like the Gucci of activewear. Berger attended tennis tournaments in the Far East and in Europe.

Celebrities such as O.J. Simpson, President Gerald Ford, Regis Philbin and Clint Eastwood heralded her designs. She then worked as a designer for Wilson’s Tennis until 1999. The following

decade, Berger focused on volunteer work. And that’s when Berger’s relationship with Art Center Sarasota started.

Around 2007, Berger was taking classes at Ringling College of Art and Design and Sarasota County Technical Institute when she heard there was a life-drawing class Saturday mornings at Art Center Sarasota.

She got to know the regulars and volunteers and decided to join the board in 2008. The Arts Center did not have an annual fundraiser back then.

Berger thought a fashion program (using non-traditional items) with wearable art from local artists would help promote the artists and attract more attention to the center. The first few years, she did not design anything. Planning and executing the program was enough work.

But she missed fashion design,

and eventually put together some unique designs.

She likes the process because she does not have to sew when she makes her designs. Sewing was the only C she got in fashion school.

Yet the non-traditional garments come with their own problems. One year, Berger wove together plastic bags to make a Chanel-inspired suit. It eventually looked like something CoCo Chanel herself would send down the runway. Berger spent months weaving the skirt and jacket together. Then, they completely unraveled a week before the show.

She had to construct a new outfit in a week. It still wowed the audience.

That’s the goal, she says, adding that this year’s designs won’t disappoint to shock and surprise. “(I tell the designers to) go for the wow factor,” she says.

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IF YOU GO Iconcept When: 6 p.m. doors open; 6:30 p.m. dinner; 7:30 p.m. general admission; 8 p.m. fashion show Saturday, March 28 Where: Sarasota Municipal Auditorium, 801 N. Tamiami Trail Cost: Dinner seating is $125; general admission (includes dessert bar) is $45.

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nowHERE Gallery Performance: Todd Reynolds 6:30 p.m. at The Ringling Tickets $10. Call 359-5700.

‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ 7:30 p.m. at The Players Theatre Runs through March 30.

Tickets $25 to $30. Call 365-2494.

Great Escapes Series: ‘Come Fly with Me.’ Sarasota Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. at Holley Hall. Runs through Saturday. Tickets $29 to $49. Call 953-3434.

‘Man of La Mancha’ Manatee Players. 7:30 p.m. at Manatee Performing Arts Center. Runs through April 6. Tickets $27 to $37.

Call 748-5875.

‘Mama Won’t Fly’ 8 p.m. at The Island Players Runs through April 6.

Tickets $20. Call 778-5755.

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Pineapple Antique Show preview party The Rotary Club of Sarasota Sunrise. 5 p.m. at Sarasota Municipal Auditorium. Show runs 10 a.m.

Saturday and Sunday. Tickets $15.

Visit sarasotasunrise.com.

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nowHERE Genre Creates Ghetto: The Artist and The Curator The Ringling. 6:30 p.m. at Mildred Sainer Pavilion. Tickets $5. Call 3607399.

‘Faces of Change: Growing America’ 7:30 p.m. at Asolo Repertory Theatre. Runs through Saturday.

Free, call to reserve. 351-8000.

‘The Barber of Seville’ by Gioachino Rossini. Sarasota Opera. 8 p.m. at Sarasota Opera House. Tickets $19 to $120. Call 328-1300.

Vince Gill with special guest Amy Grant. 8 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. Call 9533368.

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YouthArts Fest Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County. 9 a.m. at Five Points Park Free. Call 365-5118, Ext. 304.

Gallery, 1525 State St., Sarasota

SIZE AND MEDIUM: 38 inches by 48 images. Mixed mediums with layered epoxy resin. the frog I saw yesterday sitting on the lit globe of my outside light as I am by the distant memories of a gray hut I once saw in China or a blue mosaic tile I saw 30 years ago when I lived in Israel. My biggest influences come from the many cultures I’ve deeply experienced,

nowHERE Genre Creates Ghetto: Curating in a Post-Genre World The Ringling. 6:30 p.m. at Mildred Sainer Pavilion.

Tickets $20; $15 members. Call 360-7399.

‘Jérusalem’ by Giuseppe Verdi Sarasota Opera. 1:30 p.m. at Sarasota Opera House. Tickets $19 to $120. Call 328-1300.

‘Il trovatore’ by Giuseppe Verdi Sarasota Opera. 8 p.m. at Sarasota Opera House. Tickets $19 to $120.

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WHERE WERE YOU BEFORE SARASOTA? Kansas City

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David Cleaveland. 2 p.m. at Bookstore1Sarasota. Call 365-7900.

Unplugged New Play Festival Asolo Repertory Theatre. 7 p.m. at Asolo Rep rehearsal hall. Call 351-8000.

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School of Russian Ballet swims under the sea The School Of Russian Ballet is quiet. The orchestral recording of “The Little Mermaid” plays over the studio’s speakers. Handsome Cuban dancer David Martinez Corso lifts his American female counterpart Lauren Henry to her feet as if her legs are asleep and just beginning to work. This is the scene where Ariel (Henry) first encounters Prince Eric (Corso) for the first time since getting legs.

This is not the only first. It’s the first time the Ukrainian ballet “The Little Mermaid” will be performed in the United States.

Vadim Fedotova originally choreographed it for the Kiev Ballet.

It follows the traditional Hans Christian Andersen story.

This is why Darya Fedotova, former soloist with Sarasota Ballet, has permission to present the ballet at her School of Russian Ballet — she’s the choreographer’s daughter. Although, her dancers are much younger.

“This ballet is for professional dancers and for a professional company,” Fedotova says.

“And, our students are doing really well,” Sergiy Mykhaylov says.

Fedotova and her husband, Sergiy Mykhaylov, are co-owners and co-artistic directors of the School of Russian Ballet. They are also both former professional ballet dancers. Every year

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Lauren Henry, 18, and professional dancer David Martinez Corso they present three productions, and the spring performance always features a guest artist. The school has more than 100 other students, but only the nearly 80 students, ages 7 and up, will participate in this performance.

This year the 26-year-old guest artist is a former member of the

Cuban National Ballet, David Martinez Corso. He is commuting from Orlando, where he has been studying with Fedotova’s parents at their Russian Ballet School.

Since leaving Cuba, he’s been making guest appearances until he finds a permanent position.

He does not speak much English

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but, fortunately, the French terminology of dance is universal.

“It works out pretty well,” says Henry. “We make it work.”

Henry is 18 years old. She’s studying business administration at USF Sarasota-Manatee but has been a long-time student of Mykhaylov’s. She’s been a part

of the school since the couple opened it in 2010, but has trained under Mykhaylov for much longer.

Maybe it’s why she keeps securing the lead roles. Henry danced the title in “Cinderella” and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and has played Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy in “The Nutcracker.”

Mykhaylov and Fedotova made all the sets and costumes.

“It’s crazy — too much work,” Mykhaylov says. “Our garage is like (full of crafts and chaos).”

Fedotova says it’s a beautiful show. She says when the Ukrainian ballet performs it, even the little children in the audience pay attention for the full duration — they love it.

“Everyone loves ‘The Little Mermaid,’” Fedotova says.

Other exciting news The School of Russian Ballet is moving to the building next door just in time for its Summer Intensive program, which takes place July 7 through Aug. 1. The new space is almost 14,000 square feet larger, with two studios. One of the studios will have a large divider and can be split into two.

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Jeffery Cornwell’s students dig deep to illustrate coexistence

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“I really believe in coexistence,” Jeffery Cornwell says. “I really do believe in that message: working together with people no matter how different they are.”

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see him.

To the side of the photo, she wrote words: “Look deep, the ability to love has many faces.”

It’s an image of coexistence.

Acceptance is an idea Pelletier and the other students in Jeffery Cornwell’s 10th-grade Booker High School art class understand.

It’s in part because Cornwell participates in Embracing Our Dif-

ferences, an exhibit celebrating diversity and coexistence.

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Cornwell has participated in the program nearly every year since its inception in 2004. Every year he has submitted his students’ artwork, at least one gets accepted into the exhibit.

Cornwell uses the exhibit as an in-class, three-week-long assignment. He takes one week to teach the material by showing them documentaries, poetry slams and old advertisements. It’s an art lesson in conceptualizing ideas.

But, it’s also a life lesson. Cornwell tries to teach them what coexistence means.

“Some of the first things you get from them when you say ‘coexistence’ are race or economics,” he says. “Then you have to dive deeper, ‘What are some other ones?’”

Cornwell has his students observe where they see coexistence or its opposite. By the end of the week, they bring in videos, books and magazines to offer examples.

He hopes they tap in and make it personal. Pelletier is a great example.

“I’ve only seen that once or twice,” he says. “That someone really dug deep to something that was really personal.”

But, even if they don’t get personal, he thinks Embracing Our Differences leaves an impression. What he thinks really counts is when his students see one of their peers expressing how coexistence has affected them on a billboard.

“This is the age of kids that really make a difference because they are trying to figure themselves out,” he says.

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For centuries, there were no conductors — not as we know them today, anyway. There were musicians who stood in front of an ensemble with a huge, rod-like staff, pounding it on the ground in time to the music.

Jean-Baptiste Lully, the famous 17th century French composer, died that way. In a moment of over-enthusiasm, he stabbed himself in the foot with his counting stick, gangrene set in and, a couple of months later, he was dead.

The world-renowned Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, a chamber orchestra founded almost 60 years ago by Sir Neville Marriner, is known as one of the finest “conductorless” orchestras in the world. Marriner, along with the esteemed violinist Iona Brown, usually led the group from the first chair (concertmaster’s seat), with a simple nod of the head, raise of the chin, full-body breath or signal with the bow.

A few years ago, Joshua Bell, the violin virtuoso, was named music director of the ASMF and, since that time, the ensemble and Bell have taken the group to an even higher superstar status among world-class chamber orchestras. Bell, something of a rock star in appearance and demeanor, is as much a showman as he is a violinist. His exaggerated gestures, while playing or leading, are both distracting and comical and, we’re sorry to say, he’s become a caricature of himself.

The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, on the other hand, plays better than ever, in spite of the machinations Bell brings, either in front of them or from the piano bench he uses when he plays first chair.

Last week at the Van Wezel, ASMF brought a program of varied works, starting with the E major Violin Concerto by Bach, a work for strings. Bell led and soloed at such a brisk tempo any other ensemble would have fallen apart. Not so with the ASMF, whose members

seem able to play at any speed with musicality and intelligence. Bell, for all his spastic maneuverings, plays like a god and, if you stop looking and simply listen, all is right with the world.

The ensemble’s interpretation of the Beethoven Symphony No. 1 was one of the cleanest, freshest I’ve heard. But, Bell — this time seated as concertmaster and leader — was terribly distracting, and his cavorting almost ruined a great musical performance.

Looking at him, one would never know his ensemble was playing with such incredible finesse because his awkward movements were crude, rough and disturbing. But the players were so engrossed and absorbed in making music, the results were mesmerizingly beautiful, even with Bell’s distracting mannerisms.

This is not to say Bell is not a great player.

His performance in Saint-Saens’ “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso” was nothing short of brilliant. He and the ASMF had wonderful elasticity of phrasing.

Best of all was their reading of Schubert’s D minor String Quartet (arranged by Mahler for string orchestra), “Death and the Maiden.”

Here, Bell’s histrionics took a backseat to the music, and the results were spectacular.

I’m not usually fond of orchestral arrangements of chamber works. Mendelssohn’s famous Octet is, for me, much better when played by eight individuals than an entire string orchestra. In the same way, Mahler’s arrangement of “Death and the Maiden,” makes the music thicker and more dense. But Bell and the academy had a transparency of playing that was precise, sheer and extremely beautiful in sound and intention. The second movement, based on Schubert’s famous song, “Death and the Maiden,” was played with such translucency, it was like coming out of a forest and finding sunlight.

The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields is a magnificent ensemble. Everything it touched last week turned to gold. Bell is still a rock star, and there’s no doubting his musicality or musical intentions. But his eccentricities are starting to overshadow his virtuosity, and it would be a shame if he were to allow that to continue.

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Therapy isn’t the goal; intellectual debate worthy of “Firing Line” is. Lewis advocates for God’s existence. Freud takes the opposing position.

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Tim Jenison, a renowned technologist, spends five years testing a theory of how painter Johannes Vermeer created his masterpieces in the documentary “Tim’s Vermeer.”

It’s an obsessive, sometimes tedious and completely compelling piece of filmmaking.

The esteemed Dutch artist was known for his brilliant use of light and shadow. Jenison believes that Vermeer’s paintings seem almost photographic in quality. But, seeing as he created his work in the 17th century, 150 years prior to the invention of the camera, how could this be?

Jenison became interested in “Vermeer’s Camera,” a book written by professor Philip Steadman in 2001. Its premise was that Vermeer traced images via a lens onto a canvas (“camera obscura”). Jenison takes it upon himself to test the presumption that Vermeer may have been using technology to paint his masterpieces.

In his quest to replicate a Vermeer painting, Jenison leaves no stone unturned. He builds a copy of the artist’s studio (in a Texas warehouse) to reconstruct the room in which he

painted “The Music Lesson.” Painstaking attention to detail is overwhelming, down to using pigments available only during the 1600s.

He even erects a tower outside his window to mimic the church steeple outside of Vermeer’s studio. Because, bottom line, it’s all about the lighting.

To his advantage, Jenison is an old friend of Penn Jillette (of the magic team Penn & Teller), and Raymond Teller opts to direct.

Jillette conducts onscreen interviews with Martin Mull, artist David Hockney and Steadman, which provide the vast credibility and profound interest generated in the film.

And Conrad Pope’s haunting and vivacious score is the icing on the cake in this beautiful masterpiece.

“Tim’s Vermeer” is part detective story, part history lesson and just plain enlightening.

Jenison, who has never painted before, comments, “This project is a lot like watching paint dry,” as we’re watching his painting dry. His wit and openness are what make this film so watchable. We feel his pain, frustration and triumphs at the exact moment he does, and it’s fun.

“Tim’s Vermeer” asks the questions: Can art and technology meet? Was Vermeer cheating?

Does verisimilitude play any part in how we perceive art? After all is said and done, I think Jenison’s reply would be, “Who cares?”

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CLASSROOM CRITIC The mission of Sarasota Film Festival’s education department is to inspire, educate and entertain students by promoting creativity, collaboration and community involvement.

Classroom Critic is a program for middle school students, in which

they learn to appreciate the art of film and analyze it critically. As part of the program, students screen youthFEST shorts and are taught how to write a film review based on SFF curriculum. Below, we feature four of the students’ reviews.

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Emmeline is different, the man was still nice to her, unlike many other people that would have been mean to her.

Every lesson goes back to the golden rule — treat others the way you want to be treated — and if you follow that rule, you will be very successful in life.

it’s about somebody who doesn’t fit in. The film has great cinematography and has won multiple prizes.

The film introduced Emmeline as a girl who doesn’t fit in anywhere, literally anywhere. The film’s climax is where she finds someone. The movie tells people who don’t fit in that you can still fit in.

The actors portrayed the roles excellently. They added everything to the film. The writer tells the story of a girl who finds life difficult.

Overall, the film is brilliant! The audience will love it. I highly recommend this. I rate the movie 10 out of 10 stars!

‘Emmeline’ Maxwell Ruschau

7th grade, The Out-ofDoor Academy Emmeline is the sweetly comic, absurd fabulation of a girl who isn't cute like everyone else.

Emmeline is a fantastic, happy, and sometimes sad short film. This film is creative and innovative. The director did a great job. Even though there was minimal narrative between the characters, the narrator did a fantastic job and the story was told very well. The characters were perfect for the role they were playing, and they were also dressed to match the character. Also, the cinematography and editing were very good. The sound effects and music were good, as well as the camera placements.

One thing that is great about this film is that there are no spoilers and it keeps people excited for what is going to happen next, unlike some other short films that make me fall asleep! Personally, “Emmeline” is a must-see, and not just because of how good of a film it is. “Emmeline” also gives a great life lesson, which is to always be nice and treat others like a normal person, even if they are a little different. Even though

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7th grade, Booker Middle School The film “Emmeline” was very good. I liked the movie because it was timeless and a bit funny. Also,

‘Cap or Kippah’ Eli Koplin | 7th grade,

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The film “Cap or Kippah” is an inspiring documentary, directed

by Susanne Engels, that tells an outstanding story about a young boy (Bram) who feels that he is different since he is a Jew. Bram and his mother are the only practicing Jews out of 3,000 people in his village in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The movie's mood was never really set throughout the film. At some times the mood would be sad because of what his schoolmates say about Jews.

For example, in the beginning there are chants that say "Gas the Jews." Then at other times it would be in an upbeat mood because he is at an AFC Ajax game (one of Holland's soccer teams). The plot of the film isn't really the most original idea for a movie because many other people have made articles or documentaries on addressing the topic of religion. Overall, I definitely enjoyed the movie and recommend this movie to people over the age of 12. For the film you really need to be mature because the focus of the movie is very intense.

Jenny Marcus 7th grade, Goldie Feldman Academy The film “Cap or Kippah” directed by Susanne Engels, is a documentary about a young boy named Bram who is Jewish and does not want to get bullied for his religion. He lives in the Netherlands and the film is set in the modern day. When I first saw this documentary, I was surprised to see that people were getting

bullied because of who they were. I liked this film because it has lots of detail and tells about the difficulties of his life. I think this should be shown worldwide because anyone of a different religion should not get treated this way.

The film started out with people chanting horrible things about Jews and then they bring up a boy named Bram who is a Jew. Bram had not gotten bullied in this film, but talks about different things like how he wants no one finding out about him being Jewish except when he goes to class for his religion with other people. Throughout the film, he is happy and some parts when he hears people saying horrible things about Jews he gets all emotional and it makes you upset to think how this could happen to you or anyone who is a Jew or any religion.

The film had more than enough detail and you could also understand him even though he spoke a different language. I had not liked how the screen was blurry at some points, but when I went back I realized they meant to make it blurry because it goes into the film. This film should be recommended for teens because they will understand more than younger kids. I would overall rate this four out of five stars.

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SHOWPIECE AQUARIUMS IN SARASOTA For some Sarasota residents, living near the water isn’t enough — we talked to a few homeowners who have taken their love of the water (and what lives underneath) inside the home.

The Klaubers’ Peaceful Shrine Peace in the kitchen was what Terri Klauber wanted when designing her downtown penthouse apartment seven years ago.

“I wanted to bring some calmness into the kitchen,” says Klauber, whose life with husband Michael Klauber, co-owner of Michael’s On East, obviously involves cooking.

Home aquariums are known for adding a sense of relaxation to a space while also acting as a stunning feature to the design of the home.

“It was really me saying, ‘Let’s have a place where we can just be,’” she says.

The kitchen, and the house, was built around a fish tank, which is located on the hallway wall, facing the kitchen.

The couple’s fish tank has become a central feature of their home. The peaceful addition not

only provides the calmness Terri wanted, but has also turned out to be a source of entertainment, as well as a place to think.

“I love catching people just standing in front of it, looking at it,” says Klauber. “It’s cool to see them get lost in the moment.”

Seascape Aquarium designed the custom 350-gallon tank, which contains artificial coral designed by Ringling College of Art and Design student Daniel Marot.

The Klaubers’ tank is home to a variety of fish, including a midnight parrot fish, a white-spotted puffer fish, a Picasso triggerfish and a blue angelfish, to name a few. This collection of fish species classifies it as being an “aggressive tank.” The fish the Klaubers chose for the aquarium must be able to survive in a more aggressive fish environment.

“You can see all of these at the bottom of the sea, but I like them in my kitchen,” says Terri Klauber.

The Klaubers’ fish family From left: E.T., the puffer fish, is Terri’s favorite.

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Chris Jessen, previously a custom aquarium designer, specialized in live coral, and still does, but now just for his personal aquarium.

The 300-gallon tank contains 35 varieties of coral, many grown by the couple. Large polyp stony coral, soft corals, polyps, Montipora undata coral and a 20-year-old stony coral are among the corals seen in Jessens’ tank.

The tank is completely natural, the rock itself being the filter. Other pertinent features for the tank are bright lights (which run 10 to 12 hours a day) and a lot of water flow.

“Water flow is very critical,” says Chris Jessen. The tank runs on a dusk-to-dawn cycle, much like humans.

The large tank has been the focal point of the home’s sitting area for four years now.

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When choosing fish to inhabit the tank, Jessen notes, “Whatever won’t eat the coral.” Colorful breeds are what the Jessens have been choosing for the tank, adding to the already colorful and lively atmosphere the coral brings to the tank. Angelfish, Scooter Blennies, gobies, damselfish, Royal Gramma, two 12-year-old clown fish, hawk fish and Kole tangs are among some of the fish that inhabit the tank.

When meeting with the Jessens, not all of the coral in the tank were open. Coral retract during the night. During they day, they expand to absorb as much light as possible, leaving photo opportunities for only a few of the corals in the tank.

Chris and Laura Jessen’s fish tank is the centerpiece in their home’s sitting room.

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We joined about 25 other opera fans recently before the opening night of Verdi’s “Jerusalem,” and Dylan Elhajoui, MoZaic’s master chef who specializes in continental cuisine with a Moroccan twist, went all-out with a made-to-order menu just for us. The choices for our first course included sautéed escargots and mushrooms in boursin gougère or pumpkin and mascarpone ravioli in a brown butter-sage sauce with a Bailey’s Irish cream “owl” of golden hubbard squash potage.

The entrees included salmon with a goat cheese soufflé, glazed Cornish hen or jasmine tea duck breast.

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s you may remember, a while ago we told you about Craig and Natasha Menke, the owners of The Serving Spoon on Osprey. We mentioned at that time that Craig had been waging a triumphant battle with cancer and that he’d been so upbeat, so optimistic and so joyous in his life, he’d helped me (and many others) carry on our own struggles with the disease.

A couple of weeks ago, we were about to enter The Serving Spoon when we saw a note on the door announcing that Craig had “earned his angel wings” a few days earlier. The restaurant was, of course, open and, although Craig and his aura of optimism and joyfulness were conspicuously absent, his sons and their loyal wait

staff were carrying on with a sense of purpose and determination, just as Craig would have wanted.

The funeral, at Church of the Redeemer, took place a few days later. We weren’t able to attend because we were booked to attend (and perform) at a music function. But, as we were entering the building where our event was to take place, we heard the bells of Redeemer chiming in tribute to Craig. It was a strange but heartwarming feeling because we knew, somehow, Craig was there, smiling, watching over everyone and telling us everything was going to be fine.

It’s not often you find a neighborhood restaurant whose owners become like family. Craig, his beautiful and gentle wife, Natasha, and their five children have given us

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Elhajoui set us up in the room to the side of the front door, and it couldn’t have been a more auspicious way to set the scene for the rarely performed opera we were going to hear a couple of hours later.

Bravos were being voiced at MoZaic, as well as the Opera House.

un, relaxed restaurants that open for breakfast and lunch are a dime a dozen in Sarasota.

But eateries that serve food starting in the early morning and continue through dinner are not that easy to find. The Honey Tree Café, located at 8315 Lockwood Ridge Road, reminds me of a combination of a New Jersey diner and a Manhattan coffee shop. It offers an enormous array of food, from eggs and waffles, to hot and cold sandwiches, salads and entrees such as steak, meatloaf and stir-fries.

We’ve gone there primarily for lunch and, seeing that its specialty sandwiches and wraps came in the form of pitas and gyros, we assumed the owners were Greek. Not so.

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They’ve been around for almost 50 years and, as File Quni (pronounced as if it were short for Phyllis, which it’s not), says, “We thought it was temporary, but we stayed.”

Good thing, too, because File, her husband, Zef, and their four children — three boys and one girl — turn out some pretty fancy food in a setting that’s as informal and relaxed as you can get. Even their menu speaks for them: “Welcome to the Honey Tree Café,” it says. “We take pride in our food and preparing it the way you like. We are family owned and operated. So, sit back, relax and let us do the cooking and serve you as family.

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But, at the Honey Tree, they do our bidding without an argument or even that look that says, “Are you crazy?”

I’m partial to their albacore tuna pita because, when asked, they serve it in a fluffy gyro wrap with diced tomatoes, shredded lettuce and a hint of what tastes like pickle relish mixed in with the tuna salad, making it just a little more interesting than your runof-the-stream tuna. We had a smoked turkey club pita the other day with bacon, cheese, lettuce, diced tomatoes and just enough mayo to make it juicy, rather than dry. We asked that they press the pita when they grilled it and, voila, they did it. Just right.

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The courtyard of The Out-of-Door Academy’s Uihlein Campus was sparkling with lights and cocktail tables for the annual Banyan Bash Saturday, March 15. Vendors of the finest cuisine in Sarasota lined the perimeter for guests to enjoy food and drinks while mingling among other parents and friends of the school and listening to live music by Clint Wiley’s None Other band.

During the event, a music video was shown, in which ODA students imitated Pharrell Williams’ “Happy,” portraying their excitement and enjoyment of attending The Out-ofDoor Academy. The video was actually a sequel to another “Happy” video done in March to promote the event. The video received such great feedback, they decided to do another.

Something new for usual event protocol: instead of speaking at the event, Co-Chairwomen Jamie Becker and Donna Koffman and heads of

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the organization gave their thanks and announcements via a nicely put together video, which was presented on a large projection screen. “We really went into the event thinking, how can we do things differently? Innovation is our theme, we put innovation in everything that we do and the video was one of the new ideas for this year,” says ODA Director of Communications Shannon Drosky.

More than $120,000 was raised during the paddle raise specifically for technology advancements. Valerie Leatherwood, president of ODA’s parent association, won the live auction for the St. Berdoodle puppy, bringing home a surprise new friend for her daughter Dylan.

The annual event raised more than $350,000 for the school.

“For the event only being a cocktail party, we broke records for everything. We are really proud and thankful for all of the parents and their support,” says Drosky.

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Dr. Ruth Westheimer, renowned octogenarian sex therapist, was the speaker at the Women’s Resource Center March 14 luncheon, at The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota.

But she considers herself an educator and some of her best advice had little to do with sex. Examples: “Be an askable parent;” “Let bad stuff go; you’ll never forget it but don’t let it own you;” “A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”

She had the audience of 400-plus men and women eating out of her hand and promised “Anybody who gives money to the Women’s Resource Center is going to have great sex for the rest of your life.” Betty Schoenbaum, who volunteered to help with an “ask,” made a similar promise, citing a University of Pittsburgh study that says that one of the benefits of giving … is better sex.

Kudos to everybody’s favorite technical director Brent Greeno who, with event chair Kathy Coffey, raised $16,300 in the WRC’s first-ever live auction. And, congrats to Executive Director Valerie Goddard for guiding her first Renaissance Luncheon to such success.

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A flash mob appeared on stage and in the audience to celebrate Barbara Zdravecky’s 20th anniversary with Planned Parenthood Photos by Stephanie Hannum

Isabelle Crotsley and designer Camilyn Beth Leavitt

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hose Girls Inc. girls sure are creative. For this year’s Celebration Luncheon, the raffle items include things in which the girls have been involved in the process, learning along the way. One of the items to be auctioned at the April 3 luncheon is a custom pendant designed by Montserrat Alverez (after winning a design contest headed up by Carats Fine Jewelry and Watches owner Greg Twarowski). The one-of-a-kind, angular square-shaped pendant (valued at $4,650) includes a three-carat tri-color tourmaline as the center stone. Radiating from the center to the corners are diamond beads weighing a total of .36 carats. The 14

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Bittersweet and beautiful … Melvy Lewis’s invitation was straightforward and to the point: “For taking such good care of me since Milford has been gone … a big thank you from Melvy.” And big it was … a March 9 dinner in the Water Club party room with 68 guests and a nine-piece band led by Simone Vitale, imported from the

carat rose gold pendant comes with a 18-inch strand of freshwater pearls.

The second item up for bid is a custom dress by local designer Camilyn Beth. Several girls helped design a 23-piece collection. With your top bid, you get to choose one of the dresses to be created specifically for you. The piece you bid on will even feature a message from the girls on the label, so it’s a true one-of-a-kind.

For more information and to bid online, visit biddingforgood.com/ girlsincsrq. The auction will also be available for bidding at the 26th annual Celebration Luncheon. To purchase a luncheon ticket, call 366-6646.

Lewis’s hometown of Detroit. Phil Mancini did the dinner but Melvy personalized it with her own, homemade Mandelbrot … Home again …

Dottie Garner is home from SMH after a bout with a nasty flu and Dorothy Jacobson is home from the Inn at the Sarasota Bay Club where she rehabbed from a fall. You can’t keep a good woman down! … Same time next year … The report from

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lanned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida had plenty of goals for its annual dinner this year: to honor president Barbara Zdravecky for her remarkably effective 20 years; to raise at least $50,000 to earn a promised match and exceed a million-dollar objective for the “BAZ (Barbara A. Zdravecky) Fund for the Future;” and to revitalize and reposition its annual dinner, this year being the 48th.

The March 13 party did all of the above, and then some.

Relocated from the Municipal Auditorium to a tent on the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus, attendance was at least 10% over the usual 500, $67,000 was raised for the fund and a good time was

the Sarasota Garden Club is that its first garden tour March 15 was a smash hit with more than 800 tickets sold … A moment to be treasured …

Anne Virag, AJC (American Jewish Committee) regional president, was part of a leadership delegation that had a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Feb. 13.

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had by all.

Co-Chairs Rich and Clare Segall and their merry band with Planned Parenthood Vice President Jan Chester and staff put on a great party decorated with life-size photo cutouts of the honoree. They even managed to surprise her with a flash mob of more than 100 people on stage and in the audience moving to “It’s a Woman’s World.” Zdravecky acknowledged that she is unaccustomed to being surprised and got a good laugh by sharing that her guests included “My aesthetician, my chiropractor, my hair stylist, my massage therapist and my psychiatrist.”

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ays after the conclusion of New York Fashion Week, Fresh Salon Spa Boutique (1819 Main St., Suite 118) owner Ashley Guttridge and boutique Manager Eduardo Anaya headed to the big apple for the Coterie Market, a high-end women’s contemporary clothing market, which took place after what most fashionistas would consider the most important week of February.

The duo spent three days buying at market and then hit a few showrooms in the city. Buying is fast-paced.

“Back to back appointments every day,” says Anaya about the trip, during which four to five months’ worth of clothes are bought.

“You’re looking at pieces that haven’t been mass produced yet,” says Guttridge.

“Sometimes what you’re seeing is fresh off the runway.”

With some of the higher-end brands, buyers sit in an office (much like Guttridge’s office at Fresh) and clothes are brought out to them.

“It’s nice after buying for a few days, being able to sit and have people just bring you options,” says Guttridge.

When buying, there is a lot more than the obvious questions — “what looks good” or “what seems to be trending” — that play into buying the perfect pieces. Guttridge’s biggest challenge when buying for Fresh is finding options that cater to a wide variety of people.

“Because we are a salon and spa and boutique, we reach a larger demographic. It’s really about focusing on buying those versatile pieces that span different age groups,” says Guttridge.

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So what can you expect to be wearing in the fall?

Lots of layering can be seen in the upcoming fall trends, along with styles resembling 90s grunge with a feminine edge.

“There are a lot of extremely feminine pieces — higher waists, longer hemlines, florals,” says Guttridge. “Lots of blues, different shades of blues, lots of prints, lots of vegan leather,” says Anaya.

Styles always tend to go a little more formal in the fall, so with the more feminine pieces, there will be lots of sequins and more bling.

What can you plan on keeping in your closet?

Crop tops paired with high-waisted bottoms — “There’s only going to be more of it,” says Guttridge.

This style is gravitates toward a more conservative look however, with more “coverage” — looser crop tops paired with more feminine and conservative bottoms.

What item is Fresh owner/buyer Ashley Guttridge going to keep for herself?

The high-waisted, Marolli tea-length skirt covered in rosettes, paired with a blush colored crop top (top right).

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What is going to be a hot seller?

The Jamison “Fringe” Cardigan, left — perfect for a “Florida fall,” adding layers to any outfit and versatile in that it can be dressed up or down for any occasion.

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DR. LAUREY STRYKER Walking through Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, the interview location of Dr. Laurey Stryker’s choice, the Selby board member (as well as founder of Stryker Consulting and former CEO of USF Sarasota-Manatee, among other things) discusses her lifelong passion for education and her enthusiasm for hiking.

I TAUGHT political science — it was the 1960s, so it was a very big topic at the time because of civil rights and the politics around the Vietnam War. A lot of students were interested in politics then.

After that, I went on the public side and became the officer of the state for the next 20 years of my life. I went from teaching it, to doing it. Getting women elected early on was my main interest. I was active in politics to get more women appointed and elected.

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volved in early on was girl sports — when FSU was first trying to develop girl sports in the 1970s, I began advocating funding. It was a real passion of mine. There were lots of women donors — FSU was founded as a women’s school, so that was a great way to tap in to women donors. It was tremendous.

THEN AGAIN IN THE 1980S, I began advocating for fast pitch

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for a long time, but really it comes back to the educational opportunities — the scholarships and lifelong benefits that come along with those causes.

What I see with women who have experience and involvement with sports, they have a certain confidence and an appreciation and understanding for teamwork.

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The dedication to education and the goal of building the rainforest was one I wanted to be involved in. Creating places is as important as people and programs, it’s something I enjoy doing. Building that campus was that for me, and The Children’s Rainforest Garden is another place that I’ve had the privilege to be a part of.

saying the entire time. To me, it’s not the destination it’s the journey.

It’s incredible, the places you see all over the world, along with the camaraderie you get with the people you’re with. And we always have a shopping day and a spa day — so it’s hiking, with a purpose.

I AM AN AVID HIKER. I’m in a hiking group, we call ourselves The Ya Ya’s; it’s a group of about 10 to 12 of women, depending on the year. We started hiking around 13 years ago — we hike one year in the states and one year outside the country. This is an in the states year. We are going to the Utah area, which will be great.

It’s really not something I would ever do by myself and my husband’s not a hiker. “Where are we going?” is what he’d be

MY HUSBAND Charlie and I

like to travel. He’s a history professor, so we love traveling and learning about different cultures and people. We try to get a more in depth experience with every place that we go by connecting with people that are into the deeper history, as opposed to traveling as a tourist.

And we both work out — I love yoga, my thing is yoga. It’s very centering. I have to do something every day, whether it’s biking, walking, yoga, or swimming

— that’s my mantra.

I THINK THE ONE THING that

I’d say I’ve done that will have the longest shelf life, would be the [USF Sarasota-Manatee] campus. I think that when you look back and then you look at the 5,000 students now, it’s exciting to know what that means in regards to the future. It really is the long term, building that campus — it’s what I would call my legacy project.

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softball in Florida. At that time the State Athletic Association was not supporting fast pitch softball for girls. Our kids were losing out on scholarships because of this, so I began to support it — eventually a bill passed to allow it. As it turns out, both of my granddaughters are very strong soft pitch softball players. To watch them benefit from something that happened so long ago, it’s wonderful.

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