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OUR TOWN + Cumming heads back to school Where in the world is Longboat Key Police Chief Pete Cumming?

For two weeks of each month through the spring, the answer is: Sanford, where Cumming is attending the Command Officers Academy Cumming through the University of Louisville.

Cumming was one of 50 law enforcement officers chosen from throughout the U.S. for the program, which includes training in areas such as budgeting, management, leadership and state and federal law.

“It’s a real heavy curriculum, but it’s gonna be a very good training credential,” Cumming said.

During the two weeks Cumming is away each month, Deputy Police Chief Frank Rubino fills in as the island’s top cop.

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by Robin Hartill | Managing Editor

Villagers seek to curb new spaces Some residents seek an alternate route to parking enforcement.

Longbeach Village residents asked the town for additional parking restrictions earlier this year. They got their wish, when the Longboat Key Town Commission passed an ordinance Nov. 4, establishing new rules.

But last week, when the town painted the curb of the side of Broadway where parking is prohibited yellow and painted white lines establishing parking spaces on the south side of the

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S street, some INSIDEresidents felt the town crossed the line.

“Everybody I’ve spoken to says it makes it look ugly as sin,” said Village resident James Braha, who emailed Mayor Jim Brown to complain about the new spaces.

Braha wrote: “The unsightly road changes on Broadway in the Village, I must say, are quite ugly. I suppose it solves the parking prob-

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lem caused by the never-ending expansion of Mar Vista, but it turns our quiet, quaint community into something resembling a shopping mall parking lot. I don’t recall having heard any plans beforehand about these changes.”

Braha told the Longboat Observer that the changes make Broadway look “very commer-

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The Cortez Yacht Club is responsible for collections in the following Longboat Key Manatee County locations: First Bank of Florida, 5390 Gulf of Mexico Drive; Longboat Observer, 5570 Gulf of Mexico Drive; Moore’s Stone Crab Restaurant, 800 Broadway. Drop off toys and donations by 4 p.m. Dec. 12.

Drop off toys and donations at the following locations by Dec. 23: Longboat Key Club, 442 Gulf of Mexico Drive; Longboat Key Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road; Grand Bay condos; 3050 Grand Bay Blvd.; Michael Saunders & Co., 3174 Gulf of Mexico Drive; and Longboat Key Police Department, 5460 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

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New white parking spaces were painted last week on the south side of Broadway, where parking is permitted.

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CALLS FOR ACTION

by Robin Hartill | Managing Editor

Town seeks 911 dispatch answers Costs and savings of dispatch decisions remain unclear, but a recent report shows the high cost of each 911 police call.

Longboat Key receives approximately 600 police-related 911 calls in a year, but those calls come at a cost: A Sept. 30 report on Manatee County’s plan to shift to the Next Generation 911 system estimates the cost of

each emergency call the department will receive through Manatee County over a projected fiveyear period at $67.87 each.

The next highest average cost per call is $8.52, for Palmetto police.

The town is in its due diligence period as it considers an offer the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office made in February 2013 to take over the town’s dispatch services. But before the town responds to the call, it needs an-

swers from both Sarasota and Manatee counties — including potential costs and savings.

Longboat Key Police Chief Pete Cumming said the town has questioned the figures in Manatee County’s report and cannot address them because he does not know how the county arrived

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PARKING / FROM PAGE 1A cial” and said he has spoken with seven or eight neighbors who agree.

Another resident, Paula Skillman, also emailed Brown about the spaces.

“When I arrived back on LBK all I heard was people talking about putting the wires underground, to make the island more beautiful. Then I drive down Broadway yesterday afternoon and was shocked to see UGLY white parking spaces,” Skillman wrote.

Another resident, Bobby Nunnally, said he first noticed the parking spaces last week when he turned into the Village from Gulf of Mexico Drive.

“To me it just takes away from the Village,” he said. “I was just shocked at what they did.”

“It’s just too bad to do that to our pretty little Village,” Bonnie Dallinger said. “Signs would have done the job instead of yellow and white lines everywhere.”

Brown said the spaces were a matter of enforcement.

“They asked us to put onesided parking in, and they asked us to enforce it,” Brown said. “A yellow curb is the international sign of no-parking.”

“After several meetings and studies, the town commission voted to follow the request of the majority of citizens of the Village and install the requested controls. Perhaps you were not aware of the extensive effort that we went through at the request of the majority of Village residents. These requests and subsequent changes were made to make the Village a safer place to live,” Brown wrote in a Nov. 21 response to Skillman’s email.

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Mark Richardson, the town’s streets, facilities, parks and a recreation manager, said the colors used on Broadway are standard yellow and white colors used to designate where parking is prohibited and allowed.

The town’s contractor had been instructed to paint spaces further east on the road to Moore’s Stone Crab Restaurant and also yellow curbs for areas of Poinsettia and Lois avenues where parking is prohibited, however, the contractor did not complete the painting.

As the result of resident feedback, the town told its contractor to put the assignment on hold while it discusses alternative ways of marking streets with residents.

The new Village parking ordinance includes the following restrictions: • No parking on the entire north side of Linley Street from Longboat Drive South to Lois Avenue; • No parking for the entire north side of Broadway Street from Palm Drive to Bayside Drive; • No parking from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. on the entire south side of Broadway from Palm Drive to Bayside Drive; • No parking on the east side of the street on Lois Avenue between Broadway and Russell Street; • No parking on the eastside of street on Poinsetta Drive between Broadway and Russell Street.

Village residents generally supported the ordinance, although many have said it’s a starting point and want the commission to address parking issues again next year.

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The town’s options for 911 dispatch seemed clear until Sept. 30. That’s when Manatee County announced it would implement a new Next Gen 911 system that can support technologies such as texting, video messaging, Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and telematics.

If the town maintains its existing service, it will have to overhaul its equipment to accept additional data for an undetermined cost, and it’s unclear whether Manatee County would shoulder costs.

“We’re at a place now where we haven’t made any progress forward,” Cumming said.

“We’re crunching our numbers and trying to see what benefits us. Nobody seems to know what the hard, solid numbers are.”

Paul Alexander, Manatee County director of information technology, who prepared the report, said that the town’s projected five-year average cost per call is high because the department maintains the same equipment as larger call centers but only receives just a fraction of the 911 calls a larger center would handle.

“Longboat Key gets 600 calls a year, so it comes up high because you have to maintain the same equipment,” he said.

Holmes Beach receives approximately the same number of police 911 calls each year, and those calls are handled by the same number of dispatchers — five in each municipality.

But the costs for software, including a VESTA system, which Holmes Beach does not have, drives town costs up.

911 NUMBERS

Projected five-year Public safety answering point call volume Emergency Communications Center $1.1 million Manatee Sheriff’s Office 185,000 Bradenton Police Department 180,000 Palmetto Police Department 25,000 Longboat Key Police Department 3,150 Holmes Beach Police Department 3,125

Average cost per call 31 cents $1.05 $1.79 $8.52 $67.87 $3.84

Source: Manatee County

“Holmes Beach doesn’t have any equipment,” Alexander said. “It’s essentially just the equivalent of a telephone line.”

Manatee County dispatchers currently answer 911 calls placed from Longboat Key landlines, along with cellphone calls that ping to Manatee County cellular towers. A Sarasota County dispatcher answers cellphone calls if they ping to a cellular tower in Sarasota County.

If the call is police-related, it’s forwarded to a town dispatcher; if it’s a fire rescue call, a Manatee County dispatcher handles it. If the town accepts Sarasota County’s offer, the county would dispatch both fire rescue and police calls.

Manatee County has not offered to take over the town’s dispatch services, but unanswered questions surrounding its upgrades, including costs, have the town on hold.

“The uncertainties around the Manatee County system are probably what are really defining our inability to move forward at this point,” Town Manager Dave Bullock told the

Longboat Key Town Commission at its Nov. 12 regular workshop.

“Three or four months ago, the options we thought we had were pretty clear: Consider the county offer to consolidate or keep what we have,” Bullock said. “With Manatee County’s change, what you have, we’re not clear on that right now.”

Alexander said the county has met with its vendors and police chiefs in each municipality to determine how the conversion will work and hopes more details will be available in the next month.

“In order to answer these questions, you have to figure out what you’re building and how it’s going to work,” Alexander said.

Whatever decision the commission makes, the department will face a huge conversion that, once implemented, will be difficult to undo.

“Either way we go, we have a lot of questions, and these are decisions that will affect either the service or the budget,” Cumming said.

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NOTORIOUS CRIME

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TRAVEL TERROR

by Robin Hartill | Managing Editor

John Clarke was visiting the Longboat Key Holiday Inn in 1978, when one of the Key’s most notorious crimes unfolded.

What was your worst travel experience?”

A member of the online community Reddit posed the question earlier this month, and John Clarke, of Ontario, Canada, was one of more than 9,000 users who answered.

Clarke’s answer brought him back to the August 1978 night at the former Longboat Key Holiday Inn his family spent huddled in the hotel’s sauna, terrified that a gunman would burst through the door.

After answering the question, Clarke started Googling. He discovered from the Florida Department of Corrections website that Steven Critzer, the man responsible for the night of terror, died in prison Oct. 16, while serving multiple life sentences.

He was 66.

Trip of terror

Clarke was 12 when his family traveled to Florida for the first time, and the trip started out picturesquely. Clarke met his first girlfriend — another 12-year-old staying at the hotel — walked the beach, searched for sand dollars and played in the hotel’s arcade.

August 22, 1978 was the family’s last night at the hotel. While Clarke and his brother and sister swam in the hotel’s indoor pool, his parents ate at the hotel’s restaurant. There, they saw Critzer with a long gun.

Clarke’s parents ordered the children out of the pool into the nearby sauna.

“As we did so, screaming people started running in from the doors to the beach. My parents ushered as many people as they could into the sauna with us, where we learned that the

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John Clarke enjoys Longboat Key’s beach at age 12 during a 1978 family vacation at the old Holiday Inn. gunman had headed out to the beach and started taking hostages,” Clarke wrote.

Earlier that afternoon, Critzer and John Waugh, both of whom had escaped from a Washington state prison work release program, checked in at the hotel with a 15-year-old girl. They broke into a Key home and stole a weapon before checking in at the Holiday Inn. According to the Aug. 25, 1978 Longboat Observer — the newspaper’s fifth edition — a bartender spotted Critzer’s weapon and asked off-duty police detective Tom Coons to search him. He found no weapon, but the encounter probably scared away Waugh, who drove away in their stolen vehicle.

Around 10:15 p.m., Critzer headed to the beach and rounded up a half-dozen hostages — just after Clarke’s parents led the family into the sauna. The family learned what was going on from a group of screaming

beachgoers who also sought sanctuary in the sauna.

“Everybody was pretty terrified,” Clarke said. “Nobody knew where he was going to go.”

As Critzer attempted to take hostages, 17-year-old Edward McWilliams, a guest at the hotel didn’t move quickly enough for Critzer, who shot and killed the teen. Other hostages fled, and he fired another shot, injuring a 15-year-old girl.

Critzer then ran from the scene, causing a massive manhunt to ensue.

Eventually, police escorted individuals from the sauna, but Critzer was still on the run.

Clarke’s parents gave police statements, and then the family headed back to their rooms. The family barricaded doors and windows with mattresses and other pieces of furniture out of fear the gunman would return. The Clarkes left the Holiday Inn the next day,

The Longboat Key Holiday Inn, which closed in 2003, had an indoor pool. The sauna, where the Clarkes and others hid, was behind the stone area.

as planned, and headed to Miami, still not knowing where the gunman was.

Critzer had apparently been hiding out around St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church and Pattigeorge’s restaurant. A police sergeant spotted him from the roof of Pattigeorge’s. Around 10:30 a.m. that morning, police arrested Critzer with help from the Sarasota and Manatee SWAT teams.

Waugh was arrested one week later in Seattle and charged with fleeing to avoid confinement.

The fear from the Longboat Key Holiday Inn stayed with the Clarkes after they drove on to Miami. When they woke up after their first night there, Clarke’s mother, Barbara, opened the hotel room curtains and saw a man staring into the room. He was a window washer.

“Luckily for the window washer, the glass was strong.

I’m sure if my mom could have got through it, a window washer would have died that day,” Clarke wrote.

Aftermath

Critzer pleaded guilty in May 1979 to first-degree murder, attempted murder, five counts of kidnapping and burglary. He received life sentences for each except the burglary charge, for which he was sentenced to five years.

At the time of his sentencing, Critzer apologized for the crime and blamed excessive drinking for his actions, according to the now defunct Sarasota Journal.

The Longboat Observer contacted nearly a dozen longtime residents, each of whom vaguely remembered the crime but not in detail.

Clarke’s memories of the night remain vivid, although he does not think the experience scarred him. His family still talks about the trip on occasion and possibly would have returned to the Key, had it been closer.

“It was a little strange to see that he died in prison,” Clarke said. “It closed off that chapter, and it was such a weird time.”

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by Kurt Schultheis | Observer Staff

Commission nixes south end sand project With groin construction underway to stop sand loss on the north end of the Key, south end erosion worries become the new focus.

Item Cost Beach maintenance........................................................$154,663 Miscellaneous professional services.................................$100,726 North end structures....................................................$2.5 million South end sand truck haul...........................................$1.4 million Longboat Pass dredging...............................................$3.5 million Central Key sand truck haul...................................... $10,983,192 New Pass dredging.........................................................$3 million Monitoring all beach projects..........................................$605,000 Maintenance and equipment.............................................$38,000 Beach consulting............................................................$150,000 Beach tilling.....................................................................$70,000 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Study.............................$1.5 million Total costs............................................................... $23,846,192 File photo

Sand loss around L’Ambiance, pictured, and other south end condominiums has drawn concern from residents.

Manager Dave Bullock know the decision doesn’t make south end residents feel any better.

“My heart goes out to those who are there, they are caught without a recreational beach,” Bullock said. “I struggle with the expenditure of funds, yet these are some of the highest property values on the Key, and they set the image for the Key, and they really do have one of the worst recreational beaches on the Key.” Commissioner Terry Gans said residents with a lack of beach can walk south to enjoy a beach in front of the Longboat Key Club.

“They have to make it through the season without a recreational beach,” Gans said.

Although Vice Mayor Jack Duncan suggested residents with a

lack of beach could be shuttled by a tram or bus to other areas of the beach, other commissioners did not support the concept.

In the meantime, a vegetated dune system still intact in the eroded areas of the south end and what’s left of the beach there still protect the condominiums.

The commission asked town staff to educate south end residents on the importance of holding out for a New Pass dredging project, while using healthier areas of the beach to the south and north of their properties.

But the commission’s decision doesn’t assuage the concerns of residents who look out daily from their units at a thinning beach.

Pierre Community Association Manager Margaret Suarez sent a Nov. 12 email to Bullock, saying the town wasn’t moving quickly enough to restore a beach.

SAND NEEDS For one big islandwide project, the town of Longboat Key needs: NORTH END 50,000 cubic yards

GULFSIDE RD. 350,000 cubic yards

MID-KEY 210,000 cubic yards

SOUTH END 315,000 cubic yards

“We are seeing property values decrease due to the lack of beach, and we also have concerns this will affect our dunes,” Suarez wrote.

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that the town find a way to take sand from areas such as behind the shuttered Colony Beach & Tennis Resort and move it to the south end, where it’s needed.

Moving sand from the Colony area, according to Public Works Director Juan Florensa, also involves closing approximately 2 miles of beach between the Colony and L’Ambiance so trucks can transport the sand to the south end. The cost of that project could range from $300,000 to $700,000.

The complexities of closing the beach and costs involved for moving sand and/or truck-hauling sand prompted the commission to hold off on a sand project until the $3 million New Pass sand dredging project in 2016.

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Residents on the south end of Longboat Key — especially near Pierre, Longboat Towers and L’Ambiance condominiums — are going to have to get used to not having much of a beach behind their condominiums for a while.

That’s because the Longboat Key Town Commission decided Nov. 12 at its regular workshop not to move forward with a $1.4 million emergency sand project that involved 90 dump trucks driving onto and off the Key every day, bringing 1,500 truckloads of sand to the south end just after Easter.

Commissioners had concerns with the cost of the project and the traffic headache it will bring to the island.

Commissioner Phill Younger called the sand “sacrificial,” explaining it was just a stop gap until 315,000 cubic yards of sand can be placed there when the town dredges New Pass and places sand from that project on the south end in 2016.

Although the commission urged its beach consultants to find another way to bring 25,000 cubic yards of interim sand to the severely eroded south end, Olsen Associates consultants reported Nov. 12 that they can’t get a permit until April at the earliest to pick up sand from more sandplentiful areas of the Key. Mayor Jim Brown proposed in October

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by David Conway | Observer Staff

City scraps plans for Circle events committee

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Even with a new ordinance governing special events citywide in place, specific regulations for St. Armands Circle Park continue to be an issue.

Last month, the city established new guidelines for special events at St. Armands Circle Park. The ordinance, finalized Nov. 17, creates a moratorium on events at the park from February through April and regulates the number of events held on a monthly basis.

One element left unresolved was a directive from commissioners that an ad-hoc committee should form to create additional standards for events at the park. Considering the unique, commercial-tourist environment on the Circle, commissioners reasoned, it made sense to tailor specific criteria potential events should meet to be held in the area.

On Monday, however, the idea of an ad-hoc committee was met with some resistance. Hugh Fiore, president of the St. Armands Residents Association, said that although input is important, the ordinance needs time to function first.

“All parties would be better prepared to participate in such a committee after the new ordinance has been in place for a sufficient period of time,” Fiore said.

The commission agreed, voting unanimously to scrap plans for a five-person committee to create the standards. Instead, the commission directed staff to hold at least one workshop in March to discuss what, if any, additional criteria

were necessary to manage events in the area.

One concern from the commission was the creation of objective standards, if new standards were added. Vice Mayor Susan Chapman said that, based on the clear standards established in the new ordinance, it was worth doing a trial run before tinkering with additional criteria.

“It would just seem this is so clear-cut, so objective, so based on a rational basis that maybe we should just see how it works,” Chapman said.

Diana Corrigan, executive director of the St. Armands Circle Association, agreed that the workshop was a better route. Considering the lengthy history of the issue and the number of stakeholders involved, Corrigan hoped a workshop would allow more voices to participate in the conversation.

“It just adds another level of bureaucracy, the committee,” Corrigan said. “I think with a workshop we’re going to get more accomplished with more people who really understand what the needs are for the residents, the merchants and the landowners.”

The ordinance includes a moratorium on events in the park from February through April; a limit of two events per month outside of the “blackout period,” with an exception for three events in January and October; and a 40-day window before an event permit can be issued following the notification of St. Armands residents.

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After finalizing new regulations for special events at St. Armands Circle Park, the city will hold workshops next year to gather input on how to further refine its policy.

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

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

This is indeed a great day to reflect.

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

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

Yes, remember.

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

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

It was about more than a feast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The relatively short trip to Holland was horrible for many. Chartered ship operators, once at sea with the Separatists, robbed them; ransacked their belongings; molested many of the women; and

then sailed back into the original port and turned over the Separatists to local authorities, who then imprisoned them.

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

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

And then the trouble began again.

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

Why they fled Holland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy Thanksgiving.

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

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

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

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

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Peak season is fast approaching, reminding us of the nightmarish traffic situation of the last peak season, it is high time for us to put our heads together to devise ways to alleviate the problem. Last season’s traffic was so bad that a New York couple who rented our bayfront condo decided not to return to Longboat Key. A Bay Isles couple moved to Bird Key to escape the traffic problem.

There are ways to alleviate the problem, but these are not easy to implement because they require close collaboration between public officials of Longboat Key and the city of Sarasota, and also because our gains could come only at certain expenses of others. But the alternative of not acting is not an option given the severity of the problem which, left untended, is expected to get only worse. Ways to alleviate comprise a number of elements, some more crucial than others. I will list steps that could be taken and how they would help.

By my assessment, the real bottleneck during the peak season is the intersection of S.R. 789 and U.S. 41 (Tamiami Trail). The cause of problem is twofold: One is the relative shortness of the green light for drivers trying

to turn left from S.R. 789 toward North Tamiami. The other is the stagnation at the intersection of North Tamiami and Fruitville Road, which has serious carryover effects on traffic at the intersection of S.R. 789 and U.S. 41, especially for those turning left from S.R. 789 onto North Tamiami.

For the former of these two problems at the intersection of S.R. 789 and U.S. 41, a solution is to lengthen the green light in favor of drivers trying to turn to the left from S.R. 789 toward North Tamiami. For the latter problem, a key would be to prohibit left turns at the FruitvilleNorth Tamiami intersection for cars traveling south on U.S. 41, at least during the rush hours of, say, 3 to 6:30 p.m. Those affected would have to take detours, such turning left at 10th Street.

The green light for those cars turning left from Fruitville onto U.S. 41 would be shortened while the green light for cars traveling on Tamiami would be lengthened.

Troublemakers of lesser but still significant importance are the traffic lights at the intersection of S.R. 789 and Golden Gate Point and the traffic light at Bird Key. Those traffic lights sand-

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Given the small number of cars coming out of Golden Gate Point and the Ritz-Carleton and the pains of those of us who drive eastbound on S.R. 789 during bad times of the day in peak season, I suggest shortening the green light for cars exiting Golden Gate Point and the Ritz-Carlton onto S.R. 789, while lengthening the green light in favor of cars traveling on S.R. 789.

This means drivers trying to exit Golden Gate or the RitzCarlton onto S.R. 789 have a longer wait for a green light in addition to a shorter green light, but this could be justified as a way to reduce the existing huge imbalances between the pains suffered by these drivers relative to the pains endured by those driving eastbound on S.R. 789. Similar measures should be taken for the Bird Key traffic light.

The final major issue is the New Pass Bridge at the southern end of Longboat Key. Given the absurdity of drivers having to wait in a nonmoving traffic for additional multiple 10-minute periods every time the drawbridge opens and closes for a few sailboats, I suggest the drawbridge be made dormant and left closed during February

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These suggestions are illustrative because a definitive numerical plan cannot be set up in the absence of real data.

This letter was written to start a serious debate about how to alleviate our peak season traffic nightmare, a debate that should lead to Longboat Key officials’ dialogue with those of neighboring jurisdictions and meaningful action in time for peak season.

Many of us residents of Longboat Key love dearly this island.

However, if nothing is done on the peak season traffic problem, the love affair would in time come to an end, at least for some of us — not simply because of the expected intensification of an already severe problem, but also because inaction would be a predictor of what kind of future this island would likely have.

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Some might consider these suggestions as expressing little concern for those who would be adversely affected. That would be a wrong impression. I, of course, have concerns about the reduced well-being of these individuals.

The pains we Key residents currently endure while driving to Sarasota in the peak season are so out of proportion that even after the adoption of suggestions, our pains would remain disproportionately large.

As a token of our concern for the sacrifice of those who would feel worse off as a result of these suggestions, residents and visitors to Longboat and adjacent areas should pay financial compensation to the rest of the Sarasota County population.

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This year, our staff will once again scour the Key for the best and brightest holiday lights and displays.

Plenty of residents and properties regularly show the spirit of the season with their festive decorations.

(See our “Deck the Hall of Fame” at right.) But we’re looking for new properties to add tinsel to this town and give these bright lights a healthy dose of competition.

Judging will take place from Dec. 8 through Dec. 11. The top five properties will receive a to-be-determined prize, along with bragging rights that come with being featured in the Longboat Observer. We’ll announce the winners in our Dec. 18 issue.

Consider this a challenge to up the ante this season. It’s a matter we don’t take lightly. Email nominations, with addresses, to Staff Writer Kristen Herhold, kherhold@yourobserver.com.

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Email events for the community calendar to Staff Writer Kristen Herhold at kherhold@yourobserver.com.

SATURDAY, NOV. 29

Yoga in the Bird Garden — takes place from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. at Save Our Seabirds, 1708 Ken Thompson Parkway.

The yoga session takes place under the solar panels in the facility’s courtyard. Bring your own mat. Cost is $10; free with Save Our Seabirds membership. Call 388-3010.

LOOKING AHEAD St. Armands Holiday Night of Lights

When: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5

Alyssa Miller performs during the opening ballet number at last year’s Holiday Night of Lights.

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What: The 36th annual event kicks off the holiday season on the Circle. Members of Sarasota High School’s theater department will perform at 5:30 and 6 p.m., and Christmas carol singalongs will begin at 6 p.m. Santa Claus will arrive on the Circle during the Santa Parade, which will be followed by a tree-lighting ceremony. Visit starmandscircleassoc.com.

Santa Jaws at Mote — takes place from noon to 2 p.m.

Saturdays through Dec. 20, at Mote Marine Aquarium, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway. Mote mascot Gilly the Shark will be dressed for the holidays and available for photo-ops. Call 388-4441.

TUESDAY, DEC. 2

Transitions Support Group — takes place from 10:30 a.m. to noon at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road. Counselor Liz Cupo facilitates the group, which provides support to those who are experiencing changes in their lives. Call 383-8161.

Sarasota and Longboat Key Republican Clubs’ Christmas Party — takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. at Marina Jack, 2 Marina Plaza, Sarasota. The event will include door prizes, auction items, caroling and more. Bring an unwrapped toy to donate to Toys for Tots. Cost is $40. For reservations, call 888-325-3212.

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Shifting Sands Support Group — takes place from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Thursdays in the Ruth Cushing Room at Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive. MiMi Horwitz facilitates the group, which helps members with life’s challenges. Call 383-6491.

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Rotary Club of Longboat Key — meets at 5:15 p.m. at Amore by Andrea restaurant, 555 Bay Isles Parkway.

Appetizers will be served, and beverages will be available for purchase. A $10 donation is suggested. Contact Sydelle Pittas at sydellelaw@aol.com.

THURSDAY, DEC. 4

Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key — meets at 7:30 a.m.

Thursdays at the Longboat Key Club’s Tavern & Whiskey Bar. Cost is $10 and includes a breakfast buffet. Call Donna at 388-2847.

Florida Watercolor Society Exhibit Opening — takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design, 6860 Longboat Drive S. The exhibition will feature 35 works by members of the Florida Watercolor Society. RSVP is required. Call 383-2345 or email lbkca@ringling.edu.

THURSDAY, DEC. 4 AND FRIDAY, DEC. 5

Beginners Bridge or Refresher Course — takes place at 9:30 a.m. Thursdays and Fridays through Dec. 12, in the Aging in Paradise Resource Center on the second floor of Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Larry Auerbach, emerald life master with 8,000 master points, teaches classes. Cost is $5 per class. Call 383-6493.

SUNDAY, DEC. 7

ABATE of Florida Inc. West Coast Chapter Toy Run — begins at 11 a.m. at Ken Thompson Park on City Island. Participants will ride their motorcycles up to Tarpon Pointe Grill and Tiki Bar in Bradenton, 801 Riverside Drive E. The 34th annual Toy Run is hosted by the West Coast chapter of ABATE of Florida, and proceeds will benefit the Child Protection Center of Sarasota. To participate, bring an unwrapped toy or gift for a child. Call Mike Duffy at 807-1299.

Bridge Street Merchants Chili Challenge — takes place from 11 a.m to 1:30 p.m. on Bridge Street on Bradenton Beach. Area home cooks and restaurants are encouraged to enter the competition. The first place winner will receive a $100 Publix gift card. Proceeds benefit the Anna Maria Island Community Center. Contact Amanda Escobio at 896-2222.

TUESDAY, DEC. 9

Longboat Key Democratic Club — meets at 11:30 a.m. at Portofino Restaurant, 2600 Harbourside Drive. Former Sarasota Mayor Kelly Kirschner, who now serves as dean of special programs at Eckerd College, will speak. Cost is $25. Reservations are required by Dec. 5. Send checks to LBK Democratic Club, P.O. Box 8025, Longboat Key, FL 34228. Contact Lois Barson at 383-9893.

SATURDAY, DEC. 13

Porsches in the Park — takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in St. Armands Circle Park. Suncoast Motorsports will host its 10th annual Porsches event on St. Armands Circle. To register, call Margharita Komyati at 921-8007.

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Cortez Yacht Club 11th annual Lighted Boat Parade — begins at 6 p.m. at Moore’s Stone Crab Restaurant, 800 Broadway. The parade will continue to the Seafood Shack Marina, in Cortez. An after party will follow at the Bridge Tender Inn on Bradenton Beach. The entry fee is a toy or donation to Toys for Tots. The grand prize is $500.

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Mar Vista anchors new dock After eight weeks of construction, the north end restaurant has a new structure for diners who come to the restaurant by sea.

Mar Vista Dockside RestauEd Chiles, owner of the Chiles rant & Pub unveiled its newly Restaurant Group, which inrenovated dock in a Nov. 21 cludes Mar Vista, the Sandbar ribbon-cutting ceremony to Restaurant on Anna Maria and celebrate the completion of the BeacHhouse Restaurant on structure.

Bradenton Beach, said the new Construction began in Sep- dock will please patrons. tember and cost “It just makes it $107,000 to comeasier and better plete. The origi“On some days, for customers and nal dock was built is more usable,” especially the between 1988 and Chiles said. “On 1990 and was due weekends, we have some days, espefor an upgrade. the weekmore people park cially “It’s nice to have ends, we have their boats than more people park everything current,” said Anthoboats than their cars here, their ny Cucci, general their cars here, and we hope this and we hope this manager of Mar Vista. “Thirty-three dock will allow dock will allow percent of our busieven more people even more people to come by boat.” ness comes in by dock, and some Chiles hopes to to come by boat.” further people used to not improve — Ed Chiles, owner come because of the restaurant by of the Chiles the condition of adding a second Restaurant Group our dock. Well, now story, or “tree they can come behouse.” Sixty of cause everything is the 70 interior replaced and better.” seats will be moved to the secCucci believes the new dock ond story, which Chiles said will will endure for decades and give customers a better view of won’t need to be updated or re- Sarasota Bay. The application, placed for more than 50 years. filed in October with the LongLike the previous structure, boat Key Planning Zoning and the dock has 14 slips, but the Building Department, includes slips are bigger and higher up, a site plan and petition for a allowing for larger boats. Con- special exception to increase the struction expanded the struc- restaurant’s seating from 169 to ture by approximately 28 feet.

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Above: The newly renovated dock has 14 boat slips. Inset: General Manager Anthony Cucci, contractor Scott Liebel, owner Ed Chiles and project manager Mark Anderson Chiles seeks to begin and complete the construction of the second story next fall. He also hopes to remodel and update the restaurant’s kitchen.

“This is such a special spot,”

Chiles said. “What an opportunity we have to own this place where the public can come to such a great spot.”

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OBITUARIES Barbara Mae Capron

Barbara Mae Capron, 76, of Longboat Key, died Oct. 26.

Mrs. Capron is survived by her husband, Donald Capron; sons Tommie Thompson and Ronald Thompson; daughter, Cynthia Groff; and seven grandchildren.

A private service was held.

Ronald Curry

Ronald Curry, 81, of Longboat Key, died Nov. 14.

Born in 1933, in Bronx, N.Y., Mr. Curry worked for the New York Telephone Co. as an engineer for 21 years until moving in 1977 to Gainesville to work for Bell South. He retired in 1990 and moved to Longboat Key with his wife, Elizabeth, in 2000.

Mr. Curry was an avid sports fan and a season ticket holder for the New York Giants and the Florida Gators for a combined 52 years.

Mr. Curry is survived by his wife of 50 years, Elizabeth; daughter, Christine; son, Ronald Jr.; brother, John; and two grandchildren.

A celebration of life was held Nov. 21, at St Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church. A military honors service fol-

lowed at the Sarasota National Cemetery.

John Helm Lockwood

John Helm Lockwood, 99, of Longboat Key and formerly of Short Hills, N.J., died Nov. 15.

Born June 23, 1915, Mr. Lockwood graduated from Colgate University in 1938. He served in the U.S. Army Corps and retired from New Jersey Bell Telephone after working there for 30 years.

Mr. Lockwood is survived by sons John and George; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

There will be no local services.

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John Joseph Stevenson, 78, died Nov. 18.

Born Dec. 17, 1935, in Elizabeth, N.J., Mr. Stevenson grew up in Pennside, Pa., and graduated from Central Catholic High School, where he starred on the basketball and track teams.

Mr. Stevenson received his bachelor’s degree in marketing in 1957 from the University of Notre Dame along with a commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He was a proud member of the Notre Dame Monogram Club and earned this privilege as a three-year

member of the varsity track team; his specialty was the pole vault.

Mr. Stevenson spent many years with the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. He returned to Reading, Pa., in 1974 and became co-founder of the Berkshire Travel Agency, which allowed him and his wife, Pat, to see the world together. Their favorite destination was their winter home on Longboat Key. Mr. Stevenson was preceded in death by his wife of 53 years, Maureen Patricia Stevenson. He is survived by his children John, Kevin, James and Mary; brother, James; and 10 grandchildren.

A memorial Mass and remembrance of his life will be held at 11 a.m. Dec. 30, at St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church, 2810 St. Alban’s Drive, Whitfield, PA 19608. Visitation will be held prior to the service from 10 to 11 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Brennan-Boland-Riehle Fund/Stevenson and sent to the Notre Dame Monogram Club, 116 Joyce Center, Notre Dame, IN 46553.

Alan Turow

Alan Turow, 79, of Sarasota, died Nov. 13.

Born May 9, 1935, in Chicago, he mar-

ried Goldijean Shaikun July 3, 1960.

The couple remained married until her death Feb. 22, 2010. More recently, he and Sylvia Reed shared their lives as committed partners.

After his honorable discharge from the Navy, Dr. Turow practiced medicine in Peoria, Ill., for more than 30 years until retiring in 1996.

Dr. Turow was a member of Anshai Emeth Congregation in Peoria and Temple Beth Israel on Longboat Key. In retirement, he was an active member of the community; he supported educational and civic organizations while volunteering his medical skills to Sarasota’s Senior Friendship Center.

Dr. Turow was preceded in death by his wife, Goldijean. He is survived by his children Stephen, Susan and Lawrence; and seven grandchildren.

Services were held at Toale Brothers Funeral Home, Colonial Chapel, in Sarasota. Interment followed at Temple Beth Sholom Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, 2635 Fruitville Road, Sarasota, FL 34237 or cfsarasota.org; or to the charity of your choice.

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Happy Thanksgiving from the Pettingell Family

“I am thankful for my family and turkey.” – Jake Max says he is thankful for Nerf guns! ...and Dad is thankful for $68 million in sales in 2014!

ROGER SELLS SARASOTA BAY

$1,599,000

ROGER SELLS LIDO SHORES

$3,495,000

4 Bedroom, 4 Bath

ROGER SELLS BIRD KEY

1070WestwayDrive.com Modernernist gem. Waterfront home situated on two lots overlooking Pansy Bayou. An immaculate oasis.

2024AlamedaAvenue.com 2014 new construction! Enjoy beautiful sunsets.

Deep, sailboat waters surround this retreat on two sides, open pool deck and newer seawall.

$4,795,000

4 Bedroom, 5 Bath

4 Bedroom, 4½ Bath

602SouthOwlDrive.com Stunning bay views and sunsets from this 5,500 sf new home on the open bay. Offers media room, office, eat-in kitchen, 3-car garage and more.

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BAY ISLES HARBOR

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5861GulfofMexicoDrive.com Direct Gulf to bay estate parcel, offering a special site for your dream home, deep water boat house and bay guest house. $3,995,000

511BowspritLane.com Custom-built, newer 4BR/3½BA waterfront home situated on an oversized lot. $999,000 1060BogeyLane.com Excellent value! This 3BR/2BA garden home offers easy beach access, manicured landscaping and a spacious layout. $465,000

530HarborGate.com Brand new, never-lived-in contemporary with 200' water frontage. Features Italian porcelain tile, custom lighting and a/v system and summer kitchen. $4,395,000

1511SouthLakeshoreDrive.com This beautiful, secluded 4BR/3BA lakefront home is a wonderful haven with recent upgrades. Ready to move right in! $1,249,000

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629RountreeDrive.com Spacious 3BR/3BA home just one in from the open bay with newer dock, seawall. Deeded beach access. $1,595,000

HAWKS HARBOR 7038HawksHarborCircle.com The epitome of luxury living rests in this 2-acre private island on the bay. Customdesigned 4BR/4½BA home included, may be purchased without the home. $5,995,000

QUEENS HARBOR 3613FairOaksPlace.com Great value, 2BR/2BA + den featuring an open pool deck, lake views. 2-car garage.

Private beach access. $879,000

PROMENADE Promenade510.com Excellent Gulf, bay and city views at every turn from this splendid 2BR/2BA. $899,000

SEAPLACE SeaplaceT1106.com Rarely-available 2BR/2BA beach home with a private 1-car garage. $599,000 SeaplaceG3212D.com This wonderful 2BR/2½BA beach retreat in a Gulf front community is just steps to the beach. $449,000

SIESTA KEY 125BigPassLane.com A rare find, this oversized parcel boasts almost one acre of Gulf front property. More than 100' of water frontage. $2,495,000

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

FAIRWAY BAY FairwayBayM3344.com Rarely available. Beautiful views. Spacious 3BR/3BA double-unit with almost 2,500 sf, secure parking and deeded beach access to private beach club. $895,000

2023HarbourLinksDrive.com Completey redone 3BR/3BA + den villa in a tranquil setting. Offers hardwood flooring throughout, new kitchen and baths. $679,000

GRAND BAY GrandBay151.com Rarely-available 3BR/3½BA Antigua plan.

Panoramic views, open layout, wraparound terrace and first-rate amenities. $1,450,000 GrandBay235.com Bay views stretch on forever, 3BR/3½BA Biscayne in Building II. Wraparound terrace, eat-in kitchen, private master suite. $899,000

LONGBOAT BEACHCOMBER II LongboatBeachcomber211.com Walk out to the beach from this 2BR/2BA ideal retreat or rental. Furnished. $649,000

535SanctuaryB405.com Ideal beachfront retreat offers a spacious layout with two terraces and impressive views from every room. Furnished. $1,550,000

PRESTANCIA 7890EsperanzaCircle.com Lake front 3BR/4½BA home. New kitchen, expansive layout, wonderful pool. $749,900

BIRD KEY 398BobWhiteDrive.com Light and open 4BR/3BA waterfront home features southern views. Sailboat water, newer dock and lift. $1,195,000

AQUARIUS CLUB AquariusClub603.com 2BR/2BA residence offering a newer kitchen, bath. Furnished. $599,000

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Privateer703.com Gulf and bay views at every turn. Upgraded 2BR/2BA retreat; open kitchen, new flooring, custom lighting. Furnished. $649,000

BROADWAY PROMENADE BroadwayPromenade1227.com 2BR/2BA newer residence in downtown.

Enjoy the lively city lifestyle. Just minutes from beaches and the marina. $279,000

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Paula Finstad and Carol Fischbein

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BAZAAR

Cathy Landis and Phyllis McGuire

St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church got in the seasonal spirit Saturday, at its annual Christmas Bazaar.

In addition to Christmas decorations, items for sale included fair trade goods, jewelry, baked treats, artwork and knitted items. There were also two raffles, one with three $500 prizes and one that offered various perishable items and beverages as its prize. In total, 3,276 raffle tickets were sold at the event.

Proceeds from the bazaar will benefit various charitable causes.

SEE MORE PHOTOS FROM THE BAZAAR ON PAGE 2B

Products for sale at the bazaar included Christmas decorations, fair trade items, jewelry and baked goods.

GIFT LIST Here are a few of the items available at this year’s Christmas Bazaar: • 60 homemade jams and jellies • 30 hand-knit scarves and hats • 30 decorated Christmas trees • 25 Christmas wreaths • 25 silk purses • 18 angels • 15 Christmas centerpieces • 15 hand-sewn children’s dresses • 12 hand-sewn placemats and napkin sets

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HOMES & CONDOS OPEN HOUSE Sunday 1-4pm

NEW CONSTRUCTION

Bill and Edna Fussner with Eileen Devine

HIDEAWAY BAY

WINDWARD 2 AT MANGO BAY

Framed by lush Florida friendly landscaping this tri-level majestic Bay front estate is perfectly situated on an expansive lot featuring 280-feet of Bay frontage. 3 BR/3 BA comprised of sophisticated interior finishes, expansive floor plan and private pool. $2,895,000

British West Indies style residence rich in architectural detail and sophisticated interior finishes. Expansive 3,000+ SF floor plan, open pool, canal front w/direct bay access and private beach access.

Above: Christmas trees of all sizes were for sale at the bazaar.

$1,895,000

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SUNSET HARBOR BAYFRONT Enjoy spectacular sunsets and endless water views from this direct Bay front lot with deeded boat slip located in private and gated community. $699,000

Michael Landis, Jim McGuire and Russ Gill sell raffle tickets for St. Mary’s Men’s Club.

COMING SOON - MANGO BAY

West Indies inspired residences to be constructed on Longboat Key. Enjoy island living at it’s best in these custom designed estate sized homes. Eco friendly with over 3,000+ SF conveniently located on a canal with direct bay access and private beach access. Homesites available starting at $750,000

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On Nov. 14, Park Residences Lido Key at 129 Taft Drive held its groundbreaking ceremony. The residences will be the first condos built on Lido Key since 2007. The project consists of 18 units that will be 2,458 sq. ft. and 2,460 sq. ft., six of which will be penthouses with private rooftop terraces, all with three bedrooms and three bathrooms. The condos range from $1.35 million to $1.6 million, half of them have been sold,and are expected to be completed by December 2015. “Presales are great,” co-developer and Ocean Real Estate Ltd. principal Patrick DiPinto said. “We’ve got an incredible team, and we’re off hitting the ground running.”Built to the highest standards including deep pile foundation system, solid concrete and quality structural components, each unit will afford owners a complete customization experience, from flooring to fixtures, to wall textures to trim.

Rian Carver

• A Limited-Edition Lido Key Community • Coastal contemporary style with eco friendly materials • Expansive 2,450 sq. ft. open floor plans • Penthouse residences include 2,250 sq. ft. roof-top terrace • Three bedroom and Three full baths • Desirable single floor living • European kitchen and bath designs • Highest quality craftsmanship and finishes • Two parking spaces available per owner • Flexible rental terms & welcoming pet policy • Amenities area complete with resort-style pool spa, fire-pit, & cabanas • Artisan BBQ grill on each residence terrace

Priced from $1,325,000 • Call Patrick for more information at 941-323-0033 or Rian at 941-735-6010 ED C DU E R

Jeff Rhinelander Longboat Key

$2,399,000

Country Club Shores. Brand new home to be built - only three lots from SRQ Bay! 3950 sf, 4 bdrms, bonus rm, den, 4 full baths, plus 2 half baths, huge kitchen & great rm.

When finished, home will be a masterpiece of genuine design – all @ 2015 hurricane code! Across from deeded beach access!

Longboat Key Yacht & Tennis Club $849,900

Gulf of Mexico Penthouse with Full Gulf Views & Partial Bay-Views! Beautifully turnkey furnished, impeccably renovated and ready for you to move in! True 3 bedrooms and 2 baths with large private roof-top terrace!

Longboat Key

$659,900 Bird Key Homes & Lots from $700,000+

Players Club. Perfect Southern LBK location! 2 bdrm/2.5 bath furnished residence with sunset views on the Gulf of Mexico! Casual beachfront living in this private Mediterranean style enclave. Amenities include a 24hour manned gate, a 70 ft. salt water pool, spa, 4 tennis courts and a clubhouse for multi-level entertainment.

Beautiful homes and lots available on spectacular Bird Key! Have the best of both worlds, waterfront living, island lifestyle, yet only minutes to downtown SRQ, Lido Beach & St. Armands Circle.

400 Madison Drive, Suite 220 • Sarasota, FL 34236 • 941-388-2021 • www.MyOceanRealEstate.com

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LONGBOAT KEY - Welcome to Acqua Vita (‘Water of Life’), the product of a masterful collaboration between the award-winning firms of Perrone Construction and Clifford M. Scholz Architects. Call for details! $8,400,000

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SPICE BAY - The ‘Antigua’ is a breathtaking Dutch West Indies architectural concept by Perrone Construction; features 3BR/4.5BA. Plans subject to change. $2,449,000

Broker/Associate, CRB, CRS, GRI Previews International Property Specialist Involved Citizen: Sarasota Opera, Safe Place And Rape Crisis Center Board Member, Make-a-Wish, Meals on Wheels, Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, Breast Cancer Awareness

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BIRD KEY - 4BR/4.5BA waterfront estate designed by BIRD KEY - 4BR/3.5BA pool home on deep-water Tim Seibert, a leading force of the Sarasota School of canal with Gulf access; 120’ of waterfront, dock, & Architecture! $1,725,000 boat lift! $1,700,000

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BAY ISLES - 3,400+ sq. ft. two-story 3BR/3.5BA BIRD KEY - Enjoy the southern exposure of this pool home; situated on canal with access to the Bay! updated 4BR/3BA pool home on a deep water canal. $1,599,000 $1,235,000

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LB HARBOUR J-304.... .......$169,900

LONGBOAT KEY - Spectacular 3BR/3BA bay front COUNTRY CLUB SHORES - 3BR/2BA home on deep multi-level residence offers expansive canal and bay water canal;113’ of waterfront - two lots from Bay! views from every level! $1,650,000 $950,000

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BEACHPLACE - Partial Gulf views ISLANDER CLUB - 2BR/2BA south LONGBOAT HARBOUR from this 3BR/2.5BA turnkey tower; 7th floor. Partial bay & front 2BD/2BA condo furnished condo! Corner/end unit. Gulf views from master bedroom! with many custom $449,000 $675,000

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Snowbirds return to warm Sanctuary community

Extraordinary Lifestyle

On Nov. 15, the Sanctuary condominium association held its welcome back party at the community clubhouse. Partygoers caught up with their neighbors while enjoying food and drinks.

4955 Gulf of Mexico Drive #101

The three Gretchens: Gretchen Stricker, Gretchen Wasniewski and Gretchen Bullock

Positano of Longboat Key Offered at $4,200,000

Millie Serling and Phyllis Ploener

Beautifully designed and appointed waterfront retreat with magnificent Gulf of Mexico views. This luxury condominium boasts 3123 sq. ft., 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath, study, 2.5 car garage, elevator and private pool and spa with a 1529 sq. ft. open air terrace overlooking glistening gulf water for quiet relaxation and breathtaking sunsets. Offered Turn-Key furnished, the former builder’s model combines exquisite interior design, finishes and furnishings along with beautiful owner appointments for transitional appeal. A quiet sanctuary, situated on 10 acres and 748’ of pristine beach with Tuscan inspired architecture, 29 residences, paver walkways meander through the natural beauty of tropical landscaping just steps to the beach and Owner’s Club with fitness center, gathering room, pool and spa.

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Arthur Coren, Mike Serling, Judy Coren and Blossom Miller

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Kotaska Team

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Certified Residential Specialist

Licensed Real Estate Broker

Jerry Regan, Diane Giacomelli, Hugh Farrington, president of the Sanctuary association, and Sue Olin

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A3978333 SANDERLING CLUB - 200’ gulf one acre lot in private LONGBOAT KEY GULF FRONT - Rare 1.55 acre lot gated community w/ large buildable footprint. $5,399,000 spanning 428’ of beautiful sandy beach & gulf. $4,500,000

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MON - FRI 8:30 - 8 • SAT 8:30 - 6 • SUN 11 - 6 CASEY KEY LOT - Desirable one acre mid-key bay front OAKS BAYSIDE ESTATE - 8,500sf 5BR residence designed and built by famed architect Bo MacEwen. $2,200,000 lot with 250’ on Sarasota Bay. A4107822 $1,500,000.

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A4105476 BIRD KEY - Bayfront 4BR residence on desirable southern facing buildable lot w/ 130’ water front. $1,850,000

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Privateer North Penthouse Unit #1002 located behind the gates of the Longboat Key Club.

2 Bedroom, 2 Baths, 1,290 s.f. under air.

Turnkey furnished and totally updated and exceptionally detailed.

Amenities include: Tennis Court, Pool, Saunas, Clubhouse and private Fitness Center.

A must see and Priced to Sell! $699,000

BOATHOUSE - Enclosed building boat storage on the south end of Longboat with slips for $34,900 and $24,900.

Call Marni Hayden

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BKYC follows yellow brick road to Commodore’s Ball The Bird Key Yacht Club glistened in green Saturday as it transformed into the Emerald City for the Commodore’s Ball. Decorations included a yellow brick road and a Tin Man collection.

Members of the Manatee Performing Arts Center dressed as characters from “The Wizard of Oz” and sang as guests arrived.

Noah Schinault with Angie, Olivia and Joe Garland, from the Manatee Performing Arts Center, welcome guests.

Commodore Lee Peakes and his wife, Jan

Norman and Ann Weber

Rear Commodore Lynn Smith and her husband, Kendall

Commodore’s Ball Co-Chairwomen Kathleen Powell and Rebecca Taylor

Annette and Bill Lloyd

MANOR ON NEARLY 4-ACRES! Palatial 6,000+SF main residence & sep 1500+ SF guest cottage, one of a kind, gated & walled w/fine finishes, custom craftsmanship & architectural features in an area surrounded by water & FL’s natural amenities! 2 parcels offered as one sale at $1,595,000

PRESERVE VIEWS! 4Br/4Ba/Den & Bonus Rm/3CG w/tray ceil., crown moldings, built-ins, French doors, oak cabinets, granite & Corian, SS appls., modern spa-like MBa, newly screened lanai & pool, custom drive & tile roof close to Pineview, Legacy Trail, golf, beaches & more!

MLS#A4104754 ..................................... $650,000

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

MLS#A3990234 ........................ $2,075,000

SIESTA KEY COMMERCIAL! Investment property currently being used as a fish market, tenant in place w/new 2-yr lease, sm retail space classified as restaurant w/2 half baths, main thoroughfare near Crescent market area, next to post office on Siesta Key! MLS#A3993284 ................ $300,000

DOWNTOWN RENTAL W/VIEWS! Lavishly updated & TKF over 1700SF, 2-3Br/2Ba/1CG w/bay & city views, end location, stone surfaces, furn quality cabinetry, travertine flrs & wrap-around balcony in secure bldg. w/full amenities next to the Ritz! MLS#A4104961 ................. $3500/m

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT! 3,060SF, 11-12 sep. offices & conference room formerly occupied by a mortgage company, new phone system, furniture & attached parking lot in a well maintained building with easy Downtown access-steps to the courthouse!

MLS#A3977006 ...... $17/SF yr (includes CAM)

DOWNTOWN W/BAY VIEWS! Customized end residence 2Br/2.5Ba/balcony, open plan w/ space for Lr, Dr & Study, wood flrs, tile, silestone, wood cabinets, SS appls., MBr w/bonus-sized walk-in & laundry, garaged pkg & close to cultural activities!

MLS#A4108231 ............................... $1,100,000

2-STORY LAKEFRONT HOME! 4-5Br/3.5Ba/2CG w/plenty of space, Lr, Dr, comb Kitch./fam rm., upgrades; Corian, wood cabinets, SS appls., tile, MBr w/tray clg, sec syst., front porch & covered lanai in Harrison Ranch w/full amenities package close to I75 & I275! MLS#A4103013 ............... $245,000

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UPDATED BAY PLAZA 3+ BEDROOM! Fully renovated 3-4Br/3Ba/4 Balconies/2CG w/chevron wood flrs, detailed ceil., crown moldings, built-ins, wood cabinets, Quartz stone, ceramic tile, stainless steel appls., lavish finishes, vessel sinks, hurricane shutters & pvt laundry in full service Downtown bldg w/amenities! MLS#A4102683.........$775,000

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RESORT AT LBK CLUB $329,000 Own a Club Suite, gulf to bay, unabashed luxury, soothing sanctuary, toes in the sand, wind in your hair, yoga on the shore, golf, income! MLS A3985969

LV9086

BEACH FRONT CONDO WITH GULF VIEW Direct Gulf Front Views. Two Bedroom Two Bath 2nd Floor Condo. Inside Laundry. Turnkey furnished and tastefully updated.

MLS A4104951

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LV9207

CASA DEL MAR $399,900 Beautifully renovated 2 bedroom/2 bath, beach front with rental income in place for 2015 season. SS appliance, new baths, sunny exposure.

MLS A4107726

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FAIRWAY BAY TOWNHOUSE ON LBK $349,000 2BR/2.5BA has lovely garden and pool views and several skylights. Permitted lower level w/storage area and oversized garage w/parking for 2 cars. A4106051

THAT’S AMORE. Attendees of the Ringling College of Art and Design’s Art Lovers Tour visited glass artist Livio Seguso’s studio in Murano, Italy, as part of their recent trip. The group also visited museums, palazzos, wineries and many other sights around Venice and Florence, Italy. Pictured are, back row: Bill Tepperman, Pat Thompson, Carol Camiener, Michael Moore, Marcy Klein, Rebecca Moore, Doc Werlin, Dr. Larry Thompson, Len Garner, Jean Martin, Cheryl Loeffler, Mary Ann and John Meyer and Rochelle Tepperman. Front row: Dr. Richard and Barbara Basch, Seguso and Michael Klein.

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GREAT BEACH ESCAPE! Looking for the perfect getaway or investment paradise? This is it! Spacious TKF condo w/ view of pond. Enjoy all Runaway Bay has to offer, swimming, tennis & fishing. $314,900 Teresia Bradford #M5900309

FAIRWAY BAY 2BR/2.5BA TOWNHOUSE has lovely garden and pool views and skylights. Permitted lower level w/storage area and oversized garage with parking for 2 cars. $349,000 Margot Robinson #A4106051

DESIGNER FURNISHED PENTHOUSE with 2BR/2BA and views of the Intracoastal AND the Bay! Deeded beach access, beach cabana, two heated pools and more. Pets welcome. $379,900 Marc Turner #A3926740

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

DISTINCTIVE, UNIQUE 2014 custom home in award winning CONRAD BEACH on LBK. 3BR/3BA w/upgrades too numerous to list. Coastal theme, architectural design, community pool and walk to the beach. $1,179,000 Peter & Gina Uliano #M5841410 For property management, call Bonnie Wiedeman 941-383-5577

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Wishing our Longboat Neighbors a Happy Thanksgiving!

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Former chairmen Tim Field, Marnie Matarese, Andrew Vac, Sandy Tull, Michele Knuese and David Miller

Chamber honors former chairpersons The Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce held its Chairman’s Reception Nov. 20, at the new Amore by Andrea. The event recognized the chamber’s chairpersons who served between 1993 and 2013. The chamber also honored its volunteers and area business owners.

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Time to give thanks for exercise benefits Exercise improves brain health

“Physical activity benefits overall brain health by reducing peripheral risk factors for poor mental health, such as inflammation, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease, and by increasing blood flow and associated delivery of nutrients and energy,” said Angela Clos, Ph.D., professor in the department of psychology at the University of Westminster, London and co-editor of Physical Activity and Mental Health.

tion of the literature suggests that long-term cardiovascular exercise may meaningfully delay some age-related memory impairments; one study found that the brain’s cognitive networks display improved functionality after six to 12 months of consistent cardiovascular exercise. It also suggests that approximately 150 minutes per week in 20- to 30-minute bouts at an intensity of 60% of heart rate maximum is sufficient (Ahiskog et al., 2011).

Exercise offers relief from depression and anxiety

Exercise reduces prostate cancer mortality

Physical activity can cause changes in neurochemicals that affect mood, including serotonin, dopamine and gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA. Antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications target these neurochemicals, and research shows aerobic exercise can also increase their levels.

Simon Young, Ph.D., former editor in chief of the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, says, “The effect of exercise on serotonin suggests that the exercise itself, not the rewards that stem from exercise, may be important.”

Dance benefits older adults

Research the St. Louis University Medical Center conducted suggests dancing can ease hip and knee pain that are common among older adults. The 12-week study published in Geriatric Nursing divided 37 seniors aged about 81 into two groups: a Healthy Steps dance

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therapy group or a wait list control group. The dance group met twice a week for 45 minutes a session. Throughout the study, participants reported less pain and stiffness than before the intervention, and the researchers observed improvements in gait speed. They also recommended that, “Dance-based therapy for older adults needs to be gentle, slow and include options so it can be performed standing or sitting. ... ” In other words, easy on the tempo — and no quick step.

Does cardiovascular exercise improve memory?

In 2013, M. Roig and col-

leagues published “The effects of cardiovascular exercise on human memory: a review with meta-analysis,” which summarized several recent studies. What everyone wants to know, of course, is whether there is a connection between exercise and Alzheimer’s disease. There is no clear answer; this is a relatively recent area of inquiry, and the findings are directional, not definitive.

Acute bouts of brisk walking, cycling or running appear to improve short-term visuospatial memory more than verbal-audio memory, an effect, as luck would have it, more apparent in young adults ages 18 to 24. Investiga-

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Men with prostate cancer who exercise vigorously have a reduced risk of all-cause mortality and prostate cancer-specific mortality (Kenfield et al., 2011).

Brisk walking and other vigorous activities done at least three hours per week improve prostate cancer-specific survival (Richman et al., 2011). Biking, tennis, jogging and swimming all fit into this category (Kenfield et al., 2011).

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It is the busy season. It is the eating, or shall we say overeating, season. All of that and more make it a time of year when it is too easy to make excuses not to exercise.

The reality, of course, is that those time and food pressures actually make it more necessary than ever to not only maintain but, if humanly possible, increase your level of activity. It’s obMOLLY SCHECHTER vious that the more calories you take in the more you need to expend, unless you are willing to face an expanding waistline. Less obvious but equally important: Physical activity is a vital, nonpharmaceutical remedy for the blues that sometimes descend around the holidays — and one that has no negative side effects.

No matter how well you intellectually know all this — that sedentary is the new smoking and an active lifestyle is lifelengthening — it can still be tough to pull on the sneakers and head out for that walk or go to the gym. So here, just in time to renew your motivation, is a sampling of some of the more recently documented benefits of exercise. Pick the ones that you are most thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving!

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+ Sarasota Yacht Club announces board of directors Sarasota Yacht Club announced its 20142015 board of directors and board officers Nov. 14.

The new commodore is Bobby Overall, a civil and environmental engineer who serves as director of the National Association of General Contractors.

Newly elected board members are Secretary Hugh McIlrevey, former senior vice president of UBS; Lynn Millikin, captain and sales executive of Sarasota Yacht Overall and Ship; and Alice Petrat, co-founder and vice president of Petrat Steel Technology Inc. and vice president of GAP Properties of SW Florida-1 Inc. Re-elected board members are Alex Lancaster, Dick Gravino and Richard McCaffery. Other board members are Tim Clarke, Ken D’Agostino, Robert Donnellan, John Hermansen, Barry McClure and Cindy Stelter.

+ Realtors accept Team Renick challenge As of Nov. 22, the following real estate agents had accepted the challenge put forth by Michael Renick, of Team Renick, earlier this month to purchase a $100 raffle ticket for the Dec. 6 Longboat Key Gourmet Lawn Party: Sue Wolverton, of Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate; Brooke O’Malley, of Club Realty; Andrew Vac, of RE/MAX Alliance Group; Dia Wilson, of Wagner Realty; Mark Huber and Erin McWhorter, both of Premier Sotheby’s

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International Realty; Ana Machado, of Rose Bay International Inc.; Tina Rudek, of Engel & Völkers; Jen Williams, of Keller Williams Realty; and Renick.

Realtors who purchase a raffle ticket will have their names listed on the Lawn Party’s website and Facebook page.

+ Wagner Realty announces top agents for October Wagner Realty announced its top agents for October.

Listing honors went to Margot Robinson in the Longboat Key office and Jim Zoff in the Anna Maria office. Robinson also received sales honors for the Longboat Key office. In the Anna Maria office, Becky Smith and Elfi Starrett received sales honors.

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BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME ON LONGBOAT KEY LOCATION! LOCATION! $1,150,000 Wide canal lot on Dream Island Rd. $849,000 3 BR/3 BA Country Club Shores on sailboat Deep water canal in Sleepy Lagoon $600,000 water. Close to everything!

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By Adam Hughes | Research Editor

Sanctuary II condominium sells for $2.2 million The following residential real estate transactions took place between Nov. 10 and Nov. 14.

A condominium in Sanctuary II at Longboat Key Club tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Edgar and Saundra Snyder sold their Unit B-504 condominium at 565 Sanctuary Drive to Alain Bankier, of New York City, for $2.2 million. Built in 1989, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 3,115 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.95 million in 2003.

Country Club Shores

Connie Parker, trustee, sold the home at 520 Putter Lane to Kent Whitney, of Longboat Key, for $920,000. Built in 1967, it has two bedrooms, two-anda-half baths, a pool and 1,921 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $812,000 in 2002.

The Players Club

Tina Wagner, of Terrace Park, Ohio, sold her Unit 401 condominium at 1485 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Saumil Shukla, of New Hyde Park, N.Y., for $545,000.

Built in 1981, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,348 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $700,000 in 2005.

Casa Del Mar

The Casa Del Loos Partnership sold the Unit 3 condominium at 4621 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Coastal Property Rentals LLC for $355,000. Built in 1972, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 756 square feet of living area.

Northgate of Longboat Key

Dorothy Williams, trustee, of Tampa, sold the Unit 8 condominium at 490 N. Shore Road to Greg Ciccolo and Steph-

anie Sonnabend, of Brookline, Mass., for $355,000. Built in 1978, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,350 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $200,000 in 1982.

Bayport Beach and Tennis Club

Ski Capital Management Ltd. sold the Unit 710 condominium at 710 Bayport Way to Daniel and Marianne Kupiec, of Farmington, Conn., for $290,000. Built in 1980, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,260 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $165,000 in 1997.

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Lido Beach Club

Norma Mosca sold her Unit PH-7 condominium at 1212 Benjamin Franklin Drive to David and Carolyn Wetmore, of San Ramon, Calif., for $620,000. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,421 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $775,000 in 2004.

Lido Ambassador

Yoko and Mari Takahashi, of Portland, Ore., sold their Unit 707 condominium at 800 Benjamin Franklin Drive to Dean and Patricia Buckley, of Brighton, Mich., for $386,000. Built in 1978, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,150 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $182,500 in 1996.

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Sarasota Harbour East

Teresa Giordano, trustee, of Arlington Heights, Ill., sold the Unit 32 condominium at 769 John Ringling Blvd. to Mieko Yabuta, of Rabat, Morocco, for $287,500. Built in 1965, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 882 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $142,800 in 1999.

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Unit B-504 at the Sanctuary II has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 3,115 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.2 million.

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580 Putting Green Lane #A4107938 $2,250,000 Beverly St Hilaire

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571 Putting Green Lane #A4101858 $2,195,000 Sylvia Zimmerman

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6540 Gulf Of Mexico Dr #A3997271 $1,895,000 Saint Cacchiotti

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5871 Gulf Of Mexico Dr #A3996985 $7,900,000 Christina Landry

230 Sands Point Rd # 3005 #A3987939 $1,250,000 Ian Addy Pa

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3565 Mistletoe Lane #A4104717 $999,000 Julie Klick

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3691 Bayou Cir #A3990373 $899,000 Ian Addy Pa

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1211 Gulf Of Mexico Drive #A4107681 $859,000 Ian Addy Pa

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392 Firehouse Lane #A4106562 $849,900 Mary Defrank

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1910 Harbour Links Cir # 12 #A3999366 $749,000 Jenine Meyer

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2425 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 12A #A3995797 $747,000 Mel & Jan Goldsmith

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2425 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 5 #A3995790 $735,000 Mel & Jan Goldsmith

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1115 Gulf Of Mexico Drive #A4108070 $679,000 Lee Dillon

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4621 Gulf Of Mexico Drive #M5903425 $597,000 Kathy Valente

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7125 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 12 #A3998052 $512,000 Richard Perlman

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615 Dream Island Road #A4101133 $450,000 Susan Fox

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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 Nov. 13 through Nov. 19, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive) Address Permit 733 Lands End Drive New construction

Bathroom and 1904 Harbourside Drive kitchen 6701 GMD Kitchen 560 Birdie Lane Re-roof 5757 GMD Interior 541 Yardarm Lane Seawall 1590 Harbor Cay Lane Re-roof 6401 GMD Stair removal

7089 Longboat Drive N. Re-roof

Concrete, stucco 5801 GMD and wood framing 4485 GMD Window 676-684 El Centro Re-roof 2525 GMD Kitchen 601 Norton St. Pool 511 Edlee Lane Re-roof 4700 GMD Windshutters 711 Tarawitt Drive Pilings 578 Bayview Drive Dock 4485 GMD Shutters

1511 GMD Fire doors

Applicant Joan Bergstrom

Jenifer Schwell

61 S. Boulevard of the Presidents • St. Armands

$38,807 $38,370 $31,920 $31,080 $26,664 $24,865 $16,738

White Cloud LLC Peter DiNicola Phyllis Banaszak Carolyn Godfrey Agnes Peterson Olive MacLeod Horatio Hoggard Henry Ciesinski Gunanand Persaud Terry Blumenfeld Tencon Beach Association Inc.

$13,800 $13,046 $11,945 $11,600 $11,500 $11,078 $9,990 $6,440 $5,700 $5,255.76

$14,966

SOLD 647 Mourning Dove Drive Bird Key $4,000,000 Worked with the buyer

$5,036

SOLD 5200 Siesta Cove Drive Siesta Key $1,500,000 Worked with the seller and buyer

4700 GMD

Window

Horatio Hoggard

$3,200

892 Spanish Drive N.

Window

Paul Freiwald

$2,364

649 Dream Island Road

Re-roof

Douglas Lyssy

$2,000

3155 GMD

Doors

David Christiansen

$1,250

605 Sutton Place

Interior

David Baer

$1,200

537 Channel Lane

Window

Mary Barber, trustee

649 Dream Island Road

Deck

Douglas Lyssy

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200 Sands Point Road

Alteration

First Sands Corp.

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550 Putting Green Lane

Alteration

Patricia Prudhomme

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SOLD 1485 Gulf of Mexico Dr 207 The Players Club $625,000 Worked with the seller

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440 Gulf of Mexico Dr. • Longboat Key 448 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # A305 #A3965898 $440,000 Diana Kryszak

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4900 Gulf Of Mexico Drive #A4100526 $428,900 Bobbi Banan

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4725 Gulf Of Mexico Drive #A4106599 $424,900 Ian Addy Pa

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4440 Exeter Drive #A4104012 $299,900 Sharon Freeman

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4440 Exeter Drive #A4106919 $295,000 Sharon Freeman

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4310 Falmouth Drive #A4105301 $289,000 Bobbi Banan

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SIGN OF THE TIMES Fuzión Dance Artists stay centered in the present.

Erin Fletcher, Leymis Bolaños Wilmott, Melissa Coleman and JoAnna Ursal dance by the movement of the now.

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For artists who create in the moment, such as improvisational jazz musicians, artists and dancers, the concept of now can be a thrilling motivator. The majority of Sarasota’s artistic offerings are performances and interpretations of work written decades and centuries ago. But Fuzión Dance Artists’ work is a mirror of the choreographers’ experience of the issues of today.

Founded in 2002 by Florida State University graduates Leymis Bolaños Wilmott and Rachael Inman, Fuzión is Sarasota’s first professional contemporary dance company.

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Leymis Bolaños Wilmott artistic director a powerful parade of new and eclectic dance pieces. Dancers/choreographers JoAnna May Ursal, Sandra Portal-Andreu as well as company members Melissa Coleman, Erin Fletcher and Wilmott, artistic director, will all present their most recent work. Like the human body itself, their ideas are flowing, organic and growing.

“The uncertainty of not knowing what it’s going to look like because it’s evolving until the day of the performance is very stimulating,” says Wilmott.

Each artist’s piece has been gestating since this summer, when an esteemed dance panel chose each work-in-progress during an intensive workshop. “Voices of Fuzión” is the culmination of the journeys of those pieces as well as the artists.

“For me, I start with the music,” says Coleman. “But as I’ve gained more experience and been in the professional world longer, I discover the

Melissa Coleman piece along with the dancers, so at the beginning I don’t even know how it’s going to turn out.”

Coleman started out as a competitive gymnast. When she turned 14 she enrolled in a performing arts high school and gave up the vault for the dance floor. Her upcoming work reflects those early gymnastic days. She describes her piece as reflecting power, strength, threshold, women and freedom.

Fletcher’s route to Fuzion started in the traditional sector of dance: the ballet. Dancing with the Boston Ballet in children’s parts, Fletcher was enchanted with the artistic life of dance. As she matured as an artist, she drifted into the multifaceted form that contemporary dance allows.

“There is no limit to what you can do,” says Fletcher.

“Contemporary can break the dancing mold with various visual aspects, costuming, music and themes.”

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Her process is different with each new work, but Fletcher always revolves around two themes from her life: physical strength and pushing boundaries. And with her new work, Fletcher has added elements of sound and visual flair.

Ursal entered the world of dance almost by accident. The mellow and often quiet dancer began as a pianist studying classical music. However, like Coleman, performing arts high school had much different plans for her.

“When I went to a high school I saw my ballerina rommates dance to jazz,” says Ursal. “After that, I had to move. I couldn’t stay in my seat.”

Ursal never loses sight of the human connection in her work, and each piece is an extension of herself and the dancers in the piece.

“I have to know the dancers first, learn how they move, what comes out of them,” says Ursal. “It always happens in

the studio.”

Wilmott is no stranger to choreography. During her career and as the artistic director of Fuzión Dance Artist, she has crafted more than 100 pieces.

Wilmott was practically born dancing. According to Wilmott, her Cuban roots made moving and dancing a daily occurrence whether it was moving her whole body to communicate or recreational salsa dancing with her father. When Wilmott entered a junior high magnet school, she discovered that this everyday movement she used to express herself could be studied. Dance saved her.

“It kept me in school,” says Wilmott. “Dance was a way I could communicate that was more comfortable to me than actually using words.”

Wilmott’s process is one of constant collaboration; her newest work is the epitome of the collaborative nature of contemporary dance. It features work from sculp-

tor Nathan Wilson as well as quadriplegic dancer Dwayne Scheuneman.

The piece, “Closed Quarters,” plays with the nature of boundaries, access, space and hope. Communication is at the core of Wilmott and her corps of choreographers’ work. “Contemporary dance is a global movement and constantly evolving and reflects what the dancer is experiencing at the moment,” says Ursal. “It’s the sign of the times.”

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MUSIC // ‘South Pacific’

with a Polynesian woman and had two children with her. All the naïveté of Felthous’ Nellie Forbush is beautifully crafted into her singing and acting, and although her unworldliness remains throughout the show, you can see her grow in understanding and integrity through the lyrics Hammerstein gave Rodgers to paint a fullblown woman of intellect.

Ben Davis is a younger Emile De Becque than we’re used to seeing, but he’s also the most sympathetic of them.

It’s a little hard to grasp the love he develops for Nellie in such a short time, a love that changes his life. But because Davis is such a consummate actor with a voice that reminds us of John Raitt and Alfred Drake, we weep for him as Nellie flees his home at the thought of being involved with a man so foreign to her way of life.

The Asolo’s Bloody Mary is taken on

by Loretta Ables Sayre, who’s played the role innumerable times. She uses her

honeyed voice as a great actor uses the tools she has to be the sarcastic, snappish, prickly person Mary is without ever losing the ability to charm those around her like a hypnotist with exotic powers.

And Anthony Festa’s sweet, sincere tenor is perfect for his honest, uncontrived portrayal of Lt. Joe Cable.

Brad Haak, with permission from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, orchestrated and arranged the music for this production so that fewer than 10 musicians were needed for this enormous score, and, for the most part, he did a fine job. We missed the blare of the brass but not as much as we thought we would. The Overture, so intrinsic to the play, lost a little when some of the music was cut and the harmonies inexplicably changed. But he did a fine job with all the underscoring (music played under dialogue) Rodgers wrote for this music/drama.

Music Director William Waldrop kept

his small forces in check throughout. He made the most of the winds and percussion so they were, properly, an important part of the action on stage, and he always kept proper pace with the conversations on stage, as if the music and talking were perfectly choreographed. Some tempos were definitely different from those we’ve heard in the past — “This Nearly Was Mine” was so slow it took nearly twice the time (and breath) it originally took — but they worked for the production and may have set a new standard for future singers.

“South Pacific” is such a magnificently constructed piece of music theater, it’s impossible to separate the music from the play, the acting from the singing. And the Asolo production, with its magnificent staging and music-making, enriches and fortifies “The American Character” with the spirit Rodgers and Hammerstein intended 65 years ago. What a great anniversary gift.

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If ever there were a musical that represented what Michael Donald Edwards, producing artistic director of the Asolo Rep, has been striving for in the past few years in its “The American Character — Our Lives on Stage” series, it’s got to be Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific.” Rocketing onto Broadway in 1949, just four years after the end of World War II, “South Pacific” attacks issues of patriotism to racism, and it does it with a music score that took the duo’s landmark work in “Oklahoma” and “Carousel” to a new dimension.

On opening night at the Asolo, we met several people who’d never seen this classic before. Their reactions put me in mind of what it must have been like to be in the audience opening night 65 years ago when no one had yet heard the romance of “Some Enchanted Evening,” “Younger Than Springtime” and “This Nearly Was Mine,” the hilarity and exuberance of “There is Nothing Like a Dame,” “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair,” “Honey Bun” and “A Wonderful Guy,” or the radical, barrier-breaking foresight of “You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught.”

I was 5 when I saw my first “South Pacific” starring Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza. The most recent was at Lincoln Center about five years ago. But for sheer perfection musically, dramatically, scenically and artistically, the Asolo wins the prize.

Kelly Felthous is the closest-singing actress to Martin’s model I’ve come across. She has a sweet innocence that gets knocked on its ear when she discovers she’s not only fallen for a Frenchman who lives on a lonely island, but that that Frenchman has a checkered past, having killed a man in France and having lived

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// ‘South Pacific’ James Michener’s “Tales of the South Pacific” is a nuanced study of racism, colonialism and existential conflict in World War II. In 1949, Rodgers and Hammerstein distilled those tales into a musical, “South Pacific,” which is now entrancing audiences in the current Asolo Rep production. No wonder.

Calling this musical “great” falls short.

It’s the Platonic ideal of a musical; the template from which all others after would cut their cloth.

The action unfolds in the South Pacific, on one of the Solomon Islands. A group of Seabees stationed on a tiny island are gearing up for “Operation Alligator” against the Japanese in the Coral Sea. The sailors are in a holding pattern and have time to put on a Thanksgiving pageant. To jump-start the stalled operation, Marine Lt. Joseph Cable (Anthony Festa) arrives with a plan to go behind enemy lines on an occupied island and secretly radio information about Japanese troop movements. He enlists the help of Emil De Becque (Ben Davis), a French planter who knows the territory. The planter says non. He has someone to live for: Ensign Nellie Forbush (Kelly Felthous), an American Navy nurse. Emil’s fallen in love with her. The feeling is mutual, but Nellie’s ship of love hits the rocks when De Becque introduces her to his two children from his late wife — a Polynesian woman.

Nellie rejects him. De Becque agrees to follow Cable on his dangerous mission.

Do they come back? Will true love triumph?

In case you’re one of the few people on the planet who haven’t seen “South Pacific,” I’ll let you find out for yourself.

The musical sets its small human stories against the background of global war. Director Rob Ruggiero (who helmed last year’s “Showboat”) makes the material come alive with a deft, light-handed touch. The script weaves its way in and out of the songs and Ralph Perkins’ high-energy, swing era-inflected choreography. Ruggiero keeps your eye on the story with the counterpoint of action and reaction takes, hilarious bits of business and shamelessly larger-than-life tableaux, where the actors suddenly resemble figures in a patriotic Norman Rockwell painting.

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person, but nice people can be racists, as Felthous’ performance drives home.

Festa’s Cable is an indomitable warrior with one soft spot: Liat, a young Tonkinese woman charmingly played by Autumn Ogawa. (Cable also wrestles with his racist childhood conditioning, and Festa makes you feel his conflict.) Benjamin Howes’ Luther Billis is a crowd-pleasing, fast-talking, Sgt. Bilko-style wheeler-dealer.

Loretta Ables Sayre is a comic gem as his Tonkinese counterpart, Bloody Mary, a role she originated in the 2008 Lincoln Center revival.

These are only the main characters out of a total of 19 speaking roles — a fraction of the typical big-cast production. In another change of scale, this production features Brad Haak’s crisp new orchestrations and a stripped-down, eight-piece orchestra led by Music Director William Waldrop. All that downsizing shifts the focus to the intimate human stories. You’re not blasted by bombastic orchestral overkill; the musical earns your laughs and tears. Less really is more.

Despite the small scale, Michael Schweikardt’s rotating set and smart production design create a grand, cinematic feeling. One second you’re on the beach, the next you’re at a hilltop plantation, and at times it seems like you can smell the salt air and frangipani. John Lasiter’s dreamy lighting and Leon Dobowski’s realistic period costumes bring the illusion home. But the illusion holds a mirror up to life.

“South Pacific” really is a brilliant idea.

Wipe the mists of sentiment from your eyes and consider the sheer nerve of making a musical out of Michener’s hardhitting tales of racism, war and waiting.

Reverse-engineer the moment of inspiration. The epiphany that came to whoever thought of it first … it’s all about the name.

Consider the words “South Pacific.”

Those words bring images and associations of Gauguin’s visions of topless, tropical paradise, assorted noble savages and the lagoons and palm trees of 1,000 pretty postcards. Whatever the truth of whatever island, this was the image in the Western mind in 1949. Now … superimpose the hellish violence of World War II on that dream of paradise; the bullies of Imperial Japan imposing their “Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere” on a tapestry of cultures and the Allies of the free world doing their best to push them back.

Pretty good setting for a romantic musical, isn’t it?

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GREAT beginnings An early Guy Peterson house on Longboat Key is as stylish now as when it was built.

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His signature style is instantly recognizable — big solid forms, usually white, intersecting with each other in interesting ways, carefully detailed with pillars and railings.

It’s glamorous modernism, highly refined and highly sophisticated.

But what of his early homes, the ones he designed when he was just starting out? How do they hold up after several decades? Was the famous “Peterson touch” evident even then?

A good place to find out would be to take a look at one of the first houses he designed — the 1993 Longboat Key home of Ina Schnell.

Set amid the lavish but conservative residences that define Longboat’s style, it walks a fine line between blending in and standing out. It’s modern, certainly, but not the white intersecting planes that make up so much of modern

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Above: A painted textile from pre-Columbian Peru overlooks the home’s main living area.

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Interior designer Wilson Stiles is credited with the living room’s sleek modern look. The larger painting is by Richard Serra.

A portrait of owner Ina Schnell from her early days in New York City.

The rear of the home faces a small cove that opens onto Sarasota Bay.

architecture. The feeling here is more classical, almost Palladian, where symmetry, not asymmetry, is the guiding principle. *** When Ina Schnell and her late husband, Eugene, moved to Longboat Key from New York City, they bought a condo. Then, when they realized how much they liked the town, they decided to build a home. They hired a largely untested young architect named Guy Peterson. He had only a handful of residential commissions under his belt, and most of them were for relatives.

“But we liked him,” Schnell recalls. “He understood the way we wanted to live.”

The lot the Schnells had chosen came with a challenge — the Bay Isles building codes were written to encourage traditional-style homes and wouldn’t even allow the hallmark of modernism, a flat roof. There were also landscaping guidelines that were out of sync with the modern look. And, of course, the house had to be polite

east. The furniture is all modern, mostly classics of mid-century design — the more comfortable ones, anyway. The color palette is rich creams, browns and blacks.

Wilson Styles was the interior designer, and his ultra-sophisticated style perfectly matches the home’s aesthetic.

The room contains only a small sample of the Schnells’ art collection, which was particularly well known for its pre-Colombian objects. Most have been given to museums, including the Metropolitan. But one extraordinary example still hangs over the dining table — a painted textile, circa 1000 A.D., from the Chimu culture of northern Peru. And placed here and there are works by Mapplethorpe, Koons and the Starn twins.

Beyond the kitchen are two guest rooms and an office. Then down a short flight of stairs and in a wing of its own is the master bedroom. It’s bright and sunny, with views past the mangroves and out to the bay. It’s also full of conveniences — the laundry

room is nearby and there’s a large anteroom that provides a sitting area and is perfect for packing and getting things organized. *** Getting things organized is one of Schnell’s specialties. She is on the board of the Ringling Museum and has been an indefatigable fundraiser and organizer for many arts and education groups around town, including Florida Studio Theatre and the Library Foundation for Sarasota County. Many of her projects show an affinity for the experimental and edgy, a legacy of her years in New York.

She started out as what was called in those days a “career girl.”

“I was 23 and living in Greenwich Village,” she remembers.

“But every morning I would put on my little white gloves and go uptown to Bonwit Teller.”

At the legendary department store, where she served as a buyer and designer, her boss — and mentor — was Walter Hoving, later design director for Tiffany. He was a man known for having the most

to the neighborhood. Discretion is important in Bay Isles, which is reached through not one but two gates.

The design that Peterson came up with begins with an elevated exterior façade. Its center section is composed of three perfectly proportioned symmetrical elements that provide the “Palladio moment.” There is little ornamentation other than carefully tended landscaping, though the front door and the gate to the garden are painted eye-popping lavender.

Inside, the heart of the Schnell house is not the kitchen, which is a little on the small side. It’s the living room. This is a house where life is meant to be lived in the living room, not some family room.

This makes daily life a bit more formal but also a bit more beautiful, surrounded by art and the best views.

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Now she coordinates her volunteer activities from a small office off her kitchen — which, by the way, is the most “New York” of kitchens — elegant, efficient, like a highly polished serving pantry.

Her significant other, Arthur Ancowitz, has repurposed one of the guestrooms as his office. Ancowitz is a retired internist whose speciality was strokes. He is also a poet (or a “rhyming poet,” as he describes it) and just celebrated the publication of a book of his poems.

If the ultimate test of a home’s success is how well it “lives,” then the Schnell house is an unqualified triumph. At 21 years of age, it looks timeless. It has never been altered or changed in any significant way, a tribute to Peterson’s skill as an architect.

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AJC 2014 Civic Achievement Awards Dinner Benefiting American Jewish Committee Wednesday, Nov. 19, at Michael’s On East Co-Chairs: Renee Hamad, Dr. Larry Thompson and Sheila and Jules Rose Honorary Chairs: The Benderson Family $400,000 raised

by Heather Merriman Black Tie Editor AJC West Coast Florida hosted its annual awards dinner Wednesday, Nov. 19, at Michael’s On East, where a record 420 guests came to honor Michael Klauber and Phil Mancini with AJC’s 2014 Civic Achievement Award.

For more than 27 years, the restaurant and catering co-proprietors have been instrumental in Sarasota’s philanthropic com-

munity, with contributions ranging from monetary donations to hosting more than thousands of charity events over the past three decades.

“We are blessed that they let us honor them,”says AJC Regional Director Brian Lipton.

In a wonderful gesture to cap off the evening, Klauber and Mancini marched their entire catering staff out front and center of the stage and the audience stood and applauded.

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The full house included a record number of past honorees: 17. So many Sarasota nonprofits have benefited from the generosity of the honorees, and their leaders were out in force, including Mary Ann Servian and Hillary Steele from Sarasota Ballet, Betty Schoenbaum and Kameron Partridge Hodgens from GlasserSchoenbaum Human Services Center, Alexandra Quarles from Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation and Dennis Stover and Dr. Sandra Stone from USF Sarasota-Manatee.

The evening was a love fest, rich in family and community spirit.

Michael said, “This is like my bar mitzvah,” and Phil chimed in, “This is my bar mitzvah.” Yes, Phil, now you are a man.

Phil boasted that he makes the best matzoh balls and the best meatballs. Guests who came to

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Michael shared that their vision for their operation from the beginning was that it would be “a place for our community to come together.” How fitting, then, that AJC Regional President Anne Virag and board member Fran Blum, visiting Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, this summer, bought them aprons emblazoned with a quote from George Bernard Shaw: “No love is sincerer than the love of food.”

in Coral Springs … George Kole and Judy Zuckerberg are heading for their daughter’s in Basking Ridge, N.J. … Larry and Deb Kabinoff may have the distance record — they are off to Panama …

Foodie Vivian Kouvant is going to friends, and taking a basket from Blackberry Farm in Tennessee and

Happy Friendsgiving … Nikki Sedacca and daughter Montana Taplinger decided it was too long a wait until their annual Valentine’s Friendship Luncheon, so they added a new luncheon to the books. The mother-daughter duo hosted a Friendsgiving Luncheon Nov. 20, at 530 Burns Gallery, and their friends showed up to socialize before the holiday, including Teri Hansen, Kelsey Alholm, Jennifer Rust, Sharon Black Floyd, Ping Faulhaber and Lisa Morris … No sale …

Realtor Barbara Ackerman tried on a little black dress at Anika Sundstrom’s Olivia on St. Armands only to be told she couldn’t buy it because someone else, likely headed to the same fundraiser, had already done so. Smart merchant …

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Isak Dinesen brand teas from Denmark ... Carolyn Michel is cooking a carbohydrate festival including her favorite sweet potato casserole and trusting the rest to Publix and to Bob Turoff, who always brings a smoked turkey ... A favorite response came from Carla Ennis, who says, “We always stay home

celebrity … While celebrating her birthday at Jack Dusty, Jessica Hays (right) and friends Allison Werner, Daniela Kirvin, Lydia Chapdelain, Brigid Saah and Francesca Duran stumbled upon actor Adrian Grenier and got up the nerve to ask him for a photo. Entourage’s Grenier was in town to visit Ringling College of Art and Design as part of the school’s film lab series.

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HOW THE COUPLE MET

In May 2011, a mutual friend introduced Ashley Brooke Hansen and Philip Morgan Reagan to each other by email. However, it was two months later at a U2 concert in Miami that brought the couple together to meet for the first time. By chance, Ashley sat in a box seat directly above Phil and his friends.

THE PROPOSAL

On Sept. 6, 2013, Ashley accompanied Phil on a work trip to Miami. That afternoon they checked into the Epic Hotel located downtown overlooking the bay and all of Brickell. At sunset, Phil escorted Ashley to the hotel pool deck that overlooked several landmark locations special to their relationship. While the two reminisced about their fun times in the city, Phil got down on one knee to begin the next chapter of their lives.

On Oct. 25, Ashley and Phil

THE DETAILS First dance: “Latch”

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THE WEDDING AND RECEPTION

were married at the Church of the Palms. Dr. Stephen McConnell officiated the ceremony. Ashley, who wore a dress by Martina Liana, was baptized at the Church of the Palms and her parents have been members of the congregation for more than 30 years.

The reception immediately followed at The Field Club. Upon arriving, 170 guests where welcomed with a drink from Ashley’s Bubble Bar. The bride’s goal for the reception was to create an elegant ambience that incorporated aspects of their South Florida lifestyle. The formal dining room, where dinner was served, featured romantic décor incorporating large candelabras mixed with low metallic vases filled with candles and soft-colored flowers.

Following dinner, guests joined for the cake cutting and dancing in the living room.

The couple’s take-home gift for their guests was chocolate covered Oreos, which Ashley and her family hand-dipped and packaged — all 600 of them.

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