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The SRQ Food Truck Alliance formed to reform city and county regulations — but, first, it’ll have to reach out to local officials. + The gift of music

Crew purchases Osprey property

Riverview High School received a donation of $5,000 during a break in the Kiltie Band Fall concert on Nov. 20. Members of the Band Seven Years Past presented a check to the Riverview High School Music Department for $3,500 from the battle of the bands at Rock for a Cause Oct. 11.

The Community Foundation of Sarasota County decided to increase the total amount to $5,000 with an additional donation of $1,500.

After six years at Bay Preserve, Sarasota Crew wants to expand the program to new rowing facilities.

operating within 800 feet — the length of more than two football fields — of a traditional restaurant.

The SRQ Food Truck Alliance has attempted to enlist outside help as it pushes for new regu-

Sarasota Crew is expanding — by 3.2 acres.

The nonprofit youth rowing organization purchased three parcels of land on Bayview Lane in Osprey for $975,000 Nov. 10.

The crew has been launching out of Bay Preserve in Osprey since 2008; before that, it used a launch at Historic Spanish Point.

Since the program began in 2002, however, it’s attracted more athletes, and now it needs a new space.

“We’ve seen substantial growth since 2002,” said Susan Kenyon, executive director of the organization.

The site at 120 Bayview Lane is already home to eight buildings and a dock. Kenyon said the dock would probably have to be refurbished to accommodate Sarasota Crew.

The organization is working to build a long-term plan for growth and hopes the new property can be the centerpiece. However, plans for the bayfront parcel are not solidified, Kenyon said.

“It’s exciting for us. … We hope to have more information soon,” she said.

Sarasota Crew is applying to the county to rezone part of the

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+ Coming together for the community All Faiths Food Bank called on volunteers to help distribute 7,000 Thanksgiving dinners Saturday. Families in need picked up a package that included a frozen turkey with side dishes.

The meals were made possible by a $35,000 grant from the Kathleen K. Catlin Foundation of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County.

+ Observer on the hunt for displays We’re making our list of the best holiday lights displays in Sarasota and checking it twice. Do your neighbors go all-out with thousands of lights for their holiday decorations? Is your house the talk of the neighborhood? Send us your recommendations for best holiday displays (including addresses) by Dec. 8. The top displays will be featured in our Dec. 18 edition. Send your recommendations to Staff Writer Amanda Morales at amorales@yourobserver. com.

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Michelle Jett, co-owner of the Baja Boys food truck, is one of the vendors hoping to see Sarasota officials revisit the regulations on mobile vendors.

If you tell Chris Jett you haven’t been to a food truck in Sarasota, he won’t hold it against you.

Jett, the co-owner of Sarasota’s first licensed food truck and a founder of the SRQ Food Truck Alliance, might have reasons to feel personally affronted. Still, he knows many people may not be familiar with his truck, Baja Boys, or the more than 20 other trucks involved with the SRQ Food Truck Alliance.

For those who haven’t patronized one of those businesses, Jett does pose one question: Why not?

The answer may lie with county and city rules, not consumers. Food trucks, a bustling trend nationwide, are just beginning to establish a foothold in Sarasota. The SRQ Food Truck Alliance, formed earlier this month, is focused on reforming Sarasota County and city of Sarasota regulations governing food trucks.

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Chris Jett, co-owner of Baja Boys, said any characterization of food trucks as unsanitary and unsightly was outdated, citing the praise his business has received from customers and media. stacles to success. As a comparison, Jett points to a battle in Chicago over regulations that prevent food trucks from operating within 200 feet of a brick-and-mortar restaurant.

In Sarasota, regulations are four times as stringent, preventing mobile vendors from

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The county zoning code includes the following regulations on the operation of food trucks: • Food trucks are not allowed to operate within 800 feet of any established restaurant unless written, notarized consent is provided from the restaurant operator.

• Food trucks are not allowed to operate within a 750-foot radius of another temporary vendor location.

• Street vendor vehicles are required to be no larger than 10 by 20 feet, and to have no more than four wheels.

• Food trucks are allowed to operate in areas zoned as Commercial General, Industrial Light Warehousing and Planned Industrial Development. against a food-truck permit application for the area. Opponents cited concerns about existing restaurants and aesthetics.

Jett dismissed the idea that food trucks compete with restaurants. He said the trucks target more of an on-the-go clientele, and are susceptible to rainouts and hampered by a lack of seating.

The city, which allows food trucks to operate via provisional-use permit, currently has no permitted food trucks. City spokeswoman Jan Thornburg said she had yet to receive any negative feedback from vendors about its regulations, though members of the SRQ Food Truck Alliance have bemoaned the standards there, as well.

In the week the petition advocating for change has been public, more than 1,000 people have signed it, Jett said. Many people — including devoted customers — were unaware of the regulations governing food trucks in the area, he said.

The SRQ Food Truck Alliance was formed to shine a light on those regulations, and, its members hope, to mobilize support for rewriting them.

“That’s how it came about,” Jett said.

“We’re just a small group of people that needs to have a voice.”

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Spanish property from residential into planned Pointe unit development. Although there aren’t Marina any specific plans for the property yet, New Sarasota Kenyon said the goal is to build a boatBAYVIEW LN. DR. Crew Property Y house. The organization plans to start a community fundraiser in 2015 to raise money for construction.

41 The organization funded the land purN BAY ACRES AV E . chase with a loan from Friends of Sara1 / 8 MILE sota Crew LLC. Friends of Sarasota Crew is registered under Richard M. Goldberg, who is a radiologist and managing partner for one Patterson told the team it should considof the crew’s sponsors, Partners Imaging er moving part of its operations to a new Centers. Some of the Sarasota Crew fami- location.

In response to neighbors’ complaints lies, including Goldberg, raised the funds about traffic, Sarasota Crew re-worked its for the loan, Kenyon said.

Casey Galvanek has worked with the parking plan, appointed a parent to direct organization since 2007, and became traffic at the facility each day and asked head coach in 2009. Since then, the pro- participants to enter and exit through the gram has expanded from 45 high school Historic Spanish Point entrance.

The Osprey purchase was also a reand about 20 middle school students to sponse to the neighborhood frustration.

361 students combined this year.

“We want to reduce The new property will our impact on the neighaid the expanding pro“We want to reduce bors, but we will contingram, he said. ue to use Bay Preserve,” “It was an incredible our impact on the Kenyon said. deal for us — the amount neighbors, but we Sarasota Crew has of property we got,” Galinvested in the Bay Prevanek said. will continue to use serve location — includBesides the obvious Bay Preserve.” ing a $45,000 improvebenefits of expanding, the new property can be de— Susan Kenyon, executive ment to a two-lane parent pick-up lane and veloped to fit the organidirector of Sarasota Crew the installation of a new zation. With direct access dock — and Kenyon said from U.S. 41 and a location central in the county, it will provide the team will still use this facility in adeasier access for everyone, Galvanek said. dition to its future site on Bayview Lane.

For now, though, the organization will Also, a new location could help alleviate traffic concerns at Bay Preserve, be waiting on the county’s decision to the which neighbors have complained about rezoning request before making any design plans. in the past.

“We want to make sure it’s appealing During a March 16 Sarasota County Commission meeting, at which the com- visually,” Galvanek said. “We don’t want it missioners discussed a possible zoning to cause a problem.”

Kenyon said, ideally, the facility would change to Bay Preserve, several neighbors voiced their displeasure with the amount be completed by September 2017, in of traffic Sarasota Crew was causing on time for the World Rowing Championships scheduled to take place in Nathan Palmetto Avenue.

At the meeting, Commissioner Nora Benderson Park.

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lations. The Institute for Justice, a libertarian nonprofit law firm, has been an advocate for laws that would better allow food trucks to thrive as the trend has grown.

When Institute for Justice activism coordinator Phil Appelbaum took a look at Sarasota’s laws, Jett said his assessment was harsh.

“He said that our regulations here are the worst in the country right now,” Jett said. “The worst.”

Calls to reform Sarasota’s food truck regulations are not a new phenomenon. In early 2013, county staff prepared a report discussing the prospect of allowing food trucks outside of the three districts permitted in the county zoning code. Brick-andmortar restaurants are allowed to operate in seven districts.

Although staff suggested the topic warranted discussion, the conversation fizzled. When a new conversation begins, Jett is optimistic staff will be open to change.

“I don’t want to think they’re malicious — they just don’t know any better,” Jett said. “We’re waiting for a dialogue.”

Brad Bailey, the county’s zoning administrator, is also waiting for a dialogue. Despite creating a petition to encourage the county to revisit its regulations on food trucks, Jett said the alliance has yet to initiate a new line of discussion with staff.

The county regulations on mobile vendors were written five years ago, before the national food truck phenomenon began.

The rules were modeled to manage street carts and barbecue trailers, Bailey said.

Given the different nature of food trucks, he said it could make sense to add specific regulations managing those businesses.

Still, he indicated the county would heavily consider the effects the trucks may have on brick-and-mortar restaurants.

“We want to be cognizant of the restaurants in the area,” Bailey said. “(Food trucks) can be within 800 feet; they just need to get a notarized affidavit of no objection from nearby business owners.”

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Payne Park poses unique challenges for the city. Some city officials have sought to increase activity in the park, while others have stressed that the park is designated for passive use.

Budgetary concerns have complicated matters, causing the city to put planned improvements on hold and making regular maintenance a challenge. Within the past weeks and months, shifting circumstances have served to further muddle the conversation surrounding the park.

The following are some of the latest developments at Payne Park:

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Simone Steiff-Pollux, co-owner of Café in the Park. The café leases the space from the city for a portion of its receipts.

PAYNE PERK Café in the Park, which opened this summer, is receiving rave reviews from nearby residents — and helping the city generate more activity at Payne Park.

When the park opened in 2007, the city already had ideas about how it would help draw people. The second phase of the park was to include an amphitheater, a new auditorium and a children’s play area.

Things didn’t necessarily pan out: Plans for the new auditorium have been put on hold, and the playground took five years to open.

That playground, however, served as the inspiration that led to the park’s newest feature. Simone Steiff-Pollux and Gene Pollux, who live within walking distance of the park, lamented the empty building space near the amphitheater, located in close proximity to the playground. It was a prime location for something like a café. Somebody should do something, they thought.

They decided they would be that somebody. They submitted their plans for a café in 2013, and in July, their proposal became a reality when they received a five-year lease with the city. Almost immediately, Pollux said, the positive feedback rolled in.

“Pretty much everybody says, ‘It’s about time’; ‘Thank god somebody’s doing something,’ etc., etc.,” Pollux said.

“You could tell everybody was ready for this.”

Alta Vista and Laurel Park residents have raved about their new neighbor. SteiffPollux paid a visit to meetings of both groups, offering samples of her business’s products. Candy Spaulding, president of the Alta Vista Neighborhood Association, said the café was already a hit in her eyes.

“I think it’s going to be a really big asset to us — the neighborhood and the park,” Spaulding said.

In addition to providing an amenity at the park, Spaulding said, the increased activity could help offset other issues. Pollux said he’d already seen a reduction in loitering in the area around the café.

“They’re right in front of the playground, and we’ve had a lot of problems with vandalism in the playground,” Spaulding said. “It’s another set of eyes.”

As word of mouth continues to spread about Café in the Park, Pollux said he believes the park surroundings will help the business.

Beyond that, he thinks, the presence of the restaurant can help draw people to the park.

“I think, us being here, there’s synergy,” Pollux said.

“People are going to come to us because we’re here, but they’re also at the park and they’re going to enjoy the park — and vice versa.”

The Sarasota Pumpkin Festival took place Oct. 24 through Oct. 26 this year and featured carnival rides, hay rides and pony rides.

DAMAGE CONTROL After October’s Sarasota Pumpkin Festival left the grass at Payne Park torn up, the city is working to avoid damage from additional large-scale events.

Just as the city was preparing to pass a special events ordinance after more than a year of discussion, a new wrinkle was introduced at the last minute.

Following the three-day Sarasota Pumpkin Festival, Vice Mayor Susan Chapman said she noticed damage to the grounds. She had no question that the damage was tied to the event, as opposed to other activity in the park — circular patterns were left in the area around where pony rides were offered, for example.

“Where there had been food vendors, there were square pieces of brown destroyed turf,” Chapman said. “Even though a lot of Payne Park is weeds with grass, you could see heavy foot traffic had definitely

damaged what turf that was left.”

After a period of discussion, the commission agreed that the size of events like the pumpkin festival — which they said were “carnival-type” operations — was out of scale for the park.

“There’s no reason we’re pulling tractor trailers of any type up in the park,” Commissioner Shannon Snyder said. “These organizers need to start recognizing that, unfortunately, city taxpayers are picking up these tabs.”

Deborah Perez, the city’s municipal auditorium manager, said the complaints following the Sarasota Pumpkin Festival were the first issues they’ve had stemming from a large-scale event. The city retained a $5,000 deposit from the organizers of the pumpkin festival to help repair any damages, and the commission placed a moratorium on applications for any events of a

similar scale at the park.

That doesn’t necessarily solve the problem, however. Perez said that more than a dozen events are already booked through May at the park. Snow Fest Sarasota, organized by the same group that put on the pumpkin festival, will be held from Dec. 19 to Dec. 21. Staff said the event, held at the Sarasota County Fairgrounds last year, was of a similar scale to the pumpkin festival.

With a hold placed on any additional events, the city will consider revising its regulations to restrict larger events from its parks. Budgetary concerns have made park maintenance a priority for the city, commissioners said, and they hope to avoid making matters worse with heavily trafficked events.

“We do need to have something in place to protect both the city and the properties that we are required to protect,” Mayor Willie Shaw said.

Hunter Soechtig skateboards regu larly at Payne Skate Park.

ROLLING ALONG The Payne Skate Park is open seven days a week for rollerskaters, skateboarders and cyclists of all ages to drop in on ramps. Earlier this month, the skate park was in danger of closing its doors. Due to a decline in revenue and $5,000 insurance renewal deadline looming, the city-owned park was in need of money to stay open. Nonprofit Sk8skool has managed the park since 2010 and, in do-

ing so, has helped save the city of Sarasota an estimated $250,000 a year. But it has struggled since to make payments for the required insurance, maintenance and a monthly concession license fee to the city. The skate park hosted a tournament Oct. 24 to help collect money for the insurance payment, and the city of Sarasota was able to negotiate a reduced monthly concession license fee to $100.

On Nov. 10 the park announced to skaters and parents via Facebook that the ramps would stay open and that the park had collected enough money to make the down payment for the necessary insurance.

“We got our down payment for the insurance and are able to keep it open with private donations mostly,” said Mike Wallin who manages the Payne Skate Park.

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+ School employee charged in cyber attack Deputies arrested a Sarasota County School District technology support employee Tuesday morning for allegedly disrupting the school system’s computer network in a cyber attack last month.

The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office charged 28-year-old Michael Levanti with two second-degree felonies for installing malware that affected the district’s email system, online learning portals and security, which spread across 50,000 users and more than 350 servers, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Levanti, who earns roughly $29,000 annually, is on paid administrative leave until the investigation is complete, according to Deputy Superintendent Scott Lempe.

School officials discovered the problems Oct. 21, and hired technology consultant the Sylint Group to investigate the incident, leading to Levanti’s arrest.

Levanti, who has been a school district employee since July 2012, is being held on a $30,000 bond at the Sarasota County Jail.

+ City, county plan closures for Thanksgiving On Thursday and Friday, government offices in the city and county will close for Thanksgiving. Several government services will also be impacted by the holiday.

All city and county offices, including county libraries, will close Thursday and Friday. County libraries will reopen Saturday, while all other offices will reopen Dec. 1.

Trash collection will be affected in both the city and county. Waste collection scheduled for Thursday will occur on Friday, and trash collection scheduled for Friday will occur Saturday. The county announced that, because collection times will vary, residents should place trash at the curb by 6 a.m. on

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Sarasota County Area Transit buses will not run on Thursday, but full service resumes Friday.

Payne Park and the Robert L. Taylor Community Complex will both close Thursday before reopening Friday. In addition to its sixth-annual Thanksgiving “Turkey Shoot,” Bobby Jones Golf Club will have nine-hole play available for those arriving before 11 a.m. Thursday. Lido Pool will be open from 10 a.m. until 4:45 p.m. on Thanksgiving.

+ Sarasota County Area Transit hires new director Sarasota County Area Transit will be under new leadership five months after its previous director, Glama Carter was fired.

Rocky Burke of Lexington, Ky., accepted the county’s $103,000 annual salary offer.

His first day is tentatively set for Dec. 29.

Sarasota County attracted 36 candidates for the SCAT director position.

Burke is the general manager of the Lextran transit system in Lexington and has served in that position since 2008. The program had 75 routes, more than 200 employees and a $21 million budget.

One of Burke’s major accomplishments in Lexington was increasing ridership by 15% and installing a trolley downtown, according to a press release from Sarasota County.

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Developers reassure with vision for new hotel A 10-story, 150-room Kimpton Hotel project is still on track for completion on U.S. 301.

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In addition to the 150 rooms, the Kimpton Hotel will feature a first-floor restaurant along Main Street and U.S. 301, a pool and bar terrace area, meeting rooms and a banquet room. The county approved a land swap in February that allowed the project to move forward.

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surrounded by the office concentration in Sarasota.”

The group still has work to do: In addition to the city review process, the county is reviewing the design of the Main Street parking lot, and SHD Partners is still working through documentation with Kimpton. The final project may be nearly two years away, but Connelly is happy with the progress thus far.

“Everything seems to be going well,” Connelly said. “It’s just a lengthy, lengthy process.”

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company based out of San Francisco. As part of the agreement, the group is required to secure a five-year agreement with the hotelier.

“We’re really happy they’re coming into town,” Connelly said.

“They’re usually big-city players.

They’ll be a big plus for this city.”

Connelly said the location was a good match for the hotel.

“Part of (Kimpton’s) business model is targeted toward the business community,” Connelly said. “We’re sort of a bull’s-eye,

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If county officials had linger- a reality, but two commissioners ing concerns about plans to con- still voted against an agreement. struct a hotel at Main Street and SHD Partners is required to U.S. 301, Rod Connelly hopes build an 86-space parking lot at their nerves are now soothed.

2051 Main St., which will then be Connelly is the president of transferred to the county. SHD Civix, a Sarasota business work- Partners will provide $958,000 to ing as part of the development the county to cover the difference group SHD Partners. in the value between In February, the comthe two properties, mission approved a less the cost of conPROJECT land-swap deal with structing the parking SPECS SHD Partners, allowlot.

What: 10-story ing for the construcNine months afKimpton Hotel tion of a 10-story hotel ter the deal was apwith 150 rooms, at 20 N. Washington proved, Connelly’s a first-floor resBlvd. determination is taurant, a pool On Friday, County holding firm. He said and bar terrace Administrator Tom the group is still tararea, meeting Harmer shared new geting a completion rooms and a renderings of that date of October 2016, banquet room. hotel with county and is going through Where: 20 N. commissioners. The the permitting proWashington downtown hotel — cess now. Earlier this Blvd., Sarasota one of five planned month, SHD Partners hotels in the heart of appeared before the Target complethe city — is being city’s Development tion date: built on a 0.95-acre Review Committee to October 2016 tract that is currently seek approval for the a parking lot. The hoMain Street parking tel will include 150 rooms, and lot. Next week, the group will bea first-floor restaurant will front gin the same process for the hotel Main Street and extend around to itself.

Washington Boulevard.

Connelly said he didn’t expect When the commission ap- any major hurdles. proved the deal in February, “It should be straightforward,” multiple commissioners voiced Connelly said. “We’ve met with concern about potentially getting the city a number of times.” burned after the Dec. 31 closing SHD Partners is working with date. Connelly stressed he was Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants determined to make the proposal on the project, a boutique hotel

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by Jessica Salmond | Staff Writer

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Founded in 1925, Vamo Drive has brought its residents together into a close-knit community.

Tucked away from the thor- of seeing it, she made an offer. oughfare of U.S. 41, brushing the “It was love at first sight,” Reiborder of Osprey, Vamo Drive fert said. would be missed except by those The initial draw for her was the who know where to look. charm of the house, itself — the The street is lined with homes, Spanish-style architecture, the many built in the Spanish style, unique quirks such as etched and slopes down directly into windows and tiled step risers — Sarasota Bay; the and the feeling of history county-owned park WANT A on the street. The unique at the end of the road housing styles and the old has become a popular VIRTUAL oak trees that shade the TOUR? kayak launch. sidewalks drew her in.

From single, first- Learn more But she didn’t know extime homeowners to about the hisactly what she was buying families to retirees, tory of Vamo at into: a close-knit commuVamo Drive holds a YourObserver. nity made up of a diverse charm that draws a com. cross-section of residents. variety of residents.

Reifert decided to throw Jane Reifert has a house-warming party on lived in her Vamo Cinco de Mayo. To be poDrive home for two lite, she invited all of the years. Before, she had neighbors on the street, rented on Siesta Key. but she didn’t really expect When she decided anyone but her friends to she wanted to buy a house, she come. told the Realtor to find her some“I was shocked when every thing different from everything one of them came to say hello,” else.

Reifert said.

She was shown a house on Fellow neighbor Karen FeducVamo Drive. Within 15 minutes cia has a similar story. She and

her husband, Mike, stumbled across Vamo because of friends who lived in the area. They moved with their son, Andrew, to the street because of its convenient location to Andrew’s school at the time, Gulf Gate Elementary, and its proximity to the bay.

“I love historic homes — ones

that have charm and character and trees in the yard,” Feduccia said.

Feduccia and her family were also quickly drawn into the community spirit that ties the street together. She and Reifert both mentioned the attentiveness of other neighbors — not nosy, they clarified, but friendly and caring.

Above: Thirteen houses were built on Vamo Drive right before the Great Depression. Although all the homes were sold in 1926, the economic crash prevented the owners from moving down to Vamo.

“If I come home late at night after work, Karen will put away my trash cans for me,” Reifert said. If someone on the street needs something, they don’t hesitate to call and ask, she added.

Feduccia and Reifert, along

WHAT’S IN A NAME? Is it Vah-mo or Vay-mo?

Norma Martin, the resident expert on Vamo history, said that the founders of the community wanted it to be pronounced “Vah-mo,” but as Northerners moved into the area, the pronunciation changed to “Vay-mo.”

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She’s collected photos and articles tracing Vamo’s history. She even has a newspaper clipping from 1925, when Vamo became its own municipality for one year.

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“We care — we watch out for each other,” Feduccia said. “The community is the best part about living here.”

But both neighbors pointed to one central anchor, the person who keeps them all together: Norma Martin.

Martin, 99, has lived on the street for 68 years — she’s Vamo’s longest resident.

Feduccia and Reifert described her as the glue, the matriarch, the mayor of the street.

“She always introduces herself to new people on the street,” Feduccia said.

Martin believes in the neighborhood feeling, Reifert said, and is also the resident historian on all things Vamo. Martin has tried to pass that down to her neighbors.

“Norma is wonderful,” Reifert said.

Martin used to live in the biggest house at the end of the street, the former Vamo Lodge Hotel, with her husband, Jack.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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Lui said he’s already received emails from people throughout the county offering suggestions and concerns.

“Sarasota County has a natural biking culture — you inherently want to participate,” Lui said.

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round,” Lui said. “My job is to get them there efficiently and safely.”

Lui and his family moved to Sarasota from Richmond Hill, Ontario, where he had been working for six years as a parks planner and one year as a sustainable transportation coordinator. Although he has only been on the job for a week, he said he’s already noticed some things he’d like to address.

The sidewalk networks have some gaps — places where the sidewalk ends and pedestrians and bicyclists have to use the road. But it’s not a problem unique to Sarasota, he said.

Lui said he hopes to use social media to engage county residents and push out information, such as making informational videos or sharing content from other cities.

Safety is definitely on the county’s priority list — Wiggins said Florida ranks in the top five states in the nation for bicycle and pedestrian accidents. Sarasota is on the cusp of being in the top 10 worst counties in Florida for those kinds of accidents, too.

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Fast forward to now, and Lui is Sarasota County’s bicycle and pedestrian coordinator.

He started Nov. 17.

The position isn’t totally new, said Paula Wiggins, the county transportation planning manager. A similar position existed before the recession, but as the economy went down the county couldn’t afford to staff it.

The old program was more focused on children, Wiggins said. The county wants to expand the program to include adult education. The role of the coordinator is to provide education for the community and conceptualize new ideas for Sarasota to be more bikeable and walkable.

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Downtown beautification projects hang in the balance As the Downtown Improvement District prepares for a new board, the group has debated adding disparate amenities.

Members of the city’s Downtown Improvement District believe two flower baskets, slated for installation at Main Street and Palm Avenue, may lead to a larger project to beautify the area.

For months, the city’s Downtown Improvement District has examined its options for installing flowers downtown. Before the group’s next meeting Dec. 9, two flower baskets should be mounted to light poles at Main and Palm as a demonstration of a potential project throughout the DID area. There are more than 130 light poles within the Downtown Improvement District.

John Moran, the DID operations manager, said the project could cost as much as $100,000 considering both installation and maintenance. The group’s ongoing budgetary limitations, brought on by a $1.9 million Main Street improvement project in 2013, would pose a challenge when it came to funding.

Moran suggested a partnership with merchants could help overcome that obstacle. DID Chairman Mark Kauffman said that a smaller project — adorning every other light pole, for example — could also be a viable option.

As the flower conversation has continued, board member Eileen Hampshire has floated another potential project: the installation of public restrooms downtown. Hampshire, who owns Art to Walk On

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Board member Ron Soto, who also serves as the president of the Sarasota Downtown Merchants Association, said he hadn’t heard much demand for restrooms, but expressed some support for the idea. Still, he said, the DID would likely have to back just one larger project.

“The concept is good,” Soto said. “The big question is: Do we put in bathrooms or flowers? Because that's going to blow the budget.”

Kauffman agreed that the idea was good, and said his research indicated reasonably priced options may be available.

He did express concern about potential illicit behavior in the restrooms if they’re installed downtown, and said a project might be better in the city’s hands.

The board, down to three members following two recent resignations, signaled a preference for a flower project.

The City Commission is scheduled to appoint new members to the board Dec. 1.

When the new board is in place, Moran suggested the group should hold a workshop to better determine the path it wants to take to improve the downtown area.

“You can see where you’re going to go, especially with two new board members,” Moran said.

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NOV. 18 SICK AS A DOG 5:52 p.m. 1000 block of South Allendale Avenue. Dispute/Fight. A woman attempted to return a puppy to the person she bought it from because, soon after the purchase, the puppy got sick. Officers informed the woman that she would have to pursue the matter through civil court, because the seller was the middleman for the sale of the puppy.

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NOV. 19 GASSED UP 7:17 a.m. — 3500 block of Fruitville Road. Miscellaneous Public. A woman reported property damage at a gas station. A man in a van drove away from the location with the gas hose still attached to his vehicle, causing the hose to separate from the stand. Officers ran a license plate number provided, but no results turned up.

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NOV. 20 LENDER BENDER 4:17 p.m. — 1100 block of Patterson Drive. Theft — $300 to 20,000 All Other. A woman said she lent her roommate her car Nov. 9, with instructions to return the vehicle within two days. The woman said her roommate has taken the car in the past and always returned it. On the day the woman lent her roommate the car, the two had a disagreement. The woman attempted to contact the roommate via text, and said she would report the car stolen if it was not returned. The woman had yet to receive a response.

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CORNER graffiti she found on a concrete wall in the 500 block of Pineapple Avenue earlier in the week, which she painted over.

She then found more graffiti at a vacant property on Orange Avenue. The graffiti included several large letters painted in blue and purple, along with the statement, “Cuz them grades ain’t got me paid.”

NOV. 21 ROCK AND A HARD PLACE 6:20 a.m. — 1900 block of Main Street. Shoot/Throw Missile into Dwelling/Vehicle. A man driving a garbage truck, stopped at a traffic light, observed a man at the intersection throwing a rock at the passenger side of the truck. The pedestrian crossed the street and then threw another rock at the driver’s side door, breaking the window on the lower portion of the door. The man then left the area. At the same time, other officers responded to a call from a gas station reporting a bank robbery.

Based on his behavior, the man who made the call was taken into custody. The truck driver gave a description of the suspect that matched the man who made the 911 call about the robbery. Officers connected the two cases, and the driver identified the man who made the call as the man who threw the rocks at the truck.

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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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Hand-Cranked Festival — takes place at 3:15 and 8 p.m. at the Fogartyville Community Media and Arts Center and the WSLR studios, 525 Kumquat Court. Former Florida and Tennessee grand champion old-time fiddler Gailanne Amundsen will hold two performances as part of the WSLR HandCranked Festival. Advance tickets are $18 or $30 for a two-day ticket.

Tickets on the day of show are $20.

Children 12 and under are free, and students with a valid ID get in for half price. For more information, contact David Beaton, 587-6588.

A Hero’s Luncheon — starts at 11:30 a.m. at the Sarasota Yacht Club, 1100 John Ringling Blvd. The Brian Bill Foundation will host a Hero’s Luncheon to honor Navy SEALs. Guest speakers include author Jason Redman and retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Joseph D. Kernan. Tickets are $100; RSVP required. For more information, call 840-4204.

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St. Armands Holiday Night of Lights — The 36th annual event kicks off the holiday season on the Circle from 6 to 9 p.m. Members of Sarasota High School’s theater department

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Tiger Bay Club — starts at 11:30 a.m. at Michael’s On East, 1212 S. East Ave. The Tiger Bay Club hosts political satirist P. J. O’Rourke, author of “Eat the Rich,” “CEO of the Sofa” and “The Baby Boom: How it Got That Way,” as the featured speaker. Tickets are $70. For more information, contact Kim at 925-2970 or email sarasotatigerbayclub@verizon.net.

Fall Lecture Series — runs from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at Selby Public Library, 1331 First St. The Pierian Spring Academy will host distinguished women’s business history expert Cheryl Smith for a presentation on “A Tapestry Woven from the Threads

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Bois Afan Male Choir — starts at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 104 S. Pineapple Ave. The Gulf Coast St. David’s Welsh Society invites the community to experience traditional harmony and blended voices of the Bois Afan Male Choir from Port Talbot, Wales. Admission is free, and donations will be accepted. For more information, email sarasotawelsh@yahoo. com.

World Aids Day Service — starts at 6 p.m. at Temple Sinai, 4631 S. Lockwood Ridge Road. The Gulf Coast Interfaith Network, in conjunction with Temple Sinai, hosts the interfaith service in remembrance of friends and family who have died from AIDS. Quilts will be displayed as a reading of the names and candle lighting takes place. For more information, call 3771003.

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Sarasota and Longboat Key Republican Clubs’ Christmas Party — takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. at Marina Jack, 2 Marina Plaza. 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.

MONDAY, DEC. 1

Bach Festival — starts at 7:30 p.m. at Church of the Redeemer, 222 S. Palm Ave. The first concert of the SarasotaManatee Bach Festival will kick off with a woodwinds performance featuring oboist Adam De Sorgo, bassoonist Fernando Traba and cellist Christopher Schnell, with Nicholas Arbolino.

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600 N. Beneva Road. A winter wonderland will be set up at the Sahib Shrine Center for the inaugural FEZtival of Trees, complete with Santa and his elves. Enter for a chance to win one of 30 pre-lit, fully decorated Christmas trees including a cash tree or a $500 lottery ticket tree.

Admission is $2. Children 12 and under get in free. Fore more information, visit sahibshrine.org.

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. Visiting Santa Jaws is free with regular Mote admission. Call 388-4441.

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MOMENTS OF THE WEEK

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Ryan McMahon scored 33 points to lead the Cardinal Mooney boys basketball team to a 79-39 victory over The Out-of-Door Academy Nov. 21.

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Senior Chris Solari scored the lone goal to lead the Riverview boys soccer team to a 1-0 victory over Cardinal Mooney Nov. 21.

Heading into this season, Booker High junior guard Yamaris Guevarez needed 127 points to hit the 1,000point mark for her career.

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Skylar Jungers scored a hat trick to lead the Cardinal Mooney girls soccer team to a 4-1 victory over Sarasota Nov. 21.

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Brothers A.J. and Dominic Caldwell combined for 37 points to lead the Riverview boys basketball team to a 75-63 seasonopening victory over Southeast Nov. 20.

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Madison Pack scored 14 points and hauled in eight rebounds to lead the Sarasota girls basketball team to a 58-36 victory over Venice Nov. 20.

MAKING HER MARK Booker High junior guard Yamaris Guevarez scored the 1,000th point of her career in the third quarter versus North Port Nov. 24.

In her third season with the Lady Tornadoes, Yamaris Guevarez has hit a milestone that only a handful of players achieve throughout their high school careers. Heading into Booker’s non-district game versus North Port Monday, Guevarez was 17 points away from hitting the 1,000-point mark.

Guevarez scored her 16th and 17th points on a basket in the third quarter, giving her exactly 1,000 points for her career.

Guevarez finished with a game-high 27 points in the Lady Tornadoes’ 53-48 loss to North Port.

“It (means) a lot,” Guevarez says of the milestone. “I’ve been trying to get there for the longest time ever since my uncle passed away.”

William Rodriguez, a former basketball player and track athlete, died before ever getting the opportunity to see Guevarez hit her first layup.

“I think if my uncle were here, he would be sitting right in the front row right next to my brother (Eric Gue-

varez) telling me to go here or go there,” Guevarez says.

Guevarez began playing basketball 10 years ago after one of her best friend’s, Riverview player Ana Rodriguez, encouraged her to join the Suncoast League. Guevarez’s brother played basketball at the time, but it wasn’t until she was fully immersed in the

“When we win, after the game, I get a fist bump from my brother, and that’s when I know I did well.”

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game that she experienced the excitement that comes from being out on the court firsthand.

“I didn’t know the feeling of having people screaming and cheering for you,” Guevarez says. “It’s a really good feeling. I can feel the adrenaline that comes from the oohs and aahs.”

Guevarez’s brother graduated in 2008, but she still looks to him for advice and guidance on the court.

“He teaches me a lot and I pick up on his moves,” Guevarez says. “When we win, after the game, I get a fist bump from my brother, and that’s when I know I did well.”

Guevarez began talking about scoring 1,000 points when she was in middle school. She hoped to hit the milestone last season, but the Lady Tornadoes’ season ended in the district tournament, leaving Guevarez with 873 points.

Prior to this season, Guevarez anticipated hitting the mark roughly five games into the season. Booker played its sixth regular season game Monday.

But, although Guevarez was focused on hitting the mark, she also hopes to help Booker capture its first district title since she’s been there.

“It’s been years,” Guevarez says.

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varsity season on the mound for the Cougars in February after having spent the offseason playing travel ball for Southwest Florida Baseball.

+ Cardinal Mooney to induct athletes

+ Cougars pitcher signs with Crusaders Parker MacPhail couldn’t have asked for a better birthday present.

Surrounded by his family, coaches and teammates, the Cardinal Mooney right-handed pitcher signed a national letter of intent to play baseball at Belmont Abbey College, in Belmont, N.C., Nov. 19.

The day also happened to be his 18th birthday.

“It’s a pretty good birthday present,” MacPhail says. “It’s awesome. A part of me always wanted to be able to keep it going.”

MacPhail, who plans to major in pre-medicine, chose the liberal arts Catholic college for its location and the connection he felt with the coaching staff and his future teammates.

MacPhail will begin his third

Cardinal Mooney High will hold its Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Dinner Dec. 6, at Sara Bay Country Club in Sarasota.

The Cougars will induct seven individuals and two teams into the Hall of Fame. Detroit Tigers coach Gene Lamont will serve as this year’s keynote speaker.

This year’s inductees include: • 1994 and 1995 softball state championship teams • Bill O’Leary ’82 (weightlifting and football) • James Buchanan ’01 (football) • Bobby Rosenberg ’00 (football) • Marc Schmidt ’98 (weightlifting) • William Figlesthaler ’82 (track and field) • Karen Kreger Palmu ’80 (volleyball) • Athletic Director Bill Donivan The Rev. Msgr. Gerard M. Finegan Lifetime Service Award will be presented to Ginger Judge.

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Sarasota Military Academy senior Cheyenne Adams signed a national letter of intent to row for the University of Alabama Nov. 18. Adams will study environmental science at Alabama.

“When I went on my official at Alabama I knew this was the one for me,” Adams said. “Not only did I instantly fall in love with the campus, I loved the team spirit of the students. The girls on the

team made me feel like I was already part of the team. And I also really clicked with the coaching staff as I do with my home team.”

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The number of points the Cardinal Mooney football team lost by in its Class 3A-Region 3 final game versus Clearwater Central Catholic Nov. 21.

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The number of points the Sarasota Military Academy boys basketball team lost to Lakewood Ranch by last season. SMA edged past Lakewood 46-45 Nov. 21.

The number of points the Sarasota Christian boys basketball team scored in its victory over Bradenton Christian Nov. 20.

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The number of saves goalkeeper Angus Martin had in The Out-of-Door Academy soccer team’s 3-1 loss to Venice Nov. 21.

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NOT JUST TALKIN’ TURKEY The Sarasota Observer talked with students from Bay Haven School of Basics Plus, Southside Elementary and First Presbyterian Preschool.

They shared their Thanksgiving traditions, what they are thankful for and their favorite pie flavors.

Southside Elementary Thanksgiving family traditions: “We eat turkey and have a giant feast.”

Favorite flavor of pie: “I’ve never tried pie.”

What happened at the first Thanksgiving: “So the Indians met the pilgrims, and the Indians taught them how to grow crops like corn.”

Thankful for: “I’m thankful for my family.”

KAMARI SMITH Bay Haven School of Basics, Plus Thanksgiving family traditions: “We’re going to my grandma’s. My uncle Alan cooks macaroni and turkey. I love to have ice pops when we’re done eating.”

Favorite flavor of pie: Pumpkin

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Thanksgiving family traditions: “We celebrate Thanksgiving by eating a big dinner with turkey stuffing. We watch the parade.”

Favorite flavor of pie: Pecan What happened at the first Thanksgiving: “The Indians and pilgrims had a big feast.”

Thankful for: “My family, my house and food.”

Thanksgiving family traditions: “Well we don’t really celebrate it because my brother’s birthday is on Thanksgiving. We’re going up to Crystal River to celebrate his birthday.”

Favorite flavor of pie: “I’ve never had pie in my life.”

What happened at the first Thanksgiving: “Everybody got together for a big feast.”

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Thanksgiving family traditions: “We hang out with my cousins and we have turkey. I play games with them like Lego Batman.”

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Thanksgiving family traditions: “Go out to dinner at a restaurant; we go to Taco Bell.”

Favorite flavor of pie: Pumpkin

Thanksgiving family traditions: “We watch the parade and eat cookies.”

Favorite flavor of pie: Pumpkin Thankful for: “My family.”

First Presbyterian Preschool Thanksgiving family traditions: “Sitting down with family and playing football outside with daddy.

Cooking a turkey takes one minute.”

Favorite flavor of pie: Pumpkin Thankful for: “I’m thankful for my mom.”

Thanksgiving family traditions: “My mom and dad decorate a dog [statue] with a turkey and we cook turkey. Mallory comes over; she’s my cousin.”

Favorite flavor of pie: Strawberry Thankful for: “My mom and dad.”

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What happened at the first Thanksgiving: “Squanto was there. They ate for three days. Ms. Nelson says that.”

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La Bellasara condo sells for $2.4 million Esplanade by Siesta Key

The following residential real estate transactions took place between Nov. 10 and Nov. 14.

A condominium in La Bellasara tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Rudolph Peins Jr., trustee, and Ellen Peins, of Sarasota, sold the Unit 701 condominium at 464 Golden Gate Point to Ira and Patricia Strauss, of Boca Grande, for $2.4 million.

Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 3,384 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.9 million in 2006.

Taylor Morrison of Florida Inc. sold the home at 5887 Cavano Drive to Parvin and Dieter Schmitt, of Osprey, for $441,000.

Built in 2013, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,639 square feet of living area.

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Costero LLC sold the home at 350 S. Shore Drive to Harry Leopold, of Sarasota, for $2,122,000.

Built in 1996, it has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 5,099 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1,175,000 in 1997.

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Carl Foltz and Patricia Whetstone, trustees, sold the Unit 602 condominium at 505 S. Orange Ave. to R. Lee Buechler and Nancy Buechler, trustees, of Sarasota, for $930,000. Built in 2007, it has three bedrooms, two-and-ahalf baths and 2,600 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $855,000 in 2007.

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William Manley, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the Unit 1204 condominium at 155 N. Gulfstream Ave. to Barbara Kupferberg, of

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Sarasota, for $925,000. Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,822 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $645,000 in 2004.

Sarasota, for $515,000. Built in 1948, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,672 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $282,000 in 1999.

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Rainer Blomster and Debora Blomster, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1760 Arlington St. to Eric and Lauren Blomster, of Sarasota, for $640,000. Built in 2012, it has two bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 2,745 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $312,500 in 2011.

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Lorraine De Leo, of Sarasota, sold her home at 1884 Hibiscus St. to Thomas and Cheryl Bell, of

Stephen and Holly Campion, of Sarasota, sold two houses on Datura Street to Mission Property Partners LLC for $454,500. The home at 2205 Datura was built in 1963 and has two bedrooms, two baths and 947 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $155,000 in 2003. The home at 2223 Datura, built in 1955, has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,572 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $200,000 in 2004.

Barry and Kimberlee Hothersall, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3173 Espanola Drive to Craig and Amanda Georgiades, of Sarasota, for $394,900. Built in 1969, it has five bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 2,452 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $197,400 in 1993.

Claudette Ares sold her home at 2019 Beneva Road to Dennis and Peggy Knapp, of Sarasota, for $315,000. Built in 1966, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,663 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $206,500 in 2001.

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Robert Cadwell and Carol Cadwell, trustees, sold the Unit 909 condominium at 800 N. Tamiami Trail to Paul and Ilene O’Connell, of Sarasota, for $380,000. Built in 2007, it has one bedroom, one-and-a-half baths and 1,212 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $332,700 in 2007.

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3742 Eagle Hammock Drive #A4107566 $699,500 Kathleen Griffin

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612 Barcelona Avenue #N5901203 $699,000 Helen Moore

Venice 941-485-5421 941-724-2030

1414 N Lake Shore Dr #A3999415 $2,995,000 Christine Del Monte

3717 Eagle Hammock Drive #A4108322 $695,000 Lenore Treiman

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-356-9642

1350 Main Street #A4108263 $669,500 Bibi-Ann Allard PA

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-685-0422

5 Sandy Cove Road #A4108001 $650,000 Alix Wexler PA

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-350-2742

900 Park Place Drive #D5900908 $599,000 Maryann Casey

Englewood 941-473-7750 941-468-3741

662 Calle De Peru #A3998759 $569,900 Allison Werner & Brian Loebker

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to Gary and Angela Eason, of Romney, Ind., for $272,500. Built in 1987, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,775 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $260,000 in 2008.

Granada

Lorry Eible, of Sarasota, sold her home at 3524 Palonia Court to Mission Property Partners LLC for $262,000. Built in 1953, it has one bedroom, one bath and 555 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $122,000 in 1999.

Grovelawn

Jon Lee, of Sarasota, sold his home at 2120 Wisteria St. to Stephen Campion, of Sarasota, for $235,000. Built in 1949, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 1,922 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $275,000 in 2002.

South Gate

Allen and Amy Menard, trustees, of Sarasota, sold the home at 3204 Tanglewood Drive to Stephen Richman, of Mystic, Conn., for $218,000. Built in 1959, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,389 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $175,000 in 2008.

Long Meadow

Alan Ralph and Susan Dudovitz-Ralph, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2241 Rose St. to William Nauta and Victoria Mackin, of Ontario, Canada, for $207,500.

Built in 1956, it has three bed-

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-266-6733

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7754 Club Lane #A4105874 $549,000 Ryndie Brusco

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6326 Midnight Pass Road #A4108157 $545,000 Karen Chandler

703 N Macewen Dr #A3999138 $1,297,000 Nicole Dovgopolyi

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255 The Esplanade N #A4108199 $465,000 Dan Freed

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1794 Amethyst Lane #A4106291 $405,000 Jonathan Fox

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1770 Benjamin Franklin Dr # 206 #A3986006 $399,999 David Simon

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-400-8764

4685 Little John Trail #A4100400 $349,000 Denise Mei

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-685-3198

6112 Granaway Ct #A3999341 $344,500 Marlene Marshall

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-539-8850

4451 Diamond S Circle #A4105484 $335,900 Harvey & Ethel Lovelace

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4519 Deer Trail Boulevard #A4108120 $329,500 Lyn Purmort

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-928-7472

17707 Courtside Landings Circle #C7204328 $329,000 Jennifer Calenda

Punta Gorda 941-505-5555 941-916-0798

6066 Benevento Drive #A4108254 $299,900 Alex Ley

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014

TOP BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest city of Sarasota and Sarasota County building permits issued for the week of Nov. 10 through Nov. 14, in order of dollar amounts.

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Permit

Applicant

880 Siesta Drive 1025 S. Orange Ave. 2364 Floyd St. 1433 Bay Point Drive 340 S. Palm Ave. 2322 Alameda Ave. 1659 Fifth St. 2305 Mietaw Drive 1850 Hibiscus St. 953 Pomelo Place

Addition Addition Addition Re-roof Alterations Mechanical Alterations Mechanical Re-roof Windows

Patrick Wulf Robert Morris James Evans James Harrison, trustee Earl Wright, trustee Richard Thomas Elisabeth Celentano Mark Betres Michael Clark Sharon Feeney

Amount $950,000 $450,000 $65,000 $25,285 $18,500 $16,351 $13,000 $10,962 $9,620 $8,782

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521 Casey Key Road 2420 Vaccaro Drive 2367 Vaccaro Drive 3256 Casey Key Road 1232 Point Crisp Road 8302 Cypress Hollow Drive 5960 Midnight Pass Road 5970 Midnight Pass Road 2130 Gulf Gate Drive 400 Blue Garden Lane

Alterations Pool/Spa Pool/Deck Wall Garage Re-roof Alterations Alterations Renovations Pool/Spa

Jon Stover, trustee Clyde Wilson Jr. John Gravelle John Miller Robert Kiebitz William Urschel Kenneth Wieland Jr. Kenneth Wieland Jr. Alexey Knyazev Richard Rodgers

941.320.1223

After a 30-year career as an international corporate executive residing in Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia, Klaus fell in love with Sarasota and relocated here. Klaus focuses his expertise and world of knowledge on promoting the finest waterfront properties in the Sarasota area. His love of this beautiful corner of paradise is evident in the professional manner with which he represents each client. He works tirelessly to provide exceptional real estate service, delivered at all times with the highest levels of integrity, dedication, professionalism, diligence and attention to detail.

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Amount $200,000 $53,522 $48,000 $45,000 $44,500 $37,100 $31,000 $31,000 $30,000 $25,800

413 S Blvd of the Presidents MLS A3994759 $4,950,000

Source: Sarasota County; city of Sarasota

13506 Matanzas Place

SIESTA KEY Siesta Beach

George and Jane Morgan, trustees, sold the home at 807 Tropical Circle to Mark and Jacqueline Barry, of Sarasota, for $2,137,500. Built in 2001, it has five bedrooms, five-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,708 square feet of living area. It previ-

321 San Ambrosio Street #C7204222 $279,900 Sheila Meeks

1622 Stickney Point Rd # 202 #A3998249 $238,900 Brian Loebker

2868 Webber Place #A4107751 $159,900 Janice Bradley

8257 Archers Court #A4106332 $3,495,000 Terri Healey & Nicole Dovgopolyi

Punta Gorda 941-639-0000 941-661-2257

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-735-4393

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-302-3496

5510 Cynthia Lane #A4108317 $269,000 Robert Agnello

556 Clubside Circle #N5901294 $219,000 Bambi Utton

2271 Benson Street #A4108387 $149,900 Stacy Liljeberg

ously sold for $2,765,000 in 2007.

Theodore and Delores Borek, of Sarasota, sold their home at 744 Tropical Circle to Michelle Stanley, trustee, of Sarasota, for $610,000. Built in 1978, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,793 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $282,000 in 1997.

MLS A4104711 $1,890,000

6232 Midnight Pass Road MLS A3997638 $999,000

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Venice 941-493-2500 941-228-4881

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1632 Starling Drive #A4108363 $249,000 Denise Mattmuller

142 2Nd Avenue #A4104470 $215,000 Sarah Mcguire

129 Woodland Place #A4105273 $119,900 Barbara E Gahry

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-232-8055

1336 Harbor Drive #A4104714 $2,495,000 Linda Driggs

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-374-2920

1536 Sandpiper Ln #A3990684 $1,645,000 Lenore Treiman & Ellen Wells

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-356-9642

7110 Hawks Harbor Circle #A4107915 $1,585,000 Debra Pitell-Hauge

Bradenton 941-951-6660 941-356-0437

300 S Pineapple Avenue #A4108167 $1,299,900 Jonathan Abrams

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-232-2868

868 Siesta Key Circle #A4102147 $1,249,000 Linda Dickinson & Kelly Quigley

Siesta Key 941-966-8000 941-350-3304

442 Canal Road #A4105895 $1,150,000 Kristina Talkie & Judy Arreola

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-266-8658

796 Lytham Cir #A3996903 $995,000 Kim & Michael Ogilvie

Osprey 941-951-6660 941-376-1717

Nokomis/North Venice 941-349-3444 941-809-1478

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-586-3936

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-320-0389

Mid Longboat 383.5502 • South Longboat 383.7591 • St. Armands 388.4447 • Main Street 951.6660 Palmer Ranch 966.8000 • Siesta Key 349.3444 • Venice 485.5421 • Englewood 473.7750

5290 Avenida Navarra #A4108422 $1,022,000 Mark McCann

Sarasota/Crescent Beach/Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-685-7624

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highlights from Walt Disney’s “Enchanted.”

On stage, members of the Sarasota Middle School Advanced Band joined the Wind Ensemble for a portion of the evening. The performances included a “smackdown” featuring the drum line before ending with the Kiltie Marching Band, color guard and Highland Dancers.

Riverview High School Band Director Mark Spreen leads the different ensembles for the concert.

Riverview High School junior Justin Patterson warms up before the fall concert.

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Mackenzie Vance and Leighton Smith warm up with the Wind Ensemble before the concert.

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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.

The songs are strong. The story and characters behind those songs are also note-for-note perfect. Davis’ De Becque is a nice cocktail of gravitas and roguish charm and conveys true electricity, chemistry and pizzazz with Felthous’ Nellie. Her character is a sweet kid who describes herself as “a little hick from Little Rock, Arkansas.” But, along with her honeydripping Dixie accent, Nellie has picked up Southern attitude toward race. She’s a nice

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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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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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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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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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GROOM’S PARENTS:

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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.

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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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• HEAD COVERINGS. Travelers are permitted to wear head coverings and religious garments during the screening process.

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• PETS. Please remove all animals from their carrying cases and send the case through the X-ray machine.

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• CHILDREN. Please take infants and children out of baby carriers and strollers and take them through the metal detector. Strollers and baby carriers go through the X-ray machine with your bags. If possible, collapse the stroller before arriving at the detector.

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Homes Priced from $800K to $5M

LIDO AND ST. ARMANDS

Many of the lovely homes on this barrier island are on boating canals affording sweeping views of Sarasota Bay. Just a short walk to the white sands of Lido Beach, you are also minutes away from the fabulous shopping and dining of St. Armands Circle and a short ride across the bridge to downtown Sarasota.

Homes Priced from $875K - $7M

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SIESTA KEY

Once you step onto the white, powdery sands of Siesta Beach, you’re hooked. It is rated the #1 beach in North America. Offering everything from funky little shops in the village to world-class restaurants, sophisticated boutiques and more. Surrounded by the Intercostal Waterway and the Gulf of Mexico, Siesta Key is nothing less than PARADISE. Homes Priced from $390K to $13M

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2014 HOLIDAY TOUR OF HOMES Saturday, December 6th & Sunday, December 7th 11:00 am until 5:00 pm Featuring Five of Bradenton’s Finest Homes: Louis & Cristina Najmy - 3126 Riverview Blvd, Bradenton Tom Denslow THE SHOPPES AT ELF VALLEY - 2813 Riverview Blvd, Bradenton Daniel & Anne Douglass - 2801 Riverview Blvd, Bradenton The Vintage House SWEET SHOPPE - 2004 6th Ave W, Bradenton Dr. Brian & Dr. Melinda (Lacerna) Kimbrell - 219 N 18th St W, Bradenton

Tickets $15 in advance/$20 at the door For more information call (941)748-8579 or visit www.entrenousmanatee.org Entre Nous is a women’s organization dedicated to supporting Manatee County through scholarships, welfare and local charities.

CORTEZ ROAD LOCATIONS BMO Harris Bank 4502 Cortez Rd. W Flowers by Edie 4607 Cortez RD. W. Plain and Fancy 6804 Cortez Rd. W.

Ticket Sale Locations OTHER BRADENTON LOCATIONS Rusty Crickett’s 615-15th St. W. Sugar Cubed 1506-13th St. W Plain & Fancy 6804 Cortez Rd W PALMETTO/ELLENTON LOCATIONS: First America Bank 410-8th Ave. W., Pal Seychelles 1003 -10th Ave. W., Pal Palmetto Vlg Thrift Shop 333 10th Ave. W, Pal First America Bank 6204 US HWY 301N, EL Ace Hardware 7028 US Highway 301 N

ANNA MARIA ISLAND LOCATIONS: Hancock Bank 5324 Gulf DR, HB Anna Maria Island Comm. Ctr. 407 Magnolia Ave, AM LWR / EAST MANATEE LOCATIONS: Mixon Fruit Farms Gift Shoppe 2525-27th St. E C1 Bank 2025 Lakewood Ranch BLVD Crowder Brothers 2401 Lakewood Ranch BLVD C1 Bank 6000 SR 70 E Hancock Bank 9000 SR 70 E Hancock Bank 4770 SR 64 E SARASOTA LOCATIONS: Davidson Drugs 1281 S. Tamiami Tr LTM Party Store 5451 Fruitville Rd

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BRADENTON MANATEE AVE. LOCATIONS Bank of the Ozarks 1901 Manatee Ave. W Gateway Bank 2100 Manatee Ave. W Crowder Brothers 5409 Manatee Ave. W. Chop Shop 5906 Manatee Ave. W. Hancock Bank 5817 Manatee Ave. W. Josey’s Posey’s 6100 Manatee Ave. W. C1 Bank 7202 Manatee Ave. W. Frosted Over 5120 Manatee Ave. W. Latte Luna 2715 Manatee Ave. W.

Sarasota Christmas 2014

Experience the gift of Christmas in this fun and heart-warming Broadway style musical.

December 5-10

Performances: 7:00pm Matinee Performances: 3:00pm Matinees on Sat. & Sun. only

Tickets: $8, $9, $10

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MANATEE COUNTY Mall at University Town Center WHEN: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday through Dec. 23; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 24 WHERE: 140 University Town Center Drive RESERVATIONS: 552-7030 DeSoto Square Mall WHEN: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Dec. 1

through Dec. 4; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Monday through Saturday Dec. 5 through Dec. 18; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Dec. 7; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Dec. 14; 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 19, 20, 22 and 23; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Dec. 21; 9 to 6 p.m. Dec. 24 WHERE: 303 U.S. 301 Blvd., Bradenton INFO: 747-5868 Christmas Season Celebrated: Santa, Carriage Rides, Carolers WHEN: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 4, 11, 18 and 19 WHERE: Lakewood Ranch Main Street INFO: lakewoodranch.com A Night Before Christmas (G.T. Bray Park) Santa Claus will fly into G.T. Bray Park by helicopter.

WHEN: 4 to 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6 WHERE: 5502 33rd Ave. Drive W., Bradenton INFO: 745-3728 Breakfast with Santa (MacAllisters) WHEN: 8:30 to 11 a.m. Dec. 7 WHERE: 8110 Lakewood Main St., Lakewood Ranch RESERVATIONS: 359-2424 154241

Photos with Santa (Main Street Cinema) WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. Dec. 10 WHERE: Lakewood Ranch Main Street INFO: lakewoodranch.com Holidays Around the Ranch WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. Dec. 12 WHERE: Lakewood Ranch Main

Street INFO: lwrcac.com

Breakfast with Santa (Polo Grill and Bar) WHEN: 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Dec. 20 WHERE: Fête Ballroom at The Polo Grill, 10670 Boardwalk Loop, Lakewood Ranch RESERVATIONS: 782-0899 Lunch with Santa (Main Street Trattoria) WHEN: Noon to 2 p.m. Dec. 21 WHERE: 8131 Lakewood Main St. RESERVATIONS: 907-1518

SARASOTA COUNTY Westfield Sarasota Square Mall WHEN: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday Nov. 28 through Dec. 23; noon to 5:30 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 14; noon to 7 p.m. Dec. 21; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 24 WHERE: Westfield Sarasota Square Mall, 8201 S. Tamiami Trail INFO: 922-9609 Santa Jaws at Mote WHEN: Noon to 2 p.m. Nov. 29, Dec. 6, Dec. 13 and Dec. 20

WHERE: Mote

Marine Aquarium, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway INFO: 388-4441 36th annual Holiday Night of Lights WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. Dec. 5 WHERE: St. Armands Circle, Sarasota INFO: 388-1554 Holiday Lights Spectacular WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. Dec. 5 through Dec. 28 WHERE: Sarasota Jungle Gardens, 3701 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota INFO: 355-5305 Pictures with Santa at Children’s World WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 6 WHERE: Children’s World, 4525 Bee Ridge Road, Sarasota INFO: 955-6999 19th annual Holiday Parade Downtown Sarasota WHEN: 7 p.m. Dec. 6 WHERE: Main Street, Sarasota Flamingo Fantasyland to 9 p.m. Dec. 12 WHERE: Southside Village, 1900 Hillview St. INFO: 374-7779 WHEN: 5

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This Holiday Season

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What Could Be Better Than Fresh Flowers For The Holidays?

Join us after-hours to find that perfect Christmas gift!

December 4, 2014 – 8pm to 10pm

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Deck the Halls Boxwood Tree $54.95

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Give the Gift of Dance

Wishing You a Safe and Happy Holiday Season!

• Gift Certificates Available • Private Lessons • Group Lessons • Parties

Join us on December 18th 6:30-9:30pm

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Fruitville Road, Downtown, has been revitalized. Thanks to Marlene and Alex Lancaster, the small bungalows along the north side of Fruitville Road, Downtown between Osprey & Gillespie Ave., have been updated and remodeled. These bungalows, some built in the 1920s, have been refaced and painted bright cheerful colors. Local small businesses have planted their roots to become part of this new shopping and dining destination.

THE COOKIE COTTAGE

EMBELLISHMENTS

A fun and unique boutique specializing in home accessories, gifts and Interior Design. If you are looking for a gift for someone special, we also carry wonderful personal embellishments. We specialize in our concierge gifting service.

Made-to-order cookie/desserts.

All homemade. Cookie decorating classes, Girl Scout Classes and birthday party packages available.

Order via email, phone or in store. FREE delivery available for Sarasota area.

335 Gillespie Ave. 941.993.0671

Hours: Tues-Fri 10am-5pm Sat 10am-2pm

The Crystal Cave

Hours: Tues-Sat 11ish to 5ish Elsewhere Sun & Mon

Sellers of stones, crystals, mineral specimens, fossils, jewelry, books, gifts, etc. Head honcho Susan Moen has over 25 years experience working with crystals and stones. We will offer workshops and classes on crystal healing and pendulums, and readings. www.crystalcave.me 1899B Fruitville Rd. 941.346.6203

Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-4pm

1853 Fruitville Rd. 941.358.8025

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an eclectic gallery featuring original art, hand-crafted jewelry, unique gifts and more. Showcasing the creative talents of predominantly Florida and southern artists, you are sure to find the perfect gift for everyone on your shopping list! We also offer art classes and pottery painting for fun and inspiration!

Art & Gift Gallery

www.theartfulgiraffe.com 1861 Fruitville Rd. 941.388.3700

Hours: Tues-Sat 10am-5pm

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Don’t forget your constant companion when making your shopping checklist this holiday season.

π Put your creative skills to use. There’s probably nothing cuter than a dog wearing a miniature sweater, and what better way to show your pooch you care than to knit one yourself. If you’re not the crafty type, buy one at your favorite store. π Small stocking stuffers. To ensure your

cat or dog does not feel left out when it sees the rest of the family’s stockings above the fireplace, decorate its stocking with its name and some paw prints. Make sure to stuff the stocking with its favorite chew toys and treats.

π For the pet-lover in all of us. Buy an animal-themed calendar of your choice.

Not only will you be able to see your favorite pet 365 days a year, you now have a place to mark down all your pet’s upcoming vet visits and health reminders.

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π Massage master. Watch your pet savor relaxation as much as humans while you treat it to a massage. One acupressure spot for dogs is on top of the head, just in front of the top bone and between the ears. Back-and-forth motions will provide a calming sensation.

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π Pet first-aid kit. Make sure to keep all your pet’s essentials (including any medications they may need) in a tote bag that you can carry

HOLIDAY LIGHTS Join us for Live Entertainment, S’mores and a Visit from Santa!

with you on a trip to the park or to visit friends.

π Don’t forget about you. Customize a coffee mug, blanket or pillow with your pet’s cutest photo. π Pamper your pet. Most pets enjoy a trip to the day spa just like us. Take yours to its groomer for a trim and relaxation. π Tiny tree. One great way to jazz up your holiday decorations is to decorate a mini tree for your pet. Make a hole in one end of a treat and string thread through — instant ornaments. Just don’t be surprised if you find a few “ornaments” missing here and there! π Go natural. For present options for your pet, there are many kinds of organic and all-natural treats available. Either buy your pet’s favorite from a local store and watch it rip off the wrapping paper in a frenzy or bake your own using ingredients such as peanut butter (for dogs) and canned tuna and catnip (for cats). π Give back. Consider volunteering at your local animal shelter or favorite animal-rescue group over the holidays.

In addition, you also could have your pet certified as a therapy pet. Therapy pets visit hospitals and assisted-living facilities to bring smiles to people’s faces.

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on Main Street at Lakewood Ranch With stylish boutiques, great restaurants, a movie theater, a miniature golf course and tons of exciting events, Main Street is the place to be this holiday season!

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Stop in for a peck of fresh citrus and a bushel of Old Florida!

For generations, a perfect day in Florida has included a stop at the Albritton Fruit grove store. Visit us for the freshest local citrus , fudge, ice cream, gifts & treats and our full service Deli and Produce market, all served with a side of warm, Florida hospitality.

We’ll help you ship a little sunshine from our catalog, too.

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UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE Dec. 14: Standard Post (domestic) Dec. 17: Global Express Guaranteed for Asia/Pacific Rim, Australia/New Zealand and Middle East Dec. 18: Global Express Guaranteed for Africa Dec. 18: Global Express Guaranteed for the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Europe Dec. 19: Global Express Guaranteed for Canada and Mexico Dec. 20: First-Class Mail (domestic) Dec. 20: Priority Mail (domestic) Dec. 23: Express Mail (domestic)

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FEDEX These are the last days to ship with FedEx to ensure your domestic package will arrive before Dec. 25.

Dec. 12: FedEx SmartPost Dec. 17: FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery Dec. 20: FedEx Express Saver Dec. 22: FedEx 2Day A.M. and FedEx 2Day Dec. 23: FedEx First Overnight, FedEx Priority Overnight and FedEx Standard Overnight Dec. 25: FedEx SameDay

on South Siesta Key

LADIES FASHIONS SHOES • HANDBAGS MEN’S & CHILDREN’S CLOTHING JEWELRY • AND GIFTS

Dec. 20: Pickup service provided to regular Saturday pickup customers for air and international packages or if prearranged by Friday, Dec. 19. Delivery of UPS Worldwide Express, UPS Next Day Air and UPS 2nd Day Air packages processed and labeled for Saturday delivery.

Dec. 22: Normal pickup and delivery service. This is the last day to ship UPS 2nd Day Air packages in time for Christmas (arriving Wednesday, Dec. 24).

Dec. 23: Normal pickup and delivery service.

This is the last day to ship UPS Next Day Air packages in time for Christmas (arriving Wednesday, Dec. 24) Dec. 24: Normal delivery service for air, international and ground packages. Pickup service available for air and international shipments if prearranged by Tuesday, Dec. 23. UPS on-call pickup service and UPS drop boxes are available to all customers for air and international shipments.

Dec. 25: No UPS pickup or delivery service.

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Making Every Day Taste Like a Holiday for more than 40 Years!

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This holiday season, make charitable giving personal, meaningful and fun!

Purchase a Giving Spirit Card and share the joy of giving.

Select a Giving Spirit Card from a number of holiday designs and load it with a value of $25, $50, $100 or more. Cards can be conveniently redeemed online to benefit any 501(c)(3) public charity in the United States.

You receive a charitable tax deduction at the time of purchase, and the receiver experiences a gift that pays it forward.

For more than 35 years, we have been the Giving Spirit and Heart of Sarasota County. And we’re proud to share this avenue for charitable giving.

Purchase and redeem Giving Spirit Cards from the Community Foundation of Sarasota County online at CFSarasota.org or by calling 941.955.3000.

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Spruce up your table with some elements from the outdoors such as pine cones and branches. If you plan on purchasing a natural Christmas tree, ask if you can take home some of the trimmings or pieces of the trunk. The branches not only add color but also the aroma of pine, and the trunk pieces can be used to make ornaments. You can even spray paint or add glitter for a little more glitz. If you do paint pine cones, try to reuse them the following year as well.

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The holidays are also a time to polish off your finest china and stemware for dinner. One way to utilize pieces such as teapots and pitchers is as vases for a floral arrangement.

BEAN TOWN

Have you ever admired the variations of colors in a bag of beans sitting in your pantry? The bright green of split peas, the brown-andwhite-speckled pinto and the richtoned red beans can all be used in your holiday tablescape. Fill a vase with your favorite beans that you have in your pantry and place a flatbottomed candle, such as a pillar or votive candle, on top. If you really want to get creative, mix your favorite colored beans in layers.

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Needed: Mason jar, paper doilies, adhesive spray, finishing spray, small candle and ribbon (optional).

Cut doily to fit the jar. Spray adhesive on the back of the doily and press onto jar. Continue until the jar is covered. Wait 10 minutes for adhesive to dry, then spray jar with finishing spray. Wrap a ribbon around the neck of the jar. Put in candle, light it and screw on lid.

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