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OUR TOWN + Barr Dunn gets 100% for 50/50 Edith Barr Dunn presented the Kiwanis Club with a $3,680 check from her final 50/50 raffle at the Dec. 6 Longboat Key Gourmet Lawn Party.

Proceeds are typically split 50/50 between the winner and charities, but this year’s winner, Richard Diedrich, donated 100% of his prize.

+ Bell-ringers: The next generation?

Kiwanis Club President Armando Linde reports this story from a recent bellringing shift that makes us optimistic the tradition of bell-ringing outside Longboat Key Publix will live on in future generations.

A young boy, about 7 or 8, dashed out from a vehicle with a $5 bill for the kettle.

He said: “You do great work.

Merry Christmas!” We suspect the Kiwanis Club might recruit him someday for his own bell-ringing shift.

Glenda Leonard, development director at the Salvation Army, will speak to the Kiwanis Club at 7:30 a.m. Dec. 18, at the Longboat Key Club Tavern & Whiskey Bar.

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by Robin Hartill | Managing Editor

SMH plans for St. Armands clinic A hospital subcommittee approved the $3.6 million purchase of the property where St. Armands Medical Center is currently located.

A Sarasota Memorial Hospital subcommittee voted last week to approve a $3.6 million purchase of property near St. Armands Circle to build its sixth urgent care center.

If the hospital board approves the purchase at its Dec. 15 meeting, Sarasota Memorial would

purchase the land and building at 500 John Ringling Blvd., where St. Armands Medical Center and a Re/Max Platinum Realty office are currently located.

The purchase does not include the building’s medical practice, according to Frank Morgan, executive director of outpatient

services at Sarasota Memorial.

St. Armands Medical Center owner Dr. Edward Carlstrom, who owns the 5,476-square-foot property, said he plans to move his practice to Bahia Vista.

“I’m slowing down, and the walk-in business requires more energy,” said Carlstrom, 65.

Sarasota Memorial has considered building a clinic in the area for approximately five years.

“We certainly wanted to have a presence, but it was about finding the right location,” Morgan said. “We really felt we had a location that could serve not only St. Armands and Longboat Key but also Lido Key, Bird Key, Plymouth Harbor and certain ar-

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Aris Galati, 4, smiles in front of the Christmas tree at the 36th annual Holiday Night of Lights Friday, Dec. 5, on St. Armands Circle. Santa and Mrs. Claus lit up the Christmas tree following the Santa Parade. For more photos from the event, see page 18A.

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+ Bishop elected to USTA Florida board B.J. Webb Bishop is on board with yet another organization: She was recently elected as an at-large member of the U.S. Tennis Association Florida board of directors.

Bishop is also a member and former chairwoman of the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board and current president of the USTA Florida Foundation. She says it’s a wonderful opportunity to give back to a sport that has given much to her.

by Jen Blanco and Robin Hartill | Observer Staff

Sarasota Open bounces to Lakewood Ranch courts For the first time in six years, Southwest Florida’s premier tennis tournament will not take place at the Longboat Key Club.

The Sarasota Open drew more than 30,000 people to the Longboat Key Club Tennis Gardens in recent years — but in 2015 those athletes and spectators will head east.

Sarasota Open officials announced that next year’s tournament, scheduled for April 11 to April 19, will be held at the Lakewood Ranch Tennis Center.

Sarasota Open CEO Tony

Driscoll approached Paul Lederman, director of athletic center operations at Lakewood Ranch Tennis Center, about the pos-

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Longboat Key residents say the likelihood of a St. Armands urgent care facility does not eliminate the need for medical services on the Key. “A lot of people would like to have their own doctor, and consequently, Sarasota Memorial is not a primary care doctor,” said Dave Brenner, former Longboat Key vice mayor, who currently serves as managing director of the Longboat Key Foundation. “I think we still believe this is worth pursuing.”

The seasonal nature of Longboat Key’s population makes sustaining a medical practice a challenge. But with the Key’s median age of 71.4, many say that a medical practice is a necessity for the island.

Before retiring and closing her Centre Shops Family Practice and Urgent Care in May, Dr. Pamela Letts told the Longboat Observer she worried that elderly patients who seldom drive off the Key would not seek care and instead attempt to self-treat of self-diagnose instead of driving to the mainland.

Since Letts’ retirement, the Key has been without a family practice or urgent care provider.

The foundation has discussed the possibility of contributing capital to help with startup costs of a practice.

David Novak, a longtime practice management consultant, has worked to bring a medical practice to the island. He believes the Sarasota Memorial facility would have minimal impact on a hybrid practice model he believes would succeed on the Key. That model would offer boutique membership-based plans but would also treat individuals who do not have memberships and bill their insurance.

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Sarasota Memorial Hospital currently operates urgent care centers in the following areas: • Heritage Harbour, Manatee County • University Parkway • Bee Ridge Road, Sarasota • Stickney Point Road, Sarasota • Venice

“Many people who go to an urgent care center go when something pops up, such as injuries or when the primary care doctor’s is closed,” Novak said. “By definition an urgent care center is exactly that, not a place you go to on a regular basis, and what will work on Longboat is a full-time primary care practice where patients establish and develop a relationship with a primary care doctor.”

Meanwhile, if the hospital board approves the purchase of the St. Armands property next week, the next 60 days “will be homework time,” as hospital officials determine whether to renovate the existing building or demolish it, according to Morgan.

Ideally, the hospital would open the St. Armands facility in late 2015 or 2016. The facility will be Sarasota Memorial’s sixth satellite urgent care clinic.

Sarasota Memorial estimates a St. Armands facility could treat at least 9,000 patients annually.

Morgan described the need that the hospital’s urgent care centers fill in the community.

“The cost to go to an urgent care center, versus the cost to the emergency room, is just a fraction,” he said. “It’s more costeffective, but also, it’s more convenient for the community.”

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EMPTY NESTERS David Novak wants members of the public to know why they may soon see fewer cygnets in the waters of the Key.

Stan the swan was a nervous father in May, when he was briefly separated from his cygnets while they received veterinary care. He paced 50 feet away from the land bridge where they were captured, hoping for their quick return.

But that was seven months ago — and now, Stan is ready to be an empty nester again.

Swans are territorial in nature, and as their cygnets reach maturity, they begin to view them as intruders and attempt to push them out before mating again in the spring. Stan is no different.

“Stan is showing his displeasure by fighting and chasing away what are likely the male cygnets,” swan keeper David Novak said.

That means it’s time for the next step in Novak’s multiyear plan to stabilize the swan family population by eventually placing a samesex pair in each territory.

Centre Shops sale brings $3.7 million Tenants can expect a new parking lot in January and a more extreme makeover after season.

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Stan and Wendy with their latest cygnets earlier this year, four of which survived.

Sometime in December, he will capture this year’s eight surviving cygnets — four hatched from the nest of Stan and his mate, Wendy, and new nesters Sully and Susie produced the remaining four — for DNA testing to determine the sex of each cygnet for same-sex pairing. (Although cygnets were tested in May, only three tests yielded conclusive results, so Novak is starting from scratch.)

Novak hatched the plan for same-sex swan pairs to prevent overpopulation.

Swans mate for life and will

pair with a same-sex partner if placed together within the same boundaries.

Earlier this year, Novak matched the first same-sex pairs: females Clare and Gretta and males Nik and Bello.

Male-female swan pairs Stan and Wendy and Sully and Susie will remain together, but when they reach the end of their reproductive years, there will be no new cygnets on the Key. After he captures cygnets with help from volunteers, Novak plans to temporarily

hold the cygnets until results return so he does not have to release them and then capture them again. Cygnets will be fitted with a colored identification band and microchipped, and Novak will release the young swan into territories — some of which will most likely be off the Key. Novak wants the public to know why they may soon see fewer cygnets.

“Their parents are now seeing them as intruders. It’s forceful empty nesting. This should result in a more stable, docile population.”

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The Centre Shops of Longboat Key sold Dec. 1, for $3.7 million.

Longtime owner Don Roberts, listed on the deed as vice president of Centre Shops of L.K. Ltd., sold the shopping center to FH Centre Shoppes LLC, of Sarasota, according to Manatee County property records.

Tenants learned about the sale in a letter last week.

“We’ve known for a while that it’s been on the market,” said Gregory Koss, coowner of the David Gregory Salon in the Centre Shops. “Our hope is it’s someone who’s going to come in and take good care of it.”

FH Centre Shoppes lists Eric Howell, of Sarasota, as the managing memPROPERTY ber. Locally, Howell’s investment PROFILE groups also own Centre Shops 595.06 acres of land of Longboat east of U.S. 301 in Key Parrish and the Built: 1986 15,470-square-foot Shoppes of North Leasable area: Port.

37,880 square The purchase feet price of the Total space 37,880-square-foot available: 5,761 shopping center square feet equates to approxiOccupancy: mately $97 per 85% square foot.

Number of spacEarl Fossum, vice es available: president of ICORR Eight Properties International, which will Leasing price per manage the Centre square foot: $13 Shops, said parking Anchor tenants: lot repairs will be Lazy Lobster the first priority. of Longboat, “We’re hoping to Blue Dolphin get on the parking Café, Education lot in January,” FosCenter of sum said. “The way Longboat Key the lot is laid out, Source: LoopNet we’re able to section it and not cut it off to traffic.”

After peak season, the property will get a more extreme makeover, including new roofs, soffit and fascia, plus repainting.

“The property has some very obvious deferred maintenance issues,” Fossum said.

Susan Goldfarb, executive director of the Education Center of Longboat Key, was pleased to hear about plans for improvements, especially to the parking lot.

“I think that if they were going to do those very important repairs, it would be a very nice thing,” Goldfarb said. “But I am sad to say goodbye to Don Roberts.”

Roberts did not return calls seeking comment prior to deadline. He purchased the Centre Shops for $3,661,700 in December 1998, according to property records.

The Centre Shops is approximately 85% occupied and includes three restaurants, a bank, clothing and gift shops, offices, the Education Center and the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce.

Fossum said the property will remain a shopping center.

“The property has some character,” he said. “I think we need to take advantage of that and restore it.”

Fossum said he will conduct market research to determine the best use of vacancies, but he is pleased with the tenants currently located in the shopping center.

“It’s a pretty good mix, and it has a mix that services a lot of people,” he said.

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NEWSBRIEFS + Construction worker injured after fall from roof A construction worker was airlifted to Blake Medical Center, in Bradenton, after falling approximately 30 feet from the roof of a home.

The accident occurred around 3 p.m.

Dec. 4, in the 3400 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive. Police say Julio Cesar Galvan-Hernandez, of Bradenton, stepped on a piece of metal flashing on the roof, then slid off the roof and hit the ground while working for Bringman Roofing Inc. Galvan-Hernandez was conscious when police arrived and was bleeding from his nose and coughing up blood.

Longboat Key Fire Rescue assessed Galvan-Hernandez and transported him to Bayfront Park to be airlifted.

+ Former Windward Bay employee pleads no contest Former Windward Bay maintenance employee Michael Artman has pleaded no contest to burglary of an unoccupied dwelling, grand theft in the second degree and dealing in stolen property.

Longboat Key police arrested Artman in March on charges related to the theft of a resident’s $85,000 ring that was recovered in New York City. Police said at the time of his arrest that they suspected Artman was responsible for periodic thefts of jewelry and other small valuables throughout the community.

Sentencing is scheduled for 4 p.m. Dec. 16, at the Manatee County Judicial Center.

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+ Toys for Tots campaign continues at local businesses Businesses and government offices on Longboat Key continue to accept Toys for Tots donations.

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Dec. 12 at the following Manatee County Longboat Key locations: First Bank of Florida, the Longboat Observer office and Moore’s Stone Crab Restaurant.

Collections continue through Dec. 23 at Longboat Key Club, Longboat Key Town Hall, Grand Bay condos, Michael Saunders & Co.’s mid-Key office and Longboat Key Police Department.

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The presenting group was incorrectly stated in the Fall 2014 issue of SEASON Magazine.

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by Robin Hartill | Managing Editor

Fraud info a phone call away for Longboaters Longboat Key police have a new program they hope will educate residents about scams and identity theft.

Violent crime is rare on Longboat Key, but financial crime is another story. With its many older citizens, the Key is an attractive target for scammers.

“They have a nest egg,” Longboat Key Deputy Police Chief Frank Rubino said of the typical elderly resident. “They’re less likely to report fraud, and if they do report it, they’re less likely to remember all the details. They’re more likely to have been raised to be trusting.”

Police want to help residents avoid common scams that are becoming increasingly common not just on the Key, but throughout the country, so they’ve developed a new program to educate residents. The department will send an officer to give a presentation to any Longboat Key organization, including condo/homeowners associations, that requests one.

Many of the latest scams occur via phone, email or websites and originate overseas.

“They’re flooding the country with these things,” said Sgt. Detective Robert Bourque, who recently learned about the latest tactics scammers use at an FBI seminar in Orlando, referring to online phishers.

“They’re sending out hundreds of thousands of these things, and they only need a fraction of a percentage to respond.”

If an individual sends money overseas, it’s often impossible for authorities to recover. Although resources are available for identity theft victims, “it’s still a nightmare,” according to Bourque. Stolen credit card information often ends up on sites like Craigslist, where thieves sell account

and PIN numbers in batches.

“All of us get our credit cards compromised at some point,” Bourque said.

Phishers will often seek personal information by claiming to represent the Treasury Department, IRS or a bank or credit card company, but police stress that no legitimate agency or bank will seek unsolicited information — no matter how believable the caller sounds or how official the email or website appears.

“No government agency or legitimate bank is going to send them an email or call them on the phone and ask for all this info,” Bourque said. “They aren’t going to call and ask for a PIN number to verify information.”

If banks see suspicious activity, they will ask you to verify specific transactions but won’t ask for account information. The IRS will send a letter in the mail or an agent to your home if you owe back taxes. The agency does not accept phone payments — despite what callers say in a scam that’s become increasingly common on the Key and elsewhere in which they threaten to arrest you in minutes if you don’t send money right away.

Police urge residents to be vigilant by checking their credit reports, shredding bank statements and installing software that checks for malware, which can be used to access personal information stored on a computer.

“What we’re trying to do is educate citizens about fraud and the easiest ways to manage this,” Rubino said.

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A REPRESENTATIVE FROM YOUR BANK OR CREDIT CARD COMPANY What he/she says: “There’s suspicious activity on your account, so I need you to verify your account and PIN numbers.”

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sibility of moving the competition to the Lakewood Ranch Tennis Center about four months ago. The two sides began negotiating before reaching an agreement last month.

“Lakewood Ranch has a great stadium and a lot of growth,” Driscoll says. “It’s an excellent opportunity.”

Gail Loefgren, president of the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce, said the Sarasota Open brought the Key positive exposure.

“I think it was a signature event for the island, and I’m sorry to see it go,” she said.

The decision wasn’t an easy one, but one Driscoll felt was too big of an opportunity to pass up.

“They’ve been great,” Driscoll said of the Key Club. “They are great people (to work with) and provide first-class opportunity.

I couldn’t say enough great things about (Tennis Director) John Woods. The members are great, too. I think a lot of people will follow us (to Lakewood Ranch).”

“I think it will be great for club and Lakewood Ranch. They filled more than 31,000 seats last year, and we’re always trying to bring as many people to Lakewood Ranch as possible to develop the (area) and the athletic center,” Lederman said.

Jeff Mayers, general manager at the Key Club, gave the following statement to the Longboat Observer: “The Sarasota Open has been held at the Tennis Gardens at Longboat Key Club for a number of years, and we are pleased that during that time the tournament was able to grow into a $100,000 (prize purse) event, drawing top talent year after year. I am sure that its new location will offer opportunities for the tournament to continue to evolve. Events such as this draw visitors to our region allowing us to showcase everything our destination has to offer.”

The Sarasota Open is the premier men’s professional competition in Southwest Florida and attracts top players on the Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour. In addition to men’s singles and

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TICKET SALES Sarasota Open CEO Tony Driscoll hopes to have tickets available for purchase online and through the box office beginning Jan. 1. Season ticket holders and Lakewood Ranch Tennis Center members will have the first opportunity to purchase tickets.

Driscoll also plans to begin announcing players for this year’s Sarasota Open in January as well.

With more tennis courts available at the Lakewood Ranch Tennis Center, the Sarasota Open will change its general admission seating this year. A general admission ticket will allow guests access to the second stadium and outdoor tennis courts. Those wishing to see the action on center court will need to purchase a box seat. doubles tournaments, the Sarasota Open also features a smaller singles tournament for women.

“We have a number of juniors at the club, and it’s great for them to be able to go out and see that level of play,” Lederman said. “Hopefully it will encourage them to get more involved in tennis and show what they can do if they have that passion and work ethic.”

Sarasota Open officials plan to add stadium and bleacher seating around court one, the Lakewood Ranch facility’s existing stadium court, which will seat roughly 1,000 spectators and serve as the tournament’s nighttime stadium.

“We have so many members who will go on Longboat Key to watch the Sarasota Open and volunteer at the event that we just knew the demand would be so great for the area,” Lederman said.

Loefgren said it’s probably too late to attract a new event for 2015 but expressed optimism about possibilities for 2016.

“Hopefully, there will be a promoter who will take advantage of the vacancy,” she said.

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Condo construction brings Infinity of possibilities On Dec. 3, a groundbreaking ceremony celebrated the start of construction at Infinity of Longboat Key. The new condominium will have 11 units in a five-story building with 3,380 to 5,456 square feet. Prices range from $2,975,000 to $4.95 million, and five units have sold. Nine units will have three to four bedrooms and three-and-a-half to fourand-a-half bathrooms, and there will be two penthouse suites, which will have five bedrooms and five-and-a-half bathrooms.

Development of the 2.5-acre location has been underway since 2005, when a project called Bleu Claire was slated for the site. That project had a Mediterranean design instead of Infinity’s coastal contemporary style.

The property is the former home of the Holiday Beach Resort, which was demolished last year.

Development talks began again nearly two years ago, and the condos are expected to be completed in 12 to 14 months.

“What we have learned is there’s a real interest in privacy and a big size similar to a private residence,” said developer Randy Moore, of Crossgate Partners LLC. “(Buyers) also want to get away from the headache of maintenance. This gives them both.”

Condo amenities will include a beachside pool and spa, tennis courts, a clubhouse and fitness center. Each residence will have

Commissioner Lynn Larson, Mayor Jim Brown and Michael Saunders sliding 12- to 16-foot sliding glass doors and glass balconies, which will provide views of both the Gulf of Mexico and Sarasota Bay. Units will have private elevator access and two- to threecar garages.

Carrie Riley, of Riley Interior Design, is heading the interior planning and design, and Michael Saunders & Co. is the real estate broker. The project will be built by Tandem Construction and developed by Crossgate Partners LLC. Mark Sultana, of DSDG Inc., is the architect.

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Jeb Bush: true conservative Is former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush too moderate for the Republican Party?

That is all the talk.

But here’s a surprise: Adam C. Smith, political editor of the liberal Tampa Bay Times, authored this piece last Friday refuting with evidence that Bush as governor was “arch-conservative” and far from a “moderate squish.”

— Ed. Respected Ronald Reagan biographer Craig Shirley told the Washington Examiner recently that Jeb Bush is the latest in a line of Bushes who oppose Reaganism.

Radio host Mark Levin has dismissed Florida’s former governor as “a very good moderate Democrat,” while pioneering conservative activist Richard Viguerie for at least two years has been trashing Bush as a dangerous, big government Republican.

Meanwhile, much of the speculation about the 2016 presidential race lately centers on whether a moderate is a viable contender for the Republican nomination.

Jeb Bush, a moderate squish?

The governor who treated trial lawyers and teachers union leaders as enemies of the state? Who stripped job protections from civil servants? Who slashed taxes?

Whose passion for privatization included enacting the nation’s first statewide private school voucher program and extended to privatizing health care for the poor, prisons and child protection services?

This “very good moderate Democrat” defied court after court to try to force the reinsertion of feeding tubes for braindamaged Terri Schiavo and consistently backed more restrictions on abortions and fewer on gun ownership. He fought for reduced entitlement spending and, deriding nanny-state impulses, repealed the helmet law for motorcyclists in Florida and vetoed a GOP-backed bill requiring booster seats for kids in cars.

“For us who live in Florida, who experienced the eight-year Jeb Bush governorship, it’s almost laughable and maybe even hysterical for people who live outside of Florida to claim that he’s a moderate,” said former House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, himself a conservative Republican who led the opposition to Florida accepting federal money to expand Medicaid to more than 800,000 people.

“This is a guy who probably has as conservative a record as governor as anybody I’ve ever seen,” Weatherford said, “and he has one of the most successful records as governor of anybody I’ve ever seen.”

The specious perception of Bush outside of Florida reflects both a fundamental misunderstanding of the man, probably due to assumptions based on the presidential records of his father and brother, and also how far rightward the Republican Party has shifted since Bush left the Governor’s Mansion in 2007.

“He is thoughtful and informed, but there is nothing liberal about Jeb Bush. He is an arch-conservative,” said Dan Gelber, who as a Democratic leader in the Legislature respectfully and constantly fought most of Bush’s agenda. “He might have been moderate now and again, but even then it was probably by accident.”

Bush was not just a successful Republican governor politically; He was a conservative activist governor who relished pushing the envelope on policy.

Conservative activists elsewhere may revile the Bush name, but in America’s biggest battleground state this Bush is like a Milton Friedman or Barry Goldwater in terms of promoting conservatism. “(The) mere fact that he was able to propose and implement a sweeping change in Florida government during his two terms remains a notable achievement in state governance. It is also a notable achievement for the conservative movement, because Bush showed that conservatives could do more than offer tax

cuts; they could also change government in fundamental ways,” University of North Florida political scientist Matthew Corrigan writes in his new book, “Conservative Hurricane: How Jeb Bush Remade Florida.”

And yet Bush, 61, may be too moderate to win over today’s GOP primary voters.

Bush himself acknowledged as much last week when he suggested a successful Republican presidential candidate likely has to antagonize much of the party’s base, or “lose the primary to win the general.”

That’s because Jeb Bush, whether or not he is at heart more of a Reagan Republican than a George W. Bush Republican, holds positions on immigration reform and education that are toxic in a Republican primary.

When Bush governed Florida from 1999 to 2007, immigration reform was a minor issue here and nationally.

It’s a different world now. Mitt Romney helped kill Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s candidacy by bludgeoning him as soft on undocumented immigrants, and Marco Rubio is still trying to recover after embracing a pathway to citizenship in the Senate.

Likewise, back when Gov. Bush was at the vanguard of pressing for greater education accountability — and more private school vouchers — virtually every conservative political figure was on the same page.

Today, the Common Core education standards adopted by more than 40 states are widely vilified by Republican activists, as well as by former Common Core supporters considering presidential campaigns like Rubio and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.

Bush is expected to make a decision on running in the coming weeks, but he looks and sounds like a candidate. And strange as it may seem for those who know him best to think of him as a moderate, staking out that space may be the right path for him to win the nomination.

With so many other potentially formidable conservative candidates — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Kentucky

Sen. Rand Paul, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Perry, to name just some of the prospects — campaigning as the competent pragmatist willing to “lose the primary,” so to speak, could pull it off.

“If there’s multiple people in the race, you don’t need 51 percent to win,” noted former Pinellas County state Sen. Dennis Jones, who was an endangered breed, a moderate Republican, after Bush took over the Florida GOP and often butted heads with him.

Jones, though, hopes Bush runs.

“Jeb certainly was a lot more conservative than I was, but I know him to be a real tough thinker, and I always respected him for the fact he never needed a poll to tell him what his position would be and you never needed to worry about him keeping that position,” Jones said.

“When he brought a plan forward, he was down in the weeds and working with people to make sure it was going to be successful.”

But even Bush’s bona fides as a fiscal conservative are under attack because he has refused to pledge never to raise taxes under any circumstance.

All eight Republicans running for the 2012 Republican nomination said they would oppose any tax increase even if it was part of a deficit reduction package that included 10 parts of spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases. At a congressional hearing in 2012, Jeb Bush disagreed.

“If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we’re going to have $10 in spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement — put me in, coach,” said Bush, who also explained why he never signed an Americans for Tax Reform pledge to never raise taxes.

“Republicans were all holding out on not raising taxes, and he was a guy from Florida, a former, washed-up politician from Florida not involved in that fight … and he jumps in says, ‘I’d raise taxes.’

You’re either part of the team and you want to be leader of the team, or you want to be something else. His dad decided to be something else,” Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform told the Wall Street Journal last week, referring to George H.W. Bush’s broken “no new taxes” vow.

Yep, times have changed.

In late 2006, Norquist told the Palm Beach Post that Jeb Bush was America’s best governor: “He should change his name and run for president.”

Contact Adam C. Smith at asmith@ tampabay.com. Follow @adamsmithtimes.

Reprinted with permission. Copyright 2014 Tampa Bay Times.

THE BEST LAWN PARTY YET Indeed, Garey led the event so well this “Hey Michael” … “Hey Michael” … year’s luncheon was the most successful “Hey Michael …”

Those words must be ringing in Michael in the event’s 33-year history. More than $100,000 was generated in gross Garey’s head. He must have heard those revenues — for local scholarships and two words hundreds of times this past children’s charities.

Friday and Saturday before, during and Garey won’t take all the credit; after the Longboat Key Kiwanis he’ll tick off a list of big helpers: Club’s annual Longboat Key John Wild, Jim Larson, Corey Gourmet Lawn Party.

Schaul, Bill Herlihy, Susan Garey, proprietor of Longboat Phillips, Steven Branham, Key’s Lazy Lobster restaurant, Asima Palmer, James Linkogle, was this year’s event chairman.

Glenn and Elisabeth Peterson Which means he was the and Garey’s wife and daughter, proverbial chief cook, bottle Catherine and Jenna, not to washer, organizer, ticket mention all of the restaurants seller, logistics chief, greeter, and beverage providers that restaurant recruiter, set-up/ donated their food, drink and takedown chair, trash-pickerstaffs. upper, cheerleader, motivator At one point when the preand all-everything Answer Man. luncheon scene had a tinge That question mark on his of chaos, Garey said: “This is T-shirt worn during the event Kristen Herhold nothing. If you can cater relief made total sense. If you needed workers after a hurricane, you an answer, Garey had it or found Michael Garey: He knows how can do anything.” Great job, Mr. it. He had everything under to throw party.

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NOV. 25 LONG-LOST FRIEND 9:06 a.m. — 6500 block of Bayou Hammock Road. Burglary. A man told police he was looking for his friend, Bubba, after he forced open the bedroom sliding glass door of a home. The man had been wandering through the yard of the home and ignored the resident when he asked him what he was doing. Police determined that he was possibly under the influence of substances, although he did not have any in his possession. Firefighters took his vital signs and medically cleared him before police transferred him to the Manatee County Jail.

CORNER 12:48 p.m. — 2600 block of GMD. Public Service. A woman received a scam email thanking her for her purchase of airline tickets for Nov. 28. Police determined the email was a phishing attempt to get her personal information. The woman does fly on the airline the sender claimed to represent and received confirmation that the tickets she purchased are for December.

HE SAID, SHE SAID 1:04 p.m. — 3200 block of Bayou Road. Disturbance. A driver yelled at a woman after she pulled her vehicle to the curb to talk to her friends on the sidewalk.She followed the driver to his home and told him he scared her. He told her to learn how to drive.

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2:08 p.m. — 1000 block of GMD. Civil Disturbance. Two painters got into an argument over one painter’s performance.

One painter said the other had been yelling at him all day about his work, and he told him to leave him alone and let him do his job. After his co-worker asked him to step outside, he called the company’s owner to complain. The co-worker said he has to go back and redo all of the painter’s work, including cleaning up his mess.

1:50 p.m. — 500 block of Jessmyth Drive. Suspicious Circumstance. Police received a report of suspicious subjects and checked the area for individuals on golf carts. A maintenance worker told police he was training a new employee and had been in the area on a golf cart within the last 20 to 30 minutes.

12:37 p.m. — 500 block of Bowsprit Lane. Boat. A caller reported a Jet Ski

3:14 a.m. — 4300 block of GMD. Traffic. Police stopped a driver for not staying in the traffic lane. The driver said he was looking for a place to fish and did not realize how late it was. He said he was tired, having difficulty with his legs and is scheduled for surgery. He agreed he would feel safer taking a taxi home.

9:55 a.m. — 5900 block of GMD. Harassing Phone Call. A woman said she used a lawn service one time last year and paid for the service, but the company’s representative claims she signed an annual contract. The company has contacted her multiple times, telling her she owes varying amounts, and she sent a letter requesting they stop further attempts to collect the debt. Police gave her a copy of debt collection regulations but told her it was a civil matter.

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NOV. 27 BURIAL AT SEA 9:34 a.m. — 100 block of N. Shore Road. Greer Island. Police found a canoe near Longboat Pass that’s buried in the sand and were unable to dig it out. The canoe’s mooring line apparently broke, causing it to drift to its current location.

7:14 a.m. — 500 block of Spinnaker Lane. Suspicious Circumstance. A woman was sleeping with the TV on and awoke to the sound of knocking. She was not sure whether it was real or on the TV.

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RED EYE 2:20 p.m. — 5400 block of GMD. Public Service. A man noticed a video camera tied to a tree behind his home and said it was emitting red light toward his residence. He said he knew why the camera was installed, but the situation had been corrected. The neighbor who installed the camera agreed to take it down immediately.

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Members of the Code Enfocement Board are about to get what they have waited more than two years for: cases.

The Longboat Key Code Enforcement Board has not heard a case since 2012.

Does the lack of hearings mean that Longboaters are a code-compliant bunch?

That didn’t seem to be the case when new Code Enforcement Officer Chris Elbon presented statistics from September through November at the board’s Dec. 8 meeting. It was the first Code Enforcement Board meeting since February, when the board met Jeff Karr, who had just been hired for the code enforcement position but left four months later.

Prior to that, board members called meetings in April Elbon and June of 2013 to ask why the town wasn’t using the board to hear cases.

Elbon provided board members with a breakdown of statistics from September through November, during which he opened 178 cases and closed 131 cases.

Of the cases he opened, 123 of those were for sign violations, most of which involved real estate signs.

“Instead of taking the signs that didn’t have the permits, I turned them into individual cases,” Elbon said.

Elbon also told the board that he worked through a backlog of 40 cases, most of which involved high weeds and grass or trash and debris. In many cases, the property had been brought into compliance long ago, but the case had not been closed.

Elbon said the focus in the past appeared to be on unpermitted work and turtle-related cases.

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Board member Joel Mangel expressed concern about the information the board received in the past.

“I think the fact that we’ve gotten some misleading information is relevant,” he said.

Mangel praised Elbon for the information he provided.

“It bodes well for our future,” he said.

Past PZB Director Robin Meyer had told the board last year that then-Code Enforcement Officer Amanda Nemoytin was bringing properties into compliance before owners had to come before the board.

Elbon plans to put the board to use: He told board members he will likely have cases to present to them at their Feb. 9 meeting.

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WORSHIP SERVICES

Mary Petruccione Hongen

Georgiana Albright, 96, of Plymouth Harbor, died Dec. 2.

Born June 4, 1918, in Cleveland, Mrs. Albright attended Wittenberg University, in Springfield, Ohio, and graduated magna cum laude in 1941. She met her husband, David Albright, at the university.

Mrs. Albright enjoyed classical music and played the cello in her high school and college orchestras. She and her husband were frequent travelers and belonged to golf courses on Longboat Key and in Akron, Ohio, North Carolina and Colorado.

Mrs. Albright was a Plymouth Harbor resident since 1999.

Mrs. Albright was preceded in death by her husband, David, and daughter, Peggy Ginaven. She is survived by her son, David, and two grandsons.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Dec. 19, in the chapel of Plymouth Harbor, 700 John Ringling Blvd., Sarasota. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to Wittenberg University, P.O. Box 720, Springfield, OH 45501.

Mary Petruccione Hongen,100, of Lakeland and Longboat Key, died Nov. 26. Born Jan. 19, 1914, in Amsterdam, N.Y., Mrs. Hongen graduated from Rider University, in Lawrenceville, N.J., in 1935 with a degree in business education.

She married Milton Hongen in 1937, when Hongren he was beginning his career with General Motors. They moved from Trenton, N.J., to Michigan, Ohio and Indiana during his long career.

Mr. and Mrs. Hongen lived part-time on Longboat Key for 40 years and purchased a Lakeland home in 2004.

Mrs. Hongen loved and was loved by her large extended families and the many friends she made throughout her life.

She was an active volunteer and a longtime member of PEO. She

enjoyed traveling, reading, opera, working crossword puzzles, playing bridge and dominoes and entertaining friends and family.

Mrs. Hongen was preceded in death by her husband of 68 years, Milton. She is survived by her son, Robert Hongen, of Bloomington, Ind.; daughters Mary Alice Hoepfinger, of Cookeville, Tenn.; and Karen Cardman, of Lakeland; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Hongen’s family extends thanks to her caregivers, Leah Sancimino and Josephine Harmer, whose care allowed her to remain in her homes in Lakeland and Longboat Key for the past three years.

A memorial service will take place at 1 p.m. Dec. 20, at Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Longboat Island Chapel Scholarship Fund, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, FL 34228, or the charity of the donor’s choice.

All Angels by the Sea 563 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key All are welcome. Please join us in worship!

388-1234 starmandschurch.org Contemporary Sunday worship services are at 9 a.m.; fellowship and education at 10 a.m.; and traditional Sunday worship services at 11 a.m. The Rev. Mark Bernthal is the pastor.

Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian, USA 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive, 383-8833 christchurchlbk.org Sunday worship services are at 10 a.m. The Rev. Norman Pritchard is the pastor.

St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive, 383-1255 stmarylbk.com Sunday Masses are at 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.; daily Masses at 9 a.m.; and Saturday Masses at 5 p.m.

Msgr. Gerard Finegan is the pastor.

Longboat Island Chapel 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive, 383-6491 longboatislandchapel.org Adult education is at 9 a.m., and Sunday worship services are at 10 a.m. The Rev. Vincent Carroll is the minister.

St. Armands Key Lutheran Church 40 N. Adams Drive,

Temple Beth Israel 567 Bay Isles Road, 383-3428 tbi-lbk.org Shabbat services are at 8 p.m. Fridays and 5:30 p.m. the last Friday of the month; and 10 a.m. Saturdays.

Jonathan Katz is the rabbi.

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All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church 563 Bay Isles Road, 383-8161 AllAngelsLBK.org Sunday worship services are at 8 and 10 a.m. The Rev. David Danner is the rector.

TOWN OF LONGBOAT KEY PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING DECEMBER 16, 2014

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BY SECTION 163.3184(3), FLORIDA STATUTES; AMENDING POLICIES 1.1.5(A), 1.1.5(B), AND 1.1.6 OF OF THE THE FUTURE USE ELEMENT TO AN ORDINANCE TOWN LAND OF LONGBOAT KEY,RELATED FLORIDA, REDEVELOPING NONCONFORMING PROPERTIES; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; APPROVING ADOPTION PROVIDING FOR FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. AMENDMENTS TO THE TOWN’S

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The Rev. David L. Danner, D. Min., Rector

Sunday Service 10:00 AM

COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 163.3184(3), A Public Hearing before the Planning and Zoning Board on the proposal will be held on FLORIDA 1.1.5(A), December STATUTES; 16, 2014, at AMENDING 9:00 a.m., or asPOLICIES soon thereafter as may1.1.5(B), be heard, AND at the1.1.6 Town Commission Chambers,LAND Town Hall, 501ELEMENT Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, OF THE FUTURE USE RELATED TO Florida.

REDEVELOPING NONCONFORMING FOR All interested persons may appearPROPERTIES; and be heard with respectPROVIDING to the proposed amendment.

Copies of the proposed amendment and related material may be viewed at the Planning, SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Zoning & Building Department, 501 Bay Isles Road, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

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Public Hearingamendment before will theaffect Planning and theZoning Board on ofthe The proposed property within corporate boundaries the Town of Longboat Key as shown on the map appearing at the bottom of this advertisement. proposal will be held on December 16, 2014, at 9:00 a.m., or No verbatim record by a certified court reporter is made of these proceedings. Accordingly, TOWN OF LONGBOAT KEY any soon person who may seek toasappeal anybe decision involving matters noticed herein will be as thereafter may heard, at the the Town Commission responsible for making a verbatim record of theZONING testimony andBOARD evidence at these proceedings PLANNING AND Chambers, Town Hall, Bay Isles Road, 286.0105, Longboat Key,Statutes.).

Florida.In upon which any appeal is to501 be based (see Section Florida NOTICEwithOF PUBLIC HEARING accordance with the Americans Disabilities Act and Section 286.26, Florida Statutes, persons needing apersons special accommodation to participate inheard this proceeding should contact the All interested may appear and with respect to the DECEMBER 16,be2014 Town Clerk’s office at 941-316-1999 forty-eight (48) hours in advance of this proceeding. If proposed amendment.

Copies of the proposed amendment and you are hearing impaired, please call 941-373-7002.

Please take notice that the Town of Longboat Key proposes to adopt the following ordinance: related material may be viewed at the Planning, Zoning & Building Allen Hixon, Chair 2015-02 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Department, 501 Bay IslesORDINANCE Road, between Planning and Zoning Board AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LONGBOAT KEY, FLORIDA, APPROVING FOR Published 12/11/2014 weekdays.

QuestionsTO may directed to the Planning, & ADOPTION AMENDMENTS THEbe TOWN’S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ASZoning REQUIRED BY SECTION 163.3184(3), FLORIDA STATUTES; AMENDING POLICIES 1.1.5(A), Building Department at 316- 1966. The proposed amendment will 1.1.5(B), AND 1.1.6 OF THE FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT RELATED TO affect propertyNONCONFORMING within the corporate boundaries of the Town of REDEVELOPING PROPERTIES; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Longboat Key as shown on the map appearing at the bottom of this A Public Hearing before Planning record and Zoning on the proposal be held on advertisement.

No the verbatim byBoard a certified court will reporter is December 16, 2014, at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as may be heard, at the Town made of these proceedings.

Accordingly, any person who may seek Commission Chambers, Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, Florida. to appeal any decision involving the matters noticed herein will be All interested persons may appear and be heard with respect to the proposed amendment. responsible for making a verbatim recordmay of bethe testimony and Copies of the proposed amendment and related material viewed at the Planning, Zoning & Building Department, 501 Bay Isles Road, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 evidence at these proceedings upon which any appeal is to p.m. be weekdays. Questions may be directed to the Planning, Zoning & Building Department at 316based (see Section 286.0105, Florida Statutes.).

In accordance with 1966. The proposed amendment will affect property within the corporate boundaries of the Town Americans of Longboat Keywith as shown on the map Act appearing the bottom of this advertisement. the Disabilities andat Section 286.26, Florida No verbatim record by a certified court reporter is made of these proceedings. Accordingly, Statutes, needing a special accommodation to participate this any person persons who may seek to appeal any decision involving the matters noticed hereininwill be responsible for making a verbatim record of the testimony and evidence at these proceedings proceeding should contact the Town Clerk’s office at upon which any appeal is to be based (see Section 286.0105, Florida Statutes.). In 941-316-1999 forty-eight (48) hours in advance of Statutes, this accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 286.26, Florida persons needing a special accommodation to participate in this proceeding should contact the proceeding.

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PARTY FOR THE PALATE Riana Rawson was in Orlando, making a presentation for her company, Go Touch Down Travel and Tours, when colleague Helen Lynch called and asked her if she was sitting down. She wasn’t.

Her co-worker, JoAnn Thomas, snapped a photo of Rawson taking the call — still standing — as she learned she was $20,000 richer because she had won the grand prize of the Longboat Key Gourmet Lawn Party raffle.

Rawson, who is general manager of the company’s St. Armands Circle branch, said she has bought plenty of raffle tickets in her life but had never won anything. She purchased her ticket from John Wild on Friday.

“It was for a good cause, so I didn’t think twice to buy a ticket,” she said.

Rawson will use part of the winnings to sponsor her parents, who live in her native South Africa, to move to the U.S. “It’s quite a sum of money, so this is going to make a dream come true,” Rawson said.

She is also looking forward to spoiling the people close to her this Christmas.

She has already told her nieces they will go to SeaWorld for the holiday.

“I’m going to use this money to make memories,” Rawson said.

— Robin Hartill

Norah Browne sells 50/50 raffle tickets, which raised $3,500.

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Holly Baran (right), with Longboat Key Gourmet Lawn Party Chairman Michael Garey, celebrates winning the second prize of the raffle.

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The Longboat Key Kiwanis Club’s biggest fundraising event of the year was bigger than ever this year. The fourth annual Longboat Key Gourmet Lawn Party grossed more than $100,000 before expenses — an event record.

The Lawn Party took place Dec. 6, at the Longboat Key Club Islandside Driving Range, and included food and drinks from nearly 30 area restaurants and a raffle with a grand prize of $20,000. Between 470 to 480 raffle tickets were sold, and the grand prize winner was Riana Rawson.

The 50/50 raffle — the final raffle contest that founder Edith Barr Dunn will organize — also raised approximately $3,500.

All money raised at the event benefits local children’s charities. Proceeds from the raffle go toward scholarships for local students.

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Santa Claus’ first stop in town was St. Armands Circle.

On Dec. 5, the 36th annual Holiday Night of Lights on St. Armands kicked off the holiday season on the Circle.

The event began with Sarasota High School theater/drama department’s performance of various Christmas carols, which was followed by the arrival of Santa and Mrs. Claus who lit up the Circle’s Christmas tree following the parade.

LIGHTHOUSE POINT GULFSIDE $8,900,000 Gated 5BR with private beach and gulffront pool.

Michela Lombardi, 3, greets Santa.

SPECTACULAR BAYFRONT ESTATE $8,700,000 5BR 10,000 sq. ft. masterpiece. Views plus dock.

BAYFRONT POINT 4BR ESTATE $8,200,000 One private acre+ separate guest house. Boat docks.

SPECTACULAR BEACH FRONT $5,395,000 One-Of-A-Kind 6 BR/ 5 BA Secluded private setting w/ expansive views of gulf waters, beach & sunset.

POSITANO GULF FRONT PENTHOUSE $3,950,000 3BR/3BA + den. Superb amenities & finishes.

Shellby and Lila Kemper, with Turbo Rhythm, of the Racing Dog Retirement Project

Savannah Galati, 11 months, sports a Santa Claus suit.

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DREAM ISLAND ROAD $1,623,000 4BR canal home on sailboat water w/dock & lift.

GRAND MARINER BAYSIDE $1,600,000 - $2,400,000 Luxury 3,200 - 3,600 SF 3BR condos with boat docks.

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HIDEAWAY BAY HOME $1,995,000 Fishing pier, lift & dock on Sailboat water w/ exceptional bay views.

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BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME ON LONGBOAT KEY 3BR PENTHOUSE CORNER LOCATION $348,000 Wide canal lot on Dream Island Rd. $849,000 Two large private porches, no shared walls in Gulf to Deep water canal in Sleepy Lagoon $600,000 Bay community w/ beach, boat dock & fishing pier.

Jungle Queen Way lot close to beach $425,000

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Sarasota, The Beach Residences $2,749,000 3/3 Judy Kepecz-Hays 941-387-1825 MLS#A4108416 81727

Longboat Key, Sanctuary $1,550,000 3/2.5 Roger Pettingell 941-387-1840 MLS#A4106263 73024

Sarasota, Laurel Oak Estates $1,260,000 5/6 Longboat Key, Pierre $1,199,000 3/3 The Barbara Ackerman Group 941-387-1820 MLS#A4107960 79272 Bruce Myer 941-387-1859 MLS#A4107945 79276

Longboat Key, Hideaway Bay $2,900,000 4/5 Judy Kepecz-Hays 941-387-1825 MLS#A4107027 79241

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Bird Key $2,495,000 Lynne Koy, 941-387-1862 Owner motivated! 2 homes on 2 lots, 200 ft of sea wall on Dolphin Waterway. MLS#A4108742 81712 Myakka City $679,000 Carolyn Donnelly, 941-387-1835 Custom 3BR w/den, 3000 sf newer home on 10 acres w/lake & many upgrades. MLS#A4106452 79211 Pelican Cove $595,000 The Barbara Ackerman Group, 941-387-1820 Capture marvelous comforts in this gracious 3BR/2+BA condo. MLS#A4102883 74448 Sunset Towers $439,000 Sandra LaFlamme, 941-961-5069 2/2 waterfront, panoramic gulf & bay views. Near bayfront & downtown. MLS#A4108687

Sarasota, 1350 Main $645,000 2/2 Mary E Hale 941-323-2371 MLS#A4108676

Downtown Sarasota $194,900 Tammy Garner, 941-366-8070 3/2 across from Gillespie Park w/tennis court & lake. Live/work area. MLS#A4108954

The Keys Longboat Shores $6,995,000 Gabe/Charles Buky, 941-387-1864 A luxurious lifestyle awaits you in this 5BR/5+BA home. Metal roof. MLS#A3996971 79283 Direct Bay Front $3,849,000 Linda Weber, 941-387-1863 Bayfront home 4725 sq.ft. All one level, within gates of LBK Club. MLS#A3991576 79205 Longboat Key $1,650,000 Lynne Koy, 941-387-1862 Spectacular bayfrnt 3BR/3BA, w/gated courtyard lg deck, beach access! MLS#A4108470 95169 Longboat Key Estates $849,000 Judy Kepecz-Hays, 941-387-1825 Lovely home on sailboat water w/dock. 3BR, pool w/deeded beach access.

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Longboat Key, Inn on The Beach $989,000 2/2 Gabe/Charles Buky 941-387-1864 MLS#A3979093 78631

University Park $445,400 2/2.5 Michael/Mary Nell Moore 941-387-1851 MLS#A3990928 77475

Emerald Pointe South $750,000 Peter Brennan, 941-228-1315 Answer your most cherished dreams with this tile-roofed 3BR/3+BA villa. MLS#A4107291 35536 Siesta Key $749,000 Carolyn Donnelly, 941-387-1835 Waterfront home mins to bay or build new, desirable neighborhood, steps to beach.

MLS#A4105095 79288 Salty Acres Condo $749,000 Mary Clarke, 941-544-0021 Gift yourself with gracious styling in this inspired 2BR/2BA condo. MLS#A4108809 35537 Country Club Shores $465,000 Roger Pettingell, 941-387-1840 Seek your bliss in this tile-roofed 3BR/2BA waterfront home. MLS#A4108016 77476 Privateer South $449,000 Bruce Myer, 941-387-1859 2BR/2BA nicely furnished home in updated, modernized, gulf front community! MLS#A4107541 79264 Cedars East $264,900 Team Vitale, 941-705-4478 Turnkey furnished 2BR/2.5BA townhome. Most popular tennis resort on LBK. MLS#A4106065 45020

Manatee Sarasota, Broadway Promenade $359,000 2/2 Martina Coppenrath 941-387-1853 MLS#A4108876 95180

Riverdale $359,900 Nancy Fitch, 941-383-6411 Welcome home to this bright & open Key West style home. This home sparkles! MLS#A4107381 79266

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BRIGHT & CHEERY 2BR/1.5BA, offering breakfast bar in kitchen. Features carport, plenty of storage & covered sliding glass door entry. Active 55+ community with deeded beach access. $87,500 Mary Moore & Dia Wilson #M5836031 D

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NICE AND COZY 2BR/1BA Mobile Home in an active community. Fishing on the bay and shuffleboard are some of the activities available with deeded beach access and marina. $99,900 Dia Wilson & Mary Moore #M5841236

SWEET CONDO IS FURNISHED and ready to go!

2BR/1.5BA is a great investment or week-end getaway.

Two pools, boat docks when available, private beach, kayak storage & much more. $224,900 Kelly Belisle #M5900074

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

Ken Nelson with his grandson, Malachi, 5

Casa Del Mar celebrates Christmas, Florida style

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

On Dec. 5, Casa Del Mar Beach Resort held its annual owners’ holiday party.

The event was tropicalthemed, and guests received leis at the entrance and drinks in coconut- and pineapple-shaped cups.

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

HOLIDAY SPECIALS AT THE WICKER INN BEACH RESORT Need an extra room? Nightly and weekly availability. FREE night w/ weekly rental. Relax by the pool or lounge on the beach. Charming cottage ambiance, decorated in Florida pastels, surrounded by gorgeous tropical landscaping. Come and enjoy the absolute serenity.

Reservations: 941-387-8344 For property management, call Bonnie Wiedeman 941-383-5577

5360 Gulf of Mexico Dr. Suite 101, in the Centre Shops, Longboat Key

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

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Oversized screened lanai for maximum garden view. Nightly rentals available. $399,000 Mary Moore & Dia Wilson #M5835441

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

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MLS#A3990234 ........................ $1,995,000

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

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

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DON’T MISS

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

Porsches in the Park — takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in St. Armands Circle Park. Suncoast Motorsports will host its 10th annual

Extraordinary Lifestyle

What: Tennis players of all levels are invited to The Observer Challenge, which pits coed teams of four against each other.

The kickoff cocktail party is free for participants and $10 for others. Participation in the tournament costs $30. Call 316-8367.

When: A cocktail party kicks off the event at 4:30 p.m. Dec. 11. The first day of the tournament is from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Dec. 12. Semifinals continue from 7:30 a.m. to noon Dec. 13. Finals are 7:30 a.m. to noon Dec. 14.

Where: Longboat Key Public Tennis Center, 590 Bay Isles Road

Tai Chi Class — takes place from 10 to 11 a.m. at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road. Classes take place every Friday until spring. Tai chi is an ancient Chinese martial art that provides health benefits and longevity.

Call 383-8161.

SATURDAY, DEC. 13

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FRIDAY, DEC. 12

Skin Screenings to Detect Skin Cancer — take place by appointment only beginning at 1:30 p.m. at Aging in Paradise Resource Center on the second floor of Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Dermatologist Dr. Erin Long, of Intercoastal Medical Group, will provide screenings. If further evaluation is necessary, patients will receive a form to take to their physicians. Call 383-6493.

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Porsches in the Park event on St. Armands Circle. To register, call Margharita Komyati at 921-8007.

TUESDAY, DEC. 16

Sandpiper Men’s Group — takes place at 11:30 a.m. at All Angels by the Sea, Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road. Guest speaker Robert Barylski will lecture on Russia and Ukraine. The speech will begin at 12:30 p.m. Call 383-8161 to reserve lunch.

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

Cortez Yacht Club 11th annual Lighted Boat Parade — begins at 6 p.m. at Moore’s Stone Crab Restaurant, 800 Broadway. The parade will continue to the Seafood Shack Marina, 4110 127th St. W., Cortez. An after party will follow at the Bridge Tender Inn, 135 Bridge St., Bradenton Beach. The entry fee is a toy or donation to Toys for Tots.

The grand prize is $500; other cash prizes will be awarded. Register online at CortezYachtClub.org.

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530 HARBOR POINT RD - Freshly manicured canal front lot in Bay Isles Harbor Section. $1,350,000

LONGBOAT KEY TOWERS #804S - 2BR/2BA end residence.

Updated, open floorplan with panoramic views. $1,149,000

BAYOU - 3280 Bayou Road - 4BR/3BA “built to last” home, oversized pool lanai and serene, private lake views. $899,000

PLAYERS CLUB #A102 - 3BR/2.5BA, furnished home. Partial Gulf and pool views, and under-building parking. $699,000

GRAND BAY #145 - 3BR/2Full/2HB, beautifully turn-key furnished with golf course and bay views. $889,000

PRIVATEER #204S - 2BD/2BA furnished condominium home in freshly updated gulf front community. $449,000

BAYOU - 3181 Bayou Sound - 2BR/3BA+Den, private pool, spa and dock on deep water channel with no bridges. $895,000

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ATRIUM - 2120 Harbourside Dr. #618 - 3BR/3BA home with spanning bay & city views, and private walk-down. $895,000 ATRIUM - 2110 Harbourside Dr. #537 - Bayfront 3BR/2BA home with spacious, open plan. Mostly furnished. $869,000 Fairway Bay #416- 2BR/2BA home with private walkdown, covered parking and expansive bay views. $479,000 LONGBOAT KEY MOORINGS - The west coast’s largest marina has a 45’ slip just for you! $64,500

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By Adam Hughes | Research Editor

Four-bedroom Lido Key home sells for $1,115,500 BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of Dec. 1 through Dec. 3, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive) Address Permit 4700 GMD Interior 3615 Fair Oaks Place Addition 3810 GMD Windows

100 Sands Point Road Doors 650 Emerald Harbor Drive Window and door 6040 GMD Re-roof 3440 GMD Wall

Certificate of 760 Dream Island Road occupancy

Robin Hartill

This home at 1143 Morningside Place has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,013 square feet of living area. It sold for $1,115,500.

The following residential real estate transactions took place between Nov. 24 and Nov. 28.

A home on Lido Key tops all transactions in this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real estate. Robert and Susan Thill, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1143 Morningside Place to George and Lindsey Capps, of Sarasota, for $1,115,500. Built in 1959, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,013 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.1 million in 2005.

Sunset Beach on Longboat Key

Douglas Fiske, of Sarasota, sold his Unit 3204 condominium at 2105 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Deanne Rife, of Longboat Key, for $659,000. Built in 1984, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,463 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $630,000 in 2012.

Sand Cay

James and Marina Butler, of Mundelein,

Applicant Amount Richard Meibach $89,291 Branton Miller $80,000 Robert Morgan $12,467 Sands Point Condominium Association $4,950 Jeanne Musorofiti $4,628.80 David Miller $3,500 Craig Wood $2,000 John Sullivan

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Ill., sold their Unit 117 condominium at 4725 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Umme Jiwaji, of Sarasota, for $608,000. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,032 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $599,900 in 2003.

Bayport Beach and Tennis Club

Frances and Jack Heller, trustees, of Longboat Key, sold the Unit 524 condominium at 524 Bayport Way to Ziv and Shelly Sarig, of Pepper Pike, Ohio, for $433,500. Built in 1980, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,531 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $330,000 in 2001.

Cedars East

Stephen and Sandra Retford, of Oakland Park, sold their Unit 3 condominium at 605 Cedars Court to Satya and Anjanipriya Tallamraju, of Munster, Ind., for $257,000.

Built in 1988, it has two bedrooms, two

baths and 1,332 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $170,000 in 1999.

LIDO KEY

Lido Ambassador

Wells Fargo Bank, trustee, sold the Unit

604 condominium at 800 Benjamin Franklin Drive to John and Lucy Brackett, of Lansing, Kansas, for $335,000. Built in 1978, it has one bedroom, one-and-a-half baths and 900 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $453,500 in 2005.

4765 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # B102 #A3974664 $2,975,000 Ingrid Caruso

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741 Hideaway Bay Drive #A4103504 $2,895,000 Saint Cacchiotti

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3060 Grand Bay Boulevard #A4109140 $2,600,000 Michael Moulton

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

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

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-504-3303

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

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

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

114 N Warbler Ln #A3988690 $1,595,000 Timothy P. Field, P.A.

Bird Key 941-383-7591 941-350-0332

210 Sands Point Road #A4107506 $1,150,000 Ian Addy Pa

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

3565 Mistletoe Lane #A4104717 $999,000 Julie Klick

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3010 Grand Bay Boulevard #A4108819 $859,000 Julie Klick

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5444 Gulf Of Mexico Dr #A3997003 $3,999,500 Richard Perlman

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760 Lyons Lane #A4109012 $795,000 Sherri Mills

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545 Rountree Dr #A3996752 $769,000 Michael Yawitz

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-587-8091

228 Van Buren Drive #A4101537 $750,000 Rinat Sikdar

Lido Key 941-383-7591 941-993-9292

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

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

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

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2525 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 8B #A3968382 $664,900 Sandi Layfield

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

614 Buttonwood Drive #A4108833 $650,000 Tak Konstantinou

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-374-1606

1085 Gulf Of Mexico Drive #A4107956 $645,000 Jenifer Schwell

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

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

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Roger Parent with his painting “Clean Sweep,” a rendering of a street in Beth Brewer, Virginia Sanders and Ron Johnson San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.

Arts Center gets brush with watercolor artists

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Barbara Eisenberg, Phyllis Lishnoff and Lois Barson

3440 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 6 #A3996889 $445,000 Susan Smith

1926 Harbourside Drive #A4108601 $399,000 Julie Klick

225 Sands Point Road #A4100632 $299,900 Rory Jaret

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The Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design, hosted the opening for the traveling show of the Florida Watercolor Society’s 43rd annual exhibition Dec. 4.

One hundred artists from around the state were selected for the show, 34 of whom have their works on display through Dec. 19, in the Durante Gallery.

“Our objective is to further communication around the state about what you can achieve with watercolor,” Kathy Durdin, Florida Watercolor Society’s director of operations, said. “We want people to see the exhibition who otherwise wouldn’t if it weren’t traveling.”

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JOHN GUBERNAT SERVICES Residential/ Commercial. Handyman Repairs, Roof Repairs, Coatings, Painting, Power Washing, Property Management, Home Watching. LBK Resident. Lic./Ins. 941-962-4867.

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o matter where Kris Parins goes, ideas are always swirling all around her. She’s always looking for her next painting: the way the light hits an object, the way colors pop out of a landscape.

With a father who loved to paint watercolor and an uncle who worked in the graphic design field, Parins’ interest, passion and talent for art was all but inevitable.

When she moved in 2003 to Sarasota after a career in advertising and design as a graphic artist, Parins found the perfect outlet for her creativity in the Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society, which she joined as soon as she heard about it.

“I was blown away by how organized, welcoming and supportive they are,” says Parins.

“It’s very inclusive, and there is something for everyone.”

The Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society has been championing, presenting and teaching the art and craft of watercolor for more than 30 years. Founded in 1983, FSWS has combined the talents of retired artists up and down the west coast of Florida who share a love of watercolor.

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“Breakfast with Tiffanys” by Kris Parins

We’re all friends who share and learn from each other. — Mary Louise Ringers Converging their talents with at least three juried shows a year, the society’s watercolorists have shown regionally, nationally and abroad. The society’s next juried show will be held Dec. 11 through Jan. 16, at the Art Center Sarasota. The fact that Dean Mitchell, one of the most awarded and accomplished watercolor artists, is the juror of the exhibition speaks to the society’s quality.

Although it serves as a platform for its most awarded talent, the FSWS at its core is a supportive and educational community of artists of every skill level.

“People aren’t closed off about their process,” says Mary Louise Ringers, president of the society.

“We’re all friends who share and learn with each other. There’s a lot of camaraderie in the Suncoast.”

With regular public workshops, classes and juried exhibitions in Englewood, Sarasota, Bradenton and Anna Maria Island, the Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society is an organization fueled by passion and learning.

“When you come down here from another place with no family or friends, you immediately pick up a connection with people who are like-minded and social,” says Jerome Chesley, former art professor and vice president of the FSWS. “When I found the Florida Suncoast, I latched onto it.”

Friendliness and fraternity notwithstanding, what makes the society is the stunning watercolor art its members produce. Diane Schmidt, a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, was raised

in Tucson, Ariz., and worked as an artist for Hallmark Cards while living in Kansas City, Mo. Schmidt’s portfolio is filled with striking and powerful watercolors that blur the lines between abstract and portraiture.

“It’s the first society that I ever joined,” says Schmidt. “It really was a launching pad for me and has made me a better artist.”

Schmidt constructs her abstracts, which burst with intense and exact colors, through a formalized process. Instead of the typical method of spontaneously splashing paint over the canvas like a feverish Rorschach test, Schmidt is methodical in vision and application. There’s always an idea.

For Parins, she trains her eye like an Olympic athlete, always searching for her next piece. Every car ride, trip or errand is po-

tential location casting for her next work. With her camera always by her side, Parins captures moments of people and places that tickle her artistic fancy.

“I’m very inspired by the contrasts of light and dark in what I see during my travels,” says Parins. “I’ll spend a fair amount of my time looking at all these photos and manipulating them on the computer until I have a good subject for a painting.”

Parins’ artistic vision is characteristic of the other watercolorists in the group.

“It’s a way of memorializing something I get excited about,” says Parins, “and it’s nothing monumental but subjects more from everyday life.”

Attraction and attention to the remarkable in everyday life is a major theme for members of the Florida Suncoast Watercolor So-

ciety. Ringers, Chesley, Schmidt and Parins all expressed a delight of instilling in a viewer a lingering eye, to pause and reflect on the beauty that surrounds them.

“I hope people walk away after seeing one of my paintings with a realization that it’s a beautiful world,” says Ringers.

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MOBILE MASTER James Jordan walks down the hall with a light grace. He is a dancer and educator with an erudite and unassuming air.

But make no mistake, this ballet dancer and new ballet master and répétiteur at the Sarasota Ballet has grit.

The Sarasota Ballet hired James Jordan earlier this spring to join its close-knit and respected dancing family and community. Along with seasoned Director Iain Webb, répétiteur and Assistant Director Margaret Barbieri, ballet master Pavel Fomin and resident choreographer Ricardo Graziano, Jordan will be instrumental in Webb’s ongoing mission of continuing Sarasota Ballet’s reputation for creating quality productions of popular and rare classics. Sir Frederick Ashton’s “La Fille mal Gardée,” Dec. 19 and 20, at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, is a fulllength and technically challenging piece that Jordan dove into with the company at the beginning of the season.

“It’s been such a thrill to be a part of that Ashton masterpiece,” says Jordan. “It really is such a special work.”

Jordan’s journey into dance has been one of intense study, travel and determination. However, unlike most dancers, there wasn’t a central teacher or role model who encouraged Jordan to study ballet. It all came from within. He stumbled across a

makeshift ballet class that a few of the cheerleaders from his rural high school in Staunton, Va., were taking from a Mormon woman who taught in a church basement on a concrete tile floor.

This early episode in his dance career would come to characterize Jordan’s dance journey: an odyssey of constantly searching for the best place to dance, constantly bettering his technique and uncovering and documenting works on the brink of extinction.

Jordan’s first stop after graduating high school was the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Though initially enrolled in the school’s theater department, Jordan discovered the Richmond Ballet. He was quickly drafted into the company and offered a scholarship due to his classic, tall body type and the company’s natural shortage of men to lift their ballerinas.

“It was a positive starting experience,” says Jordan, “but along with that there were these 13-year-old wunderkind girls who were dancing circles around me and giggling at this 6-foot-tall man who didn’t know practically anything.”

However, Jordan’s time at VCU only lasted a year, and he transferred to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, N.C. There Jordan would meet the man who would cement his life in the bal-

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James Jordan, rehearsing with corps de ballet dancer Abbey Kay, is bringing more than 30 years of craft to the Sarasota Ballet. letic arts: Todd Bolender.

A renowned dancer, choreographer and teacher who came of age during the Great Depression, Bolender originated numerous roles in works by George

Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Bolender recruited the young Jordan and three others in his class for the opportunity to dance for his company at the Kansas City Ballet.

James Jordan brings experience and determination to the Sarasota Ballet.

“It was an opportunity to be a part of a virtually new company where I wouldn’t just be stepping into someone else’s shoes on the back row,” says Jordan. “I was going to be a part of a new idea.”

Over nearly the next 30 years, Jordan amassed countless hours of dancing, teaching and staging ballet for the Kansas City Ballet as a principal dancer, teacher, ballet master and répétiteur. And now, in his first year as a part from the Sarasota Ballet, he’ll continue a new facet of his ballet story: conservator. Jordan will work to revive those pieces from dance masters long gone by collaborating with dancers from the original productions.

As a member and répétiteur of the Antony Tudor Ballet Trust, Jordan has striven to produce, preserve and record the steps and choreography of the British master’s most popular and obscure works while at the Kansas City Ballet. Jordan should find kinsmen in his quest to preserve Tudor’s choreography because Sarasota Ballet is the American home of Ashton’s works, choreography and legacy. Jordan hopes to perform more Tudor pieces and feels his contribution will only expand the ballet’s already impressive repertoire.

“I feel like I’ve gotten on a fastmoving train that’s going uphill,” says Jordan. “It really is a glorious time, and the past is so rich but the future is so limitless.”

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Jorge Blanco’s work goes GLOBAL After his first showing at Christie’s in New York, Sarasota artist Jorge Blanco reflects on his worldwide reach.

Do you sell most of your pieces via auction or through private exchanges?

I deal directly to the collectors and through galleries and art dealers.

Dominican Republic Caracas, Venezuela Colombia

How has the art world changed between when you started and now?

Indonesia

Punta del Este, Uruguay

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS JORGE How do you begin a new work?

I begin by sketching out ideas.

After this I make small maquettes in paper; sometimes I make slightly larger ones in metal. After this I draft the final drawings to begin the construction process.

Everything is carefully thought out.

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Today there are more new forms of expression because there are new technologies and new materials. But, at the same time, there is more trash art and more fake art.

What is the highest price a piece of your art has sold for?

Ninety thousand dollars.

What inspires you?

The joy of living.

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United States: Petoskey, Mich.

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Europe: Switzerland Belgium France Spain Germany

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Blanco, a Venezuelan artist, recently had his first showing and auction at Christie’s in New York; the piece sold for $20,000.

Blanco’s work can be found in cities large and small across four continents. A retrospective of his work is currently on display at the O. Ascanio Gallery until Dec. 21 and was featured during Art Basel Miami.

“The most significant aspect of the art festival is the valuable interchange between thousands of expressions and millions of people around the world in four days,” says Blanco. “Another significant element is that my work is seen by thousands of people who appreciate and understand my sculpture. This, for me, is very exciting. I enjoy it very much.”

We talked with Blanco about his journey and the artistic process:

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The Voice Within

John Burr instructs burgeoning actors and performers in the field of voiceover.

John Burr is Sarasota’s resident master, teacher and expert on all things of recorded voice.

Although his career has included everything from working as a professional trombone player to being the assistant conductor of the U.S. Air Force’s Singing Sergeants chorus, Burr found work as a voiceover actor by happenstance.

After years working in traditional music and theater, Burr built a recording studio in the 1980s in Washington, D.C., aimed at symphony and orchestra recording. However, he soon seized the vast market for quality voiceover work after various actors asked for assistance on vocal delivery and recording.

“The largest misconception most people have is that they think voiceover is easy,” says Burr. “It isn’t, and one of the first things my students say when they first start working is, Nick Reichert ‘Man this is hard.’”

John Burr giving student Trine Bølling some vocal delivery notes in his home studio.

In 2003, Burr and his wife moved to Sarasota. Burr slowly itable voiceover talent pools in sional in the studio. His ears, That in-person teaching is esmoved his lucrative production the state. powered by decades of listening sential for what Burr does — he studio from D.C. to Florida. That Burr instructs all of his stu- and musical performance, ana- re-teaches students how to read business included voiceover dents one-on-one in his invit- lyze every syllable, sound and and speak. work by himself and his stu- ing home studio. Though his sentence his students say.

“There’s an aspect of acting, dents for Fortune 500 compa- house is packed with a library’s “I’m one of the few people in English language dynamics and nies such as IBM, Marriott, Xe- worth of books on film and per- the country who does one-on- how they are going to use the rox and Lockheed-Martin. And, formance and features art that one training exclusively in per- language,” says Burr. He articusince 2011, Burr has taught and nods to fanciful animation, son and via Skype for students lates to his students when and developed one of the most prof- Burr is pragmatic and profes- abroad,” says Burr. what words to hit in their deliv-

ery, what to emphasize, where to insert upward and downward inflections, and where to pause.

And he teaches them to avoid the most common beginner’s mistake: talking too fast.

“The whole thing about voiceover that’s so important is to get to the point that when you deliver a script it sounds so real to the listener they’d swear you were talking to them,” he says.

Authenticity is the prime quality when it comes to voiceover performers’ most common jobs such as ads, museum audio tours, digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri, documentaries, audiobooks and, during heated election years, political attack ads. And in a world where male voices were the industry norm, female voiceover performers have increased exponentially in recent years with clients wanting the soothing, and relaxed mood the female voice exudes.

But no matter the gender of the voiceover performer, it all comes back to the connection a live performer creates with his audience.

“You have to have a common sense about human interaction,” says Burr. “I’m not just reading and recording a script.

I’m talking to somebody with purpose and honesty.”

One of the first things my students say when they first start working is, ‘Man this is hard.’

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warm. Shepherd’s characters are flawed human beings, not plaster saints. The love they share feels real.

— Marty Fugate

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// ‘A Christmas Story: The Musical’ Just in time for the holidays, The Players has unwrapped “A Christmas Story: The Musical,” with book by Joseph Robinette and music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. It’s an adaptation of Bob Clark’s 1983 film adaptation of Jean Shepherd’s fictionalized memoirs of his pre World War II Indiana childhood. As holiday classics go, it’s up there with “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”

Many Christmas musicals celebrate the sacred story behind it all. This isn’t one of them. As the kids on “South Park” observed, Christmas is about one important thing: presents. In this case, a child’s mad obsession with a BB gun, specifically, an “official Red Ryder Carbine-Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time.”

The kid doing the obsessing is Ralphie, the stand-in for Shepherd. His parents and every adult authority figure in sight tell him, “No. You’ll shoot your eye out.” Eyesight aside, at December’s dawn, Ralphie begins a stealthy campaign of manipulation to achieve his heart’s desire. Along the way, tongues are stuck to frozen flagpoles, bullies are trounced, and his father (aka “The Old Man”) wins a “major award” in the form of a lascivious leg lamp. In case you’re one of the five people in America who hasn’t seen the movie, I won’t tell you if Ralphie gets the rifle or not — but what do you think?

It’s a delightfully unsentimental view of childhood. At one point, Ralphie says the “F-word.” Mom demands to know where he heard it. Ralphie knows that if he says, “Dad,” the Old Man will never buy him that BB gun — so he fingers his innocent friend Flick (Noah Kunkel), instead. Flick gets

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“A Christmas Story: The Musical” runs through Dec. 21, at The Players Theatre, 838 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. For more information, call 365-2494 or visit theplayers.org. loudly whipped, off stage. Not cute, eh? No. But an honest depiction of preteen realpolitik.

The busy Berry Ayers directs and choreographs, coordinates the music and puts in an appearance as a stereotypical Chinese waiter. Ayers has the audience eating out of his hand from the get-go. Most were movie fans, preloaded with visions of sugarplums, flag poles and leg lamps dancing in their heads. But the material’s funny even if you’ve never seen the original.

Judah Woomert has a strong stage presence as Ralphie — acting in character, not just hamming it up. He has a clear, distinct voice and you can actually understand what he is saying — always a plus in a child actor. Ryan Modjeski is funny as his food-hating younger brother, Andy. Props

also to Kunkel’s long-suffering, lamppostlicking, scapegoated Flick. Jeffery Kin hits it out of the park with his take on “The Old Man.” Great physical comedy; great take on a long-suffering, old-school dad with a heart of gold who’s wound a little too tight.

Alyssa Goudy’s sprightly spin on Ralphie’s mom reminds me of the matriarch on “That ’70s Show.” Kay Siebold is hilarious as Ralphie’s tight-laced teacher, Miss Shields — especially in a fantasy sequence where she appears in a spangled cocktail dress and belts out a torch song. With his perfect radio voice, Allen Kretschmar is ideal as the adult Ralphie, narrating his dreams of childhood.

There’s an unflinching truth to those dreams. The story has a cynical edge.

Surprisingly, that makes it all the more

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Brash, bright, in your face, sensitive, embracing, vulgar, honest, upright and decadent, American music is, by nature, like America, itself. As a people we are full of contradictions, and that’s what composers Ron Nelson and Joan Tower emphasized in their works, which opened the program.

Nelson’s popular “Savannah River Holiday Overture” is sprightly, optimistic and dazzling, filled with lots of brass and percussion, and would work well as the soundtrack for a Superman movie or a 1960s big-city television detective program. Tower’s poly-rhythmic, multi-metered “Sequoia” is a big-tone poem that paints the concentric circles of the rings on the trunk of the giant redwoods with a tonal palette that expands to include 20th century musical languages.

The orchestra played both really well, even though Haile, a left-handed conductor who wields not a baton but a pencil, beat time more than he painted colors with the forces he had at hand. There was little attention paid to dynamics or subtleties beyond those the composers had printed into the scores. Still, Haile did a good

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job holding everything together, and the Sarasota Orchestra was able to do some really outstanding work without much help from the podium.

Aaron Copland’s affecting “Lincoln Portrait” fared better with Haile holding the ensemble in check while the glamorous and beautifully spoken actress, Tamara Tunie, read the patriotic and poignant words of the 16th president of the United States. Even with the extraordinary and imposing memory of the voices of Marian Anderson, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, James Earl Jones and Carl Sandburg echoing in my ears, Tunie gave a reading of these texts that was moving, passionate and dignified, lending just the right weight and emphasis to, “That is what he said.

That is what Abraham Lincoln said.” Those words, underscored by Copland’s music and the orchestra’s playing, were inspiring, stirring and memorable.

The Copland was cleverly juxtaposed with Samuel Barber’s poignant and tender “Adagio for Strings.” Written originally as a movement in a string quartet, this piece — often played at funerals — has been arranged (mostly by the composer) for various combinations, from string orchestra

to chorus. For this performance with the lustrous strings of the Sarasota Orchestra, Haile laid down his pencil and conducted beautifully, using both hands to elicit sweeping phrases and warm sounds from the ensemble.

Unfortunately, for the finale of the concert, Gershwin’s beloved “Rhapsody in Blue,” the conductor chose to be soloist as well as conductor, and failed in both roles. Leaving aside the multiple wrong notes he played, it was one of the weirdest performances of this well-known work I’ve ever heard. The Steinway was almost inaudible at times, sounding muffled and underpowered. The pianist’s phrasing was inconsistent and fitful, especially toward the finale when he set one tempo for the orchestra and another for himself. Who would do that? And why?

One other thing must be mentioned. I’m all for conductors speaking to their audiences, but they need to temper their talks with a sense of who and what that audience is. Haile, who addressed us as if we were at a young people’s concert, was longwinded, condescending and embarrassing. Please.

Unless you’re a Leonard Bernstein, let the music speak for itself.

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the deep blue goodbye John D. MacDonald’s Siesta Key home was the birthplace of the Florida crime novel.

The MacDonald house, center, is one of a dozen homes that line the narrow sandbar called Point Crisp.

McGee was born.

Travis McGee, the knight in slightly tarnished armor, the rescuer of damsels in distress.

Six-foot-four, powerfully built, deeply tanned, usually needing a shave. He and his creator pioneered a new kind of novel, one that changed American literature. The hard-boiled Florida crime novel soon came to dominate the bestseller lists and, not so incidentally, gave impetus to the burgeoning environmental movement. It was a cry to action against the corrupt forces

that would destroy the delicate ecological balance for their own profit.

One look from the windows of MacDonalds’ second-floor study and workroom and it’s easy to see from where this passion came. The setting is spectacular. The room is modest in size but has full water views to both the north and the south.

Birds swoop by, lizards dart here and there — even a few full-size iguanas — and tropical vegetation sways gently in the breeze. The only thing missing

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tine they would follow decades to come. The house on Siesta Key in the winter, then a trek north to the Adirondacks for a summer at the lake.

MacDonald’s book “The House Guests,” published in 1967, gives an evocative look at life on the Key back in those long ago days. Air conditioning hadn’t taken over; windows were left open and their beloved cats — the houseguests of the title — wandered in and out at will. Neighbors were always dropping by, often with injured

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The home’s original living room also served as Dorothy MacDonald’s painting studio.

A later owner added the caged pool that separates the main house from the guest house. wildlife, for they knew the MacDonalds were a soft touch for any wounded creature. Everybody in town knew everybody else and the social life was informal but active, especially for members of the town’s art colony, the writers and painters who originally gave Sarasota the cachet it still enjoys today.

The MacDonald home was also pretty typical of the way people lived back in those days. It was located on Point Crisp, a sandbar that inexplicably juts out into the bay about a mile or so south of the Stickney Point Bridge. Local lore says the home’s original owner, the man who developed Point Crisp residentially, won it in a poker game. It’s tempting to surmise that this inspired Travis McGee’s acquisition of his famous houseboat, the Busted Flush. It also was won in a poker game.

As they became more prosperous the MacDonalds enlarged

The entrance to the home is across Point Crisp Road from the property’s dock.

the home, which stood on about an acre. They added a guesthouse and extended the living room. Dorothy, an accomplished amateur painter, used the former living area as her studio. But John always claimed the upstairs room — reached by a spiral staircase — as his own sanctuary.

The MacDonalds sold the house in 1970 and moved to a larger home that looked out over Big Pass, designed for them by their good friend, architect Tim Siebert. Over the years, the Point Crisp house went on to have a succession of notable owners.

One of them, Richard Peterson, became famous for an adventure that seems right out a MacDonald book. A TWA pilot, he was flying a 727 from Rome to Athens, Greece, in April 1986, when a terrorist bomb went off. Four passengers were killed and a large hole was blown in the side of the plane, but Capt. Peterson kept his head and landed the plane

safely in Athens. He became the Sully Sullenberger of his day.

Later, Dr. Masood Rehmani, a prominent child psychiatrist who spent 30 years working in Sarasota, treating private patients and developing programs with local hospitals and school boards, bought the Point Crisp home. The doctor’s brother, Qamar, recalls how the home’s gentle tropical atmosphere and many fruit trees — mango and lychee — reminded his brother of his native India. Full circle, in a way — MacDonald’s first published story was entitled “Interlude in India” and dealt with his experiences in New Delhi during World War II. *** Rehmani died recently and the Point Crisp home has come on the market. Even MacDonald would be realistic enough to accept the fact that, for all its history and charm, whoever buys the place will probably tear it down

and replace it with a $10 million mansion — it’s the last beach shack left on Point Crisp, an anomaly next door to its glamorous, almost overpowering neighbors. The price tag certainly reflects the unique location — an eye-popping $3.2 million.

But if his birthplace is disappearing, Travis McGee is getting a second wind. The series is finding a whole new generation of readers thanks to e-books, and 20th Century Fox is planning a film version of “The Deep Blue Good-Bye.” Variety reports that Christian Bale is the leading contender for the role of Travis.

Not bad for a character dreamt up in a room over a garage on Siesta Key more than 50 years ago.

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The Humane Society of Sarasota County hosted its 22nd annual Hot Dogs and Cool Cats “Laugh Your Paws Off” Gala Saturday, Dec. 6, at The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota. Furry friends on the red carpet welcomed guests, who then socialized during the cocktail hour, which featured shot tails (a homemade apple brandy, provided by Co-Chair Alli Werner). Following dinner in the ballroom, guests enjoyed a silent auction and paddle raise hosted by Les McCurdy and Ken Sons and the evening entertainment continued with standup comedy from Sinbad.

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ennifer Compton and Nikki Taylor hosted a French-inspired baby shower for Meghan Serrano’s baby-girl-to-be Saturday, Dec. 6, at Lolita Tartine. The shower featured a pink Champagne toast and a traditional French marzipan and buttercream cake with fresh berries — with well wishes for the baby written in French on the top of the cake. The room décor was French chic and the takeaway girly gifts were from Lollicake Queen. Spotted at the shower: Adria Jensen, Marjorie Broughton, Jane Thompson, Molly Kasperson and Kathryn Carr.

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alletomanes may be the most enthusiastic of arts lovers. It certainly appeared so at Balanchine-Tuckett-Bruce presented by the Sarasota Ballet Nov. 21 and Nov. 22. The performances featured live music by the Sarasota Ballet Orchestra and, for Tuckett’s Lux Aeterna, the Key Chorale. Joseph Caulkins conducted both. The ballet presented Lux Aeterna in January of this year, but this was its first appearance here with live music ­— and so emotional an experience that Managing Director Mary Anne Servian and board President Hillary Steele were encouraging their friends to bring plenty of tissues.

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sota premiere of “Sergeant Early’s Dream.” At the post performance reception on opening night, director Iain Webb described asking Christopher Bruce if his relationship with the Houston Ballet was an exclusive one, to which Mr. Bruce replied, “I’m not exclusive with anyone,” leading to collaboration between the Sarasota and Houston companies.

Ballet Master and Repetiteur James Jordan, who joined Sarasota Ballet from Kansas City earlier this year, was at the reception, enthusing about the “great camaraderie among the artists of the Sarasota Ballet and the healthful competition.”

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SARASOTA BALLET PRIVATE RECEPTION

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Benefiting Sarasota Ballet Tuesday, Dec. 3, at private home

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Sara Sardelli, Iain Webb and Nancy and Bob Plummer

Frank Lyman Days Wednesday, December 17 12:00pm - 8:00pm Reception with wine & hors d’oeuvres 5:00 - 8:00pm

Hosts Katie and Jesse Biter

Thursday, December 18 12:00pm - 5:00pm

Bill and Ellen Cornelius

Ricardo Rhodes, Ellen Overstreet, Logan Learned and Victoria Hulland

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CAUSE 4 FASHION

BY THE BAY Benefiting Neuro Challenge Foundation for Parkinson’s Thursday, Dec. 4, at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

Photos by Heather Merriman

Sandy Cowing and Lee Dougherty Ross

Wendy Hopkins with Jeffery and Jocelyn Stevens

Jennifer Grondahl and Debbie Dannheisser CoChairs Gana Gilkey, Sharyn Weiner and Doreen Sutherland

Pat Pantello, Janet Walter and Brian Lipton

Ingrid Kozak, Alex Rydel, Redenta Picazio and Lynne Fales

DISCOVER WHAT’S ON GREET THE LIGHT cELEbRaTIon DEC 20, 7:00 PM

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$15 / $10 for Members Escape the pressures of the holidays for an evening.

Celebrate the winter solstice in the Courtyard with fire dancers, specialty drinks, and DJ.

HoLIDaY nIGHTS aT CA’ D’ZAN DEC 11, 5:00 – 8:00 PM, included with Admission Explore Ca’ d’Zan during extended evening hours.

Dressed for the holidays, Ca’ d’Zan features festive decor and holiday trees.

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Man’s best friend has appeared in art since ancient times. This lecture will look at the dog as an artistic and cultural symbol over the past 500 years.

The Sarasota Ballet School Summer Intensive provides a unique opportunity to be considered for both the Margaret Barbieri Conservatory of Dance and the internationally recognized Sarasota Ballet.

FaMILY WoRKSHoP: In THE SWInG oF THInGS DEC 13, 1:00 & 3:00 PM, $5 per Child Explore the physics of pendulums by looking at flying trapeze artists, followed by activities and painting in this program for children 4–10.

Start planning your future this holiday season and book your audition slot.

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MEN, WHISKEY AND WATCHES Benefiting Child Protection Center Thursday, Dec. 4, at Edson Keith Phillippi Mansion Photos by Heather Merriman

Bobby Bonilla, Chad Williams, Jason Lozeau and T.J. Nutter

Co-Chairs Amanda Lopez and Courtney Edbrooke

Mike and Tina Granthon

Sally Schule and Michele Schlossberg

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Katie and Michael Moulton

Wayne Rollins and Richard Lawrence

masterworks c o n c e r t: “ i n l o v e ” Make Date Night Musical This program features three of music’s most celebrated love stories. Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration narrates the final hours of a man as he reminisces about his memories, ideals, and loves. Tchaikovsky’s arresting Romeo and Juliet Overture needs no introduction. Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé shimmers with delicate sensuality. You’ll have the rare treat of hearing the flugelhorn performed by a soloist renowned around the world for his mastery.

January 9 - Neel January 10 & 11 - Van Wezel Anu Tali, Music Director | Sergei Nakariakov, flugelhorn

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HAUTE FOR THE HOLIDAYS Benefiting Habitat for Humanity Friday, Dec. 5, at The Francis Photos by Heather Meriman

Co-Chairs Michelle Crabtree and Victoria DeRosier

Debbie McLean, Susan McGill and Sylvia Smith

Dolores Berrien and Cheryl Neal

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Kristin Elwell and Lindse Miller

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Live musical performances that Entertain, Engage, and Inspire!

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Give the Gift of Dance

27TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF TREES, LIGHTS AND HOLIDAY GIFTS

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Benefiting The Florida Center for Early Childhood Friday, Dec. 5, at Michael’s On East

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

Sheryl Vieira, Rebecca Blitz and Renee Phinney

Dynasty Dance Clubs Annual Holiday Party for dancing, refreshments, holiday cookie contest, and a fabulous holiday themed show.

dynastydanceclubs.com 941-955-8558 2272 Main Street, Sarasota 34237 (Off Lime Avenue)

Happy Hour Monday-Friday 4pm-6pm Happy Hour Specials on Food and Drinks!

Honorary Chairs Thomas and Barbara Brown

Veronica and Jay Brady

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December 13th & 14th, 2014 Saturday & Sunday 10:00 am - 4:30 pm David Jarrara and Barbie Nilsen

JURIED ART EXHIBIT

Dr. Eddy and Angela Regnier

“Young at Art” Children’s Exhibit & Activity Area LIVE MUSIC Saturday: Anna Maria String Band, Gumbo Boogie Band, Drum Bunny Band - Howie Banfield & Scott Blum

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Kim Wheeler, Susan Brennan, Larry Face and Bev Fisher

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SUNCOAST CELEBRATION FOR EQUALITY FLORIDA Benefiting Equality Florida Saturday, Nov. 22, on the Palm Avenue Parking Garage rooftop

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Amanda Kayatt, Lorie DeLaHunt, Taylor Scheuer and Niki Baldun

& Roberto Are pleased to invite you to join us for

Eduardo Anaya, Mark Steinwachs, Jarred Wilson, Zara Barrie, Richie and Lynn Barrie and KT Curran

New Year’s Eve!

Special 4 course menu and a glass of Prosecco.....$120/per person Photos by Heather Merriman

First Sitting 5:30 - 8pm Second Sitting 8:30 - Close

Lee Brockman, Loren Farley and Jan Chester

See website for complete menu. Reservations Required.

Co-Chairs Kimberly Bleach and Randell Johnson

Bob Trisolini and Bob Nosal

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COCKTAILS FOR A CAUSE

WHITE HAUTE RUNWAY SHOW

Benefiting Designing Daughters Tuesday, Nov. 25, at Libby’s Café and Bar

Benefiting Designing Daughters Thursday, Dec. 4, at Sarasota City Center courtyard

Daniel Volz, Brad Nocek, Brenton Cloud and Jacqueline Abney

Photos by Heather Merriman

Keith and Annamae Nasewicz with Caleb Jones and Liz Murray

Co-Chairs Hayley Wieglus and Amanda Picken

Photos by Heather Merriman

Lacey and Betsy Anderson with Barbara Catlin

Brigid Saah, Chelsea Stickley and Denise West

Jane Thompson, Montana Taplinger and Nikki Taylor

Co-Chairs Ashley Guttridge and Lauren Graham

Karlenn Peluso and Julianna Racines

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Diana Buchanan, Kelsey Alholm and Ashley Gruters

LEARN TO PLAY

POLO Who: Where: Cost:

Men, Women and Kids NO RIDING SKILL NECESSARY Sarasota Polo Club 10 week Course: 1 x week / $1050 2 x week / $2100 Private lessons $110

PERFECT GIFT IDEA

Not many people in the country even have the opportunity to take polo lessons! Sarasota Polo School offers turnkey lessons providing horses, tack, mallet and top instruction by USPA certified instructor Megan Flynn.

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nly in Sarasota would you be attending a party on a Monday morning … for a closet. Close to 65 guests stopped by the Gunther estate on Casey Key Monday, Dec. 8, for Brunch in Jayne’s Boudoir, a brunch party hosted by Linda Dickinson, Kelly Quigley and Saks Fifth Avenue honoring Jayne Gunther’s breathtaking boudoir. It was an appropriately stylish morning, in which guests toured the

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home while enjoying brunch and Champagne. Models were staged wearing designer fashions from Saks Fifth Avenue and a harpist and violinist played classical music upstairs where guests could sample and purchase the latest Jo Malone fragrances.

JAYNE ON HER BOUDOIR:

The home is listed with Kelly Quigley and Linda Dickinson of Michaels Saunders & Co., priced at $14,985,000.

In a few words, describe what this space is to you…

Just … fabulous.

What did you have in mind when designing the space?

Accessibility and organization.

The London Telegraph featured the boudoir for its “sensational she-cave” and “walk-in closets fit for ‘Sex and the City’s’ Carrie.”

Jo Malone’s Pine and Eucalyptus is the most popular scent this season according to Jo Malone representative Patrick Hicks — the scent also happens to be Jayne Gunther’s favorite.

I like my money right where I can see it … hanging in my closet.

– Carrie Bradshaw

Guests enjoyed Champagne and other brunch beverages at Brunch in Jayne’s Boudoir.

Photos by Heather Merriman

THE DETAILS 1,200 square feet 25 drawers 4 floor-length hanging cabinets 8 cabinets for shoes 8 shirt cabinets 7 cabinets for hats Custom design by Campbell Cabinetry Designs Distressed maple paneled cabinetry

Hosts Kelly Quigley, Sally Schule and Linda Dickinson

Homeowner Bob Gunther and Robert Baron

Knotty cherry wood island countertop

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