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by David Conway | News Editor

City leases land scrutiny from Chapman Vice Mayor Susan Chapman wants to re-examine city lease agreements that charge organizations such as Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium $10 a year or less in rent.

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Nineteen organizations have a lease agreement with the city of Sarasota that allows them to operate on city-owned land and pay $10 or less annually in rent.

Vice Mayor Susan Chapman finds this practice troubling — and she’s calling for the city to take a closer look at the land it leases to other entities.

The city leases more than 240

acres of its land to outside organizations, more than 90 acres of which is leased at a rate of $10 per year or less. Although some of these are short-term agreements, others are not; an agreement with the Sarasota Orchestra for 1.13 acres of land near the bayfront runs through 2096.

In October, Chapman requested a list of the city’s lease

WHICH ORGANIZATIONS ARE ON THE LIST? / PAGE 2A agreements, placing a particular emphasis on the $1 leases given to nonprofit organizations. She doesn’t want the conversation limited to just that, saying that there are other lease agreements the city has entered into at a rate

The holiday season hasn’t officially started until our favorite bell ringers return to their posts. On Dec. 3, the Salvation Army of Sarasota hosted the Sounds of Hope Kettle Bell Kickoff at the Mercedes-Benz Sarasota dealership to thank long-time bell-ringers before starting a new year of giving. MercedesBenz Sarasota donated a Smart car and van wrapped to represent Salvation Army. The cars will be used to transport donations and kettles for volunteers.

below market value. Still, at a Dec. 1 City Commission meeting, her emphasis was largely on the $1 annual leases.

“Given our city’s financial situation, I would like to look at a financial situation on some of those to see if we can at least get what we lose in taxes,” Chapman

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+ Holiday harmonies Shoppers and residents were treated to some holiday harmonies by the Senior Friendship Centers’ group, the Second Wind Harmonica Players, in Downtown Sarasota. On Dec. 12 the group spent more than an hour playing outside of Whole Foods Market on First Street while wearing festive hats. Classics such as “Silver Bells” and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” drew a crowd. Shoppers took photos and video of the group performing.

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by Jessica Salmond | Staff Writer

Property owner concerned with homeless After dealing with vandalism, theft and damage, property owner Mike Tisdale wants the county to help deter a nearby homeless camp.

Knocked down fences, missing tarps and graffiti have become the norm for businesses located in the Eastern Industrial Park off Apex Road.

Business owners say the problem stems from a nearby homeless camp. But the businesses aren’t located in a known homeless hotspot such as Gillespie

Park — the industrial park is located east of I-75, near the Celery Fields, outside of the city limits.

Mike Tisdale purchased the property housing Florikan ESA Corp. in March for $1.3 million.

The industrial park in which it’s located is home to Unique Technologies and other businesses.

Florikan has been located at the

site for 12 years.

As he was touring the property with Florikan owners before the purchase, Tisdale noticed multiple breaches in the fencing around the property — someone was cutting into the fence.

“They said it happens a lot,”

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Mike Tisdale and Florikan employees find sections of the fence pushed down or cut.

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$10 OR LESS TENANTS

said. “We subsidize a lot of different entities, basically.”

One entity Chapman singled out is Mote Marine Laboratory, which leases 9.5 acres of land on City Island via an agreement that runs through 2050. In that lease agreement, signed in 1986, the City Commission recognizes that Mote provides “distinct services which benefit the citizens of this city,” placing a particular emphasis on the maintenance of the marine environment.

At the Dec. 1 Sarasota City Commission meeting, Chapman suggested the organization’s purview has shifted toward an entrepreneurial focus. She cited Mote’s recent sale of its caviar and sturgeon operations to a private, commercial entity.

“I wonder if that should trigger our looking at, reconsidering or renegotiating our lease, since it looks like they’re going to be doing entrepreneurial activities rather than charitable activities,” she said.

Michael Crosby, president and CEO of Mote, attempted to dispel any notion that the organization was shifting its emphasis on marine science and education.

He said the sale of the caviar and sturgeon operations was a way for the organization to share its technology and buoy its other work.

“This spin-off, and any future ones, are intended to help support the many important missions of our nonprofit lab,” Crosby said.

Crosby said the City Island location helps the organization pursue its mission effectively.

He also drew attention to the benefits the city derives from Mote’s presence. In addition to

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Mote Marine Laboratory (top) and the Sarasota County History Center (right) both have subsidized leases with the city of Sarasota for their properties on city-owned land. Each organization pays $10 or less a year.

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the environmental work and research it conducts, Crosby said, Mote also has a $70 million economic impact in Sarasota County, a substantial portion of which impacts the city.

“This is possible in part because of the welcoming and supportive environment provided by our local municipalities, whose encouragement helps make Mote one of the jewels in the crown of Sarasota’s nonprofit community,” Crosby said. “In turn, the public services provided by Mote are priceless.”

City Attorney Robert Fournier said that while he hadn’t examined the specific terms of the Mote lease, it would likely prove difficult to renegotiate the terms of an existing agreement. Al-

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though Mote’s lease allows the city to terminate the deal if Mote loses its nonprofit status, any unilateral action on the city’s end would need to be backed by a specific provision in the agreement.

Otherwise, unless Mote is willing to revisit its lease, the city is stuck with the terms to which it has already agreed.

“A lease is a contract,” Fournier said. “It’s an agreement, and it requires the mutual agreement of the two parties to make a change

“Without this facility at that price, we would not be as successful as we are,” Pilston said.

Although the city may not have many options when it comes to its long-term leases, Chapman still wants a serious conversation about how the city manages its land.

“A significant portion of our city is covered by dollar-a-year leases,” Chapman said. “In these difficult economic times, maybe we should be looking at what these dollar-a-year leases entail in terms of area and city investment.”

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Just down the road on City Island, Save Our Seabirds also benefits from a $1 annual lease agreement with the city. That agreement, which allows for the use of 1.46 acres of city-owned land, comes up for renewal in 2018; should the city re-examine its leasing policy, Save Our Seabirds could be one of the first groups to feel the impact.

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Above: Devin Rutkowski, a builder and property owner in Laurel Park, thinks allowing houses with attached garages — as seen in this home, constructed in 2007 — has led to larger houses that are out of scale with the neighborhood.

HOME DECOR Laurel Park’s RSM-9 zoning district includes specific design standards tailored to the neighborhood’s aesthetic. Those standards stipulate that:

Left: The building at 1911 Oak St. dates back to 1925 and carries a local historic designation — but, because of the lot size, a similar home could not be constructed on the property today.

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PRIMARY BUILDINGS must face the street and include a front door as a primary entrance.

Although Laurel Park residents have praised the neighborhood’s zoning rules, questions linger about the effects those regulations have had on the area.

If Laurel Park residents feel like their neighborhood stands out from the rest of the city, it’s hard to argue — after all, it’s the only residential area in Sarasota with its own specifically tailored zoning rules and regulations.

More than a decade after the city adopted those rules for Laurel Park, those living in the area have largely sung the praises of the code. The RSM9 zone — short for “Residential Single/ Multiple” with a density limit of nine units per acre — was designed in 2002 to preserve the historic character of Laurel Park, which sits in the southern shadow of Sarasota’s downtown core.

When Laurel Park residents speak about the zoning regulations, they tout the design standards established.

Those unique regulations manage fence height, building orientation and require a porch or deck at each house.

“Laurel Park really came in and advocated to have a district created for them,” said Gretchen Schneider, the city’s general manager of planning and development. “They were concerned about maintaining that cottage feel — the essence of Laurel Park.”

Although Schneider said she hasn’t heard any negative feedback about the regulations, there is not quite unanimous support. Devin Rutkowski, a Laurel Park homebuilder and property owner, said the RSM-9 district has produced big, expensive homes, out of scale with the historic neighborhood.

“It’s not a code based on the exist-

ing form and character of the neighborhood,” Rutkowski said. “The code doesn’t reflect what exists today — it reflects what somebody can build by just meeting the code.”

The code is geared toward creating one- or two-story single-family detached homes. Unlike other singlefamily residential neighborhoods, however, the code does allow for attached and clustered single-family units, as well as accessory dwelling structures such as garage apartments.

Those additional permitted uses are designed to maintain some of the higher-density, mixed-housing characteristics of the neighborhood. Still, the RSM-9 zone lowered the maximum density in Laurel Park from as much as 35 units per acre. Several early 20th century apartment buildings could not be replicated under the existing conditions.

“I think (residents) wanted to go more in the direction of having a singlefamily neighborhood and maintaining the single-family character while still allowing those historic apartments to remain,” Schneider said.

Jude Levy, president of the Laurel Park Neighborhood Association, agreed that the area is seeing a building boom. However, she disagreed with Rutkowksi’s characterization, saying that the new houses mesh properly with their surroundings.

“Most of these new homes blend in beautifully with our national historic district,” Levy said.

Rutkowski is frustrated by the rigors of the RSM-9 zone and believes the neighborhood is hurt by not allowing for a greater diversity of housing types.

“Single-family detached is the most expensive type of housing there is,” Rutkowski said. “If that’s what the code encourages, the net result is that they’re getting the most expensive type of housing.”

Rutkowski said one simple fix to discourage the construction of larger structures would be to require that garages be detached from homes in the area, thereby reducing the potential square footage of a house. Ultimately, he believes Laurel Park needs a formbased code, tailored to the characteristics of the neighborhood — which the city is currently working to produce.

The city’s Urban Design Studio is tasked with developing a form-based code for the entirety of the city by 2016.

Karin Murphy, director of the Urban Design Studio, said Laurel Park would likely be one of the last neighborhoods the group addressed because residents are pleased with the status quo.

The volume of support from within Laurel Park for the zoning regulations is one thing that isn’t being questioned — and is at least one thing that hasn’t changed over the past decade.

“There wasn’t really any opposition,” Schneider said of the initial proposal to create the RSM-9 zone. “Since it was something the community was interested in doing, it was almost like, ‘Why wouldn’t we do it?’”

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NEWSBRIEFS + Bayfront group works to refine principles After gathering hundreds of pages of feedback — and as it prepares to receive more input at additional meetings next month — the leaders of Sarasota Bayfront 20:20 are eying the group’s next steps, including a workshop with city officials slated for January.

At a stakeholder meeting Monday, Bayfront 20:20 leaders worked to refine the group’s core principles, a list of community values meant to guide the development of 42 acres of city-owned bayfront land. With the city’s backing, Bayfront 20:20 has assembled a variety of community organizations to help produce a vision for the bayfront area surrounding the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.

One tension that arose at Monday's meeting was the degree to which those principles should emphasize the city’s cultural assets.

Michael Klauber, chairman of the Visit Sarasota County board and leader of the Bayfront 20:20 group, said feedback from residents indicated a desire for a greater focus on making the bayfront land a hub for cultural institutions such as the Sarasota Orchestra and the Van Wezel.

Some of the leaders embraced the increased focus on cultural institutions, but others worried whether that would negatively impact the ability to establish some public parkland along the bayfront.

Klauber said January’s meeting would give officials a chance to catch up on the work of Bayfront 20:20 and provide direction to the organization’s leaders going forward.

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more vibrant downtown Sarasota continues to take shape as another bar prepares to open on Main Street.

Owners of the Paddy Wagon Irish Pub have asked the city to allow the use of a liquor license in the space between Pho Cali and Drunken Poet Cafe on the 1500 block of Main Street, in a building Biter purchased for $2 million in 2012.

The Irish-themed bar, which has another location on Clark Road, aims to open this summer.

“We’re an upscale, new-millennium take on the neighborhood bar,” said owner Tom Elliott.

Elliott, who already owns eight Paddy Wagon locations and more than 20 concepts in total, is no stranger to downtown.

As the former owner of Smokin’ Joe’s, he said his new site on Main Street is far enough away from residential developments that problems arising from their proximity shouldn’t be an issue.

“It’s a trophy property for us,” Elliott said. “It’s a chance to showcase to our customers and franchisees the vision we have for Paddy Wagon.”

The city will host a community workshop to consider the bar’s request at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, at City Hall, in conference room 112.

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New Selby Gardens CEO sees room to grow Jennifer Rominiecki, who spent 15 years at the New York Botanical Gardens, says her goal for Selby is not just to attract visitors. It’s to keep them coming back.

New Marie Selby Botanical Gardens CEO Jennifer Rominiecki is still more than a month away from her official start date, but she’ll be stepping into the role with ambitious goals in mind.

“The Selby Gardens is an extraordinary organization here in Sarasota already, but I think that the organization can be taken to the next level,” Rominiecki said. “I’m excited to bring my experience to this organization and to advance it.”

Selby’s Board of Trustees selected Rominiecki as its next CEO last week, and announced the hire Monday. She’ll be replacing Thomas Buchter, who served as the head of the botanical gardens since 2009 before announcing his retirement earlier this year.

Rominiecki will bring big-city experience to Selby Gardens. She has spent 15 years with the New York Botanical Gardens, most recently as the vice president for institutional advancement and special assistant to the president. There, she helped oversee a roughly $70 million annual budget and plan a rotating series of exhibitions at the garden. She also spearheaded an ongoing seven-year campaign to raise $479 million for the organization.

She’s slated to begin at Selby Feb. 9, and

said she’ll begin by listening to staff about the current state of the gardens.

“My first step is to learn from them exactly how the organization currently operates,” Rominiecki said.

For Cathy Layton, chairwoman of the Selby Board of Trustees, Rominiecki was a dream come true — someone with significant experience in a variety of areas of botanical garden administration. Like Rominiecki, she believes the organization is poised to take a big step forward, and she thinks Rominiecki’s hire better equips Selby to take that step.

“She had the type of visionary experience that is the perfect skill set for Selby Gardens going forward,” Layton said.

She said the board would be working closely with Rominiecki over the next year to help finalize a master plan for Selby’s future. As the institution prepares to celebrate its 40th year beginning in July, Layton said those closely tied to the gardens know there’s still room for improvement.

“There’s something innate that says there can be more there,” Layton said.

“There isn’t a sense of complacency or the feeling we’re as good as we’re going to get.”

Already, Rominiecki has some ideas

“You don’t want someone to go to Selby and to say, ‘It’s gorgeous, but I’ve been there.’ We need to create experiences to have people come back all the time. I think the organization is prime for that.”

— Incoming Selby Gardens CEO Jennifer Rominiecki

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Jennifer Rominiecki said Selby Gardens could benefit from offering more of a “museum experience” — something that could attract repeat visitors. about potential areas for improvement.

She said botanical gardens are trending toward becoming museums for plants, and that Selby is set up to become more of a museum experience. She believes Selby could benefit from more special exhibitions and events, giving residents more incentive to make repeat visits each year.

“You don’t want someone to go to Selby and to say, ‘It’s gorgeous, but I’ve been there,’” Rominiecki said. “We need to create experiences to have people come

back all the time. I think the organization is prime for that.”

A native New Yorker, Rominiecki had never been to the west coast of Florida before the job opportunity arose. Still, she took quickly to the Sarasota area, praising its passion for culture.

“My whole background is in cultural institutions; to find a place that has such a focus on that was really exciting to me,” Rominiecki said. “I would like to help Selby be an even greater leader in this community.”

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Commissioners come to Chapman’s defense The two new additions to the City Commission could sway it to reverse course and once again pay for Vice Mayor Susan Chapman’s defense in an ongoing Sunshine Law case.

Following the reconfiguration of the City Commission, the city is poised once again to pay to defend Vice Mayor Susan Chapman against a lawsuit alleging she violated the Government in the Sunshine law.

The dynamics of the board shifted in November when two commissioners resigned, leaving the three sitting commissioners — including Chapman — in a position to appoint their replacements. Those replacements, Stan Zimmerman and Eileen Walsh Normile, signaled their interest in resuming the city’s payments for Chapman’s defense at the end of their first City Commission meeting Dec. 1.

“I’d like to schedule a discussion to bring the vice mayor back under the city’s legal umbrella,” Zimmerman said. “I don’t want to leave a comrade in the field.”

Chapman was the last remaining defendant in a Sunshine lawsuit brought by Citizens for Sunshine following an October 2013 meeting between city officials and downtown business leaders. Although City Attorney Robert Fournier said he did not believe Chapman had violated the Sunshine Law — she attended the meeting but did not speak at it — the commission decided

NEW VOICES At their first meeting on the board Dec. 1, city Commissioners Eileen Walsh Normile and Stan Zimmerman indicated a desire to see the city once again pay for the defense of Vice Mayor Susan Chapman (right), reversing course from their predecessors.

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to end the city-funded defense of Chapman in March.

Before that, the city had accumulated $84,861.21 in legal fees for Chapman’s defense. Chapman said she did not know exactly how much she’s paid for her defense since the city ended its payments, but Fournier said he would speak to her lawyers to catch up before the Jan. 5 commission meeting at which the topic is slated for discussion.

The commission will have the opportunity to decide whether to reimburse Chapman for legal fees accrued during the past nine months.

Many regular attendees of City Commission meetings publicly criticized the board for failing to support Chapman’s defense — including Normile. Although Chapman is poised to potentially dodge a large legal bill because of the changes on the dais, Fournier said he did not believe the appointment process represented a conflict of interest for the vice mayor.

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Even if Chapman was aware that Zimmerman and Normile were likely to reverse course and reimburse the legal fees she’s accumulated over the past nine months, Fournier said Chapman would only be required to abstain from any vote on paying for her defense.

“That’s part of what her job was, to make those appointments,” Fournier said. “I think she was free to take that into account if she knew. I don’t see it (as a conflict of interest) — I just think that’s one step removed.”

Chapman has not hidden her

belief that the city should be responsible for defending its officials and said her situation has had a negative effect on her ability to interact with her constituents. Still, she said, it did not play a role in her selection process.

“When I interviewed potential commissioners, I had a very clear protocol,” Chapman said, clarifying that she did not interview all of the candidates. “I asked them what inspired them to apply, what were the three main issues that they saw the city was facing, and I asked them what they thought the commission could do in the almost six months that the interim period would last.”

Chapman and Commissioner Suzanne Atwell, who voted against paying Chapman’s legal fees in the past, both selected Normile and Zimmerman as their first choices for the two open seats. Atwell was also a defendant in the suit against Chapman, but quickly settled.

The Sunshine Law case against Chapman has continued for more than a year, and Chapman says she has no sense of when it may reach a conclusion. She says Citizens for Sunshine has not been ready for the last two depositions it has set, and she holds firm in her belief the group’s legal action against her is personally motivated.

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lems. Several employees at stores near disturbed portions of the sidewalk said they hadn’t heard any complaints, and hadn’t taken note of the dislodged bricks themselves.

Debbie Mitchell, co-proprietor of Kennedy Studios, said that although customers haven’t made note of the disappearing bricks, the city should still feel obligated to make repairs as soon as possible.

“I think it should be done,” Mitchell said. “I think maintenance is important for the appearance of downtown.”

Ann Jackson, owner of PJ’s Boutique, believes there are bigger issues the city should address first.

“I think the main thing we need is to clean up the sidewalks,” Jackson said.

“That’s what we’ve been asking for.”

The bricks may not have distressed Main Street merchants, but the city is searching for a fix that will prevent the problem from popping up again.

“We want a long-term solution, rather than just going in and grinding the bricks,” Thornburg said. “We’re looking at how to remedy the situation.”

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After reviewing the site plan for the Palms at Casey Key, commissioners voted at the Dec. 9 meeting in support of the project, but only if developer Ryland Homes added a right-turn lane northbound on Old Venice Road into the 31home community.

Brian Lichterman, the agent for Ryland Homes, said the developer had not included a turn lane in the plan because a January traffic study, completed during peak hours, indicated the intersection could accommodate potential increased traffic from the development.

“We’re very aware of where traffic issues exist,” Commissioner Charles Hines said.

Planning Commissioner Michael Beaumier is a resident of the nearby Rivendell community, and he spoke against the study during the Nov. 9 Planning Commission meeting.

“What the traffic study says and what we live with every day are not the same thing,” he said.

County Commissioner Alan Maio suggested that the 50-foot road planned in the development be narrowed to allow for a right turn lane. The road will connect the Palms to the parcel to the south if it is developed in the future.

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Damages to brick-paved sections of Main Street haven’t caused alarm among merchants and residents — one small piece missing here, a dislodged brick there — but, taken together, they’ve added up to become an issue the city is exploring how to fix.

The city installed the bricks, which line the outside portions of Main Street sidewalks between Orange Avenue and Five Points, at least a decade ago; city staff was uncertain as to the precise origins. The problems just recently surfaced, however — in more way than one.

“The situation is that there are some trees along Main Street that are lifting up the bricks,” city spokeswoman Jan Thornburg said. “The tree roots are impacting the brick area and the sidewalk.”

The Downtown Improvement District planned to discuss the brick sidewalks at a Dec. 9 meeting before ultimately postponing the conversation. At the time, however, board members signaled a belief that the repairs should be handled by the city, rather than the DID; Thornburg confirmed that the maintenance would fall under the city’s purview.

Michael DelRossi, the city’s engineering manager, is working with landscape architect Phil Smith to ascertain some options for addressing the dislodged bricks. Smith, an outside consultant who frequently works with the city, will eventually provide his recommendations for consideration.

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Learn from others’ models Michael Klauber, longtime Sarasota restaurant entrepreneur and now chairman of Visit Sarasota, probably knows firsthand now what it means “to herd cats.”

As chair of Visit Sarasota, Klauber also landed in the chairman’s role for the group, Bayfront 20:20. That’s the coalition of about 20 neighborhood, arts, cultural and business organizations considered stakeholders in the future development of the 42 public acres surrounding the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center.

Over the past six months, at the behest of the Sarasota City Commission, Klauber and Visit Sarasota President Virginia Haley have been herding all these cats (and their hundreds of members) into discussions about what everyone envisions that property to be for, say, the next 50 years.

Yes, talk about herding cats. One of the consultants helping in this effort said Monday at a Bayfront 20:20 meeting she had 200 pages of public comments on what Sarasotans want on those 42 acres.

Everyone has an opinion.

And to think Klauber and Haley can pull together a “consensus” — a consensus of how many …52,000 residents of the city of Sarasota? — is like catching the wind.

Indeed, all this makes us think of the movie “Groundhog Day.” This process has played in every community in America when it comes to deciding what to do with prime public real estate. On Longboat Key, for instance, the Town Commission has wrestled for years with how to redevelop its Bayfront Park and is now tackling how to create a town center.

Up the road in St. Petersburg, the City Council unveiled Monday eight prospective designs for a new St. Petersburg Pier, its iconic but outdated upside-down pyramid on the bayfront.

When we read the commentary of Tampa Bay Times columnist John Romano on that city’s pier process, it read as if he were writing the story of the inevitable future in Sarasota (see box at right).

If there is agreement among the Bayfront 20:20 stakeholders, it’s probably the first of six principles the group believes are crucial to the foundation of a master plan. In its latest iteration, it states: “Sarasota’s Bayfront will be an iconic, public destination that welcomes the diversity of the Sarasota region and serves as a venue for multi-generational, interneighborhood, broadbased enjoyment of two of our city’s great strengths, our cultural institutions and our natural environment on Sarasota Bay.” No one can argue against that. It’s a smartly crafted statement that offers something for everyone. And yet, even with that as an accepted goal, a few of the stakeholders at the tables at a Bayfront 20:20 meeting Monday had widely differing views of what that means. You can sum it up this way: At one end of the spectrum, some stakeholders see the future of that 42 acres as primarily open, park space with large vistas of the bay. At the other end, some stake-

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You people cannot win. No way, no how. A design by Michelangelo, with input from Frank Lloyd Wright, would get trashed by folks on one side of town or the other.

We are 10 years into this discussion and still haven’t bought a screwdriver.

We cannot agree on whether we care more about preserving the past or forging a new direction. Whether beauty is more important than function.

Whether we build farther out or closer to the shoreline.

Theoretically, Monday’s unveiling of the latest proposals gets us one step closer to completion. We’ll have committee meetings in January, a public survey in February, the selection of a winner in March and, finally, City Council approval on April 2.

Personally, … I’m predicting rancor in January, accusations in February, chaos in March and nothing but pelican poop by April.

There will never be universal agreement on a pier design …

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holders see those 42 acres being devoted foremost to Sarasota’s claim to fame: cultural arts venues, along with some commercial operations to support them.

And then, as one of the consultants interjected, the result most likely will be somewhere in between. Committee decisions are never one side or the other; they’re typically mushy compromises.

Who decides? What will it cost?

The details of what ultimately ends up on the bayfront, however, are long way off.

Perhaps more important are these questions: • How to get from this point to a tangible master plan? Who, specifically, will have the authority to make the decisions to create a master plan? Will the city staff act as master planner and developer? The city commis-

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sioners? (Please, no, on both counts.)

• And, who will pay?

Answers to those questions take us to Memphis and Walt Disney World.

At Monday’s Bayfront 20:20 stakeholders meeting, consultants from HR&A Advisors shared how Memphis redeveloped its under-developed riverfront. Thanks to the vision of its elected mayor, the City Council agreed to form the Riverfront Development Corp., a nonprofit corporation that operated with private and public funding. Its mission was to create a master plan for a world-class destination along the five-mile riverfront and then manage it, promote it and bring it to fruition.

Operating since 2000, the Riverfront Development Corp. succeeded in its goals. It has reinvigorated the city’s riverfront and created a popular connection to the river for Memphians.

But as often occurs with public-private partnerships, Memphis’ Riverfront Development Corp. has had its financial challenges. This the lead from an October story in the Memphis Commercial Appeal: “Faced with the same funding and bureaucratic challenges that have shadowed its 15-year existence, the Riverfront Development Corp. launched a five-year strategic plan on Monday, focused as much on revenue-generating and cost-cutting options as it is on new projects and amenities on the Memphis waterfront.”

The Reedy Creek model

Let’s go to Disney World.

We all know Walt Disney was a creative genius. One of his greatest achievements after buying 26,000 acres of Central Florida pasture and citrus land was the formation of the Reedy Creek Improvement District.

Sanctioned by the Legislature, the Reedy Creek Improvement District is a special taxing district that operates as a municipality does. It provides all of the public services at Disney World — electricity, water, roads, fire, police, transportation, emergency services, land-use regulation, planning, building codes, drainage, waste treatment and environmental services. And only the landowners within the district (primarily Walt Disney World) pay to build and maintain those services. A five-member board of supervisors, elected by property owners, control the RCID government.

We all know how this has worked — extraordinarily well.

Sarasota city commissioners should take note. It’s a long stretch to think they would ever relinquish control of nitpicking every detail of that 42 acres of bayfront. They love to meddle.

But as 2015 unfolds, commissioners should take it upon themselves to learn from others — their successes and mistakes.

We know this: Take your pick of cities and big, public cultural and recreational projects. You would be hard-pressed to find flourishing, economically sustainable success stories when those projects are left in the hands of the collective government.

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their independence Recent grand jury decisions in Missouri and New York have sparked national protests. But while thousands of citizens may have protested the outcomes of those grand-jury deliberations, the bigger concern should be over the fact our grand juries have lost what our Founders originally constructed.

The roots of our grand jury, which is the primary tool our Founders gave us to keep the government under our Constitution, go back to Article 61 of the Magna Carta in 1215 A.D. The grand jury has three primary functions: • Protect common people from unjust charges from those in power.

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In 1946, however, the Progressives wrote in a footnote to the draft of the U.S. Rules of Criminal Procedure that they henceforth considered obsolete the grand-jury presentment capability. This single move started the progression of steps whereby our grand jury lost its full independence and came under almost complete control of the government, usually in the form of the prosecutor.

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The tarps covering products stored outside frequently disappeared, along with pallets and other portable products. JJ Crane Service, Unique Technology and Complete Aluminum have all experienced theft. Several of the businesses have attempted to move all of their products inside at the end of the day, but that’s not possible for Florikan, Tisdale said.

Tisdale attributes the vandalism and theft to a homeless camp located near Florikan on county-owned property. He’s seen the tarps and equipment from other businesses in the area in the camp.

Tisdale contacted Sarasota County and the fire department multiple times in the last six months — he’s concerned about the campfires being located near Florikan’s fertilizer plant — and said he hasn’t seen any results. When he called the county, he was told to call the fire department. When he called the closest fire station located on Apex Road, Tisdale said it told him if he couldn’t see the fire from his property, it wasn’t a problem. He also called the Sheriff’s Office and said he was told that unless he witnessed the homeless doing something illegal, it wouldn’t send out an officer.

Bill Spitler, the director of planning and research for the Sheriff’s Office, said that would not be a typical response from the Sheriff’s Office and that he visited the homeless camp within a day of learning about the issue.

Tisdale said he used to be able to see the homeless camp from the Florikan property line, but the grass has now grown too tall near the patch of trees on county property in which the camp is located.

“I want the county to go back in there, clear up the grass, take care of their property,” Tisdale said. “It invites a homeless camp.”

If the county cleared out the overgrowth, Tisdale thinks the homeless might leave on their own.

The county said it maintains grass areas, but does not mow or maintain wooded areas like the one where the camp is located.

Jennifer Kleiber-Button, a representative from the management company for the Eastern Industrial Park Owners Association, emailed the county Dec. 9 asking the county to address the homeless camp issue, saying she had made multiple attempts to contact the county. She attached a string of emails, one of which stated a complaint had been filed with the county around April or May. Kleiber-Button declined to comment further when contacted by the Sarasota Observer.

Spitler said he had made contact with the residents of the homeless camp the morning of Dec. 12. There were only two men there at the time, but Spitler said the camp looked like it held several more.

“It doesn’t do any good to run them out,” Spitler said. “We don’t immediately pack them up and tell them to leave.”

He said the Sheriff’s Office will first offer them options for services, although because the two men are located on county property, an officer can issue a trespassing violation.

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Wayne Applebee, the county’s director of homeless services, also visited the campsite with Spitler. The two individuals are at different stages of homelessness, he said.

One man had been homeless for only a month, while the other had been homeless for six years in Sarasota.

Unlike the homeless downtown, those who choose to live in the woods in the less-visible areas of the county want to live a certain lifestyle, he said. These types of people will leave the site for basic necessities and then return.

“People arrive to homelessness for different reasons,” Applebee said. “Some seek to be visible — they look for services and demand more. Other homeless are living … isolated.”

The county’s approach is to provide access to services for homeless, Applebee said. But once they’re using the services, such as staying in a shelter, it’s up to them to make the choice to improve their situation.

Applebee discussed the services with the two men and asked what they wanted.

The man who had been homeless only a month was more willing to try out the services, but the other man did not want to change his lifestyle.

“The global solution is a bed that is affordable,” Applebee said.

As of Tuesday, Applebee said the men agreed to be taken to the Salvation Army shelter Friday.

The Sarasota County commissioners voted unanimously to end the search for a come-as-you-are adult homeless shelter during their Aug. 26 meeting after losing their partnership with the city of Sarasota in the endeavor.

“The county is suspending the search for a shelter until the city wants to have a discussion again,” Applebee said.

In the meantime, Tisdale hopes the county will address the problem before Florikan moves its business out of the county in October or November. Tisdale’s businesses, Aluminum Specialties Wholesale and Unique Technology Inc., will move into the former Florikan building.

Tisdale plans on upgrading the outdoor lighting system, refencing the property and adding a second line of fencing in the rear of the building to deter vagrants.

The refencing alone is going to cost about $14,000, he said.

“I support the homeless,” he said, adding that he was a donor for Sarasota Hope House. He’s only concerned for his business, he said, and unhappy with the lack of response from the county.

“If people turn their backs, it’s just going to get worse,” Tisdale said. “When there’s a problem you need to address it.”

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Boats of all shapes and sizes lit up the waterways for the Sarasota Holiday Boat Parade of Lights on Sarasota Bay Saturday night. People gathered at parks that border the bay, including City Island, Centennial Park and Bayfront Park, to watch the decorated boats. Some of the themes for the boats included a “Despicable Me” boat complete with minions and a love-themed boat playing “All You Need is Love.”

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The Siesta Key Association, Siesta Key Village Association, Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce and the Sarasota County Council of Neighborhood Association collectively thanked former County Commissioner Nora Patterson for her 16 years on the board.

Members of the organizations celebrated with Patterson Dec. 4, at Daiquiri Deck on Photos by Jessica Salmond the Key. About 70 people attended the appreciation party. Debbie Szczesny, Alana Tomasso and Debra LynnMichael Shay, president of Schmitz SKA, named Patterson the champion of Siesta Key, and a few of the to see old friends and different Key inorganizations presented her with a gift. terests represented. She’s seen a lot of CONA sponsored the event, with co- change in the relationships between orordination from the other organizations. ganizations, she said.

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Ringling by the Bay — runs from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Ringling Museum, 5401 Bay Shore Road. The event features live music from Yesterdayze.

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Hanukkah Happening — takes place at 6 p.m. at Temple Emanu-El, 151 McIntosh Road. Join Temple EmanuEl to celebrate Hanukkah with a dinner featuring homemade brisket, chicken, side dishes and fresh hot potato latkes. There will also be a menorah-making contest, crafts, chocolate gelt for children and a visit from Hanukkah hero Judah Maccabee.

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Kabbalat Service — starts at 6 p.m. at Southgate Community Center, 3145 Southgate Circle. The congregation of Kol HaNeshama invites the community to a music-filled Kabbalat service, followed by a light supper celebrating the fourth night of Hanukkah.

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Garden club dedicates restored Japanese lantern After months of restoration, the Sarasota Garden Club dedicated a historic Japanese lantern Dec. 5. The lantern was discovered a year ago during a routine cleanup around the edge of the pond, Tuttle’s Puddle, on the property. Ralph and Ellen Caples originally gave the lantern to the Sarasota Garden Club in the 1930s.

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“It was a lot of fun to do, and I was hoping for the best because it was going to be used for something special,” Racette said. “Everyone has something they can contribute and this was my way.”

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University of South Florida freshman Marlon Mack, who played for Booker High, was recently named the American Athletic Conference’s Rookie of the Year.

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D.J. Bryant finished with 14 points, six assists, five rebounds and three steals to propel the Riverview High boys basketball team to a 60-54 district victory over Manatee Dec. 10.

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Carson Jungers scored a hat trick to lead The Out-of-Door Academy boys soccer team to a 7-4 victory over Bayshore Dec. 10.

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Sarah Quick scored to goals and had an assist in the Cardinal Mooney girls soccer team’s 3-0 victory over Sarasota Military Academy Dec. 9.

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The Out-of-Door Academy boys basketball team held on to beat St. Stephen’s 59-51 in district action Dec. 9.

Ryan McMahon has scored at least 30 points in three of the Cougars’ first six games.

Cardinal Mooney senior Ryan McMahon is averaging 26.7 points per game this season while leading the Cougars to a 6-0 record.

Cardinal Mooney senior point and shooting guard Ryan McMahon expected his team to get off to a fast start this season, but even he is surprised by the Cougars’ early success. Cardinal Mooney is off to a 6-0 start thanks in large part to McMahon, who is averaging 26.7 points per game.

“I expected (us) to be good, but this (could be) the start of a big season,” McMahon says. “I’ll just roll with it.”

McMahon, who spent the summer playing against the nation’s top talent, is shooting 64% from the floor, including 57% from behind the arc and 85% from the charity stripe. He scored a season-high 34 points in Cardinal Mooney’s season opener Nov. 18 and has scored at least 30 points in three of the Cougars’ first six games.

McMahon’s lowest point total (14) came in Cardinal Mooney’s 68-25 victory over Bayshore Dec. 9.

“We have a really good system that fits my game and my style and structure of play,” McMahon says.

As a sophomore, McMahon was given the task of coming off the bench and providing a spark of defensive energy. It was a position McMahon hadn’t been accustomed to, but it’s one that helped him transition into an all-around player.

“It’s been an ongoing thing,” coach Stefan Gates says. “He has a high basketball IQ, and he’s improved himself on and off the floor. I knew he had the game to play a significant role on this team. He’s worked really hard to get to this point.”

McMahon spent the summer playing in the Adidas Gauntlet with Florida Elite’s 17U travel team. McMahon, who is the only area player on the team, traveled across the country to face the nation’s top competition.

The eye-opening experience not only helped elevate McMahon’s game, but it furthered his desire to continue to get better when he returned to the Cougars’ gym three months ago.

“It was a wild ride,” McMahon says. “The level of competition was just insane. Just

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After scoring more than 30 points in Cardinal Mooney’s first three games, McMahon wasn’t quite sure how his teammates would react. After all, it was a position McMahon hadn’t been in before.

“I didn’t want it to be the Ryan show,” McMahon says.

McMahon’s initial apprehension eventually went away after he was reminded of something a college coach told him over the summer.

“He told me, ‘If you pass up a shot that would be selfish of you. It’s your role to shoot and make that,’” McMahon says. “It was like, Whoa. My role is to score and to be a leader.”

But McMahon knows his success is dependent on his teammates. Following every

game, McMahon sends out text messages to all of his teammates congratulating them on the game and recognizing their contribution and effort.

Cardinal Mooney is celebrating its best start to a season in recent years. The Cougars won the Class 3A-District 10 title last season before falling to Shorecrest Prep in the regional semifinals.

Cardinal Mooney advanced to the regional finals when McMahon was a sophomore, but the team has never advanced to the Final Four — a feat McMahon is hoping to change this season.

“Being able to lead the team to a regional championship, that would be a successful season for me,” McMahon says. “This team is the most similar to a family that I’ve ever been on. We all have one goal, and that’s to be successful and win basketball games.

That’s all we’re worried about.”

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+ Sarasota Christian earns back-to-back wins The Sarasota Christian girls basketball team cruised to a 59-23 victory over Braden River in non-district action Dec. 11.

Heidi Miller scored 23 points to lead the way for the Lady Blazers. McKenzie Lantz finished with 21 points.

Sarasota Christian followed up its victory with a 56-47 non-district victory over Palmetto Dec. 12.

Lantz finished with a teamhigh 20 points to lead the way for the Lady Blazers. Miller finished with 19 points. Marissa Stutzman added nine points.

With the win, Sarasota Christian improved to 8-3 on the season.

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outscored its opponents 337-46 to easily win the 12-team Lemon Bay Invitational Dec. 6.

The Sailors beat Riverview 84-0, North Port 82-0, Northside Christian 78-6, Lemon Bay 48-16 and Indian Rocks Christian 45-24.

Sarasota wrestlers who went undefeated in their respective weight classes include: • Zach Young (113 pounds) • Yosbiel Garcia (120) • Steven Mercandante (170) • Joshua Booker (182) • Gerald Ross (195) • Austin Gould (220) Chance Sharbono (132) also won the Most Outstanding Lightweight Wrestler award and earned all-tournament team honors.

+ Late goal propels Thunder soccer team to a win Francisco Marcano-Santos scored in the final minutes of regulation to propel The Out-of-Door Academy boys soccer team to a 4-3 victory over Sarasota in non-district action Dec. 3.

Trailing 2-0 early in the first half, Tyler Wenger and Jimmy Kuebler both scored a goal to tie the game 2-2 at halftime.

Agustin Gualtieri scored his first goal of the season five minutes into the first half, giving the Thunder its first lead of the game.

Mark Sulimirski had a pair of assists, and Kuebler also had an assist.

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KUDOS + Eagles win inaugural Army vs.

Navy tournament The Sarasota Military Academy wrestling team went 2-0 to win the first Army vs. Navy tournament Dec. 4.

The Eagles defeated Admiral Farragut 48-42 and Booker 60-24.

SMA wrestlers who went undefeated in their respective weight classes include: • Simon Ulrich (113 pounds) • Xavier Miller (132) • Connor Steinfeld (138) • Billy Sadlo (145) • Jake Walker (152) • Logan Gow (160) Booker heavyweight Romello Burke, who was unranked, pinned Admiral Farragut’s Noah Huntley, who was ranked sixth in the state heading into the season, to lead the way for the Tornadoes.

SMA followed up its victory with a fifth-place finish at the 13-team Dunedin Invitational Dec. 6.

Walker won the 152-pound weight class to lead the way for

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the Eagles. Steinfeld, Sadlo and Gow all finished second. Dalton Burton (170) and John Gow (180) finished third. Ulrich, Miller and Antonio Antonian all notched fourth-place finishes.

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Stoneybrook hits the green for Toys for Tots Ladies of the Stoneybrook Golf and Country Club played in a holiday golf tournament that supports Toys for Tots Dec. 9.

The event required players to be in teams of six people who played 18 holes the morning of the event.

After playing, the ladies met for lunch in the Stoneybrook Country Club, where the winners and day’s totals were announced. Everyone was asked to bring a toy that would be donated to Toys for Tots. Tournament participants brought in an estimated total of more than 112 new, unwrapped toys.

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Point of Rocks home sells for $3.2 million The following residential real estate transactions took place between Dec. 1 and Dec. 5. A home in Point of Rocks tops all transactions in this week’s real estate.

Iren and Valerie Pober, of Sarasota, sold their home at 7102 Point of Rocks Circle to Stacey Siegel, of Orlando, for $3.2 million. Built in 2008, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 5,582 square feet of living area.

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Joanne DelMastro, of Glastonbury, Conn., sold the Unit 1103 condominium at 35 Watergate Drive to JoAnn Bono, trustee, of Sarasota, for $2.15 million. Built in 2003, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,985 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1,575,000 in 2011.

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Elizabeth Scarlett sold her home at 1763 North Drive to John and Megan Leaf, of Sarasota, for $1 million. Built in 1950, it has four bedrooms, three baths and 3,451 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1 million in 2005.

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Sarasota Bay Club LLC sold the Unit 314 condominium at 1301 N. Tamiami Trail to Mark and Elaine Beck, of Sarasota, for $900,000. Built in 2000, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,299 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $765,000 in 2000.

Sarasota Bay Club LLC sold the Unit 1009 condominium at 1301 N. Tamiami Trail to Gloria Weissberg, of Sarasota, for $815,000. Built in 2000, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,546 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $500,500 in 2001.

Sarasota Bay Club LLC sold the Unit 322 condominium at 1299 N. Tamiami Trail to Barbara Lasker, of Sarasota, for $380,000.

Built in 2003, it has one bedroom, one-and-a-half baths and 1,170 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $290,000 in 2013.

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Matthew Clark and Andrea Clark, of Louisville, Ky., sold their home at 2392 Fiesta Drive to Michael and Mary Quillen, of Sarasota, for $889,000. Built in 1984, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 4,121 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $744,000 in 2010.

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Patrick Gagniuk, trustee, of Royal Oak, Mich., sold the home at 1704 Floyd St. to Gennady Kosman and Zoya Kosman, trustees, of Sarasota, for $880,000. Built in 1997, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,095 square feet of living area.

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Ian and Christine Restall, of Essex, England, sold their home at 4251 Hearthstone Drive to Ford Sinclair Ltd. for $341,000. Built in 1993, it has four bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,417 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $465,000 in 2005.

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This home at 7102 Point of Rocks Circle has three bedrooms, threeand-a-half baths, a pool and 5,582 square feet of living area. It sold for $3.2 million.

5131 Kestral Park Place to Nicholas and Jill McMullen, of Sarasota, for $760,000. Built in 1989, it has four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,990 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $530,000 in 2010.

Janice Bowers, of Sarasota, sold her home at 1648 Pine Harrier Circle to Rita Spitz and David Blears, trustees, of Winnetka, Ill., for $755,000. Built in 1984, it has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,438 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $510,000 in 2002.

1350 Main Residential

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. sold the Unit 808 condominium at 1350 Main St.

to Gina Brulato, of Sarasota, for $444,900. Built in 2007, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,336 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $400,000 in January.

Huntington Pointe

Inocencio Linhares, of Simpsonville, S.C., sold his home at 4239 Hearthstone Drive to Timothy and Sandra Cahill, of Seminole, for $401,100. Built in 1993, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,570 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $203,700 in 1993.

David Marceau, of Morrisville, Vt., sold the home at 8810 Huntington Pointe Drive to Daniel and Julie Anderson, of Sarasota,

393 N Point Road #A4109424 $789,000 Diane Hager

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-918-1977

8858 Bloomfield Blvd #A3993622 $699,000 Drew Russell

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-993-3739

818 Monaco Drive #C7203730 $679,000 Jennifer Calenda

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

1743 Alta Vista Street #A4108031 $645,000 Kim & Michael Ogilvie

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-376-1717

1286 Whitehall Place #A4104809 $2,883,000 Nora Johnson

8643 Woodbriar Drive #A4107557 $598,000 Janet Montgomery

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-544-7031

1212 Ben Franklin Dr # 207 #A3993036 $589,000 Jenifer Schwell

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-780-0968

6326 Midnight Pass Road #A4108959 $499,000 Veronika Bajtala

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-504-0307

700 Golden Beach Boulevard #N5901394 $449,500 Sherrey Welch

Venice 941-485-5421 941-223-6318

4932 Hidden Oaks Trl #A3976850 $435,000 Christine Del Monte

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William and Linda Roberson, of Big Pine Key, sold their home at 1616 Livingstone St. to Michael Lee, of Sarasota, for $370,000. Built in 1957, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,014 square feet of living area.

Pelican Cove

Loraine Ehrlich sold her Unit 141 condominium at 1532 Pelican Point Drive to Thomas and Anne Spratt, of Pocono Pines, Pa., for $285,000. Built in 1981, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,216 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $145,000 in 1999.

Broadway Promenade

Robert and Judith Fox, trustees, of Essex, Mass., sold the Unit 1416 condominium at 1064 N. Tamiami Trail to Dennis and Marlene Day, of Chadds Ford, Pa., for $250,000. Built in 2007, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,425 square feet of living

Siesta Key 941-951-6660 941-809-1700

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-266-6733

1800 Whispering Pines Circle #D5901410 $434,000 Reatha Valera

Englewood 941-473-7750 941-875-4770

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9011 Midnight Pass Road #A4109397 $429,000 Marlene & George Marshall

4424 Camino Real #A3994833 $2,249,000 Kelly Quigley & Linda Dickinson

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-539-8850

1055 W Peppertree Drive #A4108596 $400,000 Rudy Dudon

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-234-3991

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-356-9954

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8576 Great Meadow Drive #A4109367 $399,000 Tara Lamb & Judy Greene

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-266-4873

925 Beach Rd # 408 #A3999105 $375,000 Tracy Deramo

Siesta Key 941-966-8000 941-650-4988

800 N Tamiami Trail #A4105550 $374,500 Liza Knipe

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-586-0576

4830 Wilde Pointe Drive #A4109379 $369,000 June Howell

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-350-7521

1921 Monte Carlo Drive #A4101383 $350,000 Mackenzie Mudgett & Pat Mudgett

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-961-4023

520 Meadow Sweet Circle #A4102622 $349,500 Sylvia Zimmerman

Osprey 941-383-7591 941-350-5022

6680 Deering Circle #A4109157 $325,000 Lee Byron and Sue Keal

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-350-5542

2262 Sagebloom Terrace #C7205353 $299,900 Sunny Singh

North Port/Venice 941-639-0000 561-352-4811

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TOP BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest city of Sarasota and Sarasota County building permits issued for the week of Dec. 1 through Dec. 5, in order of dollar amounts.

CITY OF SARASOTA Address

Permit

Applicant

1605 Palmetto Lane 99 Sunset Drive 2331 McClellan Parkway 1865 Datura St. 2331 McClellan Parkway 929 Pomelo Ave. 1660 Wisconsin Lane 2267 Hillview St. 750 N. Tamiami Trail 2486 S. Paulstan Court

Mechanical Alterations Addition Pool/Spa Addition Pool/Spa Pool/Deck Pool Remodel Re-roof

John Sheerar Cathy Bourel-Cartee John Kirsten William Bowles John Kirsten Allen Ottoson James Eisenberg Michael Werdow Nadereh Shahpar Lauren Pipkorn

Amount $114,000 $85,000 $80,000 $67,040 $50,000 $35,000 $30,646 $29,826 $28,000 $25,000

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354 Avenida De Paradisio 4129 Roberts Point Circle 5349 Hidden Harbor Road 9243 Midnight Pass Road 4153 Camino Real 5770 Midnight Pass Road 4910 Sabal Lake Circle 6020 Midnight Pass Road 1501 Caribbean Drive 7868 Holiday Drive

Remodel Remodel Boatlift Renovations Remodel Alterations Re-roof Re-roof Boat Dock Alterations

Mark Gravley Stephen Mitnick Sean Koscho Brenda Brockway Jason Swift David Cella Craig Fetty Jon Chadwick Richard Bruning William Breda Jr.

Amount $130,000 $118,000 $97,371 $75,000 $55,000 $48,000 $32,500 $32,389 $31,400 $29,000

853 Siesta Key Cir #A3981654 $4,200,000 Karen Cash Greco

Siesta Key 941-966-8000 941-504-6927

Source: Sarasota County; city of Sarasota

Gulf Gate East

Charles and Susan Cort, trustees, of Sarasota, sold the home at 6717 Easton Lane to Dana and Nancy Roy, of Sarasota, for $245,000. Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,238 square feet of living

area. It previously sold for $169,400 in 2012.

3678 Egerton Circle #A4109563 $249,900 Robert Moffatt & Peggy Wellman

900 Addington Court #N5901620 $215,000 Daisy Hamilton Blair

211 Robin Drive #A4109187 $4,375,000 Brian Loebker

Venice 941-966-8000 571-230-5013

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-374-0811

Venice 941-493-2500 941-525-6525

Lot 111 Sugar Mill Drive #A3992561 $280,000 Jennifer Putnam

5631 Midnight Pass Road #A4109331 $235,000 Debra Pitell-Hauge

2779 Portago Lane #A4107186 $199,000 Gladys Carrasco

Siesta Key 941-951-6660 941-685-3198

3727 Sandspur Ln #A3994343 $1,985,000 Nicole Dovgopolyi

Casey Key 941-966-8000 941-356-5849

285 Lookout Point Drive #A4108793 $1,850,000 Victoria Stultz

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-387-5676

5136 Higel Avenue #A4109221 $1,795,000 Lenore Treiman

Siesta Key 941-966-8000 941-356-9642

1624 Casey Key Road #A4107256 $1,750,000 Denise Mattmuller & Linda Driggs

Casey Key 941-951-6660 941-232-8055

300 S Pineapple Avenue #A4102750 $1,499,900 Jonathan Abrams

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-232-2868

4047 Mayors Ct #A3992409 $1,475,000 Mark McCann

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-685-7624

1614 Kenilworth Street #A4107285 $1,349,000 Michael Hays

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-376-1826

50 Central Avenue #A4109168 $1,150,000 Stacy Hanan

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-266-0529

7535 Manasota Key Road #D5900165 $1,100,000 Maryann Casey

Englewood 941-473-7750 941-468-3741

1771 Ringling Boulevard #A4109220 $995,000 Jennifer Linehan

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-266-7555

406 Sunrise Dr #N5783868 Michelle Hupp

Coral Cove

Fannie Mae sold the home at 1846 Cockleshell Drive to Drew Weber, of Lowell, Mass., for $240,000. Built in 1970, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,432 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $128,000 in 1996.

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5981 Regent Road #A4106861 $289,000 Crystal Cosby

25 Sandy Hook Rd #A3988917 $1,999,000 Denise Mei

Osprey 941-951-6660 941-539-6768

Siesta Key 941-951-6660 941-356-0437

North Port/Venice 941-349-3444 941-400-1520

5745 Fossano Drive #A4105602 $274,900 C Susan Hilton

4701 Atlantic Avenue #A4109360 $230,000 Vidar Saetre

2822 Gulf Gate Drive #A4106619 $169,900 Barbara Dunn

Sarasota 941-907-9595 941-350-3781

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-266-5666

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-400-1830

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-735-4393

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

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Karen and Treiu Smith attend the Southside Village Holiday Stroll.

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SIESTA KEY’S MOST AFFORDABLE KID FRIENDLY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT! Open Daily for Lunch & Dinner • 1200 Old Stickney Point Rd. 941-349-3885 • www.captaincurts.com

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Southside residents walked into a flamingo fantasyland for the annual Southside Village Holiday Stroll Dec. 12. The night was perfect for residents to take a stroll down Hillview Street and Osprey Avenue, where businesses held special hours to accommodate customers and activities for children.

A snow area near Gecko's Grill and Pub, complete with a snow slide, beckoned children to play.

Community members were treated to performances by nine different dance groups from Southside Elementary School as well as a special performance from former “America’s Got Talent” contestant and Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe member Christopher Eisenburg.

More than 1,200 residents attended the event — the largest turnout ever according to organizer Kimberly Manooshian.

“I really loved the fact that this village came together and opened their doors,” Manooshian said. “They all offered free gifts to the kids, and it was like they were going trick-or-treating again.”

All proceeds from the event will benefit Southside Elementary School, and approximately 200 toys will be given to Toys for Tots from the event.

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Family Mass with Blessing of the Crèche ˜ 4 pm

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Brass, Organ & Carols begin at 5:30 pm

Midnight Mass ˜ 10:30 pm Brass, Organ & Carols begin at 9:30 pm

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955.4263

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A joyous celebration of the birth of Christ!

St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal Church

Christmas Eve at

Pine Shores Presbyterian Church

11315 Palmbrush Trail Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202 (941) 751-5048

6116 Crestwood Avenue (West of US 41 - North of Stickney Pt.)

Join us for worship and be part of our family!

~ 5:00 pm Early Service ~ for Children, Youth & Adults

DECEMBER 24 Christmas Eve Services 941.907.3939

www.onthecorner.org 14306 Covenant Way Lakewood Ranch, FL

3:30 PM Christmas Music 4 PM Contemporary/Family Service 9:30 PM Christmas Music 10 PM Traditional Service with Choir

Lorraine Road just north of University.

10 AM Traditional Service

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Cantata with Chancel Choir & Ensemble

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Sunday 9am Traditional Service Sunday 10:45am Contemporary Service Nursery available during 9am service.

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Christmas Eve Candle Lighting Service

8521 Vamo Road, at US 41 in south Sarasota

6:00 PM

New Years Eve Burning Bowl Service

LIVING LORD LUTHERAN CHURCH

11107 Palmbrush Trail, Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202 • (941) 753-9365 Pastor Jeffrey R Gross • www.livinglordfl.org

CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICES

CANDLELIGHT – COMMUNION – CAROLS

CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICES

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St. Andrew United Church of Christ

5900 N. Lockwood Ridge Road • just south of University Pky.

The Rev. Charles Mann, Rector • 355-3262

Sunday Worship Services in Advent - 10:30 a.m.

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service - 7:00 p.m.

Traditional Lessons and Carols Special Music @ 6:45 p.m.

A United Methodist Congregation

Let Your Light Shine This Christmas Join us as we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE 5:30 pm

SUNDAY SCHEDULE Communion Service 8:00 pm WORSHIP SERVICE 10:00 CHAPELKIDZ 10:00 Children attending the ADULT BIBLE STUDY 9:00 Family Service who would

EVERY SATURDAY EVE

EVERY SUNDAY MORN

4:30 pm Family Service with Pageant and Eucharist 7:00 pm Christmas music for Choir, Strings & Organ 7:30 pm The Christ Mass, “Schubert in G” 10:30 pm Christmas music for Choir, Strings, Organ 11:00 pm The Christ Mass, “Schubert in G”

CHRISTMAS EVE 7 p.m.: family candlelit service with children’s pageant 11 p.m.: candlelit worship with Holy Communion

941.349.1166 www.siestakeychapel.org

CHRISTMAS DAY 10:00 am Eucharist with Carols

CHRISTMAS MORN

NEW YEAR’S DAY 10:00 am Eucharist

10 a.m.: Christmas carol worship with Holy Communion

Concordia Lutheran Church ConcordiaSarasota.org

156932

2185 Wood Street

(along School Avenue, north of Sarasota High School)

5615 Midnight Pass Road, Siesta Key (941) 349-5616 www.bonifacechurch.org

Looking for PEACE this Christmas?

Please join us Every Sunday at 8:30 or 11:00 December 28 at 10:00

Christmas Eve at 5:00, 7:00, or 9:00 Carols, candlelight, and communion Childcare at 5:00 and 7:00 Peace Presbyterian Church 12705 E. State Road 64 Lakewood Ranch, FL 34212 (near Greyhawk Landing)

941.753.7778

www.peacepcusa.org

Peace Presbyterian Church

157568

preSbyterian U S a 4615 GLEASON AVE | 1 MILE NORTH OF SIESTA KEY VILLAGE OFF OCEAN BLVD

CHRISTMAS EVE

9 a.m.: contemporary worship with praise band 10:45 a.m.: traditional worship with choir

156949

SieSta Key Chapel

Christmas Day 10:00am

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21 6:00 pm Christmas Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols by Candlelight

5:30 p.m.: chapel worship with Holy Communion

like to be angels and shepherds, please arrive by 5:15 for the 5:30 service.

Christmas Eve Candlelight Services 7:00 and 10:30 pm Music and Carols 6:45 and 10:15pm

St. Boniface Episcopal Church

Come! God’s Son Is Born for All!

Family Service

The Rev. Dr. Kathleen Wiggins

156953

941-922-7595

6908 Beneva Road, Sarasota 34238 www.uccstandrew.org

941-924-4664

www.faithsarasota.com

156657

Pre-service Music 6:30 p.m.

157637

Faith Lutheran Church

CELEBRATE THE SAVIOR’S BIRTH

Traditional Service of Lessons and Carols 7:00 p.m.

157786

4:00 PM Traditional Service • 7:00 PM Family Service 11:00 PM Traditional Service with Choir

Children and Family Service 5:00 p.m.

Coffee fellowship on deck Nursery open for 10:00 service

10:00 am Christmas Service with Holy Communion

Your family is invited to join our family to lift our voices as we celebrate our Savior’s birth!

Christmas Eve in Candlelight

104 S. Pineapple Ave. (941) 955-0935 www.firstsrq.com

Dec. 25

157459

9:00 AM and 10:30 AM

941-925-2525 www.stmargaretsarasota.org

157408

Regular Sunday Service Hours

unityofsarasota.com

4:30 pm Lessons and Carols with Holy Communion 8:30 pm Lessons and Carols with Holy Communion

156408

941-955-3301

156849

7:00 PM

157031

3023 Proctor Rd Sarasota, FL 34231

Call 966-3306

Dec. 24 8700 SR72, Sarasota, FL 156870

Celebrate Christmas with us Dec. 24 at our Family Christmas Eve service at 5:30 p.m. or our 11:00 p.m. Communion service.

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SARASOTA OBSERVER

Thursday, December 18, 2014 Thursday, December 4, 2014

Autos Wanted GOTTA CAR Furnishings

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727-400-1910.

Hawley Motors II

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Happy Holidays To You and Yours!

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330-303-5874.

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941-379-0767.

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941-462-0633.

(941) 321−0399.

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The circus is one of the oldest family-oriented entertainments in the country. But as the traveling circus business model waned in popularity, the resident circus school has grown. According to Pedro Reis, founder and CEO of the Circus Arts Conservatory, when he emigrated from South Africa to the United States in 1984, there were approximately four schools in the United States dedicated to the circus arts. Today there are more than 100 schools and institutions that teach circus performance.

“In the past, there were families that passed down their craft and skills within their family from generation to generation,” says Reis. “Now the general student body of any given town with a circus academy can learn them.”

The Circus Arts Conservatory and its Sailor Circus Academy annually recruit and train dozens of kids between fourth and 12th grade to produce quality circus spectaculars. This is big time under the big top.

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Sarasota students Emma Clarke and Alli Pierce have found a home and passion at the Sailor Circus Academy.

Pierce. “They aren’t aware of any of the other acts or major things that are a part of the circus.”

For the younger students, such as fourth-grader Emma Clarke, who is in her first year at the academy, it’s about learning and having as much fun as possible.

“I was involved in acrobatics, but the circus academy looked really fun,” Emma says. “At first it felt weird having people watch me perform, but it felt really good to do it and hear their applause.”

The Sailor Circus’s large productions reflect the program’s fusion of education and entertainment. “The Enchanted Wand” was conceived from a brainstorming session with Reis

and the rest of the artistic and directing staff who aim to deliver a show that is always an original concept with an equally positive message. Running from Dec. 27 to Dec. 30, the basic story is of three dysfunctional children who received a magic wand from the Fairy Queen. The only way the powerful wand can function is when the three children settle their differences and work together.

Teamwork, entertainment and a dash of wonder are at the heart of every Sailor Circus performance.

“I want the audience for my first show to feel happy and just laugh,” Emma says. “I just want to make someone’s day.”

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“For me, circus is family,” says Alli Pierce, an 11th-grade aerialist student of the Sailor Circus. “I spend more time here than my actual home.”

This familiarity and closeness is evident during an early run-through of Sailor Circus’s winter show, “The Enchanted Wand.” Pierce and the menagerie of circus students run into the center of the arena’s stage with complete comfort, hitting their marks and climbing, contorting and launching themselves into poses and routines that would make an origami artist envious.

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“Our degree of difficulty and our standards are pretty high and as close to professional as you can get.”

No matter what age students begin their studies at the academy, everyone starts with the basics of the academy’s exoticsounding disciplines such as silks, the Spanish web, side-byside, the flying trapeze, unicycle and the storied Nik Wallenda high wire.

As students progress they are cast in various roles, based on their respective strengths, in the Sailor Circus’s winter holiday and spring shows. And for those who fully embrace the training, the circus becomes much more.

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All that JAZZ

Vintage black-and-white photos of jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie and Chet Baker look out upon the tight and cozy office space. Opposite the legendary trumpeters in their framed jazz club confines are colorful art deco posters advertising past jazz festivals.

Filling out the office are other Dave Walrath assorted relics from America’s original art form: trade magazines, current touring artists’ photos and contact information for different venues and artists in the Sarasota area.

This concentration of all things jazz is the administrative home of the Jazz Club of Sarasota. Located on the sleepy side of South Pineapple Avenue, the Jazz Club of Sarasota is one of the largest and most active jazz organizations in the U.S. Hal Davis, jazz expert and publicist to swing bandleader Benny Goodman, founded the organization in 1980. The approximately 650 members support local talent, attend concerts and keep the rich American tradition of jazz alive in Sarasota through various concerts and events large and small. Each year culminates with the club’s annual jazz festival, now entering its 35th year.

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Jazz Club of Sarasota performers Johnny Moore, Dominic Mancini, Tommy Goodman, Greg Nielsen and Bob DeAngelis have more than a century of jazz experience combined. forts, the region’s population of jazz artists would have hardly any opportunities to perform and play, says Dave Walrath, president of the Jazz Club of Sarasota.

The club is constantly seeking to cultivate new converts.

“If there was no club, there’s no jazz in Sarasota,” says Walrath.

“I’m afraid to say that our main goal is to keep jazz alive; we’ve

learned through the years that the music refuses to die.”

Walrath, who is a percussionist himself, spearheads the club’s performance and education initiatives along with a zealous board of directors. Larger Sarasota arts organizations have departments and staff members dedicated to public relations, fundraising and education.

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Though the Jazz Club of Sarasota doesn’t have comparable size or resources as its organizational peers, its members and board have just as much drive to deliver quality performances.

Regional jazz veterans and amateur journeymen looking for a stage to express their improvisational chops have the weekly “Jazz at Two” concert series held

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By holding various concerts throughout the year, the Jazz Club hopes to attract a younger fanbase. One of the club’s main goals is to provide education of the improvisational music form.

“We’re striving to bring younger people into jazz and let them know that loving jazz and other musical genres isn’t a mutually exclusive idea,” says Walrath.

Given its modest size and resources, the Jazz Club prides itself on being able to award scholarships to high school students who plan to study music in college. The club also lobbies to put more music and jazz education back into school curriculum to balance STEM-based (science, technology, engineering and math) lesson plans.

“We don’t just want to see students exposed to jazz; (we want to) have their education balanced with the arts,” says Walrath. “If we can inspire one student to attend a show who wouldn’t be there otherwise, we will try our hardest to get them there.”

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HOLIDAY FILM PREVIEW ing all. Directed by Rupert Wyatt and also Take the hectic out of holiday burnout by catching a great movie. It’s all about substance and style as award hopefuls are abundant in theaters this starring Jessica Lange, John Goodman and Brie Larson. Dec. 19 time of year. The following look as if they’re capable of raising eyebrows as well as spirits this holiday season. Cheers!

‘TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT’ That’s how long Marion Cotillard’s character has to persuade fellow workers to reject a bonus for her to keep her job.

Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne direct and script this social commentary on the fragility of job security among members of the lower class. The film has to be described as a “work of desperate optimism.” Dec. 24

‘MR. TURNER’ Director extraordinaire Mike Leigh assembles a superb cast of actors (buddies from previous films) in this biographical drama about the prolific painter J.M.W. Turner. Timothy Spall portrays the 19th century British artist who helped lay the foundations for impressionism. His performance won the award for best actor at Cannes this year. Dec. 19

Chock-full of Oscar winners (Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Benicio Del Toro), this film looks deliciously deranged. Phoenix plays a stoner private-eye investigating the disappearance of his exgirlfriend’s boyfriend in 1970s L.A. Directed and written by the always cutting-edge Paul Thomas Anderson. Now showing.

‘EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS’ Director Ridley Scott goes for the spectacular in this epic story of Moses’ (Christian Bale) escape from Egypt with 400,000 slaves. Joel Edgerton plays boyhood friend and eventual archenemy, Ramses. The visuals look so breathtaking it seems to demand an audience on that count alone. Now showing.

Quoted to be, “the least boring 196-minute movie ever made,” this award-winning Turkish film charts the course of a failing marriage. It also examines the “cynicism of the rich toward the poor.” Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan shoots on location in the steppes of Cappadocia, one of the most picturesque destinations in the world. It’s also home to wild horses. Tough on the heart but easy on the eyes. Dec. 19

‘THE GAMBLER’ A remake of the original film based on Dostoevsky’s novella: This time around it stars Mark Wahlberg as a college literature professor/high stakes gambler. Teach gets in so deep he offers his own life as collateral. If his performance is anywhere near as riveting as James Caan’s (in 1974), Wahlberg could be the winner tak-

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The shot of a child in the crosshairs of an American soldier’s rifle lends insight into how gripping this film might be. Clint Eastwood directs, and Bradley Cooper portrays Chris Kyle, who was credited for 160 kills (the most in U.S. history). Once again Eastwood explores chaos within a civilized society. Thankfully, this guy doesn’t stop making important films. Dec. 25

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The trailer for this film is so powerful that I was brought to tears. David Oyelowo portrays Martin Luther King in this searing expose about black people struggling to secure voters’ rights. The casting looks spot-on with Tim Roth as George Wallace, Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon Johnson and Dylan Baker as J. Edgar Hoover. Ava DuVernay directs while Oprah Winfrey produces and stars as well. Dec. 25

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Angelina Jolie gets up close and personal behind the camera to direct this true World War II epic. American soldier Louie Zampernini (Jack O’Donnell) survives 47 days at sea after his plane crashes, only to be rescued by the Japanese and imprisoned for two years. Tagline: “If I can take it, I can make it.” The trailer looks painful and powerful. Dec. 25

A film about “money, control and fate,” set in 1981 New York City, Oscar Isaac plays a desperate immigrant chasing the American Dream. Jessica Chastain portrays his ferocious wife who supports his ruthless behavior, having come from a family involved in organized crime. J.C. Chandor directs and writes what could possibly be one fantastic modern crime thriller. Dec. 31

Remember the doe-eyed paintings of dour children back in the 1960s by Margaret Keane? Well, it seems hubby was taking credit. Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz play the troubled couple in an era when women were often submissive. In a surprise move, the wonderful Tim Burton directs.

Just imagine Waltz charmingly chirping, “People don’t buy lady art.” Dec. 25

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home for the HOLIDAYS The holiday season is a special time for families, and for some, the Christmas holiday is the most important of all — the trimmings, the tree, the holiday cheer — and it deserves more than just the four weeks following Thanksgiving to be celebrated. We took a tour of two local Sarasota families’ homes to admire the décor, hear about their family traditions and find out why Christmas starts early in their homes.

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A total of nine trees are placed throughout the home during the holidays, including trees in each bedroom, 3-footers in the window bays and Mei’s Madame Alexander tree in the formal living area.

“Our daughter likes Christmas to start the day after Halloween,” says Denise Mei. Once Halloween has passed, the Meis bring out their holiday boxes to begin decorating for the family’s favorite holiday. Red bows, garland, poinsettias, lights and a plethora of trees adorn the interior and exterior of the home.

This is the first year the Meis have used an artificial tree. Every year the family has had a real tree, but Denise Mei’s favorite ornaments are large Christmas balls, and the real trees can’t hold the weight, so this year, she opted for an artificial tree and is loving it.

Mei has been collecting Madame Alexander dolls for years.

She had so many of the holiday dolls that she wasn’t sure what to do with them and thought, “Why don’t I make a tree?” she says.

The Madame Alexander tree is adorned with her collection of holiday dolls, which began in the early nineties.

Mei has added Christmastree-scented candles to the coffee table décor to bring in the smell of a real Christmas tree, because they have opted for an artificial tree this year.

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In previous years, another tree stood against a wall in the family room, but after rearranging some furniture one no longer fits the space. Still needing something for that wall, Lahners found this winter stag to fill the space.

“Christmas is my husband’s favorite holiday,” says Crystal Lahners, “He wants it to feel like Christmas for as long as possible.”

Because the Lahners have their tree up well before the Thanksgiving holiday, their tree is artificial, but to add some real pine in the home, fresh greens are used in the garland on the fireplace mantel. The fresh garland brings that Christmas aroma, which lasts as long as they enjoy their décor being up. The decorating begins in early November each year and Crystal Lahners’s interior designer, Alejandra Brady, helps her with the bulk of it.

Lahners uses a mix of blues (her favorite color) and golds in her Christmas décor.

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Lahners puts the Christmas cards they receive each year on a ring to be displayed on the coffee table in the living room. “It’s a nice way to keep the photos together and to display them during the holidays,” says Lahners.

The children have their own trees, decorated to their own interests in their bedrooms. William’s tree is adorned with technologythemed ornaments such as Xbox controllers and cell phones and Ella’s is a white frosted tree with cupcakes and other dainty ornaments.

In addition to the living room tree, is another full-size tree in the front room of the house.

This tree is decorated with all of the ornaments the children have made over the years as well as decorative picks and sticks from Lux-Art Silks. The kids help decorate this tree every year. “I have all the ornaments out and ready to decorate when they come home from school,” says Lahners.

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Select a Giving Spirit Card from a number of holiday designs and load it with a value of $25, $50, $100 or more. Cards can be conveniently redeemed online to benefit any 501(c)(3) public charity in the United States. You receive a charitable tax deduction at the time of purchase, and the receiver experiences a gift that pays it forward. For more than 35 years, we have been the Giving Spirit and Heart of Sarasota County.

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edible ELATION With less than a week left till Christmas, it doesn’t matter if you are purchasing gifts for the naughty or the nice, your boss or your best friend, your next-door neighbor or your long-distance relative, it’s impossible to go wrong with an edible delight. There is no need to travel to the North Pole for these tasty treasures because even though most can be shipped, they are all also available right here in Sarasota.

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Vom Fass, 365-2137 sarasota.vomfassusa.com Liven up the hostess gift with a basket full of unique oils and vinegars ranging from tangerine extra virgin olive oil to grape with ginger and lemon balsamic vinegar. Main Street Vom Fass storeowners Robert and Debbie Kay are there to help with the selection of a pre-made basket, such as the Savor the Flavor basket. Think cranberry and apple vinegars, and orange, plum and pumpkin seed oils. Vom Fass also encourages customers to taste before they buy, and the store is happy to build you a custom gift basket. While there, be sure to check out the unique variety of wines and spirits, from a 41-year-old Armagnac (French brandy) to authentic absinthe.

Gift basket prices range from $35 to $120 and up.

Der Dutchman, 955-8007 derdutchman.com Although any of Der Dutchman’s fresh-made pies are worthy of a bow, this time of year the restaurant offers a seasonal strawberry pie sure to satisfy any sweet tooth. Or go with the restaurant’s signature custard pie, which uses a recipe by Nettie Chupp, a Der Dutchman baker of more than 20 years (she still makes the pie a few days a week). Pies are not the only tasty treat you’ll find at the Amish restaurant and bakery.

During the holiday season, there’s a cookie platter filled with festive cookies, as well as fudge and candy, all made fresh. Cookie platters are available in four sizes, 1 to 5 pounds, and the prices range from $14.99 to $43.99.

Cookies and pies are available daily and you can call and order ahead.

Morton’s Gourmet Market 955-9856, mortonsmarket.com For the grill master, our pick is a basket filled with everything a meat-lover needs to enjoy a gourmet steak dinner at home.

The Beef Eater basket includes top-choice steaks, wine, Portobello mushrooms, asparagus, potatoes and the ingredients to make a Caesar salad. If you like the idea of this basket but aren't buying it for a red meat-eater, substitute the steak for fresh salmon or tuna.

Order online or call to schedule a local delivery. Baskets can also be picked up in the store. Twenty-fourhour notice is required. Pricing ranges from $95 to $210. And if gifting something to the grazer, the hors d’oeuvres basket offers wine, pâté, cheese, crackers, olives and other gourmet goodies, and makes a great hostess gift. Morton’s also offers custom baskets.

Walt’s Fish Market and Restaurant, 921-4605 waltsfishmarketrestaurant.com Stone crab season is short, lasting only from October to May, and so far this season has been especially plentiful. If you’re looking for a way to impress your friends and family in the much colder northern latitudes, ship them a box of fresh, locally caught stone crab claws. Walt’s Fish Market ships the claws in an insulated cooler overnight anywhere in the U.S., with accompanying mustard sauce. Available in medium, large, jumbo or colossal size, Walt’s charges market value, which fluctuates within a range of $19 to $45 per pound, plus shipping charges. And if you’d rather gift them locally, swing by the market and Walt’s will put them on ice for you. To ship the claws, call the market 24 hours in advance.

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Gabriella Chocolates & Confections, 227-2253 gabriellachocolates.com Impress a friend with a gluten sensitivity by giving the gift of a gluten-free chocolate mint truffle cookie from Gabriella Chocolates & Confections. Chicago-born, classically trained pastry chef Nancy Byrne and her husband, Mike, own the business, where delights are made fresh daily.

During the holidays, they also offer chocolate peppermint toffee, as well as their collection of liquor-based “spirited” truffles, which make the perfect ending to a holiday meal when paired with a cup of coffee or a glass of Champagne. Shop online or stop by and sample the sweet goodies.

Local Coffee + Tea, 726-1660 localcoffeetea.com Let comforting flavors reminiscent of some of Sarasota’s favorite locations fill the tea cups of loved ones with the Celebrating Sarasota Collection of Teas from Local Coffee + Tea. Owner Michael Duranko created the variety of loose tea blends to represent each local treasure, such as the Selby Select Rooibos, which includes vanilla — the only orchid that produces edible fruit. Buy each tea in the collection separately or receive a $6 discount when you purchase the collection gift, which includes four bags in the collection and a box of 100 tea sacks. The cost is $36. Order your teas online or pick them up at the Sarasota Farmers Market.

Sarasota Central Farmers Market aloeorg.com Make your honey gift purchase go to a good cause: Aloe Organics recently started selling three varieties of local, raw honey at the Central Sarasota Farmers Market on Saturdays. The bees are kept alongside the organic produce at Aloe Organics, which was created as a legacy of Allison Hall Nelson, who died from breast cancer at the age of 31. Through the Center for Building Hope, Aloe donates a portion of its seasonal, organic produce to families with children with cancer. Varieties of honey include saw palmetto, orange blossom and wildflower.

Each 12-ounce jar sells for $10 and comes labeled with a handstamped tag.

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popularity, the owners made the chowder available to everyone, year-round. It’s available in canned kits that can be picked up at the gift shop on Siesta, or take advantage of the free shipping when you go online to order 1- and 5-gallon kits ($47.96 to $95.92) during the holiday season.

Captain Curt’s Crab & Oyster Bar 349-3885 captaincurts.com In 2007, Captain Curt’s won the Great Chowder Cook-Off in Rhode Island with its 20-year-old chowder recipe. As a result of the victory and in response to its local

Phoebe’s Chocolate Cherry Almond Biscotti adapted from Ellie Krieger’s recipe featured in Fine Cooking INGREDIENTS:

• 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour • 1 ¼ cups whole-wheat pastry flour • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder • ½ teaspoon salt • ½ cup sugar • 2 large eggs • ¼ olive oil • 1 teaspoon finely grated orange zest • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract • ½ cup dried tart cherries, finely chopped • ½ cup raw almonds, finely chopped • 2 ounces of 60% to 70% dark chocolate, finely chopped INSTRUCTIONS:

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• In a medium bowl, whisk flours, baking powder and salt.

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sugar, eggs, oil, zest, and vanilla until well combined.

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• Fold in cherries, almonds and chocolate.

• Transfer dough to a floured surface and knead.

• Shape into a log about 10 inches long, 3 inches wide.

• Transfer to parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for 25 minutes.

• Transfer to a wire rack and let cool 15 minutes.

• With a serrated knife, cut the log across a diagonal into ½ inch-thick slices.

• Arrange cut cookies on baking sheet, cut side down, and bake 5 to 10 minutes longer.

• Transfer to wire rack to cool.

If you want to take a step further, dip one side of biscotti in milk, dark or white chocolate.

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All year leading up to Christmas, Sarasota resident Phoebe Bishop collects recipes for her homemade gift of packages of cookies and candy. Bishop calls her gfts an “economic and heartfelt ” way of gift giving.

For five years, Bishop and her husband, Steve, have logged hours preparing the cookies and candy to send to friends and relatives all over the world.

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Deck the halls with cat fights, kegnog and badly wired Christmas displays. “The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical” is rolling into Venice Theatre this month. The folks from Armadillo Acres mobile home park are back in a plot that’s two parts Charles Dickens, one part Jerry Springer.

Somewhere in lovely Starke, Armadillo Acres glistens with tacky Christmas decorations and a gnarly tree topped with a mud-flap angel on a star. Christmas is 12 days away, and Lin (Laura Priscilla Hoffman), Pickles (Liz Pascoe) and Betty (Cara Herman) are hoping that Mobile Homes and Gardens will make the season merrier with a hefty cash prize for their holiday bling. Darlene (Kaitlyn Terpstra, as the designated Scrooge) hopes the baubles wind up in the Dumpster. They’re all hoping the Armadillo Acres “Christmas curse” doesn’t kick in. Then Darlene catches her good-hearted redneck neighbor Rufus (James Bock) stealing her cable, and she gets shocked into amnesia and a giddy Christmas spirit when she tries to pull the badly spliced plug. Chaos, a love story, a visit from assorted Christmas spirits (and one angry Native American tree spirit) ensue.

It’s easily the most original musical I’ve seen in an age — and the funniest.

Nothing feels recycled; Betsy Kelso’s R-rated dialogue is side-splitting; David Nehls’ catchy songs are a laugh-out-loud hit list (and not overworked, like so many musical numbers). Brevity is the soul of wit, as the Bard himself observed. Kelso and Nehls get it. They make their point, make you laugh, then move on.

Director Kelly Wynn Woodland gets it, too. She’s starting with great material, to be sure. She keeps it moving at a snappy pace but slows down for the occasional “What the hell was that?” take. She has a fine comic instinct, and has the audience howling at her introduction of the play alone.

The actors (mostly veterans of Venice Theatre’s original “The Great American Trailer Park Musical”) know what they’re doing, too. Hoffman’s Lin (bedecked in an amulet containing the electrocuted ashes of her late husband Earl) is saucy and sassy; Pascoe’s Pickles is not the brightest bulb on the tree — only proving that stupidity is comedy (attributable to “Beavis and Butt-head” creator Mike Judge, not the

Bard). Her wide-eyed reactions telegraph her every hilarious thought. Cara’s bad Betty slays the audience repeatedly with her machine gun fire one-liners. Three great performers — they click as a great comic trio.

Depending on the application of voltage, Terpstra’s sexy Darlene goes from naughty to nice at the drop of the hat. Bock’s Jeter is also no Rhodes scholar, but he’s a decent guy and suitable romantic magnet for the bipolar Darlene. Travis Rogers Jackson “Jackie” Bourdreaux is no Mr. Nice Guy, but he’s extremely funny as an Elvis wannabe running a Hooters-style pancake joint named (what else?) Stax.

All that and wicked funny music direction by Peter Madpack and choreography

by Laura Priscilla Hoffman. They made all that comedy move, groove and sing.

On top of that, you get a hilariously tacky trailer park by John Michael Andzulis (including a crèche populated by “Star Wars” action figures) and mega-gaudy Christmas costumes by Stephanie Gift.

They brilliantly create the funny world where this fractured fairy tale unfolds.

It’s an unbelievably funny night of theater. Why? Hard to say, folks. Comedy’s a slippery thing. I could explain until I’m blue in the face — but that’d just be boring — and still fall short. You can’t boil comedy down to a formula. If you could, a robot could make you laugh. Maybe I missed it in the last MIT Technology Review, but, as far as I know, the robots are still bombing on the stand-up circuit.

So, forget the Turing test. A sense of humor is the most human trait, and knowing how to make other people laugh is the rarest of traits. Whatever that deeply human magic is, Woodland and friends have it.

If the robots ever put on a play this funny, they’re welcome to the planet.

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“The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical” runs through Dec. 21, at Venice Theatre, 140 W. Tampa Ave. Call 488-1115 or visit venicestage.com for more information.

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Anderson ranged from murderous rage (“Un Amico de la Patria” from Andrea Chenier) to romantic love (Sigmund Romberg’s “One Alone.”) Guests enjoyed appetizers and dinner

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by Elegant Designs Floral Art Studio. Teri Hansen, Veronica Brady and Scott Anderson represented dinner sponsor Gulf Coast Community Foundation.

hearts … The Dec. 9 date of the Opera Co-Producers Dinner marked six years to the day since June LeBell and Edward Alley had their first date. They wed in New York City a mere six months later … L’amour, l’amour … Acknowledging that it might embarrass her, Richard Russell announced to

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t’s a rare event in which the content, the cause and the crowd are in perfect harmony, but it happens regularly with La Musica’s Sonata a Due. This year’s party took place Dec. 8 at the Charles Ringling mansion at New College. There was lots of news for board President Frederick Derr to share, beginning with Simply Sonatas, a new addition to the April concert. He also introduced new board member Jerry Bilik, a composer and former professor of music at the University of Michigan, whose credits include scoring big-name TV shows like “Charlie’s Angels.”

Federico Agostini and Derek Han performed Mozart, Brahms and Saint-Saëns at Sonata a Due, which was a sellout for the first time in its 25-year history, attracting more than 200 guests including Teri and Dan Callender, Kathleen Gurney and Mel Syrbnik, Kameron and Bart Hodgens, Hillary Steele, Terry and Robyn Sullivan, Stephen and Linda Rei, Brigitte Von Kessel and Judy Zuckerberg with her son Michael Zuckerberg.

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arasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation hosted its 20th annual Corinthian Society Celebration Dec. 11, at Bird Key Yacht Club. Phil Delaney, president of long-term event sponsor Northern Trust, cited the remarkable growth from the original 35 guests to 225 plus this year. Foundation President Alex Quarles reported a total of $60 million raised for the hospital. And hospital President and CEO David Verinder, making his first presentation in that role, reported that Sarasota Memorial has the lowest readmission rate in the country for hospitals with 500 or more beds.

The foundation welcomed new

members to the Corinthian and Legacy Societies, and honored new doctors and pillars of philanthropy. Its highest honor, the Ambassador of Philanthropy for vision and leadership went to the Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation, represented by Gary Buckholz. Among the guests were Margaret Wise; Sharon Black Floyd and Bill Davidson; Charley Ann and Jim Syprett, vice chair of the foundation board; Flora Major; Flori Roberts; foundation board member Susan Brennan; and, happily, Marcia Jean Taub and her recently recovered father Ronald Taub, looking great.

Sarasota Opera Co-Producers Dinner guests that development assistant Claire Wallace and baritone Joseph Ryan, who met at the opera house, would marry Dec. 13 … Blessings for Betty ... Beloved nonagenarian Betty Schoenbaum, who is the oh-soaspirational role model for so many

Ray Watson, who says of us, was hospitalized that it’s going to take some briefly last week for retime, but Schoenbaum is spiratory problems. At doing more every day. press time, she was recovering at home with nursing care, her Betty Schoenbaum at daughters who are her 97th birthday dinner Molly Schechter rotating in from out of in September with her town and her wonderful assistant brother Marvin Frank, 92.

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"Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord is One”

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2014

15 Sailor CirCuS

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SARASOTA EXOTIC CAR FEST KICKOFF PARTY United Cerebral Palsy of Southwest Florida Inc. Thursday, Dec. 11, at Lamborghini Sarasota

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Tammy Karp, Marilee Roberts and Roberta Tengerdy

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David Mercier and Stephanie Lyons

James Buchanan and Lea Mei

Photos by Heather Merriman

Nora and Andrew Guenther with Monica and Joe Argentine

America’s longest-running, most highly acclaimed youth circus brings you a

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Dec 27 thru

Tuesday Dec 30

Adults $18 Children $12 Sailor Circus Arena 2075 Bahia Vista St.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2014

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CHRISTMAS IN CANDYLAND Benefiting Make-AWish Central and Northern Florida Saturday, Dec. 13, at Michael’s On East

Guests enjoyed cupcakes offered on a rotating candy cake.

Katherine Curtis

Audrey Hoffman, Santa Claus and Allie and Anna Kim

Emma and her mom, CoChair Shana Zamikoff

Dick June 941-724-2353 941-951-1822

Photos by Heather Merriman

Heather Myers, Ariyal Wagner, Jayne Myers and Jamie Myers

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Co-Chair Bianca, Addison, Reese, Richard and Hadley Lawrence