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Plaque honors school pioneer The legacy of pioneering educator Dorothye Smith was honored last week by Sarasota County Schools and Newtown Alive when a bronze plaque of her likeness was unveiled at Southside Elementary.

The plaque includes her words: “Never do less than your best.”

Following a teaching career at Emma E. Booker Elementary School’s original campus in Overtown, as well as Venice Elementary School, she served as the first Black principal in Sarasota’s integrated school system.

Saturday’s ceremony included educators, friends and family of Smith, who died at the age of 90 in 2017.

SEIZING THE DAY Hershorin Schiff school moves, builds to meet demand.

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Head of School Dan Ceaser says he can’t wait to welcome students to campus in August.

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Hit the beach and maybe win As if heading to the beach in February weren’t prize enough, Visit Sarasota County now has made it possible to win perks by heading to the shore.

The tourism agency recently launched the Beach Pass feature to its smartphone app, delivering information about the county’s 20 beach spots — from Blind Pass to Longboat Key. As part of the launch, Visit Sarasota County also included a game in which players can gather points for checking in at such places as Siesta Beach and Ted Sperling Park.

After decades of marriage, couple launches project.

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Stan and Natalie Kinnett have been married for more than 40 years and now work side by side.

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“We just cannot assume the city can do as good a job as professionals that spend careers doing that.”

Hines to fill in for Manatee

Mayor Hagen Brody on potential private operation of the city’s Bobby Jones Golf Course. READ MORE ON PAGE 10A

Former Sarasota County Commissioner Charles Hines is under consideration as acting county administrator in Manatee County following a 6-1 vote Tuesday to negotiate a separation agreement with County Administrator Cheri Coryea.

Several commissioners who had worked with Hines in the past expressed their support for him, especially after considering the temporary nature of the acting administrator position.

Commissioner Vanessa Baugh pointed out that he could be helpful in finding the permanent administrator because he has helped search for several in his previous role.

Manatee commissioners voted 7-0 to begin negotiating with Hines, who left Sarasota’s commission in 2020 because of term limits. The separation agreement would eliminate the need for special meeting Feb. 17 planned to vote on the termination of Coryea.

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n Sarasota School Board meeting — 3 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 16, Board Chambers, Landings Administrative Complex, 1980 Landings Blvd. n Sarasota City Commission meeting— 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16 and Tuesday, Feb. 17, Commission Chambers, City Hall, 1565 First St. n Sarasota County Commission meeting — 9 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, Commission Chambers, County Administration Building, 1660 Ringling Blvd.

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MAIN STREET MAKEOVER

A group of property owners wants to overhaul two blocks on Main Street — and that’s just the start of their revitalization to-do list.

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rnie Ritz wants to redesign the 1400 and 1500 blocks of Main Street, creating wider sidewalks, more outdoor dining space and enhanced landscaping by converting angled parking spaces into parallel parking.

It’s not a novel idea. A decade ago, the city explored the removal of angled parking on Main Street.

The response drew opposition from downtown merchants, who feared a reduction in parking spaces would reduce the number of visitors and negatively affect business. Officials ultimately listened to merchants’ concerns: Although the 1300 block of Main Street converted to parallel parking, angled parking remained in the 1400 and 1500 blocks.

Today, Ritz thinks conditions have changed enough to try again.

In 2011, the city had just opened the Palm Avenue parking garage; downtown added a second garage on State Street in 2015.

City and regional planners have identified the conditions on Main Street as problematic. The Sarasota-Manatee Metropolitan Planning Organization identified the street as one of the top sites for crashes in the two-county area, which Ritz attributed to fender-benders associated with angled parking.

And, most recently, the emergence of COVID-19 has invited people to reimagine the use of public spaces. A long-time downtown property owner, Ritz said he thought walkable streets and sidewalk cafes were already popular prior to 2020, but the pandemic has placed an even greater premium on high-quality outdoor spaces.

“With COVID-19, we found that people don’t want to eat inside any more,” Ritz said. “We can see all of our downtown dining on the outside of the street

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DID Chair Ernie Ritz says the time is right to create an enhanced outdoor environment on Main Street — and that attitudes have changed about the elimination of some parking spaces.

now — as a matter of fact, they’re taking up a lot of parking spaces.”

Ritz doesn’t think that’s going to change when the pandemic ends. That’s why, at the Feb. 2 Downtown Improvement District meeting, Ritz proposed spending $22,730 on concept plans for a streetscape improvement project in the 1400 and 1500 blocks of Main Street. Although board members shared different priorities, the DID voted 4-1 to commission the plans in hopes that it would kick-start a conversation.

The dissenting vote came from Ron Soto, the owner of Soto’s Optical Boutique and president of the Sarasota Downtown Enrichment Association. The head of a merchants group, Soto indicated business owners might continue to oppose overhauling Main Street and removing parking spaces.

Soto said the concerns would likely be amplified by the effects of COVID-19 and a wave of downtown construction projects.

“After we dealt with The Mark for a year and a half or two years of construction, then we did Lemon Avenue with the construction there, then we had COVID-19,

now we want to subject those businesses to eight months of construction?” Soto said. “Let’s put that final nail in that coffin for them. I’m not a big fan of it, if you couldn’t tell.”

Board member Mark Kauffman said any construction likely would not begin for at least two years, giving businesses an opportunity to recover from the effects of the pandemic. Still, board member and Art To Walk On Owner Eileen Hampshire shared Soto’s concerns about detrimental effects for merchants despite her support for the streetscape proposal.

“Conceptually, I’d love to see it because it’s the heart of our downtown, and it looks shabby,” Hampshire said. “It would be really nice if we made it beautiful, but we really need to think hard about how we do it and how we impact the retailers.”

City Engineer Alex DavisShaw said a Main Street improvement project remains a priority for city officials. Although the city has not produced specific plans, Main Street improvements ranked as one of the top 10 projects in Sarasota in Motion, staff’s proposed transportation master plan writ-

ten in 2020. Soto questioned why the DID, funded by a voluntary property tax on commercial property owners within the district, would pay for concept designs for a project the city already intends to pursue at some point.

Board member Wayne Ruben, the owner of the commercial space in the State Street garage, said he thought the DID could take a more active role in the planning process if it came to the city with a concept the group supported.

“I’d rather have a seat at the table,” Ruben said.

In addition to making a goodfaith gesture to the city, Ritz said producing a concept plan would be an important step in a longer process involving public feedback and potential revisions.

“You can’t just ask people to imagine in their heads what it’s going to look like,” Ritz said. “You have to have something; you have to have a concept drawing.”

The DID’s conversation also indicated the group has a longer list of capital projects it hopes to undertake. Kauffman and Hampshire discussed adding brick crosswalks on Main Street and Palm Avenue. Kauffman, Soto and Ritz talked about the possibility of relocating the Sarasota County Area Transit bus stop on First Street and replacing it with a parking facility and retail.

Ritz said he wanted to start by focusing on the Main Street streetscape effort, but other board members were eager to discuss a longer list of projects.

Hampshire said the discussion about Main Street could launch a comprehensive conversation about downtown improvements.

There was consensus among a majority of the board that the time was right to consider largescale efforts to reinvigorate the heart of the city.

“I really think we need to have a more global picture of what we’re going to do downtown,” she said.

“I’d love to see it because it’s the heart of our downtown, and it looks shabby. It would be really nice if we made it beautiful, but we really need to think hard about how we do it and how we impact the retailers.”

– Eileen Hampshire, owner of Art To Walk On

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CO N VERSAT IO N W I T H JIM RIESER DAVID CONWAY | DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR

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fter nearly three decades working for the Sarasota Police Department, on Jan. 29,

Jim Rieser stepped into one of the few positions he hadn’t held: chief. City Manager Marlon Brown announced Rieser’s promotion from captain two days after former Chief Bernadette DiPino’s resignation. Brown said the city was happy to hire from within, stating Rieser was well positioned to provide a smooth transition of leadership and pick up on ongoing initiatives within the police department. A Sarasota native, Rieser said he was humbled by and excited about the opportunity. Less than two weeks into the job, we asked the chief about his new duties and his goals for the law enforcement agency.

What qualities allowed you to rise up through the ranks?

I think first and foremost is love of what you do. I’ve always wanted to be a police officer; I’ve loved it. And then I think the other thing is you’ve got to work hard, right? You’ve got to really put your nose to the grindstone and really get to work. And that’s something that I try to do each and every day. You know, even as a kid, I was a fix-it person.

I didn’t like it when people were upset as a kid and even as a young adult. And as a police officer, it was a natural transition. You go to disputes; you go to things where people need things fixed.

I’m a member of this community. My wife and I moved here 20 years ago, bought a house— best decision we ever made, I can tell you that. Raised our family here. I think those factors have really helped me. I’m humbled by it. I know the enormity of it.

I know the responsibility that it comes with and how important it is to have someone that is leading by example, doing what I’m supposed to be doing. I think that’s helped me get to here, where I’m at right now. And let’s not forget about a little luck, right?

The transition of power was relatively abrupt, at least from the outside. What has it been like for you?

It’s been great, actually, There’s been amazing positive feedback in the police department, just in my interactions with all the

police officers here and the civilian staff. I’m surprised I can get out the door here with people saying so many fabulous things about me, and I love that. I’m not a big compliment guy — I give compliments; I never really ever looked to get them. I’ve gotten more hugs than I’ve ever gotten in my entire life, I can tell you that, in the last week and a half, and it’s been amazing. My family supports me. The city manager, the deputy city manager, the mayor, the City Commission — they told me that they support this decision.

What are your initial priorities as you settle into this position?

I’ve reached out to as many community partners [as I could].

Obviously, all the local law enforcement, all of our partners, our friends, law enforcement family. The first phone calls I’ve made are to people in the community that I know are so important for us to work [with], that have our back, that support us, and we can’t do what we do without their support. And I wanted them to know who I am.

They mostly know me anyway; I’ve known a lot of these people for decades.

I’m going to be making a deputy chief; that will happen fairly soon. I’ll have two captains after that and two lieutenants and two sergeants, so I really have an opportunity to make a whole new command staff. I think when the community sees who

these people are, they’re going to know what I know: that they are amazingly capable, hard workers, and they have the city of Sarasota, this profession — law enforcement, this institution — and the officers and the civilians at this agency at their heart.

That’s who I want to surround myself with. I think those qualities so very important. I’ve always surrounded myself in every division I’ve ever worked, every unit, with the very best and people that are part of a team. I think that’s so important — you know, look at the Bucs.

Bucs just brought in Tom Brady, but they didn’t just bring in Tom Brady, the best Super Bowl winner and quarterback. They also brought an amazing team around him because Tom Brady can’t win — and Jim Rieser can’t win this — on his own. So I need a great team.

You mentioned the importance of community policing in your introductory press conference. Why is that a philosophy you’ve embraced?

I said it in the press conference, and I’ve said it several times in the last week and a half. I can tell you that is a cornerstone of SPD. And that’s what being a police officer [is], right? That’s why I got in this. Every call, every contact, we’re the people that the community trusts to come out, give them a professional service, treat them with the utmost respect. Look to solve an

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issue, look to ask a question and partner with our community and also our most vulnerable, getting them in touch with the people that can help them. That’s what community policing is. It’s getting out there and solving a problem. … It starts and ends with the community and the police working together.

On a personal level, how do you plan on forging and strengthening relationships with the communities the department serves?

I think the city manager and the deputy city manager and City Commission, they thought about that before they even offered me the job. They decided to hire within, so I would hit the ground running. I know the community. I know Sarasota so well. I live in the city of Sarasota; I’ve lived here for 20-some years.

I think it’s going to be paramount that I’m visible, I’m accessible. I’m out there talking to the right folks at the right time and making sure that everybody knows that — I want them to know what I know: that everybody working in this police department is amazing. They’re the hardest workers, some of the most generous people I’ve ever met. And I want them to know that. I don’t want them to feel worried that, “Oh, I better not talk to that police officer because they’re busy.” Well, yeah. So is everybody, no matter what job you’re in. Everybody’s busy, I get it. But that’s our job.

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City officials have lauded Jim Rieser’s experience at the Sarasota Police Department, which includes supervisory roles in every division in the agency.

The city manager has mentioned continuity as a major strength when discussing your appointment. How does your

experience prepare you for this job?

I’ve been to almost every unit in the police department and supervised every division — patrol, criminal investigation, the support services division, and I started the professional standards division. … I think that experience that I bring to the table is going to be important. I can be part of the conversations of each one of those locations and understand some of the inner workings — whether it be the budget, whether it be staffing, whether it be, “Where are we going to deploy our resources to better fit the community?”

And again, in the command staff that I have, I think we’re going to be able to really hit the ground running with some of the best men and women this country’s ever seen, as far as law enforcement is concerned.

How do you plan to build and strengthen the internal culture at the police department?

I’ve grown up here in my 20s, my 30s, my 40s and now my 50s.

I think it’s all about the relationships that you have forged throughout the years. Treat people with respect. Understand that being present is important.

I’ve gone to shift briefings. I’m walking around this building, talking to police officers and civilian staff.

[Another] thing that I did was I set up one-on-one meetings with every person that works in this agency. We just started all that. We have a young department. I think we’ve hired in the last five, six years over 120 new employees, sworn and civilian staff here. So I need to sit down

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with each and every one of them and talk to them. And I think that’s important that they know me, and I know them.

What other initiatives are on your to-do list?

The body-worn cameras is a huge thing. It’s going to change the agency forever, and I think for the better. We’re going to able to push out videos that these officers have to encounter these contacts, good or bad. And I think that’s important. It’s huge, between training and really educating the citizens of this community of what that entails. You can see that in the coming months for sure; we’re going to have that up and running this year.

The other thing that you’re going to see is in recruiting and hiring, that we’re trying to mirror the demographics of our citizens. I think that’s got to be the marching orders of every agency.

I think everybody wants that for our agency. I think you’re going to see us continuing with our homeless outreach team — our homeless outreach is for our most vulnerable. I think it’s extremely important, and I am completely behind that, because we’ve seen incredible, incredible success based on that.

You’re going to see much more of a [highly] visible police agency. I want the police officers out there. When people see a police officer, I don’t want them to feel worried; I want them to feel safe. And that high visibility — on foot, on bikes, out of their cars with the windows down — I think is important. I want to keep this paradise that we live in — because it is paradise — exactly how it is today: a wonderful place to live and raise a family.

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Improving and speeding up COVID-19 vaccinations Government officials should focus on delivering vaccines as quickly as possible to those who want them.

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n Rely upon existing vaccine

distribution mechanisms to the greatest extent possible.

Most of us go to Publix, CVS, Walgreens, Walmart and many smaller pharmacies to get flu vaccines each year. These pharmacies have the infrastructure, staff and logistical processes needed to rapidly immunize the general public — they just need doses of the vaccine.

And if that is not enough capacity, perhaps dentists and doctors and nurses in private practice could be asked to volunteer a few hours a week to help create a pool to staff county vaccination facilities.

n Avoid wasting doses of the vaccine.

Distributors in possession of doses that are within 24 hours of expiring should be free to administer the vaccines to

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Publisher / Emily Walsh, EWalsh@YourObserver.com Executive Editor / Kat Hughes, KHughes@YourObserver.com Managing Editor / Eric Garwood, EGarwood@YourObserver.com Deputy Managing Editor / David Conway, DConway@YourObserver.com Staff Writer / Brynn Mechem, BMechem@YourObserver.com Sports Reporter / Ryan Kohn, RKohn@YourObserver.com Copy Editor/ Kaelyn Adix, KAdix@YourObserver.com Editorial Designers / Melissa Leduc, MLeduc@YourObserver.com; Carol Parker, CParker@YourObserver.com Black Tie Editor / Harry Sayer, HSayer@YourObserver.com

ADRIAN MOORE VITTORIO NASTASI MARK JOFFE

e all breathed a sigh of relief when Sarasota County finally overhauled its broken system for registering for COVID-19 vaccination.

The tens of thousands of people who had spent weeks devoting their days to clicking the link on their computer to try to book an appointment, only to fail again and again, were finally able to get into the queue.

Other counties didn’t have this problem. They appear to have planned better or been quicker to adapt when their original plan did not work. There is a lesson in this about single-payer health care: When there is one point of failure in a system, and it fails, it hits everyone.

Even now, many Sarasota County residents are getting their vaccinations in other counties. In particular we have heard praise for the use of Publix pharmacies to administer the vaccines. And in that there are additional lessons.

We still have close to 300 million doses to administer, so it is worth thinking about how it might be sped up.

Overly complicated prioritization schemes have been a plague on getting vaccinations done.

Counties in Florida seemed caught off guard by the state’s prioritization guidelines, stuff that should have been worked out months ago. And the people should have known the plan well in advance.

Going forward, government officials should focus on delivering vaccines as quickly as possible to those who want them.

Here are a few proposals that could help achieve that goal.

“If we are to build a better world, we must remember that the guiding principle is this — a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.”

anyone, regardless of eligibility because a wasted, expired dose of the vaccine is worse than vaccinating an individual with less need.

Avoid the mistake of New York: There should not be criminal penalties on health care providers or vaccine recipients. And avoid “damned if you let your vaccines expire, damned if you don’t let your vaccines expire” — by using them on anyone outside of the approved hierarchy. n Do not withhold vaccine supplies to ensure second dose availability to those who have already received their first shot.

Preliminary research suggests that the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is 82% effective — well above the 50% threshold the U.S. Food and Drug Administration set for vaccine approvals. Also, as vaccine production ramps up, it will be possible to allocate second doses from new supplies rather than keeping existing supplies in inventory.

n Extend ‘right to try’ to allow anyone to receive a vaccine approved in other countries.

This one is really up to the state, but the governor should go around the FDA and allow Floridians to directly purchase vaccines outside the government pipeline if they want to.

Currently, only the Pfizer/ BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are approved for emergency

use in the U.S. But the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved in the U.K. and India.

Other vaccines that have been approved for emergency, limited or general use in at least one large country include Sputnik V, EpiVacCorona, Convidecia and BBIBP-CorV. Just as right-to-try laws allow terminally ill patients to seek investigational treatments, because vaccines aren’t readily available here, high-risk patients and others should be able to seek vaccines approved elsewhere.

Rather than relying too heavily on central planning and topdown approaches, these steps could help ensure that COVID-19 vaccines are distributed rapidly and with minimal waste, just as decentralized markets do with a wide variety of products, including flu vaccines.

The sooner we achieve widespread immunization, the more lives will be saved, the faster society can fully reopen, and the more suffering can be avoided.

Marc Joffe is a senior policy analyst, Adrian Moore is vice president, and Vittorio Nastasi is a policy analyst at Reason Foundation. Moore lives in Sarasota.

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It’s spooky how you support Trump Wow! That was some humdinger of a screed you directed at the establishment, left wing, statist, free-speech-annihilating slime balls like Courie, Robinson, Pelosi, Schumer, Sanders, et. al. in your Jan. 28 opinion piece.

I sure hope you had some Valium on hand to help you recover your equilibrium. I just took mine to respond in what I hope to be a less frantic tone.

First, your beliefs in God, capitalism, Bill of Rights, constitutional freedoms, etc., are all patriotic and commendable, but the inference, in the context of your diatribe, is that the aforementioned targets and others like me don’t believe in these blessings. I can assure you that we absolutely do. It’s just that we don’t subscribe to free speech that incites riots, preaches bigoted hatred, provides bomb-making instructions or promotes bold-faced lies again and again.

It’s just common sense that in a civil society, such “free speech” should be restricted, and if you’re suggesting that there should be no boundaries whatsoever, one must wonder if you have any common sense.

We also believe it’s OK to own guns, so long as they’re not part of an arsenal of weapons or weapons of war capable of killing 100 people in as many seconds.

Let’s get real here. Surely, our founders, whose concept of “arms” was either a cannon or a flint-locked musket, could

not have imagined such lethality for self-defense. So please spare us the Second Amendment as a rationale for such weaponry or its appearance at rallies or on the steps of state capitols.

Insofar as the “deep state” and “swamp” dwellers of Washington are concerned, your assertion that “they have been destroying the U.S. for decades” seems ludicrous in the face of one simple fact: Never before Trump and his raging acolytes have Americans invaded and sacked our national seat of government and attempted to overturn a legitimate election certified by scores of Republican state officials.

So please tell me, what governmental group has been more destructive, the preceding establishment of prior decades or the recently departed tourists?

As to the issue of big tech and others censuring speech or canceling associations, let me remind you all of that is a legitimate part of the free enterprise you say to believe in.

Every company has the right to disassociate from people or organizations they deem detrimental to their brands and business by virtue of actions and words that offend their customers or are patently dangerous.

They do it all the time by canceling sponsorships of TV shows with offensive content, firing CEOs whose behavior is embarrassing, eliminating suppliers who exploit labor, cutting loose bad actor product

endorsers, etc. So it isn’t antifree enterprise or anti-free speech to prohibit dangerous or offensive discourse from their business platforms or to withhold support from wingnut theory purveyors.

Finally, I would say this: Supporting Trump for his policies (some of which I actually agreed with) is one thing.

But don’t even try to attach any moral high ground to this guy, who lied incessantly, ignored or distorted science, alienated our most important allies, undermined our security and intelligence services, acted and behaved like a schoolyard bully, never uttered a word that united the country and, in the end, provoked tens of millions of Americans to distrust their government and its institutions.

Maybe that’s what Mr. Semisch meant by “Trump brought our democracy to its knees.”

That intelligent, well-educated people like you supported Trump twice is bewildering to me. That you feel victimized by comments meant to address the extremists who, in his name, sacked the Capitol suggests that you identify personally with them, and, quite frankly, that’s really spooky.

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Mr. Caro: We respect your First Amendment right to express your opinion. What’s more, unlike big-tech social media organizations — to which, by the way, Congress

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has granted special legislative exemptions that we don’t have — we welcome and will always publish opposing, disparate views. Yes, those tech companies can ban customers and speech if they want — at the price of diminishing, if not losing, two of their most important assets: credibility and integrity. It’s a choice.

The Legislature is doing a huge disservice to our citizens in attempting to eliminate public notices in newspapers.

The public relies on the papers for notices about rezonings, tax changes and all manner of other important public business.

House bill 35 must not be approved.

Legislators’ attempt to eliminate this important source of communication with the public will disenfranchise the poor, those who are not tech savvy and the many in our community who depend on local newspapers to keep them in touch with the government’s business.

I know here on Longboat Key newspaper notices are well read and responded to by our citizens.

As an elected official, I know there is cost associated with public notices in newspapers, but there is a larger cost associated with the failure to communicate and provide total transparency regarding government activities.

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As you brag about how many new residents and visitors are coming to Florida, you should know that many of us — not all, but many of us — are here for the winter weather, not your politics.

In the spring, many of us gladly return to, as you like to call them, those miserable Northeast states, which, by the way, all rank higher than Florida in public health. Massachusetts and New Jersey also rank higher than Florida in public education.

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City ponders private management of Bobby Jones After a four-hour workshop Monday, it’s still unclear what direction the city will pursue as it plots a renovation project for the municipal golf course.

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The city has spent more than six years crafting a plan for the future of Bobby Jones Golf Club, but as it nears the point of selecting a contractor to renovate the cityowned course, officials remain undecided about key details associated with the project.

The City Commission held a workshop Monday to review the status of the Bobby Jones renovation efforts — and consider the possibility of diverging from the vision the board adopted one year ago. The commission scheduled the workshop following a January presentation from Commissioner Erik Arroyo, who advocated for a possible partnership with a private property manager that would lease and operate the municipal golf course.

Monday’s workshop concluded with no specific action. A majority of the board indicated it was willing to consider bringing in an outside operator for Bobby Jones, but some commissioners said they were not ready to fully commit to the idea. Commissioners who supported a private partnership suggested it could minimize the city’s costs associated with the golf course, but others had questions about how such an arrangement would work in practice.

“I don’t feel like I have enough information — or that I’m convinced a management company could make it profitable if the city can’t,” Commissioner Liz Alpert said.

The workshop began with a presentation from city staff and the consultants who helped develop the city’s plans for renovating the 293-acre Bobby Jones property. The city intends to reduce the footprint of the golf course from 45 holes to 27, including 18 regulation holes and a nine-hole short course. The project would include 130 acres of newly created nongolf parkland on the east side of the Bobby Jones site.

Golf architect Richard Mandell said the project team projects the initial phase of the project costs at $10.6 million, $1.5 million of which would go toward the park.

Phase one of the park will include 4.5 miles of walking trails, created wetlands and landscaping.

Speakers from the project team noted the city has been working on renovating Bobby Jones since 2014. Mandell and others said the current plan is the product of extensive input from the public and the commission.

Arroyo facilitated a presentation from representatives for Century Golf Partners and Golfzon Leadbetter, industry professionals who offered their insights on Bobby Jones and golf course oper-

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City Manager Marlon Brown says the city was getting ready to find a contractor for the Bobby Jones renovation project until the commission expressed an interest in reconsidering its options.

ations. The group said it believed projections from the National Golf Foundation — which indicated Bobby Jones could continue to lose more than $500,000 annually following renovations — were overly conservative and that the course offered opportunities to maximize revenue and minimize general fund subsidies.

When commissioners asked how a private operator could more effectively generate revenue at Bobby Jones than the city could on its own, the group pointed to price structure, marketing, maintenance and design efficiency as areas in which the current plan could be improved.

“Running a golf course is a specialized business,” said Jim Hinckley, the founder and CEO of Century Golf.

The presentations sparked a spectrum of responses from the commission. Arroyo contin-

ued to express optimism about the possibility of finding a private operator willing to cover the costs associated with renovating the Bobby Jones property, substantially reducing the city’s expenses. Mayor Hagen Brody was also skeptical about the idea that a private company would invest in the site without city assistance, but he supported bringing in an outside operator.

“We just cannot assume the city can do as good a job as professionals that spend careers doing that,” Brody said.

Commissioner Jen AhearnKoch said she believed the city should not cede control of Bobby Jones to a private entity, stating that the golf course is an amenity the city provides to its residents.

“This is a municipal service,” Ahearn-Koch said. “That is our focus.”

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Battie questioned whether the city could bring in a private management company after completing the renovation project the board has already endorsed. David Leadbetter, the owner of Golfzon Leadbetter, said he believed it would be optimal to bring in an operator as early as possible.

If the commission is interested, City Manager Marlon Brown indicated the city could put out a request for proposals for an operator who is willing to use Mandell’s designs as the foundation for the future of Bobby Jones while leaving open the possibility for revisions.

In response to Ahearn-Koch’s concerns, Leadbetter said he believed an agreement with a private operator didn’t preclude the possibility of keeping the course affordable and accessible.

“I don’t think designing it as a profit center and making it great for the local community are mutually exclusive,” he said.

Battie, poised to be a potential swing vote when the city returns to this conversation, said he’d like to get more information on that dynamic before he makes up his mind on the best course of action.

“When you turn it over to a management company, do you lose control over what happens there?” Battie said.

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Foundation helps place teachers in classrooms Through the Emerging Educators program, the Barancik Foundation has helped place about 25 teachers in Sarasota classrooms.

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hen Boglarka “Bo” Lengyel immigrated to the U.S. from Hungary seven years ago, she knew she would have to leave her profession as a lawyer.

Law practice in Hungary follows Roman law while the U.S. uses common law practices, so her degree was invalid in the U.S. So she decided to take a cue from her grandmother who was a teacher in Hungary for 16 years.

“I spent a lot of time with her when I was a kid, and that actually was always my dream, to work in a school,” Lengyel said. “When we moved here, I considered that as a fresh start.”

However, she didn’t have the degree she needed, so she began working as an assistant to Tricia Allen, an assistant principal of Pine View School, as a way to get her foot in the door.

Still, she was unsure how to get a teaching position with an outof-field degree.

“I didn’t know that I had that option here because it’s not an option in Hungary,” she said. “I just knew that I wanted to be surrounded by kids.”

After Pine View administrators heard about Lengyel’s dream, they told her about the Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation’s Emerging Educators program.

The Emerging Educators program was created by the Barancik Foundation three years ago to support adults who want to become educators.

In its first cohort, the Barancik Foundation approached Sarasota County Schools to identify parents, substitute teachers and other interested adults.

After sifting through applications, the foundation financially supported 25 cohort members who already had bachelor’s degrees but not teaching degrees.

The cohort members work at their own pace to get their degree through State College of Florida or a university of their choice.

“In almost every case, these are people who are doing something else,” said John Annis, the foundation’s senior vice president for collaboration and impact.

“They are taking on an additional responsibility because they really want to pursue a teaching career.”

About 12 members of the first cohort were employed with the district after a year and a half.

After seeing success with the

first cohort, the foundation began taking applications for the second cohort, this time focusing on diverse applicants, so Lengyel decided to apply.

Allen wrote a recommendation letter for Lengyel, who then got in the program in February 2020.

She’s now halfway through the program and is in her first year as a second grade teacher at Pine View.

Although a large benefit of the program is financial support, being in the cohort has benefits beyond money, Annis said.

“The idea of a cohort was they would study together, they would become teachers together, they would support each other as teachers throughout their careers,” Annis said. “So there was some support that happened automatically.”

Although the cohort members can work and study together, each one has different steps to take to receive their certification.

Throughout the program, members of the Barancik Foundation check in on the aspiring teachers to help them get through their checklist of things they need to do, such as take tests or practice interviewing skills, before receiving their teaching certificate.

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“If I have a question, if I have a test to take and need help, they’re here with information or financial help, whatever I need,” Lengyel said.

The Barancik Foundation sets aside about $250,000 for each cohort, but it typically over-budgets, Annis said, in case teachers need to take certification tests more than once or need more classes than anticipated.

After two cohorts, the district has placed about 25 members in a classroom. Annis said Barancik Foundation staff will ask the board for another round of funding for a third cohort in the spring.

Annis said the next cohort might focus on STEM or English as a second language teach-

ers because he sees a need in the community.

“We have frequent contact with the district to look at who is going to be retiring, who’s leaving courses, the growth in certain areas and what the greatest demand will be because we want to recruit people that are going to help satisfy the demand,” he said.

Even though Lengyel said that although it has been difficult taking online classes while managing a classroom during a pandemic, she wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.

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District will replace 12 diesel buses with electric models A Florida Department of Environmental Protection grant will help with funding for the school buses.

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Cost of an electric bus

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Cost of a charging station

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As the Sarasota school district continues to look for sustainability opportunities inside its schools, a new effort will soon be seen rolling down the street.

With a grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection on the horizon, the district will soon add 12 electric buses to its fleet.

The FDEP has more than $57 million to dole out from a settlement with Volkswagen following a lawsuit filed to resolve claims the automaker violated the Clean Air Act by selling diesel vehicles that violated emission standards.

Now the FDEP will distribute funds for school districts to replace diesel Type C or Type D school buses from 2009 or older with new electric-battery powered Type C or Type D buses.

Only districts within Air Quality Priority Areas are eligible for the funds. There are 23 such counties in Florida, including Sarasota, Manatee, Pinellas and Hillsborough.

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Average annual maintenance for an electric bus Chair Shirley Brown says she’s concerned about the price difference between a diesel bus and an electric bus.

“This isn’t something that has been included in the past, but we’d certainly like to weave sustainability as a goal throughout the district,” Chief Operations Officer Jody Dumas said. “This is a great first step.”

Each district is required to cover at least 25% of the bus cost as part of the grant. The average cost of an electric school bus is

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Average annual emissions from an electric bus

$360,000 compared to $110,000 for a diesel bus. This means the district will have an upfront cost of about $1.08 million for 12 buses while FDEP will pay $3.24 million.

Although school board members said they were excited to begin sustainability efforts, some were hesitant of the cost difference between an electric and a diesel bus.

“The cost difference is amazing

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Director of Transportation Jason Harris says the electric buses can travel up to 135 miles on one charge with zero emissions.

— it’s three times as much,” Chair Shirley Brown said. “I would hope that in the future these costs will come down because we’re looking to go all electric within 10 years.”

Director of Transportation Jason Harris said the district applied for 12 buses to begin its program and determine whether it will be financially feasible to work toward an all-electric fleet.

Aside from the buses, the district also will need to supply 12 charging stations, which cost $17,000 each but will be supplied for free

by Florida Power and Light.

Harris said on one charge, the buses can travel anywhere from 100-135 miles depending on outside factors, such as air conditioning and start and stops. The buses take three hours to charge.

“A school bus route can be operated in the a.m., they can charge during their layover and then be operational for the afternoon,” Harris said.

If it proves financially feasible for the district, it will continue to replace up to 74 eligible diesel buses with electric buses.

Board member Jane Goodwin said she purchased a hybrid car this year that gets “great gas mileage,” and she hopes the district’s fleet will soon experience similar sustainable benefits.

“I think it is the way of the future, and I think the sooner we look at and evaluate some of these options as we go down the road, I think there will be more and more opportunities and cheaper costs,” Goodwin said.

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Blanketed with kindness The Out-of-Door Academy students raise money to donate blankets to shelters in Sarasota as part of the Blankets of Hope project.

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letters of hope to tie onto purple blankets as part of a project for the nonprofit Blankets of Hope, which partners with schools to raise money to provide blankets to people who are homeless.

The service project was an opportunity for students in pre-K through 12th grade to bring kindness, empathy and inspiration to people in Sarasota experiencing homelessness.

“It’s cool being able to see yourself in other people’s shoes and

be more aware of what’s happening around you,” freshman Amy Kwakya-Amoah said.

Students at the Uihlein Campus in Lakewood Ranch donated $5 to earn a Dress Down Day, which is a day that students don’t have to abide by the school’s dress code.

Melinda Lloyd, one of the coordinators of the project at the school, said both ODA’s campuses donated 575 blankets to Resurrection House, the Salvation Army and the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office homeless outreach team.

Freshman Joseph Clarke was grateful to participate in the project.

“It feels great because I know, especially in larger cities, people go unnoticed,” Clarke said. “It feels good to help them.”

Freshman Christopher Nightingale said he hopes his letter makes the blanket recipient feel loved and gives the recipient hope that life will get better.

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Commission discusses Newtown priorities With public input gathered in 2019, the city is developing short- and long-term goals for the Newtown Community Redevelopment Area.

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City staff said its goal is to encourage redevelopment and economic growth within the CRA while addressing the needs of residents and preserving community history in the majorityBlack district.

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Because the city established the CRA in 2006, just before a major economic downturn, the district failed to generate revenue for more than a decade. The city reset the base year for property tax calculations in 2019, at which point staff set out to update a redevelopment plan originally adopted more than a decade earlier.

In 2019, the city held a series of public meetings and shared an online survey to collect feedback from residents within the district’s boundaries.

Staff extracted some community priorities from the results: Respondents said they wanted the CRA to attract new businesses and pursue transportation improvements.

The survey said residents wanted more lighting and tree canopies in Newtown, and they wanted more entertainment options, retail businesses and neighborhood services. The public wanted the city to followthrough on incomplete high-profile projects, such as the reopening of Miss Susie’s restaurant and the redevelopment of the Marian Anderson Place site.

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TOP PRIORITIES Although city staff members were looking for input from the commission at Tuesday’s workshop, they also shared a list of initiatives they thought officials should place a higher priority on in the Newtown CRA plan.

Those projects included:

– Commissioner Hagen Brody

■ Buildout of Janie’s Garden commercial space; ■ Improvements on Dr. Martin Luther King Way and Orange Avenue; ■ Support for Miss Susie’s restaurant; ■ Legacy Trail expansion; ■ Marian Anderson Place redevelopment; ■ Support for special events; and ■ Improvements in residential areas.

guide the proposed updates to the redevelopment plan. The latest draft of the document, 100 pages in total, features sections on economic development, branding

and marketing, housing, land use, quality of life, infrastructure and transportation.

Recommendations include initiatives to attract new businesses, the creation of a Newtown arts district, consideration of height and density increases on Dr. Martin Luther King Way, expansion of the Legacy Trail through the CRA and partnerships to build workforce housing.

Tuesday’s workshop was an opportunity for commissioners to share their thoughts on the document staff put together. The board was largely supportive of the work staff did, but individual commissioners offered some input and suggestions for revisions to the priorities identified in the redevelopment plan.

Kyle Battie, who represents the district in which the Newtown CRA fits, said he that he would like to see a greater emphasis

placed on assisting existing residents with homeownership, a strategy to prevent displacement ahead of planned improvements in the area.

Battie also said the city needed to be conscientious about maximizing the value of the money the CRA generates. In the 2021 budget year, the CRA was expected to generate $137,059 in tax revenue and $136,828 in a loan payment from the Downtown Improvement District.

Unlike the former downtown CRA, the Newtown CRA does not collect any tax revenue from Sarasota County. Battie said it was essential to continue engaging with residents and businesses even after adopting a redevelopment plan to ensure projects and services were aligned with the needs of stakeholders.

“It’s imperative that every dollar spent coming out of this CRA

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produces something,” Battie said.

Battie also said he believed the city should prioritize the completion of the Miss Susie’s Kitchen project, a stalled public-private restaurant project intended to serve as a workforce training center and a nod to a Newtown business that closed in the 1970s.

Commissioners Liz Alpert and Hagen Brody shared similar thoughts on the Miss Susie’s project.

“I think that’s another problem we have with north Sarasota, starting things and not finishing them,” Brody said. “Miss Susie’s is clearly a visible representation of that.”

The redevelopment plan, already approved by the Newtown CRA Advisory Board and Planning Board, will advance to the City Commission for final adoption after staff makes revisions based on Tuesday’s workshop.

Although the plan is focused on one segment of the city, Battie said he believed all neighborhoods in the city benefit when one neighborhood is made stronger.

“That’s the goal here: to make Newtown better,” Battie said.

“It’s going to take all of us, all hands on deck.”

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St. Armands crossing guards to return in March The town of Longboat Key, city of Sarasota and FDOT agreed to split the cost of the program.

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A couple crosses the street in St. Armands Circle.

Crossing guards are returning to St. Armands Circle next month to help keep traffic flowing during peak season.

From March 6 through April 4, pedestrian monitors are set to be in place from 4-7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays and from noon to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

“It’s something that we tried last year,” Town Manager Tom

Harmer said. “It was really a reinvigoration of a pilot program from a few years ago.”

The program is funded by an equal partnership between the town of Longboat Key, city of Sarasota and Florida Department of Transportation. Harmer said Longboat Key has about $25,000 budgeted for the program, though he does not expect it to cost that much. Initially, the city of Sarasota had problems finding pedestrian monitors willing to work

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Harmer said he and the town had hoped for the program to start sooner.

“I also know that this year’s unique,” Harmer said. “We’re still in COVID-19, and so traffic patterns are a little bit different and maybe a little less than they would normally be.”

He said the town is a proponent of having the program run longer.

“We still think doing it over a longer period of time makes sense for most of season, that January through April time frame,” Harmer said. “We also didn’t want to go through season without doing it. So we’d rather see it happen than not.”

Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the cancellation of the crossing-guard program.

The program launched in 2016 to post trained crossing guards at key locations on the Circle, gathering groups of pedestrians to cross at once rather than allowing individuals or small groups to cross more frequently. The goal was to keep cars moving for longer periods of time.

The municipalities will seek feedback on the program.

“Some of it will be anecdotal,” Harmer said. “Some of it may be a little more engineering-based.”

FDOT has also agreed to the town’s request to evaluate traffic flow to the Lido Beach spoke of the circle. Traffic often gets backed up because of people’s desire to go to the beach and the number of parking spaces on the west end of the circle.

“They’ve indicated that they would try to monitor that conflict and come up with maybe some recommendations on how to improve it,” Harmer said. “We’ve asked that they eliminate some of the spaces.”

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DRAINING FUNDS 2:10 p.m. — 200 block of Morningside Drive Dispute: A man said he agreed to pay $180 per month for a company to clean his mother’s pool and had set up automatic payments. Although the man said he asked the company to contact him for approval to do additional work, he said the company added extra costs without warning. The bills gradually increased, with the company charging him up to $3,500 the past few months.

The man reviewed his bills and realized he paid $20,000 above the initial rate. An officer informed the man he would have to sue the company in civil court to recoup any money.

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COME BACK 10:29 p.m. — 1300 block of Boulevard of the Arts Dispute: A woman said she let a man drive her car around the block a few times, but he hadn’t returned it 45 minutes later. An officer contacted the man, who said he paid the woman $50 to

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When a family outgrows its onebedroom apartment, it looks for a new space in which to grow.

The same thing is happening at Hershorin Schiff Community Day School, just on a larger scale.

The school, which enrolls 270 students from 12 months to eighth grade, will move from 1050 S. Tuttle Ave. to the intersection of Wilkinson and McIntosh roads, giving it a capacity of 300 students and additional facilities.

The new location will not only offer the school a chance for expansion, but it also will be more centrally located in the county, which Head of School Dan Ceaser said would allow the campus to serve more families throughout the county.

Since Hershorin Schiff became an independent community day school five years ago, the demand has tripled.

“We’ve just outgrown the cam-

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pus,” Ceaser said. “We’ve been renting it, and it’s been a dream of our board of trustees for us to own our own space, and we’ve been working toward that goal for several years.”

After some setbacks due to partnerships that fell through and COVID-19, school leaders finally settled on 8.8 acres that used to host Temple Baptist Church and Suncoast School for Innovative Studies.

Hershorin Schiff purchased the property for $2.7 million and will raise an additional $8.8 million for renovations over the next five years.

Immediate plans include adding a second educational building to create a courtyard and renovations to several classrooms, such as a science lab, an art room and a music room. When construction is complete, there will be nearly 40,000 square feet of classroom and office space.

The classroom area will be divided into two buildings: one for early learning and another for elementary and middle school students.

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Above: The new campus will feature a gym, which the current campus does not have.

Left: Head of School Dan Ceaser says he can’t wait to welcome students to campus in August.

agricultural science program.

The property also came with a lighted athletic field and a gym — two facilities the current campus does not have. Previously, the school had to rent facilities or practice at public parks.

“Two years ago, our soccer team made it to the finals, and we were asked to host a game, and we didn’t have a regulation field, so we had to rent a space in North Port,” Ceaser said. “Now our kids will have a field, locker rooms, scoreboard — all of these amazing things.”

Because the property was partially used by a church previously, there is a dedicated chapel that the school will use for Friday Shabbat and other purposes.

Temple Baptist Church will continue to use the chapel for its Sunday services, which Ceaser said fits in with the message of the school.

“We want to create a space where Jewish and non-Jewish students can learn from each other and bridge differences,” Ceaser said. “That extends outside our student body. This is not just a

place for our students. It’s a building for the entire community.”

Although the campus will have a visitor’s center, a single-point of entry and a monitored entry off McIntosh Road during the day, Ceaser said it will be open for community organizations to use the church, gym or athletic fields at night or on weekends.

Ceaser said he’s most looking forward to welcoming students to campus upon construction completion and that kids are already getting excited.

Communications and marketing specialist Lindsay Sweeting said she and her two daughters who attend the school often stop at the new campus to monitor the progress.

“My oldest always unbuckles her seat belt, crawls in the front seat and asks me a million questions,” Sweeting said. “They’re so thrilled to see the progress, and we all can’t wait to welcome them to campus.”

Construction began in October 2020 and will be finished in time for the 2021-22 school year.

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SaraSolo, Booker Middle program creates a connection The Bridge program partners middle schoolers with elder performers to create solo theater performances based on each other’s lives.

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student in the program, said the program was challenging because he had never written a theater piece, so he had to rewrite his monologue several times to make it more expressive. However, he was happy with the end product.

“I was very excited to present my piece because it took a lot of time and work to create it, and I put it out there, and my elder really liked it,” Jones said.

Eighth grade student Ariyana Rivera, who was partnered with SaraSolo Managing Director Blake Walton, struggled more with the performance aspect.

“I like to write in my free time, so I felt pretty confident in what I wrote, but the acting part was hard for me because I’d never acted before,” Rivera said. “But Blake was so amazing because he made me very comfortable and confident, and my classmates helped me gain confidence in myself to perform.”

Typically, the groups meet for a performance evening in front of an audience. However, because of COVID-19, the participants this year created a video package.

Mills said the best part about the project is the opportunity for her students to learn from professionals in the fields they hope to someday pursue.

SaraSolo plans to continue the program next year and hopes to construct a manual to share with

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Above: Students write and revise their solo theater performances after interviewing their elders last year.

Left: This year, the partners had to meet through Zoom to work on their solo theater pieces.

other educators to create similar programs at other schools.

Walton said the program has “immense value” because it creates a rare intergenerational connection.

“Younger kids are pushed aside, and older adults are relegated to the sidelines as they age, so this is a way to help both feel respected and heard and cared for,” Walton said.

Wolf, who has participated in the program twice, said the pro-

gram and the performance pieces that come out of it create a lasting bond. She said she still keeps tabs on her students to see where they are going and support them in any way she can.

“There’s just nothing like it,” Wolf said. “There’s nothing like somebody dedicating something to you and hearing a piece of your life told by someone else.

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Harnessing that magic into incredible performances is the goal of SaraSolo Productions’ The Bridge program.

The program, now in its third year, connects older performers with students in the Visual Performing Arts program at Booker Middle School to create a piece of solo theater based on the other’s lives.

“It’s so wonderful because what happens is these two groups that generally tend to be marginalized and not always listened to have their stories come through,” said Carrie Mills, a drama and musical theater teacher. “The teens learn from and have enormous respect for the elders and all the things they can learn from a different generation.”

Volunteers from SaraSolo go on “speed dates” with the students,

and then the students list with whom they most want to work.

SaraSolo Artistic Director Ann Morrison said it’s interesting to see the pairings each year because every pairing is always happy with their partner.

“It’s very serendipitous that way,” Morrison said. “It’s almost like magic, but of course it’s not.

It’s just something that comes through with the partners, and it’s beautiful to watch the partnerships grow throughout the project.”

After partners are chosen, they begin personal interviews with each other. Booker students are asked to write a short three- to five-minute monologue based on their partner’s life, while the elders have more freedom to create a variety of pieces.

In the past, elders have written musical compositions, poems and short skits based on their students.

Carol Wolf, a volunteer elder with the program, said the interview process helps to create a bond between the pair.

“When I finished my interview, I felt like had been through therapy because I had been asked such deep questions,” Wolf said.

“It blew me away and really made me think about where I was and how I had progressed from when I was a kid. It was wonderful.”

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his week, the boys basketball district tournaments commence. Here’s a look at where the local programs stand as they begin their postseason journey, with a trip to Lakeland and the Final Four being the end goal, as well as a farewell to the teams eliminated.

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Cardinal Mooney sophomore Jordyn Byrd scored 23 points and 20 rebounds Feb. 5 in the Cougars’ 61-27 girls basketball victory against Saint Stephen’s Episcopal.

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Riverview High sophomore Sami Slusarek scored 26 points and five rebounds Feb. 3 in the Rams’ 66-49 girls basketball victory against (Tampa) Riverview High.

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Sarasota Christian junior Adam Bassil scored 24 points Feb. 5 in the Blazers’ 5349 boys basketball victory against Cardinal Mooney High.

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Riverview High senior Tomas Travnicek made four saves Feb. 5 in the Rams’ 1-0 boys soccer victory against Lakewood Ranch High. (Riverview won on penalty kicks, 5-3.)

■ BOOKER HIGH (14-8) The Tornadoes defeated Dunedin High (2-12) 81-46 on Tuesday to advance to the Class 4A District 10 semifinals. The Tornadoes will play Lakewood High (8-2) at 7 p.m. Friday at Lakewood.

Booker is ranked 15th in Class 4A by MaxPreps while Lakewood is 12th, and the schools’ only common opponent is Southeast High, which Booker beat twice, and Lakewood beat once.

With a large disparity in games played, Booker is more of a known entity than Lakewood.

The Tornadoes will play Coach Markus Black’s physical style of basketball and get some timely long-range shooting from such players as Joey Winter. They have also played a tougher schedule, according to MaxPreps. Even though Lakewood is the top seed in the district, don’t be surprised if Booker pulls the upset and advances to the district title game.

■ RIVERVIEW HIGH (18-6) The Rams, the top seed in Class 7A District 8, had a bye Tuesday.

They head straight to the district

semifinals, where they will play (Tampa) Riverview High (4-10) at 7 p.m. Friday at home. The Rams are 4-0 against the teams’ common opponents, while the Sharks are 1-3. The Rams should advance to the district final, where they would either play Lakewood Ranch High (11-7) or Durant High (18-4). Riverview has not played Lakewood Ranch this season, but they played and defeated Durant 66-62 on Dec. 29. The Rams have won seven of their last nine.

■ SARASOTA CHRISTIAN (13-10) The Blazers are in the middle of a hot streak. After sitting at 6-10 on Jan. 29, Sarasota Christian has ripped off seven wins in a row, including a 62-51 win against Keswick Christian on Tuesday in the Class 2A District 7 quarterfinals.

The Blazers will next play Bayshore Christian (8-7) in the semifinals Feb. 10, and if they win, they will play either Canterbury High (12-10) or Lakeside Christian (913) in the final. Sarasota Christian has received contributions from up and down its roster during the streak. Against Keswick, center

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Booker High sophomore Leah DuBose scored 11 points and had 11 rebounds Feb. 3 in the Tornadoes’ 6247 girls basketball victory against Tampa Catholic.

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Jayven Millien is one of many athletic players on Riverview’s roster.

Brian Hershberger had 17 points, guard Adam Bassil had 16 points, and guard Aaron Fayette had 14 points. Balanced scoring like that will be tough to beat; the Blazers streak might continue for a while.

■ SARASOTA HIGH (8-15) The Sailors’ season came to an end Tuesday night as they lost 66-55 to Braden River High in the Class 6A District 11 quarterfinals.

It was a tough season for Sarasota, which finished 8-15. But the Sailors did have bright spots, like senior guard Ashton Orton, whose play has earned him a scholarship offer from NCAA Division 2 West Virginia Wesleyan.

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Brian Hershberger has been a large part of Sarasota Christian’s winning streak.

■ CARDINAL MOONEY (7-13) The Cougars’ season also ended Tuesday night, in a loss to The Out-of-Door Academy. Cardinal Mooney finished the year 7-13, but with just three seniors on the roster, the Cougars should be gearing up for a stronger season in 2021-22.

GIRLS’ GAMES

Four Sarasotaarea teams will play quarterfinal games Thursday night.

■ Class 7A regional: Riverview (19-1) and Steinbrenner (20-8), 7 p.m. at Riverview ■ Class 3A: Cardinal Mooney (16-8) and Calvary Christian (16-4), 7 p.m. at Cardinal Mooney ■ Class 4A: Booker (16-8) and Cocoa (12-4), 7 p.m. at Cocoa ■ Class 2A: Sarasota Christian (10-9) and Evangelical Christian (22-4), 6 p.m. at Evangelical Check YourObserver. com for scores and updates.

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The dish best served cold Cardinal Mooney girls soccer gets its revenge on Bishop Verot.

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here’s something joyous about a district championship that’s difficult to pinpoint.

I mean, of course, winning the trophy feels great. Winning anything feels great. But for as much attention as state titles get, I like watching teams celebrate district titles almost as much.

Tuesday night, the Cardinal Mooney girls soccer team helped me pinpoint why.

The Cougars (12-4-1) defeated Bishop Verot High 3-0 at home to take the Class 3A, District 8 title. It was a closer game than the score indicates, but that won’t matter to anyone participating.

What was a tight game for most of its run time will either be remembered as a dominating victory or a crushing defeat.

Just like the Cougars remember last year’s championship game, another 3-0 game against Bishop Verot — except back then, the Cougars were on the losing side.

Cougars junior goalkeeper Allessia Ukmar said this season

has been a “revenge season.”

They certainly played motivated.

There was strong communication from the Cougars all night, and they took advantage of the opportunities they were given.

Sophomore Zoe Halfpenny and senior Malia Tomasso both scored on headers in the box, and senior Lauren Golon added a more traditional goal midway through the second half.

Ukmar, who had never played soccer before last season, made 10 saves, including a sensational stop on a Bishop Verot penalty kick to keep a clean sheet.

The save brought out the Cougars’ reserve energy; I thought Bishop Verot might get a desperation goal — it had been getting a handful of good chances — but in the game’s final minutes, it didn’t come particularly close.

Cougars Coach Graham Warne said he’s most proud of the fact that only four players on the team also play club soccer. In other words, Mooney has a lot of homegrown talent.

On many other teams, upwards of 90% of a team’s roster can play club ball — and there’s nothing wrong with that.

But it is impressive to see a team filled with players less perpetually consumed with the sport

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The Cardinal Mooney girls soccer team won its district title game 3-0 against Bishop Verot on Tuesday night.

come together and pull off a victory like this.

“They just play good soccer,” Warne said with a shrug. “They all work together. When you see them, you would think they all play club. They get along so well.

They made it a team.”

And they saved their best for their biggest rival. That’s what I like about district championships: They are petty. They are about beating the teams you love to hate.

They dish out bragging rights

to the victors. Only one team per class can win a state title and be known as the best for a whole offseason, but with districts, a bunch of teams can be the best around, if only for a night.

I don’t know how many pages are left in the story of this Cardinal Mooney team.

Maybe they reach the Final Four and win it all.

Maybe they get bounced next Tuesday when they face Berkeley Prep (11-8-1) at 7 p.m. at home in the regional quarterfinals.

But whatever happens, the Cougars will always have beaten their rivals 3-0 and lifted a trophy above their heads for their effort, and that’s a beautiful thing.

Ryan Kohn is the sports writer for the Sarasota Observer. Contact him at RKohn@ YourObserver.com.

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Allessia Ukmar is a junior goalkeeper on the Cardinal Mooney High girls soccer team. Ukmar made 10 saves, including one on a penalty kick, Feb. 9 in the Cougars’ 3-0 district title win against Bishop Verot High.

When did you start playing soccer?

I started playing last season. I had heard the team was shorthanded. They were looking for a goalie, and I was looking to play a sport. I had never really played one before. I decided to try it.

What is the appeal to you?

I like the intensity of it. Having all the pressure on me when the ball is coming down the field, straight at me. I like knowing my team relies on me to make the play.

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championship, Bishop Verot beat us 3-0. We were so upset on the bus ride home, and we talked about how we could have done better. This year was a revenge season.

What are your hobbies?

I spend a lot of time with friends and family. I love the beach. I love boating. I go to the gym and work out.

What is the best advice you have received?

Never give up. Always try your best.

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What is your best skill?

I would say communicating with my teammates and making sure everyone is getting after it.

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Keeping my focus on the ball.

Even if it’s a more boring game, I can’t get sidetracked.

My eyes always have to be on the ball.

What is your favorite memory?

It’s definitely tonight (the district title win).

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YOUR NEIGHBORS PARTNERS IN EVERYTHING Stan and Natalie Kinnett have been married for more than 40 years and have their own business together.

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tan and Natalie Kinnett have been a team for more than 40 years.

The couple met young, fell in love and married after

six months. That love has taken them across the world.

Throughout that time, the Kinnetts have assumed different roles together in running a family.

Stan has been the primary breadwinner, and Natalie served as the matriarch. More than anything, they have learned how to rely on each other.

Recently, they entered a new, closer chapter in their lives. The pair now owns a metal company franchise in Sarasota.

Stan, 64, and Natalie, 59, met in Morgantown, Ind. Stan and Natalie’s families knew each other from school, church and social circles.

But it was hardly love at first sight. Natalie remembers being more annoyed than enamored with her family friend. She often visited her grandmother in Morgantown and in the beginning thought Stan and his family were distant relatives.

“I remember when I was 12 telling my grandmother how mean Stan and his brother were to me,” Natalie said. “I said ‘I can’t believe I’m related to those boys,’ and she said ‘Oh you’re not related.’ …

Teasing takes on a different perspective when you’re not related.”

One summer in high school while visiting her grandma, Natalie decided to spend time with Stan, frankly, out of sheer boredom, she said. They attended a church meeting and followed it up with root beers together. They spent the next day together — and then the day after that. At that point, Natalie realized it felt more natural than she’d anticipated.

They went steady and six months later were married. They connected over their faith, and they shared history together and with each other’s families.

“Six months doesn’t sound like very long, but we’d known each other forever,” she said. “I’d known Stan enough that I knew I could trust him.”

Stan and Natalie shared a desire for the classic American dream of a steady job, a happy partner, several children and a good home.

They achieved most of those goals but for a while never had a home in one place for long. Stan worked for a corporation that required travel, and he and Natalie moved 15 times in their 43 years of marriage, including to Thailand for a couple years and then India.

Natalie was used to running the household but felt culture shock when arriving in India. Fortunately, Stan had the good idea to pay for her sister to fly over and stay with Natalie for a month to get more settled, and his wife soon came to love the country, and they even adopted a child there as well.

Through all of their travels and challenges, the couple feels that one of the things they did right to make it through was to always sit down together for dinner, no matter what.

“We just felt so strongly that that was important that we all got that face to face time at the end of the day,” Natalie said.

They returned to the U.S. a

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handful of years later and felt a second wave of culture shock — Natalie jokes it’s odd to have almost completely missed the “Seinfeld” years — but they became reacquainted with the world. They moved to Florida, where Stan became the CEO of a steel fabrication company while Natalie continued to manage their home. Eventually, though, the last of their five children left the nest, and Stan and Natalie were ready for something new.

“After 40 years of raising kids, [my feelings were], ‘Don’t let the door hit you on your way out, and have a great life,’” Natalie said. “I was really ready to have that extra time with Stan and to be more involved in his business.”

Stan sold his company, and the couple spent a few months thinking about their next step. They settled on something familiar but exciting: opening a Metal Supermarket franchise and selling custom-cut metals to Sarasota residents. From a steady routine of working apart and being a family together, Stan and Natalie now work side by side.

While Stan talks with clients, supervises employees and manages the warehouse, Natalie handles the business end of the enterprise.

“I pay all the bills at home — it’s just the way we’ve always done it,” Stan said. “But she takes care of all the purchase orders and writing checks, keeping the paperwork straight here, so I can spend more time out at the warehouse. … She’s also a very good salesperson.”

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“Every family has issues, and every business has issues,” Stan said. “If you focus on serving your spouse, and both of you do that, it’s pretty hard for it to get too cumbersome. That doesn’t mean there aren’t rough spots, but if you focus on meeting the needs of your spouse and yourself, that takes care of the problem.”

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By flipping the script, Sims makes visible again what most of us consider visual noise now. “(Di)Visions of America” works like the sunglasses in John Carpenter’s “They Live.” It lets you see the subliminal messages all around you.

White supremacy pops into crystal clear focus, with all of its ugly street theater. First you see it. And then you see through it.

Sims’ conceptual X-ray makes this all visible through his own poetry and spoken performances

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Once you see it, what can you do about it? That’s up to the viewer. But turning away is a bad idea.

And claiming you don’t want to dwell on the past is a bad excuse.

To quote William Faulkner: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

That applies to America’s racist past.

It’s not dead. It’s not even past.

Sims completed work on “(Di) Visions of America” as part of his 2020-2021 residency at the Ringling. Sims’ “Recoloration Proclamation, 2020” is part of the Ringling’s “For Real This Time” exhibition featuring films and video by seven artists on race, history and social justice.

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This “Afro-Confederate” flag installation was originally meant to be revealed at the climax of Sims’ “(Di)Visions of America,” a multimedia stage production combining live and recorded performances.

The pandemic forced a change.

A one-time performance was staged without an audience, captured on film and given limited release on streaming video.

In the Monda Gallery, Sims’ “Recoloration Proclamation” focuses on his 20-year project to desecrate and deconstruct the Confederate Flag at exhibits and events throughout America.

The strategy here is pure artistic Aikido. It’s Sims’ twist on fighting fire with fire. He’s fighting racist drama with his own drama.

Racist power thrives on theatrics, after all. Adolf Hitler tops the list, but American devotees of white supremacy are like a traveling theater troupe with a trunk full of Confederate flags, burning crosses and men on horseback dressed up like ghosts.

Sims flips the script and robs racist drama of its power. Under Sims’ direction, Ally Couch sings “Dixie” in the style of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit.”

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The fundraiser has raised nearly $1,600 of its $3,000 goal, though Mowery said it could cost more to have backups and to get the lights working with an electrician.

Members had consulted with the Cherokee Park neighborhood, which also installed new lights recently and found the lights could cost $1,000 each. Mowery said the final cost is a moving target but believes it could come in at $6,000 at the low end and $10,000 at the high end.

That’s not to say the new installations will disrupt the ambiance of the neighborhood. Rather than add figurative muscle by making the lights brighter, the new fixtures will focus on aesthetics.

Mowery said the new lights will be more efficient and not add to light pollution in the area — she doesn’t want people to think the new fixtures will light up the area like a football field.

The fundraiser is ongoing, but Mowery hopes they can start work on the project soon.

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Work on those entrances got neighborhood association staff thinking that the lighting didn’t quite match the historic feel. The round fixtures were installed in the 1970s and had seen better days.

After celebrating the area’s 100th anniversary in 2016, association President Dawn Mowery said she and other association members took a look around and decided on fixing small things that needed improving.

They’re close to doing just that.

The association has launched a GoFundMe to collect enough money for six new light installations, with a few extra as backups.

The neighborhood will replace them with carriage lantern-type lights that feel more appropriate for the area’s century of history.

“We decided that we needed to [do it],” Mowery said. “It was really a big project. We needed to embrace that and just get moving with it.”

The neighborhood can typically rely on a fall and springtime grant from Sarasota to help with improvements — it’s how it replaced the entrance plaques — but Mowery said COVID-19 stopped members from going door to door to get signatures and attending seminars to get approval for a grant last year. She said the association plans to apply for a county grant in the future, which would cover half the expenses up to $10,000.

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“When you celebrate the work being done through art, it’s much more palatable. There [are] amazing families out there that are persisting through such adversity that we wanted to celebrate them with beautiful artwork.”

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Truman Adams has painted a large mural of a child blowing bubbles at Forty Carrots Family Center.

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The beginning of a child’s life can be beautiful, but without the proper resources in the first

weeks and months, hardships that last decades can follow.

First 1,000 Days of Sarasota County is a community initiative looking to help with that. The program, created by the Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation, has partnered with dozens of local nonprofits and community figures to assist families in caring for their children during those critical first months.

The initiative launched First1000SRQ.com to connect fami-

lies with childhood development resources and local nonprofits last fall. Although there are many resources available to young parents, it can be overwhelming to know exactly where to turn — the new website portal is meant to consolidate the information and resources available for people.

“It’s one of the double-edged swords about Sarasota County is that we have a lot of really good nonprofits, but a mom sometimes doesn’t know where to turn,” said

Kelly Romanoff, the innovation and impact officer at the Barancik Foundation. “What we’re trying to do is make that a streamlined process so where there’s no wrong door [for parents].”

To celebrate the website’s launch, staff members sought submissions that highlight child development. Three murals were chosen for display in Sarasota, North Port and a Sarasota library.

Mural artist Truman Adams recently finished a mural of a child blowing bubbles on the wall of the Forty Carrots Family Center on Tuttle Avenue.

The organization received a number of commissions and had its Parent Advisory Committee choose the final pieces.

Chelsea Arnold, First 1,000 Days Sarasota’s program coordinator, said Forty Carrots and its CEO, Michelle Kapreilian, have been deeply involved with the initiative, and their work with other organizations made a perfect pick.

“When you celebrate the work being done through art, it’s much more palatable,” Romanoff said.

“There [are] amazing families out there that are persisting through such adversity that we wanted to celebrate them with beautiful artwork.”

ARTIST HOPES TO EVOKE FEELINGS OF JOY Truman Adams is a freelance artist who specializes in large and intricate murals. He recently submitted three design ideas for the mural competition and was selected as the winner for Sarasota.

The design First 1,000 Days settled on was of a child blowing multicolored bubbles into the air. The organization asked Adams to paint his on the side of the Forty Carrots Family Center.

Adams said the idea is simple enough, but it’s the execution that makes it a challenge. The mural’s design came to him as a vision in his head, which he then made his reference fit his vision.

“The portrait of the child is painted in a classical realist style, and the bubbles are more impressionistic and abstracted,” Adams said. “I love portraiture and am always impressed by an artist who can paint a good portrait, especially in large scale street art.”

He used water-based satin exterior house paint for the piece and recently finished. He has dealt with the usual artist feelings of wanting to continue to add to the mural but also knows when it’s time to stop.

He hopes people will view his new work with feelings of joy.

“I want everyone who sees it to be inspired by it,” he said. “I want it to evoke feelings of awe and wonder, happiness and joy, to appeal to the child in all of us. I’m 42 now, but when I see a bubble, it’s like I’m 2 again, and I am just as delighted.”

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Emanu-el congregants get inoculated as well. The couple is leading a committee at their Sarasota temple to help seniors register for the vaccine in Manatee and Sarasota counties.

Along the way, though, they’re finding a wave of other vaccine searchers. In Sarasota County alone, about 150,000 residents are eligible.

“So there’s really quite a lot of competition,” Sally said.

At Temple Emanu-el, Rabbi Elaine Glickman’s husband, Brenner, approached the couple, when they had gotten their first dose. The Steeles are reasonably computer-savvy, so Glickman asked them to put together a committee to help congregants who were scared and struggling to navigate the system. Everyone in the group of eight volunteers has gotten at least one shot, Sally said, so they had all been through it. Information-sharing is huge

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The Steeles and their fellow volunteers help out two types of people: those who are having trouble getting an appointment and just need a bit of moral support and those in need of technical support. Sally suggested getting a computer-savvy helping hand, such as a child or grandchild, and Jay suggested looking into surrounding counties with smaller populations. They encourage people to go outside of the two counties if they can, but travel is often an issue.

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She has a lot of physical issues, a lot of health issues; she’s on 24/7 oxygen; she doesn’t text,” Sally said. “How is she going to get the vaccine on a digital system that uses it? It’s almost punishment.

It’s just so frustrating, so you just try to help in any way that you can.”

So far, they have helped about 40 people in their temple and beyond get registered, Sally said.

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“A few of the people that we have been helping have been able to get appointments, and that’s really exciting for the people who are volunteering because that makes us feel so good that we were able to help these people through the process,” Sally said.

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SIESTA KEY 891 Freeling Dr Jennifer Thompson 941-928-0790 A4486562 $4,500,000

SIESTA KEY 8600 Midnight Pass Road 202 Kaitlin Kuhn 941-400-7861 A4430866 $1,800,000

SARASOTA 1335 2nd Street 4E Jonathan Abrams & Brian Loebker 941-232-2868 A4490030 $1,699,900

SIESTA KEY 8600 Midnight Pass Road 301 Harvey & Ethel Lovelace & Mina Johnson 941-586-7390 A4486336 $1,429,000

SARASOTA 1155 N Gulfstream Avenue 707 Stacy Haas & Gloria Bracciano 941-587-4359 A4489633 $1,349,000

SIESTA KEY 5125 Oxford Drive Kristina Waskom 941-266-8658 A4489884 $1,285,000

SARASOTA 1711 Baywood Way Jami Kellogg 941-809-6931 A4488310 $1,200,000

SARASOTA 1525 Oak Street 15 Pam Sweeney 941-266-9622 A4489744 $975,000

LIDO KEY 1750 Benjamin Franklin Drive 3C Linda Thompson 941-400-0805 A4466823 $790,000

SARASOTA 6469 Taeda Drive Joanna Benante & Ann Martin & Amy Tupper 941-356-7717 A4489943 $769,000

SARASOTA 945 Benjamin Franklin Drive 5 Camille Schwabe 941-894-4771 A4488654 $722,000

SARASOTA 1253 Quail Run Trail Richard Hearn 941-313-1591 A4487476 $695,000

SIESTA KEY 777 Beach Road 1B Judy Wright 941-232-8041 A4483053 $615,000

SARASOTA 1500 State Street 604 Dana Westmark & Michael James 941-356-5091 A4489732 $589,000

SIESTA KEY 1385 Siesta Bayside Drive 1385-D Rudy Dudon 941-234-3991 A4490052 $560,000

LAKEWOOD RANCH 8412 Misty Morning Court Kristine Niehaus & Jeffrey Maglione 941-376-4950 A4489515 $535,000

SARASOTA 100 Central Avenue B407 Bibi-Ann Allard PA & Kevin Moran, PA 941-685-0422 A4489626 $499,000

SARASOTA 862 Molly Circle Tina Ciaccio 941-685-8420 A4489836 $434,500

SARASOTA 8472 Nandina Drive Jonnie Dwyer 941-812-6283 A4489642 $409,000

SARASOTA 7040 White Willow Court Susie Pelton 941-321-1007 A4477895 $385,000

SARASOTA 1443 15th Street W Valarie Wadsworth 941-780-3858 A4481261 $349,700

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OSPREY 44 Bishops Court Road 112 Victoria Beckham & Deborah Beacham 941-544-6734 A4487740 $325,000

NOKOMIS/NORTH VENICE 432 Veronese Drive 432 Lisa Harris 707-337-2615 A4489206 $234,000

SARASOTA 5270 Hyland Hills Avenue 1711 Anja Deichmann 941-284-7987 A4489781 $220,000

SARASOTA 2560 Arboretum Circle 26 Tak Konstantinou 941-374-1606 A4481067 $195,000

SARASOTA 3263 W Cross Creek Road Marianne Lebar 941-650-0337 A4483312 $195,000

SARASOTA 4118 Central Sarasota Parkway 1621 Jack Dellamico 941-281-5225 A4479192 $186,900

SARASOTA 5310 Royal Palm Avenue 5310 Judy Nimz & William Nimz 941-374-0196 A4489709 $119,000

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Melissa Durbin Welch sold her home at 814 N. Casey Key Road to Darrel Flanel, trustee, of Osprey, for $6.25 million. Built in 2011, it has four bedrooms, fourand-two-half baths, two pools and 6,552 square feet of living area.

Stephen and Dorothy Weller, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 821 condominium at 111 S. Pineapple Ave. to Katherine D’Abbraccio, of Houston, for $850,000. Built in 2019, it has two bedrooms,

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The Tower Residences Robert Rahe, trustee, of Cincinnati, sold the Unit 1601 condominium at 35 Watergate Drive to Paul and Gayley Knight, of Sarasota, for $4.3 million.

Built in 2003, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 3,751 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.99 million in 2003.

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MARK SARASOTA Henry and Gail Lisi, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 1008 condominium at 111 S. Pineapple Ave. to Thomas and Rosalia Haleas, trustees, of Sarasota, for $1.12 million. Built in 2019, it has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,557 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.01 million in 2020.

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VUE James and Susan Ogle, trustees, sold the Unit 1701 condominium at 1155 N. Gulfstream Ave. to Lee Andrew Schneider and Makiko Kawada, of Sarasota, for $2.58 million. Built in 2017, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 2,489 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.18 million in 2017.

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two-and-a-half baths and 1,498 square feet of living area. It sold for $777,600 in 2019.

Unit 1601 at 35 Watergate Drive was built in 2003. It has three bedrooms, three baths and 3,751 square feet of living area.

TROPICAL SHORES Surf LLC sold the home at 8648 Dunmore Drive to Sergiy Biletsky, of Sarasota, for $1.08 million. Built in 1958, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,691 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.1 million in 2004.

Siesta Key CG Shell Siesta Key LLC sold two properties at 3975 Shell Road to Charles Lomangino, trustee, of Jupiter, for $3.9 million. The first property was built in 1940; it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 5,079 square feet of living area. The second was built in 1983; it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,158 square feet of living area.

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Prestancia Mario Bernardis and Mary Louise O’Connell, of Sarasota, sold their home at 4285 Escondito Circle to Alfred and Susan Hofstadter, trustees, of Sarasota, for $1.06 million.

Built in 1992, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 4,186 square feet of living area. It sold for $795,000 in 2013.

NOKOMIS

Lychee Lane Michelle Marie Marciniak, of Knoxville, Tenn., sold her home at 2115 Lychee Lane to Steven and Lynn Mershon, of Nokomis, for $3.15 million. Built in 1989, it has four bedrooms, fourand-two-half baths, a pool and 5,982 square feet of living area. It sold for $2 million in 2015.

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GOLDENROD STREET Randall and Yvonne Schwartz sold their home at 2078 Goldenrod St. to Adam Negroski and Sarah Wertheimer, of Sarasota, for $740,000. Built in 2017, it has five bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,230 square feet of living area. It sold for $563,200 in 2017.

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$13,920

1695 Arlington St.

Alterations

Charles Morgenthaler

$13,150

2604 Cheryle Lane

Re-roof

Marvin Miller, trustee

$13,046

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Remodel

Jonathan Soles

$308,347

1525 Eastbrook Drive

Alterations

James Lombard

$125,000

7318 Point of Rocks Road

Renourishment

Martin Welch III

$75,000

8407 Woodbriar Drive

Windows/Doors

Lawrence Fierst

$66,800

7606 Midnight Pass Road

Solar System

Alissa Cohen Mandell

$63,369

9027 Wildlife Loop

Re-roof

Robert Bordash

$54,720

5640 Cantucci St.

Pool/Deck

Patrick Recker

2117 Michele Drive

Solar System

John Ask

$51,875 $46,000

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RIVO AT RINGLING Stephen and Aline Quint, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 707 condominium at 1771 Ringling Blvd. to Mary Nolan, of Sarasota, for $670,000. Built in 2006, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,805 square feet of living area. It sold for $561,200 in 2006.

hank you to all my clients who helped make this year a wonderful success in spite of the challenges of 2020! I’m immensely grateful for the support of my office, clients, and my daughter and partner Jackie de Manio Eberley who helped me achieve another year of excellence. I’m proud to be recognized again as the top performer in the Siesta Key Coldwell Banker office for 2020.

ESSEX HOUSE Retirement Income Administration LLC sold the Unit 908 condominium at 707 S. Gulfstream Ave. to Patricia Kelly, of Sarasota, for $550,000. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,717 square feet of living area. It sold for $300,000 in 2011.

As a resident of Siesta Key for 43 years, I’m grateful to have spent the past 35 years sharing my community and utilizing my extensive knowledge of the real estate market to serve my clients.

My devotion and unwavering attendance to my clients’ needs has propelled my success and produces results.

My clients say it best: “When we found the property, you two were relentless in negotiating the contract on our behalf. We can’t possibly thank you enough for the hours you put in with us, in addition to still working with your other clients. Your years of real estate experience, personalities and your drive makes you the only agents we will use on any future real estate deals.” — Brenda and Darin

RUSTIC LODGE Elizabeth Seymour sold her home at 1330 S. Jefferson Ave. to Patricia Armstrong, trustee, of Sarasota, for $545,000. Built in 1960, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,219 square feet of living area. It sold for $207,500 in 2019.

Contact me today to help you leverage my area knowledge and experience to sell your home.

ONE HUNDRED CENTRAL Helen Sullivan, of Sarasota, sold her Unit B406 condominium at 100 Central Ave. to John Bradley and Mary Genett, of Sarasota, for $500,000. Built in 2005, it has one bedroom, two bath and 1,180 square feet of living area. It sold for $525,000 in 2015.

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Leandro Jose Mendez and Dominique Marie Mendez, of Sarasota, sold their home at

2905 Bougainvillea St. to Colleen Kenny-Oliver, of Sarasota, for $450,000. Built in 1959, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,802 square feet of living area. It sold for $269,000 in 2014.

Catamount Properties 2018 LLC sold the home at 3010 Bougainvillea St. to Zoell Properties LLC for $392,500. Built in 1973, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,720 square feet of living area. It sold for $271,500 in 2020.

Kimberly and Kenneth Caswell, of Black Mountain, N.C., sold their home at 2411 Siesta Drive to Kathy Kalichman, of Forest Hills, N.Y., for $321,000. Built in 1957, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,368 square feet of living area. It sold for $274,500 in 2016.

RIDGEWOOD Brett and Shawna Smith, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2368 James Lane to LUX Investment Group Inc. for $447,000. Built in 1986, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,783 square feet of living area. It sold for $345,000 in 2018.

THE BOATYARD Zachary Peacock, trustee, of Lexington, Mass., and Barry Aumaugher and Connie Cole, of Davisburg, Mich., sold the Unit 404 condominium at 1556 Stickney Point Road to Wendy and Dick Fuster, of Damascus, Md., for $435,000. Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,270 square feet of living area. It sold for $355,000 in 2003.

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HIGH POINT CIRCLE Mary Briley, of the U.K., sold her home at 1951 High Point Drive to Gary Ross and Colleen Lemon Ross, of Holden, Maine, for $415,000. Built in 1941, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,128 square feet of living area. It sold for $329,900 in 2019.

GULF GATE WOODS Judith Shepherd, of Sarasota, sold her home at 2923 Captiva Way to William Alex Gaston and Lisa Childers, of Sarasota, for $410,000. Built in 1974, it has four bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,015 square feet of living area. It sold for $360,000 in 2015.

HUDSON OAKS Brian and Rebecca Glassel sold their Unit 15 condominium at 1740 Alderman St. to Bay Island LLC for $380,000. Built in 1984, it has two bedrooms, two-anda-half baths and 1,264 square feet of living area. It sold for $370,000 in 2020.

SUNNYSIDE PARK SL Invest LLC sold the home at 2231 Sunnyside Lane to Adam Linnell Gardner and Alexandra Gardner, of Sarasota, for $359,000. Built in 1956, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,503 square feet of living area. It sold for $130,000 in 2009.

BAY HAVEN PFI Real Estate LLC sold the home at 2846 W. Tamiami Trail to Daniel Gibson and Nicole Nelson, of Sarasota, for $310,000.

Built in 1962, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,629 square feet of living area. It sold for $450,000 in 2018.

GULF GATE Joan Schmitz, of Sarasota, sold the home at 2720 Post Road to Eric Martin, of Succasunna, N.J., for $305,000. Built in 1966, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,764 square feet of living area. It sold for $80,000 in 1983.

Joy Loos sold the home at 3304 Kenmore Drive to George and Kathleen Miller, of Sarasota, for $304,000. Built in 1968, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,471 square feet of living area. It sold for $83,000 in 1987.

SIESTA KEY BAY ISLAND Todd Johnston Homes Inc. sold the home at 3485 Seagrape Drive to FL Seagrape LLC for $2.18 million. Built in 2020, it has three bedrooms, three-anda-half baths, a pool and 3,692 square feet of living area.

HARMONY Paul Felix and Georgetta Felix, trustees, of Alamo, Calif., sold the home at 430 Givens St. to Evan James Freely and Cynthia Ann Freely, of Wall Township, N.J., for $1.6 million. Built in 2006, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,768 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.25 million in 2017.

SIESTA ISLES Karen MacLellan, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the home at 5207 Cape Leyte Drive to Robert and Renee Barnes, of Sarasota, for $1.2 million. Built in 1974, it has three bedrooms, two-anda-half baths, a pool and 2,269 square feet of living area. It sold for $616,000 in 2010.

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DOLPHIN BAY Pamela and William Kamm, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 201 condominium at 1240 Dolphin Bay Way to Simon Knepp Jr., trustee, of Sarasota, for $1.08 million. Built in 1998, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,200 square feet of living area.

It sold for $855,000 in 2017.

OCEAN BEACH Victor and Ellis Falck, of Sarasota, sold their home at 531 Reid St. to Daniel Arthur Dufour and DeAnn Foran Smith, of Sarasota, for $929,000. Built in 1962, it has three bedrooms, two-anda-half baths, a pool and 3,620 square feet of living area. It sold for $582,500 in 2007.

GULF AND BAY CLUB Barbara Kearse, trustee, of The Villages, sold the Unit 403 condominium at 5740 Midnight Pass Road to Taejoo Park and Hyunsun Hwang, of Siesta Key, for $874,000. Built in 1986, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,337 square feet of living area. It sold for $340,000 in 1990.

OUR HOUSE AT THE BEACH Joseph mark O’Regan and Anne Marie O’Connor sold their Unit B-502 condominium at 1055 Beach Road to Anand Noticewala, of Erie, Pa., for $625,000.

Built in 1981, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,204 square feet of living area. It sold for $550,000 in 2015.

SEA CREST APARTMENTS Edward and Patsy Bonacorsi sold their Unit 39 condominium at 1129 Seaside Drive to Mark and Patricia Felsmann, of Berlin, Germany, for $599,000. Built in 1957, it has one bedroom, one

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bath and 567 square feet of living area. It sold for $370,000 in 2020.

GULF AND BAY CLUB BAYSIDE White Sands LLC and John and Rima Terradista sold the Unit 1360-D condominium at 1360 Siesta Bayside Drive to Shirley Wikner, of Hamel, Minn., for $535,000. Built in 1988, it has one bedroom, two bath and 959 square feet of living area. It sold for $360,000 in 2013.

PEPPERTREE BAY MCBG Enterprises LLC sold the Unit 301 condominium at 1200 E. Peppertree Lane to Arnold Sheynman and Marina Oyslender, of Northbrook, Ill., for $525,000. Built in 1973, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,200 square feet of living area.

It sold for $350,000 in 2017.

EXCELSIOR BEACH TO BAY Jacqueline Willman, trustee, of Siesta Key, sold the Unit 206 condominium at 6267 Midnight Pass Road to Jeva Realty LLC for $520,000. Built in 1980, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,469 square feet of living area.

It sold for $120,000 in 1987.

JAMAICA ROYALE Redhawk Capital Management LLC sold the Unit 305 condominium at 5830 Midnight Pass Road to Theodore Gudorf, of Dayton, Ohio, for $486,000.

Built in 1976, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,285 square feet of living area. It sold for $662,800 in 2017.

Theodore and Marie Ann Legendre, trustees, of Port Saint Lucie, sold the Unit 55 condominium at 5830 Midnight Pass Road to

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Robert Hough, of Sarasota, for $375,000. Built in 1963, it has one bedroom, one bath and 728 square feet of living area. It sold for $92,000 in 1993.

WHITE SANDS VILLAGE Michael and Kevin Vaughan, trustees, of Snyder, N.Y., sold the Unit 304 condominium at 5667 Midnight Pass Road to Carolyn Ann Stutzman and Ellie Lynn Stutzman, of Sarasota, for $305,000. Built in 1975, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,012 square feet of living area. It sold for $72,500 in 1986.

PALMER RANCH SANDHILL PRESERVE Anthony and Angelina Basile, trustees, of Sarasota, sold the home at 11182 Sandhill Preserve Drive to George and Ellen Colliard, of Sarasota, for $467,000.

Built in 2014, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,964 square feet of living area. It sold for $481,500 in 2015.

HAMMOCK PRESERVE DiVosta Homes LP sold the home at 12440 Golden Sage Drive to Edgar and Lucia Williamson, of Sarasota, for $462,400. Built in 2020, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,103 square feet of living area.

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PENDING JANUARY | $1.675M

8335 MIDNIGHT PASS RD | $1.5M

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SARASOTA OPEN AIR FINE ART SHOW 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 13 and 14 at Phillippi Estate Park, 5500 S. Tamiami Trail. Hot Works returns to Phillippi Estate Park in Sarasota for a second fine arts show that will have vendors showing their wares in extra-spaced-apart lanes for art enthusiasts to check out. Sunday has a Youth Art Competition, where kids will show off their art. Admission is $5. For information, call 755-3088.

FEB. 12

SARASOTA NATIVE AMERICAN ART AND MUSIC FESTIVAL 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 12-14 at the Sarasota Fairgrounds, 3000 Ringling Blvd. Native American artisans will have pottery, jewelry, arts and crafts and much more on sale. $15 for Saturday’s evening concert. For information, visit SarasotaNativeAmericanIndianFestival.com.

FEB. 13

VEGAN VALENTINE 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Bazaar on Apricot & Lime, 821 Apricot

Ave. The Bazaar is hosting a vegan-friendly event the day before Valentine’s Day that will see eight guest vendors provide vegan snacks. There will also be rescue skunks from Florida Skunk Rescue. Free. For information, call 445-1938.

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YOGA BY THE BAY 5:30-6:30 p.m. at Bayfront Park, 5 Bayfront Drive. Erin Hurter leads a weekly yoga session.

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THURSDAY, FEB. 11 High: 78 Low: 64 Chance of rain: 21%

FRIDAY, FEB. 12 High: 79 Low: 66 Chance of rain: 14%

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BRIDAL JEWELRY $50 Bridal Head piece $150 941-822-4830.

CELLO BOW for sale.

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MANNEQUIN HEADS, $1 ea.

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Picture frames, $1 ea.

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SCHUMACHER BATTERY charger 12amp $40.

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Turtle Rock Community Sale Something for everyone!

Saturday, Feb. 13th, 8:00a.m-11:30a.m.

Enter Turtle Rock through gates on Central Sarasota Pkwy. or Palmer Ranch Pkwy., between Honore & McIntosh.

NO EARLY ENTRY! MOVING SALE! 5325 Siesta Court Sat. Feb 13th 8:00am-2:00pm Selling furnishings from Coastal home as well as staging items.

Lots of everything coastal!

NORTH SIESTA Key Penthouse for Rent: Whispering Sands, 12th floor corner unit 2BD/2BA 55+ community. 270ft of incredible gulf and beach views from your 50ft wrap-around lanai. Private beach included.

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FANTASTIC ARTIST GARAGE SALE Feb 12th and 13th, 9am to 2pm.

4919 Commonwealth Dr, Siesta Key HARBOR ACRES Estate Sale: Saturday, 2/13 9am-3pm 1430 South Orange Ave. Furniture, books, tools, dishes, collectables, artwork.

Masks please.

Condos/Apts. for Rent

FAMILY SECURITY DRIVER 941-735-4732.

Ask for Eddie.

Many years experience with rock stars, wild teens, children, elderly, and foreign families.

Feel safe, Be safe 24/7 Licensed and Legal.

Autos for Sale REDUCED PRICE! MERCEDES BENZ 1999 For Sale- S500 (stretch) M: 136K; Asking: $3,800 OBO. Great Condition.

Sunroof, Heated Electric Seats, Original W/S with sticker, 4Dr, Original MB hood emblem.

Black Car w/ light grey interior.

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GRANITE FABRICATOR Established granite shop seeks Fabricators. Ideal candidates have experience with Saw, CNC, or Polisher. Multiple position open due to strong sales demand. All levels should apply. Must be able to lift heavy objects. Send resume or letter of interest to: Mark.Murphy@ floridadesignworks.com HELP WANTED: Servers and bartenders for Chef Rolf's New Florida Kitchen.

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MOST HOLY Apostle, Saint Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the Church honors and invokes you universally, as the patron of hopeless cases, of things almost despaired of.

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