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A Cincinnati company has developed a Monopolybased board game called Siesta Key-Opoly featuring landmarks that any local will recognize. Packed with local references and jokes, the game features such landmarks as The Beach Club and Roberts Bay. The board game sells for $19.98 at nearby Walmart stores.

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Everyone celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with varying level of intensity, but some people go harder than others. Some revelers celebrated with specially etched beer steins of their own design that they created at the Fab Lab. The Suncoast Science Center/Faulhaber Fab Lab recently hosted a laser etching workshop March 16 that had adults lasering special designs onto lab-provided beer steins to drink with on St. Patrick’s Day. Various attendees stopped by the lab throughout the day, picked up a glass, selected a design and had Fab Lab staff etch said design into the material using their laser cutter and engraver. A number of designs were available, but people gravitated toward a cheery leprechaun.

Troy, Brenden and Charlotte Cummings take a ride on the carousel at the Sarasota County Fair.

Sarasota County Fair returns after a pandemic-prompted hiatus. SEE PAGE 22A

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The Florida Department of Transportation will fund an improvement project at the intersection of Midnight Pass Road and Beach Road.

Design contract awarded for traffic roundabout.

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“If you play golf, or you play tennis, or you go to the farmers market or the beach, take them with you.’’

Teen arrested in fair shooting

Teresa Taft, volunteer coordinator of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Sun Coast. READ MORE ON PAGE 12A

Sarasota Police on Monday morning arrested a 15-year-old in connection with a shooting Saturday night at the Sarasota County Fair.

The teen was charged with three felonies: aggravated assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, culpable negligence and brandishing a firearm in public.

Police said he was arrested at his home early Monday.

The shooting suspect knows the 18-year-old victim, police said, adding the incident was believed to have resulted from an escalating altercation between two groups and was not a random shooting.

The victim was taken to Sarasota Memorial Hospital with serious injuries and was stable following surgery.

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County vaccine site expands

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A second site at Sarasota Square Mall opened this week for COVID-19 vaccinations, allowing the Florida Department of Health to begin simultaneous first-dose and second-dose clinics.

Florida residents 50 and older became eligible for COVID-19 vaccines this week, and any adult Florida resident may now register.

Appointments for those in the 50-and-older group began going out Monday.

All vaccines are by appointment only.

The Sarasota County vaccine sites are both inside the mall at 8201 S. Tamiami Trail.

The Lido Beach Pavilion concession stand is under new management.

CALENDAR n Sarasota County Commission meeting — 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 6, Commission Chambers, County Administration Building, 1660 Ringling Blvd. n Sarasota County School Board meeting — 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, Board Chambers, Landings Administrative Complex, 1980 Landings Blvd.

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share details on what the orchestra would discuss internally.

“The process continues on,” McKenna said.

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The Sarasota Orchestra has said it needs a new facility to meet its growing performance needs and accommodate other programming the organization offers.

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Marlon Brown sent an email to the commission updating the status of that outreach effort. Brown said McKenna appreciated the city’s patience and support of the orchestra and that he had met with the organization’s board of directors. However, rather than engaging in a dialogue with the city now, McKenna said the orchestra wanted to take more time to meet

with its planning team.

McKenna said he would get back to the city before the end of the month, but Brown’s email provided no other information about the status of the site search process. In an interview, McKenna affirmed this week that Brown’s email was still an upto-date reflection of where the orchestra stands. He declined to

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iz Alpert is worried.

It’s been nearly two years since she was the lone city commissioner to vote in favor of a plan to relocate the Sarasota Orchestra to a 7-acre parcel in Payne Park. The time since that vote has brought vows from the orchestra to look outside of the city for a new home and efforts from city leaders to rekindle a dialogue with the performing arts organization.

Above all else, however, it’s brought uncertainty. This month, the City Commission voted to allow staff to once again explore the possibility of placing a music hall in or around Payne Park — the location the orchestra has called the only suitable site within city limits. And yet, city officials are still unclear on whether they’re doing enough to retain the orchestra — and they’re unclear whether retaining the orchestra is still reasonably within the realm of possibility.

That’s why, at a March 16 meeting, Alpert issued a word of caution to her fellow commissioners and suggested the situation warrants a serious sense of urgency.

“We’re running out of time,” Alpert said. “I’m getting really, really concerned about how much time is going by. Pretty soon, there’s going to be an announcement that they are moving out of the city because we didn’t act fast enough.”

The question of where the Sarasota Orchestra will move has been festering since 2018. That’s when the orchestra announced its plans to relocate from the Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center, stating its existing home was too small to accommodate the organization’s growing needs. The search for a new site was initially limited to locations within the city, but after unsuccessfully pitching the commission on Payne Park, the orchestra switched its focus to sites elsewhere in Sarasota County.

Despite continued public opposition to the prospect of using existing parkland for a music hall, a majority of the commission was willing to direct staff to reconnect with the orchestra by putting Payne Park back on the table. On March 17, City Manager

As city leaders and residents attempt to craft a perfect pitch, the Sarasota Orchestra is still keeping officials in the dark regarding plans for a future music hall.

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OPTIONS Includes parking lot east of East Avenue and Adams Lane Requires use of county parking lot near the Terrace Building Requires the use of some privately owned parcels

Some proponents of a music hall near Payne Park aren’t waiting for an update from the orchestra to explore the options.

Roger Barry is a member of the Friends of Sarasota Orchestra Ad-Hoc Committee, a group that believes it’s possible to place the orchestra in the Payne Park area while meaningfully addressing resident concerns about a loss of parkland. On March 15, the group sent a memo to the Sarasota Orchestra reaffirming its belief Payne Park is the ideal site for a venue and identifying three configurations for a new building.

The memo says each option uses little to no parkland while preserving existing ponds, playgrounds and tennis courts.

Option one includes a parking lot east of East Avenue and Adams Lane. The proposed footprint includes some green space on the northeastern end of the park by Payne Skate Park, but the memo states it would be less land than would be incorporated into The Bay Sarasota park by vacating the current orchestra facility.

Options two and three are located along U.S. 301, with some land overlapping between the two proposals. Option two would require the use of a county-owned parking lot south of the Sarasota County Terrace Building.

This option would also require the use of a portion of the park a tennis facility currently occupies, though the group suggests the locker room could be moved south. Option three includes some privately owned parcels, though the orchestra has previously said it is not commenting on or making assumptions about the availability of private land.

“Whether it would work or not is above my paygrade, but these are suggestions of possibilities we hope would be investigated,” Barry said.

Despite the lack of clarity on where the orchestra stands, Barry said he was more optimistic about the conversation today than he was three months ago.

“At least there’s a hope of looking at this again and seeing if there’s a potential solution that will meet the orchestra’s needs and that the city can accommodate,” Barry said.

Alpert, meanwhile, is hoping commissioners will send a message to the orchestra that the city supports making a location in Payne Park work.

This month, some commissioners expressed concern about the prospect of reusing parkland or skepticism about the idea Payne Park is the only workable site within the city.

“I believe they need a signal from the commission that it’s worth coming back to the table, and we’re really on board with making this happen,” Alpert said.

Asked how proponents of a Payne Park venue could overcome substantial opposition, Alpert said there’s a case to be made that such a project is in the city’s best interest. She said she believes the Payne Park area is optimal for traffic and encouraging redevelopment near downtown.

Amid all the uncertainty, Alpert wants to be confident of at least one thing: that the city exhausted its options for retaining the orchestra before any decision is final.

“I think we need to be proactive in courting them,” Alpert said.

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n November 2019, county commissioners granted conservation easements for three of four parcels near Celery Fields known as “the Quads,” protecting them from future development.

After forging a partnership with the Sarasota Audubon and the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast, the county will now take the final steps to cement the easements on the land that surrounds the Palmer Boulevard and Apex Road intersection.

Three of the four parcels — northeast, southeast and southwest — are proposed to be rezoned to Public/Civic Government use, allowing uses consistent with the conservation easements.

The northwest quad, which contains the Apex Road fire station, could be developed and rezoned into industrial use, high density use or public and government use in the future.

The other three quads, which comprise 33 acres, will be protected from development following the rezone, which residents have been requesting for three years.

In addition to the rezoning, staff is requesting the addition of nine conditions to the Critical Area Plan for the area including: n Protections to the viewshed, including limitations on structures and dense vegetation on the Quads;

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Tensions arise over City Commission procedures Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch continues to object to time limits placed on Q&As during public hearings.

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Four months after his appointment as mayor by his fellow city commissioners, Hagen Brody is pleased with the changes he’s helped bring to the board’s meetings, including more rigorous time limits for presentations and Q&As. “I think the general consensus is the meetings are moving along in a fashion that’s productive and efficient and allows for the most public participation,” Brody said.

Although Brody said he’s heard positive feedback, there’s at least one vocal critic: Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch. Since late 2020, Ahearn-Koch has expressed concerns about having a limited amount of time to ask questions during public hearings.

She’s run through her time on a few occasions, and on others, Ahearn-Koch said, she’s felt like she’s had to rush to avoid hitting a 15- or 20-minute limit. At the March 16 meeting, Ahearn-Koch said she wanted to schedule a discussion about the meeting structure and objected to Brody placing time limits on the commission.

“I don’t feel I’m able to do my job to the best of my ability,” Ahearn-Koch said.

In January, during a public hearing on proposed renovations to Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Ahearn-Koch fought Brody’s efforts to implement a 20-minute time limit for commissioner questions. Brody initially rejected Ahearn-Koch’s efforts, but Ahearn-Koch eventually persuaded City Attorney Bob Fournier to affirm that the board as a collective has the ability to establish its rules and procedures, not the mayor alone. Although Commissioner Liz Alpert sided with Ahearn-Koch, the majority of the commission upheld the time limits in a 3-2 vote.

Brody said he does not unilaterally come up with the time limits, stating that city administration and the city attorney’s office lead the process based on public interest in a given topic and their expectations on how long it will take to cover an agenda item. He also noted the time limits don’t just apply to commissioners but to all aspects of commission meetings, including public comment and presentations from applicants and city staff.

Brody has said his goal is to make commission meetings less time-consuming and more predictable. He believes the public is more likely to engage if given a

sense of when the commission is going to discuss topics that interest them, and he thinks time limits are a tool to get to that point.

“I’m tasked with running an efficient meeting, so the public can participate fully,” Brody said.

“Hopefully, the days are gone where we had long, drawn-out meetings.”

Ahearn-Koch said she understands the goal but felt the nature of public hearings — which can include hours of input from residents — makes it difficult to adhere to strict guidelines. She said that’s particularly true for quasi-judicial public hearings, in which the board is supposed to reach decisions based on evidence presented.

“These meetings are not a barber’s appointment,” AhearnKoch said. “You can’t show up at 5 and expect to leave by 5:20. These are public hearings, and they’re really important.”

No commissioner has openly struggled with the time limits as much as Ahearn-Koch. She said she’s not sure why that is, though she speculated it could be because she is typically the first to ask questions. She suggested the commission could emulate the procedures of the Planning Board, which allows each member

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Since their election to the City Commission in 2017, Hagen Brody and Jen Ahearn-Koch have often found themselves on opposing sides of an issue — including how commission meetings are run.

“I think the general consensus is the meetings are moving along in a fashion that’s productive and efficient and allows for the most public participation.”

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to ask three questions at a time, cycling through until each member is done.

Although Brody said he believed the time limits would lead to improved public participation, Ahearn-Koch said she sees them as an impediment. Ahearn-Koch said she uses the time allotted to her to seek answers to questions residents have raised. Without that, she fears her constituents will lose faith in their ability to have their voices represented.

“Everybody has a voice — you have a voice, you have a vote,” Ahearn-Koch said. “I think when

people don’t get to express that is when you have the frustration that is destructive.”

Brody said he’s open to input from the rest of the commission on opportunities to improve the board’s procedures, though he hopes to avoid regular debates on the topic.

“I don’t want the discussion on the time to become timeconsuming in the meetings, but I want commissioners to feel comfortable with the times,” he said.

Ahearn-Koch said she would accept the decision and attempt to work within the constraints the board adopts if changes are made as a group.

“That is why we are a collective body,” she said. “We are a commission. We — five people — decide the process. If that’s the prevailing decision, then I must adapt to this; I must adjust to it.

But we can have the conversation first.”

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For more than a year, the city has operated with a sense of financial uncertainty as it responds to the evolving effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Even as leaders express optimism about recovering from an unprecedented health crisis in the near future, officials continue to keep that uncertainty in mind as they prepare to put together a budget for fiscal year 2021-22. On March 15, the City Commission had a preliminary conversation about next year’s budget, with two members offering some preliminary insight into their priorities for the next year.

In addition to any lingering COVID-19 impacts, city staff has already identified a series of changes that will likely affect the upcoming budget. Although some changes are positive — including a projected $1.2 million increase in ad valorem tax revenue from rising property values — most will result in a hit to the budget.

The changes with a negative impact include the end of some county park funding, the creation of a tax increment financing dis-

“I think we need to look at our fees, our rates and our taxes and try to figure out how we can lower them for our community.”

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trict for The Bay Sarasota project and the resumption of the city’s equipment replacement program, placed on hold because of COVID-19. On balance, the city identified an initial $2.2 million in decreased revenue in the 2022 budget.

Although the city is slated to receive $10.9 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds, City Manager Marlon Brown said he does not want to rely on onetime revenue to cover shortages projected to extend beyond 2022.

“Even if we use it to shore up the budget, you will still have to find those dollars again sometime in the future,” Brown said.

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Brody said he hoped the city could get to a place of financial stability that could allow for reducing some expenses that residents and businesses incur.

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At the outset of the 2021-22 budget cycle, City Commissioner Erik Arroyo has advocated for some major changes that would see the city consolidating services, such as homeless outreach, with Sarasota County.

“I think we need to look at our fees, our rates and our taxes and try to figure out how we can lower them for our community.”

As he was running for office, Arroyo said he developed a long list of financial issues he hoped to pursue as a commissioner, and this year’s budget will be his first opportunity to explore those initiatives. Arroyo’s proposals included exploring opportunities for consolidation — both internally across city departments and externally with the county — as well as contracting out the operations of Bobby Jones Golf Club and the city’s parking services.

“A lot of savings could come from stopping all of our inefficient operations,” Arroyo said.

Arroyo noted he is the lone Republican on the nonpartisan City Commission. He said he believed his financial conservatism brought a valuable perspective to the board, but he also expressed optimism about the prospect of putting together a coalition in pursuit of some of the changes he is seeking, including potentially across governmental lines with Sarasota County.

“It makes fiscal sense,” Arroyo said. “It makes sense for them and for us.”

So far, the finance department indicates its efforts to project the effects of the pandemic have held up relatively well. Although the city took a hit on some general fund revenue projections, higher-than-expected income elsewhere meant the city generated $335,495 more than it projected for fiscal year 2020. General fund expenditures were $4.8 million lower than budgeted, and the city finished the fiscal year with a $445,242 general fund surplus.

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Buchanan goes left on guns Our (too moderate) representative fell for the trope that background checks at gun shows will help stop crazed shooters.

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hen you talk to triedand-true, free-market, individual-rights, Second Amendmentdefending, freedom-loving Republicans about Rep. Vern Buchanan and his conservative bona fides, their voice volume always drops lower and softer, their eyebrows go up, and then they look around to see if anyone is listening.

They all know it but are afraid to say it aloud: He’s a RINO. Republican in name only.

Many Republicans who vote every two years for Buchanan know he tightrope-walks on the moderate fence and that as the years have passed since his first election in 2006, these Republicans often say in a low tones, “We need to find a strong conservative to run against Vern.”

This isn’t just gossip or a false perception — Buchanan’s moderateness. Two taxpayer watchdog groups in Washington that track congressional votes score Buchanan with a “C” — middle of the road.

The National Taxpayers Union, which tracks votes on taxes, spending and national debt, gives Buchanan a lifetime score of 68, or C+/Satisfactory.

The Club for Growth, a selfdescribed defender of economic freedom, gives Buchanan a lifetime score of 58%, 65% in the 2019 Congress.

(In contrast, freshman Republican Rep. Greg Steube, who represents east Manatee and Sarasota counties, scored A’s for his voting in 2019 — a 100% ranking from the Club for Growth and

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90% from the National Taxpayers Union.)

Buchanan last week really triggered conversations among conservatives when they saw he was among eight Republicans who voted with Democrats to pass H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, which would require background checks prior to gun transfers and gun sales among private parties. Immediate family members would be excluded.

Proponents of this legislation say it will close “the gun-show loophole.” Sellers and buyers at gun shows have not been required to conduct background checks, unlike retail gun dealers.

To explain his vote, Buchanan sent out the statement: “Our laws cannot be effective if there are gaping loopholes that allow criminals and deranged individuals to purchase firearms at gun shows or over the internet without being subject to background checks,” Buchanan said.

“Today I voted for H.R. 8 to close these loopholes — a proposal supported by more than 90% of gun owners in America, according to respected polling organizations.”

Blowing with the popular wind, not the evidence (see sidebar).

What’s more, every gun owner knows the long-term strategy in Congress. Little by little, year by year, anti-Second Amendment legislators will peck away at gun

Nonprofits’ tax exemption is vital to their mission and Florida’s culture MY VIEW

The following appeared March 22 in the Tampa Bay Times.

Reprinted with permission.

RON CRISTALDI

Mote Marine Aquarium, Selby Botanical Gardens and Florida Studio Theatre are among the nonprofits in Sarasota County that have long been exempt from paying property taxes.

Now, Sarasota Property Appraiser Bill Furst wants those revered institutions and other nonprofits to start paying property taxes and potentially face new tax bills ranging anywhere from 3% to 100% of their property value, blowing a big hole in their budgets and jeopardizing their ability to perform their missions.

We all lose if that happens.

The stated reason for Furst’s move: The nonprofits derive revenue from accessory uses, such as restaurants, gift shops and property rentals.

Like many, I believe this is a

misinterpretation and misapplication of Chapter 196 of the Florida statutes. Exemption from property tax for nonprofits is firmly established in the Florida Constitution and has been reiterated in a variety of legal cases over the years. Unfortunately, that hasn’t stopped some property appraisers from occasionally trying to revisit these long-standing and wellsettled laws, at the expense of local nonprofits.

The long-held interpretation of state law is that when proceeds from activities on a nonprofit’s property benefit the nonprofit’s mission, and when the uses in question are ancillary to the property’s primary function in furtherance of the nonprofit’s mission, the nonprofit’s property remains tax exempt.

For example, revenue from a corporate event at the Glazer Children’s Museum helps fund the creation of more engaging exhibits for our children and by law is exempt from tax. And

John R. Lott Jr., arguably the nation’s foremost researcher of gun and crime data in America, addresses the socalled “gun show loophole” in his book “More Guns Less Crime.”

Here are excerpts: “The theory linking ‘gun show loopholes’ and crime is fairly straightforward. To the extent that background checks on private transfers prevent criminals from getting guns, crime rates will be reduced.

But its impact depends upon two factors: how many criminals actually get guns from gun shows and the ability of criminals to get guns from substitute sources.

“There is also a trade-off: Increased regulations on private transfers can reduce the number of gun shows and make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to get guns — guns that could have been used to protect against crime.

“The Bureau of Justice Statistics conducted a survey of 18,000 state prison inmates in 1997, the largest survey of inmates ever conducted.

Fewer than 1% (0.7%) who possessed a gun indicated they obtained it at a gun show.

When combined with guns obtained at flea markets, the total rises to 1.7%.

“These numbers are dwarfed by the 40% who obtained their guns from friends or family and the 39% who obtained

them on the street from illegal sources.

“Despite all the emphasis on gun shows, there is no empirical research linking gun show regulations to decreased crime rates. If anything, the evidence points in the other direction.

“Earlier work that I have done using state-level data from 1977 to 2000 implies that gun show regulations not only significantly reduce the number of gun shows by up to 24% but also increase murder and robbery rates.

“I found no statistically significant impact of background checks for handguns purchased through dealers, a result also found consistently in research by others. Enacting the assault weapons ban and instituting waiting periods did have one effect in my research: It significantly reduced the number of gun shows. “[Other researchers] find that gun shows modestly reduce homicides and have no impact on suicides within 25 miles of the gun show. If this result is correct, the reduction in gun shows that I find from closing the gun show loophole may explain why closing the loophole could increase murder and robbery rates.

“Closing down gun shows is more likely to deprive lawabiding citizens of a relatively inexpensive source of guns than to prevent criminals from getting guns.”

rights and the Second Amendment until they ultimately get what they want: for the government to be the only gun owners in America.

H.R. 8 is just one of the steps, and Buchanan fell for it — siding with the false argument that

restricting access to guns for law-abiding citizens will reduce crime and violence perpetrated by evil and deranged people.

Ask any sheriff or police chief.

He or she will tell you bad people will always find a way to get a gun.

revenues from wedding rentals at the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg help fund the museum’s operations and aren’t diverted to the government.

Accessory uses like these make up a vital part of many nonprofits’ operating budgets. And even more important, they introduce many people in the community to these institutions.

Eight percent of Florida’s workers are employed by nonprofits. The benefits and significant economic impact that nonprofit cultural institutions provide our community is tremendous. They work hard to give back to our community, and many have stepped up during the pandemic to meet needs, such as online educational programming, during this challenging time.

A dangerous trend is afoot in Sarasota with this proposed new tax on nonprofits. If allowed to stand, this denial of exempt status will have broad implications to the fiscal health and vitality of our key cultural institutions and will have significant impacts on not only our Tampa Bay community but also on the entire state.

Fortunately, Sen. Joe Gruters, R-Sarasota, and Rep. David

Borrero, R-Sweetwater, have introduced legislation to clarify the misinterpretation of state law once and for all, which will protect nonprofits around the state from attempted tax grabs by overreaching property appraisers.

Our cultural institutions, after a COVID-19-impacted year, need our help more than ever. This is not the time to assess new property taxes, and property appraisers must understand that levying new taxes during this time of economic uncertainty stunts economic growth and negatively impacts our prosperity.

Please reach out to your state legislators and urge them to vote yes on Senate Bill 1214 and House Bill 889.

Ron Christaldi is Tampa managing partner of Shumaker, Loop and Kendrick, LLP and president/CEO of Shumaker Advisors Florida. He has served in leadership roles for such nonprofit cultural institutions as the Tampa Museum of Art and Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture and the Arts.

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Your politically expedient pronouncements never cease to amaze. I recall that in one of your election-year endorsements, you actually admitted that although one of the candidates was clearly the better choice, not being a Republican made him someone that you could not endorse.

At least you own up to your self-serving and un-American views. You see yourself as a patriot. I see you as a symbol of what’s gone terribly wrong in this country. When people put aside their better angles to support corrupt candidates in an effort to maintain their superior position in the world, it is hardly something to be lauded.

Support of Donald Trump is not much different from the adulation Hitler received by the German people when he took away their freedoms, launched hate-filled speech and worse against anyone standing in the way of “greatness.”

To be clear, MAGA was really about making America white and superior to anyone standing in the way of greed and paranoia.

The past four years have been worse than the assaults of Joe McCarthy in the 1950s. I have good Republican friends who have been horrified by the mindless support of Trump.

For anyone to proudly proclaim their endorsement of him is beneath all human decency.

The mere blessings of being born an American should be acknowledged and paid forward for the good of the country.

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a thing of the past. Our grandchildren will be the ones to pay for the self-centeredness of people like you, and God will not be fooled.

We have friends in other parts of the world who have been shocked by those loyal to someone like Trump. A wonderful friend, widow of an Australian Brigadier General who we befriended while our children were attending St. Timothy’s School in Toronto a lifetime ago, recently penned us with congratulations that America has finally ridded our world of the misadventures of “the Donald.”

“Thank God,” she said. To which I add, “Amen!”

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Democracy still works I am responding to your essay of Jan. 28. You are absolutely correct that you, and all of us, must be allowed to express our opinions and beliefs. That said, I would remind you of the old aphorism, “You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts.”

Whether you and many others like it or not, Donald Trump lost the election.

Every vote-count review and every court decision underscored this fact. So please stop lecturing about democracy in this country, and recognize that, fortunately, it still works.

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If you want to explore the wonders of the natural world while simultaneously keeping tabs on the decidedly more artificial realm of the internet, you might soon be in luck.

Mayor Hagen Brody is working with city staff on options for adding Wi-Fi service to public parks. Although the city is still in an exploratory phase, Brody mentioned Arlington Park, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, Payne Park and the forthcoming The Bay Sarasota site as possible options for an initial wave of internet infrastructure.

Offering Wi-Fi for city park visitors isn’t a new concept. Former Commissioner Shelli Freeland Eddie, whose term on the board expired in 2020, repeatedly pushed for conducting further research on adding Wi-Fi to parks, stating younger members of the community had expressed an interest in such an endeavor. Brody said his desire to prioritize free internet access was a response to the changing way people use the city’s recreational properties.

“I think we’re keeping up with the technological reality of the

demands of our residents,” Brody said. “I think it’s a nice amenity to offer at our public parks — in addition to the other amenities.”

Through a spokesperson, the city declined to make a staff member available for comment about Wi-Fi in parks. In February, the city’s Parks, Recreational and Environmental Protection Advisory Board discussed the prospective initiative. Board member Mary Fuerst said she read about the concept in the newspaper, and she was concerned the topic was not brought before the advisory group for consideration.

Fuerst said her preliminary independent research triggered some questions about the costs and limitations of free Wi-Fi, as well as some guidance from outside experts about best practices for public internet service.

The board asked staff to present some additional information about the city’s plans at a future meeting.

“I think we need to consider it,” Fuerst said. “I think we need to consider how we’re going to pay for it. I would hope the City Commission would come talk to us about it.”

Brody said he believed some of the federal COVID-19 relief funds the city received could be used to expand broadband internet access, and he hoped to explore the topic further as the commission puts together a budget for fiscal year 2022.

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Our Y partners with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Sun Coast “If the big enjoys doing it, it’s exposing the little, more than likely, to something they wouldn’t normally have exposure to.”

Our Y leaders will help pair members with children in need and offer them a place to work out, get creative or simply talk.

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rom swim lessons to power lifting and after-school care, the Y serves many purposes, and it just added another. The Y and Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Sun Coast partnered to bring mentors and a place to meet to children in need.

BBBS has long partnered youth ages 6 to 18 with mentors who furnish a support system and a chance to explore activities they might normally not be exposed to. During COVID-19, the need for mentors has gotten stronger; there are currently more than 60 youth waiting to be partnered with a mentor.

BBBS volunteer coordinator Teresa Taft said the organization is looking for volunteers who are wiling to meet with their littles a few times a month for various activities and time to talk.

“Being a mentor basically changes the young person’s life,” Taft said. “Most of the kids that are in the program are from single-family households and often don’t have someone they can talk to. The mentors offer them that opportunity and just a sense of stability.”

Now the Y will work to help partner some of its 6,500 members with BBBS youth in need. Y leaders will help recruit mentors over the age of 18 to apply for the program.

Lisa Meskil, the director of

member engagement at the Evalyn Sadlier Jones Branch, said the partnership was a natural fit for the Y, particularly as it reaches its one-year mark as a new organization.

“Both organizations are committed to providing a safe and inspiring environment for the littles and their mentors,” Meskil said. “Our partnership will allow Big Brothers and Sisters and their littles to develop healthy habits together while learning valuable life lessons.”

If a Y member is approved, the Y will then serve as a possible meeting place for mentors and their littles. Littles who do not have a membership will be admitted free.

Additionally, Y scholarships will be available to the littles for all of its youth programming, which includes swim lessons, lessons on healthy exercise and eating habits, art enrichment, life skills and education on teen mental health.

“We definitely have a lot to offer, but the key is connecting with these kids and creating healthy habits they can carry throughout their lives,” Meskil said.

Bigs do not have to meet at the Y after they are paired, however.

Taft recommends bigs take their littles to do an activity they would already be doing and if that’s outside the Y, it’s OK. “If you play golf, or you play tennis, or you go to the farmer’s market or the beach, take them

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Right: The 2021 Florida Big Sister of the Year Candy Brooks takes her little sister, Aaliyah, to the beach.

with you,” Taft said. “If the big enjoys doing it, it’s exposing the little, more than likely, to something they wouldn’t normally have exposure to.”

Most bigs spend a few hours with their littles every other weekend, but Taft said the more time spent with them, the better.

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Over the protests of many residents, construction on a roundabout at the intersection of Beach Road and Midnight Pass Road will progress after the county awarded a design contract.

The County Commission voted unanimously to award the Tampa-based company Atkins North America a design contract worth $269,643.

In 2015, Florida Department of Transportation officials polled residents about a preferred update to the intersection, with a majority voting against the roundabout.

So FDOT officials began designing an improved signalized intersection, which was about 60% complete.

However, after the county and FDOT swapped control of several Siesta Key roads in exchange for River Road, county staff found a roundabout at the intersection would be a better option.

“Overall, traffic studies have determined that the roundabout is a more efficient intersection as far as moving vehicles in and out of the intersection instead of stopping at a light,” Public Works Director Spencer Anderson said.

Additionally, the roundabout intersection would remove three vehicle conflict points and one pedestrian conflict point.

Still, when residents were surveyed by the county, about 67% of respondents remained opposed to the roundabout.

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“Going down this way, of people crossing the road, as well as cars exiting the beach, it’s going to push the traffic even farther,” she said. “It’s going to push the traffic all the way to Siesta Isles.”

Although FDOT will pay for the construction, the county had to fund the redesign using gas tax revenue.

County documents note that Atkins North America staff will evaluate the need for exclusive right turn movements to avoid congestion in the roundabout.

Additionally, staff will consider the need to add bicycle lanes.

All improvements will focus heavily on pedestrian and bicycle mobility, the documents note.

Construction of the roundabout is planned to coincide with a resurfacing project of Midnight Pass Road from Stickney Point Road to Shadow Lawn Way. Both projects are planned for summer 2022, and road closures and lane shifts might be necessary to accommodate construction.

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The campaign aims to feed thousands of children this summer.

Child hunger is a constant problem, even if the public’s eyes are not constantly on it.

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“Now, with a pandemic, there’s nobody denying the importance of getting everybody fed,” campaign co-Chair Keith Monda said. “You can’t turn on your television without seeing a parking lot full of cars with people who are in need. … We just want to make sure we utilize that to the fullest and maximize the number of young children that we can get fed this summer.”

Co-Chair Veronica Brady said the impetus of the campaign was years ago when the Gulf Coast Community Foundation and All Faiths Food Banks worked on a study that found 50% of children rely on free and reduced lunch throughout the school year and that around 5,000 of the 21,000 students were getting access to food in the summertime.

“That was a big impetus for us to figure out what could we do to raise awareness in the community that children are hungry and are anxious,” Brady said. “The study had shown that [children] knew when their parents were running out of money. This was a real issue.”

Brady, Monda and All Faiths Food Bank CEO Sandra Frank helped get the initiative off the ground eight years ago, and the program has raised millions of dollars since. After chairing the event for the first four years, Monda and Brady are returning to co-chair the event once again.

Much of that chair role involves working with the food bank to raise money by reaching out to local philanthropists. What follows is the initiative going public and having a dollar-for-dollar match up to May 15. That’s where Brady says the real work begins, where boxed and bagged food is made available at mobile pantries, at Sarasota and DeSoto schools and with partner organizations across Sarasota.

Every year is important for the program, but both Brady and Monda see this year as especially important in that the ongoing pandemic might disrupt children’s schedules of being able to get food from summer programs.

They feel that now more than ever is the time to make sure local children are OK. “We need to make sure that the rhythm that we established over the past seven years pre-pandemic continues,” Monda said. “The hunger is going to be there one school gets out, and we want to make sure that these kids get fed.”

The pair is in the middle of working with existing partners to see which will be having summer programs that will let them deliver food to children. Brady said it’s a large operation that makes beyond an immediate impact.

She remembers being a center where kids were picking up food once and realizing one 8-yearold boy was picking up bags of food to feed all of his siblings and his parents.

“It’s those kinds of quiet reminders that we don’t really know what’s going on in families’ lives,” Brady said. “We just know that we need to be there to make sure that food is accessible.”

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But after eyeing the local landscape and seeing the need in the community, JFCS staff have planned a new initiative — food donation days during which the group will provide 1,800 meals to people across Sarasota, Venice and other areas the week of March 29. Staff from JFCS and other agencies will hand out boxed meals from Paradise Grill that include a chicken breast, mashed potatoes, green beans and a cookie.

“We were trying to think of something that can help those that are impacted [by hunger] and could help immediately,” said Karen Pharo, the director of community outreach. “It’s something that we could possibly do on an ongoing basis. And so this is our first time doing it.”

A private JFCS donor reached out and told staff they were interested in funding a third of the meals if they were interested in doing a program to address hunger. Pharo connected with neighboring organizations — including Hunger’s End and the Blessing Bags Project, Living

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She hopes that this first week of food delivery will be the first of many and that if they can secure funding going forward, either through a campaign or other means, she hopes the several partnered groups can continue to work together to pass out meals in the weeks to come.

“We’d like to open it up to other organizations,” Pharo said. “If we can all join together and do it, then we’ll be able to make it ongoing.”

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“What I want to do is, instead of First Friday, do it every Friday,” Soto said.

At the time, the downtown group pointed to city regulations as a potential obstacle. They said fees can cost event sponsors up to $1,660 for single-day street closures, which creates a challenge for gatherings that aren’t huge economic generators.

Through a spokesperson, the city indicated that any effort to block vehicular access to Main Street would probably need to go in front of the City Commission.

The city would likely need to see support from businesses and property owners who would be affected, but the proposal wouldn’t necessarily need to go through the city’s traditional event application procedures.

Last year, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the city approved three limited downtown street closures on weekends to facilitate outdoor dining space for restaurants. The city also allowed some businesses to use parking spaces in front of their storefronts for seating. In January, City Commissioner Liz Alpert expressed a desire to extend the regulations at least through the end of the year. The rest of the commission responded positively, and City Manager Marlon Brown said he intended to discuss strategies for refining the outdoor dining regulations at a future meeting.

“It seems to be working well,” Alpert said. “I think it’s very popular.”

Kauffman believes it’s worth trying. “It’s a cheap fix, and it could be interesting,” he said.

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Kauffman said. “The restaurants are full, and they’re full outside.”

Kauffman said the DID could discuss the idea in earnest at a future meeting, but he shared some preliminary thoughts on what the pedestrian experiment might look like. Kauffman targeted lower Main Street and Palm Avenue as segments where the city could restrict vehicular access. In addition to allowing stores and restaurants to spread out into the streets, he said the Sarasota Farmers Market could reconfigure its footprint to take advantage of the open space.

He suggested the closures could be in effect from Friday evening through midnight Saturday, and the city could test it for a month.

“We keep playing around with this idea,” Kauffman said. “We’ve never tried it. Maybe we ought to discuss it.”

Although this iteration of the concept is in a preliminary phase, there has been extensive research into the possibility of doing something similar. In 2011, public input at workshops indicated support for creating a pedestrian mall space on Main Street. A private group raised money in hopes of creating a brick-lined Main Street with retractable bollards to block vehicular access to Main Street. The project had some advocates, but it never advanced.

In 2018, City Planning Director Steve Cover spoke to the DID board about holding recurring pedestrian-only events on Main Street with changing themes. The DID expressed support for the concept, seeing it as their opportunity to compete with similar events held on the first Friday of the month in such places as Lakewood Ranch. Ron Soto, a DID board member and president of

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SPORTS

“I’m a jokester. When I’m not pitching, it’s all fun and games to me.”

— Cardinal Mooney’s Drew Marra SEE PAGE 27A

HIGH

Cougars broke to a 4-0 lead in the first, but Manatee tied it a halfinning later. Cardinal Mooney wasn’t used to that, nor making fielding mistakes: Only one of Manatee’s four runs was an earned run.

The Cougars had a decision to make: Give in or strike back. They chose the latter and won 10-4.

Although pitching has been the Cougars’ backbone, the offense hasn’t been slouching. Mooney averages 6.77 runs per game thanks to players including Todd Velotta, a senior who had a double and two RBI in the win against Booker, and Aidan Troy, a senior who had a triple and three RBI on March 19 in the team’s 15-4 win against DeSoto County High.

In some ways, this Cougars season is about redemption. The team was 8-2 last season and primed for a potentially deep playoff run before the COVID-19 pandemic halted the season. Mulhollen said that although he’s happy the team has started strong, a large part of him is simply glad the team gets to play baseball at all. Another part of him, the competitive part, still knows his team is capable of more if everyone applies themselves.

“I want to see them bring 100% to the field every day,” Mulhollen said. “Whether it’s practicing or going on the road or whatever it is.

We need to keep fighting.”

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Riverview senior pitcher Karson Ligon threw a 98-pitch no-hitter in the Rams’ 9-0 win against Charlotte High. Ligon walked two while striking out 12.

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Sarasota senior pitcher Conner Whittaker threw a completegame shutout March 23 in the Sailors’ 9-0 win against Bartow High. He scattered two hits and struck out six.

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Sarasota girls 4x800 relay team of sophomore Ella Menke, junior Janel Mitchell, senior Kasumi Wade and senior Marissa Kempf finished first (9:59.53) March 20 at the 2021 IMG Academy Spring Break Invitational.

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Cardinal Mooney senior baseball player Luke Holman went 3-4 with a triple and two RBI in the Cougars’ 15-4 road win against DeSoto County High.

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Riverview freshman Luis Castaneda finished second in the boys’ discus (40.96 meters) at the 2021 IMG Academy Spring Break Invitational track and field meet.

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■ What: Cardinal Mooney baseball (11-2) vs. Jesuit (11-1)* ■ When: 7 p.m.

March 31 ■ Where: Cardinal Mooney ■ Cougars player to watch: Senior third baseman Todd Velotta, who had a double and two RBIs against Booker High on March 23 ■ Tigers player to watch: Sophomore outfielder Jake Kulikowski, who is hitting for a .438 average *Records as of March 24

Mooney’s pitching makes the Cougars a contender.

RYAN KOHN SPORTS REPORTER

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he Cardinal Mooney High baseball team (11-2) is up for every shot its opponents are throwing.

Not many shots — or swings — are connecting.

The Cougars are in the midst of an impressive season, and Mooney Coach Greg Mulhollen said the team’s success begins with its pitching staff. On Tuesday, senior Drew Marra pitched four shutout innings against Booker High before three relievers — senior Aidan Troy, sophomore Jack Mackinnon and senior Caden Chamberlin — finished the job. Mooney won 5-0; the Cougars pitchers combined to allow one hit and four walks.

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This season, the team has allowed just 38 runs in 13 games (2.92 runs per game), and 14 of those runs were allowed in the team’s two losses. That means in their wins, Mooney is allowing just 2.18 runs per game.

“They have the ability to throw strikes in all counts,” Mulhollen said of his pitchers. “Going in, we knew we had some talent. It has been fun to see it start from day one and continue to grow.”

Marra said Mooney knew from the beginning of the season that it was capable of something special.

“We just work well as a team,” Marra said. “Everyone gets along, and when someone needs to step up and make something happen, they do.”

Marra said the team’s resolve was tested in a March 11 road game against Manatee High. The

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Still stars A look at how local alumni are performing in college.

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ecause this is the last Prose and Kohn in March — meaning April, the beginning of the end of spring sports, is right around the corner — I’m using this space to check on some of our local alumni.

It’s something I like to do, not only to be different but also because fans often forget about players once they leave the area.

They shouldn’t, though, as evidenced below.

Sarasota produces elite talent, and it doesn’t evaporate once athletes head to college. Like my underrated players column from last week, this list isn’t exhaustive. It simply highlights some performances that I think deserve the spotlight.

Former Sarasota Crew rower Clark Dean, at Harvard, was one of six Crimson rowers invited to the USRowing Olympic Selection Camp in Oakland, Calif., which began March 17. Dean, a junior, was named the 2018 USRowing Junior National Team Athlete of the Year while with the crew.

Making the Olympic team would be the culmination of everything he’s worked for in his athletic career. I hope it works out for him.

Although Riverview High

alumna Devyn Flaherty isn’t having quite the season she did in 2020 — before things shut down, anyway — she’s still making an impact for the No. 12-ranked Florida State Seminoles.

Flaherty is hitting for a .258 average with two doubles, a home run and seven RBI in 22 games. Flaherty also .955 fielding percentage and is second on the team with eight stolen bases.

Over at South Florida, former Sarasota High softball player Alexis Johns — who transferred to the Bulls from Florida International — is hitting .333 on the year. The Bulls are doing weird things with their roster this season; Johns is seventh on the team in at-bats with 18 despite starting just six of the team’s 14 games.

Still, she’s making the most of her opportunities, collecting three RBI, five stolen bases and five runs scored. Her opportunities should increase as the season continues. (Or they would if I were coaching the Bulls, anyway.)

Former Sarasota High boys track and field gold medalist Jaasiel Torres is continuing his winning ways at North Florida.

The junior participated in his first meet of the season March 19, the UCF Black and Gold

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Former Ram Devyn Flaherty is a starter at Florida State.

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Clark Dean is on the verge of going from Sarasota Crew to Harvard to the Olympics.

Invitational, and placed first in the high jump, tying his personal best outdoor mark of 2.08 meters.

Last season, he was named to the All-ASUN First Team for his (indoor) efforts, and he’s a threat to do the same in outdoor. The guy is simply an elite athlete.

Finally, former Cardinal Mooney boys lacrosse attacker M.J. McMahon is in his freshman season at Utah, and he’s already making his presence felt.

He’s started three of the team’s six games and has recorded three goals and an assist. The Utes are

just 2-4 on the season, but the program only became varsity in 2019. McMahon is part of something new, and he’ll be a key building block for them as they grow over the next few years.

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

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Oh man, I’ve been playing since I can remember. My dad, [Dave], would throw me baseballs as a child.

What is the appeal to you?

Being able to hang out with my teammates, bonding together.

It’s just a fun game to play, especially as a pitcher.

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My slider is my best pitch for sure. If it’s on, it’s really good. I throw it about 76 mph.

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It’s “Outer Banks” [on Netflix] for sure.

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Probably English. I just find it the most interesting.

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Michelle Wieckowski is also grateful for her dog Patsy, who’s been a source of optimism and fun.

her children have moved north, and she’s been unable to visit her husband, Frank, who lives with dementia in a retirement community. It was a time when she needed connection the most but feared she barely had any.

But Wieckowski has had good days, too. Like the ones she realized she wasn’t really alone and that she had an entire community behind her.

Wieckowski is a member of the Temple Emanu-El synagogue, and fellow members stepped up upon hearing news of her diagnosis. Wieckowski said she’s been inundated with calls and messages of support and love from members and has made deep friendships throughout the experience.

Fellow templegoers Karen and Gary Androphy have become Wieckowski’s de facto support team during the pandemic and now view her as family.

“There’s such nice caring people,” Wieckowski said. “So many people have called me. And people I would have never thought would even have known who I was.”

It was New Year’s Eve in 2019 that she first started feeling ill — first a cough and fever but then more symptoms that grew worse and more frequent. She said the doctor at the time was not diagnosing her condition correctly.

When the pandemic arrived, she had to face her illness alone, no longer able to visit her husband.

“It was hard on him; it was hard on me,” Wieckowski said. “I was running fevers every night, getting sicker and sicker, and not knowing what was the matter. …

No one expects to get cancer.”

She started getting chemotherapy treatment for her cancer in the summer, thinking she’d have to experience the treatments alone.

She didn’t trust strangers from local medical assistance providers.

“I said: ‘I can’t take that risk. I have to do this myself,’” Wieckowski said.

The Androphys, recent transplants from Chicago and Temple Emanu-El members who lived nearby, helped Wieckowski get through the many physical and

emotional challenges.

The pair would deliver Wieckowski her groceries, alternate driving her to her doctor’s appointments — they would wear masks and roll the windows down for safety — and talk with her each day to make sure she felt connected. In time, it blossomed from a friendship into something more like family.

“Nobody has relatives close,” Karen Androphy said. “Her relatives aren’t close. My family isn’t close. … We kind of became Team Michelle. It meant that she had family nearby and that we were going to be dependable.”

“If you have an illness like this, and you have nobody to rely on, you can drift a little bit and get upset,” said Gary Androphy, a retired orthopedic surgeon. “We tried to keep her focused on what she needed.”

Helping Wieckowski was important for Karen especially.

Her sister died earlier that year, but she was unable to join or help due to the pandemic and travel restrictions.

Taking care of her new friend was a way to work through the feeling of helplessness that she had after not being able to be with her sister.

“The opportunity to be here in person and really help Michelle through everything gave us a chance to be able to do what we wish we would have been able to do [with my sister],” she said. “ It was critical to be able to help and sort of overcome some of the ‘I wish I could haves.’ … And now I have a sister here.”

The worst seems to be behind Wieckowski for now. She finished her chemotherapy late last year and is in remission. She’s fully vaccinated along with the Androphys. It’s been a big relief that the trio can now spend time together more comfortably. What’s more is the three are moving out of their downtown apartments and into a nearby community.

Wieckowski is grateful for being in remission but knows many cancers return. But if that happens, she feels more ready — she has people to rely on.

“You can’t give up, but it’s hard when you’re alone,” Wieckowski said. “[Karen and Gary] made a big difference in that aloneness for me.”

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ALAN T. OWENS Richard Brown, trustee, and Diane Brown, of Sarasota, sold the home at 929 Alameda Way to Elita Krums Kane, of Sarasota, for $5.28 million. Built in 1998, it has five bedrooms, six-anda-half baths, a pool and 7,108 square feet of living area. It sold for $4.8 million in 2004.

LA BELLASARA Susan Rowntree, trustee, sold the Unit PH9C condominium at 464 Golden Gate Point to Jon and Donna Boscia, of Gladwyne, Pa., for $4.65 million. Built in 2006, it has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths and 5,786 square feet of living area. It sold for $3.9 million in 2017.

MCCLELLAN PARK Michael and Melissa Long, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1530 Blue Heron Drive to Florian and Katrin Schuetz, of Sarasota, for $2.9 million. Built in 2016, it has five bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,878 square feet of living area.

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Bay Island Shores Lake City Bank, trustee, sold the home at 760 Freeling Drive to Joseph and Terry Fried, of Atlanta, for $3.45 million.

Built in 1959, it has five bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 5,186 square feet of living area. It sold for $4 million in 2007.

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GROVE HEIGHTS Zenon Maslona, of Kozle, Poland, sold his home at 1810 Grove St. to Jean-Michel Denis and Annick Verbeeck, of Green Cove Springs, for $1.83 million.

Built in 2015, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,281 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.65 million in 2016.

The home at 1400 Harbor Drive was built in 2016 and has five bedrooms, five-and-ahalf baths, a pool and 5,402 square feet of living area.

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Monte Verde at Villa Mirada Special Custom Homes LLC sold the home at 7425 Monte Verde to Gregory and Daisy Dicarlo, of Wesley Chapel, for $1.75 million. Built in 2020, it has four bedrooms, four-and-two-half baths, a pool and 4,408 square feet of living area.

Roy and Karen Borrego, trustees, of Punta Gorda, sold the home at 1828 Grove St. to Gerald May, of Sarasota, for $690,000. Built in 1925, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,559 square feet of living area. It sold for $550,000 in 2014.

CORAL COVE William Corin and Lisa Flam sold their home at 7302 Periwinkle Drive to Jeffrey Stern, of Sarasota, for $1.45 million. Built in 1969, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,331 square feet of living area. It sold for $485,000 in 1997.

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South Creek Joshua Daniel Howard and Lydia Felicia Howard, of Nokomis, sold their home at 449 S. Creek Drive to Austin Collins and Amanda Marshall, trustees, of Osprey, for $1.66 million. Built in 1979, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,624 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.18 million in 2015.

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Mardon Estates Tomasz Czarny and Izabela Fratczak sold their home at 2311 Mission Valley Blvd. to Daniel Neal Chester and Sarah Alison Rindlaub Chester, of Nokomis, for $1.45 million. Built in 2020, it has four bedrooms, threeand-two-half baths, a pool and 4,624 square feet of living area.

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hakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” has been performed for centuries. The play has been adapted and adopted to death. Over the years,

a set of conventional cliches has congealed around it. Those cliches make it all too easy — on both sides

I’ve read your adaptation of “Julius Caesar” — and I’ve never read anything like it. You do nontraditional gender casting, including making Caesar a woman.

Why? I had two main reasons — reflecting my two main jobs.

As a writer and director, I had to produce a play worth watching. As an educator, I had to give my advanced acting students enough worthy material to work on.

of the stage. Theater troupes get a lazy, paint-bynumbers approach. Theatergoers who have never seen the play think they already know it. And seeing the play with fresh eyes becomes next to impossible.

But Jonathan Epstein does. He’s a writer, a director and a teaching professor at the Asolo Conservatory.

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But that argument draws from Shakespeare’s text, where Cassius was originally one character.

The fragmentation was already there.

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there’s no hint of cliche at all. What was Epstein

What was your reasoning as a director and adapter?

Getting to the heart of the play itself. Getting rid of our tired, secondhand notions about this play. I think people make the problems of “Caesar” simpler than they actually are.

There’s only one Cassius in Shakespeare’s original text — Caius Cassius. You carved him into two characters.

But they’re two different people, not two sides of the same person.

Correct. I’ve split him into two characters: Tertia Cassius and Caius Cassius. Where they might have a soliloquy in the original, in this version they’re two people who argue with each other.

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The Cliff Notes interpretation is sarcasm.

“Brutus is an honorable man.” In other words, “Brutus is an honorable man. Yeah, right.” Anthony is riling up the crowd.

That’s the conventional assumption. But look at Anthony’s speech from a different perspective. Think of it as authentic dialectic, not mockery. What if it wasn’t rhetorical trickery? If Anthony were sincere, how would that change the meaning?

He’d be arguing with himself.

Yes. When Anthony says, “Brutus is an honorable man,” he believes it. Or part of him wants to. Another part doesn’t.

Brutus called Caesar ambitious — and Anthony can see with his own two eyes that it’s not true. But how could this “honorable man” lie? Anthony is wrestling with that contradiction.

I get it. Anthony’s mind is divided. In your adaptation,

And how would you define it?

That’s the real puzzle. The answer is fairly obvious — but not to contemporary eyes.

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If it was politically justified, it wasn’t even illegal.

So Brutus did his duty?

Maybe.

Did Shakespeare feel that Caesar’s assassination was justified?

Oh, yes. I think he did.

You’re not arguing for political assassination, are you?

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For example?

Well, Cassius, as I mentioned.

But Anthony’s speech at Caesar’s funeral is the classic example. He says: “When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious. And Brutus is an honorable man.”

It’s fine rhetoric, but what’s Anthony driving at?

you express that as two debating Anthonys. One believes in Brutus’ honor; the other doesn’t. You changed the argument’s form. But it was already there in the play.

It’s really the key argument of the play.

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Their minds are often divided.

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FORECAST

NATURE’S BEAUTY WITH

THURSDAY, MARCH 25 High: 87 Low: 66 Chance of rain: 10%

FRIDAY, MARCH 26 High: 87 Low: 65 Chance of rain: 11%

SATURDAY, MARCH 27 High: 88 Low: 64 Chance of rain: 9%

SUNDAY, MARCH 28 High: 85 Low: 66 Chance of rain: 9%

Jake Thornton captured this sunset over Whispering Sands on Siesta Key.

Submit your photos at YourObserver.com/Weather. All submissions will be entered for the 2021-22 Weather and Nature photo contest. In February 2022, you will vote for your favorite photo, and the submission with the most votes will win a $500 gift card.

SUNRISE / SUNSET

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Thursday, March 25 7:27a 7:43p Friday, March 26

7:26a

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Saturday, March 27

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Sunday, March 28

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Monday, March 29

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Tuesday, March 30

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Wednesday, March 31

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April 11 New

April 20 First

April 26 Full

May 3 Last

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ACROSS 1 “The Lion King” heroine 5 Ballet bend 9 Fish such as koi 13 Takes advantage of 17 Telenovela topic 18 Remnant 19 iO toothbrush brand 21 Puppy adoption org.

22 *Patterned pair’s place (hint: note this answer’s last word ...)

24 *Perk for a regular customer (... and this one’s first word) 26 Alecia Beth Moore, ___ P!nk 27 Help

28 Music great Ross 30 Easter lead-in?

31 Wish undone 32 Many 35 Ram’s ma’am 36 Jolly ol’ fellow 38 Simple computer program 40 Bug that’s hard to see?

43 Entices 46 *Duke athlete 48 *Hid one’s true self from the world 50 Small amount of gel 51 One-named “Crazy Rich Asians” actress 55 Charlottesville sch.

56 Pancreas production 60 High dice rolls 61 Nine-sided figure 65 “The Body Is Not an Apology” author ___ Renee Taylor 67 Actor Cariou 68 Symbol of slowness 69 *Duplicitous 71 *Jitter-free drink 74 “At once!”

76 Brand with 64-packs 78 Started a tennis rally 81 Smallest of the litter 82 Time for peace talks 8 Ride around Central Park?

85 Texter’s “Wow!” 86 “Ditto,” in a citation (Abbr.)

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49 White on “Wheel of Fortune” 52 African donkey 53 Woodcutting tool 54 Keep at bay 57 Rapinoe’s American squad, for short 58 Pirate’s plunder 59 Welcome booth offering 62 Clumsy folks 63 Evening, in adspeak 64 Notify 66 Formally agree (to) 68 Opposite of abundant 69 It may be tied ... or under laces 70 Victorian ___ (1837-1901) DOWN 72 Manning who retired in 1 “Hidden Figures” org.

2020 2 Run ___ (lose control) 3 Places to enjoy beers after 73 Show subtitled “The Last Airbender” work 74 German toast 4 Noah’s boat 75 Bit of gossip 5 Madrid museum 77 Slangy assent 6 Case study?

79 Banish 7 Cold, to a barista 80 Cockpit array 8 More creepy 82 Gas company with an 9 Trumpet’s cousin iconic sign in Boston 10 Length x width, for a 83 Corrode rectangle 86 Entirely 11 Like cookie dough 87 Deck shufflers?

12 Land, as a kiss 90 Rock concert place near 13 Tommy Trojan’s sch. the stage 14 Car engine part 15 Color of unbleached linen 91 Hurting 16 One-named soul superstar 94 Boat race 95 Sea shanty singers 18 Sad, in Spain 20 Charlotte who wrote “Jane 96 Presents, as cookies for Santa Eyre” 97 Added to the team 23 No longer trendy 88 Banana Boat tube initials 100 Juliet’s lover in a 2011 89 Sleeveless undergarment, 25 Like many cooking herbs animated film 29 Wowed feeling for short 101 ___ Lingus 33 Futbol cheer 92 Madre’s sister 102 Grooms oneself carefully 34 Texter’s “Just letting you 93 *Unpleasant things to 107 ___ of March know ...” end on 108 Capitol topper 36 Present positively, perhaps 96 *Catholic college in New 109 Juul, e.g., informally 37 Nashville music prize, Jersey 110 Young horse briefly 98 Forester’s marker 111 For the road 99 With one’s jaw on the floor 38 “Captain Phillips” Oscar 113 Squeeze through a pastry nominee Barkhad 103 Has big dreams bag 39 Map (out) 104 Attend 114 Goes gray, say 41 Kinds 105 Not reactive 115 Silently agrees 42 Laila and Muhammad 106 “___ she blows!”

117 Bio 101 molecule 44 Popular DVR 107 Think at a think tank 119 Mountain ___ (soda brand) 45 Yoko’s son 110 Person who sells the 47 “Uncle ___” (Chekhov play) roses

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112 Dish at a bakery?

116 *Marvel villain who absorbs energy 118 *”Colorful” Duke Ellington song 120 Discharge 121 Catch in a trap 122 ___ Sound (view from Seattle) 123 Guest column, often 124 Sonic & Knuckles game maker 125 Start of a tangent, maybe 126 Stash away 127 Noted loch

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Each letter in the cipher stands for another.

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Easter Celebration Visit these churches & houses of worship

Journey Through Holy Week With Us If you are seeking a place to call home during Holy Week, we are right in the neighborhood. Join us during the week and then celebrate Christ’s resurrection on Easter.

March 28: Palm Sunday 9am, 11am, 9am virtual April 1: Maundy Thursday 7pm, in person & virtual April 2: Good Friday 7pm, in person & virtual April 4: Easter Sunday 9am, 11am, in person & virtual

Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday:

Masks required and Social Distancing enforced. www.facebook.com/livinglordlutheranchurch Communion served on Both Sundays

SIESTA KEY CHAPEL Holy Week Services PALM SUNDAY March 28, 2021 at 10 AM

Seek

and pursue it.

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST “We offer a heartfelt and warm welcome to you” PALM SUNDAY

MAUNDY THURSDAY

Outdoor service 9 am & Online at 10:55 am

in lieu of Tables for 12

April 1, 2021 at 5:30 PM

GOOD FRIDAY with Taize music

April 2, 2021 at 12:00 PM

EASTER SUNDAY

941.349.1166 4615 Gleason Ave., Siesta Key SiestaKeyChapel.org SiestaKeyChapel.org

MAUNDY THURSDAY Service on Zoom at 7 pm

GOOD FRIDAY

Outdoor service at Noon Service on Zoom at 7 pm

EASTER SUNDAY Outdoor service 9 am & Online at 10:55 am

A PROGRESSIVE AND INCLUSIVE CHURCH No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.

1031 S. Euclid Ave., (off Bahia Vista)

914-953-7044 • UCCSARASOTA.COM facebook.com/uccsarasota/

Sunday of Palms and Passion (bring your own palm if you want)

March 28 at 10:30am

Maundy Thursday (Open Communion)

The Church of the Redeemer

Easter Sunday April 4 at 10:30am

HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE

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April 1 at 7pm

PALM SUNDAY | 28 March Masses at 7:30 AM, 9 AM* and 11 AM* 1 PM* in Spanish

6908 Beneva Road, Sarasota 34238 941.922.7595 | www.sarasotaucc.org

MAUNDY THURSDAY | 1 April

JESUS LIVES TO CARE FOR ALL IN WORSHIP!

Masses at 10 AM and 6 PM*

GOOD FRIDAY | 2 April Good Friday Stations of the Cross on Main Street - 7:30 AM | Mass - 10 AM Good Friday Liturgy - 12 Noon*

EASTER EVE | 3 April

Note: These masses require registration on the website Easter Vigil- 3 PM* | Easter Mass- 6 PM

THIS HOLY WEEK, THIS EASTER OFFERS MULTIPLE SAFE-DISTANCE SERVICES.

EASTER DAY | 4 April

Note: These masses require registration on the website Masses at 7, 9* and 11 AM, 1 PM* in Spanish

Register for worship at ConcordiaSarasota.org See there also your worship videos and Facebook updates.

* Livestreamed

2185 Wood Street

(Along School Avenue, North of Sarasota High School) ConcordiaSarasota.org

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A traditional Episcopal parish located in downtown Sarasota 941.955.4263

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redeemersarasota.org 222 South Palm Avenue

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(outdoors unless rain); virtual available as well.

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Living Lord Lutheran Church

virtual services only through website or FB.

Easter Sunday: in-person worship at 9:30

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HELP WANTED: Servers and bartenders for Chef Rolf's New Florida Kitchen.

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PALMER RANCH: 2BD/2BA second floor corner unit w/ cathedral ceilings, largest 2 bedroom in the complex.

1,200 sqft + huge lanai. Gated community, tennis court, clubhouse, fitness center, and pool. $215,000.

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This week’s Celebrity Cipher answers

Puzzle One Solution: “People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don’t know when to stop. It can become unhealthy.”

Chaka Khan Puzzle Two Solution: “I’ve never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.”

– Jessica Chastain

This week’s Sudoku answers

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Home Services ESTATE MANAGER/ HOUSEHOLD MANAGER Olga has ability to manage all of your properties with seamless service standard. As a highly organized and intelligent professional, I will represent your family in the highest manner. I have over 20 years of experience managing household services.

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Wallpaper installation & removal, pressure washing.

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Computer

COMPUTER REPAIR SALES & SERVICE

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“FIX IT - DON’T REPLACE”

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Pet Services

Pet Care

by

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• Pet Sitting • Dog Walking • Over 24 years experience • Excellent references

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