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More than 350 volunteers spent the afternoon of May 1 arranging vision screening for homeless families, preparing hundreds of gift bags, sorting food and performing a variety of other good deeds for the community. The activities were part of the Temple Emanu-El Mitzvah Day. The Hebrew word “mitzvah” translates to “sacred commandment” but also denotes “good deed.”

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Here are the week’s donation totals for All Faiths Food Bank’s Campaign Against Summer Hunger, which runs through May 15. To donate, visit allfaithsfoodbank.org.

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Frances Worman, 75, weaves reeds in a design for a basket for her daughter. She has been attending the class for five years.

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The team developing plans for a 393-unit apartment complex near downtown Sarasota didn’t learn about a potentially deal-breaking regulation until the night of a City Commission hearing on the project.

That proposed regulation — a requirement that the city be

allowed to inspect the apartments annually — set in motion a chain of events that now puts the affordable housing project in jeopardy.

Harvey Vengroff, the entrepreneur spearheading the development, said he wouldn’t agree to the provision. Vengroff stormed out of the room when Commissioner Liz Alpert even broached the possibility of including the SEE PAGE 5A

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Less than a year after the Darwin’s On Fourth closed in the Rosemary District, the namesake chef behind the award-winning Peruvian venue has plans for a new restaurant in Siesta Key Village.

Darwin Santa Maria aims to open CeviChela Latin Street Food in the Davidson Drugs plaza this month. The brick-and-mortar offshoot of Santa Maria’s collaboration with former JDub’s head brewer Tom Harris will replace Señor Siesta.

“I was always interested in Siesta Key,” said Santa Maria, who helped redo the menu of the nearby Cottage restaurant in 2011.

“With all the attention Siesta Key is getting, what better place to call home?”

After closing Darwin’s On Fourth and resigning from Darwin Brewing Co. in late 2015, Santa Maria teamed up with Harris to launch a series of pop-up dinners at downtown Sarasota’s Café in the Park this year. The events, presented under the moniker the CeviChela Project, center on ceviche and craft beer.

Santa Maria’s new restaurant at 5110 Ocean Blvd. will have

As the City Commission debated whether to require annual inspections for a proposed affordable housing complex Monday, entrepreneur Harvey Vengroff walked out of the hearing, proclaiming the project dead. Here’s how our readers reacted on Facebook: SOCIAL STATS

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“It’s going to be a very, very small, quiet place,” Santa Maria said. “We’ll have fresh ingredients, good quality food and good prices.”

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OPENING ACT The Players Theatre, rebranded as the Players Centre for Performing Arts, will become an anchor of Schroeder-Manatee Ranch’s new 5,500-acre Waterside community.

The Players is working to close on a 4.5-acre parcel in the town center at Waterside, located east of I-75 in north Sarasota County.

Preliminary budget estimates for the new complex are between $8 million and $12 million.

“This is the entertainment venue we’ve been longing for,” said SMR President and CEO Rex Jensen.

That 55,000-squarefoot property would include a 480-seat main stage auditorium, a 125-seat black box theater, a 100-seat cabaret theater as well as classroom spaces.

Players officials aim to complete the first phase of construction within three years.

Players CEO Michelle Bianchi Pingel hopes to grow the theater’s budget from $1.5 million to as much as $5 million in the new venue.

The Players is embarking on a $25 million fundraising campaign to secure the long-term sustainability of the organization.

Although there was some trepidation about how the public would take the news regarding the move, Artistic Director Jeffery Kin said he was excited by the theater’s plans for the future.

“We will be hoping to create a brand new arts destination,” Kin said. “We will be at the forefront of a new arts scene.”

The Players Theatre is selling its property near the bayfront and moving to Lakewood Ranch. Why is the oldest arts organization in Sarasota leaving its home?

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ver since she took a job at the Players Theatre in 2002, Michelle Bianchi Pingel has been part of an organization searching for the best way to capitalize on a prime piece of real estate.

The Players owns a 1.8-acre site at 838 N. Tamiami Trail, a site it has occupied since 1936.

A two-story performance and office space currently sits on that campus, situated between the 18-story Alinari condominium building and 10-story Jefferson Center housing complex.

For more than a decade, Bianchi Pingel says, the community theater has considered embarking on a new model. There had to be a way to leverage the value of the land to benefit the organization as a whole. But as the real estate market crashed and recovered — and Bianchi Pingel ascended to the role of managing director and CEO in 2008 — the Players never developed a serious plan for the future.

“I always described us as a middle-to-lower-class family, where we’re land-rich and cashpoor,” Bianchi Pingel said. “We’re a community theater, and we’ve got this multimillion-dollar property.”

Now, that’s changing. On Monday, the Players made a big announcement: It’s putting its current property up for sale and moving to Lakewood Ranch.

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Players Artistic Director Jeffery Kin and Managing Director Michelle Bianchi Pingel said the early feedback to the move has been mostly positive, and they’re energized by the opportunities in Lakewood Ranch.s

junction with the news, Bianchi Pingel announced a new $25 million fundraising campaign.

“We have to think big,” she said.

“We can’t think show-to-show any more.”

Bianchi Pingel knows many of the theater’s patrons will be taken aback by the news. Why leave downtown Sarasota, the center of a community that prides itself on how it embraces the arts?

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One reason is, naturally, money.

The property is listed for $12.5 million, which will go a long way toward covering the expenses associated with the new 4.5-acre Lakewood Ranch campus.

In that regard, the timing is fortuitous. Love or hate the ongoing condominium boom, there’s no

“I always described us as a middle-tolower-class family, where we’re landrich and cash-poor.

We’re a community theater, and we’ve got this multimilliondollar property.”

– Michelle Bianchi Pingel, Players Theater managing director and CEO

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This conceptual layout showcases some allowed uses at the site. The left half is zoned Downtown Bayfront, which would allow for an 18-story building with 66 residential units. The right half is zoned Downtown Edge, which allows for a fivestory building and, in this example, 122 extendedstay hotel rooms.

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disputing the high demand for luxury residential projects near the bayfront. Although a split zoning designation complicates the redevelopment of the Players property, a segment along Tamiami Trail is zoned Downtown Bayfront. A builder could potentially construct an 18-story, 66-unit condo on that land.

The Players is working with Ian Black Real Estate to list the property. Even at this early stage, Black believes that demand makes a high-rise condo the highest and best use for the land. He believes external forces are contributing to the continued interest in highend housing.

“I know a lot of people don’t like it because it’s not like it used to be,” Black said. “But things like taxes are driving people out of New York, out of California and into Florida. What’s not to like about coming to live here?”

Black said it’s possible that a buyer could close on the land — and potentially begin construction — within 12 to 18 months.

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property and the opening of the new theater. The hope is to find a buyer who’s willing to let the Players lease the land until its new home is complete.

If a new developer wants to kick the Players out after closing on the sale, that makes things more complicated. Still, the priority remains selling the current property; the Players will devise a plan for the interim period between venues as necessary.

“We’re more interested in getting money in the bank so they can build with confidence out east,” Black said.

Although the Players eyes an aggressive 2019 completion for the first phase of the new facility, that could mean more than a year without a dedicated theater space. Bianchi Pingel said the organization was originally intimidated by the prospect of losing a permanent home. But as long as the Players is moving ahead in Lakewood Ranch, she’s confident the other pieces will fall into place.

“I will find other theaters where we can put our Broadway shows on, and I’ll move the organization into office space temporarily,” Bianchi Pingel said. “We can have a temporary box office somewhere else. We’re not going to freak out over this.”

Christine Jennings, chairwoman of the Democratic Party of Sarasota County, has been one of Bianchi Pingel’s confidantes as the Players plotted this move. As the former director of the West Coast Black Theatre Troupe — a group that lacked a permanent residence at the beginning of Jennings’ tenure — she can attest to the difficulty of running an arts

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Artistic Director Jeffery Kin says the theater, constructed in the early 1970s, is limiting from a creative standpoint.

“Right now, we have to put up our shows in a short two weeks,” Kin said. “In the new facility, we will be able to take our time to build.”

From a technical standpoint, things aren’t much better. Bianchi Pingel cites a variety of infrastructure issues, from air conditioning to aging seats, as a money hole she wasn’t interested in filling any more.

The tipping point may have been parking problems. The Players used a lot on Cocoanut Avenue for overflow parking, but once construction began on the CitySide apartment project, that space was off limits. The Players tried to work with the city on a solution but was unable to reach an acceptable compromise.

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organization without a home.

Still, she knows it’s possible to pull it off. Jennings is confident the Players will retain its audience even if the theater is forced into a nomadic existence while the new facility is constructed.

“For them, this is temporary, and their supporters will follow them wherever they’re at,” Jennings said.

MAKING SPACE

A new facility is an opportunity for the Players to eliminate problems at the current venue.

Despite the value of the land and the challenges on the building, the question remains: Why leave the city of Sarasota completely?

The Players has serious roots here. It prides itself on being the oldest performing arts organization in the region, originally moving to the city eight decades ago.

A lot of things have changed since 1936. Other theater-related organizations — the Van Wezel, Florida Studio Theatre, the West Coast Black Theatre Troupe — occupy space in close proximity to the Players’ home on Tamiami Trail.

“We’re all different, and yet, we’re in competition for butts in the seats and as choices for what to do,” Bianchi Pingel said. “Going out to Lakewood Ranch, for the second time in the Players’ lives,

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Jessica Tasetano in the Players’ production of “The Drowsy Chaperone” in January.

we’ll be the only game in town.”

Across the street from the Players’ property, Sarasota Bayfront 20:20 is embarking on a planning effort that calls for an entire campus of arts organizations along the bayfront. Michael Klauber, the leader of Bayfront 20:20, said he hasn’t heard any concerns regarding the concentration of arts offerings in that area.

Jim Shirley, the executive director of the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County, said he doesn’t see the move as a loss for the Sarasota arts scene. After all, the new theater will stay in Sarasota County.

Even as the move to Lakewood Ranch commences, the Players is committed to opening a new classroom space on Boulevard of the Arts as part of the Rosemary Square project in 2017.

The rest, the organization decided, is just better suited for someplace else. For Bianchi Pingel, the answer to the big question — “Why leave Sarasota?” — is ultimately a simple one.

“Our mission’s going to stay the same, but it’s going to allow for growth,” she said. “We can’t grow where we’re at, unfortunately.”

“We’re all different, and yet, we’re in competition for butts in the seats and as choices for what to do. Going out to Lakewood Ranch, for the second time in the Players’ lives, we’ll be the only game in town.”

– Michelle Bianchi Pingel, Players Theater managing director and CEO

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regulation. Ultimately, three out of five commissioners voted against allowing the project to proceed without inspections.

The failure to move ahead with the project drew public outcry.

The commission directed staff to continue negotiations, and the city and Vengroff have reached a possible compromise to present at a future public meeting. Still, doubt remains regarding the viability of the proposed six-story, five-building apartment complex east of downtown.

INSPECTING THE FALLOUT

Monday’s City Commission meeting wasn’t actually about approving the housing project itself. It was about a change to a land-use regulation that would entitle Vengroff to a higher residential density on his property.

Vengroff owns a nearly 8-acre parcel at 2211 Fruitville Road.

He said the density and height increases associated with a comprehensive plan amendment are necessary to make a private workforce housing project economically viable.

Although city staff and the Planning Board endorsed the amendment, it wasn’t without a few stipulations (see box, right).

City Manager Tom Barwin met with Vengroff late last week, and the two agreed to another provision that would require Vengroff to rent at least 20% of the apartments to residents who make 80% or less of area median income.

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On Monday, Vengroff’s team presented preliminary artwork depicting the proposed 393-unit apartment complex.

Although commissioners had questions about the design and layout of the project, Vengroff said he was holding off on more detailed plans until the city moves ahead with the comprehensive plan amendment.

plex. As a result, they inserted another provision regarding an annual inspection of the property.

Both the applicant and the commission learned about that addition at Monday’s meeting.

“There are landlords who will rent out substandard properties, and they’ll continue to do it as long as they can get away with it,” Barwin said. “And tenants are often fearful of reporting it for fear they could be evicted.”

Although he was willing to let the city inspect the outside features of the complex, Vengroff was steadfastly against the internal inspections. The commissioners who supported the regulation criticized Vengroff for his unwillingness to discuss the topic. Alpert said she supports the project but thinks the city has a responsibility to make sure the housing is well-maintained.

“I don’t have a problem with the fewer parking spaces; I don’t have a problem with the increased density,” Alpert said, referring to the project’s proposed adjustments to city regulations. “But I

do have a problem when an owner says, ‘I’m going to do whatever I want, and I’m not willing to even consider a reasonable request.’”

Vice Mayor Suzanne Atwell and Commissioner Shelli Freeland Eddie both voted to approve the amendment without the inspections. Considering the long-standing need for affordable housing, both commissioners believed it was unreasonable to jeopardize the project with a regulation that does not apply to other developments in the city.

“I’ve never in my life seen so much sand put in the machinery,” Atwell said at Monday’s meeting.

Although Barwin said he thought the inspections were a reasonable requirement instituted in municipalities throughout the country, he said he was not interested in pursuing a broader inspection program for private properties.

On Wednesday, city administration and staff met with representatives for the Vengroff project. Vengroff’s son, Travis Vengroff, said the feedback from

the city was positive. At a future meeting, staff will propose dropping the inspections in exchange for an annual review of the property’s insurance reports.

Barwin said he believed the reports detailing a private inspection of the Vengroff property would be an acceptable substitute for the city’s original request. He was optimistic the commission would be open to the change, too.

“I believe the project is probably back on track,” Barwin said.

Whether that’s true remains in question. Following Monday’s meeting, Alpert said she was uncertain whether her stance would change if the inspections remained a deal-breaker.

City Commissioner Susan Chapman said she thought the information Vengroff provided Monday was lacking, and without some additional assurances regarding the proposal, her support is unlikely.

“I am willing to discuss alternatives,” Chapman said. “I’m not willing to agree with what’s been presented at this time.”

Before city staff inserted a last-minute provision that would require internal inspections of Harvey Vengroff’s apartment complex, the entrepreneur already agreed to a series of regulations in conjunction with a revised land-use designation on his property.

Here are some proffers with which Vengroff took no issue: n 20% of the apartments must be rented to tenants making 80% or less of the area’s median income; n 100% of the apartments must be 900 square feet or smaller, and 50% must be 650 square feet or smaller; n The buildings shall be no higher than six stories, and no more than 393 apartments shall be built; n The call center on the property shall be discontinued by the time the project is complete.

Although he’s walked back his vow to withdraw his application, Vengroff still maintains the inspections are unacceptable. If the city is still unwilling to commit to the project without inspections, he questions the commission’s actual level of interest in creating affordable housing.

“My suggestion would be that if the city thinks they can build something better and cheaper than we can, they should buy the property and do it,” Vengroff said.

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WHAT’S ON FIRST? DAVID CONWAY DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR

TATYANA SHAROUBIM Owner, T. Georgiano’s 10 years on First Street On the evolution of the First Street business environment: “I feel like the dynamic has changed immensely.

With the growth in the city, there’s more demand to shop, to eat.”

When Michele Schlossberg and her husband decided to open Paint Nail Bar in a storefront on First Street last year, she had her choice of four vacant properties between Starbucks and Whole Foods.

Ever since the Whole Foods complex was completed in 2004, it’s been a challenge to keep the commercial space along First Street occupied. Businesses that have spent up to a decade on the block say activity has happened in fits and starts.

Now, the owners of those older businesses see the arrival of Paint Nail Bar as a turning point. Blush Bridal and Scout and Molly’s were quick to follow, and California Closets and Gulf Tile & Cabinetry have announced plans to fill the last two vacancies on the street.

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On the benefits of filling vacant spaces: “The new energy is drawing in new clientele and piquing the interest of the existing customers. My theory’s always more is better.”

The answer may elude most Sarasota shoppers, but businesses on First Street hope a joint branding campaign can carve out a distinct identity for the mini-district.

occupied is an exciting development for First Street, but merchants aren’t sitting back and waiting for customers to come to them. These stores are working together to create an identity for the mini-district, collaborating on promotion and branding to raise awareness of the businesses.

As Schlossberg was preparing to open her store on First Street, she reached out to Eileen Wallace, the owner of Write-On Sarasota.

Wallace, who’s been in business for more than eight years, said the level of communication between neighboring store owners has picked up significantly since then.

That’s partially because the stores were able to find a common audience. All of the businesses on the block spoke positively about the amount of referral traffic they were able to steer toward other stores.

“The fact that we can feed one

another customers is big,” Wallace said. “We have a lot of alike businesses.”

“We’re not a mall, but we have the offerings to cater to a woman’s every kind of retail appetite,” said Tatyana Sharoubim, the owner of T. Georgiano’s Shoe Salon.

The group has keyed in on an even more precise niche: bridal services. In February, First Street hosted a “Bridal Stroll,” designed to showcase how businesses along the block could fit into the wedding planning process. You can shop for a dress at Blush Bridal, get your nails done at Paint, have your invitations designed at Write-On, sign up for a registry at Pecky Home Interiors and so on.

Some of it might feel like a bit of a stretch — there’s no saying a newlywed wouldn’t be interested in new tiling — but the event and branding have raised awareness.

The marketing efforts are beginning to ramp up. By the end

of the month, the First Street stores should roll out their new identity as the Shoppes at Sarasota Row. The impending awareness campaign will go beyond traditional advertising. The merchants want to host more events, offer joint promotions to lure customers into the area, even coordinate to voice their opinions on city issues when applicable.

Recently, the business owners have been meeting weekly to discuss their collaborative efforts.

As the work continues, merchants believe a group effort can help establish a distinct identity for the area. Once the word is out, they’re confident the long-term viability of the First Street corridor will be secure.

“That’s the challenge — a small percentage of people who live in Sarasota actually know about us,” Schlossberg said. “Once we get someone here, they’re happy to be here.”

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On creating a distinct identity for First Street: “I think it just happened. As other people would give up their businesses and retire, new people would come in and look, and it just happened. All of a sudden, we have a street where everything fits together.”

On moving into the area: “I’ve always loved First Street. The mixed-use nature of the development — that there’s residential there, that there’s a Starbucks and a Whole Foots — to me, that’s our clientele.”

On generating referral traffic: “People say, ‘What’s down the street?’ And they go walking down, they come back with a package.”

On standing out downtown: “I think we have unique shops, retail and services that aren’t available on Main Street.”

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Bike lanes, public transit and a narrower Fruitville won’t solve Sarasota’s traffic congestion. Fact is, expanding capacity on the most congested roads is the way to go.

RECRUIT REASON We hope the region’s elected and transportation officials read Adrian Moore’s prescription for our transportation issues. Better yet, they should hire Moore and the Reason Foundation to guide them on how best to address the issue.

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You don’t need me to tell you traffic congestion in Sarasota is bad and getting worse. A booming season combined with road construction or maintenance work on Interstate 75, University Parkway, Bee Ridge Road, Main Street, Coon Key Bridge and Stickney Point Bridge seems to have everyone pulling her hair out over traffic.

It’s not a problem that will go away by itself. The current transportation plan for Sarasota and Manatee counties predicts that the number of hours people spend delayed by traffic congestion will more than double in the next 20 years.

Nor is it an easy problem to solve.

There is no simple, painless way to fix congestion and improve mobility in a metro area. It takes a lot of resources and tough choices, a willingness to tolerate construction and a recognition that nothing is free to improve a regional transportation system.

Let me start by saying we cannot significantly reduce congestion by improving public transit, bike lanes or walking paths. These modes carry less than 2% of all travel in the region, so even if we could triple that amount (which no city in the U.S. has succeeded at doing, by the way), that still would accommodate only about 6% of travel.

Transit, biking and walking matter, but we don’t have the dense, linear corridors that could make them a significantly bigger part of the transpor-

INEPTITUDE PREVAILS It’s simply surreal. Harvey Vengroff, proven rental apartment operator beyond reproach in Sarasota, seeks a minor rezoning of a wasteland of industrial property that is producing virtually nothing — for its owner or for the city’s tax coffers. He wants to build 390 new workforce rental apartments that are so desperately needed. He asked for no government subsidies. He is risking his own capital.

On top of that, he hired Nelson Roy, a Sarasota architect who has designed condos, malls and office buildings all over the world, as well as served as head of quality control at Ritz-Carlton. Even the former chief credit officer of Fannie Mae vouched for the design of Vengroff’s project.

But no, none of that was good enough for mailman Mayor Willie Shaw or family lawyers Liz Alpert and Susan Chapman.

They apparently know apartments far better than Vengroff. They demanded annual city inspections of Vengroff’s privately owned apartments.

Vengroff: If you inspect mine, then demand to inspect those at the Vue. Vengroff walked. And well he should have.

This is a new low of interventionist ineptitude. Remember this in March 2017.

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tation system.

To improve mobility in Sarasota, we simply must improve the system that serves virtually all travel: the roads for auto travel.

TOLLS FOR ALL ROADS

Now I’m sure you’ve heard, repeatedly, “You can’t build your way out of congestion, so it’s pointless to build any more roads.” This is the biggest red herring in modern transportation planning.

Yes, in a growing metro area, if you build a new road or expand an existing one, eventually traffic fills up that new capacity and congestion returns. But for some time congestion is reduced.

The Texas Transportation Institute’s periodic study of congestion in the nation’s major metro areas shows those regions that add the most new road capacity see the least increase in congestion. And at the same time, the new capacity allows far more people to get where they want to go.

Mobility improves. And yes, you may still have congestion, but more people can travel.

As the wag said: We wouldn’t have all this congestion if people would just stop going places. Congestion is basically waiting in line to get a scarce resource — the roads — because we treat it like it is free. We pay for the roads through gas and other taxes, which the average person does not take into account when deciding to run an errand or drive to work.

Therefore, by definition, the only solution to congestion is to price the scarce resource directly so that people take the cost into account. For example: tolls for all roads.

Now most people prefer to keep allocating the scarce resource of roads by waiting in line rather than paying a toll, so congestion is probably with us as long as Sarasota continues to thrive.

EXPAND CAPACITY

So if we are unwilling to use tolls to eliminate congestion, we must consider how do we improve mobility, how do we improve the system so that more people can get where they want to go? Can we at least reduce and mitigate congestion?

The current long-range transportation plan for Sarasota and Manatee counties essentially is to spend millions of dollars and for congestion to get much worse. But we can spend those resources in ways that will reduce congestion somewhat and dramatically improve mobility.

In fact, I led a team that devised alternative long-range plans to accomplish just those things for the metro areas of Atlanta, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago and, most relevant, for Miami and for Cape Coral/Fort Myers in Lee County to the south.

Obviously, the approaches proposed in Lee County are most relevant to Sarasota. What would that

mean?

First, we must expand capacity in our most congested corridors.

There is not a lot we can do with heavily congested downtown streets beyond the improvements already underway and planned. Congestion is inherent in dense downtowns. Where we most need new capacity is on U.S. 41, Fruitville Road, Bahia Vista and Washington Boulevard. These major boulevards are how people get from one part of town to another.

Of course, adding lanes to those routes will not be easy. We would need to widen where possible. In some places, the only way to add capacity would be ugly elevated lanes or expensive tunnels. We can improve flow by improving intersections with roundabouts, or adding queue jumpers, which is passing the middle lanes under or over the intersection to allow free flow through in all four directions. Not easy, cheap or pleasant, but it’s the way other large cities are expanding their road capacity.

These boulevards and a few others are not neighborhood streets that you use to visit local friends or businesses. Nor are they freeways that you use to get from one end of town to the other. Rather they are intermediate roads that connect the major parts of town to each other. They must be designed and operated primarily to serve that purpose.

Which is the opposite of what the city’s Urban Design Studio has proposed for Fruitville and for Siesta Drive (the main access route for thousands to get on and off of Siesta Key).

Walking and bicycle routes need to be a block to one side or the other of these major intermediate connectors, not incorporated at the cost of demoting an intermediate connector to a neighborhood street, dooming us all to much worse congestion.

CONTROL THE FLOW

How we operate the system is also vital. In any infrastructure network, active real-time management of flow is crucial to maximizing flow. Coordinated signal light timing substantially improves flow and reduces congestion. So does using cameras and sensors to monitor conditions in real time on major roads and bridges and intersections and via a traffic control center. That control center can operate signal lights, information alerts and deploy resources such as tow trucks to expedite clearance of incidents or traffic police to help move traffic around temporary problems.

We deploy more technology to ensure the smooth flow of sewage than we do for the smooth flow of traffic!

These are just approaches and examples. Real modeling and analysis of how such projects could improve mobility and explore alternative ways to fund the projects are necessary.

What I have proposed here is not cheap or easy. But these approaches are demonstrably effective at reducing congestion. And mobility is so crucial to our quality of life, and so central to the region’s economic prosperity, we’d be foolish not to examine every option.

Adrian Moore, Ph. D., is vice president of Reason Foundation, co-author of the book “Mobility First: A New Vision for Transportation in a Globally Competitive 21st Century,” and lives in Sarasota.

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Historically, sidewalks were ‘Ringling pink’

STOP BUGGING ME Noon — 1300 block of South Euclid Avenue Dispute: A landlord reported that a tenant refused to let a pest control service enter her apartment. The tenant said the landlord arrived without notice, and she did not want to let anyone in without a warning at least 24 hours in advance.

After an officer arrived, the woman agreed to let the pest control company enter, but not the landlord.

MAY 2

POD PEOPLE 9:40 a.m. — 3300 block of Old Oak Drive Misc. Officer: A resident was concerned about a storage unit that had been placed near a bridge for several weeks, and he believed someone was possibly living inside of the unit. An officer informed the man the storage unit was placed there with permission from state officials and that a marine biologist was using the unit for research purposes.

The resident’s wife was concerned about an ultralight plane that operates in the area. She said the noise is disturbing and believed the plane was picking up patrons from the same location as the storage unit.

If Ms. Julie Bates wants to paint all of the sidewalks red on St. Armands Key, that is fine. However, she should check as to how and why they were originally colored in the l 920s.

That color was and is called “Ringling pink.”

I believe some pink still remains on South Washington Drive, and perhaps a few other areas around the Circle. Also, cement segments appear in the Sapphire Shores area, near the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. When John Ringling was involved in a new development during the 1920s, he had his favorite “Ringling pink” color mixed into the cement mixture that was used to form the sidewalks and street curbs. Little now remains about town.

If Ms. Bates wants to color all the sidewalks on John Ringling’s dream development of St. Armands Key, then please pay attention to our history.

WAR PAINT 1:47 p.m. — 2000 block of 20th Street Battery: The owner of an auto body shop called the police after getting into an altercation with a customer. The owner and the customer had a series of disagreements regarding $650 in paint work to the customer’s car.

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Eventually, the customer arrived at the shop with a friend to pick up the car; the customer was upset that the work was not finished yet. The two parties got in an argument over the remaining $200 owed on the bill.

The owner removed the keys from the customer’s car, saying he would not release the car until the entire bill was paid. The owner said the customer jumped on his back and fought for the keys until the owner was unable to keep hold of them. The customer then drove off without paying for the remainder of the bill. Officers got the customer to return to the area. The customer agreed to pay the remainder of the bill and said he would file a small claims suit regarding the service; the owner wanted the customer prosecuted for battery.

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POOL PARTY CRASHERS 6 p.m. — 3300 block of South Osprey Avenue Suspicion: A man saw a couple with a baby in the pool area of his residential complex. The man had never seen the family before and believed they were not residents.

He said he saw them a couple hours earlier in the community laundry room with the lights off, and he thought they were acting suspiciously. Officers were unable to locate the family.

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We are seeing the results of trying to compromise with evil in this most recent media frenzy over transgender bathrooms.

For a long time, Christians have been told we are haters and homophobes simply for pointing out that God tells us how to live in his word and that he designed us for marriage between a man and woman only and that all other sexual acts are immoral.

Now we are told we must let adult males into little girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms if they “self-identify” as women.

A simple bathroom bill in North Carolina to protect the most vulnerable from sexual predators is being called discriminatory against those people who say they are a different gender than their anatomy shows them to be.

It is not hate to ask those individuals to use the bathroom appropriate to their anatomy, in the larger interests of protecting women and children. We should treat these individuals with compassion and love. But we do not need to bow to their unreasonable requests, nor should we endanger the majority of our women and children.

It is time for people of faith and even those without faith but with simple common sense to stand up for the protection of our youth and teaching them what is right and wrong in sexual mores. God did not design us for gender fluidity. We are either in our DNA a male or a female.

It is time to take a stand, Christians and all who believe in God! We must defend our faith

and be unafraid to acknowledge God’s laws in the public sphere as well as in the private. Our country needs to return to God and acknowledge his ways. God is the source of all our freedoms and blessings in this country, as our Founding Fathers well knew.

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Sea turtle nesting officially hatched May 1.

n If you encounter a nesting turtle, observe from a distance and remain quiet. n Shield or turn off all outdoor lights that can be visible from the beach. n Close the drapes after dark and stack beach furniture at the dune line or, ideally, remove it from the beach. n Fill in holes that may trap hatchlings on their way to the water. n Put trash in its proper place.

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As the car carriers come and the snowbirds return north, the beaches are set to become even more crowded — with turtles.

Turtle nesting season began May 1, although the first nest of the season was discovered a day early April 30, on Longboat Key. The next day, a second nest was discovered on Casey Key, and a third was found on Longboat Key. Scientists and volunteers are hoping for the upward trend from previous years to continue.

“The trend has been good since 2008, so we’re hoping for even better this year,” said Kristen Mazzarella, senior biologist with the Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program at Mote Marine Laboratory. “We’re always hoping for more turtles this year than the last.”

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nesting turtles or hatchlings, make noise or shine lights at the turtles. n Use flashlights or fishing lamps on the beach. n Pick up hatchlings that have emerged and are heading for the water. n Encourage a turtle to move while nesting. n Use fireworks on the beach.

Mote has monitored 35 miles of turtle nests from Longboat Key to Venice for 35 years. A total of 2,475 loggerhead and green turtle nests were laid last year, breaking 2012’s record by six nests.

Some nests were also laid in late April last year. The first nest of last season was discovered April 25, on Siesta Key. “A good indication of knowing when nests will appear is things like water temperature rising into the 80s,” Mazzarella said.

Between 250 and 300 volunteers began patrolling the beaches April 15, looking for turtle tracks and nests each morning around sunrise. Based on the tracks on the sand, volunteers can tell the type of turtle nest and where it is located.

Each nest contains more than 100 eggs, and a mother will return multiple times to the same beach each season to lay nests.

Just one in 1,000 hatchlings will make it to adulthood, and in 25 to 30 years, female turtles will return to the same beach they were born to lay their own eggs.

Because all sea turtle species are considered threatened or endangered, it is important for residents and visitors to share the beach with the turtles and their nests.

Mote asks people to turn off lights visible from the beach, which can cause disorientation for hatchlings, which are drawn toward the brightest horizon and will head toward the light and away from the water.

People should also take equipment and furniture off the beach at night and fill in holes to prevent false crawls, which happen when a nesting turtle crawls up the beach to nest but does not due to disturbances by people, lights or obstacles.

“We always hope we can get rid of human impact,” Mazzarella said. “From lighting to furniture to holes on the beach and people disturbing turtles at night while they’re nesting, we hope to do anything we can to reduce human impact.”

Last June, a nesting female became entangled in a chair and dragged it 149 feet to the water.

The turtle was able to escape, but in other cases, a turtle cannot break free from the chair and can drown.

“Nobody wants to say don’t go out and have fun, but we hope people can leave no trace,” said Cyndi Seamon, Longboat Key Turtle Watch vice president. “No matter where you go, go out and enjoy it and have fun, but take everything off the beach with you.

Leave only your footprints. It’s a beautiful beach, and it’s pretty special we get to share it with sea turtles. Not a lot of places have that.”

Turtle nesting season runs May 1 to Oct. 31.

LONGBOAT KEY (Manatee County) n 338 loggerhead nests n 2 green turtle nests n 340 total nests LONGBOAT KEY (Sarasota County) n 355 loggerhead nests n 3 green nests n 358 total nests LIDO KEY n 97 loggerhead nests n 0 green turtle nests n 97 total nests SIESTA KEY n 407 loggerhead nests n 1 green turtle nest n 408 total nests CASEY KEY n 987 loggerhead nests n 29 green turtle nests n 1,016 total nests VENICE n 255 loggerhead nests n 1 green turtle nest n 256 total nests TOTAL n 2,439 loggerhead nests n 36 green turtle nests n 2,475 total nests

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Cinderella’s Closet cuts costs of prom Donated gowns grant students their wishes for a fairy tale prom.

AMANDA MORALES STAFF WRITER

The tab for prom can add up quickly for local students.

In Sarasota County, students will pay an average of $74 for a ticket to this year’s proms, according to a survey of public high schools by the Sarasota Observer. That price typically includes a meal and a night of dancing with friends, but it’s just a fraction of the cost of prom.

Add the ticket price to the costs of renting a suit or buying a dress, transportation, hair, nails and makeup, and the bill grows.

While some costs can be minimized — say, by doing hair and makeup at home — the high cost of attire can be difficult to avoid.

Enter Christine Mayer, who helps students save on those costs through Cinderella’s Closet, a donation-based boutique of gently used prom dresses.

“The come in and can’t believe that these are free,” said Mayer, an Ashton Elementary School teacher for 30 years who is vice president of the Sarasota Classified/Teachers Association.

Mayer started the closet at SC/ TA after being inspired by similar dress donation drives that were organized in New Orleans after

Hurricane Katrina.

Over the past seven years, she has grown the collection from 420 dresses to more than 1,000, plus limited shoes and accessories.

Mayer hopes to give all students the chance to experience the glamour of prom without feeling the need to spend hundreds of dollars on a dress they’ll only wear once. It also presents an opportunity for anyone looking to clean out their closets and give their dresses a second life.

“Some of these are pageant dresses, and they’re getting a great deal on them,” Mayer said.

She helps style some students and makes suggestions based on the themes for their schools’ proms. This year, Sarasota High School has a “The Great Gatsby” theme, while Riverview High School’s theme is “In a Galaxy Far, Far Away.” Pine View School will host Cobalt with “One Thousand and One Nights,” and Booker High School is set for a night of “Lights in the Garden.”

“They’ll come in and say it’s a Great Gatsby theme, and we’ll find them something that fits the 1920s,” Mayer said.

Mayer reminds shoppers that they can also pick out dresses in advance of homecoming.

In the height of prom season, gowns are still being purchased, so it’s a good opportunity for residents looking to clean out their closets at the end of the season, although donations are accepted year-round.

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ix local veterans were recognized by Jewish Family & Children’s Service of the Suncoast at the Tribute to Veterans Service to Community Awards Luncheon May 2, at Michael’s On East.

All of the honorees work with nonprofit organizations such as the VFW Post 3233, Sarasota County Veterans Commission, Sarasota National Cemetery Support Committee, the Friendship Centers and the Military Officers Association of Sarasota. The honorees were nominated by members of the community for inspiring patriotism and their service to the community.

The event recognized retired Air Force Col. Leonard Friedlander, Army veterans Christopher Keilty and Ellwood “Woody” Schiffman, retired Army Col. Ben Knisely, Navy veteran Harold Ronson and Marine Corps veteran Tom Smith.

Guests were encouraged to bring food donations for veterans in need. The food drive

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Honorees Ellwood “Woody” Schiffman, Harold Ronson, Leonard Friedlander, Tom Smith, Ben Knisely and Christopher Keilty

is part of Operation Military Assistance Program or OMAP. The program offers case management and financial assistance to low-income veterans and their families. In 2014 and 2015, 612 veterans received services from OMAP. There was also an opportunity for guests to sponsor a “basket buddy” for $100, which provides cleaning and laundry essentials for veterans, many of whom are homeless.

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WEAVING FRIENDSHIP The basket-weaving class for visually impaired at ACE at Suncoast Technical College is in danger of being discontinued.

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rances Worman is soaking a skinny strand of pale blue reed in a bucket of water. If she doesn’t soak it well enough, the brittle strand will snap as she weaves it into a basket she is making for her daughter. The blue reed will alternate with a natural tone in a pattern.

But Worman, 75, isn’t sure what the design looks like, because she’s visually impaired. But that doesn’t stop her.

“I’m working by touch,” Worman said. “Whatever comes out comes out. We take out a lot of things out and redo them.”

Worman, who has glaucoma and has also had Stargardt disease, a form of inherited juvenile macular degeneration since she was 6, can feel the texture in the reed and weaves it on a wooden board to give the basket an oblong shape. She has been coming to the basket-weaving class for visually impaired and blind adults by ACE, or Adult & Community Enrichment, at Suncoast Technical College for five years.

Once a week, the class of about 12 students and four volunteers meets for three hours of weaving.

The atmosphere feels more like a social club than a classroom.

“They’re like a bunch of sisters in here joking around,” said instructor Tammy Butz, who helps students with tasks like tightening basket weaves and selecting colors. “When they’re done with a basket, they do like a lap around to show everyone and give feedback.”

For 30 years, ACE has maintained the class with funds from the Adults with Disabilities Program. When the funding was cut from the state budget last year, ACE worked to keep the class in session.

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A total of 12 students are registered for the basketweaving class through ACE at Suncoast Technical College.

“This program is so important for those who attend it,” said Laura Trubac, ACE program manager.

“It’s been part of their lives for some for more than 20 years.”

ACE programming is part of the Sarasota County School District but, unlike kindergarten through 12th grade programs, it does not have access to state tax dollars, although it uses classroom space at Suncoast Technical College.

ACE programs require students to pay tuition and supply fees.

“We typically do not qualify for grants because we’re not a nonprofit,” Trubac said. “We’re part of the school district. Automatically we’re not even eligible to apply for different funding sources in the community because we’re cut off right at the knees.”

The last season of classes has been funded through scholarships for students with funds from an art sale in December and a $1,000 donation, but the fate of the upcoming fall season is uncertain.

Trubac estimates the annual cost for the class is $9,000, which includes supplies, the instructor’s salary, tuition and supplies. In

addition, students typically pay $5 for a roundtrip bus ride to and from campus because they are not able to drive.

Despite the uncertainty, students keep pursuing their hobby with enthusiasm.

Some students, like Yvette Muir, have made so much progress that they’ve won ribbons for their work at the Sarasota County Fair.

Muir, 86, won best of division this year for her basket, despite having only been in the class for a year.

Now, Muir is making a basket for each administrator at the Jefferson Center where she lives.

“At any age it’s nice to challenge yourself; I really think that is true with the visually impaired,” Muir said. “We live in a sighted world.

You lose a great deal when you lose your sight, and you feel isolated.”

Many women in the class relate to these feelings. The class brings them together.

“It functions as a support group and builds self-esteem,” Trubac said. “Everyone who works here feels very passionately and protective of that class. What you hear in the hallway is the energy in that class.”

Frances Worman weaves reeds in a design for a basket for her daughter.

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hree years ago, the Sarasota-Bradenton area beat out Budapest, Hungary, Cairo, Egypt and Rome to host three major modern pentathlon events.

After the area hosted the 2014 World Cup Final and a 2015 World Cup event, only one of those events remains.

Beginning May 5, the area will welcome 76 athletes from 22 nations for the last of five 2016 World Cup events. The U.S. has 46 athletes on its pentathlon roster, including two-time Olympian Margaux Isaksen, who finished fourth at the 2012 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal at the 2015 World Championships.

Liston Bochette, a former Olympic decathlete and a Florida native, said it was “close to a miracle” Sarasota-Manatee was given a shot to host the events. He credited former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris’ influence and passion for bringing the sport to Southwest Florida.

Harris, who is now the executive chairwoman for the Sarasota Bradenton Modern Pentathlon Organizing Committee, along with local government and tourism officials and Paul Blackketter, former CEO of the Suncoast Aquatic Nature Center Association.

With the 2016 Olympic Games now fewer than 100 days away, international pentathletes have one final opportunity to accumulate the points necessary to

“It doesn’t mean much to be an Olympian if you don’t pass it on.

Hopefully when they become Olympians, they’ll do the same thing.”

The United States’ Margaux Isaksen will vie for one of 33 Olympic qualification spots during the Modern Pentathlon World Cup Final May 5 through May 8.

earn one of 33 Olympic qualifying spots.

Pentathletes will compete in fencing, swimming, horsemanship, running and shooting a laser pistol in the three-day competition at Nathan Benderson Park and the Sarasota YMCA. “The Olympic experience can come home to Sarasota,” Cultural Affairs Director Elln Hagney said.

“It doesn’t have to be in Rio thousands and thousands of miles away.”

The final stage of the World Cup begins May 5 with round robin fencing at the Sarasota YMCA followed by Opening Ceremonies at 5:30 p.m., at the John and Mable Ringling Museum.

The local organizing committee has also created a series of events to help bring the idea of healthy mind, body and soul to life. Former Olympians from the area, including Bochette and swimmer Agnese Ozolina Butler, a three-time Olympian and Latvian and Baltic record holder, will participate in a series of 45-min-

ute Olympian Talks to share their personal stories with children at the Community Youth Development Center and the Robert Taylor Community Complex.

“It doesn’t mean much to be an Olympian if you don’t pass it on,” Bochette said. “You can’t put a monetary value on it until the kids are adults, but the return on it is guaranteed. Hopefully when they become Olympians, they’ll do the same thing.”

Students will once again participate in an adopt-a-team program where they will make cards and write letters to incoming pentathletes, as well as provide cheering sections for athletes.

Additionally, spectators can bring a new or gently used book to Nathan Benderson Park or the Sarasota YMCA and receive free admission for two to the games.

On May 6, USAP Pentathletes will visit Booker Elementary to help build bookcases alongside PTO members. The books will be donated to Booker and Ashton elementary schools.

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Tyler Garris had two hits and an RBI to lead the visiting Cardinal Mooney baseball team to a 2-1 victory against Benjamin High in a Class 4A-Region 3 semifinal April 28.

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Sarasota Christian senior catcher Cameron Carmona hit a bases-loaded double to help power the Blazers to a 4-0 victory versus St. Petersburg Keswick Christian in Class 2A-Region 3 semifinal action April 28.

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Sarasota senior Adam Bradtmueller won the 3,200-meter run at the Class 4A-Region 2 meet April 30, in Kissimmee, finishing in 9:35.93.

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Booker’s Jamal Watson won the shot put at the Class 2A-Region 3 meet April 29, in Tampa, with a heave of 47 feet, 1.25 inches.

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Since then, I’ve watched Jutras hoist two more district championship trophies and coach his Sailors to the state semifinals in 2014.

Although this past season didn’t quite go as planned — it was the first time Jutras didn’t reach the 20-win mark since taking over the program during the 2009-10 season — I fully expected to see Jutras on the court next season.

But April 27, Jutras announced he was stepping down. The decision came on the heels of the recent death of a coach who impacted Jutras growing up. Jutras never knew that he was sick or had the chance to say goodbye because he was so caught up in basketball.

“As much as I enjoy coaching, I feel like I have missed out on

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What is something unique about your mom?

“Well, I’m really lucky to have a mom like her, and she’s really sweet because she’s really silly when we get home from school and she picks us up. She sings funny songs, and sometimes she makes the wobble while going like this (shakes steering wheel) and it’s really funny.”

What makes your mom special?

She gives us treats after dinner. Like we got a lot of treats from Easter.

We still have, like, 100 left.”

What are you going to do for her for Mother’s Day? “I got recycled stuff and made her a teapot and then made her a purse out of recycled stuff.”

What’s something you like to do with your mom?

“A long time ago we went to a place called Adventure Island, and I went there with my sister, Claire. There’s lots of slides there, waterslides. It was so fun.”

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What are you going to do for her for Mother’s Day? “I found a pair of new gloves, like, on the side yard of our house. They had flowers on them. They weren’t dirty, but they were in our yard, and then I gave those to her last night.”

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Why do you appreciate your mom?

“She usually cooks most of the food, but my dad is special, too, because he does everything on the grill. My mom usually plays outside with me and plays board games with me. Like Connect the Dots stuff and memory games and Monopoly.”

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What makes your mom special?

“Well, something unique that she does is that she always sings songs about me and my sister. Like ‘I love you guys, you’re the best.’ Things like that.

It makes me feel special because most moms don’t do that.”

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What is something fun your mom does?

“She takes the turkey legs and dances around with them on Thanksgiving. She goes ‘the dancing, dancing bird.’”

What makes your mom special?

“She is great at doing a lot of stuff on the computer. She lets me have my own tablet.

She also gave me some more money to get my pet fish, because I didn’t have enough.”

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What makes your mom special?

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What is something you enjoy doing with your mom?

“When the other ones are taking naps, we sometimes watch movies and play games.”

What makes your mom special?

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What are you going to do for her for Mother’s Day? “I already got a card for her. I made a card for her. I’m going to get her a hat, some shoes and a robe.”

What makes your mom special?

“What makes my mom special is that she takes care of four kids at once, and it’s really amazing that she gets all this stuff done. It’s really cool. She makes dinner at exactly the right time, and she makes my favorite shepherd’s pie. ”

Alta Vista neighbors bond over potluck picnic.

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What makes your mom special?

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BAY HAVEN RUMMAGE SALE Runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Bay Haven School of Basics Plus, 2901 W. Tamiami Circle. Shop gently used clothing, furniture, bicycles, toys and home goods for bargain prices. Proceeds will benefit the Bay Haven Odyssey of the Mind Team for its trip to Ames, Iowa. Contact Kerri Scolardi at shurifin@yahoo.com.

44TH ANNUAL AMATEUR SAND SCULPTING CONTEST Runs from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. near the yellow lifeguard stand on Siesta Key Beach, 948 Beach Road. You don’t have to be a master sand sculptor to compete in this amateur event. Participants will be assigned a 10-by-10-foot plot of sand to showcase their work. Participation is free. Call 861-5000.

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY Starts at 10 a.m. at Sarasota County libraries. Children ages 5 and 18 who visit any county library location will receive a free comic book while supplies last.

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TEE UP FOR SEA TURTLES Runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Evie’s Tavern & Grill, 4725 Bee Ridge Road. Tee up for sea turtles during a miniature golf tournament to benefit Easter Seals Southwest Florida and Mote Marine’s Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program. Tickets are $25 per person or $100 per foursome. Food, drink, a goody bag and golf are included. Visit turtleinc.org.

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he sales of two homes in Sarasota and Siesta Key topped this week’s real estate transactions.

James Rutledge, trustee, and Deborah Rutledge, of Osprey, sold the home at 3920 Red Rock Way to Daniel McClure, of Palmetto, for $2.5 million.

Built in 1967, it has three bedrooms, three-anda-half baths, a pool and 3,994 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $2.2 million in 2012.

Nancy Roucher sold the home at 842 Mangrove Point Road to Gray and Michael Swor, of Sarasota, for $2.5 million. Built in 1966, it has four bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 4,665 square feet of living area. It last sold for $450,000 in 1986.

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GROVE HEIGHTS John Cannon Homes Inc. sold the home at 1810 Grove St. to Zenon Maslona, of Kedzierrzyn Kozle, Poland, for $1.65 million. Built in 2015, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,281 square feet of living area.

VISTA BAY POINT Richard and Geraldine Heibel,

1937 Georgia Avenue D5911720 $924,900 Ellen Baker & Michael Hollenbeck

Englewood 941-473-7750 941-268-4999

8230 Midnight Pass Rd Siesta Key A4134817 $605,000 941-349-3444 Lee Byron & Sue Keal 941-350-5542 & 941-320-1689

of Sarasota, sold their Unit 302 condominium at 128 Golden Gate Point to Nelson Salabarria, of Sarasota, for $1,298,000.

Built in 2004, it has four bedrooms, four baths and 3,317 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.39 million in 2004.

ONE HUNDRED CENTRAL

William Hirons, of Marietta, Ga., sold his Unit G913 condo-

minium at 100 Central Ave. to Michael and Catherine Kushner, of Hummelstown, Pa., for $802,500. Built in 2005, it has two bedrooms, two-and-ahalf baths and 1,691 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $580,000 in 2006.

SARASOTA BAY CLUB

Sarasota Bay Club LLC sold the Unit 105 condominium at 1301 N. Tamiami Trail to David Gruber, trustee, of Sarasota, for $708,000. Built in 2000, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,546 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $600,000 in 2006.

MCCLELLAN PARK

Gerald Anderson, of Sarasota, sold his home at 2326 McClellan Parkway to 2326 McClellan LLC for $457,500. Built in 1935, it has four bedrooms, three baths and 2,020 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $139,500 in 1996.

INDIAN BEACH

4442 Holdings LLC sold the home at 4442 Bay Shore Road to Karoly Kismartoni and Martha Kismartoni, trustees, of Sarasota, for $439,500. Built in 1957, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,592 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $355,800 in 2008.

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Other top sales by area PALMER RANCH

$621,000 Deer Creek Siesta 2 Investment Holding LLC sold the home at 4717 White Tail Lane to David and Michele Sherer, of Glencoe, Ill., for $621,000. Built in 1990, it has five bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,072 square feet of living area.

OSPREY

$1.75 million Oaks II

Monique and Richard Plociak, of Shaker Heights, Ohio, sold their home at 470 E. Mac Ewen Drive to James Rutledge, trustee, of Osprey, for $1.75 million.

PLAT OF SARASOTA

Cantino LLC sold the home at 1849 Laurel St. to Carl Williams, of Everglades City, for $425,000. Built in 2007, it has three bedrooms, two-and-ahalf baths and 1,672 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $720,000 in 2010.

ALINARI

Ilya and Evgenia Milson, trustees, of Sarasota, sold the Unit 712 condominium at 800 N. Tamiami Trail to Ilene Freed

350 Tierra Mar Ln 3 Siesta Key A4144514 $874,900 941-349-3444 Mary Jo Violett & Stacy Liljeberg 941-928-8474 & 941-544-6103

924 Contento Circle A4150447 $874,900 Drew Russell

Siesta Key 941-951-6660 941-993-3739

5115 Dewey Place A4150734 $849,000 Kelly Quigley & Linda Dickinson

Siesta Key 941-966-8000 941-356-9954

1208 Northport Drive A4145410 $3,499,000 Michael Hays

4805 Benchmark Court A4148916 $599,000 Judy Nimz

1908 Oleander Street A4151906 $579,000 Donald Geikie

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-356-8457

4967 Sabal Lake Circle A4137178 $559,000 Stephanie Bugatti

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-504-0978

1195 Coquille Street 309 A4150916 $550,000 Sandy and Jerry Strom

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-374-0196

Built in 1998, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 5,267 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.7 million in 2008.

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$389,000 Mission Estates

Prestige Worldwide SRQ LLC sold the home at 2414 Sonoma Drive to Webster Sewell Jr. and Margaret Sewell, trustees, of Potomac, Md., for $389,000. Built in 2001, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,219 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $285,000 in 2002.

Rosen, trustee, of Cabin John, Md., for $420,000. Built in 2007, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,323 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $469,000 in 2007.

SEMINOLE HEIGHTS

U.S. Bank, trustee, sold the two properties at 1678 Loma Linda St. to Pasqua Perrino and Chris Bertolotti, of Bronx, N.Y., for $369,900. The first was built in 1941; it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,620 square

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5966 Midnight Pass Road G-24 A4152279 $549,000 Susan Matteoli PA

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2801 Harvest Drive A4147061 $450,000 Joanna Benante & Ann Martin

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-356-7717

6660 Schooner Bay Circle 6660 A4133347 $449,900 Peggy Wellman & Robert Moffatt

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-374-0811

1419 Landings Place 60 A4152406 $439,900 Marci Mcfarland

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-961-3390

131 Garfield Drive 1B A4152831 $399,500 Camille Schwabe

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-894-4771

6290 Sturbridge Court A4152617 $375,000 Dan Freed

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-735-0770

410 Bermuda Isles Circle N5907824 $349,000 Michelle Hupp

Venice 941-485-5421 941-773-5464

5341 Beneva Woods Cir A4152235 $349,000 Kelly Mooney

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-587-8430

1654 Blakemore Lane A4150200 $299,000 Daria Spina

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-650-7207

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TOP BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest city of Sarasota and Sarasota County building permits issued for the week of April 18 through April 22, in order of dollar amounts.

C I T Y O F SA RAS O TA ADDRESS

PERMIT

APPLICANT

AMOUNT

2709 Belvoir Blvd.

Remodel

Todd Strauch

$115,000

1245 14th St.

Alterations

Thomas Witcomb

$40,000

33 S. Gulfstream Ave.

Alterations

Edward Yen

$30,000

603 42nd St.

Screen cage

David Lewis

$13,474

2235 Alameda Ave.

Mechanical

Barbara Judd

$8,134

1761 Siesta Drive

Re-roof

David O’Neill

$8,125

929 Alameda Way

Mechanical

Richard Brown

$7,900

1907 Magnolia St.

Mechanical

Judy Turner

$6,555

3092 Novus St.

Re-roof

Bessie May Burggraff

$6,400

1645 Hawthorne St.

Fence

Nina Kor

$6,200

SA R A S O TA CO U N T Y PERMIT

8625 Midnight Pass Road Renovations

Michael Parker

$90,000

1131 N. Lake Shore Drive

Seawall/dock

Robert Blackwell

$86,113

7350 Captain Kidd Ave.

Pool/deck

Anthony Di Tomaso

$67,000

1501 Ridgewood Lane

Pool/deck

Ian Moulton

$53,955

417 Beach Road

Remodel

Timothy Kelly

$51,000

152 Roberts Road

Re-roof

Stephen Pettee

$39,380

4013 Jardin Lane

Windows/doors

Louise Conti

$31,796

1243 Starboard Lane

Boat lift

Henry Hinman III

$28,500

7045 Del Lago Drive

Re-roof

Alan Gould

$28,500

3794 Boca Pointe Drive

Re-roof

Anne Pfitzenreiter

$28,000

feet of living area. The second was built in 1995; it has one bedroom, one bath and 468 square feet of living area. They previously sold for $623,000 in 2007.

3118 Rose Street A4151732 $285,000 Garrett Greco

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-685-0449

5137 Jungle Plum Road $4,800,000 Kim Ogilvie & Lenore Treiman

1255 N Gulfstream Avenue PH1504 A4152908 $2,500,000 Bibi-Ann Allard PA

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-685-0422

420 Golden Gate Point 300A A4147076 $2,395,000 Sarah Macrae

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-587-1195

500 S Palm Ave 41 A4144835 $1,900,000 Stacy Liljeberg

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-544-6103

1705 Southpointe Drive A4132482 $1,750,000 June Howell

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-350-7521

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-928-0790 & 941-914-5011

4129 Roberts Point Circle A4151149 $1,595,000 Kim & Michael Ogilvie

Siesta Key 941-951-6660 941-376-1717

7665 Sanderling Road A4152589 $1,500,000 Ellen Wells

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-544-4849

702 Deer Hammock Road A4152652 $1,385,000 Dana Westmark

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-356-5091

232 S Blvd Of Presidents A4134302 $1,200,000 Dan Freed

St. Armands Key 941-966-8000 941-735-0770

5226 Avenida Del Mare A4152768 $1,195,000 Mark McCann

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-685-7624

324 Kensey Lane A4152777 $1,095,000 Brian Meskil

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-780-3468

1630 Meadowood Street A4148260 $1,009,900 Susan Rinehart

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-544-5597

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2546 Parma Street A4151728 $284,900 Lin Dunn

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Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-809-2154

531 Fallbrook Drive N5906931 $255,000 Susan Brooker

Venice 941-493-2500 941-223-6055

8101 Midnight Pass Road A4144370 $1,699,000 Jennifer Thompson & Christine Kramer

3227 Golden Eagle Lane A4150899 $249,900 Janice Carper

5299 Willow Links 56 A4152300 $169,900 Jane Ebury

1124 N Lake Shore Drive A4122942 $5,300,000 Linda Dickinson & Kim Ogilvie

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-928-0011

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-726-9360

Siesta Key 941-951-6660 941-376-1717

APPLICANT AMOUNT A4109712

7423 Biltmore Drive A4151362 $239,900 Barbara Dunn

18661 Lake Worth Boulevard D5910143 $169,000 Joanne Pattona

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-400-1830

Port Charlotte 941-473-7750 941-626-0880

7019 44Th Court E A4144827 $199,900 C. Scott Dennison

915 Seaside Dr 511, Weeks 2-3 A4149594 $139,000 Kelly Mooney

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-587-3437

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-587-8430

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-350-3304

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

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10-YEARS

15-YEARS

20-YEARS

25-YEARS

30-YEARS

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9.66

6.91

5.55

4.74

4.22

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18.19

9.89

7.15

5.80

5.01

4.49

4.0

18.42

10.12

7.40

6.06

5.28

4.77

4.5

18.64

10.36

7.65

6.33

5.56

5.07

5.0

18.87

10.61

7.91

6.60

5.85

5.37

5.5

19.10

10.85

8.17

6.88

6.14

5.68

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SIESTA VILLAGE GULF FRONT ‘Nothing short of Heaven’ best describes this idyllic setting with panoramic Gulf views and a white sandy beach outside your door! And the great news is, the privately situated free standing home is part of the Sandy Cove Condo Association. Remodeled in 1997 with strong architectural elements, this Frank Folsom Smith designed residence enjoy clean lines throughout and a dreamy waterside pool, firepit and summer kitchen. $2,895,000

SIESTA KEY BEACHFRONT

Set on the walking beach of white quartz sand near the Village, this 2003 residence is modern in design with a colorful pop of South Beach style. An open floor plan features 4 or 5 ‘beach glam’ bedrooms, an elevator, a fabulous kitchen with all stainless appliances and high end appliances, multiple terraces and loads of glass fronting onto the beach for unparalleled sunsets views. The best location on Siesta Key! $3,950,000

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The Sarasota and Siesta Key Observers reserve the right to classify and edit copy, or to reject or cancel an advertisement at any time. Corrections after first insertion only. *All ads are subject to the approval of the Publisher. *It is the responsibility of the party placing any ad for publication in The Sarasota and Siesta Key Observers to meet all applicable legal requirements in connection with the ad such as compliance with town codes in first obtaining an occupational license for business, permitted home occupation, or residential rental property.

Items Under $200 For Sale

Garage/Moving/Estate Sales

ADVERTISE YOUR MERCHANDISE MOVING SALE with the total value of all items $200 or less in May 5 (Easy, difficulty rating 0.44) Saturday, May 7 - 8:45a.m. -2p.m. this section for FREE! Limit 1 ad per month, 1524 Bay Point Dr. - Harbor Acres 15 words or less. Price must be included next to each item. No commercial advertising.

King & full beds, Baker chair, dining table, Ad runs 2 consecutive weeks in 1 Observer.

Thayer-Coggin sofa, Syd Soloman print, Blenko 941-955-4888 glass, Orrefors glass, Sony stereo, dresser, end Or Email ad to: tables, kilim rug, jewelry, teak headboard, classified@yourobserver.com English sideboard, Brown Jordan table, grill, (Please provide your name and address) insect fogger, Coleman air mattress, file, Or Online at: computer, cut glass decanters, books, prints, www.yourobserver.com urns, standing mirror, games, fireplace tools, Or mail to: vacuums, workbench, children’s items, The Observer Group accessories, garage items, linens & kitchen P.O. Box 3169 Sarasota, Fl 34230 Pix: estatesales.net Sale by Julie McClure CITRUS JUICER: Waring, $55. Hoover wet/dry Scrubber, $125. Wood lap desk, new, $20.

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COMPUTER CHAIR: Black, EZ comfort/ many adjustments, $30 cash/carry. 941-924-2431, 9am-9pm only.

FULL COWHIDE: Use as decorative wall hanging or for large rug. $150. 941-927-6654.

GOLF CLUBS-IRONS: Lady Hogan, woods, covers, bag, balls, tees also pull cart. $200.00.

941-966-7928.

OLD GRAND-DAD bourbon, 50/yrs old, $15. Wild Turkey, $15. Pre 1950 case w/poker chips, $60.

941-925-3203.

PROM DRESS: med./large, brown iridescent, long, sleeveless, $75. 941-922-4438.

SOLAR SHOWER: Sharper Image, connects to standard garden hose, $125.00. 941-356-3723.

TABLE LAMP: leaded crystal, 13", $10. AT&T phone, $10. 941-351-1050.

TWIN BEDS: headboards, frames & mattresses.

Extra clean. $200 for set. 941-748-5333.

ZUMBA GOLD set: new, 4 DVDs, $20 o/b/o. New Zumba Max DVD, $8. 941-966-2252.

CRUISER ELECTRA: 26", seafoam, 7−speed, handbrakes, cushony saddle, $200. 343−2671.

Antiques/Collectibles 1950’S FIESTAWARE: all original colors, 90 piece set, $750 o/b/o. 941-355-3339.

PURCHASING EAMES, Knoll, Danish, Dunbar, Evans, Laverne, Nakashima, Parzinger furniture, glass, pottery and designer clothing. Tommy McDonnell 772-643-3209.

Autos Wanted WE BUY CARS. TOP $$ PAID FOR YOUR VEHICLES. Call Hawley Motors, 941-923-3421.

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Boat Slips For Rent/Sale DRY DOCK Boat Slip Reduced: Longboat Key, Unit-2124. $295/mo. 6/month minimum. Or for Sale $19,950. 708-267-6704.

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CASH FOR Old Military Items. Swords, uniforms, insignia & old guns. Call 941-416-3280.

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AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: Nickelodeons, Chicago Band Box, Player Accordions, Cylinder Phonograph, Whistler, ETC. Model Hot Air Engines. 941-927-6654.

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ART CLASSES. Come and enjoy acrylic painting.

I can teach anyone (children/adults) how to paint.

Kathy, 941-704-0222.

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STORAGE FACILITY Boat/ RV/ Trailer. Secure facility, low monthly rentals, Clark Rd area.

941-809-3660, 941-809-3662.

Help Wanted

Longboat Key House on Canal. Davits/ Dock. $495,000.

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Longboat Key villa: pool, beach, 2BR/2BA +den, boat dock, furnished, $300,000.

Longboat Key Condo with boat lift 10,000/lbs.

Wonderful views of Bay on Canal close to ICW, $375,000.

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Luxury Downton Sarasota Condo: 2BR. $399,000.

Nokomis Waterfront Home with large bay view, used as duplex, 3-4BR, 3BA. $399,000.

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Venetian Golf & River Club: 3/2.5/2, pool. Built 2015. $399,000.

ACCOUNT PAYABLE & payroll coordinator.

Gallant Realtor is an online company for renting, buying property and care taking. Payroll and accounts payable duties for appropriate processing and distribution of real estate account payable, receipts and deposit. Send resume to rossm824@gmail.com

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BEACHFRONT CONDO, 3BR/2BA, covered parking, nicely furnished. Long-term rental.

Starting June 1st 2016. 613-722-7767 or lainecooper@cooperhr.com GRANDE OAKS PRESERVE. Gated luxury 2BR/2BA +den condo, 1862/sq.ft. under air, 2 garage parking spaces, $1895/mo. Sorry, no pets.

941-927-7703.

HYDE PARK ST., West of Trail. 2BR/1.5BA, 2nd floor, screened patio. No pets/ smoking.

Annual lease. First and security deposit. $900/mo.

941-366-3282.

LAS PALMAS: Honore/ University. Luxury 3BR/3BA, townhouse, gated, 1 car garage. $1600/mo. annual. No pets, non-smoking. First and last. References. Call 941-378-7851.

1BR/1BA PALMER Ranch Sublet: 1BR available July 1. Great location, pool, pets OK, screened porch. (330) 322−2343.

BARGAIN St. Armand’s Home for sale by owner.

No brokers, Please.

Save $500,000. Owner can finance.

Would consider lease or lease to purchase.

Great boating water, walk to beach, shops and restaurants.

Best value in hottest market for a home in paradise or rental property!

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Cleaning BRAZILIAN CLEANING Service by Maria.

Residential. Meticulous Cleaning. Excellent References. Free Estimates. Reliable. Lic./ Ins. 941-400-3342.

HOUSEKEEPING: HONEST, dependable, detail oriented. Clean-outs, organizations. Large or small jobs. Great rates and flexible schedules. 25+ years experience. Excellent references. 941-650-5198.

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Computer Services OWN A MAC/iPHONE/iPAD? MacTutor has 21+ years experience teaching Apple products.

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ALBERTO’S REFINISHING Of Fine Furniture, Antiques, Gold Leaf, Cane, Rush, Upholstery.

Quality Work. Call: 941-296-5427.

Home Improvement/ Remodeling

Sarasota Villa, 2BR/2BA on Golf Course, updated, $149,900.

MASTER CRAFTSMAN. 20 Years experience in remodeling. Residential and Commercial. Licensed & Insured. Call Joe Davis, 941-929-3000. Thank you Sarasota for all your business. Have a great 2016!

MITCHELL HANDYMAN. Painting, Carpentry, Tile, Pressure Cleaning. Total Home Improvements, Repairs. Small and large! 941-284-8488.

Botanica in Palmer Ranch: 3BR/2.5BA, 2/car garage, over 2500/ft., private elevator. $519,900.

DENNIS MCGOVERN, 30+ yrs, Repairs, Installs, Shower Wall Repairs. (941) 993−2147.

Port Charlotte: 2BR/2BA + Loft Townhouse. Water view, boat docks, $200,000.

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Vacant Buildable Lots: Sarasota from $65,000$1,500,000.

Sawgrass in Venice: gated community home on golf course, 2/master suites plus 3rd BR, 3/car garage. $499,000.

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Plantation Golf & County Club: 3BR/2BA w/pool, granite, stainless, completely renovated. $375,000.

Brooke O’Malley, CLUB REALTY 941-726-2677

Homes For Sale

Furnishings

West of Trail Home on Deep water yacht basin.

3BR/2.5BA, pool. $1,485,000.

Positions Wanted

2BR/2BA ST Armand’s Key, rarely available 2BR/2BA. Steps to Beach and Circle. Turnkey Furnished, Low Rise Condo Bldg. King & Twins w/private Baths. Lanai, Pool, Spa, Carport, Storage. (941) 730−4465 FSBO Sarasota.

RECLINER: BLACK leather, like new, powerlift and recline chair. 3/Seat couch: Flex Steel, tan and cranberry color, excellent. $150/each.

941-356-3284.

BUYERS - Call to see if you qualify for $2500+ towards your closing costs.

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River Place: gated community. Executive home, 4BR/3BA plus 2 office/dens, huge screened pool deck, kayak launch onto Braden river. $499,900.

Condos For Sale

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Greenfield Plantation: 4BR/3BA, 3/car garage plus office and caged pool, fenced yard, granite on all counters. $375,000.

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Rotted Wood Repairs. Crown Molding and Trim.

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LIDO BEACH HOUSE: 3BR/2BA, lanai, across from beach, walk to St. Armands.

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