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The Downtown Improvement District voted Tuesday to ask the city of Sarasota to implement a task force to expand the DID north.

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ALEX MAHADEVAN DIGITAL EDITOR

With the potential sale of George’s Top & Body Shop to a developer planning 295 apartments, the Rosemary District continues to blossom with new development.

On Tuesday, the Downtown Improvement District took a definitive step toward harnessing the projected growth in the area north of downtown — which includes the 470-unit CitySide project and 228 rentals at Sarasota Flats — with a 4-1 vote approving a task force to explore expansion into the Rosemary District.

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When recently engaged couple Taylor Clegg and Chelsea Rodrigue wanted to shoot their engagement photos, they knew they wanted to go back to where it all began. The couple met freshman year while attending Cardinal Mooney Catholic High School and have been going steady since they started dating in September 2005.

“The first thing I noticed and loved about him was his laugh,” Rodrigue said.

They even hold the title of “Cutest Couple” for the class of 2008. They plan to tie the knot in November.

Amira Bryant is happy to see what is in her bag of food, provided by All Faiths Food Bank Wednesday.

The 2015 Campaign Against Summer Hunger collected more than 935,000 pounds of food and $1.2 million to feed students throughout the summer.

All Faiths Food Bank CEO Sandra Frank announced Wednesday that the campaign exceeded the 2014 amounts. READ MORE ON PAGE 2A

Disappointed Hudson Bayou and Central Park II neighbors filed out of City Hall after a three-anda-half-hour meeting Monday, as Sarasota city commissioners delayed a decision on the controversial Lift Station 87 project.

A lingering legal battle between the city and a contractor the municipality blames for a failed SEE LIFT STATION PAGE 6A

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“Challenge him to a game of pickleball.”

County Commissioner Charles Hines’ suggestion to Vice Chairman Al Maio. Maio lamented the missed opportunity of putting pressure on former Deputy County Administrator David Bullock when he requested funds for Longboat Key’s Bayfront Park. READ MORE ON PAGE 3A

Sarasota property values continue uptick Sarasota city officials touted some bright economic news during a Coalition of City Neighborhood Associations meeting Saturday, as Finance Director John Lege discussed the budget.

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Citywide taxable values next year are expected to exceed $8 billion for the first time since the 2010 fiscal year. Those values have climbed steadily since bottoming out at $6.9 billion in 2012.

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Lege said the growth in property values will generate $1.13 million more operating dollars then the previous year at the current millage rate of 3.17.

MEETINGS Sarasota County Planning Commission meeting — 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 18, Administration building, 1660 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota

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Sarasota’s first Publix anchored the Ringling Shopping Center for more than 50 years.

WHAT’S THE BUZZ? As Sarasota city officials and the owner of the Ringling Shopping Center reignite conversations about how to revitalize the derelict property, residents throughout the city have voiced their opinion.

We surveyed readers through Facebook and Google to find out what you would like to see in the former Publix space, and received dozens of responses.

“Anything owned locally as opposed to a national chain store. Perhaps urban farming with hydroponic vertical growing to maximize the space.”

— Michael Lunn

“Give the property owner the latitude to move forward to bring business and jobs back to the neighborhood! Anything is better than what is there now — a Walmart would have been fine!”

— Ruth Brown

“I’d have the city incentivize its redevelopment as part of a five-year effort mandated to yield at least 2,000 to 2,500 units of apartments and 250,000 to 500,000 square feet of walkable retail, incorporating vertical gardens, lots of bicycle parking and making transit, walking and biking the most convenient means of getting to and fro.”

— Casey Colburn

“A Walgreens or CVS pharmacy. A restaurant ... perhaps Peaches and a UPS store. And, a liquor store to replace the one that was across the street.”

Campaign Against Summer Hunger collects $1.2 million On the patio of the North Sarasota Public Library Wednesday, All Faiths Food Bank CEO Sandra Frank announced that more than 21,000 students in Sarasota County will be fed throughout the summer thanks to the more than 935,000 pounds of food and $1.2 million in contributions the Campaign Against Summer Hunger raised.

The month-long campaign wrapped up May 9. This year’s goal was to exceed last year’s numbers (more than $1 million and 800,000 pounds of food collected) to be able to feed more children, more often. Gulf Coast Community Foundation partnered with All Faiths to bring in as many donors as possible.

“It tells us how much this community cares about kids and cares about their nutrition, cares about learning and cares about literacy,” Frank said. ”Last year we were able to feed more than 15,000 kids. This year we know we’ll hit that and more children and more often.”

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What does Sarasota County get for a $2 million investment in a Longboat Key park?

A Bayfront Park with amenties open to all county residents and — more importantly to the Sarasota County Commission — no additional future financial commitments.

Longboat Key Town Manager Dave Bullock came to the Sarasota County Commission June 3 armed with five town commissioners and a handful of PowerPoint slides. He planned to show how much money Longboaters give the county each year — without any county park service requests in return.

But he never had to make his request for help funding the $3.11 million project.

Within 15 minutes, the County Commission unanimously agreed to support Sarasota County Parks, Recreation and Natural Services Department Director Carolyn Brown’s recommendations to use $1.3 million from its Neighborhood Parkland Program, $50,000 from tourism tax dollars, and $650,000 from surtax funds, after funds are reallocated to Bayfront Park from a Venice park.

The County Commission also agreed with Brown’s recommendation that the town and county

$2 MILLION County invests in LBK park

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Bayfront Park, located at 4052 Gulf of Mexico Drive, on Longboat Key, will be rennovated as part of a $3.11 million project that includes tennis and pickleball courts and a kayak launch, among other offerings.

enter into an interlocal agreement that states the town is responsible for the park’s maintenance and upkeep.

“We are thrilled to get moving with this park. I want to thank Sarasota County staff and the commission for working with us to create a park we all are going to be proud of.”

—Longboat Key Mayor Jack Duncan

“The county doesn’t provide park maintenance for Longboat Key like it does in the city of Sarasota and Venice,” Brown said.

The agreement will state the county agrees to pay the lesser of $2 million or 67% of the total cost of the project.

As part of the agreement, the town says the county has a right to be a part of the construction review team that oversees the project, which could begin early next year.

Sarasota County purchased a 3.88-acre parcel adjacent to the park in 2007.

“I’m certainly supportive of this,” said Sarasota County Commissioner Christine Robinson, whose only worry was the county is receiving less impact fees each day, and the south county area is in need of more ball fields. “It’s a fantastic project and it would be great to see it completed. I’m glad the (Longboat Key) commission is here and sees the struggles we

St. Armands clinic faces longer wait OBSERVER STAFF

The diagnosis for the future Sarasota Memorial Hospital satellite clinic isn’t life-threatening.

But SMH’s sixth urgent care center, on St. Armands Circle, has hit four significant construction speed bumps that translate to a longer wait time before the new clinic opens.

The city of Sarasota’s Board of Adjustment denied four variance requests May 27 that SMH sought for a new urgent care center building planned for 500 Ringling Blvd., where the former St. Armands Medical Center was located.

Specifically, the board denied SMH variances for building coverage footprint, the number of parking spaces, the location of parking spaces and landscape width (see sidebar).

The biggest hurdles for SMH to overcome are its building footprint and parking space problems.

The hospital asked to increase

its current building footprint from 30% to 38% as part of a new teardown and rebuild project. The hospital says the existing building, which is now vacant, isn’t suitable for its new facility.

It also asked for a variance to reduce parking spaces from the 39 spots that city guidelines require to 24 spaces, explaining that a traffic study showed that the lower number is “more than adequate to accommodate staff and peak patient volumes.”

SMH also asked for four parking spaces in front of the building on South Adams Street that would be reserved for employees and small delivery trucks. A landscape width reduction was also requested to accommodate a drive aisle.

All of the variance requests were denied.

St. Armands Residents Association board member Kevin Bales expressed “extreme disappointment” with the setback at Saturday’s Coalition of City Neighborhoods Association meeting,

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are having with funding. I hope you can understand the struggles with the switching of funding to try and make this happen.”

The latest park rendering shows modifications that include shifting a playground to an area shaded with trees, eliminating some nature trails and leaving three potential spots for a future recreation center. New additions include pickleball and shuffleboard courts, a kayak launch/ storage area and other offerings.

“This is a great project,” said Sarasota County Commissioner Paul Caragiulo. “I’m very happy with the outcome.”

In March, a $3.9 million budget for the park improvements was presented to the Longboat Key Commission. Bullock reduced the price to $3.11 million by eliminating minor parts of the project.

Longboat Key’s portion of the project is $1,027,279.

“We are thrilled to get moving with this park,” said Longboat Key Mayor Jack Duncan. “I want to thank Sarasota County staff and the commission for working with us to create a park we all are going to be proud of.”

Sarasota County Vice Chairman Alan Maio pointed out that Bullock, the former deputy administrator for the county, didn’t have to break a sweat for the money.

“I was hoping I could hammer Mr. Bullock with a series of questions,” Maio said. “I’m disappointed.”

County Commissioner Charles Hines suggested Maio still had a chance to duke it out with Bullock once Bayfront Park is complete.

“Challenge him to a game of pickleball,” Hines said.

VARIANCE DENIALS

The city of Sarasota’s Board of Adjustment denied four separate variances for an urgent care center.

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Sarasota Memorial Hospital has plans to tear down the existing commercial building at 500 Ringling Blvd. on St. Armands Circle to make way for its sixth urgent care facility. Four city of Sarasota variance denials, though, will delay construction of the project.

noting that the board members spent a lot of time discussing the business model for the project instead of the variances before them.

“The board’s biggest issue is parking and that’s a shame,” Bales said. “It seems we continue to let longstanding issues like parking stand in the way of convenient, high-quality urgent care services on the barrier islands.”

The variance denials mean the timeline for a new center is delayed.

“While the decision was an unexpected setback, we remain committed to the project and are working with our architect and engineers on several modifica-

tions to address the board’s concerns,” SMH spokeswoman Kim Savage said.

Savage said there isn’t yet a revised timetable for the center that was slated to open in late 2015 or early 2016.

“Once the new drawings and planning documents are complete, we will resubmit them to the city for appropriate permits and approvals, hopefully by late summer,” Savage said. “Meanwhile, we are grateful for the overwhelmingly positive community support and to the many neighborhood, merchant and organization representatives who attended our public workshops and variance hearing and sent letters of

n Building coverage — Increase building footprint from 30% to 38% as part of the teardown and rebuild. n Number of parking spaces — Reduce parking spaces from 39 required by city guidelines to 24 spaces. n Location of parking spaces — Allow location of four parking spaces in front of the building on South Adams Street. n Landscape width — Variance of 2.5 feet from a required minimum 5-foot parking lot landscape buffer for a 60-foot segment along the eastern property to accommodate a drive aisle.

support for our urgent care center plans.”

Diana Corrigan, executive director of the St. Armands Circle Association, was disappointed to hear about the variance setbacks Monday but pledged continued Circle support for the center.

“We look forward to their future presence on the Circle,” she said.

In December 2014, SMH approved the $3.6 million purchase of the Circle property. The hospital has considered a location in the Circle for six years.

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

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Despite concerns from DID board member Ron Soto about gathering more input from current DID members, the city will now decide whether to appoint an 11-member committee to survey the roughly 147 property owners in the Rosemary District. To move forward, the DID hopes to get a majority of property owners on board. Property owners will be taxed at 2 mills like current DID property owners.

The expansion would increase the DID’s budget by 70% to more than $580,000, according to esti-

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mates by DID Operations Manager John Moran.

Though Soto said during a previous meeting that Rosemary could monopolize a majority of new infrastructure projects, Moran said the new district could help fund the DID’s deficit over the next decade.

“I think having a mechanism to fund improvement projects in the Rosemary District and elsewhere is vitally important to a downtown,” said Downtown Economic Development Coordinator Norm Gollub.

The move could also be an alternative for bolstering infrastructure to the downtown Community Redevelopment Area, which is set to sunset in 2016.

“Should the CRA expire — and all indications are that it will — there has to be a way to fund improvements,” Gollub said.

According to conservative estimates, Gollub said the next five years could bring between 1,600 to 2,500 new residents into Rosemary, which will be a boon to retail — further increasing property values. The latest proposal for development within the district is the tentatively named 7th Street Apartments, which will replace the longtime body shop at the intersection of Lemon Avenue and Boulevard of the Arts, and two other adjacent structures.

The developer, listed as the Charleston, S.C.-based Greystar, will include three courtyards and

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The DID has proposed a preliminary type of project that could improve the streetscape in the Rosemary District if the special taxing district expands to encompass it.

the proposal for a task force in front of the city commission in July, after which the committee will “bust its butt” to implement an expansion — if the plan has support from Rosemary property owners.

“It took us a year to get the DID,” Moran said, about the DID, which started in ’08. “Because we have interests voluntary generated by some commercial property owners, we may be able to move a little faster on this.”

But Soto remained skeptical about the lack of public input from current DID members, and Plaza at Five Points condo owner Ron Rayevich warned board members to be more cautious about how it recruits Rosemary into the DID. “I think this will be overturned at some point in court,” Rayevich said.

However, DID board members Daniel Volz and Steve Seidensticker said that current members have had their chance to voice opposition to the proposal.

“I think that this task force is a gesture by our board saying that we aren’t just jumping to conclusions,” Volz said. “I trust the process.”

Moran said depending on the success of its efforts in Rosemary, the task force could possibly be extended to analyze adding bayfront properties or residential owners into the DID. “We’re almost stewards of the city, because without a thriving downtown Sarasota doesn’t thrive,” Moran told board members following the decision. “You have more responsibility than I think is being assumed, and I would like to see us grab that responsibility and run with it.”

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IAN BLACK Ian Black Real Estate Black, who has been in the Rosemary District for more than two decades, said security should be the main focus of a DID expansion.

A self-taxing district could support the installation and upkeep of security cameras on Central Avenue near its intersection with Ninth Street.

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Gollub said with the influx of new residents and retail, an increased security presence will be a necessity the DID could provide. In a packet Moran has prepared to distribute to Rosemary properties, it specifically mentions the Sarasota Police Department’s Volunteer Ambassador program, which is a neighborhood watch program aimed at increasing police visibility.

“We need to solve the criminal activities that are taking place in front of our very eyes on the sidewalk,” said Ian Black, whose real estate firm has been based in the district for more than two decades.

Rebekah Mandeville-Gelvin, who opened Mandeville Beer Garden in March, brought up security and issues with homelessness as possible projects the DID could undertake, but pointed to the high-traffic intersection of Lemon Avenue and Fruitville Road as the most pressing need for an infrastructure facelift.

Mandeville-Gelvin said she would like to see the intersection become more pedestrian friendly to encourage the flow of foot traffic from downtown.

The DID has proposed a potential type of project that could be supported by an expanded DID that includes overhead lights stretching across Central Avenue south of its intersection with Fifth Street, enhanced paving and parallel parking, landscape updates and paved crosswalks.

“It’s so barren right now that the smallest things will make a big difference,” said DID board member Eileen Hamphsire.

Moran said he expects to have

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original design for the wastewater infrastructure resurfaced before commissioners could give the new contractor, McKim & Creed, the go-ahead to begin work on the now $32 million project.

The city is trying to recoup the difference between what the new project will cost and the amount expended on the former contracts with AECOM. “This could be a case where $30 million is a justifiable demand or it could be a case where it’s $15 million,” said Alan Tannenbaum, whom the city has hired to bolster its legal team. “It’s hard to enter mediation until we really know what the completion path on this project will be.”

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McKim & Creed recommends microtunneling under Hudson Bayou to complete the longdelayed Lift Station 87 project.

The process, which sends a boring machine to create a hole for piping underground, is highly technical and requires boutique contractors, said Garland.

But Tannenbaum suggested the city consider the alternative design, which requires an “open-

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In December, Sarasota city commissioners approved the design of the two-story structure planned to house Lift Station 87. The design pays homage to the historic Hover Arcade.

cut” construction across Hudson Bayou, which his team said could be cheaper. McKim & Creed engineers rejected this plan due to permitting needed at the federal and state level, and easements to encroach on private property.

McKim & Creed estimated the alternative method to cost $36 million, while Tannenbaum’s team estimated $12 million.

“For every issue that’s been brought up, there’s been a planner on our engineering team to solve it,” Tannenbaum said.

The latest continuation comes nearly a decade after Malcolm Pirnie Inc. suggested relocating the aging Lift Station 7 to an old parking lot at Sarasota High School, and eight years after Stantec chose Luke Wood Park for a new wastewater facility.

Commissioners elected to table the conversation until next week, expressing frustration that the issue came up during a public meeting. They will meet in private with their legal counsel before the next public meeting.

“This should have been dealt with in the shade,” said Commissioner Susan Chapman.

Tannenbaum recommended at least testing the permitting process for the open-cut solution.

But the plan would come with its own downsides, such as uprooting trees in Luke Wood Park.

“There’s no perfect solution,” Tannenbaum said. “There’s bound to be disappointment with what would need to be done to meet those engineering solutions.”

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Leave Siesta’s pedicabs alone Mostly unregulated, pedicabs are flourishing and providing a great service on Siesta Key. No surprise: Talk of regulation is rising, too.

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edicabs, tricked-out golf carts and even Volkswagen Things are a hot form of transportation for tourists and others. You’ve seen them around Sarasota and the local Keys. They are increasingly popular in tourist-friendly cities all over the nation.

Even a Wall Street Journal article praised these “chariots for hire,” joining a chorus of reports that such micro-transit services go beyond serving tourists and provide transportation that buses and standard taxis don’t. They also provide economic opportunities for entrepreneurs that don’t require special training, and they even provide an exciting green business model.

They are certainly popular on Siesta Key. On almost any night, you can see charming bright and colorful pedicabs and golf cart shuttles hauling quiet couples, rowdy partiers or entire families from the beaches to restaurants and bars and to homes.

As Michael Shay, president of the Siesta Key Association, told The Observer, “We need the pedicabs and golf cart guys.”

But lately there has been discussion of the need to regulate pedicabs and similar services on Siesta Key. Which begs the questions: Why? What we are trying to fix? What market failure is occurring that we need regulations to solve?

The answer appears to be: none.

Siesta Key, and the rest of unincorporated Sarasota County, has had a free market in pedicab and tourist shuttle services for years without mounting complaints or frequent problems or anything to indicate the free market isn’t working just fine.

The calls for regulation concern me because for 20 years I have been an economist working on regulatory issues, including helping design some new ones and helping figure out how to deregulate others.

Plus I read a lot of empirical studies on what does and does not work in regulation.

There are significant downsides to regulations — which is why they are normally only considered a good thing when there is a significant problem the market cannot solve. We often are much too quick to regulate markets in response to minor problems because we don’t know about or don’t think about the failures that also occur in regulated markets.

We rarely even consider if regulations improve things compared with the alternative.

Pedicabs are a great example.

The city of Sarasota heavily regulates pedicab services, yet there is no evidence that they enjoy a safer pedicab market than Siesta Key or the rest of the county. The utter lack of problems in the laissezfaire free market parts of the county is essentially proof that the regulations in the city of Sarasota don’t benefit the public in any significant way.

What is less often considered is how regulations in general can hamper markets and consumer benefits.

Regulations stifle innovation. When entrepreneurs come up with a new idea that doesn’t fit into the regulatory definitions or rules, it is often not possible even to try the new idea to see if it works, or for a new and better idea to replace an outdated one.

The kerfuffle going on these days over ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft is a good example. Ride-sharing apps are enormously popular and a huge innovation to the taxi market that dramatically improves service and reduces costs of getting a ride.

But it wasn’t the regulated taxi companies that came up with the idea. And ridesharing services don’t fit in current regulations, so all over the country cities and states are trying to cram these new services into old regulatory models or just trying to prevent them from operating at all.

In fact, the ride-sharing apps solve the original problem used to justify regulating taxi markets — customers not having enough information about taxis and drivers and not enough accountability for bad service. But no city I know of is talking about deregulating the market now that the problem has been solved.

Regulations also inevitably limit entry and reduce competition. Even modest requirements and costs to get a license to operate, when added to a market that was free and open and not experiencing problems, pushes some operators out or prevents some new ones from getting into the business.

Pedicabs and golf-cart shuttles are not usually fulltime jobs; they are a way to have fun, meet people and make a little money on the side. If it is a hassle, requiring trips to the county offices and fees and waiting for a license to come through, some people just won’t do it.

At the same time, there are stacks of books written about the problem of businesses in regulated industries having too much influence with regulators and using that influence to steer the rules to keep competition out. Those calling for new rules insist they just want to protect the public. But regulations tend to grow.

Once a market is regulated, when new problems occur, no one looks to the market to solve

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it, but to the regulators, bringing about yet more regulations.

And the regulators themselves often get proactive, thinking up potential future problems and creating new rules to prevent what they imagine from coming to pass. It is rare to see a lightly regulated market stay that way.

For the growing Siesta Key pedicab market, putting on the brakes would likely mean less competition, less service, less opportunity for entrepreneurs and less innovation, making it harder for visitors to enjoy all of the island’s amenities and businesses.

It is not as though the existing pedicab and golf cart shuttle companies on Siesta Key don’t have standards. Some do background checks on drivers or check their driving records, require commercial insurance or put extra safety features on their vehicles.

Which suggests a better alternative to new regulations.

Rather than fixing what isn’t broken, it would be helpful to try to improve the market for pedicab services.

The Siesta Key Association, or some other interested group, could develop some simple voluntary standards that, if met, earn a pedicab a seal of approval in the form of a highly visible sticker or the like. Then educate visitors and residents encouraging them to make sensible decisions about using pedicabs, like they would any service, and to look for the seal of approval.

This would add valuable new information to the current pedicab market on Siesta Key and help improve and expand the market.

That would be far better than unnecessary new regulations.

Dr. Adrian Moore is a resident of Sarasota, vice president at Reason Foundation and a regular contributor to the Observer.

He can be reached at amoore@ reason.org.

For the growing Siesta Key pedicab market, putting on the brakes would likely mean less competition, less service, less opportunity for entrepreneurs and less innovation, making it harder for visitors to enjoy all of the island’s amenities and businesses.

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When was the last time Sarasota had a drought? An unusually dry summer in 1985 forced the Southwest Florida Water Management District to impose stringent watering restrictions for Sarasota and neighboring counties. Due to a rain shortage, the Manatee reservoir was under stress.

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The city of Sarasota decided to pass on extending a lease with the Chicago White Sox to use the Sarasota stadium for spring training. The decision came after a unanimous vote from city commissioners to not extend the deadline for the White Sox to sign a lease agreement. Rumor has it they

were shopping around St. Petersburg for a new spring training home. But all was not lost, as seen in some astute foreshadowing at the end of the article: “There have already been informal contacts between Sarasota and the Baltimore Orioles who are seeking to leave their current spring training facility in Miami.”

JUNE 7, 2001 An editorial cartoon depicts what was predicted for the 2001 hurricane season. For the Atlantic side of the state the summer was an active one with 15 named storms.

But the closest that Sarasota got to a storm was Hurricane Gabrielle that hit Venice and Charlotte Harbor.

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STRING THEORY 5:33 a.m. — 2400 block of Waldemere Street Trespassing: A man left his car unlocked after loading bags into the vehicle and walking inside his home. When he returned to the vehicle, he found a shirtless man inside his vehicle playing with a piece of string that had been in the center console. The man said he did not want to press charges, but wanted officers to check on the unknown man’s well-being.

SPECTRAL DELIVERY 9 a.m. — 900 block of Indian Beach Road.

Suspicion General/Unknown: A woman noticed footprints in her carport and near her door when she returned home after running errands, but there were no signs of entry. Officers noted it appeared someone had tried to deliver a package to the woman’s residence, and no further action was taken.

EYE SEE YOU 11:55 a.m. — Intersection of Flamingo Avenue and Siesta Drive.

Suspicion General/Unknown: A man reported that a vehicle ran over a jug of landscaping liquid that splashed into his eyes, and the driver failed to stop and assist him. Officers contacted the owner of the truck in question, but the man denied involvement with the incident.

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Tableseide Restaurant Group, owned and operated by the Seidensticker family (father Steve, sons Pat and Joe and daughter Lisa) and Jeff Greco, has won the bid to operate and craft the dining services for the Florida State University’s cultural institution that welcomes an average of 380,000 visitors each year. The bidding process for the contract began last June with nine groups.

The Ringling’s food services were previously provided by General Services Inc., a Fairfax, Va.-based company that provides catering and food services around the country. It operated the Treviso restaurant, Banyan Cafe and Visitor Pavilion Cafe for the last 10 years.

“We are very thankful for the excellent years of food service that GSI has provided at The Ringling,” says Steven High, executive director of The Ringling. “We are excited to welcome Tableseide as The Ringling’s food service provider to provide some local Sarasota flavor to our visi-

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Treviso will cease operations June 26, and Tableseide will renovate the restaurant throughout July. Seidensticker hopes to have a soft opening of the new restaurant at the end of July or early August. Interviews for a chef and staff are ongoing; Seidensticker hopes to retain as many current employees as possible for the new restaurant.

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We talked to the tourism guru about trends in the field, the downtown hotel boom and the balance between accommodating visitors and full-time residents.

Q: As we head into the summer, what does the tourism forecast look like?

A: I think it looks very strong.

One of the things we do when we do the surveys of our hoteliers, we ask them: How does it look three months out? Is your pace of booking ahead of last year, about the same as last year or lower?

Even though it was a record summer last year, the vast majority are saying they’re ahead of last year’s pace. We’re already running into some of the weekends — particularly in July — of not being able to find places on the beach.

Q: What’s responsible for that off-season growth?

A: First and foremost, it’s Florida. About seven years ago, we started a very aggressive campaign, shifting to a very strong Florida campaign. You kick it off with Savor Sarasota the first two weeks of June and really push out that Florida message. The other part of the business as you get into the later part of summer and into fall, then, is the Europeans — the Brits, the Germans.

Q: What kind of an impact does traffic have on tourism?

A: It has very little impact on visitor satisfaction. You’re really looking at a very small time — from mid-February until the end of March. I don’t think it’s a problem now, but as we’re adding new hotels, I think, as a community, we need to start developing strategies for moving people around.

Virginia Haley, president of Visit Sarasota County, said the organization has changed over the years from an advertising organization to a destination marketing organization.

Q: Have you had conversations about how improved transit options might impact tourism?

A: We get asked that a lot. People are wondering, say, “How can I get from Nathan Benderson Park to Siesta easily?” And it’s not easy. Enhancements in public transportation will obviously help. There were once plans that [Urban Design Studio Director] Karin Murphy was a part of — this goes back to when she worked at the city — for a water taxi system. That’s obviously a tailor-made thing for visitors, because they’re not looking to get somewhere by the precise minute a resident is.

Q: Is there enough demand to fill all the planned downtown hotels?

A: We were looking at some of our plans going forward over the next couple of years. We had our challenges and we had our strengths, and the new hotels were in both columns. The good news is it does provide us with flexibility. The challenge is, the rule of thumb is you don’t want to add more than, say, 2-5% of the existing hotel rooms into a market at one time. You look at the rates going down, occupancy going down. We’re looking at adding, in the city of Sarasota, anywhere from 40-50%. That’s 125,000 new visitors we need to

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Q: How close an eye do you keep on policy developments that might impact big tourist destinations?

A: I think that’s probably one of the biggest changes in our industry as a whole and particularly for us. Originally, when we were the Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau, we were an advertising organization. I wouldn’t even say full market-

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A: What people don’t understand is when you build these major facilities, it’s not a case of you build it, they will come.

We will have to to continually, aggressively be out there marketing and either get new events, or, once people have come here and had terrific experiences, making sure you get in the cycle.

For instance, the USRowing Masters that we had last year, we’re working to get them back in a couple of years. So, you know, every three or four years, some of those groups are going to come back to Sarasota. That’s how you build an economic impact.

Those events are great; they’re exciting. They’re things that make you very proud of Sarasota.

But the real bread and butter can be the training. You have teams that come down for a week to 10 days for training and access to warm water during the winter. It winds up being a great economic pipeline.

Q: People have been critical about events that fall in the height of season. What kind of value do these big events bring to Sarasota?

A: I think you have to evaluate them, and I think you’re constantly balancing. It’s interesting that you look at a lot of seasonal destinations and you see a lot of their marquee events are during the height of their season.

It’s a combination — people are coming here because we have all of those offerings at the height of the season and the weather’s great and it’s the best time to be

Now, it’s about creating content, and it’s about listening to what people want. ... It’s understanding what the customer is looking for and making sure we have it available across platforms for them to explore ... outside. I think what we have currently is not too much for us to absorb. I love the fact that the Sarasota Music Half Marathon got people into our neighborhoods to see how gorgeous they are. I love that. I thought it was a great way to showcase the city.

Q: I know VSC has been working on succession planning.

What does your future with the organization look like?

A: I would like this to be my last full-time job. I know currently my board has a task force working on a new contract. I think they’re going to have discussions in June/July, so we’ll know more then. If I had my druthers, I’d be here another five years.

I’m involved a lot with my industry on a national basis. You see people and you say, “How’s it going in Indianapolis?” And they go, “Oh, no, I’m in Louisville now.” You watch them all move around. It’s funny — we’re different, because these are all pretty much people who came from Sarasota, or those who didn’t have decided this is their home.

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The Sarasota Crew women’s lightweight 8+ practices at Nathan Benderson Park — the site of this year’s USRowing Youth National Championships.

BOUND FOR NATIONALS More than 50 local athletes will compete in the 2015 USRowing Youth National Championships, held this weekend at Nathan Benderson Park.

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outhful. Slow. Different.

Competitive. Unpredictable. Those are just a few of the many characteristics that both the Sarasota Crew’s varsity 8+ rowers and coaches have used to describe the boat this season.

After losing seven of its top eight rowers to graduation over the past two years, the boat that once garnered national acclaim is struggling to find its identity.

But although the Crew might not boast the same level of talent and experience as in recent years, the men’s varsity 8+ still believes it can be competitive on a national scale.

“The style is a little different than it has been in the past,” says Nick Edwards, the lone varsity 8+ rower returning from the Crew’s 2013 national championship team. “It’s a different culture and a different way of rowing.

“We’re very competitive with each other. It’s very cutthroat out there.

The pressure is on pretty much every day.”

– Sebastian Spivey, varsity 8+ rower

“People have been calling this a rebuilding year for us, but one of our (coaches) told us, ‘We don’t rebuild. We just reload,’” Edwards says.

Edwards and fellow varsity 8+ rower and co-captain Sebastian Spivey hope to transform the boat into a national title contender once again, as they prepare to lead a young Crew contingent in the USRowing Youth National Championships Friday through Sunday, at Nathan Benderson Park, in Sarasota.

Christina Riccobono, Katie Beiler, Kimia Spikes and Cheyenne Adams will represent the Sarasota Scullers in the women’s 4x.

The USRowing Youth National Championships, which will be held locally for the first time, is the United States’ premiere youth rowing event. Roughly 1,500 athletes representing 160 teams from across the country will vie for national titles in 18 different boat classifications.

Racing begins at 8 a.m. each day and runs throughout the afternoon. Heat races will be held Friday followed by a second round of racing and the semifinals Saturday. All finals races will be held Sunday. Admission is free, and parking is $5.

The Crew qualified seven boats for the youth national championships, but, due to injuries and other circumstances, only six boats, including the men’s and women’s 8+, men’s and women’s lightweight 8+ and men’s and women’s 4x, will be competing.

“We’re just trying to maintain the tradition of excellence,” Spivey says. “We’re very competitive with each other. It’s very cutthroat out there. The pressure is on pretty much every day.”

After winning a national title in 2013, the Crew sent all four of its 8+ boats to the finals in 2014 with the men’s varsity 8+ finishing third.

“It hasn’t happened frequently, so to have all four eights reach the grand final is pretty impressive,” Crew head coach Casey Galvanek says. “Those were the most successful two years we’ve ever had.

We (probably) can’t come back to that level, but we’re going to try to do what we can.”

The Crew enters the 2015 USRowing Youth National Championships having won its fifth-consecutive state championship and the overall points trophy at the USRowing Southeast Youth Championships in the past month and a half.

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n WOMEN’S YOUTH 8+ Eliza Culp, Pine View Katie Molinari, Lakewood Ranch High Tess Dilan, Pine View Alexandra Grjin, Sarasota Military Academy Allie Pitchford, Pine View Hailey Todoroff, Lakewood Ranch High Olivia Epstein, Pine View Cameron Berlin, Pine View n MEN’S YOUTH 8+ Jacob Franks, homeschool Sebastian Spivey, Pine View Alexander Dluzneski, Pine View John Schofield, Pine View Clark Dean, Pine View Nick Edwards, Riverview High Loren Bremer, Venice High Aiden Norder, Pine View Sydney Edwards, Pine View n WOMEN’S YOUTH

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National titles will be awarded during the 2015 USRowing Youth National Championships.

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IF YOU GO What: 2015 USRowing Youth National Championships When: Froday through Sunday; racing begins at 8 a.m.

Where: Nathan Benderson Park, 5851 Nathan Benderson Circle, Sarasota Admission: Free; parking is $5 Information: usrowing.org

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The year the Sarasota Crew men’s varsity 8+ won the national title.

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The number of rowers the Sarasota Crew will be sending to this year’s youth national championships.

The Sarasota Crew will be sending 46 rowers across six different boats to compete in this year’s youth national championships.

routinely training at Benderson in preparation for the championships, will be sending both their men’s and women’s 4x boats to compete after finishing third at the USRowing Southeast Youth Championships in early May. “We were all very pleased to qualify both a men’s and a women’s quad,” Scullers coach Randy Higel says. “Quads are the sculling boat all teams go for, so needless to say we were very happy.”

Having made it to regionals each of the past four years, the Scullers’ Cheyenne Adams, who will row for the University of Alabama next year, came into the

season seeking to move beyond regionals for the first time.

After crossing the finish line at regionals and realizing she and her teammates would be moving on, an ecstatic Adams kept repeating the word yes to her coach — she was ready to compete at the next level.

“This year has been a big one for me,” Adams says. “It’s very satisfying knowing all of the hard work and teamwork paid off for us. My expectation (now) is for us to come out fighting and never give up.”

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The Crew has been busy preparing for the youth national championships since 46 of its rowers qualified in early May. The team has been training six days a week at Nathan Benderson Park, sometimes twice a day, in hopes of gaining a competitive edge.

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to relax.

“The initial idea was that my husband wanted a hobby farm to grow some citrus and the ideas just kind of grew from one to the other,” Pamela Swain said.

Now retired, Bibb and Pamela used their backgrounds in aeromechanical engineering and education, respectively, to envision multiple opportunities and projects for their farm. Those ideas included building an airplane hangar — with the intention to build a plane — breeding red Angus cattle and raising goats

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and chickens.

The couple resides on Siesta Key, which is where their grandson Alex Popovich attended Outof-Door Academy. When Alex was in the first grade, his class was studying the life cycle and needed chicken eggs that the students could watch hatch.

The class had trouble finding eggs and Alex told his teacher that his grandparents had a farm.

Swain wanted to help, but there was just one problem.

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From the eggs that the Swains family donated, the students witnessed 14 chicks hatch. Instead of keeping the chicks cooped up, the Swain family invited the ODA students to bring the chickens to the farm to live.

For this year’s life cycle project at ODA, the Swain farm provided eggs from last year’s chicks.

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More than 40 students, teachers and parent chaperones boarded a bus and headed 20 miles east to the farm. Students spent the day exploring the farm, climbing trees, swinging on a tire swing, performing arts and crafts

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Alex Popovich holds one of the Out-of-Door Academy chicks.

and petting goats. But the main attraction was students dropping off their new chicks in the coop and visiting the hens in what the Swain family has named the “Poultry Palace.”

Even though Alex was in second grade this year, he was able to tag along for the day to show his classmates around the farm and introduce them to his favorite rooster, Blackie.

He also cautioned them about the three goats on the farm: Doc, Happy and Bashful.

“One time I was wearing this yellow Life is Good shirt and Doc tried to eat my shirt,” Alex said.

Even though Alex will be attending a different school in the fall, the Swain family will continue the life cycle lessons and farm day with future ODA classes.

“The teachers tell me all the time that it’s the best day of first grade, their trip out here,” Swain said. “We’re just so pleased to have them. My husband and I love to have the kids out here.”

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SATURDAY, JUNE 13, AND SUNDAY, JUNE 14

ST. ARMANDS CRAFT FESTIVAL Runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at St. Armands Circle.

Browse artwork for purchase including paintings, jewelry, ceramics, pottery and more.

Admission and parking are free. For information, visit artfestival.com.

COMMUNITY CINDERELLA PROJECT RUNWAY FASHION WEEK Every Child Inc. presents a week dedicated to children and fashion with the Cinderella Project Runway. Children ages 12 to 18 will transform a “disaster” of a dress into a designer gown. The week culminates with a fashion show from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 14, at the Florida Studio Theatre Goldstein Cabaret, 1241 N. Palm Ave. Admission is free. For information, call Judy Alexander at 376-2663.

MONDAY, JUNE 15

BOOK LAUNCH PARTY Runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Gecko’s Grill & Pub, 5585 Palmer Crossing Circle. The organization Sarasota Over 40 Females invites the community to meet author and TV host Tamsen Fadal for the launch of her new book, “The New Single.” Tickets are $25 and increase to $35 after June 13. For information, email Pamela Horton at phorton@over40females. com.

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YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD Siesta Key home sells for $1,725,000

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home in Sarasota Beach tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Sarah Kirk, of Sarasota, sold her home at 320 Calle Mirmar to Warren Holmes and Julie Goss, of Sarasota, for $1,725,000. Built in 2012, it has five bedrooms, four baths, two halfbaths, a pool and 3,383 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1,725,000 in 2014.

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$1,335,000 Patrick and Daria Cook, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1971 Datura St. to Thad and Lisa Browning, of Sarasota, for $1,335,000. Built in 2014, it has four bedrooms, four and a half baths, a pool and 4,474 square feet of living area.

$415,000 Aimee and Jonathan Heden, of Osprey, sold their home at 343 S. Creek Drive to Jason and Shannon Levinson, of Erie, Colo., for $415,000.

Built in 1980, it has four bedrooms, three and a half baths, a pool and 2,818 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $325,000 in 2008.

NOKOMIS $525,000 Arthur Korney Jr., of Pickerington, Ohio, sold his home at 2053 Tocobaga Lane to David and Sheryl Piersma, of Nokomis, for $525,000.

Built in 1993, it has three bedrooms, three and a half baths, a pool and 3,436 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $370,000 in 2000.

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PALMER RANCH $669,000 Barbara Brody, trustee, and Edward Brody, of Osprey, sold the home at 4772 Sweetmeadow Circle to David and Patricia Tarlton, of Knoxville, Tenn., for $669,000. Built in 1997, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,421 square feet of living area.

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4832 Hanging Moss Lane A4123353 $649,000 Stephanie Bugatti

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-504-0978

856 Macewen Drive A4115143 $599,000 Karen Cash Greco

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-504-6927

1026 Kestrel Court A4120592 $549,000 Kristina Talkie & Judy Arreola

Bradenton 941-349-3444 941-266-8658

3326 Highlands Bridge Road A4123564 $545,000 Marci Mcfarland

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-961-3390

503 Casey Key Road A4122380 $4,495,000 Sarah Macrae

4343 Via Del Villetti Drive N5903998 $535,000 Nancy Schweitzer

Venice 941-473-7750 239-595-5509

8630 Midnight Pass Rd A504 A4123771 $525,000 Stacy Liljeberg

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-544-6103

1770 Benjamin Franklin Drive 503 A4123284 $515,000 Marianne Lebar

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-650-0337

8233 Shadow Pine Way A4118789 $500,000 Lee Byron and Sue Keal

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-350-5542

516 Tamiami S Trail 201 Nokomis/North Venice A4122504 $499,000 941-966-8000 Robert Moffatt & Peggy Wellman 941-374-0811

Nokomis/North Venice 941-966-8000 941-587-1195

100 Central Avenue A403 A4123280 $490,000 Bibi-Ann Allard PA

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217 Casey Key Road A4121001 $2,495,000 Harvey & Ethel Lovelace

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3201 Jessie Harbor Drive 3201 A4123707 $449,000 Dan Freed

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Casey Key 941-349-3444 941-586-7390

8776 Midnight Pass Road 105C A4123910 $444,444 Marlene & George Marshall

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

552 Westmount Lane N5903645 $399,900 Scott Johnston

Venice 941-493-2500 941-232-5482

5241 Heron Way 103 A4118467 $379,000 Tara Lamb & Judy Greene

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-266-4873

1300 Midnight Cove II Pl 733 A3994451 $332,500 Daria Spina

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-650-7207

1701 Moon Drive A4115497 $319,800 Crystal Cosby

Venice 941-966-8000 571-230-5013

925 Beach Rd 209 A4118588 $319,500 Harvey & Ethel Lovelace

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-586-7390

68 Bishops Court Road 115 A4122235 $298,000 Rosalie Phillips

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-544-4430

9590 High Gate Drive 1914 A4120594 $275,000 Marilyn Vespoli

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These are the largest city of Sarasota and Sarasota County building permits issued for the week of May 25 through May 29, in order of dollar amounts.

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Remodel

Vincent Meloro

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Eddy Regnier

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1900 Casey Key Road

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$322,550

1251 N. Basin Lane

Alterations

Tracy Malone

9011 Midnight Pass Road

Remodel

Joan Wilson

55 Lighthouse Point Road MLS A4112125 $4,215,000

$157,533 $98,311

980 Gulf Winds Way

Pool/Spa

Richard Lazzaro

$82,385

615 Casey Key Road

Renovations

Brian William

$81,500

5780 Midnight Pass Road

Alterations

Mary Logli

$80,000

2390 Vaccaro Drive

Pool/Spa

Heidi Brown

5911 Midnight Pass Road

Remodel

James Turnbull

$45,000

897 Mac Ewen Drive

Re-roof

Brian Lane

$38,700

2076 Timucua Trail

Windows/Doors

Mia Grinnage

$38,000

Siesta Key New to the Market 1660 Summerhouse Lane 804 MLS A4123236 $2,300,000

$51,375

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Englewood 941-473-7750 941-855-1142

6555 Pine Breeze Run A4115599 $264,900 Bryan Dwyer

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413 Bayside Lane A4119433 $264,900 Kristine Niehaus

Nokomis/North Venice 941-349-3444 941-376-4950

608 S Casey Key Rd A3996519 $2,000,000 Kelly Quigley & Linda Dickinson

1828 San Silvestro Drive N5903892 $264,000 Robert Goldman & Beverly Weltzien

713 Brightside Crescent Drive 39 N5904180 $218,000 Robert Brooker

5137 Jungle Plum Road A4109712 $5,450,000 Kim Ogilvie & Lenore Treiman

Venice 941-485-5421 941-400-2756

Venice 941-493-2500 941-445-0861

1064 N Tamiami Trail 1612 A4110791 $249,900 Elizabeth Gardini

1001 Inlet Circle 274PAR N5903058 $195,000 Jo-Anne Sckowska & Nell Taylor

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-356-0096

Venice 941-485-5421 941-321-8975

170 Tiziano Way A4110039 $225,000 Sharon Ross

4641 Oak Hill Drive 14 A4123682 $184,000 Susan Matteoli PA

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8130 Perry Maxwell Circle A4114195 $1,900,000 Dan Freed

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Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-356-1335

4619 Higel Avenue A4121604 $1,590,000 Veronika Bajtala

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

5300 Gulf Dr 404-405 A4119644 $1,399,000 Christine Del Monte & Kimberly Roehl

Anna Maria Island 941-349-3444 941-266-6733

5400 Ocean Blvd 14-4 A4115085 $1,199,000 Team Dunn

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-809-2154

3591 Founders Club Drive A4114159 $1,190,000 Linda Driggs

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-374-2920

486 E Macewen Drive A4115318 $1,077,400 Nicole Dovgopolyi

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-356-5849

4195 S Shade Avenue A4123744 $899,900 Ryndie Brusco

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-809-6913

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

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The awards recognized the city’s small businesses and the people who keep them running.

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Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate 5145 Ocean Blvd., Sarasota, FL Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate Owned and Operated by NRT,LLC

1214 Sea Plume Way

638 Siesta Drive, Siesta Key

 Canal front home, no bridges to the Bay!  Only 1 block to delightful Crescent Beach!  Totally remodeled pool home in quiet neighborhood  New kitchen, new metal roof, new flooring  3 BR/3BA, 3684 sq. ft, 2 garages and elevator  10,000 pound boat lift on private dock $999,000 MLS# A4109444

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Impressive light and bright, 4 bedroom, 5 bath, 3 car garage, 2-story home, with an oversize door entry surrounded by a beautiful butterfly garden. You will feel like you are in the treetops surrounded by lush trees and nature. The fantastic kitchen features high-end cabinetry, S/S appliances and a gas range. The master bedroom has his and hers walk in closets, amazing his and hers showers stalls, separate designer sinks and an inviting soaking tub.

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This pre-construction homelifestyle, on Lido Key reflects the bold modern Discover an exclusive waterfront beautifully poised on Siesta style of architect Jonathan beautifully Key within the only gated Gulf frontParks, community in Sarasota. balanced This oversizedwith the craftsmanship builder/developer Modus lot exceptional rests between the Gulf of Mexico andof tranquil Heron Lagoon Custom Residences.

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GIVE IT A GO by Bill Bobb 113 Stereo knob 115 Surface smoother 117 Be an entrepreneur 122 Sporting a Roman robe 123 Case for an eraser?

124 Fruity-smelling chemical compounds 125 Stimulate the economy 126 Up for grabs 127 Rubbish barrel

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19 Counterfeit (var.)

20 Neophyte 21 Walk like a show horse 22 Not be a pushover 24 Small stream 25 Roguish character 26 Dash lengths 27 Dracula, at times 28 Grp. dealing with cases 29 Some plums 32 “Winning ___ everything!”

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57 Doctor in a 1964 movie 58 In a furious manner 60 Show to be true 61 Drink cooler

64 “By the ___ token ...”

65 Rifled, as book pages 66 Someone who imitates 68 Tag ___ with (accompany) 70 Language in Mumbai 72 Thousands of pounds 73 Harsh-voiced parrots 75 Balkan native 77 “Ain’t I a ___?” (Bugs Bunny line) 79 “It’s just a ___ wound!”

80 Music, literature, etc., collectively 82 Modern F/X field 83 Bloom-to-be 86 “Fiery furnace” survivor

88 Tangle 89 Colleague of Calliope 91 Finnish lake 93 “Naked Maja” painter 95 Inclined 96 The Dark Ages, e.g.

101 90-degree shape 103 Barely managed (with “out”) 104 Magic man Henning 105 Uninspired, as prose 106 Andean land 108 States plainly 109 Keyboard key 110 Soccer zero 111 ___ alai (handball relative)

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2 “Now I’m on to you!” exclamation 3 Supreme Being 4 Still sealed 5 “The Chronicles of Narnia” author C.S. 6 In ___ (harmonious) 7 Agitates 8 Fluorescent tube gas 9 Morse morsel 10 Locale 11 Muppet percussionist 12 It’s all about counting heads 13 Large container of beer 14 Very dry, as wine 15 Competed in a race 16 Records of the past 17 Cold treatment 18 The “D” in FDR 21 Ancient Roman magistrate 23 “My ___ Lady” 27 Turn less acidic, in a way 29 Crystal-lined rock 30 Land measurements 31 Fall apart 33 Get progressively thinner 35 Scandinavian rug material 36 Move to a new country 38 Capital of Venezuela 40 “Falcon Crest” actor Lorenzo 41 Run off to the chapel 43 Battering wind 45 Property receivers 48 James Brown’s music 50 One of the Four Cor-

ners states 51 In a negligent manner 53 Risk it all 54 Like every other number 55 1990 World Series champs 59 Mardi Gras follower 62 Collapsing suddenly, as the stock market 63 “Poppycock!”

65 Related to language 66 Band letters 67 Blanched 69 ___ Torino (old Ford model) 71 Monopoly rollers 74 Thin piece of leather 76 Fort ___, N.C. 78 Baby foxes 80 Make ecstatic 81 Boy Scout contingent 84 Certain berth 85 Accomplishments 87 Kind of seat 90 The hour before noon?

92 “___ little teapot ...”

94 Oxygen-requiring organisms 96 Adjusts to new circumstances 97 Walk with a bounce 98 Blackout 99 Refuse to allow, legally 100 Fresh as ___ 102 “To Sir, With Love” singer 107 Conjure up, as memories 108 Out of whack 110 Be unable to function without 112 Word after “bang,” “break” or “bump” 114 “I could ___ drink!”

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CRYPTOQUIZ Each of the following cryptograms is a clue to the identity of a Tony award winner. Using the hints I=O and H=N, decipher the clues to name the entertainer.

1. P C I X X D K I Y H W D 2. Q U C L W I J J E Y H B I E H 3. D Q Y E L J Y B A Y H X I H 4. M I U H I R U C B 5. G O D D H T Y B W I C Y U This entertainer won a Tony five times, including one for their work in I Am a Camera:

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APPLE IPHONE 5: 2 years old, home/car charger, never used headphones, w/5 covers, $200.

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BINOCULARS: MINOLTA, 10x50 wide angle 6.5 with soft carry case, $65. 941-822-7566.

COMPASS BRUNTON, Surveyors Type with bracket. Unipod and case. Like new. $150.

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RUG: ROUND, area, 7’10” diameter, palm tree motif, $90. Silver plated chaffing dish, $35.

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EXTENSION LADDER: Louisville, 20/ft., 2 stages, working condition. $50.00. (941)358−0749.

SKECHERS SHAPE Ups: Woman size 7, like new, black, sanitized, $35. (941)966−4412.

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

FOCUSED, DISCIPLINED and Desiring your own business? Minimal Investment! Sky is the Limit!!

941-724-5722

SIESTA KEY Condo: 1BR, sleeps 4, ground floor, patio. Walk to beach, shopping, restaurants.

Pool, laundry. Two week minimum. May through mid-December. $500/wk or $1500/mo. Also available from April 16, 2016. No pets. Steve 586-883-3392.

AUGUSTINE’S CLEANING SERVICE. Full service, organizing. Dependable, Professional. Move in/ Move out. Heidi 941-724-3425. Service you can trust.

Flooring

JAN PRO CLEANING FRANCHISE: $950 Down Required, Financing Available for growth, Includes customers. Earn up to $10,000 Month+.

Call 941-907-8141.

Adult Care Services

Commercial Property For Rent

BRAZILIAN CLEANING Service by Maria.

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

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FABULOUS OFFICE/WAREHOUSE flex. - space for rent. Total of 1685/sq.ft., 10’x14’ overhead door, 2 story. Off Porter Rd. in Sarasota Business Center II. Call for details, 941-544-5597 or 941-371-1866.

JEN’S CLEANING. Experienced, dependable, & detailed. Excellent references. (941) 356−7829 Jen.

HOUSE CLEANING Services Call (941) 539−0962 & (941) 416−5117

Condos/Apts. For Rent

WE’RE NOT YOUR ORDINARY FLOORING INSTALLERS! We are more. We have multiple crews with over 20 years experience to master your tile and wood flooring installation. We specialize in tile that looks like wood, offset, patterns, and more. Call us.

You won’t regret it. Fully Licensed and Insured.

Joe Davis, 941.929.3000.

Furnishings BRAND NEW Queen Pillowtop Mattress Set. Willing to sacrifice for $150. Won’t last.

(941)387-4810.

DOWNTOWN SARASOTA. Furnished 2BR/2BA condo in the sought after Plaza at 5 Points. Great views from the 11th floor balcony, garage parking for 2 cars, heated swimming pool, fitness center, and so many more building amenities! Close to all that downtown has to offer - great restaurants, theater, music, waterfront! Lido Beach nearby. $4000/mo. Summer and $6500/mo. Winter.

Call today for details. This won’t last long!

Key Concierge, 941-504-8855.

Caregivers/Companions Hourly 24/7Care Transportation Social Outings/Dr. Appts.

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LOCAL EXPERIENCED Caregiver, medical background, seeking to provide cheerful, competent care for your loved one. Fluent Italian. References.

Reasonable. 941-552-9240.

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Garage/Moving/Estate Sales

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

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Personals *ADOPTION*: ART, Music, Dance, Theatre, Great Education, Travel, Loving Mom & Dad awaits 1st baby. FLBar 42311. 1-800-552-0045.

Expenses paid. *Pia & Arnie*

Things To Do Southern Atelier Center of Fine Art www.southernatelier.org Summer Art Classes: “Art Workshop for Young People�

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LIDO KEY: Waterfront home 3BR/3BA. Lagoon Pool/Spa, Dock, Private Beach access. Walking distance to world class shopping and restaurants!

Furnished or unfurnished. $1,995,000. Call 941-350-1312.

BLUE FISH CLEANING INC. 941-705-3812.

Insured, Bonded. Affordable reliable home cleaning, $80, 2 cleaners, 2 hours.

ND SPARKLE. We are a family business experienced in both home and office cleaning great rates. Call for a quote. 941-330-4466. Email: norgrasi@hotmail.com HOUSE CLEANING. RELIABLE, HONEST, EXPERIENCED, GREAT REFERENCES. ONLY $70 2BED/2BATH. CARLLA, 941−894−9262.

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

I speak English, not “Geek�! (941) 323-2363 www.FLMacTutor.com

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

Painting/Wallpapering

Auto Transport SHIP YOUR CAR, TRUCK OR SUV anywhere in the United States. Great rates, fast quotes. Call Hawley Motors, 941-923-3421.

Vacation/Seasonal Rentals SANDY COVE on the Gulf of Mexico. 2BR/2BA. Gorgeous! Newly Renovated. Nestled in the naturally preserved surroundings and Sarasota culture amenities. Minutes to the #1 Siesta Beach.

Swim with the dolphins, fish from the pier, BBQ, bask in the sun or relax in the Hammock enjoying the view of the blue green waters and Beautiful Sunsets. Summer Specials $1800/mo., $700/wk.

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AIR CONDITIONING

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NEED A Cleaner? Experienced, dependable and ready to begin! Residential. Excellent references. Claudia C. Cleaning Services 941-773-6895

Air Conditioning GULFSIDE A/C & Heating, LLC. SALES & SERVICE, FREE ESTIMATES! 10 MINUTE RESPONSE. Visa/MC/Disc. Lic. #CAC1816929 941-962-6863.

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

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

WHY LEAVE THE SAFETY AND COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME to receive professional, affordable, compassionate care? Elder Care Services provides a variety of customized care options, perfectly tailored to your personal needs and lifestyle. Our specialized services include, but are not limited to: Homemaking, errands, doctor visits, transportation, meal prep with special dietary needs, medication supervision, and so much more. Call today for more information, 941-377-4465 or visit us on the web at: eldercaresarasota.com. Licensed, bonded, and insured. Lic#30211372

EDLA’S CLEANING SERVICES: Residential Commercial, New Construction. Meticulous, deep cleaning top to bottom. We Guarantee. Affordable & Reliable. Excellent References. Free Estimates.

Licensed and Insured. Weekly and Bi-weekly.

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Carpentry RON VOIT CONSTRUCTION L.L.C. Comm/Res. Room Additions. Interior Renovations. Kitchen and Bath Remodeling. Door and Window Replacement.

Rotted Wood Repairs. Crown Molding and Trim.

Call Ron 941-228-7601. State Lic. CBC1259788.

CARLO DATTILO PAINTING. Licensed & insured.

Interior/ Exterior painting including drywall repair and retexturing. Wallpaper installation & removal, pressure washing. Residential & commercial, condos. Honest & reliable. Free estimates.

941-744-1020. 35+ years experience.

Pressure Cleaning AUTHORITY ONE PROFESSIONAL PRESSURE WASHING AND WINDOW CLEANING. Residential and Commercial. Roof cleaning and coating, paver cleaning and sealing, pool areas, etc.

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GOLDEN GATE POINT | SARASOTA ONLY 2 REMAINING RESIDENCES

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$1,299,000

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The Plaza at Five Points | 50 Central Avenue | Suite 110 | Sarasota, FL 34236 | 941.308.6554 Cheryl.Loeffler@sothebysrealty.com | CherylLoeffler.com Sotheby’s International Realty® and the Sotheby’s International Realty logo are registered service marks used with permission. Each office is independently owned and operated. Equal Housing Opportunity. Property information herein is derived from various sources including, but not limited to, county records and multiple listing services, and may include approximations. All information is deemed accurate.

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