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MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THE AREA EAST OF U.S. 301 IS POISED TO SEE MEANINGFUL GROWTH SOON.

Todd and Eddie Morton will open their gourmet market’s second location, replacing the Siesta Market.

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The rumors are true: Morton’s Gourmet Market is opening in the Siesta Market spot in Siesta Key Village.

Morton’s owners, Eddie and Todd Morton, have signed a lease to fill the spot currently held by the Siesta Market.

The Siesta Market will close at the end of May after owners Vince and Peter Messina announced their intentions to retire in late March. Chris Brown and business partner Mike Granthon own the property; they purchased the land in November for $2.8 mil-

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A long-dormant area, sitting in the shadow of downtown, is headed for a turnaround thanks to the outward expansion of growth from the heart of the city.

Right now, that’s Sarasota’s Rosemary District, where density increases and a handful of big-ticket projects have the city and investors confident that the area is set for revitalization in the imminent future.

But soon, some believe, the same could be true for the land east of U.S. 301. With a few projects in the pipeline — including a pair of townhome developments and a high-rise hotel — those people hope that the activity that has taken hold downtown could spread across Washington Boulevard and help grow a sleepy area.

Most recently, Largo-based developer Icon Residential presented plans for two residential projects in the area. Located at 2150 First St. and 41 N. School Ave., the developments would replace several vacant structures with a total of 75 townhomes.

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Q+A WITH MARK KAUFFMAN 10A Rosemary developer hopes his new project will be a catalyst.

The Palmer Honore Cottage on Siesta Key has housed some of Sarasota’s most notable pioneers. Its current owners seek to restore the home after recently making it an official piece of Sarasota’s history.

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When the Sarasota Garden Club loses one of its own, it honors him or her with a lasting legacy in the form of a brick on the path through the butterfly garden.

Club Treasurer Jane Lawrence died in January. The brick with her name engraved on it was added to the path April 17, during the club’s weekly garden workday, and she was also honored at the annual luncheon meeting.

A memorial service for Lawrence will be held May 3, at the Sarasota Garden Club.

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“Fruitville has this sense of, like, ‘beneath the Mississippi.’ You’ve got to take the Mississippi away for people to get comfortable.”

Marbut checks in on county homelessness initiatives

Realtor Ian Black on renaming the downtown portion of Fruitville Road to Third Street. READ MORE ON PAGE 7A

AQUA CONDO BREAKS GROUND This time, it’s for real.

The developers of Aqua, the eight-unit luxury condominium slated for 280 Golden Gate Point near downtown Sarasota, broke ground Tuesday.

The groundbreaking occurred seven months after developers Jonathan McCague and Michael Adams scrapped their original design because of zoning setback issues.

Instead of revising his original design, Sarasota architect Guy Peterson created a new angular structure that will give the building’s eight residences expansive views of Sarasota Bay and the downtown skyline.

The nine-story building will feature eight residences — one per floor, ranging in size from 3,400 to 5,700 square feet under air and ranging from about $3.3 million to $5.2 million.

Only two remain unsold as of Tuesday.

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“The area is partially congested because people are circling, looking for parking.

A new parking garage, with good access and more capacity than the old one … will satisfy current needs, not necessarily create more demand.”

“Parking garage will bring even more congestion and traffic to an already overburdened area, not to mention how out-ofcharacter a parking garage will be for the St. Armands neighborhood.”

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More than a year after consultant Robert Marbut submitted 12 recommendations to help address homelessness in Sarasota County, he will return to evaluate the county’s progress.

During a March 20 budget workshop, County commissioners directed staff to get Marbut to provide an update on the action plan.

Wayne Applebee, director of homeless services for the county, said it’s common for other communities that have utilized Marbut’s expertise to request a similar follow-up.

Marbut will address the county response to the 12 recommendations he made — including the construction of a come-as-you-are homeless shelter that never came to fruition — but will not evaluate the city’s new homelessness plan, Applebee said. A follow-up report, which will cost $17,000 plus Marbut’s expenses, should be ready by June 12.

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April is Sarasota County’s “Try Transit” month, and to raise awareness of SCAT opportunities, people can ride any of SCAT’s fixed routes for free on Saturday. For route schedules, visit scgov. net/SCAT. Route 10 and 11 on Siesta Key will have a special guest: “Transit Troy,” the star of SCAT’s music video, “We’ll Take You There.”

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CITY TO FURTHER EXPLORE CIRCLE GARAGE OPTIONS St. Armands Circle stakeholders are standing firm behind a plan to add more parking to the area.

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At Monday’s Sarasota City Commission meeting, St. Armands residents, merchants and landowners presented a united front, advocating for progress toward a long-awaited parking garage near the Circle.

For now, it seems their efforts have paid off: The commission unanimously voted to further explore a list of requests from St. Armands stakeholders, chief among them the construction of a four-level parking garage in the area.

Since 2013, Parking Manager Mark Lyons has worked with consultant Kimley-Horn and Associates to produce a parking study for St. Armands Circle. The recently completed study examined a variety of traffic problems on the Circle, but the bulk of the attention was focused on addressing the parking deficit in the area — estimated at roughly 320 spaces.

To fix that problem, the report named two potential sites for parking garages: two municipal parking lots on North Adams Drive and South Adams Drive.

Each site had its benefits and drawbacks: The north lot was less expensive but smaller and irregularly shaped; the south lot was larger but more expensive and located in a more residential area.

In total, cost estimates ranged from $8 million for a 403-space garage on North Adams to $14 million for a 597-space garage on South Adams. The study also considered the prospect of constructing two smaller lots on each site, a favored solution for Circle stakeholders that came with a price tag of $17.1 million for 605 spaces.

With the city reluctant to commit to the big-ticket item, St. Armands stakeholders threw their support behind a garage at North Adams Drive. To satisfy residents — who had voiced concern about the height of the larger garages — the group also asked for landscape improvements along the entryway to St. Armands Circle, beginning at Coon Key. The commission unanimously voted to look into the stakehold-

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ers’ list of requests and said the garage was a long time coming.

“This is the first we’ve seen a coalition like this,” Vice Mayor Susan Chapman said. “Given that there is this pressing need for parking on St. Armands, I would like to try to put into operation some step forward.”

Staff will examine logistical and funding options before reporting back to the City Commission.

Already, the BID has committed $100,000 annually over the next eight years toward the project.

Still, questions remain. Representatives for the merchants, landowners and residents groups suggested that their four requests were a package deal — that to get all stakeholders on board, the entire list needs to be satisfied. Commissioner Eileen Normile pointed out the streetscape request along John Ringling Boulevard was at odds with a vision presented by the city’s Urban Design Studio, which called for formalized parallel parking along the corridor among other features.

Marty Rappaport, a board member of the St. Armands Business Improvement District (BID),

said parallel parking would end up hurting the Circle during event weekends. The garage would address normal peak parking demand, but parking demand for event weekends far exceeds that.

Residents were concerned that, if the event parking capacity along the median leading into the Circle was reduced, more cars would end up parked in surrounding neighborhoods, according to St. Armands Residents Association President Hugh Fiore.

As a result, the list of requests has become an all-or-nothing prospect for the stakeholders.

“Big parking garages are not an easy thing to sell to residents,” Fiore said. “In order to sell it, we need some of the aesthetic part of it — and that’s where the median comes in. It is tied at the hip.”

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garage on the North Adams Drive parking lot, including restrooms and other amenities. n Garage design should blend in with its surroundings and the residential area. n Install a “Welcome to St. Armands” sign along John Ringling Boulevard, making the necessary improvements to gain state approval for the sign. n Burying the power lines along the median from Coon Key, installing a row of trees in the median and continuing to allow pull-in event parking in that area.

With the city examining plans for a parking garage near the Circle, we talked to business owners in the area to get their thoughts:

“We really, necessarily need a parking garage here. This year, business picked up really good.

Over the wintertime, we had so many people who could have stopped in here if we had more space for parking.”

— Roger Schuhmacher, Madison Avenue Cafe & Deli

Siesta Key Association to advocate for pedicab regulations The community group wants to work with the county to establish some standards for businesses.

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The arrest of a Siesta Key pedicab driver in March, who was found to be a Texas-registered sex offender, caused the Siesta Key Association to investigate the rules and

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Vehicles for hire and for rent are a growing business niche on the Key.

regulations surrounding these businesses on Siesta Key. In March, Jordan Tamez was stopped after a man told Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office deputies that Tamez had given him counterfeit bills as change. When the deputies identified Tamez, they learned he was a registered sex offender and wanted in Texas, and had failed to register in Sarasota County.

Michael Shay, SKA president, started making calls after hearing about the incident, and he discovered that Sarasota County doesn’t regulate its pedicab businesses. There are no licensing or business insurance requirements.

Shay proposed at April’s SKA meeting and to the Siesta Key Village Association that they should work with the county to establish regulations to monitor these kinds of for-tips businesses — but he said he didn’t want Draconian rules.

“I don’t want to drive anyone

out of business — I think it would protect residents and visitors,” Shay said.

The city of Sarasota has a regimented program for vehiclesfor-hire, which includes taxis, low-speed vehicles and pedicabs.

Companies must be licensed, get vehicle inspections, review employee criminal history and check driving records every year.

The application is $100 for a business license, plus $30 per vehicle permit and $35 per driver’s licensing annually. Driver’s licensing is $20 for an annual renewal.

Shay wants SKA to work with the county to devise standards for requiring a basic background check and proof of insurance.

Businesses and individuals can get a local background check completed by the Sheriff’s Office for $25.

“Homeowners and visitors need to be protected. I think that’s critical,” Shay said. “We need the

pedicabs and golf cart guys — not debating or questioning that. I just want them to be legal.”

Some companies already have protection, however. Johnny’s Original Free Rides, which operates both vans and golf carts, requires drivers to have a safe driving record and insures its vehicles.

Glen Cappetta, owner of Sun Rides Pedicab and a board member of SKVA, supports regulations but said he suggested the county needed to have control years ago, when businesses like his and others began to gain popularity.

Cappetta does state background checks on his drivers and has $1 million worth of commercial liability insurance. His five pedicabs have seat belts and lights.

“Every business should have commercial liability insurance,” he said. “I support fair requirements. I’ve been asking for this for three years.”

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Bobby Jones committee pitches vision for future In ambitiously examining the course’s problems, the Bobby Jones Golf Club Study Committee hopes to discover a realistic solution. deficit of more than $100,000 each of the past two years. The goal, commissioners said, was to review various options for improving the facility and to gauge the financial viability of those options. At some point after that, they said, a full master plan might be developed.

When the City Commission appointed seven members to the board in February, commissioners praised candidates for having reasonable and realistic outlooks on the future of the course — driving home that cost would be a driving factor in any eventual improvements.

To familiarize itself with the subject matter, the group held seven meetings in its first five weeks, all of which were more than two hours long. The most intensive was a site visit held in February, a crash course on the operations and infrastructure at Bobby Jones.

Over those first five weeks, they became acutely aware of many of the problems facing the course — most of which have been raised in past studies, but which have been difficult to address financially.

“Excellent drainage and efficient, reliable irrigation are really necessary,” committee member Norm Dumaine said. “Bobby

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After a whirlwind — and occasionally tumultuous — first two months, the city’s Bobby Jones Golf Club Study Committee is finally getting its bearings and preparing to take a big swing at the challenge it’s facing.

The city established the committee late last year to help create a long-term plan for the golf course, which is facing structural issues and ran up an operating

The municipal facility has become an issue for the city as revenues decline and the costs of managing aging infrastructure grow. The study committee will research potential solutions to that problem.

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Although the study committee is passionate about golf, the City Commission also appointed members for having financial backgrounds or a “realistic” outlook on the future of the course.

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NORM DUMAINE There are so many golf courses in this area, even within five miles of Bobby Jones, that if Bobby Jones can’t somehow create some kind of niche in this market, some kind of thing that makes it really special, I’m not sure in the long run that we would be doing Bobby Jones a great favor if we just simply focus on budget. I think, at some point, you may have to spend a little bit of money to make more money. … It seems to me, over a long period of time, you might accomplish what you can’t do at this very moment.

DAN SMITH If we don’t deal with the really big issues, making a few changes to greens and tees is going to get us back to square one in two, three, four years.

It’s an unfortunate situation.

We all were there, took the tour and saw the condition of the property and the dysfunctional nature of the irrigation system and the drainage and the bathrooms and all the problems there. … To think there’s $8 (million) to $10 million to do a whole bunch of work — we all know that’s not there. But to be fiscally responsible, we have to acknowledge maybe minor isn’t the answer, either.

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needed to that work schedule.

Although most board members were fine with scaling back, Chairman John Bondur was not — and so he tendered his resignation immediately.

“I understand the approach,” Bondur said at his final meeting.

“I don’t agree with it, and I think it’s unfortunate that there’s an unwillingness from whomever the parties may be.”

Still, the board is charging forward. Now that it’s identified obstacles to address, the group is focused on gathering more public input and developing a work plan for completing its directive.

At a meeting earlier this month, members of the committee took one last preliminary look at the big picture, sharing their personal visions for the future of the facility (see right).

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Jones is crying out for that. The very structure of the course — the way the banks are built up the canal — really forms a kind dish that drops water into Bobby Jones.”

At the March 16 City Commission meeting, the committee provided an update on its early work to the commission. To do its job right, compiling the report would take 3,000 to 4,000 hours, the group said. That meant not only maintaining a busy schedule, but also working until the end of the year to compile a report rather than the initial summer deadline.

At that meeting, the commission gave its blessing to the committee to extend the timeline.

However, at an April 7 committee meeting, city administration informed the board that it could not commit the staff hours

three courses. … It is apparent that the courses and buildings have not been maintained for several years as they should have been, but budget cuts and other policies enacted by past commissions have created the present situation of replacements rather than repairs and regular maintenance. I have never envisioned dramatic changes to either of the 18hole courses — just do what is needed.

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Commissioner Charles Hines proposed an amendment to the rezone petition to stipulate the 50-foot buffer and five two-story home limit, which Commissioner Christine Robinson seconded.

“We had credible, professional public testimony,” she said. “I understand the idea behind that community — nature.”

Barbara Marinan, one of the 11 residents who will abut the new development, couldn’t stop smiling after the vote.

“We stuck together and really became a neighborhood,” she said.

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Nina Levitt embraces a neighbor after the Sarasota County Commission’s decision Tuesday.

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For a moment, the Sarasota County Commission Chambers were silent after the commissioners unanimously approved a rezone petition, but also required the development to have a 50-foot buffer, per the Silver Oaks community’s plea.

Then, the 30-some residents in attendance realized they got what they wanted. They shook hands, they embraced. A few cried.

Silver Oaks residents have been working to push back the boundary line of a 170-home development by Taylor Morrison to their south. The approved rezone changes the 103-acre parcel’s zoning from one unit per five acres to 2.5 units per acre.

Silver Oaks residents didn’t oppose the development; they opposed the 20-foot buffer between the two communities, which neighbors felt did not adhere to the standards of Palmer Ranch or fit with the natural habitat areas in Silver Oaks.

Attorney Charlie Bailey, representing Taylor Morrison, reminded the commissioners

that the county’s zoning code didn’t require a buffer between the developments at all — Taylor Morrison had volunteered the original 20-foot separation.

“Fifty-foot buffers are required nowhere in Palmer Ranch except along major arterial roadways,” Bailey said.

When the homebuilder first revealed its plans, some of the residents and the homeowners association took immediate action to engage with Taylor Morrison to get a bigger buffer. By the time the proposal reached the Planning Commission, the buffer had been bumped to 30 feet, with a 4-foot berm and a 6-foot wall that would give an 80% opacity to the space between homes. The Planning Commission further stipulated that Taylor Morrison only build a maximum of 13 homes along Silver Oaks’ southern boarder.

But the Silver Oaks residents continued pushing.

Jorg Hernler, one of the neighbors facing the now-vacant parcel, and other neighbors went door to door to built awareness, and gathered about 280 signatures protesting the buffer. The neighborhood organized more than 20 speakers for the meeting.

The commissioners went further than to grant just the 50-foot berm; they also stipulated that out of the 13 homes allowed to be built on the Silver Oaks’ border, Taylor Morrison could only build

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FRUITVILLE ROAD: Bridging the Gap The city has prioritized a street improvement effort along Fruitville Road to improve the walkability between downtown and the Rosemary District.

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Hoping to tame the imposing nature of Fruitville Road for pedestrians, the city and downtown leaders teamed up to improve connections between the heart of the city and its neighbors to the north.

Capitalizing on the growing popularity of new urbanist principles in the city, those involved were intent on making Fruitville Road more inviting. By slowing cars and adding more pedestrian amenities, the barrier the street creates was set to be eradicated.

That was a decade ago, real estate broker and former Downtown Partnership chairman Ian Black said. Despite the ambitious plans, the same challenges remain on Fruitville between U.S. 301 and U.S. 41 today.

“As with a lot of things, a lot of study was done, and nothing happened,” Black said.

The desire to address those challenges also remains. At the April 6 meeting of the Community Redevelopment Agency, the group agreed to reorganize its priorities at the urging of the Community Redevelopment Agency Advisory Board. Plans to redesign the streetscape of Fruitville Road moved to the top of the list, a decision spurred by the growth of the Rosemary District.

“Fruitville has this sense of, like, ‘beneath the Mississippi.’ You've got to take the ‘Mississippi’ away for people to get comfortable.”

– Ian Black, Real estate broker

“We feel strongly this is an item we should be paying attention to over the next year,” said CRA Advisory Board Chairman Michael Beaumier. “With the large number of projects going on in the Rosemary District, the ability to be able to create connectivity on Fruitville and make it pedestrian friendly is of critical importance.”

The city is in the process of selecting a consultant to produce a concept plan for the project. In the request for proposals provided to interested firms, staff writes that the city hopes to transform the character of Fruitville Road from a suburban thoroughfare to an urban boulevard.

To achieve that transformation, the study suggests a number of changes. The city hopes to slow the roadway without decreasing the current level of service.

Other revisions could include the addition of parallel parking, the narrowing of existing lanes, the installation of more landscaping and the widening of sidewalks.

According to city Senior Planner Steve Stancel, a consultant should be selected within 30 days. Over the next six months, the consultant will work with the community to develop a sense of what people want to see changed along the Fruitville corridor — at which point design and engineering can begin in earnest.

“We’re going into the study without any preconceived ideas, and we’re going to be having lots of public participation events,” Stancel said. “What we hope to do with this is to build a consensus for a concept.”

Black, a leading advocate for the revitalization of the Rosemary District, is hopeful that the changes he helped identify a decade ago will be implemented in the near future. He’d also like to see another, more philosophical change: renaming this segment of Fruitville to “Third Street.”

That was the street’s original name when it was just a two-lane road. In the late ‘80s, the city expanded the street to alleviate traffic, and the road became a thoroughfare to bypass downtown. By changing the name, Black believes part of the natural barrier associated with “Fruit-

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“Fruitville has this sense of, like, ‘beneath the Mississippi,’” Black said. “You’ve got to take the ‘Mississippi’ away for people to get comfortable.”

As in the past, funding the improvements remains a challenge. With the CRA set to expire in 2016, city money that would have been earmarked for improvements in the area may be harder to come by. Still, that’s why the CRA board agreed to prioritize the planning and design for the project now — so that the first step will be out of the way.

“Hopefully the CRA will continue in some form and we can chip off pieces, or we’ll have to find funding elsewhere,” Stancel said. “Either way, the plan will be in place.”

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THE PARALLELS OF HISTORY Obama’s negotiating with the Iranians has many parallels to Neville Chamberlain and Adolph Hitler. back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. I believe it is peace in our time,” Chamberlain said.

Of course, we all know how trustworthy Adolph Hitler was.

isprudential justification’ to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel.”

The parallels of history are remarkable.

Leadership. Let’s take a few moments to illustrate the parallels and contrasts The parallels of history are remarkable. of leadership.

In the first book of Winston On Sept. 21, 1938, the British and Churchill’s epic autobiography, “The French ministers called on the presiGathering Storm,” Churchill recounts dent of Czechoslovakia and told him the rise of Hitler. his country would have to give up the MATT WALSH After Germany lost World War I, Hit- Sudetenland to Germany or be invaded. ler became consumed by the agony of Chamberlain caved to Hitler. defeat. He started associating with GerOn the same day, Winston Churchill man Nationalists, from whom Hitler issued the following statement: Editor’s note: The following are excerpts “heard stories of sinister, undermining “The partition of Czechoslovakia from a speech Matt Walsh delivered this activities of another race, exploiters of under pressure from England and month to the Volusia-Flagler Jewish the Nordic world — the Jews.”

France amounts to the complete surFederation and Tiger Bay of Volusia This spawned Hitler’s infamous render of the Western Democracies to County.

“Mein Kampf,” his political philosophy, the Nazi threat of force. written while he was in prison in 1924.

“Such a collapse will bring peace The parallels of history are remarkAnd in it, Hitler laid out everything — or security neither to England nor to able, indeed, often extraordinary. as Churchill wrote: “… the program of France.

Early September 1938.

German Resurrection … the rightful “On the contrary, it will place these Tensions are rising over Adolph Hitposition of Germany at the summit of two nations in an ever-weaker and more ler’s threatened aggression on Czechothe world.” dangerous situation.” slovakia.

Churchill, in 1948, called “Mein March 3, 2015: Israel’s Benjamin Leaders in the French government Kampf” “the new Koran of faith and war.” Netanyahu tells a joint session of the sent a communique to Great U.S. Congress: Britain Prime Minister Neville “… I can only urge the leadChamberlain. They suggested it ers of the world not to repeat the might be a good idea if their two mistakes of the past … Not to nations paid a joint visit to Herr sacrifice the future for the presHitler. ent; not to ignore aggression in But much to the shock of the the hopes of gaining an illusory French and Czech leaders, Neville peace.”

Chamberlain, on his own, had This moment — of negotiating already been writing secret letwith the world’s greatest terrorist ters to Hitler. state — reminds us, too, of anothNow let’s jump ahead 70 years. er president who confronted a In the midst of the 2008 world threat: Harry Truman. presidential election campaign, a On June 24, 1950, the North Democratic senator secretly sent Koreans crossed the 38th parallel a personal emissary to Tehran, and invaded South Korea in a fullencouraging the Iranian mullahs Courtesy photos out assault and attack. not to sign an agreement with the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain believed he As Truman rode to the White outgoing Bush Administration.

House after a Saturday in Indecould trust and celebrated a signed agreement with The senator tells the Iranipendence, Mo., he told Dean Adolph Hitler that Britain and Germany would never go to ans negotiations would take Acheson in the car: war again. Will Barack Obama be our Neville Chamberlain? on a much friendlier tone after “By God, I am going to let them President Bush’s departure from have it.” office.

In his autobiography, Truman And that senator? Barack wrote: Obama.

“This was not the first occasion History is repeating … when the strong had attacked On Sept. 16, 1938, Prime Minthe weak. I recalled some earlier ister Chamberlain met Hitler instances: Manchuria, Ethiopia, alone in Berchtesgaden, GerAustria. I remembered how each many. Chamberlain later told his time the democracies failed to biographer: act, they had encouraged the “In spite of the hardness and aggressors to keep going ahead. ruthlessness I thought I saw in “I felt certain that if South the Chancellor’s face, I got the Korea were allowed to fall, Comimpression that here was a man munist leaders would be emboldwho could be relied upon when ened to override nations closer to he had given his word.” our own shores.”

Two weeks later, on Sept. 28, We all know what Truman did.

Chamberlain went to meet with Hitler Hitler wrote: “The fighting capacity He confronted the attackers with full again in Munich. This time, the “Big of a race depends on its purity. Hence force. The nation hailed Truman.

Four” were there: French leaders, Italy’s the need for ridding it of foreign defileNow contrast that with today’s presiBenito Mussolini, Chamberlain and ments.” dent.

Hitler.

Hence the need for ridding it of the When Syria’s Assad crossed the line They reached a historic agreement — Jews. in the sand with chemical weapons, that the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia And yet, despite all of this and all of Barack Obama did nothing. As ISIS has was to be evacuated by the Czechs and Hitler’s actions, Neville Chamberlain spread, he has done little to nothing. As turned over to Germany. believed “here was a man who could Putin pushed into Ukraine, he has done And while the final documents were be relied upon when he had given his nothing. With each show of weakness, being drafted, Neville Chamberlain word.” the aggressors have become emboldasked for another private meeting with All the while, and for a long time ened. Iran now controls four Arab Hitler. unbeknown to the French and British, states: Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon.

He handed Hitler a letter. And among and in violation of the Treaty of VerPresident Obama has ignored the the statements in the letter was this: sailles, Hitler surreptitiously had been parallels of history.

“We regard the Agreement signed last spending millions upon millions of night, and the Anglo-German Naval German marks re-arming itself.

Adolph Hitler wanted to conquer all Agreement, as symbolic of the desire of And all the while, for more than two of Europe and exterminate the Jews. our two peoples never to go to war with decades, the Iranians have been tellAyatollah Khomeini and his radical one another again.” ing the world they are not developing Islamic extremists want to go further.

In Winston Churchill’s book, “The nuclear weapons or arming themselves. First, to establish a Middle Eastern Gathering Storm,” he recounts: “Hitler But unlike Hitler, they are not doing it caliphate and annihilate all infidels. read this note and signed it without surreptitiously. They are doing it right Second, a worldwide caliphate. demur.” in front of the world’s eyes.

“Fight and kill the disbelievers wherAs Chamberlain’s car drove through And like Hitler, while it has been ever you find them,” orders the Koran, cheering crowds in London on his way developing its WMDs, Iran’s Supreme (chapter 9, 5). And as an Iranian general back from the airport, Chamberlain Leader Ayatollah Khomeini has frewas quoted last week: “Israel’s destructurned to Lord Halifax and said: quently spewed his venom: tion is non-negotiable.”

“All this will be over in three months.

“Israel is the sinister, unclean, rabid The parallels of history are extraordiThis is the second time there has come dog of the region.” And … “It is a ‘jurnary.

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lion. After the Messina brothers decided to retire, Brown began searching for a new tenant. Last week, Brown said he wanted to see another grocery store in that location.

“I think that is a service that’s needed — there’s a huge void if it’s not a grocery store,” he said.

“Customers and tourists depend on it.”

Brown and Granthon approached the Mortons after the Messinas announced their retirement to see if the father and son would be interested in opening a second location on Siesta.

Brown said when the word got out that the Siesta Market would leave a vacancy in a highly desirable Village location, their phones started ringing, but Brown and Granthon wanted to be selective with the type of tenant filling the space.

After negotiations, the Mortons signed a lease with Brown last week and plan to open the doors sometime this summer.

“They’ll be great neighbors, and it’s great news for Siesta Key,” Brown said. “It will help it grow in the right direction.”

Morton’s Gourmet Market is a locally owned catering and specialty food store located at 1924 S. Osprey Ave. Todd Morton said the new location will be a hybrid of the store’s Southside location and

the amenities of the current Siesta Market, offering what he called “normal” groceries along with Morton’s signature specialty items, prepared foods and hot and cold deli.

The name isn’t changing much: Morton said the current plan is to call the new location “Morton’s Siesta Market.”

“It’s not going to be a copy of (the Southside) market,” Morton said. “It’s a location I think is unique. We thought we would fit in.”

Morton said they are going through the building inspection now with plans to update both the interior and exterior of the building, but they plan to work on the building while the market is operating.

“We want to get in as-is, operate and work on it while we’re in there,” he said. “The sooner, the better.”

Brown said the Mortons shared the same vision as him and Granthon in terms of maintaining Siesta Village’s charm and character.

The Siesta Market employs about 20 people currently. Vince Messina said most of them plan to work until the store closes May 31. Morton said some of the employees have indicated they would like to stay on after the store switches names, and he said the employees would be interviewed and considered for employment at the future store.

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“Not a good idea, a GREAT idea. Morton’s is a first class operation.”

— Josh Moffett

Thorton Utz, a national artist, was putting the finishing touches his studio on Palm Island on Siesta Key. The unique structure, which was originally a house, was converted into a round studio to serve as Utz’s domain.

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“Yay! $6 bottles of water for everyone!”

— Pattie Helmuth

“I hate to see Siesta Market go, but I think Morton’s might fill a niche. Just keep some basics that people on vacation need!”

Siesta Key flag

APRIL 29, 1984

John Osgood, a graphic design teacher at Ringling School of Art and Design, won a contest to design a flag representing Siesta Key. The contest commissioned artists to design a flag that could be hung and sold in local businesses. Osgood’s “S” represented the shape of Siesta’s coastline. He chose blue, orange and green to represent the water, sun and foliage seen on the island.

He won a $100 prize donated by the Siesta Key Association.

— Donna Albright Grantham

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Never leaving the Key!” — Kathy Genest Hirsch

Thornton Utz needed more space to work. His former studio was located inside a house next to this round residence.

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f you’ve been to downtown Sarasota, odds are you’ve interacted with a project in which Mark Kauffman has played a part. A doctor-turned-developer, Kauffman’s first major effort was the construction of the Hollywood 20 movie theater on Main Street in 1997.

In addition to a robust downtown real estate portfolio, Kauffman serves as the chairman of the city’s Downtown Improvement District. He’s also spearheading a “catalyst project” in the Rosemary District, a residential/office/commercial/arts space he hopes becomes the nexus of the growing neighborhood.

Q: What’s the biggest change downtown you’ve seen since getting into real estate?

A: The biggest change in the past 15 years is the just the regrowth of the energy of downtown. The various city commissioners over all of that 15 or 20 years, through the City Commission and through the Community Redevelopment Area, have spent a lot of money regentrifying downtown Sarasota and the bayfront, and it shows.

The Downtown Improvement District was established maybe six to eight years ago, and we have had a significant impact to our area. We’re spending all the money that we’re collecting, and we’ve borrowed into the future so we can do projects today as opposed to waiting.

Sarasota is just incredible. Nothing’s going to stop the growth of Sarasota. There are many Florida locations that have beaches and golf courses and tennis courts and the same beautiful weather that we have. The one thing we have that they don’t is the arts. The arts is growing; organizations are getting stron-

ger, not weaker. They’ve come through the last five years without any of them folding. Add that together with a good school system and you’ve got the perfect environment to move to and bring your family and your business.

Q: In some corners, the city has the reputation as being hostile to development. As a developer working closely with the city, what has your experience been?

A: The city has been very progressive and cooperative with myself and my projects. I have no complaints. If I take a proposal to the city that’s adverse to what exists now, instead of saying why, they say why not. They try to find a way of doing it. They realize by helping me, I’m helping the city, and I’ll take a piece of dirt that’s just vacant now and put a building there. The city has its rules and regulations, and you have to abide by them, but they do cooperate.

David Conway

Mark Kauffman stands in front of a rendering of the Courthouse Centre, which he helped develop. He says his real estate career doubles as family time, for he works with his daughter, son and granddaughter.

Q: What led you to invest in a significant project in the Rosemary District?

A: (My daughter Mindy Kauffman) and I both felt the area was ready to explode. With the rebirth of the real estate market, there’s no place for people to go except for the Rosemary District if you want to be close to downtown. While our project hasn’t started, it certainly has precipitated the growth of the area without us even moving any dirt. There are two major apartment complexes going in within one block of where our center will be and several condominium units going up. The prices of the land adjacent to our center have just escalated. We hope to be the center where everybody will congregate.

Q: How did you become a developer after retiring from medicine?

A: It wasn’t by design. It just sort of happened. I was always interested in real estate, but I wasn’t that active in it. I developed a couple of small properties and had some holdings, but when I retired and started with the Hollywood 20, that was stimulating and I was able to purchase a lot of vacant land in that area. I was able to build Links Plaza and the State Street bank building across from Links Plaza. One thing followed another — it wasn’t by design.

Q: What are the major issues you feel still need to be addressed downtown?

A: Vagrancy goes high on the

list, correcting that. Obviously, from what the City Commission agreed to Monday (adopting City Manager Tom Barwin’s plans to combat homelessness), they’re going to become more aggressive on that. Parking is always a problem — parking is a good problem.

If you have a lot of vacant parking, you don’t have a vibrant downtown. The new garage will help.

The other thing is if we could have a transportation system downtown — we’re trying to have a couple of routes to combine with the peripheral hotels.

Downtown is blessed. There are eight hotels right now being planned. This is going to bring 1 million new visitors a year. Downtown is going to explode.

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The property belonged to Sarasota County namesakes, including Benjamin Stickney, Bertha Potter Palmer and Adrian Honore.

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The unassuming, small cottage sits among grand neighborhood mansions and condominium buildings. Its simple, charming architecture is hidden in a deep, thin Siesta Key lot at Point of Rocks — it’s a structure that no one would take note of when passing by.

But behind its quaint exterior lies a rich Sarasota history .

The cottage, located at 7132 Point of Rocks Circle on a 26,000-square-foot lot, gained an official historic designation at the Sarasota County Commission meeting Tuesday after owner Barry Eckhold nominated the cottage for its intrinsic value, and was granted the name submitted

by Eckhold: the Palmer-Honore Cottage.

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Eckhold and his wife, Diane, are Lido Key residents and have lived in Sarasota County for almost 10 years. Their Lido home doesn’t have water access, however, so they went hunting for a home to fit their needs last year.

Eckhold said they looked on Siesta Key, but, at first, couldn’t find something to suit them.

“We saw beautiful homes … but big, monster houses — not what we wanted,” he said.

When the cottage went on the market, however, they were drawn to its simple, “Old Florida” feeling and its unusual proximity to the Gulf of Mexico.

“We had an immediate passion for it,” Eckhold said.

The Eckholds purchased the property from Elling O. Eide’s trust foundation for $1.8 million in May 2014. They wanted to fix it up, and decided to see if the home had historic value.

Debra Flynt-Garrett, chairwoman of the preservation board, helped the Eckholds qualify the home as historical.

“It’s so rare that we get the opportunity to save a structure like this — to have property owners who are coming forward and want to take the cottage back to its original configuration,” she said. “It’s something amazing and exciting for us.”

Greg Hall with Hall Architects is helping the Eckholds with exterior restorative efforts to preserve the integrity of the building as well as interior redesigning and updating. Hall Architects specializes in historic preservation projects and has worked on other notable buildings such as the Sarasota County Courthouse Tower and the Historic Keith Farmhouse at Phillippi Creek Estate.

“The house represents the earliest period of settlement (on the island),” Hall said. “Now, they’re mansions, not modest houses. …

It reflects an earlier period of time and what it meant to live on the island.”

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Tracing the property’s history proved to be a maze of clues for Hall, whom the Eckholds hired to help with the cottage’s historic assessment and restoration. Hall had to follow the records back to when Siesta Key was a part of Manatee County.

“They purchased property, realized they had an early house, and we discovered it was one of the earliest on Siesta Key,” Hall said.

Eckhold said the rich history that their combined research uncovered was the “icing on the cake” to the unique property: the property has switched hands with some of Sarasota County’s most notable historic figures.

Benjamin Stickney owned the property in the early 1900s, and sold it to H.H. Honore in 1911.

When he died, in 1918, the property passed to his daughter, Bertha Potter Palmer, who had the cottage built that same year and died shortly after it was completed. Her brother, Adrian Honore, inherited the property. In 1920, the subdivision was platted for Manatee County.

The time period between 1918 and 1926 was significant for Siesta Key because, at that time, access to the Key was limited to one road that went down the center of the island. The home was built before the Point of Rocks subdivision was platted in 1920 by Manatee County and built around the same time as the Siesta Key bridge.

“The cool thing about this cottage is it’s so rare,” said Flynt-Garrett. “There are very few examples of those early beach cottages.”

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The Siesta Key real estate market is off to a lukewarm start in 2015, with average and median sales prices both falling in the first quarter compared with the first months of the previous year.

But properties are spending less time on the market as expectations match reality in the decreasingly volatile market, according to Michael Saunders & Co. Realtor Karen Chandler.

The median sales price for real estate on Siesta decreased about 1% to $485,000 in the first quarter compared with the same timeframe last year, according to an Observer analysis of sales data filed with the Sarasota County Property Appraiser. The average sale price fell 17% to $640,480 during the same period when excluding top sales, such as the $5.5 million Sanderling Road estate Michael Saunders agents listed earlier this year.

“I think that because we’ve been in a buyers’ market for so long that people who are listing now are being more realistic in their pricing,” Chandler said.

“They were reaching for the stars,

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spent one day on the market before a buyer snagged it. Properties are garnering 92% to 99% of their list price, as well.

“You didn’t see that a year ago,” Chandler said.

Siesta outpaced Sarasota County, which had less than half the median and average sales price of the barrier island at $191,300 and $320,000, respectively, for the start of 2015.

“Siesta Key is such a great place,” Chandler said. “There are always going to be people who keep coming here because they want their little piece of paradise.”

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The Sanderling sale represents a downward trend in top sales in the first quarter. A home sold for $7.07 million during the same period in 2014, and the “Snook Inn” on the north end of Siesta sold for $10 million the previous year. But, at 1.7 acres, the Sanderling estate is the largest property that has sold on Siesta in the first quarter since the recession.

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LOT OF TROUBLE 6 p.m. — 0 block of North Washington Boulevard Criminal Mischief: A woman went to the police to report damage to her vehicle. The woman said she parked her car in a parking lot overnight while she went to work, and later that day she discovered a large dent in the hood of her car. The woman said there have been recent problems with juveniles jumping on cars and throwing rocks at vehicles parked in that parking lot.

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WRATH OF CANE 8:19 a.m. — 2200 block of Benjamin Franklin Drive Dispute/Fight: A man got into an argument with an elderly

male near the men’s room at the park. The man alerted police and said the other male swung a cane in the air during the argument. The other male had left the area prior to police arriving, and an officer checked the area for the man with negative results.

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IT’S A TRAP 6:44 p.m. — 100 block of John Ringling Boulevard Suspicion General/Unknown: A man alerted authorities that he found a suspicious item along the water’s edge. The man described the item as metal, spherical and having algae growing on it. The man said he had no training or experience with explosive devices and just wanted to report the

incident to be safe. An officer walked the shoreline and found an abandoned crab trap buoy that matched the description the man provided. The officer discovered no other suspicious items on the beach.

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RESIDENT RESENTMENT 3:11 p.m. — 1000 block of Beneva Road Trespassing: The manager of an apartment complex reported that a man came into the property’s office and began yelling and causing a disturbance. The manager said that the man is being evicted from another apartment complex her company owns, and that he had no business at this location but refused to leave. An officer issued the man a trespass

warning. The man said that he understood and left the area without further incident.

CASH, CHECKED 11:47 p.m. — 0 block of South Lime Avenue Suspicion General/Unknown: An officer responded to a call regarding a possible counterfeit $50 bill at a convenience store.

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This means that acceptable uses include commercial, office and residential developments, with a density of up to 50 residential units per acre.

“It’s a pretty flexible zoning, but it’s an area in the past that hasn’t had a whole lot of attention,” Harshman said. “Other than the jail, there hasn’t been a whole lot of development there since Kane Plaza was built.”

Despite the lack of activity in recent years, others have also forecasted growth in that area of the city. Downtown Economic Development Coordinator Norm Gollub singled out the area east of U.S. 301 as a potential hotspot for new affordable housing developments, in part because the density and land values can better serve the demand for smaller units for service workers.

“East of Washington, you’re still within walking distance of downtown,” Gollub said. “I think there are edges of downtown that can add affordable housing.”

To help facilitate that growth, Gollub said he’d like to see improved pedestrian connections to the core downtown area.

Harshman said natural forces are beginning to direct developers to that part of the city. In the past, those builders would focus on downtown and the bayfront. With land dwindling elsewhere, they’re re-evaluating their options.

“As those areas start to see heavier development and increasing values, you see the market

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The most noteworthy new project east of U.S. 301 just barely qualifies: A developer plans to build a 10-story hotel at the northeast corner of U.S. 301 and Main Street.

“ ... you see the market kind of moving out to what had one point been viewed as tertiary locations, but now are viewed as closer to the heart of the action.”

kind of moving out to what had one point been viewed as tertiary locations, but now are viewed as closer to the heart of the action,” Harshman said.

Already, there are some other signs of increased activity in the area. At the northeast corner of Main Street and U.S. 301, developers plan to construct a 10-story, 150-room hotel by fall 2016.

In March 2014, Bonita Springsbased investment fund TerraCap Partners II bought the 10-story Kane Plaza office building at 1 S. School Ave. for $11.5 million.

The city Urban Design Studio has endorsed the idea of reviving the city’s train lines to allow for a new light rail system at some point in the future. That would be another boon for the area, for the tracks pass just east of School Avenue. Urban Design Studio Director Karin Murphy has suggested that residential areas near public transit could receive density bonuses — an incentive that sparked residential development in the Rosemary District.

Harshman said the area also benefits from efforts to convert

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rails into trails, most notably via the extension of the Legacy Trail into the city of Sarasota and close to the area east of 301.

Taken together, he says, there are mounting reasons to build east of downtown — and he’s hearing increasing interest from developers.

“There are a lot of positives that maybe have been overlooked in the past in favor of some the other areas closer to downtown,” Harshman said.

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By the end of the 2014-15 school year, the district could have more than 100 vacant positions due to retirement and turnover. The board told district staff at its March budget workshop to prioritize the staffing concerns.

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The district is proceeding with internal budgeting and staff hiring but could face delays when it comes to confirming final revenue numbers.

Deputy Chief Financial Officer Al Weidner told the school board at its monthly workshop Tuesday he received school department budgets earlier this month, and he plans to bring those budgets to the board for consideration.

The board will keep the budget status quo until revenue numbers come in from the state. However, the Florida House and Senate have not yet compromised on expanding Medicaid to uninsured residents. Until the state can agree on its budget, local school districts will not have state funding numbers to use for their 20152016 budgets.

Weidner said he wouldn’t be surprised if a compromise wasn’t reached until June, and he expects the state might go into special session.

“This year will be one for the record,” he said, recalling a time in the 1990s when the state’s budget was similarly delayed. “We’re in a situation of a lot of uncertainty.”

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The Siesta Key office of Coldwell Banker is in the doghouse — but in a good way. An adoption event in conjunction with Sarasota County Sheriff’s Animal Services, called the Homes for Dogs Project, is trying to help pets find their forever homes.

Coldwell Banker is on a mission to help find homes for pets through Adopt-a-Pet.com in a national campaign to house 20,000 pets in 2015. On April 18, the group hosted an adoption marathon at the Siesta Key location on Ocean Boulevard with the help of Sarasota County Sheriff’s Animal Services.

Eight dogs were present and available to adopt. The team

was able to place one lucky pup with a family.

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The Rotary Club of Sarasota Keys Foundation awarded the achievements of local teens and adult volunteers at the 29th annual awards dinner April 9, at Café L’Europe.

Six high school juniors and seniors received the 2015 Distinguished Student Award for outstanding academics, community service and leadership achieved while overcoming personal difficulties and family challenges. Students winners were: Brooke Bezdek, Tyesha Brown, Matthew Graham, Matthew Hostetler, Jackeline Juarez and Desara Nelson.

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Seven adult volunteers were given the 2015 Service Above Self Award. They were recognized for making a positive impact on their communities through volunteering.

Volunteer winners were Elmer Berkel, Stanley Eding, Henry Ehrlich, the Rev. Irene Gerontianos, Joseph Kouba, Alvin Miller and Gene Weborg.

The recipients were given plaques and financial awards totaling $3,100. The students’ awards will be used to further their educations. The gifts given to adults were made in their honor to the nonprofit organizations for which they volunteer.

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he SRQ Volunteens pitched in Saturday morning at Phillippi Estate Park by rounding up buckets of air potatoes with the Sarasota Bay Guardians.

The event was part of a weekend of volunteer opportunities for the Global Youth Service Day Weekend that kicked off with an event Friday at Girls Inc. Air potatoes are the nonedible fruit of an invasive vine that is common along Phillippi Creek and throughout the state. The vine is recognizable for large heart-shaped, glossy leaves.

Equipped with buckets, gloves and shovels, volunteers combed through pathways looking for air potatoes. The three teams of SRQ Volunteens members collected a total of 244 pounds of potatoes.

The group also took home the award for weirdest air potato found.

On Sunday the SRQ Volunteens concluded the weekend with a day of cleaning up Sarasota Bay with Mote Marine Laboratory representatives.

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LIFELONG LEARNING ACADEMY LECTURE SERIES Runs from 3 to 5 p.m. at the University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee campus, 8350 N. Tamiami Trail. The Lifelong Learning Academy Lecture Series presents former congressman Dan Miller in a discussion of the effects of partisanship on the American political system.

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CARDINAL MOONEY ALUMNI SOCIAL Runs from 6 to 9 p.m. at Gold Coast Eagle Distributing, 7051 Wireless Court. Cardinal Mooney Catholic High School’s Alumni Association is hosting a spring social for all CMHS alumni and families. Tickets are $20 per person. For information, contact Jennifer McDonald at jmcdonald@ cmhs-sarasota.org or 379-2647.

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REACH OUT RECOVERY’S GOLF TOURNAMENT Runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Meadows County Club, 3101 Longmeadow. The Meadows Country Club hosts the first annual Reach Out Recovery Golf Tournament. Festivities for the day include a four-person scramble, a hole-in-one car giveaway and putting, closest-to-pin and longest-drive contests. The entry fee is $125 per player. For information, call 201-8408.

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY USE FOR MY PRESCHOOLER Runs from 9 to 10 a.m. at Outof-Door Academy Siesta Key campus, 444 Reid St. What is the right amount of “screen time?”

What is the best way to set limits? Led by Dr. Kelly Rose, media specialist, and Glynis Miller, technology integration specialist.

While parents are in the workshop, children will be utilizing iPads in the school garden to create a digital storybook. Admission is free. For information, call 554-3439.

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RUN TO REMEMBER 5K FOR SENIOR WELLNESS Starts at 6:15 a.m. at the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Road. Help increase awareness for Alzhiemer’s disease with the Run to Remember 5K for Senior Wellness.

Proceeds from the event will benefit Pines of Sarasota’s families suffering with Alzheimer’s. For information and to register, visit pinesruntoremember.org.

SIDEWALK ASTRONOMY Runs from dusk to 10 p.m. at Riverview High School planetarium, 1 Ram Way. Look up in the sky with Sidewalk Astronomy hosted by the local Deep Sky Observers.

Admission is free. For information, call 342-9632.

SUNDAY, APRIL 26

COMPASSION ACROSS THE MILES Starts at 2 p.m. at The Glenridge Performing Arts Center, 7333 Scotland Way. The Asian Women’s Club of Lakewood Ranch invites member of the community to the Compassion Across the Miles benefit concert for victims of the typhoon in Tacloban City, Philippines. Admission is $25 per person. For information, call 552-5325.

TUESDAY, APRIL 28

CELEBRATE OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP Runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Michael’s On East, 1212 East Ave. Leadership Sarasota County graduates will be honored for their leadership in their companies and industries. Graduates are nominated by their peers, and two leaders will be featured as this year’s honorees. Tickets are $50 for program alumni; $60 for non-alumni. For information, call 955-2508.

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SPRING MUSIC CONCERT Starts at 7 p.m. at Cardinal Mooney High School, 4171 Fruitville Road. Join the Cardinal Mooney Catholic High School Music Department for an evening of pop, rock and jazz for the annual Spring Music Concert. Proceeds for the concert will benefit the Leukemia Project in memory of former student Joey Powers.

Admission is free; donations are encouraged. For information, call 379-2647.

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EARTH DAY AT SUNCOAST SCIENCE CENTER Runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Suncoast Science Center, 4452 Beneva Road.

Celebrate Earth Day with live music, food trucks, a magician and several presentations. Enjoy demonstrations, tours of the Fab Lab and hands-on science.

Admission is free. For information, email EarthDay425@gmail.com.

SUNCOAST BLUES FESTIVAL Runs from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Sarasota Fairgrounds, 3000 Ringling Blvd. The Suncoast Blues Festival will bring back the blues to Sarasota. The lineup for the event includes Bobby Rush and Eden Brent. Tickets are $30 in advance and $40 at the gate. For tickets and information, visit suncoastbluesfestival.com.

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ODA senior Tre Gregory cleared 14 feet to win the pole vault at the Class 1A-District 10 meet April 16.

Third baseman SarahBeth Wengerd is mobbed by her teammates after hitting a two-run walk-off double in the Class 7A-District 10 championship April 16.

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The Sarasota Christian softball team beat Southwest Florida Christian 12-2 to win their second straight Class 2A-District 9 title April 16.

The Sarasota High softball team rallied in the bottom of the seventh inning to beat Braden River 14-13 in the Class 7A-District 10 championship April 16.

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eading into the bottom of the seventh inning trailing by two runs, Sarasota High softball coach Amy Nye turned to each of her players in the dugout and got the same reaction from all of them: “We’ve got this.”

Sarasota is used to pressure situations. It’s what the players focus on every day in practice.

So when it came time for the Lady Sailors to step up in the Class 7A-District 10 championship versus Braden River April 16, the players were more than happy to deliver.

After a fly out to start the inning, Lexi Johns drew a walk, Avery Miller hit an infield single, and Halie Roberson walked to load the bases. Alyssa Price hit a grounder to Braden River first baseman Bethaney Keen, who tried to get the force out at home, but the throw was wide.

In front of a raucous home crowd, SarahBeth Wengerd, who hit a solo home run earlier in the game, stepped into the batter’s box and sliced a single to left center field, scoring Miller and Roberson to win the game 14-13.

The Lady Sailors, who took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning, rallied back three times, scoring 11 runs in the final three innings.

“They were ready to walk up to the plate and do their job,” Nye says. “That’s what we do. That’s

why we work on this every day.

It was just an unbelievable game, and that just shows the hard work our kids put in day in and day out.”

Sarasota and Braden River combined for 27 runs on 34 hits with 22 runs coming in the last three innings. Miller finished with four hits and scored four runs. Roberson added three hits, two RBIs and three runs scored. Wengerd had a home run, a single, two walks, three RBIs and scored three runs.

Megan Custode finished with two hits and four RBIs. “We knew it was going to be a game like that with (Braden River),” Nye says. “That’s just the way it is with us. We just fight, fight, fight. We expected that, and our kids played well on both sides of the ball.”

As the district champion, Sarasota will host Seminole in the Class 7A-Region 3 quarterfinals April 23. The winner will advance to the regional semifinals April 28 to face the winner of the other quarterfinal between Braden River and Clearwater Countryside.

“We knew it was going to be a game like that with (Braden River). That’s just the way it is with us. We just fight, fight, fight. We expected that, and our kids played well on both sides of the ball.”

Brittany Bendel gets the call on the mound for Sarasota.

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The Sarasota High boys and girls track teams scored a combined 179 points to finish second at the Class 3A-District 10 meet April 15.

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The Riverview High softball team beat Manatee 7-2 in the Class 8A-District 8 semifinals April 14 to earn a berth in the regional tournament.

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The Riverview High baseball team held off rival Sarasota 9-5 in the regular season finale for both teams.

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Halie Roberson celebrates as Sarasota reclaims the lead in the Class 7A-District 10 championship.

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Cougars ink college choices

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Seven Cardinal Mooney students signed national letters of intent April 15 and 16.

versity n Deciding factor: “When I was on campus I instantly felt like this is the place for me,” Davidson Turner says. “That feeling — it just touched me. The team and coaches are full of energy and love to run, and I think they’ll help me develop into an even better runner.” n Reaction: “I’m really thrilled and so excited to have made a decision,” Davidson Turner says.

“Now I can focus on finishing strong this season. I can’t wait to go, though. I’m excited for the future.”

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Ryan McMahon always knew he was capable of playing alongside the nation’s elite.

The Cardinal Mooney senior guard just needed an opportunity to show that he belonged. He needed someone to take a chance.

With his senior season winding down, McMahon finally garnered the attention of Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino, who offered McMahon a scholarship to the University of Louisville in February.

On April 15, with his family, teammates and coaches by his side, McMahon signed a national letter of intent to play for the Cardinals.

“It’s incredible,” McMahon says. “This (moment) is all I’ve been working for and thinking about. I’m just happy to have been given an opportunity. I’ve been working so hard to get here. I’m just glad it all paid off.”

McMahon, who plans to study business, was one of seven Cardinal Mooney student-athletes across four sports who signed college scholarships last week.

n Sport: Track and cross-country n College choice: Seattle Uni-

KEVIN BARKER EMANUELE ROSSI n Sport: Swimming n College choice:

Florida Institute of Technology n Deciding factor: “My brother Ferruccio swims there, and when I visited I just loved the place,” Rossi says. “It felt like the right place for me.” n Other options: Florida Southern, Nova Southeastern, Eastern Michigan and South Carolina n Major: Accounting; followed by law school n Reaction: “It was getting really old and stressful, so I’m really happy,” Rossi says. “I got two important scholarships (athletic and academic), but it’s not just about myself. I’m happy for my family.”

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n Sport: Lacrosse n College choice:

Pfeiffer University n Deciding factor: “Pfeiffer is a great school in a great location,” Barker says. “They are welcoming and made me feel at home. Getting that family feeling was huge in my decision.” n Other options: Notre Dame de Namur, Alderson-Broaddus University and Young Harris College n Major: Pre-medicine n Reaction: “This is huge,” Barker says. “It’s been a dream of mine ever since I first picked up a stick.”

NICK BOBBITT n Sport: Lacrosse n College choice:

Catawba College n Deciding factor: “The campus and athletic facilities were great,”

Bobbitt says. “I liked the coaches and the way they ran their team.” n Other options: Mars Hill University and Belmont Abbey College n Major: Business management n Reaction: “It’s a great feeling,” Bobbitt says. “The hard work is paying off. I can’t wait to get up there next season.”

ADAM SCALISI n Sport: Lacrosse n College choice: Rollins College n Deciding factor: “The great

education as well as being able to continue my lacrosse career,” Scalisi says. n Other options: Merrimack College and Clark University n Major: International business n Reaction: “This moment is such a relief knowing I have accomplished a goal I set when I was younger and that all of my hard work is paying off,” Scalisi says.

TOMMY VASSALLO n Sport: Lacrosse n College choice:

Saint Leo University n Deciding factor: “I like how it’s close to home and the size of the school,” Vassallo says. n Other options: University of Vermont, University of Tampa and Alderson-Broaddus University n Major: Criminology and business n Reaction: “I am very happy,” Vassallo says. “I’m looking forward to the level of competition and being able to show that the players from Florida can play anywhere.”

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Colombia’s Alejandro Gonzalez advanced to the second round of the men’s singles tournament.

op ATF World Tour players along with some of America’s young rising stars hit the court for the 2015 Sarasota Open April 11 through April 19, at the Lakewood Ranch Tennis Center.

This year marked the first year the tournament — regarded as the premier men’s professional tennis tournament in Southwest Florida — was held in Lakewood Ranch.

Argentina’s Federico Delbonis defeated fellow Argentinian Facundo Bagnis 6-4, 6-2 to win the men’s singles championship.

Bagnis later teamed up with Facundo Arguello to win the men’s doubles championship with a 3-6, 6-2, 13-11 victory versus Korea’s Hyeon Chung and India’s Divij Sharan.

In the women’s final, Fanny Stollar, who trains at IMG Academy, defeated Out-of-Door Academy’s M’Balia Bangoura 6-1, 6-3.

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Joan Tracey helps Cole McComber demonstrate the harp-like instrument he created with wooden hangers and string.

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“Sometimes the quietest child in my classes will come up with the most fabulous instruments.”

– Joan Tracey, Ashton Elementary School music teacher

shton Elementary music teacher Joan Tracey wants students to use everything around them — including themselves — to make music. She teaches them how to do a drum roll on the cafeteria tables and how to clap and stomp to the tune of “We Will Rock You.” For a special project, Tracey challenged students to use everyday household items and recycle them into an instrument. The assignment required students to think outside of the normal instruments of guitars, drums and pianos to create an original sound.

“I try to give them a lot of suggestions. I try to give them a lot of sites on the computer where they can get ideas,” Tracey said. “I encourage them to make these instruments with their families, because, to me, it’s a bonding time.”

To inspire students to get creative, Tracey invited members of the band The Garbage Men to perform for students in March. The local band only plays with instruments constructed out of recyclable materials. Cereal boxes serve as the body of their bass and guitar with buckets and a trashcan used as part of the drum set.

“You never know what to expect from year to year,” Tracey said. “I’m always so surprised when I see them. Sometimes the quietest child in my classes will come up with the most fabulous instruments.”

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The Sarasota Republican Club hosted its monthly dinner meeting featuring guest speaker Rep. Vern Buchanan April 16, at Marina Jack restaurant. To start the meeting, city commissioners Eileen Normile and Stan Zimmerman asked club members to support them in the City Commission run-off election May 12.

Buchanan then updated constituents on any progress and issues in Washington, D.C. “You’ve got a super majority in the House that is sometimes still dysfunctional, but I feel pretty good about it,” Buchanan said.

“We’ve got 54 seats in the Sen-

ate, which makes a big difference, because we’re going to be getting things done in the next couple of weeks.”

Buchanan serves on the Committee on Ways and Means that has jurisdiction on tax policies.

He addressed the priorities of the committee.

“We had a retreat with Paul Ryan, myself and a few others, and our goal is to try to get as much done this year ideally,” he said. “Our goal is we want to simplify the tax code that is 75,000 pages.”

Following his update, the floor was open to questions from Sarasota Republican Club members.

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Above: Rep. Vern Buchanan addresses guests during the Sarasota Republican Club dinner meeting.

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Curator for the Cà d’Zan Ron McCarty, Sarasota Garden Club First Vice President C.J.Danna and assistant secretary Kay Weber

The Sarasota Garden Club spent the morning recapping a successful year and recognizing members for their efforts at an annual meeting and luncheon at IMG Academy Golf Club.

The meeting included an update on the historic lantern recently installed at the club, and new members were also welcomed to the club.

Afterward guests mingled before being seated for lunch. The guest speaker for the luncheon was

Ron McCarty, curator for the Cà d’Zan, the former home to John and Mable Ringling. The home holds significance for the Sarasota Garden Club because Mable Ringling helped start the club and served as its first president.

Following the luncheon two more guests of honor were high school seniors and scholarship recipients India Pawlowska and Jennifer McGann. Both students received $2,000 toward their studies in natural sciences that they will apply at the University of Florida. A third scholarship

was awarded to University of Florida sophomore Raymond Odeh. He is studying horticultural therapy.

Sue Angle, former club president and current president for the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, recognized a handful of members with the Pillar of Pride membership to the organization.

President for the Sarasota Garden Club Olivia Haynes gave out club awards, including a Leadership Award to Judith Hydeman.

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The State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota Model UN team made history at the 25th annual Southern Regional Model United Nations conference by winning the top honor of Outstanding Delegation.

The team represented China earlier this month at SRMUN in Charlotte, N.C. Their efforts on committees such as the General Assembly, INTERPOL and the Security Council also earn the Best Position Paper.

Team members include students Jordan Foth, Anne Miller, Kristen Moreno, Carolina Montes, Matthew Ruch, George Vasquez and SCF Collegiate School student Carlyle Styer. The SCF team competed against more than 300 students from four-year universities and two-year colleges from across the country.

SCF Model UN team members: (front) Anne Miller, Carolina Montes, Carlyle Styer, Kristen Moreno and Jordan Foth; (back row) Matthew Ruch, George Vasquez and team adviser Danny Fuerstman

Three Fulbright grants awarded to New College students

U.S. State Department to study abroad. Sarah Oldham and Hilary Ramirez received Critical Language Scholarships from the State Department.

Three New College of Florida students received Fulbright grants for 2015. Kyna Patel, Peter Raab and August Tupper will study and work in Colombia, Germany and Morocco following graduation in May. New College now has had 57 Fulbright recipients in the last 10 years, and 83 in its history.

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Pine View team qualifies for TARC One Pine View School team advanced to the national finals for Team America Rocketry Challenge. The 13th annual TARC will feature 99 other qualifying teams from middle and high schools from across the country. The Pine View team will travel May 9 to Great Meadow

in the Plains, Va., for the finals.

TARC is the U.S. aerospace and defense industry’s flagship program designed to encourage students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Students design, build and fly a rocket to meet specific altitude and flight duration parameters to qualify.

Four seventh-graders: Rocket Burns, Jack Gallahan, Vinay Konuru and Vinny Scuteri, will represent Pine View for the first time. This year's rules require a rocket to be able to carry a raw egg, reach 800 feet and return to Earth without any cracks within 46 to 48 seconds.

Engaging students in a foreign language is Angela Mejicanos’ specialty at the Out-of-Door Academy lower campus. As the Spanish teacher for grades preK through fifth grade and the director for community service, Mejicanos comes up with creative solutions to keep students engaged.

She keeps a jar of beans on her desk. Mejicanos incorporated the beans into her lessons through a book “Pedro and his Loco Beans.”

“It’s about a little boy who visits his grandfather’s ranch in Mexico with jumping beans,” Mejicanos said. “It’s one of my tricks that I pull out of my hat, and that’s got to be my favorite one.”

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“At this age they know several of the songs that I’ve taught them and some basic readings, and that’s pretty much the extent of their Spanish.”

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ish, Mejicanos sent each student home with a bag of Mexican jumping beans. But first she explained to students that the beans only understand Spanish.

Students were responsible for caring for the beans. Some parents told her that their child put their beans in a box next to their bed and they could overhear them speaking Spanish to the beans.

“At this age they know several of the songs that I’ve taught them and some basic readings, and that’s pretty much the extent of their Spanish,” she said.

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Former students were invited to take part in the time capsule dig.

One former student, Brian Oaks, stopped by to watch, as did Jamie Bailey and Dee Barth, the parents of former students, who attended in place of their sons who now live in New York. Bailey said her son gave specific instructions on what he wanted to see.

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remembered what was in there. I thought he was making it up but then she actually found it.”

Using the findings in the time capsule Ditmars’ current students will work on a unit about archeology and anthropology to learn about 1995. One of her students, Eliseo Dawkins, was looking forward to seeing what had been buried for so long.

“I was looking for stuff they had back then before the modern time,” Dawkins said. “I was looking for how Bay Haven was when Mrs. Ditmars was teaching with her old students that are now about 30. It’s kind of a fun experience because we do stuff like real archaeologists do.”

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To incorporate the dedication and commemorate the event, Ditmars tasked her class of fourthgrade students to put together a time capsule to be buried. Until last week the capsule remained buried near one of the posts for the historical marker at the entrance to the school. On Friday, Ditmars and her current class dug up the contents of the capsule Ditmars decided that 20 years was sufficient time to reflect on the capsule and thought it would be an appropriate way to conclude her teaching career at Bay Haven School of Basics Plus. Ditmars will retire at the end of the school year.

“I thought it would be like coming full cycle,” Ditmars said. “My career here in Sarasota has been wonderful. I especially cherish my memories here at Bay Haven School of Basics Plus.”

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Tony McCormack’s downtown apartment is barely 1,200 square feet, but it’s a lesson in connoisseurship. The art, mostly paintings and ceramics, is all special — in some cases, spectacularly so. The furniture is a personal catalogue of mid-century classics. And the compact setting is perfectly suited for the peripatetic lifestyle that McCormack enjoys — frequent travel and cruises, plus bi-yearly stays in Palm Springs, Calif.

McCormack is technically retired, but, like many Sarasotans, he seems busier than ever. His various collections have become so vast — and are still growing — that he sells pieces at antique shows all over the country. Along the way, he’s become an expert in many fields. In fact, he’s past president of the American Art Pottery Association. Not bad for somebody who started out with

some Fiestaware he found at a flea market.

Now his collection includes rare pieces from the finest potters of the last century. There’s a tissue-thin vase by George Ohr, the famous “Mad Potter of Biloxi.” Next to it on the shelf are several Newcomb College pieces, the highly sought-after work made a century ago by the genteel female students at the famed New Orleans college.

With their distinctive motifs of Southern flora and fauna, price tags can go into the 10s of thousands. And perhaps most unique of all: a white unglazed bisque vase, signed by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

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Above: Sarasota artist Tom Stephens painted the abstract over the sofa. It’s part of a series called “A Coat of Many Colors.” The two brown leather side chairs, right, are by 1970s master designer Milo Baughman.

the activities of downtown.

“I missed the social life and the farmers market,” he says. “From here, you can walk anywhere.”

The living room provides a good introduction to McCormack’s style. The color palette consists of the earth tones that define the mid-century look.

There’s a low campaign chest by Heritage on which are displayed several choice items: an unusual Rookwood plaque framed in gold, a covered jar by Tom Turner and a vase by Charles Counts. Stools

by Harry Bertoia line the breakfast bar, an Eileen Grey side table holds a lucite lamp, and a pair of chairs by Milo Baughman flank the contemporary sofa. Looking down on them all is a painting by local artist Tom Stephens.

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“At auctions, from dealers and people who call me up out of the blue — everywhere.”

His most interesting finds are taken to Palm Springs for the yearly Modernism show.

“It’s the best in the country,” he says. “Ten days of lectures, tours and parties.”

In fact, the desert community has become a second home. He rents a place there several times a year for a prolonged stay.

Surprisingly, McCormack’s Sarasota apartment is also a rental. With the bulk of his collections stored elsewhere — he has seven storage units in Sarasota alone — his home functions as a way to display what interests him at the moment.

“I’m a neat hoarder,” he says with a smile. “As I become more educated, I keep trading up. I’m always looking for something new.”

— Tony McCormack

bedroom down the hall, which is used as an office. Here, shelves hold items from McCormack’s pottery collection. But what is visible is only the start. Hundreds of pieces are in storage, ready to be reorganized and selected for yet another antique show.

These days it’s mostly furniture that holds McCormack’s attention.

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Harbor Acres Waterside Properties LLC sold the home at 1337 Vista Drive to Eclipse Partners LLC for $2.5 million. Built in 1952, it has five bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 3,933 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.8 million in 2014.

James Burgin and Lynda Vahl sold their home at 1349 Harbor Drive to J. Kevin and Julie Shushtari, of New Canaan, Conn., for $1.9 million. Built in 2012, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 4,337 square feet of living area. It

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Sapphire Shores Dean and Patricia Miller, of Sarasota, sold their home at 5021 Brywill Circle to Jeffrey and Nikki Sedacca, of Sarasota, for $1.45 million. Built in 1924, it has four bedrooms, four baths, two half-baths, a pool and 5,055 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.9 million in 2006.

Marina Tower William Weiss, trustee, and Josephine Weiss, of Sarasota, sold the Unit 501 condominium at 1233 N. Gulfstream Ave. to Richard and Betty Nimtz, of Sarasota, for $980,000. Built in 2001, it has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,940 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $725,000 in 2003.

Essex House Gilbert Sharell and Kathleen Babcock, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 1008 condominium at 707 S. Gulfstream Ave. to Max Dix Jr., of Sarasota, for $767,500. Built in 1974, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,721 square feet of living area.

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Hunt Brothers Homes Inc. sold the home at 5125 Stevens Drive to Marian Strickland, of Sarasota, for $765,000. Built in 2014, it has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,784 square feet of living area.

Alta Vista Street Wilson Barrera, trustee, of Bradenton, sold four properties at 1763, 1759, 1761 and 1759 Alta Vista St. to 3905 Red Rock LLC for $660,000. The property at 1763 was built in 1925. It has two bedrooms, two baths and 778 square feet of living area.

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The property at 1761 was built in 1925, and has one bedroom, one bath and 515 square feet of living area. They previously sold for $585,000 in 2002.

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1633 Liscourt Drive A4119928 $289,800 Crystal Cosby

Venice 941-966-8000 571-230-5013

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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 6 through April 10, in order of dollar amounts.

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PERMIT

APPLICANT

AMOUNT

2340 Bradenton Road

Solar

Richard Martin

$70,800

2106 Magnolia St.

Windows/Doors

John Rattigan

$25,000

2121 Wood St.

Alterations

Craig Montgomery

$25,000

949 Pomelo Place

Addition

Robert Kirby Jr.

$24,000

750 N. Tamiami Trail

Remodel

Theresa Galvin, trustee

$13,000

1600 Blue Heron Drive

Mechanical

Dennis Molinari

$11,377

2636 Wisteria Place

Re-roof

Dale Barsinger

$10,360

3401 Flamingo Ave.

Windows

Jim Syprett

$9,878

489 Acacia Drive

Generator

Richard Thomas, trustee

$9,183

847 Freeling Drive

Mechanical

Ian Jamieson

$7,364 3601 Casey Key Rd A3999236 $5,895,000 Dorothy Mckendry

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PERMIT

APPLICANT

Casey Key 941-966-8000 941-586-5007

AMOUNT

376 S. Creek Drive

Pool/Spa

Donald Mitchell

$48,693

2362 Pine Terrace

Pool/Spa

Jagbir Grewal

$43,733

5032 Flagstone Drive

Pool/Lanai

Marc Jonas

$39,000

1750 Mova St.

Pool/Spa

Lisa Hoffman

$35,600

5375 Southerly Way

Pool

Daniel Le Clair

$35,480

16865 Full Sail Way

Pool

Julie Norris

$35,000

8519 Park Shore Lane

Re-roof

Frank Rochelle, trustee

$33,990

2307 Cass St.

Pool/Deck

Ernest Corkin

$30,000

1412 Ridgewood Lane

Seawall/Boatlift

Joseph Abraham

$28,938

1830 Coquina Drive

Solar

Dana Hanson

$35,996

3210 Casey Key Rd A3998785 $2,750,000 Deborah Beacham

Casey Key 941-383-7591 941-376-2688

990 Blvd Of The Arts 1403 A4108769 $2,650,000 Kim & Michael Ogilvie

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-376-1717

Nokomis/North Venice 941-966-8000 941-356-9954

1111 Ritz Carlton Drive 1101 A4118720 $1,499,000 Christine Del Monte

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-266-6733

3603 North Point 801 A4119458 $1,395,000 Barbara McDonald

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-356-5367

7435 Cove Terrace A4114147 $1,295,000 Linda Driggs

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-374-2920

472 Webbs Cove A4119826 $1,272,000 Nicole Dovgopolyi

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-356-5849

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

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

50 Central Avenue 15G A4109168 $1,150,000 Stacy Hanan

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-266-0529

6501 Saddle Oak Trail A4111080 $1,090,000 Lee Byron & Sue Keal

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-350-5542

6300 Midnight Pass Road 1011 A4119867 $929,000 Kristina Talkie & Judy Arreola

Siesta Key 941-349-3444 941-266-8658

Source: Sarasota County; city of Sarasota

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

7749 Fairway Woods Drive 1005 A4113429 $239,000 Susan Matteoli PA

541 Argus Road N5903196 $189,900 Michelle Hupp

859 Siesta Key Cir A3968496 $8,500,000 Karen Cash Greco

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-735-0770

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-356-1335

Venice 941-485-5421 941-773-5464

7106 41st Lane E A4117963 $279,000 Theresa Meyers

1421 Ultramarine Lane C7210527 $234,900 Rise Wells

2417 Riverbluff Parkway V-235 A4107145 $155,000 Pamela Wall

Sarasota 941-907-9595 941-780-5214

Punta Gorda 941-639-0000 941-623-5874

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-504-5019

5855 Midnight Pass Road 514 A4119983 $259,900 Lin Dunn

5575 Bountiful Drive 16 A4119569 $209,900 Matthew Cannon

1622 Stickney Point Road 22-102 A4111684 $135,900 Robert Agnello

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

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-228-2030

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-928-1328

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

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

435 Picasso Drive A4114027 $995,000 Lenore Treiman

Nokomis/North Venice 941-966-8000 941-356-9642

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2049 E Leewynn Drive A4119875 $285,000 Dan Freed

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It previously sold for $489,000 in 2007.

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Riverview Manor Chester and Sandra Zarzycki, of Bradenton, sold their home at 2551 Waterview Court to Brandon Cloud, of Sarasota, for $325,000. Built in 1991, it has four bedrooms, two baths and 2,301 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $186,200 in 2012.

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Pelican Cove Philip Schonberger and Jane Schonberger, trustees, of Hartford, Conn., sold the Unit 115 condominium at 1601 Pelican Point Drive to Guillaume Ruff and Antoinette Aellen, of Geneva, for $315,000. Built in 1979, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,320 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $165,000 in 1996.

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Hyde Park Terrace Klein Investments LLC sold the home at 2903 Stoneland Lane to Jason Ficks, of Winfield, Pa., for $285,000. Built in 1991, it has four bedrooms, three and a half baths and 3,154 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $130,000 in 2014.

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Paver Park Estates Robin Roy and Kay Mathers, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2517 E. Milmar Drive to Alexander Marin and Emily Ploeger, of Sarasota, for $300,000. Built in 1953, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 1,604 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $101,000 in 2007.

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Cynthia Smith and Ian Smith, of Lititz, Pa., sold their Unit T-137 condominium at 1704 Pelican Cove Road to Everett and Mary Gendler, of Great Barrington, Mass., for $245,000. Built in 1976, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 1,841 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $167,500 in 1998.

Dolphin Tower Equine Real Estate LLC sold the Unit 4-F condominium at 101 S. Gulfstream Ave. to Shirl Gautheir, trustee, of Riverview, for $280,000. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,390 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $76,100 in 2012.

South Pointe Woods Patricia Wilson, of Sarasota, sold her home at 3327 Plantation Drive to Heather and Roger Wiebke, of Sarasota, for $272,900. Built in 1988, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,519 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $129,900 in 1998.

Gulf Gate Woods Daniel Hering, of Sarasota, sold his home at 2927 Captiva Drive to Ruslan and Bernadetta Gregor, of West Hartford, Conn., for $268,000. Built in 1974, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,600 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $125,000 in 2000.

South Gate Andmas Business LLC sold the home at 2920 Bougainvillea St. to Christine Jarmul and David Morgan, of Sarasota, for $282,000. Built in 1968, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,046 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $199,500 in 2002.

Michelle Miller, of New Ulm, sold her home at 3013 Homasassa Road to Robert Dinan, of Sarasota, for $255,600. Built in 1968, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,979 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $245,000 in 2014.

Bank of America sold the home at 2636 Wisteria Place to Dale Barshinger and Tamara Mason, of Sarasota, for $250,000. Built in 1960, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,768 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $222,500 in 2004.

Federal National Mortgage Association sold the home at 3386 Bougainvillea St. to Sinead Magennis and Agnes Stribling, of Sarasota, for $203,000. Built in 1969, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,586 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $173,100 in 2013.

Gulf Gate William and Joanne Fralin, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3180 Chase Circle to 3180CHASECIRCLE LLC for $236,500. Built in 1971, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,507 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $140,000 in 2010.

Village Green Club Estates Fannie Mae sold the home at 3378 Spring Mill Circle to Terrence Shull and Philip Veach, of Douglas, Mich., for $230,000.

Built in 1969, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,651 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $251,500 in 2014.

Gulf Gate East Peggy Dillon, of Sarasota, sold her home at 6552 Waterford Circle to Vito and Tamblyn Abrusci and Alyssa Abrusci, of Succasunna, N.J., for $225,000. Built in 1981, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,629 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $79,100 in 1981.

Rustic Lodge Jami Kellogg, of Sarasota, sold the home at 1323 S. Jefferson Ave.to Weekley Homes LLC for $219,000. Built in 1925, it has three bedrooms, one bath and 1,590 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $150,000 in 2014.

Vamo Suntitle Research Inc. sold the home at 1776 Mova St. to 1776 Mova St. LLC for $200,000.

Built in 1978, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,118 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $230,000 in 2006.

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$2,995,000 5831 Riegels Harbor Road

$1,845,000 458 Island Circle

$1,099,999

Deep sailboat water with Bay and bayou docks. 5,265 a/c sq. ft.

Rare 2/3 acre lot, 4 beds/3.5 baths. 1/1 guest house, 6+ car garage.

Direct Bay access. Boat and auto enthusiasts, deep water 50’ dock, 6+ car garage. Gated enclave near Siesta Beach. 4 beds/4.5 baths.

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Cleaning

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

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.

RICK STEAKLEY PAINTING. Interior/Exterior.

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30+/years experience. References available.

Free Estimates.

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FREE ESTIMATES! Call Dotty, detailed cleaning.

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Looking for year-round customers! We accept all major credit cards. Dotty, 941-321-6645.

HOUSE CLEANING, housekeeping, pet sitting, window washing. Excellent services by European couple. 941-350-8072.

Pet Services DOGGY HOTEL/GROOMING. 24 Hour Daycare.

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Property Management LANDLORD ALERT!! We have Tenant’s!!!

Wanted: 1-3BR Homes/Condos, Furnished or Unfurnished. Siesta Key Realty Incorporated, 941-349-8900, www.siestakeyrealtyrentals.com

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

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.

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Sharon M. Guy

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Hours: Monday-Friday 9am - 3pm • Weekends by appointment

167248

MAINLAND BOATING ESTATE REDUCED 180' on Phillippi Creek, wide water views, dock & lift. One private acre, large (5700+s.f. total) energy efficient home. No flood insurance.

Reduced to $949,000.

17B

CERTIFIED NURSING Assistant, Joann 941-753-1212. 20+ years experience. Part-time, Full-time. Available for travel. References available.

RETIRED RN. Transportation, medication monitoring, light housekeeping and meal preparation.

Compassionate TLC. 30+ Years experience.

941-266-6012, Kathie.

OPEN SUNDAY - 1P.M.-4P.M.

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(941) 960-1856

Insured

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“Specializing in 6” Seamless Gutters” Yoderaluminum.com

15505 Lemon Fish Dr. Dustin Yoder Bradenton, FL 34202 yoderaluminum@gmail.com Office 941-650-9790

DOCKSIDE BOAT REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE SMS Mobile Marine Service GPS/Fishfinder Installation • Outboards I/O’s • Inboards Call for appointment • 941-232-3523

ANTIQUES/COLLECTIBLES

AIR CONDITIONING

BOAT SERVICES

Let Us Handle Your Estate Sale

CERTIFIED & INSURED

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Yoder Aluminum Inc.

168262

HHA Lic # 299994389

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CLEANING

Antiques and Chatchkes Conducting Estate Sales Since 1990

FREE

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www.antiquesandchatchkes.com 164629

724-1395

Cell (941)

Licensed • Free Estimates

DON’T LET YOUR

Call Paradise Dryer Vent Cleaning Today

Consultation On-site By Appointment 941.356.3318

We Use Organic Products

DRYER START A FIRE!

Furniture – Oil Paintings – Collectibles & Other Antiques

Calls Answered 24/7

Commercial and Residential Best Prices in Town

YOUR SAFETY IS PRICELESS! 941. 979. 2707

Dryers and washing machines were involved in one out of every 22 home structure fires LICENSED, BONDED & INSURED reported to U.S. fire departments in 2006-2010.

www.paradisedryervent.com

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Highest Prices Paid on Estates

Always Buying!

Once piece or entire estate Estate Jewelry, Sterling, Gold & Diamonds.

Mercy’s Cleaning Service 168218

Insured & bonded

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CUSTOM WOODWORKING

HOME SERVICES

Sarasota Gate & Access

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CLEANING

ADDY’S CLEANING SERVICE 168690

• One Time, Weekly, Monthly • Res./Comm. • Move Ins/Outs • Carpet Cleaning • References • Free Est. ★ Very Affordable Rates ★ 3687954-01

DOORS

“FIX IT - DON’T REPLACE�

New Deluxe Rollers Will Make Your Doors Roll Better Than Ever Call Mark 928-2263 proslidingglassdoorrepair.com

We don’t claim we’re the best, our customers do!

941-377-6243

941-349-4455 Gulf Breeze Home Watch

www.mtpsarasota-manatee.com

Peace of Mind While You Are Away

Request A Free Estimate Today!

Starts at just $30/mo. • Family Owned and Operated Serving Manatee and Sarasota Counties

• Residential Service and Installation • Fully Insured • 24 Hour Emergency Service • 25 Years Experience

COMPUTER

COMPUTER REPAIR SALES & SERVICE

Ins./Bonded

• Detailed house monitoring services

Lyon

• Visits can be carried outWeekly/Bi-monthly or Monthly

Home Watch Services

New & Refurbished Computers Servicing PC & MAC on Site or In Shop Virus Removal We Make Windows 8 User-Friendly!

168505

DRYWALL

‘Peace of mind is priceless’ Weekly Services from $15 (941) 928-0391 Karen@the-lyons.com

CHALMERS DRYWALL

DON’T THROW YOUR COMPUTER OUT THE WINDOW – CALL LORITECH!

• Repair • Remodel • New Construction

• Interior/Exterior inspections - Photos emailed to you • Airport pick-up and drop off • Housekeeping services if required • References supplied

Licensed/Insured • Free Estimates

NEW LOCATION: 6968 Beneva Rd.

780-3788 • 822-0436

169077

(Just around the corner Next to Beneva Flowers)

941-929-9095

The Service DirecTory

169292

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LIGHTHOUSE ELECTRIC of Sarasota

Place Your Ad Quickly

3690387-01

Franklin Kenny • Electrical Contractor

Call 955-4888 to reserve your space.

Lic. #ER0013984

168223

IRRIGATION

PATIO REPAIRS, INC PATIO REPAIRS

LACIVITA CONCRETE

A FULL SERVICE IRRIGATION COMPANY

FurnitureSales Sales &&Repairs Furniture Repairs Cushions • Slings • Re-powdercoating #USHIONS s 3LINGS s 5MBRELLAS

Residential Concrete Specialist 168221

3680493-01

941-504-0903

Maintenance - Repair -Installation

15% OFF

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Since 1967

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rain sensors

20 any irrigation

$

$ OFF repair over 100

JR Concrete & Masonry Contractor

Re-Strapping

Re-Slinging

Re-Finishing

941-716-0872

941-888-2988 FREE ESTIMATES rainscape.com

KITCHEN/BATH REMODELING

Walkways•Landings•Driveways: New & Repairs Pavers Installed & Sealing Stucco: New & Repairs • Blocks: New & Repairs Bobcat Services Available

AT T E N T I O N L A N D L O R D S A N D P R O P E R T Y M A N A G E R S

Manufacturers, New Sales & Refinishers Of Fine Outdoor Furniture 168689

Lic. #AAA-14-00088

941-955-4888 or classifieds.yourobserver.com

FURNITURE REPAIR

CONCRETE

922-3157

377-2272

Watching your home when you’re away

A Private Company Serving the Palmer Ranch Area Since 2007

ELECTRIC

WorkS for you!

Patios - Driveways - Sidewalks

941-321-9441

www.homewatchofsarasota.com info@homewatchofsarasota.com

169384

169280

• Weekly, Biweekly & Monthly Service • Carpet and Window Cleaning • Completely Bonded and Insured • COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS INVITED

State Lic. CR CO25291

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Protect your investments from liabilities of slips and falls by calling Dr. Grab Bar Now!

BUY ONE GRAB BAR GET ONE FREE FREE INSTALLATION

ALWAYS AVAILABLE AT

(941) 966-0333

AT TIME OF APPOINTMENT

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HANDYMAN

YOUR BATHROOM SAFETY SPECIALIST

Serving Sarasota & Manatee Counties

DECORATIVE SURFACES FOR: PATIOS, POOL DECKS, DRIVEWAYS, ENTRYWAYS

168713

Servicing the Sarasota area since 1999

Also Laying Stone

Reasonable Prices

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918-8587

Free Estimates

169291

Driveways • Sidewalks

“OUR ESTIMATES & ADVICE ARE FREE�

957-4762 (cell #) 504-3168

STEVE PANEBIANCO

Michael Koch Concrete, Inc.

“No Job Too Small�

Licensed Lic. #38333 References

HOME REPAIR SERVICE • NO JOB TOO SMALL • SCREEN REPAIRS • PAINTING/DRY WALL • TILE REPAIRS • & MUCH MORE!

24/7 SERVICE

966-5094 Cell #809-7311

FREE

ESTIMATES!

169293

3675768-01

• POLY-PEBBLE / EPOXY • TEXTURED CONCRETE • RESEAL & REPAIRS • INTERLOCKING BRICK PAVERS Free Serving Sarasota 355-1148 Estimates Since 1979 SARASOTA • BRADENTON • VENICE

) Carpentry ) Indoors ) Remodeling ) Ceramic Tile ) Water & Fire Damage ) Kitchen/Baths

167573

Custom Surfaces Inc. Licensed • Insured Lic. #25393

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Maid to Perfection

• Installation • Access Control • Maintenance • System Design

168712

House/Condo/OfďŹ ce Cleaning Carpet & Floor Care FREE ESTIMATES Lic. # 46264

FAST SAME-DAY SERVICE

Sliding Glass Door Repair

Move Ins/Move Outs

169323

Call Liz for the Best Price

167871

singleturtle@aol.com

168711

Ph. 376-4228

169075

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THE GRAB BAR GUY GLENN KROECKER

954-1878

(cell) 780-3346 Licensed & Insured

168224

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PET SERVICES

Pet Care

by

ROOFING

Melanie

LEAKY ROOF?

• Pet Sitting

GULF GATE ROOFING INC.

• Dog Walking

38 Years Experience

Specializing in Re-Roofing & Repairs

941-228-9850

• Excellent references

• Pet Shuttle (p/u & delivery to vet, groomer, etc.)

• Day Care (on request in Central Sarasota) • More

941-780-0658

941-960-6079

168225

MOVERS

PLUMBING Disposal Special

23900 Installed

$

MO V I N G

941-923-8140

167578

TREES

Licensed & Insured State Lic CFC056748

Licensed & Insured

10 Years Experience

941-232-1192 After

Roofs | Homes | Driveways | Sidewalks Pool Cages & Decks| Residential | Commercial LICENSED & INSURED. Ask for Doug.

167571

DISCOUNT CABINETRY & REMODELING 941-224-5108 Robert

• Cabinetry • Flooring • Painting • Doors/Windows • Crown Molding/Trim • Sheet Rock • Decks/Pools 169326

Uniquex LLC Remodeling, Painting, Carpentry 168704

167876

Free Estimate 941-922-3996

NATIVE CUT TREE SERVICE

• Best Price on Palm Trimming Call Bob • Storm Preparation, Hauling & Mulching • Landscape Design & Installation 780-2267 • Monthly Shrub Pruning Licensed Landscape ANY OUTDOOR PROJECT & Insured

All Tree Work

Residential & Commercial

REMODELING/HOME IMPROVEMENT

Investor Friendly

PAINTING

Driveway and Deck Staining

The Observer Service Directory Call 955-4888 to reserve your space.

24 HR. EMERGENCY SERVICE

169286 168576 169296

Licensed and insured #IM2186

Faulkner’s

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make your moving day a pleasure.

Painting & Pressure Cleaning

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• Drain & Sewer Cleaning • Backflows Installation • Re-piping Houses & Slab Leaks • Natural Gas Installations - Appliance Hook ups • Power Flush & Comfort Height Toilets • All Water Heaters - Tankless - Gas - Solar • All Major Plumbing Fixtures Repaired or Replaced • Garbage Disposals • New Water & Sewer Services • Dishwashers Installed • Wells & Pump Repairs

Before

For $85 per hour you get: A truck, 2 men with equipment, experience and a great attitude to

OZ - 941-313-4538

siestascreening@gmail.com

POWER WASHING

Phone (941) 704-4278 Fax (941) 538-3781 dmccarthy114@hotmail.com

Oz the Wizard of Moving

FREE ESTIMATES Rob Smith 941-237-7049

ANY SERVICE W/THIS COUPON

379-9070

Family Owned & Operated • Third Generation Master Plumber All Major Credit Cards Accepted www.GeneralPlumbingSarasota.com

LOCAL - LONG DISTANCE FREE ESTIMATES

Operator/Owner

$20.00 OFF

$

Complete Plumbing Services & Repairs Residential, New Construction and Commercial No Overtime, No Trip Charge No Job Too BIG or Too SMALL. We DO IT ALL!

“Will move anything from a couch to a household”

Dave McCarthy

Reg. Price 27900 Installed

Fast Quality Service at Reasonable Rates Ins./Lic. #RF0048866

General Plumbing Services Inc.

Dave McCarthy

Rescreening • Pool Enclosures Pressure Cleaning & Pool Cage Painting

DogSmith.com

• Repairs • Remodels • Installs • • Drains & Sewers • Cleaning • Repiping •

Serving Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch and Sarasota

SIESTA SCREENING of SARASOTA

(enter your zip code)

SSchinnen@DogSmith.com

Tibor Gyori

973-454-1094

167190

EXPERIENCED COMPANY OFFERING: • Dog Walking • Home Visits while owner is away • Slumber Parties • Pet/Home Sitting

169285

Owner and Operator

I.C.C 361253 • DOT 812623 FL MOVERS #IM1102

Free Estimates Porches • Pool Cages •Lanais Pinellas: (727) 424-0220 Manatee: (941) 928-9112 www.screenandmore.com

Lic. & Ins

Family Owned and Operated

L13000081129 Licensed and Insured

ScreenRe-screen ProsSpecialists and More

Your Local Pet Care Expert

167577

724-2945

SCREENING

169298

Lic. & Ins.

Fully Insured

State Licensed Contractor #CCC057066

Silke Schinnen

Free Estimates Lawn & Landscape Maintenance

373-9299

Joe Murray, Owner

PET SITTING

167575

3687676-01

167249

(941) 966-2960

CURT’s Lawn Service

167580

All Work Guaranteed

167583

147063 168574

• Over 13 years experience

LAWN CARE

19B

Zsolt Turai

973-432-6071

Renovations

WINDOWS

Wash Lic./Ins. rise Wisnudreow n u Cleanin ing S and Pres g

Res./Com.

Environmentally Friendly

“Leave Your Dirty Windows To Us”

941-447-0127 • 941-284-5880 “UP TO 25 STANDARD WINDOWS • $109.00” SPECIAL

10%

Free Estimates

5.00

OFF + Additional $

For Senior Citizens Prices Include:

2 Bath Mirrors • 2 Fans • Tracks • Screens

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168692

KITCHEN/BATH REMODELING

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Schemmel Property Group

REPRESENTING

Most Amazing Properties 75% RESERVED

Downtown Sarasota 1111 Ritz Carlton Drive, #1108 $1,100,000

West of Trail 3811 Camino Real $959,000

AQUA 280 Golden Gate Point Only two remaining units from $3,995,000

Siesta Key - Siesta Gulf View 420 Beach Road, #408 $945,000

Prestancia 4079 Las Palmas Way $1,295,000

Prestancia 4634 Mirada Way, #32/33 $395,000

Joel Schemmel, J.D. 941.587.4894 joel.schemmel@sothebysrealty.com Sharon Chiodi 941.809.0380 sharon.chiodi@sothebysrealty.com

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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 and neither suggests nor infers that Sotheby’s International Realty participated as either the listing or cooperating agent or broker in the sale or purchase of the properties depicted.

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