Health Matters JULY 2015
SIESTA KEY
Observer
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Formerly the Pelican Press
Experts say it’s time to change your eating habits if you are consistently reaching for process ed and convenience foods. PAGES 2-3
GREAT GRAINS Unprocessed grains offer healthy benefits. PAGES 4-5
YOUR TOWN LELU COFFEE LOUNGE MOURNS EMPLOYEE
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OUTDOOR ACTIVITY Make your workouts fun in the sun. PAGE 7
PICTURE OF HEALTH
Fanny Younger picked up tennis six years ago. PAGE 12
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VOLUME 45, NO. 51
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THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2015
Campaign for change As the city considers moving municipal elections from spring to fall, some residents are already voicing their displeasure with the potential shift. DAVID CONWAY NEWS EDITOR
The team behind the LeLu Coffee Lounge is mourning the death of employee Carly Lanea Cogan. Cogan, 23, died early Sunday morning when she was driving west along State Road 70 and struck a utility pole east of Lakewood Ranch Boulevard. Store owner Jennifer Smith said Cogan was known for her love of music and helped grow the weekly open-mic nights. To celebrate her life, the coffee lounge will host an open-mic night for Cogan from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, July 16, at LeLu Coffee Lounge, 5251 Ocean Blvd., Siesta Key.
‘Mr. Roundabout’ leaves mark on Sarasota’s roads Rod Warner, a leading advocate for roundabouts in Sarasota for more than 15 years, died July 9.
When Mollie Cardamone was elected to the Sarasota City Commission in 1993, more than half of the voters that year cast a ballot in support of her candidacy. Cardamone quickly learned that, because of the city’s election process, her experience was atypical. At the time, in the city’s March elections — particularly the at-large races with fields as large as nine candidates — commissioners entered office with a mere plurality of the votes. Candidates would occasionally ascend to the ceremonial position of mayor after earning fewer than 20% of the total votes cast. Cardamone, who served on the commission until 2001, was the leading force in changing that system. She believed that commissioners should have to receive a majority of the votes to enter office, and sought to ensure that was the case going forward. That SEE ELECTION PAGE 4A File photo
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DAVID CONWAY NEWS EDITOR
Rod Warner’s enthusiasm for roundabouts wasn’t just limited to the public realm — the city meetings and workshops where he repeatedly preached the efficacy of roundabouts, or the citizen advisory board on which he served for more than a decade, or the hundreds of one-on-one meetings with officials at various levels. Warner threw himself fully into his roundabout advocacy, a passion that helped Sarasota leaders and residents embrace the roadway-engineering tool. Warner’s son attests that his father was a true believer: When Ty Warner, who lives in the Chicago area, would visit his family in Sarasota, he knew it wouldn’t be long before he got an update on his dad’s favorite subject. “When we came back, the first SEE WARNER PAGE 6A
ARCHITECTURAL ADVOCATES
SAF preserves Sarasota’s modern architecture one building at a time.
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Lila Tack, Emma Zamikoff and Iris Axelius smile during leg stretches at the Sarasota Ballet Children’s Summer Intensive camp. For more photos from the camp, SEE PAGE 2B.
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