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Rosemary grows up Stakeholders begin considering what’s still to come for the district. SEE PAGE 3

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Mote Marine Laboratory started its week on a high note. Staff on June 5 released a loggerhead dubbed Ms. Marker off Lido Key. She was rescued April 14 after a pair of anglers reported a turtle floating on top of the water. Mote staff treated her symptoms, which were initially associated with Florida red tide toxins, and released her a month and a half later.

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Maya Miller and Skylah Mello graduated from Booker High School on June 3. Sarasota and Riverview seniors also graduated last weekend.

High school seniors take their next step toward the future. SEE PAGE 19

Siesta residents learn disaster-prep tips

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2017 2016 Lido Beach 21 19 Siesta Key 129 61 Casey Key 380 326 TOTAL FALSE CRAWLS:

2017 2016 Lido Beach 31 9 Siesta Key 114 112 Casey Key 394 145 Source: Mote Marine Laboratory

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A tornado struck Siesta Key and Sarasota in January 2016, causing millions in damage.

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proportion of ballots cast by under-40 voters in the May City Commission election.

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number of hours residents should be equipped to be on their own in the wake of a hurricane, according to county emergency staff.

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$4.7 million

disputed payment of county property tax revenue at the center of a city-county mediation process.

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$6.35 million

sale price of a Bird Key home, the largest residential sale in the region this year.

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“When I come downtown, I know I’m downtown.

I don’t need a sign to tell me that I’m here.”

Steven Cover, city planning director, on a proposal to install gateway signs at the entrance to downtown READ MORE ON PAGE 6

Residential watering restrictions in place

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espite the recent rain, the Southwest Florida Water Management District on Monday began restricting water use in the area.

Lawn watering will be limited to once a week, down from the previous twice-a-week, until Aug. 1. Residents can water lawns before 8 a.m. or after 6 p.m., and only on specific days of the week based on their addresses.

District spokeswoman Susanna Martinez Tarokh said the restrictions went into effect because, technically, the area is in a drought. Hydrologists with Swiftmud, as the organization is typically known, said the region is well short of its average annual rainfall at this point in the year.

The tighter regulations could be lifted sooner than the Aug. 1 deadline if the rain keeps falling.

“Obviously, we would need to see some consistent and sustained rainfall over the summer months,” Martinez Tarokh said.

In addition to lawn watering restrictions, a once-a-week limit on car washing is also in effect.

There is no restriction on handwatering or micro-irrigation of plants other than lawns, and homeowners associations can’t enforce rules that increase water usage during the time frame.

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Benderson Park launching fireworks for new celebration

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Residential lawn watering is under restriction until Aug. 1, or until the region is no longer under drought conditions.

WATER SCHEDULE

In Sarasota County, irrigation is allowed on Tuesdays or Thursdays, depending on the property: Tuesdays: Even numbered building addresses (numbers ending in 0, 2, 4, 6, 8), addresses ending in A through M and common areas (medians, recreational areas or other areas with no address).

Thursdays: Odd numbered building addresses (numbers ending in 1, 3, 5, 7, 9) and addresses ending in letters N through Z.

A new Fourth of July tradition will start this year at Nathan Benderson Park.

Park operator Suncoast Aquatic Nature Center Associates announced the park will host an Independence Day-inspired fireworks display and holiday celebration on Saturday, July 1.

There will be games and other festivities held on Regatta Island before the fireworks display.

Gates open at 4:30 p.m. Admission is free, but parking costs $5 on Regatta Island. On-the-water equipment rentals will be available from 5 to 7 p.m.

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Mission accomplished: Now what?

The Rosemary Residential Overlay District has generated a wave of redevelopment in the area — but has it run its course?

“If you go back, it’s not too long ago where the words on everybody’s lips were, ‘Rosemary District: homelessness, lawlessness and economic wasteland.’”

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1,500 UNITS

Adding the approved projects to the existing housing stock, there will be more than 1,500 residential units in the district — 85% of that 1,775 unit cap. The ceiling of the RROD is drawing close. City officials and Rosemary District stakeholders aren’t certain about how to proceed from here.

Should the density revert to 25 units per acre now that the neighborhood got the jolt it needed?

Should the density get permanently bumped to 75 units per acre? Do the regulations need to be more nuanced, with incentives woven in to create more affordable housing and green space and anything else the Rosemary District is lacking?

There’s no clear answer. If the goal was to kickstart redevelopment in a languishing neighborhood, those who have invested in the area say, mission accomplished.

“If you go back, it’s not too long ago where the words on everybody’s lips were, ‘Rosemary

— Michael Bush, president of the Rosemary District Neighborhood Association

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Projects like CitySide on Cocoanut Avenue have added rental units to the Rosemary District that are affordable when contrasted to downtown, but still remain out of reach for many working-class residents, officials said. Affordable housing will be a key factor in determining whether to extend a density bonus in the neighborhood.

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he challenges facing the Rosemary District today are not the same challenges facing the Rosemary District five years ago.

The neighborhood, just north of downtown and east of the bayfront, was once a symbol of unrealized potential. Officials, businesses and residents brainstormed ways to spark redevelopment, but nothing seemed to take hold.

Today, the Rosemary District is a symbol of a period of prosperity.

More than 1,100 residential units are being developed. The first major project to break ground in the area, the CitySide apartment complex at 700 Cocoanut Ave., added 229 apartments this year.

Ninety percent of those have a tenant lined up already.

Many stakeholders have welcomed the growth, but it comes with questions about the district’s ability to accommodate the needs of all the new buildings and residents.

There’s a simple turning point in the story of the neighborhood.

In 2014, the City Commission approved the Rosemary Residential Overlay District. Before, zoning allowed projects in the area to have 25 units per acre. The overlay tripled the permitted density in the area, giving developers 75 units per acre and setting the stage for a boom of apartment and condo projects.

To a certain point, at least. The Rosemary Residential Overlay District — RROD, for short — comes with a provision that caps the number of new high-density projects. While individual projects could have 75 units per acre, the overall residential density of the district couldn’t exceed 25 units per acre. This meant, under the overlay’s provisions, builders could only add 1,775 residential units.

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ROSEMARY’S BABIES It’s been just more than three years since the city approved the Rosemary Residential Overlay District. In that time, the city has approved more than 1,500 new units in the area, with most projects capitalizing on the density bonus.

Name Address No. of units 1. CitySide Phase 1 700 Cocoanut Ave. 229 2. Vanguard Lofts 1343 Fourth St. 6 3. Urban Flats 1401 Fruitville Road 228 4. Risdon on 5th 1350 Fifth St. 22 5. Rosemary Square 1440 Boulevard of the 39 Arts 6. FST artist housing 751 Cohen Way 5 7. Elan Rosemary 710 N. Lemon Ave. 286 8. Drapac 1329 Fourth St. 62 9. Courtyard at Citrus 505 N. Orange Ave. 10 Square* 10. CitySide Phase 2 850 Cocoanut Ave. 253 11. Zaharada* 1542 Fourth St. 6 (pending building permit) 12. Citrus Square Phase 3 555 N. Orange Ave. 18 (pending building permit) *Not using increased RROD density Existing units: 385 Total existing, approved and pending units: 1,549

District: homelessness, lawlessness and economic wasteland,’” said Michael Bush, president of the Rosemary District Neighborhood Association. “That’s been removed from people’s vocabulary. It’s now focused on development and vision, and everything’s positive. That’s an amazing step forward.”

But it has not been an experiment without flaws. On Monday, when the city discussed the future of the neighborhood, Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch cast the RROD in a much less-favorable light.

“We don’t have parks,” she said.

“We don’t have trees. We have tiny sidewalks. I’m not totally thrilled with the way this has happened. Yes, it was successful in spurring development. But was it successful in creating affordable housing? I don’t think so.”

Right now, developers could still build about 225 new units in the Rosemary District before hitting the RROD cap. There’s time for officials to study the issue before locking in a plan for the neighborhood. And in the nottoo-distant future, the city’s Urban Design Studio will present a proposal for a new zoning code for the entire city, including new regulations for Rosemary.

Neighborhood stakeholders want to capitalize on this moment for inquiry. The Rosemary District Strategic Planning Initiative is a grassroots effort to steer the future of the area — including addressing the needs the explosion of growth has created. People in the neighborhood have identified park space, parking and a lack of defined vision as future challenges to tackle.

Howard Davis, a Rosemary District property owner leading the planning effort, said questions about density can be folded into the process. Davis and other property owners are advocating for a community-driven approach to planning, rather than letting the commission hand down an edict.

“Out of that input, we can say,

‘If we were to make any attachments to (the density increase), what are the things we want to secure?’” Bush said.

There are strong advocates for increasing the density throughout the district to 75 units per acre.

The increased density, combined with the height limit of five stories, gives developers an incentive to build smaller units. Those units are inherently more affordable than the multimillion-dollar condos downtown.

“What we’re creating in the Rosemary District is unique,” said CitySide developer Bruce Weiner.

“People from all walks of life — and, to some degree, all income levels — are living there.”

Karin Murphy, director of the Urban Design Studio and author of the forthcoming zoning code, echoed Ahearn-Koch’s concerns about the overlay. She supports the intent of the RROD, and said the city should create a more diverse housing mix.

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When she’s talked to residents about the future of the neighborhood, though, they’ve pointed to the same flaws. The rents are still relatively high. You’d have to pay $1,151 per month for a 572-square-foot studio apartment at CitySide, the cheapest option available there.

There’s no parkland within the neighborhood, despite the impending addition of thousands of new residents. The new building hasn’t been attached to any transit planning, which means there’s less incentive for people to ditch their cars.

She’s come to a similar conclusion as the planning initiative: There needs to be more discussion before making a long-term adjustment to the regulations in the Rosemary District.

“What we’ve heard from the residents, when we have the community discussion, is let’s assess it before we decide what to do next,” Murphy said.

Murphy is writing a revised density bonus system into the new form-based code. Rather than allowing developers to build more units by right, the code would give projects more density for affordable housing units, or if they paid into a parkland fund or provided transit upgrades.

The City Commission is operating on a similar wavelength, particularly when it comes to affordable housing. The board directed staff to come back with new regulations that would tie any increased density to the creation of affordable housing.

The next wave of building in the Rosemary District is still murky.

Before builders reach the overlay district limit, all parties involved are working to make the future of the neighborhood clearer.

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Most answers focused on the same line of thinking. Elected officials needed to make a more concerted effort to address things young adults care about, particularly good jobs and affordable housing. And young people needed to hold those officials accountable.

Like much said in the heat of a political campaign, it’s easy to be cynical about the prospect of meaningful change actually coming to fruition.

Especially when, according to an SRQ Magazine analysis, voters under 40 cast 8.7% of the ballots.

The number of under-40 voters is barely over half the total votes

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Proportionally, voter turnout was higher for residents over the age of 100 than it was for voters aged 20 to 29. If younger adults weren’t coming out to vote, would all that rhetoric quickly fizzle out?

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STRIVING & THRIVING Next month, the Sarasota Young Professionals Group plans to host a summit for the second straight year.

The theme for this year’s event is “Thrive,” focused on helping attendees succeed in their personal and professional lives.

What: 2017 Young Professional Group Summit: “Thrive” When: 8 a.m. to noon Friday, July 21 Where: University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, 8350 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota Tickets: $50 for YPG members and $65 for nonmembers. To register, visit bit.ly/YPGThrive

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ute meeting with City Manager Tom Barwin. The conversation focused on some of the same high-profile youth-related issues that came up on the campaign trail, but it had another wrinkle: These young people wanted to learn more about how local government actually worked.

The group, a part of the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce, doesn’t want to just advocate for the interests of under-40s in Sarasota. It wants to make sure its members are equipped to navigate the intricacies of city and county government, said Mimi Cirbusova, the chamber’s Young

Professionals Group coordinator.

She said it’s common for younger people to assume elected officials have no interest in advocating for them.

“Part of that cynicism comes from a lack of knowing — how do all these big parts of our municipal government work together?”

Cirbusova said. “You don’t know what you don’t know, so YPG’s trying to fill that void a little bit.”

The face-to-face with Barwin came together after he spoke on the same panel as Jamie Minton, the group’s government issues chair, in April. That event, hosted by the Downtown Sarasota Condo Association, focused on optimal aging; Minton appeared to speak about millennial issues.

Although the event largely

focused on older residents, Minton appreciated the effort to present a diverse set of perspectives.

And she learned the issues Sarasota residents are facing don’t change as much as you might think across age groups.

“What I’m starting to realize is no matter what, across all demographics, including age demographics, we’re all having the same conversation about the same topics — just not with each other,” Minton said. “I think that’s one of the reasons I was asked to speak, so the millennial voice could start being included.”

When she broached the subject of having a meeting with Barwin, the city manager was game. City officials want to be clear: Young people’s input is valued.

Barwin acknowledged that the young professionals didn’t exactly come in with the perception that the city was eager to engage with them.

“They were mildly surprised that this was the city’s position,” he said. “My impression of their takeaway was, ‘Wow, there’s a lot going on here. We didn’t know that, and we’re pleasantly surprised people would welcome our participation.’”

The young professionals had an opportunity to discuss what they see as barriers to getting involved in local government. If you’re focused on making career advancements or getting your family started, you don’t have much time to appear at afternoon commission meetings, Minton said. She wanted to find a way to meet in the middle — to ensure that if young residents were willing to put in the work, government officials would find a way to make sure their opinions are taken into consideration. Young

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people don’t want to be the center of attention; they just want a seat at the table and the knowledge of how to play the game.

“We want to ask the generations above us to lend us their wisdom and expertise, so once they’re done doing what they’re doing, we can pick up and don’t have to start from scratch,” Minton said.

The meeting with Barwin was just one step toward making that happen. The Young Professionals Group is working with county staff to set up a recurring series of meetings highlighting how local government can influence the issues the association’s members care most about, according to a recent survey. The group also plans to circulate a list of advisory board vacancies, which is one way Barwin said young people could get more directly involved.

Getting to a legitimate position of influence is still a work in progress. Barwin is optimistic this initiative won’t just fizzle out, though.

“I think what we really did is opened, I hope, a long-term dialogue to exchange ideas and priorities and issues that they have some insight on,” he said.

And, despite any concerns about millennials fleeing from Sarasota the first chance they get, Minton said many young people want desperately to stay put — and they’re prepared to do what it takes to make sure they can.

“We do want to be in Sarasota,” Minton said. “We’re willing to fight to stay here. People want to raise their families here. They don’t want to expand downtown so we can become this major entertainment hub. We just want to live in a place that likes us as much as we like it.”

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DID scales back gateway sign plans City planning staff raised a series of concerns about the Downtown Improvement District’s idea to install signs welcoming visitors to the area.

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he Downtown Improvement District, in the midst of exploring a project to install gateway signs at key intersections, invited three city planning officials to share feedback on the idea at a meeting Tuesday.

That feedback was largely critical. Planning Director Steven Cover, Chief Planner Steve Stancel and Urban Design Studio Director Karin Murphy raised both logistical and conceptual issues with the proposal, which was designed to make downtown more visible and easily identifiable for visitors.

Staff’s concerns convinced the DID it shouldn’t move forward with its original scope for gateway signs. Still, the board voted to continue planning a sign near the intersection of U.S. 41 and Main Street, with most of the group convinced the project would

help distinguish and promote the downtown area.

Before Tuesday’s meeting, the DID budgeted $150,000 to install three gateway signs, arching over the intersections and labeling downtown “the heart and soul of the city.” The group originally planned to install the signs at U.S. 41 and Main Street, U.S. 301 and Main Street and Fruitville Road and Lemon Avenue.

Cover, who began working for the city in April, said he didn’t see any need to better label the downtown area.

“I’ve only been here seven weeks, so Sarasota’s very new to me,” Cover said. “But when I come downtown, I know I’m downtown. I don’t need a sign to tell me that I’m here.”

Both Cover and Stancel suggested the signs could come off as an artificial attempt at placemaking. Instead, Stancel said, building types and streetscapes can form a visual language that makes visitors well aware of where a

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Urban Design Studio Director Karin Murphy said the proposed gateway signs, bottom, could interfere with the view of things already in a visitor’s line of sight downtown — such as the bayfront signage seen above.

certain neighborhood begins and ends.

Murphy’s concerns were more technical. At each of the identified intersections, she said, it would be difficult to install the signs in a place that created a natural eyeline for visitors and did not interfere with other parts of downtown.

At Main Street and U.S. 41, for example, the sign could not

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obstruct the view of the traffic lights, and it would have to be placed in a location where the traffic lights didn’t obstruct the view of the sign. The signs would have to contend with trees, landscaping and other Main Street features.

Looking west from Main Street toward U.S. 41, Murphy said there’s already a natural visual stopping point: the bayfront sig-

nage near the entrance of Marina Jack. She said a sign a few blocks east could interfere with that view, which lets visitors know the bayfront is a destination, too.

Plus, the city is exploring the possibility of installing a roundabout at U.S. 41 and Main Street, which could throw off the utility of a sign installed now.

“At best, it’s just a little early to be putting structures in those locations,” Murphy said.

DID board member Eileen Hampshire agreed with the planner’s criticisms, arguing downtown is inherently identifiable because of its character and the scale of buildings. But the rest of the board still sees potential in the idea, agreeing on U.S. 41 and Main Street as the best fit.

Cover said the preliminary design concept the DID obtained for the signs did not speak to the distinct character of Sarasota.

Board member Daniel Volz ran with that criticism, suggesting a project that better reflected the city’s identity would be more interesting for visitors.

If the signs were built with pedestrians in mind, Volz said it could become a sort of attraction in its own right — a defining place where people took pictures when they came to the city.

DID Operations Manager John Moran is scheduling a discussion with the City Commission regarding the proposal to gauge that board’s interest.

Even as the DID moves ahead with its plans for a gateway sign, staff assured them downtown is already a well-defined neighborhood in many people’s minds.

“Most people I talk to love the people and life that is downtown,” Murphy said. “That’s what brings them here.”

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Is incivility the new normal?

These are not the most pleasant or stress-free of times.

But is that any excuse for being inconsiderate?

KRISTINE NICKEL

J

ust when you thought incivility couldn’t get any worse, comedian Kathy Griffin posts a photo, well, you know that story.

That’s followed by a news conference where she claims she is a victim because she has been censured by millions and fired from her job as a New Year’s Eve television show hostess. Then Bill Maher makes a disgusting racial slur — even for Bill Maher —during an interview with U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, who later said he was so horrified he struggled to find any response.

Maher said that upon reflection during the middle of the night he thought perhaps he had gone too far.

As I write this column, the news about Harvard University rescinding admission offers for at least 10 incoming freshman is dominating the internet. These early admitted students reportedly formed a private messaging group online, in Facebook, where they sent offensive memes and images to one another mocking the Holocaust, sexual assault and making grotesque, racially motivated jokes about children.

Is incivility the new norm?

Considering the above, you might believe that’s where our country is headed if not already at ground zero.

A year ago, the University of Chicago released a report stating that almost 75 % of Americans think “manners and behavior have declined” in the United States. But, 80% of those polled agreed on what was appropriate or inappropriate behavior.

In another poll, which was released last fall by Weber Shandwick, Powell Tate and KRC Research, this was reported: Seventy percent of Americans think political incivility is at a “crisis” level. Americans avoid discussing controversial questions out of fear they will be perceived as uncivil ,and a full half of those polled said they preferred to withdraw from discussing politics because of the fear of bullying and incivility toward them.

The same study revealed that most Americans have been victims of incivility, especially during driving and shopping.

And, guess what? Almost 60% acknowledged they themselves have acted uncivil.

One expert on civility in this country is P. M. Forni from Johns Hopkins University, where he founded The Civility Institute.

Forni recently was quoted as saying, “The weak economy,

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wars, the threat of terrorism, the hostile political environment, the two major parties warring with one another and exchanging salvos that are not very civil — these are not the most pleasant or stress-free of times.

When we are stressed, we are less likely to be considerate and kind. When we are insecure very often we shift the burden or that insecurity on others in the form of hostility.”

Houston, we have a problem.

That no one has come up with the definitive answer to the “why” is also not surprising. Experts are all over the map on this question. Some say technology has a huge part. We have become more competent in dealing with machines than real people. We have lost social and emotional competence.

Another line of thinking places blame on the economy and need for workers to perform higher levels of productivity, leaving them stressed out. Many scientists have shown that stress negatively impacts our emotions and emotions have been shown to be contagious. Yes, we pass them on. Nicholas Christakis, when he was at Harvard, wrote that based on his research, “a person’s emotions can have a collective existence and affect the vast fabric of humanity.”

Wow. Think about that the next time you use that middle finger after you get cut off because you’re driving too slow or too fast in one lane or another on the Trail.

Here’s the good news.

Many people and organizations are not about to shrug off incivility as inevitable. Our own Gulf Coast Community Foundation championed a community civility awareness initiative in 2007 and actively supported it in workplaces, community organizations and schools for three years. Ten years later, its Board of Trustees decided it was time to bring it back.

“Civility is the foundation of community,” said CEO Mark

Pritchett, announcing the relaunch of Because It Matters. “In our current political and social climate, politics have become polarizing, and rhetoric is divisive. We also have seen social media transform the ways we interact with one another.

We think it’s time to revisit the role of civility in building strong communities.”

Pritchett went on to say that the dangers of incivility are numerous: “It turns off political participation. It results in needless government gridlock. And it sows the seeds of intolerance.”

Indeed, when Gulf Coast invited historian David McCullough to speak to the community earlier this year in its annual Better Together luncheon, McCullough’s message on the lessons of history kept coming back to civility. He spoke emphatically that the core values that ground communities are seeded in our neighborhoods, our homes and our schools. Things like moral sense, attitude and civility do make us who we are and establish the requirement for a productive and nurturing society.

“David McCullough sowed the seeds of civility and engagement earlier this year,” Pritchett said.

“At Gulf Coast, together with our donors, we are eager to keeping working within our community to cultivate those seeds.”

Welcome back.

Kristine Nickel is a marketing communications consultant and former marketing and public relations executive. For more than 30 years, she has relieved her stress by writing features for publications across the country.

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When he woke up in the morning and went to his van, two of the tires were slashed. The man was sure his ex-girlfriend was responsible, though there were no witnesses or cameras that recorded the incident.

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Driving over the Ringling Causeway and looking at the “View of Sarasota,” there was none to the right.

It was a “Wall Of Concrete.”

The problem is simple. Different commissions approved various buildings, without consideration or thought to the proximity to the building next door.

We have no consistency, nor any thought process to the design, size or shape or what has gone up and what is going up.

The complaints regarding debris, scaffolding, and infringement on other building’s property are all due to way too much growth on way too little land.

Sarasota has not used any kind of consistent approval process.

For the city attorney to make such a pathetic comment, “Many of these disagreements are civil issues that the city doesn’t oversee.”

What?

To the new city commissioners, please, before you vote yes, think about the issues in this article. Look at the view of our great city, and ask voters, do they really want more hotels, more condos so close to each other?

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Hurricanes not only emergency threat, officials warn Headed into hurricane season, county officials say residents need to take the initiative to get ready for disaster ahead of time.

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The county encourages residents to sign up for its CodeRED alert system, which notifies users about important information affecting their neighborhood — including emergency weather conditions.

To sign up, visit scgov. net and follow the CodeRED registration link. And for more information on emergency preparedness, visit scgov.net/allhazards.

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For someone working as the chief of emergency management in a coastal southwest Florida county, Ed McCrane doesn’t make too big of a deal about the official start of hurricane season.

“June 1 is just another day on the calendar,” McCrane said.

Within the county Department of Emergency Management, preparing for hurricane season begins well before the actual period during which most hurricanes form in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. But also, the department wants residents to be vigilant year-round, knowing that emergencies can strike at any moment.

“We’re starting hurricane season, but we’ve got potentials for disaster every day,” said Rich Collins, the county’s director of emergency services.

McCrane and Collins appeared at the June 1 Siesta Key Association meeting, reminding residents on the barrier island what to do in case a severe storm hits.

They also reminded the group that disaster can come in differ-

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Disaster can strike at unexpected times — such as the tornado that hit Siesta Key and Sarasota in January 2016.

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The most important thing residents can do, the officials said, is be prepared ahead of time. In the case of a hurricane, the Emergency Services Department has a motto: “The first 72 is on you.” In the first three days post-storm, crews responding to any damage will focus on clearing the roads and addressing the most pressing needs, which means they won’t be

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“When we can’t even move a block, we want you to be in a safe place and we want you to be prepared for at least 72 hours,” McCrane said.

McCrane recommended preparing a bag with essentials — including clothes, water and food — for each person in your house.

Residents should determine which room of the house they should head to in case of a storm, and where they plan to go in case they’re ordered to evacuate.

asked what the process of returning to the island would be like in case of a mandatory evacuation.

McCrane said crews would have to survey the damage and make sure the Key was clear of debris that could cause problems. Still, he said officials would work swiftly to let residents know when they’d be allowed to come back.

“Once we can get you on, we will allow you on,” McCrane said.

McCrane was encouraged by the turnout at the Siesta presentation, but he wants all residents — even those who don’t have the time to make it to a neighborhood association meeting — to be informed about the best practices in case of a storm.

“It’s better to be prepared and available to help yourself and others than to not be prepared and scrambling to figure out how you’re going to get by,” he said.

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After builders and architects criticized the city’s tree protection ordinance, officials hope an advisory board can sort through any issues with the regulations.

DAVID CONWAY DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR

Several leading figures from Sarasota’s development and design community attended a City Commission meeting Monday to say the tree ordinance in place is too onerous — and a new regulation the city was considering would be even worse.

For nearly two years, the city has worked with residents concerned that an increase in development has led to the removal of valuable parts of the urban tree canopy. The commission approved a series of stronger regulations last year, changes that have become a source of frustration for builders and planners.

There was a long list of complaints at Monday’s meeting.

The city was taking a myopic approach, focusing too much on individual trees and not enough on how to create a well-planned canopy, architect Michael Halflants said. The regulations often fail to draw a distinction between valuable trees and trees of poor quality, said Steve Ellis, owner of custom home company My Green Buildings.

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Arlington Park resident Nathan Wilson has sought to strengthen tree protection regulations, but he wants to address builders’ concerns, too.

Sarasota Building Industry Association said the regulations discouraged new projects and hurt homeowners’ property values.

And Christine Robinson, executive director of the Argus Foundation, told the commission to take stock of the volume of issues that were brought up Monday.

“How did this get to this point, and why do you have so many people in the room here today?”

Robinson asked.

The commission decided the city should take the time to thoroughly consider those questions.

The board rejected the most controversial proposal under consideration Monday, which would

require developers to mitigate any removed trees inch-forinch, based on diameter at breast height.

It also voted unanimously to begin the process of creating a temporary citizen-led advisory board to deal with tree-related issues, with the goal of devising new regulations that are less controversial. Officials suggested ordinances in other municipalities could provide guidance.

Arlington Park Neighborhood Association President Nathan Wilson has been a leading advocate for a stronger tree protection ordinance, and he said he was pleased with the outcome

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n The board voted unanimously to begin the process of renaming Pineapple Park for Paul Thorpe. Dozens of residents showed up to advocate for honoring Thorpe, whose contributions during more than four decades in Sarasota have earned him the nickname “Mr. Downtown.”

Staff is preparing a formal resolution to change the name of the park, located at Pineapple Avenue and Lemon Avenue, for the June 19 commission meeting. n The commission canceled its search for artwork at the State Street parking garage following concerns regarding a potential conflict of interest.

The city demoted and docked the salary of three employees, including Parking Manager Mark Lyons, after they failed to inform the Public Art Committee one of the final proposals for the project came from Lyons’ son-in-law.

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of Monday’s meeting. The city did approve one new regulation, which allows builders to plant trees on private property within a neighborhood — if there are any volunteers — to mitigate for the impact of their project.

Wilson also saw the presence of the development community as a good thing, even if they were upset about regulations. As the city has approved previous changes to the tree ordinance, there were few voices from build-

abandoning the idea of putting art in the garage. The board directed staff to put out a new call to artists for proposals for a project. n After a 3-2 vote, the commission is going forward with an effort to recoup legal fees from Citizens for Sunshine following the conclusion of the lawsuit against former Commissioner Susan Chapman.

Commissioners expressed a desire to push back against Citizens for Sunshine, which attempted to expand the scope of the state’s open meeting laws in the lawsuit against Chapman, according to City Attorney Robert Fournier.

But Fournier and Chapman’s attorney, Thomas Schults, acknowledged the odds of recouping the nearly $400,000 in legal fees the city has spent are low, because Citizens for Sunshine has claimed it has no assets. n The commission appointed architect Damien Blumetti and neighborhood leader Kathy Kelley Ohlrich to join the Planning Board.

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Wilson hopes that now, with an advisory board coming together, both sides will be able to work collaboratively toward a solution.

“I’m not a builder; I don’t know the problems they’re having,” Wilson said. “I just know the problems I’m having. I think it’s great if we all get together and work it out.”

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City, county mediation exposes raw nerve Tensions remain high regarding the expired downtown Community Redevelopment Area.

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The downtown Community Redevelopment Area has funded projects such as the Whole Foods complex on First Street. As the city and county try to broker a deal following the expiration of the CRA, the county is hesitant to set aside funds for more downtown projects.

At the end of a nine-hour meeting that offered few opportunities for breaks, the City Commission decided Monday to skip the final item on the agenda.

The board was scheduled to discuss an ongoing conflict resolution process with the county. The two have been fighting over the end of the downtown Community Redevelopment Area since 2015, when the county ended the funding mechanism despite the city’s requests to the contrary.

Following a lengthy dispute, the city and county commissions met April 26 in an attempt to settle the discord. Both boards shared a desire to find room for compromise, setting the goal of holding another joint meeting within 75 days to resolve the dispute.

On Monday, the City Commis-

sion planned to give direction to City Manager Tom Barwin on how to proceed in negotiations with the county. But the board assumed its colleagues would be willing to hold off on hearing the City Commission’s desires for another two weeks.

“Hopefully, they would understand, since it’s 11:30,” said City Attorney Robert Fournier.

When the County Commission met to discuss the topic Tuesday, it wasn’t as understanding as city officials had hoped.

“If this is their level of cooperation, I don’t know that I want to pursue any further projects with them,” County Commissioner Nancy Detert said.

County Administrator Tom Harmer mentioned the city was unable to discuss the CRA resolution, but he did not refer to the length of the meeting as a mitigating factor. The County Commission’s displeasure highlighted the still-raw division between the two governments on this topic.

The downtown CRA was created in 1986, setting aside city and county property tax revenue from within the district’s boundaries to be reinvested in that same area. Once the county let the CRA expire, the city contended the county still had to pay its share into the fund for one more year, a $4.7 million obligation. The county rejects that claim.

On Tuesday, multiple county commissioners reiterated their confidence that the county had no remaining duty to the city.

“The evidence was overwhelming,” County Commissioner Mike Moran said. “We don’t owe them anything.”

The board suggested the city could pursue county funding for any projects it wanted through

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the competitive Community Reinvestment Program. Any municipality in Sarasota County is permitted to seek funding through that program.

Moran also suggested any resolution should involve the transfer of a parcel of city-owned land at 2050 Ringling Blvd. The city agreed to transfer the land to the county in a 2003 memorandum that City Attorney Robert Fournier called “a sham” in 2015.

“Frankly, a fifth-grader could understand that memorandum, and it should be lived up to,” Moran said.

Barwin did not watch the county’s discussion as it happened — city staff was in its own meeting — but he was taken aback when he learned about the conversation.

“My gosh,” Barwin said. “I’m almost speechless.”

He said the city was still willing to meet the 75-day timeline for a follow-up meeting. He was mystified why the county assumed the city was acting in bad faith.

“You jump to that conclusion, that’s Olympic-style jumping, right there,” Barwin said.

Moran said the city knew it didn’t have a solid legal argument to the remaining CRA payment and suggested the county should “call their bluff.”

Despite the county’s complaints, Barwin still thinks the city has a solid case. He doesn’t want it to come to that, but he held firm in the face of skepticism.

“If they want to just toss the dice and go to court without a serious attempt to resolve the dispute, that’s their call,” Barwin said. “We’re in this in a serious, sincere effort to negotiate a fair settlement.”

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They call him Al. He’s been a generous character in the Sarasota philanthropic community since he moved here in 1986. Since then, Alfred Goldstein has made his mark on Sarasota — literally.

At times his name seems larger than life. It appears in large block letters on the side of the Alfred R. Goldstein Library at Ringling College of Art and Design and in the programs for the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Jean and Alfred Goldstein Exhibition Series.

And on Tuesday, his name drew another honor. The city of Sarasota recognized June 6 as Alfred R. Goldstein Day. Although his name carries with it a commanding presence, the organizations he has partnered with during his three decades of residence know him simply as Al. The monosyllabic monicker offers an ironic contradiction to his imposing legacy. Yet it’s indicative of what has endeared him to the Sarasota community — a humble spirit, a gruff New York sense of humor and a consistent generosity.

“He’s just Al,” Ida Zito said. “He is very smart, very intelligent ...

He’s the total package of a good person.”

It’s his character that led Zito, board chairwoman of Designing Women Boutique and longtime friend of Goldstein, to pursue a way to showcase his legacy to the community.

It started with a request. She asked the Designing Women Boutique board if his name could be added to its building.

“It was just something that snowballed,” Zito said.

She called the city to request a proclamation to accompany the addition of his name to the Designing Women Boutique and thus, June 6 was declared Alfred R. Goldstein Day. For those familiar with his generosity, they can’t imagine a more worthy recipient.

“Al Goldstein has made such a difference to this community,” Selby Gardens CEO Jennifer Rominiecki said.

Rominiecki said Goldstein is calculated with his gifts. He looks for innovation — projects and programs that will resonate in the history of the organization.

For Selby, that meant investing in its interdisciplinary art series, which allowed the garden to adopt a museum model of operation and expand admissions. For Ringling, it meant investing in a new state-of-the-art library to anchor the campus and equip the college with the technology to keep up with the artistic needs of its students.

“When Al invests in a project, he lights the match and wants the organization to light the fire and that really applies across the board,” Rominiecki said.

For those who know him, it wasn’t the buildings or the programs they were grateful for June 6, it was the man behind the name. It was Al. “Al is a very generous philanthropist, but he truly has a generous spirit,” Zito said. “He is truly a leader for this community.”

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KATIE JOHNS STAFF WRITER

Michael Saunders & Co. is continuing its record-breaking year.

The company recently closed the highest residential sale of 2017 to date in the West Coast region for $6.35 million.

The home, a Spanish revival-style bayfront estate at 467 Meadow Lark Drive in Bird Key, was listed by Marcia Salkin of the Michael Saunders & Co.’s Main Street Office. The buyer’s agent was Reid Murphy of Developers Realty on Longboat Key. The estate was designed by regional architect Cliff Scholz and built by Mike Collingwood in 1999. Its design was inspired by the classical and fanciful style of resort architect Addison Mizer.

The estate has five bedrooms, five-and-a-half bathrooms and details such as cypress wood, Esmeralda marble, textured coral stone and floor-to-ceiling windows, a statement from the selling agent said.

The home is 6,579 square feet and includes a first-floor master suite with two bathrooms, four additional bedroom suites, a waterfront exercise room, terraced patios, a pool and hot tub.

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The home offers views of Sarasota Bay from every angle.

“The design and architecture of this home is so timeless that it is as classic and elegant as it was the day it was built,” said Salkin.

“The buyers had been looking at a number of homes, and they knew immediately that this was the one for them.”

The buyer was not identified, but the property’s warranty deed, signed on June 1, lists Meadow Lark Trust and trustee Teresa Park as the buyer. It lists Chari Polley as the seller.

In addition to this sale, the company had one of the most significant listings on record for Manatee, Charlotte and Sarasota counties with Seranissima on Longboat Key at $26.5 million.

The closing of an Aria penthouse for $5.25 million was the highest-priced condominium on Longboat Key since 2013, and the company had the highest-priced Lakewood Ranch resale to date it The Lake Club for $4.6 million.

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Former Sarasota High infielder Scooter Gennett went 5-5 with four home runs and 10 RBI on June 6 for the Cincinnati Reds in the team’s 13-1 win over St. Louis. Gennett is the first Reds player to hit four home runs in a game, and the 17th in MLB history.

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Riverview High boys tennis senior Antoine Sanchez was named Mr. Tennis by Florida Dairy Farmers on May 31.

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Former Sarasota High third baseman Dylan Busby had two hits and four RBI June 5 for Florida State in the Seminoles’ 8-7 NCAA Tournament win over Auburn.

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Riverview High rising senior defensive back Jamar Johnson received a scholarship offer from Purdue on May 31.

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Sarasota High baseball senior Joey Arnold had two hits, including a double, June 2 in the Sailors’ 7-0 loss to Hagerty in the Class 8A state semifinals.

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Joey Arnold and Josh Paige embrace after the game.

Sarasota High’s Sailors rediscovered the fun of baseball even though they fell short of a state title.

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he final out of Sarasota High’s baseball season was not met with tears. It was, instead, met with resigna-

tion.

Some seniors, eyes downcast, hugged their teammates one final time, patting each other’s backs with their gloves. Others immediately began packing their bags and cleaning up the Hammond Stadium dugout.

The scoreboard reading 7-0 may have contributed to the subdued reaction.

Hagerty High beat them at the plate and on the mound, and started their attack in the first inning. The Sailors had time to realize a spot in the Class 8A state championship game was not in their future.

It wasn’t until the postgame news conference that anyone let emotions show — and it wasn’t a player. It was Clyde Metcalf, the Sailors’ skipper since 1982, while speaking about the team’s nineman senior class.

“I’ll tell you what,” Metcalf said, his voice breaking. “It’s hard to say goodbye to these guys. A very special group.

“These kids excelled academically, they excelled socially, and they really excelled this year on the baseball field. It’s tough. You become a part of their life, and they really become part of your life. They set a great example.

They set a tremendous example.

I believe, I know, our younger kids will follow it. We’re all going to be better for them. They made us better.”

Metcalf then mentioned how

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senior Brooks Larson was on the varsity team two years ago, when Sarasota lost the state title game 9-5 to Oviedo High. That experienced helped Larson this year.

He came up large throughout the postseason, both as a pitcher and hitter. Metcalf hopes this year’s run will do the same to the younger guys on the team, and allow the Sailors continued success in the future.

The program does have talent coming back. Rising senior Nick Winkelmeyer is currently the only returnee committed to a college program (State Col-

lege of Florida), but rising junior Alex Ballard showed potential on the mound, and rising junior Ben McCabe, given DH duties in the postseason, will have a chance to replace departing senior captain Cole Madden behind the plate. As long as Metcalf is in the dugout, Sarasota will have a competitive program.

For the departing seniors, this season meant everything, despite bowing out in the semifinals. Take Larson. He’ll attend Northeastern University in the fall, but he isn’t playing college baseball next season. He’s done now, but he made sure to enjoy his final year.

“I had started off the season kind of rough, I started 0-14,” Larson said. “Coach Metcalf came up to me and said, ‘Just have fun out there. This is your last year of baseball,’ and I knew that. From then on, I started to have fun. That kind of changed the atmosphere of the whole team. When you’re just going out there to have fun, nothing can go wrong. You can lose games, but you’re still out there having fun and doing well.”

Larson was a major factor in the Sailors’ postseason success, and his attitude permeated the Sailors’ roster. Senior Joey Arnold, too, was affected. He had originally committed to St. Petersburg College to play baseball before changing his mind and deciding to attend Florida State as a student, giving up the sport.

A funny thing happened during the Sailors’ playoff run, though.

Arnold changed his mind — again.

“Now I want to play again,” Arnold said.

He’ll attempt to walk on in Tallahassee.

These Sailors didn’t win a title, but they did rediscover the joy playing baseball can bring.

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Pretty (helpful) in pink and gathering clothes or whatever else the family needs. They want to do more, but it’s difficult to do large-scale things on their own.

In the small ultramarathon community, lots of people have an “image,” Kelley said, and he wanted one of his own. One day while he and Claire were in St. Augustine, the pair spotted those pink shorts in a store, and bought them as a joke. Kelley wore them to 360 Degree Health, and people laughed. Then he wore them to a race, and people laughed harder. He was getting asked to take pictures with everyone. He realized there was no possible way he could stand out more than he did while wearing the shorts. This was a perfect “image” for him. He also realized his new look as an opportunity to do more good.

Aside from the fitness business, Kelley works as a childprotection investigator. He’s seen what happens to kids in foster care. He’s seen abuse. He’s well aware that between four and seven children die from abuse or neglect in the United States each day, according to a 2014 CDC study, and that 3.6 million referrals are made to child-protection agencies, with those referrals involving more than 6.6 million children. He cares deeply about children, and has two of his own, 4-year-old twin boys Langston and Kingston. When he heard about Comfort Cases, a charity

based in Gaithersburg, Md., that is attempting to go national, he knew he had found his cause.

Founded by Rob Scheer, Comfort Cases packs and distributes overnight bags filled with essential and comfort items to children entering the foster care system and to other at-risk youth, according to its website.

Those items include pajamas, a blanket, a stuffed animal, a book, a dental kit, a hygiene kit, and a fun activity (a coloring book or journal, etc.). These bags replace the often-typical method of bringing a child’s things to a foster care home, which is in a trash bag.

“It’s amazing to me that we’re still handing out trash bags.”

Kelley said. “We’re still going, ‘Here, throw your stuff in this.

You’re leaving. You’re going somewhere else with people you don’t know, and we’re going to take all the stuff you love and put it in a trash bag, and that’s how you’re going to transport it.’ That sends a really strong message to that child. That’s what we think about your stuff, basically.

“Comfort Cases gives these kids some dignity. It tells them, ‘Look, your stuff is not trash.

You are not trash. The situation sucks, but it’s not your fault.’”

After a few conversations with Scheer, Kelley is now an official Comfort Cases partner, and will look to help the charity’s work in Florida. Every time he runs a marathon, posts on social

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That’s not enough, though.

He’s noticed other trendy social media movements that state awareness for a cause as their reason for being, but don’t actually do anything to make a tangible difference.

“I want to bridge the gap between awareness and action,” Kelley said. “It goes back to the old phrase, ‘put your money where your mouth is.’”

He doesn’t have a specific goal in mind, but he wants That Guy In The Pink Shorts — and therefore Comfort Cases — to be as big as it can possibly be. He

also wants this to be a community effort, with people doing whatever they feel they can offer to spur people into action.

“I’m not looking for my face to be out there,” Kelley said. “I’m more looking for the shorts to be. It’s not about me. It’s about getting attention and transferring that to Comfort Cases and the foster care system.”

Ryan Kohn is a sports writer for the Sarasota Observer. Contact him at rkohn@ yourobserver.com.

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The guy in the pink shorts, I mean. The 6-foot-4, 230-pound man with an uncountable number of tattoos (they bleed into each other, he said) who runs in neon pink booty shorts?

If you have, you’d remember, and that’s exactly what Stephen Kelley wants.

Going by the quite literal moniker That Guy In The Pink Shorts on social media, Kelley runs marathons of all kinds, including ultramarathons. Since 2016, he’s run them in his signature shorts. It’s not because he likes them. In fact, he finds them embarrassing. (There’s a potential pun in that last sentence I so badly wanted to make, but it would never fly. You can find it on your own).

“I feel uncomfortable all the time,” Kelley said. “They’re very short, and there’s a lining in them, so you don’t wear underwear or anything. I feel very free.

From behind, they get shorter as the race goes on. I make the joke that if people don’t like the view from behind, they better run faster. I’m their pace coach.”

So why does he wear them?

Well, Kelley has always been a man willing to give back to the community. He and his wife, Claire Kelley, have a fitness business in Sarasota, 360 Degree Health. They have run charity fitness bootcamps with GNC, raising money for a local family

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Arthur Brantley IV Arthur Brantley IV is a senior quarterback at Riverview High.

He comes to the school after two seasons as Booker High’s starter.

Brantley verbally committed to Georgia Southern on May 25.

How long have you been playing football?

All my life, since I was 4 years old. My dad (Arthur Brantley III) always wanted me to play, and once I got out there, I started loving it.

What is the appeal of football to you?

The physical aspect of it. The emotions. Everything, basically. It makes your heart pump fast, and it feels so good.

What is your best skill on the field?

I like running the ball, but when I see a guy I know can’t guard my receiver, I love picking on him.

What is your favorite football memory?

Just being with all my friends, having fun after a big win in the locker room. I should say ‘getting crunk,’ you know? Just having fun after any win really, especially if it’s a district game.

Why do you wear No. 5?

That number kind of runs in the family, I felt like I should have it.

Ever since I got it, I never wanted to change it.

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Do you play any other sports?

I run track. I play basketball sometimes, not too much, though.

Why did you commit to Georgia Southern?

The whole coaching staff made it feel like home.

Statesboro (Ga.) is a small town, it’s quiet.

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GRADUATES T Students and faculty listen to student speeches during Sarasota High School graduation at Cleland Stadium at Ihrig Field.

he staff and teachers of Sarasota high schools were treated to familiar sounds last weekend.

Students from Riverview, Sarasota and Booker high schools walked down the aisles at Robarts Arena and Cleland Stadium as “Pomp and Circumstance” played, and their friends, family and loved ones cheered from their seats.

The ceremonies showcased the high schools’ unique spirits.

Riverview High School graduates were led down the aisle by the Kiltie Pipers. Sarasota students walked to their seats in pairs – the young women wearing white, the young men wearing black. Booker High School’s spirit was demonstrated in the enthusiasm of the graduation audience. One audience member even did a cartwheel as her loved one crossed the stage.

Despite their differences,

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Erinn Lee shows off her decorated cap at the Booker High School Graduation on June 3 at Robarts Arena.

all the ceremonies ended the same.

Students took the stage to accept their diplomas, moved their tassels from one side to the other and left the stage as graduates.

— ANNA BRUGMANN

Families and friends of graduates show their support before Sarasota High School graduation on June 2 at Cleland Stadium at Ihrig Field.

Carrie Weeks, who recently celebrated her 95th birthday, shows her pride for her great-granddaughter before the Booker High School Graduation on June 3 at Robarts Arena.

Students walk to Robarts Arena on June 3 for the Riverview High School Commencement Ceremony.

The RHS Kiltie Pipers perform as they make their way to the stage for the presentation of the colors and national anthem during the Riverview High School Commencement Ceremony on June 3 at Robarts Arena.

Students walk to the arena in line for the processional during the Riverview High School Commencement Ceremony on June 3 at Robarts Arena.

SarahBeth Wheeler performs “Make Them Hear You” during the Booker High School Graduation on June 3 at Robarts Arena.

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Chamber honors small businesses

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he motto was “quick and efficient” on June 2 at the Hyatt Regency Sarasota for the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce 2017 Frank G. Berlin Sr. Small Business Awards, which lasted less than two hours.

Guests mingled before they were welcomed by Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Board Chairman George McGonagil, recited the Pledge of Allegiance with Sarasota County Commissioner Al Maio and laughed along with emcee Pam McCurdy during her opening remarks.

After lunch, Chamber President Kevin Cooper gave an update on the chamber and the success of its member businesses and organizations.

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Michelle Mitchell, CEO of Small Business of the Year Caldwell Trust Co. Kelly Caldwell and Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Kevin Cooper Shawn Dressler and Jeff Poleshek

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Take Stock in Children celebrates graduates

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isa Bechtold, executive director of Take Stock in Children, encompassed the message of Celebration of Hope when she opened the program with song lyrics that brought tears to the eyes of several guests.

“I see your true colors shining through. I see your true colors, and that's why I love you,” she recited, quoting “True Colors” by songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly.

Her introduction at the May 31 event at The Francis was followed by an acoustic performance of the song, which was a fitting precursor to the ceremony.

Celebration of Hope honored the graduating seniors of the Take Stock in Children mentoring program, which pairs lowincome and at-risk students with community volunteer mentors and college success coaches. If they maintain a 2.5 GPA, the program provides every participant with a full-ride post-secondary school scholarship.

The 41 graduating seniors from Sarasota Military Academy, North Port High School, Sarasota High School, Riverview High School, Booker High School, Venice High School, Pine View School and Prew Academy who were celebrated all plan on attending secondary school in the fall, ranging from popular in-state schools such as State College of Florida and Florida State University to outof-state universities such as Duke University and the United States Naval Academy.

Booker High School graduate Odane Lennox, an incoming student of the Gator Engineering Program of SCF & UF, shakes hands with Ted Downing during Celebration of Hope on May 31 at The Francis.

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— NIKI KOTTMANN Gloria Keshecki, Brandin Muniz and Kory Muniz

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Every day, Mosaic puts science to work right here in our community. Our team of biologists and ecologists is dedicated to ensuring the protection and stewardship of Florida’s native wildlife through the most advanced relocation techniques and prime habitat development.

By working with local environmental groups, Mosaic has preserved and created thousands of acres of natural habitats throughout our region for nearly 300 types of native wildlife. Grant, Mosaic ecologist and authorized agent, works to ensure wildlife like the Florida gopher tortoise thrives in reclaimed xeric upland habitats.

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S A R A S OTA 1199 Westway Drive Deborah Beacham 941-376-2688 A4177457 $7,300,000

S I E S TA K E Y 5332 Shadow Lawn Drive Karen Greco 941-504-6927 A4157847 $2,197,500

S A R A S OTA 4410 Camino Real Michael Hays 941-376-1826 A4152860 $2,090,000

S A R A S OTA 35 Watergate Drive 405 Nora Johnson 941-809-1700 A4178535 $1,999,000

S I E S TA K E Y 1267 Oyster Cove Drive Kelly Quigley & Linda Dickinson 941-356-9954 A4167436 $1,900,000

S I E S TA K E Y 5115 Dewey Place Sara Ferguson 941-320-2709 A4177178 $1,275,000

S I E S TA K E Y 1310 Old Stickney Point Road E53 Stacy Liljeberg 941-544-6103 A4186018 $1,275,000

S I E S TA K E Y 3951 Hamilton Club Circle 11 Barbara Dumbaugh 941-350-3743 A4171741 $1,200,000

S I E S TA K E Y 5440 Azure Way Beverly St Hilaire 941-504-3303 A4186488 $1,095,000

S I E S TA K E Y 514 Cummings Street Lenore Treiman 941-951-6660 A4180359 $839,900

S A R A S OTA 1757 Mckenzie Lane 6 Peggy Mock 941-356-3584 A4187747 $759,000

S A R A S OTA 3527 W Forest Lake Drive Linda Driggs 941-374-2920 A4187187 $675,000

S A R A S OTA 226 Golden Gate Point 42 Barbara May 404-822-9264 A4183705 $650,000

N O KO M I S / N O R T H V E N I C E 516 Tamiami S Trail 403 Robert Moffatt & Peggy Wellman 941-374-0811 A4111718 $599,000

S A R A S OTA 5300 Ashton Oaks Court Greg Larson 941-404-1969 A4181882 $599,000

VENICE 4434 Sintina Court Crystal Cosby 571-230-5013 A4178106 $499,400

S A R A S OTA 4571 Chase Oaks Drive Anja Deichmann 941-284-7987 A4186353 $475,000

VENICE 279 Royal Oak Way Susan Brooker 941-223-6055 N5912986 $439,500

N O KO M I S / N O R T H V E N I C E 1058 Bluffwood Drive Dan Freed 941-735-0770 A4175540 $434,900

S A R A S OTA 4488 Legacy Court 12 Stacy Hanan 941-266-0529 A4171672 $399,900

VENICE 580 Mossy Creek Drive Kristina Rain 941-320-2639 A4167069 $399,000

S A R A S OTA 5114 Manorwood Drive 3B Pamela Wall & Gladys Carrasco 941-504-5019 & 941-400-1520 A4187321 $339,000

S I E S TA K E Y 6703 Midnight Pass Road 213 Mina Johnson & Ethel Lovelace 941-404-9347 & 941-586-7390 A4186725 $329,900

N O KO M I S / N O R T H V E N I C E 2281 Lakewood Drive Lisa Harris 941-237-0172 A4187486 $320,000

S A R A S OTA 5217 Heron Way 102 Mel & Jan Goldsmith 941-356-6673 A4187498 $285,000

S A R A S OTA 761 John Ringling Boulevard 7 Kaitlin Kuhn 941-400-7861 A4185599 $274,000

S A R A S OTA 7483 Blaine Way Barbara Dunn 941-400-1830 A4187757 $259,900

S A R A S OTA 3031 Kirby Lane Pam Sweeney 941-266-9622 A4187539 $245,000

VENICE 1201 Lucaya Avenue Peter Mann 941-914-5657 N5912521 $236,900

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Jon Lee, of Sarasota, sold his home at 1804 Morris St. to Ziad and Jidane Ghamra, of Houston, for $975,000. Built in 2003, it has four bedrooms, three-anda-half baths, a pool and 3,432 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $772,300 in 2013.

illary Steele and Ellen Goldman, of Sarasota, sold the their home at 4511 Bay Shore Road to Bank of America, trustee, for $2.2 SIESTA KEY ISLAND HOUSE million. Built in 1928, it Maureen Monsour, of Jeanhas five bedrooms, six nette, Pa., sold the Unit 17-N condominium at 6142 Midnight baths, a pool and 5,814 Pass Road to Michael Cloonen square feet of living area. and Sheila Cloonen, trustees, of Palmer, Texas, for $1.5 milIt previously sold for lion. Built in 1967, it has four $37,500 in 1967. bedrooms, four baths and 4,590

SARASOTA THE CLOISTERS AT THE LANDINGS

James Lucas and Beate Melten, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1432 Cedar Bay Lane to Derek and Silke Cuff, of Sarasota, for $1.8 million. Built in 1996, it has four bedrooms, five-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,975 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.5 million in 2015.

square feet of living area. It previously sold for $345,000 in 1980.

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Kevin and Shelley Vier, of Nevada, Iowa, sold their home at 5409 Azure Way to Robert and Corinne Martichenko, of Summerville, S.C., for $1.2 million. Built in 1961, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,972 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $685,000 in 2015.

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Eaton Zveare and Eric and Janet Zveare, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3916 Solymar Drive to Solymar Wood LLC for $1,575,000.

Built in 2006, it has four bedrooms, four-anda-half baths, a pool and 3,892 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $2 million in 2015.

Adel Zaraa, of Akron, Ohio, sold his home at 4042 Westbourne Circle to Richard and Elizabeth Siegel, of Smyrna, Ga., for $447,500. Built in 1994, it has four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,573 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $395,000 in 2004.

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Michael and Denise Van Beck, of Sarasota, sold their home at 125 N. Creek Lane to Kirk Ramme and Karon Ramme, of Osprey, for $515,000. Built in 2000, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,796 square feet of living area.

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Cindy Jo Hart, of Nokomis, sold her home at 4955 Topsail Drive to Lawrence and Susan Ann Siebl, trustees, of Nokomis, for $595,000.

Built in 2014, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,338 square feet of living area.

SAN REMO ESTATES

Kevin and Nicole Roberts, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3647 San Remo Terrace to Larry and Lori Hoeg, of Indianapolis, for $1.4 million. Built in 1954, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,416 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $850,000 in 2010.

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Windows/doors

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SARASOTA MUSIC FESTIVAL Internationally recognized artists and student musicians come together to study and perform chamber music for three weeks.

Festivalgoers can experience a combination of professional talent and student performances including the Artist Showcase concerts, Friday Festival chamber concerts and Saturday Symphony orchestra concerts. For a full list of events and festival details, visitsarasotaorchestra. org/festival.

SATURDAY, JUNE 10 AND SUNDAY, JUNE 11

ST. ARMANDS CRAFT FESTIVAL Runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Armands Circle. Explore and shop among a variety of jewelry, pottery, ceramics, photography and photography from artists from across the country. Admission is free.

SATURDAY, JUNE 10

SELBY’S SPLASHIN’ SATURDAYS Runs from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays throughout the month of June and July. The event features water activities, slides and games geared for toddlers to children 10 years old. Event is free with garden admission. For information, visit selby.org/events/ event/splashin-saturdays.

SATURDAY, JUNE 10

DADS AND DONUTS Runs from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at Arts A Blaze Studio, 8111 Lakewood Main St., #107. Children and their father figures will paint doughnut coin banks while enjoying doughnuts, juice and coffee.

Event costs $27 for one child, which includes a bank, supplies, doughnuts and beverages.

Discounts are available for multiple children. For information, visit artsablazestudio.com/ events.html.

SATURDAY, JUNE 10

BLUE AND YOU MOVIE NIGHT Gates open at 7:30 p.m. The film begins at 8:30 p.m. The Sarasota Police Department will host a free showing of “Sing” at the Robert L. Taylor Community Complex, 1845 34th St. Moviegoers are encouraged to bring blankets and chairs. Complimentary snacks and drinks will be served. For information, visit sarasotapd.org.

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Kierra Hutson paints a ceramic aquarium decoration at World Oceans Day on June 3 at Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium.

Mote toasts the oceans

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t was stimulation overload for every child who walked into World Oceans Day on June 3.

The courtyard of Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium was lined with tables staffed by organizations hoping to educate guests on how to keep the ocean clean.

Many tables featured activities such as cornhole, painting and dress up. Eventgoers also enjoyed performances by Team Jambo and The Garbage Men. The theme was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, piggybacking off Asolo Repertory Theatre's summer production.

— NIKI KOTTMANN

Team Jambo performs an ocean-themed dance and song routine at World Oceans Day on June 3 at Mote.

Dylan Hardesty pledges to keep the ocean clean at World Oceans Day on June 3 at Mote Laboratory and Aquarium.

Zach Zeleskey and his sister Maggie Zeleskey aim their pingpong balls at several buckets during a game at World Oceans Day on June 3 at Mote.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 9 High: 85 Low: 74 Chance of rain: 40%

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8501 Midnight Pass Road $6,295,000 | Web ID A4116794 Joel Schemmel 941.587.4894

8585 Midnight Pass Road $4,995,000 | Web ID A4151645 Joel Schemmel 941.587.4894

457 Anchorage Drive $3,450,000 | Web ID N5901632 Andrea Beacom-Blackwell 941.786.8023

39 Tidy Island Boulevard $2,499,000 | Web ID A4169614 Vittoria Rutigliano 941.962.5867

6512 Midnight Pass Road #401 $2,495,000 | Web ID A4149304 Judie Berger 941.928.3424

1111 North Gulfstream Avenue PH-A $1,200,000 | Web ID A4178861 Laura Pearson & Don Wood 941.993.5167

633 Alhambra Road #901 & #902 $1,150,000 | Web ID N5913052 Bonnie Price 941.350.3362

4369 Boca Pointe Drive $998,000 | Web ID A4116104 Joel Schemmel & Sharon Chiodi 941.587.4894

26731 Raphis Royale Boulevard $979,900 | Web ID N5912968 Bob Linthicum 941.228.9206

37 Masthead Drive $799,000 | Web ID A4178858 Joel Schemmel 941.587.4894

36 Masthead $750,000 | Web ID A4187635 Joel Schemmel 941.587.4894

539 Avenida Del Norte $675,000 | Web ID A4177760 Judie Berger 941.928.3424

6100 Jessie Harbor Drive #201 $675,000 | Web ID A4187366 Kevin Milner 941.539.3287

5436 Sundew Drive $669,900 | Web ID A4178629 Cindy Migone 941.812.7438

147 Tampa Avenue East #802 $600,000 | Web ID N5913030 Mike Debitetto 941.525.8111

Gulfwinds Way $584,000 | Web ID N5911767 Richard Bradway & Courtney Green 941.809.8431

15 West Oak Street $579,900 | Web ID A4186190 Katty Caron 941.928.3009

2588 Bay Street $565,211 | Web ID A4176444 Robert Sherman 941.313.1301

12642 Fontana Loop $546,700 | Web ID A4178838 Gloria Bracciano & Greg Van Natter 941.730.1999

12504 Thornhill Court $499,000 | Web ID A4139056 Jim Soda & Donna Soda 941.961.5857

6670 Coopers Hawk Court $499,000 | Web ID A4179214 Laura Stavola 941.447.4875

1064 Tamiami Trail #1317 $469,900 | Web ID A4187909 Roberta Tengerdy 941.321.2292

1511 Ormond Terrace $449,000 | Web ID A4187495 Joe Ebert 941.932.1487

1307 Copperwood Drive $443,900 | Web ID A4186695 Tamara Currey 941.587.1776

11402 Perico Isle Circle $425,000 | Web ID A4187265 Martha Marlar 941.812.0455

2455 Bee Ridge Road $419,000 | Web ID A4178324 Jacody Swor 941.356.4545

3322 Powerline Road $387,900 | Web ID A4187383 Dave Harrison 941.363.1009

1921 Monte Carlo Drive #504 $369,000 | Web ID A4169242 Gigi Silverberg 941.993.3695

206 Bella Vista Terrace #29D $359,000 | Web ID A4178671 Patricia Guenther 941.961.3570

11898 Forest Park Circle $334,900 | Web ID A4169088 Shannon Rogers 941.920.5454

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