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Public-private build breaks ground on Fruitville Road. SEE PAGE 10 Nat Kaemmerer

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Shark Lady gets a stamp Eugenie Clark, also known as “The Shark Lady” and a founder of Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, was posthumously awarded the honor of being on a stamp.

Mote staff, directors and supporters celebrated the issue day of Clark’s Forever stamp on May 4, which would’ve been her 100th birthday.

“It’s a wonderful picture of Mom,” daughter Aya Konstantinou said.

The stamp features Clark and a lemon shark, which Konstantinou noted was the shark that got her the nickname “The Shark Lady” because she devoted research to the species off the coast of Siesta Key. Speakers including Mote CEO Michael Crosby shared stories of Clark’s impact on their lives and careers in the marine science world, and after a ceremony, attendees lined up to buy a sheet of Shark Lady stamps.

Clark died Feb. 25, 2015 at the age of 92.

In 2018, a dogfish shark species was named for her.

The species, Squalus clarkae, also known as Genie’s Dogfish, was identified from the Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic Ocean.

What’s in a name?

If you are one of our more observant Observer readers, you might have noticed something different when you picked up your paper this week: a new name.

Since the Observer purchased the Pelican Press in 2012, we have printed a Siesta Key edition of the Sarasota Observer. Starting with this edition, we will be combining the Sarasota and Siesta Key Observers into one paper.

But fear not: The stories you have come to expect over the years will not change one bit, just the branding to better reflect the combined coverage of the paper.

So, thank you for reading, and don’t worry: Whether you reside in Sarasota or Siesta Key, we still have you covered.

READY TO GO Troche takes office as 13th police chief.

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Rex Troche takes the oath of office while his wife, Kelly, holds the Spanish-language Bible. Troche is Sarasota’s first police chief of Hispanic descent.

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Project to restore city course on target 18-hole conversion, wetlands work making progress at Bobby Jones.

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Richard Mandell’s company has worked to restore 10 golf courses designed by architect Donald Ross.

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“For lack of a better word, he just hit it out of the park.”

City Manager Marlon Brown on Police Chief Rex Troche’s eight months as interim leader of the Sarasota Police Department.

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BY THE NUMBERS $18.8 MILLION

Price tag for Bobby Jones golf course restoration and initial work on an adjacent nature park.

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Chiefs who have led Sarasota Police Department.

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Kolter Hospitality wants to build Thompson-branded luxury property in Sarasota.

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Hyatt Regency transformation in works

n Sarasota County Commission regular meeting — 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 10, Commission Chambers, County Administration Building, 1660 Ringling Blvd. n Sarasota County School Board work session — 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 10, Landings Administration Building, 1980 Landings Blvd. n Sarasota City Planning Board regular meeting — 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 11, City Hall, 1565 First St.

Kolter Hospitality has reached an agreement to buy the Hyatt Regency in downtown Sarasota and plans to build an exclusive Thompson-branded hotel on the site, according to an email from the company’s president.

In the email to the Business Observer, sister paper of the Sarasota Observer, Scott Webb said that as part of the “initial stages of the redevelopment plan, we expect to build a Hyatt-branded Thompson Hotel on site, which will feature innovative design, luxury and personalized hospitality.”

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The company did not disclose what it is paying for the property at 1000 Boulevard of the Arts or a timeline for the development.

The property is owned by Tampa philanthropist Dr. Kiran C. Patel and a group of investors who bought it in 2017 for $57.8 million.

Thompson is Hyatt’s luxury brand. The company has 14 of them in the United States, including in Hollywood, California; Atlanta; Chicago; and Central Park in Manhattan. It also operates four in Mexico and one in Madrid, Spain.

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the Kolter Group, has been buying hotels in the area. In April the group bought the 18-story Embassy Suites by Hilton Sarasota a few blocks from the Hyatt, its fourth property on Florida’s West Coast and second in Sarasota.

If the deal closes and Kolter receives all necessary approvals, the hotel will be built adjacent to the planned One Park Sarasota, a luxury downtown development at 1000 Boulevard of the Arts.

The Sarasota Observer has a new reporter covering city government and other stories of interest around the city.

Andrew Warfield, a veteran of more than four decades in print media, has joined the Observer after most recently serving as the aviation, aerospace, manufacturing and economic development reporter for the Triad Business Journal in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Throughout his career, Warfield has held nearly every role in the newsroom, from sports writer to editor. He co-founded and was editor of a weekly community newspaper in the Lake Norman community near Charlotte, North Carolina.

A native of Orlando who grew up in Polk County, he began his career in 1978 as assistant sports editor of the Winter Haven Daily News Chief.

In 1981, he moved to Greenville, South Carolina, before eventually relocating to Charlotte, where he spent three decades at a variety of publications, culminating with cofounding the Lake Norman Citizen in 2009. During a three-year hiatus from newspapering, he served as the first media relations director for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association.

Warfield is not new to the Observer Media Group. In 2017 he joined the staff of the Jacksonville Daily Record, where he covered residential and commercial real estate, as well as general assignment content. In 2018, he joined the staff of the Business Observer.

New fire station open on Bee Ridge Road Sarasota County’s newest fire station, which opened in a ceremony in April, was built to withstand Category 4 hurricane winds and replaces a metal structure built on Bee Ridge Road in 1974.

The 10,500-square-foot Station 9 is the third in a series of fire station renovations that also included a station on Siesta Key and one adjacent to Celery Fields on Apex Road.

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THE DELIVERABLES The city’s 50% match for the $3 million for a Southwest Florida Water Management District Grant will deliver:

n Design drawings at final level n Engineer’s opinion of prob-

able cost at final design n Technical specifications at final design n Final design in the form of GIS shapefiles n Dated photographs of the construction site prior to, during and immediately following completion of construction n Record drawings with resource benefits, calculations and methodology n Certificate of substantial completion n Operation and maintenance plan n Amended interlocal agreement with Sarasota County to include the city of Sarasota wetlands systems project

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Earth-moving work is underway on the southeast corner of the Bobby Jones property.

Photos by Eric Garwood

As work continues toward a fall reopening of the Bobby Jones Golf Course, Sarasota city commissioners approve use of state wetlands grants.

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Golfers are months away from playing on Sarasota’s renovated Bobby Jones Golf Course, and thanks to the original drawings, it will play the way legendary course designer Donald Ross intended 100 years ago.

Meanwhile, as course renovation progresses toward a planned fall 2022 opening, work to improve wetlands and control stormwater at the site continues. During Monday’s regular meeting, the Sarasota City Commission approved two measures to deploy state grants for work associated with the project to rebuild the 36-hole course to its original 18-hole configuration and add water features to help improve runoff quality from the area surrounding the course.

Commissioners could have unceremoniously approved expenditures of nearly $5 million along with multiple other items on the consent agenda. Instead, Commissioner Jennifer Ahern-Koch requested the commission remove the items from the consent agenda, not to debate the merits but to highlight progress being made on the project Commissioner Hagen Brody said will be transformational for the city.

In addition to the golf course restoration, the $18.8 million project funded by city bonds will also include a nine-hole adjustable par3 course and preserve 153 of the 261 acres for a public park with a variety of green space uses and wetlands conservation, all along one of the city’s primary east-west corridors.

“I have received some emails from people curious about what’s going on with Bobby Jones, and when you look at it, it’s in a state of transition,” Ahern-Koch said. “I thought it was important that the community know that the city has received these funds, and we are going forward, and though the community may not see things happening, they are happening. We

WHAT IS AN “ADJUSTABLE” COURSE? Golf course designer Richard Mandell describes the ninehole, par-3 course due to open in early 2023 at the Bobby Jones Golf Club as adjustable.

What that means is the city and management firm can operate the course in a variety of ways.

“We’ve got a nine-hole short course that has no formal tee boxes,” Mandell said. “We have a bunch of flat areas out there so that the course can play in different iterations. We have several ways you can play that course, and even a six-hole configuration and a three-hole configuration.”

The new 18 hole course will follow the path of the second nines of both the former British and American 18-hole layouts.

Signs along Fruitville Road and 17th Street explain the project.

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Commissioners unanimously adopted resolutions to establish a revenue and expenditure budget of just more than $3 million for a Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) grant for wetlands improvement at Bobby Jones, which requires a 50% local government match, and another line item of $487,500 for a Florida Department of Environmental Protection grant for the Bobby Jones Water Quality Improvement Project.

That grant requires no local match.

“Just a shout-out and thank you to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection,” Brody said before the vote was taken. “I know we all individually met with them when we were in Tallahassee and focused on this project as a priority.

It’s great to see that we received such a sizable grant for that and, of course, from SWFWMD as well.”

‘NOT A ROSS COURSE’

Even after the golf course opens this fall, work adjacent to the course to complete wetlands improvements and green spaces will continue.

The local funding match for the

$3 million grant will earmark $1.06 million from the Bobby Jones project bond proceeds and $453,460 from the 1-cent sales tax fund to build an 18-acre wetlands treatment system adjacent to the golf course, which will improve water quality discharging to Sarasota Bay. The SWFWMD grant of $487,500 is destined for water quality and improvements associated with the restoration of wetlands on the eastern side of the property.

QGS Development is performing the work to build the golf facilities and the nature park’s wetlands restoration under a contract worth $12.5 million.

The golf course redesign is being overseen by Richard Mandell Golf Architecture.

Opening in 1926 as Sarasota Municipal Golf Course, in 1927 the course was renamed in honor of Jones, the star amateur golfer at the time. The facility evolved over the decades to include the 6,000-yard American Course and 6,700-yard British Course.

The original Donald Ross layout followed the path of the back nines of the two courses.

“It was not a Ross course any-

more,” Mandell said Monday from his office in Pinehurst, North Carolina, home of Donald Ross’s most famous design, Pinehurst No. 2.

In 2015, city leaders began discussing what to do with the valuable property bounded by Fruitville Road, Circus Road and 17th Street Reaching a high of 164,000 rounds in 1997, play had fallen to 143,000 rounds in 2007, then to 102,000 rounds in 2013. Bobby Jones operated until the beginning of the pandemic, closing in March 2020. Since then, the course had become overtaken by nature, and the clubhouse was demolished.

The restored course is expected to open to the public for play as early as November, with the new nine-hole course across Circus Road to follow in January 2023. A new clubhouse will open a year or so later. The city is in the process of seeking a management company to operate the facilities.

When the 18-hole course opens, it will play to par 71 at 6,715 yards from the back tees.

Mandell said golfers can expect an authentic Donald Ross layout restored to its original design, save for some elevation changes and fewer trees, both necessary for stormwater management.

Mandell is no stranger to restoring Donald Ross courses.

“This is the 11th Ross project that we’ve done, and it’s always a special thing when we get to restore a Ross course,” Mandell said. “We have his drawings, so we converted them into working grading plans, and we’ve made some adjustments to improve stormwater issues because it’s in a floodplain.”

The original layout was largely devoid of trees, and many that were planted in the years since have been removed. Passersby on Fruitville Road, Mandell said, can already notice the difference.

“A lot of trees were haphazardly planted and were planted in such a way that they compete with each other,” he said. “We had to remove trees in order to get the flooding under control and improve stormwater management, but the result, especially when you look from Fruitville Road, is you can see how much better the trees that remain look than they did before when they were surrounded by lesser trees.”

What the golf course won’t have are the turtleback-contoured greens often associated with Donald Ross.

It’s all a misnomer, Mandell said, because of Pinehurst No. 2. The ultra-challenging greens at Pinehurst Resort’s flagship course, which is part of the U.S. Open rotation, were the result of a redesign in the 1970s.

Ross himself never designed such putting surfaces, Mandell said, and the rebuilt greens at Bobby Jones will replicate the original designs.

“The greens were flared out on the sides, and they were sandwich bread-slice shapes with tiers and quadrants,” Mandell said. “To replicate Pinehurst No. 2 greens is not what we’re doing here. We’re literally taking the original drawings and rebuilding them.”

As the golf course renovation enters the latter states, Mandell said he intends to travel to Sarasota every other week to ensure an authentic Donald Ross golf experience.

“Golfers will see a fully restored Ross course that’s eminently playable for all levels, yet challenging for those who are looking for that,” he said.

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“I felt I was the right person for this job. I felt that I had enough experience, I had enough life experience, I had enough training to step into this role.”

— Chief Rex Troche

Deputy City Manager Pat Robinson welcomes guests to the swearing-in ceremony for Chief Rex Troche at Sarasota Police Department headquarters.

“I felt I was the right person for this job. I felt that I had enough experience, I had enough life experience, I had enough training to step into this role,” he said. “For me, there was no hesitation, and I felt just the confidence that the city manager exuded when we had our conversations and the belief that he had in me, there was never a day where I felt, ‘Wow, I’m not sure I should make this decision because I don’t have the support of the city manager.’”

Troche is the son of a Chicago police officer who served 24 years on the force. Troche has been with Sarasota police since 2002, serving in each of the department’s divisions and rising through the ranks after starting his law enforcement career in Largo in 1997. In Sarasota, Troche has been an officer, sergeant, lieutenant, captain and deputy chief.

He holds a four-year degree in criminal justice from the University of South Florida and a master’s in emergency and disaster management from St. Leo College. He is a member of the Florida Police Chiefs Association, Hispanic American Police Commanders Officers Association, International Association of Chiefs of Police, NAACP and the Police Executive Research Forum.

Troche has been married to Kelly for more than 23 years, and they have three daughters.

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wide range of city stakeholders on the qualifications that best suited the city’s next chief of police. He said Troche met all of them and also satisfied Brown’s preference for hiring from within.

Respondents to the city manager’s survey of stakeholder groups said they valued leadership skills within the department (23%) and professional management skills (19%) as two of the most important qualities in a police chief.

Other priorities included community involvement (20%), a focus on diversity and inclusion (11%), communication skills (10%) and technical policing skills (10%).

Troche had been serving as interim chief since August, when then-chief Jim Rieser retired seven months after the city promoted him into its top law enforcement role. Rieser, who had worked for the Sarasota Police Department since 1992, replaced previous Chief Bernadette DiPino, who resigned in January 2021.

“The community was great.

We had over 55 organizations that responded to our survey. We met with both unions. They gave us their feedback and, lo and behold, we had that individual right here within the department,” Brown said. “And again, my philosophy is to always promote from within if we have that talent, if we have that expertise, and Chief Troche just checks all the boxes that the community said they wanted in a chief.”

Brown said regular interactions with Troche since August helped solidity in his mind that the 20-year veteran of the department was the right person for the job.

“For lack of a better word, he just hit it out of the park,” Brown said.

Troche said that for his part, serving in the role of interim chief simply made even clearer that the path toward the formal position was the right direction for him.

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he former Dolphin Tower in Sarasota is about to undergo major structural repairs that will close parts of the building at separate intervals for an estimated 18 months, causing some distress for residents and uprooting retail tenants.

The work, on a building shuttered and evacuated 12 years ago over fears of collapse, is designed to address structural issues in the building’s garage that the property manager and association president believe should have been done several years ago. The fixes are part of a broader project that will update the outside of the building, which opened in 1975 and is now called The 101 Condominium, and transform the waterfront tower from its familiar pink frontage to white. Building officials estimate the project will cost $2 million.

Jim Toale, the association’s president, says the timeline for the work will be known soon.

What is known now is that the 15-story tower’s lobby will close during repairs. That will force residents, many older and who’ve already lost their parking garage, to enter the building at 101 S. Gulfstream Ave., in side or other out-of-the-way entrances. Residents will also lose access to their mailboxes.

The biggest impact, though, will be felt by merchants with shops along the Palm Avenue side of the building. The repair work has left them scrambling as they face moving or closing their stores for what could be months — if not forever.

“They all kind of have different plans,” Toale says. “There’s one in particular who’s definitely decided

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Repair work on the three-story garage will strengthen the connections between some of the columns in the garage and the parking decks. The fix involves supporting the parking decks around the columns requiring corrective work with temporary supports called shoring — used to support a building to prevent collapse.

To do that work, shoring posts must be placed across parts of the building that are under the garage to stabilize the deck while crews pound away on repairs. That is what will cause the biggest disruptions for retailers and residents.

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Several other tenants say they are weighing their options before announcing their decisions. In the past, these same tenants have said they could not afford to close temporarily or even move.

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IN BRIEF Key takeaway: With repair work starting at the former Dolphin Tower, retailers are facing the possibility they will have to relocate.

Core challenge: Merchants will have to figure out if moving their stores temporarily is feasible and even if it’s worth moving.

What’s next: The affected retailers must decide soon what the next step is and their options, legal or otherwise.

ing posts will be installed around the building where needed.

Because the posts take up so much space, the building’s lobby will have to close while the work is done. McIntyre is already cleaning out her office to move to an upstairs office while work is underway. As for the retailers, the shoring posts are so large that they’ll take up vast amounts of space, making it impossible to conduct business.

This project, challenging as it might be for residents and tenants, is a far cry from what needed to be addressed 12 years ago.

Structural issues were discovered in the building’s fourth floor in 2010, which forced residents to evacuate.

The building also closed for several years. The problem was so severe that if not addressed in time it could have led to a collapse similar to the one at the 12-story Champlain Tower South in Surfside last year.

McIntyre says the issues being addressed this time are “absolutely different.”

These issues were discovered during the structural strengthening project on the building eight years ago. An engineer at that time found that the connection between some of the columns and the parking deck was not strong enough.

McIntyre, who wasn’t working at the building then, says that when the time came to beautify the building, it was decided the garage should be fixed at as well. “OK, so they should have done it earlier,” she said. “They didn’t. So now it’s just costing a lot more money to get it done.”

In addition to the garage work, the latest project also includes fixing the stucco on the side of the building, painting it and then waterproofing balconies. Toale says the work is meticulous because the stucco and paint are “the first line of defense against water intrusion” that can lead to structural damage over time.

The former Dolphin Tower in Sarasota is about to undergo major structural repairs that will close parts of the building at intervals for an estimated 18 months.

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SMH CEO David Verinder has shown no signs of wanting to leave, but the hospital board is making sure he won’t by going outside the industry norm.

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arasota Memorial Healthcare and its flagship, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, have been and remain a point of pride for Sarasota.

For nearly 20 years, the health care system has been on an uninterrupted streak of growth and success medically and financially, thanks to a great degree to the noteworthy leadership of three CEOs: former CEOs Dr. Duncan Finlay and Gwen McKenzie and current CEO David Verinder.

Sarasota Memorial is frequently ranked among the nation’s best hospitals in a variety of measurements, and when you drive by the increasing physical stature of its campus on Tamiami Trail, Sarasota Memorial easily looks to be one of the region’s leading businesses and public institutions, if not the leading business and public institution. After all, more than 730,000 people a year receive treatment in the system; it employs nearly 8,000 people and generates $1.15 billion a year in revenue.

Consider how it has grown in size and medical prestige. In 2015, it added a Level II trauma center; in 2017, it added a residency program with Florida State University and completed a new rehabilitation center. Last year, it opened its Venice hospital and recently dedicated the new Jellison cancer tower. And it is ranked among the best in the nation for heart treatment, rehabilitation services for serious diseases and robotic surgeries.

This two-decade transformation starts at the tip of the spear: the CEO and the leadership team the CEO assembles. Clearly, Verinder, who was named CEO in 2014, has guided SMH to high achievements on multiple, essential fronts: medical superiority (recruiting top doctors), customer service and outcomes (which require staff training and the right culture) and financial performance (an astute balancing of capital and business operations).

SMH is regarded as a high performer in the latter, financial performance, based on the way the Moody’s rating agency measures profitability. As most CEOs know, it’s no easy feat to manage day-today challenges while at the same time pursue multimillion-dollar initiatives such as the completion and opening of a new hospital in Venice and the completion of the new cancer tower, and then to do this during a worldwide health crisis and still manage to maintain what many financial analysts would consider a mountain of cash on the system’s balance sheet, $1.3 billion.

How the hospital system performs financially is important to Sarasota County taxpayers because they have a financial stake and risk in its operations. As a public hospital

COMPARISON OF HOSPITALS’ EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION The following table shows the annual compensation of the top executives at Florida’s four tax-supported, safety-net public hospitals.

Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System 2021 Operating Revenues: $1,152,824,000 2021 Operating income: $63,413,000 Operating Margin: 5.5%

2021 Total Cash Compensation CEO / David Verinder...................................$1,495,125 Chief Operating Officer / Lorrie Liang.......... $825,618 Chief Med.Officer / James Fiorica...............$1,274,253 Chief Financial Officer / William Woeltjen.... $810,885 Chief Legal Officer / Carol Ann Kalish........... $802,621 Chief Information Officer / Pam Ramhofer.. $790,453

Lee Memorial Health System

2021 Operating Revenues: $2,471,292,000 2021 Operating Income: $218,971,000 Operating Margin: 8.8% 2020 Total Cash Compensation CEO / Lawrence Antonucci.........................$1,084,544 Chief Operating Officer / Scott Nygaard......$810,500 Chief Medical Officer / Venkat Prasad..........$385,059 Chief Financial Officer / Ben Spence........... $664,884 Chief Legal Officer / Mary McGillicuddy.......$555,838 Chief Information Officer / Rick Schooler....$375,390

HOSPITAL SEATS OPEN IN 2022 Five of the nine board seats on the Sarasota County Public Hospital District are up for election in November.

If you’re interested in serving on the hospital board and running for election, qualifying time to file as a candidate is from noon June 13 to noon June 17.

Go to one of the Sarasota County supervisor of elections offices to obtain a candidate’s packet.

Seats up for election and current incumbents: n Northern District, Seat 1: James Meister n Northern District, Seat 2: Richard Rehmeyer, M.D. n Central District, Seat 2: Joseph DeVirgilio Jr. n Southern District, Seat 1: Darryl W. Henry n Southern District, Seat 2: Gregory Carter

taxing district, Sarasota Memorial imposes a current 1.042 millage rate on all county property. In the past two years, Sarasota County taxpayers contributed $64 million and $61 million in property taxes, respectively.

The risk to taxpayers is what happens if management messes up. The hospital board can raise the tax rate.

Fortunately, Sarasota County taxpayers can feel satisfied overall and comfortable that Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System’s management has been and is a competent steward of this important taxpayer-supported and community institution.

Sure, there was a controversy last year over management wanting to use $300,000 in hospital funds for a political action committee — which

South Broward Hospital District

2021 Operating Revenues: $2,339,546,000 2021 Operating Income: $45,194,000 Operating Margin: 1.9% 2018 Total Cash Compensation CEO / Aurelio Fernandez............................ $2,344,246 Ch. Transformation Off./Nina Beauchesne.. $631,852 Chief Operating Officer / Leah Carpenter.....$703,122 Chief Strategy Officer / Matthew Muhart.... $790,193 Chief Medical Officer / Marc Napp.......................... NA Chief Financial Officer / David Smith.......... $698,093 General Counsel / Frank Rainer............................... NA Chief Digital Officer / Jeffrey Sturman.................... NA

Halifax Health (Daytona Beach)

2021 Operating Revenues: $688,620,000 2021 Operating Income: $42,696,000 Operating Margin: 6.2%

2020 Total Cash Compensation CEO / Jeff Feasel............................................ $582,098 Chief Operating Officer / Albert Tineo.......... $374,548 Chief Med.Officer / Margaret G. Crossman.. $356,812 Chief Financial Officer / Eric Peburn............. $501,395 Chief Quality Officer / Steven Miles.............. $214,865 Chief Legal Officer / Kelly Parsons-Kwiatek.$348,269 Ch.Human Res.Officer / Kimberly Fulcher... $285,746

it rescinded. But over the tenures of Finlay, McKenzie and Verinder, Sarasota Memorial has avoided the public turmoil that engulfed the hospital in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Most recently, to acknowledge the hospital system’s success, the nine elected members of the Sarasota County Public Hospital Board have rewarded Verinder for his performance. In February 2021, the board voted to extend Verinder’s two remaining years on his contract by eight years. With only one member dissenting (Tramm Hudson), the board voted 8-1 to give Verinder a 10-year contract and increase his base salary to $1,125,000. That raised him from being in the 60%plus percentile of peer CEOS to near the 75th percentile.

In January, the board boosted Verinder’s pay again. On another 8-1 vote, with Hudson against, the board voted to boost Verinder’s base salary 12%, to $1,263,000, and increase a short-term incentive plan. It gave him a plan allowing him to earn up to 45% of his base if he met certain short-term metrics.

The previous incentive was 35%.

Two weeks ago, members of the hospital board’s governance committee decided Verinder needed more. It is recommending a new long-term incentive plan that will give Verinder the opportunity to earn up to an additional 25% of his base if he hits certain targets by the end of fiscal 2024: up to 12.5% if the system’s total revenues reach $1.55 billion and up to 12.5% if the system averages a 5.3% operating margin over the term.

Neither of those targets is much of a stretch, given recent trends.

Altogether, you can figure Verinder is likely to be earning close to $2 million a year for the next three years — and beyond.

Is he worth it?

That, of course, depends on whom you ask. We’re strong

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believers in capitalism, merit payfor-performance and you get what you pay for.

Verinder is worth a premium, and his performance certainly stands up well to his peers.

If there is to be any criticism or questioning, it’s not of Verinder. It would be of the elected members of the hospital board members. It appears they have been quick and easy when it comes to increasing Verinder’s compensation.

In particular, they veered far out of the norm in the hospital industry and business in general when they agreed to giving Verinder a 10-year contract. At the time of the extension, the hospital board’s outside compensation consultant was asked if she knew of other hospital system CEOs with 10-year contracts. She did not, acknowledging that 10 years was out of the norm.

Typically, hospital CEO contracts are three to five years.

We are bringing Verinder’s compensation to light — in particular, his 10-year term — not to be at all critical of Verinder but to shine some light on an elected board that has a fiduciary duty to the citizens of Sarasota County.

The eight board members who approved the 10-year term did so, they said, out of fear of losing Verinder, who, by the way, has made no indications of wanting to leave.

While that deal might have given comfort to current board members, it tied future board members in ways they do not know yet.

This is also worth noting: When public boards vote 8-1 and the minutes of meetings show overwhelming agreement on many issues, taxpayers can begin to wonder whether the board members are doing enough to challenge the organization’s leaders and remembering their chief responsibility: that of fiduciaries to taxpayers.

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School board, part II: How to close the chasm Rumination on Sarasota County School Board Chair Jane Goodwin and public comments …

Much of what has resulted between Goodwin and frequent school board critic Melissa Bakondy can be categorized as a matter of style. Or, more precisely, two styles that don’t mesh well. And communication, lack thereof.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

If you have ever attended many public meetings of city and county commissions, school boards, state legislative committees, perhaps even mosquito boards, often you will find that these bodies have a regular watchdog, a person who shows up and speaks at every meeting no matter what.

These watchdogs, or “gadflies,” come in all kinds: annoying, respectful, sarcastic, funny, looney, agitating, confrontational, sometimes just downright, persistently

trouble-making. But one of the most-common characteristics of them is passion. They have a passion about a subject or about the government they are watchdogging.

They have passionate beliefs about what they think is right. The fact they are physically present tells you they care — more than most people.

No doubt, you have seen one of these watchdogs. And likewise, you have seen the faces of the commissioners who see these people come to the microphone during public comment. You know exactly what is going through their minds: “Oh gawd, here we go again.”

That’s the impression that comes over the school board dais when Melissa Bakondy walks to the podium. To some, Bakondy has become the gadfly. To many others, she is the voice of the people.

If you’ve watched her, you can see how her style can get under board

members’ skin, especially that of the three Democratic members, Goodwin, Shirley Brown and Tom Edwards. She asks them for explanations, mostly in an even tone.

At the April 5 board meeting, she began her remarks: “Why do we allow Pride flags, celebrating sexual perversion, to hang in the classroom? These are sexually suggestive flags that could be offensive to some people. I believe these would fall under the hostile environment and sexual harassment policy in 2.71.”

Bakondy told us: “I don’t try to have a style. I try to be factual.”

She told us she began her interest in the school board in spring 2020 when mask mandates began.

At the time, her four children were in Sarasota public schools. She disagreed with the mandate.

“Anger developed,” she said.

After that, she said, “There was a wave of everything”: BLM, CRT

issues. In the summer, there was anti-bias training, LGBTQ month.

In fall 2020, her third grade child came to her and asked about seeing a Pride flag in an online supplemental curriculum program.

All of this fueled her passion.

What’s her goal? “To protect the innocence of our children,” she said.

“I’m passionate about this, but they don’t seem to listen.”

To some, Bakondy has become talking wallpaper. To Goodwin, it seems, Bakondy has become an annoyance. You can sense there is an unreconcilable chasm between them.

That can be closed. Asked if she has ever had a one-on-one conversation with any of the school board members, Bakondy said “No.” In the confines of school board meetings, where speakers are relegated to two minutes, frank communication and building trust are virtually impossible. Face-to-face meetings can accomplish a lot.

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NO HARM(ONICA) DONE 5:03 a.m., 100 block of Pineapple Avenue Suspicious person: The manager of a downtown condominium called police to report a man had been sitting outside on a bench for hours, listening to music. Police spoke to the man on the bench, who said he had arrived the previous night without a car and decided to remain in the area because he was planning to play his harmonica at the nearby Farmers Market in a few hours. He left the area on foot without incident after talking to police.

After a record year in 2021, county qualified as a state-certified High Impact Tourism County.

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ourist tax? What tourist tax?

Dave and Carol Arbritter of Reading, Pennsylvania, said last weekend they figured there must be some kind of tax on their national chain hotel bill, but as Dave said, the couple honestly couldn’t say what it was or if they would have even noticed the 5% levy if not brought to their attention.

“There always is in the fine print, right?” Dave Abritter said.

Chatting on Saturday afternoon at the pay kiosk of a city parking lot just off St. Armands Circle, the couple said they were staying in a Sarasota County hotel for a three-day weekend that started Thursday evening to see relatives and the sights of Southwest Florida. Extra charges are just to be expected, and no, word that Sarasota County recently OK’d a higher tourist-tax rate wouldn’t stop them from returning if travel plans pointed this away again.

“It’s really not a concern when you’re already paying maybe $100 a night anyway,” Dave Arbritter said.

Sarasota County commissioners last week, taking a cue from a Tourism Development Council’s unanimous recommendation in March, voted 4-1 without discussion to raise the county’s rate on vacation rentals, hotels, campgrounds and more for stays of less than six months from 5% to 6%. The new rate won’t take effect until the next budget year, which opens on Oct. 1.

Commissioner Christian Ziegler voted no.

The additional percentage will add about $5.2 million in revenue with which to fund capital projects and beach work. Sarasota County qualified to consider the upped percent-

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age rate after a record year of tourism that pushed the county past Florida’s threshold as a High Tourism Impact County with taxable receipts from qualified lodging operators of more than $600 million.

Once the county was certified in March by the office of Tax Research in the state’s Department of Revenue, Sarasota became empowered to continue at 6% for as long as it wishes.

The newest penny of tax on a $1 will break down like this: n 70% for capital improvements, such as Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium’s new aquarium attraction in Nathan Benderson Park; n 20% for beach maintenance; and n 10% for beach renourishment.

Sarasota County has pledged $20 million toward the construction of Mote’s aquarium, estimated to cost around $130 million to complete. Initial construction work is underway.

The additional percentage point adds to a tourism development tax that’s grown from 2% in 1988 to 3% in 1997, 4% in 2007 and additional half-points in 2010 and 2011.

Without the state’s designation of a High Tourism Impact County, the tax is capped at 5%. Once at 6%, the rate need not be renewed, said Kim Radke, the director of the Sarasota County Office of Financial Management at the advisory Tourism Development Council’s meeting in March.

SATURDAY, APRIL 23

Beachgoers head to the shore in Longboat Key.

TOO LATE 11:02 p.m., 1300 block of Main Street Noise: Because of a high volume of priority calls, police were not able to immediately respond to a complaint of noise. Once an officer arrived, he did not detect any noise rising to the level of a city infraction.

MONDAY, APRIL 25

OOPS 10:53 a.m., North Tuttle Avenue at 12th Street Lost property: A man called police to report losing his wallet from the roof of his truck near the intersection, saying he had laid it there but it must have fallen off. The man reported the wallet contained identification, several credit cards and cash. The officer took a report on the incident and asked the man to alert the police if he finds the wallet.

THURSDAY, APRIL 28

LIGHTS, PLEASE 2:17 a.m., North Tamiami Trail and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way Traffic/investigation: An officer who spotted a vehicle driving without headlights or taillights stopped the driver and reported smelling the odor of raw marijuana. A search of the vehicle revealed a small amount of marijuana and a pipe with residue.

The driver was issued a civil citation for the marijuana.

UH, THAT’S SUSPICIOUS 8 a.m., 5000 block of Sunset Circle Found property: A passerby notified police upon their discovery of a suspicious package. Police examined the package and found it contained two adult toys, which were taken to police headquarters and placed into property storage.

SATURDAY, APRIL 30

SOUNDS OK 2:07 a.m., 2800 block of Tamiami Trail Noise: A resident called police to report screaming and other loud voices from a nearby pub. An officer reported being in the vicinity of the pub throughout his shift and hearing only normal conversational sounds.

He stayed nearby until all of the vehicles left the area.

PRONE TO TRESPASSING 11:27 p.m., 1400 block of Main Street Trespassing: A property owner complained to police that he found a man in the prone position at his business. The property owner wanted a trespassing citation issued, which the officer did while explaining to the man he would be subject to arrest if he returned within a year.

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The building under construction will house administrative offices on the 18,000-square-foot first floor of a two-story building on the west side of the property, with about 22,000 square feet of autopsy facilities on the east, separated by a courtyard. The second floor won’t be initially occupied but potentially leased for other uses in the future, possibly serving as a revenue source for the county.

The new facility is on 4.4 acres just east of McIntosh Road. It had to be placed within 3 miles of Interstate 75 to allow easy access to Manatee and DeSoto counties, which Vega and his staff also serve. Built to withstand Category 4 hurricane winds, it also will be equipped with a week of emergency water supplies and backup generating capabilities to operate off the grid in the case of a disaster.

Commissioners Ron Cutsinger, Christian Ziegler and Mike Moran took part in the groundbreaking, as did Lewis and members of the partnering construction and development firms.

Members of the medical examiner’s office staff also were on hand, some of whom walked gingerly around the early stages of construction with building project supervisors, getting the lay of the land, some referring to printed floor plans and artist renderings distributed at the event.

“We had a brainstorm session and said, ‘Hey, we can do this’ and present something to make it happen,” said John LaCivita, the president of Willis Smith, of the partnership between his company and Hembree and Associates. “Luckily for us, the county commissioners had the trust

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The one-day fundraising event held from noon April 26 to noon April 27 attracted around $16 million for various nonprofits. The $15,964,863 raised came from 46,216 donors and included a dollar-for-dollar match by the Patterson Foundation for $25 to $100 donations.

It always takes some time and effort to get to this point. Community Foundation President Roxie Jerde said much of the year is spent preparing for the Giving Challenge.

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“It’s a year of planning with all the nonprofits taking part and setting up their campaigns,” Vice President of Strategy and Communications Mischa Kirby said. “A lot of organizations held in-person events this year. There’s a lot of logistics that go into it.”

Jerde helped lead the event from its inception in 2012. The biannual day has steadily increased the amount of funds raised until it hit a record of $19.2 million in 2020, and it has raised more than $59 million total since its start. As has been the case in past years, All Faiths Food Bank was one of the top earners in 2022, with $343,173 raised.

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That change of venue — a ballpark instead of a climate-controlled concert hall — introduces a host of challenges in terms of translating their normal performance, but if you ask conductor Christopher Confessore, it’s fun for everybody involved.

“I’ve been outdoors sweating to the oldies for many, many years,” says Confessore, the music director of the Brevard Symphony Orchestra.

“I know to be well-hydrated.”

Interestingly, Confessore says he has been to Ed Smith Stadium as a baseball fan but never in his professional capacity. But he says he led the orchestra in outdoor performances at the Phillippi Estate and does an annual Fourth of July performance with the Brevard orchestra.

Confessore also does outdoor performances with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and learned some simple fixes over the years.

“We have lights on our music stands. Sometimes those lights draw bugs,” he says. “Sometimes after our Fourth of July concert in Cocoa, either that night or the next morning, I’ll have to go through my music and shake out all the dead bugs and everything that’s in there.”

Lorenzo Mills, production manager for the orchestra, says the initial stages of preparation involve bringing the generators and the stage onto the field. The first pieces of equipment arrive in a truck, and the staff lays down plywood to protect the grass. That takes a couple hours; once the generators are installed, the next step is to unfold the stage.

A separate crew handles the lighting trusses. The audio equipment comes in the following day, says Mills of the arduous setup.

“All of the equipment we put up for this orchestra actually gets torn down completely,” he says.

The process starts as soon as the show is over. The instruments get taken away, some through the dugout and into the clubhouse, and the stage and chairs and music stands get covered with plastic. The audio company pulls all of its microphones.

The next day, they’re back setting everything up in the afternoon.

“I think for most people, it’s magic,” says Mills. “They walk in and think, ‘Wow, this is amazing. I wonder how they do this.’ And then that’s the last time they think about it.”

Mills says that when they set things up at a venue like the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, they don’t have to worry about teardown each night.

The venue is locked, and the stage is protected from the threat of rain.

But at Ed Smith Stadium, they have to prepare for any eventuality.

“We’ll do that Thursday night, we’ll do that Friday night and, weather permitting, we’ll do that again Saturday night,” says Mills.

OUTSIDE “Saturday night, we get to take it back to our building and put it away for the season. That last concert, I’d say we’re there until somewhere between 1 and 2 a.m.”

Is the crew moving a piano five times over the course of the weekend? No, says Mills, the orchestra can get that piano onto the platform, but it’s too hard to bring it in each evening. Mills says the hardest thing to move is probably the timpani.

“I would say it’s another couple hours for us to take all those instruments into the visitors’ clubhouse,” he says of the nightly teardown.

“We go down the steps to the dugout, up the steps to the visitors’ locker room and put all our percussion instruments and the keyboards there. Anything that could possibly get damaged or wet. Our timpani are too big to fit there; we take them and we put them in the first-aid room behind home plate.

“The Orioles have really made it easy for us to move some of that stuff around and find places for it. The timpani are quite large; the stairs are tricky to navigate. They’re slippery, and they’re made of concrete.”

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“There are wind clips musicians have on their music stands to help keep the music from blowing away,” he says. “I’m turning my pages so much more frequently than the violin players. I usually have like a box that I put on top of the music stand, and the scores go inside the box.

“That gives me a wall around all four sides of the music, and it keeps it from blowing.”

The material on the bill, says Confessore, is based on pop hits from the ’70s from a wide range of artists, and it will be sung by the Nashvillebased duo of Swearingen & Kelli.

More importantly, he says, it’s been arranged for an orchestra by Don Bryn, which means that the sounds will all be working together.

“It’s a challenge when we do concerts that feature pop artists in front of the orchestra,” he says. “Sometimes you get a full band. Drum set.

Lead guitar. Rhythm guitar. Keyboards. The orchestra can get lost in the shuffle. This performance is just the singers, and I think one or both of them will be playing acoustic guitar. Otherwise, the backup band and support instrumentals are exclusively from the orchestra.”

The music is different from the orchestra’s normal Beethoven and Mozart fare, Confessore says, but it’s timeless. The orchestra might see an audience twice as large as the ones it sees on a normal night at an indoor venue; that’s part of the allure for the musicians, too.

“For any performance, the connection with your audience is one of the greatest things,” says Confessore. “As a performer, you can’t help but raise your level of performance.

That’s true for any type of concert the orchestra gives, and I think it’s true for pop artists, too.”

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Why do they love you?

Well, actors create and become their characters. That’s their job.

And the right costume helps them do that. It’s something specific they can wrap their minds around. A suit, a dress. … It helps them visualize what their characters look like.

And who they are.

So, who’s the main character in this play?

Well, that’s Casey, the Elvis impersonator, who’s hilariously played by Britt Michael Gordon.

But Georgia McBride is also the main character. (Britt plays her, too; she’s Casey’s drag persona.) So, Casey transforms into Georgia and becomes her all the way.

A straight white boy embraces his femininity and learns to walk in heels?

You got it. That’s a big part of the story. In a greased-back wig and gold lamé jumpsuit, Casey turns into Elvis. In a pompadour wig, he turns into a beautiful woman. It’s all about transformation.

And your costumes make it possible. Wow! Your job sounds insanely fun.

It is a ton of fun, but there’s also a ton of painstaking calculations.

Costume design is like any other form of design. The specifications can be very narrow.

Your first design doesn’t always

work, or your second or third design.

And that can get frustrating. Like the Elvis wig in this show. How hard could that be? But Susan Haldeman, our wig designer, went through constant trial-and-error perfecting that design.

If the wig hangs flat, you’ve got Moe from the Three Stooges. If the wig’s too comical, you wind up with Camp Elvis — and that’s not the vision for this play. So Susan kept going back to the drawing board until she finally got it right. That’s her process and mine too.

If you’re a costume designer, you can’t just fool around, even if you want to.

I’m constantly stifling my inner child. “No! You can’t do that!”

Is your work always that hard?

No. Creating a Dolly Parton drag performer’s dodgeball-sized boobs was easy.

What’d you use?

Dodgeballs. (laughs) I really love my work as a costume designer. It’s a beautiful whirlwind of craziness.

Who are some of the unsung heroes you work with?

The interns, absolutely. They’re the backbone of Florida Studio Theatre.

And the interns working on “Georgia McBride” are rock stars.

We call them “The Glam Squad” — and they’re amazing.

This show has so many costumes, so many changes. We couldn’t make it happen without them.

Mari Taylor Floyd and Erin Barnett stand behind their handiwork.

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‘THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE’ When: Through May 22 Tickets: $25-$39 Where: FST Gompertz Theatre, 1265 First St., Sarasota Info: Call 366-9000 or visit FloridaStudioTheatre. org

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T.J. MILLER 7 and 9:15 p.m. at McCurdy’s Comedy Theater, 1923 Ringling Blvd. $40 Visit McCurdysComedy.com

Theater... Music... Visual Art... Literature... where it all begins.

This is a funny man with a familiar face and voice. You might recognize T.J. Miller from his costarring role in the “Deadpool” film franchise, and you’ll know his voice if you’ve seen the first two animated “How to Train Your Dragon” films.

YING LI 4 p.m. at Church of the Palms, 3224 Bee Ridge Road $40 Visit ArtistSeriesConcerts.org

The Hermitage brings the world’s leading artists to Sarasota for free public programs...

14 Pulitzer Prize Winners, plus Tony, Oscar, Emmy, Grammy Winners, and more!

Ying Li, 23 years old, was the firstprize winner at the 2021 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, and she’ll be supported by a capable group of musicians including Daniel Jordan, concertmaster of the Sarasota Orchestra. Li will play selections from Dvorak, Mozart and Stravinsky in her afternoon performance.

Fri, 5/6 @ 6:30pm “Sounding the Deep: Words and Music Inspired by Nature” @ Hermitage Beach

‘THE PSYCHIC’ 7:30 p.m. at The Island Players Theater, 10009 Gulf Drive, Anna Maria $25 Visit IslandPlayers.org.

Fri, 5/13 @ 6:30pm A New Play Reading with Hermitage Fellow and Tony Award Nominee Bess Wohl @ Hermitage Beach Fri, 5/20 @ 5pm “Hermitage Poet’s Corner: The Contemporary Word” @ Bookstore1 (Downtown Sarasota) To register for upcoming programs:

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This play, directed by James Thaggard, is centered around a struggling writer who hangs a sign in his window offering discounted psychic readings. The writer soon finds himself well over his head in this comedy, which runs through May 15.

IN-STUDIO PERFORMANCE SERIES FEATURING MARSI BURNS 7 p.m. at SCD Home Studio, 1400 Boulevard of the Arts $10-$20 Visit SarasotaContemporaryDance. org.

Marsi Burns and Dancing in the Moment, an improvisational group, will be the featured guests for Sarasota Contemporary Dance.

Dancing in the Moment is a diverse group made up of dancers from their 20s to their 70s, and in this performance they’ll be taking cues from each other and the audience.

SONGS FROM THE SCREEN & STAGE WITH LINDA EDER 7:30 p.m. at Venice Performing Arts Center, 1 Indian Ave., Venice $38-$58 Visit VeniceSymphony.org.

This show, originally set to take place in 2020, will feature Broadway star Linda Eder running through classic tunes from plays and movies.

Eder was nominated for a Drama Desk award for her work in “Jekyll & Hyde.” If you can’t get out to see her Friday, you can also see her perform at 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

OUTDOOR POPS: ICONIC SONGS OF THE ’70S 8 p.m. at Ed Smith Stadium, 2700 12th St. $15-$48 Visit SarasotaOrchestra.org.

Do you like the orchestra indoors?

How about a different setting? The Sarasota Orchestra returns to Ed Smith Stadium, bringing the fantastic skill and artistry of their musicians. Have a hot dog and listen in as Nashville-based duo Swearingen and Kelli provide the vocals for many of the best-loved songs of the ’70s.

‘CARRY ME’ 3 p.m. at Keating Theatre, 1241 N. Palm Ave. $10 Visit FloridaStudioTheatre.org

FRIDAY CHORAL SPLENDOR IN 40 PARTS 7:30 p.m. at St. Boniface Episcopal Church, 5615 Midnight Pass Road, $30-$40 Visit KeyChorale.org.

It’s billed as a concert 450 years in the making, but you can see it on back-to-back evenings. The Chamber Voices will welcome special guest Les Canard Chantants to take on music of the Renaissance. The spectacular voices will work through “Spem in Alium” by Thomas Tallis and tackle Alexander Striggio’s “Mass in 40 Parts.” Key Chorale will take its act to First Presbyterian Church to play the same show on Saturday, but that show will start at 4 p.m. instead of 7:30.

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‘KNOXVILLE’ There’s a small window for you to see Knoxville, birthed here at the Asolo Repertory Theatre and quite likely on its way to bigger things in the world at large.

The musical, based on James Agee’s “A Death in the Family,” will run through May 11 at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts, and then its creative team will try to figure out what’s next.

Jason Danieley stars as author James Agee, who looks back on his childhood and writes about the death of his father.

IF YOU GO When: 7:30 p.m. May 5; runs through May 11 Where: FSU Center for the Performing Arts, 5555 N. Tamiami Trail Tickets: $36-$108 Info: AsoloRep.org

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SOUNDING THE DEEP 6:30 p.m. at Hermitage Beach, 6660 Manasota Key Road $5, registration required Visit HermitageArtistRetreat.org Hermitage Fellows Jessica Huang and Scott Lee present early readings of their work in a beautiful setting.

Huang, a playwright, explores the ways the future might be impacted by climate change, and Lee, a classical composer, will play selections from his latest album, “Through the Mangrove Tunnels.”

SATURDAY SEEING STARS 6:30 at Robinson Preserve, 10299 Ninth Ave. NW, Bradenton Free; advance registration required Visit BishopScience.org Have you seen the Big Dipper? The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature is celebrating Astronomy Day with a program designed for students in third through 12th grade but open to stargazers of all ages. A number of telescopes will be trained on the cosmos. Weather permitting, you’ll have a chance to peek up close at the moon and stars.

SUNDAY VIENESS PIANO DUO 3 p.m. at State College of Florida Recital Hall, 5840 26th St. W., Bradenton $40 Visit ArtistSeriesConcerts.org.

Eva Schaumkell and Vijay Venkatesh are formidable alone or together.

The pair formed their duo act in 2017 at the University of Southern California, and they’ve toured extensively in America and abroad.

HARD HEART BURLESQUE 8 p.m. at McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre, 1923 Ringling Blvd. $37 Visit McCurdysComedy.com.

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‘BLACK + WHITE’ It’s a Rorschach test for art lovers.

Nine artists will combine to have their monochromatic works on display at MARA Art Studio + Gallery, and you can come see sculpture and painting at the opening.

The artists include Grace Howl, Jack Shapiro, Jana Millstone, Ralph Berger, Lisa DiFranza, Craig Palmer, Dan Wilkerson, Sam Wuerfel and MARA Torres; the exhibit will run through May. IF YOU GO When: 5:30 p.m. May 6 Where: MARA Art Studio + Gallery, 1421 Fifth St. Tickets: Free Info: MaraStudioGallery.com

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MONDAY CHIARA IZZI 7:30 p.m. at FST’s John C. Court Cabaret, 1265 First St. $35-$39 Visit JazzClubSarasota.org.

Expressive singer Chiara Izzi, based in New York but born in Italy, has built her reputation on performance, and she’ll be supported by guitarist Perry Smith.

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The Cougars won and will advance to the state tournament, but it was not easy. One of the team’s top two pairs, junior Jordyn Byrd and sophomore Sawyer DeYoung, lost their individual match to Lakewood Ranch’s Mackenzie Schmucker, a senior, and Andrea Dietz, a junior, in three sets.

Mooney’s freshman pair, Piper Carson and Ella Shuel, lost to the Mustangs’ top pairing of seniors Ashley and Brooke Pater, who will both be playing in college next season. But Mooney’s three other pairs won, giving them a 3-2 overall victory.

Forgive the Cougars for not being at their best. They were, after all, coming off a state championship.

Mooney defeated Merritt Island High 4-1 in Tavares on Saturday to capture the Sunshine State Athletic Conference state title. It was the team’s third and final match of the tournament and the culmination of the first half of Mooney’s seasonlong plan to win two state championships, the inaugural FHSAA tournament — Friday and Saturday in Tallahassee — being the other.

Winning one state title was a challenge. Alhough the final 4-1 score appears to indicate separation between Mooney and Merritt Island, Mooney Coach Chad Davis said the match was much closer than

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Mooney beach volleyball Coach Chad Davis talks to his team after the Cougars’ win over Lakewood Ranch High to reach the FHSAA state tournament.

not want his team to get too high off Calvary Christian (13-1) and Berkethe victory; there is still work to be ley Prep (10-3) for a Final Four spot. done, he said.

Carson and Hebda said they That said, Saturday was still wor- believe the Cougars can do it. thy of celebration on its own. Junior “I think we have been confident all Madeline Carson and sophomore season,” Hebda said. “We know our Helena Hebda, the team’s other elite team and how we can play. We know pair, laid out the scene. how to step it up. I don’t think we feel “When the last two games went to any more pressure in these matches a third set, and we were on the verge than others. We feel a drive that tells of winning, we felt it,” Carson said. us we can do this.”

“We were about to serve for the win Carson, the pair’s more offensivewhen they (freshman Izzy Russell focused player, said Hebda has more and junior Gracie Page) won their beach volleyball experience than she game. Everyone trampled on each and has been invaluable in terms of other, and we were all screaming.”

Carson learning the sport’s nuances, Davis said he offered to give the while Hebda, a defensive stalwart, team a day off Sunday to allow for said the pair’s constant communirest before facing Lakewood Ranch, cation allows them to pull off “two but the team wanted to hold a prac- ball” strategies — hitting over the net tice, so he held one. on the second touch instead of the Given how tired the team looked third touch — to great effect, catchagainst Lakewood Ranch, Davis said, ing opponents off guard. This season that might not have been the best is the first time Carson and Hebda idea in retrospect, but he appreciates have been a beach pair, but they have JEAN & ALFRED GOLDSTEIN EXHIBITION SERIES their dedication. quickly developed chemistry.

“How can you not be (tired)?” Davis All of the team’s pairs have. said. “I’m proud that they dug in.

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he voice on the phone transformed.

A few seconds before, I was talking with Baylor men’s basketball Coach Scott Drew, one of the honorees at this year’s Dick Vitale Gala, to be held May 6 at the Ritz-Carlton in Sarasota. But after I asked Drew a question about his favorite Vitale-ism, I no longer was talking to Drew.

I was treated to the best Vitale impression I’ve ever heard.

“Oh, it’s awesome, baby!” Drew said in his best Vitale voice.

After ripping off a few more of Vitale’s favorite sayings, Drew returned to his normal speaking voice.

“My impersonation is good,” he said. “I have worked on it over the years. I’m not blessed with his good looks, but I can do the voice.”

Drew will be honored at the gala alongside tennis legend Chris Evert and former NFL wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson. Drew has coached Baylor since 2003, raising the program from ruin to national champion. He led the Bears to the title in 2021, when they defeated Gonzaga 86-70 in the championship game.

Even with his accomplishments, Drew said he was shellshocked to be honored at the Dick Vitale Gala.

“It’s humbling,” Drew said. “You never feel worthy of recognition like that. At the same time, anything you can do to help the cause and raise money for pediatric cancer (research), you’re going to do it. Any time Dick asks you to to contribute or wants to honor you or whatever it is, you want to serve. This is a man who has given so much. He’s a prime-time player. He’s a diaper dandy.”

Drew said he started watching and listening to Vitale in the 1990s.

When he got into coaching in the mid-90s, he wrote Vitale a letter.

Time has caused the exact contents of the letter to fade from Drew’s memory; if he had to guess, he said,

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he thinks it was thanking Vitale for his contributions to the game and the profession, but he remembers Vitale’s response. It was in the form of Vitale’s book, “Holding Court,” which Vitale had signed. Drew said that was when he realized that Vitale is all heart.

Over 16 years, Vitale and his gala have raised more than $44 million for The V Foundation for Cancer Research, in particular pediatric cancer research. This year Vitale has set the goal at $7 million in the hope

of cracking the $50 million mark.

It would be especially impressive considering that in August 2021, Vitale announced he had been diagnosed with melanoma and had surgeries to remove it. In October, Vitale announced that he had been diagnosed with lymphoma.

On April 14, Vitale rang the bell at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, signaling that he was finished with chemotherapy treatment — and is cancer-free.

Throughout Vitale’s battle, Drew

sent him small messages of encouragement. Nothing major, Drew said, because he didn’t want to bother Vitale, and Vitale already had a circle of wonderful people giving him support.

Drew said Vitale has done a great job documenting his experience so people who haven’t been affected by cancer know what it is like. Both Drew’s parents, Homer and Janet Drew, have had cancer. It wears on you, Drew said. Yet, Vitale never stopped thinking about raising

money for charity during the process.

It is why Drew was so thrilled with the reception Vitale received in Waco, Texas, when he arrived to call Baylor’s game against Villanova Dec. 12. The school framed a custom jersey with his name on it and presented it to him. The crowd at the Ferrell Center gave Vitale a standing ovation. It brought the 82-year-old Vitale to tears in a moment that went viral on social media. Baylor won the game 57-36.

Then the real celebration began.

“He came into the locker room and did a dance with the guys,” Drew said. “It’s another memory I will never forget.”

Drew said he won’t be like some previous gala honorees who were able to wing their speeches. He is going to have a plan.

“I try not to wing things because I’m not smart enough to do that,” Drew said. “Coaches like to be prepared. In the past, I have always appreciated speeches from the heart. It’s an emotional, great event.

I also appreciate the conciseness of some speeches. That way you can honor everyone as well as (focus on) the kids and raising money for their fight. I think my speech will mix those elements. I just appreciate everything he’s done for the kids, and I want to help.”

For more information on the gala or to make a donation, visit the V Foundation’s website at V.org.

Ryan Kohn is the sports editor for the Sarasota/Siesta Key Observer. Contact him at RKohn@ YourObserver.com.

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Rothenbach Park Trash turned into treasure with the massive park space.

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When everything shut down, I got to finding out where I could hike and explore nature as much as possible. There were plenty of trails and swampy areas I fell in love with, but I think the most surprising was Rothenbach Park, a community park with miles of paved area for biking, running and so forth.

It is an odd space for Sarasota, a former landfill turned hill-like locale where quiet and scenic trails wrap around, and all sorts of wildlife took me by surprise.

We’ll get to that.

THE SCENE

The park’s sign brings it up, so it’s not that clever to say, but it really is an area that’s turned trash to treasure.

The site used to be the old Bee Ridge Landfill before being converted into a community park.

The revamped park was named after Walter J. Rothenbach Jr., the supervisor and director of Sarasota Parks and Rec from 1963 to 1998.

It’s that contrast of massive, wide open space overlooking a series of twisting, closed-in trails that brings a good amount of variety to visitors.

Driving into the park shows a mas-

sive space that isn’t really seen much in Sarasota before you leave your car and see lush foliage while walking through the trails.

Early on in the trail is a picnic area as well as a couple benches that overlook a waterway; it’s a good place to sit down and read.

Read the signs, by the way. I visited on a rainy day and almost slipped on the walkway. Of all the experiences you want at the park, a twisted ankle isn’t one of them.

THE PEOPLE

Rothenbach is a great place for cyclist and joggers, thanks to a number of running areas and paths both in the wide open space and the more shaded areas near the water.

Visit on any given day and you can find people exercising, families looking at the different types of animals, and even a photoshoot or two (you’re not allowed to be up on the massive hill proper, but that hasn’t stopped some people from quickly grabbing shots at the edge).

Weekends can see a fair amount of visitors, but it can also be fairly empty around sunset. Not a bad time to visit if you want some solace to end the day.

THE WILDLIFE

First things first. My most-recent trip to Rothenbach introduced me to a hawk on a fence that was completely drenched by the rain. I’d never seen a bird so frazzled by rainwater, yet it stayed proud.

ROTHENBACH PARK Address: 8650 Bee Ridge Road (the eastern end of the road) Hours: 6 a.m. to sunset Amenities: About 5 miles of paved recreational trails for walking, jogging and cycling.

Two playgrounds. Picnic areas.

Good to know: Pets are not allowed.

Dogs and other pets aren’t allowed at the park, which was a curious thing at first but quickly became obvious as to why.

It’s not the possibility of a dog getting loose and being snatched by a gator (though that could be an issue; I’ve seen massive gators resting on the banks at the water near the park).

It’s the deer. In a charming little touch that completes the area, there are small herds of deer that roam throughout the park’s massive hill and graze. It’s not the most common sight in our little area, and walking through the trails you can see the deer on the hilltop or sometimes much closer than that.

They stare back, by the way. Nothing is simultaneously as cute and odd as to be walking near some deer and have all six stop and stare at you like you’re interrupting their high school reunion.

On the way out of the park, I turned and immediately came across a mother deer and her young fawn, who looked like something out of a Disney cartoon. They froze, and I froze; we stared at one another, and they ran off.

It’s their park, really, and we’re just visiting it.

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Getting Away is an occasional series of photo stories meant to introduce Sarasotans to spots to enjoy a little peace and quiet. If you’d like to share a spot, email Managing Editor Eric Garwood at EGarwood@ YourObserver.com

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SARASOTA 105 N Isle Drive 3 Beds 4/1 Baths 4,258 Sq. Ft. Phyllis Garfinkel 941-302-6400 A4530323 $3,599,000

SARASOTA 1771 Ringling Boulevard PH302 3 Beds 3/1 Baths 2,873 Sq. Ft. Michael Moulton 941-928-3559 A4532280 $3,200,000

SARASOTA 473 Partridge Circle 4 Beds 3/1 Baths 3,226 Sq. Ft. Drew Russell 941-993-3739 A4511642 $3,195,000

SIESTA KEY 3913 Roberts Point Road 4 Beds 4/1 Baths 2,793 Sq. Ft. Denise Mei 941-685-3198 A4522985 $2,950,000

SARASOTA 650 Golden Gate Point 302 2 Beds 2/1 Baths 1,949 Sq. Ft. Dana Westmark 941-356-5091 A4531159 $2,900,000

SARASOTA 1547 Sandpiper Lane 3 Beds 3/1 Baths 3,136 Sq. Ft. Michael Hays 941-376-1826 A4531554 $2,850,000

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SARASOTA 3224 Signet Court 4 Beds 3/2 Baths 4,008 Sq. Ft. Linda Driggs & Sara Boudarga 941-374-2920 A4530120 $2,250,000

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SARASOTA 1704 Arlington Street 3 Beds 3 Baths 2,545 Sq. Ft. Barbara May & Fred Sassen 404-822-9264 A4529406 $2,100,000

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two-property sale in Seagrape tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. J&M Eldred Realty LLC sold two properties at 1144 and 1148 Sea Grape Point Road to Michael Kimball, of Nokomis, for $10.5 million.

The property at 1144 was built in 2016, it has two bedrooms, three-and-ahalf baths, a pool and 4,749 square feet of living area.

The property at 1148 was built in 2016, it has three bedrooms, three-and-ahalf baths, a pool and 2,864 square feet of living area.

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VUE Barbara Sucoff, of Sarasota, sold her Unit 1103 condominium at 1155 N. Gulfstream Ave. to Bradley Ray Smith and Rhonda Graham Smith, of Key Largo, for $2,525,000.

Built in 2017, it has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,730 square feet of living area. It sold for $1,275,000 in 2018.

DAR 3406 Magic Oak Lane LLC sold the Unit 208 condominium at 1155 N. Gulfstream Ave. to Barbara Sucoff, of Sarasota, for $1.4 million.

Built in 2017, it has one bedroom, one-and-a-half baths and 1,421 square feet of living area. It sold for $899,000 in 2017.

1350 MAIN RESIDENTIAL Jay and Iris Leonard, of Washington, D.C., sold their Unit 1310 condominium at 1350 Main St. to Ramarao Yeleti, of Carmel, Indiana, for $2.45 million. Built in 2007, it has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,288 square feet of living area. It sold for $1,035,000 in 2014.

MORTON TERRACE WRI Capital Group Inc. sold the home at 1654 Prospect St. to Michael and Tatiana Dalakis, of Sarasota, for $1.6 million. Built in 1925, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,667 square feet of living area. It sold for $865,000 in 2021.

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SARASOTA: $2.7 MILLION

Oyster Bay Estates Christy Hutchens, of Sarasota, sold the home at 1145 N. Lake Shore Drive to Robert Jernoske Jr. and Zhanna Kretova, of Sarasota, for $2.7 million. Built in 1968, it has five bedrooms, five-andtwo-half baths, a pool and 6,963 square feet of living area. It sold for $290,000 in 1984.

SIESTA KEY: $5.99 MILLION

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The home at 144 North Casey Key Road in Osprey was built in 2003 and sold for $6.3 million in 2022.

WALDEMERE AVENUE Felix Management III LLC sold the home at 1726 Waldemere St. to Ronald Shugar, trustee, of Sarasota, for $1.35 million. Built in 1952, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,711 square feet of living area. It sold for $597,000 in 2019.

BURNS COURT Steven Krupnick, trustee, of Philadelphia, sold two properties at 446 Burns Court to 446 Burns Court LLC for $1.2 million. The first property was built in 1926, it has one bedroom, one bath and 946 square feet of living area. The second property was built in 1971, it has one bath and 367 square feet of living area.

They sold for $675,000 in 2019.

THE LANDINGS Karen Snyder, of Sarasota, sold her home at 4684 Pine Harrier Drive to Phillip Joseph Kerewich Jr. and Erin Kerewich, of Sarasota, for $950,000. Built in 1995, it has four bedrooms, three baths and 2,532 square feet of living area. It sold for $720,000 in 2017.

Mira Mar Scott and Linda Schaeffer, of Osprey, sold their home at 7967 Midnight Pass Road to Michael and Amie Redman, of Zionsville, Indiana, for $5.99 million.

Built in 2020, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 4,904 square feet of living area. It sold for $3.5 million in 2021.

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OSPREY: $6.3 MILLION

Casey Key Michael Lombardo and Carla Morris-Lombardo, of Englewood, sold their home at 144 N. Casey Key Road to Scott and Linda Schaeffer, of Osprey, for $6.3 million.

Built in 2003, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 5,397 square feet of living area. It sold for $3.2 million in 2004.

SOUTH GATE Johnathan and Jennifer Collins, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2631 S. Brink Ave. to Kanichiro and Leah Nishida, of Sarasota, for $936,000.

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THE CONDOMINIUM ON THE BAY Paul and Kyla Yungst, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 1215 condominium at 988 Blvd. of the Arts to Lewis Kessler, of Scarsdale, New York, for $1,115,000. Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,555 square feet of living area. It sold for $479,700 in 2004.

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ALINARI Barry Klayton, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the Unit 307 condominium at 800 N. Tamiami Trail to Rita Ohannessian and Stephen Spurr, of Reston, Virginia, for $995,000.

Built in 2007, it has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,911 square feet of living area. It sold for $799,000 in 2007.

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Christopher and Vicki Campbell, of Waynesville, North Carolina, sold their home at 2415 Juniper Place to Robert and Christina Waldron, of Sarasota, for $830,000. Built in 1962, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,194 square feet of living area. It sold for $83,500 in 1995.

Blake and Kelsie Harcup, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2517 Valencia Drive to Thomas and Jennifer Dunbar, of Cicero, Indiana, for $828,000. Built in 1956, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,372 square feet of living area. It sold for $277,500 in 2018.

Joel Burrow, of Sarasota, sold his home at 2927 Webber St. to Joseph Anderson Cool and Kelly Janet Cool, of Sarasota, for $625,000.

Built in 1961, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,477 square feet of living area. It sold for $267,000 in 2019.

John Doughtery and Kristen Lee Brower, of St. Petersburg, sold their home at 2855 Upper Tangelo Drive to Uwe Thumm and Loretta Johnson, of Sarasota, for $595,000. Built in 1960, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,488 square feet of living area. It sold for $370,000 in 2020.

Van Thi Bach Pham, of Sarasota, sold the home at 3326 S. Lockwood Ridge Road to Daniel Lee Stoltzfus Jr. and Mary Stoltzfus, of Allenwood, Pennsylvania, for $540,000.

Built in 1967, it has four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,962 square feet of living area. It sold for $235,000 in 2019.

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BAYWINDS ESTATES Lori Ann Golembeski, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the home at 1602 Ridgewood Lane to Aaron and Joanne Kaufman, of Sarasota, for $765,000. Built in 1983, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,731 square feet of living area. It sold for $29,500 in 1983.

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332 COCOANUT 332 Cocoanut LLC sold the Unit 412 condominium at 1338 Fourth St. to Patricia Hunter-Bunyan and Davida Cummins, of Sarasota, for $758,000. Built in 2021, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 989 square feet of living area.

PINE SHORES ESTATES William Klatt, of Breezy Point, Minnesota, sold his home at 6011 Crestwood Ave. to Bradley Serpico, trustee, of Hampshire, Illinois, for $680,000. Built in 1960, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,809 square feet of living area. It sold for $110,000 in 1994.

HOMECROFT Barbara Esh, of Sarasota, Melvin Beller, of Gordonville, Pennsylvania, Anna Mary Fox, of Sarasota, and Ruth Glick, of Loganton, Pennsylvania, sold their home at 3505 Bimini St. to Aquillas and Sallie Peachey, of Loganton, Pennsylvania, for $661,500. Built in 1972, it has four bedrooms, one bath and 1,128 square feet of living area.

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Philip and Jennifer Cole, of Odessa, sold their home at 2401 Ezzell Court to Jason Ficks, of Winfield, Pennsylvania, for $675,000. Built in 2019, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 1,918 square feet of living area. It sold for $460,000 in 2020.

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