Sarasota/Siesta Key Observer 6.16.22

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YOUR TOWN

Preservation on Palm?

Groups disagree over historical significance of downtown building. SEE PAGE 3A

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Youth of the Year Bernadette Nwokeji receives a scholarship.

A farewell to seniors

Eyes to the skies

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto Counties organization is committed to its many students who participate in its programs over the years. Many students join at an early age and grow up with the organization from elementary school until they graduate.

Still, everything has an end, and the senior students with the club had theirs on June 9.

The club bid farewell to more than 90 departing students with a Senior Celebration event at the Lee Wetherington Club.

The club also awarded various scholarships to 17 seniors who went above and beyond in their academic work.

Remote-control aviators flock together in Sarasota club.

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Jaed Jones

Serving as Teen Miss Agriculture Florida has a new Teen Miss Agriculture – and she’s a Sarasota resident.

Jaed Jones, a Sarasota High School junior, was crowned 2022 Florida Teen Miss Agriculture USA at the virtual Florida Miss Agriculture USA Competition in June. Miss Agriculture USA is a national nonprofit with queen representatives of all ages who promote agriculture as well as develop public speaking skills and social networks.

Jones won the competition based on scores, public speaking abilities and more.

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Al Jensen maneuvers his plane over the field at Rothenbach Park while Anthony Lassiter keeps watch.

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Festival hits the right notes.

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The Sarasota Kennel Club site, where Aventon Cos. is requesting approval for a 348-unit apartment complex, has been courting developers since legislation outlawed greyhound racing in 2018.

Citing concerns about airport noise, planning board votes against apartment proposal.

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WEEK OF JUNE 16, 2022

Fugitive arrested after five-year run

“All I remember after crossing the finish line is Maya (Schultz) letting go of her handles, leaning back and saying, ‘We did it.’”

The pursuit of a Sarasota man since 2017 on charges of child pornography has ended in Mexico with the arrest of John Pyle, 65, over the weekend.

The ultramarathon runner and formerly celebrated local figure had been on the run since failing to appear for court in November 2017.

He was arrested by the Sarasota Police Department in 2016, posted a $90,000 bond and disappeared.

On June 11, Pyle was booked into the Miami Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Center in Miami after authorities found him in Merida, Mexico, just outside of Cancun.

Pyle was charged with 15 counts of possession of child pornography in 2016, with additional charges pending.

He is awaiting extradition to Sarasota to face the charges from 2016.

In 2012, Pyle completed a 3,000mile run from San Francisco to Key West. Called the Patriot Run Across America, the effort benefited the Wounded Warrior Project.

Maeva Ginsberg-Klemmt (right), on winning the USRowing Youth National Championships. Read more on page 11B

BY THE NUMBERS 36.9%

Amount parking revenue grew on St. Armands Circle in May over 2021.

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The 22-acre Golden Gate Point ellipse is a single-paver street ringed by condominium towers.

n Sarasota City Police Complaint Committee — 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 22, Commission Chambers, City Hall, 1565 First St. n Sarasota County Commission budget workshop — 9 a.m. June 23-24, third floor, County Administrative Building, 1660 Ringling Blvd.

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ending Sarasota City Commission approval, Golden Gate Point is poised to add 23 luxury condominiums. On Wednesday, the city’s planning board, with little discussion, unanimously recommended site plan approval of Peninsula Sarasota, a two-tower development on the 22-acre spit of land that juts into Sarasota Bay just southeast of the Ringling Bridge.

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en Gate Point, Peninsula Sarasota is planned to include eight units in one tower at one unit per floor and 15 in the other with three units per floor, all ranging from approximately 2,500 to 3,000 square feet.

The project was originally planned for 24 units. One condo was removed to create a 3,000-square-foot amenity space on the second floor of the larger building. The entire project

will occupy just under an acre.

Prices will start at $1.6 million.

Consultant Joel Freedman, representing developer Gault Family Cos., told planning board members that while the project lends the appearance of two separate but architecturally matching buildings, Peninsula Sarasota will be a single building with a parking podium connecting the two towers.

In only their fourth month since launch, Sarasota’s Bay Runner trolley and micro-mobility programs have earned international recognition for innovative transportation solutions.

Mark Lyons, the city’s parking and mobility general manager, announced recently the International Parking & Mobility Institute has given the city its Award of Excellence for Innovation.

Sarasota’s award submission received the highest marks of all entries in the category. The city’s award-winning programs are featured in the IPMI’s June edition of Parking & Mobility magazine.

“We’ve gone up against cities like Miami, New York, Dallas and other cities that submitted for this award, and we scored the highest,” Lyons said. “It’s a real honor, but it’s all because of the effort of everybody here wanting to make this work.”

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Sarasota Historic Board turns down developer’s request to demolish the Mira Mar building.

Historic Question A group of residents opposes demolition of what they claim is a historic property.

The potential developer disputes its historic status, and questions its safety.

The project is the latest pull between progress and preservation.

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arasota’s Historic Preservation Board has unanimously rejected a local developer’s request to knock down the Mira Mar building on South Palm Avenue to make way for a project that would include 70 condominiums and a two-story retail building.

The decision came at a meeting Tuesday afternoon where Seaward Development pleaded to take down the existing building citing structural issues that have led a local engineering firm to recommend inspections every three days.

But those concerns, and a halfhour presentation that even a city official said was the most thorough he’d seen, was turned aside as about a half dozen residents stood up to oppose the demolition. The local citizens, in general, said demolition would continue to alter the city’s character, further risking turning Sarasota into, as one speaker put it, “Everytown, U.S.A.” The Mira Mar building at 49 S. Palm Ave. was built in 1922 and over the decades has been updated, renovated and rebuilt. Many see it as a historic property that harkens back to Sarasota’s early boom days and brings a charm some see as fading as construction projects downtown get bigger and more modern.

Seaward officials agreed with that sentiment and said their plans for the property would be true to the original design and spirit of the Mira Mar while modernizing it and addressing serious structural issues.

But, Patrick DiPinto, Seaward’s managing partner, argued that can only be done if the current building is brought down and rebuilt. He said knocking it down won’t affect the historical import because what people see today is a “remake of the original. The building was 60%, 70% rebuilt in the ’80s.”

“We all love the charm and character of the building. We do,” he said.

Seaward, which is under contract to buy the building for an undisclosed amount, has been a tenant in the Mira Mar for the past five years.

The real problem, the firm said, is the building has fallen into such disrepair it’s too costly to maintain or to simply fix.

June 13, a day before the Historic Preservation Board voted on Seaward’s proposal.

The inspector, according to a city spokesperson, visited the building and reached out to the building’s engineer of record with plans to look at the engineer’s latest report. The inspector, the spokesperson says, did not make a formal response or take any immediate recommendations, including asking tenants to move out.

This despite an email to the building’s current owner, Mark Kauffman, from an outside engineering firm recommending safety inspections of the north portion of the building every three days.

“We propose to install more crack measuring gauges and propose to do regular monitoring,” said the email from Karins Engineering, a copy of which was provided to the Business Observer, sister paper of the Sarasota Observer.

According to potential buyer Seaward Development, and Kauffman, engineers said that despite the work done to keep the property intact, the 100-year-old wood frame is badly damaged, including drastically undersized foundations, corroded structural wood wall studs, extensive insect damage and wood rot. This, the developer said, calls “into question the load path for gravity loads and walls observed with no lateral resistance to wind loads.”

The buildings assessed value is about $2 million, but according to Seaward it needs more than $22 million in repairs, a process that could take up to three years.

That’s why the development company went before the board requesting permission to demolish the building. Seaward’s plan is to keep the zoning, which allows for a 10-story building, as is and build two

floors of retail facing Palm Avenue and a second residential building behind the commercial space that pays “homage and to the original look and design of the property.”

The Mira Mar building is actually two buildings that are connected by a bridge. Seaward’s application for demolition covers the entire property. Although the Mira Mar is considered historic to many in the community, it is not the original building that sits on the site, and so many renovations and changes have been made in the past century that its application to the National Register for Historic Places was rejected in 1983.

OPPOSITION MOUNTS

The plan ran into opposition before the Historic Preservation Board meeting, with one of the owners of a prominent restaurant in the Mira Mar taking to social media the night before the meeting to take issue with it and to reassure customers that the restaurant wasn’t going anywhere.

Paul Caragiulo, whose family owns Caragiulos Italian Restaurant at 69 S. Palm Ave., said in the post that the restaurant is in the south building and that the major issues are in the other building. He wrote: “our landlord has assured us that at present, the building is safe.”

In the Facebook post, he wrote that, “We are not privy to the lease terms of other tenants of Mira Mar, but we can tell you for certain that Caragiulos has a lease term which concludes in 2040.”

Caragiulo, who is out of the country, said in a phone interview that the restaurant has about 18 years left on its current lease and reiterates that the building is safe and that he intends to live out the rest of the terms of that lease. As for what happens if the city does grant Seaward

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Seaward Development and the property’s owner, Mark Kauffman, have concerns about the structural integrity of the building.

permission to demolish the building, he won’t comment.

“I have nothing to say regarding what is happening in that meeting today. Nothing to say about the project. It has nothing to do with me,” he said.

But Caragiulo’s assurances are a far cry from what Mira Mar’s current owner, Kauffman, said.

Kauffman, in a statement, says “Mira Mar has now passed its useful life. A confluence of situations have led to the professional realization that repairs and restorations are not a fiscal option for the permanent sustained future of the Mira Mar.” As for the lease term, Kauffman said June 13, the day before the meeting, that if the permission is denied to bring down the building, he will allow leases to run out over the next two years and then close the building down and fence it off.

DiPinto said the company cannot comment on existing leases but that the firm is willing to work other tenants in the building.

“Nothing would make us happier than if many of the existing tenants came with us into a new, safe building,” DiPinto says in a statement issued through a spokeswoman. “We are working with commercial real estate brokers to help relocate many of them and assist them during any transition if necessary. But our main concern right now is whether the building is safe, as one of 40 tenants in the building ourselves.”

Affected parties opposed to the demolition or Seaward can appeal the board’s decision to the Sarasota City Commission.

SAFETY CONCERNS

The city of Sarasota inspected the safety of the Mira Mar building on South Palm Avenue on Monday,

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Seaward Development shared a rendering of what it hopes to redevelop after demolition. This image does not include the 70 condominium units it plans to add behind the retail and office space.

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“The on-street meter activity was still very, very strong,” Lyons said.

“The garage took a slight dip, which is interesting because the garages in downtown took an even larger dip. I don’t know what caused that. I think May last year might have been sort of a coming-out month after COVID, when there was, as you might remember, a lot of activity.”

Lyons credited the success of paid street parking to growing use of the city’s ParkMobile system, which allows drivers to avoid using parking meters by entering the parking zone number into a cellphone app.

The BID derives no revenue from paid parking, but its merchants reap the benefits of more available and

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convenient parking, even if for a cost. And that cost is low compared to other tourist destinations, Lyons said. The first two hours in the parking deck, in fact, are free.

Paid parking at St. Armands generated $131,528 in May, down 21%

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Lyons concurred, adding, “We Paid parking revenues at St. still have a couple of good months Armands Circle continue recovin front of us with the boat races ering from COVID-19, growing and various activities out at circle, 36.9% May compared to the which I think will cause some bumps same month in 2021. in activity and revenues. It’s not too hard to imagine that we’re going to n May 2022: $131,528 be in good shape.” n May 2021: $96,069 As for the Bay Runner, Lyons said ridership remains high even after season. In all, there have been 41,094 rides through May, with 14,267 in from $165,824 in April. In May 2021, March and 14,291 in April. parking there netted $96,069.

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For the Sarasota Planning Board, an apartment community built 1,500 feet from the end of the runway at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport just won’t fly.

Citing primarily noise concerns, the board last week voted 3-2 following a public hearing to not recommend to the City Commission a proposal, nor an enabling rezoning request, to build Aventon Sarasota, a 348-unit multifamily complex at the 26-acre site of the former Sarasota Kennel Club at University Parkway and Old Bradenton Road.

Planning Board Chair Terrill Salem and board member Damien Blumetti opposed two motions: to recommend against rezoning from Community Commercial to Moderate Density Residential and for denial of the site plan for the apartments.

Raleigh, North Carolina-based real estate development company Aventon Cos. is already building an apartment community beneath the glide path a little farther from Orlando International Airport.

Aventon Senior Development Director Sean Flanagan tried to convince board members the company has the expertise to mitigate airport noise indoors with the use of sound dampening materials during construction.

Board member Kathy Kelley Ohlrich was having none of it, citing studies suggesting that repeated, though not necessarily long-term, exposure to sound above 65 decibels leads to myriad physical and mental health issues. Sarasota-Bradenton Airport President Rick Piccolo — who admitted the airport was interested in the property pre-COVID but

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“I know when someone is thinking about purchasing a property, they don’t look at it and say, ‘Oh good, I get to do a comp plan amendment and a rezone because this property’s proximity is 1,500 feet away from the main runway of an international airport,” Ohlrich said. “I wonder what other uses you considered other than residential that you rejected?”

Consultant Joel Freedman, representing Aventon and property owner Jack Collins Jr. at the public hearing, said few suitors have expressed interest in the property since it was shuttered in 2020 after greyhound racing was ended via statewide referendum. It is currently being used as a COVID testing site.

“I’ve been involved with the property for a long time, and the owners tried to market this to anybody,” Freedman said. “The only people who came forward were residential developers.”

He added that Amazon investigated the site for a warehouse, but decided on a location farther north.

POTENTIAL POLITICAL LIABILITY

Apart from the usual concerns about traffic, the discussion focused on concerns about the impact of aircraft noise on potential new residents versus the need for reasonably priced housing in the city and the rights between an owner of land rendered non-viable by legislation and a willing buyer.

And, certainly, liability.

“Does the city have any liability in the event that this gets approved and the project fails due to noise?”

Blumetti asked Development Review Senior Planner Tom Sacharski.

“No legal liability, but political liability is certainly plausible,” Sacharski said.

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While there is no liability, there is also no proof required after construction that the sound mitigation techniques actually reduce the noise by 25 to 30 decibels. What is required that construction follows Federal Administration Administration guidelines to achieve that outcome.

In rebuttal, Flanagan said a Google search revealed 60 decibels is the volume of a normal conversation, and a rock concert is 120 decibels. In general, he said decibel levels above 85 are harmful depending on length and frequency of exposure.

Aventon’s confidence it can successfully operate next to the airport is evidenced by its investment, Flanagan told the board. The company put the property under contract in the second quarter of 2021, the close contingent upon approval of the rezoning and the apartment project.

“We’re investing $60-$70 million into this project. We would not do that if we felt that it wasn’t going to be successful,” Flanagan said. “We rely on happy residents because we want them to stay.”

NOISE VS. NEED

Compatibility between apartments and adjacent uses was also questioned, with Freedman arguing that multifamily is an appropriate land use as a step-down from the commercial nature of University Park-

way to single-family residential that surrounds the former kennel club — long-standing neighborhoods in similar proximity to the airport.

One commercial use is already slated for the property. The northeastern corner of the site at the intersection of University Parkway and Old Bradenton Road has already been carved out for a convenience store.

“I don’t really know how residential is not compatible with residential,” Blumetti said. “A Home Depot might be considered not compatible, but I don’t know how residential is not compatible.”

Salem vacillated between supporting and opposing the rezoning and the apartment project, weighing the need for additional rental units against potential noise issues.

The petitioners bolstered their case with fresh market data showing year-over-year rent increased 40% in Sarasota, which is indicative of short market supply. Additionally, a 2% to 3% vacancy rate is half of the historic local norm of 5% to 6%.

Based on construction costs and area market comps, the Aventon Sarasota would open with an average rent of approximately $2,000 per month, smaller units less and larger units more.

The project could still be brought before the City Commission for consideration.

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“If we are to build a better world, we must remember that the guiding principle is this — a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.”

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Florida pension fixes in budget are great but only the first step With the passage of House Bill 5007, the Florida Retirement System’s Investment Plan is much closer to being a model of effective public retirement plan design.

ADRIAN MOORE AND RICHARD HILLE

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ecognizing a significant shortcoming in the Florida Retirement System’s Investment Plan, the state Legislature recently took substantial action to address the problem by passing House Bill 5007, which was signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis last week.

It is generally recognized that a defined contribution structured retirement plan needs a contribution rate of between 12% and 15% of a worker’s salary (where employees participate in Social Security) to produce an income that is likely to maintain the employee’s standard of living once they are in retirement. For teachers and most other non-safety public workers

in Florida, the contribution rate in the Florida Retirement System’s Investment Plan has been 3% by the employees and 3.3% by the employer, for a total of 6.3%. Unfortunately, this is effectively half of the total contribution necessary to effectively fund an appropriate retirement income.

In House Bill 5007, the Florida Legislature increased the state’s contribution to the FRS IP by 3% to a total employer contribution of 6.3%. This brings the contribution rate of government employers, i.e. taxpayers, to 6.3% and the total contribution rate up to 9.3%, certainly a substantial improvement. The increase is expected to cost $249 million next year.

Ideally, workers would have also upped their contributions to FRIS IP, but the state Legislature is to be applauded for recognizing this shortcoming and for acting to improve lifetime financial security for state employees. This change might also aid in recruiting and retaining quality employees into state service as taxpayers put more money toward workers’ retirements and the plan better meets employees’ long-term needs.

The FRS IP has been a plan that effectively meets most other best practices for defined contribution

plan design. It provides a robust communication and education package for employees and has an appropriate investment menu that includes target-date funds for workers who might be less financially active or sophisticated.

There is also a broad selection of distribution options for employees to choose from, including lifetime income options. With all these positive design elements, the insufficient contribution rate has kept the plan from being a truly effective retirement vehicle. While the government’s 3% contribution increase goes a long way toward making the plan more effective, the total contribution rate remains insufficient.

The Florida Retirement System Investment Plan should now examine how it can increase the required employee contribution by 3% to 6%, so the total contribution rate would rise to 12.3%. Legislative action will likely be needed, but increasing the employee contributions would create no additional cost to the state’s taxpayers. This increased contribution from workers would bring the FRS IP contribution total from 9.3% to 12.3%, a rate just above recognized standards so that workers could then expect to have the appropriate amount of money set aside for retirement.

An employee contribution rate of 6% is quite comparable to other states with defined contribution retirement plans and could be an appropriate reciprocal response considering not only the state’s increase in its contribution but also the recent 5.4% across the board increase in salaries for all state

employees, with some workers also getting additional raises. If workers express concerns about increasing their contribution rate all at once, state policymakers could examine the possibility of implementing the 3% contribution increase gradually over several years. Again, this would likely need to be spelled out legislatively.

The momentum initiated by the important and laudable state action to increase the government’s contribution rate to the FRS IP should not be lost. But to be a truly effective retirement plan for state employees, and best aid employer workplace objectives, including recruitment and retention of employees, the total contribution rate still needs to rise into the accepted range of 12% to 15%.

With the passage of House Bill 5007, the Florida Retirement System’s Investment Plan is much closer to being a model of effective public retirement plan design.

Florida policymakers should now seize the opportunity to take the necessary step — increasing employee contributions to 6%, thereby having a total contribution rate into the plan of over 12%, putting the contribution rate in line with best practices.

Adrian Moore is vice president at Reason Foundation and lives in Sarasota. Richard Hiller is a senior fellow at Reason Foundation and has worked on income-focused retirement plan designs for more than 35 years.

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Hot topics, and maybe a dirty trick, highlight candidate forum Sheldon Rich alleges political subterfuge as fellow City Commission candidates answer questions CCNA’s forum.

to the city commissioners that you elect and the planning board members among the citizens that they appoint. This whole idea of administrative approval needs to be squashed and eliminated.”

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opics including downtown building heights, inclusionary zoning, affordable housing, growing administrative powers — and some alleged political espionage — highlighted the Sarasota City Commission candidates forum June 11, hosted by the Coalition of City Neighborhood Associations at Bayfront Community Center.

Five of six candidates vying for two at-large seats, including incumbent Jen Ahearn-Koch, were questioned for 90 minutes by moderator Dan DeLeo, a partner with law firm and event sponsor Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick. The collegial discussion was briefly interrupted by the nearly hour-late arrival of candidate Sheldon Rich, who claimed he was duped into missing the forum by a false email instructing him the event had been changed from in-person to online.

“I received a GoTo Meeting invitation that stated the meeting has been switched to online, so I’ve been online at my home since 8:55 this morning waiting for anybody to join,” Rich said. ”No one was there, and I thought I better scurry on up here and see if it hadn’t been changed. I must be causing some ruckus and maybe my candidacy is causing some feathers to be ruffled.

“Somebody went to an awful lot of effort to send me a bogus invitation to a GoTo meeting. My intent was to certainly participate in this meeting from the very beginning.”

In addition to Ahearn-Koch and Rich, City Commission candidates Debbie Trice, Dan Lobeck and Carl Shoffstall participated. Sarasota Planning Board Chair Terrill Salem,

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From left, Sarasota City Commission candidates Sheldon Rich, Dan Lobeck, incumbent Jen Ahearn-Koch, Debbie Trice and Carol Shoffstall participate in CCNA’s candidate forum on Saturday.

who is also running, did not attend.

At least one new commissioner will be elected; Commissioner Hagen Brody is vacating his seat to make a run at the Sarasota County Commission. The Aug. 23 primary will narrow the field of candidates from six to three, of which two will be elected in the Nov. 6 general election.

The CCNA Executive Committee drafted a series of questions for the candidates, indicating its primary concerns regarding the future of Sarasota. Here is how the candidates addressed some of them. Visit YourObserver.com to see more answers.

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continue to have your your voice represented at the planning board and at the City Commission where you elect your representatives directly to represent you.”

On including neighborhood stakeholders in the strategic land development process: Ahearn-Koch: “It is essential that the citizens and that the neighborhood leaders have … not only a voice at the table, but a meaningful voice at the table, which is the question: When is your voice the most meaningful and the most powerful? … It’s in the process a little bit later on, when the neighbors can know exactly what is being proposed. Not only there, but to

Lobeck: “You deserve a seat at the table at the Development Review Committee meetings. … You can talk all you want to the developers at their workshops. You can talk as much as you want to staff who tends to go with the developers, although they’re doing a little bit better. But you need the right to continue to give your input

Shoffstall: “I’ve been involved with CCNA for many years and that is one of the most important things that we’ve got to try and do.

Everybody here is basically saying the same thing, but how that’s going to get done is that we need to be listened to, we need to be able to interact with the commissioners as well as staff, and I think it is absolutely crucial that we get to say at the table as neighborhood associations.”

Trice: “I would change the development review process while the developer is still creating plans and when they’re doing a feasibility study. One element of the feasibility study should be finding out whether the neighborhood that they’re wanting to build in is going to be supportive, or is going to fight them every step of the way. … I’m suggesting that we have a community workshop of sorts, early in the process.”

On increasing building heights in the downtown area as proposed in comprehensive plan amendments: Lobeck: “There are those, perhaps even a commission majority right now, that would raise building heights. People move here not because of skyscrapers. They move here because of our charm and our character. I’m opposed to those increases, and certainly not as a giveaway to the developer in turn return for providing new units the way it’s now worded for attainable housing for a family of four making $108,450 a year. That’s a scam, honestly. This amendment that’s moving forward specifically says that no longer will you have commission approval, you will have

administrative approval, if there’s that little teeny increment of what’s really unaffordable housing. That needs to be squashed.”

Shoffstall: “Regarding heights, what we have now is working. The gentrification problem that everybody’s talking about is of great concern. (We need to) utilize modern urban design, we need larger sidewalks and walkability. For a plan with extended heights, if a plan is unique enough that it requires a comp plan change, it should be able to withstand a 4-1 vote. So I am all for keeping the height at what it is now.”

Trice: “When it comes to building height, our current rule is far too weak. When they first went in, ceiling heights were probably 8 feet, so when you’re talking about 10-story building, you’re talking not much more than an 80-foot building. Now we’re seeing some buildings with 16-foot ceilings, so you’re doubling the actual height of the building without changing from 10 stories. I would advocate that we change it to a limit in feet, and the added benefit of that if you’ve got 16-foot ceilings, that’s going to be a luxury apartment. A builder who puts in 8- or 9-foot ceilings is going to make smaller units, … and those are going to be more moderately priced units.”

Ahearn-Koch: “I’m against increasing the height. I voted against it. I voted to pull it out of the discussion. I would have stopped that discussion altogether if I could have. I am not at all in favor of increasing the heights in downtown or anywhere else in our city.”

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MEET FLUTE Graeme Sugden attended these halls as a youngster, and now he’s playing them as a professional musician.

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raeme Sugden eagerly walked through these halls as a youngster, absorbing every bit of tutelage that he could find.

But now he’s a flute fellow playing in the Sarasota Music Festival and a role model for local youngsters in his own right.

Sugden, a graduate student at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, grew up in Bradenton, and he graduated from Braden River High School. He received private instruction from Sarasota Orchestra Principal Flute Betsy Hudson Traba in his musical journey, and now she’s in the audience watching him perform.

For Sugden — and for the 60 fellows selected to participate in the festival — it’s a large milestone in their lives and a chance to begin contemplating their future as professionals.

“I came to this building with Sarasota Youth Orchestra for five years, and it’s very special just walking around the hallways now as an adult,” says Sugden. “I’m getting to perform in the same halls that I played in as a young musician, coming back as a completely different person and getting to see the faculty that are the staff I worked with when I was a kid.”

In some ways, he’s been preparing for this moment for all of his life. Sugden played for the Sarasota Youth Symphony and the Sarasota Youth Philharmonic during his teen years, and he graduated from a dualenrollment program with Braden River and State College of Florida.

Now, a few years later, he’s performing in a festival that’s a jewel of the summer schedule.

“We get a lot of different perspectives on the music.

It’s really cool in my ensemble as well because our coach is actually performing with us. Not only do we get to hear his instruction on the piece, but we get to hear his playing, his interpretation” — Graeme Sugden

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The Sarasota Music Festival brings early career professionals and accomplished virtuosos for a slate of 14 local performances.

The Sarasota Music Festival was founded in 1965 by Paul Wolfe, and he served as its director for 42 years.

Robert Levin took over the reigns from 2007 to 2016, and Jeffrey Kahane took over from there. The festival will present 14 different programs with music ranging from the Baroque period to contemporary, and it will feature virtuosos from all over the country.

Sugden’s college professor at IU, Thomas Robertello, will be one of 40 faculty artists from top music schools to perform in Sarasota. Sugden says that it’s an honor to learn from the faculty and to rub elbows with his fellow peers.

“It’s kind of a gathering of all the different schools, with all of our faculty coming from all around the country,” he said. “We get a lot of different perspectives on the music.

It’s really cool in my ensemble as well because our coach is actually performing with us. Not only do we get to hear his instruction on the piece, but we get to hear his playing, his interpretation.”

Sugden will perform in a number of performances. His first performance, on the opening night of the festival, came as a member of a wind quintet. He will also play as part of Rising Stars 2, a performance just for the fellows, on June 19.

The flutist will also be part of the third festival Friday, where he will play on Dixtuor by Francaix.

The cool part, for Sugden, will be that his parents will be in attendance. He jokes they already hear him practice, but now they’ll be able to see him perform.

Sugden has had the opportunity to study with Carol Wincenc, a professor at Juilliard, during the festival, and he practiced and performed with faculty member Peter Kolkay in the first Friday event. But Sugden says that Traba has made the largest impact on his life.

She first started working with Sugden when he was in high school, and she’s continued mentoring him since then. Sugden says he did not really aspire to be a professional musician until he started working with Traba, and now she gets to see his hard work pay off in person; Traba attended one of of his early master classes at the

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“I owe everything to Betsy,” he says. “I would not be the flutist I am today without her, and she completely changed my playing for the better. She really showed me what control on the flute is like and she was the person who helped starting me build a really beautiful sound and solid technique. She really started shaping me into an employed musician.

“She is a fantastic flute player and she’s such a kind teacher. She’s always been a wonderful mentor to me.”

That’s part of the magic of the festival; it’s young and hungry upand-coming musicians working with professionals who have already blazed their own trail. All of the fellows are taking the same journey from student to professional musician, and it’s inspiring for them to be able to meet each other and play together.

The reality for them is that they’re uncertain where their career journeys will take them. When they meet their peers, they’re meeting a mirror image; nobody can better empathize with the position they’re in than their fellow musicians.

“It’s a large festival, but it’s not as large as some of the other festivals where it feels like you’re kind of overwhelmed,” says Sugden. “It’s much more intimate. You’re allowed to get to know people a little bit better. It’s really great to meet people from other schools, other parts of the country. People who may study with teachers that you may know or that you have mutual friends with so it’s really great to kind of start networking in that way. You never know when you’re going to need to crash on someone’s couch. Or if you’re vis-

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iting a city and you have a friend that lives there, it’s really wonderful.”

The festival has always been one of Sugden’s ambitions, he says, because of growing up so close to it. And he feels that it’s worth applying to even if you have to do it multiple times.

But interestingly, it wasn’t at the forefront of his mind during the application process.

Sugden, who was recently hired by the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, said that he applied for the festival right when he was in the midst of applying to graduate schools.

The process was simple; He sent in a video rehearsal playing a Bach sonata and a Mozart concerto, in addition to other orchestral pieces, in February. A month later, when he was auditioning for the Manhattan School of Music, Sugden got the

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news that he was selected to perform in the festival.

That left him plenty of time to not only choose grad school, but to embark on his studies and also to prepare the base of knowledge he’d need for his festival performances.

Now, he’s a graduate student, a professional musician and a festival fellow all at the same time.

“The festival is a really great introduction into the professionalism of being a musician and the rehearsal schedule and working with peers,” he says. “It’s so well organized. We had all of our assignments weeks before the festival started so we could start working on them. We knew what we were playing for our master classes and what our chamber assignments were. We were able to put it together.

No one’s practicing their music here.

We’re just rehearsing.”

Is there a performance that he’s most looking forward to?

Sugden says that it’s wonderful to be able to have time with the faculty members and to perform with them, but he’s really anticipating the final performance, when he’ll play on Dixtuor by Francaix.

“It’s a very unique ensemble,” he says of the June 24 event. “I believe it’s 10 players, and it’s kind of a wind quintet and a string quartet mixed together. It’s a really beautiful piece.

It’s not an instrumentation you see very often. And it’s definitely an ensemble that I’ve never played in like that. I’m interested to see how the chamber music works in that kind of setting and how I can fit the sound of the flute into the strings and the other wind instruments.”

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The author wants you to know that no people were given food poisoning from his cooking.

Knives out How does a journalist with very few cooking skills get by when he’s dropped into a Publix cooking class?

He burns the bread.

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confess: I’m the one who burnt the bread during a recent Publix cooking class.

But in my defense, those two pieces weren’t charred beyond recognition.

They were lovingly blackened.

This reporter, an amateur in the kitchen, recently had the bright idea of enrolling in a cooking class and getting his hands dirty.

I contacted Publix about the possibility of attending its grilling course and told them I was a beginning chef, and they said each of their hands-on courses were suitable for newbies.

I showed up at the Publix loca-

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tion on University Parkway after a long work day, and Senior Managing Chef Jim Hendry greeted me and the rest of the class.

He sat us down and gave us an overview of what we’d be doing

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Chef Michael McClure (right) helps guide the class through proper steak preparation.

that day, introduced us to his colleague Chef Michael McClure and then immediately deputized us as apprentice sous chefs.

The hands-on courses are limited to 12 people, which means not everybody will get a turn at the grill.

But chefs Hendry and McClure took turns running us through the prep work and the actual placing of food on flame.

Hendry told everybody to be careful with the knives and showed us where we would be taking dirty dishes when we were through with them. Then he gave us a talk about tasting things.

“We’re going to be using some tasting spoons; we’ll have some tasting opportunities along the way,” said Hendry. “There’s two rules with the tasting spoons.

They’re single-use; no doubledipping. And then they go directly into the garbage can.”

With that tasting decorum tip out of the way, we started to assume our work stations. The kitchen was oriented to both Hendry and McClure; we would begin preparing one dish on one side of the kitchen, then we’d move to hear the

other chef’s instructions and began preparing a great many dishes with a great many ingredients.

Mostly, that meant the lesssexy work of preparing marinades.

We stripped parsley and chopped garlic for the olive tapenade, and we combined anchovies, arugula, cheese and vinegar for a chicken marinade. We chopped onions and garlic for a fish marinade, and we prepared a cheesy gorgonzola mushroom topping for our steaks.

McClure, preparing the steaks, gave us instructions for how to cook them perfectly at home using a meat thermometer.

“Sometimes, you touch a steak and you don’t really know what’s going on in the middle,” he said.

“This is your key, guys: cooking it to temperature.

“It’s 100 or 125 degrees for medium rare, bring it up to 135 or 140 degrees for medium.”

McClure cautioned that it isn’t an exact science and said one of the most-important parts of cooking a steak is removing it from the heat source. You want to sear it, but you also want to let it rest.

“Always let your meat rest before

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“When you let it rest, it often comes up five to 10 degrees. If you are going for a specific temperature, remember, it’s going to still cook while it’s resting.”

We had time not only to taste the things we had just made, but also to move back to the next cooking station. The steak was resting while we worked on the fish, and Hendry gave a demonstration on how to cut the fish. Earlier, he had shown us how to properly chop vegetables by gripping the bottom of the knife securely and letting the heel do most of the work.

Time on the grill was a coveted resource; one of my classmates got to grill the steaks, and another classmate was assigned the task of grilling the chicken. Yet another classmate would handle the fish, and one got to grill halloumi cheese.

Who did they tap to grill the bread for our avocado toast?

This guy, my dog’s favorite chef.

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smooth behind the grill, that I seamlessly morphed into Emeril Lagasse.

That would be a lie.

Armed with tongs, I spread the toast out over the grilling surface.

The grill could fit about a dozen of them. And then I started waiting. I investigated whether the pieces on the edges of the grill had cooked.

They hadn’t.

Then I looked at the pieces on the grill’s hot spot. Holy cow!

That side was already charred!

That happened twice, and we threw away both burnt pieces.

But then I got the rhythm.

I had some other brief coordination problems on the grill; I dropped one perfectly cooked piece of toast onto a vacant burner by accident and fished it out.

By the time I had cooked all of the toast for our dish, my classmates were giving me side-eye.

They gleefully cheered when I served the last piece of toast and surrendered the tongs.

I considered that a victory.

Soon, we were sitting down and sampling all that we had made.

It was a full meal with grilled chicken and truffle-accented pasta, herb-marinated grilled fish, a perfect grilled ribeye steak and grilled cheese avocado toast.

We knew exactly what went into cooking it because we had done it with our own hands. We walked into Publix as strangers, but we left with a full belly, a doggy bag and most importantly, a sense of fulfillment.

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Roland Martinez, Matt Stulce, Louis Magliano and Anthony Lassiter are some of the many remote pilots at the Sarasota RC Squadron.

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nthony Lassiter was just a kid when he got his first RC plane.

It was a simple design, using a rubber band wind up system to take to the air. Lassiter grew up in New Mexico and had plenty of wide open spaces to let his plane go. In those days, he was just happy it flew.

The plane wasn’t much, but it still soared through the sky. After seeing his plane take off and move through the air on its own, he says he was hooked — how could he not be?

“You have something that can fly — who wouldn’t like that?” Lassiter said. “There was just no turning back.”

That plane was his first, but far from his last. Lassiter grew up, pursued a career in neurology and became a doctor, all the while keeping his passion for model aviation.

He now shares that passion with more than 100 other pilots in Sarasota. Lassiter is a flight instructor at the Sarasota RC Squadron, a radio control aircraft club that rests at the top of Rothenbach Park at the east end of Bee Ridge Road.

RC pilots take their planes, helicopters and other flight craft to the field every day to learn, practice and push themselves with the hobby they love. If you’ve ever been in the park and heard the buzzing of an aircraft

overhead, it’s likely an RC squadron member testing out their wings at the top of the hill.

Some members grew up loving planes, others found it to be a familiar practice after leaving the military.

Others dove into the hobby later in life. Lassiter makes it clear that all are welcome on the field.

“We have a lot of people who come to us and say, ‘I’ve always been interested in model aviation, I’m retired now with plenty of time. Is it too late for me to start?’” Lassiter said. “We tell them ‘It’s never too late.’”

The club is a mix of people driving to the top of the hill throughout the week, sometimes with their own planes and sometimes just to watch others fly theirs. Many have been part of the space for decades.

Plenty of pilots use foam planes and work their way up to sturdier fare. Electric models have become popular starting point as of late for their convenience.

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“My dad did the classic thing where he thought he should do it first,” Sullivan said. “He immediately crashed and killed it.”

He really got the aviation bug when joining the Air Force. After leaving, Sullivan began looking more into RC craft and now has a series of electric planes he takes out to the field. Other times he just heads up to be with other squadron members and help spot them when they’re flying fast.

Many have fond memories of the simple planes of their youth, but few can argue that evolving technology hasn’t improved model aviation.

Better air communication and more reliable controls and frequencies in the last 20 years have improved the hobby in Sullivan’s eyes — it’s harder to crash your plane or have a control snafu where it just flies away, never to be seen again.

“You have less to blame on somebody else when you crash.” Sullivan said.

Which isn’t to say crashes don’t happen. Sullivan jokes that if a pilot hasn’t crashed a plane once or twice, they haven’t been flying long enough.

The squadron is always recruiting new members and offers training for potential pilots at the field. New members start out with foam planes and learn the basics before moving up to higher-performance craft.

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The squadron as in-house flight training programs members use to better handle planes as well.

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Brian Ferguson always wanted to fly.

When exactly that started is of some debate — his brothers like to claim it was when they threw him back and forth in the air when he was 2 — but he’ll never forget flying with his father’s friend in his plane in Sarasota when he was 10.

“It was magic,” Ferguson said.

“The hook was set.”

Pop culture at large ended up amplifying Ferguson’s love of aviation. He, like so many others, took quite a shine to the original “Top Gun” film released in 1986.

The ’80s classic — full of wild stunts, state-of-the-art technology and heaping charisma from America’s darling Tom Cruise as the pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell — caught the hearts and minds of countless viewers when it premiered. And Ferguson was no different.

It might not have been the match that started the fire, but it certainly was the gasoline that made it burn bright. That love of both planes and the movie that glorified Navy service carried Ferguson into a career in the Navy flying jets himself and eventually as a pilot with Delta Air Lines.

Decades later and Ferguson, 52, recently found himself in a familiar place watching the new “Top Gun: Maverick” film.

Only this time, Ferguson wasn’t watching solely as a fan — he’d put years of work into it, serving as the Navy’s technical adviser for the movie during its production.

The Sarasota native who now lives in San Diego spent months consulting with Paramount Pictures and Tom Cruise himself as Navy members and the film crew worked to pull off the daring stunts and feats featured in the movie.

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“We can launch off a ship, drop bombs and land on the boat because that’s what we do,” Ferguson said.

“But flying a bunch of camera airplanes with huge movie stars and worrying about sun positioning was kind of new.”

Much of his time was spent interacting with representatives from Paramount and the Navy and finding the right amount of realism in scenes and costume design that would feel authentic to military members but also be accessible for moviegoers.

Another wrinkle was working with Tom Cruise himself. A few critical scenes in “Top Gun: Maverick” have Maverick flying low to the ground in a valley — hard to film when Navy pilots are typically flying a minimum of 200 feet.

A Navy admiral approved Ferguson flying at 100 feet, but then Cruise told him the plane needs to be below 50 feet to look right on film. Ferguson found a novel solution — hiring a Blue Angels pilot (who typically pulls off extremely low passes in front of crowds at air shows) to fly the scene.

“The airplane is really down there in the valley,” Ferguson said. “We had cameras on the wings, in the cockpit, underneath. It was like the plane was one big camera.”

There’s even a couple scenes where you can spot Ferguson in the movie.

A few scenes at a local bar needed reshoots that had Ferguson filling in where he interacts with Cruise.

“I never told anyone in my family (before the premiere),” Ferguson said.

Ferguson watched the finished movie with Paramount figures, military members and even Kenny Loggins in 2020 shortly before it was delayed by the pandemic. He had a good time, but felt like something was missing.

“I saw it two years later with a crowd of people and it was an entirely different experience,” Ferguson said. “When watching with regular people, that’s when it became real.”

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“I knew about airplanes, but I didn’t know my options, I didn’t have pilots in the family,” Ferguson said. “I saw the movie and went, ‘Oh, it all makes sense now. This is what I’m going to do.’”

He modeled himself off the movie in high school — started wearing the Maverick jacket, the white shirt and the aviator glasses — and admits in retrospect that it wasn’t the most popular look. He’s more of an Oakley sunglasses guy now.

Ferguson joined the Navy by way of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and eventually became a pilot. He spent some time with the actual United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program flying the F-5 fighter, one of the main planes featured in the first movie.

The experience of serving as a pilot in the real Top Gun school didn’t line up with the maxed-out energy of the movie. Ferguson didn’t have much time to drive motorcycles down the runway and play volleyball in blue jeans.

“You took it a day at a time, you were always going on to the next thing learning about airplanes,” Ferguson said. “You’re in an F-15 and each motor has more horsepower than the entire lineup than the Daytona 500, and you have two of those.

It’s an absolute rush.”

Ferguson left to be a Delta Airlines pilot while still being a Navy reservist. His path to “Top Gun: Maverick” started in 2018 when learning the technical adviser role was open.

Contrary to what you might expect, Ferguson didn’t immediately leap at the job. It was only after a talk with his wife, where she pointed out the full-circle nature of working on a “Top Gun” movie near the end of his career after starting his career due in part to the first movie, that he applied for and accepted the job.

“She said, ‘Maybe it inspires other people to join the Navy after you retire,’” Ferguson said. “I thought that was a pretty good way to look at it.”

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Merle and Patricia Butler sold their home at 1486 Hillview Drive to Benjamin Max Curren and Genia Ryan Curren, trustees, of Sarasota, for $9,342,200.

Built in 2008, it has five bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 8,433 square feet of living area. It sold for $7.5 million in 2012.

SARASOTA SAN REMO ESTATES Christopher Quinn and Reyna Rosanna Quinn, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3631 San Remo Terrace to Donald Patterson, of Sarasota, for $7 million. Built in 2021, it has four bedrooms, three-and-ahalf baths, a pool and 4,705 square feet of living area.

THE CONDOMINIUM ON THE BAY Alexsandra Fisher-Coles, of Rockport, Maine, sold her Unit 509 condominium at 988 Boulevard of the Arts to Marvin and Dorothy Rubinstein, of Warren, New Jersey, for $2.15 million. Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 2,315 square feet of living area. It sold for $499,900 in 2011.

ONE WATERGATE Raymond Joseph Helkowski, trustee, of Syosset, New York, sold the Unit PH-D condominium at 1111 N. Gulfstream Ave. to AP Building of Sarasota LLC for $1,525,000. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,736 square feet of living area. It sold for $780,000 in 2005.

EAGLES POINT AT THE LANDINGS Klaus and Joan Nimptsch, trustees, of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, sold the Unit 103 condominium at 5450 Eagles Point Circle to Jimmy and Barbara Shirley, of Sarasota, for $1.4 million. Built in 1998, it has four bedrooms, three baths and 2,937 square feet of living area. It sold for $677,500 in 2000.

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Marina Del Sol Catherine Mott, trustee, sold the Unit EP-1 condominium at 1310 Old Stickney Point Road to Todd Vannucci, of Sarasota, for $3.5 million.

Built in 2002, it has three bedrooms, three-anda-half baths and 3,524 square feet of living area.

It sold for $925,000 in 2010.

PALMER RANCH Kat Hughes

The house at 1486 Hillview Drive has five bedrooms, five baths a pool and 8,433 square feet of living area.

PALM AVENUE VILLAS Diane Heydt, trustee, of Read Heydt, of Sarasota, sold the home at 523 S. Palm Ave. to William and Jane Knapp, of Bellport, New York, for $1.4 million. Built in 1998, it has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,919 square feet of living area. It sold for $595,000 in 2010.

1350 MAIN RESIDENTIAL Marilyn Helfenbein, of Oakham, Massachusetts, sold the Unit 602 condominium at 1350 Main St. to Ronald Shugar, trustee, of Sarasota, for $895,000. Built in 2007, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,395 square feet of living area. It sold for $525,000 in 2013.

ESPLANADE BY SIESTA KEY Judith Sullivan, of Rye, New York, sold her home at 2426 Vaccaro Drive to William and Cynthia Heringer, of Sarasota, for $1.2 million.

Built in 2013, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,270 square feet of living area. It sold for $730,000 in 2018.

PHILLIPPI LANDINGS Harold and Linda Miller, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 201 condominium at 5531 Cannes Circle to Christopher Cogan, of Sarasota, for $875,000. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,024 square feet of living area. It sold for $823,700 in 2006.

SOUTH HIGHLAND Caldwell Investments LLC sold the home at 1805 Ivanhoe St. to Harold and Jila Tabaie, of Parrish, for $1.13 million. Built in 1971, it has four bedrooms, two baths and 1,441 square feet of living area. It sold for $335,000 in 2020.

FRANK PRITCHARD SUBDIVISION Emily Meara Fairchild and Michelle Puls, of Medford, Massachusetts, sold their home at 518 Adelia Ave. to Jane Perlov, of Biltmore Lake, North

BAY PLAZA Dixie Lee, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the Unit 701 condominium at 1255 N. Gulfstream Ave. to Donald Warren Vose Jr. and Anne Vose, of Sarasota, for $1,100,500. Built in 1982, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,901 square feet of living area. It sold for $567,000 in 2014.

THE 101 Christopher Brown and Robert and Linda Long, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 8-F condominium at 101 S. Gulfstream Ave. to 101 Tower LLC for $900,000. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,390 square feet of living area. It sold for $280,000 in 2015.

Cobblestone on Palmer Ranch David and Diane Piper, of Arlington Heights, Illinois, sold their home at 8716 Bellussi Drive to Nicholas Tzaneteas, trustee, of Sarasota, for $750,000. Built in 2017, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,917 square feet of living area. It sold for $418,700 in 2017.

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Oaks II Bernice Singleton and George Singleton, trustees, of Alton, New Hampshire, sold the home at 905 Mac Ewen Drive to Brian Degustino, trustee, of Osprey, for $3.5 million. Built in 2007, it has six bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 7,022 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.5 million in 2013.

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Sorrento South Frank and Diane Iorio, of North Port, sold their home at 417 Murillo Drive to David and Lisa Uzzel, of Nokomis, for $1.15 million. Built in 1977, it has four bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,250 square feet of living area. It sold for $850,000 in 2005.

Carolina, for $725,000. Built in 1935, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 1,015 square feet of living area.

It sold for $200,000 in 2008.

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Alterations

Judith Ramsey

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Alterations

Richard Stockwell

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SARASOTA COUNTY Permit

Applicant

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Remodel

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Pool

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The Exchange awards local art groups and students More than $300,000 was awarded to 18 arts organizations and 15 students on June 9.

HARRY SAYER STAFF WRITER

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he Exchange awarded more than $300,000 in grants and scholarships to local arts groups and students on June 9.

Scholarship recipients, supporters, representatives from arts organizations and other figures met at The Exchange to mix and mingle before the annual ceremony began.

The crowd heard from The Exchange Executive Director and CEO Karen Koblenz, who welcomed everyone and thanked them for their enduring support.

The largest award was $60,000 presented to the Asolo Repertory Theatre, which had Exchange cofounder Elizabeth Lindsay on its board for more than 60 years. Lindsay died in January, and Koblenz announced an Elizabeth Lindsay grant program in her honor. Koblenz also outlined the Exchange’s intention to raise $500,000 each year in scholarships and awards going forward.

The grant recipients for the 20222023 fiscal year are: n Asolo Repertory Theatre: Season Presenter n Arts and Cultural Alliance: Inspire Sarasota n Artists Series Concerts: Dover Quartet Concert n Choral Artists of Sarasota: The March of the Children n Circus Arts Conservatory: Sailor Circus Academy Holiday Show 2022 n Florida Studio Theatre: Florida Studio Theatre 2022-2023 Cabaret Season n The Hermitage: Hermitage @ The Bay Series

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Sarasota High rising senior Maddox Marchbank, an offensive and defensive lineman on the Sailors football team, was rated a four-star long snapper by Kohl’s Kicking on June 1.

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Riverview High rising junior Charles Lester III, a cornerback on the Rams football team, was named one of the top performers at the Overtime 7-on-7 football tournament, held June 9-12 in Las Vegas, by On3 recruiting analyst Charles Power.

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Sarasota Sharks girls swimmer Addison Sauickie represented the USA Swimming National Junior Team at the 2022 Mel Zajac Jr. International Swim Meet, held June 3-5 in Vancouver, Canada. Sauickie, 16, and her teammates finished second in the Women’s 400 Meter Freestyle Relay (3:46.63) and third in the Women’s 800 Meter Freestyle Relay (8:17.81) among other results.

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Former Sarasota High baseball pitcher Casey Kelly, currently with the LG Twins of South Korea’s KBO League, threw seven innings in the Twins’ 10-7 win over the Doosan Bears, allowing one run on four hits and one walk with five strikeouts. Kelly holds a 7-1 record and a 2.57 ERA.

The 2022 USRowing Youth National Championships were held at Benderson Park June 8-12.

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hey had less than one month to prepare.

Sarasota Crew women’s rowers Maeva Ginsberg-Klemmt and Maya Schultz found out shortly after the USRowing Southeast Youth Championships May 14-15 that they would be paired together in the team’s U17 2x boat at the USRowing Youth National Championships, held June 9-12 at Nathan Benderson Park. Schultz said the timeframe isn’t necessarily unique for Crew rowers, but it is less time than other rowers get.

Many clubs like to set their Youth Championships boats earlier to develop chemistry, but the Crew waits until later to get the most information and make sure its boats are perfectly balanced, then trusts its coaches to instill synchronization in their rowers’s catches (making oar blade-to-water contact) and other vital components of a row in time for the competition — and trusts its rowers to get the job done when it counts.

Ginsberg-Klemmt and Schultz got it done.

The duo won the national championship in the Women’s U17 2x event, finishing first in the A Final (7:36.96) more than four seconds faster than second place Norwalk River (7:41.12). Schultz said she let out a scream “mid-asthma attack” after crossing the finish line; she was too happy to do anything but act on instinct. Then things calmed down and the pair were able to reflect.

“All I remember after crossing the finish line is Maya (Schultz) letting go of her handles, leaning back and saying, ‘We did it,’” Ginsberg-Klemmt said. “And I just looked into her eyes. It was such a content feeling. It was special. We pulled each other the whole way. We have so much love for each other.”

Ginsberg-Klemmt and Schultz

may have been thrown together with little warning, but that does not mean they were strangers. Far from it. The pair had raced together before, including at last year’s nationals on the U17 Women’s 8+ team which took a bronze medal and at this year’s state meet, where they raced in the junior quad (4x).

They are also, as Ginsberg-Klemmt said, best friends. That helps, too.

Schultz said the pair compared their times to other clubs’ boats before the event and came out favorably, but that comparison only goes so far, for it is hard to factor in wind and race pace to pure data. After winning their Youth Nationals time trial on June 9 by approximately 12 seconds (7:35.60), the pair began to believe a gold medal was actually possible.

Before the A Final, the only thing Schultz and Ginsberg-Klemmt thought about was giving their best effort. They did not want to have any regrets, Schultz said, after coming so far in such a short amount of time.

Whichever medal they received — or even if they did not receive a medal — it would be enough, so long as they gave their full hearts to the race.

That is what they did. The boat was behind during the first 500 meters, but the duo trusted each other and did not panic. The boat quickly found its rhythm and took the lead.

“About 750 meters in, I figured we had control,” Schmidt said. “We started to cruise along. There was a little scare at the end because another boat (Norwalk River) sprinted hard and took a few feet back from us, but we were so far ahead at that point that I knew we had it.”

Both Ginsberg-Klemmt and Schultz said the feeling of being a national champion is still sinking in, but the designation is undeniably meaningful for two rowers who have been working for years to reach the sport’s peak, and now have done so.

“I think I raced in a double in one event this year before this weekend,” Schultz said. “We were just thrown into this. The doubles is such a competitive event. It’s all so unexpected

TOP FINISHES Sarasota Crew entered the 2022 USRowing Youth National Championships with the second-most entries (17) of any club, only behind Maritime Rowing Club of East Norwalk, Connecticut, and their 19 entries. It’s no surprise the club did well. Here’s an extended look at some of the club’s key results. n Maya Schultz and Maeva Ginsberg-Klemmt won the Women’s U17 2x event’s A Final (7:36.96). n The Men’s Youth Second Varsity 8+ boat finished second in the event’s A Final (5:59.70). n The Men’s Varsity 8+ boat finished third in the event’s A Final (5:50.70). n Dylan Vu, Alexis Donnersmarck, William Warren and Matthew Lin finished third in the Men’s U16 4x+ event’s A Final (6:54.46). n The Men’s U17 8+ boat finished third in the event’s A Final (6:09.92). n Yana Krivosheeva finished second in the Women’s Youth 1x event’s B Final (8:14.16) n Mason Kuipers finished third in the Men’s Youth 1x event’s B Final (7:27.17). n Bailey White and Chloe Villani finished second in the Women’s Youth 2- event’s B Final (8:13.96). n Gabe Naguib, Gabe Harris, Max Ruzek and Ethan Kelly, finished fourth in the Men’s U15 4x+ event’s B Final (7:53.37). n The Women’s Youth 8+ boat finished fourth in the event’s B Final (6:43.02). n The Women’s Youth Second Varisty 8+ boat finished sixth in the event’s B Final (7:04.09). n Sophie Bell, Natalia Twarowski, Kelsea Adams and Olivia Zabalaga, finished first in the Women’s U17 4x event’s C Final (7:39.41). n Sophie Bell, Natalia Twarowski, Alexandra Chebli and Clelia Grobler, finished third Women’s Youth 4- event’s D Final (7:45.50).

For the event’s full results, visit usrowing.org.

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The Florida High School Athletic Association announced June 10 that its state track and field meet will feature 400-meter hurdle runs instead of 300-meter hurdle runs starting with the 2023 spring season.

“All I remember after crossing the finish line is Maya (Schultz) letting go of her handles, leaning back and saying ‘We did it.’”

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The Men’s U17 8+ boat finished third at the 2022 USRowing Youth National Championships (6:09.92).

— Maeva GinsbergKlemmt

Maya Schultz and Maeva Ginsberg-Klemmt let out some screams after winning the A Final of the Women’s U17 2x (7:36.96) at the 2022 USRowing Youth National Championships.

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RYAN KOHN

Getting it done A final look at our area’s alumni now that the NCAA spring season is coming to a close.

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he spring sports season has been over for Sarasota teams for weeks, and even the NCAA spring season is winding down. I thought this would be a great time to take a final look at some of our spring sports alumni and how they did during the 2022 season. Spoiler alert: they did great, as usual. I say it all the time, but we are lucky to live in such a talent-rich area with great representatives at the next level.

Like always, I don’t have the space to include all the alumni who had stellar seasons, but I have tried to include as many as I can.

CONNER WHITTAKER, FLORIDA STATE BASEBALL

Whittaker, the former Sarasota High Sailors pitcher, had a brilliant freshman season with the Seminoles. Whittaker threw 36.1 innings, all out of the bullpen, and held a 2.48 ERA and a 2-2 record.

He struck out 33 batters while walking just 12. Whittaker’s season was good enough to earn him a place on the National College Baseball Writers Association Freshman All-America Second Team. I would not be surprised if there are more awards and honorifics coming for Whittaker, whether this year or a future one.

JACK DUFFY, POLK STATE BASEBALL

Duffy, a former Sailor, had an outstanding year at Polk State.

The sophomore finished the 2022 National Junior College Athletic Association season as the batting average leader in the Florida College System Activities Association.

Duffy hit .442 with 10 home runs

and 44 RBIs. This led to Duffy being named a NJCAA Division I AllAmerican Second Team on June 13.

Frankly, I’m not sure how he didn’t make the First Team with those numbers.

Duffy has done his time at the NJCAA level. Next year he’ll be playing at an NCAA school: Houston, which went 37-24 and reached the American Athletic Conference Championship Game. It will be a well-deserved step up for Duffy, who made the most of his time at the junior college level and improved. Now he will show what he can do at the top collegiate level of the sport.

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Alexis Johns, a Sarasota High alumna, led the NCAA in steals with 59 at South Florida.

Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament with a loss to Robert Morris University. With senior attacker Josh Stout (45 points) graduating, there should be even more opportunities for McMahon to score next season.

DEVYN FLAHERTY, FLORIDA STATE SOFTBALL

Flaherty, a Riverview High alumna, and the Seminoles didn’t have quite the season they did in 2021 when they reached the Women’s College World Series — they lost in the NCAA Regionals this time — but it was still a personal success for the former Ram. Flaherty, a junior, hit .355 with 12 doubles, two triples, six home runs and 31 RBIs, plus 26 steals and a .980 fielding percentage. She was named to the AllAtlantic Coast Conference Second Team.

ALEXIS JOHNS, SOUTH FLORIDA SOFTBALL

Johns, the former Sailor, was far and away the best position player on the Bulls’ squad in 2022. Johns hit for a team-high .341 average, with three doubles, four triples and 18 RBIs from the leadoff spot. Good, right?

Well, she also pitched in with 59 steals, which led the entire NCAA — second place Skylar Wallace of Florida had 52. Johns’ mark is a program record, no surprise. That is some extreme speed right there.

Johns, a junior, was chosen as the New Balance/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Golden Shoe Award winner for her efforts, given

ALEC FRANK, CLEMSON MEN’S LACROSSE

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Adam Bradtmueller (370), a Sarasota High alum, ran a sub-4 minute mile on June 5 (3:57.91).

annually to the nation’s best base stealer.

M.J. MCMAHON, UTAH MEN’S LACROSSE

McMahon, a Cardinal Mooney High alumnus, finished fourth on the Utes with 31 points (20 goals, 11 assists) in 14 games. McMahon, a sophomore, helped the Utes to a 10-4 record, though the Utes did bow out in the second round of the

Clemson does not technically have a lacrosse program, or at least not one affiliated with the NCAA. Instead, Clemson is part of the Men’s College Lacrosse Association, which is filled with teams whose schools have failed to add the sport at the NCAA level for one reason or another.

Clemson plays in the MCLA’s Division I in the Atlantic Lacrosse Conference, and recently, Cardinal Mooney alum Alec Frank, a junior, was named the conference’s Specialty Player of the Year for his work on faceoffs. Congrats to him.

Prelims on May 25-27 in Indiana.

That’s the bad news. The good news is he didn’t stop running after missing the cut. Bradtmueller competed at the Music City Track Carnival professional race in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 5, in the mile run, which was cheekily titled “Sub-4 (minutes) or Bust.”

It appears Bradtmueller took the title literally. Bradtmueller won the race in 3:57.91. According to All Time Athletics, 5,312 people have run a “sub-4” in the history of track and field. That’s it. The website has not yet been updated to include Bradtmueller’s time, but based on the current results, he would slot in 3,161st.

More names join the list each year, but going under four minutes remains one of the most impressive feats in sports. Bradtmueller can forever say he did it.

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Bradtmueller, another former Sailor, did not make the 2022 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, failing to qualify for the 5,000 meter run at the NCAA East

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and crazy, but I’m so happy. I think about it and I am like, ‘Is this actually real?’”

Ginsberg-Klemmt and Schultz were Sarasota Crew’s only national champions in 2022, but far from the only rowers who finished high.

The club’s Men’s Youth 8+ boat finished with a bronze medal (5:50.70) and nearly earned silver; the Crew was approximately 0.02 seconds behind California’s Newport Aquatic Center (5:50.68). It took a photo finish to determine who crossed the finish line first, but they both finished behind gold-medal winner Greenwich Crew of Connecticut (5:48.57).

The Men’s U17 8+ boat follow in their younger counterpart’s wake, finishing third (6:09.92). Marin Rowing Association of California won that race (6:07.28).

Doing even better was the Crew’s Men’s Youth Second Varsity 8+ boat.

The 2V 8+ race, designed to be a test of a club’s depth, is new to the Youth Championships but is more common at events like the NCAA Championships. It requires clubs to fill a sec-

ond 8+ boat with different members than its typical 8+ boat in the given age group. In this first attempt, the Crew’s Men’s Youth 2V 8+ finished with a silver medal (5:59.70) behind only Marin (5:58.29).

Sophia Stock, who rowed in the Crew’s Women’s Youth 2V 8+ boat, said it was fun to be a “guinea pig” for the event at the youth level. Stock’s boat finished sixth in the event’s B Final (7:04.09).

“I think we did well,” Stock said.

“We didn’t know what to expect.

Making the B Finals was a good result for the first time doing this.

We didn’t have a standard for this before. Now we do.”

The Men’s U16 4x also finished with a bronze medal (6:54.42).

The Youth Nationals might be over, but Benderson Park is hosting more rowing events this summer — including this week, with the U23 and U19 National Team Trials. The trials, which began Tuesday, include a Sarasota Crew rower: Mason Kuipers, who finished third in the Men’s Youth 1x B Final (7:27.17). Kuipers will be rowing in the Junior Men’s 2x at the trials, partnering with Marin’s Owen Anawalt. If selected for the U19 team, Kuipers would compete in the World Rowing U23/U19 Championships in July in Varese, Italy.

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