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The Child Protection Center recently recognized Michael Klauber, above second from right, with its Community Partner of the Year title, a recognition that’s given to people who “go above and beyond” for victims of child abuse. Klauber is co-owner of Michael’s On East and routinely hosts the Child Protection Center’s events and fundraisers — which provides funding for the group’s services — at the restaurant. He goes so far as to be the live auction emcee at the group’s signature event. Joining Klauber to celebrate at Michaels were Sheila Miller, Graci McGillicuddy, Terri Klauber (above with Michael Klauber, right) and Doug

and Fruitville Road. FDOT clouds city panel’s selection. SEE PAGE 10A Primary challenges School Board, City Commission candidates state their cases for office. PAGES 3-7A Sci-fi and comic fans enjoy their own world, closer to home. SEE PAGE 1B ASTracksTurtleOFAUG. 13 TOTAL NESTS: Siesta Key 531 521 Lido Key 160 105 Casey Key 2,043 1,466 TOTAL FALSE CRAWLS:20222021 Siesta Key 584 602 Lido Key 205 278 Casey Key 1,930 1,768 Source: Mote Marine Laboratory Musical Friday Fest. PAGE 8B A+E Not so fast, state says about traffic circle art realityFanciful A PAGEofglimpseChina.13A

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Some people might think school isn’t fun, but that’s just a matter of perspective. Local artist Brandon Thrift and the Community Day School are looking to change that for its students, from a whole different kind of angle. Thrift — who created “Spread Love” paintings, murals and stickers across town — recently painted an engaging 3D-style crosswalk mural in front of the school. The mural was created just with paint but gives the impression that it has a 3D shape when looking at a certain angle. The mural was unveiled last week — just in time for students to start school.Courtesy

Courtesy photo Holocaust survivor Felicia Liban with Michael Staker, assistant principal at Lakewood Ranch High School.

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The first of the free series will feature Poland-born survivor Felicia Liban, who lived in hiding with a Christian family when she was a child. Subsequent events will be held on Sept. 18, Nov. 13 and Dec. Amanda11.Eiffert, director of communications and programming for Temple Sinai, began asking Holocaust survivors if they’d be interested in participating in a speaker program this past year. She also contacted the Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee, which often brings Holocaust survivors to schools and“Studentsevents. (who have heard Holocaust survivors) have said it’s a life-changing experience for them,” Eiffert said. She notes that many of the survivors’ stories are harrowing and not recommended for young children. But Eiffert notes that the value it can have for people to understand history through firsthand accounts in the hopes of making sure it never happens again.

Scottie Littles, football coach at Booker High, Read more on page 11B School district rolls out bag policy Fans heading to preseason high school football games on Friday will have to adhere to a policy from Sarasota County Schools that bans most carrying bags that are not clear plastic.Theschool district said guidelines for after-school athletic events allow only clear plastic, vinyl or PVC bags no greater than 12 inches by 12 inches and 6 inches deep; a one-gallon sized clear Zip-lock style bag; and a purse/clutch bag approximately the size of a Amonghand.those items not allowed: backpacks, camera or binocular cases, fanny packs, tote bags or any other kind of bag not transparent. Also not permitted inside the gates are animals (except service animals), fruit, balls or flying discs, cans, bottles, hydration packs, horns or artificial noisemakers, laser pointers, open umbrellas, tripods or monopods, remotecontrolled devices such as vehicles or flying machines, tobacco, strollers or portable chairs (unless ADA compliant), weapons or replicas, fireworks, bicycles, scooters, skates or skateboards.

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Six non-partisan candidates are running for two Sarasota City Commission at-large seats. The primary election will eliminate three of them, with the other three competing for general election votes in November.

Why should people vote for you? Born and raised in poverty, my divorced mother of four raised my siblings and I with the assistance of social programs including AFDC, food stamps, and HUD subsidized housing. This experience inspired me to help others. I am the candidate who will work for the citizens of the city of Sarasota. I served eight years in the Florida Army National Guard, and I also served eight years with the Sarasota County Fire Department. I am the candidate who serves as the chairman of the city of Sarasota’s Planning Board that advocates for affordable housing, environment and smart growth. I will build an alliance with the County Commission, so that county-maintained infrastructure gets the attention it deserves. I will also stand toe to toe and negotiate with developers to increase the affordable house stock. What was the tipping point in your deciding to run for this office? When the City Commission failed to add definitive language to the comprehensive plan to address attainable housing for the workers that maintain the city infrastructure, teach our children, take care of our aging residents, and respond to our emergency calls. Discuss what goals you have for your term in office. My goal is (to) meet with the president of every neighborhood association on an ongoing basis to ensure that the will of each individual community is clearly understood. I also plan to negotiate with property owners seeking to rezone their properties beyond their existing property owner rights. I would like for all city owned non-emergency vehicles to all be electric or biofuel. It is also my goal to continue to improve the city’s walking and biking ability. Was there a decision made by the current board that you would have changed if given the chance? Yes, the comprehensive plan. What kind of city should Sarasota be? Sarasota should be a city where all individuals can live without struggling to maintain the basic necessities, especially the individuals that help provide our essential services. Why should people vote for you? I seek to apply my 35 years of local civic advocacy and skills as an attorney to make a positive difference on the Sarasota City Commission. If elected, I will do my best to put our residents in the driver’s seat, not the developers, to shape Sarasota’s growth in a way that preserves and polishes our charm and character rather than create another overcrowded city from which people seek to flee. We also need to direct our resources to real needs, such as clean and safe streets, rather than squandering taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars on demolishing our iconic Van Wezel for a new performing arts center at the behest of influential elites. What was the tipping point in your deciding to run for this office? Sarasota is at a crossroads. City Planning Director Steve Cover has announced his plans for a taller, denser Sarasota, with easier development approvals by staff rather than public officials, stating that we cannot continue to be “Any City, USA” but instead need a “skyline of distinction” like Chicago with its Sears Tower. I seek election to advance a different view: that people are not flocking to Sarasota because of buildings that reach to the sky. Sarasota is special because of its charm and scale, its arts, history and diversity and will never be turned into “Any City, USA” if we keep and enhance the values which make us great. Discuss what goals you have for your term in office. First, increasing the availability of truly affordable housing, with inclusionary zoning in return for any development increase, by setting the affordability standard sufficiently low and by considering an affordable housing impact fee to build affordable housing through public-private partnerships. Second, defeating or reversing reckless proposals for the overdevelopment of the city. Third, putting an end to the practice of staff deciding policy – typically on behalf of development interests – through behind-the-scenes lobbying of City Commissioners. Was there a decision made by the current board that you would have changed if given the chance? The recent agreement with the Sarasota Performing Arts Center Foundation, by a 3-2 vote, to replace the Van Wezel with a new, larger facility, at a cost of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars that the city does not have. The premise that ticket sales will pay for it is an easily demonstrated fraud, to avoid the need for voter approval of a revenue bond. Under the current wording, the new facility could be partly built and if promised donations for half of the building costs predictably dry up, the city will have no choice but to hit the taxpayers even harder. What kind of city should Sarasota be? We should seek to be Sarasota Plus. We are distinctive because of our scale and charm, our natural environment, the arts, historic buildings, our cultural and culinary diversity and just being free to breathe easy and enjoy the best place on earth. Let’s preserve what is special about our community and work on making what can be better the best that it can be.

Why should people vote for you? I believe that the City Commission needs a new perspective and direction. For the most part, I do not think that citizen input has been welcomed in commission decisions. I plan to change that and listen to what the citizens want and desire. I have a history of civic involvement, from being President of two large HOA’s, being the longest running chairperson of the Michigan Board of Pharmacy, being Vice-Chair of the Sarasota Police Complaint Committee and I am the only candidate that is endorsed by the Sarasota Police Officers Association. I am also a pharmacist and hold a doctorate in business ethics which will allow me to remain free of undue influence in any decisions that I make as a City Commissioner.

What was the tipping point in your deciding to run for this office?

Why should people vote for you? My allegiance is to the people of Sarasota, not to any “special interests.” I will bring a new perspective to the Commission based on a lifetime of community service and management experience in both IBM and small entrepreneurial ventures. I will bring a reasoned approach to creative problemsolving, a focus on community and attention to balancing priorities in all financial decisions. During my single term in office, I will mentor others in our community interested in serving in the future.

Was there a decision made by the current board that you would have changed if given the chance? When four members voted on May 16 to send the massive comprehensive plan amendment to Tallahassee for approval, they made an error with serious long-term consequences for the people of Sarasota. The problem isn’t only specific line-items, which take away people’s rights to speak out on new development and limit the city’s flexibility to meet housing needs. The greater problem, in my opinion, is the process by which 170 pages of changes were presented unaccompanied by an overall plan. Both the commissioners and the people deserve to be advised on and weigh in on staff’s concept of a “future Sarasota.” We also need a list of comp plan amendments, zoning text amendments and other changes to implement their concept instead of being asked to have faith that everything will fit together just fine. What kind of city should Sarasota be? My vision is for Sarasota to be a city that works for everyone — where everyone has a voice and a place to live. Trice DEBBIE TRICE

Was there a decision made by the current board that you would have changed if given the chance? Two recent decisions come to mind that I would not have approved. The first is the comprehensive plan changes that provided developers with density bonuses without the city getting anything in return. I also was opposed to the increase in administrative approval, which would remove the citizens voice in developmental decisions. I do not believe that the comprehensive plan as sent to the state for approval will result in any affordable or attainable housing being built, which was the premise for submitting the changes. The other decision was the City Commission committing to a partnership to build a new perform ing arts center without knowing what the cost would be (estimated at $350 million) and no discussion of how to fund it.

What kind of city should Sarasota be? We need to get back to the things that brought most of us to Sarasota. A safe, viable, livable city. We need to protect those things that we hold dear and cherish — our character, clean beaches, public safety, etc. We need to gather more citizen input into development decisions. And we must find a way to build more affordable housing.

I have spoken in front of the City Commission numerous times and did not believe that my voice was being heard. It seemed that many decisions were already decided and hearing from the public was a formality. I found this unacceptable and decided to run. Discuss what goals you have for your term in office. First off, we must resolve the contract negotiations with the police union. At present, we are losing seasoned officers and unable to hire the best recruits possible. I would like to see implementation of inclusionary zoning and a reworked comprehensive plan that would be palatable to the residents. I would look to gain historical designation for the Van Wezel which would than allow retrofitting to protect it from sea level rise and spend dollars to renovate it which would be far less costly than building a new perform ing arts center. I would like to see us accelerate the City’s green initiatives and improve traffic concerns which are growing more difficult with each new development.

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What was the tipping point in your deciding to run for this office? Although several groups encouraged me to run, I was eager to continue building community in my position as president of the Rosemary District Association. Then media coverage of our dire housing shortage began. This issue affects everyone. Sarasota succeeds only if working families have homes and business owners can fill job openings. Raising the issue with our city government as an individual had no effect. As a commissioner, I am prepared to keep the issue on the agenda as long as Sarasota’s working families and longtime retirees need homes. Discuss what goals you have for your term in office. A successful program providing housing for Sarasota’s low and moderate income residents. “Successful” means that a significant number of homes are completed and occupied with many more under construction and planned, and procedures to administer the program and working partnerships with not-for-profit groups are in place.Establish a sense of community within the city, starting at the neighborhood level and extending to City Hall. City government should consider strengthened neighborhoods to be valuable partners in addressing local needs. A government that listens to “the people,” not “special interests.”

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Why should people vote for you? Experience, leadership and dedication to the city. I have a track record of successfully fighting for the interests of our neighborhoods: 10 years Lido Key Residents Association president; seven years on the Executive Committee of Coalition of Community Neighborhood Associations (CCNA), three as chair; 12 years on the Parks, Recreation and Environmental Protection Advisory Board (PREP); and recently asked by the City Commission to serve and ultimately chair the Surtax IV (Penny Tax) Ad Hoc Committee whittling down over $440 million of community requested projects to fit the projected $191 million estimated tax revenue, which was reviewed and approved by the City Commission. My dedication to the city, so far, is exemplified by the Lido Beach Renourishment Project, where as president, our Lido Key Residents Association team prevailed in a series of lawsuits filed by a group of Siesta Key residents, enabling the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to move forward with a major renourishment. As a commercial pool and playground contractor, I have worked professionally with all the major developers in this community. Their respect puts me in a unique position to bridge the communication gap that exists between developers and residents. What was the tipping point in your deciding to run for this office? I have an extensive community service resume, but I have so much more to contribute. I am adequately prepared and ready to take that next natural step. Discuss what goals you have for your term in office. To be successful in business, serving on a public board or commission or in everyday relationships with friends and family, you must listen and understand different perspectives and points of view. My number one goal is to listen. Also, from my career in commercial pools and playgrounds and the years I served on the PREP Board, my vision is to make Sarasota a “canopy” city supported by an urban forestry program and create more green spaces for environmental, health and aesthetic purposes. Was there a decision made by the current board that you would have changed if given the chance? I respect the current board and the decisions of these volunteer residents and do not choose to either “armchair” or “Monday morning” quarterback their decisions. If there is new information that would make sense to revisit a decision, then I would review both the original and updated facts and seek public input. What kind of city should Sarasota be? Our legacies and traditions are our community’s foundation. All growth and modernization need to keep where we came from and how we got here forefront. We are one of the leading cultural and art centers in Southwest Florida. Protecting, preserving and enhancing our environment is essential. Maintenance of those attributes requires growth. This means both supporting our tourism industry and building toward reasonable economic development. One of the ways we can accomplish this is with clean jobs that include new tech industries.

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n The decision to bring back for discussion the vote on ranked choice voting n The vote to demolish the historically significant Palm Apartments, the Hashay House, and Walter Netsch’s G-Wiz/Selby Library What kind of city should Sarasota be? The city should always aspire to be a welcoming and inclusive community, sustainable and fiscally responsible that fiercely protects our natural and man-made beauty, uniqueness and charm, while being pro-active in facing the real world challenges that come with being a desirable place to be.

Was there a decision made by the current board that you would have changed if given the chance? There are decisions that were made, that, if I had a magic wand, I would change if given the opportunity. This is evident by my “no” vote taken at the time though.

n The recent land use vote to change 1,448 parcels in the city to a new mixed-use corridor (with the potential massive expansion of “administrative-only approval process”) n Sarasota Performing Arts Center: While I support discussions around a new performing arts center, I was not in favor of signing a legally binding agreement that commits the city to funding more than half of a future performing arts center without knowing what the cost would be.

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JAY DERR AND ADRIAN MOORE U.S. Congress, District 16, Republican: Flip a coin Florida Commissioner of Agriculture, Republican: James Shaw SARASOTA COUNTY State Senate, District 22: Joe Gruters County Commission, District 2, Republican: Mark Smith County Commission, District 4, Republican: Joseph Neunder Sarasota City Commission: Carl Shoffstall School Board District 1: Bridget Ziegler School Board District 4: Safe bet: Marinelli. Reasonable gamble; Lauren Kurnov School Board District 5: Timothy Enos Charter Review Board, District 1: Les Nichols Hospital Board, Central District, Seat 2: Thomas Dart Hospital Board, Northern District, Seat 1: Brad Baker Hospital Board, Northern District, Seat 2: Nick Altier Hospital Board, Southern District, Seat 1: Patricia Maraia Hospital Board, Southern District, Seat 2: Joseph Chirillo

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Los Angeles did implement some changes, such as exclusive pedes trian traffic signal phases, which halt all vehicular traffic for a time as a means of lowering fatalities. While fatalities have been decreasing, they are still above the 2015 num bers, when the program started. Most VZ policies in the U.S. have been expensive failures, with negligible effects on overall traffic fatalities. Outliers such as San Francisco have a few advantages that made a VZ approach more realistic — namely less reliance on driving to commute. In San Francis co in 2018, 40.2% of people drove to work, whereas in Los Angeles in 2015 nearly 80% drove alone and 10% carpooled, and 77.4% of Chicagoans in 2018 relied on automobiles for their commute. In Sarasota only 0.5% of commuters use transit, and over 90% drive alone.

The problem with Vision Zero is it wants to pretend there are no limits on resources and we can achieve zero deaths if we are just willing to spend enough. But you can never realistically eliminate, for example, bad driving. You can, however, mitigate and reduce its impact with good design and safety measures.

The key is lies in data-gathering, local partnerships, community education and re-engineering when necessary.TheVZapproach calls for discarding cost-benefit analysis and the “whack-a-mole” approach of fixing one intersection at a time. Instead, it calls for making sweeping changes to all of a city’s high injury network. Claiming that no price can be placed on human life is a noble approach but one that is unrealistic in a world where policymakers have limited resources to solveManyproblems.ofVZ’s proposed changes, such as limiting lane use during peak hours, would slow traffic and worsen conditions for drivers and lower-income commuters in these cities. By increasing the duration of commutes and making some people late for work, cities inadvertently reduce the economic well-being of lower-income people. Instead of making roads worse for drivers, the goal should be to make them safer and more efficient for everyone involved — be they a driver, a cyclist or a Whilepedestrian.auto-averse solutions may work in cities that are not so reliant on cars (such as San Francisco), making conditions worse for drivers in other cities is often met with political pushback. In Los Angeles, for example, drivers are already spending massive amounts of time in slow-moving traffic. Some streets need to keep their higher speeds to allow for a shorter, more efficient commute through cities. Making the mostly lower income Sarasota residents who have the longest commutes to affordable housing to suffer more in congestion and slower travel is not a fair way to improve traffic safety. To reduce traffic fatalities more effectively, we should begin with detailed analyses of our high-injury networks instead of heavy-handed reform for every part of the road system. In Orlando, drivers were failing to yield to pedestrians at crosswalks. After a partnership with local law enforcement, officers started issuing warnings near crosswalks during a 3-month enforcement period. It was determined that a few low-cost engineering solutions would be sufficient: moving yield signs 30 feet, adding medians and refuge islands and some other changes. Following two rounds of enforcement and reengineering, driver yield rates went from 5% to 28% for a price far lower than most VZ projects. Cities do not need to take the Vision Zero all-or-nothing approach when a more customizable set of solutions is available. Jay Derr is a policy analyst and Adrian Moore is Vice President at the Reason Foundation.

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OPINION / OUR VIEW

Although the Vision Zero program sounds like a good idea to make roads safer for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians, governments should still measure its trade-offs.

Too many drivers, passengers and pedestrians are killed and injured in accidents involving autos. We can and should be doing more to dramatically reduce those numbers. Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office data show 41 deaths from more than 9,000 crashes in just the first nine months of 2021, up from previous years.Nationwide, an increase in traffic fatalities in 2021 led transportation agencies at all levels to begin looking for new approaches to traffic safety. One increasingly popular approach has been adopting a Vision Zero (VZ) program. Sarasota city and county staff have studied this approach and recommended it to their commissions. The concept originated in Sweden in 1997 and sets a goal of zero traffic fatalities and serious injuries. VZ was adopted by Chicago in 2012, San Francisco in 2014, and Los Angeles in Examples2015. of VZ measures that cities have taken to reduce fatalities include: n requiring safety skirts on the side of the street; n adding buffer zones between bike lanes and traffic lanes, often narrowing or outright removing a travel lane in the process; n closing travel lanes during peak hours; n identifying locations with possible conflicts between pedestrians and cars to lessen injury severity. In 2012, Chicago launched its program with then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel stating a goal of “zero traffic deaths by 2022.” The city’s approach was outlined in a 100page Action Agenda, which was little more than a statement of principles. Five years later, the city started work on VZ implementation and reset the 10-year counter from 2022 to 2027. Chicago aimed to improve some “300 intersections to make them safer for pedestrians.” In September 2019, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that $6 million was being allocated to the city’s West Side VZ plan, a stark difference from a statement she made as a candidate when she said she would, “reallocate $20 million from existing Chicago Department of Transportation funding” towards VZ projects. For a city frequently finding itself short on funds, especially for projects this transformative and wide in scope, VZ’s costly approach makes little sense. Even after all of that money was allocated, Chicago’s 2020 traffic fatality rates remained about the same as in 2012, before VZ was implemented.In2014,San Francisco announced and implemented its own VZ program. The program, which has been relatively successful in reducing traffic deaths, began with a comprehensive push for more accountability and better data-gathering to help paint a clearer picture for policymakers looking to address traffic fatalities. With San Francisco’s clearly defined High Injury Network — defined as areas where fatalities are disproportionately high — and the city’s Quick-Build program, San Francisco was able to make changes relatively quickly and cheaply. San Francisco’s fatalities decreased significantly in 2019 and 2020. Overall, San Francisco has been more successful than other major cities in lowering fatalities. Los Angeles’ VZ program was started in 2015 and has been the least effective at reducing fatalities. In 2016, Los Angeles’ pedestrian death rate “was twice that of San Francisco, Chicago and New York, and four times that of Seattle,” per Bloomberg. In the 3 years following VZ adoption, pedestrian fatalities increased by 75%. Things didn’t look good for drivers either: In 2017, Los Angeles ranked as the “most congested city in the world,” the sixth year in a row it received that ranking. Conditions for drivers were already nightmarish, with drivers spending hours upon hours in congestion, but fatalities remained high on top of those conditions.

Traffic and pedestrian safety require realism, not slogans

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Reader plans to stick with Buchanan I read with interest your recommendations. As I usually agree with your choices, I must respectfully disagree on your comments about term limits. Keeping good conservatives in office during this tumultuous time in our country is essential. When the left gets rid of the trouble makers, we can decide on term limits. A proven record is what we can look at. Here is why I will vote for Vern Buchanan again: n By email, he gives me a daily report of what Congress is doing. n He votes the way I want my Congressman to vote. n He polls me on current issues. It makes me feel involved, and it lets him know what his constituents want. n He will become head of Ways and Means when we win in November. This is awesome for our district, state and country.

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It is beyond surprising that you would have originally supported Lauren Kurnov for school board. It is now absurd that although you have withdrawn your initial endorsement for Ms. Kurnov you still offer tepid support for her — “reasonable gamble,” you say — although it is clear that you now believe Robyn Martinelli is a better candidate.Yournaive belief that Ms. Kurnov was acceptable in face of massive Democratic support, her immense campaign chest raised almost all from the usual suspects, and her insincere answers to direct questions should have given you a clue. When several weeks ago in an interview Ms. Kurnov stated in response to a question about CRT with the usual refrain that it is not taught in public schools but only in high level graduate programs, or that she did not want to get involved in the “culture wars,” your attention should have been stirred. So, despite that she again failed to ask direct questions about recent Florida legislation involving schools in response to your own inquiries in your own newspaper, you again cannot bring yourself to admit that you were wrong and shamefully credulous toward her public positions.Ms.Kurnov is woke, through and through, and will join Tom Edwards if she is elected, in pushing the malignant CRT nonsense in our public schools.

Roundabout art projects delayed as state agreement remains unfinished

ANDREW WARFIELD STAFF WRITER

Ready to send three artist finalists to the Sarasota City Commission for a sculpture at the Gulfstream Avenue roundabout, the Public Art Committee hits another roadblock. File photo City and FDOT officials are negotiating an agreement to place public art in roundabouts along Tamiami Trail, delaying recommendations for this roundabout at U.S. 41 and Fruitville Road.

For months, Sarasota’s Public Art Committee has been circling a selection of preferred artists to create a sculpture for the cen ter of the roundabout at U.S. 41 and Fruitville Road. Poised to choose three recom mended artists at its early August meeting for consideration by the City Commission, the committee hit a roadblock. That’s when Mary Davis Wallace, the senior city planner and public art lead, told the committee that negotiations with the Florida Department of Transportation are ongoing, and until an agreement with the state is reached to place public art in the state’s right of way, moving forward was premature. In May, the committee recom mended the City Commission approve Dwell, a multicolored sculp ture depicting coral, in a departure from prior protocol of providing commissioners three selections from which to choose. Commissioners not only rejected Dwell but also passed on the other two finalists and sent the project back to the committee. As they revisited favored submis sions and reconsidered others in the months since, discussions between the city and FDOT for a Commu nity Aesthetics Features agreement

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A SOFTER LANDING

Meanwhile, Wallace encouraged the committee to refine its selection process for future projects. Opting to recommend a single piece, as it did for the Fruitville roundabout, rather than following the prior request for proposal process — and the result ing rejection — may have caused concern among the public and art community.“Wehave another roundabout coming up,” Wallace said, referenc ing the under construction round about at U.S. 41 and Gulfstream Avenue. “We need to think a little broader on this whole package and how thoughtful we’re going to be moving forward because if we start going back and forth like a roller coaster, we are going to make a lot of people seasick just watching us do“Anythingthis. we can do to make this a soft landing for the public and a softer landing for the artists is really what we’re here to do.”

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Not only impacting the Fruitville Road roundabout, the agreement delay also has previously approved sculptures for the traffic circles at U.S. 41 at 10th Street and at 14th Street in a holding pattern. “There are two artists still in orbit waiting for this agreement to be approved, and they’ve been wait ing for over two years,” Wallace said. “The contract is starting to become slightly dated. We’re going to have to revisit the cost estimates, and there are going to be some issues when we finally are able to mobilize.”

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ANDREW WARFIELD STAFF WRITER With an Oct. 1 deadline, negotiations on a col lective bargaining agree ment between the city of Sarasota and the International Union of Police Associations Local 6045, which represents Sarasota police officers, sergeants and criminalists, are about 75% complete. That’s the assessment of local union chapter President Eric Urbain, who said the primary sticking points for the next three-year deal are an approximately $5,000 gap in starting pay and a demand for legal represen tation in cases of discrimination. The two sides met for two days last week, and Urbain said he is hoping for another two-day session soon. Once that is accomplished, he said it takes about three weeks to complete a ratification vote. Until a new agreement is reached, Urbain said the current contract would still apply. Urbain said SPD is not competi tive with salary scales offered by law enforcement agencies in nearby jurisdictions, where he said many officers already live because of the lack of attainable housing in the city. The union’s initial request was for a starting pay of $67,000 a year for patrol officers, while the city’s current position is approximately $62,000.First-year pay for an SPD patrol officer is $52,621. “I think going into the contract negotiations, it was a bit of a sticker shock to the city, and quite frankly, to us as well,” Urbain said, who added the ask is based on the pay scale in other area jurisdictions, including the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office. As for the anti-discrimination policy, Urbain said the city investi gates itself when complaints are filed with no legal representation avail able to the aggrieved union member. On that point, the city replied in a statement, “The city of Sarasota does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, preg nancy, national origin, age, disabil ity or marital status. These classes are already protected under state and federal law as well as local ordinance, and the city abides by those regula tions in all its employment-related decisions.”Negotiations began in February. According to the city, talks typically have taken more than a year to com plete.“From the beginning, we have negotiated in good faith and in accordance with Florida Statute 447, which outlines collective bargaining practices,” reads the city’s statement. “We have been active participants, responded to numerous proposals and listened to the IUPA members during the negotiations … We do not see this as a win/lose proposal but an opportunity for both sides to pres ent information and come to accept able agreements. While negotiations began in February, previous police collective bargaining agreements have taken 1.5 to 2 years to finalize.”

Officer starting pay and anti-discrimination policy remain unresolved as the Oct. 1 end of 3-year contract period approaches.

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Police union, city draw closer to agreement

SUNDAY, AUG. 14 HE SAID, SHE SAID 1:30 p.m., 100 block of North Tamiami Trail Property damage: A dispute between a couple while driving over the John Ringling Bridge led to alleged fisticuffs — with slaps and fingernails added for good measure — resulting in police response to a nearby location on Tamiami Trail. Officers responded to a call from a male passenger, claiming he was battered by his girlfriend, who was driving.Theman claimed the woman, during what began as a verbal altercation, punched him in the eye, and upon covering his face with his hands was scratched several more times on the forearm. The woman disputed the claim, saying her boyfriend sustained his injuries as she attempted to pull him from the car while he was causing damage by punching the dashboard, a speaker and a mirror. The man’s injuries, police concluded, were consistent with her claims. There was also no apparent evidence of a slap or punch to thePoliceface. noted obvious damage to the woman’s vehicle, including a broken speaker and passenger side mirror, estimating the cost at $150. The man was taken to Sarasota County Jail, where he was booked for criminal mischief.

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TUESDAY, AUG. 9 FREE RIDE 6:07 p.m., 100 block of Watergate Drive Dispute: The owner of a taxi service called police over an unpaid fare that resulted from confusion over who was supposed to pay. The driver had picked up the rider from a car dealership and upon arrival at the destination, the rider did not pay for the $45 fare. The rider instead stated the dealership was supposed to cover the cost, he had no money and had believed it to have been settled.Thedriver said he did not wish to pursue payment, adding that similar situations happen often. The dealership was not called, and the cabbie stated he did not want to be contacted by the passenger for future service.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 10 STAY(AWAY)CATION 9:04 p.m., 400 block of South Polk Drive Dispute: A caller told 911 operators she needed help, although on call back she told the operator all was fine. Still, an officer met with the caller who said her family was renting a home while on vacation, and that an altercation had gotten out of control.Herbrother-in-law became intoxicated, she reported, causing an argument with his wife. The man was not at the scene at the time. The caller told the officer some family members had already packed and were leaving in an effort to keep the peace. The officer was advised that the family would lock the door to prevent the inebriated relative from returning. Although the officer offered to remain on the scene while the family separated, the woman who placed the call initially advised him that his presence would only further upset the family. The incident was reported to property management company.

FRIDAY, AUG. 12 TRIGGERED DRIVER 5:27 p.m., 1300 block of Main Street Dispute: A case of road rage and a claim of a brandished handgun brought police to a call made five minutes earlier from Fruitville Road at Orange Avenue, where the complainant said she blew her horn at another driver. In response, she said the driver appeared to wave a handgun, pointed upward and not at her. The complainant said she could not provide a description of the driver because of the tinted windows but was certain she saw the shape of a weapon.Thewoman was able to provide police with the license plate number of the offender’s vehicle. Officers canvassed the area and were unable to locate it.

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It’s more than 7,000 miles away from Beijing, but because of the passions of its former resident, a Sarasota estate has become a center of China studies. Woods

SPENCER FORDIN A+E EDITOR Elling O. Eide’s most fervent wish has become reality a decade after he died. Eide, a Sarasota native and lifelong student of Chinese history, dreamt of opening the gates of his 72-acre estate and turning it into a repository of knowledge. Now, nestled in a remote stretch of Tamiami Trail, his former home has become a leading regional resource for Chinese studies and a place peo ple in the community can come to appreciate both art and nature. Matthew Wells, the Elling Eide Center’s director of research, said the focus of the institution will always remain fixed on ancient China. That was Eide’s passion, said Wells, and you can’t really understand modern China without getting your arms around its roots. “This was the place where he was going to live,” said Wells, gesturing at the building, completed by Sara sota architect Guy Peterson. “He was going to put his collection of books in here — have his own kind of personal library — and basically invite all his buddies to come down and translate and talk about China and all the oth er things that he was interested in.” Eide, said Wells, was a polymath. It would be impossible to quickly summarize all the things he spent his life learning about, but Wells said he was greatly fixated on Asian studies, languages, horticulture and Florida history.Eide, born in 1935, was a gradu ate of Southside Elementary, Sara sota Junior High and Sarasota High School, and he earned a degree in Far Eastern Languages from Harvard in 1957. He later served in East Asia in the U.S. Marine Corps and studied in Taiwan before returning to the USA and serving as a professor at the Uni versity of Illinois in 1970. Eide’s life brought him back to Sarasota. His parents were ill, and he had to decide how to take care of the sprawling estate. Over time, he planted hundreds of trees and plants and continued his burgeoning stud ies from the place he had grown up, making this remote and beautiful property a center of an exotic and rare field of scholarship. “It was more a niche kind of study, but it was also a very different field at the time,” said Wells of China studies during Eide’s day. “He was interest ed back when it was a much smaller community … Somebody getting their doctorate in the ’60s was prob ably trained by somebody who had been trained by someone who was a missionary in China in the 1900s.” Wells said Eide was an early scholar of the T’ang Dynasty, and he played a large role in founding The T’ang Studies Society. His personal collections — books, art and souvenirs — became the basis of the Elling Eide Center’s treasury of Asian knowledge. Eide died in 2012, and the Eide Center opened its doors for research in 2016. Wells said the center has more than 60,000 books in its collection, many of which are only really avail able to specific scholars of Asian languages and literature. For Wells, who arrived in Sarasota a year ago, the hard part of the job was making Eide’s mission more public-facing in 2022 and beyond. “One thing I started doing when I started booking conferences was thinking about the relationship between the scholars that come here to do research and to share research and the rest of the community,” Wells said. “That’s where the pub lic lecture series comes in. I request from the scholars somebody to fall on their sword and give a lecture for the public, and we work with them

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ENTERTAINMENT+ARTS to make sure they pitch it right and it’s not too specialized but also not dumbed down. “We respect our audience. They’ve been around. They know what’s up.” Even with their interest level established, though, Wells wants to make sure they’re properly prepared for high-level lectures. For instance, the Elling Eide Center will welcome award-winning author and professor John Balaban to pres ent a lecture on Vietnamese poetry in September, and Wells wants to give the local community a chance to attend presentations like that and fully understand them. That meant, in this case, designing an entirely new lecture series. Wells, a former associate professor of Chi nese at the University of Kentucky, wanted to craft an introduction to Chinese thought that would give its attendees a base of knowledge they could build on. He called it “Coffee and Confucious,” and it will return for another showing this fall. The attendees are mostly older, he says, and perhaps more interested in the subject than you might imagine. “There’s a shocking amount of interest in Chinese culture in the area,” he said. “I think a lot of people, especially the older people, have had enough lifetime where they’ve been to Japan or they’ve been to China. “Maybe they have business in Chi na. Maybe some of them have rela tives there; maybe somebody adopt ed a child from China or something like that. At the last Coffee and Con fucius, I asked them, ‘Show of hands, who’s been to a Chinese speaking country?’ About two-thirds of the audience raised their hand.” That was music to Wells’ ears. He was hoping to give people an entry point into Eide’s world, a primer on Chinese writing, on religion and phi losophy, on history and China’s place in the modern world. He found that not only were people interested, they were clamoring for more. Wells said the initial lectures sold out the lecture hall, which can sit about 50 people. The lectures take on the form of coffee and conversation, and Wells said he was surprised by the public’s attention to detail. “It’s like a college lecture, in that I approach it as if people are educated but maybe not informed in that par ticular area,” he said of the series. “What I want to do is quickly move people to a point where they feel like they understand Chinese writing a little bit. My goal was to have 25 people who are full-timers living in Sarasota who then have this baseline of knowledge, and then they would find any of our other lectures a lot easier to absorb.” That lecture series will return in the fall, but the Elling Eide Center is hoping to develop even more oppor tunities for the public. Now, said Wells, the plan is to do more research on the property and its history. He said there is a New College research project looking into Helen Smith, one of the property’s owners before Eide, and there also will be an archaeological survey conducted on theThere’sgrounds.also a need to study the property’s flourishing gopher tor toise population. The gopher tor toise is currently listed as vulnerable but not endangered. The Elling Eide Center currently has an arboretum tour hosted by a former botany instructor that informs people about the hundreds of species of trees on the property, and Wells hopes that eventually the tour will better include information on the center’s artistic holdings. “If you come take the tour, at the very least, you’re going to see prob ably one of the most amazing horti cultural collections here outside of Selby,” said Wells of the tour. “Then you’ll come in and get some exposure to the kind of art and cul ture we have here. But with this lec ture series and course series, we’re trying to be more active in giving people the opportunity to learn.” The popularity of China studies — like any other field of academic endeavor — is cyclical. Wells said he’s seen a flourishing and a regression in the interest of Asian Language study courses dur ing his career, and he said with Chi na’s increasing prominence in the world, there’s an ever-present need for more people to understand the country’s history and art. Even with someone like Confu cius, a worldwide symbol of knowl edge and learning, there’s a natural ebb and flow to their popularity. “When I first went to China in the mid-’90s, you really didn’t hear much about Confucius or interest in classical China,” said Wells of the ancient philosopher who is now back in vogue. “You get up to about 2006 or 2007 and you start getting some interest then in what are traditional values? I used to show my students the same wall 10 years different; one would say, ‘Build a strong socialist society.’ Then 10 years later, I went back to the same place and it was like a mural about all these different Confucian virtues. It’s amazing.” GO O. AND PRESERVE Where: 8000 S. Tamiami Trail When: Arboretum Tour on Tuesdays at 10 a.m. $5 Info: EllingOEide.org

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THIS WEEK OUR PICK FREE MONDAYS AT JOHN AND MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART You can enjoy your art without opening your wallet. The John And Mable Ringling Museum of Art opens its doors free of charge on Mondays, allowing visitors to take in its rich collection of paintings and exhibits. It’s a perfect time to stroll in and check out “Ballroom Florida: Deco & Desire in Japan’s Jazz Age,” which will be on display until late September. IF YOU GO When: John And Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Road Where: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Mondays Tickets: Free Info: Ringling.org.DON’T MISS ‘SMOKE AND MIRRORS’ How does a Hollywood director get hold of a production when a screenwriter stands in their way? Smoke and Mirrors. This wickedly funny romp takes you behind the scenes as an actor, director and screenwriter compete to control an upcoming production, and it lampoons the sometimes dastardly lengths they’ll go to realize their own vision. Who will win? And will they get away with it? IF YOU GO When: 7:30 p.m., Aug. 18; runs through Aug. 28 Where: Gompertz Theatre, 1265 First St. Tickets: $25-$36 Info: FloridaStudioTheatre.org. 382163-1

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serving notice to the world that he has a lot more to say. Guest, the playwright who wrote “At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen,” will deliver a sneak peek at his new play, “Pageant on White American Memory,” which examines the arc of some of America’s most prominent families and how they got to be in that position.

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Judging by movies like Robert Altman’s “The Player” and novels like Nathaniel West’s “The Day of the Locust,” Tinseltown is a heartless exploitation machine that grinds up writers and their words. Will Osborne and Anthony Herrera’s “Smoke & Mirrors” falls squarely in that tradition at Florida Studio Theatre. The first act opens with a screenwriter’s grievance. Clark Robinson (Alberto Bonilla) is the scribe in question; a creative if highly nervous screenwriter. Clark’s in a movie-making partnership called “Three Happy Fellas.” Director Hamilton Orr (Ben Cherry) and movie star Derek Coburn (Jack Gerhard) are the other two fellas, but Clark’s a most unhappy fella. He bemoans Hamilton’s Procrustean mutilation of his creative“Vicksburg”vision.is the most recent outrage. The company’s last film was a hit. Clark wrote the screenplay, and it was his passion project. But Hamilton got the studio to green light the flick with the promise that Hollywood hunk Derek would play the lead role. (Hamilton got him to sign by making him a creative partner.) After that, the meathead proceeded to rewrite his lines and deliver them just as badly. The result? Critical scorn — and boffo box office numbers. Three Happy Fellas is now working on a sequel. The creative team’s ensconced in the Mississippi state governor’s mansion on an isolated private island in the Gulf of Mexico. The film deal is a package deal. By studio decree (and the terms of his partnership), Derek stays in the picture — or there’s no picture. The writer’s outraged. The director claims to feel the same artistic outrage. This crowd-pleasing dummy is ruining his creative vision, too! For an added twist of the knife, there’s a serious actor who’d love to take his HamiltonHmmm…place!jokingly suggests that they kill Derek — for their art. ThenHa-ha.you realize he’s not joking. Clark initially resists Hamilton’s murderous pitch but eventually agrees to his scheme for Derek’s final exit. How will they kill him and get away with it? Hamilton’s got it all figured out. They’ll tell the dim actor they’ve written a new ending to “Vicksburg II” — a scene where Derek’s character commits suicide. Then they’ll get him to rehearse the scene and switch the unloaded gun with a loaded gun. Bang! No more Derek. A tragic accident! And that’s a wrap. Or maybe not. They don’t call this play “Smoke & Mirrors” for nothing. All I can say is somebody either does or doesn’t die. And somebody’s scheme either goes or doesn’t go as planned. This play is a Mousetrap, as in the Parker Brothers’ board game, not the Agatha Christie play. Giving the ending away really would be a crime. Suffice to say it’s smart and very, very funny. Director Catherine Randazzo finds just the right tone to keep you laughing. Her tightrope walk is no cakewalk. “Smoke & Mirrors” walks the line between parody and homage. (The play’s elaborate bits of business echo half the classics on PBS’s “Mystery Theatre.” But the bits are always just a wee bit off. Something’s happening, but you don’t know what it is. Aside from the fact it’sThefunny.)actors are equally great at high-wire silliness. Bonilla’s highstrung Clark is the low fella on the totem pole. He stammers and stutters like a standard issue nebbish. Then you realize his commitment to creative vision isn’t a joke. Cherry’s Hamilton has one key feature — he’s a manipulator. (One who gleefully sees himself as a puppet master.) He can be charming when he has to be, or a bully when he can get away with it. Alanna Smith plays Hamilton’s wife Barbara as one of his willing puppets. (Maybe.) She delivers a highly cinematic portrayal as a languorous femme fatale. She’s exactly what Hamilton wants her to be. (Or maybe just what he expects her to be.) After the deed is done, Justin Ness makes the scene as Sheriff Leroy, a country bumpkin lawman investigating the crime scene. You figure, like Peter Falk’s Columbo, he’s just playing dumb. Then you realize he’s just plain dumb. That equally applies to Gerhard’s Derek. He’s a tool, and not a sharp one. But moviegoers love him — and he agrees with their opinion. The action on stage is a few steps away from realism. Isabel and Moriah Curley-Clay’s overstuffed set has more stuffed, dead animals than Linger Lodge. It’s impressive and slightly creepy. (Where did they get those crispy critters anyway?) Erin Barnett’s costumes look like costumes. For this play, that’s a compliment. Because its world is not the real world. Osborne and Herrera’s script sparkles with fast-paced dialogue in the Preston Sturges tradition. A recent revision scrubbed away the 1991 anachronisms. (Floppy discs become flash drives; Eleanor Roosevelt is now Barbara Bush!) The only oversight was a reference to film photography. “Smoke & Mirrors” tickles your funny bone without insulting your intelligence. Smart and funny is a great combination — and a rare one. With murder mysteries (comic or otherwise) I usually see the twist ending coming a mile away. With “Smoke & Mirrors,” I didn’t. Nice trick. How do you like your theater renditions of Hollywood movies? With a side of intrigue? ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ at Florida Studio Theatre has you covered. IF YOU GO ‘SMOKE When:MIRRORS’&Through Aug. 28 Tickets: $25-$39 Where: FST Gompertz Theatre, 1265 First St. Info: Visit daStudioTheatre.orgFlori Creative Differences

Photo courtesy of John Jones Alberto Bonilla and Ben Cherry star as a writer and director trying to protect their product in “Smoke & Mirrors.”

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SPENCER FORDIN A+E EDITOR You might be a player and not even knowTheit.Players Studio, an educa tional program from The Players Centre for Performing Arts, reaches more than 200 kids and aspiring actors of all ages, and it’s hosting its annual Back to Studio Bash open house on Aug. 20 in hopes of reach ing more in the future. Brenna Wickstrom, the studio’s director of education, says the open house will feature the best The Play ers has to offer. There will be perfor mances from production groups, mini classes and games, as well as a chance to register for future enrollment. The Players Studio, established in 1995, has been teaching the art of theater for decades. Wickstrom and the studio instructors and perform ers are coming off a busy summer full of theater education. From May through the first week of August, the studio was overrun by kids enrolled in the theater’s mini-camps. The children — aged 5 to 10 — learned songs, dances and scenes from movies and plays, and then they put on a mini-production for their families in the studio. There was also a 4-week musical theater production camp for kids aged 11 to 17, and they worked all month to perform in “We Will Rock You” on Aug. 4 and 5. But the fun isn’t just for kids. The Players Follies is a free community theater group for ages 50 and up, and Wickstrom says it’s great to work with actors of all ages. “We start as young as 6 months all the way to 106,” Wickstrom said. “If you’re 107, we’ll make an exception forWhatyou.”does daily enrollment at the studio look like? That depends on which classes you take. “We could be working on scripts, we could be working on scenes,” Wickstrom said. “We could be exploring theater history or oncamera acting. We could be explor ing the foundations of tap and jazz.” Wickstrom said many of the younger students are first-time actors, but the older students are active in their school drama depart ments. Most of the action at the stu dio occurs on Saturday and the stu dio might have as many as 40 or 50 aspiring actors in it at the time. “We’ll have kids who are here as bright and early at 8:30,” Wickstrom said of the Saturday classes. “They start at 9, and they do not leave here till 2:30 in the afternoon. They’re here all day having fun taking backto-back classes.”

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Parker Wilson has always lovedThat’sSpider-Man.beenthe case since he was a boy. As long, in fact, as he knew what superheroes were, Spider-Man was the charac ter to beat. It helps that he partially shares a name with the wall-crawl er’s alter-ego, Peter Parker. Wilson, now 23, recently took his appreciation of the web-slinging hero to a new level. When he heard that Sarasota was hosting its own comic convention, he decided to attend in style by wearing his very own Spider-Man costume to join in “It just feels cool. You can hear people talking about Spider-Man all around you,” Wilson said. Wilson wasn’t alone in trying out the convention, and he wasn’t alone in wearing a costume, either. Count less costumed characters attended the first SarasotaCon on Aug. 13 at the Carlisle Inn. The daylong event featured several vendors selling art, comics, hand-crafted designs and other collectibles to around 3,000 attendees.Theevent’s been about a year in the making. Organizer and promot er Carmine DeSanto hails from Fort Myers and hosts one-day conven long noticed a trend in his attendees’ home“Whenbases.we do our show in Fort Myers, everybody from Sarasota comes to us,” DeSanto said. “It felt like an untapped market.” DeSanto has been in the comic convention business for decades. David Hess has assisted DeSanto with selling comics at his conven tions for some time, and the first SarasotaCon was no different. Hess sells a number of comics, including some that feature the first appear ances of Marvel and DC characters, which have gone on to appreciate in value when those characters appear in movies or television shows.

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HessPercysaid. Bennett, a first-time convention-goer but a consistent renaissance fair attendee, brought a fantasy-inspired costume of her own design to the show. She was pleased to find the amount of enthusiasm and engage ment among attendees with their costumes and creations. “It’s a different vibe in terms of camaraderie,” Bennett said. “A lot of people here want to know what people are dressed as and share their love of the content.” DeSanto said the next convention for Sarasota is planned for April.

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What’s the value in a puzzle?Theycan be challenging; they can be relaxing. For Studio Arts Program Coordinator Liv Scully at the Sarasota Art Museum, it’s a way to test your brain and work on your problem solving skills. “Art and art-making can be a puzzle,” Scully said. “You’re figuring things out, and you’re problem-solving.”Puzzleswere on full display at the Sarasota Art Museum’s Puzzlelicious event, which ran July 29 and 30. The event made its return for the second year and featured all sorts of puzzles with which children and families could testFamiliesthemselves.warmed up putting together jigsaw puzzles in the museum before heading over to Scully’s workshop, where she had a series of coloring pages depicting famous art figures and creators.The largest project of the day was a depiction of the Sarasota Art Museum composed of several coloring pages that children took to work on. When all the pages had been taken and colored in, kids returned them to the board and rearranged them so it properly conveyed the museum.

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Photos by Harry Sayer Martice, Brayden, Maliyah, Anna and Aurora Nicks warm up working on a jigsaw puzzle.Courtesy

photo Kids picked up pieces of a Sarasota Museum Art puzzle and colored them in. Studio Arts Program Coordinator Liv Scully lays out the rules for the students. Mila Didovic colors in her page.

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FRIDAY, AUG. 19 AND SATURDAY, AUG. 20 SUP CHAMPIONSHIPS Begins at noon Friday and at 8 a.m. Saturday at Nathan Benderson Park, 5851 Nathan Benderson Circle, Sarasota. The 2022 Special Olympics Florida StandUp Paddle Championships will see approximately 150 athletes compete in a variety of SUP races for medals, and for the fun of it. The event is free for spectators. Visit SpecialOlympicsFlorida.org or call 352-243-9536.

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3RD SATURDAY LIMELIGHT MARKET 10 a.m. at Bazaar on Apricot and Lime, 821 Apricot Ave. The monthly pop-up market will have vendors showcasing dog rescues, tie dye designs, clay creations and more. Free. BazaarOnApricotAndLime.com.Visit WEDNESDAY, AUG. 24 REC DAY Runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Nathan Benderson Park, 5851 Nathan Benderson Circle, Sarasota. Nathan Benderson Park hosts Rec Day, which offers participants the chance to try stand-up paddle boarding, kayaking, canoes, fishing and more. Meet at the base of the finish tower. participantsFishingisadultfeeNathanBendersonPark.org.VisitTheis$10apersonor$5foranwhobringsachild.Theeventfreeforchildren6andyounger.licensesarerequiredforallwhochoosetofish.

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SATURDAY, AUG. 20 MUSIC COMPOUND BACK TO SCHOOL BASH 10 a.m. at Music Compound, 1751 Cattlemen Road. Music, games, bounce houses and other activities are planned for students and families to mark the return to school. Visit MusicCompound.com.

BEST TUESDAY,BETAUG. 23 2022 SARASOTA SLAM Runs through Aug. 27 at Marina Jack, 2 Marina Plaza. The annual fishing tournament begins with a captain’s meeting, a sponsor party and other events throughout the week before finishing with a weigh-in and awards ceremony on Aug. 27. Visit SarasotaSlam.com.

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PALMER RANCH: $1.9 PrestanciaMILLION Joseph and Maura Breen, of Sarasota, sold their home at 4287 Escondito Circle to Robert Suda and Joanne Connelly, of Sarasota, for $1,899,000. Built in 1989, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,347 square feet of living area. It sold for $860,000 in 2015.

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Other top sales by area ESTATEREAL PERMITS

AKIN ACRES Adam and Erin Kabinoff, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2174 Bougainvillea St. to Nicholas Straface, of Morgantown, West Virginia, for $930,000. Built in 1952, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,418 square feet of living area. It sold for $436,600 in 2021.

THE RESIDENCES Nicola Kobritz, of Longboat Key, sold her Unit 1008 condominium at 1111 Ritz Carlton Drive to Robert Snyder, trustee, of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, for $1.6 million. Built in 2001, it has one bedroom, one-and-a-half baths and 1,768 square feet of living area. It sold for $825,000 in 2016.

Harbor Acres property sells for $12 million

YourObserver.com SARASOTA OBSERVER | THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2022 7B Sales galleries open and available for virtual or in-person presentations. Virtual home tours | OnDemand local experts | Interactive site and floorplans St.DowntownLongboatKeyPetersburgDowntownSarasotaThe Residences at the St. Regis | 941.213.3300 | From $2.4MM to $10.9MM | Call for appointment | SRResidencesLongboatKey.com 400 Central | 727.209.7848 | From the $1MM’s | Call for appointment. | Residences400central.com The Collection | 941.232.2868 | From the $2MM’s | Call for appointment. | thecollection1335.com NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION NOW TAKING CONTRACTS 2 UNITS LEFT MichaelSaunders.com/New-Homes | 844.591.4333 | Sarasota, Florida Prices as of February 2022. In with the new 373666-1 CITY OF SARASOTA Address Permit Applicant Amount 502 Bristol Court Remodel/Addition Elizabeth Kelly $95,000 2626 Bay St. Pool/Spa/Deck Robert Howald $68,500 1255 N. Gulfstream Ave. #808 Doors Augie Mimica $62,638 1505 Mackeral Ave. Solar System Julio Armas Cedeno $43,554 2703 Hillview St. Pool Tracy Sax $41,000 301 S. Gulfstream Ave. #304 Windows Steven Georgilas $32,492 750 N. Tamiami Trail #1514 Remodel Alexander Huppe $30,000 253 Cosmopolitan Court Pergola Charles Bingham $25,950 625 Corwood Drive Solar System David Coone $14,000 850 S. Tamiami Trail #404 Windows/Doors Steven Bang $13,992 SARASOTA COUNTY Address Permit Applicant Amount 398 E. Mac Ewen Drive Remodel George Fischer $721,000 8533 Midnight Pass Road Pool John Lacy $200,000 5770 Midnight Pass Road Remodel Jacqueline Ekgren $200,000 259#610Osprey Point Drive Addition Ronald Assaf $190,000 1629 Caribbean Drive Solar System Ali Al-Rawi $131,195 1125 W. Peppertree Drive Alterations Timothy Shelton $105,235 9397#405Midnight Pass Road Renovation Steven Gibbs $99,546 1815#402S. Lake Shore Drive Pool/Spa/Deck Eric Bobb $95,753 1040 Gulf Winds Way Re-roof John Swingle $79,879 1201 E. Peppertree Drive Remodel Chris Williams $72,000These#234 are the largest city of Sarasota and Sarasota County building permits issued for the week of Aug 1-5, in order of dollar amounts.

HIGH POINT CIRCLE William and Cynthia Webb, of Dunedin, sold their home at 1912 High Point Drive to 1912 High Point LLC for $1.9 million. Built in 1953, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,941 square feet of living area. It sold for $700,000 in 2016.

LA LINDA TERRACE Dean and Linda Thompson, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2233 Hillview St. to WB Hillview 2233 LLC for $650,000. Built in 1961, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 1,203 square feet of living area. It sold for $118,000 in 2001.

GULF GATE EAST Axios Property and Investments LLC sold the home at 3646 Kingston Blvd. to Barbara Carbone, of Sarasota, for $620,000. Built in 1981, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,802 square feet of living area. It sold for $129a,000 in 1993. Ruth Taylor, of Sarasota, sold her home at 6659 Easton Drive to

PINE BAY Steven and Meg Wittmer, of Park City, Utah, sold their home at 1419 Pine Bay Drive to Joseph and Margaret Stauffer, of Sarasota, for $4 million. Built in 2020, it has four bedrooms, four-and-two-half baths, a pool and 3,514 square feet of living area.

Eric Garwood The home at 1500 Hillview Drive was sold in 1991 for $800,000.

Thomas Tyler Jr., trustee, of Venice, sold the Unit PH-2 condominium at 280 Golden Gate Point to Brian and Loren Donovan, of Sarasota, for $6,495,000. Built in 2016, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 4,101 square feet of living area. It sold for $5.2 million in 2021.

SIESTA KEY: $2.6 MILLION Horizons West Pavel and Susan Hillel, trustees, of Osprey, sold the Unit 801 condominium at 6140 Midnight Pass Road to Robert Franklin Bossard, trustee, of Siesta Key, for $2,625,000. Built in 1967, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,192 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.25 million in 2015.

ADAM HUGHES RESEARCH EDITOR Ahome in Harbor Acres tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Henry Philip Frieder, of Fort Lauderdale, sold his home at 1500 Hillview Drive to SRQ Home Holdings LLC for $12 million. Built in 1949, it has five bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 3,245 square feet of living area. It sold for $800,000 in 1991. Lorraine McGovern, of Methuen, Massachusetts, for $580,000. Built in 1982, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,325 square feet of living area. It sold for $425,000 in The2021.Robert J. Burkhard Living Trust sold the home at 6730 Easton Lane to Valeriy Valeryevich Bolotin Jr. and Lizet Bolotin, of Everett, Washington, for $530,000. Built in 1982, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,024 square feet of living area. POINSETTIA PARK Joanna Mazur, of Mount Prospect, Illinois, sold the home at 1871 Magnolia St. to SKFL Assets LLC for $600,000. Built in 1951, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,678 square feet of living area. It sold for $25,900 in 1971.

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NOKOMIS: $960,000 Sorrento Woods Jeffrey Aubin and Kristen Michelle Gonter-Aubin, of Nokomis, sold their home at 1225 Sorrento Woods Blvd. to Kevin Perrault and Cynthia Perrault, trustees, of Hampton, New Hampshire, for $960,000. Built in 1996, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,957 square feet of living area. It sold for $569,800 in 2020.

BAYWOOD COLONY WESTPORT Randy Scianna and Kim-Anh Nguyen, trustees, of Nokomis, sold the home at 5800 Tidewood Ave. to Richard and Emily Crowley, of Sarasota, for $2.85 million. Built in 2000, it has four bedrooms, fourand-two-half baths, a pool and 5,167 square feet of living area. It sold for $3 million in January.

RIVO AT RINGLING Taylor Victoria LLC sold the Unit 703 condominium at 1771 Ringling Blvd. to Walter Dalon, trustee, of Sarasota, for $700,000. Built in 2006, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,440 square feet of living area. It sold for $420,000 in 2019.

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Attendees picked up drinks and snacks from food trucks and sat out to enjoy the music as the sun set.

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Dozens gathered at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall to

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The lawn at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall was full of families and music lovers looking to relax with an evening of fun during the monthly Friday Fest on Aug. 12. At the summer series, which runs from June to September, tropical dance band Big Night Out played to an enthusiastic crowd.

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Josh Smithers is entering his sixth season as the head coach of the Riverview High football team. “They were motivating each other and getting ready, working on their craft. It started in spring ball and carried over into summer workouts. They’re excited about the season.” — Amp Campbell

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FOOTBALL PREVIEW 2022 Riverview High has another strong squad, this year led by five-star defensive back Charles Lester III.

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Riverview High cornerback Charles Lester III is being recruited by most every national college football power in the country. He’ll play defense and offense for the Rams in 2022.

5The Sarasota Sharks Masters won the men’s team title at the 2022 U.S. Masters Swimming Summer National Championship, held Aug. 3-7 in Richmond, Virginia.

RIVERVIEW RAMS 2021FOOTBALLrecord:9-4 (reached the second round of the playoffs) Head Coach: Josh Smithers, sixth season Key to the season: Getting depth contributions. The Rams best players, like all-world CB/ WR Charles Lester III, will show up. But beating the best teams in the state requires solid play from everyone on the field. If the Rams get that, they can do damage. Schedule: All games start at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted Aug. 19 vs. Tampa Bay Tech (Preseason Classic, 7 p.m.) Aug. 26 at Seminole High (7 p.m.) Sept. 2 at Buchholz High Sept. 9 at Palmetto High (7 p.m.) Sept. 16 vs. Lehigh Senior High Sept. 30 vs. Venice High Oct. 7 vs. Osceola High Oct. 14 vs. Clearwater Academy International Oct. 21 vs. Lake Gibson High Oct. 28 at Sarasota High Nov. 4 vs. Charlotte High File

Cardinal Mooney senior Michaela Mattes won the Women’s 200 freestyle at the 2022 USA Swimming Futures (1:59.64),ChampionshipsheldJuly27-30 in Cary, North Carolina. Mattes, who also swims for the Sarasota Sharks, finished third in the 400 meter individual medley (4:48.13).

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RYAN KOHN SPORTS EDITOR Consistency is the name of the game for Riverview High. The Rams football team has been a postseason regular under coach Josh Smithers, who is entering his sixth season in charge. In 2021, Riverview went 9-4, which included two losses to Venice High (one in the postseason). Before elim ination, the Rams managed to knock off Steinbrenner High 31-7. Of the teams in Sarasota, Riverview has had the most natural talent in recent years. In 2022, the program will seek a way to translate that talent into a deeper postseason run. The Rams will be led, on both sides of the ball, by Charles Lester III. The junior had 19 catches for 298 yards and five touchdowns in 2021, acting as a No. 2 receiver behind Jaron Glov er, who is now playing for Michigan State. Expect his offensive numbers to skyrocket in 2022 now that Glov er, as well as starting running back Jay’den Birch, are gone. Lester is lightning quick and can turn a screen pass into a big gain with ease. On the defensive side, Lester’s contributions may be even greater. The 247 Sports Composite, which pulls together national recruiting rankings from all major scouting organizations, puts Lester as a fivestar recruit and the 23rd-best player in the country (the third-best cor nerback).Lester, who is 6-foot-1, 171 pounds, holds offers from just about every power in college football, including Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State and Michigan, which are all in Lester’s top 10 list he released in July. Lester’s length and range make him an invaluable asset to the Rams’ secondary, who can count on him to take away an opponent’s best receiv ingTheoption.Rams are more than just one player, of course. The person tasked with getting Lester and others the ball on offense appears to be junior Jeremiah Dawson — in fact, he’s the only player listed as a quarterback on the team’s MaxPreps or HUDL rosters. Dawson got limited looks in 2021 but did throw a long touchdown pass in the team’s playoff loss to Ven ice High and hit Lester for a touch down in the Rams’ spring jamboree against Sarasota High. At 6-foot-4, 205 pounds, Dawson has the physical tools coaches look for in a successful quarterback.TheRams’passing attack will ben efit from the arrival of junior Antho ny Campbell, a receiver who spent his first two seasons at Braden River High. Campbell caught 11 passes for 169 yards and four touchdowns for the Pirates despite Braden River’s numerous injuries affecting their passing game. He’s joining Riverview to play under his father, Amp Camp bell, who was hired this offseason as the team’s wide receiver coach. Amp Campbell, a former Riverview High star himself before playing at Mich igan State, has previously been an assistant coach at Western Michigan and Kent State among other colleges. The elder Campbell represented the Rams’ coaching staff at an Aug. 6 Suncoast Media Day event held at the Mall at University Town Center. “This offseason, the guys locked in,” Campbell said. “They did an excellent job of coming into the weight room and also conditioning. They were motivating each other and getting ready, working on their craft. It started in spring ball and carried over into summer workouts. They’re excited about the season.” The Riverview offense will also feature tight end Luke Petitta, a senior who committed to Holy Cross in July. While Petitta has not had much of an opportunity to show off his receiving ability, at least to this point, he is a strong blocker on the edge of the line and will help the Rams’ running backs find room to maneuver. The lead back may be senior Lauriel Trotman, who came to the Rams from Sarasota High. He was used a safety first, running back second by the Sailors, but is listed as purely a running back by the Rams. Expect him to get plenty of carries. Senior receiver Marshall Thompson and junior receiver TJ Smith should also see passes come their way, Amp Campbell said at media day. Defensively, the Rams lose most of their top tacklers from last sea son, but their replacements should be able to fill in well. Senior defen sive linemen Da’Marcus Abner and Dont’a Abner can cause havoc in the backfield. Senior linebacker Deshaun Olave can rack up tackles in the middle of the field. Senior safety Triston Parsons showed an ability to make game-changing intercep tions in 2021. Turnovers sometimes come down to luck, but if that abil ity can carry over to 2022, it will be a big help. Senior defensive end Frank D’Antonio can also be a contributor; he had a pick six in the team’s spring jamboree.TheRams also have a secret weap on in senior kicker Stone Springman,

3Former Riverview High football star Richie James, a wide receiver on the New York Giants, caught three passes for 44 yards and a touchdown Aug. 11 in the Giants’ 23-21 road preseason win over the New England Patriots.

4Riverview High junior golfer Aksel Moe won the UHY Baltimore Junior boys event Aug. 8-11 at Woodholme Country Club in Pikesville, Maryland. Moe shot 1-under par (217) over three rounds.

2Former Sarasota High baseball player Harrison Long committed to Virginia playedUniversityCommonwealthonAug.16.LongattheStateCollege of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota last season and hit .281 with 44 RBI.

Scottie Littles does not tol erateBigmistakes.orsmall, on the field or in the classroom, his Booker High football players will be held accountable for their actions. It has been a primary focus for Littles since he was named the Tor nadoes coach in February. “We need to build our structure, our discipline,” Littles said after an Aug. 16 practice. “(These are) the things that matter, the things that create winning. Family, love, sacri fice. We’re trying to teach that every day. It’s been a roller coaster, but that’s what you expect when you take over a program. We’ll get there.”

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2021FOOTBALLTORNADOESBOOKERrecord: 0-8 Head Coach: Scottie Littles, first season Key to the season: Discipline. Littles believes it is the difference between winning and losing. Hearing him talk, it is hard to disagree. The Torna does have the talent to surprise people this season. They could beat a number of their opponents — if they don’t beat themselves with mistakes first.

Schedule: All games start at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted n Aug. 19 vs. Hardee High (Preseason Classic) n Aug. 26 at Cardinal Mooney High n Sept. 2 vs. Southeast High n Sept. 16 vs. North Port High n Sept. 23 at Braden River High (7 p.m.) n Sept. 30 at Bayshore High n Oct. 14 at DeSoto County High n Oct. 21 vs. Wiregrass Ranch High n Oct. 28 vs. Lemon Bay High n Nov. 4 at Lakewood Ranch High (7 p.m.)

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Scottie Littles is injecting the Booker High football program with discipline, and he hopes teaching the Tornadoes how to win.

Photos by Ryan Kohn Scottie Littles talks to his Booker High football team after an Aug. 16 practice. Littles is emphasizing discipline in his first season at the helm. Booker High sophomore receiver Rashawn Peterson has picked up six NCAA Division I offers this offseason.

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Littles said that while there has been an infusion of talent into the program this offseason, the team lacks consistency. Sometimes, practices are effective and efficient. Sometimes, they’re lackadaisical. Littles’ goal is to eliminate the latter, he said. It’s part of why he’s not let ting anything slide at practice, even critiquing how in sync the team’s clapping is while they warm up and stretch.Teams play how they prepare. If Booker is not disciplined, Littles said, the Tornadoes won’t win many games. And Littles, who holds a 54-19 career record at two schools, does not plan on losing. The new looks at Booker do not stop with its coach. The Tornadoes will be quarterbacked by Will Carter Jr., a Riverview High transfer. Carter, a senior, split time with Joe Borch ers for the Rams in 2021. He threw for 618 yards and nine touchdowns while completing 54% on his passes. He also ran the ball 62 times for 270 yards and a touchdown. With anoth er year of experience and a starting job all to himself at Booker, fans can except to see Carter use all his skills to move the Tornadoes offense down the“Everyonefield. is excited for this year,” Carter said. “We have high hopes and the school has a great atmosphere (at football games). We are excited to put on a Whenshow.”Carter throws, he’ll have an explosive target in sophomore receiver Rashawn Peterson, who transferred from Braden River High. Peterson did not put up massive numbers as a freshman — the Pirates had their passing game derailed by injuries — but he has shown enough natural explosiveness at various camps this summer to earn scholar ship offers from six NCAA Division I schools including Florida State, Penn State and South Florida. Peterson is listed as a running back (and free safety) in addition to wide receiver on the team’s MaxPreps roster, so do not be surprised to see him get a number of carries this season as well. The Tornadoes also will have sophomore athlete Ahmad Hunter, another Riverview transfer who showed flashes at running back, plus returnees such as seniors Omarion Patterson and Gavin Stanford and junior Josiah Booker. Like Peterson, this trio and many others on the Booker roster have multiple posi tion designations, meaning fans can expect to see a wide variety of for mations and play calling from Littles and his staff, with players lining up all over the field. If it works, it could make for some exciting football. On defense, senior defensive tack le Brandon Bass — who also plays on the offensive line — can be a 6-foot2, 285-pound terror for opposing linemen. He caused havoc in the Tornadoes’ spring game against North Port High and should rack up a bunch of tackles for loss in 2022. Junior defensive end Rah’shad Hill is also primed for a big year. Hill made a number of plays against North Port from a stand-up position on the end of the line, getting to ball carriers in a hurry.Onthe back end, senior Gavin Stanford will use his versatility to play the free safety position. At 6-foot-2, 180 pounds, Stanford is a hard hitter and one of the team’s locker room leaders. The Tornadoes also have Lakewood Ranch High transfer Dior Keys, a cornerback/free safety who can create impact plays and is a lively presence at practice. Since taking the Tornadoes job, Littles has said that Booker needs to show it can compete with area teams before it can compete on a state level. That philosophy plays out in Booker’s scheduling. The Tornadoes play one game against a team outside of Sarasota, Bradenton and Charlotte counties that is not in their district: an Oct. 21 game against Wiregrass Ranch High. All of their other oppo nents either call one of those three counties home or are in the Torna does’ district, such as DeSoto Coun ty AHigh.season-opening game against Cardinal Mooney High, another team with high expectations, will be a good barometer for the Tornadoes’ 2022 outlook. If Booker wins or is at least competitive, the Tornadoes could find many winnable games on its schedule.

YourObserver.com12B SARASOTA OBSERVER | THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2022 who is rated a 4.5-star kicker by Kornblue Kicking and is ranked No. 5 on the organization’s Fab 50 list. In tight games, Springman’s ability to make kicks under pressure can come in Aclutch.look at the team’s schedule reveals a tough slate. Under Smithers, Riverview has not been shy about seeking the best opponents possible, even if it means the Rams’ win-loss record is a game or two different than it would be with an easier campaign. The 2022 season is no different: The Rams play local rival/jugger naut Venice High at home, but they also play Lehigh Senior High, which features the No. 2 running back in the country in Alabama commit Richard Young, and Seminole High, which went 11-2 in 2021 and beat the Rams 35-6.But this is what they do. Iron sharpens iron, and the Rams hope playing these tough games gets them ready for the postseason, where they will likely have to get past Venice once again. It is a task easier said than done, but Riverview has the necessary players to give them a chance. Fire Cupping$80 $70 $40 Wellness • Serenity • Balance MM #42428 MassageMedical TreatmentFacial ReflexologyFoot | 3900 Clark Rd, STE C2, Sarasota, FL 34233(941) 877-6688| ShiningMassage.com It's okay to take a break! $80 Book Online Today 384524-1 COMPOUNDING PHARMACY & WELLNESS CENTER Transfer to Sarasota’s Most Trusted Compounding Pharmacy! Gerry Letendre RPh, MBA, CHt We create custom dosages in unique modalities based on patient needs and doctor recommendations Pain Management • Wound Care • Adrenal/Thyroid • Podiatry Dermatology • Dentistry • Pediatrics • Veterinary Join CompoundingOurFamily! Your First Rx Transfer $25 OFF$25 OFF Mention ad for offer Serving Sarasota for over 40 years! Ask us about creating a customized medication for you! Gummies • Lollipops • Topical Creams Sublingual Drops • Pet treats • and More! Specializing in Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy SHIPPINGFREE 2075 Siesta Drive M-F 9:30am941.366.08805:30pm www.sarasotarx.com 377229-1 382171-1386899-1 For all your water needs: Water Filtration & Purification Systems Softener Installation & Maintenance Salt & Maintenance Service Well & Pump Service Aerators & Pressure Tanks 24-hour Emergency Service fehlsafewatersystems.com CALL TODAY FOR YOUR FREE WATER 941-322-8286TESTING SAFE DRINKING WATER IS FUNDAMENTAL TO LIFE Fehl Safe Water Treatment has more than 30 years of experience in making water safe. DO YOU KNOW WHAT’S IN YOUR WATER? Football FROM PAGE 10B File photos Rams asteam’slistedtheseason.playoffsHighVenicepasstouchdownthrowsmiahterbackquar-JereDawsonaagainstinthelastHeisonlyQBontherosterofAug.17.

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