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She needn’t have worried, though. The cafe’s staff stopped and offered to drive Gruber home.

The memorial was dedicated on Sept. 11, 2011.

Helping hand in the rain

Don’t let it be said Siesta Key doesn’t treat its new neighbors well.North Carolina-turned-Siesta Key resident Peri Gruber was walking home recently with groceries when one of Florida’s trademark summer storms struck.Shechecked in for a quick bite at the Village Cafe and, when realizing the rain wasn’t going to stop anytime soon, she prepared to head out into downpour for the 10 minute walk home with her bags.

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can no longer be repaired. Replacement of the infrastructure is a significant portion of the $3.2 million project. Bayfront attraction moves ahead with revised features, but cost cuts still take a bite out of original specs. SEE PAGE 9A

Shantel Norman sings the Star Spangled Banner at a Sept. 11 memorial ceremony held Sunday at Sarasota County Fire-Rescue Station 9. photo plumbing 27-year-old splash Bayfront Park

At the entrance to the headquarters of the Sarasota Police Department on Adams Lane, a twisted steel beam perched upon two posts serves as a lasting reminder of the events of Sept. 11, 2001. A piece of the collapsed World Trade Center, the upward-pointing artifact epitomizes the indelible AmericanThespirit.sculpture memorializes the victims who died that day, a number that included New York City firefighters, Port Authority police officers and New York City police officers.

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“This is true, local Sarasota heart and soul, and I was incredibly grateful,” Gruber said.

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“So we’re back to talk about the mullet and Michelangelo.”

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Finalist designs for which City Commissioners have quest for municipal seal.

arasota County paid tribute to those who died in the Sept. 11 terror attacks with a moving ceremony on Sunday morning.

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n Sarasota CommissionCountymeeting — 9 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 27, Commission Chambers, County Boulevard.Building,Administration1660Ringling

The Sarasota County Department Fire Department then received a framed canvas memorial art piece from Norman

Price paid recently for a bayfront Harbor Acres home on Vista Drive.

n Sarasota meetingCommissionCityspecial — 5:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 19, Commission Chambers, City Hall, 1565 First St.

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several Sarasota County Fire Department staffers participated in stair climbs, scaling the equivalent of 110 floors, in memory of the first responders.

n Sarasota CommissionCitymeeting — 9 a.m., Monday, Sept. 19, Commission Chambers, City Hall, 1565 First St.

Collins said a friend of his was among the first to reach the scene in Lower Manhattan 21 years earlier and died while on theThejob.memory of Andy Fredricks, Collins said, rarely fades.

A collaborative enterprise between the Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation and WUSF Public Media is expected to begin multimedia stories by the end of the year with a team of Sarasota-based journalists.

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Content created by the Community News Collaborative will be made available to participating local media sites, including Observer Media Group, the Sarasota HeraldTribune, Venice Gondolier/The Daily Sun, The Bradenton Herald, Tempo News, ABC-7 WWSB, WSLR, Solmart Media, Sarasota Magazine, Sarasota Scene Magazine and West Coast

In announcing the project’s launch on Monday, Matthew Sauer, the collaboration and impact officer for the Barancik Foundation, said the news team will operate independently under the auspices of WUSF. The Observer Media Group participated in discussions with the Foundation and other news sites on the formation of the project.

Siesta Key property goes on auction block

Anand Pallegar, on consideration of a new city logo and seal for Sarasota.

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Closing must take place within 30 days.

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The ceremony continued with a moment of silence marking when the South Tower fell.

Woman.Recruiting is underway for four reporters and an editor with an eye toward producing content on such topics as schools coverage, the environment, housing and nonprofits.

“That every day we come to work is a gift to serve our community,” he said. “Part of that gift may be we give our lives.”

News enterprise aims to boost coverage

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A furnished bayfront home on Siesta Key is set for public auction this month with plans to sell to the highest bidder with no reserve.

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The auction for the property at 8347 Midnight Pass Road, on the south end of the island, begins at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 24.

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According to a news release, the project will be financed by a donation of nearly $600,000 from the foundation.

The Sarasota County Fire Department and Sarasota County Sheriff’s Department Honor Guards serve as flag detail.

At Sarasota County FireRescue Station 9, the morning ceremony, led by the Sarasota County Fire Department and Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office color guard, started off with a flag detail followed by the National Anthem sung by Shantel Norman.Theaudience then heard from Sarasota County Emergency Services Director Richard Collins, Chaplain John Walker and acting Fire Chief Michael Hartley, who all spoke to the importance of remembering those who died in the attacks and those who died trying to help others.“Think of our brothers and sisters who went up the stairwell after the first tower fell,” Hartley said. “That was an act of bravery.”

Schimmel.Theceremony ended with Walker delivering a benediction for the audience. In addition to the ceremony,

Feet separating the main runway at apartmentproperty,SarasotaAirportBradentonSarasota-InternationalandtheformerKennelClubsiteofaproposedcomplex.

The property to be auctioned, according to public-facing real estate listings, is on the market at $7.9 million. It sold in June of 2021 for $6.5 million.Tobe eligible to participate as a bidder, the registration process requires bringing a cashier’s check for $100,000 on the day of the auction.

Piccolo denied the airport’s prior interest in the site was the reason for its objection to the apartments.

“I sympathize with the kennel club ownership,” Piccolo said. “They were put out of business by a constitu tional amendment, but that doesn’t justify going to residential use versus commercialPreviouslyuse.”zoned for heavy com mercial, the majority of dwellings in Aventon’s site plan would lie beneath the 65 decibel day-night average sound level contour. That’s fine for a Home Depot, Piccolo said. Not so

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During the City Commission hear ing, Commissioner Hagen Brody read aloud from the affidavit after saying he had suspicions regarding the airport’s “very tense opposition” to the “Onproject.June14, 2022, I went to lunch at Libby’s with Airport Authority President and CEO Frederick J. Pic colo,” the affidavit reads. “At that lunch, Mr. Piccolo expressed to me the Airport Authority was inter ested in acquiring the property from the Trust. After June 14, 2022, Mr. Piccolo again expressed to me that the Airport Authority would like to acquire the property from the Trust, and in the event the application for development approvals are denied, he hoped he ‘would be the first call I would make.’ ”

Although the airport author ity had shown interest in the kennel club property in 2019, the finan cial uncertainties brought about by COVID-19 — which for months cur tailed commercial aviation — forced SRQ to tighten the reins on capital spending. Otherwise, it may have been an ideal location for rental car operations, satellite parking, or a combination of the two.

The initial legal challenge, Bailey told the SRQ board, would be against the approval of the comprehensive plan amendment before the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings.

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With the airport board’s litigation approval in hand, he and Lincoln testified before the Commission last week and hinted at a legal challenge should the project be approved.

Although a 372-unit apartment community at the former Sarasota Kennel Club was approved by the Sarasota City Commission last week, it appears likely a court will deter mine if the project moves forward.

Between the interlocal agreement, the comprehensive plan — which commissioners voted to amend to allow residential on the site as part of the Aventon approval process — and a 3-2 recommendation for rejec tion by the Sarasota Planning Board, Piccolo told the airport board he was surprised by the City Commission’s 4-1 approval on the first reading of the rezoning and site plan.

In the interim, in June 2021, Aven ton filed a preliminary application with the city for a comprehensive plan amendment to facilitate the project and put the property under contract pending eventual approval.

At its monthly meeting the week before, the Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority Board of Commission ers authorized Piccolo and airport attorney Dan Bailey to pursue legal action should Aventon Sarasota be approved.Theairport would not be suing the city with tax money. Not supported by city or county taxes, its revenues come from aviation operations such as landing and gate fees, as well as hangar leases, parking and rental car fees, concessions, and retail and res taurant leases, among others.

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“This is a very cheap shot … If I knew that we were going to grow like we did when we were approached about it, I would have spent the reserves because we would have made a lot more money. And I told him if this thing doesn’t work out, it’s not personal. Make me your first phone call because we’re in a differ ent financial position. Not because I want the property, but because I don’t want to go through this again because I can’t depend on the city to live up to the agreement that we made four years ago.”

Piccolo added he had never pre viously spoken with Collins. He did confirm inviting Collins to contact him if the apartments were denied but characterized it as more of a casual“Thisremark.islow. This is not evidence of anything and should be struck,” Lincoln said of the affidavit, which was entered into the public hearing record.“Itis not only specious, but in a situation where Mr. Collins isn’t here to be questioned to his face about this, is cowardly. Mr. Collins is implying that the airport is doing this for some underhanded purpose.”

Piccolo told commissioners that during the lunch, he laid out the air port’s case to Collins and explained that it had invested $30,000 to eval uate the property in 2019, just prior to the pandemic.

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“It’s a high standard we would have to meet,” Bailey said. “If the hearing officer determines that the plan amendment was clearly debat able, then the city wins on that issue. Then on the other two approvals, they would be challenged probably in circuit court.”

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Aircraft taking off or landing at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport fly nearly over the former dog track property.

Lincoln told commissioners the lunch was arranged through a mutu al friend.

When taking off to the southeast, airliners typically climb along a route near the former Sarasota Kennel Club.

“Forty-nine percent of all aircraft accidents happen on initial depar ture or final descent,” he told the SRQ board. “And so you’re going to put, 1,500 feet off the end of the run way, 372 housing units. We think that we need to take this as far as we can. We might not win, but if anything goes wrong, while I will feel awful, I will sleep at night knowing that I made every effort, and you’ll be able to sleep at night knowing you made every effort, to bring this to a differ ent conclusion.”

“At the time COVID hit and we were down to less than 10,000 pas sengers per month,” he said. “We only had $15 million in reserves. This would have cost us two-thirds of our reserves. We couldn’t do it.”

Most of the residential properties in similar proximity to the airport were built in the 1970s and 1980s, prior to contemporary science and regulatory language regarding noise. The airport spent some $45 million on noise abatement programs in the 1980s and 1990s to add sound damp ening to homes, to purchase homes and to buy aviation easements over an RV park at $2,500 per lot.

much for residents exposed to the noise for long periods of time.

Brody attempted to defuse the emotionally charged situation at that point, but Piccolo pressed on.

The airport board’s vote was unan imous with member Doug Holder abstaining, citing prior legislative representation work for the Collins family, which owns the property via the Jack G. Collins Sr. Revocable Trust.Since the dog track closed, Aven ton, which has experience develop ing sites close — but not this close — to airports emerged as the only potential developer of the property, although there was some flirtation from previous suitors. While sympa thetic to the plight of Jack Collins Jr. and the Collins family, Piccolo told the SRQ board that residential was the worst possible use for the land given its proximity, about 1,500 feet, from the end of the runway.

airport’s objection to the project. If the Aventon project is denied, the affidavit reads, Piccolo told Collins he should be the first person he calls. Instead, Piccolo said his objection was based on health, safety and the inevitable noise complaints the air port will receive regardless of how well informed new residents are or liability waivers they sign, as pledged by“WeAventon.allknow, and we’ve dealt with it for years; no matter how much you notify people you’re going to get noise and you’re going to get people wanting action and wanting you to fix the noise that you can’t fix,” Pic colo told the airport board.

A win there would invalidate the rezoning and site-plan approval.

SRQ President Rick Piccolo disputes the subtext of a comment to Jack Collins Jr. about the airport’s fight against a SarasotacommunitymultifamilyattheformerKennelClub.

By the requisite supermajority vote, commissioners approved three measures at their Sept. 6 meet ing to clear the way for Aventon Sarasota, which is being planned by Raleigh, North Carolina-based Aventon Companies for the 25-acre site across University Parkway from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.Theapproval followed arguments by the SRQ President and CEO Rick Piccolo and Sarasota attorney Robert Lincoln, who specializes in challeng ing rezoning and site-plan approv als. Citing the approval as contrary to the city’s comprehensive plan and a 2018 agreement between the city and the airport, which in part discourag es residential development beneath the airport’s noise contour, the two hinted at a possible legal challenge.

He also cited safety as an issue.

Prior to last week’s City Commis sion meeting, commissioners were presented with an affidavit from Jack Collins Jr., which describes a lunch meeting with Piccolo — which Pic colo said Collins requested through a mutual friend — to discuss the

No time frame has been announced for filing legal action.

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The Dream Large community campaign generated 148 submis sions with 172 designs, judged by a diverse panel of varying backgrounds to rate the designs on aesthetics, themes, legibility and functionality for use on business cards, letterheads and badging where a seal is deemed appropriate. Pallegar identified the finalist designers as Cynthia Clas gens, Rachel Ewing, Bill Greaves, Sara Scire and Brooks Tracey.

“The colors are so vibrant,” Alp ert said. “They just make you happy looking at it.”

All of the above, as it turns out, is the“Iguidance.thinkpeople, and I think this body would want to see all three of these,” Commissioner Hagen Brody said. “I don’t know how you do a modern David. I really don’t know what that means. But I would be open to something else. You guys are the creative ones that we hired to do this, and I think that the public outreach is really important and it brings creative elements that would work just like we experienced with theCommissionerseal.”

— Anand Pallegar

“Do we modernize a version of David, come back with another ver sion of David or are you open some thing else?” Pallegar asked.

Jen Ahearn-Koch, who reminded she was not in favor of the project to redesign the seal and logo, suggested the community feedback already gleaned may be a good starting point. Many people, after all, were unaware of the differ ence between the seal and the logo anyway.“Iwould go back to that and use some of that as guidance,” she said.

“There were some positive com ments. There were some negative comments. There were some comical comments. There were some worri some comments. My recommenda tion would be to parse through that. There are some good suggestions in there and some valuable feedback.”

That one didn’t make the final cut, though, as applications of a city

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of the Ringling Bridge, palms, birds in flight, a manatee in the water, a hibiscus flower and the sunset, by Rachel Ewing; and n A hybrid design by Dream Large, also featuring the Ringling Bridge set against a sunset, multicolored waves andAnotherpalms. favorite among com missioners, particularly Mayor Erik Arroyo and Commissioner Liz Alp ert, was a whimsical image of the Ringling Bridge beneath an orange sunset and two-tone blue water by Brooks Tracey.

o we’re back to talk about the mullet and Michelangelo.”

Commissioners narrowed the choices down to two:

Sarasota CommissionersCity have asked for refinements of two finalist designs for a new city seal and provided guidance for the refreshed city logo.

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is still forthcoming.

“These individuals really have put in the time and effort and really for no guarantee of anything other than they want to participate. This is their civic contribution toward furthering our city.”

At their Aug. 1 meeting, Pallegar presented to commissioners five city seal design finalists plus a version produced by Dream Large, the latter a hybrid of common elements among the five. Commissioners offered sug gestions and asked Anand to return withThoserefinements.changes, which were made by the submitters, primarily focused on simplifications in color and detail to enhance feasibility of use of the seal in a variety of mediums. Oth er tweaks included incorporating native palms and font legibility, all while still maintaining the integrity of the original designs.

seal are often official and serious in nature. In many ways, it serves as the city’sBothbrand.finalist seals include the ver biage “May Sarasota Prosper” at the bottom, as does the city’s centuryold seal. Among the alterations com missioners requested was a better sense of scale between the manatee and the hibiscus in Ewing’s submis sion and simplification of colors in the waves of the Dream Large hybrid design.With the new seal design near ing conclusion, Pallegar and Dream Large will turn their attention toward the city’s logo, a silhouette of the David statue set against stylized “City of Sarasota” lettering. Com missioners’ guidance on that project

City Commission narrows city seal redesign to two options

No date was set for Pallegar to return to the commission with seal refinements or logo designs.

in the time and effort and really for no guarantee of anything other than they want to participate,” Pallegar said. “This is their civic contribution toward furthering our city.”

The five finalists plus a hybrid version of designs for a new city seal. Top row: Cynthia Clasgens, Rachel Ewing, Bill Greaves; Bottom row: Sara Scire, Brooks Tracey, hybrid by Dream Large

That’s how Anand Palle gar, founder of Sarasota reg istered benefit corporation Dream Large, opened the discussion with Sarasota city com missioners about the redesign prog ress of the city of Sarasota’s official seal and “Mullet”logo.refers to the seal, a sim ple, hand-drawn circular design dominated by what may be a mana tee but could arguably be a whale, a shark and, sure, even a mullet. The dominant feature of the city’s logo, which is separate from the seal, is a silhouette of Michelangelo’s sculp ture of David, a copy of which stands as the centerpiece of the Ringling Museum of Art.

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In 2017, after reports of shallow water in the channel, the U.S. Coast Guard removed markers denoting the safest way through the passage. Saying it could no longer find a suit able route, the Coast Guard’s Aids to Navigation Officer in St. Petersburg

The channel dredging project in 2016 was part of a $5 million deal to bulk up the south end Longboat Key beaches. North end dredging and beach renourishment was also part of that Similarly,project.Longboat Key plans to tighten rock jetties known as groins on the south end of the island this fall and winter with the two-pronged goal of keeping more sand on the beach and less from slipping through into the channel.

The agreement paves the way for cooperative funding between the county and WCIND to perform a study on the boating channel that links Sarasota Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. Since 2018, boaters and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have said the channel is becoming increasingly shallow because of the silt and sediment, to the point of affectingSarasotanavigation.County plans to con tribute no more than $25,000, with $60,000 coming from WCIND.

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Nine channel buoys were removed from the pass between Lido Key and Longboat Key, near the Mote Marine Laboratory.“Wewant people to go in a differ ent direction,” explained Michael DeNyse, a U.S. Coast Guard spokes man in 2018, meaning Longboat Pass to the north or Big Pass to the south were preferred options.

County OKs sharing costs for New Pass study

Two channel lights were con verted into “Danger Shoal” markers with quick, white flashing lights, to be visible for three nautical miles.

Once data from the study is devel oped, a project to dredge the chan nel to acceptable depths could kick off by According2024. to a cover memo pre pared for county commissioners:

at the time said “we are running out of water. Removing all aids seems to be out only option until it can be dredged again.”

However, expenditures of depen dent special districts — such as the DID and the St. Armands Business Improvement District — are subject to approval of the city, which also holds veto power over their budgets.

$400,000 for Main Street improvements remains with the city but is available for budgeted ImprovementDowntownDistrictexpenses.

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The dominant agenda item at last week’s DID board meeting was a post-mortem of Chair Eileen Hamp shire’s Aug. 15 appearance before the Commission, during which she said City Manager Marlon Brown, in an unannounced transfer, moved to city coffers $400,000 for the future Main Street complete street project.

“That $400,000 hasn’t gone out the door,” Strickland said, “and right now you’re sitting at $865,000.”

With a joint meeting still pending with the Sarasota City Commission to discuss a transfer of $400,000 from its budget, the city’s Down town Improvement District Board of Directors learned this past week that its bank account balance was not as grim as it originally seemed.

Still, the unannounced funds transfer doesn’t sit well with the DID board, compounded by a removal of $150,000 earlier this year to help fund the Bay Runner, a free trolley service that runs between downtown and St. Armands and Lido keys.

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In reality, the $400,000 remains available for use by the DID for approved items, it’s just not in the district’s own account. Hampshire complained to commissioners that the account balance was down to $8,000 after the transfer, but in the weeks since learned that the DID actually has more money. Kel ly Strickland, the city’s director of financial administration, explained that nonallocated monies roll into reserves and don’t reside in the DID’s available funds account unless bud geted. The DID, she said, ended fiscal year 2019 with $790,000, and 2020 and 2021 with just more than $1 mil lion, including the $400,000.

The DID had approved the expen diture but didn’t expect the money to be removed until it was needed. Brown explained to commissioners the $400,000 demonstrates that the city has “skin in the game” as it applies for state and federal funding.

When the DID objected to that, the city sent the money back to the DID, which then agreed to help fund the trolley with $50,000 a year for three years. Julie Ryan, the DID’s business district manager, told board mem bers the city is setting aside nearly $3 million, including the DID’s $400,000, from a variety of sources for the Main Street complete street project, which has yet to begin plan ning.

vices, improvements, maintenance, enhancements and special events — all for the benefit of commercial property owners and businesses within the taxing district.

“I felt like I was grilled,” Hamp shire said. “I asked for our $400,000 to be returned to us. There was a lot of pushback. The city manager said to me ‘What makes you think you can decide how to use that money anyway?’”Asa“dependent special dis trict” in the state of Florida, the DID serves in an advisory capacity, in which it can plan expenditures within its defined boundaries using revenues from a special tax over lay district. Those expenditures are typically for a higher level of city ser

DID learns its budget remains intact

A request for state funding for Main Street improvements was rejected during the most recent legislative session.

Dispute: Police were called to a grocery store by the manager who was concerned about 10 to 15 people who appeared to be between the ages of 16 and 22 filming outside the store near an ATM, then moved into the store and continued to film. The manager had asked them multiple times to leave the premises, but they refused. After speaking with the manager, an officer was approached by two individuals who claimed to be part of the group, saying they were only filming themselves shopping. The group was advised by the officer that if they did not leave the premises at the request of the manager, they were subject to arrest for trespassing. The individuals were argumentative with law enforcement but paid for the merchandise and left the premises without incident.

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Criminal Mischief: After the facilities manager of a building received messages from employees advising that one of its front windows had been broken, police were called to investigate what was described as “smashed in” glass with a large hole in the middle. The manager said an employee told her the window was intact between 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Sept. 4. and that a landscaping crew noticed the damage at 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 5. The complainant advised she wanted to pursue charges against the perpetrator if one can be identified by security camera footage. The cost to replace the window is approximately $1,000.

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Ignorance of history is our true enemy.

“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.”

Through their “central planning,” they are confiscating taxpayers’ money (now and in the future) and spending it the way they want to spend it. What say, for instance, did you have in that ludicrous Budget Reduction Act? Where was the public support for that boondoggle?

But what is so amazing is how oblivious Biden and his puppet masters are to reality.

Who are the real fascists? They should look in the mirror.

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If you take the time to read and analyze Biden’s speech and then place his accusations side by side with what has transpired during his administration, it is unavoidable to see that Biden, his White House maestros, Cabinet toadies and the Democratic Congress have done everything he accuses the Republicans of doing.

We should be “mad as hell” that our immigration laws are not being enforced. It is unconscionable that our elected officials in Washington are knowingly violating immigration laws. Illegal immigration brings with it criminal elements, diseases and untold financial burdens on We theWhyPeople.should people whose first act is illegal entry into the country be given free lodging, food, education and medical benefits?

Likewise, nowhere in the Constitution is the president given the authority to enter into treaties with

Rand pointed out that Socialism and Fascism are merely variants of Statism, and the difference between Socialism and Fascism involves property rights. “Socialism negates property rights altogether, vesting the ownership and control of all property to the state. Fascism leaves ownership in the hands of individuals, but transfers control to the government.”“Inpractice,” Rand said, “there is no difference between the two; both come from the same collectiviststatist principle; both negate individual rights and subordinate the individual to the collective; both deliver the livelihood and the lives of the citizens into the power of an omnipotent government.”

Let’s start with this: It is unconscionable for our president, Joe Biden, to call half of American voters “fascists.” It is likewise unconscionable for President Donald Trump to call people derogatory names. And it is unconscionable even for presidential candidates (e.g. Hillary Clinton) to call Trump supporters “Deplorables.”

Congress has the sole responsibility of the nation’s purse. But, sadly and pathetically, even Congress has abdicated its oath to the Constitution and We the People. It should stop the president’s unconstitutionalEveryonespending.whohasa rational, moral mind knows it makes no sense that plumbers, sole proprietors, contractors, restaurateurs, college students who paid off their debt or never went to college are now obligated to pay debts of others. If anyone should be punished to pay it should be the beneficiaries of this debt, the colleges and universities. They should pay.

moreCancerouscivil. American Marxism was on full display in this speech, and it was intentionally incendiary.If President Trump had given that speech, he would be in irons for revolutionary incitement.

We the People never gave these boards the right to teach alternative history, alternative sex, ignoring religion or refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance. But thankfully, parents are taking back the education of our children.

We should be “mad as hell” that they are treated better than many hard-working citizens. In many cases, they are treated better than our military — the men and women

who have volunteered to serve and protect us!

But here is the alarmingly scary part: The German people witnessed these tactics in the 1930s when

ho are the “fascists?”

—Joe Fundraiser,Biden Aug. 25

Who are the real fascists?

Ironically, he did this a day or two after calling Trump voters “Semi- Fascists.”

The United States has been the most successful and most giving nation in the world. We cannot let corrupt politicians succeed in redefining and destroying it. It is time to express our rights, vote them all out and start anew with people who will actually represent us and the Constitution.

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That is exactly what Biden and his leftist fascists are doing.

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Joe Biden officially declared war on more than half of American voters in front of a blood red wall wash with military symbolism on our Independence Hall, the birth place of America.

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Biden’s tactics of vilifying Republicans has a sickening similarity to a German maniac in 1933.

Even more, we should not tolerate elected officials — from the president down — knowingly breaking laws as they are doing now.

We should be “mad as hell” that elected officials have let crime skyrocket to epidemic levels. Evil thugs and repeat criminals are killing and mugging law-abiding citizens in broad daylight. They are robbing and looting stores unabated. And they are committing these heinous acts of violence with no fear of arrest or punishment.

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‘What we’re seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It’s not just Trump. It’s the entire philosophy — it’s like semiFascism.’

t should make no difference whether you are a Republican, Democrat or Independent. We all should be “mad as hell” — and unwilling to take it anymore.

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When the Biden regime imposes regulations to thwart commerce that it doesn’t want (e.g. shutting down energy pipelines and drilling), it is using its centralized autocratic powers.Dictatorial leader? Biden is not, but he is the doddering stooge and mouthpiece for the behind-thescenes cabal of Ron Klain, Susan Rice and the other leftist Democratic Party schemers foisting their fascist agenda on Americans.

Who are the authoritarians?Three weeks have passed since Joe Biden’s now infamous remark at a fundraising event, where, essentially, he labeled as fascists Americans who voted for Donald Trump and embrace or embraced Trump’s “Make America Great Again” philosophy.

Merriam-Webster: Fascism — “a political philosophy, movement or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation and forcible suppression of Undeniably,opposition.”thatisthe Biden “regime.” To wit:

Biden followed that jaw-dropping moment with a speech that repeatedly proclaimed in higher decibels and length how horrible and dangerous Trump voters are and how they’re destroying democracy.

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MY VIEW ‘Mad as hell’ — and not willing to take it anymore

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She began this lecture describing three political terms — Socialism, Fascism and Statism, quoting the

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We should be “mad as hell” and demand better! We should hold our elected officials to a high standard of serving “We the People” rather than serving themselves.

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We the People must continue to be “mad as hell” and continue to express it at the ballot box.

And then there is “forcible suppression of opposition.” The list is long and notorious: Raid on Mar-alago. Rampant big-tech censorship. FBI and White House staffs colluding with big-tech to suppress the Hunter Biden and Biden corruption stories. Don’t forget the dozens and dozens of physicians and scientists whom CDC officials and social media platforms discredited because they challenged Washington authorities’ handling of COVID. Who are the real authoritarian fascists?In1965, author Ayn Rand gave a lecture in New York, “The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus.”

1957 edition of the American College Dictionary’s 1965 lecture: “Socialism — A theory or system of social organization which advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production, capital, land, etc. in the community as a whole.

Whenever Biden and the Democratic Party Congress push through $7 trillion in new federal spending, as they have in the past two years, they are expanding their powers over individual Americans and robbing them of freedom.

What’s more, a nation founded on protests against undue taxation is now back where it began. Our elected officials are taxing us into oblivion. We should be “mad as hell” at deficit spending at all levels!Even more outrageous: Nowhere in the Constitution is the president given the right or authority to make decisions how taxpayer dollars are appropriated. Nowhere does the Constitution give the president the right or authority to forgive half a trillion dollars in student debt.

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To begin, the Biden team clearly doesn’t know what know what Fascism is.

No one can deny that the Biden regime has imposed “severe eco-

“Severe social regimentation?” All we need say is: “diversity, equity and inclusion.” Look what that has done to the U.S. military, and how wokeness has destroyed the American values of being judged by merit and the content of character.

nomic regimentation.” Look what they have done to Americans’ standard of living with inflation and restrictions on the supply of energy. They are doing everything they can to eliminate the use of affordable fossil fuels and force Americans to buy expensive electric vehicles. They are using their centralized powers to subsidize auto makers and EV buyers — taking from the working class and poor and giving unearned benefits to others — all to force on Americans their fascist-socialist agenda.

Our nation’s founding documents — the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights — are being trampled upon by all elected officials — locally and nationally, and therefore they are trampling upon our rights and liberties. They are violating the oath by which they all swore — to uphold the laws of the land.

We the People should be “mad as hell” that elected officials are defunding police and district attorneys are failing to protect the taxpayers they swore to serve. Every one of them should be fired.

Well, it actually and finally has happened.YouandI, our families and friends and 74 million other patriotic Americans have officially been designated enemies of the State by a 50-year impotent politician, our incompetent president.

In this destructive speech, he unequivocally spewed the bile of full on Fascism in the most destructive presidential speech in American history. Even in the heat of the Civil War tearing apart the nation, Abraham Lincoln was

foreign countries. And yet Biden is negotiating a treaty with Iran, a terrorist nation whose stated goal is to destroy us. We should be “mad as hell” and yell from the windows. To make all of this even worse, not only has the mainstream press become a biased, propaganda machine for the Democratic Party and its policies, our government — the FBI and White House staff — has colluded with the big tech companies to quash and censor our most cherished constitutional right, the Freedom of Speech. Where is the press’ outrage against censorship? We should be “mad as hell.”Amid all this outrageous disregard for We the People and our laws, there is at least a growing light of optimism. Rationality appears to be occurring across the nation with school boards.

This unforgivable speech was written for Biden by elitist, leftist, anarchist puppet masters intent on destroying America to rebuild it into their government-controlled Socialist/Marxist Utopian State model. Pray to God America wakes up to this destructive force destroying America’s great and historic founding values.

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Friedrich Hayek “Road to Serfdom,” 1944

“Fascism — A governmental system with strong centralized power, permitting no opposition or criticism, controlling all affairs of the“Statismnation. — The principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty.”

Shirer wrote: “No more precise analysis of Nazi tactics … was ever written.”Wesaw it in practice in Philadelphia.There he was, Joe Biden, who had the gall to use as his backdrop Independence Hall and U.S. Marines flanking him. He spewed vile about his fellow Americans.

“I think it’s an important proj ect that shouldn’t continue to be delayed, and I’m sorry we had to eliminate shade structure,” Com missioner Liz Alpert said in July. “That would be very important, especially for parents who sit there.”

n “MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies.”

Everyone who paid attention in school learned that one of the fundamentals of writing and speaking is when you make a statement of fact, you follow it with facts and examples that prove your point.

n “MAGA forces are determined to take

n “The MAGA Republicans believe that for them to succeed, everyone else has to fail.”

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The 27-year-old water feature, which frequently has been closed for repairs in recent years, has become obsolete. A significant portion of the cost is in replacing water and drainage lines that can no longer be repaired. Once construction begins, it will take eight months to complete.

City Manager Marlon Brown said if he could find the money to include

n Removed precast seating at the splash pad

n Removed lighting in the splash pad

n Reduced landscaping by 20%

n Removed wood deck on the north side of the park entrance

On the agenda for the commis sion’s Sept. 19 meeting is an amend ment to the agreement between the city and general contractor Jon F. Swift Construction to set the guar anteed maximum cost at just less than $3.22 million.

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“spiritual and physical terror.”

But who is the one spreading fear andJoelies?Biden and the schemers behind his curtain are the real fascists and authoritarians.

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Because materials for the project have a long lead time, they must be in hand before the start of construc tion. The GMP is based on eight months of construction activity and on an assumed $60,000 in sales tax savings by the city issuing direct purchase orders for materials.

Changes made to the scope of work after the release of the prior GMP plans per the request of the Sarasota City Commission. Alternative materials and removed items total $738,610 in savings. Removed features may be added at a later date.

n Changed walkway from stamped plank concrete to regular gray concrete

n Removed restoration of the Wannabees

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That’s approximately $300,000 over the city’s prior authorization in July, but the revised budget includes fabric shade structures previously deleted from the plan during costcutting measures.

f the Sarasota City Commission approves an amendment to the budget for Bayfront Park reno vations next week, kids could be cooling off in a new splash pad there by next summer.

n Removed concrete tables

n Changed colored concrete at the splash pad to regular gray concrete

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Here are seven paragraphs from Joe Biden’s Philadelphia speech castigating Republicans — but providing no supporting evidence.

this country backwards — backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.”

n “MAGA Republicans … spread fear and lies — lies told for profit and power.”

Hitler: “I understood the infamous spiritual terror … (At) a given sign, it unleashes a veritable barrage of lies and slanders against whatever adversary seems most dangerous, until the nerves of the attacked persons break down … This is a tactic based on precise calculation of all human weaknesses, and its result will lead to success with almost mathematical certainty.”

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n “And here, in my view, is what is true: MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people.”

n Removed site lighting

n “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”

the shade, it would be added back to the plan and would return to the City Commission for approval. Project funding sources are $963,603 from the Parks and Recreation Penny Sales Tax Fund and $2.25 million in Ameri can Rescue Plan Act Funds.

A $300,000.costprojectaddedhasmeasure,costmentpadParkthemovedhadture,shadefabricstruc-whichbeenre-fromBayfrontsplashreplace-asasavingsbeentotheataofnearly

Author William L. Shirer recounted this chilling epoch in his 1960 masterpiece, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.” The cunning, scheming and evil were chilling.Soare the parallels to today.

As Hitler took over Germany, Shirer quoted from Hitler’s own playbook, “Mein Kampf,” how Hitler would win over the masses with the use of what Hitler called

Who is spreading fear and lies?

During their July 5 meeting, Sara sota Parks and Recreation Director Jerry Fogle told commissioners that Jon F. Swift Construction of Sara sota submitted the winning bid, but the project underwent numerous cuts, including the shade structures, shaving just more than $1 million off theOfprice.allthe cuts, commissioners expressed the most concern about the shade, but because costs of materials continues to escalate, the plan needed to be approved so pro curement of materials could begin.

the new chancellor of Germany orchestrated the overthrow of the Germans’ democratic republic and replaced it with his vision — the National Socialist Party of Germany, aka a Nazi dictatorship.

n Removed shade pergolas at the splash pad

Biden made derogatory statement after statement, vilifying Republicans. And typical of the politicians who use “spiritual terror,” he supplied no facts to back his statements (seeMAGAbox).Republicans, he said, “spread fear and lies — lies told for profit and power.”

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“Now it will be easy to carry on the fight, for we can call on all the resources of the State. Radio and press are at our disposal. We shall stage a masterpiece of propaganda. And this time, naturally, there is no lack of Soundmoney.”familiar? Are we witnessing the same? Democrats control all of the “resources” of the federal government, and the mainstream media clearly serves as a principal propaganda mouthpiece.

n “They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.”

Shirer recounts, for example, that on Feb. 3, 1933, one month after Adolf Hitler and his sordid schemers came to power, Paul Joseph Goebbels, one of Hitler’s top lieutenants, wrote in his diary:

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Atspecies.Myakka River State Park, staff and volunteers work to manage more than 30 invasive plant species, to the benefit of our native plants and ani mals. Some of these invasive plants, such as cogon and para grass, were introduced in the early 1900s as for age for Others,livestock.such as Caesar’s weed, arrived in the area as a fiber crop. Mexican petunia and water hyacinth were imported for ornamental pur poses. And air potato, a highly inva sive vine now common throughout Florida, arrived in 1905 for testing as a medicinal plant but quickly invad ed a variety of habitats. With the potential to grow eight inches a day, it climbs high into mature tree cano pies, engulfing native vegetation. A single vine may produce hundreds of bulbils, potato-like growths that sprout new plants.

In Florida, approximately $30 mil lion in public funding is spent annu ally to manage invasive plants on natural areas and waterways.

And invasive plants also are prev alent in our neighborhoods and our

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hey’ve taken the summer off to rest their voices and learn newAndmaterial.they’ve even had the time to learn some Gaelic.

Key Chorale is going all in on a celebration of Irish and Celtic culture to open its upcoming season.

Dylan Foley, the four-time Ireland Fiddle Champion, will be coming to

“We wanted to do everything as authentic as possible, and having these five guys who have played it their whole lives is going to make a big difference in the quality of the performance.”Theshow,which takes place on Sept. 24, will include songs such as “Danny Boy” and “Wild Mountain Thyme” that have moved into the world music vernacular.

Caulkins says it’s also important to treat the audience to Irish music they haven’t heard yet.

For instance, if you make it out to Equinox, you will hear unusual instruments such as the hammered

The show — entitled Equinox: A Celtic Celebration — is meant to kick off the choral group’s new season and also to pay tribute to the changing of summer to fall, and Key Chorale has enlisted tenor Brad Diamond and Foley’s All-Star Irish Band to make

“All the five band members are all specialists in their instruments and in this kind of music,” says Joseph Caulkins, artistic director of Key Chorale. “We pulled together the best people from all over the coun try. When you read the bios of these guys, they’re amazing at all the things they’re doing.

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Key Chorale is coming back from its summer recess with a tribute to the old country that will bring an Irish flair to Church of the Palms.

“They call me The Big Yank,” he says of his following in Ireland. “I’m 6-foot-7, so it’s hard to blend in over there. I’ve gotten out there and I’ve played a lot and people know my name. They know what I look like, but I’ve got a beard now. I’m no lon ger 12, you know?”

“It’s very natural to us. We all have the same repertoire,” he says. “Once we get down there and have our first rehearsal, it’s going to be really cool to see how it all pieces together.”

Foley, based just outside Nashville, Tennessee, is thrilled to be working with this assemblage of musicians. He’s been in Nashville for about a

Key“We’veChorale.probably sung in all the languages except Gaelic. Gaelic and Russian are the two outliers,” he says. “I think the hardest thing is that when you look at a Gaelic word it looks nothing like it sounds.

For Caulkins, the hard work comes in blending all those talents.

“This whole season really is about just bringing our whole audience back and letting them enjoy live music again. That audience is com ing back but they’re not coming back like a light switch. They come back as they feel ready.”

And while he might not have real ized it at the time, taking on this music means taking on a new lan guage.Caulkins says that’s not necessar ily difficult or out of the ordinary for

dulcimer and the uilleann pipes played by master craftsmen.

“Fortunately for us, Brad Dia mond, our tenor soloist that’s com ing down, he has so much Gaelic to spit out. We just have a little bit of a chorus to Diamond,do.”a professor of voice at Samford University, won’t be the only distinguished guest.

Key Chorale artistic director Joseph Caulkins leads the group through a recent rehearsal. music primed for Key Chorale’s Celtic celebration.

The

They’ve never done such a show as this, but that’s part of what makes it exciting for singers and band alike.

Blue Skye Pipes and Drums, an allfemale pipe and Celtic performance band, will play for a half-hour before the main Caulkinsprogram.isexcited for another season of performances, and he says that visitors to Key Chorale’s web site should have the opportunity to watch shows remotely. But he’s hoping, at this point, that people are ready to come hear music in person.

and their guest tenor until the actual week of the show.

Dillon.Foley, 30 years old, was raised in upstate New York.

year, and he plays with Dillon every week. Cunningham pops in from time to time, and Hanlon runs his own recording studio in Nashville.

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Caulkins calls that kind of prepa ration a “grand experiment,” and he says the final days of rehearsal will be invigorating.“Whenyou’re rehearsing this online, you don’t get the sound of all the voices coming together,” he says. “It’s always an exciting time. It’s fun to see where they are with learning their parts. Then we put the magic to it; we talk about phrasing and articu lation and musicality.

The show will also have an appropriate opening act.

They haven’t played all together that often, says Foley, but when they do, it’s instant chemistry.

Foley says he’s never played with a choral group this size before. So the mix of sounds should be new for everyone; not just the audience, but also the musicians themselves.

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“We’re going to just do the most fun part of music, the details which make it really enjoyable.”

Key Chorale rehearsed for the first time in person on Sept. 6, and they won’t meet with the Irish All-Stars

And then, of course, there’s the chorus of singers dozens strong that Caulkins leads from the podium.

He says he started playing the fiddle at age 8 and was inspired by virtuoso Jay Ungar, and he was first crowned an Irish fiddle champion at age 12. He later won in another two youth brackets and was crowned adult champion in 2014.

Caulkins says Key Chorale will be singing together for the first time since May, but the singers have all had access to a video guide of the material to allow them to practice.

“We were mostly in person pretty much all last season, but everybody comes back to the concert hall in their own time,” he says.

“Last year we did a show that was all gospel music, and it was a nice way to kick off the season,” says Caulkins. “I thought, ‘What would be another thing that would appeal to a lot of people?’ The timeless melodies and infectious rhythms of Irish and Celt ic music seem to be a good fit.”

Dylan Foley, a four-time All-Ire land Fiddle Champion, will be lead ing the supporting band, which will also feature guitarist Brian Hanlon, hammered dulcimer player Stephen Humphries, flutist Sean Cunning ham and uilleann pipe artist Eamonn

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Josh Scheible and Caegan Qui mby, singers and songwriters for Physical Plant, went into a brief musical exile during the pandemic that allowed them to sharpen their material. They’ve emerged with a veteran rhythm section with ties to several other local Sarasota bands, and they’re celebrating the August release of their second album, “Hot Future,” which is a reference to cli

Physical Plant emerged from the pandemic with a new album, two new members and a resolve to keep writing new songs.

“We’re older now,” says Quimby, who started Physical Plant as part of an independent study project at New College. “We’re the age of the bands — maybe older —that were asking us to play shows back then.

The pair began working on music together and immediately recog nized that they had an excellent partnership, and they credit one of their professors, Steve Miles, not just for recognizing and encouraging their talent but also for giving them

hey’ve gone from the New College kids to the wizened old heads on the Sarasota rock scene. And they’ve done it in the space of two albums.

Scheible, a graduate of Braden ton’s Southeast High School, has been playing in Manatee County bars since before he was allowed to drink. The guitarist estimates he played more than 100 shows as part of Magic Tree Conspiracy, a classic rock cover band, by the time he got to New College. Then he met Quimby as a freshman and became friends.

Physical Plant wants to revive the Sarasota rock scene.

“Things can happen here. But we have to make them happen.”

mate change but also perhaps to their own musical trajectory.

HOT BAND, HOT FUTURE

The band’s new drummer, Michael Murphy, formerly played in Equines and Cats in the Basement, and young Scheible and Quimby first met him as a promoter who got them their first gigs. Dave Cornicelli, their new bassist, formerly played in Hail Dale and the Umbrella Cult, and he brings versatility because he can also play drums. But more than their musical chops, Murphy and Cornicelli bring a new attitude to the band.

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But when they look at the local scene, they realize that it’s a chal lenging environment for them and for other bands like them.

Their first album, “What’s Laid Down,” came out in 2018, and four years later it’s a completely different band with a different mindset.

They have enough material for a third album; and maybe a fourth, if you count the songs Quimby hasn’t brought to the band yet.

Best of all, they’re not in a rush. They’re committed to seeing this thing out over the long haul.

“We have to cater to the demograph ic that’s going to come out and keep the place in business.

“We always just tried to have faith, just kind of write more songs.”

Scheible and Quimby spent the pandemic rehearsing as a two-piece outfit with a drum machine, and their partnership was only strength ened by their mutual commitment.

“I’m going to keep doing it wheth er I’m getting paid or not,” Quimby says. “So we never doubted that we’re going to keep doing some thing. But each time the lineup dis solves, it’s very anxiety inducing.

“When we disagree, it’s usually pretty relevant. There’s a reason we disagree,” says Scheible. “About 95% of the time, we like the same stuff. But the sticking points, it’s usually something interesting to tease out.”

sit down together and trade licks and lyrics? No, not really.

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There were a lot of good bands in the area back then, and a lot of them gave young Physical Plant an oppor tunity to open up for them.

The pair meets once a week, on Wednesdays, to tighten up musi cally and prepare for their Sunday full-band rehearsals, which usually see them striving to stay tight on their current material.

Scheible, who moonlights as a guitar teacher, says he saw one of his classmates from first grade at a

plenty of opportunities to perform in public.“That was one of the very cool things at New College,” says Scheible of his student years. “They saw that we had a functioning rock band and said, ‘OK, well, let’s use it.’

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“We got to play with people from the orchestra. We got to write for people from the orchestra. We got all these very interesting perfor mance opportunities that happened through New Music New College.”

“When we’re the closest to an argument,” adds Quimby, “It’s because we’re both wrong.”

But it wasn’t just their schooling; Scheible and Quimby also say that the indie rock scene in Sarasota from about 2010 to 2015 was incredibly productive and nurturing.

They’re scouring the local scene and looking for places to play. Phys ical Plant is going to be playing a show at the Ringling Underground in November, and they say it would be nice to return to their roots at New College and play there again.

At this point, they’re thrilled to be playing music again.

But Quimby is a prolific songwriter with a backlog of material just wait ing to get the full-band treatment.

Most bars, says Scheibel, don’t want to book a band that plays origi nal“We’remusic.going to book a cover band that keeps people here all night,” he says of the bar owner’s perspective.

They make sure to point out that their old bassist, Dave Baker, has not left the band. He’s just entering a new phase of life as a father, and they’re forging ahead with their old music and with their new stuff.

The next step — the Hot Future, if you will — sees Physical Plant not just making its own music but also setting into the parallel path of finding gigs for themselves and other bands around them.

“That’s just business. As someone who came out of what I like to call the Margaritaville circuit, I get it. That’s what I came up doing.”

The important part of their part nership, though, is that Scheible and Quimby share the same tastes.

“They say you get all your life to write your first album and a couple years to write your second one. But that’s not really a problem for us,” says Scheible. “We always have 10 new tunes. We’ll get to them when we get to them.”

How do they write songs? Do they

Scheible says he’s more of a per fectionist and often doesn’t bring a song to the band unless it is a com pletely finished product.

recent gig, and he underlines how fortunate he is to be able to do what he loves in his hometown.

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CANELO VS GGG III 8 p.m. at Hollywood Regal, 1993 Main St.

THE JERSEY TENORS PART II 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at Goldstein Cabaret, 1239 Palm Ave. $10 members, $20 nonmembers Visit FrankielittletheytheirmashtributesandTheseFloridaStudioTheatre.org.Jerseyimportsarestillhere,they’restillsingingtheirbesttotheGardenState.Theyuprockandoperahitsintoownimitablemixture,andmakesuretoalwayssingasomethingfromJerseynativesValliandBonJovi.

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6 p.m. at Sarasota Art Museum, 1001 S. Tamiami Trail Free members, $20 nonmembers Visit SarasotaArtMuseum.org.

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Join Dr. Pierre, the senior lecturer on African Diaspora and the World at Spelman College, as he dissects the roots and contexts of the Sarasota Art Museum’s Katrina Coombs fiber art exhibit “I M(O)ther: Threads of the Maternal Figure.”

party started with its timeless mix of reggae and roots music. You’ll have your choice of food trucks and drink stations to wet your whistle.

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It would cost $85 to see this fight at home. Or you could see it on a big screen for $14 instead. Middleweight champions Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin have faced each other twice before, with their first encounter being judged a draw in 2017 and the second a majority decision in Alvarez’s favor the following year. Now they face off again with another championship on the line. Will past be prologue? Or will Golovkin get revenge?

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11 a.m. at Publix Aprons Cooking School. 2875 University Parkway

DannyVisit$25-$39JazzClubSarasota.org.Sinoff,ajazzpianistand vocalist based in Fort Myers, will take center stage at the Monday Night Jazz program. Sinoff performs as part of a trio, and he plays jazz standards and selections from the Great American Songbook. Bassist Scott

Let them eat cake. This Laura Gunderson play tells the irreverent tale of four “bodacious” women set in the French Revolution who eventually lose their heads. It’s fast-paced and topical, and it will give you something to think about when you leave the theater. Candace Artim directs this production, which will run through Oct. 2.

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You may have questions like “How do you draw a shark the size of a football field?”

7:30 p.m. at Island Players Theater Runs through Sept. 25

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It’s the finale of Side by Side by Sondheim, which means it’s your last chance to celebrate the canon of one of Broadway’s greatest songsmiths. You’ll hear songs from all over Stephen Sondheim’s ouevre, including songs from musicals like “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” “Gypsy,” “West Side Story,” “Company” and more.

JAZZ AT THE CABARET 7:30 p.m. at John C. Court Cabaret, 1265 First St.

Where: Arts Advocates Gallery, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail Tickets: $10 members, $12 nonmembers Info: ChalkFestival.org and ArtsAdvo cates.org.

7:30 p.m. at Venice Theatre, 140 Tampa Ave. W $29 adult, $21 College student/Educator, $15 HS Visit fromburnishedinterweavesdecadeshasplayentsmayWhiteVeniceTheatre.org.supremacyandseditionnotseemlikeprimeingredi-fordramatictheater,butthiswrittenbySteveDietzin1988takenonnewrelevanceinthesinceitwascreated.Dietzthreepoignantstorieswithtrue-lifedialoguecourttranscriptsandsermons.

And “How do you start a local festival that eventually becomes a local institution?” Denise Kowal, founder of the Chalk Festival, will have answers. Kowal started the Chalk Festival back in 2007, and it’s matured into a gigantic event that draws chalk artists from all over the world.

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IF YOU GO When: 4 p.m., September 15

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2 p.m. at Studio 1130, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail, Suite 1130 $30, $13 students

There’sTheIslandPlayers.com.amurderinthisplay, but there’s no mystery. The main character, Professor Henry Lowenthal, accidentally kills his boss early in this play, and then he and his wife must find a way to get rid of the evidence before they’re caught by snooping students and suspicious police officers. Mike Lusk directs; ‘Cliffhanger’ will run at Island Players through Sept. 25.

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5-9 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, 777 N. Tamiami Trail

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7:30 p.m. at Venice Theatre, 140 Tampa Ave. W $29 adult, $21 College student/Educator, $15 HS Visit VeniceTheatre.org.

You could call it a block party, but it’s more like a lawn party. The final Friday Fest of the year will take place at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, and Jah Movement will get the

Let the Sarasota Opera wine and dine you. This event took a hiatus during the pandemic, but now it’s back in full splendor. You’ll be able to nosh on foods from several local restaurants and swish wine around your palate to your heart’s content. Proceeds will benefit the Sarasota Youth Opera, and the talented young

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7 p.m. at Fogartyville, 525 Kumquat

coterie of singers will perform a few selections from the upcoming production of “The Secret World of Og” as part of the festivities.

6 p.m. at Sarasota Art Museum, 1001 S. Tamiami Trail $10 members, $20 nonmembers Visit SarasotaArtMuseum.org.

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Where: Sarasota Opera House, 61 N. Pineapple Ave. Tickets: $85 Info: SarasotaOpera.org.

the audience after the screening. This film is being screened as part of the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers.

When: 1 p.m., September 17

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Join Jon Thaxton of the Gulf Coast Community Foundation as he speaks about one piece at the Sarasota Art Museum that really speaks to him. Guests are invited to take in new perspectives and to ask questions and enhance their own understandings of art.

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conversation. Refuge follows the story of a member of a white nationalist hate group forced to confront their own belief system and reevaluate his life. Director Din Blankenship will discuss the provocative film with

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(To be clear though: You want to put sunscreen on every exposed part of your body; there’s not enough tree cover to protect you from the sun’s brutal rays at certain times of the day.)

Did you know the scrub jay is endemic to the state, meaning it can’t be found elsewhere?

HIKING

There aren’t many left in the state — estimated at around 7,000 to 9,000 — and several state parks serve as protected grounds for the birds’ numbers to grow.

To be clear though, don’t feed them by hand. It’s illegal.

— HARRY SAYER WHAT YOU NEED TO Address:KNOW1843 S. Tamiami Trail, Osprey, Florida 34229 Hours: Open 8 a.m. to sunset every day of the year Price: $5 a vehicle Contact information: 941483-5956 For more information/ reserve a day pass: floridastateparks.orgwww. UPCOMING EVENTS The park hosts several events and clean-up days for locals. Here’s a loose schedule of what’s coming up: Sept. 24: National Public Lands Day Cleanup Oct. 1: Art Fellowship Class Oct. 21-22: 10th Annual Halloween Haunted Trails GETTING StateOscarAWAYSchererPark

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It’s a big spot with much to get into, so we’ve highlighted a few things in particular.

The green trail also is home to a few scrub jays, but hikers have been known to spot an American bald eagle or two nesting along the way.You can also bring your pet along with you on your walks, but make sure it’s leashed. Also, they can’t go swimming in the lake. But then the dog will smell better if it’s not wet, so it works out for you on the ride home.

The Friends of Oscar Scherer State Park nonprofit helps with that, working hard to preserve the population for future generations.

There’s plenty of places to walk in Oscar Scherer, and the main trails are split into various segments, each with its own color.

The yellow trail is around five miles and is primarily a sandy walk, perfect for a secluded trek if you want to clear your head.

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Interested locals are able to sponsor local birds (some of whom have needy families) and help take care of the local habitat.

The park has more than 10 miles of its own cycling trails, and there’s even a relaxing lake area if you need to stop and enjoy the moment.Asareminder, Florida law requires helmets for anyone 16 and younger.

intersects with the area. There are access points along the trail.

Oscar Scherer State Park is one such bastion of the species, and the bird can be spotted while out and about on the trails. You can spot them by their blue and grey color scheme and their traditional oak shrub habitats

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The 1.5-mile blue trail has a better chance of spotting the little scrub jay (which we’ll get to) as well as a few gopher tortoises.

It’s all about location, and Oscar Scherer has a uniquely good spot in that much of the Legacy Trail

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here’s a lot at Oscar Scherer State Park. More than 15 miles of hiking trails, 10 miles of cycling space, animals to spot, places to kayak, camp and even snorkel.Butmore than anything, there’s quiet.There are spots of deep foliage, but Oscar Scherer also benefits from how sparse it is. Towering but lonely trees fill the distance while you’re surrounded by sand and brush.When there’s no one around and there’s no sound beyond the trudging of your feet, it’s a relaxing feeling you don’t get in the developed areas around the park.

ing those living with HIV.

Emcee Brianna Summers spoke to the importance of CAN Community Health’s programs and services for people with HIV. Shaune and Tomeka Scott with Teresa and Trevor Harvey

The annual event moved away from its typical dance competition structure in favor of a lively show celebrating CAN Community Health’s 30th anniversary.

CANDance After Dark

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After dinner was served, Summers introduced Maksym and Sarah Lototskyy for a solo performance,

“We didn’t want a competition this year,” said Roger Capote, senior vice president of marketing and communications with CAN Community Health. “Because of COVID, we weren’t able to celebrate CAN’s 30th anniversary, so this is that celebration.”Guests met and mingled wearing a variety of bright-colored clothes and designs before sitting down for the program to start.Emcee Brianna Summers welcomed the crowd and spoke to the importance of CAN Community Health’s programs help-

Summers then introduced a group num ber from Dynasty Dance, where a series of performers took over the floor to dance, strut and Honoraryspin.co-chair Emily Walsh then took to the podium to speak to the crowd and introduce co-chairs Monica Kelly Cure and Donna Koffman. The pair surprised Capote with flowers and appreciation for his work bringing the 2022 CANDance eventNewtogether.CANCommunity Health president and CEO Rishi Patel then announced a new foundation as well as a donor wall with the nonprofit group.

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Honorary co-chair Jackie Rogers is shown with co-chairs Donna Koffman and Monica Kelly Cure.

The evening concluded with the assembled guests cutting loose on the dance floor.

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Roger Capote thanks the crowd.

AN Community Health brought back its CANDance fundraiser with a lively and colorful night of dancing and support at the Sarasota Municipal Auditorium on Sept. 10.

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10 a.m. at Bazaar on Apricot and Lime, 821 Apricot Ave. The monthly

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10 a.m. at The Ringling, 5401 Bay Shore Road. The Ringling Museum of Art, Circus Museum and Bayfront Gardens are free to attend. Free but must register in advance. For information, call 359-5700.

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10 a.m. at Sarasota Children’s Garden, 1670 10th Street. Families and kids will embrace pirate life with a day full of sailing stories, flag hunts and other activities. For information, go to sarasotachildrensgarden.com.

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10 a.m. at Rosemary Park, 531 Central Ave. Sarasota Music Conservatory will put on a free performance along with an opportunity for the audience to try out musical instruments for themselves. Free. For information, call 548-9889.

8 a.m. at several Sarasota locations. Sarasota continues its efforts to clean up its coastal areas with a morning volunteer effort. Free. For information and to register, call 8615000.

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MESSY ART TUESDAYS

1 p.m. at Arlington Park and Aquatic Complex, 2650 Waldemere St. Parents and young children make the most out of the art-making process each week. $20 a month. For information, call 263-6732.

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9 a.m. at Sarasota Garden Club, 1131 Blvd. of the Arts. Instructor Petra Ratner leads a yoga class near Sarasota’s bayfront. Free. For information, call 203-5316.

5 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, 777 N. Tamiami Trail. Van Wezel’s pop ular outdoor concert series continues with a performance from Jah Movement. Food trucks and drinks will be on site. Free. For information, go to VanWezel.org.

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Kathy Tomkins, Raven Peters and James O’Donnell Bill Sadlo, left, Carolyn Mason, Lee DeLieto, Brennan Asplen for a photo.

Host Lisa Carlton welcomes the crowd.

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Supporters9. met at the club to mingle, sip coffee and enjoy breakfast as they applauded two local leaders. The youth organization recognized community leader Carolyn Mason and Secondary Schools Executive Director Steve Cantees for their years of work and commitment in the community.Eventhost Lisa Carlton led off the breakfast as usual before Cantees and Mason received their awards.

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Boys and Girls Clubs host 16th leadershipannualbreakfast

board chair Meghan Serrano, honoree Steve Cantees and Sarasota County Schools Superintendant

he Girls and Boys Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto Counties served breakfast and recognized local leaders during its 16th annual IPG Leadership Breakfast at the Lee Wetherington Club on Sept.

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Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto Counties President and CEO

YourObserver.com6B SARASOTA OBSERVER | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 SARASOTA 309 Ringling Point Drive 5 Beds 3/2 Baths 7,009 Sq. Ft. Kim 941-376-1717Ogilvie A4535001 $8,950,000 SARASOTA 1111 Ritz Carlton Drive 1703 3 Beds 3/1 Baths 4,276 Sq. Ft. The Walter Group & Steve Walter 941-232-2000 A4537226 $4,995,000 SIESTA KEY 4205 Higel Avenue 4 Beds 4/1 Baths 8,571 Sq. Ft. Maurice Menager & Lin Dunn 941-238-8119 A4539090 $7,750,000 SIESTA KEY 7722 Sanderling Road 2 Beds 3 Baths 2,580 Sq. Ft. Brian 941-735-4393Loebker A4527041 $9,000,000 SARASOTA 1718 Bay View Drive 6 Beds 5/1 Baths 4,644 Sq. Ft. Mackenzie Longueuil & Pat Mudgett 941-961-4023 A4536016 $3,650,000 OSPREY 1851 Island Way 4 Beds 4 Baths 5,233 Sq. Ft. Mackenzie Longueuil & Pat Mudgett 941-961-4023 A4537690 $3,950,000 SARASOTA 1919 Irving Street 6 Beds 5/1 Baths 4,956 Sq. Ft. Stacy 941-266-0529Hanan A4546099 $3,499,000 SARASOTA 100 Central Avenue PH01 4 Beds 4/1 Baths 3,764 Sq. Ft. Bibi-Ann Allard PA 941-685-0422 A4533365 $3,499,000 SARASOTA 300 S Pineapple Avenue 202 2 Beds 2/1 Baths 2,097 Sq. Ft. Tina 941-685-8420Ciaccio A4546927 $2,050,000 SARASOTA 2920 Donald Ross Road E 4 Beds 5/1 Baths 4,176 Sq. Ft. Riina 941-413-6070MccormackA4546000 $1,798,000 SARASOTA 1648 Bonita Lane 3 Beds 3 Baths 2,585 Sq. Ft. Matthew 941-237-0877Voss A4542361 $1,350,000 NOKOMIS 316 Maraviya Boulevard 3 Beds 3 Baths 3,125 Sq. Ft. Gail 203-521-4656Kelly N6122985 $1,340,000 UNIVERSITY PARK 7015 Lancaster Court 4 Beds 3 Baths 2,717 Sq. Ft. Amy 941-225-1500Chapman A4542575 $1,325,000 SARASOTA 1111 Ritz Carlton Drive 1204 3 Beds 2/1 Baths 3,582 Sq. Ft. Michael James & Laurel James 941-724-4034 A4544975 $3,100,000 NOKOMIS/NORTH VENICE 421 Waterside Lane 4 Beds 3 Baths 3,000 Sq. Ft. Kristen 941-204-8028Wheat N6121593 $3,000,000 SIESTA KEY 472 Island Circle 4 Beds 3/2 Baths 3,339 Sq. Ft. Lenore 941-356-9642TreimanA4526972 $2,995,000 SIESTA KEY 4193 Roberts Point Circle 4 Beds 3/1 Baths 3,250 Sq. Ft. Kim 941-587-5999Eskew A4542367 $2,850,000 SARASOTA 3537 Founders Club Drive 3 Beds 3 Baths 3,544 Sq. Ft. Richard 941-313-1591Hearn A4535534 $2,300,000 UNIVERSITY PARK 8171 Abingdon Court 2 Beds 2/2 Baths 2,609 Sq. Ft. Rachel 941-376-0218BendersonA4537189 $1,100,000 OSPREY 3929 Waypoint Avenue 3 Beds 3/1 Baths 2,115 Sq. Ft. Michael James & Laurel James 941-724-4034 A4547021 $1,100,000 SARASOTA 4892 Ancient Marble Drive 3 Beds 3/1 Baths 2,558 Sq. Ft. Drew 941-993-3739Russell A4547201 $1,100,000 SARASOTA 770 S Palm Avenue 601 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,408 Sq. Ft. Pam 941-266-9622Sweeney A4546966 $1,050,000 SARASOTA 8356 Mareva Lane 4 Beds 3/1 Baths 3,397 Sq. Ft. Marci 941-961-3390McFarlandA4539730 $1,020,000 SIESTA KEY 5880 Midnight Pass Road 310 3 Beds 2 Baths 1,713 Sq. Ft. Linda 941-228-5685Stowe A4536003 $1,285,000 SARASOTA 1750 Alta Vista Street 3 Beds 2 Baths 1,890 Sq. Ft. Kim 941-376-1717Ogilvie A4547316 $1,249,000 SARASOTA 1255 N Gulfstream Avenue 208 2 Beds 2 Baths 2,055 Sq. Ft. Lindsay 941-735-7005Nock A4547238 $1,200,000 SARASOTA 8918 Bloomfield Boulevard 3 Beds 3 Baths 2,736 Sq. Ft. Susan Elkins & Priscilla Adams 941-374-6016 A4537328 $1,150,000 SARASOTA 7554 Links Court 4 Beds 3 Baths 3,024 Sq. Ft. Linda Driggs & Sara Boudarga 941-374-2920 A4543380 $1,145,000 888.552.5228 | MICHAELSAUNDERS.COM 373709-1

Nancie Shaw, of Sarasota, sold her home at 1822 Bougainvillea St. to Compound Kucera LLC for $650,000. Built in 1967, it has two bedrooms, one-and-a-half baths and 1,162 square feet of living area. It sold for $97,200 in 1994.

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The main home at 6420 Hollywood Blvd. was built in 1992. It offers four bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 5,686 square feet of living area.

Sheli Lee Peplinski and Todd John Peplinski, of Sarasota, sold their home at 5369 Salcano St. to Jayne Gunza McGuire, of Sarasota, for $1,275,000. Built in 2020, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,054 square feet of living area. It sold for $729,800 in 2020.

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R. Keith Sandin, trustee, of Michigan City, Indiana, sold the Unit 601 condominium at 258 Golden Gate Point to Roger Barry, trustee, of Sarasota, for $4 million. Built in 2004, it has three bedrooms, threeand-a-half baths and 3,031 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.1 million in 2019.

The property sold in 2020 for more than $3.4 million.

Charles Hall and Brenda Hall, trust ees, of Raleigh, North Carolina, sold the home at 1847 Southpointe Drive to James Theodore Vandigriff and Anya Marie Vandigriff, of Sarasota, for $1,625,000. Built in 1973, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 1,982 square feet of living area. It sold for $445,000 in 1999.

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their home at 1856 Tulip Drive to Kathleen Brooks Dooley and Diana Harris, of Sarasota, for $1.3 million. Built in 1953, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,310 square feet of living area. It sold for $728,000 in 2016.

SIESTA KEY: $2.5 MILLION Siesta Key Anthony and Dana Moretta sold their home at 3913 Roberts Point Road to William Raymond Dolan Jr. and Victoria Dolan, of Sarasota, for $2,499,000. Built in 2020, it has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,793 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.45 million in 2020.

Noel Verbruggen and Michelle Calvert, of Twickenham, United Kingdom, sold their home at 2133 Oriole Drive to John Crichton, of Sarasota, for $1.7 million. Built in 1972, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,862 square feet of living area. It sold for $725,000 in 2018.

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Natalie Morgan Best and Joseph Donald Phillips sold their home at 2207 S. Shade Ave. to Orenthal and Renee Robertson, of Sarasota, for $1.5 million. Built in 2019, it has four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a pool and 2,544 square feet of living area.

Joseph and Marla Ayette sold their home at 820 Placid Lake Drive to Christopher and Staci Murphy, of Osprey, for $1,207,000. Built in 2002, it has five bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,938 square feet of living area. It sold for $620,000 in 2017.

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Sharon Casaburo, of Sarasota, sold her Unit 301 condominium at 188 Golend Gate Point to Equity Properties Ltd. for $5,495,000. Built in 2015, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 2,884 square feet of living area. It sold for $2,999,900 in 2016.

Estates tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Michael and Mette Milland, of Osprey, sold two properties at 6420 Hollywood Blvd. to Kyle and Heather Silvestro, of Sarasota, for $6,435,000. The first property was built in 1992, it has four bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 5,686 square feet of living area. The second property was built in 2013, it has one bath and 1,192 square feet of living area. They sold for $3.43 million in 2020.

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Pine Shores homes sell for $6.4 million

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baths, a pool and 2,364 square feet of living area.

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Robert Booker, trustee, of Nokomis, sold the home at 503 Casas Bonitas Place to Roman Yakovlev, of Nokomis, for $510,000. Built in 1984, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,484 square feet of living area. It sold for $225,000 in 2020.

Kent Kneisel and Joan Thompson, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1954 Magnolia St. to CASA OB LLC for $1.7 million. Built in 2019, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half

John and Terry Rixse, trustees, of Alexandria, Virginia, sold the Unit 619 condominium at 750 N. Tamiami Trail to Patrick Gallagher, of Sarasota, for $835,000. Built in 2001, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,460 square feet of living area. It sold for $475,000 in 2003.

GRANADA Journeys LLC sold the home at 3505 Almeria Ave. to Ian McGilvray and Maria McGilvray, trustees, of Bakersfield, California, for $600,000. Built in 1946, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,204 square feet of living area. It sold for $388,500 in 2020.

Samuel and Sarah Tesh, of Gainesville, Georgia, sold their home at 3379 Espanola Drive to Krystyn Warkus, of Sarasota, for $865,000. Built in 1968, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,854 square feet of living area. It sold for $714,500 in 2021.

1,670 square feet of living area. It sold for $595,000 in 2021.

Brian and Loretta Logun, of Marietta, Georgia, sold their home at 2448 Waldemere St. to Worsley Properties LLC for $1.06 million. Built in 1952, it has six bedrooms, four baths and 2,197 square feet of living area. It sold for $360,000 in 2020.

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John and Paula Alexander, trustees, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, sold the home at 7251 Antigua Place to Natalie Walnycky, of Sarasota, for $575,000. Built in 1972, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,769 square feet of living area. It sold for $347,500 in 2017.

John and Theresa McLane, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2235 Datura St. to Samuel Miller and Arlen Eicher, of Middlebury, Indiana, for $610,000. Built in 1955, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,849 square feet of living area. It sold for $200,000 in 2006.

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Ryan Upham and Ariyal Violet Wagner, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1934 Brookhaven Drive to Robert and Judithann Zack, of Sarasota, for $547,500. Built in 1969, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,053 square feet of living area. It sold for $220,000 in 2013.

Michael Burchette, of Sarasota, sold his home at 2167 Hawthorne St. to Tatiana Paredes and Carmelo Virgala, of Sarasota, for $955,000. Built in 2015, it has four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,464 square feet of living area. It sold for $563,000 in 2019.

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Richard Gianficaro and Catherine Zapko, of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, sold their home at 1654 Baywinds Lane to Jeff and Martha Sisarsky, of Sarasota, for $964,900. Built in 1978, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,942 square feet of living area. It sold for $475,000 in 2019.

OWEN BURNS Taylor Suncoast Properties LLC sold the home at 507 Madison Court to CBM Sarasota Properties LLC for $849,000. Built in 1948, it has four bedrooms, two baths and

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Qi Xin Chen and Ngoc Nguyen, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1220 16th St. to John and Alla Denke, of Sarasota, for $650,000. Built in 1940, it has three bedrooms, one bath and 1,558 square feet of living area. It sold for $325,000 in 2020.

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“Krazy Kai” Haines, 6, lands jump after jump on his scooter while pursuing a sport in which older kids typically excel.

“Kids will surprise you every single day of your life — if you let them. Just don’t get in the way. Don’t underes timate them. A lot of people are, in my opinion, overprotective of their kids these days. Let them learn. If they fall, they will get back up.”

But by the time Matthew finished his query, “Krazy Kai” was back on his scooter and back to his starting position on the other side of a ramp to try the jump again.

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It would be an amazing feat for anyone, but Kai has bilateral pro found hearing loss. He wears hear ing aids, which help to an extent, but listening, especially in noisy areas, is still a challenge. It’s why Matthew believes traditional team sports, which typically rely on oral commu nication, would be difficult or frus trating for Kai. But on a scooter, Kai does not have to worry about that.

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“Oh no, are you OK?” Mat thew Haines said to his son.

“I was pretty impressed by how good he was when he first started (at 4 years old), but it wasn’t anything absurd,” Leinberger said. “Within the next six months, I became con sistently impressed with how well he followed instructions and the speed at which he progressed. That’s the same to this day. We’ll have barely worked on a trick and he’ll nail it in threeAccordingtries.”

“He was transitioning from wear ing pull-ups into wearing regular underwear at the time,” Matthew Haines said. “We (Matthew and Kristen Haines, Kai’s mother) told him, ‘If you go 30 days with no acci dents and you potty like a big boy, we’ll get you a scooter.’ So 30 days later we had a scooter in the mail.”

Matthew said no matter where Kai’s career goes, the lessons he’s learning will help him, like goalsetting and the feeling you get when you finally achieve what you have been working hard to get.

“Determination and tenacity sees you through almost any difficulty you are going to face,” Matthew said. “Kai has no idea the muscles he is building right now. It will be one of the greatest gifts of his life.

It is a perspective backed up by action. Kai’s fall practice was not an isolated incident; he also fell while attempting a grind on a rail lining one of Payne Park’s bowls. After realizing he was OK — Kai wears protective padding both over and under his clothes — he got up and rode his scooter some more and even attempted two standing backflips.

Kai Haines, 6, rides off after landing a big jump during his Sept. 11 lesson at Payne Park with coach Nick Leinberger.

Kai, 6, spends Sundays at Payne Park working on his craft with his father and his coach, Nick Leinberg er, a professional rider who operates Sarasota Scooter Lessons.

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Matthew believes Kai’s hearing challenges have given him a greater sense of his own body in relation to his environment and how he can use it to his advantage. It’s why Kai loves not just riding a scooter but doing parkour. Kai said he landed his first standing backflip when he was 5.

“Kai has no idea musclesthehe is building right now. It will be one of the greatest gifts of his life.”

Kai has no fear, and his ceiling in the sport has no ceiling, as long as he stays dedicated to it.

“It’s an ‘away zone’ that you can go to and just have fun.”

— Matthew Haines

er. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, Matthew and Kai practiced in their driveway and around their block. Matthew said Kai would grab sticks or rocks and stack them, seeing if he could jump them. Then Matthew constructed a plywood jump. But those quickly became structurally unsafe as Kai, who was 4 at the time, conquered bigger and bigger jumps. Matthew — who had no extreme sports experi ence prior to Kai’s interest — decided Kai needed a real teacher.

Less than a month into the season, and enough with the lightning delays.

— Sarasota High’s Jaden Judge SEE PAGE 11BSPORTS

Kai started on a three-wheel model for safety purposes before proving to his parents that he was skilled enough to ride a two-wheel

ow about Richie James? The Riverview High football alumnus spent his first four seasons in the NFL with the San Francisco 49ers and never got much of a chance to shine. Aside from special teams, the 5-foot-9 wide receiver was kept on the sidelines. He missed the 2021 season with a knee injury and became a free agent in 2022. Now with the New York Giants, James caught five passes in week one, the most of any Giants wideout and just one catch behind running back Saquon Barkley for the team lead. His five catches went for 59 yards and he also received one rushing attempt for two yards. New York beat Tennessee 21-20.Shout out to the Sarasota Christian football team for winning its first game as a program on Friday, beating Four Corners Charter 35-18. Freshman quarterback Ben Milliken com pleted 10 of 19 passes for 229 yards, and freshman running back Austin Kerle ran for 149 yards and two touchdowns on eightThecarries.Blazers are playing eighton-eight football this season instead of traditional 11-on-11 football, but the achievements counts all the same. It will be fascinating to see how this program grows.

One of his videos has been viewed close to 20 million times thanks to it being shared by accounts such as Nitro Circus, which is one of the big gest action sports companies in the

It’s more than a hobby at this point. It’s Kai’s favorite thing, and accord ing to Leinberger, he has a chance to be the best in the world.

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Of course, no one wants to take chances with Thor, but it’s frustrating for all concerned to know any event could be delayed (or canceled) at a moment’s notice. To make it worse, my car’s air conditioning has been on the fritz. Ever waited out a rain storm in a car with no air flow? You might as well have waited outside in the rain.

“Riding makes me happy and it’s fun,” Kai said. “I love it.”

Photos by Ryan Kohn Kai Haines, 6, shows why he’s called “Krazy Kai” as he completes a bar spin at Payne Park.

That’s when they found Lein berger. According to Matthew, Kai — among other things — is the young est American to ever land a tail whip, a move that requires the bottom of the scooter to spin 360 degrees, leav ing both of the rider’s feet in the air.

Fox, who has 4.3 million followers on Instagram thanks to his stunt scooter videos, even gave Kai a professional-grade scooter.

to Matthew, Kai’s inter est in the sport stems from a book the pair were reading before bed when Kai was 3. One of the pictures in the book — not one that was front and center — depicted someone riding a scooter. Kai immediately was drawn to the image and asked questions about it. Namely, what was that thing, and how could he get one?

ing, that would be Golden State Warriors superstar Steph Curry, who helped start UNDERRATED Golf as a way to increase the sport’s participation in diverse communities. But make no mistake, getting

Roman Solomon poses with Steph Curry after winning the inaugural UNDERRATED Golf Curry Cup in San Francisco.

participated in perhaps the biggest event of his career, the inaugural UNDERRATED Golf Curry Cup at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. If you’re wondering to what the “Curry” in Curry Cup is referenc-

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Solomon certainly does. He’s a confident player. He is, to the best of my recollection, the only junior golfer I have interviewed who listed his putting skills as a major strength, if that tells you anything.

For Solomon, it’s a glimpse at a potential future. He’s not going to IMG for nothing. Solomon, at the very least, wants to play at a high collegiate level. If he can go pro after that, he will. It would buck the trends: There are only two Black men’s golfers in the top 100 world rankings, according to the UNDERRATED website. (On the girls’ side, there’s only one such player in the top 300.) That’s why it is so important events like these exist. It makes young players believe their dreams are possible to achieve.

Roman Solomon, the son of MLB All-Star Bobby Bonilla, took home the UNDERRATED Golf Curry Cup on Aug. 30.

I’m not betting against him. He’s got a pretty good mentor at home, giving him advice on how to reach the apex of a sport, and he’s got the tools. Remember the name now so you won’t have to later.

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“You’re out there by yourself,” Solomon said of the golf experience. “It’s all on you. You call the shots and you make the mistakes. There’s no coaching during a round like in other sports. Either you can play or you cannot.”

to play in the Curry Cup, which had partnership from the American Junior Golf Association, was no handout. Only 13 male golfers and 13 female golfers qualified for the event after playing in four qualifying events across the country.

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oman Solomon is attempt ing to make a name for him self.Put an emphasis on himself. It’s not an easy thing to do when your father is a former professional athlete, but Solomon is off to a strong Solomon,start.who lives in Sarasota and is a sophomore at IMG Academy, is an aspiring golfer. It’s a sport he first picked up while hanging out with his father, six-time MLB All-Star Bobby Bonilla. Solomon said that as a 6-year-old, he would join his father whenever he played a round. Solomon would hit balls from the middle of the fairway — not very far or accurately, mind you, but hey, everyone has to learn somehow.Eventually, Solomon got the fundamentals down. He played other sports too, like basketball, which he still loves. He even has basketball emblems on his golf balls. But in the end, golf was the sport for him.

Solomon likes the pressure. Solomon said Bonilla has told him not to think about it too much, to go out to the course and play, and trust that his skills will be enough to carry him through. Keep it simple, in other words. It worked for Bonilla in baseball, and it’s working for Solomon in golf.

He received his trophy from Curry himself.

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Upon arrival, Solomon immediately noticed a different feel to the event.“Itstood out to me how many kids that looked like me were there,” Solomon said. “It was cool. Definitely different (than most tournament he plays), but I think in a good way. I know it was a great experience for me personally. I knew a couple kids there from before but meeting other kids and seeing where they were from was cool.”

Even the aesthetics of the event were unique. There was a DJ playing music on the first day, for instance. And it must be nerve-wracking, even for a cool customer like Solomon, to concentrate on a putt when he knows Steph Curry is watching. But Solomon overcame the pressure, like his dad trained him to do. Solomon won the event After shooting two under par in round one — three strokes behind the leader — Solomon repeated the feat in round two, tying Jaxson Kenzo for the lead and then, eventually, winning in a playoff.

(She’s either 6-foot-0 or 6-foot-1 according to various websites. Either way, that is indeed much taller than I Solomon’santicipated.)storyisfarfrom over. Later this week he will be traveling to Philadelphia to play in an Advocates Pro Golf Association Tour event at Bluestone Country Club. The APGA, much like UNDERRATED Golf, is designed to bring more diversity to the game of golf but at the pro level. At the Bluestone event, Solomon will be playing against — and in pairings with — those pros.

“He told me ‘great job’ and to keep working hard,” Solomon said. “We took a picture together and I made the ‘night-night’ celebration with my hands. It was pretty funny.”Solomon put his hands into a sleeping position as he said that, recreating the moment. It may be slightly embarrassing, but he’ll never forget it. Solomon got to meet other celebrities too, like golf stars Collin Morikawa and Michelle Wie West, the latter of whom surprised Solomon by how tall she is.

It’s just fun to play. It’s an ‘away zone’ that you can go to and just have fun. You can take your mind off things and play.

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I make designs. Eventually, I want to start an apparel business in addi tion to playing football, stuff you can wear on the field. So I make designs for apparel and I am saving them for when I’m able to start the business.

What is your best skill?

JudgeJaden

What is the appeal to you?

I like a lot of Asian foods as well as spaghetti.

What are your goals for this season?

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When I was younger, I played youth football with the Manatee Mus tangs. In my first game with them, I touched the ball five times and scored five touchdowns against the Palmetto Trojans.

What have you been working to improve?

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I don’t have a specific stat I want to get. I just want to get as much as the Lord allows me to get. I just have to play my game and see what hap pens.

What’s the vibe around the Sailors this season?

Which superpower would you pick?

My running style. I’m not a regular running back. I can be calm and patient or I can be aggressive. I pick and choose how I run based on the play.

I started when I was 8 in Mighty Mite (Pop Warner) ball. I always wanted to play it. I had seen it on TV and in person and thought it looked fun.

My inventory. The moves I have in my bag. I want to get as many as I can. I have also been working on my hands, catching the ball out of the

I’d probably pick a random one, like being able to charge a phone anytime I want. My phone is always dying.

I think people are happy with how we’re playing. We’re 2-1. Obviously that’s not the desired goal. We’d rather be 3-0. But we’re doing what we do and getting better as we go.

What is your favorite food?

What are your hobbies?

Jaden Judge is a junior on the Sara sota High football team. The running back had 146 total yards and a touchdown Sept. 9 in the Sailors’ 28-21 win against Booker High. The Sailors (2-1) will host Palmetto High (2-1) at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

backfield.

What is your favorite memory?

When did you start playing football?

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