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Bay opens window on phase two

Signature public-private project advances.

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A woman to know

Sarasota philanthropist Graci McGillicuddy was recently listed on the KNOW Women organization’s “Top 100 Women to Know Across America” list.

It was a welcome surprise for McGillicuddy, who started her efforts to fight child abuse after reading about a baby who was abused by her mother years ago. The ability to help children heal and grow is something McGillicuddy holds dear.

“I had no idea this was happening,” McGillicuddy said. “It’s a validation of something so beautiful has happened from something so awful.”

In addition to founding the All-Star Children’s Foundation, she also serves as a board member for the Child Protection Center.

IT’S A PIRATE’S LIFE

Young buccaneers steer a course for fun.

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Introducing the first lady Jorge Hernandez-Perez, an alum of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto Counties and a 2021 graduate of Riverview High, recently introduced first lady Jill Biden at a youth summit in Washington, D.C. Hernandez-Perez was Boys and Girls Clubs 2021 Southeast Youth of the Year and often represents the organization. At the Summit for America’s Youth, he joined talks about issues faced by young people.

Following his on-stage introduction of the first lady, she said: “Thank you, Jorge. It’s wonderful to hear how you are giving back to your community and I can’t wait to see what you do.”

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Cole Derouin takes the helm during a pirate-themed children’s event coinciding with Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Downtown site adds options for nonprofits

Turtle Tracks AS OF SEPT. 17 TOTAL NESTS: 2022 Siesta Key 531 Lido Key 160 Casey Key 2,053

2021 521 107 1,471

TOTAL FALSE CRAWLS: 2022 2021 Siesta Key 584 603 Lido Key 205 279 Casey Key 1,940 1,773 Source: Mote Marine Laboratory

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Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President for Administration Veronica Thames in the new Sarasota Philanthropy Center on State Street.

Foundation welcomes staff, organizations to new site on State Street.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

WEEK OF SEPT. 22, 2022

SCAT sets forums for potential fare hikes

“Why do we have to go to UTC to ice skate or St. Pete to see all the festivities when we have all this great talent in our city?”

A public hearing for potential changes to Sarasota County transit fares is scheduled for Oct. 11.

According to Director of Transit Jane Grogg, the proposed changes would simplify fares and bring Sarasota County’s fares into alignment with other counties in the region.

The public hearing is scheduled for Oct. 11, in the Robert L. Anderson Administration Center, 4000 S. Tamiami Trail.

If approved, the new fares would go into effect Nov. 1.

A public meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, at Selby Public Library, 1331 First St.

St. Armands BID chair Tom Leonard on a proposal for a winter festival, Read more on page 5A

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Acres in the soon-to-be completed first phase of the The Bay Park, which recently rolled out financing plans for the second phase.

Merit Scholarship semifinalists named

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Locations considered by the Gulf Coast Community Foundation before settling on a State Street location for its Sarasota Philanthropy Center.

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Gates planned as part of an expansion at SarasotaBradenton International Airport, expected to begin serving travelers in 2025.

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The vote of confidence in City Manager Marlon Brown was 5-0.

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n Sarasota County Commission final budget hearing — 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 27, Commission Chamber, County Administration Building, 1660 Ringling Blvd. n Sarasota City Commission regular meeting — 9 a.m., Monday, Oct. 3, Commission Chamber, City Hall, 1565 First St. n Sarasota School Board regular meeting — 6 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 4, Board Chamber, Landings Administrative Building, 1980 Landings Blvd.

ity Commissioners opened Monday’s meeting with a debate over an agenda change that ended 12 minutes later in a request for a vote on their confidence in City Manager Marlon Brown.

The vote went 5-0 in his favor.

It all started when Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch sought to deliver a presentation on comprehensive plan amendments that never made it to the published agenda. Commissioner Hagen Brody then submitted a change request of his own.

Mayor Erik Arroyo called for a discussion on the changes, calling whatever was going to be presented duplicitous to the lengthy discussions on the topic already on the docket.

Brody moved to eliminate the agenda changes, including his own presentation, which was supported by a 3-2 vote, with Ahearn-Koch and Commissioner Liz Alpert dissenting.

That prompted Ahearn-Koch to say out loud that her voice has no importance among her colleagues and, after reminding

that the matter was a result of a communications breakdown with Brown, said “I won’t forget this.”

Moments later, Brown called for a vote of confidence among commissioners.

“I would like a vote right now on the record as to whether I continue as city manager,” Brown said, adding that if the commission has no confidence, he would leave forthwith.

Ahearn-Koch immediately motioned to give Brown a vote of confidence, adding that her comment was made to herself.

More than three dozen students at Sarasota County public high schools were named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists by virtue of their performance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

About 50,000 students with the highest PSAT/NMSQT scores qualify for the recognition of the 1.5 million who annually take the exam. Of those 50,000, about 16,000 gain recognition as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists.

They are: Pine View School: Joseph Afflerbach; Thomas Bartlett; Nolan Boucher; Siara Brennan; Felicity Chang; Julian Chauhan; Scott Conrad; Caroline Deacon; Haley Gardner; Juna Hatta-Langedyk; Jacob Koshy; Cole Laudenslager; Nicole Laureno; Kevin Lovo Flores; Sarah Luo; Ryan Macler; Duncan Marmash; Pranav Mayor; Carter McCaa; Ethan Messier; Lora Rini; Andrew Ruffin; Aarna Shah; Clementine Silver Schwartz; Krystal Tran; David Vice; Jonathan Widjaja; Koele Winch; Yifan Zhang; Madison Zoernack.

Riverview High School: Aiden Fitzgibbons; Aidan Hurwitz; Anson Nguyen; Mateo Rizzo; Haylie Smith.

Sarasota High School: Jorge Romero Salgado.

Venice High School: Isabella Gibbs; David O’Grady; Briar Stonehouse; Noah Whelden.

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The Bay Phase I construction is scheduled to be completed prior to the Oct. 14-23 grand opening.

With The Bay grand opening set for Oct. 14-23, the Bay Park Improvement Board recommends approval of TIF financing for phase two of the $150 million, 53-acre project.

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or 10 days beginning Oct. 14, Sarasota residents and others will have the opportunity visit a new park nearly a decade in the making.

That’s when the Bay Park Conservancy will open to the public the first 14-acre phase of The Bay, a 53-acre bayfront site west of Tamiami Trail between Boulevard of the Arts and 10th Street. While the conservancy is applying the finishing touches to its 10 Days at the Bay celebration, it’s also looking forward to the second phase of park redevelopment, which will include the Canal District, Cultural District, Sunset Pier and Western Shoreline, all at a projected cost of $65 million.

Conservancy leaders last week met with the Bay Park Improvement Board, which is made up of two city and two county commissioners plus one appointee, to seek its endorsement of $48 million in tax increment financing revenue for phase two. That revenue will be combined with $17 million in grants and private funds already secured by the BPC. The board members — city commissioners Liz Alpert and Hagen Brody, county commissioners Nancy Detert and Christian Ziegler, and community member Jon Thaxton — unanimously approved recommending approval of the TIF financing, which will go before the Sarasota City Council on Oct. 3.

The city of Sarasota and Sarasota County created the TIF district in 2020 to capture increases in property tax revenue from within the district, setting aside funds for capital improvement projects for redevelopment of the city-owned land that surrounds and includes the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. The TIF revenues may only be used for capital improvements at the park, a portion of a new Sarasota performing arts center, and multimodal facilities within the district.

The funding will enable the conservancy to complete the circle of a new and improved public park surrounding the Van Wezel — from the 10th Street public boat launch, along Tamiami Trail and the shoreline — by 2026.

And there appears to be plenty of TIF money rolling in, as A.G. Lafley, founding CEO of The Bay Park Conservancy, told Detert.

“Based on the most recent county projection, we’re running two-anda-half to three times ahead of the original forecast just through the first three years,” Lafley said. “A lot of things can happen, but we’re running $120 million ahead of the original forecast approved by the county and the city. There’s a lot of development going on in this TIF district right now. Most of it is underway, so I would say the probabilities are that you’re going to be running ahead pretty comfortably over the next five to seven years.

“The great thing about this TIF district is most of the value is driven by new development, not just by appreciation.”

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A rendering of the completed first phase of The Bay. The circular sunset pier at the top has been redesigned as a crescent for ecological purposes.

THE PIECES Longboat Key. A Japanese garden next to the pagoda has been restored.

Construction of a shade structure and event lawn is still underway but is expected to be completed in time for the grand opening.

The cornerstone of phase two development is the Canal District, which will reactivate a vacant strip of land along the 10th Street docks with a refurbished sea wall, food pavilion, day docks and waterfront dining options, all at an estimated development cost of $15 million.

Anchoring the northern end of The Bay, Ziegler said the northwest corner of the site is an ideal location for a waterfront restaurant, a rarity in Sarasota County.

BPC Chief Operating Officer Bill Waddill said dining is in the early planning stages and a restaurant at that location is a possibility, but he cautioned the guiding principles for The Bay exclude intense commercial development on the water.

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The grand opening celebration runs Oct. 14-23 and includes more than 90 free events such as family fun days, food and cultural festivals, live music, Boo! at The Bay Halloween, Sarasota’s first Parktoberfest and more.

Admission and all activities are free of charge.

Daily activities will include guided kayak tours in partnership with Ride and Paddle, fitness classes provided by CoreSRQ, free yoga, guided nature walks and live music each day around sunset.

Along Tamiami Trail flanking Sarasota Municipal Auditorium is the Cultural District, a largely passive space with a recreation lawn, event lawn, an art center and existing building restorations estimated at $20 million.

The Western Shoreline, providing waterfront connectivity between the southern and northern ends of The Bay, will include shoreline restoration, a multiuse trail and sunset view sites at a cost of $15 million.

The Sunset Boardwalk, shown on original plans as a circular pier providing access from behind the Van Wezel and from phase one, has been redesigned into a crescent shape.

That’s because of environmental considerations raised by the Army Corps of Engineers. It’s estimated to cost $15 million.

Later phases include a planned replacement of the Van Wezel and reimagining the performing arts hall’s parking lot.

“We’ve heard a number of times people say ‘I’m not getting younger, and I’ll be dead before I see this finished,’” said conservancy Chair Cathy Layton. “But I think more that if you were 8 years old in 2013 when this project started, you’re getting ready to graduate from high school.

We want to make sure that the kids and the families that we’ve promised this to are able in their youth to enjoy it.”

AN EQUAL PARTNERSHIP

A public-private venture, The Bay is a community-led, $150 million project that will take 10 years over three more phases to complete. The

PHASE TWO PLANS

In addition to 90 events, including live music, during 10 Days at The Bay, visitors will experience densely wooded pathways, a playground, a mangrove bayou and bayfront views.

The “Blue Pagoda” has been renovated and serves as the BPC offices and a welcome center for guests.

A pedestrian bridge connects the first phase with the Van Wezel site, where a pathway leads to a bayfront platform with panoramic views of the Ringling Bridge, Lido Key and

Photos by Andrew Warfield

Phase two of The Bay will be anchored by the Canal District, which will be developed at the boat launch of South Tamiami Trail at 10th Street.

The four projects within The Bay phase two are projected to cost $65 million.

DOCKSIDE/SOUTH CANAL DISTRICT: $15 million CITY SIDE CULTURAL DISTRICT: $20 million SUNSET BOARDWALK/ PIER: $15 million WESTERN SHORELINE: $15 million Subtotal: $65 million Minus $12 million in government grants plus $5 million in private funding, the total TIF-backed city bond is $48 million.

Bay Park Conservancy, led by former Procter & Gamble CEO Lafley and former Kimley-Horn & Associates Senior Vice President Waddill, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit formed in 2019 to implement the master plan approved by the City Commission to conserve the public land for a signature park.

The conservancy entered into a long-term partnership with the city to fund, develop, operate and sustain The Bay. Funding of the improvements, operations and maintenance were envisioned as a 50-50 partnership from the start. So far, the conservancy has raised $55 million in grants and private funds.

“Our original plan was approved and included a business plan that was 50% public funds and 50% private philanthropy,” Waddill told the board.

“We decided from the beginning to implement our first 14 acres with mostly private philanthropy, so when we cut the ribbon, we will have built all of that with about 90% private capital and about 10% government. So logically, in a plan that’s 50-50, now we swing toward a higher percentage. We’re estimating about 75% public funds through the TIF and then about 25% private philanthropy and grants. It’s a logical progression from private to public” Assuming Oct. 3 approval of the $48 million in bonds backed by the TIF, the matter will go before the County Commission the following week for requisite approval of the TIF revenue to reconcile the bond debt.

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City OKs new-look view for the future Sarasota Commission approves with first vote comprehensive plan amendments it hopes will eventually result in more attainable housing incentivized by density.

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or four of five Sarasota City Commissioners, decades of talking about the looming and now occurring attainable/ affordable housing crises is long enough.

During Monday’s nearly 11-hour meeting, which began with debate resulting in City Manager Marlon Brown requesting a vote of confidence, commissioners approved by 4-1 votes the first reading of four of five ordinances to amend the city’s comprehensive plan. The no votes were cast by Jen Ahearn-Koch, who sided with citizens, charging that the process is being rushed to approval before this fall’s general election and lacked adequate public input.

The fifth amendment, one that codifies a “missing middle” district in the Park East neighborhood, was approved unanimously.

All of the amendments are intended to address a shortage of housing in the city — a slowly growing challenge that accelerated during the pandemic — most of them paving the way toward incentivizing attainable housing in new developments, largely in the urban core. Attainable is defined as housing priced within the range of 80% to 120% of the county’s average median income.

According to the 2020 U.S. Census, the AMI in Sarasota County is $32,535 for an individual and $64,44

for a household.

The comprehensive plan amendments discussion and public comments dominated the first seven hours of the meeting, which was briefly adjourned for a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. for the second reading and adoption of the fiscal year 2023 budget, setting the property tax millage at 3.00. It resumed for another four hours, during which time, each of the measures was debated and approved.

Throughout the day, commissioners heard mixed reviews from the public. On one side was support for the effort to incentivize higher densities with the goal of achieving lower-cost housing. On the other were criticisms of a lack of public engagement in the process, accusations of backroom deals and density giveaways that will result only in more high-priced housing in the city’s urban core.

Ahearn-Koch voiced similar objections throughout the process.

She also cast the lone dissenting vote in May, when the commission approved transmittal of the comp plan amendments to Tallahassee for review.

Brown and staff told commissioners that the comprehensive plan is a broad vision for the city and that any meaningful text amendments, rezoning and site plans are where the real work, and more direct public involvement, will take place.

“Knowing how the community reacted to this first phase, I will commit to you that we will do a better job with the zoning text amendments,” Brown said. “That’s where the rubber hits the road.”

Greater densities, Brown and staff said, won’t be granted unless the additional units meet the attainable housing criteria.

Comprehensive plan amendments approved were: n A new Urban Mixed-Use Future

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Staff told commissioners that the comprehensive plan is a broad vision for the city.

“I think that we really need to embrace our future as a worldclass, small city that has all of the diversity and vibrancy of a city, and I think that this really fills a void that needs to be filled.”

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Land Use Classification to provide for attainable housing incentives, and a definition of “base density;” to amend the definition of attainable housing units; to provide for an attainable housing density bonus; and to consider an inclusionary housing land development regulation. n An administrative review process for attainable housing to provide greater flexibility during implementation when a minimum number of attainable housing units is included.

That minimum number of attainable housing units will be determined when implementing land development regulations are drafted and

publicly considered.

Removing residential frontage requirements that duplicate regulations also adopted in the zoning code and removal of master plans as specific master area plans are not planned for the near future. n Amending Urban Edge, Downtown Core and Downtown Bayfront land use classifications to provide for an increase in residential density over the base density when a portion of the additional residential units are attainable; and clarifying application of bonus height, which allows an 11th story in certain identified situations in the Downtown Core.

Approved unanimously was an amendment to create one or more Missing Middle Overlay Districts that provide for an increase in residential density over the base density when a portion of the additional residential units are attainable; and amending Urban Neighborhood land use classification text to provide for that increase in residential density.

Throughout the day, staff cautioned commissioners that the comprehensive plan amendments n

are not an overnight fix to the city’s attainable housing situation and that it will take more than a year to work through some applicable zoning code text amendments, which undergo a requisite public process, and then to begin receiving plans from developers relative to the changes.

“Is there really a silver bullet? No, but we are at a point where we could go in two directions,” said Commissioner Hagen Brody. “If we don’t do anything, this would be a playground for the rich and famous and that’s it.

This would be a resort town, and virtually nobody would be able to live here who works. That’s the reality of some cities in America. I don’t want that for Sarasota.

“I think that we really need to embrace our future as a world-class, small city that has all of the diversity and vibrancy of a city, and I think that this really fills a void that needs to be filled.”

The text amendments will come before the commission for a second reading at its Oct. 17 meeting.

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BID leader takes festival request for a ride before commission Business Improvement District chairman asks city leaders to consider supporting a new holiday festival with a children’s train and carousel in St. Armands Circle, while other Circle officials question the request’s protocol.

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ow that St. Armands Circle is getting a new 60-foot tree for the holidays, the circle’s Business Improvement District leadership wants to take the season’s celebration to the next level with a companion festival.

Tom Leonard, the St. Armands BID chair, appeared before Sarasota City Commission on Monday seeking support for a winter holiday festival that would include children’s rides such as a carousel and a train, a skating rink and a stage for festivities. The BID’s idea has sparked opposition from a traditional ally, the St. Armands Circle Association.

The discussion wasn’t on the agenda, so Leonard made his first official pitch to commissioners during the public comments portion of the meeting. He was followed immediately by Circle Association Executive Director Rachel Burns in opposition to Leonard’s approach, if not the festival itself.

Leonard is tapping into a previous relationship with an amusements company for the festival, and he requested a spot on a future City Commission agenda to state their case.

“I reached out to Ride Entertainment to help me make this reality.

They jumped on the opportunity as they believe, as I do, that we need to celebrate this new tree in a festive way for the merchants, the city and its residents,” Leonard said. “Why do we have to go to UTC to ice skate, or St. Pete to see all the festivities when we have all this great talent in our city?”

Ride Entertainment had previous-

ly pitched to the city a proposal for a permanent carousel at St. Armands, which was met with mixed reviews from the dais and opposition from the St. Armands Residents Association.

Leonard said the festival attractions would not be a permanent installation. The rides and the stage would be in use from Nov. 18 — the target tree-lighting event date — through New Year’s Day. “Now to displace those rumors,” Leonard said. “This is not an attempt to put a carousel in St. Armands permanently. The stage is not for a heavy metal band. It’s a place for local schools, dance groups and other holiday-themed groups to perform in our park during the holidays.”

Burns told commissioners that while the Circle Association, an organization separate from the BID, doesn’t necessarily object to the idea of a festival, it does object to Leonard’s proposed path toward city consideration.

On Aug. 1, Leonard and Burns appeared together before the commissioners to lobby for a 60-foot, $286,000 replacement of the 20-year-old tree that is the centerpiece of St. Armands holiday festivities. The grant request of the city, which was approved, was also supported by the St. Armands Residents Association and the Lido Residents Association. As it has in the past, the Circle Association will own, store and maintain the tree.

“The city of Sarasota has adopted ordinances and a clear protocol is in place for special events,” Burns said. “Mr. Leonard is not following that. His request is a clear violation of the special events ordinance on St. Armands and should require the

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support of the LMR (Landowners, Merchants and Residents Association).”

The timing of the holiday festival would require either rescheduling or relocation of the annual Porsches in the Park, another sticking point for Burns who told commissioners that it would set a troubling precedent for legacy events in St. Armands and elsewhere in the city.

“Mr. Leonard will also be asking for, and has asked for in-kind services, which are free services, to be provided for a for-profit company that will be charging the public to use these rides,” Burns said. “If you approve this, I would assume that the city is prepared to provide equitable treatment not only for us as a 501(c) (6), but all organizations that pro-

duce special events in the city.”

Monday’s meeting isn’t the first public contentious exchange between Leonard and Burns, who took over the Circle Association leadership earlier this summer upon the retirement of long-time executive director Diana Corrigan.

During the August St. Armands BID meeting, they sparred over timing and procedures for the installation and lighting ceremony of the new tree.

Because the discussion was not an issue that was publicly noticed ahead of time, no votes were taken on the matter.

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WHOOPS, THERE IT IS! 12:07 a.m., 900 block of University Parkway Dispute: An “extremely intoxicated” guest causing a disturbance in a hotel lobby accused the desk clerk of not returning his debit card. When police arrived, the guest admitted to the officer that he “drank a lot” but would not return to his room until the clerk returned his card. As the dispute continued, the tipsy traveler was informed he would be removed from the location if he did not cease the disturbance. When police asked for his identification, the man’s debit card was in his hand when he removed his ID from his pocket. He subsequently returned to his room without further incident.

DOG DISPUTE DEATH THREAT 10:46 a.m., 1900 block of Central Avenue Dispute: A reported death threat in a dispute over a dog brought officers to a residence where a man had left the canine in a woman’s care. The dog was supposed to have been retrieved two days earlier, and it was left with no food. The woman, not willing to buy food, called animal control, but received no answer and let the dog go free. The man told police he was unable to keep the dog and sought to return it to the seller for the $100 price following its stay with the caretaker. The caretaker said it was not her fault the man could no longer return the dog.

During the course of their argument, the woman reported the man made a death threat. The woman said she wished to file charges over the dog and the threat but was advised that a threat made over the phone did not constitute a violation of the law and that the issue with the dog was a civil matter.

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BACK FOR SECONDS 4:45 p.m., 100 block of North Lemon Avenue Disturbance: Police responded to a restaurant where the manager and patrons wanted a man removed for causing a disturbance. An officer made contact with the man and escorted him out of the establishment. After a brief interview, the man was informed he had been is-

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SCORNED SLASHER? 8:30 a.m., 1200 block of South Orange Avenue Property damage: A set of freshly slashed tires and an argument with an ex-girlfriend prompted a man to contact police to file a report for insurance purposes. Sometime between 4 a.m. and noon, the victim’s vehicle was parked in the driveway at his residence when the tires were slashed, and he told an officer he believed the damage was caused by his former flame.

In an effort to defuse the spat, the man said he called a friend to pick him up. Between the time he had left the residence, where the woman remained, and he returned, the tires were damaged and the woman left. He declined to disclose her last name because he wanted no action taken against her.

The residence does have cameras, and the man said he was waiting to learn from the property owner if they captured images of the incident. He advised police that since the argument, he has blocked the woman from contacting him, has not questioned her about the tires and, although she has had access to the home in the past, she no longer has keys. The case was left pending further information from the victim.

sued a trespassing warning and was banned from the establishment for one year. If he returned, the officer said, the man could be arrested.

While the officer was completing his report outside of the restaurant, the man returned and began to taunt employees from the sidewalk. Upon a second warning of arrest, he left the scene. The officer notified the restaurant manager that if the man returned, to call police.

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Space is bookable on the foundation’s website for the rooms that are arrayed right and left off a central hallway that runs from the front door to the back wall. Originally built with no windows, the team of Willis Smith Construction and Plunkett Raysich Architecture LLP added new sources of natural light and added design touches that connect with the building’s midcentury roots.

Off the staff room, with the word “team” emblazoned on the back wall, is one of the most secure closets in all of Sarasota, built of inches-thick steel from the remnants of one of two former bank vaults (the other was demolished). A section of exposed brick from the original 1955 structure also remains as well as salvaged lumber from the Ringling estate, which Thames said helps connect her organization, its mission and its location in a historic way.

“It showcases again, the connection between philanthropy, art, Sarasota, our roots and the deep connection that exists between all of us,” Thames said. “So we preserved up to every last clear inch that we could use.”

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The 5,000-square-foot, firstfloor space is an extension of the foundation’s Venice home base and will serve staff with a flexible workspace and member organizations with two community rooms (which expand into one large one), a boardroom, a pair of smaller meeting rooms meant for donor conversations and Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President for Administration Veronica Thames’ favorite room, the Idea Lounge — equal parts relaxing getaway and idea factory.

“The Idea Lounge is designed to be a space for collaboration but also creativity in partnership, where big thinkers and leaders of the community will gather and create policy together,” Thames said. “So we can improve our region from the ground up.”

Gulf Coast is a public charity created in 1995 through the sale of the Venice Hospital. Since then, it’s become the philanthropic home of more than 950 families, individuals, businesses and organizations that have established charitable funds there.

The Philanthropy Center, located at 1549 State St., was years in the making, a project complicated, Thames said, by the COVID-19 pandemic. The location was perfect, she said, not only for its central access but also its proximity to parking at the city garage across the street and other amenities, such as shops and restaurants.

About 55 locations were considered, Thames said, adding the process of finding a space, designing and styling it, remodeling it and then getting ready to open took years.

Since May 2021, the organization has been focused on the State Street site. Once settled on the location, the foundation focused on the mission and the possibilities.

“We wanted space, primarily because one of the big goals that our board set out to meet was to provide ample space for our nonprofit partners to have a place to meet downtown where the work is, where the communities that we and they serve together are,” Thames said.

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It’s all ‘Planned Chaos’ If the White House wizards and congressional Democrats knew anything about history, they would know all of their policies will bring economic and social chaos and are doomed to fail.

MASSES AREN’T ASKING FOR SOCIALISM

MATT WALSH

“Ignorance of history is our true enemy.”

It is not true that the masses are vehemently asking for socialism and that there is no means to resist them. The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

It is a lame excuse of the intellectuals that they must yield to the masses. They themselves have generated the socialist ideas and indoctrinated the masses with them. No proletarian or son

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hat was the closing statement last week in a letter to the editor from Bob Gault, a Longboat Key resident, former CEO of Universal Studios and Sea World and diehard Constitutional patriot.

He nailed it.

Ignorance of history is indeed one of the more destructive enemies of our time. And it runs far and wide among Americans. Perhaps worse, it evidently runs deep within the highest ranks of American government, including the occupants of all wings of the White House.

We all know, of course, our president, Joe Biden, is senile. Even so, he should not get a pass for his historical ignorance; he is, after all, president of the United States.

Nor, especially, should his behindthe-scenes Wizards of Doom be excused. Their apparent ignorance of history — or their willingness to ignore it and the truth — is ruining the United States.

Their out-of-touch arrogance blinds them to what has been so obvious: Practically every policy measure they have forced and inflicted upon Americans has proven what the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises wrote in 1951 in his analysis of the Socialist movements in Europe from the early 1900s, through and after World War II. The editors at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Alabama summed up perfectly von Mises’ 1951 book, “Socialism: An Economic & Sociological Analysis,” when in 2009 they published 83 pages of excerpts from von Mises’ book. They aptly entitled the booklet: “Planned Chaos.”

It is a marvelous play on words.

As von Mises revealed with historical fact and astute analysis 70 years ago, all the central planning that European Socialists, Fascists, Communists and Nazis imposed and dictated on the masses in Eastern Europe and Western Europe resulted in economic and social chaos — chaos that made their countrymen suffer and poor.

Practically everything they did made conditions worse and chaotic.

Fast forward to the U.S. today.

Take a look at the accompanying box. It is a list of the chaos that has followed as a result of the policies and mandates that Biden and his behind-the-scenes masters have inflicted on Americans. Sadly, this list will continue to grow. The end of the chaos is nowhere in sight.

But our Washington elites are oblivious. When Joe Biden spoke to Americans on Sept. 1 in Philadelphia, for example, he said the “work of my presidency” is to “build an America that is more prosperous,

free and just” — “a mission I believe in with my whole soul.”

But either Biden knew that was a brazen lie to try to fool Americans.

Or he is oblivious to reality. Or a combination of both.

Think back over the past 19 months. If you reflect and examine what has transpired in every facet of American life and in the U.S. economy, the evidence shows that practically everything Biden, his wizards and the Democratic Party Congress have done has had the opposite effect of that mission.

Americans are less prosperous — and growing poorer (see box).

Americans are far less free. When the federal government continues to print money and spend and borrow at the rate it has under Biden, the resulting inflation and national debt are insidious taxes that sap Americans’ standard of living. And finally, everyone knows without a doubt, the United States, with its multitiered system of justice, is far less just than it was. Americans no longer believe there is equal justice under the law. The cause of this misery, von Mises wrote, begins with interventionism — when the government interferes with the market to effect the political elites’ quest for their imagined utopia.

“The authority seeks to influence the market by the intervention of its coercive power, but it does not want to eliminate the market altogether. It desires that production and consumption should develop along lines different from those prescribed by the unhindered market, and it wants to achieve its aim by injecting into the working of the market orders, commands and prohibitions for whose enforcement the police power and its apparatus of coercion and compulsion stand ready.” “(But) all the methods of interventionism are doomed to failure,”

of a proletarian has contributed to the elaboration of the of the interventionist and socialist programs …

The intellectual leaders of the peoples have produced and propagated the fallacies, which are on the point of destroying liberty and Western civilization. The intellectuals alone are responsible for the mass slaughters, which are the characteristic mark of our century.”

Ludwig von Mises “Planned Chaos”

von Mises wrote. To wit, wrote von Mises: “Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.

“If government spending is financed by borrowing from the commercial banks, it means credit expansion and inflation. If in the course of such inflation the rise in commodity prices exceeds the rise in nominal wage rates, unemployment will drop. But what makes unemployment shrink is precisely the fact that real wage rates are falling.”

Sound familiar?

“No economist,” von Mises stated unequivocally, “ever dared to assert that interventionism could result in anything other than in disaster and chaos.” And he wrote that after studying the disasters and chaos that led to wars and destruction in Europe over a half century.

But here in the U.S., the political elites, academia and media have no clue of history or pay no attention to it. They keep spreading the coerciveness of government — shut down fossil fuel energy; force unaffordable EVs; take over the delivery of health services; socialize all education; forgive college loans; militarize the IRS; regulate business to the point of strangulation.

Nowhere in this chaos has any of them articulated what the end game of all this will look like. What will success look like?

There will be no success. von Mises: “What these people fail to realize is that the various measures they suggest are not capable of bringing about the beneficial results aimed at. On the contrary they produce a state of affairs which from the point of view of their advocates is worse than the previous state which they were designed to alter.”

As we all know, it’s a law of politics: When the first round of intervention fails or produces more unintended consequences, the politicians add more regulations and restrictions.

“Proceeding step by step on this way,” von Mises concluded, “it finally reaches a point in which all economic freedom of individuals has disappeared. Then socialism emerges.”

How do we end this chaos?

“What is needed,” Mises concluded, “… is common sense and moral courage.”

It will take more than that — a complete purge of the perpetrators, starting Nov. 15.

The chaos of failed immigration policy Ha. The hullabaloo over Gov. Ron DeSantis sending illegal Venezuelan immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard explicitly proves what economist Ludwig von Mises explained about “planned chaos” and interventionism and what the late Milton Friedman described as the law of laws.

When the consequences of Joe Biden’s reversal of Trump immigration policies (interventionism) resulted in the flood of illegal immigrants across our southern border, what did Joe Biden expect was going to happen — that the hordes of illegal immigrants would be welcomed

with parades and Welcome Wagon barbecues?

The results and consequences were blindingly predictable.

Chaos would ensue. And it has for the past 19 months.

It is no surprise whatsoever that we have witnessed states, feeling the adverse effects of Biden’s policies, have been compelled to respond with their own intervention.

This is the way it always goes.

One bad law or intervention begets another intervention. And when the unintended consequences of that second intervention become appar-

ent, they spawn more intervention and more laws.

And on and on it goes. Chaos upon chaos.

One choice Biden had early on was to go back to the beginning — President Trump’s policies, which staunched the flow of illegal immigrants.

Logic would say go back and do what worked. But no, politicians can never admit their opponents were right. They must always intervene, inevitably making things worse.

— MW

CHAOS FROM CENTRAL PLANNING You remember 2019. The U.S. economy was rocking across almost all sectors.

But the consequences of two events brought rising prosperity to a halt: The U.S. Center for Disease Control’s investment in and work with the Wuhan lab in China on coronavirus research and the election of Joe Biden.

Chaos ensued — all of it triggered because of government interventionism. With the spread of COVID-19 and the federal government’s mandates and interventions, Americans have been enduring 19 months of economic and social chaos.

Just pick up the Wall Street Journal each day. The daily dose of negative economic headlines illustrates the chaos. A recent sampling: n “Flat-declining household income Americans as a whole have experienced two years in a row of flat or declining household income, government data showed.” n “S&P suffers worst day in over two years, as investors consider rate outlook” n “Electric bills rise nationwide as natural-gas prices climb” n “Mortgage rates jump past 6%, hit highest mark since 2008” n “Housing slowdown weighs on retailers” n “Strike threat triggers supply concerns” n “Supplier inflation remains elevated” n “Health-plan premiums set to rise sharply” n “FedEx sales drop below expectations” n “Schools adopt four-day weeks to attract, keep staff” n “Aviation crisis is now regional — staff shortages, capacity cuts strain sector”

CHAOTIC EFFECTS OF INTERVENTIONISM Here are some of the obvious effects of policy actions and mandates since the spread of COVID and Biden’s election in 2020: n Businesses forced to close because of shutdown mandates n Labor shortages (People earning more from government checks than their jobs; quitting the work force) n Goods shortages (toilet paper, cleaning supplies, foods) n Restaurant food shortages — not enough truck drivers to deliver to restaurants n 40-year inflation records n Skyrocketing gasoline, energy and food prices n Gasoline and energy shortages n Rising interest rates n Home sales coming to a halt n FedEx CEO: Coming worldwide recession n Baby formula shortage n Mandated vaccines: people quit work, more labor shortages n CDC COVID-19 vaccine mandates and policies: hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths (e.g. Remdesivir) and illnesses n Hospital worker crises n Censorship, ostracization and ruined lives of doctors who questioned CDC n Recruitment shortage in military because of vaccine mandates and social engineering n Oil and gas production employees out of work because of Biden policies to stop drilling and production n Open border issues: rising crime; strains on local communities; record drug overdose deaths n Inflation effect: rampant crime (car thefts at record levels)

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Completion of new gates at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport is scheduled for early 2025, with authorities urging earlier completion.

ANDREW WARFIELD STAFF WRITER

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An exterior rendering of the new ground boarding facility under development at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

is slated for completion in the second quarter of 2025, but authority board members asked SRQ President and CEO Rick Piccolo if an earlier completion date — ideally by October 2024 — could be incentivized. That would be in time to take advantage of the beginning of the busy travel season and perhaps generate additional revenues.

Airlines, however, must be notified of the additional gate capacity well in advance to develop their flight schedules if expansion is in their plans.

In that event, a certain date must be certain.

“We’d have to be pretty certain that we can meet that schedule because airlines are going to have to commit six months ahead of time to any expanded service,” Piccolo said.

How much additional revenue SRQ might expect to gain from an earlier completion, he added, is guesswork.

“It’s difficult to predict, because you have to predict how many more flights they would add and then factor in how much each passenger spends, and then factor into your agreement that you share in that revenue stream with the airlines as it relates to the rates and charges,” Piccolo said. “It would be difficult to put a solid number to it, because you can’t predict how much more traffic.”

FLYING HIGH

While August passenger traffic at SRQ dropped below monthly levels seen in 2021, annual passenger traffic at the airport is still up for the first eight months of 2022. In a report from the airport, CEO Rick Piccolo said August traffic fell year over year by 2.9% to 236,799 passengers.

Still, for 2022, traffic is up 28.6% from the first eight months of 2021, rising to 2.6 million passengers. In October, Allegiant Air will begin service to Minneapolis, Air Canada will resume seasonal service to Toronto and in November, Breeze Airways will begin flying to White Plains, New York.

Editorial, letters hit the right tone

Commissioners show cavalier attitude

Your editorial of Sept. 15 and letters from Bob Gault and Joel Schleicher were powerful.

Lies told often enough become truth, or so the propagandists hope.

We can go down the line: Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, President Obama, President Biden, CNN, MSNBC. But within each, the inherent lie manifests itself for all to see, but the people’s response in protest is suppressed by the power of the state. And that’s what Communism, Socialism and Fascism all have in common: utopia for the few at the top.

Pretend to rally for the proletariat, the peasants, the minorities for their good. Do whatever it takes to achieve power and then stop. No need to fulfill anything for them; you’ve already hit your nirvana.

Then pit every group you can identify against the other to create maximum social unrest, which of course can only be attributed to the failings of your opponents, your enemies. Vilify them, blame them for every social, societal ill. Then preach the gospel of redemption, that only you and your kind represent hope for the future and lasting peace and prosperity for everyone who swallows your gospel.

Obama had Saul Alinsky (Chicago communist and “community organizer”) and Elijah Mohammad (Black Muslim leader in Chicago in the 1960s and beyond) as his mentors. Much of it has rubbed off on Biden after eight years under his tutelage. We’re experiencing the ongoing effects of these teachings to our great societal detriment and acrimony.

Bob Gault is right: “Ignorance of history is our true enemy.”

Regarding Sarasota County’s new headquarters plans: Putting aside the value of the land (downtown on Ringling Boulevard versus Fruitville Road east of Interstate 75), the County Commission showed its negotiating prowess in deciding on the new county headquarters building.

New: 120,00 square feet for $74 million ($616 per square foot) But no worries, they sold the existing 170,000 square foot building for $25 million ($147 per square foot).

They will pay four times more for the new building. The real value of the package, though, with the land, is probably closer to 10 times.

What the commission really showed is its cavalier attitude toward taxpayers.

To them, it’s not real money. And besides, all the budget decisions are made in the summer, when many taxpayers aren’t here.

I used to think that government only worked at the local level. I’m starting now to question that.

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That’s what Scott Beck, division manager of DeAngelis Diamond, the project’s general contractor, told members of the Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority Board during its August meeting.

The centerpiece of the expansion is a ground-level terminal that will add five outdoor-boarding gates to SRQ’s 13 indoor gates in Concourse B. The airport doesn’t have a Concourse A. That’s for further expansion.

For now, the ground-level boarding facility — essentially a single lobby with five aircraft parking positions — is the fastest way to add gates and capacity.

Initial work for this and other aspects of the $72 million project is largely infrastructure as SRQ works toward an early 2025 completion of the new boarding facility, later for some of the other projects.

Site enabling and utilities projects, beginning in the fourth quarter of 2022, include expansion of the apron to accommodate the footprint of the new gate area. But there is more to the project, which will be paid for by airport capital funds. Included in the scope of work are escalator replacements at the terminal, HVAC replacement, electrical upgrades and bump-outs in Concourse B that will accommodate retail and/or restaurant space.

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With a new budget reflecting the return of a previously removed shade structure, the Sarasota City Commission on Monday approved replacing the splash pad and playground at Bayfront Park.

The centerpiece of the $3.22 million playground renovation is the splash pad, which will be new from below the ground up. The popular but antiquated 27-year-old water feature could no longer be properly maintained, largely because of aging and inaccessible plumbing. It has been closed for several months.

A point of concern among commissioners at their July 5 meeting was the lack of shade structure, which was one of several features removed to reduce the project cost to $2.9 million. At that meeting, City Manager Marlon Brown said he would scour the budget to find the additional $300,000 to include the shade structure in the project.

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That shade structure its strategically located between the splash pad and the playground, Parks and Recreation Department Director Jerry Fogle told commissioners.

“You could be sitting in the covered area and be watching out for your children on the splash pad and on the playground at the same time as opposed to the two different levels that we have today, where there they seem like they’re two separate parks,” said Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch. “It just makes that a safer situation.”

Currently sitting at sea level, the new splash pad will be elevated by several feet but won’t appear so because the entire grade will be gradually raised between the bayfront and the water feature.

Raising the splash pad, explained Phil Smith, of project contractor Jon F. Swift Inc., will provide easier access to the plumbing when repairs and maintenance are required.

“Some of the sidewalks are being adjusted and the grade is being brought up to blend in, so that whole area is being raised up not just the splash pad proper,” Smith said.

“The splash pad will be way easier to maintain with less moving parts than we currently have.”

Fogle said the playground will be closed soon so construction can begin.

The playground structures will also be made of more durable materials.

The $3.2 million Bayfront Park project includes a replacement of the playground, with one feature made in keeping with a shipwreck theme.

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OUTSPOKEN 7 p.m. 1421 Boulevard of the Arts.

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The Ladd brothers celebrate their familial connection and their childhood memories in their art.

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conversation with artist brothers Steven and William Ladd is a window into their creative process. They’re spitting out ideas in rapid-fire bursts and finishing each other’s sentences, sometimes coloring in the gaps and sometimes contradicting each other.

They’re laughing, hamming it up and being as open as they can be. And when it’s over, they ask for a hug.

The Ladd brothers, separated by one year in age, began collaborating in a high school ceramics lab and they’ve never really stopped.

Their new exhibit at the Sarasota Art Museum, “Lead With a Laugh,” represents the past decade of their work with textiles and beads.

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There are huge wall hangings of various shaded colorings and a floor display that represents their property in upstate New York.

Another wall display is a mock family tree with beaded portraits of their various family members, each representing about 60 hours of work.

William Ladd, who constructs most of the artwork, says he wakes up at 5 a.m. and works out before he heads to his studio. Then he works about eight hours at beading and weaving before he goes home, and ultimately he works even more once he gets there.

“I’ll work studio hours, then I go home,” he says. “Usually I’m hanging out with my kids; I’m playing with them for a couple hours. And then when they’re like, ‘OK, we’ve had enough Dad,’ I’ll start working on beaded portraits. You make time for a little bit of everything.”

At root, the brothers say, they love what they do, so it doesn’t feel like work. Their work ethic comes from their father, they say, who was a top electrician in St. Louis who worked 70 hours a week for most of their childhood. And it wasn’t just that; he worked with his brothers, providing a family template for William and Steven that lasts to this day.

Their mom, meanwhile, provided them and their two siblings with love and affection and nourishment. And that’s why much of their art is rooted in family nostalgia and sentimentality but also with a biting sense of humor and an ear for subversion.

“Our mom and dad were like 20 and they had four kids,” says William, telling a long story about the green panel in a multicolored wall display. “We spent a lot of time at our grandparents. My grandfather was a baker, and my grandmother would watch us. It was four of us.

“We would be running around and we’d be like ‘What’s for dinner?’ and she’d be like ‘Poison.’ So we titled the green one ‘Poison’ after Grandma.’”

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Steven Ladd, older than William by one year, handles the business end of their art practice now, and he says their industry really began accidentally. They were working in the advertising business and living together in Bushwick, New York. During their free time, they were making intricate

accessories and handbags that took hundreds of hours apiece.

And then, one day, when they were working as set assistants for a Neiman Marcus catalogue photo shoot, an executive saw their sidework and asked to include it in the catalogue.

“The next day, we got incorporated as a handbag and accessory company,” says Steven Ladd. “That’s the company we’re still incorporated as today. That was January of 2000.”

Now, 20-plus years later, their lives have changed and so has their art. The Ladd brothers work together in their studio five days a week, and they work together at their property in upstate New York.

It’s gotten to the point that they enlist student interns to help them with their artwork, and their parents and uncles and cousins also have spent time beading and weaving.

“Work for me, work for free,” jokes William of his family and friends assembly line. “You have to wait until they volunteer. If you draft them, people will start dodging that.”

One of their latest works, the representation of their property, began seven-and-a-half years ago but never really took shape until recently.

William Ladd says he began weaving the trees at his son’s gymnastics lessons, and the next thing he knew he had a veritable forest.

Then, when the plans for their exhibit at Sarasota Art Museum came around, the brothers knew exactly how to use their trees.

They’d use them to depict the place that inspires them.

“We have this property in upstate New York called Santa Poco,” says Steven, hovering over the model.

“We built a shed for me, one for William and one for my Mom and Dad. We’re always kind of up there together hanging out and brainstorming and thinking. And we have two kind of distinct areas of the property; we have like a wood forest where we have those sheds. And then we have a like a creek bisecting the property and then a whole hillside over here.”

The family tree project happened just as organically. William did a beaded portrait of his son Mateo about three-and-a-half years ago, and then he did one of himself.

Soon after, he found himself doing a portrait of his wife and he figured

he’d keep on going and do his entire family. But there are a lot of Ladds.

That extended family tree grew to 20 beaded portraits, all on display at “Lead With a Laugh.” William jokes that at the end of the project, when they were considering expanding the family tree to 25 frames, he had to prioritize whose face was worth spending 60 hours depicting.

“It’s better to do younger kids because their faces are smaller,” he says of the beading process.

“But all the kids are grown now.”

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The Ladd family takeover of the Sarasota Art Museum will continue in October with an exhibit chronicling the history of the Scrollathon, an interactive art experience that has reached more than 10,000 artists nationwide.

That endeavor — which the brothers started 17 years ago in St. Louis — encourages people to make personal artistic statements and then weaves them all together to tell a greater narrative of our society.

The theme this year is grandiose: It’s the story of America and what binds us together as citizens.

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managed to show their work in galleries as far-flung as Hawaii and Sheboygan, Ill., and now they have the hard job of summing it all up.

“When the community comes here, they’re going to be able to walk through this whole exhibition and see this artwork before they go into the Scrollathon,” says Steven.

“A lot of times when we’re working with the communities that we work with on the Scrollathon, they don’t necessarily have the sense that artists exhibiting in museums are actually alive. And they also don’t think that the things they make can be exhibited in museums. So here they’ll be able to experience the artwork we made, meet us and know that we’re alive and not dead. And then also contribute to a collaborative master work that they helped to make.”

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Steven and William Ladd have been collaborating on art their entire adult lives.

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EQUINOX: A CELTIC CELEBRATION Celebrate the changing of the seasons with Key Chorale. The symphonic choral group is welcoming a group of artists who specialize in traditional Celtic sounds, and they’ll be playing a tribute to the old country on tracks like “Danny Boy” and others you may not have heard yet. Tenor Brad Diamond will join the group, as will Irish fiddle champ Dylan Foley.

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It’s time to get sweaty and learn some salsa. The Bishop Museum’s After Dark series kicks off with an evening of dance in the museum’s courtyard. Instructors from the Jae Phillips Dance Studio will teach you the steps for the first hour, and the last two hours are open dancing.

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JULIE SCOGGINS 7 p.m. at McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre, 1923 Ringling Blvd. $25 Visit McCurdysComedy.com.

You’re probably familiar with Jimmy Stewart as an icon of decency. But have you seen him when he’s having delusional fantasies about a gigantic man-sized rabbit? Stewart chews up scenery in this 1950 comedy about an eccentric man who may or may not wind up committed to a mental hospital and about his family members who may or may not see the rabbit, too.

Julie Scoggins spent the first arc of her career selling Doritos on a tropical island. Now she travels around the country making people laugh for a living. Scoggins, the self-styled “Queen of Clubs,” bills herself on her website as a “former trucker, pooper scooper and charm school graduate.” She’s been honing her act for decades, and she’ll be at McCurdy’s for six shows running through Sunday.

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Step back in time six decades for a 1960 performance of a Richard Strauss masterwork. This threehour spectacle features the standout work of conductor Herbert von Karajan and singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Otto Edelmann, not to mention the talents of the Vienna State Opera Ballet, the Vienna State Opera Chorus and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Jonathan Larson never got to see his masterwork become a success. But decades later, you can enjoy it in a way he never could. Larson died the night before his musical — loosely based on Puccini’s “La Boheme” — made its Off Broadway debut in 1996, and he was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Twentyfive years later, his creation is still thrilling audiences.

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hrista Pecha likes to sing to Milo, her dog.

Pecha also sings to her husband, she sings to her two children, she sings when she’s driving, at work and everything in between. Pop, R&B, oldies and Spanish music, it’s all the same and it’s all good to the recent Sarasota transplant.

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Pecha recently claimed the top prize at the Solid Grand Karaoke Contest at The Gator Club, a 10-week endeavor that ended with a showdown between finalists on Sept. 14.

The contest, which started in early July, featured competitors belting out crowd-pleasing hits and their personal favorites in the hopes of winning cash prizes.

Lalo Murillo, a DJ and Sarasota native, led the competition each Wednesday (each round started late at night and would often end at early hours in the morning) and worked with a series of judges to determine who would move on to the next round. Contestants from each night would be picked to move on to the final competition on Sept. 14.

Many competed, but only Pecha prevailed — and she’s still enjoying her victory days after it happened.

“I felt so good,” Pecha said. “I went home to tell my daughter and husband; they were staying up. They said, ‘We told you.’”

Though she’s been singing all her life, Pecha, 36, moved to Sarasota from Los Angeles a couple years ago.

She’s been putting in the work with her pet-sitting and dog-walking business “Wiggle Your Tail Pet Care,” but all the while Pecha has had her eye on singing competitions in the area.

“I’d go (to watch singing compe-

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Christa Pecha recently cleared the Solid Grand Karaoke contest at Gator Club.

She’s continued to sing to her dog Milo since.

Jim Thomas sings “Bed of Roses” by Bon Jovi to an electrified crowd.

titions) almost every night,” Pecha said. “This is my thing.”

Eventually, she decided to make a go of it herself. Pecha signed up to compete in one of the Gator Club’s karaoke contests a few months ago, but she’ll be the first to admit she may have not completely planned it the right way.

Pecha picked “Woman” by Doja Cat as her song choice, but it didn’t get the reception she hoped for.

“I worked hard to practice everything about it. I wanted to test it out (at the competition),” Pecha said. “It probably wasn’t the right time.”

She looked at the Solid Grand singing competition with a more calculated bent.

“I wanted to be strategic this time,” Pecha said.

“I wanted to pick songs that would showcase my range.”

The importance of sheer singing ability can’t be denied, but Pecha is of a mind that communicating with the crowd is just as important a factor when singing karaoke or in a group setting.

“You have to be involved with the audience,” Pecha said. “You have to be looking at people and be engaging.”

When the competition rolled around, Pecha cleared the first round of the competition and was placed to compete in the finalists’ round on Sept. 14.

“I was relieved,” Pecha said. “I didn’t know how many times I’d have to go to Gator Club to compete,” Pecha still felt nervous. She’d be competing against singers who all cleared their rounds in earlier weeks.

“I was excited and anxious,” Pecha said. “I knew the other people picked were really good, and you just never know.

Pecha put a lot of thought into what songs should we belt out for the final night — if she made it through each round.

“There’s some songs people sing that aren’t popular; people don’t know the words and sing along,” Pecha said. “You have to pick a song that’s fun, that’s important.”

Pecha started out in the finalist night with “Always Remember Us This Way” by Lady Gaga, a pick she hoped would get the crowd emotional and shock them with energy.

That song cleared her for the next round, and Pecha had the choice between Avril Lavigne and Whitney Houston to sing next. She went with the latter.

“Whitney Houston’s ‘I Have Nothing’ felt like a smoother song, it was pleasant to the ears,” Pecha said.

“It’s also a famous song that people struggle to sing. I (wanted) to show I could do it.”

That decision paid off, and Pecha advanced to the final portion of the night around midnight.

At that point she went for soul — Pecha sang “Love On The Brain” by Rihanna. She felt it was a song she could put a lot of heart and soul into.

There were plenty of nerves at that point — Pecha had never advanced this far in the competition and was competing against singers who had — but she was still ready to do her best.

“I thought ‘I’m going to do this, and I’m going to do this so well,’” Pecha said.

She still remembers the relief she felt when the song started and the crowd started to respond and cheer.

Soon they were singing right along with her.

“It pushed me to give it my all and really hit those notes,” Pecha said.

What’s next for Pecha? The new champion plans to keep singing and taking part in competitions. She’ll just be feeling much more assured in herself when she does.

“I feel a lot more confident with my singing,” Pecha said.

“This is the first time I’ve won anything like this. I couldn’t have wanted anything more.”

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The organization hosted its annual pirate-themed celebration a day before Sept. 19, the day chosen by a pair of Oregon friends in 1995 for their parody holiday that gained a widespread following after a column about the subject by Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry seven years later.

Families arrived wearing nautical attire — or picked out costumes from the Children’s Garden wardrobe — and set about hunting for Jolly Roger flags and getting pirate-themed water tattoos.

The activity eventually subsided, and children sat down to hear pirate-themed stories from Children’s Garden staff.

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Irene Mary (Chmielewski) Gaide of Sarasota, Florida and formerly of Leslie, Jackson and Highland Michigan passed away on Friday, August 19, 2022 in Florida at the age of 79 years.

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Irene is survived by her children, Stephanie (Jeffrey) Mims and Jennifer (Jeffrey) Schram, her 4 grandchildren, Allison Schram, Alex Mims, Kaitlyn Schram and Sydney Mims, her 2 nieces, Wendy (James “Taki”) Miller and Julie (Steve) Salmen and one nephew, Michael Chmielewski. She also leaves extended family around the Jackson and Mid-Michigan area.

Irene is preceded in death by her parents, Leo and Stella Chmielewski of Leslie, Michigan. Her brother, Norman (Claudia) Chmielewski, passed away on September 12, 2022.

Irene was born Irene Mary Chmielewski on January 15, 1943 in Jackson, Michigan. Her family moved to Leslie, Michigan in 1954 and she graduated from Leslie High School in 1961. Irene attended Michigan State University (MSU) from 19611968 where she received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. She practiced veterinary medicine from 1970 - 2006 at Gaide Veterinary Hospital in Jackson, Michigan. Irene was very invested

Irene was always very passionate about her animals, which was why she decided to become a veterinarian, instead of a physician. in MSU and in 2001, she and her then husband were one of the significant donors for the Michigan State University McPhail Equine Performance Center which focuses on clinical and research studies of equine performance problems in all types of horses.

Irene was always very passionate about her animals, which was why she decided to become a veterinarian, instead of a physician. During her high school and college years, she was very involved in showing sheep and cattle. Highlights include her

having one Grand Champion Steer at the Ingham County Fair and winning second place overall nationally at the Chicago International Livestock show while on MSU’s collegiate Livestock Judging team, where she scored the highest score of any woman judge in the history of the competition. She also loved horses and spent over 20 years on a horse farm in Leslie, Michigan where her family bred, trained and sold standardbred race horses. Irene was also involved in showing Arabian horses with her daughter Jennifer, winning Top Ten at the US and Canadian Nationals for Western Pleasure on her horse Nubert in 1994.

Irene always had many pets around her, whether they be cats, dogs, horses, donkeys or fish. For decades, she could always be seen with a Yorkie (Muffy, Millie, Lizzie) and a Golden Retriever (Lucy, Bess, Meg).

According to Irene’s wishes, cremation has taken place. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 11:00 AM at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Jackson, Michigan. Father James Shaver and Deacon Patrick Gorczyca will be the Celebrants. Interment and Graveside Prayers will be held immediately following the Mass at St. John’s Catholic Cemetery.

The family will receive friends on Saturday, October 1 at St. John’s Church from 10:00 to 10:45 AM with a Rosary Service at 10:45 AM. Irene had many charities that were close to her heart.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Cascades Humane Society (https:// chspets.com/) in Jackson, MI, Horses Haven (https:// www.horseshaven.org/) in Howell, MI or National Kidney Foundation (https:// www.kidney.org/).

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SARASOTA 3323 W Forest Lake Circle 3 Beds 3 Baths 4,544 Sq. Ft. Linda Driggs & Sara Boudarga 941-374-2920 A4544335 $2,810,000

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condominium in Block 6 tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. William and Catherine Stark, of Narragansett, Rhode Island, sold their Unit 1405 condominium at 401 Quay Commons to Charles Premone, trustee, of Sarasota, for $6.1 million. Built in 2021, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 3,647 square feet of living area. It sold for $4,212,600 in 2021.

Harmony Gary and Ellen O’Sullivan sold their home at 323 Treasure Boat Way to Jason and Lisa Prefontaine, of Sarasota, for $2.06 million. Built in 1956, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 2,726 square feet of living area. It sold for $267,900 in 1995.

OSPREY: $935,000

Willowbend Lester and Marsha Kolodny, of Osprey, sold their home at 632 Crane Prairie Way to Thomas Andrew Scott and Donna Scott, of Sarasota, for $935,000. Built in 2004, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,506 square feet of living area.

PALMER RANCH: $799,000

Esplanade on Palmer Ranch Courtney Smith, trustee, of Bedford, New Hampshire, sold the home at to Patricia Edgerly, of Reading, Massachusetts, for $799,000. Built in 2021, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,682 square feet of living area. It sold for $466,100 in 2021.

PHILLIPPI SHORES

Wade and Betty Matthews, of Sarasota, sold their home at 5152 Admiral Place to Jason and Shauna Wagner, of Sarasota, for $2.16 million. Built in 1973, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 3,012 square feet of living area. It sold for $315,400 in 1991.

NOKOMIS: $725,000

SARASOTA BAY CLUB

MCINTYRE WILSON POTTER’S

Adam and Nina Ziff, of Sarasota, sold two properties at 1654 Arlington St. to One Arlington LLC for $1,575,000. The first property was built in 1925, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 1,914 square feet of living area. The second property was built in 1925, it has one bedroom, one bath and 600 square feet of living area. They sold for $775,000 in 2007.

ONE WATERGATE

Robyn Levin, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the Unit 3-C condominium at 1111 N. Gulfstream Ave. to Jeff Charles Wagner and Shannon Marie McAllister, of Goshen, Kentucky, for $1,145,000. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,736

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Sarasota Bay Club LLC sold the Unit 713 condominium at 1301 Tamiami Trail to Jeremiah and Jane Cronin, of Sarasota, for $1.8 million. Built in 2000, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,772 square feet of living area. It sold for $875,000 in 2009.

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REAL ESTATE

Quay property resells for $6.1 million

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Unit 1405 at 401 Quay Commons has three bedrooms, three baths and 3,647 square feet of living area.

Sorrento Woods Cynthia Coffin, of High Point, North Carolina, sold her home at 1089 Delacroix Circle to Dawn Slayton, of Nokomis, for $725,000. Built in 1995, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,908 square feet of living area. It sold for $448,000 in 2005.

square feet of living area. It sold for $482,500 in 2014.

EMBASSY HOUSE

John Dumbaugh, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the Unit 901 condominium at 770 S. Palm Ave. to Richard and April Lane, of Sarasota, for $1.12 million. Built in 1975, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,408 square feet of living area. It sold for $575,000 in 2005.

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Applicant

835 Norsota Way

Renovations

David Leland

Amount

2538 Loma Linda St.

Addition

Lee Abbott

$216,259

3039 Bay St.

Remodel

John Stoltzfus

$112,855

1100 S. Conrad Ave.

Alterations

Bruce Mast

$75,500

2261 Hyde Park St.

Pool

Patrick Doyle

$50,000

1750 Seminole Drive

Re-roof

Jeremy Baskin

$36,816

1516 N. Brink Ave.

Solar System

Gil Artilez

$28,920

770 S. Palm Ave. #1004

Alterations

Scott Blum

$25,000

3830 Chapel Drive

Re-roof

Kenneth Gordon

$25,000

1771 Ringling Blvd. #1103

Renovations

Vincent Amato, trustee

$23,700

Amount

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Permit

Applicant

5924 Midnight Pass Road

Alterations

Mary Lou Otting,

Downtown Sarasota

$100,000

#307 trustee 563 Pine Ranch E. Road

John Cushman

$100,000

1325 S. Portofino Drive #310 Renovations

Redo Pool/Deck

Albert Crosby

$88,000

2401 Cardwell Way

Pool/Deck

David Seaman

$80,000

6234 Midnight Pass Road

Alterations

Eric Kindlund

$75,000

5506 Cape Leyte Drive

Alterations

Donald Oakes

$60,511

896 Mac Ewen Drive

Doors

Nanci Mackenzie

$53,681

5880 Midnight Pass Road

Windows/Doors

Leonard Feddema

$50,583

703 Pine Run Drive

Renovations

Marc Young

$50,000

8660 Woodbriar Drive

Windows/Doors

Walter Tibbet

$46,000

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New York, sold their home at 1380 Tearose Place to Jeffrey Louis Getis, trustee, of Sarasota, for $1,023,000.

Built in 1998, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,918 square feet of living area. It sold for $605,000 in 2018.

POMS PARK

Anthony Gabriel and Michelle Louise Gabriel, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2365 Novus St. to Donald Angelo Chiusa Jr., trustee, of Sarasota, for $960,000. Built in 2017, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,947 square feet of living area.

Victoria Bannister sold the home at 2365 Bay St. to Sandra Colner, of Portland, Oregon, for $525,000.

Built in 1961, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,732 square feet of living area. It sold for $76,400 in 1995.

NICHOL’S

Diane Lynne Chanako-Turner, of Sarasota, sold the home at 1747 Hyde Park St. to Giorgio Salameh and Noreen Slaalien, of Sarasota, for $900,000. Built in 1948, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,304 square feet of living area.

It sold for $138,000 in 1989.

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Scott Sayles and Renee Drewry Sayles, of Lynchburg, Virginia, sold their home at 2101 River Ridge

Scarsdale, New York, sold the Unit 203 condominium at 835 S. Osprey Ave. to Rosemary O’Brien, of Chicago, for $525,500. Built in 1985, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,320 square feet of living area. It sold for $254,000 in 2016.

Drive to Jeff and Lindsay Sherwin, of Sarasota, for $900,000. Built in 1972, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,747 square feet of living area. It sold for $568,000 in 2021.

Alfred DiFiore and Yvonne DiFiore, trustees, of Bradenton, sold the home at 2665 Datura St. to Stanislav Aizin and Liudmila Aizina, of Sarasota, for $700,000. Built in 1965, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,147 square feet of living area. It sold for $59,000 in 1982.

SIESTA KEY

SARASOTA SURF AND RACQUET CLUB

Andrew and Theresa Lucibello, of Wallingford, Connecticut, sold their Unit 1006 condominium at 5920 Midnight Pass Road to Michael Massa, trustee, of Punta Gorda, for $1.35 million. Built in 1971, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,234 square feet of living area. It sold for $540,000 in 2009.

CMT Financial LLC sold the home at 2408 Sunnyside St. to Dylan Scott Dean, of Sarasota, for $542,000. Built in 1958, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,652 square feet of living area. It sold for $340,000 in 2021.

SANDY COVE

Michael and Janet Caliendo, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 501 condominium at 4900 Ocean Blvd. to Paula and Brandon Kindle, of Arlington, Massachusetts, for $1.1 million. Built in 1978, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 1,867 square feet of living area. It sold for $675,000 in 2016.

THE LANDINGS TREEHOUSE

Scott Hechlik, trustee, sold the Unit 21 condominium at 1356 Landings Drive to David Lannik, trustee, and Susan Kimball, of Norfolk, Virginia, for $660,000. Built in 1981, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,136 square feet of living area. It sold for $475,000 in 2018.

Marina Zemskova, of Rockville, Maryland, for $620,000. Built in 1996, it has three bedrooms, twoand-a-half baths, a pool and 2,253 square feet of living area. It sold for $425,000 in 2020.

VILLA D’ESTE

James and Pamela Sue Hager, of Bloomingdale, Illinois, sold their home at 4560 Las Brisas Lane to Arthur and Stacy Schaufus, of Waltham, Massachusetts, for $530,000. Built in 1988, it has two bedrooms, three baths and 2,208 square feet of living area. It sold for $300,000 in 2001.

HARBOR TOWERS YACHT AND RACQUET CLUB

Loren Impson and Janet Brewer, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, sold their Unit 530 condominium at 5855 Midnight Pass Road to Maury Goldman, trustee, of Middleton, Massachusetts, for $734,900. Built in 1976, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,152 square feet of living area. It sold for $500,000 in 2020.

OSPREY

EMERALD WOODS AT OAKS

Clark and Margaret Frame, of Osprey, sold their home at 105 Turquoise Lane to J. Homer and Nina Edmonson, of Osprey, for $765,000.

Built in 2001, it has three bedrooms, two-and-two-half baths, a pool and 2,606 square feet of living area.

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“All the other sports were shut down, so I started running and I found a passion for it.”

— Cardinal Mooney High’s Addison Dempsey SEE PAGE 10B

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ow about Brian Battie, huh? The former Sarasota High back ran for 150 yards and a touchdown for South Florida in the Bulls’ Sept. 17 close loss against Florida. It was his second straight game with more than 100 yards. … Marlon Mack is back, on an NFL roster, that is. The 1-1 San Francisco 49ers promoted the Booker High running back from their practice squad this week after two running backs went down with injuries. Can he help? Football fans around here already know the answer. … Sarasota Sharks swimmers Michaela Mattes (who also swims for Cardinal Mooney High) and Gracie Weyant (Riverview High) were named to the 2022-2023 USA Swimming National Junior Team on Tuesday.

The Sharks’ Brent Arckey was also named the National Junior Team coach.

Making the Junior National team is not a guarantee of anything more than that, like a future Olympic team spot, but it’s a good first step. Ask Weyant’s sister, Emma, who once was named to the Junior National team — and then won silver in Tokyo last summer. … There have been past complaints about lightning delays in this space, but the rainy weather does have one big plus: It makes football look awesome. Riverview High’s game against Lehigh High this past weekend was played in a steady drizzle, and it upped the intensity and the experience for everyone. Well, maybe not the Rams’ poor Kiltie Band, which was instructed to wear ponchos in the stands during the second half to protect their uniforms. Otherwise, it was great. … Team USA took home gold medals at the World Baseball Softball Confederation U18 Baseball World Cup on Sept. 18 after defeating Taipei 5-1 at Ed Smith Stadium. It was the fifth gold meal in the last six tournaments for Team USA. Remember the name Bryce Eldridge: The Vienna, Virginia, native took home MVP honors after hitting .316 with three home runs and 13 RBI during the tournament.

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TIME TO BE RAM TOUGH After a 31-28 win over Lehigh High on Sept. 16, Riverview still has a chance to make noise in 2022, even after a slow start.

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othing about the 2022 season has been easy for the Riverview High football team.

Not even its first victory.

Rams coach Josh Smithers rested his hands on his knees Sept. 16 after talking to his team after a 31-28 home win over Lehigh (1-3), letting some of his stress go.

“That was rough,” Smithers said.

“But this was a huge win. We lost to two good teams the first two weeks and then had a heartbreaker last week (a double-overtime loss to Palmetto). This win is a testament to our seniors. We came back to work this week and did not waver. They all had each other’s backs. We got this win, and that’s what we needed.”

Smithers’ stress came from more than the close score. The Rams (1-3) took a 21-0 lead on the Lightning before letting Lehigh back into the game via fumbles and interceptions.

In other words, the Rams almost beat themselves. But “almost” doesn’t count for win-loss records, so the Rams will celebrate the victory like they would any other. Most years, the team would have more than one of them by now, but its 2022 slate

Charles Lester III runs down the field after snagging an interception in the fourth quarter against Lehigh.

Rams senior Lauriel “Scoota” Trotman rushed for 114 yards and a touchdown against Lehigh High.

“This win is a testament to our seniors. We came back to work this week and did not waver. They all had each other’s backs.”

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began with tough road games against Sanford Seminole High (4-0) and Gainesville Buchholz High (3-0).

Then the Rams dropped a heartbreaker against Palmetto (2-2), 17-14, in double overtime, in part because senior kicker Stone Springman was not available.

Springman, who is rated 4.5 stars on Kornblue Kicking, is one of the top kickers in the Class of 2023. He missed the first three games of the season recovering from a vertebrae injury he suffered during the offseason. His first field goal attempt of the season came against Lehigh, a 48-yard kick in a light but steady rain to give his team a three-point lead in the fourth quarter.

Springman nailed the kick, dead center.

Smithers said he had no qualms about sending Springman out in such a situation, even coming off an injury.

“Stone had that look in his eyes,” Smithers said. “He was excited to be back. I don’t think there was anything that was going to stop him.”

Springman’s right leg is a weapon the Rams will have the rest of the season, which still means a lot. Even though the team is 1-3, the Rams have plenty for which to play. The Rams are in a three-team district with Venice High (1-2) and Sarasota High (3-1). The winner of the district gets an automatic playoff bid. Games against those teams hold extra meaning. If a team can win both district matchups, it’s in good shape.

For the Rams, the first of those matchups will come Sept. 30 against Venice following an off week.

Venice, too, has played a tough schedule in its opening weeks, dropping a 32-26 game to Miami Northwestern High, a perennial state contender, and a 34-17 game

to Baltimore’s St. Frances Academy, a nationally ranked program. It also eked past Naples High (3-1) 12-11.

In a sarcastic tone, Smithers said his team would try to stay within 50 points of Venice in their game, a reference to his team’s blowout loss to Venice in last year’s playoffs.

Because each team has played a difficult schedule, it’s hard to get a read on each program’s strengths and weaknesses.

Against Lehigh, the Rams’ offensive strength was its rushing attack.

Senior running back Lauriel “Scoota” Trotman, who transferred from Sarasota High, gained 118 yards on 28 carries and scored a touchdown.

But its real strength was its defense, which held Lehigh senior running back Richard Young, an Alabama commit, to 14 carries and 59 yards — 33 of which came on one play. The Rams also intercepted Lehigh senior quarterback Darryl Hodge Jr. four times.

One interception was by junior Charles Lester III, the Rams’ allworld recruit, who showed off his talent by sprinting to a Lehigh deep ball thrown well over his head and catching it over his shoulder in front of the intended receiver, who had no idea a defender was in the area. The catch prompted the Rams’ crowd to erupt in applause.

On offense, Lester — who also plays wide receiver — was doubleteamed most of the game against Lehigh but was able to make a handful of plays down the stretch. He finished with six catches for 53 yards.

Lester will need to be at his best again when playing Venice, which has relied heavily on its passing game in 2022. Indians senior quarterback Brooks Bentley has thrown for 391 yards and four touchdowns through four games.

Senior center Bobby Bowden fires up the Riverview High crowd.

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Sept. 30 Where: Riverview High At stake: A win in a key district game, plus bragging rights Last meeting: Venice won 56-14 during the 2021 postseason Rams player to watch: Lauriel “Scoota” Trotman, a senior running back who had 114 yards and a touchdown against Lehigh High Indians player to watch: Elliot Washington, a senior defensive back who has committed to Penn State

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our weeks into the fall high school season, and Sarasota has already seen amazing performances.

Even though some programs have had a roller coaster of a month, there have been as many great individual showings as there always

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Cardinal Mooney High senior Jordyn Byrd is the reigning Gatorade Florida Volleyball Player of the Year.

These athletes have given strong individual performances, even when their teams have been up and down.

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are in the area. So, I thought it was an apropos time to bring back my occasional look at under-the-radar fall sports performances in the area, ones that might not make headlines but deserve recognition anyway.

As always, the list of players isn’t comprehensive; there are simply too many great players in the area to name.

The Sarasota High football team is 3-1. While Sailors coach Brody Wiseman would likely chalk this up to a team effort — and the Sailors have indeed played well as a unit — it’s difficult to win without a threat

at the quarterback position.

Sailors sophomore Alexander Diaz, who according to MaxPreps is 6-foot-2 and 215 pounds, had thrown for 510 yards and eight touchdowns with four interceptions. It hasn’t been a perfect season: Diaz completed five of 17 passes in the team’s loss to Manatee High. But for a first-time varsity starter, Diaz has been more than solid, and Wiseman has confidence that he’ll continue to get better as he gains experience.

Over at Booker High, junior Ahmad Hunter and sophomore

Rashad Peterson have become a two-headed monster at running back. Hunter transferred from Riverview High; Peterson transferred from Braden River High and began the year at wide receiver before converting to the backfield.

Both have settled in at their new school. In the Tornadoes’ 42-7 win against North Port High on Sept. 16, Hunter had 18 carries for 82 yards and a touchdown, while Peterson had 10 carries for 83 yards, including a 40-yarder. It has been an up-and-down first month of the season for the Tornadoes, but their newfound rushing attack could become a stabilizing force.

The Sarasota Christian football team, in its inaugural eight-oneight season, is still finding its footing. The Blazers are 1-3 and lost 29-0 to St. Petersburg’s Shorecrest Prep on Sept. 16. But a bright spot has been freshman running back Austin Kerle, who is averaging 9.3 yards per carry on the year. I don’t care what kind of football you’re playing, that’s impressive.

Riverview High volleyball got off to a rough start this year, losing its first six games but has gone 5-3 since, including four straight wins before to Tuesday night’s 3-0 loss to Venice High. As the Rams have improved, they have been led offensively by their only senior, Ja’Lona Wright, who led the Rams with 66 kills (2.4 kills per set) entering Tuesday. Wright is also second on the team with seven blocks. As the young Rams continue to learn, they have a superb upperclassmen teammate to watch.

The Cardinal Mooney High volleyball team, which entered the season with typically high expectations, is still working through some challenges. The Cougars are 5-6 but have only played one home match, a 3-2 loss to Venice High. With the home half of their schedule approaching, the Cougars still have a chance to put together a season up to their standard. If they do, senior Jordyn Byrd will lead the way. I admit that it’s a stretch to call Byrd, a University of Texas commit and the reigning Gatorade Florida Volleyball Player of the Year, underrat-

ed, but I do think her eye-popping stats have been taken for granted by the general sports fan. Byrd has recorded 257 kills and is third on the team with 21 blocks as of Sept. 20.

Byrd’s 6.3 kills per set ranks fourth in Florida, according to MaxPreps leaderboards. Her dominance is a thrill to watch.

Booker’s swim team is not usually a powerhouse, but junior Toby Schwenk is proving himself among the state’s best. Schwenk finished sixth in the 500-yard freestyle (4:41.68) and 10th in the 200-yard freestyle (1:45.79) at last year’s state championships. At the Tampa Bay Swimming and Diving Classic, Sept. 16-17 in Tampa, Schwenk finished second in the 500 free (4:53.58) and eighth in the 200 free (1:50.39). The times this year are slower because it’s early in the season and swimmers ramp up their speed as the postseason approaches. The important thing is that he’s on pace to best his old times by the time this year’s championships arrive — and he does seem to be.

A bit of cheating for this last one, but I wanted to give a shout to the Sarasota High boys and girls crosscountry programs, both of which finished seventh as a team in the Elite Boys and Elite Girls divisions of the North Port XC Invitational, held Sept. 16-17 at North Port High.

It’s one of the biggest regular season meets of the year on the Gulf Coast, and doing well there means the teams will likely do well in the postseason. The program always seems to be rock solid despite the constant turnover of high school athletics and losing star runners like Ben Hartvigsen, who is now running for Harvard University. Ben’s brother, Will Hartvigsen, had the school’s best finish at North Port crossing the finish line 13th (16:09.93).

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

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