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By design, city’s golf project an homage In renovation, architect Mandell stays true to Ross’ Bobby Jones plans. SEE PAGE 3A

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Reunion 60 years in the making Members of Cardinal Mooney High School’s graduating class of 1962 returned to the school last weekend for a homecoming 60 years in the making.

Members of the class were introduced during halftime of the school’s Friday night football game and helped crown homecoming queen Celeste Harrell.

Elsbeth Abbate, who was the 1962 class president for the girls, still resides in Sarasota.

“When the school was first completed, we had a gym and one small building for classes,’’ said Abbate.

“In fact, the stairs were located outside of the building.

When we walked on campus this weekend, several of us joked that there needed to be signs with directions as to where the different buildings are located.”

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Kids keep on rolling The St. Paul Early Childhood Learning Center revived its annual Trike a Thon fundraiser on Oct. 25, though delayed by Hurricane Ian. What started as a means to fund a new bike path years ago has become an annual tradition.

Students up to 5 years old put on their helmets, got on their trikes and pedalled around under the watchful eyes of their parents. Many held up signs to cheer their kids on.

Turtle Tracks AS OF OCT. 22 TOTAL NESTS: Siesta Key Lido Key Casey Key

2022 531 160 2,053

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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

First responders fire up best recipes in annual competition. SEE PAGE 1B

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Who will create new arts hall?

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A conceptual rendering of The Bay Park with a new performing arts center on the site of the current Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall parking lot, though a design has not been selected.

Team begins search for performance-site architect. PAGE 5A

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County Commission rejects eastern rezone

“Every architect is different, and every architect changes over time, too.”

Sarasota County commissioners voted 5-0 Tuesday to drop consideration of giving a business corridor overlay designation to a strip of Lorraine Road in Lakewood Ranch from Fruitville Road north to Blue Lake Road.

Commissioners were set to decide whether to grant the business corridor overlay designation for both that section of Lorraine Road along with a section of Lorraine farther south from Clark Road to State Road 681. However, Commissioner Alan Maio made a motion to exclude the Lakewood Ranch stretch of the road from further consideration.

The commissioners then voted 5-0 to exclude the Lakewood Ranch section, before voting unanimously to pass the business corridor overlay designation for the strip of Lorraine from Clark Road to State Road 681.

At the same meeting, commissioners also voted unanimously to approve a major extension of Lakewood Ranch termed “Lakewood Ranch Southeast,” allowing the development of 5,000 homes on 4,120 acres generally between University Parkway and Fruitville Road and east of Lorraine Road.

Richard Mandell, designer of Sarasota’s renovation of the Bobby Jones Golf Club, Read more on page 3A

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Indoor pickleball courts planned as part of The Pickleball Club, a facility opening in Sarasota in early 2023.

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Community leaders prepare to cut the ribbon on The Bay Park’s first phase.

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Art Committee — 1 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 2, City Hall, 1565 First St. n Sarasota County Commission regular meeting — 9 a.m., TuesdayWednesday, Oct. 15-16, Commission Chambers, County Administration Building, 1660 Ringling Blvd. n Sarasota County School Board — 6 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 1, Board Chambers, Landings Administration Complex, 1980 Landings Blvd.

Bay Park’s 1st phase in play C ity, county and state dignitaries and even one from Washington, D.C., took part in last week’s ceremonial opening of The Bay Park on Sarasota’s bayfront.

Many of them dressed in The Bay’s signature blue color motif, which, coincidentally, matched the nearly cloudless sky. County and city commissioners joined members of the Bay Park Conservancy, state Sen. Joe Gruters, U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan and others to cut the ribbon on the park’s first phase.

The 14-acre phase features largely passive recreation space, nature trails, an event lawn, a playground, a mangrove bayou and a welcome center, among others on land immediately adjacent to the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall and Boulevard of the Arts.

And phase one is just the beginning.

Funding was recently approved

by Sarasota’s city and county commissions to launch the second phase of the 53-acre cityowned property west of U.S. 41.

Phase two includes rehabbing the sea wall along the public docks canal near 10th Street and construction of day docks, a sunset boardwalk and pier, improvements on the western shoreline and the Cultural District.

The site is envisioned as a place for gathering and waterfront dining.

Minus $12 million in government grants and $5 million in private funding, a city bond of $48 million in tax increment financing-backed bonds makes up the balance of the funding.

Teen Court lands $30,000 grant Teen Court of Sarasota works to provide local youth who have received school suspensions or civil citations with activities and services that improve their self-esteem and promote a feeling of citizenship.

Those programs often take the form of a courtroom setting, where students and volunteers conduct a trial in front of an adult judge with real consequences, such as community service or restitution.

The Gulf Coast Community Foundation recently provided the nonprofit with a $30,000 grant to continue those programs. The grant funding will also go to Teen Court’s counseling programs for at-risk youth that are in need.

The funding will also go to the CAMP X-RAYD program which teams up with law enforcement, learning life skills.

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Richard Mandell (center) during a master plan walk at the Bobby Jones Golf Complex.

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eaning back in a creaky desk chair inside the last physical vestige of what was the Bobby Jones Golf Club complex, the golf course layout spread out on the conference table before him, Richard Mandell is in his element.

Some 650 miles removed from his office in the meticulously manicured village of Pinehurst, North Carolina — the home of Donald Ross’ arguably signature masterpiece, Pinehurst No. 2 — he sits in the tattered maintenance shed overlooking drawings of the land being reengineered and reshaped into the original Rossdesigned 18 holes.

His boots muddy from an early morning inspection of the project, Mandell, the golf course architect selected by the city to bring Bobby Jones back to an original but improved state, is in town for his biweekly oversight visit. He briefly ponders the question of what he does to relax while here.

“This is relaxing,” Mandell said.

“Sometimes I wonder if there is enough for me to do when I come here, yet I seem to fill my time.

Whenever I have a spare minute, I’m working with the shapers, which is the most crucial element at the ground level.”

The Bobby Jones complex is Mandell’s 11th Donald Ross restoration among dozens of new and renovation projects. After years of delays — he was contracted in 2017 — earth moving began in earnest this year to convert what had been expanded into a

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Richard Mandell has been at work on the city of Sarasota’s golf project since 2017.

36-hole complex in an 18-hole course following the original, nearly 100-year old path. A nature park will one day occupy the remainder of the 261 acres, though building that is a separate project.

Sarasota Parks and Recreation General Manager Sue Martin, who managed the Bobby Jones Complex, sees a contrast between Mandell as an architect and businessman.

“I see a whole different person in Richard than when we were going through the process of preparing the contracts and putting together price estimates — then changing them numerous times — and now to see him out there with boots on the ground,” Martin said. “He’s a totally different person to watch and the vision that he sees, I can’t see. I can only see the old golf course.”

Bobby Jones was closed shortly after the onset of COVID-19, the decision made afterward to not reopen until renovations were complete. Frequently changing plans pushed the start of the restoration multiple times before the city settled on the original 18 holes plus a par-3 layout across Circus Boulevard.

Mandell’s six degrees of separation from Ross starts with his first job, working for golf course architect Dan Maples, first as an intern in 1990 and later full time on staff.

“There’s a direct lineage from Donald Ross to Dan Maples even though they are architects from different eras and used different types of equipment, but the process is the same,” Mandell said. “The way Ross drew his greens is 90% of how Dan Maples draws his.”

THE PRINCIPLES

The Bobby Jones Golf Complex is the 11th Donald Ross course restoration project for Richard Mandell.

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Mandell is also an author. In his book, “The Principles of Golf Architecture,” he catalogs 35 principles applied to thoughtful golf course design. The book highlights the work of several legends of the industry and cites examples of how they implemented the principles in their own designs.

They include Charles McDonald, America’s first golf architect, along with Harry Colt, A.W. Tillinghast, Tom Simpson, Pete Dye, Ross and others.

He has been influenced by all of them, but the $12.5 million golf project will remain true to Ross’s original design. Mandell has worked with some of the famed golf course designer’s original sketches in shaping greens and other land contours.

Most of the modifications are being made to encourage proper drainage of what was formerly a floodplain. Tee to green, though, the layout is the same as when the course was built in 1925.

“This course has evolved and changed, and it has suffered because of all the trees that were added and it became a shade issue,” Mandell said.

“That’s a challenge to bring it back to the original course, but it’s a great responsibility that will increase over

“We are so fortunate that we have Richard Mandell.

Richard has hung in there with us. We’ve called him up last minute and asked ‘Can you fly in and talk to the City Commission? Can you fly in and do community input this week?’ He’s been very flexible with us and very understanding and has hung in there a lot longer than I think the average person would have.”

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time, and not just here. They aren’t making any Ross courses anymore.

Every architect is different, and every architect changes over time, too.

“I’m working on Isla Del Sol Yacht and Country Club in St. Pete right now, and I’m doing something completely different there than I am here.

We’re trying to create something that doesn’t look like the standard ’70s and ’80s Florida golf course, which is also completely different than what we’re doing here.”

Mandell’s experience with Ross layouts was not a primary factor in winning the Bobby Jones contract.

In fact, it wasn’t much of a factor at all because the city’s original version was a renovation of the 36 holes plus the par-3.

“At the time Richard was being considered to do 45 holes, it was not a Donald Ross course anymore.

That had become the back nine of the American and back nine of the British courses,” said Martin, who was a member of the selection committee. “Although it weighed into the decision, it wasn’t top of the list.

Now that the only regulation course is the original Donald Ross course, it absolutely worked out well.”

BRINGING BACK THE FUN

The mission of growing golf extends beyond governing bodies, club pros and organizations that introduce the game to new players. Golf architects play a key role also, and Mandell said he and his contemporaries have the platform to foster enjoyment through design.

The new short course at Bobby Jones, which he expects to open shortly after the main course, is a trend revived from the 1960s and ’70s, but with more thoughtful design.

“The design of that era wasn’t that inspiring,” he said. “We’ve got our adjustable short course here, and I’m planning on it being fun and enjoyable. We’ll have nine green

HE WROTE THE BOOK In addition to a golf course architect, Mandell is a licensed landscape architect, certified arborist and is a member of the USGA Museum Committee.

He has designed more than 75 golf courses in 15 states and China. Growing up in New York, he was surrounded by some of the world’s greatest golf courses, such as Winged Foot, National Golf Links and Bethpage Black, which in part has influenced his golf architecture philosophy.

His book, The Principles of Golf Architecture is his fourth. Each chapter discusses an element or principle of design, and then how it is applied to golf architecture.

“There are seven general elements to design, but then I added the element of nature, which for golf architecture is the most important,” Mandell said.

“Then there are a whole bunch of principles. There’s a chapter of the principle of fairness, but there’s also the principle of difficulty. There’s also the principle of playability and the principle of challenge, and those four words get utilized incorrectly so often. There’s a fine line, but a clear line, in what those four things mean and how you approach golf architecture.”

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Richard Mandell’s book, “The Principles of Golf Architecture.”

complexes and multiple flat areas that will be tee boxes so you can play counterclockwise or clockwise or cross-country. We’ve created five or six different ways to play that golf course so management can change that up on a monthly basis, or a weekly basis — even daily if they want to. That’s innovation that’s trying to create repeat play, and fun and enjoyment.”

Which brings up the principle of fun. That isn’t one of the 35 defined in Mandell’s book, but is perhaps the sum of them combined.

On the back cover of the book is a quote by Bobby Jones himself: “Every golfer worthy of the name should have some acquaintance with the principles of golf course design, not only for the betterment of the game, but for his own selfish enjoyment … When he has taught himself to study a hole from the point of view of the man who laid it out, he will be much more likely to play it correctly.”

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Progress University apartments moves toward planning board

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or the first time since expressing its opposition to Aventon Cos.’ plans to build a 372-unit apartment community at the former Sarasota Kennel Club, a representative of the Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority was back before a city committee to address a similar project nearby.

Last week, Lionel Guilbert, the authority’s senior vice president, appeared before the Development Review Committee to address technical matters related to Progress University, a 280-unit multifamily development at 1400 Desoto Road.

The 16.57-acre site was formerly overflow parking for the dog track.

In September, the Sarasota City Commission approved Aventon Sarasota, which is adjacent to the Progress University site despite objections of Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport President and CEO Rick Piccolo and the airport’s legal counsel. They charged the approval violates an agreement between the city and the airport, which they say restricts residences being built beneath the airport’s 65-decibel day-night average noise level contour.

By contrast, Guilbert wasn’t there to speak in opposition of Progress University. A site plan and rezoning for apartments there was approved in 2011 and has since expired, requiring an updated plan to go before the Planning Board for approval.

MMI Development has petitioned to amend the rezoning ordinance adopted on Dec. 5, 2011, with the new site plan. Because the site was rezoned before the 2018 agreement between the city and airport, the airport cannot oppose the project.

Guilbert’s input addressed height restrictions for permanent structures and temporary installations such as cranes, which must be cleared by the Federal Aviation Administration, plus stormwater basins in close

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He also urged the addition of language that put new residents on notice regarding noise from aircraft.

“People tend to forget that there will be sometimes more noise later and more aircraft operations,” Guilbert said Attorney John Rees of Icard Merrill, who represents MMI, said the developer has experience in building near airports.

“We’ll coordinate with the FAA upon filing to figure out what that maximum height will be. And we’re envisioning it to be only impacting the temporary cranes for construction, and maybe getting trusses up to the roof,” Rees said. “We’ve already taken steps with the wildlife attractions and the stormwater ponds. The prior site plan actually had additional ponds within the airport runway approach, so we’re going to take some additional steps to just ensure that they’re not a wildlife attractant.”

Progress University now moves on to the Planning Board for consideration of site plan approval.

Raleigh, North Carolina-based Aventon Cos. remains in a holding pattern. Representatives have not responded to a request for comment on its status relative to the project.

The site of the 280-unit Progress University apartments would be on the other side of the fence from Tri-Par Estates, a manufactured home community off DeSoto Road.

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ntil now, work on replacing the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall has consisted primarily of creating the financing framework for the $275 million facility.

On Monday, the project took a significant step forward as the Van Wezel Foundation and the city of Sarasota introduced the task force that will be charged with recruiting and selecting an architect to design the Sarasota Performing Arts Center, envisioned as the centerpiece of The Bay, the transformation of the 53-acre bayfront site.

The newly seated Architecture Review Committee is tasked with drafting a request for qualifications, which will be posted for 30 days.

From that list it will invite 15 to 20 requests for proposal approximately 20 days later. The committee will then pare that list to five or six firms, according to Foundation CEO Cheryl Mendelson.

“At no point will architects submit any concept designs during this process,” Mendelson said. “It’s really about their body of work.”

The RFP has attached all of the requirements, including a building brief that includes specs culled from 18,000 survey responses. They include a 2,100-seat main hall, a 300-seat flexible performing space and 165,000 square feet of building utilizing inside and outside education, event and rooftop spaces.

“We don’t want to be too directive as much as talking about the programming we want to achieve so that the architect really has the greatest flexibility to envision a building that will be spectacular,” Mendelson said.

The foundation works in harmony with the Bay Park Conservancy, the nonprofit group chartered by the city to develop and operate The Bay. The Van Wezel Foundation operates in harmony with, but not overseen by,

ON THE TEAM

Community members selected to serve on the Architecture Reveiw Committee for the planned Sarasota Performing Arts Center are: Jenne Britell, Chair: Vice chair of the Van Wezel Foundation Board of Directors, she is an acclaimed director and trustee of public companies and private organizations for more than 20 years following a career as a senior officer of several financial institutions, including GE Capital, and chair of United Rentals.

Mary Bensel: Executive director of The Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall and member of the Broadway League and Florida Presenters.

Mark Famiglio: Co-founder of the Sarasota Film Festival, a 50-year Sarasota resident and investor in the development and growth of many Sarasota neighborhoods.

Michele Hooper: CEO of the Directors Council, governance expert and business leader recently named to Forbes 50/50 Women Making an Impact.

Larry Thompson: Long-time president of Ringling College of Art and Design who successfully led the creation of the Sarasota Art Museum and served as the founding executive director of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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Mendelson said she expects the RFQ and RFP process to take approximately 50 days complete. Once the finalists are selected, site visits and “listening tours” will take place to refine proposals. The search for an architect is funded by a $1 million appropriation from the state.

The first meeting will be Oct. 31.

Mendelson expects the selection process to take about six months.

The timeline for construction to begin is 2026 with a 2028 opening.

The new facility won’t replace the Van Wezel, but will be built on the opposite corner of the parking lot, which will also be converted into green space during the final phase of The Bay redevelopment. The location is necessary in part because FEMA guidelines require it be built outside the “wave action zone.”

Mendelson said the foundation believes the 55-year-old facility should be repurposed.

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Sarasota County Commission District 2 guide Fredd Atkins faces off against Mark Smith.

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In a County Commission race determined by a three-candidate Democratic primary and a twocandidate Republican primary in August, Democrat Fredd Atkins now will face off with Republican Mark Smith for the District 2 seat, which encompasses Longboat Key, St. Armands, Lido and Bird keys, the northern half of Siesta Key and western Sarasota.

Christian Ziegler chose not to run for reelection.

In the District 2 primaries, former Sarasota City Commissioner and Mayor Atkins, with 35.24% of the vote, edged City Commissioner Hagen Brody and Mike Cosentino for the Democrat nomination. Brody got 34.20% and Cosentino 30.57% of a total of 10,557 votes cast.

With 57.74% of the vote, Smith defeated Lourdes Ramirez at 42.26%.

This is the first election held in District 2 under the county’s singlemember district system in which residents of the district are the only ones casting ballots for the two candidates. District 2 skews slightly Democratic by a margin of about 25,000 to about 23,000, though there are nearly 16,000 voters who don’t identify with a major party.

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Atkins: The Sarasota native saw the opportunity to serve thanks to county voters upholding single-member districts. He said he hopes a successful campaign will encourage more city and county residents to get involved in government.

“I think one of the most important things is I’m going to bring the commission back to the people,” Atkins said. “We have, over the last 50 years, less and less people participating in the process. They have taken not only referendums and not only skewed them, they’ve taken the power away from the people and tried to keep making it more and more difficult to get issues on a referendum.

They’ve taken referendums we’ve passed and disrespected them.”

Atkins said the county has altered the 2050 comprehensive plan in favor of developers, disregarding the public participation process in what the future of the county should be, suppressing opportunities for workforce housing.

“Attainable housing is the primary issue as it relates to how we are going to survive the developments in Sarasota County,” he said. “We need to get not only inclusionary zoning, we need to get developers participating in correcting the ills they have created in our community because they can make a difference.”

Responsibility for environmental issues such as last year’s red tide, Atkins said, lie at the feet of the

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county. “The county has made the citizens of Sarasota County suffer for over 40 years with wastewater treatment,” he said.

“The county has not implemented the eradication of septic tanks near tributaries, waterways or sloughs and they are contaminating the bay.

Our problem with fecal matter in the bay is the county. We are also we were having problems with seepage of all the other runoff the county has.”

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Smith: He has said one of his biggest priorities is traffic, but there are more.

He adds a few more words to extrapolate. “My office is on Siesta Key and I live out here. Traffic is a big one. Water quality is another one, not only the quality of the water we’re drinking, but also making sure our sewer doesn’t end up in the bay. Also opening up Midnight Pass would be one of my goals. I remember playing out there as a kid and how you can’t even stand at the water’s edge and breathe.”

Smith pointed toward his daughter as an example of lack of affordable housing across the county. With a good job making a decent living, she lived at home while looking for a home to purchase. Giving up, she moved out of state.

“We’ve got to tackle that one, which is challenging considering construction costs and land costs right now, but people who work here can’t live here and that’s been a problem for a long time. I believe we need to really tackle that, whether it’s inclusionary zones or what the county is working to develop 750-square-foot starter apartments that are counted as half-density in order to get the impact fees lower and make them affordable.”

Smith advocates concentrating new housing along existing infrastructure to the extent possible, employing adaptive reuse of vacant or underutilized commercial centers, particularly in the growing south county cities.

“The 2050 plan has a lot of good aspects of how growth should go out east to maintain the environment and make it as fiscally feasible as possible … but if you put the workforce housing way out of town, you defeat the purpose of it.

The goal is to get workers as close to work as possible.”

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A vote to save the republic “HOW ANYONE … CAN VOTE FOR DEMS THIS ELECTION IS BEYOND ME”

MATT WALSH

This is our final installment of recommendations for the Nov. 8 elections.

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ere is what too many elected politicians — of both parties — don’t get: Laissez-nous faire!

“Leave us alone!”

If you asked people what they want in life, we’ll venture to say one of their top answers would be: Let me live my life as I want to live.

Let me live in peace. Let me live in peace and harmony with my neighbors. Don’t tell me what to do. Let me make my own decisions.

And when you ask them what they would want from their government, we’ll bet the top answer would be: Keep us safe from criminals and violence.

That is the way it should be. That simple.

That is the framework the Founders established and envisioned.

But as all of us have experienced and seen since Joe Biden took the oath of the presidency in January 2021, life for Americans is nothing close to Laissez-nous faire and feeling safe.

It has been the extreme opposite.

And it has been a complete disaster.

Think about then (2016-2020/ Trump) and now (2021-2022/ Biden). One of the best summaries of what we have experienced came last week from Joel Ross, co-founder and principal of New York-based Citadel Realty Advisors and a part-time Longboat Key resident.

Ross writes one of the most astute, insightful and unfettered critiques and analyses you will find of U.S. and world affairs, economics and politics. His voice and commentaries are unabashed, and thus appropriately named, the “Ross Rant.”

In his Oct. 20 edition, Ross perfectly summed up the past two years, which we have printed with his permission above.

We all know it and feel it every day. We have lived through nearly two years of economic and social decline and constant misery.

In an earlier editorial, we borrowed the title from the late Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises: “Planned chaos.”

That is what we have endured at every level of our society — from the diabolical, power-hungry Democrat elitists in the White House and Congress down to the authori-

OBSERVER RECOMMENDATIONS FEDERAL OFFICES

U.S. Senate — Marco Rubio U.S. Representative, District 16 — Vern Buchanan U.S. Representative, District 17 — Greg Steube

The following is an excerpt from the Oct. 20 edition of the Ross Rant, the newsletter of Joel Ross, co-founder and principal of Citadel Realty Advisors:

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Governor/Lieutenant Governor — Ron DeSantis/Jeanette Nunez Attorney General — Ashley Moody Chief Financial Officer — Jimmy Patronis Commissioner of Agriculture — Wilton Simpson State Representative, District 72 — Tommy Gregory State Representative, District 73 — Fiona McFarland Florida Supreme Court — Vote yes to retain Justices Charles Canady, John D. Couriel, Jamie Grosshans, Jorge Labarga and Ricky Polston Florida Second District Court of Appeal — Vote yes to retain Judges Patricia Joan Kelly, Nelly N. Khouzam, Suzanne Y. Labrit, Matt Lucas, Robert Morris, Stevan Travis Northcutt, John K. Stargel, Craig C. Villanti

The U.S. economy was doing very well when Trump left office.

We were energy independent, the stock market was still high, home prices were high, inflation was 1.4%, and consumers had a lot of money, and credit card use was very low.

The Federal deficit was too high, but not completely out of control and unsustainable.

We were still in Afghanistan holding off the terrorists and Taliban in most of the country, and the Iranians were struggling under serious sanctions.

Russia was not threatening Ukraine, and China was not obviously threatening Taiwan. Kim was quiescent.

The U.S. was still way ahead of the rest of the world in reducing carbon emissions and switching to gas and alternatives.

In short, things in the world were OK as the pandemic was getting under control.

Then Joe arrived with his band of social radicals and climate change crazies pulling the strings of the puppet. The decline of the U.S., and now the world, in under two years is a perfect example of how left-wing policies, and ESG, can destroy the world economy and peace in no time.

How anyone can embarrass himself or herself and vote for Dems this election is beyond me.

What is it they do not understand?

tarian school board members and deviant, perverted teachers in our public schools.

All of their top-down, centralized government schemes, all of their “planning” to have us live according to their world views have brought nothing but chaos and misery for the American people.

We agree with Ross: “How anyone can vote for Dems this election is beyond me.”

With apologies to the many smart Democrats who also are good people, and not to be insulting, but it would defy logic to vote Democrat. To do so is to say you support the current course we are on as a nation, that you want more of the disasters we have been getting.

Yes, we know millions of registered Democrats will vote dutifully for Democrat Party candidates regardless of reality. That’s what lifelong Democrats do. That’s what

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lifelong Republicans do. They vote their party.

But here is an appeal, particularly to the 29% of Florida registered voters who are neither Republicans nor Democrats: Vote the country.

This one time vote Republican.

To be sure, Republicans are far from perfect. But at this moment in history, they offer the only chance to stop the annihilation of this great country and our communities.

America must be saved. It must be preserved — preserved as the one and only beacon of individual liberty and what is left of free-market capitalism, both of which are on the verge of becoming wisping ashes.

It is going to take years to undo what Biden & Co. have done in two years. And it will take a generation to restore and rebuild the way of life that made America great.

REDISTRICTING TAKES BUCHANAN OUT OF SARASOTA Many Sarasota and Longboat Key voters, no doubt, are being surprised and will be surprised when they look at their ballots and see that Congressman Vern Buchanan is not on the ballot. At least not on their ballot.

Because of the new districts that were redrawn in the most recent legislative session, Buchanan’s district boundaries shifted north. Even though he owns a home on Longboat Key and has been representing the northern portions of Sarasota County since 2007, Buchanan now represents only the Manatee portion of Longboat, all of Manatee County and the southeastern portions of Hillsborough County up to Brandon.

Now representing northern Sarasota County and the Sarasota portion of Longboat Key is Republican Rep. Greg Steube.

Steube is seeking his third term in Congress. Before that he served six years in the Florida House and two in the Florida Senate. The Club for Growth, a leading free-enterprise advocacy group in Washington, gives Steube a lifetime 97% conservative voting record, second to Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Naples, in the Florida congressional delegation.

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County Commission, District 2 — Mark Smith County Commission, District 4 — Joe Neunder Charter Review Board, District 1 — Alexandra Coe Charter Review Board, District 2 — G. Matthew Brockway Charter Review Board, District 4 — No recommendation Hospital Board, Northern District, Seat 2 — Victor J. Rohe County Referendum to Continue One-Cent Sales Infrastructure Surtax — Yes County Bond Referendum to Accelerate Community Infrastructure Projects with OneCent Sales Tax Bonds — Yes Charter Amendment Question One: To Amend Section 7.1 Charter Petition Procedures — No Charter Amendment Question Two: To Avoid Conflicts with the Constitution, General Law or the charter — Yes

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Commissioner At-Large — Debbie Trice Charter Amendment: Increase City Commissioners’ Annual Salary — No Charter Amendment: Allow Option to Purchase Insurance Coverage or Surety Bonds — Yes Charter Amendment: Charter Review Committee’s General Recommendations — No Charter Amendment: To Require Referenda on City Charter Amendments to Be Held Only on the Dates of General Elections in Even Years and Prohibit Special Charter Elections — Yes

When Alexis de Tocqueville came to America in 1831 to see what this great, young republic was like, he was in awe. One of the characteristics that struck him most was the ingrained belief of the “sovereignty of the people” — the freedom of the individual to live his life as he sees it, not to live as the slaves of despots and their despotic cabals.

De Tocqueville wrote: “Providence has given to each individual, whoever he may be, the degree of reason necessary for him to be able to direct himself in things that interest him exclusively. Such is the great maxim on which civil and political society in the United States rests.”

That great maxim must be restored. You can start the rebuilding Nov. 8.

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

Friedrich Hayek

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ABOUT THE JUDGES

Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen said it best in 1990: “Typically we are better informed about our choice of stick deodorant than our choice of judges.”

So true. Even so, Floridians go through the dance every two years with nary a clue of who these Supreme Court justices and District Appeal Court judges are and whether they deserve to be retained.

It’s an odd system. But it’s also a safeguard. It gives Floridians the opportunity to boot a judge who turns corrupt or incompetent — both of which have been exceedingly rare. Florida governors and the Judicial Nominating Commissions take great care in the selection of judges.

The Florida Bar also keeps tabs on them. Every two years, it conducts a retention poll of its members.

For this cycle, the Supreme Court justices scores ranged from 59% to 85% to be retained and from 15% to 41% not to be retained. Ratings for the Appeal Court judges ranged from 64% to 86% for retention and 14% to 36% not to be retained.

The lowest rating? For Justice Jamie Grosshans, 59% to be retained, 41% not to be retained. She is the newest Supreme Court justice, appointed by Gov. DeSantis.

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“People are saying I’m the Grinch and I must have had a horrible childhood and hate Christmas,” she said.

“I just want Christmas to be free.”

When proposing the event, Leonard stated access to attractions would come at the cost of $10 per wristband. A stage is planned to host free entertainment from local schools and performance groups.

No admission fee would be required to enter the festival grounds.

Monday afternoon Arroyo sent out a response letter to Schneier.

“We value your partnership with the City of Sarasota, and we thank you for your letter regarding the commission’s decision to approve the St. Armands Circle Winter Festival,” Arroyo wrote. “All our actions will take into consideration the concerns of the community as well as neighboring jurisdictions such as the Town of Longboat Key. We welcome the opportunity to discuss this matter and bring your concerns into the conversation.”

The letter further stated that the town should make note that it is able to contact the city commissioners directly, and they are happy to connect town commissioners with the applicants and potential event host.

The town’s letter was addressed to Mayor Erik Arroyo and FDOT as the event is scheduled in state right of way.

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he town of Longboat Key, which has a long history of expressing concerns about traffic tie-ups in St. Armands Circle, has crafted a letter on behalf of its citizens opposing a new, monthlong winter festival approved by the city of Sarasota for the holiday season.

The proposed event was passed by a 4-1 vote by the Sarasota City Commission during its Oct. 3 meeting.

On Oct. 17, Longboat Key commissioners discussed and ultimately agreed to have Mayor Ken Schneier write a letter to Sarasota Mayor Erik Arroyo and to the Florida Department of Transportation to voice their concerns with the festival and its effects on traffic to and from the island.

FDOT was included in the correspondence due to the event scheduled to take place in the state’s right of way.

The festival, proposed by Tom Leonard and Ride Entertainment, is set to span six weeks, with a proposed opening date of Nov. 18 and closing date of Jan. 3.

“Traffic between the town and Sarasota, especially during the holidays and the winter season, has long been a major concern for Longboat Key and its residents,” Schneier wrote in the letter. “The chokepoint at St. Armands Circle is a focal point for that concern even in the absence of special events at those times of year.”

St. Armands Circle Association Executive Director Rachel Burns has voiced concerns about the probability of the event’s ability to be executed the way it was proposed as opening day approaches.

Her frustration also centers around events she has been working on since February being canceled to make way for the winter festival. The events she typically hosts during the

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The victim advised she has no external cameras on the premises. A canvass of the area turned up no other cameras that may have captured the incident. The complainant said she does wish to pursue charges against the suspect or suspects if new information results in any arrests. The officer reported the suspect(s) appeared to have willfully and maliciously damaged personal property.

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Civil Dispute: A neighbor described as “creepy” may have only been a considerate smoker. A woman called police claiming her neighbor was standing at the end of her driveway and staring at her, making her feel uncomfortable when walking her dog. When the officer spoke with the man, he advised that he stood where he did to smoke a cigarette so the smoke would not enter either home.

He further stated when the complainant stepped outside, she began yelling at him, including “What the (bleep) are you staring at?” The officer recommended the man smoke on the opposite side of the house to avoid further confrontation.

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The officer also observed a woman run east across North Washington Boulevard toward the business. The crowd reported they did not call for nor need law enforcement assistance.

When leaving the area, the officer found the woman lying in the roadway, causing vehicles to swerve to avoid her. She then got up and ran into nearby woods. Once assisted out of the woods, she was unable to stand or walk. She said she had “consumed a lot of alcohol.”

She was taken by ambulance to a hospital under involuntary admission provisions of Florida’s Marchman Act.

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SPORTS

“With all the stuff that goes on in school and all the work you have to do, after a hard day it is nice to come and swim.”

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rian McCarthy is trying to relish the moment.

Even though McCarthy’s longtime project, The Pickleball Club, won’t open until January or February, McCarthy has little doubt it will be a success. People won’t sour on the sport, McCarthy said, in the long or short term. In fact, he and General Manager Dominic Catalano believe the sport’s biggest days are still ahead — which is why they are aiming to create the ultimate experience for Sarasota-area athletes.

McCarthy got the idea for The Pickleball Club four years ago when he was on the Board of Governors at the Bird Key Yacht Club as strategic planning chair. McCarthy pitched the board an idea of putting in a few pickleball courts on some empty lots the club owned. The members loved the idea — but the club’s neighbors did not love the noise they said the courts would generate, so the idea was shelved. But McCarthy could not let the idea go.

It was not just the sport itself that interested him — though he certainly enjoys playing it — but where the sport could go. McCarthy said he had a feeling it would soon explode in popularity across all ages because of its ease of play and how the game encourages socializing. McCarthy hired a researcher to ask athletes what they liked and disliked about the current pickleball experience. He wanted to reach as many pickleball players across as many demographics as possible. Some common refrains seen in the results. People wanted a space to play indoors, especially in the summer, but wanted to do so on a surface that wouldn’t cause much joint pain. They also wanted to retain the game’s social aspects while refining the matchmaking process: Often,

there are more players at a location than there are available spaces on courts, meaning that players were doing a lot of waiting.

McCarthy took this information and turned it into what will soon be The Pickleball Club, a 33,000-square-foot facility.

The club, which will be located at 1300 Sarasota Center Blvd., will feature 12 indoor courts and four outdoor courts, as well as a small cafe selling to-go style food and beverages, plus a bocce ball area, a table tennis area and a cornhole area. And there will be plenty of areas to relax and watch sports on TV. McCarthy compared the club’s indoor court surfaces to that of the U.S. Open in tennis, which is a multilayered acrylic hard court. McCarthy said he believes the surface will be comfortable and cushioned so people with injury histories and sensitive joints can still play.

True to the sport’s all-ages, alllevels origins, The Pickleball Club will have no skill requirements. In fact, McCarthy is expecting most of the club’s members to be beginners or otherwise low-level players. But the club will have coaches available for each level in case players want to improve their skills. Nonmembers can also take lessons with coaches at higher rates.

All of these activities and amenities won’t come for free. The Pickleball Club will be a private club. McCar-

thy said that until the club opens, it will be offering a special initiation (one time) fee rate of approximately $1,000, plus monthly membership fees of approximately $100 for adult and family plans and $55 for youth plans. Those prices will increase after the grand opening. Unlike other private clubs, The Pickleball Club will not require monthly food and beverage minimums. A membership provides free open court play and use of the facility’s other activities.

Members will have to pay a small fee if they want to reserve a court, but the fee can be divided among four players. Accumulated fees will be billed once a month.

McCarthy said the club has more than 200 members, with more than 1,900 people asking for more information once the club officially opens.

Catalano said the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent months of social distancing led to pickleball getting back to its roots as a family friendly game, something all loved ones can do together. The sport has continued to ride a wave of popularity since.

“People just need to get past the stigma of ‘Oh, it’s pickleball,’” Catalano said. “So what? It’s a great time.

Get out there and have fun. That’s exactly what they are doing now.”

For information on the club or to become a member, visit ThePickleballClub.us.

Ryan Kohn

The Pickleball Club owner Brian McCarthy and General Manager Dominic Catalano are excited about the growth pickleball has made in the past two years.

Construction on The Pickleball Club is expected to be complete in time for it to open in early 2023.

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Sarasota’s Jackson Mullet (9) and Kyser Bordones (24) celebrate after Bordones returned an interception for a touchdown against Braden River High.

Sailors make football waves Sarasota High dominated Braden River on Oct. 21 to break a seven-game losing streak to the Pirates. Is another streak set to break Friday?

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arasota High football team’s Oct. 21 game against Braden River High was not the first sign of progress for the Sailors (4-3) in 2022, but it might have been the most obvious.

The Sailors beat the Pirates in dominant fashion, scoring on the first possession and never letting up until the clock hit zero, winning

28-3 and ending a seven-game losing streak to Braden River.

Breaking that streak at all is a nice prize for coach Brody Wiseman, but it’s not purely the result that was so impressive.

It was how it happened.

The average margin of victory during the Pirates’ streak over Sarasota was 22.7 points. That’s quite a bit. It also makes sense.

Braden River is a perennial playoff team. The Sailors have been in a rut.

Wiseman said as much.

“I have a lot of respect for Braden River,” Wiseman said. “I’ve been here when we have gotten our ass kicked by them in the past. They do a great job. Their coaching staff, I actually have taken a lot from them, from what they have done over the

years. For us to come out and play a quality team like that — what I consider to be a playoff team — and win in dominant fashion, that makes me proud of our kids and of everything we are doing in our program. It has been a long, long grind. I think we’re starting to show the signs of turning the corner.”

He’s right. For the first time in years — since I have been on the sports beat, in all honesty — the Sailors went against a disciplined, talented team and always looked in control. It started on the first drive.

Sailors sophomore quarterback Alexander Diaz found senior wideout Caleb Bradley on a post pattern, which Bradley took 57 yards for a score. The big play put the Pirates on their heels. They never recov-

ered, thanks to the Sailors defense playing with the stoutness of a brick wall.

Sarasota picked off Braden River junior quarterback Nick Trier three times, once each by senior defensive backs Joshua DeCrapio and Tyler Pack and junior defensive back Kyser Bordones. Each interception turned into a touchdown; in Bordones’ case, he took it to the house himself. The Sailors also forced two fumbles late in the fourth quarter when the Pirates tried to mount a desperate comeback.

It should be noted that the Pirates were not at full strength. A handful of key players were either absent from the field or played banged up, including junior running back Trayvon Pinder, the team’s best skill position player, who left the game in the second half with an injury.

But by the time he did, the game was no longer in doubt. Make no mistake: The Sailors earned this win. Braden River knows it.

“Sarasota outplayed us tonight,” Pirates coach Curt Bradley said.

“They’re a good football team, much improved. The coaches have done a good job over there.”

It was a show of potential hinted at by the Sailors’ win 16-7 win against Palmetto High (5-3), another team talented enough to make playoff noise, on Sept. 16.

But that game saw Palmetto take an early lead while Sarasota figured out its offense. The Sailors scored 16 unanswered points in the second half to win. Against Braden River, there was no need to figure anything out.

The Sailors are 4-3 against what Wiseman said is the toughest schedule he’s put together since becoming the team’s coach in 2020, and likely longer than that. It may not be on the level of schools such as Riverview or Venice, which always seek out competition equal to or better than themselves, but it’s a step up. Unless the Sailors add a game the week of Nov. 5 to make up for one of the games lost to Hurricane Ian, the team’s regular season will come to an end at 7:30 p.m. on Friday against Riverview (2-5) at home.

As Wiseman and the Sailors are aware, a game like the one against Braden River only matters if it becomes the norm, a building block to consistent excellence. And as good as it must have felt for the Sailors to break the Pirates’ win streak, imagine how it would feel to break Riverview’s? The Rams have beaten the Sailors in 10 consecutive meetings. That’s a full decade of dominance. Last year, the rivalry game was the most hyped it had been in a few years, as the Sailors came into it 4-1 while the Rams were 5-1. The Rams won 35-0.

I don’t know how this year’s game will go. Yes, Riverview is 2-5, but the Rams have played a lot of tough opponents and they have improved in recent weeks. On Tuesday night, Riverview’s offense finally came alive in a 41-21 road win over Charlotte High (0-7). They will also have the most talented player on the field — and on most fields — in junior defensive back/wideout Charles Lester III. But the Sailors play as a team.

Wiseman likes his guys. He believes in them now and knows the potential is there for them to get even better. The Sailors are playing just seven seniors. Everyone else should be back for another ride.

“There’s another level,” Wiseman said. “I want to see us taking steps toward that. But I feel like we have established a solid foundation that we can repeat year after year. We’re establishing a brand of Sarasota football. The core things, you saw them (against Braden River).”

A quick start. A punishing defense. An ability to capitalize on scoring opportunities when given.

Repeat those things, and another lengthy win streak might fall.

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

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It’s an outlet. With all the stuff that goes on in school and all the work you have to do, after a hard day it is nice to come and swim. It gets out emotions. And I like the competition.

What is your favorite event?

I love the 50-yard freestyle. It’s all speed. You can’t mess anything up. I just like going fast and giving it your all at once.

What have you been working to improve?

The distance (500-yard) freestyle.

What are your goals for the rest of the high school season?

For the 200-yard free I will have to drop a little time to get to states. I have to get to 1:45. Until I do that, that’s my only goal for that event.

For the 100-yard free, I just need to match my time from districts, but I’d like to hit the mid- to low-47 second mark. I’m also hoping to be on a relay team or two at states.

What is your favorite food?

Byrek. It’s a Balkan dish that my family makes a lot. (Byrek is a pastry filled with meats, cheeses, vegetables or fruits.)

What is your favorite subject?

It would be between physics and history. I like both. With physics there is a lot of math, but I like how it is not as abstract as normal math. It is easier to grasp the concepts. There is always a natural observation you can make with it. With history, it is important to me to know because it dictates or explains how we live in the world today.

What is your favorite movie?

I like ‘Rocky’ a lot. I’ll go with that.

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I started swimming competitively after third grade. My family signed me up for the Sarasota Sharks, and I started there. I joined the Tsunami about two years ago.

I’m trying to branch out. I can see the appeal of it now. It is a methodical race. It is almost like chess.

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Alexander Malaj is a sophomore on the Sarasota High boys swim team.

Malaj won the 100-yard freestyle (48.62 seconds) and the 200-yard freestyle (1:47.14) at the Florida High School Athletic Association Class 4A, District 9 meet, held Oct. 21-22 at Selby Aquatic Center. Malaj also swims for the Sarasota Tsunami club.

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SARASOTA 1378 Harbor Drive 4 Beds 5/3 Baths 6,238 Sq. Ft. Michael Hays 941-376-1826 A4546357 $14,000,000

SARASOTA 8918 Bloomfield Boulevard 3 Beds 3 Baths 2,736 Sq. Ft. Susan Elkins & Priscilla Adams 941-374-6016 A4537328 $1,100,000

SIESTA KEY 4822 Ocean Boulevard 5B 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,435 Sq. Ft. Denise Mei 941-685-3198 A4543970 $1,095,000

NOKOMIS/NORTH VENICE 102 Portofino Drive 4 Beds 3 Baths 2,700 Sq. Ft. Jackie Griese 941-718-0045 A4539587 $869,400

NOKOMIS 5581 Piccolo Street 2 Beds 2/1 Baths 2,198 Sq. Ft. Yvonne Wolf & Brian Wolf 941-855-1566 D6126996 $850,000

UNIVERSITY PARK 7220 San Miguel Cove 3 Beds 2 Baths 2,113 Sq. Ft. Bernadette Caswell 941-320-8265 A4549334 $849,000

SARASOTA 8555 Park Shore Lane 3 Beds 2 Baths 2,380 Sq. Ft. Judy Nimz 941-374-0196 A4532950 $825,000

SARASOTA 1740 Pinyon Pine Drive 4 Beds 3 Baths 3,222 Sq. Ft. Joseph McDonald & Jeffrey Cochran 941-375-9646 A4546863 $725,000

SARASOTA 1487 Landings Lake Drive 35 3 Beds 2/1 Baths 2,040 Sq. Ft. Tara Lamb & Judy Greene 941-266-4873 A4546130 $724,500

SARASOTA 101 S Gulfstream Avenue 15A 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,200 Sq. Ft. Ethel Lovelace & Mina Johnson 941-586-7390 A4538174 $699,900

SIESTA KEY 5855 Midnight Pass Road 205 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,056 Sq. Ft. Ethel Lovelace 941-586-7390 A4549123 $699,900

SARASOTA 8717 Trattoria Terrace 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,697 Sq. Ft. Stacy Haas 941-587-4359 A4549377 $679,000

SARASOTA 7421 Featherstone Boulevard 3 Beds 2 Baths 2,283 Sq. Ft. Susan Mondello 941-544-3387 A4546767 $639,900

SARASOTA 7564 Camminare Drive 2B 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,534 Sq. Ft. Terri Riordan 941-441-6644 A4550172 $539,900

SARASOTA 4042 65th Place E 2 Beds 2 Baths 2,143 Sq. Ft. Peggy Wellman & Robert Moffatt 941-374-0811 A4542565 $539,000

SIESTA KEY 1350 N Portofino Drive 207TAR 1 Bed 2 Baths 780 Sq. Ft. Maurice Menager 941-238-8119 A4546040 $525,000

OSPREY 294 Hidden Bay Drive 203 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,568 Sq. Ft. Kristen Srur 941-350-0612 A4549504 $460,000

SARASOTA 4216 Central Sarasota Parkway 1312 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,147 Sq. Ft. Beverly Alter 941-228-4556 A4547346 $410,000

SARASOTA 4368 Center Pointe Lane 12 3 Beds 2 Baths 1,961 Sq. Ft. Barbara Dumbaugh & Victoria Lear 941-951-6660 A4549138 $410,000

SARASOTA 5713 Saint Louis Avenue 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,400 Sq. Ft. Christiana Kopetzky 941-500-4143 A4549203 $400,000

SARASOTA 5210 Hyland Hills Avenue 1124 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,684 Sq. Ft. Anja Deichmann 941-284-7987 A4549835 $395,000

SARASOTA 4003 Booth Place 3 Beds 2 Baths 1,306 Sq. Ft. Felix Power 941-586-8958 A4548035 $375,000

SARASOTA 35 Strathmore Boulevard 35 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,195 Sq. Ft. Amy Chapman 941-225-1500 A4549281 $230,000

SARASOTA 4016 Crockers Lake Boulevard 412 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,119 Sq. Ft. Brian Meskil 941-780-3468 A4546980 $219,000

SARASOTA 1520 Glen Oaks Drive E 152 1 Bed 1 Baths 639 Sq. Ft. Bernadette Caswell 941-320-8265 A4549889 $189,000

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SARASOTA 3537 Founders Club Drive 3 Beds 3 Baths 3,544 Sq. Ft. Richard Hearn 941-313-1591 A4535534 $2,300,000

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OCT. 10-14

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Other top sales by area

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home on Casey Key tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Louann Lemek Glaser, trustee, of Tuckerton, New Jersey, sold the home at 412 S. Casey Key Road to Janelle Bruland, of Blaine, Washington, for $4,022,500. Built in 1951, it has six bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths and 3,983 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.19 million in 2016.

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SARASOTA: $1.8 MILLION

Kanaya Steven and Aviva Scheer, trustees, of Mount Dora, sold the Unit 802 condominium at 505 S. Orange Ave. to Martin Cawley and Pamela Cawley, trustees, of Sarasota, for $1,823,500. Built in 2007, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,600 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $826,500 in 2007.

SIESTA KEY: $3.5 MILLION

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CONDOMINIUM ON THE BAY Michael Joseph Campbell Jr. and Stacey Campbell, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, sold their Unit 1208 condominium at 888 Boulevard of the Arts to Shawn and Jennifer Diehl, of Sarasota, for $1,625,000.

Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,642 square feet. It sold for $1.3 million in 2021.

Unit 1208 of Condominium On the Bay sold for more than $1.6 million.

INWOOD PARK 87 Sandy Court LLC sold the home at 1862 Sixth St. to Stream Holdings LLC for $690,000. Built in 1925, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 1,419 square feet of living area.

It sold for $415,000 in January.

Russell and Stacie Stevens, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3070 Gulf Gate Drive to JFunkhouser LLC for $550,000. Built in 1965, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,524 square feet of living area. It sold for $308,500 in 2017.

THE LANDINGS Jason and Shauna Wagner, of Sarasota, sold their home at 5167 Kestral Park Lane to Shea and Brigitte Rutstein, of Sarasota, for $1.2 million. Built in 1984, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,920 square feet of living area. It sold for $675,000 in 2019.

NORWOOD PARK Kelley Callaway and Eric Tobin, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2020 Craft Lane to Jill Witofsky, of Sarasota, for $675,000. Built in 1959, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,414 square feet of living area. It sold for $333,000 in 2017.

GULF GATE EAST Shelby Lisette Anderson and Richard Charles Anderson, of Eagle, Idaho, sold their home at 3731 Kingston Blvd. to Lara Porter Steere, of Sarasota, for $618,000.

Built in 1986, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,731 square feet of living area. It sold for $535,000 in 2021.

FIELD CLUB ESTATES Robert Lewis D’Avanzo Jr., Joan D’Avanzo and Christine Holzer sold their home at 1802 Field Road to Baja Casa I LLC for $1.04 million.

Built in 1963, it has two bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 1,542 square feet of living area. It sold for $230,000 in 2010.

GULF GATE Brenda Joan Viola, of Jacksonville Beach, sold her home at 6758 S. Lockwood Ridge Road to Toni Zanetti and Kevin Williamson, of Westbury, New York, for $670,000.

Built in 1968, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,439 square feet of living area. It sold for $360,000 in 2019.

SARASOTA BAY CLUB Sarasota Bay Club LLC sold the Unit 408 condominium at 1301 Tamiami Trail to Lee Vickman, of Sarasota, for $820,400. Built in 2000, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,546 square feet of living area. It sold for $475,000 in 2014.

Jill Keene, of Sarasota, sold her home at 2509 Bispham Road to David and Katherine McKay, of Frisco, Colorado, for $610,000.

Built in 1966, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,416 square feet of living area. It sold for $200,000 in 2018.

5TH AND CENTRAL Ralph Hoenle and David White, trustee, of Bradenton, sold the Unit 203 condominium at 433 Central Ave. to Machaela Brabham, of Sarasota, for $708,000. Built in 2008, it has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,475 square feet of living area. It sold for $679,000 in March.

Nick Allen Burkholder, of Durango, Colorado, sold the home at 2716 Seaspray St. to Nicholas Ruthsatz, of Cincinnati, for $574,900. Built in 1963, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,263 square feet of living area. It sold for $148,000 in 2001.

Siesta Key Michael and Susan Shroder, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3423 La Palmoa Ave. to Sarasota Area Real Estate Group LLC for $3,555,000. Built in 1990, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,398 square feet of living area.

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Esplanade on Palmer Ranch Matthew and Michelle Pino, of Osprey, sold their home at 5437 Manchini St. to Mark Steven Reis and Helen Sandra Simpson, of Sarasota, for $1.5 million. Built in 2019, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,126 square feet of living area. It sold for $797,100 in 2019.

OSPREY: $1.19 MILLION

Bayside Garry John Welsh and Christine Constance Welsh, of Arden, North Carolina, sold their home at 3932 Waypoint Ave. to Christopher and Mildred Mead, trustees, of Cave Creek, Arizona, for $1.19 million. Built in 2017, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,416 square feet of living area. It sold for $525,000 in 2017.

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Permit

Applicant

1919 Laurel St.

Remodel

Ronald Watts

$230,680

Amount

3435 Seagrape Drive

Remodel

Richard Stockwell

$155,466

994 Charlotte Ave.

Pool/Spa

Matthew Fisher

$68,509

1255 N. Gulfstream Ave. #304 Windows/Door

Ellen Mason, trustee

$66,513

4012 Bay Shore Road

Alterations

Leonard Najjar

$34,639

1773 Waldemere St.

Solar System

Richard Schauwecker,

$33,000

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trustee 2572 Tami Sola St.

Windows/Door

Eduardo La Rosa

$28,350

973 S. Rhodes Ave.

Re-roof

Victor Derenzi

$26,000

1580 Bay Point Drive

Re-roof

Jerry Gray

$19,800

843 Norsota Way

Re-roof

Cynthia Wallace

$16,500

Downtown Sarasota

SARASOTA COUNTY Permit

Applicant

889 Mac Ewen Drive

Remodel

Jenny Marziano

Amount

4866 Primrose Path

Remodel

Frank Tuzzulino Jr.

$147,375

420 Beach Road #502

Remodel

Lawrence Crossett

$145,000

451 Rubens Drive

Alterations

Peter Wright

$89,000

577 N. Mac Ewen Drive

Re-roof

Jeannette Eilers

$80,900

4900 Ocean Blvd. #102

Remodel

Danielle Kraft

$64,000

290 Treasure Boat Way

Doors

Gail Daubert

$60,324

2736 Gulf Gate Drive

Solar System

Arturo Morales

$51,060

$165,000

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BEST BET SATURDAY, OCT. 29

14TH ANNUAL DOG-A-WEEN 9 a.m. at Sarasota Farmers Market, N. Lemon Avenue. Dogs of every size and stripe will walk through the farmers market dressed up in every costume you can imagine. $15 to participate. For information, go to DowntownDestinationSarasota.com

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FRIDAY, OCT. 28

Relax with a refresher after your game

34TH ANNUAL PUMPKIN FESTIVAL 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Oct. 30 at Fruitville Grove Farmers Market, 7410 Fruitville Road. The monthlong festival brings food trucks, petting zoos, games, crafts and plenty of pumpkins. $5 to park. Call 377-0896.

Kick back and have a glass of wine with your friends

LIGHTS AT SPOOKY POINT Runs through Oct. 31 at Historic Spanish Point, 401 N. Tamiami Trail, Osprey. Historic Spanish Point hosts a new spooky-themed walk through its nature setting for families to enjoy. $20 for members; $25 for nonmembers. For information, go to Selby.org.

SATURDAY, OCT. 29

WILD-O-WEEN Runs through Oct. 30 at Big Cat Habitat, 7101 Palmer Blvd. Trick or treat, pumpkin carving, costume contests and more are the name of the game at the annual Big Cat Habitat shindig. $10 for kids; $25

Build It and They Will Come.

for adults. For information, go to BigCatHabitat.org.

HALLOWEEN PARTY 10 a.m. at Sarasota Children’s Garden, 1670 10th Way. The Children’s Garden embraces the spooky Halloween spirit with a fun day of scavenger hunts, witch’s brews and more. Tickets start at $6. For information, go to SarasotaChildrensGarden.com.

HALLOWEEN BLOCK PARTY Starts at 8 p.m. at downtown Sarasota. The annual block party returns with plenty of costumes, music and happenings that someone could want. Free.

SUNDAY, OCT. 30

SUNDAYS AT THE BAY 6 p.m. at the Bay Park, 655 N. Tamiami Trail. Clover’s Revenge brings Irish music to the new Bay Park at the Common Ground. Free.

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FORECAST THURSDAY, OCT. 27 High: 81 Low: 68 Chance of rain: 57%

FRIDAY, OCT. 28 High: 85 Low: 68 Chance of rain: 14%

SUNRISE / SUNSET Sunrise Sunset Thursday, Oct. 27

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Saturday, Oct. 29

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Sunday, Oct. 30

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Monday, Oct. 31

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SATURDAY, OCT. 29 High: 85 Low: 67 Chance of rain: 15%

SUNDAY, OCT. 30 High: 84 Low: 68 Chance of rain: 9%

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Luncheon helps families thrive

T

he Baby Basics of Sarasota nonprofit paid tribute to nursery rhymes and fairy tales during its annual luncheon and fashion show on Oct. 24.

The organization — which distributes diapers, wipes, and other baby items to families in need — welcomed more than 150 members to the Sarasota Yacht Club’s ballroom for a luncheon filled with good intentions and fashion.

Guests arrived at the event and looked through several silent auction items before sitting down for the luncheon to begin. The event’s theme and decor played up fairy tales and had dolls and designs adorn each table.

After lunch was finished, guests enjoyed a fashion show with model’s wearing outfits from Dillard’s.

Beverly Hungate, Debbie Pryor and Irina Milligan

Caroline Lawrence, Sandy Slaminko, Barb Price and Bonnie Wiedeman

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