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Tennis Is Their Game, Dancer Is Their Name By Trebor Britt
When Landings resident, Dean Dancer and his father Doug walk on The Landings Racquet Club courts this year, they will add to the resident/player history of the tournament. Dean will be among a mere handful of Landing’s residents to play in the annual USTA National Senior Super/ Senior Father/Son Clay Court Championships, November 18-22. Although this will be their fourth appearance, it will be their first since he and his wife Kelly, also an outstanding tennis player, moved to The Landings recently. Once their children left for college they began looking everywhere in Sarasota for a new home. Their shared love of tennis, the
incredible Racquet Club facility, friendly staff, the perfect home in an outstanding neighborhood with awesome neighbors, sold them on The Landings. Continued on page 18
In the Neighborhood: profiles of communities in The Landings
By Roger Drouin
|Maintenance free townhouses on a greenbelt When Dana Hummel moved to The Landings in 2005, she downsized from a 3,800 square-foot villa at Prestancia to a smaller, 1,640 square-foot, garden-style, duplex unit at Carriagehouse II. Many owners who end up moving to Carriagehouse II are residents in a similar mindset who want to downsize. In many cases, they own a large single-family home in The Landings and want to stay in the community. “They are reaching an age where they just don’t want the responsibility of taking care of a large house and property,” said Hummel,
who moved to Carriage House II in 2005 and has served for the past several years as president of the complex’s board. Other potential Carriagehouse II buyers want to live within close driving distance to The Field Club, noted Judy Greene, a Realtor with Michael Saunders and Company. Whatever the reason for moving to Carriage House II, residents find friendly neighbors and lots of green in the community comprised of 30 maintenance-free duplex villas, each unit featuring two bedrooms, a den, two bathrooms, and a detached one-car garage. Continued on page 22
ANNUAL HOLIDAY DINNER DANCE DECEMBER 13TH IN THE LAKESIDE CLUBHOUSE WITH COCKTAILS AND DINNER, SIGN UP TODAY LIMITED SEATING
The Landings Community Holiday Cheer for Cancer Kids Many of us have personally felt the impact a cancer diagnosis has had on our lives. Fortunately, many of us also have the resources to cope with serious issues. However, for a family with limited financial resources, their entire focus becomes the care and cure for their loved one. Siblings are expected to understand why there is no “extra” money for toys, treats or new shoes or even a holiday dinner. Last year, in an effort to help families in this situation, we inaugurated a program that was well received, with friends and neighbors expressing their desire to support this endeavor. Based on that response, we are sharing this information in the hope of expanding the program allowing us to spread holiday cheer to even more families this year. The Landings Holiday Cheer for Cancer Kids support program is a voluntary program created to care for a sick child and to provide assistance to families with children with cancer during the end of the year holiday season. A child’s cancer diagnosis creates many challenges for parents and often it becomes impossible to provide a Holiday celebration for their children. In other cases this is due to job loss to care for a sick child. In other cases it is because all available funds are being used for medical expenses. Without the help of others the lives of these families will continue to be dominated by cancer at a time when “the rest of the world” is celebrating and rejoicing with gifts and joyous hearts. Family Sponsors receive information about each member of the identified family to assist in the selection of gift/donations. This information will include the
make up of the family members; ages and sex of children; clothing and shoe sizes and gift suggestions (games & toys) for each child. Last year several Landings families also provided personal checks or gift cards from Wal-Mart type stores. Please keep in mind that these families might be shopping for food at these stores. This program allows parents to provide some Holiday Spirit and gifts to their kids. The additional gift of time by having the gifts shopped for and wrapped is an added treasure, and provides sponsors with the satisfaction that they are personally involved beyond their financial consideration. All gifts are to be provided anonymously. Family Sponsors are encouraged to invite two or more friends to join them in making support gifts/ donations. In 2014 the first year of our program, seven families with kids with cancer were sponsored by Landings families within a two week period. This year we have more time to plan and have adopted a goal of providing for twenty such families. Although last year’s sponsors agreed to partner again with us this year, we need additional sponsors to meet our goal of providing for twenty families. We are a community with many blessings; let’s take this opportunity to come together to lighten the load of others at a time when the weight of cancer feels overwhelming. We hope you will join our families with your support, Please contact Henry Rhodes (941-927-1047 or henry@sqreone. com) or Jim Goldman (941-5390774 or jimgoldman@aol.com) to volunteer to be a sponsor this year or to learn more about how you can help this Landings program.