The Islander Newspaper E-Edition: Wednesday, September 19, 2018

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Government helps businesses dealing with red tide losses. 3 Cortez residents protest shop’s ‘toxic spray.’ 4 Mote continues red tide work under federal grant. 5

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The Islander editorial.

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Looking back. 7

Meetings

On the government calendar. 8 HB commissioners push for ‘grand tree’ rules. 8 BB approves underground utilities. 9 Make plans. Save a date. 10

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budget talks 12 Gloria Dei pastor accepts Virginia calling. 18

Obituaries. 18 Streetlife. 20 ‘Bittersweet’ nesting season continues for AMITW. 22 ‘Caution’ wildlife crossing. 23 Adult soccer upsets. 24 Plenty of clean water to find catch. 25 Check the BizCal. 27 CLASSIFIEDS. 28

PropertyWatch. 28 NYT crossword. 32

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First lady lauded, inducted into state hall of fame

By Sandy Ambrogi Rhea Chiles, center, Islander Reporter daughter of the late In an Orlando ballroom Sept. 12, first lady of Florida crowded with the who’s who in the Florida Rhea Chiles, accepts tourism industry, an Anna Maria Islander’s the 2018 Florida legacy came into focus.

Tourism Hall of Though she died in 2015, Rhea Chiles’ Fame Award postlife’s work continues, both on Anna Maria humously bestowed Island where she lived out her senior years on her mother. With and around the Sunshine State.

Chiles are Ken Visit Florida named Chiles the 2018 Lawson, left, presiinductee into the Florida Tourism Hall dent and CEO of of Fame. She was honored at the Florida Visit Florida, and Governor’s Conference on Tourism at the Lino Maldonado, Omni Orlando Resort ChampionsGate in chair of Visit FlorOrlando. ida. Islander Photo: Chiles was nominated for the honor Karen Riley-Love by another island influencer, Karen RileyLove. Riley-Love was named 2018 Manatee County Tourist Development Council nomination. first state house in Washington, D.C., while Chiles, wife of Gov. Lawton Chiles, accompanying then-U.S. Sen. Chiles. At the Ambassador of the Year.

“She’s affected not only our island, but served as first lady of Florida 1991-98 with Florida House, her artwork is still displayed PLEASE SEE FAME PAGE 2 Florida as a whole,” Riley-Love said of the an emphasis on hospitality. She opened the

red tide on the move, on-off, dots aMi coastline

By Sandy Ambrogi Islander Reporter Like the colored balls that mark the density on the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission maps, the red tide bloom continues to bounce on and off the coasts along southwest Florida.

In a beach hazard report, first issued by the National Weather Service in Tampa Sept. 11 and then renewed Sept. 13, the NWS warned that the human effects of the hazardous algal bloom had stretched inland from the Manatee County coast.

The impacted area extended east past Interstate-75 and Myakka City, with coverage over downtown Bradenton and northward past State Road 62. NWS said a hazard warning was in effect until Sept. 17, including possible respiratory irritation, coughing, difficulty breathing and watery eyes for some people.

The HAB also appeared for the first time in the Florida Panhandle the week of Sept.

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Concentrations of red tide climbed back to high levels — greater than 1,000,000 Karenia brevis cells per liter — but Manatee County did show a slight decrease in the samplings with high readings, according to the FWC weekly red tide statistics.

Peter Vrinos, left, and Mike Buttke, right, rake Coquina Beach Sept. 12 near Longboat Pass. Crews were hand-raking areas that were inaccessible by tractor to clear dead fish from Bean Point on the north end to the southern tip of the island. Islander Photo: Courtesy Manatee County

Aerial surveys, as well as water samples taken by FWC, indicate the red tide bloom extended 10 miles or more offshore in some areas. For the first time in months, levels of red tide fell to background status along the coast of Collier County. Collier has been plagued with the red tide bloom for 11 months.

The Mote Marine Beach Report said the morning of Sept. 14, dark water, thick red drift and fish kills were present at the Manatee Public Beach in Holmes Beach.

Manatee County parks crews were ready, though one of two tractors used to rake the beach and scoop up dead fish was

being repaired.

“We are ready and we will work all weekend,” Carmine DeMilio, manager of the county parks and grounds operations, said Sept. 14 of the raking operations. “Those beneficial east winds have disappeared, and we are getting a push, especially of seaweed.”

Work the weekend they did, responding to calls from residents in Anna Maria of dead fish along the north end beach near the Rod & Reel Pier.

“It’s not bad out on the end of the pier,” Daphne Ryerson, of the Rod & Reel, reported PLEASE SEE RED TIDE PAGE 2

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counties — Manatee County has cleaned up more than 250 tons since red tide struck the area in early August — more has sunk to the bottom.

“The algae die, the fish die and the process of decomposition takes up a lot of oxygen,” FGCU researcher Bob Wasno said.

Researchers recently took a three-hour dive in the Gulf and found everything from sand dollars to sea urchins and coral dead offshore.

In the island communities, the impact is spotty.

Most places up and down the beaches and on the bayfront reported little to no dead fish and no smell, no irritation to people on land.

The state of Florida earmarked millions of dollars for red tide relief and research, as the HAB continued its stranglehold on businesses.

Workers and residents wished for favorable winds from the east to return, pushing the HAB farther into the Gulf of Mexico. A retreat of red tide would furnish the opportunity for coastal businesses to reclaim revenues and lure tourists back to the area.

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After Lawton’s death, she conRhea Chiles centrated on developing the Anna poses with Maria Island arts and cultural comone of her Riley-Love munity, founding the Studio at Gulf paintings in and Pine, 10101 Gulf Drive, Anna her Holmes Maria. Today, the studio hosts meetings, art shows Beach home and fundraisers. in 2004.

She also loved to paint, and her works can be Her pet dog found in collections near and far.

“Giddy” One individual or couple is chosen yearly. Rhea photoChiles joins the likes of past distinguished Floridians, bombed including Walt Disney, Henry Flagler, John Ringling the picture. and others on her induction into the hall of fame.

Islander Chiles is the third woman to win the award singuFile Photo: larly.

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Capt. Ben Webb of Anna Maria Island Dolphin Tours said he made a trip Sept. 14 from Holmes Beach to Egmont Key in Tampa Bay and boated around Passage Key at the north end of Anna Maria Island. Webb reported “no sight” of red tide on his tour.

For now, scientists continue trying to unravel the puzzle of red tide, while islanders read daily beach reports and wait for red tide to disburse or exit the coastline.

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Red tide moves north on coastline

A bloom of the Florida red tide organism, Karenia brevis, persisted in Southwest Florida the week ending Sept 14.

The following are reports on K. brevis testing inshore and alongshore in Manatee County: The following are reports on K. brevis testing inshore and alongshore in Manatee County: • Background concentrations in Bradenton Beach • Very low concentrations on the South Fishing Pier at the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in lower Tampa Bay and near Key Royale, also in lower Tampa Bay. • Low concentrations at Terra Ceia Point and Mead Point in lower Tampa Bay. • Medium concentrations at Anna Maria’s Rod & Reel Pier, also in lower Tampa Bay. FWC continued to receive reports of fish kills from Manatee, Sarasota, Pinellas, Charlotte, Lee and Collier counties.

Respiratory irritation was reported in the region, including at Coquina Beach in Bradenton Beach.

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RED TIDE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Sept. 15. “But they are washing up on the sand again and stinking. One day (the beach) is fine, the next day, we have dead fish again.”

Crews continued daily through the week to collect fish in hard-to-reach areas around the bay.

DeMilio said the work would continue as long as necessary.

Meanwhile, scientists struggled with red tide and its effects on marine life. Researchers from Florida Gulf Coast University fear a dead zone is being created in the Southwest Gulf of Mexico — not unlike the dead zone where the Mississippi River flows into the Gulf. The northern Gulf zone is among the largest two dead zones on Earth.

Dead zones occur when oxygen levels in the water are too low to support most marine life. In essence, the food chain has failed.

Decomposition from tons of rotting sea life on the Gulf floor is contributing to the dead zone. For all the waste collected and disposed of in landfills by coastal

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SBA assists island businesses with red tide losses

By Sandy Ambrogi Islander Reporter FThe Small Business Administration is operating a disaster loan outreach center at the Island Library in Holmes Beach. “They asked us where it should go and we told them: Anna Maria Island is the epicenter of the red tide crisis in Manatee County. Put it on the island,� Bruno Kapacinskas said Sept. 11.

Kapacinskas is the business resource manager for Manatee County’s office of redevelopment and economic opportunity.

Along with county workers, Anna Maria Island Chamber of Commerce members and volunteers, he undertook a Sept. 7 door-to-door information tour on the island. Three days later, the SBA center opened in a meeting room at the Island Library, 5701 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach.

Applications and information were distributed, encouraging business owners to register online at floridadisaster.biz. Doing so helps local governments give the federal government real numbers of those needing assistance and also helps free up federal funds.

New loans are available on the heels of the state disaster money and the short-term 180-day bridge loans offered in mid-August. The Economic Injury Disaster Loans, or EIDLs, make federal working capital loans to small businesses and most nonprofit organizations to meet ordinary and necessary financial obligations.

SBA representatives are offering loans to qualifying businesses of up to $2 million in working capital.

Applicants must have a credit history acceptable to the SBA, show ability to repay the loan and provide collateral on EIDL loans exceeding $25,000.

The loans carry 2.5-4 percent interest rates, depending on qualifying and are long-term loans with up to 30-year repayment terms.

Similar centers were set up in Sarasota and Lee

Mike Swartz, front, customer service representative for the Small Business Administration, and Deidra Larkins of the Manatee County Economic Development Division, process paperwork Sept. 12. The SBA has opened an outreach center at the Island Library, 5701 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach, to assist business owners with red tide issues. Islander Photo: Kathy Prucnell counties. Officials report the Anna Maria Island location has been the busiest, assisting more than two dozen people in the first three days of operation.

Business owners are urged to complete paperwork, while decisions to take advantage of the loans can be delayed. The deadline to apply for the SBA red tide money is June 4, 2019. “The business owners can have all the paperwork ready to push the button,� Kapacinskas said. “Then, if it turns out they won’t need the funds, nothing’s lost.

If they do need it later, they are ready to go.�

The door-to-door information team took to the streets again Sept. 12 in another push to spread information, this time working a stretch of businesses in Bradenton Beach, Cortez and Palma Sola and up Manatee Avenue in west Bradenton. “It’s important that our business community knows

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we are here and we will stay here until we are finished.

We are all in this crisis together,� Kapacinskas said.

But he had reservations about how long the SBA center might be open on the island. “Florence is coming and they are the SBA,� he said Sept. 11. “They go where they are needed, when they are needed. Right now, we have a couple of guys here with laptops ready to help. Next week, they may have to be in North Carolina or elsewhere. Who knows?�

Kapacinskas added.

The SBA outreach center at the Island Library is open 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Saturday..

For more information, call the SBA disaster assistance customer service at 800-659-2955 or go online to SBA.gov.

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Cortez residents protest ‘toxic’ spray from boat repair shop

By Kathy Prucnell Islander Reporter “Poison dust in Cortez!”

That’s the subject line of Anne MacArthur’s Sept.

11 email to The Islander about ongoing resin spray from Yacht Solutions at Cortez Cove Marina in the 4500 block of 121st Street West.

For the past two months, neighbors say dust from grinding fiberglass boat bottoms has billowed from and around a large boat canopy — an open-ended tent with covered metal trusses — creating a wind tunnel that allows chemicals and residue to spray the area.

Neighbors Gail Roberts, who owns neighboring properties, Dave Hinchman and others have complained to marina partners Karen Bell and Fernando and Maria Helena Costa, the paint and repair shop operating under the canopy. The also made complaints to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection — without results — before pleading their case to the newspaper.

Bell said Fernando Costa is working with the county on the issue, but the Costas had not returned a call for comment as of Sept. 14.

“The enclosure was supposed to help contain anything they were doing. The neighbors had concerns prior to the tent about similar issues,” Bell wrote in a Sept. 13 text.

A Manatee County code enforcement record showed inspectors visited the property in May and the operator said it had purchased the tent “to house all such activities.”

Code enforcement officer John Howard said he issued a notice of violation to the owners June 14 because the shop canopy was erected without a building permit. oward said he understood the owner was in the process of applying for an after-the-fact site plan adjustment for the shop canopy— and had been penalized with a fine for failing to pull a permit before erecting the structure.

Vehicles park near the 30-foot paint shop erected without permits at Cortez Cove Marina, 4520 121st St. W., Cortez. Islander Photo: Kathy Prucnell

Howard said he planned to revisit the property.

The neighbors report workers wear breathing masks and other protective gear, but nothing protects against the wind spewing the paint spray.

“It’s bottom paint, which is toxic. It’s fiberglass, which is toxic,” said Layne Schock, who lives across the street.

“I don’t have a problem with them doing it. But I have a problem with them doing it right there,” he said.

Tom Iovino, communications director for the Florida Department of Health in Manatee County, said air quality concerns should be directed to the DEP and “inadequately controlled” ventilation issues are within the purview of Manatee County code enforcement.

DEP spokesperson Shannon Herbon said in a Sept.

14 email, “We will be sending someone out to inspect from a stormwater perspective early next week.”

Another email concluded, “The dust produced by

this activity would not meet the DEP’s threshold for an air permit.”

Herbon wrote she also notified Manatee County code enforcement to advise the DEP if any issues at the marina fell within its oversight.

The neighbors also have concerns that the business causes parking issues.

The business is located where there was a parking lot used by the workers at the marina and another business, Coastal Marine Canvas & Upholstery at 4522 121st St. W. Workers now park on 121st Street West and block access to residential properties.

Dave Bristow, public information director for the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, said he found no written complaints from the neighbors.

As of Sept. 14, code enforcement officials had not returned The Islander’s request for a status on Howard’s plan to reinspect the property.

Another deadline broken, BB CRA may break dock contract

By ChrisAnn Silver Esformes Islander Reporter The latest deadline came and went with no floating dock delivered to Bradenton Beach.

It has been nearly a year-and-a-half — and many missed deadlines — since the city contracted a replacement dock at the Historic Bridge Street Pier. It was to be manufactured and installed by contractor Technomarine of North Palm Beach.

The Bradenton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency, the funding mechanism for the dock, held a special meeting the afternoon of Sept. 13 to decide how to proceed after that day’s delivery deadline was missed.

There was no explanation from TechSanderson nomarine CEO Erik Sanderson about the missed deadline.

The CRA board includes the five commission members and restaurateurs Ed Chiles and John Horne.

Chiles was absent Sept. 13 with excuse.

The floating dock arrived at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale Aug. 16 from the manufacturer in Spain, Ronautica Quality Marinas, but hadn’t been released from the port as of Sept. 13.

At the start of the Sept. 13 meeting, Police Chief Sam Speciale, the lead on the pier project, read an email from a Ronautica representative into the record, which stated that Technomarine had paid the port fees and “the container will go out of the terminal in the next two-three days.”

“It’s a game-changer,” Commissioner Ralph Cole, CRA chair, said regarding the email. “We have to wait and see now.”

But the Ronautica email response did not satisfy concerns from the board members, who have grown frustrated with Technomarine and its numerous delays, as well as the lack of communication on the project.

In a Sept. 5 email from Technomarine to Speciale, Sanderson wrote, “Docks have arrived in Port Everglades. They will be inspected and pick-up will be scheduled. We’ll coordinate when delivery dates are scheduled.”

Additionally, Sanderson wrote that the accompanying hardware, cleats and connections were at Technomarine’s North Palm Beach office.

However, Speciale had no Cole response from Sanderson on two emails he sent informing Technomarine that the board was meeting Sept.

13 to discuss “how to proceed with the terms of the contract.”

At the meeting, Speciale said Technomarine had not provided final Speciale specifications to building official Steve Gilbert, and, therefore, no construction permit had been issued.

Following the meeting, Speciale emailed Sanderson about the permit and the next day received a reply.

Sanderson emailed Sept. 14 that his engineers didn’t notice “any discrepancies” with the specs and asked for Gilbert’s email address, but he neglected to address the status of the shipping container at the port.

Additionally, Speciale said Sept. 13 that Technomarine had not named a contractor for the dock installation, or where and how it would be stored until installation.

A motion passed 6-0 for Speciale to call Port Everglades and Technomarine daily for the next four business days to check on the status of the dock and determine what would happen when it arrives.

On Sept. 14, Speciale called Betalink LLC, the freight forwarder and customs provider listed on the shipment’s bill of lading. Betalink representatives said the port storage fees had been paid and the container would be ready for release Sept. 19.

Speciale also called Sanderson, but had no answer and no return call.

what point is the contract with Technomarine satisfied, where technically those docks are ours?”

Perry said the CRA would need to declare a breach of contract and terminate the agreement before that could happen. She said the contract requires the city provide written notice 30 days before termination and default, unless Technomarine agrees to a shorter timeframe.

Commissioner Jake Spooner said since the permit still hadn’t been issued and the board didn’t know if Technomarine had lined up a contractor for installation, it might be time to consider terminating the contract.

“How much longer do we want to keep going along with this?” Spooner asked.

Mayor John Chappie said his concern was that the city didn’t have the materials in hand.

Speciale pointed out that contents of the cargo container are unknown.

“We believe the decking and aluminum is there,” Speciale said. He added that Technomarine has the remainder of the dock hardware, and the city had no information on pilings.

Perry suggested she draft a letter to Technomarine, which would give Technomarine 30 days to “remedy the default.” It would state that failure would result in the city exercising its contractual and statutory rights.

Cole asked if the materials in the port belong to the city or Technomarine.

Perry said the shipment belongs to Technomarine.

He then inquired about the amount still owed by the CRA to Technomarine.

City treasurer Shayne Thompson said the CRA owed $27,000 for installation and a $9,298 retainer for the remainder of the dock materials.

A motion for Perry to draft a notice of default and have it ready in the event Technomarine didn’t follow through with delivery passed 6-0.

Legal steps The CRA board set a meeting to move forward At the Sept. 13 city meeting, Speciale asked city with the default notice tentatively for 4 p.m. Wednesattorney Ricinda Perry, who attended via Skype, “At day, Sept. 19, at city hall, 107 Gulf Drive N.

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Mote continues difficult red tide work with NOAA grant

By Sandy Ambrogi Islander Reporter It’s almost the stuff of nightmares. Normally robust dolphins and gentle manatees are dying. Red tide has taken many victims.

Gruesome work resulting from the red tide outbreak continues at a fever pace at Mote Marine Labo-

Buchanan pushes for red tide funding

The U.S. House of Representatives continues to push money toward the red tide crisis in Florida and, Sept. 13, authorized an additional $15 million over five years toward ending red tide.

The office of U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Longboat Key, said in a statement the money would identify and develop improved strategies for detection, prevention and reduction of the frequency of harmful algal blooms which include Karenia brevis — Florida’s red tide.

The House also passed the Water Resources and Development Act of 2018, which includes $3 million a year for the Corps Engineering and Development Center to identify and develop methods to prevent and manage HABs, including the blue-green algal bloom in Lake Okeechobee.

Buchanan is a co-sponsor of the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act (HR4417), which will provide more than $100 million to combat HAB and establish a process to declare an “event of national significance,” which would trigger disaster-like funding for affected communities.

Buchanan also introduced legislation earlier this year that was signed into law to provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $8 million to reduce the threat of algae blooms, including red tide.

— Sandy Ambrogi

ratories, as scientist attempt to unravel how red tide kills marine mammals and other sea life.

Mote researchers confirmed Sept. 12 that 10 of 17 dead bottlenose dolphins recovered in the Gulf since July 1 were the result of red tide neurotoxins.

Mote completed necropsies on 10 dolphins, while samplings on the remaining seven dolphins had not been completed as of Sept. 17.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had suspected red tide in the unusually high number of deceased dolphins found in the Gulf, but the tests were needed to confirm their suspicions.

Red tide, Karenia brevis, kills by producing a powerful neurotoxin that harms the central nervous systems of marine life, including fish, turtles, manatees and dolphins. Manatees suffer when eating contaminated seagrasses and all marine mammals breathe the contaminated air from the harmful algal bloom.

Turtles and dolphins often eat fish compromised by the HAB. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has performed necropsies on dozens of dead manatees pulled from the Gulf and bay waters since the red tide began in October 2017.

Now Mote is teaming up with Florida International University in a new effort to help manatees exposed to red tide.

With a $428,000 grant from NOAA’s ECOHAB, the university and research lab scientists are working on a treatment protocol for exposed animals.

Mote immunology expert Cathy Walsh and FIU chemist Kathleen Rein are studying how a manatee’s immune system responds to certain antioxidants.

The scientists believe red tide exposure leads to oxidative stress, a harmful imbalance between free radicals and antioxidants.

Similar studies on treatments for human maladies have been underway for years. The current protocol for treating sickened marine mammals is the use of anti-inflammatories to aid in healing. Rein hopes a new

treatment accelerates the process.

The FWC says as of Sept. 12, 115 manatees have died of red tide this year. By the end of August, 544 manatees had died in 2018. That number already exceeds the 2017 death toll of 538, and is roughly 8 percent of the state’s manatee population.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologists transport a sick manatee to a rehab facility. Manatees are dying from red tide neurotoxins and scientists from Mote Marine Laboratory and Florida International University joined forces to improve rehabilitation efforts. Islander Photo: Courtesy Save the Manatees

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You feel it too, right?

Maybe you also woke up last week feeling anxious. I had a nagging feeling that just wouldn’t go away.

I was restless. My nerves were saying, pack your go-bag now. Get the hurricane kit and the supplies ready and charge those battery backup devices. What food can I pack. Have I got enough water and dog food to last a week?

AM I READY? Hurricane Florence was bearing down on North Carolina and I was feeling the pressure. I knew I wasn’t ready to evacuate.

But wait. Florence showed no signs of threat to Florida, Tampa Bay or Anna Maria Island.

Why was I feeling this urge to pack, store, charge and leave home?

I was in a big hurry to prep for a storm and there was really no need.

Well, maybe it was because I’m not ready. If a storm came tomorrow or next week, I wouldn’t be ready.

And then it came over me — this storm could meet up with my family in Portsmouth, Virginia. Or it could topple their beach home in Nags Head.

Turns out they were prepared. The grill was stored away at the beach home and the shutters were up long before Florence touched the east coast.

Friends in North Carolina? I emailed friends and family.

All set. Evacuated. Battened down. Ready.

Well, all but long-time friend Doris Silverthorn, who reminds me of her age (90) with almost every communication. She’s on Scaly Mountain.

She’s about 10 or so miles west of where North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia meet.

Her worry was whether a mud slide would send her cabin — at 4,000-foot elevation — slipping down the mountain, and she had some trepidation about her dog going outside and a tree falling on him.

I was ready to offer shelter at my house.

Instead, I settled down and let my mind wander back to making a newspaper, walking my dogs and a trip to Sam’s Club for bottled water. Lots of it.

I also topped off my gas tank. There I go again.

I wondered when the next storm would stir things up for us. And how would we fare if 20 inches of rain and a tidal surge pushed in behind 100-mph winds.

Maybe you thought the same?

We’ve been so lucky so far.

— Bonner Joy

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Red tide and the great goldfish gaff

The worst marketing gaff of all time was the brainchild of the General Motors guys.

They spent a gazillion dollars marketing a new car product for the South American market.

The name of the car they spent all that money on was the Chevy Nova.

In Spanish “Nova” means “no go.”

Apparently, a lot of people in South America speak Spanish.

The Chevy Nova bombed.

I still find it amazing that a big organization with a lot of people and a lot of money could be that stupid.

It puts me in mind of Florida’s government and red tide.

I recently discovered I could be that stupid.

If you haven’t heard, our area has had another bout of red tide.

This time every newspaper and media outlet in the world decided to scream it to the high heavens and print tons of pictures displaying tons of dead fish.

Everyone became hysterical and all the tourists left.

The level of hysteria is astounding.

One woman called the Bistro to scream at me that the Bistro Beach Cam was lying.

She said we were hiding the bodies of the dead people that were littering the beaches.

“The dead people are there — I know — and you’re hiding them…!”

I put the receiver down slowly and carefully.

Since I am “kind of” in charge of marketing for the Beach Bistro, Eat Here and the Doctor’s Office, I thought I would let folks know the grouper is safe and the air conditioning removes all evidence of the tide — and that there were no dead people.

I thought it would be cute promotion for Eat Here to buy a bunch of little goldfish and put them in a tank in the dining room, and when families came to dinner we could give the kids a real goldfish in a little plastic bag.

The kids would hold up their cute little goldfish next to their cute little faces and smile and we could take their pictures and put them online somewhere and

tag them “live fish on Anna-Maria” and people would smile and we could show that things were all right and we could go back to the good old days before Big Sugar invented red tide and killed all the fish and all the tourists.

Sounds like an ok idea. Right?

Nope.

Not as big and stupid as the Chevy Nova, but right up there.

What happened was that smart people who knew you could still eat indoors around red tide came and brought their families and loved Eat Here’s really great food and had a great time and as the happy families left we gave the kids a goldfish and the kids loved the goldfish and got excited and happy.

And the parents got angry and said, “We ain’t taking that god damn goldfish home,” and the kids started crying and pitching a fit and we turned a bunch of happy families into whirling dervishes of discord.

They all hated us.

Oh well.

Eventually we found someone who wanted a fish tank and the gold fish are doing OK. We had one large goldfish with a big orange forehead that looked like a comb-over and we named him Donald. He is hanging out at the Doctor’s Office where we are offering special red tide cocktails with little red fish-shaped candy garnishes.

The Beach Bistro bar is offering goldfish crackers instead of real goldfish and the Beach cam is still panning beautiful sunsets and happy people on the beach.

Tides come and go.

The red tide appears to be leaving but my chefs’ jibes about the genius of the Great Goldfish Gaff will be with us forever.

Goldfish and the Chevy Nova.

— Sean Murphy Sean Murphy is proprietor of Beach Bistro, Eat Here and the Doctor’s Office, all in Holmes Beach. This story and some of Murphy’s other commentary, can be found at www.beachbistro.com.

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1977 pier demolition

Workers in August 1977 begin tearing down the Bradenton Beach fishing pier, which had been the 1921-built bridge. The demolition was part of a project to build a new pier and fishing shelter. Islander Photo: Courtesy Manatee County Public Library Digital Collection

Holmes Beach veteran honored at Yankee Stadium

Mickey Mantle. Whitey Ford. Roger Maris. family, accompanied Herman to the Yankees game.

Dick Herman, 99, of Holmes Beach was the darPhotographs were taken. Herman’s name and serling of Yankee Stadium. vice flashed on the Jumbotron. He was thanked for his Herman experienced the all-time greats in their service. heyday in baseball.

And the game resumed.

But Sept. 16, it was Herman who walked onto the The game score? Jays, 3. Yankees 2. field during the seventh-inning stretch at the Yankees — Kathy Prucnell versus Toronto Blue Jays game — and the crowd went World War wild.

II veteran He was honored for his service in World War II and Yankees as a U.S. Army captain in Europe and the Philippines, fan Dick earning a Bronze Star Medal in 1945.

Herman.

Born June 4, 1919, in New York City, after the war, Islander Herman moved with his wife Ruth-Ann to Milford, Photo: Connecticut. He received a master’s degree at Yale Courtesy University, taught high school history and served as a Nancy principal and superintendent of schools in Milford.

Herman After 1982, Herman retired and wintered with Ruth-Ann in Holmes Beach, returning to Connecticut in the summer.

His family, including daughter Nancy and her

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In the headlines: Sept. 16, 1998

An islandwide forum on a curfew for juveniles called by Anna Maria Mayor Chuck Shumard drew only 10 island residents, and most of them opposed any curfew. Shumard said a Pinellas County Circuit Court ruling that found Pinellas County’s curfew law unconstitutional probably contributed to the low turnout.

An Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch volunteer made two Tampa youths vacationing in Anna Maria release the 13 sea turtle hatchlings they had caught to keep as pets. The boys had found the turtles in the street and kept them in cool seawater in a dark space, then later released them in the Gulf.

In the headlines: Sept. 17, 2008

The Anna Maria Island Privateers ship nearly floated on water. The ship, a land-loving motorized vessel on wheels parked near the Holmes Beach public works facility, was seen in the midst of rising floodwater caused by heavy rainfall at an above-normal high tide.

Anna Maria’s transportation enhancement grant committee gave consensus to a boardwalk along the waterfront to attract visitors and make the pier experience “pleasurable and memorable,” said City Commissioner Jo Ann Mattick, who chaired the committee.

Manatee County commissioners backed a slate of enhancements for beaches on Anna Maria Island.

The commissioners approved several proposals for new play and picnic areas, new sidewalks, improved trolley shelters and a rebuilt pier.

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HB commissioner takes aim at builder for clearing trees

By Kathy Prucnell Islander Reporter Claiming “irreversible damage” to a beach access and city right of way — cutting Australian pine trees and adding sand between 47th and 48th streets — a Holmes Beach commissioner wants to hold someone accountable.

At the Sept. 13 city meeting, Commission Chair Judy Titsworth called out builder-developer Shawn Kaleta as a “repeat offender” who skirted state and city environmental rules in clearing a block of beachfront residential property.

She asked for the support of the commission and mayor in bringing Kaleta before a special magistrate to be “properly fined” and for the issue to be reported to the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.

“If more cities would do that, maybe he’d take notice,” she said.

Titsworth thanked building official Jim McGuiness for issuing the stop work order for the property.

The commissioner said she spoke to Kaleta after the city was alerted to the clearing and he advised he had obtained a Florida Department of Environmental Protection after-the-fact permit.

Titsworth criticized the builder for making a preemptive strike for development.

State and local rules require developers to obtain a letter of “no objection” from the city before obtaining a Florida Department of Environmental Protection permit and to return to the city for site-plan approval, she said.

Asked for a comment on the matter the next day, Kaleta texted, “I don’t own 47th and I’m not sure why Jim (McGinnis) red tagged the beach access, which is city property.”

Seaward of the coastal construction control line, the beachfront single-family home at 102 47th St. is owned by Fourty Seven Street LLC. The Florida Secretary of State lists Ivo Travnicek as owner.

Titsworth said Kaleta is listed as an agent for the owner on the DEP permit.

She referenced a Sept. 6 letter she wrote to Mayor Bob Johnson that called the city’s initial response to the developer “weak.” In it, Titsworth criticized the mayor for telling her she’s “not the mayor yet,” regarding her research on the 47th-48th street clearing.

Johnson said the city was “well into” the matter

Recently cut Australian pines lay in piles Sept. 4 on residential property between 47th and 48th streets.

Islander Photos: Courtesy City of Holmes Beach

“He is a licensed professional in the field. And with that license, he is to know what is required when he starts to do work.… He just got in trouble for it with the 77th Street beach,” Titsworth said.

However, as reported in November 2017 in The Islander, Kaleta’s 77th Street project met approval from the DEP, including a pool on the Gulffront.

Titsworth agreed that the 47th Street lot was cleared of mostly Australian pines, “which some people love and which some people hate.”

Australian pine trees are considered by the state to be a nuisance and, according to a DEP source, no permit is required to remove Australian pine trees.

“I happen to like some of them because they’re birds nesting in them. He also spread sand on the beach access. Beach accesses are supposed to remain in their natural state,” not landscaped, Titsworth said.

Kaleta again denied Sept. 16 he is the developer or owner of the property at 47th Street. He also denied hiring the company that cleared the 47th Street lot.

Kaleta said in a Sept. 16 text message to The Islander: “I believe the sand spread in the city beach access touched my property (on the north side of the access) so my address was included on the red tag. I called the state to come out so the red tag would be lifted on my personal property, because I was doing no work at the time. I don’t understand why it was tagged at all.”

“I personally think the city made the right choice in clearing its beach access. It gives the street a fresh, new look.”

at the time of their conversation and he had no further comment on the matter.

The building department’s stop-work order was in place Sept. 14, he said.

Titsworth said the police may have given Kaleta permission to clear vegetation “to open up” the beach access and, later in the meeting, Police Chief Bill Tokajer requested other beach accesses with vegetation be cleared a minimum of “3 or 4 feet” so officers can access the beach on all-terrain vehicles.

After the clearing, Sgt. Mike Pilato, McGuinness and code enforcement officer JT Thomas met Kaleta at his 48th Street home adjacent to the beach access, according to a Sept. 5 email from Pilato to McGuinness.

According to the agreement, the beach access work would stop, while cutting, grinding and clearing the downed Australian pines would continue.

In a followup to the beach meeting, McGuinness wrote Kaleta an email advising him to stop land development and provide excavation and revegetation plans and surveys identifying the volume of fill to be added to the property.

“I’m sorry that he threw the police under the bus,” Titsworth said, referring to HBPD allowing the vegetation removal but, she added, a developer can’t circumvent the DEP. Holmes Beach considers Asked why Kaleta received an after-the-fact permit without the city signing off, Titsworth said, “Who ‘grand’ tree protection rules knows.”

Evidence of heavy equipment used to deposit and

By Jennifer Glenfield and Ryan Paice A DEP spokesman did not return a Sept. 15 email spread beach-compatible sand was visible Sept. 5 at Islander Reporters from The Islander by press time Sept. 19. the 48th Street beach access.

The Holmes Beach commission wants to retain old growth trees in the city.

Commissioners began talks on regulations to proNone announced. tect grand trees in May and revisited the issue at an WMFR administration building, 6417 Third Ave. Aug. 28 work session.

W., Bradenton, wmfr.org.

Anna Maria City City planner Bill Brisson is drafting an ordinance Sept. 27, 6 p.m., commission. that would prohibit anyone, including owners of Manatee County Oct. 9, 4 p.m., planning and zoning. property where the tree is rooted, from cutting down, Sept. 27, 9 a.m., county commission (land Oct. 11, 6 p.m., commission. removing, relocating or damaging grand trees. use).

Oct. 25, 6 p.m., commission.

City Commissioner Judy Titsworth said Sept. 13 Administration building, 1112 Manatee Ave. W., Nov. 8, 6 p.m., commission.

Brisson is researching other municipalities for codes Bradenton, 941-748-4501, mymanatee.org.

Nov. 13, 4 p.m., planning and zoning. dealing with grand trees to determine a direction in Anna Maria City Hall, 10005 Gulf Drive, 941Holmes Beach.

Of interest 708-6130, cityofannamaria.com.

Currently, property owners can remove a grand Sept. 24, 8:15 a.m., MPO Public Transportation tree with the required permit, but there is no provision Task Force, 7631 15th St. E., Sarasota.

Bradenton Beach for replacement trees.

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24, 9:30 a.m., MPO board, Holiday Inn, Sept. 19, 1 p.m., planning and zoning.

Titsworth said the commission wants to retain 8009 15th St. E., Sarasota.

Sept. 19, 5:05 p.m., budget hearings. as many grand trees as possible and that most other Sept. 25, 4 p.m., Council of Governments, BraSept. 20, noon, commission. municipalities regulate removal and replacement of denton Area Convention Center, 1 Haben Blvd., PalSept.

25, 10 a.m., commission. certain trees. metto.

Bradenton Beach City Hall, 107 Gulf Drive N., “We’re 25 years late on getting a tree protection Oct. 22, 2 p.m., Island Transportation Planning 941-778-1005, cityofbradentonbeach.org. ordinance,” said building official Jim McGuinness.

Organization, Anna Maria City Hall.

Not all trees would fall under the proposed regulaNov. 6 is Election Day, polls open 7 a.m.-7 Holmes Beach tions. In order to be protected, the trees must meet the p.m.

Sept. 25, 6 p.m., commission. standards of a “grand” tree based on a point system.

Nov. 12 is Veterans Day, most government Sept. 27, 6 p.m., commission.

The points are calculated by measuring the diameter offices, as well as The Islander, will be closed.

Oct. 10, 10 a.m., parks and beautification. and height of the tree and an average of the canopy Nov. 22 is Thanksgiving, most government Holmes Beach City Hall, 5801 Marina Drive, spread. offices, as well as The Islander, will be closed that 941-708-5800, holmesbeachfl.org.

The point system proposed is borrowed from the day and Nov. 23.

Sarasota County Environmental Protection Division.

Send notices to news@islander.org.

West Manatee Fire Rescue Titsworth said the ordinance wouldn’t be on a city meeting agenda until mid-October.

Meetings

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BB CRA approves underground utilities, historic vision

By ChrisAnn Silver Esformes Islander Reporter The district might be historic, but modernization is the theme for the Bradenton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency.

At it’s Sept. 5 meeting, the CRA board voted to ground utilities along Bridge Street and across Gulf Drive and to contract a designer to implement an aesthetic vision for the historic district.

The CRA district, bordered by Cortez Road, Sarasota Bay, Fifth Street South and the Gulf of Mexico, was deemed blighted in 1992, allowing for incremental tax revenue to promote restoration and growth, including tourism.

The CRA includes the mayor, city commissioners and two appointed members, restaurateurs John Horne and Ed Chiles.

The board started discussing running existing overhead utilities on Bridge Street underground last spring, when Commissioner Ralph Cole, CRA chair, reminded the board that the utility project was incorporated into the vision plan when the district was created.

Cole said previously the funds were not available, but now that more money has come in to support the district, “this is the time.”

As of late August, the CRA fund had accumulated about $1.7 million.

CRA funds are intended for enhancements for the district, not to be saved, and are separate from the city budget.

At the Sept. 5 meeting, Mark Porter, senior utilities coordinator for CDM Smith, the engineering and construction firm overseeing the project, reviewed the

Utility lines crossing Gulf Drive between Cortez Road and Fourth Street South in Bradenton Beach soon will be transferred underground, when planned historic district improvements take place. Islander Photo: ChrisAnn Silver Esformes

probable costs with the board. that hasn’t already been destroyed,” Smith said.

Porter estimated the cost at $440,000 to ground Smith’s plan will cost $38,333 to implement, utilities for Bridge Street, including streetlights and including construction and landscape plans, public sigconnections for Bridge Street property owners, and nage, benches, bike racks, ropes and bollards, lighting $77,000 for the lateral crossings on Gulf Drive between and streetscapes on Bridge Street.

Cortez Road and Fourth Street South.

Additionally, Smith will create a district “design Additionally, the cost for CDM Smith to oversee standards book” as a guide for development that will the project was estimated at about 10 percent of the be included in the land development code. project cost.

Chiles, who attended the meeting by phone, asked He said the project should take about six months, if Smith will be responsible for the landscaping portion the properties on Bridge Street would not be without of the project. power during construction and work would be planned Mayor John Chappie replied that Smith would during slower periods for business. bring options to the board.

A motion to approve the utility grounding passed Chiles said he couldn’t support the decision since unanimously.

Smith does not specialize in landscaping.

The motion included direction for CDM Smith At one time, the board had considered a separate to work with CRA designer Emily Anne Smith, who proposal from a professional landscaper for the disindicated her approval to bury the power lines. trict.

Following that action, CRA members discussed A motion to approve Smith’s contract passed 5-2 Anna Maria to advance city contracting Smith to design anaesthetic plan for the with Chiles and Horne voting “nay.” pier piling purchase district.

The final public hearing for the 2018-19 CRA CRA members approved Smith’s design proposal budget will be at 5:05 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, at city Buy here, save here.

The contractors for the Anna Maria City Pier won’t for the district and authorized moving forward with a hall, 107 Gulf Drive N. contract in August.

The next monthly CRA meeting will be at 9:30 have to worry about purchasing pilings.

“My intent is to preserve every little bit of history a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, also at city hall.

City commissioners voted 4-0 at their Sept. 13 meeting to approve spending $171,289.80 to advance the purchase of concrete pilings for the construction of the pier, on Mayor Dan Murphy’s recommendation.

Commissioner Brian Seymour was absent with excuse.

Murphy said the pilings are available but, if the supplier sells out, it could take 15 weeks for the pilings to become available again.

He said demand after Hurricane Florence might cause the price of the pilings to rise and the city should avoid an increase by buying now.

By purchasing the pilings now, the city also will save 7 percent sales tax, according to Murphy.

The pilings are in Canada, where they will remain until they are needed for construction, according to Murphy. Storage is free for six months, while continued storage would cost $400 a month.

Anna Maria released a second request for proposals for the new pier construction Sept. 5 and will collect bids until Oct. 5.

Murphy will assess the bids with city officials and (beside City Hall) make a recommendation to commissioners, who will (adjacent to city hall) vote to either negotiate with a contractor or again reject (beside City Hall) the bids.

Commissioner Doug Copeland commented that if construction of the pier didn’t begin in six months, it likely never would.

— Ryan Paice

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The meeting Sept. 22 will feature remarks by Chris Culhane, executive director of the Center of Anna Maria Island.

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The Island Players will open its 70th season with “The Unexpected Guest,” a play by Agatha Christie that Heiko Knipfelberg is directing.

The play will open Thursday, Sept. 20, at the theater at 10009 Gulf Drive, Anna Maria, and continues through Sunday, Sept. 30.

Performances will be at 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays.

Single-show tickets are $20 each.

Through the run, the box office will be open 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays and an hour before curtain.

For more information, call the box office at 941 778-5755 or go online to theislandplayers.org.

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Senior Adventures plans include touring galleries

Senior Adventures will meet at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 21, at the Annie Silver Community Center to begin a tour of island art galleries.

Senior Adventures is a group of older adults that meets most Fridays for an adventure.

On Friday, Sept. 28, the group will hold a potluck lunch and book sale 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Annie Silver Community Center, 103 23rd St. N., Bradenton Beach.

For more information or to RSVP, call Kaye Bell at 941-538-0945.

SCF orchestra takes audience around the world

State College of Florida will present a “Global Initiative” as the season debut for the SCF Bradenton Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, at SCF’s Neel Performing Arts Center, 5840 26th St. W., Bradenton.

The audience will embark on a trip around the world with the orchestra and guest piano soloist and music faculty member Aza Torshkoeva.

Sibelius’ “Finlandia” will take the listener to the land of the midnight sun followed by an excursion to Warsaw with Addinsell’s “Warsaw Concerto” and, finally, Dvorak’s classic “New World Symphony.”

Ticket holders are invited to a reception, including refreshments and a discussion at 6:30 p.m. in the SCF Gallery adjacent to the Neel PAC lobby.

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Anna Maria $10M budget moves to final hearing

By Ryan Paice Islander Reporter Anna Maria is only a step away from adopting the city budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year.

No one from the public attended the first budget hearing Sept. 13.

Without comment, city commissioners voted 4-0 to approve the ad valorem rate of 2.05 for the 2018-19 fiscal year.

Commissioner Brian Seymour was absent with excuse.

The city estimates the rate will yield $2,245,437 in revenue — a $207,639 increase over the $2,037,798 collected in 2017-18 from property owners.

To avoid a tax increase, the city would need to adopt the rollback rate of 1.8911, which Mayor Dan Murphy said would yield $2,071,388.

The rollback rate is the rate needed to produce the same income as the current budget.

Millage is the percentage per $1,000 of property value used to calculate property taxes. The owner of a property appraised at $400,000 with a 2.05 millage rate would pay $820 in property taxes.

The owner of a property appraised at $400,000 and taxed at the 1.8911 rollback rate would pay $756.44 in property taxes.

The total appraised taxable value of Anna Maria properties is $1,094,718,024, with $19,008,031 attributed to new construction.

Between funds raised and projected costs, the planned construction of a new Anna Maria City Pier will balloon both revenue and spending in 2018-19.

Expenses will increase by 87.2 percent, from $5,879,018.58 in 2017-18 to $10,492,116 in 2018-19 to accommodate the pier, additional stormwater projects, equipment upgrades, and to fill vacancies in code enforcement, public works and administration. Revenues also will total $10,492,116 — $3,596,860.15 of which is funds raised for the pier.

Additionally, the city projects $2,972,271 in fund balances, reserves and net assets in the new budget.

The final public hearing and vote will be 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 27, at city hall.

AM budget correction

In reporting the Anna Maria city budget, the Islander erred in its comparison of preliminary budget numbers that don’t represent the final budget.

The 2018-19 budget is balanced, with $10,492,116 in both revenues and expenses, as well as $2,972,271 in fund balances, reserves and net assets.

Additionally, a 5 percent increase for the department of public works will fill vacancies and pay for paving projects and will not solely apply to employee raises, as reported.

Proposed HB budget grows $450K to $15.9M to cover Bert Harris claims

By Kathy Prucnell Islander Reporter The proposed 2018-19 Holmes Beach budget has grown $450,000 since the July projections were made — and Bert Harris is partly to blame.

“The major changes from the first draft to yesterday are the additional insurance costs, the addition of a consultant and the changing of the rollover amounts,” city treasurer Lori Hill stated in an email following the Sept. 13 first reading of the budget and millage ordinances at city hall.

At the Sept. 13 meeting, Hill said a new invoice from the Florida Municipal Insurance Trust, the insurance arm of the Florida League of Cities, required her to adjust the budget — now at $15,906,302 — which was proposed after July 10-11 workshops.

The new bill for insurance includes a $121,000 hike, which raises a $267,000 premium in 2017 to $377,000 in 2018, for city liability, worker’s comp and auto insurance.

In an attempt to reduce the cost, the city “went back to the league and there’s nothing that can be done,” Hill said, due to the risk inherent in the $25 million in claims filed against the city since 2016 under the Bert J. Harris Jr. Property Rights Protection Act. She said two policies will cover up to $2 million, including a policy covering litigation costs and another that does not.

Hill also highlighted other items new to the 2018-19 budget, including a $100,000 legal contingency, $400,000 in city field amenities, a $500,000 fund specific to Bert Harris costs and $217,000 in salaries and benefits for three new employees — a code enforcement officer, an administrative accounting specialist and a permit technician for the building department. A fourth employee fo public works was eliminated.

For the police department, the proposed budget includes $101,000 for a license-plate recognition system, a $20,000 bulletproof window for dispatch and about $125,000 for pay increases and retirement contributions.

A $21,000 digital outdoor sign is proposed to replace the existing sign at city hall. A $31,000 code enforcement program to track illegal vacation rental advertising also is new.

Another new budget item is a $50,000 allocation for a land-development code consultant.

The first reading of the budget and millage ordinances passed 4-0, with Commissioner Jim Kihm absent with excuse.

After the hearing, Commissioner Carol Soustek and planner Bill Brisson said the planning commission will be looking at land development code changes after it reviews the city’s comprehensive plan.

At planning board member Scott Boyd’s sugges-

BB to review TPLE requirements

Bradenton Beach is holding a meeting to discuss several matters relating to vacation rentals.

Commissioners will the discuss owner-occupied rentals and land development code matters including off-street parking for one- and two-family residences, as well as swimming pools as lot coverage as they relate to the city’s transient public lodging establishment license.

The meeting was proposed by Commissioner Jake Spooner, who said constituents have shared concerns regarding restrictions for owner-occupied TPLE’s and recent changes to the LDC for parking and swimming pools.

The meeting format will include discussion, but unlike a workshop, the commission can take action on the issues discussed.

The commission meeting will be at 10 a.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 25, at city hall, 107 Gulf Drive N. — ChrisAnn Silver Esformes

Holmes Beach treasurer Lori Hill presents the city’s 2018-19 proposed millage and budget ordinances Sept. 13 as clerk Stacey Johnston records the meeting. Islander Photo: Kathy Prucnell

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tion, Soustek, who is liaison to the board, said the LDC consultant was included in the proposed budget and Brisson is reviewing possible candidates.

The revenue streams financing the new budget remain “relatively the same,” Hill said, including gas and sales taxes and revenue sharing. Although, she said, hazard mitigation matching funds of $235,707 from a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant are new to the budget.

The budget spending and revenue for the current year is $13,423,153.

The proposed 2018-19 budget is based on ad valorem taxes levied at a millage rate of 2.25 per $1,000 valuation. The proposed millage rate is 6.83 percent higher than the rollback rate of 2.1062 — the rate needed to maintain the same revenue as the current budget.

The yet-approved millage rate is a tax increase for property owners.

The final reading, hearing and vote on the budget was set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, at city hall, 5801

BB budget correction

The Islander reported Sept. 12 some Bradenton Beach 2017-18 budget numbers that were preliminary, according to city treasurer Shayne Thompson.

Some expenses reported for 2017-18 represented “actual” expenditures for the first six months of the budget year, not what was budgeted for the full fiscal year, which concludes Sept. 30.

Police department expenditures rose from $1,062,123 in the 2017-18 fiscal year — not $538,905 as was reported — to $1,143,188 proposed for 2018-19.

Administration expenditures will increase from $548,011 in 2017-18 — not $324,591 as was reported — to $599,872 for 2018-19, a proposed increase of 9.5 percent.

City planning expenditures will rise from $365,066 — not $194,497 — in 2017-18 to $384,312 for 2018-19. This represents an increase of 5.3 percent.

Additionally, professional planning services will remain unchanged from 2017-18 at $80,500 if the 2018-19 budget ordinance is adopted.

Previously set for Sept. 13, the final public hearings and votes for the 2018-19 CRA and city budgets will be at 5:05 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, at city hall.

— ChrisAnn Silver Esformes

Roadwatch Eyes on the road

The Florida Department of Transportation and Manatee County posted the following notices for the week of Sept. 17: State Road 64/Manatee Avenue at the Anna Maria Island Drawbridge: Crews will be working on the bridge. Expect nighttime/overnight east and westbound intermittent lane closures 9 p.m.-5 a.m. Sept. 16-20.

Gulf Drive in Bradenton Beach: Crews are installing a force main in the southbound lanes of Gulf Drive between Ninth Street North and Cortez Road, to proceed eastward down the Cortez Road bridge embankment. A northbound and southbound lane will remain open. Expected completion is mid-September.

Avenue C in Bradenton Beach: Road work continues on Avenue C between Gulf Drive and 26th Street North and on 26th Street North from Avenue C to Gulf Drive.

Palm Drive in Holmes Beach: Pipe installation continues at Palm Drive and 82nd Street, moving northward on Palm Boulevard.

For more information about the pipeline project, go online to amipipereplacement.com.

For the latest road watch information, go online to www.fl511.com or dial 511.

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The Anna Maria Island Privateers have made all Banfield’s Mandolin Music Instruction Series will the arrangements for Camp Crows Nest, a weekend be held 2-4 p.m. Tuesdays beginning Oct. 9 and ending camping retreat for anyone interested in escaping the Nov. 6 at the Florida Maritime Museum, 4415 119th seriousness of adulthood.

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PTO meets, greets, launches new year Parents and guardians of AME students mingle and fill out PTO membership forms at a welcome reception hosted by the PTO and sponsored by the Waterfront Restaurant on the restaurant patio. Islander Photos: Ryan Paice

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Anna Maria Elementary Parent-Teacher Organization co-treasurer Rejane Monetti, left, treasurer Mandy Elmore, president Nicole Teich and vice president Jessica Baugher gather Sept. 15 at a welcome reception for parents and guardians of AME students at the Waterfront Restaurant, 111 S. Bay Blvd., Anna Maria.

• Friday, Sept. 21, International Peace Day. • Friday, Sept. 28-Thursday, Oct. 4, book

• Wednesday, Oct. 3, literacy night, 5 p.m.

• Monday, Oct. 8, school advisory council meeting, 3:30 p.m.

• Friday, Oct. 12, early release for elementary schools, 1 p.m.

• Monday, Oct. 15, no school, record day.

• Friday, Oct. 19, districtwide early release, 1 p.m.

• Thursday, Oct. 25, school picture retake day.

Anna Maria Elementary is at 4700 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach.

For more information, call the school at 941708-5525.

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Brylee Roberts, 8, left, Fiona McCarthy, 10, and Savanna Coba, 8, show off their dreamcatcher creationsSept. 12. The dreamcatchers were crafted with Savanna’s mother, art teacher Lisa Coba, as a part of the Beyond the Classroom program at the Center of Anna Maria Island, 407 Magnolia Ave., Anna Maria.

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Old Anna Maria preschool moves to new Holmes Beach home

By Sandy Ambrogi Islander Reporter With only days to go before the lease expired at the Pine Avenue location, word came that a new home was good to go for a 29-year old Anna Maria preschool.

It was welcome relief for Pam Bertrand, owner of the School for Constructive Play, which had made its home at 302 Pine Ave., Anna Maria, for those 29 years.

A new chapter has begun for SFCP as teachers and students settle into the school’s new home at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 6608 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach. “We got the go-ahead on (Sept. 7),� Bertrand said Sept. 11. “We spent the whole weekend moving.�

Although the space is slightly smaller than the Pine Avenue building she left behind, Bertrand, who also teaches, said the space is working well. “It’s wonderful. It’s perfect,� Bertrand. “We are off and running here.�

Bertrand said there are approximately 30 children enrolled full time at the school, down some from years past.

Others are after-school attendees — SFCP takes students up to 10-years-old for post-school daycare and the school bus delivers them from Anna Maria Elementary to the Holmes Beach location.

In a coincidence, a swarm of bees arrived at Gloria Dei and set up residence in a tree on the school’s playground at the same time classes began at the new location.

A local beekeeper was summoned, and students had an opportunity to safely observe from a distance as professionals captured and removed the hive the morning of Sept. 11. They were no doubt eager to reclaim the big wooden boat and jungle gym on the playground near the bees’ location.

The SFCP first opened in 1989 in Anna Maria.

Bertrand has run the school since 1998, having purchased it from an absentee owner in 2016.

The School for Constructive Play is a state-certified kindergarten program and offers before- and afterschool care for children up to age 10.

SFCP is open 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.

The school is at the north end of the church, where double-glass doors lead to the playground.

For more information, call Bertrand at 941-7782210.

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11 in the Australian pine trees that shade the playground for the new School for Constructive Play at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church.

Students at the School for Constructive Play’s new home at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church watch from a safe distance as beekeepers remove a hive from a tree on their playground.

The bees moved in the same day as the students — Sept. 10.

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11 on the steps of the new School for ConstrucThe School for Constructive Play now operates at tive Play at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church.

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Obituaries

By Jabbo Gordon

Bessie B. Gamber

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Change is coming

The Rev. Rosemary Wheeler Backer has resigned as pastor of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Holmes Beach to serve as interim pastor at Luther Memorial Lutheran Church in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Her last weekend to lead worship on Anna Maria Island will be Oct. 6-7. She plans to begin her new duties in Virginia Oct. 15.

The Blacksburg church is located across from the Virginia Tech campus and the church congregation is looking forward to calling its own full-time pastor, a process that normally takes at least a year.

Pastor Rosemary, as she prefers to be called, had said when she arrived on the island that she had been called to the beach. But now, it seems, she has been called back to the mountains.

Backer is moving to be closer to her son, Robert, his wife, Carrie, and her 9-month-old grandson, Bodhi, who live in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, about five hours from Blacksburg. Her plan, she added, is to retire when the interim call ends.

“The decision to leave Gloria Dei and accept this position has been very difficult,” she said. “I have a great love for this church and have been privileged to share our ministry for the last 12 years.”

The congregation council met with Connie Schmucker, assistant to the bishop of the FloridaBahamas Synod for candidacy, mobility and the call process, and discussed the procedures for acquiring a supply pastor and then an interim who will lead the island church through its own process of calling a new permanent pastor.

Ordained in Virginia, Backer has maintained close The Rev. Rosemary Backer of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church leads worshippers in song. Backer has accepted a calling to a church in Virginia in October.

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Bessie B. Gamber, 94, of Englewood, died Sept.

She was born Feb. 19, 1924, in Collins, Arkansas, one of eight siblings born to Olen and Orah (Thompson) Christmas.

She was married in 1947 at Warm Springs, Georgia, to Earl D. Gamber. The couple resided in Homestead before moving their family to Englewood in 1963.

Mrs. Gamber was a hairdresser and a real estate broker. She enjoyed boating, gardening and travel to such destinations as Alaska, Hawaii, Costa Rica and Canada. Her pinnacle trip was to China with her sister.

As a Girl Scout leader, she shared her love of ties there. In March 2016, some students from Virginia Tech spent spring break on a mission trip here, helping at a Habitat for Humanity home-building site in Manatee County and working on the church grounds in Holmes Beach. Their overnight accommodations, by choice, were Gloria Dei’s fellowship hall floor.

In other Gloria Dei news, the School for Constructive Play has moved to the church. The school offers daycare, preschool and voluntary pre-kindergarten. It is licensed to care for as many as 36 children.

The move required some renovation in the space allocated in the church, but volunteers from the congregation helped make the transition a smooth one.

And they heartily welcomed the young voices in class and on the new playground.

Backer was pleased they could work out permitting and approval with the city to host the school, which had to move from its longtime location on Pine Avenue.

It’s a win-win for SFCP and Gloria Dei, she indicated.

And, we wish Backer our best in her new calling to Virginia.

Editor’s note: John B. “Jabbo” Gordon began this week covering religion for The Islander.

He was in born in San Diego, California, and moved to Dunedin at an early age. He graduated Clearwater High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism at the University of Florida.

Gordon is retired from the U.S. Navy, where he spent most of his career aboard submarines. He also wrote for several newspapers and various magazines. A resident of Palmetto, he also works for the Manatee River Pram Fleet as a coach and administrator.

Daughter Jeannie (a graduate of Palmetto High) lives in Los Angeles. Gordon has three grown grandchildren: Jessica Cooper, serving aboard the USS Ohio in Bangor, Washington; Joel Shaw an air traffic controller at Point Magu Naval Air Station in California; and Liz Patangan, an ICU nurse at the University of Southern California Hospital in Los Angeles.

camping and hiking with her troop. She volunteered with the Twelfth Judicial Circuit Guardian ad Litem Program and at the Humane Society Mountain Shelter Thrift Store in Blairsville, Georgia, the mountain retreat where she and husband Earl escaped Florida’s summers.

At Mrs. Gamber’s request, no service will be held.

Memorial donations may be made to the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation, 110 E. 42nd St.,16th Floor, New York NY 10017.

Mrs. Gamber is survived by sons Wesley and wife Beverly of Largo and Earl R. “Rick” and wife Joy of Englewood and Independence, Virginia; daughters Linda and husband Donald Langford of Arcadia and Melanie and husband David McKeever of Holmes Beach; three granddaughters, Jennifer, Kimberly and Holly; grandson Thad; and seven great-grandchildren.

Kristopher ‘Kris’ Richard Morash

Kristopher “Kris” Richard Morash, 58, formerly of Anna Maria, died Sept. 3.

He was born Sept. 5, 1960, in West Virginia. He lived in Frostburg, Maryland, Long Island, New York, Cocoa Beach, Bradenton, Anna Maria and Sarasota before moving to Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Kris was an alter boy, Eagle Scout and participated on the swim team at Manatee High School. He graduated MHS in 1979 and graduated Manatee Junior College “where he took up space,”according to brother Kevin Morash. He met his “future ex-wife,” Cheryl Atkins, while working at Fast Eddie’s Restaurant in Morash Anna Maria. They raised two boys.

He was manager of the Columbia Restaurant on St. Armands Circle and later worked at Patrick’s Restaurant in downtown Sarasota and AT&T in Nashville. He worked more recently as an insurance adjuster. He had a green thumb and his home was always lush with plants.

He also liked to maintain a house “full of pets.”

He had a great laugh and his smile could light up any room. He had many friends, including long-time roommate Scott Overstreet.

He had numerous cousins and relatives and was quick with a joke or to light up your smoke. People would often say, “Man, what are you doing here?”

Brother Kevin added, “He will be missed.”

A service will be announced at a later date.

Mr. Morash is survived by his sons, Kristopher Jr. and Stephen; five grandchildren; father Richard, brothers Richard Jr. and Kevin; sister Kathleen; and nephew Sean.

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Investigation lingers on additional charges for HB burglar-attacker

By Kathy Prucnell Islander Reporter Formal charges are up to the prosecutor in Florida and, in Manatee County, it’s the 12th Circuit State Attorney.

Criminal cases are opened on arrests or referrals from police agencies.

Holmes Beach Police Detective Sgt. Brian Hall said he expects to present burglary cases based on stolen items found in a storage unit rented by a man arrested for a June 28 burglary and attack on a Holmes Beach woman — but charging the crimes will be up to the state attorney.

Hall is investigating a number of cases stemming from Mark Lee Snyder’s two arrests in July.

Snyder was arrested and jailed July 3 for attacking a 71-year-old woman and burglarizing her home in the 500 block of 75th Street five days earlier.

The second arrest came after Snyder was released from jail on a $41,620 bond. Detectives found numerous items, including a .38 caliber handgun stolen in a May 15 burglary in the 100 block of Crescent Drive in Anna Maria — but that case was dropped Aug. 24 by the prosecutor.

His bond was revoked after the second arrest.

Snyder returned to jail and the prosecutor upped his initial theft charge when the victim determined the value of her loss.

Hall said Sept. 12 in light of the dropped Anna Maria case, he doubts the state will pursue the cases

Streetlife

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Island police blotter

Anna Maria Sept. 4, Anna Maria city public works, 402 Pine Ave., theft. A generator belonging to contractor Frank Agnelli was reported stolen. After removing planks at the city pier in July, the Agnelli crew mistakenly moved the generator, valued at $1,000, to the city’s public works building. The city notified Agnelli, but before the contractor picked it up, it went missing.

Sept. 8, Gulf Drive and Magnolia Avenue, traffic/ vehicle/marijuana. A Manatee County sheriff’s deputy observed a vehicle run a stop sign and determined the vehicle’s registration was expired. After stopping the motorist, the deputy noted an odor of marijuana and resin on a vape cartridge, which was collected for testing. The motorist was ticketed for the infractions.

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he plans to present.

“But we’ll see,” he added.

According to a probable cause affidavit by MCSO Detective Christopher DeLuca, the 10-by-20-foot storage unit contained guns and bags of jewelry, as well as log books containing details of eBay transactions conducted by Snyder.

“Post-it-style notes with descriptions of houses as well as various names were located,” DeLuca wrote.

The report also states: “Mark Lee Snyder is the only person on the lease and has been renting it since 2012.”

The state closed the Anna Maria case despite the gun found in the storage unit.

“In this case, there is no evidence to prove that the defendant ever entered the dwelling of the victim and stole her firearm,” wrote assistant state attorneys, Payton Elizabeth Thompson and Cynthia Evers in the decline memo.

The prosecutors also pointed to an inability to prove only the defendant used the storage unit.

Like Hall, Dave Bristow, public information director for the sheriff’s office, initially predicted more arrests.

As of Sept. 13, however, Bristow said the MCSO investigations were closed.

Meanwhile, Snyder is in custody at the Manatee County jail on a $42,500 bond for the Holmes Beach burglary and attack.

Snyder is accused of entering the 75th Street home

and striking the woman several times, causing her to fall. She was treated and recovered from her injuries.

Police report Snyder confessed to the Holmes Beach burglary-attack and discarding bags of jewelry stolen from the residence in the Manatee River and Bradenton dumpsters.

His next court date is 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 23, at the Manatee County Judicial Center, 1051 Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton.

Aug. 28, 107 Gulf Drive N., trespass warning.

A homeless 52-year-old man was found sleeping at a bus stop. He was trespassed by a Manatee County Area Transit trolley driver. The man told police he had nowhere to go and needed help. Police transported him to a medical facility.

Sept. 1, 111 Bridge St., Marchman Act. A 51-yearold man was found sleeping under a tarp in a parking lot. Bradenton Beach police determined the man was intoxicated and unable to care for himself, and transported him to a medical facility.

Sept. 10, 2400 block of Gulf Drive North, property damage. Trimmed tree debris from the Via Roma condominiums fell over a fence onto a neighbor’s property, breaking pipes that connected rain water barrels and causing a water spill. A maintenance technician said Via Roma would repair the damages.

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WMFR 2018-19 fiscal year budget receives commission approval

By Ryan Paice Islander Reporter West Manatee Fire Rescue commissioners unanimously approved the 2018-19 budget to a silent room.

No one from the public attended the Sept. 11 hearing on the new budget plans.

There also was no public comment at the first

HBPD, city invites community to Night Out Save the date for one of the best parties of the year on Anna Maria Island.

Everyone is welcome and there is no charge to attend. Everything, food and fun, is free on Night Out in Holmes Beach.

The local observance of National Night Out will be 4-8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2, at city field, 5801 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach.

“National Night Out is an islandwide opportunity for police and members of the community to informally discuss community concerns and strengthen our partnerships,” HBPD Chief William Tojaker said in a news release.

The chief said the event will feature children’s activities, games with prizes, bounce houses, a dunk tank and, plenty of bicycle giveaways, music, food and beverages. Waste Pro will be grilling hot dogs and other food will be provided by local restaurants.

Thousands of U.S. and Canadian communities annually observe National Night Out. The majority of celebrations take place the first Tuesday in August but some communities, including Holmes Beach, celebrate on the first Tuesday in October.

Observances also take place on U.S. military bases worldwide.

For more information, contact HBPD Sgt. Vern McGowin at mcgowinv@holmesbeach.org or 941708-5804.

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Revenue will grow by less than 1 percent as the district reaches full build out, according to Administrative Battalion Chief Ben Rigney.

The non-ad valorem assessment rate will increase by 2 percent, accruing $118,949.03 more than the current year in tax revenue for 2018-19.

Tax receipts account for 89.5 percent, or $7,121,512, of the total revenue budgeted for the new fiscal year.

Total revenue will increase from $7,582,964 in 2017-18 to $7,954,579 in 2018-19. The budgeted use of $480,000 from assigned reserve funds account for a portion of the increase.

WMFR will have $5,946,179 in reserves for 2018-19, with $4,425,000 assigned and $787,923 unassigned.

Assigned reserves will increase by $250,000 in 2018-19, which will be used for vehicle replacement.

The district wants to purchase a new fire engine with the money rather than rely on debt service for the

acquisition.

Contingency funds make up $2,500,000 of the assigned reserves.

Expenses will increase from $7,360,507.12 to $7,924,079, with wages and benefits accounting for $6,102,451.74 of expenses, an increase of $500,603.74 from 2017-18.

Expenses for capital outlay will increase from $161,811.37 to $480,000 for the replacement of two vehicles.

However, capitol outlay will be adjusted once the district’s administrative building sale is finalized.

The administrative building, 6417 Third Ave. W., Bradenton, is under contract to Oasis Middle School, which is set to close on the sale in December. The school plans to finalize the purchase before Dec. 4.

WMFR has yet to decide on a location for its administrative offices, but reserve funds to rent or purchase office space are provided in the budget. Commissioners plan to decide on the move by December.

The new fiscal year begins Oct. 1.

Teamwork stops shoplifting suspect

Holmes Beach police and Manatee County Sheriff’s deputies combined Sept. 10 to stop a female suspect for a theft from an Anna Maria store. HBPD Officer Jason Higgins located and stopped the suspect’s vehicle after learning of the incident.

The 42-year-old Bradenton driver was questioned on Manatee Avenue at East Bay Drive in Holmes Beach and later released, pending a state attorney decision on a warrant arrest suggested by MCSO. Islander Photo: Kathy Prucnell

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‘Bittersweet’ nesting season in face off with red tide

By ChrisAnn Silver Esformes Islander Reporter “It’s been bittersweet,� Suzi Fox, Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring executive director said Sept. 12, summarizing the 2018 sea turtle nesting season.

High levels of red tide in the waters surrounding Anna Maria Island during August — and continuing this week offshore — likely were the cause for about 25 dead sub-adult and adult sea turtles in the region.

However, a lack of major storm events this summer means the rate of hatchlings emerging from nests on the beach is breaking records on Anna Maria Island.

Nesting season in Florida, which runs May-October, parallels hurricane season, which is May-November. “This is the first season in longer than I can remember where we have had no big storms,� Fox said.

As of Sept. 16, AMITW reported 400 hatched nests on the island and 32,143 hatchlings — the most hatchlings to the Gulf of Mexico since turtle watch began keeping records.

Extended periods of higher-than-usual tides and standing water on the beach can flood nests, lessening the likelihood that hatchlings will mature and emerge from their clutch in the sand.

Subtropical Storm Alberto brought wind and rain to Anna Maria Island over Memorial Day weekend, May 26-28, but not enough to impact the hatch rate.

According to NASA estimates, Alberto dropped 2-4 inches of rain over the Tampa Bay area.

While there have been no major storm events this season, afternoon and evening storms that became routine around the beginning of September have made it difficult for turtle watch volunteers to see the tracks left by hatchlings as they trek overnight from nest to water. “We knew they were disorienting because police officers found hatchlings in the road,� Fox said.

Ideally, hatchlings head to the Gulf upon emerging from the clutch, following the reflection of the moon

Tiny sea turtle tracks, such as the ones pictured running between larger vehicle tracks in the sand, can be washed away by rain, making it difficult for AMITW volunteers to determine if hatchlings made their journey to the Gulf of Mexico or lost their way to the water. Islander File Photo During nesting season, local and state laws require exterior lights visible from the beach be low and shielded and fixtures must contain turtle-friendly bulbs. Interior lights, including televisions, must not be shielded by curtains or blinds after dark.

As season draws to a close, Fox said she hopes the disorientation numbers remain lower than the past. “Together with code enforcement in the three island cities, we have been working with property owners and managers to keep lights in compliance,�

Fox said. “People have been really responsive once they know there is a problem.�

As for the red tide, Fox said she has her “fingerscrossed,� hoping it steers clear of the island.

She said her last call reporting a deceased loggerhead was Sept. 7, compared to the calls she was getting almost daily in August. “The beaches are looking pretty darn good,� Fox said Sept. 13. “Let’s hope they stay that way.�

For more information about AMITW, contact Fox at suzilfox@gmail.com or 941-778-5638. and stars on the surface of the water.

However, lights visible from the beach can “disorient� them and lead them away from the water, towards land, bushes and roads, where they can become victims of predation, dehydration or roadkill.

Turtle watch volunteers study the tracks around hatched nests to determine if the turtles went to the water or elsewhere, but rain can obscure the tiny trails, making it harder to tell if they made their journey to the water.

As of Sept. 12, AMITW documented 40 hatchling disorientations compared to 55 in 2017.

AMITW sea turtle stats as of Sept. 16: 531 nests, 545 false crawls, 400 hatched nests and approximately 32,143 hatchlings to the sea.

Friends unite, honor Parkland shooting victims

Skip Coyne, Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring volunteer, left, Ellen and Paul Devine, AMITW supporters, Bob Slicker, Swordfish Grill and Tiki Bar general manager, AMITW executive director Suzi Fox, Brianna Villegas Vindiola, AMITW intern, and Annie Camp, AMITW volunteer, gather Sept. 15 at the Swordfish Grill. The adopta-nest plaques memorialized the Feb. 14, 2017, mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School. The Devines adopted a loggerhead nest to honor victims of the tragedy, where Vindiola’s brothers attend school. The plaques were posted until the nest hatched July 24 and 81 sea turtles made their way to the Gulf of Mexico. Islander Photo: ChrisAnn Silver Esformes

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By Lisa Neff

Crossing Manatee

“Caution! Critter Crossing” the signs could read.

I’d like them along Manatee Avenue from the intersection at East Bay Drive in Holmes Beach to 75th Street Northwest in Bradenton.

I’ve thought about requesting them for years — starting with a proposal for critter signs to the Palma Sola Scenic Highway Corridor Management Entity, an advisory group that recommends improvements along Manatee Avenue/ State Road 64 from the mainland to the island.

I decided earlier this month to move forward with a request after coming off the Anna Maria Island Neff Bridge early one morning and braking near the Kingfish Boat Ramp for a coyote pup frozen in the headlights of my car.

I was traveling about 35 mph and stopped without a screech or a skid of the tires, but had I been going 45 mph, I might have hit the coyote. And if I had been traveling at 55 mph, the speed many motorists drive on the causeway and the Anna Maria Island Bridge as they enter Holmes Beach, the coyote probably would be dead.

I’ve never hit an animal on the causeway, but the encounter with the coyote was not the first time I’ve

Did you know?

A coyote balances on a fence. Coyotes are mediumsized mammals in the same family as dogs and are found throughout Florida, where they are common in rural, suburban and urban landscapes. Islander Photo: Carli Segelson/Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission braked for an animal on Manatee Avenue.

And, almost daily, I see dead animals on the road, which splits and fragments habitat to the south and north of the causeway.

I drive Manatee Avenue twice a day during my workweek, usually in the early morning, before a road crew — or vultures — can remove the remains of critters killed in the night.

I’ve not seen large mammals by the roadside, the

kind of animal deaths that spur the construction of animal crossings or signal-systems elsewhere in the country.

But I’ve swerved to avoid dead birds, frogs, armadillo, opossum, turtles, snakes and many raccoons, as well as dogs and cats. Once, I swerved too late and as the car tire rolled over a dead raccoon, my stomach flipped and tightened.

A report to Congress on wildlife-vehicle collisions looked at the scope of the problem and mitigation strategies from the perspective of the Federal Highway Administration.

The report examined 34 mitigation strategies to influence driver behavior, influence animal behavior, physically separate animals from the roadway and — keep in mind the survey was addressing transportation — reducing wildlife population to reduce collisions.

The most successful and recommended strategies from a technical working group included placing nonstandard wildlife warning signs, building underpasses and overpasses and reducing posted speed limits.

Least effective and not recommended in the report were crossing systems that activate flashing lights and audio signals to alert motorists that an animal may be crossing the road.

Such a system, intended to detect large animals, certainly would be ineffective on Manatee Avenue, but a reduction in the speed limit, just a small one, could help, as would the addition of over- or underpasses, such as the one built near the Manatee Avenue entrance to Manatee County’s Robinson Preserve.

Less costly and easier to place would be clever, cute or quirky signs cautioning motorists.

I’ve seen “Land Crab Crossing” signs for sale at island festivals — that could work.

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Submit your designs to news@islander.org.

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Islander sales rep Toni Lyon spotted and shot photos of a coyote making its way Aug. 17 up 71st Street to Gulf Drive. The FWC will respond to calls to its wildlife hotline if the caller can provide a location for the coyote.

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Upsets rule adult soccer playoffs, ‘ugly’ golf tourney planned

By Kevin P. Cassidy Islander Reporter The seven coed teams in the adult soccer league at the Center of Anna Maria Island finally got their first-round playoff games in after a rain delay the week prior. The pause must have taken momentum from the top-seeded teams as two out of the three matches saw upset victories by the lower-seeded teams.

Action Sept. 13 kicked off with No. 4 seed Ross Built outscoring No. 5 Progressive Cabinetry by a 6-4 score behind a balanced offense that saw five different players notch Cassidy goals. Connor Bystrom led Ross Built with a pair of goals, while Chris Culhane and Vince Circharo each had a goal and an assist. Greg Ross and Maxim Panchenko each added a goal, while Max Gazzo finished with eight saves in goal.

Ryan Hogan had two goals and an assist to lead Progressive Cabinetry, which also received a pair of goals from Damir Glavan and nine saves in the loss from goalie PJ Smargisso.

The second match of the evening saw No. 6 seed Mar/Kis Insurance score a 4-2 upset victory over No. 3 Moss Builders. Miguel Ajoy paced Mar/Kis with two goals, while Jeremias Gramajo and Joel Sanchez eached tallied goals. David Green made six saves in goal to help preserve the victory.

Chris Scott scored two goals, while Olaf Krause and Ryan Moss combined for seven saves for Moss Builders in the loss.

The final match of the night saw another upset win for the lower seeded team, as No. 7 Bins Be Clean defeated No. 2 Lancaster Design 5-4 behind three goals

and an assist from Nate Welch. Ricky Anderson and Francisco Oliviera each added a goal in the victory, while Rico Beissert made three saves.

Lancaster Design received goals from Adam Mott, Jake Parsons, Steve Oelfke and Nate Talucci in the loss.

Round 2 of the playoff action will see Mar/Kis Insurance take on Bins Be Clean at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, at the center, followed at 8 p.m. by No. 1 Sato Real Estate versus on Ross Built.

The championship game between the semi-winners will be at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, following the third-place pairing of the semifinal losers at 7 p.m. on the center pitch at 407 Magnolia Ave., Anna Maria.

Sign up now for center golf tournament The center announced Sept. 14 the Ugly Grouper restaurant in Holmes Beach will sponsor a shotgun tournament for fun, prizes and fundraising to wrap up the end of the month.

The tournament will be played Friday, Sept. 28, at the Links at Greenfield Plantation, 10325 Greenfield Blvd., Bradenton.

The day begins with check in at 11:30 a.m. and lunch, followed by a shotgun start at 1 p.m. Cost is $125 per person or $450 per foursome, including golf, lunch and an awards dinner with a cash bar.

Organizers also are looking for sponsors.

Registration is online at centerami.org or at the center.

For more information, call the center at 941-7781908.

limited golf action at the Key Royale Club this week, but the course dried out enough for a couple of rounds.

The women got out Sept. 11 for a nine-hole, individual-low-net match in two flights. Karen Mitchell won Flight A with a 5-over-par 37, while Jana Samuels carded a 3-under-par 29 for low round of the day and the best round in Flight B. Janet Razze finished in second with a 3-over-par 35.

Sue Wheeler had a chipin on the sixth hole to round out the women’s action.

The men finally played a round of golf in a ninehole scramble Sept. 13. The team of Gary Alvord, Mike Gillie, Herb Clauhs and Tom Nelson combined on a 4-under-par 28 to earn clubhouse bragging rights for the day.

Horseshoe news Two teams emerged from pool play and were left to battle for supremacy during Sept. 12 horseshoe action at the Anna Maria City Hall horseshoe pits.

The team of Tim Sofran and Gary Howcroft jumped out to an early lead and then withstood a rally

by Dom Livedoti and Norm Good before holding on for a 23-19 victory.

Sofran again found himself in the winner’s circle following the Sept. 15 games when he and partner Steve Doyle compiled the lone 3-0 record in pool to earn bragging rights for the day.

Play gets underway at 9 a.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays at the Anna Maria City Hall pits. Warmups begin at 8:45 a.m. followed by random team selection.

Key Royale golf news There is no charge to play and everyone is welThe heavy rains that plagued the area last week come.

Bowling tourney strikes, spares $15K for nonprofit

The Center of Anna Maria Island’s LaPensee T-shirt and a LaPensee koozie. ets and a grill from Rice’s Appliances.

Bowling Tournament Sept. 8 filled the AMF BradenPatrons also bid on silent auction items and raffle Martha Jones won $603 in the 50/50 raffle, and ton Lanes with 300 attendees. prizes, including a sunset cruise with Capt. Ben Webb donated half back to the center.

People bowled on 52 lanes in the competition, of Anna Maria Island Charter Tours, LEGO Land tick— Ryan Paice including two lanes set up for kids by the Zaccagnino Center of Anna Maria and Talucci families.

Island board member Executive director Chris Culhane said the tournaKaren Harllee, left, and ment raised more than $15,000 for the center, before board chair David Zacexpenses. cagnino, right, present Ten-year-old Fiona McCarthy won the kids’ comKaren LaPensee and petition, rolling a 274. Charles Wade, rolling for the Shawn Shields of LaPRoser Memorial Community Church team, had the ensee Plumbing, Pools highest men’s score with 441, while Lauren Powell & Air, with a plaque at scored highest among women at 412. the plumbing store in Greg McKinney and Isabella Miller took home Holmes Beach, recognizthe gutter awards for lowest scores among the players, ing their sponsorship of rolling 146 and 113, respectively. the Sept. 8 bowling tourIndividual winners received a trophy, a center nament. Islander Photo: Courtesy Center of Anna Maria Island

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Plenty of clean — red tide free — water produces the catch

By Capt. Danny Stasny Islander Reporter Fishing around Anna Maria Island is proving to be good as long as the red tide stays offshore.

Fishing in Tampa Bay and the adjacent waters north and east of Anna Maria is producing good action on a number of inshore species.

There’s plenty of action for sport and dinner fishers.

It’s a question of knowing where to go — and a guide is the best bet to finding a great catch.

Spanish mackerel and mangrove snapper seem to be the most abunStasny dant locally, especially around reefs and wrecks. Free-lining small live shiners is producing this bite.

Catch-and-release snook and redfish are proving good for sport fishers around mangrove edges and oyster bars. Again, free-lined shiners are the bait of choice.

Meanwhile, decent numbers of spotted seatrout are being caught on the deeper grass flats of Tampa Bay. Using a popping cork combined with a live shiner is deadly for these fish. And they’re great in the frying pan.

Now, for a move offshore. Traveling into the Gulf of Mexico is a little risky due to the numerous patches of red tide present. But for those willing to make the run to deeper, clean water, there are rewards and some great catches. The guides are reporting cobia, permit, snapper and grouper are being caught. Just be prepared to burn some gas, as some days require runs up to 18 miles offshore to find good water.

Capt. Aaron Lowman is working his magic around the ledges and natural hard bottom in the Gulf of Mexico. Although red tide exists in some offshore areas, Lowman says he’s managing to find areas of clean water, where he’s putting clients on mangrove snapper, hogfish, grouper and porgies and the anglers are putting plenty of fish in the cooler.

Inshore fishing is producing action north of Anna Maria Island, where the yield is Spanish mackerel, spotted seatrout and mangrove snapper. Catch-andrelease snook and redfish also are coming to the hook for Lowman’s anglers.

Capt. David White of Anna Maria Charters is targeting catch-and-release snook and redfish in southern Tampa Bay with his clients. Casting live shiners in areas where mangrove edges and oyster bars exist is producing good action on these fish. Fishing deeper water in Tampa Bay around structure also is a good bet. Mangrove snapper and macks are present in these areas and White reports they are on the feed.

Lastly, White is finding deep grass areas in Terra Ceia Bay are holding good numbers of spotted Southernaire Fishing Charters

Mel Wood, visiting Anna Maria Island from Ironton, Ohio, shows off a keeper gag grouper caught Sept.

13 in 13 feet of water on a live pilchard while on a guided fishing trip with Capt. David White of Anna Maria Charters.

seatrout.

Capt. Jason Stock is venturing out into the Gulf of Mexico in search of clean water. On some days, he’s running as far as 18 miles offshore to reach good fishing grounds. Once there, Stock is putting clients on numerous permit from 10-30 pounds. Yellowtail and mangrove snapper also are being caught, as well as some large cobia.

Moving inshore, schooling catch-and-release redfish are providing action and some large trout are being caught on extreme high tides.

Jim Malfese at the Rod & Reel Pier says fish-

ing is day to day at the north end, where the red tide shows up one day and leaves just as quickly. He says pier fishers are hooking up with a variety of species.

Those using live shrimp as bait are catching numerous black drum and catch-and-release redfish. Mangrove snapper and a few flounder also are in the mix.

Catch-and-release snook are another species taking refuge around the pier in southern Tampa Bay. Lastly, Spanish mackerel are being caught by fishers using silver spoons.

Send high-resolution photos and fishing reports to fish@islander.org.

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Cherished employee

Cherise Sherwin of the Anna Maria Oyster Bar Landside, 6906 14th St. W., Bradenton, holds her trophy Sept. 6 at the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association gala in Orlando. Sherwin, who has worked for the eatery 21 years, was recognized for hard work, dedication and her generous spirit in the name of hospitality. Islander Courtesy Photo

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Business kudos around AMI

Accolades for AMOB ‘orininal’ From Day One, as owner John Horne calls it, she has been the heartbeat of the Anna Maria Oyster Bar Landside.

The restaurant opened in 1997 and now 21-year employee Cherise Sherwin has been named the 2018 Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association’s “Restaurant Employee of the Year.”

Sherwin accepted the award in Orlando Sept. 6, during a FR&LA “Hospitality Stars of the Industry” gala. As it happened, Horne was the master of ceremonies. or so then find another job after she got acclimated to He recalled the pair standing behind the bar on the area. opening day at the AMOB Landside, with Sherwin “We’re still behind the same bar, 21 years later,” new to Bradenton, saying she might work three months Horne said. “Often I’m still standing right beside her — right in the way,” he chuckled.

Horne said Sherwin has been at the heart of the growth of his Anna Maria Oyster Bars — now numbering four locations, including an eatery at the Historic Bridge Street Pier in Bradenton Beach.

Thanks, Cherise, you’re a cherished original.

Bradenton Beach eatery remodels, names chef With its distinctive chickee huts and large outdoor bar adjoining the cafe, it’s hard-to-miss this landmark on the Bradenton Beach shoreline.

Updates for the main building and kitchen were in full swing in June and, with summer’s end, the Gulf Drive Cafe, 900 Gulf Drive N., Bradenton Beach, not only has a new look but a new chef running the kitchen.

W. Keith Pearce has been named chef, and his plans include adding his blend of American-MediterBelieve it or not ranean coastal cuisine to the menu.

Holmes Beach resident and business owner Melissa Pearce has worked for a number clients, including Williams poses with Grammy winner and Food Net- two administrations aboard Air Force One and at the work TV host Trisha Yearwood on a chance encoun- Kennedy Estate. ter in the parking lot at Beach Bistro, Holmes Beach.

The chef plans to add innovative and rustic dishes And who took the photo? Yearwood’s husband, to the cafe favorites and the restaurant will continue to Garth Brooks, of course. serve AMI’s “best breakfast.”

Gulf Drive Cafe is open 7 a.m.-9 p.m., while the adjoining Kokonut Hut is open noon-9:30 daily.

He’s got friends in low places Every now and then, we get a really excellent Are you afraid to go near your trash and recycling bins? celebrity sighting at an Anna Maria Island business Does your garage reek of last month’s dinners? and one such moment occurred Sept. 7, when Garth Bins Be Clean can wash it all away, leaving your bins clean, smelling fresh, and bacteria free.

Brooks sauntered, and yes, he does saunter, into Sean Murphy’s Beach Bistro in Holmes Beach.

941-778-0020 He was not alone. Grammy-winning songstress www.BinsBeClean.com Trisha Yearwood — Brook’s wife — joined him for a

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quiet dinner.

Murphy just went with the flow.

“I told my staff, no cellphones. There is a reason celebrities come here. We don’t bother them,” Murphy said.

Brooks and Yearwood did pause for some pictures and an autograph for restaurant patrons on the way out the door after dinner.

Holmes Beach resident Melissa Williams caught sight of Yearwood — the star of one of her cable food network favorites, “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen” — and Garth Brooks was kind enough to snap a photo of the pair.

Brooks is the No. l best-selling solo artist in U.S. history with 138 million albums sold. Yearwood has sold more than 15 million albums. Now that’s a power couple.

Hey, could you move that camera a little?

You never know who may be watching you and from where these days. You never know what newspaper reporters might be asked to do, either.

Case in point, a note The Islander received on its webpage Sept. 10 from a Rod & Reel Pier cam viewer, all the way from the United Kingdom. Seems someone up at the pier shifted the camera slightly and Brit Phillip Hall couldn’t see the dolphins as they happened by.

Hall wrote: “I often check out the live cam showing the Rod and Reel Pier to see what the weather is like as I sit in the draughty north of England. A few days ago, as I was watching, there was a thunderstorm underway to the right. A hand appeared and moved the camera for a better view of the storm.

“Now there is not much of the sea visible off the end of the pier, so reducing chances to view dolphins which may be approaching from the left. Could one of the team just pop up on the island and swing her a little over to the left, please? Just asking. Thanks. Regards, Philip.”

We’ll make a call, Phil. Thanks for the head’s up from about 1,550 miles across the pond.

Stay busy islanders.

Got news? Reach out to Sandy Ambrogi at sandy@ islander.org or call The Islander at 941-778-7978.

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How many griddle cakes can you eat for $200?

Get the syrup and butter ready!

Anna Maria Oyster Bar on the Pier, 200 Bridge St., Bradenton Beach, is holding a pancake-eating contest Sunday, Sept.

23. Several “celebrities� have already been named to the challenge — sign up is 9:30 a.m.on a first-come, first-served basis for 10 community contestants.

Owner John Horne plans to have his hands full flipping flapjacks on the grill Sept.

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Wife Amanda will oversee the judging.

Bradenton Mayor Wayne Poston, Sara-

Island trio for tourism

Karen Riley-Love, Beverly Lesnick and Katy Demick, all members of the Anna Maria Island Chamber of Commerce, frame their souvenir shot at the 2018 Florida Governor’s Conference on Tourism. The three-day event took place Sept. 12-14 in Orlando.

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sota Herald-Tribune columnist Vix Mannix, Will Robinson, candidate for the state house of representatives and Jeff Podobnik, Pirates senior director of Florida and Dominican Republic operations, will square off against the 10 lucky contestants.

The winner will receive a $200 AMOB gift card.

For more information, call AMOB at 941-778-AMOB.

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AMI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Thursday, Sept. 20 Noon — Lunch and Learn Seminar, The Center of Anna Maria Island, 407 Magnolia Ave., Anna Maria. Topic: Payroll in the small business environment. Members $10 includes lunch. Call: 941-7785141 to RSVP. Advance payment is required.

Wednesday, Sept. 26 5 p.m. — Business Card Exchange, Wagner Realty, 2217 Gulf Drive N., Bradenton Beach. Members $5, guests $10. Call: 941-7781541. Email: info@amichamber.org.

Saturday, Oct. 20 10 a.m.- 9 p.m. — 18th Annual Bayfest Street Festival, Pine Avenue, Anna Maria. Call: 941-778-154. Email: info@amichamber.org.

Ongoing • Through Monday, Oct. 8, deadline for nominations for the AMI chamber 2019 Small Business of the Year award. Call: 941-7781541. Email: info@amichamber.org. • Through October, noon, third Thursdays. Lunch and Learn seminars, the Center of Anna Maria Island, 407 Magnolia Ave., Anna Maria. $10, RSVP required. Call: 941-778-1541.

LBK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Thursday, Sept. 20 4:30-7 p.m. — East Meets West Regional Business Expo, Robarts Arena, 3000 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota. Call: 941-3879000.

Oct. 15- Oct. 19 Small Business Week, including Business After Hours and Chamber Showcase 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, and at 11:30 a.m.

Friday, Oct. 19, Small Business of the Year Awards luncheon. SBW events are at Zota Beach Resort, 4711 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key. For information, call the chamber at 941-387-9000.

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Sandy’s Lawn Service Inc. Established in 1983 Residential and Commercial Full service lawn maintenance Landscaping – Clean-up Hauling tree trimming Licensed & Insured

Paradise Improvements

941.792.5600

Kitchen and Bath Remodeling Specialist Replacement Doors and Windows

Andrew Chennault

FULLY LICENSED AND INSURED Island References Lic#CBC056755

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RDI CONSTRUCTION INC. Residential & Condo Renovations Kitchens • Bath • Design Service Carpentry • Flooring • Painting Commercial & Residential

References available • 941-720-7519

Bed: A bargain!

King, Queen, Full & Twin, pre-owned from $30 new/used.

941-922-5271 www.sleepking.net

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ANNOUNCEMENTS Continued

CHINA SET: NORITAKE Anticipation, $100 for all pieces. 941-302-2285.

WANTED: YOUR OLD cellphone for recycling. Deliver to The Islander, 3218 E. Bay Drive, Holmes Beach.

DELL COMPUTER WITH monitor, refurbished, $100. 941-756-6728.

VACUUM CLEANERS, EXCELLENT condition, $29-39 each. Hospital bed, as new, $100. 941-778-5542.

TWO GOOD TAN rocker/recliners. $100 for both. 941-778-2673.

TWO TWIN BEDS with beachy bedding, desk and color printer/copier for sale. 804338-9692.

RATTAN QUEEN-SIZE sleeper sofa, reversible bottom cushions. Reupholstered tropical pattern fabric. Very island feel! Can send photos. Detachable sleeper section to move.

Sacrifice at $195. 863-232-6906.

ANTIQUE PARTNER DESK: All wood, $1,000.

See at The Islander office, 3218 E. Bay Drive, Holmes Beach. 941-778-7978.

FREEBIE ITEMS FOR SALE

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WANTED: WORKOUT DVDs and retired but working XBox, Wii units with games for Ministry of Presence for kids and teens in Haiti.

Deliver to The Islander, 3218 E. Bay Drive, Holmes Beach.

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Mixed breed. Apply to adopt April at wwww.moonraceranimalrescue.com.

Call Lisa Williams at 941-345-2441 or visit The Islander next to Paradise Cafe in Holmes Beach for more …

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A S S A Y P E E L E E C A L L R D E L S E G O A V O W W H I R S O N L Y R D T R A P S H I P S T E S S A O F E E T A * R I R A F S T O P F I S T S E D O C E N C Y T M O E E O N

102 47th St., Holmes Beach, a 1,456 sfla / 2,176 sfur 3bed/2bath Gulffront home built in 1951 on a 26,500 sq ft lot was sold 08/23/18, Bordenave to Forty Seven Street LLC for $5,000,000.

144 Crescent Drive, Anna Maria, a 2,290 sfla / 3,131 sfur 4bed/4½bath/2car pool home built in 2017 on a 6,480 sq ft lot was sold 08/21/18, Crescent Cottages II LLC to Palmer for $1,740,000; list $1,780,000.

502 77th St., Holmes Beach, a 2,990 sfla / 5,050 sfur 4bed/3½bath/2car canalfront pool home built in 1995 on a 10,498 sq ft lot was sold 08/21/18, Lafferty to Spellissy for $1,100,000; list $1,149,000.

316 Hammock Circle, Anna Maria, a 2,240 sfla / 4,532 sfur 3bed/2bath/2car waterfront home built in 1991 on a 7,700 sq ft lot was sold 08/17/18, Barnes to Chiles for $1,100,000; list $1,249,000.

211 83rd St., Holmes Beach, a 1,810 sfla / 2,500 sfur 2bed/2bath pool home built in 1979 on a 8,190 sq ft lot was sold 08/14/18, Shay to McKinnon for $799,000; list $829,000.

220 Gladiolus St., Anna Maria, a 797 sfla / 1,229 sfur 2bed/1bath/1car home built in 1968 on a 8,300 sq ft lot was sold 08/17/18, Comings to Grigson for $540,000; list $559,000.

6250 Holmes Blvd., Unit 37, North Beach Village, Holmes Beach, a 1,536 sfla / 2,654 sfur 3bed/2½bath/2car condo with shared pool built in 1992 was sold 08/15/18, Ferbert to Prawitt for $475,000; list $489,900.

201 35th St., Unit 5, Anna Maria Beach Place, Holmes Beach, a 630 sfla 1bed/1bath condo with shared pool built in 1969 was sold 08/15/18, Morel to Pennings for $360,000; list $395,000.

522 Pine Ave., Unit 2B, Bayou, Anna Maria, a 822 sfla 2bed/1bath condo built in 1973 was sold 08/17/18, Thrasher to Erb for $310,000; list $325,000.

AERIAL PHOTOS of Anna Maria Island. View and purchase online: www.jackelka.com.

FREE GUN LOCK courtesy of Project Childsafe, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Holmes Beach Police Department. Pick up at The Islander office, 3218 E. Bay Drive, Holmes Beach. Don’t be sorry, be safe.

PETS YOU CAN HELP! Fosters, volunteers, retailtype help needed for Moonracer No Kill Animal Rescue. Please email: moonraceranimalrescue@gmail.com.

BOATS & BOATING BIMINI BAY SAILING: Small sailboat rentals and instruction. Day. Week. Month. Sunfish, Laser, Windrider 17 and Precision 15. Call Brian at 941-685-1400.

PONTOON BOAT RENTAL Create life long memories. Call 941-778-2121 or see boatflorida.net.

2004 SAILFISH 2100 Bay boat, Anna Maria.

F150 engine, 500 hours, ProFish package, two 160-quart fish boxes, raw water wash down, remote fill (four-stroke), dual battery switch, Bimini top, etc. Maintained and clean. $16,000 (price reduced due to no trailer). Mary Ann, 908-339-2058.

HELP WANTED SATURDAY HOUSEKEEPERS NEEDED for beach resort (7 a.m.-2 p.m.) per unit pay.

Please, call 941-778-6667 for details.

REPORTER WANTED: Full- to part-time.

Newspaper experience. Apply via email with letter of interest to news@islander.org.

QUICKBOOKS/EXCEL EXPERIENCE needed for part-time office position at The Islander.

Email letter of interest and/or resume to news@islander.org.

KIDS FOR HIRE KIDS FOR HIRE ads are FREE for Island youths under 16 looking for work. Ads must be placed in person at The Islander office, 3218 E. Bay Drive, Holmes Beach.

HEALTH CARE LICENSED CNA AND caregiver: Elderly/ companion care. Looking forward to meeting you! Call Jennie, 941-900-8597.

Place classified ads online at www.islander.org 6300 Flotilla Drive, Unit 106, Shell Point, Holmes Beach, a 1,066 sfla / 1,151 sfur 2bed/2bath condo with shared pool built in 1976 was sold 08/16/18, McElwaine to Kratcha for $265,000; list $279,000.

6300 Flotilla Drive, Unit 97, Shell Point, Holmes Beach, a 1,151sfla 2bed/2bath condo with shared pool built in 1973 was sold 08/23/18, Denish to Hall for $250,000; list $280,000.

Jesse Brisson, broker/associate at Gulf-Bay Realty of Anna Maria, can be reached at 941-778-7244.

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LAWN & GARDEN

ISLAND COMPUTER GUY, 37 years experience. On-site PC repairs, upgrades, buying assistance and training. Call Bill, 941-7782535.

CONNIE’S LANDSCAPING INC. Residential and commercial. Full-service lawn maintenance, landscaping, cleanups, hauling and more! Insured. 941-778-5294.

CLEANING: RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, vacation, construction, rentals and power washing. 941-744-7983.

ISLAND LAWN SPRINKLER Service: Repairs, installs. Your local sprinkler company since 1997. Call Jeff, 941-778-2581.

U FLY I drive your car anywhere in the USA. Airport runs, anywhere. Office, 941-4476389. 941-545-6688.

SHELL DELIVERED AND spread. $55/yard.

Hauling all kinds of gravel, mulch, top soil with free estimates. Call Larry at 941-7957775, “shell phone� 941-720-0770.

I DON’T CUT corners, I clean corners. Professional, friendly cleaning service since 1999. 941-779-6638. Leave message.

NEED A RIDE to airports? Tampa $65, St. Pete, $55, Sarasota, $30. Gary, 863-4095875. gvoness80@gmail.com.

B-SAFE-RIDES: Airport/personal, seniors, women. Don’t risk it. Call now, Peggy, R.N. 727-902-7784.

TRUEBLUE33 MOBILE COMPUTER Service LLC. Reasonable on-site or remote tech support. Call 941-592-7714.

ADULT TAP, JAZZ, Hula classes: Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday mornings. Multiple levels including beginner. Performing opportunities. Come try a class! Bella Danza: 5917 Manatee Ave. W. 727-709-0199. www.bonniegray.com.

BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS JD’s Window Cleaning looking for storefront jobs in Holmes Beach. I make dirty windows sparkling clean.

941-920-3840.

BEACH SERVICE air conditioning, heat, refrigeration. Commercial and residential service, repair and/or replacement. Serving Manatee County and the Island since 1987. For dependable, honest and personalized service, call Bill Eller, 941-795-7411.

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NATURE’S DESIGN LANDSCAPING. Design and installation. 66Tropical landscape specialist. Residential and commercial. 35 years experience. 941-448-6336.

STRAIGHT SHOT LANDSCAPE: Shell, lime rock, palms, river rock, construction demolition, fencing, pressure washing, hauling debris and transport. Shark Mark, 941-3016067.

HOME IMPROVEMENT VAN-GO PAINTING residential/commercial, interior/exterior, pressure cleaning, wallpaper. Island references. Bill, 941-795-5100. www.vangopainting.net.

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DAN’S RESCREEN INC. POOL CAGES, LANAIS, PORCHES, WINDOWS, DOORS

TOO BIG or TOO SMALL. Free Estimates.

Call Dan, 941-713-3108

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Windows & Doors 941-730-5045 WEATHERSIDE LLC

Place classified ads online at www.islander.org

CUSTOM REMODELING EXPERT. All phases of carpentry, repairs and painting. Insured.

Meticulous, clean, sober and prompt. Paul Beauregard, 941-730-7479.

TILE -TILE -TILE. All variations of ceramic tile supplied and installed. Quality workmanship, prompt, reliable, many Island references. Call Neil, 941-726-3077.

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$YDLODEOH $We AMI CENTRE, 3218 E. BAY DRIVE, HOLMES BEACH 941 778-7978 • WWW.ISLANDER.ORG

GRIFFIN’S HOME IMPROVEMENTS Inc. Handyman, fine woodwork, countertops, cabinets and wood flooring. Insured and licensed. 941-722-8792.

ANYONE CAN TAKE a picture. A professional creates a portrait. I want to be at your wedding! www.jackelka.com. 941-778-2711.

JERRY’S HOME REPAIR: Carpentry, handyman, light hauling, pressure washing. Jack of all trades. Call 941-778-6170 or 941-4472198.

RELAXING MASSAGE IN the convenience of your home or hotel. Massage by Nadia, more than 20 years on Anna Maria Island.

Call today for an appointment, 941-5188301. MA#0017550.MA#0017550.

ARTISAN TILE & MARBLE: Quality craftsmanship since 1983. Great value and work ethic. Island references. Call Don, 941-9936567.

$10 DINER MUGS

@ The Islander, 3218 E. Bay Drive, HB

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RENTALS Continued

REAL ESTATE Continued

R. A. GONZALEZ CONSTRUCTION: Re-roof and leak specialist. Residential/hotels/commercial. Repairs, shingles, tile, metal, flat.

Quick response. Quality work at reasonable rates. References. Insured/licensed. #CCC1330056. Call Bryan at 727-2779502.

SEEKING FEBRUARY OR partial month.

Mangrove Avenue to Cypress Avenue, Anna Maria, $4,000-5,000. 419-957-6794.

RENTALS

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STARTING FROM THE low $300,000s. Only minutes from the beach, this new active adult community is perfectly located just south of Manatee Avenue off Village Green Parkway.

Perfectly designed, open 2BR or 3BR/2BA plus den and two-car garage floor plans.

Luxurious amenities, pool, spa, gym, pickleball and fenced-in dog park. HOA only $209/ month. Models open daily. Contact us, 941254-3330. www.MirabellaFlorida.com.

WINTER RENTAL: 2BR/2BA ground floor, three-month minimum. Solar heated pool, carport parking. 941-363-1227.

STUNNING 2BR/2BA FOURTH-floor Martinique north. â&#x20AC;¨Completely updated with travertine tile floors, gourmet kitchen, view of Gulf from living/dining, master bedroom.

This, you must see. Call Iva Fadley-Dane, PA, GRI, Realtor, 941-350-8001â&#x20AC;¨, Wagner Realty.

VACATION RENTAL: PERICO Bay Club.

2BR/2BA villa. All upgraded. January 2019, $3,300; March 2019, $3,600; November and December 2018, $1,500/month. Real Estate Mart, 941-356-1456.

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HOLMES BEACH: 2BR/2BA with garage.

Beautifully furnished. January through April, $3,500/month. No pets, no smoking, utilities included. 941-778-2824.

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Full Service Property Management & Sales Dina Franklin (owner) Licensed Sales Associate & Property Manager

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EXPERIENCE REPUTATION RESULTS SALES/RENTALS Professional Service to Anna Maria Island Since 1974

HERONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WATCH 10 minutes to beaches. 4 BR + Den. Excellently maintained, tastefully decorated. No rental limitations. MLS A4142821. $359,000.

MEADOWCROFT 1308 56TH ST. 1BR/1BA enclosed lanai. Turnkey furnished.

Beach cottage decor in living room. Heated pool, tennis, clubhouse. $121,000.

VACATION/SEASONAL RENTALS GULFFRONT PROPERTIES BOOKING NOW 941-778-0807

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WATERFRONT ISLAND HOME: 3BR/2BA, two-car garage, heated caged pool and spa, dock and boatlift. $750,000. Real Estate Mart, 941-356-1456.

SPEND SUMMERS IN Narragansett, Rhode Island for $269,000. 1,200 steps from the beach, this immaculate cottage with appliances is the perfect summer escape. Built in 2012, this unit sleeps six comfortably. Please note, occupancy is seasonal (May-October).

View listing on Zillow. 64 Burnside Ave. #5, Narragansett RI 02882. Call 860-729-8183.

Place classified ads online at www.islander.org

Mike Norman Realty INC OFFERING THE BEST SELECTION OF SALES & RENTALS ON ANNA MARIA ISLAND SINCE 1978

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%NJOY ALL THE AMENITIES OF THIS WONDERFUL COMMUNITY INCLUDING RESORT STYLE POOL lTNESS ROOM TENNIS COURTS COVERED PAVILIONS AND PLAYGROUNDS AS WELL AS AN ptional customer service for all your short or long ON SITE LAUNDRY FACILITY lifetime, we will help you find your perfect 'REAT ANNUAL RENTAL INCOME OPPORTUNITIES

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Gulf-Bay Realty of Anna Maria Inc. Jesse Brisson - Broker Associate, GRI 941-713-4755 800-771-6043 SWEEPING GULF VIEWS: This 2bed/2bath condo at Anna Maria Island Club has breathtaking Gulf views from the living room and master bedroom.

A rare opportunity to own at one of the most soughtafter condo complexes on the Island. $650,000

3 BEDROOMS/2 BATH $599,000 Newly renovated with new kitchen, baths, flooring, hurricane windows and doors, and new AC. Covered porch for entertaining, tons of covered parking for beach toys, and room for a pool and spa. Less than a 2 minute walk to AMIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famous beaches and sunsets. 1,350 sf.

KEY ROYALE HOME: Looking for a home large enough to accommodate the entire family? Then look no further. This split plan 4bed/4bath/2car pool home is situated on one of the largest lots on Anna Maria Island. $749,900

Call Jesse Brisson â&#x20AC;˘ 941-713-4755

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100 One of the Corleones in “The Godfather” 102 Symbol of luck 105 Public nudity or foul language 109 Place to chat 110 “Princess ____ Theme” (John Williams composition) 111 Chocolatier since 1845 112 Stooge with a bowl cut 113 Checks 114 Certain break point

17 Mustard and saffron 19 One living off the land 23 “Why am I not surprised?”

25 “Darn!”

28 Drive 31 ____ Store

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115 Cries of approval 116 Division in geology

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32 Mate for Bambi 33 Supervised 37 Milhouse’s toon friend 38 Dashboard warnings, informally 39 Imaginary 40 Partner of smash 41 “Kung Fu” actor Philip 43 Fruit-juice brand 45 Basically what was said 47 Boxer upset in the biopic “Cinderella Man” 48 Golfer Aoki 49 Nordic native

50 Soothing succulent 51 Explorers and Expeditions 52 Fair 55 Journalist Nellie 57 The Great ____ (Satan) 58 ____-Soviet 10 Court do-over 59 Cartoon in which one 11 Parallels cow says to another: 12 Islamic state “Hey, wait a minute!

This is grass! We’ve 13 Copycats been eating grass!”

14 Short time, for short 60 Climb 15 Manta ray, by another 61 View from a pew name

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62 Free TV spot, for short 64 Taiwanese computer giant 65 It might be topped with guacamole 66 Tic ____ (mints) 71 Give (out) 73 Modernists, for short 74 Internet connection inits.

75 Sandal-less, say 76 Score starter 77 Shepherd’s scene 79 Great Plains tribe 81 Bribes 82 Sent up 83 Nutrition fig.

84 “I’ll cover this” 85 Nonsense 86 H.S. courses for college credit

88 Suffix with large numbers 89 17-year-old Peace Nobelist Yousafzai 90 In too curious a manner 93 Composes 98 Fancy French home 99 Once, once 100 The Bravest in the Big Apple, for short

101 N.L. Central squad 103 Ingredient in a Bali Hai cocktail 104 Certain tech exec 106 Actress Long 107 Tender sound 108 Currency with denominations of 1,000, 5,000 and 10,000

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