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New luxury condo announced A Toronto-based developer plans to build a mid-rise waterfront condominium on Golden Gate Point — and is eyeing future projects in the Sarasota market.

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Co-Chairwoman of the event Julie Friedman, Honoree Ruth Ades, Rabbi Charles Savenor and Co-Chairwoman of the event Betty Levitt

+ Ades honored as ‘Light of Torah’ Mazel tov to Ruth Ades. Temple Beth Sholom honored Ades as the “Light of Torah” at its annual Torah Fund Study Day and Award Luncheon Jan. 7. Ades received the honor for her involvement in local and national Jewish organizations throughout her life. Ades has traveled to Israel more than 40 times to support the peace process and has worked with organizations including the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, the Jewish Federation of Greater New Bedford, in Massachusetts, and the Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee.

+ And the winner is … Daniel Hammon won the holiday edition of the Observer’s 2013 “It’s Read Everywhere” contest for his photo of himself and his dog, Maggie, pictured above at Lucylocks Pet Studio. Hammon will receive a $250 gift card, along with a $250 Gulf Coast Gives card to donate to a charity of his choice. Hammon’s wife, Amy, is SMH Team Captain for Relay for Life in April, and together they decided to use the $250 gift card as a raffle prize. “Sometimes, I think that we as people don’t consider our neighbors,” says Hammon. “And I just like to give, so charity is what we do.”

A Canadian developer has chosen Sarasota as its entry point into the American market, as Vandyk USA announced plans to develop a mid-rise condominium building on Golden Gate Point. The Vandyk group of companies, based in Toronto, ended up in Sarasota after its president, John Vandyk, became familiar with

the area when visiting Canadian friends who live here seasonally. “He came down here and he just fell in love with the place,” said Karin Silver, vice president of marketing and sales for Vandyk USA. “He calls it a little cultural haven, a hidden jewel.” In the process — and after purchasing a condo himself on Golden Gate Point

— he noticed vacancies in the area and felt he should capitalize on that opportunity. One88, located at 188 Golden Gate Point, is slated to become Vandyk’s first project in the United States. One88 will consist of eight residences in a five-story building, with each condo featuring a view of the bay Image courtesy VANDYK USA

SEE CONDOS / 13A One88’s future location on Golden Gate Point.

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WHO DUNNIT?

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Beach modifications rake in controversy Siesta Key residents say a local beach rake operator continues to illegally modify Siesta beaches under the direction of beachfront property owners seeking to skirt state and county rules. On Dec. 30, Siesta Key resident Dr. Allan Worms watched in frustration as a tractor dug a channel connecting the Gulf of Mexico to a tidal pool that had collected at the north end of Siesta Beach. The 3-foot-deep body of water

spanning several acres, which had become a popular feeding area for a variety of migrant and local bird species over the winter, eventually drained through what Worms called a “rapidly widening channel.” The shore-

birds that Worms was at the beach to observe that morning abandoned the area surrounding the tidal pool as swiftly as the disappearing water. The tidal pool incident was the latest chapter in an ongoing

cat-and-mouse drama between Worms and Siesta beach rake operator Mark Clippard, whom Worms has repeatedly accused of conducting illegal, off-the-

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TIDAL POOLS / FROM PAGE 1A books beach modifications on behalf of anonymous beachfront property owners seeking to skirt county and state environmental protection rules. On the morning of the tidal pool incident, Worms wrote an email to the Siesta Key Association expressing his frustration: “Unfortunately, Mark Clippard apparently had tired of the tidal pool’s existence and used his tractor and a grader to dig an artificial outlet on its west side this morning … Clippard’s actions were observed by a large number of beach visitors.” Following the Dec. 30, incident, Siesta Key Association President Catherine Luckner sent an email to the Sarasota County Commission, pressing county staff to look into the tidal pool incident, as well as Clippard’s record of violating state and county environmental protection standards. “We don’t know who he is working for,” Luckner later said. “In my mind the people paying him are the real violators.” Clippard, who did not return calls for comment, has consistently denied the accusations, and, due to a lack of conclusive evidence linking him to a series of illegal alterations to Siesta Beach dating back more than a year, his Florida Department of Environmental Protection beachgrooming permit remains intact. According to state and county regulations, any grooming or modifications to beaches below the mean high-tide line require a FDEP permit. Clippard is a licensed FDEP beach rake operator, but actions such as digging channels from tidal pools into the Gulf fall outside of what his permit authorizes. “We’ve had numerous complaints about Clippard, and we question whether he should still have his license,” Luckner said. “If he violated the rules, he may not get his license renewed.” In an April 2012 email to the Sarasota County Commission, Worms accused

TAKE ACTION Area residents who wish to report suspicious beach modifications can: • Call 861-5000 to speak with county staff. • Call the Sarasota County Sheriff’s non-emergency line, 316-1201.

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A tidal pool that collected at the north end of Siesta Beach in the fall, seen here, became a feeding area for both migrating and local shorebirds during the winter. Clippard of a similar incident, claiming the beach rake operator illegally groomed a two-acre section of Siesta Beach. In the email, Worms speculated about how the unauthorized grooming might affect the island’s shorebirds: “I expect continued grooming of that large area will exclude it as a feeding area,” he wrote. Luckner, who said she had spoken with Clippard directly about his alleged actions, said unauthorized beach modifications not only affect wildlife, but could potentially exacerbate Siesta Key’s risk of flood surges. “The birds are gone,” Luckner said, “but what about the shoreline? I don’t think people realize when they’re doing these modifications, they’re creating potential flood surge problems for everybody.”

In response to Worms’ and Luckner’s concerns, the County Commission tapped Matt Osterhoudt, Sarasota County conservation and environmental planning manager, to investigate. Osterhoudt led Sarasota County Natural Resources staff to inspect Siesta Beach and search for evidence of the incident Worms said he witnessed. County staff identified a narrow depression running perpendicular to the waterline, describing it as a “minor feature” that would not last long in the dynamic surf zone environment. Osterhoudt concluded that the changes to the beach were not permanent and no enforcement action would be needed, effectively curtailing the inquiry. “We will monitor the beach conditions to ensure that this feature is not main-

tained,” Osterhoudt wrote in a Jan. 8 email to County Commissioner Nora Patterson. “The staff was a little dismissive of it and thought it was a natural process,” Patterson later said. “They thought a month or two of wind and rain and the beach would restore it.” Osterhoudt said he reported his findings to the FDEP and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission — the lead state agencies for beach grooming and wildlife matters. Both agencies said they would continue to investigate. When county staff questioned Clippard about the alleged beach alteration, he denied creating the depression — contradicting Worms’ account that he personally witnessed Clippard digging the trench. Worms did not take any pictures to support his claims, however, leaving the officials with no evidence to justify issuing Clippard a violation. The two agencies also contacted property owners adjacent to the site, informing them that consultation with the Natural Resources Department is required prior to any coastal modification activities other than typical grooming operations the FDEP authorizes. “(Clippard) wouldn’t ride his tractor around doing this for no good reason,” Luckner said. “Someone is paying him to do this.”

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SKA: No Big Pass dredge

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The Siesta Key Association says it wants more studies to prove that dredging Big Pass will not harm Siesta beaches.

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Sarasota’s Big Pass, seen here in an aerial photo, has never been dredged. SKA board member Michael Shay echoed Luckner’s reservations. “We said we wanted all the data before we took an official stand, and we haven’t seen that,” Shay said. The reason for waiting on the data, according to Luckner, was to maintain the relevance of SKA in the dredging debate by maintaining the association’s role as a neutral mouthpiece for Siesta residents’ concerns and an active partner in increasing public awareness — not a close-minded opposition voice with which the Army Corps and area government officials would be reluctant to work. Van Roekens, however, said that the Army Corps might apply for permits before follow-up studies and a peer review were complete. The Siesta Key Village Association and SKA have both advocated for public hearings and an independent peer review of the dredging project. The County Commission is expected to bring the issue up in March, and the Army Corps has yet to follow through on an independent peer review of the project. “They don’t have their act together,” van Roekens said, speaking about the Army

BY THE NUMBERS 1.3 million cubic yards: Amount of sand that will be mined in the first dredge 1.6 miles: Length of Lido Beach scheduled for renourishment 300 feet: How far in width the project will expand Lido Beach $22.7 million: Estimated cost of the project Corps. “You don’t have to be a coastal engineer to see there are problems with the data. I know the benefit to Lido, but what is the benefit to Siesta? There are other sources of sand they can use. I think this is very, very risky.” “The sand is going to be used to renourish a private beach, and our tax money is going to be used to damage our island,” said Mark Smith, a Siesta Key architect and SKVA board member. Public comments from Siesta residents attending the Jan. 9 meeting were strongly in favor of the board taking an official stand against the dredge. Many in attendance expressed their concerns that Siesta beaches were going to be put in peril for the benefit of Lido Key beaches.

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“Let’s put our foot down and say, ‘It’s our key, we don’t want this,’” said one Siesta resident attending Thursday’s meeting. SKA’s official statement opened with the words, “Based on the current data available,” indicating the association would be willing to modify its stance if the Army Corps released data that proved the mining of the Big Pass shoal would not negatively affect the navigability of the pass or the health of Siesta beaches. The revised statement passed unanimously. “This puts the demand on people to continue working (on) the problem,” Luckner said, referring to the wording. Van Roekens said he was satisfied with the final result, explaining that it sent a strong message to both the Army Corps and the Sarasota County Commission that the residents of Siesta Key are not satisfied with the risks the dredging project poses to Siesta Key’s natural environment. “No engineer can definitively say that there is no risk to Siesta; they just don’t know what’s going to happen,” van Roekens said. “We need to take a stand and say we oppose this,” he said.

The city of Sarasota has rejected an appeal from residents of Plaza at Five Points to shut down Club Ivory. Deputy City Attorney Michael Connolly, in a Jan. 13 letter, called the issue between the two tenants of 50 Central Ave. a private dispute, which the city and taxpayers should not have to pay to resolve. Connolly denied claims the nightclub violated its conditional-use permit, deprived residents of their right to quietly enjoy their units, lowered their property values and operated as an “adult cabaret.” Plaza at Five Points residents had asked the city to revoke the club’s permit. “There was always something new as a motivation to shut us down,” said Club Ivory owner Ambrish Piare in a Jan. 15 interview with the Sarasota Observer. Stephen Thompson, the residents’ legal representative, leveled the first three complaints in a Sept. 25 letter, and the claim about the “adult use” in a Jan. 2 follow-up. “Activities that are adult in nature do not make an adult use,” Connolly wrote. “Obviously, all bars are for ‘activities adult in nature.’” Piare doesn’t expect this to be the end of disagreements between the club and residents.

+ USF Sarasota-Manatee chancellor to retire Arthur Guilford, the regional chancellor of the University of South Florida SarasotaManatee, announced Tuesday that he will step down from his position at the end of July. Guilford, who will continue working with the university until officially retiring in January 2015, has served as USF Sarasota-Manatee’s chancellor for the past seven years. A university release announcing the retirement mentioned the accreditation of USF Sarasota-Manatee, the recruitment of the school’s first four-year freshman class and the creation of Courtesy photo a learning center in North Port among the noteworthy accomplishments during Guilford’s tenure.

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The Siesta Key Association has officially declared its opposition to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project to mine Big Pass for Lido Beach sand, thus ending the association’s longtime reluctance to weigh in on the controversial topic. SKA board member Peter van Roekens, the group’s most active advocate for more scrutiny of the dredge plans, made the motion at a Jan. 9 meeting for the board to draft and release a statement officially opposing the project. The final statement, which the board modified from what van Roekens originally proposed, read: “Based on the data currently available to us, we would not support any form of dredging in Sarasota Big Pass channel and shoal.” The Lido Beach renourishment project is slated to initially remove 1.3 million cubic yards of sand from Big Pass’s outer shoal. Subsequent dredges and renourishments will be conducted periodically over 50 years. The SKA statement did not, however, mention the three proposed erosion-control jetties, known as groins, included in the dredging project’s plans for Lido Beach. The groins have been a longstanding flashpoint for opposition to the project. Van Roekens’ motion prompted pushback from some SKA board members who felt that by taking an official stance in opposition to the dredge before the issue had reached the floor of the Sarasota County Commission, the Siesta neighborhood association might lose its leverage to affect the ongoing debate. SKA President Catherine Luckner pushed to delay the statement, urging the board to wait until the Army Corps follows up with additional information regarding the dredging project’s potential impact on Siesta Key beaches. “I don’t think there is any urgency to do this today,” Luckner said. “We shouldn’t cut off the conversation.”

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 The Sarasota County School Board will hold a work session at 10 a.m., followed by a 3 p.m. board meeting on Jan. 21, at the Landings Administrative Complex, 1980 Landings Blvd., Sarasota. Residents can call 927-9000 for more information.  Siesta Key Condominium Association meeting — 3:30 p.m. Tuesday Jan. 21, Siesta Key Presbyterian Chapel, 4615 Gleason Ave., Siesta Key.  Regular City Commission meeting — 2:30 and 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, Commission Chambers, City Hall, 1565 First St., Sarasota.

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On Tuesday, the Gulf Coast Community Foundation posted a Web page aimed at raising $75,000 to pay for half of a feasibility study to pave the way for an eight-mile extension of the Legacy Trail. Entrepreneur Jesse Biter had approached the organization about being the project’s fiscal agent and building a website to collect donations in early January. Twenty donors pledged nearly $2,000 in the first 24 hours since the Web page went live. The Legacy Trail includes more than 10 miles of recreational trails stretching from Venice to just south of Clark Road and the city of Sarasota. In August, Sarasota County commissioners earmarked $75,000 from the Trails Master Plan capital improvement project for the study, which county staff expects to cost about $150,000. “The study is much like a set of plans an architect does for a house prior to construction,” Biter said in a Jan. 15 email. “(The Legacy Trail is) used by many thousands of Sarasota residents and it remains an attraction to visitors and potential residents.” Biter said, adding that extending the Legacy Trail is important for safety, convenience and economic value. The extension would stretch north to Fruitville Road near U.S. 301. “Once the study is complete, I will work with my state and federal connections to secure the monies needed to make the extension a reality,” Biter said.

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TRAFFIC JAM

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Residents speak out on Gulfstream development Residents voiced their concerns about a proposed bayfront project’s impact on traffic — and about the current status of a key intersection. City staff hauled extra seats into Room 112 at City Hall on Monday because the crowd inside had expanded beyond the space’s original capacity for a meeting regarding a traffic study that has been the subject of controversy. The gathering of more than 30 — originally expected to total around six people — was representative of the growing concern surrounding a proposed bayfront development’s impact on surrounding intersections. Lending validity to that concern, the city announced at the meeting that the project would be re-examined over the next four weeks. Vue Sarasota Bay is a condominium and hotel project under development at the corner of U.S. 41 and Gulfstream Avenue. The Kolter group, the project’s developer, has waited for final approval from the city while staff consider whether a city-commissioned 41

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Tower Residences, said the study — conducted in May and adjusted to account for peak traffic — was not reflective of in-season conditions. “We have to get beyond statistics,” Rubin said. “We have to look at real situations.” For some, Monday’s meeting was an opportunity to voice complaints about the current status of U.S. 41 and Gulfstream or the Kolter project itself. Many were frustrated about the prospect of a high-density project in what they believe is already a badly congested area, and said Kolter should pay to mitigate traffic issues. According to City Engineer Alex DavisShaw, traffic studies are designed so that developers pay to cover the additional traffic they add to nearby streets, not to fix existing problems. She said the city is working toward getting roundabouts in place along U.S. 41 at Gulfstream and Fruitville Road, though construction on those is at least three years away. Other residents wanted to see an effort to make the area more pedestrian-friendly. City Manager Tom Barwin said he would ask consulting firm Kimley-Horn, which conducted the traffic study, to supplement the updated report with a portion on how to address pedestrian issues in the area, too. For some, though, the issue lied with the project. Golden Gate Point resident Cathy Antunes said she thought the proposed design

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Vue Sarasota Bay, a two-tower condo/hotel development project, must wait for a supplemented parking study before construction can begin. failed to create a more walkable neighborhood. She encouraged the city and the Kolter Group to come up with a more creative plan for the property. “It should be a superior pedestrian experience, as well as a superior automobile experience,” Antunes said. Tim Litchet, the city’s director of Neighborhood and Development Services, said the city would take a micro and macro look at addressing issues related to the project and the Gulfstream/U.S. 41 intersection. He said timing was an issue, but there could be interim solutions in place before the big picture is fully addressed. “We're going to make sure all the legal standards are met for the traffic issue,” Litchet said. “In addition to that, we're going to attempt to develop whatever

commonsense solutions we can.” The city agreed that the traffic study should be revised with a more thorough capacity study, and Kimley-Horn said the additional portion could be completed within four weeks. Fournier said it could take a week to nail down precise instructions for KimleyHorn so it meets the city’s legal requirement for the study is met. Some attendees said they were seeking an indication that the project would not be approved without further review from residents. Based on the response from Barwin and other city staff, they said they were encouraged. “The city seems to have assured us that they will not proceed without involving us in the conversation,” Rubin said. “We welcome their attempts to go back to the drawing board again.”

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The Observer announces new contests for 2014 The ‘It’s Read Everywhere’ contest and ‘Love Story’ contest are now accepting submissions online at YourObserver.com. It’s a new year, and with that comes two new chances to win prizes in Observer contests. First up, we would love to hear your love stories! Entries for our Love Story contest may be submitted online from Jan. 16 through Jan. 30. To enter, go to YourObserver.com/LoveStory. How did you know he or she was the one? Do you have a funny first date story? What makes your love story unique? Is there a love story you model your own after? Tell us your story in 200 words or less for a chance to win the perfect date night out package. The prize package includes a romantic dinner at CasAntica Italian Restaurant; a one-night stay at the Hyatt Regency, Sarasota; and a pair of earrings from Carats Fine Jewelry & Watches. After submitting your entries, don’t forget to spread the word to your family and friends to vote for your story. Voting takes place on our website from Jan. 31 to Feb. 5. The winning story will be featured in the Feb. 13 issue of the Longboat, Sarasota and East County Observers and Pelican Press — just in time for Valentine’s Day! The second Observer contest launched in the new year is our 2014 It’s Read Everywhere photo contest. You know the drill: Submit creative photos of yourself with an Observer publication while on your travels around the world.

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Antidote to flood insurance This is a classic — the saga of flood insurance. It’s the classic Milton Friedman description of the law of laws. That is, creating a law to address a problem, only to discover that the law created unintended consequences, which require more laws that have even more unintended, adverse consequences. And on and on the merry-go-round goes. Where it ends nobody knows. Florida Sen. Jeff Brandes and Rep. Larry Ahern, two St. Petersburg Republicans, are hoping the merry-go-round may end with Senate bill 452, a private-sector antidote to the flood-insurance ills that threaten so many Floridians. Let’s start with a recap. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, when private insurers abandoned flood policies because of their unpredictability, costs and losses, our political geniuses in Washington did what they always do. They decided the federal government should get into the flood-insurance business. Obviously, without regard to its record in such endeavors, congressional thinking was the federal government could do it better than free enterprise. Forty years later, here’s how that turned out: The National Flood Insurance Program is $17 billion in debt to the federal treasury and can’t afford to pay more than its $900 million annual interest payment on its loan. And, in the 40 years hence, the NFIP’s under-priced premiums have subsidized a massive build-up of homes and properties in even more flood-prone areas than before. Currently, the NFIP insures 5.6 million properties nationwide, a book of business that totals $1.25 trillion in value. In the words of Dr. Phil, “How’s that working for you?” Not so swell. In its inimitable wisdom Congress decided last year to fix its floodinsurance debt and underpricing by quickly ratcheting up NFIP’s premium rates. We’ve all read the horror-story results: widows, orphans, senior citizens, average homeowners and small-business owners suddenly unable to afford their skyrocketing flood premiums and on the verge of losing their homes. Oops. After the predictable public wailing and the threat to their careers, congressional members backtracked on their plan to quit having taxpayers subsidize all those people living in flood zones. Our own Rep. Vern Buchanan and Sen. Bill Nelson were among the champions over the past six months to persuade Congress to delay the exorbitant rate increases … Until it finds a permanent solution. Sorry, there is no permanent solution. There are only choices. And if the choice is to make the National Flood Insurance Program actuarially sound, much higher flood premiums are inevitable. Its’ safe to say Congress will figure out a way to phase in those higher premiums at a more palatable rate — less than the 25% a year, or less than immediately resetting rates when a home is sold.

All the while this drama was unfolding in Washington, Sen. Brandes over the summer began looking for a way to bypass Washington and fix the problem at the state level. Why not free enterprise? Brandes thought. What would it take to create incentives for the private-sector insurance companies to underwrite flood risk? Brandes says he broached the idea with reputable reinsurers. And surprise, here was their answer: They want flexibility. Flexibility on rates, deductibles, maximum limits, exclusions and rate-filing procedures. Essentially a free-market approach. While this scares consumers who think all insurers are plunderers, that’s what Brandes and the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee devised — flexibility, along with some consumer safeguards. As Brandes put it, if the state were to allow insurers the leeway to customize policies, the state would want assurance that the companies selling flood policies had the financial werewithal to fulfill claims and were not charging below-market rates to win market share quickly. Brandes believes, if approved, it would be a few months before a new private-sector flood-insurance market would take hold. There’s one catch, a big one — the banks. And they will be part of the unintended consequences that have arisen over the years. Current law requires banks and mortgage brokers who sell federally backed mortgages to require homeowners in flood plains to carry flood insurance. Federally backed mortgages also require property insurance from A.M. Best-rated insurers. Given that, even if the Legislature allows for a free-enterprise flood-insurance market, the question will arise: What will the banks do? Will they approve a mortgage to a home buyer who wants to buy flood-insurance from an unrated insurer, even though the state of Florida has given its approval to operate? As one insurance lobbyist told us, not likely. Banks don’t take those kinds of risks. Nonetheless, the Sen. Brandes gambit is worth the experiment. Early on, in the forming of the republic, the founders envisioned the states as cauldrons of experimentation and competition. This is one of those times. The federal government, no surprise, has proven to be totally inept as the one-sizefits-all market for flood insurance. And the likelihood of Congress finding a “permanent solution” is about as likely as it balancing the federal budget. While the Brandes bill and concept may have its skeptics and unknowns, here is an opportunity for policy makers to let go and see whether the incentives are such that the free hand of the market will fill a need.

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One of the first lessons our mothers teach is to clean up our messes. Now, the city of Sarasota is mulling options to clean the remnants from the 2013 Sarasota Chalk Festival. The fading street art along Pineapple Avenue has drawn the ire of many business owners in Burns Court — most only willing to voice their concerns anonymously. Don’t get us wrong, the Chalk Festival is a great event that provides a wealth of benefits — cultural, social and economic — to the city. Kudos to the persistence and creativity of founder Denise Kowal. But a permit from the city of Sarasota to allow the event required festival producers to clean the affected streets by Dec. 18. Kowal tells us initial efforts to remove the street art encountered issues with the contractor. She says she plans to make another attempt before the city intervenes. Given the angst the Chalk Festival engenders among some downtown business owners and the city, for the sake of the festival and overall goodwill, the final cleanup shouldn’t become a burden — however small it may be — for taxpayers.

look like the “good guys” on whether to extend emergency unemployment insurance. They shouldn’t. Extending unemployment insurance is a poor policy choice that will lead to more unemployment. French political economist Frederic Bastiat, late of the 1850s, and many economists since have noted the same thing about people: It’s human nature for everyone to want to expend the least amount of effort to maximize his own benefit. “Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices,” Bastiat wrote. Every human decision can be boiled down to maximizing one’s own costbenefit ratio. Given that, what incentive does a person on unemployment insurance have to seek a job when he’s guaranteed money from the government for doing nothing? Mind you, the unemployed is not just receiving an unemployment check. Many are also receiving food stamps and free health care through Medicaid. A recent working paper by Princeton economist Henry Farber and Federal Reserve researcher Robert Valetta found that extended unemployment insurance lengthened the average time for the unemployed by 7% and added 0.4 percentage points to the unemployment rate. What’s more, government borrowing and spending to fund unemployment benefits has the effect of crowding out the private sector’s access to capital to create jobs and wealth. Regardless of what President Obama and Nancy Pelosi say about unemployment benefits boosting economic activity, government spending to the unemployed is redistribution — taking wealth from the productive and transferring it to the unproductive. There is no net gain. Is it any wonder that the labor participation rate is near all-time lows at the same time unemployment and disability benefits and food stamp usage are at all-time highs? Why expend the effort and work to find a job when you can get paid for doing nothing?

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR + Common mistake Dear Editor: I read your Jan. 2 column on "Revelation" with interest. I agree with your concerns. I was surprised, however, that you used "i.e." when you should have used "e.g." That is a common mistake, but I don't expect it from an editor. Nelson Patterson Sarasota

+ A sinking ship Dear Editor: Regarding your editorial on the word for 2014, you may be the only newspaper editor in North America to recognize the disaster that took place Nov. 7, 1932. Unfortunately, it isn't going to take another 250 years for the USS Titanic to finish "going down by the bow." The election of Barack Obama in 2008 was just the culmination of what FDR started in March of 1933. Amity Shlaes, in her book "The Forgotten Man," describes in detail the factual events of the Great Depression and the recovery that took place as the

result of our involvement in World War II. Albert Jay Nock, a name unknown to today's voters, correctly predicted the condition that this country is in, and the unlikely prospect of any corrective action. Why put on a life jacket when the captain and crew say, "I can swim, even if you can't? We will be the first ones into the lifeboats." The mantra that it wasn't an iceberg and we are unsinkable will produce the same results as those experienced by the passengers on the RMS Titanic. Thanks for your column and the painful truth. John W. Minton Jr. Bradenton

+ Hope springs eternal Dear Editor: Regarding your word for the year, “Revelation,” the basic factor in the decline and deterioration of a society is the politicians. Every society, including Rome, was depleted by politicians pursuing power, influence and personal advantage. The term

“bread and circus” was coined in Rome as the bribing system to enhance political advantage. Politicians believe that the “masses are asses,” and they are on the whole, correct. The civic IQ and interest of the average U.S. citizen is deplorable, a disgrace. This dysfunctional, inefficient, incompetent government at all levels, especially the federal level, did not happen overnight. Since the Wilson administration, gradually the unique American success and system has been compromised. World War II galvanized traditional American values until the early 1960s, then were compromised with the advent of the Vietnam War. Along with the political establishment, academia has also been a major deteriorating subversive influence, assisted by the maturing of TV. The post-World War II “greatest generation” inadvertently provided the foundation for the baby boomer ’60s generation to create the current dysfunction. That aged ’60s generation is now reaping the convoluted, distorted, value-bankrupt, nocharacter society they created. Elected government, meanwhile, is a reflection of its citizens. Government bureaucrats are a covert cancerous byproduct of corrupt government. Currently, we have the most

+ An open letter to City Commissioners: In response to the newly implemented Employee Parking Permit Program, we are writing on behalf of our concerns for the service industry workers of downtown. Offsetting a $25 fine, the city is asking downtown workers, many of whom work below poverty level, to pay $120 a year for the privilege of parking within blocks of their place of employment. Although marketed as “very affordable,” charging low wage earners to park during daytime hours takes advantage of a significant population of Sarasota’s working poor. While employers have the option to purchase permits on behalf of their employees, the “plate specific” detail of

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11:04 a.m. — 1300 block of First Street. Juvenile Problem. A girl at a library told an employee she was going to walk to Orlando. The employee was suspicious because of the girl’s age and called the police. The girl said she was going to walk to Orlando because she was bored, and that although she did not have issues with her home life, she wanted to get away. The girl’s mother arrived at the library to take her home; the girl said she just wanted to skip school for the day.

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Circle solicitation worries merchants St. Armands Circle merchants are frustrated that a woman soliciting on the sidewalk allows her to do something they cannot: advertise outside.

A woman has been setting up a card table and a cooler in front of St. Armands Circle restaurants and businesses to solicit donations for Haitian children and their families since October. The St. Armands Business Improvement District (BID) and Circle merchants have a problem with that, especially because merchants who pay $1,500 a month or more to lease Circle space receive a fine from the city if they make a homemade sign or solicit business directly outside their shops. The woman, who could not be reached for comment and was not on the Circle Tuesday due to inclement weather, has told Circle merchants and St. Armands Circle Executive Director Diana Corrigan she has a permit to solicit donations. When merchants ask the woman to move away from their businesses entrances, Corrigan said, the woman tells merchants she has a permit and is being harassed because of the color of her skin. “She’s aggressively approaching tourists, and the setup looks terrible,” Corrigan said. “It’s happening seven days a week.” To make matters worse, Corrigan said merchants are

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A woman soliciting donations on St. Armands Circle is upsetting merchants and concerns BID members. starting to ask if they can obtain a permit that would allow them to solicit in a similar way. But, at a BID board of directors meeting Tuesday at Sarasota City Hall, Director of Neighborhood and Development Services Tim Litchet informed board members the woman does not have a permit and has been turned down on several occasions for such a permit.

Two Sarasota Police officers present at the meeting told board members they must confer with City Attorney Robert Fournier this week before approaching the woman. The police want a legal opinion on whether forcing the woman to leave the Circle would infringe on her First Amendment rights. BID board members, whom paralegal Michael Barfield is already targeting for Sunshine

Law violations (see sidebar), expressed frustration with the potential violation of First Amendment rights that could result in ACLU ramifications. “We’re giving food for fodder to Michael Barfield,” said BID Chairman Marty Rappaport. “I think it’s time that this city and other cities start to fight against the abuse of the Sunshine Law and First Amendment that’s going on here. It has got to be addressed.” Corrigan expressed concern the problem could escalate, attracting others seeking solicitations, which would detract visitors during the height of season. “This isn’t good for the Circle at all,” Corrigan said. “This woman has her right for freedom of speech, but we need to control something that’s getting out of control.” The BID also asked city staff for monthly updates from a code officer and a list of permits that the city has given on the Circle so merchants are aware of what is allowed. Code officers will also look into an issue with merchants using trucks with advertisement signage on the side of them that park in Circle spaces to advertise their businesses.

ST. ARMANDS BID SUNSHINE LAW UPDATE St. Armands Business Improvement District Chairman Marty Rappaport informed board members at a BID meeting Tuesday that paralegal Michael Barfield’s office has gone through 5,000 of his emails and found nothing that constitutes a Sunshine Law violation. “They haven’t found a smoking gun, nor will they,” Rappaport said. In November, Rappaport informed the board that Barfield’s office is looking for any email on private or personal email accounts from BID directors containing the words “restaurant,” “retail,” “Business Improvement District” or “Bob Gibbs.” Barfield also wants any email BID directors sent to St. Armands Circle Association Executive Director Diana Corrigan. Corrigan, though, is not under the Sunshine Law through her affiliation with the BID. The records request, which involves searching Rappaport’s personal computer, came after the BID and the Downtown Improvement District (DID) met Oct. 8 to revisit the possibility of limiting the space restaurants occupy on the Circle and in downtown Sarasota. Corrigan announced Monday that Barfield is also seeking emails from her association with the St. Armands Landowners Merchants Residents Association. But because the LMRA is not a city-affiliated board, Corrigan does not have to comply with the request. Rappaport also announced he has resigned from a Circle parking advisory board because he doesn’t want the board’s work “to be targeted further by Mr. Barfield.” “It’s legalized extortion and it’s affecting those who want to serve the city,” Rappaport said.

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Tiger Bay Club talks taxes

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Sarasota Democratic Club talks state of health care

Tramm Hudson, Bob Richardson and Jon Thaxton

Members of the Tiger Bay Club met for lunch Jan. 8, at Michael’s On East, to discuss the school tax referendum and Common Core Standards. Jon Thaxton, director of community investment for the Gulf Coast Community Foundation, mediated the discussion. Sarasota County Schools Superintendent Lori White, Dan DeLeo, attorney with Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, and Rod Thomson, president of The Thomson Group, led the meeting.

The Sarasota Democratic Club held its monthly luncheon Saturday, Jan. 11, at the Laurel Oaks Country Club. Club members enjoyed lunch while guest speaker Dr. Lisa Merritt presented “Health Care is a Right, not a Privilege.” Dan DeLeo and Pam Truitt

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COMMUNITYCALENDAR SATURDAY, JAN. 18 AND SUNDAY, JAN. 19 Sarasota Winter Fine Art Festival — runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, on Gulfstream Avenue. The Humane Society of Sarasota County hosts this fine-art festival, during which 120 artisans will showcase and sell their work. Works will include ceramics, fiber art and more. For more information, visit paragonartevents.com/sarasota. Sarasota Dollhouse Miniatures Festival — runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Ramada Waterfront Hotel, 7150 N. Tamiami Trail. This festival will feature a show and sale of miniature dollhouses artisans from the United States, Canada, France and England created. Admission is $7 for adults; $4 for children; and free for children 12 and under after 2 p.m. For more information, visit mollycromwell.com/ shows.htm

SUNDAY, JAN. 19 Sarasota Jazz Project — begins at 4 p.m. at St. Boniface Episcopal Church, 5615 Midnight Pass Road, Siesta Key. Enjoy the music of local legends and nationally recognized musicians while giving back to the St. Boniface music program. Tickets are $10 per person; anyone younger than 18 receives free admission.

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THURSDAY, JAN. 23 Goodwill Manasota Networking Social — runs from 5 to 7 p.m. at Senior Friendship Centers, 1888 Brother Geenen Way. Unwind and socialize while networking at this free, casual event. 55+ Volunteer Program is the sponsor. For more information and to RSVP, call 355-2721, Ext. 163.

FRIDAY, JAN. 24 Foreign Service Retirees of Florida Annual Luncheon — runs from 11:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at The Francis, 1289 N. Palm Ave. The luncheon marks the 32nd year of the FSRF and will include guest speaker Robert Silverman, president of the American Foreign Service Association in Washington, D.C. Tickets are $26 per person. Must RSVP by Jan. 20. Call 3710297.

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MLK JR. DAY EVENTS Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast and Community Awards Ceremony — begins at 7:30 a.m. at the Robert L. Taylor Community Complex, 1845 34th St. This breakfast will honor local community leaders and organizations for their services. Tickets are $20 per person and can be purchased the day of the event. For more information, call 358-7860. Stride Toward Freedom Community Walk — begins at 11 a.m. at Robert L. Taylor Community Complex, 1845 34th St. This free walk, is in honor of Martin Luther King Jr, ends at Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 2601 Cocoanut Ave. MLK Community Celebration and Day of Services — runs from noon to 5 p.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 2601 Cocoanut Ave. This afternoon event will include gospel music and other entertainment on the main stage, a food court and a children’s art circle. Mote Marine will have an exhibit at the event, and there will be activities for children of all ages. For information, call 358-7860 or email sarasotamlkcele@aol.com.

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Eleventh annual Ringling Bridge run changes name For the past 11 years, the Ringling Bridge has transformed into a racetrack for runners and walkers of all ages and abilities. Runners can get set for the 2014 Wilde Honda Automotive Family Ringling Bridge Run Jan. 18. Formerly known as the New Balance Ringing Bridge Run, it’s a 4-mile road race benefiting the Sarasota YMCA. The event also includes a 1-mile fun run. “It’s become a community gathering,” says Jen Robertson, director of the run at the YMCA, who has worked on the event for eight years. The run, one of the Sarasota Y’s biggest fundraisers, benefits its youth program. Joanna Davis, a former employee of the Y, says she and her family look forward to the race every year. Davis runs while pushing her sons, ages 2 and 5, in a stroller. “They love seeing the other people coming over the bridge and cheering,” she says. The community feel is one reasons

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Connor Steinfeld, Billy Sadlo and Jake Walker all went 5-0 to lead the Sarasota Military Academy wrestling team to a fourth-place finish at the Massung Duals Jan. 11.

Joey Cavallaro scored 15 points and hauled in nine rebounds to lead the Sarasota High boys basketball team to a 42-32 district victory over Braden River Jan. 13.

Rose Amato scored three goals and notched an assist to lead the Cardinal Mooney girls soccer team to an 8-0 victory over Bayshore in its regular season finale Jan 9.

McKenzie Lantz scored a gamehigh 17 points to lead the Sarasota Christian girls basketball team to a 65-31 victory over Cardinal Mooney Jan. 13.

The Outof-Door Academy boys soccer team defeated Sarasota Military Academy 3-0 Jan. 9.

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The Cardinal Mooney High girls soccer team outscored its opponents 112-10 in 18 regular-season games.

The Cardinal Mooney High girls soccer team plays every possession as if it is its last. But, for the Lady Cougars, the goal isn’t simply to push the ball straight up to the net — at least not if the opportunity does not present itself. Instead, every player has a specific job, which, in turn, if done correctly, creates a solidified unit on the field. That’s not to say scoring goals has not become commonplace for Cardinal Mooney this season, but, for the Lady Cougars, this season is about more than just winning. It is about instilling trust in one another to get the job done and ultimately propelling Cardinal Mooney toward its goal of reaching the Final Four for the first time in school history. “This is the strongest we’ve ever been,” senior midfielder Anna Brusco says. “The variety of skill level that we have this year is (amazing), and we’ve been working hard on trying to be really close as a team.” Cardinal Mooney opened its season with an 8-0 victory over rival The Outof-Door Academy Oct. 29. Since then,

the Lady Cougars have recorded 12 more shutouts en route to a 15-3-0 overall record and a perfect 6-0 record in Class 2A-District 11. In those 13 combined shutouts, Cardinal Mooney scored 99 goals and reached the eight-goal mercy rule in all but two of those contests. “I didn’t expect us to be doing this well,” senior center midfielder Gabby Ojeda says. “We’ve always been pretty (dedicated) as a team, but the amount of goals we’ve scored this season has exceeded anything we’ve done in the past four years. “We’re really dynamic with our plays,” Ojeda says. “We usually play part of a second half and that’s it (because of the mercy rule).” Brusco and junior forward Rose Amato have combined for 41 of Cardinal Mooney’s 112 goals this season. Brusco also has a teamhigh 29 assists. But, perhaps the most noticeable change to the Lady Cougars’ roster has been the addition of freshman forward Skylar Jungers, who attended ODA for lower school but decided to attend Mooney for high school. Jungers already has 18 goals

The Cardinal Mooney High girls soccer team posted 13 shutouts during the regular season en route to 15-3-0 record and a No. 1 seed in the Class 2A-District 11 tournament.

and six assists in her first season at Cardinal Mooney. “I knew Cardinal Mooney had a really strong program, so it’s kind of an honor to get to start as a freshman,” Jungers says. “I didn’t think we would be as good as we are, but we’ve gotten a lot better and progressed a lot.” Cardinal Mooney’s three losses came in the first two weeks of the season at the hands of Braden River (Class 7A), Riverview (Class 8A) and Venice (Class 7A). The Lady Cougars have won 11 straight matches since their loss to Venice Nov. 16 and earned the No. 1 seed in the district tournament. Cardinal Mooney opened its district tournament Jan. 14 with an 8-0 victory over Booker in the district semifinals. With the win, Cardinal Mooney will play host to DeSoto County in the district championship Thursday night. Now, the Lady Cougars hope to continue their run all the way to a state title. “I think our success can be attributed to not only the dynamic way that we play, but also because we love the game and just the feeling of being on the field,” Ojeda says.

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number of shutouts 13 The goalkeepers Lexi Barbour and Brooke Peterson combined for during the regular season.

number of players who 3 The have scored more than 15 goals for the Lady Cougars this season.

number of goals 8 The Cardinal Mooney allowed

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+ Golf pro to hold fundraiser for GSJGA + Orioles to hold Birdland Golf Classic The Baltimore Orioles will host the 4th annual Birdland Golf Classic Feb. 17 at Laurel Oak Country Club. The event begins with lunch and registration at 11 a.m. followed by a shotgun start at 12:30 p.m. The classic features a silent auction and the opportunity to play a round of golf with current and former Orioles players and coaches, including Buck Showalter, Chris Davis, J.J. Hardy and Adam Jones, among others. Registration is now open for golfers and corporate partners. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Miracle League of Manasota. Since its inception, the Birdland Golf Classic has raised more than $96,000 for the nonprofit organization. For information, con-

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Sarasota teaching professional Tim Conaway, an instructor at the newly founded Barry Cheesman Golf Academy, will be conducting a free lesson day Jan. 24 at Tatum Ridge Golf Links. Each private lesson will last 30 minutes. In lieu of payment, Conaway is asking for a $30 voluntary donation to benefit the Greater Sarasota Junior Golf Association. Conaway is a certified Golf Channel SwingFix instructor. He also is on the GSJGA board and runs its summer series golf tournaments. For more information and to reserve a lesson, contact Conaway at 812-0137.

+ Sarasota High girls weightlifting The Sarasota High girls weightlifting team had eight lifters finish in the top three, including three first-place finishers, at the District 8 SubRegional meet Jan. 9, at Sarasota High. The eight lifters will now move on to the District 8 State Qualifier Jan. 22 at Charlotte High. QUALIFIERS INCLUDE: Grace Stelmashenko (101 pounds) Sierra Butler (110) Jami Aguayo (119) Rachel Mead (119) Sara Stevens (154) Trisha Konzel (169) Katie Rose (169) Maxine Rasdell (Unlimited)

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The number of points Lisa Hoffman scored to lead all scorers in the ODA girls basketball team’s 44-19 victory over Bishop McLaughlin Jan. 10.

The number of teams, including Cardinal Mooney, Riverview and Sarasota, that are scheduled to participate in the 2014 Sarasota Baseball Classic, which begins March 24.

The number of points Nick Havener scored to lead the Riverview boys basketball team to a 61-36 victory over Bishop Verot in the Florida vs. Southwest Florida Classic Jan. 11 in Fort Myers.

The Sarasota Area Sports Alliance is awarding a limited number of scholarships to qualified high school studentathletes in Sarasota and Manatee counties. Scholarship criteria includes: commitment to sports, academic achievement, community involvement and financial need. The application deadline is March 21. Questions and completed applications will only be received via email at sasascholarship@gmail.com. For more information, visit sarasotaareasportsalliance.org.

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The number of points Brayboy scored to lead the Thunder to a 53-50 victory over the Hurricanes.

The number of players who found the back of the net in the Cardinal Mooney boys soccer team’s 8-1 victory over Bayshore Jan. 9.

The number of goals Aleks Paunovic scored to lead the Sarasota Christian boys soccer team to a 7-3 victory over Foundation Christian Jan. 10.

The number of years Brayboy has been on ODA’s varsity squad.

The number of seconds left on the clock when Brayboy sank a 3-pointer to give ODA the lead over Bishop McLaughlin Jan. 10.

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SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY GIRLS (1) VS. SARASOTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (3) SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY BOYS (1) VS. SARASOTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (2)

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Regent’s Kelly Beck, Mason Primm, Shane Rice and Stuart Campbell defeated Hillcroft/Ten Oaks 11-8 to win the Bay News 9 Cup Jan. 12. Above: SMA’s Stephen Payne and Sarasota Christian’s Justis MejiaSlattery battle for possession in the first half. Right: SMA’s McKenna Jackson pushes the ball up the field for the Lady Eagles in the first half.

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Sarasota Military Academy’s Connor Long controls the ball in the midfield for the Eagles.

Regent topped Hillcroft/Ten Oaks 11-8 to win the Bay News 9 Cup Jan. 12, at the Sarasota Polo Club. Shane Rice scored five goals to lead the way for Regent. Mason Primm and Stuart Campbell rounded out the scoring with three goals apiece. Brent Mirikitani scored four goals,

and Jamie Mirikitani added a pair of goals to power Hillcroft/Ten Oaks. Jamie Mirikitani was named Most Valuable Player. And Campbell won the Best Playing Pony award for the performance of his horse, Moonshine. Teams return to action at 1 p.m. Jan. 19 for the Band Weintraub Cup.

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New College student puts wind in others’ sails.

hen Sarasota native and New College of Florida senior Michael Long was a freshman, he traded his 2000 Jeep Cherokee for a 1976 30-foot Santana sailboat with orange sail covers. Thanks to childhood fishing trips with his father, Thomas, the economics and public policy major was “comfortable staying between the markers,” he says. Sailing, on the other hand, was something foreign. To add to the challenge, the boat was on the Caloosahatchee River, near Fort Myers, and Long had to figure out how to get it back to Sarasota. With the help of a friend for part of the trip, he succeeded and developed a love of sailing as a result. Now, as a member of the New College sailing team, Long uses his passion to teach at-risk teens to sail through his nonprofit program, Sail Future. The program uses sailing as tool to work with youth who need a positive influence in their lives and who are going through challenges at home. Sail Future’s intention is two-fold: Through the program, students not only receive exposure to sailing, but also to college life, and they receive academic support along the way. Prior to Sail Future’s fall program, only two out of the eight high school

students participating had been on a college campus. Some students were on a boat for the first time, and a few did not even know how to swim. “Learning to sail shows them if they put work in, they can learn anything,” says Long. He hopes that by the end of the eight weeks, the students have a more optimistic outlook and a desire to improve their lives. From the start of his community outreach, Long wanted to work with youth whom he says had “been dealt a bad deck of cards and needed a new opportunity.” As a volunteer with AMIkids, he used challenge sports, such as scuba diving and sailing, as a way to connect with youth. He thought sailing would make a great platform for a larger outreach program, so he formalized what he was doing and expanded upon it. To get the program on the water, Long worked with Colin Jordan, director of fitness and recreation at New Collge, and Jeanne Viviani, office of research and programs. During the inaugural program last summer, New College students worked with Second Chance Last Opportunity to teach 9to 11-year-olds how to sail on the New College racing team boats. Although Long considered the first program successful, he felt it would be more impactful for an older group of stu-

dents. To recruit students for the fall program, Long worked with Trish Allen, assistant principal at Booker High School, who identified students in need of academic support, or who had been struggling with behavioral issues. New College students provided tutoring to the high schoolers and then were paired up in teams of two to learn how to work together on the sailboats. Until now, New College had been the primary sponsor and partner for the program, but, recently, Sail Future received a grant from the Californiabased Orange County Community Foundation, in partnership with The TK Foundation. In spring, it will become a full-fledged mentorship program. Ten mentors will meet with 10 students three times a week for academic assistance and to help fill out college applications. But, this program will offer a new element: The sailing aspect will put both the student and the mentor on level ground because neither will have any sailing experience. “Sailing eliminates the cultural barrier, because they’ll have to work as team and create a unique relationship,” says Long. Sail Future will also branch out beyond the New College campus and re-

Justin Sylus and Juliana Musheyeve complete homework in the New College Marine Biology Lab. cruit its mentors from the University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee and Ringling College of Art and Design. “The most important quality for a mentor is passion,” says Long. “It’s an awesome opportunity to give back, and, they get to learn how to sail for free.” Long graduates in May, and, although he has plans to stay connected with the program, he’ll pass the boom to Abigail Oakes, who is a junior at New College. Long and Oakes both hope Sail Future has a lasting effect on those involved, especially between mentors and students. “The absolute best thing I could hope for is that the kids we work with develop a lifelong support system within the Sail Future family,” says Oakes.

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ALL THAT JAZZ The Jazz Club of Sarasota will host its fifth annual High School Jazz Festival Friday, Jan. 24, at Riverview High School. The festival is a non-competitive showcase of musicians from Booker High, Manatee High, Riverview High, Sarasota High and Southeast High. “If you’re wondering about the future of jazz, the answer is right here at this festival,” says festival coordinator and Jazz Club of Sarasota board member Gordon Garrett. The Jazz Cruise and Jazz Club of Sarasota are sponsors of the event.

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Booker Middle School Assistant Principle Derek Jenkins and Booker parent Jeremy Scott became fast friends when they met in September 2012. Scott and Jenkins shared the idea to keep parents involved in school affairs through technology, so they collaborated to build the school’s website and social media pages. “It was almost a blessing for him to come in and work on the website,” says Jenkins. Soon, Scott realized he could do more to keep parents connected. In October 2012, he began working on an app for the Booker Middle School community. Scott played around with do-it-yourself apps and created programs in his free time. After a month of experimenting, he created Instant BMS, an app to help Booker parents access student grades, class assignments and school events from an Android smartphone.

Today, parents, students and staff have access to Instant BMS — the Sarasota County School District’s first app. Instant BMS is available on Google Play and has a rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars. One reviewer wrote, “ … This app is a great way to stay informed and up to date with my school.” Scott hopes Instant BMS will help parents stay involved with their children’s education. As a parent, he knows how important that connection can be. “An involved parent can make a real difference in their child’s school and how the child learns,” says Scott. With the support of Jenkins and the Booker community, Scott is now working on making Instant BMS available to iPhone users, as well. “The sky’s the limit,” Scott says. “There’s so much technology available that if we can think it, we can probably do it.”

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Cardinal Mooney alumnus Eric Buchanan, class of ’00, will hold a fundraiser meeting open to the community Tuesday, Jan. 21, at the school. Buchanan has cystic fibrosis and recently learned he needs a double-lung transplant. Buchanan is seeking help with organizing a golf tournament and coming up with ideas for smaller fundraising events. People can donate money, time or services to help the Sarasota native. “It’s very humbling,” says Buchanan of the support he’s received from the community. “I’m honored.” Every dollar raised at the events will go to the National Foundation for Transplants on Buchanan’s behalf and will support his surgery and post-surgery care. The meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. at Cardinal Mooney Catholic High School, 4171 Fruitville Road. To learn more about Buchanan, visit transplantme.com

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Temple Sinai hosted the sixth annual Sarasota Jewish Food Festival Sunday, Jan. 12. Families and friends spent the day enjoying traditional Jewish comfort food, including knishes, brisket and matzo ball soup. This year, Temple Sinai partnered with All Faiths Food Bank and encouraged attendees to fill five large bins with canned food for the nonprofit. Johnette Cappadona, director of community outreach at All Faiths, described the collaboration as “perfect.”

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Oyster Bay Estates home sells for $2,425,500 The following residential real estate transactions took place between Dec. 30 and Jan. 3. A home in Oyster Bay Estates tops all transactions in this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real estate. Peter Gallagher and Caroline Boutte sold their home at 1414 N. Lake Shore Drive to Barbara DePaul, trustee, of Vincentown, N.J., for $2,425,500. Built in 1991, it has four bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 4,798 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1,575,000 in 2012.

one bedroom, one bath and 990 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $320,000 in 2004.

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Peter Balje and Sabrina Culver, of Woodland Hills, Calif., sold their home at 2623 Bougainvillea St. to Russell Elefterion and Sheryl King, of Sarasota, for $285,000. Built in 1956, it has three bedrooms, two baths, one half-bath and 1,937 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $165,000 in 2010.

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Michael and Elsa Hanna, of Bradenton, sold their home at 1804 Morris St. to Jon Lee, of Sarasota, for $772,300. Built in 2003, it has four bedrooms, four baths, one half-bath, a pool and 3,432 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1,162,500 in 2005.

Bay Plaza

Erol Argun, of Sarasota, sold his Unit 9G condominium at 1255 N. Gulfstream Ave. to Thyrza Jacocks, of Sarasota, for $715,000. Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,629 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $199,500 in 1986.

Harbor Acres

U.S. Bank National Association, trustee, sold the home at 1365 Harbor Drive to Meirion Jones and Candice Steckler, of Sarasota, for $631,500. Built in 1961, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,863 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.15 million in 2005. Marion Weerasuriya, of Sarasota, sold the home at 1740 S. Orange Ave. to Kenneth and Lauren Doyle, of Sarasota, for $525,000. Built in 1967, it has three bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,024 square

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Apartment Place

Melody Murray, trustee, of Ellisville, Mo., sold the home at 1824 Oak St. to John and Janice Shelton, of Sarasota, for $575,000. Built in 1930, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 2,252 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $152,500 in 1998.

Bay View Heights

John and Lori Mishos, of Gaithersburg, Md., sold their home at 2516 S. Osprey Ave. to Barbara Fleener, of Sarasota, for $542,000. Built in 1949, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,437 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $240,000 in 2002.

Condominium on the Bay

Holiveen Cooper, of Taylorsville, N.C.,

sold the Unit 311 condominium at 988 Blvd. of the Arts to Christopher Pellegrino, of Sarasota, for $409,000. Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,555 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $360,000 in 2003.

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A. Jon Nannos and Catherine Popovitch-Nannos sold their Unit 705 condominium at 800 N. Tamiami Trail to Gail Jerome, of Sarasota, for $317,900. Built in 2007, it has one bedroom, one bath, one half-bath and 1,070 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $305,000 in 2007.

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David Houle, trustee, of Evanston, Ill., sold the Unit 517 condominium at 750 N. Tamiami Trail to Lynn Johnson, trustee, of Sarasota, for $285,000. Built in 2001, it has

Leslie Gray, of Sarasota, sold her home at 1280 Northport Drive to Norbert Donelly, of Sarasota, for $2.02 million. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, three baths, one half-bath, a pool and 2,941 square feet of living area.

Gulf and Bay Club

Bella Vista Gulf and Bay Corp. sold the Unit 401 condominium at 5740 Midnight Pass Road to Karen Pridgen, of North Port, for $1.5 million. Built in 1986, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,757 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1,065,000 in 2010.

Siesta Estates

Gordon MacPhail and Gail MacPhail, trustees, of Bradenton, sold the home at 5569 Siesta Estates Court to Robert and Joan Miller, of Sarasota, for $745,000. Built in 1996, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,406 square feet of living area.

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Richard and Veda Martin sold their home at 5325 Siesta Court to Jeffrey and Kimberly Dufresne, of Conifer, Colo., for $704,500. Built in 1988, it has four bed-

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25 Sandy Hook Rd #A3988917 $2,295,000 Denise Mei

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1400 Harbor Dr #A3984481 $1,995,000 Michael Hays

Sarasota 941-349-3444 941-376-1826

7338 Periwinkle Dr #A3970014 $1,990,000 Pamela Charron

Sarasota 941-951-6660 941-993-3388

533 E Macewen Dr #A3990294 $895,000 Rosalie Phillips

Osprey 941-966-8000 941-544-4430

8939 Bloomfield Blvd #A3990467 $799,900 Drew Russell

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-993-3739

Robert and Monica Buescher, trustees, sold the Unit T54 condominium at 5830 Midnight Pass Road to C.L. Swanson Corp. for $604,400. Built in 1967, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,194 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $750,000 in 2004. YOUROBSERVER.COM // Go online to read more real estate transactions.

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1051 Harbour Way Pl #C7038373 $315,000 Rise Wells

3295 Brockton Ln # 722 #A3989503 $139,500 Felix Power

Punta Gorda 941-639-0000 941-623-5874

Sarasota 941-966-8000 941-586-8958

Venice $3,000 941-552-4200

4728 Charing Cross Rd #A3990159 $1,850 Lisa Shope

Sarasota 941-552-4200 941-320-8022

Siesta Key 941-951-6660 305-458-0066

Mid Longboat 383.5502 • South Longboat 383.7591 • St. Armands 388.4447 • Main Street 951.6660 Palmer Ranch 966.8000 • Siesta Key 349.3444 • Venice 485.5421 • Englewood 473.7750

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136 Osprey Point Dr #A3970693 $3,900,000 Sania Allen

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Serving “Key” People Since 1949

& Packa

by Harriet Sokmensuer | Community Editor

Selby predicts the future at Crystal Ball

6519 Midnight Pass Rd., Siesta Key

enchanted evening

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The Friends of the Selby Public Library held its fourth annual Crystal Ball Jan. 8. The night was full of food, dancing, magic and psychic readings. Guests enjoyed the downtown library after hours with live entertainment and spiritual fun while benefiting the Friends of the Selby Public Library.

Full service bar & drive thru package window

(Located on south side of building). Free hot dogs steamed in Sauerkraut ready at noon every Saturday!!!

Marguerite Barnett dances.

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MEMORIAL MILES

YOUR NEIGHBOR | Sara Goldenthal

by Harriet Sokmensuer | Community Editor

Runners go the distance to support scholarship fund The inaugural Andrew Monroe Memorial Scholarship 5K Run took place Saturday, Jan. 11, at Siesta Beach. More than 300 runners and walkers laced up to support the Riverview High School Soccer Scholarship. Monroe, who was the goalie for Riverview High School’s soccer team, died in a car accident in 2011. Soon after his death, Monroe’s family and Riverview High School created the scholarship for senior boys on the school’s soccer team. Monroe’s family had been paying for the scholarship until last summer, when they reached out to the community for help with funding. This year, the scholarship will also be available to female soccer players at Riverview. “I am very proud and honored to help support the college endeavors for the recipients,” said Monroe’s mother, Stacey. “Every little bit helps with college tuitions nowadays.”

Sara Goldenthal sits with Panda at her home in Palmer Ranch.

Above: Taylor Wells, Matt Combs and Rikki Wells

When Sara Goldenthal was 7 years old, she wanted to become an animal specialist, a singer or a scientist. She became all three. Goldenthal was a jazz singer for about 10 years before becoming a cat behaviorist in 2000. Catster magazine recently named her one of its top five Neighborhood: heroes for 2013 for Palmer Ranch her grant-funded Your neighbor programs in shelters since: October and her e-book, “No More Scaredy Cat: The easy, step-by-step program that puts an end to stress, fear and anxiety for the cats you love.” Goldenthal says working with cats is unique and mindful. “You have to realize that you’re working with a sentient, intelligent, living being,” she says. “It’s really about the individual kitty.” Goldenthal grew up in Freedom,

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Maine, where she developed a love for animals at a young age. After she decided to end her jazz career in 2000, she took an entry-level job at an animal-rescue shelter in Maine. Goldenthal’s care for her stray cat Tucker helped her to recognize the fear and lack of trust in the shelter cats. She began using Bach Flower Essences, a collection of natural essences, on Tucker’s and the shelter cats’ pressure points. She saw an improvement in their behavior. Since then, Goldenthal has become a certified practitioner in Bach Flower Essences and Tellington Touch, a method of body work and movement exercises for animals. She moved in October from Maine to Sarasota and hopes to continue her work in area shelters. Goldenthal says the local animal community helped draw her to Sarasota. — Harriet Sokmensuer

IN HER OWN WORDS: “It seems (animal) organizations work together (in Sarasota) and I really like that.”— Sara Goldenthal

Photos by Harriet Sokmensuer

VENICE’S WAT E R F RO N T LANDMARK SINCE 1976.

Harriet Sokmensuer

SEAFOOD, BURGERS & MORE Lunch Mon. - Fri. • Dinner Mon. - Sat., Sun. seasonally Locally Owned & Operated • 1920 Hillview St., Sarasota 941-952-0045 • www.hillviewgrill.com FOOD AND FUN FOR ALL AGES Lunch & Dinner Served from 11:30 am Live Entertainment 7 Days a Week • 1600 Harbor Drive S. 941-488-1456 • www.sharkysonthepier.com VENICE’S WATERFRONT LANDMARK SINCE 1976. Boat or Car • Lunch & Dinner • Open Daily 1st Floor Tavern • 1968 Tarpon Center Dr. 941-484-9551 • www.crowsnest-venice.com

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2014

Do you love taking photos? We want your best photos of sunrises, sunsets, rainbows, etc. Submit your local weather photos for a chance to have your photo published in the paper! See all of the winning photos each week by visiting The Observer’s Facebook page. TEMPERATURES

Record Temperatures High

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86 (1993)

24 (1927)

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84 (1973)

25 (1981)

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Gulf and Bay Club is the premier gulf front gated community on over 30 acres with 780 feet of beach frontage right on world famous Siesta Key beach. Amenities include 3 heated pools (including a lap pool), 8 tennis courts, 6 dry saunas, a fitness center with spa, an expansive clubhouse with library and computer room, racquetball and basketball courts and multiple barbecue areas with picnic tables.

5760 MIDNIGHT PASS RD,#D-605 Fully furnished 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo with updated appliances and newer carpet. Great View. Priced at $649,000

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5780 MIDNIGHT PASS RD,#B-608 Best value at Gulf and Bay Club. 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo with sweeping views of beach and comlpex . Priced at $599,000

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5730 Midnight Pass Road, Sarasota, FL 34242

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Quiet, understated elegance,high wood front doors, brick lanai and pool deck Space for fun gatherings in the open family room and kitchen combination. Entertain your friends in the formal dining room made easier by the convenient butler’s pantry leading to the kitchen.Large private front office,Guest wing with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths separate from the in-law suite, complete with its own full bath and mini-kitchen. The owner’s suite is a peaceful get-a-way on the opposite side of the house. Soak away the day’s cares in the garden tub or read and relax in the provided library space, overlooking the pool and treed rear view. The private back yard has room to play or for pets to run. The circular driveway leads to an over-size garage, which includes a large storage closet or workshop space. It’s not possible to tell you everything about this wonderful house in a few paragraphs, so come and explore for yourself why this might be the perfect new house for you! MLS#A3986077 $750,000

DISCOVER A HIDDENWATERFRONT GEM... close to downtown Sarasota yet a world away. One of the great estates on Bay Shore Road, a neighborhood of exceptional residences spanning the architecture of the Ringling era to today’s contemporary style. This sophisticated bay front property of 2.5 acres with 240 ft on Sarasota Bay offers a resort lifestyle in the middle of the city including an oversized pool, professional tennis court, and kayaking on the bay. Built in 1987 as a palatial palace, the home was completely redesigned in 1993 by the architect who built the Bill Gates estate in Seattle. Recently updated again, the home boasts a quality of design and construction superior to many other residences of similar size. The 11,000+/square-foot residence with guesthouse and pool house encompasses Moorish architectural style with contemporary elements. The grounds are a tropical oasis with exotic tree species hiding the mansion from street view. MLS#A3973036 $9,990,000

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8600 Midnight Pass Rd. #701

Looking for a view of the Gulf of Mexico? Unsurpassed views and can you believe it 2700 SF plus a 2 car garage on Siesta Key! Sitting on top of the world and living large!! Penthouse southwest corner unir boasting views from almost every room!! Hidden Lagoon is known as the Crown Jewel of Siesta Key condominiums. Located on 7 acres of lush tropical grounds and nature areas not only is it direct beachfront it also borders Heron Lagoon, great for kayaking and enjoying mother nature. MLS#A3989805 $1,349,900

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306 Island Circle

The very finest in Island living!! Totally updated top to bottom, no expence spared New pool, roof, seawall, windows and doors, kitchen, baths, the list goes on and on. Just across the street from Siesta Beach and around the corner from Siesta Village Excellent boating water and only one bridge to the bay. MLS#A3989812 $899,900

319 Beach Road

Wonderful rental opportunity or vacation spot or reside full time across the street from world famous Siesta Beach and just around the corner to Siesta Village. Great income producing as well. Some owner financing available. Many possibilities. Small complex with just 4 owners. MLS#A3989808 $599,900

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5727 Riegals Point Road

Sit by the pool in this peacefull setting with water on 3 sides. This home located behind the gates of the very private subdivision Riegals Landing. Water, water everywhere!! Sailboat water. This home boasts two 50 foot boat slips. Ground floor family room with full bath off pool. Master located on the second floor and two guest rooms on the top floor. Well cared for home, lushly landscaped and located in acul-de-sac with plenty of room to roam. Wrap around decks surround the entire second floor. MLS#A3971238 $1,999,000

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581 Venice Lane, Waterside East, Siesta Key Spacious waterfront three bedroom, three bath split plan home on a LOVE wide BIRDS SNOW junction of the canal capturing the essence of island living.BIRDS MLS#A3990103 $1,199,000 201 Seagull Lane 600 Wild Turkey Lane $1,299,000 $849,000

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Built in 2003 - 5,033 SF Anchor Builders built Home with Custom Quality Amenities, 4BD/4BA +pool bath and powder room, Summer Room/Outdoor Kitchen with Fireplace, Office, Elevator, Open Floor Plan, 5 Balconies, Central Vacuum, Wine Room. Heated Pool/Spa, Fire Pit, 10+ Car Garage, Crown Molding, Elevated 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ceilings, Built-ins, Private Deeded Beach Access, Tropical Plantings, Panoramic view of the Gulf. Seeing is Believing!! MLS#3984182 $7,250,000 Ron Stahl 941 374 1671 Ron Stahl Realty rstahlrlty@aol.com

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Gulf of Mexico views. Furnished, luxury 2377 sq feet End Unit with North West views. Pull onto the new pavered drive behind the Ocean Blvd landscaping right into your PRIVATE 2 car garage, (with the kayaks on the roof of your vehicle) shut the door and walk thru the beautiful, secure, secluded, lobby and ride upstairs to your postcard home. Have an Olympic spirit -- swim 250 strokes across to LIDO Park. Or slip your kayak into the water and go birding or BBQ on the sandbar. $965,000

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Budding Tennis Stars come here to play, swim, relax.1300 sf. 2 /2 ground floor access: 4 Har Tru tennis courts, active tennis program, a workout facility, and two community pools, Sarasota Surf and Racquet is the most popular tennis gated community on Crescent Beach, just steps from the world famous Siesta Key Beach. Just a stroll to the pool. Sarasota Surf and Racquet has everything you want in a tennis beach getaway. Generate more than 70K income as a rental. $799,000

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Pet friendly, panoramic Gulf & Bay view, private beach, covered parking, peaceful pool and perfect pleasure. Lanai, living and master bedroom with sunset views. Turnkey furnished with refreshed kitchen. See how the clouds and sky sing together with the water? Let this exhilerating lifestyle welcome you every day. Move-in ready. Open and easy living. This airy, spacious, clean, bright and welcoming place is a perfect match to the flowing water views. MLS#A3985023 $525,000

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Balinese Design with magazine quality interiors on peaceful Âž ac lot in desirable area. The walled compound has lush tropical gardens spanning 5 lots. Three covered pavilions are assembled for the ultimate in sophisticated outdoor entertaining. A linear fireplace anchors the Living, Dining and Social Pavilions. Magazine quality interior design of the home is beyond spectacular. A very unique and desirable property. Designed by architect, Terry Green. $1,995,000

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Endless gulf views from this 9th floor 3 BR/3 BA condo of almost 2,000 sq. ft. located minutes to Siesta Key Village. Remodeled and in top condition. Upscale kitchen and baths with granite and wood cabinetry. Clubhouse, fitness room and heated pool. $895,900 131155

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Luxurious Luxurious Executive Executive Country Country Club Club Estate Estate Home Home on on private private preserve preserve lot. lot. 5-6 5-6 beds/5.5 beds/5.5 baths, baths, spectacular spectacular pool pool && spa spa

5411 Avenida del Mare - $1,039,000

5450 Shadow Lawn Drive - $795,000

Siesta Siesta Key 1.5 blocks to beach. Built 2003, 3,695 s.f. High High ceilings, bamboo floors, theater, 4-car garage

Remodeled Siesta Key waterfront home near the beach on the Grand Canal. Coastal-inspired interior with 3 beds/2 baths

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3535 3535 La La Paloma Paloma Avenue - $439,000

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452 Canal Road - $1,140,000

7508 Midnight Pass Road - $2,275,000

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2024 Alameda Ave Whitaker Bayou Sarasota

Stunning 4 Bedroom, 3 Bath, light & bright home with huge windows to bring awesome water views from every room. Resort style pool with spa and pergola and wonderful tropical landscaping on beautiful Cranes Bayou. Large boat dock with excellent boating water. Only minutes to the Intracoastal and no fixed bridge to the Gulf. Beach access across the street. Close to the new Publix and only minutes to St. www.8Winslow.com Armands and downtown Sarasota. Price: $2,600,000

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5770 Midnight Pass Rd. #702, Gulf & Bay, Siesta Key

Imagine Imagineliving livingin inparadise! paradise!Enjoy spectacular sunsets from this gorgeous gorgeous Penthouse, Penthouse, totally renovated in modern, very sleek style style on on 1435 1435 sf, sf, open open living and dining area and impressive mirrored mirrored wall. wall. aa Great Great kitchen that features solid white wood cabinets, cabinets, granite granite counter counter tops and back splash, high quality stainless stainless steel steel appliances appliances and a big island. Price: $864,000

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This true “Old Florida” home has been in the same family for over 40 www.940ContentoCircle.com years, and is very well livable. With some remodeling it could be a gorgeous 940 Contento Circle, Siesta Key “Siesta Key Beach Home”. Or build new in this extremely Bright and light, very open waterfront home in Siesta Isles, one of desirable location which comes with deeded boat dock on Siesta Key’s most desired neighborhoods. High vaulted ceilings Grand Canal across the street. Owner just signed Licence and sliding glass doors to pool area. Wonderful curb appeal on a Agreement with Sarasota County and has building permit very large lot. Beautiful tile roof. Large pool and spacious screened for boat dock to be built right across the street. Only about pool area with southern orientation. Walk or take your bike to 10 minutes with only Midnight Pass Bridge to Bay. Siesta Beach and Village.. Price: $785,000 Price: $597,000 www.687AvenidaDelNorte.com

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ernabe Somoza has a story for every piece of furniture that fills his 10,000-squarefoot warehouse. As he walks around the periphery, his eyes light up beneath hip, circularframed glasses as he points out pieces. A red loveseat was in his son’s bedroom before getting new upholstery at Mission Avenue Studio, his Sarasota-based, vintage-furniture repurposing business. The 65-year-old walks between isles of loveseats and cabinetry while giving a tour of the furniture. He pulls open a drawer in an unfinished ancient apothecary shelving unit to show the inscription of the herbal or chemical ingredient that once filled the drawer. He showcases the frames of a set of chairs from the 1960s and flips them over to proudly show the stamp of a high-end furniture maker — he’s learned the brand names since he bought his first piece in 2008. He still remembers it — a 19th century French Victorian sofa. His enthusiasm for every sofa, chair, table and cabinet suggests he loves nothing more than ripping off the tired old fabric of someone’s discarded wingback chair and starting new. Somoza handpicks every piece from weekly furniture auctions, charity consignment stores and, occasionally, an estate sale. The majority of the pieces span the 1930s to the 1970s — when furniture wasn’t mass-produced and was higher quality. He selects the high-end designer fabric. He decides if the wood should remain the original hue or receive a new coat of paint; he sometimes mixes the paint himself to get the right color — currently, he says anything blue sells instantly. He directs his seven employees on how to accomplish his vision, whether it’s a funky gold-andpurple antique French arm chair or a chic lemon-colored settee. For the most part, they do the laborious elements of the job such as upholstery, staining, painting and sanding. “I get second-guessed continually,” he says in purposeful earshot of his employees. “Particularly when I painted this chair gold,” he says pointing to a nearby armchair. “Of course, it sold last week.” The webmaster and the administrator give each other knowing smiles — they’re used to Somoza’s joking demeanor. Later, the webmaster throws it right back, when a lazy-Susan-style coffee table arrives to the warehouse. “It’s perfect! We can put Bernabe on it and spin him around (when he acts up),” she says. Every day he eagerly asks his employees if anything will be posted on the website. He loves to watch the items sell. In less than 18 months, he’s sold 805 pieces — primarily online. Somoza thinks his success stems from One Kings Lane, a popular, curated, interior design

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“Part of the reason I didn’t want to continue just doing trading of art was that I could do nothing with painting except sell it,” Bernabe Somoza says. “Now I have same thrill of finding the piece and then doing something with it.”

YOUROBSERVER.COM // See a video of Bernabe Somoza talking about his Mission Avenue Studio. and lifestyle online store and flash sale site. Mission Avenue Studio was just named one of the top-five vendors on the site. This fall, he opened Mission Avenue Studio’s physical location to local buyers. Somoza has had previous entrepreneurial ventures that haven’t been as successful.

“In my country, it’s all entrepreneurial business, for the most part, so what I’m doing now is what I’ve always done,” he says. Somoza, raised in Managua, Nicaragua, comes from an entrepreneurial family. In addition to the successful lawyers and doctors in his bloodline, there were five former presidents of Nica-

ragua. His grandfather brought pasteurization to Central America. “That afforded me the opportunities to meet interesting people and have an open mind about a lot of different things,” he says. He owned his first business at age 20, when he was put in charge of his late father’s company, Luis

A. Somoza Co. Ltd., a holding company. Since then, he’s owned a few holding companies, worked at an investment bank, founded a concert promotion and recording company and operated his own art-dealing business, among other things. Before moving in December 2010 to Sarasota, he was dealing

19th-century art in Houston. He enjoyed the excitement of finding good deals, but was unfulfilled by the limitations of what he could do with them — there was no creative element. He searched for something new inside the same old entrepreneurial frame. Once he decided to start his new business venture, he started collecting — he bought 100 pieces before he even knew what to do with them. Now, he’s selling nearly 100 pieces every two months. “It’s a nice feather in our cap that we’re making progress. We have momentum,” he says, pausing to reflect before laughing and breaking out into a big grin. “It’s kind of cool!”

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Bernard Balbot and Christian Conn in Asolo Rep's production of "Philadelphia, Here I Come!"

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Producing Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards with Patricia Delorey recorded sound samples of people who were born in the town from the similar time period. A few weeks into her research she stumbled across a documentary “Disasters — Donegal Trawlers.” It’s about three generations of fisherman who all die from various disasters in the small town during the late ’60s and early ’70s. It was a lucky find; sometimes she only gets snippets. It speaks to not only the sound of their voices, but the quality of

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life. They live in a harsh environment that’s extremely punishing — they are real salt-of-the-earth people. Her voice quickens the more she talks about the film. The film made her think about why someone would want to be a fisherman if both his father and grandfather died at sea. “I remember one of the men said, ‘The sea gives and it takes away,’” Delorey says. “I thought, ‘That’s it!’”

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cal way sounds are made in the mouth and how to describe them to the actors. Delorey enjoys dialect work and the research involved. It gives her a broader perspective of the world. Learning about and perfecting a dialect is a way to honor it. “By studying dialect, I learn about the people, who they are, the hardships they bear and the joys they have,” Delorey says. Her research includes finding

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Northern Irish dialects are extremely difficult for actors to conquer. That’s why Asolo Repertory Theatre employs Patricia Delorey. She’s the dialect coach for the production “Philadelphia Here I Come!,” which is chockfull of characters using this dialect. She is also an associate professor at FSU/Asolo Conservatory. This particular production follows Gareth O’Donnell as he decides to leave his uncommunicative father, his job as a grocer and his failed love life in Ballybeg, Ireland, to pursue new opportunities in Philadelphia. Ballybeg isn’t a real city, but the county the play lists in the production — Donegal — is real. Delorey and director of the production, Frank Galati, began the process by discussing what to do with the dialect: Should they adapt it slightly or really go for it? “I really went for it in this instance,” Delorey says. “The location has a lot to do with who these people are. Even though the story is universal, how it’s expressed has a lot to do with the way they speak and where they live.” Delorey’s job is specific. She has to train herself in the dialect to be able to coach the actors. She uses the International Phonetic Alphabet — it uses letters to represent specific sounds in every known spoken language. Delorey describes the process as being similar to musical notation. She transcribes the script into sounds using this alphabet. She also knows the physiologi-

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Curator Fan Zhang plans a full menu of Asian exhibitions I pretty much imagine myself as a big chef trying to use limited ingredients to present the best cuisines to my visitors and mixing different tastes. – Fan Zhang

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“I think the new Asian center is just a starting point,” says Fan Zhang. “And, once the gallery is open, we will have more people to help spread the wealth.” experience taught him to pursue, examine and investigate. That’s how he became interested in art history and decided to study archaeology as an undergraduate student and also obtain a master’s and doctorate in art history. But, instead of teaching, his passion brought him to The Ringling. “I regard myself as some kind of an ambassador to introduce Asian art to this country,” he says. He has a lot to accomplish be-

fore the 20,000-square-foot center’s completion. He hopes to secure longterm loans from the Lowe Art Museum in Miami, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, The Field Museum in Chicago and the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation in New York City. He’s working on bringing traveling exhibitions from the Hubei Provincial Museum in China and art of the samurai from the Stibbert Museum in Italy. In addition

to getting those out-of-house exhibitions, he hopes to highlight The Ringling’s Koger Collection, a ceramic donation from Nancy and Ira Koger — specifically, the Blanc-de-Chine pieces, or allwhite Chinese porcelain. “In terms of Blanc-de-Chine, maybe we have the best collection in this country,” he says. He hopes to expand what he describes as a “small but refined” collection by filling in the gaps with more traditional Japanese artworks, such as scrolls and medieval sculpture. Of course, he’d also like to pursue more modern and contemporary works. For instance, he hopes to bring a contemporary Chinese art exhibition of photography and video art focusing on stunt performance; that exhibit is tentatively planned for the summer. “I pretty much imagine myself as a big chef trying to use limited ingredients to present the best cuisines to my visitors and mixing different tastes,” he says.

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When he was 18, he spent all the money his parents gave him for the New Year’s holiday on what he was told was a Han Dynasty bronze mural. The softball-sized circular plate sits on a bookshelf in his new office at The Ringling. “I got my lesson from this interesting piece,” he says with a chuckle. “I learned there are lots of fakes and reproductions in the art market.” His wasn’t real, after all. The

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The Ringling just broke ground for its new Center for Asian Art, thus begins a yearlong transition period until the early 2015 completion date. Fan Zhang, the Wall-Apelt curator of Asian art, is also in transition. The new wing and his position will be named in honor of Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt, the collector and philanthropist. The 36-year-old (or in his third horse year according to the Chinese zodiac, he says) moved here the last week of August, and, as of mid-January, he almost feels settled. He’s in the market for a new home for his wife and two children, who will move to the area from Northampton, Mass. Zhang was the Freeman/McPherson post-doctoral curatorial fellow in Asian art at Smith College the past three years. One surprise in his new city was the Canadian license plates, and that people would drive all the way to the Gulf Coast of Florida for a visit. But Zhang understands after learning about the local arts here and seeing the beach for himself. There is no beach in Wuhan, China, where he grew up. It’s a modern city in the middle of the mainland, and, because it’s a transportation hub, people refer to it as the “Chicago of the East.” This was his first attraction to ancient Asian artifacts. Somewhere locked in the back of a closet of his old home in Wuhan is his childhood coin collection. He thinks it’s this collection of old coins that turned him on to other artifacts his ancestors made, such as bronze vessels, ceramics and painted landscapes.

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Pine View Drama Club takes flight in ‘Peter Pan and Wendy’ Bailey Macejak walks across the stage at Pine View School, occasionally glancing at the green script in her hand. As the voice of Tinkerbell, Director Hannah Andrasi, a senior, plays chimes as the response to Macejak’s lines. Occasionally Andrasi asks her cast of peers to quiet down in the audience — she doesn’t want to have to ask them again. The students are dressed comfortably, like they’re exhausted from the long tech rehearsals that take place the week before the production opens. But they’re also having fun with each other, smiling, playing games on their iPhones and listening to music. The 25 students in the Pine View Drama Club have been preparing for “Peter Pan and Wendy” since September. They typically meet weekly after school, but as of Jan. 6 they’ve been rehearsing every day for opening night. They spent all day in a technical rehearsal Jan. 11. The production is student-led and directed, aside from a flying expert, John Moore, in from Hall Flying FX in Chicago who came to work with students and parents on how to safely suspend actors in the air. Parent volunteers came to help build sets and help backstage during the production. It’ll take flight Jan. 17.

Director of the production Hannah Andrasi, senior, and Assistant Director Lillian Castle give the actors a few notes.

Bailey Macejak and Gretchen Beaumier fly in the final scene.

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Artist Pat Kaufman exhibits her colorful career Plymouth Harbor became a little more colorful Jan. 6 with the opening reception of “Crossing Borders.” The exhibit features the bold and colorful portraits and collages spanning Sarasota-based author and artist Pat Kaufman’s career. Some of the pieces come from “Collages 2014,” the author’s most recent book. There are also some portraits she painted in the ’80s in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She used to spend several months there every summer. Her work will be on display through Feb. 4 at Plymouth Harbor, 700 John Ringling Blvd.

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the siren we never see. Hearing her act goes way beyond physicality. But, it’s Phoenix who nestles firmly under your skin as the melancholy, kindhearted Theodore who wants nothing more than to be in love. This guy is an impeccable actor. “Her” never resorts to coming off as gimmicky or flashy. The artwork, cinematography and score perfectly complement the storyline. But for some, the profound subject matter may be disturbing. If it’s totally acceptable to be in love with a non-human, one could ask ... will we cease to exist? — Pam Nadon

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Director Spike Jonze’s new film, “Her,” is sweetly creepy. Known for his quirky approach to filmmaking (“Adaptation” and “Being John Malkovich”), Jonze doesn’t disappoint in this cleverly concocted visionary love story. Set in the not-too-distant future, Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore Twombly, a personal letter writer for total strangers. He’s quite good at his job. In the sad throes of divorce, he purchases a computer operating system (aka OS). Her name is Samantha (the mesmerizing voice of Scarlett Johansson), and her delivery is so audibly fetching that Theodore falls madly in love with her. And the feeling is mutual. It should seem freaky, but somehow we accept it as readily as Theodore does. When the relationship intensifies, Samantha longs for human form and, at one point, she provides it via a sex surrogate. Bad idea. Theodore’s chemistry with Samantha is so pure that the notion of physically being with anyone else would be tantamount to acting sacrilegiously. Samantha’s thirst for knowledge leads her to hook up with another OS and, eventually, she breaks Theodore’s heart. In this society of instant gratification and runaway technology, Jonze seamlessly makes the leap in our accepting his concept. Face it — it’s no big deal to see people talking to non-physical entities with gadgets protruding from their ears already. His motive seems quite matter of fact, rather than a warning of what’s to come. “Her” is an ode to love and how we long to connect. He’s assembled a gifted group of professionals who lend unadulterated credibility to a somewhat wacky premise. Amy Adams brilliantly makes the transition from sultry vixen in “American Hustle” to plain Jane as Theodore’s confidant in “Her.” And, speaking of sultry, Johansson is off the charts as

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// ‘The Whipping Man’ The Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe’s current production of Matthew Lopez’s “The Whipping Man” takes audiences to a Passover like no other. Why is this Passover different from all other Passovers? In nearly every way imaginable. It takes place in April 1865, right after the Civil War, in a looted, half-burned plantation outside Richmond, Va. Caleb, a wounded Jewish Confederate soldier (Drew Foster), returns to reunite with two of his former slaves, Simon (Taurean Blacque) and John (Robert Douglas). For reasons we later discover, Caleb doesn’t want to go to a military hospital. As a result, the ex-slaves amputate his gangrenous leg in a gripping, unforgettable scene. Caleb survives. Passover rolls around. Simon insists that everyone participate — the former slaves included, who are both converts to Judaism. Ironically, ex-slaves and an ex-slave owner will now commemorate the freeing of the slaves — both the Exodus in the Bible and the Emancipation in the reunited United States. The ceremony goes on, with stolen wine and hardtack and collard greens standing in for matzo and bitter herbs. That may sound like a feel-good moment. But the bitter past catches up with the present. (For details, you’ll need to see the play.) Without offering spoilers, I can say that the journey to freedom always takes a miracle, and miracles don’t always come. Either way, it’s never easy. Lopez doesn’t sugarcoat the pain. The playwright’s structure is inventive and daring. In some ways, it’s a bottle story with all the action confined to one claustrophobic space. In another sense, it’s a memory play. Caleb, Simon and John have little else to do but tell stories — which Passover is, among other things. On top of that, there’s a ticking time bomb of secrets and bad karma. The plantation’s island of safety is only temporary. It all adds up to double dose of suspense and heartbreak. Freedom may or may not be waiting down the road. For now, there’s a day of reckoning and pain. Lopez’s play is an emotional wringer. Director

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“The Whipping Man” runs through Feb. 2, at Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, 1646 10th Way, Sarasota. Call 366-1505 or visit wbttroupe.org for more information. Howard Millman never hesitates when it’s time to put audiences through it. He makes you feel every drop of emotion. But it’s honest emotion, unfolding from the hearts and minds of believable characters. Under his direction, nothing ever feels like an effect. Instead, he makes you feel like you’re there, in a specific place and time. The aftermath of the Civil War isn’t safely tucked away in a history book. It feels like it’s happening now. Blacque’s performance as Simon has a true gravitas; he’s particularly moving interspersing “Let My People Go” with the Haggadah. Moral authority and the reality principle are both on Simon’s side. His character rarely raises his voice; he knows he doesn’t have to. Douglas’ John is a rebel in a world he never made — a world, until recently, populated by so-called Rebels fighting for the right to keep other people in chains. Foster’s Caleb is a good Jew in a bad world. Passover puts his moral contradictions and evasions in his face. Whatever liberation Caleb may experience, you know he’s already left parts of himself behind. Lopez’s “The Whipping Man” has the same moral authority as Athol Fugard’s work challenging the abuses of Apartheid in South Africa. Like Fugard, Lopez confronts us with a simple, unsentimental truth: Whips leave scars. Closing your eyes doesn’t make them go away. This West Coast Black Theatre Troupe production asks us to keep our eyes open and see the damage done. Seeing the reality of human bondage always hurts. But the journey to freedom always starts there. — Marty Fugate

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The Sarasota Orchestra, under the direction of returning guest conductor Carl St. Clair, played a positively heroic program heroically this weekend that sent us careening from the Van Wezel, pulses beating, hearts throbbing and tears streaming down our faces. If that reaction sounds over the top, it’s because I’m writing this only an hour after returning home and my senses are still thrumming. The evening began gently enough with two of Satie’s dreamy, languorous “Gymnopedie.” Debussy put his colorful orchestral stamp on these pieces, which were originally meant for piano, and the orchestra, with St. Clair, gave them a lovely, languid reading that smoothed the way for French music of a different sort, Saint-Saens’ Piano Concerto No. 2. Far from the sleepy sound of Satie, this is a powerful, passionate piece that, in the electrifying hands of Van Cliburn gold medalist Jon Nakamatsu, took flight and never came down to earth. From the driving, preludium-type opening in the piano to the cyclonic presto of the finale, this was a performance of a lifetime: driven, persuasive, musical, jocular, insightful and stunning. St. Clair was a compassionate, sensitive accompanist, who led the Sarasota Orchestra so no voice ever overpowered another, yet the important lines shone through, while the piano was able to form a partnership with the other instruments, like the best of chamber musicians. The lilting second movement, which reminds me so much of the scherzo by Henry Litolff I have trouble telling

them apart, is a dancing romp with a good-humored wink and lots of surprising rhythmic and harmonic changeups. Nakamatsu and St. Clair gave it just the right wit and sparkle to lead into a presto that burned up the keyboard. Nakamatsu is a skilled technician whose impassioned temperament comes through his fingers without any superfluous mannerisms. The music is honored, first and foremost. But, wow, can he play. He was so persuasive in the concerto, the audience cheered for more, and he responded with a fearless and stunning performance of Schubert’s Impromptu in E-flat. Some have said Richard Strauss wrote his tone poem, “Ein Heldenleben” (“A Hero’s Life”) in honor of himself. If that’s true, he must have been positively elated by the Sarasota Orchestra’s performance Friday night. Leading his forces without a score, St. Clair gave one of the most gripping, stimulating readings of this work I’ve heard. “Heldenleben” is an organic work with an explosive climax. The score is so dense it’s dangerously close to being impenetrable if the conductor doesn’t take care to clarify its voices, but St. Clair managed to cut through its complexities and turn this jampacked piece into a radiantly transparent work that glowed from the inside out. Concertmaster Daniel Jordan’s solos were played with a sweet, stylistically perfect Straussian tone. The winds sounded as if they’d just stepped out of “Rosenkavalier,” and the brass players — onstage and off — were brilliant. Horn player Joseph Assi’s fluid, sensational phrasing was breathtaking. The orchestra, as an ensemble, had an elasticity of tone that enlightened the music and made this a simply extraordinary evening.

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Casey Key home brings some ‘green’ to the Gulf

Dr. Sid and Anita Holec’s beachfront home sits on 165 feet of the Gulf of Mexico.

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of the construction and the construction material selected. Most of the home’s green aspects are not readily apparent — besides, perhaps, the solar panels on the roof. Holec’s vision for the interior design of the home was achieved using the same green standards and efficiency aspects of the home’s design. Designer Robert Neil created the interior design of the home, which Holec describes as a “subtle, clean feel.” The home’s green theme is carried out in various ways — dual-flushing toilets, engineered white oak floors, sustainable countertops and a detached garage, to name a few. By having a detached garage, the Holecs earned three points toward LEED Platinum certification, under the garage pollutant category for materials and resources. To receive LEED certification, homes must obtain a certain

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The living room perfectly illustrates the “clean and subtle” feel Anita Holec wanted for her home — the design was created using refined craftsmanship and healthy materials.

The design of the dining room was achieved using sustainable features to minimize the carbon footprint of the home.  Having a detached garaged earned the Holecs three points toward LEED Platinum Certification — under the Garage Pollutant Protection category for Materials and Resources.

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RADIANT REDESIGN In only five days, 2145 Alameda Ave. had already begun to transform, as 23 of Sarasota’s finest interior designers put together the final touches of this year’s designer showhouse. The home, which sits on Sarasota Bay in the Indian Beach neighborhood, is the only home featured for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota County’s 19th annual Jewels on the Bay Designer Showhouse event. The beautiful, secluded property sits on an acre and a half of

land, surrounded by lush trees and plants — designers call it a “magical paradise on the bay.” The home, which is 10,000 square feet, has 23 spaces (including the outside grounds) that are being redesigned for the public exhibition. The home will be open to the public daily starting Sunday, Jan. 19, and ending Sunday, Feb. 16. A preview party and exclusive tour, chaired by designers Jeff and Joyce Hart, will be held Saturday, Jan. 18.

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Jill E. Martini designed the half-bath off the media room, which included burlap curtains and walls painted by Martini.

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As owners of Casa Italia, Raj and Nita Mathur may focus on Italian, but once a month they school others on the flavors of home.

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Nita Mathur prepares Nita’s coconut burfi, combining coconut, sweetened condensed milk and fresh ricotta cheese.

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// FOOD&COOKING It’s this aspect, the comfort and warmth, that keeps a lot of people coming back to the monthly Friday night Indian and Italian cooking classes. In past, they’ve had as many as 22 people attend classes, but tonight a bigger group’s last-minute cancelation leaves only a fortunate three students. They’ll get to take home a lot of leftovers. “Are you hungry?” Nita asks. “Is the Pope catholic?” Raj chimes in. Today in the Indian cooking class, they’re making saag murg (chicken in a spicy spinach sauce), basmati rice pulao with mixed vegetables (a long-grain rice dish), cucumber raita (a yogurt salad) and Nita’s coconut burfi (a milk-and-coconut-based fudge). Raj Mathur pours a glass of wine and begins explaining what many people find curious — Casa Italia’s emphasis on both Indian and Italian. Both Raj and Nita Mathur grew up in India and then spent a few decades in London before moving to the United States. Casa Italia was founded in 1984 by Giuseppe and Nanette Galloni, who operated it for the 18 years. The Mathurs bought the business and have been operating it for the past 11. The former owners started hosting classes two decades ago. Raj and Nita Mathur weren’t expecting to host Indian classes or carry Indian goods, until their visitors requested it. These days, Nita Mathur leads the Indian classes and Frank Silvestro leads the Italian classes. The next guests to arrive at the cooking class are Longboat Key residents Ann and Fred Marsh. They are regular visitors to Casa Italia, and this is the fourth cook-

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Raj Mathur pours wine for Ann and Fred Marsh while Nita Mathur dehusks cardamon spice.

ing class they’ve taken. Raj immediately pours them glasses of wine and catches up with the duo. The Marshes are pleased to learn it’ll just be a few students, because usually the classes are pretty full. It’s impressive considering the popularity has come solely from word of mouth. Some people discover the classes while they’re looking for a hard-to-find ingredient the restaurant’s market carries. Others come seeking some of the best meats and cheese in town. That’s how the Marshes discovered Casa Italia — a friend from New York City recommended it for the Italian products. The Marshes are what Ann Marsh calls “Italophiles,” huge fans of the red, white and green. “It’s as good as what we’ve found in Italy,” says Ann Marsh. The regulars came in one evening and learned about the Indian Food Friday, when Nita prepares a catered Indian meal for pick up.

“We thought it was just about the best we’d ever had,” she says. But the quality of the classes and food prep isn’t the only thing that keep the Marshes coming back. It’s the stories Raj and Nita Mathur share about their family, their culture and their heritage along with the organized and insightful way they teach. Nita begins preparing papadum bread, a crisp seasoned dough cooked over the gas burner in the kitchen. She says it’s a running joke in her heritage that families test a new bride to see if she can crisp papadum bread without burning it. The class wants to know, did Nita Marthur burn the bread when she was a new bride? How did Raj and Nita meet in the first place? Nita Marthur grew up in the town of Ajmer, India, until she was 21. Raj had grown up in New Delhi, until he was 13 years old, and then he moved to London, where he lived for 38 years.

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In 1978, he was visiting his aunt, who lived across the street from Nita Rai. Raj and Nita met each other in passing when they were with their families, and Nita’s mother, Rajeshwari Rai, told her daughter she thought he was a nice young man. Nita agreed. The two met, and instantly clicked. Nita Mathur did not burn the papadum bread. “She passed with flying colors,” Raj Mathur says. Back in the class at Casa Italia, the chatting subsides as the demonstration takes over. Nita discusses the spices as she uses them, passing them around for the students to smell. She explains what to look for when picking out the produce, and gives tips on how to make dishes easier and more convenient for busy chefs (like using frozen chopped spinach or mixed vegetables and prepared yogurt). For the most part, Nita Mathur does the cooking and demon-

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JANUARY 16 TO 19 ‘The Uninvited’ SCF Studio 84 Productions 2 p.m. at David S. & Anne V. Howard Studio Theatre Tickets $12. Call 752-5252. Ringling by the Bay: Koko Ray & the Soul Providers 5 p.m. at Bayfront Gardens Tickets $10. Call 359-5700. Conversation with the Curator: Exploring the Contemporary 7 p.m. at Historic Asolo Theater Tickets $10. Call 359-5700. ‘People of the Book’ featuring Robert Edsel The Jewish Federation of SarasotaManatee. 7 p.m. at Riverview High School. Call 552-6301. Great Escapes Series: ‘American Tapestry’ Sarasota Orchestra 7:30 p.m. at Holley Hall Tickets $29 to $49. Call 953-3434. ‘Rock of Ages’ 8 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Tickets $35 to $75. Call 953-3368. SCF Student Showcase Concert 8 p.m. at Neel Performing Arts Center. Tickets $10. Call 752-5252. Thursday Nights Live New Orleans Jazz 8 p.m. at The Longboat Key Education Center

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Jazz at Two: Eddie Tobin, piano/ vocals The Jazz Club of Sarasota 2 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota Tickets $7 to $12. Call 366-1552. Bay Street Brassworks Master Class State College of Florida, ManateeSarasota 5 p.m. at Neel Performing Arts Center. Free. Call 752-5252. Great Escapes Series: ‘American Tapestry’ Sarasota Orchestra 5:30 p.m. at Holley Hall Tickets $29 to $49. Call 953-3434. Rosie O’Donnell 7 and 9:15 p.m. at McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre Tickets $44 to $51. Call 925-3869. ABBA the Concert 8 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Tickets $40 to $60. Call 953-3368. Bay Street Brassworks Brass Quintet Concert 8 p.m. at Neel Performing Arts Center Tickets $5 to $10. Call 752-5252. ‘Pageant’ 8 p.m. at The Players Theatre Runs through Feb. 21. Tickets $10. Call 365-2494.

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‘Extreme Vegas’ runs through Jan. 19, at The Big Top. Call 3559335. FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training’s ‘Loot’ runs through Jan. 19, at FSU/Asolo Repertory Theatre. Call 351-8000. ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ runs through Jan. 26, at Manatee Performing Arts Center. Call 7491111. ‘Superior Donuts’ runs through

‘The Whipping Man’ runs through Feb. 2, at Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe Theatre. Call 366-1505. Sarasota Museum of Art/SMOA ‘ARTmuse Program: Lisa Hoke’ runs through Feb. 4, at Historic Sarasota High School. Call 3097662. ‘The Prima Donettes’ runs through Feb. 7, at Florida Studio Theatre. Call 366-9000.

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To celebrate Asolo Repertory Theatre’s production of “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” guests gathered at the private residence of Kevin Schoeler and Philip van der Voet for the third Starry Night Dinner Saturday, Jan 12. The show runs Jan. 24 through April 13, with a preview Jan. 22. The gorgeous home of Schoeler and van der Voet was decorated to highlight the comedic show — bright, happy colors adorned the tables on the patio and apples were added to the table settings as a representation of the characters dressing as characters of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

during the show. Specialty drinks representing the lead characters were offered to guests: “The Vanya,” a dirty martini, “The Sonia,” a scotch on the rocks, “The Masha,” a passion fruit martini and “The Spike,” a blow pop martini. Guests also had the chance to mingle with Director Peter Amster and a few of the artists from the show. Tyla Abercrumbie (Cassandra), Anne-Marie Cusson (Masha) and Tori Grace Hiens (Nina) were all in attendance. Amster and the artists participated in a panel discussion and offered an exclusive performance of the show.

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Ilene Friedman, Bea Friedman and Dr. Harvey Friedman

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MAGICAL MUSICAL MEMORIAL

arasota’s “Queen Bee,” Bea Friedman, endowed the Allan Friedman Piano Concert for three reasons: to honor the memory of her late husband, a passionate lover of the piano; to raise the bar for the orchestra by having it perform with world-class artists; and to give her family a reason to gather here. The 2014 edition (read June LeBell’s report on page 11), which Carl St. Clair conducted, featured a dazzling performance of the Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2 by Jon Nakamatsu, and it accomplished all three goals. Part of the tradition is an afterconcert reception for the guest artists, Friedman’s orchestra family, her relatives and friends and major supporters. Family present included

daughter and son-in-law Ilene Friedman and Greg Gregory of Sarasota; son Dr. Harvey Friedman from Columbus, Ohio; and sisterin-law Evelyn Friedman from Hillsdale, N.Y. Sarasota Orchestra CEO Joe McKenna shared how Friedman endowed the concert “several decades ago.” Messrs. St. Clair and Nakamatsu saluted Friedman, and Concertmaster Daniel Jordon took the opportunity to catch his breath after his amazing solos in Richard Strauss’ “Ein Heldenleben.” Reception guests also included Friedman’s longtime friends and fellow orchestra supporters Pat and Don Hase and Fred and Annette Nagel, orchestra board President Anne Folsom Smith and Sydney and Jerome Goldstein.

The evening after … Janet and John Hunter and their poodle, Behta, hosted their annual Boxing Day dinner at their home. Janet and daughter Nancy Wagy do most of the cooking of a traditional British feast that includes Brussels sprouts, creamed onions and rutabaga — veggies that Janet says, “Our guests would never eat anyplace else.” The traditional potluck component included Sally Faron’s mincemeat tartlets and Myrna Band’s millionaire’s pie. The handsome Drew Morris, who works with Janet on most of her benefit management projects, annually writes and performs a parody lyric to a holiday tune. This year he tackled “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and managed to include the names of many of the guests. Sing, “Gloria, Sally, Carol and Dolly; Jennifer, Marian, Betty and Molly; Tana, Marlene, Mike and Alfie … ” Congrats … Best wishes to Tom Morlock and Tanya Boyd who were married in an intimate ceremony Dec. 28, at the home of Tanya’s sister, Pamela Hill … How’s your doppelganger? That’s German for alter ego or “second self,” a character that plays a major role in “Philadelphia Here I Come!” The Brian Friel drama opened Jan. 10, at the Asolo Rep. One of the perks of being an Asolo co-producer is an invitation to openingnight dinners during which Producing Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards and the show’s director, in this case the infinitely lovable Frank Galati, share such insights. Their comments invariably add to one’s enjoyment of the performance. Beneficiaries at this

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A headdress dangling mistletoe welcomed guests to Janet and John Hunter’s boxing day party. dinner included Teri Hansen and Steve Wilberding, Flora Major, Ellen Berman, Ed and Mary Lou Winnick, Ruth Kreindler and Ed Schaye, Bettina VonWalhof, Sandra and Rick Gomez, and Howard and Diana Armbrust … The calendar calls … BT is collecting events for the 2014 Black Tie social calendar — if we don’t know about it, we can’t cover it! Email the following information to stephanie@yourobserver.com: name of your event; group hosting; group benefiting; time, date and place; ticket price; chairperson; contact name; phone number and email; website and event description.

THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY GALA Benefiting: The Circus Arts Conservatory When: 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24 Where: The Big Top Price: $195 BLACK Call: 355-9335 TIE

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More than 120 board members and sponsors gathered at the home of David and Edie Chaifetz Tuesday, Jan. 7, for America Jewish Committee’s open house to celebrate the success of 2013 and to welcome in the new year. The setting was stunning — guests, including Rebecca and Rich Bergman, Gail and Skip Sack and Bunny Skirboll, enjoyed hors d’oeuvres and cocktails while watching the sunset over Sarasota Bay. See page 24 for more photos. “We had planned to have everyone out on the patio, but no one would go outside,” said host Edie Chaifetz. “They all said it was too cold.” AJC West Coast Florida Regional President Anne Virag announced, “2013 was the most successful year AJC has had so far.” The organization raised more than $900,000 last year. Virag also announced the AJC 2014 Spring Award Dinner will take place Monday, March 17. The event chairs are Matt and Lisa Walsh, Larry and Debbie Haspel and Honorary Chairwoman Bea Friedman (all past AJC award recipients). AJC’s West Coast Florida Region will honor two individuals with awards this year — nationwide AJC Executive Director David Harris will receive the Human Relations Award, and Gerri Aaron will receive the Legacy of Leadership Award, which has only been awarded four times in the history of AJC.

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Don’t Miss the Party of the year! 2014 Circus arts Gala Voted “Best Gala” and “Most Fun Gala” in town friday, January 24th Under the Big top

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or Sarasotans, it’s not often that we experience temperatures that truly require a change in our normal, everyday fashions. But for days like Tuesday, Jan. 7, where the day’s high barely reached 50 degrees, a dress or jeans with a chiffon top just won’t cut it. Black Tie’s Heather Merriman bundled up, braved the cold and headed out to St. Armands Circle to find the scoop on the trendiest winter fashions and tips on the best ways to dress for winter weather.

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 Margie Barancik, who stopped into The Met, dressed fashionably for a cold winter day — a vest and scarf, in Pantone’s predicted color of the year: radiant orchid.

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“LESSONS LEARNED FROM ROCK-N-ROLL” Today many dream of being a rock star, but in reality very few are. What is it that separates one from the rest? Why do we aspire to be a star? In a carreer spanning over thirty years, Tony Michaelides worked with some fo the world’s biggest selling artists: U2, The Police, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Whitney Houston, N Sync, etc. It gave him a rare insight and a behind-the-scenes look at how real rock stars are created. He will share some of these stories together with iconic photos and rare video.

ayering — the one word The Met’s Evan Reynolds used to explain how to handle cold weather in Sarasota. Layering pieces are a must for any woman’s wardrobe — you can wear these pieces in any type of weather, and layer them up on days when necessary. “Jackets, like this one by Marchesa Voyage (left), are great for adding layers for warmth, and easy to take off and throw over your chair if you get hot indoors,” says Reynolds. A must-have for this season, and a necessary staple in anyone’s wardrobe, is the asymmetrical moto jacket. “If you don’t have one, you have to have to one,” says Reynolds. The fashion experts at The Met also suggest chunky knits (their favorite are Missoni’s), cardigans (you can never have enough) and cashmere wraps for layering up on chilly days. The one item both Evan Reynolds and Jill Linehan suggests every wardrobe have: a great black turtleneck. “You can add a vest, add a scarf, add a cardigan — it’s such a buildable item,” says Linehan.

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 Dressing for the cold: “Anything cashmere,” says Jill Linehan.

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he chilly day brought a lot of people out to St. Armands’ most popular stores in attempts to find fashionable items to shield them from the cold — “We had this great Current/Elliott coated denim jacket. We had three and we sold all of them today,” Coowner of INfluence Sam Beebe says. “When people come in for cold-weather items, we send them over to the Vince cashmere sweaters,” says Beebe. “It’s easy — put one under a moto jacket, it’s a quick throw on,” she says as she quickly and effortlessly puts together a great look, appropriate for coldweather days.

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 “This Anatomie bubble vest is a great addition to any outfit,” says Jill Linehan.

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 This Vince cashmere sweater paired with a jacket is a quick way to add some warmth to your everyday fashion.

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GROOM’S FATHER AND STEP-MOTHER:

BRIDE’S PARENTS:

Robert & Benita Piper

Ward & Anita Brass

HOW THE COUPLE MET:

After being seated next to each other at a friend’s birthday party in May 2010, Sarasota residents Kathryn Lee Brass and Todd Anthony Piper learned they had much in common. The couple’s first date followed in March 2011.

THE PROPOSAL:

After a year and half of dating, the couple got engaged on Oct. 1, 2012. Todd took Kathryn to Lido beach for a sunset walk, which had become their routine in the evenings, so she thought nothing of it. Once they reached their destination, Todd got down on one knee to propose. The couple was married Nov. 16, at King Family Farm. The couple loved the farm’s Farm to Table dinners and wanted that feel for their wedding. They selected an area close to the river on the backside of the property, under a canopy of trees, for the ceremony. The cocktail hour took place under a

THE HONEYMOON:

Following their big day, the couple left for Belize and spent eight days traveling the jungles, caves and barrier islands. The first four days were spent at Ian Anderson’s Caves Branch, where they had fantastic adventures climbing inside and tubing through caves. The last four days were spent snorkeling and enjoying lobster in Caye Caulker.

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Kathryn and Todd made jars of local raw honey from King Farm to give away as gifts to more than 100 guests. They also potted all the succulents for the centerpieces and used wild flowers on the tables. Dried lavender was used as the toss at the end of the night.

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RITZ BEACH RESIDENCES, 1106. Spectacular 11th-floor condominium in The Beach Residences nestled along Sarasota’s famous Lido Key. A short distance to St. Armands Circle. Offered at $2,695,000

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