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The Landings’ own Mike Davies inducted into Landings Investment the International Tennis Hall of Fame! in Infrastructure Pays Off The following is his acceptance speech: I turned professional with Jack Where is the locker room? He Kramer in 1960 at the age of 24. looked around, went to his bag, I was immediately banned from dug into it and produced a six- all the Grand Slams and Davis inch nail which he proceeded to Cup. A few months later Tony drive into the wall with his shoe. Trabert and I were scheduled to There’s your locker room, rookie, play a series of one-night matches bring your own nail next time and in France and North Africa. At get used to it. the first city in France, we were Anyone who has had the told to follow the hallway where privilege of playing with or we could change. We found the against Tony Trabert or has room to change in, but there worked or even just known was absolutely nothing in it, no him has been touched by his hooks, no benches, no lockers. professionalism and humanity. Now, remember, it was only I certainly was and I’m proud to a few months earlier that Gus, be able to call him my friend and Another debris clearing issue, ably cleared by neighbor Andrejs Jurjans. the locker room attendant at mentor. Thank you. Wimbledon, had been asking In 1968, the year of open tennis, The monsoon like storms of late June tested problem to the LMA board. me whether I would be taking I was 32 and was asked to join the recent investment in drainage improvements Two additional areas appeared to be drainage a shower or should he draw me WCT, World Championship made in The Landings. The work proved to be issues. However, drainage was not the problem at a bath. Tennis. worthwhile. The clearing of the swale (some call it a either the large road pool on Pine Harrier Circle west So I turned to Tony and said, Continued on page 25 creek) running under Cedar Bay Lane and along the of Pine Harrier Drive not the over flowing swale west edge of the Treehouses carries a lot of storm at Kestral Park Way South and Landings Blvd. In water to the Bay. The swale paralleling Landings both cases it was a simple matter of clearing storm Blvd. on the curve between Heron Way and Pintail debris from the drainage grates. Those problems Way connects to that drainage. Though the rains got solved quickly. The role of Landings jack-of-all- overwhelmed, the area cleared quickly. Combined trades & crisis, Malcolm Van Dyke (Van) throughout with the recent work near the island at Pintail Way the storm deserves collective thanks. and Landings Blvd., frequently a traffic slowing/ We also lost several tree branches and the entire stopping pool, remained clear. tree at the North Gate - the one with the gorgeous Throughout The Landings other areas recently yellow blossoms. According to Sue Whitman it improved remained clear. is technically Yellow Tabebuia,Yellow Tab, but is There were some problems, however. The cul- known to have low wind tolerance and fall easily de-sac at Kestral Park Place flooded quite badly, when ground is saturated with water and wind though it did clear in a few hours. Jack Jost, Chair gusts hit it. Point Proven! Replacement plans are of the Drainage Committee, tells The Eagle he will under consideration. be proposing drainage alteration to alleviate that Continued on page 24 2 | The Landings Eagle Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • 941.539.0205 • www.landingseagle.com LMA June Meeting A number of relatively routine items were handled at the June The Landings Management Wall to be pressure washed Association meeting. The aesthetics committee indicated work has been completed on spreading crushed shells at the entry and first portion of the nature trail. There is some indication however more shell fill will be necessary to raise the elevation and prevent pooling of water in several areas. It was also pointed out the dumping by property owners of any kind of natural or man-made debris along the nature trail is forbidden. Estimates were sought for the repair and cleaning Your Next Eagle of a section of The Landings perimeter wall near the North gate and for cleaning of the perimeter Your next issue will arrive approximately October 1 wall near the East side of Philippi Shores Park and a portion of that wall near Landings South five. Refreshed surfaces on The Nature Trail A report on the progress of the website indicated the public rollout will be sometime in October or November, with progress reports to the board in the plants were installed around the outflow bulkhead Something meantime. The actual vendor for putting together area to hide the roots of the pepper trees that were the site has not been established. Original estimates removed last year. LRC and Lakeview condos Worth Sharing from multiple vendors ranged from $4000-$29,000. weren’t charged for this because the plants installed The committee has now narrowed that down to last year hadn’t done well-lack of rain. selecting among the two lowest bidders. We’re proud of the news coverage we’ve received, and we ●Lake 1, North Lake - although the control box Concerns were expressed about the time of day hope to build upon these accomplishments. We know that was replaced on the west fountain, there remains Wednesday garbage, recycling and yard waste our success is your success. Thank you. difficulty with the lights. Hopefully this will be are being picked up. The board will try to work repaired by publication. A Lake 3, Carriagehouse SmartMoney June 2012 with Waste Management to attempt to establish Lake-the light fixture, filter basket and motor cable Edward Jones was named the No. 1 full-service brokerage firm in specific, consistent times. There are two concerns. were replaced. the June 2012 edition of SmartMoney magazine. The magazine First, it seems product is picked up relatively early ● All lakes were treated for algae and most for lauded the firm for its reputation for excellent client service. The in the morning, another later in the morning or perimeter grasses on May 20. An inspection as firm consistently has been ranked highly in the SmartMoney afternoon and the third late afternoon. Secondly, of yesterday indicated all lakes look good - an survey as No. 1 in 2005, 2007 and 2010, and No. 2 in 2008, the inconsistency of times provides Landins with no accomplishment for this time of year with the lack 2009 and 2011. predictable time to have their materials at curbside. of rain, until recently that is. Minor road repairs have been suggested for early ● The chair also mentioned, with a smile, it has J.D. Power and Associates May 2012 Edward Jones in 2013. A complete report, along with the specific been reported we have our version of the Loch Ness ranked “Highest in Investor Satisfaction with Full areas for repair and to the request that Landins but monster in Lake 6. Appearing only occasionally Service Brokerage Firms”according to the J.D. their Association presidents, or the chair of the roads it looks remarkably like 6 foot or so broken pipe. Power and Associates 2012 Full Service Investor committee no other necessary repairs, can be found Since swimming isn’t permitted in the lakes, it Satisfaction StudySM.1 on page 12. should present no danger to human life until it can It was reported the approval of traffic lane and be captured. 1 Edward Jones received the highest numerical score among full service brokerage firms in signal at modifications long discussed for Kestrel The board indicated it had requested, and not yet the proprietary J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Full Service Investor Satisfaction StudySM. Parkway North/Tamiami Trail/Proctor road is received, plans for weather and other emergencies Study based on responses from 4,401 investors measuring 16 investment firms and measures opinions of investors who used full-service investment institutions. Proprietary near completion at the County. It will then have from Allegiance Security. study results are based on experiences and perceptions of consumers surveyed in to be further studied and approved by this Florida The LMA has changed banks. It now banks with February 2012. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com. Department of Transportation. It is estimated, if Florida Shores West bank. The LMA will also be there are no glitches in the process, completion establishing a credit card with a $10,000 maximum Michael Johnson could come sometime in September. limit to be held by Allied property management’s, Financial Advisor Drainage work is completed on the drainage George Niel. It will be used only in the case of . The Landings Shopping Center creek running from Heron Way along Landings emergencies or those situations where cash a check 4800 S Tamiami Trail Boulevard and between the Treehouses and the or billing is not acceptable. For example, in dealing Sarasota, FL 34231 Cloisters. The cleaning out the swale behind the with online services such as the LMA’s eventual 941-923-9080 Treehouses improved flow to the Bay. There is still Internet service provider. Its use will be carefully some work to be done on the creek along Pintail monitored. There had been such a card in the past Way. but it had been dropped along the way. The Lakes Committee detail the following work The President established the committee to www.edwardjones.com Member SIPC in landings lakes: examine the transition of The Landings Eagle. ● Lake 9, Mayne Lake-dead vegetation was removed Those committee members have been changed and from the littoral area and 25 Cana plants were are now President Rhodes, Pam Truitt, Jack Yost, installed on the littoral shelf to provide ground Barbara Pendrell, Dan Rodman and Larry Lawrence cover. At Lake 6, Bayview Lake - 100 pickerel who will chair. August - September 2012 | 3 www.landingseagle.com • 941.539.0205 • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • Little Blue Lights Appearing Have you wondered, or even noticed, the small enforce red light violations, the danger to everyone blue light appearing beneath traffic lights at some on the road is therefore reduced.” Sarasota County intersections? If you’ve driven in The Sheriff’s office noted Sarasota County is or near Orlando or Naples over the past year you’ve not using automated photo cameras to catch red seen them before. light running. However they are being used within Look carefully and you’ll note they are blue when Sarasota City. the traffic signal is red in the direction of travel. In short there are several new tools around to They are off when it is green. They have actually catch you going through a red light. How to deal been deployed for some time on key state highways with them: don’t run the red light! where running red lights is a problem. The state recently supplied the new blue more highly visible lamps replacing previously white lamps. Their purpose is to make law enforcement easier by permitting traffic officers to spot red light runners from no matter where they may be driving or parked near the intersection. Sarasota Sheriff’s office feels “This technology certainly enhances safety of all motorists. Law enforcement now has the ability to spot red light runners from more than one vantage point, which was previously limited to the same direction of travel as the motorist. By improving the opportunity to

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By Irwin Starr If you’d like to participate in the Commentary Eagle editorial committee, or filling the |This Issue Calls For a Series of Welcomes... We welcome the new look and format for The This brings me to the most important issue editor role in the future, please contact Landings Eagle, the primary addition being color. affecting the future of The Landings Eagle. The Irwin Starr at [email protected] Because of the size of our print run we’ve been Steins are committed to this being a truly “local” unable to bring color except on very rare and publication. As newspapers decline in circulation or 925-8559. expensive occasions, such as when the Eagles and revenues nationwide the new emphasis is rejoined us several years ago. on hyper-localism, The Eagle’s strategy all along. We welcome our new partners, Bob and Local content will depend more on you as I begin Emy Stein. They bring a wealth of experience to pull-back. in newspaper publishing, management and We are forming an editorial committee. It will © specifically community newspapers like The Eagle. initially report to me, but eventually to another Bob has been general manager of Seabreeze Landin to be the Landings editor. We welcome your communications for two years, publisher of 47 interest in serving on that committee, perhaps as community papers in Florida. He’s been in the potential editor. Please contact me. (See box) newspaper/magazine business since 1981, where We’re also interested in expanding the types of he developed and sold, to Thomson Newspapers, features in the paper. For example: seven weekly newspapers with a circulation of Reports from each of the condominium Serving the Landings Community for over 10 Years 135,000 back in Wisconsin. He than took a position associations, only one or two paragraphs long, www.thelandingseagle.com as Operations Director for Journal Communications would add greatly to communications within The overseeing 45 offices serving seven states, Landings. Island Visitor Publications, LLC | 914-539-0205 including Florida through 2009 He is currently Even minor changes in your rules or documents publisher of the Siesta Key Island Visitor. Bob at your Association can be helpful to other P.O. Box 35086, Siesta Key, Florida 34242 and Emy are building a small group of community associations as they plan for the future. newspapers with an emphasis on local community Associations have issues in common: roofs, Publishers: content. Simultaneous with taking on publication reserve fund planning, parking areas, safety and Bob & Emy Stein [email protected] of The Eagle they began publishing the Del Tura other compliance issues, insurance, etc. Tower in North Fort Myers. The combination of Features on interesting neighbors, volunteers, Editor: economies of scale afforded by publishing several philanthropists, hobbyists, artists, writers, the list papers and new technologies permit color printing goes on and on. If you have any writing skills send Irwin Starr [email protected] at a reasonable cost. We’re delighted to debut that them along to us. change with this issue. The ubiquitous digital camera provides pictures Advertising Representatives: As your editor for the past 10 years I will worth sharing with your neighbors. Send along your Irene Brooks & Pete O’Reilly continue to gather and edit material for this paper best with a short caption detailing them for a year or so along with the many contributors Let your imagination run wild, and think about To advertise in print or on-line call 941-539-0205 of content you see in the paper each month. I what kinds of things you could share with your must confess I also welcome not having to deal Landings neighbors. Thanks this month to our contributing writers: Dee with a series of multiple deadlines each month: And, of course, your letters, opinions on Ricapito, LarryLawrence, Kevin Lechlitner, Dick advertising, advertising sales and ad production, Landings issues, help make The Eagle a platform Bayles, Jim Raffini, Scott Diamond, Dr. Al Weeks, layout, proofreading and printing of the newspaper. for community discussion. Enjoy the refreshing Perhaps I can call working only on content “real changes in The Eagle. We welcome your content Joe Venezia, Gary Warren, Maj. Jaime Colon, Capt. retirement.” ideas and contributions. Joseph Jordan, Jacqueline Abney IPS Forgive us if we missed you – but please let us know. By Emy and Bob Stein The Landings Eagle is published monthly, in season, partially Greetings Landins funded by the Landings Management Association & Landings Greetings Landins, as we finish our first issue continue to look to him for Landings rich content Racquet Club, but is independently edited and reported by Land- of The Landings Eagle, we’d like to thank Irwin keeping you informed on what is happening in your ings residents. The Landings Eagle is published by Island Visitor Starr for giving us the opportunity to partner with community. Publishing, a Florida LLC. him in producing your community newspaper. We We hope you enjoy the new format. We still have Advertising rates and information will be gladly furnished by the same great articles contributed by Landings calling us at 941-539-0205, We are ready to answer your ques- residents. In future issues, when space permits, tions and to assist you in preparing your ad at no extra charge. we will be sprinkling in new articles of interest All advertising and editorial content is subject to editing to along with more photos of events taking place in conform to our style, and is copyrighted 2012 by Island Visitor the Landings. Publishing, LLC and may not be reproduced without written per- Moving forward, we want to keep the sense of mission from the publisher. Violators will be prosecuted under community involvement alive and well. We rely on your feedback to tell us how we are doing. Your federal law. The publisher reserves the right to edit or reject input will help shape and enrich the paper’s content copy for any reason. and allows you to share your accomplishments and Island Visitor Publishing, LLC is not responsible for any claims pride in this wonderful community. made by the advertisers. Emy & Bob Stein August - September 2012 | 5 www.landingseagle.com • 941.539.0205 • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • Community Hauling Program By Larry Lawrence The next date for dropping off your unwanted Cs and Ds (non-rechargeable), stereos, speakers, paints, household chemicals, electronics, batteries, and telephones (take out the batteries first). Other etc. is Wednesday September 12. A complete list disposal options are: rechargeable batteries may be of the acceptable items is provided in the adjacent taken to Batteries Plus, Home Depot, Lowes and box. Only these items can be taken. All others will Radio Shack and florescent lamps will be accepted be returned. at Home Depot. The materials are to be brought to the North Gate From the recent community hauling experiences, between 8 and 9 am. Reservations are required and it is evident that the backlog of the hazardous must be made before noon on September 11. Call materials in our homes have fairly well been purged George Niel at 941-927-6464 x-110. so the hauling schedule is being changed from every The following should, preferably, be disposed of other month to quarterly beginning in September. in the weekly trash pick-up: motor oils and filters (set Please plan accordingly. alongside the garbage can and marked accordingly), If you have any questions about the program, empty dried out paint cans, batteries-A series, please call Larry Lawrence 410-456-6240.

These are the only acceptable items for the Community Hauling Program. Any items not on this list will have to be taken back by the homeowner (unfortunately no exceptions). • hazardous waste • used motor oil • batteries: button • toxic waste • cleaners batteries, rechargeable • paints • lawn and garden nickle-cadmium and • pesticides chemicals lithium-ion batteries. • automotive products • paint thinner • electronics: of the • pool chemicals • solvents following types: TVs, • automotive batteries • cell phones computer systems, • fertilizers • fluorescent lamps monitors, printers, • fire extinguishers (and compact scanners, fax machines, • gasoline fluorescent lamps) power supplies 6 | The Landings Eagle Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • 941.539.0205 • www.landingseagle.com President’s Column By Kevin Lechlitner Summer time in the Landings is going well with the development occasional temperatures below those where some of of the Eagle into our friends have traveled for the summer months. a n o u t s t a n d i n g I am sure they are pleased to know that we have community paper made up our deficit in rainfall for the year and the that is an invaluable ponds are looking good. Tennis courts are always asset to the Landings available in the early mornings and reservations at community. LMA restaurants are easy to obtain. Life is good here and and the Landings we hope it is where you may be or where you may residents are all travel. indebted to Irwin The LMA Board as in the past did not hold for producing such their monthly meeting in July. Committee chairs a fine paper. We believe the paper is an important are beginning to think of 2013 budget items and institution in the Landings and as such will cost. Preliminary budget requests will soon be continue financial support and will take an active sent to chairs by Dick Bayles and members of role in forming an editorial committee and in the the Finance Committee will begin their budget selection of an editor and article writers. LMA along planning meetings. If you have any suggestions with Irwin and IVP will continuously monitor the please send them to the appropriate chair or Dick performance of the new publishing efforts. for consideration. IVP is owned by Robert (Bob) Stein and his wife An ad hoc LMA committee was named at the Emy who handles layout and communications. June board meeting to meet with Irwin Starr and They are moving to Sarasota from FT Myers. IVP Bob Stein, owner of the Island Visitor Publishing, also publishes “Siesta Sand” a tourist newspaper LLC regarding the future publishing of The Eagle. distributed on Siesta Key and plan to develop The group lead by Larry Lawrence includes Jack more community papers in the Sarasota area. Mr. Jost, Barbara Pendrell, Pam Truitt and Dan Radman Stein is also the General Manager of Seabreeze has held several meetings to discuss an agreement Communications which publishes a number of with them to cover both the transition period and newspapers on the west and east coast, including the ongoing publications. They hope to have the a number of gated community newspapers. agreement finalized in the near future. We look forward to working with Irwin and Mr. Over the past decade Irwin Starr has lead Stein to enhance our excellent Landings Eagle

Greenbook Errata & New Members By Dick Bayles The following changes have taken It is important that The place since the last issue of the Eagle: Landings security personnel manning the Main Gate be able Changes: to contact the owner of a property • Dixie Lee, 1756 Pine Harrier Circle, at all times. On a number of 941-923-7877, C: 240-644-5103 occasions recently, the telephone number on file at the gate has New: been determined to be no longer in • Steven & Constance Small, 5271 service when called, and no other Heron Way number was available. • Curtis Lee Smith & Arthur Johnson, 1724 Landings Blvd Please be sure the gate has your current telephone number(s). If • Bob & Kristy Lonsdale, 5155 you have recently changed your Kestral Park Lane, 973-838-6461, number, decided to use a cellular [email protected] line instead of a “land” line, or do • Sally Hicks, 1443 Landings Circle not have an alternate number on file when absent for an extended period, you will not be reachable If you have changes to your listing in the to confirm guest entry or to report an emergency Directory or have moved into The Landings since related to your property. its latest edition, please let me know. Changes may be left at the Main Gate to my attention or sent by If any of the above applies to you, please notify fax or e-mail. Dick Bayles: [email protected] the gate and correct or supplement their information Tel: (941) 927-8344 or Fax: (941) 296-7404 August - September 2012 | 7 www.landingseagle.com • 941.539.0205 • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • LHA: Tree Trimming & Property Requests This report covers both the June and July a dead tree on the property. The status of the ● Kestral Park Lane: The owner requested LHA meetings. tree removal will be reviewed. No action has approval of installation of coach lights and Planning is proceeding, and may well been taken and a notice of hearing will be sent. brown “Bermuda” shutters. The request was be completed by publication date, on the approved by the Board. trimming of trees along homeowner’s streets ● Peregrine Point Way: The owner requested to comply with County rules for passage approval of a planned addition to the house. ● Peregrine Point Way: The owner requested of emergency and collection vehicles. In Plans for the addition, including relevant approval of an extension of an existing fence situations where limbs will be required to be survey information related to setbacks were on the property. The Board approved the cut back all the way to the trunk, homeowners provided and the application was approved. request subject to confirmation of a neighbor’s will be consulted. Several homeowners have approval. specifically requested they be involved in the ● Letters will be sent to affected owners on trimming process. the following streets regarding the need to ● Landings Way: The owner requested A number of requests were made for power wash their roofs: Peregrine Point Cir approval of the replacement of an existing architectural and landscape changes in N, Peregrine Point Circle W, Peregrine Point concrete/poly-pebble driveway with pavers. addition violations were also cited. Way, Peregrine Point Dr, Kestral Park Pl, The Board approved the request. In two rather unusual cases the board Flicker Field Cir. was asked to approve a variance on a pool ● Peregrine Point Circle N: The owner cage set back from the rear of the property ● Landings Blvd: The owner requested requested approval of repainting the residence. line. In both cases the cage had been there permission to remove an ailing and leaning The Board approved the request. for quite some time. It appears at some point pine tree. The request was approved by the The Landings documents were changed Board. ● Pine Harrier Circle: The owner requested from a 10 foot setback to a 20 foot setback approval of a tree removal. The Board causing some existing pool cages, and perhaps ● Peregrine Point Cir N: The posts have been approved the request. other property elements, to become out of removed from LMA property adjacent to this compliance retroactively. The changes were lot. They have been replaced with ropes and ● Pine Harrier Circle & Peregrine Point Circle not discovered until the properties were either posts on the owner’s property at a cost of $350 E: Owners requested approval to remove a sold or refinanced. In the process of surveying to be paid by the owner. sick and a dying tree. The Board approved for financing it was discovered and action was the requests. required to satisfy the mortgage company. ● Peregrine Point Cir W: The condition of The good news is the County considers such the residence needs remediation. A letter was ● Peregrine Point Circle E: The owner changes to be within the purview of The sent to the owner requiring that the residence requested approval to remove a dying tree. Landings not requiring County action or be repainted and defective downspouts and The Board approved the request. permitting or additional expense of filing. gutters to be repaired or replaced. No action Therefore the process is more a nuisance then has been taken and a notice of hearing will be ● Peregrine Point Circle W: The owner an expense. Homeowners wishing to sell their sent. Mr. Whitman is assembling the required requested approval to remove a tree in the homes who suspect such issue might wish to hearing members and a date will be set. rear of the property due to concern about the deal with it early so as not to delay the sales tree falling in high winds. After discussion, process. ● Peregrine Point Cir W: No action has been the Board took the request under advisement. The Eagle will begin to regularly publish taken at this point with regard to the removal most of the actions taken by the LHA relative of yard signage and an appropriate alternative ● After discussion regarding the status of a to such items. There are two reasons for this. of rocks approved by LHA. Eric Larsen will Flicker Field Circle renter, the Board decided First it provides a much better understanding get suggestions for the rocks for the board’s to await the completion of paperwork by the of the time and effort required by the LHA review. owner until taking further action. in managing, researching and developing recommendations for compliance. Secondly ● Kestral Parkway S & Peregrine Point Drive: ● Peregrine Point Circle N : The driveway the publication will inform homeowners of Owners requested permission to install a on the property has deteriorated to the point the types of items and alterations requiring permanent basketball post at the side of the where repair and/or replacement is required. board approval. As a policy we will include house. This would be in direct violation of A letter of violation will be sent. only street names, not addresses for privacy the Declaration of Restrictions, Article IV, §11. unless the item comes to a hearing or public The Board denied the request. The board authorized Eco-Lawn to perform legal action. remedial work on 1780 Pine Harrier Circle at ● Kestral Park Place & Pine Harrier Drive: a cost of $655.00 and periodic mowing of the Recent Actions: Owners requested approval of a tile roof property for $80 per month. This property replacement. The requests were approved is in foreclosure. The mortgage holder has ● Kestral Park Lane: The owner is to be by the Board. been unresponsive and the LHA board feels contacted by a member of the Board to insist a responsibly to keep the property looking on correction of the fence shape issues and ● Peregrine Point Way: The owner requested moderately maintained for the benefit of the on painting the fence with a color approved permission to add a covered deck in the rear of entire community. by the Board. the property. The request was provisionally The board discussed an incident where an approved by the Board subject to a review of arrow was shot from a Flicker Field Cir address ● Peregrine Point Cir E: No action has been the construction plans. onto an adjacent property. Mr. Whitman taken by the owner with respect to removal of will discuss the situation with the owner. 8 | The Landings Eagle Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • 941.539.0205 • www.landingseagle.com Around The Landings |Memorial Day Celebration... |Ice Cream Social...

A capacity crowd gathered at The Cemetery. He read an original poem Judy’s & Tara’s annual Ice-cream Social the happy faces of youngsters about to be Landings Racquet Club to honor America’s commemorating the occasion. was held in late May – too late for the June headed for summer vacation and adults servicemen on Memorial Day. All of the attending veterans were issue of The Eagle, but not too late to share and dogs enjoying the occasion as well. Riverview High School Color Guard asked to stand. They were introduced More photos on page 23 opened the ceremony followed by master individually to continuous applause. of ceremonies Col. Ret. Jerry Welch. Veteran Ricky Russell, whose mother He introduced Col. Ret. Bob Fernander Marilou Swenson is a resident of The who delivered an emotional recollection Landings, sang and led attendees in God of recent visits to Arlington national bless America.

Ricky Russell

Tara & Judy

Lest We Forget Silently they lay, planted like flowers in a garden, to bloom in a season of their choosing. For they, who for their country died, lay cloaked in all their glory. Duty, honor and country light their resting place, the reward for their bravery and courage. If they could but bloom to life as a flower, their eternal garden would be gloriously covered In a sea of bright blue forget-me-nots. Col. Ret. Jerry Welch Col. Ret. Bob Fernander Bob Fernander

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Meet our Doctors Meet our Clients Dr. Lauren Crescenzi was born and raised just outside of Harrisburg, Tasqui is a Manchester Terrier puppy Pennsylvania. As a child Lauren always wanted to be a veterinarian. Lauren who came to the ER at CCVSS with attended The Ohio State University for her undergraduate studies, then a broken left front leg caused by moved on to the University of Florida, where she earned her Doctorate of someone falling on him. The fracture Veterinary Medicine. was so severe that his lower leg was Dr. Crescenzi pursued a career in emergency medicine straight out of vet rotated a full 90 degrees. Fortunately, school. It is the fast paced and challenging environment of the ER that grabs her the skin had not been punctured by interest. Lauren especially enjoys surgery, anesthesia/pain management, and the sharp edges of the broken bone. critical care cases. Emergency & critical care medicine allows her to practice The fracture involved both radius within her main interests, offering a great variety of cases and situations and ulna bones (the same bones we on a daily basis. Lauren truly enjoys being able to help her patients and their families in their time of need. have in our forearm) and it involved Dr. Crescenzi lives with her two dogs, Deightel and Ronah, and a cat named Yittik who was a stray that an area of the bone responsible for growth. Pins were decided she would set up shop right on the back porch. And last but not least, Dierk Diggler the hamster. placed in Tasqui’s leg once the bones were re-aligned and In her spare time, Lauren loves spending time with her husband, practicing Kenpo Karate, relaxing with a splint was placed. He is a very lucky pup, and doesn’t friends, and keeping busy with projects and travel. let the big bandage on his leg slow him down! 10 | The Landings Eagle Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • 941.539.0205 • www.landingseagle.com Snoring? Phillippi Landings News As our population ages we’re seeing an increase in inquiries about snoring with possible sleep apnea. By Jim Raffini Although you can have one without the other they are Phillippi Landings has two entrances. Our main this segment of the road often seen in tandem. Most of the inquiries come from or eastern entrance is from the stoplight at the their eyes were drawn the partner rather than from the patient. Sleep apnea intersection of Tamiami Trail and the street called to this unpleasant sight. Phillippi Isles. Our second or western entrance is Granted, in the long list of is a medical issue and we refer these to an appropriate from Phillippi Shores Drive directly across from annoyances that we must physician. However, many times resolving the snoring the south entrance gate to the Landings. Many of learn to live with, a few issue seems to help with the apnea and we’ve had several our residents prefer the west entrance when going weeds and graffiti on the referrals from physicians in this regard. to the Landings Shopping Center because it avoids Kane’s back wall would be Snoring is mostly a dental issue. In our practice the traffic on Tamiami Trail. pretty close to the bottom. we have several devices to choose from that have A section of the Landings east wall borders On the other hand, maybe Phillippi Shores Drive and is painted a pleasant it was one of the few things that could be altered. successfully helped with snoring. cream color and is lined with cabbage palms and an Thanks Kane’s! These devices are easily made and occasional bougainvillea. Charming Phillippi Shores Bob Dahlin, Board President of Building A, don’t cause permanent changes. Park is also on this side of the road and boarders decided to see if he could ameliorate the situation. The results can be spectacular for one of the Landings ponds. He drafted a letter to be sent to Kanes Furniture all concerned. Unfortunately, the east side of Phillippi Shores by our management company asking if they could Evaluation for snoring is part drive is less attractive than the western side. This please do something about the eyesore. Shortly of an oral/dental exam. For many is especially true for the section of road bordered by thereafter the graffiti was removed, the back wall the back entrance to Kanes Furniture. Of particular and doors were repainted, and the weeds were there is no reason that snoring can’t concern to some of our residents, and likely some of removed. be controlled and treated. the Landings residents, was the ugly and obscure Taking the liberty to speak for the residents of Give us a call for an black graffiti that dominated the back exterior the Phillippi Landings and the Landings, I want to evaluation visit. wall and shipping docks. In addition, unsightly express a sincere thank you to Kanes Furniture for tall weeds were also growing between the docks. their prompt and courteous response to making Palmer Ranch Dental - Richard J. Greenspan DDS Some folks indicated that every time they passed Phillippi Shores Drive a bit more pleasant. Call today for an appointment! (941) 966-5603 8800 South Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34238

Kane’s new rear paint job. Thanks Kane’s! Wildlife Pictorial Dee Ricapito caught these pictures of a Roseate Spoonbill, not necessarily the handsomest bird in some folks eyes, His balding head and glorious pink color are his saving virtues. August - September 2012 | 11 www.landingseagle.com • 941.539.0205 • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • 12 | The Landings Eagle Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • 941.539.0205 • www.landingseagle.com

FRESHEN UP YOUR HOUSE INSIDE AND OUT WITH A NEW COAT OF PAINT Road Repair Plan As reported earlier the LMA has changed & Kestral Park Way south at termination of gutter. long-term plans for Landings road resurfacing. 4. Landings Point at entry, north side. INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR PAINTING Previously small portions of Landings roads were 5. Peregrine Point Dr. at Peregrine Pt. Ct. at west RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PAINTING resurfaced each year. Ultimately over a ten-year side of entry and Peregrine Point Dr. at Peregrine period all roads were resurfaced. It was determined Pt. Cir. East at west side entry at 4899. DRYWALL REPAIR a plan completing a full half of the Landings roads 6. Kestral Park Way North at Peregrine Point Dr. At FREE ESTIMATES at one time four to five years and would save money east side of speed bump at 4895. SPECIALTY/FAUX FINISHES from the benefits of scale. 7. Landings Blvd. & Landings Ct. at intersection GREAT PRICES As part of that plan the road committee has also center area. ALL WORK GUARANTEED developed an interim repair strategy. Committee De Anna suggests Landins note other areas they chair Ron De Anna reports on May 11, 2012 all feel need repair. They can report those areas to their Landings Road surfaces were visually inspected. Association President or call Ron De Anna directly. Nick’s Creative Painting LLC. Although many areas show surface cracks, (He is listed in the Greenbook.) fractures, rough surface, bird baths, 941 726 8014 low spot & etc. De Anna reports, without the benefit of bore testing and www.creativepaintingsarasota.com considering the ages of the roads and [email protected] lack of adequate drainage, all roads are in relatively good condition. 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND SATISFIED CLIENTS The Committee recommends the listed road areas (also referenced on

the map)be considered for repair in early 2013. 1. Eagles Point Circle at west entry to 2453. 2. Landings Blvd. At north side entry to Heron Way. 3. Kestral Park Drive at center road gutter at 1706. Also Kestral Park Drive August - September 2012 | 13 www.landingseagle.com • 941.539.0205 • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • MISSION: 100% CLIENT SATISFACTION! Helping Folks Reach Their Real Estate Goals with Exquisite Service and Today’s Technology. 7405 WEST COUNTRY CLUB 1662 STARLING DR 1441 LANDINGS CIRCLE

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What a lovely home! This is unlike any Updated “Coach House.” 2BR 2 Bath, 1 car other Treehouse. It is a must see! This garage,. You’ll have hours of enjoyment in home is tastefully updated and expanded, this private and quiet setting. The formal adding a den/study and larger living living and dining rooms plus a large open, room, the kitchen has also been extended, eat in kitchen, updated with granite giving space for dining and entertaining. Great Location directly across from the countertops and tile flooring. A quaint patio . Beautiful Real Wood floors, and Crown large heated community pool. Wonderful overlooking a preserve with lush mature moldings add to the beauty of this home. Golf Course and Water Views from this trees and landscaping. Year-round enclosed The kitchen has tile, wood cabinets and spacious 3 BD / 2BA first floor end unit. lanai with the preserve view. Bamboo Corian counter tops, the Master Bathroom Newer roof, air handler and carpet. Nicely floors, tile floors, granite countertops, has also been updated. The added feature maintained . Paver entrance, newly painted and track of a large deck with total privacy is ideal for lightening in the living room. entertaining. $129,900 $219,000 $397,000 14 | The Landings Eagle Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • 941.539.0205 • www.landingseagle.com Looking At Ourselves More detailed information is becoming available further, for example, to the several block census from the 2010 US Census. It gives us a better look at units defining The Landings. All statistics carry our community. Our census track, 18.01, comprises various margins of error depending on the sample an area from Bay Road to Stickney Point Rd., North size replying to each question. and South and the Tamiami Trail to the Bay on the And, of course, the statistics are as of the census East and West. in 2010. All references to statistics in this and future This and future articles will examine various articles are based on entire population of that tract. aspects of that community as a whole. To maintain confidentiality the Census Bureau This issue’s installment details the Household system does not permit breaking it down any Income in the Census Tract. August - September 2012 | 15 www.landingseagle.com • 941.539.0205 • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • Condos in Common By Scott Diamond Like |How I Spent My Summer Vacation... My first two week vacation in more than twenty specific laws when no years involved a tropical storm, an extensive road it comes to reserve trip, and a tornado. Let’s begin. funding than we do other Leaving Florida at the end of May for a vacation here in Florida. This sounds tame enough with the remote chance of a year I’ve filled out storm threat or so I thought. Tropical Storm Beryl, a record number of the strongest off season storm on record to make questionnaires from landfall in the United States, arrived in Jacksonville banks all requiring and followed us to North Carolina. Luckily, we that in order to loan money for a condo purchase, would be staying far from the coast with old friends at least 10% of the annual budget must be used to who now live in a condominium community in fund reserves. Some banks have no wiggle room Raleigh. How the conversation started on the for approval concerning units for sale in some older differences between Florida and North Carolina associations that might have adequate reserves but condominium law, who’s to say. Bottom line: might want to take a year off from funding. condo associations created after October 1, 1986 are We stayed for a time with an old friend in governed by the new, more comprehensive North Philadelphia who sells condominiums for a large Carolina Condominium Act. Live in one that was developer. Pennsylvania has new insurance formed prior to 10/1/86, you still go by the Unit requirements for both the association and the Ownership Act of 1963. They live in a new unit so individual buyer. In Florida, we strive to maintain a lengthy discussion was avoided. reasonable deductibles and compliance that all My busman’s holiday continued in Virginia individual owners purchase at least the standard once your property is Listed with when my aunt told us over lunch that a local HO-6 policy. condo association was fined for refusing to make When we finally made it to the Jersey Shore, I me you wiLL receive: a reasonable accommodation in a pet restricted learned that the New Jersey Supreme Court voted 5 community for an owner who needed a pet for to 1 that a condo owner could place election signs in • Complimentary Staging doctor’s ordered therapy. This one is always the front door and window of a unit upholding his difficult for those on both sides of the issue. First Amendment Right of Freedom of Speech. Stay • Professional Photography In Maryland, the next aunt that I visited verified tuned. Something like this is pending in Florida’s that a bill would not be passed this year to prohibit Supreme Court at the moment. • Virtual Tour developers from shortening the statute of limitations On the way back to Florida, we drove right on warranties in condo sale contracts. Similar through tornado warnings, stopped at Denny’s and • Custom Brochure legislation in Florida, as of July 1st, condo owners a hotel with electricity. With an early start, we made received some protection as opposed to those it home by midnight. So my first and possibly last • Email Announcement to... owners in HOA’s. road trip has concluded, but not my opportunity to One thing that I found interesting while visiting share news that you can use. ...All Area Realtors my cousin in Dover, is that Delaware has more Thank you, Landings Eagle. • International Exposure... Off My Chest... Landins Speak Anonymously ...On The World Wide Web The Eagle prints items from Landins without except for minor editing to insure clarity. the Landings and Beyond attribution as long as they are not specific Send to [email protected]. Your enough to identify individuals, addresses, name and phone number are required on the companies, etc. They are printed as received submission but will not be printed.

( I feel I am living near or in close proximity to a "dog kennel.". . . I guess some of the owners of those continually barking pets we have in this community don't hear the noise or are oblivious to the sound when they leave them outside to bark for hours. For those owners who can't seem to control their pets, then you can keep them inside and let your dog bark at you all day and see how cute it is... A landings resident for 17 years. ( Why can’t that very small percentage of people speeding around The Landings control themselves for the safety of the rest of us? What thoughtless, self-centered people they must be. Peg Davant, Sales Associate

( When I drive around the Landings trying to slow down for pedestrians and dog walkers I 941.356.4552 | [email protected] really appreciate it when they wave back a “thanks.” Makes my day – hope it helps their day! 16 | The Landings Eagle Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • 941.539.0205 • www.landingseagle.com Al paints in honor of new color format! Dr. Al Weeks, professor emeritus of NYU, longtime Landins resident, and regular Eagle columnist, is a “Sunday” watercolor painter. Here are three of his watercolors he sent along in honor of the new color format! Weeks’s works have hung in group shows and sold up North. August - September 2012 | 17 www.landingseagle.com • 941.539.0205 • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • 18 | The Landings Eagle Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • 941.539.0205 • www.landingseagle.com

Is your sliding door Press Watch By Dr. Albert L.Weeks hard to open? |The Case of a Chicago Serial Killer What do these criminal law cases have A curious wrinkle SLIDING GLASS DOOR REPAIR in common?Casey Anthony; Bruno Richard in the case concerned a AND SECURITY Hauptmann; O.J. Simpson; William Heirens? white handkerchief that 941 225 2658 Right. These cases and their trials, along with police found in the alley many others you could name, were all extremely behind the Degnan home controversial. Many people, among them authors near where the girl’s of best-selling books, question the juries’ verdicts in dismembered body had been found. The bloody ALEX’S SLIDING GLASS DOOR REPAIR LLC. these and other such cases in which the defendant hankie, attached to a wire used to strangle the www.floridapatiodoorrepair.com was found guilty or in other cases, not guilty. victim, bore some laundry marks. These were easily [email protected] With this, I am reminded of the Heirens “Lipstick traced to the owner. Everyone thought that now Murders Case” of the mid-1940s. At that time,I at last the killer would be found As it turned out, happened to be a (cub) however, the owner of the hankie was a soldier Police Reporter with the Chicago City News who at the time of the crime was not even in the Bureau (CCNB), the breeding ground of many U.S.! That was discovered only after the GI had famous journalists and playwrights. For two been hauled in out of town for questioning. Police summers as a part-timer, my beat was in Southside officers had invaded the bedroom of the GI and his Chicago. It was just as the Heirens Case went to trial. bride on their wedding night, no less. By way of Earlier this year, the following item appeared in apology, municipal authorities opened the Windy the University of Chicago alumni magazine (I am a City--hotel room, restaurants, shows free-of-charge UofC graduate) under the rubric “Deaths”: “William to the couple--for a whole week.. Heirens, X ‘49 (meaning he was awarded the BA As with the conviction of Bruno Hauptmann in absentia--ALW) died Mar. 5, 2012. He was 83.” for the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh child Sentenced at age 19 to life imprisonment in the in the ‘30s, a spate of revisionist literature has “progressive” Illinois State Penitentiary in the late cropped up on Heirens. Such writers claim ‘40s, Heirens, a psychopath, insisted later that he that Heirens had been bullied into confessing was not guilty of the crimes to which he had earlier --as he himself alleged during his latter years confessed to committing. Yet he had pled guilty in prison. Others claim that the diagnosis of in his trial. He had confessed to and provided his psychosis meant that Heirens himself, as TH convincing details of the kidnap-murder on the he wrote in his scrawling on walls or mirrors CELEBRATING OUR 20 YEAR Northside of the girl, Susan Degnan, as well as to of his victims, was psychotically out of control. the serial murders of three young women. Later Another intriguing development in the Degnan after undergoing in prison psychiatric therapy for Case was the discovery of indentations in the kidnap schizophrenic psychosis, Heirens repudiated all of note left in the child’s bedroom. Police discovered his earlier confessions. He insisted that they had telephone numbers and names of race horses. Some been forced out of him by the Chicago police. of the telephone numbers related to the Hyde Park As a cub reporter at the CCNB, home of writers area. The race horses reflected the gambling habits like Charles MacArthur, Heywood Broun, NYTimes of a number of UofC students at that time. columnist David Brooks, and many others, I, at Once Heirens had been arrested for petty 22 years of age, was only tangentially involved burglary, which was one of his compulsions since in covering the Heirens case. More senior veteran childhood, police began to identify the apprehended In-Home Care & Companionship newspaper reporters, like the famous “Shadow” burglar with the UofC. Soon they zeroed in on other A Safe and Reliable Source for Quality Care Brown, were assigned to the notorious serial clues that pinpointed William Heirens, aged 18, as murder case. Still, like Heirens, a student myself the perpetrator of the heinous crimes. They also at the UofC, the case naturally intrigued me. discovered his earlier childhood had been marked 941-924-0494 Also, my bailiwick was Southside Chicago (Hyde with extremely weird behavior. This behavior Park), which was Heirens territory. His university contrasted with his strong Catholic religious beliefs, dormitory was located there. which he twisted psychotically into a distorted, DAILY LIVING NEEDS Heirens committed his crimes at night. He was puritanical view of sex. To doctors who examined HOURLY • OVERNIGHT • 24 HOUR CARE usually dressed in a bathrobe even in cold weather. him, he appeared to have a “split personality.” He was allegedly psychotically unaware--that is, Finally, after grilling by police, Heirens confessed. not fully or sanely in control of--the horrors he was He provided authorities with details of his serial perpetrating. Which under interrogation he blamed killings that seemed to confirm his stories. For on an alter ego. He would scrawl in lipstick on the instance, in his reenactment of the Degnan crime, victims’ walls in the following way: Heirens showed police how he had leapt like an “For heAVen’s acrobat from the ground to a first-storey window of the Degnan home in order to gain entry. Privately owned and operated since 1992 SAke cAtch Me Because of his mental state, the judge sentenced Judith Cuppy NOT A NATIONAL FRANCHISE BeFore I Kill More him to life imprisonment rather than a death www.seniorhomecompanions.com President sentence. Bill Heirens became a well-behaved, Bonded, Insured & Licensed in the State of Florida with the AHCA NR#30211323 I cannot control myselF” dutiful prison librarian. August - September 2012 | 19 www.landingseagle.com • 941.539.0205 • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • 20 | The Landings Eagle Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • 941.539.0205 • www.landingseagle.com

President’s Report By Dick Bayles The renovation of the Poolside Room has begun and is scheduled for completion by the middle of September. I’ve received numerous comments on the ambiance of the space, even in its very-unfinished condition. In the meantime, the Club’s Koffee Klatsches have been somewhat curtailed as to food fare given the absence of that facility. There were two events in the normally slow month of July. our escapees to the The first was the annual Breakfast at Wimbledon north (where it has event that coincides with the Women’s Final match. been far hotter than The match was aired on the wide screen in Lakeside in Sarasota). and was preceded by a round robin tennis event As an important with sixteen players participating, some for the first step in the planned expansion of the Fitness Center time. in 2013, we established a Business Credit Line with The second event was a lunch in Lakeside that Wells Fargo that will provide us the ability to draw coincided with the Tennis Channel broadcast of down funds as to the extent we don’t cover the costs the installation of Michael Davies (along with four from internal funds. others) in the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Enjoy the rest of the summer and wish for a Newport, Rhode Island. As we experienced during hurricane-free season. the dedication of Court 5 as the Michael Davies Court earlier this year, Mike was charming, funny and a superb spokesperson for the world of tennis. During his remarks, he acknowledged the Landings, our Club and Joe and Kevin. A class act! Courts 7 and 8 were rebuilt and the remainder of the courts will have their annual maintenance performed in August/September, awaiting the return of

Manager’s Report By Kevin Lechlitner August is here and it has already been a busy summer for us in terms of projects. Courts 7 & 8 were rebuilt in June and the depression on the north side of court 1 was fixed. The Poolside Clubhouse renovation began in early July and is on schedule for completion by mid September. The rest of the courts will receive their annual resurfacing before the end of September. Currently the staff has been busy with the new planter boxes that are located at the entrance to the tennis courts. The Suncoast Communities Blood Bank If you have any bloodmobile will be in our parking lot on August questions about 3rd from 8:00 – 10:30 AM. They are the sole source being a host feel free of blood for all the hospitals in the area and could to call me at the Club or call Ralph and Dee directly. really use our help. If you are interested and able During my six years here, I have received many to donate, make plans to come to the Club on the compliments about our facility and in particular morning of August 3rd. Please tell your friends and the condition of our tennis courts. To help keep neighbors too. You may even schedule a time in the courts in good shape, we ask that the members advance by calling the Tennis Pro Shop at 923-3886. brush and line the courts when they finish their Fall will be here before we know it and The game after 5:00 PM. At that point the maintenance Landings will host the 20th Annual USTA National staff has already left for the day. This will help to Senior and Super-Senior Father / Son Clay Court keep our courts in top-notch shape. Championships from November 14th – 18th. If you Although it is still some time away, be sure to are interested in taking part as a host family please mark your calendars for the Annual Labor Day BBQ 4 MILES FROM SIESTA KEY! contact Ralph & Dee Ricapito at 927-6261. They did on Monday, September 3rd from 4:30 – 6:30 PM. a fantastic job organizing the host families last year 8201 S TAMIAMI TRAIL SARASOTA, FL 34238--LOCATED OUTSIDE WESTFIELD SARASOTA SQUARE MALL (NEXT TO COSTCO) The sign-up sheet will be in the Pro Shop in early WWW.COYNESPIER28.COM (941.921.0028) and have volunteered to do it once again. August. August - September 2012 | 21 www.landingseagle.com • 941.539.0205 • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • 22 | The Landings Eagle Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • 941.539.0205 • www.landingseagle.com ENCORE SEASONINGS Tennis Tips By Dr. Albert L.Weeks By Joe Venezia 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sixteen hearty tennis players turned out in the heat for the Wimbledon Round Robin on July 7 8 9 7th. After play everyone enjoyed scones with strawberries and cream along with mimosas 10 11 12 while watching the Ladies Final. Once again, a BIG THANKS to Cynthia Wendell for whipping 13 14 15 up the cream topping for the strawberries! On July 14th a group gathered at the club for 16 17 18 a lite lunch to watch The Landings’ own Mike Davies on the occasion of his induction into the 19 20 International Tennis Hall of Fame. Mike gave an informative and sometimes humorous speech 21 22 23 24 about his beginnings in tennis - the good and the not so good - while recognizing those who were 25 26 with him along the way. There was a loud cheer when Mike mentioned The Landings Racquet Club 27 28 29 30 31 32 acknowledging the court named for him and a nod It’s not too soon to start booking your lessons 33 34 35 to Kevin and me. Thanks, Mike! and clinics for season 2012 - 2013. E-mail me at Our next tennis event will be Super Saturday [email protected] or you can reach me 36 37 in September during the U.S. Open. Look for on my cell 941-993-2628. information in the Pro Shop. Stay cool...... I’ll see you on the courts...... 38 39 40 41

The Photo “Chute” ACROSS DOWN By Gary Warren 1. Fuel additive 1. Slick material 4. Biomolecular study (inits.) 2. Mason-Dixon loc. |Make Your Image Pop! 7. Irish root 3. Season dinnerware 8. the blues 4. Piece of mince pie You can make the subject of an image really stand out by creating 10. Insurer 5. Musical German clan a shallow depth of field (dof). 11. Wealth This is really not possible with a cell phone or small pocket 6. Santa exclamation 13. Bearded holiday figure camera. You will have some success using a more advanced point 7. _____box and shoot where the aperture can be manually set. The greatest 16. Palmer and 8. June figure clad in white effect, however, can be achieved with a single lens reflex. Schwarzenegger 9. Lunar It’s simple, long focal lengths, wide apertures, and close 17. They “wait for no man” 10. “______ruje” subjects combine to create the most narrow dof. This photographic 18. Russian pronoun 12. Japanese family names technique may not be suitable for all situations. You may not want 19. ______Descartes 14. cat’s numbered lives a defocused background where there is outstanding scenery that 20. Years in Guadalupe 15. Cleanser needs to be part of the frame. 21. San Diego in late October 19. Truck, informally I use it for 2008 20. Goal wildlife, usually if 23. Stringed instruments for 21. Hawaiian salutation it is a single subject. short Shooting a pair 22. Carnival wheel 25. Russian Christian name where one is slightly 26. Broadcaster McCarthy for 23. Anatomical part closer may put the 24. The 88’s other out of focus. short 25. Cancer dept. Yet, as always, 27. “Neither sleet ____...” breaking rules often 28. “______fool knows…” 26. Toyota model make good photos 30. Power unit. 28. Soviet-built dam in Egypt so shoot it both ways 33. “Gather ‘round the______.” 29. Stirrup for short if possible. 36. “Shock and awe” phase in 30. Booboo The images Iraq (2002) 31. Depend (on) here demonstrate 37. Type of bird that “catches 32. Very (Scot.) narrow (blurred the worm” 34. _____ Cross background) and 38. Like TV afternoon fare 35. Morton’s dessert treat wider dof. Which 39. Helen’s adopted town way do you like it? 40. Sarasota-to-Orlando Answers on page 29 41. Ave. August - September 2012 | 23 www.landingseagle.com • 941.539.0205 • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • Around The Landings Ad News |Ice Cream Social... Continued from page 8 • Phillippi Plaza Barber Shop is an olde fashion barber shop open to men, women and children. Owner, Teresa Jane “T.J.” has been a barber instructor and is a RofflerTM Certified Barber specializing in old fashion cuts like tapers, flat tops, razor cuts and modern styling. Each barber gives the shop its unique personality and pays attention to detail…ears, nose, brows, the works It is one of the few places that still finish each cut for men with a “Hot Lather” treatment shaving around the ears and neck. If you’re longing for a bit of the good ole days, why not have your next cut here? Hours of operation are Mon-Fri, 9am – 4pm. The shop is closed Saturdays and Sundays.

• Alex’s Sliding Glass Door Repair Is your sliding glass door hard to open? Is it making scraping sounds? Does it feel heavy? Alex’s Sliding Glass Door Repair has a cost effective solution that will make your sliding glass door operate like new. This family owned and operated business makes repairing sliding doors their specialty. They also offer a double-bolt lock to help secure your sliding glass doors adding another layer of protection for your family’s peace of mind. Hours of operation are: Mon-Sat, 9am-5pm. They also offer evening and weekend appointments. For a free, over the phone estimate, just give them a call.

• Nick’s Creative Painting, LLC - owner Nick Berente has over 25 years of experience in this trade, having completed his apprenticeship in Europe. You’ll find him highly qualified in many aspects of painting, wall paper application, faux-finishes and more. Nick and every painter he hires will work around your schedule and will complete every project within budget and on time! If painting is on your to-do list, scratch it off and let Nick take care of that project for you. You can reach him at 941- 726-8014.

• Coyne’s Pier 28 Restaurant, located at the Sarasota Square (Westfield) Mall. This family-owned restaurant is the newest upscale addition to the Sarasota dining scene. Although this is their first venture into the Sarasota market, the owners have been cultivating their mastery of Chesapeake Bay Cuisine since 1988 back in Maryland and are known for their fresh, local, never-frozen seafood. Taste their award winning, no –filler crab cakes made from jumbo lump crab or a crab pretzel, one of Maryland’s best kept secret. They are currently offering $2 Sliders on Wednesdays and have happy hour daily from 5-7pm & 9-11pm. Their hours of operation are: Daily 11am – 1am.

• Lauren Bates Photography captures all those special moments for a lifetime of memories. Lauren and mom, Jaye share their love of photography and have teamed up this past year bringing together many years of experience. Lauren, a 25 year old native Floridian describes her style as casual with a vintage flair. She’s adept at capturing candid moments and focuses on bringing out each subject’s personality for that unique, special look. Jaye, enjoys more of the abstract photo journalism side and finds Sarasota to be a perfect playground to indulge her passion. You can view their portfolios on their website: www. laurenbatesphotography.com or www.laurenbates.photoshelter.com/gallery-image 24 | The Landings Eagle Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • 941.539.0205 • www.landingseagle.com Landings Investment in Infrastructure Pays Off Continued from cover story

Those wanting to venture on the Nature Trail would have needed swim suits at worst, hip boots at best. Never designed to be a drainage project the Bay intruded on the mangroves and the trail. Not unexpected – bring your kayak! Finally, about driveways. Many homeowner driveways, like those pictured, remained flooded for several days following the storms. The history of drainage in The Landings is at least partly responsible for this problem. When initially built individual homeowner driveways frequently were sloped toward a swale which Landings Blvd. and Pintail Way usually a pool ran at the approximate center of in bad storms. the driveway. Over the years, two things have happened. The swales running through lawns have been Nature Trail becomes a kayak expressway filled, or not been cleaned either – Picture Credit Larry Fleming. on the individual lot, or the route toward the drainage sewers. The other problem is driveways have been renovated, including the addition of pavers refurbishing of a pebbled surface converted to circular drives or completely rebuilt. In some cases this resulted in no slope adjacent to the swale. In some cases there was no slope, but a drainage pipe was provided under the driveway to attach the North Gate – Missing Tree! swale from one side to the other. Yet some properties, have no apparent need for either type of drainage as they are positioned high enough that the water drains directly under the roadway, most of which are designed to slope toward storm sewers. According to the covenants lawn swales and driveway drainage are the responsibility of the homeowner. In some cases 2 or 3 adjacent homes can all be involved in the problem of clearing the swale, replacing the swale or needing to supply better drainage from one side of the driveway to the other. Debris cause this pond on n Pine Harrier Circle west of Pine Harrier Drive August - September 2012 | 25 www.landingseagle.com • 941.539.0205 • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • Mike Davies’ Acceptance Speech Continued from cover story I spent 13 years with Lamar Hunt and Al Hill, Jr. that I’d been a huge thorn in his side. learning the business side of the sport. Lamar taught me So one night I asked him why he’d hired me. He smiled many things. One was that there are two words to show and said, There was no proverb that says that the best business, most forget the second word. WCT grew into a gamekeeper you can hire is an expoacher. So thank you, powerful force for pro tennis. We pioneered many of the Philippe. changes today that are taken for granted, yellow tennis Another person that I want to thank is Butch Buchholz. ball, colored clothing, blue courts, chairs on the court, et Butch and I played against each other as amateurs and cetera. We also took tennis to a lot of very exotic places. professionals, worked at the ATP together, dreamed In 1971, for instance, when the Shah of Iran wanted a of tennis becoming a big-time sport, and spent most of tennis tournament in Tehran, I sent our representative our life trying to see that it did. Butch has done so much in London, John McDonald, out there to talk to him. He for our sport, including creating the Lipton, now the met with a general in the Army, in charge of the Army. Sony Ericsson, in Miami, the first two-week men’s and While the prize money of $50,000 was no problem, the women’s event in tennis outside of the Grand Slams. Photo courtesy of the International Tennis Hall Of Fame. organization was pretty sparse. He has always been a visionary and will always be my John told the general that we needed ballboys and friend. Thank you, Butch. in Florida will attest, is frequently. linesmen with good eyesight. The general replied, I also owe a lot of gratitude to my late brother Lee Also The Landings, my tennis club in Sarasota, and Ballboys are no problem and I can let you have a dozen who would have loved to be here today and my parents Kevin and Joe for naming the stadium court after for or so of my sniper division to call the lines. who gave me all they could. A special thank you to Rod me. Thank you all at the Hall of Fame for keeping our The players said later that the line calls were Laver and Anne Worcester. There’s a saying, if you need sport alive through our history, which hopefully we all exceptionally good. something done, give it to the busiest person you know. can learn from. After I left WCT in the early ‘80s, I served a short stint Anne Worcester is that person. I will close by accepting this award on behalf of all as executive director of the ATP. After that I was asked Thank you to friends who are here to help me celebrate. those professional players who were banned from by Philippe Chatrier, the then president of the ITF, to My marvelous staff at the New Haven Open at Yale. The playing Grand Slams for so many years but were so join them as marketing director. I had come full circle Stokes who came all the way from London. The Browns, instrumental in bringing about open tennis to our sport. from being a tennis rebel and outcast pro, to now being and my current doubles partner Joe Backman and his life Some like Pancho Gonzales, Lew Hoad, Kurt Nielsen, an executive at the ITF. A period that expanded almost Lola. Thank you for coming. Barry McKay have passed on, but there are still some of 30 years. It was revealing Philippe, who I sued back in To my wife Nina, thanks for picking me up when I fall us left to remember where we came from. the days of the WCT, would want to hire me as I am sure down and break something, which as my tennis friends Thank you. 26 | The Landings Eagle Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • 941.539.0205 • www.landingseagle.com Passages Richard F. Lindholm, age 74, of Hudson, Wis., died on school system. While in Florida, Rich volunteered his time Monday, June 18, at his residence, after a 2-year battle with tutoring students, in upper level math, algebra and physics. cancer. Other favorite activities included being with his grandchildren, Rich was born April 25, 1938, in Minneapolis, MN, to participating in church activities, golfing, camping, fishing, Frederick E. and Thelma L. (Offley) Lindholm. Growing up, annual pheasant hunting trips to South Dakota, downhill skiing he lived with his family above their hardware store at 3740 with buddies Bob and Leo in Colorado, traveling, and boating Minnehaha Ave. S. and in south Minneapolis. Rich attended on the St. Croix, where he would also take bi-monthly water Minneapolis’s Washburn High, and went on to earn both his BS samples for the Metropolitan Council. in mechanical engineering and his MBA from the University of Rich is survived by Sheryl his wife of 51 years, sons, Timothy Minnesota. On Dec. 17, 1960, he married Sheryl Gaddis. Their (Kathy) Lindholm of Old Snowmass, Colo., and Stephen (Paola) union was blessed with two sons, Timothy and Stephen. Lindholm of Brussels, Belgium; grandchildren, Jari and Soren, Rich’s first job out of college was with Gould National and Sara; brother, David (friend of the family Ruth Beastrom) of Batteries. He joined the 3M Company in 1963 as an engineer Minneapolis; sister-in-law, Vicki (Tom) Engel of St. Croix Falls, and later as a manager. His work projects took him on travels to Wis.; nieces, Kacia Engel, M.D. and her husband, Troy Fiesel, many foreign countries, later serving as a plant superintendent and Keeli (Andy) Edwards; plus numerous cousins and friends. in Brookings, S.D, and Brussels, Belgium. He retired from 3M Rich was preceded in death by his parents, Frederick and in 1996 with 33 years of service. Thelma Lindholm, and his parents-in-law, Gene and Doris Rich was a “Mr. Fixit” type who could fix most anything. Gaddis. He enjoyed working with fellow 3M retirees on Habitat for A memorial service for Richard F. Lindholm was held in July Humanity projects in the St. Paul area. He refurbished old at the First Presbyterian Church. In lieu of flowers, memorials computers for SPUG, the Sarasota Personal Computers Users may be directed to the First Presbyterian Church, 1901 Vine St., Group. Once refurbished, these computers were then distributed Hudson WI 54016. A private family burial was held at the Sunset Richard F. Lindholm to needy students and their families through the Sarasota, Fla., Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN.

From the Gate By Maj. Jaime Colon & Capt. Joseph Jordan There were 76 Recorded incidents to Security It seems that this location has built in speed & Safety for the Month of June as follows: abatement with the curves created by the median • 1 Alarm Call strips in the center lane as overall compliance was near 95%. Compliance was not nearly as high at the • 1 Assist Other Agency (Wellness Check) preceding location. This can likely be attributed to • 1 Disturbance (Vehicle radio noise complaint) the “straight-a-away” to that location. Compliant 94% Low Risk 4% • 35 Parking Notifications Issued Med Risk 2% High Risk >1% • 7 Maintenance Notifications • 2 Resident Complaints Traffic through the gates remains consisted with last year. • 1 Lost Item Reported Main Gate • 20 Open Doors Reported (Garages) Resident Entries at the Main Gate Jun-11: 11219 Jun-12: 10828 • 4 Incidents of Property Damage reported System Visitor Entries at the Main Gate* Maj. Jaime Colon Capt. Joseph Jordan • 3 Reported knocked down signs / mailboxes Jun-11: 966 Jun-12: 1299 • 1 Reported wind damage Manual Visitor Entries at the Main Gate* Jun-11: 1640 Jun-12: 492 • 2 Incidents of Public Service (Vehicles with lights left on, North Gate Resident Entries at the North Gate residents notified) Jun-11: 14461 Jun-12: 14712 • 1 Reckless Driver Resident Exits at the North Gate (Ran stop sign near South Gate) Jun-11: 13134 Jun-12: 13580 • 1 Vehicle Accident (Landings Blvd / South Gate Landings Terr) Resident Entries at the South Gate Jun-11: 3234 Jun-12: 3327 Speed compliance report - The location of the Resident Exits at the South Gate radar unit was Landings Blvd. and Landings Jun-11: 3558 Jun-12: 3589 Terrace. It was a new location chosen to obtain an opposing reading to the earlier Landings Blvd. / * Exits from Main Gate not measured Landings Court deployment site. August - September 2012 | 27 www.landingseagle.com • 941.539.0205 • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • Vendor Recommendations The Eagle loves its advertisers. But we also realize the best form of advertising is satisfied customers. That’s how the Recommended Vendors feature began. Check www.LandingsEagle.com for 10 years of listings The feature runs only when you supply new Recommended Vendors. If you do, it runs despite space limitations. It is easy to recommend your favorite vendors. But, as a free service, there is some fine print below Pool Service - Clear Blue Pool & Spa, 313-1834 (6/12) Floors - Neil Bass (refinishing), 866-644-WOOD (9663) (8/12) Painting - Terrance O’Brian, 284-6102 (8/12) Handyman - Greg Hughes, 941-266-8124 (8/12)

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1S 2TPSB3 4 5 6O 7 8 9 Classifieds GAELBLAHS Long time Englewood residents have 10 11 12 AETN A RICH ES sold home and want to lease 2 bedroom/ 13 14 15 2 bath Carriage House or condo in SAINTNICHOLA S Landings Oct 1. Field Club members. 16 17 18 ARNT IDES ETO Genie Hindall 941-223-5143 19 20 RENEANOS © 21A 22FIREUKIE23 24 S 25OLEGCLEM26 27NOR 28ASAN29 YERG30 31 32 33CHRISTMASTRE34 35 E 36AIRW AR 37EARL Y Be sure to support 38SOAP Y 39TROY our advertisers 40NNE 41S T R 30 | The Landings Eagle Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • 941.539.0205 • www.landingseagle.com August - September 2012 | 31 www.landingseagle.com • 941.539.0205 • AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 • Island Visitor Publishing, LLC • AUGUST 2012 SEPTEMBER 2012 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 26 27 28 29 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 DAY DATE TIME EVENT 30 THU 2 7pm LMA Meeting DAY DATE TIME EVENT MON 3 4pm LLG Committee 8am - Suncoast Communities Blood FRI 3 10:30 am Bank - LRC parking lot MON 3 4:30pm Annual Labor Day LRC BBQ MON 6 4pm LLG Committee TUE 4 7pm Trivia Challenge TUE 7 7pm Trivia Challenge THU 6 7pm LMA Meeting THU 9 7pm LHA Meeting MON 10 9pm Koffee Klatsch MON 13 9am Koffee Klatsch THU 13 7am LHA Meeting THU 16 4pm Landings South VII TUE 18 1:30pm LRC Board Mtg. TUE 21 1:30pm LRC Board Mtg. THU 20 4pm Landings South VII MON 27 11am Carriage House MON 24 11am Carriage House Mtg. TUE 28 9am Koffee Klatsch TUE 25 9am Koffee Klatsch TUE 28 5:30pm Tree House Mtg. TUE 25 5:30pm Tree House Mtg.

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Landings Real Estate Data Base Address Price BR BA 1/2BA HOmES FOR SALE 4812 Peregrine Pt Ci W 750,000 5 4 1 1781 Pine Harrier Ci 689,900 4 3 0 5165 Kestral Pk Ln 649,000 3 2 1 5155 Flicker Field Ci 450,000 3 2 1 HOmES PENDING 5167 Kestral Pk Ln 499,000 4 3 0 HOmES SOLD 1756 KESTRAL PARK DR. #75 - $267,500 4557 Camino Real 725,000 4 4 1 This Carriage House Villa is very special. ... Move-in ready, new refrigerator, stove, 1729 Landings Wy 737,000 4 3 1 microwave, newer washer and dryer and A/C. Enjoy the enclosed side lanai and lovely 5155 Kestral Pk Ln 725,000 4 3 1 lake view. This unit has crown molding, newer white kitchen and off the kitchen is a 1718 Peregrine Pt Dr 700,000 3 3 1 screened area perfect for reading the paper and enjoying your morning coffee. These units 1592 Landings Ter 571,300 4 2 2 have newer roofs, new paver driveway and garage doors and the exterior painting has just been completed. The Landings has a nature trail to the Intercoastal Waterway and is close 4653 Pine Harrier Dr 548,750 3 2 1 to shopping, restaurants and America’s #1 beach on Siesta Key. 5163 Kestral Pk Ln 520,000 3 3 0 1724 Landings Bv 456,000 4 3 1 5420 EAGLES POINT CIR #105 - $275,000 5014 Kestral Pk S Wy 380,000 3 3 0 Rarely available! A first floor Eagles Point Condominium with an extended terrace.... CONDOS FOR SALE This two bedroom w/den condo has a screened balcony as well as an open terrace. 5440 Eagles Pt Ci # 403 925,000 3 3 1 Wood floors throughout the living area and den w/fench doors, built-in entertainment center 5450 Eagles Pt Ci # 301 515,000 3 2 1 and plantation shutters. The master bath has dual sinks, separate shower and bath and 5450 Eagles Pt Ci # 204 395,000 3 2 0 a custom walk-in closet. The kitchen has plenty of storage, room for a breakfast table and 4802 Kestral Pk Ci 299,500 3 2 0 full size washer and dryer. New A/C last year. Secure parking and a private storage room under the building. 1738 Landings Bv 295,000 2 2 0 5420 Eagles Pt Ci # 105 275,000 2 2 0 5155 FLICKER FIELD CIR - $450,000 1746 Landings Bv 269,900 2 2 0 Fabulous opportunity in The Landings. This 3 bedroom 2.5 bath with den pool home will 1756 Kestral Pk Dr 267,500 2 2 0 be prefect for your family. A classic “split plan”, once you enter you are drawn through the 1427 Landings Pl 244,900 3 2 1 formal living room to the pool area beyond. Spacious master suite, also open to the pool 5271 Heron Wy 232,000 2 2 0 area. The den/office has double doors which allow for a view of the pool. Formal dining 5035 Kestral Pk Dr 226,000 2 2 room and hallway to the spacious kitchen. Family room with wood burning fireplace. The 1752 Kestral Pk Dr 220,000 2 2 0 pool 42 ft long and is perfect for serious swimming. A bonus with this property are the newer tile roof and hurricane shutters. 1662 Starling Dr 219,000 2 2 0 1628 Starling Dr 214,900 3 2 5450 EAGLES POINT CIR #301 - $515,000 1627 Starling Dr 210,000 2 2 0 Here is the Eagles Point condo you have been waiting for! A water view, southern 1634 Starling Dr 199,999 3 2 0 exposure and move-in condition. Three floor view of boaters and wildlife along Phillippi 5224 Landings Bv 177,500 2 2 1 Creek and the Intracoastal Waterway from your screened balcony. In the morning watch 5420 Eagles Pt Ci # 104 172,000 2 2 0 the sunrise from your kitchen breakfast table. This condo is a welcome Florida retreat CONDOS PENDING offering 3 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. The master suite also enjoys a water view and includes dual sinks, spa bath, separate shower and fitted walk-in closet. You have a view 1441 Landings Ci 397,000 3 2 1 no matter which way you look. Designer decorated, this condo is neutral and welcoming. 4943 Kestral Pk N Wy 275,000 2 2 0 1614 Starling Dr 220,000 3 2 0 5165 KESTRAL PARK LN - $649,000 1641 Starling Dr 209,000 2 2 0 West of the Trail in the gated Landings community is this attractive, spacious, three 5283 Heron Wy 199,900 3 2 0 bedroom + den home which has 12 foot+ ceilings, 18” tile in the living areas, separate 1611 Starling Dr 185,000 2 2 0 dining room, living room and large family room with wood-burning fireplace and a wall of CONDOS SOLD built-in bookshelves, all of which add to the charm of this light and bright home. The kitchen 5440 Eagles Pt Ci # 303 875,000 3 3 0 has been updated with granite counter tops and wood cabinetry. Enjoy swimming in the 1443 Landings Ci 452,500 3 2 1 pool or relaxing on the large lanai, sliders all pocket to bring the outside in. This home has a circular drive, a two-car garage, and a well for irrigation. 5420 Eagles Pt Ci # 206 365,000 3 2 0 1419 Landings Pl 355,000 3 2 1 5420 Eagles Pt Ci # 404 322,000 2 2 0 Look for the “Judy & Tara’s Neighborhood” Open House 1489 Landings Lake Dr 325,000 3 2 1 signs on Sundays. 1358 Landings Dr 280,000 3 2 1 5241 Heron Wy 242,000 2 2 0 “Just Looking” is always welcome in our Neighborhood. 5023 Kestral Pk Dr 243,000 2 2 0 Call us, drop by our Open House or stop us on the street 1714 Kestral Pk Wy S 223,000 2 2 0 5251 Heron Wy 219,000 3 2 0 - we’re always ready to discuss REAL ESTATE. 1700 Starling Dr 210,000 3 2 0 5235 Heron Wy 205,000 2 2 0 1623 Starling Dr 185,000 3 2 0 5252 Heron Wy 152,500 2 2 0

Based on information from Realtor.com & Sarasota Property Appraiser, Sarasota Association of Realtors for the period ending 7/12/12. These properties listed and sold in the past 4 months by various MLS participating offices.