Volume XVI, Issue 6 November 2019 POSTAL CUSTOMERS • BUSINESS CUSTOMERS PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID MANASOTA, FL PERMIT NO.1498 2 • NOVEMBER 2019 UNIVERSITY PALM LAKEWOOD LEDGER Sarasota Opera Receives $50,000 Arts Appreciation Grant from the Gulf Coast Community Foundation Funding will support the 2019/2020 Sarasota Opera Season arasota Opera has been awarded a $50,000 SArts Appreciation Grant from the Gulf Coast Community Foundation. The grant offers unre- stricted funding to area arts organizations in support of their artistic mission. This year’s Arts Appreciation Grant will help support Sarasota Opera’s 2019/2020 Season, which marks the com- pany’s 61st year of presenting world-class opera on the Southwest Florida Gulf Coast. “We congratulate the Gulf Coast Community Foundation on their 25th Anniversary of support- ing our community, and we are deeply grateful for their long-standing support of Sarasota Opera’s internationally recognized Opera Festival” says Executive Director Richard Russell. Sarasota Opera’s Fall 2019 Season opened Friday, November 1st with the re- turn of Verdi’s popular opera Rigoletto, with six performances through Novem- ber 17th. On November 15–16, Sarasota Youth Opera will present the historically significant Brundibár, composed by Hans Krása. Sarasota Opera’s 2020 Winter Festival will open with Puccini’s La bohème on February 8, and will be followed by Gounod’s Romeo & Juliet, Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, and Catalani’s La Wally. Performances will continue through March 22, 2020. About Gulf Coast Community Foundation—For 25 years, together with its donors, Gulf Coast Community Foundation has trans- formed our region through bold and proactive philanthropy. Gulf Coast is a pub- lic charity that was created in 1995 through the sale of the Venice Hospital. Since then, it has become the philanthropic home of nearly 1,000 families, individuals, organizations, and businesses that have established charitable funds there, and together they have invested more than $340 million in grants in the areas of health and human services, civic and economic development, education, arts and culture, and the environment. Learn more at GulfCoastCF.org. 61 N. Pineapple Avenue • Sarasota, FL 34236 (941) 366-8450 • www.sarasotaopera.org UNIVERSITY PALM LAKEWOOD LEDGER NOVEMBER 2019 • 3 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Sarasota Opera Receives Where Does TheLedger Go? 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Allen • Editor: James Kelly • Art Director: Susan W. Merrill Arts Advocates to Auction Pieces University Palm Lakewood Ledger, Inc. • P.O. Box 51421 • Sarasota, FL 34232-0356 from Collection phone: 941-378-0280 • fax: 941-341-0698 • email: [email protected] CLASSIFIEDS NEW WEBSITE: upllsarasota.com Art Uptown Gallery Presents “Just Add Water” All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form prohibited without express permission from the publisher. Cat Depot: Save the Date! 4 • NOVEMBER 2019 UNIVERSITY PALM LAKEWOOD LEDGER UNIVERSITY PALM LAKEWOOD LEDGER NOVEMBER 2019 • 5 FEATURE Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! by Cindy Readnower, Certified Life Coach; Owner, Skinny Leopard Media rowing up, I always heard are double-decker buses that take you Although many people visit at the G about the San Diego Zoo as on a tour of the zoo, and other buses $56 a ticket price, it doesn’t feel over- being the best zoo in the U.S. It was that just help you ride from one end crowded. Spaced close together and were all out of view. The zoo started always a goal of mine to see it one of the park to the other. There’s also sprinkled throughout the park are pairing them in the 1980s because day—and I finally did! a “skyline” ride that takes you high snack bars, which usually feature of cheetah “behavior.” They found Founded in 1916, it is home to over above it all so you can get around finger foods as well as drinks and that, when they allowed dogs and 3,700 animals and represents more easily. Everything is clean and fresh. craft beer. At various points, there are cheetahs to grow up together, the than 650 species. Lucky for them, it Many of the exhibits also have a more extensive menus and sit-down cheetahs seemed more confident and has lots of acreage near the downtown the dogs just assumed the cheetah area and didn’t get “landlocked,” so it was a “spotted” dog. Cheetahs benefit encompasses a huge tract of land with by becoming more laid back in new numerous exhibits. situations and, in the case of a medical The cable channel, Animal Planet, procedure, the dogs help the cheetahs features a show about the zoo, The be more at ease. Both the dogs and Zoo: San Diego, where you can see the cats show behavior to one another first hand all the behind the scenes that is definitely bonding. When one action that takes place to care for sick cheetah had to have surgery, his dog animals, how they integrate rescued pal was there to help him wake up and animals into the population, and even licked him to let him know he wasn’t how dogs take care of the cheetahs alone. and bond in the same enclosure. Pio- The koalas were all up in trees (still neering inter-species relationships is visible) but asleep in the heat of the one of the things that make the San day while facing the trunk of the tree Diego Zoo special. with their arms around it and just Entering the park, you immediately guide to answer questions about the restaurants with lots of scenery to napping that way. A large contingent get the feeling that it is more than animals, the park, or navigating the enjoy. of giraffes were curious to see what a normal zoo. You receive an extra map. The animals all appear healthy the visitors were doing and would large map that shows lots and lots of To the left are the “jungle” trails, and happy and the habitats are quite group close to the fence to stare at the trails and overhead bridges that take which take you to animals that enjoy nice, with toys for the monkeys and humans. There were young giraffes you to the various exhibits. Right more “Amazonian” types of habitats, apes and natural branches with leaves too. beyond the entrance, a small stage and to the right takes you to animals hung up for the giraffes to munch The gorillas all had burlap bags greets you with a beaver and a handler that prefer more desert conditions. on. In one of the monkey enclosures, filled with food on their laps (lettuce who explains his behavior, while the On a hot day, you’ll enjoy walking we observed a female handler trying and what looked like long stalks of animal calmly eats and stares at the through the shaded, vegetated paths to take some pictures of the nets some plant) and were happily seated crowd.