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MCA BOARD Notes From the OF DIRECTORS John Spillane, President President’s Desk Claire Coyle, Vice President John Spillane—MCA President Joe Miller, Treasurer Joy Howes, Secretary of one of these vehicles won’t take us million. In Manatee County, a tornado Jo Evans Hi Folks, to trial at some point in the future. If with winds reaching 127 mph swept Marilyn Maleckas I’d like to bring you up to date that were to happen, we would surely through Duette, 40 miles southeast of Bruce Ferretti on some of the important issues and be doomed to lose, as the appeals Tampa, killing two people and injuring Dr. Bart Levenson events happening in our wonderful court has jurisdiction over the lower five others, four of them children under Malcolm Hay community—first off rezoning. trial courts. A trial judge has to follow 10. Farther south, a line of severe those appellate decisions. thunderstorms swept through the Naples COMMITTEES Rezoning application Our legal counsel recommended area with wind gusts topping 80 mph. Assembly of Property Owners awaits planning that the MCA Board amend the Floridians have come to expect Joy Howes, Chairperson commission hearing Declaration of Restrictions to clarify hurricanes as their severe weather event. Claire Coyle, Liaison and address the issue by either But, with a stronger-than-usual El Niño Budget and Finance After many months of working allowing personal-use pick-up trucks effect in the Pacific, we can expect a Jerry Schwarzkopf, Chairperson out details, answering questions, and to park overnight or not. The language lighter hurricane season. Unfortunately, Joe Miller, Liaison fine tuning, The Meadows rezoning must be clear and unambiguous and that also means severe weather activity Emergency Preparedness application has been accepted reflect the character of the community. can result in tornados. Sue Pound, Chairperson by Sarasota County Planning & Once the Board hears the Restric- The Meadows Emergency Bruce Ferretti, Liaison Development Services. The next tions Committee’s recommendation, Preparedness Committee meets during Maintenance step in the process will be a planning directors will make a decision to the spring and summer months to focus Jo Evans, Chairperson commission hearing that could take either allow or not allow these on procedures in the aftermath of a Marilyn Maleckas, Liaison place later this month or next. vehicles to park in single-family hurricane. On February 16, Emergency Memorial Garden The Country Club will present the home driveways overnight. Either Prep Chair Sue Pound called a special John Spillane, Chairperson completed Development Concept Plan way, the Declarations and Rules will meeting to discuss what Meadows for the club area, and we will present be amended. Condo association rules residents should do in the minutes prior Restrictions the MCA’s proposed plan modification and restrictions will not be affected. to a tornado strike. She also enlisted Phil Hughes, Chairperson Malcolm Hay, Liaison of the 9.2 acres, which will allow up to Associations should be aware, Ed McCrane, chief of emergency 14 new homes in the small subdivision, however, that they could also find management for Sarasota County, to
Safety and zoning for a small office site at themselves the defendant in such a bring the committee up to speed on how John Spillane, Chairperson 17th Street and Hammock Place. Joy Howes, Liaison lawsuit should they choose to maintain to know ahead of time when a tornado Kobernick-Anchin-Benderson plans or enact stricter rules regarding where is about to hit and how to prepare. to add 100 independent living units to personal-use pick-up trucks may park. This was valuable information for the The Meadoword their facility as well. In the meantime, committee to share with the community. MCA Manager Jay Brady, MCA It’s not just hurricanes Photo Show, a success Community News Source of The Meadows Board Member Marilyn Maleckas, Initiated in 1983 anymore and I will meet with representatives The Photo Show Committee Publisher, MCA: Jay Brady, Manager from TMCC and Kobernick each On January 17 in the early hosted the 34th Annual Amateur Photo Managing Editor/Designer: Mary Jo Gord Assistant Editor: Carlene Cobb month to exchange ideas and formulate morning hours, an EF2-rated tornado Competition & Show the last weekend Advertising Manager: Mary Jo Gord plans for the future of The Meadows. with winds reaching 132 mph touched of February, exhibiting the top 200 Proofreaders: Kathy Gibson, down on Siesta Key, damaging homes images. More than $3000 in prizes, Ginny Coveney, Sandy Truman Pick-up truck parking and businesses. Sarasota Fire Rescue made possible by the generous support Distribution: MCA issue moves forward reported multiple rescues. The county of many Meadows local businesses, MEADOWS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION Emergency Operations Center said were awarded in color and black and 2004 Longmeadow At the last MCA Board meeting, preliminary damage assessments white categories. Thank you to all our Sarasota, Florida 34235 a number of residents voiced their indicated 45 properties suffered sponsors and volunteers who helped Phone 377-2300 • Fax 377-2248 [email protected] opposition to the possible change of combined damage of more than $3 make this another great Meadows event. http://www.themeadowssarasota.org our rules to allow non-commercial, personal-use pick-up truck parking Submission Guidelines in single-family home driveways overnight, from 11:00 pm to 5:00 am. Letters to the Editor • Letters must be signed and include Current rules allow pick-ups to be a return address. in driveways in all other hours. The • Issues must be of interest to a large portion of The Meadows. reason for review of this rule was on • Obscene or derogatory remarks will the recommendation of MCA’s legal not be published. counsel, who pointed out it would be • We reserve the right to edit letters in the interest of space or to refuse difficult for the MCA to successfully publication. defend itself if challenged by a Articles and Monthly Columns lawsuit over the current rule regarding We welcome submissions from our personal-use pick-up trucks. Meadows residents for publication in The rules now in place were The Meadoword. Articles should be of general interest to the community. adopted in 1984 by the then MCA We copy edit all articles for accuracy, Board of Directors to prohibit content, style, and length and will not publish articles that contain offensive “trucks.” There was no definition of material or inaccurate information. Ar- what constituted a “truck.” The rule ticles must be received by the posted addressed pick-up trucks, but does deadline for publication in the following month’s edition. not address personal-use pick-up, All submissions are published at the which are very popular these days as discretion of the Editor and the MCA. passenger vehicles. Based on two recent appellate Subscription Rates court cases held in Florida, the The subscription rate for The Meadoword homeowner associations in question reflects a cost due to recent increases in post- lost their attempts to ban pick-up age, labor, and materials: trucks. We could, of course, hide our USA...... $2.00 per month Canada...... $3.50 per month heads in the sand and leave the rule as Foreign...... $6.25 per month is, hoping an unhappy resident owner The Meadoword • March 2016 3
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G4S Safety Patrol 809-0084
NEXT MEETING of the Safety Safety Committee Prevention is the best protection March 7, 2:00 pm, MCA John Spillane—Chairperson All residents encouraged to attend
January activity up 12 Grand theft: thief rides away with bike Safety office on Honore Avenue. and I were at the scene of two of these percent from December They are confident this individual break-ins, even before responding On Wednesday, January 20, a was the perpetrator in a number of deputies, to offer assistance to them During the month of January, resident of Chartwell Green reported these burglaries. These break-ins were and the residents if needed. The there were 92 reported incidents, 10 that person(s) unknown removed a unusual in that the targeted residences investigating detectives did a great more than in December. There was man’s bicycle from the community were in the same subdivision and were job in putting together a profile of only 1 incident-free day. The Safety bike rack. The bike was chained and probably occurring weekly during the the burglar, and the arrest was made Patrol issued 221 citations for various locked to the rack, but the chain had month of January. Meadows Safety quickly and efficiently. Hopefully, the violations such as illegally parked been cut. The value of the bike was Patrol, MCA Manager Jay Brady, rest of the year will be less intensive. vehicles, garbage violations, and open estimated at approximately $700. garage doors. Burglary-structure: intruder forces en- . Burglary-structure: nothing missing try; exits quickly On Tuesday, January 5, a resident On Monday, January 25, at 10:15 of Ringwood Meadow reported am, residents of Ringwood Meadow that person(s) unknown entered the reported they heard glass break in residence through a living room a rear bedroom. They discovered a window and rummaged through all broken window and signs that an the drawers in the residence. Nothing unknown person(s) had forcibly appears to be missing or damaged at entered and exited the residence. this time. Dresser drawers appeared ajar, but Petit theft: lawn chairs taken nothing appears missing at this time. The Sheriff’s Office was notified and On Saturday, January 9, a resident was investigating. of Longwater Chase reported that Modus Operandi? person(s) unknown removed two lawn chairs from outside the residence. The Merriam-Webster’s definition Top 1% Sarasota Realtor total value of the items was estimated of modus operandi is A usual way For Sale In THE HIGHLANDS at approximately $80.00. of doing something; the usual way Windsor Park—Private Oasis with 400SqFt artist’s studio/bonus room ...... $574K that a particular criminal performs a Scarborough Common—Million-dollar lake and golf views ...... $495K Burglary-structure: dirty intruder breaks Highland Oaks Cir—Pool home with lake and golf views ...... $449K crime; A distinct pattern or method of window and leaves mess Highland Oaks Cir—Pool home with golf views and sunsets ...... $439K operation that indicates or suggests the Highland Park—Luxuriously updated villa ...... SOLD! On Wednesday, January 13, work of a single criminal in more than Hadfield Greene—Maintenance-free villa with lake and golf views ...... PENDING Hadfield Greene—Spotless, cheerful and move-in ready! ...... $384K a resident of Ringwood Meadow one crime. For Sale ELSEWHERE reported that sometime between 9:30 You might have noticed that all Sandringham—Cheerful, maintenance-free home with golf views ...... $360K am and 5:00 pm, person(s) unknown four of the above listed burglaries broke a dining room window and were on Ringwood Meadow. In fact, FERNANDO VITERI • Realtor/Resident entered the residence. Mud was they were all in the Villas of Papillion Call 941.400.7676 observed on the floor going from the subdivision. They occurred in broad window to the bedrooms. Nothing daylight, and entry into the homes was [email protected] Premier Sotheby’s International Realty Indep. Owned & Operated appears to be missing at this time. similar. Once the burglar was inside, Burglary-structure: dirty burglar again? he left dirt tracks on the carpeting, opened dresser drawers, but oddly, did On Thursday, January 14 at 9:36 not take anything. Apparently, he was am, a Sarasota County Sheriff’s deputy only interested in cash and possibly observed a screen off a window at jewelry—things he could stuff in his a residence on Ringwood Meadow pocket. PHONE NUMBERS and notified The Meadows Safety The points of entry were concealed Patrol office. The deputies and Safety by decorative foliage around the ACUPUNCTURE PHYSICIAN, DR. BRENDA 955-1220 ANGELIC TOUCH MASSAGE THERAPY 378-2232 officers met with the home owner and window, and this foliage easily FULL SPECTRUM OPTICAL 343-7720 found dirt on the interior floor near concealed him as he worked to get in. GOLDEN DAISY CAFE 371-3354 the window, suggesting unknown The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office KOBERNICK-ANCHIN-BENDERSON 377-0781 person(s) had entered the residence. was notified in all these cases, and LIGHTHOUSE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 388-7109 Nothing appears to be damaged or after the last break-in on January 25, MASSAGE THERAPY, TERRI MAGDALINSKI 378-4101 THE MEADOWORD 377-2300 missing at this time. detectives had a pattern they could THE MEADOWS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 377-2300 Grand theft: items removed from lanai work with to try to solve these cases. THE MEADOWS COUNTRY CLUB 371-6000 In the meantime, The Meadows MEADOWS GOLF PRO SHOP 378-5153 HIGHLANDS GOLF PRO SHOP 371-0982 On Monday, January 18, a resident Safety Patrol had increased their RACQUET CLUB PRO SHOP 378-5265 of Chanteclaire reported that person(s) patrols through that area and began MEADOWS DENTAL ASSOCIATES 377-3659 unknown removed several items from noting vehicles that did not belong or MEADOWS REAL ESTATE 556-9440 the front lanai of the residence. The just seemed unusual. They became MEADOWS SAFETY PATROL (G4S SAFETY PATROL) 809-0084 victim discovered the items missing suspicious of a landscaping vehicle and MEADOWS VILLAGE PUB 342-5050 MONA LISA RESTAURANT 377-6562 on January 15, but waited to report noted its activities. One day after the MOUNT VERNON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, INC. 371-3494 them missing until it was confirmed the last burglary, our chief of security met NATURAL HEALING CENTER 377-4325 painters had not removed them. Four with plainclothes deputies and supplied RAINDROPS & MORE 343-0777 SALON FRANCISCO in The 444-9616 handcrafted wall plaques, four metal them with the license plate of the plant racks, one welcome mat, and two suspected vehicle. SUNTRUST BANK 554-3901 TARPON POINT NURSING AND REHABILITATION 377-0022 tile-top tables were removed with a On January 28, the Sheriff’s Office VIP TRAVEL 377-0017 total estimated value of $1,000.00. arrested the suspect at The Meadows Meadows DONE -- MJ The Meadoword • March 2016 5 Safety, continued from previous Schemes, Scams, and Cons… And how they try to take your money!
it’s often late at night or early in the Never wire money to anyone a routine check of the pumps showed Hey, this is your morning when most people aren’t based on a request made over the the red anti-tampering tape was grandson calling—I need thinking that clearly. Usually, the phone or in an email…especially missing. person claims to be traveling in a overseas. Wiring money is like giving It’s unknown how long the device money! Don’t tell Dad foreign country and has gotten into cash—once you send it, you can’t get was on the inside of the pump. Police a bad situation—like being arrested it back. encourage people who recently used Last month, one our more for drugs, getting in a car accident, the gas station to check their bank savvy Meadows residents, told or being mugged—and needs money Gas station skimmers statements. me about a strange phone call he wired ASAP. And the caller doesn’t surface in Sarasota area This was the second device found recently received. On the other want his or her parents to know. at a local gas station in February. end of the conversation was a con Sometimes, instead of the Some time back, I wrote about a Police also found a credit card artist pretending to be this fellow’s “grandchild” making the phone device thieves install on a gas station skimmer planted inside a pump at the grandson. This person tried to get call, the criminal pretends to pump that replaces the standard Marathon gas station off Washington the resident to believe he was his be an arresting police officer, a credit card device. When you insert Boulevard. They reported it could “grandson,” who was in some kind lawyer, a doctor at a hospital, or your credit card to pay for your have been there for months of trouble and needed money wired some other person. We’ve also gas purchase, it records all your Police also said you should check to him immediately. Our resident not received complaints about the information and you drive away not the red anti-tampering tape when only didn’t fall for the scam, he let phony grandchild talking first and knowing what just happened. you pump gas, and if it is missing or the con artist spill his entire tale and then handing the phone over to an There haven’t been any instances damaged, should let employees know let him believe he bought the story. accomplice…to further spin the fake of this happening nearby The immediately. Then the bomb dropped, and the con tale. Meadows recently until now. Last Anyone with information on artist hung up frustrated. Score one It’s commonly called the Grandparent month, Sarasota police reported that this case can call the Sarasota Police for the “good guys.” Scam, but cons may claim to be a family a skimming device was found inside Department, Criminal Investigation This is an example of what’s come friend, a niece, nephew, or another a gas pump at an Exxon gas station, Division at 316-1199 or leave an to be known as “The Grandparent family member just to get your money located at 1841 S. Tamiami Trail in anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers Scam”—yet another fraud that preys Sarasota. Sarasota police officers at 366-TIPS (8477) or online at www. on the elderly were called by store employees after sarasotacrimestoppers.com. And this one takes advantage of grandparents’ love and concern for their grandchildren. Funeral Advantage Program, a really good You’re a grandparent, and you get a phone call or an email from deal…if you’re the underwriter someone who identifies himself as your grandson. “I’ve been arrested in another country,” he says, “and need I became suspicious about a health condition. Federal Medicare Program nor money wired quickly to pay my bail. “Funeral Advantage” mailing that I think this whole mail piece any state agency is affiliated with And, oh by the way, don’t tell my came to my home recently. It’s a is deceptive. There is no clue, nor endorses the company or its mom or dad because they’ll only get very official-looking notice called unless you read the very fine print representatives. That wording upset!” Funeral Advantage Program on the other side, that this is a just seems designed to deceive or The grandparent scam has been Assists Seniors. I’ve seen these a promotion from an insurance confuse. It should have started, around for a few years—the Internet before; perhaps Neither the U.S. Crime Complaint Center has been you have, too. Government… receiving reports about it since 2008. But beware! If you But the scam and scam artists have Here is what it investigate and become more sophisticated. says: calculate the What are these guys thinking? WE ARE premium costs of Wouldn’t they think you would PLEASED TO such insurance, recognize your own grandson’s ANNOUNCE: you’ll learn that voice… or maybe your grandson’s You may the “deal” is likely only three…or maybe you don’t even qualify for to be a great deal have a grandson? the Funeral for the insurance Advantage company—not the Well, thanks to the Internet and Program that average consumer. social networking sites, criminals will pay your Typically, you are more convincing because family in the would pay MORE they sometimes uncover personal event of your in premiums over information about their targets, which death an your expected makes the impersonations more insurance cash lifetime than a life believable and more convincing. benefit up to insurance company For example, maybe the grandson $20,000 TAX would eventually mentioned on his social networking FREE. pay out to your site that he’s a photographer who MANY family for your final often travels to Mexico. When the FLORIDA arrangements. I’m con artist contacts his grandparents, RESIDENTS AGE 50-85 have company. The return address is guessing your heirs would have the phony grandson might say, “I’m been accepted so far for this neutral—PROCESSING CENTER, twice the money to spend on a calling from Mexico. Someone stole program—created to help pay PO BOX 226555, DALLAS, funeral or celebration of life party, my camera equipment and passport.” for one’s funeral and any other TX 75222-9760—and, the form courtesy of you, if you forego the in The The usual M.O. [method of operation] final expenses. To SEE IF YOU really looks like something from a gamble and just invest your money QUALIFY, mail this postage-paid government office. conservatively. A grandparent receives a phone card today. There is no charge for Here’s how the fine print on the In my opinion, at worst this call (or sometimes an email) from this information. Currently, you back of the mailer begins: is a “legal” scam, and at best just Meadows a “grandchild.” If it’s a phone call, may qualify even if you have a The U.S. Government, the another piece of junk mail. 6 The Meadoword • March 2016 Assembly Unpaid MCA Annual Assessments Are Past Due Committee The 2016 MCA Annual Assessment was mailed in January, and you should have received it by February 1, 2016. Community forum continues at March meeting This Assessment is your Master Association fee, due Joy Howes—Chairperson yearly—not your sub-HOA or condo fee.
The topic of our Assembly enough of it! But, I love to see PAYMENT WAS DUE MARCH 1, 2016 of Properly Owners meeting in the involvement of our residents • If you did not receive the Assessment, contact the MCA February was dedicated to the and all the wonderful things that office at 941-377-2300 to arrange payment and to conditions of our roofs. Many of happen in our wonderful “park”— confirm your correct mailing address. our residents have great concerns The Meadows. So please come about the maintenance of their and enjoy our Assembly meetings. • If you recently purchased a home in The Meadows roofs—regardless of whether they See your neighbors, bring but did not receive the Assessment, contact the MCA are new or old. Forums held at our your neighbors, and meet new office ASAP to verify/arrange payment and to update our future meetings will also include neighbors. Meetings are the third records. discussions about our homes and Wednesday of the month, except living in The Meadows. for June through September and • If you recently sold a home in The Meadows and The March Assembly December. received the Assessment for that property, please Meeting’s featured speaker will Delegates, your presence is contact the MCA office ASAP so we can send the be Meadows Country Club Board always important at our meetings. Assessment to the new owner. of Directors President Gordon You are needed to get things done! Cummings. Please come, listen, Please remember to sign in when • Unpaid assessments are subject to late fees and interest and bring all your questions. you arrive. and may be referred to our attorneys for collection proceedings this month. Lastly, I would like to re- I look forward to seeing introduce myself. Many of you you all at our next meeting on All owners (including new owners) must pay the 2016 already know that I have been March 16, 7:00 pm, at the MCA Assessment, which was due March 1, 2016. involved with the MCA for many Community Center. years. I just can’t seem to get If you have not paid your assessment, if you have questions, or if any one of the above applies to you, please contact Lisa Compton at 941-377-2300 or email NEXT MEETING of the [email protected]. Assembly of Property Owners ~ The Meadows Community Association Feature Guest Speaker Gordon Cummings Board President, The Meadows Country Club March 16, 7:00 pm MCA Community Center Delegates, please sign in when you arrive
2016 Deadlines for The Meadoword
This Schedule is subject to change. Deadlines may be moved up to accommodate for holidays or other extenuating circumstance that may impact production. Deadlines for camera-ready ads fall about the 8th to 10th of the month prior to publication, depending on how the press date falls. Deadlines for new advertisers and ad changes are two business days prior to the camera-ready deadline. Deadlines that fall on a weekend or holiday are moved to the previous business day.
2016 Issue Contracts/ New Ads/ CR Ads/ Classifieds Articles/ Payments Changes/ MCA Columns Submissions Feb Jan 6 Jan 6 Jan 8 Jan 13 Jan 8
Mar** Feb 3 Feb 3** Feb 5** Feb 11** Feb 5 Apr Mar 4 Mar 4 Mar 8 Mar 11 Mar 8 May Apr 4 Apr 4 Apr 8 Apr 13 Apr 8 Jun May 5 May 5 May 9 May 13 May 9 July Jun 6 Jun 6 Jun 8 Jun 13 Jun 8 Aug Jul 6 Jul 6 Jul 8 Jul 13 Jul 8 Sep Aug 5 Aug 5 Aug 8 Aug 13 Aug 8 Oct Sep 7 Sep 7 Sep 9 Sep 13 Sep 9 Nov** Oct 5 Oct 5** Oct 7** Oct 13 Oct 7 Dec** Nov 3 Nov 3** Nov 7** Nov 11** Nov 7 Jan 2017** Dec 2 Dec 2** Dec 5** Dec 12** Dec 5 **Note: These dates are moved up to accommodate for February, Thanksgiving, and Christmas holidays and extenuating circumstances. DONE -- MJ The Meadoword • March 2016 7 AIR DUCT CLEANING What’s Happening? 7 Air Duct Special • $119.00 Backwards and Forwards Additional vents $9.95 ea Reg. $19.95 ea, good thru 12/31/16 Jay Brady, AICP, CAM, CMCA—MCA Manager
DRYER VENT Looking back at the receives, thereby helping to reduce Government activities year 2015 to 2016 crime and keep our community a safer CLEANING place to live and play. Our good relations with our $79.95 The following summary is a In 2015, we continued to have Sarasota County government continued KEN WELLS • AIR DUCT snapshot of some of what you might one of the safest Sarasota County in 2015. MCA Manager Jay Brady CLEANING SERVICE find in the Annual Report, which will communities, thanks to the work of and MCA President John Spillane CALL 941-329-6574 be available at the MCA’s Annual the committee and our Safety Patrol appeared at a county commission ROTARY BRUSH-VACUUM Meeting on March 7. headed by Major Dean Sutton and meeting in Venice, along with other CLEANING SYSTEM Captain Tami Jack. Thanks also goes Meadows’ residents, to request that ADDITIONAL SERVICES Maintenance Committee AVAILABLE—SANITIZING & to Sheriff’s deputy Neil Scully, who the designation of Honore Avenue be ELECTROSTATIC FILTERS This committee of dedicated has since retired, and detective Vince changed from a mobility corridor to LIC. #30208, #117470 • INSURED volunteers, chaired by MCA Board Riva of the Sarasota County Sheriff’s a mulitmodal corridor to keep it from member Jo Evans, contributed to the Office for their help. becoming a five-lane road. This stretch beautification of The Meadows in 2015 The Committee was instrumental of Honore has been on the county’s PACKAGE in many ways. in the purchase of an additional speed 2025 road plan for many years. At our Routine projects, such as continued radar sign and the MCA Board’s request, the county commission passed SPECIAL improvements to our flower beds, approval for lowering the speed limit a motion directing its staff to study the vine removal, and tree trimming were on the east part of Ringwood Meadow issue. $50.00 OFF DRYER completed. Major accomplishments last year. One of the two radar signs So far, more than 1,900 Meadows VENT CLEANING WITH included: was recently moved to Highlands residents and others have signed a AIR DUCT CLEANING • Paving and striping the remaining Bridge Road. petition to the county commission nine miles of private roadways that Fining Committee requesting the change. The study SERVICE were not paved three years ago has been recently completed, and • Replacing the 17th Street entrance In 2015, the Florida Legislature the MCA’s planning and engineering VALID WITH sign changed how fining procedures are consultant, whom we lined-up in COUPON ONLY • Rebuilding the pedestrian bridge handled, making it a two-step process advance, is reviewing it. Offer expires 12/31/16 from the sports field south of High- with the MCA Board of Directors, now We communicated with county Ken Wells • Air Duct/Dryer lands Bridge Road involved in the first step of the process, staff on the proposed amendment to • Repaving the Somerset Walkway followed by either confirmation or The Meadows Master Plan, and the Vent Cleaning Service • Making safety improvements to rejection of any recommended fine by plan is going through final review the Hunt Club entrance, sidewalks in a three-member panel of non-board and then will go before the Sarasota 941-329-6574 the Penshurst Park area, and repair- members. The board and the fining County Planning Commission. ing Ringwood Meadow by The panel took up five cases when it met on MCA Manager Jay Brady and MCA Meadows Shopping Village using a January 28. President John Spillane met with new, more aesthetically pleasing and Emergency Preparedness Committee the director of county parks to begin Deadlines** for the ADA-compliant technique discussions about improvements to APR 2016 issue: • Adding enhancements to the two The Emergency Prep Committee, the Athletes Drive entrance to Nathan Display Advertising—contact butterfly gardens led by Sue Pound, continues to Benderson Park. The Meadoword Editor • Executing a new contract for be ready for any emergency that fertilization and pest control comes our way. MCA staff prepared Moving forward… • New and revised display ads Bids are now being taken for emergency plan notebooks for area are due FRI, MAR 4 Honore Avenue and I-75 Flyover replacement of the border fence along leaders and folders for all committee Study Report Delayed • Camera-ready display ads are the south end of Glebe Farm Road just members. New emergency radios due TUE, MAR 8 east of Woodmans Chart. with better range were purchased. The MCA continues to have its Editorial Content—contact The Restrictions Committee Emergency agreements were executed consultant on standby to review the Meadoword Editor with The Meadows Country Club and county’s report and recommendations • Articles and columns are due The Restrictions Committee, with The Wright Way, a local water removal on the corridor designation and TUE, MAR 8 new Chairman Phil Hughes, was very company. location for the proposed I-75 flyover active; nearly 300 applications were A new emergency generator was from Lakewood Ranch to North • Letters to the Editor are due processed again last year. installed to serve the community rooms Cattlemen Road. Expected by the end TUE, MAR 8 The MCA has processed more than side of the MCA building and the of January, the report was still not Classified Ads—contact The 3600 applications in the last 18 years. computer server. A structural integrity available as we went to press. MCA Reception Desk Chairman Hughes and MCA Manager analysis of the MCA building was Meadows residents continue to • Classifieds are due FRI, MAR 11 Jay Brady visited each site, and completed, which showed the building add their names to the petition to worked with applicants who applied is structurally sound, but that hurricane change the designation of Honore For more information, call for exterior changes. shutters would be an added layer of Avenue through The Meadows. Please 377-2300 The rules for real estate signs protection in the event of a very strong continue to voice your opinion to ** NOTE: Deadlines for camera- were amended, and the committee wind. MCA staff is preparing cost the county commissioners. Contact ready ads are on or about the 10th was assigned by the MCA Board of estimates for the shutters and their commissioners at 1600 Ringling of the month prior to publication. Directors to recommend changes to the storage. Boulevard, Sarasota, FL 34236, call When the 10th falls on a weekend restrictions limiting overnight parking The committee has been able to 861-5344, or email: or holiday, the deadline is the of non-commercial pick-up trucks. maintain interest in the CERT and • Chairman Alan Maio, amaio@ previous business day. New adver- Safety Committee CPR/AED classes. scgov.net tiser ads and revised ads are due New committee members are still • Vice Chairman Paul Caragiulo, two days prior to camera-ready MCA Board Chairman John needed so we have coverage in most [email protected] ads. Deadlines may be moved up Spillane has chaired the Safety of our neighborhoods. The committee • Commissioner Carolyn Mason, as necessary to accommodate Committee since 2009. The committee meets throughout most of the year and [email protected] production and press requirements works together with the G4S Safety has programs and presentations by • Commissioner Christine for Thanksgiving and Christmas Patrol and the Sarasota County experts in the field. Sarasota County Robinson, [email protected] holidays, the month of February, Sheriff’s Office by discussing and Emergency Manager Ed McCrane Commissioner Charles Hines, and extenuating circumstances. analyzing each report and call for addressed the committee about [email protected] service that Meadows Safety Patrol tornados at the February meeting. 8 The Meadoword • March 2016
NEXT MEETING of the Emergency Prep Committee Emergency Prep March 8, 1:30 pm, MCA Please join us! Committee All residents encouraged to attend Be a little scared—so you will be prepared Sue Pound—Chairperson Stay connected— It’s hard to believe it’s Tornado App that provides alerts already March of an approaching storm and Sign up gives simple step-by-step advice But spring is on the way, and on how to prepare and what to for CodeRED as predicted, El Niño has really do; a Hurricane App that tracks affected our weather. As I write hurricanes and monitors conditions Sarasota County reminds this column, we have already in your area or throughout the residents to sign up for its free had two tornados touch down in storm track; and a Shelter App that emergency notification system Florida and a much colder winter tells you when and where shelters than normal. are open for assistance. Last month, The Meadoword just minutes after an alert is issued Because of these factors, Last month’s issue included a touched on Sarasota County’s by the National Weather Service. I felt it necessary to call an piece about these emergency alerts emergency alert system, Register for CodeRED now to Emergency Prep Committee available from the Red Cross as CodeRED, as a way to stay ensure you have access to this meeting last month to discuss well as one offered by Sarasota informed. After you sign up on essential preparedness tool as soon the weather changes. We had a County called CodeRED. This the county’s website, the system as Sarasota County activates it. fantastic speaker, Ed McCrane month, Sarasota County sent out alerts you with phone calls, emails, CodeRED is free. To register from Sarasota County Emergency more detailed information on its or text messages if an impending for the alert system, visit Management, talk about what to do program (see story, this page), and emergency could impact your www.scgov.net, and click the and how to be prepared. it’s so important we take advantage neighborhood or business. As an CodeRED registration link under I was amazed at how many of these alert systems and heed the example, these alerts include water Emergency Services at the bottom people whom I spoke with warnings that it bears repeating. or sewer interruptions, missing of the page. Enter your first and disregarded the warning of the At our March 8 Emergency persons, and major traffic detours. last name, street address, city and approaching tornado in January. Prep meeting, we will talk about A message will play when state, zip code, and home phone I can’t emphasize enough how how to get more people in our you or your answering machine or and cell numbers. You can also add important it is to take these alerts community involved in emergency service answers your telephone. and delete phones. from your cell phone or emergency preparedness. The system makes three attempts A TDD ONLY option for radio seriously! Meetings are the second to connect to each number. To hear tone delivery in TDD/TTY format The American Red Cross has Tuesday of the month (March the most recent message delivered, is available for phone numbers several app downloads available through November), 1:30 pm, at call 866-419-5000. You can also marked TDD. for your iPhones or Androids the MCA. Hope to see you there! opt for text messages and email For more information, call the and tablets. For example, the alerts. Sarasota County Contact Center Sarasota County plans at 941-861-5000 and ask about soon to add a Weather Warning CodeRED registration. service to CodeRED, which will Would You Like to be an automatically notify registered Information provided by Sarasota citizens of tornado, flash flood, County Communications EMERGENCY VOLUNTEER? and severe thunderstorm warnings We Need YOU! I would like to volunteer for First Aid Committee Emergency Preparedness Committee Name______Address______Telephone______email______
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January 22–February 22—3.17 inches Year-to-Date—6.73 inches MCA Annual Meeting March 7, 2016 7:00 pm at the MCA Community Center DONE -- MJ The Meadoword • March 2016 9 If you have a pet… Restrictions Please consider the enjoyment of everyone, including your own and others’ pets Gardening…the Florida Vaccinate your pet against rabies—Florida law requires it Friendly Way: Part 2 Keep your pet confined or leashed at all times Phil Hughes—Chairperson Observe Sarasota County’s quiet hours from 11:00 pm to 7:00 am Pickup and dispose pet droppings in trash receptacles In the February issue of The Meadoword, I covered the first four of nine landscaping principles for Architectural gardening with “Florida-Friendly Review Commonly Observed Conditions Yards,” a pamphlet provided by the University of Florida IFAS Extension. Approved Applications That Require Maintenance This issue continues with the next four gardening tips that apply to all of us. 4742 Longwater Chase • Mildew on outside walls of homes 2815 Wrenwood Ct —Mildew and mildew-stained areas 5. Attract Wildlife outside your home should be pressure-washed and possibly painted. Pool 4641 Windsor Park cage frames also accumulate mildew and mold; be sure to keep these Friendly visitors, like butterflies 5357 Everwood Run areas clean as well. and beneficial insects, will enjoy your Meadows Shopping Village landscape if you provide food, water, 4832 Greencroft Rd • Dirty roofs and driveways—Roofs and driveways should be pressure and cover. Attract wildlife by following 4783 Ringwood Meadow washed regularly as needed. these tips: 2463 Arborfield Sq • Plant vines, shrubs, and trees to 4926 Marsh Field Rd • Bare areas in the lawn—Any areas that are void of grass should be create cover, nesting areas, and food. 3432 Highlands Bridge Rd reseeded or replaced with new sod. Now is a good time to do this work. • Provide a water source such as Chartwell Green Condo Assn a birdbath or small pond [if allowed Sandleheath Condo Assn • Dirty mailboxes and posts—Mailboxes and posts should be cleaned by your association guidelines; 4709 Harvest Bend and painted, if necessary. architectural approval may be required. 2984 Longleat Woods But don’t let it become a breeding 2914 Heather Bow • Missing house numbers that must be replaced—Sarasota County . 4741 Marsh Field Rd requires that all building numbers be readable and prominently placed ground for mosquitoes.] 2939 Longleat Woods where they can be easily seen. The Meadows Restrictions adhere to this • Provide wildlife shelters such as regulation. a bat house or birdhouse [if allowed by your association guidelines; • Trees that overhang sidewalks and streets—Overhanging trees not architectural approval may be pollutants, pesticides, and excess only are a nuisance, they also can cause problems if they obstruct the required]. fertilizers into bays, rivers, lakes, and view. The MCA requires you to prune and cut back any trees or bushes • Protect the health of wildlife ground water. Remember that what to prevent obstruction. visitors, limit pesticide use by spot- goes in your storm drain can find its treating only the areas that need way into our water sources. Follow attention. these tips to help reduce stormwater 6. Manage yard pests responsibly runoff from your yard: • Direct downspouts and gutters When it comes to pest into your lawn, plant beds, rain management, nature takes care of barrels, cisterns, or containment areas. itself. Misused pesticides in your yard • Use mulch, bricks, gravel, or can harm beneficial insects and also other porous surfaces for walkways, run off into waterways. Follow these patios, and driveways. tips when managing yard pests. • Sweep grass clippings, fertilizer, • Learn to identify beneficial and soil onto the lawn so they don’t get insects and let them do the work for washed into storm drains. you. • Clean up oil spills and leaks on • Be tolerant! Low levels of pests the driveway. Use cat litter to absorb will do minimal damage. oil. • Check plants regularly and prune • Pick up pet waste to help reduce off a plant’s infected areas or pick off bacterial and nutrient pollution. insects when possible. • Remove trash from street gutters • Use pesticides only to spot-treat before it gets washed into storm drains. plants and lawn areas. Avoid blanket • Use swales (low areas) to hold applications. and filter water. • Choose the least-toxic pesticides The ninth guideline involves such as horticultural oils, insecticidal homes that border Florida bays and soaps, and Bacillus thuringiensis (BT). waterways, so we won’t go into • Read and follow pesticide labels that here. But, in conclusion, we will carefully for safe use and disposal. mention caring for trees and bushes 7. Recycle during the colder months. The Many homeowners pay little Recycling your yard waste back attention to their trees and bushes onto your lawn and landscape can once colder weather arrives. Seasonal improve the fertility and water-holding maintenance during these months can MCA Annual ability of the soil and help aerate soil be beneficial, not only for the plants that has become compacted. but you as well. Prune trees and shrubs Meeting • There’s no need to bag or rake during the dormant cycle to ensure lawn clippings. Leave grass clippings they have a full growing season when March 7, 2016 on the lawn to recycle nitrogen. spring comes. • Use fallen leaves and pine * Information source: “9 Landscaping 7:00 pm at needles as mulch under trees and Principles for Florida-Friendly yards,” the MCA shrubs. published by University of Florida 8. Reduce Stormwater Runoff IFAS Extension, Florida Yards & Community Neighborhoods at FloridaYards.org and Stormwater runoff can carry fyn.ifas.ufl.edu. Center 10 The Meadoword • March 2016 MHOA Spring Forward… If you live alone and fall, the hours before you’re Daylight Saving Time BEGINS at found are crucial—stay connected; be safe 2:00 am on March 13—set your clocks Jan Lazar FORWARD ONE HOUR! My husband Jerry Lazar and not planned dinner that night, she I have lived in The Meadows part- might have died there on the floor. or full-time since 2001. Since Jerry As it was, she was on the floor for Who Watches Your Property usually moves opposite the more almost a full day by the time we usual direction, we moved last year went to check on her. When You Are Away? from our condo in Pipers Waite to If you live alone or are alone Consider someone who: a larger home with a pool and half- for hours at a time, make sure • Has a home watch business and carries liability insurance acre lot on Harvest Bend. Jerry is you have a medic alert system or • Has numerous references of satisfied Meadows clients • Has repair capability and is on call 24/7 for emergencies a full equity golf member of The actually have your cell phone on • Provides written record of every aspect of your home’s checkup Meadows Country Club; I am an your person at all times. If you fall • Is a Meadows resident and property owner for over 10 years avid bridge player and swimmer. and can’t get up, the hours until I have worked in mental health, someone finds you could be critical Call me to see why I say… in public sector and private sector to your health and welfare or even “There is no traffic jam on the extra mile” management and finance, and your survival. You should also served on a number of boards, make sure that someone who lives Hal Poschmann • 941.284.4315 usually as treasurer. I have my near you has a key to get inside [email protected] own business in financial and your home should you need help. management consulting, although I have cut back over the past several years. Someday, I may even retire. Following in the steps of Dick Become a member Plumb, who wrote for the MHOA of the MHOA for many years, I plan to write the it’s easy! monthly column. Hopefully, I will be able to offer informational help Any single-family homeowner and hints on a variety of topics. who does not already belong This month, I want to talk to another sub-HOA can join about something we all should the MHOA, which is separate think about… personal safety; it’s from The Meadows Community an important concern for all of us. Association, the master Most of us lock our doors when we association that all homeowners are going out, carry homeowners in The Meadows automatically and auto insurance, get regular belong to. medical and dental check-ups, If you would like to become and don’t walk at night in bad a new member or your neighborhoods. But safety can be membership has expired or will compromised in other less obvious expire soon, contact MHOA Sue Pound ways. Membership Director I recently had an experience for an application or renewal 941-552-6927 that made me think seriously about form. Call or email [email protected] the many people who live alone or .. who have spouses or partners who travel or work outside their homes. Cost for membership: A good friend, who is 69, fell $15, one year in her home and could not reach a $25, two years telephone. She has lived alone for $35, three years most of her life and is not a fan of $55, five years cell phones or texting. She lives on the other side of town from The MHOA is YOUR voice me, and we talk or see each other in the community! a couple of times a week. Had we DONE -- MJ The Meadoword • March 2016 11 Spring Begins The MARKET REPORT Sales numbers down in March 20! January; prices, up Dick Plumb
In The Meadows… (11,566) during the 12-month period ending January 31, 2015. The total number of sales (7) in The median sale price ($218,250) January 2016 for condominiums and also increased 13 percent from the houses combined was down from 12 prior year’s median ($190,833). in December and down from 15 in The listing supply* in January January 2015. The median sale price 2016 was 5.4 compared to 3.8 in ($173,000) in The Meadows during December and 5.4 in January 2015. January increased 4 percent from In brief, 12-month period ending December ($165,950) and decreased January 2016 vs. ending January 2015 19 percent from January 2015 ($214,000). By comparison, in The Meadows to The total number of sales (224) Sarasota County for the 12-month period over the 12-month period ending ending January 31, 2016 vs the same January 31, 2016, increased 15 period ending January 31, 2015, all sales percent over sales (190) during the numbers and median sale prices increased. 12-month period ending January 31, 2015. Condominium sales (170) The Meadows: were up 15 percent and house sales Total sales (224) ^15%. (54), up 15 percent in 2015. How Total median sale price ($182,550) about prices? Condominium prices Condominium sales (170) ^ 7% (median $159,675) were up 6 percent Median condo sale price ($159,675) ^ 6% and houses (median $320,000), up 5 House sales (54) ^ 15% percent. Median house sale price ($320,000) ^ 5% The listing supply* in January Residential property for sale (76) 2016 was 10.9 months compared to 11/1/15-1/31/16; prior 3 months (35) 4.7 in December and 5.4 months in 8/1/15-10/31/15 January 2015. Sarasota County: How do these figures compare to Total sales (12,253) ^ 6% Sarasota County sales? Median sale price ($218,250) ^ 13% Total number of sales (735) in Condominium sales (3810) ^ 6% January 2016 for condos and houses Median house sale price ($199,900) ^ 8% combined was down 20 percent from Total house sales (8443) ^ 6% December and, basically, the same as Median sale price ($226,125) ^ 14%. January 2015 (737 condos and houses). Residential property for sale (3984) The median sale price was $229,000 in 11/1/15-1/31/16; prior 3 months (3115) January 2016, $234,000 in December 8/1/15-10/31/15 2015, and $189,000 in January 2015. * Number of months the current supply of Total sales (12,253) over the property on the market for sale will last if no 12-month period ending January 31, new listings are added. 2016, increased 6 percent from sales
Sales/Activity, Houses/Condos, in The Meadows As of January 31, 2016* Condos Houses • January sales...... 7...... 0 • Property available for sale...... 57...... 19 • Property available for sale (distressed)...... 2...... 1 • Property with pending contracts...... 24...... 4 • Median sale price...... $173,000...... …$00 • Median price of property for sale...... $193,500.....$390,000 • Median price of property with pending contracts...... $194,400.....$417,450 The January 2016 listing supply was 10.9 months (4.7 months in December). 6.0 is considered a healthy market As of December 31, 2015 • December sales...... 8...... 4 • Property available for sale...... 42...... 14 • Property available for sale (distressed)...... 4...... 1 • Property with pending contracts...... 13...... 5 • Median sale price...... $146,950.....$423,750 • Median price property for sale...... $209,938.....$377,500 • Median price of property with pending contracts...... $175,000.....$409,900 As of January 2015 • January 2015 sales...... 9...... 6 • Property available for sale...... 44...... 17 • Property available for sale (distressed)...... 2...... 3 • Property with pending contracts...... 19...... 4 • Median sale price...... $150,000.....$285,000 • Median price of property for sale...... $179,900.....$339,000 • Median price of property with pending contracts...... $169,500.....$319,000 * Information is obtained from My Florida Regional MLS & Sarasota Assoc. of Realtors. Note: Occasionally there is a slight change in figures because late reporting to the MLS 12 The Meadoword • March 2016 The Meadows Community loses renowned “Bird Man” Owen Comora Sarasota Audubon Society dedicates “Owen’s Grove” at Nature Center Gardens on March 12
Owen Stanley Comora passed Pierian Spring Academy, the Sarasota away on January 27. He was 84. Audubon Society, and Road Scholars. A graduate of Utica College in He logged more than 5,000 volunteer New York, Owen lived with his wife hours at Myakka River State Park, Betty in Paramus, New Jersey. They where he created the Bird Naturalists’ moved to The Meadows in 1999. program and was honored as Senior They were introduced to Sarasota Volunteer of the Year in 2009 and in 1994 when they accompanied 2010. filmmaker Ken Burns to honor local In The Meadows, he was well- baseball great Buck O’Neil, a star known for his annual lectures at the player and coach for the American MCA Community Center and field Negro League, whom Burns featured trips to the Celery Fields. in his PBS documentary Baseball. Most recently, Owen organized a The Comoras were profiled in June volunteer program with the Sarasota 2008 issue of The Meadoword. Audubon Society at the Celery Fields Prior for volunteers to retiring to help visitors in The identify the Meadows, variety of Owen worked birds that more than frequent the 40 years in fields. New York as The an executive Sarasota in television Chapter of public the Audubon relations. will install At NBC, he World-class birder Owen Comora at the “Owen’s conducted Sarasota Audubon Bird-a-Thon K-12, Grove” in the public team leader for the 4- through 8-year-olds gardens at the relations Nature Center campaigns for numerous television on Saturday, March 12 at 11:00 am. series and mini-series and covered The Owen Comora Memorial Fund five Democratic and Republican has been established for upkeep of the National Conventions. Through his gardens and the Sarasota Audubon own company, he worked for more Nature Center. than 10 years with filmmaker Ken Donations are accepted in his Burns on PBS series like The Civil name at both the Sarasota Audubon War, Baseball, and Lewis & Clark. Society and Tidewell Hospice House In his early years with an ad agency, in Sarasota. he led Rod Serling on his first press To make a donation to the tour to promote the premiere of The Sarasota Audubon Society in Owen’s Twilight Zone. honor, send your check to the Owen, an avid birder since his organization at 999 Center Road, early teens, became an avid birding Sarasota, FL 34240, or visit www. volunteer in retirement. He was sarasotaaudubon.org and click the named Volunteer of the Year by the DONATE button in the top menu Sarasota Audubon Society in 2013 navigation panel. On the donation in recognition of his outstanding page, click the Donate to the Owen commitment to the preservation Comora Memorial Fund. of our environment and natural Owen is survived by his wife, resources. He lectured and led birding Betty, three children, and four field trips for different organizations grandchildren. He will be greatly in the community, among them, missed in The Meadows. DONE -- MJ The Meadoword • March 2016 13
Twenty-Third Annual MCA Meadows Art Show Inspirator Celebration of Fine Arts Marjorie (Marnie) Denham March 12 and 13• 10:00 am–4:00 pm Passed in January MCA Community Center • 2004 Longmeadow Just as He wrote organizers a 2012 article of the about the annual MCA Celebration of Call Celebration Fine Arts that Marilyn Maleckas of Fine Arts Marnie was “...a Meadows Realtor—Meadows Resident finished their most talented meeting floral arranger Cell: 941-400-2081 and began and connoisseur to make of fine art. After 4906 MARSH FIELD ROAD—Updated single-family home. Wood flooring, crown molding, preparations attending the 5528chef’s Chanteclaire.kitchen. Solar-heated Bautiful pool privately 3/2 surrounded immaculate by lush vegetation. villa in desired for the show … scene of Chanteclaire.Custom closets, new Golf windows, course freshly views painted. from Much more... glassed ...... in lanain, fresh$359,000 this month, art shows in paint,4952 GREENCROFT new carpeting,—Well-maintained, epoxied updatedgarage single-family flooring, home. ExtraLow large condo rooms, fees , committee the Sarasota newglassed paver lanai driveways,overlooks private walkways pool and lush gardensand courtyards, which act as bird place sanctuary this. Updated villa kitchen, family room, vaulted ceilings, 3 spacious bedrooms...... $299,900 members area…,” she saw amongst the most desired. $279,000. 4906 ARBORFIELD—Vista golf course views. Tranquil pool, lush vegetation, 3/2 single-family received word that Marnie Denham an opportunity for Meadows artists home, desired Arborfield area. Wood flooring, views from every room. passed away on January 9 at Lions to display their work and network All of this for only ...... $349,000 Gate Hospital in North Vancouver. with other artists. That first show, 5406 CHAMBERY—Well-managed, well-funded, social association. Immaculate 3/2 villa, She was 91. She was a native of the held November 29, 1992, at the old 2-car garage with golf course views from glassed in lanai. Patio off kitchen and Toronto area of Ontario, where she MCA building on Ringwood Meadow, wrought iron-gated patio...... $269,000 married Harry Denham in 1948 and was financed by funds raised by a 5528 CHANTECLAIRE—Immaculate 3/2 villa in desired Chanteclaire. Golf course views. moved more than 20 times with him “boutique” with surplus proceeds of Glassed lanai, fresh paint, new carpeting, epoxied garage flooring. Low condo fees, new over their 67 years together. $800 going to the Women’s Resource paver driveways, walkways, and courtyards. Villa among the most desired...... $279,000 During a year in Japan, she was Center. The works of 35 artists on 3607 LONGMEADOW—Lowest priced 2/2 villa with garage in Meadows. Barrel certified in the Ikebana, the Japanese display were viewed by more than tile roof, open floor plan, lanai with tranquil creek. Golf views. Can’t be beat! ...... $169,000 art of flower arranging. 1,000 people who attended, a number Committee member Jacques that has remained constant over the Meadows Real Estate Services Linder says, “She was the initial years. 5027 Ringwood Meadow guiding light and inspiration for The Marnie is survived by her Sarasota, FL 34235 Meadows Art Show in 1992. All the husband Harry, three children, artists who have shown in past shows seven grandchildren, and eight great as well as visitors to the shows owe grandchildren. She was preceded in Marnie a great debt of gratitude.” death by one son.
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Turner, and Helen Stafsholt urologists and helped with always wanted to be nurses. many surgeries. She was “When I was five years old, also head of the office. “It I wanted to be a nurse,” was a very busy job,” she Helen says. adds. Some became nurses Betty Turner because others in their family practiced nursing for were. “I went into nursing 45 years at St. 2714 Goodwood Court • $294,000— 2738 Goodwood Court • $324,900— because my sister was a nurse, Luke’s Hospital 2/2 with den, move-in ready maintenance- 3/2 Maintenance-Free single family with and I listened to her stories and felt in Bedford, free single family. beautiful sunrise & park views. like I would enjoy what she did,” Massachusetts. Her If you are considering listing, I would be happy to meet with you to discuss Peggy Napierala says. Betty’s last three jobs were in geriatrics, the value of your home in today’s market and how best to prepare your home mother had wanted to be nurse, so oncology, and hospice care. Mike to sell. If you are looking to buy, I know The Meadows and the many types that influenced her. worked there, too, so they could of homes available. Mike Turner carpool. , Betty’s husband, went into nursing because there Mike Turner spent 10 years Please feel free to call me! was a shortage of jobs when he working in critical care and 25 Michael Saunders & Company returned from Vietnam, plus his years in charge of the emergency Licensed Real Estate Broker brother and sister were nurses. room. “Nothing was very routine 8660 South Tamiami Trail • Sarasota, FL 34238 “Back in the day,” there were in the ER,” he says. “Every day 941-961-3390 (cell) • 941-966-8000 “not too many options for was an adventure. There were 10 women—just nursing or teaching,” beds in the ER when I started and Donna Willick says. “I chose 65 beds when I left. And we had to nursing.” lay some in the halls.” Our nurses also worked in a wide There were good and bad aspects of variety of jobs their careers, they all say Laura Defino worked as a “We learned a full moon really public health nurse in California, affects people,” Betty Turner says. dealing with maternal and infant “And never say the word ‘quiet.’ assessments. She later worked Then all hell breaks lose.” with developmental pediatricians For Carol Cain, scheduling and in prevention of medical neglect booking patients was difficult, and in high risk babies. “In New York, sometimes she had to stay till 8:00 I gave workshops to teach nurses o’clock at night. about the problem. It was very For Peggy Napierala, the bad interesting and very challenging,” part was “being away from my she says. family on weekends and holidays Likewise, Helen Stafsholt and seeing families experiencing was involved in public health tragedy and death of loved ones,” from infants to gerontology. “It she says. was the best to work at both ends Helen Stafsholt didn’t like of the age spectrum,” she says.” doctors who didn’t listen to their I was in small hospitals and big patients and administrators who hospitals.” During her career, she made decisions based on the worked as a manager of an assisted bottom line. living facility and, at another time, But, the good was also there. formed a consulting firm with two Both Peggy and Betty say they other nurses on long-term care in wanted to help people and make areas of vulnerable adults and staff a difference in their lives. Helen, development. who was involved in nursing for 50 For several years Donna years starting as a nurse’s aide in Willick practiced in Boston high school, says, “I loved nursing! working with children who were I loved taking care of people in extended care because of birth and solving problems. I liked defects. Her patients ranged in being an advocate for people.” age from birth to 21. “It was very Donna Willick sums it up. “It was challenging. We tried to bring each rewarding but tiring.” one to their fullest potential,” she says. Hooray for our nurses and all who Carol Cain stayed home and go into the nursing field! raised her three daughters until DONE -- MJ The Meadoword • Month 2014 15
Award Winners! The Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce gives Insignia Award to Kobernick-Anchin-Benderson
The Greater Sarasota Chamber Anchin-Benderson, the residents of Commerce reported in its and staff feel as if they are all February 15 newsletter, The BUZZ, part of one caring family. The that Kobernick-Anchin-Benderson community offers 3 levels of living: was the recipient of the January Kobernick Independent Living, 2016 Insignia Award in recognition Anchin Pavilion Assisted Living, of “the achievement of quality and Benderson Skilled Nursing & customer service and commitment Rehabilitation. to the community.” We congratulate Michelle Citing Kobernick-Anchin- Williams, DJ Lambert and the Benderson as “Sarasota’s only entire team at Kobernick-Anchin-
PICTURED LEFT to RIGHT— Michelle Williams, Communications Specialist; DJ Lambert, Admissions Director from Kobernick-Anchin- Benderson; and Sarah Felder, Membership Development Representative at the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce.
rental senior community offering Benderson as our January Insignia all levels of living including Award Winner for their exemplary independent living, assisted living, customer service and commitment secure memory care, skilled to the Sarasota community. nursing and rehabilitation care,” The Insignia Award is the article says the 501(c)(3) not- sponsored by Insignia Bank which for-profit organization offers “a holds the distinction of being the full continuum of care and is one highest initially capitalized bank of Sarasota’s most desirable senior in the history of the Sarasota/ communities.” It goes on to say… Bradenton market and is a locally owned community bank. It remains It was established in 1993 one of the higher ranked banks by the Sarasota Manatee Jewish by Bauer rating services with a Housing Council, Inc and has over three[-]star rating… Insignia Bank 20 years adapt[ed] to the growing takes its role as a Community Bank needs of the senior lifestyle very seriously, and as a result, it community here in Sarasota. is proud to be the sponsor of the The goal of the founders was to Insignia Award. establish a full service senior community where all faiths could The Insignia Award, which be secure and safe while they enjoy recognizes quality of service and comforting amenities, family and commitment to the Sarasota area friends, enriching activities, on- community as governed by The site healthcare services and more Chamber’s Code of Ethics, is without the expensive buy-in. presented by The Greater Sarasota Aside from the many amenities Chamber of Commerce to one such as a swimming pool, a company or organization every fully-equipped fitness center and month. social activities at Kobernick- DONE & DONE -- MJ 16 The Meadoword • March 2016 Well, it’s happened make jewelry. But she didn’t want to again… focus on just one thing, so she began helping with any project that needed an The cord of my curling iron has extra hand and doing different things wrapped itself around half the contents almost every week. Her only regret is on my vanity, and the iron has fused that she didn’t join the group sooner. itself to a plastic bottle. Fortunately, She loves the camaraderie and finds help is on the way for all of us that doing something useful to help who struggle to keep curling irons others is uplifting. Crafts is something corralled, thanks to Jerri and Mary she looks forward to every week. “I Jo Brinker’s idea for an insulated know it’s what I’ll be doing every curling iron case. Using her quilting Wednesday,” she concludes. skills, Leslie Prokop created a pattern The week after Elaine’s first visit to the and taught us how to make colorful, Craft Group, Marie Urso’s phone rang packable, insulated cases for those pesky irons. “I think this Craft Group is Leslie joined the group in 2014 when our something you would like,” Elaine told membership increased by 34 percent her friend and neighbor. Marie had never done crafts before in her life, but She had just retired and, although Marie is not the type to let a little thing her husband still worked, Leslie began like that stand in the way of a good coming to The Meadows for several time and an adventure. She was ready months each winter from her home to go on Wednesday morning. near Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She Marie was not a complete novice; liked crafts, and since she knew no after she retired from her job in New one, was eager to make friends in the Liz Barnett York state government, she worked as community—joining the craft group a floral designer. The work sharpened seemed like a natural thing to do. her innate sense of color and design. When we learned that Leslie’s She loves furnishing houses and has a grandmother was a master quilter with knack for putting knickknacks together a first- and a second-place finish in to give a room pizazz. Both skills national competition at the Toronto would prove useful in crafting. Exhibition, we imagined that Leslie At the Craft Group, she began by grew up with a needle in her hand. But making the intricate iris cards. She that was not the case. Growing up, loved it. Then she created jewelry. She she played every sport possible and loved it. But Marie gets bored doing majored in physical education. the same thing over and over, so she It was not until she became a began working on other projects. For teacher that she attempted crafts. Her a new crafter, it was mind-boggling to supervisor advised her to take a class learn so many new skills, things she in something she knew nothing about would never have dreamed of doing. and would be bad at doing so that she It’s the diversity of crafts that keeps could understand what her students her coming back week-after-week for experienced as they struggled to master new challenges and opportunities. difficult subjects. Leslie took a sewing (PICTURED LEFT to RIGHT) TOP— Jerri Brinker, Joan Zaroff, But, it wasn’t until we were class. Her teacher was a quilter, and and Leslie Prokop; ABOVE— Kathy Easley, Marie Urso, and Mimi preparing for the Craft Sale that we her quilts told the stories of all the Watnik; BELOW—Dottie Barr, Vicki Robley, Elaine Gervasi, Mimi discovered Marie’s true gift. Marie people whose lives had touched hers. Watnik, Marie Urso, and Helene DiPuma could look at any item and, without Leslie was hooked. hesitation, price it perfectly. Soon she was teaching a family “How can you do that,” I asked studies class for a group of teen one day. “I’m a shopper,” she mothers at a school for at-risk youth. explained. Her mother was, in Marie’s She taught the students to make words, a clotheshorse who had to dress outfits and quilts for their babies and well for work. Whether it was genetic watched as their self-esteem grew or her mother’s training, Marie learned when they finished their projects. Then to shop—not to buy compulsively, she brought in ladies from the local but to shop. She knows the trends, knitters guild to teach the girls to knit. where to find anything, can recognize She watched as bonds grew between good quality, and understands value. each girl and the knitting instructor She’s the friend you want along on and realized how relationships can all your shopping trips and the person be fostered while creating something who could set price points for us that together. reflected value—a good deal for the Later when she was a guidance buyer and fair to the seller. counselor at an exclusive private The members of the Craft Group are school, Leslie started an arts club. of the crafters lived on her street; City playwriting competition. When as diverse as our crafts Soon 50 boys and girls were making friendships were formed. But, the her husband became ill, she spent 11 quilts and entering their quilt blocks bonus was making crafts to be sold years as a full-time caregiver, followed Whether they are professional in a local charity event, Quilting for for charities—a way to continue the by dark days as a widow. Her own crafters or novices, they each have a Cure. She watched as they began to community service that is a mainstay health problems limited what she could a contribution to make. Whether experience the rewards of creation and of her life. do physically, but she wanted to be they come alone or with friends, service to the community. In 2014, Elaine Gervasic decided it productive. they soon are part of the group. Here in the craft group, Leslie was time to get out of the house and Elaine had lived in The Meadows And all experience the sense of became a student again, learning to become involved in something since 1989, full-time since 2002, so she accomplishment that comes from make jewelry. She found that our knew about the Craft Group. She had creating something and the joy that members, who provided the instruction Her retirement began with done all types of crafts over the years comes from service to others. It’s what in the exacting processes, were activities she loved—volunteering and decided to give the Craft Group a we do on Wednesdays, 9:00 am, at the excellent teachers and the quality of at The Pines and taking classes in try. It was a good choice for her. MCA Community Center that enriches the work reached professional levels. painting, poetry, and playwriting. She She liked the women she met our lives. We’d welcome you, too, so, She met other quilters and found two even won first prize in a New York immediately and was soon learning to if you can glue, we want you! DONE -- MJ The Meadoword • March 2016 17
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SUNDAYS Noon-3:00 pm Instruction with Community Day 2016 open play afterward March 20 family-friendly event showcases If you are interested or have questions, contact what the park has to offer
Anita Marcus Suncoast Aquatic Nature vendors will be onsite, and NBP 941-371-2464 Center Associates (SANCA) and staff will be on hand to answer Nathan Benderson Park (NBP) any questions about upcoming will sponsor a community event programming, classes, and events at the Park on Sunday, March offered. Mah Jongg 20, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm to Admission is free and parking ON MONDAYS showcase the everyday activities is free, so come out and enjoy the Are you looking for a and amenities offered. day. chance to play Mah Jongg? Learn how to stand-up Sponsors of this event also Come by the MCA paddle and Dragon Boat paddle. include Manatee County; Sarasota Monday mornings, 9:30 am Organizations participating include County, Bradenton, Anna Maria For more information, call the Sarasota area Breast Cancer Island, Longboat Key; VISIT Caryl Magnus at 378-5055. survivors’ Dragon Boat team— SARASOTA; and Benderson Survivors in Sync, Strider Bikes, Development Company, Inc. and RC Sail Boats. For more information, visit Local sponsors and food www.NathanBendersonPark.org. Along the Road to
The National Rowing Foundation holds 2016 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at NBP Nathan Benderson Park concurrent with U.S. Olympic Trials for RIO The National Rowing Lightweight Women’s Double. 2016 Events Foundation announced in February The Patrons are selected for Mar 6—Pedal for Pups the selection of two rowing their long, expert, and selfless Mar 6—Doggie Bones1 patrons and six boats comprising contributions to the sport. Timothy Mar 12-13—Sarasota-Bradenton ITU Triathlon 26 athletes for induction to the M. Hosea, MD, is being honored Mar 19—Superhero 5K Run prestigious National Rowing Hall posthumously for his more than Mar 19—The Suncoast Dragon Boat Festival of Fame. 20-year commitment to rowing Mar 19-20—Cirque Des Voix Theses boat crews include through his dedicated service as the Mar 20—NBP Community Day exceptional men and women— US Olympic and National Team Mar 26—American Youth Cup Series II heavyweight and lightweight— doctor. Joanne Wright Iverson Mar 27—Crosspointe Sunrise Easter Service and Egg Spree who competed internationally is being recognized for 17 years Apr 1-2—FIRA Rowing Regatta to win multiple medal-wins in of championing the inclusion Apr 9—Pinwheel 5k Run the Olympic Games and World of women in Olympic rowing, Apr 16-17—FSRA Sculling Championships Rowing Championships. culminating in her management of Apr 18-24—2016 Olympic Trials - Rowing Kent Mitchell, chair of NRF the women’s 1976 Olympic Team. Apr 29—Sunshine State Conference Regatta Hall of Fame Selection Committee The National Rowing Hall of Apr 30-May 1—FSRA Sweep Championships says these selections were made Fame 2016 Induction Ceremony May 6-8—Modern Pentathlon World Cup Final unanimously by the committee will be held concurrently with the May 14-15—US Rowing Southeast Regional Championships members. “They will join Hall of U.S. Trials for the Rio Olympics at May 21—SUP & Run 5k Fame crews from the 1936 Berlin Nathan Benderson Park on April May 22—Storm Challenge Triathlon and Open Water Swim Olympic Gold Medal ‘Boys in the 23. Tickets are currently available May 28-29—American Youth Cup Series III Boat’ eight to the 1984 and 2008 at www.natrowing.org. Jun 11-12—Sunshine State Games Olympic Gold Medal women’s The National Rowing Jun 18-19—MLT Sarasota Triathlon eights. Foundation was founded in Aug 27-28—Special Olympics Florida SUP Competition The six crews selected include 1966, and has sense raised Sep 10-11—Sarasota/Manatee Heart Walk the 1976 Olympic Bronze Medal millions of dollars in support Sep 11—10th Annual 9/11 Remembrance Ride Women’s Eight, 1976 Olympic of the development, selection, For more information about events, visit Silver Medal Men’s Pair, 1996 and participation of athletes in www.worldclassrowing.com Olympic Silver Medal Men’s international competition and the Quad, 1996 Olympic Bronze preservation of rowing history VOLUNTEERS ALWAYS NEEDED! Medal Lightweight Men’s Four, through the National Rowing Hall 1996 Olympic Silver Medal of Fame. Lightweight Women’s Double, and Sign up at www.SignUpGenius.com 2000 Olympic Bronze Medalists 18 The Meadoword • March 2016
Walter and Lesley Totten—Committee Chairpersons BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL! That’s how you want our Meadows community to look
We all do our part in planting and beautifying our landscapes each spring. Be prepared for the Best Kept Committee members to view single- family homes and condominium entrances the week of March 21 through 25 to select the winners of the Spring Awards. First Place and Runner Up will be awarded in each category. Who will win First Place Single-Family Home and First Place Condominium Entrance? Who will be runners up? Stay tuned and find out. Winners will be notified in early April and awards will be given at the April 20 Assembly of Property Owners meeting. Are you a Bridge Player? Mah Jongg Looking for an ON MONDAYS opportunity to play? Are you looking for a For more information, call chance to play Mah Jongg? Susan Ritchay • 508-654-3644 Come by the MCA Monday mornings, 9:00 am BRIDGE FRIDAYS For more information, call 12:30 PM It is necessary to sign up Caryl Magnus • 378-5055 before each game The Meadoword • March 2016 19 2016 Meadows “U” at a Glance This Month! Florida’s Treasurers—Tue, Mar 8, 3:00 pm
Author Bea Hartman presents Florida’s Treasures: 55 Great Sites on the National Register of Historic Places at the MCA. Books available ($22.00 (cash or check). 2016 Meadows “U” Team
Tour of Ringling College of Art— Nancy Bushnell, 2016 Program PLANNING Wed, Mar 23, 10:30 am Claire Coyle Meadows “U” Has Something for You! EVENT Bernice Davis Explore the unique campus and its Barbara Gardener Meadows “U” programs are held at the MCA Community Center unless other- various art Collections.FILLED! Observe students Kathy Gibson wise noted. Programs are free, open to all Meadows residents. at work in the animation studio. Chris Hannafin Angelika Schultz The Meadows “U” Committee will continue on its theme, “Expanding Your Susan Whitcomb Horizons and Your Mind!” in the 2016 season. We have a lot planned Next Month… and hope you will join us for a great season. We have a great team. All our mem- Mark Twain—Mon, Apr 11, bers have input and take responsibili- 3:00 pm ty for planning events. We are always “Mark Twain” Live at the MCA looking for enthusiastic new members Author, humorist, and event speaker Alan and good ideas. If you would like Be sure to mark Monday, April life and works of Mark Twain, his Kitty presents Mark Twain to learn more about the Committee 11, 3:00 pm, on your calendar when point of view has been honed over and what we do, contact the MCA, Alan Kitty presents Mark Twain. three decades. .Tour of Art and Backstage at the 377-2300. We look forward to hearing Kitty is an author, humorist, event Look for more about this unique Van WezelEVENT—Late Apr, TBA from you and working with you! speaker, and acclaimed Mark Twain event in the April issue of The FILLED! impersonator. As a student of the Meadoword.
Church of the Nativity A community in Christ, loving and reaching out to all, proclaiming the Good News
Come celebrate Easter ! He is Risen!
Palm Sunday (Mar 20) Communion—8 am Communion with music and choir—10:15 am Maundy Thursday, Mar 24—7 pm Good Friday, Mar 25—Noon, 7 pm Holy Saturday, Mar 26—5 pm Easter Sunday, Mar 27 Communion—8 am Communion with music and choir—10:15 am
5900 N. Lockwood Ridge Rd. (1 block South of University) 941-355-3262 www.churchofthenativity.com 20 The Meadoword • March 2016 Volunteers Needed Financial Coaching Program United Way Suncoast debuts new program to help area residents gain financial stability
United Way Suncoast recently The program is a collaborative launched a Financial Coaching effort with Points of Light, Bank of Program to help improve the financial America, and the Corporation for stability of Suncoast-area residents. National and Community Service. The program trains volunteer coaches For the volunteer coach, this is and partners them with clients who a great opportunity to hone financial are ready to take control of their planning skills, gain volunteer financial situations, and together, they hours, and make a difference develop an action plan to achieve the to an individual or family by clients’ specific financial goals. contributing to their prosperity. No United Way Suncoast’s financial previous experience is necessary, stability programs will help but an interest in personal finance, individuals make informed financial budgeting, banking, and/or decisions and put their hard-earned economics is helpful. dollars to work to build a financially To learn more about becoming a solid foundation. Financial stability volunteer coach or receiving help as is a key component of United Way a client in the United Way Financial Suncoast’s strategic plan to break the Coaching Program, call Victoria cycle of generational poverty. Zuber at 813-274-0997 or email United Way Suncoast is seeking vol- [email protected]. unteers to become financial coaches for clients residing in Sarasota county The program is expected to be particularly beneficial for people from moderate- and low-income households. Volunteer coaches will work one-on-one with clients, collaborating to develop action plans, and continue to meet as needed to monitor progress for a minimum of six months. DONE -- MJ The Meadoword • March 2016 21 4th Annual Sun Circle Art Festival Event features handcrafted works of 60 local and other artists, March 5 only! The 4th Annual Indian Beach This year, the festival partners from Ft. Pierce, Florida. Historic Bayfront neighborhood in Sapphire Shores Neighborhood with the Arts and Cultural Alliance Food and beverages will be The Museum District. It was founded Association (IBSSA) Sun Circle Art of Sarasota County to help raise available for purchase from Carr’s 50 years ago with a mission to Festival will take place on Saturday, funds and support for the North Trail Corner Café, Muse at the Ringling, enhance and preserve the Old-Florida March 5, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm ArtSpace project. The festival is free World Bites Kafe, Buddy Brew environment and eclectic character of at Sapphire Shores Park on Sun Circle and open to the public. Sarasota, and Orange Leaf Sarasota. the neighborhood. Drive in Sarasota (one block south of This year’s event has more than 60 Live music and entertainment by local For more information, visit www. the Ringling Museum on the Bay). artisans, featuring original, handcrafted talent is scheduled throughout the day. ibssa.ws, Facebook Sun Circle Art You can’t miss it. The park and pieces by local artists and artists Jane Nutter Johnson, IBSSA Festival, or contact Jane Nutter trees will be “yarn-bombed”—wrapped coming from New Hampshire, New member and festival coordinator. says Johnson at 351-1920 or Janenutter@ with knitted material—for that extra York, and Massachusetts as well as the association, represents Sarasota’s aol.com. whimsical touch! original Highwayman James Gibson
Mar/Apr Events Golf Call The Golf Pro Shop for Information 378.5153 The MCA Mar 2 & Apr 6 — Mulligans & Martinis Mar 4, 5 & 6 — Men’s Member/Guest Event Mar 8 — 18H LGA Member/Guest President’s Council Mar 10 — 9H LGA Club Championship Mar 13 — Couples St. Patrick’s Day ill eet on Mar 19 & 20 — Men’s Club Championship W M Mar 21 — Canada Day Mar 25 — Couples Nine & Dine Tuesday, March 22 Mar 29 — 18H Spring Fling 10:30 am to 1:30 pm Apr 8 — Couples Scotch Scramble 2 Tennis Call The Tennis Pro Shop for Information 378-5265 Mar 2 & Apr 6 — Courts & Cocktails in the Lakeside Room at the Mar 5 & Apr 2 — Guest Day MCA Community Center Mar 12 — Think Pink Round Robin & Luncheon & Fashion Show Mar 15 thru 19 — Bob Leisenring Memorial Doubles Championships Mar 19 — “Super Saturday” Doubles Finals & Awards Reservations Required Apr 5 — Sun Coast Senior Awards & Luncheon Dining & Social Call for Reservations 378-2135 Association Presidents Mar 1 — Mediterranean Night, Regency Room, 5:30 pm Please RSVP by Mar 4 — Seafood Buffet, Regency Room, 6:00 pm Mar 9 — High Tea, Regency Room, 12:00 pm Friday, November 14 Mar 17 — St. Patrick’s Dinner Dance, Regency Room, 6:00 Mar 20 — Club BBQ, Pool Deck, 5:30 pm Call 377-2300 Mar 24 — Seafood Buffet, Regency Room, 6:00 pm Mar 27 — Easter Sunday, Regency Room, Reservations, 11:00 am to 6:00 pm Mar 29 — Trivia Night, Regency Room, 5:30 pm Mar 31 — Wine & Dine, Regency Room, 6:00 pm Apr 2 — “Yesterday” Back to the 60’s Dinner Dance, Regency Room, 6:00 pm Apr 10 — New England Clam Bake, Regency Room, 6:00 pm Apr 12 — Trivia Night, Regency Room, 5:30 pm Apr 21 — Seafood Buffet, Regency Room, 6:00 pm Apr 23 — Passover Seder, Regency Room, 6:00 pm Apr 28 — Wine & Dine, Regency Room, 6:00 pm Fitness Activities Call for more details 371-6000 x 228 Mar 2 & Apr 14 — Complimentary Vision Check, Dr. Masuga, 9:30 am to 11:30 am, By Appointment Mar 8 & Apr 21 — Complimentary Audiology Check, Dr. Nalu, 9:30 am to 1:30 am, By Appointment Golf Yoga — Weds at 8:30 am & Thus at 9:30 am, $10 Member Fee & Guest of Member; $15 Nonmember Fee Pilates Fusion — 1st & 3rd Tue of each month, 8:00 am, included with Fitness Privileges, $10 Nonmember Fee (Cash Only For Nonmembers) Anusara Yoga — Beginner/Relaxed, Mons, 4:15 pm, $10 Member Fee & Guest of Member; $15 Nonmember Fee Anusara Yoga — Intermediate, Weds, 10:00 am, $10 Member Fee & Guest of Member; $15 Nonmember Fee Line Dancing Intermediate — Weds, 4:30 pm, $5 Stretch & Tone — Tues & Thus, 8:30 am Latin Aerobic Dance — Mons & Fris, 8:30 am, Included with Fitness Privileges; Nonmember Fees Apply Activities in the Dickens Center Member Activities — In the Dickens Center Mar 2 — Speaker’s Bureau, Regency Room, 4:00 pm Book Club — 1st Tuesday of Each Month, Board Room off FVL, 11:00 am Ladies Bridge Mar — 1st & 3rd Wed & 2nd & 4th Fri, 1:00 pm March 12 & 13 Ladies Bridge Apr — 1st & 3rd Wed & 3rd & 5th Fri, 1:00 pm 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Men’s Bridge — Every Tue, 1:00 pm Mah Jongg — Every Frid, 9:30 am to Noon MCA Community Center . 2004 Longmeadow Camera Club — Mar 7 & 21, Apr 4 & 18, 7:00 pm DONE -- MJ 22 The Meadoword • March 2016
Featured Artist Charlotte Lee, this year’s featured women involved in many forms of art. artist creates wonderful collages and 2016 MCA Celebration Charlotte feels honored to be juried watercolors inspired by nature. She is into their art shows. Monthly meetings, well-grounded in the art world through where members’ work is critiqued, and early childhood influences, formal of Fine Arts the group’s yearly four-day retreat held and informal education in fine art, and at the Dayspring Episcopal Conference her strong connections to a supportive Center in Ellenton have been a source network of artists. of inspiration. Early influences came from her Charlotte Lee Charlotte describes her artistic mother, who was a fashion designer ability as intuitive, having strong color and buyer for Bergdorf Goodman. Pat Farrell—Art Show Committee sense and compositional strength. When she was ill as a child, Charlotte’s She enjoys conveying movement and mother would entertain her by drawing rhythm in her paintings, thus, her love fashions. of collage. Charlotte remembers, with humor, She had an early start with her first oil painting class when movement and rhythm in a collage she was twelve and the instructor class under a teacher who admired encouraged her to “be free” when what her work and picked it up to show to she really wanted was to be taught the class—the materials had not yet some basic skills. been glued down and all the pieces When she married, Charlotte’s fell to the floor; hence, rhythm and early artistic support was reinforced by movement! husband and partner Norman, who had Charlotte is inspired by and artistic talent and a strong appreciation admires the work of artists Rockwell for art. Until his death, they truly were Kent and Fairfield Porter, who a creative couple. Both served on The reflect designed realism rather than Meadows Art Show Committee, and photographic realism style. She also Charlotte continues to serve. Now, admires Elizabeth Pratt’s watercolors, a daughter and granddaughter both especially for their texture, sense of show promising artistic talent. No mystery, and free flowing style. doubt, this continuous support directed Finally, her strong connection with Charlotte to seek formal and informal nature guides her. Whenever she felt art education. troubled as a child, she found solace As an English literature major at in nature, and this continues today. Colby College, Charlotte managed to Nature soothes her and inspires her squeeze in a drawing course. She later art, especially her strong watercolors went to Hartford Art School and West of flowers. Seeking subject matter in Hartford Art League in Connecticut, nature, she looks for form and light. where she studied collage under Alan In her own words, “My motivation is Thompkins and Diane Marinaro. At to express and celebrate beauty. For the Ringling School of Art and Design, me, flowers are beautiful expressions Herbie and Dwight Rose taught her of form and color. The more time I watercolor. But, she fell in love with spend painting, the more the beauty collage at Art Center Sarasota, working that is always around us becomes more under Harold Weiner and Judy Nadler. evident.” All this study opened an opportunity Charlotte’s advice for aspiring for Charlotte to create a strong and artists is to commit the time to draw supportive art network. every day. “That’s how you improve.” A watercolor workshop We in the art community are so with Marge Bennett, at Towles fortunate to have Charlotte among us. Court, introduced her to Women Her work is inspirational, as well as Contemporary Artists, a very the personal warmth she radiates as she supportive and inspiring group of seeks to inspire others. DONE -- MJ The Meadoword • March 2016 23 Memoirs and Life Writing Group Describing significant events that happened in your life and hearing the same from others… Bob Barnett—Memoirs Coordinator
About dating… announced that she was meeting a of independence and eliminated having parties. While it was still part of the man for drinks in London. They kept nosey parents driving. mating ritual, expectations were low Dates are important. During the dropping the “D” word, which made All the junior high boys, ready and often involved casual double- or 20th Century, boys asked girls to go her blush a fiery red to match her hair. to date, picked up on this move; triple-dating. out on dates as part of the mating When my brother was in Junior the theaters prospered. This dating I know that things have changed ritual, although later in the century High School, he pioneered the “bus technique was so effective that Jim since then. My grandchildren are just some girls began to take the initiative date.” He would ask a girl to go to was recently chased down in front beginning to move into adolescence, so by doing the asking. The 1920s a Saturday-afternoon movie. They of a crowd of people by an attractive I am curious to see how dating is now through the early 1960s may have been boarded the city bus near the girl’s woman in her 60s who wanted the conducted in middle and high school. the golden age of dating. In the January home in our small town of Newell, kiss she did not receive, but felt she In the stories below, Diane Arch 31, 2016, Downton Abby (not to be West Virginia, which did not have any deserved, on a bus date in 1962. writes about her one and only blind confused with The Meadow’s Downton movie theaters. They rode across the In the 1950s when I was of dating date. Liz Barnett describes, from a Meadows) on PBS television’s episode, Ohio River to the “big city” of East age, dating was easy and inexpensive four-year old’s perspective, going on Lord Grantham and Lady Mary teased Liverpool, Ohio, which had three with high school sock hops, basketball a date with her World War II-widowed Lady Edith unmercifully when she movie theaters. This gave them a sense games, drive in movies, and pizza mother and her mom’s boyfriend.
We all get into Bill’s car. It is My First and a blue Plymouth with no running boards on the sides and a roof that Last Blind curves up, not like the flat black roof on Uncle George’s car. And it has a Date radio. Diane Arch I stand on the hump in the middle of the floor in the back seat and lean I was 17 years old, in my first over the front seat to watch Bill turn year at a commuter college in New some knobs and WOHI comes right York City, when an acquaintance on. We listen to the radio while we asked if I would go on a blind date drive. I stand on the hump and watch with a friend, whom she said would the radio all the way to the Dixie be just perfect for me. I did not have Diner in East Liverpool, Ohio. a steady boyfriend at the time, so I The Dixie Diner looks just like a agreed. Since I lived at home while I railroad car except it is shinier. Inside commuted to college, he would have there is a counter with silver stools to pick me up at our family house in with red seats that turn around and Queens and meet my family. booths along one wall. I get up on a I was the oldest child of three, stool and twirl around. “Don’t you I had to share a bedroom with my want to sit in a booth?” asks Mommy. younger sister, a full 10 year’s my sizing me up, too. In fact, he was “No, I want to sit at the counter,” junior, but my brother had his own downright staring at my legs. Did he I say. We sit at the counter and watch room. Sharing a bedroom was a like what he saw? I was clueless. Dates the owner cook hamburgers and fry lesson in tolerance when our age He was driving, so we got into Liz Barnett potatoes on a big flat grill. difference was so great. My baby his car. He was quiet and aloof. It was After we eat our hamburgers, we sister Lynn was extremely precocious, hard to get a clear connection with I do not have a daddy. I have a go for a walk. We walk for a long having taught herself to read at age him. I was a little uncomfortable with father. A bomb dropped on him in time looking in all the store windows three and a half by watching episodes just how this was working out. Then the war. Now he lives in heaven with until Mommy and Bill get tired. of Sesame Street. Now that she was he put his hand on my leg and looked God, our Father Who art in Heaven. “Let’s get some desert,” says Bill an adorable seven-year-old, she at me and said, “Your wooden leg He looks down and sees me all the when we come to Bloor’s Drugstore. was accustomed to being the center feels so natural.” “What?” I said in time. He wants me to take naps. He There are two little round glass tables of attention and would use humor, surprise, “I don’t have a wooden leg.” is disappointed when I do not drink with fancy metal chairs at the front of enthusiasm, and any other wile Why did he think I had a wooden leg? my milk that the starving children in the drugstore, and we sit down there. to accomplish this goal. And, she The evening ended formally China would love to have. “I want a butterscotch sundae,” I generally succeeded. and he left saying, “I’ll call you.” I But I do not have a daddy. There tell the waitress. This was my first blind date. I walked into my house and there was is a difference. Fathers live in heaven, “Oh, Lysbeth, that is too much for was upstairs nervously and diligently my sister asking innocently, “How but a daddy lives in the house with you to eat. You should share a dish of dolling myself up in preparation when was your night?” Then, I got it. you. ice cream with me,” says Mommy. my mother called upstairs to say that “Lynn,” I demanded, “Did you tell The other kids have daddies, but “Oh, let her get what she wants,” my date had arrived. What? He was him I had a wooden leg?” She smiled they do not get to go on dates. I do. says Bill. 20 minutes early, and I hadn’t even her impish smile. “What else did you I am going on a date with Mommy The sundae comes in a tall gotten dressed yet! Mother wisely tell him?” I inquired. and Bill. Mommy says I should wear tulip-shaped glass bowl sitting on a sent him to our backyard patio with She responded, “Only that you my Sunday school dress, and I do not little plate to catch any drips of the my sister to entertain him. wear a wig and have false teeth.” I make a fuss. When Bill comes, he butterscotch sauce that is running I dressed in a short skirt and top wanted to strangle her, but kind sister does not look like Uncle George does down the sides of the mound of ice and applied some makeup. I took my that I was, I just shook my head in in his work clothes; Bill is wearing cream. The dish is so tall that they time because I didn’t want to appear disgust. a brown suit. I tell him this is my give me a special long handled spoon too anxious. It was a full 20 minutes I waited for him to call so I could Sunday school dress and ask him if so that I can reach the extra pool of before I sauntered out to the yard to make my explanations. But he never that is his Sunday school suit. He sauce hidden under the ice cream at meet my date. He was having a grand called. I’ll never know if it was my says, “Yes.” the bottom of the dish. time with my comedic sister; they natural looking peg leg that changed “Can I wear your hat?” I ask. I I give Bill the cherry from the were even laughing together. I sized his mind or my nutty family that try it on and then push out the top a top to thank him for getting the him up, he was much better looking discouraged him. But, I vowed never little so that it stands up just like Tex sundae, but I eat all the rest. than I had expected and appeared to to go on another blind date in that Ritter’s cowboy hat. Mommy says not Then I turn and throw up on Bill’s be mature and gentlemanly. He was house again. to ruin Bill’s hat, but he says it is OK. shoes. 24 The Meadoword • March 2016 Gulf Coast Community Choir Spring Concert St. James United Methodist Church hosts event April 24 to benefit two charities Tue, Mar 29, 2016 9:00 to 11:00 am The Gulf Coast Community light reception in the Fellowship In the MCA Parking Lot Choir, under the Direction of Dr. Hall. 2004 Longmeadow Edwina Stanley, is holding its 2016 To purchase tickets ($20), mail Spring Concert on Sunday, April a check to Gulf Coast Community This community collection event is 24, 4:00 pm, at St. James United Choir, 5346 Everwood Run, for The Meadows Community As- Types of Items Accepted: Methodist Church, 2049 North Sarasota, FL 34235. Tickets are also sociation residents only. Proof of Aerosol Cans Honore Avenue in Sarasota. available from choir members. For residency may be requested before Paint Thinner & Solvents This season’s concert will more information, contact Carol the county accepts any waste. Automotive Products benefit the Healthy Start Save Poteat-Buchanan at 379-0232 or Adhesives & Glues Paint My Life Program and the Yummy [email protected]. The collection event is for residen- tial-generated waste only. Waste Cleaners Pantry. The Gulf Coast Community Pool Chemicals Join us in an afternoon of Choir, in its 16th year of performing generated by businesses & other organizations will not be accepted Fertilizers eclectic music—spirituals, show to benefit worthy non-profits in the Weed Killer at this event.(For information about tunes, art songs, classical choir area, has received many accolades Insect Killer disposal alternatives for business & music—something for everyone. over the years, both at home and in Mercury other waste, contact Oland Stokes at The concert will be followed by a Europe. Household Fire Extinguishers 650-7143. Propane Cylinders (BBQ size only) Small Rechargeable Batteries “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” Collection event is hosted by The Fluorescent Bulbs Meadows Community Association, Vehicle Batteries The Unitarian Universalist Church presents Inc. Motor Oil Oil Filters acclaimed Irish musician and vocalist Paul Electronics (No TV’s or Monitors) Duffy in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day Types of Items NOT Accepted: On Sunday, March 6, at 3:00 the big tent. His parents were Irish Medications pm, the Unitarian Universalist circus entertainers; he was delivered Needles or Syringes Church (3975 Fruitville Road in by a midwife after a performance Ammunition We will also be Fireworks Sarasota) will present an early St. in North Donegal. Their act was collecting FOOD for Flares Patrick’s Day celebration featuring called Duffy’s International Circus, Radioactive Materials acclaimed Irish vocalist/musician and he was the youngest person to All Faiths Food Bank Empty Containers >5 gallons and former member of The walk the tightrope while playing the NO PERISHABLES Tires Commitments, Paul Duffy. saxophone—self-taught, of course. PLEASE! Teamed with bassist Dan He was only nine years old. Cartlidge, Duffy will entertain with At 17, Duffy played saxophone Ireland’s traditional songs, lore, for the popular Irish band, The tunes, and tales. The Drake School Miami Showband. By the ripe of Irish Dance, in full Irish regalia old age of 21, he joined The and accompanied by a bagpipe Irishmen and gained a reputation player, will perform. around Dublin as a talented and Tuesday, Tickets are $15. Proceeds from reliable studio musician. At 26, the concerts will be used to help Duffy started his own band, MPH, March 29, 2016 finance the church’s social justice with his siblings. Noticed by a program. To purchase tickets, visit promoter while touring with MPH 9:00 to 11:00 am www.beachsun.org/concerts/tickets. in Texas, Duffy was invited to tour MCA Parking Lot For more information, call 371- internationally with the legendary This event coincides with the Sarasota 4974 or visit www.uusarasota.org. Irish band, The Commitments, and A gifted musician and Irish ex- remained on tour with the group patriot, Duffy is one of Sarasota’s for the next six years. He has since most popular entertainers, playing performed with Ben E. King, the saxophone, trumpet, flute, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Brian guitar, keyboards, drums, bass, tin Johnson, Suzi Quatro, Chris de whistle, and bagpipes. He attended Burgh, Paul Hazel, The Corrs, and the Dublin Conservatory of Music Hazel O’Connor. to learn to read music; his prowess “This is our biggest concert with wind instruments is self- of the year; we sold out very taught. quickly last year,” says Don “I practiced the sax with a John DeMaio, concert coordinator. “And Coltrane record playing for hours remember, this is not just a concert; on end,” says Duffy. “Mum would it’s an Irish celebration of St. yell at me to go out and play, but Patrick’s Day.” until I discovered pints and women, The Unitarian Universalist all I wanted to do was practice me Church of Sarasota is the largest music.” Duffy was the owner of Unitarian church in Florida, with the Irish Rover in Sarasota until its nearly 500 members and friends. closing in 2011. Founded in 1952 with 12 members, Duffy is known for presenting it is now a growing church with a multi-faceted program centered an active calendar of cultural and around Irish lore. He toured social events, including its popular Your donation helps feed hungry children and their families here at home. with the Irish rock band The series of Freethinkers presentations Commitments for six years, on the first Friday of every month. traveling all over the world. Duffy was born, literally, under DONE & DONE -- MJ The Meadoword • March 2016 25
Cirque des Voix™ Key Chorale performs with live orchestra in collaboration with Circus Sarasota Cirque des Voix® is a unique Sunday, March 20, at 5:00 pm. collaboration that blends the grace Circus Arts Conservatory Box and thrills of the globe’s greatest Office hours are Monday through circus performers with a live orchestra Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and and the 100-plus voices of the Key Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 am to Chorale. The musical compositions 2:00 pm. include a myriad of impressive pieces To purchase tickets ($20 to $55), ranging from classical to new age. call the Circus Arts Conservatory This season’s performances under the Box Office at 355-9805 or visit www. Big Top at Nathan Benderson Park circussarasota.org and click the Buy are scheduled for two days only— Tickets button at the top of the page. Saturday, March 19, at 2:00 pm and George Winston One Night Only, March 12 Grammy-Award-winning pianist’s performance benefits All Faiths Food Bank George Winston, one of the Music of Vince Guaraldi ,Vol 2 (2010), most recognized solo pianists in the and the soon to be released solo piano world, will perform at The Glenridge album, Spring Carousel—A Cancer Performing Arts Center (GPAC) Research Benefit. Winston composed Saturday, March 12, at 8:00 pm. To the songs on his latest album in 2013 purchase tickets ($42.50 to $47.50), while he recovered from his bone call the GPAC Box Office, 552-5325, marrow transplant at the City of Hope or visit www.GPACTix.com. GPAC Village; he is dedicating 100 percent is located at 7333 Scotland Way in of his artist royalties to benefit cancer Sarasota, research. Since 1986, Winston has been In December of 2013, George raising money for food banks and released the digital single “Silent service organizations and continues to Night—A Benefit for Feeding work with local food banks in every America,” which is available on tour market to hold canned food drives iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play; at the shows as well as donate 100 100 percent of the proceeds are percent of the proceeds from the sale of donated to Feeding America, the his merchandise at the shows to these nationwide network of food banks that organizations. feeds 37 million people. The March 12 performance at The performance features GPAC will benefit All Faiths Food Winston’s Winter Show, which Bank. The audience is asked to bring includes melodic fall- and winter-type canned goods and other donations. songs, pieces from Vince Guaraldi’s Since 1972, George Winston Peanuts®, pieces inspired by the has released 13 solo piano albums, New Orleans piano and the stride including December, and his most piano traditions, and new songs from recent albums Gulf Coast Blues and his upcoming new recording, Spring Impressions 2–A Louisiana Wetlands Carousel—A Cancer Research Benefit, Benefit (2012), Love Will Come—The to be released in 2016.
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Starting Tevlowitz, executive with social time director of The at 11:30 am, the Jewish Federation of program and luncheon Sarasota-Manatee; DO YOU LIKE begin at noon. Nik Wallenda, circus MEMOIRS TO SEW? The event is Photo Credit: high-wire performer Rose Lettiere Meets the hosted by Meadows and inspirational The Pillows resident Annette speaker; and Lori first and third Scherman, founder and president of White, superintendent of schools with Group Community Video Archives (CVA) Sarasota County since 2008. Each Monday and host and producer of SNN’s person has an inspiring story to share, through Fridays 9:00 to 11:00 am Community—The TV Show, which airs and that history has been preserved in • November 20 on Comcast channel 6 and Verizon videos. All four honorees are living April • December 11& 18 FIOS channel 9. For more than 30 legacies of success, courage, wisdom, • January 8, 15, 22 & 29 years, Annette has welcomed guests and outstanding commitment to Join our • February 5, 12 & 19 (including MCA Manager Jay Brady’s community enrichment. supportive, • March 4, 18 & 25 wife, Veronica) to Community—The Tickets ($90) benefit Community at the MCA TV Show. Video Archives, the not-for-profit positive venue Under Annette’s leadership, CVA organization Annette Scherman leads. and share your Community Center has produced more than 150 video To RSVP, call 365-7052 or contact to create “HEART PILLOWS” biographies. Videos are sourced and [email protected]. memories and for heart patients at preserved by the U.S. Library of Annette purchased her villa in The grow as awriter Sarasota Memorial Hospital… Congress. You can borrow the videos Meadows last June. “The Meadows is a It’s more than just a free of charge, just like books, from lovely, totally charming and enormous Interested? simple gift—it says Sarasota County Public Libraries, the development,” she says. “There seems “I CARE!” Jane B. Cook Library at New College, to be something new to discover every Contact and the Sarasota County History and day. Just the street and area names, COME HELP US CUT, STUFF, watch a piece of Sarasota/Manatee with their British derivation, are Bob AND SEW…MAKE NEW history Center. CVA videos also are reminiscent of my many visits to Great FRIENDS! available to Sarasota County School Britain and TV travel features I have For more information, call staff and students via their multimedia hosted and produced there.” 371-1572 MCA • 277-2300 Mote Marine Laboratory Restoring Coral Reefs Join the online fundraisers to help restore the reefs and protect Florida shorelines Scientists at Mote Marine thousands of pieces, called Laboratory are leading the way to fragments, that will grow into understanding the many threats millions of coral colonies,” said Dr. facing coral reefs, including coral Dave Vaughan Executive Director disease, coral bleaching, ocean of Mote’s lab in the Florida Keys. acidification, and climate change. You can also help restore healthy, Scientists also are discovering colorful coral reefs what can be done to restore the coral reefs in this lifetime. Mote Marine launched an Coral reefs provide natural online fundraising project on barriers that protect our shorelines CrowdRise.com. Donating to during storms. Commercial Mote’s project “Restoring Coral seafood and tourism industries Reefs in this Lifetime” enables are centered around healthy coral Mote to restore one acre of coral reefs. These trades boost the reef for $10,000, just $10 per coral. economy. To make a gift, visit Mote’s page, Mote Marine scientists have https://mote.org/support/donate. determined how to grow certain Scroll to “Protect Our Reefs.” species of coral four times faster Gulf Coast Community than in the wild, achieving a 95 Foundation also supports this percent survival rate after one year. effort. You can make a gift by “At Mote Marine Laboratory, visiting www.gulfcoastgives.org we’re developing new methods for and clicking on Mote Marine restoring these reefs by replanting Laboratory, Inc. DONE -- CC / reviewed -- MJ The Meadoword • March 2016 27 Sarasota County Annual Water Oral History Project Celebrates Sarasota life and storytelling heritage The Water Oral History Project’s is passionate about environmental purpose is to preserve storytelling awareness, water access, and traditions and oral histories, which encouraging others to enjoy the water. would otherwise be lost over time. Shelia Cassundra Hammond These personal narratives told by local Atkins, was born in Manatee County residents provide a glimpse into the in 1952, lived in Sarasota County LAKEWOOD RANCH COUN- area as it used to be and insight into the most of her life, growing up in the TRY CLUB—JUST REDUCED! Abso- important economic and environmental Newtown community. Today, she lutely perfect with all the bells and whistles roles local water resources play. works as a paraprofessional aide at & privacy galore! Everything has been redone in this stunning 2BR plus spacious Since the beginning of the project Alta Vista Elementary. She and her den/2BA villa. Located in a maintenance- in 2009, dozens of life stories have husband, former Sarasota mayor free community with pool just steps away, been documented and preserved. Fredd “Glossie” Atkins, still live in this former model features an open floor 2015 storytellers Newtown. plan and is situated on a private wooded Wade Harvin, Jr., who was born lot with huge trees and preserve area with In January, the public was invited in Crescent City and moved to Sarasota lovely views. Enjoy the Country Club living of Lakewood Ranch with shops, restaurants, movie theater, Polo Club, and much more. LWR Golf & Country Club membership is optional. to view the screening of the 2015 in 1940 when he was five years old, Great location near the upscale UTC Mall and Sarasota’s cultural and recreational offerings. storytellers including: was one of the first black bankers in MLS# A4133697 • $339,000 Dr. Ed James, a steadfast advocate Sarasota and brought Salvation Army THINKING OF SELLING? for improvements in the Newtown bell-ringing to Newtown. He attends If your home is not presently listed, and you community. He produced and hosted Bethlehem Baptist Church, the oldest Black Almanac are considering selling, please contact me for a the television program, African-American church in Sarasota. FREE market analysis. I have qualified buyers was a writer and associate producer To view the complete stories of Positively looking for property throughout Sarasota. of the television program these people and others dating back to Black, and worked as a columnist and 2009, visit the Sarasota County Water governmental reporter for the Sarasota Atlas at www.sarasotaoralhistory.com. Journal and New York Post. For more information, call Laurel Kaiser was born and the Sarasota County Contact lived all her life in Sarasota. In her Center at 861-5000 or visit www. 20s, she fell in love with windsurfing sarasotaoralhistory.com, or www. and has taught the sport as well as scgov.net. kite boarding since the 1980s. Kaiser South Florida Museum “Changing Waters” New exhibit looks at Florida’s complex water systems and explores the human impact
South Buchanan Florida says she had Museum’s her eyes opened special to some of the exhibit, issues facing open our rivers and through streams today Sunday, and hopes that June 5, through this “Changing collection of Waters: The Human Impact on 40 images taken over the last three Florida’s Aquatic Systems” shows years, visitors will still be able to the water’s beauty and explores focus on the beauty and remaining the impact of humans on Florida’s health of Florida’s waterways. waterways. The exhibit is free with “I also hope to spread awareness paid admission to the museum. about how our actions can have Since humans arrived in profound effects,” she adds. Florida 12,000 to 14,000 years South Florida Museum ago, their impact on the state’s Director of Exhibitions and Chief waterways has been continuous. Curator Matthew D. Woodside The centerpiece of Changing says he hopes the Changing Waters—which features maps, Waters exhibit will encourage interpretive graphics and special people to appreciate more about Museum programming—is the aquatic ecosystems. “I hope photographic journey of fine art it also leads people to explore photographer Lynne Buchanan, the wonderful aquatic areas who captures issues affecting captured in this exhibit and will Florida springs, rivers, lakes and encourage good stewardship of bays. Through her images, she finite and fundamentally important invites viewers to examine the resources.” changing state of Florida’s waters South Florida Museum is at and consider their own personal 201 10th Street West in Bradenton. relationship with this natural For information, call 746-4131 or resource that is critical for human visit www.southfloridamuseum.org. existence. 28 The Meadoword • March 2016 Fabulous Arts Boutique Twenty-Third Annual MCA Art Center Sarasota hosts 14th annual Celebration of Fine Arts March 12 and 13• 10:00 am–4:00 pm event showcasing regional artists MCA Community Center • 2004 Longmeadow
Art Center Sarasota will host “Come in and restore your soul!” the 14th annual Fabulous Arts Art Center Sarasota, the first Thinking of Selling or Renting? Boutique (FAB) to showcase arts and cultural institution in works by regional artists from Sarasota, was founded in 1926 as Put the Power of Wednesday, March 2, through the “Sarasota Art Association” by Berkshire Hathaway Friday, March 5, at Art Center Marcia Rader, the art supervisor to Work for You! Sarasota (707 N. Tamiami Trail in for the Sarasota County schools Sarasota). The opening reception, district. Art Center Sarasota Call or Text 941 504 2081 with wine and hors d’oeuvres, is is now a membership-based Wednesday, March 2, 6:00 through organization that offers curated 8:00 pm. A donation of $10 is and juried exhibitions, adult Claudette Krijger requested. and youth education programs, Realtor/Resident • [email protected] The event continues, free to the outreach initiatives for under- 8319 Market Street, Lakewood Ranch, Fl 34202 public, Thursday, March 3, through served youth, and culturally related Call 941-504-2081 Saturday, March 5, from 10:00 am public programming. Art Center Call me for a Free market analysis of your Home For Sale or Rent to 4:00 pm. All FAB participants Sarasota’s mission is to inspire are members of local art guilds, individual creative expression, including the Florida West Coast nurture artistic talent, and provide Bead Society, Manasota Weavers the community with accessible and Guild, Surface Design Guild diverse visual art opportunities. Sarasota, the Venetian Society Admission to the gallery of Basket Weavers, and The is free. Gallery hours are 10:00 Southwest Art Yarn Guild. am to 4:00 pm, Monday through Karen Johnson, chair of this Saturday; closed on Sundays. year’s FAB committee, says the For more information, call event features hand-dyed silk 365-2032 or visit www.artsarasota. works, artist-designed clothing, org. richly colored and textured For more information woven goods, hand-crafted and a complete list of artists, jewelry, leather and fabric purses visit the FAB Facebook and accessories, and whimsical page www.facebook.com/ home décor presented in creative FabulousArtsBoutique. displays. “It’s a feast for the eyes and the senses,” says Johnson. 5th Annual ArtSlam Realize Bradenton holds annual celebration of the arts and arts education March 5 THE MEADOWS BARBER Realize Bradenton presents the Isham adds that creative teams KEN SCHWARTZ fifth annual ArtSlam, a celebration from Manatee County public MASTER BARBER of the arts and arts education, on schools will participate in the 2016 Old Main Street in Bradenton on ArtSlam, along with Inspiration and March 5, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Academy and Manatee School Men’s Quality Haircutting Shaving Downtown Bradenton will be for the Arts. “The projects will at Salon Francisco transformed into an innovation showcase all areas of the arts— 4933 Ringwood Meadowin in zone filled with students, creatives, visual, musical, theatrical, and The Meadows Shopping Village and creativity. The free event dance.” Call for Appointment features young artists, musicians, ArtSlam 2016 also offers site-specific art installations, and creative projects, exhibits, and 328-2949 interactive art experiences. performances by professional ArtSlam is presented in artists and performers, including conjunction with the Bradenton Sarasota Contemporary Dance, Farmers’ Market on Saturday, chalk artist Matt McAllister, and March 5, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, on graffiti artists from Can Jam. Old Main Street in downtown Jugglers, balloon twisters, face Bradenton (between 3rd Avenue painters, and stilt walkers to West and Manatee Avenue). Both entertain all ages. events are sponsored by Realize Art Slam 2016 is produced by Bradenton. Realize Bradenton with support According to Johnette Isham, from Bradenton Downtown the executive director at Realize Development Authority, Manatee Bradenton, the festival’s focus this Education Foundation, Keller year is showcasing arts educators Williams Realty of Manatee, and and their students. “We recognize Bradenton Herald. the vital importance of community- Realize Bradenton is a non- school partnerships,” she says. profit organization that brings “This experience takes students people together to create a vibrant and educators out of the classroom and prosperous Bradenton area. and puts them in a situation For more information, visit where they engage and inspire the www.RealizeBradenton.com. public.” DONE -- CC / Reviewed -- MJ DONE -- CC The Meadoword • March 2016 29 Florida Maritime Creators and Collectors Art Museum and Studio Tour “Gold in the Gulf: History A four-decade tradition, the Fine Arts Society of of Florida’s Shrimp” Sarasota presents annual tour on March 11 The Florida Maritime Museum (FMM) opens a new exhibit, “Gold in For four decades, the Fine Arts Artist Su Griggs Allen the Gulf: History of Florida’s Shrimp,” Society of Sarasota has presented specializes in sculpting ceramic on Thursday, March 3, with a reception the Creators and Collectors Tour, figures. Her exotic images are born at 5:30 pm. Admission is free, and a self-guided Art and Studio Tour, of ideas inspired by world travels. light refreshments are available. offering an insider look at new Painter Tom Stephens’ Reservations appreciated. creations by painters, ceramicists, waterscapes reveal the ways The exhibit, which runs through photographers, jewelers, and of water in ponds, rivers, and April 16, highlights the lives of multimedia artists. coastlines. American families and immigrants This year’s tour opens Friday, Kate Lowman captures a shot who kick-started the $40 million March 11, from 10:00 am to 4:00 of something that interests her, shrimping industry on Florida’s Gulf pm, with the Galleria staying and then creates a new image by Coast as well as covers the industry’s open for browsing until 7:00 cropping and combining her prints. heritage and how shrimp are harvested. pm. On Saturday, March 12, the Fourteen artists will be in the Affiliated programming includes a hours are 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Galleria of Ringling College of Art free lecture by Brendan Burke, author Tickets are $20 in advance and and Design, the Diane Roskamp of Shrimp Boat City, on Saturday, April $25 on tour days. Proceeds benefit Exhibition Hall, and the Ulla 2, at 3:00 pm. His lecture, “Florida’s the Society’s scholarships and Searing Student Center. Media Fleet,” talks of the halcyon days of educational programs. in the Galleria includes glass and catching shrimp and building boats in Meet the artists in their jewelry fabricators, pottery, wood the Sunshine State. studios and at the Galleria in engraving and woodworking, There will also be a screening of the Ringling College of Art and drawing, paintings in oil and the documentary, Pink Gold Rush, Design. A full spectrum of art is watercolor, and contemporary on Tuesday, March 22, from 6:00 exhibited—prints, photographs, multimedia projects. to 7:30 pm. The film addresses how fine jewelry, ceramics, still life Artists will be available development, economics, and the paintings, landscapes, and abstract throughout the tour to talk with environment have taken a toll on the masterpieces. visitors and answer questions. All present-day shrimping industry. The Master printmaker Patrick art is for sale, and the proceeds cost for the documentary screening is Lindhardt, whose medium is benefit the Society’s scholarship $5. Light refreshments are included. mezzotint, offers demonstrations in and educational programs. For more information and reservations, his graphic arts studio. Visit www.fineartssarasota. call 708-6120 or email fmminfo@ Charles Miano, master fine arts org for tickets, which will be manateeclerk.com. painter, offers demonstrations in exchanged for a guide book at the his studio, Southern Atelier. first stop on the tour. 30 The Meadoword • March 2016 Racing Dog Retirement Fly Fishing And All That Project (RDRP) Clinic Jazz… Volunteer, support, and fostering opportunities Mangrove Coast Fly If you enjoyed Meadows Fishing Club March 19 Resident Betty Comora’s There is nothing more rewarding (wish list on website) event open to public performance at the Concert in the than helping another living creature • Donate money through planned Park the last day of the Photo Show find a safe, happy life. If you love giving, sponsor a hound, or make The Mangrove Coast Fly Fishing last month, then you’re sure to greyhounds and want to help a gift Club (MCFF) will host a Fly Casting enjoy her Jazz Brunch performance them, there are many opportunities to Your ideas for additional volunteer Clinic on Saturday, March 19, this month. do so. Racing Dog Retirement Program services are always welcome. It is only from 9:00 am to noon at the MCA Betty, well-known in the area (RDRP) is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) through volunteers that this work can Community Center. Instruction will jazz circuit, will be at the Golden organization dedicated to the rescue, continue. You may volunteer as much take place in the field adjacent to the Daisy in The Meadows Shopping rehabilitation, and adoption of retired or as little time as you like. building beyond the pond. Village Saturday, March 5, from racing greyhounds. Fostering is the gift of life The clinic is open to the general 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Board meetings are the second public, MCFF members, and guests. A Sunday of every month from 11:00 Serving as a foster family gives limited number of fly rods are available am to 1:00 pm, and the meetings are these deserving dogs the gift of life. if you need one. If you have your own open to the public. Attending a board There is nothing more important than fly rod, please bring it. meeting is a great way to learn more families who are willing to provide a The teachers are casting and get involved in RDRP. Volunteer temporary home for a retired racing instructors, certified by the Interna- Acupuncture applications, guidelines, and schedules dog awaiting adoption. tional Federation of Fly Fishers (IFFF). are available online at www.rdrp.org. The next time you look into the Headed by Master Instructor Pete Examples of current volunteers needs: soulful eyes of a greyhound, consider Greenan, instructors will work with Works • Walk, groom, and love greyhounds the satisfactory feeling of knowing beginners through advanced casters. • Clean kennels that YOU are the person who made it Mangrove Coast Fly Fishers At • Foster a greyhound possible for that dog to move on to a of Sarasota is Southwest Florida’s The Meadows • Raise funds new life in its “furever” home! premier fly fishing club and is an IFFF • Write grants For information about fostering, Charter Club. MCFF Meetings are held • Sew or mend kennel coats visit www.rdrp.org and Foster a the fourth Wednesday of the month, • Attend “Meet & Greets” Greyhound in the drop-down menu except December, at the Sarasota Call Dr. Brenda • Help plan events under the Volunteer item on the menu Garden Club. Casting and Fly Tying • Beautify Memorial Garden bar. Fostering a greyhound just may begins at 6:00 pm; meetings begin at 941-955-1220 • Assist with community outreach be a “greyt” fit for you. 7:00 pm. www.doctorbrenda.com and public relations For more information, call For more information, email • Donate supplies for greyhounds 379-3278 or visit www.rdrp.org. [email protected] visit www.mcff.club. Mote Mote Marine Memorial Laboratory Snook “Otters & Shindig ‘16 Their Waters” Register now for Tournament April 8 and 9 Exhibit of North American river otters Registration is now open for the to the economy annually. Increased 2016 William R. Mote Memorial fishing pressure, habitat loss, and offers an otter’s-eye view Snook Shindig (honoring Captain natural challenges, such as freezes of their watershed homes Scotty Moore), a research-based and red tide, contribute to declining catch, sample, and release tournament. snook populations. Mote and FWC River otters display interesting The fun starts with the Mandatory scientists partnered to evaluate if behaviors. As animals that fish, roam, Captain’s Meeting at 6:00 pm on April stocking hatchery-reared snook is an keep dens, and protect their young in 8 at Mote’s WAVE Center (former effective fishery management tool for our watersheds, otters help to highlight Sea Cinema), 1600 Ken Thompson replenishing snook stocks. the importance of healthy wetlands Parkway on City Island in Sarasota. Past tournament results revealed and how people can take care of Enjoy fishing along Sarasota Bay from that changes in snook-release strategies watersheds. Watersheds—lands that Venice to Cortez from 7:00 pm, April have improved survival of stocked drain water toward rivers, estuaries, 8, through noon, April 9. The Awards snook by as much as 200 percent. and the sea—are important to people Dinner starts at 5:30 pm on April 9 at Adults 16 and older can register and wildlife living on land and in Mote’s WAVE Center. for $35 per person. Youths 15 and coastal oceans. Mote’s animal care Anglers of all ages and abilities younger can register for $10 a specialists work with the otters and can be “citizen scientists” and help person. All children under 16 must be educate guests during training sessions. provide valuable information on tagged accompanied by an adult. “Otters & Their Waters” is the hatchery-reared snook released into Registered anglers are eligible for latest of several special exhibits at Sarasota Bay. prizes. The Snook Shindig fee includes Mote like “Penguin Island” and “Oh The tournament, which was entry in the tournament, awards dinner, Baby! Life Cycles of the Seas” (which originally scheduled in November an event T-shirt, voluntary participation is still open.) 2015, was postponed because of a in raffles, and lots of guaranteed fun. “Otters & Their Waters” is open precautionary response to increased To register for only the 5:30 pm 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, seven days a pressures on the snook population Awards Dinner on April 9, purchase week, at Mote Aquarium(1600 Ken caused by Karenia brevis, the algae dinner tickets ($30 a person), for six Thompson Parkway in Sarasota). that causes Florida red tide. years of age and older. Children under To sponsor or donate to “Otters & Snook are one of the most five dine for free. For more information Their Waters,” contact Erin Knievel at sought-after catches in Florida’s and registration, contact Carole Neidig 388-4441, ext. 415 or eknievel@mote. saltwater recreational fishing industry, at @mote.org or visit mote.org/ org. For more information, call 388- which draws more than $6 billion snookshindig. 4441 or visit www.mote.org. The Meadoword • March 2016 31 Meadows Dental Associcates Proud Sponsor of The Meadows Resident Award for the 34th Annual MCA Photographic Competition & Show (Feb 26-28) We are here to help… We are committed to providing our Meadows Community with the latest in dental technology Call today for an “… You’re never fully dressed appointment today! without a smile!” ~ from the musical Annie Quality Dental Care… From Professionals
Who Care (Pictured left to right) Todd McCabe , DMD, Mary Porter, DMD, and Dr. Ivan Zamora, DMD. Meadows Dental Associates 4987 Ringwood Meadow Sarasota, FL 34235 • 941-377-3659 Call to schedule today—(941) 377-3659 Done -CC 32 The Meadoword • March 2016 Sunrise Walks on Siesta and Nokomis beaches Sarasota County Parks walks, now in 12th year, continues through March 30
Sarasota County Parks, offers incentives and participants reap Recreation and Natural Resources multiple benefits. and Florida Department of Health “We’re connecting people to nature in Sarasota County invite you to while encouraging the health and exercise, energize, and enjoy the wellness benefits of walking along the county’s beautiful beaches. Come and shoreline,” says Poyner. “It’s a great participate in Sunrise Beach Walks way to improve your overall outlook The 2016 Tour de Parks on March SAG support, and tee shirts for the at Siesta Beach and Nokomis Beach on life, and walking with a group adds 20 is a bicycle ride to support The first 500 rider registrants. There are no every Wednesday morning, 8:00 to the bonus of a social activity.” Poyner Legacy Trail. Registration is open. discounts for multiple registrants, no 9:30 am, through March 30. says he knows the program is popular All rides start and finish at the Venice rain date, and no refunds. A one-time registration fee of $5 because, “you see lots of smiling faces Train Depot, 303 E Venice Avenue in For registration information, includes an event T-shirt and punch out there; everybody looks happy.” Venice. Registration and breakfast start route map, packet pickup options, card. To get credit for your walk, The first day of this year’s program at 6:30 am. The 62-mile ride starts at brochure, and more, visit www. simply check in before or after your brought 145 participants. After 7:30 am, the 35-mile ride starts at 8:30 friendsofthelegacytrail.org/tour-de- minimum one-mile walk between completing four walks, registrants am, and the 20-mile ride starts at 9:30 parks-2016. 8:00 and 9:30 am, and have your card receive a drawstring sport pack filled am. Lunch is offered from 11:00 am to To be inspired, visit www. punched at the registration table. with goodies for your active lifestyle. 2:00 pm. friendsofthelegacytrail.org/why-i- According to Sarasota County Complete eight walks to earn another Entry fee ($40 before March 18; love-the-legacy-trail and read Roger Parks, Recreation and Natural incentive. $45, March 18 and after) includes Normand’s article about his 2015 Tour Resources Program Coordinator For more information, call the breakfast, lunch, rest-stop snacks, de Parks ride. Jonathan Poyner, this program, now Sarasota County Contact Center at in its 12th year, is a winner because it 861-5000 or visit www.scgov.net. Volunteers Needed The Legacy Trail Circus Trail could potentially connect Meadows residents with proposed downtown expansion
There’s plenty of movement on promote, maintain, and expand the The Legacy Trail these days, and it’s trail. Currently, the goal is to collect not just the bicyclists, runners, and 25,000 petitions to support The Trail’s hikers. expansion. The Friends of The Legacy Trail, the Sarasota County Commission, and a number of other groups are working to extend the trail from 10.5 to 18 miles, from its southern terminus at Venice Train Depot to Payne Park in downtown Sarasota. The Legacy Trail now ends near Culverhouse Park just south of Clark Road. The proposed expansion as mapped (dashed blue line) shows Massage Designed for Your Body how the extension creates potential for Meadows residents to connect to and Your Budget downtown Sarasota and points south Volunteer opportunities are using the existing Circus Trail system plentiful, including working at (shown as solid purple line on the informational tables and joining the map). safety patrol team. It’s a great time to Friends of The Legacy Trail, a get involved and join the organization. volunteer organization of several For more information, visit hundred members strong, works to friendsofthelegacytrail.org. for $45.00 One Hour (Valid through December 31, 2016) Sarasota County Opens Welcome GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE Desk at Administration Center Terri Magdalinski, RN, LMT A new Welcome Center customer interact with the public.” 15 Years Experience as a Registered Nurse & service desk officially opened at The Welcome Center is part of a 14 Years as a Licensed Massage Therapist the Sarasota County Administration larger plan to renovate the downtown Center, 1660 Ringling Boulevard in building. In late 2014, the exterior OFFERING THE FOLLOWING SPECIALTIES: Sarasota, as part of an effort to better of the building was painted and Relaxing massage • Deep tissue • Medical serve visitors and provide information. overgrown landscaping was replaced Aromatherapy • Reflexology The Welcome Center will be staffed with new, Florida-friendly native from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday plants. Additional improvements are By Appointment Only through Friday. planned for the lobby in 2016. The Meadows Shopping Village Sarasota County Administrator For more information, contact the 5049 Ringwood Meadow • Bldg H, Ste. G Tom Harmer says the new Welcome Sarasota County Contact Center at Sarasota, FL 34235 • 941-378-4101 Center will “provide one more way for 861-5000 or visit www.scgov.net. Sarasota County to serve and positively RN 1586602 • MA 20912 • MM 18803 The Meadoword • March 2016 33 Fifth Annual Pickleball Slam Register by March 11 for tournament, March 23 through 25
Remember to register for the Fifth on the outdoor pickleball courts, Annual Pickleball Slam! Sarasota and Arlington Park will host levels County Parks, Recreation and 3.5+ for anyone who prefers indoor Natural Resources is now accepting competition. If enough teams register, registrations for its Fifth Annual each division will be divided into Pickleball Slam, which will take place two age brackets and will be based Wednesday, March 23, through Friday, on average age of players for that March 25. grouping. The slam will be an open play This is a great opportunity for tournament, double elimination, under players of all skill levels to compete the United States of America Pickleball against other players from surrounding Association rules. counties and gain tournament This year’s tournament will experience. T-shirts are provided to take place at three locations to all participants. Top finishers receive accommodate more players and skill awards. levels. Competitions will be held on Players may compete in up to the outdoor courts at the Englewood two events in the men’s, women’s, or Sports Complex (1300 South River mixed double’s divisions. The cost is Road), the indoor courts at Arlington $10 for first event; $5, second event. Park (2650 Waldemere Street in Registration forms are available at all Sarasota), and Laurel Park (509 Collins Sarasota County Recreation Centers Road in Laurel). or online at www.scgov.net/parks. Laurel Park will host beginner’s Registration closes on March 11. level play for levels 3 and under For more information, contact the inside the gym. The Englewood Sarasota County Contact Center at Sports Complex will host levels 3.5+ 861-5000, or visit www.scgov.net.
7th Annual Take Stock in Children 10k/5k/Fun Run March 6 event supports mentoring and college scholarships
Take Stock in Children of Manatee deserving Manatee County students. County holds the 7th Annual Take Dill says the program has proven Stock 10k/5k/Fun Run on Sunday, success with a 96 percent graduation March 6, along Main Street in rate. “Usually, they’re the first person Lakewood Ranch. The 10k begins at in their family to attend college,” 7:30 am; the 5k, at 7:35 am. The Kids explains Dill. “So you’re really Fun Run starts at 8:30 am. A Post- breaking cycles of poverty with Race Party follows the race offering education and a volunteer mentor.” food, entertainment, raffles, age-group awards, and children’s activities. Take Stock in Children is a All Manatee County schools are non-profit organization that helps being challenged to rally at least 300 deserving children achieve academic runners to participate on their behalf. and personal success by providing Every school that meets the challenge mentoring programs and college will be awarded a scholarship and scholarships. The Florida Prepaid a mentor for one of their students. College Foundation matches the Supporters can either register to run or scholarship money raised dollar-for- select one of the virtual participation dollar. The organization identifies options. students as early as sixth grade to fill “We’re excited about the virtual their needs for mentors and college participant options because it means scholarships. In return, students even if you’re out of town or have commit to maintain a 2.5 or better previous commitments, you can still grade point average (GPA), remain support the school of your choice to drug- and crime-free, and meet with win a scholarship,” says Diana Dill, their mentor on a weekly basis. executive director of Take Stock in For more information and Manatee. sponsorship opportunities, contact Proceeds from the run go Take Stock in Children Race Director, directly to support four-year college Bethany Lynch at 713-8935 or scholarships and mentoring for [email protected]. 34 The Meadoword • March 2016 AROUND THE TOWN • March 2016
Weekends & evenings—CROWLEY FOLK SCHOOL. RINGLING BY THE BAY MOTE MARINE Museums Survival skills, sustainability, gardening & crafts. Weekends Mon, Mar 21, 5:00 to 8:00 pm—BIG Z BAND, Live music, & Wed evening classes; some at Florida House Learning SPECIAL LECTURE SERIES ART CENTER MANATEE dancing, & refreshmnents on terrace overlooking the bay at Centre, 4454 Beneva Rd, Sarasota. Register online. Ca’ d’Zan.Free, members; $10, nonmembers. Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s 2016 Lecture Series EVENTS Located at 16405 Myakka Road, Sarasota. Jan thru Apr— in the WAVE Center showcases world-famous presenters Mar 5, 6:00 to 10:00 pm—SNATCH IT! Art (& more) for FAMILY FRIENDLY Thu thru Sun, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Admission (adults $10; discussing marine-related topics on Monday evenings in grabs with open bar, hors d’oeuvres & a chance to win. $125 Mar 3 & 31, 7:00 pm & Mar 4, 10:30 am—Literati Book children $2) benefit CMNC. Visit www.crowleyfl.org. March, starting at 5:30 with a cocktail hour prior to lectures Club, The China Collectors: America’s Century-Long Hunt starting at 6:30 pm. Mote members, free; Mote volunteers, per person & $40 per cheerer ticket. Call 746-2862 or visit DE SOTO NATIONAL MEMORIAL www.artcentermanatee.org. for Asia Art Treasures by Karl E. Meyer. On Mar 31, The teachers & students, $5; nonmembers $10 per lecture. Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal with Elisa Located at 8300 De Soto Memorial Hwy, Bradenton.Visitor Reservations required. Email [email protected] or call CALL TO ARTISTS 2016 SEASON Hansen. Education Center Art Library. Free. Center open daily, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; grounds, dawn 388-4441, ext. 348. ArtCenter Manatee is Manatee County’s premier visual Mar 5, 10:30 am—ROAR! Ringling Order of Art Readers. to dusk. Gates close at 5:00 pm. Closed Thanksgiving, • Mar 7—Tiburones: The Sharks of Cuba. arts center featuring artwork by local, regional and national Family story time & activity. Education Center. Free. For Christmas, & New Years. Free; donations accepted. • Mar 14—Probiotics in Aquaculture: Tiny Organisms artists. Exhibitions change monthly & the public is welcome information, call 359-5700. and their Giant Impacts to opening receptions. Mar 5, 12, 19 & 26, 1:30 to 5:00 pm—Family Workshop, FLORIDA MARITIME MUSEUM • Mar 21—Exploration: Where we’ve been, where we’re Thru Mar 25—12 X 12 OPEN EXHIBITION All media, juried Visitors Pavilion. Create art projects with children 4 to 10 SPRING LECTURE SERIES going, why it matters. • Mar 28—North to Alaska: Chemistry on Ice exhibit in Reid Hodges Gallery. years of age. Free. Lectures begin promptly at 3:00 pm in the main gallery of the Thru Mar 25—FINE CRAFT & PHOTOGRAPHY OPEN Mar 5, 12, 19 & 26, 1:00 pm—Kids Quest. Meet at Visitors Florida Maritime Museum. Experience amazing individual animal exhibits from the EXHIBITION in Kellogg & Searle Galleries Pavilion. $2 per child. For information, call 359-5700. • Wed. Mar 16—HISTORY OF COMMERCIAL FISHING open water Shark Zone exhibit, to the touchable rays and Fri nights monthly, 7:00 to 9:00 pm—Nights Out. Arts & JOSEPH’S COAT SKYSPACE AT SUNSET IN FLORIDA reef animals exhibits, the aquarium offers entertainment crafts creations for 21 and older. Fees include materials and • Sat Apr 2—SHRIMP BOAT CITY BOOK DISCUSSION & education. Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium is an Thu & Fri evenings, 30 MINUTES AFTER SUNSET— Free. Call 708-6120 or visit www.floridamaritimemuseum.org refreshments. JOSEPH’S COAT, permanent installation by artist James independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) research organization in Adult classes & after school programs (ages 6-10); summer Turrell. LED lights change the color of the space and MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS Sarasota with field stations in eastern Sarasota County, camps, ages (4-15). 209 Ninth Street West, Bradenton. Visit Charlotte Harbor & the Florida Keys. Open 10:00 am to 5:00 sky. Bring Yoga mat; dress for outdoors. Reservations EXHIBITS & EVENTS www.artcentermanatee.org or call 746-2862. recommended. Members free; nonmembers $5. Call pm daily, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway in Sarasota. Call Thru Mar 3, 10:00 am to 4:30 pm—NEW AMERICAN 388-4441 or visit [email protected]. ART CENTER SARASOTA 358-3180 or visit www.ringling.org. BOTANICALS—THE ART OF M F CARDAMONE MYAKKA RIVER STATE PARK The Art Center is a member-based organization PERFORMANCES AT RINGLING Philadelphia artist MF Cardamone returns to Selby. For more that offers affordable, creative opportunities with Mar 11 & 12, 7:30 pm— David Neumann/Advanced information, contact the Events Department at 941-366-5731 Myakka River State Park, located 9 miles east of I-75 at curated and juried exhibitions, classes, workshops, and Beginner Group: I Understand Everything Better. or [email protected]. 13208 State Road 72 in Sarasota, is open 365 days a educational programs for youth and adults. Located at 707 Historic Asolo Theater. $25-$30 For tickets, call 360-7399. Thru Mar 23, Wed, 6:00 to 9:00 pm—ORCHID year from 8:00 am until sundown. $6.00 per vehicle (limit North Tamiami Trail in Sarasota. For more information, visit Mar 12, 2:00 pm— Conversation with Choreographer: EVENINGS. Enjoy orchids, music, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, of 2-8 people per car); $4.00 per single occupant vehicle. Pedestrians, bicyclists, extra passengers, passengers in www.artsarasota.org or call 365.2032. David Neumann. Free & live music. Members, $25; guests $35. Thru Mar 27, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm—THE ORCHID SHOW: vehicles with holder of Annual Individual Entrance Pass CALL TO ARTISTS 2016 SEASON FILMS CELEBRATING 40 YEARS AT SELBY GARDENS. $2 per person. Campsites available. Email Biology@ Thru Mar 5 Mar 4, 1:00 & 6:30 pm—National Theatre Live: Behind Experience the elegance of orchids in a tropical display in MyakkaRiver.org or call 361-6511. the Beautiful Forevers. the Conservatory. Purchase orchids from the shop. . OLD MAIN STREET BRADENTON Gallery 1—SARTQ: PRINT EXHIBIT. limited edition prints, Mar 18, 1:00 & 6:30 pm— National Theatre Live: As You Mar 10, 5:30 to 7:30 pm—RAINFOREST MASKS Gallery 2—SPECTRUM, independent work of three artists Like It . OPENING RECEPTION. Members, $25; guests, $35 Mar 5, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm ARTSLAM, Celebration of youth Gallery 3—ASALH: BLACK MUSE, curated exhibit & Creativity with Bradenton Farmer’s Market Historic Asolo theater. $18 Members $20 nonmembers. Call Mar 11 thru Apr 22, 10:00 am to 4:30 pm—RAINFOREST Gallery 4—VISUALLY SPEAKING juried, all media show 3rd Thu each month, 6:00 to 10:00 pm—MAIN STREET 360-7399. MASKS OF COSTA RICA. Proceeds benefit Selby Mar 17 thru Apr 23 Gardens’ mission of education and conservation & the LIVE for libations, food, & live music. Call 744-2589. SOUTH FLORIDA MUSEUM Borucan Native Americans who create these hand-made Saturdays thru May, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm—FARMERS’ Gallery 1—PETTICOAT PAINTERS 2016 pieces. MARKET. 12th St W, between 3rd Ave W & Manatee Ave W. Gallery 2—SOJOURN EXHIBITS AND EVENTS Call 840-0017 or visit www.BradentonFarmersMarket.com. Gallery 3—ANTHROPOCENEMASHterpieces III Thru Jun 5, East Gallery—CHANGING WATERS: THE LECTURES AND CLASSES 2nd Sat—CHEF AT THE MARKET. Corner of 4th Ave W Gallery 4—NEW/RENEW HUMAN IMPACT ON FLORIDA’S AQUATIC SYSTEMS. Mar 1, 9:00 to 10:00 am—NEW! TRIPOD TUESDAYS and Old Main Street. Free tasting samples. CALL TO ARTISTS Fine art photographer Lynne Buchanan depicts Florida’s SESSION II. Special access to Tropical Conservatory 3rd Sat, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm—MAINLY ART, every rivers, lakes, estuaries & bays. before hours. Photographers who register in advance can third Sat thru May, featuring arts & crafts by local artists & NEW/RENEW open, all media, juried artworks received in First Floor Galleries—Marine & mammal fossil collection. use tripods to capture images of orchids & other tropicals. person Mar 8, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. Online submissions thru artisans, live music, & more. Second Floor Galleries—The Patrons Gallery Members $15; nonmembers $20. Space is limited. 4th Sat—FOODIE AT THE MARKET. Showcases local Mar 4. Jurying Mar 9. Opening reception: Mar 17, 5:00 to 7:00 acknowledges museum founders. Mar 1,8 & 15 10:00 am to 2:00 pm—INTERMEDIATE pm. Pick up art by Apr 23. residents who cook using local produce &food products. Environmental Hall explores Florida’s environment. WATERCOLOR SESSION II. For students with some Weekly—FAMILY ACTIVITIES. Includes “hands-on” arts, WORKSHOP Rincon Gallery shows John Allinson’s Celebrating Snooty. experience. Instructor: Carolyn Merenda. Member, $90; crafts, & education for kids, from scavenger hunts to creation Mar 5, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm—FAMILY NIGHT-THE nonmember, $105. Mar 2,3 & 4, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm—Expressive Faces & of personalized artwork. SCIENCE OF ART Mar 3, 10, 17 10:00 am to 2:00 pm—ADVANCED Figures with Janet Rogers. Watercolor. Members, $330; 2nd Wed of every month, 7:00 & 9:00 pm—THINK + WATERCOLOR SESSION III. For experienced painters. SARASOTA JUNGLE GARDENS nonmembers $370. DRINK (SCIENCE) CAFE. All ages. Learn cutting-edge Instructor: Carolyn Merenda. Member, $90; nonmember, Sarasota Jungle Gardens is located at 3701 Bay ARTIST DEMONSTRATIONS science in relaxed setting. Beer, wine, soft drinks & snacks $105. Shore Road in Sarasota. Open daily, 10:00 am to 5:00 available for purchase. $3 members; $5 general admission. Mar 7, 14, 21 & 28, 9:00 to 10:00 am—YOGA IN THE pm (closed Christmas) Annual Passes available. For Watercolor Painting. Refreshments served. Proceeds fund RSVP 746-4131 ext. 131, or www.southfloridamuseum.org. GARDENS, SESSION III. Member, $55; nonmember, $75. events and information, call 355-1112 or visit www. scholarships. Members $20; nonmembers $25. Winter Yoga Pass available, thru Apr 25. Member, $110; sarasotajunglegardens.com. Mar 20, 1:00 to 3:00 pm—Personal Painting. Make your BISHOP PLANETARIUM nonmember pass fee $150. Instructor: Linda Lee. art sing with energy, mixed media painting demonstration. Astronomy education, multi-media theater for films, music & Mar 11, 11:30 amto 1:00 pm—ORCHID SHOW KEYNOTE HISTORIC SPANISH POINT EVENTS digital art performances. Visit www.southfloridamuseum.org/ LECTURE presented by Marc Hachadourian, curator of the Mar 5, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm & Mar 6, noon to 5:00 pm— ThePlanetarium. Orchid Collection & Manager of the Nolen Greenhouses for FAIRY HOUSE FESTIVAL with fairy houses, musical Apr 3, 4:00 to 7:00 pm—THEATER OF THE MIND reading Sat, 10:30 am & 4:15 pm; Sun, 2:00 pm—Perfect Little the New York Botanical Garden. performances, enchanted garden walks, story telling, face from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Albert & Planet, a 23-minute solar system journey; all ages. Mar 12, 10:00 am to Noon—GROWING ORCHIDS IN SW painting, crafts, and vendors village. Bertha Johnson. Members $10; nonmembers $12. Mar 12, 4:00 to 8:00 pm—IQUEST- Telescopes & FLORIDA. Tips & tour of Tropical Conservancy. Instructor Mar 10, noon to 2:00 pm—ART LECTURE SERIES, Geocaching. Middle school students star in cooking MANATEE VILLAGE HISTORICAL PARK Monroe Kokin, Members, $35; nonmembers $50. Auguste Rodin, French artist whose sculpture set the stage show, creating the Healtiest Choice, Most Bizarre Combo Mar 14, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm—NEW! IKEBANA: PAST & for modern art. Mar 5, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm— MANATEE VILLAGE or Prettiest Plate. $5 admission includes a slice of pizza & PRESENT. Japanese floral design. Instructors Pat Bonarek Daily—PUPS AT THE PARK, rules apply. HISTORICAL PARK’S 1ST ANNUAL HERITAGE DAYS. drink. RSVP:746-4131 ex 131. & Adrienne Wagner. Members, $35; nonmembers $50. Third Sat, monthly, 10:00 to 11:00 am—READ WITH Open house. Beard & Mustache Competition. 4th Wed every month, 7:00 pm—STELLIFEROUS LIVE, Mar 16, Noon to 1:00 pm—RaINFOREST MASKS OF DOGS, Osprey Public Library. Located at 1404 Manatee Avenue East in Bradenton. Open Bishop Planetarium. Observe & discuss the night skies. View COSTA RICA lecture with Marilynn & CJ Shelley in Selby’s Historic Spanish Point is a 30-acre historical, archaeological, Mon thru Fri & 2nd & 4th Sat, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. For more schedule at www.southfloridamuseum.org/ThingstoDo/ Great Room by the Bay. & environmental museum overlooking Little Sarasota Bay at information, call 741-4076 or visit www.manateevillage.org. PresentationSchedule.aspx. Mar 17, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm—BORUCAN MASK 337 N. Tamiami Trail in Osprey, Florida. Mon thru Sat, 9:00 Fridays 6:00 pm—FILM FRIDAYS, most Fridays year- PAINTING CLASS. Instructor: Marilynn Shelley. Members, am to 5:00 pm; Sun noon to 5:00 pm. General admission RINGLING MUSEUMS round in the Bishop Planetarium Theater. Music & Movies $40; nonmembers $55. always free for members; $12 ,nonmember adults and teens; SPECIAL EXHIBITS about cultural & scientific topics. Music starts at 6:30 pm; Mar 18 & 25, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm—NATURE’S children 5 thru12, $5; $5 guests accompanying members; $2 movie starts at 7:30 pm. Members $5; nonmembers $7. IMPRESSIONS IN CLAY. Instructor: Sandy Frick. Members, senior discount. For more information call 966-5214 or visit Thru Apr 17—SAMURAI: THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR. First Saturday Night Every Month, 8:15 pm—ROCK $65; nonmembers, $80. www.historicspanishpoint.org. Samurai warrior suits of armor, helmets, swords & saddles. HALL OF FAME. 45 minutes of classic rock music thru Mar 21, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm—NEW! IKEBANA: EAST Free with museum admission. For more information, call 25,000 watts of surround sound with animations on the VS. WEST. Instructors Pat Bonarek& Adrienne Wagner. VILLAGE OF THE ARTS 359-5900 or visit www.ringling.org. planetarium’s dome. Free to Museum Friends Members. Members, $35; nonmembers $50. Tue & Thu Mar 1, 3, 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24 & 29 1:30 pm Thru May 1— INK, SILK AND GOLD: ISLAMIC ART Mar 21, 22 & 23, 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm—NEW! LEAF to 5:00 pm—TASTE HISTORICAL WALKING & FOOD FROM THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON. Islamic Located at 201 10th Street West, Bradenton. Open Tue thru WORKSHOP - DRAWING & WATERCOLOR. Instructor: TOURS # 1 & 2. Enjoy galleries, shops, food & music. Meet art arranged regionally & chronologically. Sat, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm & Sun noon to 5:00 pm; closed Mondays & Christmas Day, & New Year’s Day. General Olivia Braida. Members, $350; nonmembers $395. at Motorworks Brewing. $45. Visit www.tasteweb.net. EVENTS. admission to all films, $3, Members; $5 nonmembers. Mar 22, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm—NEW! WATERCOLOR Visit www.villageofthearts.com.Village of the Arts, 1113 12th Apr 1, 6:00 to 10:00 pm—WINE WALK to CA’ D’ZAN. “BRUSH STROKES & MORE” Members, $35; St. W., Bradenton between US 41 & 9th Street W, & 17th Wine tasting, food pairings & entertainment. Members, $120; Attractions nonmembers $50. Instructor: Carolyn Merenda. Avenue W & 9th Avenue W., Bradenton.. General admission, $135; VIP, $200. Proceeds benefit Ca’ Mar 25, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm—NEW! VISUAL POETRY. d’Zan Preservation Fund. Photography. Instructor: Perry Johnson. Members, $55; Performing Arts BRADENTON RIVERWALK PARK ON nonmembers, $75. THE MANATEE RIVER COLLECTING RECOLLECTIONS Mar 27, 9:30 am to 1:30 pm—EASTER BRUNCH & ARTIST SERIES CONCERTS Mar 1, 10:30 am—Henry Barragan. FREE for members; Mar 12, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm— WOMEN’S COUNCIL FAMILY EGG HUNT. Members, $50; guests, $75; children, Mar 5 & 6, 7:30 pm—TRIO CELESTE. Violin, cello & piano $5, nonmembers. Fascinating story tellers talking about OF REALTOR’S WALK FOR A CAUSE. Contact $25; free under 3. trio perform Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 90. their lives,The Ringling, the Circus, Sarasota- and more. [email protected] Mar 29, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm—ZEN WATERCOLOR Members, $25; nonmembers $45. Reception follows. Riverwalk, in downtown Bradenton, is an outdoor gathering WORKSHOPS- SESSION IV. Instructor: Deborah Ross. Member; $50; nonmember, $65. For information & concert tickets, call 360-7399 or visit RINGLING UNDERGROUND place for diverse events & activities. For information, visit www.realizebradenton.com & select Riverwalk. Mar 30, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm—ZEN WATERCOLOR www.artistsseriesconcerts.org. Artist Series Concerts of Mar 3, 8:00 to 11:00 pm— Live music and art in the WORKSHOPS- SESSION V. Instructor: Deborah Ross. Sarasota, a nonprofit corporation, presents major national Museum of Art Courtyard. Select galleries open until 11:00 BRADENTON MARAUDERS HOME Member; $50; nonmember, $65. & international concerts, opera, orchestral, Broadway, & pm.$10. Free with college student ID. Call 359-5700 or email GAMES at McKECHNIE FIELD Mar 31, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm—ZEN WATERCOLOR film performances at the restored Historic Asolo Theater, [email protected]. To view Marauders’ game calendar in season, visit WORKSHOPS- SESSION VI Instructor: Deborah Ross. the Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Road, and BAYFRONT GARDEN TOURS www.bradentonmarauders.com & select Schedule from Member; $50; nonmember, $65 Michael’s on East, 1212 S. East Ave, in Sarasota. Thru Oct 2016—Walker Guest House Replica. Free menu. 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Members, free; masterful politician with ruthless tactics. Mertz Theatre. Museum of Art permanent, special exhibition galleries & CROWLEY MUSEUM AND NATURE CENTER guests pay normal admission; reciprocals, $10; member Circus Museum after 5. Adults $10; Children 6 to 17, $5; 5 & guests, $10. For more information visit www.selby.org or call 2015-2016 CONSERVATORY SEASON under, free. Members, free. Events may require a ticket. View Sat, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm—OLD MYAKKA FARMER’S 366-5731, ext. 239. Thru Mar 13, 7:30 pm—MACBETH by William schedule and ticket requirements at www.ringling.org. MARKET at Crowley, 16405 Myakka Road. Sarasota. Shakespeare. Dark, powerful play. Cook Theatre. The Meadoword • March 2016 35 AROUND THE TOWN • March 2016
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For more Wed, Mar 2, noon—LUNCH WITH RABBI Glickman, information & tickets, call the Box Office at 366-9000 or visit THE (Sarasota) PLAYERS Fri, Mar 4, 7:30 pm—Carol Kaufman presents George brown-bag lunch & a discussion topic. Dessert provided. www.Floridastudiotheatre.org. Thru Mar 6, 2:00 pm matinees and 7:30 pm evening Gershwin, An American Treasure. Following Shabbat Tue, Mar 8 & 22, 10:00 am—MITZVAH KNITTING & GLENRIDGE PERFORMING ARTS performances—HANDS ON A HARD BODY. Comedy. Service, Carol Kaufman presents “George Gershwin—An CROCHETING GROUP CENTER (GPAC) Tickets $25 to $30. American Musical Treasure.” Listen to 7discuss Gershwin Wed, Mar 9 & Thu, Mar 10, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm— Mar 24 thru Apr 10, 2:00 pm matinees & 7:30 pm—LA compositions that intertwine Tin Pan Alley & Carnegie Hall. INCREDIBLE ESTATE / RUMMAGE SALE. Support JAZZ AT GPAC CAGE AUX FOLLES. Comedy. Tickets $25 to $30. Kaufman gives Sarasota Orchestra pre-concert lectures on Temple Emanu-El Religious School while finding treasures Now in its 12th year, the Glenridge Performing Arts Center The Players is located at 838 N.Tamiami Trail between 10th Longboat Key &Broadway musical theater presentations at bargain prices. Furniture, electronics, kitchen supplies, (7333 Scotland Way, Sarasota ) is known for its outstanding Street & Boulevard of the Arts. Call Box Office at 365-2494 throughout Sarasota. appliances, toys, collectibles, tools, golf clubs, shoes, jazz line-up. Concerts by notable jazz stars. Cohosted by the or visit www.theplayerstheatre.org. Tue, Mar 8 & Mar 29, 1:30 to 5:00 pm—CHJ WINTER clothing, dishes, china, books, DVDs, fabulous tchotkes – & South County Jazz Club. Tickets online, www.GPACTix.com FILM SERIES. You are invited to bring your own favorite more! or call the GPAC Box Office, 552-5325. VAN WEZEL PERFORMING ARTS brown-bag meal & enjoy films, food and fellowship. Sun, Mar 13, 9:30 am breakfast & 10:00 am program— • Wed, Mar 9, 8:00 pm—Music of Harry James $10, Mar 1, 8:00 pm—The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. • Mar 8—The Jolson Story Sarasota’s Homeless and the Next Generation of GPAC Family; $15, General Admission Mar 2, 8:00 Pm—The McCartney Years. • Mar 29—When Jews were Funny 24/7 Living Facilities. Temple Emanu-El’s Social Action • Sat, Mar 19, 8:00 pm—Cyrus Chestnut, Piano Jazz Mar 3 & 4, 8:00 Pm—Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Committee presents Resurrection House Director of Bottled water provided. BYOB if desired. Development Bill Wilson & Sarasota County Director of $22.50, GPAC Family; $27.50 General Admission Dreamcoat. Sun, Mar 13, 4:00 pm—Music from Broadway and The Mar 6, 7:00 Pm—Moody Blues Homeless Services Wayne Applebee, for a briefing on JAZZ CLUB OF SARASOTA American Song Book. Enjoy music by Jewish composers major issues regarding Sarasota’s homeless population. For Mar 9, 8:00 Pm—Disney Fantasia Live In Concert featuring tenor Robert Lischetti & pianist Don Bryn. Robert JAZZ AT TWO Mar 10, 8:00 Pm—The Joffrey Ballet information & reservations, call Barbara Peltz at 462-1196. has been a soloist with orchestras & has performed with Tue, Mar 15, noon—Jewish Medical Ethics Lunch with • Mar 4—Billy Marcus Quartet. Mar 11, 8:00 Pm—Gordon Lightfoot opera companies in the U.S. & Europe. He conducts The • Mar 18—Jerry Eckert Trio. Mar 16, 3:00 & 8:00 Pm—Saturday Night Fever Scholars series continues. Contact Adult Education Chair Humanaires & is Music Director for Unitarian Universalist Dan Barwick at [email protected]. • Apr 1—Hoyt Miller & the Sea Notes Dixieland. Mar 17, 7:00 Pm—The Young Irelanders Church of Sarasota (UUCS). Don is a composer, arranger, Jazz Club Members, $10; nonmembers, $15. Unitarian Mar 20, 7:00 Pm—The Peking Acrobats Wed, Mar 16, 1:00 to 3:00 pm—Interfaith Tea welcomes Universalist Church, 3975 Fruitville Rd, Sarasota. Mar 21, 8:00 Pm—Bullets Over Broadway performer & teacher. Tickets, $15 per person. female religious leaders from Haitian, Native America and Mar 22, 8:00 Pm—Stomp Sat, Mar 19, 10:30 am—Hooray For Yiddish: a Few Rising Tide to discuss their beliefs, practices & communities. SPECIAL EVENT Mar 23, 8:00 Pm—The Irish Tenors Laughs and Reflections on the Jewish Condition. Discussion follows with tea & homemade sweets. To RSVP, Mar 6 thru Mar 12—36th ANNUAL SARASOTA JAZZ Mar 24, 8:00 Pm—Linda Elder With Robert Cuccioli Following the Purim Service, Margo Restrepo presents call Dorothy Quint at 359-9417. FESTIVAL. Tickets, visit www.brownpapertickets.com or call Mar 25, 8:00 Pm—The Midtown Men Hooray for Yiddish. Restrepo practiced psychiatry in Houston Tue Mar 22 & 29, 10:30 am—Book of Ecclesiastes. Join 800-838-3006. Mar 26, 2:00 & 8:00 Pm—Million Dollar Quartet for 37 years, then returned to her earlier passions for dance the conversation with Associate Rabbi Richard Klein. To The Jazz Club of Sarasota is located at 330 South Pineapple Mar 29, 8:00 Pm—Aretha Franklin &theatre, singing alto with the Humanaires. This show is her RSVP, contact Dan Barwick at [email protected]. Ave, Suite 111 in Sarasota, 366-1552. For tickets or Mar 31, 8:00 Pm—An Evening With Sophia Loren first in Sarasota. Temple Emanu-El is located at 151 McIntosh Road, south information, call 366-1552 or visit www.jazzclubsarasota.org. The Van Wezel box office is located at 777 N. Tamiami Trail, Fri, Apr 1, 7:30 pm—Suzanne Vromen Speaks on The of Fruitville. For more information, call the Temple office at Making of a Totalitarian State: The Rise of Hitler. Vromen 371-2788 or visit www.sarasotatemple.org. KEY CHORALE Sarasota. Tickets & information, call 953-3368 or visit www.vanwezel.org. is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Bard College, where she TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM Sat, Mar 19, 2:00 pm & Sun, Mar 20, 5:00 pm—Cirque co-founded the Women’s Studies program & directed it for des Voix-Collaboration with Circus Sarasota. Enjoy WEST COAST BLACK eight years. SHABBOT SERVICES blend of circus performers withlive orchestra and 100+ THEATRE TROUPE Sun thru Fri, 8:00 am—DAILY MINYAN voices in the Key Chorale. Under the Big Top at Benderson Humanistic Judaism combines a human-centered philosophy Fri, 6:30 pm—FRIDAY NIGHT SERVICES Mar 2 thru Apr 9—The Sam Cooke Story. Adult tickets with a celebration of Jewish culture and identity to meet the Park. Tickets start at $20. Purchase online at www. $36; Student/Active Military $22. 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CONGREGATION KOL HANESHAMA Tue, 9:15 am—“Cup of Joe and Five Books of Mo” Mar 17 thru Apr 3, 2:00 pm Sunday matinees, 7:30 & Tue, 1:30 pm—Yiddish Group 8:00 pm evening performances—BYE BYE BIRDIE. $27 Community Kol HaNeshama, 3145 Southgate Circle in Sarasota, is affiliated with the Reconstructionist Movement, which stems Thu, 10:30 am—CHUG IVRI to $37 Wed, Mar 2, 1:15 pm—Book Review and Discussion The Manatee Performing Arts Center is located at 502 3rd DESIGNING WOMEN from traditional orientation with a positive value on innovation & change. Call 244-2042 or email [email protected]. of David Laskin’s The Family: Three Journeys into the Ave West in Bradenton. For tickets, call Box Office, 748- BOUTIQUE Heart of the Twentieth Century. Call Arlene Hamburger, 5875, or visit www.manateeplayers.com. First Wed every month, 5:30 pm—at the boutique. Guests HARVEST UNITED METHODIST 921-2554. MUSICA SACRA CANTORUM welcome. Call Event Line 544-7612. CHURCH Sun, Mar 6, 9:30 am— Dr. Donal O’Shea, President of Designing Women Boutique, a 501(c)(3) charitable WORSHIP SERVICES & WEEKLY ACTIVITIES New College presents “New College - A Landscape of Mar 13, 5.15 pm—MUSIC FROM FILM & TELEVISION. organization, is located at 1226 N. Tamiami Trail in Higher Education.” $5 donation for food.RSVP 955-8121. Presented in Cabaret Style by Musica Sacra Cantorum Sarasota, 366-5293. For details & to purchase tickets, visit Sun, 9:00 am—TRADITIONAL WORSHIP. Wed, Mar 16, 1:15 pm—Above & Beyond, Idelson Library Chorus, Gillespie Hall, Church of the Redeemer Episcopal, www.designingwomenboutique.org. Sun, 10:30 am—CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP with “Time Film Matinee Series. $3, Members; $5 nonmembers. 222 S. Palm Avenue, downtown Sarasota. $25 For tickets, Especially for Children.” Sun, Mar 20, 11:00 am to 2:00 pm—Family Purim Bingo call 405-7322 or visit www.MusicaSacraCantorum.org. JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH Thu, 6:48 pm—SIXFORTYEIGHT smaller group, casual. FOUNDATION (JDRF) Pancake Brunch. Musica Sacra Cantorum is one organization of two choral SUNDAY SCHOOL, ages 3 to 93. Childcare for children 2 & Wed, Mar 23, 6:30 pm thru Thu Mar 24, 8:00 am— ensembles. “This is Voices,” professionals dedicated to Mar 9, 5:30 pm—Adult Support Group for Type 1 adults under during all services. Purimshpiel & Purim Morning Service in the chapel. the highest levels of musical artistry join talented, qualified meets in coffee shop of Books-A-Million, 6591 S. Tamiami MINISTRIES—Seed Groups for special study; adult classes Wed, Mar 27, 7:00 pm—From Bima to Broadway concert volunteers to comprise Musica Sacra Cantorum Chorus. Trail, Sarasota. Free. Call Deanna at 928-2698. for men, women & seniors; youth; children; music & scouts. & dessert buffet. $36. RSVP: Kelly Nester, 955-8121. Mar 17, 9:30 am—Cups of Hope. Monthly gathering for Call 907-7333 or visit www.welcometoharvest.org. Sprouts TBS is at 1050 S. Tuttle Ave., Sarasota. Call MUNCHTIME MUSICALES preschool onsite. (sponsored by Sarasota Concert T1D adults, parents and loved ones share experience to help 955-8121, email [email protected] or visit www.templebethsholomfl.org. Accociation) make life better. Courtyard Marriott, 8305 Tourist Center Harvest United Methodist Church is located at 14305 Dr, Sarasota. Free. JDRF, Florida Suncoast Chapter has THE 2015-2016 SEASON Covenant Way in Lakewood Ranch, east of I-75, north of TEMPLE SINAI been active in the Sarasota area for over 20 years. For more University Parkway off Lorraine Road. Mar 16—Sarasota Opera Studio Artists information, contact Tammy or www.jdrf.org. SHABBAT SERVICES Free noon-time concerts in a wide variety of musical genres. ST. JAMES UNITED METHODIST Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center, 709 N. Tamiami Trail LIFELONG LEARNING ACADEMY CHURCH Fri nights, 6:00 pm—NIGHT Services. Welcome in Sarasota. Open seating, no reservations. Bring your lunch. EINSTEIN’S CIRCLE Reception 5:15 pm except last Friday each month when A Neighborhood Church near The Meadows Call 351-7467 or visit www.scasarasota.org. Gather to listen, to learn, and exchange ideas on a variety of service is 7:30 pm followed by an Oneg. Sat mornings, 10:00 am— MORNING SERVICES, an SARASOTA BALLET topics, led by experts in each field. Wednesdays, 3:00 to 4:00 SUN SERVICES & WEEKLY ACTIVITIES Sun, 8:45—ADULT BIBLE STUDY intimate worship experience with discussion in the Chapel. Mar 7—FILM SERIES 4 - SIR FREDERICK ASHTON’S pm, Selby Auditorium on USF-SarasotaManatee campus. $5, Academy members; $6, general admission. For more Sun, 10:00 am—CELEBRATION WORSHIP SERVICE For information, call 924-1802, email office@Templesinai- BALLETS sarasota.org or visit www.TempleSinai-Sarasota.org. Mar 14, 11:30 am—MARCH SHOWCASE LUNCHEON, information, email [email protected]. Sun, 10:00 am—CHILDREN’S SUNDAY SCHOOL featuring BIain Webb, Director. Michael’s on East. $35. 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Pink & white, white HESS HOME SERVICES will take years of on-site Meadows experience, new renters. We face The Meadows sidewalls. $75.00 or best offer. Call care of all your home improvement and I can offer a conservative personal Country Club golf course, so the view 612-741-0016. repair needs. With over 35 years’ of touch and a variety of services to meet is beautiful. Please email rgruneisen@ experience there is no job to small. We LADIES 10 SPEED HUFFY $60.00 or your needs. Neighborhood references aol.com with any inquiries. are licensed and insured. Estimates best offer. 378-1865 are available. I look forward to meeting are always free. Give us a call at FOR RENT: LONGWATER CHASE, you! Victoria (941) 350-2566 LIVING ROOM FURNITURE: Recliner 941-306-6026 or 941-809-7734. 2BR/2BA or 1BR/1BA, golf course Love Seat 4200, Large rocker recliner IRONING: HOT OFF THE PRESS view. 3 months minimum. 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Errands, transportation, very private area, parking 10 steps organizing, personal assisting and issue of The Meadoword are due from door. Quiet lanai overlooking more. You and your loved ones will wooded area. Call 716-609-2108 or enjoy services tailor made to suit FRIDAY, MARCH 11 [email protected]. your individual needs. Visit me on the web at www.letamyhelp.com or call For More Information, Call the MCA Office, 377-2300, HOMES FOR SALE me today to get started. Amy Zeusler or email [email protected] THE VIEW! THE VIEW! THE VIEW! 941-364-8071. Helping your neighbors 3546 Richwood Link, Heronmere, in The Meadows since 2009. I look Ads cost $4.00 for ten words and $.10 for each additional word. overlooking the golf course and pool. forward to hearing from you! Submit copy with payment on or before the 13th of the month 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Partially furnished, GAIL’S CLEANING SERVICE: 30 prior to publication. If the 13th falls on a weekend or holiday, 1344 square feet plus carport with years’ experience. A few openings left. storage. Second floor. $195K. Contact ads are due the previous business day. Deadlines are also Free Laundry Service. Only $75.00. Pam 941-225-5800. moved up to accommodate for Thanksgiving and Christmas God Bless Our Great Country. Please holidays and the short month of February. leave message at (941)746-1562. DONE -- MJ The Meadoword • March 2016 39 CLASSIFIED CLASSIFIED CLASSIFIED CLASSIFIED
Classified ads for The Meadoword cost $4.00 for ten words and $.10 for each additional word. Classified copy must be submitted with payment on or before the 13th of the month prior to publication. If the 13th falls on a weekend or holiday, ads are due the the previous business day. Deadlines are also moved up to accommodate for Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays and February. SERVICES SERVICES SERVICES WANTED TO RENT PET CARE: Giving lots of love and STAY AT HOME HEALTH CARE: JONES HANDYMAN SERVICES WANTED: 2BR/2BA for January and attention to your furry one while you’re There is no place like home! HOME REPAIRS & REMODELING: February 2017. Presently renting in away. Daily visits to your home or Registered nurse and full time Drywall, painting, tile, screening, The Meadows looking for next year. overnight in my home, dog walks, Meadows resident. Medical, non- ceiling fans, minor plumbing, fencing, Call Jerry 617-905-3290. vet visits, pet/personal errands. Also medical and respite care provider. power washing & more. For all LOOKING FOR LONG TERM providing transportation to doctor, Rest assured with a professional RN to general repairs inside & out! Licensed. RENTAL. Condo or apt. First floor, grocery store, groomer, pick up care for your loved one/family member 30 Years’ experience. Meadows walk-in shower, 2 bedroom, two bath. after medical procedures and other without expensive agency costs. references available. Bill Unfurnished. Immediate Occupancy. miscellaneous needs. Great rates! Outstanding references. Available 941-724-0952. 330-354-6629 Bonded & Insured. Debbie 284-5088. 24/7. Compassionate, dedicated and SEAMSTRESS: Experienced committed to ensure the highest I AM INTERESTED IN SHARING a TAX PREPARATION BY CPA. seamstress, reasonably priced, quality of care. Canine caregiver too! villa or condo in The Meadows with Meadows resident. Will make house excellent work. Call Lois at 907-0177. 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Looking Traditional landscapes; water-saving ARNIE’S SCREENING SERVICE: home appointments. Contact: Leonard for condo in Woodland Grove from xeriscapes; container plant care; rose, Rescreening all types of enclosures. Schimberg at [email protected] January 15th-April 15, 2017. Non- orchid, and bromeliad care; shrub Pool cages, patios, lanais, windows or call 941-224-9750. smokers, no pets. Please call 603- pruning. Florida native certified in and doors. Using only quality CLASSIC CLEANING BY COCOA: 860-6079. residential landscape design with over materials. No job too large or small. Meadows resident, 30 years’ 30 yrs. experience. Call Nancy For free estimate call 941-993-4023. experience, bonded & licensed, LOOKING FOR ANY 2 bedroom or (941) 284-3659. more, for January, February, March HOUSECLEANING PLUS references. Please call Cocoa 2017. Call 908-370-4993 or email AUTO DETAILING WE COME TO STEAMCLEAN FLOORS: affordable 377-2538. [email protected]. YOU! Car wash and wax $50.00. cleaning most 2BR/2BA basic cleaning UNCLUTTER YOUR GUTTERS: To schedule an appointment call $70.00 plus steam clean floors with Keep your roof looking new. I can 941-371-0780 or visit us at www. every visit. For reliable, professional do that for you. I have a home in the sarasotaautodetailing.com service call Carla 941-894-9262. Meadows too. Call Mike 377-2538. Missed an issue of ARNIE’S HANDYMAN SERVICE: DOES YOUR PET NEED CARE TILE-TILE-TILE: Professional ceramic The Meadoword? Certified Home Inspector, all phases of when you’re not there? I’ll provide & porcelain tile installation and sales. ! … home repairs, wholesale distributor of loving, reliable care, daily/overnights. Free estimates, many Meadows Find it on the Internet Go to walk-in bathtubs, and no job too small. Walks, feeds, vet appts. Etc. Meadows references. Call Neil 726-3077. www.themeadowssarasota.org Call me first 941-993-4023, licensed resident. Experienced. Reasonable FRUSTRATED WITH YOUR • Click The Meadoword in the and insured. rates. References. Call Kate 371-6862 COMPUTER, IPAD, Kindle, or Smartphone? Call Dave--The Patient left-side navigation panel Trainer-- for in-home help with any of • On The Meadoword page, click your devices. Training, troubleshooting, the Meadoword icon to access even help shopping for the right product. Call 941-404-5585 for help the most recent copy from The Patient Trainer. (Archive copies also available online)
The Meadows Book Club New Titles for 2015-2016 (Meets on 2nd Wednesday of the month at 2:00 pm at the MCA) Administration Priscilla Schlegel 341-0434 [email protected] Luncheon Caryl Magnus 378-5055 [email protected] Date Title and Author Leader —2016— Mar 9 Luncheon & New Book Selections (11:30) Apr 13 The Warm of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Karen Rush May 11 The Birth House by Ami McKay Charles LaSalle DONE -- MJ 40 The The Meadoword • March 2016
MeCommunityad Events—All Eventso are atw the MCA ord Community Events—All Events are at the MCA Community Center unless noted otherwise Assembly of Property Owners Don’t Forget! MARCH 16, 2016 • 7:00 PM Guest Speaker Gordon Cummings MCA ANNUAL Board President, The Meadows Country Club MEETING Remember to RETURN YOUR BALLOTS by MARCH 7 for MCA Board of Directors to the MCA March 7•7:00 pm DELEGATES—SIGN-IN ON ARRIVAL Open to all Meadows residents. • Coffee and Cookies provided MARCH 12 & 13
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RESTRICTIONS 3:00 pm CRAFTS 9:00 am PILLOWS 9:00 am INVOLVEMENT 10:00 am BRIDGE 12:30 pm BRIDGE 12:30 pm
March New/Revised Ads Due
MAH JONGG 9:00 am MEADOWS “U” CRAFTS 9:00 am BOARD OF DIRECTORS ART SHOW Florida’s Treasures 1:00 pm 10:00 am-4:00 pm MEMOIRS 3:00 pm BUDGET 10:00 am 10:00 am BOOK CLUB 2:00 pm SAFETY 2:00 pm MAINTENANCE ANNUAL MEETING 2:30 pm 7:00 pm CR Ads and Classifieds Editorial Due Due
ART SHOW MAH JONGG 9:00 am PRESIDENTIAL CRAFTS 9:00 am BLOOD PLATELET PILLOWS 9:00 am 10:00 am-4:00 pm PREFERENCE DRIVE 9:00 am -1:30 pm ELECTION BRIDGE 12:30 pm BRIDGE 12:30 pm (Primary) ASSEMBLY 7:00 am- 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
MAH JONGG 9:00 am PRESIDENTS CRAFTS 9:00 am PILLOWS 9:00 am COUNCIL 10:30 am- MEADOWS “U” MEMOIRS 1:00 pm BRIDGE 12:30 pm 10:00 am Ringling College Tour 10:30 am
MAH JONGG 9:00 am HAZARDOUS WASTE CRAFTS 9:00 am All meetings and events are at the COLLECTION / ALL MCA Community Center, 2004 FAITHS FOOD DRIVE Longmeadow,unless otherwise noted. Daily 9:00-11:00 pm notices are posted for room locations
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