FREE • THURSDAY, JULY 4, 2019 VOLUME 15, NO. 32 SARASOTA YOUR TOWN Club welcomes new members About those new members of the Bird Key Yacht Club — they sure spend a lot of time in the pool, huh? And their dark clothes after Memorial Day. Really? OK, OK, enough with the wise-quacks. (Oops!) According to club mem- ber Kristine Nickel, a pair of ducks moved in last month and, when not enjoying the club’s swimming pool, they tended their nearby egg- filled nest. And now ducklings are making themselves at home on club grounds with Mom and Dad — waddling around and swimming in the pool. Is a family membership rate in order? Paying it forward In a quest to help rising college freshmen afford a higher education, the Andrew Monroe Scholar- ship Fund recently awarded $5,500 in scholarships to graduating Riverview High School seniors. The money was raised through the foundation’s annual 5K Run/Walk on Jan. 6, which was started by the Monroe family after their son was killed in a 2011 car crash. The recipients of the 2019 scholarships were Madison Scott, Andrii Shumskyi, Alma Barreto, Trinity Pearson and Evelyn DeOliveria. Turtle Tracks AS OF JUNE 29 TOTAL NESTS: 2019 2018 Lido Beach 54 75 Siesta Key 528 228 Casey Key 1,624 727 TOTAL FALSE CRAWLS: 2019 2018 Lido Beach 130 66 Siesta Key 816 200 Casey Key 2,171 906 Source: Mote Marine Laboratory Courtesy photo Art, science (and fun) of cooking. PAGE 14 A+E On the rocks. INSIDE Whitney Elfstrom Gene Hodsdon coaches Logan Warren through his private lesson at Everyone Rocks in Sarasota. Observer YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. County fire-rescue experiments with a new way to send help, which could free up ambulances and crews for cases that need them most. PAGE 3 Fast as possible File photo Both residents and developers have pushed for changes to the city’s tree protection regulations. In the right direction City leaders say they like where tree rules are heading, but further refinement is needed. SEE PAGE 9 In the key of rock Former composer helps kids band together. SEE PAGE 13
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FREE • THURSDAY, JULY 4, 2019VOLUME 15, NO. 32
SARASOTA
YOUR TOWN
Club welcomes new membersAbout those new members of the Bird Key Yacht Club — they sure spend a lot of time in the pool, huh?
And their dark clothes after Memorial Day. Really?
OK, OK, enough with the wise-quacks. (Oops!)
According to club mem-ber Kristine Nickel, a pair of ducks moved in last month and, when not enjoying the club’s swimming pool, they tended their nearby egg-filled nest.
And now ducklings are making themselves at home on club grounds with Mom and Dad — waddling around and swimming in the pool.
Is a family membership rate in order?
Paying it forwardIn a quest to help rising college freshmen afford a higher education, the Andrew Monroe Scholar-ship Fund recently awarded $5,500 in scholarships to graduating Riverview High School seniors.
The money was raised through the foundation’s annual 5K Run/Walk on Jan. 6, which was started by the Monroe family after their son was killed in a 2011 car crash. The recipients of the 2019 scholarships were Madison Scott, Andrii Shumskyi, Alma Barreto, Trinity Pearson and Evelyn DeOliveria.
Turtle TracksAS OF JUNE 29TOTAL NESTS: 2019 2018Lido Beach 54 75Siesta Key 528 228Casey Key 1,624 727
29Fire-rescue ambulances typically on duty in Sarasota County. PAGE 3
2,000Floridians affected by a data breach uncovered by the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office.YOUROBSERVER.COM
$100,000One year’s funding hoped for to enact a downtown marketing endeavour.PAGE 5
CALENDARn Special Sarasota City Commission meeting — 3 p.m., July 9, City Hall, 1565 First St.
n Sarasota County Commission meet-ing — 9 a.m., July 10, County Administra-tion Building, 1660 Ringling Blvd.
WEEK OFJULY 4,2019
“You don’t even necessarily know until you try, but it turned out I really love [teaching]. It’s awesome.”Gene Hodsdon, owner of Everyone Rocks, on his career switch. READ MORE, PAGE 13
If you’re headed out to a beach for the Fourth of July, be sure you leave your fire-
works at home. Your dogs, too, if they’re not service animals.
That’s the advice of Kylie Wilson, bird monitoring and stewardship program coordi-nator for Audubon Florida in Sarasota. Wilson said there are nesting birds on all area beach-es, so visitors — especially in a particularly busy week — should be mindful of how they interact with the wildlife.
Wilson offered some guide-lines for best behavior at the beach. Don’t enter marked-off
nesting areas. On Lido Key, where the birds are particularly spread out, keep an eye out for black skimmers even outside of the posted areas. And don’t bring fireworks or dogs, which are prohibited on the beach and can disturb the birds.
Fireworks, in particular, are a safety concern.
“They could cause such a disturbance that would result in complete abandonment, and the birds may never return here, which would be devastat-ing,” Wilson said.
Ahead of the holiday, Mote Marine Laboratory offered
advice about how to keep sea turtle nests safe.
The organization recom-mended ensuring outdoor lights aren’t visible on the beach, moving beach furniture away from the water and prop-erly disposing of trash.
If beachgoers see a sick or stranded turtle in the Sarasota-Manatee region, they can contact Mote’s Strand-ing Investigations Program at 988-0212.
Residents interested in vol-unteering as stewards for the bird nests can contact Wilson at [email protected].
Next week, city officials will discuss the option of team-ing up with the Conservation
Foundation of the Gulf Coast to preserve the site of Bobby Jones Golf Club as open space.
The city announced it was exploring the possibility of creat-ing a permanent conservation easement on the property, which the Conservation Foundation would control.
Such a designation would dic-tate that the 300-acre property be used only for golf, for recre-ation and as natural lands.
Discussion will take place at 3 p.m. July 9 at a special city commission meeting at City Hall, 1565 First St.
Conservation Foundation Presi-dent Christine Johnson said a potential partnership is an oppor-tunity to create certainty the land would remain open space — and allow the city to imagine ways to enhance the site’s natural assets.
“Cities that are vibrant and are places where people want to live, work and play have well-designed and thought-out open space,” Johnson said.
City spokesman Jason Barto-lone said a conservation ease-ment would not preclude the city pursuing the 45-hole renovation the commission endorsed.
City explores Bobby Jones conservancy
File photo
Nesting birds live on nearly all of the area’s beaches.
Be cautious around beach wildlife
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SAMANTHA CHANEY STAFF WRITER
Along with Sarasota Coun-ty’s growing population has come an increase in the number of calls for the county’s Emergency Ser-
vices department. Between 2004 and 2018, fire-rescue teams have seen calls increase from 47,000 annually to more than 64,000.
While getting to all those calls and trying to maintain a bench-mark response time of four to six minutes, Emergency Services Director Rich Collins said com-manders have noticed some-thing: The ratio of patients sick or injured enough to warrant a run to the hospital has remained relatively flat.
Specifically, hospital trans-ports have risen in number along with the overall number of calls, but the percentage of trans-ports in relation to call volume has remained flat or decreased slightly depending on the year. Normal transport percentage is 65%-70% of calls, according to Sarasota County Spokeswoman Brianne Grant.
So fire-rescue commanders decided to try something new in an effort to better match respons-es to patient needs.
In a 90-day trial based at downtown’s Station 1 and a fol-low-up trial launched in June in Venice, the department has deployed a Rapid Response EMS truck staffed by a pair of experi-enced medics. The idea is to carve through traffic quicker, arrive at a scene faster, assess a patient’s condition and, if necessary, begin treatment before summoning the nearest ambulance.
On a daily basis, the Sarasota
County Fire Department has 29 ambulances running countywide. When Rapid Response EMS is on call for the day, that number is cut to 28.
“The premise of a Rapid Response vehicle is that the 911 system — fire and EMS — gets used for all kinds of things that aren’t necessarily always a neces-sity for a transport to the hospi-tal,” Emergency Medical Services Chief Carson Sanders said.
Typically, he says, all 911 emer-gency calls will receive the same response involving a rescue or ambulance, if not an additional fire truck.
But the Rapid Response EMS vehicle being deployed will hope-fully offer more suitable alterna-tives to patients in less critical need, which then cuts the coun-ty’s emergency services costs and helps residents receive appropri-ate care in a more timely manner.
The paramedics on board are highly experienced officer para-medics or field-training officers who are meant to elevate the level of on-site care.
The pilot program also uses a county-owned truck as opposed to a “transport vehicle,” such as an ambulance, to navigate neigh-
Still in a testing phase, leaders would like to use a ‘cutting edge’ model that features a rapid response vehicle instead of always sending an ambulance.
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borhoods and intersections more easily. Once the Rapid Response team has arrived, its job is to iden-tify a patient’s needs. Should the patient need to go to the hospital, the team will call an ambulance.
If critical treatment is not nec-essary, they will instead explore what else might aid the patient.
Patients can save money, too. Per county ordinance, a patient is charged about $600 plus mile-age when transported to the hos-pital. If the Rapid Response crew instead treats a patient on-site or deems an emergency transport unnecessary, that patient will not be charged.
“We’re looking to lead the way in emergency medical services for Sarasota County and the resi-dents; they deserve that,” Sara-sota Fire Chief Michael Regnier said. “So we’re looking to find ways to better serve the commu-nity and get the resource to the right place at the right time.”
Rapid Response is still in the testing phase, though, because officials have yet to see how nec-essary or helpful the system is in
different areas of the county.The first testing phase was
completed in downtown Sarasota in May. During that 90-day peri-od, SCFD responded to 711 calls by Rapid Response EMS. Fifty-four percent were transported by rescue to a hospital, and the rest were treated or advised by the responding unit.
According to both Regnier and Sanders, phase one reduced response times by about 34 sec-onds because of the vehicle’s abil-ity to navigate city streets better than bulkier fire-rescue vehicles.
But the pilot program didn’t just cut response times; it also seemed to prove Sanders’ point about 911 calls. Averaging about 15 to 18 calls a day, it cut the num-ber of times ambulances and fire engines were sent out on calls.
“Engine 1 was averaging some-where in the neighborhood of 12 calls a day before we put the truck in,” Sanders said. “They averaged about three calls a shift after we put [Rapid Response] into service.”
As of June 12, the Rapid Response EMS team moved to Station 21 in Venice for another 90 days. The team will complete phase two data collection and compare results to downtown.
Afterward, Sanders and Reg-nier will consider whether they would like to pursue a third phase, though they are not yet sure what a third phase would entail.
But if the pilot program proves a continued success, Regnier says, they will approach the Board of County Commissioners next year to request funding for a more permanent model in the 2021 fis-cal year.
“What is the best service for Sarasota County?” Regnier said. “That’s what we’re about. If we determine that this is a better way of using our resources, we will certainly share that with the board and get [its] approval to move forward with some kind of permanent project. But we don’t have that data right now.”
Samantha Chaney
Medic-20, the rapid response vehicle, is currently located at Station 21 in Venice and is as equally equipped as an ambulance.
MAKING IT HAPPENTo pursue the pilot program, the Emergency Services depart-ment pressed into service a vehicle that was already held in reserve. Existing person-nel were pulled for the rapid response crew, where officials took a rescue team out of service and put the rapid response truck in its place.
In total, Sanders described the pilot as “cost-neutral,” which means the department needed virtually no extra funding to push forward with testing. He also confirmed that no taxpayer dollars are being used to pay for the test phases.
ELSEWHERE …
DeKalb County near Atlanta added 11 rapid response trucks in 2017 and saw calls for full-response apparatus fall by 14% and response time cut by 26%. Similar trials have been put into use in other cities around the country.
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Chief Michael Regnier and Assistant Chief Carson Sanders
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The Downtown Improvement District continues to pursue a project that would construct a gateway sign welcoming visitors to downtown near the intersec-tion of Main Street and U.S. 41.
On Tuesday, the DID board met with representatives from DSDG Architects. A city committee chose the Sarasota-based firm to undertake the project in June.
Although an official design will not be selected until after a con-tract is finalized, the DID spent Tuesday’s meeting discussing its preferred look for the project. DSDG submitted three concept designs: two extending across Main Street and a third extend-ing over just the eastbound lane.
The DID board agreed it pre-ferred the design DSDG labeled “Option 1.” Eileen Hampshire, a
board member who has previous-ly criticized the project, offered her endorsement.
“I saw it and said, ‘Wow,’” she said. “It changed my mind.”
The DID board did not formally approve a contract with DSDG and instead directed the firm to refine its scope of work agreement.
DSDG originally estimated the project could cost between $50,000 and $150,000. On Tues-day, however, the firm said the estimate needed to be refined and did not include costs associated with surveying the land.
The DID, which generates funds from a tax on property owners within its boundaries, has previ-ously budgeted $150,000 for the project.
After the DID board finalizes a preferred design, the plans must go to the City Commission for approval before construction could begin.
Gateway sign plans progress
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The DID’s favored conceptual plan extends across Main Street near its intersec-tion with U.S. 41.
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As an outsider to Sarasota, Steph-anie Immelman was focused on emphasizing one message as downtown leaders met Tuesday morning and debated the best strategy for promoting the heart of the city as a destination.
“If you guys don’t come togeth-er, if you guys continue to do dis-parate actions, you’re never going to be successful,” Immelman said.
Immelman, executive director of the Delray Beach Marketing Cooperative, has been a central figure in the ongoing conversation about whether different down-town groups can work together on advertising initiatives.
After the Downtown Improve-ment District invited Immelman to speak at a December meeting to discuss marketing and special events, the board hired her to help devise a strategy for creat-ing a centralized position — or organization — focused on pro-moting the downtown area. The conversation expanded to include the Downtown Sarasota Alliance, with incoming DSA Chairman Shay Atluru working to reorga-nize the group to focus on achiev-ing that goal.
Previous efforts to get down-town stakeholders to unite behind a shared cause have been unsuc-cessful. Different constituents, different boundaries and differ-ent goals among leadership have led to divisions, which result in different groups pursuing differ-ent promotional strategies.
Those divisions flared up during Tuesday’s Downtown Improvement District meeting, where Atluru and Immelman were seeking approval to embark on the first phase of a joint promotional
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campaign. They were joined by current DSA Chairwoman Fran-cine DiFilippo Kent and Raymmar Tirado, owner of media company Sarasota Underground and the chosen creative director of the DSA marketing initiative.
The group had requested about $14,000 for the first phase of implementing the new market-ing strategy, which included the development of partnership agreements, reorganizing the DSA and undertaking legal reviews. For a full year, the group was hop-
ing to get more than $100,000 in funding from the DID — more than double what the DID cur-rently budgets for advertising.
That was a point of concern for DID board member Mark Kauff-man. He was worried about the self-taxing entity being the only contributor to the marketing ini-tiative, particularly because the DID has a relatively limited foot-print within the greater down-town area. He also rattled off a list of other initiatives the group wanted to pursue, which were largely related to capital improve-ment, and he questioned whether marketing should be a priority.
“Do we have the money to put all this in here?” Kauffman said.
Immelman and Tirado said the group would seek additional funding sources, including mon-etizing the web presence of the marketing campaign.
DID board member Ron Soto, meanwhile, was unconvinced the DSA group’s strategy was opti-mal for promoting downtown. Soto is president of the Sarasota Downtown Enrichment Associa-tion, a merchant group that does its own promotional and mar-keting work. Soto suggested his
organization had a larger reach on Facebook than both Sarasota Underground and the DSA, and he said the group wouldn’t stop its promotional work even if the DSA initiative got funded.
“The bottom line is, I’m not going to change anything for one reason: We’re doing a hell of a job,” Soto said.
Both Immelman and Atluru expressed hope they could col-laborate with Soto. Atluru said he moved to Sarasota relatively recently, and he hoped he would be unencumbered by any bag-gage that might have prohibited more productive partnerships in the past.
“As far as I can see, we’re one great big happy downtown,” Atl-uru said. “That’s where we want to be.”
Ultimately, the DID agreed to fund the $14,000 first phase of the marketing initiative, directing the DSA group to work with Soto to update its strategy and hope-fully develop broader support.
Atluru said the promotional effort was a work in progress and that he hoped a broad coalition of downtown stakeholders could come together to contribute what they could. Immelman agreed and reiterated her belief that the concept could only succeed if everyone was participating.
“It’s not a zero-sum game,” Immelman said. “We have to be doing it together.”
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Would an 18-foot trailer stand out in Paul Thorpe Jr. Park, located near the intersection of Lemon and Pineapple avenues?
That was a crucial question as the city considered a proposal from Christian Nye, owner of Nye’s Cream Sandwiches. He approached officials with a con-cept: opening an ice cream sand-wich sales business inside the park and selling his product out of a nonpermanent structure placed on the city-owned property.
Both city staff and the Parks, Recreation and Environmental Protection Board were skeptical about the idea, with the latter voting 5-2 to reject the concept at its June 20 meeting. Although Nye attempted to argue the pro-posal would help bring activity to an underused public space, city representatives called the busi-ness a bad fit.
“It will be an obvious, out-of-character addition to the park,” said John Tuccillo, a parks advi-sory board member.
City regulations allow pri-
vate vendors in three parks: Paul Thorpe Jr. Park, Five Points Park and Centennial Park. The city has previously expressed interest in partnering with a business to draw more people to downtown parks. In 2015, city administra-tion issued a temporary permit to the Baltimore Snowball Fac-tory to operate at Five Points Park, though the business owner end-ed his sales there after just three weeks and cited a lack of activity.
Jerry Fogle, the city’s parks and recreation director, thought the ice cream sandwich business was not the right size for the smaller downtown park. He said the city wasn’t opposed to setting up vendors on park land, but he said Nye’s proposal was unusual because it was privately initiated.
Fogle said the city would likely be more comfortable with put-ting a business in a park if it was a response to public demand.
Not all parks board members were opposed to the idea. Mary-ellin Kirkwood and Jerry Wells both said they thought ice cream sales could be an effective way to enliven the park.
“I would like to see children and families come use that park,” Kirkwood said.
Despite his concerns about the scale, Fogle said city staff had been open to Nye’s proposal and would consider future vending options on a case-by-case basis.
“There’s really nothing off the table,” Fogle said.
Sarasota’s parks advisory board rejected a pitch to install an ice cream sandwich vendor in a downtown park.
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A month ago, Americans commemorated with great dignity the 75th anniversa-ry of D-Day — that monu-
mental, costly gamble that began the annihilation of a maniacal lunatic who wanted to enslave the world.
Today, July 4, Americans com-memorate another extraordinary day: the birth of this nation 243 years ago.
On that day, George Washing-ton, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, stood ready in New York City with 8,880 men (“6,923 of whom were fit for duty”) to fend off 13,000 British and 17,000 Ger-man soldiers, while 56 delegates of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia pledged their lives, fortunes and honor and voted to declare the 13 colonies free and independent from England and its tyrannical king, George III.
Now juxtapose those two epochal occasions next to the events in the United States today. It is painful to fathom and expe-rience how far we have drifted from the principles Thomas Jef-ferson so eloquently stated in the Declaration of Independence, from the cause that so motivated Washington’s rag-tag soldiers, and how far we have drifted from the cause that so motivated the 16 million Americans who served in World War II.
The cause: liberty — the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
HEED ADAMS’ WORDSWhat a contrast: The enor-mity of what the Continental Army and Continental Con-gress undertook versus today’s 20-plus Democratic Party presidential contenders who debated last week in Miami. Not one of them ever said the words “liberty” or “freedom” in the context of preserving or giving back more of our freedom.
Instead, they all vowed, if elected, they would use the force of government to confiscate Americans’ wealth so they, as president, could provide free health care, free college edu-cation and free student loan forgiveness, even to those who enter our country illegally. They vowed how they would use the force of government to take down the economic system that creates the organizations whose people create the jobs that create the wealth that has made the
United States what it is today.Those 20 or so aspirants need
to go back to the beginning. We all do. We need to heed the words of Founding Father John Adams. In a letter to his friend Archibald Bulloch on July 1, 1776, on the eve of the Continental Congress voting to declare the colonies’ independence, Adams wrote:
“The object is great, which we have in view, and we must expect a great expense of blood to obtain it. But we should always remember that a free constitu-tion of civil government cannot be purchased at too dear a rate as there is nothing on this side of the New Jerusalem of equal importance to mankind.”
Later on, Adams warned future generations: “Posterity: You will never know how much it has cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”
Most Americans know (we hope) what the Fourth of July represents — the Continental Congress voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence.
But to really appreciate the magnitude of what happened in the 15 months from April 1775 to July 4, 1776, picture the descrip-tions author David McCullough provides in his book “1776.”
When the first call for help went out after the battles at Lexington and Concord (“the shot heard around the world”), thousands of colonist militia and volunteer troops headed to Boston — 1,500 from Rhode Island; 5,000 from Connecticut; and 1,000 from New Hampshire, who “had marched in snow and rain, ‘wet and sloppy,’ ‘through mud and mire,’ without food or tents, 75 miles in three and a half days,” McCullough wrote.
At the sight of them, you would have predicted sure defeat. “Ragamuffins,” the British commanders said. McCullough wrote, “Not only were most men unwashed and often unshaven, they were clad in a bewildering variety of this and that, largely whatever they, or others at home, had been able to throw together before they trudged off to war.
“They wore heavy homespun coats and shirts, these often in tatters from constant wear, britches of every color and condition, cowhide shoes and moccasins, and on their heads, old broad-brimmed felt hats, weathered and sweat-stained,
beaver hats, farmer’s straw hats or striped bandannas tied sailor-fashion.
“Many were missing teeth or fingers, pitted by smallpox or scarred by past wars or the all-too-common hazards of life and toil in the 18th century. Some were not even men but smooth-faced boys of 15 or less.
“It was an army of men accus-tomed to hard work. … They were familiar with adversity and making do in a harsh climate. … They knew from experience, most of them, the hardships and setbacks of life. Preparing for the worst was second nature. Rare was the man who had never seen someone die.”
DARKEST TIME IN HISTORYBy the close of that summer in 1775, the ranks of volunteer freedom fighters were in serious decline, ravaged by sicknesses and desertions. Ammunition was in short supply — enough for about nine rounds per man. “According to one account, Washington was so stunned by the report he did not utter a word for half an hour.
“The situation was worse than they realized, and no one perceived this as clearly as Washington. When Washington originally accepted his com-mand, he doubted his abilities. He told John Hancock, president
of the Continental Congress, in a letter that “my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust.”
Washington had never com-manded more than a regi-ment or led an army in battle. And here he was trying to give confidence to his ragged troops. Poorly armed, untrained and often undisciplined volunteers, they were about to take on “the best-trained, best-equipped, most formidable military force on Earth.”
It also appeared far more than the outmanned, outgunned patriots could withstand.
Indeed, after suffering one defeat after another in Brooklyn, Fort Washington and New York and retreating to New Jersey, August through December 1776 “was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, ter-rible discouragement and fear, as they would never forget. … As dark a time as any in the history of the country.”
But what followed thereafter, John Adams would attribute later to Divine Providence. McCullough attributed what was to occur to the Americans’ “phenomenal courage and bed-rock devotion to country”: their belief in the cause.
Miraculously, Washington and his exhausted, emaciated troops pulled off unexpected victo-ries in Princeton and Trenton, including the famous nighttime crossing of the Delaware River.
After Trenton, Washington and his troops turned the tide and, as we know, went on to defeat the British.
MOST COSTLY WARIn McCullough’s conclusion, he wrote: “The war was a longer, far more arduous and more painful struggle than later generations would understand or sufficiently appreciate. By the time it ended (the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783), the Cause for Indepen-dence had taken the lives of an estimated 25,000 Americans, or roughly 1% of the population. In percentage of lives lost, it was the most costly war in American history, except for the Civil War.”
Washington, Adams, Jeffer-son, the 25,000 who died, the other 54 who signed the Decla-ration of Independence and the thousands of other colonists who fought and helped out did so for their independence, freedom from tyranny and their unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
How refreshing it would be to hear those who seek national public office today to remember the struggles of our nation’s founding and pledge, as the Founding Fathers did, their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor in support of the cause: liberty.
If they won’t, we must. Happy Independence Day.
— Matt Walsh, Editor
OPINION / OUR VIEW
REMEMBER THE CAUSE: LIBERTYWhen you juxtapose what George Washington and the Continental Army endured next to presidential candidates who promise free everything, you see how far adrift we are.
CELEBRATE WITH POMP AND PARADES“The second day of July 1776 will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorat-ed as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this conti-nent to the other from this time forward forever more.”
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“In the last analysis, it was Washington and the army that won the war for American independence. … And it was Washington who held the army together and gave it ‘spirit.’
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After 17 months of meetings, the city’s Tree Advisory Commit-tee believed it had developed a list of 25 recommendations that could improve Sarasota’s tree protection regulations — rules that had drawn the ire of neigh-borhood leaders, environmental advocates, property owners and developers alike.
The City Commission told the committee’s chairman Monday it thought the proposed changes could use a little more refinement.
The commission directed the committee to meet again to con-sider potential changes based on input shared at Monday’s meet-ing. Still, commissioners and other city officials were generally supportive of the committee’s work. Staff expressed hope the recommendations would lead to a more balanced, sensible tree ordinance and bring some resolu-tion to an issue of public interest.
“We realize this isn’t a perfect document, but I think it does contain excellent steps forward,” said Tim Litchet, the city’s direc-
tor of development services.The committee’s report iden-
tified three major themes in the feedback it received regarding tree regulations: a lack of flex-ibility, a need to plant the right trees in the right locations and a desire to create a long-term urban forestry plan for the city.
The recommendations sought to respond to that input and more. The advisory board determined the city should give homeowners more authority to landscape their own properties as long as large, meaningful trees are not removed and appropriate mitigation is provided — either by replanting trees on-site or by paying fees into a city fund.
The board recommended expanding the number of unde-sirable tree species that do not require mitigation. It also sug-gested changing the standards for replacing removed trees. Cur-rently, the removal of a large can-opy tree could require a property owner to install trees with trunks 5 inches or 7 inches in diameter at breast height.
The city discovered most nurs-eries in the area did not have trees that large, which makes it difficult for homeowners to comply with the rule. As a result, the committee recommended lowering the minimum replace-ment tree size to 3 inches in trunk diameter. Property owners would still have to install the same ratio
of replaced trees to mitigation trees as the ordinance currently requires.
Elsewhere, the recommenda-tions seek to enhance existing tree protections. The advisory board suggested expanding the definition of a “grand tree” to include more species. It proposed protecting all mitigation trees regardless of size.
Litchet said the most important long-term recommendation was to create an urban forestry pro-gram with a strategic plan within two years. Litchet and commit-
City commissioners offered feedback on an advisory board’s recommendations.
tee Chairman Michael Halflants said taking a more holistic look at which trees are appropriate for which sections of the city could allow the city to be proactive in tree management.
City Arborist Mark Miller said he believed the urban forestry program would help streamline the city’s management of trees. Right now, responsibilities are spread across departments, which causes communication issues and frustration for residents.
“I think having us all in the same department would just
increase cooperation, communi-cation and efficiency,” he said.
Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch had some questions about some of the recommendations the committee made, but she said the proposed urban forestry program gave her comfort the city would continue to try to refine its tree policies even if the commis-sion adopted the proposed ordi-nance changes.
“That will be the document that makes sure we have this overall coverage, that it’s bal-anced and done in a way that’s thought out and researched,” Ahearn-Koch said.
Commissioner Shelli Freeland Eddie encouraged the commit-tee to think about more clearly in defining some of its regulations, including one provision that would allow a property owner to remove a tree if the city arborist determined the site was overly dense with trees. She also sug-gested the city could lessen its tree-related standards on afford-able housing projects.
The commission told the committee to consider any other feedback it hears regard-ing the recommendations at its next meeting before finalizing a report. The commission agreed it would likely need to schedule a future special meeting before formally adopting any changes to the tree ordinance.
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The removal of trees on developing sites led to concerns from residents about enforcement — which in turn led to concerns about whether the city’s tree regulations were flexible enough.
Citizen board endorses new tree regulations
SPORTSJULY 4, 2019
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1 Riverview High junior boys basketball player Jayven Millien received
an offer June 25 from the University of Miami, his first from an NCAA Division 1 team.
2 Sarasota High junior pitcher Conner Whittaker,
a Florida State University commit, won the High School Baseball National Championship game with Team Florida on June 27 in Houston. Florida defeated California 8-1.
3 Sarasota Little League’s 11-12 Sarasota National All-Star team
beat the Sarasota American All-Stars 5-4 on June 30 in North Port. Randall Collins had the game’s go-ahead RBI in the fifth inning. The game ended when left fielder Zack Isaacson connected with catcher Jaxon Smith to throw out an American baserunner at home plate.
4 Riverview High sophomore girls golfer Aaron Whitley
shot 76-79-73 over three rounds to finish ninth in the 16-18 division at the Florida Junior Tour’s Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship, held June 28-30 at Streamsong Golf Resort in Bowling Green.
5 The Riverview High boys basketball team finished 5-1 at the
Florida Athletic Basketball Coaches Bradenton Camp, held June 28-30 at locations across Manatee County.
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RYAN KOHN SPORTS REPORTER
Standing on a Las Vegas podium June 29, Saraso-ta’s Taber Luck Jordan, 9, experienced redemption.
In March, Jordan finished third at the 2019 Pan Kids Jiu-Jitsu IBJJF Championship in Irvine, Calif. It is the closest thing to a world championship the sport of Brazilian jiujitsu has at Jordan’s level, and it was his first time attending the event. In his semifi-nal match, he got into a dominant position, holding his opponent in a closed guard, but failed to do more. That cost him the win.
It is all Jordan has been thinking about since. Jordan, who trains with Thadeu Vieira at the Vieira Martial Arts Academy at Sarasota Square Mall, has put the focus of his sessions on opening his guard and doing more with it.
FINISHING ON
TOPBJJ has two ways to win: accu-
mulating more points than your opponents (as deemed by judges) or forcing your opponent to tap out, or submit, to a hold. Even though submissions are more fun, Jordan said, he is learning to be the most versatile and efficient combatant he can be.
“Taber has demonstrated the ability to dominate the opponent before pursuing a submission,” Vieira said. “We train assuming the opponent is always stronger, so the first element is to take the opponent down to the ground. … When the opponent is losing, he spends more energy trying to escape and reverse the situa-tion while the dominant player is rested and thinking with clarity, seeing all windows of opportu-nity that are open.”
In Las Vegas at the 2019 Ameri-can National Kids IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship, Jordan put his
lessons learned to the test — and he passed. He defeated Sasha Nix-on by triangle choke in the finals of the Junior 1 Lightweight Yel-low division to take home a gold medal. That wasn’t the original plan; Jordan first tried a standing armbar, but it failed. He went to his backup plan and succeeded.
“[BJJ] is really fun,” Jordan said. “I like ground fighting, and I think I’m pretty good at it.”
The championship win is now his favorite memory from his four-and-a-half years of train-ing. Jordan is a yellow belt with one stripe. His long-term goal is to become a black belt, but he also has his eye on March 2020, when he will be jetting to California for another shot at the Pan Kids title.
Jordan’s mother, Jocelyn Jor-dan, was a bit nervous when he first joined the sport.
“It’s intense,” Jocelyn Jordan said. “My knees are always shak-ing, buckling. I think I get more nervous than he does.”
She got so caught up in her son’s BJJ that she now takes class-es herself, she said.
At least once a week, some-times twice. Jocelyn Jordan has also tried her hand at competi-tions, though she has not won anything close to Taber’s level.
As Vieira said, despite Jordan’s middle name, his success has nothing to do with luck.
A Sarasota competitor won a gold medal at the 2019 American National Kids IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship.
FAST FACTS WITH TABER JORDANFavorite hobby: FishingPreferred superpower: Super speedDream vacation: The BahamasFavorite subject: MathBest BJJ advice: "Open your guard."
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On the muggy night of July 1, a group of war-riors battled their oppo-nents like the fate of the
universe was at stake.When battle ceased, the group
left with a loss. Everyone high-fived anyway. The battle might have been all-out, but it was also all for fun.
Such is the mundane beauty of SoCo Club Sport’s Monday night sand volleyball (a point of contention, but SoCo calls it “sand” and not “beach”) at Bee Ridge Park.
The league hosts three games every Monday. There are five teams, so one team plays twice. On this night, the team I decided to follow — the Bee Ridge Ballers — had just one game scheduled, but it was the final game of the evening, and it was against the team playing twice, Notori-
ous D.I.G. (As something of an authority on the matter, this is a truly great name.) This was good, in theory, because the Ballers entered the match 0-2, with zero set wins to their name. A tired opponent can only help things. But as I already said, they would indeed lose again to D.I.G.
Why, then, am I writing about them? Well, the Ballers encap-sulate what recreational sports should be.
On this night, the Ballers had four active players: Corina Segura, Chris Hill, Kate Biltz and Rhett Wells. All of them joined the league as single players look-ing for a volleyball home. Segura moved here from Denver in May. Biltz, from Jacksonville, also moved here in May. Hill played in SoCo’s volleyball league previously, but his team dis-solved. Wells said he played one season of SoCo volleyball before, and he was on the “misfit” team then, too. That team won zero matches, he said, and only one set all season.
These four have known one
another less than a month. Playing any sport with people who are essentially strangers is hard. In volleyball, where com-munication and chemistry are key, it is next to impossible. All things considered, the Ballers
handled the challenges well, and they had fun doing it. Like most rec sports experiences, both teams were there to break a sweat and laugh, and they all did plenty of both. At one point, after mistiming a dive, Wells
attempted a wormlike maneuver to reach the ball. It didn’t work, but it did get guffaws.
“I couldn’t find it [in the air],” he said of the volleyball. “I knew it was there somewhere, but I couldn’t find it.”
Biltz said her SoCo experience so far has been comparable to other leagues she has joined in terms of competition and how seriously the games are taken. All four said they were having a great time. Even though they lost the match, they did win a set, 21-16, which equals what Wells’ last team did all season. They served well, talked to one another and overall made strides from beginning to end.
I don’t know if the foursome — or their teammates, who couldn’t make it this week — will remain friends after the season is complete. They probably don’t even know yet. For one night a week, that question is irrelevant. They are a team. They are the Bee Ridge Ballers. They are in this together, in glory and defeat.
The Ballers’ one complaint? They wish they had more oppo-nents to play. So: Join them. Skill level doesn’t matter. Neither does finding teammates. Just join and try. I bet you’ll have a good time.
Sarasota recreational volleyball league brings residents together.
Serving up fun
Ryan Kohn is the sports writer for the Sarasota Observer. Contact him at rkohn@ yourobserver.com.
Ryan Kohn
Rhett Wells (front) bumps for teammates Chris Hill and Corina Segura.
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Ask kids what they want to be when they grow up, and doctor, lawyer, astronaut or rock star will often follow.
But thanks to a local music stu-dio, those who answer with the last no longer have to wait years to achieve their goal. Owned and operated by Gene Hodsdon, Everyone Rocks encourages out-of-the-box music lessons.
Hodsdon urges his students to move around when it comes to the instruments they play. Rather than the students staying with one instrument, he switches them around on vocals, keyboard, drums, bass and guitar.
“If I get an 8-year-old kid on guitar … 10 minutes in, his fingers hurt, and we’ve gone as far as we can,” Hodsdon said. “[So I’ll say], ‘Hey, let’s try some drums for a little bit,’ [or], ‘Let’s try some pia-no for that.’ It keeps it interesting instead of … conditioned.”
Overall, Hodsdon is working to foster a love of music.
At Everyone Rocks, students go to a bright-purple music stu-dio and jam out to Queen’s “We Are the Champions” with their friends in their own rock band.
Hodsdon, 35, splits his students up by age, skill level and whether they are there just to have fun or to take a more serious approach. The groups then go on to rehearse together as a real band and play at events around Sarasota.
Burning Burritos, one of 12 Everyone Rocks bands, compris-
es five 13-year-olds who have become close friends over their two-and-a-half years as a band.
The band members are Nadya Smirnova, vocalist and pianist; Miguel Rodriguez-Diaz, lead guitarist, bassist and pianist; Jack Fletcher, bassist; Logan Warren, guitarist and backup vocalist; and Jacob Rothenbach, drummer and pianist.
Burning Burritos performs mainly rock music, including cov-ers of “Summer of ’69” by Bryan Adams, “Holiday” by Green Day and “Seven Nation Army,” by The White Stripes.
“Most of the songs are like old songs from back in the day, and it’s fun to play them because you haven’t heard them in a while,” Smirnova said.
The name of the band came from a joke made by Rodriguez-Diaz. The five members were trying to come up with a name, and he said they should name the band after Mexican food.
“Burritos,” he told the band, and they responded with, “Burn-ing Burritos.”
“Everyone was laughing, and then somebody was like, ‘OK, then Burning Burritos,’” Rodri-guez-Diaz said. “And I said, ‘Wait, that was a joke.’ But I guess the name stuck, and now we’re the Burning Burritos.”
Beginning his career as a film scorer after graduating from Berklee College of Music in Bos-ton, Hodsdon didn’t always see himself working with kids.
As a composer, he said life was isolating and consisted of work-ing alone in his Boston apart-ment. But when he moved back to his native Sarasota and started to teach music lessons, he fell in love with it.
“It’s the opposite of ‘Follow your passion,’” he said. “You don’t even necessarily know until you try, but it turned out I really love [teaching]. It’s awesome.”
The idea for Everyone Rocks came after Hodsdon left the music school where he was work-ing because he didn’t like the way the owner interacted with his students. Parents of one student pointed out that he had all of the equipment to open his own stu-dio; he just needed to find a space.
After he found that space at 5688 N. Lockwood Ridge Road, Hodsdon opened Everyone Rocks in fall 2014.
He said the program helps his students find patience and disci-pline in the music field as well as in their everyday life.
“It’s funny because the music is kind of the easiest part, and the challenging thing is dealing with the people aspect of it,” Hodsdon said. “If they can kind of develop big picture skills [now], as adults [it will be] a good thing.”
CAMP INFOn Everyone Rocks isn’t just for children 7 and up. Adults are also wel-come.n Classes run $75 a month for one-hour rock band lessons and $150 a month for two-hour rock band lessons.n Private les-sons are $120 a month for weekly 30-min-ute sessions.n For informa-tion, call 313-7437, or email [email protected].
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Logan Warren practices “Beautiful Dreamer” during his guitar lesson.
Burning Burritos’ members are Jacob Rothenbach, Nadya Smirnova, Miguel Rodriguez-Diaz, Logan Warren and (not pictured) Jack Fletcher.
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Sarasota’s newest pastry chefs are young, innova-tive and summer campers.
Mattison’s Forty-One hosts four chef camps each summer that range from beginning chef and pastry to advanced chef and pastry and teach aspiring chefs the ins and outs of the restaurant world.
Led by Chef Alex Vasquez, the one-week camps introduce a new recipe for the campers to master each day while also teaching them food safety, food-handling techniques and dining room training. At the end of the week, a graduation is held where the students serve their creations to friends and family.
The June 24 camp was all about baking as 14 kids ages 10-13 attended the beginning pastry camp.
That week, learning how to bake the gooey chocolate chip cookies, intricately decorated brownies and classic blueberry muffins took center stage. But the little chefs also got a chance to make creme bru-lee, focaccia bread and mini cheesecakes.
Chef May Cavazos taught the campers that baking is a science, but imagination is key, which is how the camp-ers found themselves making s’mores focaccia bread.
But when asked what the little chefs’ favorite part of the camp was, they yelled, “Eating!”
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FRIDAY, JULY 5CLEAN UPFeel like giving back to Mother Earth? Join in 6th Annual Liberty Litter Cleanup at Siesta Key, Lido Beach, South Lido Beach, Nokomis Beach, North Jetty Park, Venice Beach and Blind Pass Beach and Park. From 7-9 a.m., volunteers will tackle the areas of the beach where Fourth of July festivities took pace. To register and find your site captain, call 861-5000.
SATURDAY, JULY 6WATER DAYCool off at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, 900 S. Palm Ave., with Selby’s Splashing Saturdays. Geared toward families with toddler through 10-year-olds, the event will feature water activities, water slides and games by the lagoon and waterfall in the Chil-dren’s Rainforest Garden. Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for children ages 4-17. For informa-tion, call 366-5831.
TUESDAY, JULY 9KIDS RUNIf your kiddos were sad that Siesta Beach’s weekly Kids Sum-
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BEST BETSUNDAY, JULY 7RACE DAYThe Sarasota Powerboat Grand Prix Festival’s 35th Annual Powerboat Race runs from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Head to Lido Beach, 400 Benjamin Franklin Drive, to watch more than 50 race teams take on the 6.17 mile course. For updates, text power-boats to 941-229-7774.
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QCharles Linton, trustee, of St. Petersburg, sold the home at 261 Cosmopolitan Court to Mira Akins, of Sarasota, for $865,000. Built in 2016, it has three bed-rooms, three-and-a-half baths and 2,630 square feet of liv-ing area. It previously sold for $870,000 in 2016.
AQUALANE ESTATESW. Scott and Kristin Van Ness, of Parrish, sold their home at 1755 Stanford Lane to Blake and Nicole Lynn, of Sarasota, for $840,000. Built in 1972, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,961 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $720,000 in 2013.
COTTAGE WALKGulfside Homes – Twin Oaks LLP sold the Unit 6 condomin-ium at 425 Osprey Ave. to Frank and Kathleen Cessaro, of Princ-
eton, N.J., for $689,500. Built in 2017, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 2,100 square feet of living area.
PLAT OF SARASOTARobert Flowers and Jeffrey Flow-ers, of Franklin, Tenn., sold their home at 1290 Fourth St. to 4 Street LLC for $665,000. Built in 1939, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 2,148 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $400,000 in January.
BAYWOOD COLONY VILLASK&B Interests LLC sold the Unit 6 condominium at 5922 Tide-wood Ave. to Donald and Vicki Phelps, of Saugatuck, Mich., for $573,300. Built in 1973, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,600 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $400,000 in 2017.
PELICAN COVEChristie Conley, of Venice, sold her Unit 152 condominium at 1520 Pelican Point Drive to Fred and Elaine Panitz, of Sheffield, Mass., for $500,000. Built in 1976, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,320 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $250,000 in 2012.
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SIESTA KEYSiesta Properties Inc.Stephen and Lynn Kukan-za, of Sarasota, sold their home at 7323 Pine Needle Road to Bradley and Kelly Anderson, of Sarasota, for $2 million. Built in 1960, it has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,023 square feet of living area. It previ-ously sold for $1,565,000 in 2017.
PALMER RANCHTurtle RockMorgan and Elizabeth Bentley, of Lakewood Ranch, sold their home at 4840 Hanging Moss Lane to Stephen and Susan West, of Sarasota, for $617,000. Built in 1996, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,953 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $505,000 in 2003.
OSPREYThe Woodlands at Riv-endellJacqueline Jones, of Osprey, sold her home at 726 Fordingbridge Way to Lisa Maria Nee, of Osprey, for $405,000. Built in 2003, it has three bed-rooms, two baths, a pool and 2,174 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $318,300 in 2003.
Casey Key home sells for $6.7 million
C I T Y O F SA RAS O TAAddress Permit Applicant Amount1525 S. Lodge Drive Alterations Robert Kirby Jr. $150,000
605 Indian Beach Lane Addition Rodney Miller $ 115,197
770 S. Palm Ave. #502 Alterations Philip Rubin $ 90,000
770 S. Palm Ave. #1702 Renovations Gail Welch $ 52,000
857 Norsota Way Seawall Sandra Frush $ 49,965
990 Blvd. of the Arts #1002 Remodel Kyle Kerbawy, trustee $ 40,040
247 Cosmopolitan Court Shade Structure Richard Davis $ 36,000
1409 Hillview Drive Boat Lift Michael Milam $ 33,000
687 N. Mac Ewen Drive Windows/Doors Werner Hartenberger $ 65,667
8635 Midnight Pass Remodel Lisa Miller $ 65,445 Road #406C
387 Island Circle Pool/Deck Timothy Keegan $ 59,000
4948 Sabal Lake Circle Re-roof John O’Grady $ 45,900
5872 Tidewood Ave. Dock/Boatlift Christopher Holden $ 42,709
1001 Point of Rock Windows Brian Becker $ 41,774 Road #207
These are the largest city of Sarasota and Sarasota County building permits issued for the week of June 17-21, in order of dollar amounts.
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A home on Casey Key tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Tracie Langston, of Booneville, Miss., sold her home at 2016 Casey Key Road to
Michael Dana, trustee, for $6.73 million. Built in 2010, it has six bedrooms, seven-and-two-half baths, a pool and 7,508 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $6.2 million in 2014.
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Cal Haas was found to have Type 1 diabetes one month after turn-ing 6, but he’s never let it stop him from living like any other kid.
“I do everything a normal kid would do,” Haas said, who explained that his pancreas pro-duces little to no insulin, which helps convert blood sugar from carbohydrates into energy.
He plays basketball with his friends, enjoys history and science as a Pine View School student and goes fishing with his family.
Haas just has to take extra pre-cautions, such as making sure he has his glucose tablets on him in case his blood sugar level drops. But this has become second nature for Haas because he “doesn’t remember life without diabetes.”
Now 14, Haas is making sure his voice — and the voices of other
children living with Type 1 dia-betes — is heard as a Children’s Congress delegate.
On July 8, Haas, along with 160 children ages 4-17 from across the country, will head to Wash-ington, D.C., to meet with U.S. representatives and senators to ask them to continue to fund the Special Diabetes Program, which gives $150 million to Type 1 dia-betes research.
Chosen from more than 1,000 children, Haas is one of 11 Florida delegates to go before Congress and testify about what it’s like to live with the condition.
The group will also meet with representatives from their con-gressional district one-on-one.
This is all done through the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foun-dation, which raises money for research to find a cure.
The program is near to Haas’s heart because he and his fam-ily began volunteering with the foundation less than a month after his diagnosis.
“[JDRF] contacted us, and Cal wasn’t even out of the hospi-tal,” said Janelle Haas, Cal Haas’ mother. “Within four weeks of his diagnoses, we had our first [JDRF One] Walk team.”
That’s why the trip to Washing-ton, D.C., is so important to Haas.
“The hope is for a cure because we don’t want to have a burden of diabetes anymore,” Haas said. “It’s expensive. It’s painful. It’s not fun.”
Haas wears two sensors to stay on top of his insulin levels. One on his leg is called the infusion site, which pumps his insulin. The other on his back continu-ously monitors blood sugar lev-els and relays the readings to his mom’s cellphone.
“It’s a lot of responsibility,” he said. “You have to always make sure you’re on top of everything because if one day you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m not going to deal with it,’ you can’t do that. If I do that, I can end up in the hospital or die. So I always have to be sure to take care of it.”
Although Haas said that his condition has caused some annoyances in his life, he said it has also led him to meet some of his best friends.
Each year, he attends the camp Friends For Life in Orlando, where everyone either has Type 1 diabe-tes or is related to someone who does. Haas said it’s one of two or three times a year where he knows
Teen heads to WashingtonCal Haas is one of 11 Florida delegates to attend the biennial event to raise awareness of Type 1 diabetes.
everyone in the room understands how he’s feeling.
“They know exactly what it’s like to be in my situation,” Haas said. “It’s always good to see a community who always has your back. … Everyone wants [the same] outcome to happen, which is a cure.”
Whitney Elfstrom
Cal Haas and his mother, Janelle Haas
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Place: Blasé Café, 5263 Ocean Blvd., Sarasota Inventor: Taylor Toelle, general manager and bar managerIngredients: Plantation Stiggins Fancy Pineapple Rum, roasted pineapple, mint, pineapple juice and soda water.The what and why of it: This sum-mertime twist on the classic mojito gets its mojo from Plantation Stig-gins’ Fancy Pineapple Rum — made from real pineapples, naturally. To that, Bar Manager Taylor Toelle adds even more pineapple (both roasted and juiced), fresh muddled mint and soda water. Sound good? It is. And wait ’til you taste it. Toelle’s minty, fruity, modified mojito is a glass of pure liquid chill. Sip, savor, and get blasé. Get it for $10.
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Place: Euphemia Haye’s Haye Loft, 5540 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat KeyInventor: Sammy Lastinger, bar managerIngredients: Herradura Blanco Tequila; Solerno Blood Orange Liqueur; fresh-squeezed lemon juice; and blackberry, lemon and thyme-infused simple syrup.The what and why of it: Euphemia Haye is famed for its formal fare, but the vibe gets laid-back at the Haye Loft upstairs. Think sizzling live jazz, a “lite” menu and a spectrum of creative craft cocktails. The remarkably refreshing Summer Breeze is our personal favorite. Unlike most summer drinks, it's neither too sweet nor too sour. The kick of the tequila is balanced with the intense, aromatic flavor of blood orange liqueur and fresh lemon. It’s as refreshing as a cool breeze on a summer night. Get it for $12.
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Place: Sage, 1216 First St., SarasotaInventor: Conner Bert,bar managerIngredients: Blue Sapphire Gin East, strawberry peppercorn Cham-pagne shrub, lemon juice, rhubarb bitters and egg white.The what and why of it: Gin is the perfect cure for the summertime blues. It’s light, it’s botanically based, and it mixes great with countless other beverages. Connor Bert, the brains behind the bar at Sage, selected Blue Sapphire Gin East to create his summer sipping spe-cial. He feels it’s superior to Bombay Original because it includes four more botanicals: grains of paradise, cubeb berries, Thai lemongrass and Vietnamese black pepper. Bert’s Strawberry Fields concoction is a sous vide cordial made of strawberries sautéed with pepper-corn then turned into a syrup and cut with Champagne vinegar. “It’s a light, crisp strawberry cocktail with a big, bright flavor,” he said. Get it for $14.
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Place: Libby’s Neighbor-hood Brasserie, 1917 S. Osprey Ave., SarasotaInventor: Mike Madison, bar managerIngredients: WhistlePig Piggyback Rye, pineapple, ginger, simple syrup, freshly squeezed lemon juice, mint and Fever-Tree soda water.The what and why of it: Smashes are cool, fruity cocktails designed to beat the summer heat. Their smashing mission? To refresh, restore and chill. These drinks are usually created with a spirit, a sweetener and seasonal fruits and herbs. Libby’s bar manager, Mike Madi-son, concocted a signa-ture smash with quintes-sential Florida flavors — pineapple and lemon — enhanced with ginger and mint. The booze is WhistlePig Piggyback Rye, a slightly spicy, 100% rye made in Vermont. “The Piggyback Smash is not overly sweet like a typical tropical beverage,” Madison said. “It’s perfect for chilling out on our patio during the dog days of summer.” We’ll drink to that. Get it for $11.
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Place: Hana Sushi Lounge, 8126 Main St., Lakewood RanchInventors: Monica Bueneman, bar manager, and Jane Dokko, ownerIngredients: Hangar One Buddha’s Hand Citron Vodka, yuzu juice, white cranberry juice, freshly muddled berries and butterfly pea extract.The what and why of it: Hangar One’s Buddha’s Hand Citron Vodka comes to life in a former aircraft hangar in San Francisco. “It’s sweet and strongly aromatic — not your everyday vodka,” Owner Jane Dokko said. It’s created from the rind of the Buddha’s Hand, a citrus fruit grown in China that’s bizarrely shaped with claw-like “fingers.” Along with the citrusy flavor, you might also detect jasmine and apricot. If that’s not enough to fall in love with this cocktail, Bar Manager Monica Bueneman adds a splash of yuzu juice, which tastes grapefruity; white cranberry juice; and freshly muddled berries. A drop of but-terfly pea extract creates the wow factor. This natural food coloring eventually turns the cocktail azure blue. Pure nirvana. Get it for $10.
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EVELYN MCCORRISTIN PETERS’ ‘IMPRESSIONS FROM THE ROAD’11 a.m. at Art Uptown Gallery, 1367 Main St.FreeCall 955-5409.
There’s nothing like a good trip to get you inspired, and that’s exactly what happened after art-ist Evelyn McCorristin Peters hit the road recently. This exhibit will reflect what the painter learned from her most recent stops around the U.S., with the inten-tion to motivate viewers to push their preconceived notions aside to go see different areas of our country for themselves. Runs through July 27, and the gallery is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
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‘ROB SHANAHAN, ROCK PHOTOGRAPHER TO THE STARS’ EXHIBIT11 a.m. at Stakenborg-Greenberg Fine Art, 1545 Main St.Free admissionCall 487-8001.
Rob Shanahan knows rock ‘n’ roll up close and personal. As a musi-cal artist photographer for icons such as Ringo Starr, the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney, this guy’s got some stories to tell. Enjoy this exhibition of his photos on display until Sept. 30. The gallery is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
‘SUMMER SHOWCASE’11 a.m. Dabbert Gallery, 46 S. Palm Ave.Free admissionCall 955-1315.There are few ways to better es-cape the sizzling heat of summer than a trip to a cool, creative art gallery. Head to Dabbert to enjoy a group show of diverse, award-winning artists from the U.S. — California, New York,
Wisconsin, Missouri and Florida — and all the way across the ocean in Australia. Nine of Sara-sota’s best artists will also be showcasing work to get your local fix, too. Runs through Sept. 30, and gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
‘SOUNDS OF INDEPENDENCE’4 p.m. at Sarasota Opera House, 61 N. Pineapple Ave.$5-$45Call 387-4900.
Celebrate the Fourth of July with the local premiere of composer Jerry Bilik’s “Independence” at this annual concert. Choral Art-ists of Sarasota joins forces with Sarasota Concert Band and spo-ken word poet Cedric Hameed to fill patrons with patriotism through this uplifting holiday music experience inspired by the spirit of America.
NOT QUITE FRIDAY 5K6 p.m. at JDub’s Brewing Co. & Tap Room, 1215 Mango Ave.FreeCall 955-2739.
JDub’s Brewing Co. invites local runners and beer lovers to this weekly 5K run around Ed Smith Stadium and neighboring com-munities. Runners receive 10% off all beer after the run, free water and towels at the finish line and a punch card for free prizes after runs 10, 25 and 50.
FRIDAY‘PART 1: INTRO: ANNUAL SUMMER INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBIT’11 a.m. at Gaze Modern, 340 Central Ave.FreeCall 400-0598.
Be their guest at this inaugural invitational exhibit. The Gaze Modern team searched the local arts scene high and low to find the next artists to feature in the gallery. The result is a mix of artistic mediums that combine to form an exhibit focusing on the importance of experimental work. Runs through July 20, and the gallery is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
CARL RIMI6:30 and 8:50 p.m. at McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre, 1923 Ringling Blvd.$18Call 925-3869.
If you can capture the attention of travelers aboard a cruise with endless entertainment options, chances are you can maintain the interest of a more intimate com-edy club crowd. But comic Carl Rimi, a frequent Carnival Cruise Line performer, does more than that. Carnival representatives said they admire his dedication to his craft, and his focus on obser-vational humor is a common fan favorite. Runs through Sunday.
SATURDAYHISTORY IN THE PARK: DR. C. B. WILSON HOUSE OPEN HOUSE10 a.m. at Urfer Family Park, 4000 Honore Ave.
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‘WHEN X MEETS Y: AMERICAN REVOLU-TION’All it takes for the cast of FST Improv’s “When X Meets Y” is one location and three notes on a keyboard to create a wacky, imagina-tive story of love. Love in the age of the American Revolu-tion, that is. Cast members take on the character of colonists, “Hamilton”-style, trying to fight the British while falling in love at the same time.
IF YOU GOWhen: 7:30 p.m. SaturdayWhere: Bowne’s Lab Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, 1265 First St.Tickets: $12-$15Info: Call 366-9000.
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ART AND A MOVIE: ‘INTERPOLATIONS’1:30 p.m. at The Ringling, 5401 Bay Shore Road$5, free for membersCall 358-3180.
Paintings, sculpture and mixed media aren’t the only types of visual arts The Ringling boasts. The museum’s new summer film series dives into the world of art on the big screen, and this week’s movie, “Käthe Kollwitz: Images of a Life,” highlights one of the female artists featured in the exhibit “Interpolations: Artworks from The Ringling and Monda Collections.” Attendees can also use the event to enjoy Free Mon-days at the Museum of Art and view the “Interpolations” exhibit before or after the film.
CHUCK REDD AND LA LUCHA7:30 p.m. at Court Cabaret, Florida Studio Theatre, 1265 First St.$35-$39Call 366-1552.
March to the beat of your own drum, and head to Florida Studio Theatre for the next Monday Night Jazz Cabaret performance. Jazz Club of Sarasota’s summer series continues with drums and vibraphone artist Chuck Redd, who began recording and touring when he joined the Charlie Byrd Trio at the age of 21. Audiences will also enjoy the sounds of Tampa Bay-based trio La Lucha, made up of Alejandro Arenas, bass; John O’Leary, piano; and Mark Feinman, drums. Tap your toes to Latin-inspired rhythms, jazz standards and fresh takes on pop songs at this lively concert.
development, the history of the periods in which they lived and the forces affecting their lives.
SUNDAY‘MY FLORIDA BIRDS’11 a.m. at Made in Italy, 117 W. Venice Ave., VeniceFree admissionCall 356-9641.
Come fly away with this visual arts show that gives viewers a new perspective on Florida wildlife. Painter and mosaic artist Patricia Rockwood is exhibiting a series of bird-centric acrylic paintings at Made in Italy restau-rant, one of the satellite galleries of the Venice Art Center. She says this show is about showcasing both her love of birds and her deep sadness for their steady decline. Runs through Sept. 30. Gallery is open 11 a.m. to mid-night Sunday through Tuesday and 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Wednesday through Saturday.
‘ETHEL WATERS: HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW’7 p.m. at Keating Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, 1241 N. Palm Ave.$29-$36Call 366-9000.
Prepare to be moved with this impactful musical biography fol-lowing the life of performer Ethel Waters. This show celebrates the boundary-pushing singer and actress by tracing her life story from being raised in poverty to gaining fame in Broadway and Hollywood — against all odds. Enjoy hits including “Stormy Weather,” “Sweet Georgia Brown,” “This Joint is Jumpin’” and more. Runs through Aug. 4.
KARAOKE MONDAY9 p.m. at The Beach Club, 5151 Ocean Blvd.Free admissionCall 349-6311.Every Monday night is karaoke night at Beach Club, and with Emcee Dallas behind the mic and The Reverend DJ Lalo offering a plethora of songs for your most Snapchat-able performance, there’s fun in store. Singers get a free mixed shot after their first song. Service industry employees also get 50% off all drinks.
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THE INFLUENCE OF SINGING AND THE HUMAN VOICE ON PIANO PLAYING10:30 a.m. at Geldbart Auditorium, Selby Public Library, 1331 First St.FreeCall 861-1168.
Liven up your day with Sarasota Music Archive’s summer lecture series, “The Art of Playing the Piano: Four Piano Professionals Discuss Approaches to Piano Playing.” This week’s lecture will be given by Tom Purviance, adjunct faculty at State College of Florida.
‘SHOUT! THE MOD MUSICAL’7:30 p.m. at The Players Centre for Performing Arts, 838 N. Tamiami Trail$18Call 365-2494.
This musical will have you belting out ’60s hits at the top of your lungs. Enjoy dazzling costumes and infectious beats that are sure to take you back to the 1960s with classics such as “To Sir with Love,” “Downtown” and “Son of a Preacher Man.” Runs through July 21.
ORIGINAL SHOWCASE BY MOXIE PRODUCTIONS9:30 p.m. at The Gator Club, 1490 Main St.FreeCall 228-4872.
Let’s face it, the Sarasota music scene has a long way to go, but local music pioneer Shannon Fortner (lead vocalist for Meteo-rEYES) started Moxie Produc-tions SRQ to get it on track. This monthly showcase highlights original music by regional or tour-ing bands every second Wednes-day of the month, and this month features MeteorEYES, Moxie Moxie and a third band that’s yet to be announced.
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EVENING ART: ‘A CREATIVE LIFE’Get your art on in this after-hours exhibit experience open until 7 p.m. July 9 and Aug. 13. Nibble on some cheese, and sip wine while you enjoy work by watercolor artist Barbara Gerhardt, who studied at the Art Institute in Chicago and was honored by the city of Chicago for her work. This 47-year resident of Sarasota has seen the city’s drastic changes over the years, and the loss of natural habitat inspired her to create an art show that shows the beauty of the environment around us. All proceeds from her paintings will be donated to the Conservation Founda-tion of the Gulf Coast. Exhib-it runs through Aug. 29.
IF YOU GOWhen: 9 a.m. TuesdayWhere: Burrows-Matson House at Bay Preserve, 400 Palmetto Ave., OspreyTickets: Free, but RSVPInfo: Call 918-2100.
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‘THE SOUND OF MUSIC’Music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; script by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.When: Nov. 16 to Dec. 28Tickets: $28 - $97
Salzburg, Austria, 1938. The hills are alive with the sound of music. Unfortunately, the streets are alive with the sound of Nazis. But domestic life goes on. After leaving the nunnery behind, the adorable Maria teaches the seven adorable children of the von Trapp family how to sing. Ah, who am I kidding? Unless you’ve just been recently awakened from cryosleep, you probably know the plot. But Director-Choreographer Josh Rhodes has a fresh take on the familiar material.
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S ‘MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS’Stage adaptation by Ken LudwigWhen: Jan. 10 to March 8Tickets: $28 - $93
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A play is basically a story on stage. At first glance, the Asolo Repertory The-atre’s upcoming stories
have little in common. A sprightly governess who unlocks the heart of a dour widower. A whodunit that turns into a whydunit. A wrestling match for the truth.
A bit of Shakespearean cross-dressing. The hole in the heart left behind when a family patri-arch dies. All over the map, right? But at second glance, these theat-rical tales share a shining thread: transformation. For better or worse, the characters don’t end up the same. Ideally, Asolo audienc-es will have the same experience. Here’s a sneak peek at the strange changes in the season ahead.
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Asolo Rep plans a season of transformative stories in 2019-20.
What could possibly go wrong? Well, for starters, a snowstorm that stops the train. After that, the discovery of a dead body in a cabin that’s been locked from the inside. An unpleasant American industrialist has apparently been stabbed — 17 times, no less. Who could possibly do such a thing? For what motive? Fortunately, detective Hercule Poirot is on the train. He’ll find the answer. It might prove surprising, at least if you haven’t seen the movies.
‘THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT’Script by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell and Gordon FarrellWhen: Jan. 24 to March 19Tickets: $28 - $93
The “new journalists” of the 1960s and ’70s reported on fact with the techniques of fiction. Today, some do away with all that pesky research and make stuff up. Proofreader Jim Fingal suspected that John D’Agata did so when he started fact-checking the author’s essay about Las Vegas suicides. The result was an improbable collaboration, “The Lifespan of a Fact.” In the book, D’Agata and Fingal explored the borderlines of fact and fiction. This theatrical adaptation captures their punchy Socratic dialogue. Do the trio of playwrights get to the truth? I can’t say for a fact.
GEORGE BRANT’S ‘INTO THE BREECHES!’When: Feb. 14 to March 21Tickets: $28 - $93
In Shakespeare’s day, male ac-tors in drag played the roles of women. In 1942, it’s the other way around. The troupe’s male performers are all overseas fight-ing the Axis powers. It’s now up
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to the director’s wife to get the female contingent to perform the upcoming play. It’s a production of Shakespeare’s testosterone-fueled “Henry V” no less. So once more into the breeches they go. And thank to these happy few, the show does goes on.
LAUREN YEE’S ‘THE GREAT LEAP’When: March 20 to April 12Tickets: $28 - $93
The American gospel of competi-tive success and self-actualiza-tion finds its perfect expression on the basketball court. (“You can be anyone you want to be! It’s always your turn!”) The self-abnegation of Mao’s communist China found its perfect expres-sion in the “Great Leap Forward,” an inhuman push to industrialize an agrarian society that led to millions of deaths. (“Scatter the old world! Build the new!”) These contradictory philosophies divide the heart of a promising, young, contemporary, Chinese-American basketball player.
FRANK GALATI’S ‘KNOXVILLE’With music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn AhrensWhen: April 10-25Tickets: $28 - $93
In 1916, James Agee’s grandfa-ther suffered a heart attack. His father drove off to visit him in the Knoxville hospital and was killed in a car wreck on his way home. Agee’s “A Death in the Family” was a fictionalized account of that devastating loss. His novel explored the ripple effect of the father’s absence in the lives of his family. Agee’s harrowing novel approaches the power of Thomas Wolfe’s “Look Homeward Angel.” No stage adaptation has ever fully done it justice. Galati and his creative collaborators hope to change that.
‘HOOD: A ROBIN HOOD MUSICAL ADVENTURE’Script by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis FlinnWhen: May 15-31Tickets: $28 - $93
Hooded figure sighted in Sher-wood Forest. Robs from rich, gives to poor. Considered danger-ous, approach with caution. Yes, the police report is very old. But as far as we know, Robin Hood is still at large. And his familiar story is still compelling. This rollicking, inventive musical goes back to the story before the story we all know — and the question that lurks behind it. Why would a rich white kid hide in the forest and rip off tourists?
‘SNOW WHITE’Adapted from “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” by New International En-counterWhen: June 12 – 28Tickets: $10 - $93
Talk about a dysfunctional family. Snow White’s wicked stepmother (who happened to be the queen) was jealous of her adopted daughter. She ordered her faith-ful woodsman to take her to the forest and cut out her heart, but he just couldn’t do it. Snow White wound up living with seven dwarfs with entirely altruistic intentions. What can this story tell us today? Absolutely nothing, but it’s a lot of fun in New International En-counter’s cheeky reinvention.
Lynn Ahrens wrote the lyrics to Frank Galati’s adaptation of “Knoxville,” set for April 10 -25.
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Remember the 1960s and ’70s? If not, no worries. Carole Bufford remem-bers them for you with
a little help from recording technology. “Come Together: When the ’60s Met the ’70s” is the musical result. It’s now playing on the Florida Studio Theatre Court Cabaret stage.
Bufford is the revue’s lead vocalist — come to think of it, the only vocalist. She’s backed up by pianist Assaf Gleizner, drummer Tony Bruno, guitar-ist Chuck Davis and bassist Kroy Presley. It’s a strong band, but she’s clearly the star of the show. The songs span 1965-1975. That’s a lot of ground to cover, but Bufford hits the ground running.
The first act dials up the late 1960s with a mix of anthems and bluesy ballads. Bufford and friends prove that Otis Redding and Steve Cropper’s “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” is more than a simple folk tune. They take it apart and put it back together, instrument by
instrument, layer by layer. You get a true sense of the song’s nuance. Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots are Made for Walking” gets a kicky bump-and-grind beat. Blood Sweat & Tears’ “Spinning Wheel” gets one more spin. Paul Simon’s anthem-like “Bridge Over Troubled Water” leads to Jean-nie C. Riley’s acerbic “Harper Valley PTA” and the raw, vulnerability of Lennon and McCartney’s “Oh! Darling.”
The second act kicks off with the revue’s trippy titular song: John Lennon’s “Come Together.” After lighting two
candles to Tina Turner with “Rock Me Baby” and “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long,” Bufford sticks her neck out and embodies another iconic chanteuse (namely Janis Joplin) in her take on “Me & Bobby McGee.” Van Morrison’s “Moondance” goes through several seductive phases, fol-lowed by the gritty, true crime feel of Bobby Russell and Vicki Lawrence’s “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.” Bufford also weaves in two hits from Carole King’s “Tapestry’ album — the plaintive “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” and
the gospel-inflected “Way Over Yonder.” She closes with the funky, upbeat of John Fog-arty’s “Down on the Corner.”
Bufford and friends serve up quite a musical feast. For good measure, Bufford adds a lagniappe of music trivia. Did you know that ...■ “Come Together” was born as a campaign anthem for Timothy Leary’s quixotic 1970 campaign to be governor of California? (Ronald Reagan won. Leary got a jail sentence.)■ Don McClean was the inspi-ration for Lori Lieberman’s “Killing Me Softly”?■ “These Boots are Made for Walking” and “Me & Bobby McGee” were both written by male songwriters (Lee Hazle-wood and Kris Kristofferson, respectively) from a male point of view?
Fun facts to know and tell. Or not. The revue stands on its own without them.
The backup band is out-standing. Guitarist Davis and
bassist Presley all shred when they get a chance. Gleizner sizzles on the keyboard. Bruno shines on his de rigueur drum solo as well.
As the singer in front of the band, Bufford’s a class act. Star power, charisma, 200-watt stage presence. Whatever you call it, she’s got it. And she delivers an iconic performance without copying any other icons. Bufford does Bufford — and nobody else.
Bufford also created her own arrangements in col-laboration with Ian Herman and Assaf Gleizner, the show’s music director. Their collective arrangements are inventive, not imitative. I don’t agree with all their choices. “Bridge Over Troubled Water” sounded a little too heavy to my ear. But this isn’t a golden oldies rehash. Or karaoke. Or senti-mental fan service.
Bufford and friends refuse to look back at the music of this era with misty-eyed nostalgia. (Seeing as how most of the band wasn’t alive back then, that’s technically impossible.) These are great tunes — period. And that’s the way they play it. How does it sound?
Great. And oddly familiar.It’s the sound of a stellar
singer backed up by a boss bar band. It’s the kind of thing you would hear in thousands of bars across the country in the 1960s and 1970s. It just hap-pens to be 2019.
And that’s the magic of it.
‘When the ’60s Met the ’70s’ delivers first-rate music
Photo courtesy Sarah Haley
Carole J. Bufford performs “Come Together: When the ‘60s Met the ‘70s.”
Florida Studio Theatre’s latest cabaret production ‘Come Together’ cleverly avoids formulaic nostalgia.
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‘COME TOGETHER: WHEN THE ‘60S MET THE ‘70S’When: Through July 21Where: John C. Court Cabaret, Florida Studio Theatre, 1265 First St.Tickets: $36-$39Info: Call 366-9000.
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