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the news ... Don't forget to 'spring ahead' Sunday ... inside.


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"The Best News on Anna Maria Island Since 1992" -


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Volume 13, No. 21 March 30, 2005 FREE


Island beach

renourishment

could begin by May
By Rick Catlin
Islander Reporter
Emergency beach renourishment forAnna Maria
Island could begin as early as mid-May, according to
project manager Charles Stevens of the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers in Jacksonville.
Stevens said the project contractor has not yet been
,elected, but bid packages have been mailed. Propos-
alks re due at his office by April 12 and the contract will
be ai arded April 22.
A mid-May start is anticipated, he said, and the
Corps will give the contractor until Aug. 20 to com-
plete the project. "But we certainly expect they will do
it in a lot less time," Stevens observed. He did not know
if G great Lakes Dock and Dredge Inc., the company that-
performed the 2002 beach renourishment project, had
requested a bid package.
The emergency renourishment was necessary after
'our hurricanes swept through the area last year, scour-
ing a large amount of beach sand from the Island. The
federal government approved emergency beach
renourishment for a number of beaches in Florida, in-
cluding Anna Maria Island, shortly\ aftei the storm sea-
son ended.
PLEASE SEE BEACH, NEXT PAGE


Paradise lost


is found
By Rick Catlin
Islander Reporter
Jimmy Buffett can eat his cheeseburger in paradise
-- and keep playing his music.
Faced v. ith the possibility that Island-style music
could be banned in this slice of island paradise, Anna
Maria city commissioners at their March 24 meeting
ironed out a compromise to the outdoor dining ordi-
nance that allows "amplified" music until 10 p.m.
The compromise, however, allows such music only
at the two current locations that have outdoor "ampli-
fied" music: The Sandbar restaurant and the City Pier
Restaurant. Other restaurants or new establishments
will have to be content with "acoustic" music outside,
or keep the musicians indoors.
Commissioners were originally divided, on what
options they wanted in that section of the outdoor din-
ing ordinance pertaining to music.
Commissioner Dale Woodland wanted to "leave it
the way it is" and allow all outdoor amplified music as
he considered the options "restrictive."
Commissioner Duke Miller had originally favored
no outdoor amplified music.
"My position hasn't changed," he said, but he was
willing to compromise on the option that would
"grandfather" the Sandbar and City Pier as long as
those establishments met the city's noise ordinance
requirements and amplified music ended at 10 p.m.
nightly. The commission had originally suggested a 9
p.m. end to amplified music during the week and a 10
p.m. finish on weekends and holidays.
Commissioners Linda Cramer and Carol Ann
Magill agreed to those conditions, as did Commission
PLEASE SEE DINING, PAGE 3


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Blown away
The high winds of March
23 blew away the parking
garage at the Martinique
condominiums in Holmes
Beach and caused other.
damage on the Island.
West Manatee Fire and
Rescue and Holmes Beach
police responded to the
incident. Islander Photos:
(top) Don Meilner, (left)
Capt. Ernie Cave, WMFR.


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Holmes Beach


sex offender


leaves Island
The convicted sexual offender who had been liv-
ing at 4500A Gulf Drive in Holmes Beach as re-
ported in the March 16 Islander has packed his bags
and left for the mainland, according to the Florida De-
partment.of Law Enforcement Web site. The man's
new address is 2202 Ninth Ave. W. in Bradenton, ac-
cording to the FDLE.
The FDLE also listed convicted sex offenders liv-
ing in Holmes Beach at 3501 Sixth.Ave., 109 36th St.
and 6400 Flotilla Drive. All three have been released
from supervision, but are required by state law to list
their addresses with the FDLE.
A convicted sexual offender still under police su-
pervision was listed at-111 Fourth St. S. by the FDLE.
In addition, two convicted sexual offenders, both no
longer under supervision, were listed in Cortez, one at
4203 129 St. W. and the second at 11900 Cortez Road.
There were no convicted sex offenders living in
Anna Maria, according to the FDLE.
All the sexual offenders listed by the FDLE-for the
Island and Cortez are men.


'Bird-A-Thon' here

will benefit Audubon
A "Bird-A-Thon" whose participants will count
bird species on Anna Maria Island and the nearby parts
of the mainland will be April 9.
It is free to participants, who will gather at 7:30
a.m. at the northeast part of the Palma Sola Causeway.
Those interested should register before the bird count
with Nancy Ambrose at 518-4431.
Ambrose said that the event is a sponsorship affair,
with the money members-solicit from their sponsors
going to help the Audubon Society's Manatee County
branch build a "bird blind" at the Felts Audubon Pre-
serve. Last year.participants tallied 63 species of birds.


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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Stevens said the emergency renourishment won't
extend the beaches out 100 to 200 feet as the 2002-
project did, but will add only that amount of beach sand
that was lost due to the hurricanes. That's about
400,000 cubic yards of sand, he said.
Only those sections of beach that were renourished
in 2002 will be part of this project.
Stevens said he couldn't release a cost estimate
figure yet, but 100 percent of the funds are from fed-
eral sources.
"We have to wait and see what amount is bid and
compare it with our own estimate first," he said.
Manatee County Ecosystems Manager Charlie
Hunsicker had initially recommended that the county
opt out of the emergency plan because the Corps could
not guarantee quality sand for the Island. After several
meetings with Corps officials in Jacksonville, ho\ e\ er,
Hunsicker became convinced the sand wouldd be of
"high quality" and changed his recommendation.


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County commissioners quickly approved the project.
Hunsicker and Rick Spadoni of Coastal Engineer-
ing and Planning of Boca Raton will be involved in
monitoring the project.
The emergency renourishment will take place at
the same time as turtle nesting seca-son which officially
begins May 1.
Stevens said the Corps would work closely with
Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch volunteers to ensure
turtles do not become disoriented if they arrive on the
Island during the renourishment.

Perico convenience
store staying
Owners of the Timesaver convenience store and gas
station on Perico Island say they have seven years remain-
ing on their current lease of the property and will remain
open for business. The story in the March 23 Islander re-
garding the sale of property on Perico Island to an Arvida-
St: Joe related company,had reported the business had
been sold when, in fact, it is the property that was sold.


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THE ISLANDER 0 MARCH 30, 2005 0 PAGE 3


Cortez village



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this year

By Jim Hanson
Islander Correspondent
APAC Southeast will put a left-turn lane in Cortez
Road for $2.5 million starting in August..
The contract was awarded last week by the Florida
Department of Transportation for the controversial
project, which has been discussed and cussed in the
historic fishing village for years.
The middle lane will run from 119th Street on the
east to the mainland approach to the Cortez Bridge. It
will considerably widen the main street through Cortez,
for the plans call for a wide left-turn lane with a traf-
fic lane on each side.
Sidewalks and bicycle lanes will widen the old
road further, as feared by some Cortezians who fought
the project fang and claw until they were overwhelmed
by other residents and the state and county govern-
ments. Opponehts fear the improved road will lead to
more traffic to and from Anna Maria Island, and
Bradenton Beach residents expressed similar reserva-
tions, feeling there's already too much traffic in their
city.
But the road is too dangerous to leave it as it is
now, DOT argued, what with traffic increasing with
every new family moving to the area. It will "improve
traffic flow efficiency," the state said, which Cortezians
said was just what they were talking about.
The thoroughfare will have pedestrian crossings as
safe as engineers can make them, and medians in.the
sections where there is no cross street to need a turn
lane.
What with widening and milling of the surviving
parts of the old road, Cortez Road will be a brand new
thor',ou.ghfare, DOT noted, with improved drainage,
signaling, and pavement marking.
The August start will give APAC ample time to
assemble machinery, crews, materials and every-
thing else it will need to do the job, DOT pointed
out. The contract gives the company 120 days to fin-
ish the job.
Arithmetic puts the job's tail-end right into start of
the winter season, but DOT said it will see to it that
there is little if any disturbance in traffic then.



Dining outside grandfathered
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Chairperson John Quam.
After hearing from members of the public and
Sandbar restaurant owner Ed Chiles, who supported a
10 p.m. deadline, commissioners agreed to alter the
time period in the ordinance.
To halt music at the Sandbar at 9 p.m. "would
make a big change" in the restaurant operation, Chiles
said. During the summer, it's still daylight at 9 p.m. and
people enjoy the Jimmy Buffett-style music. He also
pledged to rearrange the entertainment to direct the
sound toward the Gulf of Mexico and away from resi-
dential areas near the restaurant.
Chiles also noted that while it- was nice that the
Sandbar would be grandfathered under the outdoor
entertainment option, "It's not fair that we get in and
not new restaurants."
Resident Judy Adams, who lives near the Sandbar,
agreed there are a lot of different sides to the issue, and
asked commissioners to be ultimately responsible for
the noise levels.
Under the city's noise ordinance, the city can file
an injunction against repeat offenders. Violators can
also be fined by Manatee County Sheriff's Office depu-
ties, or be cited by the code enforcement officer and
required to appear before the code enforcement board.
"Is the commission going to be responsible," to see
that these procedures are followed? she asked. The
commission agreed.
Property owner John Cagnina, whose father was
once mayor of Anna Maria, said the commission was


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"restricting free expression."
Magill pointed out, however, that prior to this or-
dinance, city codes had not permitted outdoor dining or
outdoor entertainment and Holmes Beach doesn't al-
low any outside entertainment.
"So, this is a compromise and we have worked
very hard for this," she concluded.
Commissioners agreed and passed the ordinance
and accompanying section on outdoor "amplified" en-
tertainment by a 4-1 vote.
In other business, the commission directed planner
Alan Garrett to develop the city's flood management
plan, which will help reduce flood insurance premiums
for property owners.

Mayor's report
Mayor SueLynn reported that the Southwest Florida
Water Management District will begin surveying the al-
ley between North Bay Boulevard and Gladiolus in the
near future in preparation for public hearings on the city' s
proposed drainage plan for swales on that alley. Other
alleys will also be surveyed and affected property owners
will be informed when the surveys begin.
"I just don't want people alarmed when they see
strangers walking through the alley," she said.
Woodland reminded the commission that the
Swiftmud project is a matching grant of $270,000 with
$135,000 coming from the city. The city's portion
could be returned to the treasury through the proposed
stormwater assessment fee, he said.
SueLynn also provided an update on repairs to the
city pier, which will done at the expense of pier opera-
tor Mario Schoenfelder.
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Haas-Martens to close out

civic group's season
The Holmes Beach Civic Association will feature
Holmes Beach City Commissioner Sandy Haas-Mar-
tens as speaker at its final meeting of the season Sat-
urday, April 2.
The meeting, open to the public free of charge, will
be at 10:30 a.m. at the Island Branch Library, 5701
Marina Drive, Holmes Beach. Refreshments will be
served beginning at 10:15 a.m.
Additional information may be obtained at 778-6341..


MeOtinUs


Anna Maiia City
March 30, 6:45 p.m., Environmental Education and
Enhancement Committee meeting.
April 7, 7 p.m., city commission work session.
Anna Maria City Hall,
10005 Gulf Drive, 708-6130.

Bradenton Beach
April 5, 1 p.m., scenic highway committee meeting.
April 7, 7 p.m., city commission meeting.
Bradenton Beach City Hall' 107 Gulf Drive N.,
778-1005.

Holmes Beach
April 5, 7 p.m., planning commission meeting.
Holmes Beach City Hall, 5801 Marina Drive,
708-5800.
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PAGE 4 0 MARCH 30, 2005 0 THE ISLANDER


Cortez school rehab starting Monday


By Jim Hanson
Islander Correspondent
After years of wrenching difficulties and delays,
and a last-minute governmental glitch, the Cortez
school rehabilitation project will get under way Mon-:
day, April 4.
Ground will be broken at 10 a.m. on the grounds
of the 1912-built school that will be the Florida Gulf
Coast Maritime Museum and community center for the
historic fishing village.
TriTech Construction & Design Co. Inc. of
Bradenton has the $527,480 contract to do the job in
240 working days.
A glitch in zoning threatened the job in the final
stages of work preparation when it was discovered that
an overlay the Manatee County Commission adopted
in the 1990s to exempt historic Cortez from some
county building requirements did not include the
school. It stopped instead at the west side of 119th
Street and the school is on the east side of the street.
At its most severe interpretation that could-have
meant that the school building in that flood plain would
have to be elevated 12 feet above ground under regulations
of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Many of
the county's departments worked feverishly to undo that
knot, and ultimately a hearing master cleared the way for
the county to issue permits for the construction.
At Monday's ceremonies, the county officials most
responsible for the project will speak-- Clerk of the
Circuit Court R.B. "Chips" Shore and Commissioner
Jane von Hahmann along with Allen Garner, presi-


dent of the Florida Institute of Saltwater Heritage.
Shore's office has authority over historic matters in the
county, FISH has led the battle for the school's pur-
chase by the county and state. Together they bought it
from the estate of artist Robert Sailors, whose home


Ruby debuts new book, more Friday at Islander
Ruby C. Williams returns to The Islander this Palmetto.
week with her entourage of family helpers, and all the Come for fresh strawberries and greens, or to visit
produce, artwork and copies of her new book that she with Ruby and enjoy her work at the newspaper office,
can fit in her van. 5404 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach.
The Islander will host a reception and art sale for The Islander, Qoh La La! and Mike Norman Re-
Ruby from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 1, with a portion alty will host the reception. For information, call The
of the sales to benefit a needy community center in Islander at 778-7978.


Not so tidy
West Manatee
Fire and
Rescue units
battled a
recent house
fire on Tidy
Island, but the
fire had caused
considerable
damage by the
time fire
personnel
arrived,
WMFR Chief
Andy Price
said. Islander
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ceremonies
will take place
SMonday for
the old
schoolhouse
in Cortez. The
event will
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a.m. April 4.
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and studio it was. The county holds title now.
"This groundbreaking ceremony will be an excit-
ing day for the residents of Cortez, the citizens of
Manatee County and various agencies, all of whom
haveworked tirelessly to get to this point," Shore said
Tuesday. "It marks the culmination of years of collec-
tive effort to preserve this historic building and the
unique way of life that exists in Cortez."
Also on the grounds will be the Burton Store and
the Pillsbury Boatworks, both historic buildings to be
moved there and restored.

Historic homes

lose to Easter
The Cortez Tour of Historic Homes last Friday and
Saturday took a thumping from Easter, Cortezians said,
with only $6,000-$7,000 realized from both main
events.
Results of the tour itself, with advance tickets $12,
have not yet been calculated precisely, but the silent
auction's income has it was $3,761, said Mary
Fulford Green, treasurer of the sponsoring Cortez Vil-
lage Historic Association.
As for the tout of the six historic homes, "the
houses were very good, but attendance was not," said
Karen Bell, who as treasurer of the Florida Institute of
Saltwater Heritage had a large part in organizing the
tour.
Both women said the Easter weekend timing prob-
ably was the cause of the low turnout. "Easter weekend
is a bad one for festivals that aren't directly Easter-re-
lated," said Green.
The money will go to the rebuilding of the old store
that is being moved to the old school grounds and re-
stored as part of the museum that will be developed in
the school building.


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Hol es Beach Police pension benefit increase fails
By Rick Catlin Lutz and Commissioner Patrick Morton voted for general agreement with the concept."
Islander Reporter the ordinance,. while Bohnenberger and Commission Whitmore emphasized that the planning commit
after more than seven months of wrangling and Chairperson Sandy Haas-Martens were opposed. tee is only "discussing" the issue and has made no rec
debate over an increase in the Holmes Beach police The tie vote effectively defeated the ordinance and, ommendation to the commission.
pension benefits, city ~oi'missioners effectively de- Whitmore said, even if Maloney had been at the meet-
feated the measure March 22 when the vote on the or- ing and voted for approval, she would have vetoed the Waste Management Inc.
dinance ended in a 2-2 tie. Commissioner Don measure. Approval of a new contract for waste and tras
Maloney was absent from the meeting. To override a veto w would then require a super ma- hauling service with Waste Management Inc. was.re
The Holmes Beach police pension board in August jority vote of.4 to 1 from the commission. cycled to the April 12 meeting after resident Joan Perr
2004 had sought an increase in benefits with the city Lutz suggested to Holmes Beach Police Lt. Dale raised a number of objections to the contract.
upping its contribution to. an officer's retirement from Stephenson, who is on the pension board, that the board "I'm not here.to fight about garbage cans," Perr
33 percent to 36.8 percent. revise its proposal to meet commission concerns. said, but the ordinance does require a public meeting
Mayor Carol Whitmore had opposed the request, Stephenson expressed disappointment with the She suggested the liability limits and performance
noting that city staff receive only a 9 percent contribution, vote, noting the pension board has not asked for any bond amount be increased in the contract and the de
Commissioners had drafted their own ordinance changes. in benefits since 1997. fault section should be clarified.
that said the increased benefits would be funded from Responding to Bohnenberger's comments,. he Petruff agreed. Perry has "raised some good is
the amount of money the city gets annually from the noted that since the current police retirement plan "does 'sues," she said, noting the contract was negotiated b
excess premium property tax paid by Holmes Beach not even meet [state] minimums, we don't have a lot of Maloney, not by her.
property owners whey they buy their property insur- benefits." The board agreed to continue the ordinance while
ance. If there was not enough money in the excess taxes "I still think the city treasurer should know where Petruff and WMI staff iron out the suggested change:
to pay the benefits, police would not get those benefits. the premium taxes go," Bohnenberger replied. Dave Smith of WMI said the company would
The pension board, however, wanted benefit fund- "So, I suggest you get back here as soon as pos- agree to increase liability limits to $1 million and $
ing tied to the city's annual budget, with the city mak- sible," Lutz told Stephenson. million and up its performance bond to $100,000.
ing up any shortfall. The expected funding wotld only. "But time is running out," he said, noting the cu:
cost the city about $21,000 annually -if anything Mixed use rent contract expires at the end of June 2005.
pension board actuary Ward Foster told commission- Whitmore confirmed that the planning commission
ers last year. is presently looking at a mixed-use district in the city Reports
Commissioner Rich Bohnenberger objected to the that would allow business owners to live above their Haas-Marten reported that the Palma Sola Sceni
ordinance at the March 22 commission meeting, not- business. That's similar to the residential-office-retail Highway Committee in conjunction with Manate
ing that the ordinance does not identify what benefits district along Pine Avenue in Anna Maria. County plans to build rest rooms at the Kingfish Bo;
would be provided. The board needs to account for "It is being discussed by the planning conimis- Ramp. The rest rooms will be part of the overall beat
revenue and benefits from the premium tax, he said, sion," noted Lutz, "and everyone here I believe is in tification project of the causeway currently bein
before he can consider any further benefits. planned by the committee.
Commissioner Roger Lutz thought the ordinance Whitmore said bid packages for the city's trolley
might be inadequate, but City Attorney Patricia Petruff Free surfing movie offered shelters and the drainage piperelocation project by th
pointed out that the pension board did not want the Holmes Beach Pure Oil Station at Gulf and Marin
ordinance drafted by the city to come before the com- for spring breakers Drives have been sent to prospective contractors.
mission, just their original ordinance. "Blue Crush," a thriller based in surfing, is A traffic calming study of Marina Drive from tl
"You could,- however, change the language to being shown at 2 p.m. Friday at Holmes Beach intersection of Gulf Drive north to Jesse's Island Stot
clarify accounting for the premium tax," she suggested. City Hall, free of charge and presented especially has been completed by Manatee County, but Whitmor
"Premium tax dollars have to be used for extra for, young people on spring break, said she's asked the county to study the road up to cil
benefits," replied Bohnenberger, and the pension board Mayor CarolWhitmore said the film will be hall and present that report.
has never accounted forithose dollars. Until those funds
a neer accounted fohe doars nti th shown in the meeting chambers at city hall, 5801 Among the county's proposal is making Marir
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Opinion


Three and a half years
on Island time
Next week marks my third anniversary plus six
months atfThe Islander and covering Island news, poli-
tics and people. I know, some people think I've been
around forever, but it's not true.
I feel compelled to update my observations six
months before my fourth anniversary because I'm
worried that by October, there might not be much of the
Island left to write about.
Property taxes are driving out mom-and-pop busi-
nesses. Many long-time residents are selling their
homes to developers and moving inland. Island homes
and businesses are being torn down daily to make way
for three-story structures that have all the "Old Florida"
charm of a South Dakota glue factory.
If I wait another six months, I may only be writing
about all the new condominiums, fast-food joints and
chain hotels going up on Anna Maria Island.
I've had the fortune some would say misfortune
- to cover various meetings in alfthree Island cities
and meet first-hand the politicians, residents, complain-
ers, non-complainers and the generally apathetic.
As a Florida boy who grew up in Clearwater when
it was an undiscovered city of about 20,000, and as
someone who has covered Florida beach communities
as a reporter on both the east and west coasts of the
state, this Island is unique.
Duh! Ya think?
Well, everyone agrees and says that, but let me talk
about the uniqueness of Anna Maria Island people.
Islanders are often strange, always unique, and
never dull. Some are outspoken and outrageous, some
.never speak and never rage, and sorrie always speak in
a rage.
Some are level-headed, some are not even level,
and some have no heads at all. Some are rich, some are
poor, some work and some have never had to work.
Most are in between.
But they are never boring.
They make for great stories in the newspaper, what
reporters and editors call "good copy."
This Island is more than its people. It's an ambi-
ance, A nostalgia for the quiet Florida of 50 years ago,
for a way of life that has long since disappeared from
most Florida beach communities.
Islanders are desperately fighting to protect that
ambiance in what may ultimately be a losing batt.le.
Rising taxes are slowly destroying whatever "Old
Florida" charm is left.



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Each year, more and.more "mom and pop" busi-
nesses sell out to the developers because they can't
afford the taxes that accompany their ever-increasing
property values. Each year, more and more long-time
residents sell out to the ultra-rich who can afford to live
here part-time and pay thousands of dollars in taxes
every year without blinking an eye.
For at least the next few years, however, Anna
Maria Island is one of the few Florida barrier islands
that still has some remaining "Old Florida" character.
Exactly what "Old Florida" means, I leave to the
reader to define, but I do. know this:
There are no McDonalds, no Pizza Huts, no Burger
Kings and no Holiday Inns on, Anna Maria Island -
not yet.
There is no mass tourism, there are no manmade
tourist traps or attractions, there are no night clubs and
there is no point in being in a.hurry.
There are no high-rise hotels and no four-lane
highways and just one six-story condo, and its con-
struction apparently halted the "high-rise" fever here
that is found on many other Florida coastal communi-
ties.
If you want "high-rise" fever, go to Sand Key on
Clearwater Beach. That's what this Island will look
like in a few years if people don't protect what's,
here.
The invasion of Perico Island by the large devel-
opment corporations looking for big bucks is only a
portend of what's coming. Natural Perico Island will be
gone in a few years, replaced by a concrete city of
buildings and people looking for the promised charm
of the Island and wondering where it's gone.
Those same people will never understand they are
part of the problem, not the solution.
The Bradenton City Council members who voted to
annex Perico Island, then approve the Arvida site plan,
will also one day wonder what happened to "Old Florida"
on Anna Maria Island. The answer is that for a few mea-
sly dollars, they sold out a long time ago to an arrogant
developer who cares as much about saving "Old Florida"
as it cares about saving the Australian dodo bird.
Anna Maria Island has only five traffic lights, and
four of those are in Holmes Beach. That's going to
change in the future.
There are houses here that date back to the 1930s,


'40s and '50s, and there are even businesses run from
some of those houses. That too will change.
There are open-air restaurants here, shell parking
lots, an old wooden pier or two or three, a beach where
sea oats still grow, some oyster beds, fishermen who
still make a living, fresh grouper that is fresh from the
sea, instead of fresh from the freezer, and people who
still play horseshoes and shuffleboard. That will also
change.
I've lived and worked in Clearwater Beach, St.
Petersburg Beach, Belleair Beach, Ft. Lauderdale
Beach, Miami Beach, Neptune Beach, Atlantic Beach
and Jacksonville Beach and visited just about every
other son of a beach in Florida.
Those places have about as much "Old Florida"
character and charm as DisneyWorld.
Don't worry, Anna Maria will some day join the
list of "developed" Florida barrier islands.
The problem for each Island city seems to be com-
ing to a consensus of how much "Old Florida" ambi-
ance combined with development does each city want,
or need?
If there are some 8,000 permanent residents on the
Island, then there are at least 16,000 different opinions
on how the Island's character should be maintained.
. In the end, however, the Island should belong to its
people, not the tax man, the big developers or the snob-
bish super-rich who don't care about the Island's past,
present or future.
How does the Island stop itself from changing to
a Marco Island or a Sanibel Island?
I don't have the answer, but the Island better do
something quick, or "Old Florida" will be gone the way
of the Edsel. Hopefully, current comprehensive plans
being written by the three Island cities will keep "Old
Florida," at least for my lifetime.
The late Island resident and writer Wyatt
Blassingame said it all more than 40 years ago when he
wrote, "If you unscrew a screwball anywhere in the
United States, blindfold him, turn him around twice
and turn him loose, he'll wind up on Anna Maria Is-
land."
Is that how I got here?
With the ever-increasing property taxes, will any
screwballs remain here in 10 years?
-- Rick CatLin,. slaraner Reporter





THE ISLANDER U MARCH 30, 2005 0 PAGE 7


'Be ready' watchwords from
national hurricane conference
By Don Maloney
Special to The Islander
The 27th Annual "Nation's Forum for Education
and Professional Training in Hurricane preparedness"
was held in New Orleans March 21-25. Thanks to our
four big winds last year, men and women involved in
Florida emergency management had many stories to
tell the rest of the country stories about their suc-
cesses and failures with how they prepared for the
storms, what they did to weather it, and how they are
still handling the cleaning up after.
Because one of my liaison responsibilities in
Holmes Beach as a city commissioner has me sitting on
the Island Emergency 0O; 'ions Center team, I at-
tended the conference. While emergency management
staff does most of the work during such disasters -
including others such as floods, tornadoes and terror-
ist carryings-on elected officials are the ones that
must make decisions on things like when to order
evacuations.
Among the seminars at the conference were:
SApplying the confusing National Flood Insurance
50-percent rule that requires structures that have been
destroyed more than 50 percent to be built back to cur-
rent code.


Discussion on how animals were handled during
the 2004 storms and the importance of locals knowing
how to handle them.
How to handle disabled and elderly people bet-
ter than they were in 2004.
2004 post-storm assessments of hurricane prod-
ucts.
Mitigation success stories proving what works.
-* Lessons learned from mass care response during
the four hurricanes.
Managing re-entry problems.
Managing disaster grants in tight budget years.
At the general session, we heard a good overview
of the 2004 hurricane season, what Federal Emergency
Management Agency officials learned from their re-
sponse to the season, details of all four Florida hurri-
canes from emergency people directly involved in each
of them, and the way those storms involved the largest
mass care response in American history a response.
that still goes on.-
The. conference closed with a talk by Dr. William
Gray, the man from Colorado who predicts windy
weather every year. For this coming season, he says we
can expect 11 named storms six hurricanes and three
intense hurricanes. United States landfall probabilities
for a major Category 3, 4 or 5 hurricane average for the
past century was 52 percent, but he says it will be 69
percent in 2005. The East Coa,.q and Florida peninsula
can expect 49 percent, versus 31 percent of average;
Gulfcoast Texas to Florida Panhandle forecast is 39
percent versus 30 percent on an average year.
At last year's conference, he predicted; "We're
overdue for a major hurricane strike in the United
States."
For what it's worth, here's the final official score
for 2004:
One in five Florida homes were impacted.
A total of 117 Floridians lost their lives.
*. 3,000 people were killed in Haiti due to storms.
90 percent of the homes in Granada were dam-
aged or destroyed.
Total property losses were estimated at $42 bil-
lion.
The biggest lesson learned? Preparedness, and
making sure residents are told exactly what prepared-
ness means.


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3SYEARS


Ten years ago in e March 23, 1995,
issue of The Islander announced:
A 24-foot boat rammed into the Bradenton Beach
City Pier at high speed, causing the two occupants to be
thrown into the water. Pines Trailer Park resident Chuck
Hixson rushed to their aid and pulled them from the wa-
ter unharmed. The boat, however, was severely damaged.
The Florida Commission on Ethics rejected a com-
plaint by Holmes Beach resident Lee Edwards that city
commission candidates Luke Courtney, Billie Martini and
Don Maloney had used the names of city residents in an
advertisement without their knowledge or consent.
The Save Anna Maria organization offered to sell
pieces of the Anna Maria Island Bridge for $10 each as a
fundraiser for legal fees in its opposition to the proposed
Florida Department of Transportation's 65-foot-high,
fixed-span bridge to replace the current bridge. Ownership
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Islander Correspohdent :*'
You can't escape it, folks, the daylight savers and
their time police are watching you to make sure you ';.
er spring forward in plenty of time to fall back.
Nobody will admit to fathering that tired old .. I
"spring forward, fall back" in reference to daylight
saving time, and you can't blame them. It's about as '
tedious as a phrase can get. Though it comes up only 50
twice a year, it's still more than enough to make you
grind your teeth..
"Spring up, fall down" would do'the job as well,'
but tedium would overtake it in a few Aprils and Oc-
tobers. There are others, but they'd suffer the same
inevitability.
The fact is, we are doomed to trudge along at the
orders of some goofy people of nearly 100 years ago, g e ttin L stuff done ith-
who decided that changing the time periodically would out too much Ipublic notice. The\
mean more working time during the longer summer con\ inced Coneress. arguabl\ none too bright
days. Does that make sense?-Does the sun know? a body any time and certairIly not when there's a war
World War I gave these time-deviates the chance to entertain the members. that \ ar production could be
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In a fit of good sense the country let that distraction
lapse after the "war to end war." But sure enough, along
came World War II dedicatedto stamping out dictators,
and the time dictators emerged from the swamp again.
Back to DST, by congressional mandate Congress
hadn't brightened in the intervening generation.
In fact, when the war excuse ended, Congress kept
the deviation,, letting states and communities decide
whether they wanted to keep DST for good. Most of
them didn't bother deciding, so DST automatically
stayed in effect except for.a few places that had had
enough. Arizona, Hawaii, parts of Indiana, arid a few
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Apologies are due and hereby rendered a sub-
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itself so here'we go with the old saw. As of 2 a.m. the
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THE ISLANDER E MARCH 30, 2005 0 PAGE 9


Islanders dig deep to help 2004 hurricane relief


By Gretchen Edgren
Special to The Islander
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season is just weeks
away, but some Floridians are still trying to clean up
from the last one, with its quadruple whammy of
named storms. Here, Islanders escaped much of the
damage, but they opened their wallets, and their hearts,
to help the victims.
All Island Denominations acted as a conduit for
relief, sending a total of $7,351.29 in contributions
from Islanders to aid victims in hard-hit DeSoto and
Hardee Counties. Recipients-included six damaged
churches in Wauchula, Arcadia and Fort Ogden; the
Myakka City Elementary School; and nuns from
Catholic Charities in Arcadia, who distributed funds
and gift certificates to migrant workers and other fami-
lies who found themselves without work or housing.
Sister Ann DeNicolo, program director for the
Arcadia office of Catholic Charities, recently spoke at
Roser Memorial Community Church in Anna Maria
about the good works achieved by donations from Is-
landers and others.
Arcadia, the county seat of DeSoto County, is one of
the oldest towns in Florida, she reported. Its population of
7,500 roughly doubles when migrant workers are present
to pick the citrus crops. Their lives are hard enough, as
depicted in an award-winning WWSB-TV documentary
filmed before the hurricanes, with wages ranging from $6
to $9 for filling a tub of citrus the size of a Jacuzzi. Since
Hurricanes Charley, Jeanne and Frances, the sister re-
ported, "affordable housing is almost non-existent. One
owner is renting trailers for $10,000 a month, with up to
eight people living in each trailer. Now, we have 3,500
families in Federal Emergency Management Agency trail-
ers. When FEMA starts asking for its trailers back, where
are they going to go?"
Donations have helped the sisters offer gift certifi-
cates at Home Depot and Sears. Local churches have
invited roofers to teach migrant fathers how to repair
their homes. In one case, finding a family of nine liv-
ing in one room, volunteers added two rooms to their
trailer.
Floridians aren't the only concerned donors. Crews
of Mennonite and Amish workers have been coming
down from Illinois, Missouri and Pennsylvania, and
have promised to continue working through March of
2006, the sister reported.


Helping hurricane victims
Sister Ann DeNicolo, director of the Arcadia office
of Catholic Charities, shows the Rev. Gary Batey,
pastor of Roser Memorial Community Church, one
of the "Moses baskets" given to new mothers in
DeSoto County.

One project Sister Ann demonstrated was the
Moses basket. "Two hundred babies are born per year
in Arcadia," she said. "When a visiting nurse heard of
a baby's suffocating in bed.with its parents because
there was nowhere else for it to sleep, she woke up
thinking, 'Moses! I need help making Moses baskets!'"
The regular laundry baskets are lined to become impro-
vised bassinettes, filled with tops, hats and booties
knitted by volunteers, and stocked at the county health
department, where they are given to new mothers.
The six individual churches that make up All Is-
land Denomi nat io n 'also gave hurricane-relief help on
their own. Harvey Memorial Community Church do-
nated more than $3,000 and took three cargo van loads
of pots and pans, tableware, bedding, food, water,
cleaning supplies and children's games to victims in


Fort Ogden, Sunnybreeze, Nocatee and Hull. They also
hauled a copy machine given by the Anna Maria Island
Chamber of Commerce and a donated organ to the Fort
Ogden United Methodist Church.
The Episcopal Church of the Annunciation sent
$7,800 to St. Edmund's Church in Arcadia, which lost
the roof over its sanctuary, and $500 to the Salvation
Army in Punta Gorda.
SRoser Memorial Community Church gave $5,608
to DeSoto County schools, Hardee County schools and
the Salvation Army. Members also drove to the
Arcadia area to deliver relief supplies.
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church donated $2,051 in
hurricane relief to be distributed by the Florida-Baha-
mas Lutheran Synod.
Members of Island Baptist Church made four trips
to the Port Charlotte area to distribute water, clothing
and food, helped repair roofs in mobile home parks and
gave an unspecified amount of funds for hurricane re-
lief via the Manatee Southern Baptist Association,
comprising 34 area churches.
Parishioners of St. Bernard Catholic Church traveled
to several afflicted areas to offer assistance. St. Bernard
was a collection point for food, clothing, furniture and
household items donated by members of the church and
other Island residents. Bishop John Nevins of the Diocese
of Venice requested that all churches in the diocese con-
duct a special collection at all masses over one weekend;
Janet Clark, an AID board member representing St. Ber-
nard, could not provide an exact amount, "but I would
imagine that collectively it was significant."


'Crafts and clutter' sale
set at Gloria Dei Church
A "community crafts and clutter" sale is
scheduled for 8 a.m. to noon Wednesday, April 9,
at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 6608 Marina
Drive, Holmes Beach.
"This is an opportunity for our neighbors to
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Dead sea turtle beached in Bradenton Beach
This dead loggerhead turtle, being measured by Ed Sterba and recorded by Suzi Fox, both of Anna Maria
Island Turtle Watch, was found on the beach in Bradenton Beach in approximately the 1700 block of Gulf
Drive. The data will be provided to Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network, a national tracking program.
The female turtle was estimated to be 40-60 years old. 33 iilche~ long and approximately 125 pounds. The
cause of death, said Sterba, Iu', piPoib ly red tide or old age. Ir was the first dead turtle on Anna Maria Island
beaches since December 2004. Islander Photo: Kelley Ragan


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Island police reports
Anna Maria City
March 21, driving while license suspended. A
driver was stopped because of a broken windshield and
was arrested when it was learned that the driver was an
habitual felony offender for driving without a license.
March 26, stolen bike. A man left his bicycle un-
locked at the foot of the Anna.Maria City Pier and it
was taken.
March 27, found property. A man found a Visa
credit card on Magnolia Avenue.

Bradenton Beach
March 18, aggravated battery. A Bradenton Beach
man was accused of breaking the nose of a Cortez fish-
erman after the two got into a fight at a Bridge Street
bar.
March 19, stolen property. A woman reported cash
and credit cards taken from her locked car. She said she
hid her purse under a jacket and locked her car but left
the windows cracked. She noticed the cash and cards
missing when she went to a convenience store.
March 20, stolen property. A man and woman dis-
tracted another woman and stole her purse at Leffis
Key.
March 20, possession of alcohol by minor. Two
Bradenton teenagers were arrested after police found
they had 30 cans of beer in a cooler and were drinking
it on the beach.
March 22, theft. A woman who left a black hand-
bag on the beach discovered it missing after going to
a bar for a drink.
March 25, aggravated battery. A man living on a
boat in the Intracoastal Waterway was arrested after he


threatened to kill : Holmes Beach man b) stabbing himn
with a knife.
March 27, driving while license suspended, posses-
sion of controlled substance. A Plant City man was
stopped for not having a tag attached to his car. Police
asked Miguel Perez for his driver's license and when
he told the officer it had been suspended, the officer
searched the car and found a partially burned marijuana
cigarette.

Holmes Beach
March 22, theft. A Bradenton woman who left her
purse on the beach found it missing after returning from
a walk with friends.
March 23, theft. A Holmes Beach man reported
someone took a checkbook from his open car and
cashed three checks totaling $1,460.
March 24, battery. A man was grabbed from be-
hind while at D.Coy Ducks bar but was not injured. The
suspect was not found.
March 25, juvenile. A Bradenton youth who had
been reported missing was found by police. When an
officer approached her, she attempted to flee but was
caught. The youth was handcuffed and continued to
struggle with police, refusing to be placed in a patrol
car. She then had to be held against the car while a
hobble restraint was placed on her legs. Inside the car,
she was able to free one leg and then kicked out the
window frame.
March 25, loitering. A man.was arrested for loiter-
ing at Manatee Public Beach after an officer noticed
him crouching next to the restaurant. When the officer
approached, the man got on his bicycle and rode off.
Police were able to catch him and found he had a his-
tory of robbery. He was taken to Manatee County Jail.


Islander's films to be shown Friday at Ybor festival
Three films produced by Barbara Hussong of rier.


Holmes Beach will be screened this week during the
Ybor Film Festival of the Moving Image.
"Human Shield" will be shown at 8:30 p.m, Fri-
day, April 1, at the Performing Arts Building of
Hillsborough Community College, 15th Street and
Palm Avenue, Ybor City. It tells of a Florida woman
who joined others to try to keep Americans from
starting into Baghdad by using their bodies as a bar-


Hussong's "Battered, Bruised and Broken" will be
shown there at 1 p.m. Sunday, April 3. It is a documen-
tary on family violence.
"Cut," a 16-'millimeter experimental narrative
which she co-produced with Michael Stahr and was
directed by Manatee Community College's Erin Solari,
will be screened at Ybor, as well as at the UNIFEM
Festival in Sarasota later in the month.








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Anna Maria
Elementary School
construction
progresses
This aerial view of the
new Anna Maria Elemen-
tary School shows thefirst
floor nearing completion.
The second floor of the
building is ready to be
poured and the $8.5-
million project is expected
to be completed by
December. Principal
Kathy Hayes said renova-
tions to the auditorium
and art and music room
are scheduled for comple-
tion in late summer or fall
2006. Islander Photo:
Jack Elka


Anna Maria school menu
Monday, April 4
Breakfast: Egg and Cheese Biscuit, Cereal,
Toast, Super Donut, Fruit
Lunch: Popcorn Chicken, Ravioli, Garlic
Breadsticks, Baked Beans, Steamed Mixed
Vegetables, Minute Maid Juice Bar
Tuesday, April 5
Breakfast: Cinnamon Roll, Cereal, Toast,
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich, Fruit
Lunch: Turkey Gravy on Mashed Potatoes, Fish
Shapes, Fresh Biscuit, Steamed Broccoli,
Peaches
Wednesday, April 6
Breakfast: Egg Patty Square with Toast, Yogurt,
Cereal, Toast, Fruit
Lunch: Shrimp Poppers, Egg Rolls, Fried Rice,
Steamed Peas, Bananas and Strawberries
Thursday, April 7
Breakfast: French Toast, Cereal, Toast, Muffin,
Fruit
Lunch: Baked Chicken Nuggets, Yogurt, Fruit
and Muffin Plate, Tossed Salad, Steamed
Green Beans, Pears
Friday, April 8
Breakfast: Breakfast Pizza, Cereal, Toast,
Yogurt, Fruit
Lunch: Pizza, Grilled Cheese Sandwich,
Steamed Corn, Orange Slices
Juice and milk are served with every meal.


Kindergarten registration, immunizations at AME


Kindergarten registration for the 2005-06 school
year will take place at Anna Maria Elementary School
on April 22.
The Manatee County Health Department mobile
immunization van will also be on site that day from 9.
a.m. to 5 p.m. offering free vaccinations for children of
all ages.
The following vaccines are mandatory for kinder-
garten entry:
Five doses of DPT, unless the fourth dose was
given on or after the fourth birthday.
Four doses of polio, unless the third dose was
given on or after the third birthday.
A second dose of measles vaccine, preferably
measles/mumps/rubella, spaced at least one month
apart with the first dose given on or after the first birth-
day.
Three doses of the hepatitis-B vaccine.
One dose of Varivax, or a documented case of the
chicken pox.
To register students for kindergarten, parents
should bring the student's birth certificate with an of-
ficial seal, Social Security card, immunization record,
proof of physical exam within the past year and proof
of residency.


A school nurse will be available to review records
and answer questions.
AME is located at 4700 Gulf Drive, Holmes.
Beach. For more information, call 708-5525.

Twist and
shout
Phillip
DuDevois
does the
twist at Anna
Maria
Elementary
School's
sweetheart
dance.
Islander
Photo:
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Bogan


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THE ISLANDER W MARCH 30, 2005 N PAGE 13


Author of Florida butterfly

caterpillar book to speak
Dr. Mark C. Minno, co-author of "Florida Butter-
fly Caterpillars and Their Host Plants," will discuss his
book at a meeting at 10:30 a.m. April 9 at the Rocky
Bluff Branch of the Manatee County library system.
1He will also present a slide show and sign copies
of the book. Islander Nancy Ambrose, who formed and
maintains the Island Butterfly Garden adjacent to
Holmes Beach City Hall, said the book is sure to be-
come "the classic guide to southern butterfly caterpil-
lars and their host plants." Minno is senior regulatory
scientist for the St. Johns Water Management District.
The library is at 7016 U.S. Highway 301 in
Ellenton. Details may be obtained by calling Ambrose
at 518-4431.


Shelter funds presented
Ilona Kenrick of Marina Pointe Realty, right, presented Anna Maria Island Rotary Club President Steve
Schlueter with the remainder of the $22,500 promised in matching funds for Rotary shelter boxes to aid the
Asian tsunami victims. With Kenrick's funding from an anonymous foundation, the Island Rotary Club raised
more than $61,000 for this project. The shelter boxes purchased with the Island funding will house more than
6,000 people. Each shelter box costs $900 and will house and provide for 10 people. Islander Photo: Nancy
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Obituaries

Thomas E. 'Fishy' Fischbach
Thomas E. "Fishy" Fischbach, 48, of Bradenton,
died March 27.
Born in Bradenton, Mr. Fischbach was a lifelong
resident. He was Catholic.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday,
March 30, at Brown and Sons Funeral Home, 5624
26th St., Bradenton. Memorial contributions may be
made to Hospice of Southwest Florida, 5955 Rand
Blvd., Sarasota FL 34238.
'He is survived by sisters Cynthia Zaagman and
Mary M., both of Bradenton, and Carol Bonifila of Fort
Pierce; and brothers George F. Jr. of Anna Maria and
John P. Sr. of Lakeland, Ga.
Arthur L. Langlois
Arthur L. Langlois, 92, of Bradenton, died March 20.
A native of Worcester, Mass., Mr. Langlois served in
the U.S. Army and was a French interpreter to Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II. He received
the Bronze Star.. He retired after 42 years with Heald
Machine Co.
Memorial services were March 28 at Saints Peter And
Paul the Apostles Catholic Church; Bradenton. Memorial
contributions may be made to Hospice of Southwest
Florida, 5955 Rand Blvd., Sarasota FL 34238. Brown and
Sons Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
He is survived by wife of 59 years Dora; daughters
Denise Langlois of Bradenton and Michelle Langlois
of Nantucket, Mass; one brother; two sisters; three
grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Esther R. Meltzner
Esther R. Meltzner, 91, of Holmes Beach, died March
19.
Born in Elmira, N.Y., Ms. Meltzner came to Mana-
tee County from Hollywood, Fla., in 1991. She was a
sales clerk. She was Jewish.
No services were planned. Griffith-Cline Funeral
Home, Island Chapel, was in charge of arrangements.
She is survived by sons Irvin of Holmes Beach and
Joel of Denver, Colo.; seven grandchildren; and nine
great-grandchildren.
Nina L. Young
Nina L. Young, 85, of Burlington, Vt., and for-
merly Holmes Beach, died March 21.
Mrs. Young was born in Belmont, Vt.
Memorial services will be held at a later date in
Weathersfield, Vt. Memorial contributions may be
made to the Alzheimer's Association of Vermont, P.O.
Box 1139, 338 River St., Montpelier VT 05601.
She is survived by son Cary of St. Albans, Vt.;
daughter Naoma Hill of Springfield, Vt.; and several
grandchildren and great-grandchildren.


Spring fling
The Perico Bay Club of residents of Shoreline Terraces had its final "spring fling" at the clubhouse. Shown
are Leonard and Harriet Roth, Jack and Ruth Gulden, John Daddio, Janet Heller, Carl and Carolyn Wencker,
Robert and Ann Adams, Jack and Carolyn Templeton, Sheldon and Linda Dean, Jim and Vivian Ragsdale,
Jackie Walker, Jon and Renate Van Beurn, Mary Lee, Charles and Betty Beasman, and Bob and Marge Ebel.


Spring tuning
Toccoa Falls College Choir visited Island Baptist Church on its spring tour Friday. The choir is recognized as
one of the nation's finest Christian college choirs. Islander Photo: J.L. Robertson


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THE ISLANDER M MARCH 30, 2005 0 PAGE 15


Talented hometown girl aids hometown 'Affaire'


By Jim Hanson
Islander Correspondent
Jessica Webb is doing what she's always wanted
to do, becoming a hero in her own hometown by help-
ing it with her talent and energy. She is in charge of
the decor for the"Affaire to Remember."
If you find the name not quite familiar, check out
her name before a wedding changed it. She was born
Jessica Holmes, of the Holmes Beach Holmeses. And
she's proud of it.
The theme of the Affaire this year is "Provence
Market Square," and Webb is seeing to it that a lot of
Island volunteers and a sizable part of the Manatee
High School student body get it right. They're all work-
ing to give the "Affaire" a touch of France the night of
April 9 to make it indeed an "Affaire to Remember."
She has deep roots on Anna Maria, generations of
them. Her father is Hugh Holmes Jr. and her grandfather
John Sr.,.about as Holmes Beach as a heritage can get.
With a degree in interior design from Hillsborough


Community College, she came back to'her Island to
live with her father for a year, then moved to Bradenton
Beach where she bought a home on Avenue A.
For four years she has worked for and with Anne
Folsom Smith Interior Design Inc., perhaps the premier
firm in its field in Sarasota. She helps in all aspects of
projects, and is in charge of seeing them through on-
site, residential and commercial.
The work has taken her to New Hampshire and
Ohio, as well as many places in Florida.
She and her husband are.waiting, he for word from
a university accepting him in veterinarian school, and
she for state certification as an interior designer so she
can take another big step in her career.
The Affaire to Rememiber xw as a different affaire as
she remembers first being aware of it at age 10. It was
mostly an auction then, she said, but exciting even in
its early days. Her father and stepmother were involved
in it for years, and the Center welcomed Jessica back
to it this year.


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She only regrets that she didn't have to go to
Provence itself to get this job done.


Turtle Watchers prepare for season


Lost boat
This sailboat washed ashore last Thursday near the
Bridgeport condominiums in Bradenton Beach.
Police were attempting to.contact the owner. If the
owner doesn't recover the boat, it will be towed by a
private company to a safe harbor. Islander Photo
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The chief of Anna Maria Island's Turtle Watch has
returned from a seven-week cruise, just in time to bury
the first casualty of the year.
The body of a loggerhead turtle washed ashore in
Bradenton Beach Tuesday morning, the since Christ-
mas said Suzi Fox of TW. Turtle Watch volunteers and
a front-end loader fronl the cit) buried the corpse.
Fox spent from Januar) until late March on a 70-
foot yacht cruising the Gulf of Mexico and Guatemala
\\ aters, working as a:crew member and keeping an eye
out for sea turtles there. There weren't any, she found,
at least where her boat spent most- of the time, up a
large river.
The marine turtle nesting season begins May 1, and
Turtle Watch volunteers will get together April 27 for
their annual sring training session and c'rgnizational
meeting. That \\ ill be at 6 p.m. at Holmes Beach City
Hall.
While Fox was gone, the Turtle Watch retail store
closed for lack of interest, with nearly all of its stock
sold at big discounts. The store manager, Linda
Kapisak, has returned to the retirement she left to run
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The store opened in the Island Shopping Center in
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rent was crippling, although Kapisak differed, saying
business in that location was good. It was Fox who
decided the operation would move to Bradenton Beach
where it died.
The replica leatherback which attracted so much
attention and the turtle nest cutaway were sent to the
Reptile Shack in Lakeland, an educational operation.
They will be returned here when and if a suitable dis-
play place is donated, she said.
Fox said Turtle Watch plans to monitor the Ann
Maria Island beach renourishment project this summer,
as it did the last renourishment. It will be during the
May-October turtle nesting season, she pointed out,
which means many nests must be moved to areas safe
from disturbance.
Turtles come ashore night, dig nests, lay up to 100
eggs, cover them, and go back to the Gulf. Turtle
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they hatch, and move them to safety if necessary to
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ENER NATIONN

by Rick Catlin

Tin can was luck of the draw

for Cortez Navy veteran
Cortez resident Bill Howey remembers Dec. 7,
1941, like it was yesterday.
"I was playing ball across the street from our house
outside Woodbury, N.J., when someone came over and
yelled that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor and
we were at war. I wasn't sure where Pearl Harbor was,
but I learned real fast," said Bill.
While a lot of his older friends were in a rush to
join up and fight, Bill, just 14 at the time, had to con-
tent himself with staying in school and waiting his turn.
His older brother Hank The Islander, Greatest
Generation, Jan. 19, 2005 -joined the Army while
Bill stayed home.
"I wanted to do my part, but I was too young to
join."
Just 16 by 1944, he got a job working at the Phila-
delphia Naval Yard, % while brother Hank was sending
home letters about his World War II experiences fight-
ing in Europe.
"Those letters convinced me I didn't want to go to
Europe. I was going to be drafted when I turned 18, so
the Navy started looking pretty good, and I joined the
reserves as soon as I was 17."
Two weeks after enlisting, Bill was called to active
duty and headed to boot camp.
"I was just a kid then. I knew I wanted to do my
part, but I really had no idea what was happening,"
He learned quickly in the Navy. Boot camp was
supposed to be 13 weeks, but the Navy shortened the
training to nine weeks because it needed seamen in the
Pacific Theater.
After boot camp, Bill and his fellow seamen
headed to San Diego to get their first assignment.


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Bill Howey and his crewmates aboard the U.S.S. McGowan in San Diego in 1945. Bill is at the far right in the


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A lot of the men were sent to ships in the western
Pacific, where the fighting was still intense. Bill and
five other seamen, however, reported for duty aboard
the U.S.S. McGowan, a destroyer stationed in San Di-
ego.
"She had just come back from three years of fight-
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back for awhile. I was ready to take any assignment,
but I was sure glad about getting that tin can. It was just
luck of the draw."
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"Those guys were sure glad they were out of it, but
they were a bunch of characters, for sure,"'he remem-
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Bill was in touch with brother Hank, who was still
fighting in Europe. "After reading one of Hank's let-
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Japan. Then, in August 1945, the atom bomb was
dropped on Japan.
"We didn't know what it was, but the scuttlebutt
was that this would finish the war. That was good news
for me and the younger guys, because we thought we
were going to be reassigned to ships in the invasion of
Japan."
The war was over for the McGowan and its crew.
Japan surrendered on Sept. 2, 1945, and the crew
of the McGowan was a pretty happy bunch. "Most of
the guys had seen enough combat. I.just accepted the
fact that I got lucky getting assigned to that tin can.
The ship was decommissioned and many of its
crew discharged. Bill was at the bottom end of the
points system that discharged servicemen, so he spent
several months on another destroyer.
He was discharged from active duty in 1946, but
remained a member of the inactive reserves.
After a stint as a barber, Bill got another job at the
Philadelphia Naval Yard when the Korean War broke
out in 1950.
Part of his job was refitting and testing WWII sub-
marines for the modernmera.
"I was more scared in that job than I ever was in
the Navy," Bill'said. One day, a submarine he and his
co-workers were testing headed straight to the bottom.
"It was pretty scary getting that sub upright and
back to the surface, I'll tell you that," he laughed.
From the naval yard, Bill enrolled in electronics
school and went to work for RCA. He eventually was
hired by the Fischer-Porter Industrial Instruments Co.
where he became a senior instructor and technician. He
retired in 1990 after he and wife Ida had raised three
children.
Since brother Hank had been in Cortez since 1959,
it was a natural choice for Bill to head south to Cortez
for retirement. He and Ida live in the Cortez Trailer
Park, just a stone's throw from'Hank's place.
"I was too young to get into a lot of the fighting,
so I don't have much of a war story," said Bill mod-
estly. "Those guys who went.into action were the real
heros. But I was prepared to go and glad to do my part.
I'll tell you, I matured in the Navy. I went in as a 17-
year-old kid and came out as a young man. Through-
out my entire life, I've been a better man, husband and
father than I ever would have been without my naval
experience. I'd join up again in a second if I had to."
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Maria Island from
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mom Amy and
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Sunday
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left,
Patton,
mom
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Easter Sunday, Island style


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All serving All Island Denominations been working at the beach for much of 21 years,
From left to right, the pastors of the Island churches participating in the sunrise service are the Rev. Gary since 1974 with a couple of "leaves," and has
Batey of Roser Memorial Community Church, the Rev. Tamara Woods of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, All attended the Easter sunrise service for many of those
Island Denominations President Frank McGrath, the Rev. Deacon Alfred Gaspari of St. Bernard Catholic years, most recently, allowing The Islanderphotog-
Church, the Rev. Bill Grossman of Harvey Memorial Community Church, and the Rev. Dale Lawson of Island raphers access to the lifeguard tower and the unique
Baptist at the podium for the Scripture reading at the Island Kiwanis Easter sunrise service. At far right, perspective of the large crowd in attendance for the
musician Steve Wicker, who provided vocals and keyboard music. Easter service.


The hunt is on for these spry youngsters in the St. Bernard Catholic Church
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Life with boats continues in Cortez


By Jim Hanson
Islander Correspondent
He's been into boats most of his life, building
them, sailing them, raising kids on them. Now he's in
the ideal place, Cortez, and in the ideal program there,
boatbuilding.
He is Sam Geiger, maybe past the age when young
men's fancy turns to thoughts of circumnavigation
cruises, glad now that he has the memories of wonder-
ful and terrifying days and nights at sea. Never too old
for building, though.
He lives alone in Bradenton and comes to Cortez
a few days a week to join new-old buddies and, with
them, hand-build wooden boats in the old way with old
tools and the old results: Lovely new boats.
He always has a boat of his own under construction
to be sold, just, in fact, sold a 10-foot dinghy at the
Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival in February. He
builds his own in a rented storage area in Bradenton;
his volunteer work in Cortez is strictly for the learning-
and-doing boat program.
That program was instigated and overseen by
Roger Allen, a man of many hats who is director of the
Florida Gulf Coast Maritime Museum that he is creat-
ing in Cortez. Boatbuilding by hand is part of-the mari-
time program he envisions for his adopted village. It is
housed in the community center but is destined to join
other facets of the program in the old school building
now undergoing renovation for the museum.
Geiger has already started work on another 10-foot
dinghy, this one a sailboat, which he figures is about six
to eight months' work. He's still doing his bit in the
Cortez program, of course. "I don't like to not finish
what I start," he said.
He started building boats the first year of his mar-
riage in the 1950s, probably to help keep him on the
straight and narrow after abandoning bachelorhood,
though he won't say so. The\ were living in Connecti-


cut along the shore of Long Island Sound, and he was
working in quality control at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft.
He built a 14-foot Blue Jay sloop, which was fine.
But he met another amateur builder who had just fin-
ished an 18-foot tugboat with outboard power, which
intrigued Geiger to the point he built one himself. He
was sunk at that point, bitten and downright devoured
by the boatbuilding bug.
He's been at it ever since, making dinghies and
sailboats up to 26 feet and selling them when he fin-
ished so he could start another: "I never made any
money on them, just enough to build another boat."
In 1974, he started building the boat he'd wanted
all along, a 42-foot Fiberglas ketch. That took him three
years, working in a 44-foot barn he had built for the
purpose, all the while sticking with his job at Pratt &
Whitney. He loved that boat. Still does in absentia.
He retired from his job in 1983, loaded his enthu-
siastic wife and four of their five children aboard and
headed east. The eldest brother was in college and had
to be restrained from dropping out so he could go
along. He was right, as it turned out, for that year on the
Atlantic and cruising Europe was "the greatest time of
all their lives," he recalls.
He kept on sailing after his wife died in 1988,
sometimes alone and sometimes with friends, to the
Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico and the South
American coast. Finally he just outgrew that phase, he
thought, so he sold his boat in 1995.
He tried the Florida Atlantic coast, found it too
hectic for him and came to the Gulf Coast to stay. He
brought his boatbuilding passion along.
One day he chanced across an Islander with an
article about Roger Allen's boatbuilding program in
Cortez, made one phone call and found a maritime
home. "It's a perfect paradise for me," he said.
Altogether he figures he has built about 25 boats of
varying sizes and styles, "a Idbor of love, all of them."


Sam Geiger works on a boat in Cortez. Islander
Photo: Courtesy Roger Allen

He suspects he is probably past the years when he
might be building big boats. He's staying put.
Well, "I may sail to Venezuela with a friend."
That's coming sometime, no hurry, just the way a sailor
does it sometime.


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Phillip and Connie Ferrell and their three boys,
Tyler, Toby and Teddy "Bear" drove to Anna Maria
Island from Harts, W.Va., to fulfill the wish of Tyler
to visit the beach he remembered from a trip to Anna
Maria Island several years earlier.
They have complimentary accommodations and
meals and gifts and plenty of attractions and activities
planned, all thanks to the generosity of Islanders and
local businesses.
It was all made possible by Kids Wish Network,
which granted a "wish" made by Tyler, age 9, who
suffers from a critical heart ailment. The left side of his
heart never formed completely so he has to get along
with only the right side. He has had surgery to re-route
blood vessels and takes medication to help his heart do
its work. He has some learning disabilities, tires easily
and must be constantly hydrated.
But as the Anna Maria Island Privateers learned
Monday evening, Tyler is all boy, all smiles, and very
grateful to have been the focus of their attention on his
first evening on Anna Maria Island.
The Privateers brought their "boat/float" to The
Islander office, where the Ferrells met up with them.
That's when President Eric "A\ Mon" Rushnell wel-
comed Tyler and his family) to the Island, bestowing on
Tyler special Pirate booty, beads, an official Privateer
pin, e e patch, sword and other goodies, and pro-
claimed Tyler honorary captain of the ship.


Privateer Eric "Ax Mon" Rushnell ties on a pirate
scarf for Tyler, who was named "Captain 6f the day"
by the Privateers. Tyler and brothers Toby, 8, and
Teddy "Bear," 3, received Privateer shirts, beads,.
sword, eye patches and more, before their tour of the
Island on the boat/float. Islander Photos: Bonner Joy


Tyler ordered his crew aboard and off they went on
a tour to Coquina Beach. One Privateer noted that as
they passed an open view of the beach and the sun was
just about to set, Tyler commented that he "couldn't
have dreamed a better wish."
Onward they rode on the ship to the Sandbar,
where on disembarking, the Privateers formed a sword
arch "salute" and accompanied the Ferrells to their
table, where they presented Tyler with some Privateer
"spending bounty."
"Ax Mon" invited Tyler to return to captain the
Privateer ship in the future, and a somewhat over-
whelmed little boy "beamed" and rolled his eyes up-
ward.
The family has plans to fish aboard "Findango,"
travel to Mote for a special day behind the scenes, din-
ner at the Anna Maria Oyster Bar, sail on the "Enter-
prise" out of Sarasota, dine at the Beach Bistro and
brunch at Ooh La La! Bistro. They also have an invi-
tation for an ecological tour of the bay with "Capt.
Cathy," one of the Capt. Kim's Boat Tours crew.
The Islander furnished Tyler with a "bunch" of
throwaway cameras, which he will use to "record" his
vacation and the newspaper will compile in a DVD
scrapbook.
It's an incredible "wish come true" for Tyler,
who will celebrate his 10th birthday on the Island on
Friday.


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Wednesday, March 30
8 to 9 a.m. "Good Morning, Longboat Key"
S breakfast and blood drive at the Longboat Key Cham-
ber of Commerce, 6960 Gulf of Mexico Drive,
Longboat Key. Information: 387-9519.
9 a.m. Horseshoe games at Anna Maria City
Hall Park, 10005 Gulf Drive, Anna Maria.
12:30 to 4 p.m. Duplicate bridge at the Anna
Maria Island Community Center, 407 Magnolia Ave.,
Anna Maria. Information: 778-3390. Fee applies.

Thursday, March 31
S 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. AARP tax assistance at the
Island Branch Library, 5701 Marina Drive, Holmes
Beach. Information: (888) 227-7669.
4 to 6 p.m. Longboat Key Chamber of Com-
merce "Meet, Greet & Eat" at the Stella Maris recep-
tion hall, 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key.
Information: 383-2466.

Friday, April 1
8:45 to 10 a.m. Yoga with Dolce Little at the
Anna Maria Island Community Center, 407 Magnolia
Ave., Anna Maria. Information: 778-1908. Fee applies.
2 p.m. "Blue Crush" film showing at Holmes
Beach City Hall, 5801 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach.
Information: 708-5833.
5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Opening reception for the
Anna Maria Island Art League Spring exhibit, 5312
Holmes Blvd., Holmes Beach. Information: 778-2099.
6 to 9p.m. "Art to Go" artists reception at Kaos
Gallery South, 1122 12th St. W., Bradenton. Informa-
tion: 747-0823.
I 8 p.m. Florida West Coast Sympony "Master-
works" at Neel Performing Arts Center, Manatee Com-
S munity College, 5840 26th St. W., Bradenton. Informa-
tion: 953-4252. Fee applies.
8p.m. "Introduction to the Janist Religion" at the
Baha'i Center, 6404 Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton.
Informaiton: 746-0779.

Saturday, April 2
6:50 a.m. Audubon Society field trip to Ft.
DeSoto departing fronr the Post Office parking lot, 824
Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton. Information: 376-0110.
Bring a bag lunch.
8:30 a.m. --Kiwanis club presents "Getting Old
and What to do About It" with author Gene Ciliberti at
Cafe on the Beach, 2200 Gulf Drive S., Bradenton
Beach.
9 a.m. Horseshoe games at Anna Maria City
Hall Park, 10005 Gulf Drive, Anna Maria. Information:
752-5973.
9 a.m. Yoga on the beach with Jasmine Boss at
the Spring Avenue beach access, Anna Maria. Infor-
mation: 778-4977.
.10:15 a.m. Holmes Beach Civic Association
roundtable discussion with Holmes Beach Commis-
sioner Sandy Haas-Martens at the Island Branch Li-


'Coffee house' of Hobbits, artists
A "coffee house" motif with open mike and an appearance by the Island Hobbits was the feature of the Artists
Guild of Anna Maria Island for its March program of "second Fridays." Islander Photo: Nancy Ambrose


brary, 5701 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach.
4 p.m. Harp recital featuring Jufia Martin at the
Episcopal Church of the Annunciation, 4408 Gulf Drive,
Holmes Beach. Information: 778-1638. Fee applies.

Sunday, April 3
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Garden tour of various Island
locations. Information: 778-4868. Fee applies.

Monday, April 4
10:15 a.m. Gulf Coast Writers meeting with
Guest Patrika Vaughn of A Cappella Publishing at the
Island Branch Library, 5701 Marina Drive, Holmes
Beach. Information: 761-9036.
1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Basket-weaving workshop
with Pam McMillen at the Anna Maria Island Commu-
nity Center, 407 Magnolia Ave., Anna Maria. Informa-
tion: 778-1908. Fee applies.

Tuesday, April 5
Noon to 3:30 p.m. Friendly bridge at the Anna
Maria Island Community Center, 407 Magnolia Ave.,
Anna Maria. Information: 778-1908. Fee applies.
1 to 4 p.m. Veterans service officer at the Island
Branch Library, 5701 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach.
Appointments: 749-3030.

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with Pam McMillen at the Anna Maria Island Commu-
nity Center, 407 Magnolia Ave., Anna Maria. Informa-
tion: 778-1908. Fee applies.
4 to 6 p.m. Inquiring Minds discussion group
presents "Marriage and Divorce in the Church" at
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 6608 Marina Drive,
Holmes Beach. Information: 778-4579.

Wednesday, April 6
7 to 8 a.m. Pier regulars meeting at the Anna
Maria City Pier, 100 S. Bay Blvd.,.Anna Maria. Informa-
tion: 778-7062.
9 a.m. Horseshoe games at Anna Maria City
Hall Park, 10005 Gulf Drive, Anna Maria.
Noon Minnesota Club picnic near-the Anna
Maria City Pier, 100 S. Bay Blvd., Anna Maria. Informa-
tion: 794-3573.
Noon Anna Maria Island Woman's Club spring
lunch at the Twin Dolphin Marina Grill, 1200 First Ave.
W., Bradenton. Information: 778-4060.
12:30 to 4 p.m. Duplicate bridge at the Anna
Maria Island Community Center, 407 Magnolia Ave.,
Anna Maria. Information: 778-3390. Fee applies.
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6 to 7:30 p.m. Parenting with love and logic
workshop at the Anna Maria Island Community Center,
407 Magnolia Ave., Anna Maria. Information: 778-
1908. Fee applies; babysitting available by reservation.

Ongoing:
"Beau Jest" at the Island Players, Gulf Drive and
Pine Avenue, Anna Maria, through April 3. Information:
778-5755. Fee applies.
Old master's methodology oil painting class at the
Anna Maria Island Art League, 5312 Holmes Blvd.,
Holmes Beach, through April 6. Information: 778-2099.
Fee applies.
Italo Botti exhibit at Wallace Fine Art, 5350 Gulf
of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, through April 11. Infor-
mation: 387-0746.,
; Basket-weaving classwith Pam McMillen at the
Anna Maria Island Art League, 5312 Holmes Blvd.,
-Holmes Beach, through April 12. Information: 778-
2099. Fee applies.;
AARP tax assistance at the Island Branch Li-
brary, 5701 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach, through April
15. Information: (888) 227-7669.
Youth art classes for ages 5 to 12 at the Anna
Maria Island Art League, 5312 Holmes Blvd., Holmes
Beach, through May 3. Information: 778-2099. Fee
applies. .
S:*"Shells: Gems of the Sea" exhibit at the South
Florida Museum, 201 10th St. W., Bradenton, through
May 8. Information: 746-4131, ext. 37. Fee applies.
"Art to Go" exhibit at Kaos Gallery South, 1122
12th St. W., Bradenton, through May 14. Information:
747-0823.

Upcoming:
"Amadeus" opens at the Riverfront Theatre April
7.
"How to Stay Safe Inside and Outside Your
Home" at Cafe on the Beach April 9.
Garden party at the Ringling Museum of Art April
9.
Leon Merian at the Riverfront Theatre April 9.
Marine science technology & you at Mote Marine
Aquarium April 9.
Audubon Society "mini-bird-a-thon" at the Palma
Sola Causeway April 9.
Community crafts and clutter sale at Gloria Dei
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'Much Ado About Nothing' will open at Crosley
"Shakespeare on the Bay" has scheduled its World War II era reflecting the Crosley's use by the
second season, with "Much Ado About Nothing" Army Air Corp during that period." It is at 8374 N.
April 19-29 on the lawn at the Powel Crosley Mu- Tamiami Trail, Sarasota.
seum. The shows will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Satur-
It is a two-hour show with one intermission, day, 2 p.m. Sunday, no performances Monday.
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Kennel Club, where several members were selected to present a trophy for one of the winning dogs. From left
are Betty Fuess, Shirley Bullard, Pat Fraser, Janet Gnaedinger, Barb Jons and Julie Caron.


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Another active storm season predicted for 2005


It would appear that another active hurricane sea-
son is in store for us in 2005.
Dr. William Gray, a.Colorado State University
meteorologist who has been offering storm forecasts
for the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea for the past
few decades, said he expects there to be 11 named
storms, with six of them becoming hurricanes and three
of them severe.
An average hurricane year sees nine-10 named
storms, six of them becoming hurricanes and two of
them severe.
Gray said the Atlantic is entering into a more in-
tense hurricane pattern for the next 30 years, with more
storms predicted and more intense hurricanes than
we've experienced in the past 40 years.
The reason, he told attendees at the National Hur-
ricane Conference in New Orleans last week, is an in-
crease in salinity and faster-moving ocean currents. As
the current velocity accelerates, the amount of heat in
the water increases, exacerbating storm development.
Gray saidthat a "new era" of storms began in 1995.
"In the past 10 years, we've had more storms than in
any period on record."
Gray and his team of researchers study global fac-
tors to determine Atlantic hurricane activity. Much of
the basis of their predictions comes from-what he calls
the "great ocean conveyor belt," a Moebius strip-like
series of surface arid deep-ocean currents that upwells
in the South Atlantic, flows along the surface to the
Labrador Sea in the North Atlantic, then dives deep and
flows southeast until upwelling in the Indian Ocean.
S The conveyor belt mixes salinity of seawater.
Greater salinity means warmer temperatures and more
Atlantic storms; lesser salinity means colder seawater
and fewer storms.
Another element of the global weather pattern that


Dubious honor for Islander cartoonist
Islander cartoonist Jack Egan was recently honored by
the newspaper stafffor being named to the Top 100 list
ofAnna Maria Island taxpayersfor the 2003-04 fiscal
year. Egan made the list at No. 100. It was an honor
that Egan said he would happily give up toisomeone
else, and was reluctantly proud that his tax payments
help support the massive bureaucracy of county
government. Islander Photo: Rick Catlin


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Gray and his team monitor to make storm predictions
are weather patterns in.Africa.-When the region there
is wetter than usual, hurricane formation in the Atlan-
tic is generally increased.
Another key element in Gray's forecast is the tem-
perature of the waters off the United Kingdom and in
the western Pacific Ocean.
Gray said the North Atlantic was warmer in the
1950s and 1960s, a period of time that saw more tropi-
cal storms in the Atlantic. Starting in the 1970s, water
temperatures dropped, as did storm activity.
In the mid-1990s, though, the water began to warm
and storms began to form.
'"It's shifting again," Gray said, "and we're enter-
ing a higher mode of hurricane activity, especially with
major storms."
Other factors Gray and his group take into account
in the forecast include a high-pressure ridge located
near the Azores in the North Atlantic, temperature and
pressure readings in West Africa, Caribbean sea-level
pressure readings, temperature readings about 54,000
feet above Singapore and wind speed globally at about
40,000 feet.
All it takes is a measure of the 2004 hurricane sea-
son to get a glimpse of what is in store for us in the
years ahead. Last summer and fall saw 15 named
storms, nine of which became hurricanes and six of
them were major storms. Four of those hurricanes criss-
crossed Florida.
This year also has a 69-percent chance of a major
storm making landfall in the United States, Gray said.
His next storm update will be Friday, and he said
his forecast may rise. However, the probabilities of
Florida being hammered again are slight, Gray added.

Manatee deaths continue
Manatee deaths off Southwest Florida have risen
in number to 43, apparently caused by the lingering red
tide outbreak off the coast.
Most of the sea cow deaths have occurred in Lee
and Charlotte counties, although one dead manatee was
found in Sarasota Bay off Longboat Key.
Red tide, although a naturally occurring phenom-
enon, occasionally bursts into bloom, with an accom-
panying aerosol toxin that is irritating to air-breathing
creatures. Manatees, being at water level to the red tide
toxins, are adversely impacted by the bloom.
Another problem for the slow-moving marine
mammals resluts from eating seagrasses that are cov-
ered with the red tide microorganism.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conser-.
vation Commission, "The Florida red tide bloom off
the coast of Southwest Florida is still present along-
shore between Tampa Bay and Sarasota Bay. Along-


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shore samples collected last week from the bloom area
contained very low to medium concentrations of
Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism.
"No positive counts were found south of Sarasota
Bay," the FWC spokesperson said. "No offshore
samples were received, but dead fish were reported
early in the week offshore of Fort Myers. Dead fish and
birds (two pelicans) were also reported in lower Tampa
Bay. No reports of respiratory irritation were received.
Additional dead manatees were recovered this week;
cause of death is suspected to be red tide related. South-
westerly winds last weekend could contribute to more
noticeable effects, such as fish kills or respiratory irri-
tation, at the beaches and coastal areas."
It's important to remember that the red tide. bloom
is spotty; one stretch of beach may be a sneeze zone,
but go a mile or so up or down the coast and it may be
toxin-free. A good tip would be to take a walk and find
your "perfect" (red tide free) spot.

African dust coming to us soon
Actually, dust from Africa has been a problem for
hundreds of years for Floridians. Today, though, it has
been the focus of scientists who are not discounting the
impact the pesticide-riddendust may have on our atmo-
sphere.
According to the Tampa Tribune, scientists are
finding more and more herbicides, pesticides and fer-
tilizer contained in dust samples that they have found
originated in the Sahara Desert.
And a Mote Marine Laboratory researcher has
found bacteria that are usually found only in desert en-
vironments in sea urchins off Panama.
Could the dust from Africa prompt red tide blooms
off Florida? Some scientists haven't rejected the pos-
sibility.
Nonetheless, the dust is a potential human health
problem. As a 2004 U.S. Geological Survey report
stated, "It is clear that a-very diverse population of
microorganisms, including fungi, bacteria and viruses
is moving. vast distances in Earth's atmosphere, and 20
percent to 30 percent consists of species capable of
causing disease in a wide range of organisms, includ-
ing trees, crop plants and animals."
The Africa-Florida conveyor isn't the only such
dust transfer worldwide. The Nevada area is a source
of dust to the northern Pacific ocean and, eventually,
Asia. Asia contributes its share of the crud to the Pa-
cific Northwest. South America ships its airborne par-
ticles to Australia; that continent passes it along to the
islands in the Pacific. And on it goes.
Gas masks, anyone?

Sandscript factoid
It seems the wily octopus has developed a means
to literally walk away from trouble.
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley
have noticed that two species of octopi have demon-
strated a technique of wrapping six of their arms -
legs? around their bodies while backing away frorr
bad things on their remaining tentacles.
The researchers told the Associated Press that th(
critters "looked like a clump of algae tiptoeing away'
as they did their little underwater dance.


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Mar30 4:14 1.1 6:32 1.0 1:39 2.4 9:43 -0.3"
Mar 31 2:21 2.4 11:07 -0.3
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THE ISLANDER N MARCH 30, 2005 6 PAGE 25


Kings starting to show offshore, plus mackerel


By Capt. Mike Heistand
Fishing doesn't get a whole lot better-than what's
going on out there right now.
Grouper and, snapper continue to be excellent
catches offshore right now for the bottom fishers.
Mackerel are starting to hit big-time offshore as
well, and kingfish are starting to show up on their
migration and should start to really hit very, very
soon.
Backwater action for redfish is still great, as are
trout catches. Snook are also starting to hit better and
better as the water temps gradually rise.
And sheepshead are either at their peak or just a
few days away from prime size and hunger potential -
from either the fish or human perspective.
Capt. Thorn Smith at Angler's Repair on Cortez
Road said he's been working in Sarasota Bay of late
and catching trout, redfish and snook, with the reds
going to 29 inches and tipping the scales at better than
11 pounds. He's also putting his charters onto flounder
to 20 inches in length, with shrimp being the best bait
for the hottest action.
Bill Lowman at Island Discount Tackle at
Catchers Marina in Holmes Beach said mackerel and
kingfish have started to move offshore, and action
should keep getting better and better in the next few
weeks. Snook fishing in the bays has been excellent,
and there are lots of redfish being brought back from
Sarasota Bay.
Bob Kilb at the Rod & Reel Pier said pier fishers
are reeling in lots of sheepshead, redfish, bluefish,
mackerel and pompano, but the sheepies still are No.
1 for the pier, with mackerel coming in a close second.
Sounds like a horse race, doesn't it?
Cliff Alcorn at the Anna Maria City Pier said
mackerel, sheepshead and some small sharks were the
best action for the pier last week, with mack attacks
getting better daily.
Dave Johnson at Snead Island Crab House said
redfish are the hot ticket in Terra Ceia and Miguel bays,
plus plenty of mackerel and snapper from the Sunshine
Skyway Bridge area of Tampa Bay. Sheepshead are
still thick and hungry around the docks of the Manatee
River, he added.
Capt. Rick Gross on Fishy Business out of
Catchers Marina in Holmes Beach said his charters
caught a good mix of species last week: Mackerel,
trout, redfish and some good-size snook, plus he's find-
ing that whitebait is starting to show up in larger
schools now.
At Perico Island Bait and Tackle, reports by
wade fishers for trout and redfish on the lower tides in
the backwater are still great. Snook fishing is starting
to pick up, and boating fishers have said there are "tons
of mackerel" by the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa
Bay.
At Skyway Bait and Tackle, reports include lots
coming out of redfish in Terra Ceia Bay, plenty of
mackerel near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, and big,
big sheepshead from near any of the structures in the
bays.
Capt, Tom Chaya on the Dolphin Dreams in
Holmes Beach out of Catchers said he's finding lots of
mackerel, cobia and bluefish out in the Gulf, plus red-
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Larry Mahoney with a multi-spotted redfish he caught while fishing with Capt. Ray Markham in Terra Ceia Bay.


Capt. Larry McGuire of Show Me The Fish
Charters said he's finding fishing "to be hot right now
in between the fronts. Our clients have been consis-
tently catching red grouper to 25 pounds, gag grouper
to 20 pounds, limit catches of mangrove snapper to 6
pounds, plus lane and yellowtail snapper, triggerfish
and sheepshead." Capt. Larry said he's been out to 40
to 130 feet of water in the Gulf, using live pinfish,
grunts, frozen Spanish sardines or live shrimp for the
snapper,..,
Capt. Ray Markham said he put winter Longboat
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well over 100 fish ranging from 14- to 24-inches, plus
grouper, nearly 30 bluefish to 3 pounds, a number of
redfish to 28 inches, snook to 24 inches and flounder.
That would have been enough, but at day's end, I spot-
ted the first pair of tarpon I have seen this season near
Port Manatee."
Capt. Sam Kimball on Legend charters out of
Annie's Bait & Tackle in Cortez said he's getting into
lots of gag grouper, yellowtail, mangrove and lane
snapper, as well as grunts, triggerfish and sea bass.
Capt. Zach Zacharias on the Dee-Jay II out of
Annie's said mackerel are coming on strong for his
charters, as well as redfish and trout in the backwater,
plus snook action is really starting to turn on.
On my boat Magic, we caught redfish to 27 inches
in length, snook to 26 inches, trout to 20 inches, snap-
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want. Whitebait is plentiful at the Skyway in Tampa
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Good luck and good fishing.
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Morgan Stanley opens Little League season with victories


By Kevin Cassidy
Islander Reporter
Morgan Stanley opened the Anna Maria Island
AAA Little League regular season with victories over
Duncan Real Estate on Monday, March 21, and West
Manatee Fire District on Wednesday, March 23, to
serve notice to the rest of the league that they're the
team to beat in 2005.
Monday's opening-night victory was sparked by
strong pitching performances by William Brusso and
Matt Bauer. Brusso started the game on the mound and
limited Duncan Real Estate to three hits and one run in
almost three innings of work. Bauer finished the game
<- on the mound after relieving Brusso with two outs and
two on in the top of the third inning.
Austin Wash led off the game for Duncan by
-reaching on an error, but he was erased at second when
Jake Rappe grounded into a fielder's choice to short.
Brusso struck out the next two batters to end the inning
unscathed.
The second inning saw Brusso give up a single to
left field by Glenn Bower before bouncing back with
three consecutive strikeouts to keep the game scoreless.
Duncan pitcher Troy Kozewski was also effective, with
two shutout innings. He allowed only a single to Zach
Evans in the second inning while striking out three.
Duncan took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third when
they touched Brusso for one run. Daniel Pimental led
off the inning with a single and moved to second on a
passed ball. Pimental got cut down trying to steal third.
before Alex Hall and Wash reached via walk. Rappe
Stopped out to Brusso on the mound for the second out,
but Kozewski singled to center to bring Hall home with
the first run of the game. Bauer relieved Brusso on the
mound and induced a ground out by Kyle Parsons to
end the inning.
Bauer helped his own cause in the bottom of the
inning when he drew a one-out walk. Three passed
balls.later, Bauer slid across home plate with the tying
run.
Morgan Stanley took the lead for good in the bot-
tom of the fourth inning when Giorgio Gomez and
Katie Hunt drew one-out walks. Gomez and Hunt
moved to second and third after a passed ball and eas-
ily scored on Blake Rivers' two-run single to right field
for a 3-1 lead.
Morgan Stanley added an insurance run in the
fourth when Bauer led off with a double down the
right-field line and scored when Zach Even's ground
ball was booted for an error.
Duncan threatened in the top of the sixth when
Kowewski and Glen Bower worked Bauer for walks,
but Bauer struck out the last batter to end the game with
Morgan Stanley on top by a 4-1 score.
Bauer got the pitching win with three scoreless
innings that saw him allow one hit while striking out
five. Bauer also led the way at the plate with a double
and two runs scored, while Evans and Rivers each con-
tributed one hit apiece in the victory.
Pimental, Glenn Bower, Kozewski and Trevor
SBystrom each managed a single for Duncan in the loss.

Morgan Stanley 15, WMFD 7
Morgan Stanley jumped out to an 11-2 lead over
WMFD through four innings, before withstanding a
late rally that saw WMFD score five runs in the bottom
of the fifth inning. Zach Even was the winning pitcher,
allowing one hit and six runs while striking out seven
batters. Even also led the way at the plate, going 2 for
4, including a triple and three RBIs, while Daniel
Janisch added a pair of singles and four runs scored.
Lead-off hitter Martine Miller reached base and scored
all four times at bat with a single and three walks and
Matt Bauer singled and scored three runs for Morgan
Stanley. Sarah Howard added a single and onerun for
Morgan Stanley, which also received single runs from
Kyle Parsons and Zach Evans in the victory.
Joey Hutchinson led the WMFD attack with a
single and three runs scored, while Tommy Price
singled and scored once. Mikey Dolan added a single
for WMFD, which also received runs from Elijah
Toussaint and Hunter Parrish in the loss.

Islanders team up, capture Sarasota
Senior tennis title
Bradenton Beach resident Richard Gellman and


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during T-ball action at the Anna Maria Island Community Center. Islander Photos: Kevin Cassidy


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Sports
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 26
Holmes Beach's Glen Schwanberg teamed up to cap-
ture the Sarasota Senior Tennis League's doubles
championship in the 70s division. The league, which
consists of more than 1,000 players, started back in No-
vember 2004 and played through March 2005. Gellman
and Schwanberg ran away with the title by compiling
an impressive 35-13 record, four full games ahead of
second place Longboat Key Country Club's 26-16
record.

Horseshoe winners
Winners in the March 26 horseshoe games were
Bob. Lee of Anna Maria City and Adin Shank of
Bradenton. Runners-up were Ron Pepka of Bradenton
and Herb Puryear of Anna Maria City.
The March 23 games were rained out.
The weekly contests get under way every Wednes-
day and Saturday at 9 a.m. at Anna Maria City Hall
Park, 10005 Gulf Drive. There are no membership fees
and everyone is welcome.


Anna Maria Island Little League


baseball schedule
AAA League (ages 9-12)
April 4 6:30 p.m. WMFD vs. Morgan
April 6 6:30 p.m. WMFD vs. Duhcar
April 8 7 p.m. Morgan Stanley vs
April 11 6:30 p.m. Duncan vs. WMFD


AA League (ages 8-10)
April 5 5:30 p.m.
April 5 7 p.m.
April 7 5:30 p.m.
April 7 7 p.m.
T-Ball (ages 5-7)
April 8 5:30 p.m.
April 9 9 a.m.
April 9 10a.m.


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Morgan Stanley vs. Cannons
Betsy Hills vs. Bark
Betsy Hills vs. Morgan Stanley
Cannons vs. Bark

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Island Biz


Amy is two
Amy Welsh of the A2 Aveda Lifestyle Salon and Spa
in the Island Fitness Center in Holmes Beach is all
smiles as she has returned to her roots. Islander
Photo: Rick Catlin

Amy is too, two much
Amy Welsh couldn't be happier. She grew up on
Longboat Key and the Island and always dreamed of
the day she could come back to the Island lifestyle.with
her own business.
That day is here..Amy is now the proud owner of
A2 Aveda Lifestyle Salon and Spa at 5315 Gulf Drive
in the Island Fitness Center in Holmes Beach.
"I always wanted to come back here. This is such
"a great place for me and my kids. I couldn't be happier,
especially with what we're doing at the salon," said a
smiling Amy.
After traveling throughout Europe and the Carib-
bean as a salon consultant and trainer, Amy figured it
was time to "return home" as her daughters got older
and what better place to raise her two environmentally
conscious daughters than her hometown slice of "Old
Florida."
"Once you leave here, you can't wait to get back,"
said Amy. "Now that we're back, we're not going to
leave, and what we're doing at the salon is just fantas-
tic.
"We're not your mom's beauty salon. We're going
to be fashion-forward and environmentally friendly and
conscious."
Indeed, Amy offers only the natural herbal prod-
ucts manufactured by Aveda, one of the world leaders
in environmentally friendly skin and hair products for
salons.
But A2 is not just a salon with quality services by
experienced professionals.
Amy also offers pedicures, manicures, facials and
massages in separate rooms from the styling salon, and
has another area for body and massage treatments.
Dedicated to the Aveda environmental lifestyle,
Amy is looking to give back something to the Island
environment.
With Earth Month coming up, Amy will be donat-
ing time and services to the local Reef Relief organi-
zation.
"We've definitely made a commitment to give
back something to this wonderful community. People
have really supported us and we, like Aveda, are dedi-
cated to the environment."
To reach Amy and A2 Salon, call 778-5400.

The best in yacht

repairs, restoration
Holmes Beach resident Tommy Solomon has re-
located the headquarters of his Tommy Solomon Yacht
Repair and Restoration company from Maryland to
Holmes Beach.
Tommy provides custom mobile repair and resto-
ration services to yacht owners and brings more than
20 years experience in the business for area yacht own-
ers.
"I'm really excited to move my headquarters here,"
said Tommy. "This Island is really special. It's a great
place for boaters and yachting and a great place to live.
And it brings me closer to my clientele. I'm able to
travel all over southwest-Florida for my clients."
Tommy's clientele include the U.S. Coast Guard
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and British Columbia for ;;:
yacht restoration. '
Tommy's not just
limited to Fiberglas re-- :. "
pair. He's an expert on
gelcoat repair and refin-
ishing surfaces, deck re-
bedding and seaming, wet
deck and core replace-
ment, wet bottom and
peeling, osmotic blister-
ing repair, bottom coat Solomon
protection, major and mi-
nor structural repairs, hull retrofits and refit conver-
sions, project management, port replacement, leak de-
tection, non-skid decking and hull extensions.
Fully insured and bonded, Tommy's services are
available for any size yacht, sailboat or power boat.
In addition to on-site work, Tommy also has haul-
away capabilities.
"I like to. think I can handle any type of yacht or
sailboat repair or restoration," he said with a laugh.
Tommy was featured in the March 19, 2004, issue
of Ira Black's "Nor'easter" magazine for his restoration
of a 1976 42-foot Sparkman and Stephens yacht and
was profiled in the June 2003 issue of "Soundings"
magazine for his work on an 18-foot Sea Otter.
For more information on Tommy Solomon Yacht
Repair and Restoration, call 993-3664, or visit his Web
site online at www.TommySolomon.com.


Sunny chef
Darrell Mizzell, a graduate of the Culinary Institute
ofAmerica, is the new head chef at the Sun House
Restaurant and Bar at Bridge Walk in Bradenton
Beach. Islander Photo Courtesy of Sun House.

Sun shines bright

on this house
Award-winning Florida chef Darrell Mizell has
brought his legendary culinary experience to the Sun
House Restaurant and Bar at BridgeWalk in
Bradenton Beach.
He was formerly the.head chef at Christopher's
Tropical Fine Dining on Lido Beach and was the ca-
tering chef at Mattison's American Bistro and Cater-
ing in Sarasota.
A" graduate of the Culinary Institute of America,
Darrell has won five culinary awards and has more
than 25 years experience in Florida cooking. He was
instrumental in developing Floribbean cuisine, a blend
of foods and cooking styles from the Caribbean,
Florida and the tropics.
Floribbean cuisine features fresh regional ingredi-
ents and the fusion of fresh herbs and spices.
"I'm really looking forward to meeting people at
Sun House and creating some exciting new dishes for
everyone to enjoy," said Darrell.
The Sun House is open from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
daily, including Saturday and Sunday.
The restaurant recently introduced lower menu
-prices-with an "early diner's-special"-from-4 p.m..to 6


p.m.
For more information call the Sun House at 782-
1137.

Welcome new businesses
The Anna Maria Island Chamber of Commerce
held its monthly business card exchange Feb. 23 at the
Island Chiropractic Center at 3612 E. Bay Drive in
Holmes Beach and welcomed the following new mem-
bers:

Accommodations:
The Magnolia Apartments (Amanda Edge) at 105
Bridge St. in Bradenton Beach.

Financial:
Morgan Stanley investments (David Zaccagnino)
at 1401 Manatee Ave. W. in Bradenton.

Real Estate:
Edge Sharff Properties (Amanda Edge) at 105
Bridge St. in Bradenton Beach.
Goldstar Properties (Paul Sharff) at 105 Bridge
St. in Bradenton Beach.
RE/MAX Excellence (Andrew Vac) at 510 Bay
Isles Road on Longboat Key.

Restaurant:
Sharkey's'Steak and Sea Grill (Anton Lulgiuri)
at.2519 Gulf Drive N. in Bradenton Beach.

Professional services:
Island Vision Care (Dr. Douglas Black) at 5350
Gulf of Mexico Drive on Longboat Key.

Services:
Anna Maria Care ( Monique Saplenya) at 2202
Avenue B in Bradenton Beach.
Bella Babies and More (Laura Manning) at 5345
Gulf Drive No. #400 in Holmes Beach.
Loving Pause Pet Massage (Mady Iseman).in
Anna Maria.
NXGEN Payment Services (Dennis Hassell) at
9423 Portside Terrace in Bradenton.,
RHOCS Inc. (Chris Rivera) in Anna Maria.
Snips Hair Design (Pam Di Vlio) at 9807 Gulf
Drive in Anna Maria.
Travel Now (Barb Murphy) at 922 79th St. W. in
Bradenton.

Convenience Store:
Pine Avenue General Store (Sandra Oldham) at
307 Pine Ave. in Anna Maria.

Island property transactions
401 Manatee Ave., Holmes Beach, a 5,010 slur office
building built in 1979 on a 32,000 sf lot was sold 03/17/05,
Benderson to Sanders Realty for $1,025,000.
4003 Fifth Ave., Holmes Beach a 2,012 sfla / 2,840 sfur
3bed/3bath/2car condo built in 2003 was sold 03/15/05,
Gaprop Inc to Hood for $899,000; list $899,000.
503 Manatee Ave., Holmes Beach, a 2,031 sfur office
building built in 1980 on a 32,000 sf lot was sold 03/17/05,
Inland Southeast Holmes Beach LLC to GHG&D Holmes
Beach for $835,000.
.620 Dundee Lane, Holmes Beach, a 1,840 sfla / 2,626
sfur 3bed/3bath/2car canalfront home built in 1968 on a
95x115 lot was sold 03/15/05, Quade to- Manning for
$759,900; list $815,000.
5200 Gulf Drive, unit 202, Holmes Beach, Martinique
South, a 1,057 sfla / 1,169 sfur 2bed/2bath gulffront condo
was sold 03/17/05, Nagy to Bowes for $650,000; list
$679,000.
606 Ambassador Lane, Holmes Beach, a 1,380 sfla./
1,912 sfur 3bed/2bath/1car home built in 1966 on a 85x105
lot was sold 03/16/05, 1399915 Ontario Inc. to Westray for
$588,000; list $588,000.
408 Poinsettia Ave., Anna Maria, a 1,502 sfla / 2910 sfur
4bed/3.5bath/2car home built in 1984 on a 6,798 sq/ft lot was
sold 03/14/05, Loewen to Jiro Associates LLC for $527,500;
list $545,000.
201 35th St., No. 1, Holmes Beach, Anna Maria Beach
Place, a Gulfview condo was sold 03/14/05,.AMBP Proper-
ties to Nugent for $490,000.
6005 Gulf Drive, No. 118, Holmes Beach, Playa
Encantada, a 1,011 sfla / 1,179 sfur 2bed/2bath condo built
in 1980 was sold 03/16/05, McLaughlin to Sturtz for
$435,000; list $469,000.
201 35th St., No. 2., Holmes Beach, Anna Maria Beach
Place, a Gulfview condo was sold 03/18/05, AMBP Proper-
ties to Leonard for $385,000.
Compiled by Jesse Brisson, broker/associate at Gulf-
Bay Realty of Holmes Beach. He can be reached at (941)
713-4755 direct, or at Gulf-Bay (941) 778-7244. Current Is-
land real estate transactions may also be viewed on the Web
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SOFA BED, QUEEN, like new! Dark blue/green
print. Best offer. 7711 Fourth Ave. W., Pine Bay
Forest. (941) 761-0282.

CHERRY COMPUTER HUTCH, new $250, was
$500; three-piece wicker set, dresser, standing mir-
ror and night table, like new, $100; maple, full-size
antique spindle bed, boxspring and mattress, good
condition, $250. Jennifer, (941) 778-7672.

STERLING SILVER JEWELRY at Cosmic Sense
Jewelry, booth 228-230 at Red Barn Flea Market.
(941) 745-9010. 15 percent off with ad. Visit us at
www.Floridasilverjewelry.com. Free shipping.

GIRL SCOUT COOKIES available at The Islander,
assorted varieties, $3.50 box. All proceeds paid to
local Girl Scout troop.

FREE DELIVERY to your home or condo: Shrimp,
crabs, native fish. Prompt delivery'to your door. Call
James Lee, (941) 795-1112 or 704-8421.


HOUSE READY TO explode! Yard Sale, 213 Peri-
winkle Plaza, Anna Maria. Saturday, April 2, 9am-1 pm.
Tons of stuff including 1989 Buick Station Wagon.

ROSER THRIFT SHOP: Open Tuesday, Thursday,
9:30am-2pm. Saturday, 9am-noon. Always sales
racks. Pine Avenue, Anna Maria. (941) 779-2733.

YARD SALE: 9am-4pm, Saturday, April 2. House-
hold items, furniture and more! 8006 Marina Drive,
Holmes Beach.

END OF SEASON clearance: Island-style accesso-
ries and furnishings, jewelry, books, garden d6cor
and linens. Essence of Time, 5306 Holmes Blvd.,
Holmes Beach. (941) 778-9396.

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BINGO! Annie Silver Community Center. Play 7pm
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ments. Everyone welcome! Smoke free. 103 23rd
St., Corner of Avenue C and 23rd Street, Bradenton
Beach. For information, call (941) 778-1915.

PILATES ON THE beach. Ideal for beginners. 7-
8am. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. For more
information, call Julia, (941) 778-1416.

-ANNA MARIA ISLAND SCREENSAVER! Experience
the Island on your computer desktop. Available at The
Islander, or purchase online or order by mail. $12 PC
or $1.5 Mac. www.robertsondesignstudio.com.

NEED A GIFT? Artists will design and create unique
art, stained glass, paintings, painted furniture and
more! Restless Natives, Island Shopping Center,
5314 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach. (941) 779-2624.

BUTTERFLY PARK BENEFIT: Purchase a personal-
ized brick in the Anna Maria Island Butterfly Park. Two
lines, $40. Three lines, $50. Pick up form at The Is-
lander or call (941) 518-4431 for more information.

FREE GUN LOCK. Yes, free. Just for the asking.
Courtesy of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conser-
vation Commission. Free at The Islander newspa-
per office, 5404 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach.
Don't be sorry, be safe.



HOME INSPECTION BUSINESS for sale. 18-years
experience. Complete on-the-job certified training.
One full year's support free. Probable earnings
$100,000 first year, $200,000 with two employees.
Exceptional opportunity for a man or Woman to run
from home office located anywhere. $75,000,
$45,000 down and seller will finance $30,000, or
$60,000 cash. (941) 778-4606 or (407) 467-8666.

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ing a canal. Updated, furnished 2BR/2BA condo in move-in
condition. Heated pool and spa, tennis courts and lush tropi-
cal surroundings makes this a perfect is-
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GOLF FRONT CONDO
S2BR/2BA furnished condo directly on
; *i the golf course in excellent condition,
W screened lanai and lush tropical sur-
roundings. Heated pool and spa, tennis
court, sauna, clubhouse, exercise room
Sand billiards. Close to beach, shopping
and hospital. $189,900. IB#505061.

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Easily converted to 3BR. Living area flows to extended
screen porch for true Florida entertaining. Professionally
landscaped garden area with heated pool for hours of en-
joyment with private outdoor hot and cold shower. Open
decks on all levels with stunning views of the bay and Gulf
sunsets. A must see! Asking $679,000.
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LOST: CANON S400 digital camera with black
case. Old Bridge Street area, Bradenton Beach.
(941) 779-0761. Reward!

LOST: WOMAN'S SEIKO watch. Silver with blue face.
Lost-in Holmes Beach near 3200 Gulf Drive on Friday,
March 18. Please, call (941) 778-3962. Reward!


CRITTER SITTER nine years in pet care. 24 years
as an Island resident. Lots of TLC for your beloved
pets with in-home visits. (941) 778-6000.

ADULT CATS in desperate need of loving homes.
All are current on vaccines. All applicants screened.
Please call (941) 922-0774.


1992 LINCOLN TOWN Car. Mint condition. Must
see! $2,000. (941) 778-2665.

GARAGE NEEDED FOR storage of very small car.
Prefer annual, but will settle for May through October.
Also, 1959 Triumph TR3 for sale. (941) 725-0376.

2003 INDIAN VINTAGE motorcycle. 100-cubic inch
engine. Custom leather, stainless-steel polishing. 2,000
miles. (941.) 727-1919 or (479) 206-0880. $23,500.

1996 CHALLENGER 35-foot travel trailer: Full
kitchen, central heat and air conditioning, roll-out
awning, one full-size bed, one studio couch. Super
clean and very nice. $10,500. Call (941) 761-3742.

1999 CHEVROLET TRACKER: Two-door convert-
ible, seats four, V-4, five-speed, new tires and bat-
tery. Cold air, CD player. Dark blue with pinstripes.
Runs great! Only 52,700 miles. Terrific Island car!
$4,495 or best offer. (941) 752-3817.

2001 PT CRUISER: 50,000 miles. Purple, sunroof,
ice-cold air, leather interior. Garage kept. $9,500.
(941) 778-3875.




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porch and extra storage. New owner can sell units separately. $784,500.
4 UNITS ANNA MARIA Some with bay view. One 2BR, three 1 BR,
room for pool. Great investment. $849,000. OWNER FINANCING.
TOWNHOUSE VILLA 3BR/3BA with two screened balconies and open
balconies on greenbelt adjacent to bay. Spotless, tastefully decorated.
Pool/gazebo. $470,000.
VACATION, SEASONAL & ANNUAL RENTALS
101 PALM New Luxury Villas
5508C MARINA DRIVE 778-0807 800-956-0807
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Several possibilities. Motel/condo
use. Presently six turnkey units with
small heated pool. $2,999,000.

Mike 800-367-1617
SNor..an 941-778-6696
N1orman i 3101 GULF DRIVE
Realty INC HOLMES BEACH
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THE ISLANDER 0 MARCH 30, 2005 N PAGE 31


SAL .A N D ER C LA SSI-IE A D *


1990 ECONOLINE 150 VAN, cold air conditioning,
has towing package. Ready for travel. Runs great!
$1,800, or best offer. (941) 778-1102.


SAILBOAT: 12-FOOT Butterfly class with trailer.
Originally over $4,000. Very good condition.
$1,200. (941) 794-0970.

1995 EVINRUDE 200 HP. All cables, control box,
key switch, propeller. Less than 100 hours on re-
build. $3,500. (941) 723-1107.

2002 SEA RAY 182 Bowrider, like new! 18 foot, 6
inches. 190-hp stern drive, seats seven, tons of fun!
Call .(941) 778-6234, or e-mail
kendra@presswoodlaw.com. $13,750 or best offer.


LET'S GO FISHING! Call Capt. Mike Heistand on
the charter boat "Magic." Full or half day backwa-
ter fishing. USCG licensed. Ice, bait, tackle pro-
vided. (941) 723-1107.


CHILD SITTER AND PET SITTER. Ninth-grade
male looking for a job. Available after school and
weekends. Call Zachary, (941) 779-9783.

NEED A CHILD or pet sitter? Call one number and
get connected to two wonderful sitters! Tiffany and
Trish. (941),778-3275 or 779-0964.

BABYSITTER: RED CROSS babysitting and first-
aid certified. Enjoys playing with kids. Call
Alexandra, (941) 778-5352.


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Sales Associate Realtor
941-447-9988
kimberlyClarkrrealtor@ yahoo.com


SPENCER'S SKIM SCHOOL for beginners and in-
termediates. Free.skimboard use with lessons. $10
per half-hour lesson, three lessons recommended.
Local teen, team-competitor. Call (941) 778-0944.

PETSITTER, DOG WALKER, 13-year-old mother's
helper, odd j6bs. Call Kendall at. (941) 779-9783 or
779-9803.

EXPERIENCED BABYSITTER with CPR license, 14
years old, friendly and responsible. (941) 778-2469.

13-YEAR-OLD girl will babysit all ages in your
home. Reasonable rates and knows CPR. Call Jes-,
sica Lord, (941) 747-2495.

BABYSITTER: Responsible 10th-grader, great with
kids, first-aid certified. Charlotte, (941) 756 5496.

NEED A BABYSITTER? Call Felicia or Kari, (941)
761-1569 or 730-5889. Both Red Cross certified.

SANDBAGS DELIVERED: Be prepared. Local teen
will make and deliver sandbags to your Island resi-
dence; Call Spencer, (941) 778-0944 to order.

P A I TE
REAL ESTATE: Tired of paying office fees? Two
experienced agents needed for fast-paced, high
traffic Island office. Top splits, sign-on bonus. Call
Wedebrock Real Estate today! "Personalized, not
franchised." Call Joe Pickett, (941) 383-5543.

NOW HIRING ALL positions. Rotten hours, rotten pay,
Apply at Rotten Ralph's Waterfront Restaurant, 902 S.
Bay Blvd., Anna Maria, or call (941) 778-3953.

CHECK US OUT AT www.islander.org !




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-Holmes Beach


SIDE-BY-SIDE LAKEFRONT
PROPERTIES IN ANNA MARIA!
BUY ONE OR BOTH!


BIG LEAGUE HAIRCUTS: 74th Street and Cortez
Road, needs full/part-time stylists/barbers. $9/hour
and/or 45 percent commission. (941) 798-3854 or
apply in person.

SSALES CLERK FULL/part-time. Apply in person at
the Beach Shop, 4000 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach,
Manatee Public Beach. Ask for Rosie or Dee.

HOUSEKEEPER: 18-unit hotel. Must speak En-
glish, have own transportation, weekends a must.
(941) 778-1010, ext. 0.

BUSY CONTINENTAL RESTAURANT hiring full- or
part-time servers for lunch, Sunday brunch and din-
ner. Wednesday-Sunday. Apply at 5406 Marina
Drive, Holmes Beach, or call (941) 778-5320.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Meet interesting people,
learn the history of the Island. Anna.Maria Island
Historical Museum, 402 Pine Ave;, Anna Maria.
(941) 778-0492.

HELP WANTED: FULL/part-time, driver, lifting, vari-
ous duties. Key Cleaners, (941) 383-1222.

SECURITY HELP WANTED: Part-time afternoon,
evening hours. Longboat condo association. Call
(941) 383-5568, ext. 2.


KATHY & MIKE'S cleaning service. Delivering a
standard of excellence for all your cleaning needs.
Residential and rental clients welcome. For a free
estimate, please call (941) 722-4358.

ISLANDER CLASSIFIED: The best news in town
and the best results from service advertising! -


o Mike

Norman *

Realty IN
3101 Gulf Drive,
Holmes Beach, FL 34217
(941) 778-6696 Office
(941) 778-4364 Fax
Kathy Caserta 1-800-367-1617 Toll-Free
(941) 778-6943 Home
Realtor, GRI, CRS -(941) 704-2023 Cell



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Gabe Buky Best ream! Charles Buky
941-374-5772 Best Properties! 941-228-6086


Sweeping Gulf views from this
3BR/2BA home with a brand
new pool. Perfect family beach
house on desirable north end.
Just steps to the beach.
Offered at $1,295,000.
Call Green Real Estate today!

nreen .


REAL ESTA
OF ANNA MI


302 North Shore Dr- 3+BR/3BA with 300 North Shore Dr 4BR/2.5BA du-
1BR/1 BA apartment. Five-car garage, plex with five-car garage. Private open
one short block to'beach, direct beach decks, large picture windows, great
access, peeks of Gulf. Move-in condi- views of lake. Asking $750,000. MLS
tion. Seawall and dock. Zoned duplex. 502297.
Extras! Asking $850,000. MLS
502321.
Call Stephanie Bell, (941) 920-5156 or Frank Migliore, (941) 778-2307.
DUPLEX WEST OF
SOLD! GULF DRIVE $685,000
; ..-.. .s. ."' Call for details,
,, 1 -^.. -: + Stephanie Bell, Broker
778-2307 or 920-5156.
MLS# 103353.


For fu ffr cllorviituso lne!


BAYFRONT HOME with 245 feet on the water.
4BR/3BA and extra large lot. All new and
awesome views. $2,895,000.


941 778-0455
9906 Gulf Drive
Anna Maria
www.greenreal.com


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ARIA 1, ,,

Ken Jackson, 778-6986
Kathy Geeraerts, 778-0072
Maureen Dahms, 778-0542
LaRae Regis, 779-1858


SERVING THE AREA SINCE 1970


MLS


BAYFRONT HOME, 3BR/2.5BA. $1,650,000.
There are 35 homes for sale that are canal, bay or
beachfront, starting at $479,000.
(941) 387-1864
Coldwell Banker Previews
201 Gulf of Mexico Drive Longboat Key, FL 34229






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SERVICES ContinuedComtinue, d ~vT


RANDY'S REMODELING SERVICE: Demo, car-
pentry, drywall, finishing texture, windows, installa-
tion. Call (941) 778-0540 or 320-2506.

MATURE, RESPONSIBLE 40-year old medical stu-
dent will house-sit/pet-sit for summer or monthly.
Available immediately. Call Pat, (941) 746-6844 or
932-5599.

LIVE ON THE Island and need help? Grocery shop-
ping, errands, weeding, gardening, Sarasota airport
runs, light housekeeping, short-and-long-term
housesitting, petsitting. References. (941) 803-0610.

MAN WITH SHOVEL Plantings, natives, cabbage
palms, patio gardens, trimming, clean-up, edgings,
more. Hard-working and responsible..Excellent ref-
erences. Edward (941) 778-3222.

LET US DRIVE YOU! Shopping, medical appoint-
ments, airports, cruise ports. Flat rates. Sunshine
Car Service. Serving the Islands. (941) 778-5476.

COMPUTER OBEDIENCE TRAINING. Is your
computer misbehaving? Certified computer service
and private lessons. Special $40/hour. Free advice.
(941) 545-7508.

ISLAND PRESSURE CLEANING for great results,
wash away mildew, dirt, salt. Thorough, reasonable,
reliable. Free estimates, licensed, insured. (941)
778-0944.


CONNECT-ICON Your local computer specialist.
Experienced certified technician for communication
electronics offers wireless and cable networks, up-
grades, maintenance, repairs, tutoring and training.
S Call Robert, (941) 778-3620.

CALL DAN'S RESCREEN for yoilr free estimate to-
day. Affordable rates, quality work guaranteed. Pool
cages, lanais, windows, doors. Call (941) 713-5333.




STRAIGHT TALK
I believe that Real Estate is a business that
requires clear communication. If you appreciate
someone who believes in talking straight, give.
me a call today. Find out why I am one of the
area's leading Real Estate professionals.

SIlNicole Skaggs
Island specialist
A Paradise Realty
5201 Gulf Drive Holmes Beach
941-778-4800
Toll Free: 800-237-2252


STORTUGA INN


INCOME TAX SERVICE: Individuals and small
businesses. We do all states and electronic filing.
Call Pat (941) 761-8156, Kenney Tax Service.


MR. BILL'S HOME REPAIR/maintenance service.
Over 30 years experience, self-employed in con-
struction trades. "I'm handy to have around." (941)
778-4561.

SJACKSON HOLMES PAINTING: The Island's hon-
est and dependable painting service. Interior, exte-
rior, faux painting, cabinet refinishing. References.
Free estimates. (941) 795-2771.

WEST COAST NUISANCE Wildlife service: Critter
problems and nuisances. Raccoons our specialty! Live
trapped and relocated. State licensed by FWC (941)
778-3455 or mobile 24-hour emergency, 720-4152.

TOM'S WINDOWS: Door and window repairs and
replacement. Sales, service, parts. E-mail
metrohs@msn.com. (941) 730-1399.

FREE HOUSESITTING: Retired Christian couple
seeks furnished house near beach. Available any-
time. References. (770) 832-7319.

BAREFOOT ESTATE MANAGEMENT: Home
management/watch, housekeeping, maintenance. .
(941) 730-5318.

COMPUTER SERVICE and repair. Training, main-
tenance, virus and Spyware protection. Island native.
Call John Baird with Matrix PC, (941) 708-6541.

SCOTT'S. HANDYMAN SERVICES: Remodeling
and repair. Free estimate, many references. Island
resident. (941) 713-1907 cell, (941) 778-5427
home. E-mail: geraldscottfulton@hotmail.com.

FIND GREAT DEALS on wheels and everything
else in The Islander, 778-7978.






ONE BLOCK FROM
THE RIVER
$189,900
Well-loved and maintained
older 2BR/1BA home just one
block from the Manatee River.
Room for a pool. IB506680.

.6016 Manatee Avenue West, Bradenton
(941) 751-1155 (800) 778-8448
Visit our Web site at www.floridamoves.com


BEACH RESORT


PHOTOGRAPHER: Kelley Ragan. Custom portraits,
weddings, beach photography. (941) 447-8892.

MURALIST, Mark Burdette. Custom murals, interior
or exterior, landscapes and more. (941) 447-9637.

MUSIC LESSONS! Flute, saxophone, clarinet. Begin-
ning to advanced. Contact Koko Ray, (941) 792-0160.

BEACH SERVICE air conditioning, heat, refrigera-
tion. Commercial and residential service, repair and/
or replacement. Serving Manatee County and the
Island since 1987. For dependable, honest and
personalized service, call William Eller, (941) 795-
7411. RA005052.

ANYONE CAN TAKE a picture. A professional cre-
ates a portrait. I want to be at your wedding!
www.jackelka.com. (941) 778-2711.

NADIA'S EUROSAGE Relaxing, healing massage
in the comfort of your home. Call today for an ap-
pointment, (941) 795-0887. MA#0017550.

TILE.AND MOSAIC custom installation, 20 years
experience. References available. For a reasonable
Price, call Sebastian, (941) 704-6719.

ABOUT GROUT: All repairs and installation. Done
right! Grout cleaning,-sealing, staining. Showers,
kitchens, pools, re-caulks. Call Jeff, (941) 545-0128
or 569-8888.

AUTO DETAILING BY HAND Spotless inside and
out. I can save you time and money. Island resident,
references. For pricing, call (941) 713-5967.


CONNIE'S LANDSCAPING INC. Residential and
commercial. Full-service lawn maintenance, land-
scaping, cleanup, hauling and more! Insured.
(941) 778-5294.

FIND IT! BUY IT! SELL IT FAST! In The Islander.



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518-6117 or Barry Gould (941) 448-5500.

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ONE OF-A-KIND
BAYFRONT HOME
One year old 5BR/5BA, four-car
garage'and elevator. Outside spi-
ral staircase leading down to lush
heated pool area overlooking bay:
Beautifully furnished and bled
throughout. Private dock and
great fishing. Excellent rental his-
tory in place. Call Anne Huber
(941) 713-9835.
www.flrealtour.com/mls031305/realtor
/ \ fk STTrroN GROUP REALTY


Since 1992 1


ANNA MARIA
ISLAND


REAL ESTATE LLC
PLAYA ENCANTADA
2BR/2BA Elegant condo in superb Gulffront com-
plex. Beautifully turnkey furnished, totally reno-
vated. This is an outstanding unit in one of the
Island's finest condominiums. Jacuzzis, tennis, se-
cured heated pool, under-building parking. Gor-
geous walking beach. $879,900.
ISLAND TOWN HOUSE
2BR/1.5BA courtyard-patio town house. Central
Holmes Beach, very close to shopping, restaurants
and beach. Open plan, breakfast bar, front and rear
porches, balcony, renovated. Excellent rental. No
condo fees. $469,000.
HOLMES BEACH DUPLEX
2BR/1BA each. Very close to beautiful beach. One-
car garage, patio. One unit turnkey furnished. Ap-
pliances both sides. Utility with washer/dryer, resi-
dential area, room for pool. $675,000.
VILLAGE GREEN POOL HOME
3BR/2BA split plan Village Green. Quiet residential
area. New roof, in-ground caged solar-leated pool,
'walk-in closet, foyer entry and two-car garage. Close
to Blake Hospital. $319,900.
KEY WEST-STYLE WITH BOAT DOCK
3BR/2.5BA plus den and office. Charming home,
large lot, fenced yard, screened porch, balcony.
Breakfast bar, dining room, large master bedroom
and bath with Jacuzzi tub. Deeded boat slip with
private dock. Holmes Beach. $699,900.
BAYSHORE GARD
2BR/2BA family homr tG ighborhood.
North BaysJh p y at-in kitchen,
well and s pL nicely landscaped, fenced
yard and 184,900.
DIRECT GULFFRONT CONDO
1BR/1.5BA Seaside Beach House condo. Turnkey
furnished in intimate, private complex with gorgeous
view of Gulf. Very nicely furnished, Sautillo tile,
beautiful walking beach, heated pool, excellent
rental. $950,000.
ISLAND TRIPLEX
2BR/1.5BA plus 1BR/1BA and 2BR/1BA. Great in-
vestment! Watch the sunset as you collect rent from
these charming units. Easy to see, call for appoint-
ment. Just steps to beautiful beach. $749,000.

ANNUAL RENTALS
From $700 / month-
SEASONAL RENTALS
Condos/Homes: $500 week / $1,000 month
779-0202 (800) 732-6434
ANNA MARIA

[1 MLS Sii0Coast
REAL ESTATE LLC
Island Shopping Center 5402 Marina Drive
Holmes Beach, Florida 34217 www.suncoastinc.comi


P7 If-Bay Realty
of Anna Maria Inc.
S~ 778-7244


BEST BUY IN BRADENTON BEACH Great irnE tment
property in a wrornderiul n. ,hborh.,:,d This' 2BR '2BA el.
evated duplex b:oa-t tile fie-r.r., icahedral c-:lling,, skylights
and balconies! Close to everything, 2 blocks to the gulf..One
block to bay or park. Low maintenance and newer appliances.
Plenty of storage.'$549,000


SPECTACULAR INTERIOR UPDATES This home offers
granite counter tops, travertine tile throughout, new paint,
all new furnishings including, a tropical theme decor, new
tropical landscaping and much more! All less than a block to
the beach. This home won't last long. Call today! $679,000.


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RUNAWAY BAY, updated 1 BR/1 BA condo just steps to
the beach. Great rental property. Turnkey furnished,
heated pool, tennis courts and community fishing dock.
$355,600.


THE TERRACE A tastefully done 2BR/2BA turnkey condo
with a heated pool, beautiful landscaping, private garage
and only a block to the beach on the west side of Gulf
Drive! Great income potential! $459,000.



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DUPLEX LOT-BUILD 2 CONDOS Duplex on 89' x 100' lot,
zoned R-2. Located in the 200 block, superb Holmes Beach
location. Build 2 "villas/condos" with Gulf views or renovate
existing duplex with separate addresses! $749,000


DEUGHTFULISLAND DUPLEX Great location just one block
from the beach on a quiet street. Each side has 2BD with
screened-in lanai. New landscaping and a fresh look! Great in-
vestment or seasonal home with rental unit. $649,000.


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RENOVATED DUPLEX with 6BR/4BA! Each unit has a
private entrance and patio area. Live in one side and rent
the other. Lot size 13,700 sf, zoned R2. $749,000.00.


CALL TODAY!
1 (800)771-6043 (941)778-7244
5309 Gulf Drive Holmes Beach
www.g ulfbayrealty.com .


SimPy the Best


LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION! Older
mobile home to rehab or replace. Third :hr-- fri-
the bay with beautiful view. Deeded rights to boat
ramp. Lot 75x130. $225,000.


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DOUBLE LOT Pecky Cypress accents and Mexican
tile.:2BR/1BA with private lagoon and beautiful set-
ting. Two blocks to. beach, see it from ,..:'i.i fr':,-t '.',~rd
$499,000.


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NORTH END, Anna Maria. Recently updated,
ground-level 2BR/1BA home located one block to
bay. Enclosed Florida room, screened porch and room
for a pool. $539,000.


KEY ROYAL CANAL Remodeled 3BR/2BA, tile
throughout, new carpet in.bedrooms, all new appli-
ances, new kitchen and bathrooms. Canal end with
great view to Bimini Bay. Very large lot with room for
pool or expansion. $895,000.

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BAYFRONT Remodeled 2BR/2BA with large Florida
room. Zoned R-2 with. 1BR/1BA guest cottage or
mother-in-law quarters. New air conditioner, new tile.
Dock on sailboat water. $1,350,000.


"La Plage" Anna Maria's newest luxury Gulffront
condos ... All Gulffront, security gates, enclosed ga-
rages, pool/spa, high ceilings. 3BR/2.5BA, up to
4,200 sf. Starting at $1,490,000.


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BIG DUPLEX WITH VIEW Almost 3,000 sf, 2BR/
2BA on each floor. View of both Gulf and bay. Large ve-
randas, two blocks to beach, one house to bay. $799,000.


4BR, 400 FEET TO BEACH Nicely refurbished is-
land home with large living area, new appliances, well
landscaped patio area and a pleasure to see. $599,000.
100+ Gulffront rental units with hun-
dreds more just steps from the beach.
M ike 800-367-1617
T 941-778-6696
Norman 3101 GULF DRIVE
Realty INC HOLMES BEACH
, www.mikeno.rmanrealty.com :, .


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ISLAND LAWN SPRINKLER service and repair. If
it is broken, we can fix it. Free estimates. Senior
discount. Call (941) 778-2581 or 962-6238.

CLOUD 9 LANDSCAPING: Quality lawn landscape
maintenance, shell, planting, clean-ups, palms
trimmed. Free estimates. References, insured. Call
(941) 778-2335 or 284-1568.

JR'S LANDSCAPING AND MAINTENANCE Lawns,
native plants, mulching, trimming, hauling, cleanup.
Island resident 25 years. Call (941) 807-1015.

TREES BY MR. BREEZE Inc. Residential and com-
mercial. Lawn maintenance, landscapes, tree trim-
ming and removal. Insured, 17-year Island resident.
Chris, (941) 778-2837.



PROFESSIONAL LANDSCAPE DESIGN and in-
stallation. Huge selection of plants, shrubs and
trees. Irrigation. Everything Under the Sun Garden
Centre, 5704 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach. (941)
778-4441.

SHELL DELIVERED and spread. $35/yard. Haul-
ing: all kinds of gravel, mulch, top soil with free es-
timates. Call Larry at (941) 795-7775, "shell phone"
(941) 720-0770.

KARAZ LANDSCAPE Lawn Service. Mulch, clean-
ups, power washing, tree trimming and more. City
of Anna Maria resident. Cell (941) 448-3857.

NATURE'S DESIGN LANDSCAPING. Design and
installation. Tropical landscape specialist. Resi-
dential and commercial. 30-years experience.
(941) 748-3356.

STRAIGHT SHOT LANDSCAPE: Installs, clean-ups,
shell, rock, palms, aquascapes, tree work. Truck for
hire, move anything. Shark Mark (941) 727-5066.



VAN-GO PAINTING residential/commercial, inte-
rior/exterior, pressure cleaning, wallpaper. Island
references. Dan or Bill, (941) 795-5100.


YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL
Magnificent custom built duplex with a crow's nest
._... -. -:,. office and sundeck overlooking the waters of Anna
'- '., Maria Island. Both unique homes are 3BR/2BA.
i,~,,,-i, i. Tiled courtyard with heated pool or walk to Gulf
beach. Built in 2001 with energy efficiency in mind,
wired for networking, fire alarm, sprinkler system
and constructed on 18-foot pilings. Pine floors or
r mexican tile. Custom kitchen, front and back
porches and their own private garage. Very com-
.. fortable island living and income too is what you can
have with this Key West style home. This is not the same old duplex. $925,000
for quick sale! Virtual Tour: www.flrealtour.com/mls0312052/realtor.


PAINTING AND HOME repair: Local references,
free estimates. I take pride in my work. Your satis-
faction guaranteed. Call John (941) 778-3713.

JOE UNGVARSKY CONSTRUCTION Remodeling
contractors. In-house plan designs. State licensed
and insured. Many Island references. (941) 778-
2993. License #CRC 035261. .

INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR PAINTING free esti-
mates. 35-year Island resident. Call Jim Bickal at
(941) 778-1730.

CHRISTIE'S PLUMBING Island and off-Island ser-
vice since 1975. Repairs and new construction.
Free estimates, no overtime charges. Now certify-
ing back flow at water meters. (FL#RF0038118)
(941) 778-3924 or 778-4461.

TILE TILE TILE. All variations of ceramic tile
supplied and installed. Quality workmanship,
prompt, reliable, many Island references. Call Neil,
(941) 726-3077.


ROOFING REPAIRS and replacements. Remodel-
ing, repairs, additions, screen rooms, kitchens,
baths. Free estimates. License #CGC061519,
#CCC057977, #PE0020374. Insured. Accepting
MasterCard/Visa. (941) 720-0794.

CUSTOM RENOVATION/RESTORATION expert.
All phases of carpentry, repairs and painting. In-
sured. Member of Better Business Bureau. Paul
Beauregard, (941) 779-2294.

KEN & TINA DBA Griffin's Home Improvements Inc.
Handyman, fine woodwork, countertops, cabinets
and shutters. Insured and licensed, (941) 748-4711.


TILE, CARPET, LAMINATE supplied and installed.
Why pay retail? Island resident, many references.
Free estimates, prompt service. Steve Allen Floor
Coverings. (941) 792-1367, or 726-1802.

DON'T FORGET! The Islander has "mullet" T-shirts.
Stop in our office at 5404 Marina Drive, Holmes
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GREAT ISLAND HOME WITH
OPEN'BAY VIEWS
Hurry and buy this great home with panoramic views at this
affordable pre-remodeling price. Offers 2BR/2BA, living area with
wood-burning fireplaces and water views. Also, domed kitchen
with newer appliances; office or extra space. So, begin your island
lifestyle and make this house your home. Sit on old cracker-style
porch and watch the boats go or walk over to Gulf beaches. Nicely
furnished with an island flair. Before remodeling begins $625,000.

SUTTON GROUP REALTY


MASON: 27 YEARS of experience. All masonry
work and repair. Cinderblock work, brick work, glass
block work, paver and brick driveways. Call Chris,
(941) 795-3034. Licehse #104776. Insured.

MORENO MARBLE & TILE Installation and resto-
ration. Quality work. Over 20 years experience. In-
.sured. Call Javier at (941) 685-5163 or 795-6615.

JERRY'S HOME REPAIR; Carpentry work, handy-
man, light plumbing, electrical, light hauling, pres-
sure washing and tree trimming. Call (941) 778-
6170 or 447-2198.

STEVE'S REMODELING & repair service. Free
estimates, 35 years experience. (941) 795-1968.

PAINTING: SAVE BIG! I will beat any professional
estimate! Work guaranteed. Free estimates. Call
Rick, (941) 778-5086. Leave message.

WINDOW SHADES, BLINDS, shutters and more.
Lifetime warranty. Call Keith Barnett for a free in-
home consultation. Island references, 15 years ex-
perience. (941) 778-3526 or 730-0516.

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICE: Bill
MacCaughern. Repairs, renovations, kitchens,
bathrooms; decks. Masonry, tile, painting. 30 years
experience. Yes, I do show up! (941) 778-3904.



ANNUAL RENTALS: 3BR/2BA single-family canal
home, $1,600+/month; 1 BR/1BA half duplex, one
house to beach, $725/month; Pine Bay Forest, 2BR/
2BA condo, $1,200/month; Perico Bay Club 2BR/
2BA bayfront condo, $1,400/month; 2BR/2BA
Sarasota bayview condo, $2,900/month; Renais-
sance condo 1BR/1BA.eighth floor in Sarasota,
$950/month. Call Island Real Estate (941) 778-6066.


ANNUAL RENTALS: 3BR/2BA home on Bimini Bay
with dock, $1,400/month; 3BR/1BA Anna Maria,
$875/month; 2BR/2BA Gulffront condo, $2,000/
month. Call Fran Maxon Real Estate, (941) 778-
2307 for details.


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ANNUAL HOLMES BEACH: 2BR/1 BA ground-level
duplex. Bay and Skyway bridge view. Dock; boat
slip, hurricane shutters. Unfurnished, non-smoking.
226 S. Harbor #A. $1,100/month. (941) 778-1319.

PENTHOUSE OVERLOOKING PALMA Sola Bay.
Beautifully furnished 3BR/3BA split-level condo with
amenities. Annual, $2,000/month or seasonal. See
www.VRBO.com/55700. Call (941) 358-7560.

LONGBOAT KEY: SEASON 2006 or annual. 1BR/
1BA, 55-plus, private beach, marina, active club-
house, central air/heat, furnished. (941) 751-9495 or
388-4421.

ELLENTON RIVERFRONT, 2BR/2BA, 55-plus,
lease park mobile home. Dock allowed, pets OK.
(941) 776-2531.

PANORAMIC GULFVIEW 3BR/2BA, executive
home directly across from the beach. French doors,
master suite with separate entrance, deck, garage
and additional parking. Six month or annual lease.
$1,900/month. (352) 375-7342 or (941) 720-2276.

RENTALS available weekly, monthly, seasonal.
Wedebrock Real Estate Co., (941) 778-6665 or
(800) 749-6665.,

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One-of-a-kind, immaculate, 3BR/2BA downstairs, corner unit with boat dock.
Enjoy beautiful sunsets, water views, direct access to Tampa Bay and the Gulf.
-Heated pool and spa, tennis courts, glass enclosed lanai and wet bar for great
entertaining. Close to beach, shopping and restaurants. $545,000.

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Beautiful 3BR/2BA home with private dock. No bridges to Gulf. New kitchen,
bathrooms, windows and doors. Newly painted inside and out. Tile floor
throughout. Near white sandy beaches, shops and restaurants. $729,900
Call Piroska Planck 941-730-9667
Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate Inc.


VACATION RENTALS: 2BR apartments across
from beautiful beach, $375 to $500/week. Winter
and spring dates available. Almost Beach Apart-
ments, (941) 778-2374.

VACATION & SEASONAL Private beach. Units are
complete. Rates seasonally adjusted. $425-$975/
week, $975-$2,975/month. (800) 977-0803 or (941)
737-1121. www.abeachview.com.


NORTH SHORE DRIVE beachfront. Four spacious
3BR/2BA homes. Please call (813) 752-4235, or
view Web site: www.AhhSeaBreeze.com

POOL HOME AVAILABLE for vacation let. Near
Holmes Beach, 3BR/2BA with all amenities. Man-
aged by Coastal Properties Realty, (941) 794-1515.

CORTEZ COTTAGE fully furnished, nice breezy,
quiet area. Seasonal, $1,700/month, $600/week,
$100/night. (941) 778-8168 or 794-5980.
www.divefish.com.

SEASONAL RENTAL: Holmes Beach, 4BR (two
master suites)/3BA, house on canal. Two minutes
to beach. Heated pool, dock, cable TV, washer/
dryer, garage, designer furnished with tropical yard
setting. One of the finest rentals on Island. $1,600/
weekly or $6,000/monthly. Call 713-0034 or e-mail:
gamiller@tampabay.rr.com.


SARASOTA BAYVIEW! SUPER LOCATION
Duplex or single family home
located on Sarasota Bay with
i.:.rgeous open water views of
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bal.- Offered at $959,900.
ISLAND CONVENIENCE STORE WITH GAS
Super opportunity to own Island business! Offered at:
$199,500-& Inventory..
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with gold-plated fixtures and a wonderful brick wood-burning fireplace.
The preferred split bedroom plan is enhanced by ceramic-tiled floors
and dramatic 25-foot tongue-in-groove vaulted ceilings with fans and
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FULLY FURNISHED VILLA in beautiful Mt. Vernon, two
miles to beaches. 2BR/2BA, no pets, nonstnoking, age
55-plus. Minimum three months. Peak season, $2,500/
month; annually, $1,500/month. (941) 721-1784.

NEW FURNISHED 2BR/2BA 55-plus, across from
beach. Furnished. Annual $1,150/month, seasonal
$2,200/month. (941) 725-1074.

SEASONAL HOLMES BEACH: 1BR duplex avail-
able March 2005. Steps to beach and shopping.
Refurbished and nicely decorated. Small pet OK.
Accepting 2006 reservations. (941) 807-5626.

CORTEZ VACATION COTTAGE: Renovated 1 BR/
1BA. Available weekly March and April. Nonsmok-
ing. $700/week. (941) 795-8077.

WE ARE BOOKING rentals for 2006: Wide variety
of condos and houses starting at $1,500/month;
March 2005 available, 1 BR/1BA duplex, $1,500/
month; 3BR/3BA condo, $2,800/month. SunCoast
Real Estate, (941) 779-0202. www.suncoastinc.com

NOW BOOKING 2006 monthly winter season:
Brand new house, 107 Magnolia Ave., west of Gulf
Drive, 150 feet from beach, nonsmoking, 3BR/2BA,
elevator. Call (800) 828-8116, ext. 212..

THE ISLANDER. The best news on Anna Maria Is-
land since 1992.


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The Oldest Mortgage Co.. on Anna Maria Island
Linda G. Davis Ted E. Davis
Licensed Mortgage Brokers
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INVESTORS/DEVELOPERS! PRIME LOCATIONS!
R-2 lot 89x 100 feet, located in the 200 block, one lot back from Gulf Drive
in Holmes Beach. Build two villas/condos with views of the Gulf or reno-
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BRING YOUR BOAT SHOES AND
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300 feet from the beach! Completely renovated
home with heated pool surrounded by lush,
tropical landscaping. Beautiful flooring, natu-
ral stone and red Oak. Tastefully turnkey fur-
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each side, screened-in lanai, new land-
scaping and a fresh new look. Just one
and a half blocks from the beach! Great
investment property or seasonal home
with rental potential. $649,-00 $625,000.


Renovated duplex with extra large lot
plus 6BR/4BA. Each side has private en-
trance and patio areas. 4BR unit has large
kitchen for the chef! Live in one side and
.rent the other. Lot size over 13,700 sf,
zoned R-2. $749,000.


GULFFRONT CONDO: Spectacular renovation complete! Move right into this beau-
tiful 2BR/2BA condo with wonderful Gulf views. Must see! Offered at $ 829,000.

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WEEKLY RENTALS: SAN Remo condo, 1BR/1BA,
$500/week; Alecassandra villa, 1 BR/1BA, $700/week;
island duplex, 2BR, $800/week; Northwest Bradenton
home, 3BR/3BA, $950/week;.Gulffront cottage, 2BR,
$1,000/week; Bradenton Beach Club, 2BR/2BA,
$1,400/week. Please call Cristin Curl at Wagner Re-
alty, (941) 778-2246. www.wagnerrealty.com.

ANNUAL RENTAL: 2319 Avenue B, Bradenton
Beach. 2BR/2BA, Gulf and bay views. $1,100/
month. (941) 778-3875.
LONGBQAT KEY, NORTH end. 2BR/2BA Spanish
Main villa, 55-plus, beach, pool, active community.
Unfurnished annual, just remodeled. $950/month.
(941) 779-0088.

ANNUAL OR SEASONAL: 2BR/2BA, one block to
beautiful beach. Screened lanai, washer/dryer included.
Annual, $1,200/month, seasonal, $2,100/month. Unfur-
nished or completely furnished. (813) 689-1880.

GULFFRONT CONDOS: 3BR/2BA, 2BR/1BA, 1 BR/
1 BA with breathtaking sunsets. Pools, Jacuzzi, walk
to shops and restaurants. Available weekly,
monthly, seasonal. (901) 301-8299 or e-mail
captko462@aol.com.
APRIL AND SUMMER vacation rentals: 2BR/2BA
Palma Sola Bay townhouse with boat slip and pool,
$650/week, $1,950/month; Perico Bay Club villa,
2BR/2BA, two-car garage, $1,950/month; Longboat
Village home, 2BR/1BA, $1,500/month. Real Estate
Mart, (941) 756-1090.
MILLION-DOLLAR VIEWS from 2BR/2BA ground-
.floor Mt. Vernon condo. All new kitchen and bath.
New tile and carpet. 55-plus community. No pets.
For sale or rent. (941) 795-0413.
PARADISE BAY 2BR/1BA turnkey mobile home.
Two miles to beach. Available now. Rent weekly,
monthly, annually. 55-plus. Call Jim, (941) 725-
1717 or 779-9174.
HOLMES BEACH GULFVIEW 2BR house. Avenue
F off 31st Street. Annual lease. Nonsmoking, no
pets. Ideal for one or two people. $900/month, plus
utilities. Owner, (800) 894-1950.
BEACHFRONT CONDO: 2BR/2BA, pool, Jacuzzi
and tennis. Available winter 2006, also summer and
fall this year. (941) 794-8877.
THE "CASTLE ON Beach Avenue" Anna Maria.
Elegant 4BR/3BA French Normandy home, two
houses from beach on quiet street. Available May
2005-2006. Inquire (941) 794-8202.
SEASONAL OR WEEKLY cottage-style rentals.
1BR/1BA or 2BR/1BA with pool. Walk to beach,
shopping, restaurants. (941) 778-3875. Web site
2spinnakers.com
CORTEZ/ BRADENTON BEACH area. Nicely fur-
nished and spacious, 1 BR/1 BA apartment. Elevated
with deck. All utilities supplied, shared laundry room,
off street parking. $975/month. (941) 761-2725.
WATERFRONT SUMMER RENTAL: 1BR and 2BR,
newly remodeled, docks for fishing, 100 yards walk
to beach, $1,200 and $1,800/month, all utility and
cable included, fully furnished. Call (941) 779-9074.
1 BR APARTMENT close to beach with water views.
Sleeps four. $500/week or $1,850/month. Nonsmok-
ing. Quiet area, Holmes Beach. (941) 779-0420.
ANNUAL RENTAL: BRADENTON Beach, across
from beach. 2BR/1BA, new kitchen, laundry, small
pets OK. Available May 1. $900/month, plus utilities.
(941) 779-0701.
STEPS TO BEACH: 2BR/1.5BA elevated duplex,
great Gulf and bay views. Annual, $875/month plus
utilities. No pets. (941) 922-2473 or 928-3880.
ADORABLE NORTH CAROLINA cottage near
Asheville/Lure. Restaurants, hiking, river and much
more! 2BR/2BA, fireplace, furnished cute. $500/
- week.-(941) 748-6146.


HOLMES BEACH HOUSE for rent:. Spacious 1,800
sf, 3BR/2BA, fireplace, pool, spa, secluded back.
yard with privacy fence, two lanais, updated. Call
(941) 773-0248.
ANNUAL RENTAL unfurnished. Enjoy a spectacu-
lar view from your huge living/dining area, your floor-
to-ceiling plate-glass windows and 30-by-12-foot
screened deck, fronting beach-bay and park just
steps away with Gulf beach in easy walking dis-
tance. Free trolley for shopping nearby. 3BR water-
front in north Anna Maria. See for yourself by call-
ing (941) 748-5334 for details.
STEPS TO BEACH, Large i BR/2BA, washer/dryer,
kitchen, telephone, cable, courtyard. No pool. $1,695/
month, $495/week. www.gulfdriveapartments.com or
(941) 778-1098.
HOLMES BEACH 3BR/2BA annual. Downstairs,
two blocks to beach, clean, no pets. $1,050/month.
Available now. First, last, security. (941) 725-0578.
NORTHERN TIP ANNA Maria: 2BR/1BA duplex
with screened-in porch, fenced-in back yard. Dogs
welcome. Laundry, large patio. Two blocks to bay
and fishing with your grandchildren at Rod & Reel
Pier. Only available April 2-9, 2005. (631) 891-8855
or (941) 779-0402. Rented through July 20.
CONDO FOR RENT: Available May through No-
vember. Boat dock, Flamingo Cay. Turn key fur-
nished. References required. $950/month. (941)
792-8852.
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ANNUAL RENTAL: 2BR/1.5BA elevated duplex,
storage, screened porch. $800/month. T. Dolly
Young Real Estate, (941) 778-0807.

UNFURNISHED RENTAL: DUPLEX, 3BR/2BA,
washer/dryer hook-up, close to beach, no pets.
Dolores M. Baker Realty, (941) 778-7500.


ATTENTION INVESTORS: 225 yards to beach.
2BR/2BA main house and 1BR/1BA apartment.
Rent both units or convert to large 3-4BD/3BA
single-family home. Fully furnished with lots of up-
grades. Walking distance to restaurants and shop-
ping. Don't miss this excellent opportunity. Offered
at $699,000. For more information, call Ramona
Glanz, Re/Max Excellence, (941) 383-9700.

PRECONSTRUCTION PRICES! Hidden Lake con-
dominiums, west Bradenton. Close to beach. Start-
ing at $309,900. Call Cori Woods, (941) 761-0444.

BEST BUY ON the Island: For sale by owner.
Bradenton Beach, direct bayfront condominium.
2BR/2BA, Gulf-to-bay community with deeded pri-
vate beach pool, clubhouse, patio and fishing pier
on the bay. $369,000. (941) 779-0234.

WHITNEY BEACH: Orily unit available! 1 BR/1 BA,
possible 2BR conversion. Approximately 1,000 sf.
Pool and Gulf views. Private beach, boat dock.
$410,000. (941) 724-3519.

LOCATION -LOCATION LOCATION: 2BR/2BA
great Gulf view and beautiful beach. Great rental
property or build your dream home with govern-
ment grant moneys to assist. $725,000. 2916 Av-
/ernue E, Holmes Beach. Call Andy Woods at Sig-
nature Realty, (813) 299-9017.

WATERFRONT HOMES and lots: bay lot,
$559,000; one near tip lot, $459,000; three homes
from $349,000, all seawalled, deep water, no
bridges. Also, bayfront tip lot and direct bayfront top-
floor penthouse flagship condo. (570) 943-2516.

NORTHWEST BRADENTON River Ridge:
Tastefully decorated Florida-style home with cus-
tom features, including stainless appliances and
granite counters with marble fireplace. Flooring
is tile, wood and carpet. Pool and spa electroni-
cally controlled to heat with either gas or electric.
Full security system is active. Beautifully land-
scaped with fruit trees. Partially furnished with
occupancy negotiable. $664,900. (941) 794-


FOR SALE BY owner. Minutes to beach. 4BR/
2.5BA solar-heated pool home. 2,500 sf under air,
2,845 total sf. Very private lot. Ten-acre sanctuary
next door, end cul-de-sac lot. Built 1989. Ceramic
tile throughout living area. By appointment only to
qualified buyers. $449,000. Realtor negotiable.
1511 82nd St. N.W. (941) 792-4552.

AFFORDABLE BOATING CONDO: 2BR/1.5BA
townhouse, updated. Heated pool, boat slip.
$289,900. Real Estate Mart, (941) 756-1090.

WEST OF GULF Drive, eight homes from the
beach. 2-3BR/2BA, furnished, painted inside/out,
peek of bay. $699,500. (941) 778-3203.

ARTIST LOFT HOME: Unique 3BR/2BA, two-car
garage, Longboat Key home with some water view.
Updated with artist loft addition. Features 15-foot
Abbacco ceiling design. Lots of French doors, fire-
place, wet bar, wine cooler and hot tub under the
stars. Enjoy yourself, buy this one! $649,900. Call
Fred Flis for information and showing. Real Estate
Mart, (941) 756-1090.

DON'T LET YOUR lender take advantage of you.
Save your home now! We will help. (941) 778-4495.

FOR SALE BY owner: 2BR/2BA Holmes Beach
Gulffront condo. Fabulous view, gorgeous walking
beach, turnkey furnished, updated, ceramic tile..
Excellent mid-Island location. $1,100,000. Informa-
tion, call (608) 238-8519.

CANALFRONT HOME in Flamingo Cay. Minutes to
bay and Gulf by car or from your own dock. 3BR/
2BA, two-car garage, split plan. Heated caged pool,
boat lift, davits. $669,000. (941) 761-8407.

SUNSET TERRACE CONDOMINIUMS:.2BR/2BA
1,340 sf under roof, million dollar view directly on
the Gulf. Tile, Berber carpet and wood throughout.
Washer/dryer, heated pool. Covered parking.
$849,000. Call Paul, (863) 859-2584, or Pam cell
(863) 698-5174.

PARADISE BAY 2BR/1BA turnkey mobile home.
Two miles to beach. 55-plus. $15,000. Call Jim,
(941) 725-1717 or 779-9174.

TRAILER 12-by-40 in Pines Trailer Park, Bradenton
Beach, Anna Maria Island. Central heat/air,
screened lanai, 24 by 10 feet. Prime location, near
water, 55-plus. $59,900. (716) 572-2484.


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OPEN HOUSE: 1-4pm, Sunday, April 3.6200 Flotilla
Drive #304, Holmes Beach. Unique, one-of-a-kind,
immaculate condition. 2BR/2BA upstairs corner unit
with boat dock, beautiful water view and direct access
to Tampa Bay and Gulf. Glass-enclosed lanai, newly
carpeted and new ceramic tile. Includes: Separate
laundry, all upgraded appliances; washer/dryer, refrig-
erator, range, microwave and dishwasher. Turn-key,
custom Plantation shutters. Must be seen to appre-
ciate. Immediate occupancy. All the amenities: Pool,
jacuzzi, tennis and private boat dock. Asking price
$525,000. For sale by owner, (941) 778-3614. No,
Realtors please.

BAYFRONT CONDO FOR sale: 2BR/2BA. Golf
course, pool, beautiful sunsets. $299,000. Call
(941) 722-4800.





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www.cherokeemountainrealty.com. Call for free
brochure (800) 841-5868.

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ATTENTION INVESTORS: Waterfront lots in the
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www.nclakefrontproperties.com (800) 709-1AKE.

GATED MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY Near Asheville,
N.C. Spectacular wooded lots, great views! Paved
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and more! Bear River Community. (866) 411-5263.

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or season! Includes recreational, cultural activities. We
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homes). Mountain Resort Rentals, P.O. Box 1804, West
Dover, VT. 05356. www.mountainresortrentals.com, e-
mail: rentverm @ sover.net. (888) 336-1445, (802) 464-
1445.

SERENE MOUNTAIN GOLF Homesite $208.03/
month. Upscale golf community set amid Dye-de-
signed 18-hole course in Carolina .mountains.
Breathtaking views. Near Asheville N.C. A sanc-
tioned Golf Digest teaching facility! Call toll-free
(866) 334-3253, ext. 832.
www.cherokeevalleysc.com Price, $59,900, 10 per-
cent down, balance financed 12 months at 4.24
percent fixed, one-year balloon, OAC.

COASTAL GEORGIA: Gated community large
wooded water access and marshfront homesites.
Ancient live oaks, pool, tennis, golf. Water access.
From $64,900. :Pre-construction discounts.
www.cooperspointcom. (877) 266-7376.

NORTH CAROLINA LAKEFRONT Awesome views,
fishing, much more. Huge lake one-two acres from
$39,900. Call for details, MLC (866) 920-5263.


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FOR SALE: Enjoy the stunning Gulf views and glo-
rious sunsets from this 2BR/2.5BA townhouse.
The beach is located directly across the street.
Soaring ceilings in master bedroom, walk-in
closet, updated fixtures, hurricane window film,
and storage galore. Enjoy the private heated pool
while sitting on your garden terrace. $439,500.
Paul T. Collins, PA
941-928-4062 M
941-954-5454
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KEY ROYALE 3BR/3BA CANAL HOME has
been totally renovated. The master bath
boasts a bidet, jacuzzi and shower. Turnkey
furnished for the boaters and beachcombers
at heart. $749,000. Contact Dave Jones at
713-4800.


FOR THE F)UN OF LIFE or an investment. 1 BR/
1BA condo; .ingly updated last year, ready to use
or rent this New kitchen, new tile floors. Bal-
cony overkltg. pool. Comes fumished, ready to
move in. Wv iy rentals allowed. Resort atmo-
sphere, close to the beach. $325,000. Call Denny
Rauschl at 725-3934.


DON'T MISS THIS ONEI Completely remod-
eled island duplex. 3BR/2BA on both sides.
Beautiful ceramic tile throughout this breezy
floorplan. Kitchens and baths newly updated,
too. Turnkey and already rented for the sea-
son. $1,400,000. Call Dave Jones at
713-4800.


BRIDGEPORT Two units available. Both
furnished 2BR/2BA units. Heated pool and ex-
tra storage. Just steps from the white sandy
beaches, shopping and dining. Your choice of
Gulf view at $475,000 or Bay view at
$439,000. Both have elevator access. Contact
Cindy Grazer at (941) 504-6176.


RARE COMMERCIAL LOT, perfect location
for doctor or lawyer's office or small retail
center. Zoned PRM $320,000. Call Cindy
Grazar at 778-4800 or 504-6176.









TRIPLE TREASURE Breezy, beachy income'
producing triplex across from the beach. Up-
stairs, a cozy 1BR/1BA with great reading
porch and massive sun deck. Downstairs are
two 2BR/1BA units. Ample parking, tons of
Mexican tile, newer kitchens and baths. A
must see. $659,000. Call Nicole Skaggs at
778-4800 or 795-5704.


LAKE VIEW BARGAIN $29,900. Free boat slip! High
elevation, beautifully wooded parcel. Across from
national forest on 35,000-acre recreational lake in
Tennessee. Paved roads, underground utilities, cen-
tral water, sewer, more. Excellent financing. Call now
(800) 704-3154, ext. 609. Sunset Bay LLC.

GRAND OPENING LAND SALE! South Florida 10-
plus acres only $294,900. Huge savings on big ranch
acreage in south Florida! Gorgeous mix of mature
oaks, palms, pasture. Miles of bridle paths. Near
Lake Okeechobee. Quiet, secluded, yet close to 1-95
and coast. Also, five acres, $174,900. Great financ-
ing, little down. Call now. (866) 352-2249, ext. 379.

FORECLOSED GOVERNMENT HOMES $0 or low ,
down! Tax repos and bankruptcies! No credit OK. $0
to low down. For listings (800) 501-1777, ext. 1299.



STEEL ARCH BUILDINGS! Genuine Steel Master
buildings, factory direct at huge savings! 20x24,
30x60, 35x50. Perfect garage, workshop, barn. Call
(800) 341-7007. www.SteelMasterUSA.com.

STEEL BUILDINGS. Factory deals. Save $$$. 40x60
foot to 100x200 foot. Example: 50x100x12 foot=
$3.60/sf. (800) 658-2885 www.rigidbuilding.com.

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The Terrace This beautiful 2bed/2bath turnkey town home is just 100
yards to the beach and has no rental restrictions! With a pool, 3 decks,
and'peeks of the gulf this unit has great income potential. $459,000
Call Jesse Brisson at (941) 713-4755 for more info








REALTORS
5910 Marina Dr. Holmes Beach, FL 34217
Call (941) 778-0777 or Rentals 778-0770
1-800-741-3772 OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK
Web site: www.smithrealtors.com


NORTH END Unique
S3BR/2BA home on north
Send of Anna Maria. Steps
S to white sandy beaches of
Gulf/bay. Two wood burn-
L I .ing fireplaces. Master
S- suite has Gulf view from
screened porch. Over-
sized shower, new ceramic tile. New roofs 1st Fl 2000 & 2nd
Fl 2002. Asking price $795,000. Please call Susan Hatch,
Realtor 778-7616 eves.
SINGLE FAMILY PLUS Mother-in-law suite, 2BR/1BA
and 1 BR/1 BA or convert to 3BR/2BA. New air conditioner,
roof, plumbing and exterior paint. Lot zoned R-2 to build
up. Won't last long! $449,900. Please call Mike Carleton,
Realtor (941) 737-0915 or Michel Cerene, Broker
545-9591, evenings.


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