wcw MARCH 2021 HR

MARCH 2021
Jenny Alday
TOWNSEND
Owner of
MUSIC COMPOUND
in Sarasota
Also in this issue:
■ Manatee Heritage Days
■ Travel - Even More Florida New Hotels
■ Dining In: Classic Irish Soda Bread
■ WCW Foodie: Restaurant News
It’s
WCW’s
33 RD
Anniversary!

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MARCH 2021
contents
WCW
33
YEARS
Editor and Publisher
Louise M. Bruderle
Email: westcoastwoman@comcast.net
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Evelyn England
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Here are our columns:
n Out & About: includes
fundraisers, concerts, art exhibits,
lectures, dance, poetry, shows &
performances, theatre, film,
seasonal events and more.
n Datebook: club meetings,
women’s clubs, networking and
consumer-oriented lectures.
n Mind/Body Calendar: health and
wellness events, support groups,
health lectures, seminars and
screenings.
n You’re News: job announcements,
appointments and promotions,
board news, business news and
real estate news.
WCW
33
YEARS
It's West Coast Woman's
33 rd Anniversary!
travel feature
New Florida Hotels
More hotels opening in Florida -
Tampa, Orlando, Miami’s South
Beach, Tampa’s Water Street,
Sandestin and more…start
planning your late 2021 vacay!
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rd Anniversary!
dining in
For St. Patrick’s Day:
Irish Soda Bread
Easy to make, yet so many
versions Bread – simple, unfussy
and utterly delicious – is one of
Ireland’s food staples.
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happening this month
Manatee Heritage Days
Enjoy a month-long celebration
of Manatee County’s heritage.
Activities include guided
daytime tours of the 1850
Manatee Burying Ground, an
exhibit opening about Medicine
in the Village of Manatee, and
a digital lecture.
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WOMAN
4 editor’s letter
7 Out & About: listing for things
to do live and/or online
11 women’s health: Urology Treatment Center
12 focus on the arts: Chorale Artists
14 dining in: traditional Irish soda bread
on the cover: WCW photo of Jenny Alday Townsend.
16 west coast woman:
Jenny Alday Townsend
18 travel feature: new hotels in Florida
20 travel news: more flights coming to SRQ
22 health feature: get to know
Craniosacral Therapy
• Photo by Evelyn England
23 wcw foodie: your source
for restaurant news and events
24 happening this month:
Manatee Heritage Days
27 you’re news
MARCH 2021 WEST COAST WOMAN 3

just some
thoughts
Louise Bruderle
Editor and Publisher
Jenny Alday Townsend
WCW is now 33. We’re a small, woman-owned
business and there are lots of women in the
U.S.and on the west coast of Florida who
also have their own businesses. According
to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics,
more than 11.6 million firms are owned by
women, employing nearly 9 million people,
and generating $1.7 trillion in sales as of
2017. Women-owned firms (51% or more)
account for 39% of all privately held firms and
Jenny Alday
Townsend
Photo: Evelyn England
contribute 8% of employment and 4.2% of
revenues in the U.S.
So it seems fitting to salute and highlight
a woman-run and woman-owned business
in Sarasota: Music Compound, owned by Jenny Alday Townsend.
How hard is it to start a biz? Like the hundreds of biz owners we
have profiled in WCW, she makes it look easy, but it’s hard work,
requiring resourcefulness (meaning figuring it out as you go) and
long hours.
As I mentioned earlier, WCW is 33 this month, but I tend to mark
September, 1993, as an important date because that’s when I purchased
WCW and, like Jenny, became a business owner.
Jenny has made it past that critical fifth anniversary which her
business marked this past February. About two-thirds of businesses
with employees survive at least 2 years and only about half survive
at least five years according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
I think you’ll find Jenny’s story unique and interesting and we
wish her many years of continued success.
Through Women’s Eyes
International Film Festival
March 5, 6 and 7
The Through Women’s Eyes International
Film Festival (TWE) is back. TWE presents
the best in films by or about women
from around the world. Their 2021 TWE
Film Festival runs March 5, 6 and 7.
You not only get great films, but your
support helps GCC and UN Women
make cities more livable, encourage women to achieve economic
freedom, build political leadership skills, and end violence against
women and girls. Here’s what’s coming up soon. Can’t make it?
No problem. Many livestreams will be available for on-demand
viewing as well. Buy or gift your films now, but note that showings
are between March 5 and March 8 only.
They have 34 films this year, including 12 features, 22 shorts,
and 7 from emerging filmmakers. Their live awards ceremony on
Monday, March 8 at 5 p.m., is included with all ticket passes.
There are 17 blocks of films to choose from. Q and As with
filmmakers are included after each film block. Join live audience
discussion sessions on Sunday and Monday. The festival is a
fundraiser for the global gender equity programs of UN Women.
Kudos to E Scott Osborne, Festival Chair, and Debbie Vale, Festival
Director. More info at: https://twe2021.eventive.org/films.
MS&C and WCW
Since it’s WCW’s anniversary, I’m reminded of the time I met
Michael Saunders whom I interviewed in the very early days of
WCW. The interview was at her home on the northern tip of Longboat
Key at Land’s End (sadly that beautiful home would be lost to
a fire many years later).
I was rightfully impressed how the former high school guidance
counselor became an entrepreneur when she opened her own business
and I wrote excitedly that her company had over $150 million
in sales. Fast forward to 2021 and her
company, which she still helms, is in
its 45th year and has 700 agents. Last
year, they had record-breaking annual
sales volume of $3.49 billion.
Michael Saunders & Company
is now the leading broker and No. 1
independent real estate company
in the region, started in 1976, when
Saunders opened her first office on
St. Armands Circle with a $5,000
loan. Saunders secured the loan from
a bank that required a male business
client to co-sign.
Michael also created the MSC
Foundation, which reported its largest
grant distribution since its founding
in 2011: $66,500 to local organizations
offering shelter, sustenance, education
and a path to self-sufficiency.
The MSC Foundation expects to hit
the $1 million benchmark later this
Michael Saunders
year, having given more than $957,000 to over 200 local organizations.
More Good Signs
More and more, arts organization are returning to stages and/or
performing in some form or another. Now back are Urbanite Theatre,
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe (WBTT), Florida Studio Theatre
(FST) and Asolo Conservatory (in April). You’ll see that reflected in
our additional events in this month’s Out & About column.
Some examples:
• WBTT returns to live performances with ‘Light Up the Night!’ at
their outdoor performance area through Sunday, March 14.
“Light Up the Night!” features a live band led by Resident Music
Director (and bass player) James “Jay” Dodge II, accompanying
WBTT artists including Raleigh Mosely, Henry Washington and
more – as they perform soul hits of the 1970s.
• Featuring Florida Studio (FST) Summer Cabaret favorite Carole
J. Bufford, Vintage POP! begins playing in FST’s Keating Theatre
on March 24. With music by Ella Fitzgerald, Jerry Lee Lewis, and
Creedence Clearwater Revival, this brand-new musical revue
explores the evolution of popular music from the ‘20s to the ‘80s.
FST’s second spring musical revue, Three Pianos, begins playing
in FST’s Gompertz Theatre on March 31. Created by Rebecca
Hopkins and Sarah Durham, this Cabaret celebrates musical
pioneers who refused to fit the mold of “rock star” and forged their
own paths in the industry.
• Circus Arts Conservatory (CAC) sadly had to cancel its Big
Top events and performances. Since then artists from Cirque du
Soleil have joined with Circus Arts Conservatory for a show called
Prevail which is on March 5, 6 and 7 and March 12, 13 and 14.
Proceeds will support CAC programs and outreach that
serve students in K-12 classrooms, seniors in assisted living
communities and aspiring artists following their passion
by training and performing in the Circus Arts. https://circusarts.
org/prevail-a-benefit-for-the-circus-arts
• Also coming back is the Sarasota Film Festival,
scheduled for April 30 - May 9. https://sarasotafilmfestival.com/films/
Louise Bruderle | Editor and Publisher |
westcoastwoman@comcast.net
We welcome your thoughts and comments on this column and on other columns and features in this issue.
You can reach us at westcoastwoman@comcast.net. We’re on the web at www.WestCoastWoman.com.
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THE GLENN MILLER SOUND
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out& about
At The Ringling
On exhibit:
• Kabuki Modern is in the Ting
Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center for
Asian Art. The exhibition presents
multiple recent acquisitions of kabuki
imagery created between 1868 and
the 1950s. Visitors will see works by
Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900), Yamamura
Kōka (Toyonari, 1885–1942),
and Natori Shunsen (1886–1960)
— the foremost print artists of their
time. Also on view is a painting by
Murakami Michiho (1899–1938) that
recently returned to the Museum
following conservation treatment.
Kabuki Modern will run in the Chao
Center until June 27, 2021.
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• The great American abstract painter
Sam Gilliam is known for his experimentation
with materials and
constant invention. Gilliam first received
critical attention in the 1960s
as a later member of the Washington
Color School. He quickly expanded
beyond the Color School tradition
with his experimentation in the use
of color and materials. This exhibition
brings together nearly 20 unique
works and limited edition prints by
the artist from the early 1970s to 2010
drawn primarily from local collections.
Runs to Aug. 15, 2021.
• The Ringling also has a video exhibition
called For Real This Time
which showcases the work of various
artists. For Real This Time features
video-based works that examine
the current state of American society
and pose uncomfortable yet
vital questions about personal and
collective attitudes toward issues of
race and inequality.
The exhibition is presented in a sequence
of individual screenings. Each
work brings to light narratives of systematic
racism and offers a unique inquiry
that evokes historical exchange
to illustrate the expansiveness of the
issues affecting Black, Indigenous and
People of Color (BIPOC) today.
The schedule includes:
• to March 11, Cauleen Smith Egungun:
Ancestor Can’t Find Me, 2017
• March 12 – April 1, Martine Syms
Lessons I-XXX, 2014
• April 2 – April 22, Kara Walker
National Archives Microfilm Publication
M999 Roll 34: Bureau of Refugees,
Freedmen and Abandoned
Lands: Six Miles from Springfield on
the Franklin Road, 2009
• April 23 – May 16, Bear Witness.
Woodcarver, 2011.
The John and Mable Ringling
Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Rd.,
Sarasota. Info: www.ringling.org.
Artist Series
Concerts of
Sarasota’s 2021
Their next concert is on March
7, 3 p.m., outdoors at Nathan Benderson
Park, 5851 Nathan Benderson
Circle, Sarasota. The program includes:
The Glenn Miller Sound with
Rick Costa’s Jazz Sextet, featuring
vocalist Walt Andrus (with Lew Del
Gatto, sax; Dan Miller, trumpet; Don
Mopsick, bass; Rick Costa, percussion;
pianist to be announced).
Music during World War II had an
unprecedented impact on America,
both on the home front and on troops
serving overseas. Unlike World War
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I, which occurred in
the pre-radio era, by
December 1941, virtually
every American
household owned radios.
Americans were tuning
in by the millions and
the name Glenn Miller
became synonymous
with the 1940s Swing era
tunes that stormed the
airwaves and permeated
clubs and dance halls
across the country.
Take a trip back in time
and get “In the Mood”
with an afternoon of
the best of Glenn Miller
and the Swing era. An
ensemble of six top area
jazz musicians, including
Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
vocalist Walt Andrus,
pays musical tribute to
the glorious swinging
sounds of the 40s.
On March 10 there will
be a 4 p.m. performance
with a 5 p.m. dinner also
outdoors at Plantation
Golf & Country Club, Venice, 500
Rockley Blvd., Venice
World of Jazz with Bill Buchman’s
Art of Jazz Quintet: A familiar presence
on the area’s arts and jazz scene,
pianist Bill Buchman has toured
extensively throughout the United
States and Europe and has worked
with such jazz legends as Jo Jones,
Bobby Hackett, John LaPorta, Eddie
‘Lockjaw’ Davis, and many others.
In “World of Jazz,” Buchman’s
quintet, featuring Buchman on piano,
Rick Aaron on flute and Bennet
Capoverde on conga, presents a program
of exotic melodies and rhythms
from the diverse musical cultures of
the jazz world.
The performance is on March 28,
3 p.m. outdoors at Nathan Benderson
Park, 5851 Nathan Benderson
Circle, Sarasota.
Tickets: $35. Purchase at https://
www.artistseriesconcerts.org/ or call
941-306-1202.
Fun Raisers
Service Club of Manatee is a
94-year-old all women organization
that has been providing support to
non-profit children’s organizations.
This year, the Club has planned a For
the Love of Children Gala to be held
virtually on March 20.
The Club provides support to local
children in need of food, shelter,
clothing, health services, or educational
services. Even in the unprecedented
times of March 2020 through
sponsorships and donations, awards
were granted totaling $106,000 to 34
local non-profit children’s organizations.
Service Club is committed to
continued support to Manatee County’s
children. Join them in making a
difference by being a sponsor, providing
a general or matching tax-deductible
donation, and participating in
their gala live and silent auction. More
information is available at https://
www.manateeserviceclub.com.
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Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center
(SPARCC) is hosting its annual
SPARCCle on the Links golf tournament,
on April 22, at Plantation Golf
and Country Club in Venice. Save the
date and help raise critical funding
for SPARCC by playing in this safe
and fun tournament - complete with
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cash prizes, chance drawings and silent
auction items - at one of Florida's
finest private golf courses.
Registration is $135 and includes
green fees, individual carts, a boxed
lunch, beverages and awards. Additional
opportunities to participate in
a putting contest, closest to the pin,
and longest drive keep things exciting.
Players also have a chance to win a
$50,000 cash prize from the hole in
one contest, sponsored by The Bob Adams
Agency. Registration opens at 11
a.m. with a shotgun start at 12:30 p.m.
For registration and sponsorship
opportunities, visit www.sparcc.net/
events or contact Communications
Manager Ning Qin at nqin@sparcc.net.
Sarasota
Orchestra Outdoor
Concert Series
Sarasota Orchestra has its outdoor
concert series, On the Road
with SO: Parks & Partners performing
outdoor concerts for the
community. The concerts of chamber
music showcases musicians of the
Orchestra in public park and partner
venues across Sarasota and Manatee
counties. Bring a blanket, a chair and
enjoy the outdoor weather.
The concert series allows Sarasota
Orchestra’s winds and brass musicians
to safely shine in some of the
Sarasota-Manatee area’s most beautiful
outdoor settings. Capacity will be
limited to permit proper social distancing.
Admission is free for all locations
except for Marie Selby Botanical
Gardens and The John and Mable
Ringling Museum of Art, which
charge entry fees for their grounds.
Attendees are required to register to
hold a space at performances.
Schedule by Venue:
• Nathan Benderson Park—Sunday,
March 21 at 2:30 pm.
• Conservation Foundation of the
Gulf Coast/Bay Preserve at Osprey—February
21 at 2:30 pm and
April 25 at 2:30 pm
• G.T. Bray Park—March 21 at 2:30 pm
Registration will open online on
Eventbrite.com one month prior to
each concert. The Parks & Partners
concert information is available
online at www.sarasotaorchestra.org.
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FST Florida Studio
Theatre (FST) is
back and featuring
FST Summer
Cabaret favorite
Carole J. Bufford,
Vintage POP!
in FST’s
Keating
Theatre on
March 24.
Marie
Selby
Botanical
Gardens
Roy Lichtenstein:
Monet’s Garden Goes
Pop! Runs to June 27,
2021. This exhibition
showcases the legendary
Pop artist’s
screen prints based on
Monet’s world-famous
paintings of waterlilies
and haystacks. Lichtenstein’s
rarely seen
Water Lilies and Haystacks
provide an
unexpected homage
to a staple of the public
imagination — Monet’s
paintings of his garden
and home at Giverny
that inspired them.
Selby Gardens,
transformed into Monet’s
famed gardens at
Giverny through the
Pop Art lens of Roy Lichtenstein,
includes iconic elements of Monet’s
garden such as the green Japanese
bridge, trellises, and benches. This
conjuring of Lichtenstein’s world also
serves as the dynamic backdrop to
the lush plantings and mixed borders
for which Monet’s paintings were
renowned. An avid gardener, Monet
once said, “My garden is my most
beautiful masterpiece.” For more
information, visit www.selby.org.
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Lectures, Classes
and Meetings
The New College Foundation New
Topics lecture series is wrapping up.
The final lecture will be presented via
Zoom at at 5 pm. Tickets are $10. Proceeds
go to fund student scholarships.
“Cybersecurity and Civil Liberties”
by the ACLU's surveillance
and cybersecurity counsel Jennifer
Granick is on March 18. The ability
to speak, organize, and create was
revolutionized by the internet, but
technology has also been an engine
for both public and privacy surveillance,
opening up opportunities for
civil liberties abuses and discrimination.
To mitigate those abuses, individuals
have been demanding improved
cybersecurity measures, and
so the political playing field has shifted
to a battle over encryption. In this
talk, Granick will explore the current
debate and legislative proposals and
offer tips on how people can protect
themselves and get involved.
Registration required. Go to ncf.
edu/new-topics or call the New College
events hotline at 941-487-4888.
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• The Venice Area Women’s College
Club invites you to a noon
lunch on March 9, 11:30 am-2pm, at
Plantation Golf & Country Club, 500
Rockley Blvd., Venice. This month’s
program is about the St. Francis
Animal Rescue presented by Maggie
Pierson, Manager.
The club is seeking new members
and meets the 2nd Tuesday of
months Oct - May. Call 941-202-4034
for membership information and/or
lunch ($22) reservations.
• Programs at The Paradise Center
Mondays:
• Hula Dance—Hula dancing has
many health benefits, such as weight
loss and increased energy. With its
slow and relaxing nature, hula is a
low-to-medium impact exercise,
easing the strain on the joints. It is
also good for your abs, back and hips
and helps tone and strengthen your
legs. Debbie White shares her Hawaiian
hula dance skills in this class
that is guaranteed fun for all fitness
levels. Held outdoors with social
distancing. Walk-ins welcome. $10.
Offered 1-3 p.m.
• Thinking Out Loud: Timely Topics
Discussion Group—Mike Karp
moderates this group discussion each
week. The topics vary (announced
ahead of time) and may include
world affairs, U.S. current events,
popular culture and topics relevant
to seniors. Bring your questions, your
convictions, and your open mind.
Held outdoors with social distancing
or indoors with social distancing and
face masks required. RSVP: DonnaSharpBlaney@TheParadiseCenter.
org or call 941-383-6493. $10.
More offerings at https://
theparadisecenter.org.
Choral Artists
Choral Artists of Sarasota’s
42nd season, entitled “Rise Up!”
continues with “You’ll Never Walk
Alone,” which features” uplifting
songs from Broadway musicals.
Through adversity, many characters
of the Broadway musical “rise
up” and successfully confront life
challenges, inspiring and ennobling
us by their courage. This uplifting
Broadway revue features selections
from Les Misérables, Carousel, A
Chorus Line, Sound of Music, Man
of La Mancha, and Sweet Charity—
characters that inspire us through
their perseverance.
Guest soloist is renowned Broadway
star Ann Morrison. Originally
designed to be part of the Garden
Music Series presented by Marie Selby
Botanical Gardens, the live performance
for patrons has been re-imagined
as a virtual experience. With
the Choral Artists Chamber Chorus;
Michael Stewart, piano; and Joseph
Holt, piano and conductor. Filmed
onsite at Selby Gardens, this virtual
concert will be available on demand
March 11-April 9; tickets are $15. The
“Concert Insight” for this concert is
live-streamed Thursday, February 18,
at 10 a.m. and available on demand
through March 19.
For more information and to purchase
tickets, visit www.ChoralArtists
Sarasota.org or call 941-387-4900.
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At Bookstore1
Sarasota
Upcoming Virtual Events at
Bookstore1Sarasota. All events
presented via Zoom, registration is
required.
• March 5 at 7 p.m. Musicologist
Craig Wright will chat with store
proprietor Georgia Court about his
book The Hidden Habits of Genius:
Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit—Unlocking
the Secrets of Greatness. A
Zoom author visit.
The book examines the 14 key traits
of genius, from curiosity to creative
maladjustment to obsession, Professor
Craig Wright, creator of Yale University’s
popular “Genius Course,” explores
what we can learn from brilliant minds
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out and about continued
that have changed the world.
There is no charge for this
event. There is an optional fee
of $7 to help defray costs. Reservations
required for Zoom link.
• March 7 at 2 p.m. Zoom.
PoetryMic is a series that
presents an array of varied and
talented poets. This month’s
poets are Linda Albert, Mike
Kozubek, Robin Rapaport and
Linda Goodman Robiner.
There is no charge for this
event. There is an optional fee of
$7 to help defray costs. Reservations
required for Zoom link.
Upcoming Virtual Book
Clubs at Bookstore1 Sarasota
for March
All book clubs presented via
Zoom; registration required.
• March 9 at 11 a.m. The Mysteries
to Die For Zoom Book Club led
by Elsie Souza. This month we are
discussing The Searcher by Tana
French. A fee of $34 is required for
participation. This includes a copy
of The Searcher to be picked up at
Bookstore1 and the book club meeting.
Ticket purchase required for
Zoom link.
• March 10 at 2 p.m. The Poetry
Zoom Book Club led by Doug
Knowlton. This month they’re discussing
Postcolonial Love Poem by
Natalie Diaz. A fee of $22 is required
for participation. This includes a
copy of Postcolonial Love Poem to
be picked up at Bookstore1 and the
book club meeting. Ticket purchase
required for Zoom link.
• March 22 at 6 p.m. The Movie Lovers
Zoom Book Club led by Roxanne
Baker. This month we are discussing
A Bright Ray of Darkness: A
Novel by Ethan Hawke. A fee of $35
is required for participation. This includes
a copy of A Bright Ray of Darkness
to be picked up at Bookstore1
and the book club meeting.
The first novel in nearly 20 years
from the acclaimed actor/writer/
director is a book about art and love,
fame and heartbreak—a blistering
story of a young man making his
Broadway debut in Henry IV just
as his marriage implodes. Ethan
Hawke is a four-time Academy Award
nominee, twice for writing and twice
for acting. Ticket purchase required
for Zoom link.
More event info and registration
at https://www.sarasotabooks.com/
events or 941-365-7900.
At the Libraries
Sarasota County has reinstated
Sunday hours at two library
locations – Selby Public Library in
Sarasota, and Frances T. Bourne Jacaranda
Public Library in Venice. This
marks the first time the county has
offered Sunday library hours since
2012, when the county reduced hours
as a cost-saving measure. The reinstatement
is a pilot program aimed
at increasing access to residents and
students from low socioeconomic
backgrounds.
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• The Genealogical Society of
Sarasota will continue to host its programs
in an online environment until
they can safely return to the Geldbart
Auditorium. Participants can expect
expert information on a variety of
genealogy subjects. Visit https://gssfl.
com/index.php to find links to the
webinars. Next: March 13, Maureen
Sarasota Concert Association has Academy of St Martin in the Fields on March 25 at 7 p.m.
Taylor: Google Images & Beyond -
Learn Basic Search Techniques.
• Enjoy a lecture “Films of Sarasota
County through the Century” on-
March 10, 11 am - noon. Join film enthusiast
Gus Mollasis on a journey of
the movies filmed in Sarasota County
throughout the past century. This virtual
program will be hosted in Zoom.
Once you register you’ll be sent a
confirmation email with information
about using Zoom. 24 hours before the
start of you program you will receive
the Meeting ID and Password. https://
scgovlibrary.librarymarket.com/index.php/events/films-sarasota-county-through-century.
Art Exhibits
Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling
College has Between the Sky and the
Water. Runs to May 2, 2021.
Between the Sky and the Water is a
mid-career retrospective of Janaina
Tschäpe (b. Munich, Germany 1973).
Tschäpe’s wide-ranging oeuvre is
visually connected by a lexicon of
forms that array across a variety of
media—painting, drawing, installation,
sculpture, photography, video,
and performance.
These varied articulations of her
core concepts comprise a holistic
cosmology, a gesamtkunstwerk (a
total work of art), a grand evolutionary
opera where each piece plays a
supporting role, subsumed by the
totality of the body. Recurring themes
persist—Kafkaesque metamorphosis
and transformation, a feminist resistance
to the perpetual policing of
the female body, a collapsing of scale
undifferentiating the grand cosmos
from the infinitesimal cellular, an
excavation of the nature of landscape—but
always, most importantly,
is an exploration of painting as a way
of understanding the world.
Travelling from deep sea to land to
space, the terrain is constantly shifting
and yet the same, like a creature
tropically and symbiotically adapting
to whatever environment they find
themselves inhabiting. Atmospherically
sliding between the figurative
and the abstract, the work invites
your eye to travel, free of regard for
chronology, or need of narrative.
Visit www.sarasotaartmuseum.
org. Sarasota Art Museum, Ringling
College Museum Campus, 1001 South
Tamiami Trail, Sarasota
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Embracing Our Differences Exhibit
runs to April 1 in Bayfront Park.
Since 2004, Embracing Our Differences
has used the power of art and prose
to promote diversity. One way it accomplishes
this is through its annual,
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juried international outdoor art exhibition
consisting of 50 billboard-sized
works of art, each accompanied by an
inspirational quote.
The response to the call for artwork
and inspirational quotes brought
15,912 entries from 128 countries and
48 states. Students from 412 schools
around the world submitted artwork
or quotes to the juried exhibit. The
winning quotes are showcased in
the 18th annual exhibit in Sarasota’s
Bayfront Park.
For more information about this
free exhibit or Embracing Our Differences,
call 941-404-5710 or visit www.
embracingourdifferences.org.
Tim Rogerson, Disney artist/
Ringling alumnus and the original
Tinker Bell model Margaret Kerry
have artwork on exhibit (online) to
March 12. Tim’s originals, giclees,
prints, and Margaret’s book are available
for purchase through March 12
at Madeby Gallery. The gallery is temporarily
closed.
Visit www.madebygallery.com to
view all of the student and alumni artwork,
jewelry, and fine crafts available
for purchase. Call 941-822-0442 Monday
through Friday, 9:30 am to 4:30
pm, to make a purchase and arrange
for either shipping or curbside pickup.
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Island Gallery West, 5368 Gulf
Drive, Holmes Beach, has “Water,
Water Everywhere” - paintings by
Candace Bennington. The exhibit
runs March 2-31.
“Water, Water Everywhere,” is a
divine collection of coastal water
oil paintings of local scenery by
the gallery’s March Featured Artist
Candace Bennington. A registered
American Artist with A.S.A. signature
membership, Candace began
her art studies at just 16 years of age
doing plein air watercolors with
John Miller at the quaint Cortez
Fishing Village. Through the years
she has studied under several wellknown
artists; she is now fluent in
watercolor, oils, and pastels.
Island Gallery West is conducting
a Food Drive throughout the month
of March. Bring in canned food items
that will be donated to Manatee
County Food Bank for families affected
by Covid 19.
Info: (941) 778-6648 or visit www.
islandgallerywest.com.
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Gardening
Manatee County’s Agriculture
and Extension Service has a mobile
plant clinic on the first Thursday
of every month. Hours are 9 a.m.
to noon. The clinic is located at St.
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George’s Episcopal Church, 912 63rd
Ave. West, Bradenton.
Master Gardeners will be available
during these times to share their
knowledge on horticulture and assist
community residents with horticulture
questions.
The Florida Master Gardener Program
was created to assist Extension
Agents in providing research based
horticultural education to Florida
residents. In Manatee County, residents
can bring their horticultural
questions to the St. George’s Mobile
Plant Clinic as well as the existing
Plant Diagnostic Clinic where Master
Gardener volunteers will assist in
resolving their questions. The existing
Plant clinic is currently open Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is located at the
Agriculture and Extension Service,
1303 17th Street West, in Palmetto.
Soil testing for pH and soluble salts is
also available for a small fee. Educational
garden tours are available. Various
educational classes in residential
horticulture are offered throughout
the year to the public.
Contact the Manatee County
Agriculture and Extension Service,
(941) 722-4524 to be put on the
mailing list for the Master Gardener
monthly e-newsletter. If you have
an interest in residential horticulture,
consider becoming a Master
Gardener Volunteer. This training
program is offered annually.
Information: Call Alyssa at 941-
722-4524 ext 1822.
Blues and Brunch
Mattison’s Riverwalk Grille has
a monthly live Blues Brunch in partnership
with Realize Bradenton in
2021. Every 4th Sunday of the month,
live blues from local, national, and
even international blues musicians
will be featured at the chef owned
and operated restaurant on the
Bradenton Riverwalk. Enjoy blues
with delicious food on the restaurant’s
outdoor patio.
Brunch is served 11-3 with music
from 11-2. The blues brunch menu
includes chef created menu items
like the Niman Ranch steak and eggs
breakfast bowl, stuffed French toast
with seasonal fruit cream cheese
filling, poached egg and avocado
and duck confit crepe to name a few.
Signature Bloody Marys and bottomless
Mimosas are a great way to
start your Sunday.
Reservations are encouraged, but
not required. Call 941-896-9660 for
reservations. Visit bit.ly/Mattisons-
Brunch to view the menu.
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Sarasota
Concert
Association
Violinist Samantha
Bennett and percussionist
George Nickson will share
their unique artistry on March
11, at 7 p.m. The world-renowned
chamber orchestra,
Academy of St. Martin in the
Fields, concludes the series on
Thursday, March 25, at 7 p.m.
Conducting the conversations
with the artists is Charles
Turon, a musician, educator,
and SCA board member.
The series is free, but registration
is required. Each
link will be viewable for seven days.
Before the full scope of the pandemic
was known, SCA’s 2021 Great Performers
Series season featured six
concerts. As a result of the pandemic,
the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra,
The Cleveland Orchestra, and
Bach Collegium Japan concerts were
cancelled in November. Sarasota
Concert Association recently made
the decision to also cancel the remaining
three concerts of the season,
including the Takács Quartet with
pianist Joyce Yang; violinist Benjamin
Beilman with pianist Yekwon Sunwoo;
and pianist Emanuel Ax.
• Thursday, March 11, 7 p.m.—Violinist
Samantha Bennett and percussionist
George Nickson. Samantha
Bennett, principal second violin with
the Sarasota Orchestra, and George
Nickson, principal percussion with
the Dallas Symphony (also co-directors
of ensembleNEWSRQ), present a
program of wide-ranging works that
showcases their versatile approach to
contemporary music.
• March 25, 7 p.m.—Academy of St
Martin in the Fields. This world-renowned
chamber orchestra presents
“Overcoming Distance,” a program
highlighting soloists from within the
orchestra in works by Bach, Messiaen,
and MacMillan, as well as the entire
ensemble performing Bach’s Brandenburg
Concerto No. 4, and Mozart’s
Symphony No. 29.
The series is free, but registration is
required. Each link will be viewable
for seven days. For more information
and to register for the “Musically
Speaking” program, visit www.
SCAsarasota.org/MusicallySpeaking.
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Theatre
FST Florida Studio Theatre (FST)
plans to reopen in the spring of 2021
with two new musical revues. Following
these two Cabarets, FST will
return to full production in June with
a three-show Summer Mainstage
Season and a three-show Cabaret
Season. Upon reopening in late
March, FST will continue to operate
within full compliance with all CDC
guidelines, including social distancing,
temperature checks, and limited
theatre capacities.
Featuring FST Summer Cabaret favorite
Carole J. Bufford, Vintage POP!
begins playing in FST’s Keating Theatre
on March 24. With music made famous
by Ella Fitzgerald, Jerry Lee Lewis,
and Creedence Clearwater Revival,
this brand-new musical revue explores
the evolution of popular music from
the ‘20s to the ‘80s. Called “One of Cabaret’s
brightest rising stars” by Time
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out and about continued
Out New York, Bufford will bring exciting,
fresh takes on songs that defined
their eras, like “St. Louis Blues,” “You
Can Never Tell,” “Have You Ever Seen
the Rain,” and more.
Tickets to Vintage POP! and Three
Pianos are now on sale at FloridaStudio
Theatre.org or by calling the FST
Box Office at (941) 366-9000. Call the
FST Box Office at 941-366-9000.
Urbanite Theatre is back with
Monsters of the American Cinema
by Christian St. Croix; directed by
Harry Bryce. Runs March 18, 19 and
20 at 6 p.m. at Marie Selby Botanical
Gardens, Spanish Point Campus.
When his husband dies, Remy
Washington finds himself both the
owner of a drive-in movie theater
and a caregiver to his late husband’s
teenaged son, Pup. In a humorous
and haunting tale about fatherhood,
masculinity and grief, the duo battles
the ghosts from the past in order to
connect in the present.
Unlike a full production, a staged
reading strips theatrical convention
down to the bare essentials of
engaging storytelling: professional
performers and text. Audiences can
expect riveting stories read by actors
with minimal staging.
For events at Selby Gardens Downtown
or Spanish Point Campuses,
Urbanite Theatre will rent standard
event chairs. If you wish to bring
additional cushioning, bring them.
Events at the Hermitage Artist Retreat
will take place on the beach, and patrons
are encouraged to bring beach
chairs or blankets.
Patrons may not bring food or beverage
to the performances at Selby
Gardens Downtown or Spanish Point
locations. However, patrons are encouraged
to bring their own food and
beverages to the performances taking
place on the beach at the Hermitage
Artist Retreat. Seating for outdoor
readings will be distanced, and all
patrons will should wear masks covering
the nose and mouth at all times.
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Gabrielle Lennon, author of
“Touch Me Real and Other Stories”
and “After Midnight: A Book of Poetry.,”
has Touch Me Real, Via Zoom
for those who miss live theater. After
the play, there will be talk back with
writer/actor Gabrielle Lennon. This
one-woman show is a coming-ofage
story of best friends. This is not a
reading — it’s a fully-produced show.
Info: www.lennonbooks.com or www.
gabriellelennon.com. Tickets: https://
buytickets.at/movingrealproductions.
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Manatee Performing Arts Center
has Tony Sands returning to Stone
Hall stage for Sinatra! The Musical.
He will be performing two shows on
Saturday, March 27 at 2 p.m. and 7
p.m. This show is a must-see for any
Sinatra fan.
A multimedia extravaganza for the
eyes and ears, this show takes you
through a musical journey of Frank
Sinatra’s life, from his Big Band career
to his return at Madison Square
Garden for the MAIN EVENT. You
will be treated to over 20 songs from
Sinatra’s songbook including “That’s
Life”, “Come Fly with Me”, “Luck Be
a Lady”, “My Way”, “New York, New
York” and many more.
Tony Sands has been perfecting his
act and wooing audiences all across
the United States and has appeared at
the Tropicana Casino and Resort Hotel
in Atlantic City
and the Rat Pack
Show at Harrah’s
Hotel and Casino.
Tickets can be
purchased at Manatee
Performing
Arts Center by
phone (941) 748-
5875 or at www.
ManateePerformingArtsCenter.com.
Westcoast
Black Theatre
Troupe has outdoor
performances
through March
14. “Light Up the
Night!” features
a live band led by
Resident Music
Director (and bass
player) James “Jay”
Dodge II, accompanying a variety
of popular WBTT artists – including
favorites like Raleigh Mosely, Henry
Washington and more – as they
perform soul hits of the 1970s. Selections
will include “Superstition,”
“Let’s Get It On,” “I Want You Back,”
“Brick House,” “September” and
many, many more. Joining Dodge
in the band will be Todd Bellamy,
piano, Brennan Stylez on auxiliary
keys, Brad Foutch, guitar, and Etienne
“EJ” Porter, drums.
The artists will perform under the
awning along the west side of the
theater building, while patrons watch
from the closest areas of the parking
lot. Chairs within painted 6-foot circles
– to ensure safe distancing – will
accommodate one or two guests within
each circle. Advance tickets will be
sold in one-week increments to accommodate
exchanges for inclement
weather; there will be no door sales.
There will be temperature checks at
the gate and masks will be required at
all times with no exceptions.
In order to ensure consistent adherence
to public health guidelines,
WBTT has hired a COVID-19 safety
officer. This staff member will monitor
health and safety procedures for
the foreseeable future.
“Light Up the Night!” tickets are
$40/person, with seating in socially
distanced parties of one or two. Go
to westcoastblacktheatre.org or call
the Box Office at 941-366-1505.
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Asolo Rep has Camelot. King
Arthur has created a utopian land of
chivalry and civil rule. But when his
beloved Queen Guenevere falls in love
with Sir Lancelot, the king’s most trusted
knight, true honor is put to the test.
With one of Broadway’s most
enchanting scores featuring the
hauntingly romantic “If Ever I Would
Leave You,” “I Loved You Once in
Silence,” and “Follow Me,” Camelot
gets a streamlined concert staging by
Asolo Rep Associate Artistic Director.
March 17 – April 1, Asolo Rep proudly
presents a lush, intimate six-person
concert version of Alan Jay Lerner and
Frederick Loewe’s timeless masterpiece
Camelot.
Directed by Asolo Rep Associate
Artistic Director Celine Rosenthal,
Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot tells the
classic, sweeping tale of King Arthur,
Queen Guenevere and Sir Lancelot.
This fresh production features new
orchestrations by Tony-nominee
Steve Orich, who will also serve as
music director, and will be performed
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WBTT’s Resident Music Director James "Jay" Dodge II serves as music
director and bass player for the 'Light Up the Night!' open-air concert series.
Photo: Sorcha Augustine
with some dialogue and essential
staging. Camelot is awaiting health
and safety approval from Actors’
Equity Association. Casting will be
announced soon.
Tickets: https://www.asolorep.org/
events/category/asolo-rep.
Ballet
The Sarasota Ballet has specially
filmed performances that ticket
buyers can stream from their homes.
These digital experiences will replace
in-theater performances for the first
three programs of the 30th Anniversary
Season. The priority of The Sarasota
Ballet is to safeguard audience
members, dancers, and staff from the
ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Season continues with Program
5, March 26 at the Sarasota
Opera House, and opens with George
Balanchine’s Serenade. Its 1935
premiere signified Balanchine’s first
American choreographic production
and has become one of his most iconic
and beloved ballets. It would also
become the first ballet Balanchine
choreographed to the orchestrations
of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Serenade courses through the four
movements of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade
for Strings – albeit not in their original
order – as twenty-six blue-attired
dancers mesmerizingly flow together
on stage. Following Serenade is the
Company Premiere of Mark Morris’
The Letter V, marking the first
time The Sarasota Ballet will perform a
work by the esteemed choreographer.
Originally premiered in 2015 by
the Houston Ballet, The Letter V sets
Morris’ dynamic approach to dance
and distinctive musicality to Joseph
Haydn’s Symphony No. 88 in G, a
pairing that Alistair Macaulay stated,
in his New York Times review, “exemplifies
the same qualities as Mr.
Morris: high spirits, terrific humor, a
strong inclination to the pastoral and
a keen instinct for structural experimentation.”
Finally, rounding off the
triple bill will be Sir Kenneth Mac-
Millan’s Elite Syncopations, a ragtime-powered
“dance concert” created
for The Royal Ballet in 1974 with
MacMillan at his most whimsical.
More info at https://www.sarasotaballet.org/fall-digital-season.
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2021 Jewish
Film Festival of
Sarasota-Manatee
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This is the festival’s 12th year!
They’ll be presenting
a premier
line-up of
2 diverse films:
documentaries,
narratives, tragedies
and comedies
mysteries and
love stories March
1-25. Tickets and
schedule: https://
jfedsrq.org/jff21.
Farmer’s
Markets
The Sarasota
Farmers Market
is open on
Saturdays with
normal hours of
7 am-1 pm, rain
or shine. Vendors
are spread out 10-15 feet apart from
one another to make more room
to socially distance yourself as you
shop. They’ve spread the vendors
onto State and First Streets, as well
as on to Lemon. Be sure to also support
those vendors that are on State
and First Streets during your trip to
the market. Signage and arrows on
the ground will direct the foot traffic
flow. Masks are mandatory. The city
of Sarasota has partnered with The
Market to give away free masks
while supplies last.
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Venice Farmers Market winter
hours: Saturdays 8am to 1pm,
through March. The Venice Farmers
Market is located at Venice City Hall,
401 W. Venice Avenue.
Face coverings will be required for
those visiting the Market. If customers
do not have a face covering, cloth
masks will be provided for them by the
Market, while supplies last. All staff
and vendors wear masks and gloves
and sanitizing stations are available.
Vendors are offering produce,
baked goods, wild-caught seafood,
Florida-grown mushrooms, boutique
cheeses, locally roasted coffee, kettle
corn, hand crafted soap, essential oils,
nursery plants and fresh cut flowers.
In addition, local artists will be at the
market offering award-winning photography,
unique clay art and jewelry,
hand-designed clothing for children
and adults, and much more.
For information, go to www.thevenicefarmersmarket.org.
The Newtown Farmer’s Market is
open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every
Friday and Saturday. The market is
located at Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. Park, at the corner of Cocoanut
Avenue and Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. Way. Vendors and shoppers are
expected to follow Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention safety guidelines
and wear a mask.
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Bradenton Farmer’s Market offers
fresh produce, local art, music,
demos by local chefs, and family activities.
Parking is free on weekends,
and dogs on leashes are welcome.
Held every Saturday through May,
from 9am – 2pm, on Old Main Street
in downtown Bradenton, 400 12th St.
W. Bradenton. Old Main Street is a
tree-lined retail district of cafes and
restaurants running three blocks
north from Manatee Avenue to the
Manatee River, where it meets the
Bradenton Riverwalk.
The Riverwalk is a 1.5-mile park
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that features day docks, an amphitheater,
performance areas and pavilion,
a skateboard park, an interactive
splash pad, and much more. There
are over 35 vendors who offer locally-grown
fruits, vegetables, plants,
organic products, fresh seafood,
prepared foods, as well as the work of
local artists and craftspeople.
Every third Saturday, Mainly
Art hosts dozens of local artists and
craftspeople displaying and selling
their creations. Art, crafts, live music,
and food are available from 9am to
2pm on Fourth Avenue West, perpendicular
to the Bradenton Farmers’
Market on Main Street.
Why wait for Saturday? The Phillippi
Farmhouse Market is Sarasota’s
mid-week farmers market. The Farmhouse
Market is open from 9 a.m. to
2 p.m. every Wednesday, October
through April, at Phillippi Estate
Park, 5500 S Tamiami Trail, Sarasota.
Over 50 vendors offer produce and
plants from local growers and producers,
as well as prepared foods, specialty
and sustainable items, and Florida
agriculturally-related products. Fruit
and produce vendors at the Phillippi
Farmhouse Market are required to be
growers to support the market’s mission
of promoting local agriculture.
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Lakewood Ranch Farmers’
Market offers fresh produce and
other treats. The market is open 10
a.m.-2 p.m. every Sunday through
April, and it sets up in the parking
lot of Lakewood Ranch Medical
Center, 8330 Lakewood Ranch Blvd.,
Lakewood Ranch. You’ll find vendors
selling fruits, vegetables, herbs,
eggs, seafood, desserts, breads, honey
and a ton more.
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SarasotaOpera
Maid To Mistress (La serva padrona),
a short opera by Giovanni Battista
Pergolesi. The plot involves a wealthy
older bachelor who grows impatient
with his saucy young maid and resolves
to find a wife to care for him properly.
The maid has other ideas though, and
schemes to get the promotion she desires
— bride and mistress of the home.
The opera will be sung in Italian, with
English translations above the stage.
There will be six performances through
Thursday, March 4, 2021.
• Opening on Friday, April 9 will
be Il signor Bruschino by Gioacchino
Rossini. This lighthearted operatic
comedy opens with one of Rossini’s
most innovative and playful overtures.
Anxious young lovers navigate
their way through meddling parents,
an arranged marriage, and a case
of mistaken identity, with sparkling
arias and ensembles soaring towards
happily ever after. The opera will be
sung in Italian, with English translations
above the stage. There will be six
performances through April 24.
• Opening on Sunday, April 11 will
be Dido & Aeneas by Henry Purcell.
In this Baroque treasure based on the
Aeneid of Virgil, Dido the Queen of
Carthage falls in love with the Trojan
warrior Aeneas, yet scheming sorcery
and fateful spells doom their great
passion. Hear the abandoned and
heartbroken queen conclude the epic
tale with one of opera’s most memorable
laments. The opera will be sung
in the original English, with titles
above the stage, for six performances
through April 25.
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women’s health
Women’s Wellness
Is a 12 Month Commitment
The new year serves as a
reminder to women to make
their health a priority and
build positive health habits
for life. As women we should
be thinking about our health 365 days
a year. Intimate issues such as urinary
incontinence, sexual dysfunction and
pelvic pain can be hard to discuss.
I want to remind you that no issue is
too little or too big to talk about when
it is bothersome to you. As women, we
often compare ourselves to a friend, a
neighbor or a family member and forget
that we are all unique, we all individuals
and it’s personal. Your health is a lifelong
journey. It’s not always easy to take
steps to discuss intimate health issues.
Every woman needs to focus on her
own approach. Every woman needs a
purpose and to find her own motivation.
If you, like many other women,
have difficulty with urinary incontinence,
sexual dysfunction and/or pelvic
pain or if you want to learn more, see
me, Casie Wodzien, Nurse Practitioner,
at the Urology Treatment Center.
I specialize in the treatment of women’s
urological health issues and would
be happy to help you at our Sarasota
or Lakewood Ranch office. When you
think about pink, remember you are
unique and your health matters every
single day of the year. Your urological
issues are not too little or too big to discuss.
Women’s wellness and awareness
always work together.
Many people are surprised to learn
that urology covers a wide range of
conditions for both men and women. In
addition to treating the male reproductive
system, urologists treat diseases and
conditions in the kidneys, bladder, and
urinary tract – all of which affect both
genders in all stages of life.
Women may experience urological
health issues that are unique to their
anatomy. While numerous urological
conditions can affect women of all
ages for a variety of reasons, childbirth,
menopause or a hysterectomy can alter
the body in ways that could lead to conditions
including pelvic floor weakness,
overactive bladder or inflammation of
the bladder wall (interstitial cystitis).
Fortunately, most conditions are highly
treatable, especially when caught early.
• Urinary Tract Infections/Bladder
Infections – Most women will
develop a urinary tract infection (UTI)
at some point in their lives. The infection
develops when bacteria enter the
urinary tract. Women with a UTI may
have pain or burning when they urinate.
They may also feel a sudden urge
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to go to the bathroom, but
then have trouble urinating.
UTIs can be serious,
but they also can be treated
with antibiotics.
• Overactive Bladder
(OAB) – OAB is a condition
recognized by symptoms
including urinary urgency,
frequent urination, waking
up at least twice a night
to urinate or urge incontinence
(leakage of urine).
Treatments range from
medication or nerve stimulation to Botox
injections or surgery. At least 30 million
Americans suffer from overactive bladder.
• Urinary Leakage/Incontinence –
Millions of women experience involuntary
loss of urine, called urinary incontinence.
The condition affects all ages and
women of every social and economic
level, though urinary incontinence
occurs more often in older women than
in young women. The condition can
be driven by stress or by a weakness in
bladder or pelvic floor muscles and can
be treated with a variety of approaches,
depending on severity.
• Pelvic Floor Weakness/Vaginal
Prolapse/”Dropped Bladder” – Pelvic
floor prolapse occurs when the upper
portion of the vagina loses its normal
shape and sags or drops down into the
vaginal canal or even outside of the vaginal
opening. There are several types of
pelvic floor prolapse including bladder,
rectum, small bowel and uterus. It’s wise
not to let the condition go on too long,
as most worsening pelvic floor prolapses
can only be fully corrected with surgery.
• Pelvic Pain/Interstitial Cystitis –
Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a long-term
inflammation of the bladder wall, also
called painful bladder syndrome. Its
symptoms are very similar to a urinary
tract infection, such as urinary urgency
and/or pelvic pain, but lack an identifiable
cause such as bacterial infection.
In the past, IC was believed to be a
relatively uncommon problem, but now
it is thought to affect up to 12 percent
of women.
Though women can be reluctant to
talk about these sensitive issues, it is
important to share details with and
seek treatment from
a certified urologist.
Not doing so not only
diminishes your quality
of life, but can put
you at serious risk.
SOURCE:
Casie Wodzien,
MS, APRN,
ANP-BC, Urology
Treatment Center.
Casie Wodzien,
MSN, APRN, ANP-BC
Urology Treatment Center
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focus on the arts
TWO CONCERTS COMING UP WITH
Choral Artists of Sarasota:
“You’ll Never Walk Alone” —songs from Broadway musicals
“Love in the Air” —a choreographed work to “Liebeslieder Walzer” by Brahms
“You’ll Never Walk Alone”
Streamed Online: March 11-April 9
“Love is in the Air”
Streamed Online: March 28-April 27
A “Concert Insight” with Artistic
Director Joseph Holt is March 18
The ensemble’s 42nd season continues
with two concerts in March.
Choral Artists
of Sarasota’s
42nd season,
entitled “Rise
Up!” continues
with “You’ll Never Walk
Alone,” which features”
uplifting songs from Broadway
musicals. Through adversity,
many characters of the
Broadway musical “rise up”
and successfully confront
life challenges, inspiring and
ennobling us by their courage.
This uplifting Broadway revue
features selections from Les
Misérables, Carousel, A Chorus
Line, Sound of Music, Man of La
Mancha, and Sweet Charity—
characters that inspire us
through their perseverance.
Guest soloist for this
performance is renowned
Broadway star Ann Morrison.
Originally designed to be part
of the Garden Music Series
presented by Marie Selby
Botanical Gardens, the live
performance for patrons has
been re-imagined as a virtual
experience. With the Choral
Artists Chamber Chorus;
Michael Stewart, piano;
and Joseph Holt, piano and
conductor.
Filmed onsite at Selby
Gardens, this virtual concert
will be available on demand
March 11-April 9; tickets are
$15. The “Concert Insight” for
this concert is available on
demand through March 19.
The second concert in March
is “Love in the Air.”
For this, Choral Artists
of Sarasota teams up with
dancemaker Elizabeth
Bergmann to present a newly
choreographed work to the
music of “Liebeslieder Walzer”
by Johannes Brahms. With a
stellar vocal quartet and piano
four-hand accompaniment,
this charming and endearing
work springs to life. The charm
continues with Brahms’ sequel,
“Neue Liebeslieder.”
Performance recorded at the
Historic Asolo Theatre with
participating singers Nicole
Smith and Michaela Ristaino,
sopranos; Amy Jo Connours and
Hannah Boyd, altos; Mark Lubas
and Baron Garriot, tenors;
Charlie Miller and
John Whittlesey,
bass; and
Michael Stewart
and Joseph Holt,
piano four-hands.
This virtual
presentation premieres on
Sunday, March 28, 4 p.m.,
and is available on demand
through April 27. Tickets
are $15-$30. The “Concert
Insight” for this concert is livestreamed
Thursday, March
18, at 10 a.m. and available on
demand through April 16.
The Choral Artists of
Sarasota’s 2020-2021
season continues with:
• American Fanfare:
Rousing patriotic anthems
and stirring inspirational
choral works celebrate another
traditional Independence
Day concert. Joining Choral
Artists for the first time will
be the Lakewood Ranch
Wind Ensemble, performing
Sousa marches and patriotic
selections to complement
the program.
Musical fireworks abound in
this annual salute to America.
This live performance is
Sunday, July 4, 4 p.m., at
Sarasota Opera House. The
online replay of this concert is
Sunday, July 17, 4 p.m. – August
17. The “Concert Insight” for
this concert is live-streamed
Thursday, June 24, at 10 a.m.
and available on demand
through July 24.
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1. Ann
Morrison
2. Michael
Stewart
3. Joseph
Holt
4. Nicole
Smith
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TICKETS:
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For more information and to
purchase tickets, visit www.
ChoralArtistsSarasota.org
or call 941-387-4900.
About the Choral
Artists of Sarasota
The Choral Artists of Sarasota,
entering its 42nd season,
features 32 of the region’s most
notable professional singers
and eight apprentice singers.
The group celebrates the
rich, artistic expressiveness
of choral music through
innovative repertoire, inspired
performances and stimulating
educational outreach.
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Eight young singers, ages 16
to 22, are also invited to join
the group each year, as part of
the organization’s educational
outreach. One of these gifted
singers will be awarded the
Barbara Diles Apprentice
Scholarship, a funding program
to support either private
lessons or vocal training at an
institution of higher learning.
“Ensuring the future of choral
music means investing in the
next generation of music lovers,”
says Susan Burke, executive
director of Choral Artists of
Sarasota. “That means engaging
young people, nurturing them
and encouraging them to
continue their studies.”
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5. Amy Jo
Connours
6. Hannah
Boyd
7. Baron
Garriot
Under the artistic direction of
Dr. Joseph Holt, Choral Artists of
Sarasota performs a repertoire
spanning four centuries, and
includes symphonic choral
works, intimate madrigals,
folk songs, close-harmony jazz,
and Broadway show music.
The ensemble also specializes
in premiere performances
of lesser-known choral
works—particularly music by
living American composers.
Choral Artists of Sarasota
has performed premieres by
René Clausen, Dick Hyman,
Robert Levin, Gwyneth Walker
and James Grant. For more
information, visit www.
ChoralArtistsSarasota.org.
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out and about continued
Virtual performance options will
be available.
All operas will also be live
streamed in high definition with
multiple cameras, premium audio,
and subtitles, and will be available for
purchase as a virtual season for $100
or as a single opera for $25.
Sarasota Opera will continue to
use enhanced cleaning procedures,
testing, masking, and ample spacing
to protect artists, crew, musicians,
staff members, and audience. The
historic Sarasota Opera House, which
normally seats 1119, will be limited
to an audience of 275, approximately
20% of its capacity. Details on health
and safety can be found at https://
www.sarasotaopera.org/health-andsafety.
In the evolving environment
of COVID-19, future plans will be
continually evaluated, and other adjustments
may be made to the performance
schedule and protocols if circumstances
require further changes.
For more information on the upcoming
2021 Winter and Spring performances,
visit SarasotaOpera.org,
or contact the Sarasota Opera Box
Office at (941) 328-1300.
At The Van Wezel
The Van Wezel has two additional
virtual offerings for the month
of March. Celebrate Irish culture
with Rhythm of the Dance, streaming
from March 1-31, and Ireland
with Michael on March 14. Both
streams are available for purchase.
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• Ireland with Michael on March
14 at 7 p.m. Virtual meet and greet
options are available. Ireland with
Michael is a Celtic show from the National
Opera House in Wexford, Ireland.
The never-before-seen stream
features the Irish Concert Orchestra,
two choirs, singers and musicians
from all over Ireland, joining renowned
Irish singer Michael Londra
in a celebration of Irish culture,
heritage and music for Saint Patrick’s
season. The show, which was taped in
front of a live audience, also steps out
into the Irish villages and countryside
to meet local traditional singers,
dancers and musicians.
• Rhythm of the Dance. Streaming
on demand from March 1- 31.
Tickets are $20. Brimming with
pulsating rhythms, pure energy and
melodic music, the National Dance
Company of Ireland’s Rhythm of the
Dance show has reached 50 countries
with over seven million fans for
over 20 years. Fans around the world
are enjoying 2,000 years and more
of dance, music, songs and culture
from pre-Celtic times to modern
day sounds, all compacted into a
two-hour concert. It’s full of flailing
feet and fiddles, futuristic dances,
eye-catching lighting and costumes
and sensational sound effects, and
is now hailed as one of the top three
Irish step dance shows in the world.
Tickets: www.VanWezel.org, or call
the box office at 941-263-6799.
The Van Wezel has the following
changes to the 2020-2021 season:
• Audra McDonald’s performance on
February 13, 2021 is being rescheduled
to a future date. Patrons are
encouraged to hold on to their tickets,
and the Hall will announce the
new date once it is available.
• PROUD Tina: The Ultimate Tribute
to Tina Turner on March 9,
2021 has been rescheduled
to January 13, 2022.
• Rick Thomas: Mansion
of Dreams on April 8,
2021 has been rescheduled
to April 11, 2022.
• Johnny : 65 Years of Romance
on April 14, 2021
has been rescheduled to
April 12, 2022.
The Van Wezel’s Box
Office will be following
up with patrons directly
affected by these changes.
Patrons who wish to attend
rescheduled performances
should keep their tickets,
which will be honored for
the future performance
dates. Patrons who will
not be able to attend the
rescheduled performances
have the opportunity to
donate their tickets or receive
a refund.
Future updates can be
obtained from the Van
Wezel’s website and social
media accounts: www.Van-
Wezel.org.
Art Around
the State
- many of
these exhibits
are online/virtual
At Tampa Museum of Art:
Living Color: The Art of the Highwaymen
through March 28, 2021.
Living Color brings together 60 paintings
from five private collections, featuring
the works of the core group of
Florida Highwaymen. These celebrated
African American artists depicted
the state’s natural environment and
rich tones through their unique selftaught
painting styles.
Call 813-274-8130 or visit TampaMuseum.org.
The Museum’s address is 120
W. Gasparilla Plaza. Tampa.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, St.
Petersburg has Color Riot! How Color
Changed Navajo Textiles. Runs
through March 14, 2021.
This exhibition celebrates the individualism
and flair for experimentation
in Navajo textiles from the
last quarter of the 19th century. Featuring
over 80 dazzling works, these
textiles reflect ideas and events the
Navajo people experienced between
1863 and 1868, the hard years of
their imprisonment in the Bosque
Redondo, and their subsequent return
to a reservation.
During this time, weavers absorbed
stylistic features of Hispanic
textiles and began to work with new
materials such as aniline dyes and
mass-produced Germantown yarns.
Commercial products at trading posts
sparked additional design ideas for
weavers. This touched off their unique
experiments with color and design.
No longer weaving for their traditional
trade partners, and working at a
time when outside market influences
were at a low point, the Navajo were
free to experiment with form and
color. In addition, as commercial woven
garments and cloth became more
common, creating blankets and rugs
offered weavers a chance to sell to
traders for newly expanding markets.
The MFA is located at 255 Beach
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Asolo Rep has Camelot, March 17-April 1. This fresh production
features new orchestrations by Tony-nominee Steve
Orich, who will also serve as music director.
Drive NE is St. Petersburg. For more
information, visit mfastpete.org.
The Society of the Four Arts
has Charles and Jackson Pollock
running through March 28, 2021.
Charles Pollock was the eldest of five
boys (his youngest brother was Jackson.
Charles moved to New York in
1926 to study under Regionalist painter
Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students
League and in 1930 persuaded
18-year-old Jackson to join him.
Each was strongly influenced by
Benton and both were admirers of the
Mexican muralists, but while Charles
adopted Benton’s American scene
painting, Jackson was more interested
in the symbolic and mythical
content of the Mexicans.
In addition to approximately 70
paintings and works on paper by ‘Pollock
the Elder’, the exhibition presents
a small, even intimate selection
of works revealing a Jackson Pollock
little known to the general public:
paintings, drawings including one of
only two surviving notebooks of the
1950s, his sole surviving sculpture,
virtually his entire production of
prints, and a pair of low four-legged,
paint-spattered stools immortalized
in photographs by Hans Namuth and
Arnold Newman of Pollock at work in
his Long Island barn-studio.
The exhibition is at The Esther
B. O’Keeffe Gallery: North, Main
and South Galleries. The Society of
the Four Arts, 100 Four Arts Plaza,
Palm Beach.
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Virtual Exhibit: Boca Raton Historical
Society & Museum. “Life’s a
Beach” examines the history of Boca
Raton from the perspective of its
most beautiful asset, the beachfront.
Learn about the first people to call
Boca Raton home, the pre-Columbian
Indians, who lived primarily
in coastal areas here. See the
beachfront that greeted our pioneers
through many historic photographs.
Find out about the importance of
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Boca’s beach during World
War II. Enjoy these images
and artifacts gleaned
from the collections of the
BRHS&M. Through August
4, 2021.
www.bocahistory.org/
lifes-a-beach. Boca Raton
Historical Society & Museum,
71 North Federal
Highway, Boca Raton.
“Collecting Stories”
Exhibit runs through April
3, 2021 at the Morikami
Museum and Japanese
Gardens. The Morikami
Museum’s exhibition
“Collecting Stories”
highlights more than 100
works drawn from the
Morikami’s permanent
collection and featured in
five vignettes, or mini-exhibitions.
Enjoy early 20th century
kimono in Dressing the
Modern Girl. In Celebrating
Sake, explore the
many different varieties of
utensils used for making
and serving sake. Visitors
can learn about the vast
array of face masks used
in Japan, from medieval
samurai armor to sci-fi
anime characters, in
Masquerade. Observe the profound
emotions associated with the moon
while gazing at A View of the Moon
featuring both traditional woodblock
prints and contemporary artworks.
Consider the culturally intertwined
beliefs of Shint shrines and Buddhist
altars in Sacred Spaces.
Morikami Museum and Japanese
Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road,
Delray Beach.
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Soul on Art: Ghosts of Africa
runs to March 10, 2021 at the Lighthouse
ArtCenter Gallery and School
of Art. Soul on Art: Ghosts of Africa
features work by significant brown
and black artists, including Leonardo
Drew, Adam Pendleton, William
Kwamenah-Poh, Kara Walker, and
Purvis Young. These accomplished
painters, sculptors, and multimedia
artists have created work held in
prestigious collections including, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
The exhibition presents thought-provoking
and evocative artworks inspired
by the artists’ personal experiences
and cultural heritage. A mustsee
for anyone compelled to explore
the effects of the African diaspora on
some of today’s most successful contemporary
artists.
Lighthouse ArtCenter Gallery and
School of Art, 373 Tequesta Drive,
Tequesta, Florida. https://www.lighthousearts.org/soul-on-art.html.
Van Gogh Alive runs through
April 11, 2021 at the Dali Museum
in St. Petersburg. Experience
Vincent van Gogh’s works in an immersive
art installation that opens
a new window into the celebrated
painter’s artistic genius. From his
famous “Starry Night” to his radiant
“Sunflowers,” Van Gogh’s vibrant
work invites viewers to revel in color,
light and sound. Visitors will feel the
sensation of walking right into Van
Gogh’s paintings.
The exhibition features more than
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3,000 Van Gogh images at enormous
scale, viewed through high-definition
projectors and synchronized
to a powerful classical score. Cinema-quality
surround-sound amplifies
the emotion generated by the
works themselves. In addition to the
iconic works featured, visitors can
examine Van Gogh’s inspiration via
photographs and video displayed
alongside them.
The Dalí is the first North American
venue to host this version of Van Gogh
Alive. Tickets: https://thedali.org/
visit/buy-tickets/.
Sarasota
Institute of
Lifetime Learning
SILL has 2021 “Global Issues”
series to March 30 and 2021 “Music
Mondays” series to March 22. Both
series will be offered free and presented
virtually.
The Global Issues series features
experts exploring topical issues. The
Music Mondays series, after suffering
the loss of its beloved host Edward
Alley, will be led by Joseph Holt.
This year’s series will be offered
free of charge on a virtual platform,
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30
a.m. Guests will be able to interact
with the speakers after each lecture.
Registration is required at www.
sillsarasota.org.
Highlights of SILL’s 2021 season
includes: author and diplomat Amb.
Dennis Ross, who will explore the
current state of the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict; former chief of naval
operations Admiral Gary Roughhead,
who will discuss the evolving role of
the U.S. military as an agent for the
promotion of democracy; author and
historian Jeremy Suri, who will address
presidential leadership in crisis;
Susan Spaulding, former undersecretary
for Cybersecurity and Critical
Infrastructure at the Department of
Homeland Security, who will discuss
the U.S. under electronic siege; and
Amb. Robert Ford, who will discuss
Syria and the Kurds. Such popular
SILL speakers as Martin Walker, Baroness
Margaret Jay, Dr. Moshen Milani,
and Dr. Bob Barylski will return
to illuminate their areas of expertise.
SILL’s popular Music Mondays
series entitled “Musical Conversations
with Great Performers”
features informal performances and
lively conversations with renowned
and emerging performers, composers
and conductors. The 2021 season
will be offered virtually on Mondays
at 10:30 a.m.
To learn more, visit www.sillsarasota.org
or call 941-365-6404.
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Coming Up and
Not to be Missed
Stock up on your favorite snacks
and prepare to get cozy on your
couch this March for the Through
Women’s Eyes International Film
Festival virtual March 5-8. Over
360 films have been submitted.
Tickets will go on sale in the new
year; stay tuned for updates in our
January newsletter! If you have
questions about Through Women’s
Eyes or would like to learn how you
can get involved, contact: TWE Director
Debbie Vale: debbievaletwe@
gmail.com.
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dining in
For St. Patrick’s Day: Irish Soda Bread
Easy to make, yet so many versions
Having visited Ireland, I know the Irish are charmingly prone to
story- telling, myth-making and lengthy talk of fairies to explain,
enhance or, well, just have fun with. An Irish cabbie told me a long
story about fairies and ancient burial mounds, all with great detail. At
the end he added, ”but then, it may or may not be true.”
Fast forward and here we are in March and St. Patrick’s Day is fast upon us on the
17th. Trying to get a recipe for traditional Irish soda bread is like trying to get to
the bottom of those fairy stories. What’s the true recipe?
Bread – simple, unfussy and utterly delicious – is one of Ireland’s food staples.
In America, which has a large Irish immigrant population, the recipes for Irish
soda bread have drifted far from the original. That’s not necessarily bad, though.
US recipes can be gluten-free, dairy-free, with currants/raisins etc. and a million
other variations on a theme.
Coming from Murphy stock on the maternal side of my family, we had Irish soda
bread on St. Patrick’s Day. I really tried to like it, but it was so dry the only way to
eat it was with a big slice of margarine (we never had butter). So I had the impression
it was an acquired taste (code language for not that great).
I like to cook and have had some success with baking. What I really like, though,
is studying and reading recipes. Yep; lots of cookbooks that I read and only occasionally
use. Seems four ingredients are essential and quitessential. Flour, buttermilk,
baking soda salt optoinal.
So I wanted to read up on Irish soda Bread. Here’s what I found.
The soda bread recipe was
first introduced to Ireland
during the 1840s. A
traditional product of a
poor country, it was made
with only the most basic of
ingredients: flour, baking
soda (instead of yeast),
soured milk to moisten and
activate the soda, and salt.
Perhaps it is the fact that
bread-making was so much
a part of daily life in Ireland
that makes the recipe, the smell, and the taste so special to Irish people. In rural
areas, where homes were more isolated, most kitchens had open hearths and the
bread would be cooked on griddles or in three-legged black iron pots, over turf
The Ballymaloe Cookery School
fires. The resulting loaf was tender and dense, with a sour tang and a hard crust.
Legend has it that the cross was cut on the top before baking to ward off the devil
and protect the household. Or so they say.
According to the New York Times, “While soda bread with add-ins like currants
and caraway can be delicious, it's not at all authentic. In Ireland, soda bread tends
to be plainer and more restrained.”
Here is a classic recipe adapted from Darina Allen, owner of the Ballymaloe Cookery
School in Shanagarry. This soda bread is is best eaten still steaming from the
oven, and covered in salted Irish butter. this recipe all year long. That’s how they
do it in Ireland.
—Melissa Clark
INGREDIENTS:
3 ½ cups of
all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon
fine sea salt
3/4 teaspoon
baking soda
1 ½ cups
buttermilk,
more as needed
Healthy tip: To reduce
calories simply use lowfat
buttermilk instead
of full-fat buttermilk.
F Traditional Irish Soda Bread
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Heat oven to 450 degrees. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, salt and baking
soda. Make a well in the center and pour in the milk. Using your hand, mix in the
flour from the sides of the bowl. The dough should be soft but not wet and sticky.
Turn the dough out onto a well-floured work surface. Wash and dry your hands.
Knead the dough lightly for a few seconds, then pat the dough into a round about
1 1/2 inches thick. Place it on a buttered baking sheet and using a sharp knife, cut a
deep cross in the center of the dough reaching out all the way to the sides.
Bake for 15 minutes, then reduce the oven temperature to 400 degrees, and continue
to bake until the top is golden brown and the bottom of the bread sounds hollow
when tapped, about 30 minutes longer. Serve warm.
For those who want more than a taste of Irish Cooking
You don’t have to visit Ireland for traditional cooking classes.
These two schools offer online classes. But when the world is a healthier
plasm they sound like great places to visit
Tracey’s Farmhouse Kitchen
Located in Killinchy, County Down, you can indulge in a learning and eating experience
with Tracey’s Farmhouse Kitchen, recently rated as a five-star experience
by Tourism Northern Ireland.
Tracey's eighteenth-century thatched barn on
the spectacular shores of Strangford Lough is as
beautiful inside as the stunning landscapes that
surround it, and among the unique hands-on
activities available is the chance to take a traditional
Irish bread-making course in Tracey’s cozy
kitchen. www.traceysfarmhousekitchen.com
The Ballymaloe Cookery School
Pronounced (ba-lee-ma-LOO) is a privately run
cookery school in Shanagarry, County Cork, Ireland,
that was opened in 1983. It is run by Darina
Allen, a well known celebrity chef, cookery
book author and pioneer in Ireland of the slow
food movement. The school is located within
the grounds of an organic farm. http://www.
cookingisfun.ie/
Facts about St Patrick’s Day March 17
44 million people in the United States claim Irish heritage.
The ‘Home of St Patrick’ festival in Northern Ireland is set around Downpatrick
and Armagh where St Patrick lived and where he is buried. This 10-day festival
will celebrate the achievements of Patrick, the man, with a themed program
across the region.
The single biggest event on the island is the St Patrick’s Festival in Dublin. It is
truly one of the great spectacles of the world
— a week-long celebration of music, dance and
outdoor shows culminating in the stunning
St. Patrick’s Day parade through the historic
streets of Dublin on March 17th.
1.9 million people from the US traveled to Ireland
in 2019. Many more in a post-covid world
are anxiously awaiting a visit.
Murphy is the most popular surname in
Ireland and it's also widespread across America
and the UK. ... The name O'Murchadh is
believed to date back to the 8th century when
Ireland and parts of England were invaded
by Vikings. It is likely that it is the Vikings that
gave the Murphys their name.
STORY: Louise Bruderle
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Helping Children Diagnosed With Epilepsy
We don’t treat
John’s cancer,
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Jenny Alday TOWNSEND
Her business,
Music Compound,
marked its fifth anniversary
this past February. There are
two locations, 30 employees and
nearly 400 members working out of a 6500 square foot facility.
Though it’s technically a music school, it doesn’t replace or compete with
the music education children get in area schools. Hers was meant to fill
the void for after school music classes. Jenny wants students to “enjoy the
experience…it’s not about practice, it’s about playing. We make it fun.”
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Her business
marked its fifth
anniversary this
past February - an
accomplishment
in and of itself
since only about
half of all new businesses make it past five
years according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But Jenny Alday Townsend has more
than made it. She’s gotten over, around and
through the various hurdles that can challenge
and thwart business owners and now
can say, entering her sixth year, she has also
survived a pandemic.
Her business is Music Compound which
started with a simple enough concept: a
place for musicians to hang out and play.
The idea came to her while waiting tables
in Sarasota area restaurants. She’d be
working late hours and many of her coworkers
were musicians and many didn’t
have a place to jam or practice.
To graduate and earn her bachelor’s
degree from USF Sarasota-Manatee, she
had to create a business concept. So she
drew up a business plan and did a market
analysis. In the process she saw a “void” in
the marketplace. And thus became Music
Compound in 2009—at least on paper—
since she was still a student.
After graduation, Jenny had a sales job
that had her traveling all across the country.
In each city she visited she checked out
music schools of all kinds, shapes and sizes.
She knew what she didn’t want: nothing
like a Suzuki school and no orchestra. Her
concept was more like a garage, but not
grungy. Then it came to her: a warehouse.
She quit her job and plunged in. Her
business advisor recommended a strip
mall in Lakewood Ranch - reason being
that area was growing. But she was thinking
more like Cattlemen Road just of I-75.
She followed her vision, and with the help
of a SBA loan, so far it has worked out.
When Music Compound opened, the space
was 1800 square feet. She had one teacher
and four studios. Eighteen people signed
up the first month.
That was 2016 and now, five years later,
Music Compound has two locations,
30 employees and nearly 400 members
working out of a 6500 square foot facility.
Though it’s technically a music school, it
doesn’t replace or compete with the music
education children get in area schools.
Hers was meant to fill the void for after
school music classes. And classes at Music
Compound are catered to each student.
Plus, her instructors take a different
approach. “Music Compound is performance-based
and offers a holistic and contemporary
approach,” is what her website
explains. Her business is built on monthly
membership fees. But it’s not just for beginners
to music. From a press release,
“Music Compound’s new business model
allows wanna be and seasoned musicians
to take lessons at home any day or time.”
So it’s not just children, youth and teens
who are learning. And it’s not just music
they’re into.
There are classes in drum, guitar, piano,
ukulele, but also choir and musical theatre
and vocal lessons. And you can elect to have
private lessons or group lessons; learn online
or in person. Music Compound’s second
location is located at The Bazaar on Apricot
and Lime in downtown Sarasota. Music
Compound was supposed to expand to a
much larger 10,000 square foot Lakewood
Ranch location, but that will have to wait.
As small businesses often do, this one
moved away from what it was initially
and morphed into what it is now. No longer
strictly a place for musicians, it has
become after school music education for
“kids” of all ages. Jenny wants students to
“enjoy the experience…it’s not about practice,
it’s about playing. We make it fun.”
Her teachers are classically trained, but
teach in a more “contemporary” method as
she calls it and yes, they still learn the basics.
The most popular classes are Kidz Rock for
ages 4-7. Children play guitar, piano and
drums in rotation. They also learn teamwork,
as well as verbal and nonverbal communication
skills as they build and create their “rock
band.” Over 50 are in that program.
Jenny is a fifth generation Floridian and
her family hails from Old Miakka. She attended
St. Martha’s then Cardinal Mooney
then USF Sarasota/Manatee. Her family is
associated with several local businesses:
her father owned Bradley’s Window Cleaning,
sold it, and now runs Alday Farm that
sells dairy products to places like Detweiler’s.
Her uncle owns Alday’s Barbecue and
her grandfather once worked for circus
magnate John Ringling. So there’s some
possibility that there’s an entrepreneur
gene in Jenny’s DNA.
Like so many businesses, the pandemic
meant adjustments had to be made. In
2020, around spring break in mid-March,
things turned for the worse as the pandemic
took off. Music Compound went online-only
for three months and also offered
lots of free classes to help families.
The business went to in-person again
in June for summer camps, taking only
10 children per session to be safe. A good
bit came back by August and many who
weren’t ready to return didn’t ask for refunds
to show their support.
Classes are offered online for those who
feel more comfortable learning that way,
but in person, Jenny explains, Music Compound
is spacious and all precautions are
being taken with rigorous cleaning. The
front office even made their own masks.
Jenny, who knows how to sew having made
quilts over the years, set it up. Yes, revenue
dropped, but she has made it through by
adjusting. “Covid proved we can be sustainable
through memberships,” she observes.
Did it bother her seeing her growing
business stop in its tracks? “I thrive on chaos,”
she says laughing.
Jenny has enough energy for three people.
A visit to the Music Compound website
(https://musiccompound.com) or a conversation
with its visionary founder is like
a hit of quality espresso. There’s so much
energy in this business and it clearly comes
from its leader.
So Jenny owns a growing music school,
so what instrument does she play? Um, she
doesn’t, actually. Her first music lessons
ever were a year and a half ago. But the
ukulele is something she’s taken on and
adds, “If I can do it, anyone can.” That also
sounds like good business advice.
STORY: Louise Bruderle
IMAGE: Evelyn England
Music Notes:
Music Compound continued its tradition
of giving back with a recent donation
of $1,500 to the Child Protection Center
(CPC). The funds were raised through the
sale of craft soda advent calendars, titled
“24 Days of Cheer.” The kid-friendly items
featured 24 craft soda flavors including
butterbeer, sour apple, candied bacon,
chocolate raspberry root beer, and more.
Jenny was a “Captain” for the CPC’s 40th
anniversary celebration last year, helping
the organization to raise funds to support
its prevention, intervention and treatment
programs.
Music Compound has donated more than
$50,000 to local nonprofit organizations.
Events by Music Compound
Spring Break Camp at Music Compound
runs March 15-19. Each day features a
different instrument. Learn to play piano,
ukulele, guitar, drums, and vocals. For
grades K-5th for half and full-day options.
Music Compound:
1751 Cattlemen Rd, Sarasota (941) 379-9100
For more information,
visit www.musiccompound.com.
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travel news
More Hotels Opening in Florida
Orlando World Center Marriott Renovation
the lobby, guests can step out onto
the terrace in the late afternoon for a
beautiful view of the sun setting over
the main pool and enjoy comfortable
seating around one of the two fire pits
on the lobby bar terrace.
The property has long been known
for its Falls Pool Oasis swimming pool
area with slide towers, cabanas, and
day beds for privacy with premium
seating also available to rent. Come
nightfall, the hotel also offers a laser
light show over the pool area as well
as fireworks for Memorial Day, Fourth
of July and New Year’s Eve. Some
guest rooms provide a view of Disney
World’s evening fireworks event.
For more information, visit MarriottOrlandoWorldCenter.com
or call
407-239-4200.
The Orlando World Center
Marriott has a brand-new look after
completing a multimillion dollar
property renovation.
The guest rooms and suites renovation
was a complete transformation,
featuring a muted color palette
of blue and grays with warm wood
accents including a new hard surface
floor in the guest rooms. The suites
had last been renovated in 2013
and the guest rooms in 2008. Most
rooms feature a full-size balcony with
two chairs and there is an option to
upgrade to a view of the main pool
which features a nightly laser show.
Adjacent to the front desk, the
Lobby Bar was refurbished and a sushi
bar was added providing the seventh
dining option for hotel guests. From
Preferred Hotels & Resorts
Announces New Openings
Preferred Hotels & Resorts will
celebrate 15 new openings within its
global portfolio throughout 2021.
From an eco-hideaway in northern
Italy to an art deco masterpiece in
downtown Chicago, these properties
welcome travelers to live out their daydreams
of recent months by forging
new connections with people, landscapes,
and cultures as they resume
their adventures around the world.
There are three in Florida.
Hotel Effie Sandestin (Miramar
Beach) opened in February and is
located on 2,400 acres of Florida’s Emerald
Coast. The new hotel integrates
Hotel Effie Sandestin rooftop pool
coastal charm with Southern hospitality
across 250 guestrooms and 12 suites
with views of Choctawhatchee Bay and
championship golf courses. https://
preferredhotels.com/search/term/Effie.
Esmé Miami Beach Hotel is
launching in March 2021. Originally
built as a 1920’s artist village along Miami
Beach’s historic plaza, the unique
145-room hotel is comprised of eight
buildings and features five restaurants
and bars.
Amrit Ocean Resort & Spa (Singer
Island)
is launching
April
2021.
Comprising
more
than seven
acres
of prime
oceanfront
in Palm
Beach
County’s
Singer
Island,
Amrit
Ocean Resort & Spa is a wellness resort
extending 155 guestrooms and 34
grand luxury wellness suites.
For all the Preferred Hotels and Resorts,
visit https://preferredhotels.com.
JW Marriott Tampa
Water Street also open
JW Marriott’s 100th property, JW
Marriott Tampa Water Street, is
now open. The expansive 519-room
property offers a four-story atrium lobby
lounge featuring hanging art and a
floating conference room dubbed “Skybox,”
providing guests with the perfect
location to be in the moment and take
in the energy of the neighborhood.
With custom furnishings and water-inspired
design, guest rooms are
open and spacious, featuring soft natural
color palettes and materials inspired
by the surrounding waterfront. Several
room categories boast views from floor
to ceiling windows as well as bathrooms
with natural light.
The property’s expansive 2,230-sq.-
ft. Presidential Suite has its own terrace
with a wet bar where guests can take
in city views. The 1,190-sq.-ft. JW
Suites offers 270-degree city views of
Tampa’s Water Street neighborhood.
The King Guest Rooms features over
400 sq. ft. Including separate working
desks and sliding doors which open to
a luxurious bathroom featuring marble
vanities and standalone rain showers.
JW Marriott Tampa Water Street
offers a Vitamin C-infused shower,
circadian lighting and air-purification
system in the Stay Well Premier
Rooms located on the 16th floor.
Amenities include a resort-style pool
with cabanas on the 6th floor overlooking
the area waterways, as well as
the brand’s signature Spa by JW complete
with a spa lounge, 10 treatment
suites, plunge pool and retail boutique.
Treatments include an Energy
Boost Lift Me Up Massage, Calming
Waves Signature Facial and Alluring
Bay Manicures and Pedicures.
The hotel has two restaurants, as
well as dining options available next
door at Tampa Marriott Water Street –
all overseen by Executive Chef Joseph
Pankrath. Located on the main floor of
the new hotel, DRIFTLIGHT (a name
inspired by the pathways of light cast
by the illuminated bridges in Water
Street Tampa) offers regional farm-and
ocean-to-table cuisine.
At SIX (located six floors up), diners
can choose from indoor and outdoor
dining overlooking the resort pool or
bayfront while enjoying a local twist on
the traditional Bistro with flavors celebrating
Florida’s roots and rich culinary
diversity. Additional offerings at the
adjacent Tampa Marriott Water Street
include the newly re-concepted sports
bar Garrison Tavern, as well as the waterfront
restaurant Anchor and Brine.
To book, visit jwmarriotttampawaterstreet.com.
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travel news
women’s health
travel news continued
Sal Y Mar, the
new rooftop bar
on top of the Aloft
and Element Hotel
in Midtown Tampa,
is open. The
name of the bar,
inspired by the Riviera
Maya town of
Tulum, translates
to salt and sea.
New Hotel in Tampa
The new bar has
360-degree views of
the Tampa, Westshore, and St. Petersburg
skylines. The Aloft and Element
Hotel is at 3650 Midtown Dr. Tampa.
The upcoming Midtown Tampa development
is expected to feature a food
hall, an REI, a Whole Foods, a Shake
Shack, and now a new rooftop bar.
Sal Y Mar has a casual and sophisticated
vibe, according to a news
release. It will offer an array of classic
and elevated cocktails, as well as local
New Moxy Miami South Beach
IS OPEN
Marriott Bonvoy’s Moxy Miami
South Beach opened in February. “With
pent-up demand predicted to lead to ‘revenge
travel,’ our booking trends indicate
an uptick in leisure travel planning after
a difficult year,” said Tina Edmundson,
Global Brand & Marketing Officer of
Marriott International.
“These new properties will offer a
chance to escape with flexible, open
spaces that allow our guests to once
again embrace the freedom of travel
when they are ready,” she added.
The first resort-style property within
the Moxy brand portfolio, the 202-
room Moxy Miami South Beach is
a stylish and playful celebration of
Miami’s cosmopolitan culture. The
eight-story hotel is located steps away
from the beach and has an interior
that blends the glamour of midcentury
Havana, the artistry of contemporary
Mexico City, and a tropical vibrancy
that’s unmistakably Miami.
craft beers and wine. The new lounge
also sells tapas, such as citrus crab
cakes and carne asada street tacos and
entrees like pan-seared grouper and
chipotle-charred chicken.
Guests can expect indoor and outdoor
seating amid Mayan-inspired decor,
and a 360-degree view of the Bay
area through floor-to-ceiling windows.
https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/tpaal-aloft-tampa-midtown/
The Moxy bedrooms are dressed
in vivid Miami hues and have floorto-ceiling
windows. Six new drinking
and dining venues, developed by the
founders of Miami’s popular Coyo
Taco and 1-800-LUCKY, include Como
Como, a marisquería (seafood restaurant)
and raw bar; Mezcalista, a mezcal
lounge; Serena, an open-air rooftop
restaurant and bar; Los Buenos, a taco
stand/bodega in the lobby, complemented
by Bar Moxy, which doubles
as a social hub and check-in area; and
The Upside, a rooftop bar on the eighth
floor exclusively for hotel guests and
private events.
Multiple indoor-outdoor spaces
include a ground floor courtyard; a 72-
foot, cabana-lined pool; an indoor-outdoor
fitness center; an outdoor movie
screening room on the rooftop; and a
beach club on Miami’s South Beach.
https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/MIAOX-moxy-miami-south-beach.
Hormone Balancing
and the Female Brain
Another article on
Men Are from Mars,
Women Are from
Venus? Perhaps, but
read on to learn
how you can help
yourself or your
loved ones.
Let’s explore the difference
between the female and male
brain by looking at the advantages
of being female caused
by the effect of one specific
hormone. This hormone is important
for both males and females. However,
as found in a recent science-based
research article, it has greater potential
in females for keeping the brain mentally
awake and cognitively strong. It
also decreases the risks of aging and
increases your ability to handle everyday
stressors.
What is this hormone? First let’s take
a look at a patient who came into my
office recently to see what can happen
when its balance goes awry.
This patient, a 46-year-old mother
of well-adjusted high school students,
should have been doing well by most
standards. She describes her husband
as supportive and loving and she has a
successful career that she enjoys.
Everything looks good on the outside,
but she reported that for at least a
year now, she had been falling apart on
the inside. “I feel like I am being possessed
by another person.” She told me
she was becoming forgetful at home,
at work and with her friends; having
problems sleeping; and worrying at
odd hours of the night about what she
had not done right the day before.
She was becoming more and more
irritable, taking it out on her children
and husband over the smallest infractions.
Often, she would brood over
her irrational behavior while attempting
to go to sleep, only to experience
another sleep deprived night. “Frustrating,”
she said. “Could it be my
hormones? Can it be fixed?”
Fortunately, the answer is yes.
A recent science-based article, printed
in Pharmacological Review, on the
effects of estrogen on the female brain,
found this particular hormone to have
huge positive actions: Protection of
synaptic remodeling, Glial plasticity,
and Neuronal activity. Physiologic
levels of estrogen offer neuroendocrine
control and is anti- apoptotic,
protecting against strokes, Alzheimer’s,
Parkinson’s, and MS.
Whew! All of this to say that balance
of this one crucial hormone has the
potential to improve her cognition,
stabilize her mood, improve her sleep,
and protect her from the risks of brain
injury in the future.
I recommended running a hormone
panel. Her blood work returned as
we had expected: low estradiol, high
estrone (a very irritating and inflammatory
hormone), low progesterone
(also affecting mood and sleep) and
low testosterone (affecting cognition,
strength, and energy).
Several weeks after we had stabilized
her hormones to their optimal levels,
she reported feeling back to her normal
self. “I finally stopped feeling freaky…
I feel like myself again,” she said. She
found herself more playful with her
children, more loving with her husband
and less forgetful all around.
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travel news
United Adds Nonstop Flights to Houston
United Airlines has
added daily nonstop
service between
Sarasota and George
Bush Intercontinental/
Houston Airport. The
service between SRQ
and IAH began on
February 11.
This new service
offers fliers access to
the Houston area and
many cities beyond
in the United Airlines system. The new
service complements existing United
Airlines service at SRQ to Chicago,
Newark, and Washington, DC.
TSA Closed 2020 With Dramatic
Changes in Checkpoint Operations
Flight times are scheduled as follows:
From To Departure Arrival
IAH SRQ 11:55 am 3:04 pm
SRQ IAH 4:45 pm 6:25 pm
International Passengers Headed to the U.S.
Need Proof of Negative Coronavirus Test
Before boarding their flights, all international
passengers headed to the U.S. will
first need to show proof of a negative
coronavirus test, according to a new federal
policy going into effect on Jan. 26.
The new policy requires all air passengers,
regardless of vaccination status, to
get a test for current infection within the
three days before their flight to the United
States departs, and to provide written
documentation of their test results or
proof of having recovered from Covid-19.
Proof of immunization will not be
sufficient, because the vaccines have
only been shown to prevent serious illness,
said Jason McDonald, a spokesman
for the C.D.C. Vaccinated people may
still become infected, in theory, and
transmit the virus on a flight.
The agency will not require further
testing in the three months after a positive
test, so long as the traveler has not
had any symptoms. In this situation,
a passenger may travel with documentation
of the positive test result and a
letter from a health care provider or a
public health official stating that the
traveler now has been cleared for travel.
Airlines must confirm the negative
test result for all passengers or the
documentation of recovery before they
board. If a passenger does not provide
proof of a negative test or recovery, or
chooses not to take a test, the airline
must deny boarding to the passenger,
the agency said.
The C.D.C. currently recommends
that all air travelers, including
those flying within the United States,
get tested one to three days before travel,
and again three to five days after the
trip is complete.
The Transportation Security Administration
(TSA) reported the final daily figure
of estimated travel volume for calendar
year 2020 across more than 440 federalized
airports nationwide.
Between Jan.1 and Dec. 31, 2020, the
agency screened a total of 324 million
passengers throughout its airport security
checkpoints. That’s 39 percent of the approximately
824 million total passengers
screened in 2019.
On April 14, 2020, TSA reported its
lowest travel volume of only 87,500 passengers
throughout all TSA checkpoints
nationwide, representing just 4 percent of
passenger volume recorded on the same
weekday in 2019. During TSA’s historically
busiest time of year, average travel volume
per day between Thanksgiving and New
Year’s Eve in 2020 continued to fluctuate
between a low of 24 percent and a high of
61 percent of 2019 travel volume during
the same period. The agency expects volume
will remain well below pre-pandemic
levels through most of 2021.
Despite the substantially reduced
number of passengers screened due to
the pandemic in 2020, TSA modified security
checkpoint procedures around the
country to reduce physical contact and
help protect workers and passengers. The
agency accelerated deployment of acrylic
barriers and technologies that enhance
security and reduce touchpoints throughout
the checkpoint.
Many of those modifications, which include
self-serve Credential Authentication
Technology (CAT) units at travel document
checking podiums and Computed
Tomography (CT) equipment for a detailed
image of a carry-on bag’s contents,
will remain in place well into the future.
In 2020, TSA installed 6,873 acrylic
barriers at 384 airports. The accelerated
technology deployments also resulted in
the installation of 927 CAT units for 125
locations. CAT allows passengers to scan
their own ID to complete the identity
verification process and eliminate the
need to hand the credential to a TSA officer.
TSA also installed more than 311 CT
units at 135 airports, giving TSA officers
the ability to review a 3D
image of a passenger’s bags,
thus reducing the need to
search the bag’s contents.
Travelers should continue
to check with the CDC for
travel advisories as well as
their airline and airport at
their destinations regarding
local COVID-19 guidelines.
For those who choose to
travel, visit the TSA website
for the latest travel tips
and information, including
how to sign up for TSA
PreCheck ® .
Allegiant
Announces New
Nonstop Service
January 12, Allegiant announced
new nonstop routes,
including routes to Key West,
plus eight routes that were
delayed in 2020 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
New service from Key West
International Airport includes:
• Nashville, Tennessee via Nashville
International Airport – beginning
June 2, 2021
• Sanford, Florida via Orlando Sanford
International Airport – beginning
June 4, 2021
New service from General Wayne
A. Downing International Airport
includes:
Global tourism suffered its worst year on
record in 2020, with international arrivals
dropping by 74% according to the
data from the World Tourism Organization
(UNWTO). Destinations worldwide
welcomed 1 billion fewer international
arrivals in 2020 than in the previous year,
due to an unprecedented fall in demand
and widespread travel restrictions.
This compares with the 4% decline
recorded during the 2009 global economic
crisis. According to the latest UNWTO
World Tourism Barometer, the collapse
in international travel represents an estimated
loss of USD 1.3 trillion in export
revenues - more than 11 times the loss
recorded during the 2009 global economic
crisis. The crisis has put between 100
and 120 million direct tourism jobs at
risk, many of them in small and medium-sized
enterprises.
Due to the evolving nature of the
pandemic, many countries are reintroducing
stricter travel restrictions. These
include mandatory testing, quarantines
and in some cases a complete closure of
borders, all weighing on the resumption
of international travel. At the same time,
the gradual rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine
is expected to help restore consumer
confidence, contribute to the easing
travel restrictions and slowly normalize
travel during the year ahead.
The latest UNWTO Panel of Experts
survey shows a mixed outlook for 2021.
Almost half of respondents (45%) envisaged
better prospects for 2021 compared
to last year, while 25% expect a similar
performance and 30% foresee a worsening
of results in 2021.
The overall prospects of a rebound
in 2021 seem to have worsened. 50% of
Southwest Airlines Adds Daily
Nonstop to Atlanta
Southwest has added daily nonstop service between
the Sarasota and Atlanta. The service between SRQ
and ATL will begin March 11, 2021.
This new flight will complement the seven other
destinations that Southwest Airlines will be serving
at SRQ. Southwest Airlines began service at SRQ on
February 14, 2021. Service will start with year-round
flights to Baltimore, Chicago, Nashville, and Houston.
In addition, seasonal service to Columbus, Indianapolis,
and Pittsburgh will start on March 13, 2021.
• Sarasota via Sarasota-Bradenton
International Airport – beginning May
27, 2021
The new route to/from Baltimore,
Maryland via Baltimore/Washington
International Thurgood Marshall
Airport includes:
• Punta Gorda, Florida via Punta Gorda
Airport – beginning May 27, 2021
Flight days, times and the lowest fares
can be found only at Allegiant.com.
2020: Worst Year In Tourism History With
1 Billion Fewer International Arrivals
respondents now expect a rebound to
occur only in 2022 as compared to 21%
in October 2020. The remaining half of
respondents still see a potential rebound
in 2021, though below the expectations
shown in the October 2020 survey (79%
expected recovery in 2021). As and when
tourism does restart, the UNWTO Panel of
Experts foresee growing demand for openair
and nature-based tourism activities,
with domestic tourism and ‘slow travel’
experiences gaining increasing interest.
Looking further ahead, most experts
do not to see a return to pre-pandemic
levels happening before 2023.
Travel Stats from
2020 at SRQ Airport
For 2020, SRQ finished the year with
over 1.2M passengers. Future scheduled
service shows an increase in seats
into and out of SRQ to be at levels near
pre-COVID. SRQ offers service on 10
airlines to 43 destinations.
The following are upcoming service
start dates (some have already started)
• Feb. 6 Philadelphia, PA Frontier
(returning seasonal service)
• Feb. 6 Chicago, IL Frontier
(returning seasonal service)
• Feb. 11, Houston, TX United
(new service)
• Feb. 13 Denver, CO United
(returning seasonal service)
• Feb. 14 Baltimore, MD Southwest
(new service)
• Feb. 14 Chicago, IL Southwest
(new service)
• Feb. 14 Houston Southwest
(new service)
• Feb. 14 Nashville Southwest
(new service)
• Mar. 6 Trenton, NJ Frontier
(returning seasonal service)
• Mar. 13 Columbus, OH Southwest
(new seasonal service)
• Mar. 13 Indianapolis, IN Southwest
(new seasonal service)
• Mar. 13 Pittsburgh, PA Southwest
(new seasonal service)
• May 27 Peoria, IL Allegiant
(new seasonal service)
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health feature
Terrence Grywinski and Advanced Craniosacral Therapy has reopened for a limited number of sessions per week.
Craniosacral Therapy Can Be Life Changing
CST treats the whole body physically, physiologically, mentally, emotionally and energetically
Clients come to me because they are in physical
pain such as neck, back, pain and TMJ as well as
for chronic headaches and migraines.
Pain and stress caused by
shortened Fascia
Fascia (strong connective tissue) encases
all our muscles, organs, brain and spinal
cord. Whenever fascia shortens any place
in the body, the entire network of fascia
creates an increased tension affecting the
functioning of our physical body as well as
our organs, our brain and spinal cord.
Our body is the history of every major
trauma we have experienced physically
and emotionally beginning with birth
issues, falls, head trauma, car accidents,
childhood abuse issues, death, divorce
and other emotional issues. Our body tries
to minimize each trauma by shortening
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● Both myself and all clients will be provided with Face Masks.
● Appointments will allow the client to come directly into my
office from their cars avoiding time in the waiting room.
● Hand disinfectant will be provided.
● An excellent air filtration system has been installed in the
fascia to isolate the energy coming into the
body from that trauma. Shortened fascia
results in pain, loss of mobility and range
of motion, organs becoming less efficient
and with parts of the brain and spinal cord
becoming stressed.
To keep the brain functioning, the body
transfers some of your functional work play
energy (7:00 AM-10:00 PM) to the brain
resulting in less energy to make it through
each day. As we age, the accumulation of
all the tightened fascia, from every major
trauma in life, begins to restrict every
aspect of our body’s functions resulting
in pain, loss of mobility, mis-functioning
organs, loss of energy, as well as our brain
losing some its sharpness.
How Craniosacral
Therapy Works
The Craniosacral Therapist creates a safe
place, with gentle holding techniques, that
engages your body’s ability to self correct,
reorganize and heal itself with the release
of some of that tightened fascia during
each session. As the Craniosacral Therapist
engages your body, you will feel fascia releasing.
As the fascia releases, pain begins to
decrease, range of motion and mobility improve,
organs begin functioning better and
with less stress on the brain feels, it returns
the energy it borrowed at the time of each
trauma resulting in an immediate increase in
your energy levels. Rarely does anyone leave
from my first session not feeling better.
Short Leg Syndrome
Eighty-five percent of my clients have one
of their legs pulled up 1/2 to 1 by shortened
fascia. The tension from short leg syndrome
on the sacrum (5 fused vertebrae
at bottom of the spine) is transferred up
Testimonials from Clients
■ “On a recent vacation to Siesta Key, I
re-injured my back. I found Terry online. I
can say with complete joy that was the best
decision I made in the history of my back
pain. I have sought many modalities and
visit a CST regularly and never have I had
such a healing in my entire body.
After 3 sessions, I made a 16-hour drive
home with no pain or discomfort in my
entire body. Unbelievable. My body has
a sense of moving freely and that is completely
new. I’m so grateful to Terry for his
knowledge, for his sensitivity to my needs
and his kind generosity in healing my body.
I will see him when I return next year.”
—Caroline M.
■ “I am a snowbird who spends 7 months
in Sarasota. I have had back problems for
25 years. Terry’s techniques have led to a
great deal of release and relief in areas that
have been problematic. I have been seeing
him over the years when my body says ”it’s
time”. Usually after a few sessions, I can tell
a huge difference.” —Lana S.
■ “I was introduced to Terry and Craniosacral
Therapy by a Neuromuscular
massage therapist who thought I needed
higher level of care. I found Terry to be
IN CONSIDERATION OF COVID-19
kind, empathetic and he genuinely seemed
to take an interest in my challenges. I have
a mild Chiari malformation (part of the
brain protrudes and puts pressure on the
spinal cord) I had been experiencing vertigo,
extreme pain in my neck combined
with a limited range of motion (I could not
turn my neck right or left) I tried both traditional
and holistic modalities including
chiropractic and acupuncture with limited
success. So I did not have lofty expectations
(unrealistic) going into my first session, but
was pleasantly surprised in the immediate
difference I experienced in my entire body.
There was less pain in my back and
shoulders, but also in my diaphragm and
rib cage area. I was able to breathe more
deeply, felt more limber and overall more
relaxed. With additional sessions, Terry
was able to relieve the burning sensation
in my shoulders that would radiate into
my lower neck and down my arms which
had been plaguing me for a long time and
causing numbness in my extremities. I have
been impressed by his intuitive nature and
his ability to listen to my body and focus in
on specific issues and pain points. The therapist
who referred me to him was right…he
is a gifted healer.” —Nicole M.
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treatment room that destroys bacteria and viruses.
● All surfaces will be disinfected between treatments.
● All clients will be questioned about self isolation and having
followed safety precautions such wearing a face mask in public
as well as being free of any symptoms.
The physical stress in bodies caused by
shortened fascia (connective tissue) shuts
down energy flows to certain organs. Short
leg syndrome by ½ to 1 in (where one leg is
pulled up by shortened fascia) shuts down
energy flow to the spleen (an important part of
your immune system) and the small and large
intestine. With the release of that shortened
fascia, energy returns to these organs.
the dural tube that encases the spinal cord
into the lower and upper back, the neck,
the cranium and the brain. Headaches, migraines,
TMJ and neck problems can originate
from the fascial stress in the sacrum.
Releasing this sacral stress increases
energy in the bladder, sex organs, kidneys
and the chakras as well as releasing major
stress in the upper part of the body.
Cause of Shallow Breathing
A great majority of the clients who come to
me for various problems are also shallow
breathers. Fascial stress in the diaphragm restricts
the depth of breathing by restricting
energy flow to the lungs, the pericardium
■ Chronic Pain: Sciatic, Back,
Neck and TMJ
advanced craniosacral therapy
■ Migraines, Foggy Brain and
Lack of Concentration
■ Sight and Eye Problems
■ Asthma, Bronchitis, COPD
Terrence Grywinski
of Advanced
Craniosacral Therapy,
B.A., B.ED., LMT #MA 6049
SOURCE:
■ Terrence Grywinski of Advanced Craniosacral Therapy,
B.A., B.ED., LMT #MA 6049. Terry has specialized in Craniosacral
Therapy since 1994 when he began his training at the Upledger
Institute. Described by his teachers, clients and colleagues
as a “gifted healer”, Terry’s intuitive sense and healing energy
provides immediate and lasting relief from injury, pain, mobility
issues as well as dysfunctions of the body and the brain. Part
of Terry’s ongoing education, he has completed 4 craniosacral
brain and peripheral nervous system classes which
enables him to work at
a cellular level and with
brain dysfunctions.
Call 941-321-8757
for more information,
Google Craniosacral
Therapy Sarasota.
and the heart. With the release of fascial
diaphragm restriction, the client immediately
starts breathing deeply and energy is
restored to the pericardium and the heart.
Shoulder blades that are cemented to
the body also restricts how much the rib
cage can open and thereby also restricting
depth of breath. Without proper breathing,
your cells do not get enough oxygen.
Everyone, especially people suffering from
bronchitis, asthma and COPD as well as
shallow breathing can benefit when the
fascial stress is released.
Specialized Training
to work with Brain
Dysfunctions
Just as the body physically gets stressed
from physical and emotional trauma, the
functioning of the brain is also affected
by fascial stress. For our brains to remain
healthy, we need dynamic production
of craniosacral fluid which performs the
important function of bringing nourishment
to all the cells in the brain and spinal
cord as well as cleansing all the metabolic
wastes given off by those same cells.
Once the craniosacral fluid cleanses these
metabolic wastes, efficient drainage of these
metabolic wastes into the lymph system is
absolutely necessary. Research has shown,
that at night, craniosacral fluid cleanses amyloid
plaques from the brain. If the drainage
is inefficient, then the brain is being bathed
in a toxic slurry. How does 15 or 20 years
of your brain being bathed in a toxic slurry
affect you: senile dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s
and other brain dysfunctions?
A Craniosacral Therapist, who has
received training in working with the
brain, can reverse that stress on the brain
that eventually can result in those brain
dysfunctions. As we all know, the proper
functioning of the body is dependent on a
healthy functioning brain.
What conditions does
CranioSacral Therapy address?
Immediate Relief Beginning with the First Session:
■ Shallow Breathing
■ Digestive and Constipation Issues
■ Leaky Gut and Autoimmune Problems
■ Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia and Depression
■ Concussions, Brain and Spinal Cord Health
■ Mobility and Energy Issues for Seniors
advanced craniosacral therapy

Restaurant News,
Openings and
Specials
• The City Pier Grill and Bait Shop was
founded in late 2020 after winning the bidding
process to operate on the Anna Maria
City Pier. They offer fresh food, ice cream,
beer and wine as well as bait and tackle.
Originally built in 1911, and rebuilt in
2020 due to damages sustained by Hurricane
Irma in September of 2017, the new
pier has been realized after several years of
planning, fundraising and construction. The
City Pier is the number one tourism destination
in Manatee County for many years.
Manatee Pier
The owners, who were already business
partners in Pine Avenue Bait and
Tackle, each owned other businesses that
fit with the vision for a Grill and Bait Shop.
Some 95% of their menu items are
made fresh in house by father/son manager
Chris Powers and chef Jacob Powers.
They describe themselves as “more
than a snack shop, just not quite a full
service restaurant” due to their outdoor
seating. Menu includes breakfast sandwiches,
homemade sausage gravy and
biscuits, blackened fish tacos, Cuban
sandwiches, and fresh burgers.
Weather permitting they also have local
entertainment each afternoon/early evening
on the pier just in front of the Grill.
In addition food, there’s beer, wine and
seltzers as well as soft serve ice cream,
gelattos, snow cones and more.
They’re open seven days a week from
7am to 10pm with some of the best views
from the Skyway to the north, Egmont
and Passage key to the west, Anna Maria
Island to the south and Bradenton to the
east. Wildlife such as manatees and dolphins
regularly show up around the city
pier and are enjoyed by all daily.
■ Visit http://www.citypiergrill.com/ or
call (941) 254-4219.
• Amore Restaurant relocated late
December to the “Limelight District”
offering traditional Italian dishes with a
Portuguese twist. Proprietors Tito and
Liana Vitorino found their new venue and
added traditional Portuguese dishes that
are unique to Sarasota County.
Their new location is on Fruitville Rd.
and Lime Ave. in the Colonial Village
Shopping Center. Amore’s menu includes
Italian classic dishes with local ingredients,
such Linguini Pescatore, Bronzino,
Amore Restaurant
Veal Marsala, Ossobucco and more.
Also expect to see Cataplana: which is
both the name of the dish and the copper
pot that it is cooked in. Cataplana is a
pork and seafood stew is found in the
Algarve, in Portugal. But there’s also a
seafood version packed with both fish and
seafood. The seafood version is cooked in
a tomato sauce with lots of onion and red
and green peppers.
The new restaurant has been completely
renovated and includes tables and
also booths equipped with glass panels
separating diners for environmental safety.
Outdoor seating is also available.
■ Amore is located at: 180 North Lime
Avenue, Sarasota.Visit https://www.
amorelbk.com.
At Sarasota
Farmer’s Market
• Ddi you know the Market, in addition to
food, flowers, m produce and more also
has live music? Natalia Bonfini is performing
on March 13, 9am - 12:30pm. Natalia
is an acoustic guitarist, songwriter, and
new aged soul and blues musician born
and raised on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Natalia Bonfini
When she’s not touring, she spends time
in Cape Cod and the Tampa Bay area. Natalia’s
unique and refreshing style shines
through her covers which mash up genres
from acoustic soul, to pop, to classic rock,
to rap, back to her roots with blues.
Events
• There’s an Outdoor Spring Market
at The Mall at UTC on March 13-14 and
March 20-21, geld in Parking Lot 8 (Near
Brio). Shop local this spring season.
They have 60+ local crafters and vendors
for an outdoor market with rare finds,
handmade items, delicious snacks and
more. Open 11 am - 7 pm each day. The
market is free to attend and pet friendly.
■ The Mall at Universty Town Center,
140 University Town Center Drive, Sarasota.
Info: 941-552-7000
Pizza Wars
• Big Apple? Call it the Big Pizza: New
Yorkers love their tomato pies, so much
so the Big Apple is considered the best
city for pizza lovers. The hand-tossed
crust is wonderfully crisp and airy at the
edge and thin in the middle. And no need
for nouveau ingredients like artichokes or
avocado—the traditional New York-style
pizza is just tomato sauce and mozzarella.
Best in the Midwest: Chicago and a slew
of other Midwest cities took top 10 spots:
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and
Cleveland. The Windy City, of course, is
renowned for its deep dish Chicago-style
pizzas -- each slice can be a meal in itself.
Pittsburgh has the most pizza places per
resident, with the other cities also sporting
impressive numbers. St. Louis boasts
some relatively cheap pizza, along with its
own named-after-the-city thin crust style.
But which cities take the biggest slice
out of 2021’s Best Cities for Pizza Lovers?
Best Cities for Pizza (ok, I get the top
four…)
➤ New York ➤ Chicago
➤ Pittsburgh ➤ Cincinnati
➤ Tampa (Huh?)
Worst Cities for Pizza (maybe it’s the
Jersey water?)
✖ Stockton, CA ✖ Newark, NJ
✖ Jersey City, NJ ✖ Santa Ana, CA
✖ Fremont, CA
Things you’ll likely
never do again
while dining out
• The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a
death-blow to salad bars and buffets, at
least for the foreseeable future. Although
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention has made clear that COVID-19
spreads primarily from person-to-person
through respiratory droplets in the
air, it can, in theory, be spread through
contact with surfaces on which respiratory
droplets have landed.
What is likely to disappear from restaurants,
possibly permanently”
• Buffets: And that includes every
surface you might touch when serving
yourself at a salad bar or buffet, including
shared serving utensils.
Now consider that COVID-19 can
survive for as long as 28 days on some
surfaces, and ask yourself if you really
want to partake in a salad bar or buffet
at this point.
• Lingering: Remember back when
a night out at a restaurant might have
involved lingering for hours at the table,
maybe even until they told you it was
closing time? Sadly, for the foreseeable
future, nights like that will have to remain
as memories.
According to the CDC, limiting exposure
to strangers remains integral to staying
healthy, and the longer you remain
in an enclosed, indoor space such as
a restaurant, the longer you are leav-
ing yourself exposed to the respiratory
droplets of all the other people within that
space. In fact, prolonged contact can
increase the risk of transmission even in
outdoor settings.
As a result, many restaurants around
the country have now imposed time limits
on how long you can linger at your table.
And many states have imposed limits
on how long restaurants are allowed to
stay open on a given night. How long
these limits will remain in place is really
anyone’s guess.
• Sharing: Group-slurping from an oversized
bowl of fruit-flavored booze is a celebratory
tradition going back at least as
far as the 1930s. But for the present and
foreseeable future, communal cocktails
are a thing of the past.
It is now known that COVID-19 can
be spread through shared drinks (and
shared food). And as much as alcohol-based
hand sanitizer can help contain
the spread of the novel coronavirus,
the presence of alcohol in a typical cocktail
is far too negligible to protect you.
While some restaurants may still be
serving communal cocktails, this is a
practice best abandoned for now, since
even if you know the people you’re sharing
your drink with, they may not know if
they’ve been infected.
• Menus: One of the first things to
change in restaurants when the pandemic
began menus. Since at the start of the
pandemic, it was widely believed there
was a high risk of spreading COVID-19
via hard surfaces, many restaurants
immediately pivoted to replacing physical
menus with QR-coded displays on
tabletops—enabling customers to scan
them with their smartphones to access a
digital menu.
In some cases, restaurants have
pivoted to allowing customers to order
via digital menu, reducing the possibility
of viral transmission between server and
customer. While it is now known that
COVID-19 is spread primarily through respiratory
droplets in the air, the CDC has
made clear that coronavirus transmission
via “high-touch” surfaces is possible.
That’s why menus have all but disappeared,
along with salt, pepper, and
sugar dispensers, and shared creamer
and condiment dispensers. In addition,
we should expect to see less and less
of touch-screen-driven ordering kiosks in
fast-food restaurants.
• Dining at the bar: Once upon a time,
dining solo didn’t mean you had to forego
company. There was always the option of
dining at the bar and exchanging pleasantries
and small talk with the bartender-server.
That dynamic has now been
drastically altered thanks to the installation
of plexiglass barriers between customers
and bartenders (and sometimes
between customers and other customers),
as per CDC recommendation.
March
Food Holidays
There’s a theme here…
• American Chocolate Week - March
15-21, 2020 (Third Week of March)
• Chocolate Chip Cookie Week -
(Second Week of March)
• National White Chocolate Cheesecake
Day - March 6
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happening this month
Manatee Village Historical Park will be participating in
MANATEE HERITAGE DAYS,
a month-long celebration
MANATEE VILLAGE
HISTORICAL PARK
will be participating in
Manatee Heritage Days,
a month-long celebration
of Manatee County’s heritage, in March
of 2021. Activities will include guided
daytime tours of the 1850 Manatee
Burying Ground, an exhibit opening about
Medicine in the Village of Manatee, and a
digital lecture.
Cemetery Tours: The 1850 Manatee
Burying Ground is the oldest public
cemetery in Manatee County. It was the
first burying ground for the Village of
Manatee, the first established community
between Tampa and Key West dating to
1842. The Burying Ground was in use from
1850-1892 with a few family burials occurring
up until the 1960s.
The public will have the chance to
schedule their daytime tour in advance
and visit the Burying Ground with a
member of staff. Appropriate clothing
and footwear is encouraged. Tours take
place outside with natural elements and
will include long periods of standing and
walking, uneven ground, and exposure
to sunlight and rain. At staff discretion,
tours may be cancelled due to inclement
weather. These tours will be available
only on select days: March 1 - March 5 and
March 15 - March 19. Tours will be approximately
20 minutes in duration and will
take place at 9:30am and 10:30am on these
dates. Space is limited. There will be four
(4) slots per tour and must be scheduled
in advance. Tours are FREE but reservations
are required. Reservations can
be made online at the link provided
at www.manateevillage.org/events or
over the phone at (941) 749-7165.
“Medicine in Manatee”
Exhibit Opening: On Monday,
March 1, Manatee Village Historical
Park will reopen previously closed
exhibit space inside the Wiggins
Store to feature an exhibit on the
history of medicine in the Village
of Manatee. The new exhibit, titled
“Medicine in Manatee” will be open
on the second floor. Visitors may only
visit the exhibit during scheduled
appointments. Appointments are
FREE but required and can be scheduled
on the main webpage at www.
manateevillage.org or over the phone
at (941) 749-7165.
“Medicine in Manatee”
Digital Lecture: Join Dr.
Jeffrey N. Brown, Curator at
Manatee Village Historical Park, for
a digital lecture to supplement the
Cemetery Tours will take place on select days in March during the daytime.
Old Manatee County Courthouse in the Manatee Village Historical Park.
new “Medicine in Manatee” exhibit. This
lecture is a pre-recorded digital video.
The digital video will be available for one
day only. It can be accessed at the start
of the day on March 6th and watched any
time that day or evening. Access to the
digital video ends at 11:59pm on March
6th. Members of the public may sign up to
receive an email with a link to the digital
lecture or simply visit the website on
March 6th. To receive an email with the
“Medicine in Manatee” will include
artifacts like this dentist’s chair on
loan from the Bishop Museum of
Science and Nature.
link, members of the public must sign
up before 12:00pm (noon) on Friday,
March 5. This video is free to the public
to enjoy in their own homes. To receive
an email with the link, the public can
sign up online at the link provided
at www.manateevillage.org/events or
over the phone at (941) 749-7165.
Manatee Village
Historical Park is located
at 1404 Manatee Avenue East (State
Road 64) Bradenton, Florida. For more
information call (941) 749-7165 or visit:
www.manateevillage.org
www.facebook.com/
manateevillage/
Manatee Village Historical Park is
a part of the Manatee County Clerk
of Circuit Court and Comptroller
Historical Resources Department.
This program is offered in conjunction
with the Manatee County Historical
Commission, Inc.
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(At the Centre Shops of Longboat Key)
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(Updated in September)
For a brochure call: (941) 383-8811
In troubled times, musicians seem to find a
way to bring beauty into the world.
Acclaimed soprano Suzanne Karpov will make her
Key Chorale debut, joining the Key Chorale
Chamber Singers and Orchestra for a performance
of Coronation: Mozart & Haydn, two timeless
masterpieces by Classical music’s original trailblazers
who changed the course of music.
Premieres Friday, March 5
Online Streaming Concert through March 28, 2021
Mozart and Haydn were close friends; Haydn was a
mentor to the younger Mozart, and the two would
often play string quartets together with Mozart playing
the viola and Haydn playing the violin. In fact, Mozart
even dedicated six of his string quartets to Joseph Haydn
titled the “Haydn” Quartets. These two contrasting mass
settings demonstrate the genius and craftsmanship of
two of Classical music’s most skilled composers.
Tickets on Sale Now!
KeyChorale.org or call 941.921.4845
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Accolades
■ Barbara Mollanazar of RE/
MAX Alliance Group has been
named to the Realtors Political
Action Committee (RPAC).
RPAC’s purpose is to fundraise
and increase awareness of the
committee among Realtors.
Mollanazar has 25 years of local
real estate experience and serves
the entire Hillsborough, Pinellas,
Manatee and Sarasota County
markets. She has consistently
ranked in Top 250 Latino Agents
nationwide by the National Association
of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals
(NAHREP). A RE/MAX
Alliance Group Gold Club award
recipient, Mollanazar is based in
the Bradenton office at 3007 Manatee
Avenue W., Bradenton.
■ Sarasota Yacht Club has
announced that COO and General
Manager Karen Harmon has
earned the
Distinguished
Club Executive
Award
from Board-
Room magazine,
in
partnership
with Forbes
Travel Guide.
Karen Harmon
Harmon is
one of only
140 general managers globally to
receive the distinction for leading
her team in providing an excellent
member experience.
Since her arrival in 2018, Harmon
has helped build the Club’s
youth sailing program, expanded
the marina and helped her team
navigate its way around the pandemic.
Under Harmon’s watch,
Sarasota Yacht Club was among
Florida’s first 100 establishments
to receive the Florida Restaurant
and Lodging Association Seal of
Commitment award for enhanced
standards to ensure the safety of
staff, members and guests.
Appointments
■ State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota
(SCF) named its
new Director of the SCF Coding
Academy, Deshjuana “Desh”
Bagley. Bagley comes to SCF with
a background
in technology
education
focused on
enhancing
STEM (science,
technology,
engineering
and math)
enrichment
Deshjuana Bagley
into existing
statewide
curriculum based on Florida state
standards.
“The SCF Coding Academy
provides industry-driven training
from leading professionals,
equipping motivated individuals
with the essential technical skills
to succeed in a digital world,” said
Bagley. “The Academy will offer
premier hands-on instruction,
training and mentoring resulting
in a highly skilled, innovative
and creative workforce prepared
to meet the dynamic technical
needs of the industry.”
She plans to leverage her
industry experience to reach the
following goals for the SCF Coding
Academy:
• Developing a sustainable business
model promoting training,
mentoring and career advancements.
• Staying abreast of technology
trends to develop rapid training to
meet industry needs.
• Equipping students of all ages
with the hard and soft skills needed
to succeed in the industry.
• Promoting a collaborative, supportive
and competitive environment
to help everyone involved
remain sharp and innovative.
Bagley serves as the program
delivery partner for FIRST®️
Robotics throughout a 16-county
region for over 100 teams and 500
volunteers. She is also a member
of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Inc. and anticipates working with
community partners to expand
opportunities for women and
young girls in technology. Her
previous experiences includes being
an Amazon virtual customer
service trainer and team manager,
and a highly-ranked national
trainer for Fortune 500 companies
through SkillPath/CompuMaster.
For information about the SCF
Coding Academy, contact Bagley
at BagleyD@SCF.edu or call 941-
752-5208.
■ The Florida Center for Early
Childhood’s Chief Executive
Officer, Dr. Kristie Skoglund, has
been appointed to the board of
directors for the Florida Association
for Infant Mental Health , or
FAIMH.
FAIMH’s purpose is to expand
the infant and early childhood
mental health field into the Florida
workforce through an endorsement
available to professionals
that work with young children.
FAIMH accomplishes this though
local chapters.
In the mental health world, infant
and early childhood mental
health professionals work with
the child in the context of their
relationships. Most of the time,
the relationships include a parent
or caregiver. This therapeutic
framework helps the entire family
heal from trauma while promoting
healthy social and emotional
development of the child.
As a board member, Skoglund
will raise awareness about the Infant
Mental Health Endorsement,
or FIMH-E, a credential available
to childcare and mental health
professionals in the Sarasota area.
Skoglund became one of the
first clinicians in Florida to be
endorsed as an 'Infant and Early
Childhood Mental Health Expert.'
She was one of eight experts across
the state invited to apply for the
endorsement when it was first
implemented in Florida in 2020.
■ Sarasota Memorial Health Care
System is changing its leadership
structure this year to integrate and
coordinate care across the health
system’s expanding hospital network.
This fall, Sarasota Memorial’s
transformation into a regional
health system will take another
step forward with the opening of a
new hospital in Venice.
Lorrie Liang, who previously
served as Sarasota Memorial
Health Care
System’s Chief
Operating
Officer, has
been appointed
president of
the Sarasota
Memorial Hospital
– Sarasota
campus. In
Lorrie Liang
her expanded
role, Liang will
oversee strategic initiatives, operations
and overall performance of
the main hospital in Sarasota.
Liang, along with Sharon Roush,
president of the Sarasota Memorial
Hospital-Venice campus, and senior
leaders for the health system’s
First Physicians Group, Ambulatory
Services and Corporate/Support
Services, all report to Verinder and
work collaboratively to advance
the health system’s operations and
strategic goals.
A fellow of the American College
of Healthcare Executives, Liang
has more than 30 years of experience
in hospital leadership. She
earned her Master of Health Services
Administration from George
Washington University in Washington,
D.C., and a bachelor’s degree
in Health Science and Policy
from the University of Maryland.
■ Tammy Sawmelle, who holds a
doctorate in educational research
and evaluation from Nova
Southeastern University, recently
completed her first semester as
director of nursing programs at
State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota
(SCF). Prior to
joining SCF, Dr. Sawmelle was an
assistant professor of nursing at
Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh,
PA, and associate dean
of nursing at the Community
College of Allegheny County.
SCF graduated more than 75
new ASN nurses and recorded a
99% passing rate on the National
Council Licensure Examination
(NCLEX-RN), Sawmelle orchestrated
SCF’s first drive-through
nursing pinning ceremony to
allow those graduates to be appropriately
honored for their achievements
while maintaining safety
precautions like social distancing
to lessen the risk of COVID-19.
For information on SCF’s
nursing programs, visit SCF.edu/
Nursing.
■ Laura McCann is the new
executive director of the Animal
Rescue Coalition
(ARC), a
not-for-profit
organization
with a mission
to end the killing
of adoptable
dogs and cats
in Sarasota
and Manatee
Laura McCann
Counties.
McCann
brings more than 30 years of legal
and executive experience in the
military, corporate and nonprofit
sectors to ARC.
In her new role, she will lead,
support and guide the organization’s
mission, ensure the nonprofit’s
financial health, oversee resources
and day-to-day operations
and fulfill ARC’s mission through
programming, strategic planning
and community outreach.
Most recently, McCann was the
founder and president of Philanthropy
Partners, a firm that
provides professional guidance
to nonprofits, corporations and
foundations. She helped advance
the mission of nonprofits through
expert assistance on compliance
with state and federal laws
regarding formation, governance
and tax reporting and identified
funding opportunities. In this
capacity, McCann secured more
than $1 million in federal grants
and private donations for clients.
She is a veteran of the U.S. Navy
Judge Advocate General’s Corps,
where she was selected to serve as
the first Regional Counsel to the Naval
Criminal Investigative Service.
■ Lighthouse Vision Loss Education
Center, a nonprofit organization
that educates and empowers
those affected by vision loss in
Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte,
DeSoto and Highlands Counties
has recognized the achievements
of two of its employees.
Lisa J. Howard, Lighthouse
Chief Executive Officer achieved
recertification as a Certified Fund
Raising Executive (CFRE). CFRE
credential demonstrates professional
achievement and commitment
to the fundraising profession
and is administered by CFRE
International. More than 7,200
fundraising professionals from over
20 countries are currently CFREs
working throughout all segments
of the nonprofit sector where they
bring adherence to rigorous standards
to all aspects of their work.
Terri Medina, Lighthouse
Director of Development was
elected as a member of the Board
of Directors in the Southwest
Florida Chapter of the Association
of Fundraisers Professionals (AFP-
SWFL). Medina will also serve
as Chair of the Communications
Committee. AFP-SWFL is committed
to growing professionalism
and diversity among its membership,
increasing the opportunities
and resources provided to its
members, and celebrating the
philanthropic heritage of the Sarasota
and Manatee Community.
■ Neuro Challenge Foundation
for Parkinson’s has named April
Spagnuolo-Moschini as its program
director.
With more than
12 years of nonprofit
experience,
Spagnuolo-Moschini
has
proven success
in the health
care industry
April Spagnuolo-
with leadership,
fundraising,
operational and
Moschini
community outreach knowledge.
In her new role, Spagnuolo-Moschini
will execute and
oversee all programming content,
including all virtual and community-based
monthly programs
in Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte,
Pinellas, Marion and Highlands
Counties. She will also recruit and
train program volunteer ambassadors,
identify and implement
new programs and organize and
lead the nonprofit’s Distinguished
Speakers Series, among other
responsibilities.
Most recently, she served as the
senior center manager at the Senior
Friendship Center, where she
managed two senior center sites
and supervised its employees and
volunteers. Spagnuolo-Moschini
was also responsible for the
day-to-day operations, budgeting,
revenue generation and providing
more than 1,000 members with
activities and events.
For more information, visit www.
ParkinsonsNeuroChallenge.org.
Board News
■ The Southwest Florida
Chapter of the Association of
Fundraising Professionals (AFP-
SWFL) has announced its 2021
Board of Directors:
Executive Board
• Tracy Vanderneck, MSM, CFRE,
Phil-Com LLC, President
• Amy Towery, CFRE, ACFRE,
Meals on Wheels Plus of Manatee,
President-Elect
• Lee Ann Rodriguez, MA, MBA,
DBA, Conservation Foundation
of the Gulf Coast, Secretary
• Scott Hinckley, CFRE, Allegiance
Fundraising, Treasurer
• Janet Ginn, CFRE, Pines of Sarasota
Foundation, Immediate
Past President
Board Members At-Large
• Debra Flynt-Garrett, Westcoast
Black Theatre Troupe
• Morgan Gerhart, Players Centre
for Performing Arts
• Kevin Hughes, New College
Foundation
• Lisa Intagliata, CFRE, Resilient
Retreat, Inc.
• Kathy Jordan, WUSF Public
Media
• Terri Medina, MPA, Lighthouse
Vision Loss Education Center
• Andria Piekarz, Mote Marine
Laboratory & Aquarium
• Sara Curtis Robinson, CFRE,
The Sarasota Ballet
• Rafael Robles, Sarasota Military
Academy Foundation
• Linda Watterworth, Children
First
• Sarah Wertheimer, Embracing
Our Differences
• Kim Noyes, AFP Southwest Florida,
Chapter Administrator
For more information, visit www.
afpswfl.org.
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