The Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key needs volunteers willing to ring bells and collect donations for the Salvation Army. The volunteers will stand in front of the Longboat Key Publix for 90-minute shifts from Dec. 2-24. Volunteers are not required to be Kiwanis Club members. To volunteer, call Martin Bobzien at 383-8714 or Jim Burmeister at 387-8231.
Key T-Shirts, which has been open for 25 years at the Whitney Beach Plaza, will be closing its doors with only a possible re-opening somewhere else on the key. According to the owner, Key T-Shirts could re-open at another location on Longboat Key, possibly next year.
The cyborg future is here. It now appears the era of “mobile computing” is creating mass immobility. Children are texting like crazy at night—in bed. The Pew Memorial Trust survey states 82 percent of children ages 12-17 take their cell phones to bed with them. Now there has appeared a pilot study of what electronic use does at night.
We are going downhill, folks. On Dec. 16, 1763, a group of colonists, disguised as Indians (or is that Native Americans?), boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and threw the cargo of tea into Boston Harbor. Our ancestors weren’t about to put up with a tax on tea and went face-to-face with King George III. Actually, George had a pretty good argument as he only wanted us to repay some of the money the British spent defending us during the French-Indian Wars (Or is that French-Native American Wars?) a couple decades earlier.
Brad Saivetz, professional engineer, professional planner, member of the Planning and Zoning Board and professional gadfly, has done it again. Addressing the Vision Plan, he has dissected it with his professional aplomb and shown it for what it is: a specifically directed proposal to change Longboat Key to an in-and-out tourist destination.
I had the chance to attend what I think was a memorable occasion in New York last Saturday night. Yes, it was cold on that November evening. The occasion was the meeting of Notre Dame and Army in a renewal of their storied rivalry. These two teams, of which real sports journalists have written legends over the years, met again this year in Gotham.
Within the last few months, television…
Former Commissioner and Longboat Key Village resident Gene Jaleski is busy urging commissioners to start talking and implementing alternatives to end what he says will soon be a temporary and unaffordable way we currently fix our beaches. Jaleski is talking about the $40 to $50 million the town wants to spend to restore the adopted beach profile that is deigned ideal by Coastal Planning and Engineering, Longboat Key’s beach consultants.
Longboat resident Robert Smith is calling for a book of codified ordinances from Town Attorney David Persson as well as Mayor George Spoll and the Town Commission.
Last week we joined thousands of classic car fans who flocked to St. Armands Circle to marvel at the 19th Annual Super Sunday Mustang & Ford Show—where scores of colorful (and very powerful) Mustangs, Shelbys and vintage Fords occupied virtually every square inch of the circle’s inner park.
