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Longboat Key | Neighbors

Amanda DeYoung checked out artwork at last year's St. Armands Winter Art Festival.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 28, 2011
WEEKEND BEST BET: St. Armands Winter Art Festival

More than 250 artists and craftsmen will have their work for sale.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Joan Mattison and Patty Bowes
    By
  • Dora Walters
  • January 27, 2011
Christ Church members create winning evening

It was fun evening for members of Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian who gathered for Game Night Jan. 27, at The Shore condominium.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Judy Felts
    By
  • Dora Walters
  • January 26, 2011
Seaplace hosts worldly night of fun

Seaplace condominium mixed Italian pizza with a dash of Irish music and created a fun evening for all. Ninety-plus Seaplace residents gathered at sunset Jan. 26 in the clubhouse for an informal pizza party that featured music by the Irish duo Patsy and Magella.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Mary Lou Johnson, Jayne Weiss, Chris Meyers, Margaret Wallae and Lynn Walters couldn't resist sporting these T-shirts.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • January 26, 2011
Game on!

Longboat Key Club hosted its annual Game Day featuring gin, mahjongg, canasta and scrabble, to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • January 26, 2011
Key Club rides new wave at entrance

Malcolm Robertson's "Wave2Me" sculpture, which was on display last year at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design, was installed Jan. 19, at the entrance to the Key Club's Islandside Resort.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Maria Amodio
  • January 26, 2011
Tennis Center puts its best foot forward

The Longboat Key Public Tennis Center is stepping up to help others. Resident Linda Adrian is working with the Tennis Center to collect gently-used shoes through Feb. 28 for Soles4Souls, an international charity that provides shoes to people around the world who are victims of disasters or live in extreme poverty.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 26, 2011
TBI members cruise into new year

A group of 18 Temple Beth Israel started the new year by setting sail. They enjoyed a five-night mini cruise to Key West and the Bahamas.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Lynn Wallace Roodbergen, Linda Swain, Charmaine Engelsman-Robins and Pola Sommers
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 26, 2011
Who let the dogs out?

Linda Swain, of Longboat Key and Toronto, hosted the first fundraiser for the new group, Unchain My Heart of Sarasota Inc., Sunday, Jan. 23, at Harry's Continental Kitchens.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 26, 2011
On the record

Observer Group publisher and CEO Matt Walsh is the 2010 Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key Citizen of the Year.

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Larry Yermack submitted this sunset photo, taken at the Sandpiper Inn, 5451 Gulf of Mexico Drive.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 26, 2011
WEEKLY WINNER: Sweeping Sunset

Larry Yermack submitted this sunset photo, taken at the Sandpiper Inn, 5451 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

  • Longboat Key
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A hand to play
    By
  • Dora Walters
  • January 25, 2011
St. Mary Guild women play variety of games

Players attending the St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Guild's annual card party Jan. 25 didn't limit the games to the always-popular bridge games. There were tables of Scrabble, Mexican Train, mahjongg and more.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Anat Hoffman
    By
  • Dora Walters
  • January 23, 2011
Israeli leader tells her story

It was standing-room only Jan. 23 at Temple Beth Israel when Anat Hoffman, a leader in the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism and director of Women of the Wall, told her story.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Jeff and Judy Reed with Lionel Olmer
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • January 22, 2011
BKYC members glam it up at Fleet Captain's Dinner

Bird Key Yacht Club members had their pick of scrumptious seafood at their annual Fleet Captain's Dinner Saturday.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Ingrid Crites, Francine Gietl and Gina Lopez engage in a little bit of girl talk.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • January 22, 2011
Spanish Main rounds up residents for grand affair

Spanish Main residents met up for fun-filled party Saturday.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Anat Hoffman is director of Women of the Wall.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 21, 2011
WEEKEND BEST BET: Anat Hoffman

Temple Beth Israel will host the Israeli activist at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

  • Longboat Key
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