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Sarasota News Leader March 15, 2013 Page 61 CONCERT CANCELLED BECAUSE OF SEQUESTRATION Faith Lutheran Church has announced it was informed late on the night of March 13 that the U.S. Army Chorus concert it was offering on March 15 has been canceled by the Public Affairs Office of the U.S. Army because of the sequester. Ticket holders may return their tickets to Faith Lutheran Church at 7750 Beneva Road in Sarasota between 6 and 7:30 p.m. on March 15 or between 8:30 and 11 a.m. on Sunday, March 17. All other activities for the quartet of singers in the Sarasota area have also been cancelled, a For further information, contact the church at 924-4664. news release says. WEBINARS OFFER HOMEOWNERS TIPS TO AVOID WINDSTORM DAMAGE With the approach of the hurricane season on June 1, the Florida Division of Emergency Management and Florida's Foundation are offering a series of webinars on what homeowners can do to prepare their homes to withstand high winds, Sarasota County has announced. The webinars are offered through June 25. A list of times and dates is available on the Florida's Foundation website. "The webinars are part of the county's mitigation program to reduce damage to homeowners' property," said Richard Kerkering, Sarasota County Emergency Management planning chief, in a news release. "The webinars explain wind forces on houses and ways to strengthen the structures." Hurricane Andrew flattened the Dadeland Mobile Home Park in south Florida in 1992. Photo courtesy of NOAA via Wikimedia Commons The website also contains a Homeowners Wind Mitigation booklet that offers techniques for avoiding wind damage, the release adds. For more information, contact the Sarasota County Call Center at 861-5000 (TTY: 7-1-1) or visit www.scgov.net. CORRECTIONS A news brief in the March 8 issue about the The editorial in the first version of the March recommendation of a bid for the Beach Road 8 issue said Susan Chapman, a candidate for drainage/Siesta Key Public Beach stormwater Sarasota City Commission, is the chairman project had an incorrect figure. of the city's Planning Board. She is a former The lowest bid submitted was $4,467,933.30 chairman of that board. from Gibbs & Register Inc. of Winter Garden; that figure included alternate work proposed The editorial was corrected on the morning of March 8. % for the project.