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Sarasota News Leader March 15, 2013 Page 88 Siesta Seen During the March 7 SKA meeting, Vice President Peter van Roekens — another participant in those demos — said Montague also had told him the report should be going soon to the commissioners. "Please," he added. During the March 5 meeting of the Siesta Key Village Association (SKVA), van Roekens expressed a bit of frustration over the fact that he first suggested the Village crosswalk lighting in January 2012. The volunteers filled 34 garbage bags "of stuff," Shay pointed out. "Treasures," Village Café co-owner Kay Kouvatsos interjected. "Somebody's garbage is somebody's treasure," Shay concurred with a chuckle. In response to a question, Shay explained the volunteers pick up trash all along Ocean Boulevard on an official basis. Unofficially, he added, they pick up garbage on Higel Avenue up RECORD TURNOUT to the north Siesta bridge and along Midnight Siesta Key Association Director Michael Shay, Pass Road by Turtle Beach. on whom van Roekens settled the Adopt-A- "Technically, we work on that Higel stretch Road mantle last year, reported at the March with the Bay Island Association," he noted. 5 SKVA meeting that the SKA and SKVA had a Four people from that organization routinerecord turnout for their latest island cleanup. ly handle the cleanup effort from the north bridge to the "hump" bridge on Siesta Drive, Nineteen people showed up on Feb. 16, he he added. said. Based on his notes, he added, "that was the largest group we [ever] had." "That's huge," Kouvatsos said. Volunteers are being sought to gather up garbage on the Siesta beachfront on April 27 as part of the Great American Cleanup. Photo by Rachel Hackney