Sarasota News Leader
May 3, 2013
Page 83
Still, she says, "I think Sarasota developed magnificently until the last [real estate] bubble."
"I know we have to have a thriving community," she adds, but the emphasis seems to have
turned more to glitz and grandeur.
"My mother used to say, 'Sarasota was a small
town, but it never was a hick town,'" she continues. "It always had a certain cultural emphasis."
And that is the emphasis she hopes to see winning out in the long run.
"I'm probably the only one in Sarasota who
feels that," Stieff adds.
Then again, how many other Sarasotans can
say they have watched the city so closely for
almost 92 years. %
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