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Sarasota News Leader September 6, 2013 Page 89 Siesta Seen "The low quote is $2,212.50 per sign," Harriott added. "Four signs will be installed at the two … crosswalks." Staff will proceed with the purchase on Oct. 1, he continued, which is the first day of the new fiscal year. During the August SKVA meeting, I misunderstood a report Wigelsworth gave about a big event in Kuwait taking place at the same time as the Crystal Classic. He had to replace members of some of the teams originally committed to the Crystal Classic, because they are Harriott also noted that staff is reviewing sim- going to Kuwait instead. ilar signs for installation on Midnight Pass Road at the Stickney Point Road intersection. LABOR DAY ON THE KEY Ryan Montague in the county's Traffic/Mobility Office has estimated it will take four to six weeks to get the new lights for Beach Way and Avenida Del Mare, indicating they could be installed by mid-November. Sgt. Steve Leavitt, a new representative of the Sheriff's Office on the island, provided the latest law enforcement update to SKVA members on Sept. 3. Van Roekens, who spurred the effort to get those bollards in place with LED illumination to put more light on Village pedestrians at night, was not present at the Sept. 3 SKVA meeting. parking lot, Leavitt said, but they were typical, given the demand for spots. Things were pretty quiet on the beach itself, he noted. The beach "was very packed" over the weekAs for the bollards: Shay told me after the end, he said. "Yesterday, not as bad," he added SKVA meeting, "I think they're classy. … They of Labor Day itself. give off a good amount of light." A few traffic problems occurred in the beach CORRECTION I normally put news of goofs at the end of this column or in the News Leader's News Briefs section, but I am hopeful regular readers will see this, because I made a big mistake in my reporting last week on plans for the fourth Siesta Key Crystal Classic Master Sand Sculpting Competition planned for Nov. 15-18. Then Michael Shay asked him about an accident on Ocean Boulevard at the Sand Dollar Lane intersection (the entry to the Banyan Club enclave of homes on the Gulf of Mexico). "No one was injured," Leavitt said. The driver was 30-year-old Jason Allen Robey of 2029 Peppertree Way, Sarasota, according to the Sheriff's Office arrest report. The incident, which was reported on the afternoon of Sept. 2 (Robey was arrested at 3:30 p.m.), involved Robey crashing a vehicle into a wall Founder Brian Wigelsworth — a master sand on Sand Dollar Lane, Leavitt said. Robey was sculptor himself who lives on Siesta Key — inside the vehicle when a deputy arrived and will not be in Kuwait when the Classic takes called for backup after determining the vehicle had been reported stolen. place; he will be on Siesta Public Beach.