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Siesta Seen Participants are invited to arrive at the Village Café at 8 a.m. that day for a free breakfast, thanks to co-owners Tom and Kay Kouvatsos. The pickup will start promptly at 9 a.m. As usual, he wrote in an email to his regular volunteers, it will cover all of Ocean Boulevard as well as Higel Avenue and Siesta Drive, all the way up to the north bridge. (SKA participants will go as far as the "humpback bridge," he added, "and our partners," members of the Bay Island Association, will cover the rest of Siesta Drive to the bridge.) STORMWATER PROJECT UPDATE According to the latest update to the County Commission on the Siesta stormwater project, the contractor began digging the "rim ditch" this week. It is a sump necessary to remove groundwater, Capital Projects Director Isaac Brownman wrote in an email. "Now that the groundwater level is dropping, pond excavation has commenced," he added, referring to the construction of the new 1-acre retention pond. "Come out and bring your friends!" he added. Coordination is continuing between the con"As usual, grabbers, gloves and trash bags tractor for that project and the Jon F. Swift will be provided." firm, which is handling the Siesta Beach An aerial view shows work under way again at the stormwater project site next to Siesta Public Beach. Photo courtesy Sarasota County