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together, "I can assure you that if you don't use [the trolley], it won't continue. … We have to show support." • The aged Siesta Key sewer plant has to be decommissioned in 2016, by state order. To provide sewer service to the island, the county will be "building a huge force main along Lockwood Ridge [Road] to take effluent to the [county's] Bee Ridge [Road] plant." The boring will go under the Intercoastal Waterway and Phillippi Estate Park. • The $12 million extension of Honore Avenue to Pinebrook Road is scheduled for comple- tion by the fall of 2015. "I didn't think that would get finished in my lifetime," Patterson added, noting this new north/south connec- tor "will be a huge convenience." Patterson told the audience that she and her husband, John, came to Siesta for the first time in 1970. They were both 27. "You can do the math," she joked before adding, "I know that you contribute your efforts to keep [the island] a wonderful place to live." Patterson also noted of her four terms on the County Commission, "It has really been an interesting opportunity, sometimes contentious, but mostly interesting and extremely rewarding." As she wrapped up her address, she said, "It has been a huge privilege [to serve the pub- lic]. … I'll leave the commission in November with no regrets." The audience gave her a standing ovation. Outgoing SKA President Catherine Luckner presents a gift to retiring Director Ron Flynn. Photo by Rachel Hackney Sarasota News Leader March 7, 2014 Page 79