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Siesta Seen including the brick walkway that leads vis- itors around the construction site to that Siesta quartz sand. And no "heavenly fireworks" arrived to dis- rupt the man-made show, Lynn-Schmitz pointed out. "I can promise it's not going to rain this year because we paid for a 60-foot by 90-foot tent to put over the picnic tables," SKVA member Kay Kouvatsos said during the organization's July 1 meeting. Lynn-Schmitz told me she worked on the cleanup after the fireworks show ended until about 10 p.m. and was back at the beach at 7 a.m. on Saturday to finish the job, "pretty much all by myself." It only took about two hours, she added. Though volunteers who had gathered for a special beach "garbage detail" offered to assist her in the VIP picnic area, she said she declined. "They had their hands full," she pointed out. As in the past, a lot of the fire- works spectators just left behind what they had brought with them for the day. "My area was nothing compared to what people left on the beach," Lynn-Schmitz said. A walkway from the new Siesta Public Beach parking lot to the beach skirts the construction area. Photo by Rachel Hackney Sarasota News Leader July 11, 2014 Page 70