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Siesta Seen FIRST TEST FOR CHAMPIONSHIP; NEW EAT HERE PLANS GO PUBLIC By Rachel Brown Hackney Editor Editor's note: Former read- ers of the Pelican Press who enjoyed Rachel Brown Hackney's "Island Beat" column, which kept all ap- prised of goings-on on Si- esta Key, will be pleased to know that her new column — "Siesta Seen" — will be a regular feature in The Sarasota News Leader. It didn't take long for the new Siesta Village maintenance contractor to find out that it will have some, shall we say, unusual tests. Just eight days after Championship Landscape Maintenance Professionals of Fort Myers of- ficially took over the Village upkeep, Mark Smith, chairman of the Siesta Key Village Maintenance Corp., took a call about 7 p.m. on Sept. 18 regarding a light pole having been knocked down in the public improvement dis- trict. Workers at the location of the Peppertree condominium complex on the bay side of Midnight Pass Road began work last week for the construction of a pedestrian crosswalk at that site. Photo by Nor- man Schimmel