Discover Venice 2023-2024
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41 Discover Venice and exercise classes available to people in the hall. Members can participate in CERT classes. Holidays are celebrated with food and fellowship at the pool or in the hall and anyone can attend. Monthly vendor/craft marketplace events are held. Popular plant sale fundraisers are held bimonthly in the area outside of the pool. One can tour the facility, including the pool, by calling 941-493-5743. PHOTO BY ED SCOTT Pool manager Liane Pierce and pool attendant Ginger Field enjoy a Saturday afternoon at the pool in early October. PHOTO BY ED SCOTT Venice Gardens members Winnie and Rick Boyle Company donates roof to civic association Staff Report M ore than a year after Hurricane Ian barreled its way through southwest Florida, acts of generosity continue to be heard. The latest involves Sarasota-based Bone Dry Roofing - Florida, which replaced the roof on the pumphouse at Venice Gardens at no cost. "During the hurricane, the pumphouse roof blew off, and we've been keeping it tarped, so it wouldn't leak, because the motor is in there," member Rick Boyle said. He asked the roofer who worked at his South Venice home about the pumphouse roof. At first the Bone Dry Roofing - Florida salesman and Boyle, who had a roofing business in New Jersey, talked about a strategy whereby Boyle could do the work. Then the salesman called Boyle and told him that his company wanted to donate the roof. "They put a fantastic, top-of-the-line roof on it," Boyle said, estimating its value in the $4,000-$5,000 range. "We're extremely thankful. It takes a lot of pressure off of us. We could not afford to do it, because we had a lot of other damage that we have to get done and have to pay for. So that is something that is now taken care of for many years to come." PHOTO BY ED SCOTT The pumphouse at Venice Gardens. Area Beach Blind Pass Beach 6725 Manasota Key Road, Manasota Key Brohard Beach & Paw Park 1600 Harbor Drive, Venice Caspersen Beach 4100 Harbor Drive, Venice Lido Beach 400 Ben Franklin Drive, Lido Key Manasota Beach 8570 Manasota Key Road, Manasota Key Maxine Barritt Park 1800 Harbor Drive South, Venice Nokomis Beach 100 Casey Key Road, Casey Key, Nokomis North Jetty Park 1000 Casey Key Road, Casey Key, Nokomis North Lido Beach 50 Ben Franklin Drive, Lido Key Palmer Point Park South end of Siesta Key and the north end of Casey Key Service Club Park 1190 Harbor Drive, Venice Siesta Beach 948 Beach Road, Siesta Key Siesta Beach - Access #7 Beach Road and Calle de la Siesta, Siesta Key South Brohard Park Beach 1900 S Harbor Drive, Venice South Lido Beach 2201 Ben Franklin Drive, Lido Key South Lido Nature Park 190 Taft Road, Lido Key Turtle Beach 8918 Midnight Pass Road, Sarasota Venice Beach 101 The Esplanade, Venice