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SRQ DAILY Sep 12, 2016

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"This can help stop people from dying of malaria, or stop babies from being harmed by the spread of Zika."

- Sandra Murray, Penta5
 

[Real Estate]  Closed Sales For July 2016
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Defined as the number of sales transactions that closed during the month, closed sales are one of the simplest, yet most important indicators for the residential real estate market. Closed sales are affected by seasonal cycles which mean actual trends are more accurately represented by year-over-year changes, rather than changes from one month to the next. Florida Realtors shares an updated chart with July 2016 information added for single-family homes. Closed sales were high during July 2015 with 868, lowering to 680 closed sales in July 2016.  

[Innovation]  Breaking Mosquitoes of Blood Habit
Jacob Ogles, jacob.ogles@srqme.com

Can mosquitoes be trained to stop biting people? The scientists at Penta5, a Sarasota-based company, think they can do so with the new MosquitoPaQ. Penta5 founder Charles Murray even joked at a Friday awards ceremony that the product could turn mosquitoes into a vegetarian species. “We have such pride in this product,” says Sandra Murray, Penta5 vice president of marketing. “This can help stop people from dying of malaria, or stop babies from being harmed by the spread of Zika.”

The product was honored Friday with the Ringling College Innovation by Creative Design award, an honor bestowed annually by the Sarasota arts school and the Economic Development Corporation of Sarasota County.

Scientists at Penta5, a company that works with chemical products from metabolism-boosting water drinks to insulated juice packs, have been developing the MosquitoPaQ product for about eight years. The product puts out a chemical to attract mosquitos that will extinguish the insects’ desire for blood. It has been marketed as a way to combat flaviviruses like Zika using environmentally sound, organic means.

“We don’t kill the mosquito,” stresses Sandra Murray. “They belong in the food chain, and we were dead set against disrupting an ecosystem.” She wishes state agencies and local jurisdictions that right now are spraying Zika-heavy areas with insecticides would consider the organic approach of using MosquitoPaQs instead. “I know people who for years have had mosquitoes in their garage or in their garden, and now they don’t,” Murray says. “This product, it works." 

The innovation award was handed to Penta5 at the EDC’s 16th annual meeting, held at the Hyatt Regency Sarasota. At the event the Clyde Nixon Business Leadership Award was also given to Gene Matthews, a former Sarasota County Commissioner who founded multiple businesses and launched Little League Baseball in North Port. The meeting also marked the installation of Jim Kuhlman, CEO of First Manatee Bank, as EDC chairman for the coming year. He succeeds Herald-Tribune publisher Pat Dorsey. 

Pictured: MosquitoPaQ no-bite pouch.

[Collaboration]  Mote, Nature Conservancy Announce Initiative

Two of the area's foremost science and conservation organizations, Mote Marine Laboratory and the Nature Conservancy, are starting a new and comprehensive coral conservation initiative to enable coral restoration at unprecedented scales throughout the Caribbean and Florida Keys. The importance of the health of our coral reefs, the history of the institutions' successes together and the goals of the new initiative will be discussed.  

Mote Marine Laboratory

[Collaboration]  Realize Bradenton Partners with Florida Blue

Realize Bradenton has joined forces with Florida Blue and Mosaic to create Cook Together Bradenton, a new Millennial-led initiative to increase access to and use of healthy, fresh produce in Bradenton residents’ everyday lives. Cook Together Bradenton will bring local chefs, families and Millennials from neighborhoods throughout Bradenton to the Bradenton Farmers Market and Bradenton area chef-owned restaurants to shop for fresh, locally grown produce.  

Realize Bradenton

[Recognition ]  Children First Kicks Off 55th Year

This year marks 55 years of service for Children First, which provides infant and toddler care, early childhood education, nutrition and healthcare support, as well as family strengthening and parenting classes to at-risk children and their families living in Sarasota county. From North Port to Sarasota, teachers and volunteers at each of Children First’s 13 locations are on hand to greet students and their parents and help them get off to a successful start to the school year with plenty of educational and social activities.  

Children First

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