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Furloughs Complaint to Get State Hearing MUSIC KEY WEST Natalia Zukerman Sleepy season now jams Folk series brings with events at Womenfest Zukerman, Gonzalez Citywide lineup to The Studios is happening In L’Attitudes Dynamic duo place Sept. 6-11 present art L’Attitudes Staff with music Back in the 1970s, Key The Old Town New West was a sleepy town in Folk series returns to The the dog days of August and Studios of Key West on September, interrupted only Wednesday, Sept. 7 with a by a tourism blip on Labor performance by Natalia Day weekend. To help attract tourism Womenfest, parties, fil, comedy and Zukerman and Adrianne Adrianne Gonzalez Gonzalez, artists, musicians during this “off season,” a and songwriters. When the duo decided group of business owners Zukerman tours with to illustrate their songs and friends organized the well-known musicians through painting, “Art is Key West Business Guild in including Catie Curtis, Song” was born. 1978. Their mission: grow Janis Ian, Willy Porter and They start with a lyric or the gay and lesbian tourism Susan Werner. an image from one of their market in the Southernmost more, returns to Key West. Story, Gonzalez, who grew up songs. Once the image is City. in Miami, now lives in Los discussed, either Zukerman To judge how far their Angeles and has shared the or Gonzalez starts the idea has grown, just witness stage with Bonnie Raitt and piece. At some point, they Womenfest, a weeklong ‘Jan’s Coming Out,’ switch and the other finish- Jackson Browne. series of programs and hap- (above) a film es the painting. The pair met four years penings that kickoff The visual representa- documentary plays ago at a music festival and Tuesday, Se tion of songs are captured pt. 6 and run the Tropic Cinema have collaborated on shows through Sunday, Sept. 11. and even some recordings on canvas, wood and paper. Sept. 8. Womenfest’s opening since. “Natalia’s voice could Sister Funk party launches the whole Zukerman describes her send an orchid into bloom rock band affair 5:30-8:30 p.m. Sept. 6 music as “soulful folk, while her guitar playing (left) plays the can open a beer bottle with at the Southernmost Hotel’s adult pop, rootsy blues and Hog’s Breath Sept.7. Assisted living ballads.” its teeth,” according to a new Pineapple Bar & Pool, 6B An exhibit of their art- reviewer for The New 1319 Duval St. Co-spon- Contributed photos work will be part of the Yorker. sored by Centennial Bank show at The Studios, 600 Doors open at 7 p.m. and Barefoot Wines, this way to attract some shoul- tant this (gay and lesbian) on staff and has won awards White St., Key West. Sept. 7 to view the exhibi- event is a benefit for der season business has market is to Key West year for its gay-oriented ad cam- 27 Days to “We’re both painters tion; the concert begins at 8 Business Guild programs become a year-round mar- round. The numbers contin- paigns. d musicians, and we use p.m. Tickets cost $20 in and outreach. keting effort that last year ue to grow and it means In addition to ensibili- advance, $25 the day of the Since the initial effort helped attract an estimated millions of dollars brought Womenfest, the Guild spon- how and are available at began 33 years ago, the 210,000 LGBT travelers to into Key West each year.” sors Pridefest Key West, 00 White St. Guild has grown from a Key West. The Florida Keys Tropical Heat, and the handful of members to 350 Rebecca Tomlinson, Tourism Development Headdress Ball. Plans have changed for an assisted-living Guild Executive Director: Council (TDC) incorporates Tomlinson, who also “It’s incredible how impor- a gay-marketing specialist G See Womenfest, 9B facility in Key West, but a lease to get it done seems near. Story, 6A Sept. 30 - Oct. 2 WWW.KEYSNET.COM SPRUANCE’S MAIDENSATURDAY,SEPTEMBER VOYAGE 3, 2011 VOLUME 58, NO. 71 KEY WEST ● 25 CENTS Cops: Elderly man slain in his apartment Police say he was bound with tape; said Assistant Monroe County State Attorney Mark person questioned Wilson, who planned to be at the questioning to “super- Keynoter Staff intend what’s going on.” The 199-unit Senior Key West police were Citizen Plaza, 1400 questioning a “person of Kennedy Drive, is managed interest” on Friday in the by the Key West Housing death of a 66-year-old man Authority. It’s next door to who was found bound with the DePoo Psychiatric tape in his apartment at the Hospital and across the Senior Citizen Plaza on street from Poinciana Kennedy Drive in Key West. Elementary School. Police spokeswoman Friday’s homicide was People greet the new U.S. Navy destroyer ‘Spruance’ on Thursday as it passes through Phippsburg, Maine, on its way Alyson Crean said the death the second one in Monroe from the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, to her Oct. 1 commissioning in Key West.The 510-foot guided-missile ship, of the resident is a homicide. County this year. In May, an which has a range of 4,400 miles and a crew of 370, will be homeported in San Diego. The $1 billion ship is named Details were few but elderly Little Torch Key man police said they received a killed his wife, then took his for Adm. Raymond Spruance, who led Navy forces in World War II’s Battle of Midway. Associated Press photo by PAT WELLENBACH call about 2 p.m. reporting a own life. possible dead body in one of In 2010, Monroe saw five the apartments. Responding homicides. Of those, four MONROE COUNTY SCHOOLS officers discovered the dead resulted in arrests, one of man, whose body “showed which resulted in a guilty signs of trauma.” He also plea to manslaughter and 10- was apparently robbed. year prison sentence. “They are talking to a Still unsolved is the death Furloughs complaint person of interest,” Crean of Henry Allwardt, 70, who said late Friday. “He’s not was shot repeatedly in the considered a suspect at this bedroom of his apartment on point in time.” Upper Matecumbe Key in “Apparently they’ve got September 2010. Detectives to get state hearing somebody over there they have said they believe the think might be the person,” killer was known to By SEAN KINNEY Allwardt, who worked as security guard. [email protected] KEY WEST Union, administration rancor remains The attorney for a state labor panel on Friday decided as board preps to approve budget there’s sufficient evidence to Police officer warrant a hearing over a com- Relations Commission. entertain the union’s com- plaint of unfair labor prac- It alleges that mandatory plaint (he dismissed the ear- tices filed against the Monroe unpaid six- and seven-day comes as the School Board is lier version of it, saying it Tases himself County School District. furlough days for the current poised to finalize a dramati- lacked specificity). Representatives of the school year weren’t collec- cally reduced annual spend- Negotiators for the School Report: Cop United Teachers of Monroe, tively bargained with district ing plan Tuesday after a con- District have 20 days to the union representing teach- officials, who unilaterally tentious summer marked by a respond; also triggered by the fending off ed. I didn’t do anything.” ers and school-related per- decided on the furloughs. mandate for the unpaid days Friday notice is a 30-day peri- Richard Wunsch, sonnel, initially filed the The furloughs aren’t in the off and the privatization of od in which an evidentiary dog attack Strickland’s attorney, called complaint last month with the contract the union and dis- more than 70 custodial jobs. hearing is scheduled before a the entire incident “kind of By KEVIN WADLOW weird.” Florida Public Employees trict ratified in December. PERC General Counsel regional PERC counsel. Senior Staff Writer The news that a hearing Stephen Meck on Friday In addition to the com- Key West officers were MARATHON on the complaint will occur informed UTM President plaint on the state level, [email protected] called to a report of a “possi- Holly Hummell-Gorman Hummell-Gorman said UTM ble domestic disturbance” at that the commission will has filed three grievances A dog named Buddy the South Street home. Once stands accused of biting a there, Richardson said he Habitat family foreclosed on Key West police officer — heard “a female screaming ● See Schools, 2A and apparently being respon- inside the residence.” Lawyer: Action sible for that officer acciden- The dog had bitten tally firing his Taser into his Jennifer Dent, Strickland’s not ‘in spirit’ own leg during an Aug. 24 girlfriend, during what incident on South Street. Strickland described as of homebuilder “I drew my department “playful wrestling around.” issued X26 Taser as the dog Richardson wrote that he saw By RYAN McCARTHY their case, the cause was jumped up and bit into my right through a window that Dent [email protected] staggering medical bills. forearm, causing the Taser to was “bleeding heavily.” Now, they’re being fore- deploy into my left leg,” The officer said he feared A Marathon family in closed on by Habitat — Officer Curtiss Richardson Dent was a victim of domes- danger of losing its 64th which is in the business of wrote in his report. tic violence and wanted to Street home says the creating homeownership. It was a significant bite,” talk to her. Strickland refused Marathon chapter of inter- Habitat for Humanity of the police spokeswoman Alyson to open a sliding-glass door, national nonprofit Habitat Middle Keys holds the bank Crean said.
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