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WWW.KEYSINFONET.COM WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2014 VOLUME 61, NO. 39 G 25 CENTS IN THE COURTS Judge tosses Cay Clubs case By DAVID GOODHUE U.S. District Court Judge Civil case dismissed ‘with prejudice,’ civil action a motion to dismiss filed in [email protected] James Lawrence King dis- against a April that the company missed the Securities and meaning the SEC cannot refile it anew defendant ceased all normal operations A federal civil fraud com- Exchange Commission’s within five in October 2007. plaint against Cay Clubs, the case against Cay Clubs Keys to Las Vegas. statute of limitations of the years of the King apparently agreed. resort real estate company Monday “with prejudice,” Lawyers from Cay Clubs SEC complaint had run out. alleged He wrote this week that the that owned — but never meaning the agency cannot and the SEC did not return The agency investigated Cay offense. SEC failed to establish its developed — hundreds of reopen its allegations that the messages seeking comment. Clubs for seven years, but it Caycase, even “after nearly seven Keys properties during the company was really running In his ruling King blasted did not file its complaint Clubs years of investigation, after housing boom, was dis- a $300 million Ponzi scheme SEC attorneys for taking too against Cay Clubs until CLARK defense the close of all discovery and missed this week and cannot that defrauded more than long to bring its case against January 2013. attorneys Kenneth P. Hazouri be brought back. 1,000 investors from the Cay Clubs. King said the Federal law mandates and Leon H. Handley said in See Cay Clubs, 3A
ENDURANCE ON THE WATER Deadly 2 months on Keys waters Volunteer Fire Department, Six have died arrived with FWC officers to in what seem search for the missing man. O’Conner found Harllee’s to be accidents body underwater near a channel marker where he By KEVIN WADLOW had been diving. Harllee was Senior Staff Writer pronounced dead when they [email protected] got to shore. Harllee’s dive gear was The past five weeks on sent to local experts for test- Florida Keys waters have ing, associate medical exam- been deadly. iner Dr. Peter Gillespie said Two deaths from a scuba- Tuesday. No cause of death diving accident and an appar- has been confirmed. “Some- ent drowning last weekend times with the [equipment raised to six the number of and medical] testing, it takes people who have died in a little while,” Gillespie said. water-related incidents since On Saturday, the body of early April, according to William George, 69, was reports from the Monroe found floating face down in an County Sheriff’s Office and Islamorada canal off George’s Florida Fish and Wildlife San Remo Drive home. Conservation Commission. A neighbor told Deputy Mark Harllee, 54, of Fort Ray Jodlowski that he saw Photo courtesy ROY PAYNE Pierce died while scuba diving George’s body floating next Sunday while on a Mother’s to a boat in the canal. There Veteran Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Lt. Roy Payne and his wife, Angie, at the Blue Mountains, Day visit to his mother’s were tools on the boat, indi- two hours west of Sydney, Australia, in April 2013. The Sugarloaf couple took part in the Ironman Australia event home on North Key Largo. cating George may have been in Port Macquarie. He was diving by himself working on it, deputies noted. off a boat, about 150 yards Layton resident Dalia from shore, while his mother Perez, 71, died Thursday Elnora and wife Emily after a neighbor heard her For Payne, lots of pain watched from shore. When calls for help from a canal off Mark did not surface to show South Layton Drive. marathon for those not triathlon racing and its world one of 14,795 athletes to them he was OK, Elnora Perez was seen hanging FWC officer, familiar with perhaps the championship race each year receive any designation swam out to where he was onto a personal watercraft in ironman racer world’s most grueling sport. in Hawaii is the most exclu- [gold, silver or bronze] and diving. She found Mark’s the canal while she shouted Payne, a 25-year FWC sive such event in the world. was one of 5,758 in the U.S. tickle stick but no sign of her to her husband. Moments is All World veteran and Sugarloaf Key Of the designation as a to receive any designation,” son. She returned to shore later, the neighbor saw Perez resident, was rewarded on Silver All World Athlete, “I Berglund said. and called for help. drifting in the water, Sheriff’s By RYAN McCARTHY March 26 for his dedication was excited. I didn’t know it Payne completed three Brian O’Conner, an Office spokeswoman Becky [email protected] when he received a letter was coming; I just kind of got iron-distance races (140.6 emergency medical techni- from Ironman headquarters in it in the mail,” Payne said. total miles) and three half cian with the Key Largo See Deaths, 3A Florida Fish and Wildlife Tampa declaring him a Silver According to Ironman iron-distance races (70.3 Conservation Commission Lt. All World Athlete for 2013. spokesman Dan Berglund, total miles) in 2013 alone, Roy Payne has a more-than- The distinction means the there are gold, silver and taking second place in the DRAGONS AT THE BEACH appropriate last name for a 49-year-old Payne’s overall bronze classifications for All Gator Half Triathlon in man who’s completed 17 full finishes in 2013 “positioned World Athlete awards. Gold is Bradenton and the Bone “iron-distance” triathlons. you in the top 5 percent of” for top 1 percent finishers, Island Half Iron Distance That’s a 2.4-mile swim men ages 45 to 49. while silver is for top 5 percent Triathlon in Key West. followed by a 112-mile bicy- Ironman is the most rec- and bronze for the 10 percent. cle ride and a26.2-mile ognized name in distance “Globally, [Payne] was See Payne, 3A KEY WEST Finish line for Roosevelt is close 23, 2012, and on May 5 was million of the project cost. were two lanes of incoming 2 years for 90.2 percent complete, The city is putting in $4.3 from the Triangle at boulevard Walters said. million for a new sewer Roosevelt and U.S. 1 and He said crews from the main and the Florida Keys none going out. That pre- construction Miami-based DeMoya Aqueduct Authority is vented access to businesses Group Inc., contracted for adding $5.4 million for a on the boulevard. By SEAN KINNEY the work by the state Florida new water line. Outbound traffic was Department of Transpor- “We’ve worked together rerouted to South Roosevelt Two years and about two tation, are now focused on on some key points and Boulevard and Flagler Photo courtesy CHRSTINE CANEVARI weeks into the $41.5 million the Salt Run Channel Bridge. DeMoya has done a tremen- Avenue. Crews aboard dragon boats — long, sleek boats bearing reconstruction of North “In addition,” Walters said, dous job; they’re really After business owners dragon designs that originated in ancient China — get Roosevelt Boulevard in Key “work will continue on water working hard,” Mayor Craig complained directly to ready to battle it out at last year’s Battle in the Bay Dragon West, the end is in sight. lines, sewer laterals, drainage Cates said. Transportation Secretary Project spokesman Dean and utility work for the entire When work started, Ananth Prasad last summer, Boat Festival in Marathon. This year’s races, benefiting the Walters projects completion length of the project.” North Roosevelt Boulevard cash-strapped Heron housing facility for the chronically in July. Work began on April The state is paying $31.8 was configured so there See Roosevelt, 3A mentally ill, are Saturday at Sombrero Beach. Story, 6A
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NEWS BRIEFS UPPER KEYS Marijuana PAC collects big bucks Party on at former Rowell’s Marina A political action com- tion with plenty of space for The Key Largo picnic pre- county supports the ongoing County Road 905, from mittee helping spearhead a July 4 fun the picnic and games, but we viously was held behind the production of the Keys’ near mile marker 106.5 ballot effort to legalize med- moved from can incorporate the fire- Murray E. Nelson Govern - Netflix series by allowing the north through lands protect- ical marijuana in Florida works over the water at the ment and Cultural Center, a company to use “a small cor- ed for conservation and collected $226,734 in contri- Nelson Center end of night,” chamber much smaller site with limit- ner” of the Rowell’s site as a wildlife, has become butions during April, a President Craig Cope said. ed parking about two and a staging area. increasingly popular as a newly filed campaign By KEVIN WADLOW County Administrator half miles from Rowell’s. “They’re spending a lot bicycling route. The annual finance report shows. Senior Staff Writer Roman Gastesi said he sup- While the Fourth of July of money here so we sup- Bike MS: Breakaway to The committee People [email protected] ports the idea but said some event looks likely, the park at port that initiative,” Gastesi Key Largo benefit ride, usu- United for Medical details need to be worked out. Rowell’s remains months said. “It’s a good thing for ally scheduled in March, Marijuana — which has Key Largo’s Fourth of the If approved, the celebra- away from opening on a the county.” brings about 1,500 bicy- tapped former Monroe July festivities could move tion would be among the daily basis. clists to Key Largo. County State Attorney to Monroe County’s newest first major events moved to The county has tentative New bike lanes The Ocean Reef Com- Dennis Ward to be its lead waterfront park this summer. the eight-acre Rowell’s plans for a small picnic area, Work is under way to munity Association and Key person in the Keys — had Organizers with the Key property since the county bayside beach and paddling build nearly 12 miles of Largo Chamber of Com - raised an overall total of Largo Chamber of took ownership earlier this access but no designs will be bicycle lanes from Key merce both supported the $3.1 million through April Commerce have submitted a year in a $5 million pur- funded until the new fiscal Largo to the Ocean Reef installation of bicycle lanes while also receiving $1.9 request to use the former site chase from the Largo Sun year begins in October, Club along County Road as a safety and recreational million in loans, though of Rowell’s Marina at mile Vista Acquisition Co. of Gastesi said. Cost estimates 905 on North Key Largo. asset in 2012. much of that money went to marker 104.5 bayside for the Deerfield Beach. of planned improvements The $3.4 million project Monroe County’s share collecting the 683,149 peti- community picnic and kids’ “People love the home- remain unknown. approved in January has an of gas-tax revenue will pay tion signatures needed to get games that follow the tradi- town feel of the parade, and In addition to receiving estimated completion date in for $2.5 million of the proj- on the Nov. 4 ballot. tional July 4 parade in we can carry that forward to rent from a landscaping com- mid-November, said Judy ect. Money from the coun- Prominent Orlando trial Tavernier on U.S. 1. the family-friendly picnic” at pany that also maintains the Clarke, the county’s director ty’s infrastructure sales tax attorney John Morgan is “It’s not only a great loca- Rowell’s, Cope said. property, Gastesi said, the of engineering services. will provide $866,026. chairman of the group and also has played a large role in financing its activities. ELECTION 2014 COMMERCIAL FISHING But Morgan and his law firm did not contribute money during April, according to Kelly wants seat on Crab season disappointing the report filed Monday. The largest contributor Fewer landed sumers,” Graves said. the seasons.” was New York retiree Henry Marathon council Wholesale prices often This season, the average van Ameringen, who provid- By RYAN McCARTHY Kelly while prices ranged from $9 per pound of Keys commercial trip medium claws to more than brought in a tentative aver- ed $100,000. [email protected] said that if The medical-marijuana elected, remained high $30 per pound for larger age of 85 pounds of claws, Longtime Middle Keys his main claws. Retail prices paid by down from last season’s 113 proposal will appear on the By KEVIN WADLOW November ballot as resident and business goal is to consumers were significant- pounds per trip, he said. Amendment 2. owner Bill Kelly has filed streamline Senior Staff Writer ly higher. “And with lower har- to seek one of three seats the city’s [email protected] A final tally of the six- vests, boats probably will — News Service of Florida on the Marathon City Building month season’s harvest of wind up making fewer Council in November. Depart - Higher prices helped off- stone-crab claws will not be trips,” Matthews said. Kelly, 61, was appoint- KELLY ment. set some of the pain from the complete for several Stone crabs are returned KEYS WEATHER ed to the city’s Code “I’ve been an electrical disappointing stone-crab months, as late-season trip to the water alive after legal- Compliance Board in contractor for over 34 harvest that ends Thursday. reports get filed with the size claws are removed. “We were down [in claw research arm of the Florida The Florida Keys typical- PREDICTED TEMPERATURES February and considered years in Monroe County,” applying to fill out the seat he said. “I feel we should landings] last year and much Fish and Wildlife Conser - ly produce about 40 percent further down this year,” vation Commission. of the statewide harvest of DAY HIGH LOW of former Councilwoman be able to get it to run a lot Gary Graves of Marathon’s “It’s hard to estimate with crab claws. WED. 86 77 Ginger Snead, who had better and we should be a resigned, shortly there- very permit-friendly city. Keys Fisheries said Tuesday. landings still coming in, but Stone crabs rank behind THURS. 86 77 after. Her term expires in People shouldn’t be afraid “I’ve called around the state indications show there may only lobster in economic FRI. 86 77 November and is being to go get a permit because and haven’t found any place well be a 25 percent decline impact to the Keys’ com- SAT. 86 77 filled out by John Bartus, it’s going to take too long.” that’s been doing fantastic.” in stone-crab landings,” said mercial fishing industry. a musician. Kelly said city staff does Demand stayed high, Tom Matthews of the Fish About 1,000 people Forecast: Expect cloudy Still, Kelly, owner of a good job but with new however, bringing fishermen and Wildlife Research statewide are licensed to fish skies with a chance of Kelly Electric, said the hotels and other develop- more dollars per pound of Institute office in Marathon. traps for stone crabs. showers. community response to his ments in the works, the city claws, especially for the In the 2012-13 season, Keys crab fishermen con- interest in the council was needs to add more person- largest category called Monroe County stone-crab sider the 2012-13 season to For the extended forecast visit overwhelming. nel, he said. “colossal.” fishermen reported making have been well below aver- KeysInfoNet.com/weather. “I got a response from “I’m pretty sure the city “The bottom line is that 9,099 trips that brought in age, but late-season reports everybody in town when needs three inspectors to throughout the season, there about 1 million pounds of from around the state pushed they thought I was thinking handle the workload with were enough people who claws. it into the low-average range about going for it,” he said. all the development com- could afford the few claws “So far, we have reports at about 2.7 million pounds. BEACH ADVISORIES “After I wasn’t chosen, I ing to town,” he said. “I’m being caught,” Graves said. on 7,000 trips in Monroe A historically average kept hearing from people. for development, but I’m A higher catch with more County, landing under season produces around 3 The Monroe County reasonable prices “would be 600,000 pounds,” Matthews million pounds of crab claws Health Department tests That’s why I decided to for controlled develop- run. With the way my busi- ment. When the sewers got better for the fishermen, the said. “That’s a pretty good in Florida. Keys beaches every two industry and the con- indicator of the difference in weeks for the presence of ness is going and my life put in, it was coming. It’s a enteric bacteria. The fol- right now, it’s the right good thing, but we just lowing beaches have time and I can get in and have to watch how it goes.” MARATHON health advisories against do some things.” Kelly said he’s also swimming: For 14 years, Kelly has interested in being part of G Loggerhead Beach, been a member of the the planning for a new Bahia Honda State Park. Monroe County Con- city hall, which he said tractors Licensing Board is needed. and is a member of For more on this story, GETTING IT STRAIGHT the Greater Marathon go to www.KeysInfo Chamber of Commerce Net.com. Due to a production board of directors. error, Saturday’s crossword puzzle was a reprint from an earlier puzzle. However, STATE LEGISLATURE the solution in today’s paper to that puzzle matches that puzzle. Parasailing regs go to governor CONTACT US News Service of Florida (D-Deerfield Beach) said in a prepared statement. Keynoter photo by RYAN McCARTHY Upper Keys A long-sought effort to “I am pleased Florida is 91655 Overseas Highway regulate Florida’s commer- taking necessary action to The former Key Colony Bay Motel property at mile marker 54 along U.S. 1 in Marathon is once Tavernier, FL 33070 cial parasailing industry has bring reasonable regula- again being proposed for redevelopment by South Florida real estate mogul R. Donahue Peebles. Newsroom . . . .(305) 852-3216 headed to Gov. Rick Scott. tions to parasailing opera- Advertising . . .(305) 852-3216 The White-Miskell Act tors who are a component Fax ...... (305) 853-1040 (Senate Bill 320) received of our state’s important Peebles pursues new hotel Fax ...... (305) 852-0199 unanimous support from the tourism industry.” Peebles told www the 109 units, which would state Senate after the House Rep. Janet Adkins (R- Developer .Forbes.com in a 2008 inter- require Peebles Corp. to pur- Marathon voted 117-1 to approve the Fernandina Beach) cast 3015 Overseas Highway bought land view that he “overpaid for the chase outside transient rental measure Thursday. the lone vote against land and I knew it” when he units or acquire them from an (P.O. Box 500158) The bill, in part, would the measure. Marathon, FL 33050-0158 back in 2007 purchased it in 2007 — the available pool gifted to the require operators to log The bill is named after height of the real estate boom city by the state Cabinet. Newsroom(305) 743-5551 weather conditions before Kathleen Miskell, a 28- Advertising . . .(305) 743-5551 By RYAN McCARTHY — for $28.3 million and Garrett said the Peebles embarking, forbid opera- year-old Connecticut [email protected] closed on $83 million in con- application would be Fax ...... (305) 743-6397 tions during severe weath- woman who died in August Fax ...... (305) 743-9586 struction financing from reviewed by city department er conditions, require oper- 2012 after she fell from a Once declared by South Fremont Investment & Loan. heads in the coming weeks ators to be licensed by the harness while parasailing Florida real estate mogul R. That lender financed other and could go before the city’s E-mail U.S. Coast Guard and limit over the ocean off Pompano [email protected] Donahue Peebles to be one of Peebles’ developments. advisory Planning Com- operations near airports. Beach; and Amber May his biggest regrets, it appears Original plans called for a mission on July 21. “This important legis- White, 15, of Belleview, Missing your paper? the developer is once again luxury residential resort called If it begins any time soon, lation will save lives, pre- who died in 2007 after a line attempting to build a hotel of Manoir Resort Villas with 72 the Peebles site could We no longer offer same-day vent needless injuries and snapped on a parasail, redelivery for missing or wet some kind at the former Key furnished waterfront vacation become the third significant tragedies,” House spon- resulting in her hitting the Colony Bay Motel, once a homes, each with private ele- hotel project under construc- papers. Customers can sor Gwyn Clarke-Reed roof of a hotel. request a credit or next-day Ramada, in Marathon. vator and roof terrace, priced tion in Marathon in 2014. redelivery by calling Officials with his company from $1.8 million. Key West-based Spotts - 743-5551. After hours, call couldn’t be reached for com- Peebles Corp. has a nine- wood Cos. is building a 125- toll-free (800) 843-4372. ment on Tuesday, but city year development agreement room Hyatt in Old Town Planning Director George approved by the City Council while developer Roger FLORIDA KEYS KEYNOTER (ISSN Garrett said Peebles Corp. has on Sept. 29, 2007. Garrett Masters and partner Prime 8756-6427, USPS# 0201-620) is submitted an application for a said that agreement would be Hospitality Group are con- published semi-weekly by Florida hotel having either 80 or 109 voided, since preliminary structing a nearby 95-room Keys Keynoter, P.O. Box 500158, Marathon, Florida 33050-0158. units on a roughly five-acre plans this time around call for Courtyard by Marriott. Subscription rates are $54.23 in parcel at mile marker 54 a three-story building with One much-anticipated the Keys. Your Keynoter home oceanside of U.S. 1. one-bedroom hotel rooms. redevelopment that Garrett delivery subscription includes “It would go away said is off the table is with the Sunday edition of The because it’s a completely dif- Orlando-area developer Miami Herald. Keynoter mail HEADSTONES ferent agreement. The one Shamir Patel on Knights Key. subscriptions: $64.84 in Florida G and $60.32 out-of-state. Please CRYPT FRONTS CUSTOM DESIGNS thing that would transfer Patel was pursuing purchas- call for all other rates, including MAUSOLEUM CONSTRUCTION through are the entitlements ing the 24.3-acre parcel at overseas mail. Periodicals Postage on the site. They’ve got 80 mile marker 47 through Paid at Marathon, Florida and 305-294-2528 additional mailing offices. [permit allocations] and that Alena Hospitality, another ATLAS MEMORIALS doesn’t change,” he said. Orlando-based development POSTMASTER: Address changes company. MM 10 Big Coppitt Key Garrett said the applica- to FLORIDA KEYS KEYNOTER, tion has two options: One Alena is “not buying PO BOX 500158, MARATHON, FL 8 am to 5 pm G Appts. Avail. 33050-0158. with 80 units and another for Knights Key,” Garrett said. Keynoter KeysInfoNet.com Wednesday, May 14, 2014 3A Clarks are now in Honduras Deadly few months for Keys From Cay Clubs, 1A gruntled investors and the tives maintained a huge pub- From Deaths, 1A In February, James that Hardin was lighting a SEC alleged. lic presence here — sponsor- Hardin, 24, of Key West cigarette when he tumbled motion practice, after full Two former Cay Clubs ing sporting and music Herrin said. died after falling into a salt- over a fence into the water. and exhaustive oral argu- attorneys who cooperated events and making appear- Cause of death in both water pond near the Key Autopsy reports received ment, and after giving the with the Department of ances at public forums like the canal incidents appears West police station and May 5 show Hardin [SEC] an opportunity to re- Justice in exchange for School Board and municipal to be drowning, officers Bayview Park around 3 a.m. drowned, police reported. open the record and present immunity from criminal government meetings. reported, but that has not A taxi driver told detectives new evidence on the issue.” prosecution said it wasn’t Clark and his wife Cristal been confirmed. One of the key aspects of long before investors began — once arrested in the Keys In other recent water- the SEC’s case was that Cay complaining that they for rental-related fraud and related deaths: Clubs was really selling weren’t getting paid. Yet Cay failure to pay sales taxes — G Matthew Prior, 48, of securities to investors by Clubs continued to lure more now live in Honduras, accord- New Hampshire was on an promising a 15-percent rate people in to raise money to ing to court documents. April 23 scuba trip from of return. The supposed deal pay investors who got in on The SEC complaint Duck Key with an instruc- was part of Cay Clubs’ so- the deal at the beginning. included the Clarks, tor when Prior fell uncon- called lease-back agreement It is still not clear why the Schwarz, Cay Clubs sales scious and later died it had with investors, in Justice Department, which director Barry Graham and despite rescue efforts. which they would buy condo handles criminal matters, Ricky Lynn Stokes, former Prior was breathing units from Cay Clubs that the was promising immunity in director of investor relations. from a long hose leading to company would then rent an SEC case, which enforces None of the dozens of a surface air supply; it was back for two years. On paper, civil securities laws. The mostly waterfront properties not clear whether it was an this would allow investors to Justice Department doesn’t Cay Clubs bought in Monroe air tank or hookah air com- cover their mortgage while confirm or deny the exis- County during the real estate pressor. Cause of death is Cay Clubs used the money to tence of an investigation. boom was developed. The pending. renovate the units. Dave Clark and David company collapsed in 2007, G Stephen Benavidez, 55, But Cay Clubs either Schwarz founded Cay Clubs putting hundreds of Keys of Albuquerque, N.M., was never upgraded the units or, in Key Largo in 2004. Clark, people out of work. diving April 3 with an if it did, did so shabbily, dis- Schwarz and other execu- Islamorada scuba operation when he suddenly surfaced, yelling for help. Benavidez fell unconscious and rescue efforts were not successful. G The body of a 52-year- old man clad in snorkel gear was found near the Rockland Key shore April 7. The man, not identified, apparently had been living in a tent near the area. D
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Photo by SEAN KINNEY This is the inbound view of the new waterside promenade, complete with mature palm trees, on North Roosevelt Boulevard. The boulevard’s rebuild is set for completion in July. As construction winds down, periodic nighttime lane closures are possible. Completion set for summer From Roosevelt, 1A businesses.” said he’s particularly pleased When completed in July, with the mature palm trees DOT changed the traffic pat- the 2.9-miles of North installed along with water- tern to two lanes coming in Roosevelt will include a new side promenade. and one going out, giving seawall bordered by a 20- “I was looking through access to the businesses. foot-wide landscaped prome- some old tourism materials, Cates said that while traffic is nade, four lanes of traffic stuff from way back,” still heavy, particularly each 11 feet wide, a 10-foot he said, “and it just looks around rush hour, the traffic center turn lane and a 6-foot- so similar. pattern change was necessary. wide sidewalk on the busi- For detailed project infor- “Let’s face it,” he said. ness side of the road. mation, visit www.fdot “That traffic was awful out Commissioner Billy monroe.com. there but it’s helped the Wardlow, a lifelong resident, Training regimen is rigid From Payne, 1A how out of shape I was,” he run on my first day off, so on said. my second day off I can have The races that Ironman Payne says he “kind of a shorter, lighter day,” he said. counted toward his award toyed with” racing in the Each morning he trains were 2013 races in Louis- following years, but when for two or three hours before ville, Ky., and Lake Tahoe, the terrorist attacks took heading off to work for the Calif. He finished 23rd out of place in 2001, it changed day. All told, he spends about 294 age-group participants in his perspective. 20 to 25 hours per week on Louisville (11:08:09) and “Life is short,” he said. the road or in the water. 46th out of 376 in Lake “You don’t know if it’s the “I’m blessed to be able to Tahoe (12:21:33). last day you’re going to tie train every day. It’s some- “I’m a glutton for punish- your shoes.” thing I look forward to doing ment. I love the sport and I So he took training to the more of when I retire,” enjoy racing. I race whenev- next level and three years later Payne said. er I can when it falls into my completed his first full-length schedule,” Payne said. iron distance race at the 2004 The award means he’ll Great Floridian Triathlon in receive a bit of special treat- Clairmont. Ten years later, ment — including fast-track he’s completed 17 140.6-mile check-in — for 2014 races, as races, and countless others at well as having his Ironman various distances. race bibs feature an “AWA His passion has become a seal” that “will show your fel- family affair: His wife Angie low competitors that you are a has completed 13 full iron- top age-group performer.” distance races of her own the Payne’s “obsession” for past six years. long-distance triathlons grew “It’s a way for us to spend out of a desire to stay in time together. Her passion is shape for the job. He said he running, but she happens to was alarmed to learn of life be a good swimmer and an expectancy figures for law avid cyclist. She does it enforcement officers. because she enjoys it and it’s It’s “seven years for a cop a way for us to go on vaca- after they retire. I don’t think tion,” he said. “When we that so much applies to FWC, travel, we plan our vacation but it’s the stress, the shift around a race.” work, it’s all of the above,” he The couple has raced in said. “That’s how it started, Ireland, Switzerland, Aus - but it turned into a passion. I tralia, Hawaii, California, don’t really have a training Idaho, Arizona, Kentucky, season. I train all year round North Carolina and several and I pick out races.” Florida venues. His stepsons, Payne did his first triathlon, Miles and Mason Cooper, a sprint distance race in Key often come along. West, in 1998. It was a half- Payne said the key to mile swim, 12.4-mile bike ride training is time management. and a 3.1-mile run. “I have two days off per “It was a wake-up call for week. I try to make my long me because I didn’t realize rides followed by a two-hour 4A Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Florida Keys Keynoter Opinion & Editorial
EDITORIAL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Trapping cats is cruel An aggressive cat-trapping policy Florida Keys lose enforced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is being militantly pursued by the management of the Crocodile a respected judge Lake National Wildlife Refuge in North Key Largo. Some find problem with Audlin’s life, This inhumane policy has begun to and that’s a shame because jurist’s backfire on the FWS. Churches, civic groups, veteran organizations and the career was built on fairness, justice general public are coming out against this cruel and sadistic practice. They are If you follow sports even a little bit, you know that displeased and disappointed by what is history was made Saturday when the St. Louis Rams being done to these innocent creatures. football team took University of Missouri defensive end Recently an individual’s pet cat that Michael Sam in the seventh round of the NFL draft — had never left his property was lured by the eighth-to-last player selected, No. 279 overall. cat hunters from its owner’s home with baited traps that were placed right up The blogs, columnists, talking heads and others next to his backyard. This house does weren’t so focused at first on his football acumen but on not have any fencing separating it from the fact that Sam is openly gay, having come out in the the wildlife refuge, which it borders. spring. He is the first openly gay man to be drafted by During this cat-trapping procedure, Photo courtesy TRAPNEUTERRETURN.COM any of this country’s four major sports leagues. his cat suffered facial lacerations and a Traps like this are used in the national wildlife refuge. But now, the talk has turned to whether the football- bloody nose. Along with paying $75, if elite Southeastern Conference’s co-defensive player of this family did not seek out and locate The primary threat to the Key Largo In a time of supposed government the year was drafted so late just because teams didn’t its missing cat, their pet would have woodrat is habitat loss and fragmenta- austerity, the folly of this particular pro- want to deal with a media circus. Sam himself contends been executed. tion caused by increasing urbanization. gram defies imagination. The pilot proj- he’s good enough to have been a third-round pick; so- Deliberately administering any type Development, land-clearing and con- ect alone cost more than $50,000 and of cruel and violent punishment to an struction practices have decimated the captured fewer than 10 cats on Big Pine called experts had him pegged anywhere from the third animal is a serious criminal act. There tropical hardwood hammocks that sup- Key, many of which were people’s pets. to fifth rounds the past several months. is not, nor will there ever be, a law that port life for the woodrat. Human inter- And that number doesn’t include the tens Sam — a pioneer — has said repeatedly he is all sanctions such behavior. vention that could actually acquire land of thousand of dollars invested in traps, about football and that his sexual orientation has noth- According to FWS, this agency has no that would stop or slow habitat destruc- fancy cameras and related equipment. ing to do with the sport he loves (and he had not said national policy on the trapping of cats. Its tion so this endangered species might For that amount of money, Forgotten he believes he fell in the draft because teams were policy is to protect native wildlife from actually stand a fighting chance of sur- Felines could have spayed/neutered wary). Rams coach Jeff Fisher agrees, saying that if predation, disease and other impacts pre- vival has been absent. 1,000 cats. It doesn’t take a rocket sci- Sam makes the team’s 53-man roster, it will be sented by feral and free-ranging cats. What a waste of time, taxpayer entist to figure out which of the organi- because he outplayed others for the job. That’s how This policy does not call for the FWS to money and resources. Traumatizing zations is most cost efficient and would it should be. kill cats, nor does it outlaw the practice of and killing creatures that have been have the most effect in reducing the revered through the ages as gods and feral-cat population over the long term. Sadly, this somewhat mirrors the resignation of trap-neuter-release. Any decisions reached between FWS goddesses is distressing. Their latest iteration, which has Monroe County Circuit Court Judge David Audlin, who and the affected parties must collabora- John Donnelly been going on for the past several announced in April that he is resigning effective this tively reflect the humane handling and Key Largo months, admits to only capturing seven past Friday, two years into his second six-year term. His treatment of these animals. It appears cats, so it does not appear as if they are resignation letter to “friends and colleagues” gave no that these directives and policies are not Cat trapping is useless getting any better at it (or perhaps it’s reason; it just said it he is going back into private prac- being adhered to by the FWS employees So the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that the problem was vastly overstated tice. Gov. Rick Scott will appoint a replacement. stationed at the Crocodile Lake National has begun to implement its “predator in the first place). In Saturday’s Miami Herald, Keys-based reporter Wildlife Refuge. management program.” And what are Other than providing a long-term Cammy Clark got Audlin to reveal the respected jurist’s The pseudo-science used to justify the predators from whom the fearless source of employment for our already- reason behind his departure: He is tired of having his some of their actions is spotty and shal- hunters in khaki will be protecting us? overpaid civil servants in the FWS, this privacy invaded because he is gay. low. Cherry-picking facts proffered by Is it panthers? Is it bears? Is it program serves no purpose except to bureaucrats dependent upon the gov- mountain lions? No, it’s house cats. squander tax dollars that could better be Clark reported that in January, a blogger distributed ernment for their jobs is not science. That’s right, Puffy, Sox, Morris, et. al., spent elsewhere or, even better, not a profile of Audlin the judge had posted on a gay dating Opting to traumatize and kill one are the fearsome creatures in the cross extracted from citizens in the first place. site. The photo was a little risque but certainly nothing animal so that another animal might hairs of these indomitable protectors Jerry Dykhuisen to shock. Still, it made the rounds of the South Florida live is not a solution. of the environment. Big Pine Key legal community, from the Keys north, reaching count- less mainland lawyers, paralegals and others. Audlin never made a secret of the fact that he is gay. by people who are expert in these con- He has ruled fairly from the bench, even in a case in tracts or without competitive bidding as recommended by the county admin- which the state fought — and failed — to keep a gay istrator some years ago. Key West couple from adopting their foster child. We are also disappointed that the Clark quoted Audlin: “I think some people look at a county is not leveraging the tremendous gay judge’s personal life as being interesting or sala- work for which Key West paid Kessler cious. I suppose it’s the times we live in. This whole Consulting Inc., its solid-waste manage- matter has nothing to do with my service to the people ment expert. Most importantly for us, or my work as a judge.” we can see where Waste Management Most in the Keys legal community — and that offered Key West a much better deal includes criminal and civil defendants — would agree. than it is offering Monroe County. Sam, the football player drafted by the Rams, will Although we are happy with the collection services provided by Waste prove himself on the gridiron. If he can play, he’ll Management, we question the rates are make the team. charged. We recognize that the Lower Audlin, meanwhile, has more than proven himself as Keys are more geographically diverse a fair arbiter in the courtroom. Sadly, he was driven than Key West, but let us not forget from it. Truly, this was a miscarriage of justice. that although Waste Management is paid to provide service to 100 percent On trash, due diligence years; Monroe County is bound to the of the homes, many of our homes are LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Monroe County Commission is contract for 10 years. second homes and unoccupied for long poised to award no-bid waste-hauling Key West was assisted in obtaining stretches at a time. contracts worth more than $100 million its deal by Kessler Consulting Inc., a Even though the truck still travels our without a specialized due-diligence 20-year-old firm that specializes in streets, the time spent in collection is review. These contracts were negotiat- assisting communities with solid-waste much less than if it were picking up trash ed by professional county staff that, management. According to the Key at every home and there are many fewer though talented, has no prior experi- West utilities manager, in the recent trips to the transfer station to empty the ence negotiating significant contracts past Kessler, has run successful com- truck. It appears that we are paying for with Waste Management. As of May 7, petitive bidding processes, including service that we do not receive. neither the County Commission nor the drafting contracts, on behalf of 16 Given the reputation of the Keys as an public had seen these contracts. Florida counties and cities, half of area hostile to outside bidders, competi- From the little we do know about which resulted in contracts with Waste tive bidding might be a problem. But at the terms of the contracts, Monroe Management (I have no affiliation with the very least, before the County County will pay substantially more Kessler Consulting). Commission commits millions of taxpay- than Key West for its solid-waste serv- I want the benefit of the Kessler er dollars to these contracts with Waste ices. For example: experience to advise the county com- Management, please retain Kessler G Waste Management charges Key missioners on whether the contracts are Consulting to assess the contracts in A letter carrier (not in the Keys) participates in the West nothing to haul out recyclables a fair deal for the taxpayers. It is simply terms of their fairness to the taxpayer. a matter of due diligence. We urge the commission to retain national effort. and hasn’t since 2001. Waste Management charges Monroe Jan M. Edelstein Kessler Consulting not only because of Needy need the food County’s taxpayers $74 a ton or an esti- Cudjoe Key its existing knowledge of the Waste It is so sad when food put out by our mailboxes for the annu- mated $4 million since 2000, and keeps Management offer to Key West, but al National Association of Letter Carriers’ food drive is stolen. the materials resale value, which was Editor’s note: The county will decide because of its extensive experience I hope whoever took the bags of food clearly marked for the $99 in December 2013. whether to extend the contracts of Waste with solid-waste contracts on behalf of Postal Service food drive really needed it. This was meant for G Key West’s yard waste will be com- Management, Marathon Garbage Leon, Hillsborough, Brevard, Manatee, needy families, not for the pickup trucks that regularly drive in posted for $64 ton. Monroe County’s Service, Keys Sanitary and the Ocean Hendry, Sarasota, Polk, Indian River our neighborhood taking anything not nailed down. yard waste is burned in Broward County Reef Club Inc. for 15 years for a com- and Seminole counties. Jane Ferguson at a cost of $84.50 a ton and it might be bined $155 million or so. Key West Larry Francisco, president Tavernier incinerated in Key Largo. Utilities Director Jay Gewin says Waste Cudjoe Gardens Property G Key West will receive all new col- Management will pay $16.54 per ton for Owners Association Editor’s note: Postal Service spokeswoman Enola Rice lection trucks, Monroe County receives everything going over the scales at the says Tavernier Postmaster Eddie Suarez and another volun- none. city’s Rockland Key transfer station. Editor’s note: The county will teer picked up food ahead of the letter carriers during the G Consumer Price Indexes increases decide whether to extend the contracts May 10 food drive because the carriers’ trucks have only so to Key West commercial collection Be fair with trash of Waste Management, Marathon much room in them. Overall in Monroe County, 41,200 rates are capped at 2.5%; Monroe We ere shocked to learn that the Garbage Service, Keys Sanitary and pounds of food were donated, Rice says. County’s are to be capped at 5%. Monroe County Commission is about the Ocean Reef Club Inc. for 15 years G Key West retains the right to ter- to renew millions of dollars worth of for a combined $155 million or so. minate the contract after the first two solid-waste contracts without review
Richard Tamborrino ...... Publisher Live above the stores The Monroe County Commission provable Keys employment by the Larry Kahn ...... Editor I am a child of the depression, born should adopt a program that encour- renter. In addition, any existing com- ages any new storefront commercial mercial building that structurally Kathie Bryan ...... Financial Director and raised in New York. Before the end of World War II, buildings that is built to contain a sec- could support an additional floor Todd Swift ...... Production Manager home ownership was too expensive ond floor of price-fixed rental apart- could qualify. And before the naysay- Carter Townshend ...... Circulation Manager for the average worker. Apartment liv- ments. In order to provide the incen- ers start screaming it can’t be done, ing was a way of life. So I would like tive to the builder ,they would be almost all the older northern cities PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY to adopt and update one of the preva- given special tax credits for doing so. have live-above-the-store apartments. Contents copyright 2014 Keynoter Publishing Co. lent solutions of the time to the dilem- All leases would provide a clause Howard Gelbman ma of workforce housing. that would restrict these rentals to Key Largo
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Dr. John Sheldon's Storm awareness optometry practice services all ages, from kids to seniors. May 27 event tion about of the Key West National none since. experimen- Weather Service to represen- “We continue producing Monday - Friday 9AM to 5PM geared toward tal products tatives from Monroe County these workshops because it the center is Emergency Management and is critical that Keys residents Saturday by appointment tourism trade introducing Fair Insurance Rates for do not get complacent this year Monroe, is a planned media regarding being prepared for 6400 Overseas Hwy. An annual Florida Keys and in 2015. panel discussion to focus on a tropical cyclone,” said Jodi MM 50.5 (next to Herbie’s) hurricane preparedness The first is a pre- and post-storm news Weinhofer, the lodging asso- work shop set for May 27 in potential coverage and the role of ciation’s president. 743-2020 Islamorada is to feature a KNABB storm-surge social media in information Although the workshop is keynote presentation by the flooding map for areas along dissemination. geared for the tourism indus- director of the National the Gulf and Atlantic coasts Scheduled panelists try, it is open to all business- Hurricane Center and a of the United States at risk include Reporter Editor es. Cost is $10 per person and panel discussion by media of storm surge from a tropi- David Goodhue; WPLG hur- reservations can be made by Visit us online at representatives. cal cyclone. In 2015, the ricane expert Max Mayfield, calling 296-4959 or sending Organized by the Lodging NHC is to issue watches and who retired as director of the an e-mail to Executive Association of the Florida warnings specifically for NHC in 2007; former CNN [email protected]. KeysInfoNet.com Keys and Key West in part- storm surge. correspondent John Zarrella; nership with the Monroe Knabb also plans to dis- WWUS 104.1-FM (US1 County Tourist Development cuss the debut of an experi- Radio) News Director Bill Council and Monroe County mental five-day tropical Becker; Free Press reporter Emergency Management, weather outlook and a corre- Robert Silk; Jim Williams, the program is to begin at 1 sponding graphical tropical creator of www.hurricane p.m. at the Florida Keys weather outlook to communi- city.com; and Bill South, Conference Center at the cate the potential formation who coordinates social media LADIES APPAREL Islander Resort, mile marker of individual disturbances outreach for the Key West 82.1 oceanside. during a five-day period. weather office. Hurricane Center Director Following Knabb and a In 2004 and 2005, the Rick Knabb is to begin the series of speakers, ranging Keys were affected by a com- conference with a presenta- from the warning coordinator bined eight hurricanes but Super TAXES Tax holidays OK’d Secret Sale!
State waives -AY TH -AY TH -AY TH the 6 percent Friday 3ATURDAY 3UNDAY on many goods Keynoter Staff Save 20% Following approval by both chambers of the state to 50% Off Legislature, Gov. Rick Scott has signed off on three tax holidays for the 2015-16 Everything budget year — one for hurri- cane supplies, one for school supplies and one for energy- In The Store! efficient appliances. The six-month hurricane season starts on June 1. For nine days starting May 31, NO EXCLUSIONS! people who buy hurricane supplies worth $750 or less Including won’t have to pay the state’s 6 percent sales tax. Those Not Your Daughter’s Jeans, supplies are: Leon Levin, Kristin Crenshaw, G A portable self-powered Ruby Rd., & So Much More! light source selling for $20 or less. Even Sale and Clearance G A portable self-powered Items Are Included! radio, two-way radio or weatherband radio selling for $50 or less. DROP IN TO WIN G A tarpaulin or other flexible waterproof sheeting $1000 Grand Prize Shopping Spree. selling for $50 or less. G A self-contained first- Plus, $100 Shopping Spree Winner Guaranteed aid kit selling for $30 or less. for Each Store! No purchase necessary. G A ground anchor system The sales tax on generators like this will be waived. Other If you haven’t received your Instant Winner Scratch Off Postcard or tie-down kit selling for items also are covered for the hurricane-supply waiver of in the mail, just visit us for your copy. $50 or less. the 6 percent levy. A weatherband radio can help keep G A gas or diesel fuel tank you apprised of current weather conditions. selling for $25 or less. Valid 5/16/14 - 5/18/14 ONLY. Cannot be combined with any other discount. Selection may vary by store. No adjustments made on previously purchased merchandise. G A package of AA-cell, G A portable generator waives the sales tax on such C-cell, D-cell, 6-volt or 9- that is used to provide light things as clothes worth $100 volt batteries, excluding or communications or pre- or less, school supplies worth Key Largo 98200 Overseas Hwy. (M.M. 98-1/2) (305) 852-4515 automobile and boat batter- serve food in the event of a $15 or less or on the first ies, selling for $30 or less. power outage selling for $750 of a personal computer. Marathon 5800 Overseas Hwy. (M.M. 50) (305) 743-5855 G A nonelectric food $750 or less. The sales tax holiday for storage cooler selling for The back-to-school tax energy-efficient appliances $30 or less. holiday is Aug. 1, 2 and 3. It is in September. -ONDAY &RIDAY