Pet carrier, $25 10 2'- In Today’s -9 Classifieds! AND WEEKLY Charlotte Sun HERALD DOCS: DELAY SCHOOL DAY START IRS TO CUT BACK ON AGENTS Delaying school start times improves students’ quality of life and academic Budget pressures at the IRS Criminal Investigation Division are cutting the r mm performance, the American Academy of Pediatrics says. THE WIRE PAGE 1 number of investigators to the lowest level in four decades. THE WIRE PAGE 6 An Edition of the Sun IRS VOL. 122 NO. 238 AMERICA’S BEST COMMUNITY DAILY TUESDAY AUGUST 26, 2014 www.sunnewspapers.net $1.00 LIFE STORIES Eastward ho! Early voting sparse By ADAM KREGER Over the two-week stretch, 2,424 votes STAFF WRITER were cast — down from 4,106 in 2010, WHERE TO VOTE came wagons which was the last primary election that Not sure where to vote? Check the Charlotte Though early votes cast for Charlotte was not the same year as a presidential very fifth-grader knows about the County Supervisor of Elections website at www. County’s 2014 primary election were election. charlottevotes.com, or check your voter registration American pioneers who made down 41 percent from the last non-pres- In 2006 — the last non-presidential long journeys to the great west- card. A complete list of polling places can be found E idential primary election, officials aren’t primary before that — there were 4,601 on page 7. ern frontier. worried about today’s voter turnout. early voters in Charlotte. However, in At least one did it “The numbers don’t mean anything 2010, more total primary votes were Charlotte County as of Monday. Those still backward. until after (today),” said Lou Spacco, cast (26,645) than in the 2006 primary planning to vote in the primary — which In the early 20th spokesman for the Charlotte County (18,052). includes state and local races — can do so century, the family Supervisor of Elections office. “So we just Spacco said it’s hard to predict how today between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. at their of a girl named Star want to encourage people to come out many voters will turn out on Election Day. designated polling locations. Davids hitched and vote.” “Until the polls close, there’s really no Visit www.charlottevotes.com for more their horses to two The early voting period for Charlotte way to put anything together,” he said. information. covered wagons and County’s primary election ended Sunday. There were 119,370 registered voters in Email: [email protected] headed southeast. When the going got tough, they Steve switched from hors- es to mules. When BAUMANN it got really sandy, COLUMNIST they switched to oxen. “Her dad had read in the paper that the land here was rich,” said Elsie Anderson Czerwinski, Star Davids’ daughter. “He had this adventurous soul, so he came to Florida.” The Wild East. Given that history, it’s fitting that Elsie is a co-grand marshal in this year’s Englewood Pioneer Days Parade. Mom’s family settled and farmed in the area. Father Stuart D. Anderson’s family farmed and lived in the Woodmere area of north Englewood (named for a sawmill). Stuart met Star, took her fishing, and both were hooked. “That’s where my dad courted my mother, in the bay on his fishing boat,” Elsie said. They married, set up house around Manasota Beach Road, then moved to A Englewood Village when the mill shut down. There, Stuart began Lemon Bay Fishery. “The fishermen all came and fished for him,” Elsie said. “They had the SUN PHOTO BY ADAM KREGER mullet boats and they had the large grouper offshore boats.” Charlotte County Fire Chief Marianne Taylor demonstrates how to use a pet oxygen mask on a 2-month-old pit bull mix Monday at the Animal Elsie remembers the family later Welfare League in Charlotte Harbor. The puppy — which is one of 10 of its kind up for adoption at the shelter — is being held by volunteer moving to the end of Dearborn Street, coordinator Bruce Klemish. again on Lemon Bay, in a place known as Buchan’s Landing. “I must have been 3 or 4 then,” she said. She’s 88 now. Pets, owners can breathe easier The family lived upstairs in a By ADAM KREGER kits — 23 for Charlotte County Fire/ different sizes of masks — which can house on the shore, and her father STAFF WRITER EMS, seven for the Englewood Fire fit anything from dogs to birds. ran the fishery business out on a Department and six for the Punta “It has a rubber seal that you can put long dock and underneath a pavilion Charlotte County pet owners can Gorda Fire Department. AWL staff right over a snout, and then hook it up that in better days had been a dance breathe a sigh of relief now that all fire members presented the kits to the to oxygen,” Charlotte County Fire Chief hall-casino. engines will carry pet oxygen masks. agencies’ leaders Monday at the animal Marianne Taylor said. “The ones for “I had a good childhood there, “In my 20 years in the fire service, shelter in Charlotte Harbor. humans are made to fit over a nose.” because it was a meeting place,” Elsie I’ve seen several (pets) die in fires,” “We hope we never have to use Rescue personnel will receive train- said Monday. said Punta Gorda Fire Chief Ray them,” Briggs said, “but we know we ing on how to use the masks. “Everybody came down to the fish- Briggs. “This could have saved some of will.” “We’ve had some issued before, eries, and especially toward evening them.” Some area first responders have and they worked out really great,” the fishermen would come in and The Animal Welfare League of carried animal oxygen masks before, Englewood Fire Chief Scott Lane said. everybody would be talking and we Charlotte County recently raised about but now each engine will be equipped kids always loved to listen.” $3,700 and purchased 36 pet mask with a kit that comes with three PETS | 4 Elsie went off to college in Lakeland, came home and worked at the old Nokomis-Venice School, then later taught younger grades at Englewood Elementary School. Family Services Center could offer In 1946, she married builder Joe Czerwinski. The Czerwinskis did very well and in the summer they traveled extensively. The family ended up more services with more room building a log cabin back in Colorado By GARY ROBERTS and spent about 42 summers there. STAFF WRITER Circle completed. Charlotte This year’s Pioneer Days co-grand PORT CHARLOTTE — The sales tax marshal also remembered the first Charlotte County Family f.- parade back in 1956. Services Center houses nine extension 2014 “Everybody got into the spirit,” different agencies that provide she said. They concentrated on the vital community services. One for their needs. children’s parade, and Elsie helped her of those organizations is the However, Boys & Girls Clubs Mor children, Michael and Nancy, decorate Boys & Girls Clubs of Charlotte chief professional officer Lynn their bikes. County, which has its headquar- Dorler sees a solution, at last. “Of course, the parade was much ters and activities for children In November, a referendum shorter in those days, and not as many on-site. ballot question will ask voters politicians.” But seven years ago the local to approve an extension of the Next Monday morning, the honored chapter was forced out of an 1 percent sales tax, funding guest will be riding in a mullet boat. adjacent structure — deemed projects such as an expansion SUN PHOTO BY GARY ROBERTS Michael and his family will join her, unsafe, condemned and torn and remodeling of the Family along with posters of the kids’ first down — and transplanted to the Services Center, 21450 Gibralter First-graders Daria Phillips, at left, and Alexia Sterling read auditorium, a space that lacks books during the Boys & Girls Clubs after-school program at the STEVE | 4 both adequate size and function FAMILY | 4 Charlotte County Family Services Center. 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