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Island Sun News Sanibel Captiva PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE Happy PAID FT MYERS, FL Father’s Day PERMIT #5718 June 17th Postal Customer ECRWSS NEWSPAPER VOL. 19, NO. 51 SANIBELSanibel & CAPTIVA & Captiva ISLANDS, Islands FLORIDA JUNE 15, 2012 JUNE SUNRISE/SUNSET: 15 6:35 • 8:23 16 6:35 • 8:23 17 6:35 • 8:23 18 6:36 • 8:23 19 6:36 • 8:24 20 6:36 • 8:24 21 6:36 • 8:24 Optimist Club 4th Of July Road Rally he 33rd annual Road Rally starts on TWednesday, July 4 at noon in The Timbers restaurant parking lot. Get your team together and pick up registration forms at Bailey’s General Store, the Sanibel Café, Sanibel Captiva Community Bank, in the Island Sun, or before noon (just after the Fourth of July parade) at The Timbers starting line. Forms are also available online at www.sancapop- timist.org. Registration is a $35 donation per vehi- cle. Visitors are welcome. Dave Horton’s talent for cartoons provides artistic inspiration to youngsters This year’s theme is Design for the 2012 Fourth of July Road Rally T-shirt Rallying for Island Youth. Cartoon Camp Inspires Young Artists The top rally finishers and the best decorated vehicle will win prizes. Points are awarded for elapsed time closest to artoons provide the perfect medium for introducing children to drawing. Children, a secret, pre-established circuit time and distance, and for correct answers to a series of especially young children, have fewer creative and artistic inhibitions than adults. questions about clues along the rally route. CCartoons are fun because the creator can assign any kind of emotion to the sub- Sponsorships, both business and individual donors are now available - $500 and ject and from an action standpoint can make the cartoon character spring into action in $250 donations get names on vehicles and on the rally T-shirt; $100 sponsors get any way they choose. names on vehicles only. Contact Randy Carson at 699-8739 or Richard McCurry at In recent editions of the Cartoon Camp hosted by The Bailey-Matthews Shell 292-4631 to donate funds or for more information. Registration forms and donations Museum, children had a chance to do just that. Dave Horton, local cartoonist, led the may be mailed to San-Cap Optimists, P.O. Box 1370, Sanibel, FL 33957. Donations children through a number of skills and techniques culminating in the production of indi- are tax deductible; San-Cap Optimist Club is a 501(c)3 organization. vidual portfolios the children were able to take home to share with family and friends. Entry form on page 26 continued on page 42 Part II Sinking The Mohawk The Right Way by Michael Heider oe Weatherby, ship wrecker for Reef Makers, and Mike Campbell, Lee County natural resources senior environmental specialist, have their work cut out for Jthem. They have been tasked with making the USS Mohawk go down just as smoothly as did the USNS Vandenberg, without any extra cost to Lee County tax- payers. Sinking the boat is pretty easy. Weatherby even has a preliminary of all the holes to be cut and where the cutting charges should be placed. The real art is making every- one happy in the process. There is a veritable political minefield they have to navigate through in order to do this, and Weatherby and Campbell are the men for the job. On top of this, Weatherby is committed to making the veterans who served on her decks feel as honored as the ones from the Vandy. After all, this is their ship. Sinking it will allow its name and legacy to live on as divers post about their experiences. Time and salt water have taken a toll on the old ship and the hull has become so rusted that it is no longer feasible to maintain the Mohawk as a floating museum; the historic ship was in danger of sinking at its dock. Campbell said county officials were notified that the museum was looking at options to dispose of the historic vessel before it became too great a liability. Scrapping the old ship would have netted the museum nearly $250,000, but the most sensible option was to donate it for construction of an artificial reef. The USS Mohawk will come to rest approximately 28 nautical miles west of Redfish Pass. continued on page 32 Joe Weatherby, the man who will make the ship go “Boom!” 2 ISLAND SUN - JUNE 15, 2012 Wedding Memories At Historical Village submitted by Emilie Alfino s June’s brides prepare to walk down the aisle, the Sanibel AHistorical Museum and Village has on display some wedding items from time gone by among the other his- tory to be seen at the village. In the Rutland House bedroom you’ll find a period wedding dress beside a framed seashell bouquet that won first prize at the shell fair in 1964. The muse- um acquired the bouquet in 2010 when Virginia Klotz, whose mother made the bouquet, approached Mary McLaughlin who is in charge of the museum’s This vintage wedding dress and award-winning seashell bouquet are on display in the archives. Rutland House at the Sanibel Historical Museum and Village “Virginia lived near the Island Inn shell bridal bouquet, but the Village Gift years ago with her parents and had a Shop in the Old Bailey Store carries all- shop on Gulf Drive,” McLaughlin said. white shell wreaths handcrafted of Sanibel “Her father was an artist and her mother shells by Barb Walling. Walling is a worked with shells. Virginia told me they Sanibel resident and award-winning shell moved to Everglades City because their artist. She has been an avid shell collector neighbor’s dog barked all the time. They for many years, and her white wreaths built an identical building there.” make the perfect bridal or shower gift. Klotz’s mother entered the shell fair The shop also sells sailor’s valentines – contest every year. “After she was award- including mirrors and valentines in heart- ed first place five years in a row, she was shaped frames – that make excellent gifts gently asked not to compete again so for brides. They are handcrafted by Jim others could have a chance,” McLaughlin and Rose Prestigiacomo in Texas. Rose said. Klotz is now in her mid-90s and is an award-winning shell artist and Jim last year moved to Ormond Beach to be builds the custom cherry and other wood closer to family. The museum has many display frames. of her father’s paintings. For the bride who isn’t a shell lover, Wedding dress You can’t buy the award-winning sea- gathered in the forests. Damandl teaches pine needle basket artistry at BIG ARTS workshops and her work is exhibited in galleries in the Northeast. The Sanibel Historical Museum is located at 950 Dunlop Road (next I Bouquet to BIG ARTS) and there is handicap < the Village Gift Shop also has a selection access to all buildings. Summer hours, of hand-woven, colorful pine needle bas- which are now in effect, are Wednesday Sanibel through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 11 20 ketry from Naples artist Gisela Damandl. , LC l L ibe San Admission is $5 for adults (18 and over). of ics raph Damandl compares her work to that of G land Is the Seminole tribes in Florida who wove Members and children are free. For more baskets from the long pine needles they information, call 472-4648 during busi- Don’t Leave Sanibel ness hours. Without One… To advertise in the Island Sun Call 395-1213 These new bumper stickers have green Sanibel Island color to emphasize that almost 70% of Sanibel is conservation lands and a whimsical heart to signify our island lifestyle. The peel-off back has information about Sanibel that you may not know. They are available at: Bailey’s General Store Jerry’s Foods MacIntosh Books Olde Sanibel Shoppes Sanibel Recreation Center 630 Tarpon Bay Road Suncatcher’s Dream Tahitian Gardens, Sanibel • 239-395-5353 Tuttle’s Sea Shell Shop 239.395.1464 www.SynergySportswear.com ISLAND SUN - JUNE 15, 2012 3 tives, personal recommendationa, etc., is Wednesday, June 27. The award is American Legion San-Cap all presented in a straightforward manner expected to be announced by July 11. are important inputs to the Optimists’ The San-Cap Optimists are again Post 123 News Optimists Offer committee for final selection. sponsoring the very popular 4th of July n Sunday, June 17, come to the The deadline for receiving applications Road Rally. American Legion Post 123 for a Scholarship Olasagna dinner served from 1 to he Sanibel-Captiva Optimist Club 8 p.m. Come and treat dad to a fabulous is offering a four-year college meal! Tscholarship of $1,250 per year to Every Wednesday, a meatloaf and one successful applicant. The applicant mashed potato dinner is served from 4 to must be a recent graduate from a high 9 p.m., with Marty Stokes & The Captiva school in Lee County, and apply to the Band playing the blues from 7 to 9:30 Optimists according to the procedure p.m. spelled out in the three forms available HAPPY FATHER’S DAY Every Monday night, Post 123 hosts on their website, located at www.sanc- 9-Ball Pool Tournaments starting at 6 apoptimist.org. p.m. This week’s winner of the first Attention to detail, supporting infor- match was Jack Dalton while Don Stacy mation, a personal statement of objec- took second. The second match winner was Peter Mindel while Kevin Portoff took second.
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