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Read Us Online at IslandSunNews.com NEWSPAPER VOL. 20, NO. 35 SANIBELSanibel & CAPTIVA & Captiva ISLANDS, Islands FLORIDA FEBRUARY 22, 2013 FEBRUARY SUNRISE/SUNSET: 22 6:59 • 6:25 23 6:58 • 6:26 24 6:57 • 6:26 25 6:56 • 6:27 26 6:55 • 6:28 27 6:54 • 6:28 28 6:53 • 6:29 Hang Ten At The Kiwanis Spaghetti Surf’s Up Beach Dinner Comes To Party At BIG ARTS Town Saturday ll are invited to BIG ARTS annual submitted by Tom Sharbaugh, benefit on Monday, February 25, Sanibel-Captiva Kiwanis Club Abeginning at 6 p.m. The beach party-themed evening will include a taste his Saturday evening, February of California in Boler Garden, followed 23, island residents and visitors by a concert with California Surf, Inc. Twill find their way to the Kiwanis One of the greatest beach party bands Spaghetti Dinner for food, fun and around, California Surf, Inc. has toured community spirit, plus a chance to win for years with the biggest names in surf an array of raffle and auction prizes. It’s music, including Jan and Dean and The the perfect excuse to get out of kitchen Beach Boys. The band, made up of Matt and kick up your heels. Jardine, Billy Hinsche, Bobby Figueroa, The annual fundraiser will be held at Ed Carter, and Philip Bardowell, will be The Community House. Doors open at playing all the classic surf-music era songs 4 p.m., and dinner is served until 8 p.m. in Schein Performance Hall. Music, dancing and awarding of prizes Co-chairs Maddy Hanlon and Sherry will continue until 10 p.m. in the audito- Halloran have been planning the event, rium. which will include an auction of surfboards Sanibel’s largest and longest running hand painted by local artists. Three- community get-together, the annual spa- dimensional artist Jerry Churchill has ghetti dinner is a perennial crowd-pleas- Fear Less, papier-mâché surfboard by Jerry continued on page 5 er, attracting young and old. Admission Churchill is $8 in advance or $9 at the door, and children under 10 eat free. Advance tick- ets can be purchased from any Kiwanis Captiva Civic member and also at Bank of the Islands, Sanibel Mayor Kevin Ruane helps serve up the Association’s continued on page 5 pasta ABC Celebration Auction For Sprankle’s Cuckoo hen the Captiva Civic Association’s ABC event began Sculpture Highlights Trailgate Party Win the 1970s, it was a rum- mage sale in the yard of the Captiva Community Center generating a couple hundred dollars and an excuse to have some fun. The A stood for Attic. B stood for Basement. The C was for Closet. And the idea was for Captiva residents to pull unusual items out of their house or condo, bring them to the rummage sale and have a good time while raising money for the organization. As Sharon Brace, who has witnessed The cover photo used on invitations to the lots of ABC events over the years, 2013 ABC Celebration, stressing the reno- remarked, “No one out here on this island vation and expansion of the Captiva Civic has had either a basement or what any- Association Community Center that will one up north would consider a closet. But benefit from fundraising at the event everyone sure has had a lot of fun over the years. Golf Club with cocktails, live music and “It has grown into the island’s premiere dancing. social event, and a major fundraiser,” she “But this is still basically a party and added. the biggest get-together we have for the They now call it the ABC Celebration. community,” said Paul Garvey, the civic association’s director. “Our main purpose It has evolved from a rummage sale to a Master wildlife carver Jim Sprankle stands next to the mangrove cuckoo sculpture he is still to have fun.” live auction raising tens of thousands of carved in preparation for the Cuckoo For “Ding” Trailgate Party, which was held last Friday dollars. Fun on the Captiva Community Invitations have already been mailed evening at the refuge. The carving, which sold for a high bid of $60,000 to an anonymous Center lawn has transformed into a multi- out for the 2013 ABC Celebration, donor, will be displayed at the refuge’s Education Center. For additional images from the course sit-down dinner at The Sanctuary continued on page 2 event, see page 3 2 ISLAND SUN - FEBRUARY 22, 2013 From page 1 ABC Celebration scheduled for Thursday, March 7 at What’s Happening At 6 p.m. at The Sanctuary Golf Course Clubhouse on Sanibel. The House In 2013 “This year is exceptional,” Garvey noted, “because we are looking to raise Dance Series Dates money to renovate and expand the Feb. 22 Captiva Community Center while, at the same time, celebrating a major victory for Wedding House Party preservation of mangrove wetlands on “Fabulous Fun At This Shotgun Wedding” the island.” A low-mileage, pristine 2007 Ford Escape The Captiva Community Center reno- is one of more than a dozen items that March 15 vation and expansion includes: will be auctioned at this year’s 2013 ABC Swamp Party • Re-roofing the center complex. Celebration • About a 50 percent expansion of the Mady Rohn, Sherry Isler and Shirley Stanton April 13 center’s meeting hall, enabling additional stuff envelopes that contain invitations for House of Soul & R&B cultural events such as small concerts to the 2013 ABC Celebration. be held on the island. $20/ticket • Updating the hall’s lighting and an expensive battle against a developer sound, as well as enlarged and updated waged for more than a decade at the View party Photos kitchen and bathroom facilities. local, state and federal levels by the www.islandphotographyllc.com • New space to house the Captiva Civic Association, the Sanibel-Captiva Historical Society and its museum. Conservation Foundation and the “Witty Women” • Expansion of the Captiva branch of Conservancy of Southwest Florida. the Lee County Library. According to Brace, co-chair of the Lunch & One Woman Show • A covered veranda and a courtyard ABC dinner committee, the celebration Sponsored by Sanibel Holiday with native shade trees and vegetation at will begin with an hour of open bar cock- the front entrance of the complex. tails and hors d’oeuvres. A ride on Chapel-By-The-Sea Pastor Tom Thursday, February 28 noon • Improvements to the Lee County “One will be a Sanctuary signature Nyman’s Harley-Davidson is one of the $20 members/$25 guests Sheriff’s deputy housing. treat – honey sugar bacon,” she said. ABC Celebration auction items As for the second part of this year’s “We’ve had it before, and it is back by ment all unto himself.” Raffl e Tickets see details at “Celebration,” Civic Association members popular demand.” More than a dozen items up for bids www.sanibelcommunityhouse.net will savor a recent U.S. Army Corps of The reception will be followed by the include: Engineers final ruling halting construction highlight of the evening – a live auction. • A pristine, 2007 Ford Escape with of luxury condos that would have impact- Tommy Williams, “auctioneer extraordi- only 15,300 local miles, a V-6 engine, CLASSES ed about 78 acres of mangrove wetlands naire,” will conduct the bidding. towing package, tan leather trim interior on the northeastern tip of Captiva. “For those who haven’t seen him,” continued on page 7 Complimentary Shell Crafting The ruling was the culmination of Brace added, “Williams is truly entertain- Monday 10-12 noon Crafts on Sale daily until 3 pm Ikki Matsumoto Zumba Paintings & Prints Book Signings Monday/Thursday 5:45 pm Tuesday/Thursday 10 am - 11 am $15 & Seasonal Packages Available Yoga Tuesday/Thursday 8:30 -9:45 am Est. 1986 $12 members • $15 guests Charles Sobczak Randy Wayne White Discussing and Signing For more info on any Discussing and Signing Sanctioned Duplicate Bridge A Year of the Bad Decision $16.95 of our author events Night Moves Tuesday at 1 pm $8 Monday, February 25 please visit our website $26.95 or give us a call! 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Open Daily • www.threecraftyladies.com Follow Us On Facebook www.ikkimatsumoto.com 1628 Periwinkle Way • 472-2893 • Heart of the Islands, Sanibel ISLAND SUN - FEBRUARY 22, 2013 3 From page 1 Cuckoo For “Ding” Trailgate Party Auctioneer Jean Baer solicits a higher bid Musician Chris Coile entertained the crowd “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society Executive Director Birgie Vertesch and President John photos by Jeff Lysiak throughout the evening McCabe Refuge manager Paul Tritaik thanked the Jim Sprankle was overcome with emotion Refuge intern Rachel Mullin talked about the mangrove cuckoo crowd for their support following the auction Ralph and Jean Woodring offered an auc- tion prize of two breakfasts for two at their historic bayside home Cuckoo For “Ding” Trailgate Party guests chatted and bid on silent auction items before dinner was served 4 ISLAND SUN - FEBRUARY 22, 2013 another Sanibel artist, Bill Jordan.