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ARTS, DINING ^ENTERTAINMENT — SECTION B OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES — 26B BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID SANIBEL, FL. L PERMIT #33 ; 'i POSTAL PATRON ••• i Vol. 37, No. 14 Friday, April 10, 1998 Two Sections, 52 pages 75 Cents Dancing the- Wight Unintended Victims Several pets, and perhaps wildlife as well, are dying — victims of poison set out for rats. Seepage 3A Bridge News Cost-wise, the sooner the causeway is replaced, the better, Lee County consult- ing engineers tell Sanibel City Council. Seepage 3A What a GIF! See what islanders discov- ered in the Great Island Pickup last weekend, Seepage HA Easter Time Sunrise Service — page 3A; Seder — page 13A; Easter events — page IOA. Arts........................ 7B Cartoon ............... 17A Classifieds.......... 22-25 Commentary..... 16-18 Crossword.;...........27B Fishing......... 25B a rug-at the recent Old Schaolhouse-I'heater fundraiser* -The-well-attended party raised $35,000 Police Beat............. 7A fi For more photos, see page 9A. Photos/Ed Neitzke, 2A • Friday, April 10, 1998 • ISLANDER Islander garners six state A Home journalism awards Equity Line Tyrer promoted to Editor of the Fort Myers Beach Observer with a The Sanibel-Captiva Islander has won six state journalism awards from the Florida Press Association's 1997 Better Weekly Newspaper Contest. They include the following: • Feature story: Jill Tyrer and Anne Bellew won their stories "Fathers coping on their 3-year Fixed Rate own" — a Father's Day piece about two single fathers coping after the deaths of their wives. • Social/Lifestyle Section: "Sanibel & Captiva This Week," an art and lifestyle section primarily produced by Frank Wagner with contributions from Elaine Stacy, Camille Kucaba, Mike Fuery, Bill Hallstead, Steve Beck and others. • Serious column: "You don't want to get arrested" by Scott Martell. • Outdoor writing: Jill Tyrer's story "The bobcats amongst us." • Environmental or Conservation: Jill Tyrer's story "The business of restoring lands." • Original local cartoon: "Alligators" by Rave and Lee Horton. Our competitor, the Island Reporter, also won six awards, including Editorial Award and Investigative Reporting honors to Michelle Moran; Feature photograph to Saul Taffet; Sports story to Mark Krzos; Outdoor writing by Michelle Moran, Dawn /' Grodsky and Charlie SobszakHhe paper's social and lifestyle news section. Congratulations to all! The Islander's Jill Tyrer has been promoted within the company to the position of Editor at the Fort Myers Beach Observer (which also won quite a few awards), a vApR 14,000 circulation newspaper that covers Estero and San Carlos Islands and their environs. Good luck Jill; you'll be missed! Current APR Without Introductory Rate This is the Home Equity Line you've waited for. 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Engineers have been saying it for years and now would be a high-rise bridge or something closer to its A method to involve citi2ens has not yet been es- they are saying it again: the causeway bridges will have present form, and whether the islands should be removed. tablished but Council directed City Manager Gary Price to be replaced and the sooner it's done, the better. Many comments echoed protests from 1990 and audience to work with County staff on that. In the meantime, URS But Sanibel residents made it clear, once again, that members were ready to counter engineers' facts with other Greiner's report will be presented to a county commis- they aren't going to let that pronouncement go without facts — as well as rumors and suppositions — but little sion workshop the first week in May, then it will go to the having their say and the first round of challenges arose in was resolved. Board of County Commissioners, possibly by the first of Tuesday's City Council meeting. About 100 people packed The one thing that did come out of the meeting was June, said county engineer Bruce McAuliffe. into MacKenzie Hall for the standing-room-only presen- an assurance by Scott Gilbertson, director of Lee County . The report raised some concerns because the model tation of a report by URS Greiner for Lee County's trans- Department of Transportation, that Sanibel officials and used was a fixed-span bridge running from the mainland portation department. citizens would have a part in the process. The City can- to the island, a design that many people oppose. But, said The presentation did not address the design of the not, however, take any official action regarding the bridge. Arthur Goldberg, Vice President of URS Greiner, "This bridge, only engineering and economic considerations that Through a citizens' initiative in 1990, voters approved an was not a study of high-span versus bascule span. It's a concluded it should be replaced, preferably by 2005. The ordinance that prohibits City officials from taking any study of early versus later replacement." longer the wait, the more it will cost —to the tune of action on replacing the causeway. It also requires the City (Continued, page 4A) Unintended victims One PAWS cat dead, another ill —rat he said. After only a year and a half in the area, "I've seen three and to me that's a fairly decent number. And I don't poison doesn't mix with pets, wildlife work in an emergency clinic. ... AH the ones I've seen ByJILLTYRER came from Sanibel." Islander staff writer PAWS kitties It was about a month and a half ago that Jan Egeland Molly and Polly have been living for eight years in found Molly, one of her four neighborhood kitties, crying the Ferry Road neighborhood with their sister, Patches, under the house. and their brother, Satchmo. They were the litter of one of She rushed the cat to a vet, but Molly didn't make the scores of feral cats that used to live on the east end of it. "I got her too late and she died in my arms," Egeland Sanibel —but these are hardly wild cats. Rather than said. A necropsy — sort of like a human autopsy — indi- euthanizing them, they were, like other PAWS cats, tested cated that Molly had gotten into some rat poison. It was for diseases, given their shots and spayed or neutered. an anticoagulant, the kind of poison that inhibits blood Then they were returned to their neighborhood where clotting so the animals essentially bleed to death inter- Egeland has been caring for them — taking them to the nally. Maybe the cat found the poison directly or maybe vet and feeding them. it ate a poisoned rodent; whichever it was, Molly died. "I don't like to call them feral anymore," Egeland About a week later, Egeland found Molly's sister, said. "They're not wild; they're friendly. People can pick Polly, sick in the front yard. She scooped up the cat and them up. They love people." rushed it to Coral Veterinary Clinic in Fort Myers.