Banding the Barn Owls Page 12A Police Beat Page 3A
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Banding the barn owls Page 12A Police beat Page 3A Volume 22 No. 42 Tuesday, November 16,1982 Two Sections, 15 cents Voters choose today between Bissell, Johnson By Barbara Brundage missioner Emily Barefield finished third Newly-elected City Councilman William with 406 votes. Hagerup will be sworn into office this Periwinkle Trailer Park owner Jerry morning while Sanibel voters return to the Muench, defeated by Hagerup, threw his polls to choose the successor to retiring support to Bissell. Barefield, who in the Councilman Porter Goss. aftermath of her vigorous campaign was Hagerup was elected two weeks ago to fill hospitalized with pneumonia, chose to stay the council seat being vacated by veteran neutral. Councilman Duane White. He will be ad- The Island Reporter newspaper endorsed ministered the oath by City Manager Bernie Barefield in the first go round and in the run- Murphy. His wife, Margery, will hold the off came out in support of Johnson on the Bible for Hagerup's swearing in. basis of her Planning Commission ex- As the first order of business at today's perience. regular meeting the City Council will for- Johnson also received the endorsement of mally accept Hagerup's resignation from the Committee of the Islands. the Planning Commission, on which he The Islander continues to stand by Bissell served for almost two years. for hiscommunity involvement during the 12 After the swearing in ceremony White will years he has lived on the Islands and raised step down and Hagerup will-officially begin his family of six children. his four-year council term. The winner of today's election will be Final results of today's run-off race for sworn into office at the Dec. 7 council Goss' seat between Planning Commissioner meeting, when Goss will officially retire Louise Johnson and Island real estate after almost eight years service to the city. broker Don Bissell may be tabulated as The new council, composed of the two early as 8:30 tonight, a spokesman in the Lee newcomers and holdover councilmen County Elections Office predicted last week. Francis Bailey, Mike Klein and Fred Valtin, Bissell said he will await the returns at his will then elect a mayorvafid vice mayor to Anchor Drive home with family and friends serve for one year. while Johnson with her husband, Arthur has Councilmen serve for four years without planned a quiet gathering at their West Gulf compensation but can, if they wish, be Drive home. reimbursed for expenses connected with Johnson polled 871 votes and Bissell came performance of their duties. Dr. Don Rugg, above, checks the Foundation Research Committee in second with 682 votes Nov. 2 in the three- Also on the ballot today are 18 proposed pH level of Sanibel water samples as that is monitoring the Island's fresh- way race for Goss' seat. Planning Com- amendments to Sanibel's city charter. collected by Dr. Bill Webb, below. water system. Read about their Rugg and Webb are part of the work on page 2A. Photos by David Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Meardoii. Party will honor outgoing officials By Cindy Chalmers expect to sell out the 300 available tickets A large contingent of Sanibel residents quickly and without much effort. spurred by a suggestion from City Coun- Islander and veteran party planner Urban cilman Mike Klein has planned an evening of Palmer is in charge of the arrangements for food and fun to honor outgoing councilmen the evening that will show Goss, White, Porter Goss and Duane White, City Attorney Bowen and LeBuff the "respect and high Neal Bowen and former Councilman Charles esteem.we hold for them for giving us more LeBuff. than 25 years of combined public service." The casual, ranch style appreciation party "I didn't need any coaxing," Palmer said will take place Monday night, Dec. 6, at the Sanibel Community Association. Organizers continued page 9A 2A Tuesday, November 16,1982 The ISLANDER Island water Committee collects; measures, tests, distills A crew of Island residents donned portant, he adds, not to confuse the galoshes and tennis shoes earlier surface water system (which is the this month.and tromped through system tested by the research some of the most unlikely spots on committee) with the Island's Sanibel, dipping small vials six completely separate drinking water inches below the surface of pools of system. Drinking water is pumped water along the way. from aquifers 600 to 900 feet below The next day the team looked not the surface. unlike mad-cap scientists as they "In contrast to this system, the measured and tested, distilled arid surface water system is the main separated their liquid-filled test support of our unique aquatic life, tubes. which originated through a rather The men were not giving in to subtle combination of fresh and flights of fancy a la Vincent Price, saline water," he says. "It is also but instead they were fulfilling, their needed to protect the environmental part of the bargain as part of an relationships of a delicately ongoing cooperative program balanced ecosystem that we are between the Sanibel-Captiva Con- committed to maintain." servation-Foundation and the city of A variety of factors determine the Sanibel to monitor Sanibel's fresh- purity of the Island's freshwater water system. • system, Rhinesmith explains, and Known as the Sanibel-Captiva the SCCF Research Committee is Conservation Foundation Research equipped to handle five of the most Committee, the participants in the indicative factors. Dr. Ken Preston, above, checks purchased with funds from the water-testing program are saving Chloride tests determine the salt concentration. Below, Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Sanibel taxpayers thousands of degree of. saltwater intrusion into a sophisticated equipment was Foundation and the city. dollars each year with their efforts, body of water and salt concentration all of which are volunteer. due to the evaporation of a contained Contract bids for similar pool. programs on the island had cost the Some 40 inches of rainfall each city between $6,000 and $8,000 for year is crucial to the maintenance of two samples. a healthy freshwater system, Headed by Dr. Herbert Rhinesmith says. Phosphates in the Rhinesmith, former Professor surface water are a good indication Emeritus of Pennsylvania's of community waste, especially Allegheny College, the research from hand and laundry soaps and committee began taking water from garden fertilizers. samples in April of this year and has Nitrates are essential to both plant continued to document its findings and animal life, and although a high every three months. level of nitrogen is indicative bf With sophisticated equipment pollution, all forms of nitrogen are funded equally by SCCF and the removed, in part, by surrounding city, the researchers are able to vegetation. measure pH levels and con^ pH tests determine the acidity or Dissolved salts are also measured future findings. centration of salt, chloride, alkalinity of a body of water, which by the committee and serve as an "The results of these tests over a phosphate and nitrate in a built-to- is particularly important to natural indicator of usability of the fresh- period of time will give us a range of order laboratory at the SCCF center. life. Alkalinity decreases as carbon water system for drinking or qualities that can be used com- "The two main sources of dioxide is taken up by plants and is irrigation purposes. prehensively in the management of pollution of surface water on Sanibel removed by aquatic life, which uses Rhinesmith says trends in our surface waleFsystem," he says. are the privately-owned septic tanks up oxygen to digest organic matter Sanibel's freshwater system will riot Rhinesmith is the first to note that used by about two-thirds - of the and complete a cycle of CO2 be determinable until a full year of Sanibel is "so far ahead" of other inhabitants and the local/ sewer production and consumption. hard data has been acquired to island communities in its methods of system used by the remaining (Sanibel's freshwater supply is provide an adequate control from acquiring drinking water and in thuM," Rhinesmith says. It is im- slightly alkaline.) which to base the committee's monitoring freshwater supplies. By Carol Kranichfeld Photos by David Meardon SCCF Research Committee Chairman Dr. Herbert Dr. Bill Webb and John Lester collect water samples for Rhinesmith leads the water testing project. the testing. The ISLANDER Tuesday, November 16,1982 3A POLICE BEAT All information in the following reports . group promplty put out the fire when ad- A men's J.C. Penney three-speed bicycle resident. The missing box was .reported by was taken directly from Sanibel Police vised of Sanibel's ordinance thai prohibits valued at $25 was reported missing from a Executive Services, Inc. Police found no Department records. fires on the beach. bike rack on East Gulf Drive on Monday signs of forced entry to the unit. morning, Nov. 8. The owner of the bike told A Nerita Street resident complained of Sanibel police were called to assist Lee police he thought someone had just A Sandpiper Circle resident coanplained of persons cutting down vegetation at the County Sheriff deputies with a party of 100- borrowed the bike and would return it. large dump trucks speeding in the con- corner of Nerita Street and Middle Gulf 125 youths at Bowman's Beach on Saturday struction area in the Dunes on Wednesday Drive on Saturday morning, Nov. 6. Police night, Nov. 6. The youths had four kegs of Fishing gear valued at $93 was reported morning, Nov. 10. Police responded to the responded and learned the Brazilian pepper beer, and sheriff's deputies reported many missing from the porch of a unit at the area and advised the drivers of seven trucks trees were being removed with the property underage youths were drinking the beer.