OUTDOORS — 17A I BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID SANIBEL,FL. PERMIT #33 t 'u POSTAL PATRON Vol. 37, Wo. 24 Friday, June 1 9, 1998 Two Sections, 48 pages 75 Cents 1 WASTE PLANS Sanibel City Council decides on $ 15 million plan to treat waste- water on-island. Seepage 3A FATHER'S DAY Kristie Seaman writes about a few underappreciated fathers ...Seepage 3A TOP FISHING Rob Wefls wins the Caloosa Catch & Release Fishing Tourna- ment -^perhaps the largest flats fishing tournament in Florida. ........See page 3A ISLAND SCENE • Island Night • Chamber After Hours Seepage9'llA OUTDOORS • Building nesting boxes • Beachview Golf»Course wins restoration award • How to prepare your boat for a hurricane. See page 17A Arts 7B Business Services ... 20B Classifieds....... 20-23A Crossword 22B Police Beat 7A Night Life............... 3B Jim Fowler's bobcat photo is just one of the excellent photos in the 1999 Sanibel-Captiva Natire Calendar that was published this month. 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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY Toll Free (800) 233-8829 • Main Office (941) 472-1511 Causeway Office (941) 472-4121 • Captiva Office (941) 472-5154 Friaay,3une'i$, 3X The Front Page Unsung Father's Day its! That's my bad side! heroes abound in the wild By XRISTIE ANDERS A lot of scientific lit- The energy required to raise babies erature about wildlife seems to indicate that most takes a tremendous toll on the moms fathers procreate and then and dads — bird moms and dads as leave. But there really are ; some remarkable stories well as human moms and dads — about fathers out there... In some crayfish, it is but the rewards are great. the male that carries the eggs on his abdomen. Simi- larly, it is the papa sea horse The face of a pipefish has arrival, the chicks come out that has the brood pouch. equine characteristics, and of their hiding places and Mama deposits her eggs pipefish males also have crowd about him, like a lit- and papa fertilizes and in- the task of brooding the ter of puppies, to strip the cubates them until they young. It takes just under water from his wet feathers. emerge as miniature adults. two weeks for the young of The chicks are about two Up to 150 of these minia- both species to emerge. months old before they are tures can emerge at one In avian species there able to fly to the water holes time. are some fun stories, in- themselves." Many people wonder cluding that of the male In most duck species, if this creature is even a true sand grouse from Africa the female is sole caretaker fish. It is; sea horses are re- which carries water to its of the offspring, but in the lated to another bony- babies. Special feathering shorebirds — phalaropes, plated fish group called the on his chest allows papa to dowitcher and sanderlings, Nancy Groetsch sent us this photograph of a bobcat trying to sneak through pipefish, which actually soak up water at distant for example — fathers are her Sanibel backyard with dinner in mouth. The photo was taken March 31 looks like a straightened watering holes and then fly the primary caretakers. this year in the Greenwood Court area. out sea horse. Pipefishare back to the chicks. Accord- In osprey families, often found in the sea grass ing to the Audubon Ency- areas around the islands. clopedia of Birds, "upon his (Continued, page 4k) City opts to spend $ 15 million for on-island wastewater treatment By WENDY HUMPHREY fines of up to $10,000 a day because of excess effluent, i.e. • A $179,QO0stucfy by hydrological engineers Hartman The Donax wastewater treatment plant is to be ex- too much wastewater. & Associates outlined the options for treating and disposing panded and excess treated wastewater to be injected into a • Currently, sewage from the 5,400 residences and busi- of sewage. Three treatment plant alternatives and 11 alterna- deep water well, City Council decided Tuesday. nesses hooked up to the Sanibel sewer system is pumped tive methods of getting rid of wastewater were considered in City Councilmen voted to spend close to $15 million into the treatment plant off Donax. Here, it goes through the 66 pages of the report presented to Sanibel City Council to bring the city's wastewater treatment up to scratch over what is called a "contact stabilization activated sludge" treat- on Tuesday afternoon. the next 25 years. ment. This means sludge is separated from water and the They were: . At issue was how to treat sewage from the city's sewer relatively clear liquid is then chlorinated and pumped to per- Treatment Plants: system. colation ponds. The sludge is trucked off island in a fairly One Plant — Donax: The present Donax facility to The city is currently in violation of Florida Depart- solid state and used to fertilize pasture land. The treated water be expanded from its present capacity to handle 2.5 million ment of Environmental Protection standards and is facing is used to irrigate Beachview and the Dunes golf courses. (Continued, page 6A) COIOOSQ Nature nuts, true, but... Florida Press it's one of our guiding prin- year in a row, a top honor Catch ciples — primarily because for environmental/conser- Awards show tilt we think it is one of the vation writing—a Second toward nature, island's major interests arid place award for Tyrer's Release story on development and but I hope we mitigation.