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VolL37, No. 12 Tuesday, March 22, 1977 1 section 10 cents /nlm i cable Island illumination y Conservation volunteers needed In preparation for the opening of the programs to be carried on at the Thus, job areas in which volunteers Institution are now exploring possible Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foun- center, said the Foundation's are needed include library workers, Smithsonian training programs for dation's Conservation Center, which is Executive Director, Dick Workman. trail guides, naturalists, shop keepers, these volunteers. now being erected on the Foundation's The development of the Conservation admissions clerks and many more. The ambitious Conservation Center 207-aere Nature Trail property south of Center calls for an expanded program According to Workman, a training program promises a job for nearly Sanibel-Captiva Road, the Foundation of conservation education, nature trail program is currently being organized every interest, Workman commented. is currently seeking volunteers to use, and a variety of environmental for some of the more technical jobs, He urges every Islander with.a few assist with a number of educational awareness activities, Workman said. such as trail guides and naturalists. spare hours each week or a talent going Persons interested in leading nature to waste to put them to good use by walks as volunteers for the Con- signing up as a Conservation Center servation Center will be trained in volunteer. Housing survey underway: native vegetation, wildlife, and other Anyone interested in volunteering aspects of the Island's natural history. their time and talents may call the The preparation of exhibits for the Foundation office at 472-2329. Ac- questionnaires available Conservation Center: is another area in cording to Workman, there are still which volunteers are desperately plenty of exciting volunteer positions yet to be filled en route to making the problem," said Vice-Mayor Butler. "A needed, Workman said. Advisors to the Last Tuesday, copies of the ac- Foundation from the Smithsonian Conservation Center the unique companying questionnaire, intended to more specific questionnaire will be community facility the Foundation ascertain the extent of the need for low forthcoming later on to determine the hopes to be. and moderate cost housing on Sanibel, type of housing needed by the young were made available to Islanders at and working people on Sanibel." Work progressed smoothly last week five locations on the Island. The questionnaire is available at at the site of the Conservation Cento, The questionnaire was prepared with Sanibel City Hall in Periwinkle Place Workman said, with the installation of considerable effort by the city's Shopping Center, at the Sanibel- a septic tank for the facility. relatively new ad hoc Committee on Captiva Chamber of Commerce office Although Foundation officials expect Housing, headed by Sanibel Vice- on Causeway Road, at Bailey's General the building to be completed by about Mayor Zee Butler, Store, at Huxter's Market and Deli, and May 1, the grand opening of the long The Committee was created by the at the Sanibel Standard Service Station awaited Conservation Center is slated Sanibel City Council late in 1976 to on Periwinkle Way. for this coming fall, Workman said, to investigate the severity of the problem Islanders filling out the question- give the Foundation time to equip the of insufficient moderate income naire are asked to return the completed Center with furniture, exhibits, housing units, on the Island, and to form to Assistant City Manager Tom darkroom and laboratory supplies, as make recommendations to the city Locker at P.O. Drawer 436, Sanibel, or well as air conditioning. council as to how reasonably, priced at Sanibel City Hall. An April I cutoff However, volunteers for the housing units might best be provided to deadline has been set for the ac- educational programs to be featured at those who currently live and work on ceptance of completed questionnaires. the Center are being sought now for Sanibel, Although no signatures will be training and familiarization with the The circalation of a housing required of those filling out the Foundation's many worth conservation questionnaire marks only the first step questionnaire,, the committee hopes programs. in the committee's appointed task. that Islanders •will take a responsible Don't miss this M^ opportunity to "This is only a general questionnaire view of the survey and will refrain help with making'this wonderful ad- at this point to determine the size of the conf, on page 11 dition to the Islands a success, T&zsday, Mardia, \m SAMIBEL-CAPTIVA ISLANDER In your opinion . - Established 1961 Do you feel mat me new street names and house numbers on Captiva Editor are helpful? And how do you like living at your new address? ADVERT IS! NG- '. •-Sified advertising. SI.00 •n.nirnum x»'r nsc'ior JP to anri including 10 .vorcSs ' ve con's c-;<" wore - WHERE TO CALL - M.*JVS ,tm>-, pit's acnoral information . 472 1881,47? U*? Z' >->.ifitx. • . .472 18?1 4?? )418 if no answer, 463 6792 - -acrip'.ons . 472 1881 471'MIS if no answer, 549 0077 - DEADLINES - Cassificds and SHORT news i*ems Friday, 10 a.m. L ..ay .,r.vc''S •;? Thursday 4 p.m. - ADDRESSES - V,-,!LING ,uidr-ss: P.O Box 3, Sanioel, FL. 33957 LOCATION of office-: Suite 7. Woocibridqc Offices, 15:7 Pemvinkie, Sanibo! {Directly behind fhe7 11.5 Second ciass postage entered and paid <ii For* Myers Beach, F:_. 33531. n ; "There hasn't been anything delivered to "It is equally as comfortable as my old me there yet. Maybe that1 s 'cause I haven't address. The change doesn't particularly ordered anything that had to be delivered by affect me but it will cause confusion with, §pi€iMf§i sums express." plats, land surveys and property descrip- JoeWightman tions." Paul Stahlin "A SHELL COLLECTOR'S PARADISE" TWO LOCATIONS OPEN WA¥ •ssa WAY Is P.O. BO* 54 472-1121 %| OF SANIBEL THE ISLANDS' BOOT1QOE I • They arc- not au.Ubie names for ('dp:.-<a Island* 'HP struts on (,'aptua should i-rfve 9bnsu««|.doi|B akmd ni»r.' frripuM1 ^n.f'S. But I realize tha* lht;> ore m iuenior> of ite Islands earl} *ti. hPfllttlpiW Offffcj "I feel sorry for the business people on tiers." **_/ OVA- vtv-utW-Tl, O *A L.V-O Palm Avenue, or on old Palm Avenue, who Marge Cobb are forced to change all tbeir stationery, advertising, and deliveries because of the same changes. Half of the people up here never knew that they were contemplating 1717 Periwinkle Way "Smihl'sfinest 472-1070 the ehangeand there was no notice of it." Mary Elaine Patton ^%^'iM^ Tahitian Garden 472-3431 : SHELL ITEMS : SHELL SOAP SHOWER CURTAINS 1 BEACH TOWELS SHELL TOWELS I BATH PICTURES PLACE MATS : GLASSWARE SANIBEL PATCH : I PAPER FINGER- COCKTAIL • : TtP TOWELS NAPKINS "If I only knew what my new address was I'd probably be happy with it, but now the State wants my address before they'll give me a license and being as they've changed "I think it is rather disrupting and don't my address I guess I'm gonna have to call SAN1BEL understand why they didn't notify us in 'em up and find out what the address is so I advance." can write it down and send it back to 'em." STANDARD Victor Mayeron Karl Wightman 472-2125 Atlas Air Conditioning Service Tune ups Quaker State Pennioil Front End Alignment [ Sun. 10 am • 5 ptn Doily 7 to 6. except Cu&tom framing Mocrome ope lBI 9 pm F ArtGotlery Art Supplier Jim Aiiholt, Prop. " ' i^ Seads and Supples SS»e!tFtew»ra Pottety Macrome Classes GifJs TSUI* PSf¥*nr 472.3*93 H% Aatr«JKtSOOC«7a-J8«3 ^^ JUWTHTHOMKOM 472-3213 AKTOiAFT CENTER * I44& PERIWINKLE WAY » SANiBEL ISLAND, FLOgJO A '- Tuesday^Marcb 22,1S77 County will pay Fojotbrtdgekr to forestall etosing^ - The Lee County CommfssieB *voted pnatkaHyiefased to interfere witftifie', Wednesday to pay the Nationwide affairs of the city. Nationwide's suit for Realty ..Corporation a sum of about judicial permission to develop Sanibel $18,500*for the cost of constructing the Bayous underlhe original zoning ap- wooden footbridge connecting proved by Lee County was dismissed Bowman's Beach Road with Turner recently in circuit court. Beach, in an attempt to forestall the Despite the fact that the lawsuit developers' threat to close the only challenging county ownership of a public access to the county-owned portion of Turner Beach has yet to be beach along Sanibel's western shore. resolved, the commission voted last The bridge was built by Nationwide Wednesday to pay the developers the in 1973 by agreement with the county cost of building the footbridge under commission, as part of the group's plan the terms of the original agreement. to develop their Sanibel Bayous Sub- Late in February, the commission division, a parcel of about 220 acres directed County Attorney James adjacent to Bowman's Beach Road, Humphrey to file suit against the according to Sanibel Mayor Porter Nationwide group if any attempt is Goss. made to close the bridge to the public. Nationwide's agreement with the Goss said that he would recommend county called for Nationwide to build to the council that the city become e the footbridge and deed public access party to such a lawsuit if the necessity for the facility to the county in ex- should arise. Last Jive photo verse change for increased zoning for Sanibel Bayous. The county was to reimburse The commission also proposed that Mario Hut ton, who has been pallette," which includes a variety of the developers up to $25,000 for the the city and county should join together delighting Audubon audiences, as well subjects of local wildlife as well as the construction of the bridge pending the to develop a public park, restrooms and as those other lucky folks who have Island's natural beauty, including a outcome of litigation challenging the parking facilities at the access to the been able to attend his shows, may well tunning sequence of dawnshots called county's claim to ownership of Turner bridge with Sanibel Causeway surplus be presenting his last in-J>erson popular "Birth of a day," as well as take-off on Beach.