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ARTS, DINING & ENTERTAINMENT — PAGE 19 j OUTDOORS & RECREATION — PAGE 31 I BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID SANIBEL,FL. PERMIT #33 POSTAL PATRON Vol. 37, No. 42 Friday, October 23, 1998 40 Pages This year's BaileyFest King and Queen — Kenny Smith and Deena Banta, fifth graders atSanihel Elementary School — are crowned by last year's royal court, Amanda Reapsummer and Jimmy Anderson. More BaileyFest photos, seepage 10. Photo/Scott Martell. E-MAIL FROM SaniW Arts ] 9 AMERICAN SAMOA ISLAND-SGEN£~ A $3 MILLION OFFER Island reiidsai^d^Yorto^v^^ ' Oktobertfest Afterhojrs Business Services 38 ConSeryatiQniiJs.are-e»«rted atfOuf a "Scott McPhee is grounded in Ameri- • BailevFe^t •GH>rBeat-^7r.'r::.Trr.T7r.Tr;r6r7" conTract to purchase the 167-acre can Samoa and doing welt. • SCA Oktoberfest Trost Property But the Sanibel- —See page 3A — See page 10-11 Classifiedi.; ......34-37 ^aptiva Conservation Foundation has SURFEIT OF COMMENTARY Letters 15 to raise $3 million in order to pur- • Wagner reports from London • chase the largest remaining pnvately- SURVEYS • Sla/ton says look at amendments .Police Beat , 5 ownec|i undeveloped tract on Sanibel It seems like everyone these days is • M artel I on candidates differences . 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Foundation's addition paused just long enough on Tuesday for a very excited Erick Lindblad, SCCF's executive director, (Scott McPhee, the island resident who has chronicled to announce the agreement between the Foundation and Herta his sailing trips around the world aboard Shadowfax as a Trost to purchase the largest remaining privately-owned piece columnist for the Islander, is now land-bound—on Ameri- of undeveloped property on Sanibel. Fronting on West Gulf can Samoa, where he is the editor of the daily newspaper. Drive and wrapping aroundthe Butterknife development, the Coincidentally, this is the same Pacific island to which Cheryl 167-acre property runs all the way along Tarpon Bay Road to Morales, reference librarian Bailey's Shopping Center. It abuts SCCF's Johnston Preserve at the Sanibel Library, is on the east and several City-owned properties and is across headed next week to take the street from the Foundation's Dayton Preserve and the U.S. over the brand new library. Fish & Wildlife Service's Bailey Tract—a total of about 485 The magic of the internet contiguous acres preserved in perpetuity. brought the following corre- spondence, edited from two (Continued, page 37) Tfte Trost Tract is bordered by Gulf Drive and Tarpon Bay Rd. e-mails. Scott's e-mail ad- dress is given at the end of this article) Sailor ahoy! Anchoring off Sanibel Wow! Great to hear from you! Just like being may be dangerous to your health there (almost). Yeah, I'm the By WENDY HUMPHREY southwest Florida of the dangers of anchoring off Sanibel in editor of the whole thing! How did I get into this any- An ordinance stipulating that boats anchored off the the Port Ybel and Causeway West anchorages on either side of the Sanibel causeway following various accidents in the way? Actually it's not bad. Sanibel Causeway must have two anchors, be lit at night The paper is usually about 60 and have someone on board, was discussed by Sanibel City area. Three unattended boats on single anchors dragged and pages with 'A' section being Council Tuesday. local and AP news. 'B' sec- The ordinance also noted that certain anchorages in beached dangerously close to the causeway recently. One of the boats, a 40-foot sailboat under charter from the Chesa- tion is a four or five page the area are not safe because of wind or current. Samoan language section, and 'C is local and U.S. sports. The City of Sanibel and the Southwest Florida Re- peake Bay area, could easily have wiped out the low-lying gional Harbor Board are working together to alert sailors in Friday's paper is six sections ($1) and in color. Wednes- (Continued, page 4) days is in color, too — if we sell any color ads. Okay, so it's - color every other Wednesday. We publish Monday-Friday, so I do get two days a week off (no paper Saturday or Sun- Council tells West Gulf property day). " .••;• We've got our own press that looks like something owner — Jet the courts decide out of Terminator. Billions of gears clanking, spitting and grinding. But it pops out 75 complete sections a minute. Very By WENDY HUMPHREY the zoning change rectified an oversight and that Wolanin noisy. Luckily its "Not my job man!" Unless the people run- Council members voted Tuesday to permit a lawsuit has suffered no loss since his property is not large enough ning it quit. claiming undue burden and financial loss as the result of an for more than a single family home anyway. I've got four news reporters and two sports reporters. ordinance changing zoning on West Gulf from multi- to The problem began when the Sanibel Land Develop- Everyone has gotten a death threat or two so I know they're single- family use to go to Circuit Court.