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KEY LARGO Agencies Not Only Nationwide “My Argument Is This: We but Worldwide ART HOLIDAY SHOPPING Check out hidden gems Key West artist Rick Worth. for holiday gift giving In L’Attitudes Keys merchants Rick Worth offer wide choice of unusual gifts By CLAUDIA MILLER boot camp L’Attitudes Contributor As you’re making your gift list this holiday season, begins Dec. 6 consider shopping close to We’ve got all you need to know to shop the Keys watch new students laugh- home. You’ll find more Iconic artist ing and having a great time unique gifts and support the headlines at during a Boot Camp ses- local community at the sion,” said Diane Savicky, a same time. Here are a few The Studios Studios staff member. ideas to get you started. “Students are thrilled by the quality of their own work The holiday spirit for tropical holiday presents. Story, Picture boot camp. Only this one comes and always walk out smil- With whimsical window with paint brushes, palettes, ing and carrying a freshly displays and larger-than-life lots of energy and even painted piece.” decorations, the holiday spir- more creativity courtesy of The boot camp is offered it is infectious at Fast Buck Key West artist Rick Worth. every Tuesday from Freddie’s in Key West. Their The iconic painter repris- December through July. sophisticated Christmas trees es his painting boot camp There are two sessions overflow with shiny baubles starting Dec. 6 at The available, one from 2-4:30 in inspiring themes. One tree Studios of Key West. p.m. and a second from 6- boasts a 58-inch peacock Famous for his primarily 8:30 p.m. in the Armory’s topper over a collection of self-taught style, Worth’s main hall. chocolate, bronze and aqua early life at sea and later in The class costs $100 for ornaments. Other themes construction give his work a Studios’members and $120 include a sea motif with defining style. His Conch for non-members. All sup- glass fish, mermaids and plies are included in the fee. shell ornaments and a rain- 5B houses, Keys characters and street scenes are well- If space permits, weekly forest-inspired tree with known. registration is allowed at the bright flowers, parrots and And his public works — rate of $30 for mem- fruit. Open 10 a.m. to 10 especially his work on bers/$35 for non-members. p.m. daily at 500 Duval St. Worth will also offer a Call 294-2007 or visit fast- murals, hand-painted cars, CONTRIBUTED PHOTO ven fences — mark his special version of Painting buck freddies.com for hout the Boot Camp just for kids on more information. At Fast Buck Freddie’s,holiday décor includes unusual Christmas ornaments, some displayed on richly-ornamented Christmas trees. See Worth, 7B Hendrick on the mend Marathon has a new The obvious and mirrors. Open 9 a.m. to Candy Shoppe with lots of Don’t overlook some of 7 p.m. Monday through gift ideas and a wide variety the local gift shops, thinking Saturday and 9 a.m. to 6 candies along they only cater to tourists. p.m. on Sunday at 102421 The At Randy’s Florida Keys Overseas Highway. Call in Key 453-9229 or visit www .keysmermaid.com for f rmation. NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick, injured in a Key West plane crash Oct. 31, continues rehabbing from his injuries. Story, 5A WWW.KEYSNET.COM SHUTOUT FOR LADY DOLPHINSSATURDAY,DECEMBER 3, 2011 VOLUME 58, NO. 97 ELECTION 2012 ● 25 CENTS 3rd candidate steps up for sheriff’s job 24-year veteran Peteck joins is next Aug. 14. The general election is Nov. 6, 2012. Ramsay, Grove Peteck, who comes from a law-enforcement family — By LARRY KAHN his father spent his career [email protected] with the Sheriff’s Office — started as a dispatcher in A 24-year staffer with the 1987. The following year he Monroe County Sheriff’s became a deputy and in the Office has become the third years since, he’s served in candidate hoping to replace numerous jobs, from marine Sheriff Bob Peryam when officer to school resource Peryam’s four-year term officer to road patrol. He now comes to a close. works in the civil process Little Torch Key resident division. Marathon High School’s Brandi Spalten dribbles past a defender during the lady Dolphins’ 5-0 win Thursday over Tom Peteck, 52, has filed Peteck says a large part of Florida Christian.The girls improved to 6-3. Story, paperwork with the his vision of the Sheriff’s Supervisor of Elections Office as a training agency as Office to run as a Democrat. well as police agency comes Previously, Col. Rick from his experience going to KEY LARGO 1B Keynoter photo by RYAN McCARTHY Ramsay and State Attorney’s community-policing training Office investigator Edwin in Charleston, S.C. “Bill” Grove III filed to run “The chief there sold his as Republicans. city on it,” he said, “where Peteck says his campaign law enforcement agencies Sewer district billing will focus on making the came to Charleston to see Sheriff’s Office a destination how they do business.... We training location for police should be one of those train- agencies not only nationwide ing agencies where people but worldwide. He also come for training.” wants a return to what he “My argument is this: We for unbuildable lots calls traditional community should have a full-time policing. marine unit, we should be “Part of it is over the years able to look for grants to get Some 200 sites, there’s been frustration,” he it going; we should have the nearly worthless, for more than $400. Many of said. “We’ve had a chance to boat operators be trainers... these lots are underwater, have a premier agency based Where else would people are assessed and their owners are unaware and have not been sent prop- on our unique environmental want to come for boat and they have outstanding bills. erty tax bills, so the owners location. I don’t think we uti- dive training? That would By DAVID GOODHUE Monroe County Tax don’t know they have been Sal Zappulla, the waste- lize the Keys as a selling point bring us income.” [email protected] Collector Danise Henriquez billed for sewer service. water district’s chief finan- for recruitment, for training And, he says, it would be said her staff found one lot After not paying the assess- cial officer, did not return e- — there’s no other place in needed income because the The Key Largo Wastewater being assessed for waste- ment, the property shows up as mailed questions asking how the world like the Keys.” federal government plans to Treatment District has charged water services is actually in delinquent on the county tax these properties ended up Peryam was elected in build a detention center in the owners of almost 200 the middle of a canal. rolls. At that point, the Tax getting assessed, but the 2008 and has decided to southwest Broward County unbuildable properties for Tax collectors are not Collector’s Office is required problem started well before retire when his term expires that would hold 2,000 or sewer services since as far required to send property tax to put the property in a certifi- he was hired less than a year in January 2013. The primary more inmates. Residents in back as 2007, according to bills for parcels valued at cate sale, meaning it is sold at ago. Henriquez and Thomas county property tax docu- under $5,000, which many of an online auction. Dillon, the sewer district’s ● ments received this week. the assessed lots in Key The property owners in attorney, said Zappulla is in See Sheriff, 2A Some properties with tax Largo are, Henriquez said. some cases don’t know their the process of removing the HIGH-LEVEL VISIT bills as low as 23 cents were She said the issue has become land is being sold, and the properties from the assess- billed by the sewer district a burden on her office. bidders many times don’t ment list. In many cases, these prop- know they are trying to buy “I think the current staff MARATHON erties don’t have mailboxes basically worthless land. understanding of the process “It’s very frustrating on is very good,” Dillon said. Montgomery passesour side,” Henriquezat agesaid. “Sal88 said he would try to ● See Sewers, 2A Hospital, shelter were her primary County Domestic Abuse Shelter open its first shelter passions in Keys in the Middle Keys in July “She was committed to 1984. Now, there are Middle issues with domestic vio- By RYAN McCARTHY Keys and Lower Keys shel- lence and sexual assault. I “She was one of the first [email protected] ters that combined have 58 think she realized how people I met when I moved beds. The Lower Keys shel- prevalent the problem was, to Marathon in 1972. She Marathon lost one of its ter opened in March 2006. and women have children, as was a wonderful lady and longest-tenured and most The effort began as a well, so we needed a facility it’s a big loss to the commu- philanthropic residents Nov. grassroots movement in Key in the county,” shelter Chief nity,” he said. 25 with the passing of Sylvia West in 1978. Then the Executive Officer Venita She also was known for Montgomery at age 88. Marathon Business and Garvin Valdez said. her prominent role with the A Philadelphia native, Professional Women’s Club, Montgomery was on the Fishermen’s Community Montgomery moved to the of which Montgomery was a selection committee that Hospital Ladies Auxiliary — Middle Keys in 1960 and longtime member, set up a hired Garvin Valdez some 13 better known as the Pink was a valued and involved series of safe homes in 1982 years ago.
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