AT ALL THREE KEYS SAVE UP TO SHOP EARLY LOCATIONS FOR BEST OFF SELECTION 60% RETAIL! CLEACLEARANCERANCE One-of-a-kinds GOING s ON KEY LARGO MARATHON KEY WEST discontinued items 305-451-5700 305-743-4397 305-295-6400 scratch-n-dents NOW! MM 99 in the Median MM 47.5 Ocean By Publix, Searstown www.KeysFurniture.com WE’RE OVERSTOCKED!! WWW.KEYSINFONET.COM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2014 VOLUME 61, NO. 63 G 25 CENTS MOSQUITO CONTROL ISLAMORADA Rains bringing more mosquitoes By WILLIAM AXFORD Mosquito Control District kept busy be done today and Thursday [email protected] over Key West, and trying to keep the population in check Thursday over Key Largo. The onslaught of rain Spraying has been more pounding the Keys Sunday areas that account for more inches and Duck Key 2.99 frequent this summer than and Monday is keeping the than 200 acres. On an aver- inches. Thunderstorms are past years. Florida Keys Mosquito age day, Doyle said, expected to pick up again “There are more mosqui- Control District staff busy Mosquito Control sprays starting Thursday and last toes this summer due prima- throughout the island chain. 75,000 feet — or the length until next Tuesday. rily to heavier and more Director Michael Doyle of 250 football fields. Weather permitting, the active rain and exceptional- said staff was treating According to the distribution of adulticide by ly high tides this summer,” islands from Sugarloaf Key National Oceanic and airplane is scheduled for Doyle said. “Either one or to No Name Key, as well as Atmospheric Administration today over Key Largo and both together can produce many offshore islands. in Key West, Ramrod Key North Key Largo. Also mosquitoes.” Inspectors are checking received 7.04 inches of rain weather permitting, aerial about 700 known breeding on Sunday, Marathon 3.84 larviciding by helicopter will See Mosquitoes, 3A 18-MILE STRETCH CRASH Alex Hare displays the fish as the surprised crowd looks on. 100-pound yellowfin tuna landed at dock of the fish as it swam by the Destin angler dock. A second person gets big surprise helped out with another gaff. The fish was hoisted onto the at end of gaff dock and then cleaned, with tuna filets going to the crowd The Keys are filled with that gathered to watch. blackfin tuna, a great-eating “I have absolutely no clue fish found offshore. But yel- what the fish was doing lowfin tuna — and a 100- there,” said Hare, who has Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Pedro pound one at that? caught yellowfin on rod and Blackfins max out around Reinoso (above) pulls an unconscious reel while fishing in the Gulf 45 pounds and yellowfins of Mexico near oil rigs in man from the front seat of his Nissan around 400 pounds. 6,000 feet of water. “It may Frontier pickup Tuesday morning. The So imagine the surprise have been sick, but for sure it truck crashed through the fence on when a yellowfin estimated was lost and it likely would the northbound lane of the 18-Mile at 100 pounds was landed — not have survived.” Stretch around mile marker 114. from a dock — at the Beyond the benefits of Reinoso administered life-saving first Angler’s Reef resort around fresh tuna for lunch and din- mile marker 84.5. aid to Richard L’Hommedleu, 62, of ner, Hare won $100 when Alex Hare, 22, from Destin another resort guest argued Tavernier, who was unconscious and spotted the fish Sunday cool- with him about what kind of barely breathing for about five min- ing its heels in the resort’s fish it was. “He told me no utes before fire-rescue units arrived small oceanside harbor. He way that was a tuna and said from Key Largo and Miami-Dade. watched it for around 20 min- he would bet $100 on it,” Javier Hernandez, a tiki-hut installer utes and decided to try to Hare said. “But after we from Miami-Dade, was the first to catch it with a rigged-up gaff. brought the fish on the dock, Video taken shows Hare tend to the victim and call 911. he got his wallet out and gave sinking the gaff into the side me 100 bucks.” L’Hommedleu was listed in stable condition at Homestead Hospital. UPPER KEYS Photos by DAVID GOODHUE KEY WEST Search doesn’t Finally, the light at the end of the tunnel turn up diver miles of wiring. Southernmost City. a big deal.” left the Dream Bay Resort Ribbon’s cut More than 11 miles of Dean Walters, project Walters says major work Cullen’s boat Marina around 9 a.m. Monday, Tuesday for the underground pipes (1.94 spokesman for the state was done with stormwater apparently sank his sister Annie Cullen said. miles for sanitary sewers, Department of Transportation, treatment and management, The Cullen family owns the new boulevard 3.13 miles for drainage and says motorists will immedi- with tons of drainage work near Dixie Shoal mile marker 99 resort. 5.94 miles for water). ately notice the lack of chron- under the road to remove Noah went diving by him- By JESSICA MACHETTA That’s just part of what’s ic ponding in the road and trash and oil before it goes By DAVID GOODHUE self on his 25-foot sailboat, Keynoter Contributor gone into the rebuilt North adjacent parking lots. into the bay. The road is also [email protected] the Jubilee, which was spot- Roosevelt Boulevard in Key “This is supposed to han- a little wider — 4 inches to ted around 2:30 p.m. sinking More than 275 truck- West since work started on dle up to three inches of rain 12 inches — and smoother. A 24-year-old Key Largo with no one on board near loads of concrete and 99.5 the $41.5 project in April per hour,” Walters said. “It’s Planning and permitting man went missing Monday Dixie Shoal — about 7 miles tons of steel rebar for a new 2012. A ribbon-cutting going to handle about any- was 10 years in the making. while free-diving off the off Key Largo. As of 4 p.m. seawall cap. Tuesday will cap the rebuild thing we get and keep it off And there’s still more work Upper Keys. Tuesday, the boat had not Sixty-nine new street on what was easily the the roadway, and keep it off Noah Cullen, a 2008 Coral lights with more than eight worst road in the the properties, too. 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Story, 5A Story, 4A Crossword . .5A 7786790 22222 2A Wednesday, August 6, 2014 KeysInfoNet.com Keynoter NEWS BRIEFS STATE LEGISLATURE Big Pine fire scheduled today Work to start on new maps The National Key Deer the Legislature would return The Keys became part of which critics say makes it One of the groups that Refuge has scheduled what Keys district to Tallahassee and begin the the new U.S. House District easier to elect Republicans in brought a lawsuit challenging it calls a prescribed burn for likely won’t see session at noon Thursday, lit- 26, now represented by neighboring districts. In the congressional districts said today on Big Pine Key. tle more than a week before Democrat Rep. Joe Garcia. District 10, Lewis said an that, at least for the moment, it Whether it happens depends rewritten lines an Aug. 15 deadline to sub- Before redistricting, the Keys “appendage” of white voters was waiting to see what law- on the weather. mit a redrawn map to Circuit were in District 18 and repre- added to the seat was meant makers come up with. Fire staff from By BRANDON LARRABEE Court Judge Terry Lewis. sented by Republican Ileana to help Webster. Deirdre Macnab, presi- Everglades National Park, News Service of Florida Specially formed House Ros-Lehtinen. The new redis- In a statement following dent of the League of the Florida Forest Service and Senate committees will tricting will likely not have the announcement of the ini- Women Voters of Florida, and Monroe County Fire Legislative leaders Mon - meet later Thursday and an effect on the Keys. tial schedule for the session, said lawmakers had taken a Rescue are helping with the day laid out the fullest blue- Friday to try to come up with At issue are Congressional Gaetz made it clear that law- first step by convening the urn operation. print yet for a special session a plan that would answer District 5, which is represent- makers intended to do as lit- special session. Prescribed, or intentional, aimed at crafting new con- Lewis’ initial ruling, issued ed by Democratic Congress - tle as possible to answer “It remains to be seen burns are designed to gressional districts, even as last month, that struck down woman Corrine Brown and Lewis’ complaints. whether they will decide to remove dried underbrush they continued a push for a two districts Lewis said were winds from Jacksonville to “Because the court held produce a map that meets the that could cause wildfires. Leon County judge to limit drawn to help the ruling Orlando, and Congressional intact 25 of the state’s 27 con- constitutional requirements,” The burn will cover acres the impact of his ruling on Republican Party.