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INDEX- What's going on around the islands Arts & Leisure 5B At Large 5A Calendar 4B Classifieds 7C Commentary 5A Crossword 9Q Gallery Guide Portrait Environment ?B Police Beat 2A Booklet offers A profile of Recreation 3C Remember When 4A information about Canterbury's island art studios headmaster 1C 1961-1991 Still first on Sanibel and Captiva VOL. 30, NO. 10 TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1991 THREE SECTIONS, 40 PAGES 50 CENTS Ireland, city make CARL funding bid By Frances Adams Islander staff writer Seeking to receive state funds to acquire sensitive lands, a delegation from Sanibel made a public presentation of its Interior Wetlands Resource Conservation Sanctuary proposal and a Silver Key purchase proposal in Tallahassee last Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 27. Sanibel Assistant City Manager Bill Mills, Sanibel- Captiva Conservation Foundation Executive Director Erick Lindblad and Sanibel city councilmen Mark "Bird" Westall and Wally Kain made two 10-minute oral presentations to the Lands Acquisition Advisory Council of the Department of Natural Resources, the agency responsible for selecting projects to receive funding from its Conservation and Recreation Lands (CARL) Acquisition Program. Sanibel's team had a lot of information to wedge into the short time period, but got a much needed boost when state Rep. Tim Ireland showed up and made a strong bid for funding Sanibel's projects. Mills said Ireland spoke knowledgeably about the projects and the island's efforts to do everything possible to acquire lands. Sanibel representatives had more ammunition this year - - last year's addition of another .25 mill tax the city enacted for land acquisition, bringing Sanibel's total put Photo by PETE SLOSSON aside for land acquisition to .50 mills. The successfully Bach on the Beach private fund raising that enabled the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation to purchase Albright Island had The annual Bach on the Beach concert was held Saturday, March 2 as part of the Sanibel some weight, too. Sanibel also presented a telling list of Festival. Despite the windy conditions, a large crowd turned out for the annual concert, which was held on the beach near the Sanibel Lighthouse. For additional festival highlights, please sensitive lands that have been lost to outside purchasers see page 1B. since this time last year. According to Mills, this year's presentation went more smoothly, and about half of the advisory board already was familiar with Sanibel's projects, having seen one of the Nightly removal and storage presentations last year. Silver Key Surprise Sanibel's contingent got an unexpected lift when one of the board members, during discussion of the Silver Key of beach things may be law acquisition proposal, asked if developer John Armenia had By Frances Adams not affect already approved accessory commercial uses. received an easement from the Bureau of State Lands, a Islander staff writer However, for future applications, it makes the area used division of the state Department of Natural Resources, for Proposed ordinances that would regulate the presence of for storage of beach furniture and equipment count as de- the submerged lands over which Armenia intends to build «ach furniture and equipment on Sanibel shorelines have veloped area (unless it's stored under a stilted structure, a bridge to Silver Key. cleared the first go-round with the Planning Commission. which already counts as developed area). No one knew for sure, but the board member said it was At its Feb. 26 meeting, the Planning Commission rec- Please see BEACH, PAGE 11A Please see CARL, page 15A ommended approval of two ordinances that critics say would be very difficult to enforce, will do more harm than good for the beaches and would likely put a local beach equipment rental service out of business. Bridge repair work to begin March 16 One ordinance would make it against the law for beach Senior Project Engineer Arnold Pavlizke, of the Lee $600,000 phase are to the substructure, so no traffic furniture (chairs, umbrellas, cabanas, beach setups, etc.) or County Department of Transportation and Engineering, delays are expected. equipment (vessels, board sails, bicycles, fishing gear, notified Sanibel City Manager Gary Price last Friday, The second maintenance contract, in the $200,000- etc.) to be on the beach (the area between the Coastal March 1, that county work crews are scheduled to begin $500,000 range, will go to the Board of County Construction Control Line or the nearest lawful structure repair work on the Sanibel bridge and causeway structures Commissioners near the end of March or early April for and Sanibel's boundary offshore), when not in use, be- March 16. approval. The work in this phase consists of tween the hours of 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. It also would make It was welcome news to Sanibel, which more than a superstructure repairs, guard rail installation, coating of it illegal to place, store, use or transport these things in a year ago had officially asked the county to immediately exposed railings and walks and repairs to traffic joints. manner that destroys or materially diminishes beach undertake the maintenance and repair work it had chosen The repairs in this second phase will cause major traffic dunes, native vegetation or wildlife habitat This pertains not to do because of the pending bridge replacement disruptions, with one-lane traffic during the day for most to everyone — bay-side and gulf-side residents and busi- project. of July, August and September, the time of year with the nesses - and to owned and rented items. According to a memorandum to the City Council from least traffic. The other ordinance affects only persons who request Price, the first repair contract is for a five-month working The third contract, in the $100,000-$500,000 range, conditional use permits to rent beach furniture or equip- phase that consists of epoxy repairs to the piling system, will go to bid in April, and consists of repairs to the rip- ment as an accessory commercial use at resorts. It does support beams and diaphragms. All of the repairs in this rap structure on each end of the bridge. at North Yachtsman Drive. Nancy Jean Rowe of Fort Myers was charged early last week with driving on a suspended license. She came to POLICE Loud music was turned down Thursday night on UJ police attention after the 7-Eleven West reported a car had a BEAT Seagrape Lane after police told the resident of noise driven off without paying for gas. Rowe was stopped on complaints. < Periwinkle Way at the Sanibel Community Center and CO was escorted back to the 7-Eleven, where she paid for $10 A Sanibel-Captiva Road resident reported to police <D worth of gasoline. Because Rowe could not legally drive A wallet was lost near the C&S bank and a checkbook Wednesday, Feb. 27 that her dogs were missing. She later on her expired license, police dropped her off at the was lost in the Bailey Shopping Center in separate reported they had come home. Sanibel Causeway toll booths. incidents early last week. Thomas Edward Redgate of Fort Myers was charged last A man reported losing his Visa card last Tuesday, Feb. Sanibel Taxi owner Patrick Hanley reported on Monday, Wednesday with leaving an accident scene without 2* while he was eating at a Sanibel restaurant. Feb. 25 that several 3-inch by 24-inch signs saying reporting it. The accident took place on Beach Road and ID "Sanibel Taxi" were missing. the report on the accident was pending. Scott A. Hale of Cape Coral was stopped by police last (0 Tuesday on the Sanibel Causeway and was charged with An islander reported to police last Thursday, Feb. 28 Waldemar Pachecko of Fort Myers was charged last going 50 mph, not having a driver's license in his that somebody had left the message "checkin' to see if Tuesday with possession of marijuana, possession of eo possession and driving on an expired license. your home" on his telephone recorder while he was out. paraphernalia and driving on a suspended license. Police The man told police he thought the message was reported they approached Pachecko's car on Causeway I An alligator was reported early last week under a porch harassment from somebody he had not finished paying for Road near Periwinkle Way in regard to a loud muffler and at 2840 West Gulf Drive. Police found a "very small a job they did not complete doing. stalling in an intersection. Police said a bag of marijuana alligator" under the porch. 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