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October 12,1979 Island Reporter Island Reporter October 12,1979 A3 Four-year-old Angel Vargas, who lost his leg in a tragic ac- cident last week, is shown here with his parents, Lucy and Domingo at Lee Memorial Island residents have set up a Brejman named general manager donation fund to help pay Angels medical expenses. "I am pleased to become a part of an outstanding IN BRIEF newspaper,'- Brennan said, "and I look forward to working with members of the Sanibel and Captiva Tragic accident befalls Angel community." Postal Service surveys Brennan replaces Fred Valtin, who resigned recent- By Susie Holly Angel's accident, the Vargas had ly as general manager. Valtin was one of the five no hospitalization insurance to U.S. Postal Service employees on original publishers of the Island Reporter. Last week 4-year-old Angel Luis cover their son's medical expenses. Sanibel soon will be quizzing every tenth In other staff changes, Mark Twombly has been 25c Vargas was helping his father Several of the family's friends THE GASPARILLAS ©Suncoott Publication. 1979 customer to find out where the customer named editor and Bradley Fray managing editor of Domingo with yard work on one of and customers on Sanibel want to has been and where he or she is going. The the Island Reporter. Twombly succeeds Don Whitehead, who retired as editor last week but will his customer's lawns on Iona Road help the Vargas defray some of Postal Service isn't being nosy, it's doing a continue to cover politics for the paper. Whitehead in South Fort Myers. The young those expenses. A savings account survey to determine where new postal sta- had been editor of the Island Reporter since it began boy ran behind his father's tractor in Angel's name has been set up at tions might best be situated. The survey, publication in November, 1973. and fell down as Domingo was Bank of the Islands. Many con- which is being conducted in most major Twombly joined the paper in August, 1974 and was backing up. Domingo did not see tributions have been received It's no longer recess cities and metropolitan areas, may result in later made associate editor. He was named managing his son and ran over him. Angel's already. A-23 more convenient locations for post office editor two years ago. leg was severed. After hearing this week that the outlets and self-service stations. Does this Fray has been with the Island Reporter since This week, Angel is in Lee account had been set up, Lucy mean the brand-spanking new Sanibel Post September, 1977 as business editor. Before moving to Sanibel in 1976 she worked on daily newspapers in" Memorial Hospital, bravely smiling Vargas appeared very grateful and Office may be picked up and moved down Florida and Iowa. again and preparing to receive an could only say, "Right now we need Sanibel's other refuge the road to a more convenient spot? artificial leg. His mother Lucy it." stays with Angel nearly 24 hours a day, only going home for brief rests Genevieve McCain, the Vargas' Groups protests beer ban and to check on her five other first customer on Sanibel six years children, ranging in age from 1 to The Citizen's Action Coalition began cir- Tim Brennan ago, had nothing but praise for the Photographer's journey 12. When Lucy leaves the hospital, couple and their six children. culating petitions this week protesting the Domingo arrives so one or the banning of beer during the upcoming Jimmy "They started from scratch, living B-17 other of them is constantly within in one of those terrible shacks, and Bnffett concert at the Lee County Arena. Tim Brennan has been named the ne General reach of Angel. The coalition said it was questioning the Manager of the Island Reporter. pulled themselves up by their constitutionality of the beer ban and Brennan was classified advertising manager of the The Vargas own a modest home bootstraps. Domingo is a real suc- pointed out that any decision over beer sales Orlando Sentinel Star before coming to Sanibel. He in Harlem Heights and make their ces story, an inspiration," she said. at the arena should be left up to the arena joined the Sentinel Star in 1976 as assistant classified living doing yard work, mostly on "Angel's accident is a real horror manager, and became classified manager in 1978. The Sanibel and Captiva. At the time of story for them." manager. The Lee County Commission last Island Reporter is published by Suncoast Publications, week voted unanimously to ban the sale of a division of the Sentinel Star Company. beer at the October 16 Buffett concert after Brennan began his newspaper career in 1968 with Sheriff Frank Wanicka complained that the the Wilmington, Delaware News-Journal and was with selling of beer at rock concerts can lead to the TampaJrWbaneTO»d^iffleTtr<niria70-72. He joined dangerous situations. the Sentinel Star after three years aVtiie Charlotte, DER biologist anticipates more fish kills on island .North Carolina Observer and News 'where he was By Mark Twombly bluegill, according to Cantrell. becomes saturated with oxygen and much algae blooms than natural water bodies, telephone sales manager. "An algae bloom preceded the fish kill, of it escapes into the atmosphere. Cantrell said. Man-made canals and ponds A native of Delaware, Brennan is married and has An algae bloom that turned hundreds of and an algae bloom is going on in several At night when photosynthesis no longer often are situated next to golf courses and Fogging flights for culex one son. fish belly up in a man-made canal on other canals and an area of the Sanibel occurs the organisms draw oxygen from residential developments where fertilizers Sanibel this week may be repeated soon in River," Cantrell said. the water for respiration and the oxygen' are used to keep the grass green. Rain U you were jolted out of sleep at dawn to- nearby water bodies. supply in the water is quickly depleted. water run-off carries some fertilizer into day and still wonder if the island was under The other canals are located adjacent to Island weather Richard Cantrell, district biologist for or nearby the canal where the.fish kill oc- Large fish that require a lot of oxygen and the water and the nutrients eventually attack, fear not, the air raid was directed by the Florida Department of Environmental curred this week, he said. Cantrell said he those that are unable to gulp oxygen from build up. Lee County Mosquito Control. The This report is based on records kept at the Regulation, said a "significant" number of also found evidence of an algae bloom in the the surface soon suffocate, Cantrell ex- Nearby development also tends to block adulticide fogging of Sanibel and Captiva by Sanibel-Captiva Chamber o? -'Commerce on mullet, and a lesser number of freshwater Sanibel River west of Casa Ybel Road. plained. the wind, which helps circulate water in low-flying fixed wing aircraft was planned Causeway Road. fish were killed by an algae bloom in a man- "Those water bodies are in very bad shape The algae blooms also often result in a enclosed areas, he said. as far as the course of the algae blooms is as of Wednesday, according to Mosquito [igh Low Rain made canal north of Middle Gulf Drive. The discoloration of the water as the pigment in Control Director Wayne Miller, due to canal separates the Beachview golf course concerned," he said. the organisms' cells react to sunlight. Fish kills such as the one that occurred. Thursday, October 4 87 76 0 _____E^J harvest? from condominiums on the north side of An algae bloom is an explosion in the Scientists haven't really pinpointed the on Sanibel this week are difficult to control higher nightly counts of Culex nigripalus, Friday, October 5 86 74 0 because they are not caused by any obvious It looks like corn but it's not The leafy green stalks rising Middle Gulf Drive. population of several types of microscopic cause of algae blooms, Cantrell said, I the mosquito believed to carry encephalitis. Saturday, October 6 86 72 0 One observer said.Monday the wind had aquatic plants and animals - that can although the blooms usually occur in water pollution. "It's not a pipe going into the beside the new bike path along Sanibel-Captiva Road are water that we could go out and have closed Miller emphasized that no encephalitis virus Sunday, October 7 86 70 0 millet, a cereal grass whose grain is used for food in blown several hundred dead fish to the photosynthesize.