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KEY LARGO 305.451.5700 make. MARATHON 305.743.4397 home. KEY WEST stylish. 305.295.6400 keysfurniture.com WWW.KEYSINFONET.COM SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2014 VOLUME 61, NO. 48 G 25 CENTS ELECTION 2014 Candidates to make it official By LARRY KAHN people out there,” Elections Qualifying period to get on ballot the Key Largo Fire and Plantation Key-based [email protected] Supervisor Joyce Griffin said Emergency Medical Services Judge Luis Garcia was re- Friday. “This is a very good starts Monday for most Keys races District board. elected with no opposition. A week of official ballot turnout. A lot of people Marathon, Islamorada and But Key West-based incum- qualifying for most candi- announced but they haven’t support, they won’t qualify.” to noon June 20 for candi- Layton candidates qualify bent Mark Jones is being chal- dates in the 2014 elections qualified yet.” Qualifying is when the dates for School Board, later in the summer. lenged by Donald Barrett, and starts Monday in Monroe “That doesn’t mean they Elections Office determines County Commission, Candidates for Circuit Court Key West-based Tegan Slaton County and it’s already all will qualify. Some if candidates are residents of Mosquito Control Board, judge have already qualified. is being challenged by Jack apparent voters Keyswide announce early to see what the areas where they are run- Key West mayor, the state “That surprised me, that Bridges — now a Mosquito will have dozens of candi- kind of turnout they can get, ning, are eligible to vote, or House of Representatives, there are so many candi- Control com missioner — and dates from which to choose. they test the waters,” Griffin are convicted felons. the Key Largo Wastewater dates running for judge,” “There is a whole lot of said. “If they don’t see the It runs from noon Monday Treatment District board and Griffin said. See Elections, 2A SPENCERS’S BACK HOME KEY LARGO Closed areas are getting second look fights, play loud music and Neugent says unsafely operate their boats wrong signal and personal watercraft. While most of the people may be sent who use the beach, and sev- eral of the other water access By DAVID GOODHUE areas along Card Sound [email protected] Road, come from Miami- Dade County, some Monroe Responding to “a hand- County residents and back- ful” of locals who launch country guides use the area to boats from Card Sound Road launch their boats. in North Key Largo, the Sheriff Rick Ramsay told Monroe County Commission the five-member County on Wednesday said more Commission during its meet- meetings will be held to ing Wednesday that “there is revisit the county’s decision no easy solution” to the prob- to close areas like the popular lem, but restricting access is Jet Ski Beach. the best policy for now. County officials blocked “I hate to cut off access to off Jet Ski Beach, which is the water,” Ramsay said. about 100 yards from the But at the same time, polic- Card Sound Bridge, in April ing the area, which is about 30 because revelers continuous- ly leave it trashed, engage in See Closures, 3A KEY LARGO Spencer the heron is returned to Little Palm Island last week following its rehabilitation at the rescue center. The bird — Little Palm’s mascot for nine years — had been losing its balance and just wasn’t acting quite right. Why Spencer was having problems, no one knows, says Wildlife Rescue Director May Totman. But a steady diet of fish and County reverses, fluids got him back to his old self. wants $580K fine KEY COLONY BEACH November. The ban is techni- Carruthers calls cally temporary, but will last group out for until National Marine Chicks get quick rescue after tumbles Fisheries Service biologists allow least terns to nest. no transparency have a better handle on a Least terns “In the wild, chicks go viral outbreak that has killed start to hatch into grassy areas for shade By DAVID GOODHUE more than 1,300 bottlenose while mom and dad are out [email protected] dolphins from New York to on rooftops getting food,” Grinter said. Central Florida. “When they search for shade Monroe County rescinded Little is known about the By KEVIN WADLOW on a roof, they can gravitate its deal with Key Largo’s illness, known as morbil- Senior Staff Writer toward the edge and fall off.” Marine Mammal Conservancy livirus, or how it spreads or [email protected] Although the one-story and now wants to be paid the how long it can be carried by drop from the Key Colony entire $580,000 in code fines a whale or dolphin showing Baby least terns seemed home poses no particular the dolphin and whale rescue no symptoms. The NMFS to rain from the sky at a Key threat, the chicks must be group racked up since 2009. issued the rehabilitation ban Colony Beach house this returned to the nest quickly, Most of the code violations out of fears marine mammals past week. Grinter said. centered on an unfinished in the process of rehabilita- “We got calls on four “Tern parents will only building, along with failure to tion may spread morbillivirus [chicks] within 48 hours,” said feed their own offspring, and get permits or inspections for to other captive whales and Kelly Grinter, founder of the the chicks need to learn their storage units, sheds, campers, dolphins. There is also con- Marathon Wild Bird Center. life lessons to survive in the fences, electrical connections cern that asymptomatic They all tumbled off the wild,” she said. “If people and plumbing. marine mammals may spread same tar and gravel roof, a Keynoter photo by KEVIN WADLOW find a chick, we need to know The five-member County the illness into the wild once known nesting spot for the Laura Preston holds one of the least tern chicks where it came from so we can Commission voted May 21 to they are released. least tern, North America’s Wednesday after it tumbled off a Key Colony Beach roof get it back to the right place.” forgive 90 percent of the MMC representatives smallest species tern and list- where its parents nest. The Key Colony home- fines. But since then, the asking for forgiveness of the ed as threatened in Florida. owner has given bird-center Reporter and Keynoter fine never mentioned the Two chicks wound up in a that look like little cotton past several decades, many staff permission to climb onto reported that the federal gov- rehab prohibition to commis- nearby canal but all were res- balls,” Grinter said. terns switched to nesting on tar the roof whenever needed. ernment had banned the sioners — even though the cued and returned to their Least terns prefer nesting and gravel building roofs. The Nesting begins in the spring, MMC and other rescue vote was contingent on the nest Tuesday and Wednesday. on quiet beaches but coastal Walgreens at U.S. 1 and 109th with chicks hatching through groups from rehabilitating MMC using its mile marker “People hear loud chirps development means few of Street in Marathon was built May and June. “By August, marine mammals — its pri- coming from these chicks those can be found. For the with such a roof specifically to they’re off the rooftops.” mary mission — since See MMC, 2A INDEX Printed on 100% Classifieds . .6B recycled newsprint Expansion Living . .1B In L’Attitudes CONTENTS © 2014 plans Business . .5A KEYNOTER PUBLISHING CO. The Grateful Dead are no The Marathon Winn-Dixie Obituaries . .2A more but the band’s music is expanding, taking over and the lifestyle around it Opinion . .4A the space CVS formerly are being re-created for a Sports/Outdoors . .1B occupied in a Middle Keys weekend. Story, 4B shopping center. Story, 6A Crossword . .2B 7786790 22222 2A Saturday, June 14, 2014 KeysInfoNet.com Keynoter NEWS BRIEFS STOCK ISLAND Some races Tuesday workshop focuses on homes Two Stock Island teens already crowded The Florida Division of From Elections, 1A first two-year term, has one Emergency Management held in snapper theft apparent challenger so far in has planned a workshop Bonnie Helms. Pamela Anne Gray, a for Tuesday at the ment it received numerous haul, missing. He contacted Some countywide races Democrat from Miami. Marathon Government 400 pounds of reports from “others the Sheriff’s Office. already are busting at Key West Mayor Craig Center to help people learn yellowtail gone around the marina area” Police say their investiga- the seams. Cates is being challenged by how to harden their homes who also had fish stolen. tion led to a 14-year-old and Carolyn Charron, Stuart Sloan Bashinsky, a perennial against storm damage. from local dock There was another a 15-year-old who live at the Kessler, Bobby Highsmith candidate; and Margaret During the two-hour report of 50 pounds of fish Stock Island Apartments. and Warren Leamard have Romero, a self-styled gadfly. workshop that starts at 6 Keynoter Staff stolen the following night. The younger teen told filed to qualify for the Candidates for Marathon p.m., participants will meet The suspect was identified police “he and his friend District 1 seat on the School City Council qualify from with experts who will pro- Two Stock Island teen - as a 12-year-old from used five-gallon buckets to Board. That seat is being noon Aug. 5 to noon Aug. vide valuable information on agers were arrested Wednes - Stock Island. That investi- steal the fish.” They report- vacated by Robin-Smith 12.