Marketeers Distinctive Rea Estate CoHweft Banter (239) 472-3121 ^ _______________ ResideBf tal Rieaf fetaff, Inc. Spectacular direct riverfront with Enjoy panoramic Gulf <ri«ws targe SaW aceesas home site! Ready for 800232-6004 deep-watur direct access canal and basin! from this private & unique twiiding site! yOur stream home! Dock already in place! 2 • Week of June 23 - 29, 2006 ISLANDER July 4th Road Rally It's time to start making your plans for the 27th Annual 4th of July Island Road Rally! For those of you unfamiliar with this popular event, the Road Rally is a scavenger hunt ROAD RALLY that sends participants all over the island with detailed directions and questions to answer. It takes 21/4 hours or less with the first car pulling out at noon sharp. Early regis- The Sanibel Captiva Optimist Club tration helps ensure an early start time if that's what you 2006 Official Entry Form want. All entrants will be able to see the parade beforehand. OPTIMIST ciu« por an The Sanibel-Captiva Optimist Club, a 501.(c)3 corpora- start time, Mail this form along with entry fee |$35.©0) to: tion, hosts the event which is sponsored by local business- Sanibei Captiva Optimist Club es and individuals. A $100 sponsorship puts your name in P.O. Box 1370 the island papers and a banner on one of the Road Rally SanibeS, Florida 333S7 cars. You may also contribute items for the drivers' goody bags. Checks should be made payable to Sanibel-Captiva Optimist Club, Post Office Box 1370. Sanibel 33957-1370. Team Name; _.. Checks and/or donated items can be picked up as well; call Driver's Maine: __._...... Rally Master Randy Carson at 464-6508, Dan Alton at 472- r 3861 or e-mail [email protected]. Navigator's Name: Where Can We Contact The Team Leader? Please Print: Team Loader Mmmm _ Address: Independence Day Parade Citys „__ States . Zip; ___ ,.. Get ready for the 16th Annual Independence Day Parade ©ay Pttotms ____ Evening ; on Sanibel, Tuesday, July 4 at 9:30 a.m. Parade categories arc: Time Outs 1 Time In: [ " "*~*| Total Time: • Fun in the Sun - Best Beach Party • Surfin'USA - Most Patriotic Mileage Out: ~~1 Mileage In: 1 Total: ] • Good Vibrations - Best Musical Presentation • Life's a Beach - Best Sandcastlc Route Score: • Bonus: - Penalties: I ] Total: • Wild Thing - Best Nature Theme Entry Fee $35.00 Includes: Car, Driver, Navigator, Unlimited Crew, and 1 Official Road Rally T-Shirt Sign up now to be in the parade. Entry fees are $25 com- (Additional T-Shirts will be available for $15.00) mercial and $10 non-commercial. Checks should be made Penalties: payable to "4th of July Parade Account" and mailed c/o Five points deducted for each mite over or under computed mileage. Trish Phillips, P.O. Box 1531, Sanibe 33957 or dropped off Two points deducted for each minute over or under course time. at Bank of the Islands at the comer of Casa Ybel Road and Entry disqualified for exceeding posted speed limit. Periwinkle Way. For more info, call Trish Phillips at 472- Entry disqualified if not at finish point within 2 % hours. 9131. 1 The Rally Master reserves the right to adjust the time equally for ali contestants if There will be a mandatory parade participant meeting on conditions warrant. June 19 at 9 a.m. or 5:30 p.m. at Bank of the Islands. Parade • Afterglow party at Gasparilla's Grill particiapnls can also get their parade T-shirts at Bank of the Islands. Entries must be returned BEFORE June 28. Fireworks illegal on Sanibel Protect our Wildlife! Possession and discharge of fireworks on Sanibel Island is ILLEGAL It shall be unlawful for any person to transport, possess, set off, or otherwise cause to explode or discharge or burn any firecracker, torpedo, rocket, or any other fireworks or Registration from end of Parade to 12:00 Noon Tuesday, July 4th. explosives within the city limits, except as otherwise Conducted by: The Sanibel Captiva Optimist Club allowed in this article. Fireworks shall mean any article, device or substance The Sanibel — Captiva Optimist Club is a "iCn C 3 Corporation and youi donation >s fuliy tax derfucttbte. prepared for the primary purpose of producing a visual or Pteasa note that we are an aft-volunteer not for-proRt organization and ali of the funds go directly to auditory sensation by combustion, explosion, deflagration, or detonation. —Sanibel Code Ord. No. 01-10, §1, 6-19-2001 The violation of this ordinance shall constitute an offense against the city and shall subject the offender upon conviction to a fine not to exceed $500, imprisonment for a period not to exceed 60 days, or to both such fine and Renral & TOUR Boar Tiups imprisonment. t'njov yRolickuiL, dolphins, scenic IIIUURC and SanihcL's jrinvous SUUSCTS •:.'. - * ..••"...;- •-• * • \* *.. .* .. + ... i. • ^ I \ ! !< i O I i 4 N:.~i0 .mi —I:.">() |im N\mitl.i\ — I i id.i\ Btsi Salad Rest Booth I* 1 e s c 111 a I i o n '••i / , . li. uiy '•> \-. .. / •.' ".•.-.\ . /•. \ ml I (i 1 1 h i h > ( a 1 111 .1 Ron ; i [email protected] - www.DecoratingDen.com ISLANDER Week of June 23 - 30, 2006 • 3 Retiring flags with dignity at the American Legion 1 J. • •• • • " Left: During the cere- mony. Right: A woman joins in the ceremony, preparing to unfurl the flag before placing on the fire. ••'•••. Photos by Laura Nickerson Above left: Legionnaires set about burning almost 200 flags. Above right: Post Commander Ray Bini,(reading), Elaine Suppes (with flag) and other islanders attended the ceremony. By Laura Nickerson country which have been inspected and are condemned as [email protected] unserviceable. They have reached their present state in a June 14 was Flag Day and at American Legion Posts proper service of tribute, memory, and love. around the country one of the Legionnaires' most important "A flag may be a flimsy bit of printed gauze, or a beau^ annual duties was performed. tiful banner of finest silk. Its intrinsic value may be trifling 239.472.1771 Flags that have become too tattered or too fragile to be or great but its real value is beyond price, for it is a precious flown or exhibited any longer are respectfully burned in a symbol of all that we and our comrades have worked and 1223 Periwinkle Way * SaBibel Island traditional flag-burning ceremony. In southern Lee County, lived for, and died for—a free nation of free men true to the that job fell to the Sanibel Legion Post. Commander Ray faith of the past, devoted to the ideals and practice of justice, Bini, an Army veteran who conducted the ceremony and freedom, and democracy. SEAFOOD • STEAK ® SPIRITS also played the trumpet, said, "This post has been burning "Let these faded Flags of our Country be retired and flags for at least 25 years. This year people have brought or destroyed with respectful and honorable rites and their sent in almost 200 flags. In the days just before Flag Day, places be taken by new flags of the same size and kind, and Dim Injide ~ Two Koonu to Suit You, or people were leaving the flags at the Causeway toll booth let no grave of our soldier or sailor dead be unhonored or where our guys would pick them up." unmarked... Outride Alfreoeo Dining on Our Patio. Just before the ceremony was about to begin, islander "The Chaplain will offer prayer." ' Elaine Suppes and her friend entered the Post carrying a "Almighty God, Captain of hosts and Commander over pristine flag folded in military fashion. It was the flag from all, bless and consecrate this present hour. We thank Thee Serving Dinner Dally her brother's funeral. Robert Michael Nycek, a United. for our country and its flag, and for the liberty for which it States Marine, had fought in Iwo Jima. "I was told I should stands. To clean and purging flame we consign these flags, 5-10pm Sun - Ttturs . bring his flag here to be honorably disposed of," she said. worn out in worthy service. As they yield their substance to Bini and Acting Chaplin Cornelius Becker explained to the fire, may Thy Holy light spread over us and bring to our FrI-Sat til 11pm Suppes that they could burn the flag if she so desired, but hearts renewed devotion to God and country, Amen." that since there was nothing wrong with the flag, a better Bini then played "To the Colors" and "Taps" on his trum- option might be to put it in a glassed-in case as a perma- pet and the group began transferring the flags to the fire one nightly Infeftaififfieiit in the JAC Sari nent memorial to her brother. They assured her that any by one. Marine would prefer that. She decided to follow their All those present who had relatives that had served or Satubefa Social Scene advice and kept the flag, but the two women stayed for the died in past or present wars of the country were encouraged ceremony anyway. to place a flag on the fire. Outside, a large fire pit had been readied, a wood fire was After the ceremony, as the Legionnaires and their guests already burning low, and six or seven Sanibel firemen with retired indoors for a memorial dinner, Roy Heintz, a World a fire truck were on hand just in case sparks from the burn- War II veteran who was a China Marine from 1945-47 said. • Best Happy Hour ing flags ignited any of the surrounding brush.