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101425 Overseas Hwy. • PMB #628 • Key Largo, FL 33037 • 305-304-2837 • www.theconchtelegraph.com • June 2013 Inside: Attractions Hunk of the Month... Russ Cullen Art Box Artist of the Month... Dillon Endico Bartender of the Month... John Brehm, Bayside Grille Map Getting From Here to There What’s Hot & What’s Not Circle of Love Bracelets on Sale to help Brittney Baker Coast Guard and CSHS Boating Safety and Seamanship Course First State Bank Appreciates Foster Parents All the Buzz Coco-Nut Funnies Mangrove Galley Conch Characters Captain Spencer Slate and two of his “pals.” Slate does a “Creature Feature” dive twice a week - at 8:30 AM on Fri- days and Sundays. Tamed and nurtured for over 25 years, Captain Slate’s “pets”have been seen in over 60 TV shows, Business in the Keys including 60 Minutes, Discovery, Animal Planet, and Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Photo by Frazier Nivens, Ocean Imaging. at the Saturday, June 29, 8pm-Midnight Captain Morgan Beach Bar where Captain Morgan is $5 all the time! Sunset Celebration on the Beach! Key Largo's Best Music Schedule HappyHappy HourHour Monday-SaturdayMonday-Saturday 4-7,4-7, wewe restrest onon SundaysSundays Live Band • $5 Captain Morgan Drinks Open 5-10pm Captain Morgan Girls • $5 Ciroc Vodka 2 • The Coconut Telegraph • June 2013 June 2013 • The Coconut Telegraph • 3 Coconut Telegraph Cast of Characters: Articles Editorial: Circle of Love .....................................................................2-3 Rotary Club of Key Largo Come Hungry! June 2013 Editor/Sales/Distribution Rotary of Key Largo Welcomes New Members .............................. 3 Welcomes New Members Volume 8 Issue #76 In Memory of Charlie Ecenbarger ..............................................5 Denise Malefyt 10% OFF WITH THIS AD Art Box Artist of the Month: Dillon Endico ...................................7 Prestige Publishing, Inc Mangrove Galley: Pork with Mustard Sauce .............................8 101425 Overseas Highway Advertising It's clean, it's fast, it's delicious!!! PMB #628 Production Hunk of the Month: Russ Cullen ...................................................9 Great breakfast, great lunch, great everything!! Key Largo, FL 33037 COC-TEL Bartender of the Month: John Brehm .......................................11 Sue Beal 6 am - 2 pm • 7 Days Phone 305-304-2837 Getting from Here to There - map page ..................................12-13 MM 99.7 Bayside 99696 Overseas Highway, Key Largo Guitarist Slick Aguilar Waits for a New Liver....................................14 docsdinerkeylargo.com • 305-451-2895 Deadline Sovia-Crandon Named New VNA/Hospice Director..............15 Capturing the Thrill: Do What Excites You .................................16 for the Anglers Club & Ocean Reef Radio Coconut Telegraph’s USCG/CSHS Offer Boating Safety/Seamanship Course ..........17 June issue is Animal Shelter Pets for Adoption .....................................................18 (L-R) Jennifer Miller, Incoming Rotary President, Patty Sparks Representative Holly Raschein, Katrina Lavine, Rotary President Monday First State Bank Appreciates Foster Parents ...................................19 The Rotary Club of Key Largo inducted two new members June 24, 2013 Conch Characters .............................................................................20 into their Club in May: Representative Holly Raschein, from the Business in the Keys ............................................................................21 Florida House of Representatives and Patty Sparks of ST Sparks Contact Denise at Coco“Nut” Funnies .......................................................................22-23 Construction. Both woman are very active in the community STREAMING LIVE! 305-304-2837 and are role models for their civic involvement. Over 3 million listeners Dear Anny Bannanny ........................................................................23 [email protected] The main objective of Rotary is service – to local communi- Profile of a Stalker ...............................................................................23 ties and throughout the world. Key Largo Rotary meets at the www.KEYSFM.com Hilton Key Largo every Wednesday at 7:30 am. Further Informa- Studio Call-in Line (305) 367-3533 31 Ocean Reef Drive C-204 Business Office (305) 367-0097 North Key Largo, Florida 33037 tion can be found at www.keylargorotary.org. Editorial: Circle of Love OPERATED BY MEMBERS FOR MEMBERS SINCE 1994 Just when 23-year-old Cor- advantage and that is what dad, commutes al Shores graduate Brittney has kept her alive and got her one and a half Baker’s dream of becoming a through several surgeries and hours to the hos- dolphin trainer was about to infections already. pital, roughly 130 come true, she had a tragic car Brittney is the child of miles round trip, accident. John and Jennifer Baker of and her mom Jen- the circle positive and loving.” By the time you have this Key Largo. Jennifer Baker is nifer follows after work. You The bracelet pictured newspaper in your hands she the manager of Dolphin’s Cove can imagine the expense, just comes in a beautiful mesh will have been in a coma in ICU and her husband John is cur- in gas alone. There is no time jewelry bag with a tag at- at Jackson Memorial Hospital rently only employed part time. to stop and make a sandwich tached featuring a photo of in Miami for 2 months. She Over the years the Baker because every minute, every Brittney . Suggested donation is being treated for massive family has been active in so second, with Brittney counts. is $10 each. These make great Hand Craed Paddle Boards head injuries and multiple many community benefits and The expense is astronomi- gifts too. If you would like to broken bones. As soon as she events - they are too numer- cal but if it was your child or be part of the “Circle of Love” Custom Board & Art Work is stable enough she will need ous to mention here. Jennifer loved one you would do it too. please contact me (305-304- to have spinal surgery to re- Baker is the type of person There is a site on Facebook 2837) or Judy Curtis (305- pair a broken back. Brittney who won’t say no. She will not “Britt’s Battle” where people 394-0249). Stand Up ~ Get Zen was tossed about that car like give up until she finds a way to can donate money to help with The Florida Keys are com- a rag doll and her recovery is make it work. It is that kind if Brittney’s medical expenses posed of a series of over 100 Authentic going to be a very slow pro- character and determination as she does not have any in- miles of fragile islands that Custom cess, if she recovers at all. that she has passed on to her surance. In an effort to help have weathered many storms. The accident happened April only child, and I believe, this Jennifer and John with their We enjoy our paradise but Wooden 7th at MM 100. Most people what has kept Brittney alive traveling expenses we are when hard times befall one or Paddle Boards would not have survived such a and fighting. going to be offering “Good all of us we pull together as horrific accident but Brittney Every day since the ac- Karma” bracelets to be worn as there is strength in numbers. has youth and strength to her cident John Baker, Brittney’s a “constant reminder to keep Every one of us counts. Now Taking Christmas Orders Disclaimer The Coconut Telegraph © 2006-2013 is published monthly by Prestige Publishing, INC. All Telegraph assumes in good faith that all editorial and advertising material submitted are vonboard.net rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written consent of the original property of the advertiser. The Coconut Telegraph may not be held responsible the publisher. The Coconut Telegraph welcomes written articles, photos, and artwork of for errors, omissions, or for circumstances beyond our control that may affect the distribution 817.343.4254 local interest to be used and/or edited at the discretion of the publisher. The Coconut schedule. 4 • The Coconut Telegraph • June 2013 June 2013 • The Coconut Telegraph • 5 Sundowner’sSundowner’s takentaken fromfrom IslandIsland TimeTime CruiseCruise Check out Ballyhoo’s new menu! “Hook to Fork” fresh fish! Craft Beers Southern Hospitality In memory of our friend, Charlie Ecenbarger. 6 • The Coconut Telegraph • June 2013 June 2013 • The Coconut Telegraph • 7 Bobbe Brown Art Box Artist of the Month: Bobbe Brown Dillon Endico Every Wednesday night at Gilbert's Visual Communicator Every other Friday afternoon at Gilbert's Born and raised in the Florida Keys and having spent Every other Friday night a lot of time in the mountains at the VFW of the west, Dillon Endico's has a great respect for the Available for any type of gig, land he walks on and the call for booking info. amazement it presents him. 305-360-1127 This amazement and respect combined with the beautiful, strange and spectacular moments of life is what Check out this drives his creativity. old photo of Gilberts, Dillon's drawings and posted by “Homestead.” paintings are rooted in obser- vational work that stem into the imaginative world of story and wonder, while always growing through struggle to create something meaningful and true. He describes him- self as “a drawer, painter and visual problem solver.” Draw- ing and painting are the medi- ums which he chooses to explore his life and express his thoughts. 305-451-1133 Dillon is available for freelance or commissioned assignments, and is inter- Waterfront Tiki Bar, Restaurant, Motel & Marina 107900 Overseas Hwy ested in any other creative Monday thru Friday www.gilbertsresort.com RAW BAR open every day! HAPPY HOUR 4pm - 7pm or visit us on facebook opportunities. He can be KEYS ADVENTURES Gilbert's Breakfast Nook New Tiki Beach Bar Now Open!! Father’s Day reached at dillonendico@ Serving Breakfast Daily Sunday - June 16 gmail.com. View more of his WATERSPORTS 7am - 11am JUNE ENTERTAINMENT Join us at Gilbert’s! art at one of his websites: Guided Waverunner SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY http://dillonendico.tumblr.com. Tours! 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Or, stop by the Art Box to Rentals! BOBBE BROWN LUKE & DAVE 1-5 2-6 see his work on display.