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District: Union Will by RYAN Mccarthy to It KEY WEST KEY LARGO FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL It’s a culinary paradise in our slice of Paradise 10-day event sure to please most palates In L’Attitudes By CLAUDIA MILLER Good footwork and good balance are keys to winning L’Attitudes Contributor in Battle of the Bars. Upper Keys restaurants are preparing for their moment to shine at the Battle of the Bars fourth annual Key Largo Food and Wine Festival, to be held July 29 through Aug. 7. It’s everything food — and much more — when deadline nears Foodies and wine enthu- fect margarita and serving siasts will have a bevy of Aug. 7 bash it without a spill; tapping a creative culinary choices raises money keg; sorting recyclables during the 10-day festival, and the always popular which will include cooking for charity beer chugging contest. classes, wine tastings and themed dinners. Prizes and trophies are Contributed Photo the Key Largo Food and Wine Festival arrives. The 18th annual Battle awarded to winning teams. The festivities will start of the Bars is gearing up The Schooner Wharf Bar, off with a bang at Señor Cooking demonstrations at Ballyhoo’s drew crowds at last year’s Food & Wine Festival. for a repeat show-down of which sponsors the annual Frijoles (mile marker 104) bar tenders skilled in feats event, also awards prizes on July 29 at 7 p.m., where the participation. We pass of derring-do (and who for the team with Most local theater group the Key around the microphone, and won’t spill a drop). Outrageous Costume and Players will present the mur- they can ask questions of the The fund-raiser this the team with Deepest der mystery “Pollo, Passion suspects or make accusa- Story, year will designate fees Pockets. and Pistols” during a four- tions. As more wine keeps and tips to the Florida That latter award recog- course Mexican dinner. flowing, things get pretty Keys Healthy Start nizes the tradition of As with most of the festi- lively by the dessert course.” 5B Coalition, along with the “bribes” offered up to val events, Premier On July 30 at 6:30 p.m., Cancer Foundation of the competing teams as a way Beverage will provide a the popular Sauce Boss, Florida Keys. of measuring popular selection of wines from Bill Wharton, will be back Last year’s Battle of the “votes” and to help raise around the world to comple- to kick things up a notch Bars raised more than more funds for the desig- ment each course. for a Night in New Orleans $23,000 for local charities. nated charities. Patrice Messina, the at Sundowners (mile The showdown is set to In the 18 years since the director of this year’s pro- marker 104). begin at noon Sunday, event began, patrons have duction, said this is their The spirited performer- Aug. 7. helped raise more than third year entertaining diners cum-chef has cooked his Teams that sign up $215,000. in between courses at the signature gumbo live on before July 28 can get their For more information or festival. stage while playing original inted on t- to sign up, call 292-3302, “People really get into Florida slide guitar blues mail schoonerwb these murder mystery din- with his band all over the Photo by Ruth Wharton Mosquitoes swarming try ners,” she said. “We don’t U.S., Canada and Europe. have a script, so a lot of it is The Sauce Boss will perform Saturday,July 30,at h audience loves G See Food and wine, 8B Sundowners food festival event,A Night in New Orleans. If you think you’re getting attacked by more mosquitoes than you can ever recall, it’s because you are. Story, 4A WWW.KEYSNET.COM MINI-SEASON The bug chase SATURDAY,JULY 23,2011 starts Wednesday THE AIR UP THERE VOLUME 58, NO. 59 Tens of thousands ● 25 CENTS of lobster divers Key Colony Beach has no space left on any of its four expected in Keys lobster-diving trips during the two-day season, staffer By KEVIN WADLOW Eric Rolfe said. Senior Staff Writer Staff with the Florida Fish [email protected] and Wildlife and Conser- vation Commission and Lobster sport-diving days, Florida Keys National an unofficial Florida holiday Marine Sanctuary opened the largely centered in the Florida Lobster Information Booth at Keys, brings thousands of mile marker 106 on Friday to divers to local waters Wed- give visitors a chance to nesday and Thursday. review lobster diving rules. Motel rooms, rental boats The booth will be open and spots on lobster-diving through Tuesday evening. trips look to be in short supply. “Our main focus is to urge “Our dockage is full and people to dive safely, boat safe- all the boats are rented out for ly and know the rules so they mini-season,” said Tim Scott can stay out of trouble,” said from the Cudjoe Gardens FWC Officer Bobby Dube. Marina in the Lower Keys. The number of FWC offi- “There are quite a few people cers on mini-season patrol in coming down.” the Keys essentially doubles “It’s already getting pretty with a special detachment of busy,” said Jeanine 25 out-of-county officers Christiansen from the brought in to patrol local Greater Marathon Chamber waters. That group will of Commerce. “People are include undercover officers starting to get here, and our and trained lobster-sniffing hotels are mostly booked for police dogs, Dube said. Wednesday and Thursday.” No fatalities or serious The Abyss Dive Center on injuries among divers in Key waters were reported last Will Goodwin, 14, IN THE COURTS ● See Mini-season, 3A of Key Largo goes heels over head in a flip off the Judge releases high dive at the Jacobs Aquatic Center at the Key Mearns on bond Largo Community Park, enjoying a Becker lowers sunny Thursday it to $50,000 afternoon while Mearns fam- cooling off on from $250,000 ily that he is MONROE COUNTY SCHOOLS summer break. no danger to By RYAN McCARTHY the commu- Keynoter photo by [email protected] nity and in KEVIN WADLOW fact an asset Michael Mearns, jailed to it. District: Union will Tuesday on a count of negli- Shortly gent manslaughter for “act- MEARNS after mid- ing with reckless indiffer- 25, the 24-year-oldnight Marathon on Feb. ence” in the hours and man was the lone passenger in moments leading up to the a 1998 Ford Explorer driven by take what we demand auto-crash death of a 17- Amber Kogelis of Lower year-old girl in February, was Matecumbe Key. By SEAN KINNEY released Thursday morning The Florida Highway on $50,000 bond. Patrol says Kogelis lost con- [email protected] Acting Circuit Court Judge trol of the SUV while on a Hired gun slinger: More furloughs, Ruth Becker lowered the short strip of Aviation A labor attorney caught bond — set at $250,000 when Boulevard in Marathon and the United Teachers of no raises, jobs to be outsourced Mearns surrendered Tuesday struck a parked 2006 Ford Monroe off guard on Friday, afternoon — after hearing pickup and ran over shrubs telling the union’s negotiat- District officials brought personnel like bus drivers from several friends of the and a curb before hitting a ing team that Monroe in labor and employment and food service workers will County School District offi- law specialist Bob Norton question, the district enjoys take six furlough days; the cials plan to mandate seven from Miami to serve as their the right to make cuts because total savings is $1.4 million. ● See Mearns, 2A unpaid employee furlough chief negotiator. of our budget crisis. This is ● A 1.5 percent wage BIRTHDAY WISHES days for the coming school Before dropping the axe, what we intend to do.” increase planned to start year and delay a much-laud- Norton framed the district’s With that, he laid out cuts with the school year in ed switch to a performance budget situation: totaling $3,243,000: August will be eliminated to pay compensation model. “There’s no question that ● Teachers and adminis- save $600,000. we do have a budget crisis trators — up to and including ● Five support employees CUDJOE KEY WHALEhere. STRANDING We believe, without the superintendent — will will be cut to save $243,000. take seven mandatory fur- ● Administrators will lough days; school-related move forward to outsource Baby whale off to SeaWorld● See Schools, 3A It’ll be only one at park’s as 301, is scheduled to be the first patient admitted to new facility SeaWorld’s newly complet- said. “We’re bringing the staff ed rehabilitation facility. and equipment that we need.” Photo by ANDY NEWMAN/FLORIDA KEYS NEWS BUREAU Past winners of the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest gather at By KEVIN WADLOW “We will assess her health A pod of 23 pilot whales Because of concern over Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West Thursday to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ Senior Staff Writer status and consult with the stranded May 5 off Cudjoe stranded marine mammals to Ernest Hemingway on the 112th anniversary of the late [email protected] Marine Mammal Conservancy Key. Most died at the scene, transmitting disease to resi- author’s birth. Hemingway lived in Key West in the 1930s and staff,” Christopher Dold, vice but two males were released dent dolphins and whales, president of veterinary servic- each year, the island city stages a six-day festival in his honor. A pilot whale calf from into the Atlantic Ocean after the federal government the Florida Keys likely will es for the SeaWorld Parks & being deemed healthy essentially prohibited marine The finals of this year’s Look-Alike contest take place tonight.
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