THREE DAYS A WEEK POST COMMENTS AT CAPE-CORAL-DAILY-BREEZE.COM Headed CAPE CORAL up field North Fort Myers Red Knights take on Riverdale’s Raiders BREEZE — SPORTS EARLY-WEEK EDITION WEATHER: Partly Sunny • Tonight: Partly Cloudy • Wednesday: Partly Cloudy — 2A cape-coral-daily-breeze.com Vol. 50, No. 140 Tuesday, November 22, 2011 50 cents Council to readdress permit refund denial Chulakes-Leetz said Tronchet that prior to the adoption of 75 permits currently that would Homeowner wanted $467.89 reimbursed did the responsible thing by fix- Resolution 13-11, over 330 be eligible for the permit refund, By DREW WINCHESTER the vote deadlocked in October. ing his home instead of walking defective drywall permits were but have not petitioned the coun- [email protected] Council will readdress the away. issued at an average cost of $500. cil for a refund. City Council will once again issue at next Monday’s meeting. Tronchet’s remediation work This equates to over $165,000 Right now, Tronchet is the hear the case of Ryan Tronchet, a Councilmember Chris was done prior to the approval of in cost recovery for the Building only homeowner that has peti- Cape Coral homeowner who Chulakes-Leetz said he feels that Resolution 13-11, which was Division, according to city docu- tioned council. remediated his house of Chinese council did Tronchet a disservice designed to help homeowners. mentation. Chulakes-Leetz said it is obvi- drywall but was denied a permit by denying his request, legislating “His request was denied based City Building Official Paul ous that Resolution 13-11 is refund of $467.89. The previous by “fear” instead of helping a res- on fear,” Chulakes-Leetz said. Dickson said during Monday’s council denied the request when ident in need. City staff reported previously council workshop that there were See DENIAL, page 6A McGrail wants city manager to revisit public records policy By DREW WINCHESTER [email protected] “I don’t think Cape City Councilmember the perception Kevin McGrail wants the city of what the manager to revisit his public impact of this records policy, which unilaterally is to the pub- dropped the threshold of “exces- lic is quite sive” requests from an hour to fif- what some teen minutes. think it is.” City Manager Gary King — City Manager made the switch last month. Gary King Complaints from citizens who’ve received bills of over $700 for their public records King said that since the change requests prompted the council has been put in place, a vast member to speak out on the issue, majority of all requests have fall- McGrail said. en within the 15-minute threshold He’d prefer the “excessive” and only 1 percent exceeded the time frame to be at the 30-minute newly established time frame. threshold. “I don’t think the perception of “I call for that to go to a half what the impact of this is to the hour as an interim time frame,” public is quite what some think it McGrail said. “It’s a happy medi- is,” King said. an and we can evaluate from that point.” See McGRAIL, page 6A Blues Fest attracts music lovers from near and far By DREW WINCHESTER Deborah Coleman, Smokin Joe [email protected] Kubek and Bnois King and Peter Kaufman traveled all the Tommy Lee Cook. way from Denmark to listen to Performances by the bands some live blues music. Sort of. Southern Hospitality and Blue He was on business in Orlando Fury was enough to get Paul and when he caught wind of the 12th Margaret Karst to the festival, annual Southwest Florida Blue though they planned on staying Festival, so he decided to grab for the full nine hours to get their two of his friends, take a three - blues fix. day vacation, and head on down They didn’t travel as far as to Lee County to check out some Kaufman, but the festival has Cole Bros. troupe to perform in Cape through Wednesday live music. become a tradition for the “This is my first time in Englewood couple who come to Julius Carrollo, a.k.a. Clown Chips, Florida. It’s been fantastic. I’m Lee County, spend the weekend juggles near the entrance of the having a great time,” Kaufman and stay with friends on Pine Cole Bros. Circus big top. Rebecca said. Island. Barletta and her daughter Sienna, He was one of thousands who “We come every year,” Paul flocked to the German American said. “The music, the weather, the 4, left, watch one of the acts venue, everything is great. We Monday. Logan Brown, 5, right, Social Club on Saturday for the festival, which featured non-stop always have a blast.” takes in the sights and sounds. music for nine hours. The Blues Festival drew not MICHAEL PISTELLA Some of the acts included national recording artists like See BLUES FEST, page 14A Oasis High MUN team fares well in competition By MEGHAN McCOY ipated in the three-day confer- a winner. California. ing the conferences. [email protected] ence. The students had one debat- “Their passion for MUN is “It was fun,” he said about the Backhaus said his council was The Oasis Model United ing session Friday, three sessions very great,” he said about his stu- conference. “It is very good for the most heated during the confer- Nations team recently brought on Saturday and one session on dents. public speaking.” ence because it was his way or no back 10 individual awards, along Sunday. First place winners were Tyler Backhaus, who took a year off way. with the second highest school The Oasis team, which con- Hollis and Devin Backhaus; sec- of MUN last year, joined the club “You have to stand your ranking, at the Florida State Old sisted of one senior, four juniors, ond place winners were Zachary again this year as a junior. He said ground no matter what,” he said, City Model United Nations four sophomores and three fresh- Peralto, Johana Gonzalez, Ciara he will continue to be a member when he debates specific issues Conference in St. Augustine last man, returned from their trip late Bennese and Blake Pentland; and of the club until he graduates during the conference. weekend. Sunday night. the third place winner was from Oasis High School. Ndiang’ui said Backhaus There were more than 130 stu- Peter Ndiang’ui, social studies Claudia Sanchez. After Ndiang’ui talked him received the second highest score dents, including 12 students from teacher and Model United Hollis, who is a senior, joined into joining the club again, he in all of the committees during the Oasis High School, from 14 Nations advisor, said everyone the MUN team last year after he remembered that he enjoyed all of MUN Florida schools who partic- who attended the conference was moved to the area from the debating that took place dur- See OASIS, page 14A ATAGLANCE AROUND THE AREA NEWS OF NOTE WHAT’S INSIDE Holiday Pops Concert set Holiday blood drive planned The Southwest Florida Symphony will The Lee Memorial Blood Center will be Annie’s Mailbox......14A Editorial ..........4-5A present the annual Holiday Pops Concert on holding blood drives at two Beall’s stores Cape Fare..........4B Horoscopes........9A Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 8 PM at on Saturday, Nov. 26: CASH 3: the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall. ■ Cypress Trace Plaza, 13300 S. 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Patrons may order online at Memorial Health System to serve your 9-16-17-28-30 www.swflso.org or call the box office at community. Lee Memorial Health System PB 11 X 3 418-1500. uses 800+ units of blood each week. Ticket prices are $22 - $62 and a special All blood types are currently needed. Family Package is available four tickets for For more information about donating, 7 48445 46010 1 $99. call 343-2333. Page 2A Tuesday, November 22, 2011 cape-coral-daily-breeze.com CAPE CORAL BREEZE POLICE BLOTTER (The police blotter contains public information obtained Arrests $300. from the Cape Coral Police Department, the Lee County ■ Robert E. Allen, 38, of 1902 S.W. 30th St., was ■ Christopher Ray Jordan, 27, of 1817 N.E. 19th Sheriff’s Office and the Lee County Jail booking log. Arrests charged Sunday with larceny petit theft and larceny com- Place, was charged Saturday with battery touch or strike. made are suspicions of crime(s) committed. All persons are ■ Tyler Ray Leleux, 19, of 1725 S.W. 10th Ave., was innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.) mit theft resist recovery of property. ■ Fatima C.