Daphne, Bob and Bird Win New City Council to Be Sworn in Nov
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INDEX What's going on around the islands 4B ""W f^USfoeSS • 3C Calendar 4B CHvside 9A Classifieds 5C Farewell Singapore Commentary 1C Crossword 5C Bailey, Miracle McPhees Environment Police Beat 2A receive 'official' sail to another Scuba Scoop 4A Far East island IB Weather Watch 4A council send-off Since 1961 Still first on Sanibel i and Captiva 50 CENTS VOL. 31, NO. 45 TUESDAY, NOV. 10, 1992 THREE SECTIONS, 32 PAGES CEPD expresses Islands mourn loss frustration at lack of of long-time resident, Blind Pass progress Esperanza Woodring By Steve Ruediger Noted long-time Sanibel Island resident, Esperanza Lor- Islander staff writer raine Woodring, passed away on Friday, Nov. 6, 1992. Captiva Erosion Prevention District commissioners ex- She was 91. sed frustration at last Wednesday's meeting at what A resident of the island for 77 years coming here at age «say is the lack of progress regarding Blind Pass. 15 from Cayo Costa island where she was born, Esperanza The CEPD commissioners say they view the situation became Southwest Florida's first woman fishing guide. as one in which $6 million in already approved state fund- According to family and friends, she spent three quarters of ing for beach renourishment on northern Sanibel is being a century on the water working as a commercial fisherman held up by Sanibel not agreeing to precise wording on a and fishing and shelling guide. proposed agreement. Some commissioners also said the Esperanza was born on July 7, 1901, the first-born of need for $150,000 in local funding might be holding Manuel and Rosa Almas' 12 children. After moving to the things up. (The figures cited by CEPD commissioners and island she married Samuel B. Woodring, who preceded her the availability of funds differ significantly from the in death in 1942. For some time the two operated an is- state's figures. See below.) land fishing business, which contributed to Esperanza's However, Commissioner Sheila Hoen pointed out Sani- notoriety as a fisherman and guide. bel alone could end up spending that much on lawyers in Although active on the island much of her life, Esper- litigating the matter. anza, who resided at Woodring Point, spent the later year Commissioner Shirley Starr questioned whether the of her life in quiet solitude, with family and friends. Be- mayor and city councilmen of Sanibel know what is go- cause of her knowledge of the islands, members of the ing on. It was decided that the CEPD, instead of sending media contacted her often for interviews but she declined information just through Sanibel City Manager Gary Price, would contact the mayor and City Council mem- most, preferring not to talk about her private life. bers directly with information on the current status of the One of her final, noted public appearances occurred two Situation. years ago when she served as the grand marshall for the ^Flt would be in their interest if they hurried up witb it," first Fourth of July parade sponsored by the Sanibel-Cap- said Hoen. tiva. Association of Realtors. Asked his reaction to the CEPD comments, Price said Just floating along Esperanza is survived by two sons, Preston R. Woodring the Captiva board could have immediate progress by ap- Sr., of Fort Myers, and Ralph S. Woodring of Sanibel; proving the wording suggested by Sanibel. He said he has Danny Murphy, a 6-year-old from Cleveland, nine grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; one great- heard of no funding approval for renourishment of Sanibel reportedly found the water just fine while on great grandchild; two sisters, Edith Reina of Tampa and vacation here on the islands recently with Please see CEPD, page 11A his family. Please see LOSS, page 2A Daphne, Bob and Bird win New City Council to be sworn in Nov. 17 By Frances Adams of $8,579.05 and had spend $7,534.94. Islander staff writer Janes came in second, having raised $6,229.50 and For the third time since the city's incorporation 18 spent nearly all of it, $6,221.49. ears ago, a woman has been elected to the Sanibel Granberry was third in the financial end; she raised City Council. $5,160 and spent $4,966.13. In a year that saw a record voter turnout, and apropos Westall was the most frugal of all — he raised only The Year of The Woman, Daphne Miller will follow in $3,125 and spent $2,600.56 of it, mainly in the last the footsteps of celebrated female forerunners Zee But- few weeks prior to the election. ler and Louise Johnson, and sit at the council podium, Of the 4,466 registered voters on Sanibel, a very the sole woman among her male peers. healthy 4,002 ballots were cast, causing many in the Miller, the top vote-getter with 2,747 votes (of which community to take a second look at the figures. With 420 were absentee votes), will be sworn in next Tues- that many ballots cast, ideally there there should have day, Nov. 17, along with fellow council seat winners been a total of 12,006 votes if every voter had voted for Bob Janes and incumbent Mark "Bird" Westall. three of the four candidates. As it happens, the votes Janes, a former planning commissioner, came in cast add up to only 9,640 votes, leaving many to won- closely behind Miller with 2,643 votes (395 absentee). der what happened to the other 2,366 potential votes. Councilman Mark "Bird" Westall's 2,375 votes (398 Charges of bullet voting were immediately heard from absentee) earned him the right to carry the environmen- all sides. Remarkably, there were even those who tal flag for another four years. openly admitted to only voting for their top choice of The other female council candidate, Faye Granberry, candidates, consciously manipulating the odds. was the loser in the four-person race but earned a re- There appears to be no legal solution to the problem, spectable 1,875 votes (315 absentee). but city officials are hoping more education of the con- Miller was, by far, first in raising and spending the sequences of choosing to not vote or to bullet vote will most money, too. As of Oct. 30, she had raised a total help keep the election process "cleaner." Esperanza Woodring < All the following information was taken directly Officials at The Sanctuary development at Wulfert com- CM from Sanibel Police Department reports. plained Nov. 8 that someone had pulled up two of their POLICE signs and thrown them into the woods. DC A Sanibel woman left her apartment for only a half UJ hour Sunday, Nov. 8, but when she returned, she reported Q BEAT to police, the following things had happened in the locked Joseph Agenor of Immokalee was charged Nov. 8 with apartment: two candles were lit, the clocks were set ahead having no proof of insurance after being involved in an accident. Agenor had stopped on a Sanibel Causeway (0 10 minutes, a rose in a bottle had been moved, a candle a> had been rotated 180 degrees and part of a loaf of bread was bridge to repair a flat tire. A car driven by Rodney Hunter missing. failure to report an accident and with leaving the scene of of Ohio ran into his car. Hunter claimed Agenor had no an accident after she turned her car over on Dixie Beach lights on his car. Agenor claimed his lights had been on, Boulevard. even though they were not on when police arrived. CM A bracelet was lost on Sanibel Nov. 8. SI A raccoon was hit by a car and killed Nov. 8 on Sani- bel-Captiva Road. Loss continued from page 1A 2 Water was leaking in a house under construction Nov. Betty Lamason of Hawthorne, Nev.; and one brother, In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Sanibel 8. Police turned it off. William Almas of Ocala. Elementary School Funds for Esperanza Woodring, c/o A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. today, Community Bank of the Islands, P.O. Box 1640, Sanibel, I A paper bag containing candy and money was found on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1992, at Fort Myers Cemetery on FL 33957. the Periwinkle Way bike path Nov. 8. 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